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McGill University
Montreal, Canada
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Dries 007

Belgian creator of the free counterless constructivist typeface Semi-Russian (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

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.
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Espen Aaeng

Espen Aaeng has been a designer and art director in Oslo since 1973. At Behance, he showed the high-contrast ball terminal face Drops (2010), which is said to be marketed by Foundr-E, but I could not find a link to that foundry. [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). Dafont link. Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. Fontspace link. Catalog in 2010. Fontsy link. Kernest 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]  ⦿

Anna-Elina Aartola

Finnish designer of Electra-Normal. [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. Creators of the free poker card face DealerType (2009). The creator of that face is Pablo Abad from Madrid. Behance link. 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). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ramón Abajo

Free children's handwriting and lettering 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, AbcDNManusArrow, AbcDNManusArrowDotted, AbcDNManusDotted, AbcDNManusDottedLined, AbcDNManusLined, AbcDNManuscript, AbcDomino, AbcFaces, AbcHeadlines, AbcKids, AbcMath, AbcPhonicsOne, AbcPhonicsTwo, AbcPrint, AbcPrintArrow, AbcPrintArrowDotted, AbcPrintDotted, AbcPrintDottedLined, AbcPrintLined, AbcTeacher. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mostafa El Abasiry

Alexandria, Egypt-based creator of the fat octagonal typeface PolyFont (2012), Friendo (2012), Retro Town (2012, free demo), and the pixel face Pixelogist (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hasan Abbas

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

Rahman Abbasli

Azerbaijani designer of FC Barcelona (2009), Premier League (2007), and Real Madrid 2009 (2009). Fontsy link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soroush Abbassi

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

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]  ⦿

Maxine Abbott

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

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.

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Bernie Abel

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

Rachel Abidov

Israeli type designer at MasterFonts who made the handprinted Hebrew face Racheli MF (2009). [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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Rob Abram

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

George Abrams

George Abrams (b. Brooklyn) 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". 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). [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 handprinted faces such as Pointy Fontawlious, Plain Sexy and Best Font Ever (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

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), 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).

MyFonts page. T-26 page. Old home page. Klingspor 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 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, 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. Behance link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Martín Abud

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

Saad D. Abulhab

Arab typeface designer at Hiba Studio. 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. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Saad Dean Abulhab

Arabetics is run by the Iraqi-American New York-based type designer, librarian, and systems engineer Saad Dean Abulhab, who in 2000 patented the Mutamathil (unified and symmetric) type style for Arabic. He grew up in Karbala and Baghdad, Iraq. 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. 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, and Banan (Mutamathil Taqlidi type style). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Macarena Budín Acevedo

Chilean type designer. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his script face Juanita la envidiosa. [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]  ⦿

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, 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. Interview by Ping Mag in 2006. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Christian Acker

Adnauseum is an experimental design studio in Brooklyn, NY, run by Christian Acker, an American type designer who graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York City in 2002. Christian occasionally guest lectures typography classes at Parsons. He designed SailorGothic (2003), the Spanish-looking font Sailor Jerry (2002) and 24Hrs (Cubanica). [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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Edna Acosta

Puerto Rican foundry that produced Aliance, Chupacabra, the Diplomatica family (with ornaments), Acosta Regular, Acosta Italic, Acosta Bold, Acosta Bold Italic, Acosta Black, Acosta Black Italic, Spirograf. All fonts by Edna Acosta. [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, Australia. [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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Adam

Czech designer who lives in Prague. Creator of the seriously angular Happy Killer (2008). Dafont link. [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, handprinted), 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]  ⦿

Blaise Adamczyk

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

Hubert Adamek

Polish designer of the handprinted face Szarpany (2004). [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).

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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]  ⦿

Patrick Adamove

Designer of Horoscopia (2000, dingbats) and CharterD-Normal (1999) at Garagefonts. Patrick is from Hamburg. FontShop link. [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.
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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]  ⦿

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. 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 reowking 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 Oxygen (a sans face available from 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). [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]  ⦿

Carlos Addiel Gaxiola Soto

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

Emlyn Addison

Designer of IDM Minimal (2011, organic). [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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Stefanie Addy

Canadian designer of Stefanie (2009, handprinted 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. Behance link. Open Font Library link. Klingspor link.

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.
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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]  ⦿

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 typoographer and illustrator. At Dafont, one can download Attic (2009) and Vol (2009), both (incomplete) techno fonts. Bite of Crab (2010) is a monoline octagonal shell. [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]

Pria Adireddi

Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011, who hails from India. His graduation typeface was Tranquebar. [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 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), 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). Deathe Maach (2012) is a sturdy 6-style display family. Avengeance (2012) is a techno typeface.

Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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.
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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]  ⦿

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) 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]  ⦿

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. 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]  ⦿

Michael Ageev

Russian designer of BedrockCyr after an original by Corel. [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

Designer of Cap Constructed (2005). Dafont link. [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]  ⦿

Agony

Designer of the horror movie face Eisregen (2007). Alternate URL. [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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Abril Arianna Aguilar Torres

Avril Aguilar created the handprinted 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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Aharonov

Caracas, Venezuela-based creator of Folded Typeface (2012) and Cubika (2012, a 3d face). [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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Eric Åhnebrink

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

Brian Ahola

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

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:

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.

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

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Jen Aimon

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

Svetlana Akatyeva

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

Saburou Akita

American fantasy writer (b. 1994?) who created the handprinted 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]  ⦿

Rashid Akrim

Oslo-based designer who made the handprinted Rev (2009) and Festival Jomfruer (2010, all caps). Aka huskmelk. Blog. Alternate URL. Fontspace link. Home page. [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). 2005 faces: 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 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), 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.

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

Joel Alafi

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

Mohammad Alagha

The (beautiful!) AGA Fonts for Arabic are exclusively sold by Almedia Interactive Limited, which is based in the UK. Designed by Mohammad Alagha, some are free at the web site: AGA Rasheeq, AGA Juhyna, AGA Furat, AGA Cordoba, AGA Granada, AGA Mashq, AGA Sindibad, AGA Aladdin, AGA Kayrawan (could not find out where to download them though). 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. Dafont link for some free fonts. Andalus (1993) can be found here. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohammed Alagha

Mohammad Alagha is Almedia Interactive (or: MAK Alagha, or: Applied Graphic Arts), an Arabic font producer active since 1994. 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.
  • 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.

Download here. Another URL. The beautiful dingbat fonts AGA Arabesque and AGA Arabesque Desktop (1994-1996) are here and here. Fontspae link. Dafont link. [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. Home page. [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]  ⦿

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:

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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]  ⦿

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 calligraphic Arabic typeface Firas, 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. [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). [Google] [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. [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) 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. 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.

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.

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

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]  ⦿

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: 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).

Picture.

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

Juan Carlos Alcala

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

Bruce Alcock

New Foundland-born type designer of the handprinted 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]  ⦿

J. Anton Alcor

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

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]  ⦿

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 Tipomatika") is the Catalan designer (b. 1987) of the free geometric sans families Candela (2009), Cicle (2007) and Newcicle (2007), and the absolutely rectangular sans family Simply Mono (2007). Dafont link. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Kernest link. [Google] [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]  ⦿

Gregory Alekel

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

Carloz Aleman

Monterrey, Mexico-based creator of the exclamation-point inspired Exclamativa (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elisabetta Alesi

Graphic designer in Rome. She created the condensed typeface Humoral (2012). [Google] [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. Behance link. She ceeated the wide and elegantly thin display sans face Tuba (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Alexander

Designer at FontStruct of the angular geometric face Edge (2010). 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

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

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Urska Alic

Creator of Gunabrez (2011) during TipoBrda 2011, a type design workshop held in Slovenia. [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). [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 handprinted font Filonovs Mavka (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Muhammad Masroor Ali

Muhammad Masroor Ali's Bengali metafont. [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]  ⦿

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.
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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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Jean-Antoine Allessandrini

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

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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]  ⦿

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 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, Waddah, Sana'a, Hemear, Belqees, Mohammed, Hadramut, Mareb, Saba, Thuyazan, Zabeed, Mahra, Digital, Mobil, Ausan, Musnad, Ruqah. [Google] [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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Rodrigo Almeida de Paula

Creator of the handprinted face Niemeyer (2011). [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]  ⦿

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).

Fontspace link. Dafont link. [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]  ⦿

Geetika Alok

Geetika Alok is a graphic designer and works on projects in London and India. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Communication, Art&Design and had previously completed her Bachelor's degree from the National Institute of Design with specialisation in Graphic Design. With Henrik Kubel, she designed the typeface India (2011).

In 2011, she created the absolutely fantastic ornamental caps face Saudade, which consists of overlapping circles. She writes: Poster for a talk of Marina Willer. Saudade is the most beautiful word in Brazilian Portuguese. It means something a bit like nostalgia. Typeface: In collaboration with Henrik Kubel.

Maya (2011) and Sea Shells (2011) are typefaces that were inspired by Indian architecture.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Alonso

Designer at BA Graphics of Chicken Feet (2007). She was 11 years old whebn she drew this---the typeface was digitized by her grandfather Bob Alonso (1946-2007) who lived in the Bronx in New York. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cinthia Alonso

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

Ernesto Alonso

Mexican graphic designer who created the condensed monoline sans family Ipanema (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts), which has a multiline weight, Ipanema Sport. He also made the piano key face Nueva Letra (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Alonso

Luis studied Graphic Design at ESDI (Ramón Llull University) and earned his Masters degree in Advanced Typography at Escola Eina (Autonomous University of Barcelona). Since 2006 he has worked from Plam on various projects related to, above all, corporate identity and editorial design. He is working as a type designer, along with Ricardo Santos and Charlie Zinno, with whom he founded in 2011 the type design collective Tiponautas. With Santos, he designed the techno sans families Lab Slab Pro (2011) and Lab Sans Pro (2011).

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

Robert Alonso

Bob Alonso (b. Bronx, NY, 1946, d.2007), the founder of BA Graphics in 1994, is an American typographer who designed Damage Control (1993, grunge), Mango Gothic (1991), Pimento (1998), Shooby (1992), Pink Mouse (1992, psychedelic), Tequila (1992, a bouncy play on Didot), Alex (1996, child's hand), Chicken Soup (1993), PC Gothic (2005), Rust Bucket (1994), ITC Aftershock (1996), ITC Outback (1997), ITC Serengetti (1996), ITC Ziggy (1997), Gusto Black (2003), Vinchenso (2003), Blog (2007, 1890's style display egyptian), Nine One One BA (2007, grunge). He also designed the clean handwriting face Zipty Do, Serendipity (2006), CEO Roman (2007), Paladium Gothic (2007, a sans), Snip Tuck (1994, a headline face), Rancho Grande (1995), Radiance Brush (1997, a casual brush script), and Sahara Bodoni (1996). 33 years of experience at NewYork's Photo Lettering, and specializing to some extentv in calligraphic script faces, but not exclusively so. BA Graphics was located in Chester, NY, and later in Toms River, NJ, and now sells its fonts through MyFonts.

The complete list: ITC Aftershock, Alexandra Script (a formal script), Allure, Alons Antique, Alons Classic, Angular, Animated Gothic, Barnboard, Bedrock, Bodoni Roma (1993), Cabernet Sauvignon (2007, a take on Didot---I can't believe BA Graphics trademarked this name!), Cafe Aroma, California Sans, Calafragalistic (1992), Caslon Manuscript (1992), Champ Ultra (1995, Western billboard font), Chunky Monkey, Cookie Dough, Crackers, Crescent, Down Under, Elegante, Elephant Bells, Ellington Manor, Equate (1993), Extreme (chalk writing, 1996), Felicity Script, Flix, Freaky Friday Extreme, French Vanilla, Galactic, Geo (2000), Granny Smith, Gusto Black, Headline Gothic, High Intensity, Island Sans, Italian Didot, Kresson Black, Linear Gothic, Lorraine Script, Mardi Gras, Mega, Milano, Nightmare, ITC Outback, Pecos, Ravenwood, Red Dawg, Relaxed Fit, Richmond Hill, Road Gothic (1996), Robertson, Senegal, ITC Serengetti, Shazam, Sign Gothic Bold Condensed, Slam Dunk, Sleepy Hollow, Swank Gothic, Title Gothic Light, Torino Modern, Triumph Gothic, Vinchenso Regular, Wackado, Yakety Yak (1994), Zany, ITC Ziggy, Zipty Do, Queen of Hearts (1991, script), Steel Magnolias (1995, blackletter family), Steeplechase (1992, wild West saloon font), Waimea (1992, poster font), Black Rising (2006, a black military style face), Summer Nights (1993, script), Sugar Shack (1995, curly script), Beaches and Cream (1996, a sans turned into a connected script), Jr High (1994, sports lettering).

Alonso Flair with its flared pants (2008) and Squat (2011, a stunted black wood style face) were started by Alonso, but finished after his death by John Bomparte, who wrote this obituary: Throughout his career at the legendary Photo-Lettering, Inc. (one that spanned four decades), Bob created original typefaces and tailored type by modifying, revising and filling out families, fashioning pieces of type for hand-lettered jobs, as well as being involved with the updating of a number of well-known logotypes. Bob was blessed with natural teaching abilities; and those in social and professional circles who had the good fortune to know him considered him not just a type designer but a mentor and a friend. As one such person close to him put it, he was a "graphic technician... back when computers were not even in site for graphic arts, he would take on any intricate&complex graphic project that others would shy away from and come up with a solution that achieved a masterpiece. I'll always remember someone saying 'this can't be done' and Bob saying let me see it and a short time later, there it was --done&perfect. I would like to think that attitude rubbed off on me. Along with this gift for teaching and explaining the complex, Bob exhibited a level of professionalism that was unsurpassed. A number of years ago when the need came to make the transition from the traditional to digital way of creating fonts, he rose to the challenge admirably. Towards the last few years of Photo-Lettering, Bob played a vital role in the conversion to digital, of many of the typefaces within the collection, notably those fonts that carry the prefix PL. More recently, Bob Alonso released several fonts through ITC, Adobe and his independent foundry, BA Graphics. Bob was on the cutting edge of his best work, and in the circumstance of his untimely passing, left a measure of unfinished designs. However, the spirit of his typographic talents and his fine sense of humor lives on through the many much-loved, and popular fonts he has left us: fonts such as Cookie Dough, Equate, Elephant Bells and Pink Mouse, to name a few.

The final font listing at MyFonts: ITC Aftershock, Alex, Alexandra Script, Allure, Alons Antique, Alons Classic, Alonso Flair, Angular, Animated Gothic, Bad Boy, Barnboard, Bedrock, Bodoni Roma, Brawn, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cafe Aroma, Calafragalistic, California Sans, Cedar Key, CEO Roman, Champ Ultra, Chardonnay, Chicken Feet, Chicken Soup, Chunky Monkey, Clearmont, Coffee Black, Cookie Dough, Crescent, Deco Inline, Deep Rising (2006, constructivist), Down Under, Elegante, Elephant Bells, Ellington Manor, Equate, Extreme, Fashion Didot, Felicity Script, Flix, Fraggle, Freaky Friday Extreme, French Vanilla, Galactic, Geo, Grandeur, Granny Smith, Gusto Black, Hatari, Headline Gothic, High Intensity, Island Sans, Italian Didot, Jr High, Ka Boink, Ker Pow, Key West, Klingon, Kresson Black, Linear Gothic, Lorraine Script, Malibu Heights, Manchester, Mardi Gras, Mega, Metro Gothic, Milano (2004, a didone face), Mission Hills, National Gothic, Nightmare, Oh Sweet Pea, ITC Out of the Fridge, ITC Outback, Paladium Gothic, PC Gothic, Pecos, Pink Mouse, Queen Of Hearts, Radiance Brush, Rancho Grande, Range Gothic, Ravenwood, Relaxed Fit, Road Gothic, Robertson, Rust Bucket, S&L Gothic, Sahara Bodoni, Senegal, Serendipity, ITC Serengetti, Shadow Gothic, Shangrala, Shazam, Shore Bodoni, Sign Gothic Bold Condensed, Slam Dunk, Sleepy Hollow, Sleezy, Snaggle, Snip Tuck, South Beach, Spice, Steel Magnolias, Steeplechase, Summer Nights, Swank Gothic, Tequila, Thats Amore, Title Gothic Light, Triple Condensed Gothic, Triumph Gothic, Vinchenso Regular, Wackado, Waimea, Wall Street Gothic, Wonka, Yakety Yak, Zany, ITC Ziggy, Zipty Do.

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

View Bob Alonso's typefaces. View the BA Graphics typeface collection. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Majid Al-Otaibi

Designer of the Arabic fonts AdvertisingBold, AdvertisingExtraBold, AdvertisingLight, AdvertisingMedium, M-Unicode-Abeer, M-Unicode-Dawlat, M-Unicode-Diala, M-Unicode-Hadeel, M-Unicode-Noora, M-Unicode-Sara, M-Unicode-Sima, M-Unicode-Susan, M-Unicode-Wafa, khalaad-AL-Dorrh, khalaad-Abeer, khalaad-Dawlat, khalaad-Diala, khalaad-Hadeel, khalaad-Noora, khalaad-Sara, khalaad-Sima, khalaad-Susan, khalaad-Wafa, khalaad-al-arabeh-2. They can be downloaded here and here. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sinan Alpaslan

Istanbul-based graphic designer. Behance link. He created the organic face Sharp (2011). Poster entitled Kuresel is anma (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Muhammed Geffir Al-Ridha

Indonesian designer (b. 1992) of Trifont (2011), a purely geometric counterless experiment. Dafont link. Muhammed lives in Bandung. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ali Alrikabi

Arabic font designer with a penchant for logotype. Examples: i, ii, iii, iv, v. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hamid Al-Saadi

A calligraphic Arabic typeface with over 3000 glyphs, by Diwan Software. "Mishafi contains more than three thousand shapes, making it possible for the first time to compose proper Quranic calligraphy with all their shapes, markings and recitation symbols. It is also most suitable to compose traditional text of Hadith and commentary texts in respectable form. Both classic and modern Arabic poetry can be presented by it in clear and elegant formats." The face was designed by the acclaimed Iraqi calligrapher Hamid Al-Saadi (b. Baghdad, 1955), and won the Type Directors Club 2000 award. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ardwan AlSabti

Designer in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Behance link. In 2011, he made the squarish face Mandaicana, about which he writes: Mandaicana is one of the few Mandaic type[faces] which exist in the world. Mandaic, the most Southeastern Aramaic dialect spoken in antiquity in Babylonia (Mesene, Characene, Khuzistan), reflects similarities to Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, both belonging to the Eastern Middle Aramaic branch. Although most scholars located the origin of the baptizing community in the East Jordan regions (Mark Lidzbarski, Rudolf Macuch, Kurt Rudolph) the Mandaeans are considered to spent a large part of their still controversial and mysterious history alongside the big rivers (Euphrates, Tigris, Karunriver) in the southern borderland between present-day Iraq and Iran. This was followed by Englaiscana (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelly-Laila Al-Saleh

London-based creator of a piano key custom face for Scout: The Trends Intelligence magazine in 2011. The face is called Scout. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eyad Al-Samman

Eyad Al-Samman is a graphic designer, typographer, photographer, translator, and a freelance literary journalist. He was born in Sana'a city, Yemen, in 1976. Eyad has a Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering. He started working as a graphic designer in 1999. His first typeface is Concordia (named after the university in Montreal where he studied). Sherbrooke (2009), a free pair of sans serif fonts, is named after Sherbrooke Street in Montreal (Luc's home...).

Creator of Samman (2011), Castile (2011, kufic style), Nasser (2011), Zawiya (2011).

In 2012, he made Eyadish (Latin and Cyrillic): Eyadish is specifically designed for commercial, educational, cultural, and social purposes related to infants, babies, kids, and children. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mouneer Al-Shaarani

Arab type designer who has embarked on a project with Lucas De Groot to design some Arabic fonts that fit de Groot's designs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohammad Al Shalfan

Designer of these Arabic fonts: Mohammad-Dawlat (1996), Mohammad-Laha (1996), mohammad bold art 1 (2001). Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ted Alspach

Designer of famous freeware/shareware fonts RansomNote and LeftyCasual. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Altemus

Altemus Creative Services sells dingbat fonts by Robert Altemus from New York, NY: Your premiere source for digital decorative fonts. Their commercial dingbats are sold by MyFonts. Partial list: AltemusBirds, AltemusBorders 1 through 4 (1992; Borders 4 containss pointing hands and flourishes), AltemusBursts 1 through 4, Altemus Bursts 1 through 4 (2002, contains snowflakes), AltemusChecks, AltemusChecksTwo, AltemusCorners, AltemusCrosses, AltemusCuts, AltemusCutsThree, AltemusCutsTwo, AltemusFlowers, AltemusHands, AltemusHolidaysOne, AltemusKitchen, AltemusPinwheels (1996), AltemusPointers, AltemusRays, AltemusRaysBold, AltemusRoughcuts, AltemusRounds, AltemusRules, AltemusSecurity, AltemusShields, AltemusSpirals, AltemusSpiralsBold, AltemusSpiralsBoldItalic, AltemusSpiralsItalic, AltemusSquares, AltemusStars 1 through 3, AltemusSuns, AltemusSunsBold, AltemusToolKit (2 fonts), Altemus Web Icons, EuropaArabesque, Games (cards, domino), Games 2 (mahjong, chess), Sports (balls), Sports 2, Leaves 1 and 2. Catalog, part I, part II. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Friedrich Althausen

German designer of the free fonts Vollkorn-Brotschrift (2006, text face) and Halbstark (2006, a fancy display face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Altman

German designer of Ruzicka LH Freehand for Linotype Hell in 1993, together with Ann Chaisson. This face was based on an original by Rudolph Ruzicka from 1936. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Björn Altmann

Creator of the medium-weight slab serif ClarendoNeoPro (2009, URW++). URW++ writes: German designer Björn Altmann studied all existing versions of Clarendon and their sources and found that these Clarendons, originally designed for text sizes, do not satisfy today's typographic needs, such as banner ads, city light posters, blow-ups and etc. Hence, we do need a ClarendoNeo! [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Claire Altomari

Graphic designer in Brooklyn, NY. Behance link. Creator of the display poster face Stay True Chief (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brett Alton

Brett Alton from Peterborough, ON, is a graduate in computer science from Trent University. He created the Open Font Library handwriting font Brett Font (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahmet Altun

Turkish type designer (b. 1954) who sells through MyFonts. He graduated from Hacettepe University in 1989.

In 2010, he created Dopamin (a high-contrast display sans), Square Comic, and Nilish (monoline geometric display sans).

In 2011, Ahmet created the art deco chic family Turquoise, the techno sans family Altuna Sans, the semi-handprinted Shirin, and the organic and elliptical monoline sans family Deria Sans. Sterk (2011) is a legible and open masculine sans family. Glode (2011) is a masculine geometric sans family. Calligra (2011) is an elegant almost calligraphic flared sans. Ephesus (+Shadow) is a caps-only titling sans family. Tillom (2011) is an elegant decorative face. Ondule (2011) is a horizontally-striped texture face. Brounde (2011) is a rounded monoline slab family. Eggy (2011) is a monoline sans display face with slightly shaky outlines. Uno (2011) is an organic display face.

Typefaces made in 2012: Ferforje (curly all caps face), Daphne (a handdrawn all caps poster family), Mancho (a stylish caps only sans family), Cillop (elliptical sans), Typonil (elliptical sans), Omar (squarish poster font).

. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ana Alvarado

Monterrey, Mexico-based creator of the curly sea snail-inspired AI-format typeface Mood Board (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brandon Alvarado

Iowa-based typographer and graphic design who was born in California. He created Brodovitch (2011), a fashion mag modern decorative typeface based on Alexey Brodovitch's 1951 face Al-Bro. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Alvarado

Carolina graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, she created the slightly grungy outline face Bicifont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Alvarenga

American designer of the rounded face GROFLZ (2011). No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adolfo Álvarez

Chilean designer who created the fat rounded face Rumbo (2009, Tipos de Cartagua) while studying type design at the University of Chile. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aldo Alvarez

Aldo Alvarez's outfit, part of the Chank Army. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Alvarez

Graphic designer from Valencia, Spain. He has a site with Spanish and Catalan language type material, including an interview with Fred Smeijers and the history of typefounding in Valencia. He is working on the stone and garden inspired Lhorta (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristina Alvarez

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

Julieta Alvarez

Creator of the ornamental display face Moliere (2011) while she was studying at FADU UBA in Buenos Aires. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katya Alvarez

Katya graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, she created the display face Rapa Nui which tries to revive the spirit of a mythical figure, Hombre Pájaro. [Google] [More]  ⦿

J.W. Alvarez Smith

Student of Graphic & Web Design at DMACC (Des Moines Area Community College). FontStructor who made Emma Witchson (2012, alchemic typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tania Alvarez Zaldivar

Talented Mexican graphic designer and digital artist based in Montreal, who is pushing the boundaries of experimental typography with creations like Fabric Type (2009), which was developed at Concordia University in Montreal. Examples: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Sukkhos (Mr. Softie) | Overseas Type (2010, done at Concordia University in Montreal) | Moda Barcelona (2011).

In 2010, she designed the map face Cartola, which grew out of a project at EINA in Barcelona and is based on Mrs Eaves. Mar 34 (2011) designed exclusively for the identity of Estruch, a restaurant located at the Plaza of the Cathedral in downtown Barcelona. The project was made in collaboration with Raquel Quevedo, who used the typeface for designing a graphic system for the identity. Both the face&the graphic design are based on postal service paraphernalia. Momo (2011) is a typeface that is developed based on the concepts of dada by El Lissitsky&Kurt Schwitters. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cecilia Álvaro

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the typeface Noville (2008), which beams gothic cathedrals and purple cardinals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bárbara Alves

Graduate from Portugal who obtained a Masters degree from KABK, Den Haag. She designed the Dialogue type family for screen reading. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danilo Alves

Designer in Sao Paulo. In 2011, Danilo created an unnamed avant-garde sans face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fabricio Alves

Fabricio Alves is Café Cult, but he also is Fcraft. In 2010, this Brazilian designer and culture hound created the free rounded faces Fcraft Borgo and Fcraft Borgo Dark, the latter being counterless. He also made Fcraft Smallpix (2009), Basica (2010, squarish) and Fcraft Sidarta (2010). Great web page, by the way.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jackson Alves

Jackson Alves (Type Curitiba foundry) is a Brazilian graphic and type designer, illustrator and teacher. He also designs exclusive lettering for clients around the world.

In 2012, he piublished the pointy calligraphic typeface Bispo---free at MyFonts and at Fontspring. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nuno Alves

Nuno Alves (b. 1978, Lisbon) is the FontStructor who made Terramoto (2010), an earthquake font.

In 2012, he went commercial as UFF Portugal, located in Tomar. His commercial typefaces include Branca Poster (2012: a high-contrast poster family), and Shearman STD (2012: a rounded octagonal typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Wagner Alves

Graphic designer in Criciuma and Florianopolis, Brazil, b. 1989. Creator of the monoline avant garde sans face Caos Light (2010), the handrprinted Mierda (2011), and the minimalist organic face Nawger Sans (2011). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amjad Hussain Alvi

Amjad Hussain Alvi (Alvi Technologies, Pakistan) makes available a free Urdu font, Alvi Nastaleeq (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clare Alyce

Wisconsin-based designer (b. 1987) of Love You Long Time, BLINGladash, Clare's-Special-Sauce, Could-Be-Infected, Got-Ballz, Retro-Stylee, Scrapbooking-Special, Sooper-Cool and stellar-handwriting, all handwriting fonts made in 2007. She also made the western look font WANTED-Dead-Or-Alive! (2007) and the script font Love You Long Time (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emiliano Amadei

Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brasil-based inddustrial designer. Creator of the stencil face New Stencil (2006) and the graffiti face StreetBlok (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bráulio Amado

Portuguese type designer who lives in Almada. He created the octagonal face No Manners (2010). His foundry at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Reis Amado

Started and maintained by Portugal-born Pedro Amado, who teaches in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University Porto, the LiveType Project focuses on the development of complete Fonts using Fontforge. This project aims that everyone involved can and will learn more about typography and type developing in a collaborative method. It will provide the fonts and the font files regularly to users, developers and anyone with an interest in type. They are working on their first font. On Typophile, the question came up regarding the use of the (free) FontForge software rather than the commercial FontLab editor. Amado's reply and additional points:

  • 1. No third party. One of the main directives of this project is to ALWAYS keep it on an Open [Source] Basis so we don't depend on third party, commercial solutions.
  • 2. Open Source. I really believe on the future of Open Source Software. Bear with me for a moment - I work as a Design Tecnhician in a Fine-Arts Faculty in Portugal. As you might know, our public education system doesn't have that much money. The ones who do are usefull courses/faculties like engineering So this situation leaves us with obsolete growing, underdeveloped, non-market responsive solutions. All this because people who are running the system are spending money in vaious stupid ways. If you are familiar with Manuel CastellsopinionsYou might agree that one way to promote a better future is through the use of Open Source solutions. In a very practical way, save some money to invest on more important things - enter Linux & Open Source Software, hence the use of Fontforge. Take the case of our neighbours, the spanish region of Estremadura. The public education system developed their own personalized, scaled to needs Linux Distro - Linex - that they implemented on the whole school system. It worked and the savings were huge! Brasil and some regions in Africa and India are also taking on similar initiatives I know these are difficult to implement solutions, and calculating the costs arent this simple. But this takes to me next point.
  • 3. Training. Imlementing this cost saving solutions means taking on a higher maitenance cost and further system administration - hey! I work on an University arent Universities supposed to promote knowlegde? How about using these systems, develop them, teach students howto, and then comming full circle when students start to use them in their professional lives and saving money to companies etc Nevertheless students should be also trained on the tools that the market needs - so teaching commercial tools and practices is also necessary. So the perfect solution would be to train students how to do it independently of the tools. So as a member of a Faculty I feel its my obligation to start using this systems, and start promoting them (along with commercial and established solutions). The LiveType Project is exactly this - I want to show people that is possible to use the free, open source solutions to learn how to do it with professional quality. And talking about learning
  • 4. Collaboration. The fact that they learn how to do it on a Linux platform, or on a Mac platform or on a Win platform doesn't affect what they learn. This is really it. I don't consider myself a type designer Im just an amateur typographer and type designer whanabe, so I also want to learn how to type design better, who knows if I grow to be good at it? I also want to learn no matter the platform. I also want to learn and knowlege should be acquired in a Free, Open Source Collaborative way! Things work out better if we collaborate with each other.
In 2005, this project morphed into Typeforge. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joana Amador

Brazilian type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. Her fonts include the children's handwriting font Toinho, designed with Renata Faccenda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Amador

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of wot-eva, Fatso Forgotso, and origami (great!). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rie Amaki

New York and Pasadena, CA-based designer of the display family Hierarchy, which won an award at the TDC2 2001 competition (Type Directors Club). Rie studied with Jens Gehlhaar at the Art Center College of Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rafael Amambahy

Brazilian designer of a pixel font in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Amann

German designer at Fontkitchen Type Foundry of Cosicon (2003, dingbats) and Obivan (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Muneo Amano

Muneo Amano's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: the Nohofont family (1998) includes Cat's White, Cat's Black (cats take the shape of letters), Crayon (alphabet, katakana, hiragana), Rakugaki (child's dingbats), Usamoji. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Leticia Amaral

Using iFontMaker, Ana Leticia Amaral created Leca (2011, fat finger face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeruel Aaron Amar

Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to make Pointers and Pointersoft (pixel arrow fonts), Eleaves, AcidSpeed, Parallelofont (octagonal), Missing Block, Acid Square, The First Font, Danubee (organic), Thorns, ReilyBill Richkid, Tabloid, AcidSquare, StillAliveForNow, StillAlive, and The Curve.

In 2009, he added Unbranded, Nokia 6000, Pointers (pixel arrows), Quickening, Bump it up, Corte (3d shadow face), Unbranded, Piloton (techno), Tahoma (pixel family), Raft, Paper Company (octagonal), Afro Style, Arko, 7th Service (stencil), Thorns, and Afro Superstar.

In 2012, he created Malibata Neue, a modernized and simplified Baybayin/Alibata. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moshe Amar

Israeli type designer. Creator of the paint drip Hebrew face Tipot (2010, Masterfont), Plateau MF (2010, Hebrew signage face), Amar MF (1986, Masterfont). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Samara Amat

Design student at the City College of New York. She created the smooth modular display face Chynna Cali (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Amaya

Designer in San Salvador, El Salvador. Creator of the eometric typeface Cubo (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nestor Amaya

Bogota, Colombia-based creator of Shooter (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amazingmax

Kazan, Russia-based creator (b. 1997) of some futuristic/game fonts in 2009: AmazXakep, AmazDooMLeft, AmazDooMLeft2, AmazDooMLeftOutline, AmazDooMRight, AmazDooMRight2, AmazDooMRightOutline, AmazS.T.A.L.K.E.R.Italic, AmazS.T.A.L.K.E.R.v.2.0. In 2010, he made the AmazGoda family of comic book faces. In 2011, he added AmazHand_First, AmazHand_First_Alt, AmazHand_First_Alt_X, AmazHand_First_Hard, AmazHand_First_Smooth. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fritz L. Amberger

Artist and printer, 1899-1950. He designed Barn-Stencil. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernando Amengual

Argentinian artist / painter / illustrator, b. 1966. Creator of the experimental typefaces Borges (2005), Latita (2000, organic), Ñanduti (2000), Pacífica (2000, based on Arial, the typeface used for the Iraq war declaration), Huev (2004), and Misiones. In 1984, he become Profesor Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Buenos Aires. Currently, he is a professor of design at Universidad Católica de Asunción, Paraguay. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Feven Amenu

Graphic designer in Virginia who runs Fevera Graphics. Creator of the techno barcode-simulation face Barcode (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lindsay Amerault

American design studio run by Lindsay Amerault. Behance link. Creator of the marihuana smoke face Paisley (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shori Ameshiko

Orlando, FL-based designer (b. 1985). Creator of Little Twin Stars (2006, artsy font). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ameze

French designer of the graffiti face Ameze (2005). Web page. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Achraf Amiri

Prince now lives in Brussels, and has taken a job as art director and graphic designer. Home page. In 2010, he published a booklet, Didot Fashion Victim. His fashion-inspired lettering is quite amazing, and so are his fashion illustrations. In 2011, he continues his amazing mixtures of typography and illustration in his design of a wall logo for Boutique no. 7 in Moscow. He also made the hairdo experimental caps face Touffe (2011). More fashion and vamp illustrations: Milano 2011, New York 2011, Paris 2011, Sophia Loren, Sofitel Brussels Le Louise (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alireza Amiri

Falling Angel Studio in Partile, Gothenburg, Sweden, was established in 2009 by Alireza Amiri (b. 1986, Teheran). Their first fonts include Circ (pixelish), Ki Moa Triangle Park (2011, with Mohsen Khaki), Sandikza (scribbly hand), Smart (rounded handprinted face), Smart Maximus, Entoferno, Kakeroon, Scatterbrain, XMadness (dot matrix face), Smart Wix (2010), Mazigh (2010, handprinted), Jebrill (2010), Khoft (2010, grungy stencil), Kanta Cube (2010, block letters), Smart Maximus (2010), and Smart Toxonic.

The following alphading pages were published in 2012: Ghab Star David, Ghab Star Clipart, Ghab Star Bahai, Ghab Star, Ghab Leaf Plane, Ghab Leaf Lucky, Ghab Leaf, Ghab Heart Triple, Ghab Heart, Ghab Gravestone, Ghab Cloud, Ghab Bubble Speech Black, Ghab Bubble Speech 2, Ghab Bubble Speech, Ghab Bottle, Ghab Atom. They were created jointly by Alireza Amiri and Sevin Shiva.

Kokab (2012, with Sevin Shiva) and Azad (2012, with Sevin Shiva) are elegant black extended display faces. Bisheh (2012, with Sevin Shiva) is a condensed sans display family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Naseem Amjad

Designer of Arabic fonts, such as AlKatib1 (2001). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Amor

Stuttgart-based Danny Amor was active in the 1990s. His fonts include Jesse James (2000, Western), Future World (1999, LED simulation), New Kids (3D face), CascadeScript, the monospaced pixel face Topaz-8 (1994), and Sarah Bernhardt (1999). Fontspace link. He used the company name Brainstorm at some point. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vespasiano Amphiareo

16th century Franciscan scribe and calligrapher, known for his 1554 writing manual Opera di Frate Vespasiano Amphiareo da Ferrara ... nella quale si insegna a scrivere varie sorti de lettere (Venice, 1554), the first place where one can find a Bastarda. Typefaces based on scans of his work include Gothic Majuscles (2003, Manfred Klein, based on Gothic Initials, 1554), and Amphiareo (2002, a Mac font made by Michael Schrauzer). Pictures of his capitals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack Amra

American designer (aka Psychic Jack) of the destructive face Bubbley (2003), Chao, (2003), Pac-Man-esque (2003), and WhyMe? (2003), Alisian (2003), Jolty'sFontBeta (2003), JoltyCool (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauricio Amster

Polish-Spanish designer, 1907-1980, who fled Spain in 1939 to Chile on board of the Winnipeg, and who revolutionized editorial design in Chile. He worked on the mag Zig-Zag. Examples of his sublime lettering: calligraphy, Cancellaresca, Gotica Bastarda, Romana Antigua, Romantica Humanistica, Rotunda. Photo. Joaquin Contreras wrote a thesis at the Faculty of Architecture of the University in Chile in 2007 entitled Diseño de fuentes tipográficas, basadas en los libros integramente caligrafiados por Mauricio Amster en Chile. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kwesi A. Amuti

Located in Powder Springs, GA, AKOFAType has published the following dingbats with symbology from Ghana: Adinkra Calabash, Adinkra FineFine, Adinkra WantaWanta (2007). The designer is Kwesi A. Amuti (b. East Lansing, MI, 1974). He is working on Steady Rockin (a display face) and Fat Head. Typedia link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ana

Panamanian designer who lives in Argentina, b. 1985. Creator of the artsy display face 4564 (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dartiailh Anais

Parisian illustrator and designer. Creator of JPO (2012), a squarish typeface named after the event it was created for, les Journées Portes Ouvertes des Gobelins. He also made Irregular (2012, a paper cutout face), History (2012), an experimental typeface that uses various layers of overlays. Tribu (2012) is hand-drawn. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kiera Anais

MA-based designer of the pixel font 51291pix (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liat Anan

New York City-based web and graphic designer (b. 1984, Los Angeles) who created the bilined headline face Doubletri (2011). She studied first at Tel Aviv University and then Instituto Europeo di Design i Barcelona. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jackkrit Anantakul

Bangkok-based graphic designer (b. 1979) who founded Design Reform Council in 2005, and is senior designer at YWFT. He made Fetti (2009), a type experiment in 3d based on polyhedra. Spikes (2009) is a modern, wild and abstract handset. Buffer (2010) is a highly contrasted slab display face. Soaka (2010) is more grungy, but remains slabby. YWFT Gavin (2010) began as a hand-drawn exploration of George Bruce's Seven-Line Pica. YWFT Wonderland (2011) is a smorgasbord of various hand-drawn styles. Pello (2011) is an arts and crafts face with Mexican influences.

Home page. You Work For Them link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anatole

Russian fonts designed after historical examples. Free downloads. The list: Arkhive, Belukha1, BrokgauzItalic, Brokgauz, Edisson, Elzevir, Figured, Gloria, Heading (2004, by Anatole), Imperial, Italiano, Karmen, Medieval, Redinger, RomanaScr, Round-Italic, Saksonia, ScriptEnglishItalic, ScriptThinPen, Tcheconin41, Tchekhonin2, Venecia (2004, by Anatole), Washington (2004, by Anatole), Zecession, AAlbionicTitulNrSh, Flomast (handwriting), flomaster-Bold (handwriting), Flomaster (handwriting). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aled Anaya

Graphic designer from Escondido, CA. He created the fat counterless slab face Manzana (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mr. Anbarasan

Designer of the Tamil font TAB-LFS-Kamban Normal (1999) which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian Anders

Designer at RGB107,6 of Stikker99, a font that simulates lettering sewed on clothes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bill Andersen

Agency in Wichita Falls, TX, run by Bill Andersen. Their commercial Kindergarten family is sold through Font Factory. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Torsten Lindsø Andersen

Student at The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts - School of Design. Behance link. He is working on a Cheltenham-inspired text face (2011). Finally, in November 2011, he showed Academy Bold to the world---a virile sans face for texts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gunter Anders

Rheinfelden-based designer of free Luwian hieroglyphic fonts, LuwhittA (2006), LuwhittB (2006). These symbols were developed by M. Marazzi in Atti della Tavola Rotonda (1995) and D. Hawkins in Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions (Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2000). See also E. Laroche's Les Hieroglyphes Hittites (Edition du Centre de la Recherche Scientifique, 1960) and Piero Meriggi's Hieroglyphenhethitisches Glossar (Harrassowitz Verlag, 1962). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Anderson

Designer of Blocked (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Anderson

This South Carolinian cartoonist made the squarish face Pilgrimage BLT (2010, FontStruct). Aka Sabata. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Anderson

Based in North Dakota, Adam Anderson is the designer of Garden of Eden (2007, a casual display face). No downloads. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl Anderson

Type web log run by Carl Anderson in Portland, OR. Carl Anderson is the designer of Cyclist (2005), a font done as a project in Amy Conger's class at the City College of San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl Edlund Anderson

Carl Edlund Anderson from the Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse,&Celtic at St. John's College, University of Cambridge, makes medieval fonts of the highest quality. Made an Icelandic font, Eidlundur (Mac Icelandic encoding), Edlund Insular, Edlund SmallCaps, Edlund (Italic). Work on these fonts was done by Darcy Burner, Carl Anderson and Gary Munch. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles R. Anderson

Foundry in Minnesota run by "Chank", who has been making fonts since 1992. Free fonts sub-page. Chank Diesel from Minneapolis (Charles Andermack in the NY Times and Charles R. Anderson, b. Edmonton, 1970, elsewhere) is Chank, the prolific designer. He runs Chank Fonts with Heidi Olmack ("El Mack de los Toros"). Earlier notices in his faces refer to CAKE Publications (2401 University Ave. NE, Mpls, MN 55418), Chank Foo, Schmopyright, and Exploding (PO Box 90100, San Diego, CA 92169). Bio by Susan Froyd. See also here or here or here or here. Handwriting font service for 95USD. 95 USD Go font Yourself font service based on filling out a form. Piece on Chank in the MinnPost. Chank is a popular and colorful figure who said this about himself: I like to drink a lot, and would like to think I'm known for it. Several of my fonts were inspired by booze, and I like to encourage other people to drink more, too. My best font is called Liquorstore.

A partial list of his faces:

  • 200proofmoonshineremix.
  • A: Adrianna (2004, a sans family), Ammonia, Anger-Prerelease, Asswipe, AsswipeDeluxxe, AztecPezRegular, Adrianna Extended (2005).
  • B: BabOonjaZzbaSsoOn, Badoni, Bastard, Bawdy, BawdyBoldItalic, BawdyItalic, the Blinctype pack (Gomorrah, Sodom, Golgotha, Hamilton Offset, Player Piano), Birthday Girl, Blinkers, Bonehead, Braingelt (gothic), Brainhead, Bric-A-Brac BV (2002), Bridie, Brieincarnation, Brubecks Cube (2004), Buckethead, ButtplugTaft, The BLINCtype Letterpress Fontpak (2004, commercial: Gideon, Golgotha, Gomorrah, Goshen, Hamilton Offset, Player Piano, Prospect Modern and Sodom), Billsville (T-26).
  • C: Chaloops (2005, comic book face), Chankbats Objects, Chankbats Critters (2001), Chankbats Flowers, Chankbats Flakes, Chankflakes (2002), ChauncyDecaf, ChauncyFatty, ChauncyPerkins, ChauncySnowman [this popular series from 1996-1998 is the first font family Chank ever made based on his own handwriting], Cheesewiddler, Chicken, ChickenBonus, Chippewa Falls (2005), Chub, Chumley (2002, first grade handwriting), Chunder (1996), Cleptomania, CollateralDamage, Corndog, CorndogClean, Coronette (2006, slab serif), Cosmic (1996), Couchlover97, CouchloverTruncata, CowboyRhumbahut (2000), CrotchlessTeddyRoosevelt, Crusti, CrustiEr, CrustiEst, CrustiWacky, CurbDog, Cookie Dough (2002), Cowboy Rhumbahaut (2000, Matt Frost).
  • D: DarlingNikki, Dekapot (2007), DickwhippedLincoln, DongCasual, Drunk Cowboy (T-26), Dry Cowboy (2006, Tuscan), Dutch-Oven, Dutch-Treat.
  • E: Easterbuns (2008, Ascender Corp: a signage face), EatpooChubby, EatpooSkinny, EatpooTall [note: the latter three fonts were renamed Eatwell], Evergreen.
  • F: Fatthinfog, Flutterby (2006, free), Fucker, FriskyFlakes (2004), Fastlab (by David Cushman).
  • G: Girl77, Glovebox, Goshen, Groovies-Normal.
  • H: Halebopp, Harvester 3D (2008), HelveticaInaHamper, Hermenaut, HieronymousBoschian, HildeSharpie, HipstersDelight, HooskerDont, HooskerDoo, Hoover, Hystrix, HystrixHystrax, HystrixHystraxBordex, HystrixHystraxSleestax.
  • I: Imastar, IndustrialSchizophrenic, Instructor, Isotope.
  • J: Jawbox, JawboxChanky, Jawbreaker, Jeffersonofabitch, Johnson, Jingles (with Mike Cina).
  • K: Kat Walk (geometric sans), Keester Black (2002), Kaiser, KlippyDingbats, Kraftwerk, KraftwerkNarrow, Kroozr, Kwikfont, Kegger (2007, a collegiate lettering face).
  • L: Lambretta, Laundry, Laundrette, Lavaman, LemonadeSpeedster, Liquor 3D, Liquorstore (1997, a squarish face; since 2005 also in OT as Liquorstore 3D), Luncheonette.
  • M: Mars (2007), Mantisboy, Marcusia, Metolurgy2typeindexcom, Mikrokoszmo, MinglerNipsy, MinglerRitzy, MinglerTipsy, Miss Amylin, MisterFrisky, MisterLincoln, Mister Twiggy (woodsy design), Monko-Blocky, Moonshine, MoonshineMurky, MC Auto (2002), McKraken.
  • N: NailedToTheCross, NapkinTheModern, Nicotine, Nicotine Jazz, Nomadic, Nube.
  • O: Ollivette and Ollivette Elite (old typewriter faces), Omnivore, Oooopsie (this 1997 font is just Helvetica with some circles dropped on top of it. The Helvetica trademark and Adobe copyright notices are still in the font!), OooopsieReverse, Ooopsie, Orbital, OrbusBjorkus, OrbusMultiserif.
  • P: Panefresco (2011, 16 styles---a free sans family), PHreAkKruSty, Panzer, Paregos, Parkway-Hotel, Parkway-Motel, Parkway-Resortotel, PhysicsAlpha, PhysicsBeta, PlasticLasso, Player Piano (old stencil), Poker Party (2003), Polaroid22, Porkshop (1997, based on immigrant Manhattan signage), PorkshopGoodluck, Portastat, Prickly, Professor Minty (2005, curly), ProletarianBeta, Prospect-Modern, Puckfont.
  • R: Redherring, RhumbaHut, Ribjoint, Rubble, Rosemary (2000-2001, T-26, a sign painters font).
  • S: Saltwater, Schwinger (2003, script face), Schwing Shift (2003), Shadowboxer, Shakopee, SharpieStylie, SisterFrisky, SkippySharpie, SaucyMillionaire, Snipple, SooperCosmic, SpaceKrafty, SpaceToaster, Spacesuit, Spunkflakes (2002), StarryFHope, Sundayluck, Sunflower (2006, distressed typewriter), Swingdancer (2002, a custom connected script font first made for P. Puff Company), Swister (2004), GFY Santa Script (2004), Skylab, Shatner, Sunshine (2000-2001, T-26, grunge).
  • T: Tabitha, Tacklebox, TackleboxFive, Thymesans, ThymesansItalic, Transam, Transam03 (2003, commercial version), Trucker.
  • U: Ultramagnetic (by Mike Cina), UncleStinky.
  • V: VenerealDisease, Venis (2002, big text family, T-26: reviewed by Hrant Papazian), Venis Small Caps (2004, T-26).
  • W: Westsac (2003), Whorn, Wichita, Woodrow, WordyDivaBeta.
  • Y: Yearling (2000).
  • Z: ZsazsaGalore.

At Ascender, where one can buy the mostly handprinted faces Birthday Girl, Bleacher, Bobby Zee, Chauncy Decaf, Churros, Collateral Damage, Couchlover, Easterbuns, Loopy Fiesta, Mister Marker, Mister Twiggy, Prickly, Snowballs, Space Toaster, Tipsy, Twigdancer, Younger Than Me (2009, grunge). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Chris Anderson

English artist (b. 1988) who created the Bifur-inspired Vuur (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Anderson

Daniel Anderson's outfit, part of the Chank Army. Fonts: Dr. Waagel (pixel font), Wicky Ways (pixel font), X-Raymond, El Assasin, Argus, FaxMachine, Block Buster, Sreenman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Anderson

Canadian co-designer of Raleigh (Ingrama, 1977) with Robert Norton, Carl Dair, Adrian Williams. Sold by Bitstream. Associated with Toronto's Typsettra, which in 1977 began the design of original typefaces for Berthold, Letraset and ITC. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Anderson

Designer of the dingbat font and scratchy lettering Bear Paw. Check also at Utopia. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Geoff Anderson

Sparklefonts (est. 2005) showcases the work of founder Geoff Anderson, who wants to maintain legibility without compromising style. Chocolate is a flexible, monoline comic book family. Also: Obsidian (comic book), Festival (art nouveau), Dialog (liquid, with stencil versions), Groundhog, Tungsten (futuristic). The foundry is located in rural South-West England. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Greig Anderson

Effektive (Greig Anderson) practices graphic design and communication in the UK. Among its many creations are some experimental typefaces such as Circul8 (2009) and Pixel8 (2009). Behance link. Originally from Aberdeen, Scotland, Greig graduated with a BA (Hons) Graphic Design degree in 2004 and previously spent 4 years working withinn the Scottish/UK design industry at multi disciplinary agency Curious (Previously CuriousOranj) based in Glasgow. Greig spent the academic year 2008-2009 in Sydney. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iain Anderson

Creator of the outlined handprinted face Futuristic Dream (2011, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ian Anderson

Designer in the FUSE 6 collection of the pixel font Dr No B. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Anderson

Free fonts, mostly for artificial languages, by Jeff Anderson (Akumu). These include Aram, Rhaelik, SexyScript, Sketchy-Tirin, Tengwar-Typewriter, Tirin-Hand, Tirin-Script, Tirin-Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesse J. Anderson

Jesse J. Anderson (b. 1980) lives Puyallup, WA. At Devian Tart, he designed BoldnBugly (2002), and AlienBud (2002). He also made Fikle Skratch (2001), Boxer-Pants (2001), Inky-News (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Klaus Anderson

Danish designer of Capitalis Purificalis (2000, a minimalist sans), Quinone Headline (1999, a sans), and City Talker (1998, a condensed sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mart Anderson

Art Director at Vatson & Vatson (now Vatson Wunderman) in Estonia. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke about Digitizing the "Estonian national" typefaces. In his own words: His fonts Pagana, Vaderi and others are based on a lettering of such Estonian mid-20th century typographers as Günther Reindorff, Paul Luhtein and Villu Toots. ATypiI reports: Mart Anderson is producing a range of revival typefaces based on the lettering on 20th century Estonian book designers. The character of their (mainly pen-drawn) work is rather like woodcut lettering, with gently curved slab sides. To make them suitable for typesetting, the characters have been slightly tidied up. Sample of his work on posters, 2005-2006. Scans of faces: Sula (2005, flowing and angular), Panin (2006, playful), EiBanner (2006, comic book face), AmaKaas (2005, again that soft angular theme). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martin Anderson

Designer of the SKYfont family (SKYfontbrands, SKYfontmovies, SKYfontnews, SKYfontone, SKYfontsport, SKYfonttravel, SKYfontThick) for the SKY TV station. Can be freely downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Gumby Anderson

Designer of FarCry (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ria Anderson

Oakland, CA-based graphic designer and typographer. She created RF Franklin Phonetic (2011), RF Shavian (2011), and RF Deseret (2011). These were all designed to be part of the RF Phonetic Suite, a group of typefaces designed to support historic phonetic English alphabet reform. She also completed the Tamil faces Jatiya (2007, Tamil complement to the open-source Latin/Greek/Cyrillic typeface Gentium, designed by Victor Gaultney) and Surai (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert D. Anderson

Old URL. Another old URL. This was of the greatest archives, loaded with medieval and fantasy fonts, including many dingbats. Robert D. Anderson (aka Lord Kyl MacKay) scanned in many alphabets from "Medieval and Renaissance Alphabets" and created tens of beautiful historical fonts, and made them available free of charge: Anglo-Saxon, 8th c., Battel Abbey, 8th C., British Block Flourish, 10th c., British Museum, 14th c., British Outline Majuscules, 10th c., Celtic Knot, Curved Majuscules, 17th c., Decorated Majuscules, 14th c., English Gothic, 17th c., Floral Majuscules, 11th c., German Blackletters, 15th c., Gothic Straight-Faced, 18th c., Italian Cursive, 16th c. (GREAT!), Library of Minerva, 9th c., Spanish Round Bookhand, 16th c., Traditional Gothic, 17th c., Vatican Rough Letters, 8th c., Celtic Knot (caps), Gothic Leaf (caps font), Medieval Dingbats. Alternate URL at TypOasis. Other archive categories: runic fonts, gothic, versals (initial caps), uncial, roman era, anglo-saxon. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Van Anderson

AmeriCorps volunteer math tutor from Packwood, WA, who designed Oregon (2004), a serif face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wyatt Anderson

Creator of Wyatt Bubbles (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zack Anderson

Chicago-based graphic designer. He created the organic experimental face Moxie (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fredrik Andersson

Fredrik is associated with Nordling's design company, Pangea Design, in Stockholm. Fredrik designed Berling Nova (2003-2004, Linotype; with Örjan Nordling) and Berling Nova Sans (2007, Linotype; with Örjan Nordling). Both typefaces grew out of Forsberg's Berling (1953). Enighet, done for The Swedish Trade Union Confederation in 2008 together with Fredrik Andersson, won a merit award at the EDAwards in 2008. In 2011, he founded Letters fro Sweden with Göran Söderström. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Göran Andersson

Göran Andersson lives in Östersund, Sweden. He made these free fonts in 1999: BocceGG, BrutalGG, EgyptienneGG, GraffeGG, GroteskGG. Click on Typsnitt. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johanna Andersson

Swedish illustrator and graphic designer. In 2010, she made Papercut Font. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Petter Andersson

Petter Andersson is a Swedish graphic designer currently based in Amsterdam who specializes in identity, typography, web and print design. In 2011, he created the simple geometric display sans family Ekzakto. His blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bob Anderton

Designed Lino Cut (1990), ITC Mithras (1994), and ITC Blackadder (1996). Also, he made the beautiful BuccaneerBayer for Bayer, 1998. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ronald Andhrad

Ronald Andhrad (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was inspiured by Kubrick's Clockwork Orange and a building in Rio in the design of his art deco / Futura-style stencil face Clockwork Orange (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Ando

Designer of the Bifur-inspired Vuur (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pablito Andorra

Designer of the modular face Emma (made with FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jenifer Andrade

Graphic designer from Lawrenceville, GA, who made the experimental custom face Assemble (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Andrade

San Francisco-based designer, developer, photographer, and musician. Behance link. He created the typeface Sender (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phillip Andrade

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

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

Devian tart link. Alternate URL. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea

Caracas-based digital artist (b. 1985) of drearetro (2007), a nice grungy sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea

Kiwi designer (b. 1983) of the handwriting face AndreWriting (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Haralampos Andreanidis

Greek graphic designer and art diector in Athens. He created the expiremental 3d font Totem (2009) and the square stencil face Nomass Team Font (2009). Nomass site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrey Andreev

Designer at ATRI, Graphic bureau Az-Zet of the Cyrillic/Latin font AZ NewsPaperC (1990-1995), which is similar to News Gothic by Morris Fuller Benton, ATF, 1908. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zdravko Andreev

Zdravko Andreev (Z-design, Bulgaria) created the free experimental faces Diffuse Away (2011), Broken Squares (2011) and Sliced Tech (2011). He also made Girl Characters (2012), Suns and Stars (2011, dingbat face), Pet Animals (2012), Boy Characters (2012), White Outlines (2011), Radiation (2011, radiation symbols), Sexy Love Hearts and Sexy Love Hearts 2 (2012), Christmas Shapes (2011) and Christmas Trees (2011).

Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bocan Andrei

Designer at Clear Studio in Bordeaux, France. In 2009, he made the straight line experimental face KNKTR. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gil Andrei

Graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. He created a modular gridded grungy face called Trifecta (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jacques André

French type professor (b. 1938) who designed some experimental fonts such as Delorme (1989). Jacques André has been working in the field of structured documents and digital typography since 1980. He was the leader of the European Didot Project concerned with the digitization of types. He is Research Director at INRIA (the French National Institute on Computer Science) in Rennes, and his work covers the digitization of ancient books and the encoding of their fonts and glyphes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Andresen

Graphic designer from Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark, who created Ideo Stencil (2006, a slab serif stencil) and Paperwing Sans (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Andresen

American designer of the interesting font NotCaslon (1995) at Emigre. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dóri Andrésson

Icelandic graphic designer in Reykjavik. Asplund's Stockholm public library inspired him to create the geometric compass-and-ruler family Tornado (2010). The New Black (2009) is a very black threatening headline type. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philippe Andrevon

French designer of the animal silhouette face Le monde de Victor (2010). His web site is dedicated to children. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaare Andrews

Kaare Andrews is the designer of the comics book font GNATFONT. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marion Andrews

French calligrapher. Designer of a French school font, which he presented in March 2005 during a meeting held at the National Museum of Edication in Rouen, France. The link given here refers to a PDF which contains the proceedings of that meeting. Marion Andrews's school font has a basic monoline sans caps style tilted at only 5 degrees, and a connected lower case whose rhythm was influenced by the Dryad Writing style of Alfred Fairbank (1932). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taylor Andrews

Newsletter created by Taylor Andrews, who made the font "Possibly". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tervel Andrews

Graphic designer in Hartford, CT. He created the free Helvetica-like face LüYlandika (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vladimir Andrich

Main typographer (b. 1915) at AlphaType in Niles, IL. Bitstream states: AlphaType Corporation, a family-owned company, was founded by Al and Beatrice Friedman in the mid-1960s to make high quality but inexpensive phototypesetters for advertising typographers. In 1981 Berthold acquired AlphaType. He made Cremona in 1982 for Alphatype (now Berthold): a macho face to get your point across. He created the serif family Vladimir at Alphatype in 1966. Other faces there: Allan, American Gothic, Beatrice Script, Contemp, Magna Carta. At VGC, he published Andrich Minerva in 1965, which won Second Prize in the 1965 VGC National Type Face Design Competition. Designer of Vladimir Script (URW++, Elsner & Flake, Linotype), a calligraphic script downloadable here (URW version of 1995). Identifont page. MyFonts and Linotype refer to this designer as Vladimir Andrevich. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Andries

Quebec-based computer scientist who has been involved in the multilingual and Unicode world. He was one of the authors of a proposal adding Tifinagh to Unicode. He is currently working with people in France and Niger on the development of OpenType fonts to support Tuareg. He is also involved in other African scripts such as Moroccan and Sahelian Arabic and a recent script from the Congo (Mandombe). [Google] [More]  ⦿

N. Andrushchenko

N. Andrushchenko's beautiful free old Cyrillic fonts called Orthodox (1994 Soft Union, 2000 Andrushenko), OrthodoxDigits, OrthodoxDigitsLoose, OrthodoxLoose, OrthodoxOrnament. An earlier version of this font family is called EvangelieTT (1994, SoftUnion Ltd., created by A. Shishkin and N. Vsesvetskii). See also here for these fonts foinished in 2003, based on the same originals by A. Shishkin and N. Vsesvetskii: Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps-tight, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Drop-Caps, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-tight, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8, Orthodox.tt-eRoos-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-eRoos, Orthodox.tt-ieERoos-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-ieERoos, Orthodox.tt-ieUcs8-Caps-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-ieUcs8-Caps, Orthodox.tt-ieUcs8-Drop-Caps, Orthodox.tt-ieUcs8-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-ieUcs8, Orthodox, OrthodoxDigits, OrthodoxDigitsLoose, OrthodoxLoose, OrthodoxOrnament.

His new site offers these fonts: Elizabeth_TT-Italic, Elizabeth_TT, Elizabeth_tt-Roos-Italic, Elizabeth_tt-Roos, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps-tight, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Drop-Caps, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-tight, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8, Orthodox.tt-eRoos-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-eRoos. The Elizabeth_TT series is a gorgeous done family from 1993 (by "ATRI"Graphic Bureau "Az-Zet"), and renovated in 2003 by Andrushchenko. The Orthodox series is by SoftUnion, 1994, rejuvenated by Andrushchenko in 2003. Free Coda music fonts by Andrushchenko, dated 2000, at the same site: MaestroSquare, MaestroWideSquare, PetrucciSquare. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taku Anekawa

Designer of Tanimachi 5 and PetSounds (2000), sold at Font Pavilion. Designer of the screen pixel fonts Dannybitman-7pt, DingBit-FreeSoul, DoshinFont in Digitalogue's DPI72 package. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scott Ford Aneloski

Born&raised in Grand Junction Colorado, educated in art&graphic design at Western State College of Colorado, Scott now works as a freelance designer in Wichita, KS. Dafont link. Creator of the handwriting font Scotosaurus (2011) and the blackletter face Cartographer (2011). Ellephont (2011) is handprinted. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ekaterina Anenko

Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic text superfamily Fregata (2010) while she was a student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. Pic. Promotional samples of Fregata (serif and sans, regular and bold, Latin and Cyrillic) while we are waiting for the awards to roll in: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohamed Anes

Designer from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He created the oriental simulation face Saif (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angela Aneta

Creator of the handprinted NADC Heartbeat (2011). NADC stands for Nepean Arts&Design Centre (NADC) at Nepean College (Kingswood Campus) near Sydney, Australia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sigurður Angantýsson

Creator in Reykjavik of the wavy hypnotic and futuristic face Pastura (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charmaine Ang

Singapore-based graphic designer. She created Utopia (2010), a blackletter typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

João Paulo Angelim

Sao Paulo-based Brazilian designer in 2007 of the hookish handprinted face Original Olinda Style, and of Lego System (dingbats). FADU-UBA link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jordan Angell

Branding expert in Calgary, who has created some curly logotypes in 2009. In 2010, he made the geometric beveled face Architype, and the octagonal techno face Phreeker. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cory Angen

Graphic designer in Minneapolis, MN, who started life in North Dakota. He created the (free) tall sans display face Insanability (2010). He also made a Didot specimen poster. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Markus Angermeier

German designer of Permutation 9, 5x5, Asiatiq, Dotto Regular, Leuna Nord, Natty Skinny, Natty Natty, Natty Fatty, OC Rater, Penumbra Black, Tulipa Arabica, Scriboni, and Siegelring. Earlier, he created the pixel font DSP9RMX (2001) with Stefan Gandl at Designer Shock. On the Fontomas CD, we find his dot matrix family Dotto: Dottoacqua (1998), Dottocrema (1998), Dottomokka (1998), Dottozucchero (1998). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angielyn

Original dingbats by Angielyn. Makambo used to sell Jewels One and Two, Menus, Scrollettes, Double Borders. Free: Tiles One, Tiles Two, Jewelled Tiles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philippe Angrignon

Montreal-based designer of an informal sans face (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Anguís

Spanish designer who created the free experimental face Legotype in 2008 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Attila Ángyán

Hungarian designer (b. 1984) who made the free animal dingbat font Red List (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Attila Angyan

Designer of the free animal dingbat font Red List (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leif Frimann Anisdahl

Norwegian type designer. Some of his work:

  • The house fonts for NKL, designed in 1967 together with Carl Tørris Christensen. NKL, the Norges kooperative landsfor, used their work for in-house fonts and logotypes. The fonts were produced by Dagfinn Sæther.
  • Oslo Gothic, for Den norske Creditbank (DnC), 1973.
  • The Norsk Hydro typeface (1970), which was later digitized.
  • An all-caps face for Storebrand-Norden, 1970.
  • With Reidar Holtskog, he designed in 1990 a Bodoni/Gill hybrid now known as Det norske alfabet (the Norwegian alphabet). This beautiful typeface was used in travel brochures and elsewhere by the Norwegian Information and Foreign Office.
See here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Davi Anjos

Visual communication student at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He designed the display face d.ball (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristen Ankiewicz

Kristen Ankiewicz offered lovely type 3 fonts and postscript examples of fancy things such as curlicue letters, and beads. She also has a lovely Celtic alphabet done in Adobe Illustrator. Fractal postscript demos as well. All free, of course. The fonts are here. Kirsten runs Ankiewicz Studios, an art studio in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Anklam

German type designer. He created Mönchs-Gotisch (or: Mediaeval-Gotisch) in 1877 (Schnelle says 1881) at Genzsch & Heyse. In 1876, he made Neue Schwabacher (normal and halbfett) at Genzsch & Heyse (and Klinkhardt). That same type can also be found at J. John&Söhne and at JG Shelter&Giesecke. Author/editor of Kunstwerke der Schrift Bund für deutsche Sprache und Schrift (Großenkneten 1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna

German designer (b. 1990) who created the handwriting face AnnasSchrift (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Livi Bree Anne

Aka pixelated princess. Creator of the pixel face Pixelated Priness (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pierfrancesco Annicchiarico

Freelance graphic designer. Stones inspired Pierfrancesco Annicchiarico (Grottaglie, Italy) to design the experimental typeface Secco (2009). The Cà brùtta building by Giovanni Muzio in Milan got him to design Monumentale (2009). The 2010 logo for Bar Marangi in his home town is also quite refreshing. He also made the experimental geometric faces Cutoff (2011) and Apulia Round (2010).

In 2012, he creted the monoline octagonal typeface Segmentum.

Pierfrancesco's logo and typography work includes beauties such as a fash called Aperitivo (2011), and a foot illustration called Walking (2011).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessandro Anselmi

Italian designer of the pay pixel faces iPix (2008) and Pixies (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michel Antelme

Designer of these free Khmer fonts in 2003: Kampot Gras (2 styles), Kompong B, Lekh Hora B and Lekh Hora Mool. He also assisted Xavier Dupré with the creation of ChriengCKS. Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martijn Anthonissen

Creator of Martijns Handschrift (2011, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Anthony

Washington, DC-based graphic designer. He created some experimental custom fonts such as Cuez (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adèle Antignac

Graphic designer, living in Paris. From 2007-2009, she studied type design at Ecole Estiene in Paris. In 2010, Budapest inspired her to create the open organic face Buda, which is characterized by large counters. Free download at Google Code. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcela Antipan

Chilean designer who created the display face Paila Marina (2009, Tipos de Cartagua) while studying type design at the University of Chile. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marie Antoine

Marie Antoine (Krispy Krush) is an illustrator and art director in London, b. Gerardmer, France, 1979. Creator of the curvy free font A Taste ofHeaven (2010). Home page. In 2011, she went commercial at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Richard Antoine

FontStructor who made TWKcode (2012, blocky white on black face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian Antolin

Graphic designer from Guadalajara, Mexico, who made a Dia de Muertos font in 2010, as well as Kushtie Script (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton

Designer of Haajja (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Antonelli

Designer at SignDNA who created the 3-d fonts Banner Priz, Corinne, Lori Slant, Nicole, Tommy B, Rocinante, Zak, Prizmatic Numbers. His bio there states: Dan Antonelli owns and operates Graphic D-Signs, Inc. - a full service graphic design and advertising agency. He is focused on providing small to mid sized firms a one stop solution for all their marketing services, from logo and print advertising design to custom truck lettering and web design. His favorite type of work is logo design, and he recently published a book through SignCraft entitled Logo Design for Small Business which features over one hundred logo design. He has had his work featured numerous times in SignCraft. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Antoniazzi

Milan-based graphic designer and graphic artist. He created the 3d face Platform (2009) and Century Funky (2009, after Century Gothic; free). Behance link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonina

Polish designer (b. 1989) who created Balls (2006), Ross (2006, handwriting), MPL (2006, handwriting), Dominos (2006, handwriting), Qlfones (2006, handwriting), Melsy (2006, handwriting) and New Age (2007, handwriting). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio

Brazilian student at UFPE who makes type at Tipos do aCaso. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christophe Antonio

Graphic designer in Haarlem, The Netherlands, who works as We Art Free. He created an art deco custom face called Delapampa (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Margarete Antonio

Designer of the free handwriting face Ma Sexy (2004). In 2003, she made the handwriting fonts MABrownietOO, MAFishy, MAFlirtyBLOCKED, MA-Flirty, MAKulot, MAQuaddie, MASexy, MASimplePleasure. They can be downloaded here. Bio. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Valentin Antonov

Designer of the fattish comic book face Obelix Pro (2011), which covers both Latin and Cyrillic, and seems to be based on the titling face of the Asterix and Obelix series. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elmer H. Antonsen

Professor Elmer H. Antonsen, Head Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois, has developed a runic font for the Mac called Vimose (this font is not on his site though). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Esa Anttikoski

Esa Anttikoski's page with minority Russian language links. Has fonts for Altai/Mari, Kazakh, Tatar, Chechen, Chuvash (TimesEC), Udmurt, Ossetian, Karelian, Yakut. His font Abur (2000). Subpage on Russian minority language fonts. In particular, free fonts offered include

  • Eurasian fonts for Bashkir, Buryat, Chuvash, Kalmyk and Tatar (Cyrillic): Bookman Eurasian, Chancery Eurasian, Gothic Eurasian, Mono Eurasian, Palladio Eurasian, Roman Eurasian, Sans Eurasian, Sans Condensed Eurasian, Schoolbook Eurasian. The original fonts were created by URW++, the Cyrillic part by Valek Filippov, and were modified by Esa Anttikoski. These fonts can be distributed and modified freely in accordance with the GNU General Public License.
  • Kildin fonts for the Kildin Saami dialect: Bookman Kildin, Mono Kildin, Roman Kildin, Sans Kildin.
  • Mansi fonts for the Mansi language: Schoolbook Mansi.
  • Paleoasian fonts for Chukchi, Eskimo, Itelmen, Ket, Koryak and Nivkh: ER Bukinist Paleoasian, ER Univers Paleoasian.
  • Sakha fonts for Dolgan and Yakut: Bookman Sakha, Chancery Sakha, Gothic Sakha, Mono Sakha, Palladio Sakha, Roman Sakha, Sans Sakha, Sans Condensed Sakha, Schoolbook Sakha.
  • Sayan-Altai fonts for Altai, Khakas and Shor: Chancery Sayan-Altai, Roman Sayan-Altai, Schoolbook Sayan-Altai.
  • Uralic fonts for Altai, Khanty, Komi, Mari, Nenets, Selkup and Udmurt: Bookman Uralic, Chancery Uralic, Gothic Uralic, Mono Uralic, Palladio Uralic, Roman Uralic, Sans Uralic, Sans Condensed Uralic, Schoolbook Uralic, Zagadka.
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Catarina Antunes

Lisbon-based creator of the oil slick display face Ville Nouvelle de Boughezoul (2011), probably as a commission for the Algerian city of Boughezoul. She is a graduate from IADE in Lisbon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frederico Antunes

Designer From Porto Alegre, Brazil. At T-26, he published the runic display face Pixo (2007). In 2009, he created the boxy rave and drugs-inspired Fiasco (YouWorkForThem) and the experimental Cabulosa (YouWorkForThem). Other fonts include VoidJam and Cachorra (based on urban Brazilian calligraphy). MyFonts link. YouWorkForThem link. MyFonts foundry link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Einbein Anubis

Belgian creator of the pixel face MsPain (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dexsar Harry Anugrah

Dexsar (b. 1991) lives in Makassar City, Indonesia. Creator of the free logo font Dipanegara (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tom Bernard Anyz

Frankfurt-based photographer, b. 1973. Dafont link. Creator of the free font Toms Handwritten. In 2008, this font was commercialized as Toms Handwritten (URW++). MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Yusuke Anzai

Yusuke Anzai is the designer of the futuristic and LCD-type fonts Stargazer, RGB, Signboard, Match99, Calcium, Cocoa, Scratch, Escape, Speedstar, Psycho, Naturalist, Galapagos, and Prototype, mostly freeware. Mac only, type 1 and TT. The YG01 series seems to be commercial. [Google] [More]  ⦿

K. Anzawa

Yabuchan (K. Anzawa) is the designer of the Fraktur font YABU-Gothic-Font. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akemi Aoki

Designer at MvB Design of these fonts: AcmeAnimals (1993), AcmeDinosaurs (1993), AcmeExpressions (1993), AcmeGreenGarden (1994), AcmeSportsGames (1993), AcmeWhatever (1995), AuntMildred (1995), MVB Fantabular and MVB Fantabular Sans (2002, a monospaced typewriter family), the HotsyTotsy family (1995-1996, with Mark van Bronkhorst), MVB Pedestria Pict (2002, dingbats), MVB Pedestria (2002, sans family), MVB Grenadine One and Two (2003, sans families).

View Akemi Aoki's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Atsushi Aoki

Geometrically strong fonts by Atsushi Aoki: AddFatMan, Shade, Speedy, Round, Steel, Line, Rusty, Loops, Shark (not free), WASP (not free), Jazz, IronPoint7, StandardBitmapPoint9. Mac type 1 and Windows truetype. Font names: AddCityboyNormal, AddElectricCity, AddFatMan, AddJazz, AddLGBitmap09, AddLine, AddLoopsNormal, AddMBitmap06, AddRusty, AddShade, AddSniperNormal, AddSpeedy, AddStandardBitmap (2011), AddStarSugarNormal, AddStarSugarOblique, AddSteel, AddWBitmap09, Addround. Font Pavilion sells AddWasp (1999). He designed PointN (1999) at Digitalogue in their DPI72 series. Alternate URL. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kanna Aoki

American designer of MVB Emmascript (1996, MVB Design; an ugly handwriting family), MVB Café Mimi (1996-2003, MVB Design), Greymantle (1993, MVB Design, a lively font co-designed with Mark van Bronkhorst) and Chanson d'Amour (1995). She is the wife of type designer Mark van Bronkhorst.

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

Katsunori Aoki

In 1996, Aoki won Silver Prize at the annual Tokyo Type Designers Club competition for a logotype he designed for Hiromichi Nakano Design Office. Born in Tokyo in 1965, and employed by San-Ad Co., Ltd. since 1989. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Toshimichi Aoki

Toshimichi Aoki (Ghost Workshop) is the designer of the OpenType font AokiTegaki (2002, handwriting). This also exists in type 3 format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chiho Aoshima

Chiho Aoshima's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Kodomo-Manju (Marshmallow) would make a nice Japanese comics book font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shigeru Aoyama

Shigeru Aoyama's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Aru. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gizem Apak

Student at Sabanci University, Turkey, b. 1989. She created the upright script face Muffin (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ernesto Aparicio

Creator of the slightly calligraphic script faces Apantasia (2008) and Apantasia 2 (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Khajag Apelian

Freelance graphic designer from Lebanon. Born in Sharjah, UAE, an Armenian with a Lebanese nationality. Graduate of the Type and Media program at KABK, 2009. There, he designed Arek, an Armenian typeface specifically designed to replace the typefaces currently used in school books. It is a fresh interpretation of the ancient Armenian script used in the old manuscripts. My ambitious plan for this project is to include a serif and a sans serif version, containing upright and cursive forms, with multiple weights, display versions and initials. However, currently the project includes only the serif upright, regular and black weights, in addition to the cursive and the initials. This face was awarded First Prize in the Granshan 2010 competition for Armenian text types. After graduation, he started freelancing as a graphic and type designer in Amsterdam. Partner at The Place. Other faces include The Chattam (2009, a Clarendon revival), Boujour (2008, an ultra fat deco face), Moudwi (2007, an experimental Arabic detached typeface inspired by the Unified typeface created by Nasri Khattar). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philippe Apeloig

French type designer (b. Paris, 1962) who designed the experimental fonts Carré, Octobre and Aleph in 1994. [The digital versions of these fonts are due to Franck Montfermé.] First prize at the Tokyo Type Directors Club in 1995, and a Judges' Special Prize at the same competition in 1999. Poster exhibition. Bio. Since 1992, he has been teaching typography at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs. Alternate URL. Photograph. Winner in 2009 of the typographic design award of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ulrich Apel

A free handwritten kanji font, dated 2006: KanjiStrokeOrders. Plus another free kanji font, Choumei (2008). Inside the KSO font, we learn that Ulrich Apel was the motor behind the font and the project. Tim Eyre turned the SVG data into a font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Aponte

New York-based Puerto Rican artist, who designed the sports dingbat font DF Energetics (1995). Versions at Elsner&Flake, ITC and Esselte (original). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Apostolski

Designer of Cyrivendell (2011) about which he wriotes: Cyrivendell - a portmanteau of Cyrillic (which it does support entirely) and Rivendell, the fictious city from LOTR. This script does resemble a couple of existing and popular fonts; this one, however, focuses on Cyrillic and also contains all European international characters. Cyrillic support is for Serbian, Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Belarus. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrés Apud

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the typeface Verjilius Augusteus (2008), a display face that is in search of an identity. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dave Aquino

Designer of the art deco multiline face Beacon Hill (2009, FontStruct). The font is called "Beacon Hill" because it's inspired by the totem pole carvings at Beacon Hill park in Victoria, BC, Canada. If you turn the word on its side, it looks reminiscent of a totem pole. Dave Aquino is located in Vancouver. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Debora Aquino

Creator (with Gabriela Albuquerque) 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]  ⦿

Jacquie Aquino

Walled Lake, MI-based creator of Devine (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thales L. Aquino

Graphic designer from Rio de Janeiro who created a mecano-style typeface called Articulada (2011) and the basic geometric shap face Patriota (2012, based on the Brazilian flag). Articulada won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boaz Arad

Boaz Arad (aka Funky Type) is the designer of Facelift (1997), a very grungy old typewriter font. See also here and here. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lina Aragon

Lina Aragon (Cali, Colombia) is a graphic design student. Her designs, including her typefaces and her moustache, are curly, lively and fun. The typefaces include Santonia (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yoshihide Arai

Yoshihide Arai's Japanese foundry which produced these free fonts from 2003-2007: Acidpunk, Aqutone Circle (opnly black circles), Blockbox3D, BlockboxHeay, BlockboxLigh, BlockboxMaruheay, BoxboxboxHeay, Bubble, CharacerAfro, ChildrenLigh (children's scribbles), Circle, Genjiko, Genshi, Gucle Bold, Handoo, Heainz, Hexagon (hexagonal letters), Hieroglico A, Korrekt (techno), Korrekt Oblique (techno), Majipane (kana face), Marudo (pixel face), Mimot Bold (curly), Mixertype (dings), MonolinRegular (upright script), Morphon, Newdo99 (pixel face), Nwnwn, Omocha No. 1 and No. 2 (dingbats), Rippen Regular and Bold (octagonal), Teks Bitmap, Ufons, Webicon1 (dingbats), Acidpunk. Old URL of its predecessor, YaFontWeb. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moisés Arancibia

SMOG (Santiago Motion Graphics) is a design studio in Santiago (Chile) founded in 2007 by Moisés Arancibia and Pablo González. Typefaces by tyhe studio include the display faces Alpaca, Hola Mundo, Mokeka, Mafia, Matas, Central, Chacon and Bikini.

Felipe Cáceres helped out with the final production of these typefaces designed by Moisés Arancibia: Alpaca (a slab face), Mafia (an experimental face), Mokeka (a display face), Matas (a display face), Central (a display face), Chacon (a black rounded face), and Bikini (a squarish face).

In addition, Moisés Arancibia created Menu (not at SMOG) and Hola Mundo (alien dingbats, some of which were designed by Sebastian Platz and Sebastian Pagueguy).

All fonts are free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Sofia Arango

Maria Sofia Arango used iFontMaker to create Sofia's (2011), a curly handprinted face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Reza Arani

CEO of Tahavolgaran Arse Ettelaat in Tehran. His old site offered two free fonts: Sin-Titr-Bold (1997, Sina Dadras), and Mellat (1999, Majlis Research Center by Reza Arani). He explains that he was one of the first people to solve the problem of Persian scripts on web pages, and that his fonts were designed for that purpose, mainly. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyrox Arashi

Canadian youngster (b. 1992) who is working on the pixel face Chmod (2007). Home page. Chmod 1.0 (2008) was made with FontStruct. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Raquel Araujo

Editorial designer and illustrator in Guimaraes, Portugal. Creator of a brush all-caps alphabet in 2010 while studying at ESEIG. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Araujo

Graphic design student from El Salvador currently living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He created the children's book alphabet World of Goo (2011), which is based on goo, dirt, slimy monsters and worms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Araujo

Creator at Unique Types of the free experimental face Pé da letra (2011) and of Diego (2011, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriela Araujo

Gabriela Araujo (Recife, Brazil) created Horror Type (2011, a pixel face). At FontStruct, she made Missing (2011, pixel face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ines Araujo

Ines Araujo (Lisbon, Portugal) created the modular typeface Let's Jazz in 2012 in collaboration with Joana Couto. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luciano Araujo

Brazilian creator of the iFontMaker fonts Autalinha (outline, handprinted), Garrancho, Setetres. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noe Araujo

Graphic design student in Monterrey, Mexico, b. 1990. Dafont link.

Creator of the thin chisel font New Theory (2012). Free download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Araya Salas

RAS Design is Rodrigo German or Rodrigo Araya Salas, a designer from Santiago, Chile, b. 1987.

Dafont link. Behance link. Fontspace link. Fontsy link. Abstract Fonts link. Old URL.

Creator of many hand-drawn free fonts. His typefaces from 2008 and 2009: Super (2009, for signage), Snow (2009), Mari (2009), El Cubano (2009, dingbats of faces), Mental Freak (2009, outline), Freak Animals (2009), Kona (2009), Brigada Ramona Parra (2009, dingbats), Happie (2009, dingbats), Santiago Icono (2009), Icono Skate Dingbat (2009), 78 Skate (2009), The Sorden (2009), Estilo Urbano (2009, stencil), Tetris (2009), Techno (2009), Kona (2009, childish hand), Parody Logoskate (2009, dingbats), Fat Love (2009), La Rata Bizarra (2008), Tabla (2008), A Mano Alza (2009), Maribel (2009, handwriting), Stencil (2009), Rayando (2008, chalky writing), Klam, Loco TV, Monos Frekis (2008, funny dingbats), Tabla (2008), Happie (2009, more funny dingbats), Funny Icons (2009), Kiltro (2008, dog dingbats), Pokemona (dingbats), Maniatico (scratchy outlined hand), Bizarro 1 (outline hand), Chile (dingbats), Freaky (2008, dingbats), Esquiso (outlined handwriting), Crazy Ras (outlined and handprinted), Skatelove (2008, dingbats), Los de Abajo (2008, dingbats), Logoskate (2008), David (2008, flowing ultra fat face), Destruccion (2008, grungy), Skateboarding (2008, ransom note face), Mike Valley (2008, skateboard dingbats), Rodney Mullen King (2009, skateboard dingbats), El Chavo del 8 (2008, scanbats), Grande Maradona (2008, scanbats), Saintfont (2009, handprinted), New Tetris (2009), September 11 Icon (2009, a powerful set of dingbats), Icono BMX (2009, bike dingbats).

Typefaces from 2010: Commando X (2010, a pixel dingbat face for computer games), Raya Irregular, Mari+David, Depressive Icon, Esquiso, Ego (2010), El Cubano (dingbats with faces), Barras Bravas (almost graffiti face), Globe Face (award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010).

Fonts done in 2011: Logo Font, Buen Dia (ransom note face), Drugstore (blackletter), Condorita (dingbats), KingKöng (a nice fat letter comic book face), Rolo (fat letter face), Logo, Comando X (a pixelized dingbat face based on video games), Catbox (2011, fat and rounded), Joia (a thin octagonal face), Plop (a "hip hop font").

Typefaces from 2012: Nollie, Rocka (triangulated), Mosku (paint or blood drip face), Gigio Italia Bizarre (dingbats), Conny Rocket, Retro Hand Type (stitched), Wood (wood type simulation), Tritona, Nollie, Zdravo Maria (children's hand).

Vectorlove won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Arbatskiy

Creator of Franzisk (2001, with Dmitriy Ivanov). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Arber

Pixelsurgeon has pixel and other fonts by Jason Arber, a typographer/designer based in London. Partially commercial. Free fonts: Teenage Delinquent, Pancake, Good Advice, Chinese Whisper (neat Chinese seals by Rina Cheung). Commercial: Waikiki, Tekno, Surgery, San Francisco, Rubbish, Protopixel, Pixelbitch, PhutureBelly, Octopuss, Offender, Los Mutantes, Eviltype, EqualRights, Buddha's Teeth, Boxy 35, Boxy 5, Bongo, 3Some, Area 51. old Phont Typographics page. Other fonts that were at Phont Typographics include Phont Threesome (like Mahovac's Kalendar), Poopy (by Funny Satan), Fantazija (by Jason Arber), Crunchy Fax Phont, Death Phont (Jason Arber) and Nobby Phont (by Jason Arber), as well as Iron Forge Phont (1999, free at Chank's). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Arboghast

James Arboghast (b. Melbourne, Australia, 1963) runs Sentinel Type, which he started in 2003 out of Collingwood, Victoria. He is now in Kew East, Victoria. He is a freelance advertising creative. His first commercial face was Ganymede (2003), which was later extended to Ganymede 3D (2005). He also made BigNoodleTitling-Oblique (2003) and BigNoodleTitling (2003) [for these, you are asked to send a cheque to Maurice Dorisio in Victoria, Australia], Citizen Kern (2003, free), Maus (2003, free octagonal block-shadow face), Rhodaelian (2004), Primex (2003, a gaspipe family), Sten (2004, a heavy mechanical stencil family that includes Sten Cyrillic), Adam Gorry (2004, a traditional inline all caps family), Midnight Kernboy (2004), DeLouisville (2004, Western billboard face), Jellybrush (2005), Euphonia (2003), Verzierte Schwabacher (2005, Typoasis, with Petra Heidorn, based on a blackletter font by that name from the Carl Kloberg foundry in 1891; also called Schwabach Deko), Sibyl (2005, an inline Schwabacher, Blue Vinyl), Bug Blatter Mega Grotesk (2007), Amity (2007, a unicase type design in the spirit of Bayer Universal), Soft Serve (2005, comic book or ice cream cone ad typeface designed by Haley Fiege and James Arboghast), Pykes Peak and Pyke's Peak Zero (2008, avant garde), Jabberwub (2008, chewing gum type) and Big Noodle Titling (2008). Arboghast is his professional name (as he states: I write ads and I create professional pseudonyms for artists and brand names for a living, among other things.).

His free faces are at TypOasis and Dafont. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link.

View the typefaces made by James Arboghast. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Juan Manuel Arboleyda

Graphic and type designer, b. Tapachula Chis, Mexico, 1978. He obtained a Mhere. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bhanu Arbuaratna

Bhanu Arbuaratna is a New York based Art Director, designer and illustrator. Behance link.

Creator of the slab face Number & Symbols (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kpricornium Arcanum

Mexican digital artist and typographer. He created the octagonal ultra-black face Qbo (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eddie Arcaro

Designer of Man of War (2010), which can be found at Freehostia. It is admittedly ana mateurish attempt at copying Horseface (Robert Wilson, 2010), a mini-slabbed typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stefano Arcella

Type designer (b. New Jersey, 1967). He is involved in ornament design at the foundry of Charles Nix, New Fonts in New York, where he helped create Nani, NixRift and Tuk Tuk. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Martin Archer

Southern Californian who designed ITC Eastwood (1997, grunge), and Fear. The flared face Teen (2000) is due to Martin Archer and Ray Larabie.Home page. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aleksei Archipov

Russian designer of the blurry Latin/Cyrillic font FD Median (2003). He calls himself the "Flying Dutchman". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taner Ardali

Turkish art director and graphic designer in Istanbul. Work page. Creator of the Embrio family of sans faces in 2009. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Davide Ardissone

Creator of the minimal sans face Albertino (2008), and the monoline sans face Giorgino (2011). Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gerado Arechiga

Whittier, CA-based designer of Jeep (2012, a blackboard bold face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Arellano

Alberto Arellano (Memela Studio, Guadalajara, Mexico) designed Cali (2010, octagonal) and Marga (2010, geometric display sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrique Arellano

Enrique Arellano (b. Colombia) runs Estudio Arellano Type Foundry in Mexico City. Behance link. Creator of Barata Display (2012, a free signage tyeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Arellano

Foundry in Ixipcalli, Mexico, run by Mexico City-based Francisco Arellano (b. 1981). Creator of the free monoline sans faces Coamei (2011) and Copilme (2011), the informal monoline face InColhua (2011), and Huelic (2011).

In 2012, they published the commercial typefaces Caronta (a monoline humanistic sans with a large x-height), Tecpana, Naolica (a monoline, elliptical sans family), Auloe (a rounded contrast-laden sans family), Olpan (monoline sans family), Kaodai (monoline sans), Ocelca (a tribel organic type family), Qatana (a Peignotian sans family), and the elegant wide sans family Ekon.

Dafont link. Aka Jef Triforce. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Arena

Creator of the handprinted typeface David Regular (2012, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicolo Arena

Graphic designer in Milan who was born in 1990 in Ancona, Italy. In 2011, he made a grid and compass-based geometric face called Le Tour Eiffel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peet Aren

Plakatschrift type specialist from Estonia. Sample of his work from 1913-1927. Images: i, ii, iii, iv. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lene M. Arensdorff Kristiansen

Danish designer (b. 1989) of the grunge ink spill face Arensdorff Ink (2011), of the experimental monoline face Elephont (2011), and of Egyptian Hieroglyphs Silhouette (2011) and Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs (2011). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kii Arens

Designer in 1997 of JuniorPopstar. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roman Georg Arens

Saarbrücken-based designer of the freeware font Suetterlin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moises Ferran Areñas

Creator of Moises (2010, handprinted), a free font at Open Font Library. Kernest link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Colin Arenz

Designer of D'Ni, a strange script font (D'Ni is a trademark of Cyan Productions). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Damien Aresta

pleaseletmedesign is a duo of Belgian graphic designers comprising Pierre Smeets (b. 1981) and Damien Aresta (b. 1979). They set up their own graphic design studio in 2004 after graduating from Saint-Luc Higher School of Arts in Liège (Belgium) and spending almost a full year in ERG (Graphic Research School) in Brussels (Belgium). The projects of pleaseletmedesign range from graphic design, books, posters, identities and stationnery to exhibition design, signage, titles sequences, and website in cultural sectors as diverse as music, architecture, cinema and advertising clients. Toyota Belgium used a car to design the outlines of an upright script called iQ (2009). Free download. The font was made by Pleaseletmedesign. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisca Arevalo

Argentinian graphic designer who made the connected advertising script font Dulcita (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arash Arfazadeh

Creator of M/M Paris Tribute (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frederic Argazzi

Italian designer at FontStruct in 2008 of cialix. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Billy Argel

Brazilian graphic designer and prolific creator of free typefaces, which often combine calligraphy and grunge. Alternate URL. Fontspace link.

Fonts from 2011: Tabu, Caribbean Tool (roman caps face), Pijamas (handprinted 3d outline face), Nova Solid, Chocolate Dealer, Happy Family (dingbats), Save The Mini, Tosca Zero (grunge), Epidemia (grunge), Skt and Destroy (grunge), High on fire, Manabu, Masterplan, Thrashline (multiline), Triumph Rewind, The Dreamer, Why, Uranium Mafia, Blessed Day, Caribbean Tool (floral caps face), Lost Winner, Dove Love (curly valentine's Day font), Safe Iodine (texture face), Easy Trouble, ArgelFont, BUTECO (sketch font), DIAMONDDUST, Dropping, InkInTheMeat-Tial, NORMAL, POPCORN (a great grunge hand-drawn Futura Black), POPCORNSKETCHSKETCH (a sketched face), ROCKETAIR, ShitHappens-Cursive. Panhead (grunge Western face).

Fonts made in 2010: Thrashline, Dotled (a fuzzy texture face), Refurbished, PUNKBABE, CANDYINC, GreenPillow, DIRTYBAGBOLDTRIAL, LEDLIGHT, MAJORGUILTY, Network Vampires, NEWESTTRIAL (Western face), VATOS, Billy Argel Font (calligraphic), ACIDLABEL, BeyondSky-trial, HURTMOLD, TOSCAZERO, TABU (grunge), EASY TROUBLE, BOMBFONT (puffy letters), BILLYARGELFONT (calligraphic), Soap Store (grunge), ANGELTEARS (calligraphic), BUTOXQUEEN-trial, ELECTRICHANDS (cursive hand), FLOWERFLOW-trial, HAPPYFAMILY-TRIAL, HEARTQUAKE (grunge), MSKITOKILLA (grunge), NIGHTSTALKER-TRIAL (grunge), RAINFOREST (handwriting with rough edges), ROADMOVIE, ROSE TATTOO (an outlined handprinted beauty), TWINPINES (brush), WANNABEME (sketched), WEDDINGNIGHTMAREStrial (calligraphic), BEERNOTE, GREENMIND (grunge), PORNFASHION, MASTERPLAN (grunge), SNIPERSHOT.

Fonts from 2009: COOLECTOR, BODYHUNTER-Bold (grunge), CLUBHAUS-Bold (ultra black, mechanical/octagonal), MAKEMEALPHA (grunge), NewGardenLight, TRIUMPHREWIND (grunge), Nachos and TV, Oxidisaster, Helloween, Lemon Day Semibold (a sketch font), Tosca Zero, Outlaw (Western face), Gangland (scratchy brushy face), B Side (vertical stencil).

Fonts from 2008: Plastic Pill (fat art deco face), Bedspread Assassin, A Bite (grunge), Dirty and Classic (grunge calligraphy), Gas Mask (grunge stencil), PANHEAD (grungy Western billboard font), My Turtle, Cubiculo Gallery (created for the Cubiculo Gallery in Sao Paulo), Ginga (grunge calligraphic--think award-winning grunge!!!), Wallrider, Black-Oak, TOY_SOLDIERS-Bold (grunge), Abite (grunge), ACIDLABEL, Bulldozer, Cheap Stealer, DONOTEXIST, HANGUP (3-d bouncy letters), HYERBA (Far West font), LAZYDAY (handprinted outline caps face), LEDLIGHT, Mon Bijoux (ornamental), MANABU (futuristic), PEIXEFRITO, Positiv-A, Killed DJ (multiline grunge), Sniper (grunge), Black Oak (smudged face), ShAnKed,

Fonts from 2007: Olho de Boi (a great scratchy handwriting font inspired by the first Brazilian postage stamp which was released on August 1, 1843), Skull TS2 (skull dingbats), REBOARD, Hurtmold (rounded octagonal face), PDRPT (grunge), the Soma family (modern stencil), Caatinga (2006, artsy display face), Santos Dumont (handwriting: free at DaFont). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flora Argemí

Chilean designer of La Choly, a signage typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the non-text face category. Her Rakatan Negra (2011) is a comic book face that can be had for free at Andez.

At Tipos Latinos 2012, Flora Argemí won an award in the display type category for Perejil. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alison Argento

Travel writer based in Cherry Hill, NJ. Designer (b. Augusta, ME, 1977) of the children's scribble font Urly Lurnin (2008), and of Smiley (2008, comic book face), and of the informal handwriting fonts Pickled Sans (2008), Slim Pickens (2008), Smokehouse (2008) and Gladly Mailed (2008). Bender Script (2008) is a brush script developed from an incomplete script drawn by Charles Chas Bluemlein. Barnstormer Script (2010) is a sign painter typeface. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Martin Argüello

Graphic design student in Cordoba, Argentina. Creator of the free paperclip typeface Clip (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sofía Arhancet

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

Alexander Arhipov

Russian type designer. His Colmena (2009, ParaType) was designedfor books for children. This font used to be called FD Harvey. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Arias

Type and culture blog by Vancouver-based designer David Arias. He created Isometrica (2008, a 3d pixel block face) and Toko (2009). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mario Arias

Aka Mario Ernesto and Mario Ariaz. El Salvador-based designer (b. 1988) of the pixelish face Cube (2011) and the handprinted face Stylo (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marwan Aridi

Company based in Dallas, TX, that markets Marwan Aridi's great drawings. His borders, ornaments, initial caps, ribbons and banners are almost legendary. They are for now in EPS format, and truetype and type 1 versions are available for many. Alternate URL. He sells great sets of drawings for the following: Arabic Calligraphy Art, Arabic Caps&Fonts, Web Clips, Initial Caps I, Initial Caps II, Initial Caps III, Initial Caps IV, Historical Ornaments Patterns&Frames, Arabesque Ornaments, Arabesque Borders, Olde World Borders I, Olde World Borders II, Calligraphia, Olde World Ornaments, Ribbons, Banners&Frames, Ornamental Backgrounds, Crests, Ribbons&Frames, Typography&Printer's Ornaments, Aridi Fiesta, Business 1, Background Two, Arabesque Designs. Alternate URL. Arab Caps has many fonts. Package of 30 display fonts for 500USD. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roni Arieh

Israeli font designer who made the Hebrew faces Afifon MF (handprinted), Krashim MF (2006). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

arildtorvundolsen

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Fyrste and Slabbedask. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Arilla

Don Serifa is a beautiful and informative Spanish type blog run by Pedro Arilla, who is based in Zaragoza, Spain, and who was born in 1984 in Ejea de los Caballeros, and studied graphic design at Escuela Superior de Diseño de Aragón.

Pedro also designed some typefaces. These include the free didone typeface Valentina (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Toru Arima

Toru Arima's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: KanaRS is a katakana font family. ATBeta-A (2000) is part of Font Pavilion 12. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernard Arin

Ex-director of Scriptorium de Toulouse, calligrapher, teacher and typographer. Michael Levy took these pictures of him in 2004: Arin drawing, sketching a Trajan face on a stone. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yoichi Arisaka

Yoichi Arisaka (Arisaka Design, Tokyo, est. 2003) created the experimental face FONTA (2011), which just consists of dots and rectangles. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gen Aris

Floridian designer of Ancient G written and Ancient G Modern. These runic style faces are based on Anquietas, Alteran, and Anc Hand. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arisugava

Designer of the Cyrillic font Champignon Script (2004), which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arisugava

Russian creator of the (free) calligraphic script fonts Allegretto script One and Two (2004), which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mina Arko

Slovenian designer (Ljubljana, b. 1983) of the futuristic monoline sans family Nouvelle during the design workshop TipoBrda in 2008. It was perfected and started selling at MyFonts in 2011. In 2009, she created Afrikana, an alphabet with a decidely African theme.

During TipoBrda 2010 in Ljubljana, she created the didone numbering face Kampula.

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

Giannis Arkoudos

Athens, Greece-based designer (b. 1973) of Greek Bear Tiny E (2006, pixel). Blog (in Greek). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Årlin

Stamp & Press (Stamp och Press in Swedish) is a fifteenth-century type papermill, hand press printing office, hand stampcutting and hand-casting office, bookbinding and digital fonts foundry created and operated entierly by Swedish punchcutter and printmaker, Richard Årlin, b. 1945. He runs Stigbergets Stamp och Press using his own metal types, own paper and own engravings. MyFonts.com states: He cut the punches for his own typefaces, Ungut and Stanislaus. He has also made the a digital version of those designs called Moravus, which has been used for all advertising and posters for Ingmar Bergman's Maria Stuart at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre.

Also called Stigbergets Stamp och Press.

Fonts: Funkiswoodcut (1999), Moravus (1999). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dhany Arliyanti

Located in Jakarta, Dhany Arliyanti (b. 1983) created the organic sans family Juice in 2008. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dhany Arlyanti

Creator of the free organic sans family Juice (2008). Her home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sigurður Armannsson

Icelandic art director. Creator of the structured sans family Guinevere Pro (2011, Canada Type).

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

Nicholas Armbrust

Designer in Minnesota. Behance link. Creator of Desiann (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Armesilla

Madrid-based creator of the free font Morning Glory (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Igor Armiach

Israeli designer (b. 1986) of Kitbiya Amerikaya (2006), an organic grunge jungle face created for the Sterna 2395 comic book series, and Chronicles of Arkmar (2008) and Hebrew Chronicles (2008). Alternate URL. In 2010, he made the Groovy cursive Hebrew font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erin Armstrong

Erin Armstrong (Atlanta, GA) created the Sci-fi Fantasy Alphabet (2011, all caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon Armstrong

Grunge type, digital art. New York-based. Fonts created by Jon Armstrong. About 15 dollars per face. Fonts: BadNovel, Bizheads, HighSodium, Insecurity, Jiggy, MildHeadache, NoBleach, Rash, ToxicMarker. All formats except Windows PostScript. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Armstrong

American designer of Vacillation (2001, a display font), Cursory, a pixel font, Rotund, another pixel font, Being (2002, a tiny all caps screen font), Chronic (2002, unreadable pixel font), Quadrate (2002, a nice pixel font family), and Typical, yet another pixel font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Truck Armstrong

Original designs such as TRUCK Conky Choo Driver, a dingbat font by Chris Stone. Don Weber's grungy Truck Novembre Gruppe, Truck Rocketry by Truck Armstrong, and truck transmission by Steve Wilson can also be downloaded. Latest addition: Mandible Mama (by Truck Armstrong as well). The new page seems a dead end, so Truck Fonts was revived by CybaPee at typOasis. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ernesto Arnáez

Basque designer from San Sebastian who created a Basque typeface for the Euskadi company in 2006. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atli Þor Árnason

Originally from Reykjavik, Atli Þor Árnason is studying at The School of Visual Communication in Haderslev, Denamrk. He created the runic and/or Futhark simulation face Ristir (2011), a typeface that was heavily inspired by The Elder and The Newer Futhark alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victor Arnaut Luiz

Coimbra, Portugal-based designer of a multiline pixel face, Fonte Bitmapped (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Arnett

The Sean Arnett Type Foundry used to be called "Corduroy". This Canadian foundry sells about 175 fonts at 55 dollars a piece. The list: ALCHEMEY, AMSTERDAM, ANALOG, APRICOT, ARISTOTLE, BADLY DRAWN BOY, BALI EYES, BARREL OF A GUN, BARREL OF A GUN 2, BI - POLAR BEAR, BLITZKRIEG BOP, BROKEN, BUDDY HOLLY, BULLET, BULLETPROOF, BUTTERFLY, CAKE, CATERPILLAR, CHEMISTRY, CLEOPATRA, CLOSE TO ME, CONTINENTAL, CONTINENTAL EXTENDED, CONTINENTAL EXTENDED WIDE, CONTINENTAL OUTLINE, CONTINENTAL OUTLINE CLEAR, DEVOTION, DIESEL, DR. NO, EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS, ELVIS, ELVIS PRESLEY, ELVIS PRESLEY BOLD, ELVIS PRESLEY OUTLINE, ELVIS PRESLEY OUTLINE ZEBRA, EMBRACE, ESCTASY, EUROPA, EVEL KENIEVEL, EVEL KENIEVEL BROKEN, FANTA, FLAMENCO, FLAVOUR FLAV, FRANK SINATRA, FREESTATE BOLD OUTLINE, FREESTATE CHROME, FREESTATE OUTLINE, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, FUTURAMA, GASOLINE, GAS PANIC, GINGER, GIRAFFE, GIRAFFE OUTLINE, GIRAFFE OUTLINE BOLD, GIRAFFE SHADOW, GOLDFISH, GUS GUS, GYPSEY KINGS, HAPPINESS, HASH PIPE, HEPBURN, HEPBURN BOLD, HEPBURN BOLD OUTLINE, HEPBURN OUTLINE, HOWDY, INSIGHT, INSIGHT BOLD, INSIGHT HIGHLIGHT, INSIGHT OUTLINE, INSIGHT THIN, INSTRUCTIONS, IRONWORK, IRONWORK BORDER, JESUS SAVES, JO JO'S JACKET, JOHNNY CASH, KEE WEE, KEE WEE BOLD, KEE WEE OUTLINE, KEE WEE OUTLINE OUTLINED, KEE WEE SMOOTH, KEE WEE SMOOTH OUTLINED, KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME, KUBRICK, LED ZEPPELIN, LEONARDO DA VINCI, LEONARDO DA VINCI SYMBOLS, LICORICE, LOU REED, LUSH, MARLON BRANDO, MARTINI, MATADOR, MEGATRON, MEMENTO, MEMPHIS, METRO, METRO BLOCK, MOLECULE, MONET, MONET SYMBOLS, MOONLIGHT DRIVE, MUTATIONS, NEIL FINN, NERO, NICO, OASIS, ODELAY!, ONES AND ZEROS, ORBIT, PARIS, PEIGNOT, PENGUIN, PETROGLYPHS AFRICAN, PEZ, PIXEL BUBBLE BUBBLE, PIXEL CONDENSED HV, PIXEL CONDENSED, PIXEL CURVED EXTENDED, PIXEL CURVED HV, PIXEL SPACE INVADERS, PIXEL SQUARE, PIXEL SQUARE EXTENDED, PIXEL SQUARE HV, PIXEL SQUASHED, PIXEL TECHNO, POPSICKLE, POSTCRYPT, QUICKDRAW, RAMONES, RAYGUN, RAYGUN OUTLINE, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, REVOLVER, RUN LOLA RUN, SAUL BASS, SCRABBLE, SEAHORSE, SEAWEED, SIGNAL ONE, SIGNAL TWO, SPIDERWEB, SPUTNIK, STEPHEN MALKMUS, STEREOPHONICS, STYLOROUGE, STRAWBERRY FIELDS, SUPERGRASS, SUPERMAN, SWANSONG, SWEETHEART, TAHITIAN MOON, TELEVISION, TROPICALIA, TECHINCOLOR©, THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, THE OYSTER (DO NOT FEED), THE STROKES, TIGER THE LION, TURNTABLE, USELINK, VELOCITY, VENICE, VERTIGO, VESPA, VESPERTINE, VINCENT SYMBOLS, VINCENT VAN GOGH, VIOLATION, WATER AND A SEAT, WILLIE NELSON, WOODY, WOWEE ZOWEE. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Arney

Chris Arney (Hemphacker) is the Alabama-based designer (b. 1980) of the pixel font Digital 5x7 (2003). Fonts2u link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christin Arnhold

Designer in Trier, Germany. She used the lettering on a shop in Mainz to develop the signage script face Lapina (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ronald Arnholm

Professor of Art Graphic Design at Lamar Dodd School of Art, part of the University of Georgia, Athens. Born in 1939, Arnholm designed the ITC Legacy Sans family (1992, a remake of the 1960s Arnholm Sans), and the ITC Legacy Serif family (1992). In 2009, ITC Legacy Square Serif and ITC Legacy Serif Condensed were added. ITC Legacy Square Serif won an award at TDC2 2010. His early fonts were released at VGC, the Visual Graphics Corporation: VGC Aquarius (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Outline) (1967) (this was digitized in 2007 by Steve Jackaman as Aquarius), VGCArnholm Sans Bold (1965), VGC Fovea (1977). Arnholm also designed WTC Veritas for the World Typeface Center, New York, 1981-85. He created these headline typefaces for the Los Angeles Times, 1980: L.A. Times Regular, L.A. Times regular italic, L.A. Times Bold and L.A. Times Bold Italic. MyFonts page. Linotype bio. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gill Arnò

Righteous Fonts in Brooklyn was started by Theres Wegmann and Gill Arnò, the designer of SubTalk (scratchy letter font) and Rec. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anke Arnold

Wernau (was: Wendlingen), Germany-based Anke Arnold's free fonts: Car Go Frame (2011), Car-Go Plain (2011, modeled after German license plate lettering), Typo Garden (2010, alphadings), 80er Teenie Demo (2009), Acki Preschool (2009), Just Another Stamp (2009), Firlefanz (2009, curly letters), Pixelstitch (2006), AnkeHand, Hole-Hearted (2003, Gill Sans with hearts), KRITZEL (scratchy pen), MilkyWay, FrightNight, Eminenz (2002), Scribble, Skribus, Why, TooLazyToPractice, XXX, CheapInkkilledmyPrinter, Storch (alphadings), Alexandras-Stempelkasten, Anatevka-Caps, BulletMix, Catwalk, Duke, Dukeplus (2000, blackletter), Riddleprint, Anke-Print, AnkeCalligraph, Titanic, Wasser, butterbrotpapier, distracted-musician, dyslexic, manko, quixotic, verrutscht, zladdi, barcoded, BulletMix2, CAR-GO-2, Fortunaschwein (nice curly script; no punctuation or numbers), Round, BigBrothers&Sisters, BoringLesson, CrimesceneAfterimage, Incognitype (old typewriter), Jenna'sPopsicles, Japanese Brush (1996), Knuffig, MonkyBusiness, Olympia2000, Samba, Dandelion, Krystal, Nervous, ParryHotter, Pffft, Tschiroki, Heart2Heart (heart alphadings), Anke Sans.

English page. For 10DM (5 USD), Anke will make your handwriting into a font! Alternate URL. Dafont link. Another link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evon Arnold

American designer of Only Dancing (2010, scanbat face). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felix Arnold

A Swiss designer and type designer (b. 1970, Basel), who made Cisalpin [also called Cassini in its earlier grotesque life, 1999-2000], a typeface for cartography, which was published it with Linotype in 2004. Pic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M. Arnold

Creator of the etched face Kartenschrift Parisienne (1905, H. Berthold AG). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniela Arnoldo

Milan-based designer of Double Chocolate Brownie (2012, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Arnow

Robert Arnow (b. Brooklyn, NY, 1977) is a self-employed illustrator and graphic designer who runs Robert Arnow Design Studio in San Francisco. He first became interested in art as a graffiti-writer in Brooklyn, which he later followed up with a professional design education at Parsons. Since 1999, he has been self-employed. His calligraphy was turned into calligraphic brush faces such as Mustang (2009) and Streetbrush (2009). In 2010, he created Graffiti Classic and Graffiti Classic Taglets (dingbats). MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Arnst

Jericho, VT-based designer of Pixie Talon (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gerd Arntz

Between 1928 and 1965, Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) designed around 4000 signs and symbols depicting industry, demographics, politics and economy, for the visual language Isotype. Many of these can be viewed on this web site. Some quotes from that site:

  • About Arntz himself, the persona: Born in a German family of traders and manufacturers, Gerd Arntz was a socially inspired and politically committed artist. In Düsseldorf, where he lived since his nineteenth, he joined a movement which wanted to turn Germany into a `soviet-' or `council republic', a radically socialist state form based on direct popular democracy. As a revolutionary artist, Arntz was connected to the Cologne based `progressive artists group' (Gruppe progressiver Künstler Köln) and depicted the life of workers and the class struggle in abstracted figures on woodcuts. Published in leftist magazines, his work was noticed by Otto Neurath, a social scientist and founder of the Museum of Society and Economy (Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum) in Vienna, Austria. Neurath had developed a method to communicate complex information on society, economy and politics in simple images. For his `Vienna method of visual statistics', he needed a designer who could make elementary signs, pictograms that could summarize a subject at a glance. Arntz's clear-cut style suited Neurath's goals perfectly, and so he invited the young artists to come to Vienna in 1928, and work on further developing his method, later known as ISOTYPE, International System Of TYpographic Picture Education. During his career, Arntz designed around 4000 different pictograms and abstracted illustrations for this system. At the same time, he was working with Neurath and his collaborators on designing exhibitions and publications for the Vienna museum. In this time, the 1930s, the city was under socialist government and an internationally acclaimed center of social housing and workers' emancipation. Neurath's visual statistics were adamantly meant as being an instrument of this emancipation, and Arntz' own socialist background fitted this context seamlessly. Produced under Arntz's creative guidance, a collection of 100 visual statistics, `Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft', was published in 1930. The success of this collection lead among other things to an invitation to come to the young Soviet Union and set up an institute for visual statistics, Isostat, in Moscow. Neurath and Arntz regularly traveled to Moscow in the 1930s, until in 1934 the socialist government of Vienna fell. After the Nazi take over, both emigrated with their families to the Netherlands, where they continued working on Isotype in The Hague. When the second world war broke out, Neurath fled to England. Arntz stayed in The Hague, where he worked for the Dutch Foundation of Statistics. Arntz' artistic legacy is administered by the Municipal Museum of The Hague, and a generous selection of his work from this collection is now available on-line for the first time.
  • About his gutsy political activism: In his early twenties, the young German artist Gerd Arntz said goodbye to his bourgeois background and committed himself to the struggle of the underprivileged workers. During an artistic career spanning 50 years, he has continually criticized social inequality, exploitation and war in clear-cut prints - activism with artistic means. In Düsseldorf, Arntz attended an art academy in the early 1920s to become a drawing teacher. There, he frequented revolutionary circles, rebel minds who wanted to turn Weimar Germany into a `soviet republic', styled after early communist Russia. He also came into contact with the new movements in the arts at the time, such as expressionism and constructivism. For activist artists like Arntz, the wood-cut was the chosen medium, because of its `primitive' aspect and its clearblack-and-white contrast. In the 1930s, Arntz switched to linoleum-cuts. With his comrades, the Cologne artists Franz Seiwert and Heinrich Hoerle, he read Marxist and anarchist literature and developed his own style of portraying society as segregated in classes, struggling within the technological milieu of the modern city. His prints were exhibited, sold to sympathetic art lovers, and published in magazines of the activist left in Germany and abroad. When Arntz was asked by Otto Neurath to join his team at he Vienna Museum of Society and Economy, and develop Isotype, he took it as an opportunity to expand the reach of his political beliefs into the realm of actively informing the proletariat, albeit as a graphic designer. At he same time, this steady job provided him the means to continue his own artistic work, completely independent of the art market or political affiliations. His prints criticizing the capitalist system did, for instance, not prevent him from critically looking at the downside of the Soviet Union in other prints. After he emigrated to the Netherlands, in 1934, Arntz published a series of prints warning against the danger of Nazism. His concise and biting depiction of the build-up of the `Third Reich', published in a Dutch communist magazine in 1936, was removed from an exhibition in Amsterdam after complaints by the German embassy that it insulted a `friendly head of state'. Arntz continued cutting his social and political critique into linoleum until he was seventy years old. i
  • About Isotype: The International System Of TYpographic Picture Education was developed by the Viennese social scientist and philosopher Otto Neurath (1882-1945) as a method for visual statistics. Gerd Arntz was the designer tasked with making Isotype's pictograms and visual signs. Eventually, Arntz designed around 4000 such signs, which symbolized keydata from industry, demographics, politics and economy. Otto Neurath saw that the proletariat, which until then had been virtually illiterate, were emancipating, stimulated by socialism. For their advancement, they needed knowledge of the world around them. This knowledge should not be shrined in opaque scientific language, but directly illustrated in straightforward images and a clear structure, also for people who could not, or hardly, read. Another outspoken goal of this method of visual statistics was to overcome barriers of language and culture, and to be universally understood. The pictograms designed by Arntz were systematically employed, in combination with stylized maps and diagrams. Neurath and Arntz made extensive collections of visual statistics in this manner, and their system became a world-wide emulated example of what we now term: infographics.
Ed Annink and Max Bruinsma edited the book Gerd Arntz Graphic Designer (2010, Rotterdam). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Arocha

American illustrator. Creator of the dinosaur-themed Dinotype (2011). No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Arocha

Student at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD). Colorado-based creator of Dinotype (2011, letters inspired by dinosaurs). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anuj Arora

Indian graphic design student. Creator of the techno face Headstrong (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernando de Aróstegui

Argentinian designer of the nice blockish face Matryshka. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ayelen Arpini

Ayelen (b. 1989) lives in Buenos Aires. She created Bauserif (2009), a serifed version of ITC Bauhaus Medium, Geometric 752. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Otto Arpke

Born in Braunschweig in 1886, died in Berlin in 1943. Designer of the fat display face Arpke Antiqua (Schriftguss, 1928). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roko Arraez

Acarigua, Venezuela-based designer of Bombigot (2012), a very heavy face midway between graffiti and bubblegum. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandra V. Arregger

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

Arlene Arreola

Designer of Lene Arl. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Arrindell

Norfolk, UK-based designer (b. 1983) of the handwriting face I have problems (2005), of the clipped Arial face CD Player (2005), of the tall-ascendered Doctor Fox Classic (2006) and of FishNChips (2005). Web page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

April Arrington

Student at Flagler College in Tallahassee, FL. She created the futuristic rounded face Discoid (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heber Xavier Arroyo

Costa Rican architectural designer, technical illustrator, and typographer.. Creator of Techni Sans (2010), the rounded sans face AR Techni (2010), Cipher Code (2011, a Masonic symbol face done at FontStruct), and the squarish faces Q-Module (2011, FontStruct) and Cynthe (2011). Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Angel Arroyo

Mexican designer of Brassia, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hreggvidur Arsaelsson

Icelandic designer of the futuristic faces Complete (2006) and Keystone (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thierry Arsaut

Biarritz-based designer of the commercial Basque faces Koldaka (2002), Sculpturas, Euskara Classic, Euskara Emakhor, Euskara Etxeak, Euskara Old, Euskara Ferrus, Euskara Gernika, Euskara Haritzaga, Euskara Irouleguia, Euskara Karako, Euskara Kaxko, Euskara Kutxas (farm dingbats), Euskara Moderna, Euskara Ostoa (with Ramuntxo Partarrieu), Euskara Eskultura. His faces can be bought here. Basque Classic is discussed here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angie Arscott

Argentinian graphic designer, b. 1984. Dafont link. She used Baskerville Bold to derive a condensed and ancient-looking face Sir William (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joel Arss

Designer in Barcelona. His Oboe typeface (2012) has a negative axis and is remarkably sturdy and readable. [Google] [More]  ⦿

J. Artaloitia

J. Artaloitia ran a foundry in Sevilla, Spain, called Fundicion Tipografica de don J. Artaloitia. Scans of some of his types: headline types, Inglesa, Ronda, Normandas, Gotico Blanco, Ronda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

art-e-fact

Mexican creator of Netz Demo (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andryushkin Artem

Russian co-designer with Jovanny Lemonad of Flow (2010, a free pair of Latin handprinted typefaces). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jennifer Arterbury

Codesigner at T26 with Brad Brawley and Noel Childs of Finial Regular (1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason L. Arthur

American designer (b. 1975) located in St. Albans, WV. Home page. Creator of Rough Typewriter (2008) in three styles. He also made Shake And Bake (2008, an angular comic book style face), Clementine, JaysFX, Tooney Loons (2009), Jibbajabba (2008, a handprinted comic book style family) and Fatcat (2008, virile Bank Gothic style family). Fontsy link. Another Fontsy link.

In 2009, under the name JibbaJabba Fonts, all fonts were given a new opentype dress, so at that point, we have: Clementine-BoldItalic, Clementine-ExpandedRegular, Clementine-Italic, Clementine, JaySFX-Bold, JaySFX-Italic, JaySFX, Rough_Typewriter-BoldItalic, Rough_Typewriter-Italic, Rough_Typewriter, ShakeAndBake-Italic, ShakeAndBake-UltraItalic, ShakeAndBake, TooneyLoons-BoldItalic, TooneyLoons-Italic, TooneyLoons, jibbajabba-Bold, jibbajabba-ExtraBoldItalic, jibbajabba-Italic, jibbajabba. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Constanza Artigas

Graphic designer in Santiago, Chile, who graduated from Universidade de Chile. She created the free Google Web Font Inika (2012) about which she writes: Inspired by Easter Island and its Rapa Nui language and culture, this typeface captures the essence of an island located in Chile, full of mystery, sacred places and stories of the past. Inika means ink in the Rapa Nui language, and it represents the tradition of the rongo-rongo writing, used by people on the island thousands of years ago. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ArtistMike.com

ArtistMike (real name unknown) designed Komica Halftone, Shaded Art Brush, Animal Letters, Gargoyle 11, YellowSub&Dings, Mickey Letters, Mickey Dings, Mickey Mouse Dings&Letters 3.0, Rooster Font, Scary Clowns, School Dings, PinUps, Scrolls Dings, MC Borders, MC Pinup, SandDaisy, ScaryClowns, Donald&Dings, ArtistMike.Orniments12, Sun Dingbats. Get the fonts by email. Logo to font and signature to font conversion service. [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Miha Artnak

Slovenian graphic designer who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. He created some great icons in 2010. He also did some type design experiments such as Analphabet Y (2008). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ziga Artnak

Žiga Artnak is the Slovenian designer of the semi-blackletter face Yellow Snow during the design workshop TipoBrda in 2007. Designer of Crack Whore (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Artola

Designer of the free rounded counterless face Oh Mai Mai (2010), which was inspired by the Mai Mai Monster. Behance link. Dafont link. Jorge lives in Madrid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johann Peter Artopaeus

German punchcutter active in the first two decades of the 18th century. He supplied matrices to B.C. Breitkopf in Leipzig, ca. 1717. Before that, he had worked as a punchcutter for Johann Heinrich Stubenvoll of Frankfurt. Examples: Doppel Mittel Antiqua (ca. 1700), Grobe Missal Antiqua (before 1716), Kleine Missal Antiqua (before 1716). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mario Arturo

Barcelona-based graphic designer (b. 1963). Dafont carries his free fonts, which are often revivals, or fonts based on scans from Dover books. Fontspace link. The list:

  • Better Heather (2000): a cleanup of De Nada's script font Heather.
  • Doris Day: an upright connected script.
  • Galeries (2001): based on a type that appeared on a receipt from a store called Galeries Sant Jordi in the 1960s in Pineda de Mar, Catalunya.
  • Halo Handletter (1997): taken from Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets-100 Complete Fonts (Dover).
  • Helvelow: based on Helvetica.
  • Individual (or: Initial): calligraphic all caps face. Scanned from an alphabet book.
  • Japan (1997): a brush stroke font based on a scan from Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets-100 Complete Fonts (Dover).
  • Masana (2011). An upright connected script family inspired by the handwriting of Catalan photographer Josep Masana from Barcelona who was also a publicist in the 1930's. Followed by Masana Grata, Masana Maxima and Masana Extras in 2011.
  • PetuniaBounce (1997): based on a Dan Solo face from Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets-100 Complete Fonts (Dover).
  • Riddle: based on the typeface used on the Frank Sinatra&Nelson Riddle LP "Only the Lonely". With help from Harold Lohner.
  • Rom (2001): inspired by Barcelona's Rom Caffe logo.
  • Rough Spring: based on Spring by Letterperfect.
  • Sahara (2000): based on the font Arbot.
  • South Pacific
  • Thick Deco: art deco face.
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Vokei Artz

Graphic designer in Newark, NJ, who made Arial Fuzion (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitris Arvanitis

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

Christophe Arvin-Bérod

French designer (b. 1972) of ZyxTof (2003), an artificial language font. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Geetika Arya

Indian graphgic designer. Behance link. Creator in 2011 of a decorated caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Filipe Aryel

Brazilian designer (b. 1988) of Crash-a-Like (2010), SharkFormalFunnyness (2010), Shark Party (2010, comic book face), SharkMadeInJapan (2010, handprinted), Shark Army (2010, stencil), SharkHandWrittenABC (2010), Shark Random Funnyness 2 (2009), Shark Claw Damage (2009), Shark Trouble (2009), Shark Claw Damage (2009, handprinted), Super Mario Bros Alphabet (2009), Shark Got Your Hand (2009), Shark Soft Bites (2009), SharkCrash (2009, comic book style), FOP Title Style (2009, comic book face), Onomato Shark (2009, comic book style), FOP Title Style (2009, comic book face), Shark Super Hand (2009), FairlyOddFont (2008, comic book style), Shark Supah FX (2008, comic book style), Shark Heavy ABC (2008), Shark Hands (2008, comic book outline face), SharkRandomFunnyness (2008, comic book style) and the pixel faces SMWHudNameFont (2008) and SMWTextFont (2008), used in the Super Mario games. He also made Shark Scratching (2008). FairlyOddFont (2008) is based on a font shown in the cartoon Fairly Oddparents, by Butch Hartman. Dafont link. Fontsy link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Arzoumanian

Mike Arzoumanian (Arzo Electronics) created the free Armenian font 1Arzo Ani (1996) and 1ArzoArarat (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yumi Asai

Born in Japan. Designer who studied at the Parsons School of Design, New York City. Creator of this experimental typeface. Behance link. In 2010, she created New International. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keisuke Asami

Keisuke Asami's fonts at Designers HIGH include kana and Latin versions for each typeface. Commercial, sold through Font Pavilion: KSKD3 (2003), DAF (2003, liquid crystal font), Strange Days, Arc and Line (1999), Octagon (1999), Massive, Ecoda. Free: 4or5H, Bitween10A, Bitween10A2, Bumpy (pixel font), COMMUNICATIONA, COMMUNICATIONH, COMMUNICATIONK, EDIFICE, EDITION12A, Elephant A, Elephant K, EQUIPMENT10, EQUIPMENTMONO, EQUIPMENTMONOLight, EQUIPMENTMONORoundLight, EQUIPMENTMONORoundRegular, FONTDELIC, KEY14A, KSKDATA10 (2000, pixel face), MASSIVE10A, MASSIVE10K, MULTIPLIESH, NERIMA, QUIPMonoRegular. Almost all are geometric techno fonts with Roman and Japanese versions. In Font Pavilion 12 (2000), they published MASSIVE, a Latin/kana font family. At FRONTLINE 01, they published Elephant (2002) (Elephanta, 2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asasas Asasasabv

Lithuanian designer of the digital clock font Digital System (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mustapha Asbbar

Creator of the dingbat face Arab TV logos (2009). Dafont link. Fonts2u link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amir Asgari

Turkish designer, who created the pixel typeface Game Over (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Robert Ashbee

British type designer, b. Isleworth, 1863, d. Kent, 1942. He made Endeavour Type (1901) and Prayer Book Type (1903). Part of the Arts and Crafts movement, [quoting wikipedi] he was the son of businessman and erotic bibliophile Henry Spencer Ashbee. His Jewish mother developed suffragette views, and his well-educated sisters were progressive as well. Ashbee went to Wellington College and read history at King's College, Cambridge from 1883 to 1886, and studied under the architect George Frederick Bodley.

Ashbee was involved in book production and literary work. He set up the Essex House Press after Morris's Kelmscott Press closed in 1897. Between 1898 and 1910 the Essex House Press produced more than seventy books. Ashbee designed two typefaces for the Essex House Press, Endevour (1901) and Prayer Book (1903), both of which are based on William Morris's Golden Type.

Quoting wikipedia again: Despite his father's amateur career as an enthusiastically heterosexual pornographer, Ashbee was gay. He came of age in a time when homosexuality was illegal and "the love that dare not speak its name". He is thought to have been a member of the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society founded in 1897 by George Ives for the cultivation of a homosexual ethos. To cover his homosexuality, he married Janet Forbes, daughter of a wealthy London stockbroker. CRA, as he was known, had admitted his sexual orientation to his future wife shortly after he proposed. They wed in 1898 and, after 13 years of rocky marriage (including a serious affair on the part of Janet), had children: Mary, Helen, Prue and Felicity. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Amir Ashkenazi

Israeli type designer who made Dakick (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Susan Ashley

Susan Ashley (Australia) offers commercial fonts for sign language: Auslan Susana 1 and 2, Auslan Comic (using Mickey Mouse hands), and BSL and NZSL versions of these fonts as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashoora

Aka Ashura. Tehran, Iran-based designer of the calligraphic Arab script dingbat face SHia (2007). Very original. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Ashpole

Free fonts made by Huntington Beach, CA-based Lauren Ashpole (b. 1982, Corpus Christi, TX): Bikes (2011, bike dingbats), Forgotten Playbill (2011), Sewing Patterns (2010, silhouette dingbats), OrigamiBats (2010), Thirty-Nine Smooth (1997), A T&Love (1998, curly hand), Candy Randy (1998, party font), Horseshoes&Lemonade (1998, 2009: white on black letters), Horseshoes, Paper Hearts (2001), Scooby Doo (1998), Hecubus (1997, handprinted), Starry Night (1998, 2009), Boo Boo Kitty (1997-1999), Scooby Doo (handprinted), and Southbats (1998, dingbats of heads). Her font 39smooth (1997) can be found here.

Dafont link. Fontspace link. Another Fontspace link. Klingspor link.i

In 2011, she went commercial at MyFonts as Lauren Ashpole Foundry, located in Brooklyn, NY. Her fonts there include Starry Night (1998), Sewing Patterns (2010, silhouettes of women), Origami Bats (2010), Horseshoes And Lemonade (1998), Forgotten Playbill (2011), Bikes (2011, dingbats), and Candy Randy (1998). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Ashton

Ashton is the Southend, Essex, UK-based foundry of Andrew Ashton, est. 2008. Born in 1971, Andrew Ashton is a book designer and illustrator. He won the British Book Industry Award for Design and Production (Nibbie) 2007 for The Dangerous Book for Boys. He created Bowen Script (2008), a font from the lettering of some Caribbean maps. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Brandi Ashton

Inspired Vizions offers commercial dingbats by Brandi Ashton. I must say that her frames and partitions are refreshing and very original, a real find. Her fonts are are available through Fontitude.com. She made two free handwriting fonts at Kiss My Pixels: Bonnie (2003), Clyde (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

S. Bradley Askew

Young man (b. 1980) from Tampa, FL, who used to make type in a foundry called Betabetics. In 2001, he created BA Wet Paint, which can be downloaded at Dafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tyler Askew

Designer in Atlanta (b. 1976) who made the finger brush font Inkdup (2001), Ruffdup, Satellite, Screen VST, Sinestra, Singapore and Stereotype. In 2005, he added Moderna (a lightweight sans text face). He does custom type design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Trond Aslak Øvrum

Norwegian designer in Trondheim. He created the sans typefaces Eurostile Nova (2004) and Adressa (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Serdar Aslan

Creative artist in Den Haag, The Netherlands. Behance link. Creator of the octagonal Netherlands Typo (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryo Asoda

Designer at Maniackers Design of Wall Painting, Cosmic and Bellows (1998), all done in collaboration with Masayuki Sato. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hernan Asorey

Creator of the old typewriter face Olivetti Type 2 (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pia Hed Aspell

Swedish creator of the nicely paced handprinted faces FP Third Hand (2011) and FP Second Hand (2011). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iosu Arriola Aspiazu

Creator of the Basque look face Euskal (2000). Dafont link. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Priska Nur Asriani

Bandung and Jakarta-based artist. She created the beautiful nude female figure alphabet Fatal Femme (sic) in 2011. Each glyph has a different character taken from Indonesian mythology. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

R. Asselineau

Creator of typefaces at VGC, such as Burgondy Right (1974). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Osman Assem

Cairo, Egypt-based designer of Scribble Font (2011, a sketch face for Latin). Home page. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

SBA: Scheppe Boehm Associates

German company of Wolfgang Scheppe and Florian Böhm in München, with offices in Venice and New York. They are working on some type projects such as the minimalist face AmBig (2003), in which just seven glyphs suffice, by rotation, to cover all letters of the alphabet. The type project part is called Scarface. AmBig will be part of the FontShop library at the end of 2003. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lara Assouad-Khoury

Lara Assouad Khoury was born in Montreal, and graduated from the American University of Beirut with a Bachelor in Graphic Design degree (BGD) in 1998. She worked as a designer at LeoBurnett (Lebanon, 1998-2000). After one year in Cairo, she moved to Dubai (UAE) and worked as a Senior Designer for Landor Associates (2001-2005) where she was involved in the design of extensive corporate identity projects for large Middle Eastern companies and institutions, such as the visual branding for the country of Jordan. She has graduated with an MA from the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy (France), where she studied under renowned type designers such Hans-Jürg Hunziker, André Baldinger, and others. She has researched and is in the process of developing her own extensive Arabic Naskh font. She taught graphic design and Arabic typography courses, at the American University in Dubai. She is an independent type and graphic designer since 2005. She embarked on a project in 2005 with Fred Smeijers to make an Arabic sister, Fresco Arabic, for Smeijers' Fresco family. For this, she takes inspiration from calligraphic samples of the Maghrebi script. Fresco Arabic won an award at TDC2 2008. Her geometric experimental Arabic face Tabati (2010) won an award at TDC2 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shaun Astarabadi

Free Arabic font developed by Ahlul Bayt for the Digital Islamic Library Project (DILP). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anastasiya Astashova

Student at European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania. Creator of Voyeurfont (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Astle

Typefoundry in Birmingham, UK, est. 2011. Its type designer is Mark Astle. Creator of the marker font Scamps (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Guillermina Astorga

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the blackletter typeface Templetype (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

J.C. Astro

Portuguese designer of the outline handwriting font Bigacho. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Magnus Åström

Designer of the futuristic font Alpha Base Slanted, and of the fat-lettered Dinky. Also did Filur and Klopstock Normal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Muhammad Asyrafi

Indonesian designer (aka Smprvl) of the techno face SMPRVL (2011). He studied graphic design at ADVY Yogyakarta, but lives in East Montreal. Behance link. Devian tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Naoyuki Atari

Designer at Font Pavilion 12 of Fire (2000) and Check (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atavistic

Edward Blake's foundry located in Chicago. Blake was born in 1978 in Chicago. He created the handprinted face Ten Till (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Zeyid Ata

Istanbul-based designer of Baghdat v0.1 (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Athburton

Australian designer, b. Melbourne, 1976. Codesigner with Graham Meade of the 18-style sans family Nok (2006, Typotheticals). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Marcela Athens

Marcela graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, she created the Indic atmosphere face Siddhartha, named after Siddhartha Gautama. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Atkins

American designer of the alien script Alien English (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Atkins

British creator of the handprinted typefaces Pickwick, Pickwick Bold, and Pickwick Light (2012, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bill Atkinson

Designer of the script bitmap font Venice, used on the original Mac computers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Atkinson

Sunderland, UK-based designer of the minimalist rounded sans face Modello (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frank H. Atkinson

Sign painter from the art nouveau era, who lived in Chicago and worked mostly for Cadillac. In 1908, he published Sign Painting, a book that influenced hand lettering and signpainting for many years afterwards. The following digital fonts are based on his designs:

  • FHA French Eccentric (2009), by Frank Smith and Michael Gene Adkins. FHA Eccentric French Normal (2008) is free at dafont.
  • FHA Modernized Ideal Classic (2011) by Michael Gene Adkins and James L. Stirling.
  • Bulletin Stub (The Fontry).
  • Book Poster (2010). A series of fonts at The Fontry.
  • Beauvoir (1993, David Nalle).
  • French Plug (2007, HiH).
  • Payzant Pen NF (Nick Curtis) is based on an Atkinson design shown in A Show at Sho-Cards: Comprehensive, Complete, Concise (1918).
  • Atkinson Eccenteric, Atkinson Boomtown and Atkinson Egyptian, all made by David Nalle at Scriptorium.
  • Still by The Fontry: the Broken Poster family (2010).
  • Dick Pape created these revival fonts in 2009: ArtNouveauSigns, FHA1908ClassicPlug, FHAAdvertisersThick&ThinPl, FHAAntiqueBlock, FHAAntiqueRoman, FHAArtNouveau, FHABradley, FHABulletinPlug, FHABulletinRoman, FHAChicacoTuscan, FHAClassicBlock, FHACondensedFrench, FHAEccentricFrench, FHAEccentricRoman, FHAEngrossingText, FHAExtremeFrench-Bold, FHAFrenchRoman, FHAFrenchRomanLight, FHAGunningSingleSroke, FHAHalfClassicRoman, FHAModernizedIdealClassic, FHAModifiedAntiqueTuscanRom, FHAModifiedPlug, FHANewYorkRoman, FHANicholsonFrench, FHAPosterBlock, FHARoundBlockThick&Thin, FHARoundFullBlock, FHAShowCardFrench, FHASignPaintersPlymouth, FHASingleStrokeBlock, FHASingleStrokeTuscan, FHASpikeSpurFrench, FHAStonehouseEgyptian, FHAWesternLightTuscan, FHAWesternRoman, FHAWesternSingleStroke.
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Helen Atkinson

University student in High Wycombe, UK, who created the experimental typeface Tube (2011) based on parts of the London subway system map. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicolette Atkinson

Designer in Melbourne. Creator of Belove (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Atkinson

South African graphic designer who lives in Johannesburg. His typefaces include Atcurve (2008, avant-garde). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tarek Atrissi

Arab type site by Tarek Atrissi, a Beirut-born Lebanese professional designer, who is located in Hilversum, The Netherlands. He holds a BA in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut, Masters of Arts in Interactive Multimedia from Utrecht School of Arts in Holland and an MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts in NY. A Designer of the 6-weight Arabic family called AT, The Spirit of Doha (2004, for the Asian Games 2006), Al-Ghad (for the Jordanian newspaper Al-Ghad), the Ghad TV font (for the Jordanian station ATV), Etisalat (custom type for Etisalat Communications), Ayna (a squarish face done for Ayna.com), and Ambesque (2006, for the Amwaj Islands of Bahrain). He manages Arabtypography.com, a site dedicated solely to Arab typography. In 2008, he created Atrissi Sans. In 2007, he embarked on a project with Peter Bilak to develop Fedra Arabic to accompany Bilak's Fedra family. In 2010, he designed a custom Arabic font for the new BBC Arabic TV channel and custom Farsi face for the new BBC Farsi TV channel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shu Atsumi

Designer of the kana/kanji calligraphic fonts rkgyou and rkten, both free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caitlin Atteberry

Raleigh, NC-based designer of Hexel Sans (2011), which was inspired by the hexagonal patterns seen in beehives. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Györi Attila

Hungarian designer of the angular, mannered, retro geometric display face ITC Grapefruit (1997). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Giuseppe Attisani

Italian designer of the handwriting font Amyie (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gareth Attrill

Designer in 2002 of UKNumberPlate. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fabien Aubert

Fabien Aubert (aka Fabien Graphiste) is a graphic designer in Aix en Provence and Marseille, France. Dafont link.

Creator of the fantastic font Aniikla (2010) and of Natural Writing (2012) and Elegance (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pascal Aubril

French designer, b. 1972, aka Joe Skull. Creator of Skull Type Wr00 (2003) and Skull Font 00 (2003). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bastien Aubry

Zürich-based design firm of Bastien Aubry and Dimitri Broquard, who designed interesting fonts (no sales or downloads though): Bundesrat (2006, octagonal), Macaroni (2006: letters from circles), Courier Fleurie (2006), Flop (2006). Both graduated from HGK Zürich in 2002. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dominique Aubry

Chilean designer of the lively typeface José (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Au

Graphic designer in Manchester, UK, who studies graphic design at the University of Salford. He created the handprinted face Remnant (2010). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tyson Auchter

Ty Auchter (b. 1983) lives in Pennsylvania. At Devian Tart, he designed the pixel font Stitches (2001). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pierre-Luc Auclair

Graphic designer and student in Quebec City. Creator of this cool casual hand-lettered face (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evelyne Audureau

With Olivier Nineuil at Bonté Divine, this French designer made P'tit François in 1997. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tauba Auerbach

German designer who created the free hairline octagonal face Pomegranate in 2007 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. She also has many nice typographic posters in her gallery. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Auer

Graphic designer and typographer from North Carolina, who studied graphic design at the Savannah College of Art&Design. He created the geometric counterless face King Pong (2010). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alois Ritter Auer von Welsbach

Alois Ritter Auer von Welsbach (b. Wels, Austria, 1813, d. Vienna, 1869) was a typographer and printer for the state. He was famous for special techniques for "nature printing". Michael Everson Conjectures that he made the Gaelic faces Vienna A (also called Altirisch A, Altkeltisch) ca. 1845 and Vienna B (also called Altirisch B or Neukeltisch) ca. 1845. The former face is a manuscript face, while the latter is Gaelic uncial round. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caroline Aufort

Paris-based creator of Tifinagh (2011), a modular Latin face based on letters from the Touareg alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bob Aufuldish

Bob Aufuldish is an Affiliate Associate Professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Currently, he is Design Director of Sputnik CCAC, a student-staffed design office producing work for the College. Bob has a BFA and MFA in graphic design from Kent State University, Ohio. Fontboy (est. 1995, San Anselmo, CA, principals: Bob Aufuldish and Kathy Warinner, now called Aufuldish&Warinner) made OldMoney (truetype), Baufy (1994), RoarShock, Punctual, NewClearEra, Viscosity (1996, with Kathy Warinner), Whiplash (1994). Mostly baroque modernism fonts. The Roarshock dingbats remind me of Zapf Dingbats, while Armature (1997) is just a regular semi-grunge font. Armature Neue (1997-2010) is a monoline face. Panspermia is the king of grunge. RoarType One is a "pixel" font where each pixel has been replaced by two alternating characters from the RoarShock dingbats. Bob also did the very funny dingbats Zeitguys One and Two (1994) and Big Cheese (1992) at Emigre. Bio at Emigre. MyFonts site. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Augereau

French type designer and punchcutter, ca. 1490-1534, and teacher of Claude Garamond in Paris. He was one of the first French to engrave roman letters, when other French printers were mostly using blackletter. He began to work for Robert Estienne, one the first Parisian printers to use this type. Influential in creating a French typographical look, he was hanged for printing a poem without permission. George Abrams' rendering of Garamond, called Augereau [digitized by Charles Nix], is a wonderful text family! Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Stéphane Auger

Designer at Union Type of Electronica (letters made up of electrical circuits). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sandra Augstein

German designer who published Wald Ast (1996, tree branch look face, Volcano Type). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bryan Augusto

Aka Gaia Runes, BryanGu and BryAlien. Brazilian creator (b. 1999) of Gate for Mars (2011), Neo Gate for Mars (2011), Neo-Sci-Fi (2011, FontStruct), Neo Sci-Fi v. 2 (2012) and of Gaia Runes (2011, white-on-black pixel face).

In 2012, he made Araknas (a pixel script face), Pluto, Pluto 0, Pluto Zero and Pluto Androids. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fábio Augusto

Brazilian graphic designer from Sao Paulo. He made the 9x6 pixel fonts Pico Sans and Pico Serif (2003). In 2005, he co-custom-designed EstadoSerif with Eduilson Wessler Coan and Ericson Straub for the Jornal O Estado do Paraná. Other typefaces: Titane (2006, a clean sans family), Temp (2005, a semi-organic display face), Favela (2005, an angry street signage type). Pixel faces by him include Ampla Screen (2005), Chemo Screen (2006), Extended Screen (2006), Matrize Screen (2006), Nikola Screen (2006, Soviet look), Station Screen (2006), Xquadra Screen (2006), Xquadra Tiny Screen (2006). Old URL. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mateus Augusto

FontStructor who created the blackletter face Mt Gothic (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yomar Augusto

Bric Type is a typography consultant company based in Brazil and The Netherlands, run by Yomar Augusto, who holds a BA in graphic design (University of Rio de Janeiro, 2000) and MA in type design (Type & Media at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, 2005). Personal URL. As a Brazilian graphic artist, he has been involved in two Rojo ArtStorm projects. Yomar lives in Rotterdam. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he ran an experimental calligraphy workshop called Kalligraphos.

His typefaces include Den Dekker (2006), and the roundish liquid creations such as Virgem, Rejane, Liquida (2002) and Dizain. No downloads. More recent faces: Duin (2007, octagonal), REMF (2006, stencil), DC (2007, ultra-fat), Fake Human (2005, script), Jana (2006, unicase), War (2007, octagonal), Fuck Shit Up (2007, stencil), Charlie Dee (2002, hairline stencil), Marina Lima (2002), Lasagna (2008, Re-Type: a fat geometric poster family, produced with the help of Miguel Hernandez). In 2009-2010, he created the Adidas Unity typeface [images: i, ii, iii]. In 2011, he designed the multiline headline face Andoverpis. The Dog House Nike (2010) is a custom typeface for The Dog House Athlete center for runners in Amsterdam. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adam Augustyn

Brooklyn, NY-based designer and illustrator. He created these typefaces in 2009: Dutch Serif (black counter face), Dutch Serif Stencil, Hand Sign. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Egoitz Aulestia

Graphic designer in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. Behance link. In 2011, he created for his graduation a typeface called Aulestika Neue. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marie Aumont

Graduate of the type design program at the KABK. [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Auriol

French lettering artist and type designer, b. Beauvais, 1863, d. Paris, 1938. His real name was Jean-Georges Huyot. He was an illustrator, and started his career at the famous Chat Noir as editorial secretary in 1885. He published his typefaces at Fonderie Gustave Peignot&fils: Auriol (1901-1904, the ultimate art nouveau face), Auriol Champlevé (1904), Auriol Labeur (1904), Clair de Lune (1904-1911), Françaises (1902; also called Française Légè, a precursor of Auriol), Robur (1904-1911; in Pâle and Noir styles). [Robur Noir was digitized and extended by Patrick Griffin and Kevin King at Canada Type in 2010.] He also made many art nouveau style ornaments, lettrines, monograms, borders and vignettes such as the Vignettes Sylvie. Auriol was the basis for the lettering used by Hector Guimard for the entrance signs to the Paris Metro. It is the signature typeface of the entire art nouveau movement. Auriol was re-released by Deberny&Peignot in 1979 with a new bold face, designed by Matthew Carter [specimen: i, ii, iii, iv]. It has been cloned tens of times, notably by Bitstream as Freeform 721, and by Linotype (Carter's family, which includes Auriol Flowers and Auriol Vignette Styles) and Monotype as Auriol. Free clones include Krondor. Linotype page. Web site dedicated to Auriol by Jean-Christophe Loubet del Bayle. Pic. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pamela Aurora

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

José Ausejo Matute

Spanish type designer at the Richard Gans Foundry who died in 1998. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Christoph Auspurg

German type designer, b. Frankfurt am Main, 1868, d. Leipzig, 1943. His oeuvre:

  • At C.E. Weber: Start (1934).
  • At Ludwig&Mayer: Aristokrat (1912), Miracle (1931, a script face), Rasse (1924), Schöndeutsch (1934), Reklame-Fraktur (1914), the gorgeous long-legged Mona Lisa (1930; digital version by Pat Hickson, 1992), the blackletter face Deutsche Kraft (1915), Brigitte (1935), the display roman face Krimhilde (1933-1934).
  • At Schriftguss: Lido (1936, script face).
  • At Benjamin and Krebs: Brentano Fraktur (1915-1916), Federzug Antiqua (1913), Nürnberger Kanzlei (1906), Schönbrunn (1928), Trajan Versalien (1928). At Genzsch&Heyse, he did Hans Sachs Gotisch (1911, revived in 2005 by Petra Heidorn; the face also appeared at Ludwig Wagner, where some date the Initialen style at 1902---Hans Sachs Gotisch was named after Hans Sachs from Nürnberg, 1494-1576, who was a master singer and songwriter), Domina (1929), Souverän (1913).
  • At Haas: Castor (1924), Pollux (1925).
  • At Trennert: Trocadero Kursiv (1927, a script font with flourished capitals). In 2010, it was extended and revived by Ralph Unger as Trocadero Pro.
  • At Berthold: the peculiar Messe Grotesk family (1921-1927) and the shaded titling face Vesta (1926, a Mexican simulation face; for a digitization, see Visillo Adornado (2006, Nick Curtis) or Venezuela RR (2000, Pat Hickson at Rabbit Reproductions Typefoundry, aka Red Rooster)). The Messe Grotesk design was revived by Nick Curtis as Troglodyte NF (2006-2011) and by Paul Hickson as Messe Grotesk (1997, Red Rooster).
  • At AG für Schriftgiesserei in Offenbach: the blackletter faces Apart (1911) and Fraktur-Kursiv (1923).
  • At Schelter & Gisecke: Kolibri (1915; for a digial version of this multiline open face caps face, see Trochilida NF (2012, Nick Curtis)).
  • At Berling: the italic open capitals face Berling Kortversaler.
Pat Hickson made the aristocratic long-legged ITC Mona Lisa Recut (1990) based on Auspurg's designs. Red Rooster published his Honduras RR. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cornelia Aust

Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typefaces Split One and Split Two (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darrel Austin

Codesigner with Bill Moran at Blinc Publishing of Goshen, Gommorah (1999), and Prospect. These fonts were published at Chank's Place. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Glen Loos Austin

Creator of the iFontMaker font Hipster (2010, handprinted poster family, +Thin, +UltraThin). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Missy Austin

Missy Austin is a designer based in Minneapolis. She graduated in December 2010 and currently works at Zeus Jones. At Lost Type Coop, she published the artsy caps face Nelma (2011) in EPS format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mitchell Austin

Californian designer of the very black face Chub Rock (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard T. Austin

London-based punchcutter (1768-1830) who had his own foundry, The Imperial Letter Foundry, in London. Before that, he had worked at John Bell's British Letter Foundry from 1788-1798 (when tthe foundry closed) as a punchcutter, and at William Miller's foundry in Edinburgh. His typefaces:

  • Tooled Roman (1788).
  • Bell (1788, British Letter Foundry). Ooriginally cut for Joseph Fry (see the Fry and Steele specimen book of 1803), it made its way to Charles Reed, and finally, in 1932 to the Stephenson Blake collection. Available at Monotype as BellMT (see Monotype Bell 341). It is also available as B694 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD (2002). Mac McGrew: Bell as cut by Lanston Monotype in 1940 is a copy of the face of the same name cut in 1930 by English Monotype at the instigation of Stanley Morison, and was originally cut by Richard Austin for the English printer John Bell in 1788. Lanston describes it as a delicate and refined rendering of Scotch Roman, but without the unduly heavy capitals and some other objectionable characteristics of that face. English Monotype says the letters are open and inclined to roundness; they possess a certain crispness reflecting a French copperplate engraved inspiration. The face has been referred to as the first English modern face, with its sharply contrasted shading, vertical stress, and the earliest consistently horizontal top serifs on the lowercase. Bruce Rogers found an unidentified face at Riverside Press in 1900; he called it Brimmer and used it to good effect in book work. The same face was called Mountjoye by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. It was later identified as Bell, and this may have led to its resurrection by English Monotype.

    The French explain Bell as a British face halfway between transitionals (such as Baskerville) and modern faces (such as Bodoni or Didot, the "didones").

  • Fry's Ornamented (1796, British Letter Foundry). Also known as Ornamented No. 2 cut by Austin for Dr. Edmund Fry. Stephenson, Blake&Co. acquired the type in 1905, and in 1948 they issued fonts in 30-pt (the size of the original design), 36-, 48- and 60-pt sizes. A digital version by ARTypes in 2007 is here. David Rakowski made a digital version called Beffle in 1991.
  • Austin's Pica No. 1 (1819). One of the first modern faces in Britain.
  • Porson (1806, Caslon Foundry). This Greek typeface is based on the handwriting of the English classicist Richard Porson's transcription of the Medea. Richard Austin was commissioned by the Cambridge University Press to cut it, from 1806 onwards. It was cast by Caslon foundry, but it never appeared in their specimens. It was completed and used only after Porson's death in 1808, in the editions of plays of Euripides produced by Cambridge scholars. Bringhurst notes that after its first appearance, it was soon copied by other founders, and was released by Monotype with some corrections in 1912. By the end of the 19th century, together with New Hellenic (by Victor Scholderer), it had become the main Greek type used in Britain.
  • Scotch Roman (1813, William Miller / Miller&Richardson). This didone face was revived in 1907 by Monotype Corporation. It is considered as the first British modern typeface. Also known as Georgian or Brimmer [when Bruce Rogers found the face at the Riverside Press in 1900, he used it for books under the name Brimmer]. D.B. Updike used another font of this type at his Merrymount Press where it was called Mountjoye. Scotch Roman#2 (1920) is a revival by Linotype.
  • Antique (ca. 1827). This was revived in 2007 by HiH as Austin Antique.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Wikipedia link.

View ichard T. Austin's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Autosugestija

Graphic designer from Belgrade. Typeface 206 (2011) is an ornamental caps face that pays homage to da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yann Autret

With Olivier Nineuil at Bonté Divine, this French designer made Bonté Divine 009 in 1996 and Fiston Divin in 1997. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Viktar Autushka

Minsk-based Belarussian designer of the Cyrillic/Latin version of Friedrich Poppl's font Laudatio, of Zipper1Cyr (2000; after a font by FishDicks), and of Willamette SF (2001), after an original by ShyFonts in 1999. He also extended Faust Antiqua in 2005 to Cyrillic (he claims the artwork is by G. Klikushin, but the typeface itself is by Kapr, 1958). Creator of Asessor (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sandrine Auvray

As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Jannet (2001), a face based on Jannet's garalde revivals, ca. 1860. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Haik Avanian

Haik Avanian is probably Armenian, but he lives in Toledo, OH, where he practices graphic design, digital photography and an occasional custom type design. Behance link. He created the condensed upright monoline sans face Autopilot (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Averin

Portland, OR-based designer of the mini-stencil face Do It Again (2011, caps only---almost like architectural lettering), developed while he studied type design under Pete McCracken at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Oregon. Home page with a free download. MyFonts has the commercial version sold by Thinkdust. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luce Avérous

Ex-student at Scriptorium de Toulouse (2001) who published some of her fonts at Typotek. She made the handwriting font Trashhand (2001), Lucette-Normal (2001), Perle-Normal (2000), and Printemps-Normal (2001). In 2002, she founded a signage agency, Tous les anges. Trashhand became Naturehand in 2008 when it became the house font of The Body Shop. The Greek and Cyrillic extensions will be done jointly by Luce Avérous and Dalton Maag. Over at Dalton Maag, she designed the technical handwriting face Verveine, which covers Greek as well. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Avery

Book designer since 2000. He is a senior designer at the University of Chicago Press where he has been working since May of 2003. Designer at FontStruct in 2009 of Oh Nine (dot matrix face for numerals only). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tal Aviv

Israeli type designer. Designer of Haratza MF (2009, Masterfont; with Avital Fuks). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sandra Avoletta

Brazilian designer of the alphading font Medalhao (2000) under the label Sandra-Nat. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michaela Avory

Graphic designer in the UK, who created a triangular modular typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessio Avventuroso

Milan, Italy-based graphic and type designer. His ultra-black Cuadra (2009) is free. Sofia (2009, a clean sans) is available upon request. Coldi (2009) is a free modular typeface. Arroz (2009) is a modular face constructed with ruler and compass. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Assaad Georges Awad

Futuristic fashion accessory and costume designer in Madrid. Behance link. Creator of Asho (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frederick Awich

Born in Dayton, OH, in 1991, Frederick Awich founded the Deleterious Design foundry in North Brunswick, New Jersey, in 2010. His first fonts were Infringe (display sans) and UndercoverLovahh (handprinted face). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andi Aw Masry

Campotype is an Indonesian foundry run by Andi Aw Masry (b. 1970, Makassar), a type designer from Makassar.

Masry made the connected script face FmiringCampotypeOne (2008), the Lontara Bugis script face OgieCappo Campotype (2008) and the angry typefaces Rambat Campotype (2008) and Creator Campotype Smcp (2008).

Dafont link. Fontsy link. Klingspor link.

In 2011, he went commercial at MyFonts. His first commercial font was the angular italic face Santblaze Pro (2011). This was followed by the fat finger face Geegantic Black (2011) and the tattoo font Creator Campotype (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mikolaj Awork

Creator of #Glidepath (outlined, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nabila Ayaba

Designer of the simple handwriting face Love Moi (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ayako

Designer of the Latin/kana handwriting font ayaFONT01. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aydee

Aydee (b. 1989) designed the handwriting faces Cazzy (2004), Starz (2004) and Aydee (2004), as well as the dripping blood font Wannabe monsters (2004) and the scribbly Freetype (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Naima Ben Ayed

Designer of Tulpen One (2011, Google Font Directory). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kathrin Ayer

Based in Brooklyn, NY, Kathrin designed the synthetic Hindi typeface Sprue (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hope Aylen

Graphic Communication student at UCA Farnham, UK. She designed the anti-smoking face Stub Out Your Addiction (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ayumu

Free Japanese and Latin fonts designed by Ayumu in 2006: biz-hiragana (Hiragana pixel font), Choco-oiwai (Latin, kana and kanji handwriting), biz_alp (Latin pixel font), biz_pencil (hiragana), Biz-Utatane (Latin and cyrillic handwriting), biz-chocolat (curly lettering, Latin only). Alternate URL where we find the handwriting fonts Banana Chips (2008) and Burst Chocolate (2008). The designer is called Akira there, and another URL is given as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hussein Al Azaat

Designer of an Arabic Opentype font in 2007. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Omi Azad

Free OpenType Bangla fonts created by Solaiman Karim, with the help of Omi Azad: Rupali (2002), SolaimanLipi (20030. Omi Azad has worked with Microsoft to help them develop Bengali OTF&Uniscribe Rendering engine for Bangla. He also tested the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator and currently testing the Microsoft Unicode Uniscribe Text Engine for Bangla&Microsoft Official OTF Bangla fonts. Other free fonts added in 2005: # Ekushey Sharifa, Ekushey Punarbhaba, Ekushey Sumit (see also here), Ekushey Durga, Ekushey Saraswatii, Ekushey Puja, Ekushey Azad, Ekushey Godhuli, Ekushey Mohua (see also here). Also available on this page is Likhan (Deepayan Sarkar ). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Naser Azarshab

Creator of the ultra-bold Arabic display face F Jadid (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucas Azevedo

Rio de Janeiro-based designer. Behance link. Designer of these typefaces: Maquina Serif (2011), Soul Ninja (2011, free squarish face), Nu Times (2011), O Barateiro (2011, logotype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ayman Azmy

Designer of BlackFlag (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aixa Aztarbe

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the condensed didone typeface Belta (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kiyohiko Azuma

Designer of the cute facial dingbat font Azudings (2005), digitized by Vic Fieger at Vic Fieger Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karla Mika Azumi Kon

Japanese-Brazilian designer, b. 1984, who created the pixel font Minami (2007). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tahar Azzaoui

Kaen Graphics is a French studio based in Lille. They created the experimental typeface Paintedfonts (2012). Behance link.

Run by Tahar Azzaoui (b. 1968). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Baal

From Santa Maria, CA, Eric Baal's fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lutz Baar

Lutz Baar (b. Berlin, 1946) ran Antropos. He is a calligrapher/type designer who runs a design studio called Miraculus Artwork in Gothenburg, Sweden. At the now defunct Antropos site, he used to offer Antropos (2002), a free prehistoric-lettering font. He is a contributor to the anthroposophic style of thinking and creating.

Baar published these typefaces with Linotype: Atlantis, Linotype Kaliber, Linotype Balder (1994), Linotype Ordinar (2000), Linotype Pisa (1997), Feltpen, Nordica (chiseled typeface).

Nice fonts at old Antropos site included: Aristoteles, Platonia, Andromeda, Zeitgeist, Artemis, Andromeda Engschrift, BaarAntropos, BaarAntroposAidfont, BaarAntroposBold, BaarAntroposBoldItalic, BaarAntroposCaps, BaarAntroposDisplay, BaarAntroposEngschrift, BaarAntroposItalic, BaarGoetheanis, BaarLemuria, BaarMetanoia, BaarMetanoiaBold, BaarMetanoiaBoldItalic, BaarMetanoiaItalic, BaarPhilos, BaarPhilosBold, BaarPhilosBoldItalic, BaarPhilosItalic, BaarSophia, BaarSophiaBold, BaarSophiaBoldItalic, BaarSophiaItalic, BaarZeitgeist.

He founded Menschengeist and Aidfonts (2005), where one can download his Sophia, Metanoia and Philos families.

Catalog of Lutz Baar's commercial typefaces. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Erik Baars

Kiwi graphic designer based in Auckland. Behance link. His fonts include Cirone (2009, art deco), and Enever (2009, techno). He is working on the ornamental capitals face Mad Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Petr Babak

Czech designer (b. 1967) of the experimental face Prkno (1992-1993, wooden plank-shaped letters). He works at Studio Machek & Babak, founded by them in 1967. Interview (in Czech). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anastasia Babalyan

Russian designer at TypeMarket of AllegroScript (1995), Palladium (1994-1995), SonetSerif (1996, based on Stone Serif from 1987), Anastasia Script (1996, based on Shelley Script (Matthew Carter, 1972), and Oliver New (1995, TypeMarket, based on Antique Olive by Roger Excoffon, Olive, 1962-1968). ParaType link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Babb

Fonts by Brooklyn, NY-based art director Andrew Babb: Dog Eared (2012, a paper fold typeface), Lava Vision (a great rounded original font), Polygon (2009, octagonal, gridded structure), First Attempt, Tuskey-San (2000), Gear Crank, Oh Balloney (2000), Lestat (2001), and QuietInfinity (2000).

Old site. Dafont link. Aka Buzzbum. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nigel Babb

Nigel Babb at The Burning Duck Department (cartoon specialists) in South Africa. Together with Matt Tapson (?), he created Broken Stick (2005), a free paint brush font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Babcock

Michael Babcock's hot metal type collection. He made Bradley Combo Ornaments (2001) by digitizing samples from the Nov. '74 Kingsley/ATF "Fonted Ornaments and Typographic Accessories" sheet. Free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hans Babendreyer

Designer of the dingbat font Faces Female. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Babette

Designer at RGB107,6 of Pirona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luciana Bacelar

Graphic designer in Recife, Brazil. Vitamina (2011) is a digital vernacular font developed while Luciana was studying at UFPE in Pernambuco, Brazil. It was inspired by the signage of Casa Amarela in Recife. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eran Bacharach

Eran Bacharach (Bee Creations) created Socialism Hebrew Typeface (2012): Inspired by typographic elements in Hebrew Socialist posters from the 1940s, the font was created as part of a branding campaign for a law office specializing in labor laws, social security and workers' rights. [Google]

Bach

Creator of Subway Haze (2009, grunge). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vitoldas Bachenas

Lithuanian book and type designer. At Polygraphmash type design bureau, he created the unusual low-contrast serif family Bachenas (1963). The digital version was developed for ParaType in 2003 by Lyubov Kuznetsova. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hans Bacher

German animation artist who lives in Southern California where he works for Disney Feature Animation. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He created the Agfa-Monotype fonts New Gothic Light (2001), Architec (2001, architectural and lined), Blockade (2001, grunge), Tuscany (2001, a beautiful scribbly hand), Woodcut Alpha (2001, Kafkaesque) and West Of China (2001, a great oriental-looking calligraphic font). Other fonts include Spoleto (2001, a funky hand-drawn face). FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Théophile Bachet

Toulouse-based designer and illustrator. Behance link. His first typeface, made in 2012, is in the collage / dada style. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gerhard A. Bachmaier

Oesterreichische Schulschrift: Austrian School Writing Letters developed in 1995 by Gerhard A. Bachmaier. In metafont format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yves Bachmann

Zurich-based illustrator and art director who made the octagonal face Qbik in 2010. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Spike Bachman

Graphic designer in North Carolina. Behance link. He created two experimental fonts, Fanetik (2011) and Unfolded (2011, 3d). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eran Bachrach

Israeli type designer who created these faces at Masterfont: Blender MF (2003, with Ido Zemach), Amit MF, May One MF (2004, with Ido Zemach), Caveret MF (2003, octagonal Hebrew face, with Ido Zemach). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Marcel Bachran

Student at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (BTK). He created the display face Procedura (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ina Bachvarova

Studio located in Sofia, Bulgaria, run by graphic designers and illustrators Ina Bachvarova and Vladimir Vencharsky. In 2010, they created an ornamental caps alphabet with mythological creatures. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Bacigalupo

Uruguayan type designer (born in 1952 in Montevideo), one of the pioneers of Brazilian type, dabbling mainly in corporate type in Brazil, such as for Vasp (1985), Cia. Hering, Bardahl and Continental 2001. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Billy Bacon

Nu-des is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio that is involved in visual identity. They are experimenting with type. Its main designer, Billy Bacon, created the scribbly font Pasmado (1996) and Marola (1996). In 1997, he created the foundry Subvertaipe. In 2006, he made the blood-drip grunge face Caracura (2006). Professor at PUC-Rio and at Kabum! Escola de Artes e Tecnologia. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tristan Bacro

Designer of the handwritten bold face Tristan (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angelina Badali

American creator (b. 1990) of the handprinted all caps face Miss Diikae (2009). Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christophe Badani

Christophe Badani (b. 1969, Marseilles) is a French type designer. He resides in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. His typefaces:

  • Ambre Script (1999). Based on Carolingian forms.
  • Berto (2000, +Decoration). A digitization of a 1950s Cyrillic simulation face by Joseph Bertocchio (1907-1978), which has, in addition, nice ornaments.
  • IndexLT (1998).
  • Romaine.
  • Linotype Rough (1998).
  • Theo.
  • Transilienne.
  • Trevor.
  • Mr. Pixel (2003, free here).
  • Custom fonts: Akerys, Alstom (2007, a sans face done with Stephane Gabrielli), BD Asterix (2003-2005), Ciboulette (2006, script), Eurodatacar (2007: a stencil face donr with Stephane Gabrielli), Fédération Française de Basketball, Graphèmes (2007, a sans face done with Stephane Gabrielli), Lacoste Sans (2002, for Lacoste), Lancômes (2004, a hairline connected script), Lune de Miel (handwriting, 2002, for YSA; has many alternate double and triple letter combinations, and tries to simulate real handwriting), MAAF, Peugeot (done with Stephane Gabrielli), Pimkie, Seenk (2005, with J.-B. Levée), Sogea, Ubisoft (2003, developed in collaboration with the Seenk agency (design&MixMedia studio) for the video game company Ubisoft: it won the "Trophée d'Or" award at the Intergraphic Congress in Paris in January 2004), Vinci Sans and Vinci Serif (2007, with Stephane Gabrielli).

Christophe runs Typophage, a type activity center. Interview with Planete Typographie. Some of his fonts are also at Typotek. In 2004, he joined Ultra Pixel Fonts, where he made the pixel face Mr. Pixel. His historical pages explain about things such as Quadrata (first century roman lettering).

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

Tuaha Badar

Graphic designer in Karachi, Pakistan, who created Solid (2012), a heavy mechanical face with a 3d version. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Bae

New York-based designer of the free truetype bitmap fonts: Civil01B, Civil01R, Civil02B, Civil02R, Dukie01B, Dukie01E, Dukie01R, Pookie01, Pookie02, Pookie03. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tobias Baeck

Designer in Oslo. At Fontspace, one can find his free fonts. These include the octagonal face True Blood (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Baert

Thomas Baert (Deluxe Graphique), is from Kortrijk, Belgium. At Graphic River, one can buy Deluxe Bold (2008, pixel face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seunghan Bae

Korean designer (aka pear94210) who used FontStruct in 2009 to make Shadow (shadow font), Outside (bilined), Squaline (gridded), 5to5 (pixel), Shine, Heart Negative, Heartbreaker (octagonal), Octagon, Basic, Neos, Heaven, Remember (kitchen tile), Genie (bold, condensed), and Heaven. In 2010, these fonts were added: Chocolate, Piece (dotted font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luisa Baeta

Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011A Luisa is from Portugal and Brazil. Her graduation typeface was the multifaceted family Arlecchino (2011), which contains a signage script, a slab serif, and an ordinary script. Both Latin and Greek are covered. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Analía Aspauzo Baez

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

Alawi Hashim Bafageeh

Designer of the Arabic font family Shurooq 01 through 29 (1995, 2000). It can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Bagão

Fontstructor who made the Tipografia series in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roberto Bagatti

Italian designer (b. 1971) who graduated from the Art Institute of Parma. He is currently the main designer for MTV Italia. He created the gothic font Grimoire, first as a logo for the group Barbie Car and later for some MTV titles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roberto Bagatty

Creator of Grimoire at Psy/Ops. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Saptarshi Bagchi

Aka softhunterdevil, Saptarshi Bagchi (b. 1985, India) lives in Kolkata. As FontStructor, he made 3 Strokes (2010), a multiline face, SlamDunk (201) and Diagonal Knife (2009, octagonal). At Graphic River, one can buy Pixel Knife (2009), also a FontStruction. Memories (2010) is a grunge face. In Her Memory (2011) is a semi script face with tall ascenders. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gayaneh Bagdasaryan

Cyreal is a type foundry with expertise in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Its founders are lecturers at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. They are

  • Gayaneh Bagdasaryan. Gayaneh began working as a type designer in ParaType in 1996. She has done cyrillization work at ParaType, Typotheque, Linotype, Bitstream, The Font Bureau, ITC, Berthold and Emigre. Her typeface Red Klin received a TDC2 2000 Award. Her New Letter Gothic won an Award for Excellence in Type Design at the Kyrillitsa 99 International Type Design competition in Moscow, 1999. Gayaneh graduated from the Print Design Department of Moscow State University of Printing Arts (2000), and Ryazan College of Art (1992). Designer in 1999 at Paratype of LetterGothic Baltic, LetterGothic Central European, LetterGothic Cyrillic Asian, LetterGothic Cyrillic International, LetterGothic Cyrillic Old Russian, LetterGothic Multi Lingual, LetterGothic Turkish, LetterGothic Western. She made the Cyrillic version of Licko's Base Nine and Base Twelve families (2003) and of Albert Boton's ITC Eras (called PT ITC Eras). Klin Black (2004, Paratype, decorative caps in the style of Russian fine art ca. 1900) is an original. Finally, she designed ParaType New Letter Gothic (1999) and ParaType Original Garamond (2000).
  • Alexei Vanyashin. Type designer with expertise in Cyrillics. Winner at the Granshan 2010 International Type Design competition with Florian (Second place in the Cyrillic Text Typeface category). He completed the Type&Typography Master Level course in 2010, and studied typography at the Stroganov University of Arts and Industry.

Fonts:

  • Cyrillizations: Akzidenz-Grotesk Condensed, AG Book, Apack (Pisa), Base Nine, Charlie, Fedra Sans, Fedra Serif, Filosofia, Greta, Griffith Gothic, Eras (ITC), Lobster (free, 2011, after Pablo Impallari's Lobster), Neuland, Original Garamond, Renault.
  • Armenian: Newton Armenian, Pragmatica Armenian, Haykakan Kar.
  • Custom: GEO Text, GEO Display.
  • Retail: New Letter Gothic, Red Klin, Schmale, Florian.
  • Free at Fontsquirrel: Artifika (2011), Brawler (2011), Rationale (done with Olexa Volochay and Vladimir Pavlikov).
  • Free fonts at Google Font Directory: Artifika (2011, by Yulya Zhdanova and Ivan Petrov), Aubrey (2011, art nouveau by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan), Vidaloka (2011, a didone done by Alexei Vanyashin and Olga Karpushina), Lora (2011, a contemporary serif by Olga Karpushina), Federant (2011, by Olexa Volochay: this revives the Reklameschrift typeface Feder Antiqua by Otto Ludwig Nägele (1911)), Federo (2011, high-contrast sans by Olexa Volochay based on J. Erbar's 1909 font Feder Grotesk), Podkova (2011, slab serif), Wire One (2011, monoline sans).
Fontspace link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Bagdasaryan Gayaneh. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gayaneh Bagdasaryan

Brownfox is independent type foundry based in Moscow, and managed by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan. They specialize in the design and production of Latin and Cyrillic fonts for print and for screen. Their first typefaces in 2012, all posted at Google Web Fonts, include Simonetta (readable angular typeface: see here), Sevillana (curly upright script by Olga Umpeleva), and Henny Penny (a playful decorative typeface, also by Olga Umpeleva). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yassin Baggar

Yassin Baggar is a Swiss graphic and type designer. Before joining TypeMedia KABK (where he obtained a Masters in 2011), he worked for different studios in Berlin. In 2012, he set up the foiundry Fatype with Anton Koovit.

Codesigner with Anton Koovit of the slab serif family Arvo (2010). His graduation work at KABK included the development of Bois (2011): Bois is a Roman Antiqua flirting with Gothic influences. The design, based on calligraphy and craftsmanship, was inspired by the works of Villu Toots, Rudolf Koch, Oldrich Menhart, and William Morris. The name Bois, French for wood, stands for the natural and solid aspect of the typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tobias Baggemann

Tobias Baggemann (Breitenlauf) is a German graphic and type designer. He designed Construct (2011, contructivist) and [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ara Baghdasaryan

Armenian type designer at the State Academy of Art. At Granshan 2009, he won an award for his Armenian font Ara Rusa. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gayane Baghdasaryan

Armenian type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beno Bagheri

Tehran-based designer of the Persian font Beno (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victor Kudakwashe Bagu

Harare, Zimbabwe-based designer (b. 1982) of KonQa (2006), a grunge Cyrillic simulation face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Baham

Designer of Terrorama Chiseled (2005, grunge). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nor Eddine Bahha

Nor Eddine Bahha (jazz pianist, composer, copyist, researcher and teacher at "The Karawen Music School" in Morocco) designed the NorMusic fonts in 2005. This is a set of jazz music fonts with a handwritten look designed to work with Finale, Sibelius, Overture, Mozart, NoteWorthy Composer and Encore/MusicTime Deluxe. In addition, he has released in 2007 the BopMusic font family for Sibelius. This is a third party set of music symbol fonts which can be used with Sibelius to produce handwritten music in a style similar to that of many jazz charts, including a complete script font for text, chord symbols, and hundreds of symbols for jazz and commercial music. The fonts set includes BopMusic, BopMusic Script, BopMusic Chords, BopMusic Text, BopMusic Special, BopMusic Metronome and BopMusic Time. All the fonts are commercial. BopMusic Script and NorText are two handwritten fonts that are sold separately. NorScript Fonts v2 (2007) contains secen new handwrittren text fonts similar to JazzText with different effects: NorScript Bold Font v2, NorScript Cased Oblique Font v2, NorScript Cased Font v2, NorScript Italic Font v2, NorScript Font v2, NorScript Shadow Font v2 and NorScript Title Font v2. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paramdeep Bahia

British graphic and type designer. His (commercial) fonts include LDN Digital (2008, a dot matrix face), Cono Blok (2008, a beautiful fat condensed display face), and D1 (heavy octagonal face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Priscila Bahiense

Designer from Recife, Brazil, b. 1983. Her typeface Srip Alic is based on the city street signs in Porto de Galinhas. Soldiers of Hell (2010, co-designed with Luciano Gonçalves) is a toy soldier silhouette dingbat font. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Baichtal

John Baichtal (Famished.org) is the designer (b. 1971) of the art deco face Cronus (2002), Globe (a pixel font), Addled, Creamed Corn, 121, Boa Hamata, One Twenty One, November 14th, Peanut, Pinnacle (a deformed font), Plateau, Quigley, Skinny, Stogie, the kitchen tile face Abacus (2002), Equanimity Stencil (2002), Ripsaw (a Tuscan display font, 2002), Girder (2002), Equanimity Linked (2002), Faxt (2002, pixel font), Purvey Grecian (2002), Gold (2002, sans serif), Mullet (2002), Eidolon (2002), Sloth, Tourmaline (a great art deco face with many gorgeous ligatures), Transaction, Octuple, Mullet (2002, sans), Hellios (2002, a bitmap stencil font with spikes), Nairoby (2002, experimental), Tray (2002), and Dactylic (2003, octagonal). Some free Mac fonts are supposed to be here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fadly Baidowy

Jakarta-based designer, b. 1985. He created the squarish Cross Screw (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Florian Baier

German type designer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Manfred Baierl

Manfred Baierl created the screen fonts Mini-5 and Mini-7 for 5pt and 7pt screen text in 2001. He also created the old typewriter font AltAdler, and the dot font Punkt. Free downloads. He sells Fishsoup, a type 1 font consisting of a smorgasbord of type styles. His pages have lots of useful discussions and links, not least of which is Bembo's Zoo. Check also on-line converter for typographic measurements, Top 10 typefaces, Information on the Euro. Download Ansicode (ANSI numbers replace characters). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Bailey

Fontosaurus (est. 1996) has about 75 original giftware fonts by Dan Bailey (b. Minnesota, 1972) from Eagan, MN and now Coon Rapids, MN: Blowfish (2001), Negotiated (2006), GhettoBooty (2003), Laika (2003), Amerinese, Heptathalon, Riffic (2002), XMR (2002), Amerikatakana (2002), Experimenta (2002), Tapdance (2002, a great ultra-high contrast Broadway face), Casual Roman (2002, not free), Casual Roman Capitals (2002, not free), Heater (2001), Crank (2001), Halloweenies (2001), GaramOrbital (2001), Microbial (2001, pixelized), Inception (20USD), Fallen Thyme (a hacker font: letters are overlayed in Chank Diesel's Thymesans), Candycorn Overdose (2001), Statebats (2001), Whackbats (2001), 5by (bitmap font for the Mac), Deadwrong (2001), Alien Artifact (2001), Hoodoo Two (2001), Noonan (2001), YChrome (2001), Martini (2001), DresdenFirestorm (2001), Backlash, Brainwave, Whiplash, BlockheadInsecure, Blockhead, BlockheadSpeedy, CancunSiesta, CitizenDick (double writing), CSDAnorexic, CSDMegabold, CSDNormal, CSDPhattie, Danwriting, Eagan, Ebola Jones (2001), FallenDirty, Fallen, KaffeinePsychosisHeavy, KaffeinePsychosis, LucidityNormal, LuciditySlasher, MankatoHalfwit (outlines), MarsColony, MyFriendPoopa, OralExpulsive, Preternatural, Psychoactives (great!), RadiationBurn, Soviet2002, Starvetica, 989MaxProtect, Ablative (2001), Crackaddict, Harleysville, Juggernaut, LoveBot (a mashed Times Condensed), Packer, Sexypants (rework of Calligraphic 421), Shadowboxer, Skylab (2000), Arduous, Bewbz, BungholioSurprise, Crotchrot, Numatrix, Oddziab, RonnieRaygun, Rusch (2006), Runningback, 1978NYC, Erg, Exclaim, Gigaton, Grackle, Kiloton, MashedPotatoes, Megaton, Moonbase, Mullet, Pornstar, PornStarAcademy, Scumbucket, SnowCrash (hacker face), Speeddealer, SpringBreak, Statebats.

Gumbo (2001) and Tirade (2001) are commercial. Does also custom work. At some point, it was part of the Chank Army, where Fontosaurus had the commercial pixel font Noonan (2002).

Interview.

Creator of Jantze (2003), a comic book font based on the cartoon The Norm by Michael Jantze, and whose profits will go to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

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

David Bailey

Designer of Modern Blackletter (2005) and this grotesk display font (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frank E. Bailey

He calls himself a semi-intellectual. This designer from Jozi in South Africa, made these faces in 2010: Rund Marker (a felt tip font), Reservoir Grunge, Caligula Dodgy (roman capitals), Shoom Vertical (monoline techno squarish sans) and Bloxxx Extrabold.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Bailey

Designer in the FUSE 18 collection of Sclerosisscript. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jennifer Bailey

Creator of the outlined handprinted This Font Looks Awesome (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kevin Bailey

Designer of ITC Bailey Quad (1996), the ITC Bailey Sans Book family (1996), and the fat-lettered font ITC Liverpool in 1999.

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

M.J. Bailey

M.J. Bailey (GD Fonts) is a student at Saginaw Valley State University (MI). In 2011, he created the grungy handprinted faces Loose Ends and Sea Turtle. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Bailey

Sean Bailey (aka FonTek, and aka theonesean) is the FontStructor who created the fonts Dominoes (2011), ASD font (2011), Raundi (2011) and Circles Etc (2011, a dot matrix face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Bailey

Steve Bailey is the designer (b. UK, 1984) of DigitalDream (2003), an LED font. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Bailgamis

Greek designer of the techno faces Project and Project Goodies (2010, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicolas Baillargeon

Nicolas Baillargeon (Montreal) is a talented art director. His campaign for Tabasco (2011) is outstanding. In 2011, he made an unnamed 3d typeface. Reserva (2011) is a vintage stencil family made for a brand called Reserve 51 for the Bâton Rouge restaurant. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Theresa Rezzyn Bail

Denver, CO-based creator (b. 1973) of these free dingbat fonts: ReZZyN'SHeartsDesire (2008), ReZZyN'S-KissNBuds (2008), ReZZyNSScrolls (2008), ReZZyN'SHeartsDesire (2008), ReZZyNTattoo1 (2008). Alternate URL. Before that, she was known as Theresa Mustaccio and Theresa Mustaccio-Bail and Theresa Bail, and had a web presence called Fontageous. She was (is?) a bridal consultant and seamstress from Northglenn, CO, who offered her own font designs: HotHotHot, Fiesta, Computer Calculator, TheresaDolphins, WeddingCelebrationsDings, Bail Celebrations, Theresa Cursive Hand (2001), Chicken Hatchlings (1998), BailPlayfulDolphins (1998), PotOfGold (alphadings, 1998), Wedding Script Bail (1999), Swyfp, Dawson's Creek (1998, see also here), Tamagotchi, FemaleBodyParts (demo), WedDing (1998), Heads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Todd Bainbridge

Todd Bainbridge at Frankenfonts is the designer of CultLove, CultFonts, CultLove Ornate (2000), FF Nosebleed (2001) and FF Cultbats (2001). Fontspace link [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Baine

Scottish type founder from Edinburgh who was active during the second half of the 17th century. He started out in St. Andrews in 1742 in partnership with Alexander Wilson when thwey co-founded the Wilson Foundry there, but moved in 1744 to Glasgow and in 1749 to London (when his partnership with Wilson ended) and in 1768 to Edinburgh. In 1787, he published "A Specimen of Printing Types, By John Baine&Grandson in Co", and emigrated to Philadelphia, where he set up a foundry. The elder Baine died in 1790, and his grandson continued until 1799, when he sold the equipment to Binny&Ronaldson for $300. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon Baines

Located in Portsmouth, UK, Jon Baines is a web designer and advertising person. He created a super-fat font called Square in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phil Baines

Graphic designer (born in 1958 in Kendal, Westmorland) who graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1985 and the Royal College of Art in 1987. He works as a freelance graphic designer, is Professor of Typography at Central Saint Martins College of Art&Design (now a university) in London (since 1991), runs Phil Baines Studio, maintains Public Lettering (about type found in cities), and is Typographic Advisor to the Central Lettering Record CD-Rom project.

He designed FUSE Classic 1, Can You (1989), Ushaw (FUSE 8, FontShop, 1993), Toulon (1994), Horncastle (1994), VereDignum LT Std in Alternate, Decorative and Regular weights (2003, Linotype Taketype 5 collection) and Can You Read Me (FUSE 1, 1991).

His pages on public lettering in London.

His books include Signs, lettering in the environment (with Catherine Dixon, 2003) and Type&Typography (2002, with Andrew Haslam).

At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he spoke on From the Motor Car Act to motorways. He has also a good reputation for taking people on typographic city tours, as he did in 2006 at ATypI in Lisbon, and at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Linotype link. FontShop link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin in which he explained how he and Catherine Dixon produced the lettering for the Pozza Palace in Dubrovnik on commission for the Serbian Orthodox Church. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michael Bain

Designer in 1994 of BigFella and of the grunge font MK Ultra at Garagefonts. In 1993, he did TBickle and Tooth31, also at Garagefonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Bain

Peter Bain's typeface design and typography studio in Brooklyn, New York. He was type director at Saatchi&Saatchi in New York, and teaches at the Parsons/The New School for Design and Pratt Institute in New York. He is best known for his wonderful book Blackletter: Type and National Identity (1998, with Paul Shaw).

Check his photocomposition display faces, which are reedited and available in "reproduction proofs" (whatever that means, probably not as fonts). PDF format list. Text format of Bain's file. Bain says he built this from the Typositor type libraries formerly offered by Techni-Process Lettering and Pastore DePamphilis Rampone, which he bought at an auction. Report on his talk in London on blackletter type (2003). MyFonts sells the 4-weight Josef Albers-inspired stencil family Gridiot (2003-2011). His thoughts about the art of Albers: Remember, any idiot can design a typeface on a grid: Gridiot. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Matt Baird

Glyphon (Greenville, SC) is the type foundry of American type designer Matt Baird.

In 2012, Matt designed the nibbed typeface Yeti. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Stephan Baitz

German designer of the freeware font Alphabet of the Magi, Alphabet of Daggers, and of Masonic-Rosicrucean (1997). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yihe Bai

Beijing, China-based designer (b. 1987) of the experimental Latin typeface Yarn (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martin Bajanik

Slovak designer of the experimental face Benka (2001) and of the pictogram face Via Dolorosa (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aggelos Bakas

Graphic and typeface designer. He teaches graphic design at the University of Wales College Newport, Wales. Writer, editor and designer of the Acro magazine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew R. Baker

Graphic designer from York, PA, who created Shard (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Baker

American calligrapher who worked for many foundries, and ran several studios. His fonts have calligraphic influences, of course. MyFonts page. Another MyFonts page. And still another MyFonts page. FontShop link. Some of his work, which is a bit scattered over many foundries:

  • He runs Glyph Systems in Andover, MA, where one can find Calligraphica (1995, like Sassafras), Cold Mountain (1995, grunge), Collier Script (1995, calligraphic), Daybreak (1995, grunge), Duckweed (1995), Duckweed Sans, FishFace (dingbats), Hiroshige Sans, Kigali (1994), Mercator (1995, an old mapmaker type family), Oakgraphic, Swooshes (1994, ornaments), Feathers, Florettes, Flowery, Hands (1995, calligraphic fists), Plumes, Swirls, Arrows (1995), and Sassafras (1995, a decorative engraving family).
  • At one point, he designed a Maverick Designs Collection (1994): New Amigo, New Marigold, New Oxford, New Pelican, New Visigoth.
  • Linotype Amigo.
  • Linotype carries Baker Signet (2001, famous for the word Coke on the Coca Cola bottles) [Bitstream also has a version of this], Visigoth, Oxford, Marigold, Amigo, Sassafras and Kigali.
  • Agfa-Monotype carries Pelican, and so does Adobe.
  • ITC has ITC Tiepolo (1987).
  • He had some fonts published under the label AlphaOmega. These all appeared later with Adobe.
  • At P22: Calligraphica (2001) and the medieval map writing font Mercator (2001). P22 Matador (2007) is a contemporary Roman font based on the manuscript tradition (digitized by Michael Clark).
  • At VGC: Baker Argentina No 1 (1976), Baker Danmark One (1976), Baker Signet (1965). Baker Signet, in its display text weights, was at the basis of Sigvar (Softmaker).

Some explanations by Freddy Nader: The Baker Argentina and Danmark faces were variations on his Signet. Baker originally made Signet for Headliners International in the 1960s, where he worked full time. In 1972 he was approached by VGC and told that they would pay him royalties as well if he made the same face for them. Royalties were a relatively new thing back then - Tommy Thompson was the very first person to ever learn royalties in type (in 1944 for his Thompson Quill script for Photo Lettering Inc), and he wasn't a type designer per se, he was a calligrapher. Lured by the idea of royalties coming his way from two different directions for the same face, Baker did a Signet for VGC. When Bob Evans, owner of Headliners, found out, he threatened to sue VGC for trademark infringement (copyright for typefaces was unheard of at the time - every major photo type house had "similar" fonts, and whenever someone got exclusives made by outside designers under a royalty program, it was only a matter of weeks before they were knocked off and changed slightly by other type houses, big and small). So in order to avoid a trademark infringement lawsuit, VGC called their face Baker Signet, instead of just Signet, and went further by asking Arthur Baker to make a lighter version and a condensed version. The lighter version was called Baker Argentina, the condensed version was called Baker Danmark. The "Number One" prefix was added to both so that when the inevitable knockoffs happened, type buyers would know which type was made first. About Baker Sans, Freddy writes: The Baker Sans was a knockoff of Helvetica. It was a massive family of a lot of fonts, rendered very ugly by camera stretching and slanting. Eddie Bauer used it as their corporate face for a long time in order to avoid the expensive fees of licensing Helvetica. Tim Ryan ended up digitizing it for Arthur Baker in the mid 1990s for a lot of money. That digital version is now being sold by ITF under one of its many companies (either Arthur Baker Design, or Arthur Baker Designs, or maybe Maverick Designs). Klingspor link. %Z Arthur Baker Alpha Omega Arthur Baker Designs Maverick Designs Box 1897 Andover MA 01810 (508) 687-0513 OEM only [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Brian Baker

Brian Baker (b. 1983) at ThisAlso is the designer of the pixel font Auditorium8 (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cassey Baker

Cassey Baker (Philadelphia) went on an experimental tour, and created a beautiful multilined multihued geometric typeface called Arc Nemesis Rainbow Display Typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cindy Baker

Several free original truetype dingbat fonts by Cindy Baker. Each font has just a few intricate and beautiful drawings. There are Baby'sBreath2, Baby'sBreathnativeamerican, BabysBreathEaster, BabysBreathStPats, Kids, CindyBaker, and a few other fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darrik Baker

Lake Forest-based designer (b. 1991) of the manipulated font Instant Message Freak (2006). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hannah Baker

Sydney-based creator of Media Typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joey Baker

Using iFontMaker, Joey Baker created Mobile's Font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joy Anne Baker

Joy Anne Baker designed "Stargate SG1 Address Glyphs" (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Norman Baker

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of bauhouse, i_love_fontstruct (horizontal stencil). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Baker

Paul Baker's type-related book, right here on the web. He created Alphabet26 in 2001, an implementation of a unicase font proposal by Bradbury Thompson. Writings on "Evaluating typography and typesetting". He digitized Andromaque Uncial (1958, Victor Hammer) in 1995. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter S. Baker

Peter Baker, an English professor at the University of Virginia, offers free TrueType and PostScript fonts such as the nice Junius family (1996, modern hybrid Gaelic), Beowulf-1 (1995, a pseudo-Gaelic face) and Anglo-Saxon Caps as well as tens of links related to old English. He also developed Junicode, "the working name of a Unicode font for medievalists." The fonts in the latter project are Junicode-Bold, JunicodeItalic, Junicode (2002), and are by Peter S. Baker and Briery Creek Software.

In 2010, he published the elegant Carolingian face Eadui: Reproduction of English Caroline Minuscule as written by Eadui Basan, a scribe at eleventh-century Christ Church, Canterbury.

Alternate URL. Dafont link. Open Font Library link, where he is known as psb6m. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ray Baker

Designer who worked for VGC in the phototypesetting era. He created ITC Quorum in 1977, a font halfway between serif and sans, and the sansserif font ITC Newtext in 1974. Digital versions of the latter exist at Elsner&Flake and Softmaker [Q853 Flare and Quagga on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002]. At Filmotype, he made the brush script face LaSalle (1950s), which was digitized in 2008 by Stuart Sandler at Font Bros in 2008 as Filmotype LaSalle. In 2010, MyFonts credits Patrick Griffin and Rebecca Alaccari with the digitization though. Other Filmotype faces digitized in 2011 include Filmotype Harmony (original from 1950), Filmotype Kentucky (a 1955 original), Filmotype Kingston (a 1953 original), Filmotype Hamlet (a 1955 original), all in the connected signage type category, and all done by Patrick Griffin and Rebecca Alaccari. The latter two also digitized Filmotype Lucky (2012), a signage face from 1953.

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

Marina Bakhireva

Russian type designer, who created the dynamic handprinted face Freaky (2009, Paratype). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Marta Bakija

Creator of the free handprinted face Bakija Marta (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcel Bakker

Dutch designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the nice art deco display face AlfaDeco. In 2009, he added Dicky and Dinny. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mivvho Bakkho

Japanese designer of the dripping blood font Bloodyslime (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Efrat Bakshitz

Israeli type designer at MasterFonts. He made Glukoz MF (2005). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nelson Balaban

Brazilian graphic designer and well-known illustrator, b. 1989. Creator of the high-contrast fashion mag face Accent (2011, free download in EPS format on his Behance site). Leigo (2011) is a custom magazine font with an art deco flair. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahmet Burak Bal

Turkish designer at FontStruct of Q-Key (2008, rounded and fat), and Nano (2008, white on black, and squarish). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Balakhnova

Graphic designer in Shenzhen, China. ArtMy (2010) is an ornamental art nouveau face that was based on letters hand-drawn by herself. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julia Borisovna Balasheva

Russian designer of the Lubok face (2003, Linotype), which consists of cute dingbats. The term lubok refers to a popular style of Russian folk art printing, which dates back to the 18th century. Lubok won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fedor Balashov

Designer (aka Opex) who used FontStruct in 2008 to create the faces font Wooster together with Alexei Vanyashin and Kate Semenova. He runs 110design in Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bogdan Balatchi

Bogdan Balatchi (ESS Fonts) graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Arts of West University in Timisoara, Romania. He is a graphic designer. Bogdan created the display sans face Facebook Letter Faces (2011) and the medieval lettering face Kogaion ESS (2011), which are both free. Klauss (2011) and Pain in the sky (2011) are commercial soft techno faces.

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

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

Marco Balbi

Creator of the iFontMaker fonts MabBig, MabCalligraphic, MabFantasy, MabHard, and MabSimplicitas (2010, handprinted faces). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pablo Balcells

Argentinian type designer who created the typefaces Eslava Inline (2012), Eslava Double Line (2012), Eslava Stencil (2012), Eslava Solid (2012), Eslava Outline (2012), Solida (10-style sci-fi blocky sci-fi typeface), Pixelar and Led in 2012. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tom Balchin

UK-based designer who graduated in graphic design from Central St. Martins in 2009. He made several typefaces, including Detain (2011, a high-contrast octagonal face), DDR 1967 (2011, an ultra-fat beauty). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sophie Balch

UK-based FontStructor (student at Bristol UWE) who made the all caps chaos-themed font Pandemonium (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrico Baldetti

Italian designer (b. Rome, 1973) who studied Industrial Design and Visual Communication at Rome University. He works sometimes in Paris. For the magazine 2A+P, he created the monospaced font 2A+P (2000) which evokes robots and synthesized voices. Mènil (1999) is a fluid informal sans family. He also made Jollymusic. Solid Script and Streetfont were made in 2004 for the French mag Worldsigns. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Baldinger

André Baldinger is the Swiss typographer and type designer (b. 1963) who made the Newut (1996, all letters of equal size, and thus a semi-unicase) and the B-Dot (pixel) families (1998). His outfit in Lausanne is called amb+. In 1994, he graduated from the Atélier National de Création Typographique (ANCT) in Paris. Since 1995, he teaches typography at the École supérieure d'arts visuels de Lausanne. He lives in Paris. Together with Philippe Millot, he heads the type design unit of the Creation and Innovation Research Centre (EnsadLab) at ENSAD Paris. He teaches typography and type design at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He was involved in projects such as the logotype for the Cité Universitaire and a custom type for the Eiffel tower. He also digitized the Frutiger-Hunziker typeface CGP (used in the Centre Georges Pompidou, originally designed in 1974) in 1997.

Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin where he introduced the Gering project. I cite: Based on a close analysis of typefaces created by Ulrich Gering at the Atelier de la Sorbonne and the Soleil d'Or workshop in the 1470s, the first typefaces produced in France, postgraduate students Timm Borg, Anthony Dathy, Perrine Saint Martin and Ok Kyung Yoon have been working on a versatile, modern font family for the last 2 years under the the guidance and watchful eyes of André Baldinger and Philippe Millot. Focusing on two of Gering's designs --- a sturdy roman font that closely imitates the texture of blackletter and a roman with blackletter influences --- the EnsadLab team has developed a complete family, reviving the work of the father of the printed word in France and bringing together aesthetics rarely seen in such an ensemble. Working only a few hundred metres from the original site of Gering's workshop they have thoroughly reworked the letterforms found in the extant incunabula available in the Bibliothèque Nationale, complementing the original characters with italics, small caps, and supplementary weights, as well as all of the glyphs necessary in a 21st century font.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chico Baldini

Chico Baldini is a Brazilian designer. At ByType, a foundry in Sapiranga, Brazil, he published the Easter-themed dingbat face The World is a Bunny (2007). That font, codesigned with Fabio Luiz Haag, is also at T-26. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Florencia Baldini

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the italic script face Saint Firulet (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giulia Jole Giuliana Baldini

Designer from Sydney. Creator of the angular magazine type Archi Sans (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Baldus

Designer of BubbleSheet (2009, Open Font Library), a sans face with letters inside circles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darcy Baldwin

Darcy Baldwin (DJBFontography) is the Texas-based designer of these handwriting faces in 2007: DJBABITOFFLAIRE, DJBADEE1, DJBAMANDAG, DJBANGELA, DJBANNALISE, DJBANNETTEscript, DJBCHERE, DJBCHRISTINEC, DJBCINDA, DJBCINDAs, DJBDAWN, DJBDOODLEDOO, DJBELIZABETHK, DJBELKE1, DJBEMILYS, DJBEuroscript, DJBGINAE, DJBGISELLA, DJBJANELLE, DJBJANINE, DJBJENB2, DJBJENNA, DJBJENNIFER, DJBJENNIFERscript1, DJBJOAN, DJBJOYscript, DJBKATHERINE, DJBKATRINE, DJBKEELYB, DJBKEELYBscript, DJBKELLEY, DJBKENNAscript, DJBKIRA, DJBLINDSE1, DJBLINDY, DJBLIZ, DJBLORRAINE1, DJBMANDY, DJBMEGAN, DJBMETA2, DJBMISH, DJBMichael, DJBPOOKIEDOO, DJBRITA2, DJBSOFEE1, DJBTABITHAscript, DJBWENDY, DJBWENDYPscript, DJBWRITESALOT. In 2008, she made DJB Treasure Hunt, DJB Curlie Wurlie, DJB 2Cute4U, DJB Heart of Dixi. Fonts made in 2009: DJB For Annie, DJB Sloppy Joe.

In 2011, she made DJB C Lyle Run, DJB Blueprint, DJB Crazy Goofy Cool, and DJB Cassandra.

Typefaces designed in 2012: DJB Cris Script, DJB Doodle Beans, DJB Squirly Q.

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

Joe Baldwin

Joe Baldwin (b. UK, 1973) runs RoastHorse Type Foundry. He is the designer of the pixel font Flash Script (2002, italic), the sarcastic RHBertholdRegularIndustryofTyrany RHBurroughs, RHCarrierStencil (2004, a free font created because of Berthold's "abuse of copyright"; it is an octagonal stencil font), Linx Pro (a MICR and dot matrix family), the pixel face RHBurroughs, the fat Western style face Hubbard Hand Lettered (2003, available at T-26), and the flash-optimized Kerouac (2002, T-26).

His home page. Alternate URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Keith Bale

Located in Casino, NSW, Australia, DKB Fonts is Daniel Keith Bale's outfit. A graphic designer and illustrator, his first typeface is Aurélie (2005), a curly fashionable display face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Bale

David Bale (DASH Software) made some rune fonts such as Dethek (1994) and Common Tongue. See also here. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex H B

Designer of Britannica Display (2005), a hairline geometric all caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olga Balina

Moscow-based art director and graphic designer, b. 1988. In 2008, she created Charlotte (Latin&Cyrillic), ALS Meringue (2009, a serif family for Art Lebedev Studio, done with Taisiya Lushenko), a dotted line pixel type for FLYmagazine. As a student project at the British Higher School of Art and Design in 2009, she made a Natural Alphabet using stone scratching. Her final project there is Meringue (2009). MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andreu Balius Planelles

Born in Barcelona in 1962, Andreu Balius studied Sociology in the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, and graphic design at the IDEP School. He founded Garcia Fonts&Co in Barcelona in 1993 to show his experimental designs. He cofounded Typerware in 1996 with Joancarles P. Casasín. Typerware existed until 2001 and was based in Santa Maria de Martorelles, a village near Barcelona. He cofounded Type Republic (see also here), and ran Andreu Balius (tipo)graphic design. He is presently an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

Balius won a Bukvaraz 2001 award for Pradell. Pradell also won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. SuperVeloz (codesigned with Alex Trochut) won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Pradell and Super-Veloz. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke about the Imprenta Real.

Author of Type at work. The use of Type in Editorial Design, published in English by BIS (Amsterdam, 2003).

FontFont link. Linotype link.

His production:

  • Garcia/Typerware offers about 50 fonts, including some very artsy faces, such as Fabrique (Andreu Balius), Futuda, Juan Castillo Script (script of an old man; Typerware), Garcia Bodoni (Typerware), and Alkimia (Estudi Xarop), Ariadna (pixel font, 1988-1989), Garcia Bitmap (1993), Playtext (Andreu Balius, 1995), Matilde Script (Andreu Balius, 1994: an embroidery face), Fabrique (1993, Andreu Balius) and Dinamo (1993, Balius and Casasin at Typerware), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994), Futuda (1993), Ozo Type (1994), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats), (Mi mama) Me soba Script (1994), Parkinson (1994), Garcia Bodoni (1995), Garcia snack's (1993-1995), Juan Castillo Script (1995, irregular handwriting), and Vizente Fuster (1995), all by Andreu Balius and Joancarles Casasin, 1993-1995; Water Knife (Laudelino L.Q., 1995); Alquimia (Estudi Xarop, 1995); Jam Jamie (Malcolm Webb, 1996); Network (Alex Gifreu, 1996); Panxo-Pinxo (David Molins, 1996); Euroface 80 mph (Peter Bilak, 1996); Inmaculatta (Roberto Saenz Maguregui, 1997); Proceso Sans (by Argentinan Pablo Cosgaya, 1996); Afligidos deudos (Adria Gual, 1996); Route 66 (Francesc Vidal, 1997); Popular (Sergi Ibanez, 1997); Visible (handwriting by Fabrice Trovato, 1997); SoundFile (Reto Brunner, 1998); Ninja type (kana-lookalike alphabet by Charly Brown, 1995); Vertigo (Charly Brown, 1996); Loop UltraNormal (Franco and Sven, 1996); Inercia (Inigo Jerez, 1996).
  • Fontshop: FF Fontsoup.
  • ITC: ITC Temble (1996, a great subdued ghoulish face). With Joancarles P. Casasin, he created ITC Belter (1996) and ITC Belter Mega Outline (1996).
  • Typerware: Czeska was developed from Vojtech Preissig's woodtype faces. Andreu Balius completed the design and included an italic version and a large variety of ligatures (both for regular and italic).
  • Type Republic: Pradell, Trochut, SuperVeloz, SV Marfil Caps, SV Fauno Caps. Pradell was freely inspired from punches cut by catalan punchcutter Eudald Pradell (1721-1788), and is considered to be Balius' main work. Trochut is based on specimens from the 1940s by Joan Trochut. SuperVeloz is a collection of the type modules designed by Joan Trochut and produced at José Iranzo foundry in the beginning of the 40's, in Barcelona. Digitized and recovered by Andreu Balius and Alex Trochut in 2004. Example of such composition of modules include the great art nouveau faces SV Fauno Caps and SV Marfil Caps. In 2007, he added Taüll, a blackletter type. Still in 2007, he did the revival Elizabeth ND, which was based on an old type of Elizabeth Friedlander.
  • In 2008, he created the Vogue mag like family Carmen (Display, Fiesta, Regular), which are rooted in the didone style. Carmen, and its flirtatious companion Carmen Fiesta, were both reviewed by Typographica.
  • Barna (2011) and Barna Stencil (2011).
  • In 2012, Trochut was published as a free font family at Google Web Fonts. It was based on Joan Trochut-Blanchard's Bisonte.
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Martina Balke

Designer of Stempel LT Std 1 and 2 (2002) in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection. Stempel Std2 (2002) is a white on black informally handprinted caps set. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ludovic Balland

Swiss typographer and graphic designer who creates new typefaces out of old ones. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fabrizio Ballarini

Creator of the grunge font used by the rock band Los Piojos, called Los Piojos (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Ballé

Designer at the Bauersche Giesserei of fonts such as Ballé initials, a series of light floral initials. In the meantime, Andreas Seidel made a great digital version of this and called it Alea (2005). Not to be outdone, ARTypes created its own version, Maria-Ballé-Initials (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Silvia Ballerini

Communication design student at Politecnico di Milano, who lives in Modena. She designed Liquid Stencil (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Isaac Ballesté Martorell

Catalan graphic designer who lives in Olot. He created the sans family Alfa (2012), in which he attempts to offer total neutrality by taking common legible features from all famous sans typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Friedrich Ballhorn

Leipzig-based creator of the early transitional Gaelic typeface Ballhorn (also called Leipzig, 1861), based on Watts. Author of Alphabete orientalischer und occidentalischer Sprachen (F.A. Brockhaus: Leipzig, 1859). Head of F.A. Brockhaus Printing in Leipzig, in 1856 he published "Grammatography. A Manual of Reference to the Alphabets of Ancient and Modern Languages". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Ball

Welsh owner of Poked Studio, where he designed the headline face "450" in 2008 as part of a project at the University of Glamorgan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Auguste Théophile Ballmer

Swiss designer (b. Lausanne, 1902, d. 1955), who worked for Hoffmann-LaRoche before he went to work at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1928. The URW font family Theo Ballmer (2000) is based on his ideas, and was digitized by Theo's grandson Thierry Ballmer. The family has many typical Bauhaus ingredients. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Thierry Ballmer

Swiss designer (b. 1965, Basel) who with the help of URW created the font family Theo Ballmer (2000), based on his grandfather Theo's ideas from the Bauhaus era. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Ballmer

From Biel, Switzerland, Thomas Balmer's outfit, Guerilla Grafik, offers a few free fonts for download. The page is extremely dangerous (it will take over your screen!), with pop-ups and uncontrollable things happening left and right. Be prepared for a reboot. Anyway, if you risk it, you may find these mostly pixel fonts: GG-Motor, GG-Realpx, GG-Nintendo, GG-Digitalareal, GG-KGB. Working on the simple sans serif face GGrapidograph (2002). Non-free fonts: GG-Modul, GG-Formular, GG-Vektor, GG-Eckhardt, GG-Info, GG-Zike, GG-Balmer, GG-Sanchezclone. Mac fonts only. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Walter Ballmer

Swiss graphic designer, b. 1923. Toto's K22 Stile Ballmer (2011) is a free art deco face modeled after Walter Ballmer's typeface designed for Olivetti. The Olivetti logo from 1960 by Ballmer also led to Interno (2004), a type family created by Eli Carrico and Ian Lynam at Wordshape. We quote Answers.com: Well known for his advertising, graphics, and industrial design for the Italian office equipment manufacturer Olivetti, Swiss-born Ballmer studied graphic design at the Kunstgewebeschule in Basel from 1940 to 1944. He worked in publishing before moving to Italy in 1947 to join Studio Boggeri in Milan (established 1933). An established and successful graphic design office, Studio Boggeri executed a number of graphic design commissions for the office equipment manufacturer Olivetti and, from 1956, Ballmer went on to work as a graphic designer in Olivetti's advertising department where he remained until 1981. The visual clarity and deceptive simplicity of his graphic design work revealed something of his Swiss training and informed much of his publicity design for the company. Amongst his work for Olivetti was the coordination of a number of exhibitions shown in Italy and abroad, including Olivetti-Style (1961), Olivetti Innovates (1965), and Olivetti Image (1968). He was made a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) in 1970 and, in 1975, received a Gold Medal for Olivetti-Image at the Ljublijana Bio 5. [Google] [More]  ⦿

P. Ball

Type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Ball

Founded in 2008 by Oklahoma State graduates, Loftis&Ball is a design studio in Stillwater, OK. Behance link. Sean Ball designed the (partial?) custom Italian typeface Love More (2010) and the Western display face Elise Fancy (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Balmer

American designer of the OpenType font MonoDisplay (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mladen Balog

German designer of Molecular, Detector (2000, electrical circuit-themed letters) and Tsunami (2002) at T26. [Question: How does this name clash with the 1998 Monotype font TsunamiMT? Time for the legal parasites at Agfa to sue T26, perhaps?] He also made the experimental font Weird (1996, Garcia Fonts). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Marcos Balsini Garcindo

Born in 1977, this Brazilian graphic and web designer in Florianopolis created an experimental geometric typeface, Duotonic (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nora Baltus

Dutch designer (b. 1988) who made the handprinted faces Nb Obese and Nb Strange in 2008. Home page at Skeedio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johanna Balusikova

Johanna Balusikova (b. 1974, Slovakia), now Johanna Bilak, studied typography at Atelier National de Création Typographique in Paris and at the Bratislava Art Academy in her native Slovakia, as well as at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in the Netherlands. She now works as a freelance graphic designer in The Hague, where she has lived since 1999. She designed Jigsaw (2000) at Typotheque: this was originally intended as a Multiple Master font that varies from roman to stencil.

At ATypI 2004 in Prague, she spoke about "Experiment and typography". Alternate URL. Co-editor with Alan Zaruba of We Want You To Love Type (2004, e-a-t). Since 2003 she is a partner in Peter Bilak's Typotheque. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ben Balvanz

Original fonts by Ben Balvanz from Cedar Rapids, Iowa (b. Cedar Rapids, 1975), who now lives in South California. His original Fontalicious domain ceased in 2005 but was repurchased in 2007 with the help of Font Bros. Some fonts can be downloaded here and here. The list: Coney Island (2002), Cheeseburger (2002), Tabletron (2002, LCD font), Senor Pooglins, Plush (2001), Slide, Discotech, Galaxy, Pacfont, Rusty, PinniePoker, Geeves (tall letters--great), Moonpie Cadet, Fidelle, FontTwelve, Mister Easy, Mister Dope, Frosty, Chankenstein, Discotech, VintageVacation, Dazzler, Joinks!, Cyberwhiz, Swinkydad, Sonic Superpowers, Mikey Jax, Klink-o-mite, Caveman, Gloo Gun, Skylab 600, Cyberpop, Cyberjimmy, Smartie Capos, Jenkins, Earwax, Pimpbot 5000, Dreamy, Quinkie, Milkfresh, DateRape (great), SpaceAce, GirlieLeslie, Groovalicious Tweak, Porky's, International Chunkfunk, SuperTrooper, Chachie, Zodiastic, Great Head (dingbats), Chick (sassy!), the Eight Track family, Speedfreek, the Odyssey family, AlphaStep, Alpha Clown, dopenakedfoul, Lounge Bait, SpaceBeach, Jubie, Bean Town, Funkotronic, UndieCrust, and Poppycock, Pornhut, Robokid, Kinkie (Valentine's Day font), BorderMon (dingbat), Technicolor, Tennis (stencil), Moloky, JabbieJunior, Rave Queen, Alpha Niner, Croobie, Wednesday, Populuxe, the nice BoozeBats, Geekbats, Garage Sale, Arcade, Glamocon Retrobats, Fontalicious Thingbats, Good Head, Baby Kruffy, Kruffy, Fine-O-Mite, Disco Inferno, Jokewood, Toggle, Swinger, SurfSafari, OmegaMax, Pogo, Elvis, Trendy University (stencil), Hoedown, Fat, Atomic, Rocket, 12 Good, Moonpie Cadet Good, Dynomite, Superstar DJ (dingbat), Kravitz, Kravitz Thermal, hungrumlaut, Sporto, Sabadoo, Snappy, Chickabiddies (geek dingbats), Mandingo (1999, buncy handprinted style), Heartbreaker, Smilage, 52 Pickup, Return of the Retrobats (wow!), Wunderland, Omega, Great Head, Air, Blackjack, BlackjackRollin, Borneo, CharlesAtlas, Cheri, CheriLiney (2001, Valentine's Day theme), DeejaySupreme, DigitCube, DigitLoFiShift, DigitLoFi, Digit, DimitriSwank, Dimitri, DiscoInferno, DunebugAlternates45MPH, DunebugAlternates, Dunebug, Dunebug45MPH, Freestyle, Garanimals, Gas, GleeClub, Jenkinsv20, Jenkinsv20Thik, JenkinsKeepinitReal (1998), KravitzExtraThermal, Moderna, MoogSchmoog, Moog, PussycatSassy, PussycatSnickers, Queer, Redensek, Sanka, Schmotto, SchmottoPlotto, Squarodynamic01 through 10 (pixel fonts), Stretch, SupervixenHoneyedOut, Digit, Digit Cube, Supervixen, TheKids (1999), TrendyUniversity, UltraSupervixenHoneyedOut, UltraSupervixen, WeLoveCorey, Manchester (great), Weltron (stencil font), Weltron Power, Mullet, Rolloglide, Planet, Gravity, Alba, BilloDream (2001), Stretch, Pasteris (based on the handwriting of Matthew Pasteris), PornStarAcademy (sports shirt lettering), Mullet, SuperStars (stars), Krupke (2002), Fresh Bionik, Stoney Billy (2001, not free), Hustle (2001, not free), Rustler (2001, Western font, not free).

At T-26: Marshmallow (2001, rounded monoline geometric face), Superfly (2002, a Western font), Thursdoo (2002), Pacfont Good (2002), Thug (2002), Dokyo (2002, a free competitor of Futura Extra Black and Folio Extra Bold), Supreme (2002), Fresh (2002, at Chank's place), Juice (2002), Pinball (2002, not free), RunTron1983 (2002), Pixel Pirate (2002), Odysseus (2002).

Rascal Miniatures, Wonderkid, Smilage Regular, Milk with Peanut Butter and Barnaby Candy machine are 2009 comic book style creations.

Other 2009 fonts include Gringo Enchilada, Brute Strength, Blonk and Sparkle, Cheri Liney, Metroflex, Weltron (techno family), Sanka, Rolloglide (multiline), Pussycat, Poppycock, Pasteris, Moog Schmoog, Moog Synthesizer, Magnum, Krupke, Joinks, Jabbie, Hustle, Hungrumlat, Gravity, Fresh, FineOMite, Dunebug 45mph, Coney Island, Blackjack, Atomic, Air Regular, Shatner, Pixel Pirate, Munkeyshine, Thursdoo, Swinkydad, Surf Safari, Supreme, Stoney Billy, Speed Freaks, Bike Riding Chopper (Tuscan), Popcorn Loaded (ultra fat), Malibu Oceanside, Snafurter (Sinaloa?), Der Weiner Stentzel (stencil), Wordworth Byte, Blingo Diamond and Tiger Roams Jungle (art deco chic).

Interview. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Yet another URL. And another one. Many fonts sold since 2007 by Font Bros (see here for the announcement). URL from 2005-2007. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mária G. Balza A.

Designer of Birds of Prey. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Florian Bambhout

Foundry that grew out of the now defunct and controversial Gasoligne in Brest, France, which was run by Yves Patinec (Roubaix) and his brother. The Bamboo Type fonts rescued from Gasoligne in 2008 are Neborg Sans (2008, organic and techno), Mignone (2011, fat organic face), Bambhout Connect Trial (2010), Bambhout (2009, experimental), Oxea (2008, organic), Magenta (2009, italic display type inspired by Inverserif from Infinitype, which in turn has roots in Speedway from FontBank, Concorde from Brendel Informatik, OptiIambic from Castcraft, and so forth), and Veeko, Veeko Wide (informal and organic). Bamboo Types says that the fonts were designed by freelance designer Florian Bambhout. I don't believe that for a second----that name was made up. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johann Bämler

German printer and type developer, who ca. 1472 created the type style called Alte Schwabacher in Augsburg. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lady Dark Bane

Eoweniel (aka Lady Dark Bane, and aka Darklight Systems) is the British designer of the African theme font DreamWalker (2001) and of the handwriting font Stray Cat (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aditya Banerjee

Creator (b. 1992, Singapore) of the all caps brush face The Calligraph (2011, cloned from Swifter Strokes by "badgerkin"). He also made the experimental faces Insanity (2011). The typefaces were made with the help of FontStruct. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gurpreet Bangar

Illustrator and graphic designer in Birmingham, UK. He used road signs to construct his Motorway Madness alphabet in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephen Banham

Australian foundry and design studio, est. 1991, located in Melbourne. Fonts by Stephen Banham, an Australian graphic designer and writer, who was born in Melbourne in 1968. Banham has written and produced fourteen publications on typography, notably the Qwerty series (1991-96), the Ampersand series, Fancy (2004), and the Oblique series (2008). Since 2005 he has run a very successful public forum series on graphic design and typography known as Character. His typefaces: Bisque (2007, curly monoline connected script), Kevlar (inspired by 60s style audiotape logotype), Terital (2003, monoline connected script), Berber (2002, Caps and Regular; Niels Oeltjen is associated with this face in 2007, perhaps in an update), Gingham (thin artsy sans), Gaberdine (fat sans), Nylon (comic book style), Morice (2005, a collaboration between Morice Kastoun and Stephen Banham at Letterbox). E-store. Wiki. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dorothy Stephanie Baniak

Graphic designer and typographer in Toronto. In 2009, she created the experimental geometric typeface Kolo (This typeface design was inspired by tin can pull tabs. Thank you chicken of the sea.), the cool Newmar (Newmar was designed to compliment the symbol above. Influences: paperclips, Julie Newmar 1966&a gold belt. This typeface has two ascender lines&three descender lines.), and the curly display face Gallnut (gallnut---a round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree.). Home page. About Newmar, she writes: Newmar was designed to compliment the symbol above. Influences: paperclips, Julie Newmar 1966&a gold belt. This typeface has two ascender lines&three descender lines.

In 2012, Dorothy published the fun alchemic family Gelato (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Banks

UK-based graphic designer. Creator of the octagonal font Sliced AB (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Colin Banks

Born in London in 1932, Colin Banks has been involved in graphic design, corporate identity and typography since 1958 through the London-based partnership Banks&Miles (1958-1998), with John Miles. Author of London's handwriting (London Transport Museum, 1994) about the development of Edward Johnston's Underground Railway Block-Letter. CV. He died in March 2002. Obituary by James Alexander. Banks&Miles had offices in London, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Bruxelles. Their clients, included the British Council (it is unclear if he helped design British Council Sans at Agfa Monotype in 2002: a major controversy erupted in the UK when it was learned that the British Council had paid 50k pounds for British Council Sans), English National Opera, the European Parliament Election campaigns, producing corporate identities for the Post Office, Royal Mail, British Telecom, and other identities for many UK Government agencies and universities. These included the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Fondation Roi Baudouin, City and Guilds, Commission for Racial Equality, United Nations University, and major publications etc for UNHCR Geneva. He was consultant to London Transport for over thirty years, then Mott Macdonald engineers and Oxford University Press.

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

Jasmine Banks

Graphic design student at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Behance link.

Creator of On The Vine (2012), a pixelish typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rick Banks

Rick Banks (b. 1985, Manchester) established F37 (Face37) in 2010 in London, UK. He created Xan (2010, a counterless geometric face) and Form (2010, a mimimalist circular experimental (Bauhaus?) font). He says about Form: After looking at Armin Hoffman's Die Gute Form poster and Herbert Bayer’s universal typeface I constructed an alphabet based on their letterforms. Inspired by Wim Crouwel's Soft Alphabet, I constructed a grid to create the modular alphabet and programmed very tight letterspacing into the font lending itself to the style of Die Gute Form. Type Trumps are playing cards that feature the main typefaces. Bella (2011) is an extremely contrasted didone display face. He says that he was influenced not only by Didot, but also by Pistilli and by Tschichold's Saskia. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Scott Banks

Using iFontMaker, Scott Banks (Scott Banks Design, Atlanta, GA) created Pants (2011), a handprinted shaded 3d face. Other faces by him include Scrubby (2011), Fatlanta (2011) and Mono (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James H. Banne

Designer of DTF Volume 3 (has runes and Hebrew). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Banner

Digital Type Foundry is James Banner's Seattle-based foundry that produced such as Angelic-Regular, Burton, Daggers, Enochian, Fraktur, Futhark, Hebrew, Hermetic and Runic around 1992. It is still operational today. He writes: "I started making fonts in 1988 and still produce work, although as it became more difficult to upload my work or share it using the University of Michigan FTP server, I haven't released much. Most recently, I issued the Geoffroy Tory initial letters as a Type 1 font and separately as EPS files as Freeware. I've produced 20-30 fonts since the DTF Volume Three bundle package came out." Particular fonts include Angelic, DTF Volume II (Fraktur), and Bamberg (Fraktur). Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Galina Andreevna Bannikova

Russian type designer, 1901-1972 (d. Moscow). Faces include Bannikovskaya (1946-1951, at Polygrafmash, which was inspired by the Russian Grazhdansky early and mid 18th century typefaces: the digital version is Paratype Bannikova (1999), revived by L. Kuznetsova), Baikonoer (1960-1969) and Kama (1967-1971). Lyubov Kuznetsova at Paratype created Bannikova (1999; Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Old Russian, Multilingual, Turkish, Western, Cyrillic Asian), a clean serif text family.

See here for a picture, which shows without a shadow of a doubt that she was Donald Rumsfeld's real mother. Alternate URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Henrike Bansemer

German designer of the Peignotian face Plus (2010, 26plus-zeichen). Free download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjes is a self-described Graphic Artist, who works primarily with custom type and ornament. Stefan Sagmeister says she is "one of the most innovative typographers working today," Noreen Morioka calls her "the Doyald Young of her generation," and Sigrid Albert says "[she creates] spiritual typography which goes beyond religion." Both her graphic work and her design work are continually explorative, but are founded upon 10 years' work as a book typesetter, and an additional nine years as the owner operator of a 212-person design firm. In 2003 Marian left her firm and "strategic design" behind to embark on the work that she has since become internationally known for. Her work has been featured in Eye, STEP, étapes, Azure, Tupigrafia and Print, and she has a book coming out with Princeton Architectural Press in the fall of 2008. She is also known as a writer on design for the design weblog Speak Up, is a board member of the BC Chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, and teaches typography through Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC. She lives and works from her home on Bowen Island, BC, off the West coast of Canada, mostly for clients in the US and Europe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grégory Bantzé

As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Bertrand (2003), a face based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nia Banwell

Artist from Manchester, UK. Behance link. Creator of a hand-drawn floral caps face in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paula Baptista

Designer with Bruno Breda of the scary grungy face About Dead (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josep Baqués

Catalan painter, sculptor and graphic designer, b. 1931, Barcelona. He created Zurich (ca. 1968), a roman all caps face, that can be seen here, here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hooman Baradaran

Designer of the Persian font Farhangsara (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aajwanthi Baradwaj

Communication designer in Mumbai, India. In 2011, he made an experimental modular typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paula Barahona

Chilean designer of Señorita Book (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ron Barak

Designer of the freeware fonts Kur2siv-Italic, Pni2na. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandra Baran

Polish design student who made a typeface while studying in Krakow from 2003-2005. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudio Barandun

Swiss type designer, b. 1979, Winterthur. He studied graphic design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Luzern. His typefaces:

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Bob Baranick

Designer at SignDNA who made the comic and signpainting faces ChicagoStyle, NewCity, SantaFe, KedzieLite, Heading Script, Pravda Casual, Pulaski Script, Archer. In some places, we find a reference to Bob Behounek---a bit confusing. Behounek's bio states: Bob Behounek is a journeyman sign artist from Chicago, Illinois, plying his trade for 35 years. He has been a contributing editor for SignCraft Magazine since 1982. "I created these alphabets basically as a foundation to intermix, stretch, enlarge or do just about anything a signpainter would use to handletter the most fun-action words with readability as a priority! Do not limit yourself to what you see... but what you can create." [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evgeniy Baranov

Ukrainian designer of the dot matrix font (Latin/Cyrillic) Matricha (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dmitry Baranovsky

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

Victor Baranov

Designer of the old Bulgarian fonts Putiata (2004), Putyata (2004), Menaion Medieval (2004) and Menaion (2004). Alternate URL. Free downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frank Baranowski

Frank Baranowski (b. 1960, Altenmedingen), of Neuenkirchen in Northern Germany, runs the Transkrypt foundry and has been designing typefaces since 1990. He studied Graphic Design at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste in Braunschweig, Germany. In 2003 transkrypt was started as a website to show typographic experimental projects, exercises on types and also typefaces, which were designed by Frank Baranowski. His most extensive project, the Lyrix Projekt, is a kind of typographic anthology of pop lyrics. He describes transkrypt as "a space for unusual and unused type-design and typography". He designs mainly experimental typefaces, such as Kaleido (2004), Clayborn (2004, slightly grungy), Concrete, EF Mrs. Beasley (1995, nice fat round letters, Elsner&Flake), Sputnik (2004, URW++, an oriental look family), Phoenikia, Tambourine (2004, URW++), BB Mr. Beasley (1995, Linotype) and EF Musical (Elsner&Flake, serifed and playful). His experiments also include Lyrix (type motifs from pop songs), Quak (Quadrat-Kreis System, a grid system for constructing letters as parts of circles and lines), Patchwork (2005), Pardon (2005) and Kryptik-Zyklus (his own type posters and art). Latest creations: Karoline (2005), New Telegraph (2007, slab serif), Funtype (2009, handprinted), Monumental (2009, a fat face made for stacking), Dodgy Ultra (2009, fat face). He has a page on "Typen mit Schwung". He also designed many elaborate initial caps faces, such as Tookatooth Initialen, Schnabel, Alien Initials, Siamesisches Alphabet (Thai simulation face), Banderol Initialen.

In 2010, he started Fontschmiede with Michel M, where further fonts, commercial and free, can be found: Mrs Beasley, Sputnik, Superia, Tambourine, Destroya, Alphabutts and Elemenz are free. In 2011, he published New Telegraph Arrows at Fontschmiede. MyFonts site. Linotype page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Frank Baranowski

German foundry, est. 2010 by Michel M and Frank Baranowski (b. Altenmedingen, 1960), and located in Neuenkirchen. Baranowski studied Graphic Design at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste in Braunschweig, Germany.

Free fonts by Frank Baranowski: Elemenz, Destroya, Alphabutts.

Commercial fonts: Clayborn, Concrete, Dodgy, Funtype, Karoline, Line44, Monumental, MrsBeasley+ (psychedelic), Musical, NewTelegraph (+Arrows), Patchwork, Silverblade, Sputnik (oriental simulation face), Superia, Tambourine, Und4. All faces by Frank Baranowski, except Line44 and Und4. MyFonts link. Some of Baranowski' fonts are released under the label Transkrypt. In 2011, he published New Telegraph Arrows at Fontschmiede. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mafalda J. Barata

Designer in Coimbra, Portugal. In 2011, she created Sew Up Sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lionel Barat

Designer (b. Pau, France, 1970) of fonts at Garagefonts, including the pixel font family Kamaro (1999), Karazan, Klif (1999), Klock (1999), Kynzo, GF Mistic Art, Truth (2000-2001). He lives in Ares, near Bordeaux. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rafael Barbaroti

Brazilian designer of the display faces Antique Blue Beetle (2010) and Tchuli Gothic Std (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Barber

Chris Barber (aka An Creon and An Creon Systems) is the American designer of the futuristic face An Creon (2004). Alternate URL. Dafont link. Home page. Fontcubes listing. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Galt Barber

Creator of the gaelic script font Rudhraigheacht (2000), available here. Rudhraigheacht Unicode (2003) has extra characters and was re-encoded in Unicode by Korvellou An Drouizig. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ken Barber

Letterer and type director at House Industries. He also teaches experimental typography at the Maryland Institute's College of Art. His interests include the inter-disciplinary relationship between hand-lettering and type design. His typefaces include Maddhouse (1994), Heads of the Household, Fink Bold (1996), Fink Brush (1996), Fink Casual (1996), Fink Condensed (1996), Fink Gothic (1996), Fink Heavy (1996), Fink Roman (1996), Fink Sans (1996). The Rat Fink series was made with Ed Roth. Part of the proceeds from each sale go to the estate of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about "Imre Reiner: the alphabet as art". Ken Barber and Tal Leming combined forces in 2008 on the signage script family Studio Lettering Swing (House). He digitized Ed Gothic and Ed Script, both originally designed by Ed Benguiat. These fonts won awards at the TDC2 2005 type competition. Smidgen (2011), Studio Lettering Slant (2008) and Blaktur (2007) won awards at Letter2 in 2011. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Lettering, typography or somewhere in between. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, his talk (shared with Tal Leming) was entitled Pac-Man fever, quantum mechanics and the design of digital type. Typographic picture by TDC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Barber

Codesigner with Max Infeld of Crankdeal (2012, a handprinted poster face: free at Dafont). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cris Barbosa

A resident of Lisbon, Cris Barbosa is a graphic and brand designer who has worked on a Hebrew font, Ivrit (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leo Barbosa

Leo Barbosa (aka Ceccatto) is the Brazilian creator of the ultra-fat counterless face Cubo (2010). Other FontStructions by him include the squarish faces Half D and Aqui (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matheus Barbosa

Matheus Barbosa (Tipoforme) is a graphic designer Fortaleza, Brazil, who studied design at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. He is studying typography at Universidad de Buenos Aires in the Masters program of CDT-UBA. His Armoribat 2, codesigned with Buggy, won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008. He also does calligraphic work. . [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Barbosa

Portuguese designer who during his employment at Wolff Olins (UK) started work on Metroplis (1995) for Metroplisboa, the Lisbon subway. This face was subsequently drawn by Freda Sack and David Quay at The Foundry, London. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rui Barbosa

FontStructor who made In Tacto (2010), an art deco-ish face which has Braille supermposed on the letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Barbour

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

Adrian Barbu

Creator of the scanbat font Celeb Faces (2010). He seems to have something to do with the gossip page FamousWhy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luca Barcellona

Celebrated Milan-based calligrapher, letterer and illustrator. Examples of his lettering include this shoe (2010), this octopus (2010) and this tiger. Enhanced graffiti lettering. Lettering video on Vimeo. Logos and designs for Carhart in 2010. MySpace link. Flickr page. Another Flickr page. Another URL.

He has shown some complete, mostly calligraphic, alphabets that I suspect have never been fonted. These include the calligraphic brush set ABC Narrow (2008), a blackletter demo, and Dry Brush Fraktur (2010). Pic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gonzalo García Barcha

Mexican designer of the serif face Enrico, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nan Jay Barchowsky

Educator Nan Jay Barchowsky from Aberdeen, MD, designed many fine handwriting fonts. She wrote "BFH, a Manual for Fluent Handwriting" and runs Swansbury Inc. Her connected and didactical fonts are part of a commercial package, BFH. In 2002, John Butler made a connected OpenType version of Barchowsky Fluent Hand. MyFonts sells Barchowsky Dot and Barchowsky Fluent Hand. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jenny Barck

Nice free fonts made by Jenny Barck, who sometimes uses the name Joakim Kihlström. The fonts include AsaRocks, BabyBazonga, BabeBamboo, BatBen (batman font), Beam, BrandNewHeavies, Ceasar, DayOfTheTentacle, Diodos (1997), Djellibejbi (hearts), ElasticWrath (curly), Eller, Flame, HailMary, HarryPotter, Holywood, Heffaklump, Jagular, Jamiro, Komhjlp, Korv, KabanossNormal, Magnumpi, ManaMana, Modinskan, Megafon, Merde, Monday, Rambo, RamboKiller, Reddordedd, Runar, Salamander, Serru, SugarRay, Swabba, Tigger, Walter (2001, a Disney font), XFiles, Zeppelin. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jenny Barck

Designer of the freeware fonts Red on Dedd (see FontFreak site), Swabba and Sugar Ray. Her fonts are in various archives on the web. Here is a partial list: Batben, BrandNewHeavies, DayOfTheTentacle, Djellibejbi, ElasticWrath, Eller, Flame, Heffaklump, Holywood, Jagular, Jamiro, Komhjlp, ManaMana, Monday, Reddordedd, ReddordeddBold, Runar, Serru, SugarRay, Swabba, XFiles, Zeppelin, Zeppelin2, Rambo Killer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Missy Barclay

Missy Barclay (Long Beach, CA) created a stencil typeface called Stencil (2012) that uses some ball terminals. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathalie Barclay

Creator of the iFontMaker font Nathalie Cursive (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Bär

Daniel Bär (Pyroglyphix) is a talented Swiss designer in Lausanne. Type subpage. Creator of the monoline grotesk face GT Skeletor (2009, Grilli Type). This face can be stretched and compressed at will without losing its effectiveness. While studying at ECAL in Lausanne, he made the gorgeous fat didone display face Pyrose (2008), the all caps sans headline face Pyroplastic (+Fat). At ECAL in 2010, he made the Bauhaus-inspired PYROhbau (a scripted font system based on a skeleton). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Barda

Frenchman (b. 1986) located in Paris. He created I Shot The Serif (2008), an ultra-black blockish face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mickey Bardava

Graduate of the National Institute of Design, India and a self-taught photographer, who made the experimental gridded face X1 Display (2010). Graphic designer in Kota, India, who graduated from the National Institute of Design, India, and a self-taught photographer. He created the Peignotian faces Macchiato (2011) and Retro Display (2010), the grungy Destructype (2011), the texture face GRID-X (2011), and the clean sans face Skeletal (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tom Barden

Tom Barden created the geometric but also playful typeface Evolution (2009). He also made Africa Type (2010) and the octagonal athletic lettering face There It Is (2009). Visually Interesting (2009) is a type experiment. Unity (2011) is a heavy octagonal poster face. He is also working on Airport Icons (2011). He is based in London and is a graphic designer and photographer. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Bardi

Type designer who created various alphabets and showed them in Publicité Vignettes Lettres Chiffres Monogrammes et Rehauts Modernes (Les Editions Guérinet, Paris, 1931) [reprinted in 1986 by Dover (NY) as Authentic Art Deco Alphabets]. Examples include

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Matthew Bardram

Matthew Bardram (b. New York City, 1965) is the Tucson, AZ-based [T-26] founder of Atomic Media, and designer of Atomic, Centrifuge, Bromide (at T-26), Crackle, Klaxon. At Nakedface (now gone), he made Arachnid, Bitpak, Bylinear, DhexInline, Genetica, Economy Large, Empiric, Hypersigna (2005, bitmap face), Montreal (the family) and two katakana fonts. His Bitpack includes the following pixel fonts: Arachnid, Bylinear (2000), Cellular (2000), Genetica (2000, free download), Genetrix, Macroscopic, Metodic, Microscopic, Noir, Scriptometer, Remote (2000), Monocule (2000), Joystik, Centrifuge, Quantaa (2000), Bionika, Megalon (2000), Wired. Bitmap font specialist. Alternate URL. Interview. His Digipak includes Atomic-Inline, Atomic-Outline, Bionika-Black, Bionika, Genetrix-Crossed, Genetrix-Square, Genetrix-SquareCore, Genetrix-SquareHollow, Joystik, Macroscopic-A, Macroscopic-B, Macroscopic-C, Macroscopic-D, Macroscopic-E, Methodic-Bold, Methodic, Microscopic, Noir, Scriptometer-SanScript, Scriptometer. And he did a 3D pixel font called Boxer 3D (2002), Neuronic (2002-2004, nice outlined pixel font; see also here), Fusionaire (2002, a display font) and Wijdeveld, a squarish font based on the lettering of poster artist Wijdeveld from The Netherlands. In 2005, these fonts were added: Magnetica, Imperium, Ratio, Hypersigna, Sequence and Tempora, all by Matthew Bardram. Sausan Kare's pixel fonts at Atomic Media: Mini Food, Kare Dingbats, Biology, Everett, Harry, Ramona, Kare Five Dots, Kare Five Dots Serif, Kare Six Dots, Kare Six Dots Serif. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Olivier Bareau

Olivier Bareau used iFontMaker to create Lightpaint (2011, scratchy face), and Helentica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeroen Barendse

Designer at the The Hague-based foundry LUST of LUSTPure, LUSTGrotesk, LUSTBlowout, LUStTGothic (1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Barest

Designer of the handprinted face Chuckster (2011, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eddie Baret

Eddie Baret was born in 1978 in Marseille. He studied graphic design and typography in Paris, Besançon and Brussels. In 2001, he founded, with Clément Lyonnet, the association Typo.gras.free. Eddie Baret designed the handwriting font FF Eddie (2001). He currently works in Paris as a free-lance graphic designer. The Typograsfree fonts are (were) mostly of the deconstructivist kind:

  • By Eddie Baret: FFEddie, Damie, Snakescript, Lunette, Arelier, Banco, Badcasse, Lavomatic, Free.ioriture, 36, Wood, Round.
  • By Keyman: Calculettre, Square, FontoG-geneva, Bugpopvchar-pro, Scripta-key, Timesfotdecran, Pron-non-cia, Ptitours-brun, Yes-soon, Flop, 3dfont.
  • By Globul666: Autocollant.
  • By zzzazzz: TheZapSans.
  • By Ion Lazarescou: Helltime, Fuconexbo.
  • By Gabriel Rebufello, aka Sir Gong: Trobo Sans, Zonga.
  • By Samo: Samograsfree, Samografrite.
  • By Pierre Corbucci, aka Piro: Meeting, Piro and Eloim.
  • By Michel Welfringer: Robotnik.
  • By Julien Pinet: Brique, Main Gauche, Rambobinette.

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

Jeff Barfoot

Comic strip artist who designed a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brad Barham

Freeware and commercial fonts by graphic designer Brad Barham. Commercial: Anger, Borough, Cape, Customer, Destination, Everlast, Extrinsic, Item No.1, Media, Metropolic, Millenia, Numbed, Phonic, Savios, Shelle, Stall35, Stereophrenic, Timecode, Treason, Vegas, W2[3bw]. Clearlight disappeared in June 1999.

A free font list: Jungle, Asylum, FriedEggs, Influcts, Parasight, Clearwerkkraftremix, Cracko Deco, Five Finger Discount, Influcts (RMX), Intermission, Heliosphan, Spotlight Romat, Technine, Technine NA, Unsight, Too Much to Drink, JungleBold, JungleClean, JungleRuff, Embryonic inside, Cobb (1995), KrylonGothic (1997), Parasight (1997), and Pensmooth (1996, by Greg Meronek and Gavin Kalinthianalionalia).

Dafont link.

Catalog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leonardo Barilari

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the high-contrast typeface Oriental Condensed (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emin Barin

Noted Turkish calligrapher who has drawn some fine alphabets. Picture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernd Baringhorst

German designer who has his own graphic design studio in Dortmund. Behance link. Creator of a great minimalistic logo face for the Swiss company Swyx (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giancarlo Barison

Italian artist. Designer of Linotype Graphena (1997), a very aesthetic architectural font. FontShop link. Linotype link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joan Barjau

Designer (b. 1950) at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Analfabeta Regular (1999, with Flavio Morais), Analfabeta Pics (1999, with Flavio Morais), Ebu Script (2007, a technical script done with José Manuel Urós), Iva (1995-1998), Jeune Adrian (1997), MeMimas (1991-2007, upright connected script done with José Manuel Urós; a Spanish school script commissioned in 1991 by publisher Barcanova), MeMimasAlternate, the great Sniff (1995), Talqual (1997, handwriting), Tschicholina (1997, unicase font inspired by Tschichold), Xiquets Primitives (1995, dingbats), Zubizarreta (1997, an award winner at Bukvaraz 2001; Zubizarreta Tosca is clearly Kafkaesque; the whole family is a mix between Neanderthal simplicity and Basque toughness).

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

Michael Barker

FontStructor who made the squarish faces Doyle, Block Chop, Milx, Gonka and Lexilu in 2010. Aka Mikey Alcohol. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Bark

John Bark founded the Bark Design Studio in Stockholm in 1988, after several jobs in New York at the School of Visual Arts, Milton Glaser Inc, and Esquire. With Örjan Nordling, he designed DN Bodoni for use as headlines in the Swedish newspaper "Dagens Nyheter". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harrie Barley

Creator of Stiletto Skinny (2012, a free thin hand-drawn caps typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Georg Barlösius

Type designer (b. 1864, d. 1908, Berlin) who created the blackletter faces Barlösius-Gotisch (1907, Bauerische Giesserei), Fette Barlösius-Gotisch (1907, Bauerische Giesserei), and Barlösius-Buchschrift (1906, Bauerische Giesserei). Scan of Barlösius-Schrift (1907, Bauersche Giesserei). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Barlow

Early transitional Gaelic typeface prepared by the Gaelic Society of Dublin in 1808-1821, which, just as the very early Queen Elizabeth type, used some roman characters, in part to draw in people to study the Irish language. Sample from a grammar book published by John Barlow in 1808. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neil Barlow

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

Billy Barnard

Billy Barnard designed Jurassic Park. The link is broken. The font may be viewed here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles H. Barnard

Early 20th century designer of letters, such as this Modern Roman typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

D.C. Barnard

Designer of the music notation face Chords (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dror Bar-Natan

Designer of a mathematical symbol metafont called dbnsymb. Bar-Natan is Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, and has included a Canadian flag symbol as well. He also has a free script that one can use to make xfig drawings into a metafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Barnbrook

Jonathan Barnbrook was born in 1966 in Luton, England. He is a type and graphic designer and filmmaker. Since 1990 he has worked with cultural institutions, activist groups and charities and produced a steady stream of posters. He is also known for his collaborations with Adbusters and Damien Hirst, his work for David Bowie, and his typefaces released by Emigre and Virus (his own foundry). He started Virus in 1997, and works out of the Barnbook Studio (now Studio 12) in London's Soho. He specializes in cult-type faces.

MyFonts interview. Creative Pro interview. Bio at Emigre.

In 2007, Mathieu Réguer wrote a thesis at Estienne on Barnbrook.

Barnbrook designed these typefaces:

  • Apocalypso Pictograms (1997).
  • Bastard (1990, blackletter) and Bastard Even Fatter (1995).
  • Bourgeois (2005). In 32 weights, this was originally done for the Mori Art Museum in Japan.
  • Coma (2001).
  • Delux (1997).
  • Draylon (1997).
  • Drone 666 (2010). and Drone (1997).
  • Echelon (2001, connected upright script).
  • Exocet (1991, Emigre). This is possibly his most recognizable face.
  • Expletive Script (2001, upright connected and modular script).
  • False Idol Script (1997).
  • Infidel (2003). A crusaders type family praised by Claudio Piccinini.
  • Mason (1992, +Serif, +Sans). Done at Emigre.
  • Melancholia (2001).
  • Moron (2001).
  • Newspeak (1997).
  • Nixon Script (1997, fifties style connected upright script).
  • Nylon (1996).
  • Patriot (1994). Exocet, Patriot---these were the good old days of the missile attacks on Israel and the war in the Falklands. Strange that Barnbrook never designed a font called Wolf Blitzer.
  • Olympukes (2004, with Marcus McCallion) was a free dingbat font at Fontshop. It can now be found at Undt Typefaces.
  • Priori (2003, Emigre) and Priori Acute (2010, Emigre) are Escher-like trompe l'oeuil fonts.
  • Prototype (1990).
  • Prozac (1997).
  • Regime (2009). A slab serif.
  • Sarcastic (2007). A modular connected script.
  • Shock&Awe (2004).
  • State Machine (Virus, 2004). Based on lettering on US and Russian military vehicles.
  • Tourette (2005).

Klingspor link. Fontworks link. MyFonts link. FontShop link.

Showcase of Jonathan Barnbrook's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Christophe Barneau

Parisian designer of alchemic or mystery fonts such as Voodoo (2011), Voyager (2011), Spiritum (2011) and Black Anchor (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack Barnes

Designer from Lebanon, OR (b. 1986), who created Funkified (2002) and Jack's Handwriting (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lydia Barnes

Type designer in the making, b. 2001, London. She created the 3d alphabet Picklepie (2008) and the hand-drawn Pigeonpie (2009). Her father Tim Barnes produced the fonts at his Chicken typefoundry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Paul Barnes

Modern Typography is a dot com web presence organized by the London-based type designer and graphic designer, Paul Barnes, typophile extraordinaire. It is promised to have plenty of material for the typophile. Author of Swiss Typography: The typography of Karl Gerstner and Rudolf Hostettler (Modern Typography, 2000).

His typefaces:

  • The (free) font Pagan Poetry (2001), done for one of the sleeves on Björk's albums. The font was made for Show Studio (see also here and here).
  • Codesigner with Christian Schwartz in 2005 of the 200-font family Guardian Egyptian for The Guardian, about which he spoke at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon.
  • In 2007, he worked with Peter Saville on the Kate Moss brand. As a font, he suggested a variation on Brodovitch Albro, a typeface by Alexey Brodovitch, the famous art director of Harper's Bazaar from 1934-58. The Creative Review reactions to this typeface are a bit negative though.
  • In 2003, he created Austin, a high-contrast modern typeface. Now available at Schwartzco and at Commercial Type, Christian Schwartz writes: When hired to design a new headline typeface for Harper's&Queen, Britain's version of Harper's Bazaar, Paul thought to flick back through the pages of its 60's precursor, the über cool Queen. The high contrast serif headlines were lovely, but a little too expected in a contemporary fashion magazine. Some time poring through specimens in St Bride's Printing Library inspired the perfect twist: rather than taking our cues from Didot or Bodoni, we would start with Austin's first creation, turn up the contrast, tighten the spacing and make a fresh new look that would look bold and beautiful in the constantly changing world of fashion. The end result is Richard Austin meets Tony Stan, British Modern as seen through the lens of late 1970s New York.
  • Dala Floda (1997-now) is based on gravestone inscriptions, and was urned in 2010 into a logotype stencil family at Commercial Type.
  • Publico was designed from 2003-2006 with Christian Schwartz, Ross Milne and Kai Bernau. Originally called Stockholm and then Hacienda, and finally Publico for a Portuguese newspaper by that name.
  • Brunel (1995-now): an English modern, this is an anthology of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century English foundries. It was drawn from original source material, most notably the Caslon foundry and the work of John Isaac Drury).
  • Marian (2012) is a type experiment based on Garamond, consisting of 19 hairline styles with names referring to dates between 1554 and 1812. Commercial Type writes: Marian is a series of faithful revivals of some of the classics from the typographic canon: Austin, Baskerville, Bodoni, Fournier, Fleischman, Garamont, Granjon, Kis and van den Keere. The twist is that they have all been rendered as a hairline of near uniform weight, revealing the basic structure at the heart of the letterforms. Together they represent a concept: to recreate the past both for and in the present. [...] Faithful to the originals, Marian comes with small capitals in all nine roman styles, with lining and non-lining figures, with swash capitals (1554, 1740, 1800&1820), alternate and terminal characters (1554&1571). And like the hidden track so beloved of the concept album, Marian is completed by a Blackletter based on the work of Henrik van den Keere.
  • His classics series, mostly influenced by old Britsh type foundries, includes Figgins Sans (original 1832), Besley Grotesque, Caslon Antique, Fann Street Clarendon, Caslon Italian, Blanchard, Thorowgood Sans, Antique No. 6, Antique No. 3, and Ornamented (original c. 1850 at Caslon, Barnes use a Steven Shanks interpretation).

His St Bride Type Foundry. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tim Barnes

British outfit located in London. MyFonts sells the double-stroked and African-themed comic book style family Picklepie (2008), the curly Galerie Simpson (2011), the playful Message of the Birds (2009), Lemon Flower (2010), No Liming (2009), Out Back (2009) and Pigeonpie (2009), made jointly by Tim Barnes (b. 1967, London) and his six-year old daughter Lydia Barnes (b. 2001, London). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Woody Barnes

FontStructor who specializes in technical device fonts. In 2010, he made Texas Instruments TI-84 (+Pixellated) and Simplexica (in 5x5 and TI84 styles). He also made the white on black dot matrix face Scoreboard Generic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alistair Barnett

Designer of the grunge font DiSToRTioN (1997). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Barnett

Graphic designer in Melbourne, Australia, whose studio is called Could Not Sleep. He created the experimental loopy face called Boundary (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Barnett

Creator of the iFontMaker font Scribbled Swiss Caps (2010, sketched). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Don Barnett

Grade Script, Plankton-B, Plankton Larvae, BugLight, Gracie Script, Larvae Symbold and Nekton Numbers are gorgeous grunge creations by Don Barnett. Truetype fonts at about 30 dollars per face. Beautiful web page as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gerry Barney

Co-designer with David Bristow, Terence Griffin, Ian Hay, and Kit Cooperof the famous VAG Rounded typeface family developed for Volkswagen in 1979. VAG Rounded is presently a Linotype family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur M. Barnhart

Type designer who co-founded Barnhart Brothers and Spindler in Chicago. Creator of a squarish face in 1887. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Warren Barnhart

Type designer at Barnhart Brothers and Spindler in Chicago. Creator of a typeface in 1890. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariana Barnola

Designer at iFontMaker of Outline Freehand (2011, handprinted) and Get Well Soon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

K. Barnoski

FontStructor who made the great fat Peignotian face Kalyn (2011), and Pixel (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kent Barns

Beele Center, OH-based type designer Kent Barns created Dolsáb (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fabien Baron

Designer of the custom typeface on which Christian Schwartz based his design David Yurman (2001), commissioned by Lipman Advertising for David Yurman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

L.F. Baroni

Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to create a futuristic font called NearFuture Pixel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephen P. Baron

STEDT is a free phonetic font that is being maintained and developed by a number of people. From the web site: "To accomodate the various orthographies of our source transcriptions, a special Macintosh Font was developed. The original bitmap font developed by Stephen P. Baron in the late 1980's evolved with advances in typographic technology into the STEDT Font for Macintosh a TrueType outline font, created early in 1993 by John Brandon Lowe. STEDT Font for Windows is currently available for beta testing. Currently being maintained by Richard Cook, the current (2001/02/22) release version of the STEDT Font is 5.1.5." STEDT stands for UC Berkeley's Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) Project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frank Barowiak

Designer of the Kaffeesatz display family (1994, Linotype): great coffeehouse lettering. Smell the coffeebeans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barrakuda

Barrakuda designed the grunge/graffiti font Coulon Liquor (1998). Barrakuda also designed the scratchy face Barrakuda'z-FontZamba. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastián Barraud

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the semi-blackletter typeface Blackheart Inertia (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastián Barraud

Creator of the blackletter face Black Heart Inertia (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julien Barrau

Julien Barrau made a gorgeous pixel font, IBSE (or: In Blue Special Edition) in 2001. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Barr

Orlando, FL-based designer of the organic sans face Keenton (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Catarina Barreira

Portuguese design student at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. In 2009, as part of a typography class project, Catarina and four co-students (Miriam Flores, Ana Carreira, José Bronze and Marco Costa) designed Regular (FontStruct). While it looks like a thin angular type, she says that inspiration came from handmade type found on a statue of José Estevão Coelho de Magelhães (1809-1862), a remarkable revolutionary political figure in the city of Aveiro. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emanuel Barreira

Portuguese graphic and type designer from Setubal. He made the techno face Break (2008) and the 3d techno face Octopus (2008). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Barrera

Santiago, Chile-based designer (b. 1982) of the plumbing dingbat face GasfiterbarreraNormal (2004). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bonnie Barrett

Designer of the strong text face Arbor (1994) at Alphabets Inc. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesús E. Barrientos

Mexican designer of Vecchia Romana (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. He lives in Puebla. Director of Talavera Type Workshop. At Tipos Latinos 2012, he won awards in he display type category for Agony, and Ecstasy.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lindsey Nicole Barriga

American web and graphic designer in Derby, CT. Behance link. Creator of the funky bullet hole face Buboo (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pablo Barrio

Creator of the constructivist face Russian (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruben Barrio

Type designer from Boston, who created Shatterboxx and Ocho8. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luiza Barrocas

Brazilian graphic design student in Recife who made the pixel face Chunky (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Igor C. Barros

Sao-Paulo-based illustrator who designed Arigatou-Kamisama (2000), Mottley-HorneyHiragana (2000), Morte e Vida Severina (1997). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nelio Barros

Nelio Barros is part of Kinobrand Design in Geneva. While they are mostly occupied with graphic and brand design in general, they found the time in December 2011 to design a geometric monoline fashion mag family called Nixin.

Typophile link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Milagros Barros Tomé

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

Will Barros

Brazilian illustrator who made the straight-edged face Rochedo (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John K. Barrow

Designer of the Peanuts font, 1999, which is based on the friendly handwriting of Charles "Sparky" Schulz. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Finnan Barry

FontStructor who made the wire furniture face Unos (2011) and the bilined face Threepwood Thin (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathan Barry

Designer in 2000 for Ignition Management of the (free) Oasis font for use by the music group Oasis.

See also here. See also here and here. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Helge Barske

German foundry that had some free offerings by Berlin-based graphic designer, typographer and illustrator, Helge Barske. In 2001, he made Dirty Bitch, Kombuese, Badfag, Gogogogo, Kloezzler, Klozzbats, Krossklozz, Mahoney, Pixelplastique, Plastiquekingdom, Sinner (constructivist), Snowbats, Stanzefett, Suplex. Several dot matrix and pixel fonts. The fonts typically had no punctuation though. At some point, the free font pages disappeared. KingConvex (2009, hairline) was shown at Behance. Schneusel Sans (2010) is a soft octagonal face.

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

Elia Barsoum

From Beirut, Elia Barsoum developed Syriac TTF fonts for Windows (Latin and Arabic versions). Names of the fonts: EB SERTO, EB ESTRANGELO, EB MADENHAIA, EB MERABAH (old Assyrian/Hebrew). He also made some utilities and DLLs to assist the user to write from right to left on the Western edition of Windows which usually writes from left to right. Elia holds a masters degree in operations research from Twente Universiteit in the Netherlands. Currently, he works as a GIS expert and application developer in Beirut for Khatib&Alami, an engineering company. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Károly Barta

Hungarian creator of the useful (and free) DTP Dingbats (2008), which has fists and arrows, among other things. He also made Model (2009, a comic book face). Dafont link. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eitan Bartal

Israeli type designer at MasterFonts. He is credited with the Hebrew faces Atid MF, BarTal MF, Beebee MF, Belet MF, Corona MF, Dinamo MF, Eser MF, Exodus MF, Humanist MF, Korinty MF, Or MF, Telad MF. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michael Bartalos

[T-26] designer of the party animal dingbat font Bartalk (1996).

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

Hubert Bartels

Hubert Bartels' Albedo fonts in truetype and type 1, 1996. "This is the font used in Steven Gallacci's Albedo Universe. Sean Malloy created a Postscript version in 1992; I based my font on that version, modifying many of the characters and adding punctuation." [Google] [More]  ⦿

Klaus Bartels

German type expert, 1948-2005. At the Berlin-based Berthold AG, he was responsible for the digitizing of its library. After its demise in 1993, he worked for its successor, H. Berthold Systeme GmbH, and this company made the collection available since 1997 as The Berthold Type Collection. In 2000, he founded Babylon Schrift Kontor (or BSK) which also had on board Wolfgang Talke, Bernd Pillich, and the type experts René Kerfante and Frank Sax. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mackenzie Bartels

Student at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. Behance link. She created a bouncy alphabet in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Todd Barthelman

[T-26] designer of Bundy and Digital Decay (1996). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Edward Everett Bartlett

Printer and typographic director at Linotype, 1863-1942. He refined many faces, and designed the Benedictine series, Elzevir No.3, Garamond (+Italic), Garamond Bold (+Italic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Bartlett

Graphic and web designer from Cardiff. He created the kitchen tile face S, the wire frame face WireFrame, and the ultra black art deco face Black and White in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Bartlett

Chester, VA-based illustrator, aka Karbacca, b. 1985. He created the handwriting face Rusty's Handwriting (2009). Bartlett Photography and Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Bartlett

Houston, TX-based designer, b. 1983. Dafont link.

Creator of the simple octagonal typeface family SB Modern (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Anthony Bartolo

JAB is Joseph Anthony Bartolo's foundry, located in Tarxien, Malta. MyFonts sells the hieroglyph-inspired ransom note font Hieroglyphs Nefertiti Akhenaten (2006) as well as Hebrewish (2007), a faux Hebrew face. Megre (2010) is an exercise in unusual placements of serifs. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ariel Barton

This free (as in free and unrestricted) package is written to make it possible to write cable and lace charts for knitting patterns using plain TeX or LaTeX. It provides type 1 and metafont fonts of appropriate symbols and macros for their use. The font family KnittingSymbols (2010) contains ten fonts by Ariel Barton. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Doug Bartow

Designer of Ribbit (1994, Red Rooster). Graduate of Cranbrook Design Academy (1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lluís Bartra

Catalan designer of Arepas y Queso (2006, irregular hand), Belisa Plumilla Regular (2006), Lughdailh Regular (2006) and Mariana Peluso (2006, great curly handwriting). Dafont link. Fontsy link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Bartram

Designer of DecoBlocks (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Bartsch

German designer, b. 1971. Dafont link. Creator of the free fonts B Kings (2009, funny figurines), Paul Pulpo (2011), Junglefood (2011), FC Podolski (2010, logos). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kostas Bartsokas

Designer and illustrator in Thessaloniki, Greece. In 2011, he used FontStruct to make the counterless face UglyKost. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frank Bartuska

Lettering artist. Designer (d. 1975) of Trophy Oblique (Agfa, 1950), Caslon No. 641, News Gothic Condensed Bold and other News Gothic weights (1958-1966) and many other photolettering faces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Norbert Bartz

Talas is a free font by Norbert Bartz (NBgraphik) made in 2007. As he explains, Talas script, dated to the second half of the 8th-10th centuries, was spread in the Altai and Tuva area of Southern Siberia. In Southern Siberia during the Early Middle Age Talas script coexisted with other runiform alphabets. The Karluk Yabgu state developed in the Jeti-Su after 766, it replaced the Türgesh Kaganate and its Sogdian cursive script, and in the middle of the 9th century it became a Kaganate. In the 940 Karluk Kaganate was destroyed by the Karahanids. In the Karluk Kaganate, with territory from the western spurs of Altai to the Tarbagatai range, the Enisei alphabet transformed into Talas alphabet. Formation of the Talas alphabet was under obvious influence of the Enisei script and without notable connections with the Orhon alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Franceska Baruch

Polish type designer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Franziska Baruch

Type designer, b. 1901, Hamburg. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benan Barwick

British designer who created glyphs from icons in order to create the experimental Punk Rock Font (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gennady Baryshnikov

Russian designer of Anons (a Cyrillic sans family), Arbat (1989, ParaType), Inform (ParaType, 1992, based on the brush script font Flash), Decor (ParaType, 1989, with Vladimir Yefimov, a formal script, based on a 1979 design by Pavel Kuzanyan), ITC Machine (1994, with Vladimir Yefimov; original by Tom Carnase and Ronne Bonder, 1970), Fat Face Cyrillic (1993, with Vladimir Yefimov; ParaGraph), and Zhikharev (1989, ParaType, with Vladimir Yefimov; based on an original design at Polygraphmash in 1953 by Igor Zhikharev). FontShop link. Paratype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Des Barzey

New York City-based graphic designer, who has worked in London. Behance link. In 2010, he created the Model T Ford Face (2010), a typeface based on bent frames of glasses. The Porsche sunglasses led to Porsche Carrera Rear Ended (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manfred Barz

Designer of Quadriga-Antiqua (1979, Berthold) [Q650 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cem Basak

Designer of the techno stencil face Buzpark (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Deniz Basar

Turkish designer, b. 1989. She created the dingbat faces Aman Neyse (2011), Neden Olmasin (2011) and Istanbul (2011, city outline dings), all made with FontStruct. Anadolu (2011) is an Anatolian culture dingbat face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paola Bascón

German designer of the experimental face Nails and Strings (2010, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paco Bascunan

Spanish designer of the display face Girasoules (1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaleb Basey

Designer of the gothic face Count Kinski (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Basford

Graphic designer, born in 1973 in Birmingham, UK. Lee Basford (Fluid +) is the [T-26] designer of FungFoo (1996, with James Glover, an oriental simulation font), Euphoric (1996, with James Glover, a paperclip style font).

At Fountain, you can buy his techno font Nuephoric.

At his Fluid + studio, you can find Euphoric, Fungfoo, Haircut Sir? (1999), Ultra and Death, mostly grunge fonts.

FontShop link. Home page and blog. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gil Bashan

Israeli type designer who made Riksha MF (2010). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Norma Bashaw

This designer used iFontmaker in 2011 to create For The Birds, a hand-drawn ornamental face on the theme of birds. she also made For The Birds All Caps (2011) and Cupcake Squiggle, a great curly face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Konstantin Bashenko

Graphic designer, and student at Ural State Academy of Architect and Arts. Creator of the iFontMaker font BK Handy Cyr (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denis Bashev

Russian designer of Reflex, a face that marries old ustav influences with modern scripts. His LineFont is a pixel experiment. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ronen Bash

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

Florencia Basile

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the connected script face Zephora (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Baskerville

Birmingham-based British writing master, stonecutter, letter designer, typefounder and printer (1706-1775). Designer of transitional faces. In 1757, he created his famous serif faces, which were called transitional as they were somewhat between the old style faces of William Caslon and the modern types of Bodoni and Didot. He increased the thick-thin contrast over that found in Caslon's types, making the serifs sharper and more tapered, and shifted the axis of rounded letters to a more vertical position. The curved strokes are more circular in shape, and the characters became more regular. In 1757, Baskerville published his first work, a collection of Virgil, which was followed by some fifty other classics. In 1758, he was appointed printer to the Cambridge University Press. It was there in 1763 he published his master work, a folio Bible, which was printed using his own typeface, ink, and paper. The modern types became more popular than Baskerville, and people had to wait until 1917 when Bruce Rogers revived Baskerville's type for the Harvard University Press, followed by Stanley Morison's revival in 1924 for the British Monotype Company. Linotype introduced it in 1931.

In modern times, we find the 1978 rendering of ITC New Baskerville by Matthew Carter and John Quaranda. Linotype offers 38 Baskerville faces. URW Baskerville has 51 styles.

Biography by Nicholas Fabian. Graphion's site. CV in Spanish. Wikipedia. In 2009, the Baskerville Project was conceived, an animated movie with David Osbaldestin as its Creative Director, and Caroline Archer and Ben Waddington as researchers. Linotype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

K. Basler

Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to create Structica Solid and True (octagonal). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jarrad Basnec

Creator of the iFontMaker font Basnec (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Bassan

Milan-based creator of the handmade experimental typeface Tracce (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Bassett

Typographer in Melbourne, Australia, who created the black counterless face BLK.OPS (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juca Basso

Designer of Epittazio (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rebecca Lynee Bass

Savannah, GA-based student who proposed Betwixt and Between (2006), a display face with swashes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rudi Bass

The Graphic Arts Department of CBS News developed CBS News 36 [dead link], a TV font with ink traps. The project leader was Rudi Bass. Adam Twardoch compares the ink trapping with that of other fonts, such as Bell Centennial Bold (Matthew Carter, 1978). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Saul Bass

New York-born type designer and film director, 1920-1996, known for movie title sequences, famous logos (like that of Minolta), and that mid-20th century look. He designed the artsy Rainbow Bass (1982). MyFonts link. At Bass's site, one can find the Mac font Hitchcock made by Matt Terich. Rainbow Bass, a vertically striped disco style design, was remade by Nick Curtis as Backstage Pass (2008), Kymmera Deco NF (2011), and High Five and High Five Jive. Harold Lohner's Alumino (2008) was inspired by Saul Bass's design for the aluminum company Alcoa. Saul (Laura French, 2011) is based on the cut-out letter movie titling style used by Bass in some movies.

Jennifer Bass (his daughter) and Pat Kirkham published Saul Bass: A Life in Film&Design (2011). The book's blurb: This is the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th Century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work. With more than 1,400 illustrations, many of them never published before and written by the leading design historian Pat Kirkham, this is the definitive study that design and film enthusiasts have been eagerly anticipating. Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American post-war visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta. His wife and collaborator, Elaine, joined the Bass office in the late 1950s. Together they created an impressive series of award-winning short films, including the Oscar-winning Why Man Creates, as well as an equally impressive series of film titles, ranging from Stanley Kubrick s Spartacus in the early 1960s to Martin Scorsese s Cape Fear and Casino in the 1990s. Designed by Jennifer Bass, Saul Bass's daughter and written by distinguished design historian Pat Kirkham who knew Saul Bass personally, this book is full of images from the Bass archive, providing an in depth account of one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th century. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Henry Bastian

Designer of the handprinted families Frau Becker (2011) and Linda (2011), together with Volker Schnebel at Profonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dave Bastian

Dave Bastian is from Utah and graduated from Brigham Young University. Dave Bastian's free fonts: Etruscan, Fancy Face, Frankie (Frankenstein font), Korohanza, Noodle Calligraphic, Noodle Script (upright script), Noodle Shaded, SixtySeven, Startling, Stone-Age, Weehah.

Astound Dings and Bloopty (2002) were published at Garagefonts.

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

Raphael Bastide

FontStructor who made the pixelized face Terminal Grotesque (2011, OFL) for which he was inspired by Radim Pesko and Paul Renner. He also made the pixel face LYPC (2009).

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

Annie Bastien

Designer whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: NuclearReactor, ScratchNsniff (1997), SemiSans, Sofa (at UQAM in 1995, as a student there). Annie grew up in Laval, near Montreal, and is a graphic designer in Montreal. See also here.

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Gianni Bastien

Antibes, France-based creator of Ufo Runes (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luiza Bastos

FontStructor who made the pixel faces Chunky, Piramides and Balao in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Basualdo

Argentian designer, b. 1986. Creato the experimental slab face Improvisation (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diana Bata

Hungarian designer of the 5x5 pixel face Pixel (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jay Batchelor

American designer, b. 1973. Between 2002 and 2010, he created Rebel Caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Batchelor

Creator of the upright connected (school) script font Fifth Grade Cursive (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edward J. Bateman

Designer in 1995 of a Deseret alphabet font called Deseret. It can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ian Bates

Born in 1989, Ian Bates (iBates Designs) is a Graphic Design major at York College of Pennsylvania. He is from Fort Salonga, NY. FontStructor who made Blacktop (2010) as part of a typography project in school. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keith Bates

K-Type is Keith Bates' (b. 1951, Liverpool) foundry in Manchester, UK, est. 2003. Keith works as an Art&Design teacher at a Salford High School. Dafont link. Yet another URL. Fontspace link. Fontsy link. Behance link. They custom design type, and sell some of their own creations.

Commercial faces:

  • Adequate (2012). A basic geometric monoline sans family.
  • Adventuring (2010, comic book style)
  • Alan Hand (2005, based on some blobby lettering, handwritten by printer and mail artist, Alan Brignull)
  • Alex (2002-2004)
  • Alright (2004, cursive script)
  • Anna (2002-2007)
  • Axis
  • Bank of England (2012, blackletter): Bank of England is loosely based on blackletter lettering from the Series F English twenty pound banknote introduced in 2007. The font also takes inspiration from German Kanzlei (Chancery) typefaces and the 17th century London calligrapher, John Ayres.
  • Building&Loan (2007, engaved face)
  • Bigfoot (2005, a Western font based on the slab capitals used by Victor Moscoso in his 1960s psychedelic rock posters)
  • Bolshy (2009)
  • Bolton750 (2003, a mechanical face done with John Washington)
  • Chock (2009)
  • Circa (geometric sans)
  • Club
  • Collegiate (2009)
  • Component (2012). A font for lost civilizations and dungeon rituals.
  • Context (experimental)
  • Credit Card (2010, font for simulating bank cards)
  • Cyberscript (2006, connected squarish face)
  • Designer
  • Digitalis
  • English
  • Excite
  • Flip (2011), a western grotesk billboard face.
  • Flyer (2009, techno)
  • Frank Bellamy (2009, an all-capitals family based on the hand lettering of English artist, Frank Bellamy, most famous for his comic art for Eagle and TV21, and his Dr Who illustrations for Radio Times)
  • Future Imperfect
  • Gill New Antique (2003)
  • Greetings
  • Helvetiquette
  • Hapshash (2010): an all capitals font inspired by the 1960s psychedelic posters of British designers Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (Michael English and Nigel Waymouth), in particular their 1968 poster for the First International Pop Festival in Rome. A dripping paint font.
  • Ivan Zemtsov (2009)
  • Kato (2007, oriental simulation face)
  • Keith's Hand
  • Klee Print (2010, Klee Print is based on the handwriting of American artist Emma Klee)
  • Lexia (an improved or "adult" version of Comic Sans) and Lexia Readable (2006).
  • Matchbox
  • Max
  • Ming
  • Modernist Stencil (2009)
  • Modulario (2010): a contemporary sans.
  • New Old English (2010, blackletter)
  • Norton (2006)
  • Nowa (2004, a play on Futura)
  • NYC (octagonal)
  • Openline (2008, an art deco pair)
  • Oriel Chambers Liverpool: A Lombardic small caps font based on the masonry lettering on Peter Ellis's 1864 building, Oriel Chambers, on Water Street in Liverpool.
  • Pentangle (2008, based on album lettering from 1967)
  • Pixel
  • PixL (2002-2004)
  • Plasterboard (2004-2005)
  • Pop Cubism (2010) is a set of four texture fonts, combining elements of cubism and pop art.
  • Poster Sans
  • Rick Griffin (2006, more psychedelic fonts inspired by a 1960s Californian artist)
  • Roundel (2009, white on black)
  • Runestone (2010, runic).
  • Sans Culottes (2008, grunge)
  • Serifina
  • Solid State (2008, art deco blocks)
  • Solus (2004, a revival of Eric Gill's 1929 face Solus which has never been digitized; read about it here)
  • Stockscript (2008, down-to-earth script based on the pen lettering of the writer, Christopher Stocks)
  • Susanna (2004)
  • Ticketing (2011): pixelish.
  • Total and Total Eclipse (2004, squarish display faces based on the four characters of Jaroslav Supek's title lettering for his 1980s mailart magazine, Total)
  • Transport New (2009: a redrawing of the typeface designed for British road signs. In addition to the familiar Heavy and Medium weights, Transport New extrapolates and adds a previously unreleased Light weight font originally planned for back-lit signage but never actually applied. Originally designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert beginning in 1957, the original Transport font has subtle eccentricities which add to its distinctiveness, and drawing the New version has involved walking a tightrope between impertinently eliminating awkwardness and maintaining idiosyncrasy.)
  • Union Jack (octagonal)
  • Victor Moscoso (2008, psychedelic)
  • Wanda (2007, art nouveau)
  • Waverly
  • Wes Wilson (2007, psychedelic, inspired by 1960s psychedelic poster artist Wes Wilson)
  • 3x5
  • Zabars (2001): a Western face.

His free fonts are here:

  • Blue Plaque (2006: a distressed font based on English heritage plaques)
  • Blundell Sans (2009)
  • Celtica (2007) has Celtic influences
  • Dalek (2005, stone/chisel face: Dalek is a full font based on the lettering used in the Dalek Book of 1964 and in the Dalek's strip in the TV21 comic, spin-offs from the UK science fiction TV show, Doctor Who. The font has overtones of Phoenician, Greek and Runic alphabets)
  • Designer Block (2006)
  • Flat Pack (2006)
  • Future Imperfect (2006, grunge)
  • Gommogravure (2005)
  • Greetings (2006), Greetings Bold (2006)
  • Insecurity (2005, experimental) won an award at the 2005 FUSE type competition.
  • International Times (2006, inspired by the masthead of the International Times underground newspaper of the 1960s and 1970s)
  • Keep Calm (2011). Related to London Underground.
  • Klee Capscript (2005: based on the handwriting and capitals drawn by artist Emma Klee (USA) for her Color Museum Mail Art invitation. The upper case is based on Emma's capitals and the lower case is freely adapted from her script)
  • Lexia and Lexia Bold (2004)
  • MAGraphics (2004)
  • Magical Mystery Tour (2005, outlined shadow face), Magical Mystery Tour Outline Shadow (2005)
  • Mailart (2004), MailartRubberstamp (2004)
  • Mandatory (2004, a UK number plate font based on the Charles Wright typeface used in UK vehicle registration plates)
  • Ray Johnson (2006-2008)
  • Roadway (2005, based on New York roadside lettering).
  • Savor (2011). An art nouveau family.
  • Soft Sans (2010)
  • Subway Ticker (2005)
  • This Corrosion (2005)

Custom / corporate typefaces: With Liverpool-based art director Liz Harry, Bates created a personalized font, loosely based on Coco Sumner's handwritten capitals, for the band I Blame Coco. Medium and Semibold weights of Gill New Antique were commissioned by LPK Design Agency. Stepping Hill Hospital and Bates created Dials, a pictorial font to help hospital managers input data about improvements. A custom font was designed for Bolton Strategic Economic Partnership. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz

Musician Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (Malted Media) created the free unsmooth typeface called Opera-Lyrics Smooth (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Uzi Batish

Israeli type designer at MasterFonts who created these Hebrew fonts: Batish MF, Blind Date MF, Degol MF, Liti MF, Mabsut MF, Pashkevil MF, Shishki MF. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adhemas Batista

Brazilian art director, graphic designer and illustrator based in Los Angeles. Born in 1981 in Sao Paulo. Behance lnk. He designed various display typefaces for his projects: Mariana (2005) is an experimental face for the Havaianas web site. Cristiane (2005) is a Bank Gothic-inspired sans. Mathews (2005) and Ana Rayssa (2005, upright connected script) are experimental types. Antonio (2005) is a fat rounded sans. Josefa (2005) is a grunge face created for Brahma Bier. Adilson (2005) is a super-fat display face. Rose (2005) and Douglas (2005, also a super-fat display face) were created for Sensorama ID. Other typefaces include Mark, Mike and Cris. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Batiston

Brazilian creator at Unique Types of the free semi-stencil face Horizontes (2011, with Karen Sampaio). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Irina Batkova

Moscow-based illustrator and digital artist. In 2010, she created an ornamental caps alphabet called HRG that was inspired by the sexy surrealist drawings of Swiss Oscar-winning artist H.R. Giger [wiki]. Behance link. Scans: Logo, illustration, more illustrations, HRG's letter F, HRG's letter E. The full HRG alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paolo Batori

Small archive by Paolo Batori, who is the Italian designer (b. 1976) of the artsy octagonal face Batho (2007). Dafont link. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fabrice Bats

5ive is the design studio of Fabrice Bats, a Parisian who has moved to Oslo. His lettering includes a couple of alphabets called Kinky (2010). Dafont link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristy Battani

Student in Armin Vit's typography class at the Portfolio Center in 2002. She designed "Go Lightly". [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Battee

Engraving department head at Baltimore Type, who designed Athena and Trylon Shaded. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tobias Battenberg

Designer from Köln, Germany. Creator of the super-heavy Bildhauer Kant (2008). Link at Dafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giovanni Battistini

Bologna, Italy-based creator (b. Como) of the typewriter font Lettera-G (2009), which was designed while he was studying at the Politecnico in Milan. It was based on a 60's typewriter face by Olivetti. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Batton

Illinois-based "designer" of English Gothic (2007, blackletter), which she is actually selling. She also made Johnny B (2007, handwriting), Think Pink Alphabet (2007) and Damaged Alphabet (2007). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cynthia Batty

Cynthia Batty (formerly, Cynthia Hollandsworth) was born in Washington, DC in 1955 (MyFonts) or 1956. She studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA. She was the manager of the department of type design and development at Agfa Compugraphic in Massachusetts. She designed Vermeer (1986), Hiroshige (1986), ITC Tiepolo (1987), Agfa Wile Roman (1990), Pompei Capitals (1995), and Synthetica (1996, with Philip Bouwsma). Currently, she is the vice-presdident of Simon&Schuster in New York. For a few years, she was Executive Director of ATypI, involved, in particular in the ATypI meetings in Vancouver and Prague. Bio at ATypI. Bio at Linotype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alan Bauchop

Alan Bauchop (Sophtecks, Wellington, New Zealand) made these typefaces in 1998: Trix, ScreenyJubs, Earth People, Brickle, Cain, Chunk, Miniskip, Miniskap, Miniskup (techno), and the experimental Silo. Some pixel fonts.

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

Astrid Bauckhage

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

Fernand Baudin

Belgian typographic expert and writer (b. Bachte-Maria-Leerne, 1918, d. Grez-Doiceau, July 16, 2005), and author of "How Typography Works (and why it is important)" (New York: Design Press). This is a translation of La Typographie au Tableau Noir (Retz, Paris, 1984), a book entirely written by hand! Uitgeverij de Buitenkant published "Fernand Baudin, typograaf, typographiste, book designer". Baudin wrote "L'Effet Gutenberg" (1974, Editions du Cercle de la Librairie). He was active in the Rencontres de Lure, the ATypI, and was instrumental in the creation of the curriculum of the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp. Another reference. Exposition Fernand Baudin from April 14 until May 27, 2000 at the Royal Library of Belgium. In 2004, he received the Laureate Honoris Causa award from the Plantin Society's Institute of Printing and Graphic Arts. CV (doc file in French). CV (txt file in French). Elly Cockx-Indestege et Georges Colin wrote Fernand Baudin ou La typographie au service du lecteur (2000, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Catherine Bauer

FontStructor from York, PA, who made The Drew Effect (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian Bauer

From Monchengladbach, Christian Bauer's commercial fonts: Buddy (childish leters), Grandma, Lineal, Missal, Salatino (free), World (dingbats), Linotype Compendio, Oneworld. You may request a free copy by email of Salatino, a reworked Garamond. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Erwin K. Bauer

Austrian type designer. At Volcano Type, he published the art deco era stencil face Reklame Stencil (2010, developed jointly with Zaneta Drgová). MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Friedrich Bauer

German type designer (b. Dorste, 1863, d. Schönberg, 1943). In 1882, he becomes the type director at the foundry of Schelter&Giesecke in Leipzig, until 1890, and again from 1896-1898. From 1898 until 1911, he is the head of printing at Genzsch&Heyse, first in München and then in Hamburg. From 1911-1924, he taught at the Staatlichen Gewerbeschule Hamburg. At Genzsch&Heyse, he designed Albingia (1906), Bürgerschafts Fraktur (1907; Schnelle claims 1913), Genzsch Antiqua (1906), Genzsch Kursiv (1906), Genzsch Antiqua halbfett (1908), Genzsch Kursiv halbfett (1908), Genzsch Antiqua fett (1910), Genzsch Antiqua schmallfett (1910), Genzsch Fraktur (1931), Genzsch Fraktur halbfett (1932), Heyse Antiqua (1921), Heyse Antiqua halbfett (1924), Heyse Kursiv (1921), Senats Fraktur (1907), Senats Fraktur halbfett (1908), Germanische Antiqua (1911), Germanische Antiqua halbfett (1912), Germanische Kursiv (1911), Hamburger Druckschrift (1904; halbfett and fett in 1908). The first appearance of Nordisk Antiqua (or Genzsch-Antiqua) was in 1906 with a single weight under the name of "Nordisk Antiqua". In 1912 a family of seven weights was announced under the name "Genzsch-Antiqua" honoring the foundry in Hamburg where Bauer had been the manager of composing and printing since 1900. As the foundry Genzsch&Heyse had a lot of customers in Scandinavia, their Nordisk Antiqua became widely spread over the north of Europe. Gerhard Helzel has a digital revival of the Genzsch Antiqua family, in mager, halbfett and kursiv. all his other faces appeared at J.D. Trennert&Sohn: Fortuna (1930), Friedrich-Bauer-Grotesk (1933), Friedrich-Bauer-Grot. kräftig (1934), Friedrich-Bauer-Grot. halbfett (1934), Friedrich-Bauer-Grotesk fett (1934), F.-Bauer-Grot. schmalhalbfett (1934), Friedrich-Bauer-Grotesk licht (1934), Trennert Antiqua (1926), Trennert Kursiv (1927), Trennert Antiqua halbfett (1927), Trennert Antiqua fett (1929), Trennert Kursiv fett (1930), Trennert Antiqua schmalhalbfett (1929), Trennert Latein (1932).

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Bauer

Typefounder, b. 1834, Frankfurt am Main, d. 1923, Stuttgart. Designer of Bauersche Fraktur (1905, Bauersche Giesserei) and Gutenberg-Gotisch (1880, Bauersche Giesserei, with Gottfried Wilhelm Theodor Friebel). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johann Christian Bauer

German punchcutter and typefounder, b. 1802 Hanau, d. 1867, who founded Bauersche Giesserei (Bauer) in 1837 in Frankfurt. Designer of Roman (Bauersche Giesserei, 1850), Fette Fraktur (1850, Bauersche Giesserei) and Verdi (1851, a shaded slab serif titling face). He was influential and successful. In 1839 he went to Scotland and worked as a punchcutter for the Edinburgh branch of the Wilson Foundry. He returned in 1847, running his company under the name Englische Schriftschneiderei und Gravieranstalt. Upon his death, his brother Konrad and son Alexander continued his business. MyFonts page. Pic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Justin Bauer

Designer at the Pseudoroom of the pixel font Pro Bulbous (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Konrad Friedrich Bauer

German punchcutter and typefounder, b. Hamburg, 1903, d. Schönberg, 1970, who ran the Bauersche Giesserei for a while [he started work there in 1928 and became art director in 1948]. He designed the following Bauer faces with Walter Baum: Alpha (1954), Beta (1954), the sans serif family Folio (1957), Caravelle (1957, the Fonderie Typographique Française name for Folio), Imprimatur (1952-1955), Impressum (1963, a wide text face), Verdi (1957), Volta (1956; +Mager). Page at Linotype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Martin Bauermeister

Designer at Brass Fonts in Cologne of Saw (1997). Cofounder of Brass Fonts in 1996. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Miriam Bauer

German designer of the Swiss techno style face Letrix (2008, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More]  ⦿

R. Bauer

Type designer who designed fonts at Klingspor such as Magnet (1906). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Faye Baul

Creator of the handprinted typefaces My Cursive Font (2012), Fayes Mousewriting (2012) and Fayes Mess (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sander Baumann

Type design and typography blog and news site (part of a much larger graphic design blog) run by Dutchman Sander Baumann. Alternate URL, where one can find his SymbolSigns-Basisset font made in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

H. Baumgart

Designer at Haas of Quirinale (1970). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joanna Baumgartner

Polish graphic designer in Krakow, b. 1979. Creator of the great Koch Antiqua style face Baumgartner (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephan Baum

German creator of the sans family Jaune d'oeuf (2010), and of Acid (2010, a free simple monoline sans family). Stephan is at the Fachhochschule Trier. His blog is called Stivolio. See also 26plus, where Acid can be found. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Trevor Baum

Brooklyn, NY-based type and graphic designer. He created the spurred typeface Haymaker (2012, free at Lost Type Co-op) and the bold display face Laika (2012).

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Walter Baum

German type designer, born in 1921 in Gummersbach. Head of the Bauer graphics studio from 1949-1972. MyFonts faces due to him. Together with Konrad F. Bauer, he designed the Akzidenz Grotesk-like sans serif face Folio (1962), as well as Caravelle (1957), Alpha (1954, a comic book style face), Beta (1954, another comic book style face; both Alpha and Beta designed with K.F. Bauer), Imprimatur (1952-1955, with K.F. Bauer at Bauersche), and Impressum (1963) for the Bauersche Giesserei in Frankfurt am Main. He also did Volta (1956), and Verdi (1957). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Julia Bausenhardt

Type designer from Germany. In 2010, she made Kafka, a font based on the handwriting of Franz Kafka. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Austin B

Creator of Pipes Type (2010), an all caps face with letters in the shape of tools and pipes---inspiration came from an 18th century typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Els Bauwelinck

Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental pixel font Metric, and the font Metround. She lives in Temse. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maarten Bax

Lttr-art is the art site of Maarten Bax. He made My Handwriting (2005, free). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melissa Baxter

Commercial fonts by Melissa Baxter (2002): Blocks (Baseball, Canada, Circles, Creativity, Little Words, Road Trip, Spring, Actions, Birthday, Cooking, Happy, Music, NYC, Ocean, Pets, Pretty, Zoo, Americana, Basketball, College, Hockey, Home, Love, Picnic, Thanksgiving, Valentine, Calendar, Cards1, Cards2, Character1, Character2, ChristmasCards, Colors, Fishing, Football, Golf, Halloween, Memories, Baby, Boys, Christmas, Emotions, Fall, Family, Girly, Heartfelt, School, Summer, SweetBaby, Travel), Cookie Dough, Gas Station, Haunted House, Rocky Road, Sophisticated, Sunflowers, Vegetable Soup, Wonderful, Wrought Iron, Beautiful, Cherub, Fairy Princess, Falling Leaves, Fudge Brownies, Nevermind, Rock Star, Spread Sunshine, Artsy, Beach Balls, Block Party, Distorted, Distressed, Just Plain Little, Proud Papa, Ribbons, Rustic, Stonewashed, Sunshine, Angel, Bleached Blonde, Dreams, PackedInASuitcase, IceCubes, Picnic Basket, FlipFlops, Pancakes, Jilted Bride, Little Ladybug, Moonbeams, Piano Recital, Tuxedo, Unforgettable, Wedding Day, Chestnuts, Evergreen, Hot Chocolate, Jack Frost, Sleigh Ride, Sugarplums, Composition, White Sale, Crate, Aloha, BadAttitude, Cindy, Rain, Morgan, Short Blonde Hair, Slide, Katherine Ann, Samantha, 2Peas-Amazing, 2Peas-Bad-Hair-Day, 2Peas-Commercial-Break, 2Peas-Couch-Potato, 2Peas-Dainty, 2Peas-Downtown, 2Peas-Drama-Queen, 2Peas-Drip, 2Peas-Giggle, 2Peas-Grandpa, 2Peas-Little-Buddy, 2Peas-Megablock, 2Peas-Melissa, 2Peas-Miss-Priss, 2Peas-Paintbrush, 2Peas-Plain-Jane, 2Peas-Remote-Control, 2Peas-Ringlet, 2Peas-Silly-Fill-In, 2Peas-Silly, 2Peas-Sitcom, 2Peas-Spotty-Dotty, 2Peas-Stand-Tall, 2Peas-Talk-Show, 2Peas-Think-Small, 2Peas-Vintage, 2Peas-Wide-Load. All these fonts represent handwriting or hand printing. 2USD per font. In 2005-2007, she made MB-Candy-Corn, MB-Caramel-Apples, MB-Domino, MB-Dot-Com, MB-Hobgoblins, MB-Jack-O'Lantern, MB-Pigment, MB-Salsa, MB-Scream, MB-Sunflower, MB-Taffy, MB-Wicked, MB-Wildflower, MB-Yeah. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stanley Baxter

Designer at Monotype of the sans serif face Jocunda (1933), in which horizontal strokes are wavy. He also created Basuto (1927, Stephenson Blake), a fattish headline face. Nick Curtis revived the latter face as Bazoo Tow NF (2011) and calls the style bold, brassy and a little sassy. A free digital revival of Basuto is provided by Vernon Adams in his Rammetto One (2011, Google Font Directory). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mihail Bayaryn

Designer in 2005 of the Hindi fonts Chandas and Uttara. Latin and Cyrillic glyphs were added from DejaVu font and modified according to GPL by Dharmo Raksati Raksitah. I quote: The font contains 4347 glyphs: 325 half-forms, 960 half-forms context-variations, 2743 ligature-signs. It is designed especially for Vedic and Classical Sanskrit but can also be used for Hindi, Nepali and other modern Indian languages. The font includes Vedic accents and many additional signs and provides maximal support for Devanagari script. In version 1.1 were added Latin and Cyrillic characters and corresponding Open Type tables for Sanskrit transliteration. Chandas font represents Southern (most commonly used today) style of Devanagari script. And Uttara font represents Northern style of Devanagari Script. These styles are sometimes also called Bombay (Southern, contemporary) and Calcutta (Northern, old) pen families accordingly. Uttara is today the only Devanagari OTF font which supports Northern variations in simple glyphs and in ligatures. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Té Baybute

Designer in New York City. Behance link. Creator of the free faces Manhattan Hand, The Missus Hand and The Missus Hand Oblique (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Baydoun

Designer of the grungy faces Angeli2, Oliver, Choirboy, Virginia Two and Myscriptfont (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nata Bayduzha

Moscow-based graphic designer. She created a useful informally handprinted family of typefaces called Owl (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Herbert Bayer

Austrian type designer and artist, 1900-1985. A very inflential artist, Bayer joined the Bauhaus in Weimar as a student in 1921, and was a professor ("young master" they called those ex-students who became professors) there from 1925-1928. Bayer was head of the workshop of Graphic Design and Printing at the Bauhaus school of architecture and art in Dessau. He fled Nazi Germany in 1938, and worked in New York until 1946 for such clients as Dorland International, Thompson, Wanamaker's, and developing exhibitions and general graphic design for large corporations. In 1946 he moved to Aspen, Colorado and continued as consultant to firms such as Container Corporation of America. He died in Montecito, near Santa Barbara, CA, in 1985. His typefaces include Universalschrift or Universal Alphabet (1925-1930) and Bayer-Type (for Berthold, 1930-1936). See also this image. He is best known for his unicase proposal (as in Universalschrift).

Dedicated web site. FontShop link. Picture. Klingspor link.

Revivals of his work:

  • At P22: P22 Bayer Fonetik (1997, Michael Want), P22 Bayer Shadow, P22 Bayer Universal.
  • By Jonathan Hill: WerkHaus (2008) is a 5-style revival.
  • Victory Type published Bayer Modern in 2009.
  • Nick Curtis: Debonair Inline NF (2008) expands Herbert Bayer's 1931 experimental, all-lowercase "universal modern face," Architype Bayer-Type, by adding an uppercase and adding an architectural inline treatment.
  • Paulo Heitlinger did Sturmblund (2008) and Bayer Condensed (2008).
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Denise Bayers

Designer of the 19th century (Victorian) display face Euphoria (2004, Letterhead Fonts) and of the Peignot-inspired Charlotte (2004, Letterhead Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yvonne Bayer

German designer of the zebra-inspired rotor blade face Rotor (2009, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dmitry Bazhanov

Russian type and book designer, 1902-1945 or 1946. His characters were made into alphabets in 1961 by Mihail Grigorevich Rovenskiy, who called the type family Bazhanov. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barnard B

French type designer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Esra Gülmen Bda

Illustrator in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2012, she created the ultra-fat rounded typeface Smoothie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Levi Beach

Creator of the iFontMaker fonts Flagship Script (2011), Filler, FAQuix and Grafibly (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Levi Beach

Grand Rapids, MI-based interaction designer and photographer. Behance link. He created Stringbean (2009, FontStruct), a hairline condensed sans. As iFontMaker, he created the hairline handprinted face Outy Thin (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jaimi-Lee Beale

Graphic designer in Brisbane, Australia. Behance link. She made the geometric counterless face Empire (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Beams

Creator at Ohio State University of the handwriting font Sribble Normal (sic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Russell Bean

Russell Bean (Type Associates of Pyrmont, Australia, est. 1993) is an Australian type designer (b. Parkes, NSW, 1947). He worked in many ad agencies and later in the studios of the local photolettering houses, redrawing typefaces for filmfont setting as well as hand-composing headlines using photo-mechanical devices.

In the early seventies, he designed a five-weight Ac=vant-Gardish family named Virginia (now also digitized).

He then worked for the Los Angeles studio of Lettergraphics International in charge of lettering, logo design and converting type designs to film fonts. It was at this time (1973) that the Washington Family was completed. Upon his return to Australia that year, he teamed up with a long time colleague to form a design and art group in Sydney.

Russell has been responsible for the creation of many Australian icons, including the Qantas logo. Russell Bean has served on the executive committees of The Australian Type Directors' Club and Australian Graphic Design Association.

Typefaces available from MyFonts include Bougainville (1994-2005, a condensed sans family), Fremantle (1994), Beanwood Script (1997, a calligraphic script codesigned with David Wood), Craigie Halpen, Eumundi Sans [also available in the Agfa Creative Alliance], Eumundi Serif, Linear, Melissa, Rhodamine Blue, Sanguine (2004, handwriting), Semaphone (brush writing), Washington (1973, art deco family--really nice geometric letterforms with at least one hairline weight), and Xaltier.

He designed ITC Christoph's Quill (2004), Billabong (2006, 1950s handlettering), Charleston Caps (2007, art deco) and the comic book lettering face Rhapsodie (2006).

In 2007, he added the Threepoints East, North and West sans faces.

About the Avant-Garde-style geometric sans family Virginia (2008), Bean writes: she was the most popular headline face around, at least in my home town in the year of her release circa 1970. That was the year my five-weight design won the inaugural (and only) Lettergraphics International Alphabet design competition and shut out 5000 competitors. Alas, Lettergraphics ceased to trade from its LA studios after the mid-80s and Virginia's two-inch film fonts were left to collect dust on the cutting room floor.

The Koomerang family and Karmel (flare-legged retro display) were added in 2008.

In 2009, Bean created Comp Sans 226, Argyle Rough, Empirical (12-style DIN-like sans family), Dotmap (pixel family) and Macquarie Heavy.

In 2010, he made the poster signage face Hangtime.

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Brock Bearden

Creator of the rough counterless handprinted Hello Brock (2009). Wild Arrows (2009, Fontcapture) is experimental. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Beardmore

Freelance artist and designer. Dafont link, where one can download Daub (2007), Pointy (2007), Pointy Solid (2009), and Stiff Neck (2007), all sketchy typefaces. He also made Iron Mathbook (2007) and Clink (2008). Check his scratchy face Spectre Scratch. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mindy Bear

Designer of the graffiti face Brass Monkey, which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Montague M. Bear

Chicago-based designer at BBS of a Victorian face that was patented in 1890. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lisa Bearnson

Designer of the handprinted or handwriting fonts LBBonusTwoPunchy, LBAngelaFancy, LB_Ali-Oops, LB_Ali, LBAngela, LB_AngelaSquiggly, LB_Angela_Fancy, LB_Barcode, LB_BernhardFashion-Medium, LB_Bonus-Wonky, LB_Bonus_Atkins, LB_Bonus_BigJ, LB_Bonus_Marci, LB_Chelsea, LB_Cory, LBFresco, LBFrolic, LB_HappyLabels, LB_Jaimi, LB_Jen, LBJennifer, LB_Kelly, LBKerri, LB_Label_Maker_Wide, LBLisaB, LBLoni, LB_Loni_Leah, LB_Maggie, LB_Marci, LB_Mischief, LBOutlineHand, LB_PlainStamp, LB_PopTop, LB_Punchy, LB_RattyRibbon, LB_Rhonda, LBSandboxSerif, LB_Sandbox, LBSharpy, LBSheri, LBShindig, LB_Sunny, LB_TeenMichal, LB_Tino, LB_TwoPunchy, LBTypewriterThin, LBTypewriter. These are fonts dated 2004-2005, published at Primedia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dane Beasley

Illustrator and designer at Deletion Design in Sittingbourne, UK. Creator of a few techno faces like Techno Funk and Roun Da Funk. At Behance, one can find his fat counterless face Humain (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

W.H. Beasley

Designer of the lively and cute handwriting face Don'tTalkBack. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Beato

André Beato (Media one) is a Portuguese graphic designer and illustrator, born and based in Lisbon. He took a BA Graphic Design and a MA Design Visual Culture -Visual Production at IADE (Instituto de Artes Visuais e Marketing) in Lisbon. Behance link. Designer of Artilharia Sans (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Beattie

Matthew Beattie (Q3 Designs, Spain) created the handwriting face Matt Serif (2006) and the hand-drawn fat display face Beluga Script (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriel Beatty

Indiana-based designer (b. 1987) of the font called Wolf's Rain (2005-2007).

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

Richard Beatty

Richard Beatty (Colorado) made beautiful fonts, often revivals and interpretations of old typefaces and calligraphic designs, around 1990-1993 under the name "Richard Beatty Designs". In all, he created over 500 designs, but most were only for private or corporate use. Typefaces:

  • Baxter New Style (1988), Baxter Old Style (1988)
  • Beatty Victoriana (1991): a set of five Victorian era fonts---Wanted, Spiral, Recherché, Hermosa and Childs (1985). Hermosa and Childs are nearly art nouveau. Childs is a revival of an 1892 face by Hermann Ihlenburg. Puzzling note: the Linotype catalogue says that Kismet was designed in 1879 by John F. Cumming. When you look at Spiral by Richard Beatty, you find a close copy of Kismet; Beatty says it's an "edited version of Kismet", but he holds the copyright. Is this another case of legal cloning?
  • Benjamin (2002, BeattyType): from sketches by Ed Benguiat.
  • BernardsHand (beautiful medieval hand)
  • Borders (1990, some designed by R. Mitchell and R. Beatty)
  • Calligraph Initials (1997): a Lombardic face.
  • Civilite
  • Cooper
  • Desdemona (1994, +Black): art nouveau
  • Doric
  • Duchy, Duchy Initials (2002): A blackletter face based on a sketch by Ed Benguiat of Benton's Dutch Initials.
  • Elizabeth (1994, BeattyType): An all caps almost uncial face.
  • Fanny Mitchell, Fanny Mitchell Initials
  • GeneralMenou
  • Goodhue
  • Goudy faces [Goudy is his favorite type designer]: Goudy Claremont (1993: based on Scripps College Old Style), Goudy Italian, Goudy Mediaeval Beatty, Goudy Saks (1990: based on a typeface designed in 1934 by Goudy for Saks Fifth Avenue in New York), Kennerley Old Style (1986, after Goudy's 1911 design)
  • Jensen Eusebius, Jensen Eusebius New Style (1989)
  • 11LivingstonJCL
  • Lucianard
  • Mediaeval Calligraphy
  • Ornaments (based on 1928 figures drawn by E. Adler)
  • Overdressed (2002): based on a sketch by Edward Benguiat for his Phototype Company.
  • Prairie Poster (Plain, Fancy): arts and crafts face.
  • Quillsong (calligraphic)
  • ReneLouis (1992)
  • Rolls Royce Designer
  • Troyer
  • Velda (2005, connected hand): the handwriting of Velda Burgess Will, classmate of the designer.
  • White Tie, White Tie Relaxed (2005): roman lettering.
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Matt Beaudoin

Lasalle, Ontario-based designer (b. 1988) of Matt's Handwriting (2004, handwriting). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ch. Beaudoire

Nineteenth century typefounder based in Paris. Examples of their work include Batardes and Lettres Angulaires. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Théophile Beaudoire

Nineteenth century French punchcutter who designed the transitional text face Romana with Gustave F. Schroeder (Kingsley ATF, 1860; now available at Bitstream). He also ran a typefoundry, Beaudoire et cie. See also Old Roman Stephenson Blake (1878). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Paul Beaujon

Pen name of Beatrice L. Warde. Born in New York in 1900, she died in London in 1969. A typographer, writer, and art historian, she worked for the British Monotype Corporation for most of her life, and was famous for her energy, enthusiasm and speeches. Collaborator of Stanley Morison. She created a face called Arrighi. She is famous for The Crystal Goblet or Printing Should be Invisible (The Crystal Goblet, Sixteen Essays on Typography, Cleveland, 1956, and Sylvan Press, London, 1955), which is also reproduced here and here. The text was originally printed in London in 1932, under the pseudonym Paul Beaujon. Here are two passages:

  • Imagine that you have before you a flagon of wine. You may choose your own favorite vintage for this imaginary demonstration, so that it be a deep shimmering crimson in colour. You have two goblets before you. One is of solid gold, wrought in the most exquisite patterns. The other is of crystal-clear glass, thin as a bubble, and as transparent. Pour and drink; and according to your choice of goblet, I shall know whether or not you are a connoisseur of wine. For if you have no feelings about wine one way or the other, you will want the sensation of drinking the stuff out of a vessel that may have cost thousands of pounds; but if you are a member of that vanishing tribe, the amateurs of fine vintages, you will choose the crystal, because everything about it is calculated to reveal rather than to hide the beautiful thing which it was meant to contain.
  • Bear with me in this long-winded and fragrant metaphor; for you will find that almost all the virtues of the perfect wine-glass have a parallel in typography. There is the long, thin stem that obviates fingerprints on the bowl. Why? Because no cloud must come between your eyes and the fiery heart of the liquid. Are not the margins on book pages similarly meant to obviate the necessity of fingering the type-page? Again: the glass is colourless or at the most only faintly tinged in the bowl, because the connoisseur judges wine partly by its colour and is impatient of anything that alters it. There are a thousand mannerisms in typography that are as impudent and arbitrary as putting port in tumblers of red or green glass! When a goblet has a base that looks too small for security, it does not matter how cleverly it is weighted; you feel nervous lest it should tip over. There are ways of setting lines of type which may work well enough, and yet keep the reader subconsciously worried by the fear of 'doubling' lines, reading three words as one, and so forth.
drawing of her by Eric Gill. Life story.

Beatrice Warde was educated at Barnard College, Columbia, where she studied calligraphy and letterforms. From 1921-1925, she was the assistant librarian at American Type Founders. In 1925, she married the book and type designer Frederic Warde, who was Director of Printing at the Princeton University Press. Together, they moved to Europe, where Beatrice worked on The Fleuron: A Journal of Typography (Cambridge, England: At the University Press, and New York: Doubleday Doran, 1923-1930), which was at that time edited by Stanley Morison. As explained above, she is best known for an article she published in the 1926 issue of The Fleuron, written under the pseudonym Paul Beaujon, which traced types mistakenly attributed to Garamond back to Jean Jannon. In 1927, she became editor of The Monotype Recorder in London. Rebecca Davidson of the Princeton University Library wrote in 2004: Beatrice Warde was a believer in the power of the printed word to defend freedom, and she designed and printed her famous manifesto, This Is A Printing Office, in 1932, using Eric Gill's Perpetua typeface. She rejected the avant-garde in typography, believing that classical forms provided a "clearly polished window" through which ideas could be communicated. The Crystal Goblet: Sixteen Essays on Typography (1955) is an anthology of her writings. Wood engraved portrait of Warde by Bernard Brussel-Smith (1950). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Luce Beaulieu

Designer in Montreal who is working on an art deco font, Lychee. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Beaulieu

Gothic font designer in Littleton, NH. Creations include the free font DBYD (2011), and the commercial faces Dynasty Belt (2011), Steel Heart (2011), Killer Saints Hymn (2011), and an unnamed gothic face (2011). Snake Dick and Witch Eyes are free. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christophe Beaumale

Christophe Beaumale designed the free upright script educational handwriting fonts, Cursif and Cursif&Lignes (without and with lines). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

L. Beaven

FontStructor who made the texture face Skyline (2010) and the tattoo face Angular Gothic 2 (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beca

Creator of the iFontMaker font Beca Font (2010, handprinted fat finger font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudio Beccari

From 1997-1999, Turin-based Claudio Beccari created his cb fonts (metafont) for Greek by adapting Silvio Levy's Greek fonts. The cb-fonts are now the official fonts for the Greek option of the BABEL package. They are very complete and highly recommended. Type 1 versions here. In 2004, he added the CB Coptic family (metafont), which was based on files created in 1995 by Serge Rosmorduc. The type 1 fonts were made by using TeXtrace and pfaedit by Apostolos Syropoulos. The fonts: glic0700, glic0800, glic1000, glic1200, glic1382, glic1659, glic1991, glic2389, glic2866, glic3440, glic4128, glii0700, glii0800, glii1000, glii1200, glii1382, glii1659, glii1991, glii2389, glii2866, glii3440, glii4128, glin0700, glin0800, glin1000, glin1200, glin1382, glin1659, glin1991, glin2389, glin2866, glin3440, glin4128, glio0700, glio0800, glio1000, glio1200, glio1382, glio1659, glio1991, glio2389, glio2866, glio3440, glio4128, gliu0700, gliu0800, gliu1000, gliu1200, gliu1382, gliu1659, gliu1991, gliu2389, gliu2866, gliu3440, gliu4128, gljc0700, gljc0800, gljc1000, gljc1200, gljc1382, gljc1659, gljc1991, gljc2389, gljc2866, gljc3440, gljc4128, gljn0700, gljn0800, gljn1000, gljn1200, gljn1382, gljn1659, gljn1991, gljn2389, gljn2866, gljn3440, gljn4128, gljo0700, gljo0800, gljo1000, gljo1200, gljo1382, gljo1659, gljo1991, gljo2389, gljo2866, gljo3440, gljo4128, glmc0700, glmc0800, glmc1000, glmc1200, glmc1382, glmc1659, glmc1991, glmc2389, glmc2866, glmc3440, glmc4128, glmi0700, glmi0800, glmi1000, glmi1200, glmi1382, glmi1659, glmi1991, glmi2389, glmi2866, glmi3440, glmi4128, glmn0700, glmn0800, glmn1000, glmn1200, glmn1382, glmn1659, glmn1991, glmn2389, glmn2866, glmn3440, glmn4128, glmo0700, glmo0800, glmo1000, glmo1200, glmo1382, glmo1659, glmo1991, glmo2389, glmo2866, glmo3440, glmo4128, glmu0700, glmu0800, glmu1000, glmu1200, glmu1382, glmu1659, glmu1991, glmu2389, glmu2866, glmu3440, glmu4128, gltc0700, gltc0800, gltc1000, gltc1200, gltc1382, gltc1659, gltc1991, gltc2389, gltc2866, gltc3440, gltc4128, gltn0700, gltn0800, gltn1000, gltn1200, gltn1382, gltn1659, gltn1991, gltn2389, gltn2866, gltn3440, gltn4128, glto0700, glto0800, glto1000, glto1200, glto1382, glto1659, glto1991, glto2389, glto2866, glto3440, glto4128, glwc0700, glwc0800, glwc1000, glwc1200, glwc1382, glwc1659, glwc1991, glwc2389, glwc2866, glwc3440, glwc4128, glwi0700, glwi0800, glwi1000, glwi1200, glwi1382, glwi1659, glwi1991, glwi2389, glwi2866, glwi3440, glwi4128, glwn0700, 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gsxc1728, gsxc2074, gsxc2488, gsxc2986, gsxc3583, gsxe0500, gsxe0600, gsxe0700, gsxe0800, gsxe0900, gsxe1000, gsxe1095, gsxe1200, gsxe1440, gsxe1728, gsxe2074, gsxe2488, gsxe2986, gsxe3583, gsxi0500, gsxi0600, gsxi0700, gsxi0800, gsxi0900, gsxi1000, gsxi1095, gsxi1200, gsxi1440, gsxi1728, gsxi2074, gsxi2488, gsxi2986, gsxi3583, gsxn0500, gsxn0600, gsxn0700, gsxn0800, gsxn0900, gsxn1000, gsxn1095, gsxn1200, gsxn1440, gsxn1728, gsxn2074, gsxn2488, gsxn2986, gsxn3583, gsxo0500, gsxo0600, gsxo0700, gsxo0800, gsxo0900, gsxo1000, gsxo1095, gsxo1200, gsxo1440, gsxo1728, gsxo2074, gsxo2488, gsxo2986, gsxo3583, gsxu0500, gsxu0600, gsxu0700, gsxu0800, gsxu0900, gsxu1000, gsxu1095, gsxu1200, gsxu1440, gsxu1728, gsxu2074, gsxu2488, gsxu2986, gsxu3583, gttc0500, gttc0600, gttc0700, gttc0800, gttc0900, gttc1000, gttc1095, gttc1200, gttc1440, gttc1728, gttc2074, gttc2488, gttc2986, gttc3583, gtti0500, gtti0600, gtti0700, gtti0800, gtti0900, gtti1000, gtti1095, gtti1200, gtti1440, gtti1728, gtti2074, gtti2488, gtti2986, gtti3583, gttn0500, gttn0600, gttn0700, gttn0800, gttn0900, gttn1000, gttn1095, gttn1200, gttn1440, gttn1728, gttn2074, gttn2488, gttn2986, gttn3583, gtto0500, gtto0600, gtto0700, gtto0800, gtto0900, gtto1000, gtto1095, gtto1200, gtto1440, gtto1728, gtto2074, gtto2488, gtto2986, gtto3583, gttu0500, gttu0600, gttu0700, gttu0800, gttu0900, gttu1000, gttu1095, gttu1200, gttu1440, gttu1728, gttu2074, gttu2488, gttu2986, gttu3583. 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María Teresa Beccar

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

Eliana Becerra

Temperley, Argentina-based designer of the Halloween typeface Bewitching Style (2012). She studied at the University of Buenos Aires. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eddy Bechu

Designer of L'autrePlain (Letraset), Anamorphosee (1999), Logos Mylène Farmer (2001), Sans Logique (2000, with Brian Powers), and Innamoramento (1999). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Beck

Macabre 6USD shareware fonts. Also Beckett (blackletter, 1994), Cupertino, Graveyard, Headstone, Pirate Bones, StoneCutter, Tombstone and Warlock. All in Mac/PC T1 or TTF. Beckett. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barry Beck

Designer of the 150-dollar 4-font family Cyberotica (futuristic writing; LCD). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beck

Australian designer who created Becksfirstfont (2007, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chad Beck

Art director in Dallas, TX. He created the art deco face Dirty House (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ekkehard Beck

Ulm, Germany-based designer at Fontkitchen Type Foundry of the dingbat faces Damgram (2004), Urban Dedication (2004) and DesignersSkulls (2005, skull dingbats). These faces are free. He also designed Mandalay (2006), a font with Burmese influences.

Dafomnt link. Designers Skulls. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alf R. Becker

Alf Becker (b. St. Louis, MO) was a sign artist in the 1930's and 40's. Beginning in January 1932, at the request of editor E. Thomas Kelly, Becker supplied SIGNS of the Times magazine's new Art and Design section with an alphabet a month, a project initially predicted to last only two years. Misjudging the popularity of the series, it instead ran for 27 years, ending finally two months before Becker's death in 1959, for a total of 320 alphabets. In late 1941, just ten years after the first alphabet was published, 100 of those alphabets were compiled and published in book form under the title 100 Alphabets, by Alf R. Becker.

Many of his faces have art deco influences. The Fontry (James Stirling and/or Adkins) is undertaking a grand digitization project, and releases free and pay fonts with names that start with ARB, followed by the font number, the font name, and the month and year of issue. LHF Monogram at Letterhead is a digital version of one of his fonts. Other digitizations include Whomp (2006) and Buffet Script (2006) by Alejandro Paul (Sudtipos) and Daffadowndilly (2007) and Stony Island NF (after Becker's art deco face Chicago Modern) and Shaq Attack NF (2011) by Nick Curtis. In The Fontry's ARB series, we find ARB-85 Poster Script (2011, after a 1939 face by Becker), ARB 70 Modern Poster, ARB 93 Steel Moderne, ARB 44 Chicago Modern, ARB 66 Neon (1937, +Block, +Line), ARB 85 Modern Poster JAN-39 (2011, after Modern Poster Script, 1939), and ARB 67 Modern Roman, and ARB08ExtremeRomanAUG-32CASNormal (2009; the original is from 1932). Jeff Levine created a number of typefaces based on Becker's work as well: Kanona JNL (2010), Karaoke JNL (2010), Mocombo JNL (2010).

FontShop link.

Catalog of some of his digitized faces. View the digital typefaces that are based on Becker's work. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carsten Becker

German digital photographer who lives near Kassel, Germany. Creator of Corbach (2006, hand printed style). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Herman Becker

ATF matrix and pattern maker. FontShop link. He was involved in the design of Cloister Cursive Handtooled, Goudy Handtooled (1932; see Goudy Handtooled BT) and Novel Gothic (1929, with Morris Fuller Benton), Quick-Set Roman&Italic. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Don Becker

Prof. Don Becker of the German Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made his Sütterlin font (1995) available to the public. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fritz Becker

Designer of the rune font Becker-Fraktur (1999), which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Simon Becke

German type designer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pascu Beckett

Creator of Pascu 1 (2008). Born in 1992, she is from Santiago, Chile. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heinz Beck

Blackletter type designer who created Brahms-Gotisch (1937, Genzsch&Heyse). This was digitally remastered by Manfred Klein and Petra Heidorn in 2005 under the same name. At Trennert&Sohn, he made Nordland (1935, blackletter). Nordland was revived by Petra Heidorn in 2005: free download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M. Beck

Blackletter type designer: Elfen-Fraktur (1919, Hoffmeister, Leipzig). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Beck

Canadian graphic designer and creative director Bob Beck has been living in the Montreal area since 1995. In 1999, he set up Dialekt Design. His typographic oeuvre is extensive:

  • Learned Behaviour (1996-1997), Manipulator, LaPlaya, 1996, all experimental/exploratory typefaces available from 2Rebels.
  • Table Manners, 1997, PsyOps, 2Rebels, Prototype Experimental Foundry (defunct). Beck: Table Manners was born out of the desire for a highly readable text typeface with a subtle graphic edge that would amplify with size. This otherwise simple and geometric type shows its mischief through devilishly spiked-serifs and unexpected curves.
  • Loop. 1998. The loop typeface is a pure research project designed by Dialekt in order to investigate the development of simple letterforms through rigid, bold geometric structures and rigorous grid systems.
  • RagingBoner, 1999. Custom typeface designed for Burton Snowboards for product packaging and communications materials.
  • Hermetique (2001), designed initially for Cascades Paper's exclusive use on paper sample swatchbooks, soon to be released in modified form as a full family.
  • Private Press, 2001. This typeface was letterpress printed from an original 1858 10-Line woodtype specimen from the Wells, NY type foundry, and then digitzed in ultra high resolution to retain all the character and wear of this aged alphabet. It is available for purchase as a bitmap TIFF image collection only.
  • Asylum, 2005. Asylum is a hand-lettered typeface designed specifically for a snowboard project application for Performance Boardshop in Quebec. It contains 1,313 unique individual glyphs and comes in OpenType format.
  • Blaikie, 2006. Blaikie is a custom commission for Canadian Law Office Heenan Blaikie, a national copyright and patent law office. It was developed for proprietary use in all communications materials, as well as signage and wayfinding needs internally for all offices Canada-wide.
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Simon Beck

Designer at AlphaBeck in the UK of the free font Bayou (2006), which can dbe downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

William Beck

Designer of Billy Beck System 1, 2, 3 and 4 (VGC). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josh Beckwith

American designer (b. 1986) of the funky junkyard display face Elefunkt (2007). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oriol Bèdia

Berlin-based designer who seems to have made some typefaces according to his Behance face, but I could find no confirmation that he has actually created complete alphabets. Before his Berlin stint, he studied communication in Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Konrad Bednarski

Graduate of the London College of Communication. In 2011, he created the free fat geometric counterless face Warsaw Bold and the paperclip face Mars Regular (2011, free), Neo Gotik (2011), Sleepy Bubbles (2011, a free free vector custom typeface inspired by graffiti bubble letters).

In 2011, he created the fun free display face Odyssey [it became commercial a bit later---see Ten Dollar Fonts].

Sherif 3000 (2012, athletic lettering) is a serif, bold, display typeface inspired by Teddy jackets we can see in old American movies or TV.

Brainwash (2012) is a free dripping soap typeface in EPS format. Aequitas (2012) is a constructivist family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laurence Bedouin

Professor of Applied Arts who graduated from Ecole Estienne. Designer (with H&eacut;loïse Tissot) of a French school font, which he presented in March 2005 during a meeting held at the National Museum of Edication in Rouen, France. The link given here refers to a PDF which contains the proceedings of that meeting. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Bedoy

Chihuahua-based Mexican designer (b. 1984) of Yodeb (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Haig Bedrossian

Graphic design and brand identity specialist who created Subway, a sans face. At DsgnHaus in the 1990s, he made Azenormal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brendan Bee

Designer of the primitive handprinted face HandCapzz (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christina Maria Bee

Type designer from Darmstadt who studied in Den Haag at the KABK in 2006, where she designed the Renaissance Antiqua face Olga while doing a Masters. Olga won an award at TDC2 2007. She participates in Type Destroyers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sudheer Beejady

Bangalore City, India-based designer of Monopod (2012), a geometric organic sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Beekhuis

Freelance Swiss designer (b. Bern, 1978) who graduated in 2004 in visual communication from the Hochschule de Künste in Bern. Creator of the typefaces 3x3-block, 3x3-flat, 3x3-italic, 3x3-outline, 3x3 (2001) and Rotor (2003, sans). He also made Radion (2006), a minimalist futuristic typeface. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Donald Beekman

Donald Beekman (DBXL, est. 1999) is a graphic and audiovisual designer (b. Amsterdam, 1961), who studied at the Rietveld Art Academy from 1979 to 1984 and then started his own graphic and music studio in Amsterdam. He designed many typefaces, most of them emanating from logos or artwork designed for his clients, often from the music and entertainment industry. Since 2004 he has been co-hosting Typeradio, the radio- and podcast-station on design and typography. He set up Vette Letters. Dafont link. Alternate URL. His fonts:

  • At FontFont: Automatic, FF Atomium (2007), FF Beekman (1999), Backbone, Imperial, Droids, FF Massive (2010: a logo family consisting of ultra-fat octagonal designs), Overdose, Stargate (1999), Totem, Tsunami, FF Flava (2003: Beekman calls this a hip-hop font), FF Manga Steel, FF Manga Stone, FF Webfonts, FF Backbone 2 (2003, a futuristic face) and FF Noni (2000).
  • At the DBXL web site: DBXL Softsoul, DBXL Monodon, Brak Bold, DBXL Hardsoul, DBXL Atonium, DBXL Nightfever (free).
  • At Die Gestalten: Breeze, Beatbox (2007, tilted stencil).
  • At Vette Letters: VLNL Brokken (2009, fat octagonal face), VLNL Brak, VLNL Decks, VLNL Breakz.
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Donald Beekman

Dutch foundry, est. 1997 by Donald Beekman. We find commercial fonts by several designers:

  • Donald Beekman and Erik van Blokland: Bint (inspired by potatoes).
  • Donald Beekman: Brak (octagonal), Breakz (octagonal), Brokken (rounded octagonal), Decks, Gaufre, Hollandsche Nieuwe, Irish Stew, Kadetje (based on wood type), Knoffel, Spaghetti (upright connected script), Wasabi, Woodburger.
  • Jacques Le Bailly: Sardines (2008), VLNL Neue Sardines (2010).
  • Donald Roos: VLNL Bint (2009).
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Ruben Beekman

The font Stripes was made by 15-year old Ruben Beekman in the Netherlands. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Henry Beeler

Type designer, b. 1855 Philadelphia, d. 1934. He made a condensed sans serif issued by Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan foundry in 1887, and digitally revived as Roundhead by Dan Solo (Solotype). Still at Mackellar, he created a fist-based alphading face in 1891.

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

Marty Bee

Marty Bee is a medical illustrator. He has designed both free and commercial typefaces. His commercial fonts are available from Plazm and T-26. Check out Slumgullion (1993, a party headline font), and Flowerchild.

Other T-26 fonts: CropCircles, Gargantua, SonofStarmanA, StarmanPict.

At Plazm, he did Cibola (1995, nice dingbats), WetandWilde (1994) and Three Rivers (1994), for example.

Some more fonts: Wildside (1994, angular and gothic), Cheap Motel, Halloweenies, Flowerchild, Sangreal (1994, gothic), Scaredycat, SidTheSpider, Slasher (2000), Slumgullion (1993, ornamental caps), Space Cowboy, Stiletto (2000), Saguaro (2000, angular), Calypso (1997, after Excoffon's Calypso, 1958), Cactus Pete, Contraband, MyShoes, Tropicana (1994, chiseled look), Trapping, Galleon, Goblin Moon (scary), Ghost Bayou (blood drip face), Big Bubba, Lafitte (2000, a didone display face), Daytripper, Contraband (grungy), Fat (1994, oriental simulation face), Fat Sushi, Beatnik, Kerouac (1994, a Kafkaesque face), PostModern Oblique (2000), PricklyPear (2000, angular and angry), AtomicSushi.

Marty was at 3347 Pete Seay Road, Sulphur, LA 70663, but seems to have gone totally off-line. The font WheresMarty by an unknown designer is named after the world-wide search for Marty. Where are you, Marty?

Free fonts at Fontspace: Freakout, Frankenstein, Atomic Sushi (1999, oriental simulation face), Manzanita (1990), Hill William (2011, brush face), Kris Kris (2000, gothic; an even sharper and more condensed version of Stiletto), Porpoise (1994, pixelish).

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Mike Beens

Mike Beens is a graphic designer specializing in hand lettering and identity design. Mentored by Lothar Hoffman, Jerry Campbell and Dick Isbell, Mike worked in Belleville, MI, for 25 years under the name Case Studio, Inc., and taught lettering and typography for fourteen years.

Designer of the sturdy text and large omnibus text family P22 Makinac (2011). Images: i, ii, iii, iv. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mario Beernaert

Belgian designer at FontShop in 1993 of the FUSE font TV27. Born in 1971, he studied at St Lukas in Gent, and works as a freelance designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ine Beerten

Graphic design student in Antwerpen, Belgium, who made this gorgeous faux Hebrew and faux Arabic typeface in 2004. Hrant Papazian raves about it, and calls its competitor, FF Falafel (Per Jorgensen, 2002), unsatisfying. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tasha Beesley

FontStructor who made the dot matrix face Digi Digi (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emmanuel Beffara

Located at the University of Paris, Emmanuel Beffara designed the French Cursive font (2004), a cursive hand-writing font family in the style of the French academic running-hand. It comes in Metafont format. Experimental type 1 versions are available too: TeX-fcbx10, TeX-fcc10, TeX-fcf10, TeX-fcr10. See also here (last updated in 2004). He also created CMLL (2006, type 1), a set of symbols used in Linear Logic, designed for use with standard Computer Modern fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tarkan Begzadi

Animator and designer in Prague. He created the squarish script face Dyktaat (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joanna Behar

Student at Parsons the New School for Design majoring in Communication Design. Behance link. Creator of the ultra fot blocky face Little Blocks (2011). You 've got to love her Whalee illustration. [Google] [More]  ⦿

E.A. Behl

E A Behl Technologies in Clearwater, FL, (old defunct website) made (still makes?) fonts for the production of high-quality technical manuals and documentation. I guess, but am not very sure, that the designer's name is E.A. Behl. Typically, 5 to 10 USD per font: Video Screen family, Video Enhanced, Alphanumeric, Seven Segment, Dialtone, Plasma 16. See also here or here, here or here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcus Behmer

Born in Weimar, Germany, lived from 1879-1958. Designed Stefan George-Schrift (1904), Behmer Antiqua (1920), Soni co Hebrew (1933). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brigitte Behrens

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

Peter Behrens

Hamburg-born type designer, painter and architect, 1868-1940 (Berlin). From 1900-1903, he was part of the Darmstädter Künstlerkolonie. From 1903-1907, he was director of the Duesseldorfer Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1903-1914, he was artistic director at AEG and designed their corporate identity. He was the cofounder of the Deutsche Werkbund in 1913, became a professor at the Wiener Akademie in 1922, and the head of the Prussian Academy of Art in Berlin in 1936. CV. MyFonts page. Typefaces:

  • Behrens Roman (1900, a rather useless and ugly pen-drawn roman; Klingspor)
  • Behrens Schrift (1901-1902, Jugendstil font at the Rudhardsche foundry in Offenbach; digitized by Intecsas (as Sprecher Gothic), Dan X. Solo, Ralph M. Unger for URW++ (2007, as Behrensschrift D), Ingo Zimmermann (2008, as Behrens Schrift), and Klaus Burkhardt).
  • Behrens-Kursiv (1906, Klingspor), aka Behrensschrift Kursiv (1907)
  • Behrens Antiqua (1907; digitized by Dan X. Solo)
  • Behrens Mediäval (1914)
  • Behrens Initialen (digitized as Sprecher Initials at Intecsas)
  • AEG logotype

Klingspor link.

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Adolf Behrmann

German type designer who designed the classical display face Rundfunk at Berthold in 1928. This face was digitized by Nick Curtis as Radio Ranch NF.

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Tannon Behunin

American creator (b. 1993) of the techno face Sprawl (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soffi Beier

Sofie "Soffi" Beier graduated from Danmarks Designskole (The Danish School of Design) in 2000, and has since been working as a graphic designer, designing several Danish magazines, websites, books and CD covers along with a number of typefaces. She studied at the Royal College of Art in the UK, with a thesis entitled Legibility and Visual Compensation of Typefaces. Sofie works in London and Copenhagen. She teaches at Danmarks Designskole. MyFonts link. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik.

Designer at Die Gestalten of Engel New Sans (2010), Pemba Script (2005, a connected 50s script), Engel (2005, 8-style sans family; Engel Light is free). In 2011, she created the round sans family Ovink which was loosely inspired by Knud V. Engelhardt's work for the street signage, designed around the years 1926-27 for Gentofte in Denmark. Named after legibility expert Gerrit Willem Ovink, the family was designed for legibility at great distances based on research published by Beier in Beier, S.&Larson, K. (2010): "Design Improvements for Frequently Misrecognized Letters", Information Design Journal, 18(2), 118-137. That same research was used in the calligraphic text face Spencer (2011), which was named after legibility expert Herbert Spencer. And to Pyke (2011), a variation (with optical scaling) on the didones, named after legibility researcher Richard Lionel Pyke. These are two phenomenal contributions to the field, sure to garner her a gaggle of awards. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Petra Beisse

In house type designer at Elsner&Flake in Hamburg who designed EF PetrasScript (1995) and EF Casanova Script (2006-2007, based on the hand of the real Casanova; with Günther Flake).

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

Pascal Béjean

French designer Pascal Béjean has designed Son in 1996 for Bulldozer. Available at Typotek. Bulldozer (Labomatic) was created in 1995 in Paris by 4 designers interested in a wide variety of graphical expressions. Gaël Etienne designed Labomatic (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johnny Bekaert

Freelance graphic artist in Gent, Belgium. Designer of Gasbangers (2002), Theo & Phil (2000)), Blind Liddy (2003), Zulma (1997), Cakewalk (1999), and Plowboys (1996). These typefaces appeared in A homage to typography by Pedro Guitton (2009, Index Book, Barcelona). Other fonts by Bekaert include Archie Teck, Rasor Dina and Bettsie-X. Many of his fonts have a Kafkaesque slightly threatening look. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hermann Bek-Gran

Type designer, b. 1869, Mainz, d. 1909, Nürnberg: Hermann Bek-Gran-Schrift (1905-1906, blackletter face at D. Stempel). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alp Bekisoglu

Rotarian Alp Bekisoglu from Rotary Club of Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, created the RotaryInternational dingbat font (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Bekke

Born and raised in Minneapolis and a graduate of Augsburg College, Peter interns at You Work For Them, where he published Handsome (2009), a handprinted font, and Unfurling (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Morten Bek

Morton Bek's web page where one can find his free fonts Futhark (old Scandinavian), Moon Runes (Anglosaxon runes), Angerthas-Moria (a Cirth font). Alternate page. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

François Belair

François Belair, an ex-graduate student from McGill University in Montreal, has written a driver for a SumaTech Pad that allows one to write on a pad with a magnetic pen, capture the important points of the strokes and make Bézier curves for a PostScript type 3 font (based upon the algorithms of Knuth and Hobby explained in Knuth's The Metafont Book (Addison-Wesley, 1986)). The fonts made in this manner are here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian Bélanger

Montreal-based graphic designer who created the stitching font Knitmap (2Rebels). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Belankov

Designer of the funny dingbat font Mice. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danilo Belardinelli

Argentinian designer (b. 1988) of Bleach Font (2005). Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philip Belger

Designer in Greenville, SC. He created the Peignotian face Contempo (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alyssa Mae Belgum

American creator of a grungy face in 2011. No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claude Belhumeur

Designer from Lasalle, Quebec who created a Chinese zodiacal sign face in 1979. Google patent link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josée Belhumeur

Designer at Atomic Media of Schmoutz, an interesting cartoonish dingbat font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elijah B

Creator of the stitching font Zigie Zag (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Octavian Belintan

Octavan Belintan (Colorblind Studio, Arad, Romania) created the free triangulated caps face Ademas (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikolai Belkov

Russian graphic designer, who was selected to design the pictograms for the 1976 Olympic Games in Moscow. He did go about it in a systematic and geometric way. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Bella

Buenos Aires-based graphic designer, b. 1994. She created the pixel face Uhlala (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Bell

Aaron earned a Bachelor's degree in Asian Studies, with a minor in Japanese, at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. Aaron is a graduate of the University of Reading in 2011, where he earned an MA in typeface design. His graduation typeface was Saja (2011), which covered Latin and Korean. In the Fall of 2011, he joined the Microsoft Typography team. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Bell

Foundry in München, Germany, run by Adam Bell (b. 1972, Landsberg), who despite his name is a native German. After learning to be a silkscreen printer he studied graphic design in Würzburg. Together with Tanja Kischel and Georg Behringer, he runs a small design agency and shop called Umwerk in München since 2004.

Creator of the octagonal family called Longhorn (2012), which includes a 3d style as well as a stencil style. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Belladonna

A few archived fonts at this gothic font site. Includes some original fonts by "Belladonna": Flatley, Gothic Love Letters (semi-blackletter), Aelfa (calligraphic). Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Bellaire

Designer of Morphine Jack (2003) and the nice but gory blood splatter face Dark Theater (2003). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corbin Bell

Orlando, FL-based graphic designer who made the ultra fat face Blockhead (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristian Bellei

Brazilian designer (b. 1988) of the geometric sans Crop Types (2008). Alternate URL. At FontStruct, he made Mary Jane (2008) and Utitled Yet (2009, dot matrix face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Henri Jules Ferdinand Bellery-Desfontaines

French art nouveau era painter and illustrator, b. 1867 Paris, d. 1909 Les Petites Dalles. He designed a typeface and ornaments at the end of his life, which appeared posthumously in 1910 at Deberny&Peignot and was called Le Bellery-Desfontaines. Wikipedia. More on his typeface which could be bought from Deberny&Peignot starting in 1911. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ian Bell

Designer of Elite (1984, with David Braben). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felipe Bellintani

Brazilian creator at Unique Types of the free fat counterless octagonal face No Access (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Bell

American multimedia artist. Designer of the cartoonish dingbat font Decanter (1999), the spindly gothic face Fiddums Family, the fat face Casper, and of Godfather (2001, after the film). In 2010, he created TR2N, a futuristic face based upon the poster text for the TRON LEGACY movie.

Dafont link. Klingspor link. Home page. Devian tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jill Bell

A graduate of UCLA and Otis/Parsons, Jill worked as a graphic artist, primarily creating letter forms, logotypes, signage, calligraphic elements, icons, and handwriting pieces. She worked as sign painter in a shop and as a production artist for Saul Bass. She was based in Los Angeles and was active from circa 1980 until today.

Original fonts and artwork by Jill Bell include It's A Breeze, ITC Clover (1997), ITC Gigi (1995), ITC Hollyweird (1995), ITC Carumba (1995), ITC Caribbean (1996), ITC Smack (1995, ink-stain typeface), ITC Stranger (1997), Jill's Miro, Bruno (handwriting font), Swank (2000, Agfa: a fuzzy-edged calligraphic font).

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

John Bell

John Bell (1746-1831) was a London-based publisher of several periodicals and newspapers. He founded the British Letter Foundry in 1788, with Richard Austin as punchcutter. The foundry closed in 1798. John Tranter tells the story: "John Bell, an English publisher and bookseller, advertised a book called The Way to Keep Him in The World newspaper in London in June 1787, saying: 'J. Bell flatters himself that he will be able to render this the most perfect and in every respect the most beautiful book, that was ever printed in any country.' That was a tall order. In his quest for perfection he set up a type foundry, and hired a young punchcutter named Richard Austin to cut a new typeface for him. The face, named after Bell, was based on a typeface designed some thirty years before by John Baskerville, another perfectionist. Baskerville had said 'Having been an early admirer of the beauty of Letters, I became insensibly desirous of contributing to the perfection of them.' Though Baskerville went broke eventually, his typeface was indeed very close to perfection, and went on to become one of the most popular faces of all time. John Bell's type foundry didn't do well. He closed down his shop within two years and went on to other things, and his typeface sank almost without trace in England. Newer trends in typefaces (Didot in France, and Bodoni in Italy) eclipsed the modest elegance of Richard Austin's design. The Americans, though, took a shine to it. It was copied as early as 1792, and always remained popular there. A complete set of type cast from Bell's original matrices was purchased by the American Henry Houghton in 1864 and installed at his Riverside Press. He thoughtlessly labelled it 'English Copperplate'. Later, the distinguished American book designer Bruce Rogers used the face frequently, naming it 'Brimmer', after the author of a book he'd seen the face used for when he worked as a young man at the Riverside Press. The designer Daniel Updike also worked at Riverside, and also used the 'English Copperplate' type extensively in later years, naming his version of it 'Mountjoye'. Bell's type would have remained obscured by these disguises perhaps forever, but for the alert eye of Stanley Morison. He was doing research at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris in 1926 when he came across a copy of the first specimen sheet of type samples issued from John Bell's foundry in 1788. No copy of it existed in England at that time, and Morison recognised the face immediately as the original of the 'Brimmer' and 'Mountjoye' fonts used in America. He researched the matter and in 1931 published an important monograph which, as the type scholar Alexander Lawson says, 'returned the name of John Bell to its proper place in the pantheon of English printers'. The typeface was unique in another way. Until Richard Austin cut the face in 1788, all numerals were traditionally written like lower-case letters -- small, with some numerals hanging below the line. Bell is the first typeface to break with that tradition cleanly: Austin's numerals are larger than lower-case letters (at two-thirds the height of the capitals) and sit evenly along the line. The trend was taken up. These days the numerals in most printed matter are (unfortunately) the full size of the capital letter, and are called titling figures, ranging figures, or lining figures." See also here. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Justin Bell

Justin Bell is a graphic design student at the University of Kansas, 2008-2012. Behance link. In 2010, he created a modified version of Helvetica by using horizontal stripes and filling in the counters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karli Bell

American creator (b. 1992) of Death Note Font (2009), modeled after the font used on Light/Ryuk's Death Note. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee-Jeff Bell

In Chelsea, Québec, Lee-Jeff Bell designed many type families that are patterned after major historical type families, mimicking what Bitstream did in the late eighties. He also developed Thames and Helv Condensed, and Unifont. Rubicon claims that their fonts are optimally hinted for even very small screen resolutions. The fonts:

  • Realist Fonts: Hilbert Neue (a sans typeface in the style Helvetica Neue), Uranus (like Univers).
  • Humanist Fonts: Opulent (like Optima), Frobisher (like Frutiger), Guilford (like Gill Sans).
  • Book Fonts: SGaramond (a 4-weight Stempel Garamond clone), Bentley (like Bembo), Burnett (like ITC Berkeley Oldstyle).
  • Legacy Fonts: Hilbert (like Helvetica), Tribune (like Times), Hilbert Condensed (like Helvetica Condensed), Tribune Condensed (like Times Condensed).
  • Condensed Fonts: Hilbert Neue Condensed (like Helvetica Neue Condensed), Frobisher Condensed (like Frutiger Condensed), Uranus Condensed (like Univers Condensed).
  • Packaging Fonts: Karat (like ITC Kabel), IGaramond (like ITC Garamond).
  • Newspaper Fonts: Essex (like Excelsior), Gisborne (like Gazette).
  • Other: Hilbert Compressed (like Helvetica Compressed), Sharpe Classified (like Spartan Classified).

Yet another URL. This site offers free demo fonts by Rubicon: Bentley (Bembo-like), BurnettDemo-Normal, FrobisherCondDemo-Normal, FrobisherCondDemo, FrobisherDemo-Normal, FrobisherDemo, GisborneDemo, GuilfordDemo-Normal, GuilfordDemo, HilbertNeue, HilbertNeueCondDemo-Normal, HilbertNeueCondDemo, HilbertNeueDemo-Normal, HudsonCondDemo, HudsonDemo, IGaramondDemo-Normal, IGaramondDemo, Karat, KaratDemo-Normal, OpulentDemo-Normal (humanist sans), OpulentDemo, SGaramondDemo-Roman, SGaramondDemo, TribuneCondDemo, TribuneDemo, UranusCondDemo-Normal, UranusCondensedDemo, UranusDemo-Normal, UranusDemo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charyn A. Bello

Designer of the handwriting sample for Charyn (2000), a font made by Ellinor Rapp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thiago Bellotti

Brazilian graphic designer. Behance link.

Creator of a custom font for Rio Quente Resorts in Brazil in 2012. This organic typeface brings up visions of water and sun. [Google] [More]  ⦿

P. J. Bell

P.J. Bell (MIXFIT) lives in Los Angeles. A digital artist, he made the counterless experimental face No Retnuoc in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Bell

Designed Echo (1956-1957, Stephenson Blake), a fuzzy outline font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ric Bell

British creator of the experimental hexagonal typeface Triso (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Bell

Robert Bell runs Typerbole, and is located in Wollongong, Australia. At Garagefonts, he designed Ecliptica Sans, Serif and Round (2002), which became Bitstream fonts in 2004, sold as Ecliptica BT.

At T-26, he created the techno font Kono (2002), Trez (2004), the 4-weight flared lettering family Boler (2003), Boler Round (2004), Almonda Condensed (2004) and Almonda (2003).

At Union Fonts, he designed Zeon (2004).

Other faces include Alluvia and Pagenta Surf Gothic.

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

Stefano Bellucci Sessa

London-based graphic designer. His fonts Effesse Regular and Effesse Bold (2012) were designed for the contest for the Corporate Identity of Federazione Scout d'Europa. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Whitney Bell

Creator of the handprinted typefaces Friendly Note (2012, iFontMaker) and Calligraphish (2012, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raphaël Belly

Home page of this French graphic designer. He created the bewitched angular face RqF (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrey Belogonov

Russian designer of POWERVIEW (2010, with Yana Kutyina), a scanbat font with players like Bush, Castro, Gorbachev, Osama Bin-Laden, and Reagan. Vataga (2008, Paratype, with Yana Kutyina) is a really funny dingbat face. Other typefaces: Astera, Cliche, Fast Fingers, Brusque (2008, Paratype: a brutalist face). Brusque was originally named Rouble and under this name it was awarded a first degree diploma of the Typefaces nomination at the Graphite Graphic Design Festival, 1999, and a diploma at the ATypI International Type Design Contest Bukva:raz!, 2001. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrey Belonogov

Russian designer (b. 1975, Moscow) who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Handmade (hand sign font), and for Rouble, a minimalist Latin/Cyrillic font made in 1999-2001. He received a TypeArt 05 award for the dingbat family Astra. Other typefaces include Lenta, Moloko and Svoboda. He graduated from Moscow State University of Art (named after S. Stroganov in 2001). The astronomical signs font Astera was published by Paratype in 2008. Other Paratype fonts by him include Brusque (2008, renamed Rouble), Cliche (2008, stencil face), FastFingers (2008, remake of Handmade), Powerview (2010, with Yana Kutyina) and Vataga (2008, a humnan faces dingbat font co-designed with Yana Kutyina). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Marina Belotserkovskaja

Type designer. With Viktor Kharyk, she designed the mediaevally looking faces EF Gloin and EF Gimli from 2004-2010 at Elsner&Flake. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anastasia Belozerova

Russian graphic designer. She made the neon-sign based Cyrillic face Provoloka (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Belshaw

Designer of Frankfurter Highlight (1978-1981, with Alan Meeks), Victorian Inline Shaded (1980) and the curly Belshaw EF (1980, Linotype).

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

Molotow Belton

This American company is called 33 Third, MTN, Molotow Belton, Graffiti & Arts Supplies, and Montana Paint. I assume (wrongly?) that Molotow Belton is the name of the designer (b. 1977). Dafont link.

Creator of Sprayvetica (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Beltran

Typographer and designer at TV Globo, Brazil. He designed the squarish face Sauer (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

J.D. Beltran

Students at the San Francisco Art Institute got together to create the handprinted typeface Kuchar (2012). These include Cory Bates, Tyler Cross, Michael Figge, Erin Hall, Elise Inferrera, Antonia Kimatian, Roman Koval, Joey Kuo, Riho Kurematsu, Noell Nelson, Kelly Nettles, Kegan Snyder, Dayna Rochelle Stanley, and San Francisco Art Institute professor J.D. Beltran. Kuchar is based on the handwriting of filmmaker George Kuchar, as found on the labels of his VHS and mini-DV tapes.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Beluco

Sao Paulo-based designer, b. 1985. Creator of the experimental face Jesus Chorou (2010), the art deco typeface Terecodeco (2012) and the poster face Grossa (2010).

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

Evgeniy Beluha

Russian type designer. This scan of a Duerer-style alphabet with compass and ruler was found on a slide prepared by Victor Kharyk for a talk Victor was going to give at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City (but didn't because he could not pass through transit in the USA due to the office of Homeland Insecurity). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Georg Belwe

We all know Belwe for his Belwe text family (1907 art nouveau font, not my favorite). Based in Berlin, he lived from 1878 (b. Berlin) until 1954 (d. Ronneburg), and was for a long type head of the typography department at the Leipzig Academy for Art. After studies in Berlin, he set up the Steglitzer Werkstatt in 1900 with F.H. Ehmcke and F.W. Kleukens. He taught at the Kunstgewerbschule in Berlin. His typefaces: Wieland (1926, a handwriting face done at J.G. Schelter&Giesecke), Schönschrift Mozart (1927), and various versions and additions to Belwe (1907-1914) such as Belwe Kursiv (1914). He made the blackletter font Belwe Gotisch in 1912 at J.G. Schelter&Giesecke. Digitizations of his work include Nick Curtis's 2009 face Bellwether Antique NF and in the Scangraphic collection, Belwe SB and Belwe SH. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Krzysztof Belzowski

Polish designer of the faux Hebrew face Izrael (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ron Benabu

Designer with Amit Fuchs of Ron's Thi (Hebrew) and Ron's Handwriting (Hebrew). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rami Ben-Ami

Israeli type designer. At Masterfont, he published Tziporen MF, Laguna MF, Harmonya MF, Dolfine MF, Concord MF, and Caspit MF. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Romain Benard

French creator of the high-contrast face Virgule (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriela Benavides

Designer in Monterrey, Mexico, who created Eterna (2011) and Stellar (2011, art deco). [Google] [More]  ⦿

María José Benavides

María graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, she created the swashy blackletter face Gothic Lolita. Blackletter meets Victorian style. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ori Ben Dor

Israeli type designer (b. 1980) of Eccentric (1997). At Masterfont, he designed 1984 MF, Afifonim MF, Avtala MF, Capriza MF, Cinamon MF, Cubist One MF, Cubist Two MF, Flyntstones MF, Goolish MF, Inflazia MF, Milizia MF, Monumental One, Monumental Two, Musa Decor MF, Populist MF, Technocratia MF, Temperament MF. In 2005, he made Hagalil, discussed here. He also created this unnamed pixel face (2005). He lives in Mevasseret Zion near Jerusalem. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dror Ben Dov

Israeli type designer who created the Hebrew face Dror MF (Masterfont). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andy Benedek

Andy Benedek's (b. Manchester, UK, 1945) Cotswolds-based outfit for "custom fonts and lettering of distinction", founded by him in 1988. Andy (András) made corporate faces for Umbro, QZERO, Bowater, Lloyds Bank, Royal Free Hospital, Liptons teas, Gordons gin, Marlboro cigarettes, as well as faces for magazines (Royal Academy of Arts, Elle, Blueprint) and for newspapers (The Scotsman). All this was done under the label of The Font Factory. With Michael Johnson and Mike Pratley, he created a font for BT Cellnet. A braille typeface has been developed to aid the production of signage for the blind. In 2001, he co-founded Fine Fonts with Michael Harvey. CV. Typefaces:

  • Aesop (2000, with Michael Harvey): developed from book jacket lettering drawn by Michael Harvey for an edition of Aesops Fables.
  • Balthasar (2002, with Michael Harvey): a serifed stencil font.
  • Braff (2002, with Michael Harvey, for Monotype Imaging): an outline face.
  • Fine Gothic (2002, with Michael Harvey): a blackletter family with a Basque A.
  • Marceta (2003, with Michael Harvey): an eighth-century uncial.
  • Mentor (2004, with Michael Harvey, for Monotype Imaging): a Times-Roman style family.
  • Mentor Sans (2004, with Michael Harvey, for Monotype Imaging): a sans family.
  • Songlines (2001, with Michael Harvey): based upon a pen-drawn script drawn by Michael Harvey to illustrate a poem by Johannes Thurman.
  • Tisdall Script (2002, with Michael Harvey): based upon the brush-drawn script lettering of Hans Tisdall, who was the designer of many distinctive lettered book jackets for Jonathan Cape in the 1950s.

FontShop link.

View Andy Benedek's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mary Ann Benedetto

Designer of the pixel face Vade (2000, FontStruct), a font used in game development. Mary Ann teaches at Brooklyn Poly. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jimi Benedict

American designer (b. 1977) of Pho Tai (2012), which has hints of an oriental simulation typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ronlee Ben-Gal

Graphic design student in Greensboro, NC. She created a hairline avant garde custom face in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Geo Ben

Los Angeles-based creator of the very cleverly and beautifully executed futuristic uncial face (if you can picture such a beast!) Saoirse Smalls (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mats Bengtsson

Lilypond is a Swedish site with Mats Bengtsson's fonts which are useful for music composition and mathematics (different sets of braces and numbers). Mats created the type 1 versions from Metafont bitmaps using pktrace. The fonts in the Feta font series: TeX-feta-braces0, TeX-feta-braces1, TeX-feta-braces2, TeX-feta-braces3, TeX-feta-braces4, TeX-feta-braces5, TeX-feta-braces6, TeX-feta-braces7, TeX-feta-braces8, TeX-feta-din10, TeX-feta-din11, TeX-feta-din12, TeX-feta-din13, TeX-feta-din14, TeX-feta-din17, TeX-feta-din19, TeX-feta-din4, TeX-feta-din5, TeX-feta-din6, TeX-feta-din7, TeX-feta-din8, TeX-feta-din9, TeX-feta-nummer10, TeX-feta-nummer11, TeX-feta-nummer12, TeX-feta-nummer13, TeX-feta-nummer4, TeX-feta-nummer5, TeX-feta-nummer6, TeX-feta-nummer7, TeX-feta-nummer8, TeX-feta11, TeX-feta13, TeX-feta16, TeX-feta19, TeX-feta20, TeX-feta23, TeX-feta26, TeX-parmesan11, TeX-parmesan13, TeX-parmesan16, TeX-parmesan19, TeX-parmesan20, TeX-parmesan23, TeX-parmesan26. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edward Benguiat

Born in New York in 1927, Ed grew up in Brooklyn. He was once a very prominent jazz percussionist playing in several big bands with Stan Kenton and Woody Herman, among others. He has created a large number of typefaces between 1970 and 1995. About his career, he once said: I'm really a musician, a jazz percussionist. One day I went to the musician's union to pay dues and I saw all these old people who were playing bar mitzvahs and Greek weddings. It occurred to me that one day that's going to be me, so I decided to become an illustrator. He designed more than 400 faces for PhotoLettering. He played a critical role in establishing The International Typeface Corporation (or ITC) in the late '60s and early '70s. Founded in 1971 by designers Herb Lubalin, Aaron Burns, and Ed Ronthaler, ITC was formed to market type to the industry. Lubalin and Burns contacted Benguiat, whose first ITC project was working on Souvenir. Ed became a partner with Lubalin in the development of U&lc, ITC's famous magazine, and the creation of new typefaces such as Tiffany, Benguiat, Benguiat Gothic, Korinna, Panache, Modern No. 216, Bookman, Caslon No. 225, Barcelona, Avant Garde Condensed, and many more. With Herb Lubalin, Ed eventually became vice-president of ITC until its sale to Esselte Ltd.

Ed is a popular keynote speaker at major type meetings, including, e.g., at TypeCon 2011, where he entertained the crowd with quotes such as I do not think of type as something that should be readable. It should be beautiful. Screw readable. His typefaces---those from PhotoLettering excepted:

  • ITC Avant Garde Gothic (1971-1977, with Andre Gurtler, Tom Carnase, Christian Mengelt, and Erich Gschwind).
  • ITC Modern No. 216 (text family).
  • ITC Barcelona (1981).
  • ITC Bauhaus (1975).
  • ITC Benguiat (1977) and ITC Benguiat Gothic (1977-1979). Comic book style faces called Benjamin and Benjamin Gothic on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD (2002). Softmaker also has fonts called B693 Roman and B691 Sans that are identical.
  • Benguiat Roman (1960s).
  • ITC Bookman (1975). See B791 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD (2002).
  • Calendar (1960s).
  • ITC Caslon 224 (1983). In 1960, he added Benguiat Caslon Swash, and in 1970, Caslon 223 followed. See C790 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD (2002).
  • ITC Century Handtooled (1993).
  • ITC Cheltenham Handtooled (1993).
  • ITC Edwardian Script (1994).
  • ITC Garamond Handtooled.
  • ITC Korinna (1974): after a 1904 face called Korinna by Berthold. Michael Brady thinks it is a very very close to the Berthold original.
  • ITC Modern N. 216 (1982).
  • Laurent (1960s).
  • Lubalin Graph (1974, ITC). By Herb Lubalin, Ed Benguiat, Joe Sundwall, and Tony DiSpigna.
  • ITC Panache Book (1987).
  • Scorpio (1960s).
  • ITC Souvenir (1970). Kent Lew: Benguiat revived Benton's Souvenir for ITC in the '70s and that was well-received for a while. On the other hand, look what happened after that. Souvenir in the ATF 1923 catalog looks really nice, IMO. Souvenir in the '70s seems cliché now. Souvenir these days would be downright dorky.
  • ITC Tiffany Light (1974). Adobe says that it is a blend of Ronaldson, released in 1884 by the MacKellar Smiths&Jordan foundry, and Caxton, released in 1904 by American Type Founders.
  • In 2004, House Industries released five faces based on the lettering of Ed Benguiat: Ed Interlock (1400 ligatures---based on Ed's Interlock, Photolettering, 1960s), Ed Roman (animated bounce), Ed Script, Ed Gothic and Bengbats.
  • He did logotypes for many companies, including Esquire, New York Times, Playboy, Reader's Digesn, Sports Illustrated, Look, Estée Lauder, AT&T, A&E, Planet of the Apes, Super Fly.
  • Lesser known Photolettering faces include Benguiat Bounce, Benguiat Boutique, Benguiat Bravado, Benguiat Brush, Benguiat Buffalo (+Ornaments), Benguiat Century, Benguiat Cinema, Benguiat Congressional, Benguiat Cooper Black, Benguiat Cracle, Benguiat Crisp, Benguiat Debbie, Benguiat Montage, Benguiat Roman. Scorpio, Laurent and Charisma, all done in the 1960s, are psychedlic types.

Links: Linotype, CV by Elisa Halperin. Daylight Fonts link (in Japanese). Catalog by Daylight, part I, part II.

Pics harvested from the web: Portrait With Ilene Strivzer at ATypI 1999. One more with Strivzer. With Jill Bell at ATypI 1999. In action. At TypeCon 2011 with Matthew Carter and Alejandro Paul. At the same meeting with Carole Wahler and with Roger Black.

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

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David Ben-Gurion

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

Guillaume Benhamou

Guillaume Benhamou (aka Zmo) was born in Marseille, France, and studies Graphic design and Typography at E.R.G. in Brussels. In 2010, he created a monoline face in which each letter was made with one stroke, called D'un trait. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rosi Benini

Brazilian design student, and designer of the soft sans face Rosie (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oliver Benjamin

Designer of the free Thai simulation face Fontok (2005, Chank's place). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert W. Benjamin

Designer of the rune font Robert's_Runes (2001), free at the Technische Universitat Wien site. Ten more complete fonts here for 8USD. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjumin

Bangladeshi-American designer of the scribbly face ben (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frankie Benka

Lynnwood, WA-based designer of a truetype font, Morrissey (1997), based on Morrissey's handwriting. Alternate URL. See also here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martin Benka

Slovak painter and illustrator, b. 1888, Kostoliste, d. 1971, Malacky. He is regarded as the founder of Modernist 20th century Slovak painting. His typefaces include a hexagonal typeface from 1956, and a stone-chiseled typeface from the 1940s.

Lubomir Longauer wrote Martin Benka, the first designer of the Slovak National Myth. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laurent Benner

Designer at Lineto of fonts such as Pez, a block letter font (1999). He lives and works in London, after graduating from the Royal College of Art in London in 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hanno Bennert

Young designer from Düsseldorf, who made Seriph (at fontgrube) and is working on Tramway (2004, a sans). Subtil, a rounded sans designed with Alexander Gialouris and Victor Malsy, won an award at TDC2 2007. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashley Bennett

Designer at ScrapNFonts/Creating Keepsakes of CK Ashley Alpha (child's handwriting). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Calum Bennett

Graphic design student in the UK who made the futuristic face Apastron (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriel Bennett

Designer of the rounded poster face Dandy Warhols, which was created while Gabriel was in the design program at Portfolio Center, Atlanta. Gabriel lives in Decatur, GA. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Bennett

Foundry, est. 2007 by Jonathan Bennett, who is located in Caerphilly, Wales. Bennett designed the unicase typewriter (Courier-like) face shown here. MyFonts sells Kubrickle (2008, in block, swash and kitchen tile shapes), Rody (2007, a black all-caps retro face), Diglossia (2007, a two-style unicase geometric typewriter family) and Lazar (2007, an ultra fat art deco face inspired by work of El Lissitzky). DaFont has a free copy of Diglossia. Dialogue (2007) is an artistic sans face for short texts (see also here). He is working on this blackletter. At , they made parallel (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Parker Bennett

Parker Bennett works at Mogulsoft in LA. He is the designer of a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Bennett

Designer of Gadget Lined at Zipatone, a fat art deco typeface. For a digital remake, see Toto's K22 Gadget Lined (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

T. Bennett

Designer at FontStruct in 2009 of Look Sharp and Looking Sharp, art deco style faces. The grungy versions is called Look Scarpered. He also made the sharp-edged geometric Scorio family in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Bennewith

David Bennewith runs Colophon in Auckland, New Zealand. He created a few experimental typefaces in 2003-2004: Concorde (a diamond shape pattern font), Mobile Carrion (Courier-style face) and Pukeko. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corien Bennink

Corien Bennink (Corien's Handwritingfonts) is a Dutch portrait photographer and pencil artist, b. 1980. She lives in Diever. Creator of the comic book / chalk board font Whiteboard (2007). She is the designer of Heroes Font (2006, handprinted, made based on screenshots of the Heroes TV series; see also here) and House Whiteboard Font (2006). Commercial fonts include Spidery Elegance (2008). She also offers a commercial handwriting font service (40 USD), and has some free handwriting demo fonts from 2005-2006: Angela, Bob-H., Escribiente, Heroes-font, Kendall-j, Krusoe, Nongtung, R.-Bruce, Whiteboard, richie. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Luke Bennis

Luke Bennis is an Australian designer living in Newcastle, NSW. Currently working as a Graphic Designer in the Marketing department for McDonald Jones Homes&also working as a freelance designer. Designer of an experimental typeface in 2010. He also made Varsity (2010), a typeface for the Zoloft crowd. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fabienne Benoit

French type designer at the ADT (Atelier de decoupage typographique) who designed La Fabienne and La Fafabienne. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean Benoit-Levy

Codesigner at Typebox with seven others of dingbats in the traffic signal font TxSignal Signifier (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Benque

Rotterdam-based designer. He is working on a nice set of stitching fonts in 2007. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nim Ben-Reuven

Graphic designer in Brooklyn, NY. He made the fat face Folded Stone (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Saad Benryane

Designer based in Montreal, New York and Bern. Devian Tart link. He created the roundish high-contrast art deco face Artificial Timepiece (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Bensch

Ex-student from the University of Toledo, b. 1971. Creator of the flamed dingbat and alphading fonts J-Flames (2011), Up In Flames (2008), Up In Flames Too (2008), Up No Flames (2008), Flames VI (2007), Flames V (2007), Gothic Flames (2007), Roman Flames (2009), Flames IV (2007), Flamesiii (2006, blackletter), Flames 2 (2006), Gothferatu (2010, a spiky tattooish blackletter face), and Flames (2005), BenschGothic (2008), BenschGothicFlames (2008). PHuture (2008) breaks with his style and is a high-contrast rounded LED simulation face made in 2008. This was followed by What UP (2011, gridded), Headshot (2011), PHUTUREphlamesPHAST (2011) and PHUTUREphlames (2011). Gothferatu (2010) is a tattoo parlor blackletter face. And Skyline (2010) is just that, a skyline font. Hexcellent (2011) is hexagonal, what else? Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jared Benson

Executive Creative Director and Punchcut Founder. Typophile.com is run by Jared Benson, who is Jonathan Hoefler's webmaster since 1999, from San Francisco. Incredible web pages! Jared designed Review Beta, Yakuza (Japanese letters), Benson Caps (pixel font), Benson Linear (pixel font), Pixeltrap (2003), Bitmuni (2003, based on San Francisco MUNI train windows: a fantastic creation!), Trinary (2003, a crazy bar-coding typeface invention), Benson Nonlinear (another font for small point sizes), Freiburger (2003, based on a scan from from D.B. Updike's Printing Types, Vol 1, pg. 87. This was the type used for the first Bible printed in France: Freiburger, Gering and Kranz, Paris 1476) and Academic. At FontStruct, he created the Singularity family in 2009. Typophile.com is a general information site on type with essays, discussions, tutorials, examples, beautifully organized. On April 8, 2002, Jared spilled hs coffee on one of the most interesting places in the type world with this message: While we encourage healthy debate and meaningful discussion, posts containing inflammatory remarks and/or personal attacks will be deleted in their entirety by the board moderator. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Howard Benson

Creator (b. Newport, RI, 1939) of Alexa, Balzano (1994) and Caliban (1995) at Adobe, simple slightly understated calligraphic scripts. Check Aardvark at Font Bureau. He owned and operated the historic John Stevens stonecarving shop for more than thirty years. His inscribed letters grace some of America's most prestigious buildings and gravestones. His son Nicholas now runs the John Stevens Shop. Philip Hofer (Harvard College Library) published Inscriptions in the Graphic Arts Department at Harvard in PAGA, volume 1, no. 1, pages 10-12, 1953. In that article, he describes the collection at the Houghton Library in Harvard, and focuses a lot on the lettering and inscriptions of John Howard Benson. Hofer claims Benson is the best letter cutter of his generation, just as Eric Gill was the best in his generation. . Fontshop link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Bent

Charleston, SC-based creator (b. 1990) of Spooky Drips (2011, a dripping blood Halloween face). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ernst Bentele

German designer of Bentele Unziale (ARTypes did a digital revival in 2007), which can be seen in Hoffmann's Schriftatlas (1952).

Author of Schrift geschrieben, gezeichnet und angewandt. Ein Lehrbuch für Schriftenmaler, Graphiker und sonstige schriftgestaltende Berufe. (1952, Karl Gröner Verlag, Ulm-Söflingen). Book cover.

Other typefaces: Frankengold, Wechselstrich Handschrift. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Chris Bentham

Leeds, UK-based graphic designer who created the display typefaces Bones (2012) and Cuckoo (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Bentler

Sebastian Bentler at Dezyner Records is the German designer (b. 1981) of mostly techno/futuristic fonts. Partial list: Neue Saat (2002, futuristic), Mayagen-r (2001), Tesh (2001), Smart AI Expansion (2001, pixel font), Cyborg 45 (2001), Quadspeed (2001, pixel font), FutureFlash (2001). Alternate URL. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Bentley

Adam Bentley (aka Largo, who runs Studio Estatika) is the comic artist who designed the handwriting font KWiNZ Style (2003). He also made the scratchy handwriting font Afectionless (2003). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. And another one. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Bentley Jr.

The Empire of the Claw is run by Lee "the Claw" Bentley, Jr. His fonts could be called mysterious, weird, spooky, odd, and scary. Many are scanbats. There is also a considerable archive! Original fonts by "The Claw" include Bloodsuckers, Devo, Devo Dingbats, Emperor's Scrawl, Horror Dingbats, Horror Dingbats Eerie Edition, B Movie Dingbats, Grossout Shadow, Hey Kids, Monsters Attack, and Elvira Dingbats. Newest fonts in the horror / futuristic / game font archive: Showboat, Sins of Rhonda, Spookshow, TerraFirma, TexasLED, Wonton (oriental simulation), Yawnovision, YonderRecoil, Zabdiel, Zapped, Zero Degrees, Zoom, Bloodgutter 99, Corpse, Dignity of Labour, Crackman, Space Gimboid, and Neo Geo.

At TypOasis. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Bento d'Almeida

Graphic designer from Mompiche, Ecuador. He created an octagonal display face called Mompiche (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evil Bento

The great geometric and textured art deco face Metropolika (2010, FontStruct) was inspired by Metropolis. It is the only font made by Evil Bento thus far. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linn Boyd Benton

Type designer (b. Little Falls, NJ, 1844, d. plainfield, NJ, 1932) who lived in New Jersey. He cut Century Expanded (1894) based on a design of Th. L. De Vinne. This typeface was later redrawn by Benton's son, Morris Fuller Benton in 1900. He managed manufacturing at ATF from 1892 until his death in 1932. Article by Patricia Cost for Printing History: Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton,&Typemaking at ATF. Cynthia Jacquette writes about Linn Boyd and his son. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Morris Fuller Benton

Prolific American type designer (b. 1872, Milwaukee, d. 1948, Morristown, NJ), who published over 200 alphabets at ATF. He managed the ATF type design program from 1892 until 1937. Son of Linn Boyd Benton. MyFonts page on him. Nicholas Fabian's page. Linotype's page. Klingspor page. Unos tipos duros page. His fonts include:

  • 1897: Cloister Old Style (ATF). [Stephenson Blake purchased this from ATF and called it Kensington Old Style, 1919] [Cloister (2005, P22/Lanston) is based on Jim Rimmer's digitization of Benton's Cloister.]
  • 1898: Roycroft.
  • 1900: Century Expanded (1900) (a revival of Century Roman which was designed in 1894 by his father (Linn Boyd Benton) for Theodore Low DeVinne; the Elsner&Flake version, the Bitstream version, and URW's version).
  • 1901: Linotext (aka WedddingText).
  • 1901-1910: Engravers.
  • 1901: Wedding Text (some put this in 1907), Old English Text, Engravers' Old English (a blackletter font remade by Bitstream). Wedding Text has been copied so often it is sickening: Wedding Regular and Headline (HiH, 2007), Dan X. Solo's version, Comtesse, Elite Kanzlei (1905, Stempel), Meta, Lipsia, QHS Nadejda (QHS Soft), Blackletter 681, Marriage (Softmaker), Wedding Text TL (by Tomas Liubinas).
  • 1902: Typoscript.
  • 1902-1912: Franklin Gothic. Digital versions exist by Bitstream, Elsner&Flake (in a version called ATF Franklin Gothic), Red Rooster (called Franklin Gothic Pro, 2011), and ITC (ITC Franklin Gothic). Discussion by Harvey Spears. Mac McGrew: Franklin Gothic might well be called the patriarch of modern American gothics. Designed in 1902 by Morris Fuller Benton, it was one of the first important modernizations of traditional nineteenth-century faces by that designer, after he was assigned the task of unifying and improving the varied assortment of designs inherited by ATF from its twenty-three predecessor companies. Franklin Gothic (named for Benjamin Franklin) not only became a family in its own right, but also lent its characteristics to Lightline Gothic. Monotone Gothic, and News Gothic (q.v.). All of these faces bear more resem- blance to each other than do the faces within some other single families. Franklin Gothic is characterized by a slight degree of thick-and-thin contrast; by the double-loop g which has become a typically American design in gothic faces; by the diagonal ends of curved strokes (except in Extra Condensed); and by the oddity of the upper end of C and c being heavier than the lower end. The principal specimen here is Monotype, but the basic font is virtually an exact copy of the ATF face in display sizes, except that Monotype has added f- ligatures and diphthongs. Franklin Gothic Condensed and Extra Condensed were also designed by Benton, in 1906; Italic by the same designer in 1910; and Condensed Shaded in 1912 as part of the "gray typography" series. Although Benton started a wide version along with the others, it was abandoned; the present Franklin Gothic Wide was drawn by Bud (John L.) Renshaw about 1952. Franklin Gothic Condensed Italic was added by Whedon Davis in 1967. Monotype composition sizes of Franklin Gothic have been greatly modi- fied to fit a standard arrangement; 12-point is shown in the specimen-notice the narrow figures and certain other poorly reproportioned characters. The 4- and 5-point sizes have a single-loop g. Gothic No. 16 on Linotype and Inter- type is essentially the same as Franklin Gothic up to 14-point; in larger sizes it is modified and more nearly like Franklin Gothic Condensed. However. some fonts of this face on Lino have Gagtu redrawn similar to Spartan Black. with the usual characters available as alternates; 14-point is shown. Western Type Foundry and later BB&S used the name Gothic No.1 for their copy of Franklin Gothic, while Laclede had another similar Gothic No. 1 (q.v.). On Ludlow, this design was originally known as Square Gothic Heavy with a distinctive R and t as shown separately after the Monotype diphthongs; when the name was changed to Franklin Gothic in 1928, it was redrawn, closer to Franklin Gothic but still a bit top-heavy; the unique R was retained in standard fonts but an alternate version like that of ATF was made available separately; also a U with equal arms, a single-loop g, and a figure 1 without foot serifs. Ludlow Franklin Gothic Italic, partially shown on the third line of the specimen, is slanted much more than other versions, to fit the standard 17 -degree italic matrices of that machine. Modern Gothic Condensed and Italic (q.v.) are often though not properly called Franklin Gothic Condensed and Italic, especially by Monotype users. Also see Streamline Block.
  • 1903: Alternate Gothic (ATF). See Alternate Gothic EF (Elsner&Flake), Alternate Gothic No2 (Bitstream), and Alternate Gothic No1, No2 and No3 (see the URW version). Mac McGrew: Alternate Gothic was designed in 1903 by Morris F. Benton for ATF with the thought of providing several alternate widths of one design to fit various layout problems. Otherwise it is a plain, basic American gothic with no unusual features, but represents a more careful drawing of its nineteenth-century predecessors. The Monotype copies in display sizes are essentially the same as the foundry originals, with the addition of f-ligatures. The thirteen alternate round capitals shown in the first line of Alternate Gothic No.1 were designed by Sol Hess in 1927 for Monotype, hence the "Modernized" name; with these letters the design is sometimes referred to as Excelsior Gothic. Monotype keyboard sizes, as adapted by Hess about 1911, are considera- bly modified to fit a standard arrangement; caps are not as condensed as in the original foundry design. In 6-point, series 51 and 77 are both the same width, character for character, but some letters differ a bit in design. Note that these two narrower widths are simply called Alternate Gothic on Monotype, while the wider version is Alternate Gothic Condensed! Alternate Gothic Italic, drawn about 1946 by Sol Hess for Monotype. matches No.2, but may be used with other widths as well. Condensed Gothic on Ludlow, is essentially a match for Alternate Gothic No.1, but has a somewhat different set of variant characters, as shown in the third line. There is also Condensed Gothic Outline on Ludlow, introduced about 1953. essentially an outline version of Alternate Gothic No.2. On Linotype and Intertype there is Gothic Condensed No.2 which is very similar to Alternate Gothic No. 1 in the largest sizes only, but with even narrower lowercase and figures. Also compare Trade Gothic Bold and Trade Gothic Bold Condensed.
  • 1904: Bold Antique, Whitin Black, Cheltenham (Bitstream family, Cheltenham FB-Bold Condensed by Font Bureau, 1992), Cloister Black (Fraktur font, see the Bitstream version).
  • 1905: Linoscript (originally known as Typo Upright). Clearface, about which McGrew writes: Clearface was designed by Morris Benton with his father, Linn B. Benton, as advisor. The bold was designed first, in 1905, and cut the following year. The other weights and italics were produced through 1911. As the name implies, the series was intended to show unusual legibility, which it certainly achieved. The precision of cutting and casting for which ATF is noted produced a very neat and handsome series, which had considerable popularity. Clearface Heavy Italic has less inclination than the lighter weights, and is non-kerning, a detail which helped make it popular for newspaper use; the specimen shown here is from a very worn font. Some of the faces have been copied by the matrix makers. But the face Monotype calls Clearface and Italic is the weight called Bold by other sources. Monotype also includes Clearface Italic No. 289, a copy of the lighter weight. Revival and expansion by Victor Caruso for ITC called ITC Clearface, 1978. Also, American Extra Condensed, an octagonal mechanical face revived in 2011 by Nick Curtis as Uncle Sam Slim NF.
  • 1906: Commercial Script (versions exist at Linotype, URW, Bitstream, Elsner&Flake), Miele Gothic, Norwood Roman.
  • 1907: Lincoln Gotisch, named after Abraham Lincoln. This found found its way from ATF to Schriftguss, Trennert und Sohn, and Ludwig Wagner. Digital revivals include Delbanco's DS Lincoln-Gotisch. Compare with Comtesses, Lipsia, Elite Kanzlei, Lithographia and Wedding Text.
  • 1908: News Gothic, Century Oldstyle (digital versions by Bitstream, Elsner&Flake, and URW), Clearface Gothic (1907-1910: digital revivals include Clear Gothic Serial (ca. 1994, SoftMaker) and Cleargothic Pro (2012, SoftMaker). McGrew: Clearface Gothic was designed by Morris Benton for ATF in 1908, and cut in 1910. It is a neat, clean gothic, somewhat thick and thin, which incorporates some of the mannerisms of the Clearface (roman) series. However, it can hardly be considered a part of that family. There is only one weight, and fonts contain only the minimum number of characters.
  • 1909-1911: Rugged Roman.
  • 1910: Cloister Open Face, Hobo, ATF Bodoni (Bitstream's version is just called Bodoni, and Adobe's version is called Bodoni Book or Bodoni Poster or Bodoni Bold Condensed, while Elsner&Flake call theirs Bodoni No Two EF Ultra; Font Bureau's version has just two weights called BodoniFB-Bold Condensed and Compressed). McGrew writes about Hobo: Hobo is unusual in two respects---it is drawn with virtually no straight lines, and it has no descenders and thus is very large for the point size. It was designed by Morris F. Benton and issued by ATF in 1910. One story says that it was drawn in the early 1900s and sent to the foundry without a name, which was not unusual, but that further work on it was continually pushed aside, until it became known as "that old hobo" because it hung around so long without results. More time elapsed before it was patented in 1915. The working name was Adface. Hobo was also cut by Intertype in three sizes. Light Hobo was also drawn by Benton, and released by ATF in 1915. It is included in one list of Monotype faces, but its series number is shown elsewhere for another Monotype face, and no other evidence has been found that Monotype actually issued it.
  • 1911-1913: Venetian, Cromwell. Cromwell was digitized by Nick Curtis in 2010 as Cromwell NF.
  • 1914: Adscript, Souvenir, Garamond (with T.M. Cleveland).
  • 1916: Announcement, Light Old Style, Goudy Bold. Digitizations: Announcement Roman was done by Nick Curtis in 2009 and called Society Page NF.
  • 1916-1917: Invitation. For a digital revival, see Sil Vous Plait (2009, Nick Curtis).
  • 1917: Freehand.
  • 1917-1919: Sterling. Digitizations include Howard (2006, Paul D. Hunt) and Argentina NF (2009, Nick Curtis).
  • 1918: Century Schoolbook (1918-1921). (See ITC Century (Tony Stan, 1975-1979), or the Century FB-Bold Condensed weight by Greg Thompson at Font Bureau, 1992. For Century Schoolbook specifically, there are versions by Elsner&Flake, Bitstream and URW. Bitstream has a monospaced version.) URW Century Schoolbook L is free, and its major extension, TeXGyre Schola (2007) is also free.
  • 1920: Canterbury. Mac McGrew: Canterbury is a novelty face designed by Morris F. Benton for ATF in 1920, when trials were cut, but not completed for production until 1926. It features a very small x-height, with long ascenders and descenders; monotone weight with minute serifs; and a number of swash capitals. It is primarily suitable for personal stationery and announcements. Compare Camelot Oldstyle. Digital versions were done by Nick Curtis in his Londonderry Air NF (2002-2004), and Red Rooster in the series Canterbury, Canterbury OldStyle, and Canterbury Sans.
  • 1922: Civilité. Mac McGrew on the ATF Civilité: Civilite in its modern adaptation was designed by Morris Benton in 1922 and cut by ATF in 1923-24. The original version was cut by Robert Granjon in 1557 to imitate the semi-formal writing then in vogue, and is believed to be the first cursive design cut in type. It became popular for the printing of poetry and for books of instruction for children, where the type itself could serve as a perfect model of handwriting. The first of these books was titled La Civilite puerile, printed at Antwerp in 1559. The books were so popular that the design came to be known as "civility" type. Other interpretations of the letter have been made, including Cursive Script, cut in the nineteenth century in 18-point only from French sources by ATF predecessors and by Hansen, but Benton's seems more attractive and legible to modern eyes. The French pronunciation of ci-vil'i-tay is indicated by the accented e, which was used only in ATF's earliest showings. The many alternate characters were included in fonts as originally sold; later they were sold separately and finally discontinued, although the basic font was still listed in recent ATF literature. Also see ZapfCivilite. Compare Freehand, Motto, Verona.
  • 1924: Schoolbook Oldstyle.
  • 1926-1927: Typo Roman.
  • 1927: Chic (American Typefounders; doubly shaded capitals and figures), Gravure, Greeting Monotone, Goudy Extra Bold. The art deco face Chic was revived by Nick Curtis as Odalisque NF (2008) and Odalisque Stencil NF (2010).
  • 1928: Parisian, Bulmer (revival of William Martin's face from 1792 for the printer William Bulmer; digital forms by Monotype, Adobe, Linotype, and Bitstream), Broadway (1928-1929, see two styles offered by Elsner&Flake, Linotype, Bitstream, and 11 weights by URW), Goudy Catalogue, Modernique, Novel Gothic (ATF, designed with Charles H. Becker), Dynamic. Novel Gothic has seen many digital revivals, most notably Telenovela NF (2011, Nick Curtis), Naked Power (Chikako Larabie) and Novel Gothic SG (Jim Spiece). Images of Bulmer: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii.
  • 1929: Louvaine. McGrew: Louvaine series was designed by Morris F. Benton for ATF in 1928. It is an adaptation of Bodoni (the working title was Modern Bodoni), and many of the characters are identical. Only g and y are basically different; otherwise the distinction is in the more abrupt transition from thick to thin strokes in this series. In this respect, Ultra Bodoni has more affinity to Louvaine than to the other Bodoni weights. The three weights of Louvaine correspond to Bodoni Book, Regular, and Bold. This series did not last long enough to appear in the 1934 ATF specimen book, the next complete one after its introduction. Compare Tippecanoe.
  • 1930: Benton, Engravers Text, Bank Gothic (see Bitstream's version), Garamond-3 (with Thomas Maitland Cleland), Paramount. Mac McGrew: Paramount was designed by Morris Benton in 1930 for ATF. It is basically a heavier companion to Rivoli (q. v.), which in turn is based on Eve, an importation from Germany, but is heavier than Eve Bold. It is an informal face with a crisp, pen-drawn appearance. Lowercase is small, with long ascenders and short descenders. Vertical strokes taper, being wider at the top. It was popular for a time as an advertising and announcement type.
  • 1931: Thermotype, Stymie (with Sol Hess and Gerry Powell). Stymie Obelisk is a condensed Egyptian headline face---the latter was revived by Nick Curtis as Kenotaph NF (2011).
  • 1932: Raleigh Gothic Condensed (the digital version by Nick Curtis is Highpoint Gothic NF (2011)), American Text (blackletter). Mac McGrew: Raleigh Gothic Condensed was designed by Morris F. Benton for ATF in 1932. It is a prim, narrow, medium weight gothic face, with normally round characters being squared except for short arcs on the outside of corners. The alternate characters AKMNS give an even greater vertical appearance than usual. At first, this face was promoted with Raleigh Cursive as a stylish companion face, although there is no apparent relationship other than the name. Compare Phenix, Alternate Gothic, Agency Gothic.
  • 1933: American Backslant, Ultra Bodoni (a great Bodoni headline face; see Bodoni FB (1992, Font Bureau's Richard Lipton). About Agency Gothic, McGrath writes: Agency Gothic is a squarish, narrow, monotone gothic without lower- case, designed by Morris F. Benton in 1932. It has an alternate A and M which further emphasize the vertical lines. Sizes under 36-point were added in 1935. Agency Gothic Open was drawn by Benton in 1932 and introduced in 1934; it follows the same style in outline with shadow, and probably has been more popular than its solid companion. Triangle Type Foundry, a Chicago concern that manufactured matrices, copied this face as Slim Open, adding some smaller sizes. ATF's working titles for these faces, before release, were Tempo, later Utility Gothic and Utility Open. Compare Raleigh Gothic Condensed, Poster Gothic, Bank Gothic. Digital versions include Warp Three NF (2008, Nick Curtis), which borrows its lowercase from Square Gothic (1888, James Conner's Sons), FB Agency (1995, David Berlow at FontBureau)
  • 1934: Shadow, Tower (heavy geometric slab serif), Whitehall. Font Bureau's Elizabeth Cory Holzman made the Constructa family in 1994 based on Tower. Digital versions include Warp Three NF (2008, Nick Curtis), which borrows its lowercase from Square Gothic (1888, James Conner's Sons), FB Agency Gothic (1995, David Berlow at FontBureau) and Agency Gothic by Castle Type. Eagle Bold followed in 1934. McGrew: Eagle Bold is a by-product of the depression of the 1930s. The National Recovery Administration of 1933 had as its emblem a blue eagle with the prominent initials NRA, lettered in a distinctive gothic style. Morris Benton took these letters as the basis for a font of type, released later that year by ATF, to tie in with the emblem, which businesses throughout the country displayed prominently in advertising, stationery, and signs; naturally it was named for the eagle. Compare Novel Gothic. USA Resolute NF (2009, Nick Curtis) is based on Eagle Bold.
  • 1935: Phenix. This condensed artsy sans was revived in 2011 at Red Rooster by Steve Jackaman and Ashley Muir as Phoenix Pro.
  • 1936: Headline Gothic.
  • 1937: Empire (Bitstream version). This ultra-condensed face was digitally remade and modernized by Santiago Orozco as Dorsa (2011).
Linotype link. FontShop link. Picture.

Typefaces alphabetic order:

  • Adscript
  • Agency Gothic (+Open
  • Alternate Gothic No.1 (+No.2, +No.3)
  • American Backslant
  • American Caslon&Italic
  • American Text
  • Announcement Roman&Italic (1916). For digital revivals or influences, see Friendly (2012, Neil Summerour) and Society Page NF (2009, Nick Curtis).
  • Antique Shaded
  • Bank Gothic Light (+Medium, +Bold, +Light Condensed, +Medium Condensed, +Bold Condensed). For digital versions, see Bank Gothic AS Regular and Condensed (2008, Michael Doret).
  • Baskerville Italic
  • Benton (Whitehall)&Italic
  • Bodoni&Italic (+Book&Italic, +Bold&Italic, +Bold Shaded, +Bold Open)
  • Bold Antique (+Condensed)
  • Broadway (+Condensed). The prototy[ical art deco typeface.
  • Bulfinch Oldstyle
  • Bulmer&Italic
  • Canterbury
  • Card Bodoni (+Bold)
  • Card Litho +Light Litho)
  • Card Mercantile
  • Card Roman
  • Century Expanded&Italic
  • Century Bold&Italic (+Bold Condensed, +Bold Extended)
  • Century Oldstyle&Italic (+Bold&Italic, +Bold Condensed)
  • Century Catalogue&Italic
  • Century Schoolbook&Italic (+Bold)
  • Cheltenham Oldstyle&Italic (+Condensed, +Wide)
  • Cheltenham Medium&Italic (+Medium Condensed, +Medium Expanded, +Bold&Italic, +Bold Condensed&Italic, +Bold Extra Condensed&Title, +Bold Extended, +Extrabold, +Bold Outline, +Bold Shaded&Italic, +Extrabold Shaded, +Inline, +Inline Extra Condensed, +Inline Extended)
  • Chic
  • Civilite
  • Clearface&Italic (1907, +Bold&Italic, +Heavy&Italic)
  • Clearface Gothic: a flared version of Clearface.
  • Cloister Black
  • Cloister Oldstyle&Italic (+Lightface&Italic, +Bold&Italic, +Bold Condensed, +Cursive, +Cursive Handtooled, +Title&Bold Title)
  • Commercial Script
  • Copperplate Gothic Shaded
  • Cromwell.
  • Cushing Antique
  • Della Robbia Light
  • Dynamic Medium
  • Eagle Bold
  • Empire
  • Engravers Bodoni
  • Engravers Old English (+Bold)
  • Engravers Bold
  • Engravers Shaded
  • Engravers Text
  • Franklin Gothic&Italic (+Condensed, +Extra Condensed, +Condensed Shaded)
  • Freehand. Mac McGrew: Freehand, a face based on pen-lettering, was designed for ATF by Morris Benton in 1917. The working title before release was Quill. Derived from Old English, it is an interesting novelty, and has had quite a bit of use. Compare Civilite, Motto, Verona.
  • Garamond&Italic (+Bold&Italic, +Open)
  • Globe Gothic (+Condensed, +Extra Condensed, +Extended, +Bold&Italic)
  • Goudy Bold&Italic (+Catalogue&Italic, +Extrabold&Italic, +Handtooled&Italic, +Title)
  • Gravure
  • Greeting Monotone
  • Headline Gothic
  • Hobo&Light Hobo (1910). For digital versions, see Informal 707 (Bitstream), Hobbit (SF), Homeward Bound (Corel), and Hobo (Bitstream).
  • Invitation (+Shaded)
  • Light Oldstyle
  • Lightline Gothic&Title
  • Lithograph Shaded
  • Louvaine Light&Italic (+Medium&Italic, +Bold&Italic)
  • Miehle Extra Condensed&Title
  • Modernique
  • Monotone Gothic&Title
  • Motto
  • News Gothic (+Condensed, +Extra Condensed&Title)
  • Norwood Roman
  • Novel Gothic
  • Othello
  • Packard (+Bold)
  • Paramount
  • Parisian
  • Pen Print Open
  • Phenix
  • Piranesi Italic (+Italic Plain Caps, +Bold&Italic, +Bold Italic Plain Caps)
  • Poster Gothic
  • Raleigh Gothic Condensed
  • Rockwell Antique
  • Roycroft
  • Rugged Roman
  • Schoolbook Oldstyle
  • Shadow
  • Souvenir (1914). Revived in the 1970 as ITC Souvenir, but a total failure as a type design. Simon Garfield: Souvenir was the Comic Sans of its era, which was the 1970s before punk. It was the face of friendly advertising, and it did indeed appear on Bee Gees albums, not to mention the pages of Farrah Fawcett-era Playboy. Mark Batty from International Typeface Corporation (ITC) on one of his best-selling fonts: A terrible typeface. A sort of Saturday Night Fever typeface wearing tight white flared pants. Garfield also retrieved this quote by type scholar Frank Romano in the early 1990s: Real men don't set Souvenir.
  • Sterling&Cursive
  • Stymie Light&Italic (+Medium&Italic, +Bold&Italic, +Black&Italic)
  • Thermotypes
  • Tower
  • Typo Roman&Shaded
  • Typo Script&Extended
  • Typo Shaded
  • Typo Slope
  • Typo Upright&Bold
  • Ultra Bodoni&Italic (+Condensed, +Extra Condensed)
  • Venetian&Italic (+Bold)
  • Wedding Text&Shaded

View Morris Fuller Benton's typefaces. A longer list. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Simon Bent

Simon Bent from Melbourne (Volume2a) designed these typefaces in 2007-2008: Epsilon, Annual (modular, architectural), Tangerine, Deccade (experimental), Hoax [more scans: i, ii, iii, iv], Babylon (another modular experiment). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denise Lara Kamille K. Bentulan

Digital artist from Quezon City, The Philippines, b. 1991. Creator of the handprinted fonts Springtime (2012), Soymilk (2012), Wintermelon (2012), Matryoshka (2011, 3d face), Monovirus (2011, caps only), Baby Doll (2011, handprinted), Denne Freakshow (2011, 3d handprinted), Chemistry (2010), Dominique (2010), All Hail Julia (2010), Denne Etude (2010), Denne Gnossienne (2010), Denne Shuffle (2010, 3d and handprinted), DenneAtTheTeaParty (2010), DenneMilkTea (2010, all caps, handprinted), Denne Kitten Heels (2010), Denne Angel (2010), Denne Fuchoor (2009), Denne Sketchy (2009), Denne's aliens (2009), Denne Schoolgirl (2009), Denne's Chokipi (2009), Pretty Shit (2009, dingbats), Denne's Summer (2009), Denne's Pen (2009), Crown Doodle (2009), DENNECURSIVE (2009), DENNELEFT-HAND (2009), Denne-Delica (2009), DenneMarker (2009), DennePuffy-Hearts (2008, marker pen), DenneThreedee (2008, marker pen), Denne's Aliens (2009), and Denne'sOldHandwriting (2009), 2006 (based on the Welcome font by Whitestone which was used in the Fifa World Cup in 2006).

Home page. Dafont link. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Devian tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Bentzen

Eric Bentzen has links to chess diagram software, and to about twenty chess fonts. THE site for chess fonts! Download his Chess Alpha, his Chess Berlin, and many more TrueType chess fonts. Dafont link. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paolo Beraldo

Paolo Beraldo (b. 1984) of zero8production in Italy designed a battery of pixel faces, all called Pixel Berry. I cannot find download buttons, but one of the fonts, Pixel Berry 08/84 (2003) is free at Dafont where he is known as zero8. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paola Berardelli

In 2010, Paola Berardelli finished her Bachelors Degree in Communication Design at Politecnico di Milano. In 2011, she created the organic typeface Kihon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Valérie de Berardinis

Paris-based Italian type designer (b. 1972) who designed Estrella (1996), a Basque font based on research she did at L'école Estienne (1996) on Basque art. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yves Bérard

Montrealer who designed the free display font Bold Display 19412K at Chank (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victor Berbel

Brazilian art director in Campinas. Creator of the nice art deco face Berbel Serif (2011).

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

Igor Berck Rodrigues

Brazilian designer, b. 1993, who lives in Sao Paulo. Creator of Lignum Melle (sans face, 2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fryda Berd

Designer of Quake, a quite useless font showing wiggly characters. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

András Berecz

Design student at the University of Fine Arts in Budapest. In 2012, he created the sans typeface family Flare. For a Hungarian library supplier, he designed the beautiful custom Egyptian typeface Kello (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Endre Berentzen

Norwegian designer who is working on this tilted sans (2007). He works at the design firm Orangeriet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Terence Bergagna

Designer at the Australian foundry Prototype Font Design (which he founded in 1992) of Academy, Baseline, Bodoni Anorexia, Bodoni Catwalk, Fat Neon Inline, Flanger, Funky Reverb, FuzzBox, Galley Family, Gimp, Gimp's Brother, Gimp's Sister, Hardwear Nth, Hardwear Sth, Mezzo Family, National Guard, Next century, Next Times, Pseudo Deco, Spy Force, Tank Gothic, Uni code, X-Kommunicate. Prototype Font Design went out of business some time before 2004. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Bergamini

Masters degree student (b. 1983) at the Politecnico di Milano, who specializes in signage, wayfinding and information design. He researches traffic system fonts and typography. His Flickr page has scans of the Italy's Codice della Strada which dictates street type in Italy, and features his world map which shows the origin and the different "routes" taken by the two main typefaces used in world signs: the American Highway Gothic, published by the traffic engineer Ted Forbes in 1945 and the British Transport type by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert, published in 1963. He also has photographs of traffic signs. Creator of the free family Flaminia (The League of Movable Type, 2009; see also here).

He writes: Flaminia is a 2008 opensource project started as a Master Degree Thesis by Andrea Bergamini, an Italian graphic designer annoyed by the chaotic and poorly designed road signage system in his country. The leading idea was that tests taken in real-life conditions are the only way to validate the design of a font to be used for signage and that the final solution should always come from all of the modifications derived by those experiments. These considerations led to the design of Flaminia, a typographical system that allows its users and its future designers to quickly morph (through the use of Multiple Master axes) different variants of the glyphs. By allowing minimal changes of only one variable in the letter shapes, Flaminia also provides a tool to study which are the most relevant factors in the process of reading signs, and can be used free of charge for further researches in this field. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Bergamini Pzeros

Italian designer of the refined display face Jent (2011), which is fit for a gentleman's fashion mag. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Berg

Computer and software specialist. He made the Meslo LG font in 2010. As he says, Meslo LG is a customized version of Apple's Menlo-Regular font (which is a customized Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). He did not like certain spacing decisions in Menlo, and so decided to make Meslo LG, where LG stands for Line Gap. The free family, made in 2009-2010, consists of these styles: MesloLGL-Bold, MesloLGL-BoldItalic, MesloLGL-Italic, MesloLGL, MesloLGM-Bold, MesloLGM-BoldItalic, MesloLGM-Italic, MesloLGM, MesloLGS-Bold, MesloLGS-BoldItalic, MesloLGS-Italic, MesloLGS. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Berg

Designer of the pixel font family Bit Meda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sendoa Bergasa

Graphic designer. Home page. Born in 1984, he designed Beneath the Surface (2008, + Dingbats). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johannes Bergerhausen

Johannes Bergerhausen (b. 1965, Bonn, Germany), studied Visual Communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. From 1993 to 2000, he lived and worked in Paris. First he collaborated with the Founders of Grapus, Gérard Paris-Clavel and Pierre Bernard, then he founded his own office. He returned to Germany in 2000, where he is Professor of Typography at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz (since 2002). In 2003, together with Paris-Clavel, he published the font "LeBuro" at ACME Fonts, London. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about Decoding Unicode. He describes his Unicode character collection project at Typotechnica 2005. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jared Bergeron

Graphic design student at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS. Creator of the display face Carneval (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roland Berger

Designer in 1994 of EverydayFont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stian Berger

Norwegian co-designer with Magnus Rakeng at Millimeter Design of Telenor (2001, sans) for the new corporate identity for Telenor. Still with Rakeng, but now at Melkeveien designkontor, he cocreated Always (2005, a connected 1950's style face, based on Rakeng's very popular earlier face Radio) and the Jugendstil style face Ålesund jugendstilsenter (2004, based on architect H. Schytte Berg's architectural lettering). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lars Berggren

Designer of the free font Wallpoet (2011), a stencil face that can be downloaded at Google Font Directory. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Bergin

Designer at FontStruct in 2009 of the extra condensed face Vertigo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Bergius

Creator of the iFontMaker font Bergius (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon Arne Berg

Norwegian graphic designer and illustrator who lives in Oslo where he started studying at the Oslo Academy of the Arts in 2009. Behance link. Creator of the beveled alphabet Metalface (2010) and the blackletter face Entartete Fraktur (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christoph Bergleiter

Graphic designer in Ulm. Behance link. He created the horizontally striped typeface DIN Cut (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John M. Bergling

Great American calligrapher and engraver. He wrote several books, including "Engraving Designing Etching" (1914) and Art Alphabets and Lettering (1914). He was Master Engraver with the renowned C.D. Peacock jewelers in Chicago around 1900. Creator of many art alphabets, Bergling is also noted for state seals of the United States and many seal crests of foreign countries. His great-grandchildren set up Bergling Publishing and are selling directly or through Amazon most of his oeuvre. Other texts include "Art Monograms and Lettering" (1912), "Heraldic Designs for Artists and Craftspeople", and "Ornamental Designs and Illustrations".

Digital fonts based on Bergling's work: One Good Urn NF (2005, Nick Curtis) is based on his art nouveau lettering from 1914. Morocco (1914) provided the caps of Funky Tut NF (2005, Nick Curtis), and Keramic Text (1914) provided the lower cases characters of the latter font. Chantilly Lace NF (2005, Nick Curtis) uses uppercase letters by Bergling and lowercase letters by Roland W. Paul. His Nibs NF is a digital font by Nick Curtis (2007) based on the calligraphy of Bergling, ca. 1914. Carson Monogram (2009, Brian J. Bonislawsky) is based on Bergling's New Antique 53 from the book Art Monogram and Lettering. Bergling (2010, Scriptorium) is a floriate script based on Bergling's work. Other (art nouveau style) Scriptorium fonts based on Bergling include Boetia, Belgravia and Beaumains (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ludvig Berg

FontStructor who likes pixelish faces. He started out in 2010 with the Two Three font family, and has a white-on-black pixel face called False BIT. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martin Bergman

Martin Bergman (Täby, Sweden) created the truetype dingbat font DancingMen in 1994 for his father, Ted Bergman, a well-known Sherlockian. The font is based upon the secret alphabet developed by a gang of American criminals in the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Dancing Men", first published in 1903. The font notice states that Poul Steen Larsen (Denmark) may have helped with the font in 1995. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sine Bergmann

German designer of the artsy dingbats face GiacomettiLL Pi (1994), depicting active stick figures, and for which an award was won in the Bukvaraz 2001 competition. It is a symbol font containing 62 stick figure illustrations inspired by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. Together with Lenore Poth, Sine expanded her font family in 2008 with the handwriting face Giacometti Letter. She also designed Jump (2008, handwriting face, Linotype) and Linotype Festtagsfont (1999), a festive stick figure face in the style of Giacometti Pi. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sérgio Bergocce

Sao Paulo-based designer of the ultra-fat hookish Blockface (2007), the serif face Tortoise Roman (2006), the paperclip font Elefan (2006), and the sublime human face dingbat font Los Caras. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lars Bergquist

Lars Bergquist is the Swedish type designer (b. 1936) who runs Timberwolf Type in Sollentuna, just outside Stockholm. Bergquist designed numerous successful text families and display faces, including the free Beryll typeface. Some offerings:

  • Old Style romans: Sarabande (1998; based on Jean Jannon's famous "Garamond" of 1621), Pavane (1998, based on a text face by Rudolf Koch), Philomela (2000, also at PsyOps), Montrachet (2002, Fountain: a garalde family), Monteverdi (Fountain: with Granjon's Plantin Ascendonica italic).
  • Baroque/transitional: Leyden, Leyden News (PsyOps, 2000), Baskerville 1757 and Baskerville Caps (1998; winner of a Bukvaraz award in 2001, available at Type Quarry).
  • New Style Romans: Millennium, Eleonora (1999), Prospero (1998, a didone family), Waldstein (2003, Fountain: a Scotch typeface).
  • Sans faces: Millennium, Millennium Sans, Millennium Linear, New Millennium, New Millennium Sans and New Millennium Linear (2000).
  • Display faces: Diorite (2005, a calligraphic angular family), Corsiva Italica (2003), Paracelsus (2003, Fountain: a modern version of Schwabach), Foliant Blackletter (German 15th C Textur), Zeppelin Bauhaus Gothic, Berserk Scandinavian runes, Escorial (at PsyOps), Paestum (2001, a Greek simulation family), Sekhmet (2000), Praetorian, Pressroom (2003), Proconsular, Palaestra (the latter three are inspired by informal, painted Roman wall writing), Triumphalis Caps (also inspired by Roman imperial inscriptions), Bucintoro (1999, a modern version of the rotunda blackletter), Midnight (2000; a neon light/ blackboard bold family), Karolin Fraktur (at Psy/Ops: Fraktur modeled after the Bible of King Charles XII, printed in Stockholm in 1703), Rococo Titling (2001, ornate titling caps based on work done by Jacques-François Rosart (1714-1777) and Pierre Simon Fournier (1712-1768), and the Renaissance family Ronsard (at PsyOps, 2000).
Some fonts are available at Fountain, Psy/Ops and Type Quarry. Bukvaraz gave him an award for Absolut Type, a classic Renaissance family, so I wonder if that is not the same as Baskerville 1757. Lars says that Absolute Vodka complained, so the type is sold by Psy/Ops as Aalborg (2002). He published Whitenights at Linotype in 2003. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Bergsland

In 2009, Hackberry Font Foundry grew out of NuevoDeco Typography, which in turn was a commercial foundry that formed part of Bergsland Design located in Las Lunas, NM and run by David Bergsland (b. 1944, Buffalo, NY), a 1971 graduate of the University of Minnesota. The newest address is in Mankato, MN. Identifont link. Author of Practical Font Design: 2nd Edition: Rewritten for FontLab 5. Klingspor link. His fonts:

View David Bergsland's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Henric Eugén Bergström

Graphic designer and illustrator from Stockholm. Creator of Suprematic (2008), an ultra-constructivist typeface inspired by the Russian artist Kazimir Malevitj and his art form of suprematism. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wilhelm Berg

Berlin-based designer at Schriftguss AG of the script fonts Splendor (1930; Georg Kraus shows this brush script as well) and Divina (1930). Splendor was digitized in 2009 by Ralph M. Unger at URW++ under the same name. Andreas Seidel's Adana (2005) are based on Wilhel Berg's 1930 script, which according to Seidel was an answer to Lucian Bernhard's Schönschrift. . [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Bericua

Argentinian designer of a revival of Resolut (2006), a font due to Brünnel (Nebiolo, 1937). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergio Berkenbrock

Graphic design student in Brazil. Designer at FontStruct of these fonts in 2009: Dead or Alive (Western font), Gold Mine (Tuscan), Safehouse Sessions (piano key stencil), Rose, and Nu Jazz (counterless, experimental), Black Rounded Stencil, Sessions Cover. In 2010, he added Burgos, a gothic script. Aka El Huesudo II. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allan Berkovitz

Designer of Stealthy Bat (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

William Berkson

Philosopher, typophile and type designer, who obtained a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the London School of Economics in 1970. He lives in Reston, VA. Berkson designed Williams Caslon Text (2010) for Font Bureau in 2010, to better capture the readability, friendliness, and authority of Caslon for modern presses and readers. Author of Fields of Force (Routledge), Learning from Error (Open Court) and the Becoming a Mentsh workshops (Mentsh.com) and the forthcoming Avot: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life. Berkson led a panel at Typecon '05 (NYC) on subway type, and gave a talk about his work reviving Caslon at Typecon '06 (Boston). He was also a speaker at TypeCon 2009 in Atlanta. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Frederik Berlaen

Frederik Berlaen (TypeMyType) is a Flemish type designer, b. 1981, Ghent, Belgium. He studied graphic design at Sint-Lucas in Gent, Belgium. Then he worked for one year as freelance type designer before moving to The Hague to study TypeMedia at the KABK, where he graduated with a Masters in type design in 2006. Currently, he freelances as a type designer and teaches type design at Sint-Lucas in Ghent, Belgium, and at ECAL in lausanne. His projects include KalliCulator: a pen and nib simulator for drawing strokes around a skeleton glyph. He also wrote the simple font editor and manipulator Font Constructor (2007). RoundingUFO is a 100 Euro Mac-only application that converts the corners of the glyphs in fonts according to user-defined parameters; it requires a conversion between UFO and SFD formats, which is achievable in FontForge. His typefaces thus far: Comb (2010, OurType: a monospaced sans family designed for filling in forms; Comb Text has text faces and Comb Forms has dingbats), Theneut (rounded sans), Nana Broadnib and Nana Pointed. With Christina Bee, he is part of Type Destroyers. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik: The missing UFO editor. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Berliner

Brazilian ex-student at the University of Reading who designed Pollen (2003). Pollen was published at TypeTogether in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harold Berliner

Printer, and one of the last (metal) typefounders in the USA. Located at P.O. Box 6, Nevada City, CA 95959. Some of his typefaces are listed here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Howard M. Berlin

20-font archive with the Howard M. Berlin Hebrew fonts AinYiddisheFontCursiv, AinYiddisheFontModern, AinYiddisheFontTraditional (1997) (see also here), and TorahSofer. Also Boomerang (Harold Lohner), DIVCHEM, Dahrlin (WSI), Fifties (WSI), GothicHijinx and GothicHijinxRough from Omega, Hirosh (AARRGGHH), MendelSiddurBold, ParishMedium (LMNo Designs, Steven Shepard), SymbolMW-Normal (MWSoft), and WarnSymbols5. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elwin Berlips

FontMeister is the commercial foundry of Elwin Berlips in Almere, The Netherlands.

In his first life, he ran a free font site called 11th Floor, where he made these free faces in 1999: Civilization (octagonal), Plastik-Film (grungy semi-stencil), Raw (grunge), Rocket-Fuel, Timeline, Greenlight (dot matrix), Interstatic (futuristic), Handsolo, Optimum, Roswell (handwritten), Jean-Pierre (handwriting), 11th Floor (gridded).

At FontMeister, he published

  • FM Eva (2011). A handprinted chalkboard or poster face.
  • FM Bebel (2011). A monoline organic rounded sans family.
  • FM Secessionist (2011). Inspired by the Vienna secessionist Joseph Maria Olbrich, as seen on his architectural drawings from the 1920s.
  • FM Rossija (2011). A modular CD label face.
  • FM Julie (2011). An architectural hand.
  • FM Aloysius (2011). Also inspired by the Viennese secessionists.
  • FM Monomo (2011) is a simple, all caps, monospaced font.
  • FM Kaantaa (2011) is a bold typeface that draws inspiration from stencil and technical typfaces.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Berlow

David Berlow (b. Boston, 1955) entered the type industry in 1978 as a letter designer for the Mergenthaler, Linotype, Stempel, and Haas typefoundries. He joined the newly formed digital type supplier, Bitstream, Inc. in 1982. After Berlow left Bitstream in 1989, he founded The Font Bureau, Inc. with Roger Black. Font Bureau has developed more than 300 new and revised type designs for The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Hewlett Packard and others, with OEM work for Apple Computer Inc.® and Microsoft Corporation®. The Font Bureau Retail Library consists mostly of original designs and now includes over 1,000 typefaces.

At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about Daily types. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke on The heart of my letter, (and the online version). Since that time he has been very active and vocal on the issue of high quality web fonts. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik.

David Berlow Type Specimens (free pdf). Another type specimen booklet. Interview by A List Apart in 2009. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. FontShop link. www.typovideo.de/david-berlow. David Berlow on web fonts. Interview by The Boston Globe. His typefaces:

  • AgencyFB.
  • Belizio (1987-1988), after the 1958 original slab serif by Aldo Novarese called Egizio. Claudio Piccinini would have liked Font Bureau to acknowledge Aldo Novarese's Egizio as the source of this family.
  • Belucian (1990, by David Berlow and Kelly Ehrgott Milligan. Several weights exist, including Demi and Ultra.
  • Berlin Sans (1997).
  • Bureau Grotesque (1989). This 27-style family is now called Bureau Grot. Font Bureau's blurb: The current family was first developed by David Berlow in 1989 from original specimens of the grotesques released by Stephenson Blake in Sheffield. These met with immediate success at the Tribune Companies and Newsweek, who had commissioned custom versions at the behest of Roger Black. Further weights were designed by Berlow for the launches of Entertainment Weekly and the Madrid daily El Sol, bringing the total to twelve styles by 1993. Jill Pichotta, Christian Schwartz, and Richard Lipton expanded the styles further, at which point the family name was shortened to Bureau Grot.. Note: there is a custom version called M&C Saatchi Grotesque with truetype data created by dtpTypes in 1998.
  • CalifornianFB.
  • CheltenhamFB.
  • Desdemona (1992). An art nouveau face.
  • Eagle (1889-1994). This art deco face Font Bureau Eagle was started in 1989 for Publish. David Berlow designed a lowercase, finished the character set, and in 1990 added Eagle Book for setting text. In 1994, Jonathan Corum added Eagle Light and Eagle Black to form a full series.
  • Eldorado.
  • Empire.
  • Esperanto (1995).
  • ITC Franklin Gothic (1991). In 2008, David Berlow added Condensed, Compressed and Extra Compressed widths to Vic Caruso's 1979 ITC Franklin interpretation (which had Light, Medium, Bold and Black), and Font Bureau sells a complete ITC Franklin now. In 2010, Berlow completed his definitive revision of ITC Franklin, a single new series of six weights in four widths for a total of 48 styles. Typeface review at Typographica.
  • Giza (an Egyptian family.
  • Hitech (1995).
  • Juliana Text (2009), a rebirth of Sem Hartz's Juliana (1958, Linotype), a popular narrow legible paperback text face.
  • Kis FB (2007): a revival of old style types by Nicholas Kis from ca. 1700.
  • Meyer Two (1994). Based on a 1926 type by L.B. Meyer.
  • Millenium (1989, Bitstream).
  • Moderno FB (1995): an exhibitionist didone in 32 styles, for Esquire Gentleman. In 1996 Berlow cut new styles with Richard Lipton for El Norte. In 1997, Roger Black ordered new weights for Tages Anzeiger. It grew further when the Baltimore Sun, with FB Ionic as text, was redesigned. The whole series was then revised for Louise Vincent, Montreal Gazette, with further styles added in 2005 for La Stampa. [It is my favorite type family at Font Bureau.]
  • Nature (1995).
  • Numskill (1990).
  • Old Modern.
  • Online Gothic (1995).
  • Ornaments.
  • Phaistos.
  • Poynter Agate.
  • Reforma: Based on Giza.
  • Rhode.
  • Romeo.
  • Scotch FB.
  • Skyline.
  • Titling Gothic FB (2005): Berlow spent 10 years developing FB Titling Gothic (2005) in seven weights of seven widths each for use as display and headline romans. It was inspired by the popular ATF Railroad Gothic and grew out of Berlow's own Rhode.
  • Throhand: a classic family based on metal type found at the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp.
  • Truth FB (1995).
  • Village.
  • Vonness (2007): a newspaper sans family. Font Bureau: Vonness was designed by David Berlow working closely with Neville Brody on corporate redesign for Jim Von Ehre at Macromedia. Core weights are loosely based on Bauers Venus, 1907-1910. Berlow expanded the ideas behind the series to 56 fonts.
  • Yurnacular (1992, part of FUSE 4).
  • Zenobia (1995).

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Roman S. Berman

Designer of Phaeton (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Bermúdez

Graphic designer in Barcelona who created Fucktype (sic) (2011), a fat rounded face that is based on the logotype of Yoigo. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cris Bernabe-Sanchez

Typographer, illustrator and web designer in Westwood Village, CA. Graduate from UCLA's Design|Media Arts program. . Designer of the octagonal techno face Digital Circuit (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stefan Bernacinski

Polish film poster artist. Occasional type designer who created Sawa (Latin, Cyrillic), a text face. Other faces include Grotesk (sans), and Wanda (serifed). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jaime Bernaldez

Born in Sevilla, Spain, in 1989, Jaime Bernaldez designed Futuro Sans Serif in 2012, a year after his graduation from the Escuela de Arte de Jerez.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aymeric Bernard

Tarbes, France-based designer who made Idea (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Bernard

French type designer (b. 1974) who lives in Asnières-sur-Seine. Behance link. Klingspor link. His fonts:

  • Acheminé: for the French railway, the SNCF.
  • Adso: a hookish family done at the ANRT, and published at BAT Foundry in 2010.
  • Chanson: a serif revival from the 19th century.
  • Departure: a dot matrix face.
  • Dinette: commissioned by the graphic design studio Malte Martin.
  • Mgetine: for the corporate identity of MGET.
  • Montille: a formal calligraphic face for the Domaine de Montille.
  • Piccolo (1998): for the Figaro newspaper.
  • Posthume: a set of nice symbols for the Side One Posthume Theatre.
  • LFDJ (2010): a corporate organic all caps sans face for La Française des Jeux, art directed by Anja Krohne.
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Andreza Bernardes

Together, Andreza Bernardes, Felipe Galante and Luan Bernardes of the Centro Universitário Belas Artes in Sao Paulo created a typeface-on-a-diet for a vegetarian restaurant in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

R. Bernard

R. Bernard designed the free fonts Hiragana and Katakana (1996) as well as Dragon Ball (1999, kanji dingbats). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kai Bernau

Kai Bernau (Letterlabor) is a German type designer (b. 1978) who studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd. He created "The neutral typeface" (2005), a sans family, as his thesis project at the KABK in Den Haag. The typeface was born as a mathematical average of ten sans faces: AG Buch, Neue Helvetica, Univers, Grotesque, Franklin Gothic, Frutiger, Trade Gothic, Documenta Sans, The Sans and Syntax. He graduated there in 2006 with a masters degree. Together with his wife Susana Carvalho, they formed Atelier Carvalho Bernau, a practice that designs printed matter (mainly books), bespoke and retail typefaces, and identity programs. At Commercial Type, he published Lyon Text and Lyon Display in 2009, described by Commercial Type as follows: Begun as Kai Bernau's degree project on the Type + Media course at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, Bernau extensively revised the typeface in time for its debut in the New York Times Magazine in 2009. Like many of the great seriffed typefaces it draws intelligently from the work of Robert Granjon, the master of the Renaissance, while having a contemporary feel. Its elegant looks, are matched with an intelligent, anonymous nature, making it excellent for magazines, book and newspapers. The Atelier also has other faces on its site, all done between 2007 and 2010, such as Neutraface Slab (for House Industries), Neutral (an outgrowth of Kai's thesis work), PDU (a French stencil rtevival project), and some custom faces such as Proprio. Write-up at Fontshop. Critique by Experimenta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bo Berndal

Swedish designer born in 1924 in Stockholm. He says of himself: Compositor, Linotype operator, teacher of typography. Type designer in a small matrix factory 1950-51. Calligrapher, book designer, author, lecturer and trade mark specialist. Now retired, but does type design as a hobby and to special orders for museums, ad agencies, companies and even to private persons. Prolific typographer who created beauties such as Boberia LL (1994), a fantastic didone text family with an antique bouquet. Most of his work is available from Linotype and/or Agfa/Monotype.

Images of his best-selling typefaces.

His fonts include Boberia LL (1994, a fantastic didone text family with an antique bouquet), the Grafilone LL family (1994, an avant-garde family that is almost illegible), Cartesius (2006, a beautiful 5-style family done at T4 in a mix of garalde and Venetian fashions), Byngve (2004, Linotype, in the style of 15th century Italy), Linotype Dala Text (2002, Fraktur, with ornaments and borders), Ornabo dingbats. Art Gallery, Belltrap (1995), Benedict (uncial), Beowulf (uncial), Boscribe (2005), Bosis, Botobe (2011, an informal script), Brigida, Buccardi (1998, Agfa), Caballero Script (2011, inspired by Spanish handwriting from 15th and 16th century), Carl Beck Script (1992, calligraphic), Esseltube, Euclides, Exlibris (1998), Frisans (2005, Monotype), Gertrud (2006, T4, based on 16th century calligraphy), Geometra (2011, T4), Gianpoggio (1992), Golota (1998, Agfa), Grantofte (1995), Hagalind (2011, a calligraphic connected script), Jerrywi (1994), Johabu (Fraktur), Lebensjoy (1994), Läckö, Linotype Dala Borders, Linotype Dala Pict (2002, beautiful dings!), Linotype Hieroglyphes One and Two (2002), Logoform, Magellan, Maricava, Moorbacka, Naniara (1998), Nordik, Olaus Bandus (medieval script), Olaus Magnus, Palekin (1994), Pelegotic (2006, an art deco inspired but minimalist sans), Pelican, PocketType (1994), Picadyll (2011, art deco), Promemoria, Ringlingje, Sabellicus (1997), Space Kid (runes), Swingbill, Trotzkopf (1998), Unotype (1997, mono), Vadstenakursive (1989, blackletter face with almost Lombardic-looking capitals), Viger Spa (runes).

In 2003, these faces were published in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection: Berndal LT Std Bold, Berndal LT Std BoldItalic, Berndal LT Std Italic, Berndal LT Std Regular, Berndal LT Std SC, Siseriff LT Std Black, Siseriff LT Std Bold, Siseriff LT Std BoldItalic, Siseriff LT Std Italic, Siseriff LT Std Light, Siseriff LT Std LightItalic, Siseriff LT Std Regular, Siseriff LT Std Semibold, Siseriff LT Std SemiboldItalic.

Pelle Anderson interviews Bo Berndal. Bitstream write-up. Agfa/Monotype write-up. Author of Typiskt typografiskt (Fisher and co, 1990). MyFonts page. Linotype page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Conrad Berner

Type founder who succeeded Jacques Sabon in 1580. He was the son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office. His catalog of type specimens is dated 1592. The "Berner specimen" of 1592 formed the basis of the free Google Web Font family EB Garamond (or: Egelnoff-Berner Garamond) developed by Georg Duffner. In 1626, his foundry passed into the hands of Johann Luther. At the time, he was the main type supplier for Germany, the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Berner

Designer of Cue Card (1993, alphadings). Fontspace link. Aka Sarcosmic Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucian Bernhard

Vienna-born type designer who lived from 1883-1972, and whose real name was Emil Kahn. He died in New York, where he lived most of his life. He studied at the Munich Academy, which became a center of poster design. In 1910 he co-founded the magazine Das Plakat. During WWI he designed posters for the German War effort. In 1920 he was appointed as the first professor of poster design at The Akedemie der Kunst, Berlin. He moved to New York in 1923 and continued his poster work. He also continued his teaching at the Art Students League and at New York University. Short biography of Lucian Bernhard. Biography. MyFonts link. His typefaces:

  • Bernhard and especially Bernhard Modern (1937) are gorgeous high-legged faces. Bernhard Modern is used in classy magazines for ads, and adds a touch of style to many documents or presentations.
  • Aigrette (1939).
  • Lucian (1925, Bauersche Giesserei). I have also seen the date 1932. See also the digital version by Tilde, 1990. Lucian is very close in spirit to Bernhard Modern. As far as digital versions go, one can check out the Font Bureau contribution from 1990 by Kelly Ehrgott Milligan and David Berlow called Belucian, which comes in several weights, including Demi and Ultra. There are many other ones as well, such as Bernhard Modern FS (2011, Sean Cavanaugh).
  • Lilith [or Lilli] (1930, Bauersche Giesserei).
  • Bernhard Antiqua (1912, Flinsch).
  • Bernhard Brush Script (Bauersche Giesserei, 1926).
  • Madonna Ronde (1925: this is the Stephenson Blake name, after it acquired this face from Bauersche Giesserei).
  • Bernhard Cursive (Bauersche Giesserei, 1925). Didgeree Doodle NF (2006, Nick Curtis) is a curly cursive originally released as Bernhard Heavy Antique Cursive by the Bauersche Giesserei.
  • Bernhard Fraktur (+Extrafette; +Initialen) (1912, Flinsch; 1922, Bauersche Giesserei).
  • Bernhard Privat (also called Flinsch-Privat, 1919; Flinsch, Bauersche Giesserei).
  • Bernhard Schönschrift (1925; see EF Bernhard Schonschrift). A free interpretation is Reliant (2010, Iza W and Dmitrij Greshnev).
  • Bernhard Fashion (1929). This has been digitized by many, including SoftMaker (as Bernhard Fashion, in 2010), Infinitype, and Bistream (as Bernhard Fashion BT in 1990). It has been extended and played with, like for example, in Nick Curtis's Quoi Chou NF (2006).
  • Bernhard Gothic (1929, ATF; see Bernhard Gothic SG by Spiece Graphics, or Samosata NF by Nick Curtis in 2009). Mac McGrew writes: Bernhard Gothic was one of the first contemporary American sans-serifs, designed in 1929-30 by Lucian Bernhard for ATF to counter the importation of the new European designs such as Futura and Kabel. It features long ascenders and a number of unusual design details, which perhaps prevented it from achieving the popularity of other such faces. Capitals are low-waisted, with the crossbars or arms of E, F, and H being below center. M is widely splayed in some weights. Lowercase a is roman in design, and the cross-stroke of t is wide and below the mean line. All but the Title versions have a number of alternate characters, later discontinued. The comma, semicolon and apostrophe, usually comparable, have three different forms. Bernhard Gothic was made only by ATF, but some weights could be simulated with special characters of Monotype Sans-Serif and Ludlow Tempo. The Title versions, several sizes of caps on each body in the manner of Copperplate Gothics, were added in 1936, and copied by Intertype as Greeting Gothic. Around 1938 Bernhard Gothic Medium Condensed was added.
  • Bernhard Tango (1933, ATF). Bernhard Tango was imitated by Corel (Ballroom Tango), SSi (Petticoat), Greenstreet (Felicita) and Agfa (Carmine Tango).
  • He also did a Magnetype font series that has been left untouched. Jonahfonts is the first to start reviving this series. In 2010, Bernhard's Community Low and Community Condensed started their digital life as Harpsichord (Jonah Fonts).
  • According to Font Bureau, Bernhard also did an art deco display sans series in the 1930s, which David Berlow and Jonathan Corum at Font Bureau revived as Eagle from 1989-1994.
  • Lucian lettered a concert program in the 1920, which was used by Jim Spiece in 2002 to create the elegant rounded sans display face Concerto Rounded.
  • Lucian Bernhard's award-winning poster, Priester (1906), had angular lettering. Jonahfonts did LB Priester in 2009 based on it.
  • In the Bitstream collection, we find Bernhard Bold, with unknown origins. However, I have this rare 2002 public statement by John Warnock, Adobe's founder, in reaction to a question by M. Johansson (What happened to the Lo-Type font in Adobe Font Folio? It was included with Font Folio 8 but it's not in Font Folio 9. In Font Folio 9 there's Bernhard Bold Condensed, which is a reasonable replacement. I'm just wondering if anyone knows why Lo-Type was dropped; I prefer it myself.): Cuz LoType is a Berthold Type font and Adobe and Berthold had a lovers quarrel. A ton of Bertie's in FF8, no Bertie faces at all on FF9. Bye-bye Bertie. Love, J. Warnock.

Posters by Bernhard: An advertising exhibition in 1929 (with Fritz Rosen), Manoli Cigarettes (1912).

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Balint Bernhardt

Creative director in Budapest, who used FontStruct to create the modular straight-edge face Henry (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon Bernhardt

From the author, Jon Bernhardt: Springbats Deluxe combines Springbats with Mugshots along with my own Binky, Akbar&Jeffs. His Akbar font is a 1996-2000 adaptation of the 1991 font by Cowan Design Associates, which in turn was based on the famous handwriting of Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons and the comic Life in Hell. In 1996, he created SimpsonFont (from The Simpsons).

Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gwen Bernier

Creator of the outline family Vaille (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Bernier

Environmentally responsible designer in New York. Behance link. She created an animal alphabet for Wolf Awareness Week (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blanca Berning

Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011 who was born in Germany. Her graduation typeface was Clint (2011), a text family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Clint suffers from a multiple personality disease, with asymmetric serifs, a strange axis, some timid ball terminals, and other exogenetic details. [Google] [More]  ⦿

R. Berninger

FontStructor who made Peephole (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gerard E. Bernor

Designer of freeware/shareware fonts, some of which refere to TQF, or "Typset Quality Font): 3-DHotDog, AardvarkBold, AbbotDemi, Andros, Architech, Aristocrat, Ashford, BambiBold (a black didone face), Bankrupt, Blackwoods, BoltedBold, BrushArt, CloisterBlack, DoubleTrouble, GalacticFuss72-Condensed, GalacticFuss72-Ext, GalacticFuss72-SPBold, GalacticFuss72, GalacticFuss72Stch, GalacticFuss72SupCon, Galla, Gallery, HotDog, TQFAllisonScript, TQFAnimals, TQFElectronics, TQFFlorentine, TQF Freight Train, TQFFruitfulBlack, TQFMachine, TQFPCMedium, TQFPlants, TQFWordTrain.

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Sebastian Berns

FontStructor in 2009 of Boredoni. Trial faces by him include Fancy, Stubborn Straight, Foostruct v1.1, and Negative Creep. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marta Erica Bernstein

Graduate of the Type and Media program at KABK, 2009. There, she designed the serif family Alice, specifically for magazines. She is working on Bolano in 2010 about which she writes: It is based on my brush calligraphy, tamed down to a book typeface. She is back in Milan now where she works at LS Design. She wrote A Hundred Years of Type 1813-1908 Typefounders and Printers in Italy from Bodoni's death to the foundation of Augusta company in Turin (Master degree dissertation developed with Emanuela Conidi. Supervisor: Prof. James Clough at Politecnico di Milano, July 2006; in Italian: Cento Anni di Caratteri 1813-1908). Scans of Alice: i, ii, iii, iv, v. Scans of Bolano: i, ii, iii. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vyktor Berriel

Brazilian designer of the grunge face Black Nouveau (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Berry

Melbourne-based graphic designer. Creator of Fat Face (2007), a fat serifed headline face. He also made AB Uncial (2007). Graduate with an MA in typeface design, University of Reading, 2008. His graduation project was a versatile serif face created for use in magazines and books, Hyde Serif. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lean Berrybellebee

Canadian designer of the handprinted faces Georgina's Hand and Celine's Hand (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Berry

Designer at iFontMaker of Silky (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guillaume Berry

E753 is Guillaume Berry's typography site. Guillaume is a graphic designer in Lyon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kim Berry

Designer in Perth, Australia, b. 1983. Creator the primitive handwriting face The World's Worst Font (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sheri Berry

Sheri Berry created a Sheriberry DingFont, and a few Netbaby fonts (for dressing dolls). She specializes in fun fonts for children. The fonts were created ca. 1998. In 2007, SheriBerry Graphics became CastleBeary Graphics. The fonts: jagedge, just_willys, sbding2, sbelephant, sbfence, sbhading (Halloween font), SB Halloding (Halloween font), sbnetbaby, sbunny, sherberi, silly_willys.

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Andreia Bersot

Graphic designer based in Rio de Janeiro. Creator of the experimental face Bossa (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Luisa Bertazzoni

Communication design student at Politecnico di Milano, who is from Mantova. She created Pasticcio Storico (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Verónica Bertazzo

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the Victorian era face Arnol (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emil Karl Bertell

Fenotype, a Finnish typefoundry, has the original (often techno) designs of Emil Bertell (b. 1983, Helsinki) and his brother Erik Bertell and wife Kea Bertell. Emil has been studying graphic design at University of Art&Industrial Design in Helsinki since 2004. He designed most of his typefaces during 2001-2004, and works as a freelance illustrator. Behance link.

Typefaces made in 2002: Lakmus, Valimo, FUTU, Test1, Foton Torpedo, Personal Computer, Copycut, Unicode 0024, HKI Metro, HKI NightLife, Digital Kauno, Fenotravels (dingbats), Tivoli, Kosmonaut, 10124, JouluFonttiFenotype, Testi, 1laitos, 1120, 0629 (2002, a kitchen tile font), 0927, FTdingsprevi, Fenotypedings#lego3, Genotype, NeoPangaia, NeoPangaiap2, Nipponblocks, Pectopah, Personalcomputer, Pouttu, Samarin (2002, athletic lettering), Unicode0024, URALphat, URALthin, URAL, URAL3d (all Latin/Cyrillic fonts with incomplete punctuation though), Automania (multiline), Copycut, Halo, 222_2003, Tantor, Letters, Rikos, Lastu, ThreeTheHardWay, Bukkake, Halo. Emil's brother Erik designed Neon, Mama and Mama Round. In private email, he calls himself Carl. The foundry evolved from 2theleft.

Fonts made in 2003: Military Dingbats, 08 02 03 Fenotype, Projectsfenotype, Rock-it.

Fonts made in 2004: Scandinavian Titan white, Scandinavian Titan, Nihilist philosophy, Acid Test 2, Acid Test, 080203, Letters11, Linja, Projects, Rock it, Simpletype. Commercial typefaces: Sapluuna, Shortcut, Transeuro-Express, Omega-Uros, Fenotype Dings, Military Dingbats, Nippon Noodle. Typefaces made in 2004: Kolari, Kolari Light, FTfaces, Twisted Ontogenesis. Alternate URL.

In 2005: RoundAbout, Nihilist Philosophy, Boogie Monster, Chunky Hunk (Western), Diy Typeface (kitchen tile style), Futuretro (stencil-like), 3TheHardWayOverrun, Pedant Dilettante, FT Rosecube, 3TheHardWayRMX, Adios Gringo (Western face), Helsingfurt (3d oil glow face), Cream Soda (liquid), Thashed Paper Bag, Big Medium.

In 2006: Rock It Deluxe (grunge), Cassette (dingbats), Kings Garden (Japanese trees as dingbats).

MyFonts link, opened in 2009, where one can buy 080203, 3 The Hard Way Overrun, 3 The Hard Way RMX, Adios Gringo, Depth Charge, FT Helsingfurt, FT Roundabout, FT Scandinavian Titan, FT Twisted Ontogenesis, Ice Cream Soda, Kings Garden, Kolari, Nihilist Philosophy, Old Note, Rock It, November Script, and Majestic Mishmash (ransom note caps), Digital Kauno (2002, upright script), 10.12, EB Vintage Future, Fenotype Dingbats, FT Forest, FT Funghis, FT Military Dingbats, FT Weapon of Choice, Motel Xenia, URAL, Valima.

Additions in 2010: Linguine (connected script), FT Telegraph (slab serif), FT Brush, FT Industry Machine, FT Giorgio, Killer Elephant (signage), FT Supervisor (retro), FT Dead Mans Diary (scribbly), FT Grandpa Script (grunge calligraphy), FT Stamper (angular lettering), FT Tantor (fat, rounded), FT Bronson (fat display face with mustache dings thrown in), FT Master of Poster (bi-level display face with many ligatures and interlocking letters), FT Hidden Forest (tree dingbats), FT Mammoth (grotesque headline face), Rikos (futuristic), Squarendon Extra Bold (2010, a Clarendon), FT Moonshine Script (a Treefrog style face), Billboard (a handprinted rounded caps family), EB Bellissimo Display (rounded monoline sans), Malamondo (an all caps display face with a large number of interlocking ligatures), Linja (2002 and 2010, a rounded ultra condensed family), Punavuori (2002 and 2010: a monoline sans family), Signor (2010, a rounded all caps family), Mrs. Lolita (connected script), Funghi Mania (mushroom dingbats), Funghi Mania Script, Darlington (very open upright connected script family), Archipelago (+Caps: an upright connected script), Tower (pieces that enable one to modularly construct towers when stacked; created as a school assignment at the University of Industrial Art&Design Helsinki in 2006), Monster (just as Tower but for monsters), Verna (informal face with ball terminals), Verner (2010, a connected script version of Verna), Verner (2010, a connected script version of Verna).

Typefaces from 2011: Pepita Script (an upright connected script with small lachrymal terminals), Pepito (its nonconnected version), Barber (upright script family), Banzai Bros (a fat caps-only signage face), Mishka (an upright connected script with tear drop terminals).

In 2012, he created Slim Tony (a bubblegum retro signage face).

Dafont link.

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Erik Jarl Bertell

Erik graduated from Lahti Institute of Design. His fonts include Neon, Mama and Mama Round. Born in Helsinki in 1980, Erik is a type designer for Fenotype, which was founded by his brother Emil Bertell. His fonts EB Base Mono (2009, monospaced), EB Futuretro (2002, bilined techno face), EB Neon (2002), EB Boogie Monster (2002, multiline family), EB Vintage Future and EB Humboldt (2002, ultra fat) can be bought at MyFonts. EB Martin (2010) is, in his own words, a post modern take on several traditional blackletter types. EB Jessica (2011) is part typewriter, part cemetery. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kea Bertell

Kea Bertell studied Spatial and Furniture Design at University of Art&Industrial design Helsinki. After being injured she started working as an illustrator with her husband Emil Bertell at Fenotype in Turku, Finland. Her first typeface, done in 2010, is the brushy Biscuits and Gravy. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Chris Berthe

Designer of the paper fold face Paper&Love (2010). Chris was born in and lives in Montreal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jéröme Berthemet

Graphic and web designer in Paris, b. 1983. He made the art deco blackened out geometric face Caligari (2008), the mirror face Rivulet (2011) and the martini glass-inspired art deco beauty called Sophia (2008). Home page with incorrect HTML code. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clément Berthet-Bondet

Graphic design student in Lyon, who created an art deco prismatic typeface called Striped (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Berthiaume

Quebec-based designer of the experimental face Hamlet at UQAM (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatrice Berthon-Perrot

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

Raffaello Bertieri

Artist from Florence, 1875-1941. Designer at Nebiolo for most of his life. He made Inkunabula (1911, Società Augusta; based on the roman of Erhard Ratdolt, 1476), Sinibaldi (1926), Paganini (1928, with Alessandro Butti---Jessica Svendsen digitized this in 2010 under the same name, and so did Patrick Griffin and Kevin Allan King at Canada Type in 2011: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii), Iliade (1930), Ruano (1933). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Bertocchio

Born in Marseille (1907-1978), under the pseudonym of Berto, Bertocchio designed Berto in the 50s as a lithographer. In 2000, Christophe Badani made a modern day font based on it, called Berto. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mario&Mary Bertoluzzi

The font creators at MB Music Engraving In Greely, CO, write: "MBPercussion is a 116 character symbol or pictogram font created for the engraver, copyist, and composer who work with contemporary percussion notation. Advantages of percussion symbol use include clarity, efficiency of space, and the elimination of translation problems." 30 USD, Windows and Mac. Notational symbols for wind chimes, ratchets, vibes, slide whistle. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicolo Bertoncin

Graphic designer who was born and grew up in Milan. In 2011, he created The Fresh Sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Bertram

Australian designer of the free fonts Vertigon (2012, poster face) and Wolfsburg (2012, techno). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andy Bertram

Designer at the Australian foundry Prototype Font Design of Bodoni Java, City Central, City Estate, Code, Empyre, Interface, Krush, Nippon, Ruby, Special Deluxe, Speedster, Vertigo, Bats Noir, Beds, Bats&Tables, Numb Bats, Sports Bats. Prototype Font Design went out of business some time before 2004. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Axel Bertram

Axel Bertram was born in Dresden in 1936. He studied at the Berlin Weissensee Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. From 1972 to 1986 and from 1989 to 1992 he worked as a university lecturer in typeface and graphic design at the Berlin-Weissensee Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. He was made professor in 1977. He has been active in graphic design, publicity work, and most importantly, digital typeface design. Designer of delicately quaint Lucinde family in 16 styles (2011, Linotype), in collaboration with calligrapher and type designer Andreas Frohloff. Lucinde was later renamed Rabenau. Images: i, ii, iii.

Linotype writes: In March 1999, Axel Bertram carried out the first test prints of a typeface which he had originally developed for his own use. He had been searching for an appropriate script to evoke both a significant period in the history of printing and the literary historical milieu of Berlin around 1900. His attention was drawn to Friedrich Schlegel's novel Lucinde which appeared to great acclaim in 1799 and whose ideas found great sympathy in Axel Bertram. (The novel deals with the major re-ordering of the roles between men and women, in particular arising from the lifestyle of a young Romantic. Sensibility and intellectual attraction, earthly and heavenly love were no longer to be seen as irreconcilable opposites and certainly not to be seen as being divinely pre-ordained for one sex only. This was a small historical step on the path towards equality of rights for the sexes. The novel remained an incomplete fragment and the ideas contained did not catch on in the author's lifetime. These new demands had, however, found a voice and continued to resonate.) In 1999 the new typeface was therefore dedicated to the ideals of this young Romantic with all its sublime insolence.

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Jacques Bertrand

Jacques Bertrand works in the Department of Psychology at the University of Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He designed the Mac fonts Amour Tendre, Bertrand, Jean Camil, Nancy Blue, Petit Bonheur (see also here), Provence, Puccini and Steinbeck (Mac only). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michela Berzano

Graphic and web designer from Barcelona who created the fat squarish face Dora (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Burak Besen

Winner of an award in Alessandro Segalini's type design class at Izmir University of Economics in June 2007 with the grunge stencil face Cig Kofte. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Besley

British typefounder and punchcutter, active from about 1840-1860. He succeeded William Thorowgood at the Fann Street Foundry in 1849. Credited with cutting the first Clarendon (1845), a fat face with thick slabs. This was also the first registered typeface, ever. See also here. Stephenson Blake acquired Clarendon when it bought the Sir Charles Reed typefoundry, and issued the face as Consort. Typophile discussion on Besley's Clarendon from which I quote a few passages.

  • About the first instance of piracy, James Mosley explains: The Clarendon type of the Besley foundry is the first type actually designed as a related bold that is, made to harmonize in design and align with the roman types it was set with. It was registered in Britain in 1845 under the new Ornamental Designs Act of 1842. But when protection ran out after only three years, the other founders also thought a related bold was a good idea. This is how Besley reacted.
  • About Consort, another tpyeface of Fann Street from the same era, Mosley writes: The light weight of Consort, an excellent type I think, was another Fann Street type of the 1840s or 1850s, and was presumably cut by Benjamin Fox. It doesn't match the Clarendons closely, though, having unbracketed serifs. The story of the bold and the italic is a rather sad one. They were made by H. Karl Görner, who was born in Germany in 1883, was taken on in 1907 as assistant punchcutter with Stephenson, Blake&Co., Sheffield and stayed with them for the rest of his life. He died in 1964. Görner was probably trained to cut steel punches, but the work I know about was cut in typemetal, and electrotypes were grown to make matrices for casting. This was quite a usual practice, in the UK and the US at least, from the later 19th century onwards. I was told that, years before, Görner had made the type that was thought up by Robert Harling and marketed by Stephenson Blake under the name of Chisel. He cast type from matrices for Bold Latin Condensed and incised lines into the face. When SB wanted a bold and an italic to complete the Consort series, Görner cast a bold slab-serif from some quite early matrices and pared it down to make Consort Bold. I dont know if he had a model for the italic. Probably not. I think they are awful types travesties of the original cuttings of Clarendon.
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Michel Besnard

The French type designers Michel (b. 1942) and Rosalyne Besnard (b. 1946) live in Rouen. Under the brand Les Besnardtypo, they jointly designed Micmac (Agfa Creative Alliance, 1997), ITC Odyssee (1996), ITC Typados (1997), Rom (Creative Alliance, 1998), Bouchon (Letraset, 2000), Huit (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1972), Sargon (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1974: bilined and futuristic), Migraph (Agfa Monotype, 1999), PistolShot LT Std Normal and Light (Linotype, 2003), Nazca (Monotype Imaging, 2005), Sargon (Monotype Imaging, 2006), First One (Monotype Imaging, 2006: a family for teaching the alphabet to children), Mickros (Monotype Imaging, 2007), Pantin (Monotype Imaging, 2007), De Gama (Monotype Imaging, 2008), Pasta (Monotype Imaging, 2008).

Linotype page. FontShop link. Another FontShop link.

View Michel Besnard's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Roselyne Besnard

The French type designers Michel (b. 1942) and Rosalyne Besnard (b. 1946) live in Rouen, France. Under the brand Les Besnardtypo, they jointly designed Micmac (Creative Alliance, 1997), ITC Odyssee (1996), ITC Typados (1997, art nouveau), Rom (Creative Alliance, 1998), Bouchon (Letraset, 2000), Huit (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1972), Sargon (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1974: bilined and futuristic), Migraph (Agfa Monotype, 1999), PistolShot LT Std Normal and Light (Linotype, 2003), Nazca (Monotype Imaging, 2005), Sargon (Monotype Imaging, 2006), First One (Monotype Imaging, 2006: a family for teaching the alphabet to children), Mickros (Monotype Imaging, 2007), Pantin (Monotype Imaging, 2007), De Gama (Monotype Imaging, 2008), Pasta (Monotype Imaging, 2008).

Linotype page. FontShop link. Another FontShop link.

View Roselyne Besnard's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Constanza Besnier

Constanza graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, she created the organic face Pomaire, which was named after a picturesque and rustic village. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Bessa

Brazilian creator in 2008 of an Avant Garde style font RavenGarde for TIM Festival 2008. He works at Tátil Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ann Bessemans

PhD student (b. 1983) at Leiden University and Hasselt University, who lives in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. In 2011, she finished the Expert Type Design Class with Frank Blokland at the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp, and created the typeface Matilda. Matilda was specially designed to help make kids make the transition from reading simple type forms to more complex ones. Her PhD is about the design of a font that can reduce the reading problems of children with low vision. She speaks regularly about legibility. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Callum Best

Callum Best (Bournemouth, UK) created the art deco typeface Ark Deco (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Doug Best

Cincinnati, OH-based designer of these typefaces in 2011: Frakked (blackletter), Spartan, Octagon, Modern Wood, Wasabi (a free Asian calligraphic simulation face; +Shogun, +Samurai, +Ninja). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tom Besters

Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the grunge font Dyslexic. Tom lives in Borsbeek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Best

Many free Sanskrit-diacritic typefaces here, all designed by Murari Dasa (was Madhava Dasa), aka Michael Best, who is the oldest son of Pratyatosa Dasa. The fonts: Tamal (1993, based on Times Ten), Bhaskar (NewBaskerville), Devanagari (well, this is a true Devanagari font done in 1995), Drona (Dutch), Garuda (FuturaCondensed), Gaudiya (Goudy), Hladini (Helvetica), Karuna (Courier), Shanti (Sabon), Avatar (Avenir), Bhimasena (Benguiat), Gauranga (FormalScript), Kunti (KuenstlerScript), Kurma (Cooper), Uttama (University Roman), Yama (TempHeavyCondensed). In 1996-1997, Best designed the Tamil font Indevr20, with copyright to The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. All his fonts on one zip file. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Betella

Creator of the rough handwriting font Yellow Jug (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy Beth

Student at UWE Bristol in the UK. FontStructor who made the grunge face Tooth Decay (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bethan

Welsh youngster (b. 1993) who created Dwarvish (2008, runes). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bethany

Britsh designer (b. 1992) who created the handwriting face Bethany's Font (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Betowski

FontStructor whose fonts include Gridsix (2010, a unicase kitchen tile face), Blockhead (2008, the ultimate fat face), and Quadrants (2008, modular). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Bettencourt

Portuguese designer who is based in Macau. Creator of the free script face Bettencourt (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rebecca Bettencourt

Relay Fonts (Rebecca Bettencourt, aka Beckie RGB, and also known as Kreative Korporation and Kreative Software) offers a number of free fonts.

  • Their main list of fonts, 2003-2010: Alisha, CosmicSpamMS, DotCom, Eighteen, Felicia, FluorineLite, FluorineLiteMikiana, Glass, GlathenGirl, Infinity, Kaileen, Kawakimi, LongIsland, LongIslandIcedTea, Madgecrack, MikaPro, Miranda25, Miranda27, OpenDocRocks, SixthKristenSquirt, Sorority, Tenbitesch, ThiMegaTampon.
  • Designers in 2008 of the large free face Constructium seen at the Open Font Library.

    They write: Constructium is a free font for supporting constructed scripts, as encoded in the Unofficial ConScript Unicode Registry. It is based on SIL Gentium and thus released under the SIL Open Font License. Constructium is ideal for mixed Latin/Greek/Cyrillic, IPA, and conlang text, thus well suited for conlangers' web sites. In addition to most Latin and Greek, basic Cyrillic, and IPA extensions, Constructium supports the following conscripts: Tengwar, Cirth, Amman-Nar, Olaetyan, Seussian Latin Extensions, Sylabica (isolated forms only, no syllables), Unifon, Solresol, Glaitha-A, Glaitha-B, Deini, Kamakawi (encoded at U+F000), and Klingon.

  • They made the pixel fonts ChixaDemiBold, EpilepsySans, EpilepsySansBold, Fairfax, FairfaxBold, FairfaxItalic, FairfaxSerif, FluorineMicro, Goethe, GoetheBold, Hippauf, KKFixed4x5, KKFixed4x7, KKPx4, Magdalena, MagdalenaBold, McMillen, McMillenBold, Mischke, MischkeBold, Monterey, MontereyBold, SeaChelUnicode, SixteenSegments, dwtMicro, dwtMicroMask.
  • Fontstructor who made SF Subway (2011), a kitchen tile face based on tiled lettering seen in the San Francisco MUNI system, and Great Rounded Matrix (2012, a dot matrix face).
  • Discontinued fonts: Berkelium Bitmap, Endcurled, Lauren, Sunflower's Illegible Writing, Berkelium Type, Fluorine, Mikkav, Unmodified Fax, C Colon Backslash, Hydrogenfluoride, Modern Grease, Copyright Renewed, Infinite, Signatures.
  • Conlang fonts: Constructium, Nuvenon (Tehano Venon for Ayeri).
  • The Urban Renewal series revives the old Apple faces with new names: Liverpool (aka London), Sanfrisco (aka San Francisco), Los Altos (aka Los Angeles), Torrance (aka Toronto), Athene (aka Athens), Parc Place (aka Cream, aka Palo Alto), Valencia (aka Venice).
  • Faithful recreations in 2011 of pixel fonts of old computers, notably Apple II [BerkeliumIIDHR, BerkeliumIIHGR, PRNumber3, PrintChar21, Shaston320, Shaston640, ShastonHi320, ShastonHi640], Commodore 64 [Berkelium1541, Berkelium64, Giana, PetMe, PetMe128, PetMe1282Y, PetMe2X, PetMe2Y, PetMe64, PetMe642Y], Apple Lisa [EmptyFolders2X3Y, EmptyFoldersRaw, Engelbart2X3Y, EngelbartRaw, LisaCalcPaper2X3Y, LisaCalcPaperRaw, LisaGraphPaper2X3Y, LisaGraphPaperRaw, LisaGuidePaper2X3Y, LisaGuidePaperRaw, LisaProjectPaper2X3Y, LisaProjectPaperRaw, LisaSketchPaper2X3Y, LisaSketchPaperRaw, LisaTerminalPaper2X3Y, LisaTerminalPaperRaw, LisaTerminalPaperSmall2X3Y, LisaTerminalPaperSmallRaw, PriamWhamos2X3Y, PriamWhamosRaw, SomeAcronym2X3Y, SomeAcronymRaw, StartupFrom2X3Y, StartupFromRaw, Twiggy2X3Y, TwiggyRaw], and others [Antiquarius, CandyAntics, ColleenAntics, DosStartDefaultFont, ItalianPlumber, Speccy].
  • Custom fonts: Jewel Hill, Miss Diode n Friends, This is Beckie's Font.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Bettger

Aka as theterrible. Designer in 2008 of this font, based on FontStruct: Struktur (2008, blackletter), more_than_meets_the_eye (2009, based on The Transformers) and New Traface (2009, sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Betti

Hopewell Junction, NY-based graphic designer who has created some custom typefaces such as Birds (2009). The alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giada Bettio

Italian creator (from Jesolo) of the ink trap techno face Lumina (2009), which was designed while he was studying at the Politecnico in Milan. It was intended for applications such as illuminated dashboards of cars and planes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeffrey Betts

Designer in Elmont, NY. In 2012, he used Futura as a basis for Arcade, a typeface used for wayfinding on a campus. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leo Beukeboom

Leo Beukeboom was the in-house sign painter for Heineken brewery for more than 30 years. An accomplished and skillful lettering artist, he was heavily influenced by Dutch writing masters such as Cornelis Boissens and Jan van de Velde. He created a unique script style that became one of the distinctive characteristics of traditional brown café's in Amsterdam. Leo is now working on Beukeboom Script (Re-Type, 2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean Paul Beumer

Omashuisje (lit. grandmother's house) is the foundry of Jean Paul Beumer, a Dutch graphic and type designer from Biervleet, Zeeland, The Netherlands, who was born in Breda in 1968. He is working on this slab serif typeface (2007). Eastburgh (2011) is a slightly slabbed humanist sans face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ajda Bevc

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

Eleni Beveratou

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

During TipoBrda 2010, she created the contrast-rich display sans face Untitled. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrico Bevere

San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy-based graphic designer. Behance link.

Creator of an experimental faces Jellymorph (2012) and No IS (2011), which use the Perlin random number generator and trigonometric functions to create glyph outlines. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Bevis

Designer (Steve Bevis?) of "In the Zone Dingbats". Elswhere you can download Britney Jean Spears Dingbats (2005, Jennifer Paige). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arton Bey

Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to create GRRRILLA (Western billboard face) and Bombs (ultra-condensed fat face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Beyer

French creator of Gagaille Premiere (2005) and Gagaille Seconde (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julia Beynon

Graphic designer and fashion model Julia Beynon (Daphne Designs, Los Angeles) created the handwriting all caps outline face Bully Boys (2003), downloadable from DaFONT. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hugo Beyts

Creator of the poster face Ice Station Awesome (2011), Bright Yopung Things (2011), and the scratchy hand Yellow Back Radio (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

B. Manojkumar Bhawsar

Located in Indore, India, this foundry sells fonts by B. Manojkumar Bhawsar (b. 1970, Kukshi) such as the Cut Sans Serif family (LED family, 2006). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nicko Bhisma

Indonesian designer of Beltskerville (2011) and Earfont (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yauheni Bialiuha

Yauheni Bialiuha (Re:Vision, Saint Petersburg, Russia) made an experimental counterless Latin font in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karine Bialobroda

Parisian designer who made a techno alphabet in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stefano Bianca

He used Fontifier to design the handwriting face whitesteve (2004). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Svetlana Bianca

Brazilian graphic design student. Creator of the iFontMaker font American Typewriter By SvetB (2010, a handprinted face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

María Mercedes Bianco

Graphic designer in Buenos Aires, who created a playful display face in 2011. She is a student at FADU UBA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Bibilo

Media Production student at the University of Lincoln, UK. As iFontMaker, he created the scratchy hand Shotgun Shak (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Bickernicks

A free (Mac, PC) handwriting font by Eric Bickernicks, and the story of how it appeared without warning on the Tiger Software CD. The font BikyBold is also Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phil Bicker

Designer in the FUSE 7 collection of the lunatic scribbly font Illiterate. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Terry Biddle

Designer and illustrator who makes his own types (typically comic book style faces) for his work. He studied TV and film at Howard University in Washington, DC, and communications design at the Pratt Institute in New York. He lives in Washington, DC. Creations include Bizzle Chizzle (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

René Bieder

Berliner who made the ultrafat counterless face RB Titrage Number One (2010). RB No2 (2011) is a free geometric, gothic display font inspired by the German industry in the late 19th century. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Bielous

Slovakian creator of the tattoo font Bad Boys (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bas Bierbooms

Designer of the alphading font Smiley Faces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tad Biernot

Canadian designer of Linotype Rory (1997) and Linotype Dummy (1997). FontShop link. Linotype Dummy is an Escheresque optical illusion face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Bierschenk

Young Berlin-based type designer who made the Chemo family, Bionic Dynamic, Localizer, Localizer Clones and FF Magda Clean (1997, together with Henning Krause), a monospaced typewriter font related to Cornel Windlin's Magda, all at FontFont. His company is called Critzler Font Investigation. He created the fun Linotype faces Linotype Down Town, Linotype Go Tekk and Linotype Mindline in 1997. Before 1990, he was an East-German sign painter. He recently founded Pfadfinderei, an "all-round" agency for visual communication, where he designed the futuristic techno display type family FF TradeMarker (2007), Flomaster (1998, graffiti, done with Jayone), Vinataba Solid (2002), Nicola Zucka (2002, connected cursive script), Franz Jäger (2000, ultra fat, mini-slabbed), and Neo (2002, geometric as in the logo of the Neo car). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Bierschenk

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

Allison Biesboer

Wisconsin-based graphic designer, who obtained a BFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She created the futuristic face Moonboots (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Bigelow

Bigelow&Holmes was founded by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. Charles Bigelow (b. 1945, Detroit) is a type designer and teacher, who runs his own studio, Bigelow&Holmes. In mid-2006, Bigelow accepted the Melbert B. Cary Distinguished Professorship at Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Print Media. Typefaces designed by Bigelow:

  • The Lucida family (1985) is used in several scientific publications. I find it more appropriate for screens than paper, but that is just a personal view. The Lucida family contains LucidaConsole (1993), LucidaSansTypewriter (1991), LucidaFax, LucidaCalligraphy, LucidaBright, Lucida Blackletter (1991, a bastarda) and Lucida Handwriting. It has been recently expanded to comply with the Unicode Standard, and includes non-Latin scripts such as Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew. Charles Bigelow created the font families Lucida Math (with Kris Holmes, 1993), Lucida Sans (with Kris Holmes, 1985), Lucida Typewriter Sans (with Kris Holmes, 1985) and Lucida Serif (with Kris Holmes, 1993).
  • Syntax Phonetic.
  • Leviathan (1979).
  • Apple Chicago (1991), Apple Geneva (1991).
  • Microsoft Wingdings (1992).
Ascender link. Wikipedia link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Stan Biggenden

American letter designer who created Orbit-B (1972, VGC), an LED font, now digitized by Bitstream as Orbit-B BT. FontShop link. Zach Whalen on Orbit-B: Orbit-B is less common than either Moore Computer or Data 70, possibly because its MICR influence is more subtle and less arbitrarily intrusive, but it still appears frequently in and around videogames and in contexts where some intimacy is suggested between humans and computers. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jason Biggs

Jason Biggs (Kurai Studios, Florida) is the designer (b. 1985) of 3Dot (2004) and Anchrish Runes (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Biggs

Dublin-based creator of the modern Gaelic Uncial typeface Biggs (1953). A draft of a digitization, called Doolish (Michael Everson), is in the works. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea B-Ja Bigiarini

Turin-based creator of the handprinted typeface Irreality Mark 01 (2012, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Bigsby

Vernon, BC-based creator of Simply Delicious (2012, handprinted) and Viande Funée (2012, hand-drawn). Dafont link. Aka Tuna Fish. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Bihari

Creator of typefaces at VGC, such as Aase (1977), Round Black (1977), DoublePipe(1975), and Corvina Black (1973). Corvina Black was revived and modified by Patrick Griffin in 2005 as Gaslon (Canada Type). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gunnar Biilmann Petersen

Danish architect (1897-1968), who taught design at Danmarks Designskole, from 1951-1967. At some point, he designed some lettertypes. Steen Ejlers is writing a book on his work. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jasper Bijssen

Dutch type designer, b. 1987, who lives in Rotterdam. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Peter Bilak

Slovakian type designer (b. 1973), who lives in The Netherlands. Bio at FontFont. Designed: FF Atlanta, FF Craft (Kafkaesque), Champollion, Collapse, Didot Sans (unpublished), Decoratica (great display font, unpublished), Desthetica (grunge, but nice!), FF Eureka, FF Eureka Sans (2000), FF Eureka Mono (2001, FontFont), FF Eureka SansCond, FF Eureka Symbols (2002), FF Eureka CE, FF Eureka Sans CE, Fountain Pen (free fountain pen nib dingbat font), FF Masterpiece (wacky), FF Orbital, Fedra Sans (2001, a de-protestantised version of Univers, originally a corporate font for Bayerische Rück, a German insurance company), Fedra Bitmap (2002), Euroface (1996, Typerware, a scribbly font allegedly more legible than Helvetica at 80km/h), HolyCow and The Case. Essays on typography and design. Editor of dot dot dot. He also made AccentKernMaker, a font utility. Peter Bilak now lives in The Hague, The Netherlands, at the same address as Paul van der Laan. Free dingbat font FountainPen (Mac). At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about white spaces in typography. Speaker at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Bilbao

Spanish type designer who created Escorial (ca. 1960, Richard Gans Foundry), a display face with Koch Antiqua influences. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jake Bilbrey

ZicklePop Productions is a web design and development company ran by American Jake Bilbrey. In 2010, he used iFontMaker to draw Whipping Cream. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Bilheimer

Chris Bilheimer (R.E.M. Athens) attended the fine arts program at the University of Georgia and began working as art director for the band R.E.M. in 1994. While still working for R.E.M., he continues with other work in the music industry, art directing bands including Green Day, Beck, and Weezer. Bilheimer has garnered three Grammy nominations for art direction, and, with Michael Stipe, co-designed several fonts for use on the band's artwork: REM Accelerate, REM Orange, REM Tourfont. With the help of type foundry TypeTrust, these fonts have recently been released commercially by Neil Summerour at Positype. Speaker at TypeCon 2009 in Atlanta. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Courtney Billadeau

Creator at FontStruct in 2009 of Mother May I, Arlen Rage, Hunger, Burnt Out (fat stencil), Yes You May, Crave. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Si Billam

Si Billam designed the neon signage font Doppler (2008) at the Archetypal Foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dorothé Billard

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

N. N. Billawala

Pandora metafont family written by N. N. Billawala. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Bill

Influential Swiss graphic designer, painter and architect, b. 1908, Winterthur. Designer of Bill (1949-1950, geometric) and ArchiType Bill. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cecilia Billoch

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the curly script face Filografía (2009), in the style of the Sudtipos scripts by Koziupa and Paul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Silja Bilz

Linotype designer of the big Compatil family (2001), with Olaf Leu and Reinhard Haus. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wilhelm Bilz

Type designer who worked with Ludwig&Mayer and with Francesco Simoncini in the 1950s and 1960s. With Francesco Simoncini, he created Simoncini Garamond from 1958-1961. Not the best version of Garamond in my view. Bitstream's Italian Garamond (by Bilz and Simoncini) is in the same style. The transitional typeface Life (1965) was designed by W. Bilz, and jointly developed by Ludwig&Mayer and Francesco Simoncini.

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Salamah Bin Akwa

Pakistan-based designer of the computer/futuristic face Tameeraati (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Friedrich Gustav Binder

After studies in Berlin, Binder (b. 1898, Lindenberg, d. 1991) taught at the National Art School in Saaarbrücken. From 1924 on, he worked as an independent commercial artist. Designer at D. Stempel of Binder Style (1959). This squarish elbow-room only face was revived by Nick Curtis in 2011 as Bindlestiff NF. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Martin Binder

German type designer who wrote a typographic handbook in 1995 (unpublished). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Thorvald Bindesbøll

Influential Danish type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David J. Binette

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

Josh Bingham

Josh Bingham (b. 1982) lives in California. At Devian Tart, he designed Point Blank and Featherweight in 1999. I am confused, because what is in the font does not correspond to the web page, which says that he is Arthur Shotwell. Other fonts by him: Rollover (2007), 20th Century Woodcut (2004), the postal series (2004, consists of Parcel Post, Media Mail, First Class, and Air Mail), Halftone (2004), Unprofesional, Tron, Scrawl, Platform Shoe, Maps, Kaboom, Federal Reserve, Faces, Curvature, Bitmap, Bellbottom, Ballpoint, Quill, No Smoking, Perfectly Cromulent, Chronicle (2004, modeled after the lettering in the San Francisco Chronicle), 20th Century Woodcut (2004). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Weston Bingham

Creative director, graphic designer with a BFA from the Pratt Institute and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Typography and design teacher at the School of Visual Arts and the Pratt Institute. Also working for Wolff Olins, NY. Designer of Baudrillard in the early 1990s at the California Institute of the Arts. Quoting Claudio Piccinini: Baudrillard is very methodic and sports even a set of connected numerals (!). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yü Bing-nan

Chinese calligrapher and type designer. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, China. AR Types writes about Freundschafts-Antiqua AR (2010): Freundschafts-Antiqua AR is based on a 20th-century German type design. Freundschafts-Antiqua (which was also called Chinesische Antiqua) was designed by the Chinese calligrapher Yü Bing-nan when he was a student at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst at Leipzig in 1960. It was cast in 1964 by VEB Typoart, Dresden, in 9-pt and 28-pt (Didot). The design combines the best German traditions with the Chinese bamboo pen. It is a unique, wholly modern, yet quiet and dignified typeface which is well suited for text-setting in many sizes. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Colin Binion

Creator of the iFontMaker font Fasthand (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Herbert Binneweg

Belgian graphic designer, typographer and type designer, and a professor at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp) and at the Institute for Graphic Arts of the Plantin-Genootschap, also in Antwerp. He designed three experimental fonts and many book covers and posters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Binns

PBinns Design (est. 2012) is located in Toronto, Canada. Creator of Electrical Tape (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mayara Bione

Brazilian student and artist who made the pixelish face Synth (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yossi Biran

Israeli type designer. At Masterfont, he published the Hebrew faces Beeran MF, Beeranit MF, Birana MF, Birana plus MF (2010), Efrat MF, Kookies MF, Noale MF, Noalle Dak MF (2010), Nookik MF. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alan Birch

British designer of LCD (1981, ITC), Crystal (1981, cyrillicized in 1993 by A. Kustov), Bitmax (1990), Rubber Stamp (1983), and Synchro (1984). URW listing. MyFonts write-up. Linotype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Birch

FontStructor who made Skinny (2011) and a few other experimental faces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ch. Bircher

Swiss type designer who created Hydrargyrum, Bold&Round, Hopp, Ditter, Dreissiger, Effeu, Halifax1, Kissinger, Manhattan, Moood, Neunziger, Robbery, Rough G, Swirth. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shelsey Birch

Graphic designer in Brisbane, Australia, who completed a Bachelor of Design with a major in Visual Communication Design at the Griffith University Queensland College of Art. She made the Hairy Scary Font (2010). At MyFonts she published the constructivist face Gustov in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Wayne Birch

Wayne Birch ("Aanguish") is the British designer of Major Minus (2011), a fat counterless face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joanna Louise Bird

London-based designer of Mechanic Type (2011, based on nuts and bolts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fred Birdsall

Imprint Foundry in London is run by Fred Birdsall, who is a typographer and book designer, who occasionally designs and/or digitizes typefaces and fonts. He created Default Mono (2010, a pixel face). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Steve Bird

Experimental fonts developed by Steve (stephen) Bird (aka Stehvelo), a Brit who has lived over 30 years near Helsinki. Direct download. The fonts:

  • Spyroclassic (2007): geometric text font. Its partner is Spyrogeometric (2007, avant-garde style).
  • Pixel faces: S64.
  • Display faces: Newsiren (2007), Spike (2007), Sfilth (2007), Santiako (2007, ultra-geometric sans), siren4 (2000), Splektra (sans).
  • Scanbats: Stampere
  • Unicase: Bayer (2002, aka Sbayer), Chic (2002, aka Sheek).
  • Paperclip faces: Kaapeli (2002), Scable
  • Stencil faces: Sblock
  • Disturbing the *** fonts: Stratford (2007, an angular face designed on the basis the 2012 Olympics logo face by Gareth Hague), Snevil (2007, a sans based on Neville Brody's work for FACE).
  • Nice text faces: Smerkan (2007, his best face), Snidane (2007).
  • Rubber stamp fonts: Stamp
  • Experimental: Strzeminski (2007, a decorative futuristic font with two baselines, after a 1932 original by Jan Strzeminski).
  • Other: Pyoro (2002, a geometrical sans), Pyoroblur-Bold (2007), SBHandRegular (2007), newsiren (2007).
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Line Birgitte Borgersen

Danish creator (b. 1987) of the experimental font Soft Triangles (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tamás Birinyi

Graphic designer in Budapest. He created Hand BT (2011). Behance link. He also created the extreme contrast fashion mag face Duett (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johannes Birkenbach

Johannes Birkenbach (b. 1956, Ludwigshafen) began his career with D. Stempel AG in 1983 drawing typefaces and moved to digital typeface design and development while working at Linotype in Germany and then Monotype in the UK. Since 1994 Johannes has operated his own design studio, ABC Design, and has worked with Ascender since 2004 on many font projects. In 2008, he joined Ascender Corp and is associated with its German branch. Based in Pirmasens, Germany, his fonts include the Bijoux, Palazzo Caps, Jeunesse, CiceroCaps, Jocelyn, Jonas, Ulissa, and Perrywood (Monotype, 1993). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesper Birk

Jesper Birk's FunkDaFont series. His cool shareware fonts include Funky Deco (Arnold Boecklin grungified), Bandit, Barmos, BlueRoom, ConnectionBad, Clockwork, DanzinLikeCrazy (a very curly pen-drawn face), See Your Point, and StageDive.

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

Natalie Birkle

Designer of BD Fimo (2007, Burodestruct) in regular and outline versions. Free fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

C. Birkmeier

Creator of the multipatterned texture faces Amor Infiniti (2011) and Youniek (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Birks

A graduate from Shillington College in London. Behance link. In 2010, Birks created the free octagonal face Aura. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Henrik Birkvig

Danish type designer. Head of Department, Danish School of Media&Journalism [Den Grafiske Højskole], Copenhagen, Denmark. Co-organizer of ATypI in Copenhagen in 2001, founder of the Cooper Black Klubben. He designed DGH Sans for the Graphic Arts Institute of Denmark in 1996. In 2008, he art directed and Dalton Maag, London (Bruno Maag, Marc Weyman and Ron Carpenter) designed and produced the free Aller family, which was sponsored by Danish publishing company Aller (hence the name) and designed as part of the Danish School of Media and Journalism's new corporate identity. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olöf Birnagardarsdottir

Designer in the FUSE 12 collection of F X Fuse. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Konstantin Birukov

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the high-contrast display face Admiral (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vasily Biryukov

Vasily Biryukov graduated from Stroganov University of Industrial and Applied Arts in Moscow as graphic designer specializing mostly in periodicals. Russian designer of Chift, a typeface that won an award at Paratype K2009. Chift (2009) was published by Alexandra Korolkova's foundry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fulvio Bisca

Italian illustrator and designer from Torino (b. 1970) who made Antitled, a sans serif family at T-26 (2001, completed in 2004). Ex-graduate of Institute G.B. Bodoni in Torino in 1989.

In 2010, he made Cutoff Pro (URW++, +Bold), a serif family with serifs cut off in odd ways, and which covers all European scripts, including Cyrillic and Greek. Behance link. Logo. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lukas Bischoff

Artill Typs is Lukas Bischoff's foundry in Trier, Germany, est. 2009. German stylist and designer in Trier. Dafont link where one can download Sketch Rockwell (2008), one of the nicest sketched style fonts anywhere. Commercial faces include Luco Sans (2009), Sketch Block (2009) and the octagonal family Wombat (2009). Yaa (2010) is a hand-sketched headline font. Dock 11 (2011) is a (free) heavy art deco headline face. Sketch Gothic (2011) is a sketched Franklin Gothic. Behance link. Blog. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Earl Biscoe

Quoting MyFonts: Earl Biscoe was a Bitstream font designer who retired in the mid-1980s because of illness. Earl lost his battle with mesothelioma cancer in October of 2001 after surviving 16 years beyond all expectations due to alternative therapy. Earl inspired people with his determination for beating the odds with an unfaltering wit. His positive attitude for the gift of life gave him strength to endure and help others in similar situations. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bishop

American designer (b. 1986) of the handwriting font Wicked (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carrie Ann Bishop

The starry fonts Sabrina and SabrinaStar (1998) are designed by Carrie Ann Bishop at Fey Productions.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Courtney A. Bishop

Designer of the free truetype dingbat font "halloween2001" (2001). She calls her company Bishop Computer Corporation. She also made Summer Dings (2001) and School Days (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sydney Bishop

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

Anton Bisiajew

Designer at Graphic bureau Az-Zet of the Cyrillic/Latin font AZGaramondC (1990-1995). Anton published Dikovina and DikovinaBildchen at Type Market in Moscow in 1995. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Geoff Biskupek

Designer of the sans face Defused (2004, T-26). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tim Biskup

House Industries is rumoured to be making typefaces based on Tim Biskup's work. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hosoda Bisou

Designer of 12 Saru Yellow Fog, a futuristic techno font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Valter Bispo

Based in Rio de Janeiro, Valter Bispo (b. 1988) studied at PUC-Rio. Dafont link. He created the octagonal face VLOBJ (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ato Yigezu Bisrat

Born and died in Addis Ababa, 1926-1979. Educator (at Addis Ababa University), author, and calligrapher, who was frequently called upon by Emperor Haile Selassie for calligraphy and lettering. His Gothic Goffer (blackletter-style) characters were extended into a font by Abbas Alamnehe (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elaine Biss

Designer of Kiddie Sampler (2011) and Elaine (2006, curly handprinted face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Bissex

Designer of Pscruf (1995) and Rufnu (1994) at Plazm. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Bissinger

BANK is a French/German design agency based in Berlin. It markets its fonts through T-26, starting in 2009. In 2009, Sebastian Bissinger and Matthieu David made the display faces Sintra and Yummy. Sintra is a 3d face that simulates letters made from folded material---Sebastian Bissinger was inspired by the sign of a shoe shop in Sintra, Portugal. Yummy was inspired by cookie cutters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nirmal Biswas

Indian graphic designer. FontStructor who made Charlie (2011), Charlie Dotted (2011, dot matrix face), Meek (2011), Abstract (+Slab, 2011), TypeOne (2011, unicase square display typeface), TypeTwo (2011, octagonal) and TypeThree (2011). Behance link. He is at Picatype Design Studio in Mumbai. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elias Bitencourt

Designer, type designer and professor in Salvador, Brazil. He made Benedicta (2006), a blackletter-inspired sans. See also here. He also made the geometric blackletter face Tex (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Han Bit

Seoul-based graphic designer. Behance link. His type designs in 2009 include Glasses (letters using frames of glasses), Plamodel, Layer (experimental) and Piece (experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Han Bit

Seoul-based Korean graphic and type designer. Home page. In 2008, he designed Plamodel (LED font), Layer, and Piece (octagonal and minimalist). No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcelo Bittencourt

Designer of Metalbitt Manetrix (2003), a white on black face. Marcelo (b. 1982) lives in Curitiba, Brasil. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julian Bittiner

Swiss-American designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for the slab serif face Tourist. He works at MetaDesign in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guido Bittner

German designer of the VS Expectation (or simply, Expectation) family of brush script faces (2003, Linotype), which won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. Guido runs a design studio in Wiesbaden. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Max Bittrof

German type designer (1890, Frankfurt/Oder-1972, Frankfurt/Main), who made Element Fraktur (1933-1934, Bauerische Giesserei). Ben Archer writes: Element was Max Bittroff's rational attempt to solve a dispute raging within German typography of the middle 20th century; the rivalry of two competing orthographies - blackletter or `gotisch' versus roman or `antiqua'. While Rudolf Koch's Peter Jessen Schrift was also an attempt to provide a synthesis between blackletter and roman styles, it was intended as a private press face. Element was released as a fully commercial face in four weights by a larger foundry, Bauer, which had a programme of modernized blackletter faces, such as Tannenberg, National and Gotenberg. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Biwer

Creator of the grunge faces Schwabstrasse (2008) and We are Potatoes (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Bixler

Designer of Bixler Roman (1968). He was a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. Matrices were cut in Japan and the face was cast privately. The Michael and Winifred Bixler metal type foundry in Skaneateles, NY, is still operational in 2007. It is located at Box 820, Skaneateles, NY 13153. Some of its types are listed here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jim Bizbee

Herschey fonts by Jim Bizbee. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Björgvin

Icelandic graphic design student who lives in Reykjavik. He designed the pearly typeface Typhoon in 2008 diring the course Holy Geometry at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl Bjorklund

A free grunge font by Carl Bjorklund called Lemonheads (1996). Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Bjorkman

Graphic designer Brian Bjorkman (Richmond, VA) created Conectatype (2010), a connected typewface that was influenced by pixels, mazes, Islamic calligraphy and cuneiform. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Måns Björkman

Tengwar calligraphic page by Måns Björkman from Sweden. Free fonts made by him include Sarati Eldamar (2005), Valmaric Eldamar (2006), Tengwar Scribe, Tirion Sarati (2002), Tengwar Parmaite. Plus many calligraphic notes. He explains: This page is dedicated to the beautiful writing systems that in Tolkien's works derived from the continent of Aman. They are often collectively called Tengwar, although strictly speaking this is wrong, Tengwar being the name of Feanor's writing system (Feanors Tengwar) but not of the Sarati, Rúmils script (the Tengwar of Rúmil). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Björknäs

Swedish designer (b. 1965) of the comic book font Steelhand, and the handwriting font Peba. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Björkstrand

Swede Thomas Björkstrand designed two architectural drawing fonts, Truetrans1 and Truetrans2 (1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ola Björling

Ola Björling (Beyond Design) is the designer of Advent (dot font), HybridBold (1999), HybridOutline (1998), JuliaEngstrmBold (based on the handwriting of Julia Engström), Muttprutt, Omicron (a beautiful futuristic face), Randi (1998), Slidfis, Slidfiskittlande (1997, athletic lettering), Slidfissaftig, Starlightseedcitysightseeing, Technoidone. Some of his fonts are under the (Swedish) TarmSaft label, and some under Beyond Design. All were made around 1997. He also made Agaro to sagaru and Serial Killer, both techno fonts as well.

Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mikael Spicey Björnlycke

Designer of the old typewriter font DeadOnArrival. Also did Yardie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Magnus Holder Bjørk

Norwegian designer of the avant garde sans family Daco (2004) sold by Luth. He was also commissioned to make Aenigma, a techno face. Identifont says: Magnus Holder Bjørk is a freshly educated designer now working in Trondheim, Norway. While at a design school in Australia he started developing an Art Deco font family, and with the helping hand of FontShop Norway his Daco font family was prepared for sale. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Krissy B

Canadian designer who created Pixified (2007) and Pixeltastic (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Black

Dann Black (Indonesia) created the ornamental face Woody (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Blacker

Designer of the dingbats family Leiure Tourism Icons DT (2008, DTP Types). These icons were developed over many years by Mike Blacker of Blacker Design, the icons cover a comprehensive range of leisure, tourism and access themes. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Raven Blackhardt

West Virginia-based designer, b. 1968. Designer of the scratchy graffiti scripts My Chemical Romance (2007) and The Chemical Parade (2007). Her home page. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Black

Kiwi creator of DaRKnesS (2009), a handwriting face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan Blackman

Californian calligrapher and letterer Alan Blackman's Galahad (Adobe, 1995) is one of the most beautiful and balanced faces on earth. I hope it will not get overused and abused by pizza joints and holiday-in-Cancun advertisers. He used to write gorgeous calligraphic letters to himself. Alan was a letterform instructor at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco for several years. Linotype page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Blackman

Codesigner with Chank of the handwriting font Darling Nikki (2006). Nicole Blackman is a New York City-born performance artist, poet, author, vocalist, teacher, and former music industry publicist. She is also a top voice-over artist for television and radio. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Markie Flint Blackmon

Free original dingbats by Markie Blackmon: BR Turkles Revenge (delicate and detailed ornaments), BR Odd Assortment, BR Nouveau Ramblings 1 and 2, BR 4 My Dad, BR Trivets, BR Doodles (this one is fantastic!!!), Markie Ding 1, 2 and 3 (all equally wonderful), BR KnockKnock, BR HeyFlinty, BRFrames, BRPrimitives, BRReflections, BRThorns, BRForMembersOnly (1999). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johanne Blain

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

Michael Blair

Student of Graphic & Web Design at DMACC (Des Moines Area Community College). FontStructor who made a few nice typefaces in 2012. These include Little Tittle (a stencil face influenced by Josef Albers' Kombinationschrift), and the tall-legged condensed Skinny & Sweet. Aka ciotog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Graham David Blakelock

Ilkley, UK-based foundry of Graham David Blakelock (b. 1947, York, England). MyFonts sells his fonts. These include faces used in role playing games, often with a medieval look, all published in 2005: Fifteen36 (Venetian with rough edges), Fourteen64 (Venetian with rough edges), High German (blackletter), ItalicHand (inspired by 11th or 12th century Carolingian hand drawn cursive), Old Russian (fake Cyrillic), Ye-As-Ta (rotated brush style caps), Good Taste (2006), Hieroglyph Informal (2006), Kanjur (2006, Indic simulation face), Mayan (2006, dingbats and Mayan-looking letters), Pepper (2006), Salt (2006). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Marty Blake

Designer of the display font Parmigiano. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Constance Blanchard

Born in 1954 in Athol, MA. Studied at the University of Vermont and the Mass. College of Art. Type designer and type design manager at Compugraphic at some point. The eight weight-Garth Graphic family was jointly designed by Renée LeWinter, John Matt and Constance Blanchard (1979, Agfa / Monotype). Fonshp link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Louis-Emmanuel Blanc

French codesigner (b. 1986), with Julien Saurin, of the free graffiti font Vandalism (2007). Dafont link. In 2009, Emmanuel Blanc and Julien Saurin set out to sell their fonts under the name La Goupil (based in Paris). At La Goupil, they codesigned the scratchy handprinted face Carving (2010). MyFonts link. Alternate MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Melanie Blanco

Aka ArtisMelB. Was Melby's Magic, and also Melanie's Creations. Guatemalan designer (b. 1990) of Lion King (2007), Mulan (2008, a slightly grungy all caps face), and Nederland Fantasy (2012, a handdrawn outline face).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergio Blanco

Costa Rican designer (b. 1974) of the modular geometric face Noviembre 29 (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thierry Blancpain

Zürich-based graphic designer (b. 1985). He designed the geometric sans face Loop (2005), the octagonal sans face Panzer Bold (2006) and Casual (2005, no downloads). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joe Bland

Univers Graphic Design (which was Interesting Productions) is a graphic design studio in Melbourne, Australia owned by Joe Bland. They design for identity, publication, screen and build environments with a very typographic approach. They are currently working on identity for various architects---here is an example for Neil Architecture. See also this logotype (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Bland

UK-based FontStructor (student at Bristol UWE) who created Decay of TNR (2010), an interesting all caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Blase

Free fonts Dummyboy (2006, hanprinted) and Hellvetica. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annatina Blaser

Designer of the handprinted face Rooster (2004, Agenturtschi, Switzerland), which can be had for free with any order over 59 dollars from Agenturtschi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephanie Blaszak

Illustrator and designer. Creator of Flair (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucas Blat

Lucas Blat lage currently studies Graphic Design at Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo, and works as a Motion and Graphic Designer based in Sáo Paulo, Brazil.

Designer of the typeface called Circumactio (2012, sold by Ten Dollar Fonts).

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

Shawn Blaufuss

Shawns font is an elementary dingbat font by North Dakota-based Shawn Blaufuss. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Blau

American designer of the pixel faces Angie Attore (2012) and Killer Lasagna (2011, Messen (2012), the pencil face Via Stik (2012), the thin handprinted Emmis (2012), the fat finger face Ackident (2012), the dot matrix face Bright Lights (2011), the pen-drawn faces Sigs (2012), Cloudlike (2012), Kiddish (2012) and High Yield (2012), and the geometric face Dunno (2011). Aka Gigantico.

Home page for Charming Charlie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Filip Blazek

Filip Blazek (alias Filip de Sign, b. 1974) writes about typography and ran Filip de Sign--Czech Graphic&Design Studio, founded in 1997 in Prague. In 2003, its name was changed to Designiq. It focuses on the design of logotypes and corporate identity. His own fonts include Pozorius, Studnicka Antikva and Duboryt. Alternate URL. Very useful pages for Central European typography, with plenty of links and practical information. Interview. Blazek's old site, still jam-packed with font information. Coauthor of Typography in practice (Praktická typografie), published by ComputerPress, 2000, 2004. Founder of Typo Magazine, which focuses on typography, graphic design and visual communication. Speaker at ATypI 2006 on diacritics (PDF of Filip's presentation). At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke on posters from the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tracey Bleeden

Designer (b. 1984) who used Fontcapture to make fuchsiabuddha (2009, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Bleque

Designer with Lula Rocha at Sugiro Design in Brazil of Skova (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Blevins

James Blevins (Florida) is a graphic designer who specializes in font creation and illustration. For his blackletter face Crumby, he drew upon old blackletter motifs and hand-drawn characters found in the work of Robert Crumb. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neil Blevins

Artist and graphic designer. Creator of the original font Wound (1999), in which palm lines are combined with letters. Not available to the general public. He also made IX, IX Corroded (1999, both ransom note fonts), Syscraper 99 (1998), Too Damn Tall, Scratch Your Eyes Out (1998, oriental simulation face), and Digital Stabbing (1998). No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ronnie Blhsn

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

Léon Bli

Designer in Pontarlier, France. Dafont link. He created the children's hand typeface Ultramat (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack Bliss

UK-based designer of Blocky Font (2007) also called Test. [Google] [More]  ⦿

H. Bloch

Israeli type designer. Creator of the Hebrew typefaces Martir MF (2010), Ninth Century MF (2010) and Teiman MF (2010, Masterfont). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Simon Blockley

Art director in Orange County, CA. Behance link. Designer of X-Acto Type (2011, techno face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phons Bloemen

Baseball capitals: free metafont "capbas" (Capital Baseball) by Phons Bloemen from the Eindhoven University of Technology. Now included in the package are also 7-segment, 14-segment, Simple, matrix fonts like Flyspec and Neckerspoel. Lots of interesting tools as well. Magnificent package, really. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evert Bloemsma

Dutch type designer (b. Den Haag, 1958, d. Arnhem, 2005) who studied graphic design at the Arnhem School of Art (1981). He worked at his own office for a number of clients, taught type design at the art academies of Arnhem and Breda and wrote articles about typography and related topics. He created FF Balance (1993), FF Cocon (1998-2001), FF Avance (2000) and FF Legato 1 and 2 (2004, sans families discussed here). FF Balance was created at the Amsterdamse Steenweg in Arnhem, at almost the same address as Ontwerpbureau Quadraat. Editor of "Letters, een bloemlezing over typografie" (Eindhoven, 2001), a book about contemporary Dutch typography. FontFont page. Typophiles about his death. Jan Middendorp wrote: Of all the type designers I have known and have written about, Evert had the most complex personality, and possibly the most original mind and the weirdest sense of humour. He kept promising me, with his characteristic mixture of boyish enthusiasm, solemn dedication and self-mockery, that he would one day cover the entire distance between his home in Arnhem and mine in Ghent on his reclining bike. I was sure he'd make it, sooner or later he always carried out his plans, although some took him ten years to complete. It fills me with grief, wonder and anger that Evert, who was always advocating exercise and healthy food, has now been taken away from us because of a heart failure. As a type designer, Evert was unorthodox, a true original. Each of his four type families was the outcome of a highly personal investigation, a challenge to himself. To others, he could be as demanding as his was to himself; when criticizing his friends' typographic work, he was brutally honest and always to the point. Yet he remained amazingly modest, even insecure, about his own work, and deeply grateful to those who would comment on the early versions of his typefaces and/or test them in print. In spite of the single-mindedness with which he worked on his type designs during those months of total concentration, he was open to many other intellectual stimuli. He had worked as a photographer of architecture constructing his own hand-operated panoramic camera, interviewed the designers he admired (such as Wim Crouwel and Hans Reichel) about their design philosophy, and lately became fascinated by the work of Marshall McLuhan. His lectures and articles, too, were evidence of his original ideas on form and on reading. It is a great loss indeed.

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

View Evert Bloemsma's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Frank E. Blokland

Frank E. Blokland (b. 1959, Leiden) studied Graphic and Typographic design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. In 1985 Blokland won Chartpak's type design contest with his typeface Bernadette. In 1990 Blokland wrote a bestseller with his course book for Teleac's television course: Calligraphy, the art of hand writing, of which 16.000 copies were sold. In the same year Blokland founded the Dutch Type Library in 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Since the 1980s he has published over 150 articles in professional journals like Compres, Page, PrintBuyer, and the Hamburger Satzspiegel. When Gerrit Noordzij retired in 1987 from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, Blokland was the first of the younger generation to succeed him. Blokland now lectures in letter drawing and type design/production to first- and post-graduate courses at this institute. In 1995 he was asked to become a lecturer at the Plantijn Gennootschap in Antwerp. A few years later he initiated and supervised the development of DTL FontMaster, a set of utilities for professional font production [in cooperation with URW++]. He is working towards a Ph.D. at the University of Leiden entitled Leiden University titled Harmonics, Patterns, and Dynamics in Formal Typographic Representations of the Latin Script. The regularization, standardization, systematization, and unitization of roman type since its Renaissance origin until the Romain du Roi.

Frank E. Blokland designed amongst others the typefaces DTL Documenta and DTL Haarlemmer (1994-1996, an adaptation of Jan van Krimpen's Haarlemmer of 1940, and addition of a sans version, which was commissioned by the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam). He is working on DTL Fell, a Fell type revival. The Fell types are Dutch types from the late 17th century that were given to the University of Oxford by John Fell (1625-1686), bishop of Oxford from 1675-1686. In The Roman, Italic&Black Letter bequethed to the University of Oxford by Dr. John Fell (Oxford, 1951), Stanley Morrison states that the Roman may have been cut by Christoffel van Dijck. Specimen exist from 1693, 1695 and 1706.

At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he gave a series of lectures: Type tools by DTL, Automating font production, Automating type design, Integration of FontMaster in Linux and Mac OSX, and History of type. On that occasion, participants were presented with the booklet Comprehensive Notes on the Design of Cyrillic Letters by Finnish type designer Hanna Hakala and typeset in the preliminary version of DTL Valiance.

Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik on the topic of parametrized type design, and in particular on the development of the DTL LetterModeller (LeMo) application, which is an attempt to come to such parameterization of type design.

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

Marieke Blokland

Dutch graphic design student in Breda, who made the neat (free) display font Bloktype (2002). She used East-European tickets to make Ticket Scraps Urban (2003). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maurice Blok

L5 is a Rotterdam-based design studio, where Maurice Blok created the rugged type family Luxor (2001) as the corporate identity for the Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Blom

Durotype is the foundry of Dutch type designer Ben Blom. Ben created the rounded serif family Classic Round (2010, +Classic XtraRound, 2011), and Cigar (2010), which is a revival of the seventies face called Cucumber or Nassel Black or Scanner. Seconda (2010) is a humanist sans family. Seconda Soft (2011) and Seconda XtraSoft (2011) are rounded versions of Seconda.

In 2011, he created the 16-style Simplo family, which was patterned after Alessandro Butti's Futura-like face Semplicità.

Typefaces done in 2012: Flexo (a large x-height elliptical sans family).

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

Philippe et François Blondel

Original truetype fonts by Philippe and François Blondel: CNC Vector (2012, hairline sans), Braille 1998, Braille 1998 3d version, Braille (2012), Accords (for guitar), Langage des signes (ASL), Signes, Phonetique.

He also designed many handwriting fonts: Michelle, Ginette, Sophie, Amandine, Virginie, MissClaude, LalexBigBadaboum, Karine. All these fonts are free.

For font services: 40 USD for a handwriting font, 70 for a connected handwriting font, 10 USD for a logo font, 8USD to add the Euro symbol to any font, 50 USD for any on-demand truetype font based on your drawings.

Handwriting type designer Philippe Blondel offers some of his handwriting fonts (such as BrandysHand, PatriciasHand, JaninesHand, LisasHand, LaurensHand, FarrahsHand, CarolinesHand, RandysHand, BrooksHand, Philing (1998-2009), Jean-Claude'sHand and Jimmy-Hand) regularly for free. Send in your handwriting on the form he provides: each week, he'll make one of the samples into a TrueType font (for free). New fonts include 7LED (2010, LED face), Philippe, Bernard, Adelyne, Georges, Brigitte, Barguzin, Breeze, Fog, Lightning, Monsoon, Stream, Valerie, Jami, and Zephyr.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Another Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Bloom

Kansas City, MO-based student, who created the display font Mineral Hall (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Bloom

Illegal Industriez Design is a graphics design studio in Rotterdam run by Patrick Bloom. They made five of their own fonts available for free: Kriminalita (grunge) is the nicest in my view. Get also Fontboyz, Agenda, Rapture and Skwieker. In 2010, Bloom started the commercial foundry vanAllerlei. The first commercial font was Real Fat (2010, pixelish). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Bloor

John Bloor's free and commercial fonts (Mac type 1, PC truetype) at Smoking Drum (est. 1997) in Whitchurch, UK. The fonts include Fauxetry, Gruyere, Orange n Blue, H-Be, BubbleLife, Mnooba, Pyrobats, TragicBureau, BulkyPixels, DotShortofaMatrix, DoubleStrike, FatPixels, FGParma, HandHackedNoisy, HelveticaCondensedDestressed, HelveticaCondensedStressed, InfiltraceItalic, InlinesRough, LoopsofFuryWide, RefuseTrip, RoughSheetsOutline, ScratchyLarge, StrokeyBacon. MyFonts sold Mnooba and Infiltrace, but he is selling those now himself.

Description of how he made StrokeyBacon from Helvetica. Alternate URL. Interview.

Dafont link.

Catalog. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tim Blount

Designer of Dirty Sox (2004) and Timtastic Hand (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tony Blow

From Edinburgh, Scotland, Typescape is Tony Blow's Glasgow-based outfit, where he sells his fonts: Poetic, Matter, Pinched Fat and Invasive. He also runs Pointsize Online, a design outfit in Glasgow, where you can find his logofonts and commercial work. At fontmonster, he created the free fonts Pinched Fat, Poetic, Jotter, Invasive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bart Blubaugh

Type designer, letterer and calligrapher located in Cleveland, OH. Ex-student at the University of Reading (2003) who designed Owyhee (2003). In 2008, he created Cora, a 6-style corporate-look sans with a large x-height. In 2011, he did Katie's Font. MyFonts link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Charles P. Bluemlein

American designer, famous for his scripts, active in the 1940s. Modern revivals of his scripts include

  • KolinskySable SG (Jim Spiece, 2004), based on a 1944 brush design.
  • Bender Script (2008) by Alison Argento.
  • Alejandro Paul's Bluemlein Scripts (2004-2005, Umbrella and Veer) are based on the calligraphic renderings of Charles P. Bluemlein, shown in a 1944 ink catalog: Miss Le Gatees, Mr Rafkin, Mr Keningbeck, Mr Lackboughs, Lady Dawn, Mrs Von Eckley, Mr Sheppards, Mr Dafoe, Mr Canfields, Mr Stalwart, Mr Sandsfort, Mr Leopolde, Mr DeHaviland, Mr Blaketon, Miss Stanfort, Miss Packgope, Miss Fajardose, Mrs Saint-Delafield, Mrs Blackfort, Mr Sopkin, Mr Sheffield, Miss Lankfort, Herr Von Muellerhoff, Dr Sugiyama, Dr Carbfred. In 2011, that series was made available at Google Web Fonts.
  • Soft Horizon's Lainie Day (1993) is an earlier free font in the style of Paul's Lady Dawn and Mr Lackboughs.
Author of Script and Manuscript Lettering (1947, Higgins Ink Co, Brooklyn). Earlier editions are from 1943 and 1944 and have Bertram Cholet and Dorothy Sara (1943 edition only) as co-authors. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ashton Bluett

Designer of Early Days (2003), a display font with Basque features, and Jenkins (2004, a sans). Ashton lives in Wanganui, New Zealand. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gail Blumberg

American (ex) art director at Adobe, who created the human gymnastics figure font Cutout. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Achim Blumensath

Designer of MnSymbols, a free math symbol font (in metafont format) designed to be used in conjunction with Adobe Minion. Since 2005 also available in type 1 format: MnSymbol-Bold10, MnSymbol-Bold12, MnSymbol-Bold5, MnSymbol-Bold6, MnSymbol-Bold7, MnSymbol-Bold8, MnSymbol-Bold9, MnSymbol10, MnSymbol12, MnSymbol5, MnSymbol6, MnSymbol7, MnSymbol8, MnSymbol9. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Blumenthal

New Yorker (1897-1990) who wrote frequently about typography and made Emerson in 1936 at Monotype. Jerry Kelly writes about his contributions in David Pankow's edited book, "American Proprietary Typefaces". Mac McGrew: Emerson and Emerson Italic---a completely different style, unrelated to the one above---were designed by Joseph Blumenthal, New York printer and book designer. The original version was hand-cut by Louis Hoell in Germany, and the face was cast by the Bauer Foundry in 1930. It was called Spiral for the press at which this distinguished typographer produced many notable books, and was renamed Emerson when the Monotype Corporation of London recut it in 1935. It is a modernized oldstyle letter, adapted for photogravure reproduction, but retaining a reasonably light face, fairly condensed. Wiklipedia on Emerson: The typeface's first appearance was in a special, private-press edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Nature, and so the Monotype version became known as Emerson. Emerson can be recognised for its distinctive foot serifs on the lowercase a, d and u, and its wide capitals (especially the M). The typeface shares characteristics with the classic renaissance types, and its soft, blunt appearance was designed to suit photogravure reproduction. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

bnagle

Designer at the Open Font Library of Buildermarker (2009), Archdiocese (2009) and Paperback (2009, a semi-didone text font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fran Board

Frans Font (or: Siren Fonts) is a foundry, est. in 2009 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, by British designer Fran Board. Their fonts include Rounded Two (2009), Manic (2009, grunge), Rooky Hand (2009, irregular hand), and Mesh Stitch (2009, a stitching font). All are free for personal use and pay fonts for commercial use. In an earlier life at Dafont, one could download the handprinted 3d font Decade 3d (2008), the stitching face Mesh Stitch (2009), the thin sans faceRound (2009), RoundNormal (2009, an avant garde face), Bloc Regular (2009, pixel face), Pixel Regular (2009), Zuben (2009, classy sans), Manic (2009, an angular face), Rounded Two (2009) and the squarish Blablabla (2009, FontStruct). Another URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dathan Boardman

Dathan Boardman (Open Window) is an American type designer who lives in Eau Claire, WI, and was born in 1979. He went to UW Stout to get his BFA in Graphic Design. Fontsquirrel link. Google Directory link. His typefaces:

  • Afternoon Tea (2010), an art deco face that is inspired by a lettering specimen featured in Letters and Lettering by Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring published in 1938.
  • Caesar Dressing Pro (2011). A Greek simulation / stone chisel face.
  • Clarendon Paint (2010).
  • College Dropout (2010): a sketch face based on athletic lettering glyphs.
  • Coming Soon and Calligraffiti (2010): free fonts at the Google Font Directory. The Pro versions are commercial.
  • Deco and Deco Hatched (2010): art deco headline faces.
  • Farm Girl (2011). A handprinted face.
  • Gold Diggin (2011) harkens back to posters from the Gold Rush Era.
  • Hand of Joy (2011) is a thin connected script face.
  • Miniver Pro (2011) and Miniver Air Raid Pro (2012) are based on the titling for the 1942 movie Mrs. Miniver.
  • Rifleman (2012) is a painted wide-slabbed typeface.
  • Shag Script (2011).
  • Sketchura (2011) is a sketch face.
  • Spur Rust (2011) is a disheveled take on the spicy classic Hellenic Wide.
  • Wide Noise (2010) is grungy.
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Emery Boardman

Creator of African Queen (2011, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ines Boavida

Visual design student from Portugal. She created the script face Boavida (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Konstantin V. Boayrko

Typeface designer who russified some Latin fonts in 2003, such as KBBlackWolf, KBDanube, KBTranceform, KBVectroid, KBYear. Some may be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Branko Bobic

Designer at the Serbian studio TajFazon, located in Belgrade. He works with stunning colors and has made some display fonts, often in the fat counterless artsy style. These include AeroFrog (2010), Strawberry (2009), Letvica (2010), and DontGetCut (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Opey Bobo

Graphic design student at Flagler College in Saint Augustine Beach, FL. He made the experimental face Molecule (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miroslaw Bobrowski

Polish designer of the organic sans face Monika (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrei Bocan

Bordeaux-based designer of KNKTR, a severe modular typeface (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flavia Bocco

Italian designer of Vintage (2007). Fontsy link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gilles Boccon-Gibod

Designer of the Monte Carlo pixel fonts (2006), designed for on screen viewing of programs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Esteban Boccuzzi

Argentinian web designer who made the free bitmap font Kovensky. Dafont link. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anders Bodebeck

Gothenburg, Sweden-based graphic designer who is mainly preoccupied with logotypes and calligraphic book covers. He has also been working as a teacher in graphic design at HDK's School of Design and Crafts at Gothenburg University. Designer of the elegant neo-modern family Bodebeck (2004, Linotype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benoît Bodhuin

Benoît Bodhuin (aka Ben Ben) lived in Tournai, Belgium, but seems now to be in "chti" country, i.e., in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. He studied mathematics and graphic design. Freelance graphic designer since 2004. In 2011, he set up Benben World at MyFonts.

Dafont link. Yet another URL. Behance link.

Designer of the pixel fonts Logotix (2004), Latham and 5x7 Negatie Moyenne. In 2010, he made the paperclip face La Pipo, which was published in 2011 by Die Gestalten. He created the commercial angular sans face S-L (2006) which was originally made for the University of Arts Saint-Luc in Tournai.

Commercial faces include S-L Bold (2012, a hexagonal face based on his design at St. Luc in 2006), Zigzag (2012, Volcano Type; a font originally made for the Vivat theater). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Halvor Bodin

Born in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1964, Halvor Bodin co-started Union Design, and made Amp (at Superlow), and BurieDog (at FUSE 17, FontShop). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hans Bodlaender

Hans Bodlaender's chess font archive: very useful! It includes many fonts by Armando Hernandez Marroquin (Figurine Symbol fonts, Chess-Alfonso-X, ChessAdventurer, Chess-Condal, Chess-Harlequin, Chess-Kingdom, Chess-Leipzig, Chess-Line, ChessLucena, Chess-Magnetic, Chess-Mark, Chess-Marroquin, Chess-Maya, Chess-Merida, Chess-Millennia-D, Chess-Millennia-L, Chess-Miscel, Chess-Motif, Chess-Mediaeval), Chess Utrecht (by Hans Bodlaender), Chess Cases (by Matthieu Leschemelle), Chess Montreal, the Checkers or Draughts font by Hans Bodlaender (b. 1960, Bennekom, the Netherlands). Many links to chess board generating filters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Bodoni

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Giambattista Bodoni

Italian typographer and type designer, b. Saluzzo (1740), d. Parma (1813). He was the director of the Stamperia Reale in Parma. Court typographer of the Spanish king, Charles III, in 1782. In 1788, he published his masterpiece, the Manuale Tipografico (look at it here), which contained 291 alphabets, and was full of ornaments and borders. In 1818, 5 years after his death, his wife Margherita Dall'Aglio published a second edition, which contained 373 alphabets. He was influenced by Fournier and Firmin Didot. Today, most of his work resides in the Museo Bodoni of Parma. The early modern attempts at recreating his type are due to ATF (ATF Bodoni by Morris Fuller Benton, 1907-1915), Mergenthales Linotype Bodoni (1914-1916), Haas Bodoni (1924-1939), Bauer Bodoni (by Louis Hoell, 1924), and Berthold Bodoni (1930). Today, Linotype lists 114 weights/versions/faces of Bodoni. Some find Bodoni too severe, but I like its proud upright strong and mathematically exact look. Graphion's site. The story of Bodoni Open. Bio by Nicholas Fabian. Another URL for that piece by Fabian. Another bio. FontShop link. MyFonts link. Wiki. Another wiki. Giambattista Bodoni, génie ou assassin? (2007, Jonathan Perez's thesis at Estienne). Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arnold Boecklin

Jugendstil artist. The Jugendstil movement originated in the late 19th century in Bavaria around München and had artists like Boecklin. The driving force of the Jugendstil movement was the magazine Münchner Jugend which showcased the designs of German art nouveau artists. Scriptorium has a number of fonts based on the Jugendstil movement: Munich is derived from the hand-lettered title of the magazine, Jugend and Campobello are decorative initials designed for the magazine, and Phaeton is based on lettering from the period. Otto Weisert, who ran the Schriftgiesserei Otto Weisert in Stuttgart, designed the Jugendstil-style font Arnold Boecklin in 1904 (available at URW, Linotype, Adobe, Mecanorma, and others, and copied and modified tens of times)---it is that design that most typographers probably associate most with Arnold Boecklin.

View some digital implementations of Arnold Boecklin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johannes Boehland

Berliner, b. Berlin, 1903, d. Berlin, 1964. He created the script face Balzac in 1951 at D. Stempel AG [compare Fontbank's Balthazar]. A good modern execution is B650-Deco-Regular from SoftMaker. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Scott Boehner

Designer (b. 1985) from South Bend, IN. Creator of Dot Curve (2009) and Space Odin (2009) at FontStruct. He also made the shadow font Spleen Machine (2010). Blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christiaan Theo Boer

Studiostudio (The Netherlands) developed a commercial casual face called Dyslexie (2011) to minimize the errors perceived by dyslexics. Created by Christian Theo Boer (who lives in Zeist), the research was carried out at the University of Twente. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christiane Boerdner

Art director in Berlin who made the rectangular paper cut-out face Super Sonic Geisha (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jay Boersma

Jay Boersma's shareware fonts Liftoff, Smellvetica and Tatter (1996). Truetype, Mac and PC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dominique Boessner

German type designer who created the rounded monoline stencil typeface Stencil Allround (2012, Letterwerk). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gergely Bogányi

Budakeszi, Hungary-based designer. Creator of the extreme contrast display face Slash Pro (2011), and the multiline prismatic face Grand Avant garde (2011).

In 2012, he designed Lineo Serif (thin geometric face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seth Bogard

Seth Bogard designed the handwriting font Puberty Strike (for a juvenile delinquent zine) at Blue Vinyl. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maks Bogatyrev

Russian designer of Garnitura Hand, a readable handprinted set of Latin and Cyrillic characters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashish Bogawat

Creator of Softhand Script (2010), a handprinted face. Not free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ilya Trofimovich Bogdesko

Russian designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Cursiv Bogdesko. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Garrett Boge

Seattle-based type designer (b. 1951, Spokane, WA) who founded LetterPerfect Fonts in 1986. He designed many wonderful faces, such as his revival of Free Roman, designed by Ross George, or the fun handwriting font Bermuda LP (1996), the wonderful wonderful wonderful Spumoni, the original jungle family Kolo (with Paul Shaw, 1996; an Adobe face), the OldClaude family (with Paul Shaw, 1993, 1997, also at Adobe), ChevalierLP (great caps!), DidotLP (1995, now at Adobe), Longhand (handwriting, 1998), Spring (clean script, 1990), DeStijl (1990), Hardwood (1990), Hadrian Bold (1990), Koch (1990), Longhand (1998), Roslyn (1990), Silhouette (1990), Tomboy (1990), Visage (1990), Wendy (1990, 1997, also at Adobe), Uppsala (with Paul Shaw, 1998), Manito (1990), Florens, Pontif (with Paul Shaw, 1996), Cresci (with Paul Shaw, 1996), Catacomb, Philocalus, Sabina, Stockholm (1998, with Paul Shaw), Göteborg, Kryptic, Binney, Pietra (with Paul Shaw, 1996), Donatello (with Paul Shaw, 1997), Ghiberti (with Paul Shaw, 1997), Beata (with Paul Shaw, 1997). All of these fonts are available at LetterPerfect. He has made others too, such as Creme (1990), InkjetNine, InkjetSeven (1992, for ReadersDigestInkjetFonts). Unclear if he also made NYCaslon in 1990 for Monotype. At Letterperfect, Kathy Schinhofen, Garrett Boge and Myron McVay together designed the whimsical curly connected script family Jackalope LP (2011).

FontShop link. Bestselling faces at MyFonts. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Billy Bogiatzoglou

Digital artist in London. Home page. He created the experimental faces Bebo Sans (2011) and X Code (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Bogle

Foundry in Nehalem, OR, run by Aaron Bogle. His Fire Ladder (2011) imitates a vintage sign-writer style used for fire and rescue vehicle lettering. Dinzy Minzy (2011) is a fresh informal face in the Comic Sans genre. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost has finished nine fonts. I like the fat SmallCaps font Yakitori, and the grunge font Plorp best of all. Stale link! [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bill Bogusky

Bill Bogusky runs the design studio Bogusky 2 in Miami, together with his brother. He created Gonzo Bruno, Gonzo Monza and Gonzo Grosso (2007), Sundial (2006, Trajan lettering), Condo (2006, condensed), Ar Deco 1, 2, 3 and Deep (2006), Technia 1 and 2 (2006, athletic lettering or MICR applications), Sport (2006, dingbats), Macarena (2005: art deco), Zanzibar (2006: decorative), 42nd Street (2005: Broadway style lettering), Boffo (2005), Bronco Rose (2005, Wild West style), Decora (2005), Switchback (2005, a computerish face), Capzule (2005, a condensed black face), Tulip (2005, a decorated stencil face), Kondor (2005), Mah Jongg (2005, with many ornaments), Metro (2005, LCD face), Squircle (2005), Zeke (2005, artsy display font), Baby Blox (2005), Kurly (2005), Pipeline (2005), Dealer's Choice (2005), Stencille (2005), Terra, GogoBig and GogoSquat (were free at FontFreak site), Nouville (2006, art deco sans), Back Fence (2005, comic book face), Gogo Latin (2005, condensed), Zandakas (2006), Ameche Pisa (2005), Gogo Serif (2005), Bolo (2005), Hyline (2005), Compado (2005), Ameche Padua (2005), Tera (2005), Xtera (2005), Tudor New (2005), Boffo (2005), Byline (2005), Decora (2005), Quazar (2005), Grafo Graffiti (2005), Acid Bath (2005), Benz (2005), Hulk (2005). These fonts are now commercial and can be obtained at MyFonts.com. A graduate of the School of Industrial Arts in New York City, he worked as an industrial designer in New York before moving to Miami, FL, where he opened Studio Bogusky 2. Dixie Bogusky designed Esquimaux Graphics (2006). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dixie Bogusky

Miami, FL-based designer of the dingbat fonts Papillon (2006, butterflies) and Esquimaux Graphics (2006). Bill and Dixie Bogusky together run Bogusky 2. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Raphael Boguslav

New York-based handlettering artist. Samples of his work. He designed the stencil-like face Avia (Visual Graphics Corporation), which developed from a logotype he did for the Abex Corporation. Jill Pichotta dded the Light and Bold for Font Bureau in 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raphael Boguslav

Great handletterer (b. 1929 on Long Island of Russian parents) who grew up in New York City. He graduated from Cooper Union in 1951. He worked at the same studio as Milton Glaser for the next three years. In 1969 he patented a squarish face for Tyco Laboratories in Waltham, MA. In 1972, he moved to Newport, RI and resumed his career in lettering, calligraphy and graphic design. His typeface Avia (VGC) was an expansion of a logofont he did for Abex Corporation, almost like a stencil. It is now at Font Bureau, where Jill Pichotta has added the Light and Bold in 2000. Sources say that his typeface Visa (1966, VGC) got the Second Prize in the 1966 VGC National Type Face Design Competition, and others (thanks, Alexander Tochilovsky) confirm what I thought---that Visa and Avia are the same thing. Finally, Sloop Script One (1994, Richard Lipton, Font Bureau) is based on Boguslav's designs. FontShop link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dominik Böhler

Designer from Hersbruck, Germany, who created Gapee (2003, a sans face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Bohlin

Swedish designer (b. 1988) of Runkmuskel (2011, handprinted) and PXLPLZ (2012, pixel face).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marshall Bohlin

EmDash is Marshall Bohlin's foundry in Northfield, IL. Fonts: ArchiText, Arrow Dynamic, BulletsNStuff, GendarmeHeavy, Perky, Story, Upstart, Briar, Konway, Palomar, Caspian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Holger Bohlmann

Holger Bohlmann's intonation truetype font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ingo Böhme

Commercial astrology package, which includes some astrological symbol fonts. Free truetype fonts: Peter Orban's symbol font, and the Horoscope font Wingdings_Regular by Ingo Böhme. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Bohm

Graphic designer in Berlin. His SB Cabinet font (2012) is a 3d face that is based on simple sketches found in IKEA manuals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hans Bohn

German type designer, b. Oberlahnstein, 1891, d. Frankfurt am Main, 1980. He worked mostly for Ludwig&Mayer. Creator of Orplid (Klingspor, 1929: an all caps shadow face), Mondial (1936, D. Stempel, a didone family, of which Mondial Bold is the most successful member) and the fat semi-stencil face Allegro (1936-1937, Ludwig&Mayer; in digital form at Bitstream). He also designed Kuenstler Script (1959), a Linotype font. FontShop link. Digitizations include Fernburner NF (Nick Curtis, 2011) [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cristian Boian

Designer and illustrator from Curtea de Arges, Romania. In 2011, he created the experimental typeface Alfabeta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cody Boisclair

From Georgia, Cody Boisclair's pixel fonts based on fonts found in Nintendo or Super Nintendo games, made in 2001: PCSeniorReg, PressStartReg, ReturnOfGanonReg, LunchtimeDoublySoReg, ManaspaceReg, PressStartK, DeluxeFont (pixel font), SenorSaturno.

In 2003, these were added: Press Start 2P (free at Google Web Fonts: a bitmap font based on the font design from 1980s Namco arcade games), Yoster Island, Kong Text and DP Comic.

Alternate URL. Devian Tart link. Dafont link. Open Font Library link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

François Boisvert

Freelance designer in Montreal. Creator of the Felt Gothic family at [T-26]. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michael Bojkowski

Dead link. London-based company run by graphic designer and creative director Michael Bojkowski. They are involved in several interesting type projects such as Bubbleblock and RealTransport. For a brief period, Michael Bojkowski and Joe Bland (from Melbourne) ran a joint venture, The Type Testing Centre and Bland Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexey Bokov

Russian designer of TypeWriterNormal and EuroStyle. In 2010, he made the perforated plate font Performance (ParaType). FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Vasiliy V. Bokov

Vasiliy V. Bokov is the designer of the 612Koshey family, 1997. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lis Bokt

Swedish-German Lis Bokt started Tysk Tysk in 2002. She made these free handwriting fonts in 2003: AdreaJolynNormal, Ajani, Artilleria, FlscherNormal, GwaHoThin, Huvudroll, Kikare, Kunstherz, KyldiskNormal, LiesandaScriptMedium, Mndalein, Schosszeit1, Solskriven, StridslystenMedium. In 2004, she added Kulterin Maskpan and Gfaalit. From 2005: more handwriting faces such as Miss Lolly, Skrivande, Schneller and Stryka. From 2006: Regellos. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Bolaños

Ecuadorian type designer. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his experimental face Chacana. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sibilla Bolay

[t-26] designer of Suspension. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Eugen Bolch

Creative Alliance designer of the great dingbat face Circus Regular. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Paul Bolding

South Carloinian (b. 1984) who created the handprinted font DavidFont (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michele Bold

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

Alya Boldovskaya

Moscow-based type and graphic designer who was born in 1991 in Ardatov. Creator of Alya Hand (2010, a curly face based on her handwriting, which was done with Konstantin Boldovskiy of the Russian foundry Konst.ru. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Konstantin Boldovskiy

Moscow-based Russian foundry of Konstantin Boldovskiy (b, 1966, Pereyaslavka, Russia). He graduated in 1988 as an architect from the Khabarovsk Polytechnic Institute. MyFonts link. Creator of Hexadot, Hexadot Thin and Hexadot Light (2011, a textured family), BK Monolith (2010), InSign Hand (2010, an octagonal face with a sketched style), BK Bird (2010), and Alya Hand (2010, a curly face based on the handwriting of Alya Boldovskaya). Type Tile (2010) is an experimental family. Hexial Pixel 2 (2010) is a dot matrix face. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lilla Bölecz

Graphic design student in Budapest who created funky typefaces for several projects, including Lance Armstrong Identity (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cassandra Marie Boler

Indianapolis-based designer of the avant-garde face Ooops (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jose Antonio Bolio

Creator of the techno face Tetra (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Bolland

Comic book artist born in Butterwick. At Comicraft, John Roshell and Brian Bolland codesigned comic book and script faces like Brian Bolland (2009), Brian Bolland Journal (2009) and Mr. Mamoulian (2008, with John Roshell at Comicraft). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Angela Bolliger

German-Swiss typographer. With Julien Saurin, she published the classic avant-gardist hand-drawn typeface Paris (2012, La Goupil). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anders Bollman

Designer from Nybro, Sweden, who made the ultra-fat mechanical face Volta (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matteo Bologna

Established in 2005, Muccatypo's is a group of three type designers that form a subgroup of Mucca Design in New York:

  • Matteo Bologna made Decoro (Victorian ornamental face), Sportivo Bold, and Infidelity Pro.
  • Will Staehle designed Warren and Valhalla.
  • Roberto de Vicq created Bastardo, Wet and Genealogy.
Free typefaces at Muccatypo include the useless grunge faces Fax Mucca, Geo Mucca, Pepina Mucca, Melt Mucca and Up Down Mucca. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matteo Federico Bologna

Born in Milan in 1965, Matteo Federico Bologna emigrated to the United States, where he founded Mucca Design in 1999, a company involved in logos, type, and corporate identity. He teaches font design at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Typefaces include Food Mucca, Hair Updown, Littoria, Filo Mucca, Mirra Mucca (gorgeous lettering), Mongo Mucca, Rigid Mucca, Rubens Mucca, Vox Mucca, Egizio Mucca, Latina Mucca, Joung Mucca and Pravda (cyrillic simulation font). Free fonts: Geo Mucca, Fax Mucca, Melt Mucca, Updown Mucca, Pepina Mucca (curly lettering). Mucca Design custom-designed Balazs, Decora, Moranda Serif and Grotesque, One Atlantic (a slabbed Garamond done by Joshua Darden), Faux Cyrillic (done for Manhattan's Pravda restaurant), Victoria's Secret Logotype. At iFontMaker, he did ItalianoAMano, and ItalianoAManoPieno. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pitbol Pietro Cesare Bologna

Creator of the iFontMaker fonts HandtypeCondensed and Bollicina Type Hand (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucio Bolognesi

Senior Italian designer who is based in London. Basik home page. His typefaces include Bass It Up (squarish), Privacy (modular), and Wellvetica (+Bold). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francesca Bolognini

Graduate of the KABK in Den Haag in 2008. Originally from Italy, she was at Spiekermann Partners in Berlin for two years, working closely with Erik Spiekermann for clients such as Birkhauser, Bosch, Messe Frankfurt, and FontShop. After Den Haag, she moved to London where she works as a graphic and type designer. She created the heavily serifed Kina family as a student at KABK. That was followed by the quite original alphabet Python, the feminine transitional family Duchesse. The last face is a revival of this typeface from a French book dating from 1908. About this mysterious face, Hrant Papazian writes: That font looked familiar to me, and I immediately looked at my copies of Audin's books, since that's such a singular repository for funky old French stuff. The roman is shown in figure 125 of volume 3 as "Type Beaudoire" #2 (the #1 is actually even more fascinating). The italic is a few pages down in figure 141, shown as the font "XXe Siècle" by Mayeur. I remember from the time I translated Ponot's article about Perrin that there's a connection between Perrin, Beaudoire and Mayeur (and Marquet). IIRC one of them swiped a design from one other, with the help of another, or something.

In 2011, she and Miles Newlyn created Frank, a 5-style humanist sans family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nickolay Boltachev

Kirov, Russia-based type and graphic designer. Creator in 2008 of BeckettGothic (blackletter), Veloprofy (bike chain-inspired glyphs), Podval (type in the form of pressure meters), a few Cyrillc sans faces, and Slash (an oriental simulation face in Cyrillic). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

François Boltana

French type designer based in Toulouse, born in 1950, died in 1999. He is an early graduate of Scriptorium de Toulouse (1972). In his lifetime, he achieved a great deal of success, including the Morisawa Prize in 1990. From 1975-1997 he was also a freelance graphic designer. Brief CV. Read his article in Cahiers GUTenberg, Ligatures&calligraphie assistée par ordinateur (1995). Fontshop link. Frank Adebiaye is preparing a book on Boltana, which will appear at Perrousseaux in 2011. His fonts:

  • Aurore (1993): a script face.
  • The typewriter font Capitole (1974).
  • Champion (1989): a wonderful calligraphic font.
  • Frédéric.
  • Geneviève (1969, Hollenstein Phototypo).
  • Girus.
  • Lineameca (1970, Hollenstein Phototypo).
  • Messager (1991); in two styles, Romain and Tradition.
  • Oscar.
  • Prosper.
  • Rabelais (1997): for this effort, he obtained the Meilleur Ouvrier de France en 1997 award.
  • Toscan.
  • Toulouse.
  • Stilla (1973): a modern psychedelic display face with many ball terminals. In 1990, Elsner&Flake published Stilla EF. It is also in the Scangraphic collection as Stilla SH. Stilla is often incorrectly credited to Middleton.
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Lina Bolt

Fontstructor who made the elegant horizontally-striped monospaced all caps techno face Bolt (2011), the liquid face Lolly (2011), and LB17 (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linus Boman

Brisbane (Australia)-based freelance graphic designer. Creator of Couther Sans (2005, sans serif). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wesley A. Bomar

Wesley A. Bomar (yi3artist) is the American designer of the artificial language script faces PhonnishBrushed, PhonnishCourier, PhonnishThick (2003). This page explains the coding scheme of Phonnish. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hellmut G. Bomm

HGB is Helmut G. Bomm's design studio in Backnang. Bomm was born in 1948 in Backnang, Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart-based type designer who publishes his type designs with Linotype and URW++.

Catalog of some of his typefaces. These include Linotype Nautilus (1999, humanistic sans), Linotype Humanistika (1997), Linotype Invasion (2002), Linotype Invasion Animals (2002), Linotype Männeken Outline and Black (2002, funny guys, part of TakeType 4), Legal (2004, a 6-weight sans family that grew out of his HGB Grotesk which he made in the 1970s), Linotype Scott Venus (1999), Linotype Scott Mars (1999, the latter two are alien script-like faces). At URW++, he made HGB Lombardisch (2008, an uncial), Klassika (2004, a sans family with a nice 3d version, Klassika Bronze; probably the same as HGB Klassika), Rotata Mysticons (2004), Baldur Seventy (2004), Rotate Klassik (2004), Rotate Modern (2004), Rotate Nouveau (2004), Bommi Carbon, Jazz Ragtime, Solo Mita, Solo Data, Bommi Oxygen, HGB Grotesk (2005, geometrical sans family), Schillerplatz (2008, URW++: a condensed didone face), Joga (2008, URW++: a stylish theatre headline face, art deco), Linotype Nautilus Text and Nautilus Monoline Text (2009), Neudoerffer Fraktur (2009, Linotype). Runs a graphics studio in Backnang. Exposition of his work in 2004 (site includes a bio). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Bomparte

Bomparte's Fonts is John Bomparte's (b. Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1959) foundry in Wake Forest, NC. A graphic and type designer, John Bomparte was the assistant to, and a protege of renowned type designer Ed Benguiat, at the legendary Photo-Lettering Inc. It was there that John was surrounded by other great type designers such as Tony Stan, Vic Caruso, Vincent Pacella and Bob Alonso.

John designed the art deco sans face Hamptons BF, and another art deco headline face, Take Two BF.

In 2006, he published the 12-style family Blackletter Sans and the exquisite poster semi-Greek simulation art deco face Abstrak BF.

In 2007, he surprises with the 1920s poster font Michelle BF, the handprinted Brandy BF, its follow-up Johnny Script BF (2008), the quirky Freaky Frog BF, the dot matrix experimental font Subliminal BF, the frizzy Glow Gothic BF (2007), and the gorgeous swashy 3-style blackletter family Black Swan BF (2007).

His 2008 faces: Jacky Sue BF (based on the hand of Jackie Geerlings), SoHo Nights BF, Hamburger Font BF (a rounded fat face), and the art deco sans serif faces Sidewalk Cafe BF (2008) and Hamptons BF (2 weights).

Emerge BF (2009) is a flare serif inspired by Admiral, c.1900, from the Keystone Type Foundry. Freedom Writer BF (2009) is a connected handwriting script face.

Danielle BF (2010) is handprinted, based on the hand of Danielle Paradis. Factor BF (2010) is an electronic / futuristic / techno face. FingerSpeller BF (1994) is an American sign language typeface. Retroscript BF (2010) and Capistrano BF (2010) are beautiful connected scripts.

In 2011, he added the fat felt tip pen face Sherbet BF and the funky rounded display face Dragonfly BF. In that same year, he published the stunted black wood type face Squat (BA Graphics, based on earlier work of or with Bob Alonso).

Klingspor link. Catalog of some of his commercial fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Franco Bonaventura

Zürich-based creator of the dot matrix face called Bubbles (1996, Garcia Fonts) and of the curly typeface Loop (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olga Bondarenko

Kiev-based creator of Industrial Font (2011), in which each glyph is created with the help of industrial machinery. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ronne Bonder

American designer in New York associated with ITC. Creator of ITC Bolt (1970), ITC Machine (1970, octagonal font), ITC Grizzly (1970), ITC Ronda (1970), ITC Gorilla (1970), ITC Grouch (1970), ITC Pioneer (1970), ITC Honda, ITC Tom's Roman (1970, with Tom Carnase). His fonts are available from ITC, Bitstream and Elsner&Flake (such as Pioneer No2 EF). ITC Machine equivalences: Machine, Motor (Corel-branded version of Bitstream's Machine), Automaton Caps (SSK), Mechanic (Softmaker), Pittsburgh (SWFTE), Metal Encasement (SWFTE), Monotone (WSI/IMSI). Linotype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Onna Bondoc

Designer from Woburn, MA, who made the font "US Presidents", which contains autographs by ALL US presidents in the order in which they served. Demo versions are in various places, but while Onna Bondoc is asking to send your money to her for a full version, the copyright notice in the demo font says "Oliver Wiess", go figure. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Bond

Graphic design student in the UK who created the modular face Week Project (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maxim Bonenfant

Montreal-based designer. Home page. He made Toolbox (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bill Bones

Captain Bill Bones designed Bill Bones Sans (2011, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Bonet

French graphic and type designer who graduated from Ecole Estienne in 2005 with a thesis entitled La cancellaresca, L'âge d'or de la calligraphie italienne.. She also studied visual communications at Ecole Duperre in Paris. She has an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on her typeface Polydom, which covers Latin, Greek and Devanagari. Her other typefaces include Operetta (a cancellaresca based on Tagliente's lettering), PSA (an iconographic and sans type system for Peugeot and Citroen), and Gustan. She lived in Los Angeles. In the spring of 2010, she joined Dalton Maag in South London as a type designer. Roxane (2011, Rosetta Type) covers Latin and Devanagari. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boris Bonev

Bulgarian graphic and type designer who made Versus (2008, pixelish). Also check out his colorful type poster. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roy Boney

Type designer for the Cherokee language. He and Joseph Erb explained the Cherokee font design problems at ATypI 2011 in New Orleans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felix Bonge

Felix Bonge (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1982) has been studying communications design at the Design Department of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) since 2005 under Jovica Veljovic. In 2012, he published Levato, a 5-style antiqua with a calligraphic influence. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Bonilla

Cartago, Costa Rica-based creator of the neon sign font Neonia (2012).

Alsoo enjoy the calligraphic Sakura logo (2012) by the Cartago, Costa Rica-based graphic designer. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian J. Bonislawsky

Astigmatic One Eye (AOE) has lots of nice original fonts by Brian J. Bonislawsky (b. 1973, Pittsburgh, PA). Many are free, others are not. AOE joined Font Brothers Inc in 2006. Brian Bonislawsky currently lives in Las Vegas, NV.

Fontsquirrel link. Dafont link. Fontspace link.

A partial list of the AOE fonts made in 2011: Engagement (2011, a free brush script at Google Web Fonts), Fascinate (2011, an art deco face at Google Web Fonts; +Inline), Original Surfer (2011, a free Google Web Font inspired by a vintage advertisement for the "California Cliffs Caravan Park"), Smokum (2011, a Western / Italian face), Yellowtail (2011, signage face), Redressed (2011), Special Elite (2011, free typewriter face), Aclonica (2011).

Typefaces from 2008 or before: Horseplay AOE (2008, Western style), Cake and Sodomy AOE (2008), Good Eatin AOE (2008), Paradiso AOE (2008, inspired by logotype of the Paris Resort and Casino in Las Vegas), Montelago AOE (2007, a script inspired by the logotype of the Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas), Jack Chain AOE (2007), Henhouse (2007), Schnitzle (2007), Luxurian AOE (2007, inspired by the logo of the Luxor Hotel&Casino in Las Vegas), Digital Disco AOE (2007), Mighty Tuxedo AOE (2007), Makeshift AOE (2007), Clarity AOE (2007, slab serif headline), Red Pigtails AOE (2007), Run Tron 1983 (2002), Eyeliner AOE (2006, Tekton-like), Mother Hen (2007), Gloversville (2007, comic book style), Mighty Tuxedo AOE (2007, condensed sans), Quick Handle AOE (2007), Surfing Bird (2007), Hydrogen (2004), Hardliner (2004, fifties diner style), Big Ruckus (2004), SS Antique No. 5 (20040, Europa Twin (2003), EuroMachina (2003, techno), Lord Rat (2003), Love Anxiety (2003), BuzzSaw (2003), Skullbearer (2003, skull dingbats), Beatnick Blue (2002), Geisha Boy (2002), Mardi Party (2002), Midcrime (2002), Ocovilla (2002), Ruthless (2002), Saltie Doggie (2002), Whiskers (2002), Royal Gothic, Family, Eggit, Jericho, Wild Monkeys (2002), 5FingeredGothSW, AlienArgonautAOE, AlphaMackAOE, AmphibiPrint, AngiomaAOE, AntiChristSuperstar, AntiChristSuperstarSW, AstigmaSolid, BigLimboAOE, BigLimbodOutAOE, BoneRollAOE, BoneRollAOEBold, BoundAOE, BrailleAOE, BulletBallsAOE, ButterflyChromosome, ButterflyChromosomeAOE, ButtonButton, ButtonButtonAOE, CType, CTypeAOE, CelticLionAOE-Bold, CelticLionAOE-BoldItalic, CelticLionAOE-Italic, CelticLionAOE, CharailleAOE, ChickenScratch, ChickenScratchAOE, ClunkerAOE, ClunkerAOE-Bold, CropBats, CropBatsAOE, CropBatsIIAOE, DarkNightAOE, DeadGrit, DeliveryMatrixAOE, DetourAOE, DigitalDiscoAOE, DigitalDiscoAOEOblique, DingleBerries, DoggyPrintAOE, DraxLumaAOE, DungeonKeeperII, DungeonKeeperIIBold, DungeonKeeperIIItalic, EggItAOE, EggitAOE-Italic, EggitOutlineAOE, ElectricHermes, ElectricHermesAOE, ElectricHermesAOECharge, FearAOE, FilthAOE, FishyPrintAOEOne, FishyPrintOneAOE, FishyPrintTwoAOE, FutharkAOE, FutharkAOEInline, FutharkAOEInline, GateKeeperAOE, Ghoulish Fright AOE (2006), GlagoliticAOE (1999, grungy glagolitic), GorgonCocoonAOE, Gotik, GreyAlienSW, HAL9000AOE, HAL9000AOEBold, HAL9000AOEBoldItalic, HAL9000AOEItalic, HandageAOE, HandageAOEBold, HauntAOE, HybridLCDAOE, IDSupernovaSW, IslanderAOE, JokerWildAOE, KillMeCraig, KillMeCraigAOE, Kinderfeld, KittyPrint, KittyPrintAOE, Kornucopia, KornucopiaAOE, LinusFace, LinusFaceAOE, LinusPlayAOE, LinusPlaySW, Lochen, LovesickAOE, Manson, MasterPlan, Microbe, MooCowSW, MotherlodeLoadedAOE-Italic, MotherlodeLoadedAOE, MotherlodeStrippedAOE-Italic, MotherlodeStrippedAOE, MysterioSWTrial, NightmareAOE, OrnaMental, Pantera, PapaManoAOE, PenicillinAOE, PixelGantryAOE, PixelGantryAOEBold, PixelGantryAOEBoldItalic, PixelGantryAOEHeavy, PixelGantryAOEHeavyItalic, PixelGantryAOEItalic, PixelGantryHiliteAOE, PixelGantryHiliteAOEItalic, PoppyAOE, PoseidonAOE, Prick, QuiltedAOE, QuiltedAOEBlack, QuiltedTrial, RippleCrumb, RippleCrumbUltraCon, ROCKY, ROCKYAOE, RustedMachineSW, SSExpAntiqueAOE, Schizm, Schrill, SchrillAOE, SchrillAOEOblique, Scrawn, ScrawnAOE, ScrawnCyrAOE, ScrawnKOI8AOE, ScrewedAOE, ScrewedAOEOblique, ScrewedSW, SeaweedFireAOE, SenthAOE, ShampooSW, ShottyTransferTrial, SkinnerAOE, SlurCrumb, SpatCrumb, SpikeCrumbGeiger, SpikeCrumbSwizzle, SpikeCrumbSwollen, SteelcapRubbingTrial, StruckSW, StrutterAOE, SunspotsAOE, SurferComicTrial, TRANSHUMANALPHABET10, TRANSHUMANKATAKANA20, TannarinAOE, TannarinAOEOblique, TibetanBeefgardenAOE, TibetanBeefgardenAOE, TouristTrapAOE, TransponderAOE, TransponderGridAOE, UglyStickAOE, VanguardIIIAOE-Bold, VanguardIIIAOE-BoldOblique, VanguardIIIAOE-Oblique, VanguardIIIAOE, Ventilate, VentilateAOE, Y2KPopMuzikAOE, Y2KPopMuzikOutlineAOE, YoungItchAOE, ZeichensSW, ZenoPotionAOE, Zombie. Second list: BeatnikBlueAOE, BeatnikBlueFillAOE, GeishaBoyAOE, MardiPartyAOE, MindCrimeAOE, OcovillaAOE, PolynesianTouristAOE, RuthlessAOE, SaltyDoggieAOE, SpruceAOE, WhiskersAOE-Oblique, WhiskersAOE, WhiskersAltCapsAOE-Oblique, WhiskersAltCapsAOE (2002), Habitual, Automatic (techno), Bitrux, Filth, Cake&Sodomy, Gulag, Bad Comp, Detour, Alien Argonaut, Dark Night, GateKeeper, Gargamel Smurf, Invocation, Neuntotter, Geisha Boy, Saratoga Slim, Gobe, Stingwire, Lavatype, Tapehead, Islander, Clunker, Digelectric, Gargamel, Krulo-Tag, Krelesanta, SurferComic, Bound, Culture Vulture, Intruder, Cavalier, Anoxia, Synchrounous (IBM logo style lettering), Luna, Data Error, Lunokhod, Jericho. There are many techno and gothic fonts. Kill Me Craig is the first 26 death scene dingbat font (scenes by Craig Dowsett). KittyPrint takes the LinusFace font concept to more realistic cat head dingbats. Krelesanta (not free) is a funky font inspired by the band Kreamy Electric Santa. The free ButtonButton is useful for making buttons. Lovesick AOE is a scrawly, lovelorn typeface, i's dotted with hearts. Strutter AOE is based on the KISS logo. Senth AOR is a runic font. Charaille is one of the many dot matrix fonts. Cavalero is inspired by the logotype of the Chevy Cavalier.

At Bitstream in 2001, AOE published Cavalero, Stingwire and Tannarin. And in 2002, he published the comic book font Big Limbo, Euro Machina BT and Islander there. Bio at Bitstream.

In 2005, Bonislawsky and Sandler realeased 500 fonts, via Bitstream and MyFonts, under the label Breaking The Norm.

In 2006, Astigmatic published their typewriter collection, which includes Military Document, Bank Statement, State Evidence Small Caps, State Evidence, Urgent telegram, Library Report, Overdrawn Account, Customs Paperwork, Incoming Fax and Office Memorandum.

From the bio and various pieces of information, one is led to believe that Brian was born in Poland, and now lives in Miami, but that may be wrong.

In 2010, he placed a free font at the Google Directory, Syncopate. Along the same lines, we find the derived square serif face Stint Ultra Condensed (2011, Google Web Fonts) and Stint Ultra Expanded (2012).

In 2011, several other faces followed there, like Ultra (fat didone), Maiden Orange, Special Elite, Just Another Hand, Crushed, Luckiest Guy (comic book face), Aclonica, Redressed, Montezuma (a curly connected upright script), Devonshire (brush script), Fondamento (calligraphic lettering), Yellowatil (connected retro script), Righteous (free at Google Web Fonts: inspired by the all capitals letterforms from the deco posters of Hungarian artist Robert Berény for Modiano), Ribeye and Ribeye Marrow> (cartoon and/or tattoo style lettering---free at Google Web Fonts), Spicy Rice (2011, free festive display face at Google Web Fonts).

Contributions in 2012: Uncial Antiqua, Jim Nightshade (2012, free at Google web fonts), Dynalight (2012, a retro script inspired by a vintage luggage tag for the Southern Pacific 4449 Daylight steam locomotive), Yesteryear (2012, a retro script loosely based on the title screen from the 1942 film The Palm Beach Story), Parisienne (Google Web Fonts: casual connected script based on a 1960s ad for bras), Shojumaru (Google Web Fonts: an oriental simulation face inspired by a poster for the Marlon Brando movie Sayonara), Berkshire Swash (Google Web Fonts), Audiowide (Google Web Fonts). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Brian J. Bonislawsky

Born in 1973 in Pittsburgh, PA, Brian Bonislawsky has been involved in many type design projects and created many foundries.

  • He started out and became known for Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute (or: AOE, or: Astigmatic One Eye, or: Astigmatic), which offered about half of its large collection of fonts for free. Fontspace link. FontShop link. Astigmatic is located in Las Vegas, NV.
  • Versus Twin was established by Brian Bonislawsky nd Brian Jaramillo in 2004. It produced about 12 typefaces in all.
  • Breaking The Norm (or: BTN) was started by Brian Bonislawsky and Stuart Sandler ca. 2005. It offers about 500 typefaces, many of which are in a handwritten style.
  • Monogram Fonts Co. (or: MFC) was started ca. 2005, and is also located in Las Vegas, NV. It specializes in monogram-style fonts, whichare often ornamental and/or Victorian.
  • In 2007, Debi Sementelli and Brian set up Correspondence Ink, which saw its first font, Belluccia, appear on MyFonts in 2011.
  • In 2010-2011, Brian placed some free fonts at the Google Directory.
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Brian J. Bonislawsky

Commercial foundry, est. 2009 by Brian J. Bonislawsky (Las Vegas, NV), known for his participation in the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute, the Breaking the Norm Font Library, VersusTwin Type Foundry, and Foundry-X. Fonts made in 2009 include MFC Franklin Corners, MFC Manoir Monogram (2009, Victorian initials), MFC Bijou Mopnogram, MFC Escutcheon Monogram, MFC Pantomime Monogram, MFC Peony Monogram (2009), MFC Vice Monogram (an Art Deco letterset (capitals only) from a 1915 publication by Cartier-Bresson of Paris), MFC Viper Monogram (based on Hollywood Combination Initials, found in a 1934 ATF book), MFC Carson Monogram (from Art Monogram and Lettering by J.M. Bergling, Vol. 1, Fifth Edition, 1912), MFC Semicirculus Monogram, MFC Royaume Monogram (after lettering from the 1884 Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship by Daniel T. Ames), Bindi Monogram (after a 1915 publication by Cartier-Bresson of Paris), Carson Monogram (a letter set from the book Art Monogram and Lettering by J.M. Bergling, Vol. 1, Fifth Edition published in 1912, where it was simply labeled New Antique 53), Noir Monogram (after the "Pearl" letterset from the 1854 Becker's Ornamental Penmanship and Draughtsman's Letter Book by George J. Becker), Diamant Monogram, Distinto Borders (after the Black&White and Running Borders from the 1906 Abridged Keystone Type Foundry Specimen Book), Tagliato Monogram (after a decorative letterset (capitals only) from the 1899-1900 Treatise on Embroidery, Crochet and Knitting booklet by M. Hemingway&Sons Silk Co), Mouchoir Monogram, Memoriam Initials (based on University Initials in the 1934 Book of American Types by ATF), Moissanite Monogram (based on Diamond Combination Monograms from the same book), Monarchy Initials (based on Diamond Combination Monograms from the same book), Morningside Monogram and Neuport Monogram (both based on letters found in the 1934 Book of American Types by American Type Founders), Diamant Monogram, Distinto Borders (based on borders found in the 1906 Abridged Keystone Type Foundry Specimen Book), Ruse Monogram (an all caps face based on DeRoos Inline), Tagliato Monogram (from the 1899-1900 Treatise on Embroidery, Crochet and Knitting booklet by M. Hemingway&Sons Silk Co), and Tryst Monogram. MFC Franklin Corners (2009) is a series of three border dingbat fonts. MFC Hills Medieval (2010) was developed from an overly ornamental blackletter type specimen found in the 1882 Hills Manual of Social and Business Forms. The interesting Victorian outline family Sappho Monogram (2010) was inspired by an alphabet set from the book, Monograms and Alphabets for Combination by Dollfus Mieg&Cie, first published in the 1890s. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

J. Bonito

FontStructor who made Decaying Thorns (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dragan Bonjak

Dragan Bonjak&Damir Bonjak designed Iron-Maiden, an octagonal font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathanael Bonnell

Cincinnati-based student who created Cyril, a Cyrillic typeface. Creator of the retro minimalist geometric beauty Yoshiko (2006)---disregard the typophiles' comments, because this one is going to live a glorious life. His third project, Salamander (2006), a classic roman with a luscious italic to boot, is another winner. However, probably because of pressure from Linotype, which owns the name Linotype Salamander, the latter font was renamed Newt. In 2009, Newt Serif was published by Cabinet Type / Veer. This was followed in 2010 by the angular Solveig family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

K.C. Bonnem

Creator of the grungy Special Product, the dot matrix face Ride The Fader (1998), and the futuristic Fader. The site was called earliest memory of cassettes in the late 1990s. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steven Bonner

Graphic designer in Stirling, UK. He created some fonts and designed some letters for GQ Magazine in 2011. He also made the modular face Build (2011).

In 2012, he created the stencil face Muirside, and published a modular compose-as-you-go blackletter type system called Granimator or Blackpack.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lissy Bonness

Born in Germany, Lissy Bonness moved to the UK in 2007 to study design. at the University of Northampton, where she graduated in 2012. Behance link.

She used sound signal time plots in her experimental typeface Sonic Typography II (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Niels Bonnevie

Danish designer of amor, blogs, boring, dogma, elektra (Greek simulation), fatboy, kromozone (grunge), mainstreet, micro, mousecrap, oilhand, onakite, raw, rec, risk, roundabout, starbeam (grunge), strike, Improvised (a pixel font). Niels lives in Copenhagen. Dafont link. At FontStruct in 2008, he created Dub Chuck, Structor, Work In Progess, and Monkey Wok. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leung Ka Ying Bonnie

Aberdeen, Hong Kong-based designer of Book Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Damián Bonomo

Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Vertical Control (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emil Bonsaksen

Norwegian outfit in Valderøy. Emil Bonsaksen created the handwriting face Hi Emil (2009). Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

François Bonzon

Swiss boy scout and designer of MorseCode (1999), which can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eldora Boo

Creator of the dot matrix typeface Eldora (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amber Booler

Aka Amber Caitlin. Designer of the curlified face Andalasia (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Boon

Designer at 2Rebels of db8-digital (2003), a dot matrix font. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peggy Boon

Designer at RGB107,6 of the dingbat font Stukkie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gavin Boorman

UK-based FontStructor (student at Bristol UWE) who made the grungy face Ghost Signs (2010), which was based on decaying advertising signs in Bristol. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Salman Boosty

Graphic designer. Creator of the ornamental caps face Orial Bold (2009). Dafont link. He was born in 1980 in Pekalongan, Indonesia, but lives in Yogyakarta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Booth

Four free medieval-style typefaces made by Andrew Booth in 1997: Court_Hand1590, Parish-Register-Virginia-1590, Parish_RegisterJamestown1615, Court Virginia 1552. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Booth

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

Tony Booth

Graphic designer and lettering artist in England. He has a deal with FontShop to design a complete series of hand-drawn fonts, to be distributed exclusively by FontShop International. The series will include various hand-drawn styles of brush scripts and creative freestyle fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Borad

Codesigner with Douglas Crawford McMurtrie and Leslie Sprunger in 1928 of UltraModern. Jim Spiece at Spiece Graphics revived this design as Ultramodern Classic SG in 1996. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mihaela Borak

Croatian designer of the handprinted face Mihaela Borak (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alastair Bor

Creator of the free dingbat fonts Harvey Balls (2008), VSM Symbols (2009) and Dice. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chelsea Borchardt

Student at Saginaw Valley State University (MI). Creator of the dymo label grunge face Jukebox (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Borchers

Offenbach-based German designer (b. 1979, Frankfurt). Co-founder of Magazin 212 in 2001. At typeoff.de, he created the symbol font Teppic (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Uwe Borchert

German designer in 2010 of the free revival fonts Jakob Book (grotesk), ST37K and ST32K (based on Stahl by Rudolf Koch), Saarland, Plakative Grotesk, and Mops (quaint serif face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian Bordeaux

Swiss type designer at Fontnest who designed these fonts: Neuro (2006), Lubmin (2008). He writes: The Lubmin typeface is a product of adaption of a standard character set (by VEB Typoart, Dresden) that was applied on roadname signs in the former Democratic Republic of Germany. It is, as far as documented, a production of early Prussian standard typefaces, which were also pattern for nowadays DIN font. The type went into action in many ways: Road signs, railway and military signals and also car plates; so almost anywhere a functional, easy reproduceable type was needed. The original letters were often different from road sign to road sign, because the signpainters had a variable elaborateness in painting the letters; some shapes are much more angular than others. So it had been a way of finding a compromise in this case. Also some points were interpreted in a new way, curves had been changed a little bit to accord readability aspects; but all in all, the Lubmin type is as original as in the time of the #Iron Curtain#. His future site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fred Bordfeld

German designer of GP.F La Muerte (2005, with Ollie Peters), GP.F Bitur 1.0 (2005, bitmap fraktur font), GP.F Mudam (2005, with Ollie Peters) and Jado (2005, FF DIN modified for Jadolabs GmbH). GP.F Bitur 1.0 is on the CD that comes with Fraktur Mon Amour (Hermann Schmidt Verlag, 2006). MyFonts link. Creator of Deja Rip and Deja Web (2010, with Elena Albertoni; cyrillic included), a family of eight sans typefaces sold via Anatoletype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Bordijol

Toulouse, France-based creator of the graffiti face Billybop Maj Tag (2011) and the tall handprinted face Billybop Miniskuli (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giulio Bordonaro

Milan-based graphic designer who made the display face Amie Sans (2011), about which he says: Amie Sans is an obscene font. It's all about friendship, love, sex and casual relationships between glyphs. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jacques Borel

Swiss outfit now located in Amsterdam, est. 2003 by Jacques Borel and Harry Bloch, two Swiss graphic designers who graduated from ECAL, the University of Art and Design, Lausanne. At Fontnest, one can ogle their font creations: Pink (semi-stencil), Planp (Swiss sans), Franks (rounded sans headline), and Rudolf (rounded sans with fill-in bowls). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Willem Borgdorff

German researcher at Ruhr University Bochum. Creator of the font Minoan Linear A (2004), which has the glyphs for the still undeciphered Minoan language. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gersan Borge

Creator from Managua, Nicaragua, b. 1979, of the grungy display sans Promises Broken Dream (2011), the grungy Policia Corrupta (2012), and the military stencil faces Kripton A and Kripton B (2006-2008). Smash Punkers is a grungy stencil face. Alambrado Infernal (2006, Triton Company) is a barbed wire-inspired face. Cerca of Skulls (2008), Deat+Deat (2011), 1 Dimencion (2011), 5 Mentarios (2011), 48 Ver Lost (2011), One Punk (2011) and Breaksteel (2006) are grunge faces. Black Metal G (2011) are scanbats of black metal bands. Backspacer (2011) is a circled letter face made as a tribute to Pearl Jam. Pic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Borgerding

Kutztown, PA-based art director and illustrator. In 2010, he drew a blackletter alphabet called Kutztown Fraktur. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Borgers

Belgian-born Paris-based designer and painter whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: LeScript, Manosk (1995, irregular hand), Marker, Maria's Font, Napoléon, Vintage Gothic. His work for Swatch. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Charles Borges de Oliveira

The CBdO Fonts Foundry is headed by Charles Borges de Oliveira (b. New Orleans, 1971) and is located in Arlington, WA. Borges's typefaces are mostly scripts, signage typefaces and comic book style typefaces:

He also sells through Font Bros and Letterhead. Klingspor link.

View the typeface library of Charles Borges. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Leonardo Rosa Borges

Brazilian codesigner with Anderson Kleber, Fábio Henrique and Carlos Santos of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Traviss Borgess

Ramsey, NJ-based graphic designer who made this type study in 2008.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Valerio Francesco Borghi

Fontstructor who made Modulo (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seth Wilder Borg

Designer of the rune font "Icelandic Runes" (1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Timm Borg

Born in Sète, France, in 1983, Timm Borg is a graduate type design student at ENSAD, Paris. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. In 2009-2010, with fellow ENSAD students Anthony Dathy, Perrine Saint Martin and Ok Kyung Yoon, he developed a complete family of fonts that extend blackletter and roman faces by Ulrich Gering that go back to the 1470s. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Igor Borisenko

Moscow-based typographer and art director. Creator of the fat rounded outline face Bolshoi (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iam Boris

Designer of the scratchy handwriting font Sickness (1999), and of Highguard and Highguard New (2002) based on the title art of Gene Roddenberry's syndicated television show Andromeda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Borissov

Designer of the Cyrillic font Choc Borissov (1996, after Choc), which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sid Borne

FontStructor of the dot matrix face 5 Cent Game (2010). Borne Programming. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Bornstein

Dan Bornstein (Fuzz Fonts) offers one font for now: ElseIf (2003). Elseif is a programmer's screen font, meant for legible display on high-resolution displays. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gergely Boroka

As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Recréation (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ralf Borowiak

In house type designer at Elsner&Flake in Hamburg. Designer of EF KaffeeSatz. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Borrego

Óscar Borrego is the Mexican designer of the high contrast sans face Almatica (2004). Designer at the Argentinian outfit SantoTipo of Tequila Heights Sobria&Borracha (2001). At Tiypo, we find Frankenhauss and the futuristic Freon 22. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agustina Borsani

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the typeface Onirik (2010), a unicase face made on the basis of Dante MT. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martin Borst

German designer of the sans display face Hopfen (2008, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steven Borthick

American designer of Binary Code Font (2005, letters are in binary), Borthick's Braille Font (2006), Braille 2 (2006), Hiragana Bold (2005), Steve's Handwriting (2006). URL for his fonts. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. And another one. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Bortniker

Jeff Bortniker from Overland Park, KS, designed Psychedelic Fillmore East, Psychedelic Fillmore West and Psychedelic Avalon at T-26 in 1995. The irregular hand The Walls (1994, T-26) is also due to him. He set up Vitatype to make retail and custom typefaces in the 1990s. Other typefaces from the 1990s at Vitatype included Bodhisattva, Woolly Bully, and Lost Dog Good Dog.

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

Sabrina Bortoloso

Designer in Buenos Aires. In Pablo Cosgaya's course at UBA, she created the high-contrast dodone-inspired fashion mag typeface Viphnori (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shawn Borton

Illustrator in Pennsylvania. He created the strongly geometric face Elegance (2011) and the typeface Velocity (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruben Borup

Danish designer at Litewerx of the (free) pixel font City Lights (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Bosazzi

Freelance graphic designer in Zagreb, Croatia. She made the devilish blackletter face Black Widow (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Boschert

German designer of SPADORE (1998), a Novella lookalike. Another Novella lookalike is Bay Animation's Terra. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roberto Boschetto

Italian creator of the free font Brivido (2011, OFL). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lydeke Bosch

Dutch designer (b. 1991) of Curly (2008) and Lydeke Handwriting (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan N. Bosch

American 3d modeler, b. 1981. He created the bmp-format pixel font Zebesian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfred R. Bosco

Designer (b. 1901, Neapel) of the upright script Romany (ATF, 1934). Available from Dan Solo as Romany Script. Also available in a major extension as Apricot (2005) by Rebecca Alaccari at Canada Type. And also done by Terrance Weinzierl (Ascender Type, 2009) as Romany. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bosco

Brazilian designer from Sao Paulo who created the typefaces Manguebat 3 and 4 (both with "Buggy") at Tipos do aCASO (2005). Educated at UFPE. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dipankar Bose

Bose designed the soccer hero scanbat face Soccerman (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Bosen

Michael Bosen (Bosil Unique Fonts) made these fonts in 2003: Mikie's Christmas List (handprinted), Bosil Unique Regular (comic book face), Bosil Marker, BU DeBoned, BU Boned, Uniquely Sprayed (grunge), Slightly Dinged, Bu Handy Dings (hands, including fists), and "the finger"), Bu Marker SC.

In 2012, he addeed BU Gothic Hybrid (a hybrid of grunge calligraphy and blackletter). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Boskamp

German designer of the nice scratchy grungy all caps face Merlin LL (1994, Linotype). In 2003, she published Goodies LT Std A and B in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection. Bio at Linotype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Martijn Boskamp

Graphic designer in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, b. 1987. Behance link. For a project for the art academy in Rotterdam, he made the experimental face Blik Font (2010), which is based on crushed cans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oszkár Boskovitz

Oszkár Boskovitz ran Nepfont Digital Foundry, and at some point, ca. 2009, changed its name to Fontbistro, where one can now buy his fonts. He is a Hungarian type designer who digitized the award-winning typeface family Pannon (2001) made by Edit Zigány in 1972. He is working on a book that will summarize Hungarian type in the 1970s and 1980s. His repertoire:

  • Experimental faces: Balek (2005), Cassius (2001), Tubyfex (2005).
  • Stencil: Syrup (2005), Digital Sherpa (2002), Tilos (2002, rough stencil family), Wagon (2001, another rough-edged family).
  • Brush style: Ecsetirás (2001, based on a face of Zoltán Nagy, 1967).
  • Techno: Krax (2001, free), Konwektor (2001), Moab (2002, family), Shrapnel (2004, octagonal family).
  • Signpainting: Thaifun (2003).
  • Simple monospaced fonts: Monostar (2002).
  • Unicase: Troppauer (2005, many weights).
  • Text families: Pannon Antiqua (2001, based on a family by Edit Zigány (1972).
  • Testosterone enhanced faces: Pluto (2006).
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Oszkár Boskovitz

Oszkár Boskovitz's Hungarian foundry. Before Fontbistro, he ran Nepfont Digital Foundry. His fonts sold at Fontbistro include Balek, Blabla, Ecsetirás (2001, a brush face based on a face of Zoltán Nagy, 1967), Konwektor (techno), Pannon Antiqua (2001, based on a family by Edit Zigány (1972), Pluto (2006), Shrapnel (organic), Syrup (2005, stencil), Tilos (2002, rough stencil family), Troppauer (2005, unicase), Tubyfex (2005, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jelle Bosma

Jelle Bosma (b. Rijswijk, The Netherlands, 1959) is an expert truetype hinter at Agfa Monotype in the Netherlands. He was one of the main type designers at Scangraphic from 1988-1991, where he designed Forlane in 1991. He relies a lot on his own software, including a truetype font editor called FontDame. He also claims that there are no more than 25 professional hinters world-wide. Alternate URL. He created WTC Cursivium (1986, World Typeface Center). In 2004, he created the OpenType family Cambria for Microsoft's ClearType project. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Bossard

French graphic designer, illustrator and type designer (b. 1982) who graduated from LISAA in 2006. His typefaces: Danoise (+Bold) (art nouveau influences, 2006), Station Debout (2006, sans), Krug (2006, irregular handwriting), Digitaline (2006), Forficula (2006, artsy). Bossard lives in Rennes, where LISAA is located. Dafont link where one can download Danoise. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephen Boss

Emboss was founded in 1995 by Stephen Boss (b. 1969, Michigan), and is located in Beacon, NY, and Camillus, NY. Stephen Boss lived in Gloucester, MA, then in Brooklyn, NY, and finally near Syracuse, NY. His fonts are sold by Monotype Imaging / ITC and Myfonts.

Typefaces include Babalon, Oo La La, Chubbét (2010, sans family, +Distended), Tobago, Phervasans (pixel face), DNA, Elefont, Eurydome (2010, like Eurostile?), Thai One One (a Thai simulation font), Jerusalem Syndrome, Dramaminex, Crossell (2010, a sans family), FaxFont97, Embossanova (2012) and Zyncho.

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

Justin Bost

Justin Bost (Washington, DC) graduated from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC, with a degree in Graphic Design. He morphed DIN and Didot together, two genetically incompatible parents, and created the mutant face Balance (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julie Boswell

Creator of the thin curly face Iron Gate (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Botezatu

Illustrator and digital artist in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He created a script face in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Botha

Designer of the hairline constructive face Linotype Clascon (1997, with Rachel Godfrey). [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Botika

FontStructor who made the mechanical face Milogo (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Boton

Albert Boton is a Parisian type designer and teacher, born in 1932 in Paris. In 1957 he started work at Deberny&Peignot under Adrian Frutiger. From 1958 to 1966 he helped create several typefaces for the Hollenstein phototype catalog. In 1968 he became the art director for Robert Delpire publishers, but continued designing faces for the Hollenstein collection and later for Mecanorma and Typogabor. From 1968 to 1997 he was a teacher of type design and calligraphy at the École nationale des arts décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris. From 1988 to 1998 he taught type design at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographiques. In 1981 he became art director and head of type department at the design agency Carré Noir. Interview in the ENSAD Journal B. His company is called BVS Boton.

He is the designer of Berthold's Boton family (1986), FF Bastille Display package (2002, consists of FF Aircraft, FF Aircraft TF, FF District Bold, FF District Bold TF, FF Studio, FF Studio TF, FF Zan), FF Elegie (2002, art nouveau, a take on Auriol), ITC Elan (1985), ITC Eras (1961), Agora (1990, Berthold), Chadking (1958), Roc (1959), Brasilia (1960), Primavera (1963), Rialto (1964), Black Boton (1970), Zan (1970), Pharaon (1971), Pampam (1974), Hillman (1972, an Egyptian family at Mecanorma), Tzigane (1973, a condensed family at Mecanorma), Chinon (1973, Mecanorma), Hudson (1973), Boton and Navy Cut (1986, for Mecanorma), the Scherzo family (at the Agfa Creative Alliance), Carré Noir (1996, also at Agfa), Bellini, Praxitel, FF Tibere. Since 1998, he distributes his own fonts through BVS Albert Boton: Albotoni Book (made in 1974 originally), Kit, Memo, Pompeii (1993), Linex Sweet, FF Page (2003, in PageSans and PageSerif families), FF Cellini (2003, Albert's take on Bodoni), FF Tibere (2003, a classic roman family), FF District (2004, a squarish sans family) and Linex Sans (Agfa, 2003) are some his latest typefaces.

Citroen's logo font at Delpire.

Bio at FontFont. Pictures of an exposition in 2003. Linotype link. FontShop link. MyFonts link.

Aude Degrassat wrote a thesis on Boton in 2008 at Estienne.

Picture. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Patricia Boto

Graphic designer and photographer (b. 1978) in Lisbon. Behance link

Patricia used circles, trinagles and squares only in the construction of My Geometric Font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amit Botre

Amit Botre (Redfonts) is the Indian designer (b. 1978) of AB Dent (1999), AB Engraved (1999), AB Fatchic (1999), AB Fubu (1999, pixel), AB Ultrachic (1999, rounded sans), ABBarberian (1999, art nouveau meets gothic), ABExp (1999, striped letters), ABMindblock (1999, Franz Kafka's lettering?), AbFangs (2000), ABFuturun (1999, futuristic), AB Cave (1999, grunge), AB Majik (1999, slender letters) and AB Nirvana (1999, display lettering). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonas Böttiger

Digitizer of the newspaper face Zero One (2004), which was designed by Carl Fredrik Hultenheim. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicolas Botti

Designer of the pixel faces Opti and Opti Small which can be downloaded at Proggy Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agustín Luis Bou

Hailing from Rosario, Argentina, this designer (b. 1992) created the free athletic lettering faces Bou Collegiate (2008) and Bou College (2008), the handprinted Bou Handwriting (2009) and Handform (2009), the dot matrix face Score Board (2009), Squarefont (2011), Movie Letters (2011), and BOU Western (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Boucherie

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

In 2012, he created the rhombic face Iddi Head.

Catalog.

Dafont link. Another Dafont link. And another link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Boukagne

GGI stands for Grenoble Graphik It, a French outfit run by Benjamin Boukagne, who is the designer of the dingbat face Tha Boukagne's (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camille Boulouis

French designer who obtained an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on her typeface Guillotine, which was intended for newspaper weekend edition magazines. It is characterized by soft triangular serifs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laurent Bourcellier

Graduate of Ecole Estienne in 2006, where his thesis was entitled Gothiques et XXe siècle. Création, propagande, détournement. In 2008, he cofounded Typographies.fr with Jonathan Perez in Paris. Designer of the Latin italic face Joos in 2009. Joos won an award at TDC2 2010. It was inspired by an italic created in 1536 by Joos Lambrecht, from Gent, Belgium, who was one of the great printers and punchcutters of the 16th century. He also made Unicopte (for Coptic) and codesigned Copte Scripte in 2008 with Jonathan Perez [Copte Scripte won an award at TDC2 2009]. His thesis at Estienne was about the development of Unicopte. He is a freelance graphic and type designer who is working at Porchez's foundry in Sèvres. A resident of Aulnay-sous-Bois, he specializes in scientific typefaces. Laurent lives in Scherwiller, France. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tristan Bourdon

Parisian graphic designer. He created the dotted outline face Discommander (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ulick J. Bourke

According to Michael Everson, either Bourke or James Marr made the roman Gaelic font Bourke (or: Romano-Keltic), ca. 1877. [Google] [More]  ⦿

G. R. Bourne

GeoBo Fonts is a San Diego-based foundry, established in 2004 by G.R. Bourne. Their faces can be bought at MyFonts: Daisy (2004, a bouncy display face), Gothika, Scimitar, Raven, Nifty, RomanSanSer (2004, designed to have features of both University and Times-Roman), BlackThorne. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cyril Bourreau

Designer of Back to the Future(2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fleury Bourriquant

Fleury Bourriquant made a Civilité honneste, which was used in the region around Toul, Chatellerault and Troyes, in the early part of the 17th century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Randy E. Bouse

Randy Bouse (PurOKC Creations, UK) is the designer of the extended display font Ponchovia, and of Madrid. He also calls his fonts OKCRandy fonts, but currently, there are no fonts on his site. They used to be free but won't be in the future. [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Boussenko

Graphic and web designer in Auckland, New Zealand. He created the simple yet elegant headline family Blanco (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gary David Bouton

Gary David Bouton and Barbara Bouton's site is called Exclamations. Alternate URL. Their typefaces: Elephants and Bears (dingbats), GreekDiner Inline, GeotypeTT (1997), WebKnobsTT (1997), Beacon (2008, a Schwabacher), BOUTONKursiv (2008, handprinted), BOUTON Nouveau Ornaments II (2009), BifurFoundation (2010), BifurOverlay (2010, after Cassandre's Bifur), Frankfurter Venetian (2008, fat rounded horizontally striped all caps face), Nouveau Rococo Deco Dings I (2008, art nouveau ornaments), Odyssey (2008), Simulata (2006, geometric deco face with Bifur influences), Whimsy (comic book font), SymbolsTT (1998, charityware dingbat font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gary David Bouton

Big collection of 3d fonts (commercial). Three free 3d fonts, Balthazar, Dayton and GeoType (by Gary David Bouton). The fonts in their packages look like renamed examples of well-known fonts. The subpage with the fonts seems to have disappeared. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arlette Boutros

Type designer. She created or co-created the arabic typefaces Boutros Ads Pro, Boutros Advertising, and Boutros Thuluth Light. She also was one of the four co-designers (with Mourad Boutros, Richard Dawson and Dave Farey) of Tanseek Pro (2008), a typeface family for Latin and Arabic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mourad Boutros

Boutros calligraphic Arabic fonts (sold by Glyph Systems of Andover, MD) are fonts designed by "Boutros International" a group of experts headed by Mourad and Arlette Boutros. "These beautiful TrueType Fonts are designed to work in Microsoft's Arabic Windows versions 3.1 / 95 / 98 / NT as well as on the Mac OS with an Arabic Language Kit." These fonts include Boutros Decorative Kufic, Boutros Display, Boutros Koufic, Boutros MB Naskh, Boutros Modern, Boutros New Koufic Modern, Boutros Simplified Naskh, Boutros Asifa, Boutros Farah, Boutros Farasha, Boutros Fares, Boutros Najm. See also here. Mourad Boutros is an experienced Arabic creative director, calligrapher and typographer. From his bio: Since 1978, he has been Arabic typographical consultant to many international companies including Letraset. Mourad has designed more than 50 Arabic typefaces, some of which are available on IBM printers as core fonts. Typeface commissions have included corporate typefaces for Mercedes-Benz and for Al Anba, the leading Kuwaiti Arabic newspaper." At Ascender, he published Boutros Maghribi (2009, codesigned with Rana Abou Rjeily), based on the Arabic calligraphy bamboo classical Maghribi style. Here you can download these 2004 fonts by Boutros: GEBox-Bold, GECapMedium-Medium, GEContrastBold-Bold, GECurvesMedium-Medium, GEDinarOne-LightItalic, GEDinarOne-Medium, GEDinarOne-MediumItalic, GEDinarTwo-Light, GEDinarTwo-LightItalic, GEDinarTwo-Medium, GEDinarTwo-MediumItalic, GEEast-ExtraBold, GEEast-ExtraboldItalic, GEElegant-Italic, GEElegantMedium-Medium, GEFlow-Bold, GEFlow-BoldItalic, GEFlow-Italic, GEFlow, GEHili-Book, GEHili-Light, GEJarida-HeavyItalic, GEJaridaHeavy-Heavy, GEMBFarahBold-Bold, GEMBFarashaLight-Light, GEMBFaresMedium-Medium, GEMBMBBold-CondensedBold, GEMBNajmBold-Bold, GEModernBold-Bold, GEModernLight-Light, GEModernMedium-Medium, GENarrowLight-Light, GESSTVBold-Bold, GESSTextBold-Bold, GESSTextItalic-LightItalic, GESSTextLight-Light, GESSTextMedium-Medium, GESSTextUltraLight-UltraLight, GESSThree-Italic, GESSThree-Light, GESSTwoBold-Bold, GESSTwoLight-Light, GESSTwoMedium-Medium, GESSUniqueBold-Bold, GESSUniqueLight-Light, GESmooth-LightItalic, GESmoothLight-Light, GETasmeem-Medium, GEThameen-Book, GEThameen-BookItalic, GEThameen-DemiBold, GEThameen-DemiBoldItalic, GEThameen-Light, GEThameen-LightItalic, GETye, GEUnique-ExpandedBold, GEWideExtraBold-ExtraBold. Here one can find Boutros-Ads-Pro-Bold, Boutros-Ads-Pro-Bold-Condensed, Boutros-Ads-Pro-Light, Boutros-Ads-Pro-Medium, and Boutros-Ads-Pro-Medium-Italic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Boutry

French type designer (b. 1977) who created Cargoth (2001), a hybrid of Carolingian and Gothic. She is involved now in type design and corporate identity projects at Porchez Typofonderie. As a student at ENSAD, she co-designed the Garamond face Recréation (2000). Typofonderie link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bas Bouwense

Bas Bouwense (Social Animal) is the Dutch designer (b. 1974) of Social Animal (2007, grunge). Home page. Bas lives in Rotterdam. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philip Bouwsma

Type designer born in Boston in 1948 who created many exquisite designs such as Alexia (1992), Sallando Italic, Dorothea or Cresci Rotunda. His work shows the influence of masters such as Arthur Baker.

  • A list of faces done for Agfa (which became Monotype): Alligators, Aureus Uncial, Carmela, Connach (a Gaelic font), Corvallis, Cresci Rotunda, Dorothea, Francesca (1994), Hrabanus (1994, Monotype: Based on the lettering of Hrabanus Maurus, c. 776-856, archbishop of Mainz and author of many commentaries on the scriptures), Lexie's Animals, Ludovico, LudovicoWoodcut, Mantegna, Mariposa, Mariposa Sans, Mexican Birds, Borders&Symbols, Monmouth (1994, a Lombardic / blackletter face), Neuhengen, Ophelia Italic, Palatino Rotundo, Percival, Poggio Bookhand, Pompeii Capitals, Ramsey (1997, Lombardic face), Sallando Italic, Synthetica, Thalia Italic, Trieste, van der Hoef Capitals (Monotype, an art deco face after 1920 lettering by Dutch artist Christian van der Hoef), and Wolfdance.
  • At Alphabets Inc: Alexia, Benedict Uncial, BouwsmaScript, Juliana and Weissenau.
  • A complete list of all Philip Bouwsma fonts on the Creative Alliance v9.0 CD: Alligators (1994, letters made up from alligators), Carmela, Clemente Rotunda, Corvallis, Corvallis Oblique, Corvallis Sans, Corvallis Sans Oblique, Dorothea, Fransesca Gothic (1996, Lombardic / blackletter style), Hrabanus, Lexie's Animals, Lombardic Capitals (1994, Monotype), Ludovico Smooth, Ludovico Smooth Flourishes, Mariposa, Mariposa Bold, Mariposa Book, Mariposa BookItalic, Mariposa Black, Mariposa Medium, Mariposa Sans, Mariposa Sans Bold, Mariposa Sans Book, Mariposa Sans BookItalic, Mariposa Sans Black, Mariposa Sans Medium, Mexican Birds, Polenta Black Italic, Polenta Italic, Ter Gast, Ter Gast Alternates, Wolfdance, Schildersblad, Tresillian.
  • From 2005 on, he started publishing his typefaces at Canada Type. There he published a fantastic calligraphic blackletter-inspired family, Torquemada, and Bouwsma Script (2006), an extension of his 1994 handwriting face. Still at Canada Type, he updated Alexia in 2006, and added Luminari in 2008, a Lombardic / uncial font influenced by the prolific humanist Poggio Bracciolini from the early fifteenth century (+Greek, +Cyrillic, +Celtic). The 8-style Bouwsma Text (2008, Canada Type) is a full-bodied truly "roman" family well worth visiting. The 5-style Mirabel calligraphic script family Mirabel (2008, Canada Type) is based on the handwriting of Beverly Bouwsma (Philip's mother), which she developed in the 1930s. Styx (2008, Canada Type) is a 4-font connected calligraphic script family with rough and smooth variations. But his grandest achievement is perhaps Maestro (2009), a 40 style chancery family, in 2 weights each, with 3350 characters per font, codesigned with Patrick Griffin at Canada Type. Still in 2009, he designed the 6-style calligraphic family Tupelo. In 2010, his main contribution, with Patrick Griffin, is the calligraphic uncial family Testament II. His Lorenzo family (2010, Canada Type) is has both chancery and calligraphic styles. In 2011, he published the Carolingian script family Symposium Pro, with the help of Patrick Griffin. Images: i, i, i, i, i, i.
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Michel Bovani

French designer of the (free) Fourier-GUTenberg package (dated 2003) for Latex, which includes a number of mathematical type 1 fonts that are new: Fourier-Alternate-Black, Fourier-Alternate-Bold, Fourier-Alternate-BoldItalic, Fourier-Alternate-Italic, Fourier-Alternate-Roman, Fourier-Alternate-SemItalic, Fourier-Alternate-SemiBold, Fourier-Math-BlackBoard, Fourier-Math-Cal, Fourier-Math-Extension, Fourier-Math-Letters-Italic, Fourier-Math-Letters, Fourier-Math-Symbols. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lionel Bovet

Lionel Bovet (Geneva, Switzerland) created the Peignotian typeface family La Collongeoise (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caitlin Bowden

Student at Lasalle, who created the textured typeface Lines (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Bowditch

Designer in 1957 of a typeface used for Idaho State Historical Markers. Digitized in 2006 by Ray Larabie as Goldburg. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Bowe

Auckland, NZ-based designer of the balloon font Space Head (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kevin Bowen

American designer (b. 1991) of the graffiti font Delusion (2008) and of Bubble Wrap (2009, outline font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Bower

Designer of Riven (1998). This font was singled out by the typophiles as a problematic pirate font---even the name of its parent, Perpetua, was left inside the font file. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harold Bowers

Commercial GD&T fonts by Harld Bowers for "geometric dimensioning and tolerancing". And Engineering/Technical fonts in truetype at 15 USD a shot. Architectural CAD drawing fonts. And Make-A-Screw truetype font for 99USD. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Louie Bowers

London-based designer of the caps face Ode to Eine (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucas Bowers

Creator of the iFontMaker font Blueprint (grunge, sketchy). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Bowers

American artist and graphic and type designer. Her typefaces include Eudaemonia (2004, organic), Purgatory (2004), Artburn (2004), Pastiche (2004), and Hootenanny (2003, ornamental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sidney Bowhill

Designer of the compressed western font Townsend, and of Trajan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Bowler

Thomas Bowler (Stealthcow) is the British designer of the sans font BubbleFont (2003) [no downloads]. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Bowman

Type designer. With Jason Thorpe, he made Temple of the Dog (1991), a child's handwriting font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John H. Bowman

Programme Director for Library and Information Studies at University College, London. At the meeting in Thessaloniki in June 2002, he spoke about The fine printing of Greek in Britain and its types. Author of Greek printing types in Britain, from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century (Thessaloniki : Typophilia, 1998). That book is based on the author's thesis completed in 1988 for the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, England. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sieb Boxmeer

Owner of the graphic design company Sieb Design, Dutchman Sieb Boxmeer created the handprinted Bottenbreker TV (2008), named after a TV program in The Netherlands, Brute Bottenbreker. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Boyar

FontStructor who made the display face Digitollipop (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean Boyault

JB Foundry was established by Jean Boyault (b. 1960, Suilly La Tour, France), a type designer who lives in Suilly La Tour. He is the designer of the cursive and other school fonts for teachers, all free and made in 2006-2007: JBCursive, JBEtude-Regular, JBMatrice, JBBatonRond-Bold, JBBatonRond-Extra, JBBatonRond-Italic, JBBatonRond-Regular, JBChantier, JBCursive++Feutre, JBCursive++Marqueur, JBCursive++Normal, JBFil, JBRond, JBScolaireT1-Bold-Italic, JBScolaireT1-Bold, JBScolaireT1-Italic, JBScolaireT1, JBScolaireT2-Bold-Italic, JBScolaireT2-Bold, JBScolaireT2-Italic, JBScolaireT2. Dafont link, where one can also find Simple Ronde (2011, upright connected script), JB Etude (2007), JB Script (2010), JB Lames (2008), JB Elegant (2008), JB Cursive, JBStyle (2008), JB Fil Std (2009) and JB Calli (2008).

Commercial faces: JB Davayé (2010, connected upright script), Belladone (2010, a graceful display family), Maceriam (2010, +Nova, +Putri, +Lapide: letters cemented into walls---a great idea), Old French School Bold (2011, upright connected script), Filature (2011, a monoline connected upright script), Suilly La Tour (2012), Typha Latifolia (2012).

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

J. Boyce

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Porkchops (heavy), TWO2, ONE1. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phillip Boydell

Designer of Festival Titling or Festival of Britain (1950-1951, Monotype) at the London Press Exchange for festival advertising. This almost beveled face has caps and numerals only. Monotype carries digital versions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

William Boyd

William Boyd made some semi-uncial fonts such as Carolingian (1991, based on DorovarFLF-Carolus). His designs were at the basis of the Celtic font BoydUncial UNICODE (2003). He also did the Western font Laramie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jenn Boyer

Jenn Boyer's free alphabet fonts with food themes (FoodFonts package): Cookie Dough, Accent Hotdog, Swiss Cheese, Accent Wet Noodle, Watermelon. There is also a free Spooky font. Commercial fonts at 1USD a shot: Accent Balloon, Accent Bubble, Accent Paper Clips, Accent Stringy, Accent Ziggy Zag. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Boyle

Saginaw, MI-based creator (b. 1989) of the grungy dymo label face Sensitivity (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Boyle

Creator of Anemone Mime (2009, brush script, Monotype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melinda Boyle

Pictifont is the foundry (est. 2011) of Seattle, WA-based type designer Melinda Boyle, who grew up in Colorado. She created PictiFont (2011, + On The Beach), a 16-glyph set of symbols to personalize one's calendar containing a star, a snowflake, an apple, and so forth. This dingbat face accompanies a set of four monolined sans titling faces called PictiFont Thin (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sally Boyle

Leeds, UK-based designer of the display face Tacit (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Bruce Bozarth

Designer of the Amtorian language script face AMTOR (1998), based on ERB's Venusian alphabet. This is Startrek stuff. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Bozeman

Designer of the handprinted font LB_Natebug (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Slavka Bozhinova

Graphic designer in Sofia, Bulgaria. Creator of a circular arc experimental Cyrillic typeface in 2012. She also created the experimental typeface Former (2012). The Plant (2012) is a modular geometric font experiment. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marjan Bozic

Slovenian designer, at Apostrophic Laboratory, of the R-rated dingbat font Hard Talk. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carla Soledad Bozzola

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

Stanislav Brabec

Moonphases in metafont format, by Stanislav Brabec from Czechia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Braben

Designer of Elite (1984, with Ian Bell), Frontier: Elite 2 (1993), and Frontier: First Encounters (1995, with Frontier Developments). These fonts were created to simulate the Elite games, and are of the pixel variety. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Braccaloni

Leftloft is a visual communications studio in Milan, founded in 1997 by graphic designer Andrea Braccaloni (b. Bologna, 1973), Francesco Cavalli, Bruno Genovese and David Pasquali. The studio is mainly engaged in corporate identity, and now also has an office in New York. Andrea Braccaloni teaches visual communication at the III Faculty of Architecture/Design at the Politecnico di Milano. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about new typefaces he designed the old-fashioned way, as a handicraft. Within the studio, there is a small lab for type design, called "Die kleine Fonderie", at which Andrea Braccaloni and Veronika Burian are active. Designs include LL Egeo (1999, shifted letters), LL Mila (2002, a condensed sans with a trademark "g"), LL Etica (2001-2002, a sans family that derives its name from Helvetica, and has soft strokes and wide apertures---in 2009, Etica Seriffo was published by Type Together as the "trappist type family"), LL Chicane (2001, geometric and experimental, between paperclip and neon sign), LL Impresa (2001, octagonal-themed font), LL SanSiro (masculine sans family), LL EU (a delicate sans), LL Alice ditalunghe (transitional text face), LL Officiel (extreme didone titling face, developed for French fashion magazine L'Officiel, in collaboration with Patricia Sartori), LL Crudo (experimental, now LFT Crudo), LL Ubu Re (2002, made by lines and circles only), Lemon (1998), L'Amante Perduto (1999), Solferino Text (2007, with Luciano Perondi, for Corriere della Sera). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phil Bracco

Foundry located in Westbury, NY, and run by Phil Bracco (b. 1981, Big Horn, MT), a graduate of the Pratt Institute. Creator of the festive signage fonts Charming Charlie PB (2009), Hip Hopper PB (2008, inspired by the lettering on an art poster by Patrick Owsley for the cartoon character Hoppity Hooper), Fat Rhino PB (2008) and Pink Broccoli PB (2008). Hideaway (2008) is a light-hearted comic flare serif typeface inspired by a 1964 Speedy Gonzalez cartoon title. More comedy in Chop Phooey (2008), Astronaut Jones (2008), Lil Rhino PB (2008), Houseguest PB (2008), Spidertoes PB (2009) and Tiny Butler (2008). Chorizo PB (2008) is inspired by some of the wild lettering of comic creator Paul Coker, Jr. Houndcats PB (2008) is a comic book sans based on a 1972 cartoon called Houndcats. Manic Mood PB (2008), Kid Captain PB (2009), Bear Club PB (2009), Hot Streak PB (2009) and Suited Horse PB (2008) have more comic book lettering. Suited Horse PB (2009) is a chalkboard font inspired by the title screen of a 1968 Walt Disney film titled, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit. Monster Fiesta PB (2009) is a curly display typeface. Chop Chop PB (2009) is an oriental brush simulation face. Fathoms BB (2009) is a crazy sans serif font based on the titling from one of ABC's Movie of the Week series from 1969 called Daughter of the Mind. Dead Rite PB (2011) is an oddball cartoon face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Brad Brace

Californian designer of fonts at Garagefonts, including the texture dingbat font family GF Millennium (1997-1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Braczyk

Braczyk (aka esbe, sandman and moa) is the French designer of Jules (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Bradbury

American designer of Hoyle Playing Cards Font (2004). Fontspace link. Aka Conexion. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Bradbury

Richard Bradbury (UK) is a graphic design student. In 2011, he designed a modular typeface by intersecting circles---it is called Kaleidoscopic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felix Braden

Floodfonts has freeware fonts by Felix Braden (b. Koblenz, Germany, 1974, an ex-student at the Trier College of Design). In 2000 he founded the free-font site Floodfonts with Peter Hoffmann. After working for five years as an art director for Gaga-Design, Koblenz, he decided to set up his own graphic design studio in Cologne. He now lives in Cologne working as a freelance designer and as a art director for MWK Cologne.

His free fonts at Floodfonts include Floodicons (2003), Hydrophilia (2003. He writes: Hydrophilia family was created in 2003 by Felix Braden as a further development of Moby and comes with two fonts: The gothic typeface (liquid) is a revised version of the pixel font (iced). Hydrophilia liquid got a lot of letterforms with a diagonal axis, which reminded me of the technical fonts used on early liquid crystal displays.), Squid (2002, free), SquidCaps (2002), Ninetwist (2002), Catherine (2002), Moby (2002), Babelfish (2002), Blendfontsexperiment (2001), Incpot (1997), Hammerhead (2001), HammerheadBlack (2001), HammerheadBold (2001), HammerheadMedium (2001), Multikultur (1997, Fraktur font), MultikulturExtraBold (2001), Orchidee (2001), Sadness (2001), Wuestling (1997).

Peter Hoffmann designed Alita (2001) and Lacuna (2001).

Commercial fonts at Fountain: Grimoire, Sadness.

In 2004, he cofounded Timetwist with Pia Kolle, where you can download Rabbits (2004, Kolle), Pirates Stoertebecker (2004, Braden at Floodfonts, a ransom note face), Pirates Drake (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), PiratesBlackbeard (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), PiratesBonney (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), Bigfish (2009, a Western billboard face).

At Ductype, Braden published Timetwisteight (2005, a pixel face).

At URW++, he published the Supernormale family (part techno, part pixel) in 2006.

At Volcano, he made the rounded display face Bikini (2010).

At Fountain, he published the geometric monoline sans face Capri Pro (2011, related to both Futura and Avant Garde).

At FontShop, he published FF Scuba (2012), as an offline companion to Verdana.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Behance link. Fontsquirrel link. Personal page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Peter Braden

British designer of Evil Green Plant (2009, grunge) and Castafiore (2009). Home page. GitHub link for his faces. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Braden

Creator of the curly scratchy Bipolar Braden (2009). Sarah lives in Wisconsin and runs SB creative llc. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julian Bradfield

Metafonts developed by Julian Bradfield. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jazmen Bradford

Student at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. He created the squarish face Proto (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy Bradley

Amy Bradley (b. 1984) lives in Sudbury, Ontario. At Devian Tart, she designed the scribbly handwriting font Jagged Thoughts (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heather Bradley

Graphic Designer based in Leeds, UK. She is scheduled to obatin a BA in Graphic Design from the Leeds College of Art in 2011. behance link. Creator of the counterless face Squircle (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Bradley

Designer in 2007 of the bullethole font Trigun. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Bradley

Designer of Phobia at the Manchester, UK-based foundry Tealeaf. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard J. Bradley

Artist, calligrapher and type designer born in Portsmouth, England, in 1947. Richard Bradley designed ITC Bradley Hand (1995), Fine Hand (1987), Calligraphic Ornaments (1993, ITC; also in the Corel collection), and the flowing Bible Script (1979). Part-time teacher at the Portsmouth College of Art, and type designer for Linotype. From 2006 onwards, he is cooperating with David Kettlewell at New Renaissance Fonts, where he jointly developed these renaissance-era fonts: AliceScrolltipRoman, RicksDecoratedUncial-Medium, RicksFolkloreRoman, RicksRelaxedHand-Italic, SevilliaDancingText, Sevilliastandingtext, Sevilliatiles, Ashbourne 1241 (2009, an uncial based on a gravestone in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, dated 1241). Future releases will include Ashbourne Uncials, Rick's Christmas card, Country Cursive, Curly Classic, Rick's Graphica, Rick's Rustic Caps, Rick's Rustic lettering, and Rick's Square Caps. In 2011, he and Linotype released a 3-style extension of Bradley Hand called Bradley Type. At New Renaissance Fonts, he released Bradley Chancery (2011) and Sonnet Script (2011, inspired by the calligraphy of the Welsh artist and poet David Jones (1895-1974)).

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William H. Bradley

Book designer, poster designer and typographer, born in Boston (1868). He died in 1962. His faces include the following:

  • Abbey Text (1895, A.D. Farmer).
  • A beautiful unnamed lettering for the Inland Printer (1891-1892).
  • He drew the Bradley Series and licensed it to American Type Founders in 1895. That blackletter design was copied and issued by the Inland Type Foundry (as "St. John") and by A.D. Farmer&Son Type Founding Co (as "Abbey Text", still 1895). Several German foundries had metal versions of his 1895 series under the names Halbfette Altgotisch, Altfettgotisch and Amerikanische Altgotisch, such as Bauersche Giesserei and Schelter & Giesecke (1903). A digital version of it was done by Nick Curtis in 2009 and is called Fyne Fish NF, and by Ralph Unger as Bradley Pro (2005, Profonts). Also in 1895, Hermann Ihlenburg at ATF made the Germanic-language version of the Bradley Series. Bradley Roman and Italic saw the light in 1901 when Bradley was writing Peter Poodle, Toymaker to the King, and these faces are known as the Peter Poodle types.
  • In 1904, he co-designed Antique Bold with J.W. Phinney and Morris Fuller Benton at ATF.
  • His Bewick Roman series (1904) has gorgeous ligatures (tt, ct, and so on). Mac McGrew: Bewick Roman was designed by Will Bradley in 1904 and issued by ATF the following year. It is a quaint display type with a number of unusual characteristics. Several capitals have both wide and narrow versions, although generally the face is rather narrow; there are also several tied charac$Gters and ornaments in the font, as was common with nineteenth-century designs. Compare Rogers, Vanden Houten.
  • Wayside Roman and Italic. Mac McGrew: Wayside Roman and Italic were shown by ATF in 1900, as a handsome interpretation of modern face similar to Scotch Roman, but without the heavier capitals of the latter face. Some sources say the designer was Will Bradley, but this is disputed by other authorities, and most likely it is a revival of an older face. It was not in regular production very many years, but special castings have been made at times. Some figures appear to be oversize---6, 7, and 9 in the specimen shown here---but this is a characteristic of the font, although not uniform from one size to another. Also compare Oxford, Bell.
  • In 1904, he created the beautiful Chap-Book series (Cuts, Borders, Directors (pointing fingers), Guidons (unbelievable parentheses)), as well as the Mission Toys Ornaments, all at ATF. Thereafter followed Missal Initials, Wayside Borders (1904), Wayside Ornaments (1904), Cloister Borders (1905), Cloister Initials (1905), Indian Borders (before 1908). Some of his ornaments made it to American Pi NF (2006, Nick Curtis) and to the five-font-set Bradley Dingies (by Paulo W, 2009). Mac McGrew: Missal Initials were issued by ATF in 1904; their design has been ascribed to Will Bradley. Derived from fifteenth-century sources, each letter is designed to fill a square area. Compare Caxton Initials, Lombardic Initials.
  • Bradley Initials (1934). For a degital version, see Glenda de Guzman's Bradley Intials (1994, Font Bureau).
  • Vanity (1921-1930) is custom type he made while he was art director.
  • His last group of faces was Bradley Combination Ornaments, made in 1952 for Steve Watts, type merchandising director of the American Type Founders Company.
  • Roman alphabet by Bradley.

David Brady

David Brady (The Creative Rebellion, London, UK) is an advertising designer. He created the experimental face Nokia (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fred Brady

Type designer who worked at Adobe, and who created Autologic Kis-Janson. Fred Brady (helped by Jim Wasco) designed Adobe Sans and Adobe Serif, which were originally introduced with Acrobat, to stand in as fall-back fonts for missing typefaces. They came with Adobe Acrobat version 2 (1994). In 1992, Adobe released Myriad. The design team consisted of Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly, Fred Brady, and Christopher Slye. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Iain Brady

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Thin (ultra fat face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Larry Brady

American calligrapher, type designer, graphic designer, and educator. Brady's type designs include the titling font he designed in the 1980s for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles (he was commissioned by Saul Bass to work on the museum's identity). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Braestrup

Copenhagen-based designer. Behance link.

For Malmö Konsthall, Thomas developed Creo (2012). It was created to function well in two different scenarios---print typography and public signage. Typefaces for posters, catalogs and brochures need to be narrow enough to work in crowded environments, but still dynamic enough to encourage people to keep reading. Typefaces designed for wayfinding programs need to be open enough to be legible at a distance. Creo is designed to meet both scenarios. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Braga

Brazilian type designer, who made fonts such as Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso. He studied at and is currently professor at the Universidade de Minas Gerais in the School of Graphic Design. Based in Sao Paulo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tiziano Fani Braga

Roman graphic designer. He created a condensed geometric typeface for Digital Art Magazine (2011) based on a carefully planned hexagonal grid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claude Fayette Bragdon

Claude Fayette Bragdon (b. Oberlin, OH, 1866-1946) was an American architect, writer, and stage designer based in Rochester, New York, up to World War I, and in New York City after that. He was known for his creative geometric ornaments. At some point, he proposed this modern American italic for architectural plans. Check also his set of modern small letters. This page shows his art nouveau art. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lana Bragina

Designer of the mental damage face Kurzwaren (2004). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Louis Braille

Louis Braille (b. Coupvray, France, 1809, d. Paris, 1852) is the inventor of the six dot raised Braille reading system for the blind first proposed in his book Method of Writing Words, Music and Plain Songs by Means of Dots for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them (1829). In fact, the Braille system was based on a method of communication originally developed by Charles Barbier in response to Napoleon's demand for a code that soldiers could use to communicate silently and without light at night, called night writing.

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b-rain

Italian designer of Yagiza (2001, techno face), which can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josip Brakus

Creator of the grungy face Format (1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lisa Bralts

Creator of WordyDiva (1996), a font digitized by Chank. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Bud Braman

Lettering artist and typeface designer, who worked for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City for 26 years, retiring in 2002. He lived from 1938-2004, and created many calligraphic script letterforms and typefaces. Jill Bell writes: "Scarcely a soul outside of the Hallmark lettering and typography department is aware of the large body of lovely, skilled typographic work you have done because the fonts are proprietary. And Bud was a quiet sort of guy. Bud had hoped to produce fonts of his own when he retired but unfortunately the grim reaper quickly arrived. Quite unfortunate for the type world. I know the Hallmark lettering and type department really misses having Bud's talents and knowledge available to them because they truly understood what he contributed and appreciated it." And Calvert Guthrie wrote: "Bud was enormously generous with his understanding of font design and I know no one who had a better grip on making script ligatures work. Bud was doing it elegantly back in the days we were setting up linking ligatures for film fonts on Linotype VIP. We only had 18 increments for spacing refinement and this was made even tougher by script's particularly small x-height. His caps and his card captions were outstanding. Many of the short cuts we still use these days here at Hallmark were first developed by Bud Braman. Some of his work appeared in Michael Clark's Scripsit last year [2003]." Some of his faces at Hallmark include TwizotHmk< (with John Dawbarn), HogwartsWizard (2002, based on style by Connie Smiley, commissioned by Warner Brothers). Picture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Marie Brammer

Danish designer, with Lotte Reinert, of a font made for the Botanic Gardens in Copenhagen in 2000, a very dark almost-slab serif face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fractal Eye (was: Bran7)

Mexican designer, b. 1986, who lives in Hermosillo. He created the scratchy handwriting face Ank (2006), the paperclip face Fragments of Eter (2007), the grungy Ank (2007), the experimental face Quinok (2007), the gothic font Defeqto (2007), the bouncy headline face Nü Creactivo 2008, and the medieval simulation script called The King and Queen font (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elisa Branco

Graphic designer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She created a neon light face called New Retro Font (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gonçalo Branco

Cascais, Portugal-based designer who graduated from IADE. He created HexaFont (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariam Branco

Portuguese creator of the art deco face Estação (2009, FontStruct), as part of a typography project of the design class at Aveiro's University. The thype was used for some of Aveiro's street names. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rafael Branco

Born in 1985, this designer in Rio de Janeiro created the handprinted face Rodrix (2011, iFontMaker), as well as Gothira (2011, iFontMaker), Sparatrap (2012), Harakiri (2012, oriental simulation face), Dotnation (2012), Blocknation (2012, iFontMaker), Typeotape (2012), Albion (2012) and the texture face Sublev (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Branczyk

Polish designer Alexander Branczyk, b. 1959, (Frankfurt, Germany) is the main typographer at F2F (Face 2 Face), which is based in Berlin and Frankfurt. Other participants include Stefan Hausen, Alessio Leonardi, Torsti Maier-Bautor, Thomas Nagel, Haike Dehl and Sybille Schlaich. F2F specializes in what it calls anarchistic typography. Branczyk made F2F CzykagoTrans (1995) and a few other experimental fonts, as well as Bellczyk, CZYKago-Cameo, CZYKago-Quer, OCR-Alexczyk, OCR-Bczyk, SubberlogoMini, TheczykM, MadzineScript, BurnoutChaos, Frontpage, MonakoStoned, Entebbe, OCRFBeta and OCRHeike. Other designers: Thomas Nagel (ScreenScream, Shakkarakk, ElDeeCons, Madame Butterfly, Pixmix, Shpeetz, TyrellCorp), Heike Nehl (LoveGrid, Starter Kid, Lego Stoned, Twins), Alessio Leonardi (PrototipaMultipla, TagliatelleSugo, Mekanik Amente, Metamorfosi, provinciali, AlRetto, F2F TechLand, F2FAlLineato, F2FMekkasoTomanik, F2FSimbolico (1992, dingbats), Poison Flowers (1992)), Stefan Hauser (F2FBoneR, Haakonsen), Sybille Schlaich (Styletti Medium). Face2Face groups the designers of Moniteurs and xplicit ffm. Bitstream link. Alternate URL. In 2003, these designs by Alexander Branczyk appeared in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection: F2FBurnoutChaos LT Std, F2FCzykago LT Std Light, F2FCzykago LT Std Semiserif, F2FCzykago LT Std Trans, F2FEntebbe LT Std, F2FFrontpageFour LT Std, F2FMadZine LT Std Dirt, F2FMadZine LT Std Fear, F2FMadZine LT Std Script, F2FMadZine LT Std Wip (1992), F2FMonakoStoned LT Std, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Regular, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Shake, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Bold, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Regular, F2FTechLand LT Std. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Milena Brandao

Creator of the fat rounded monoline face Fredoka One (2012), which is free at Google Web Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Brand

Born in Utrecht in 1921, Chris Brand lived in Breda, and died in 1998. Studied calligraphy in 1940, and worked in Brussels from 1948-1953. He taught design at various academies until 1986. Known for book cover jackets. Brand created the clean serif face Albertina in 1964-1965 (Monotype). This face was first used for a catalogue of Stanley Morison's work exhibited at the Albertina Library in Brussels in 1966. DTL Albertina saw the light in 1987. Brand also created Veerle Uncialis (1991) but it is unclear whether this font is his or a reworking of a face by the Parisian typefounder Fournier. Finally, he made the coptic font Draguet (1968).

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Digitally Branded

Web site of Kent Hertzog. It resets the page size though to fill the screen. Designer of the free pixel fonts Haysom (2002), Hearst (2004), Hayes (2004) and Cafe 405 (2003). He also created the handwriting face Jack's Mannequi (2005) and the blackletter face Queen of Pain (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shane Brandes

Oberlin, OH-based foundry of Shane Brandes (b. Lakefield, MN, 1974), who made the historic semi-blackletter revival Augsburger2009 (2009), which was inspired by one of Ernhardt Ratdolt's (1442-1528) many beautiful typefaces. Ratdolt was a printer from Augsburg, hence the name. River Liffey (2009) is based on a typeface used by James Williams an Irish printer active in Dublin during the late 18th century. Rising Sun (2009, blackletter) was inspired by Gering and Remboldt's work during the late 1490s in Paris.

Charlemagne (2010) is an imaginary medieval script. Fleurious (2010) are ornaments. Sweynheym Pannartz (2010) is modeled after an example Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz used in their early printing venture in Subiaco, Italy which began around 1465. Ballard (2010) was inspired by a font used by Henrie Ballard, who operated on Fleet Street at the Signe of the Bear in London from ca. 1597-1608. White Now (2010) is a music note font. Enn'agrammaton (2010) is a cryptographic font. Pluton (2010) is a fixed width font with over 1400 glyphs. Old Venexia (2010) simulates an irregular medieval type. Black Tie (2010) is a simple monoline sans family. Azabercna (2010) is based on gothic principles. Alchimistes (2010) is a medieval symbol face, while Florati (2010) provides a set of ornamental caps. Wappenstein (2010) is an angular stone-carved face: The font Wappenstein was inspired by the carving on a memorial stone located in Paderborn, Germany. The stone was a Epitaph of the Brenkener family, and the carver is known as the Meister des Brenkener Familienepitaphs. The carving, dating to 1562, currently is curated by the Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum in the city of Paderborn and was originally in the Brenkener Pfarr Kirche. Boston 1851 (2010) is based on a stereotype used by Wier and White, Printers of Boston, that was created by the New England Stereoype Foundry under the auspices of Hobart and Robbins, also of Boston. Cruxially (2010) is a 500-glyph dingbat font with crosses.

Gaspardo (2011) is an art deco display face. Anguillette (2011) is a quaint grungy face. Ernst (2011) is a very simple but large handprinted face. The blackletter face Schoeffer (2011) is based on Typ.7:146/148G also known as Gesellschaft für Typenkunde plate no. 258, by Peter the Younger (son of Peter Schoeffer), cut ca. 1509-1520. Printers in Marks is a printer mark dingbat face created in 2011. Cat E Poultry (2011) is a scanbat face of cats. Lucas Brandis (2011) is based on section headings used by printer Lucas Brandis the first printer to operate in the city of Lübeck around 1473.

Creations in 2012: Vine Street, Nicolaus Kesler (a blackletter type based on one of the typefaces of Basel-based Nicolaus Kessler, 15th century), Modality Antiqua (straight-edged and mechanical), Martin Crantz (2012: Martin Crantz (or sometimes Krantz) of the three, including Ulrich Gering and Michael Friburger, that set up a press at the Sorbonne in 1470 was likely the fellow who had the technical know how how to cast the type itself, hence the name of this new face that is based on his work.). Modality Antiqua and Modality Novus are explorations of the octagonal principle. Zainer is a rough-edges renaissance era typeface named after Augsburg-based printer Günther Zainer who was active from 1468-1478. Swine And Roses (2012) is based on a Free Mason script. Ammurapi (2012) is a Ugaritic script face.

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Joshua Brand

Graphic designer from Minneapolis, MN, who created the squarish / octagonal face Paper Mill (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fridolin Brandl

Austrian designer of Monotype Gerhilt (2003), a pixel face. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Markus Brand

Düsseldorf-based creator of the sans face Bonkers (2005) and the blackletter face Black Pearl (2005). No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Brando

Born in 1990, Mike Brando lives in Chicago. He created the condensed art deco face Pasta Palazzo (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Brandon

Graphic designer in Manchester, UK. Behance link. Creator of the free modular font ABStochome (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dag Henning Brandsaeter

Amsterdam-based student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie who was born in Oslo in 1982. He is working on this Gill-like sans face (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Brandt

Erik Brandt teaches typography and visual communication at Virginia Commonwealth University in Doha, Qatar, and has been active in university teaching since 1998. Educated internationally, his research interests focus on issues of globalization that affect and drive the complexities of inter-cultural visual communication systems. His career began as a cartoonist in Japan, and has since found focus largely in print media. He maintains a small graphic design studio, Typografika, and has also received recognition for his short films. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. Designer of these experimental faces at FontStruct in 2008: Pixel System 26 (an update of Zirkel System (1999), a circle font also by Brandt). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katie Brandt

Designer at T-26 of the dingbat font Alien Robots (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Al Brandtner

Al Brandtner is the founder of Al Brandtner Studios. His Allan Gothic was the inspiration for Nick Curtis' font Namesake. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Werner Brand

Blackletter type designer: Standarte (1934, J.G.Schelter&Giesecke). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Branelly

Marton, New Zealand-based Paul Branelly runs Very Good Fonts. Its fonts are sold via MyFonts. Paul Brannelly is an illustrator, cartoonist, old-school ticket writer, and sign writer. He has been creating fonts by hand since he started working as a sign writer in the late 1980s. Brush and handlettering typefaces: Choc Chip + Dip (2007), Cuckoo (2007), Cuckoo Fast (2007), Cuckoo Fat (2007), Two Stroke (2007, a 3-style comic book family), Muttonbird (2009), Inmate (2009, a stencil based on eurostile). Paul has been assisted by Wellington, NZ-based type designer David Buck. You Work For Them link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Branigan

Patrick Branigan (Albany, NY) received my BFA in Communication Design from the University at Buffalo in 2010. Behance link. In 2010, he made the experimental geometric typefaces Mouse, Refresh, and EDM. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kate Brankin

Type designer from Batavia, IL. She designed Mia Mano (2010, handwriting), and the simplistic monoline avant-garde geometric face Tumbly (2011).

Typefaces from 2012: Hard Shadow, Hercule (2012, a curly handprinted typeface that was inspired by the moustache of Hercule Poirot).

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R.G. Branquinho

Creator of dot matrix faces Lumina and Lumina Estreito (2009, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Branson

Illustrator and designer at the Kern&Letter Company in Missouri. Behance link. Creator of various display typefaces including the kitchen tile face Voltrona (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Piet Brantjes

Dutch designer based in Rotterdam. Creator of Spijker 08 (2008, script), Moeflon Italic (2007, scratchy script), Zebra (2007), Giraffe (2007), Mosquito (2007, a fantastic scribbly hand), Ramon (2007, an equally ingenious informal outline face), Rare Kwast (2007, brush face) and Fil Sans (2007, grunge hand). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shawn Brasfield

[T-26] designer of Creatures (funny dingbats). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Brasgalla

Free OpenType and Mac truetype bitmap fonts: McMurdo Bold 7pt and eWorlder Headline 12pt. Brought by David Brasgalla (from Sweden). Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Brasher

Etherbrian is a great source of original (mostly techno) fonts by Brian Brasher: Nefertina (2004), Zeno, Supertiki, Patternalia (patterns), Orbitronio (nice), Nasser, NevelType, locutio, Lantern, Gleamie, Galactose (really eerie), Dekthusian, Colonial Viper, Muncheekin, Beamie (1999, neat trilined face), Digitalisman, URLYbird, A. Lewis, REOXY, DEOXY, Eurow, Gleeburger, Gleesteak, Megz, MrB, Bitsy, Xefus, Epimodemic, Prayer, Zhed, iPhonie, Mishelamie, Cashless, Macrodigi, Kauzmoe, Xminus, Setiperu.

See also here. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

G. Brass

Creator of the font Amber-Lite with disappearing stroke. Face was made for FUSE95. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucijan Bratuš

Slovenian painter and artist (b. Vipava, 1949). Designer of Rokus and Rokus Script (2002) for schoolbooks published by Rokus Publishing House. Professor of type design. Creator of the calligraphic face Kanela (2006). Cofounder of the TipoBrda type design conferences, held annually since 2006 in Slovenia. TipoBrda 2006. Designer of the art deco face Čiginj during the design workshop TipoBrda in 2008.

At TipoBrda 2007, he showed Kanela.

At TipoBrda 2011, he created the geometric sans family Makalonca.

At Tipo Brda 2010, he designed the Slova OT family of old Slavonic typefaces. That family includes one gorgeous Latin typeface that simulates old Slavonic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Timo Brauchle

German designer at Fontkitchen Type Foundry of Stitch (2006), Hotplate family (2002, Linotype's Taketype 5 collection, a ransom font; with Nico Hensel), The Dig (with Nico Hensel), Acrobuzz (2002, dingbats) and Lucha Libre (2003, dingbat font). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrico Bravi

Graduate in Graphics from the ISIA in Urbino with a thesis titled Graphica Programmata. From 1999 to 2002 he collaborated as designer with Nofrontiere Design in Vienna. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Ortho-Type, a type project about 3d typefaces. His collaborators on that project were Mikkel Crone Koser and Paolo Palma. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Celia Martinez Bravo

This Spanish site has an interesting free "Kiddy Pixel" font (2001) by Celia Martinez Bravo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Bravo

Creator of the signage face Mercado (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Bravo

Chilean graphic designer, b. 1986. Creator of the delicate display font Fragile Beta 02 (2007). Student in Santiago at Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana. Blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tunnel Bravo

Advertising and design studio in Mesa, AZ. Behance link.

Creators of the old typewriter family L.C. Smith Modern (2012), based on the typeface used by the vintage 1929 typewriter L.C. Smith. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brad Brawley

Codesigner at T26 with Jennifer Arterbury and Noel Childs of Finial Regular (1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesse Bray

Creator of the free handprinted face Bray (2011). Aka The Art Institute of Portland. Dafont link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tim Brayshaw

Tim Brayshaw's creations (free): Block Titling (very original!), Bodoni Mutant, Candle (fresh and artsy outline font), Grunge, MixAndMatch, Ogimus (Ogham style--not finished), Staidier not Stadia. His LinkedScript is not at the site. Books about fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vitor Braz

Portuguese designer of the experimental geometric face Agaro (2011), the neon tube face Bulb (2011), Punku (2011), and the high-contrast fashion mag caps face Esquise (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke Breadon

Luke (b. 1987) is a graphic designer based in Sydney, who specializes in custom typography, brand identity and web design. Dafont link. Creator in 2009 of Liqueur, Origami, Bauhaus Two, Genome (futuristic) and Manufact (squarish), Breathe Slow, Streamline, Blockade, Like Luke, Interest, and Method. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Brecher

In 1990, Jonathan Brecher (Lexington, MA) made the freeware metafonts ShalomOldStyle, ShalomScript and ShalomStick, available at GIMP ort here in type 1 format. They are also on various archives in truetype format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Santos Bregana

Designer of the Kai family (1999, with Mikel Enparantza) at Garagefonts. Santos Bragna runs LAIA in the Basque country. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victor Bregante

Barcelona-based graphic designer, who created some typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

German Bregin

German designer of the free techno font Chip City (1997). Only, there are no downloads. Aka Zillion Hours. Flickr page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hans Brehmer

Type designer, b. 1840 Magdeburg, Germany. Went to the USA in 1865 to work at James Conner&Sons, and then moved on to other foundries, all in New York. Aka Henry Brehmer. His typefaces:

  • At Conner: Sideographic (Shaded 1872, Ornate 1879).
  • At Bruce Type Foundry (between 1876 and 1885): Ornamented Black No. 543, Ornamented No. 1053, Ornamented No. 1057, Ornamented No. 1067, Ornamented No. 1076, Ornamented No. 1078, Ornamented No. 1079, Ornamented No. 1080, Ornamented No. 1081, Ornamented No. 1082, Ornamented No. 1084, Ornamented No. 1085, Ornamented No. 1086, Ornamented No. 1091, Ornamented No. 1540, Ornamented No. 1553, Ornamented No. 1557, Ornamented No. 1559, Ornamented No. 1560, Ornamented No. 1562, Priscilla, Sarah, Shaded 1067, Shaded 1076, Shaded 1079, Shaded 1553.
  • At Lindsay Type Foundry (1888-1890): Alma, Caroline, Crayonette, Elizabeth, Frances, Gretchen, Irene, Julie (1868, a decorative Western / Victorian face called Eclair by Dan X. Solo; revived in 2010 by Toto as K22 Eclair), Katherine, Marguerite, Maria, Martha, Mathilde.
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Henning Brehm

Calling himself a design tourist, German designer Henning Brehm makes fonts for films. His company in Berlin is also called Design Tourist. Agitka (2010, 8 styles) contains Latin and Cyrillic characters, in a constructivist theme, and has a Neon sub-style that was used in the film Bourne Ultimatum. This family can be bought at Gestalten. In 2010, he published Kraut, a round outline face, and Koffer (a screen font family).

Pandorum (2012, a spaceship typeface, by Henning Brehm and Alejandro Lecuna) was especially designed for film sets in the science fiction movie Pandorum starring Ben Foster, Antje Traue and Denis Quaid.

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Lo Breier

Designer in the FUSE 5 collection (1992) of Spherize. [Google] [More]  ⦿

René Breil

Designer at URW++ of ReneMenue (2010: has Symbols (kitchen dingbats) and Book styles), ReneFont (1999, a strong elliptical face) and ReneLemon (1999, lemon-shaped glyphs). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

T. J. Breil

Designer in Greenville, SC, who created the shadow headline face Carson Sans (2012). TJ studies graphic design at Bob Jones University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Brei

Buenos Aires-based creator of the inline blackboard bold face Dotwins (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paprika Breitholtz

Creator the calligraphic face OZH (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johann Gottlieb Immanuel Breitkopf

Printer, type designer and type cutter in Leipzig (b. 1719, Leipzig, d. 1794, Leipzig), who created over 400 different alphabets. He developed Breitkopf Fraktur ca. 1760 (some say 1793). Walden Font sells a version of this font, which was used for most of the 19th century. Dieter Steffmann's version is free. Helzel's version is sold by Fraktur.de. His simplified fraktur of the 1790s was revived in 1914 as Jean-Paul-Schrift, and was revived again around 2000 by Gerhard Helzel in digital form. See also URW Breitkopf Fraktur D by Ralph Unger and DS-Breitkopf-Fraktur (2001, Delbanco).

Breitkopf is perhaps best known for his original music characters. Metal versions of Breitkopf Fraktur are at Stempel (1912), Klinkhardt (1912), Berthold (1919) and C.F. Rühl (1912). Ben Archer writes: Breitkopf Fraktur was the preferred Fraktur of the German Baroque period. With wider proportions and a lower x-height than its predecessors, this graceful gothic type was modelled on the Neudörffer-Andreä Fraktur that had been used by Albrecht Durer in several of his works. Samples: A, B, C. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Todd Brei

[T-26] designer of Blast-O-Rama, Bubbalove, Freakshow, Gadzooks, GothicBlond, Handwrite-Inkblot (1994, T26), Scrawl-Light. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pascal Bréjan

French designer of Son (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marek Brejcha

Czech designer (b. 1975) who lives in Olomouc. He made the runic font HlaholiceBold (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pascal Bréjean

French type designer (b. 1967) who designed Son, 1996. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raymond Brekelmans

Raymond Brekelmans (Fresh Media) is the Dutch designer in Eindhoven of fonts such as Fame&Fortune, GoodDoggy, 7chipmunks, Hairy60, Elvisinstereo (2002), Gforgiraffe, GrndmsterB, Highheeledsneakersnormal, HighheeledsneakersThin, Itsmartinitime, JohnnyBbad, Kickpunchblock, MrMustage, OrpheusBoldItalic, OrpheusBold, OrpheusItalic, OrpheusLightItalic, OrpheusLight, Orpheus, Quatrodeadmosquitos (see also the Fontomas CD), Rudisrevenge, Sirsheep, Thebends, TheDukesGeneralLee, TheDukesLuke, TheDukesBo, BeebopalulaOneLiner, BeebopalulaFillItUp, BeebopalulaDoubleOrNothing, freekisgek-#5, freekisgek-#5_inverse_italic, freekisgek-#5_italic, Zothezebra, CiaoMonkey, Hot Rod Ford, Naughty Farmergirl, Typing With Rudolf, Anything But Sue, Font-o-ville At Night, Snails&Sausages. All these fonts were made in 2001-2002 and are free.

Additions in 2005: Caramba, Surfing Bird, Vertigo (nice retro poster font!), Mufoefoe, Reverbb, Fasto (octagonal, free). Elvis in Stereo (2002, Cape-Arcona) and Address Unknown (Cape Arcona, grunge) are commercial. Prozaque is a groovy face.

Direct downloads. Mac downloads.

Dafont link. Font Bros link. Dafont link,. Fontsy link<--a>. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Werner Breker

German type designer, 1904-1980. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kile Brekke

Fine artist, fashion photographer and graphic designer in San Francisco. She created Paperboat (2010, geometric, art deco) and Meisky (2010, a Peignotian sans). I also like her other work, which is often in gray, black and white---see, e.g., her Bonnydoon Syrah wine bottle label design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Bremmer

Commercial site where Mark Bremmer offers to make custom handwriting and signature fonts for increased security (so that things cannot be forged). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sinde Bremnes

News designer and editor in Oslo. He is working on a 1930s art deco sans, inspired by Norwegian telephone boxes from that decade: Telefon, Telefon Bold, Telefon Black (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Walter Florenz Brendel

The TypeShop collection was at some point, ca. 2006, part of Elsner&Flake, and its fonts could be licensed via MyFonts. Elsner&Flake provided the history behind this collection and its developer, Brendel: The originator of the big TypeShop Font Collection was Walter Florenz Brendel (1930-1992). As far back as 1972 he had the idea of an electonic and digital system for typeface plotting and cutting as well as automatic modification and reproduction. Before 1972 when type users demanded their type color to be a little lighter or little darker, Brendel as the owner of over 28 typeshops across Europe employing about 600 people, could not meet their demands with the existing typefaces. Consequently he developed a method to satisfy their needs. Brendel was the originator of the concept and the contributor and partner in the development of IKARUS by Dr. Peter Karow. He cut typefaces based on mathematical increments that would allow type weights to be graduated in equal steps. Thanks to his perfectionism, type users can have the luxury of choosing a specific type weight out of seven from as many as 65 font-families in the TypeShop Collection. Mr. Brendel was an accomplished professional type designer. Lingwood, Montreal, Volkswagen, Derringer and Casablanca and many more were his creations. He was a design collaborator for Congress, Litera, Worchester and others. Today all of this fonts complete with a Euro currency symbol are available in four font formats including OpenType. That view of Brendel is perhaps not held by most type designers, who regard Brendel's collection as highly derivative.

Elsewhere, Elsner&Flake write: Brendel ordered the development of exclusive phototypesetting typefaces in the 70s and the beginning of the 80s for the phototypesetter he himself built, Unitype, which had their basis partially in historical but also in contemporary designs. For what it is worth, here are the font family names: Volkswagen TS, Clear Gothic TS, Franklin Gothic TS, Old Baskerville TS, Accolade TS, Baskerville TS, Belfast TS, Bernstein TS, Bodoni TS, Broadway TS, Casablanca TS, Casad TS, Castle TS, Colonel TS, Clearface TS, Congress TS, Denver TS, Derringer TS, Diamante TS, Digital TS (square gothic), Dragon TS, Enschede TS, Expressa TS, Florida TS, Formula TS, Garamond TS, Gascogne TS, Glasgow TS, Goudita TS, Goudy TS, Granada TS, Grenoble TS, Hamburg TS, Helium TS, Hoboken TS, Horsham TS, Koblenz TS, Leamington TS, le Asterix TS, Le Obelix TS, Limerick TS, Lingwood TS, Litera TS, Media TS, Melbourne TS, Montreal TS, Napoli TS, Nashville TS, Nevada TS, Ornitons TS, Pasadena TS, Penthouse TS, Plakette TS, Plymouth TS, Priamos TS, Quartz TS, Ragtime TS, Ravenna TS, Riccione TS, Rochester TS, Roundest TS, Salzburg TS, Seagull TS, Toledo TS, Veracruz TS, Verona TS, Wichita TS, Worchester TS.

Name equivalences between the TypeShop collection and other fonts.

View TypeShop's library of typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Karl Brendler

Typefoundry in Vienna, active in the last part of the 19th century. Examples of their typefaces: Desdemona (art nouveau), Elefanta (art nouveau), Fette Venezia (flared display face), Venezia.

About Desdemona: we find it in the 1981 and 1986 Letraset rub-down catalogs. Digital fonts include a 1992 version by David Berlow at Font Bureau and a 1994 face by Richard Beatty, also called Desdemona.

Nick Curtis published Elefantasia NF (2012), which is based on Elefanta. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Stephan Brendon Murphy

British designer of Linotype Tapeside (1997). Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Brenig

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

Paul Brent

Los Angeles-based Paul Brent (b. 1974, Los Angeles) created Caslon Latina (1965---a Caslonesque face, yes, but with the contrast and feel of a didone), Dubai (sans) and Sinclair (2011, display sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Oliver Brentzel

Designer of the sans serif family Linotype Spitz (1997). Bio. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mark Breslin

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

Gilberto Bressan

Brazilian designer of Savatage, a font for the music group. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Breton

Typefounder and printer in the Rue St Jacques, Paris, who made a Civilité in 1597. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Bretton

Designer at Stephenson Blake in 1962 of the lineale family Adonis Extended by cutting off the serifs of Spartan (Stephenson Blake). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Bretzmann

Righttype is a typeface design project by Daniel Bretzmann (from Germany) that was started 2004 in Vienna, Austria. Font families include Sola Minora (2008, blackboard chalk face), Raumstoff (2006-2007, a fat counterless logotype), Novatero (a lovely sans, 2006), Novatero-Monitoro (2006, pixel), rt screenloft8 (2004, pixel), Screenloft 8 (2007, pixel), and Start Today (2006). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wolfgang Breuer

"For Home or Office Use" is a strange name for a foundry, but that is exactly what it is. The fonts are made by Achim Reichert (Paris) and Wolfgang Breuer (Berlin). Their commercial Mac type 1 fonts include thhe experimental Try family (2Try-Strich, 3Try-Straight, 4Try-kerned, 7Try-Medserif, 8Try-Micro, 12Try-Lego, 131Try-Klingspor,- eo, 161Try-Bitter,- eo, 172Try-Reg, 1722Try-Fliess Fett, 1721Try-Reg Inline, 174Try-Serif, 1742Try-Serif Fett, 18Try-Annette), Abnehmen (free), A-Teile, A-Teile Neue, 0031aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0031eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0062aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0062eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0125aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0125eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, Almatadema-Eins, -Fier, -Vier, 0031aConvertToPath-Italic, 0031bConvertToPath-Italic, 0062aConvertToPath-Italic, 0062bConvertToPath-Italic, 0125aConvertToPath-Italic, 0125bConvertToPath-Italic, Densite, Ouvert, Knubb, Knubb-20, Birthday-Regular, Birthday-Bold, 0034Paper, 0034Paper-Italic, 0034Paper-Oblique, 0057Paper, 0057Paper-Italic, 0057Paper-Oblique, 0075aPaper, 0075aPaper-Italic, 0075bPaper, 0075cPaper, 0075dPaper-Italic, Free 0034-0075dPaper Font, Paper, 0031aPlotter, 0031bPlotter, 0031aPlotter-Bandzug, 0031bPlotter-Bandzug, 0031aPlotter-Twenty, 0031bPlotter-Twenty, 0062aPlotter, 0062bPlotter, 0062aPlotter-Twenty, 0062bPlotter-Twenty, 0125aPlotter, 0125bPlotter, 0125aPlotter-Twenty, 0125bPlotter-Twenty, 0125aPlotter-Breitband, 05aPlotter, F.T./Brown, F.T. Bold, la bonne heure, -bold, Lini Eins, Lini Drei - eo, Lini-Vier - eo, Love-1, Love-10, NEW FEw, NEW GEw, NEW Klein, sBit34, WIR 2, WIR 3, WIR 4, WIR 6Vi, WIR 7Vi.

The fonts by Breuer in this list include the A-Teile family, the Birthday family, and the Plotter family.

There is a free type software program called Abnehmen, as well as a number of experimental stroke-based fonts whose stroke thickness can be adjusted with Adobe InDesign, for example. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caroline Brewer

Graphic designer in Anderson, SC, who created the octagonal athletic jersey typeface Skyhook (2012). She graduated from Anderson University.

Caroline Brewer Photography link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

María Brex

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

David Brezina

Czech designer (b. Brno) who graduated in Informatics at the Masaryk University in Brno in 2005, spent a term at the Denmark's Designskole in Copenhagen in 2004 and graduated with distinction from the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in 2007, where he wrote a thesis on his typefaces called Skolar and Surat. Skolar won an award at Paratype K2009. It was designed with scholarly and multilingual publications in mind. From 2004 to 2007 he also ran his own design studio DAVI, with projects in graphic, web and interface design. Back in Brno, he is currently working with Tiro Typeworks (Canada) as an associate designer. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about multi-script typography. His typefaces include

  • CODAN (2005): a typeface inspired by the city of Copenhagen.
  • Yunnan (2004): oriental simulation face. Discussion on typophile.
  • Skolar and Surat (2008). Skolar was designed for multilingual scientific publications and is a serifed face in the Menhart tradition. It was published in 2009 by Type Together. Skolar Basic (2009, Type Together) is the official name of this 6-style text family. Surat is an accompanying Gujarati family. Related to that, he wrote The evolution of the Gujarati typographic script (2007, University of Reading).
Blog. Myfonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

George Brian

American designer who made type for a while for Phil Martin at Alphabet Innovations/TypeSpectra. His creations there include the Souvenir Gothic family, and possibly Opulent Light and Opulent Bold. George Thomas, another ex-AI employee, wrote this about him: George Brian did the art on many of the later works and probably had an influence on many of Phil's ideas. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Briano

Brazilian designer of the experimental face Perspective (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lew Bridcoe

Lew Bridcoe (manslaughterer) (b. 1985, New Brandenburg, Germany) designed the pretty 8x10 pixel font Salad Let (2003). No downloads yet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Bridenbaugh

Designer of Chalices (a religious dingbat face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jed Bridges

San Diego-based designer of Cerus (2010), an octagonal typeface inspired by arcade games. Free download. Designmoo link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nate Bridi

Designer of Virus53X in 1999. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem

Briem is a fantastic Icelandic calligrapher and type designer! Some of his work may be viewed at Adobe, in particular Adobe's multiple master font Briem script. Fonts include BriemGauntlet (1997). He designed BriemTimes in 1990, which was the basis for Times Millenium, used by The Times (read about the controversy at that page). He also made BriemAkademi (1997-2002), BriemGauntlet, BriemMono (2001, typewriter face), BriemOperina and BriemScript.

Home page. Books for sale. Keynote speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Brietzke

Andreas Brietzke (Pixel und Punkte) is the Berlin-based designer of the pixel fraktur faces New Hildegard and Erka Mono Fraktur. Both are on the CD that comes with Fraktur Mon Amour (Hermann Schmidt Verlag, 2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A.M. Briganti

Buenos Aires-based illustrator and designer, who created the handprinted typeface Stella (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joanna Briggs

Joanna Briggs' nice original fonts such as Leger Light (1998), and the handwriting font Menrath Antiqua (1998). Commercial fonts: Cancon (Canadian flag in the a and o!), Medwin Sans and Regular, Acoustic, Krovelblad, Accacciatura, Airport Carpet. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lyle C. Briggs

Lyle C. Briggs' outfit in Garfield, NJ. Lyle is a graphic designer/webmaster. About 12 original fonts (commercial, usually display style), and custom font design at 200 to 1000 dollars per font. An extremist style, culminating in the gorgeous font "not" and in the eccentric "libre". Site under reconstruction. [Google] [More]  ⦿

P. Brigham

Creator of Kikakee (2008), an octagonal display face named after Camp Kikakee in Ernest Goes to Camp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan Bright

British designer of Brighton Bold (1979, Letraset), Brighton Light (1979, Letraset), and Brighton Medium (1979, Letraset). For another execution, see B820-Roman-Regular from SoftMaker. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adam Brightman

Graphic designer in Northampton, UK. Behance link. In 2010, he designed Typegram, a modular typeface that consists of puzzle pieces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dominic Brighton

Dominic Brighton lives and studies communications design in Munich. He developed the font Interna during an internship at Melville Brand Design and published it in 2011 via Volcano. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Colin Brignall

British type designer and art director, born in 1940 (MyFonts.com says 1945, Warwickshire), who was type director at Letraset for some time. In 1995 Brignall moved to ITC. With the closure of ITC's New York office in November 1999, Brignall was re-appointed Type Director for Esselte Letraset. The latest major project in which Brignall was involved was the ITC Johnston series launched in 1999. He received the Type Directors Club Medal at TDC2 in 2001. Bio. Bio at Linotype. His fonts there included

  • Aachen Bold (1969), Aachen Medium (1977, with Alan Meeks). The Scangraphic version is Aachen SH.
  • Revue (1969), an unsuccessful display face.
  • Countdown (1965, LED simulation face), cyrillicized in 1993 by A. Kustov at TypeMarket.
  • Superstar (1970, an athletic lettering face now owned by ITC and sold by MyFonts).
  • Italia (1974; see Istria on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002), Italia Book (1977).
  • Premier Lightline (1969), an elegant art deco hairline face.
  • Premier Shaded (1970), caps only shaded art deco face.
  • Romic Light (1979-1980). See R790 Roman on Softmaker's XXL CD (2002).
  • Corinthian (1981).
  • Epokha (1992), a 1910 poster style slab serif.
  • Edwardian (1983). The digital version is at Elsner&Flake, for example.
  • Harlow (1977-1979), a fifties style display script. The Scangraphic versions are Harlow SB and Harlow SH.
  • Octopuss (1970), similar to Harlow.
  • Tango (1974) [a freefont inspired by Tango can be found in Julius B. Thyssen's Kylie 1996-J], yet another face in the spirit of Harlow.
  • Jenson Old Style (with Freda Sack), a Venetian face.
  • Victorian (1976, with Freda Sack).
  • Type Embellishments One, Two and Three (1994): handsome ornaments developed in the Letraset Type Studio by Michael Gills and Colin Brignall to complement the Fontek Typeface Library.
Other creations: Retro Bold (1992, with Andrew Smith), ITC Werkstatt (1999, ITC: a hookish Preissig-style face developed with Satwinder Sehmi).

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

Sri Taralabalu Jagadguru Brihanmath

Designer in Sirigere of these free Kannada fonts: Taralabalu Kannada (by EssDee Softvarhouse), Times Shiva Roman (by Taralabalu Kendra, Bangalore, 1996), in truetype, type 1 and BDF formats, Mac and PC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jürgen Brinckmann

German graphic designer (b. Aachen, 1960). His designs at FontFont include FF Ophelia Regular (1993, blackletter), FF Madonna Regular (1993, Celtic), FF Lukrezia Regular (1993, Celtic), FF RopsenScript (2001) and FF Humanist Regular, all calligraphic and/or old-text creations. EF Artemisia is a great OSF font at Elsner and Flake. Check also EF Carus (2003) and Justus Fraktur. EF Filzerhand and Graphis EF are ordinary handprinted faces. EF Karolinger has a Celtic feel, and EF Medieva even more so. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Susannah Brinkley

Graphic designer in Seattle, WA, who created the elegant bilined monospaced Two Pencils typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Brinsfield

While studying at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Glen Burnie, MD-based David Brinsfield created the display family Brinsphere (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandro Mattt Briones

Mexican creator of Maming (2012, spindly), the pixelish face Mattta Ahari (2011), Coluca Modern Side (2011, an ocragonal semi-stencil face), the sturdy poster face La Camerino (2011), the grungy Indieo (2010), the condensed faces Tipulada (2011) and Condenzel (2011), the experimental face Autobahn (2011), the squarish NRCO (2011) and the experimental Vai Gone (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephanie Briones

Creator of the handprinted Courier face Take Note (2011, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andres Brionez

American designer of the graffiti fonts Most Wazred (2010) and Searfont (2010). Aka Breezy Hambitions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Brisbane

Designer of the large handwriting font Sketchy (2009, Open Font Library). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sophie Brissaud

Paris-based author, book publisher, gourmet critic and typographer, and co-designer, with Apostrophe at Apostrophic Laboratory, of Independant, a faithful revival of a 1930s font by Collette and Dufour for Maison Plantin in Belgium---a fantastic Art Deco font with Italics, Small Caps and Alternates thrown in as well. Steve Matteson designed a commercial version of the same font called Dujour (2005), but Sophie's font family (with alternates etc.) is of superior quality. Her "nom de plume" is Phynette. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Bristow

Co-designer (in 1989) with Terence Griffin, Gerry Barney, Ian Hay, and Kit Cooper of the famous VAG Rounded typeface family developed for Volkswagen. VAG Rounded is presently a Linotype family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antônio Adriano Brito

Graphic designer in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who made the handprinted Quixeramobim in 2009. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Téo Brito

Graphic designer in Fortaleza, Brazil, b. 1985. Dafont link. He created the heavy square face Elvi Esna (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Brittain

Honolulu-based Mike Brittain (b. 1971) is the designer of Cart-O-Grapher (2002, shopping cart dings) and Btd BeezWax (2006, grunge). Alternate URL of his company, Bigtoedesigns. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dean Britto

Toronto-based creator in 2009 of LSD Blackletter, a dot matrix blackletter face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vinzent Britz

Berlin-based creator of the display face Belgrad (2012), and of Runes (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vinzent Britz

Berlin-based designer of Belgrad (2012, based on Futura, and inspired by German industry fonts from the late 19th century).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreja Brlec

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

Sarah Brochu

Designer of the monoline geometric sans Vigor (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johan Brodd

Swedish blogger (b. 1972) who created the handprinted typefaces JBM Flimsy (2012) and JBM Galligrad (2012).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harald Brödel

Type designer associated with VEB Typoart. His creations at Typoart include Fleischmann (a serif based on Fleischmann's historical face. An original cursive by Harald Brödel was added to the Typoart collection), Molli (a comic book face), Nidor (a slab serif), and Hogarth Script (a formal script).

Digital versions of Hogarth Script include Hogarth Script EF, Hogarth Script URW, Hobson (Softmaker), Hogarth Script(2005, a cyrillic extension by Alexandra Gophmann), and Hogarth Script (Linotype). Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Brianna Broderick

Student at the University of Michigan who lives in Clarkston, MI, where she works as a graphic designer at Integrated Marketing Solutions. Creator of Sans Staple (2010), a typeface composed of juxtapositions of staples. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Broderick

Santa Cruz, CA-based Patrick Broderick's fonts at Rotodesign: Anhedonia, Blurb!, Bootleg, Castaway, Conundrum, Creature, Crunky, DamagedGoods, HorrorHotel, Jinky, KlippyDingbats, Maynard, Moto, MotorheadGrotesk, Omnivore, Papercut, Potrzebie, RotodesignDingbats, Salaryman, Squaresville, UtilityBoldCondensed, Whiffy, Zombie (a very fat brush face). See also here.

Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link.

Catalog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harold Brodersen

Designer (b. 1913) at American Typefounders of the informal brush script font Brody (1953), a so-so fifties face later released as BrodyEF at Elsner&Flake. Corel imitated this in Briquet, ClickArt Fonts in Brisk, and Agfa in Brophy Script. MyFonts spells his name Broderson, as does Linotype. FontShop link

Mac McGrew: Brody was designed by Harold Broderson for ATF about 1953, as part of that company's effort to replace its delicate old connecting scripts with con- temporary lettering styles. This rather heavy, vertical design has the appear- ance of being rapidly lettered with a brush. It is the most informal of several faces produced in that program, but makes a very attractive appearance where informality is desired. Compare Kaufmann, Brush, and Repro Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Harry Brodjian

Harry and Seta Brodjian acquired Filmotype in 1987 and ran the company for a while. Earlier, in 1970, Harry had designed the calligraphic initials face VGC Constanze, which was digitized and revived in 2007 by Canada Type as VIP (Rebecca Alaccari). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexey Brodovitch

Russian-born graphic designer, 1898-1971, who taught at various art institutes in New York, such as the School of Visual Arts. He was art director at Harper's Bazaar from 1934 until 1958, and is perhaps best known for his use of white space and unconventional photography and for his fashion mag typography. His typefaces include the slinky modern Brodovitch Albro (1950, or Al-Bro, for Alexey Brodovitch) and the stylish Vogue (1950s). Albro has a digital revival by Nico Schweizer called Albroni (1992, Lineto). Brandon Alvarado used Al-Bro as a model for Brodovitch (2011). [Google] [More]  &#