Hoping that the typographers everywhere will not remain quiet in the face of a senseless war. Here is to peace!

Alexander Kassel

Designer who published the peace symbol face Pax with Heidrun Weißschädel at Volcano Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

António Carreira

Brazilian designer of OralSex, PaintBrush-Draws, Peace-Symbol, Psicadelic, Sex-Machine, Shaking-Bones, Scully, Sacha, Demon-Bones, Vaca, Virus, Eraser (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Burghal Design
[Kate Peters]

Burghal Design (Tujunga, CA) offers commercial "fonts for the complacent middle class" by Kate Peters (b. California, 1964). She describes herself as a former punk rock photographer, model, photo assistant and Jesus of the Week, who began designing fonts in 1998 as an alternative, drug-free therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder.

A partial list of her fonts: Vamp Trilogy, PsychoVamp, Monkeywrench, Vamp (great!), Stemplate, Prick, BabyDoll (curly letters), Fauntleroy (2007, based on BabyDoll), Crania (2003, the ultimate skulls dingbat font), Graffiti Alphabet Letters (with Leslie Cabarga, based on letters found on New York City's walls), Peace (2003, peace symbol embedded in the letters; an anti-Iraq war tribute; see also here), SissyBoy (curly letters), Neutrinos, Hemingway's Shotgun (1999, handprinted), Huevo Loco (neat!), Crosshair (1999, phenomenal idea), Burgbats, Burghal Babies, SissyBoy (2001, Bitstream), Stemplate (2001, Burghal, a stencil font), Smarty Pants (+ Bold, Super Bold, Doodles, Snowflakes, made in 2004).

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

Charissa Rais

Designer of the Fingerprint (experimental) typeface (2010) for an anti-war poster. She grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, and is a 2010 graduate in graphic design at the Ontario College of Art&Design, Toronto. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cool Fonts Online
[Todd Dever]

Cool Fonts in Long Beach, CA, was created in 1995 by Todd Dever (b. 1962, USA). It offers Todd Dever's funky and sometimes grungy font creations. Very incomplete trial version fonts are downloadable for inspection. List of fonts: Block Dog (1996), Black Dog (2009, 3d-hand-drawn), Jean Splice (1999), Freak, Smash (old typewriter), Overexposed, RingOfFire, Zapped, Z-Rex, BlackDog, Poozer (2006), Truncheon (2006), Yaroslav (avant-garde), Twiddlybitz (pixel font), Tritto (handwriting), Skribler, KillerAnts, Goombah, Bokonon. Full versions sold at Philsfonts and MyFonts sells BlackDog, Bokonon, Cowboy Burt, Freak, Goombah, Jean Splice, Killer Ants, Newt Juice, Okra Cubo, Overexposed, Poozer, Ring O Fire, Skribler, Smash, Snoofer, Tritto, Truncheon, Twiddlybitz, Yaroslav, Z-Rex, Zapped. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Emma Smith

Designer of these handprinted faces in 2010: Peace, Messy, Emma Handwriting, Sammyfont, Squarebubbly, Symbolsarecool, lkfont. Followed in 2011 by Imperfect Heart. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flashfonts
[Leslie Cabarga]

Flashfonts is Leslie Cabarga's Los Angeles-based foundry. Leslie Cabarga is a baby boomer from New Jersey and author of The Lettering and Graphic Design of F.G. Cooper and the Illustrator/Fontographer/Fontlab resource book, Logo Font&Lettering Bible (2004), and Learn Fontlab Fast (2004). He runs Leslie Cabarga Design in Los Angeles. His lettering prowess is apparent in this drive-in sign for "Betty Boop's Drive-In" (which inspired Nick Curtis to make Drive-Thru NF), FontShop link. MyFonts link.

Leslie Cabarga's typefaces:

• Raceway, a famous retro script.
• Casey (2007), a fat-bottomed script at Font Bureau).
• Streamline.
• Kobalt and Kobalt Kartoonare (at Font Bureau), great for displays, in the style of Neuland.
• Ojaio, a beautiful art deco font.
• Central Station, an original display face.
• The retro script Magneto.
• Neon Stream.
• Peace: an original psychedelic 60s font based on an alphabet copyright 1997 by Wes Wilson, creator of the classic 1960s Fillmore Poster Lettering style; see here.
• Saber (2002), a mix of uncial, Fraktur, gothic and Exocet.
• Love, a psychedelic 60s font also based on Wes Wilson's lettering. At Font Bureau.
• Esselte's Cabarga Cursiva. Cabarga Cursive was jointly designed in 1982 by Leslie Cabarga and his father Demetrio.
• Cocoanut, Grassy Knoll, Straight Light, Straight Medium, Rocket, Progressiv, Cymbal Regular, Dotcom Medium, Generik Regular, Graffiti Regular, Angle, Badtyp, Haarlem, Margarete, Primitiv, Progressiv, Rocket, Rocket Gothic, Straight, Bellbottom, Hihat, Baseball. Jo the Webmistress on Cabarga.

Font Nook

Mostly alphadings and dingbats, all made in 2003 and free to download: AntsInYourFonts, BatteredBeacon, ColonelEllsworth, ColumbiaInMemoriam, ConfaDental, CorneliusMcHusk, DoggieStyle, EasterEssence, FustyCat, GalleonAdventure, GatoBocado, GrannyLove, HeraldryisRampant, HerculeanEffort, Hexagony, IconusAmericanus, IntoMischief, JauntySanta, JustDucky, KubicsRube, LadyortheTiger, LeaveUsLeaf, LeprechaunJoy, MeAndMySharpie, MousyMousie, MyFriendJesus, OwlPussycat, PatrioticDude, PeaceDove, PrezDayFont, RidinInStyle, RockPaperScissors, SacredCow, SantasList, ScaredyMcShadow, ScaredySkeleton, Scrimshaw, SmashingPunkins, SpeedyMcHaste, SpookyDoooings, SpringyBunny, SteadfastScottie, TeeTime, Thinsome, WhatAKnight, WhatsYourBrand. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heidrun Weißschädel

Designer who published the peace symbol face Pax with Alexander Kassel at Volcano Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

HVD Fonts
[Hannes von Döhren]

Hannes von\0Döhren (b. 1979, Berlin) is a Berlin-based designer (b. 1979). His foundry is HVD Fonts. He started out with free handwriting and grunge fonts such as HVD Comic Serif Pro (2009, an alternative to Comic Sans, according to HVD), The Subway Types (2009, a graffiti family: Shik (New York), Deon (Paris) and Etan (Berlin) came together to show the typical tag styles of their respective metropolitan areas. The fonts were digitized, spaced, kerned and programmed by Hannes von Döhren).

Later he went commercial, first at T-26, and then under his own label, HVD Fonts. His typefaces: Shelton (2008, T-26), HVD Peace (2008, an army stencil font), HVD Comic Serif (2007, a serifed spoof on Comic Sans), HVD Rowdy (2007), HVDSpencils-Block (2007, stencil), HVDSpencils (2007, stencil), HVD Steinzeit (2005), HVD Edding 780, HVD Rawcut (2005), HVD Age 11 (2006), HVD Shelton (2008, T-26: wood type grunge), HVD Bodedo (2009, potato-Bodoni lettering), Quench Pro (2008, Linotype), HVD Peace (2008), and HVD Poster (2006, grunge).

Typefaces made in 2009: Grandma (great handprinted style---move over, Comic Sans), Christmas Dingbats, ITC Chino (a soft-edged signage and sans family, done with Livius Dietzel), Klint (sans family, +Rounded), Brevia (a soft sans in seven styles), Cowboyslang (a Western slab serif family), Embryo (superblack), Embryo Open, and Opal, a classy old style text family with tall ascenders. Bumper (2009) is an ultra-black sans family.

Typefaces from 2010: FF Basic Gothic (a grotesk family done with Livius Dietzel), Reklame Script, Shelton (grunge), Blow Up is a fat balloon font. His masterpiece of 2010 and perhaps of his career thus far is the Brandon Grotesque family that relives the 20s and 30s. [A year after I wrote the previous sentence, Brandon Grotesque won an award at TDC2 2011, and all during 2011, it was the most sold face at MyFonts.] Livory (2010, with Livius Dietzel) is a rounded serif type family of four fonts influenced by the French Renaissance Antiquas from the 16th century.

Production in 2011: Brix Slab and Brix Slab Condensed (24 styles in all, done with Livius Dietzel), Pluto (16-style semi-scriptish sans family, +Italics), Cheap Pine (a wood type caps family), Supria Sans (free web font family; +Black). Together with Supra sans Condensed, this 36-style family is a basic sans workhorse. It won an award at TDC2 2011.

Typefaces from 2012: Lovev Potion No. 10.

Dafont link. URL at T-26. Another URL. Behance link. Alternate URL. MyFonts link. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Pic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Juan Antonio Zamarripa Esqueda

Designer (b. Los Angeles, 1968, aka "Dibujado") of KLONP (2003), ProdottoInCina (2005), Lethality (2003), Cullit (2003), Cmon Near (2003), Smite (2003), Ciao (2003), WOH (2003), Yeh (2003), Unocide (2003), Pizarron (2003), Peels (2003), daBoss (2003), TheShaker (2003), Nusaliver (2003), Arbust (2003), RobustA (2003), Mousey (2001), Faces Plain (2003), OilBats-Basic (2003), 5x5-Basic (2003, pixel font), Peacechild (2003), PeaceNow-Basic (2003), blunt (2003), PineLintGerm Mousey 2.0 (2003), ClubDia (2003, grunge font), ARashNaziBlurb 1.0 (2003, grunge font), Blunter (2003, handwriting). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Konstantin Datz

Animator and photographer in Potsdam, Germany. Behance link. Creator of the funny Hairyfont (2010). He also made an experimental dotted font in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leon Sloth

Graphic designer and typographer from Copenhagen. His typefaces include Lagen (2007, fat and counterless), Darkcut (2008, like wood cut), Paten (2008, constructivist), and Antiwar (2009, military stencil). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Life Saving Fonts

As part of FontParty, free fonts offered by various type designer in memory of the New York tragedy on September 11, 2001.

• Nght: 101 We the People, 101 American Pride by Nght, 101! Hands Across America by Nght.
• Graham Meade provided 11S01 BlackTuesday.
• Dingbrats made JLR Global Warming, JLR GodBlessTheUSA, and JLR Lady Liberty.
• Manfred Klein made the somber and simple font Remember Manhattan September.
• Frogii made the alphading font WhyOhWhy.
• LeChefRene: the alphading fonts LCR America Prays, LCR America's Angel, LCR United We Stand, LCR We Remember, LCR America's Heart, LCR She Proudly Waves, LCR OnlyAMemory.
• London Stokes: LMS Eagle Eyed, LMS America, Salvation Army, Secured Nation, Star Spangled.
• Cybapee: Alphanatism.
• Michel Bujardet: Ange Gardien.
• David Hyatt: Spangled Mast.
• Amuse Designz: T-BeaconForFreedom, T-FlyingProud, T-Shill Shining.
• Fontparty: Unity.
• Keith S. Parent: Terrorism Bytes.
• Kat's Fun Fonts: KR America Under Attack, KR TheWorldMourns, KRStandingProud.
• KatzGrafix: KGWorldPeace.
• DryHeavesFonts: GodBlessAmerica.
• Iconian: GodBlessAmerica.
• Jester Font Studio: CloudsofHope, CloudsofDespair.
• Jeri Ingalls: JI Manhattan.
• West Wind Fonts: WePray.
• Anke Art: Why?
• House of Lime: September11.
• Steve Deffeyes: 3-11-01.
• Kyakirun: Tall Twin.
• London Stokes: Heroes Among the Ashes.
• Renn Crump: All American.

Manfred Klein's Fonteria
[Manfred Klein]

Frankfurt-based designer (b. 1932) whose creative output is so large that he deserves a separate web page. His URL at Moorstation from 2000-2007. New page on him by Florian Rochler. Font squirrel link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Martin Vogel

Martin Vogel from Dortmund made a great TrueType symbol font, MarVoSym, complete with the Euro symbol, useful office symbols, astrological symbols, gender symbols, toilet door glyphs, and a peace dove. The early version of this great font was called "Martin Vogel's Symbols". Freeware.

The type 1 version was created by Thomas Henlich from TU Dresden. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

More To Come
[Leon Sloth]

Danish design studio built around graphic designer Leon Sloth in Copenhagen. In 2011, they designed Paten (a severe almost-constructivist typeface) and Antiwar (an army stencil face). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neil Caldwell

Manotick, Ontario-based designer of a calligraphic brush script (2007). He used my own Wahei (peace symbol dingbat face) in a sliding puzzle that will be carried by peace organizations worldwide. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Net Lab (or: USA RWE)

40-font archive. However, there are a number of free truetype fonts that seem to be original, copyright USA RWE: AkzeleratCondensedNormal, BodinSmallBold, EuropaExtendedNormal, FKRArea51Life, FrapantNormal, KabaleMediumNormal, NovemberMediumNormal, Peace-Regular, PopcornNormal, RockySmallNormal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nowarfont.org

The Iraq war fallout: a Berlin-based site by "Greige" where typographers who like peace submit their creations. Dingbat fonts thus far submitted and free to download: BushLanguage (2003, dingbats of the only things Bush understands), NoWarfour (2003, by Greige), NoWarone (2003, dingbats of the war mongers), NoWarthree (2003), Nwoeurope (2003, dingbats of European countries). See also their news updates. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peace
[Manfred Klein]

Manfred Klein does not hide his political opinions. He is downright cynical when it comes to politicians, and of course, he detests war in general and bellicose regimes in particular. Just check these typefaces for hidden political messages: AfterAtomWar, DemocraticPeaceWarriors, FlyOnYou, GuantanamoHumanism, ModernPeace, PeaceBats, PeaceDamaged, PeaceThruGuns, Peacetiqua, PreventiveWarQuestion, WantedTerrorists, Warlord, Warum2001-Medium, Weapons, WhoIsTheTerrorist, PeaceOnEarth, PeaceWeapons (2005), CIAThePeaceWatchers (2006), PeaceTools (2006). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Popcornmi mi

Designer from Kowloon, Hong-Kong. At Behance, one can view hs peace silhouette alphabet Love and War (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Simon Graham

Designer who made Genome (2001) at Fontmonster (a site that expired). Born in Scotland in 1973, he studied in Glasgow and Edinburgh focusing on type design and experimental typography. After graduating with a degree in Visual Communication he briefly taught font design and development at Edinburgh College of Art. Now working as a freelancer out of Denmark, his clients include Deaconn Clothing, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Icon and Sony. He designed Don't Listen (2005), an anti-Bush anti-war font which won an award at the 2005 FUSE type competition. Aka A-Bombe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Twitterbug

Designer of TBL Rough (2003) and TBL Peace Regular (2003). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Volcano Type (MAGMA)
[Lars Harmsen]

Magma Brand Design in Karlsruhe, Germany evolved in 2004 into Volcano Type. Magma is headed by Lars Harmsen (b. Hannover, 1964) and Ulrich Weiss. Lars Harmsen spent the first four years of his life in Chicago. He then moved to Geneva with his parents for eight years, and then moved to Karlsruhe. He completed his schooling at the French section at the European School. He first studied history and Germanics in Freiburg before beginning to study design at Basel, Boston, Saarbrücken and Pforzheim. He got his degree in graphic design, and in 1996 he founded MAGMA [Büro für Gestaltung] together with Ulrich Weiß. He is the co-founder of STARSHOT GmbH, a design company for sports products, now based in Munich. MAGMA created Type Foundry Volcano-Type.de and the internet forum Slanted.de. In the meantime, Slanted.de has become the most active German typography forum. Volcano Type offers commercial and some free typefaces: DigiBo (Boris Kahl), Objects (free ransom face by the house), MonoPoint and DoublePoint (monospace dot matrix families by the house), Amiga Normal and Rounded (pixel faces by Boris Kahl), Screeny, Pixel and C64 Style (pixel faces by Boris Kahl), Fette Pixel (pixel face by Florian Gärtner), Teckbo (digital face by Boris Kahl, who writes: Retro-Avant-Garde for Club-Flyer-Honks and Plastic-Pussy-Chicks), Psycho (grunge by Boris Kahl), Wald Ast (tree branch look by Sandra Augstein), Wald Blatt (tree leaf look by Tanja Rastätter), Rollerblind (a pair of dot matrix faces by Boris Kahl), Chaucer (uncial by Boris Kahl), Glossy (dot matrix face by Sandra Hofacker), Brüll (a funny frog dingbat face by Andre Rösler), Pax (a free peace symbol face by Heidrun Weißschädel and Alexander Kassel), Mud (free face by Boris Kahl). And these display faces by Florian Gärtner: Republic, Tacora. And finally the Fone 1 through 3 grunge faces by Florian Gärtner. The typefaces of Lars Harmsen (or codesigned by him) at Volcano:

• African look faces: Masai
• Athletic lettering: Sports (grungy, with Kahl), Sports Skinny.
• Blackletter: Fraktape Duct, Fraktape Sticky, Fraktendon (=Fraktur+Clarendon, codesigned with Kahl), Trigot (2010, modular, semi-blackletter), Black Sirkka, Frakturbo, SAR-Lupe
• Diabolo
• Dingbats: Genocide (free). Mr. J. Smith Eye, Mr. J. Smith Head, Mr. J. Smith Mouth, Mr. J. Smith Nose, and Mr. J. Smith Wanted are experimental dingbat faces by Nikolaii Renger, based on an idea of Lars Harmsen, and digitized by Ulrich Weiss and Boris Kahl. These won an award at the 2005 FUSE competition.
• Experimental: Sewed (2009, stitched letters), Cross Fourty, Cross Sixty, Cross Ten, Cross Thirty, Cross Twenty, Cross Ultra
• Grunge: Basalt, Magneta, Punta Negra, Mrs. Tape Tape
• Hand-drawn: B-Scratch (2009, Harmsen and Egger's take on sketched letters), Amebo, Diabolo, Keycaps, Kulli (curly), Oboni, Wawe, Tape One Bold, Tapemate Outline, Tapemate Regular, Tape One Bold
• LED style: Digibeck, Strichcode (a family codesigned with Kahl).
• Kitchen tile faces: Bus, Bus PI, both done with Boris Kahl.
• Oriental simulation: Japanese
• Patriot family, done with Boris Kahl: Saddam, Commander Robot, Fidel, Slobbodan, Osama, George.
• Ransom note face: Kriminal
• Sans families: Copy (2009).