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26Woman

A women's silhouette font made in 1997 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

3-D Salter

Free 3-d look headline face. Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abba

Free multiline font by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ABFonts Santos FC 2012 Numerals

ABFonts Santos FC 2012 Numerals (2012) is an orphaned athletic lettering font. We read at ABFonts (where the font can be downloaded): ABFonts Santos FC 2012 Numerals is based on the numbers used on the jersey of Brazilian football club, Santos FC, which is outfitted by Nike. The font was created on request and the image that was provided only showed the jersey numbers of Santos FC. Based on photographs, the player's name is not shown on the jersey explaining the absence of letters in the font. It appears that the source image was created by Cleiton Fabiano of www.futbr.com. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Afrah

An orphaned display serif made in 2021. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AG Royal

I would like to know the origins of Berthold's AG Royal typeface family. Who did the digital version? [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aggie

This Bank Gothic lookalike dates from before 1964. Its designer is unknown. Digital versions were done by The Font Company ca. 1990, and Castcraft (as Aggie Solid). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Airkraft

An outlined airplane lettering typeface made by Face Photosetting in the phototype era. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alam

An orphaned Trajan capitals typeface dating back to 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Almagro

Free orphaned hand-printed font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphabet Sexe

An orphaned sexual position alphabet found on the web. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AlphaRuler

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]  ⦿

Alteran2

A free orphaned Star Trek style typeface made in 2020 using FontStruct. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AMC Theaters

An orphaned font after the AMC Theaters logo. Created in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angry Birds

Orphaned brush caps typeface published at Dafont in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annass Font

An orphaned font made at iFontMaker in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apache

Apache is a comic book typeface published by URW++. It is unclear who designed it. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apple Watch Font (or: the San Francisco Font)

In September 2014, Apple announced the imminent arrival of the Apple Watch, which came with a new neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface developed in house. It has a legible, open DIN-like look, but the name of its designer was not released. The 35 fonts are grouped into subfamilies San Francisco Text and San Francisco Display, and are available to designers of Apple Watch applications here.

The reaction of the curmudgeon society, aka The Typophiles, is quite predictably negative, with opinions including Susan Kare's original San Francisco (also done for Apple) was better [note: Kare's was a ransom note font]. I really wonder why the typophiles bother---it's not their magazine or their web page---companies are free to use anything they like, including "not wasting a lot of effort on new typefaces".

Some San Francisco fonts are free from Apple's web site. These come in four groups, SF Pro Text, SF Pro Display, SF Compact Text, and SF Compact Display. Developed between 2015 and 2017, these fonts have become the Apple System fonts for basically all Apple machines. San Francisco has gradually replaced most of Apple's other typefaces on their software and hardware products and for overall branding. It was the original system typeface of watchOS and tvOS and has replaced Helvetica Neue and Lucida Grande as the system typeface of macOS and iOS since OS X El Capitan and iOS 9. Apple uses it on its website and for its product wordmarks, where it replaced Myriad Pro. It is also used on the keyboard of the 2015 MacBook and on the 2016 MacBook Pro, replacing VAG Rounded. It is also used as Apple's corporate typeface. Apple restricts the usage of the typeface by others. It is licensed to registered third-party developers only for the design and development of applications for Apple's platforms.

The San Francisco typeface has four variants: "SF" (or "SF UI") for macOS, iOS, and tvOS; "SF Compact" for watchOS; "SF Mono" (based on SF Compact) for the Xcode application; and "SF Serif" for Apple Books. The main difference is that the sides of letters with round shapes, such as o, e, and s, are round in SF, whereas they are flat in SF Compact. The flat sides allow the letters to have more space between them, thereby making the text more legible at small sizes, which is particularly important for the Apple Watch. Both SF and SF Compact each have two optical sizes: "display" for large and "text" for small text. Compared to display, the letters in text have larger apertures and more generous letter-spacing. The operating system automatically chooses the display optical size for sizes of at least 20 points, and the text optical size otherwise. Additionally, included in macOS Sierra and iOS 10 is a new variant named "SF Compact Rounded". It is used in the new contact placeholder icons introduced in the OSes. The "SF Serif" variant was showcased in June 2018 when the all-new Apple Books app was introduced. This variant is exclusive to Apple Books in iOS 12 and macOS Mojave, is not mentioned in Apple's Typography design guidelines, and is not publicly downloadable like other variants of the San Francisco typeface.

Open Font Library link where one can download the SF UI Text family (2015).

Postscript: The 2014 San Francisco font should not be confused with Susan Kare's ransom note bitmap font San Francisco which was created in 1984 for Apple. An official TrueType version was never made, and Kare's San Francisco was rendered obsolete with the arrival of Apple's System 7.

Wikipedia link. Apple font download site where one can find San Francisco Compact (this sans-serif typeface is the system font for watchOS, and includes a rounded variant), San Francisco Pro (this sans-serif typeface is the system font for iOS, macOS, and tvOS, and includes a rounded variant), and New York (a large transitional typeface family with optical and width sizing; 2017-2018, that won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019). Also included is the variable font San Francisco Rounded, which includes a weight axis and a grade axis for adjusting the stroke weight without changing glyph widths. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Avisto

Said to be a fusion of Futura and Akzidenz Grotesk, Avisto started appearing on Swedish signs in the 1930s. Image from the book I Love Type 01 Futura [via Christian Steen Jørgensen, Copenhagen, and Typophile]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Babycakes

An orphaned free bubblegum font made in 1999. At Fontspace, they say that the designer is "Robin". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baglady

An orphaned free font made in 1997. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barnacle

Free orphaned decorative typeface from 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Batman

A free dingbat font called Warlord. Author unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bayreuth

Bayreuth is a blackletter typeface made in 1932 by F.H.E. Schneidler for the C.E. Weber foundry in Stuttgart. At the Dafont site, we find an orphaned digital version of this typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Belfast City Council

The typeface Moment was commissioned by the Belfast City Council for its brand. Unknown designer, but free download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benny Benassi Font Remake

Orphaned sci-fi font, made in 2013 at FontStruct. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bergteken

An orphaned typeface designed in the TypeParis Type Design Course in 2019. This angular typeface refers to early rounded blackletter forms of the 14th and 15th centuries. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bicycle
[Kelly Smith]

An orphaned circle-based sans typeface made in 2017. It is possibly made by Kelly Smith. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bigbloke

Bigbloke (2012) is a PDF extract. Inside it states that it is an Outback restaurants Menu font. The designer is unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bits Pics

A dingbat typeface published by Bitstream in 1994. It contains an umbrella, some weather icons, and various odds and ends without a logical structure. Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bob Sponge

An orphaned font after the Spongebob movie. Created in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boo

School font made in 2002 by an unknown designer. Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brittany

An orphaned curly Victorian font downloadable from Dafont, and made in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

BrockScript

BrockScript (1996), a wedding invitation script made by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brownil

A mysterious free orphaned typeface with a copyright to Taiwan's respected Arphic foundry, date 2020. With a second name, Queste, it was posted by "Malre", the alias of a (possible) Frenchman called either David Masson Allaire or Malre Deszik. Its poor design seems to indicate that an Arphic font was digitally hijacked to serve as a mold for this atrocity and that Malre forgot to remove the Arphic metadata. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Burrito

An orphaned Mexican simulation font from 1996. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Burton's Nightmare

A free orphaned typeface designed in 1993. It is an art nouveau typeface modeled after Timothy Walter "Tim" Burton's movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Buxton Sketch

A Comic Sans style font that ships with the Sketchflow program (Christian Schormann, Electric Beach). Not sure who designed it. That software also contains Segoe Marker. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cabin Fever

A hand-printed face made in 2011 with iFontMaker by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CBS Didot

The orphaned CBS Didot was based on Freeman Craw's custom font CBS Didot from 1970. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CG Orlando Caps

Mysterious typeface in the Compugraphic collection. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cleopatra

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]  ⦿

Confident

An orphaned vintage serif (2021). Designer unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Consequences

An orphaned font at Creative Fabrica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Console

A free circled letter font made in 2001 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corisande

Corisande (2003) was sold in 2003 by T26 and was attributed to Neil McCallum. However, we also find it in the Identikal collection. The typeface was removed from all web sites some time after that. Why, how? Where is Neil McCallum? [Google] [More]  ⦿

CRU Jeelada

Orphaned free curly font, made in 2012, by a student at Chandrakasem Rajabhat University, Thailand. He also made CRU Jeelada Handwriiten (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cubu

A cube-shaped alphading typeface that was orphaned at Dafont in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

cuernomuerto

Cuernomuerto (2011) is an orphaned hand-printed all caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Curly Stars

An orphaned free Victorian curly font, published in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dali

An orphaned script font made in 1997 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Death Font

Orphaned grunge font stored here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Decollection

Decollection (1997) is an orphaned art deco headline typeface that is based on Boogie (NADA8) and Big Lou (NADA37), two alphabets drawn by Marcia Loeb in 1972. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DeGenerate

A free grunge typeface by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dickie

Free orphaned handwriting font made in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DigiMode 1988

An orphaned oblique techno typeface from 1999. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Disney Junior Regular

Orphaned typeface family made in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DJ Football

DJ Football (2012) is an orphaned American football alphading typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dont Forget

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 typefaces exist: Alfereta (Dan X. Solo: some say it is originally due to Seymour Chwast in the photo-lettering 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]  ⦿

Dyer

A mysterious free typeface created in 1997 in the style of the Glasgow School of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

EAS Sans

An orphaned athletic lettering face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eccentrical

An orphaned arts and crafts font, identical to the digital fonts all called Eccentric published by Monotype (Agfa), Solotype, and Adobe. Of course, all these digital fonts are copies of the original typeface from 1881 by Gustav F. Schroeder for Central Type Foundry. Download the font here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily's Curly Hand

An orphaned font made at iFontMaker in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Etiaw

Orphaned fat geometric typeface, created in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

EWC Scratch

An orphaned font made at iFontMaker in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fairytale

A curly font from 1999 whose creator is anonymous. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FC Barcelona, Real Madrid

FC Barcelona (2009), Premier League (2007), and Real Madrid 2009 (2009) are athletic lettering typefaces made by a designer who wishes to remain anonymous. Even though I know the designer, I am classifying these typefaces now as orphaned. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fisk

A handwriting font by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flik

There is a handcrafted typeface in the cloud that has ITC in its credits. Designed between 1994 and 1996, I can't confirm that this typeface is in the ITC line-up. And who designed this monstrosity? [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fonture

Beautiful display caps by an unknown designer (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fox

Orphaned typeface made in 2015, probably by modifying Nick Shinn's Sense Black (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Freewave Remix

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 modular elements. The designer is unknown. Section Bold Condensed (Creative Alliance) is a digital version of the font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Futura Eugene

Unknown copycat artist: Futura Stencil became Futura Eugene (1990). [Google] [More]  ⦿

FutureFont

Orphaned black sans typeface seen at Dafont, and made in 1994. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Garaigit

An orphaned vintage serif (2021). Designer unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gaslight

A free art deco font from 1993, which can be downloaded here. Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

God of War

An all caps semi-blackletter typeface made in 2004 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gossip

An all caps brush face made in 1997. Designer unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gotisch

A handcrafted typeface created at iFontMaker in 2018 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grebe

An orphaned font made an anonymous designer in 1994. It revives the Victorian typeface Bijou (1883, Hermann Ihlenburg, for MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gryzor

Unknown creator of Mucha Font, an art nouveau alphabet modeled after the hand of Alfonse Mucha. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hafskjold Rune Font

Rune font from 2000. Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

HamburgSymbols

A free zodiac sign font made in 2005 by cat3. No further information available. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hammond

A monospaced modern angular Gaelic font created ca. 1910 (designer unknown). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Handmade

An orphaned iFontmaker font from 2018 with a sketched texture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hell Deco

A straight-edged display typeface designed by a young Mexican designer who wishes to remain anonymous. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heloise

An orphaned sans typeface made in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hepta Slab

An orphaned font designed in 2021. [Google] [More]  ⦿

History Sans

A free orphaned font family that comes in five weights, from Thin to Black. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hogart

An orpaned font from 1997. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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

Homorakhn (1997) is an anonymous font that is said to be the Spiderman movie font. Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hustle That Icecream

A hand-printed face made in 2011 with iFontMaker by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

I Have No Life

A hand-printed face made in 2011 with iFontMaker by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Imperial

An orphaned freeware gothic dingbat font made in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Industrial

An orphaned triangulated typeface done by a student at Kansas City Art Institute in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Intertype Spike Gothic

The typophiles can't figure out who designed Intertype Gothic in Intertype's booklet Intertype Gothics. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jawa Palsu

An orphaned font that was posted at Dafont in December 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kabarett Standard

Kabarett Standard is a heavy rounded old style typeface published by URW++. It is unclear who designed it. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kallaste

A free pixel font, Mutter LVS, from an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kdizzle

Free orphaned fat finger typeface made in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelly Smith
[Bicycle]

[More]  ⦿

Korrex

A mystery blackletter typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kraton

An orphaned display serif designed in 2021. The Graphic Pear downloads are dysfunctional and a headache. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kung Fu Panda

A free orphaned movie font from 2007 made for the film Kung Fu Panda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyrie

An orphaned alchemic typeface made in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lindinha

Figurine font by an unknown author. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linotype Forbes

A one-style newsprint typeface by Linotype. Who made it? Where does it come from? [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lithean

Orphaned runic or mysterious language face, 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lorem Ipsum

Creator of the gorgeous pearly inline display typeface Beau Jingle (2012), which does not seem to be available or viewable anywhere. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Louvain

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]  ⦿

Lucio1

An orphaned iFontmaker calligraphic font from 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luddite

A casual typeface made in or just before 1999. It used to be downloadable from a sub-site on luddite.net. Designer unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lydia's Font

An unknown designer made Lydia's Font (2011, iFontMaker), a very clean thin hand-printed 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]  ⦿

Magician

A free orphaned party font made in 1999 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Magna

A designer in Athens, Greece created the experimental typeface Magna in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maori

Two orphaned fonts from ca. 2000: Garamond Macron Maori, Reddfish. Designers unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Massallera

School font made in 1999 by an unknown designer. Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maya

An orphaned blackboard bold font made at iFontMaker in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Evcerson
[Royal]

[More]  ⦿

Michael Everson
[Tower]

[More]  ⦿

Microscan

An OCR A monospaced face by an unknown author. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mobile's Font

A free Mexican fiesta style font made by an unknown designer at iFontmaker in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mobile's Font

A hand-printed monoline iFontMaker font by an unknown designer, 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moonstar

A star-studded Arabic simulation typeface made in 1999 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moulin Rouge

The orphaned font Moulin Rouge (2012) is a didone headline typeface after a curl treatment. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nelson Script

Orphaned calligraphic script font, 1999. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Netwt

Orphaned free hand-drawn typeface created in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

New Mexico State Library

Mystery is an exclusive font designed in 2003 for the New Mexico State Library. Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NFL Bears

An orphaned athletic lettering font from 2005 that can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nickelodeon

Orphaned rounded unicase display face (2010) made for Disney Channel Nick City. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Occult TTF Fonts

Necronomicon, Goetia (Manuscript version), Alphabet of Demons, Appolonian. Maker of these truetype fonts unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

OHNO

A funny dingbat font with cartoon characters, made in 1996. Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Old Gondor

Old Gondor is a free blackletter typeface made or converted by "Mike". Orphaned. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Old Script

Orphaned calligraphic script font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ozzy

A gothic blackletter typeface made in 2008 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Papaik

An orphaned supermarket script typeface designed in 2020 by a certain "Joanna" for her MA diploma at the University of Arts in Poznan, Poland. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pip Boy Weapons Dingbats

Orphaned dingbat typeface of a boy with various guns, made in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pokemonmagazin

At this German Pokemon magazine, three Pokemon fonts: Pokefont, PokemonHollowNormal, PokemonSolidNormal. Authors unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Purimonyorori 2

A decorative display alphabet by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rhama Gothic

Free orphaned decorative blackletter typeface made in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rhymes Are Power

Orphaned display typeface designed in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Riesig

An orphaned condensed titling family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rinehart

Rinehart is a free organic/techno sans family made in 1994 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Royal
[Michael Evcerson]

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]  ⦿

Runes of Loke

Rune font. Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Savannah Fat

Free beveled look headline face. Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scrubble

Pencil sketch font made in 2007 by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastopol

An orphaned font at Creative Fabrica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sensation

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]  ⦿

Showguide

A Western font by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Skjald

Skjald is an "almost" art nouveau face first seen in digital form at Agfa. Who made it? [Google] [More]  ⦿

Slabface 2010

Oblique futuristic (non-slab!!) typeface made in 2010 by an anonymous designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Smack Typographik

An orphaned hand-printed typeface made in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

SmileyWorldFont

A free orphaned truetype font made in 2002. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sniff

Sniff truetype font. Designer unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soup

An orphaned bold sans typeface made in 2017 by a young designer in Arlington Heights, MA, who wished to remain anonymous. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Space Odyssey Mo1

An orphaned font that appears in the end credits of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. The font, posted on abf in 2012, contans the following note: Here is the Space Odyssey font. I did not touch Futura for this one, as all letters were redrawn from actual film screen captures. One deviation made from the screen grabs is the height of the A. In the screen grabs, the A is a bit lower than the other letters. I made it touch the caps height, the same as the other letters with the exception of the rounded letters which go above the caps height and/or below the baseline. The font is autospaced and is not kerned. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stencil Camera

A free stencil font made by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stonehenge

An orphaned Celtic / uncial face with a production date of 1993. Download site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sumatra Regular

An orphaned display serif typeface designed in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Swis Bold

A free Helvetica-like typeface published in 2013 by OFL. It is said to be an unpubluished work by Bitstream, and comes with a Bitstream Vera license. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taylor Swift Handwriting

An orphaned handwriting font designed in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Aeroplane Flies High Heavy

Imitation of TF Avian by Joseph Treacy, "made" by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Feminist Letters

A free orphaned font by unknown designers, published in 1981: Each letter and number is specifically designed with purpose, calling attention to issues like equal pay, reproductive rights, women's health, women in politics, and campus assault laws. The Feminist Letters were created by New York-based ad agency Y&R in collaboration with Women of Sex Tech, another New York-based group of entrepreneurs dedicated to increasing the diversity of sex tech. The font first debuted at the Women's March in January 2017, where the letters were used on signs in NYC, LA, Philadelphia and other U.S. cities, as up to 5 million women worldwide marched for equality. In particular in rallies against the election of President Donald "Grab 'Em By the Pussy" Trump. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tick

A typeface from 2009 with a single tick mark as sole glyph. Author unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Times Hackers

An orphaned hacker font made in 1996, one of the first ones in its genre. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tombraider

TR film (2003) is the text font used in the Tombraider movie. Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tong1

Goofy orphaned face made with iFontmaker in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tonik Headline

Tonik Headline is a grotesque typeface designed by an unknown designer for Tonik Insurance. It looks like a copy of Alternate Gothic No. 3. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tower
[Michael Everson]

A monospaced modern round Gaelic font created ca. 1950 (designer unknown). Digitized as Teamhair (1997) and Teamhair Tower (1999) by Michael Everson. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Toxetica

An orphaned needle-themed beauty designed in 2010 by a Californian new media designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Transalp

A free futuristic font. Designer unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tree alphabet

An old tree-based initial caps font. Origins unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Triangles and Squares

Triangles and Squares, or Folded (2016), is an orphaned typeface shown in the Barbican Art Gallery in 2016. It is inspired by Russian constructivist artist El Lissitzky. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typewriter

An orphaned font made at iFontMaker in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Uderzo

Uderzo is famous for his Asterix books that were published by Les Éditions Albert René. There are two comic book fonts out on the internet whose designer remains unknown---at least to me---, Uderzo Title (2000) and Uderzo Text (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Unblast

A hand-picked free font list by Hampton, VA-based Unblast. The list includes orphaned typefaces such as Velocity (2019), Grey (2018: a minimalist techno font), Inverse (2018: multiline), Roadster (2018: multilined), Dunna Sans (2018), and Alaska (2018). From 2019: the orphaned fonts Dreams (sci-fi), Fritch (chamfered), Boston, Cobaissi, Dovetail (stencil), Bilthers, Frizon (a space exploration font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Underwood

A monospaced modern angular Gaelic font created ca. 1905 (designer unknown). In 1999, digitized as Darmhagh Underwood. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Unitology Dead Space

Orphaned free font with strange symbology, 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Unknown curly font

A curly hand-printed font, made in 2011--no names of creator or font available at the iFontMaker site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

USGS

The map dingbat font USGS hy (1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

USPS Barcode

A free Postnet barcode font from an unknown source: Download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vaca

Orphaned comic book face (2012) that can be downloaded at Dafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Valencia

Free orphaned signage typeface made in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Valken

An orphaned plump round sans typeface by an unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vasca

The free basque lettering font Vasca, which seems to be everywhere, is indeed orphaned. Who designed it? [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vasca Berria

An orphaned Basque all caps face that contains errors in its truetype data. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Venezia

An orphaned typeface made in or just before 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vespa

A free font with Vespa-style lettering made in 2004. Unknown creator. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Viana Script

Free orphaned brush script typeface made in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wakfu Fan

An orphaned free calligraphic handwriting font made in 2011. It has a slight oriental look. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Walk-On

Walk-On (2015) is a free didone-inspired fashion mag typeface in AI format. There is no indication who made it, so I will classify it as orphaned. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Warema

A mysterious URW staff font family in 8 styles published by them in 2012. It seems to be made for exclusive use by Warema Renkhoff. What, who, how? Help! We also find Warema Nimbus (2017) at the URW site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wheat Grass

An orphaned handcrafted typeface from 2002-2017 that can be bought at You Work For Them. No mention of the designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

WorldCup 2010 Sans

A font extracted by an abf reader from Flash files used by ESPN and posted there. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yellow Submarine

A revival or knock-off of Stanley Davis's Amelia (1966). Unknown designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zipper Extended

A typical 1940s script face. Orphaned for now. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zirkus

Zirkus is a Western slab typeface published by URW++. It is unclear who designed it. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zodiac S

An orphaned astrological symbol font made in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿