Miloš Ćirić

Serbian book illustrator, graphic arts teacher and phototype, woodtype and linocut letter type designer, b. Despotovo, 1931, d. Belgrade, 1999. His sons Rastko and Vukan write about both aspects of his life. His CV: he graduated in 1954 from the Academy of Applied Arts, Belgrade and took his Masters Degree in 1959, under Professor Mihailo S. Petrov. He was professor at the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade from 1964 until 1997. He was Head of the Graphic Department from 1974 to 1975. His publications include Graphic identification 1961-1981 (SKZ, Belgrade, 1982), Graphic communications 1954-1984 (Vajat, Belgrade, 1986), Heraldry 1 (University of Arts, Belgrade, 1983) and Coat-of-Arms of Belgrade, Heraldry 2 (Cicero, Belgrade, 1991). Most of Ćirić's types were for Cyrillic, while some have Latin alphabets as well. Many would be classified today as poster types, type to accompany illustrations. The list of his faces:

• Rastko, Latin, 1955: It is a versal typeface made in only one weight. Rastko himself thinks it was devised as light, almost linear and it was a part of his character.
• Vukan, Latin, 1960: Named after his second son, Vukan, this is a sharply cut orthogonal typeface.
• Galerija Grafiki kolektiv, Cyrillic, 1962 (Graphic Collective Gallery): A beautiful Cyrillic display face. This was the first of his typefaces transformed in a computer font.
• Triptihon, Cyrillic, 1962 (Triptych): Another cut face, but this time really taken from the sample made in linocut. The prototypical Cyrillic poster face.
• Akademija, Cyrillic, 1966 (Academy): This face was made for the University and Academy where he worked. It was designed so that it can be used equally well on the paper, metal plates, seals, plaques and everything else Academy needed. He used similar faces on book covers and charters, in solemn situations. Rastko: Although one may think it is an ordinary serif face, it contains Cira's specific typographic handwriting. The shapes are almost geometrically reduced thus providing a decorative effect, legibility and possibility to be transferred in all materials..
• Bolsko, Latin, 1966/67/68: Bol is a small place on the island Brač. This simple condensed headline face was designed for pedagogical purposes made to be used for lectures at the Faculty of Applied Arts abd in its graphic identity.
• Devojačko, Cyrillic, Latin, 1969 (Maiden): A curly affectionate face.
• Ćirićica, Cyrillic, 1970/72: This face was designed as a result of the first research on transforming Serbian handwritten Cyrillic into constructive letterforms. The raw model was the manuscript of the Fourth Gospel (John's Gospel) written at time of Despot Djurdje Barnković (1428) created then by by a Inok from Dalša. The result was a letterform of optimal proportions. The study was made on the occasion of the opening of the new building of the National Library, Republic of Serbia.
• Vojničko, Cyrillic, 1975 (Soldiers): When designing this face Ćirić consulted the book Blue Line of Life (Plava linija života) by Branko V. Radičević, a book about monuments and tombstones posted along roads. It is a sentimental ornamental headline face.
• Face VMA, Latin, 1976/77: A big project for the Military Medical Academy (abbreviated VMA) in which the letters had to be constructed on grids using rulers and compass only. The result is a Bank Gothic look.
• Bogradsko, Cyrillic, Latin, 1982: This face was used for designing the covers and title of his second book of graphic communications.
• Duklja, Cyrillic, Latin, 1984: In this case the typeface makes basis of graphic identification. As a model for designing the face of Montenegrin Lexicographic Institute was a text from leader seal of Petar, Prince of Duklja. Ira wrote that he enlarged and systematize the letters from the drawing which was made in time when the seal was in good condition and that he wanted to preserve the freshness of irregularities and that there were several weights in each letter while their height is only optically the same. It seems that save for that irregularity which inspired and provocative vagueness this model could not offer many clear stylistic characteristics. But what ira could read from those forms is the language of their linocuts and cut symbols. Thus his personal style naturally added to all that was missing to finish the face. In compromise between face with serifs and sanserifs in combination of legibility and universal applicability he saw practical solution for many tasks.
• Iva's typeface, Cyrillic and Latin, 1986: Rastko: My brother's daughter, Iva, was the first child that joined our family of applied artists. Ćirić immediately awarded himself with the title of granddad, opened the door of his studio and showed her all those games and toys from the world of the applied and other arts. Apart from the crazy games, obligatory signum and many other things Iva got many picture books which her grandpa made from time to time. The picture books contained poems, drawings, pictures and of, course letters. On one of those picture books entitled Grandpa' Stories I have found, so far, the only place where the face was used. It is a type of face imitating relief forms.
• Vukov bukvar, Cyrillic, 1987 (Vuk's Abecedary): One of the rare faces with lower case letters, this typeface is dignified and named after Vuk Kardžić.
• Sava's face, Cyrillic, 1987: A gorgeous old slavonic style face with upper and lower case.
• Epitaf, Cyrillic (Epitaph, my name, unknown year): An unpublished face found by his sons in the files. Ćirić used it to write names of births and deaths of friends and family members in a notebook. It could be seen as a prototype for tombstones.

Samo Ačko

Slovenian designer of CE Star (2006, a highway font for Eastern Europe), and Grill Serif Extra Bold Wide Latin Lover Case during the design workshop TipoBrda in 2008. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Espen Aaeng

Espen Aaeng has been a designer and art director in Oslo since 1973. At Behance, he showed the high-contrast ball terminal / teardrop face Drops (2010), which is said to be marketed by Foundr-E, but I could not find a link to that foundry.

Another URL. Hellofont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johan Aakerlund

Danish designer (b. 1990) who lives in Copenhagen. He worked for five months to complete the good-looking geometric type family Comfortaa (2008), which is free at CTAN and Google Font Directory.

In 2009, he made Trunkmill (2009) and the useful organic sans family Lastwaerk.

In 2010, he added Montepetrum (a basic condensed family).

Devian Tart link. Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. Fontspace link. Catalog in 2010. Fontsy link. Kernest link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andres Aarik

Andres Aarik is a graphic designer and a student in Media and Advertisement design in Tartu, Estonia. Designer of the fat and wide face Hustler (2010) and the chiseled face Tode Ja Oigus (2009).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christine Aaron

Christine Aaron is a New York-based designer specializing in lettering and typography. She studied graphic design at the School of Visual Arts, with a focus in editorial design, branding, and motion graphics.

She created Conjure (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Holley Aaron

Graphic designer in Pensacola, FL, who created Gill Sans Icons (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna-Elina Aartola

Finnish designer of Electra-Normal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mehmet Abaci

Mehmet Abaci (b. 1978) is based in Istanbul. Creator of the elegantly plump rounded sans typeface Vinyl Cuts (2013), Samatya (2013, a unicase piano key typeface), Boldie (2013), Laundry Day (2013, alphadings), and the wood log typeface Timbers (2013). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adiljan Ab

Free Uyghur Unicode fonts on a page by the Uyghur Computer Science Association. Free downloads in truetype, all copyright of the Uyghur Computer Science Association, and made in 2004: UKIJ3D, UKIJBasma, UKIJChiwerKesme, UKIJDiwani, UKIJDiwaniKawak, UKIJDiwaniTom, UKIJDiwaniYantu, UKIJEsliye-Bold, UKIJEsliye, UKIJEsliyeChiwer, UKIJEsliyeNeqish, UKIJEsliyeQara, UKIJEsliyeTom, UKIJImaret, UKIJInchike-Bold, UKIJInchike, UKIJJelliy, UKIJJunun, UKIJKawak, UKIJKufi, UKIJKufi3D, UKIJKufiChiwer, UKIJKufiGul, UKIJKufiKawak, UKIJKufiTar, UKIJKufiUz, UKIJKufiYay-Bold, UKIJKufiYay, UKIJKufiYolluq, UKIJMejnun, UKIJMejnuntal, UKIJMerdane-Bold, UKIJMoyQelem, UKIJNasq-Bold, UKIJNasq, UKIJNasqZilwa-Bold, UKIJNasqZilwa, UKIJOrxun-Yensey, UKIJQolyazma, UKIJRuqi, UKIJSaet, UKIJSulus-Bold, UKIJSulus, UKIJSulusTom, UKIJTughra, UKIJTuz-Bold, UKIJTuz, UKIJTuzBasma-Bold, UKIJTuzBasma, UKIJTuzGezit-Bold, UKIJTuzGezit, UKIJTuzKitab-Bold, UKIJTuzKitab, UKIJTuzNeqish, UKIJTuzQara-Bold, UKIJTuzQara, UKIJTuzTom, UKIJTuzTor-Bold, UKIJTuzTor, UKIJZilwa. Severl, if not most, of these fonts were made by Adiljan Ab. Fonts2u link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pablo Abad

Studio with offices in Madrid and Bilbao, first called Supperstudio and then PAAM (run by Pablo Abad and Vicente Garcia Morillo from Madrid). Pablo Abad created the free poker card face DealerType (2009).

Pablo Abad's other typefaces: No Future (2009, sci-fi), Knife (2008, modular), Pinza (2008, clothespin-themed), Romantique (2008, ultra-fat modular art deco face), Modul01 (2008), and Mambo (2008, super-ultra-fat art deco), Slaba (2009, fat slab serif), Voyeur (2009), Nostalgia (2013, Hype For Type).

Old URL. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ramón Abajo

Free and commercial school fonts by Ramón Abajo, all made in 1999 or 2000: Ramon is a high school Spanish teacher in California. His fonts are floating around in cyberspace. His fonts were also for sale at Fonts 4 Teachers (or: Tiende Escolar). A list: AbcAlegria, AbcAmSignLang, AbcAmSignLangLetter, AbcBulletin, AbcClocks, AbcCursive, AbcCursiveArrow, AbcCursiveArrowDotted, AbcCursiveDotted, AbcCursiveDottedLined, AbcCursiveLined, AbcDNManus (AbcDNManusArrow, AbcDNManusArrowDotted, AbcDNManusDotted, AbcDNManusDottedLined, AbcDNManusLined, AbcDNManuscript), AbcDomino, AbcFaces, AbcHeadlines, AbcKids, AbcMath, AbcPhonicsOne, AbcPhonicsTwo, AbcPrint, AbcPrintArrow, AbcPrintArrowDotted, AbcPrintDotted, AbcPrintDottedLined, AbcPrintLined, AbcTeacher.

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Luis Abaladas

During his graphic design studies at ESAD Matosinhos, Porto-based Luis Abaladas created the soccer jersey typeface Chile (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anita Abarenkova

At Escola Superior de Artes e Design de Caldas da Rainha (ESAD.CR), Portugal, during an exchange program, Anita Abarenkova (Riga, Latvia) created the stencil typeface Anita PT Light (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Qalib Abassov

Creator of the free font Dekas (2012, OFL). This looks like a copy of Geoffrey Lee's Impact (1965, Monotype), with multilingaul (Cyrillic, etc.) sets added in. I am not sure how kosher this all is. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nadia Abate

Nadia Abate (Turin) designed the paperclip font Clips in 2010 during a workshop led by Piero De Macchi. She graduated from ISIA in Urbino in 2010, and designed the outline typeface Naa there. Nadia created the flowing script face Female (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Faisal Abbas

Faisal Abbas "merged" (?) an Arabic font by Jamil ur Rahman and a Latin font by Astigmatic in his free typewriter fonts Profaisal Elite Riqa and Profaisal Elire Tahreer (2012, OFL). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hasan Abbas

Designer of Temhoss (1993). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soroush Abbassi

Designer of the Persian font soroush (2006), which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Abbate

Type designer who published these fonts at Photo Lettering: Aqua Bold (signage font), Black Gothic Condensed, Gothic Bold, Nixon (a soft poster face), Stencil Condensed. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Abbink

Mike Abbink (b. 1967) earned a BFA in Fine Arts, and another one in Graphic Design and Packaging from Art Center in Pasadena. Born in 1967, he was a graphic designer at Meta Design San Francisco doing corporate and web design. In March 1999 he co-founded Method, Inc., a San Francisco-based company specializing in communication strategy, interaction and graphic design. Michael now works at Wolff Olins in New York.

Designer of the sans serif family FF Kievit (2000). This font family is also in the FontBureau collection, and is by many seen as the long-term replacement of Helvetica and Frutiger. FF Kievit won the typeface award at the ISTD TypoGraphic Awards 2001. It was also used to make the house font CDU Kievit for the CDU party in Germany. With paul Van der Laan, he codesigned FF Kievit Slab in 2013 in nine styles.

At Agfa Monotype, he and others designed the large GE Inspira family (2003-2005), about which Michael writes: I actually spent over a year working on the design of Inspira. It was Patrick's [Patrick Giasson] early concept that GE was drawn to, but at that time, it was way too funky and more display like then they wanted. I then took patricks original thoughts and spent several months refining the roman and created an italic (which Patrick did not do) which was then handed to monotype to create more weights and refine a bit. What you see in Inspira now, is quit different from Patrick's original concept. However, the more unique forms from Inspira are indeed driven by patricks original drawings and are the interesting forms of the font (v, x, z, y). I was also involved with art directing and working with the Monotype team (for over a year) in developing all the other iterations of inspira. All told, there were many people involved in the refinement of the Inspira font family. but I must say i would have to take a large credit in the design of inspira along with Patrick. I believe Patrick's designs and my designs created a nice balance that has made Inspira what it is today and of course let's not forget the hard work of monotype in really taking the font to the next level with all the weights, the condensed version, and exotics (Greek, Cyrillic, Turkish, etc.). Michael now works at Wolff Olins in New York.

From 2000-2006, he created MichaelAbbink-FFMilo-2000-2006.gif">FF Milo (FontFont), which was followed in 2009 by FF Milo Serif. These faces were developed for magazine and newspaper print and have therefore short ascenders and descenders. Paul van der Laan helped with the production.

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

Jonathan Abbott

Julian Moncada, Jonathan Abbott and Jonathan Barnbrook jointly designed Doctrine Sans and Doctrine Stencil in 2013 at Virus. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Maxine Abbott

Maxine Abbott (Nottingham, UK) studies graphic design at Nottingham Trent University. He created the pixelish typeface Nokia Snake (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Khaled Abdelaziz

Khillo is Khaled Abdelaziz, a Sétif, Algeria-based illustrator and designer, b. 1986. He created Architek (2010) and Burger (a free avant-garde typeface).

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

Chantal Abdel-Nour

Sudbury, Ontario-based creator of the silent movie font Charlie Chaplin (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maha Abdelrazek

Cairo-based graphic designer. Creator of Bird Man (2012, a simple sans) and some Arabic typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maged Abdelsalam

Kirkland, WA-based designer of the display face GuGu (2013).

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

Abdulrohman Abdolgony

Free Khmer fonts, aka Khmer Smart Writer Fonts designed in 1995-1997 by Abdulrohman Abdolgony (Cambodian Software Development): Battambang, Kaoh Kong, Kom Pong Toum, Kom Pot, Kompong Cham, Prey Veng, Pursat, Siem Reap, Stung Treng, Svay Rieng, TaKeo, KSW Battambang, KSW Kaoh Kong, KSW KeyBoard, KSW Kom Pot, KSW Kompong Cham, KSW Preh Vihia, KSW Prey Veng, KSW Pursat, KSW Siem Reap, KSW Stung Treng, KSW Svay Rieng, KSW TaKeo. Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mahmoud Abdoun

Graphic designer in Algiers. He created the octagonal Latin face Lizerta (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aizhan Abdrakhmanova

Graphic designer in London who created Mirror (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abdul

Lebanese designer who created Beantown (2004, an athletic lettering font), Staubach (2004, an athletic lettering face based on the lettering of the Dallas Cowboys), Wagner Modern (2011), Kroftsmann (2004, on octagonal face), Kavelry (2004, based on the Kemper Insurance logo), 4th and inches (2008, rounded octagonal; based on the proprietary font used by Russell Athletic, makers of sports apparel as used by Georgia Tech BKB, Washington State, Alabama State, Tennessee State, Mississippi Valley State, and many others in college football), and PopWarner (2004, a Bank Gothic lookalike), Wagner Zip Change (grotesque), Richardson Fancy Block. Creator of some free soccer team lettering alphabets in 2010: Louisville, Puff Script, Red Raiders, Richardson Fancy Block, Wagner Zip-Change (based on grotesque signage letters), ACMilan2009, ASRoma, ChampionsLeague, England2007, MLSUniform, RealMadrid2009. About his GeauxXPDF face (2010), he writes: I had extracted a nearly complete set on this one a few years back, except for J and Z which I created on my own. As best I can tell, it only exists as an upper case font without most punctuation, so I created that too to make it more useable. I don't know how much LSU [Louisiana State University] paid for this design, but to me it always looked like something that Larabie or Iconian would have given away. He also extracted HDRadioAlphabet from a rounded Arial face he found on HD radio. His UScoreRGK (2012) is a blocky angular font used on-screen by Fox Sports. LCD Display (2012) is a 28-segment LED font. UA Terrafont (2012) was based upon the vector art in this PDF file.

In 2013, he published the athletic lettering family High School USA and the octagonal typeface UA Cadet.

See also here. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Izrin Abdul

Birmingham, UK-based graphic designer who created the art-nouveau-meets-the-future face Cosmic. (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aaram Abdulla

Creator of the children's hand font Aram Abdulla (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Basim Abdulla

Based in Male on The Maldives, digital artist Basim Abdulla created the hand-drawn typeface Black Widow in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rayan Abdullah

Type designer (b. 1957, Mosul, Iraq) who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000 and lives in Germany, where he set up Markenbau in 2000. Author (with Roger Hübner) of Pictograms and Icons (2005, Herman Schmitz, Mainz) and Arabische Schriftkunst (1993, Hochschule der Künste Berlin). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shakirah Abdullah

Nusajaya, Johor, Malaysia-based designer (b. 1995) of the hairline hand-printed typeface Sweet Life (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohammad Esmat Abdullhalem

Egyptian designer in 1992-1994 of these Arabic fonts: ACS-Akeek-Bold, ACS-Akeek-Extra-Bold, ACS-Akeek, ACS-Almass-Bold, ACS-Almass-Extra-Bold, ACS-Almass, ACS-Bassmalah, ACS-Fayrouz-Bold, ACS-Fayrouz-Extra-Bold, ACS-Fayrouz, ACS-Hieroglyphic, ACS-Islamy, ACS-Koraan, ACS-Morgan-Bold, ACS-Morgan-Extra-Bold, ACS-Morgan, ACS-Symbols, ACS-Topazz-Bold, ACS-Topazz-Extra-Bold, ACS-Topazz, ACS-Yaqout-Bold, ACS-Yaqout-Extra-Bold, ACS-Yaqout, ACS-Zomorrod-Bold, ACS-Zomorrod-Extra-Bold, ACS-Zomorrod. They can be downloaded here, here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian J. Abe

North-Carolina-based designer (b. 1989) of the dot matrix font Sam's Town (2006) and the graffiti face February (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Negin Abedi

Graduate of the Communication Design program at Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver, 2012. Creator of the high-contrast artsy headline typeface called Yaletown (2012).

Cargo collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernie Abel

Designer of Abel Cursive (Compugraphic, 1974). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joanne Abellar

Creator (b. 1991, The Philippines) of the outlined hand-drawn typeface Chickfactor (2013), as well as Ham And Eggs (2013), Bookends (2013), Font5 (2013) and Whiplash Girl Child (2013). Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nava Abel

Israeli type designer at MasterFonts. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kelly Abeln

Graphic designer in Minneapolis, MN. Creator of the handcrafting all-caps face Knots&Loops (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elizabeth Abernethy

Graphic designer who created the art deco headline typeface Strain Theory (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Abidov

Israeli type designer at MasterFonts who made the hand-printed Hebrew face Racheli MF (2009).

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

Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, was born in Beirut in 1965. Author of Arabic Typography A Comprehensive Sourcebook (Saqi Books, London, 2001), Experimental Arabic Type (Saatchi&Saatchi, Dubai, 2002), Typographic Matchmaking (BIS Publishers, Amsterdam 2007), Arabic Type Specimen Book (2008) and a number of articles on multilingual communication in the Middle East such as Arabic Type: a challenge for the 2nd millennium (1998). She holds degrees in graphic design from Yale University School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design, and specializes in bilingual typographic research and design. She has worked as a designer for a number of years, in the USA, Amsterdam, France and Beirut. She has taught typography and graphic design at the American University of Beirut. She was the Chair of the Visual Communication Department for three years at the American University in Dubai and founded the Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography in Amsterdam. She curates exhibitions, organizes collaborative design research projects between Europe and the Middle East, and is editor of the Khatt Foundation online network of Arab/Middle Eastern designers (www.khtt.net). She is currently pursuing a PhD at Leiden University while working between Europe and the Middle East as a typography and design consultant on projects of cultural relevance. She has art directed and collaborated on the design of several contemporary Arabic fonts for magazines like Aleph (London) and companies in the Gulf. Typefaces include Alef Caps (2008), done with Pascal Zoghbi. KHTT link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Abold

At H. Berthold AG, Thomas Abold published the phototype typeface Abold (1972). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Renz Jezrel Abong

During his studies in Montalban, The Philippines, Renz Abong created the free sans typeface Tale (2013, FontStruct), the free condensed typeface Versa (2013, FontStruct), and the free monoline geometric font Tribe (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashique Aboobacker

Indian designer of the free Malayalam typefaces Ashique ML Minnu Semi Bold (2013) and Ashique ML Ashu Condensed Bold (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carine Abraham

Designer at Union Type of Timura (deconstructivist face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Israel Abraham

Venezuelan creator of the experimental / alchemic face Carnada (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bradley Abrahams

Cape Town, South Africa-based designer (b. 1979) of the art deco stencil face Daddy Dont Disco (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Federico Abrahams

Aka Bicho. Designer in San Jose, Costa Rica, b. 1974. He created the decorative face Malajeno (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vytautas Abraitis

Alphabet-based dingbats designed by him in 1993 include KABlokHead, KABlokHeadJam, KACobra, KACobraCreep, KADinoSlay, KADinoSob, KAHorrible, KAHorribleSquish, KAMarble, KAMarbleClear, KAMonster, KAMonsterSmirk, KAPasta, KAPastaAldente, KAPizza, KAPizzaMunch, KASnake, KASnakeNite, KAStorm, KAStormRain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alyssa Abram

Vancouver-based designer of the pixel font Bitmap (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heric Longe Abramo

Italian designer (b. Bologna, 1976) of some deconstructivist fonts such as Kill Your Neighborhood (2000, knife dingbats and scanbats of faces), and the broken stencil font Metal Meltdown (2001). In 2000, he co-founded the magazine Pressure, dedicated to graffiti art. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vit Abramov

Founder and creative director at Flëve in New York City.

Mobispot Regular (2013) is a beautiful contemporary geometric grotesque for Latin and Cyrillic, designed by Olga Balina and Vit Abramov at Flëve for Mobispot Social Systems, a company that creates cool applications for life and business based on NFC technology.

Behance link. Behance link for Flëve. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rob Abram

Graphic designer from Kansas who made several experimental fonts in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Abrams

George Abrams (b. 1919 or 1920, Brooklyn, d. 2001, Manhasset, NY) is the designer of the gorgeous font families Augereau, Abrams Caslon and Venetian, at Expert Alphabets in Great Neck, NY. Abrams taught lettering and typeface design at the Parsons School of Design, the New School for Social Research and at the Columbia University Teachers College. He had over 50 years of Madison Avenue experience designing ads, logos, typography and lettering for Fortune 500 companies and more. His early typefaces were photo types published by Headliners in New York City. He died on June 7, 2001 at age 81.

About Augereau: This is the only digitized face by George Abrams [in fact, the digitization is due to Charles Nix, for George Abrams]. Its 28 weights include over 2,000 sorts including expert, OsF,&alts. Augereau is named for Antoine Augereau, who was a typographer who had a few claims to fame - one was that he was Claude Garamonds teacher, and two was that he was sentenced to death for heresy in 1544. Heresy for a typographer in 1544 meant that he printed something that the king or the Pope didn't like and died for it.

I would like to thank Poul Steen Larsen for clarifying the history of Abrams' Venetian: The Abrams Venetian was donated to Mr. Poul Kristensen of Herning (in Jutland), then Printer to the Royal Court (which he has ceased to be in 1995). You are right about the font being today locked to Poul Kristensen' old Linotron, from which not even Linotype experts brought in to unlock it, could get it out for conversion into an up-to-date digital font. So the font will disappear from the type arena when Kristensens Linotron one day breaks down. You can trust me, for I was the one who established the contact between George and Mr. Kristensen back in 1986. The font was first used in 1989 in a book by Martin Lowry, British renaissance historian, with the title Venetian Printing. George Abrams' chalk drawings of the entire alphabet in regular and italic were scanned, more precisely vectorised on-screen and downloaded in Denmark by the Kristensens and therefore, in one sense, could be called the first Danish complete font. A sample of the first use of Abrams' Venetian. A second sample from "Venetian Printing". Abrams Venetian was digitized at some point by Jorgen Kristensen for Poul Kristensen Grafisk Virksomhed Printer.

Apostrophe wrote this about Abrams Caslon: This was actually reviewed by Caflish and, if I remember correctly, Mark vonBronkhorst, so there are at least 3 or 4 copies of it out there, other than the Abrams' estate original data. Sumner Stone once said that this is the best Caslon he has ever seen. At least he has seen it; I haven't.

The typefaces by Abrams (Abrams Venetian and Augereau) are preserved in the New York City-based Abrams Legacy Collection (see also here).

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

Josh Abrams

Student in the Masters in Typography program at EINA in Barcelona. He is working on Filler Sans (2011) and Holden (2011, serif face). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack Abrehart

Aka Jackcatter. Creator of simplistic hand-printed faces such as Pointy Fontawlious, Plain Sexy and Best Font Ever (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joao Abreu

Joao Abreu (Quarteira, Portugal, b. 1985) designed the free font Horny Village (2013).

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Rubinei Abreu

Sao Paulo-based designer of the liquid display face Abreus RD (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rui Abreu

R-Type was founded by Rui Abreu in 2008. Rui graduated from FBAUP (Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto) in 2003. He has been working as an interactive media designer in different design agencies, and he has been designing typefaces. Based in Porto, he created Tirana (2006, sans family at T26), Catacumba (2007, a gorgeous bold didone titling face, T26; in 2009 at Fountain/PsyOps), Cifra (2006, a lovely ten weight sans family, T26), Nomada (2007, a monoline slab serif), Salto Alto (2006, avant garde sans family, with octagonal influences), Foral (2008, monoline slab serif; published by Fountain in 2010), and Forma (2006, stencil family, T26).

In 2008, he published Orbe (Fountain), an exotic all-caps blackletter inspired by Portuguese calligraphy [it deservedly won an award at TDC2 2009], Gesta (2008, sans family), Gesta Condensed (2012), Gesta Semi Condensed (2012), Gira Sans (2012, a grotesque family), Foral Pro (2011, an elliptical slab serif), Catacumba (2011, a high-contrast ball terminal wedge serif family), Aria Pro (2011, a delicate high-contrast serif family), Forma Solid (T26).

In 2013, Rui published Aria Text (a rational toned down version of Aria), the geometric sans family Azo Sans and Azo Sans Uber, a geometric sans with a humanistic element. Grafolita Script (2013) is a connected typeface family that borrows ideas from signage scripts.

MyFonts interview in August 2013. MyFonts page. T-26 page. Old home page. Klingspor link. Fountain Type link.

View Rui Abreu's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Clément Abrial

Graphic design student in Lyon. Creator of Antarctica (2012), and Miles Davis (2012, an inline art deco typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Absinth

Absinth Creations used to be located in Summersville, WV. Designer of the beautiful dingbat fonts Fantasy1, AbsinthFlourishesI, AbsinthFlourishesII, RaineyDay, all made in 1998. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Absolut

Designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to make HBK Friday, an LED simulation face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hasan Abu Afash

Arabic typography web site and font foundry established in 2007 by Hasan Abu Afash, an Arab designer living in Gaza/Palestine. Typefaces: HS Ishraq (2013), HS Alkitab (2013), HS Albadr (2013), HS Almohandis (2007-2011, Arabic display face), HS Alhandasi (2007 and 2011), Hasan AlQuds family (2004, a display face done with Mamoun Sakkal), Hasan Hiba, Hasan Enas (Arabic text typeface), Hasan Elham (2006, a modern Kufi art deco face), Hasan Ghada (2007-2008, based on modern Kufi calligraphy--first known in 2002 as KactTitle), Hasan Manal (2008, Kufi style), Hasan Aya (2007, Kufi style famaily based on Corel's 1992 face Bedrock), Kouffi Fatemic, Safwat, HS Amal. In 2008, Hasan Hiba and Hasan Noor (a classic squarish Kufi face) were upgraded to the DecoType font format for use in WinSoft Tasmeem which is now bundled with InDesign CS4---thanks to a cooperation with Mirjam Somers. Still with Somers, he upgraded the Basim Marah display face (2008) for Tasmeem. Basim Marah was drawn by Basim Salem Al Mahdi from Iraq and then digitized by Hasan himself. The same year, Hasan developed an OpenType project for Alinma TheSans fonts which are based on TheMix Arabic (designed by Luc(as) de Groot and Mouneer ElShaarani for Al Inma Bank, Saudi Arabia). Later he developed the OpenType features for Jumeirah Arabic which was designed by Pascal Zoghbi (29letters) and Huda AbiFares (Khatt) for Jumeirah International, UAE. He developed the OpenType layout features needed for the Arabic script system in the Seria Arabic fonts family which was designed by Pascal Zoghbi for FontShop International, as well as the Chams fonts family which was designed by Al Mohtaraf Assaudi for the redesign of the Shams Newspaper in Saudi Arabia and the Arajhi fonts for Alrajhi Bank. Since 2002 Hasan has worked and collaborated with Mamoun Sakkal in several projects, such as the Burj Dubai Shilia project, Sakkal Baseet and the Microsoft project which included the updating of the OpenType instructions for fonts such as Tahoma, Microsoft Sans Serif, Arial, Times New Roman, Segoe, Courier, Time New Roman, Ms Uighur and Majalla UI. In 2009-2010, he cooperated with Parachute to make DIN Text Arabic.

Releases in 2012 include HS Future Sans (with Abdulsamie Rajab Salem), HS Amal, HS Alfaris, HS Al Basim A, and HS Almohandis.

Typefaces from 2013: HS Alwafa, HS Masrawy (a display face done with Abdulsamiea Rajab Salem), HS Elham (Kufi).

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

Martín Abud

Montevideo-based designer of the organic typeface Escrin. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorgito Abuin

Jorgito Abuin (b. 1967, Spain) designed the brush font Cabanyal Z (2013).

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Saad Dean Abulhab

Arabetics is run by the Iraqi-American New York-based type designer, librarian, and systems engineer Saad Dean Abulhab (b. 1958, sacramento, CA), who in 2000 patented the Mutamathil (unified and symmetric) type style for Arabic. He grew up in Karbala and Baghdad, Iraq, but was born in Sacramento, CA. He attended the University of Baghdad, and holds a Bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University and a masters degree in library and information science from Pratt Institute, both in New York. He resides in the USA since 1979. In 2004, he set up Arabetics.

His type design work covers Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Kurdish, and Pashtu.

His typefaces include Zena (2009), Layal (2007), Mehdi (2005: follows the guidelines of the Mutamathil Taqlidi type style), Sabine (2008: it too follows the guidelines of the Mutamathil Taqlidi type style), Fallujah (2005), Mutamathil Falujah, Yasmine Mutamathil, Mutamathil Taqlidi, Arabic Mutamathil, Arabic Mutamathil Mutlaq (2004), Arabic Mutamathil Tibaah, Arabic Mutamathil Mutlaq Tibaah, Arabic Mutamathil Muttasil and Arabic Mutamathil Tibbaah Muttasil. Mutamathil and Mutamathil Taqlidi include optional Lam-Alif ligatures. See also Kufa Mutamathil (2011). Other font families: Nasrallah, Silsilah, Yasmani, Mutamathil, Yasmine Mutamathil, Amudi, Amudi Mutamathil, Anbar (2008), Handasi, Yasmine Mutlaq, Jazm (2010), Jalil (2011).

In 2012, he added Nuqat, Nastarkib, Lahab, Ibrani, Hallock, Arabetics Latte (for Latin and Arabic), and Banan (Mutamathil Taqlidi type style).

In 2005, he created Handasi, about which he writes: The idea behind Handasi, Arabic word for engineered, was to design a font without a single curve that would at the same time resembles traditional curves-rich Nask style. The font strictly uses straight lines. The design of Handasi is based on the Mutamathil Taqlidi design style where each letter is represented by one normal glyph assigned the basic Unicode number and an additional final shape glyph to letters capable of dual connection within traditional Arabic text. No initial, medial, or standalone shapes are provided.

Arabetics Symphony (2012) is a sans serif Latin typeface with a comprehensive support for the Arabetic scripts, including Quranic texts.

In 2013, he published PF Nuyork Arabic at Parachute. His Arabetic fonts from 2013 include Nagham, Arabetics Harfi (for Latin and Arabic), Camille, Raqmi and Raqmi Monoshape.

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Fadwa Abulughod

Communication design student in Milwaukee, WI, who made Embodiment (2011), a typeface for genies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hani Abusamra

London-based graphic designer and illustrator, who studied graphic design at London's Architecture and Visual Arts school. Behance link. Her typefaces include Valence (2011, blackletter/tattoo face). Also, starting in 2011, she decided to drawn one letter per day. Shapes (2011) is a geometric face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nayera Abusteit

Based in Cairo, Nayera Abesteit created an Arabic typeface using compass and ruler in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Federico Abuyé

Argentinian designer in Buenos Aires of the pixel face Andina (2012). Home page [Google] [More]  ⦿

Halit Açıkgöz

Turkish designer of the bouncy squarish font Halit (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Accent

Designer at Mecanorma of AccessMN. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatriz Accioly

Brazilian graphic design student. Creator of Lovato Serif (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Acevedo

Cranbrook Academy of Art student who designed Thermal (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lilibeth Acevedo

Merida, Venezuela-based designer of Joro Pop (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clare Acheson

Designer of the 3d shadow face Rubbish (2009, HypeForType). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clare Acheson

Creator of the hand-rendered typeface Rubbish (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Connie Achilles

The Iching truetype font by Connie Achilles and Font Source, Inc. (1997). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vilja Achté

Finnish graphic designer and illustrator, who is finishing a BA in Graphic and Media Design, at London College of Communication in 2013. Creator of a collaborative typeface (with Sam Brogan) in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ian Acid

Rego Park, NY-based creator of the free techno face Acid Structure (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nenad Acimovic

Designer of the first Serbina Cyrillic blackletter font, Gotica (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian Acker

Christian Acker (b. 1979, Norwalk, CT) and Kyle Talbott, two graphic designers in New York City, set up Handselecta on Long Island in 2003 as a division of Adnauseum, Inc. They have pages on graffiti art, graffiti and calligraphy, and graffiti-based typefaces: Espo, Joker (done with Jerry Inscoe), Sabe, Mesk, Mesk AOK. Run by Brooklyn-based Christian Acker. They are selling the graffiti fonts. MyFonts link. MyFonts sells HSMene One NYThrowie (2006), 24 HRS, Joker Straight Letter, Mene One Mexicali, Mesh One AOK, Meskyle Laid Back, Sabe Ghetto Gothic, and Sailor Gothic.

Behance link. Interview by Ping Mag in 2006.

In 2008, he made a custom graffiti font called Lebron6 for tge launch of Lebron James's Sixth Shoe.

View Christian Acker's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Christian Acker

Adnauseum is an experimental design studio in Brooklyn, NY, run by Christian Acker, an American type designer (b. 1979, Norwalk, CT) who graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York City in 2002. Christian occasionally guest lectures typography classes at Parsons. He set up Adnauseam in 2002 and Handselecta in 2003.

He designed Sailor Gothic (2003), the Spanish-looking font Sailor Jerry (2002), Joker Straight Letter (2006), Mene One NY Throwie (2006), Mesh One AOK (2006), Meskyle Laid Back (2006), Sabe Ghetto Gothic (2006), and 24Hrs (2002, Cubanica).

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

Paul Ackerley

Fonts made by Paul Ackerley include Ackadia (1999, 3D simulation font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Acker

Designer at Cubanica Fonts of 24hrs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karen Ackoff

Designer of the delicate font Russell at Alphabets Inc., and of Russell Oblique (1994, Adobe). Karen Ackoff has a BFA in Illustration from the Philadelphia College of Art and an MFA in Medical Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has worked as Scientific Illustrator at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. She presently teaches and coordinates the Graphic Design program at Indiana University South Bend. She is available for freelance commercial artwork and fine arts commissions.

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Samo Acko

Ljubljana, Slovenia-based creator of Morgana (2011, a daring wedge-serif medieval fortress face), developed at the tipoRenesansa 3rd international type design workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Pic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mezz Acmal

Mezz Acmal is the Brunei-based creator of the futuristic font Akmal [no downloads]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adolfo Gregorio Acosta

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the typeface Xixo Xixo (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandra Acosta Chavez

Based in Mexico City, Alejandra Acosta Chavez created Gormley Bold (2013), which is a squiggly typeface created from Helvetica in the style of the English painter Anthony Gormley. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edna Isabel Acosta

Lagartija desino is the Puerto Rican foundry of Edna Acosta that produced Aliance (1998), Chupacabra (1998), the Diplomatica family (1998, with ornaments), Acosta Regular, Acosta Italic, Acosta Bold, Acosta Bold Italic, Acosta Black, Acosta Black Italic, Spirograf (1998, dingbats). All fonts by Edna Acosta. Edna graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York in 1990 with a BFA.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jose Luis Acosta

Mexican designer of the delicate text face Enrico (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vinicius Acquesta

Bazilian graphic designer (b. 1988) and art director who lives in Sao Paulo. Creator of the ultra black face SubSquare (2009). Aka "subdoom".

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steven Acres

Graphic designer in Brooklyn, NY. He made the custom logortype Chimaera (2010) for a mediaeval-style cafe. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Attila Acs

Hungarian designer (b. 1982) of the grungy typewriter face AA Typewriter (2010), and the handwritten Budapest Markets (2010). Home page. He lives in Burley Heights and/or Gold Coast, Australia.

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

Thomas Acton

During his studies at University of South Wales (CCI/ATRiuM, Cardiff), Thomas Acton created the experimental typeface The Captain Is A Storyteller (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ximena Acuña

Creator of the free fonts Fontanera (2013) and XII (2013, a clean hand-printed caps typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yuji Adachi

Free original fonts by Yuji Adachi: Nice Age, Arcade (pixel font family that includes a horizontally-striped style, 1998), Bop Gun, No Problem, Dymos, One Nation, Atari 80, Bad Matrix and Lavalite, Dimension (kids' orthographic font, 1999), UHF (baseball shirt lettering, 1999), LogoSystem (1998), Bangalore (Stephen Coles says that this is still the world's best small pixel script), Radio Dept, Ole Segments, Code3X (barcode font, 1999), Neo Dymos, Major Kong (handprinting, 1999), Ohio Player.

Font Pavilion sells his Dymos (katakana), One Nation, Bop Gun, Logo System.

In Digitalogue's DPI72 package, he published the screen pixel fonts CODE14X (1999), DryBones7 (1999), Tempo9 (1999). Promised fonts: Wax, Problems, Bad Matrix, Atari80, Neo Dymos, No Problem, Ole Segments.

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

Adadglgwut

Creator of Circuit Mage (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jimmy Adair

The Scholars Press Fonts are public domain fonts that are designed to work on both Windows computers and Macs. Fonts for Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, and Semitic-language transliteration. (Mac and Windows): SPEzra (fixed width Hebrew/Aramaic, 1998) and SPTiberian (Hebrew/Aramaic), SPIonic (Greek, see also here), SPEdessa (Syriac), SPDoric (1999, uncial Greek), SPAchmim (Coptic), SPDamascus (Hebrew, 1998), SPCaesarea (dingbats, 1998), and SPAtlantis (transliteration). All fonts by Jimmy Adair. He states: "Patrick Durusau, formerly my colleague in crime at Scholars Press and now with the Society of Biblical Literature, was instrumental in the design and disseminatation of the SP fonts." FTP access. Truetype archive. See also here. fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Adair

American designer (b. 1984) of Nefraka Print (2006, runes for an artificial language). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adais

Creator of the free face Adais (2010, OFL). Download dysfunctional. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abdi Adam

Creator of the free ink run typeface Symbiote (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam

London-based designer of Bootround (2006, a techno version of Amelia). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A.K.M. Adam

Creator of the cross-themed dingbat face called Little Gidding. Alternate URL. Alternate URL. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amelia Adam

American designer, b. 1984. Home page. Her free fonts include Selfish Bitch (2010, hairline, hand-printed), and the ornamental art deco caps face Sundays Are Boring (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

C. Adam

Designer at Genzsch&Heyse, who made Rex (1924). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl Adam

Carl Adam taught design at the Staatlichen Fachschule für das Buchgewerbe in Hamburg. He designed the openface font Rex (1924, Genzsch & Heyse). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blaise Adamczyk

Blaise Adamczyk (aka de Seingalt) is the Polish designer (b. 1986) of Rounded (2006), an all caps stencil face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriela Adame

During her studies in Tijuana, Mexico, Gabriela Adame created the geometric display typeface Geogar (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hubert Adamek

Polish designer of the hand-printed face Szarpany (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ish Adames

Ish Adames, a graphic designer and photographer in Philadelphia, PA, designed the titling sans typeface Duma in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriel Adam

Slovakian graphic artist who created a blackletter typeface in 2011 at Masaryk University that is based on lettering in the Krems Bible (1333/1334, Austria). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michal Adamiec

Michal Adamiec (b. 1987) is studying at the Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland. He made Murena (2012, a bouncy sans family), Cello Sans face (2010, organic), and the techno-inspired Penumbrum (2010).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiri Adamik-Novak

Stockholm-based graphic and type designer who cofounded Theygraphics with Stockholm-based Fredrik Forsberg and Prague-based Zdenek Patak. He obtained an MA in Graphic Design at the Konstfack College of Arts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julien Adam

Belgian designer (b. 1978) of Lazy Sunday (2007, octagonal, mechanical) and SNC Bishop (2007, grunge). Dafont link. Goes under the alias Magic Chicon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Adamko

Hungarian designer of HUN-DIN 1451 (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Adamove

Patrick Adamove (Charter Design) is the Hamburg-based designer of Horoscopia (2000, dingbats) and CharterD-Normal (1999, grungy) at Garagefonts.

At Charterdesign, he created Dementia 13 and Planquadrata.

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

Yana Adamovic

Illustrator, cartoonist and comic book author, who, during her studies in Belgrade, designed the calligraphic old church Slavonic / Latin typeface Sokolar (2013). This delicate and readable typeface was her Master's graduation project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Adams

Designer of the hand-printed typeface Uncensored (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Adams

Designer at the Open Font Library, who contributed Just Letters (2012, blackletter) to the project. This was based on Albrecht Duerer's Of the Just Shaping of Letters (1525). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heidi Adams

A graduate of NC State's College of Design, Heidi created a slabby monoline typeface there in 2009. Born in Columbus, OH, she lives in Raleigh, NC. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Adams

Fonts by Matt Adams, all made in 2001: Atari, AtariTheTempleofDoom, DaddysTools, Drafting (2001), HelBit, IUD, Naked, Paprika, PopularMechanics, StillPantless. Some of these fonts are derived from screen fonts, and have jagged looks. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael D. Adams

Memphis, TN-based Michael Adams (Roadgeek Fonts) developed a series of (free) heavy sans US highway sign fonts in 2002: Roadgeek2000SeriesB, Roadgeek2000SeriesC, Roadgeek2000SeriesD, Roadgeek2000SeriesE, Roadgeek2000SeriesEModified, Roadgeek2000SeriesF, RoadgeekTransportHeavy, RoadgeekTransportMedium. In 2005, he extended his font collection to include UK, German and US highway signs:

• Roadgeek 2005 Series B/C/D/E/E(M)/F fonts are intended to closely approximate Highway Gothic fonts
• Roadgeek 2005 Series 1B/2B/3B/4B/5B/6B are intended to closely approximate the new fonts, and are inteded for dark-on-light background signs.
• Roadgeek 2005 Series 1W/2W/3W/4W/5W/5WR/6W are close kin to the -B fonts, but are intended for light-on-dark background signs.
• Roadgeek 2005 Transport Heavy and Transport Medium should approximate the fonts used on British highway signs.
• Roadgeek 2005 Engschrift and Mittelschirft should approximate the fonts used on German highway signs.
• Roadgeek 2005 Arrows 1&2, Icons, and SignBacks are intended to help you in approximating U.S. highway signs, and are based on sign specifications from the Nebraska online MUTCD/SHS manuals.

Dave Adamson

One Way Out (or: Church Art Fonts) sells about 100 display fonts. Eleven collections of seven fonts at about 95 USD per collection. By Dave Adamson. Some font names: Beat Street, Blitzkrieg, Day Three, El Nino, Erratic, Espresso, Frazzle, JiveTalk, Knucklehead, Lost Tribe, Lunatic, Protoplazm, Ragamuffin, Slackhappy, Squidly, Thud, Twitch, Toxic, Toxic Waste, Astro Boy, HunkyDory, Hybrid, Jolly Roger, Shameless, Surf City, Swanky, Armageddon Medium, Mystery 2, Raw, Neo-Human Outline, Cattitudes (cats), Epidemic, Dimentia, Dimentia Wide, Damage Light, Thus Thin, chronicle, Hoopla, Wisecrack, Dimentia Thin, Yoo-Hoo, Why Kee Kee, AlterEgo, Damage, Havva Nice Day, reactor, Slade, Aspire, Scooter, Squidly Bold, Shogun (oriental simulation), NeroHuman, Euphoria (handwriting), Army Surplus (stencil), Armageddon Bold, Chop Top. Most fonts distributed by T-26 and copyright of "One Way Out". Please will someone explain to me who designed what for whom? Earlier, Adamson designed for FontHaus, see, e.g., Bristol Adornado Regular (1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Adams

Rachel Adams (Savannah College Of Art & Design, Savannah, GA) created the stick typeface Touch (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Lauren Adams

Rachel Adams (R Lauren Designs, Pennsylvania) Savannah, GA) created the sketched typeface Lemonade (2013), the hand-printed typeface Kyoritsu Dengyo (2013), the art deco typeface Sunspots (2013), and the shadow typeface Without A Trace (2013). Vegan Pizza (2013) is a hand-drawn typeface.

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

S. Adams

FontStructor who made the textured typeface Amoeba (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scott Adams

Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, created a font for his lettering, which is not generally distributed. However, the free font Filbert (2004) does a good job imitating the lettering in Dilbert. And so does Dilbert Font (2010, freefontfan). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shannah Adams

Student at ZIVA, a typography and graphic design school in Harare, Zimbabwe, led by Saki Mafundikwa. In 2001, she designed a font with letters made up of lizards. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vernon Adams

Vernon Adams (born England, 1967) is a furniture restorer, woodcarver and typeface designer. New Typography is his type design site. Vernon graduated in 2007 with an MA in type design from the University of Reading. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Google Plus link. Fontsquirrel link. Klingspor link.

He developed Mako (2007), a type family for text and image in magazines. Earlier, he created AutoPacHousehold. Nobile (2010) is part of the Google font directory. Through the Open Font Library, one can get the source Fontforge code for this open source sans family. About Mako, he writes that he submitted the font to Fontsmith, which sat on it for a while and rejected it, only to publish a few weeks later Lurpak, which according to Vernon is too similar to his rejected design. Free fonts at Google Code by Vernon, as of the end of 2010 include Coda (a heavy elliptical face), Nobile (mentioned above), Corben (a curvy bold face in the style of Cooper Black), and Gruppo (a thin sans).

In 2011, he added Coustard (a slab serif family), Damion (connected signage script), Smythe (Victorian), Radley (display face), Oswald (a reworking of the Alternate Gothic style), Candal (sans), Pacifico (connected signage face), Bangers (comic book face), Anton (heavy sans), Bevan (a reworking of Beton, a traditional slab serif display typeface created by Heinrich Jost in the 1930s), Six Caps (a condensed headline face), Meddon (a display font created from the handwritten script of an Eighteenth century legal document), Rokkitt (an Egyptian), Paytone One (headline face), Holtwood One SC (wood block simulation face), Monofett (white on black), Carter One (casual face), Francois One (gothic sans), Sigmar One (think mid twentieth century pulp magazine advertising), Bigshot One, Metrophobic, Mako, Francois One, Nunito (rounded), Shanti, Sigmar, Muli (minimalist sans), Kameron (an Egyptian), Stardos Stencil, Bowlby One, Bowlby One SC (fat poster face), Tienne (serif), Monoton (a multiline face in the style of Koch's Prisma, 1931), Sancreek (emulating an ornamental wood font), Amatic SC (handprinted poster family), Sancreek (a Tuscan face), Oswald (in the old Alternate Gothic tradition of sans faces), Rammetto (based on the Stephenson Blake uppercase display font Basuto, released in 1926), and Michroma (modeled after Microgramma).

Typefaces made in 2012 include Bench Nine (Google Web Fonts: based on old Stephenson Blake typefaces), Oxygen (a sans face available from Google Web Fonts), Oxygen Mono (Google Web Fonts), Norican (free script font at Google Web Fonts based in part on Stephenson Blake's Glenmoy from the 1920s), Cutive (free at Google Web Fonts, based on the IBM typewriter faces Executive and Smith-Premier), Pontano Sans (Google Web Fonts: a light basic sans), Trocchi (Google Web Fonts: derived from Nebiolo's Egiziano, and Caslon & Co's Antique No.4 and Ionic No.2), Seymour One (Google Web Fonts: derived from Sigma One), Anaheim (sans, Google Web Fonts), Cutive and Cutive Mono (Google Web Fonts: based on the typewriter typefaces of IBM's Executive and the older Smith-Premier).

Typefaces from 2013: Mondo (sans), Oswald (grotesque and stencil), Anton (grotesque). [Google] [More]  ⦿

V.P. Adams

Designer in 1999 of Insect (grunge), Crew (clean sans), City (clean sans) and Gruppo (rounded, outlined). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Will Adams

Two fonts being designed by Will Adams. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Valentin Adam

French graphic designer who spent 2007-2009 at Ensaama Olivier de Serres in Paris. He does experimental type. His creations include Fake, Madone, Composite, Eleanor (hard sans), Marlene (octagonal), Magdalena, Versailles, Strates (multilined), Vanina-Vanina (artsy hairline sans), Quarante Cinq, TweenLady, Tatiana (hairline) and Lettuce. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeremia Adatte

Paudex (Lausanne), Switzerland-based type designer, b. 1991, Switzerland. He created Swissa Piccola (2012, an old typewriter font).

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Laura Addari

Laura Addari (Venice) created Positive Negative (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Addiel Gaxiola Soto

Creator of the psychedekic face Addiel (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emlyn Addison

Designer of IDM Minimal (2011, organic).

Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Randall Addison

Designer from Keller, TX, whose fonts at Garagefonts include the futuristic family Transpond (1999-2000).

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

Stefanie Addy

Canadian designer of Stefanie (2009, hand-printed using Fontcapture). Devian tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frank Adebiaye

Velvetyne Type Foundry (or VTF) is the French foundry of Parisian Frank Adebiaye. It used to be called Velvetyne TypeForgery because he uses FontForge to design all his free fonts, which come complete with FontForge sources.

Creator of some free (often experimental) fonts in 2010-2011. Cooperators include Sylvain Henri, Jérémy Landes-Nones, and S&eacue;bastien Hayez. Frank's typefaces:

• Ajonc.
• Babacar (2012). He calls it an African fractur.
• Babbage.
• Backout (2012). He writes about this flared poster all-caps typeface: BackOut is what an African Albertus could be.
• Barjavel and Barjavel Mono.
• Basteljau.
• Bi-lined faces: Eighteen, Bachibouzouk.
• Bluff, Bold, Boxer, Cardinal, Grotesk, Jimmy: geometric experiments.
• Chaumont: ransom note family.
• Chedid.
• Compute, Elektron: computer-inspired faces.
• Coqnegre Perspective: angular face.
• Coqnegre Turismo, Stencil: art deco stencil faces.
• Experimental faces: Blanka, Faber, Firenze, Five, Georges, Ink, Jake, Lenny, Normant.
• Fabuliste: an experimental modern face.
• Fersen.
• Frank: monospaced techno blackletter face.
• Geek, Inky, Marcelle, Ping: playful faces.
• Gegenwart.
• Gorki and Gorki Block: a pixel face and a constructivist brother.
• Format 1452: grotesk face.
• Konzern: a texture font.
• Kravitz.
• Leyde.
• Lineal: clean sans.
• Mandeville.
• Manset: a geometric sans.
• Meginhart.
• Mercandieu: grotesk.
• Metropolis.
• Mono (2011). A monoline sans.
• Mont Chauve: experimental.
• Murat.
• Mutations.
• New Wave: avant-garde.
• Nkm.
• Pierrafeu. A brush face.
• Pompidou.
• Prospective, Robusto Mechanica, Grey Charles: more geometric experiments.
• Radikal.
• Rhinox.
• Sagittaire.
• Slang.
• Stencil faces: Free Jazz, Rogue Leader, Rogue Two, Stencil.
• Therow.
• Thiefaine.
• Vielfalt: dingbats.
• Waltenberg.
• Wozniak.
• Zukunft (+Oblique): a geometric sans family.

Author of a book on the life and work of Fran+çois Boltana (2012, with Suzanne Cardinal).

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

Fanandia Ade

Creator of the fat finger typefaces Greatade, Fandaeg, Fanande, Fanandiaade, and Fanandiaa (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beckii Adel

Montreal-based designer. During her studies at Concordia University, she created the free floriated caps typeface Floralism (2013), a font whose glyphs are shaped like in Novecento, one of the "in" typefaces of early 2013. Its decoration is inspired by art nouveau and psychedelia from he 1960s.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christine Adel

Egyptian designer of Coxa Headline (2011), a geometric face in which the Arabic and Latin parts were created in harmony. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barry Eshkol Adelman

A web page devoted to Hugh J. Schonfield's reformed Hebrew script. I quote: In his 1932 book The New Hebrew Typography (London: Denis Archer), Hugh J. Schonfield ranted about his dissatisfaction with the Hebrew writing system. His complaints included a limited selection of typefaces, the lack of a capital-lowercase distinction, and finding Hebrew type ugly. His solution was to revise how Hebrew was written. Schonfieldian script has capital and small letters; Hebrew script letters do not have this distinction. Five Hebrew letters have special forms for when they occur at the ends of words; Schonfieldian does not have any final forms. Hebrew letters forms usually are emphasized horizontally; Schonfieldian letters are emphasized vertically like Latin letters. Punctuation and numerals are horizontally flipped versions of the usual Western forms; in Hebrew script, they are not flipped. The pages include four truetype fonts made by Barry Eshkol Adelman, called Schonfield. Schonfield experiments: Cable Light Hebrew (1932), Caslon Old Face Heavy Hebrew (1932). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Adelmann

Mannheim, Germany-based creator of Surya Grotesque (2013, an alchemic typeface created during his studies at the University Of Applied Sciences in Mannheim). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Okeowo Adeniyi

Nigerian designer of 3d (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iara Adeodato

Brazilian designer who looks like Woody Allen. His typefaces include Chora na Rampa (2012, signage family), Fonte Gorda (2011, pixelish) and Fonte Galhos (2010, dot matrix face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Glyn Adgie

Electronics engineer from Birmingham, UK, who created Clarissa (2005) in regular and bold weights as a sans body family. No downloads. Continued here. In 2005, he started the serif face Ledbury. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Novanda Rizki Adhika

Indonesian illustrator who created Box Sliced (2011, counterless face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ezza Adhreza Brahma

Based in Bandung, Indonesia, Adhreza Brahma (b. 1987) is a typographer and illustrator. At Dafont, one can download Barbarossa (2013), Libre (2013, bilined typeface), Variol (2013), Attic (2009) and Vol (2009). The last two are (incomplete) techno fonts. Bite of Crab (2010) is a monoline octagonal shell. Angled (2013) is a futuristic typeface inspired by traditional letter from Makassar, Indonesia called Lontara. Bite of Crab (2013) is a modular octagonal typeface. Wallflower (2013, free) is a headline sans typeface. Nocte (2013) is a free gothic condensed sans typeface.

Aka Ezza Zebra. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maxim Adien

Creator of the free font Probolinggo (2010, monoline simple sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Adigard

Cocreator of TX Signal Simplifier (2002, Typebox), a hilarious information design dingbat face. MyFonts writes: Eight designers present a set of icons that indicate the fun and fantastic world of signage. Each collaborator's solution represents a completely different interpretations on signage vernacular. The designers are Erik Adigard, Cynthia Jacquette, Akira Kobayashi, Michael Kohnke, Patricia McShane, Joachim Müller-Lancé, Jean-Benoît Lévy, Kevin Roberson, Diana Alisandra Stoen. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Erik Adigard

M-A-D is an interdisciplinary design agency with primary expertise in branding and visual communications. Located in Sausalito, CA, its main designer is Erik Adigard.

In 2012, Erik Adigard and Joachim Müller-Lancé codesigned the rounded octogonal monospaced typeface family Oktal Mono (Delve Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nurkhairina Adinda

Indonesian designer of the free organic sans typeface RixPinkRibbon M (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pria Adireddi

Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011, who hails from India. His graduation typeface was Tranquebar, which covers Latin and Tamil. He also published the Latin/Tamil typeface The Herald in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Helpy Adiwinoto

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of the organic face Fooner (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

LeVonna R. Adkins

Creator of the curly yet angular script face LEVO Scaloopy (2011, The Fontry), free at Dafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Gene Adkins

The Fontry is a Watts, OK, based outfit, est. 1992 by Michael Gene Adkins (b. 1965, OK) and James L. Stirling (b. 1964, OK): Digital type for computer-aided signmaking, with fonts designed for signmakers by signmakers.

Since 2009, they have been producing various digitizations of alphabets designed by Alf R. Becker in the 1930s and 1940s. Gene Adkins designed (2013, didone), ARB 85 Modern Poster JAN-39 (2011, after Modern Poster Script, 1939), ARB-70 (1995), ARB-67 (1998), ARB-66 Neon (2010, +Block, +Line), ARB-44 (1995), ARB-96 Jitter Display DEC-39 (1999), SCRIPT1 ARB-85 Poster Script Normal (2000), ARB-66 Neonline Block, ARB114 Hillbilly Roman JUN-41 Normal (1999), ARB-187 Moderne Caps AUG-47 CAS family (2009, a beautiful didone display face), the ARB 08 Extreme Roman AUG-32 CAS family (2009), ARB-218 Big Blunt (2010), ARB-218 Neon Blunt.

Another product is the Wild Bunch Pak #3: Danthr Skal, Kastaka, Gas Bumps, Skrawl 613, Sharrpe Gothik, Levo Fraz, Kommerce, Stellar Spice, Infected Hurt.

Wild Bunch Pak #2 (50 USD) has Marbles&Strings, Keetoowah, Peppermint, Ghixm (2008: a retrospective of the horror comics and movie posters of the 1960s and the 1970s), Klash, all outline fonts. In Wild Bunch Pak #1, look for Toxia. Race Pak #1 contains 5 chiseled fonts, including ARB67, Brannt Chiseled, Excursions, JLS Ultra, and Race Checkers. 50 USD. There are also Greek Pak #1 (12 Greek fonts for 25 USD, including GRK Orbit, GRK Universe City, GRK Albert, and GREK Bodnaut) and Signfaces Narrow Pak #1. At Garagefonts, Wild Larra, Wild Ruts, Wild Toxia, Wild Nobody families (1999).

Adkins also designed the commercial font First Vision at GarageFonts in 1998. Review at &Type. List of the fonts on his CD.

MyFonts sells FTY Garishing Worse (2011---there is a free version at Dafont), SCRIPT1 Team (2010), SCRIPT1 Toon (2010), SCRIPT1 Voodoo Script (1999-2009, signage script), What Sound Pounds (2009), WILD3InfectedHurtNormal (2010), WILD1 Firstvision (1997), WILD1 Larra (1997, grunge), WILD1 Nobod (1997, grunge), WILD1 Ruts (1997), WILD1 Toxia (1997) and the blackletter faces Ironhorse and Ironrider (2007), revivals of classic wood type faces. FontShop link.

Some fonts are inspired by sign painter Frank H. Atkinson. These include the Broken Poster series done in 2010 and FHA Modernized Ideal Classic (2011).

In 2008, The Fontry published the Greek Font Set, Copper Penny DTP (after Copperplate Gothic, but with lower case included), Droeming (an eerie family) and Earth A.D. (more eerie stuff, metallic, and with sharp serifs). It then generated a break-away subfoundry that carries fonts solely designed by James Stirling, Fontry West. Fontry West is located in Tulsa, OK. At MyFonts, these Fontry West fonts can be bought: Iron, WILD1 Firstvision, WILD1 Larra, WILD1 Nobody, WILD1 Ruts, WILD1 Toxia, WILD2 Ghixm, Greek Font Sets 1 and 2 (not Greek, only Geek-ish, made for fraternity use), and a large Comic Fanboy set which includes glyphs painted with stars and stripes (CFB1 American Patriot, CFB1 Captain Narrow, CFB1 Shielded Avenger, all made by Adkins). The CFB1AmericanPatriot family (2009), and the SCRIPT1 Rager Hevvy family (2009) are free here. JLS Overkill (2009, Bloque, Stencil, Grunge, Champion [athletic lettering], Hammer) is a sturdy family covering everything from SUV-strength stencils to grunge stencils and macho slab serif headline faces. After Disaster (2008), FHA Eccentric French Normal (2008, wood type after an alphabet created by Frank H. Atkinson in 1908), WHATSOUNDPOUNDS?Normal (2009) are free at Dafont. Sinder (2010) is a grunge face. FTY Konkrete (2010) is constructivist, and has a beveled weight. FTY Strategycide (2010) is a similar severe headline sans family. Sinder (2010) and Demon Sker (2011) are free grunge faces. American Purpose (2011) is a grotesk family. American Purpose Casual and American Purpose Stripe (2011) are follow-ups. Garishing Worse (2011) is a casual bold face. Sharpe Gothik (2011) is hand-drawn. American Captain (2011, a manly retro squarish propaganda headline face; see also American Captain Patrius 02 FRE). Deathe Maach (2012) is a sturdy 6-style display family. Avengeance (2012) is a techno typeface. FHA Condensed French (2012, by Michael Gene Adkins and James L. Stirling) and FHA Nicholson French (2012, art nouveau) are based on Frank H. Atkinson's examples.

Typefaces from 2013: FHA Broken Gothic (a layered chiseled family done with James Stirling, based on Broken Poster by Frank H. Atkinson), FTY SKRADJHUWN (a flared family), Iron Man of War (with layering effects, +001Rivet), Iron Man of War 2 NCV, RACE1 Brannt (prismatic, beveled, art deco), FTY Skorzhen (mini-spurred), FTY Speedy Casual, FTY Skradjhuwn NCV (comic book family).

Typefaces made by Fontry West. Typefaces by Mike Adkins.

Fontspace link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Taylor Adkins

During her studies at Flagler College, Saint Augustine, FL, Taylor adkins (b. 1992) designed the angular bas de casse typeface Salt of the Earth (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Todd Adkins

Todd Adkins' fonts: Shatterfont, Chaotix, AortalHard, CaniptionFit (1996, alternative for Treefrog), LeprocyFace (1996), Mercurial and SuessFont (1996) are free. Mac and PC. They also sell font packages in all formats. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elmer Adler

American typographer, 1884-1961. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Reuven Adler

Israeli type designer who created Adler MF (2002) at Masterfont. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sandra Adler

German graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2012. Her graduation typeface is Emelia (2012), a humanist design that covers Latin and Tibetan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ursula Adler

Adler's Dings shut down. In an earlier life, we could find here, from Vienna, Ursula Adler's commercial dingbat fonts: "LaMorte" dingbat fonts (13 fonts in all, and counting), Kick-a-ding (3), Roll-a-ding (3), Ring-a-ding (3), Divide-o-rama (3). 25 USD per 3-font set (truetype for Mac and PC). Other fonts: Butterbees, Reboot1, Abracadabra, Hidden Ghosts, Trinsomnia, U-Mix-U, DaDoodle, Stars No Stripes, Daymares. TypOasis (the link on the left) has a back-up of her non-commercial fonts. Her collection is now here: it has LaMorte 1 to 9, 11, 12, Abracadabra 1, Butterbees, Da Doodle, Daymares, Hidden Ghosts, Insanity Stroke, Reboot 1, Stars no Stripes, Trinsomnia, and U-Mix-U. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vasile Alin Adnan

Timisoara, Romania-based student who is developing some typefaces. He is working on an artsy, 45-degree serifed, silent-film inspired type family called Stab (2007) that can be viewed here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mattias Adolfsson

The initial caps alphabet created in 2010 by Mattias Adolfsson is quite stunning--it has an old carved stone look that is quite effective when forced onto a Clarendon. He drew another animal-themed 3d alphabet in 2010 as well. Not surprisingly, Mattias is an illustrator---Dachshund (2010) and Glasses (2010). He lives in Sigtuna, Sweden. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jürgen Adolph

Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guru Adrian

Designer of some fonts at Chank's place, including The Naughties (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Francisco Adriani

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the condensed blackletter face Wayne Bruce (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Santiago Adur

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the typeface Etile (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Doron Adut

Israeli type designer at MasterFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Shashi Advani

10USD shareware Hindi font by Shashi Advani. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alain Aebersold

Zurich-based creator of an experimental squarish 3d typeface (2013), tentatively called 360 Degrees.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sylvain Aerni

Swiss type designer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: mtrxs (with Jérôme Rigaud: a dot matrix font), Troyd, Encoda MM (sans serif), Encoda Anfang (sans serif), Absinthia, Punebot, Alchemia, Basicrounded, Bacted_Flagada_Trigger (a dirty look font), Helveliga (with Jerome Rigaud and Fabian Monod). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Aeschbach

Idealphabet was founded in 2008 by Alexander Aeschbach (Zurich, Switzerland). It sells these typefaces: Arc (a minimalistic hairline sans), Encyclo (slab serif), Wurst, Equilibrium (serif face), Signalo (humanistic sans family), Element (monospaced typewriter face), Eckig (experimental), Optional. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laure Afchain

Graduate from KABK, The Hague, 2009, Type and Media MA program. Her typefaces:

• Malaussène (2009), a fun muscular display face, done as her graduation typeface at KABK. She says that her (large) family is designed for corporate identitities. It contains Malaussène Translation, Malaussène Expansion and Malaussène Sans as subfamilies, and is published by Die Gestalten in 2011. Examples: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H.
• At KABK, she worked on a revival of the calligraphic face Meidoorn, originally designed in 1928 by Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos for The Heuvelpers.
• She was also at the Fine Arts School in Toulouse. Together with Alejandro Lo Celso, François Chastanet and Géraud Soulhiol, she designed the official typeface for the city of Toulouse, Garonne (2009, 4 styles).
• A handwriting font.
• The display family Pixat.
• Peno (2009), done in a class of Peter Verheul.
• A stone chisel/biline/paper cut experimental family Vampyr.

Werner Affolter

Werner Affolter ran a phototype and printing company in Basel, Switzerland, called Affolter und Gschwind AG, Fotosatz&Reprotechnik. In 1981, Affolter published an extensive catalog entitled Letterama that showed over one thousand alphabets. Few of those were original, so I suspect he acted as a vendor of sorts, but at least a couple seemed original, or were claimed to be original or exclusive: Guigoz, Moby Dick.

Some examples of the types shown, in alphabetical order: Antique Wood MP363 (art nouveau), Antique Wood MP 364 (oriental simulation face) [the Antique Wood series is quite extensive, and is just numbered], B+T Classic (roman), Bernhard Fett, Beton Fine Line (typewriter), Burko (avant garde family), fonts starting with G, Gaston Fett (a squarish gothic face also called Gipsy), Gaston Halbfett (also called Grassy), Gemini Computer, Germanic Sans (more avant garde and Lubalin-style glyphs), Hollandse Mediaeval, Hollywood (a 3d decorative family), typefaces starting with K, Lineamarca (slabby), Linear (avant garde, geometric monoline), Melen (experimental, geometric), Meola Bookman swash (decorative), Metro (art nouveau, after the Metroploitaine font), Moraine (squarish), the Old Foundry sub-collection [another mysterious numbered collection; examples include some uncials, and some more art nouveau faces, some Victorian ornamental faces (F260 through F262), more art nouveau (MP418 through MP420) and blackletter faces (MP421)], Pierrot (psychedelic, groovy), Phydian (one of many Western style ornamental faces0, Ronda, Roulette, Roulette Schattiert (=Rajah) (more Western fare), Ruby (shaded caps), Runic Small (condensed), Rustic (wood log look), typefaces starting with S, Spengler Gothik, St. Clair (ornamental), Zither (calligraphic script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernando Affonso

During his studies in Pelotas, Brazil, Fernando affonso designed an unnamed curly typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denis Afonin

Art director in Moscow who created the multilayer font Cifricci (2013), the geometric solid typeface Modal Font (2013), and the decorative typeface Blitz Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edgar Afonso

Edgar Afonso (b. Viana do Castelo, Portugal, 1976), is a graphic designer and illustrator who embarked in 2010 on some fontr projects. These include the modular face Nave (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fred Africkian

Aka Fred Afrikyan. Yerevan, Armenia-based architect, letterer and type designer who wrote The Art of Letter-Type by Fred Africkian. 120 Tables of Armenian decorative types (1984). See also here. Taboo (Canada Type) is a Latin typeface inspired by lettering from Africkian's book. Patrick Griffin of Canada Type writes: Virtually unknown in the West, Africkian was one of the most talented eastern block artists. Though mainly a calligrapher working with traditional tools, he embraced geometry on multiple occasions for the sake of drawing simple modern Armenian and Cyrillic alphabets. Though he normally tried to maintain in his work a certain homage to Mesrop Mashtots (5th century Armenian monk who invented the Armenian alphabet), his late 1970s experiments made use of so many modern elements that the results were hailed as "real art mingled with science." Examples of his lettering: A, B, C, D, E, F, G. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Afronsu Afronsu

Crazy Sao Paulo-based Brazilian designer (b. 1986) of the grunge face Antropofagia (2010). Born in 1986. He also made Afronsu (2011), Estaktu (2012, influenced by Sao Paulo's graffiti or pixacao), and Abstract Rua (2012). Aka afronsu Afronsu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Petros Afshar

London-based creator of the super-experimental geometric faces Artificer (2011) and Flatland (2011). Home page. Petros is also a talented typographic illustrator---see, e.g., his Blue Heron (2011). An example of his typography for information design: Table Tennis for the 2012 Olympics. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Saba Afzal

Creator of the free font Quater Circles (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stefano Agabio

Italian designer of Mr. Whippy (2011), a fluffy typeface inspired by ice cream and whipped cream. He studied at Politecnico di Milano. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Arne Van Nordby Agaid

Norwegian design student at Norges Kreative Fagskole in Oslo. Creator of a floriated caps alphabet in 2012, and the typeface Creativity in 2011.

Devian tart link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Haim Agami

Jerusalem-based creator of the Hebrew face Haimon (2005). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yaacov Agam

Israeli type designer at MasterFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Yaakov Agam

Israeli type designer at Masterfont, where he published Agam MF. Aka Yaacov Agam. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Devin Agar

Santa Monica, CA-based designer of some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tallal Gul Aga

Graphic designer in Northampton, UK, who created a circle-based typeface called Aga (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gerardo Agbuya

Toronto-based designer of the display caps school project typeface Feather Font (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Ageev

Russian designer of BedrockCyr after an original by Corel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Salma Hisham Aggour

Salma Hisham Aggour (Cairo, Egypt) created the Latin typeface Punk Plan and Movie Genre Pictograms during her graphic design studies in 2013 under the supervision of Sabine Schwarz at the German University in Cairo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tatevik Aghababyan

Tatevik Aghababyan is an Armenian designer who lives and works in Frankfurt, where she is the main person at the studio Tatssachen. She designed these faces: Fedra Sans Armenian (with Peter Bilak; Third Prize at Granshan 2010 for Armenian text types), Elien (an experiental modular family), Glueziffer (2010; a Treefrog-style scratchy hand family), Arpi (2007; sans Armenian unicode face). Elien (2009, 26plus) is a monospace face inspired by bike chains and dot matrix ideas. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Masoud Aghaie

Designer of the Ostovar typeface for Persian in 2011. He lives in Sari, Iran. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Agiasotis

Australian designer of Cap Constructed (2005).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julia Agisheva

London-based designer. Behance link.

She created the paper fold texture typeface Ribbon (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yulia Agisheva

Based in the UK, Yulia Agisheva designed Ribbon Type (2012) and Now Grotesk (2012) during her studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke John Agius

Agius is from Mosta, Malta, b. 1994. Creator of the children's handwriting font Children Once Where (2007), as well as Rough Graffiti and Space and Astronomy. Dafont link. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Omer Agiv

Omer Agiv (Fontomania) made freeware Latin, Hebrew and dingbat fonts such as Amraheb, Electroni, Jumang, Krashim-signs, LironAgiv, Moshe, Outline, Samurai, Samuraiheb, Sunnyday, Transport, Worms, arrow, boards, bw, dotty, goggles, krashim, leaves, nuni, nurit, wood-sticks, Dinorific, omerh.

Some fonts are commercial. Personal handwriting font service for 55USD (Latin, Hebrew or Arabic). Personal signature for 10USD. Some commercial fonts at 8 to 12 dollars, such as Smily, Cookie (curly), Orenh (handwriting), Geometry, Tal, Jifa, Sun, Hairy, ABC, Chains, Liner, Chinese, Arak, Parkinson, Papio, Tropical Sickness and IceSticks.

The free and commercial Hebrew fonts include the Tapuach package (8 fonts).

Fontomania also sells the 13-font 44 USD-"Silver Collection" on CD.

Free handwriting font download: Janet Luther.

At Elifont, one can download Wood Sticks, Samurai, Liron, Ice Sticks, and Boards.

Dafont link. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emiliano Agnetti

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the typeface Read Praz Std (2010), a typeface that evolved from Adobe Caslon Pro. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Agnew

Eric Agnew is the codesigner with Shaun Kardinal, Starseed and Brian Barbour at Themes of a scorched earth of TSP Dingbats. [Google] [More]  ⦿

agnuaspflibko

Futuristic, experimental, grungy stuff not found elsewhere, by agnuaspflibko in Sweden. Check Pormask Ytterhud. Tarmsaft is no more, though. Some of its fonts may still be found on archives, so here is a list of font names: Äggstock, ArsleGothic, ArsleGothic, Bajoran-Ancient-STsemicanonbased, Bajsmaskintjocksprutande, Bajsmaskin, Bajsmaskintjocksprutande, Bajsporr, BantarbjrnHeavy, BilligHora, Bonushora, Brottardolme, Brunkål, Brunst, BrunstCaps, Brunöga, FetmaHeavy, Fisring, Fisring, Fittsvamp, Flottig, FlytningarSvulstiga, Flytningarsprutande, Flytningar, Flytningar, FlytningarSvulstiga, Flytningarsprutande, GallaBlack, GallaBold, Galla, GallaBlack, GallaBold, GallaBold, Untitled, Gathora, Gubbrra, Gubbrra, Helvetet, InavelFrtvinad, InavelFrtvinad, InavelKromosomkalas, InavelKusin, InavelMutant, InavelStorebror, InavelTetkaCyr, InavelTjockaSlkten, InavelTjockaSlkten, KEWKEN, Kattakodd, Kisskorv, Knarkarsvin, Knulla, Lantfnask, Lderbg, LillSnase, Lingonvecka, Manslem, Multihora, Muttprutt, Ollon, Onani, Pormask2039, PormaskRemix, Pormask-Ytterhud, Pormask, PormaskInnebrännare, PormaskInnebrännare, PormaskKlämd, PormaskKlämd, PormaskRemix, Porrblaska, Psttning, Pungen, Psttning, Reningsverk, Rttpick, Rugguggla, Rumpnisse, Runkspad, RuttenSpya, Rvkrm, Rvple, RvpleTjock, Rännskita, Rttpick, Rvkrm, Skäggbiff, Skinnbanjo, Skäggbiff, Snderfistad, SneflabbNormal, Snetripp, Snuskpk, SpinkigJvel, SpinkigJvel, Spräckaren, Spritad, Sprutfest, Spräckaren, Spyhink, Stjrt, Stjrt, Stngkorv, Stngkorv, Snderfistad, TarmSystem, Taskekseminflamerat, Taskeksem, Taskekseminflamerat, Tidelag, Tidelagskoprofag, Tjackluder, Tjockebo, TrampaIntePMinKukSlyna, TrampaIntePMinKukSlyna, TrampaIntePMinKukSlyna, Untitled, Untitted, Våldtäkt, Våldtäkt, Våldtäkt, Aptango, Åderpåk, Nobrain, Tjockebo, Äggstock, ÄggstockGravid, Åderpåk. The full archive has been restored by CybaPee at TypeOasis. Italian tarmsaft site. typeOasis archive. URL at DaFont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claire Agopian

She graduated in 2007 from Ecole Estienne in Paris with a thesis entitled Exotisme familier: une typographie de diaspora, in which she develops an elegant Armenian/Latin typeface, Le Loussiné (2007). She also wrote Edward Fella "I am the vernacular" (2007) at Estienne. She designed the playful display face Knock, the handwriting face Coquillette, and a font based on glyphs of an imaginary tribe, the Kanaks. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joao Agostinho

Caldas da Rainha, Portugal-based designer of the serif face Sbn (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paolo Agostini

Designer of Phoinike, 1998. Downloadable here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Agostino

Canadian designer of the hand-printed typeface Dan's Hand (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rebecca Agra

Brazilian graphic designer who lives in Aracaju and studied communication at UFBA in Bahia. Studio. She created Egito (2009), an out-of-focus optical illusion font. The papyrus font Egypt Typography was done in 2003 during her studies. Aka Bebecca. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Serge Agronsky

Designer at Graphic bureau Az-Zet of the zodiac sign font LifeSigns (1995), the Cyrillic/Latin fonts AZGaramondExtraBoldC (1990-1995), ParagonNordC (1990-1995), and ELIZAZPS (1993). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Aguadé

Madrid-based creator of the beveled and drop shadow typeface family Smoking Club (2013), which was inspired by titling in black and white movies. Buy the typeface at MATOI Design lab. Ogle it here.

Typophile link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Águas

Student at the University of Algarve, Portugal. Creator of Escorregar do Moreno (2011), a typeface based on toilet paper rolls. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Aguayo

Creator in Colima, Mexico, of Aprim (2011, handprinted) and Secondo (2012, fat finger face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paco (Francisco) Aguayo

Typoidea is an outfit in Guadalajara, Mexico, run by Paco Aguayo, the Jalisco-based designer at the Argentinian outfit SantoTipo of Sapucai Picada and Mofles. Aguayo also designed the bitmap font family SacrilegaPX (2001) and the pixel font family Escritura PX. At Tiypo, you can also find Artimania, Hija de Perra, and La Neta (simulating paint). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patricia Aguayo

Patricia graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, she created the curly vine-inspired face Primavera. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Aguila

During her studies in Gaithersburg, MD, Maria Aguila designed Chain Mail (2013), a photographic alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ferchongo Aguilar

Monterrey, Mexico-based designer of an unnamed display typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Aguilar

Jorge Aguilar (Reaktor Lab, Guadalajara, Mexico) is mainly into graphic design and illustration. His Solera family of faces (2011: Solera 2D, Solera 3D and Solera Canto) is designed for chrome jobs---smooth and flashy. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcell Aguilar

Sao Paulo-based designer of the ultra fat face Hong Kong (2010) and of this experimental face (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnau Aguilar Marcos

Barcelona-based designer of Kandu (2013), a thin typeface that was derived from Bell MT in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Aguilar

Mexico City-based designer of Tourist (2012, an inline typeface), Holy Type (2012, experimental typeface), Lemon (2012, display typeface) and Profane (2012, alchemic typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abril Arianna Aguilar Torres

Avril Aguilar created the hand-printed face Abrila (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felipe Aguilera

Aka Felipe Felipe. Graphic designer from Santiago, Chile, who made the origami typeface MyTypo (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gina Aguilera

Gina Aguilera (JMRBooks) created the hand-gridded free font Olde Wampum Belt (2009), classified by Fontspace under "Native American". JMR stands for Jennie's Music Room. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roberto Aguiluz

San Salvador-based graphic designer (b. 1985) who created the 3d sketch font Elli Noise (2008) and the refreshing jungle font Adry of Hanabi (2009). Abstract Fonts link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agustina

Spanish designer of Agustina (2005, scratched handwriting). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edwin A. Ahaar

Designed (the ugly) Futura EF Script in 1954. [Google] [More]  ⦿

C. Ahab

Designer of the freeware font OeBB-Plain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tuvia Aharoni

Israeli type designer, b. Radomska, Poland, 1909, d. 1981. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Aharonov

Caracas, Venezuela-based creator of Kahue (2013), Dot Typeface (2012), Mechanoid (2012), Folded Typeface (2012) and Cubika (2012, a 3d face).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chirag Ahir

Designer in Denver, CO. Behance link. He was inspired by some Bollywood movies when he made Pyar Mohabbat (2010, Devanagari face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johan Ahlberg

Johan Ahlberg's site on pixel fonts that are very readable at extremely small point sizes, on screen. Click on Swamp 2097. Download about 30 original fonts (called pixel fonts and dot fonts). Very impressive displays! Font names: Pixel, Pixel4x4, PixelClassic. Plus an archive of techno/computer/dot/pixel fonts, including many Chinese and Japanese character fonts: 35base, 35basewide, 35lines, 35rounds, ArakawaPlane (katakana), BMUGAsianFont, Beatbox, BlobThin, DFFangSong1B_GB (simple Chinese characters), DotplLCD_KANA, Dotplain, Flytningar (Tarmsaft), Flytningarsprutande, Futalic_win (kana), BlockOut2097 by Matthew Sephton, CoilKtb, MM, Parade20, Pinponpan, Gachaponka__akana (the latter five fonts by Masayuki Sato at Maniackers Design), Jim_s_Kanji_A__PS, Kiloton_v1_0, ManiacKt, Olasfontirregular, Onakanormal, PKNB, PropellerFuel, Sevenet7, Thyristor, Ticker, VTMeiOrnaments (Susan Townsend's nice Chinese ornaments), VTMeiOrnamentsOnBlack, VTMeiOrnamentsOnCircle, WA50, Hirosh, InavelMutant, InavelStorebror, Jetplus, KEWKEN, Koshgarian_Light, Neuropol_Medium, Ollon, Reningsverk, Shamen_Remix.

Alternate URL. Direct downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Helena Ahlstrom Jole

Designer of the free fonts Helena'sHand (handwriting), and Scrapbook-Chinese (Chinese characters). Helena grew up in Ohio and graduated from Brigham Young University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taha Ahmad Makhdoomi

Lahore, Pakistan-based creator (b. 1989) of Gutsy (2012, a four-style techno typeface family).

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

Majito Ah

Creator of small x-height typeface Majetto (2012). Her letters are in the lettering style of the painter Ana Maria Hernaiz.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Almamoun Ahmed

Sudanese type designer who created the Arabic display typeface Isra, which won the first prize for Arabic display type at Linotype's 1st Arabic Type Design Competition in April 2006. That typeface can be bought from Linotype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anindita Ahmed

Canadian creator of Leafy Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tanvir Ahmed

Dhaka, Bangladesh-based designer of the experimental painted look typeface Banjonborna (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pik Chu Ahmetaj

Pik Chu Ahmetaj (b. Hong Kong) studied at Tompkins Cortand Community College Upstate NY, and at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Her decorative caps Garden typeface (2013) is based on Century Gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Åhnebrink

Swiss designer of GT Lena (2009, Grilli Type), an elegant Peignotian geometric sans-serif with some stroke variation. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Young Hyun Ahn

Digital artist in Seoul, who created the multilined geometric prismatic art deco Latin typeface Facetype (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Ahola

Designer of the squarish Mustache Bandit (2009, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jussi Ahola

During his studies at Kookmin University in South Korea, Tampere, Finland-based Jussi Ahola created the full hangul typeface Jangul (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne-Mari Ahonen

As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Métis (1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jenni Ahonen

Finnish student who graduated in 2007 from the University of Reading, where she designed Ilona, an informal rounded-serif face designed for children's books. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anniliese Ahrens

Chicago-based designer of a dingbat font called Hairstyles (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mette Ahrensbach

Aarhus, Denmark-based designer of an unnamed thin font with technical / architectural roots.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tim Ahrens

Just Another Foundry was established in 2005 by Tim Ahrens (b. 1976, Heidelberg, Germany). He studied architecture at the University of Kasrlsruhe and type design at the University of Reading (2007). He now lives in Oxford, where he works as a type designer and architect. In 2005 he established Just Another Foundry. His typefaces:

• Mashine (2005). An octagonal / mechanical family.
• His MA project in Reading was based on Herb (2007), a hookish display face. Herb was extended in 2010 into a full family, which is still genetically linked to blackletters.
• Facit (2005, sans family).
• Zalamander (2006). An angular comic book family. Scans: i, ii, iii, iv.
• Lapture (2004). A redesign of Albert Kapr's (angular, calligraphic) Leipziger Antiqua of 1971.
• With Brian Jaramillo, he designed JAF Peacock from 2007-2010. It was inspired by the Flair typefaces of the 1970s and contains 1200 glyphs and alternates.
• JAF Domus Titling (2011). Designed with Shoko Mugikura, this is a rounded typeface with classical Roman proportions.
• The sans serif family Linotype Aroma (1999).
• JAF Bernini Sans (2012), a winner at TDC 2013. A corporate humanist sans family consisting of tens of styles, from compressed to narrow and regular, and partitioned into a serious JAF Bernino Sans and a more playful JAF Bernina Sans. The ample choices, especially in degrees of compression, makes this a prime candidate for the 2012 Oscars.

At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about Font Remix Tools and on Optical Sizes. In 2010, he started a web font service. In 2011, I found his name listed as an employee of the web font service Typekit.

Author of Size-specific Adjustments to Type Designs: An Investigation of the Principles Guiding the Design of Optical Sizes (2008, Mark Batty Publisher). Technical image from that book.

Abstract Fonts link. MyFonts page. FontShop link. Linotype page. Home page. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anant Ahuja

Designer and typographer who created the art deco marquee typeface Nanas Glasses (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agostina Ahumada

Creator of the school project typefaces BOOoomer (2012, sci-fi style) and Swinger (2012, piano key style), which were created during her studies at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noah Aibel

Israeli type designer at MasterFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Luz Aicardi

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the typeface Dam (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Otl Aicher

Ulm-born designer (1922-1991) at Agfa-Monotype of the Rotis family in 1988-1989 (sold by Adobe), as well as Traffic for the München public transport. He adapted Univers for Bulthaupt.

Aicher was a world expert on pictograms, having designed, e.g., the pictograms for the 1972 Munich Olympics, and his visual language system of over 900 pictograms. Robin Kinross and Erik Spiekermann discuss the pros and cons of Rotis.

Hrant Papazian sums up Rotis, a family disliked by many type designers, but that has some oomph: Rotis -the typeface- is admirable not for its typographic merit, but for its lion-hearted spirit, its golden intentions - things so totally lacking in almost every other font ever made. Norbert Florendo, who worked with him on and off, muses: If anything, Aicher was a formalist in turmoil. A philosopher in spirit who was shackled by his sense of order. He called for revolution in design and typography, but adhered to the grid (anti-nature) in distrust of chaos. He admired Adrian Frutiger immensely and one can undoubtably see how Univers influenced the Rotis matrix. If one reads deeper into Aichers Typographie, one will see Aichers concepts as being less typographic (relating to type design and type layout) and more involved with humans within a rapidly changing environment in need of new symbology and notation systems. [...] I am far more an admirer of Herr Aicher than Rotis the type family. Bio. Rotis was named after the village (Rotis über Leutkirch) in Allgäu where Aicher lived from 1972 and died in 1991. Typophile discussion. URW shows the Monotype WMF Rotis family (2007) which was exclusively used by WMF AG.

Author of these books:

• Typographie (1989, reprinted in 2005; Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz).
• World as Design (1994, Ernst und Sohn, Berlin).
• Analogous Digital (1994, Ernst und Sohn, Berlin).

This biography reveals that Aicher was a German soldier in the second world war, both on the Russian and French fronts. In 1953, he founded the HfG (Hochschule für Gestaltung) in Ulm, and he helped with the graphic design for the Olympic Games in München in 1972. Discussion of his contributions by the typophiles. Markus Rathgeb wrote Otl Aicher (2006, Phaidon Press Limited, London), which is about Aicher's life as a graphic designer, and has little about his type design.

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

Mademoiselle Aida

During her graphic design studies in Barcelona, Mademoiselle Aida created the experimental modular display typeface Kiungo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gianluca Aiello

Italian creator in Milan of the free techno face Black Caps (2011).

Dafont link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke Aiello

Student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Creator of the grungy ink splash face Phobia (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Otoko Aie

Otoko Aie offers three fonts in the comicbabies series, all made in 1997: Thinbaby, Noisebaby and Brokenbaby are noisy alterations of standard fonts. Alternate URL. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Virginie Aiguillon

As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Poinçons (1999), a face based on a design of Fournier. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Aihoshi

Designer of FatsoItalicCS. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kira Aimo

Graphic designer in Helsinki, who created the display typeface Airon (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jen Aimon

Designer of the pixel face HacenPixer (2006, HacenType). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nurul Ain

Nurul Ain, a freelance graphic designer in Selangor, Malaysia, created the paper fold typeface Zaroux in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barry Ainsley

With Robert de Niet, [T-26] co-designer of 9 mm. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pablo Airth

Graphic design student at Western Washington University. Designer of the informal font Leonor (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brahim Ait Talb

Aka vintsis, this Casablancan runs a caligraphy blog. Creator of Vintsis (2009, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

AJB

Creator of the free brush typeface Villa Sanjurjo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shintaro Ajioka

Japanese type designer who published some Japanese typefaces at FONT1000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleezay Ajmal

Creator of the free sharp-edged typeface Edges (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cleo Akaroa

During his studies at the Yoobee School of Design (Auckland, New Zealand), Cleo Akaroa created Viaduct Basin (2013, an angular typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Svetlana Akatyeva

Russian graphic designer. She made the soothing curly informal Cyrillic face Ackat in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sayeda Akbary

During her graphic design studies in Toronto, Sayeda Akbary designed a modular typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Furkan Akbayrak

Turkish creator of the hand-printed typeface Furro Script (2012).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Akel

Designer at tipografia.cl in Santiago de Chile, who designed TCatomica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Ake

Rachel Ake (New York, NY) created the informal and bouncy display face Jambo (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hideo Akiba

Designer of Sousui, the bronze prize in the 6th Morisawa Awards International Typeface Design Competition, 1999. A simple, light and elegant kanji font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akina686

Anna (Akina 686) is the Russian designer of the spiky almost medieval faces Cactus (2011) and Cactus Cyrillic (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Busra Akinci

Turkish graphic designer who created a curly hand-drawn alphabet in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dmitry Akindinov

Bersearch is a distributor of Cyrillic typefaces. RussianH has four weights, and was made in Moscow by Russian typographers Dmitry Akindinov and Alex Romanov. Free demo fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Faruk Akin

Turkish type designer. His repertoire consists of a number of techno or modular faces, a contructivist face (Attack), some upright connected scripts (like the Arabic simulation face Alibaba), some geometric sans faces, a hexagonal face (Hexa). Scans: I, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Akinin

Ivan Akinin (Kiev, Ukraine) designed the monoline titling caps face Profihouse (2011). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Charles Akins

Designer at T-26 of Sillysarus. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akira

Two free handwriting fonts: Burst Chocolate (2000) and Banana Chips (2000). Fonts by "Akira" (kagenjyohjo). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felicia Akira

Creator of the free hand-printed typefaces Baby Disney 3 by Natsu (2012), Quirlycues (2013---copyright string points to Joanne Taylor, 2009), James Almacen (2013, copyright string points to James Fajardo, 2007), and Girly (2013). Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Saburou Akita

American fantasy writer (b. 1994?) who created the hand-printed Verdok Foundation in 2008 for the manga called Verdok. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Karo Akpokiere

Graphic designer from Lagos, Nigeria. He created the vector format alphabet BitSyringe (2012): BitSyringe is a collection of letters inspired by drill bits, medical syringes and geometry.

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

Rashid Akrim

Oslo-based designer who made the hand-printed Rev (2009) and Festival Jomfruer (2010, all caps). Aka huskmelk. Blog. Alternate URL. Fontspace link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Aksionova

Vilnius, Lithuania-based designer of the prismatic op-art and art deco typeface Aks Font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akufen

Montreal-based designer of the geometric typeface Les Enfants de la Bolduc (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

akunp2

Creator of the free font Sundanese Unicode (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taku Aku

Creator of the hand-printed typeface Bobito (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enis Akyol

Graphic designer in Istanbul who created the organic sans typeface Aldoeni in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rebecca Alaccari

Foundry in Canada, est. 2004 by Rebecca Alaccari in Toronto, and run by her and Patrick Griffin. Interview with Rebecca. Her faces can be bought through YouWorkForThem and MyFonts: Centennial Script (2007, a revival of an 1874-1876 high-contrast calligraphic script by Hermann Ihlenburg), Valet (2006, superb art deco face), Freco (2006, an art deco face loosely based on designs and letters of Fré Cohen), Silk Script (2006, based on 1956 Helmut Matheis script called Primadonna), Dominion (2006, based on an early 1970s film type called Lampoon), Johnny (2006, an art nouveau poster face that revives the Harem/Margit face by Phil Martin, 1969), Guillotine (2007), Mayfair (2006, a calligraphic face based on Mayfair Cursive by Middleton, 1932), Happy Birthday (2006, script), Geronimo (2005, brush style poster font), Rostrum (2005, a revival and expansion of a type called Oleander, designed in 1938 by Julius Kirn for the Genzsch&Heyse foundry in Hamburg), Apricot (2005; based on A.R. Bosco's Romany for ATF, 1934, but a major extension with many ligatures), Heathen (2005), Cougar (2004, a digital version of Martin Wilke's 1968 handwriting face Konzept), Puma (2004, brush face based on Herbert Thannhaeuser's 1954 Kurier), Big Brush (brush), Diva (connected script), Odette (high ascender display face after the Morris Benton 1918 American classic, Announcement Roman), Crucifix (2004, a severe octagonal face), Fore (2004, a bullethole face), Formula, Gamer (2004), Formula (2004), Kofi, Platoon (2004, a stencil face), Verso (2004), Secret Scrypt (2004, a handwriting face), Bluebeard (2004, blackletter by Patrick Griffin), Bolero (2004), Janice (2004, psychedelic), Jimi (2004, also psychedelic), Scroll (2004), Dominique (2004, upright script), Moxie (2004, a fat display family which includes a stencil), StockA (2004), StockB (2004, a fat stencil face), Stalker (2004, a destructionist face), Scroll (2004), Jonah (2005, a hippie face based on an early 1970s film type from Franklin Photolettering called Urban). MyFonts page. Phil Rutter and Patrick Griffin made Coffee Script (2004), the digital version of R. Middleton's Wave design for the Ludlow foundry, circa 1962. Phil Rutter and Rebecca Alaccari designed Almanac (2004), a script face based on Imre Reiner's London Script (1957) (and Rebecca did a subsequent redigitization in 2007 that led to Reiner Hand), Tiger Script (2004, based on Georg Trump's wild brush script Jaguar done in 1967 for C. E. Weber), and Ali Baba (2004), an Arabic simulation face originally designed by Georg Trump as Palomba (1955, C.E. Weber foundry). Patrick Griffin made Leather (2005, after Imre Reiner's 1933 blackletter face), Secret Scrypt (2005), Skullbats (2005), Slang (2004, a blood scratch face), Bluebeard (2004), Expo (2004, an octagonal family), and Dancebats (2004). Simone Wilkie designed Boyscout (2004) after the handwriting of her son. Helmut Matheis' Contact (1963, flowing script/brush) was digitized by Rebecca in 2004 as Bruschetta. Rebecca also made Steiner Special (2007, a revival of Swing, a film type by Peter Steiner, 1974), Genesis (2007, a digitization and extension of Grayda, a 1939 calligraphic script of Frank H. Riley at ATF), Evolver (2006, futuristic family), Redwood (2007, a calligraphic script based on Willard T. Sniffin's Raleigh Cursive (1929, ATF)), Orotund (2005, after the 1970s face Eight Ball; this was extended again in 2006 in her art nouveau typeface Huckleberry, which is a revival of the 1973 face of Gustav Jaeger called Mark Twain), Pendulum (2005, a fantastic flowing script based on Nebiolo's Americana, 1945), Jojo (2005, with B. Jacquet), Mascara (2004), Gala (2004, after Neon (1935, Giulio da Milano at Nebiolo)) and Bella Donna (2004, after a script made by Alessandro Butti in 1948, called Rondine).

Typefaces made in 2005: Jazz Gothic (Patrick Griffin), Showboat, Hunter (a revival of Imre Reiner's brush script Mustang, 1956), Quanta (stencil), Quiller (a script face based on J.J. Sierke's 1964 face Privat), Rhino (revival of Mobil, a 1960 face by Helmut Matheis for Ludwig&Mayer), Dominique (donated to FontAid), Secret Scrypt (donated to FontAid), Jackpot (2005, Western typeface remotely based on Cooper Playbill which in turn is related to Cooper Black, but it also has hippy 1968 influences), Sincerely (handwriting face based on Karlgeorg Hoefer's 1968 Elegance), Fontella (a digitization of Novarese's calligraphic script Elite), Boondock (digitization of Imre Reiner's Bazaar from 1956), Gumball (digitization of Papageno, a 1958 bubblegum font by Richard Weber for Bauer), Runway, Gamer, Dominique (OpenType handwriting face), Sterling Script (2005, by Alaccari and Griffin: a 7-weight digitization and extension of Stephenson Blake's 1952 clean copperplate script Youthline Script), Vox (2007, a 24-style monoline sans family done with Patrick Griffin), Vox Round (2013, a softer version), Evolver (2006, a 4-style futuristic family), Ambassador Script (2007, an Alaccari-Griffin revival of the angle-reduced calligraphic script Juliet by Nebiolo, 1955). In 2005, Philip Bouwsma joined Canada Type, and designed a great calligraphic blackletter-inspired family, Torquemada. VIP (2007) is a humanist sans serif uppercase and figures combined with a freshly redrawn revival of the classic VGC Contanze initials originally designed by Harry Brodjian in 1970. Chopper (2007, by Rebecca Alaccari) is a revival of Venture (a 1972 face for VGC by Harry Villhardt). Walter (2007, Rebecca Alaccari) is a digitization of Heritage (1952, ATF, a calligraphic script by Walter H. McKay). Celebrity (2007, Rebecca Alaccari) revives and extends the retro/techno face Latus (Willy Wirtz, 1971). Sympathique (2008, Alaccari) is an ultra-thin and ultra-tall face in the mold of Bernhard Fashion and other era poster or film faces (they say that it is rooted in the film faces Hairstreak and Mossman). Mullen Hand (2008) is a revival of Repro Script (1953, Jerry Mullen, ATF).

Filmotype Giant (2011, a condensed sans) and its italic counterpart, Filmotype Escort (2011) were bth codesigned with Patrick Griffin.

Catalog of its typefaces.

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Nawal Al-Adasani

During his studies at the University of Ballarat, Australia, Nawal Al-Adasani created the sharp-edged display typeface Aris (2013). Aris borrows ornamental details from Arabic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dmitriy Aladkin

Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia-based illustrator and designer. Creator in 2012 of the Cyrillic typeface FEDR, and of MephodiyD (old slavonic). He also made Prut (2012) and Favor (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pablo Alaejos Perez

Pablo Alaejos's graduation typeface in 2012 at FADU UBA (University of Buenos Aires) is the angular and sturdy Landa. Pablo was born in 1982. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joel Alafi

Australian animator. Designer of Poo (2005, ugly handwriting). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohammad Alagha

Mohammad Alagha is Almedia Interactive (or: MAK Alagha, or: Applied Graphic Arts), an Arabic font producer active since 1994. The (beautiful!) AGA Fonts for Arabic are exclusively sold by Almedia Interactive Limited, which is based in the UK. His fonts include AGA-AbasanRegular, AGA-AladdinRegular, AGA-BattoutaRegular, AGA-DimnahRegular, AGA-FuratRegular, AGA-GranadaRegular, AGA-JuhynaRegular, AGA-KayrawanRegular, AGA-MashqBold, AGA-MashqRegular, AGA-NadaRegular, AGA-PetraRegular, AGA-RasheeqBold, AGA-SindibadRegular.

• Free fonts in 2012: AGA Andalus, AGA Cordoba Reg, AGA Cordoba Bold, AGA Cordoba Reg, AGA Granada, AGA Sindibad Reg, AGA Sindibad Bold, AGA Mashq Reg, AGA Mashq Bold, AGA Rasheeq Reg, AGA Rasheeq Bold, AGA Kayrawan, AGA Balloon, AGA Juhyna, AGA Furat, AGA Aladdin.
• Dingbats, beautiful arabesques and ornaments: AGA Horoof, AGA Arab Cities, AGA Greeting Phases, AGA Islamic Phrases, AGA Kalemaat, AGA Names, AGA Arabesque (Regular, Bold and Outline), AGA Islamic regular, AGA Greetings 1 and 2, AGA Publishing regular.
• Commercial fonts in 2012: Alquds, Gaza, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Beirut, Demashq, Amman, Baalbek, Baghdad, Doha, Kufa, aden, Jeddah, Riyadh, Masqat, Benghazi, Onwan, Mishmish, Barqooq, Hassan, Hazem, Zokhrof.

Another URL. Free font sublink. Fontspae link. Dafont link. Download here. The beautiful dingbat fonts AGA Arabesque and AGA Arabesque Desktop (1994-1996) are here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heba Al-Akhras

Creator of Remix Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soh Chad Alaksandus

Singapore-based designer (b. 1985) of 7x7 (2004, outline pixel face), which used to be downloadable from Devian Tart. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruh al-Alam

London, UK-based visual designer, who made some fonts, including the ultra-thin Moda (2013). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruh Al-Alam

London-based designer of an Arabic Didot typeface in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Azza Alammedine

Lebanese graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2012. Azza's graduation typeface is Sila (2012, for Latin and Arabic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abbas Alamnehe

Thirteen free Unicode 3.0-compliant Ethiopian fonts by Abbas Alamnehe: EthiopiaJiret, EthiopiaJiretSlant, EthiopicFantuwua, EthiopicHiwua, EthiopicTint, EthiopicWashRaBold, EthiopicWashRaBoldSlant, EthiopicWashRaSemiBold, EthiopicWashRaSemiBoldSlant, EthiopicWookianos, EthiopicYebse, EthiopicYigezuBisratGoffer, Sabaean. There are subpages on Ethiopian typographic history.

Fonts2U link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Al-Amri

Designer (?) in 2000 of the Arabic fonts AL-Aser-Outline, AL-Aser, AL-Battar-Outline, AL-Battar, AL-Bsher-Outline, AL-Bsher, AL-Hor-Outline, AL-Hor, AL-Hosam-Outline, AL-Hosam, AL-Hotham, AL-Manzomah, AL-Mateen-Outline, AL-Mateen, AL-Mohanad-Bold, AL-Mohanad, AL-Qairwan, AL-Sarem-Bold, AL-Sarem, AL-Sayf-Bold, AL-Sayf, Al-Hadith1, Al-Hadith2, Al-Homam, Al-Mothnna, Al-Samsam, Bader, Othmani, Pen-Kufi-Shadow, Pen-Kufi, Quran-1, Quran-2, Zokrofi. They can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fahim Al-Amudi

Kuala Lumpur, malaysia-based creator of the circuit board font ElectroKufi (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan-Dague-Greene

Type designer (formerly Alan Greene) who is presently at MvB Design in charge of font production. Before that, he was head of custom font creation at FontShop San Francisco, and was also briefly at T26.

Fontfont link. FontShop link. Notes from a talk on typography.

His typefaces:

• The huge serifed family FF Atma (2001).
• Indispose (T26).
• MVB Peccadillo (2002, MVB). Done with Holly Goldsmith.
• MVB Sirenne family (2002). Done with Mark van Bronkhorst, this large family is based on an 18th century design, with optical sizes.
• The free font family Courier Prime (2013), created for John August and , made for screenwriters: Courier Prime is optimized for 12 point size, and matches the metrics of Courier and Courier Final Draft, so you can often swap it out one-for-one. Other Couriers just slant the letters to create faux italics. We give you a whole new face [with true italics], modeled off the script of vintage typewriters. The competition was Mac Courier [the 1990 Apple system font made by Bitstream] and Courier Final Draft [used in the Final Drafdt screenwriter software].

Adrian Granados Alanís

Design student in Monterrey, Mexico, who created Reverend Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Angel de Leon Alanis

Graphic design student at UANL in Monterrey, Mexico.

In 2012, he created Angd.

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Flor Alapi

Buenos Aires-based creator of an untitled art deco typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro M. Alarcón

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the ultra-condensed didone typeface Taipu (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andi (Andrés) Alarcón

Chilean designer (b. 1990) of the destructionist face Vibrate Letters (2006). Home page. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Uli Alarcon

Graphic designer in Sao Paulo. She made a light sans mix between 20db and Gill Sans Light in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shahad AlAsfour

Student in Kuweit. Pure geometry (circles and lines) and a rigorous design process led to Shahad AlAsfour's Turns of a Tensile Typeface (2012) for Latin and Arabic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hussein Alazaat

Arabic typeface designer located in Amman, Jordan. Behance link. In 2011, he created the children's face Tajheez. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abbas Al-Baghdadi

Iraqi type designer who created the traditional Kufi Arabic typeface Firas (2005), which won the second prize for calligraphic Arabic type at Linotype's 1st Arabic Type Design Competition in April 2006. That typeface can be bought from Linotype.

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

Lilian Albani

During her graphic design studies at Ufes, Lilian Albani (Vila Velha, Brazil) created the typewriter-style slab serif typeface Eureka Serif (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martina Ginevra Albano

Industrial designer in Lucca, Italy, who created the techno font Adic (2013) and the free experimental typeface Leliel (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jill Albarado

Designer based at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI, who created the caps font Kidsplay (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Muhammad Zuhair Albazi

Lahore, Pakistan-based type designer who made a Naskh font, Musa Albazi Naskh (2009).

He also created Adobe Naskh.

His main Arabic typeface to date is Zuhair Albazi Naskh, an advanced OpenType Arabic typeface, which is based on the Ottoman manuscript. He writes: This unique typeface contains an unmatched range of features known from the Arabic script. It is not merely a font but an ultimate typesetting and design tool for the Arabic script in classic Naskh style, with letters variants and calligraphic styles, specifically developed to take advantage of the extensive functionality for Naskh Arabic typography. The typeface allowd many controls such as shape alternates, space adjustments, mark placements, and swashes. Two very special features: Calligraphic Naskh kashida (Tatweel) upto three levels of elongations, so the Kashida distribution and frequence can be precisely controlled to create Arabic calligraphic documents without a calligrapher; thousands of kerning pairs for the fine adjustment of letters specially after Raa, Zaa, Waw and before Kaaf. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ignasi Albero

Graphic designer from Barcelona, who created a clean marker pen typeface called Marker (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stine Alberry

The typefoundry Great Dane Designs was established in 2012 by Stine Aelberry in Derby, UK.

Zygon Regular (2012, unicase) was inspired by the 2012 Royal Diamond Jubilee and the notion that the Jubilee, as a multicultural event, would feature celebrations inclusive of all cultures. The typeface is based on the Panjabi syllabary alphabet (Gurmukhi script) combined with the Latin alphabet. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adam Albers

Portland, OR-based creator of Old English Style Font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josef Albers

German-born designer (b. Bottrop, 1888, d. New Haven, 1976) associated with the Bauhaus School that made artistic ripples from 1919-1933. Ex-director of the Department of Design at Yale. Regarding the Economy of Typeface: an article explaining Albers' vision for typography. His typefaces: Display (1923), Schablonenschrift (1923-1926), Futura Black (1926, a great stencil face---Paul Renner and the Bauer design office made it into a typeface in 1929, and included it in the Futura series, even though Futura is quite different in concept) and Kombinationsschrift auf Glas (1928-1931; combine a few elements---it was recreated as P22 P22 Albers by Richard Kegler from 1995 until 2004; see also here). Kombinationsschrift is inherently modular, the principle at the basis of FontStruct and other font creation tools. On my pages, I sometimes call the blatantly modular faces in the style of Kombinationsschrift piano key fonts.

Other modern digitizations of Albers's include ThM Architype Albers (2013, Thijs Mertens). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michael Albers

German creator in 1997 of CRX, Z1 Alice Dee (art nouveau), Sign (dingbats and scanbats), and Bundesliga. Alternate URL. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Albers

Ottawa-based Paul Albers is the designer of the Startrek font Tron. See also here. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Romain Albertini

Parisian art director and graphic designer. Creator of the experimental face Numberz (2009), in which all the capitals are made up of pieces of numbers. Other experimental fonts: Seven (only the 7 is used to make up letters), Binary (only 1 and 0 are used), and Suffer (letters made by removing chunks). Creator of CrisisFont (2010), a display face created to remmember the Greek finincial crisis of 2010. Its letters are quite geometric and seem lost in confusion.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albertino

Creator of the grunge face Green Energy (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Albertoni

Elena Albertoni (Anatole Type Foundry, est. 2005) is an Italian type designer (b. 1979, Bergamo) who studied at ESAD Amiens and the Ecole Estienne in Paris, before taking a position as type designer at FontFabrik in Berlin, where she still lives. She cofounded Anatole Type Foundry with Pascal Duez.

At the Rencontres de Lure 2005, she spoke about OpenType and Latin characters.

Her script typeface Dolce (2005) won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. She created Dyna (connected feminine script). Review of Dolce & Dyna.

Other faces include Kigara, Scritta (connected calligraphic script), Dolce (2005, connected script), Helene (squarish face), Valora, Schneider, Gregoria (a Gregorian chant font that won an award at TDC2 2007), Deja Rip and Deja Web (2010, eight-style sans family of great utility, codesigned with Fred Bordfeld; Cyrillic included).

Acuta (2010) is an all-purpose type family.

Scritta Nuova (2011) is a rhythmic upright connected script, which evokes retro calligraphic styles taught in Italian schools around the 1950s.

In 2012, she published the plump and curvy script face Molle at Google Web Fonts.

Nouvelle Vague (2011) is a connected display script along the lines of Mistral.

Spinnaker (2011) is a sans design based on French and UK lettering found on posters for travel by ship.

In 2011, Elena cofounded LetterinBerlin, a studio dedicated to handmade and digital design, with a special focus on lettering and type-design.

Alternate URL. MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Stephanie Albert

During her studies at Algonguin College in Ottawa, Canada, Stephanie Albert designed a condensed modular typeface called Omega (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steven Albert

American designer of Aquitaine Initials (1987), sold by ITC. See also here and here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Albornoz

Creator (b. 1987) of the con language face Alien Gantz (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lev Alborov

Born in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, in 1965. In 1982 Alborov graduated from Tskhinvali National High School No.2. He entered the Department of Engineering of the Bauman State Technical University in Moscow (class of 1988). Until 1996 he worked at Tbilisi Aircraft-Building Corporation. Since 1996 Alborov works for the RSO-Alania State Research Center. He gave a license for his type Ger (1998, kaleidoscopic dingbats) to ParaType. This type is based on forms of national Ossetic ornament. Ger won an award at Kyrillitsa '99. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Manfred Albracht

Aachen-based font software developer who also made some fonts such as CommScriptTT (a calligraphic script) and the sans serif ecofont family. CommScript. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scott Albrecht

Graphic designer who created the stencil family Stencer in 2009. He also made the counterless fat 3d shadow face Fruit Basket (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ali Ahmed Al Buainain

Designer of the Arabic font Boahmed AlHarf Bold (2005). Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fatima Albudoor

Art student in Boston. Designer of the hand-printed face Tima's Font (2011, iFontMaker) and of Blocks (2011, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Albuquerque

Graphic designer from Barcelos, Portugal. Together with Miguel de Sousa and Marcelo Santos, he made BetaDin (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chyrllene Albuquerque

Aka Chyrllene K. Daughter of Iza W, who desgned many typefaces at Intellecta starting in 2010. She studied applied mathematics and graphic design. In 2013, she wrote a thesis entitled Revival Tipografico at Faculdades Integradas Barros Melo, Brazil. She is credited with these faces:

• ABC Hand (2011). A sign language face.
• Pencraft (2010): a penmanship face with uppercase based on Swagger Capitals (Carl Stephen Junge, at Barnhart Brothers&Spindler), and lowercase based on Sidney Gaunt's Pencraft Oldstyle series (1914), as displayed in the BBS catalog from 1922.
• Eingraviert Dutch Capitals (2009). An engraved typeface.
• Vintage Hands (2012). A set of fists and penman's hands.
• Bonsai Paufo (2010): a dingbat face.
• Jugendstil Flowers (2011).
• Libertee Ornaments (2011): an elegant art nouveau face done with Paulo W.
• MesoAmerican (+Two) (2011): native Indian dingbat faces.
• Tribalism (2011): three faces with ornaments and fleurons, done together with Iza W and Paulo W.
• Cripto (2011). With Paulo W.
• Bruce 1065 Soft Serifs (2011). Very Victorian.
• Gothic Revival Layered (2012). One of the first layered blackletter typefaces anywhere.
• Forte (2013) is a fee brush font in the style of Forte MT (1962, Carl Reissberger).
• Tribalism (2011). Three fonts with penmanship-style flourishes.
• Enchiridion (2012).

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Gabriela Albuquerque

Creator (with Debora Aquino) of the computer game dingbat font Sentai 30 (2007). Based on the Super Sentai logos and characters by Toei Company. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Albuquerque

Illustrator and web designer in Parede, Portugal, who made Afrika (2010)---the ornamental caps alphabet, not the continent. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucas Alcaide

Spanish designer of the hand-printed typeface Aylan (2013, Eurotypo). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Olcar Alcaide

Institute in Benalmadena, Spain (was: Santa Severa), where one can take 4-week courses at 1450 Euros a shot on the Etruscan alphabet, Trajan, Cuadrata and Rustic Roman Capital letters, and related subjects. They also organize lettering tours in Italy and guided tours in various musea. The teachers are Alberto Di Santo (Professor of the visual communication, Tor Vergata University, Rome; Professor of Graphic Design, Istituto Europeo di design, Rome; Professor of editorial design, La Sapienza University, Rome; Professor of Typography, C.F.P. Sinalunga, Siena) and Olcar Alcaide (b. 1952, Argentina, Professor of Graphic and Typography Design, University of Buenos Aires; Professor of Typography, University of Lanús, and Professor of Graphic Design, Marbella Design School, Spain). Type link jump page.

Eurotypo is also the foundry of Olcar Alcaide.

Catalog of Olcar Alcaide's typefaces.

In 2010, he published the text family Antium and the warm signage faces Mijas Ultra and Lila Pro Heavy.

Typefaces from 2011 include Lila pro, Atenea (a humanist sans family), Agerola Script (a fat flowing signage face), Teja (signage face), Zalea (yet another signage face), and Nabu Pro (a connected signage script). Equalis (2011M, with Juan Lavalle) is a monoline slab face with a huge x-height and wide open counters. It was followed by Equalis Stencil (2011). Ravel (2011) is a fat signage script face. Atenea Egyptian (2011) is a solid slab serif family. Berta (2011) is a signage brush face with connected and unconnected versions. Optic Art (2011) is an ornamental face with building blocks that can be used for overlays. Creator of Eurotypo Bodoni Bold (2011).

Typefaces from 2012: Cubus (dingbats), Saxo Deco (art deco), Moliere (2012, an elegant didone family with outspoken ball terminals), Melon Script (a fat curvy signage script family), Riky (comic book family), Chipa (a signage and package design script), Heket (an expressive curly script), Lenga (a slab serif typeface family), Mikal (brush script). Duktus is a 1940s style script in the style of Donatello (1935, Wagner & Schmidt), Troubadour (1927, Wagner & Schmidt), Liberty Script (1927, Willard T. Sniffin), Trafton Script (1933, Howard Allen Trafton), and Coronet (1937, R.H. Middleton).

Picture.

Typefaces from 2013: Dignus (influenced by Bank Gothic and Eurostile), Bague (old Dutch style with little contrast, in the style of Jan Van Krimpen), Lugo (a heavy signage or advertising script), Brittes (copperplate script), Talis (contrast-rich sans family), Fiesole (display family with an awkward back-curled lower case d), C Duflos (after a bâtarde coulée by Claude Duflos, a French engraver who was acitve around 1690).

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Aless Alcala

Art director in Guadalajara, Mexico, who created the spurred typeface San Andres (2013) for a Mexican brewery. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Carlos Alcala

Designer of the alphadings Cartown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Alcantara

Photographer, designer, illustrator and typographer in Mexicali, Mexico.Oscar created the plump signage typeface Benveliu in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rolando C. Alcantara

Graphic designer in Dallas, TX. In 2012, he was working on the display face Santeria. At he Type @ Cooper program in 2012, Rolando C. Alcantara designed Murnau.

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Javier Alcaraz

Argentinian graphic designer, aka El Cerezo. In 2004, he moved to Mexico, where he is a member of Circulo de Tipógrafos and participates in Fontstage. He created Vulgata (2013), an angular text face influenced by Dwiggins and Menhart. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sabina Alcaraz

Graphic design student in Valencia, Spain. Together with Samantha Di Prospero, she created the alchemic display typeface Pintadera (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

D. Alcausin

Melbourne, Australia-based creator of the school project font BFI Golden Years Of Hollywood (2013), art deco typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruce Alcock

New Foundland-born type designer of the hand-printed face Soupbone (+dingbats), who directed commercials at Tricky Pictures, Chicago. He returned to Canada in 2000 to form Global Mechanic with filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming.

Home page. FontShop link. Klingspor link. FontFont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Marc Alcock

British graphic designer who created a wonderful gridded typeface to illustrate the Pantone colors. He lives in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jared Alconcher

Oakland, CA-based motion graphic designer, who created the typeface Conch (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

J. Anton Alcor

Spanish creator of Trian Alfarera (2010), a free Open Font Library face based on street tiling in Sevilla. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zahar Al-Dabbagh

Zahar Al-Dabbagh (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) created the Arabic typeface Syoola in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cesc Aldabó

Designer in Barcelona. Behance link. Critters inspired him to create the experimental typeface Climb (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amira Al Dakroury

Qatari graphic designer who created the hand-printed Arabic face Mazaza (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Aldave

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the Fraktur face Irontail Gothic (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Alden

Bremerton, WA-based designer of the Indic simulation typeface Aniya (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bronte Alder

Auckland, New Zealand-based creator of the decorative typeface Britomart (2013) which was inspired by the logo of Woolmark. This typeface was designed during her studies at Yoobee School of Design.

Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Alderete

B-Movie is a great dingbat font of creatures, created in 2002 for T26 by Jorge Alderete.

CV. Jorge is an illustrator, who was born in Argentina in 1971. He studied at the National University at La Plata, Buenos Aires majoring in graphic design and visual communication. He now lives in Mexico City and works as an illustrator for numerous Mexican and Spanish magazines. Home page.

At Union Fonts, he published Rubias Morenas Pelirojas (a dingbat font) and Unplugged in 2003 and Saratoga (a fifties face; see also at T-26) in 2004.

At SinergiaLab in Argentina, he created the dingbat face SLChe, which was subsequently published at Sudtipos.

At Tiypo, we find Che (a guerilla dingbat face), Platillo (condensed squarish), RMP (dings of female heads), Saratoga and Unplugged. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kirsty Alderson

During her graphic design studies in Leeds, UK, Kirst Alderson created several decorative typefaces (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Aldinger

Dortmund, Germany-based designer of the headline display face Apathy (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maha Aldoubaie

Graphic designer at Coventry University (UK). Creator of the experimental Fingerprint Typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kent Aldrich

Chank writes: Kent Aldrich of the Nomadic Press creates everything from invitations and stationery to hand-bound books and paper props, like origami or boxes. Though he works with metal type every day and has kept sketchbooks of letterforms for years, the is his first venture into the modern world of type. That first venture are sketches that were digitized by Chank in 2005 into two fonts, Nomadic Egyptian and Nomadic Sketchbook. [Google] [More]  ⦿

D. Paul Alecsandri

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

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

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

Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joan A. Alegret

Joan A. Alegret ("La Tipomàtika") is a Barcelona-based Catalan designer (b. 1987) who studied graphic communication at Escola Massana in Barcelona. Creator of the free geometric sans families Candela (2009), Cicle (2007) and Newcicle (2007), and the absolutely rectangular sans family Simply Mono (2007).

Joan's first commercial typeface is the didone fat face Bendita (2011), done for Bonart magazine. Muro (2013) is a heavy sans face. Chispa (2013) aand Verano (2013) are free hand-printed typefaces.

Dafont link. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Kernest link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Old URL. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Martin Aleith

Designer at Die Gestalten of Laminat (2007), Logosmen (2003, geometric display face), Braten Fat (2004), Haudegen (2002, severe bold octagonal face), Halunken Spezial (2004, rounded octagonal), Boxen (2003, a slashed zero font), Esposito (2002, a paperclip font), Galotta (2002), Feixen (2007, paperclip inspired). His fonts can also be found at Pfadfinderei. In 2009, he made the fat rounded modular family Knochen (Die Gestalten). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jazmin Alejandra

Born in 1992 in Argentina, Jazmin Alejandra created the free hand-printed typeface Jale (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Alejandro

Graphic designer in Trujillo, Peru, who made an arc-themed typeface called Circle (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christina Alejandro

Christina Alejandro, or calej d'art, is located in Quezon City on the Philippines. Creator of Bimbam (2012), Conner (2008, a hand-printed blackboard bold typeface), Dotted Line (2012), Serifadow (2012, a shadowed outlined sketched typeface), Scription (2012), Stripes Forever (2012), Square Hair (2012), Loverly (2012), Scripterina (2012), Sesaw (2012), Fair View (2012), Reach (2012), Bright Future (2012), Amidst (2012, children's handwriting), Jewels (2012), Christiana (2012), and Shaded Letters (2012).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raul Alejandro

New York City-based art director who drew an exquisite set of initials in 2013 called Love Letters. He graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gregory Alekel

Gregory Alekel (CommodoreServer Admin) designed the pixel face Commodore Server (2010). Home page. Fonts2u link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Alekhina

Moscow-based designer of the artsy typeface Kandinskiy (2013), the octagonal Cyrillic typeface Type Bolt (2013), and the multilayered geometric font Structura (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandar Petkov Aleksandrov

Bulgarian type designer, b. 1983, who runs a foundry by the same name in Yambol. Bulgaria. Typograph Pro (2010) is a clean almost geometric sans family with two hairline weights. Zip (2010) is a squarish techno family. Another URL: Amateur Media. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nikolai Aleksiev

Russian type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pauerr Alekumsalaam

Barcelona-based designer of the free experimental multiline typeface Fusion (2012, Adobe Illustrator format), and of the connected script signage typeface Dolorosa (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carloz Aleman

Based in Monterrey, Mexico, Carloz Aleman designed an experimental typeface based on X-ray experiments. The result is a good-looking poster typeface. He also made the exclamation-point inspired Exclamativa (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elisabetta Alesi

Graphic designer in Rome. She created the condensed typeface Humoral (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean-Antoine Alessandrini

Type designer, graphic designer and illustrator, born in Marseille in 1942. Allessandrini (sometimes spelled Alessandrini in various publications) used to work at Paris Match, Lui and Elle. His typefaces: Akénaton 1969 (Hollenstein Phototypo) (1975, VGC??), Alias 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Allessandrini 7 1972 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Anarchiste (Mécanorma), Andronique 1984 (Mécanorma), Astronef 1976 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Circus World, (Mécanorma), Cléopatre 1984 (Mécanorma), Combinat 1976 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Éclipso 1982 (Mécanorma), Electric-Type 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Futuriste 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Germain 1969 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Grand Dadais 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Grand Large 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Graphic Man 1973 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Grossium 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Gyptis 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Hypnos 1969 (Hollenstein Phototypo: a psychedlic face), Legitur, Mikado< 1977 (Mécanorma: oriental simulation), Mirago 1970 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Priam 1976 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Showbiz 1969 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Sigle (Mécanorma), Technos 1984 (Mécanorma), Trombinoscope 1964, Vampire 1969 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Wotan, (Mécanorma).

Inventor of the classification system Codex 1980 that provoked heated responses from luminaries such as Vox, baudin, Blanchard and Mendoza.

Author of Typomanie / Jean Alessandrini; préface de Massin (Paris: La Noria, DL, 1977).

In 2013, David Rault wrote the monograph Jean Alessandrini Le poète de la lettre.

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

Alex

American designer of Cutull (2004, a dirtied version of the Google font) and My silly handwriting (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily Alexander

Designer and illustrator in Chicago. She ceeated the wide and elegantly thin display sans face Tuba (2011).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Alexander

Designer at FontStruct of the angular geometric face Edge (2010) and the sci-fi typeface Force (2012).

Behance link. John is a web designer in Los Alamitos, CA.

Devian Tart link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lance Alexander

Designer at the Lab of Futurex SCOSF (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Alexander

Bandung, Indonesia-based creator (b. 1990) of the heavy rounded sans typeface Dinasti (2013). Sanrok Studio link Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Alexander

Graphic designer in Bandung, Indonesia. He created the signage face Besi Tua (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Niko Alexander

Saint Cloud, MN-based designer of Amyst (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stirling H. Alexander

This outfit used to sell and give away fonts made by Stirling H. Alexander until it closed in 1996. Based in Orinda, California, they also were into custom handwriting and custom calligraphic fonts. Free faces included Lingbats and Ling Print Brush. Alexander made a dozen fonts in all. Acutetype morphed into a porn site and then another site since 1996, but Stirling H. Alexander has nothing to do with that. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra

Designer of the pixel face Tokayz (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Alexandre

Designer in 1992 of AlexAntiquaBook and in 1991 of Alex Regular. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gérald Alexandre

Parisian type designer (b. 1974) who designed Manus (1997) and Altmodisch (1998) at Sogral. Brief CV. He also designed Linotype Zensur (1997, grunge). Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jean Alexandre

French punchcutter who was the successor of Philippe Grandjean, the developer of the Romain du roi in 1702. The complete set of 21 sizes of roman and italic letters was finished by Grandjean's successor Jean Alexandre and completed by Louis Luce in 1745. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alex Alexandrou

Milton Keynes, UK-based creator of Greenlish (2012), a font that mixes Latin and Greek. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asya Alexandrova

Drawing artist and illustrator from St. Petersburg, Russia. Flickr page. She created some beautiful illustrated caps in 2009. Also of interest is her Logoman ink on paper drawing (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roman Alexeew

Saint Petersburg-based designer of a 3d Cyrillic alphabet (2013) called Schloss. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexey

Russian graphic and type designer. His mostly experimental faces include Isopronto (2011, geometric), Vampire (2011), Blamed Neverland (2011, a connect-the-dots face), Lighter (techno), and Coffee (2011, ultra-condensed). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aimé Alexia

UK-based designer of Azu (2005, handwriting). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahmed Alfarsi

During his digital design studies, Soharm Oman-based Ahmed Alfarsi created the Latin typeface Moon (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pablo Alfieri

Buenos Aires-based graphic designer and typographer, aka Alfieri. Flickr link. Behance link. He designed Playful (2010), a geometric font that was inspired by 3d toys for children. Odyssea 652 (2010) and Odyssea 632 (2011-2012, Thinkdust) are also geometric in nature. This poster showcases his lettering. With Mariano Farias, he formed Plenty. At HypeForType, Plenty published the arts and crafts face Odyssea (2011).

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guno Alfikri

Creator of the free Startek style face Angled (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camila Alfonso

During her graphic design studies, probably at FADU/ UBA in Buenos Aires, Camila Alfonso created a typeface, possibly called Uncomic (2013). I may be totally off, but that is all the information I have. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Alfonso

Designer at Stereo Typehaus of Loco and 2Bit. He seems to have disappeared from that foundry though. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Alfonso

Designer whose fonts can be bought at FontHaus: Inverse Recto (dingbats), Quantum, Quantumex. The latter two are extensive futuristic / octagonal families. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fahd Al Fraikh

Computer engineer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Creator of the modern Kufi Arabic typeface Nawar (2013). Free download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yusuf Algan

Designer and illustrator in Bonn, Germany. In 2012, he made a wonderful ornamental caps face, World Font, which illustrates 26 of the main scripts in the world today.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Algar

During his studies at the University Of Lincoln's School of Art and Design, Christopher Algar (London, UK) designed the display typeface Two-Faced (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christophe Alglave

French designer in Saint Rémy de Provence.

Dafont link. He created the high-contrast organic face Botanic (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahmed Ali

Designer of the Arabic face Ahmed (1980, Linotype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ali

UK-based art student (b. 1988) who created the handwriting font Ali (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alnel Vincent Alico

Filipino designer in Cebu City, b. 1997. Designer of the free font Recycled Bit (2013).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Urska Alic

Creator of Gunabrez (2011) during TipoBrda 2011, a type design workshop held in Slovenia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ottavia Alieri

During her graphic design studies in London, Ottavia Alieri (b. Italy) created several typefaces (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Farhana Ali

New York City-based creator of the nicely tuned squarish face Sharp Turns (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ishtiaq Ali

Creator of the clean sans face Techno LCD (2011) and the dot matrix typeface London (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kerem Ali Kaynak

Creator (b. 1990, UK) of the fat finger fonts Wub Dub (2013) and Easy as ABC (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marta Cerdá Alimbau

Designer in Barcelona. Behance link. She has been working since 2008 on some gorgeous typefaces, such as Ophelie, Rigid (2010, a piano key font that she proclaims to be a grandchild of Josef Albers), and Gallo Guapo, which mix high contrast and extreme quaint roundness. In 2011, she made the ornamental watch number face Nido.

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

Tori Alimbau

Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Vulcano (1997, with José Manuel Urós). Tori Alimbau, Luis Mendo and José Manuel Urós designed DesignOrDie. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohd Zahoor Ali

Creator of the electronic circuit symbol font SofexIndia (2011). Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juliana Alimova

Ukrainian art director and graphic designer who lives in Kharkiv. She designed the lively hand-printed font Filonovs Mavka (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Muhammad Masroor Ali

Muhammad Masroor Ali's Bengali metafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arama Alisa

Romanian designer. During her studies in 2013, she created an austere monospaced typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shehzad Ali

Urdu Nastaliq Unicode is a Windows True-Type Urdu font which uses Unicode Arabic coding. It was developed by Shehzad Ali and unicoded by Tabish Qureshi (Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi). Here we find more Urdu fonts: AlKatib1 (1998, Naseem Amjad Ali Khan), Umair I (1997, Umair Khan, Urdu Web, based on Neda Reyanah's Persian Font), Urdu Khat-e-Naqsh (1998, AHS), Urdu (1995, Tooraj Enayati and 1997, Adil Rehan, Karachi), Urdu Khat-e-Naqsh (Nastalique) (1999, Shehzad Ashiq Ali). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudiney Alison

Graphic designer in Natal, Brazil. Creator of the art deco typeface Chan Art DC (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monica Alisse

Graphic designer in New York. Behance link.

She created Three Kilometer Type (2012) by emptying her ballpoint pen (which apparently runs for three kilometers). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yosra AlKaff

Graphic designer in Marl, Germany, who created the experimental Arabic typeface Yosr (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abdullah Al-Khafaji

American creator (b. 1986) of the letter permutation face New Kind of English (2009), of Accessories Urban (2010), Accessories Soft (2010), and of Fonts Bomb Skipper (2010, piano key face), Ghost Theory (2010), FontsBombIlovegrapes (2010), FontsBombJiGSAW (2010), Sniper Shot (2010), and Arabian Lamb (2010, Arabic simulation face). Rinosaur (2010) is a futuristic outline face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Saleh Al-Kharashi

Designers of the Arabic fonts Al-Kharashi 52 (1993, based on AF_Hijaz-Normal), Al-Kharashi 65 (1993, based on JaridahItalic; said to have been done by Hisham Diab and Hassan Loutfy), Al-Kharashi 66 Koufi (1993, maybe a copy of Monotype Koufi Bold) and Al-Kharashi 20 (1993), which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rami Al-Kilani

Graduate student of typography at the University of Reading, 2005. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tom Alkim

Creator of the iFontMaker font Tom (2010, handprinted, fat-fingered). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauri Alku

Finnish outfit owning the rights to the font Nokia by Lauri Alku, 1990. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Allaguy-Salachy

Commercial tattoo fonts. I can't figure this site out. At one point, access will cost you 1000 Euros, but wait, you'll get 50% off right now---that is only 500 Euros to access a site with useless fonts. The guy behind this is Tahiti-based Frenchman André Allaguy-Salachy. There appears to be *one* freeware font, China, but for that you need to register. At Fontspace, we find a number of their fonts for free, such as ATHREEDTOFFUGRADIENTASIAN (2010), ATHREEDTOFFUCUBIC (2010), ATHREEDTOFFUCUBICASIAN (2010), and ATHREEDTOFFUCUBICLOUPE (2010): these are interesting typefaces with a gray gradient. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martin Allais

Graphic designer in Barcelona who makes extraordinary typographical posters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Allard

Roubaix-based photographer. At Behance, one can admire his psychedelic font Kubold (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Allard

Mike Allard (DeNada Industries, Gainesville, FL) is the designer in 1992 of many early shareware fonts. The text provided by DeNada: Founded by a grumpy fellow when some software installation actually required a company name in the registration line. DeNada Industries has grown to include one employee (aka Mike Allard). A producer of typefaces in their early years, De Nada has slowly undeveloped over the years to include the odd Theatre Flyer design for out-rageous amounts of money. Their advertising budget is so severely limited as to preclude your being aware of their existence except by sheer accident. DeNada Industries is one of the slowest growing non-corporate entities in all of North America encompassing a wide variety of activities including: Typeface creation, flyer design, theatrical scenic and lighting design (in conjunction with The Shumway Brothers Moving Company) and a wide variety of other activities that defy specific categorization despite the heroic efforts of our staff. Dafont link. His typefaces:

• Script faces: Lauren Script, Heather (updated in 2000 by Mario Arturo), Kavaler Kursive, Machine Script, Juliet, Kelly Brown, E-Brant Script, Miss Brooks.
• Sumdumgoi: a famous oriental simulation face.
• The Celtic font Viking.
• Blackletter faces: MikeAllard-PerryGothic.png, Kelly Ann Gothic.
• Brush faces: Grauman, Striped-Brush,
• Idiosyncratic faces: Alfred Drake, Joe Perry, Kurt Russell, Will Robinson.
• Camelot De Nada (hairline serif).
• Calligraphic: Romeo DN.
• Scimitar2.

Sébastien Alleaume

Creator of Flabby Bums Handwriting (2009). Fontsy link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Geoff Alleger

Geoff Alleger lives near San Francisco, and was born in 1981. At Devian Tart, he designed a wonderful (but not downloadable) font, Imagination. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Allen

Type designer of the photolettering era (1960s) who created the chiseled 3d face Sculpture. Nick Curtis's Haut Relief (2007) is based on this typeface. The African-themed Djibouti of Nick Curtis (2007) is based on West's African Queen, also a 1960s font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Allen

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Global Tall, Inverted Block 9x9, and Old Skool Blocks. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Earl Allen

Designer of Black Chancery (with Doug Miles, in 1993). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Allen

Creator of Amateur Comic (2012, fat finger face, done with iFontMaker) and Alligator Soap (2012, fat finger face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon Allen

Illustrator and graphic designer in Chicago, IL. In 2012, he designed Hodgepodge SemiSerif, a modular typeface designerd with compass and ruler. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Allen

Located in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico, Justin Allen (b. California) used FontStruct to created the tall skinny font Delgado (2013), which was inspired by public lettering in Oaxaca.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lewis Allen

During his design studies at the Arts University Bournemouth, Lewis Allen designed Ernesto (2013), an experimental typeface dedicated to Che Guevara. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Allen

Califoirnia-based [T-26] designer of Aurelius (1994, a spindly face ideal for dungeon party announcements), and Riot.

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

Rich Allen

Three Celtic knot fonts (truetype) by Rich Allen: Diagonal Knots, Vertical Knots, Horizontal Knots. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shea Allen

American designer (b. 1987) of the handwriting fonts Fleavie, PopcornButt, all made in 2005. Home page. In 2006, the fonts Fluke and Unsure were added. Other creations: Script of Sheep (2004, handwriting), Hello Brady and Hello Brady's Dad (2005, handwriting), and Star Gazer (2004, handwriting). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corentin Allerdet

Based in the space industry capital of France, Toulouse, Corentin Allerdet designed the hairline futuristic typeface First Step Typo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Allgeyer

Robert Allgeyer's MusiQwik series of music fonts (2001-2008) is now hosted by me. In 2009, Allgeyer wrote: Welcome to my now-obsolete home page. In early 2009, I removed my web site from the Internet. I have done enough of it, and reached the stage in my life where I want to spend time doing other things. I have left this page for a couple of extra months, so that occasional visitors can find it, before I finally remove everything. I now live in Ormond Beach, Florida USA. Formerly, I was in Aptos, California USA. My name is prominent on the Internet due to my music fonts, fiction, essays, and travel comments. However, do not confuse me with the Midwestern jazz musician, the artist, the dancer, or any number of others with my same name. His free fonts besides MusiQwik and MusiSync, include Bongos, FretQwik, and MusiTone, all made in 2001. NWC Scriptorium has further fonts by him: NWslur (2002), Romital (2002, text font). In 2005, he added NoteHedz.

Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dave Allison

Creator of the original screen font Dala (no downloads). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jen Allison

Creator of Dotty Fold (2012, based on folded paper). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joe Allison

Joe Allison (Joseph Allison Graphic Design) is a UK-based FontStructor (student at Bristol UWE) who created Rebuild Metal, Newbuild Featherlight, Skylight, Newbuild, Picaresque, Newbuild Reflecto, Convention (a great experimental face), Newbuild Demi, Newbuild Bold, Newbuild Modular (octagonal), Familiar Face Inkjet, Familiar Face Grey (texture face) and The New Alphabet (a Wim Crouwel face) in 2008 and 2009. In 2010, he made Global Village (an organic grotesk). His blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Allison

London-based designer of Swirl (2011), a typeface based on strings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Florent Allouard

Designer of Stop Dead (2001), which can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Allred

Creator of the iFontMaker font Mark's Comic (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Allsbrook

Photographer, designer, and musician in Spartanburg, SC. During his studies atAnderson University in Anderson, SC, he designed the octagonal typeface Keystone (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allsindar

Hjarta Smarta is a set of ornamental alphabets created in 2012 by Allsindar. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arieh Allweil

Israeli type designer at MasterFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ally

Australian designer who created the handwriting font Nifty (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Qamari Ally

Specialist of fashion mag typefaces. Qamari Ally (Ultrabrain, Paris, France) made the delicately thin display types Luxurious (2011) and Qult (2011), and the high-contrast serif script face Transition (2011). He also did the grotesk display face Pli (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bella Alma

Based in Quebec and born in 1994, Bella Alma created the pixel face What A Pity (2010, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sultan Almaktari

Located in Aden (Yemen), Sultan Almaktari (or Maqtari) created these Arabic fonts in 2003: Sultan-Medium, Sultan-bold, Sultan-koufi-Bold-2, Sultan-koufi-Bold, Sultan-koufi-circular, Sultan-koufi, Sultan-light, Sultan-light2, Sultan-musnad, Sultan-normal, Sultan-rectangle, Sultan Free. Download here. Sultan Maktari created the Arabic text typeface Sultan Free, which won the first prize for Arabic text type at Linotype's 1st Arabic Type Design Competition in April 2006. That typeface can be bought from Linotype. The web site was overhauled in 2009, and Sultan Fonts now offers both traditional and modern Arabic fonts. The list in 2009: Aden, Nada, Shamsan, Sultan, Sera, Balloon, Yemen, Noha, Maeen, Free, Mona, Nahia (2005, Linotype), Waddah, Sana'a, Hemear, Belqees, Mohammed, Hadramut, Mareb, Saba, Thuyazan, Zabeed, Mahra, Digital, Mobil, Ausan, Musnad, Ruqah.

List of typefaces as of 2013: Sultan Hussein (angular, contains Latin as well), Sultan Aden-black, Sultan Alweeam, Sultan Change, Sultan Free, Sultan Hemear-black, Sultan Hemear-bold, Sultan Hemear-light, Sultan Kufi, Sultan Kufi2, Sultan Mareb, Sultan Mohammed, Sultan Nahia, Sultan Naskh, Sultan Naskh2, Sultan Qatar-Spirit, Sultan Shabwa, Sultan Shamsan, Sultan Tahrer, Sultan Thuyazan-Bold, Sultan Tihama, Sultan-naskh-Handwriting, Sultan Ruq'ah-Bold, Sultan Ruq'ah-Light, Sultan Ruq'ah-Regular.

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

Gad Almaliach

Israeli type designer who created these Hebrew faces at Masterfont: Hagedi MF (2002). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gad Alman

Israeli type designer at MasterFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Shayne Almanzor

Creator of the handwriting face Shayne's handwriting (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mario Almaraz

Born in Monterrey, Mexico, in 1989, Mario Almaraz designed the prismatic art deco poster typeface New York in 2012.

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Ali Almasri

Zarga, Jordan-based designer (b. 1986) of the experimental faces X-Fire (2006), Relaxic (2005) and Graphiro (2005). Gerlaneu (2006) is a 6-style octagonal and geometric family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Abdullah Naser Al Mawash

Designer of the Arabic font Al Mawash Shatt Al-Arab. Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Maria Almeida

Sao Paulo-based designer of Tamir Sans (2012), a display typeface that was created during her graphic design studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Almeida de Paula

Creator of the hand-printed face Niemeyer (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariana Almeida

FontStructor who made the fgriided tablecloth typeface Offshoot (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marshall Almeida

Illustrator and animator who graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Creator of the beautiful iFontMaker fonts De Pooches and De Pooches Lite (2010, sketched). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Simao Almeida

Lisbon-based designer (b. Brazil, 1977) of Digital Circuit (2013), a typeface inspired by pieces of a subway map.

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Joaquin Alme

FontStructor who made Code (2011, stencil face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

M. Almer

Designer in 1999 of the children's handwriting font Mellop. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adriel Almirol

Designer (b. 1979, San José, CA) who made the graffiti face Hypografic (2010) and the fingerpainted typeface Fingerlinger (2012).

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Ali Almithaly

Graphic designer in Sanaa, Yemen. Creator of several Arabic typefaces in 2013: Rabi4a, Suhali, Aqeeq (Zakdesign, free), Alfarooq, Bon Font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bassam Al-Mohammadi

Riyadh-based designer of the Arabic font Bassam Ostorah (2000). Download here or here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Meshari Al-Muhaini

Designer in Qurtoba, Kuwait, b. 1988. Flickr page. In 2010, he designed Dots and Lines. [Google] [More]  ⦿