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McGill University
Montreal, Canada
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24 Ways
[Jon Hicks]

Jon Hicks gives a clear mini-tutorial on how to display icons in web pages using fonts (with icon symbols in them) and data-attributes using simple CSS definitions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Rogers

Graphic designer in Derby, UK, who created YCN 3 Prong Type in 2012 at the University of Derby. He also created fun Dog Icons (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Whitcroft

Adam Whitcroft designed Climacons (2012), 75 climatically categorised pictographs for web and user interface designers. These icons were made into a (free) font by Christian Naths. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessio Atzeni

Web designer based in Rome. Creator of Pyconic (2012), an icon font in PNG format with 768 icons. He also has a free 40-icon EPS and truetype font for weather icons called Meteocons (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Meyer
[xyz.ch]

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Alexander Selunin

Creator of the free icon font QwarsIcons (2013, Open Font Library). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anas Ramadan

Creator of the free icon font Richstyle (2012, OFL). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anish Sundaran

Designer in Bombay, who made a custom Hindi font (2012), as well as a typeface for teaching children how to draw the Latin alphabet. He also created Hexy (2012, a hexagonal family that includes an inline face), Hindustan Hipsters Icons (2012), the thin geometric typeface Elefont Sans (2012) and the paperclip typeface Incomple (2012).

Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnildo Junior Gehring

Graphic designer in Balneario de Camboriu, Brazil. He reduced the serifs in Courier New and created Courrier Digital (2012). Spacender (2012) is another experimental typeface.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artill Typs
[Lukas Bischoff]

Artill Typs is Lukas Bischoff's foundry in Trier, Germany, est. 2009. German stylist and designer in Trier. Creator of Sketch Rockwell (2008), one of the nicest sketched style fonts anywhere.

Commercial faces include Luco Sans (2009), Sketch Block (2009) and the octagonal family Wombat (2009). Yaa (2010) is a hand-sketched headline font. Dock 11 (2011) is a (free) heavy art deco headline face. Sketch Gothic (2011) is a sketched Franklin Gothic.

Typefaces from 2012: Zwodrei, Kurt (a hand-printed typeface), Artill Weather Icons (free).

Behance link. Blog. Old URL. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Atipo

Design studio in Gijon, Spain, which produced the donationware face Cassannet in 2012: this beautiful sans face is modeled after art deco lettering by Cassandre. Images: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x.

In 2012, they published the free twitterware round sans family Bariol, which has its own dedicated web page. This was followed by the wonderful set of icons called Bariol Icons (2012).

Behance link. Bariol site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ayman Hafez

Mansourah, Egypt (and/or New York City)-based designer of the Latin sans typeface Firsta (2012). Now based in New York City, he also designed the free font/a> Burnit (2012), and the rounded typefaces Cobera (2013), Limon (2013), Over Sea (2013), Bazyl (2013), Fada (2013), Fagr (2013), Coll 3D (2013), Cool Bold (2013), Maw (2013), Awesome Outline (2013) and MyBold (2013). He also made Up Down (2013), Carpenter Tools (2013, dingbats), Stop It (2013), Bold Box (2013), Youm (2013), Quick Run (2013), Gangnam (2013), Prison Tattoo (2013), Web Tools (2013, icons), Labels (2013), Social Media Font (2013), Shehab (2013) and Social Font Icons (2013). He runs Fontm.com.

Home page. Dafont page. Behance link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Banzai Tokyo
[Sergey Epifanov]

Experimental foundry in Toulouse. Run by Sergey Epifanov (b. 1978, Kostroma, Russia), a graphic designer and an illustrator, it sells fonts like Banzai Moloko (2009) via MyFonts.

In 2013, Banzai Tokyo published the icon font Web Hosting Hub Glyphs Essentials. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bata Barata
[Boris Borisogljepski]

Belgrade-based creator of these typefaces in 2012: Hokus Pokus (hand-printed), Airport Arrival, Trotoar (grunge). 500 icons and a set of medal icons called Medals in 2012.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Humphrey
[Jigsoar icons]

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Boris Borisogljepski
[Bata Barata]

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Brandico

A free icon fontn made in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Breezi
[Joe Jimenez]

Joe Jimenez (aka Breezi) is the creator of the free font Breezi Icon Set (2012).

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

Brian QC

Argentinian creator of Social Icon (2013, free at Dafont). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brittany Deighton

Based in Kent, Ohio, Brittany Deighton founded Warehouse Design with Jesse Snyder. At Warehouse, one can buy some icon font sets from them, such as Miniglyph, Parks and Rec, and Snack Time. Together, they designed the slabby wood type typeface Ohio, and Medical Icons in 2013, while Brittany was studying in the Visual Communication Design program at Kent State University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cameron McEfee
[Octicons]

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Camille Lucas

Graphic designer in Saint-Tropez, France. In 2012, she created a set of typographic icons called Signe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carla Porciuncula

Buenos Aires-based designer of an identity and an icon set for Republica de los Niños (2012).

In 2013, she started working on Kaiser Type.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Santiago

Interactive designer in Chicago who created a beautiful Didot poster in 2012. He also created a custom icon set for a hotel in midtown Chicago in 2012.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carrois Type Design
[Ralph Oliver du Carrois]

Carrois Type Design (Berlin, Germany) started up officially ca. 2010, although Ralph du Carrois has been designing typefaces since ca. 2002. This dynamic company in Germany has three art directors, Jenny du Carrois, Anja Meiners and Botjo Nikoltchev. All three also design typefaces, as well as Adam Twardoch, Andreas Eigendorf and Ralph du Carrois himself. The company specializes in custom type.

Typefaces (a *very* incomplete list, with apologies, but I can't tell from the web site who made what...):

[Google] [More]  ⦿

Casiopea (PUCV)
[Gley Riquelme]

Casiopea is a design cooperative in the style of a Spanish language wiki, and is associated with EAD rquitectura y Diseño PUCV in Chile.

One sub-project is the Hospital signage project started in 2011 by Sofia Savoy and Gley Riquelme in Santiago. This led to a free sans typeface Hospital, and an accompanying Hospital Icons font. Both are graphic design graduates from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, or PUCV.

Behance link for Gley Carolina Roquelme. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Coyier
[Flat icons and icon fonts]

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Chrystian Zaldana

During his studies in Antiguo Cuscatian, El Salvador, Chrystian Zaldana created the display typeface Added (2013). He also designed a set of mock icons for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudio Gomboli

Originally from Turin, Italy, Claudio Gomboli now lives in Osaka. He is the creator of a commercial icon font called World Outside in 2012.

Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Conor Muirhead
[Icon Stacks]

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CSS Tricks: Icon fonts

A style sheet example for creating useful colored variabl-size icons for web sites. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Bruce

Stockholm-based creator of the free icon font Entypo (2012).

Another URL for Entypo. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danielle Huthart
[Pixelyn]

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Danielle Quast Tostes

Designer in Sao Paulo, Brazil. During her studies at SENAC, she created the warm serif typeface Humbond Regular (2012) and the Victorian display face Deffugia (2012). in addition, she created Adventure Game Icons (2011) and Alien Pictogram Set (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dave Gandy
[FontAwesome]

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David Alexander Slaager

Belgian (b. 1978) who lives in Brussels, aka Dasmuse. Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the robotic dingbat fonts PolyFace, robo, robo2, LostRobo and BlocFace. Alpha 63 (2008) is a fat, futuristic face. In 2009, he added Monsterz and trubik77 (ultra fat techno face).

Creations from 2010: Ikoo (icon font), SayTwo (a gorgeous horizontally striped 3D face; free here), GenzzTop, GenzzBottom, PixyRobo (alphadings), Unik (2009), Unik2 (2011).

In 2012, he made Shaman Regular, Changaa.

Dafont link. Behance link. David Is Creative site, also run by him. Another URL. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dina Makarita

Creator of Helvetica Nation (2012), a number of icons composed of Helvetica Medium glyphs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dirk Uhlenbrock
[TypeType]

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Dmitry Baranovsky
[Raphaël]

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Drew Wilson

Carlsbad, CA-based creator of the Pictos1 and Pictos2 series of commercial dingbats. He drives home the point that for icons and logos, one can now use CSS and @font-face to use scalable fonts instead of static images. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ed Merritt
[tenbytwenty]

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Ethan Paul Dunham
[FontHead Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Facebook Symbols

This web site provides a copy paste interface for Facebook users and web page creators who want to use special icons. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Factor Design
[Olaf Stein]

In 1993, Olaf Stein and Johannes Erler founded their studio Factor Design in Hamburg. Today, Factor Design is a team of designers and project managers working with clients in Germany and throughout the world. Designers in 1993 of the FontFont fonts FFDingbats-ArrowsOne, FFDingbats-ArrowsTwo, FFDingbats-BasicForms, FFDingbats-Number, FFDingbats-SignsOne, FFDingbats-SignsTwo, FFDingbats-SymbolsOne. Its 2009 extension FF Dingbats 2.0 is due to Johannes Erler and Helmut Skibbe. FontShop link for Stein. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Flat icons and icon fonts
[Chris Coyier]

A great list of links to icon fonts, compiled by Chris Coyier. Some of these include picture icons (not fonts) in various formats, such as Ecqlipse 2, Glyph Icons, Mini Icons Vol 1 (by Facundo Gonzalez), Vector icons, Icon Sweets 2, Social Media Icons by Gedy Rivera, Glyphish (by Joseph Wain), Glyphicons (by Jan Kovarik), Symbolicons (plus special sets called Weather and Veggie), iPhone UI Icon Set (by Eddit), Glyph and Simplicity (by Icon Eden). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Floris Voorveld

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]  ⦿

FontAwesome
[Dave Gandy]

March 6, 2012--a sad day for hackers. On this day, LulzSec, one of the noblest hacking groups in the world, got tricked by the FBI. But there is good news on the web font side. Dave Gandy's FontAwesome (a free icon font) and associated code are beautiful examples of how it must be done. The 150 icons, originally designed for use in Twitter, are placed in special positions in the font, while the accompanying css file then defines the symbols neatly. In fact, the css file now does the mapping. This is a great effort worth keeping an eye on. GitHub link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontello

Iconic font scissors. This free tool can be used to combine icons into a single font. The authors are Roman Shmelev, Vitaly Puzrin and Aleksey Zapparov.

GitHub link.

Fonts from which compositions can be made:

  • Entypo by Daniel Bruce.
  • Font Awesome by Dave Gandy
  • Typicons by Stephen Hutchings
  • Modern Pictograms by John Caserta
  • Meteocons by Alessio Atzeni
  • Maki by Mapbox
  • Zocial by Sam Collins
  • Brandico by Crowdsourced
  • Web Symbols by Just Be Nice studio
[Google] [More]  ⦿

FontFont

Berlin-based FontShop International, started by Erik Spiekermann, Joan Spiekermann, and Neville Brody in 1989/1990, offers its own line of digital fonts under the FontFont label. The FontFont library contains around 2,000 original fonts. Its designers include Just van Rossum, Erik van Blokland, David Berlow, Max Kisman, Tobias Frere-Jones, Fred Smeijers, Martin Majoor, and many others. FontShop has offices in San Francisco as well.

Designers.

They are focusing on web fonts today. Their initial web font package included DingbestWeb, DroidsWeb, InfoWeb-Bold, InfoWeb-Italic, InfoWeb-Normal, KosmikWeb, MarketWeb, PixelsDream (by Zuzanna Licko), SheriffWeb-Bold, SheriffWeb-Italian, SheriffWeb-Roman, TrademarkerWeb, TypestarWeb-Black, TypestarWeb-Normal.

The free fonts page has InterOffice (two dingbat fonts made in 2001 by Andreas Jung, Markus Hanzer, David Berlow, Fedor Hüneke, Erik van Blokland, Robert Snider, chester, Hans Reichel, Nicole Kapitza, Christoph Kalscheuer, Joachim Müller-Lancé, Paul Neville, Barbara Klunder, György Szönyei, Matthias Thiesen, Norbert Reiners, Joancarles Casasín, Gert Wiescher, Fabrizio Schiavi, Mindaugas Strockis, Theo Nonnen, Alan Greene, Donald Beekman, Martin Wunderlich, Critzler, Stefan Kisters, Dung van Meerbeeck, Ole Søndergaard, Nick Shinn, and Mårten Thavenius), FF Dingbest (by Johannes Erler and Olaf Stein), FF Xcreen, and many Euro symbols to go with their standard fonts.

PDFs of many fonts.

Catalog of FontFont's typefaces [large web page warning]. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

FontHead Design
[Ethan Paul Dunham]

FontHead Design (Wilmington, DE) sells cool fonts designed by Ethan Dunham (b. 1972, Glens Falls, NY). A partial list: Mother Goose (2008), Allise, GoodDogCool, Fontheads (dingbats), Randisious, Greyhound (1997, an arts and crafts face), Rochester, Samurai, AsimovSans, Gurnsey20, Scrawl, BadDog, Holstein, SlackScript, Bessie, SloppyJoe (gone?), Blearex, HandSkriptOne, SmithPremier, BlueMoon, HolyCow, SororityHack, Bonkers, HotCoffeeFont, SpillMilk, BraveWorld, Isepik, Sputnik, Brolga, TekStencil, Carnation, Mekanek (1995), Teknobe (1995), Merlin, Toucan Grunge (gone?), Tycho, TypewriterOldstyle, MotherGoose, Croissant, Democratika (now Americratika--I think Emigre forced FontHead to change the name), Noel (1996-1997, Lombardic all caps face, with an open version added), LillaFunk (gone?), Margo Gothic (gone?), Toddler (gone?), NoelBlack, WashMe, Diesel, Orion, Gritzpop, Pesto, BattleStation, CircusDog, Dandelion, DraftHand, Flowerpot, Navel, ShoeString, Stiltskin, ZipSonik. Plus JohnDoe, and old typewriter font. Free fonts: Font Heads (dings), Smith Premier, Vladimir, Tycho, Typewriter Oldstyle, ScareCrow, Millennia, SpillMilk, GoodDog, Holstein, Red Five. All formats, Mac and PC. In the comic font series, look for Stan Lee (now Comic Talk), FH Excelsior (now Titlex), Grimmy (now Flim Flam), and Kirby (now Grit).

Dafont link.

Fonts created in 1999: AppleSeed, Caterpillar, Chinchilla, ChinchillaBlack, ChinchillaDots, CrowBeak, CrowBeakLight, CyberMonkey, DanceParty, DingleHopper, FourScore, FourScoreTitling, Hopscotch, HopscotchPlain, Ladybug, Leaflet-Regular, LeafletBold, LeafletLight, ReadOut, ReadOutSuper, Smoothie, Swizzle, TwoByFour, VeryMerry. Made in 2001: ButterFinger, ButterFingerSerif, CatScratch, Catnip, FighterPilot, FrenchRoast, Handheld, HandheldItalic, HandheldRaised, HandheldRaisedItalic, HandheldRound, HandheldRoundItalic, Kingdom, OldGlory, Quadric, QuadricSlant. MyFonts page.

In 2006, several dingbats fonts were added, such as the ClickBits Arrow series and the ClickBits Icon series.

In 2008, he created InfoBits Things and InfoBits Symbols, Abigail, Assembler, Click Clack, Drawzing (children's font), El Franco (grunge), Good Dog New (handprinted), Helion (futuristic), Lead Paint (brush), Schema (architectural lettering), Skizzers (handprinted), Tachyon (2008, techno, futuristic). Free font download. This place has Allise, Americratika, AppleSeed, AsimovSans, Asterix-Blink-Italic, Asterix-Blink, Asterix-Italic, Asterix-Light-Italic, Asterix-Light, Asterix, BadDog, BattleStation, Beckett, Bessie, BlackBeard, Blearex, BlueMoon, Bonkers, BraveWorld, Brolga, BrownCow, Carnation, CatScratch, Caterpillar, Chinchilla, ChinchillaBlack, ChinchillaDots, CircusDog, CornDog (2004), Croissant, CrowBeak, CrowBeakLight, CyberMonkey, DanceParty, Dandelion, Dannette-Outline, Dannette, DayDream, Democratika, Diesel, DingleHopper, DoomsDay, DraftHand, Flowerpot, Font-Heads, FourScore, FourScoreTitling, FunkyWestern, Goliath, GoodDog-Bones, GoodDog-Cool, GoodKitty, Greyhound, Grimmy, Gritzpop, GritzpopGrunge, Gurnsey20, HandskriptOne, Holstein-Bold, Holstein, HolyCow, Hopscotch, HopscotchPlain, HotCoffeeFont, HotTamale, Isepik, JohnDoe, JollyJack, Keener, Klondike-Bold, Klondike, Ladybug, Leaflet-Regular, LeafletBold, LeafletLight, LillaFunk, LogJam-Inline, LogJam, MargoGothic, MarvelScript, MatrixDot-Condensed, MatrixDot, Mekanek, Merlin, Millennia, Mondo-Loose, MotherGoose, Navel, Network, Noel, NoelBlack, Oatmeal, Orion, Pesto, Randisious, ReadOut, ReadOutSuper, RedFive, Rochester, Samurai, Scarecrow, Scrawl, ShoeString, ShoeStringRound, SlackScript, SloppyJoe, SmithPremier, Smock, Smoothie, SororityHack, SpaceCowboy, SpillMilk, Sputnikk, StanLee-Bold, StanLee-BoldItalic, StanLee-Regular, Stiltskin, Submarine, Swizzle, TekStencil, Teknobe, Torcho, ToucanGrunge, TwoByFour, Tycho, Typewriter2, TypewriterOldstyle, VeryMerry, Vladimir, WashMe, Watertown-Alternate, Watertown-Black, Watertown-Bold, Watertown, ZipSonik-Italic, ZipSonik, ZipSonikSketch-Italic, ZipSonikSketch.

Font Squirrel carries ElliotSix (simple handwriting), GoodDog (children's hand) and Millennia (squarish). In fact, in 2009-2010, Ethan Dunham became a very active web font persona, offering a commercial web font service, Fontspring, and a free font service, Fontsquirrel.

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

Gabriel de Souza
[LeType]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gabriela Benavides

Designer in Monterrey, Mexico, who created Boulder (2013, a geometric sans with an alchemic alternate version), Healthy Icon Set (2013), Eterna (2011) and Stellar (2011, art deco). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gaslight (or: Valery Zaveryaev)
[Valery Zaveryaev]

Gaslight-type-foundry is collaboration between two type designers---Valery Zaveryaev and Roman Shchyukin---, founded in 2011. Valery Zaveryaev is a Russian designer (b. Bryansk, 1977) at LetterBe, who created the octagonal family Teco (2005), the display face Brut (2005), the clean sans family Maza (2005), the informal unicase family Rezerv (2009, inspired by a logo he created for Evroterm), Barrez (2010, a techno family inspired by the TC-Helicon logo), and the stencil face Marshrut (2005).

He lives in Bryansk. All his fonts are Latin/Cyrillic.

In 2011, Zaveryaev set up the commercial foundry Gaslight. Fonts there include the elliptical family Maza (2005), the angular elliptical family Barrez (2010), Brut (2005), and the stencil face Marshrut (2005). Electrolize (2011) is a free squarish face available from Google Web Fonts. Bad Script (2011, Google Web Fonts) is an informal handprinted face made by Roman Shchyukin.

Rock Logo (2012) is a metal band / tattoo font codesigned with Roman Shchyukin. Wide Display and Wide Display Ribbon are unicase headline typefaces. Teco Sans (2012) is an octagonal military typeface family, accompanied by the icon font TecoSymbol (2012) and the stencil family Teco Sans Stencil (2012). Teco Serif (2012) is an octagonal slab version of Teco Sans.

Still in 2012, Zaveryaev designed Actio, Roz (rounded sans family), Wary (pop art typeface), the fat display overlay families Quadratish Serif and Quadratish Solid.

Delgado (2012) is an elegant tall and thin fashion mag typeface for Latin and Cyrillic, made by Roman Shchyukin.

Typefaces from 2013: Gen (techno), Tesla (techno face, Roman Shchyukin).

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

Geomicons

Free and commercial EPS format icon sets. Sets include Geomicons Squared and Geomicons Wired. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gley Riquelme
[Casiopea (PUCV)]

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Greg D. Mathews

CleanIcons is a 5-dollar set of icons in both graphic and font formats. It was designed in 2012 by Greg D. Mathews, a software engineering student at San Jose Stae University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guido de Boer
[Vormplatform]

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Henning Hartmut Skibbe

German communications designer located in Potsdam (or Hamburg?), b. 1979. He studied graphic design at the University of Applied Science Potsdam and was a typeface design student of Luc(as) de Groot. Creator of Arctic (2006, headline font family: Arctic Black Basic is free), Haptic (2008, a sans logotype that won an award at TDC2 2009), Nautik (2004-2006, a free calligraphic take on Courier; image by Francisco Baudizzone) and Skibfont (2002-2003, free calligraphic OpenType font). Nice calligraphy as well.

Codesigner with Johannes Erler in 2009 of FF Dingbats 2.0, a redesign and update of FF Dingbats (1993).

MyFonts page. Linotype page. FontHaus page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Heydon Pickering

UK-based designer (b. 1982) who created the free icon dingbat font Heydings Icons (2011). See also Heydings Controls (2011) and Heydings Common Icons (2011).

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

IcoMoon

Free icon font made by "KeyaMoon". It has a free font generator that allows one to create a font from selected glyphs. The free version is limited---the full version of Icomoon costs 39 dollars. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Icon Dock

Commercial vector icon place owned by N.Design Studio. For example, Rocky includes 290 icons/symbols that can be used for web templates, user interfaces, package labels, stickers, mobile apps, and more. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Icon Fonts

Icon Fonts are a subcategory of the genus Dingbat Fonts in which all or most glyphs represent screen, web, or computer icons.

As an example, Simurai lists these:

[Google] [More]  ⦿

Icon Stacks
[Conor Muirhead]

Conor Muirhead shows how to combine icon glyphs to create complex icons using clever CSS programming. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Igor Kiselev

Russian creator in Moscow of the free icon face Web Symbols (2011, OFL).

Just Be Nice Studio in Moscow. Fontsquirrel link. Fontspace link. Russian link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jacob Gube
[Six Revisions]

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Jelio Dimitrov

Bulgarian designer of Socialico (2012), a free set of social icon fonts, published at Fontfabric. Home page. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jens Uwe Meyer
[Mutabor Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jesse Snyder
[Warehouse Design]

[More]  ⦿

Jigsoar icons
[Benjamin Humphrey]

Benjamin Humphrey's free icon set is called Jigsoar Icons. Benjamin is a designer for AVOS, and lives in Dunedin, NZ.

Home page. Link to Jigsoar. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joe Jimenez
[Breezi]

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Johannes Erler

Johannes Erler was born in 1965 in Hamburg. While studying graphic design in Kiel, he worked with Lo Breier in Hamburg and on joint projects with Neville Brody. In 1992 he graduated in communication design from the Muthesius Academy, School of Applied Arts in Kiel. His thesis was about a typeface with information and warning symbols for packaging. FontShop liked the concept and published it as FF Care Pack in 1992. He created the octagonal family FF Pullman in 1997.

FontShop's Jürgen Siebert soon suggested that a modern alternative to Zapf Dingbats would be needed. Though Hermann Zapf's symbol font was pre-installed on nearly every computer, it was too incomplete, inconsistent, and out of date, according to Siebert. The result was FF Dingbats, co-designed with Olaf Stein and launched in 1993, just as Johannes Erler and Olaf Stein launched Factor Design. The fonts have become a fixture in communication design worldwide. In 2007, the extensive update FF Dingbats 2.0 by Johannes Erler and Helmut Skibbe was published. FFDingbests (with Olaf Stein) is a free sampler of FF Dingbats. Erler Dingbats (2011) is free.

Fontshop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Johannes Hoffmann
[Johannes Hoffmann]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Johannes Hoffmann
[Johannes Hoffmann]

Düsseldorf, Germany-based creator of Vivala Media Icons (2013). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Caserta
[The Design Office]

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Jon Hicks
[24 Ways]

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Jorge Rico

Toledo, Spain-based graphic designer. He used the positions of the stars to create connect-the-points letters in his Constellation typeface (2012). He also made a nice icon set called War Signs (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josep Pep Patau i Bellart
[Tipo Pepel (was: Antaviana Typeface Division, or: Astramat)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Juergen Krausz

Austrian Juergen Krausz recognizes typefaces like no one else. Ask him. He also designed UniCons (2000, OFL), which consists of common user interface icons. Home page at Grafik Krausz. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juraj Chrastina

Freelance designer from Slovakia, b. 1981, Zilina. He set up shop at MyFonts in 2009. His first typeface was Stanislawski (2009, display sans), and his second Bonatti (2009, simplified sans). Motyka (2009) is an octagonal family.

Cassin (2010) ad Primitive Icons (2011) are dingbat fonts. Birkenmajer (2010) combines blackletter and curly. Ruman (2010) is a piano key fonts not unlike many of the modular fonts made over at FontStruct. Komarnicki (2010) is geometric---it is largely based on arcs of a circle. Batura (2010) is a font of ornaments. Flexi Social Icons (2010) is a set of 64 social network and media buttons. Messner (2010) is a hairline sans. Kammerlander (2010) is a high-contrast all caps Peignotian face that Juraj claims is well suited for fashion mags. The hairline typeface Messner (2010) is a perfect companion of Kammerlander. Runout (2010) is a black marker face. Walker (2010) is a floral dingbat face. Trango (2010) is an unevenly spaced fun childish handprinted face. Chogolisa (2010) is an elliptical sans family.

Manaslu (2011) is his first cartoon font. Baltoro Sans (2011) is a humanistic sans. Masherbrum Slab Thin (2011, hairline slab) is made for fashion mags. Latok (2011) is a fat keyhole-themed art deco display face. The flower dingbat face Makalu (2011) was inspired by the lovely drawings of the famous illustrator Zdenìk Miler. Besley Hand (2011) is a handprinted didone. Ambassador (2011) is a hairline roman capitals face, ideal for glossy fashion mags. Its high-contrast Peignotian companion is Snob (2011). Greenhorn (2011) is a comic book face. Gamba (2011) is an elliptical typeface. Valibuk (2011) is a strong black sans headline face. Lomidrevo (2011) is a grunge stencil derived from Valibuk.

Baronessa (2011) and Baron are handprinted poster faces. Rumbarak (2012) was inspired by the titles of a few old Czech movies for children. Boudoir (2012) is a hand-printed poster face.

Typefaces from 2013: Lustig (an interlocking poster font), Hilton Sans and Hilton Serif (fashion mag headline faces kerned and spaced by Igino Marini), Handy Labels, Loco (a counterless geometric art deco face).

Pic. Myfonts link. Klingspor link. Fontspring link.

Showcase of Juraj Chrastina's typefaces at MyFonts. Behance link.

View Juraj Chrastina's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

K. Kris Yoo

Kris Yoo was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. She is an interaction designer in Newport Beach, CA.

She created a pictogram font (2012) and as a Peignotian sans called Kris Sans (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

K Projects
[Simone Giorgio]

Simone Giorgio (K-Projects, Varese, Italy; b.1985) is a Fontstructor who created the Western typefaces W Bill (2010) and K Bill (2009), which were inspired by an old Italian comic called Cocco Bill.

Simone wiorks as graphic and type designer

He also designed the octagonal Antique Angles (2009), the counterless Simple Pop (2010), Xetra (2009), Alfabeto (2010) and the 3d shadow face Shadow45 (2010).

In 2012, he created the Italian wood style typeface East Wood, and a beautiful rounded suarish mionospaced typeface called Monocolo. This typeface family comes with an icon and emoticon set.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaiser Zhar Khan
[True Type Fonts]

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Karine Pujol

Parisian designer of the icon font Netvibes (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

K.B. Sriram

Creator of the free icon font Android Icons (2012): AndroidIcons is an icon font that was derived by vectorizing the Core Android 4.0 Icon, which is available from Android. [Google] [More]  ⦿

KDN Media

Creators of the commercial font Social Network Icons (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenneth Dahlstrøm Nordahl

Norwegian computer specialist at Høgskolen i Østfold. He created the icon font WriteSocial (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenny Williams
[Uicons]

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Kwanchai Akkaratammagul

Designer who published the Latin / Thai slab serif face Midnight (2011) and the web icon face Web Pi (2012) at the Thai foundry Katatrad. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kyle Steed

Dallas, TX-based designer of the free display face Clumsy (2010) and of the vector format font called Steed Font (2009) and of the handprinted Funktion (2011).

Designmoo link. Alternate URL.

In 2012, Kyle started selling his Steedicons font and vector format icons. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lance Wyman

Creator of the identity, logos, fonts, and design elements for the Mexico 1968 Olympics in the op-art or prismatic style. The multilined font, called Mexico Olympic, is due to Photoscript Ltd (I think). A digital font inspired by it is Olio Inline (2012, Max Little). Wyman, who is a branding specialist based in New York City, is known for his many excellent icons and logos for companies and events. Born in Newark, NJ, he is a graduate of Pratt in Brooklyn with a degree in Industrial Design. He made the Tipo Metro font in 1969 for Mexico City's subway, an adaptation of Eurostile. That font was revived later as Metro DF by Harold Lohner. A pixel version of this (by Kemie, is called Balderas).

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LeType
[Gabriel de Souza]

Typefoundry in Bahia, Brazil, run by Gabriel de Souza. Creators of the 72-font sans typeface families Clio, Clio Condensed, Clio Icons, and Clio XS in 2012.

Typefaces made in 2013: Only You Icons (frames, kitchen dings, romantic dingbats), Only You Pro (a curly hand-printed set of typefaces).

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

Lukas Bischoff
[Artill Typs]

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Martian Wabbit Productions
[Sergio Diaz]

Sergio Diax (Martian Wabbit Proctions) is a Honduran web developer. He studies at UNITEC. Creator of the free JustVector Social Icons Font set (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Grey

Graphic designer and illustrator (b. Southampton, UK, 1993) who studied graphic design at University College Falmouth.

He created the dingbat face Social Networking Icons (2011) and the counterless geometric face Grobsidian (2011).

Other typefaces: Debunk (2012, a grunge family), Kranx (2012), Bloq (2012), Beehive (2012), Echo Gothic (like Avant Garde), Hanson, Interlocked, Pixter (dot matrix face), Scrawlster (handprinted), Tubular Type, Unnamed.

He set up the Matt Grey typefoundry in 2011 in Southampton.

Dafont link. Fontspace link. Behance link.

Catalog of his typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Media Loot

Design studio in Philadelphia, PA. Among other things, they are selling some fonts via Creative Market: Sketch-It, Monsters, Listicons, Jamie's Hand, On Air (radio font, +Inline), Asche. The fonts are made ca. 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Ummels

Michael Ummels at RWTH in Aachen, Germany, created the TeX font package ccicons, which offers authors who want to publish their documents under a Creative Commons license an easy way to include the relevant icons in their documents. It includes a free type 1 font, CCIcons (2009). CTAN link to CCIcons.

In 2011, he created the mathematical font FD Symbol in Metafont and Type 1, to accompany Fedra in mathematical texts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michel Lun
[Peax Web Design]

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Mutabor Design
[Jens Uwe Meyer]

Mutabor Design in Hamburg, Germany is where Jens Uwe Meyer (b. 1973) and Heinrich Paravicini publish their work. They are the winners of an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002, with Globetrotter, a fine handprinted font. At fonkingz, he made BOT (2002, +Stencil) and the tecno face Zero G (2002).

At Die Gestalten, Mutabor published Lingua Digitalis Icon Set (2012).

Jens Uwe Meyer has studied in visual communication at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld and now works for MUTABOR Design as a graphic designer and illustrator. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

MyFonts: Icons

MyFonts listing of all fonts tagged with the word "icons". [Google] [More]  ⦿

MyFonts: Web graphics

MyFonts listing of fonts that are appropriate for web graphics. This includes both icons or dingbats, and alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Octicons
[Cameron McEfee]

Octicons is a font made for font-based icons on web pages. It was developed by new media designer Cameron McEfee (San Francisco) in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olaf Stein
[Factor Design]

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Omar Shammah

Born in Damascus, Syria, in 1992, the über-talented Omar Shammah studies Visual Communications (Graphic Design) in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus. In 2012, at the height of he Syrian conflict, Omar created a disturbing yet hauntingly beautiful set of drawings in his Inked Sketchbook. From that, he derived his illustrated caps typeface, Blowjob. Omar also developed a set of signage icons for the Faculty of Arts in Damascus, still in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pascal / Iconoci

Freelance designer in London, who created the display sans caps typeface Cephalonia (2013) and the icon set Iconoci (2013). His studio is Design By Pascal. Iconoci can be bought at Iconoci.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peax Web Design
[Michel Lun]

French creator of these hand-printed typefaces in 2013: PW Brush Me, PW Arrow Font, PW Signature Two, PW Patchworks, PW Bold Script, PW Small Icons, PW Fatscratch, PW 403, PW Scritch, PW Gothic Style, PW Quick Write, PW Chalk (scratchy face), PW Cinderblox (collage font), PW Little Hearts, PW Scriptease, PW Cool Font, PW Peax Valentine Love, PW Tornado, Peax Drawnicons, PW Verticalized, Peax Webdesign Free Icons, PW Bubbles, PW Broderie, PW Schools Out, PW Scolarpaper, PW Back to School (lined school font), PW Groovy, PW Marker, PW Patchy Work, PW Scratched (sketched face), PW Fly Me To The Moon, PW Dolmen, PW Survival, PW Handscript, PW Script, PW Ornaments, PW Freshpaintings.

Typefaces designed in 2012: PW Savane, PW Brush Script, PW Whoops, PW Happy New Year (party font), PW Children, PW Simple Script, PW Double Script, PW She's Amazing, PW Happy Christmas, PW Graffiti, PW Comics, PW Christmas Gifts, PW Circle, PW Worlds End 2112, Peax Webdesign Circles, PW Signature, PW Christmas, Five Years Old, PW Signatures, PW Yummy Donuts, PW Chains, PW Lettres Barres, PW Slimy, PW Windy, PW Zigzag, PW Ficelles, PW Trombone (paperclip style), Sketch Icons, Handylined, PW Fluidhand, PW Serif Scratch (sketched face), Simple Rounded (puffy cloud face), Stripped Rounded, Peax Handwriting, Animaletters (alphadings), Peax Webdesign Arrows, UI Mockup, Friday Free Dots, Sunday Script, Gel Stripped, Cheveux d'ange, Mywriting (fat finger font), Xperience Pasta, Decomposition Phase 1.

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

Peter Bilak
[Typotheque]

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Picons

Commercial pictogram vendor. All pictograms are designed by Morphix Design Studio, which is based in Slovenia. Formats include AI, EPS, PDF, PNG, PSD. The icon sets are Picons Basic (1, 2, and 3), Picons Weather, Picons Ultimate+, and Picons Social (free). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pictonic

Commercial icon font foundry. These icons scale, thanks to CSS, and take less space than images. The icons come in png and svg format. After registering, one can select a set of icons from the free list (230 strong) or the commercial list (over 2000 strong), and download them conveniently. One then gets a zip file that contains individual png and svg files, as well as assembled truetype, woff, css and eot files, and ample usage instructions.

The site is brought by Creative Sloth, which is a team of three, Alan Clarke, Erman Kutlu and Joyce Wang, based in London. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pixelyn
[Danielle Huthart]

Pixelyn stands for "Pixels in Brooklyn". Until its web site disappeared, it offered free (Mac) truetype pixel fonts for small sizes on screen, designed by Danielle Huthart in 2001. The fonts: Standard, Lilany, Bless, Pixelyn, Pixelyn Outline, Opshift, Demtrek, Fuseseven, Transfer Regular, Transfer Scripty, Gala, Icon Bit One, Icon Bit Two. It was located in Hong Kong.

The original obsolete URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

P.J. Onori

Aka Some Random Dude. design technologist living in San Francisco and working at Seabright. Designer of the pixel face SomeRandomFont (2007). He creates typographic icons and tools that are useful for web pages.

  • Iconic (2011; see Iconic Stroke in 2012) is a great (and free) set of 177 icons in raster, vector and font formats. GitHub link.
  • Cue is a fantastic public domain gestural icon system which focuses on legibility and symbolic representation.
  • Bitcons is a pixel icon set consisting of 120 marks, available in various colors/sizes and 100% free to use. Sanscons is a CSS-friendly version of Bitcons---allowing you to set custom backgrounds on your icons.

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

P.T. Ocheia

Creator of the dingbat font SocialIcons (2010, OFL). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ralph Oliver du Carrois
[Carrois Type Design]

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Raphaël
[Dmitry Baranovsky]

Dmitry Baranovsky created a free javascript vector library called Raphaël for doing simple graphics in web pages. As an example, he created a set of 224 icons. There also is a free font called Raphael Icon Set (2012) created by Marek Ventur based on Baranovsky's designs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rebecca

Creator of the free fonts Dynamic (2012, a connected fifties script), Rails, I Scrap (2012, handprinted), Dogwood (2012), Symbols1 (2012), Social Networking Symbols (2012, three styles), ESPN (2012, 3d, outlined), Tattoo Parlor (2012), Life's too short (2012), animaltracksPQSEWVRZ (2012), Spring Flowers (2012), Pear Trees (2012, flowing script), Blue Skies (2012, cursive hand), Simply Adorable (2012), Steppingstones (2012, 3d, outlined), Blob Regular (2012), Which Way (2012), Candied (2012), Here and there (2012), Thin Hand (2012), Rebecca Hand (2012), Blockhedd (2012, a 3d face), Symbols Font (2012, a hacker font), StraightLines (cut out, dada style), New Age, Nintey Degrees (sic), Disco, Untitled, Gothic Regular and Futuristica (dada style) in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Karpati

Budapest-based graphic and packaging designer, b. 1980. Creator of a soft-edged futuristic stencil font called Fullogic (2009). He also made Try (2009, octagonal), the multi-lined face Flaster (2009), the playful Supermicebros (2009) and the funky Prostata TTF (2009).

In 2012, he designed the condensed typeface Quacke, and Hotel Pictograms.

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

Roulianne

In 2008, this designer used FontStruct to create the vertical-line stencil face simple-deux, and the experimental faces pix-90 and des-struc.

In 2012, Roulianne created Web Symbol and Web Symbol 02. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Salle de bain pas chère

Check the beautiful bathroom pictograms used in this French web site that sells bathroom accessories. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sam Collins
[Zocial]

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Sarah Stroup

Web designer and developer in Terre Haute, IN. She created Default Icons in 2012, a font that has many useful arrows and other web symbols. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergey Epifanov
[Banzai Tokyo]

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Sergio Diaz
[Martian Wabbit Productions]

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Shiree Williamson

Tel Aviv-based designer of a set of Arabic / Hebrew icons and a Hebrew typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Simone Giorgio
[K Projects]

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Six Revisions
[Jacob Gube]

Jacob Gube lists ten free font managers. Other subpages by him:

Elsewhere he lists eighteen free icon fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sophie Delrot

French creator of a set of icons and pictograms called JSel (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephen Hoefer

Graphic designer in Rochester, NY. Creator of a set of animal icons and of Hoefer Blackletter in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephen Hutchings
[Typicons]

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Studio Tsafi

Dafont link.

Creator of the media symbol / icon font sTmedia (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Symbolset

Creator of commercial icon fonts. These include SS Social Icons (2012) and SS Standard (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ted Slesinski

Philadelphia-based creator (b. 1985) of the free icon fonts Social Font Face (2013) and Just Vector (2013).

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

tenbytwenty
[Ed Merritt]

Foundry set up in 2007 by Ed Merritt (Bournemouth, UK). Its faces, all created with FontCreator, include Jura (2008, a clean serif face), Nevis (2008, strong angular sans), Akashi (2008, stylized sans), and Munro (2008, dot matrix family). All are free for now.

Hartland (2008, rounded sans), Eiger (2010, fat geometric), Tödi (2010, fat counterless) and Alborz (2010, organic) are commercial.

Of particular use is the free 120-glyph icon font Sosa (2012).

Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Design Office
[John Caserta]

A place for independent designers in downtown Providence, RI. One of the designers in this group is John Caserta, the founder of The Design Office, who conceived its magnificent web page. John created Modern Pictograms (2011, a free icon font).

Fontsquirrel link.

John's CV: John Caserta is a Providence-based designer, artist and educator. He received an MFA from Yale University in 2004 and a BA in Journalism from The University of North Carolina in 1995. Upon completion of his graduate thesis, Take Your Time, he was awarded the J. William Fulbright Fellowship in Art to create a time capsule for a small village in southern Italy. Upon return to the United States in January of 2006, he was appointed critic in the department of graphic design at The Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to course instruction, he is a graduate thesis adviser and leads various workshops. In November of 2007, he founded The Design Office. He continues to run a solo information design practice, taking commissions primarily from media companies and universities. He lives in Pawtucket, R.I. with his wife Sarah, daughter Lucia and dog Ray.

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

The Noun Project

A collaboration between many people for creating free open source icons. The collection is quite useful and is growing nicely. These icons are available in vector formats, but not as truetype or opentype fonts. The blog is also a lot of fun.

Examples of icons by Stuart McCoy and Jakub Ukrop. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Boucherie

Based in Montpellier, France, Thomas Boucherie designed the dingbat faces Ghost Smileys (2009), Punk Smileys (2009), thomasboucherie (2007), thomasboucherie3 (2008), Pictoserie 5 (2009, Pingbats), pictoserie 6 (2011, dingbats), Poulpi (2011, octopi), Piou (2011, ducklings), Pucca (2004, Japanese dolls), Thomas1 (2007) and Thomas (2007).

In 2012, he created Toy Cloud, Pictoserie 7, Kawai Medical (medical dingbats), Square Face, the rhombic face Iddi Head, and the dingbat faces Animal Kai, Kawaii Eyes, Kokeshi Kawaii, Mustache, Polynesian Etua (dingbats), Kawaii Food II, Pirats (sic) (pirate dingbats), LaLinea Sea (sea dingbats), Toy Kars, Galaxia, and Bow.

Typefaces from 2013: Toy Stum, Dead Head, Nox One, Mix One.

Catalog.

He also has icon sets.

In 2013, Thomas set up a second identity, that of the swiss woman Maelle Keita.

Dafont link. Another Dafont link. And another link. Abstract Fonts link. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipo Pepel (was: Antaviana Typeface Division, or: Astramat)
[Josep Pep Patau i Bellart]

Antaviana Typeface Division is a Catalan foundry, est. ca. 2002. It went also under the name Astramat and was also known as ANTAVIANA SERVEIS INTERACTIUS, SCCL. Located in Lleida, it is run by Josep Patau i Bellart (b. 1971, Les Borges Blanques, Lleida). Patau i Bellart offered free fonts, as well as commercial fonts. In 2011, he started Tipo Pepel [MyFonts link] in Les Borges Blanques. Josep Patau's typefaces:

  • Free typefaces: Lletraferida (2011, a didone), Negrona (2011, a revival of Lucian Bernhard's Bernhard Negro, 1930), Perolet, Lango, Gimenells, Arbeka, Rosango, Antaviana, FoxScript (old typewriter), Unregistered, and FistroRatted (grunge).
  • At Astramat, one could download these fonts: Anmari (2002), Antaviana (1996), Arbeka (2002), FAXADA (2001, by Cel Tico Petit), FoxScriptNormal (1996, old typewriter), Gastada (2001, another grunge font by Cel Tico Petit), Gimenells (2001, pixel font), Gorchs (2007, script font), Klander (1999, pixel font), Lang (2001, pixel font family), Masterfly (2007, T-26), Omellons (2001, pixel font family), Perolet (2001, Bauhaus style), Pixelade (2001, pixel font), Rosango (1996), Tiquet (2001, grunge font by Cel Tico Petit), Ultrafat (2007, T-26), Fistro Ratted. Fontspace link for Astramat.
  • T-26 fonts: the screen face PixScript (2004), the screen icon dingbat font Pixelade Icons (2003), the art nouveau headline font Gisele (2003, angular art deco titling face), Masterfly (2007), Gopal (2004), Gourmet (2004, based on a type from the 1923 ATF catalog), Confetti (2006, connected fifties style face based on a 1930 type called Escritura Maravilla and Escritura Energica by the José Iranzo foundry in Barcelona), the pixel family Bit Kit (2003), Houdini Icons (20 pixel web icon dingbat faces, 2004).
  • At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he explained the typographic work of the goldsmith Manuel Peleguer: The aim of this paper is to give an account of the project Peleguer, the recovering and digitialization of the work of the goldsmiths Manuel Peleguer, both father and son, who cut some printing characters between 1780 and 1784 in response to an order of the "Real Sociedad Económica Valenciana de Amigos del Pais". The result was a modern transitional typeface, with good legibility and neoclasical forms, equal in quality to those made by the Real Press (Imprenta Real) in Madrid by Pradell, Espinosa or Gerónimo Gil. Peleguer founded a press and a font foundry in 1784. Patau Bellart created a type family based on Peleguer's work called Peleguer (2009, + Ornaments). More samples: i, ii, iii.
  • Anduaga, a calligraphic face from the 18th century, won the Laus Prize (said to be the Spanish equivalent of the type Oscars). Anduaga is the interpretation of the script that Joseph of Anduaga proposed for teaching the first letters in the 1780 book Arte de escribir por reglas y sin Muestras ...
  • Valliciergo (2011) is a 100+-glyph calligraphic / copperplate script font that is inspired by samples from Caligrafía inglesa published in Madrid in the late nineteenth century by Spanish calligrapher Vicente Fernández Valliciergo.
  • Dafont page, where one can download Ventura Edding (2008, handprinted).
  • Kids Script (2011). An upright connected school script.
  • Trajana Sans (2011) is a sans-serif typeface family based on the shapes and proportions of the characters on the Trajan Column in Rome.
  • Farrerons Serif (2011) is a very readable family with angular and humanistic underpinnings.
  • Chupada (2012) is an ultra-condensed font family noted for their exaggerated x-height, which consists of five different weights.
  • Chopped Black (2012) was inspired by the font Pabst Heavy, designed by Chauncey Hawley Griffith in 1928 for Linotype. It was Linotype's version of ATF's popular Cooper Black.
  • Paralex (2012) is a 12-style geometric slab typeface family.
  • Boxed (2013) is an 18-weight squarish sans family.

Additional links: Dafont. MyFonts page. Alternate URL. Fontspace link. Fontfreak page. Patau Bellart is also involved in the type information site Unos Tipos Duros. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link.

Interview by Unostiposduros. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tipogram
[Tom Creighton]

Tom Creighton (Tipogram, Toronto, Ontario) made and sells an icon font with 99 glyphs. It was designed ca. 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tom Creighton
[Tipogram]

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Tomas Erlich

This Czech blog has an icon font archive: Atmandings, Bagarozz, Cartographer, DISTYolksEmoticons, DotCom, Emoticons, Entypo, Evilz, Heydings-Icons, IconBitOne, Kfon, MexicanOrnaments, ModernPictograms, NaiveOrnamentsFree, NoticeStd, Nymphette, Paskowy, SLZodiacIcons, SirucaPictograms, SoftOrnaments, SymbolSigns-Basisset, WCRhesusABta, WebSymbols-Regular, Webmasters, Zodiac01. [Google] [More]  ⦿

True Type Fonts
[Kaiser Zhar Khan]

Font archive run by Kaiser Zhar Khan (b. 1980) out of Chile. Kaiser also made a free African look face, downloadable from Dafont: sOuTh Afirkas 2100 (2009).

In 2012, he made Stickerman Bad Times, Rock X Start TFB, Aespiro TFB, Perspectivo TFB (3d face), Desgarvuda (textured face), Estancofida TFB (textured face), LEDisplay TFB, Restroom Signs TFB, Chinese Cally TFB, Discontinuo, Suast Ornad TFB (a textured face), Scoolar TFB (3d face), Katakana TFB, Hiragana TFB, Dragons TFB, Arrows TFB, Old Retro Keys TFB, Pycuaf, Pycuafodi, Dragon Ball TFB, Escaned (texture face), Chess TFB, Seagram TFB, Army Weapons TFB, Stamp Seal TFB, Logos TFB, Scripto TFB, Another Ornaments TFB, Vintage Auto Cars TFB, Simple (a monoline sans), Travesia TFB (information design dings), Music TFB (dingbats), Xmas Cartoon, Wings of Wind TFB, Mickey M TFB, Pincel Handwrite, Jigsaw Pieces TFB, Valentines Day TFB (heart dingbats), Proportional TFB (squarish sans), Stars TFB, Working Signs TFB, Signs Language TFB, Ornaments Labels and Frames, Snowflakes TFB, Christmas Nativity TFB, Chinese Zodiac TFB, Zodiac TFB, Only Skulls, Calendar Note TFB, Sports TFB (sports silhouettes), Old Retro Labels TFB, 11 Vator TFB, Xmas TFB (Christmas dings), Trees TFB, Clothing Logos TFB, Dirty Sweb, Can Dog TFB, Ornaments, Finger Print, Kitty Kats TFB, Batman Logo Evolution TFB, Light TFB (avant garde sans), Digital Display TFB (LED face), Skullx (dingbats), Tribal Tattoo (dingbats), Klingon, The Meme Font (dingbats), Rongorongo (a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island), Strangferfixcs, Hotel Transilvania and Frankenwine.

Typefaces made in 2013: Pudahuel Sans, Variada TFB (simple circle-and-arc-based sans), Estorea TFB, New LED Board TFB, Rayada TFB (textured face), New Barcode Font TFB, Estrellas TFB (stars), Estrellass (sic) TFB, Spirits Dots Drinks, Mero Ornad TFB (fishnet textured), Toolz TFB, New Stencil TFB, Logocarsbats TFB, Caritons TFB (smilies), Illustrations TFB (scanbats), Edgebat TFB (knives), Crossbats TFB (crosses), Abstrec TFB (organic sans), Frames TFB, BitxMap Font TFB, Austera Simple TFB, Traffic Signs TFB, Extranger Sol TFB, Rifle Bats TFB, New X Digital TFB (LED typeface family), Dasgastada TFB, El Alambre TFB, Punk Not Dead TFB, Triangled TFB, Noxtrey Auf TFB, Cross LED TFB (+Bold), Cursi Extra TFB, Hearts Shapes TFB, Ornamentsss TFB, Eggfaces TFB, Orniste TFB, Shadded TFB (sic) (shadow face), Spoghetti Western (sic) (Italian Far West face), Groovy Font (shaded), Fireguns TFB (dingbats), Only Revolver TFB (dingbats), Aeg Flyon Now (condensed sans), Espinuda TFB, T1 Logoso TFB, Social Logos TFB, Hearts and Flowers for valentines, Astrology Astrological TFB, Ornametss TFB, Astrology TFB, Old Ornaments, Old Foundry Prints TFB, Old seals TFB, English Two Line TFB (pearly alphabet from 1796), Amame TFB (dot matrix face), Fontesda TFB (sketched face), Flowers Dots Bats TFB, Queen Destroy TFB, Bicycle TFB (dingbats), Stone Army, Ancient Weapons TFB, Numismatic Bats TFB, Elizabethan Initials TFB, Anome Ibul, Big Daddy LED, Mavole Sinpo TFB (spurred), Dowted Remix TFB (dot matrix face), QR Font TFB, Another Barcode, Display Free TFB (LED face), Cadabra Debilex, Initials TFB, Music Logos TFB, Toxic Waste TFB, Ornad Dentro TFB, Logos and Logos TFB, Amore Mio, Hearts Shapes TFB, Another X Display TFB (dot matrix), Pro Display TFB (dot matrix), Juino Net, Quiwo Luse TFB, Aliencons Two, Cargante TFB, News Board TFB, Aliencons TFB, Barcode TFB, Birthday Balon TFB, Birds TFB (silhouettes), Le Fish (fish silhouettes), Motos TFB, Love You Too TFB (Valentine's day font), LED LCD 123, Noteame (fat sans), Badopus TFB (monoline script), Estrellado TFB, Love You TFB (Valentine's Day font), Cubs LED TFB (LED / dot matrix typeface), Text Inside TFB (textured face), Kuwa Ronmcie Q (circle-based face), Zebra TFB, Distrogrunge TFB, Carillas TFB (smilies).

Another URL. It has a movie font and famous font sub-archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

TypeType
[Dirk Uhlenbrock]

Foundry with free and commercial fonts, started in June 2002 by Dirk Uhlenbrock.

Partial font list: Leni, Kazoo, Dandruff, Webmap (2001, dingbats for making a web map), Rung, Dole, ViceVersa, Perform, Girl, CellPics (icon font), Sauerkraut (gothic / blackletter), Hamburgotische (more octagonal than blackletter), Neutrum (futuristic octagonal), Laurel and Hardy, Trans (futuristic), Cyanide, Diet, Race (squarish), Girl, Lollop.

Originally called Hellvetica, it lasted a few days before Linotype complained about its name. It is now known as Typetype. Part of Signalgrau Designbureau in Essen, Germany.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typicons
[Stephen Hutchings]

Typicons (2012) are free vector icons by Stephen Hutchings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typotheque
[Peter Bilak]

Typotheque is an initiative of Peter Bilak and ui42 out of Bratislava (Slovakia): Typotheque is an Internet-based independent type foundry. It offers quality fonts for PC and Macintosh platforms in standard European character set and in CE (central european) character set. All fonts have full (european) character sets, are thoroughly tested and manually kerned.

Typotheque also offers its own type utilities: AccentKernMaker and FontAgent.

Free fonts: Remix Typotheque and RaumSüd.

Commercial fonts: Fedra Sans (2001, 30 weights), Holy Cow (2000), Champollion (2000), Eureka (2000), Eureka Phonetik (2000), Eureka Arrows (2000), Eureka Glyphs (2000), Jigsaw (Light and Stencil, 2000, by Johanna Balusikova), Fedra Mono (2002), Fedra Bitmaps (2002), Fedra Serif (2003, 48 weights, with a characteristic shy female A, toes pointing inwards), Fedra Serif Display (2006), Fedra Arabic (2006) and Greta (2006-2007, Greta Text and Greta Display), a newspaper type family designed for the main Slovak newspaper, SME. Greta Text won an award at TDC2 2007 and is also being used by the Sunday Times (along with Sunday Times Modern by Emtype and Flama by M. Feliciano). Greta Symbol (2012) is a 10-style 1200-glyphs-per-style superfamily of symbols commonly used in newspapers, magazines and online publications.

In 2005, Collins Fedra Sans and Serif were published for use in the Collins dictionaries. A slightly modified version of Fedra Sans is used by the Czech Railways.

In 2008, Peter Bilak, Eike Dingler, Ondrej Jób, and Ashfaq Niazi created the 21-style family History at Typotheque: Based on a skeleton of Roman inscriptional capitals, History includes 21 layers inspired by the evolution of typography. These 21 independent typefaces share widths and other metric information so that they can be recombined. Thus History has the potential to generate thousands of different unique styles. History 1, e.g., is a hairline sans; History 2 is Peignotian; History 14 is a multiline face; History 15 is a stapler face, and so forth.

In 2009, Bilak published the extensive Irma (Sans, Slab) family, which includes a hairline. Typotheque's other designer is Johanna Balusikova.

Collection of over 90 articles on type design by by Stuart Bailey, Michael Bierut, Peter Bilak, Andrew Blauvelt, Erik van Blokland, Max Bruinsma, David Casacuberta, Andy Crewdson, Paul Elliman, Peter Hall, Jessica Helfand, Steven Heller, Roxane Jubert, Emily King, Robin Kinross, Rosa Llop, Ellen Lupton, Martin Majoor, Rick Poynor, Michael Rock, Stefan Sagmeister, and Dmitri Siegel.

In 2011, he created Julien, a playful geometric display typeface loosely inspired by the early 20th century avant-garde. It is based on elementary shapes and includes multiple variants of each letter. It feels like a mix of Futura, Bauhaus, and geometric modular design.

Julien (2012) is a playful geometric display typeface loosely inspired by the early 20th century avant-garde.

Karloff (2012, Positive, Negative, Neutral) is a didone family explained this way: Karloff explores the idea how two extremes could be combined into a coherent whole. Karloff connects the high contrast Modern type of Bodoni and Didot with the monstrous Italians. The difference between the attractive and repulsive forms lies in a single design parameter, the contrast between the thick and the thin. Neutral, the offspring, looks like a slab face.

Lumin (2013) is a family that includes slab-serif, sans serif, condensed and display typefaces, and no attept is made to make them uniform in style.

Behance link. Typedia link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Uicons
[Kenny Williams]

Uicons (2012) is a 20 dollar vector icon set with over 400 icons. There is also a sketched version called Uicons Scribble. All made by Australian designer Kenny Williams who lives in Noosa Heads and runs Make Lemonade Design.. Kenny also created FF Bullets (2012).

Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Valery Zaveryaev
[Gaslight (or: Valery Zaveryaev)]

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Vormplatform
[Guido de Boer]

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 free twitterware typeface Bariol (2012, +Italic), a rounded sans monoline with a large set of icons. This typeface was published by Atipo in Spain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Warehouse Design
[Jesse Snyder]

The Warehouse is a collaborative effort between Brittany Deighton (Kent, Ohio) and Jesse Snyder, who is located in Ohio. One can buy some icon font sets from them, such as Miniglyph, Parks and Rec, and Snack Time. Together, they designed the slabby wood type typeface Ohio, and Medical Icons in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Webiconset

This site sells many icon sets in png and psd formats. No fonts, as far as I can tell. [Google] [More]  ⦿

xperiment.js

Designer of the free icon font Pulsar JS (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

xyz.ch
[Alexander Meyer]

Zürich-based designer (b. 1977) who started publishing his typefaces at Die Gestalten. In 2008, he set up xyz.ch where he sells his own creations. Designer of these faces:

Since 2010, partner with Timo Gaessner in Milieu Grotesque. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zocial
[Sam Collins]

Sam Collins (Zocial) is the designer of the free SVG format icon font Maki (2012), which was specially created to be used in conjunction with the MapBox software. See also here.

Collins also created the social network icon set Zocial (2012, free). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zurb Playground

Campbell, CA-based creators of the free icon font Foundation Icons (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿