TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on
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Free 3-d look headline face. Unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free multiline font by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free orphaned handprinted font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A grunge font accredited to Albert-Jan Pool (1995, Dutch Design), but Pool confirms that this information is wrong. So I will classify this free font as "orphaned". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Apache is a comic book face published by URW++. It is unclear who designed it. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A&S Gallatin | A photocomposition font dating from 1976. It was listed in a 1984 phototype catalog. Typedia mentions: A & S Gallatin may have been a proprietary style for a particular department store, in that era, and assembled as a private type style. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
An orphaned free bubblegum font made in 1999. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An orphaned stick figure alphabet from 1990. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A free dingbat font called Warlord. Author unknown. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Beale Varigated, Beale Charming | Beale Varigated (Softmaker) and Beale Charming (Softmaker/Brendel) date from 1993. Softmaker also made B691 Deco and RSVP SF. I am not sure whether these are Softmaker originals or have other roots. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The typeface Moment was commissioned by the Belfast City Council for its brand. Unknown designer, but free download. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bigbloke (2012) is a PDF extract. Inside it states that it is an Outback restaurants Menu font. The designer is unknown. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
School font made in 2002 by an unknown designer. Download here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
BrockScript | BrockScript (1996), a wedding invitation script made by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A handprinted face made in 2011 with iFontMaker by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A free font made in 1999. Unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Close Schlager | An orphaned typeface posted here that is jjust a renaming of Schlager (2000, Simon Schmidt, Fountain). Other fonts in the "Close" series include Close-CallAM, Close-CallPM, Close-NessItalic, Close-NessRegular, CloseRace-Drive, CloseRace-Park. I guess we will never know who did this. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A cube-shaped alphading typeface that was orphaned at Dafont in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cuernomuerto (2011) is an orphaned handprinted all caps face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Decollection (1997) is an orphaned art deco headline face that is based on Boogie (NADA8) and Big Lou (NADA37), two alphabets drawn by Marcia Loeb in 1972. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A free grunge face by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An orphaned oblique techno face from 1999. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DJ Football (2012) is an orphaned American football alphading typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Orphaned font which is incorrectly attributed on the fonts2u web page to Vic Fieger (2006). Vic claims that the designer did not bother to change the copyright line. Image. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Downwind | Downwind is an unesthetic Victorian negatively tilted display face. Various similar faces exist: Alfereta (Dan X. Solo: some say it is originally due to Seymour Chwast in the photo-letteriung era, but Dan X. Solo's catalog states that it due to Manhattan Type Foundry), Voco Script (SSI/SSK), Layla (Silver Graphics), Funky Face (WSI/IMSI). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A mysterious free typeface created in 1997 in the style of the Glasgow School of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A handwriting font by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Beautiful display caps by an unknown designer (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I do not know who made this dingbat font in 2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fregio Mecano | Fregio Mecano is a modular font of Italian origin created in the 1920s composed of 20 different elements. The designer is unknown. Section Bold Condensed (Creative Alliance) is a digital version of the font. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Unknown copycat artist: Futura Stencil became Futura Eugene (1990). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Orphaned black sans face seen at Dafont, and made in 1994. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gaslight |
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An all caps semi-blackletter face made in 2004 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Goodger Pointy | A Visual Graphics Corporation font made ca. 1990. Unknown designer. Typedia writes: Goodger Pointy is shown in Visual Graphics Corporation type specimen showing, 15th edition, copyright 1990, page 178, code: OR-223. This style appears to be similar to the Mergenthaler Linotype style Metro, designed by W. A. Dwiggins. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
An all caps brush face made in 1997. Designer unknown. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A monospaced modern angular Gaelic font created ca. 1910 (designer unknown). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hogart | |
Homenaje | An orphaned face that is free at Google Web Fonts since January 2012. Its designers are probably Argentinian, as they write: Homenaje is inspired by the bronze cemetery art found in the Recoleta and Chacaritas districts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A grotesque and narrow type, it provides economy in text setting without losing its strong, straight and steady features. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Homorakhn (1997) is an anonymous font that is said to be the Spiderman movie font. Unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A handprinted face made in 2011 with iFontMaker by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A handprinted face made in 2011 with iFontMaker by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An orphaned freeware gothic dingbat font made in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kabarett Standard is a heavy rounded old style face published by URW++. It is unclear who designed it. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A free pixel font, Mutter LVS, from an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Krungthep | |
Orphaned runic or mysterious language face, 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Historical Gaelic typeface family. Louvain A saw the light sometime between 1611 and 1728. It is tentatively credited by Michael Everson to Thomas Strong. The creator of Louvain B (1641-1662) is still unknown. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An unknown designer made Lydia's Font (2011, iFontMaker), a very clean thin handprinted face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Made Mo1 | An orphaned neon tube font that one can download at abfonts. The font's readme says: This font is based on screen capture of the opening title sequence of the 1972 movie Made. The missing letters and numerals were created in the style of existing letters. Alpha-numeric characters were digitized and/or created by C. The alternate numeral 8 in the asterisk key created by T. It is T's fault if you do not like how the font was kerned. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
School font made in 1999 by an unknown designer. Download here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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A handprinted monoline iFontMaker font by an unknown designer, 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A free Mexican fiesta style font made by an unknown designer at iFontmaker in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A star-studded Arabic simulation face made in 1999 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The orphaned font Moulin Rouge (2012) is a didone headline face after a curl treatment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Orphaned rounded unicase display face (2010) made for Disney Channel Nick City. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Necronomicon, Goetia (Manuscript version), Alphabet of Demons, Appolonian. Maker of these truetype fonts unknown. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Old Gondor is a free blackletter face made or converted by "Mike". Orphaned... [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A gothic blackletter face made in 2008 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Orphaned dingbat face of a boy with various guns, made in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At this German Pokemon magazine, three Pokemon fonts: Pokefont, PokemonHollowNormal, PokemonSolidNormal. Authors unknown. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A decorative display alphabet by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free organic/techno sans family made in 1994 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Royal
| A monospaced modern angular Gaelic font created ca. 1910 (designer unknown) for the old Royal Gaelicmanual typewriter. Digitized as Doire (1993) and Doire Royal (1999) by Michael Everson. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Free beveled look headline face. Unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Free orphaned grunge font made in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Serpent Knotform | A free font that can be found here. Made in 2001, it is remarkable by its dedication to Zbignew Brezinsky, Lee Smolin, William Cooper, David Lazar, Theodore Kaczynski, Madeline Albright, Andrew Cunanan, Adam Smith, Marshall Herff Applewhite, George Maynard Keynes, and Mike Neidlinger. The maker is unknown, but the letters are indeed reminiscent of vipers and slithery things. I think that Ted Kaczynski does not deserve to be in that list though. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sioux Caps | |
Skjald |
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Oblique futuristic (non-slab!!) face made in 2010 by an anonymous designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A free stencil font made by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An orphaned Celtic / uncial face with a production date of 1993. Download site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Aeroplane Flies High Heavy | Imitation of TF Avian by Joseph Treacy, "made" by an unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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TR film (2003) is the text font used in the Tombraider movie. Unknown designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Goofy orphaned face made with iFontmaker in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tonik Headline is a grotesque face designed by an unknown designer for Tonik Insurance. It looks like a copy of Alternate Gothic No. 3. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tower
| A monospaced modern round Gaelic font created ca. 1950 (designer unknown). Digitized as Teamhair (1997) and Teamhair Tower (1999) by Michael Everson. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
An old tree-based initial caps font. Origins unknown. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A monospaced modern angular Gaelic font created ca. 1905 (designer unknown). In 1999, digitized as Darmhagh Underwood. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A curly handprinted font, made in 2011--no names of creator or font available at the iFontMaker site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A free Postnet barcode font bfrom an unknown source. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Orphaned comic book face (2012) that can be downloaded at Dafont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vasca | The free basque lettering font Vasca, which seems to be everywhere, is indeed orphaned. Who designed it? [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A free font with Vespa-style lettering made in 2004. Unknown creator. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Virile | Virile is an "almost" art nouveau face first seen in digital form at Agfa. Who made it? [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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A typical 1940s script face. Orphaned for now. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zirkus is a Western slab face published by URW++. It is unclear who designed it. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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A free art deco font from 1993, which can be downloaded 
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An orphaned hacker font made in 1996, one of the first ones in its genre. [
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A font extracted by an abf reader from Flash files used by ESPN and posted there. [
