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" <...> is the title of a new graphic design magazine (now based in Den Haag, The Netherlands) intended to fill a gap in current arts publishing. It is not interested in re-promoting established material or creating another 'portfolio' magazine. Instead, it offers inventive critical journalism on a variety of topics related both directly and indirectly to graphic design culture. " Editors: Jurgen Albrecht, Stuart Bailey, Peter Bilak. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 Inch
| 21 Inch is Michael Lugmayr's company in Rotterdam. His fonts were promised in 2003---still waiting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Barcode fonts for barcode schemes used by the Dutch PTT, and in the Australia Post Address barcode. For 99USD, bizfonts sells the RM4SCC fonts package. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type design mag started in September 2003 by Underware in The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type historian who collected many art nouveau type specimen, including some rare alphabets drawn by the Rotterdamse Schilderschool. Nadeem Muzaffar's Bibelot (2010, a custom typeface) is based on one of these alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aad van Dommelen
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Student at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands, b. 1991. He created the optical illusion face Lines (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graduate from the Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver) and the KABK in Den Haag in the Type and Media program (2009). Originally from Lethbridge, Alberta, Abi designed a modular type generator. At KABK, he created Arietta, a small family consisting of a simply constructed transitional roman and a bold roman, as well as multiple italic companions. He works as a graphic designer at Commercial Type in New York City. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch foundry in Bergen op Zoom. Psychoscout is an initial caps font, originally developed for the Psychoscout record by Flat Earth Society (2006). It was made commercial in 2011. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Achwin de Hoog
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Dutch type designer from the phototype era. His paperclip typeface from 1974 inspired Afrojet to create the FontStruction Paperclip (2010), and Wilson Thomas followed that up with Werner Paperclip (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rotterdam-based typefounder, b. 1754, d. Oldenbarneveld, NY, 1828. He published Proeven van Letteren die Gevonden Worden in de van Ouds Beroemde Lettergieterye van Wylen de Heeren Voskens en Clerk, Nu van A. G. Mappa (Rotterdam, 1781). I cite from that link: "In 1780, the father of Adam Gerard Mappa bought a large part of the Amsterdam typefounding firm of Voskens&Clerk, and Mappa soon discovered that he had talent for typefounding. He began his own business in Rotterdam where he issued this specimen book, but moved to Delft a few years later. There he become embroiled in the Patriot movement and led a volunteer regiment in the unsuccessful revolution of 1787. He was banished from Delft, spent a few years in France, and in 1789, emigrated to America with his typefoundry on the advice of the Ambassador to France Thomas Jefferson. Mappa set up his new business in New York. According to a contemporary letter, and supported by the type in this specimen, his foundry contained not only "the Western, but the Oriental languages at the value of at least [pound sign] 3,500 New York currency." There was not much call for type in exotic languages, and while Isaiah Thomas considered his Dutch and German type "handsome," his "roman were but ordinary." Mappa was not skilled enough to produce the type needed by the new nation, and the foundry was advertised for sale on 1 February 1794. At least some of Mappa's equipment was acquired by Binny&Ronaldson, although their business did not start until 1 November 1796. This specimen book came to them with Mappa's typefounding equipment." Harvard's Houghton Library has a copy of the 1781 publication which contains a handwritten note by Theo L. de Vinne (which I was not allowed to photograph by Harvard's fascist librarians). So here is what this letter says: "Dirk Voskens was a typefounder of Amsterdam, a coster of types, not a cutter of punches. In 1677 he bought the foundry of Bleau and it was kept by his heirs and successors, (1) Dirk Voskens (2) Weduwe van Dirk Voskens (3) Voskens&fils (4) Voskens + [illegible]. In 1780 the foundry was sued for 8974 francs. P[illegible] were J. Enschedé and Sons, Ploos van Amstel, Preiter, Posthmans, DeBruyn and deGroot. How Mappa acquired possession does not appear. [...] Mappa got into trouble and had to take refuge in New York, where he began business as a type founder. He did not succeed. It is not known which became of the material he had in New York." To this, Bullen added by hand: "It was purchased by Binny&Ronaldson". P.M. Kernkamp kindly sent me additional information on Mappa. He points out that Mappa was typefounder in these cities: Rotterdam (1780-1782), Delft (1782-1787), New York (1789-1792). The 1780 date is also put into question because Mappa's father died in 1779. Mappa was active in a small army of patriots in Holland, and after a defeat in 1787 against Prussia, he was banned from Holland for six years. It may explain his emigration to America in 1789. He lived in New York until 1792, then in Second River, NJ, until 1794 and finally in Oldenbarneveld (Oneida Co., NY). His foundry, then in Albany, NY, was sold in 1803 for 1200 guilders. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adam Katyi
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His types were revived in 2008 by Hans van Maanen as Adams (Canada Type). SoftMaker's version of Studio is called S850. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Originally from Zürich, he is currently studying graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Creator of the playful slab face Albina Medium (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch writer and designer, b. 1960, Amsterdam, who currently lives in Hamburg. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. From 1987 until 1991 he was the type director at Scangraphic, and from 1991-1994, he was the type manager at URW in Hamburg, at which time he completed URW Imperial, URW Linear, and URW Mauritius. In 1994 he started his own studio Dutch Design in Hamburg, and finally he co-founded FarbTon Konzept+Design with Jörn Iken, Birgit Hartmann and Klaus-Peter Staudinger, a professor at the University of Weimar, but Pool, Iken anf Hartmann left FarbTon in 2005. Their corporate partners were DTL (Frank Blokland), URW++ (mainly for hinting), and Fontshop International. They also got freelance help from Nicolay Gogol and Gisela Will. Up until today, FarbTon has made about ten corporate types. He has worked at URW++ as a freelancer, contributing text and classification expertise to the book URW++ FontCollection. He has been teaching typeface design at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel between 1995 and 1998 and has taken up that job again in 2005. Fonts done by Pool include FF DIN (DIN-Mittelschrift is used on German highway signs, 1995; image, another image: for more images, see FF DIN Round at issuu.com), FF DIN Round (2010; +Cyrillic; in use; sample), FF DIN Web (2010), Jet Set Sans (for JET/Conoco gas stations), DTL Hein Gas (for Hamburger Gaswerke GmbH), Regenbogen Bold (for a radical left party in Hamburg, a roughened version of Letter Gothic), and Syndicate Sans (2012, for Syndicate Design). He also made FF OCR-F. Together with type-consultant Stefan Rugener of AdFinder GmbH and copywriter Ursula Packhauser he wrote and designed a book on the effects of type on brand image entitled Branding with Type (Adobe Press). An expert on DIN typefaces, he spoke about DIN 16 and DIN 1451 at ATypI 2007 in Brighton, and wrote an article entiotled FF DIN, the history of a contemporary typeface in the book Made with FontFont. Pic. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in Norway from Dutch parents, Aleksander Schipper created Frank (2012) and Proto Mono (2012) during his graphic design studies at Westerdals School of Communication. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alex Révész
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Alex Scholing
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Alexander Overdiep
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Behance link. Dutch photographer and graphic designer who made Absolute (2011, architectural drawing sans). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alpha Quantum
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Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amal (b. 1990, The Netherlands) designed the modular typeface Amal (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer (b. 1966) with Fred Smeijers in 1993 of DTL Nobel at the Dutch Type Library, which was based on a type of Sjoerd H. De Roos.. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
André Toet
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Typographer, born in 1967, who taught at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Angus R. Shamal
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Dutch creator at FontStruct of the texture face Enigmatic (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anke van der Meer (Heerle, The Netherlands, b. 1981) is an illustrator and graphic designer. In 2013, she created some free hand-drawn typefaces such as I Love Snailmail, Lieve Letters, and Stripe 3D. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PhD student (b. 1983) at Leiden University and Hasselt University, who lives in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. In 2011, she finished the Expert Type Design Class with Frank Blokland at the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp, and created the typeface Matilda. Matilda was specially designed to help make kids make the transition from reading simple type forms to more complex ones. Her PhD is about the design of a font that can reduce the reading problems of children with low vision. She speaks regularly about legibility. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch graphic designer in Roosendaal. Behance link. Creator of a colorful typographic experiment with overlays and weaving (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Author of Body Type (1969), reedited in 2011 by Spinhex, Amsterdam, with the help of René Knip. Nijhof and Lee write: Body Type is a re-edition of the legendary naked-women alphabet by Anthon Beeke originally published in 1969. This alphabet, which was published in the famous Kwadraadblad serie by Pieter Brattinga, is a carefully composed representation of the letters of the alphabet using naked women. Beeke made the alphabet as a 'tongue in cheek'response to Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet published in the same serie a year earlier. This new edition which is in colour, is complimented and enlarged with the numbers modelled by naked men all on individual sheets. It also contains a cahier with the history of the alphabet and a block containing the letters which can be used to make a streamer. Creator of the "Nude Alphabet" in Kwadraat (Steendrukkerij De Jong&Co, Hilversum, The Netherlands, 1970), using twelve nude women. This is not a font, but could be the basis for one. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Possibly Dutch) poster designer and lettering artist. A 1924 KLM Royal Dutch Airline poster designed by him featuring the legendary Flying Dutchman was at the basis of the art deco typefaces Guthschmidt and Guthschmidt Condensed (2008, HiH, Tom Wallace). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch antique book seller specializing in typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in Friesland, 1620-1687. Dutch punchcutter and typefounder, working in Leipzig. He was not responsible for the types that bear his name today---they were in fact due to Miklós Tótfalusi Kis (Nicholas Kis). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anton van de Repe
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Dutch poster artist, 1887-1958. Guthschmidt and Guthschmidt Condensed (Tom Wallace, 2008) are based on a 1924 KLM Royal Dutch Airline poster designed by Antonius Guthschmidt. The poster draws on the imagery of the legend The Flying Dutchman. Other posters with art deco lettering by him include Gastentoonstelling (1930) and Kurhaus Scheveningen (1930s). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vendor of Mac and PC fonts for several languages and from a variety of companies. Only commercial stuff for Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, Tamazight, Turkish, Greek, Indic, Thai, Eastern European, and Korean. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic type site. Displayed font families include AT (by Tarek Atrissi), Al-Futtaim (by Mamoun Sakkal), and work by Nadine Chahine. Corporate calligraphy by Samir Sayegh. He holds a MFA in design from the School of Visual Arts in New York, a MA in interactive multimedia from the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands, and a BA in graphic design in his homeland, Lebanon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aradia is a free runes and astrology font developed in 2000 by Merlin Software. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Archiness
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Designer in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Behance link. In 2011, he made the squarish face Mandaicana, about which he writes: Mandaicana is one of the few Mandaic type[faces] which exist in the world. Mandaic, the most Southeastern Aramaic dialect spoken in antiquity in Babylonia (Mesene, Characene, Khuzistan), reflects similarities to Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, both belonging to the Eastern Middle Aramaic branch. Although most scholars located the origin of the baptizing community in the East Jordan regions (Mark Lidzbarski, Rudolf Macuch, Kurt Rudolph) the Mandaeans are considered to spent a large part of their still controversial and mysterious history alongside the big rivers (Euphrates, Tigris, Karunriver) in the southern borderland between present-day Iraq and Iran. This was followed by Englaiscana (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Freeware font viewer (aka amviewer) for Windows. Can deal with the entire Unicode range. People report to me that this viewer should be avoided at any cost, as viewing truetype fonts becomes impossible once FontViewer is removed. So, please, please, please, do not ever install amviewer. Mike Ady's fix and help page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graduate from the Academy of Art and Design in Arnhem (1998) and of the Cranbrook Academy of Art (2000) who designed the gorgeous neo deco font New Amsterdam (2001), Deadgun (2000, as a past tribute to Raygun), Yeehaw, Blood Thirsty, Wanted Dead or Alive, Diamond, and Al Capone Was Here. At Union Fonts, he published New Amsterdam, Are You In?, and Roger That, fonts also showcased at Cranbrook. In 2005, he decided to go public and make his fonts available for free: Becoming Animal, Free Doughnut, Human Behavior, Deadgun, Yeehaw, Blood Thirsty, Wanted Dead or Alive, New Amsterdam, Are You In?, and Roger That. Noordeman is an art director and a designer, and has offices in North Adams, MA, and Brooklyn, NY. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Foundry set up in October 2012 by René Knip and Janno Hahn. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ARP's free text utilities (MS-DOS) and TTF-fonts
| Two TrueType fonts: ARP Numfont replaces characters by ASCII values, and Celtic-Iberian is just that. All fonts by Anton van de Repe. Contains an archive of 40 Arabic fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ARS Type (was ARS Design)
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The fonts: AudioVisual1, Code, Kamp, Kamp Serif, Retro City, OCRU, Toycube, Mortal, Maquette (1999-2000), Angelring, ARS Bembo, Contrast, Dandy, EcologyModern, Hartu (handwriting), Temper, ARS Novelty (2011, a free hybrid style face), ARS Polythene (pixel font family), Misanthry, Syntax (OsF format sans serif), CensorSans (1994), CensorSerif (1994), Credit (1995), Epilogue.pfa (1995), Exert (T-26), Humain-Graphica (1995), Humain-Synthetica (1995), Platrica (1994), Roscent (1995), ARSFortune (2000, futuristic), District (experimental), Descendiaan, Zero Rate (futuristic), Tegel (1998, stencil, kitchen tile), Twenty (octagonal, techno), Trio (dot matrix fonts), Maquette (1999), Region, Product (2007, sans faces), Mr Archi, Prime (display), Deviata (unicase face), Forum I-AR (after Forum I, a 1948 font by Georg Trump), Freie Initialen-AR (2007, after a 1928 set of caps for Stempel Garamond), Fry's Ornamented (2007; a revival of Ornamented No. 2 which was cut by Richard Austin for Dr. Edmund Fry in 1796), Graphique-AR (2007; a shadowed face based on a 1946 design by Eidenbenz for Haas), Gravur-AR (2007; a digital version of a type designed by Georg Trump and issued as Trump-Gravur by Weber in 1960), Initiales Grecques (after a Firmin Didot design, ca. 1800), Lutetia Open (2007; based on Jan Van Krimpen's Lutetia), Old Face Open (2007; a digitization of Fry's Shaded, an open all caps Baskerville cut by Isaac Moore for Fry, ca. 1788), Open Capitals (2007, after Jan Van Krimpen's 1928 face for Enschedé called Open Kapitalen), Romulus Capitals (2007; after the caps series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1931), Romulus Open (2007; after the Open series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1936), Rosart 811 (2007; open caps after Enschedé no. 811 by Rosart), Zentenar Initialen (2007; based on blackletter initials of F.H.E. Schneidler, ca. 1937). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IN 2013, he designed Angellocks, a semi-blackletter typeface. Dafont link. Behance link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born and raised in Den Haag, Artur was formed at the KABK in type and media. At OurType, he designed Parry and Parry Grotesque in 2006. Schmal claims that it was inspired by Edmund Fry and Thorowgood. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
He used Fontifier to design the handwriting face Arthur'sHandschrift (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Artware
| Rotterdam's Niek van Driel's makes one diode-light font freely available to the public. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Atelier Carvalho Bernau
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Kai Bernau (b. 1978) studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Schwabisch Gmünd in Germany before relocating to the Netherlands, where he graduated from the Design & Typography course of the KABK in The Hague in 2005 with his successful Neutral Typeface project. He continued in the KABK's Type and Media Master course where he graduated in 2006. Kai teaches type design in the Master in Art Direction program at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau formed Atelier Carvalho Bernau, which is based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Typefaces:
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Atomic Media (was: SmartDust)
| Matthew Bardram (b. New York City, 1965) is the Tucson, AZ-based [T-26] founder of Atomic Media, and designer of Atomic, Centrifuge, Bromide (at T-26), Crackle, Klaxon. At Nakedface (now gone), he made Arachnid, Bitpak, Bylinear, DhexInline, Genetica, Economy Large, Empiric, Hypersigna (2005, bitmap face), Montreal (the family) and two katakana fonts. His Bitpack includes the following pixel fonts: Arachnid, Bylinear (2000), Cellular (2000), Genetica (2000, free download), Genetrix, Macroscopic, Metodic, Microscopic, Noir, Scriptometer, Remote (2000), Monocule (2000), Joystik, Centrifuge, Quantaa (2000), Bionika, Megalon (2000), Wired. Bitmap font specialist. Alternate URL. Interview. His Digipak includes Atomic-Inline, Atomic-Outline, Bionika-Black, Bionika, Genetrix-Crossed, Genetrix-Square, Genetrix-SquareCore, Genetrix-SquareHollow, Joystik, Macroscopic-A, Macroscopic-B, Macroscopic-C, Macroscopic-D, Macroscopic-E, Methodic-Bold, Methodic, Microscopic, Noir, Scriptometer-SanScript, Scriptometer. And he did a 3D pixel font called Boxer 3D (2002), Neuronic (2002-2004, nice outlined pixel font; see also here), Fusionaire (2002, a display font) and Wijdeveld, a squarish font based on the lettering of poster artist Wijdeveld from The Netherlands. In 2005, these fonts were added: Magnetica, Imperium, Ratio, Hypersigna, Sequence and Tempora, all by Matthew Bardram. Sausan Kare's pixel fonts at Atomic Media: Mini Food, Kare Dingbats, Biology, Everett, Harry, Ramona, Kare Five Dots, Kare Five Dots Serif, Kare Six Dots, Kare Six Dots Serif. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Attak Fonts
| Attak is a two-headed graphic design firm formed in 2004 by Peter Korsman and Casper Herselman. It is based in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. They have some free and some commercial typefaces. Behance link. Their fonts, ca. 2009: AT AK-47, AT Babyfat, AT Blaser, AT Concours, AT Dienstuhr, AT Discipline, AT FFW, AT Helix, AT Hide and Seek, AT Hieronymus, AT Janus Kiep, AT Kerremus, AT Klaxon, AT Korsakopf, AT Litewriter, AT Mepper, AT Mohawk, AT Moker, AT Monoload, AT Muntel, AT Peetroleum, AT Praktikum, AT Promille, AT Ramseier, AT Riot, AT Sirca, AT Sirca alternate, AT Slyper, AT Snotnose, AT Streeep, AT Tabak, AT T'Atteljeej, AT TCB, AT Timeline, AT Trash Bold, AT Willi, AT With Machines, AT Zippora. Notable products: AK-47 simulates Cyrillic; Helix is a stencil face; Muntel and Concours are fat art deco faces; Practicum and Tabak are octagonal; Riot leaks blood; Sirca is based on arcs of circles; Streep is a multiline font. I presume that Peter is the main font designer in the team, as he already made fonts as early as 2003 for Burodestruct (see, e.g., BD Burner, BD El Max, BD Sirca, and BD Bardust, downloadable here). A more detailed breakdown per designer:
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Dutch designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the rounded blocky face Aukster. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Autobahn
| Dutch company run by Jeroen Breen, Maarten Dullemeijer and Rob Stolte, who all graduated from Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU). Autobahn designs special graphical projects, often with an illustrative and typographical angle. They offered these free fonts made with tomato paste, toothpaste and other things: Autobahn-Gelvetica, Autobahn-Heldentica, Autobahn-Tomatica (2008). Autobahn Grafisch Ontwerp is based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The designers are Jeroen Breen (b. 1981), Maarten Dullemeijer (b. 1982) and Rob Stolte (b. 1981). Their house fonts are Air Light (techno) and LEF. In 2010, they produced the exquisite face Petronius, which is based upon a typeface designed by surrealist Joop H. Moesman (1909-1988). The Alphabet in stone face by Dom Hans van der Laan, a Dutch monk who lived from 1904-1991, was digitized in 2011, and the project can be seen here. Contributors include Willem Noyons, Maarten Dullemeijer and Rob Stolte. This typeface is based on the proportions found in Trajan. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Avesta Fonts
| Amsterdam's Jan Pieter Kunst offers Avesta (Persian 5th/6th century), a five font family that is based on the typeface used in the Avesta edition by K.F. Geldner. Freeware. PC, type 1 and truetype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer of the phototype headline sans font Annonce fett (+licht) at Berthold (1967) and Lettergieterij Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Author of the calligraphic master scribe book entitled Schreibmeisterbuch für Herzog Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (1600s). See also here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For her type revival project at KABK, she picked Lutetia (2013) and writes: Lutetia was designed as a commission from Enschedé by Jan van Krimpen. The drawings of the typeface were ready in the middle of 1924 and first cut and cast in 16 point size in the Enschedé Type Foundry. For the first time the typeface was used in the book dedicated to the exhibition that took place in Paris in 1925. Therefore the name Lutetia reffers to the Roman name of Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henk Kolkmeyer was a Dutch designer, 1901-1988. His poster from 1922 entitled Waarom Droeg Je Geen Muts Als Ik has some early art deco / late art nouveau lettering. In 2012, a free font was published by Koeiekat entitled HK Display. It is a free interpretation of an art deco alphabet designed by Henk Kolkmeyer for a poster for the Veiligheids Museum in Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Baron von Fonthausen
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Macula (2010) is a trompe l'oeuil typeface that is available from Bold Monday. It was inspired by Oscar Reutersvärd's impossible perspectives and M.C. Escher's optical illusions. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ossendrecht-based Dutchman. He made several typefaces in 2010. Examples of his fonts: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator of the free script face Bart Handschrift (2012). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in 1876 in Utrecht, died in 1958 in Blaricum. Bart van der Leck was a Dutch painter and designer. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondriaan he founded the De Stijl (abstract, geometric) art movement. In 1930, he was commissioned by Jo de Leeuw, owner of the prestigious Dutch department store Metz&Co. to design interiors, window packaging, branding and advertising. For these print materials van der Leck developed a rectilinear geometrically constructed alphabet. In 1941, he designed a typeface based on this alphabet for the avant-garde magazine Flax. One digital version of this typeface exists: Architype van der Leck (1994, by David Quay and Freda Sack of The Foundry). The wiki page writes: The face is geometrically constructed, and based upon an earlier stencil lettering alphabet van der Leck designed in the early 1930s for use in branding and advertising Jo de Leeuw's presigious Dutch department stores Metz&Co. The face shares structural similarities with Theo Van Doesburg's 1919 geometric alphabet, and anticipates later typographic explorations of geometric reductionism of Wim Crouwel's 1967 New Alphabet and early digital faces like Zuzana Licko's faces Lo-Res and Emperor 8. One of his alphabets was creatively used by Marc ter Horst in Restaurant Walem. In 2012, for an exhibition in Paris, Chloe Marchand designed a special van der Leck style poster. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type designer who died ca. 1669. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bas Bouwense
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Amsterdam-based designer of Cubic Typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dutch creator (b. 1995) of the free modular typeface Mind Escape (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Extraordinary Dutch calligrapher, who writes in an oriental style. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ben Blom
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Bert Bos studied Mathematics in Groningen (1982-1987), and wrote a thesis about Graphic User Interfaces (1987-1993). He worked on an Internet browser and the surrounding infrastructure for the Faculty of Arts in Groningen and is now working for The World Wide Web Consortium on style sheets and math. He lives in Sophia Antipolis near Nice in France. Author of Cascading Style Sheets---designing for the Web (3rd ed.) (2005, Hakon Wium Lie & Bert Bos). He also created a free transitional family in metafont and opentype for use with TeX, Gladiator and Gladiator Sans (1991). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of New Sans (2004), Intercity (2003), Night Rider (2004), Roos (2003), Stilo Sans (2003), Fresh Light (2003), Comic Tip (2003), Frutto (2003), Peppchi (2003), Dibbel (2003), Grumna, Grumna Outline, Fountain Pen, Lettertiep, Fuder, Fuder Bold, and Grassi. Most of his fonts involve handwriting. In 2006, his fonts were removed from the web. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer in Enschede, The Netherlands, who created the experimental typeface Unknown Secret (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blaise Sumerah Kal
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Blaise Sumerah Kal (was: 4Logoz)
| Blaise Kal (who used to call her web presence 4Logoz) is the Dutch designer of Blzee v1.03 (2003, handwriting), BlaiseHand (2001), Blaise (experimental, 2001), Crashed Scoreboard, Amsterdam (2001, pixel imitation), and Blame My Parents. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
During his graphic design studies, Utrecht-based Bob Hensen designed the engineering drawing typeface Line ABC (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bohemian Coding
| Bohemian Coding was founded early 2008 in the Netherlands and is being run by Pieter Omvlee. It develops a number of shareware applications for Mac OS X. These include Fontcase (elegant font management) and DrawIt. DrawIt is a vector editing application with support for bitmap-like image filters. Vector editing as well as the filters are completely non-destructive which means that a vector layer can still be edited even after a stack of filters has been applied. I guess DrawIt can be used as a first step in font design (exported formats include jpg, tiff and png), but it is not a font editor. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bold Monday
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In 2012, they published the trompe l'oeuil typeface Macula (Jacques Le Bailly). In 2013, he published Pinup Dotted (a textured typeface). Logo. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BOLT Graphics
| Martijn Rijven (BOLT Graphics) is a Den Haag-based Dutch type designer who started out at Kombinat Typefounders. His fonts include Kwadra (octagonal), Berlina (a take on blackletter), Bastard (based on type used in "Bastard", a Thai manga comic book), Frigidaire (fifties display face), Bitscream, and "Dense Dumb and Dirty". [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wim Crouwel's Hiroshima poster (2011) served as a model for Boris's unnamed piano key typeface created in 2011. And a 1968 poster for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam was the model for another typeface created by Boris in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boudewijn Ietswaart passed away on December 23, 2010. Examples of his lettering borrowed from that Flickr site mentioned above: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boudewijn Rempt
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Creator of the fat finger face Helibram (2011, iFontmaker). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic and print designer in Waalwijk, The Netherlands, who studies graphic design at AKV/St.Joost Den Bosch. She created Chinese Type (2012, a multiline typeface based on ornamentla patterns seen in the windows of Chinese restaurants). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bric Type
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His typefaces include Den Dekker (2006), and the roundish liquid creations such as Virgem, Rejane, Liquida (2002) and Dizain. No downloads. More recent faces: Duin (2007, octagonal), REMF (2006, stencil), DC (2007, ultra-fat), Fake Human (2005, script), Jana (2006, unicase), War (2007, octagonal), Fuck Shit Up (2007, stencil), Charlie Dee (2002, hairline stencil), Marina Lima (2002), Lasagna (2008, Re-Type: a fat geometric poster family, produced with the help of Miguel Hernandez). In 2009-2010, he created the Adidas Unity typeface [images: i, ii, iii]. In 2011, he designed the multiline headline face Andoverpis. The Dog House Nike (2010) is a custom typeface for The Dog House Athlete center for runners in Amsterdam. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brill
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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] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch Amsterdam-based creator of the sans face Surface (2008), and of Pixel Cowboy (2009). Home page. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bureau Bunk
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Bureau Mijksenaar
| Bureau Mijksenaar is Paul Mijksenaar's firm in Amsterdam. They designed the signs at Schiphol Airport, the subways of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the Dutch Railway, and are working on new tax forms for the Dutch government. Paul Mijksenaar teaches at the Delft University of Technology. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens
| Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens is a design and typography outfit in Delft (The Netherlands), which marketed RoboFog, a scripting language for Fontographer. Petr van Blokland (b. Gouda, 1956) is also a teacher at the Royal Academy Art in The Hague, and has designed the typefaces Vijfzeven (1978, dot matrix), Proforma (1984, available from Font Bureau), Productus (1992, sans), Prolinea, and Deforma (1999). In 1988, he received the Prix Charles Peignot. Since 1980, Petr is designer and partner in Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens. From 1984 until 1989 he taught at the Academy for Visual Arts in Arnhem. Since 1988 he is a teacher at the Graphic and Typographic Design Department and the post-graduate course Type&Media of the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. In 2005, Erik and his brother Petr made the Künstlerbrüder-Schriftfamilie of 30 fonts (10 widths, 3 weights) based on 3 width masters for each of two weights. It is a quirky and refreshing family made for banners for the Münchener Haus der Kunst in 2005. Klingspor link. FontShop link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator of the slightly grungy family Halo (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer who did the art deco front cover of Holland "Als de kunstenaar de nijverheid dient dient de nijverheid de kunst" (1926). The lettering on that cover influenced the typefaces Amstel Heavy NF (Nick Curtis) and Hex (a font by Sign DNA). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cake Type
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Calango
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Images of Moshun: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi. In 2011, he teamed up with Maria Jose Torrero Heredia from Mexico to create the latest addition to the typeface collection, Binary 2.0 (experimental and very modular). Typogami is another layered animated font made in 2011. In 2012, Jeroen created Webster, an animated font described as fllows: Webster is an extensive animated typeface with a nerdy look. It comes with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation and special characters. All together it counts over a 150 glyphs. With 13 customizable features, you can create over a gazillion looks. That's right, over a gazillion! Behance link. MyFonts link. See also here. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch fiction writer, b. 1989. Creator of Scratch (2006, a scratchy handwriting font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aka "Zeppo", Camiel Verhaag is the Dutch designer of Kijkwijzer NL (2003), a dingbat font with Dutch TV ratings symbols. Posted on alt.binaries.fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital Baseball
| Baseball capitals: free metafont "capbas" (Capital Baseball) by Phons Bloemen from the Eindhoven University of Technology. Now included in the package are also 7-segment, 14-segment, Simple, matrix fonts like Flyspec and Neckerspoel. Lots of interesting tools as well. Magnificent package, really. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer who lives in Alphen aan den Rijn. She experimented in type design and produced typefaces like Leestekens (2012: glyphs constructed on the basis of punctuation only) and Warburg (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Amsterdam. Creator of the iFontMaker font NutNote and NutDots (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to make Subway 22:38 (+Open), which is based on the font used for some train- and subway lines in and around Amsterdam. Roland is a student in graphic design at KABK, Den Haag. Blog. Aka Roland Cos at FontStruct. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type Designer from Eindhoven, The Netherlands, b. 1993. A stone's throw from the Belgian border, that is where Eindhoven is. MyFonts link to his foundry. He says about Phi (2010, monoline geometric caps): Phi is a [monoline] geometric all caps typeface designed on the basis of the golden ratio. Devian tart link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catelijne van Middelkoop
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Catharsis
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As 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. 1001 fonts link. Yet another URL. Fontspace link. Behance link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Creative technologist in The Netherlands who was asked to modify and improve a typeface of her choice in her graphic design class at the University of Twente. She picked Poor Richard for that project. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Characters
| René Verkaart (Maastricht, The Netherlands, b. 1970) established Characters in 2004. His type designs:
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Dutch printer and graphic designer, 1918-1995. He was at odds with the conservatism of Jan van Krimpen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, who created Triangular (2013), an experimental 3d typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illustrative designer in Den Haag, who made the experimental face Hoogtelijnen (2011), as if each glyph were a meteorological map. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in Utrecht in 1921, Chris Brand lived in Breda, and died in 1998. 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 face Albertina in 1964-1965 (Monotype). This face was first used for a catalogue of Stanley Morison's work exhibited at the Albertina Library in Brussels in 1966. DTL Albertina saw the light in 1987. Brand also created Veerle Uncialis (1991) but it is unclear whether this font is his or a reworking of a face by the Parisian typefounder Fournier. Finally, he made the coptic font Draguet (1968). FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joris Johannes Christiaan Lebeau was a Dutch designer, 1878-1945. Hisart deco lettering can be found in these creations: Kunsthandel Willem Brok (1919, portrait poster cut in wood), Winterboek 24-25 Wereldbibliotheek (1924, front cover), Ultraphoon Huis (1920s, record sleeve), Ultraphoon (1920s, record sleeve), Programma (1920s, program), and Openbare Arbeidsbemiddeling (1928, poster). The black display caps face Brok (1995, Elizabeth Cory Holzman, Font Bureau) was based on the Kunsthandel Willem Brok poster. Nick Curtis claims that his typeface Haarlem Nights (2006) is based on a 1920 Dutch poster for Public Placement Services by Johan Dijsktra. However, de Voogt says that haarlem Nights is based on Lebeau's 1928 poster, Openbare Arbeidsbemiddeling. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christiaan Johannes van der Hoef was a Dutch designer, 1875-1933. He created some art deco posters such as Verblifa (1920), De Woekeraarster (1923), Henri Ter Hall's Revue (1927), and showed more art deco lettering prowess on his IXe Olympiade Amsterdam (1928, Olympic certificate). His lettering on the Verblifa poster influenced Kerfuffle NF (Nick Curtis), and Van der Hoef Capitals (Philip Bouwsma, Monotype). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christiaan Theo Boer
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Christian "Cinga" Thalmann
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Dutch graphic and typographic designer from Aldeboarn, The Netherlands (b. 1959). Son of Gerrit Noordzij, and brother of Peter Matthias Noordzij. Designer at the Enschedé Font Foundry of Collis [discussed by John Berry], and OEM designer of the lettering for the Thalys high-speed trains between Paris and Brussels. Involved in book typography. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Haarlem, The Netherlands, who works as We Art Free. He created an art deco custom face called Delapampa (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer of the free stitching font Postcode (2008, FontStruct). It is based on a Dutch postage stamp from 1978 by Gert Dumbar (who runs the famous Dutch visual identity Studio Dumbar) and René van Raalte, which reads POSTCODE. It was apparently created to encourage the Dutch to include postal ccodes on their envelopes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. Claus lives in Amsterdam. Google Font Directory link. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik on the topic of typography for touch-screen devices. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in Amsterdam in 1939, Hofmann started out as a typesetter, and then morphed into a calligrapher and an author on calligraphy. Designer at URW++ of Altrincham (2003, a sans family), Perugia Cursive (2003, gorgeous calligraphic script), Ramona (2004, shadow face), Romeo (2004, a 3d beveled shadow face), Sax (2008, serif family), Silvestrini (2003, a gorgeous Gando-style ronde), Sirius Caps and Sirius (2003, a garalde family), and FontForum Sax (2008, a serifed display family). At URW++ in 2011, he revived Herbert Thannhaeuser's 1952 slab serif family, Technotyp, under the same name. Revis (2011) is a formal script based on Daphne, a typeface that was originally designed by German type designer Georg Salden. For some reason, that typeface was withdrawn from the URW++ library some time later. Jason Uncial (2012, URW++) is a unicase uncial design. Holland Gothic (2012, URW++) and Caxtonian Black (2012, URW++) are blackletter typefaces. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of Coert Schrift (2008). Home page. Creator of Coert Schrift Dik and Coert Schrift Romaans (2008, handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Colin Willems
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Collegium Graficum
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Constructed Languages
| Boudewijn Rempt's fonts for imaginary and not-so-imaginary languages: Afaka-Roman (from Surinam, with help from Rob Nierse), Bugis-Makassar, DendenChancelleresca, Eqalar3 (for Pablo Flores' language Draseleq), goidel, gothic-1, Keiaans-(Kayenian), Mandeville-Hebreeuws, Meroitic-boldItalic, Mandeville-Chaldeeuws, Mandeville-Grieks, Mandeville-koptisch, Mandeville-Saracen, Nosjhe-standard (with Christophe Grandsire), hPhags-pa-(rotated), selang, selang-cursief, Ü-chan, ValdyaansKlerkenschrift, 2ValdyaansKlerkenschrift. He created Gothic after the alphabet devised by the Visigothic Bishop Wulfila (Lat. Ulfilas), 311-383 AD. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The type situation in the Netherlands, described by Peter Bilak. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Corien's Handwritingfonts
| Corien Bennink (Corien's Handwritingfonts) is a Dutch portrait photographer and pencil artist, b. 1980. She lives in Diever. Corien has been making custom handwriting fonts since 2005. Creator of the comic book / chalk board font Whiteboard (2007). She is the designer of Heroes Font (2006, handprinted, made based on screenshots of the Heroes TV series; see also here) and House Whiteboard Font (2006). Commercial fonts include Spidery Elegance (2008) and Dausby (2012, based on a secretary's hand from the 1850s). She also offers a commercial handwriting font service (40 USD), and has some free handwriting demo fonts from 2005-2006: Angela, Bob-H., Escribiente, Heroes-font, Kendall-j, Krusoe, Nongtung, R.-Bruce, Whiteboard, richie. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Corina obtained a Masters in type design at the KABK in Den Haag. Today, she is a partner at OurType in Belgium, the foundry of Fred Smeijers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Son of Henric Pieterszoon Lettersnijder, b. Delft. Dutch letter cutter ("lettersnijder"). He cut a Netherlandisch Bastarda, which he used from 1524 onwards, and a big double pica Textura to continue with the type family popularized by his father. Vervliet in his 1968 book ranks Cornelis a "cut" below his father. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typefounder in Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1721-1785? He was a partner in Corn. Nozeman&Comp. His work can be found in Epreuve des caracteres, qui se fondent dans la nouvelle fonderie de Corn. Nozeman&Comp. a Harlem (Haarlem, 1756). Nozeman was in partnership with J.F. Rosart (1714-1777), who cut many of the types. The 1756 publication is a gorgeous small book, in which it is claimed that this is the start of a new foundry in Haarlem. Type showings include Dubbele mediaan schtyfletter (a script), ext romein, Text cursyf, Mediaan romein, Mediaan italique, Descendiaan romein and italique, Descendiaan medicynse, Astromise en Chimise Tekens, Garmond romein, Garmond cursyf, and Almanaks tekens. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Dutch designer from Groningen. Examples of type on the streets of Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer. Devian Tart link. He created the couinterless face Aubrey Graham Drake (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch graphic designer in Breda. Designer of the custom octagonal face Barst for Breda Barst in 2010. He also made the paper fold face Tree Font (2010). Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amsterdam-based student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie who was born in Oslo in 1982. He is working on this Gill-like sans face (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dandm3
| Dandm3 is the design place of Deirdre Idema (Irish born) and Maarten Idema. Maarten was a student at the KABK in Den Haag from 2003-2004. He designed Pam (2004), a typefaces specifically crafted for street maps, as well as the experimental face Before. Unclear if Maarten is Dutch, Irish or Kiwi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Freelance graphic designer from Spain who lives in Amsterdam. He created the interesting display face Athan (2010, Thinkdust), and the futuristic deco face Blozend (2010, Thinkdust). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German illustrator and graphic designer (b. 1978, Ingolstadt, Germay), located in Amsterdam where he does business as San2Design. Behance link. He admits influences of Swiss design and Massimo Vignelli, and, not surprisingly, created a sans face called San2 (2010) which reflects these minimalist influences. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Belgian typefounder (b. Antwerp, 1815, d. Rotterdam 1864). He worked as a typefounder in Rotterdam from 1857 until about 1864, running the foundry D. J. Mensing&Co. Specimen in the Amsterdam University Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Communication&Multimedia Design at the NHL University in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Indonesian creator of beautiful lettering in his Maluku poster (2011). Maluku is the local word for Moluccan, referring to the island group situated between Celebes, the Phillippines, New Guinea and Timor. It is part of Indonesia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer who created the free hand-drawn poster face Skinny Marker (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer of BANANASPLIT, BLOESEM, BRETAGNE, CROL, HAPPYdave. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rotterdam-based designer. He is working on a nice set of stitching fonts in 2007. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David Kerkhoff
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German designer who grew up in Dresden, and has worked as a designer in Amsterdam since 2006. He created a thick counterless typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DBXL
| Donald Beekman (DBXL, est. 1999) is a graphic and audiovisual designer (b. Amsterdam, 1961), who studied at the Rietveld Art Academy from 1979 to 1984 and then started his own graphic and music studio in Amsterdam. He designed many typefaces, most of them emanating from logos or artwork designed for his clients, often from the music and entertainment industry. Since 2004 he has been co-hosting Typeradio, the radio- and podcast-station on design and typography. He set up Vette Letters. Dafont link. Alternate URL. His fonts:
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De Amsterdamse Krulletter
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Krul is a typographic interpretation of the lettering style created by Dutch letter painter Jan Willem Joseph Visser at the end of the 1940s, which decorated the traditional brown bars of Amsterdam. In the beginning, these letters were strongly associated with the pubs connected to the Amstel brewery, given that Visser was the company's official painter. As the years passed, the style became increasingly popular, and various business owners in Amsterdam and other Dutch and Belgian cities also commissioned its use. In the 1970s and 1980s, Leo Beukeboom, another talented letter painter, continued and expanded this lettering tradition while employed under the Heineken brand. Much of his work can still be found in the Jordaan and De Pijp neighborhoods in Amsterdam. The Amsterdamse Krulletter, or Amsterdam's curly letter, is strongly inspired by the calligraphic works of the 17th century Dutch writing masters, of which Jan van den Velde was a central figure. However, distinct characteristics of this style, for example, its unusual and beautiful "g" originate from a model that was published by Johannes Heuvelman in 1659, which J. W. J. Visser referenced. Typographic circles have somehow overlooked the Amsterdamse Krulletter and its heritage. The Dutch calligraphic hands preceded and influenced the formal English penmanship which has inspired numerous typefaces in the Copperplate style. In contrast, the models from van den Velde, Heuvelman, and Jean de la Chambre, among others, are a missing chapter in Dutch typographic history, and had never been turned into typefaces until now. He continues about his own typeface Krul: Conscious of the cultural and identity issues that arise in reviving a unique style, and concerned about the speed with which the lettering style was disappearing, Ramiro Espinoza focused the project of designing Krul on digitally recreating the calligraphic complexity of these beautiful letters. Created through several years of research, Krul is not a direct digitization of the Amsterdamse Krulletter, but instead, an interpretation that incorporates numerous alternative characters absent in the original model, and improves upon details where necessary, resulting in an optimal performance on the printed page. The typeface is presented in Open Type format, with an abundance of intricate ligatures, fleurons, and swashes, which permit the creation of numerous calligraphic effects. The very high contrast and rhythm of the strokes in this typeface make it especially suited for media applications conveying a sense of elegance and sophistication. Designers of feminine magazines, advertisements, and corporate identities within the fragrance and fashion industries will find in this typeface to be an extremely useful and appropriate resource. The great Amsterdamse Krulletter is finally back, and we are proud to make it available to you. Krul can be purchased at ReType. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
De Passe&Menne
| Dutch foundry from 1842-1856, bought by Nicolaas Tetterode in 1856. Formerly, De Passe&Cie in 1841. Jean Baptist De Panne (b. Brussels, ca. 1806, d. Amsterdam, 1844) was a Belgian who had been a foreman of Firmin Didot in Paris. Kornelis Elix, an Amsterdam based typefounder, asked him to come to Amsterdam, where De Passe worked for him from 1837 on. In 1841, De Passe created his own foundry, only to die in 1844, a year after his first specimen was published. That specimen derived mostly from the Th. Lejeune foundry in Brussels, which was active there from 1836-1838. Specimen in the Amsterdam University Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Influential Dutch magazine founded in 1917 by Theo van Doesburg in cooperation with Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok, Vilmos Huszar and J.J.P. Oud. It became the catalyst for the De Stijl movement. Ninety numbers were published in 8 volumes, the last one in 1932. All have been scanned in. The De Stijl movement lived and died with the magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
De Stijl is a Dutch word that means The Style. It is a Dutch artistic movement started in 1917 and that lasted until 1931. The movement is also known as neoplasitcism. The group's principal members were the Dutch painter, designer, writer and critic Theo van Doesburg, the painters Piet Mondrian, Vilmos Husz´r and Bart van der Leck, and the architects Gerrit Rietveld, Robert van 't Hoff and J.J.P Oud. De Stijl is also the name of an influential Dutch magazine founded in 1917 by Theo van Doesburg in cooperation with Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok, Vilmos Huszar and J.J.P. Oud. It became the catalyst for the De Stijl movement. Ninety numbers were published in 8 volumes, the last one in 1932. All have been scanned in. The De Stijl movement lived and died with the magazine. De Stijl stood for a new ideal of spiritual harmony and order. Its members proposed abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour. For example, they simplified visual compositions by limiting everything to vertical and horizontal directions, even in the typefaces used. They used only primary colors along with black and white. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deconditoned Reflex (drx87)
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DecoType
| Thomas Milo founded DecoType in Amsterdam in 1985, together with Peter Somers and Mirjam Somers. They introduced the notion of dynamic fonts, and developed Ruqaa (1987), licensed by Microsoft. They also developed the DecoTypeSetter, which was included in Adobe PageMaker MiddleEast. Deco Type is perhaps best known for its extensive DTP Naskh family, which has hundreds of variations of all letterforms, and permitted people to typeset calligraphic Arabic, as it is in a style emulating the hand of the Ottoman calligrapher Mustafa Izzet Efendi. Part of that package is the DecoType Authentic Naskh typeface. DecoType donated a custom version of Naskh to the Unicode Consortium for printing the Arabic parts of their manuals. Other fonts include DTP Nastaaliq. Thomas Milo is also a specialist of Turkic and Slavic linguistics. His company's beautiful fonts sell for 125 USD: P.O. Box 55518, 1007 NA Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I heard Thomas talk about Arabic fonts at the 1998 RIDT in Saint-Malo and again at ATypI in Copenhagen in 2001: both were masterful performances, entertaining and insightful from start to finish. From Milo's site: "DecoType contributes fonts and Arabic Calligraphy applications to Microsoft Office Arabic Edition; to Adobe PageMaker Middle East DecoType provides a special interface for Calligraphic typesetting; to the MacOS 9 it contributes Arabic fonts." Bio at ATypI. MyFonts page. Speaker at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. In 2009, Thomas Milo received the second Dr. Peter Karow Award for Font Technology&Digital Typography has been awarded to Thomas Milo for the development of the ACE layout engine (the heart of the Tasmeem plugin for InDesign ME) for Arabic text setting. The citation reads: Thomas Milo and his company DecoType developed with ACE, which is an acronym for 'Arabic Calligraphic Engine', new advanced technology for Arabic text setting, which needs a far more sophisticated approach than for instance the Latin script, based on a thorough analysis of the Arabic script. Not only served Milo's typographic research as the fundament for the ACE technology, clearly it also formed a basis for the development of the OpenType format, although this is a less known and acknowledged fact. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer (b. 1990) of Collapse Smooth (2006), Standard Galactic Alphabet (2006), DeepHand (2006, his handwriting), Collapse Blocks (2006), and Slouch (2006, handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illustrator and graphic designer in the Netherlands. Behance link. Creator of the geometric typefaces Gem (2012) and Maza (2012, art deco). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Design Dutch
| Matt Langstaff created Four Pixel Caps (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designtown
| Dutch creator of the free http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Expletus+Sans&subset=latin#description">Google Web Font display face Expletus Sans (2011). The theme of this typeface: disconnect the strokes, but not totally. He runs a one-man design studio located in Rotterdam. He created the six-style family Rotterdam (2008), which he describes as art deco with a face lift, and Disc (2008, CD-inspired). Jasper was born in Rotterdam in 1996. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
designworkplan
| Type design and typography blog and news site (part of a much larger graphic design blog) run by Dutchman Sander Baumann. Alternate URL, where one can find his SymbolSigns-Basisset font made in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Diederik Corvers
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Den Haag--based designer of the labyrinthine font Lost In A Maze (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimitry Hamekink
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Graphic designer in Amsterdam. Behance link. Creator of Amsterdam Type Alphabet (2010, a ransom note font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch punchcutter. In 1680, he taught Miklos Kis, who had just moved from Hungary to Amsterdam. Richard Lipton designed the text family Meno FB (1994, Font Bureau) in fifteen styles. He explains: the romans gain their energy from French baroque forms cut late in the sixteenth century by Robert Granjon, the italics from Dirk Voskens' work in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DolWork
| 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] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Alphabet in stone face was digitized in 2011. That project can be seen here. Contributors include Willem Noyons, Maarten Dullemeijer and Rob Stolte. The font family can be bought from the Dutch foundry Autobahn. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Donald Beekman
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Dotspot Graphics
| Yves Latscha's Dutch site, located in Gennep, The Netherlands, is called Dotspot Graphics. At this defunct Dafont link, one could download his free grunge face, Gekrazze, the grunge faces 50's Headline DSG (2006), OldPress DSG (2006), Overprint DSG (2006), Smeared DSG (2005), OverRide DSG (2006), the handwriting face LongTimeAgo DSG (2006), and the sketchy caps font Skizzed DSG (2006), as well as Dingbatz Formz DSG (2006), Marvelouz DSG (2006), Hangbord DSG (2006), Screw DSG (2006), Stamped DSG (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Drawperfect
| Paul Ijsendoorn (Drawperfect) is a designer in Den Bosch, The Netherlands, b. 1976. He created Post-it Penscript (2009) and Fineliner Script (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A set of utilities by the Dutch Type Library for Mac and PC that allows one to professionally produce and correct fonts. Developed in coordination with URW Hamburg. Includes BezierMaster, ContourMaster, InterpolateMaster, KernMaster, IkarusMaster, TraceMaster and DataMaster. The DTL FontMaster team:
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They say that DTM stands for Dan Tha man. This site is a spoof of more serious business sites and seems to be located in Krommenie, The Netherlands. Behance link. Creator of the Zipper font in 2010. In 2011, they created Oh My Goth (a gothic face) and Alphabeetje (multiline face). In 2012, the paperclip face Ester was published. In 2013, they created a 3d alphabet called Inside Job. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Version 1.5.3 of free Windows utility Dump PFM, for reading a PFM file. By Jeroen W. Pluimers at the University of Leiden. Jeroen is now consultant at All I'M. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Durotype
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His second typeface family is Cigar (2010). He writes: Cigar is a revival of a 1970s and 1980s typeface called Cucumber or Nassel Black or Scanner. It has been carefully redrawn and expanded into a full-featured OpenType font. Cigar Octo and Cigar Quarto are new angular reinterpretations of Cigar. In Cigar Octo, most round shapes have been replaced by octagonal shapes. In Cigar Quarto, most round shapes have been replaced by rectangular shapes. Seconda (2010) is a humanist sans family. Seconda Soft (2011), Seconda Round (2012) and Seconda XtraSoft (2011) are rounded versions of Seconda. In 2011, he created the 16-style Simplo family, which was patterned after Alessandro Butti's Futura-like typeface Semplicità. This was followed in 2012 by Simplo Soft. Classic Xtra Round was created in 2011. Typefaces done in 2012: Flexo (a large x-height elliptical sans family), Flexo Contour. Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch Deco Type
| Sander de Voogt's selection of distinctive Art Deco type (bothy typefaces and alphabets as used on posters and in public) from The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zip file with German and Dutch ligatures such as fb, fk, ffb, ffk, fj, ffj, and so forth. Expert page by Gert-Jan C. Lokhorst. For the Computer Modern family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch Type Library (or: DTL Studio)
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From their corporate blurb: The Dutch Type Library was commissioned to produce the corporate typeface for the European Union. Further, DTL supplied the company letters to, among others, the New York Stock Exchange, Germany's Phoenix Television Broadcasting Company, Amnesty International USA, Emerson, The Diamond Trading Company, Taylor Nelson Sofres, Finland's most popular newspaper Helsingin Sonamat and banks and museums all over Europe. Besides fonts, the Dutch Type Library also produces sophisticated software for (OpenType) font production: DTL FontMaster, of which a free Light version is available. DTL has claimed all rights to the entire Lettergieterij Amsterdam typeface library obtained in some agreement with Tetterode. [This info may be wrong---I have no way to verify this.] Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Earik Wiersma
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ECHT
| ECHT is the foundry of Johan Manschot (b. 1974, Utrecht), a Dutch graphic designer who lives in Utrecht. His typefaces includes the counterless octagonal Pavement (2010) and the Indic simulation face Barharen Phir Bi (2010). The latter face is based on the Hindi text found on Guru Dutt's Baharen Phir Bi Aayengi -film poster (1966). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ecofont
| Spranq Eco Sans (2008) is a free font based on Vera Sans. It tries to probe how much of the glyphs can be removed without harming legibility. The idea is that holes in glyph outlines save on (expensive and toxic) ink. Ecofont is designed and developed by Spranq on an idea of Colin Willems. Spranq, the company, is based in Utrecht, and Alexander Kraaij is one of the spokesmen. It is unclear who actually wrote the software for putting holes in glyphs. In any case, the software is for Windows only. Dafont link. Kernest link. Behance link. Spranq site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eden
| Eden is an Amsterdam-based design form, formerly called BRS Premsela Vonk. Its designer Earik Wiersma made an 8-weight type family, Horizon, based on the Heineken beer logo. With the help of Lucas de Groot, this was later extended to an 11-weight type family called Heineken Sans and Heineken Serif in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
His typefaces include Agile (2007, a sans family done at KABK), Grosse Pläne, Instant Schrift (2000: Redesign of Isonorm 3098 matching the radical restrictions of the Instant design-manual), and Sonic Waves. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Author of the rather complete Arabic Font Specimen Book (De Buitenkant, Amsterdam, 2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An Amsterdam-based creative artist. Creator of the iFontMaker font Font2 (2010, sketched letters). Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skinletter is a collection of 26 letters with beautiful women in the background. In GIF format only. By Dutchman Edward de Leau. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edwin van de Beemt
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Amsterdam-based designer. Behance link. Creator of the ornamental caps face Fantastica (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Den Haag-based creator of the modular typeface Perceptio (2013, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type designer (b. 1964, Rotterdam) who made DTLDorian (1994) at the Dutch Type Library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Free math and scientific symbol fonts at Elsevier, the Dutch publishing house. The font series is called ESSTIX (2000). See also here. The list: ESSTIXTen, ESSTIXEleven, ESSTIXTwelve, ESSTIXThirteen, ESSTIXFourteen, ESSTIXFifteen, ESSTIXSixteen, ESSTIXSeventeen, ESSTIXOne, ESSTIXTwo, ESSTIXThree, ESSTIXFour, ESSTIXFive, ESSTIXSix, ESSTIXSeven, ESSTIXEight, ESSTIXNine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elwin Berlips
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Family of printers in the 16th and early 17th century in Leiden, The Hague, Utrecht, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. The first one, Louis (1540-1617), was the son of a Belgian printer in Leuven and established a print shop in Leiden in 1580. They were operational until 1712. The name "Elzevir" is used to describe typefaces not unlike those made by them. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Emday Fonts
| From Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Miriam van der Have's Dutch site offers a general introduction to fonts and font terminology. An impressive glossary. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Emile Michel Hobo
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German type designer (born in Quedlinburg, near Leipzig, 1957), who made the extensive DTL Fleischmann family (1992) at the Dutch Type Library. The font is named after Johann Michael Fleischmann (1707-1768), a German punchcutter who lived and died in Amsterdam. From 1983-1991 Erhard Kaiser worked at TypeDesign for Typoart, Dresden and since 1993 has been with DutchTypeLibrary/URW++. Still at DTL, he made the sans serif DTLProkyon family in 2002 around a curvy "4". This family gets raves from many typographers. Among possible imitations, we cite Dalton Maag's Ubuntu. For Typoart he designed Caslon Gotisch, Kleopatra, Quadro, Weiß-Antiqua and Bembo Antiqua. Since 1998 he teaches at the Muthesius Hochschule in Kiel. In 2005, he created DTL Antares, a strangely proportioned serif to accompany DTL Prokyon. Some weights published in 2008 are called Evonik Antares and some Evonik Prokyon. Klingspor link. Bio at ATypI. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch / Latvian FontStructor who made Georgian Boldy (2012), Latvian High Condensed (2012, a piano key typeface), and Aluksne (2012, a bold sans with 854 glyphs). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Erik van Blokland
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Born in Zaandam, The Netherlands, in 1960, Erik-Jan is a typophile and TEX specialist. Lives and works in Groningen, where he runs Bluefuzz. Photo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Atari GDOS bitmap font Jill Sans made by this Dutchman. Not bad-looking! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Erlof 't Hart (Opus Design, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is a graphic designer. He created a minimalist monoline sans face for a sports retailer called Frontrunner (2011). He also made some logotypes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Apeldoorn, The Netherlands-based designer, b. 1975. Designer of Vandiana Platin (2007, display sans family with many weights). Before that, as Ersenak, Ersenak Production, and Laztemel Font Design Studio, he made the 99 Euro techno family Sevil alias Esra (2004). One free weight is here. He also made the techno font family Kubra, a bit in the style of Bank Gothic, and 4Deniz_alias_Kubra (2003). The Laztemel web site disappeared. His newest site, Mental Type, cannot be reached. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Erwin Denissen
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Dutch designer of the handwriting face Erwin (2006) and the grunge faces Appendix (2006) and Airswinger (2006). In 2011, he made Airswing Headline (2011, futuristic). He also uses the names Airswinger and Erwin Vader. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer in Grioningen, The Netherlands, who created RoundUp (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Euro-CE
| Euro and CE symbol fonts made by Harold W. de Wijn in metafont format in 1998 (version 3.0 from 2002). de Wijn is a physics professor at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type designer (b. Den Haag, 1958, d. Arnhem, 2005) who studied graphic design at the Arnhem School of Art (1981). He worked at his own office for a number of clients, taught type design at the art academies of Arnhem and Breda and wrote articles about typography and related topics. He created FF Balance (1993), FF Cocon (1998-2001), FF Avance (2000) and FF Legato 1 and 2 (2004, flared sans families discussed here). FF Balance was created at the Amsterdamse Steenweg in Arnhem, at almost the same address as Ontwerpbureau Quadraat. Editor of "Letters, een bloemlezing over typografie" (Eindhoven, 2001), a book about contemporary Dutch typography. FontFont page. Typophiles about his death. Jan Middendorp wrote: Of all the type designers I have known and have written about, Evert had the most complex personality, and possibly the most original mind and the weirdest sense of humour. He kept promising me, with his characteristic mixture of boyish enthusiasm, solemn dedication and self-mockery, that he would one day cover the entire distance between his home in Arnhem and mine in Ghent on his reclining bike. I was sure he'd make it, sooner or later he always carried out his plans, although some took him ten years to complete. It fills me with grief, wonder and anger that Evert, who was always advocating exercise and healthy food, has now been taken away from us because of a heart failure. As a type designer, Evert was unorthodox, a true original. Each of his four type families was the outcome of a highly personal investigation, a challenge to himself. To others, he could be as demanding as his was to himself; when criticizing his friends' typographic work, he was brutally honest and always to the point. Yet he remained amazingly modest, even insecure, about his own work, and deeply grateful to those who would comment on the early versions of his typefaces and/or test them in print. In spite of the single-mindedness with which he worked on his type designs during those months of total concentration, he was open to many other intellectual stimuli. He had worked as a photographer of architecture constructing his own hand-operated panoramic camera, interviewed the designers he admired (such as Wim Crouwel and Hans Reichel) about their design philosophy, and lately became fascinated by the work of Marshall McLuhan. His lectures and articles, too, were evidence of his original ideas on form and on reading. It is a great loss indeed. FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Evert Bloemsma's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Exljbris
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Eyal Holtzman
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Digital artist in Heerlen, The Netherlands, who created Back To Black (2011, experimental face), Hello Type (2011, sans headline face), Just Meet Me Halfway (2009), an experimental font made for two-coloring, and Eclectic (2011, a free octagonal face). At OFL, he makes 01 Base (2010, sans) available. Dafont link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch artist. Designer of the handwriting fonts FemkeKlaver and Emiz (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book illustrator. Dutch Creative Alliance designer of Amadeo (handwriting, 1999, with Julius de Goede). See also at Agfa. Van der Veen runs Studio van der Veen in Haarlem. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FindThatFont
| FindThatFont! is a handy and free tool that allows to preview fonts that are installed on your system and to classify them into over 30 different categories. By Dutchman Mathijs Juressip. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Byelorussian illustrator who fled his country when he was 18 years old. He sold paintings in Moscow and now lives in Amsterdam. His drawings are straight out of the 19th century, ornamental and playful. He is also inspired by the psychedelic lettering of the 1960s. Discussion of his work by Coles. Typefaces, all made or drawn in 2006-2007: Rodopi, Fashion Condensed, Farringdon, Hopkins, Rondell (Western style face), Abramesque (ornamental caps), Mansard Trimmed (19th century emulation), Wedlock, Silverado, Shimmer Wide (cyrillic), Mona (extra-wide slab serif), Flirt Chloe (more 19th century ornamental glyphs), Jubilee (constructivist Cyrillic lettering), Big Cyrillic pixels (many great pixelized alphabets), Cuba, Gingerbread (Victorian), and St. Clair. Alternate URL. Check out his gorgeous country maps designed for the aeroflot in-flight magazine in 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Florian Schick
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Dutch freelance graphic designer (b. Almelo, 1985) living in Granada, Spain, and/or Nijverdal, The Netherlands. Creator of the free rounded sans typeface FV Almelo (2012), which was designed using ruler and compass. FV Granada (2012) is a contemporary monoline sans typeface. FV Deventer (2012) is a wavy antique almost Victorian font. Floris also created Hipster Icons. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter Kleiweg's free utility, which creates a set of HTML pages, each showing samples of twenty fonts -- Type1, TrueType, and others that are available to Ghostscript. You can quickly browse your fonts using a HTML browser, and click a sample to view that font's complete character set. A separate script is available that lists detailed info about a particular font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Font anatomy wallpaper
| A visual glossary of the parts of typefaces. By Icelandic designer and typographer Sigurður Ármannsson, a graduate from The School of Arts and Crafts [now Icelandic Academy of the Arts]. He teaches there part-time. He also studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fontenwerkplaats
| Richard Keijzer is the Dutch designer of many art deco typefaces, often based upon typefaces found on buildings or in Dutch publications. These include:
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FontFabrik
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FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Lucas de Groot's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fontfeest
| A free webfont service run by Dutchman Gerard Salomons. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fontforecast
| Typefoundry in the Netherlands, est. 2013. Creator Tyfoon Script (2013) and Tyfoon Sans (2013). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FontMeister
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In his first life, he ran a free font site called 11th Floor, where he made these free faces in 1999: Civilization (octagonal), Plastik-Film (grungy semi-stencil), Raw (grunge), Rocket-Fuel, Timeline, Greenlight (dot matrix), Interstatic (futuristic), Handsolo, Optimum, Roswell (handwritten), Jean-Pierre (handwriting), 11th Floor (gridded). At FontMeister, he published
In a third life, now as Elmigo at Dafont, he published the circle-based font Modern Ringflash (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fontoville (was: Fresh Media)
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Additions in 2005: Caramba, Surfing Bird, Vertigo (nice retro poster font!), Mufoefoe, Reverbb, Fasto (octagonal, free). Elvis in Stereo (2002, Cape-Arcona) and Address Unknown (Cape Arcona, grunge) are commercial. Prozaque is a groovy face. Direct downloads. Mac downloads. Dafont link. Font Bros link. Dafont link,. Fontsy link<--a>. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fonts++
| Free font manager for Windows by Steve Wehrmann. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fonts by Alex
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Typefaces: FF Engine (1995), FF Roice (2003), Core Humanist Sans (2011, free!) and Klarendal Sans (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fonts 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] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer from Drachten in The Netherlands. Creator of the octagonal face Flatdepth (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator of the scratchy typeface FYOU (2013), of the brush face Worst Paint Job Ever (2013), of the ransom note font Just Some Random Doodles (2013), of AbracadabraHocusSpokuz (2013) and of the primitive hand-printed typefaces A Little Scribble in My Book (2013), A Butterfly on a Daffodil (2013), Mysterious Oriental Nights (2013), Happy Monks Medieval Looking Script (2013), Some Illiterate Wrote This (2013) and Secret Love Letters (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank E. Blokland (b. 1959, Leiden) studied Graphic and Typographic design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. In 1985 Blokland won Chartpak's type design contest with his typeface Bernadette. In 1990 Blokland wrote a bestseller with his course book for Teleac's television course: Calligraphy, the art of hand writing, of which 16.000 copies were sold. In the same year Blokland founded the Dutch Type Library in 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Since the 1980s he has published over 150 articles in professional journals like Compres, Page, PrintBuyer, and the Hamburger Satzspiegel. When Gerrit Noordzij retired in 1987 from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, Blokland was the first of the younger generation to succeed him. Blokland now lectures in letter drawing and type design/production to first- and post-graduate courses at this institute. In 1995 he was asked to become a lecturer at the Plantijn Gennootschap in Antwerp. A few years later he initiated and supervised the development of DTL FontMaster, a set of utilities for professional font production [in cooperation with URW++]. He is working towards a Ph.D. at the University of Leiden entitled Leiden University titled Harmonics, Patterns, and Dynamics in Formal Typographic Representations of the Latin Script. The regularization, standardization, systematization, and unitization of roman type since its Renaissance origin until the Romain du Roi. Frank E. Blokland designed amongst others the typefaces DTL Documenta and DTL Haarlemmer (1994-1996, an adaptation of Jan van Krimpen's Haarlemmer of 1940, and addition of a sans version, which was commissioned by the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam). He is working on DTL Fell, a Fell type revival. The Fell types are Dutch types from the late 17th century that were given to the University of Oxford by John Fell (1625-1686), bishop of Oxford from 1675-1686. In The Roman, Italic&Black Letter bequethed to the University of Oxford by Dr. John Fell (Oxford, 1951), Stanley Morrison states that the Roman may have been cut by Christoffel van Dijck. Specimen exist from 1693, 1695 and 1706. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he gave a series of lectures: Type tools by DTL, Automating font production, Automating type design, Integration of FontMaster in Linux and Mac OSX, and History of type. On that occasion, participants were presented with the booklet Comprehensive Notes on the Design of Cyrillic Letters by Finnish type designer Hanna Hakala and typeset in the preliminary version of DTL Valiance. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik on the topic of parametrized type design, and in particular on the development of the DTL LetterModeller (LeMo) application, which is an attempt to come to such parameterization of type design. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank E. Blokland
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Frank Grießhammer
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Frank Hemmekam (Nijverdal, The Netherlands, b. 1994) created the free alchemic typeface Defeated (2013), and Futura FH Custom (2013). Dumento (2013) is an alchemic typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank van der Hak
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Dutch designer (b. Eindhoven, 1969) of Plan (2005), a typeface that was digitized and fine-tuned by René Verkaart at Characters. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer (b. 1994) of the fat geometric counterless face Noted V1 (2011) and the trekky face Galaxy (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator of a rounded unicase typeface in 2012. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frans Velthuis (Groningen University) developed a Devanagari Metafont in 1991, which is available from the CTAN archive. Later, Anshuman Pandey from Washington University in Seattle, took over the maintenance of font. Primoz Peterlin made type 1 outlines based on this. These outline renderings (Type 1) were automatically converted from METAFONT by Peter Szabo's TeXtrace, and subsequently edited using George Williams' PfaEdit PostScript font editor by Anshuman Pandey (University of Washington). In 2003-2004, additional updates in the set of 22 Metafont files are due to Kevin Carmody, who presently maintains the package. The font names: TeX-dvng10, TeX-dvng9, TeX-dvng8. These were later changed to VelthuisDevanagari8-Regular, VelthuisDevanagari9-Regular and VelthuisDevanagari10-Regular. This font was used in the GNU freefont project for the Devanagari range (U+0900-U+097F). Karel Piska's type 1 fonts in the Indic1 package include these Devanagari faces based on Velthuis's Metafont sources from 1991-2005: Velthuis-dvng10, Velthuis-dvng8, Velthuis-dvng9, Velthuis-dvngb10, Velthuis-dvngb8, Velthuis-dvngb9, Velthuis-dvngbi10, Velthuis-dvngbi8, Velthuis-dvngbi9, Velthuis-dvngi10, Velthuis-dvngi8, Velthuis-dvngi9, Velthuis-dvpn10, Velthuis-dvpn8, Velthuis-dvpn9, VelthuisBombay-dvnb10, VelthuisBombay-dvnb8, VelthuisBombay-dvnb9, VelthuisBombay-dvnbb10, VelthuisBombay-dvnbb8, VelthuisBombay-dvnbb9, VelthuisBombay-dvnbbi10, VelthuisBombay-dvnbbi8, VelthuisBombay-dvnbbi9, VelthuisBombay-dvnbi10, VelthuisBombay-dvnbi8, VelthuisBombay-dvnbi9, VelthuisBombay-dvpb10, VelthuisBombay-dvpb8, VelthuisBombay-dvpb9, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnc10, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnc8, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnc9, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncb10, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncb8, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncb9, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncbi10, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncbi8, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncbi9, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnci10, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnci8, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnci9, VelthuisCalcutta-dvpc10, VelthuisCalcutta-dvpc8, VelthuisCalcutta-dvpc9, VelthuisNepali-dvnn10, VelthuisNepali-dvnn8, VelthuisNepali-dvnn9, VelthuisNepali-dvnnb10, VelthuisNepali-dvnnb8, VelthuisNepali-dvnnb9, VelthuisNepali-dvnnbi10, VelthuisNepali-dvnnbi8, VelthuisNepali-dvnnbi9, VelthuisNepali-dvnni10, VelthuisNepali-dvnni8, VelthuisNepali-dvnni9, VelthuisNepali-dvpnn10, VelthuisNepali-dvpnn8, VelthuisNepali-dvpnn9. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer (b. 1982) of Celtic Knot 1 (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch graphic designer (1903-1943) who lived in Amsterdam. She often designed fonts for her own projects. One of her alphabets inspired Richard Keijzer to develop Mokum Cohen (2006)--it was based on the font used in the Annual Report of the Municipal Giro 1930. Her lettering was also the inspiration for Freco (2006, Canada Type). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fred Smeijers
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Dutch calligrapher and designer, who created the Letraset font Aura Script (1982-1994) and Aura Sanscript (1973-2008). He is based in Amsterdam. He writes: Although the typeface Aura Script was digitized by URW in Ikarus as one of the first, it was never published besides their catalogues during 1982 to 1992. Several illustrations by Mark Kelly use Aura Script. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Friso M. Roest
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Dutch/French book seller with hundreds of old type books for sale. Their outlet is at 26, Rue des Béguines, 41100 Vendôme, France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fuck yeah kerning
| A web site that posts examples of poor kerning. Run by Kilian Valkhof, a Front-end developer&user experience designer from The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geiger Artwork
| Shareware fonts by Jürgen Geiger in Sint Odilienberg, The Netherlands: GeigerBloc (2002), GeigerFree, GeigerInfo, GeigerSerif, the handwriting family GeigerScript, the script font family Script3 (2000), and the ZapfDingbats-like GeigerDingbats. See also here. See also here. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer (1897-1967) of the ribbon type Flex at Lettergieterij Amsterdam in 1937. He lived mainly in New York. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Amsterdam. She created Wire Type (2012, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In 1993, Gerard Daniels (Roosendaal, The Netherlands) designed DTL Elzevir for the Dutch Type Library, a revival of a Christoffel van Dijck face. He also designed DTL Caspari. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gé Hurkmans was a Dutch designer, 1911-1984. His ad for Unica Glaswerk (1936) has art deco lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gerard Salomons
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Gerard Voshaar
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Gerben Dollen
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Gerben Dollen
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Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of Space Lab (squarish face), Autobus Sign (dot matrix), and Simple Matters (blocky bullet hole face). In 2010, he did the blocky slabby Klonk and Klonk Narrow, Stop Police (dot matrix face). In 2011, he added the heavy slab serif face Industrial Raw. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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He published De Handen van de Zeven Zusters with Willem Dijkhuis (Van Oorschot, Amsterdam, 2001), describing his life's work. Nijhof&Lee writes: Gerrit Noordzij, calligrapher, letter-designer, typographer, writer and educator has been one of the most influencial forces in modern day Dutch typography; during his years as educator at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague he has had an important influence on the younger generation of letter designers after 1970. Besides having designed the "Dutch Roman" (1980), the "Batavian" (1980) and more recently the "Remer", Noordzij has worked as graphic designer for various Dutch publishers. Since 1978 he has been the "house" designer for the publishing company "Van Oorschot"(who published this book) producing a remarkable oeuvre of work much of which has been acclaimed and awarded. Other books by him include The Stroke of The Pen and De Staart van de Kat. His typefaces:
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Dutch typographer and type teacher (b. Amsterdam, 1912, d. 1984), professor at the University of Amsterdam, winner of the Gutenberg prize in 1983. He wrote an unbelieavbly detailed book in which he compares various typefaces in statistical tests to determine various aspects of legibility and impact: "Legibility, Atmosphere-Value and Forms of Printing Types" (A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgervsmij N.V., Leiden, 1938). The bibliography in this text is pretty complete up to 1938. Also recommended is a 40-page short historical review of the modern printing type, which comes with a fresh look on things. Quote by him: Bodoni would be an admirable letter for a death notice! Obituary. His typefaces include Lectura (1969, with Dick Dooijes) and Mercator (1959, Amsterdam Type Foundry, a face designed with Dick Dooijes and known as the "Dutch Helvetica"). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gert-Jan de Kleer
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Dutch designer who created the hand-printed caps face Angela in 2012. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer (b. 1992) of the scratchy handwriting font Dubble (2009, Fontcapture). In 2012, she made So Thin (2012), A Vida Nova (2012, grunge), Nobody's Perfect (2012, brush face), and Garden (3d outline face). Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gijs Sluijters and Joris Tol are Gijs & Joris, a creative team at DDB / Tribal DDB Amsterdam. They teamed up at the Willem de Kooning Arts Academy in Rotterdam while studying advertising. They designed the experimental typeface MTA (2012) that is made by cutting forms out of the MTA New York City's Transit map. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gijs's first typeface, as a student in maastricht, The Netherlands, was Alleycat (2013), a typeface influenced by and dedicated to bike messengers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of the geometric display face Sharpe Edge (2008). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I hesitated for a long time with this link, but I will go out on a limb anyway. This is an obvious joke that originated from the Letterror people. It is about a non-existing tongue-in-cheek elitist Guild of Dutch typographers. I can't understand how come Microsoft, MyFonts, Fontzone and other type news services could have fallen in the trap. Maybe they should contact René Chalet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch art director in The Hague. Home page at Mister Three. Creator of the ornamental caps face Don't Believe The Type. (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch graphic designer in Den Haag. Behance link. She created the gridded texture face T2001 A Space Odyssey Font (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer in Groningen. He created the irregular caps font Ja (2008). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Glitch: freeware fonts
| New original minimalist fonts by Koen Hachmang from Udenhout, The Netherlands: Arcade-Classic, Autriche-ALT, Baubau, Bitstorm-SQUARE, Bitstorm, Copycat, Cyclops, Delinquent-Black, Delinquent-Caps-Skewd, Delinquent-Caps, Delinquent-Extract, Delinquent-Regular, Doppler-A, Phino-Tight, Phino-(Variation), Phino, Sendai-Smallprint, Shift, Sonic-Empire-Italic, Sonic-Empire, Sonic-Empire, Strike-Swiss, Token, Trebble, Zygoth, Base-4, Base-5, Base6, Big-Loada-Splatter, Big-Loada, Blutter-Slim, Blutter, Deko, Kinkimono, Morohashi, New-Detroit, SirQuitry. Very original presentation! Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Guido de Boer
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Designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to make the kitchen tile family Fraille, and the bold family Buttslamming, as well as the octagonal Joris is My Homeboy. Aka The Kiejoom. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brazilian designer (b. 1978) who works in The Netherlands. In 2009, he founded Hipertipo, a small design studio in Amsterdam. Gustavo Ferreira has a Bachelors degree in Graphic and Product Design from ESDI, in Brazil (2003), and a Masters degree in Ctype design from KABK Den Haag. His typefaces:
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GWER
| Eindhoven, The Netherlands-based type and graphic designer who runs GWER. Creator of the gothic face At Discipline (2008) and the native American totem pole look face Wakito (2010). Image. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Haagse Letters
| Software to play on-line with a parametrized type family. Developed by Joshua Koomen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch freelance graphic designer. 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 faces. 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. Hanna lives in London. Typecache link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hanneke Classen
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Hannes Famira
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Hanoded
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In 2011, he went partially commercial via MyFonts. His typefaces became more diversified and are quite stunning at times:
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Hans Bodlaender
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Hans De Bisschop
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Puzzles and geometrical constructions in metapost. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hans Hagen
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Graphic design graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands. With Karolina Lijklema, he runs the studio Lijklema Design in Warsaw, Poland. Author of Free Font Index (2008, The Pepin Press, Amsterdam). It contains comprehensive letterproofs of more than 500 fonts from 35 type foundries in 17 countries and interviews with 6 font designers. All fonts contained in the book are included on the accompanying CD and are licensed for personal and commercial use. The following have contributed fonts to this CD: Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute, Brain Eaters Font Co, Brode Vosloo, Bumbayo Font Fabrik, Dieter Steffmann, Fenotype, Flat-it type foundry, Fonthead Design Inc., GUST e-foundry, Grixel, Igino Marini, Janusz Marian Nowacki, La Tipomatika, Larabie Fonts, Manfred Klein Fonteria, MartinPlus, Misprinted Type, Nick's Fonts, Objets Dart, Reading Type, Rob Meek, SMeltery, Shamfonts, Sonntag Fonts, Typedifferent, Typodermic Fonts, VTKS DESIGN, Vic Fieger, WC Fonts, Yanone, boodas.de, defaulterror, eightface, exljbris, pizzadude.dk. As far as I can tell, all these fonts can be downloaded for free from the usual web archives. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Han-Wen Nienhuys
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Amsterdam-based designer of the grungy Nike Freestyle (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harold W. de Wijn
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Hein Mevissen (aka John Doe Amsterdam) is the Dutch creator of the handprinted Hein Writing (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Amsterdam who drew a nicely lettered series of illustrations called Soup (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hendrik Wijdeveld was a Dutch architect and art deco paper artist (1885-1987). His lettering inspired Wendingen AF (1998, ACME Fonts: LED simulation; named after Wijdeveld's art deco magazine which he founded and headed from 1918-1931) and Architectuur NF (2006, Nick Curtis: based on this). Check Wijdeveld H Th - Art Deco Design on Paper by Hans Oldewarris (2010 Publishers, 2003). That book shows stencil-like art deco faces such as Wendingen and Amsterdam Deventer, both designed in the 1920s. He designed many letter types for special projects, such as book covers, buildings, and letterheads. Examples: a poster entitled Architectuur Tentoonstelling (1931), a poster entitled Internationaal Theater Tentoonstelling (1922), and an illustration for De Bijenkorf (1922). Alternate URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prolific Belgian type expert who was librarian at the University of Antwerp and professor at the University of Amsterdam. His work includes bibliography and books on humanism and book history. Author of
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Dutch poster artist, whose lettering on this maritime timetable entitled Sailings and Fares (1937) inspired Nick Curtis to make Metropolis NF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutchman Henk de Jong lists some free font sites. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type connoisseur after whom Antonio Pace's Linotype Gianotten (1990) is named. He worked for 40 years in the production and distribution of graphic arts equipment and fonts, at companies such as Tetterode, BT and Buhrmann. As a student of Willem Ovink, he got very interested in legibility of typefaces. On his own contributions to typography, he writes: Since 1964 I was involved on the production of our faces for Morisawa. Later on we produced faces for photocomposition for Bobst (Autologic), Berthold, Compugraphic, A.M., Harris Composition, Itek, Scangraphic and others. Tetterode owned the rights for faces like Nobel, Lasso, Polka, Orator, Promotor, Lectura and Hollandsche Mediaeval. LinotypeLibrary owns the licenses for these fonts since October 1 2000. News about LinotypeGianotten. Linotype's press release. PDF samples of LinotypeGianotten. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer (1914-1979) at Lettergieterij Amsterdam of the slightly scribbly pen-drawn Raffia Initials (1952). At ATypI 2003 in Vancouver, Peter Enneson highlighted Krijger and his Raffia Initials. Digital revivals:
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Designer of RAT (1984), a typeface that was used for a few years in Rotterdam's subway. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Belgian typefounder (b. Brussels, 1812, d. some time after 1861). He lived in Breda in 1840, worked for some time for Tetterode in Rotterdam, and set up his own foundry in Rotterdam in de Groote Kipstraat in 1857. It lasted about ten months--at the end of 1857, he returned to Brussels to work at the Brussels typefoundry Crabbe&Borremans, 1859-1861. Some specimen at the Amsterdam University Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aka Henric Pieterszoon. Dutch letter cutter ("lettersnijder"), d. ca. 1511. He made a textura some time before 1492 Sixteenth Century Printing Types of the Low Countries (H.D.L. Vervliet, 1968) mentions that he was from Rotterdam, and cut letters. Occasionally, he printed as well, in Antwerp from 1496-ca. 1500, in Rotterdam from 1504-1509, and in Delft from 1508 until some time after 1511. It is estimated that he cut a third to half of all the type used in the Low Countries at that time. These typefaces, including the Textura, remained popular there from 1492 until about 1550-1560, when they were superseded by the blackletter type of Ameet Tavernier and Hendrik van den Keere. His son was Cornelis Henricszoon Lettersnijder, who also cut type, starting out in Delft. Digitizations: Oude Hollandse (2012, Alter Littera; after Henric Pieterszoon "Lettersnijder"'s 1492 typeface), Initials Gothic C (2012, Alter Littera, based on a 1508 type by Pieterszoon), English textura. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jigal van Hemert's hinting tutorial (PDF), posted on his behalf. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hobo Art
| Screenwriting and script company in Enschede, The Netherlands, run by Emile Michel Hobo (b. Den Haag, 1980). Via MyFonts, one can purchase his fonts: Lectori Salutem (+Sans, 2009). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typographer and type designer living in the countryside of the Altmühl Valley. Graduate of the Type and Media program at KABK, 2009. Originally from Augsburg, Germany, he had previously studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg (Germany) the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche in Urbino (Italy). He created Acon (2009, graduation project at KABK, a book type) and Camion (2008, slab serif). He is also working on a revival of van Krimpen's Romanée. About Acon, he writes: Most contemporary books use typefaces based on the contrast of the broad nib pen, while typefaces based on the contrast of the pointed nib have been relegated to use in fashion, lifestyle magazines and cosmetic packaging. My aim is to design a typeface based on the pointed pen that is suitable for book typography. Well, Acon was awarded with the TTDC (Tokyo Type Directors Club) Type Design Prize 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Holland Fonts
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His early typefaces: ExtendedMaxMixOne (1991), Rosetta, Jacque (1991, FontFont), Fudoni (1991), the experimental font Linear Konstruct (FUSE 2). He wrote a coffeetable book on typography in the streets of Paris, but no book store in Paris seems to have it, and I have looked! He is editor of Tribe. In 2002, he started Holland Fonts. His fonts there: Bebedot Blonde (2002), Bebedot Black, Bfrika (2002, an interesting African lettering font), Cattlebrand (2002), Chip 96 (2002), Chip 02 (2002), Circuit Closed (2002), Circuit Open, Interlace Single (2002), Interlace Double, Mundenge Rock (2002), Nevermind (2003, a cut-out style reminiscent of Saul Bass's movie titling types), Pacific Sans (2003), Pacific Serif (2003), Pacific Standard L, Pacific Standard B, Pacific Classic L (2002, artsy, stylish), Pacific Classic B, Quickstep Regular (2002, an angular font), Quickstep Bold, Quickstep Sans R, Quickstep Sans B, Submarine (2003, an octagonal font family), Traveller Regular (2002), Traveller Bold, Tribe Mono (2003, a tech font), Zwartvet (2002, a Van Doesburg/ De Stijl type font). Four free ransom note fonts made in 2003: Dutch Doubles, Frisco Remix, We Love Your Font, MaxMix One. At Union Fonts, he (re-)published Bebedot, BFRIKA, Cattlebrand, Chip01, Chip02, Pacific, Quickstep, Submarine and Traveller in 2003, and Mata Hari (Indic simulation face in weights called Exotique, Hollandaise and Parisienne) and Xbats (2004, Christmas dingbats) in 2004. Speaker at ATypI 2004 in Prague. FontShop link. Klingspor link. His bestselling fonts at MyFonts. Pic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch typographer and designer who made the racy typographic poster Nikita (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type designer. His HTMCijfersenBusletter (2003, free at OFL) is based on the HTM (Haagse Tramweg Maatschappij) street cars en buses from 1905-1967. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
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Cargo collective link. Link at Underware. Alternate URL: This is playtime. His typefaces:
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Hungarumlaut
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An essay about teaching typographic literacy by Huub Koch. It also has a list of type links. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hybrid Space
| Kees Gajentaan designed the freeware fonts Kiloton, ill oMen, Xenotron, Xenotron Broadstroke (trekky font), Xenotron RadioEdit, EctoBlaster, iLL oCtoBer (+ill October 98, dingbats for Halloween), the handwritten Coldbringer, Megalomaniax KG, Moonpebble KG, Y2k Subterran Express KG, AntiMatter KG (1999) and Bored Robots. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illegal Industriez Design
| Illegal Industriez Design is a graphics design studio in Rotterdam run by Patrick Bloom. They made five of their own fonts available for free: Kriminalita (grunge) is the nicest in my view. Get also Fontboyz, Agenda, Rapture and Skwieker. In 2010, Bloom started the commercial foundry vanAllerlei. The first commercial font was Real Fat (2010, pixelish). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator (b. 1971) of Inkies 2 (2012, hand-drawn). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
From her page: Inka Strotmann (née Menne, 1972) grew up in East Frisia and was trained as typesetter after secondary school. When she studied communication designin Potsdam she specialized in type design and typography. Inka worked forLuc(as) de Groot at his FontFabrik before she came to FSI FontShopInternational where she is Chief Font Technician. Inka was a member of the Forum Typografie Potsdam. Her Font Linotype Grassy is a winner font of Linotype's 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest. She also designed the typeface ForumTypen and as a freelancer she offeres type services under the label Fontameise, doing for example CE, Turkish and Baltic versions of FF Scala, FF Seria, FF Nexus and FF Dax. Designer of the CE versions of FF Dax Compact Offc Pro, FF Dax Offc Pro, FF Dax Web Pro, FF Dax Web Pro Condensed, and FF Dax Web Pro Wide. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Innit Design (Amsterdam) created th typefaces BMBKLT05 (2012, influenced by brutalist architecture) and MSSV11 (2012, a dripping paint graffiti font). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interant Media is a small design and development company in Holland. Creators of the handprinted pay font Pencil (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic design student at ArtEZ school in Arnhem, Netherlands, who is originally from Moscow. She created the italic face Arnhemse jochies (2010) and the experimental typeface Breadclip (2012). Behance link. Old Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch poster artist with a timeless name, 1890-1985. Posters with art deco lettering by him include Jaarbeurs Utrecht (1937). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FontStructor who made the De Stijl-like pixel face JFont (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jaap Nauta (Bureau Nauta) is a Dutch designer, b. 1967. He created the hand-printed typeface Jaap (2012), and the stitching face Embroid (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Really really great sci-fi font archive, elegant and useful. Maintained by Jaap Veldhorst, it probably has about 400 fonts. Direct downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aka Jack Junior. During his studies at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, Jack Devreugd (Katwijk, The Netherlands) designed the squarish typeface Typografia (2012, constructivist). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bookseller in Amsterdam at the time of his marriage in 1682 and of his death in 1709. An undated type specimen bearing his name in the Enschedé collection is thought to have been produced around 1699 [according to Harry Carter]. In Typefoundries in the Netherlands, we find this image (of No. 28 type), and this text about it: The matrices owned by Alberts&Uytwerf also passed eventually to the Brothers Ploos van Amstel. Among the types we acquired from them we still have one of the types offered for sale by Van de Velde. It is our English-bodied Roman No.28. In our collection there is also one of the types shown in the earliest specimen of Alberts&Uytwerf, the [Large] Two-line Small Pica Roman No.29... Typophile discussion. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jaap Gidding was a Dutch designer, 1887-1955. He created some art deco posters such as Tentoonstelling van Binnenhuiskunst (1919) and Nenijto (1928). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jacques Borel
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Dutch designer who used iFontmaker in 2011 to create Jac's Font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jacques Le Bailly
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Den Haag-based creator of the Milks display family (2012), of Miks (2013, a mixture of Rockwell and VAG Round), and of the subway-inspired Metron (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
James Goggin founded graphic design studio Practise in 1999 after graduating from London's Royal College of Art. In August 2010, Goggin moved to Chicago where he is now Design Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Previously he was based in Arnhem, the Netherlands, working as course director and teacher at Werkplaats Typografie and visiting lecturer at ECAL (Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne). Aka Jacques Gauguin and "Practise", he has worked in London, Auckland and Sri Lanka. In 2001, he made the 3-weight CourierSans at lineto. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jamie de Rooij (Zaandam, The Netherlands) created the wavy typeface Kramp (2012) and the display face Schok (2013). Behance link. She studies graphic design in Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jan Bunk
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Den Haag-based designer of the very experimental geometric face Tangram (2011), The Monks Are Allright (2012), and Scripto (2011). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer, 1890-1935. He created some art deco posters such as Zonnestraaldag (1926). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch author, b. 1874, who edited Die Hochdeutschen Schriften aus dem 15ten bis zum 19ten Jahrhundert der Schriftgiesserei und Druckerei (1919, Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem), a publication which has four articles:
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Dutch design writer, who wrote Lettered, Typefaces and Alphabets by Clotilde Olyff (2000), 'Ha, daar gaat er een van mij!' (2002, a book on the history of postwar design in The Hague), Dutch Type (2004, 010 Publishers; see full text at Google), ARK/ABC, Alphabets and projects by René Knip (2004), A Line of Type (2006, with Alessio Leonardi), and Type Navigator Typography The Independent Foundries Handbook (2011). He was the founding editor and art director of Druk, the magazine published by FontShop Benelux from 1999 to 2003. Currently, he edits "96", the magazine of FontShop Benelux. He lived in Gent, Belgium, where he cofounded Dorp&Dal with his wife. In 2005, he moved to Berlin. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke on Boudewijn Ietswaart. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch foundry based in Groningen in the early 19th century. Specimen in "Proef van letteren, bloemen, enz. der boekdrukkery van J. Oomkens J. zoon" (Groningen, 1807). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jan Pieter Kunst
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Typefounder active in the Netherlands around 1570. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jan Sonntag's fonts include the Hildegard family of sans faces (2003, Linotype), which won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003 and S Beauty (pixel face). He also designed S Anticar (pixel family), S LegoBits, S Montag (based on an old wooden printing type from the collection of Alex Barbaix), S Sterre, S AnnaBeta (designed under the supervision of Gerard Unger while studying at Gerrit Rietveld), and S Takraf. Free fonts include S Spijner, S Guns, S Selfism (dotted line face), S Pincode. Jan Sonntag operates a Dutch web site, and claims, tongue in cheek, to live in Cadillac, France. His address, intriguingly, is Château Haut-Laroque, 33410 Laroque, France. Free fonts of his, designed from 2001-2004, include BomberNumbers, Selfism-Bold, Selfism, Spijner-Extreme, Spijner-Powerplay, Spijner, Takraf-3d, Takraf-Block, Takraf-Linie, Takraf-VEB (based on the old logotype from the VEB Schwermaschienenbaukombinat Takraf). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutchman born in 1928 who possesses one of the world's most impressive specimen collections. He founded the Grote Letter Bibliotheek (publishing house) for partially blind people in 1969. For this, he specially created a sans face, GLB-16 (designed for 16 point), with large x-height and wide character spacings. A sample of GLB is in Jan Middendorp's "Dutch Type", page 303. Grote Letter Bibliotheek is now run by his son. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch (Belgian?) author (b. 1568, Amsterdam, d. 1623, Rotterdam) of the writing manual Spieghel der Schriftkonste (1605, Haarlen). Samples of his engravings: Duytsche Exemplaren (1622). Sample of his calligraphy on paper, done in Antwerpen in 1622. His work is extended---modernized---in the extensive ligature-laden Jan van den Velde Script type family by Intellecta Design (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of Demian (1984) and Van Dijk (1982). URW listing. Another view of Van Dijk EF (1982), a handprinted face. Demian EF is slightly more Tekton-like. Mecanorma Squash (available today from URW) is a comic book lettering family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GraphicMix is the nice web presence of Marc Lubbers (b. 1968), the Dutch designer of the infinitesimally serifed face LuMarc LL (1994), and of Impacta LL (1994). Free fonts: Inter, Zxcvbn, Goofy, Concept, Construct, Graphix Mix Seven, Donald, Havendam. I have no idea how to download these, even though the page says "downloadable" (maybe it is a euphemism for "purchasable"). At MyFonts, one can buy LuMarc and Impacta. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jan Willem Wennekes
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Dutch designer and type designer. He created the custom uncial typeface Bonifatius in 2007 for the municipality of Dokkum, The Netherlands. He collaborates with René Knip on various type projects. In October 2012, Knip and Hahn cofounded Arktype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jasper Michael De Waard
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Dutch type designer, b. 1987, who lives in Rotterdam. Codesigner, with André Toet and Jasper Terra, of AT Move MMM (2013, SO Design), a rounded organic sans typeface. They write: The design is based on a old Soap-Powder advertisement. MMM is very useful for headings and/or logotypes. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch codesigner, with André Toet and Jasper Nijssen, of AT Move MMM (2013, SO Design), a rounded organic sans typeface. They write: The design is based on a old Soap-Powder advertisement. MMM is very useful for headings and/or logotypes. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Javenese typefaces: history
| Jo de Baerdemaker's talk at ATypI 2010 in Dublin had this summary: Jo De Baerdemaeker discusses how the Javanese writing system, the indigenous script of pre-colonial Indonesia, was adapted to print. He focuses on the Javanese typefaces that were manufactured in The Netherlands in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The cutting of the first Javanese fount, which was undertaken at Joh. Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem, coincided with the founding of the first printing house in Jakarta (then known as Batavia, capital of Dutch India). Less than a century later, Lettergieterij Amsterdam developed a new, simplified, Javanese fount, amongst other styles and weights. The Javanese founts of both the Dutch typefoundries were internationally well received and were distributed to polyglot printing houses throughout Europe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jean Baptist De Panne
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Jean Paul Beumer
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In 2013, he published Muchacho (a free Western font), Gringo (a spurred Western typeface) and Bill Money (tweetware---free with a tweet). With Timo Kuilder, he founded Regular Bold Italic. Behance link [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jelle Bosma (b. Rijswijk, The Netherlands, 1959) studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and. like many of his contemporaries, was influenced by Gerrit Noordzij. He works from a studio near The Hadue, and designs type, programs font tools, hints, and produces type. His typefaces:
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Jelloween Font Foundry
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Graphic designer from Groningen, The Netherlands. He is planning digitizations of various wood types he owns. The first one is Origo Narrow (2007), a wood type sans. He also made Sixtypound (2007, an interesting rounded fatface), Rough-Cut Sans (2007) and Jelmar Sans. No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
She used Fontifier to design the handwriting face Mijn-handschrift (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illustrator in Breda, The Netherlands. Creator of Untitled (2011, handprinted) and The Big Fat Font (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer at the The Hague-based foundry LUST of LUSTPure, LUSTGrotesk, LUSTBlowout, LUStTGothic (1994). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jeroen de Jonge (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) created the alchemic typeface Support in 2013 during his studies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator of an Oriya metafont (1996-1998). From the same source, Malayalam PostScript and TrueType fonts, and Tamazight (Berber) PostScript and TrueType fonts. He also created Malayalam metafonts in 1994 (and subsequently Malayalam PostScript and TrueType fonts), a Unicode Shapes font (TeX, PostScript, TrueType), and Tamazight (Berber) PostScript and TrueType fonts. Home page. Metafonts can be found here and here. His Malayalam fonts were created as uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and modulated stroke. Jeroen says: It is my intention to release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this notice on them. The GNU Freefont project included his fonts for the ranges of Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) and Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F). Subsequently, the GNU Freefont project dropped all contributions and support for Oriya. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jeroen J.W. van der Ham
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Jeroen Kant (b. 1996) is from Herten, The Netherlands. As a FontStructor called ITellYa, he made the pixel face Yourself Regular (2010), the chalk simulation face Angry Chalk (2011), the avant garde face Epic Fusion (2011), and the experimental family Problems (2010). Aka Jeronimo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jeroen Klaver
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Jeroen Krielaars
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Jeroen Leupen
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Jeroen Visser
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Amsterdam-based creator of Amsterdam Graffiti (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comparison of truetype and type 1 by Jigal van Hemert. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
During his studies at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Jim Jansen designed the lachrymal display typeface Crescendo (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jo de Baerdemaeker
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Job Wouters
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Graphic designer in Amsterdam who created Untitled (2012) and Random (2012), experimental typefaces. Her second font is called Font Twee (2012). She also created a Victorian typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
JOEBOB Graphics
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Fonts added in 2007: Curly Joe, Sinister Sam (calligraphic), VincHand (handwriting of Vincent Haenen), DearJoe5, Moan Hand, FancyPens (a calligraphic pen). Fonts added in 2006: FlutSaus (handprinted; done with Hilde Rikken), Amorrisline, Hilde Caps (based on the handwriting of 9-year old Hilde Rikken), C rial, Hildinia Donut, BrunoBook, BuffaloStance, Stam Pete (grunge), CrosswordBill, DearJoe 1, JoeHand 2, Kali Graff, Bearer Fond. His oldest fonts: BillieBarred (multiple-lined handwriting), BillieBob (a great poster typeface), BillieBoldHand, BillieKid (nice stencil font), BobTag, CalamityJoe, CrappyJoe, DearJoeItalic, DearJoe II, DearJoe IV (antique handwriting, 2005), DoctorBob, FruscianteHand, FuturexBob, JoeBobstraight, JoeHand, MarkerMoeII, MonaLisa (2001), Onepunch Jim Outline, Detour Dork (2002). His fonts are available from MyFonts. Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Typoasis link. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link. Another Fontspace link. View Joe Vander Ham's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joep Pohlen
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John Berry reports: "Joh. Enschedé en Zonen was founded in 1703, in the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. It began as a printery, and it is still active as one of the most important printers in the Netherlands, printing the country's stamps and banknotes among other things. Enschedé began manufacturing type in 1743, after buying an existing type foundry, and over the course of more than two centuries, type founding was one of the most important parts of Enschedé's business. Many of the most respected type designers, from Johan Michael Fleischman in the 18th century to Jan van Krimpen in the 20th, worked for Enschedé. But Enschedé, like so many of the old-line type manufacturers, was severely affected by the changing technologies and business models of the font business, and in 1990 the type-foundry was moved out of its historic buildings, and effectively ceased to be a business. The Enschedé Font Foundry was established in 1991 by Peter Matthias Noordzij, to carry on the Enschedé tradition in a new form." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Johan Manschot
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Fleischmann created blackletter typefaces such as Holländische Gotisch (1739-1760, digitally revived by Gerhard Helzel; Manfred Klein and Petra Heidorn made the free revival also called Holland-Gotisch, in 2005 and mention that their source was "Nederduits"; see the Fleischmann Flamande), Mediaan Duyts (1744) and Fleischmann Gotisch (ca. 1750, digitally revived by Ingo Preuss in 2004 as Fleischmann Gotisch PT). Fleischmann was also renowned for his work on music typography. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Johanna Balusikova (b. 1974, Slovakia), now Johanna Bilak, studied typography at Atelier National de Création Typographique in Paris and at the Bratislava Art Academy in her native Slovakia, as well as at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in the Netherlands. She now works as a freelance graphic designer in The Hague, where she has lived since 1999. She designed Jigsaw (2000) at Typotheque: this was originally intended as a Multiple Master font that varies from roman to stencil. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, she spoke about "Experiment and typography". Alternate URL. Co-editor with Alan Zaruba of We Want You To Love Type (2004, e-a-t). Since 2003 she is a partner in Peter Bilak's Typotheque. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch self-taught railroad employee, painter and calligrapher (1909-1988) from Utrecht (Schalkwijk, to be more precise) who designed the calligraphic text face Petronius (1961-1975), which can only be found nowadays in the specimen booklet "Op Engelvoeten" (1975), available in the University of Amsterdam Library. An incomplete specimen is on page 301 of Jan Middendorp's "Dutch Type". The Amsterdam-based company Typo Delvos used it for typesetting some texts. (Delvos no longer exists.) Moesman also designed a simplified Arabic typeface (he liked Arabic for its calligraphic origins). He was an artist at hart, who produced various surrealistic and/or erotic paintings. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joan Collette for short, b. Delft, 1889, d. Nijmegen, 1958. Dutch illustrator, graphic designer and painter. With Flemish designer Jos Dufour, he created the beautiful ultra-fat art deco display face L'Indépendant (ca. 1930). It was done at Etablissements Plantijn, a foundry in Brussels affiliated at the time with Lettergieterij Amsterdam. Specimen at the University of Amsterdam library. The name and the year of release were chosen to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the independence of Belgium (from the Netherlands). It was made into a font by Monotype in 1999. Implementations of Independant include Independant (free; by Phynette and Apostrophe), Dujour (by Steve Matteson), Sid The Kid NF (free; by Nick Curtis), Collette (2007, by Anton Scholtz), Dufour (2011, Anton Scholtz), and Jumbo Mumbo NF (2006, Nick Curtis). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typefounder active in the Netherlands around 1570. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John A. Lane is a type historian, who often writes on typography. One of his crowning achievements is the book "Letterproeven van Nederlandse gieterijen" (1998), which shows Dutch typefounders' specimens from the Library of the KVB and other collections in the Amsterdam University Library with histories of the firms represented. It is coauthored with Mathieu Lommen, a noted type librarian and historian. Discussion of the text. Coauthor with Mathieu Lommen in 2003 of "Bram de Does Boektypograaf&Letterontwerper" (Amsterdam, 2003). Author of Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum (New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Hudson
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Graphic Design student at the Royal Art Academy in The Hague in 2013. Creator of Dratlar (2013, Fontstruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amsterdam-based designer. His first font is the experimental fingernail-shaped Malenky Bit (2003). He also made Moloko (2003), FontfjeCaps (2004) and Ready Made (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch graphic designer (b. 1992) who lives in Almelo. He made the filled in ultra-fat octagonal faces Lumio (2008) and Fresh Bold (2008). Dafont link. Alternate link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dutch designer, 1897-1985. Work with art deco lettering by him includes the poster Hollandsch Post van Gelder Batavo (1930s). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch poster and comic book lettering artist. Joost a Millionaire (2007, Nick Curtis) is based on his lettering for Millionaire (1976). Boeuf au Joost (2003, Nick Curtis) is an art deco face based on Swarte's record cover TangoCuatro from 1990. Title lettering for "Imago Moderna", an episode of the comic-strip series "Jopo de Pojo" (1974) led to Nick Curtis's Joost A Gigolo NF. This logotype of the comic-strip series "Katoen + Pinbal" (1975) was at the basis of Curtis's PinballWhizNF. The title lettering for "Modern Art", an episode of the comic-strip series "Anton Makassar" (1978) provided inspiration for Nick Curtis's ModernArtNF. Finally, Nick Curtis mimicked the lettering on this poster entitled "De wereldtentoonstelling van Joost Swarte" (1987) to design AmsterdamTangramNF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator of Cirque de les folies (sic) (2011, an ornamental caps face), and Refinery (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amstelveen, Netherlands-based type designer who made an experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch student at KABK, Den Haag, who is working on a tiny pixel font, Daffodil (2006) and of the experimental face Quikzilver (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joris Budel
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Graphic designer in Utrecht. In 2010, he created the kitchen tile face Geo. In 2011, he designed the illustrative caps face Illustrato. In 2012, Jorrit designed Blocko. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jos Buivenga
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Dutch designer of the handwriting fonts Josschrift and JosschriftSerif (2005-2009), Dolly Dots (2009, dot matrix face), and the Western all caps billboard font Simson (2009). He also made Scratch Bold (2009) and Brands Kidnapped (2009, ransom note font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jos Kunst
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Joseph Parsons of Joseph Parsons Design (UK and Rotterdam) created a beautiful art deco caps alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
British designer located in Rotterdam. Creator of the stylish art deco poster entitled Portfolio (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Joshua Koomen
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Dutch page with links to font management software, and with a few archived font files as well, mostly shareware fonts by Elfring Soft Fonts. Includes Elfring Soft Fonts demo versions of Bar Code 128 (A,B,C) and Bar Code 3/9 fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
JTHZ.com software productions
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Dutch designer of the grunge face Postnuclear (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eindhoven, Netherlands-based type and motion graphics designer who made the geometric outline face Griglia (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Julius B. Thyssen
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Dutch Creative Alliance designer of Uncia, Rudolph (Fraktur), Julius Primary, Amadeo (handwriting, 1999, with Fiel van der Veen) and Augusta, 1998-1999. He published Xander (2001) at Agfa, a font based on the handwriting of the Dutch type designer Alexander Verberne. His Linotype Gaius family (2002) is loaded with ligatures and swashes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interesting typographic designs by Jurriaan Schalken. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch Bauhaus designer, 1926-1990. He drew some alphabets, one of which led James Mattison to create the digital stencil font Schrofer (2009). The Sans Serious family by John Skelton is also a revival. Jan Middendorp writes in Dutch Type: chrofer made several attempts to create complete typefaces - one of which was wittily called Sans serious - but this was never his goal. "Is it necessary", he wrote, "to make complete alphabets with upper- and lowercase, figures, diacritics and seriously adorned with a name, when the aim is merely a formal investigation into basic recipes". Schrofer's domain was never the design of typographic alphabets, to be used by other designers, but always the creation of letterforms `made to measure' as part of his own designs of - mainly - book covers and postage stamps. He created a rectangular alphabet as the basic element of his ever-changing covers - each based of the same grid but colored differently - for a series of scientific books, `Les textes sociologiques' from Mouton Publishers. He made sophisticated pixel-based letters, all drawn by hand, and experimented with photographic screens as a means of distinguishing simplified letterforms from the background. He created logotypes built from custom-made letterforms, based on rectangular grids. [...] In his booklet Letters op maat (Type made to measure, 1987), Schrofer presented many of his experimental alphabets from the 1960s and '70s. The booklet was part of a series of goodwill publications edited by Wim Crouwel for Lecturis Printers, Eindhoven. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch experimental nutty (in the good sense!) and prolific type designer (b. Haarlem, 1966) who created famous fonts such as Beowolf, Brokenscript, BeoSans, Trixie, Flixel (FUSE 2), and Schulbuch. He is also a font software expert who has initiated many ideas in the areas of type software. Check Phaistos at the Font Bureau. Designer or co-designer at LettError of LettErrorRobot-Chrome (2001), FFTrixie (X-files original), FFAdvert, FF Schulschrift (1991; in versions A, B and C following the German school script recommendations), FFStampGothic (1992), FFKarton (1992), FFDynamoe (1992), FFHands, FFBrokenscript, Federal, and the random font Beowolf. At FUSE 11, he designed What You See/What You Get (with Erik van Blokland). Myfonts write-up. Bio at Emigre. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch ambigram specialist. He created the free ambigram font Lake Reflection in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jürgen Geiger
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Kai Bernau
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Kai Bernau
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Karel Martens (b. 1939) is a Dutch graphic designer and teacher. He designed postage stamps, and authored many books. In 1996 he received the Dr. H.A. Heineken Award. He taught at the Art Academy in Arnhem, the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (1994-1999), and at the School of Art of Yale University (as a visiting lecturer, since 1997). In 1997 he founded Werkplaats Typografie, a post-graduate graphic design school in Arnhem, where he still teaches. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Uden, Netherlands-based designer of the handwriting face Gorillaz (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kees Broos and David Quay wrote Wim Crouwel Alphabets (Amsterdam, BIS, 2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kees Derksen, The Human Cannonball, is the Rotterdam-based designer of Vanmoof (2012): all glyphs are based on the shapes of the Vanmoof bicycle frame. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kees Gajentaan
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After graduation, he started freelancing as a graphic and type designer in Amsterdam. Partner at The Place. Other typefaces include The Chattam (2009, a Clarendon revival), Boujour (2008, an ultra fat deco face), Moudwi (2007, an experimental Arabic detached typeface inspired by the Unified typeface created by Nasri Khattar). His typefaces: Arek, Hagatir, Boujour (2008, piano key typeface), Mulsaq (2008, Arabic), Moudwi, Nuqat (2010: a dot matrix typeface by René Knip, Khajag Apelian, Jeroen van Erp, and Reza Abedini). Typecache link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kilian Valkhof
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Kim Stassar works at Blanco Design in Amsterdam as graphic designer. Her first font, Blanco (2010), is a geometric stencil face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kiosk Fonts
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His alphabets from 2008: Fleischwurst Fett (blackletter), Drückerei (grunge by Haiko Günther), Sommerfest, Rex Mundi (by Haiko Günther), PX Barok (a stitching and needle typeface), Ghana Signpainters Divine Healer (by Haiko Günther), Pappe (randomized cut-out face), Wüste Fraktale (a pixel blackletter by Haiko Günther), A4, Ghana Signpainters Safari (by Haiko Günther), Ghana Signpainters Cocktail (comic book and ad style by Haiko Günther), Format, Black Frituur (blackletter by Haiko Günther), Monaural (geometric), Steelcut (based on Woodcut; by Haiko Günther), Coswig, Roundenau (very rounded). In 2009, he did revivals of Memphis (original by Rudolf Wolf, 1929) and Stempel Elan (original by Hans Möhring, 1936). The latter typeface was published by Linotype. Frank lived in Den Haag, but joined Adobe's type department in 2011. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
KIX
| Rick van Rein developed a metafont for barcodes for Dutch postal codes (KIX barcode fonts: KIX stands for KlantIndeX). [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
At the Dutch PTT (post office): free barcode fonts for Dutch postal codes (KIX barcode fonts: KIX stands for KlantIndeX), PC and Mac. Includes a tool, "Toolkix" for printing addresses with barcodes. Direct access. The metafont by Rick van Rein is here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Knarf Art
| Frank van der Hak (Knarf Art) is a graphic designer in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands, b. 1989. He created the octagonal geometric font Knarf Art and Knarf Art 2 (2009). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ko Sliggers
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Koelooptiemanna Productions (was: KosteX)
| Dutchman Roel Koster made the royalty-free KosteXSchool (or: SchoolKX) font for kids' letter tracing. It is in fact an Avant-Garde style font. Direct access. See also here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Koen Hachmang
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Despite the modest agricultural name, they say this about themselves: Koeweiden Postma is one of the leading branding and design agencies in The Netherlands. I quite like the typographic work they did in the form of posters and ads for the Picasso in Paris 1900-1907 exhibition, held in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kombinat Typefounders
| This Dutch-Swiss foundry (est. 2001) offers interesting font families: Feisar (Paul van der Laan), N&M Hornet (Neeser+Müller), N&M Punkt Schrift (Neeser+Müller), Blocker, InterPol, InterSerif, InterForm (dingbats), H-Stamps, Tieshy, Bubblejet on Steroids, Plantijn (Legib, Legib Small Caps, B-Form, Paradox), and Kugelkopf Letter. Another designer is Hannes Famira, who founded Kombinat. The initial crew also contained Martijn Rijven, but his name is longer there. The current team in 2012 includes Martin Wenzel, Thomas Lehner and Roland Dill. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In English, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. This is the major typographical school in Europe. Its graduates include all main current typographers in the Netherlands, and many others. Teachers include Petr van Blokland, Peter Verheul, Fred Smeijers, Just van Rossum, Erik van Blokland, Peter Matthias Noordzij, Frans Van Mourik, Jan Willem Stas, Françoise Berserik, Peter Bilak, Paul Van Der Laan, and Frank Blokland. TypeMedia is the postgraduate department for TypeDesign and Typography of the KABK. This Russian picture report from 2004 illustrates its activities nicely: it shows the following type projects: Basileus (Greek face by Vera Evstafieva), Reforma (by Krassen Krestev), Mirabelle (by Alessandro Colizzi), Rumba (by Laura Meseguer), North (by Trine Rask Olsen), Vertigo (by Susana Carvalho), and Tuhun (by Diego Mier y Teran). Type Media link: Type Media is the new name of the type design program at KABK. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
L5
| L5 is a Rotterdam-based design studio, where Maurice Blok created the rugged type family Luxor (2001) as the corporate identity for the Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer who created the ladybug dingbat face Ladybug Dings (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LaMa Fonts
| Marco Langbroek (LaMa Fonts, The Netherlands; born in 1970) designed Love Carving (2003) and the alphading font Vodka (2003). Home page. Langbroek is an archaeologist. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in Schagen, The Netherlands, in 1974. Studied at the KABK in Den Haag. Lives in Amsterdam and joined Underware as a designer in 2000. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Doetinchem, NL-based graphic designer designer (b. 1988, Hengelo) of Johanneke (2010, counterless and outlined family), Sammies Sans (2010, grunge), Chinese-troops-waiting-at-the-border (2009, graffiti), KingjolA (2009, grungy blackletter), Efontlution (2009), sleeperzzzz (2009, grunge), Jersey Stories (2009, script), Unchanged Thoughts (2009), Hey Mom Hey Dad (2009), Shutdown (2009, 3d comic book style face), Hey Boy Hey Girl (2009), Jo wrote a love song (2009, scratchy hand), False Advertising (2009, grunge), Old English Hearts (2009, grunge blackletter), Stone Era Pixels (2009), Waste of Paint (2009, grunge), Baby Eskimo Kisses (2009, outline), Opa Puk (2009, brushy), Bedtime Stories (2009, flowing script), Manenschijn 02 (2009), Create a cartoon (2009), Release Me (2009). Fonts made in 2012: Holland Blocks (counterless fat squared glyphs). Home page. Alternate URL. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest, Romania. Now working as an illustrator in Breda, The Netherlands. Behance link. Creator of the illustrated caps face TypoBirds (2012) and the dingbat font Soferul Modern (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Le Studio Graphic and Web Design
| Dimitry Hamelink's studio Le Studio in The Netherlands is also based in Cazillac, France. It did the typography in a brush style for the album I am Hunter by Miss Montreal (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Léon Hulst
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Dutch kid (b. 1994) who created the handwriting fonts HBFONT (2009) and Leandra's Font (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Visual designer in Amsterdam. Designer of the elliptical face Yon (2010), a typeface designed during a course at Politecnico in Milan where he studied under Gio Fuga. Leandro is from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Other typefaces:
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Dutch creator of Celine Dion Handwriting (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer (b. 1966) of Lenteroos (2005), Blokletters (2005, in three weights: Potlood, Balpen and Viltstift---these are excellent substitutes for something like Comic Sans), Slantwise (2004), Hard Compound (2004), Soft Compound (2004), Angie's New House (2004, great squarish font, almost in Wim Crouwel's Hiroshima style), Kenteken (2004, based on the Dutch licence plates), Kenteken Smits (2013), Square Peg (2004, renamed Square Wise to resolve naming conflicts with a commercial font of the same name by Rob Leuschke), TeleTekst (2004). URL at Offsite. Dafont link. Font Squirrel link, where Blokletters is free. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Leo Beukeboom was the in-house sign painter for Heineken brewery for more than 30 years. An accomplished and skillful lettering artist, he was heavily influenced by Dutch writing masters such as Cornelis Boissens and Jan van de Velde. He created a unique script style that became one of the distinctive characteristics of traditional brown café's in Amsterdam. Leo is now working on Beukeboom Script (Re-Type, 2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dutch designer (1917-1986) of the calligraphic script font Amazone (Tetterode Nederland, 1958, now available from Bitstream [compare Amapola by Dan X. Solo]), Promotor (a medium weight expanded face done at Lettergieterij Amsterdam, 1960, available from Elsner&Flake), and Orator (a bold companion to Promotor, Lettergieterij Amsterdam, 1962). Worked at Lettergieterij Amsterdam. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of the free font Napoje (1999). He runs the design studio LeoArts in The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lesley Jutte klives in Voorschoten, The Netherlands. I did not know that it was possible to use Fontcapture to create anything but handwriting fonts, but Lesley managed against all odds to make an elegant deco-ish face, Call It Skinny (2009) using that tool. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Letman
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Dutch lettering artist who drew some alphabets in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Letterbeeld
| A discussion on the typography of numbers on shirts, by Dutchman Sander Neijnens, a Tilburg-based Dutch graphic designer (b. Valkenswaard, 1957) who drew a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. Specializing in numbers on athletic shirts, and displeased with the sameness of the letters in classical faces like ITC Machine or Superstars, he proposes serifed numbers, which were used by the soccer team Willem II from Tilburg in 2002-2003. A new athletic number design, King III, is in the works. He created Hia (a stencil face for use on doors and fences), Streep (horizontally striped letters for fences), and Klinker (based on street tile patterns). [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch font CD and font book vendor. Typical prices: 14,200 Euro for the Adobe FontFolio, and 22,000 Euro for the FontFont collection. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Letterlabor
| Kai Bernau (Letterlabor) is a German type designer (b. 1978) who studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd. He created "The neutral typeface" (2005), a sans family, as his thesis project at the KABK in Den Haag. The typeface was born as a mathematical average of ten sans faces: AG Buch, Neue Helvetica, Univers, Grotesque, Franklin Gothic, Frutiger, Trade Gothic, Documenta Sans, The Sans and Syntax. He graduated there in 2006 with a masters degree. Together with his wife Susana Carvalho, they formed Atelier Carvalho Bernau, a practice that designs printed matter (mainly books), bespoke and retail typefaces, and identity programs. At Commercial Type, he published Lyon Text and Lyon Display in 2009, described by Commercial Type as follows: Begun as Kai Bernau's degree project on the Type + Media course at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, Bernau extensively revised the typeface in time for its debut in the New York Times Magazine in 2009. Like many of the great seriffed typefaces it draws intelligently from the work of Robert Granjon, the master of the Renaissance, while having a contemporary feel. Its elegant looks, are matched with an intelligent, anonymous nature, making it excellent for magazines, book and newspapers. The Atelier also has other faces on its site, all done between 2007 and 2010, such as Neutraface Slab (for House Industries), Atlas Grotesk (2012, by Kai Bernau, Susan Carvalho and Christian Schwartz, Commercial Type: a revival of Dick Dooijes's Mercator), Neutral (an outgrowth of Kai's thesis work), PDU (a French stencil rtevival project), and some custom faces such as Proprio. Write-up at Fontshop. Critique by Experimenta. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Letterpress
| Eyal Holtzman is a type designer who was born in Haifa, Israel in 1969. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and teaches typography and graphical arts in various places. He also runs Letterpress, his own studio/foundry, Letterpress, where you can ogle his creations, Joel, Jerusalem (part Hebrew) and Kristal. Eyal Holtzman has designed typefaces for clients such as The Enschedé Font Foundry and Nationale Nederlanden. His work has been exhibited in many places, including in Museum of the Book - Meermanno in The Hague. MyFonts writes: In the book Ha, daar gaat er een van mij! (Hey, there goes one of mine!, a chronicle of graphic design in The Hague from 1945 to 2000, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2002) he is called "one of the most idiosyncratic letter talents from The Hague" and in Dutch Type (010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2004) expert Jan Middendorp describes his letters as being "among the most original alphabets produced in the Netherlands", (...) "tapping into an idiom that no other type designer working in the Netherlands has ever used". Page at Myfonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LettError
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Their typefaces:
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Letters en Plaatjes
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In 2011, he made ThM Trade Stencil, ThM Tomahawk, ThM Thin (thin and octagonal). In 2012, he added ThM Toronto, ThM SPQR (athletic lettering), ThM Bone, ThM Tibetan (blackletter), ThM Trade (slabby), ThM Tulipe, ThM Mini, ThM LCD. Typefaces from 2013: ThM Liga, ThM Architype Albers, ThM Marksman (stencil face). FontStruct link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of the copperplate style formal script typeface Amazone (Amsterdam Foundry, 1958-1959) [see here for a Bitstream version; Amaze is a clone found on many free font web sites]. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amsterdam-based designer who used Fontifier to make the handwriting font Ini (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Timothy Guy and Lida Lopes Cardozo are the UK-based designers of Emilida. Cardozo was born in Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1954, and was married to David Kindersley. A well-known letter cutter, she organized David Kindersley's Workshop in 1987. Coauthor with David Kindersley of Letters Slate Cut (Taplinger Pub Co, 1981). After Kindersley's death in 1995, she set up a stonecutting / handwriting / type design site called The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, to continue what Kindersley started. One of its many activities focused on a revival of Kindersley's MoT Serif (1952) [a design that had been submiited for use on UK signs to the British Ministry of Transport]. She writes: Kindersley Street (aka Kindersley Grand Arcade), our new face based on Kindersley Mot, is being designed, for the Grand Arcade, Cambridge. It will have a newly designed lower-case to fit the original capitals from David Kindersley's drawings which have now properly digitised. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch site about web design. Contains a small archive of web fonts. In Dutch. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer from Breda, The Netherlands---she could practically be Belgian! In 2009 and 2010, Linda created some experimental typefaces. She also made the modular font Propedeuse (2009). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer and photographer in Amsterdam. In 2009, she created Fashion Typeface, and Typeface-for-musician-Bernhard-Fleischman (experimental). In 2010, she added Ruhrschrift (semi-Tuscan). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutchman born in 1949. When he published his thesis Sunbowl or Symbol, as a book in 1998, Loek designed a typeface that strived to hit the perfect balance of Latin and Greek, Elyade. It won him the Max Reneman award. This is not to say that the Dutch type community liked Elyade. It was blasted by both Frank E. Blokland and Jan Middendorp, who says that the type's frills attract too much attention and that the overall colour in text sizes is rather weak. A sample is shown on page 305 of Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lollibomb (was: Crejaculations)
| Sander Kessels has provided us over the years with the most impossible unreadable pages, and he does not disappoint us with his latest flash creations. Here, you can download PC and Mac versions of Bookworm (parody of Apple's Bookman, 1996), CafeCoco (based on Tobias Frere-Jones' Cafetaria, 1998), Palatino Turner, Facetype, Xizo (not free), Gotohellvetica, Chicagogo, TimesTurn, Richter, Drunk Heavy, Byte Caps, Centabel, Chocolade, ToThePoint (not free), Online, Quasymodo, Symbolero (1991, based on Apple's Symbol font). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator of the textured typeface Remsporen (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch poster artist, 1897-1976. Posters with art deco lettering by him include Scheveningen The Hague on Sea Holland (1931). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luc Reinders, a graphic designer in Maastricht, The Netherlands, created Sponge Font (2012) and Whisky Font (2012, a tall condensed display face). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luc(as) de Groot
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LucasFonts
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FontShop link. Klingspor link. View the typefacee library at Lucasfonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ludwig Type
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View Ludwig Übele's typefaces. A list of Ludwig Übele's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ludwig Übele
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Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Design Or Die (1997, techno face), and Vulcano (2007, with Tori Alimbau and José Manuel Urós). Mendo lives in Amsterdam. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Hague-based foundry established in 1996 by Jeroen Barendse and Thomas Castro. Downloadable and commercial fonts from this Dutch foundry. Specializing in shock and grunge. Fonts: Incidenz Bold, Blowout One, Pure, Blockbuster Regular, Brick, Bone, Razor, Blowout Three, Clean, Grotesk, Gothic, Mobile. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer (b. 1991) of Curly (2008) and Lydeke Handwriting (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Young Dutch designer (b. 1989) who created some free pixel fonts in 2005: Cherry Pie, Orange Frosty, Waffles, Strawberry Shortcake, Brownies, Apple Crisps and Mint Choco Chip Ice Cream. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Author of "Letters voor Moderne Reclame-Kunst". 3e verbeterde druk. Amaco, Amsterdam, c. 1941. Excerpts of this book were shown by Piet Schreuders. These include Sierschrift (an ornamental caps face), and this handprinted alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maarten (c12) is the Dutch designer of the pixel font Terraform (2003). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maarten Dullemeijer
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Dutch designer (b. 1975) who runs MvM Grafisch Ontwerp and is based in Leiden. Designer of the serif face Zinc (2004), of the black sans Laudanum (2004), and of the handwriting face Bastard (2004). He also made this serif face (2004) and the stencil face Ceka (2005). At his web site, you can look at Ephedrine (2005) and Unreasonable (2005, handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dutch poster artist from the art deco era. Posters with art deco lettering by him include Auf nach Holland (1929), Olanda (1931), Rotterdam (1931) and Holland Where Seaside Means So Much (1930). The Cruise Terminal Rotterdam's logotype is based on den Hertog's lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of Correspond (graduation typeface at KABK, 2005-2006) and Saranna (after Stefan Schlesinger's unfinished typeface from just before WWII). In 2005, Malou did a revival of Jan van Krimpen's Spectrum (1952). Favela Exposed is a hand-drawn poster face inspired by the mosaic stairway in Santa Theresa, Rio de Janeiro. Typecache link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marc Lubbers
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Codesigner with Jeroen Leupen of several fonts at ShowMeWare. Mac fonts only: IggyPiggy (1999), Euromania, Scramble, Source, Lutetia Lutetia (Asterix font), Sunburst Staying, Thick&Thin, WizzyBold, Nippee, Saurtimes, RuffBold, RuffMedium, Waterfall, Sniffy, Oranjehand, Mushroom, KillerBee, FuzzyMate, Casterman, AmsterdamBridge and Academy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Creator of a typeface out of spices to adorn the walls of Restaurant Walem. The underlying shpae is a De Stijl alphabet by Bart van der Leck. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Autos (car dingbats), Pixels, Arabische Lettertype (oriental simulation face) and Wayang Kulit. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Creator of the geometric sans face Selvage (2012, in Raw (pure forms) and Worn (filled in ink trap form) styles), the architectural lettering font Resoluut (2012, +Cyrillic), the tattoo font Galera (2012), and the monoline face Monodrone (2012). In 2013, he published Fat Boy (a grotesk display face), Optic (alchemic). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Artist, b. Amsterdam, 1967, specializing in macabre, bizarre and black romantic artwork. He created the gothic font Fairydust. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Den Haag, The Netherlands. At Behance, his pen name is Joost Marcellis. Home page. His typefaces include Anna Mono (2010, octagonal). FontStructor of these gridded faces in 2010: Stanna Klein, Stanna Diap. He also made the Esque (constructivist) and Fastlane families in 2009-2010 at FontStruct. In 2011, he published the multistyle poster family Geplakt. Images: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi. Fontstructions from 2012: Homerus, Stanna (dot matrix). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marco Langbroek
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Amsterdam-based designer of Lugthart (2004, an experimental octagonal face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Creator of the geometric sans typeface Biko (2013), which is named after South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. Buy Biko from Monofonts. Obtain a free copy from Dafont. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator in Rotterdam of the series of textured fonts called Rotterdam Zoo. Designer of the grid-based face Quickgrid (2011). Home page. At FontStruct, he made Fatcap (2009). Studio Van Zomeren. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of Double Dutch (FontFont). Fontshop link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch graphic design student in Breda, who made the neat (free) display font Bloktype (2002). She used East-European tickets to make Ticket Scraps Urban (2003). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch youngster (b. 1992, Gelderland) who created the scratchy handwriting face Crazysk8 (2006). Dafont link. Newer URL (not functional). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type designer who published the experimental typeface Jazmo in 2012 at URW: Jazmo is an offspring of an assignment I did for a Dutch architect. A classic building and coincidently the place of my studio in my hometown Zwolle, Netherlands, needed to be renovated. My job was to design the house numbers and signs for this building. This building I refer to was built in 1932 and designed according to the New objectivity architecture. Now it accommodates several artist and craftsmen and also houses students. In my design I used elements of the Art Nouveau. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Designer in Tubbergen and/or Enschede, The Netherlands. I think, but am not sure, that The Soul Can Wait (2011) is a typeface. In 2013, he designed Jos Sans Serif as a gift to the studio KERN, where he did his internship. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer based in Tubbergen, The Netherlands. He made an alphabet made out of wood sticks (2011) [I do not think that this was "fonted"]. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mark van Wageningen
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Dutch designer at Elsner&Flake of the fun children's dingbat font family EF Dingetjes (2000). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Creator of Trashfabet (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Martien Heijmink
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Graphic designer in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, b. 1987. Behance link. For a project for the art academy in Rotterdam, he made the experimental face Blik Font (2010), which is based on crushed cans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator of Scouting Font (1997). Truetype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type designer whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. They are now generally available from T-26. Some creations: BlackMail (1996, ransom note font), Educational, EricsSome (dot matrix face), Mould Archi (1997, grunge), Tsjecho (1997, a wood type simulation face), Wire And Planks (1997, a semi-stencil). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Martijn Rijven
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Nieuwkoop, The Netherlands-based graphic designer. Alternate URL for his fonts. Creator of MF Dots (2007) and MF Dots Pro (2008), a dot matrix face that covers Latin, CE, Greek, Baltic, Turkish, Romanian, Cyrillic and special symbols. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Martin Bengtsson
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Dutch FontStruct artist who made the kitchen tile face Sonar (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in 1932 in London, Martin Kaye was well-known for his sturdy posters which he made from 1972 until 1983 for Paradiso in Amsterdam. A set of 1100 of these posters owned by Stichting Martin Kaye Alphabet Index&Library is being managed by Affichemuseum in Hoorn, The Netherlands. He was also a type expert, and had started a catalog of typefaces, having made a listing of 60,000 typefaces when he was murdered in 1989 during a robbery. His work included also many unique complete alphabets. The book Facade AlphaBets et Cetera is the only published book document. At Amazon, we read about his book: Although out of print Martin Kaye's work deserves some recognition for his part in the world of typographic design. This book of some 90 pages reflects his work throughout 20 years. With typographic studies to reproductions of some of Kaye's Paradiso posters, this is perhaps the best example of of a lifetime's work by this artist. It is unfortunate this item remains out of print since it remains a definitive example of typographic inovation and inspiration. It is with great sadness that the book, published in 1985, four years prior to his death, remains as his only epitaph. Since only 1000 copies were ever printed it may never be seen by as many as might apreciate such a work. Examples of Kaye's work do hang in the Rock Museum in Amsterdam. But for me this book is a must for anyone interested in typography. This was done in the days before computers. Martin would hand cut the designs in 'red film' a method by which screenprint templates would be made. The intricacy of his designs and skill would astound anyone seeing him at work, the results of which would shine out from poster stands all over Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To understand Majoor, read his article My type design philosophy. He works in Arnhem and Warsaw. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about his experiences as a designer and type designer in Poland. The text José Mendoza y Almeida (Martin Majoor and Sébastien Morlighem, introduction by Jan Middendorp, 2010, Bibliothèque typographique) describes Mendoza's contributions to type design. Majoor's Flickr page. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. His type design blog. MyFonts catalog. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dutch freelance graphic, logo, type and web designer, b. 1989. He operated as MS Designs. In 2010, he made an extensive comic book / fat finger face called Dion which was used in a national Dutch campaign "Zonder Cash ben je nergens" (You're nowhere without Cash). Celente (a transitional typeface) is also from 2010. Modani is an unfinished didone from 2010. He writes: I am now working on several typefaces including a modern grotesque typeface called Dagon Sans, an antique humanist/grotesque typeface called Crouton Grotesque, a sturdy transitional typeface with oldstyle elements called Icarus (+ Icarus Sans) and a modern serif called Hagel (+ Hagel Slab). In 2011, he created Icarus (text family), Icarus Sans, Triumviraat (+Display, +Sans, a flared family), Kolibrie (humanist sans), Noorderlicht (after Gerrit Noordzij's Ruse), and Noorderlicht Sans (both were discontinued), Crouton Grotesque, Celcius (his most complete font family yet) and Dagon. Typefaces from 2012: Dion Sans, Crouton Grotesque, Scaenarium Unus (free blackletter / metal band / tattoo font), Hagel (serif family), Hagel Slab and Hafnium (angular typeface), Aghari Sans. Dafont link. Deviantart link. Ba'al web site [Ba'al is the name Martin uses for projects for Metal bands]. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Martin Wenzel
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Mat Douglas (b. 1984) lives in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. He created the sans face Webly Sleek (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer from Rotterdam, b. 1988. Dafont link. Creator of the paperclip face Mududede (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mathieu Klomp
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Matt Langstaff
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Matthew Bardram
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Dutch student in Arnhem who designed Inegalé, a sans serif font, at PsyOps in 1999. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch graphic designer based in Haarlem who made a monospaced display face called Fox Dog (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maurice Blok
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Dutch graphic designer student (b. 1982) who is based in Zwolle. He no longer makes type. His typefaces:
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Aka Mauk Escher. Famous Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) is known for his repeating patterns of interlocking motifs, tessellations of the Euclidean and the hyperbolic plane and his drawing representing impossible figures, such as his waterfall and his Belvedere. Several type designers created fonts based on these geometric contradictions and curiosities, which a I gathered on this page. The art deco lettering on some of his posters inspired P22 Escher (1998, Denis Kegler). Pic. Wiki page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rotterdam-based designer. Home page of Desited Media. Creator of a great multiline / prismatic poster for North Sea Jazz (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch typographer and graphic designer. In 2000-2001, he published a piece on the erotics of type, and reviewed the book Sex Appeal: The art of allure in graphic and advertising design (Steve Heller, Allworth Press, New York, 2000). He spoke at ATypI 1998 in Lyon on Words on screens. Ed Annink and Max Bruinsma edited the book Gerd Arntz Graphic Designer (2010, Rotterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Max Kisman
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Rotterdam-based designer of the thin octagonal typeface A4 Z4 (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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She created an elegant thin monoline sans typeface called Bistro (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
M.C.G.V. Stack at The Eindhoven University of Technology keeps an archive with fonts, specially adapted for Esperanto. The Wulffttf file has EFuturaNormal.ttf, EFuture.ttf, EGalaxy.ttf, all Esperanto. Plus EO Chicago, Helvetica, NewYork for Mac. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Their collection includes some great fonts: Access, Artdeco, Artworld, BalloonMN, Brio, BusoramaMN, Campus, CardCamio, Carplate, CaslonAntiqueVL, ChocMN, CircusMN, ComicStripMN, DynamoMN, Galba, Globe-Gothic-Outline, Glowworm, Jackson, LibraMN, MtPlacard, Ortem, Renault, RoslynMN, Sayer, SayerScriptMN, SquashMN, Sully-Jonquieres, Watch-Outline. You can also buy through Atomic Type. Projected new URL, which I am afraid will never be activated because in 1999, the company was bough by the Dutch company Trip Productions. Fonts.com sells these: MN Access Bold, MN Access Medium, MN Access Volume, MN Art Deco, MN Art World, MN Balloon Bold, MN Balloon Extra Bold, MN Blippo Black, MN Brio, MN Bulletin Typewriter, MN Choc, MN Circus, MN Comic Strip, MN Estro, MN Fumo Dropshadow, MN Galba, MN Gillies Gothic Bold, MN Gillies Gothic Light, MN Gillies Gothic Ultra, MN Gillies Gothic Ultra Shaded, MN Gillies Gothic Ultra Volume, MN Gillies Gothic Volume, MN Globe Gothic Bold, MN Globe Gothic Bold Condensed, MN Globe Gothic Outline, MN Globe Gothic Volume, MN Glowworm, MN Glowworm Compressed, MN Glowworm Volume, MN Gothique, MN Hotel, MN Isonorm, MN Jackson, MN Leopard, MN Milton Demi Bold, MN Orator, MN Organda, MN Organda Bold, MN Organda Volume, MN Ortem, MN Renault, MN Renault Bold, MN Renault Volume, MN Rondo, MN Sayer Interview, MN Sayer Script Black, MN Sayer Script Bold, MN Sayer Script Light, MN Sayer Script Volume, MN Squash, MN Squash Outline, MN Squash Volume, MN Sully Jonquieres, MN Sully Jonquieres Bold, MN Sully Jonquieres Volume, MN Swaak Centennial, MN Vivaldi, MN Watch Outline, MN Windsor, MN Windsor Elongated, MN Xerxes, MN Zambesi. Designers include Albert Boton, J.H. Crook, Jan van Dijk, J. Dresscher, Roger Excoffon, U. Fenocchio, L. Fumarolo, William Gillies, N. Glason, Lennart Hansson, B. Jaquet, K. Kochnowicz, J. Larcher, C. Mediavilla, José Mendoza y Almeida, L. Meuffels, Aldo Novarese, Geroges Renevey, F. Robert, Manfred Sayer, M. Schmidt, J.P. Thaulez, J. Werner and Bogdan Zochowski. The Western slabby font Figaro MT (2004) is ascribed to Mecanorma. A list culled from the web: AccessMN-Bold, AccessMN-Medium, AmericanUncialMN, AnatolMN, ArnoldBocklinMN, ArtdecoMN, ArtworldMN, AsterMN-Demi, AsterMN-Roman, BalloonMN-Bold, BalloonMN-ExtraBold, BlippoBlackMN, BrioMN, BritishInseratMN, BritishInseratMNCondensed, BrushMN, Bulletin-Typewriter, BusoramaMN-Bold, CaligraMN, CampusMN, CardcamioMN, CarplateMN, CaslonAntiqueVL, CelticMN-Bold, CelticMN-Italic, CelticMN, CenturyMNCondensed-BoldItalic, CenturyMNCondensed-Bold, CheltenhamMN-Book, CheltenhamMN-BookItalic, CheltenhamMN-Ultra, ChicagoMN, ChinonMN, ChocMN, CircusMN, ClassicScriptMN, ComicStripMN-Italic, ComicStripMN, CommercialScriptMN, ContestMN, Cooper-Black-Italic, Cooper-Black-Outline, CooperBlackMN, CushingMN-Book, CushingMN-Heavy, CushingMN-HeavyItalic, CushingMN-Medium, DubbeldikMN, DynamoMN-Bold, DynamoMN-Medium, DynamoMN-Shadow, EgyptienneMNCondensed-Bold, ElanMN-Extended, ElanMN-Light, ElanMN-Medium, EnrouteVL, ErasMN-Book, ErasMN-Demibold, ErasMN-Ultra, ErasMN, EstroMN, EurostileMN-Extended, EurostileMN-ExtendedBold, EurostileMN-Medium, FidelioMN, FolioMN-Bold, FolioMN-Extrabold, ForelleMN, FranklinGothicMN-Book, FranklinGothicMN-BookItalic, FranklinGothicMN-Heavy, FrizQuadrataMN-Bold, FrizQuadrataMN, Fumo-DropshadowMN, FuturaBlackMN, GalbaMN, Gillies-Gothic-Bold, Gillies-Gothic-Light, Gillies-Gothic-Ultra-Shadow, Gillies-Gothic-Ultra, GlobeGothicMN-Bold, GlobeGothicMNCondensed-Bold, GlobeGothicMNOutline, GlowwormMN, GlowwormMNCompressed, GorillaVL-Bold, GothiqueMN, HanssonStencilMN-Bold, HanssonStencilMN, HillmanMN, HillmanMNCondensed, HotelMN, IrishUncialVL, IsonormMN, Italia-Bold, Italia-Book, Italia-Medium, JacksonMN, JubileeLinesMN, LatinaMN, LeopardMN, LibraMN, MRunic-Condensed, MSwingBold, MachineMN-Bold, MachineMN, MichelinaMN, MiltonMN-Demibold, MistralVL, MtPlacard-Condensed, NormaliseDinMN, OklahomaState, OliveCompactMN, OliveMNBold, OliveNordMN, OratorMN, OrgandaMN-Bold, OrgandaMN, OrtemMN, PascalMN, PolkaMN-Bold, PolkaMN, PopplExquisitMN, PopplExquisitMN-Alternative, RenaultMN, RenaultMNBold, RondoMN, RoslynMN-Bold, RoslynMN-Bold, RoslynMN-Outline, RoslynMNMedium, SaphireMN, SayerMN-Interview, SayerScriptMN-Black, SayerScriptMN-Bold, SayerScriptMN-Light, SayerSpiritualMN-Italic, SayerSpiritualMN, SloganMN, SquashMN-Outline, SquashMN, StencilAntiqueMN, StencilAntiqueVL, StencilMN, StencilMNOutline, StopMN, StudioMN, SullyJonquieresMN-Bold, SullyJonquieresMN, SwaakCentennialMN, Syntax-Bold, Syntax-Roman, ToucheVL, TziganeMN, ViantMN-Bold, VivaldiMN, VoelBeatMN, WashSymbolVL-Light, WatchMN-Outline, WindsorMN, WindsorMNElongated, ZambesiMN. View Mecanorma's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer in Hardinxveld, The Netherlands, who created Handmade Font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch graphic designer (b. 1968) of the sans serif font Levanah (1993), a face based on research done at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Lives in Baarn. His teachers were Gerard Unger and Jan Boterman. Levanah started out by unseriffing Bembo and Garamond, and is in a sense a semi-sans Renaissance face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Great Dutch designer (b. 1956) who makes optimal and ingenious use of type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Digital artist in Breda, The Netherlands, who made some nice posters that showcase Baskerville (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Amsterdam. Creator of the stencil face Geissler Serif (2013), which was named after Heinrich Geissler (1814-1879), the inventor of the Geissler tube, which later led to neon tubes. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type designer at OurType in Belgium, who was born in The Netherlands and studied at KABK in Den Haag. She lives and works in New York. OurType Eva (2006) is a 36-style sans type family designed by Merel Matzinger and Fred Smeijers, characterized by script-like lower case v and w that stand out among the sea of sans glyphs. From OurType's documentation: It is informal and warm in character, thanks to the contrast in its strokes and the freedom with which they have been drawn. The friendly personality provides added interest at larger sizes. Yet its forms also have a notable clarity, and it works well for setting continuous text. Eva can be used in a wide variety of contexts, from personalised messages to mass-circulation publications. The name of the typeface comes from the ceramicist Eva Zeisel (born in 1906 in Hungary). It was the delicate, humane forms of Zeisel's industrially produced ceramics that gave inspiration to Merel Matzinger as she designed the first, one-weight version of Eva in 1999. Eva Zeisel's ceramics are warm and approachable for their fluid curving lines, for their simplicity, but also for their playful, whimsical nature. Indeed, it is Zeisel's 'playful search for beauty' that is the crucial connection between her and her audience. It is Matzinger and Smeijers' hope that the Eva typeface achieves a similar feeling and a similar connection. Eva finds a distinct place among existing 'informal sanserifs'. The contrast it shows between thick and thin strokes is less marked than with designs such as Optima or Pascal. So too the flairs at the terminals of its strokes are less marked than in the case of Optima. One could position it somewhere between these 'semi-sanserifs' and typefaces like Gill Sans, Scala Sans or Fresco Sans, which we now identify as belonging to the category of 'humanist sanserif'. The variety in the ways in which the stroke terminals are treated gives Eva much of its character. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Merijn C. Mulder
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Dutch graphic designer, who graduated in 2008 from the AKV St Joost in Breda, The Netherlands, and is now at the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp. At St. Joost he wrote an interesting thesis (in Dutch) on type revivals. Alternate URL. An excerpt from his thesis on Garamond revivals: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
mftrace
| mftrace is a small Python program that lets you trace a metafont into a PFA or PFB font (A PostScript Type1 Scalable Font) or TTF (TrueType) font. It is licensed under the GNU GPL. All done by Han-Wen Nienhuys. Requires autotrace and pfaedit (now FontForge). Similar to metatype, which only makes truetype though. Credit: Gf2pbm, the utility to convert a MetaFont GF file to a PBM file was based on Paul Vojta's Xdvi. Manual by Julian Gilbey. The comparison with similar programs goes like this (I quote):
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Michael Lugmayr
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Graphic designer in Amsterdam who created unnamed paperclip and outline faces in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch author (b. 1950, Amsterdam) of Typage (2007, Herr Druck, Switzerland), a 256-page book on typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michiel Schuurman (b. Amsterdam, 1974) studied graphic design and typography at the Koninklijke Academie voor de Beeldende Kunsten (KABK) Den Haag and graduated as graphic designer in 2002 from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam. He specialized in typography, designs his own typefaces and likes working in black and white. His posters show great typographical originality. His typefaces include Oldskool (1998-2000), an outline face, and Ixopusada (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illustrator and designer in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 2010, he created a custom counterless typeface for a conference called Philosophers' Rally. Cargocollective link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rotterdam-based digital artist. She made an ultra-fat art deco font entitled Real Men (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of some fonts at fontomas.com, such as Basm font (handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer, illustrator and art director in Sofia, Bulgaria, who is now based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Creator of Funkadelic (2009) and Quotes Alphabet (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Good digitizations exist of Monotype Ehrhardt. Frutiger supervised Linotype's digitization as Janson Text (1985). Bitstream's digitization is Kis. David Berlow at Font Bureau did a revival in 2007 called Kis FB. Berthold Kis BQ and Kis Classico (Franko Luin) round out the set of interpretations and revivals. Bio by Nicholas Fabian. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Milan de Jong
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Miriam van der Have
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Dutch designer at Decotype of DecoType Nastaliq (2009), which won an award in the non-Latin category at TDC2 2010. The award blurb reads: DecoType Nastaliq is the latest fruit of more than 25 years of analyzing Arabic scripts in their pure, pre-typographic form. Like its close relative ruq?ah, nastaliq retains the original two-dimensional aspect of Arabic script. To capture this for use in an essentially Latin-based technical environment is a great challenge. The final glyph set consists of a minimal set of functional shapes, with which for all Arabic-scripted languages all imaginable combinations with any diacritic attachment can be generated. This is possible solely with the use of ACE, the Arabic Calligraphic Engine, a radical departure from conventional thinking in Gutenberg-style movable type. ACE was developed by the DecoType team, Thomas Milo, Peter Somers and Mirjam Somers, initially for the ruqah script, later it was expanded for a very broad analysis of the naskh script. Today ACE drives any Arabic typeface and is the core engine of WinSoft's Tasmeem enhancement of Adobe InDesign Middle Eastern version. The seminal role of ACE for the development of smart font technology, including OpenType, was recently acknowledged with the Dr Peter Karow Award. At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, she spoke on the slanted Arabic typefaces with cascading connections: It was exactly this challenge that brought DecoType into the typography scene in 1985 with the very first Ruqah computer typography. In 2011, a completely new Ruqah design takes its place. In addition to that, the award-winning DecoType Nastaliq typeface in Persian style is very well received as the top typeface in WinSoft Tasmeem. A second nastaliq, this time in Pakistani style is under construction. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I am always surprised by the attribute Dutch fonts. Therea re many fonts tagged that way at MyFonts, and this page shows them all. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MyFonts selection of fonts for Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer in Noorden, The Netherlands, who created a typographic poster entitled Istanbul (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
N. Tetterode
| Foundry in Amsterdam, set up in 1851 by Nicolaas Tetterode (1816-1894). Nicolaas' oldest son, also called Nicolaas, expanded the firm until his death in 1912. In 1914, the firm baecame Lettergieterij Amsterdam, which remains active until today. Tetterode's extensive type and printing library, De Typografische Bibliotheek van Lettergieterij 'Amsterdam' v/h N. Tetterode was donated in 1971 to the University of Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Natahalie Ouederni (Amarante Designs) is a French graphic designer and illustrator in Delft, The Netherlands. In 2010, she created a font from direction signs, and started work on an ink splatter font. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Iran-born Nazanin Karimi (b. 1987) is a graphic design student at KABK in Den Haag. He created the Sans Collective typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In 1962, NEN (Dutch Institute for Normalization) published a guide for a sans and a serif design. It is rumoured that Visualogik has digitized this, but no onme can confirm this. The typeface has been used on signage in Amsterdam. The committee that decided on the details of the design, according to Kuitenbrouwer:
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NGT Fonts (or: Effatha)
| "Nederlandse Gebarentaal" fonts: Dutch analog of the Americal Sign Language fonts. The fonts are called NGT-handalfabet, NGT-handalfabetLijn, NGT-handalfabetLijn+, NGT-handalfabet+. They were designed in 1998 by Gert-Jan de Kleer and digitized by Rik Jaspers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nick Curtis
| Sander de Voogt tells us all there is to know about Nick Curtis's fonts. A complete list of names, sources of inspiration, dates and foundries. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nick Datta
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At MyFonts, we read this about Nick Rutte (b. 1983, Velsen, The Neherlands): As an intern at the VetteLetters Headquarters Nick takes over the VLNL Dream Meal-projects, while Donald was too busy with cooking experiments. Nick is now working on his final project at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Donald® is missing Nick very much, because he has to do now everything on his own... Hopefully Nick is returning to VetteLetters after graduating. Nick Rutte and Donald Roos together designed VLNL Dream Meal Left and Right (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch poster artist, 1892-1961. Scan of his art deco lettering poster, Verkade's Oranje Bonbons. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nicolaas Tetterode
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Delft-based graphic and web designer. Slides of a type presentation given in his final year at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Niek J. van Driel
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Dutch creator, b. 1994, of the flowery hand Nieknique (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer and type designer in Heemskerk, The Netherlands. Student at St. Joost Art Academy in The Netherlnads. Designer of the free graffiti font Trasher2 (2005), the organic face Lynex (2009), the multiline typeface The Maze (2009), and some other faces shown on Behance. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lots of type books for sale at Nijhof&Lee in the Netherlands. In 2008, 20 years after Nijhof&Lee opened for business, Frank Nijhof died. Warren Lee continues the business alone after that. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rotterdam-based designer of the handprinted typeface Ruit One (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Originally from Brazil, Nina Zulian investigated type patterns for her masters in graphic design in Barcelona in 2008---she used squares and circles only to make an alphabet. Currently, she works in Amsterdam. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of POSTCODE, a font based on this Dutch postage stamp by Gert Dumbar. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer (b. 1988) who made the handprinted faces Nb Obese and Nb Strange in 2008. Home page at Skeedio. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Novo Typo (was: Atelier van Wageningen)
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The display type Stavba (inspired by rodchenko's constructivist lettering) appeared in 1994 as a part of his presentation for his final examination at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and was later renamed Ärst. He continues making display types on his own account. He created the fonts Linotype Cerny (1995, caps only), Linotype Laika and Linotype Sjablony (a roughened stencil font) in 1997. Fontshop and 2Rebels sell his Gagarin family (2000), which include Anna (constructivist and unicase), Boris, Christa, Dmitri (MICR), Eleno, Fjodor, Gregor, Hektor (stencil), Igor, Youri, Leonora (with Nele Reyniers), Magda (with Nele Reyniers), Ossip and Petrov (LED simulation). As he tells it, four Russians, Gustav Klucis, Vladimir Majakovski, Alexander Rodchenko en Gregory Rasputin each had an affair with Anna Gagarin, and out of all that came forth Boris, Christa, Dimitri, Elena, Fjodor, Gregor, Hektor, Igor, Jouri, Kurt, Leonora, Magda, Nina, Ossip, Petrov, Quirina, Rudolf and Sonia. Atelier Van Wageningen made the curly face HC type (2010) for packaging. Typefaces from 2012 include NT Lucien, NT Plakaty (poster font), NT Theo, the NT Gagarin family, NT Zkumavka (rough stencil based on stencils from the 1920s in Russia; first published in 1995-2002 at Two Rebels), NT Cornelia (wood type caps), NT Novo (with Novo Alla, Bila, Cela, Dada, Enno, Fika and Gigo), Louis Douze and Therese Quatorze, Caren (a soft-edged corporate face for a Dutch women's organization, Vrouwen van Nu). Typefaces from 2013: Sjiq (with a crazy roofed lower case s), and flower photographic typefaces such as Fall, Lily and Pure. Novo Typo also made several corporate typefaces. Behance link. Linotype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ogentroost
| Ogentroost is the typographic wing of Dutch corporate identity designer Diederik Corvers, who is located in Rotterdam, where he runs (ran?) Klaar Ontwerpen. He made these corporate identity typefaces: Thoth, Quattron, 123Interim, Ogentroost (an italic for posters), Durer Digital, Export (a rounded stencil), Together, CrossWord (another stencil), Suomi (2007). The Suomi Ultra weight is free. Novus (2013) was published in 2013. Fonts sold via Fontworks. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Olthuis
| This Dutch site contains phonetic fonts such as Cyrillic-1, PhoneticaItalic, SKTimesDictionaryItalic, STimesDictionary, SamCourierW2Normal, SamHelveticaW2Bold, SamHelveticaW2BoldItalic, SamHelveticaW2Italic, SamHelveticaW2Normal, SamTimesW2Bold, SamTimesW2BoldItalic, SamTimesW2Italic, SamTimesW2Normal [the Sam series are by Samisk Datautvalg], SkTimesDictionaryBold, TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT. In addition, we find Corel's WordPerfect font package: WP-ArabicScriptSihafa, WP-ArabicSihafa, WP-BoxDrawing, WP-CyrillicA, WP-CyrillicB, WP-GreekCentury, WP-GreekCourier, WP-GreekHelve, WP-HebrewDavid, WP-IconicSymbolsA, WP-IconicSymbolsB, WP-Japanese, WP-MathA, WP-MathB, WP-MathExtendedA, WP-MathExtendedB, WP-MultinationalAHelve, WP-MultinationalARoman, WP-MultinationalBCourier, WP-MultinationalBHelve, WP-MultinationalBRoman, WP-MultinationalCourier, WP-Phonetic, WPTypographicSymbols. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Omashuisje
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Eastburgh (2011) is a slightly slabbed humanist sans face. In 2012, he published the nearly monoline sans typeface family Aubaine. Fontspring link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Onderaards
| Studio Aschwin, or Onderaards, is located in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Aschwin de Hoog and Lins van Lingen jointly run Onderaards. In 2005, they created a stencil face and a number of icons and packaged it as Survivor Pictograms. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type designer born in 1971 in Voorburg. He made the spurred serif face Lafayette Extra Condensed (1995) at the Agfa Creative Alliance. It was based on a newspaper type called Lafayette (1932, Robert Hunter Middleton, Ludlow). Onno Seb Schaap is currently Art Director for the advertising agency Arrow, in The Hague. Font Bureau write-up. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Otherways.nl
| Type foundry in Amsterdam, run by Donald Roos (b. Haarlem, 1978). Also involved are Jantoon Roos (Haarlem, b. 1953) and Benz Roos. Typefaces (all by Donald Roos) include LD Spaghetti (2004), LL Bint (2004, potato stamp face), LL Gaufre (2004, an "OpenPixelType"), MagGothic (in progress). They are also involved in the digitization of wood type. In 2009, he got involved in Vette Letters, and there he published VLNL Bint, VLNL Gaufre, VLNL Knoffel, VLNL Brak, and VLNL Spaghetti Bolognese. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
OurType
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FontShop link. Author of Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now, London, Hyphen Press, 1996, and Type Now: A Manifesto. In February 2001, Smeijers received the (second) Gerrit Noordzij Award 2000 (an initiative of the post-graduate department Type&Media at the Royal Academy in The Hague in cooperation with the Museum Meermanno). Author of Type Now (2003, reviewed by John Berry). OurType's offices are in DePinte, Belgium. Speaker on historical stencil forms at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. Currently he also is professor of digital media and Dean at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Patrick Bloom
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Patrick Bloom
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Paul IJsendoorn
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Paul Mijksenaar
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Dutch designer, 1897-1973. Work with art deco lettering by him includes an ad for P. Van Berkel (1925). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Paul van der Laan
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At Kombinat Typefounders, he designed Feisar (1999), a futuristic display face which has been extended to the multiline Feiar Express in 2008, about which he writes: Feisar Express could be called a retro-futuristic inline script typeface family. He also made Flex (1999-2000, a sans family, done for Bold Monday) and Sambasko (1998). At his company Type Invaders, he leads us through the development of the pixel font Outbox (2000). At the Enschedé Font Foundry, he is (part-time) involved in font production and maintenance of the website. At Typotheque, he created the chess figurines (2003) to match Bilak's Fedra Sans Alt for the German Chess publisher Schachzentrale Rattmann. In 2009, he and Pieter van Rosmalen created Audi Type (via MetaDesign), which replaces the old Univers-based Audi Sans. In 2010, this type was part of the global Audi identity package that won a Gold "Corporate Design award". In 2012, a new logo and house style was unveiled for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The new typeface, named de Rijksmuseum, was specially developed for the Rijksmuseum by typographic designer Paul van der Laan. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Korsman
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Influential Dutch type designer and teacher, b. The Hague, 1961, who founded The Enschedé Font Foundry in 1991. He designed PMN Caecilia. Together with Petr van Blokland and Peter Verheul and several others, he is vaste docent in typography at the Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Den Haag. Son of Gerrit Noordzij. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of Pannetje 10 (2004), a rectangular pixel face (available at Dafont). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter Rahder (Emmen, The Netherlands) specializes in geometric experimental design. He created a number of circle-based gridded alphabets in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Petr van Blokland
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Petter Andersson is a Swedish graphic designer currently based in Amsterdam who specializes in identity, typography, web and print design. In 2011, he created the simple geometric display sans family Ekzakto. His blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer from Australia who now works in Amsterdam, where she became known for her Pink Ribbon Magazine, for which she also did the lettering. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Phons Bloemen
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Phontphreak (The Netherlands) posted his handwriting font on abf on July 9, 2003: PhontPhreak's Handwriting. This was beautified a day later by Andreas Hoefeld. Wendy Mupke (2011, FontStruct) is a starry dot matrix face. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pierre François
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Dutch designer based in Rotterdam. Creator of Moeflon (2012, scribbly typeface), Spijker 08 (2008, script), Moeflon Italic (2007, scratchy script), Zebra (2007), Giraffe (2007), Mosquito (2007, a fantastic scribbly hand), Ramon (2007, an equally ingenious informal outline face), Rare Kwast (2007, brush face) and Fil Sans (2007, grunge hand). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Computer Science researcher at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Examples: Toneel Wij Nu, 1925, Kataloog PTT, 1924, Nutter margarine inpakpapier, 1923. Type revivals of Piet Zwart's typefaces include
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Dutch poster artist, 1886-1965. Posters with art deco lettering by him include Hygiene Tentoonstelling (1920), Tentoonstelling Haagsche Kunstkring (1925), Nederlandse Jaarbeurs Utrecht (1930) and Haagsche Kunstkring (1931). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pieter Omvlee
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Pieter van Rosmalen
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Pieter van Rosmalen
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Dutch designer (b. 1922) of the (art deco, monoline) Pootjes Glass typeface, which was used in the 50s and 60s in The Netherlands to adorn glass plates in shop windows. The Pootjes company became De Haan in 1980. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch graphic designer (b. 1985) from Enschede (the city, not the foundry) who studies at the University of Twente. Alternate URL. Working on this grunge face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutchman who resides in Leiden. Creator of the free Trimalchio font (Mac only). He writes: "It tries to resemble a capitalis rustica, although it is not as beautiful as the one found in the MediceusVergil." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pim Waalen (b. 1993) is a graphic design student in Eindoven, The Netherlands. He created the Lomo typeface in 2011. In 2012, he added the headline face Autumn. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pokemon Paranoia
| Edwin van de Beemt (Pokemon Paranoia) is the Dutch creator of the runic/futuristic Annon. Aka Corey Jones. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Polka Design / Letterfontein
| Polka Design is a Dutch book design, graphic design and publishing house, run by Joep Pohlen, Dennis Schmitz and "Egor". Joep Pohlen (Roermond) and Geert Setola published Letterfontein (1994). Joep writes: We printed about 15,000 copies. In 2002 I began rewriting and expanding the book. Geert Setola did not take part anymore in this huge job where the content went from appr. 15,000 words to 150,000 words. The first Dutch print in november 2009 was sold out in a couple of weeks and in march 2010 the reprint appeared. In 2010 Letterfontein got also a red dot award and a certificate for high design quality form the Type Directors Club New York (TDC). It took about a year to get it well translated in the different languages for Taschen Publishers. For the English version we asked John A. Lane to proofread it. For the Spanish version Albert Corbeto did the proofreading. So, the other language versions: Letter Fountain (2011), Fuente de Letras (Sp), La Fontaine aux Lettres (Fr) and Letterfontäne. A new edition appeared in 2011. In 2013, Pohlen designed Calypso PF, a free version of Roger Excoffon's Calypso, ad quite different from all existing digital versions. He explains: Most of the typefaces ever made have been digitized. Calypso was no exception. I found and downloaded Calypso Boy from Scootergraphics (digitized by Marty Pfeiffer, 1997) and Calypso by Profonts (digitized by Ralph Michael Unger, 2005). Ralph Michael Unger has added numerals, a question mark, an exclamation mark, ligatures and a lot of other useful characters, making it a complete digital font. By comparing the capitals I saw that they where quite different and it seemed to me that they were based on the Calypso silkscreen-printed rub down Letraset version because the dots were not round like on the original drawings I had seen in several publications and advertising for this typeface. Of course the original drawings were also not exactly the same as the metal type. As earlier written the punches that were cut by the Benton pantograph were retouched and because of that there were differences compared with the original drawings. So the final design had to be found in the actual cast type. I went looking for this type and found the site of D. Stempel GmbH that got the original matrices of D. Stempel AG and all the takeovers Stempel made during their existence. One of them was Fonderie Olive. I ordered a set of newly cast type from the original Olive matrices and found out that it was indeed quite different from the digital fonts that I bought. At that time Marjolein Koper was working as an intern at our design studio Polka Design and I asked her to digitize Calypso. The result was better than the fonts I bought but still I was not satisfied. After she came back to work at our studio on a steady base we photographed the metal type with a Micro Nikkor on a D800 to get the sharpest enlargement we could get. With this pictures Marjolein established the exact angle of the grid and we decided to begin again from scratch. Although it still is not an exact reproduction of the original metal type it has more detail and it can match almost the big reproductions seen in the first advertising in the French printers yearbook Caractère Noël 1957 and recent publications with original drawings. Letterfontein link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PRAGMA ADE
| Based in Hasselt, The Netherlands, this is an advanced document engineering company, dealing with metapost, PDF, postscript, TEX, metafont, and professional typesetting in general. Led by Hans Hagen and Ton Otten. Publishers of PDFTEX. ConText is TEX macro package. METAFUN is a manual related to Metapost. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch page in which the ink cartridge costs are calculated for ten popular fonts. The famous Ecofont got actually beaten by Century Gothic. The table:
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Radim Pesko
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Dutch creator of the pixel face Rain Tea (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator (b. 1998) of Rainbow Bitch (2013, curly hand). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ralf Herrmann
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Ramiro Espinoza
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Ramiro Espinoza
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Raymond Brekelmans
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Dutch artist and graphic designer in Amsterdam, who created the free thread-and-needle font Zang (2007), created originally for the Spanish magazine Neo2. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Creator of some experimental typefaces, that can be viewed at Behance. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Remko Siemer
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Remon Lammers
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Free fonts made in 2008-2010 by Dutchman René Crol: 4DOGS, ANTY, BANAAN, BLOESEM, BRETAGNE, BUIS, CHIP KNIP (heavy stencil), CHRIS BOX (alphadings for Christmas presents), CHRIS BOX ARRE, CHRISMAS3, CLIPSART, CROL, FLOWERcomic, FRIET, HAPPYdave, KEVER, KNIJPER, LUSIVERS.-NL (letters made from matches), PEAR (alphadings), PIJL (arrow-based letters), POTLOOT, SCHROEF, Singel BEL (great high-contrast curly face), TREIN (trains), WODENBLOCKS (sic). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type designer. Jan Middendorp wrote A.R.K. Ten Years of Type Related Projects 1994-2004 (2004), summarizing Knip's work at Atelier René Knip, mostly experiments in type design. Knip (b. 1963) is a graduate from the St. Joost Academy in Breda. Since the 1990s, Knip has operated a design studio in Amsterdam, Atelier René Knip. Recently, Knip and his brother Edgar formed a new company, Gebroeders Knip, which produces furniture and accessories in which letterforms are integral parts of the objects design. One of his experiments, a unicase typeface with an Arab feel, was digitized by Nick Curtis as Turban Hey NF (2008). In October 2012, Knip and Hahn cofounded Arktype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
René Verkaart
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Rens de Groot (Revolving, Amsterdam) made the geometric multiline face Lineatype (2011). It is based on a 32 x 24 grid. This grid is divided into 12 blocks. Each 8 blocks wide by 8 blocks high. The use of 9 lines per stoke is due to this grid. Free download. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer at Attak Fonts of AT Hide and Seek (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retrotypology
| DSander de Voogt researches art deco type in The Netherlands and elsewhere, and gives s an overview of the work of Nick Curtis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Re-Type
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Dutch graphic designer at Hagenaar Reclame who lives in Hardinxveld, The Netherlands. He created the arts and crafts face Brazil (2011). His Tikal typeface (2012, inspired by the Inca culture) can be bought at Ten Dollar Fonts. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Keijzer
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Dutch guy, b. 1993, who "made" the Peignot-style face Long Time (2009) and the outline face Antwerp (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rick van Rein
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Dutch designer in Rotterdam, b. 1987. Designer of the monoline octagonal typeface EUnity (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rob Deurenberg (b. 1973) is the Amsterdam-based designer of Lalouzz (2012, a fat brush typeface). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rob Irrgang
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Rob Janssen
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Dutch graphic and type designer in Den Haag, where he studies at the KABK. He is contributing to the open source font project Open Baskerville (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch typefounder at Autobahn (Utrecht, The Netherlands), b. 1981. The Alphabet in stone face by Dom Hans van der Laan, a Dutch monk who lived from 1904-1991, was digitized in 2011, and the project can be seen here. Contributors include Willem Noyons, Maarten Dullemeijer and Rob Stolte. This typeface is based on the proportions found in Trajan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Den Haag-based designer (b. 1963) who created the tattoo parlor face Tattoo Heavy (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rotterdam-based interaction designer. Student at the Delft University of Technology who is researching designer-oriented programming languages and paradigms. Creator of the free avant garde monoline face Thesis (2012). Dafont link. Behance link. FontM link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of the pixelish typeface Blocks (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Roberto Dias da Silva
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A type design script language, available From Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens. Robofog, developed by Petr van Blokland with Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland (The Netherlands) is a script program to be used with Fontographer, based on the program language Python. It enables type designers to script and pre-program their actions in Fontographer. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Speakers included Tal Leming (TypeSupply), Frederik Berlaen (RoboFont), Erik van Blokland (LettError), Yanone (SpeedPunk), Miguel Sousa (Adobe), Frank Griesshammer (Adobe), Petr van Blokland (Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens), Ben Kiel (House Industries). Video presentations. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Roel Koster
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Dutch designer, born and raised in Alkmaar, The Netherlands, who is working on some calligraphic scripts (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer (born 1962) of Offline (1998) at FontFont. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch graphic designer of these typefaces: NET-regular (2002, connected dots, almost stitched), RANDOM (2003, a dot matrix font commissioned by the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam), SCORE (2003, pixel face), Antwerp (2003, letters are like in the train stations in Belgium), Drup and Drup Cursief (2006, experimental multi-line face). Based in Rotterdam, where he teaches at the Willem de Kooning Academie. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rogier Hendriks (HERO DC, Rotterdam) is a Dutch graphic designer. He created the techno face Synth (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch illustrator, b. 1990, who also uses the alias Akira Shimada. Designer of Digital Handwriting (2005, graffiti face) and foo (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rollergirl
| Swiss outfit now located in Amsterdam, est. 2003 by Jacques Borel and Harry Bloch, two Swiss graphic designers who graduated from ECAL, the University of Art and Design, Lausanne. At Fontnest, one can ogle their font creations: Pink (semi-stencil), Planp (Swiss sans), Franks (rounded sans headline), and Rudolf (rounded sans with fill-in bowls). [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Roman Liturgy
| Pierre François (who runs Roman Liturgy and lives in Amsterdam) made a 4-symbol font for religious documents, which he called Liturgy (2003). Since his download buttons do not work, here you have the TTF file, the PFB file and the AFM file. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ronnie Olsthoorn
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Dutch art director in Amsterdam. Behance link. Creator of an experimental geometric font in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rotterdam-based designer of a rubber-band-based alphabet called Facade (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rosalie Haasjes (aka Roos Zeebodem) is into typographic experiments. She created Hexa (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator of the ultra-fat HowSquarecanyouget? (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ruben Beekman
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Dutchman who used Fontifier to design the handwriting face Handschrift (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of the hand-printed typeface Ruben Koops (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rubens Homepage
| The font Stripes was made by 15-year old Ruben Beekman in the Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch book designer (b. 1945) who graduated from the KABK in the 1960s. He designed a roman all caps face in the 80s and 90s, which was digitized by Jacques Le Bailly in 1998 as Rudeaux Deluxe. A sample is on page 301 of "Dutch Type" by Jan Middendorp. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in Voorburg, The Nerherlands, in 1955, Rudy VanderLans is the co-founder in 1984 of Emigre, a digital type foundry and publisher of graphic design related software and printed materials based in Northern California. At Emigre, he designed Variex (1988, a monoline geometric face), Suburban (1993), and Oblong (1988). Interview. Another interview. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rutger Paulisse
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Dutch designer at Attak Fonts of AT Discipline (2008). He also made Wakito (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rutmer Zijlstra (b. 1981), who runs Rutmer Design in Groningen, The Netherlands, created Rutmer Hand (2010). Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zoetermeer, The Netherlands-based designer of the sketchy 3d face Doodly (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Samisk Datautvalg
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Sander Baumann
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Sander de Voogt
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Sander Kessels
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Sander Neijnens
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During her graphic design studies in Eindhoven, Sanne Drieenhuijzen created the typefaces Eindhoven (2013) and Lectric (2013, neon light font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scaramanga Productions
| Designer of Scara Conquers the Universe (2006, sans). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SchickFonts
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Since 2006 he has been working as a freelance designer and founded his typefoundry Schickfonts in 2008. He works for his own clients as well as for graphic design studios like Bold Monday, Treibwerk or Die Typonauten. His focus is on the fields of typedesign, corporate and editorial design. SchickFonts, operated out of Hildesheim, Germany, and is now located in The Hague. Codesigner at The Typonauten (based in Bremen) of the brush font series B-Movie Retro (2007, with Ingo Krepinsky and Stefan Kroemer). At SchickFonts, he made the blackletter family Authentic Ink (2008), as well as B-Movie Retro and B-Movie Splatter. At KABK, he created the Mag Grotesque type family, which features 15 styles from Bold Extended to Thin Condensed. In the fall of 2011, he intended to start a design studio in Berlin with Lauri Toikka. At Bold Monday, he published the rounded sans typeface family Trio Grotesk (2012). He writes: Trio Grotesk is Florian Schick's personal interpretation of Kaart Antieke---an early 20th century sans serif used by Piet Zwart in his famous, yet never officially published essay about modern typography called "Van oude tot nieuwe typografie". Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A connected formal script developed by Lettergieterij Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch author of Hello Chinese (Acco). He has a sub-page on Chinese fonts, and lots of links related to Chinese input, and unicode fonts for Chinese. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marina aka Selina Huber grew up near Pula in Croatia, and applied graffiti on cows and sheep as a youngster. She is now based in Zagreb and Amsterdam. Behance link. She designed the Kanzlei typeface Son of Bach (2012), which permits layering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Creative artist in Den Haag, The Netherlands. Behance link. Creator of the octagonal Netherlands Typo (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shamfonts (was: Shamrocking.com)
| Shamfonts (was: Shamrocking and before that, Kingotype) is a Dutch outfit with some shareware fonts (Shamcil 002, 003 and 004 (a stencil font family), Shambell Raster, Shamlock, Fruit For Ears, Franklin Euro, Shample01, Square Roque, BG Pi, Gothic Ball Crap (blackletter), Heineken, Putain, Shamhand01, Digi, Judas, Communist (1993), Kijkwijzer, BG-Pi, BigTop (Tuscan), Woody, Shamrod, Shamools (funny faces)) and some commercial fonts (KissinCousins, Spinout, Spinoff, GIBlues, KingCreole, Kingu-San, HarumScarum, Firsty). The designer is Jeroen Klaver. Alternate URL. Kernest link. Font Squirrel link. Dafont link. Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Amsterdam who designed the octagonal typeface family Gridlock (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ShowMeWare
| Original freeware designs by Marc Nijborg and Jeroen Leupen who studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Mac fonts only. Included are IggyPiggy, Euromania, Scramble, Source, Lutetia Lutetia (Asterix font), Sunburst Staying, Thick&Thin, WizzyBold, Nippee, Saurtimes, RuffBold, RuffMedium, Waterfall, Sniffy, Oranjehand, Mushroom, KillerBee, FuzzyMate, Casterman, AmsterdamBridge and Academy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sibe Kokke
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Owner of the graphic design company Sieb Design, Dutchman Sieb Boxmeer created the handprinted Bottenbreker TV (2008), named after a TV program in The Netherlands, Brute Bottenbreker. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sigurður Ármannsson
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Skyraider's 3d aviation art
| Dutch designer of the blocky script "Blockschrift für Flugzeuge" (2000) used on airplanes. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Slovakian graphic designer, who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia and Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, Czech, both in 2009. Then she did a Masters in type design at the KABK in 2010, and currently works as a type and book designer in The Netherlands. For her thesis project, she developed the angular text family Dora (2010), which tries to preserve an element of handwriting. A 1906 renaissance antiqua from Genzsch&Heyse inspired her to a revival. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Big Dutch design studio. Type design is not their main thing, but they did create an original sans family, Smidswater. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SML Designs
| Born near Amsterdam in 1976, Steven Michael Lust (SML Designs) designed SimLLHP (2003) and Simbats (2003; see also here). He also created inverted and mirrored faces: Inverted-ArialMT, Inverted-Courier, Inverted-Times, Jason's-Inverted-Tahoma, Jason's-Reversed-Arial, Jason's-Reversed-Courier, Jason's-Reversed-Tahoma, Jason's-Reversed-Times. Dafont link where you can find Fat Marker (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SO Design
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Creator of Artu (2012, monospaced display face), Battersea (multiline face), Billiard (2012), Bloggy (experimental), AT Move Bloggy (2010), Decoupe (experimental), AT Move Decoupé (2012: a modular font based on a French game from 1906), Holborn, Mezzo (mimimalist), AT Move Pipi (2012, a playful textured caps face), AT Move Mezzo, AT Move Powerplay (1976, and redone in 2011: multilined), Musica, Nath, Pipi, Powerplay, Tremelo, Wiggle. Creations from 2012: AT Move Holborn (a 3d outlined neon sign face), AT Move Tremelo (based on the logotype Microtel), Artu, AT Move Wyggle, AT Move Wolfszn, AT Move Skewy (2012), AT Move Specx and AT Move Specx Stencil (a slab serif based on the cover of a 1955 French School-Notebook; help with the design from Jasper Nijssen). Typefaces made in 2013: AT Move Quipo (an amoebic font), AT Move MMM (with Jasper Terra and Jasper Nijssen: a rounded organic sans typeface. They write: The design is based on a old Soap-Powder advertisement. MMM is very useful for headings and/or logotypes.), AT Move Strano (squarish stencil), AT Move Nath (optical illusion face first made in 1974 at the Central School of Art and Design in London, and digitized in 2013 with the aid of Jasper Terra). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Social Animal
| Bas Bouwense (Social Animal) is the Dutch designer (b. 1974) of Social Animal (2007, grunge). Home page. Bas lives in Rotterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Free nonscalable bitmap fonts (SM fonts) for use in various graphics applications. Page by Dutchman Remco De Korte. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sonic Savior
| Soest-based Friso Roest (Sonic Savior) is the Dutch designer of the free futuristic face Antediluvian (2005-2006). Dafont link. The commercial face Sonica (2006) grew out of this. Archemy (2007) is reminiscent of medieval magic. MyFonts link which goes like this: Sonic Savior is a collaborative project of a Dutch designer, a sound engineer, and an alchemist by the name of Senior Zadith. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch description by Rein Bakhuizen van den Brink of the font formats on Atari: Calamus, type 1 and Speedo are the vector fonts. Bitmap formats include GDOS/GEM, Signum2 and Signum3. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Font links: font-related sites in the Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type designer (1896-1944) at the Lettergieterij who co-designed Rondo with Dick Dooijes (published in 1948 after Schlesinger's death) and the Western slab serif font Hidalgo (1939, similar to Playbill and Figaro). He also designed Superba. He was working on the calligraphic script face Saranna (1941). As explained by Canada Type: The story of Serena is a unique one among revivals. Serena was neither a metal face nor a film one. In fact it never went anywhere beyond Stefan Schlesinger's 1940-41 initial sketches (which he called Saranna). A year later, while working with Dick Dooijes on the Rondo typeface, Schlesinger was sent to a concentration camp where he died, along with any material prospects for the gorgeous letters he'd drawn. The only sketches left of Schlesinger's Saranna work are found in the archives of the Drukkerij Trio (the owner of which was Schlesinger's brother-in-law). The sketches were done in pencil and ink over pencil on four sheets of paper. And now Hans van Maanen revives Schlesinger's spirit as closely as the drawings permit. Hans Van Maanen thus digitized Serena (2007, Canada Type's take on Saranna) and Minuet (2007, Canada Type's version of Rondo). Malou Osendarp is also working on a revival of Saranna. Author of Voorbeelden van Moderne Opschriften voor Schilders en Tekenaars (NV Kosmos, Amsterdam). Cherries. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Russian who studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam, b. 1992. He created the logo face Airport (2009) and the grungy Acogessic (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typographer and graphic designer in Groenlo, The Netherlands, where he works at Eska grafische Studio. He created the deco display face Eska (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer, b. 1974, Utrecht. She created the handprinted face Sweet Steeffie (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Steve Wehrmann
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Designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Behance link. He drew several experimental alphabets in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Based in Utrecht, The Netherlands, this graphic designer created some interesting typographic posters, such as Seahorse (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Steven Marcel Lust
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Stichting Malatië Adventures
| Three original truetype fonts for magical effects and encrypting text: Priesterrunen and Malatië Magisch Maanschrift (1997) are made by Alex Révész. Drakenrunen (Nanduria) is by Ralph Renz. Can't find the fonts any more. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of the dot matrix font Alienss (2010, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strange Atrtractors Design
| Strange Attractors Design is a Dutch design studio, which also dabbles in typography and type design. It is run by Catelijne van Middelkoop and Ryan Pescatore Frisk. Their creations include Turfhaus (custom design sans), Cranbrook 53 (custom dingbats face), Fourteen Boxed (custom), Hey Dutchie! (custom face), Grau (custom hand drawn version of Weiss), King of Latvia (custom made) and Brunn, a display face that won an award at TDC2 2004. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Studio 37
| Dutch creator of Mulder's Handwriting (2004). He runs Studio 37 in Den Haag. Dafont link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Famous Dutch identity, brand and graphic design studio founded by Gert Dumbar. An impossible, ugly, slow and annoying web page aside, it has some famous typographic trophies, such as the new identity of the Dutch Government in 2008 (which it won in a 5-way competition). The typefaces for this identity are being developed by Peter Verheul and are called Rijksoverheid Serif and Rijksoverheid Sans. Dumbar also designed Dutch postage stamps. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Studio Hannes Famira
| Hannes Famira, who runs Studio Hannes Famira, was born in Buchholz in der Nordheide, Germany in 1966. Hannes Famira studied graphic and typographic design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague in the Netherlands. He works as a type designer in the Hague and used to work at Buro Petr van Blokland. FontFont write-up. Made great-looking families InterSerif and InterPol. Other fonts: FF Blocker, FF Mutilated, H-Stamp, Tieshy, Bubblejet on Steroids, Plantijn, Humiliated, Kugelkopf Letter, Hernard, MaryPason. Also custom font work. At Kombinat Typefounders, he designed InterFamily, ScanLine Bundle (which includes the nice display font Mary Pason), H-Stamp, FF Blocker. MyFonts page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Studio Tiiim
| Studio Tiiim (Stein, The Netherlands) designed the typefaces Happy Jelly Family (2011, by Timothy Gerdingh) and Straight Up (2012, a straight-edged angular outline face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Studiostudio
| Studiostudio (The Netherlands) developed a commercial casual face called Dyslexie (2008) to minimize the errors perceived by dyslexics. Created by Christian Theo Boer (who lives in Zeist), the research was carried out at the University of Twente. In a research article about Dyslexie, Judith van de Vrugt writes: Dyslexia>.. it is a word that many dyslexics find hard to pronounce. Christian Boer is one of them. Being a dyslexic student, he came upon the idea for his thesis to design a font that would make letters more distinguishable for someone with dyslexia. Due to the visible distinc- tion, it would be easier to read, and letters would dance less. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic and type designer from Penang, Malaysia, who lived in The Netherlands and is now in Kuala Lumpur. Graduate of the Type and Media program at KABK, 2009. There, Tan tried a revival of Bembo (2008) and created Callie Text and Callie Display (2009), a text family, as the graduation project. In 2010, in collaboration with Martin Frostner, she created the custom octagonal / calligraphic face Biskops Arnö for Nordic Folk High School Biskops Arnö at Mälaren. Creator of Interieur (at Sara De Bondt Studio in London) and DrawbotScript. Klingspor link Typecache link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
During her studies in Hilversum, The Netherlands, Summer Yang created some experimental typefaces for Latin and Chinese. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sun Jung is a graphic designer originally from South Korea. She graduated BA in graphic design at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), Den Haag, in 2006. Before her second stint at KABK, resulting in a Masters degree in type design, she worked in the fields of advertising and graphic design. Creator of Superhero (2011) and a few other experimental faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Portuguese designer (b. 1979), who obtained her Master's degree at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (2004) and still lives in Den Haag. She created the experimental sans face Vertigo (2004). See here for her work there. With her husband Kai Bernau, she set up Atelier Carvalho Bernau in Den Haag, where one can look at their commercial type families Atlas Grotesk (2012), Neutraface Slab, Lyon Text, Lyon Display, and Neutral. She teaches graphic design in the Bachelor course at KABK, the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch graphic designer from Zaandam (b. 1944), who created the Swip alphabet and typeface in 2002. It is an alphabet in which each symbol represents one Latin character, as in a code. Careful: this page resets the browser window size. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SyrCOM aims at promoting Syriac culture by contributing to the academic field of Syriac studies using computer technology. Their free opentype fonts are here. The font designers at The Syriac Institute / Beth Mardutho are:
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Free type 1 fonts, created from metafont source code by Taco Hoekwater, using Hobby's metapost to get .eps files, and then Kinch's metafog to get .pfb files. Hinted and touched up manually with FontLab v3.0c. Included are: rsfs{5,7,10}, wasy{5,7,10,b10}, stmary{5,6,7,8,9,10}, xipa{10}, logo{8,9,10,bf10,sl10}. Go to ps-type1/hoekwater of the respective metafont font directories. Check also here or here. Taco also created arrow10, a font that contains about all the arrows and harpoons that Unicode, MathML, the STIX group and Taco Hoekwater could come up with. (Quote from Taco himself.) [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arab type site by Tarek Atrissi, a Beirut-born Lebanese professional designer, who is located in Hilversum, The Netherlands. He holds a BA in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut, Masters of Arts in Interactive Multimedia from Utrecht School of Arts in Holland and an MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts in NY. A Designer of the 6-weight Arabic family called AT, The Spirit of Doha (2004, for the Asian Games 2006), Al-Ghad (for the Jordanian newspaper Al-Ghad), the Ghad TV font (for the Jordanian station ATV), Etisalat (custom type for Etisalat Communications), Ayna (a squarish face done for Ayna.com), and Ambesque (2006, for the Amwaj Islands of Bahrain). He manages Arabtypography.com, a site dedicated solely to Arab typography. In 2008, he created Atrissi Sans. In 2007, he embarked on a project with Peter Bilak to develop Fedra Arabic to accompany Bilak's Fedra family. In 2010, he designed a custom Arabic font for the new BBC Arabic TV channel and custom Farsi face for the new BBC Farsi TV channel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic design student in Schoonhoven, The Netherlands, who created the squarish typefaces Squareb45 (2013) and Squareb90 (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Tasc Chess Figurine font can be freely downloaded here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Advertising guy in Amsterdam, who made an artsy typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This Dutch designer created a nice typographic poster in 2012 entitled Hier brandt altijd licht. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Teup
| Mathieu Klomp (Teup) is the Dutch designer of Barbed Ink (2003, a liquid font) and Runes (2003). Alternate URL. Web page was located in Tokelau??? Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The firm of Joh. Enschedé en Zonen was established in Haarlem (Netherlands) in 1703. It is widely recognized as one of Holland's finest printing houses. Enschedé prints banknotes and stamps for the Dutch government, fine art catalogues, and commercial high-quality work. Enschedé started type manufacturing in 1743 after purchasing the foundry of Hendrik Wetstein. From its early years the typefoundry was the most important part of Enschedé's business. The famous punchcutter Joan Michael Fleischman was employed there in the eighteenth century. Its type business flourished throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and in the twentieth century the foundry achieved widespread international acclaim through the design and production of types by Sjoerd H. de Roos and Jan van Krimpen. In 1978, to celebrate their 275th anniversary, Enschedé commissioned Bram de Does, one of Holland's leading typographers, to design a typeface specifically for phototypesetting. The result was Trinté a face which clearly shows its provenance and which continues the tradition of type design established at Enschedé so many years before. In 1991 Peter Matthias Noordzij established The Enschedé Font Foundry. His high standards of design and craftsmanship, his wide technical expertise, and his established skill as a type designer, made him ideally placed to continue Enschedé's tradition of high-quality type design and manufacture using contemporary technology. He soon made Trinté available in the PostScript font format, and this was followed by Lexicon (1992) also by Bram de Does. Renard, by Fred Smeijers, based on the types of Hendrik van den Keere followed. Ruse, by Peter Matthias's father, Gerrit Noordzij, and Collis, by his brother Christoph Noordzij were released in 2000. Besides selling well designed and original typefaces to the general public, The Enschedé Font Foundry also does commissioned work on type, so called custom fonts. The latter include a phonetic version of Lexicon commissioned by Van Dale Lexicografie, and a Headline version of Lexicon commissioned by NRC Handelsblad. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Movie Title Stills Collection
| A large data base of movie title images collected by Christian Annyas (Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thecla van Wageningen (b. 1992) is based in Maastricht, The Netherlands. She created the children's handwriting font Can you read? (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Themes of a scorched earth
| Site run by Milan de Jong, and purported to have "Smashing Pumpkins" fonts. de Jong was at somer point affiliated with the University of Twente, The Netherlands. Designers of the TSP series fonts: Tsp19791, Tsp19792, Tsp331, Tspadore1, Tspadore10, Tspadore2, Tspadore3, Tspadore4, Tspadore4Alt, Tspadore5, Tspadore6, Tspadore7ligatures, Tspadore8, Tspadore9, Tsparising1, Tspcherubrock1, Tspdingbats1, Tspfaeomm1Italic, Tspfaeomm1, Tspgreatesthits1, Tspgreatesthits1Bold, Tspgreatesthits1Italic, Tspiofthemourning1, Tspmachina1capsItalic, Tspmachina1capsNormal, Tspmachina1Italic, Tspmachina1Normal, Tspmachina2, Tspmachina3, Tspmcis1, Tspmcis2, Tsppi1, Tsppi2, Tspsd1, Tsptafh1, Tspteitbite1, Tspteitbite2, Tsptonight1, Tspzero1. These are probably renamed or slightly tweaked. The TSP Dingbats font was created by Starseed, Shaun Kardinal, Brian Barbour and Eric Agnew. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch lettering artist, b. Rotterdam, 1914, d. 1998. He taught lettering at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1955-1971. One of his students there was Gerard Unger. Some of his working papers and designs are at the University of Amsterdam. In 2004, Mathieu Lommen published the paper Belettering van Theo Kurpershoek en Gerrit Noordzij in de Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam in Nieuwsbrief Stichting Drukwerk in de Marge. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Els Hoek, Marleen Blokhuis, Ingrid Goovaerts, Natalie Kamphuys, et al. penned Theo Van Doesburg: Oeuvre Catalogus (2000, Centraal Museum). Picture of a dada poster by him. Page at Design History. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TheTypes digital typefoundry
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FontFont write-up. Founder of Font Fabrik in Berlin, and of LucasFonts. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art director in Amsterdam who made an alphabet for stirring coffee, called CoffeeFont (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rotterdam-based graphic designer. In 2009, he made TJGO Crappy (handprinted face). He also made a beautiful DIN poster in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer (b. 1985) who lives in Breda. Creator at FontStruct of the tall condensed face Fritzl (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thijs Mertens
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Dutch inventor of the skin alphabet (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer at the The Hague-based foundry LUST of LUSTIncidenz and LUSTPure, LUSTRazor (1992). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thomas Klaui
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Thomas Milo
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Thomas Milo (DecoType, The Netherlands), a specialist in Arabic, Turkic and Slavic linguistics spoke about "The Ottoman roots of Arabic computing" at the Cooper Union, Peter Cooper Suite, 8th Floor, 7 East 7th Street, New York, on October 21, 1999 from 6-7:30pm. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hilversum-based Dutchman, b. 1992, who created the pixel typeface Pixerif (2012). Aka Thumaszz. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type designer, b. 1967, Amsterdam, who now works in Dundas Valley, Ontario, Canada, in pre-press and the print trade. He has had wonderous encounters with other type designers. He made 47 digital typefaces. As far as I can tell, no sales, and no downloads. Behance link. A partial list:
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Tijs Krammer (Zeist, The Netherlands) created the commercial sans typeface Chord Symbols (2012). He says: Chord Symbols is a font for musicians. With this font, you can quickly write beautiful chords, using only simple keyboard characters as input. Musicians tend to write chords with regular characters. They use # instead of a genuine sharp, b instead of a genuine flat, dim instead of a small circle, etc. With Chord Symbols, your chords will be better looking, more easily readable and more efficiently notated. Chord Symbols is originally created out of the need to write chords above pop song lyrics. It is designed to also work smoothly in music notation software, like Sibelius, Finale and Encore. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer at Attak Fonts of AT AK-47 (2005), AT Helix (2004), AT Trash Boldf (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Web designer and photographer in Rotterdam. For posters, he created an ultra-fat counterless typeface in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In 2012, Timo created Albatross, a blackboard bold typeface family with two weights, and Zebra. In 2013, Timo Kuilder and Jeffrey Schreiber founded the commercial typefoundry Regular Bold Italic. Behance link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of Malora (2010, handprinting), Marlora Inky (2010, handprinted), Shit Thizz (2009, grunge) and AeroGodSz (2009, grunge). Chrushed Designs INC. Home page. Another URL. And another one. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Timothy Gerdingh
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Creator of the squarish condensed school project typeface Motype (2013). Tirzah is a multimedia designer in Den Haag, The Netherlands. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tjarda Koster
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Graphic designer in Amsterdam. Creator of the architecturally inspired sans face Haus (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch creator (b. 1982) of the marker fonts Twin Marker (2008) and TJC 82 Marker (2008), and the handwriting fonts Fist Writing (2009), Smudged Alphabet (2009) and Paul PC (2006), and the handprinted Son of a Snitch (2009). In 2009, he created the dingbat face Artefekt. German Beauty (2010) is a comic book face. In 2011, he added Pin Me Needles. Tom is based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Dafont link. Myspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic designer in Den Haag, The Netherlands. Creator of experimental faces such as Glam (2011, piano key face), Lucifers (2011, glyphs made with matches), and Elementen (experimental, modular). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch Designer of Qtypefont (1999, based on the logo of the Audi Quattro). Downloads not functional. Can be downloaded here though. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch photographer. Designer of the double-scripted face Currently Living (2007). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designer in Delft, The Netherlands. Creator of the straight-edged face Geometric (2011) and the octagonal grunge face Scruffy (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amsterdam-based creator of the simple sans caps face Haus (2013), available from Ten Dollar Fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tony Van Nierop studied at KABK in Den Haag from 2007-2010. His typefaces include Byzantia (a warm Latin-style sans), AWM (2012, slightly slabby), and a hexagonal typeface created at FontStruct. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total Identity
| Total Identity (est. 2000 out of Total Design, itself founded in 1963) is a major design firm in the Netherlands which in the 60s and 70s employed people such as Wim Crouwel. Its first type design was by Aad van Dommelen (b. 1956), who was taught by Gerrit Noordzij and worked briefly at URW in Hamburg. He created Oneliner (2002), the firm's sans face for its corporate identity, which was built around a simple skeleton. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traffic Sign Typefaces: Netherlands
| Ralf Herrmann discusses Dutch traffic typefaces. Quoting some passages: Until recently the organization being in charge of the traffic signs was the ANWB. It was founded as a Dutch bikers(!) society ("Algemeene Nederlandsche Wielrijders Bond") in 1883 and later became the royal tourist society. [...] The typeface used since the 1960s is called ANWB-Ee (also RWS-Ee) and it is based on FHWA series E (Modified) from the United States. A condensed version (ANWB-Cc) is also available and it is based on the FHWA series C design. In the late 1990s Gerard Unger was commissioned to design a new typeface called ANWB-Uu. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch company based in Lisse that bought Mecanorma in 1999. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutchman Jordens designed the Spitfire font, in memory of the hood sticker font on the 1500 Triumph Spitfire by that name. Free, truetype. The font is called 1500outline and was made in 1999 (coyright Profiles Publishing). A second font at the site is called Hood Ornament (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Type chess fonts
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TrueFont Family (or: TFF)
| Remon Lammers from The Netherlands has a great little tool (in CSS and HTML) that permits one to use one's own fonts or fonts available on the internet on web pages. Dynamic text replacement based on images---no Flash or plugins. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer from Groningen, b. 1960. At Dafont, one can download his creations: Brewsky (2011, inline poster face), Alpenkreuzer (2011), Gladifilthefte (2009), Effortless (2009, rounded black face), AaarghNormal (2004, clean sans), BlokHeavy (2004), FETTECKE (2004), FORQUE (2009, strong sans display), Farckenzlabb (2004, Frankenstein style), Gobbledegook (2000), GreenbeansThin (2000, handprinted), Milkmoustachio (2011, curly handwriting), Quickie (2000, handprinted outline face), Remarcle (2000, connected diners script), RemarcleLeft, RemarcleRight, Snickles (2009, comic book). I have to hand it to Tup---that is one of the funniest home pages I have ever seen. Alternate URL. Font Squirrel link. Fontspace link. FontM link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Twisted Type (or: Unlinear, Subdue.com)
| Twisted Type (or: Unlinear) is Rob Irrgang's Dutch foundry. He used to run Subdue.com. Original freeware creations by Rob Irrgang include BurnYourPhone, Cynic, Fucker50, New, Novocaine, Splintered, Tainted, ApocataStasis, Signal, Bergmark, Denial, Typo (old typewriter), Typo Negative, Horrorshow, Plakat, TypoNegative. Unfortunately, I can't find these fonts any longer. Recent unpublished work includes the bitmap font with 1 pixel ascenders, Theoria (2002). He published the futuristic sans family Orbit (2003, done with chester) at Thirstype. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typography magazine from the Netherlands, edited by Assi Koostra, Max Kisman and Peter Mertens. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type Amsterdam 2011 took place on October 6, 2011, at the University of Amsterdam. The speakers are John Lane, Lida Lopes Cardozo, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, and Frederik Berlaen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Type Generator
| Type Generator is a very interesting software project by Dutchman Sibe Kokke. It generates fonts based upon a set of parameters such as contrast, x-height, point positioning and curves, a bit in the style of metafont, and was developed with the help of tools like Drawbot and Robofab. Sibe Kokke is also the designer of experimental typefaces such as The King (pixel family), Mullerpier (grunge), Glue Print (grunge) and Arab (Arab type simulation in Latin handwriting). Sibe obtained a Masters in type design at KABK. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type Invaders
| Located in Den Haag, this company is run by Paul van der Laan. Designers of Rezident, Outbox, Feisar, Decaf, Clairsys and Raz. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type Mafia (was: DolWork)
| Type Mafia is a young design studio in Amsterdam specializing in type design. One of its members is Gerben Dollen (b. 1982, Almelo, The Netherlands), who studied graphic design in Groningen. During a study exchange at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, he became interested in typeface design while attending Max Kisman's FontLab class. Dollen completed an MA in Typeface Design in 2007 at the University of Reading. Today he works from his studio Type Mafia. In 2010, Type Mafia published the 12-style humanist sans family Actium by Gerben Dollen. Gerben invented Smart Capo: a feature that automatically activates once you type an uppercase letter together with a number. When a capital letter is sat next to a numeral, Smart Capo converts the letter to a mid-cap --- a contemporary alternative to small caps --- and the default old-style numeral to a lining numeral. Actium's mid-caps and lining numerals have been designed with the same height (between cap and x-height) so they sit comfortably next to each other and fit more harmoniously into text. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typebase
| TypeBase contains 508 links to fine quality typographic websites around the world, selected by Donald Roos [VetteLetter, was: Otherways] and Robert-Jan van Noort [Studio Pankra]. Not updated since 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TypeFaith Fonts
| Leon Hulst (TypeFaith) was born in 1966. Typographer at WAT Ontwerpers in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and affiliated with Linotype. Commercial fonts: ReadMyHand (1994, brush), Bombin, Fix, Cubi, Berkhout (handwriting), Miguel (sans family), Salamanca Caps, Ponsi Rounded (2011). Free fonts at TypeFaith, his place on the web, all made ca. 2008: AlbaJulia-ExpandedBold (techno), AlbaJulia-ExpandedBoldItalic, AlbaJulia-ExpandedRegular, AlbaJulia-ExpandedRegularItalic, Dilys-Bold (organic), Dilys-BoldItalic, Edding-Italic, Edding (brush), FixFlat-Italic, FixFlat, (2010), LowFile-Bold (grunge), LowFile-BoldItalic, LowFile-WidthOblique, Mellow-Italic, Mellow (comic book family), PaloAlto-Italic, PaloAlto (sans), Per4m (dot matrix face), StitchCross. Creations from 2012: Ponsi Rounded Slab (the regular weight is free), Danze Script, Salamanca TF, Moonface (an elegant display serif typeface family). Known as Misha at iFontMaker, he drew the outlined handprinted Miff (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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TypExpo
| TypExpo is Sander De Voogt's type site in The Netherlands. He designed Berkel, Ekster, Ekster Techno, Hangover and Rotterdam in 2004. All faces are in the experimental category. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch type site and blog, with a glossary, and explanations of the main styles of typefaces. It is run by Milena Spaan, Sandra Kassenaar and Maurits de Bruijn. The former two are students, and the latter is a teacher at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typographic Matchmaking
| A book by Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès published in 2007. It describes her project, started in 2005, of matching Dutch and Arab type designers to design Arabic counterparts of Dutch typefaces. The "couples" are
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Typolog
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Bas Jacobs and Akiem Helmling designed Dolly (2001), a 4-font book typeface with flourishes, brushy, sturdy, Dutch. They created Sofa, a precursor of Sauna (2002), which won an award at the TDC2 2003 competition. In 2002, they made Stool for a Finnish printing house, Salpausselän Kirjapaino Ltd. Ulrika is a custom display typeface designed for Proidea Oy (a Finnish film and video production company). Unibody 8 and 10 (2003) is a free OpenType pixel font optimized for FlashMX. In 2004, they created Auto, about which they write: "Auto is a sans serif typeface which has three different models of italics, each with its own flavour. The font family consists of 3 x 24 fonts. With its three italics, Auto creates a new typographic palette, allowing the user to drive through unknown typographic and linguistic possibilities. Auto is fully loaded with both full Western and Eastern European character sets." Auto won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. Additional material on the web page: a wonderful intro to type basics, and an intro to OpenType. In 2004, they published the comic book / signage family Bello, which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. In 2005, Underware joined the type coop Village. In 2006, they published Fakir, a blackletter family with Hindi inspirations. Fakir won an award at TDC2 2007. Interview in 2008. In 2009, they published the connected script brush face Liza (+Text, Display, Caps, Ornaments), which has several versions for each letter. Custom types: Mr. Porter (script with a dozen alternatives for each glyph to better simulate real handwriting; it was awarded at TDC 2012 and at Tokyo TDC 2012), Stool (Headline, Thin, Grand), Sauna Mono (for the Danish Jyske Bank), Fated (fat), Ulrika (rounded and informal, slightly plump: for Proidea Ltd, a Finnish video production company), Suunto (for sports watches, i.e., Suunto's Cobra2, Vyper2 and Elementum). View Underware's typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University of Amsterdam: Special Collections
| The library of the University of Amsterdam has many on-line and hard copy collections. Among these, the following stand out:
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Dutch site with links about the scripts of every language in the world. Has many fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hundreds of links for all languages in the world. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amsterdam-based creatore of the display typeface Bike (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
vanAllerlei
| Commercial foundry in Rotterdam, est. 2010 by Patrick Bloom. They made five of their own fonts available for free under the Illegal Industriez Design label in 2005: Kriminalita (grunge) was the nicest in my view. other typefaces included Fontboyz, Agenda, Rapture and Skwieker. The first commercial font was Real Fat (2010, pixelish). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indian-born tudent at KABK, Den Haag, who also claims Canada as his residence. He designed ConsoleFont (2010), a (free) typeface in which all letters are inspired by elements of a computer. Home page. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Versch Ontwerp
| Versch Ontwerp consists of Joris Budel (1984, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Yorick de Vries (1985, Lelystad, The Netherlands). Creators of the free font Habitat (2009), a grungy DIN "custo-made for Habitat de Rotte". Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vette Letters
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VIBE
| Martien Heijmink's Dutch page on the theme of human or experimental all caps alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rotterdam-based graphic designer and illustrator, b. 1990. Behance link. In 2009, he made an interesting fat round sans face. Alternate URL where one can download his free font Alchemeo Pro (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Viernulvier
| Remko Siemer is the Dutch designer of the (PC, Mac) pixel fonts 404PX and AtariSysfont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in 1987, Vincent lives in Culemborg, The Netherlands. He created the handwriting face Peent (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vizi
| Jeroen Visser (Vizi) is a Dutch graphic designer. In 2011, he created Remi Serif, which can be compared with Adobe Caslon Pro. It was developed during the Expert Type Design Class at Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vormplatform
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Typefounders in The Netherlands, acquired later by Adam Gerard Mappa. Their work can be found in Proeven van letteren die gevonden worden in de van ouds beroemde lettergieterye van wylen de Heeren Voskens en Clerk / nu van A.G. Mappa = Epreuves de caracteres qui se trouvent dans la tres celèbre fonderie de feu Messieurs Voskens et Clerk / presentement de A.G. Mappa (Rotterdam, 1781). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
At Walter van Rijn's site, called Symbiotext, one finds a description of his Symbiote projects. One of these led to the grunge-style typeface Symlogidins (2012, free at OFL). This sans face is partially based on OSP-DIN. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mark van den Brink's software includes a small free trueType font editor (TrueType Font Editor V1.2), the TrueType Font Library for the Borland Graphic Interface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graphic design student at the Willem de Kooning Academy who lives in Delft. She is passionate about lettering, and has drawn a few alphabets in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Werkbond
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Based in Arnhem, The Netherlands, this web site glorifies nice typographical contributions in advertising and presentations. It is also a place of study: The Werkplaats Typografie (WT) is part of ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. WT is a two-year masters programme centred on practical assignments and self-initiated projects. It also serves as a meeting place for graphic designers with regard to research and dialogue. The WT is supervised by Karel Martens and Armand Mevis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer who made the free fonts A Drippin Marker (2011) and Wickhop Handwriting (2011). Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch designer of Wickhop Handwriting (2011) and A Dripping Marker (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wico Valk
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Dutch designer, 1877-1933. He created some art deco lettering on buildings, such as on the front of Atlantic Huis (1930). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch poster artist, 1884-1974. Scan of the front cover the the famous Wendingen art deco style magazine No. 11/12, 1930. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch WWII era typographer whose fat irregular lettering inspired Ian Lynam at Wordshape to create Sandberg Honorarium in 2003. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Besides New Alphabet (1967), he also designed Stedelijk (1968, for his poster for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam), and the Fodor Alphabet (1969, pixelish). He led Total Design in the 70s. His typeface Gridnik (1974), an octagonal face made for a typewriter, was never released as a font. Crouwel's love for grids had earned him the nickname Gridnik. This name is well-deserved: he once stated, I am a functionalist troubled by aesthetics. Creator of Dutch postage stamps in 1976. In 2009, Crouwel wins the Gerrit Noordzij prize. Biography. In 2007, there was a special Crouwel event in Paris. Pictures of Crouwel by Michael Levy: Crouwel with Pierre Bernard, Crouwel and Étienne Robial, Crouwel signing books, portrait. Many have continued along the path shown by Crouwel:
Flickr group on Wim Crouwel. Picture. Scans of some of his work: I, II, III, IV, V. Picture. Another picture. And another one. And one more. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Young Dutch designer (b. 1990) of the handwriting font Woses Eltops (2005). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rotterdam-based Dutch graphic designer. He created the marker pen face Lasagna (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Young Dutch graphic designer who created a (still unfinished) custom typeface in 2012. Dribble link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yankadi-Western, Yankadi-Tribal, and Yankadi-Graphic are free music truetype fonts: "This TrueType font is designed especially for noting down Djembe rhythms, as well as DounDounba, Sangban, Kenkeni, bells and so on." By Merlin Software, 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yomar Augusto
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Yoozer
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YourFonts
| On-line commercial font generation service, based on submitting a scanned template. It feels like Fontifier. At some point it became free, and soon after that it took off---105,110 free fonts have been generated between August 2008 and March 2009. Its designer, the Utrecht, The Netherlands-based Erwin Denissen, writes: As an independent software vendor, Erwin Denissen strives to continue developing new and innovative products for the world-wide typography market. Right now High-Logic has three products, a font editor, a font manager and a font generator. In March 2008 Erwin Denissen acquired MyTools.com, including 8 products. In July 2008 yourfonts.com was launched as an online font generation service. More fonts-related utilities are expected soon. He also made FontCreator, a free font editor. JulieCouillard (2008) is a handwriting test font I sent in to see how good the outlines are. Some time in 2009, Yourfonts become commercial, changing between 9.95 and 14.95 US dollars per font. At the same time, they embarked on a reseller program in which others can use their font generation engine for a fee. Resellers include
Finally, there are some free example fonts: George, Phooley, Parchemin, and others. [Google] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yves Latscha
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Dutch creator of the handprinted face Easy Going (2011). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zenze BV, or Cleanvertising is the Dutch creator of Cleanvertising (2010), a semi-stencil heavy grotesque. He also made Streetvertising Public (2010) and Servetica (2010, stencil). Subsets of the fonts are free, while others are not. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zeptonn
| Zeptonn is the Dutch foundry of cartoonist Jan Willem Wennekes, est. 2011. He designed Loose (2011) in the "Comic Sans" category. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developed by an anonymous Dutchman, Zevv-Peep is a programming font developed for high resolution screen. It is based on Jim Knoble's Neep. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Designer (1905-1969) of Studio (1946, almost brush script face at the Lettergieterij Amsterdam). The bold version is called Flambard. Some write his name incorrectly as Overbeck. Jan Middendorp writes: Dolf Overbeek was the head of the studio of the Vada printing firm, and around 1948 became the graphic adviser to De Arbeiderspers, a major Dutch publishing and printing house. Overbeek was an authoritative and demanding taskmaster, as well as the designer of prize-winning books and calendars. He was not fond of experiments and preferred conventional no-nonsense typography to fancy modernisms. Annoyed by bad typeface combinations, he analysed the compatibility of faces of different categories and designed the Letterorgel (Letter Organ, after the musical instrument a kind of scientific table) which prescribed exactly which combinations to use, and which to avoid. 
German cofounder of Underware (b. Heidelberg, Germany, 1971), a typographic design studio based in Den Haag, founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Sami Kortemäki and Bas Jacobs. Akiem was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1971 and lives in Den Haag, where he studied from 1998-2000 at the KABK. He codesigned all Underware fonts: Dolly, Bello, Sauna, Liza (2009), Auto (1, 2 and 3), Unibody 8 and Fakir. 
Martin Bengtsson (Alpha Quantum) is a Swedish graphic designer who lives in The Netherlands. He studied at University of Liljeholmen, Sweden. Creator of the sci-fi typeface 
Archiness is a foundry, est. in 2009 in Delft, The Netherlands, by 
ARS Type is an Amsterdam-based foundry with some commercial fonts by Angus R. Shamal. Shamal had earlier published fonts with T-26 and Plazm. Fonts can be bought via 
Arthur Reinders Folmer (or Arthus) is from Haarlem, The Netherlands. He created the free ornamental all-caps face 
Foundry and studio run by 
Based in Den Haag where she is in the Masters in Type Design ptogram at KABK, Barbara Bigosinska designed the angular text typefaces 
Jacques Le Bailly (b. 1975) is the "Baron von Fonthausen", located in Den Haag. He is working on commercial fonts such as Ballpoint, 
Graphic designer (b. Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1979), who specializes in type and typographic design, and lives in Haarlem. Student from 1999-2003 at the Graphic and Typographic design-course at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in the Hague. He graduated in 2004 from the postgraduate design-course on TypeMedia at the same academy. While at the KABK, he made the futuristic/computerized faces 
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Bold Monday is an independent font foundry established by Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen and based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Typefaces: Capibara (squarish, done in 2007 by van Rosmalen), Feisar (techno), 
Designer in Amsterdam. 
Bram de Does is a type designer born in Amsterdam in 1934. At Enschedé, which he joined in 1958, he designed 
Bric Type is a typography consultant company based in Brazil and The Netherlands, run by 
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. 
Dutch foundry located in Rotterdam. It is run, so MyFonts says, by Jan Bunk (b. 1968, Monrovia, Liberia) from Monrovia, Liberia. He made 
Dan Haag-based Dutch foundry, est. 2004 by 
Catharsis is located in Leiden, The Netherlands. Before that, Christian Thalmann's page 
Dutch type cutter, 1601-1669, who had a type foundry in Amsterdam. 
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 
Despite his name, André Vlaanderen was a Dutch designer, 1881-1955. He drew several alphabets, such as 
Dutch letterer and calligrapher, 1568-1634 (or 1635). He published the calligraphic masterpiece 
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British type and graphic designer (b. 1948, London) who graduated from Ravensbourne College of Art&Design in 1968, and after working as a graphic designer in London, founded Quay&Gray Lettering with Paul Gray in 1983. David Quay Design started in 1987, and finally, in 1990, he co-founded 
In English, Amsterdam's curly letter. While doing a revival / interpretation of this style in his 
Born in Amsterdam, 1909, he died in 1998. Trained and worked at the Lettergieterij in Amsterdam under S.H. de Roos. Studied at the Amsterdam College of Arts and Crafts and at the Academy of Art. His typefaces: 
Belgian designer who has a bachelors in graphic design from St. Lucas, Gent (Belgium) and ArtEZ Arnhem (The Netherlands), and a Masters in the same area from both places. He lives in Gent and 
Durotype is the foundry of Dutch type designer 
The Dutch Type Library was founded in 1990 by Frank Blokland (b. 1959, Leiden). It is based in 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Fonts include DTLAlbertina (Chris Brand), DTLArgo (Gerard Unger), 
Typographer and designer who lives in Den Haag, The Netherlands. She made some elegant typefaces, such as 
Type and graphic design pages by Edgar Walthert, b. Sursee, Switzerland. In 2007, he graduated from the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag. Since then he is free-lancing. He completed TazIII in 2008 for Lucas de Groot in Berlin. In 2008, he moved to Amsterdam to work as an independent graphic and type-designer. 
Italian designer of the fat display face Prendotempo (2007). He has addresses in Ravenna asnd Rotterdam. He codesigned 
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Prolific Dutch type designer who created Beowolf (a random font, 1989), Hands, Trixie (the old typewriter font), Kosmik, Federal (1996) and Zapata. Launched LettError in 1989 with Just van Rossum. Born in 1967 in Gouda. [
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FontFabrik was established in 1997 in Berlin by Luc(as) de Groot (b. 1962, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands). He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Den Haag, worked from 1989-1993 as a freelancer at the design bureau Premsela Voonk. From 1993-1997, he was with Meta Design in Berlin as typographic director in charge of many corporate design projects. In 1997, he set up his own studio, FontFabrik. Since 2000 his fonts are also sold under the Lucasfonts label. 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 
FontMeister is the commercial foundry of 
Raymond Brekelmans (Fresh Media) is the Dutch designer in Eindhoven of fonts such as Fame&Fortune, GoodDoggy, 7chipmunks, Hairy60, 
Dutch freelance designer Alex Scholing started Fonts by Alex in 2011 in Arnhem. Alex Scholing is graphic designer and co-founder of the design office Eat in Amsterdam. 
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Thomas Klaui (Frisse Types, The Netherlands) obtained 
Dutch type designer, born in Arnhem, The Netherlands, in 1942. 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. He still teaches at Reading and Rietveld. He has designed 
Between 1928 and 1965, 
Designer (b. 1931) at The Enschedé Font Foundry, who lives in Rotterdam. From 1960-1990 he taught writing and type design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. One of his many students there was Lucas de Groot. His intellectual influence is matched by by his physical heritage, in the form of two talented sons in the field of type design, Christoph and Peter Matthias. 
Located in Boxtel, The Netherlands, Giel Cobben designed of the geometric face 
Hanoded is the 
Dutch science journalist who has published extensively in the Volkskrant. He is also into fine arts and illustration, and has even designed a few fonts. 
Born in Gent (now Belgium) around 1540, and aka Henry du Tour, he died in 1580. He delivered letters to Plantin (and exclusively so between 1570 and 1580). His lettering was revived in 1994 by the Dutch Type Library as 
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, was born in Beirut in 1965. Author of 
Born in Porto, Portugal, in 1975. From 1994-1999 he studied graphic design at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design. In 2000 he became a postgraduate student at the KABK where he wrote a Masters thesis entitled "Type&Media". He joined Underware in the same year. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on On the edge of legibility, which in fact is a talk about blackletter. Affiliated since 2002 with Underware. He lives in Finland. Also doing business as 
Dutch creator of the plump comic book face 
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Dutch graphic designer in Amsterdam who has many typographic projects and occasionally creates a typeface. His typefaces are experimental and functional. One, called Puzzle, leaves it up to the user to position the sliding letters---quite an ingenious idea. Get Busy (2006) is artsy and futuristic. Escape (2006) is pixelish grunge. Union (2006), Get1 (2006, modular, computerized), 
Graphic designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, b. 1985. He created a scriptish typeface called 
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Dutchman Jeroen van der Ham ("joebob"), who is based in s'Hertogenbosch, designed mostly handwriting fonts: 
A German punchcutter (b. Nuremberg, 1701 or 1707, d. Amsterdam, 1768) who lived in Amsterdam, and practiced his art at Enschedé in Haarlem, from 1743-1768. His work influenced even Bodoni. His foremost typeface is the 8-point roman from 1739. That typeface has seen many digitizations: at the Dutch Type Library, DTLFleischmann (1992, Erhard Kaiser) is based on it.. In 2002, Charles Gibbons designed 
Aka Jonathan Looman. Dutch type and graphic designer. 
The Utrecht-based surrealist J.H. Moesman (1909-1988) is known for his quality paintings, drawings and essays on modern art. He also designed the Petronius typeface. As a gifted calligrapher, he gave Petronius a calligraphic look. The name was a tribute to Gaius Petronius Arbiter, a Roman author who lived in the first century AD and to whom Satyricon is attributed. Moesman studied The Golden type of William Morris (1834-1896), who had based Golden Type on a printed Renaissance typeface by the of Italian Nicolas Jenson (ca.1420-1480). For Petronius, Moesman made a roman, an italic, a narrow style and a set of initials. A lead type was never made though. Petronius was digitally revived in 2010 by 
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Julius B. Thyssen (from Amsterdam) and Hens Zimmerman run this site (which used to be called Immortalware), where you can download 15 Truetype fonts, among which one handwriting font made by Julius. Now also a huge zip file with 16 new fonts: Corrodated-J, 
Freelance graphic designer from Lebanon. Born in Sharjah, UAE, an Armenian with a Lebanese nationality. Graduate of the 
Kiosk Fonts (Berlin) was founded in 2008 by Frank Griesshammer (b. 1983), a German graduate at HBKsaar, 2008. 
Graduate from 
The Dutch have claimed for hundreds of years that Laurens Janszoon Coster [or: 
Dutch designer, b. 1991, aka Marjolein. A self-proclaimed vector artist, she created the elegant art deco face Lein Bold (2008) as well as Lein Rounded (2008) and Lein Future (2008). 
Meuffels, who runs Meuffels&Partners in Susteren, The Netherlands, is the designer of the art deco multi-striped all caps Dextor family (Mecanorma), now in digital form at URW++ and 
LettError is a foundry in Den Haag, founded by the interesting duo, Just Van Rossum (b. 1966) and Erik van Blokland (b. Gouda, 1967). Most of their fonts can be found in the FontFont library. 
Thijs Mertens is a Dutch designer in Arnhem who runs the design studio Letters en Plaatjes since 2009. He used FontStruct in 2009 to create ThM PurSans, 
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Sells fonts made by Luc(as) de Groot at FontFabrik in Berlin. 
Ludwig Übele is a Berlin-based 
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Lisse, The Netherlands-based creator of the following typefaces: 
Dutch designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the nice art deco display face AlfaDeco. In 2009, he added Dicky and Dinny. [
Design student in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, whose first font is the high-contrast art deco typeface 
Italian visual artist based in Amsterdam and Berlin. In 2005 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in visual communication from ISIA (Florence, Italy) and Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany). He continued his studies at the Sandberg institute of the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, where he obtained a Master's degree. 
Dutch creator of the fun alphabet 
Dutch type designer born in 1960. 
Dutch alphabetician who was active in the 1930s. Hans van Maanen at Canada Type revived his lettering as digital fonts: 
MartinPlusFonts is the Berlin-based foundry of Martin Wenzel, a 
Dutch designer who managed to pull off a remarkable iFontMaker font called 
Graphic designer and illustrator in Den Haag, The Netherlands. 
French graphics lettering company initially involved in instant lettering (made by Trip Productions), and some original typeface designs. From 1989 until 1994, Mecanorma worked with another Dutch company 
Miklós Tótfalusi Kis (Nicholas Kis) was born in Misztótfalu, Hungary, in 1650. He left for Amsterdam in 1680, where he worked on la Biblia Hungara (1685), Book of Hymns of San David (1686), and the New Testament (1687). He also published many books for children. Taught there by Dirk Voskens, he made what is now known as 
Graduate from the Art School HKU in Utrecht. Dutch graphic designer (b. Utrecht) who graduated in 2007 from the University of Reading, with a project entitled 
Brazilian art director who has worked with with Tony de Marco at Just in Type. From Brazil, he moved to Amsterdam. His typeface 
OurType is Fred Smeijers' web site and foundry established in 2002. The venture was started in cooperation with Rudy Geerarts of FontShop Benelux, and today also includes Corina Cotorobai. He is the Dutch designer (b. 1961) of many seminal type designs. Here is a list. 
Dutch designer at Enschedé, born in 1972. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague where he graduated in 1997, and again in 2000, the second time with a postgraduate degree in typography. Second prize at the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by 
Slovakian type designer (b. 1973), who lives in The Netherlands. 
Born in Waddinxveen, 1965, type designer and educator Peter Verheul lives in Den Haag. He studied at KABK in Den Haag, where he lives and, since 1991, teaches type design. 
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Dutch creator of the outline typeface 
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Erik van Blokland's brainchild. Robothon 2012 took place at the KABK in Den Haag, The Netherlands, from March 8-9, 2012. Paul van der Laan wrote: This year we're proud to announce an international range of speakers, the new UFO 3 format, amazing new tools and ideas. Robothon is a great opportunity to hang out with your colleagues from around Europe, meet the TypeMedia crew, and see the Gerrit Noordzij Prize exhibition and seminar dedicated to Wim Crouwel. 
RP is a small scale digital type-foundry established in 2009 by Czech designer Radim Pesko, who currently lives in Amsterdam. He is a regular contributor to various publications including 
Finnish designer (b. Kerava, 1975) of 
Dutch designer at Johan Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem, whose work was also published by Stephenson Blake and Linotype. Born in Leiden in 1912, he died in Haarlem in 1995. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, specializing in engraving. He joined Enschedé in 1936 where he would become art director. He made Juliana (Linotype, 1958; the original commission by Walter Tracy dates back to 1952; many penguin editions used Juliana) and 
Dutch typographer and type designer, b. Drachten, 1877, d. Haarlem, 1962. He worked at Tetterode from 1907-1941. 
SO Design is a Dutch studio run by André Toet (b. 1950, Den Haag). He was educated at the KABK under Gerrit Noordzij from 1974-1976, and at the Central School of Art and Design in London under Nicolete Gray from 1976-1977. From 1979-1980, he worked as a designer at Total Design with Juriaan Schrofer and Wim Crouwel. 
Aka Typefoundry Amsterdam, foundry in the Netherlands, operating 1851-1988. A lot of the material about Tetterode can now be found in the 
Dutch cofounder (1883-1931) with Piet Mondriaan, Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok, Vilmos Huszar and J.J.P. Oud of the 
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Dutch graphic designer in Amsterdam who runs Zwarte Koffie. He made Atlas (a connected cursive font), 
Hans Bodlaender's chess font archive: very useful! It includes many fonts by Armando Hernandez Marroquin (Figurine Symbol fonts, Chess-Alfonso-X, ChessAdventurer, Chess-Condal, Chess-Harlequin, Chess-Kingdom, Chess-Leipzig, Chess-Line, ChessLucena, Chess-Magnetic, Chess-Mark, Chess-Marroquin, Chess-Maya, Chess-Merida, Chess-Millennia-D, Chess-Millennia-L, Chess-Miscel, Chess-Motif, Chess-Mediaeval), 
Showcasing the typefaces made by the 2011 graduates of the type design program at KABK in Den Haag: Sun Jung Hwang, Lauri Toikka, Colin M. Ford, Florian Schick, Linda Hintz, Marina Chaccur, Malte Herok, Yassin Baggar, Alpkan Kirayoglu, Emma Laiho, Kunihiko Okano, Yanone. The typography of the web site and the color palette are great but the horizontal design and the peekaboo windows are annoying and not worthy of a school of the caliber of KABK. [
Dutch foundry, est. 1997 by Donald Beekman. We find commercial fonts by several designers: 
Founded by Guido de Boer, Vormplatform is a Dutch studio in which Roosmarijn ten Hoopen, Studio AIRPORT, Ferry Booms and Jeroen van Loon participate. This is an eye candy site, where one can also find their 
Werkbond is 
Willem Hendrik Crouwel is a 
Dutch designer of an 
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Rob Janssen (Yoozer) (b. 1978, Netherlands) is the designer of the fantastic pixelish font 
