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Type design in Hungary |
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Hungarian foundry/press run by Jesuits in the late 18th century. Gábor Kóthay based some of his fonts on their 1773 type specimen book. One is the 2-weight Schwabacher style Fraktur font SchwarzKopf (2002). LaDanse is based on a scan of a handwritten inventory found in that book. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eger, Hungary-based creator of Hairline (2012, a sans family). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adam Katyi
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Talented designer in Budapest, who first studied mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and then typography at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. His typeface Cirque (2010) is a unicase modular geometric beauty, desiged with mathematical precision. He explains: My main profile is creating CD covers, posters, designing books, sometimes with the aid of several programming techniques. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based design student at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, who created the octagonal typeface Pylon (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Agnes Jekli
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Budapest-based graphic designer. He created several interesting display typefaces in 2011. Examples: i, ii, iii, iv. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pest, Hungary-based designer of Hexa (2012, free hexagonal typeface). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of Lightline (2013, a paperclip font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Her graduation project at KABK was the Leda family (2012): Leda Broken Bold (blackletter), Leda Serif. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer of Ambitsek (2007, pixel face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amondo Szegi
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Kecskemet, Hungary-based designer of experimental typefaces called Pulsepect Types (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Budapest. She created the wonderful Fraktur typeface Mantodeum (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the hairline avant garde font Visart (2013). It was developed during her studies in Budapest. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anone Design (Debrecen, Hungary) created the organic display typeface Amorf (2013, Free download). Brushy (2013) is---as the name suggests---a brush font. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer with Wenzel Wendler of the Totfalusi family (Magyar, 1956). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographic poster examples: A, B, C, D, E, F, G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q. Examples of typographically great bike posters: A | B | C. Behance link. Facebook link. Flickr link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian foundry, which made the organic sans family Terra, the architectural lettering font Sample, and the very geometric sans Simple. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer (b. 1984) who made the free animal dingbat font Red List (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Attila Horvath
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Attila Zigó
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Hungarian studio which made the Victorian / hacker style headline face New Typeface (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bálint Koczman
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Babushke
| Babushke is a design cooperative in Zagreb that includes Marija Juza, who is the codesigner with Nikola Djurek of Balkan (2012, Typonine), a type system for Latin and Cyrillic that was awarded by TDC in 2012. Babushke created Herbert (2012), which is based on Herbert Bayer's early Bauhaus sketches. It is a low contrast 3-style typeface whose function is to properly align text in blocks. TDC mentions that Marija lives in Zabok, Hungary. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Hungarian designer at Barack media design works who created the corporate identity font Mentha (2002), which can be downloaded here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian creator (b. 1995) of the octagonal typeface Altera (2013), the pixel face Dots (2013), and the circle-based typeface Bublet (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creative director in Budapest, who used FontStruct to create the modular straight-edge face Henry (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer in Budapest, b. 1987. Home page. Designer of the display face Paris je t'aime (2010, a heavy comic book face) and the contrast face Blessed (2011), renamed Fortunata (a font without closed counters) and Fortunatus a few days after its first publication. Desereted (2012) is a thin geometric sans face. nzip Me (2012) is an alphading typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Balla Dora Typo-Grafika
| Many nice examples of creative typography, worked into a blog. By Dora Balla from Hungary. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Hungarian creator of the bouncy black comic book face Model (2009). He also updated Maurizio Loreti's BrushScriptX and placed the updates here. His roman caps face Livio (2010) is based on S.G. Moye's Livia (1991). He also updated Thatcher Ulrich's Tuffy family in 2010, and made the handy Zapfian dingbat face DTPDingbats (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Besarion Gugushvili
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Laszlo, aka the Bleeding Dragon, is the Budapest-based designer of the grunge font Stampeded (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of the counerless fat octagonal typeface Sqerald (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian creator of Robin Script (2012: children's hand), Robin Schooler (2012), and Robin Graffiti (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bumbayo Font Fabrik
| Hungarian foundry with commercial and free fonts, est. 2005 by Attila Zigó. On Deviantart, they claim to be from Rwanda. They specialize in grunge type--some of the fonts are quite gorgeous indeed. Has a fontmaking service. Dafont link. Yet another URL. Devian Tart link. Fontsy link.
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Calligraphics
| Calligraphics is Paul Veres' outfit in Berkeley, CA. Paul Veres was born in 1944 in Budapest, and started out as a calligrapher and graphic designer. He is the creator of Caterina at Psy/Ops and of Linotype Banjoman Roman (an avant-garde font), Caterina (2004, a calligraphic sans used in some places by movie director Francis Ford Coppola), and Linotype Aperto at Linotype (1996). MyFonts write-up. Other URL. Other fonts at Calligraphics: Caterina (1998), Aperto (1995, a stressed sans family), Harmonica (2005, script), DemiTasse, Gargoyle and Espresso. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typographer who used to work at DTC (Digital Typeface Company)/ScanDer in Hungary. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian creator of the handwriting face Chabinho2008v2.0 (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1989, this Hungarian created the handwriting faces Chloe (2010) and Chloe's Handwriting (2010). Dafont link. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer at FONTana Typestudio of the rune font Csenge. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer of HUN-DIN 1451 (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian creator (b. 1993) of the severe-looking octagonal typeface Agero (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian digital photographer, who created Call of Duty (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Budapest, who graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. Creator of the stylized geometric typeface Ritmo (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies in budapest, David vass designed the thin techno typeface Types of Light (2013). Pixer (2012) is a circle-based pixel font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer of the 5x5 pixel face Pixel (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of the counterless display face Disfigured Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dora Balla
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DTC (Digital Typeface Company, est. 1999, closed in 2004) was a Hungarian outfit founded and run by printer-typographer Attila Derecskei that developed and sells OpenType, truetype and Type 1 fonts on CDs or via downloads for just about every platform. One of their products was called ProFonts Library. An earlier name of the company was ScanDer Ltd, established by Derecskei in 1993. Other typographers at ScanDer included Leslie Egerer and Cathy Saufert. They said: "2500 TrueType&PostScript font for Windows 3.1x / 95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / OS2 / Linux / MacOs with Unicode. Some fonts with Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew characters. Special pack is the PixelFonts Library for Flash. Developed by Digital Typeface Co. USA. Managed by Jon Stern." MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian type designer (1944-2004) who designed the award-winning typeface Pannon in the 1970s. This was digitized in 2001 by Oszkár Boskovitz at Nepfont Digital Foundry as Pannon Antiqua. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefoundry in Budapest where Zoltán Nagy published most of his typefaces. These include Ungarische Grotesk breitfett (1967), Ecsetiras (18=967) and Reklam Kurziv (a signage face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Enci Bognar (Budapest) is working on a hexagonal typeface called To Bee Cafe (sic) (2013). Steam Font (2013) is an experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based foundry acquired in 1926 by D. Stempel AG (50%) and H. Berthold AG (50%). Later it spun off from Stempel. In English: First Hungarian Type Foundry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Photographer Eszter Herczeg earned her Bachelor degree in graphic design at Visart Academy of Art and Design, Budapest. She designed the (naked) Body Typeface (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of the piano key typeface Fusion (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Faberfonts
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He created the ink trap font Portrait Of A Lady (2009), FR Irisz (2009, didone family), Pontifex (2009), the hand-printed Munkácsy 1120 (2009), the unicase Reka Sans (2009), the thick-thin Azur (2009), the simple sans Babyface (2009), the medieval sorcery font Elmulas (2009), the Valentine;s Day font Sapet (2009), the avant garde sans family Hopper Sans (2009) and the ultra-fat face Rendezvous (2009). Callimachos (2009) is a fun triple-lined hand-printed headline face (with a Cyrillic version added in). Azur Title Font (2009) is a hairline slabbed typewriter type. Pasta Simpla (2009, followed by FR Pasta Mono in 2010) is another experimental jewel. Hobbista (2009) mixes symbols and glyphs. FR Rama Nous (2009) is a free modular font. In 2009, he also made Arrow, Enamel Paint Type, Belonging (Roman caps). Commercial fonts made in 2010: FR Unalom, FR Sniccer (stencil), FR Ceruza, FR Minta (a dingbat face to make labyrinthine patterns; +Two), FR Tabula (beveled face), FR Smaragdina, FR Mintry One and Two (pattern fonts), and a custom alphabet for Esquire Russia, FR Hopper (monoline sans family). Activity in 2011: A didone-inspired face called MFA Dagi that was was commissioned for a catalog of an exhibition at The Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Illustrator from Sopron, Hungary. Her hand-drawn lettering on some moleskine posters is attractive. In 2010, she created the mosaic typeface Diafore. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator in Budapest who designed the ornamental caps alpahbet Hy Type in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based artist and student, b. 1990. Creator of some rotunda alphabets in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Sopron, Hungary. She made the modular experimental face Pixels (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FONTana Typestudio
| FONTana is a font design studio in Szeged, Hungary, started in 1999. Free and commercial typefaces (39USD/piece) by Gabor Kóthay (La Danse, Luxury, Sehrgut (Fraktur), Faximile (1999), L&R (1999), Monsoon (1999)), and Amondó Szegi (Telegdi family, which is based on the worn typefaces used by Abbot Nicolaus Telegdi at the Vienna Jesuit press in the 16th Century; Velorex (1999)). Very beautiful web page, and fantastic fonts in all respects! Free faces: Zodiac (2000), Cards (Gyula Zsigri, 2001), Maldoror, Domino (Gabor Kóthay), Count, Csenge (a Hungarian rune font by Csaba Dávid), Qwerty (Gabor Kóthay, 2000), Y2K (Gabor Kóthay, 2000). Early commercial fonts: Woodini (caps), Sleeping Beauty (caps), Zimbalo (1999, Amondó Szegi), Pacalsone (1999, Amondó Szegi), Paradox (1999, Amondó Szegi), Construct (2001, Amondó Szegi), Binario (2000, Amondó Szegi), Bikewrench (2001, Amondó Szegi), Cabin (2001, Gábor Kóthay). At T-26, in 2001, Amondó Szegi published the commercial faces MuseFace (art nouveau), Glosso (2003), Xodus-History (2001), Kozma-Ornaments, Xodus-Forgotten (2001), Xodus-Regular (2001), Xodus-Italic (2001), all showing old Slavonic influences in Latin letters. In 2000, he made Alian Ornaments (floral ornaments) for T-26. At T-26, Gábor Kóthay published Adagietto (2000), Minerva (2000), Archetype (2000). At PsyOps, Gábor Kóthay published the formal script Anglia (2001), Berill (2001), and Plexo (2001). Amondó Szegi's faces at T-26: Nexodus (2008, medieval style), Zenthes (2008), Alien Ornaments, Glosso, Iskola (a medieval face done with Silas Dilworth), Kozma (great ornaments), Melico, Melico Ornaments (2004, another great set), Xodus. At P22, Szegi designed the curly face Mantra (2005). Amondó Szegi's Telegdi family is since 2001 available from P22. At The Type Trust, he created the playful Gepetto (2006). Among their custom corporate identity jobs, the Losonczi Hair Salon work (2012) is quite outstanding. Dubstep (2012) is an experimental trinagulat grid-based typeface. In 2013, Glosso Novum (2013, Fontana Type Foundry), a remastering of Glosso (2003), was published. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fontbistro
| Oszkár Boskovitz's Hungarian foundry. Before Fontbistro, he ran Nepfont Digital Foundry. His fonts sold at Fontbistro include Balek, Blabla, Ecsetirás (2001, a brush face based on a face of Zoltán Nagy, 1967), Konwektor (techno), Pannon Antiqua (2001, based on a family by Edit Zigány (1972), Pluto (2006), Shrapnel (organic), Syrup (2005, stencil), Tilos (2002, rough stencil family), Troppauer (2005, unicase), Tubyfex (2005, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontboard (was Nyelvészeti Fontok)
| Free truetype fonts for linguistics by Gyula Zsigri include Uralica, Saecula Hungarica, OctoCyrillic and ExtraLow. All are fonts with plenty of accents for Hungarian and Cyrillic. Linguistic fonts: direct link. Alternate URL. Check out Gyula Zsigri's cards font called "Cards" (1998). Hungarian mirror. Another Hungarian mirror. Uralica and OctoCyrillic are also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
font.hu
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Fontmunkások
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Dafont link. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type news and type blog located in Hungary, run by Tamas, Teufel, and Jobart (Eva and Gábor) and the Kóthay's (Eva, Sára, Kata and Gábor). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank Béla
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Gábor Hosszú
| Beautiful Hungarian rune fonts by Gábor Hosszú: RovasFS, RovasFS, RovasFSJB, RovasFSJB, RovasMA, RovasMA, RovasMAJB, RovasMAJB, RovasSada, RovasSadaJB, RovasSumJB, RovasSumer, RovasSzabvany, RovasSzabvany, RovasSzabvanyJB, RovasSzabvanyJB, RovasV1, RovasV1, RovasV1JB, RovasV1JB, Csenge. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Gábor Hosszú
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Gábor Kóthay
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Gábor Kóthay
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Creator of the alchemic typeface Rovas Kiterjesztett (2012). Inside the font, we also find a reference to three other people, Gyozo Libisch, Sandor Ver, and Tamas Rumi, and the date is 1995-2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gaspar Sinai
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Henred, Hungary-based graphic designer, who created some experimental typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Georgian Scripture and Fonts
| Classical fonts can be downloaded here. David Chelidze's page on Georgian fonts, which has fonts designed by Besarion Gugushvili, Reno Siradze, Temuri Imnaishvili and Giorgi Topouria. Included is a font replica of a Tbilisi Printing House Type by Hungarian Master Mikhail Stefan Hungaro-Vlakhian from 1706, called BPG Mikheil Stefane U, and a Chechen font called BPG-CN. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
In 2012, he designed Lineo Serif (thin geometric face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Recréation (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and typographer in Sopron, Hungary. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian graphic design student studying and living in the UK. He created the themed face Watch My Shoes (2011, experimental). He also made the fat blocky Quadrata series in 2011, with styles called Child, Hippie, Light, Origin, and Scrib. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian graphic designer who made the heavy octagonal typeface Code (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based illustrator and graphic designer (b. 1980) who made Puma (2012), a bold hand-printed typeface for children's books. Gergely was born in 1980 in debrecen, Hungary, and graduated from the Buda Art School in Budapest. He works as a freelance graphic designer in Dunakeszi, Hungary. In 2012, he designed the fat finger poster typeface Black Puma. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Gidata Kft
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Hungarian professor at the Department of Computer Graphics and Library and Information Science, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary. She is a frequent speaker on Hungarian typography at EuroTEX and TUG metings. Author of Contemporary Hungarian Types and Designers (TUGboat, vol. 24, 2003, pp. 527-529). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer (b. Budapest, 1951) whose creations are often geometrical compositions. His (mostly geometric) fonts include the multiline geometric family FF Archian [Archian Boogie-Woogie was inspired by the last work of the Piet Mondrian], Archian Wilmos, Labirinth (1989), and M&ounl;bius (a kanji font). He teaches typography in Hungary. In 1996, he won the Morisawa prize for his kanji signs. Read about him here. Typedia link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer of the angular, mannered, retro geometric display face ITC Grapefruit (1997). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Gyula Zsigri
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Graphic designer in Budapest. Creator of the very experimental Iony Display typeface in 2011, described as spacefunk slab. Iony inspired a digital font by Antonio Morata called Zychotropic eYeFS (2013, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hargitai's Antique Fonts
| Henrik Hargitai (Budapest, Hungary) digitized a number of alphabets and is making them freely available to the world. He is a scientist (astronomer) at Eötvös Loránd University's Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences (Planetary Science Research Group) and Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies. His fonts:
Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Henrik Hargitai
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Hosszú Gábor
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Type glossary, and Hungarian type bibliography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Omniglot's page on Hungarian runes. I quote: Hungarian runes (Székely Rovásírás) are are thought to have descended from the Turkic script (Kök Turki) used in Central Asia, though some scholars believe the Hungarian runes pre-date the Turkic script. They were used by the Székler Magyars in Hungary before István, the first Christian king of Hungary, ordered all pre-Christian writings to be destroyed. In remote parts of Transylvania however, the runes were still used up until the 1850s. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Article about the history and state of type design and typography in Hungary. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarumlaut
| Hungarian typefoundry run by Adam Katyi (who is originally from Sopron, Hungary) out of Den Haag in The Netherlands. In 2010, he designed a pixel face, and a typeface called Ringua. Adam's typefaces from 2012: Ursin (techno, octagonal), Ursin Rounded. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
In 1992, Manfred Klein made Tokay-MK after one of Reiner's ideas. In 2004, he added VariationsForImre, a playful face based on Reiner's lettering, and this was followed in 2005 by Magyarish. Reiner wrote several books, including Modern and Historical Typography An Illustrated Guide (1946, Paul A. Struck, New York, and 1948, Zollikofer and Comp., St. Gallen). | |
Jaksa Zsolt
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Hungarian FontStructor who made typefaces like ACDC (2011, a blackletter / tattoo face based on the AC DC logo), Code (2011, the pixel font used in Command Prompt), Bonzarificx (2011), Spore (2011), Greek (2011, ornamental Greek face), Olde Time Ornamental (2011), FontStruct (2011), Circuitboard (2011), Logo MT Condensed (2011), and Bonzarific (2011). In 2012, he added Code (grid-based), Moderniste, and IBM Logo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian poster artist, whose lettering on this Hungarian movie poster from 1927 inspired Nick Curtis to make Metropolis NF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Job Art Studio
| Job Art Studio in Szeged (Hungary) is Gábor Kóthay's foundry. Site under construction. For now, we find these fonts: Cats (free dingbats), Disasters (dingbats), Bubble (comic book font), 103 kék. Specimen sheet (PDF showing other fonts: Alphabet2 (with dingbats), Ambient, Axis, Bacchus (medieval writing), Betabet, Cappuccino, Pastry, Lemonade, Tobacco, Poster (the latter five all formal script or print faces), Linea, Loop, Incognito, Terra Incognita (world dingbats), Marker Pack1, Marker Pack2, Totem One, Totem Two, Totem Three, Archetype Tyrnavia, Surf No.1 (dingbats), Incognito (Regular, Italic, Small Caps, Occidens, Oriens, Meridies, Septentrio, Regular Ligatures, Italic Ligatures). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Hungarian creator of the useful (and free) DTP Dingbats (2008), which has fists and arrows, among other things. He also made Model (2009, a comic book face). Dafont link. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based graphic designer (aka drez) who makes custom logos and type. Free typefaces can be had here, such as Cellie (2007, kitchen tile) and Ruudawakenin (2007). Behance link. Flickr site. Another URL with examples of his posters and type work. Dead link? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer of the triangle-based experimental typeface Trigonom (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer of the FON format pixel font Nu:Nu (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. He created the modular typeface Mover (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer of the pixelish face Tetris (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
kottattf contains the HTimes (Hungarian Times?) family by Kim-Soft, and MusicalSymbols by Corel. Truetype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Hungarian educator, writer, curator, and editor of PlusMinus magazine. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, she spoke about Identity of typographers and designers in Hungary. She is very familiar with the type and design scenes in Hungary. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian type designer who studied under Zoltán Nagy. His faces include Cheri, Balaton and Bulaton. He altered many Latin fonts so that they could be used for Central European languages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian typographer from the Bauhaus era. He designed posters such as this title page for Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar 1919-1923. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wikipedia link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer and designer in Budapest. He used staples as asource of inspiration for Staple (2008). He also made the geometric experimental face Duna (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of Gasztro (2011), an alphabet on the theme of coffee. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer who used to work at DTC (Digital Typeface Company)/ScanDer in Hungary. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Budapest who created the geometric display typeface Yuhu (2012), and who did several intertesting typographic logos. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Levi Halmos
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Graphic design student in Budapest who created funky typefaces for several projects, including Lance Armstrong Identity (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Budapest-based designer of the experimental typefaces Geo 01 (2011, done for a school project) and Duett (2013, obtained by merging Aller with Futura). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ljuba Mono, LjubasErif and LjubaSans are families of Hungarian accented fonts derived from Bitstream's Vera. Type 1 and truetype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His work influenced Burgues Script (2007, Sudtipos). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer and photographer from Miskolc, Hungary, who is heavily into type experimentation, proposing, e.g., a modular type to make letters as high as desired by inserting vertical pieces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Magique Fonts (was: Cpr. Sparhelt)
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Catalog as of 2011: i, ii, iii. Dafont link for Magique Fonts. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
East-European versions of the Monotype fonts Times New Roman, H-Times New Roman, HCourierNew, HArial, and CourierNew. Plus HTimes and HHelvetica by Kim-Soft (1992) and TitanSoft (1991), respectively, and ArialL2 by Peter Soos. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based graphic designer, who created the stencil face Sablon (2005, Garcia Fonts). Originally from Germany, he emigrated to Hungary in 1998. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marija Juza
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Martzi Heged&77uml;s (Budapest) created the gridded trompe l'oeil typeface Frustro (2012), which is based on the optical illusion created by the Penrose triangle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His commercial faces include
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Matthew Stork
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Budapest-based graphic designer. He has created an experimental pixel face, and a beveled 3d font called Bers (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of the extreme-contrast and super-geometric face Millstone (2011). He studied graphic design at Budai Rajziskola. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mihaly Ferencz (Budapest) created Mihok (2011, a curly upright script face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Budapest, this painter and graphic designer created the 3d experimental caps typeface Breaking Type (2012) starting from Jos Buivenga's Museo. [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] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer who made a high-contrast art deco face Betu (2010). His typographic design work is first rate---this includes a multiline logo for Budapest, and a great label design for Pálinka---that is the way to the hearts of the Hungarians. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian graphic designer, b. 1985. Creator of Elvenskull (2004). No downloads. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer from Budapest who made Acid Squares (2011). MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Momegraphic
| Agnes Jekli (Momegraphic) is a graphic designer in Budapest, Hungary. She developed an impressive multiline prismatic typeface called Agiko (2012), which was created for a Rubik's cube style puzzle. The letters of the alphabet are put together in a modular fashion by rotating and shifting basic multiline elements. This was done in cooperation with Aniko Köhegyes. She created another geometric typeface in 2012. Behance link for Agnes Jekli. Behance link for Momegraphic. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Nepfont Digital Foundry
| Oszkár Boskovitz ran Nepfont Digital Foundry, and at some point, ca. 2009, changed its name to Fontbistro, where one can now buy his fonts. He is a Hungarian type designer who digitized the award-winning typeface family Pannon (2001) made by Edit Zigány in 1972. He is working on a book that will summarize Hungarian type in the 1970s and 1980s. His repertoire:
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Budapest-based designer of the display typeface Manifesto (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nikolett Janosi (Debrecen, Hungary) designed the angular art nouveau typeface Körösföi (2013). It was made for the memory of the Hungarian secession artist Körösföi Kriesch Aladar. The type is planned for street signs in his home town. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Myfonts link. Roger S. Nelsson (Cheapprofonts) and Halmos extended Danube and Celtic Garamond in 2009 as Danube Pro and Celtic Garamond Pro, respectively. Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. Dafont link. View Levi Halmos's commercial typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of Occupied (2012), a typeface designed for his thesis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2013, he published the (very) humanist sans serif typeface Prell at Die Gestalten. Earlier, in 2012, he created the circle-based experimental typeface Circle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Official Classic
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Attila Horvath designed these rounded display headline typefaces in 2012: Multivac, Shingo, Unoa. Behance link. YWFT link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Olaf Lyczba (Budapest, Hungary) designed Gotham Fresh (2013), an alchemic take on Gotham. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of a dot matrix font called Font Type Go (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oszkár Boskovitz
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Oszkár Boskovitz
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Pal Olah (Budapest) designed the modular display face Manifold (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Patric Hadzsinicsev
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Hungarian type designer (d. 1992) who made Totfalusi Antikva (Fonderie de l'État Hongrois, 1955). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paul Veres
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Hungarian type designer (b. 1968) who graduated from MIE in Budapest. He is also a talented illustrator and visual artist. His fonts include Kabos, Masina (organic), Road, Souterain, Octan (octagonal), and Intertrans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian type expert. He published an article in Magyar Grafika (2002, vol. 5, pp. 2-7) on the legacy of Miklós Tótfalusi Kis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Péter Serfözö
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Péter Szabó
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Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of Nux (2012, a rounded squarish typeface family) and Hue (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Peter Szabo-Lencz
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Petyka Design
| At the Hungarian company Petyka Design in Budapest, Peter Szabo-Lincz (b. 1981) created the pixel faces Petyka - Retro Computer___SHORT and Petyka - The Physics Lab___SHORT in 2010. These seem to emulate computer game fonts. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Hungarian designer who used Pentacom to make the pixel faces THM (2010), Braille (2009), HungarianRovas (2009), Bitter (2009) and Littlefaces (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer (b. 1990) of the free typeface In For The Kill (2013, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pvisual
| Patric Hadzsinicsev (b. 1989, Budapest) runs Pvisual in Bulgaria. In 2011, he designed the typefaces Ozone (an organic typeface) and Fox (fat and counterless). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer and cartoonist in Budapest who created the spiky typeface Figura Cyrill (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Richard Kelemen (Sopron, Hungary) created Pixel font (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer. He created these typrefaces in 2012: Kilimanjaro GT, Open Mind Sans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he designed the condensed typeface Quacke, and Hotel Pictograms. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roland Huse
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rov-ket
| rov_ket.ttf is a runes script truetype font created by Dr. Hosszú Gábor. Page in Hungarian. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Hungarian designer of the squarish free face Royal Simplicity (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based creator of the curly caps typeface Fontain (2012). At least, I think that she made a full font---it is not clear from the information on the web. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Runes & Fonts (was: My Handwritings)
| Hungarian type designer Roland Huse (b. 1980) sells his fonts through My Handwritings (Kazincbarcika, Hungary), which was renamed Runes&Fonts. His first font is Zuider Postduif (2012, an informal type family). Florida Shark (2012) is a free Death Metal or tattoo version of one of his commercial fonts. Tamiami (2012) is a headline typeface. Granny's Handwriting (2012), Script Demolition (2012), Sharon Lipschutz's Handwriting (2012), Isa Por Es Homou (2012) and Kinga's Handwriting (2012) are hand-printed typefaces. Napping Cat (2012) and Cubic Sub (2012) are angularly designed, while Mgla (2012) is round and plump. Greek Stone (2012) is a squarish Greek simulation face. On The Road (2012) is a textured typeface. Whirly Wood (2012), Hargita (2012, inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Dreamcatcher (2012) and Bee Ridge Vantage (2012: see also Bee Ridge) are grunge typefaces. Individigital (2012, +Black, +Thin) is a techno set of typefaces. Typefaces from 2013: Windy Wood, Cool Weekdays, Yellow Peas Light (clean thin monoline sans), Back To The Future 4, Yellow Peas Demo (hairline sans), Yellow Peas Bold, Pagan Winter (bilined), Beer Money (brush face), Poor Weekdays (+Serif), Hun Legion (inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Freehand Roman, Esthajnal (inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Buffalo Chicken (a connected script), Telihold. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in Budapest who created Moiré Type (2012, a multiline prismatic typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian creator of Scrages Handwrite (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Hungary, Lezlisoft's free font managing software for Windows. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sophia Tai (Budapest) created the display typeface Isolated (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer of the futuristic sans typeface My Degree Font (2004) and Paprica and Paprica Italic (2004). He lives in Pest. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Budapest. He created Hand BT (2011). Behance link. He also created the extreme contrast fashion mag face Duett (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Budapest who made the calligraphic script typeface Brute Script (2008). He runs Nagy Design Kft, and lectures at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty Of Humanities And Social Sciences, Piliscsaba, Hungary. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
"TeXtrace is a collection of scripts for UNIX that convert any TeX font into a Type1 .pfb outline font immediately suitable for use with dvips, pdftex, acroread (and any many other programs). The main advantage of using Type1 fonts with TeX is that Acroread renders TeX's bitmap fonts ugly on screen, but it renders outline fonts beautifully and fast. " Free software written by Péter Szabó. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Page on Hungarian runic writing by Gábor Heves. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creations in 2010: Hasta Siempre (military stencil), Hasta Siempre Supplement (Fontstruct rendering of the iconic photograph of Che Guevara by Alberto Korda), Belfalas, Fractal Font, Sierpinski White, Sierpinski Black, Sierpinski Dalmatian, Remolino Stencil, Boikot Stencil, Legolas Pixel, Brego, Vortices (dings), Gamling, Coccinella Two (+B), Cyrillic 02, Waves, Hommage à Escher v2 extLat. Creations in 2011: Midori Dot (2011, a dotted kana face), Sierpinski Black Initials (a stunning decorative caps face based on Sierpinski triangles), Fontstructivism (constructivist Latin/Cyrillic face), Sierpinski White Initials, Vasarely Squares (experimental---letters based on Victor Vasarely's work), Hurin (counterless, created after Nagasaki by Tom Muller), Strider (an optical illusion 3d multilined face), Dot Dot White (texture face), Dot Dot Black (texture face), Garamond Italic SP (a pixelized version of Garamond Italic), Rohan (+NE01, +NE03: a textured lined 3d logotype family, +NE04, +NE10), Gray Scale (a very interesting texture experiment in which gray scales are "simulated" by simple font mechanisms). Fonts made in 2012: Font Neuf, Khazad (stencil font), Oktogon Stencil, Oktogon Outline, Thorin Stencil (army stencil), Deagol Stencil. Typefaces frm 2013: the Voxelstorm family (3d, Escher-style). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of the grid family Pixel Lattice (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of A betü, in two volumes, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1965-1966, a nice snapshot (in Hungarian) of the state of the typographic art at that point of the 20th century. Full title: A betü: a betutörténet és a korszeru betumuvészet rövid áttekintése. He also published A tipográfia nyelve. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of the piano key typeface family Tango (2012), the thin octagonal typeface Standard (2012), the piano key typeface Slink (2012), and the experimental typefaces Wang (2012), Galtor (2012, an inline font available from Ten Dollar Fonts) and Krix (2012). Typefaces from 2013: Neugol (a geometroc sans with slanted cuts). Behance link. Devian Tart link. Hellofont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
This Hungarian site has about 250 Bitstream and Corel fonts in both truetype and type 1 formats. The names start with "H" as in HFijuyama or HDauphin, so these appear to be fonts set up for use with Hungarian (which has many accents). Many fonts are joint copyright of Corel and Kim-Soft. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tt2001
| Tt2001 "a TeX .pfb font collection, converted to .pfb in 2001 by the author of TeXtrace, using TeXtrace. It contains almost _all_ the EC (European Computer Modern) and TC (Text Companion) fonts in all possible design sizes, _all_ the AMS fonts in all possible design sizes, plus some more." Note: the EC fonts (European Computer Modern) and TC fonts (Text Companion) were drawn by Jörg Knappen and Norbert Schwarz. The AMS fonts were converted by Bluesky in 1992 from Knuth's Computer Modern (CM) fonts. The font set was created by Hungarian computer scientist Péter Szabó in 2001. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Budapest-based creator of the hyper-thin experimental typeface Shine (2012) for a Korean audio cassette producer. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at the University of West-Hungary in Sopron, Hungary. Creator of Broken Rainbow Font (2011) and Quest Display Font (2011). Handlettered examples, some calligraphic examples and more lettering examples. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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typgrphy.com
| Active type news and type blog site, in Hungarian. By Jaksa Zsolt (b. 1979) from Budapest. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Vextor Art
| American designer of Cell Bloch (2012, experimental), Astral Wave (2012, wavy) and Atlantius (2012, hand-printed). Atlantius is a font inspired by Sumerian cuneiform writing and hieroglyphics. Big Fat Marker (2012) and Marker Comp (2013) are fat finger fonts. Fonts made in 2013 include Spindly Legs (hand-printed), Three Ring Circus and Martianesque. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Hungarian cofounder of the influential Dutch magazine De Stijl in 1917 (with Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok and J.J.P. Oud). His logotypes from that magazine inspired Nick Curtis to develop the digital font De Stencil NF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Calligrapher and graphic designer in Budapest. His first typeface is Fiore (2012). During an Erasmus exchange project at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland in 2012, he created a circuit board typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of the runic simulation face Kerecsen (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Archive of free foreign language fonts covering Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Celtic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Old English, Farsi, Georgian, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Myanmar, Nepali, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The East-European typographic scene of the past 50 years reviewed by Adam Twardoch. Site temporarily in limbo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer with Antal Thalwieser of the Totfalusi family (Magyar, 1956). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yudit
| Yudit V1 is a sans face developed around 2008 by Gaspar Sinai with the help of Peter Soos, Ross Summerfield, George Sutton and Gabor Hosszu. Free download. The face also has some runic symbols. Others in this series include Yudit V1 JB (2008) and Yudit JB (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
His typefaces consist of metal types done at EMB (Elsö Magyar Betüöntöde), a typefoundry in Budapest, and phototypes at VGC:
Digitizations of his typefaces:
Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer (b. 1992) who created the filled-counter geometric faces Merrily and Merrily and Merrily Outlines (2008). Her home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian type and graphic designer, b. Budapest, 1981. From 2000-2005, he studied graphic design at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Creator of the deconstructed hairline face Air Type (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Zwoelf
| Introduction to type design, in Hungarian, by Budapest-based art director Peter Serfozo. Peter himself designed the geometric bicolored face Kassak (2007, for the 120th anniversary of Lajos Kassak) and Pannon Sans and Pannon Antikva (2009, in progress). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Aliz Borsa is a packaging designer from Hungary. She graduated with an MA from the University of West Hungary, Institute of Applied Arts (AMI), Sopron, in 2010. She also studied painting in Helnaes, Denmark, and typography at MOME, Budapest. Before studying at 
Design student at the University of Fine Arts in Budapest. In 2012, he created the sans typeface families 
A Hungarian designer in Sydney, Andras created some interesting typographic examples such as 
This guy is something else---I can't find enough superlatives to describe his work. A very creative freelance graphic designer from Budapest, he is best known for his experimental 
Hungarian designer (b. 1982) of the grungy typewriter face 
Budapest-based creator of 
Budapest-based designer of the experimental number font 
Type blog and type jump site in Hungarian, run by Budapest-based studio Gidata Kft. On 
Gábor Kóthay (Fontmunkások) is a Hungarian type designer (b. 1962) who lives in Szeged. 
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Budakeszi, Hungary-based designer. Creator of the 
Typographer, architect, designer and 
Graphic designer and typographer in Sopron, Hungary. He has a list of type links and a type-related blog. [
Graphic designer in Budapest. He made 
Aka Ludwig Kozma. Hungarian book designer, illustrator, graphic artist, and typographer (b. Kiskorpad, 1884, d. Budapest, 1948) who made Kner. 
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Graphic designer and illustartor in Budapest. During her studies there at the KREA Contemporary art Institute, she took a very original modern view of blackletter in her design of the 
Graphic design student at the Buda Drawing School (2010-2012), who lives in Budapest. She created 
Penman, b. 1859, San Antonio, TX, from Hungarian parents. His maternal grandfather, Ladislaus Ujhazi, was Governor of Kameron and the Count of Saros. He traveled a lot and was a versatile and multi-dimensional person. He spent most of his life in New York, and died in 1910 in San Francisco. Author of 
Bálint Koczman (aka 
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 
Free fonts by Hungarian type and graphic designer 
Budapest-based designer of the art deco typeface 
Die Gestalten writes about Hungarian artist Norbert Prell: Growing up in an artistic family, Norbert Prell was confronted by art and creativity at an early age. This laid the foundation for his aesthetic appreciation and paves the way for his design career. Initially trained as a graphic designer at the art school in Pécs and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest, he then developed great interests in typography and font design. In 2010, he became an Erasmus student in the Department of Media Technology/Design Department at the HAW Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Science) to learn typography and calligraphy. 
Hungarian outfit which states: Official Classics Ltd spawned from the minds of two young enthusiastic graphic designers Mark Zador and Attila Horvath. We both are unlimited lovers of typography and geometry, forms and colours, computers and game consoles, graffiti and stickers, magazines and blogs. Typefaces created by them are mostly techno or minimalist: 
Born in Budapest in 1957, but Parisian since 1957. Designer and type artist who made many custom and magazine fonts. 
Budapest-based graphic and packaging designer, b. 1980. Creator of a soft-edged 
Budapest-based creator (aka Frodo 7) in 2009 at FontStruct of FontMoot 01 (pixel face), Brego, 
Hungarian designer of commercial fonts (from 2012 onwards, as Typesgal), located in Puspokhatvan, Hungary: 
Hungarian type designer (1920-1998) (some pubs mention a birth date of 1921), who is responsible for most types in Hungary in the 20th century. He studied graphic arts at the Technical University of Budapest, and became chief engineer and art director at Elsö Magyar Betüöntöde. Author of Techniques of Type Design. He also engraved many postage stamps. 
During her graphic design studies in Budapest, Zsuzsanna Erdélyi designed the exquisite 
