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[A prototypical piano key typeface is Nakameguro (2012, Erotopia)]








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Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to create the tall piano key fonts Palo Alto and Palo Alto Rounded, the pixel font Fixedsys, the filled in black geometric typeface Fiasco, and the quite original SquareDotDot. In 2009, he added SSSeriffff (Western saloon face), Pamplinas (ultra black counterless display face), Fisko, aBus (kitchen tile), 123r1c (squarish). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aah Yes

Southampton, UK-based foundry, est. 2006. Font families include Regalese (2008, 8 weights with stylish rounded serifs), Arrow Heaven (2007, 6 styles of fonts with 62 arrows in 40 orientations each), Lydiard (2007, sans cum comic book), Demigrunge (2007), Nidex (2007, caps-only grunge), Rocksolid (2007), Perio (2007, a grungy didone), Havenbrook (2007, a 22-style family), Sudoku Blank (2007), Pikelet (2007, grunge headline face), Sanzettica (2007, a 40-style geometric sans family, but the x-weight is unacceptably large), Hunniwell (2007, felt tip style), Meriden (2007, display sans family), Saint Val (2007), Funkywarp (2006), Cheedo (2006, bi-lined), Old Forge (2006, roman style), Blank Manuscript (2006, music font), Disgrunged ABCD (2006), Disgrunged 1234 (2006), Beeble (2006), Choob Stripes (2006), Diffie (2006), Pixettish (2006), Caldicote (2006, a 13-style serif family), Starbell (2006), Tuzonie (2006, grunge), Cabragio (2006, free-flowing informal), Deltarbo (2006, sans), Write (2006, an almost architectural script), Dascari (2006, an informal headline sans), Smeethe (2006, comic strip face), Crockstomp (2006, grunge), Dorkihand (2006), Meltifex (2006, melting letters), Rappica (grunge), Blue Sugar (2007, grunge), Front Desk (2007), Powdermonkey (2007), Sideshadow (2007), Spiky (2007), Zebra Spots (2007), Amescote (2007, a 6-weight sans), Mivron (2007, outline sans), Puggu (2007, comic strip font), Luzaine (2007), Overlapper (2007), Satron (2007), Stubble (2008, grunge), Newsanse (2008, a 15-style large x-height disaster), Rysse (2008, an 11-style grunge family), Chelp (2008, grunge), Snather (2008: thin, rounded squarish), Keybies (2008, piano key font), Quickle (2008), Pevensey (2008: 21 styles, each with 1200 glyphs, transitional style), Spiraltwists (2008), Music Sheets (2009), Snazzy (2009), Shelflife (2012, a macho sans), Langton (2012, a workhorse sans family), Indipia (2012, a corroded family), Bradwell (2012, condensed sans), Dunsley (2013, a hand-drawn sans), Darnalls (2013, antiqued book face), Stamppad (like a rough rubber stamp pad), Heavenly Bodies, Stripated (2016), Slonk (2016: an ornamental font with a pearl in each outline), Guitar Chords (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Time Exactly (just type in the four numbers of any time from 0000 to 2359 and it will give you that clock face, in one of 60 styles of your choice), Rebista, Magg (a corroded condensed sans typeface family), Sanstone.

Typefaces from 2018: Hypersans (12 weights), Martian Tiles, Dominoes (a domino tile font).

Typefaces from 2020: Yafferbuddle (a cartoon font).

View the Aah Yes typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aarya Purohit

Indian designer of the technoid sans typeface Demo (2018, Indian Type Foundry) and the modernist stencil font family Styro (2019; in 8 piano key styles; free at Fontshare).

Designer of the Indic versions of Oli Grotesk (2019, Typotheque), a typeface family by Shiva Nallaperumal. They plan to support all the writing scripts of India (Devanagari, Bangla, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Urdu, Oriya, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada) in the same wide range of weights as its Latin fonts.

In 2017, he designed Pramukh (commercial at Fontstore) and Pramukh Rounded (free at Fontshare), a rounded condensed sans family in 16 styles.

Bevellier (2019-2021; by Arya Purohit and Barbara Bigosinska) is a 16-style (+variable) rounded condensed organic sans family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Abdul Malik Wisnu
[Almarkha Type]

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Active Sphere
[Ronnie Dela Cruz]

Active Sphere is a foundry in Valenzuela City, The Philippines. It is run by Ronnie Dela Cruz (b. 1963, Manila), a part-time freelance web and graphic designer.

Their fonts include the geometric sans display families Kayla Sans (2008), Kathleen Sans and Serif (2008), Leenyx (2008), Jekatep, Sean Henrich ATF (2009), and Yarikha (2008). Stephanie (2008) and Zirphy (2008) are rounded geometric display fonts, and Kamaru Sans (2008) is an experimental sans face. Mecatoque (2008) is Victorian but pretends to be futuristic, and Sayonachi (2008) is a curly children's book face.

Stanix (2011) and Tsikot (2011) are fat techno typefaces. Maxine Sans (2011) is a basic humanist sans family. Tamika (2011) is a gorgeous oriental style brush face. Anino (2011) is a grunge family. Anikka (2011) is a monoline sans family with an extremely thin hairline on one end. Filipina (2011) is an organic sans family. Bradford (2011) is a squarish family. Gretta (2011) is a minimalist sans with missing strokes. Danrex (2011) is Ronnie's contribution to the "fat counterless" craze. Merina (2011) is a fat piano key face. Sailfin is a stylish monoline organic sans family.

Typefaces from 2012: Noki (a great slabbed squarish typeface family), Xira (angular), the sturdy geometric display font Zafra, and the fat squarish techno family Mossimo.

Typefaces from 2013: Monterra.

Typefaces from 2014: Tiger Cat. A large modular typeface family that follows the octagonal mechanical genre.

Klingspor link.

Typefaces from 2021: Blue Creek (22 fonts; a condensed all caps sans), Blue Creek Rounded (22 fonts).

View Active Sphere's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adam Hesling

During his studies at the University of Salford, Huddersfield, UK-based Adam Hesling designed a hand-printed poster face and a piano key face (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adelina Apostolova

Adelina Apostolova is a graphic designer from Bulgaria, living and working in Germany. In 2020 she released the fat piano key stencil typeface Apura. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adhi Nugraha Sapto Aji
[Superkij]

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Adobe Originals: Hidden Treasures of the Bauhaus Dessau

Five of the Bauhaus treasures were revived in 2018 by him under the supervision of Erik Spiekermann:

  • Joschmi by Flavia Zimbardi. A piano key typeface named after Joost Schmidt.
  • Xants by Luca Pellegrini. A stencil typeface adorned with ball terminals. Named after Xanti Schawinsky.
  • Carl Marx: a typeface by Hidetaka Yamasaki based on a design by Carl Marx.
  • Alfarn: a typeface by Celine Hurka based on poster lettering by Alfred Arndt.
  • A typeface, Reross, by Elia Preuss based on designs from 1929 by Reinhold Rossig and posters by Hermann Werner Kubsch.
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Adria Romana

At EASD Serra i Abella (ESDAP) in L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, Mataro, Catalunya-based Adria Romana designed the free vector format Escher-inspired set of numbers called Imponumbers (2016). In 2017, she designed the piano key typeface Ona, the free Western font Sheriff and the free rounded sans typeface Rosmi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Carballo Rojo

Barcelona-based designer of the piano key typeface Yaka (2017) and the free geometric sans typeface Adca (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Afrojet Type Foundry
[John Skelton]

John Skelton is a type designer from St. Paul, MN, b. 1973. He is currently based in Portland, OR. He started out in 2008 as afrojet on FontStruct, making many free fonts there. Late in 2009, he set up Afrojet Type Foundry at MyFonts.

FontStructions in 2008: Playtime (an original stencil family), Playtime Pattern Motifs (dings), Playtime Rounded (+Bold), Playtime Cutouts, Mango Solid (ultra fat, rounded), Mooch (experimental), Mooch Squared, Zombies Are The New Black, Jettison Stencil, Micromoog, hewett, hewett_bold, hewett_extended, Mikey (a Mickey Mouse font). Other creations there include Summer Grillz (about which he writes More gangster than Gill with more gold than Garamond, Summer Grillz is type jewelry for your mouth. All letterforms are diamond-kut using the finest type constructing software on the market today. Customize your grill with different fills., Lovestruc, Konstruct (multiline face), Steeplechase, Sawhorse, Sawhorse Braumarks (dingbats of a brewery), Alfred, Chesterfield, Hydroplane, Jettison-Stencil, Pop-Drops (kitchen tile face), Starstruc, Lovestruc, Chesterfield Prince, Chesterfield King, Chesterfield Queen (piano key font), Brainfreeze (ultra fat).

Fontstructions in 2009: the Sans Serious family (a tribute to Dutch Bauhaus designer Jurriaan Schrofer), Factory (stencil), Hunstrüct (blackletter), Slug, Micromoog Remix, Get To The Falcon, Jetstream and Perforate (octagonal, loosely based on several styles of letter and numeral forms observed on various aircrafts at the Evergreen Aviation&Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon), Get To The Falcon (multiline face), StacheStruct (moustache font), Factory (stencil), Playtime Bolda, Thunderball, Gaga, Gaga Stencil, Pinpression, Sessions (a take on type by Josef Albers; he writes: Having previously played around in Fontstruct with Anni Albers' textile patterns, I thought it time to turn my attention to her husband Josef's work. Josef Albers' constructivist typographic experiments are a perfect match for Fontstruct. Other Fontstructors have done great work with Alber's ideas. Most notably, Saberrider's fontsract and Stewf's Leaflet family. Using Josef Albers' Kombinationsschrift alphabet (1928-1931) as my foundation, I've been having a lot of fun remixing and experimenting with his letters.).

Fonts made in 2010: Whoopee (piano key face), Prog.

Commercial fonts: Sessions (2009, modular).

The commercial fonts by Afrojet type foundry include Sessions, Playtime, Hydroplane, Lovestruc, Dansa, Pinpressions, Micromoog, Widjiwagen, Mooch, Hunstrüct, Slug, and Brutal Exchange.

Cargocollective link. Behance link. Home page. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Agent Demonic Ladybug

FontStructor who made these typefaces in 2010: Tessa (an über fat face), Pomegranate, Archipelago Serif, QQQQQ.

In 2011, these typefaces were created: Barnhaus (+Lite), Not My Font (clone of zalamera eYeFS by Antonio J. Morata), Mission Design Sans, Soundproof, Naturally Blonde, Sector12 (an army stencil face), Industrial Sans Better, Elegantite, Grey Hand (texture face), Ubnshufr II Hellllp, Havoc, Havoc Thin (scratchy face), Pixels Redefined (texture face), Capitas Lite (texture face), Capitals Woodcut, Adl Capitals (hand-printed), Useful Sans, Spirit (tattoo/blackletter face), Wanted 2.0, Detaile, fs Greener Grass (grotesk headline face), Bean (pixelish), Small Sans, Doundproof.

In 2012, Agent Demonic Ladybug made these typefaces: Mechans (upright connected script), Tessa Revived, Minimalist No. 2 (piano key face), Laceys (dot matrix typeface), Roundsclean, Squareup, Barnhaus 2012, Mission Design Sans, Barnhaus (+Lite, +Mono; named after Bauhaus), iFontStruct, Squishypixel, Moredetailes, Who Needs Nonconformity (heavy octagonal), Stuckinneurone Error, Stuckingranite, 220a, Boldish (piano key face), Strategy Bold. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agostina Ahumada

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

Ahmed Eraqi
[Eraky]

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Aina Planells

As a student in Barcelona, Aina Planells created the piano key typeface Clandestino (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Malossi

Graphic designer in Milan, Italy. Creator of the free Wim Crouwel-style piano key typeface Pxl Supercondensed (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleix D. Soler

Barcelona-based designer of the piano key typeface Supertipo Bemoll (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexa Type Foundry (or: Alexa Crib)

Designer of the cartoon font Skreeble (2019), the brush script Hakuno (2019), the bubblegum font Babel Gamee (2019) and the heavy display typefaces Smithsonian (2019) and Cheese Burga (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Chibold, Clarkson, Lupines, Hey Kiddo (children's lettering), Malibu (a fat finger font), Juggler, Cedric (a piano key typeface), Bad Boy Inc (a paper cutout typeface), Phataya, Hot Grill, El Piratos, Hidalgo, Spotnik (a rounded sans), Starblaster (sci-fi), Sophia, Teknikaler (a modular typeface), Crestone (a heavy monoline script), Bronson, BoldenVan (a rounded handcrafted sans), Terbaang (a wide monoline sans), Jagatraya (an ultra condensed sans), Awkward Billy, Babelgamee (a bubblegum font), Blendstripe, Blokee, Brazie, Critrace, Dale Adventure, Dilo World (a cartoon font), Djadoel (Saul Bass style lettering), Feeling Good, Fruitloose, Going Smooth, Green Tea, Hakuno, Happy Feet, Hey June, Jimmy Boyz, Lets Play, Mauikea, Memphise, Pamparay, Pitchfork, Pogo, Popkorn, Shred, Skrapbook, Skreeble, Spicy Tuna, Spookybones, Suburbia (cutout Saul Bass style), Tampool, The Jersey, Tingee Intergalactic (a modular sans), Trampoline, Travelnesia, Trexos, Vendendo, Woodpecker. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Cherepanov

Alexander Cherepanov (White Russian Studio, Moscow) designed the Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface Transgender Grotesque (and Transgender Grotesk), the serifed display typeface New York City, Sport Super Italic, the blackletter typeface Kendrick Human Sacrifice, the avant garde typeface Hueviy Thin, and the piano key typeface Trust Me, the sans typeface November, the triangle-serifed Naaah, and Sestra Thin in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Price

As a student at Norwich University of the Arts, Swindon, UK-based Alexander Price designed the piano key typeface Modular (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Sheliketo
[No Regular Fonts]

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Alexander Sperl

German designer (aka laynecom) at FontStruct in 2008 of band, blokk_2, maiden, substance, Fette Serif (fat, octagonal), Runde Pixelig, Velvet, Thin Sans, Constr, Clear Serif, Blokk.

Added in 2009: Russisch Brot, Block Out (3d face, +Filled1, + Filled2), Bold Stencil Sans, Script Pixelig, Dorky Corners Sans, Haus der Kunst (inspired by the building in München by that name), Fraktur Test, Fette Sans (nice), Emilia, Runde Pixelig (pixel script).

Creations in 2010: Fraktur Test, The Plot (octagonal, architectural), 80s Metal Band, Fieldwork Font (pixel), Black Metal, I slabbed the Seriff, Play (curly face).

Creations in 2011: Obvious Stencil (Bauhaus, or piano key), Supercali (a psychedelic font inspired by the cover for A.R. Kane's "I"), Manuale (with straight slabs; +Manuale Giocoso, 2012), Graphite (fat and rounded), Graphite 2, Hinterland Italic (quaint Victorian face).

From 2012: Linea Fraktur (extended in 2013 to Linea Runde), Black Organic (spiky blackletter), Green Organic (a spurred blackletter), Standard Sans, Modular Blackout Bold Condensed, Viva Las Vegas, Helios, Faux Pas Serif (Egyptian typeface), Nova Thin Extended (this hairline sans is a tour de force---it is the first successful hairline sans typeface ever made by anyone using FontStruct), Bencraft.

Fonts from 2013: Meadow Bold, Lush Capitals, SwiftStroke, Its Slab To Be Square, Mellow Doubt, Ligure Black, Beige Organic, Trafo, Trafo Evolution, Codester Mono (a programming font), Swash Buckle, Nova Thin Extended (a hairline sans), Meson Sans, Burgwald Exquisite Bold Condensed, Editoriale, Coalescimen, A La Carte, Hampton Italic, Baby Elephant (fat grotesque).

Fonts from 2014: Terminal One (a basic sans), Fanomino, Fontris (like Tetris), Schlaraffenland (+Variant: great rounded sans family), Crystalline, Tick Brush, Manuale Neue Bold, Terminal One, Sanspura, Italics Study, Mundane Black Extended, Heavy Grain, Wineshop Stencil, Folds and Rhizones, Viva Las Inline.

Fonts from 2015: Augustine, Coleridge, Framtid, Licht-Sans, Quire-Bold, Quire, Static-Grotesk, Tattoo-Parlour, The-Gift-Serif, Tuileries-Black, Usual-Type, Ziseleur, Zungenschlag, Blackesteverblack.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandr Galuzin
[Alexandr Galuzin (was: Tangramus)]

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Alexandr Galuzin (was: Tangramus)
[Alexandr Galuzin]

Pavlodar, Kazakhstan-based designer (b. 1987) of the medieval calligraphic typeface Square Capitals (2014, Latin and Cyrillic), the uncial typeface Uncial (2015) and the Trajan typeface Capitalis Monumentalis (2015). In 2015, he designed the angular and angry straight-edged typeface KZ Kirpich, the tangram-inspired German expressionist typeface Tangramus, and the Latin / Cyrillic deco typeface Kvadrat.

In 2015, he set up the commercial type foundry Alexandr Galuzin. His first commercial typeface is Golovolomka (a modern blackletter).

In 2017, he designed the fat stenci typeface Growling.

Typefaces from 2020: AG Bambook (a condensed sans family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexandru Mihis
[Headfonts Store (was: Mcraft, and Mihis Design)]

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Alien Valley

Studio in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Creator of the curly script typeface Violet Night (2015) and the poster typeface Hornhill (2016, Sans and Serif).

Typefaces from 2019: Whitefield, Alterwave (a sans family), Greenmark (Peignotian), Günterhaus (a didone), AfterOne, Bluristy, Archelaos, Finnmark, Quinlee, Glitterino, Commodus, Exophis, Klausen (inspired by Trajan caps0, Osmund (a clean bold gemetric sans), Multiberry, Helmwick (a signature script), Benfield (wild calligraphy), Clocksmith (a piano key typeface), Westboy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allison James
[Chequered Ink]

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Almarkha Type
[Abdul Malik Wisnu]

Indonesian designer of the brush script Sometimes (2019), the high contrast serif typeface Quakiez (2019), the serif typeface Romerio (2019), the condensed all caps piano key typeface Romestone (2019), and the script typefaces Cherolina (2019), Photorichies (2019), Photography Script (2019), Retrochips (2019), Mountecarlo (2019: monoline), Beautinela (2019: monoline), Ophelie (2019, Script+Sans), Denalova (2019), Shelline (2019), and Mathelline (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Banana Juice, Bella Sweety, Bubble Bobble (a bubblegum font), Dear Sunshine, Oatlander (retro baseball script), Sweet Purple, Monieta (an inky and creamy rabbit ear script), Orange Milk (a playful handcrafted typeface), Rockbitz (a children's book font), Seathera, Avocado Creamy, Bolyvina, Charlie Angela (an inky calligraphic script), Lovemy, Chadelova (an enhanced script), Grumbear, The Mezirane, Charlotte Amalie, Crash Soul (a dry brush script), Costiera (a dry brush script), Handestonie (a monoline script), Mentality (a signage script), Technovier (a monolinear squarish sans), Antiquesta (a dry brush script), Belgium Catherine, Cronisse (a display serif), Pronave (an all caps display typeface), Uniser (condensed all caps sans), Westack (a display serif), Avone (a stencil serif), The Roletta (a dry brush script), Waluxe (a fashion mag all caps sans with flared stems), Dear Sunshine, Mikalotta (poster script), Walker Knight (a vintage all caps typeface), Towards (stencil), Cronisse (a decorative serif), Avaneonz (a neon font), The Heista Killer (a dry brush horror font), Someone (a dry brush font), Vicenza (an all caps skyline font), Bristone (a wide sans in six styles; perhaps for car tire ads), Shutterlocks (a dry brush script), Romantics (a creamy script), Revoxa, Yippie Yeah, Wonderful Day (calligraphic), Girly (a girly script), Kamelitta (a wild curvy script), Roadstore (a spurred vintage all caps typeface), Springloved (a paper cutout typeface and a a fine inline poster font), Saturated, Choxr, Blackheat (a super condensed all caps sans), Retrohols, Alibabe, Lordcorps (an octagonal sports or military font; with a stencil style), Headcorps (a sports shirt or military stencil font), Pineforest (with soft spurs), Airborne 86 (a military stencil), Orchide (a dry brush script), Beneficha (wild calligraphy), Radens (a retro bold signage script), Brokenz (a heavy condensed sans), Delninoys (a playful sans), Lorenza (sans), Elcatraz (Mexican simulation font), Hubby Bunny, Rosadetta (script), Swingsnug, Chickens Lovers, Rollinkland, Grumbear, Bubble Bobble (a bubblegum font), Blackheat (a heavy ultra condensed typeface), Brokenz (a muscular display sans), Lorenza (a fashion mag sans), Belgium Catherine (a signature script), Amazed Breath (script), Rockmore (a brush script), Empirez (an octagonal slab serif sports font), Amazed Breath.

Typefaces from 2021: Neurock (pure sci-fi), The Cheelaved (spurred, Victorian), Headbears (a sports font), The Antique (a vintage typeface), Vespalogy (a vintage display font), Bestorika (a decorative serif by Abdul Malik Wisnu and Rivo Adriansyah), Quakerhack (a rough brush font), Balietta (a flowing script), Brothery (a retro signage script), Beauticella (a signature script), Glamorez (a luxurious serif), Reloaded (a military stencil font), Austragen (a bold sharp-edged display typeface), Bearetta (script), Keawneta (a display font), Racerz (a speed font), Stangith (a decorative serif co-designed with Rivo Adriansyah), Quick Letter (a wide signature script), Arcinoll (a graffiti font), Charlie Brocklin (a thin signature script), Retrolight (a multiline neon sign typeface), Mokalatte (a wild script), Thugolatz (an all caps typeface with many interlocking ligatures), Author Think (a signature script), Bionetha (calligraphic), Bouncyland (a stylish wild script), Little Knight (a scrapbook typeface), The Brushentica (a beautiful dry brush script), The Soulmate (a dry brush script), Bettawork (a dry brush script), Philips Dutcher (a signature script), Recons (a techno font), Heezpiero (futuristic), Milky Quaker (a playful supermarket font), Rostemary (a fat finger font), Therestone (a Flintstone font), The Checkmate, Chick Chack (a heavy rushed script), Retroman (an Italian Western font), Brown House (a national park font), Emeralde Chamerions (a serif and script duo), Redzein (an octagonal slab serif), Rostera (a bold script), Sketchup (a sketched font), Thealiens (a condensed all caps sans), Williesh (a meaty display serif), Amazing Sweety (a scrapbook font), Heellaaz (an all caps children's book font), Almeira, Americans Classy, The Corps 86 (a military stencil), Brexo (a techno font with solid and stencil versions), Romeline (a scrapbook font), Yippie Yeah (a rounded monolinear marker pen font), Avaneonz (a neon or paperclip font), Sangira (a stylish serif), The Blackheads (a bold script), Kandaline, Marinaga (a creamy brush script), Mochalosta (script), Morning Sweety, Rockmore (a bold script), Deloire (a 4-style all caps sans), Montelova (script), Quinger (a monolinear decorative serif), Wonderella, Wonderful Sunset, Bellachia (a scrapbook script), Choxr (a very condensed all caps sans), Keepsmile (a rounded children's book font), Lovely Sweetie (a scrapbook font), Melanista (a wild script), Rollinkland (a brush font), Bellamona (a monolinear script), Bettanesia (handwriting), Bonalisha (script), Overwave (wavy), Beautimy (a wild script), Melatie (a wild script), Memorita (a wild script), The Handnature (a Treefrog script), Heinch (a 5-style all caps sans), Sweetie Banana (a scrapbook script), Sweetie Moment (a wild calligraphic script), The Dear (a retro script), Winterline (a wild script), Young Evaline (a signature script), Salt + Pepper, Sindenetta (a signature script), Autumnilla, Bella Ciao, Rosadetta (a wild calligraphic script), Saturated (a wild calligraphic script), Wondiletta, Bubblez, Lovely Orange, Milkalotta, Luxoorea (a stylish fashion-model-skinny all caps typeface), Momotako (a paper cutout font), Neonblitz (a neon font), Unione Force (an octagonal sports or military font; with a stencil style), Westman (a Western font), Delamoore (an all caps high-contrast display serif), Delaproza (an all caps display serif), Kinglead (a cartoonish font), Modesfa (an all caps display serif), Hexore (a slab serif), Deluxes (a stylish display sans), Kenzomaru (an oriental brush font), Lumbero (wooden plank font), Pineforest (a Victorian label or sign painting font), Beneficha (a wild calligraphic script), Brokenz (a bold condensed sans), Orchide (a dry brush script), Revoxa (a 4-style sans), Romantics (script), Schein (a sans and slab serif pair), Someone (a dry brush script), Towards (a minimalist stencil font), Averox (a futuristic all caps sans), Chicken Lovers (a playful informal font), Hubby Bunny (a cute display sans), Swingsnug (an informal monolinear sans).

As Typotypea">Typotypea, he published the script typeface Manthoels (2020) and the roman all caps typeface Stinker (2020).

Typefaces from 2022: Signattimes (a signature script), Thematheka (a constructivist font published on the day Putin invaded Ukraine), Overbillions (a dry brush script), Brolachess (a stylish all caps semi-serif), Suntage (a wide vintage all caps font).

Typefaces from 2021 published by Gassstype but made by Abdul Malik Wisnu: Ruthless (a heavy dry brush font), Timeless Nature (script), Unranked (a rough mural font). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

ALT Foundry
[Andreas Leonidou]

ALT is the type foundry of prolific type designer Andreas Leonidou from Limassol, Cyprus, b. 1986. His main work is commercial, but there is also a substantial collection of free fonts.

He created Foldgami, Apollo 13 (techno, futuristic), Fatgami, Origamia, Paper Roll, Alt Retro (2010, multilined family), Alt Tiwo (2010, fat counterless), Alt Matey (2010, a family that includes a multiline style; the piano key typeface Alt Matey V2 followed in 2012), ALT Lautus (2010, a minimalistic monoline sans family), Japanese Cities Type Experiment (2010), ALT Alternatice (2010), ALT Vxt11 (2010, a high-contrast art deco octagonal face), ALT Aeon (2010, a unicase but multiline family), Alt Re 32 (2010, techno), ALT Mun (2010, a curlified family), ALT Breo (2011, octagonal family), ALT Exline (2011), Jun Script (2011, connected contemporary upright script), ALT Ayame (2011, condensed squarish family ain the piano key style, +Long), Alt UAV31 (2011, an octagonal experiment), Alt Moav (2011, a striking geometric caps face. Images: i, ii, iii), Alt Geko (2011, an art deco caps face), and Archetype (unicase, Bauhaus).

Free fonts at Devian Tart: Alt Retro (2010, multilined family), ALT Hiroshi (2011, ornamental), ALT Deville (2011, spurred).

Typefaces made in 2012: DNR001 (hipster style), ALT Kora (for the identity of Drone), ALT Fat (monospaced squarish caps face), ALT Exodus (sci fi face), Alt Wet (a paint splatter face), Alt Sku (ornamental didone face), Alt Robotechnica (pixel face), Exodus (a blackletter style straight-edged typeface), Juk01 (an ornamental mechanical, or steampunk, typeface), Alt Sake (a thin condensed poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2013: Modu (alchemic, hipster style), Modu Deco, Bely (a severe-looking almost constructivist Latin/Cyrillic typeface).

Typefaces from 2014: Ren (a free vintage display typeface family).

Typefaces from 2015: ALT Hazer (a great free shadow sans), ALT Smaq (a family of eight free beveled styles for Latin and Greek).

The free fonts as of 2015: ALTBELY, AltJoli, AltPixelsGoneBad, AltRe32-Duo, AltRe32-Normal, AltRenDuo, AltRenRegular, AltRenRetro, AltRenShadow, AltRetroBlack, AltRetroBold, AltRetroLight, AltRetroRegular, AltRetroThin, Alt-Twitchy, AltVxt11, Altapollo13, AltAeon-Black, AltAeon-Bold, AltAeon-Light, AltAeon-Medium, AltAeon-Thin, AltAeonRegular, AltAxlDeco, AltAxlRegular, AltDEVILE, AltGeko-AltGeko, AltMateyv2-Black, AltRobotechnica, AltSku, AltSkuItalic, AltUAV31, AltWet, Altapollo13-Black, Altapollo13, althazer, altsmaq2.8, altsmaq4.8, altsmaq6.8, altsmaq8.8, altexodus, altfatgami, altfatitalic, altfatregular, altfoldgami.

Typefaces from 2016: Sadistic (a free scratchy font), System Code (free programming font).

Typefaces from 2017: Rekt, Rogue (free).

Typefaces from 2018: Alt Catwalk (a fashion mag typeface family), Frantic, Looper (a compass-and-ruler font), Silent Scream (a free dry brush font). free).

Flickr link. Behance link. Hellofont link. Devian Tart link. Klingspor link. Creative Market link.

View Andreas Leonidou's typefaces. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ana Guirao Garcia

Alicante, Spain-based designer of a piano key typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andras Nagymihaly

Hungarian graphic designer and photographer in Sydney, who created the stylish piano key bespoke typeface Ficka in 2013. Andras created some interesting typographic examples such as Weapon of Math Destruction (2009) or Carbon FM 103.4 (2009).

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André Simard

Rouyn-Noranda, Québec-based designer who created these typefaces;

  • The sans typeface ITC Migration Sans (2009, ITC and now, Monotype).
  • Harfang Pro (2010, Psy/Ops: a 12-style transitional family).
  • OurType Corbeau Pro (2012). The sans family Corbeau comes in three times eight styles and was completed with Fred Smeijers, and produced and released by OurType.
  • A font for the Cree and Naskapi in Northern Quebec developed with assistance of Bill Jancewicz. This font, started in 2013 and tentatively called Goosebreak, is being extended to also include all the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (Athapascan, Blackfoot, Carrier, Cree, Naskapi, Nunavik, Sayisi Dene, etc.). The Latin part of the semiserif typeface is based on Harfang.
  • Carouge (2013, Psyops). See also Carouge Pro (2020).
  • Goosebreak (2017). A syllabic typeface based on harfang. Goosebreak is a family of twelve syllabic fonts designed for Canadian Aboriginal languages.
  • Bronsimard (2019). A skyline or piano key typeface that was inspired by Henri-Paul Bronsard's Kébek 101 (1972) which was used for the logo and headlines of the daily newspaper Le Jour which was founded in 1978.
  • Grandheron Sans (2020). An 18-style corporate sans characterized by squarish lower case a and f glyphs.

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

Andreas Leonidou
[ALT Foundry]

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Andrew Footit
[Arkitype (was: Virtue Creative)]

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Andy Cooke

British graphic designer who lives in Stoke-on-Trent. Behance link. His type experiments include a handwriting typeface and a piano key face, both made in 2008. No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Cebrian

During his graphic design studies, Angel Cebrian (Olot, Catalunya) created the ultra-condensed piano key typeface Condemned (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ania Szerszen

Ania Szerszen (Wroclaw, Poland) created the beautiful ornamental caps typeface Dream Shepherds (2012) and the oblique piano key typeface Lullaby (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anna Peniaskova

Digital designer in London, who created a modular piano key typeface called Abba (2014), to honor the Swedish pop group. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna-Rae Morris

Auckland, New Zealand-based creator of the monospaced piano key typeface Fat Boy Slim (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

aphoria

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Interest (dot matrix), Order (constructivist), Attica, Continuum (rounded bold), Fairway (+Slab, +Serif), Slant (techno), Cowboy (2008, Western-themed), Lights in the sky, Olymia Bold, Solida (psychedelic), Digi (pixel face), Villa (heavy slab serif) and Olympia Light. In 2009, he added Versional, Crown, Vend, Reed (Slab, Sans, both octagonal), Spaced Out (Bold, Italic, Regular), Jingle, ReMix (kitchen tile), Squire (3d face), Garage Sale (stencil), Signage, Futility (blackletter), Expearemint, Textual, Callout, tweedie, Embolden, Clipped, Economical, Emphasis, Vessel, Honest, Union (+Flat, +Sans, +New), Interest (pixel/dotted face), Venus Sans, Minanim, Diner (rounded), Lights in the Sky (De Stijl-like font), Opine, Charmer (+Inverse), Tweedle, Textual, Solida (ultra round), Slant, Slant, Villa (heavy slab serif), Versional, Vend, Union, Union Sans, Union New Sans, Union New Flat, Paperclip, Poofy, Steel (+Outline: octagonal), Crown, Diner (rounded), Solemn Bold, Solemn, reed Sans Mono (octagonal).

Fonts from 2010: Full Deck (playing card font), Scrollboard, Power Up (piano key face), Groovy Fu, Formality, Union New (+Sans, +Flat), Angle Tutorial, Aurora Light (elliptical monoline sans), Pushpins, Aurora Light, Scrawl (marker face), Evity (a grotesk face), Altipen (upright script).

Fonts from 2011: Obleak (oblique techno face), Likea (a heavy mechanical sans), Uptake (elliptical).

Fonts from 2012: Omit (a bilined stencil face).

Fonts from 2013: Emblazoned.

Typefaces from 2014: Game Over, Aurora Light, Flowidity, Oxquad (textured, octagonal). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Architaraz Type (or: Kassymkulov Design)
[Zhalgas Kassymkulov]

Architaraz Type (Kassymkulov Design) is located in Shanghai, China, and Taraz, Kazakhstan. Its type designer, Zhalgas Kassymkulov, was born in 1986 in Kazakhstan. His initial type designs were all done with the help of FontStruct. In 2013, he went commercial as Architaraz Type.

He made a gridded modular typeface called Targeted (2011). Sliced (2011) is a counterless stencil face. Discostructed (sic) (2011) is a texture face. Mono Dot (2011) is a thin dot matrix face. Mono Hor (2011) is a horizontally striped version of it, Mono Ver (2011) a vertically striped version, and Mono Bold (2011) a bold version. Promo (2011) is purely geometric. Semiz (2011) and Semiz Light (experimental) are partly art deco. Audio (2011) is based on the logo of audiojelly. Arro (2011) has letters with arrowed terminals. Hexa (2011) is hexagonal. Happi (2011) is a fat finger face. Semiz Black (2011) is a free fat pixel face.

Creations from 2012: Pearls of Margar, Korgan, Phunni, Carbo, Carbo ii, Lenta, Phunni, Jambul, Extraterrestrial (sci-fi), Rap My Hip-Hop, Armada 1991 (monospaced), Venus (white on black), Garage Garbage (bold avant-garde design), WHAQ, Extra Fontestrial, Algae, A Tasbaqa, Salem (rounded bold typeface), Thaiana Jones, Salem (fat rounded face), Audio 2012, Balapan, Dalmat, Bonn (an art nouveau army stencil face), Mgla, Teris (white on black), Degoratix (curly), Barney Stencil (a fantastic brushy stencil), Lentalicious, Blackway Str, Schengbers (a great piano key stencil family), Tramcar Typo, Mgia, Brushure (a fat curvy display face), Extralien, Serrific Terif, Missinger, Tolkyn, Murt, Twisture, Soliture, Threedure, Antillic, Garage Garbage, Arro, Happi, Schengbergs Hi.

Typefaces from 2013: AT Dombra (psychedelic typeface after Motter Ombra), AT Hoppy (fat letters), AT Liniya (blackboard bold), AT Karagai, Hed Kandi (techno face), AT Traffa Stencil, AT Schema, Naation, AT Nayman, AT Roughin, AT Rooktura Stencil, AT Duba, AT Archistency, AT Liena, AT Bombarda (fat stencil face), AT Sulfur ii, AT Mad Pilot, AT Tasbaqa, Vaia Con Dios, Betaport, Mooltyashka, AT Stincel (a lively stencil font), Millio, Tamshy, Offelia, Jalgas (retro script: a winner in the FontStruct Connected Script Competition), Laffa (connected stencil script), Dlinalys, Diagona, Kitara (psychedelic), Archtitalic, Bonn (bony stencil), Teka 1, Teka 2, Unknownim, Khara (ultra-heavy slab face), Shlab (slab serif), Unknownim (slab serif), Archtalic, Argyn, Linea Runde, Mechatraps (+Plain), Eliksir, Drilliant, Katamaran (art deco), Lagman, Neurojet (experimental), Jazzure (bullet hole display face), Diagon, Aroth, Pharaoh's Delight (piano key / art deco typeface), Cocomi, AT Burshak, AT Sulfur, AT Taspa, AT Affina.

Commercial typefaces done in 2013: KD William, William Shakespears, AT Archistency (piano key stencil face) AT Bombarda (piano key stencil face), AT Audio, AT Argyn.

Typefaces from 2014: AT Sudoku (each letter is actually a sudoku puzzle!), AT Tactica (tic tac toe voard), AT Sudoku+, AT Pixtensans, AT Ayna, AT Kerey, AT Giveaway, AT Lagman, AT Asotika, AT Tugan, AT Yertegi, AT Nudgera, AT Diagona, AT Golovkin (stencil typeface named after middleweight boxer Gennady GGG Golovkin), AT Arachis (stencil), AT Tugan (fat rounded sans), AT Baktera, AT Jumpa Jumpa (stencil), AT Nudgera, AT Digitta, AT Archaus, AT Ladya (ball terminal stencil), AT Yin Yang, At Keste, AT Yazyk (rounded stencil), AT Sulfurian (techno stencil), AT Fasten Your Seatbelts (diagonally cut stencil), AT Buckle Up (like AT Fasten Your Seatbelts), AT Droppix, AT Knitka (knitting font), AT Sagat, AT Wild Archid (african theme font), AT Steglo.

Typefaces from 2015: ATAday, ATArchistruct, ATAttache, ATBogomol, ATCastleryRock, ATChaperon, ATKitay (oriental simulation), ATQuba, ATRaushan, ATRoyal, ATShlanga, ATSkos, ATTrassa, AT Giveaway 4, AT Sherit, AT Ribborn.

Typefaces from 2016: ATArchaus2, ATArchistructOutline, ATDornach, ATDrogo, ATEnschede, ATExtrema, ATGiveawayNo5, ATGiveawayNo6, ATHadamard, ATTwelve, Windows Icon Font.

Typefaces from 2017: ATBals, ATBevelour, ATEsrever, ATHitchook, ATImagiro, ATLauda, ATMigdalia, ATRozalla, ATUniversiade, ATYangster, ATZabor, ATThinnetry.

Typefaces from 2018: KD Eight, KD Tramcar, KD Algae Brush, Forza Juve (inspired by Juventus FC's logo), KD Hachure (a multiline typeface family), KD Half Arc, KD Space Band, KD Hachure (+Inline, +Outline), KDAnniversary, Armiya (army stencil), KD Baba Yaga (multiline).

Typefaces from 2019: KD Para, KD Pempo (a multiline art deco font).

Typefaces from 2021: KD Ziberia (based on Antonio J. Morata's Ziberia typeface from 2011), KD Dekorat (a modular labyrinthine or Maya genre set of capital letters).

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Arkitype (was: Virtue Creative)
[Andrew Footit]

Andrew Footit (b. 1984) runs his own type foundry in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also known as Arkitype. Until 2014, his type studio was called Virtue Creative and before that, Virtue84. In 2017, he set up Arkitype. His typefaces:

  • The very simple monoline rounded geometric typeface Modulus (2011). Updated to Modulus Pro in 2019.
  • The stunning art deco typeface Vindeco (2011).
  • Gigafont (2011): a free bubblegum font.
  • FunFair (2012): hand-printed.
  • Virtus Sans (2012): a clean 4-style sans family.
  • the Western family Westro (2012, +Inline).
  • The free rounded sans drafting font Struct (2013).
  • The four-style vintage poster typeface The Woods (2013).
  • The spurred letterpress typeface family Roper (2014). Roper evolved into the octagonal typeface family Hudson NY (2015) and Hudson NY Pro (2020). Hudson NY Regular, Serif and Slab are athletic lettering / octagonal typeface families.
  • Bosk Hand.
  • Roves (2016). A camping style set of fonts, including several stencil typefaces.
  • Anchor Script (2016). Inspired by classic cursive connected handwriting.
  • Navigator (2016). Inspired by the early explorers.
  • Bowline Script (2016). A vintage monoline cursive script typeface.
  • Saveur Sans (2017) and Saveur Sans Round (2017). A lovely sans typeface family that is inspired by art deco and French cafes.
  • Comply Slab (2017). All caps and octagonal, with possible applications in athletic lettering.
  • 3 Stripe Type (2017) and Adidas Nemeziz (2017). Prismatic typefaces.
  • Technol (2018).
  • Statewide (2018). An all caps squarish techno display sans family.
  • ESPN Next (2018). An octagonal inline custom typeface. ESPN Heroes (2019) is a six-lined prismatic typeface.
  • Poster Compressed (2019). A piano key typeface.
  • Neumatic Compressed (2019), Neumatic Gothic Round (2020) and Neumatic Gothic (2019).
  • Protrakt Variable (2019). Nine variable width all caps fonts, of different thicknesses.
  • Coastal (2020). A twelve-style all caps sans.
  • Compose. An 18-style minimalist sans with elliptical curves and quite open counters.
  • Storica (2021). A 9-style all caps vintage serif.

Behance link. Creative Market link. Home page. View Andrew Footit's typefaces. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arturo Gonzalez Casas

Combine the principle of the piano key typeface first introduced by Wim Crouwel and that of interlocking letters, and you have the Kawasaki Display typeface designed by Barcelona-based designer Arturo Gonzalez Casas in 2013.

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Ata Syed

Ata Syed (Karachi, Pakistan) has a dual identity at FontStruct, where he is one of the most prolific contributors. He is known there as thalamic and as minimum. Behance link.

Typefaces made in in 2008 as thalamic: Hello (connected upright script), Epilogie (blocks), WimSoft (+U/C), Chunk Chip, Konstruct (Russian constructivism face), Sensei Says, FS Tributary, Twotype Font, Urge (fat octagonal), Subliminal, FS United One, The Game of Type, Anaximander Zooom!, Corrupt and Corrupt Ed (piano key stencil fonts), Blueprint, Monomum, Synergy, Insert Coin Italic, Write I Careful, Write I Casual, Write I Dump, Loop UC, Loop LC, Emergic, Prick!, Insert Coins Pixels, Retro Electro, Bubble Lab IJ, Bubble Lab Bang, A Needle Pulling Thread, Send, Scan (IBM logo look), Intermittent and Intermittent Sans (stencil typefaces), Melt x DR and Melt x tDR (dot matrix), Oval x DR and Oval x tDR (original design by theDesignersRepublic for Issey Miyake), On Grid, Indigo (almost blackletter), orange_2 (dot matrix), Scan (horizontal stripes), Bass, Grape (simple pixel face), Nachahmung and Nachahmung Block (fat and extra condensed, Wim Crouwel simulation typefaces), Nachahmung Block Serif, Conjunction, Interjection, Is It, Sangular (nice experiment), Anonon (nails in square letters), Purple and Purple Very (slab serif headline typefaces, pixelized), Arc Echo (biline and strutted), The Question (a fantastic 3d paper fold imitation face), FS Minimal (a fantastic ultra fat decorative face), FS FontStructor, Vibrant (multiline labyrinthine or op-art face), Writ (upright pixel script), Castor, Ooki (octagonal), Industrial, The I Flat, The I, Indiscrete, Analog (connected script), Dent (mechanical), Digital (connected script), Hello Hello, and Sensei Says.

In 2009, he made Clone It, Entwined, C64, Helix, Fontsration, Bent, Stripe Zoo, Dull, Indent (stencil), Quartertined (kitchen tile), Firox, Orfix, A Priori, Ignore, Confused, S-Ookii, Ookii (octagonal), Very Becoming, Crisis Averted, Crisis (neat bold octagonal face), Penmanship, Up All Night, Sleep All Dayi, Chunk Chip, Grayletter (upright script), Soso, Mostly Harmless (textured face), Etched, La Cross, Twotype, Etched Bare, Aught (One, Two, Three), as: Inflate (Pop, Pfft, Puff, Poof), Istic, Very Becoming, Ignore, Ought, Balance, Broken, Dry Flat (dot matrix), La Cross, Etched (+Bare), Fontsration (+Refined: multilined beauties), FS Institutional (fat multiline face), FS Industrial, FS Pixelayers.

Additions in 2010 as thalamic: fs Section, fs Reboot, fs Easy DNA Auto Stencil, fs Institutional (+Ho, +Elements), fs Quartertined, fs Stencil 2.0, fs Rivet, fs Intaglish, fs Dumb Italic, fs Loop Gap, fs GoTeam (stencil), fs ITilic, fs Kerplunk (Startrek face), fs Dumb Italic, fs Ribbon, fs Beringer, fs Ooki Woodcut, fs Croissant (stencil), fs 45 (octagonal stencil), fsXO, fs Pipe, fs Confused Less.

Fonts from 2011 as thalamic: fs Xenon (a paperclip face), fs Instant, fs Twist, fs WIP (blackletter), fs Sparc, fs Reboot (texture face), fs Pod, fs Flute Tune, fs Special, fs Watch Out (stencil), fs Etched Nyle (labyrinthine face), fs No Kerning Required (2011, connected upright script).

Creations in 2012 as thalamic: fs Flip, fs Mom, fs Noise, fs Noise II, fs Junk, fs You Are Here, fs Flash (outlined), FS Easy Too (paperclip face), FS Strict, FS Fix, fs in three (octagonal stencil face), fs Single, fs Wakarimasen, fs r-failed (white on black), fs Permutation X, fs Pan Am, fs Institutional, fs Institutional 2, fs Chunky (counterless), fs Grayletter (textured face), fsXply (op-art).

Creations in 2013 as thalamic: fs So Not Right, fs Grid Urdu (pixel face), fs Not So Right, fs Six Sticks, fs Half (octagonal family), fs Bored, fs Make it Happen, fs Salvage, fs To Be Discarded, fs Connect (stencil), fs Whomp, fs Praxis, fs Fez (3d face), fs Input, fsTramp, fs Five Alive, fs Hote-Zyd (labyrinthine), fs Patterns (Layers, Quarters), fs Five Alive (origami font), fs Go To Sleep (retro speed font), fs Vaerktoj (inspired by the brand identity of Hoejmark Cycles), fs Permutation B, fs Jester, fs Permutation XII (op-art), fs Insatiable, fs Electronic, fs Carbon (a nice chequered face), fs When We Were Young (multiline typeface), fs Shogun Tiny (a lined kitchen tile typeface), fs Optical, fs When We Were Young (multilined), fs Slate, fs Shogun (gridded), fs Iie (+Filled), fs Blocky (dot matrix), fs Thalamic.

Creations in 2014 as thalamic: fs Perhaps, fs Perhaps Perhaps, fs Stability (Turmoil, Flux), fs Industrial (an artsy fat dot matrix face), fs Rehash, fs Ah, fs Curly, fs So, fs Flint, fs ICK (blackboard bold style), fs Wiggle, fs Grid, fs Ah.

Creations from 2015 as thalamic: fs B-Chain (bike chain font), fs Risque (art deco), fs Squangular (Impair, Square, Flair, Pair), fs Oval, fs MIP, fs Flower (kitchen tile face).

Creations as minimum: fs Chips (2014), fs Oh (2014, piano key style), fs Stack (2014, +Overflow), fs llljjj (2014), fs Turn Off The Sun (2014, beveled), fs Zag (2013 textured), fs Zig (2013, textured), fs Mullions (2013), fs The Italic (2013), Gridlock (2009), Mingle Minx (2009), Mingle Co (2009), Mingle (2009, gridded letters), Bevel (2009, 3d beveled family), illiij (2009, multiline family), m.ove.r (2009, multiline family), Grayscale (2009, multiline family), fs Cubed (2010, 3d-face), Bas Relief (2009, 3d face), Silver (2009, 3d face), Tin (2009), Lead (2009), Bevel (2009), Bevel Just (2009), Bevel Just Shadowed (2009), Ceci n'est pas une vague (2009), A Fault in Reality (2009, optical effect font), Blit Slash (2009, experimental), Blit Hack (2009), Dot Dot Hex (2009), Super Black (2009), fs Overlap (2010), fs Fabric (2010, texture font), fs Original (2010), fs Ink Blot (2010), fs Dots and Dashes (2010), fs I Square (2010), fs Squared Up (2010), fs Super Black (2010), fs Unoriginal (2010), fs Minimum (2010, geometric stencil face), fs Pin and Thread (2010, stitching face), fs Shade (2012, 3d face).

FontStructions from 2011: fs Perpetual (dotted line face), fs Slither, fs No Escape, fs Prompt (a DNA-inspired biochemical lab face), fs Plus H (horizontally striped face), fs Arc Test 2:2 (a modular blackboard bold face), fs V Simple (2010, textured face), fs Instant, fs Permutation V, fs Rehash Monoic (labyrinthine), fs Meta (texture face), fs Scroll, fs Scroll Not (stencil).

FontStructions from 2012: fs Translucent (a texture face), fs Bank, fs Shade, fs Confined (white on black), fs Institutional (+Vo, +HeVe, +Ho, +He, +Ve: texture typefaces), fs Bang, fs Random (textured face), fs Random Pattern, fs Lead, fs Tin, fs Silver, fs Tungsten.

Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Axel Leyer

Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of NuGothicA (blackletter), BauForm, DINAMO (mechanical), Magnum (great industrial strength slab serif headline face), Cocoa (rounded and ultra fat), EUROstruct (thin and architectural), Kaotic (graffiti), Weimar (pixel face), Rondo, Rondo Tail, Fabrica (octagonal), Fabrica Rotula (stencil, octagonal), Quadrat, Electrica, Electrica Dots, Fabrica Screen (horizontally striped octagonal face), Block Black, Bloop, Blackwolf, Guru Blackletter (Indic simulation face), Inslab (slab serif), Inslab II, Minima (stencil), Boxer (ultrafat, octagonal), Bloko (nice ultra-fat face), Steel (macho slab serif), Nextar (pixelish but elegant), Simplex, Ulises 7 (+Serif) (pixel typefaces), Digita (kitchen tile) and Block (ultra fat), June Cleaver. See America (2008, octagonal) is an octagonal lettering font that was inspired by a travel poster (WPA, 1936) designed by Jerome Roth. Faces made in 2009: Morgana (a beautiful fat piano key face), Manitoba, Machina (+Slab), Old Monk (uncial), NughoticA Brush, LUBA 8 Lowercase (after Lubalin), Nugothic A (blackletter), Dinamo, Ross (strong mechanical face).

Faces made in 2010: Sketch Pix and Sketch Pix 2. [Google] [More]  ⦿

B. A. Jacobs

FontStructor who made the piano key typeface Make A Move On (2013), which was inspired by Milton Glaser. The typeface was developed during Jacobs's studies at DMACC in Des Moines, IA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Liquard

Baptiste Liquard (Nantes, France) designed the modular typeface La Ressourcere de l'Ile (2012), the multilined octagonal typeface Book Font (2013) and the origami typeface Foldee (2013).

In 2014, he made Misère, a spurred piano key stencil typeface that has the characteristics of a FontStruct font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barry Deutsch

Born in Brooklyn in 1940, he graduated from New York City Community College. Barry worked for Sandgren & Murtha, New York as a graphic designer.

Creator of typefaces at VGC, such as Deutsch Black (1966). This unicase piano key typeface was revived in digital format by Nick Curtis as Blackbarry NF (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Mecke-Burford
[M-B Creative]

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Benedikt Matern
[Yung & Frish]

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Benoit Dupré

French designer of Fazioli (2017: a piano key typeface) and Mo (2018: a geometric solid typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benoit Sjöholm
[Désigne (was: Calame Design)]

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Blanca Campins Otero

Barcelona-based designer of the hand-drawn Taboo (2019) and the ultra-condensed piano key typeface Queso (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boris de Vries

Designer in Amsterdam. Behance link. In 2011, he created an informative brochure about the life and achievements of Wim Crouwel.

Wim Crouwel's Hiroshima poster (2011) served as a model for Boris's unnamed piano key typeface created in 2011. And a 1968 poster for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam was the model for another typeface created by Boris in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Both Bou

Siem Reap, Cambodia-based designer of the piano key typeface Bou Figura (2017). He currently is the creative director at Anagata, a design studio specializing in brand identity and type design. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bradford Cox
[Design 76]

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Bryce Riedesel

FontStructor who made the prototypical modular piano key face, Divided (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caleb Colestock

Art director in San Diego, CA, who created the piano key typeface Peel and the outlined display typeface Do Good Work in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cameron Mac Wylie

During his studies at Boston University, Cameron Mac Wylie designed the Bauhaus-style poiano key typeface Broadway Black (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Can Ozok

Student-designer in Izmir, Turkey, of the piano key typeface Jazzpunk (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carina Ostermayer

Designer in Munich who created an angular piano key typeface called Dok (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Adalid

During his studies in Barcelona, Carlos Adalid designed the wonderful free piano key typeface Judo (2016) and the curvy monoline typeface family Wilbo (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Asencio

Palma de Mallorca, Spain-based designer of the text typeface Thoreau (2015) and the piano key Bauhaus stencil typeface Gehape (2015). In 2016, he designed the sans typeface Palo. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carmen Bermell Mira

Industrial and graphic designer in Valencia, Spain, who created the marquee art deco typeface Abbey Road (2013) and the piano key typeface Runden (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chaos Fonts
[Jason Matthew Everett]

Jason Everett (Lincoln, NE) offers 7 fonts of his own hand, at 18.50 USD a shot. The names describe the kind of lettering that is involved: Digifit, Dr. Vinyl (a piano key typeface), Deranger, Capsule System, Underworld Odd, Weirdo, Moultipass 2, Moultipass.

Other creations: Beamship. Betamorph, Boss Drum, Captivity Remix, Cliffhanger, Crakoom, EnterTerrestrial, HandWrit, Metatron Family, Psychopod, Renegade Master / Renegade Mistress, Replicant, Screebie, Supernaut, Syntosis, Technocrat (1998).

View the fonts here. Typoasis archived all the fonts. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chequered Ink
[Allison James]

Chequered Ink (est. 2015) is a two-man design studio consisting of Daniel Johnston (b. 1993) and Allison James (b. 1991; Allison is a reincarnation of Andrew McCluskey). Their business is based in Bath, England but they currently reside in Newport, Wales. Before 2015, Andrew McCluskey operated as NAL Games. That font collection was merged with Chequered Ink. As of early 2019, they designed 912 fonts, virtually all downloadable at Fontspace. For detailed attributions, we have:

Typefaces from 2015, mostly made with FontStruct: Heartbeat Synchronicity, Sawchain, Man Flu, Ace Adventure, Disco Nectar, Hex Girlfriend, Future Now, Lycra, Rygarde (pixel font), Empire Straight (avant garde caps), Kitty Katastrophe, Gang Wolfik Craze, O.K.Retro, Xxrdcore, the blocky sans serif Horticulture, the modular angular Heartbreaker, Ninja Thing, Fort Brewith, Urgently, Baxter's Slab (heavy octagonal style), Lady Radical (pixel font), Provisionary, Quickfyr, Vermin Vore, Even Stevens.

Typefaces from 2016: Sportscream, Assvssin, Brandsom (ransom note font), BromineCocktail, DestinationMercury, Eviscera, Halloween*Heresy, IReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLikeFonts, Viadukt, Yetimology, Indocorno, Overdose Sunrise (dry brush), Happy Talk, Camaraderie, Death Hector (sci-fi), Scones And Crossbows, Casual Softcore, Notepads & Roleplay, Order in Chaos, Stencil of Destiny, ViceVersus, Magenta Flow, Prick Habit, Go Faster, BlackboardRovers, Caperput, Chavelite, Lovecraftimus, RawhideRaw2016, SmackLaidethDown2016, SmackLaidethDown2016Oblique, Pelode, The Nineties Called They Want Their Font Back, You Can't Kill Old School, Thoroughbred, Card Shark, Sheeping Dogs, Zen Monolith, The Joy Facade, Cerulean Nights, Pounds of Violence, Altered Quest (octagonal), Thrash Decision (dripping paint font), Afroed Dizzy Yak (handcrafted style), Circulus (octagonal style), 53 Dollars and 92 Cents, Endless Boss Battle (pixel font), Guest Circus Paradiso, Niagaraphobia (sans), Noseblood (squarish italic), Shake Your Plums, The Light Brigade (trekkie font), Beautiful Heartbeat (handcrafted), Poisoned Paradigm (dripping paint font), Development Hell (modular), Energetic Star (stencil), Men Down (display or poster type), Apple Korea (Hangul emulation typeface), Zdyk Capricorn, CQ Mono (a rounded monoline monospaced sans programming font), Pyrsing, Executionist, Mono a Mano (pixel typeface), Toxico, Swiggity (hexagonal), Mono a Mano (pixel font), Dissolved Exchange, Thundercover, Hors d'oeuvres The Garter, Distortion Dos Digital, Acetate, Arcapulse, ChelseaSmile, Headshots, Here&NotFound, IregulaTo, Japers, MidnightsontheShore, RallyBlade, Sothin (a great ultra-condensed squarish typeface), VerminVibes4Helium, 6Cells, DistortionDosAnalogue, SpotMonkey, Summoners, UnderwearProtest (Piano key style), VerminVibes4, Shapeshifters, Puerto Magnifico (Mexican party style font), Zdyk Gemini (intergalactic font), Bones To Your Generic Script Font, Breathe Fire (medieval style), Escalatio (hipster style), Pocket Monka (beatnik style), Jack Frost, Hiruleon, Cfour, CrystalCathedral, DigitalDust (LED font), DotLirium, Griefmachine, KillerCollege, OfMaidsandMen (oriental emulation typeface), Red Dragons, Grimeplex, Iron Amore, Twizzled, ZedSaid, Vermin Vibes, Major League Duty (military stencil), Moist (dripping paint font), Wondertribute, Of the Blue Colour of her Eyes, Anastasia (script).

Typefaces from 2017: Technoma (rounded sans), Gothiqua, Tune Up De Ting, Diary of an 8-bit mage, Night Machine, The Wastes of Space, Nuernberg Messe, Torque Sense, Crevice Stencil, Glitch Slop, Balloonatic, Typist's Pseudonym, Flob Out A Bork, Tumbling Down (grungy), Onomber, Have a Banana (angular style), Not The Far East (oriental simulation font), Electric Shocker, Lady Radical 2 (pixel), AmidVerrion, Basilisk, Beillingsday, Butcher the Baker (a gory brush), CQ-Full-Stretch, Chillit, Diagon, Durmstrong, Embryonoid, Gravedigger, Gridget (gridded), Gridlocked, Hannover-Messe-Sans, Hannover-Messe-Serif (pixel), Ineptic, I Shot the Serif, JesusFrank, Messe Muenchen (slab serif), Ode-to-Idle-Gaming, Punishment (grungy stencil), Rumutocu (squarish), Slitter, Slim Stradiva, Supercarver, Technoma, VitruvianMan, VoiceInMyHead, Riemann Theatre (art deco), The Messenger, Revengeance, Pimlico, North to South, Qui Finn, Oganesson, Xmas Sweater Stitch, Tinsel Christmas, Inky Thin Pixels, Saint Knick Knack, Cookie Cutter Culture, Talking Baseball, Balls of Bastille, Vegan Abattoir, Oxen Crossbow, Thumbs Down, Enter the Harbinger, Im Not Like Most Fonts, We Used To Be Friends, Trendgetter, Strings Theory, Carnival trash, The Life of Flight, Sci Auralieph (rounded sci-fi style), Foreplayer, Pixel or GTFO, Block Stock, Unability, Swore Games (military stencil), Clintwood (Western, spurred), Floral Compass, Skull and Void, Weymouth Ribbon (7 pixel font), Four Mad Dogs, Blaize, Chisholm Heliport, ConfettiWestern, EdgyMarker, Ganymedian, Klein Bottle, LeipzigerMesse, LifeInTheFastLane, Messe-Duesseldorf, MilestoneOutline, Oilrig, QueenofClubs, Peking Assignment, Racetrack-Stencil (trilined typeface), RodentRage, Spoopy Ghost Pixels, SquareRaising, Whisperer, ZdykLibra, Equalize (sci-fi), Helicopta (sci-fi), Saveloy, Hangar Nine, Robo Arriba (a font with Mexican-patterned texture), Clutching Toth, Freestyling Centipede, Idiot Stax, Lorra Lorra Dates (an image font simulated on FontStruct), Rampant, Typingrad (constructivist), Lovesauce (squarish), Scaremonger, Happy Accidents, Aztechno (Mexican Aztec culture emulation typeface), BeastofRage, ComicKhazi, DaisyRoots, DogRough (ink splatter font), Drowsy, FrankfurtMesse-Serif, FrankfurtMesse-Wide, FrontPageSupplement, HipsterHandGrenade, MerrimentHelicopter, OffspringRemorse, PlacktheHanet, RevolutionWillBeHypnotised, SomersetBarnyard, Almond Rocks, Gridking, Rollcage (circle-themed sans), Satire, Some Kinda Madness, Blackletter Buffoonery, Toe the Lineless, Merriment Helicopter, Revolution Will Be Hypnotised, Long Haired Freaky People, Sui Coward, Pirates of Cydonia, Old School Adventures (pixel style), Mersey Cowboy, Disco Everyday Value, Koln Messe-Deutz, Stress Genesis, Vermin Vibesy, Madness Hyperactive, Nebulous Content, Toe The Line, Chunky Felt, Madness Hyperactive, Member Kinglify, Bristol and Bath, Dirty Princess, Modern Bohemian, Chocolate Cavalcade, Capital Clickbait, Frogotype, Ipscrik, Front Page Supplement, Sex Drugs and Fidget Spinners, Pickle Pushing, Thickedy Grunge (crayon font), Knockout Grunge, League of Extraordinary Justice, Thickedy Quick, Avenged for Yourself, Zoon Hoot, Ambidextrose, Thinly Handled, Sketchit Means Sketchit, Return of the Grid, Fierce Brosnan, Chubby Thumbs, Pseudonumb, West End Knights, Cybercrime 2004, Reflecques, Death Knell, Fake News, Zealousy, Aquamarina (rounded sans), Amateur Camcorder, Mighty Squidge, Track & Shield (multilined), Wander Z, Gardenfreude, The Wild Breath of Zelda, Effective Power, Techno Agony, LED Specimen (textured), Projectionist, Splinter Wonderland, Shiny Eyes, Uncopyrightable, Hallowed Grad, Peace and Equality, Steriliser (heavy sans), Electro Shackle, Castforce (titling sans), Butterfly Reflect.

Typefaces from 2018: January Fair, Scared of the Unknown, Teddy Bears, Wicked Jumps, Enter The Grid 2, Chump Change, Take Me Out, Breathe Fire II, Toon Around, Tabloid Scuzzball, The Jjester, Play Pretend, A Friend In Deed, Girlesque, Bumblebear, Joyful Theatre, Snow Deep, Car Lock, Digital Display (an LED font), Game Played, Seldom Scene, The Shape Of Things, Candy Beans, Internal Rainbows, Pride Thusly, Armwarmer, Futuristic Armour, Refresher (dry brush), Brick Shapers, Frostbite Boss, Armed and Traitorous (a rough-edged stencil typeface), Ambystoma Mexixana, The Slug and Lion, Gourmet Hearth, Virtu, Star Doors, Winter Spice Cake, Canvas Bags, Shocking Headline, Tiny Islanders (pixel font), Yumi, Nobody Talks, Finished Sympathy (white on black), One Slice, Somerton Dense, Sunday Afternoon, Close & Open, Another Flight, Kuiper Belt, Platonica, Smoother, Ladders, Cold Warm, Name Smile, Shepherdy, Friend Head, Kevlar Underwear, Scrambled Tofu, Dillydallier, Joy Kim, Office Square, You've Gotta Point, District Four, Scare Arms (grunge), 22 September, Alimony, Xmas Fairy Lights, Segreteria, Leg Hug, Coded Message, Madeleina Sans, Trample Over Beauty, Emerald Grey, Fine Allie, Bottled It, Glee Finder, Pill Anthropic, Achtung! Polizei, Say the Words, Outcome, First In Line, Brain Wants, Green Strand, Die Grinsekatze, Eight Bit Dragon (a pixel typeface), KreepTown, Loudhailer, Progesterone, Insomniax, Quick Fuse, Rowdy Space Pirates, Oestrogen, Whisper Quiet, Zosilla, Construction Lines, Construction Lines, Juxtaposer, Tommi, Under The Weather, Xero's Punishment, Betryal of Mind, Rustic Love Tattoo, Younger Love (heavy octagonal typeface), Gossamer Girls (a pixel font), Dispence, Time Won, Blessings of Babylon, Requires Moonshine, Stroud, Hot Bleb, Nightmare Codehack, Manilla Cellos, Teeny Tiny Pixls, Ava Meridian, Wonders of the Orient, Float The Boat, Cute Zealand, Super Renewables, Lean Foreword, Mister Fisher, Love Nature, Exposure Salary, A Goblin Appears (pixel type), Project H, There Must Be, Charlestoning, Sportsquake, Violet Wasteland (dry brush), Clubbed to Life (sans), Moonwalk Miss, Best Tease, Reach The End (art deco), Slalom, A Grazing Mace, Boomer Tantrum, Disarmer (military stencil), Hell Underwater, Carnival Centenary (Tuscan), Mahalo Brother, Glue Gun, Tyrannothesaurus, Casanova Scotia, Fatherland Faker, Daughter Of A Glitch, Sparkles, Europhonic, Betelgeuze, Goregeous, Supermarketed, All The Way To The Sun, Russia Five, Soccer Scoreboard, Cinqcent, Megan June, Big Old Boldy, 501, Earthshattering, Sheeping Cats, Thousandyard, Closet Dwellers, Clicky Bricks, Painter Decorator, The 27 Club, Adventure ReQuest, Miamagon, Nineteen Ninety Seven, Vermin Verile, Great Attraction, Great Attraction, Zirconia, Oh Beehive (hexagonal), Gofuyo (experimental geometric sans), Wideboy, Im Spiegelland, Battenberg and Custard, Bugfast, Robotic Harlequin, Scouser Ste, Blend Her, Ancient Venusian, Sivereign State (constructivist), Daily Mix 3, Brushstroke Horror, Hellgrazer, Corporation Games (sci-fi), Pride Cometh (dry brush), Squirk (stone cut), Mecklabecka (octagonal), Nineteen Ninety Three (pixel), Dominian (octagonal), Perfectly Together, Super Comic, Nrvsbrkdwn, Bottom Brazil, Don't Delay Act Now, Nu Home, Just My Type, techno at Dusk, Starbirl, Hate Agent, Fool's errand, Bullet Rain, Orchestra of Strings, One Pill Makes You Larger, Interlewd, Fandomonium, Ball Bearing, Jamboree, Hot Thin Roof, No Added Sugar, X Termination, Real Fun Time, Der Neue Spargel, Nineteen Eight Seven (pixel), Bittypix Countdown, Nineteen Ninety Six, Fasterisq, Peekavous, Modest Felt, Im Wunderland, Megarok, Sunk Foal Brother, Skydiver, Chasing Rabbits, Background Noise, Viridian College, Sacred Hertz, Sawyers Whitewash, Brittle, Cupcake Smiles, Machine Gunk, Dubspikes, Onslaughter, Eyes Wide Suicide, Boatycabiners, All Square Now (pixel), Hawking Bowen (octagonal), Style Thief, Tagon (octagonal), Withheld Data (LED font), Dubstep Blackletter, Pixabubble, Hopelelessly in Lurve, Springtime Daydream, Techno Til Dawn, Fluid Lighter, Rush Rush (stencil), Incompetent Landlord, Danger on the Motorway (dot matrix), Hippopotamus Apocalypse (hexagonal), Homunculus, Bittypix Monospace (pixel font), Unicorn Scribbles, Rockout, Truly Madly Dpad, Tincture, Virtual Pet Sans (dot matrix font), How Are You Today (ultra-condensed), Juicebox, Chemical Superior, Organic Teabags, Broadsheet Bubble, Document Two, Slope Opera, Blockbrokers, Off The Haze, Gang Wolfik, Gnorts Mr A, Radiator Falls, Take Me On, Cyberspace Raceway, Rocket Rinder, May We, The Citadels, Life Is Okay, Astrolab, Simple Stitch, Feeding A Moment, Gooseberry Juice, Namso, Rabbit Fire, Texas Drop, Short Xurkit, Maiden Crimes, Hysterix, Introducing Pretentiousness, Lullaby Weight, Slumbers Weight, Vampires, Veal Nerve (a neurotic typeface), Be Kind To Earth, Aardvark Sk8, Ancient Modern Tales (blackletter), Spider Talent (Halloween font), Pooch Doo, Plan G, Rhapsodies (art deco), Lab Pulsar (sci-fi), Hamburg Messe (blackletter), Xide, Scrawling Pad, Bun Ting, Speedeasy, Itty Bity Notebook.

Typefaces from 2019: Hindsight 2020, Provicali, Go Everywhere, Smack Laideth Down 2019, China Fad, Monster Twenty, Into Deep (sci-fi), Mandatory Plaything, Galaxy Girl, San Marino Beach (a shadowed font), Acorn Caravan (a rounded sans stencil), Hairy Beard, Phonograph, Sterelict (futuristic), Egosurf, Bankruptcy, Wayfarer's Toy Box (a pixel font), Fox Cavalier, Heartisan, Modular Amplitude (heavy octagonal, Dolphin with a Massive Shotgun (a glitch font), Jasmine Laslo, Earth Spirit, Nemesis Grant, Daily Mix 4 (an all caps blackboard bold typeface), Uplifting, Ministry of Moron (a heavy sans), Extinction Event, Cut Deep, Q For The Memories, Wozcott, Super Legend Boy (pixelish), Chopsic, Lesotho Beach (octagonal), Illiead, Ten Pin, Isite, Motorstrike, Hwyl Fawr Hello, Undersided, Shut Up and Love Me (shaky letters), Terminal Day, I Am A Designer, Born to Grille (a semi-stencil), Amuse-Bouche, Die Frau, Err Hostess (octagonal), Cthulhu's Calling, Fresh Eaters, Gamma Orionis, Greatsby Gat, Hands Oversaturation (sans), Joy Multiplication, Kotoba, Midnight Champion (an extra tall sans), She Smiles, Read Wharf, Ohno (poster sans), Prodigy Forever (a blood and paint splatter font), Questrian 2 (sans), Nau Sea (squarish), The Macabre, Long Fox, Roll Accurate (stencil), Princess Saves You (pixel font), Clone Machine, Cyberpunk Sealion, Misery Garment, Klimaschutz, Space Obsessed, Serpentire, Squidgy Sweets (fat rounded sans), Yokelvision (fat letters), Coral Colour, None Away From The Moon (counterless), Squidgy Sweets, Yokelvision, Coral Colour, None Away from the Moon, Robot Roc, Figure Things, Gaeilge Kids, FoughtKnight Haymaker, Medical Shape, Revenant (octagonal), Pinch My Ride, Dire Gramme, Assembled from Scratch, Premier 2019 (squarish).

Typefaces from 2020: Hardigan (a titling sans), Petrichor Sublimey, Bardolatry, Star Trebek, Fast Hand (sci-fi), Bonk Robbers, Neuterous, Demoness, Lucid Streams (sci-fi), Fosterama (an elliptical sans), Woman, Shock Mint Fund (octagonal), Milletun (an all caps slab serif), Mille, Vudotronic, Elder Head, Dead Revolution, Charge Off, Asleepytiming, Questrian3, SplendidConfusion, XXIX, Septacharge, Dark Seed, Hawkeye, Dustfine, We Are Survivors, Be A St, Computo Monospace, Dealer Strikes, Zdyk Virgo, Bathrind, Honk, Revamped, Clease Plap, Zdyk Cancer, Cyberway Riders, Memorial Lane, Doubleplus, Ominus (italic), Army Buster (stencil), Tudor Victors (a grungy stencil), Romantic Chemicals, Migraine Machine, Warhead (constructivist), X-Heighting.

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Chiara Dozio

Merate, Italy-based designer of the fashion mag piano key typeface Muscle (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chloe Sova

Chloe Sova (Limoges, France) designed a condensed piano key typeface in 2013. She also made the bilined typeface Double Typo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Branson

Illustrator and designer at the Kern&Letter Company in Missouri. Behance link. Home page

Creator of various display typefaces including the kitchen tile typeface Voltrona (2011, a kitchen tile typeface), Hate (2012), the kitchen tile typeface Metgeo (2012), the monoline sans typeface Duplica (2012), the piano key typeface Lucreow (2012: Lucreow is a permutation of Crouwel), Caladan (2012, fat blackletter), Hague (2012, angular), the Bauhaus-style typeface Joi (2012), the blackletter typeface Caladan (2012), Rid-G (2012, experimental), Sugar (2012), Cumo (2012, a happy children's book typeface), Domm (2012, stencil face), Zukunft, Iron (2012, an old film typeface), Freight (2012, stencil face), Noir, Shamrock (2012, octagonal athletic shirt typeface), Unison (2012, sans), Basic (2012), Sexy (2012, hairline), Gitter (2012, rounded), Modo (2012, monoline techno face), and SF Mono (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cláudio Rocha

Cofounder of Now Type, Cláudio Rocha is an Italian Brazilian illustrator and designer (b. 1957) who was first based in sao Paulo, then in Treviso, Italy, and currently in The Netherlands. Now Type is jointly run with his son Lucas Franco (b. 2001). He edited Tupigrafia, a magazine dedicated to typography and calligraphy in Brazil. Partner of Oficina Tipografica Sao Paulo. His typefaces include:

  • ITC Gema (1998: a felt tip pen font) and ITC Underscript (1997, a grungy fat script).
  • Cashew (2000-2020). Cashew is a rounded squarish sans serif font, originally created as a logotype for Tupigrafia magazine (2000). In its 2020 iteration, done together with Lucas Franco, it is a variable font with one axis, from Regular to Extended.
  • Tenia.
  • Viela Regular (Claudio Rocha & Lucas Franco, 2008-2019). A great thick-and-thin typeface.
  • Unidin (sans display face).
  • Rock Regular (slab face). Rock Titling (1998-2019).
  • Old Future (a brush version of Futura).
  • Chacal Pixel.
  • Persplextiva (2001-2002, a bouncy hand-drawn 3d face done in the lettering style of Brazilian cartoonist Millor Fernandes).
  • Liquid Stencil (1998-2000). A brush stencil.
  • Feijoada Light.
  • Akrylicz Grotesk (2002, brush/paint face).
  • Sampa (1999-2019). An informal brush script.
  • Genova (2008-2020). A reinterpretation of Paganini typeface, lauched by Nebiolo type foundry in 1928 for hand composition and developed by Alessandro Butti under the supervision of Raffaello Bertieri.
  • Stampface (2006-2018, by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco). Based on a Headline Gothic metal type sample found in a reference book, which was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1936 for American Type Founders.
  • Pieces Stencil (2016). Think piano key or Futura Stencil.
  • Antonio Maria (2017): Antonio Maria, a font by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco, takes its shapes from the lettering found in the cover of Afixação Proibida (Display Prohibited), a book by the Portuguese poet Antonio Maria de Lisboa (1928-1953). In fact, Antonio Maria was the leader-writer of Afixação Proibida, a collective manifesto from 1949, that initiated the surrealist movement in Portugal. It is an inverted-contrast typeface with 150 ligatures and a large character set.
  • Rudolf Antiqua and Rudolf Initials (2018). A faithful revival of Rudolf Koch's Koch Antiqua (1922). Followed by Rudolf Text (2017-2020, Lucas Franco and Claudio Rocha).
  • Mefistofele. A revival in 2018 by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco of the modular stencil typeface Mefistofele (1930, Reggiani foundry).
  • Rudolf Titling (Lucas Franco and Claudio Rocha), a typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018.
  • Agora Titling Extra Light (2018).
  • Pieces Stencil (2016-2019). Pieces is a piano key typeface built on a modular system with emphasis on diagonal endings.
  • Moreira Serif (2019). A slab serif version of Morris Fuller Benton's art deco typeface Broadway (1927). In the 1930s, the Portuguese graphic artist Antonio Moreira Junior added serifs to Broadway's letterforms and marketed it under a new name. Moreira Serif revives that typeface.
  • Scarpa Titling (2019, Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco). An all caps typeface based on a nameplate found on the front door of a shoemaker in Treviso, Northern Italy.
  • Anton (2020, by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco). An art deco typeface modeled after a Dutch deco type seen on the Anton Antonius Kurvers's cover of Wendingen in 1927.
  • Esperanca Sans (2019). A Peignotian sans by Claudio Rocha & Lucas Franco.
  • Jaguaribe (2020). In Unicase and Serif versions, by Claudio Rocha. A squarish sans and serif pair based on the of letterforms drawn by Brazilian artist Gil Duarte.
  • Spinface (2020). An experimental turned letter font by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco.
  • Werner (2020-2021). A revival of A.D. Werner's famous deco inline typeface Dubbeldik (1972).
  • Densa (2020). Emulating 19th century wood types. Densa typeface was based on the Fantastic Voyage movie title in the 1966 poster
  • Tegel (2020-2021). Tegel is a layer font that emulates the ceramic tile letters found on a school façade in Delft.
  • Etna Futurist (2020, Claudio Rocha & Lucas Franco). Digital interpretation of Etna, a wood type produced by the Italian type foundry Xilografia Meneghello & Belluzzo, in the 1920s.
  • Cassiano (2020). A super-fat octagonal typeface based on letters found on a book cover by the Brazilian artist Belmonte (1896-1947).
  • Fortunato (2020). A digital interpretation of the lettering work done by the Italian Futurist genius Fortunato Depero (1892-1960) for advertising and editorial design. A pure Italian art deco typeface. The lowercases were developed from scratch.
  • Jurriaan (2021). A square block typeface.
  • Hendrik (2021, by Claudio Rocha & Lucas Franco). A revival of Simplex (Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos, 1937).
  • Martin (Swing, Straight) (2020). A beatnik typeface based on the letters found in the jazz record albuns designed by David Stone Martin (1913-1992).
  • Tesoura (2020). A paper-cut typeface.

He published the books "Projet Tipográfico" (Ed. Rosari), "Trajan e Franklin Gothic" (Ed. Rosari), and "Tipografia Comparada" (Ed. Rosari). Claudio now lives in Treviso, Italy, from where he launched the type magazine Tipoitalia in 2009.

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Cody Critt

Designer of the piano key typeface Ping Pong (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corey Peace

Designer of Peggy Hill (2008, FontStruct), a rounded fat piano key face, Acts (2008, MICR face), L337 (2008, Cyrillic simulation face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

cristianjr

Barcelona-based designer of Stencil Type (2012), a piano key typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristina Carrero Perez

During her studies in Barcelona, Cristina Carrero created the piano key typeface Musk Type (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daler Mukhiddinov

Highlands Ranch / Denver, CO-based designer of the free all caps ink-trapped typeface Krisha (2019), the free piano key stencil typeface Modernia (2019), the sans typeface Floane (2019), the heavy sans typeface Goodlight (2019), and Tele Brush (2019).

Typefaces from 2020: Rondal (a free condensed didone), DM Retrograde (pixelish). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Penn

During his studies at Birmingham City University, Dan Penn (Stourbridge, UK) created the piano key typeface WarFair (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Hunyady

As a young artist and film font manufacturer in New York City, Daniel Hunyady (b. 1941) designed the piano key typeface Hunyday Gothic for John N. Schaedler Inc. in 1974. Schaedler suggested the name Hunyady Parquet. That great typeface was digitized in 2017, with Hunyady's permission, by Tobias Herz. Presently, Hunyady runs Hunyady Graphics in West Kill, NY. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Noronha

Daniel Fagundes de Noronha (b. 1986) lives in Bauru, Brazil. He designed the Pixel Dart typeface in 2014. It was originally indended for a game called Aldart. Other fonts from 2014 include Poser (3d face), Nameator, Countdowner, Piano Fonte (a piano key face) and Turnineable. In 2016, he designed the horizontally striped typeface Sun Blinds, the pixel fonts Pix Tall, Pixillegble, Pixideal and Pixway, the boxy AntiBiased, and the shadow typefaces Square Scribed and Funtle Caps. In 2020, he released the pixel fonts Shellybu, Vastantonius, Pharaobolos, Jorolks, Frampoase, Bleo, Plonbic, Enopstal, Astalemtim, Cavalhatriz, Zardoloni and PixAmuse. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Pullan

During his studies at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT-based Daniel Pullan designed the piano key typeface Deseret Header (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Reed
[DR Foundry]

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Daniel Shirley

Nike product designer in Portland, OR, who created a modular display typeface in 2016. In 2017, he designed the piano key typeface Typeset One. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniela Raskovsky

Buenos Aires-based designer of Headache Gothic (2011, piano key face). University link: she studied at FADU, University of Buenos Aires, where that typeface was first developed in 2010. Aka Daniela Rascovsky.

In 2013, Pablo Cosgaya and Dani Raskovsky co-designed a wood carving typeface called Bahiana---perfect for lettering on a Caribbean rum shack. Bahiana was published by Omnibus Type. Poster by Alex Dukal. Bahiana won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.

In 2019, Daniela Raskovsky and Pablo Cosgaya released Bahianita. Github link. Googe Fonts link. They write: Bahianita has rustic, fresh and casual look, as if carved in wood. Its structure is ideal for composing condensed titles and short texts. OpenType offers alternative glyphs and programming to avoid repeating equal uppercase or equal numbers. Bahianita offers 647 characters (1234 glyphs) and diacritics with support for over 219 Latin languages (including Guarani). Fontown link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Neustadt

David Neustadt ("saberrider") is the designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to make the experimental fonts Eye Pain, Colorblind, Big Blue (like IBM's stripes), Cord, Fontsract (a nice stencil face, based on piano keys), Dice (great; based on an idea of Daniel Pelavin, 1996), Blux (liquid crystal), Blockiger (octagonal), athletica (athletic lettering), divided (two lines, octagonal), edgewalker (heavy slab serif), geomatrix (filled-in letters), olympica. Other creations include Picto People (2008, a great people figure dingbat font), Carmack (2008, octagonal), Pluto (2008, white on black), Pluto Lowercase, Arena Berlin (2008), Katja (2008), Average (2008), Unbalanced (2008), Solido (2008, based on Ata Syed's FS Minimal), Noise (2008, grungy school letters), and Diagonalis (2008, diagonally striped letters).

In 2009, he added Hexastruct, Curvy, Genero (fat face), Plagiacotti (Western saloon font, based on Manicotti, 2007, by David Jonathan Ross), Rasterman (+Bold) (gray effect fonts), Krummbein, Cohen, Mister N (handwriting), Monobono (shadow face), Letter Case, Mikado (3d-stroke font), Boulder (ultra-fat), Night Shift (semi-stencil), Tuvalua, Ripper (fat, counterless), Poff, Blackstruct (blackletter), Borders and Borders2 (outlines of countries).

Typefaces from 2010: Squeeze, Puncture (dot matrix outlined), Yobbo (condensed, counterless).

Typefaces from 2012: Thunderdome. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Sum
[David Sum]

Budapest-based designer of the piano key typeface family Tango (2012), the thin octagonal typeface Standard (2012), the piano key typeface Slink (2012), and the experimental typefaces Wang (2012), Galtor (2012, an inline font available from Ten Dollar Fonts) and Krix (2012).

Typefaces from 2013: Fatty, Borg (free), Neugol (a geometric sans with slanted cuts). He writes about Borg: Borg is a geometric typeface with a curved incision. My inspiration was Swedish furniture. The PAOK FC is a Greek football team and they used my font on their new jersey in 2015. In 2016 Levante UD, SSC Napoli and Paris Saint-Germain too used my font on their new jerseys.

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David Sum
[David Sum]

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Daylight Fonts
[Shinya Okabe]

Japanese foundry with excellent web pages on early 20-th century type design. Shin Oka, or Shinya Okabe (b. 1976, based in Himeji) created various revival fonts in or just before 2009, many connected in some way to Tom Carnase and the phototype era. He specializes in 1970s and 1980s typefaces, often with open counters and high contrast. His fonts:

  • Bentley (2010). This is the same as Avant Garde Gothic.
  • Bernhard Neo DF (2010).
  • Caslon223 DF (after ITC/LSC Caslon 223 by Tom Carnase). Other Caslons include Caslon Headlione DF (2010) and Caslon Swash DF (2010).
  • Didot DF (2008).
  • Garamond DF (2010).
  • Grouch DF (after ITC Grouch by Tom Carnase and Ronne Bonder)
  • Lubalin Graph DF (after ITC Luabalin graph by Herb Lubalin, Ed Benguiat, Joe Sundwall, and Tony DiSpigna)
  • Busorama DF (after ITC Busorama by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase)
  • L&C Hairline DF (after L&C Hairline by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase)
Additionally, they identified the fonts on many covers and albums from the 1960s and 1970s. Further revivals of photolettering era fonts:
  • Baby Teeth (2009): after the art deco typeface of Milton Glaser, 1968, PhotoLettering.
  • CBS Didot (2009): after the original by Freeman Craw, 1970s.
  • Indigo (2009): after a font by Albert Hollenstein, 1970s.
  • Pacella Collegiate (2009): after Vincent Pacella's typeface at PhotoLettering.
  • Penny Bee (2009): a Peignot lookalike.
  • Tiffany Heavy With Swash (2011). A swashy Didot display face. This type was used by Quentin Tarantino's movie Jackie Brown in 1997. Tiffany Heavy (Ed Benguiat, Photolettering) is basically identical to Benguiat Caslon Swash (1960s) and to Foxy Brown (1974). Similar typefaces include LSC Book with Swash by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase (ca. 1970).
  • Wexford (2009): after the typeface of Richard A. Schlatter, VGC, 1972.
They are working on Permanent Massiv (after a 1962 Ludwig&Mayer font by Karlgeorg Hoefer---comparable to Impact or Compacta in its massiveness and masculinity), Michel, Didoni, Tiffany, Ginger Snap, Patriot, Motter Ombra, Pistilli Roman, Benguiat Caslon (a large size display Caslon by Ed Benguiat at PhotoLettering; digitized at House Industries by Christian Schwartz and Bas Smidt), and Via Face Don.

In 2020, Shin Oka released the caslon-sinspired Ivy Ivy, the piano key version of a fat Bodoni, the fashionable Gara Gara, the 1970s font Bern Bern, Super Bodo Bodo, the art deco / Bauhaus typeface Sophi Sophi, the art deco typeface Fifty Four, the fashion mag typeface Rache Rache, the Peignotian sans typeface Mid Mid Sun Sun, and the display didone Fau Fau. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Désigne (was: Calame Design)
[Benoit Sjöholm]

Désigne (which was Calame Design is run by Benoit Sjöholm from Rennes, France, b. 1980.

Creator of the double-lined Margarette 01 (2008), the piano key typeface Désigne (2010), the sans display typeface Explora (2010), the elliptic Bagadek (2010), Fontastique (2010), Rajkeys (2010), the geometric sans Violette01 (2009), the octagonal typeface Yllia (2008), Nioubes (2008, very geometric hairline face), Julie01 (2008), Frida01 (2008, organic slab serif), Thamara01 (2008, sans), Linea (2008, outlined), and the ultra-contrast typefaces Lamia (2008, like leaves), Olivia (2008, art deco), Kanis (2009, organic), Kamalo (2009, upright connected script), Ageone (2009, organic), Agnes Serif (2009), Dollis (2009, elliptical), Johanna (2009, upright multiline script), Jalane Light (2009, techno sans), Yatis Black (2009, almost blackletter), Cilogie (2009, organic), Ageone Serif (2009), Kabys (2009), Kyma (2009), DekerS (2009, sans family), Sixty Queens (2009), Alice (2009), Genikas (2009), Naya (2009), Genikas, Cross (2009), Johanna (2009, multiline face), Johanna Bold (2009), Kamalo (2009, +Bold), Sakiane (2009, a counterless geometric face), Balkeno (2010, display sans), Nolla (2008).

Typefaces created in 2011: Rachel (minimalist sans), Marilou (elliptical monoline sans), Melody, Sophie, Judit, Monika (hand-printed), Fabrik, Eve Isabelle, Marilyn, Charlotte.

Typefaces from 2012: Constance (rounded bold sans), Emmanuelle (extended sans), Behatrice (techno), Georgiquas (a wide all caps face).

Typefaces made in 2013: Kabegnos (elliptical sans), Henorias (elliptical sans).

FontVila link. Dafont link. Old URL. Fonts and font blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Demonics
[Mateo Mok]

FontStructor in Los Angeles (and before that, Oakland, CA), who made DM/LM (2012: ultra black), dm Subfour (2012, experimentally vertically striped typeface), dm Streamline (2012), dm Clas (2012), dm New Humanist (2012), dm Blockd (2012), dm Scythe (2012), dmcm Erebus (2012, counterless), dm Kronos (2012), dm Parkway (2012, art deco), dm Parkway 3 (2012, for the Oakland Parkway Theater), dm Parkway 2 (2012), dm Xu (pixel face), dm E dim (2012), dm E light (2012), dm Eiros (2012, +Aliens, +Typicals, +Unrecognisables), dm Pop (2012), dm Informe 00 (2012), dm Solidus (2012), dm Me (2012, stencil), dm Nova (2012), dm Supernova (2012, a condensed piano key face), dm S 1 (sans), dm Spira (2012), dm Minium (2012, a jungle face), and the powerhouse slabs dm Banx10 (2012), dm Banx 11 (2012), dm Metrigue (2012, blackletter), dm Istruct (2012, pixel face), dm Wharf (2012), dm Solidis (2012).

Typefaces from 2013: dm Yes, dm Legimono. Typefaces not mentioned above includePixtalic (pixel), Mecca, No, Silo, Glatajn, Lm, Legimono, Stuckingranite (3d), Solidus, Subfour (piano key stencil), dm-Blockd, dm-Cantilever, dm-Eiros-aliens, dm-Eiros-typicals, dm-Informe-00, dm-Informe-01, dm-Informe-02, dm-Informe-11, dm-Kronos, dm-Me, dm-mecca, dm-Metrigue, dm-Minium, dm-New-Humanist, dm-no, dm-Pop, dm-readable-sans, dm-regulr, dm-Scythe, dm-silo, dm-Solidis, dm-Solidus, dm-Spira, dm-Subfour-Lb, dm-Subfour, dm-Supernova, dm-Xu, dm-Yes-{c}, dm-Yes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denis Forigo

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of teste_2, a gorgeous piano key stencil face, which he says is a copy of Crea by Corey. Corey in turn tags Armin Hofmann, the influential Swiss type teacher. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Design 76
[Bradford Cox]

Bradford Cox offers some shareware fonts designed by himself, such as Bikini, Metalic Avacodo (old typewriter), Acoustic Bass, Acoustic Light, and Soda Lime ("stale piano key font"). Very nice and artsy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Device Fonts
[Rian Hughes]

Rian Hughes studied at the LCP in London before working for an advertising agency, i-D magazine, and a series of record sleeve design companies. Under the name Device he now provides design and illustration for the advertising, entertainment, publishing, and media industries. He works from Richmond, UK, as a comic book artist, letterer and typefounder---his foundry is called Device. He creates mostly display type. List of fonts. Interview. Review by Yves Peters. Monotype Imaging page. Interview by Die Gestalten. Various (overlapping) font listings, still unorganized.

  • Dingbats: Pic_Format, Mastertext Symbols, MacDings, RiansDingbats, Autofont.
  • FontFont fonts: Identification (1993), Revolver, Rian's Dingbats, LustaOneSixtySans, Knobcheese, CrashBangWallop, and Outlander.
  • [T-26] fonts: English Grotesque (1998), Data90 (2003; a free FontStruct typeface that is virtually identical to Data90 is Bitrate by Kummaeno (2010)), Flak Heavy (2003, stencil), Flak (2003, stencil), Freeman (2003), Klaxon (2003, kitchen tile font), Cordite, Substation (2003), September (2003), West Way (2003), Egret (2003), Paralucent Complete (2003), Paralucent Condensed, Paralucent Stencil (2003), Mercano Empire (2003), Iconics (2003), Cantaloupe (2003), Gravel (2003), Acton (blocky screen font, 2002), Ainsdale, Amorpheus, Anytime Now (alarm dingbats), Bingo, Blackcurrant (Blackcurrant Cameo (1997) is free), Bordello, Elektron, Haulage (U-Haul lettering, 2002), WexfordOakley, Telecast, Terrazzo, Transit, Untitled, Scrotnig, Skylab (2002), Silesia (1993), SlackCasual, Ritafurey, Reasonist-Medium, Regulator, GameOver, Novak, Quagmire, PicFormat, Jakita Wide (2000, techno font), Metropol-Noir, Motorcity, Mastertext, Mystique (2002), MacDings, Lusta, Laydeez, Sinclair, Paralucent (sans serif), Judgement, Bullroller, Zinger (a fifties font), Citrus (2002), Popgod (2003), Range (2000, a futuristic font), Hounslow, Jemima, Griffin, GranTurismo, Gargoyle, Foonky, DoomPlatoon, Darkside ("remixed" by FontStructor Kummaeno in his Ubangi (2011)), Kallisto (2010), Kallisto Lined (2010), Cyberdelic, Contour, and the very original Stadia Outline family (Stadia is a kitchen tile font).
  • List of all fonts by Rian Hughes, as of 2004: Acton, Ainsdale, Amorpheus, Anytime Now, Bingo, Blackcurrant, Bordello, Bull Roller, Chascarillo, Contour, Cottingley (1992), FF CrashBangWallop, Cyberdelic, Darkside, Data90, Doom Platoon (1996), Elektron, English Grotesque, Flak, Foonky, Freeman, Game Over, Gargoyle, Gran Turismo, Griffin, Haulage, Hounslow, Iconics, FF Identification, Jakita, Jemima, Judgement, FF Knobcheese, Laydeez Nite, Lusta (big family), Mac Dings, Mastertext, Men Swear, Metropol Noir, Motorcity, Mystique, Novak, FF Outlander, Paralucent, Pic Format, Platinum, Quagmire, Range, Reasonist, Register (A and B), Regulator, FF Revolver, FF Rian's Dingbats, Ritafurey, Scrotnig, September, Silesia, Sinclair, Skylab, Slack Casual, Space Cadet, Stadia, Substation, Telecast, Terrazzo, Transmat, Untitled One, Vertex, Westway, Wexford Oakley, Why Two Kay, Zinger.
  • At Veer, in 2005, these Device fonts were published: Gentry, Gridlocker, Valise Montreal, Custard, Box Office (moviemaking letters), Sparrowhawk, Monitor, Moonstone, Miserichordia, Yolanda (a great playful medieval text typeface in three styles: Duchess, Princess, Countess), Gusto, Dauphine, Rogue, Ritafurey, Dynasty, Radiogram, Xenotype, Roadkill (grunge), Payload (stencil family comprising Regular, Outline, Spraycan, Narrow, Narrow Outline, Wide, Wide Outline), Catseye, Electrasonic, Absinthe (psychedelic style), Straker, and Chantal (brush).
  • In 2006, Veer added these: Profumo, Ironbridge, Cheapside, Battery Park (grunge), Forge, Shenzhen Industrial, Hawksmoor (grunge), Coldharbour Gothic, Wormwood Gothic (grunge), Chase (grunge), Diecast, Roadkill Heavy, Tinderbox (fuzzy blackletter), Dazzle (multiline face), Nightclubber (art deco), Klickclack (2005, comic book or cartoon caper typeface), Vanilla (art deco), Wear it's at (grunge), Diecast, Drexler, Box Office (movie icon font).
  • Fonts from 2007: DF Conselheiro (2007, grunge), DF Glitterati (2007), Indy Italic (script), DF Apocrypha (2006, rough outline), DF Quartertone (2007), DF Lagos (2007, rough stencil), DF Pulp Action, DF Reliquary #17 (2006, grunge didone), DF Dukane (2007, octagonal grunge), DF Strand (2007, striped stencil), DF Rocketship from Infinity (2006, futuristic), DF Appointment with Danger (2006), DF Las Perdidas (2006, grunge stencil), DF Kelly Twenty (2007, grunge stencil), DF Heretic, DF Roadkill, DF Ironbridge, DF Forge, DF Shenzhen Industrial, DF Hawksmoor, DF Cheapside, DF Battery Park, DF Saintbride, DF Profumo, DF Coldharbour Gothic, DF Wormwood Gothic, DF Tinderbox, DF Flickclack, DF Vanilla (multiline art deco face), DF Chase, DF Nighclubber (art deco jazz club face), DF Diecast, DF Dazzla, DF Zond Diktat (grunge), DF Yellow Perforated, DF Mulgrave (grunge), DF Ministry B, DF Ministry A (with a hairline weight), DF Gridlocker, DF Gentry, DF Valise Montréal (grunge), DF Custard, DF Box Office, DF Roadkill, DF Payload Wide, DF Payload Narrow, DF Catseye Narrow, DF Catseye, DF Yolanda, DF Xenotype, DF Telstar, DF Straker, DF Sparrowhawk, DF Rogue Serif, DF Rogue Sans Extended, DF Rogue Sans Condensed, DF Rogue Sans, DF Ritafurey B, DF Ritafurey A, DF Radiogram, DF Pitshanger, DF Payload (stencil), DF Outlander Nova, DF Moonstone, DF Monitor, DF Miserichordia, DF Interceptor, DF Gusto, DF Glitterati, DF Galicia (2004), DF Galaxie, DF Electrasonic, DF Dynasty B, DF Dynasty A, DF Drexler, DF Dauphine, DF Chantal, DF Absinthe, DF Register Wide B, DF Register Wide A, DF Register B, DF Register A, DF Quagmire B, DF Cordoba (2007, grunge), Mellotron (2004, stencil), Seabright Monument (2007), Charger (2007, grunge).
  • T-26 releases in 2007: Klickclack, Hawksmoor (grunge), Heretic, Ironbridge (old letter simulation), Battery Park (grunge), Chase (grunge), Cheapside (grunge), Dazzle (multiline art deco), Diecast (grunge), and Forge (grunge).
  • T-26 releases in 2008: Automoto (fat multiline deco face), Straker (organic). Also from 2008: Mission Sinister (grunge), Gonzalez (grunge).
  • FontBros release in 2009: Filmotype Modern. Other Filmotype series fonts include Filmotype Miner (2012), Filmotype Manchester (2012), Filmotype Meredith (2012), Filmotype Marlette (2012), Filmotype Mansfield (2012), Filmotype Power (2012) and Filmotype Major (2012: this is based on a typeface used as the titling font for the popular children's book by Dr. Seuss entitled One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, 1960). Other 2009 fonts: Degradation (grunge).
  • Creations in 2010: Pod (2010, fat round stencil), Korolev (2010, a 20-style monoline sans family based on communist propaganda from 1937), DF Agent of the Uncanny (2010, brush face), DF Destination Unknown (2010, Kafkaesque brush), DF Maraschino Black (a sleek, sophisticated high-contrast swash capital font).
  • Creations in 2011: DF Capitol Skyline, DF Capitol Skyline Underline and DF Capitol Skyline Capitals (a multi-weight all-caps pair that epitomizes Streamline Moderne), DF Korolev (a 20-weight sans serif family based on lettering by an anonymous Soviet graphic designer who did the propaganda displays at the Communist Red Square parade in 1937. Named in honor of Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, or Korolev, considered to be the father of practical astronomics). In 2018, Korolev was expanded to Korolev Rounded and Korolev Rough.
  • Typefaces from 2012: Ember (informal script), Kane (based on the Batman logo), Glimmer Glossy, Glimmer Mate, Galleria (avant-garde caps), Clique (flared sans).
  • Typefaces from 2013: Wulf Utility (grungy), Charterhouse (an aggressive black sans), Filmotype Melon (after a 1959 original, this is an offbeat Googie era doo-wop typeface), Filmotype Melody (similar to Melon), Filmotype Mellow (also similar to Melon), Raw (worn wood type), Cadogan (a rhythmic connected script), Whiphand (brush face), Steed (heavy codensed masculine sans inspired by the titles of the Avengers TV show), State Stencil (Clean and Rough: in the style of Futura Black), Korolev Military Stencil (named after Sergei Korolev, father of Soviet astronautics, and based on signs from the Red Army parade of 1932), Armstrong (a 1950s automobile font).
  • Typefaces from 2015: 112 Hours (numerals font).
  • Typefaces from 2016: Typex (an angular yet rounded monospaced typewriter or OCR-style typeface based on the lettering used on Alan Turing's and Tutte's famous code-breaking machine at Bletchley Park, the Bombe, and the subsequent British answer to the German Enigma machine, the Typex), Serenity (a legible sans family).
  • Typefaces from 2017: Pitch (a heavy block sans in chrome and solid variants), Shard (originally commissioned for Nickelodeon's 3D reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise), Championship Inline, Mood (a great liquid deco font), Grange, Grange Rough, Dazzle Unicase, Urbane (sans), Urbane Rounded, Albiona (a modern take on Clarendon; includes Albiona Heavy Stencil), Albiona Soft (a rounded version of Albiona), Pact (a modular geometric font).
  • Typefaces from 2018: Rutherford, Salvation (a potato cut font), Kano (inspired by the work of Dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld, one of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement De Stijl), Rogue Sans Nova, Fairtrade (rough-edged font), Goddess (Victoriana), Neuropa (a five-weight semi-extended sans that projects a muscular corporate authority), Worthington Arcade (a caps-only lapidary typeface), Zeno (a piano key stencil typeface), Vektra (an experimental crosshatch-textured typeface), Recon (a quartz display font), Kinesis (Kinesis is inspired by the work of Dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld, one of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement De Stijl. It is a modular headline font, constructed from white, black and grey overlapping rectangles), Freehouse (Freehouse is a reinterpretation of the well-remembered Watney's logo, a brewery and pub chain infamous for its poor quality beer and brutalist decor.), Zipline (a great multiline typeface), Argent Sans, Craska (a multiline font), Panther Black, Carilliantine (art nouveau with many interlocking letter pairs), Regulator Nova, Broadside, Bubblegum Pop, Heft (a heavy slab serif), Faction (stencil style), Metaluna (techno, engineering), Magnetron (futuristic), Urbane Rough, Urbane Adscript (a monoline semi-linking sans), Revolver (original from 1992), Albiona Inked (a Clarendon).
  • Typefaces from 2019: Gerson Rand, Gravesend Sans (an all caps sans family based on the unique typeface used for the iconic grass-green signage for the now-defunct Southern Railway in England).
  • Other: Customised Foonky Starred, Altoona, DfAncestorITC, DfAttitudesPlain, HotRod (2002).
  • Typefaces from 2020: Breach (a display typeface with partitioned capital letters), Epiphany (stencil), Aurore Grotesque (an elegant geometric art deco sans family with small x-height), Faculty (a geometric sans with large x-height), Fathom (a flared serif typeface), Atomette (a stylized comic book typeface family), Conquera (a stylish extended caps-only font in five weights plus an inline), Dare (a tape font, that borrows a pinch of the hand-drawn swagger of Bauer's Cartoon (designed in 1936 by H. A. Trafton), used as Dan Dare's signature logo in the British boy's comic Eagle, and also the upward-pointing serifs of machine-moderne typefaces such as Dynamo (designed by K. Sommer for Ludwig & Mayer in 1930), Urbane Condensed.
  • Typefaces from 2021: Maximum (a blocky techno or sports font), Paralucent Slab (a monolinear slab serif), Guildhall (a 10-style strong-willed mechanical font family), Broadside Text (14 styles), Cynosure (a 14-style elliptical sans), Valvolina (a geometric display typeface inspired by Italian Futurismo), Chassis (a sci-fi or computer game font), Fomalhaut (a space exploration font), Disclosure (a grungy font), Sheffield Fiesta (a squarish font based on the brutalist concrete landmark nightclub in Sheffield, now the Odeon Cinema), Grange Text (a 14-style sans), Wilko (a fat rounded poster typeface), Farthing (a 5-style wedge serif).
  • Typefaces from 2022: Bradbury Five (a vernacular / bubblegum / supermarket / cartoon typeface in 18 styles), Tracker (an inline space-age disco font from the 1960s or 1970s, reminiscent of the Mexico City olympics font), Salient (a 12-style didone).

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Dick Pape
[JMT Sausage]

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Dick Pape
[Hula Fonts]

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Diederik Corvers
[Ogentroost]

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Dima Pazuk

Moscow-based designer of the Russian church style typeface Russian Texture (2013), the Latin piano key typeface Crude (2013), and the Latin font Diorius (2013). In 2014, he created the hand-drawn Cyrillic typeface DM Sans, and the octagonal typeface DropFont. In 2015, he designed the Star Trek font Omega. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dismantle Destroy
[Matthew Tyndall]

Dismantle Destroy (and before that, Dismantle Design) is located in Clarksville, TN, and is run by Matthew Tyndall (b. 1984), who according to MyFonts lives in Frankfurt, Germany. Creative Market link.

Creator of Arrivals and Departures (2011, sans display face), Ask My Flashlight (2011, a bold and bouncy comic book style face), Quiet the Thief (2011, spurred face), Raila Skies (2011, a hand-printed typeface done with Ralia Staggs), Hello Arson (2011, grunge), and Badcap (2011, grunge).

Typefaces from 2012: Monster Monster.

Typefaces from 2013: Meet The Submarine, Coin Operated (sketch font), I know a ghost, Weathervanes, As You Wish (hand-printed), Hoods and Capers (piano key face), Everglow, Brave Mountains (hand-drawn 3d poster face), Biloxi, Savage Kids (Treefrog-like script), Sleeping Forest, Right as Rain, That's Just Gross, Silent Seas.

Dafont link. The free typefaces at Dafont included the grunge typeface Devotion and Desire (2005), and Something Dangerous, and the hand-printed typeface Meet The Submarine (2011). Many more were added to the free list in 2013.

In 2014, he made Hashi, Daruma (chubby poster typeface), Amely, Crybaby, Handguns, Real Friends, Solid Ground, Skag, Kazoku, Piano Fingers, Vagabond, Wolves at Night (brush font), Write This Down, Polar Bread, Hiroba (sci-fi), Hungry Hobo, Wakari, Suncrusher, Captain Chunk, Tegami (based on the handwriting of Kaori Onoda), Surfaced. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dom Rowland

Oxford, UK-based designer of the free bold piano key typeface Hyrbo Bold (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Domenico Barreto

Lima, Peru-based designer of the ultra-black piano key typeface Evangelion (2020). Domenico writes: Evangelion is a sans serif display typeface inspired by the works of Wim Crouwel and the anime Evangelion.

In 2021, he published Longinus (a tall condensed all uppercase display typeface also inspired by the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion), Tenebras, a sans serif display uppercase typeface inspired by art nouveau and Heinrich Heinz Heune's Edda (1900) [free trial], as well as the techno typeface Substance. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Donat Gashi

Pristina, Kosovo-based designer of the piano key typeface Blackout (2017), which is a modification of a free font by Ryoichi Tsunekawa. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DR Foundry
[Daniel Reed]

Everything he touches turns to gold. Manchester (was: Sheffield), UK-based creator of these typefaces:

  • 2012: Paper Cut (a geometric typeface).
  • 2015: Plate Mono (a monospaced all caps stencil typeface), Ivory (2015, a rounded octagonal titling sans).
  • 2016: Sidekick (an all caps typeface for children), Incido (a straight-edged typeface family),
  • 2017: Analog (a fantastic techno stencil typeface), Plunk (a funky typeface inspired by early jazz posters), Raymond (a warm bold display serif), Kong.
  • 2018: DR Bulk (want fat yet 2018-style fashionable?).
  • 2019: DR Pecker (a penis font), Vorga (stencil), Spira (a spiral font), DR Worker (octagonal, slab serif, mechanical).
  • 2020: DR Spindling (ultra tall, piano key style), DR Break (a stick font), DR Chi 26 (monospaced, sci-fi).
  • 2021: DR Gan (a kitchen tile font).
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Dr. Grit

FontStructor who made Physical Graffiti (fat outline face), Get Mad, Trees, Hammer Of The Gods, Lime Time, Abyss (piano key face) Glorification (octagonal), and a few other typefaces in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

E. Mendez

FontStructor who made the free modular stencil font Cybervetica (2012). No relationship with Helvetica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Egor Stremousov

Novosibirsk, Siberia-based designer. In 2017, he created Memesique, which was announced as a unicase grotesk from the 1960s, and is in true piano key style.

In 2020 he published FE Planking 2020 (a font for drunks, with letters fighting to stay upright; Latin and Cyrillic), FE Sector (a horizontally segmented font), FE Wrong (a font with deliberate flaws), FE 5 Cent (a pixelish typeface), FE Blacking Out (a dingbat font with blotches for blacking out text), FE Gigant, a typeface that evokes supremacy and Soviet era government buildings. Its massive proportions convey the spirit of Soviet constructivism. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Elige Chose

Illustrator and art director in Barcelona who created the piano key typeface Jags and the text typeface Encarna in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elisa Vanrullen

During her studies in Amiens, France, Elisa Vanrullen created an untitled piano key typeface (2015) and the display typeface Libellule (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ellmer Stefan
[The Pyte Foundry]

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Elman De Leon

As a student in Dallas, TX, Elman De Leon designed the piano key typeface Modular in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elvina Karimova

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Capsula (2019: a Cyrillic piano key stencil font) and Speaker Icons (2019). She also cyrillicized the didone typeface Elephant (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emma Bowey

Emma Bowey is the Manchester, UK-based designer (b. 1990, London) of Mancitecture (2015, an experimental font influenced by the architecture of Manchester), the spindly handwriting typeface Alphasplat (2012, Treefrog style) and of Mancitecture (2013), Chippy Handwriting (2012), Bond Me (2012, a piano key face), Sponge (2012, a fat poster font), and Tickle Me Elmo (2012).

Aka Girl with the AWOL muse.

University of Salford link, where she participates in Salford Type Foundry.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Behance link. Aka Chippy Bowey. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emöke Németh
[Gabriella Emoke Nemeth]

During her studies in Budapest, Hungary, Emöke Németh designed the free decorative all caps compass-and-ruler typeface Half Philip (2017), and the experimental Stitched Alphabet (2017).

Designer of the piano key typeface Opaque (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eraky
[Ahmed Eraqi]

Banha, Egypt-based designer of these typefaces in 2019: Calligra (2019: a serif font with calligraphic swashes), Rasoav (2019: a display or logo font), Roxon (2019: an organic rounded sans by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Hurringtown Script (with Koi and JAF34), Eraky, Zamoka (a swashy display style).

Ahmed Eraqi published Chattelyne (a curly font) at Zet Design. With Nohamad Foda, he designed Luxury Home, a Latin slab serif with lower case letters of unequal x-height, Zamoka (2019: a deco typeface), and Hamis (2019) Hamis Vol 2 (2019), a festive display typeface family.

Typefaces from 2020: Hamis Pro (a jazzy piano key typeface), Rigot (a modern fashion mag typeface by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Tioxo Sans (a poster or logo font by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Stazin (a striking Arabic / Latin display typeface by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), SolKing (an Arabic typeface by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), British Vehicle JNL (based on the UK license plate font created by Charles Wright in 1935; with Jeff Levine), Viking Drink (an 8-style decorative didone, with accompanying blackboard bold; done with Nohamad Foda).

Typefaces from 2021: Foda Egypt (a 12-style serif by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Slab (2021: an Arabic slab serif by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Freestyle (an Arabic display font by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Sans (126 styles, for Latin and Cyrillic, by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Kufi (by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda).

Typefaces from 2022: Foda Display (a display typeface for Latin and Arabic by Ahmed Eraqi, Nohamad Foda and Esraa Amer), Quta Rounded (by Ahmed Eraqi, Nohamad Foda and Esraa Amer), Quta (a 10-style sans with a preference for 90-degree junctions in unusual places; by Ahmed Eraqi, Nohamad Foda and Esraa Amer). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ercag Kural

Istanbul, Turkey-based designer of a piano key typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ergo Hiki (or: Ergo Fonts)
[Ezeqviel Ergo]

Buenos Aires-based designer of the free abstract display typefaces Lain (2014) and Ohmu (2014). He also made Kuurude or Kuudure or Sona (2014, a fashion mag font), Sahaquiel (2014), Kirishiki (2014) and Magnesia (2014).

In 2015, he made Chiba (thick handcrafted vernacular signage font), Ganguro (a free piano key typeface), Mizore (a free pixel font), Touka (sans), Kohta, Asuna, Ayanami (free), Usumi (a brushy script), Sumire (fat finger font), Nagato (Peignotian caps), Eiga (a free octagonal typeface), Shiro (octagonal piano key typeface), Bishoujo (brush script), Misato (brush script), Mikuru (brush script), Sensei (free brush script), Chizuru (watercolor brush script), Yamcha (free handcrafted typeface), Gasai (a grungy textured typeface), Hokage, Kaneda (free), Kagome (free), Metagross and Kagura (a severe but free modular type inspired by religious repression in the middle ages). His fonts are made with FontStruct.

Typefaces from 2016: Gessekai, Amaterasu (textured all caps typeface), Boketto (free unicase), Obake.

Typefaces from 2017: Bimyou (brush style), Kintsukuroi (handcrafted), Natsu (brushed font).

Typefaces from 2019: Sensei, Ganbaru.

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

Eric Zimmer

Lawrence, KS-based designer, at the University of Kansas, of the modular piano key typeface Glitz (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Groenendijk

Dutch / Latvian FontStructor who made Georgian Boldy (2012), Latvian High Condensed (2012, a piano key typeface), and Aluksne (2012, a bold sans with 854 glyphs). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Mansson
[Erotopia]

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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 typeface Nueva Letra (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts) and Roubaix (2013, a squarish family named after the movie music score composer François Roubaix).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erotopia
[Erik Mansson]

Erik Mansson (Erotopia) is the FontStructor who made the angular semi-constructivist typeface Mesnika (2012), the prototypical piano key typeface Nakameguro (2012), the modular typeface Karma (2012), and the mechanical typeface Supply (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erry Nugraha
[TamaCide]

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Eszter Misztarka

Budapest-based designer of the piano key typeface Fusion (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eugene Bunin

Graphic designer based in Kyrgyzstan. In 2020, Eugene Bunin and Christine Beginskaya released the futuristic partly stencil typeface family Gluon.

In 2020, Eugene released Kellion (a cyberpunk typeface), Hellebore (inspired by the logo and the game Mortal Shel), the dystopian typeface Dredger, the futuristic typeface Akrux, the retro-modern all caps sans typeface Inlow and Esm (a 6-style low contrast Swiss sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

Typefaces from 2021: Interite (a modern typeface with didone elements), Covenante (a display serif), Tp1972 (futuristic), Cradock (a 10-style almost monospaced sans), Razorback (techno), Metal Morphosis (octagonal), Neuromancer (a glitch font), Monumentum (a squarish monumentalist typeface), Dissidia, Arkham (an all caps tattoo font), Transmetropolitan (a piano key typeface), Aurelac (a sharp-edged display font).

Typefaces from 2022: Np1972 (a futuristic font that looks like a matrix), Robert Moore (a comic book typeface family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Evelyn Duerre

During her studies, Evelyn Duerre (Sao Luis, Brazil) created the piano key typeface Major Mission (2015) and the hexagonal typeface Odessa (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evgeniy Tarasenko

Moscow, Russia-based designer who made the free piano key stencil typeface Promplate Stencil (2016), the ultra black counterless typeface Blot (2011), the Italian typeface Utug (2015), and the free constructivist art deco typeface Eleventh Square (2015, published by Typetype). He also made nice Transport pictograms (2011, FontStruct).

Home page. Behance link. FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ezeqviel Ergo
[Ergo Hiki (or: Ergo Fonts)]

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Ezza Adhreza Brahma
[Ezzazabra]

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Ezzazabra
[Ezza Adhreza Brahma]

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

Typefaces from 2014: December, Kandel (a great layered typeface in Regular, Bevel and Inline versions), Jingga, Expatriate (a compass-and-ruler typeface), Father (vintage signage face, with 3D and Distort styles).

In 2015, he designed Puna (copperplate), Nawaitu (signage typeface), Tresno (a curly brush script), Mementomori (a modern blackletter), Gulana Slab Serif, the piano key typeface Zaun, and the 7-style vintage typeface family Sonten, which comes in 3D, Bevel, Contour, Deboss, Outline, and Shadow forms.

Typefaces from 2016: Hujan (a fun calligraphic printed typeface), Canda, Canda Script, Ririwa (evil ghost: a wonderful scary ink splatter font).

Typefaces from 2017: Oun (a vernacular blackletter typeface inspired by the Khmer alphabet).

Aka Ezza Zebra. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Faak and Paat Studio
[Julien Fesquet]

French design studio in Bordeaux set up in 2012 by Julien Fesquet and Benoit Baron, who were joined by Julien Taddei in 2013. Designers of the free display typeface Cascade Grotesk (2014), which is an experimental hybrid between Cascade Script and Brandon Grotesque. They also created the free high-contrast font Delicate (2014) and the free varied caps typeface 26 (2013).

In 2016, they finished the Escher style typeface Deus. LVtiK (2017) is a take on Helvetica. Khodja (2016) is a piano key typeface. Slantit (2017) is an experimental stone cut typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernanda Scipiao

Fortaleza, Brazil-based designer of the Bauhaus style stencil typeface Deutz (2017), which is named after a suburb of Köln. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ferran Riera Bonito

Barcelona-based designer in 2017 of these typefaces: Calafat (a gorgeous blackletter that revives a typeface made by the first printing press in Mallorca, Nicolau Calafat), Mirona (Scotch), Eixam (octagonal; named after the octagonal intersections of the Eixample neighborhood of Barcelona), and Kely (piano key stencil). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flat-It
[Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

Japanese foundry in Nagoya that offers free and commercial Latin fonts made by Ryoichi Tsunekawa, who also runs Bagel & Co, Dharma Type, HolidayType and Prop-A-Ganda. Most of his work was done at Flat-It. His typefaces:

  • 2021: Best Choice (a monospaced sans), Short Films (an art deco sans in twelve styles), Golden Decades (a 16-style sans that borrows from several sans genres).
  • 2019: Mid Century Sans, Tamba Sans, Rama Gothic Rounded, Bio Sans Soft.
  • 2018: Fairweather (clean sans), Kaneda Gothic (a basic severe condensed gothic), Vincente (a tall condensed display didone family).
  • 2017: Calling Code (monospaced programming font), Commuters Sans (elegant wide sans), Mighty Slab, Rigid Square (octagonal), Taro.
  • 2016: Bio Sans, Gomme Sans, Quiet Sans, Siro (sans).
  • 2014: Pero (condensed rounded organic sans), Kiro (minimalist organic sans), Graphie (modern geometric sans), Compasse (semi-condensed sans), Como (rounded sans).
  • 2013: Spoon (organic, rounded, monoline sans family), Antoinette Monogrammes (based on early 1900s embroideries by Janon Co; with frames), Clonoid (a sci-fi family that pays tribute to arcade game logos in 80s and 90s), All Round Gothic Demi (a sans based on perfect circles), Griffon (copperplate titling face), Antique Spenserian (based on Spencerian Script by Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan).
  • 2012: Geom Graphic (a retro sci-fi family that can be considered as a squarish version of Eurostile), Sheepman (modular), House of Cards, Space Colony (a lovely monoline futuristic techno family), Rama Slab (an antiqued wood-style slab serif), Rama Gothic. An antiqued sans serif family that recalls the wood type era), Diamond Ring (an art deco typeface inspired by Japanese cosmetics-packaging designs and posters from the late 19th and early 20th centuries), Controller (techno meets organic in this rounded squaris sans family), Revolution Gothic (an extended version of PAG Revolucion), 2008, which was inspired by retro propaganda posters and wallpainting in Cuba from the 60s to 80s; Revolution Gothic P followed in 2014), Diamond Ring (art deco).
  • 2011: Yummo (monoline organic sans), Sheepman (based on the wood type No. 506 of William Page), Onick (2011, an art deco neojaponist fat display face done for Wordshape), Shiva (2011, hairline sans), Mocha Mattari (2011, grunge), Dharma Slab (2011, inspired by 1800s-style wood type), Dharma Gothic (2011, +P), Rama Gothic (2011, also inspired by 1800s-style wood type), Dimensions (2011, squarish), Design System (2011, a large family based on 70s style techno typefaces), Speedometer (2011, condensed piano key face).
  • 2010: Stereo Gothic (2010: an extended all caps slightly techno sans family), Behrensmeyer Vigesimals (2010, a pixel format connected script), Civilite Vigesimals (2010, pixelized Civilite), Flat10 Arts and Crafts (2010), Flat20 Hippies, Flat10 Segments (2010), Flat10 Antique (2010), Flat20 Gothic (2010), Flat20 Streamer (2009, pixelized ribbon font), Flat10 Fraktur, Flat10 holy, Flat10 Holly, Flat10 Stencil, Flat20 Headline, Flat10 Artdeco, Word From Radio (2008-2010). Cigarette (2007, Bauhaus/Peignot-style).
  • 2009: African Elephant Trunk (2009), Concrete Script, Concrete Stencil (2009, a stencil calligraphic script), Perfect Magic (2009), HT Maison (2009, signage face), HT Farmacia (2009, connected school script), HT Espresso (2008, upright script), HT Cartoleria (2008, connected script), HT Cafe (2009), Sneaker Script (2009).
  • 2007-2008: Bistro Mono (2007, an awkward monoline face), Thousands (2007), Balaghat (2008), Garash Script (2008, a Halloween face), Woodstamp (2008), Banana (2008, brush script), Rebel Train Goes (2007, a piano key font), Rouge (2007, an elegant lipstick-on-the-bathroom-mirror pair of typefaces), Yasashii (2007, a great geometric art deco Broadway-style family, famous for being used in Damien Chazelle's La La Land, the 2017 blockbuster movie), Lily Wang (calligraphic script), Nothing (2007), Garash (2007, Arabic simulation), Moon Star Soul (2007, Western saloon font), Grandes Vacances (+ Une, Deux) (2007), Pansy Bo (calligraphic), Dremie (2007, an art deco headline typeface with Open and Fill weights), Grandes Vacances (2007, based on 19th century billboard letters), Xesy (2007, a fantastic "ronde" high-contrast upright connected script), Deluta Black (2007, a soft blackletter), Cotoris (2007, a 4-style family that takes inspiration from Koch Antiqua and the art nouveau movement).
  • 2006: Daisy Lau (calligraphic), Agedage Luxeuil (based on a monasteric script from the 8th century), Agedage Cancellaresca, Agedage Beneventan, Agedage Simple Versal (2006, Lombardic caps simplified), Amsterdam Modern (art nouveau influences), Flat10 [Holly, Holy, Stencil, Fraktur] (a set of pixel typefaces), Machiarge (a heavy connected brushed signage script), Chic Hand (connected script), Double Dagger (geometric stencil family), Fault (an art deco striped lettering face), Killernuts (headline serif typeface with brush stroke endings), Underconstructionism! (a rectangular look family with associated dingbats), Machia (decorative script), Kiwi (geometric hairline), Bagel (roundish comic book face), Jaguarundi (distressed), Boycott (distressed), Tokyotrail (futuristic techno family), Coconut (noisy outline face), Coconut Split, Fresh Tomato (LED simulation), El Piedra (letterpress emulation), Dried Tomato (LED simulation), Dutch Style, Mocha Harrar (great stencil face), 103 (experimental, Bank Gothic style), Airhead, ArealBlack, Awkward, BagelNew, BagelOld, Banbino, Bebas (2005, industrial sans), Bebas Kai (2014: free!), Bebas Neue (2010: free!), Bebas Neue Bold, Berlin89, Blackout (redesigned in 2011 as the ulta-narrow Dimensions), Boycott (grunge), Built-1970, Bunyan, Busted, Camera (2007), Canstop, Chiangmai (Thai simulation face), DBLline, Dijkstra, Dutchstyle, Fling, Graphite, Harcomaso, Hiexplosive, Hitech, Honeycomb, Junkmix, Kanatypo, KemikalHi, Machia (a calligraphic family), Meegoreng, Mikrob, Natsupopy, Overwork, Palsu, Plamo, Plasitico, REC001, REC002, REC003, Resistance, SQRT, STdigi (LED font), Shandy, Superstar, Tembaga, Tenaga, Tomodachi, Tragedia, Trucker, VRdigital, VRembroidery, Welcome2M, Workaholic, Zeebraa, plot-A, plot-K, Appendix 3, Gesso (grunge), Pusab (ultra round; one free weight), Sushitaro, Typewrong, Celtics Modern (a Celtic family of fonts). At T-26, he published CRZ (2006), Guppy, Ohana (octagonal), Picnica (2006), and Wearetrippin.

MyFonts link. Fontsquirrel link for their free fonts such as Bebas (2005, industrial sans), Boycott, Gesso, and Pusab.

Typefaces from 2022: Senpai Coder, Madromit (a layerable futuristic font inspired by the early computer fonts), Tokyo Olive (art deco), Poipoi (a layerable 3d or bubblegum font).

YWFT link. Bagel & Co. link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Dafont link.

Interview.

View Ryoichi Tsunekawa's typefaces. Kernest link. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Flavia Zimbardi

Flavia Zimbardi is a type designer and visual artist from Rio de Janeiro, based in Berlin. From 2005 to 2013 she worked for some of the leading magazines in Brazil. Flavia is a graduate of the Type@Cooper Extended Program at the Cooper Union, class of 2017. In 2018, she started Zimbardi Calomino together with Caetano Calomino, and in 2020 she co-founded Undercase Type with Phaedra Charles in Brooklyn, NY. Her typefaces:

  • Her graduation project, Lygia. It was awarded by the Type Directors Club and at Tipos Latinos 2018. Released in 2019 by Future Fonts, she writes: Lygia explores the duality of sharp and round forms with stylish cues and historical references from 16th-century masterpieces by Robert Granjon to the geometric approach of W.A. Dwiggins. An homage to Brazilian neo-concrete artist Lygia Clark, originally designed in 2017 as Flavia Zimbardi's degree project for the Type@Cooper extended program in New York. Lygia is a variable font with a weight axis. After Type@Cooper, Flavia settled in Berlin, Germany. In 2021, she released the companion typeface family Lygia Sans.
  • The piano key typeface Joschmi (2018). An Adobe Originals font designed as part of an effort to revive Bauhaus treasures, and named after Joost Schmidt.
  • In 2018, using a speed stroke technique, Caetano Calomino developed the signpainter font ZC Casual together with Flavia. It was re-released at Undercase in 2020.
  • In 2020, Phaedra Charles and Flavia Zimbardi co-designed the free decorative text typeface Fraunces at Undercase Type. Google Fonts link for Fraunces.
  • At Lost Type and Undercase Type, Phaedra Charles, Kelly Thorn, and Flavia Zimbardi published the chunky art nouveau typeface Regina Black (2020).

Future Fonts link. Older Future Fonts link. Note: MyFonts incorrectly calls her Flavia Zambardi. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fo Da
[Nohamad Foda]

Banha, Egypt-based designer of Calligra (2019: a serif font with calligraphic swashes), Rasoav (2019: a display or logo font), Roxon (2019: an organic rounded sans by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Hamis and Hamis Vol 2 (2019: a festive display typeface by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Zamoka (2019: a deco typeface, done with Ahmed Eraqi), Luxury Home (2019, with Ahmed Eraqi), a Latin slab serif with lower case letters of unequal x-height.

Typefaces from 2020: Hamis Pro (a jazzy piano key typeface), Rigot (a modern fashion mag typeface by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Tioxo Sans (a poster or logo font by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Stazin (a striking Arabic / Latin display typeface by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), SolKing (an Arabic typeface by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Viking Drink (an 8-style decorative didone, with accompanying blackboard bold; done with Ahmed Eraqi).

Typefaces from 2021: Foda Egypt (a 12-style serif by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Slab (2021: an Arabic slab serif by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Freestyle (an Arabic display font by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Sans (126 styles, for Latin and Cyrillic, by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda), Foda Kufi (by Ahmed Eraqi and Nohamad Foda).

Typefaces from 2022: Foda Display (a display typeface for Latin and Arabic by Ahmed Eraqi, Nohamad Foda and Esraa Amer), Quta Rounded (by Ahmed Eraqi, Nohamad Foda and Esraa Amer), Quta (a 10-style sans with a preference for 90-degree junctions in unusual places; by Ahmed Eraqi, Nohamad Foda and Esraa Amer). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Font Studio Four
[Paul Bokslag]

Paul Bokslag is a Kilkenny, Ireland-based type designer.

FontStructor (aka Four, or Font Studio Four) who made the dot matrix typeface Numbat (2012), the athletic lettering typefaces Atletica (2011) and Atletica Serif (2011), and the texture typeface Milky Way (2011).

In 2011, he created Things That Go (car silhouette dingbat face).

Faces from 2012: Crazy Fredericka (poster stencil face), Twisty, Remix Chinese Whispers, Toastbread (wavy, 3d) and Plywood (3d), Field Day (blackboard bold), Transfer Window (bilined), Walk in the woods (dot matrix face), Rock Paper Scissors (bilined), One Way Ticket (bilined), White Knight (outlined blackletter), Black Knight (blackletter), Shelf Life (stylish), Oystercatcher, Broken Promises (multiline typeface), Tarmac, Hibernation (German expressionist face), Glendalough (nibbed face), Tartan Permutations (multiline face), Return Flight, Orbital Flight, Quatermaster, Featherstone, Gorilla Republic, Granny's Bear Hunt (stencil), Detour Ahead (multiline face), Shanghai Express (angular), Cassiopeia, Camelopardalis.

Creations in 2013: Solo, C Is For Cookie, Early Riser, Firelighter, Timberline (an angular script), Lupo, Polkastruct, Bridger, Six Quinces, Dompteuse, Scandalous, Lane Seven, Singel (cross stitching font), Shadowbox, Hide And Seek, Playroom, Realta 1, Glimpse, Sinistra, Crash Test Dummy, Flightpath, Close Shave, Popover, Switchboard (electrical circuit font), Black and Amber, Wavelength (prismatic), Sightline (multilined), Structurosa Outline, Sparky, Trasna (stencil), Hold Your Horses (Western), Lupo (a winner in the FontStruct Connected Script competition), Skate Park (multiline face), Circumscript, Blinker, Bobs Your Uncle, Snowcat (inline face), Cottage Industry (house silhouettes), Causeway, Springville, Longitude, Pebble Dash, Tulipano, Hitchhiker, Stretcher, Whalewatcher, Solituda, Carbonium, Railway Sleeper (shaded face), Bricklayer Sans, Candyfloss, Milvi, Bluebell Carpet, Pinball Dingo, Spinfish (blackboard bold), Pelicano (piano key typeface), Metropolaris, Glimpse.

Typefaces from 2014: Thornbrush, Retro Pixel, Spacepixel, Level Rebel, Plutona, Blue Saloon, Seriosa, Bullwhacker, Spiegeltent, Stencilitis, Circumscript, Touchline Script, Brushland, Dordogna, Southbound, Things That Go (ar dingbats), Pacemaker Backslant, Hibernation (wood type emulation), Touchline Script, In Stitches, Stagefright, Process, Cabin Fever, Hamelin, Olingo, Black and Amber, Surftide, Move Over (stencil like Futura Black), Blackrock (rounded stencil), Windway (stencilish), Olingo (bubblegum face), a set of African-themed fonts (Bakelite, Amuletta, Spooner, Chevronel, Yellowhammer, Pinto), Rush Hour, Canario, Nova Zembla (sci-fi), Sleepless, Things That Go (vehicle dings), Cottage Industry (silhouettes of houses), Glimpse, Ticket to Ride (in the style of Tkachenko's Perfopunt), Oluna, Eyeliner, Linearo, Goldfinger, Permanent Black (fat rounded stencil), Solas (artsy dot matrix face).

Typefaces from 2015: Structurosa Italic, Ketting, Panenka, Nook, Companero, Circularity (textured), Recap Stencil, Beach Street, Life Cycle, Waterway, Rock Paper Scissors, Microwave, The Pattern Exchange, Alphabetical Order, Bloem, Synopsis, Microwave, Marbello, Dustcloud, Timberline, Boxthorn.

Typefaces from 2016: Proost, Blueback (a retro wood cut look).

Typefaces from 2017: Appalachia, Chocomotion, CloseShave, CounterCulture (3d), Crocosmia (prismatic), FarewellOphelia, FromAToB, Hinterland, Madagascar (an art deco alphabet), Micrologue, PhoenixPark, PillowTalk, Roetsj, Shadowbox, Sinistra, Skatepark, Soulmates, Spacepixel, Stagefright, ThePatternExchange, Tulipano, UpsAndDowns, Velodrome.

Typefaces from 2018: Hoek, Breach (paperclip style).

Typefaces from 2019: Krabbel, Nollaig Shona (trilined), Night Swimming, Kwadrant, Soulpatch, Sylvestra.

Typefaces from 2020: Bramble Pie (Western), Dialogue (prismatic), Greylock, Juggle, Tomorrow Never Comes (a great bubble font).

Typefaces from 2021: Offstruct RGB (a color pixel font).

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

FontBlast
[Jamie Place]

Jamie Place (aka FontBlast, b. 2002) is a UK-based FontStructor, allegedly born in 2002 (?), who made these typefaces in 2012: Microstruct (gridded, kitchen tile face), FontStrukt Soft, FontSrukt Clean Soft, Kombinationsschrift, Gridder (a kitchen tile family: +Soft, +Box, +Bold), Skyber, Diabolo (piano key stencil genre), fb Catbop, Hangar Shot, Hangar (army stencil), FontStrukt (+Soft), Braille Full, fb Symbols, Imagine More FB, fb Atarian, Imagine FB, Barkode, Fontstruction No1 (+Extended), Tetraminos, Structurosa Fill, fb Karakter, Minimal Export, Barkode, fb Scoreboard (dot matrix typeface for Latin and Cyrillic), Wenlock, Small Fonts, Fat Largo, Largo, Kerr, Kerr Bold, fb Mixture Unstable, Freehand, Structurosa Refined, fb Switch, fb Mixture, Vado, NES Forever, Retrotype Dot Matrix, Avant Pixel, fb Tall, Fast Money Clean, Retrotype, Retrotype Too (pixelish), Retrotype Sliced, Braille Caps, Tiger Sans (horizontally striped), Pixelface (smilie face), Karmink (star dingbats), Cofmugg (+Gap: piano key typefaces).

Typefaces from 2013: Slink, Tuning Fork, Dicey (dice font), Septober, Pico Pop (kitchen tile), Plano (kitchen tile), Dolphin Sans (hairline), New English (stencil), Gadget, Curvaceous Script, Avant Pixel, Barkode, Brailled, Haus (counterless), Zapadni, Curvaceous Script, Metric (a piano key Futura-like stencil face), Mocha, Mocha Book, dm FB Solidis, Tapedeck, Gridder Bold (kitchen tile face), Modulator, Turning Fork, Zapadni (Western), FontStrukt2, Metric (piano key face), Monaco (pixel face), Blackfoot (Pac-Man style), FB Catbop, Peach Condensed, Noodle, Peach Squared, Vaquero, Haus, fb Academy Sans, Peach, Rider.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontfabric
[Svetoslav Simov]

Fontfabric is the foundry of Svetoslav Simov, a visual designer who is located in Sofia, Bulgaria, b. 1984. They design highly innovative typefaces that have lots of style and flair. Most fonts cover both Latin and Cyrillic. Until 2022, their fonts were sold through MyFonts, but gradually they switched to their own independent shop.

  • Typefaces from 2008: Cubic (3d face), Clou (cloud-like letters), Colo (double-lined and geometric), Snail, Blou (very thick and counterless letters).
  • Typefaces from 2009: Uni Sans (first called United Sans), Kare (psychedelic), File (fat face), Zag (7-style monoline sans with tear drop terminals; it include Zag Drps and Zag Deco), Clou (cloudy letters), Facet (Black and Ultra: paper fold typefaces), Noveu (psychedelic, art nouveau), Pastel (brush face), Rolka (round ultra-fat and curly lettering), Val (rounded fat), Kvant (severe and octagonal), Duplex (fat techno), Avatar (ultra fat black), Dovde (bubbly, co-designed by Maria Karkova), LOT (fat art deco), MOD (ultra-fat), Oval (rounded sans), Quad (octagonal outline), Portal Strips and Portal Black (hyper-experimental geometric typefaces), Prisma (more ultra-fat experimentation) and Wigan (Wigan Thin and Bold of this paperclip typeface appeared in 2014).
  • Creations in 2010: Hero (free sans family), Null (ultra fat, free), Aston (a modern high-contrast rounded display face), DAN (free piano key font; Dan Pro is not free though), Solomon (headline sans family) [Images of Solomon: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii], Dox (ultra fat geometric poster face), Sudoku (a geometric display family with several biline and triline styles, done with Fontan2), VAL Stencil (a stencil in which repeating letters makes them tilt the other way; free), Code (2010, a fantastic monoline sans family; images: i, ii, iii, iv, v), Dekar (techno), Clipdings Web, Clipdings Travel, Clipdings Graphic Arts, Babydings, Artdings, Reader (Light, Bold: avant garde sans), SAF2010 (comic book/signage: well, Jan Erasms, the designer in 2006 of Menyaka for FIFA WC 2010 is not happy, calling SAF a blatant imitation), Age Free (free fat organic face), GOTA (a free fat finger sans face).
  • Typefaces from 2011: Gabriel Sans (grotesk family), La Boheme (signage face), Qero Mite (an organic monoline sans), Code Pro (caps only clean sans headline family), Solomon Sans (a headline monoline sans family).
  • Typefaces made in 2012: Nexa (a geometric sans in 16 styles), Nexa, Rex (free octagonal family for Latin and Cyrillic), Hagin (free), Intro (26-style superfamily in the Futura style) and Intro Inline (free Futura-style family for Latin and Cyrillic). Intro Condensed was created in 2014.
  • Typefaces from 2013: Nexa Slab, Nexa Slab XBold, Nexa Slab Bold, Nexa Slab Book, Nexa Slab Light. [Recognize the typeface by the a and the g (an 8 with a small piece missing).
  • Typefaces from 2014: Nexa Rust (a weathered letterpress emulation family of 83 typefaces by Radomir Tinkov, Ani Petrova, Svetoslav Simov and Vasil Stanev).
  • Typefaces from 2015: Bronn Rust, Bronn Script and Bronn Rust Extras is a handcrafted collection of 22 typefaces created on the coat tails of the hugely popular Nexa Rust and other typefaces in the grungy worn letterpress and layering vogue. The roundish tightly set broad-ranged sans typeface family Panton is sure to make waves for years to come---it is the typeface for mobile devices. Sensa (2015, Radomir Tinkov and Svetoslav Simov) is a handcrafted 21-style family divided into the subfamilies Sensa Brush, Sensa Pen, Sensa Wild, Sensa Sans, Sensa Serif and Sensa Goodies.

View Fontfabric's typefaces. In 2015, Ani Petrova, Svetoslav Simov and Radomir Tinkov co-designed the 214-style mammoth font system Intro Rust, a rough version of Fontfabric's Intro. The fonts are partitioned over Intro Rust, Intro Script, Intro Head and Intro Goodies. Still in 2015, we find Nexa Script.

In 2017, Plamen Motev and Svetoslav Simov co-designed Uni Neue, a total remake of Fontfabric's earler typeface Uni Sans (2009). Svetoslav Simov, Plamen Motev and the Fontfabric team (Vladislav Jordanov, Stan Partalev, Mirela Belova, Jacklina Jekova, Nikolay Petroussenko) produced Zing Rust, Zing Sans Rust and Zing Script Rust in the same year: it consists of 521 handmade typefaces.

In 2018, Mirela Belova and Svetoslav Simov co-designed the 20-style geometric sans typeface family Mont. Svet Simov and Svetlin Balezdrov co-designed the humanist sans family Squad, and Simov published the free all caps flared terminal font Colus in 2018. Gilam was designed in 2018 by Ivan Petrov, Plamen Motev and Svetoslav Simov---it is based on DIN, but is more geometric and has obliquely cut terminals.

In 2019, Svet Simov, Radomir Tinkov and Stan Partalev designed the 72-strong Noah family of geometric sans typefaces, which is partitioned into four groups by x-height from small (Noah Grotesque) to medium (Noah and Noah Text) to large (Noah Head). Codesigner of Mozer (2019, by Svetoslav Simov, Ani Petrova, Mirela Belova and Nikolay Petrousenko: a condensed headline sans family that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic; Mozer SemiBold is free).

In 2021, Svetoslav Simov and Vika Usmanova dusted off the 18-style update of Mont called Mont Blanc. It has very short descenders and medium-sized ascenders, two variable styles, and some redesigned glyphs. Its biggest problem will be the name---surely, the famous Swiss pen maker Mont Blanc will complain sooner or later about its trademark. I am puzzled about MyFonts, which did not catch this problem when they announced the typeface. In 2021, Simov also co-designed Code Next (a 20-style geometric sans by Svetoslav Simov, Mirela Belova and Stan Partalev; it includes two variable fonts).

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Francesco Mistico Canovaro
[Zetafonts (or: Studio Kmzero, or: ZeroFont)]

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Frere Jones Type
[Tobias Frere-Jones]

Celebrated type designer, born in 1970 in New York City. Frere-Jones received a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. He moved to Boston, where he worked at the Font Bureau until 1999. He joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Art in 1996 and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. From 1999 until 2014, he worked for and with Jonathan Hoefler in New York. In 2015, he set up his own type foundry, Frere Jones Type. His old Font Bureau typefaces can be bought since 2020 at Frere Jones / Type Network. His work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2006, The Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague (KABK) awarded him the Gerrit Noordzij Prijs, for his contributions to typographic design, writing and education. In 2013 he received the AIGA Medal, in recognition of exceptional achievements in the field of design.

His Font Bureau typefaces:

  • Armada (1987-1994). A rigid elliptical sans in many styles. This is a surprisingly beautiful family despite its self-imposed design restrictions. The Compressed Black is a piano key typeface in the style of Wim Crouwel. Font Bureau: An experiment in algorithmic design, Armada follows the verticals and flat arches so often to be found in the architectural geometry of cast iron and brickwork in 19th century American cityscapes.
  • Asphalt (1995). Font Bureau: Who hasn't admired the energy of Antique Olive Nord? All other ultrabolds seem sluggish in comparison. Nord exudes Excoffon's animation and Gallic impatience with the rules. Tobias Frere-Jones cross-bred the weight, proportion, and rhythms of Nord with the casual grace of his own Cafeteria, gaining informality and a dancing vitality on the page.
  • Benton Sans (1995-2003). Created by Tobias frere-Jones and Cyrus Highsmith, it is a revival of Benton's 1903 family, News Gothic, and one of Font Bureau's bestsellers. It is a very complete family, ranging from regular widths to Condensed, Compressed and ExtraCompressed subfamilies. The Small Caps set is complete as well.
  • Benton Modern (1997-2001). Benton Modern was originally undertaken by Tobias Frere-Jones to improve text at The Boston Globe. Widening the text face for the Detroit Free Press, he returned Century's proportions to Morris Fuller Benton's turn-of-the-century ATF Century Expanded, successfully reviving the great news text type. The italic, based on Century Schoolbook Italic, was designed by Richard Lipton and Christian Schwartz, who also added the Bold.
  • Cafeteria (1993). Font Bureau about this cartoonish font: The irregularities normally found in script can enliven sans-serif letterforms. In Cafeteria, Tobias Frere-Jones took special care to balance activity with legibility on the paper napkin that served as his sketchpad, drawing a freeform sans-serif that is condensed but in no way stiff.
  • Citadel (1995).
  • CochinOldstyle (1992), CochinBlack (1991).
  • Eldorado (1993-1994).
  • Epitaph (1993). Drawn around 1880 at the Boston Type Foundry (the Boston branch of American Type Founders), Epitaph was modeled on a graceful Art Nouveau letterform that was bringing a new vitality to gravestone inscriptions at the time. The energy and life of the Vienna Secession alphabet drew the attention of Tobias Frere-Jones, who digitized the original set of titling capitals and added alternate characters for its Font Bureau release.
  • Garage Gothic (1992). In three weights, it is based on parking garage ticket lettering but very reminiscent of license plate characters.
  • Grand Central (1998). Grand Central was designed for 212 Associates from late-twenties capitals hand-painted on the walls of Grand Central Station. Font Bureau writes: The design is a distinguished Beaux Arts descendant of the great French Oldstyle originated by Louis Perrin in Lyons in 1846, known across Europe as Elzevir and in the U.S. as De Vinne.
  • Griffith Gothic (1997-2000). A revival of Chauncey Griffith's telephone book directory typeface, Bell Gothic (1937-1938).
  • Hightower (1994-1996). A Venetian typeface originally done for the Journal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Font Bureau: Dissatisfied with others' attempts to bring Nicholas Jenson's 1470 roman up to date, Frere-Jones prepared his version of this calligraphic roman, with his own personal italic.
  • Interstate (1993, Font Bureau). Done for the United States Federal Highway Administration, but later released as a type family by Font Bureau. Interstate Mono (done with Christian Schwartz) followed in 2000, also at Font Bureau. The family is a reinterpretation of Highway Gothic, which has been the official typeface for American highway signage for decades. Its design is ultimately based on signage alphabets developed in the late 1940s by Dr. Theodore Forbes, assisted by J.E. Penton and E.E. Radek.
  • Miller. A Scotch Roman finished in 1997 together with Matthew Carter and Cyrus Highsmith at Font Bureau.
  • Niagara (1994). Almost a skyline typeface. Contains Niagara engraved.
  • FB Nobel (1993). An exquisite geometric sans family based on old ideas of De Roos at Amsterdam who explored alternative character sets to enliven basic Futura forms. Frere-Jones views Nobel as Futura cooked in dirty pots and pans. FB Nobel showcased. The Extra Lights were added by Cyrus Highsmith and Dyana Weissman.
  • Pilsner (1995). A beer bottle typeface. Font Bureau: Sitting in a Paris cafe with a bottle of beer, Tobias Frere-Jones gave his attention to the label. It was set in a roman design wearing blackletter-like clothes, probably to suggest an origin in Alsace or points to the East. Unable to forget the design, with its blocky, straight line emphasis, Tobias designed Pilsner, an exercise in straight lines in an angle-centered scheme.
  • Poynter Old Style (1997, Font Bureau).
  • FB Reactor (1996). This was first a FUSE7 font in 1993). Reactor destroys itself as it is put to use.
  • Reiner Script (1993). Based on a 1951 brush script by Imre Reiner (ATF).
  • Stereo (1993). After a typeface by Karlgeorg Hoefer, 1963 (Font Bureau says 1968).

At FontFont, he designed the children's fonts FF Dolores (1991) and FF Dolores Cyrillic.

At FUSE 15, he designed Microphone (1996). At FUSE 10, he published Fibonacci, a font consisting just of lines.

His custom work includes WorthGothic (1996), WorthLogo1996 (1995), WorthText (1995), GQGothic (1995), Halifax, Commonwealth (1995), Belizio-TwentySix (Font Bureau), HermanMillerLogo (1999, Font Bureau). Cassandra, Vitriol (1993), Quandry (1992-1994) and Chainletter (1993).

Retina Agate (2001, specially made for small-print stock listings at the Wall Street Journal) netted him a Bukvaraz 2001 award and an AIGA 2003 Design Award.

From 1999 until 2014, he designed for the Hoefler Type Foundry, which he joined as an equal partner (and the new company became Hoefler & Frere-Jones (in 2004), or H&FJ). He claims that he brought with him to H&FJ a lot of typefaces including Whitney, Whitney Titling, Elzevir, Welo Script, Archipelago (Shell Sans), Type 0, Saugerties, Greasemonkey, Vive, Apiana, and Esprit Clockface. It is not expicitly stated at the H&FJ site which typefaces he had a hand in, but one can safely assume that it must have been nearly every typeface made since he entered into the partnership. In 2014, Tobias sued Jonathan for half of the company in a 20-to-80 million dollar lawsuit since he claims that Hoefler reneged on his promise to give him his half. The typefaces at H&FJ he had a hand in include:

    Archer (2001, by Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere Jones). A humanist slab serif originally designed for Martha Stewart Living. It has a great range of features, including a classy hairline style. Some say that Archer is just Stymie with some ball terminals. Nevertheless, it became a grand hit, and has been used by Wes Anderson in The Budapest Hotel, and by Wells Fargo for its branding. David Earls on Archer: with its judicious yet brave use of ball terminals, and blending geometry with sexy cursive forms, all brought together with the kind of historical and intellectual rigour you fully expect from this particular foundry, Archer succeeds where others falter.
  • HTF Retina (2002). For use in the Wall Street Journal.
  • Gotham (2001). A sans serif done with the help of Jesse M. Ragan. In fact, the orignal design in 2000 was for GQ magazine. Read about it here. In 2007, he published the rounded version Gotham Round. Gotham was used in 2008 by Obama in his presidential campaign. Joshua Brustein (Business Week): Gotham is one hell of a typeface. Its Os are round, its capital letters sturdy and square, and it has the simplicity of a geometric sans without feeling clinical. The inspiration for Gotham is the lettering on signs at the Port Authority, manly works using "the type of letter that an engineer would make," according to Tobias Frere-Jones, who is widely credited with designing the font for GQ magazine in 2000. Critics have praised Gotham as blue collar, nostalgic yet exquisitely contemporary, and simply self evident. It's also ubiquitous. Gotham has appeared on Netflix (NFLX) envelopes, Coca-Cola (KO) cans, and in the Saturday Night Live logo. It was on display at the Museum of Modern Art from 2011 to 2012 and continues to be part of the museum's permanent collection. It also helped elect a president: In 2008, Barack Obama's team chose Gotham as the official typeface of the campaign and used it to spell out the word HOPE on its iconic posters. Hoefler produced versions in 2016 such as Gotham Office and Gotham Narrow Office.
  • Cyclone (2003).
  • In 2010, he and Jonathan Hoefler designed the sans family Forza.
  • Giant (2003).
  • Knoz (2003).
  • Topaz (2003).
  • Verlag (2006). Developed together with Jonathan Hoefler.
  • Whitney (2004). This is an amazing 58-style sans family designed for the Whitney Museum, but now generally avalaible from Hoefler, and touted as a great family for infographics. A derivative, Whitney-K, is the house font of Kodak. Whitney's sales blurb: While American gothics such as News Gothic (1908) have long been a mainstay of editorial settings, and European humanists such as Frutiger (1975) have excelled in signage applications, Whitney bridges this divide in a single design. Its compact forms and broad x-height use space efficiently, and its ample counters and open shapes make it clear under any circumstances.
  • With Hoefler, he collaborated on projects for The Wall Street Journal, Martha Stewart Living, Nike, Pentagram, GQ, Esquire, The New Times, Business 2.0, and The New York Times Magazine. In all, he has designed over five hundred typefaces for retail publication, custom clients, and experimental purposes. His clients have included The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Whitney Museum, The American Institute of Graphic Arts Journal, and Neville Brody. He has lectured at Rhode Island School of Design (from which he graduated with a BFA in 1992), Yale School of Art, Pratt Institute, Royal College of Art, and Universidad de las Americas. His work has been featured in How, ID, Page, and Print, and is included in the permanent collection of the Victoria&Albert Museum, London.

Interview. Interviewed by Dmitri Siegel. He created Estupido Espezial for fun, but it actually made it into an issue of Rollingstone. Catalog of his typefaces at Font Bureau. Keynote speaker at Typecon 2014.

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Gabriella Emoke Nemeth
[Emöke Németh]

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GalloFonts (was: Graphics by Gallo)
[Gerald Gallo]

GalloFonts is part of Graphics by Gallo, founded in 1974 by Gerald Gallo (b. Lucernemines, PA, 1941), and based in Bethesda, MD. The fonts: Bullish (squarish), Display Brutal Rough (2015), Display Black Serif Rough (2015), Pristine Light (2014: caps only squarish sans family), Display Pump (2014), Display University (2005, athletic lettering), Angulatte Light, Angulatte Medium, Angulatte Bold, Anniversary Seals (2003), Basic Bullets, Blooming Ornaments (2008), Brashee Regular, Brashee Bold, Calendar Font One, Calendar Font Two, Calendar Font Three, Carved Initials, Chiseled Initials, Cleancut, Dexterous (2010, art nouveau), Diamond Monogram - 2 Characters, Diamond Monogram - 3 Characters, Display Black Serif (2010, angular), Display Dots Five (2010), Display Dots Six (2010), Display Grungy (2010), Display Robust (2010), Dooddle, Embossed Shallow, Embossed Medium, Embossed Deep, GG Casual Light (2002, was Gallo Casula: hand printing family), GG Casual Medium, GG Casual Bold, GG Dingbats (was Gallo Dingbats, like Zapf Dingbats), GG Serif (1993, was Gallo Serif), Geometric Arrows, Geometric Ornaments, Gnarlee, Greetings, Home Sweet Home, Isometric Initial Caps - Bird's Eye View (1994), Isometric Initial Caps - Worm's Eye View, Isometric Ornaments, Jackolantern Assortment (2002) Just Bugs, Kruede Light, Kruede Regular (handwriting), Kruede Bold, Leaf Assortment (1994), Leaves Falling, Logotype, Magnificent Ornaments (2006, Victorian era decorations), Make Tracks (2002, animal footprints), Number Ornaments, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Circle Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Circle Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Diamond Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Diamond Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Square Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style One - Square Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Circle Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Circle Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Diamond Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Diamond Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Square Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Two - Square Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Circle Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Circle Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Diamond Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Diamond Positive, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Square Negative, Numbers 0-99 Style Three - Square Positive, Ornate Initials - Style One (2002), Ornate Initials - Style Two, Ornate Initials - Style Three, Pleasant Hand Light (2002) Pleasant Hand Medium, Pleasant Hand Bold, Precision, Rolling Ball Cursive, Serene (1993), Slender, Smiling Faces, Snowflake Assortment (1994), Snowflakes Falling (2001), Sport Numbers, Star Assortment (2002), Stature (2010, compressed sans), Swiss Folk Ornaments - Critters&Things, Swiss Folk Ornaments - Floral, Swiss Folk Ornaments - Geometric, Time Clocks, Woozee, Display Prominent (2005), Ultimate Ornaments (2005), Cross Ornaments (2005), Heraldic Creatures (2006), Victorian Leaf Ornaments (2006: great!), Quilt Patterns One (2007), Holy Ornaments (2007), Oriental Ornaments (2007), Gothic Initials One through Six (2007-2008), Interlaced Ornaments (2007), Modest Ornaments (2008), Art Nouveau Flowers (2008), Art Nouveau Ornaments (2008), Quilt Patterns Two (2008), Display Gothic (2008, blackletter), Plant Assortment (2008), Birds Flying (2009), Happy Go Lucky (2009, Victorian), Fish Fresh (2009), Display Dots One (2009, dot matrix face), Display Art Two and Three (2009, art nouveau alphabets), Display Dots Two Serif and Sans (2009, dot matrix typefaces), Display Dots Three Serif and Sans (2009), Display Dots Four Serif and Sans (2009), Display Robust (2010), Quilt Patterns Three and Four (both 2009), Gothic Initials (Seven, Eight, Nine: 2009), Carefreed (2009, a Halloween script?), Glorita (2009, casual condensed sans), Fancy Flowers (2010), Rectilinear Ornaments (2010), Display Brutal (2010, grunge), Cross Stitch Graceful (2010), Cross Stitch Regal (2011), Cross Stitch Formal (2010), Cross Stitch Discreet (2010), Cross Stitch Classic (2010), Display Dots Seven (2011), Cross Stitch Majestic (2011), Cross Stitch Elaborate (2011), Cross Stitch Medieval (2011), Cross Stitch Ornaments (2013), Display Squares One and Two (2011, gridded or dot matrix typefaces), Display Digits One through Seven (2011), Display Crisp (2012, octagonal), Blue on Blue (2012, shadow face), Green on Green (2012, 3d shadow face), White on White (2012), Orange on Orange (2012, a 3d shadow face), Victorian Ornaments (2012), Printers Plant Ornaments (2012, a floral typeface), Simple Ornaments, Numbers Style Three Diamond Positiv Regular (2012), Charisma (2013, inspired by the hand lettering used by draftsmen and architects), Display Explicit (2013), Display Uncanny (2013, unicase), Display Carlos (2013, a piano key typeface), Mighty Oaks (2013, stylized oak leaves), Sweet Hand (2014), Fast Hand (2014), Medallion Ornaments (2016), Vigorous (2016, octagonal), Heavy Duty (2016, a bold condensed sans), Tight Hand (2016), Hasty Hand (2016), Neat Hand (2016), Bullish (2017), Impossible Ornaments (2018: based on Escher's ideas), Flair Hand (2018), Severe (2018: squarish).

Typefaces from 2022: Flashie (technio caps), Illustrious (chamfered caps), Sturdie (condensed, squarish), Jubilant (squarish), Noteworthy, Sensuous (art deco), Loftie (chamfered caps), Pudgie, Brilliante (squarish), Fervent (an all caps condensed slab serif), Bevelle (a beveled chamfered slab serif), Lankie (a gas pipe font), Rotunde (a blocky sans), Rigide (a 6-style squarish sans).

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Gene Buban

Gene Buban (aka geneus1) is the creative and prolific designer at FontStruct in 2008-2009 of these typefaces:

  • Aerologica (2009): 3-d headline face.
  • Alphadings: DeTracks.
  • Altitudinus (2010).
  • Amplifica (+Carved, 2010).
  • Arkham Bloodletters (2008).
  • bay6
  • Bauhaus style: Slink (2009) is a tribute to Josef Albers---one could also call it a piano key font. Codename Bauhaus (2010).
  • Arc Brick 1:1 and 2:2 (2010).
  • Bevelicious (2009): 3d shadow face.
  • Bezziaiare (2010): an imitation of Futura.
  • Brikd is a fantastic headline face.
  • Bubble Lab EF (2008) and Bubble Lab Bang (2008): dingbat fonts.
  • Calligraphique (2010).
  • Candella (2013).
  • ChequereBoard (2008): a 3d face.
  • Christmas fonts: Kallosia Decorative (2009, blackletter), Snowflakes (2009).
  • Clone War (2008).
  • code2
  • Codename Bauhaus (2010).
  • Country Fried (Western style)
  • Crossfyre (2010).
  • Crystles (2014). He writes: In 1983, Atari released the Crystal Castles video game. You play Bentley Bear walking around castles and collecting gems. Trimetric instead of isometric. Interestingly enough, the initials of the highest scorer in the leaderboard is used to build the first castle. This font version is created using the same thin plated tiles that the player traverses through the castles.
  • Decorata (stylized art deco)
  • Didone fonts: Legality (2009, sharply serifed), Petrissage (2009).
  • Digibubble (2014: pixelish face).
  • Dingbats: DeTrayne (graffiti-clad trains), Happy Halloween (2009).
  • Egalite (2010): a blackletter face.
  • Direktype (2014: striped).
  • Elektronika (2009) and Circularities (2015). Pixelish.
  • ElSeeDee (2008, white on a black grid, inspired by the baggage claim LED scrolling message system at the Oakland Airport)
  • Effleurage (2009).
  • Eurostijl (2008)
  • Exersia, Excursia
  • Ferno (hell?)
  • Filmstryp (2008)
  • Flameon (2008) is a vertically striped athletic lettering font.
  • Fluoralei (2008) and Fluoralyte (2008) are all caps floral-themed typefaces.
  • Futuro (2008) and Futuro Extra Bold (2008).
  • Futurity Watch (2009).
  • Fragg (2014: a rounded stencil face).
  • Framestore (2008).
  • G1 Construx (2012). An arched textured typeface for "under construction" signage.
  • G1 Stenzilla (2012). A piano key stencil face. G1 Twyne (2014: Celtic knots), G12 Brayed (2014: Celtic knots), G1 Explo (2014), G1 Fasttrax (2013).
  • Gappy and Gappy LC (2010).
  • Geolateral
  • Glossierre (2009).
  • Graffikki (2010): graffiti face.
  • Hammerslab (2008) is a very thick heavy slab serif face.
  • Happy Halloween (2008): Halloween dingbats.
  • HellStruct (2008): flamed letters.
  • hollo, holloback, holloblack
  • HulkSmash has the look of cracked concrete blocks---has to be seen to be believed!
  • HyperLynk (2010).
  • Indiglo (2010).
  • Interblok Cylindrome (2011) and Interblok Stroke (2009): labyrinthine / Celtic knot / texture typefaces.
  • IronManic (2008, letters resemble armor steel plates with bolts)
  • IsoMatrix 3D (2009, an Escher deception in 3D), Bevelluzian (2010, 3d beveled checkerboard illusion).
  • Jaggs (2010): angular.
  • Karuso 68 (2009).
  • Leefer is a kitchen tile font.
  • Legere (2010, a roman face).
  • LegoManiax (2008).
  • G1 Lovelines (2016). A multiline typeface with embedded hearts that won an award in the 2016 FontStruct competition on the theme of love.
  • Lucid (2009).
  • Lush Alienne Caps (2014).
  • Microboto (2014).
  • Modulus and Modulus Black, ultra fat fonts.
  • Motternal (2011), a version of Othmar Motter's Motter Tektura.
  • Mucro Bold, a heavy metal band font
  • Multiverse Diagonality (2009).
  • Nontroppo (2010).
  • Outlier (2010).
  • Paradoxx (2011). Peignotian.
  • Periculum (2010): monoline sans.
  • pixsle
  • Pixsle (2010).
  • Predatoric ad Predatoric2 (2010).
  • Prikkle (2010): angular.
  • Ray Type Alpha (2014). A game font based on Konami's 1981 game Scramble.
  • Renovare S1 (2010) and Renovare S2 (2015). a slab serif.
  • Requiemme Decorum (Sept. 14th, 2009): blackletter. He writes: Exactly one year ago two of my cousins, Chris and Cleofe, got into a dealer-loaned Lexus for a trip after their main car was being repaired. Cleofe's husband, a CHP officer, was driving and their teen daughter was along for the ride. While on the freeway, the accelerator became stuck and they lost control of the car. As the runaway vehicle sped up to over 100 mph, all four passengers were killed in a fiery crash in the San Diego River. The loss was unquantifiably devastating. This immensely tragic event led my aunt to testify before congress with damning evidence that would initiate the recall of millions of Toyota vehicles. Requiemme Decorum was created on the way down to southern California for the funeral services. For Chris, Cleofe, Mark, and Mahala, may you all rest in peace and love.
  • Renovare (2010, +Renovare S1, S2): a slab serif.
  • Roboscript (2008): an upright connected school script.
  • Rubrix (2008): a Rubik cube dingbat font.
  • Sanserity (2013).
  • Scipio (2010).
  • Scribble Not (2010) is a texture face.
  • Sequencia (2010).
  • sedagive
  • Seriface and Seriface 2.0 (2010, a roman all-caps set).
  • Sharp-serifed almost modern typefaces: Legality, Petrissage, Effleurage, Karuso68.
  • Sinaloco (2014: in the style of Sinaloa).
  • Sirkles (2015). a dot-matrix typeface.
  • Sonorous (2010). Broadway-style art deco typeface.
  • Spartan Tech (2010): inspired by the multiplayer game Halo3.
  • Stanley Twobrick (pointy minimalist face)
  • Startrek typefaces: Transformicon (2009).
  • Stencilline (2014).
  • Streamlyne (2010, squarish, outlined).
  • Structurocca and Structurozza (2009): Horizontally stencilled black typefaces.
  • Swizelle (2015). A lava lamp typeface.
  • Tangience and Tangience Solid (2008) are fonts in which the glyphs are built up from circles glued together.
  • Tetrisyde
  • The Pax Man (2009): metallic whatever.
  • Trelief and Trelief Rounded (2010): multilined 3d beveled typefaces.
  • Tubric (2010): counterless.
  • Upriteous and Upriteous Black, condensed protestant fonts.
  • Victoriana (Victorian caps)
  • Vindicta Dualine (2011: Blackboard bold).
  • Wall-F: white squarish letters in black circles
  • Waverly, with scary pointed barbs like on German WWI helmets.
  • Weaver (Celtic knot-themed letters)
  • Xerro (2010): like Helvetica.
  • Yeomamuh, a fat look face.
  • Wypeout (2010)
  • Zorea (2014, inline font).
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Gerald Gallo
[GalloFonts (was: Graphics by Gallo)]

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GG Design

Maryland-based graphic and type design company. Their typeface catalog in 2021 showed these fonts, most of which are ornaments or initial caps: Americana Ornaments, Angulatte, Art Nouveau Flowers, Art Nouveau Ornaments, Art Nouveau Ornaments, Birds Flying, Blooming Ornaments, Blue On Blue, Brashee, Bullish, Carefreed, Carved Initials, Charisma, Chiseled Initials, Cleancut, Cross Ornaments, Cross Stitch Basic, Cross Stitch Brazen, Cross Stitch Carefree, Cross Stitch Classic, Cross Stitch Coarse, Cross Stitch Cursive, Cross Stitch Delicate, Cross Stitch Diamond Monogram, Cross Stitch Discreet, Cross Stitch Display, Cross Stitch Elaborate, Cross Stitch Formal, Cross Stitch Gothic, Cross Stitch Graceful, Cross Stitch Majestic, Cross Stitch Medieval, Cross Stitch Monogram, Cross Stitch Noble, Cross Stitch Ornaments, Cross Stitch Regal, Cross Stitch Simple, Cross Stitch Solid, Cross Stitch Splendid, Dexterous, Diamond Monogram, Display Ardent, Display Art, Display Art One, Display Art Two, Display Black Serif, Display Brutal, Display Carlos, Display Chamfer, Display Crisp, Display Digits Eight, Display Digits Five, Display Digits Four, Display Digits Nine, Display Digits One, Display Digits Seven, Display Digits Six, Display Digits Ten, Display Digits Three, Display Digits Two, Display Dots & Squares, Display Dots Five, Display Dots Four Sans, Display Dots Four Serif, Display Dots One, Display Dots Seven, Display Dots Six, Display Dots Three Sans, Display Dots Three Serif, Display Dots Two Sans, Display Dots Two Serif, Display Explicit, Display Exquisite, Display, Display Gothic, Display Grungy, Display Haphazard, Display Intense, Display Plump, Display Prominent, Display Robust, Display Squares Two, Display Uncanny, Display University, Dooddle, Elegant Ornaments, Embossed Deep, Embossed Medium, Embossed Shallow, Fancy Flowers, Fast Hand, Fish Fresh, Flair Hand, Fleuron Ornaments, Floral Ornaments, Foliage Ornaments, Folk Art Flowers, GG Casual, GG Serif, Glorita, Gnarlee, Gothic Initials Eight, Gothic Initials Five, Gothic Initials, Gothic Initials Four, Gothic Initials Nine, Gothic Initials One, Gothic Initials Seven, Gothic Initials Six, Gothic Initials Three, Gothic Initials Two, Green On Green, Hand Lettered, HappyFont Hasty Hand, Heavy Duty, Heraldic Creatures, Holy Ornaments, Impossible Ornaments, Interlaced Ornaments, Isometric Initial Caps Bird's Eye, Isometric Initial Caps Worm's Eye, Isometric Ornaments, Just Bugs, Kruede, Leaf Assortment, Logotype, Magnificent Ornaments, Make Tracks, Mighty Oaks, Modest Ornaments, Neat Hand, Numbers Style One, Numbers Style Three, Numbers Style Two, Orange On Orange, Oriental Ornaments, Ornate Initials, Plant Assortment, Pleasant Hand, Precision, Printers Plant Ornaments, Pristine Light, Quilt Patterns Four, Quilt Patterns One, Quilt Patterns Three, Quilt Patterns Two, Rectilinear Ornaments, Rolling Ball Cursive, Rosette Ornaments, Serene, Shield Ornaments, Simple Serif, Slender, Smiling Faces, Snowflake Assortment, Spiral Ornaments, Sport Numbers, Star Assortment, Stature, Sweet Hand, Swiss Folk Ornaments Critters, Swiss Folk Ornaments Floral, Swiss Folk Ornaments -Geometric, Tight Hand, Time Clocks, Tree Assortment, Ultimate Ornaments, Veggie Fruit, Victorian Leaf Ornaments, Victorian Ornaments, Vigorous, White On White, Woozee. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gigofonts--Gigodesign
[Matevz Medja]

Gigofonts is a Ljubljana-based foundry run by Matevz Medja (b. 1966, Kranj). He set up design studio Medja & Karlson in 1990 and Gigodesign in 2000. He founded Gigofonts and Archive Type typefoundries.

Matevz designed Compressor (1997, T-26), Gf Blackmail (2004, ransom note font), Gf Patetica (2004, an elegant renaissance serif with tall ascenders), Gf Scribbles (2005, hand-printed family), Gf Script No 2 (2005), Gf Script No 4, Gf Script No4 Scratch (2004, based on Penman Script), Gf Script No. 5 (2005), Gf SelfcensorShit (2004, T-26, and later at Gigofonts, now simply called Gf Selfcensor---a unicase family), Gf Spacetrash (2004), Gf Special (2005, 22 funky disco fonts, many of which are piano key typefaces), Semafor (1997, dot matrix, at T-26 since 2002), Gf H2O (2005, a humanist sans family done with Mitja Miklavčič).

MyFonts link. Creative Market link. Linotype link. Identifont link. Klingspor link.

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Giulio Grigollo

Based in Verona, Italy, this graphic designer and art director created the typeface Swan (2009) and the avant garde typeface Architecta (2009, Happycentro).

In 2015, he designed the condensed piano key typeface Clexidra 8. In 2016, he designed the data typeface No Fly Zone, and the airport signage typeface Terminale.

Typefaces from 2018: Ragazi Fugazi, Sabotage (experimental), Abracadabra (condensed and modular), Nultras (a free all caps monoline and monospace typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gloria Flores Lleonart

Graphic designer in Barcelona, who created the tweetware piano key typeface Astro (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grafici Senza Frontiere

Grafici senza frontiere (graphic designers without borders) is based in Milan. They created a piano key Bauhaus-inspired typeface called Archiquadro (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grafici Senza Frontiere (was: Tomaso Typo Baj Fonts)
[Tomaso Baj]

Gironico, Como, Italy-based designer of the retro sans all caps typeface Aero Club Como (2013-2014). In 2012, he created Archiquadro, a Bauhaus style piano key stencil face.

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Graham Meade
[Typotheticals (was: F.O.N.Type)]

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Gray Ng

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based creator of vector format fonts such as RoundCondensed (2014: piano key style), Hue Font (2014: op-art), Foury (2014: kitchen tile font), Trimental (2014: a 3d typeface), Playful Kid (2014), Maze Font (2014), Roundty Condensed (2012), Shape Guide (2014: a compass-and-ruler font), Veuz Italic (2014: poster font), Reel Love Joining Font (2014).

In 2015, he made the experimental Prime Font and the paleolithic writing style font Paleo (2015).

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guentersen

Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to create FUSE (based on the work of Neville Brody), ANNA45 (pixel face), ANNA63-Display-small-caps-Regular, ANNA63-small-caps-Regular, ANNA91-regular-Regular, Alto Monospaced (octagonal and monospaced), Alto Capitals Fat (almost pixel version), ANNA Killed (nice fat face), square Out and Square Out2 (pixel typefaces), Coldplay-Semi-Regular (gorgeous piano key font), Coldplay-Small-Caps-Regular, Coldplay-wide-space-Regular, Coldplay-Regular, Frieda-Regular, HAUS-Small-Caps-Regular (interesting pixelized face), guess-who-Regular. In 2009, these were added: Haus (gridded), HausFraktur (gridded blackletter), Cees (dot matrix), Peace (blocky pixels). [Google] [More]  ⦿

h1k765

FontStructor who made Full Metal Jacket (2014), Barcode (2014, +Stencil), Shorai (2014), Lilia Dotted (+Sans; 2014, a dot matrix family), Jack in the Box (2014), Rhapsody in Blue (2014), Steamer Slab (2014), Script (2014), Poster Glue (2014), Disco Freak (2014), Voodoo Doll (2014), Fourmania (2014), Tribal Script (2014), Tribal Serif (2014), Azul (2014), Hand of the Vampire (2014), Old English Metal (2014, a great textured typeface), Hebba (2014), Deco Nouveau (2014), Hebba Diamond (2014), Hebba Inline (2014), Folded Stencil (2014), Sword Cut (2014: a piano key typeface), Open Circuit (2014, an inline face), Patchwork (2014, a square-shaped interlocking piano key stencil face), Zaul, Miss Suzie B, and a few other typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hans Thiessen
[Komboh]

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Haus am Meer

German studio of Wolfram Saathoff and Steffen Kratz, based in Hamburg. They designed the piano key stencil typeface Mjölk and the Pacman font Tölva in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hazztype (was: Helve Tian)
[Muhammad Hastian]

Aka Tian Hazz. Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer of Skala Display (2021: an angular display typeface), Kaisar (2020: a geometric sans in 18 styles), Fergana (2019: a reverse contrast display typeface), Quantia (2019), Pragnea (2018: a sans family), Kickgatura (2018: connected script), and Morning Glory (2017).

Typefaces from 2022: Gremlin (a wide display sans in six styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Headfonts Store (was: Mcraft, and Mihis Design)
[Alexandru Mihis]

Timisoara, Romania-based designer of the fat blackletter typeface Black Baron (2015).

In 2016, he made the modular typeface family Epicon, the vintage typeface Knucklehead (sans and spurred version), the spurred Velasco, the octagonal typeface family Knox, Scripthead, Monogram World (+Vintage), the monoline script typeface Catarg, and the octagonal typeface family Epicoff (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Bauhead (piano key or Bauhaus style), Hammerhead (free at YWFT), Typehead (industrial; +Stencil, +Deco), Flathead Round, Merak, Millennium.

Typefaces from 2018: Spearhead, Mudhead, Mudhead Serif, Blackhead, Numhead (industrial, octagonal), Modernhead (Serif, Sans).

Typefaces from 2019: Rustyhead, Uphead, Penhead, Decohead (+Display), Hothead, Inkhead, Techead, Retrohead, Blockhead (+Nova), Overhead (a sports font).

Typefaces from 2020: Techead (a minimalist sans for start-ups), Nordhead.

Typefaces from 2021: Arthead, Zighead.

Typefaces from 2022: Blishead, RutheadArt Deco Monogram, Wildhead, Fathead.

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HelloMe
[Till Wiedeck]

HelloMe is Till Wiedeck's Berlin-based studio. They created the following typefaces in 2011: HM Extra (the visual identity for HipHop musician Exzem is based around the custom alchemic typeface HM Extra), HM JuneGrotesk, HM Tilm (monoline, created with Timm Häneke). HM Walnut (2008) is a modular geometric experimental typeface. HM Club (2009) is an art deco typeface created as part of Videoclub's visual identity. HM Mary (2008) is almost in the piano key typeface genre. HM Melt (2008) is a very original logotype stencil typeface.

In 2014, they made the bespoke typeface Blom & Blom. In 2015, they published the children's block typeface Tiny. [Google] [More]  ⦿

HelloMuller

Designers at HypeForType of Nagasaki, a piano key typeface that was inspired by Wim Crouwel's famous poster called Nagasaki. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hiscott Foundry
[Jonathan Hiscott]

Located in Ithaca, NY, the Hiscott Foundry started producing fonts in 2008: Piano (2008, inspired by piano keys), Asimov (2008, handwriting), Kopa (2008, hand-printed). Additions in 2009: Vapor (curly hand). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hoefler (was: Hoefler&Frere-Jones, and Hoefler Type Foundry)
[Jonathan Hoefler]

Born in 1970 in New York, Jonathan Hoefler ran the Hoefler Type Foundry (or: HTF) in New York. It employed Tobias Frere-Jones, Josh Darden, and Jesse Ragan. In 2004, it was renamed Hoefler&Frere-Jones, or HFJ for the cognoscenti. However, a legal problem between Jonathan and Tobias led to a corporate divorce in 2014---the company is renamed again The Hoefler Type Foundry. In September 2021, Monotype acquired Hoefler, and that is the end of that chapter. Their typefaces:

  • Acropolis.
  • Archer (2001, by Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere Jones). A humanist slab serif originally designed for Martha Stewart Living. It has a great range of features, including a classy hairline style. However, I see trouble down the road with the name Archer which has been used previously by several other foundries such as SignDNA, Arts&Letters and Silver Graphics. Some say that Archer is just Stymie with some ball terminals. Nevertheless, it became a grand hit, and has been used by Wes Anderson in The Budapest Hotel, and in Wells Fargo's branding. David Earls on Archer: with its judicious yet brave use of ball terminals, and blending geometry with sexy cursive forms, all brought together with the kind of historical and intellectual rigour you fully expect from this particular foundry, Archer succeeds where others falter.
  • Champion Gothic.
  • Chronicle Text. In 2007, HFJ published the "blended Scotch" newspaper serif text family Chronicle, which led to Chronicle ScreenSmart in 2015. See also Chronicle Display. In 2016, Hoefler published Chronicle Hairline. In Wired Magazine, Margaret Rhodes writes that it is for men who wear dress shoes without socks. Chronicle Hairline is a didone that breaks the didone rules. It is rounder, asymmetric (as in the mouth of the C), and as Hoefler puts it, more musical. As of 2016, the Chronicle typeface family consists of the display styles Chronicle Hairline, Chronicle Display (+Condensed, +Compressed), and Chronicle Deck (+Condensed), and the 60-style Chronicle Text family, which comes in G1, G2, G3 and G4 subfamilies.
  • Many custom and branding typefaces, including, e.g., General GG (2005-2007) and typefaces for The New York Times Magazine, Times Mirror, Esquire and McGraw-Hill (1995, free download). Time.com provides previews of fonts made for Esquire, Lever House, eCompany Now, The Guggenheim Museum, The New York Times, and the Whitney Museum.
  • Cyclone.
  • Decimal (2019). A sans based on early wristwatch typefaces, i.e., the microscopic letters used by Swiss watchmakers in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
  • Didot. HTF carefully designed and complete families include HTF-Didot (1991) in 42 weights/variations, originally designed for Harper's Bazaar; based on the grosse sans pareille no. 206 of Molé le jeune.
  • Eyes Only (2019). A stencil typeface.
  • Forza (2010). A sans typeface. Not to be confused with the 2007 font Forza by Michel Luther at Die Gestalten.
  • Geometer Screen Fonts. Free Mac fonts.
  • Giant.
  • Gotham (2003). The stylish sans typeface made famous by Obama. See also Gotham Rounded.
  • Historical Allsorts. This includes Historical-EnglishTextura, Historical-FellType, Historical-GreatPrimerUncials and Historical-StAugustin.
  • Hoefler Text (+Ornaments). This antiqua text typeface consists of 27 fonts made in 1991-1992, and is distributed with many Apple products.
  • Hoefler Titling.
  • Ideal Sans. A slightly flared humanist sans. In the 1996 Morisawa Awards competition, Hoefler received a bronze prize for Ideal Sans. In 2011, HFJ writes it up beautifully: Typefaces are born from the struggle between rules and results. Squeezing a square about 1% helps it look more like a square; to appear the same height as a square, a circle must be measurably taller. The two strokes in an X aren't the same thickness, nor are their parallel edges actually parallel; the vertical stems of a lowercase alphabet are thinner than those of its capitals; the ascender on a d isn't the same length as the descender on a p, and so on. For the rational mind, type design can be a maddening game of drawing things differently in order to make them appear the same. Twenty-one years ago, we began tinkering with a sans serif alphabet to see just how far these optical illusions could be pushed. How asymmetrical could a letter O become, before the imbalance was noticeable? Could a serious sans serif, designed with high-minded intentions, be drawn without including a single straight line? This alphabet slowly marinated for a decade and a half, benefitting from periodic additions and improvements, until in 2006, Pentagram's Abbott Miller proposed a project for the Art Institute of Chicago that resonated with these very ideas. As a part of Miller's new identity for the museum, we revisited the design, and renovated it to help it better serve as the cornerstone of a larger family of fonts. Since then we've developed the project continuously, finding new opportunities to further refine its ideas, and extend its usefulness through new weights, new styles, and new features. Today, H&FJ is delighted to introduce Ideal Sans, this new font family in 48 styles. Ideal Sans is a meditation on the handmade, combining different characteristics of many different writing tools and techniques, in order to achieve a warm, organic, and handcrafted feeling.
  • Idlewild (2012). A wide sans typeface family.
  • Isotope (2018). A squarish typeface family. Not to be confused with Isotope by Fábio Duarte Martins, designed six years earlier.
  • Inkwell (2017). Hoefler writes: Inkwell is provided in a range of styles with which readers already have clear associations: a bookish Serif and a cleanly printed Sans, a conversational Script, a ceremonial Blackletter, a fancy Tuscan for decoration, and a stately Open for titles. Each style is offered in six weights, from a technical pen Thin to a graffiti marker Black. Inkwell is a name used as far back as 1992 by Sam Wang, and additional older fonts called Inkwell exist by Dan Solo, Philip Cronerud and MXB Foundry.
  • Knockout. The Knockout collection was designed to celebrate the beauty and diversity of nineteenth century sans serif wood types.
  • Knox.
  • Landmark (2013). In Regular, Inline, Shadow and Dimensional styles. A collection of architectural caps which started out as a custom typeface for Lever House in New York.
  • Leviathan.
  • Mercury Text and Mercury Display.
  • Nitro & Turbo (2016). Hoefler writes: We designed Nitro for Pentagram's Michael Bierut, as part of a new identity for the New York Jets football team. Originally named Jets Bold, Nitro is rooted in the styles of lettering used by the team throughout its fifty-year history: even as its logotype evolved, it consistently used heavy, slanting forms to imply force and movement. and ends with corporate babble: Nitro embodies this indomitable spirit in the context of a fresh, contemporary design. About the naming: AF Nitro was made by Sylvia Janssen at the very popular Die Gestalten Studio in Germany, in 2001. It will be fun to watch that battle between giants. Not to mention that lesser known players also made commercial fonts called Nitro more than a decade earlier---these include Jack Wills at Sign DNA and Markus Schroeppel (in 2004).
  • Numbers. In 2006, HFJ published the Numbers family, 15 fonts with nothing but numbers from various sources: Bayside (based on a set of house numbers produced around 1928 by H. W. Knight & Son of Seneca Falls, New York), Claimcheck (inspired by ticket stubs), Delancey (from tenement doorways), Depot (modeled on vintage railcars), Deuce (based on playing cards), Dividend (from an antique check writer), Greenback (based on U. S. currency), Indicia (inspired by rubber stamps), Premium (after vintage gas pumps), Prospekt (based on Soviet house numbers), Redbird (inspired by New York subways), Revenue (from cash register receipts), Strasse (after European enamel signs), Trafalgar (inspired by British monuments), Valuta (after Hungarian banknotes).
  • Obsidian. In 2015, Jonathan Hoefler and Andy Clymer cooperated on the decorative copperplate engraved emulation typeface Obsidian. Various kinds of 3d illumination in Obsidian were obtained by an algorithmic process. Not to be confused with about ten other fonts called Obsidian--for example, we have Obsidian (pre 2003, Silver Graphics), Obsidian (2014, Steffi Strick), Obsidian (2012, Krzysztof Stryjewski), Obsidian Deco (2013, Yautja), Obsidian (2005, Sparklefonts), and Obsidian Chunks (pre 2002, Jeni Pleskow).
  • Operator, Operator Mono, Operator Screensmart and Operator Screensmart Mono. The non-typewriter typewriter type..
  • Peristyle (2017). A stylish condensed typeface family with piano key elements, and described by Hoefler as dramatic.
  • Quarto.
  • Requiem (1991-1994).
  • In 2003, they published Retina (which was originally designed for the stock listings in the Wall Street Journal), but that font disappeared from their listing.
  • Ringside.
  • St. Augustin Civilité: St. Augustin Civilité is a digitization of Robert Granjon's extraordinary type of 1562, now in the collection of the Enschedé type foundry, Haarlem. This typeface is reproduced in Civilité Types by Harry Carter and H. D. L. Vervliet (Oxford Bibliographical Society, by the Oxford University Press, 1966.) As figures and punctuation were lacking in the original, these have been borrowed from two other Granjon types, the Courante and Bastarde of 1567. (The remainder of the character set has been invented.)
  • Sagittarius (2021). A soft-edged compact semi-futuristic headline sans. In keeping with tradition, Hoefler dismisses or ignores the fact that the name Sagittarius was taken by a handful of other fonts since about 22 years ago.
  • Saracen.
  • Sentinel. Sentinel (1999) is HFJ's take on a Clarendon. I can't understand why they picked a name already taken by many foundries such as Graphx Edge Fonts, Comicraft, Dieter Steffmann and Sentinel Type. Anyway, in 2020, Sentinel got un upgrade (with smallcaps and ornaments) in 2020 in Sentinel Pro.
  • Shades (2003). In Cyclone, Topaz, Giant and Knox weights.
  • Surveyor (2014). An exquisite mapmaker and newsprint didone font family with Fine, Display and Text subfamilies.
  • The Proteus Project.
  • Topaz.
  • Tungsten (2009) and Tungsten Rounded. Their sales pitch: That rarest of species, Tungsten is a compact and sporty sans serif that's disarming instead of pushy - not just loud, but persuasive. Douglas Wilson compares Tungsten with Alternate Gothic No. 3 (Morris Fuller Benton). Not to be confused with Tungsten (2005, Sparklefonts).
  • Uncategorized early typefaces: Gestalt-HTF, Fetish-HTF (blackletter modernized, 1995), Ehmcke-HTF.
  • Verlag (2006). A 30-style art deco-inspired semi-Bauhaus geometric sans family based on six typefaces originally designed for the Guggenheim. HFJ writes: From the rationalist geometric designs of the Bauhaus school, such as Futura (1927) and Erbar (1929), Verlag gets its crispness and its meticulous planning. Verlag's fairminded quality is rooted in the newsier sans serifs designed for linecasting machines, such as Ludlow Tempo and Intertype Vogue (both 1930), both staples of the Midwestern newsroom for much of the century. But unlike any of its forbears, Verlag includes a comprehensive and complete range of styles: five weights, each in three different widths, each including the often-neglected companion italic.
  • Vitesse (2010). The typophiles react to the slab family with praise: I think they're chasing Cyrus Highsmith, Dispatch and Christian Schwartz, Popular on this one. Doing a pretty good job of it too! [...] Looks to me like the love-child of Eurostile and City. In 2020, Jonathan Hoefler added the inline Cesium, which forced him to modify the glyphs somewhat.
  • Whitney. In 2004, they produced an amazing 58-weight sans serif family, Whitney (by Tobias Frere-Jones), designed for use in infographics. Whitney's sales blurb: While American gothics such as News Gothic (1908) have long been a mainstay of editorial settings, and European humanists such as Frutiger (1975) have excelled in signage applications, Whitney bridges this divide in a single design. Its compact forms and broad x-height use space efficiently, and its ample counters and open shapes make it clear under any circumstances. See also Whitney Condensed and Whitney Narrow.
  • Ziggurat.

Hoefler received Bukvaraz 2001 awards for HTF Guggenheim, HTF Knockout, HTF Mercury (1997, no relationship with Goudy's Mercury of 1936) and HTF Requiem. At ATypI in 2002, he received the Charles Peignot award.

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Holmkvist Creative
[Robert Holmkvist]

Holmkvist Creative is the London-based studio of Robert Holmkvist that created the octagonal typeface family Labour that includes a few stencil styles (2013). Buy Labour via Hype For Type.

Into Film Rounded is a rounded bubblegum sans typeface. It was created for Into Film, a film education charity that puts film at the heart of the educational and personal development of children and young people aged 5-19 across the UK. Avios (2014) is a set of custom icons for Avios.

Decade (2015) is a piano key typeface influenced by Albers, Crouwel, Garland and Gerstner.

Schear Grotesk (2017) is a compressed grotesk custom font in the style of Haettenschweiler. In 2020, it went retail 175 dollars per computer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hoze Cardona

Designer of the handcrafted piano key typeface Superfucked (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hubert Munier

Art director in Versailles, France. For the visual identity of L'Espace Andrée Chedid, Hubert Munier designed an elegant bi-lined typeface family, L'Autre (2016). For a Luxemburg-based African food truck, he created Afrikan Gourmet (2016), a deco typeface with African tribal themes worked in. He also created the fun art deco logotype Le Popcorn Bar (2016), which hearkens back to old Hollywood. For the music label LSM, he created the hipster typeface Les Sales Mômes (2016). For ESAM (Ecole Superieure des Arts Modernes), he designed a piano key stencil typeface, ESAM. He designed a squarish typeface for the fitness club Aqualoft (2016). With Emilie Rad, he created L'Esperluette in 2016. Other typefaces from 2016: Retro Futura (avant-garde), Neo Gothic (hexagonal), Sweet, Tarot (bi-colored and origami), Fitness Type, Now Bretonne (dot matrix), Massive (shadow pixel font). Earlier typefaces include the vertically-striped Riley Type (2012), LSM (2014: a hipster typeface).

Typefaces from 2017: Bim, Bodo Me (a variation on Bodoni), Kit (a piano key stencil typeface). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hugo Zély

Graphic designer in Toulouse, France, who created the piano key typeface telegraph in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hugo Zely

Toulouse, France-based designer of the modular piano key typeface Hezyl (017) and the stencil typeface Telegraph (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hula Fonts
[Dick Pape]

Dick Pape digitized these typefaces in 2009-2010, based on a source called Hula Fonts: Acorn House, BallTerminals, CableScriptCameo, CableScriptRegular (a paperclip family), CableScriptThin, CableScriptThinCameo, CurbDesire, DiscoDeco, EcoLeaf (a piano key typeface), HulaRibbon1 (prismatic), HulaRibbon2, Softsquare.

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Ian Farnam

Graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he started the design of Human Sans in 2018. In 2021, he set up his own foundry, and released an 18-style set of fonts under that same name. Later in 2021, he designed Record Store Stencil (a formal almost piano key stencil typeface in nine styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ian Lynam
[Wordshape]

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Ian Swift
[Swifty Typografix (was: Command (Z))]

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Identikal Foundry
[Nick and Adam Hayes]

Identikal is a UK foundry run by identical twins Nick and Adam Hayes. Fonts made in 2000, sold through Atomic Type and/or [T26]: 21stA, 21stB, 21stComplete (2007, a rounded sans family), 22ndClosed, 22nd Open, 45degrees, ACTStern (2001), Angol (octagonal), Attac, B4, Breeze, Bully, Canal Extra, Chord, Click (2003), Corisande (2003), Positec (2003, techno), Curvature, Dieppe (2002, techno family in six weights), DigiGraf (2002), Distilla (2009, sans, HypeForType), Formatt, Kanal, Kneeon (2008, a paperclip or neon typeface), Curvature (futuristic, 2002), Rebirth (futuristic, 2002), Masta, Metron, Monark (2003), Camo Sans (2003, T-26, an octagonal stencil font), Multimedia Blitz, Panic, Phat, Phlex (dot matrix font), Phuture, Plotta, Podium, Rally, Rayzor, Reaction, Rebirth, Revalo Classic (2003; regular weight is free), Revalo Modern (2003), Robustik (2003), Sampler, Seize, Sharp, Skak (2003, octaogonal font), Stalk, Trak, Tremble, UNDA Series 1, 21st, UNDA Series 2, Wages (2002, dot matrix font), Wired, Zero (2000, Nick Hays, an octagonal font), Angol (2003, an octagonal font), Skrean (a stitching font, T-26), 22nd Closed and 22nd Open (2006, T-26, stencils), Loxley Serif (2006), Emporio (2006), Alwyn (2006), Direkt (T26, 2006), Baksheesh (2006, simple sans), Loxley Sans (2006, T-26), Loxley Mix (2006, T-26), Kowboy (2006, T-26: futuristic), Kelt (2006, 6 weights, T-26), Neutraliser Sans, Caps and Serif (2006, 24 weights in all, T26), Ramblok (2006, T26), Identikal Sans (2006, T26, 8 weights), BQE (2011, piano key family, T-26). Some pixel font families, and many futuristic designs.

Fontworks site. Catalog. Klingspor link for Adam Hayes. Klingspor link for Nick Hayes.

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Igor Labudovic
[IL Fonts]

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IL Fonts
[Igor Labudovic]

Vienna-based type designer who joined Schriftlabor in 2015, and started his own type foundry, IL Fonts, in 2019. He made the stencil type family Brilliant in 2010 at Facetype.

Still at Facetype, he cooperated with Michael Hager on Stanley Slab (2012), which is an interpretation of wood type combined with the idea of modern stencils. Stanzer (2010, a unicase typeface done with Michael Hager) is an interpretation of wood type combined with the idea of modern stencils.

Vendetta (2011) is a multilingual sans & serif text type family that supports Latin and Cyrillic.

Wiener is an upright italic created with a bamboo-pen.

Typo Passage is a high-contrast piano key display typeface. This is a modification of an original typeface by Mischa Zog at Erwin Bauer's office.

In 2013, he graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading. His graduation typeface was Salom [peace]: Salom is a type family for complex, yet lively typography, supporting Arabic, Hebrew and Latin. The purpose of this typeface is to balance all three scripts in equal harmony, keeping in mind their individual cultural heritage. Salom is designed to bridge challenging typography with the outspoken voice of the streets. The family comes in Light, Regular, Semi Bold, Bold and Black, every weight in three styles, Roman, Italic and Stencil. Salom was published at Schriftlabor as a retail typeface in 2018.

In 2014, Hans Renzler, Dmitrij Ritter and Igor Labudovic co-designed the sans serif and slab serif pair of typefaces Donau Neue and Donau Alte.

In 2016, Manuel Radde and Igor Labudovic joined forces for the development of the multiline OCL family of fonts and icons, where OCL stands for Open Commons Linz. These were developed for the city of Linz, and are distributed freely: The use, reproduction, alteration, or adaptation of the digital resources is expressly allowed. Still in 2016, he published the custom creamy signage typeface Almdudler and the 1930s style display typeface Schatzhauser.

Typefaces done at IL Fonts:

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Ilia Musaelov

Moscow-based designer of a Cyrillic piano key typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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Frenchman (b. 1957) who started making fonts in 2010, after a career in illustration, comics, and video games. In 2010, he created the free fonts BabyJo (pixel face), Bayday, Chrom (beveled face), LaPresse (grunge), Muffaroo, Poppy, Poppydot, Spacecard, Strokewith, Strokeless, ToonLand (comic book lettering), ToonLandBlack, ToonLandShad, TrashToys (grunge), WorldColors (3d face).

In 2011, he published Francobelge (comic book face), Freepress (grunge), Gamix (Western titling face), Inmyroom (dingbats), Majestrick (calligraphic), Onomatopaf (comic book dings), Outerzone, OuterzoneB, Starz (dingbats), Stenstreet (grunge), Tram, Tramix (texture face), TrashToys02, War-Lettersn, Mixagex, Massive Dynamite (grunge), Not Well (grunge), Actu, Blck, Gling (texture face), HeRioz (silhouettes), Brightoon (cartoonish brush face), Muzo (ink spill face), Sharpy, Space Shop (dingbats), Pulp Dance (hand-printed), Essef (art deco), Retro Sign (grunge), Labo (grunge), Exhausted, Komikoz, Puzzled, Toonimals (dings), Penstriped (sketch face), Cashier (grungy), Dan Hand, Hardwell (grungy caps), Colleged (athletic lettering), Goodjean (jeans texture face), Seaside Things (dingbats), Real Tek (techno), Zou (3d hand-printed caps), Painter, Border Line (grunge), Handout (grunge), Tract (grunge), Pulpatone (grunge), Logos I Love, Pal Antic (chancery hand), Twent (fat rounded display face), DoodFlow (dingbats), Afro Add (texture face), Crump (grunge), Big White, Dark Room (grunge), Manifesto (grunge), Tacketil (a FontStruct font), Otto Land (sketch face), Over (outline face), Under (brush dings), Baskertown (grunge), Nursery Tale, Panic (texture face), BlackNDot (ink spill face), Beyond (striped display face), Advert, Car Crash (grunge), Heartz, Starsteel, Smart Faces, Blackflag (a brushed blackletter), Dock 51 (grungy stencil), Lead (3d face).

In November 2011, he created a number of texture typefaces: Hotöcop, Pal Mod, Speedy (sketch face), Thirties Gold, Sunset GP.

Further 2011 typefaces: Poptivi, Shadow Mole, Super Modern Black.

Faces from 2012: Remanence, Winter Days (dingbats), Nowharehouse (grunge), Snuff (grunge), Cup of Tea (3d shadow face), Talk of the wall.

Typefaces from 2012: Egirlz (dingbats), Art Post (white on black poster lettering), Volutes (copperplate calligraphic script), From me 2 you (curly script), PS I Love You, Kolossal (caps only), Kraash, Alexandre (3d engraved headline face), Monstres de poche (dingbats), Alternate (grunge), Warning, Dreams (brush face), Headline Crack, Bump Pad (textured typeface), Carton (grungy white-on-black stencil face), Maybe maybe Not, Frames n Riboons (sic), Blackboard (sketched face), Logotronik (a 3d techno face), Big Bad Dogs (dingbats), Libre Expression (engraved copperplate typeface), Mecagothix (textured blackletter face), Destroy, Destroy Helpers, Buy More, Things we said (curly face), Lost Saloon (Tuscan), Salon de Coiffure (beveled), Brighton Pier (grunge), Motel Vacancy (grunge), Bates Shower (dripping blood typeface), Venus Furs (texture typeface), Showmen, True Men Tattoos (dingbats), Quicker (sketch font), Romanum Est (grungy Trajan face), Also (scratchy letters), Lazy Day (3d font), Pusher, Hard Dumb, The Idiot, Overflowing (grunge), Fast Foont (sketched), Melange (grunge), Jumbo Parade (circus font), Happy Monsters, Zozox (experimental), Magic Sound (packaging typeface), Arena Mascaras (dingbats), Top View (3d face), Flagadoum, Last King Quest, Rhythm n Blacks (textured face), Troll Sketched, Superpoz (a 3d painted typeface of exceptional beauty), HalloCuties (Halloween font), Gothik Steel (circus font), Silvestre Relief (3d titling face), Just Like That (comic book face), Numero 10 (athletic lettering), Tet de Mor (skulls), Facelook, Xmas Dad, Instant Marker, Ragtimer, Punk Dots (textured face), Onomato Vlam (comic book balloons), 8th Cargo (textured mechanical octagonal face), Zu Kabarett (creepy curly German expressionist face), Unusual Day One, Happy New One (party font), Xmas Doods, Xmas Doods 2, Higher, Usual Day One, Team 401 (athletic lettering), Doonga (comic strip letters), Killer's Move.

Typefaces from 2013: Them (fat brush), Ghost Code, Tiny Heroes (figurines), Over There (sci-fi), Higher than High, Abandon (sketched face), Broken Hearts, True Stories, A wolf at the door (wood style poster face), Elo Hand, Bots n Droids (dingbats), Toonimals 2 (dingbats), Halftoned Backup (textured face), Novlang (textured poster face), Come With Us, Ptits Pirates (pirate figurines), Board Dudes (skateboard dingbats), Big Bro's Watch (grungy), Doonga Slash (comic book face), Round About, Signz, Lethal League (grungy athletic lettering), Dark Times, Dandy Hat Trick, tardots (textured typeface), Dinoz (dinosaur dingbats), Big Surprise (fat script), Comix Loud, Arlequin, Fanzine Title, Scotch Taped, Phoenix (dingbats), Rock's Death (grunge), Tuamotu (textured), Trees Friends (dingbats), King Arthur Legend (blackletter), Fairy Strange, Flame On, Mystery, Money Go Round (ransom note font), Seven of One, Captain's Talk, Peaches en Regalia (sketch font), Wrong Board (textured or crayon typeface), Subito (comic book face), Extra Sales (signage face), Gimme Danger (grunge stencil), Alphabet City (graffiti font), Raleigh Rock, Rysky Lines, Splash, Good Vibers (comic book figurines), Tequilla Sunrise (3d shadow face), Graphers Blog, Star Waves, Splash, Action Comics, Wild Trails (wood plank typeface), Tiki Club (dingbats), Bad Striped (sketched face), Come With Me (paint drip face), Famous Oldies (textured face), Girly Toons (dingbats), Eshop Advert, Full Pack 2025, Dickson's Tale (a great grungy caps face), Hand Typewriter, Campus Relief (athletic lettering), ZalienZ (dingbats), Manga Style (oriental brush), Journal du Soir (letterpress emulation), Royal Delight (3d sketched face), Gothix Fate, Lettrisme (a letterpress ransom note font), NYC Zone 123 (graffiti face), Tedz (teddy bear dingbats), Merry Xmas, Last Day On Earth (textured typeface).

Typefaces from 2014: Dite Alla Giovine (flared cursive script), Heavy Gothik (textured blackletter), Comix Bubbles, King of Scotland (textured), Lazy Sketch, Arabica Export (coffee bag texture), Scream Again, Season of the Witch, Soul Festival, Back Ride 342, Cheap-Potatoes, Nine-Feet-Under (grunge), Remingtoned-Type, Search'n-Destroy, Starz-2, Vanished, On The Roof (or: On The Tops), Mad Groove Blast, Another Brick (textured face), Destination Future, Perversionist, Dex's Jobs (Treefrog-style typeface), Ptit Coeur d'Amour, Mickey's School (athletic lettering), One Way or Another (a hand-drawn poster typeface), Californian Cars (license plates), Building State Empire, Back on Lime (shadow face), Next Ups (graffiti face), PatchFun (textured face), Railway to Hells, Shut'em Down, Misunderstanding, Another Brick (textureface), Perversionist (grunge), Destination Future, Linographer, Polish Posterisation, For Girls Only, Half Price 4 You (sketched typeface), Secret Agency (bad ink grunge), Player One (a grungy baseball Script), Raw Notice, Home Mad Popsters, No Silly Walk There, Bad Coma (lovely grunge), Dark Net Warrior (grunge), Cowboy Movie (Western font), Palm Beach (textured typeface), Search n Destroy (textured), Carnaval de mai, Variations (textured), Black Jeans (weathered font), City of Light, Santa's Air Mail (snow-capped letters), Cheap-Potatoes, Nine-Feet-Under, Remingtoned-Type, Search'n-Destroy, Starz-2, Vanished.

Typefaces from 2015: Snake Jacket, Big Campus (athletic lettering), Penball Wizard, When The Eagles Dare, Urban Brush Zone (graffiti font), Wild West Pixel, World Black Shadow, Next Custom, Irresponsible Direction (grunge), Doodle Gum (textured), Posthuman (textured), Red Zone (glaz krak face), Smasher 312 (graffiti font), Columbine (dripping blood font), Tarentula's Web, Just Like This (retro funk), Eastern Brush (oriental brush typeface), Pulp Headlines (grungy typeface), War is Over (letterpress emulation), Thirties Relief, Flowers Power (sic) (floral caps), Direct du Gauche (inky brush), Jackpot (3d, sketched), Numero 10 Clean (athletic lettering), Lace Dreams (textured), Right Chalk (chalky crayon font), Lazy Sketch Black, Golden Age (shaded pixel font), Swamp Death (textured), Astounding News, Heavy Metal Rocking, Fifties Movies, Grunge Strokes 01, Cosmik Orchestra, Paysley Sports (sandy athletic lettering), No Safety Zone (grungy stencil), Quicksands (textured), Break It Down (glaz krak font), Naughty Cartoons, Mad Groove Clean (athletic lettering), Outlaw Stars (grungy Western face), Space Comics, Dirty Bowl 86 (athletic lettering), Cheap Potatoes Black (imitating pototo printing?), ExtraBlur (textured), Backside Air, Megalopolis, Curse of the Zombie, After the Goldrush, Avantgardiste 1934, Easy Fashion (textured), Free Thinking's Murder (textured), Phantom Zone (zombie texture), Snake In The Boot, Checkpoint Charlie (grungy stencil), For Girls Only Bold, Playing In The Mood (piano key face), Intergalactik Airlines, Les Mystères de Paris, Season of the Witch Black (blackletter), Resistance Is Futile (a great textured mechanical typeface), On The Tops Lights (matinee signage), Strawberry Fields, Serif of Nottingham, OnomatoBom (cartoon smaks).

Typefaces from 2016: Dynamix (a shaded comic book typeface), Black Santa (snowy letters), Astral Delight, Mr. Headlines (titling sans), Sister Spray, Shaka Pow (cartoon font), Jack in the Box, Glitter Campus (athletic lettering), Ghost Crazy (heavy brush), Prezident, Flowers Kingdom (psychedelic), Galaxy Corps (octagonal stencil), Stitchn School, Brown Shoes, Armagedon (dry brush), Smasher 312 (graffiti style), Bad Stories, Master Droid, Heavy Metal Box (grungy letterpress), Outerspace Shoping (sic), Extros Backstage (squarish), Jelly Crazies (jellybean font), Black and White Banners, Ballad of Dwight Frye (grungy), Crazy Sixties, SciFi Movies, Maximum Strength (athletic lettering), Evanescente (sketched typeface), Urban Ghost, Vif Argent (watercolor brush script), Demolition Crack (textured), How to Disappear, Public Market, Pyjama Party, Magician Rings (modular sans), Pale Blue Eyes (brush script), All The Mad men (sketched), Dixociative (white-on-black), White Flame (octagonal typeface), Asian Delight (oriental brush emulation), Candy Shop, Barb Wire Club, Super Weird, My Socks Line.

Typefaces from 2017: Scoubidou Rap, Good Morning (cartoon font), Graphik Arts (textured), Danger Zone Warning, Love The One You're With, Are You Hung Up (textured), Keys of Paradise, Mr Headlines Fancy, Game of Brush, Powerful, Ghost Shadow, Quick Menu Boards, Urban Fresh Air, Cheer Lace Leader (textured), Cracked Code (grunge), Very Simple Chalk, Fluo Gums, Very Popular, Personal Service, Blind Signature (crayon font), Blood n Guts, Quarterback Fight (octagonal athletic lettering), Supersonic Rocketship, Reboot Crush, Strange Path (dry brush font), Heroes Legend, Cache-Tampon, Championship (a great horizontally striped typeface), Silver Age Queens, Strange Tales.

Typefaces from 2018: Play With Fire, Scrunched, Megalomaniac Headliners, Craps of Paper (white on black), All Things Must Pass (textured), Presque Normal, Interfearence, Pop of the Tops, Universal Knowledge, Digital College, Cold Turkey (a handcrafted horror font), Strange Magic, Grandissimo, Best Prices (sketched), Magician's Daughter, Children's Theater (textured), Magnifico, Lethal Slime, Pop of the Pops, Slow Death, Folk Festival, Strange Marvel, Strong Impact (octagonal), Heavy Metal Blight, Mango Slice, Are You Jimmy Carl Black, Strange Clowns, Mechanical Animals, Fast Forward, Spanish Castles, Vintage Warehouse, Swamp Black, Pixelmania, Enigma key, Vlump (wooden plank font), Guns n Flash Comix, Black Streamer, East Border (military stencil), Bot Craftshop, Super Quick, Don't You Know?, Return of the Flash, Only The Strong (weathered athletics font), Hands Up, Strange Shadow, White on Black, Ed Wood Movies.

Typefaces from 2019: Inner Mounting Flame, Playtimes, Game Commands (white on black), Magic Spots (with a spotted texture), Vanishing (with a halftone effect), State Secret (squarish), All My Stitches (a hospital font), Lightyear Design, Ancient Ad, African Style (textured with African patterns), Secret Planet (sci-fi), Universal Ignorance, Give Peace a Chance, Hard Punk Gothic, Vraoum (speed emulation font), Galaxy Travels, Megapoliscape, Red Signal, Perfect Mystery (dry brush), Many Years Ago (mechanical, octagonal), Vintage Display (textured caps), Space Sport (textured, octagonal), Dancing Days, Steam Punk, Splatch (comic book font), Rear Defender (octagonal, stencil), Ghost Factory, Kids Magazine.

Typefaces from 2020: Bright Star (sci-fi), Fiesta Rumba (a matinee font), Sergeant Rock (a stencil typeface), Tricky Hearts (a vampire font), Organic Brand, Campus Riot (grungy), Crazy Love Song, Shiny Signature, Evil Highway, Slightly Eroded, Lightyear Shadow, City Player (graffiti), Night of the Deads (a horror font), Ka Blam (an all caps cartoon font), Unforgettable, Corrupted File (grungy, pixelish), Urban Heroes (a dripping paint font), Victorian Art Magic Remains, Kid Games, Restricted Area (a dripping paint stencil), Dark Poestry, Platinum Sign, Tacos de Tijuana (a Mexican party font), Retro Shine, Lower East Side (a graffiti font), Holidays Homework (a chalk font), Deep Shadow, Finger Printed, Crushed (a glaz krak typeface), Bing Bam Boum, Stars Fighters (a Star Trek font).

Typefaces from 2021: Baby Party, Shadow Of The Deads, Big Bad Bugs, Boldfinger (bold caps), Paperback Writer (sketched), Comics Tricks, Charming Sixties, Squarely, Mad King Games, Back to School (a varsity font), Youtube Star (an oily typeface), Silver Medal (beveled), Cosmic Blaster. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Irina Pereira

During her studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), Irina Pereira designed the modular piano key typeface Couraca (2014), or better, Couraça. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Isaac Claramunt

Barcelona-based designer of the piano key typeface Quicktype (2013), Barcelona City Icons (2017), and the commercial typeface Aloha (2017), which is a tribute to the tattoo style that originated in Hawaii in the 1940s. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Isaiah Garcia

FontStructor who made these fonts in 2012: fs Small Stroke, fsToo Close (graffiti style), fs Losing Shape, fs Cursive Rounded, fs Bold Truth, fs Blocky, fs Nice And Tall, fs Drop It Hard, fs Under Line, fs Bas Drop Collection, fs Bold Strike, fs Curvy, Fat Glyph (oil slick simulation or bubblegum face), fs Bass Dropping, fs Stretchy, fs Systematic, Simply Bolded, Only A Pixel, Cal Culator (LED face), fs Modern, Solid Shade (3d shadow face), Kinda looks like SEGA, Fuse Defont, Simply Round, FS Compact (3d typeface), Smallpox Not Smallpox, Yuno, Tech Timee, Boxie [and its remake, FS Boxier], The Average Font, One Digit, Speedie (oblique retro techno font), de Fizzy, Another 3d Paper Font, Super Mario Bros 3 NES, Lets get together.

Typefaces from 2013: fs Glom Sans, fs 10th (+Scripture, +Vert), FS Round Rebirth (a macaroni font), More Curves, FS Recent, FS Oblique, FS Recent Cursive, FS Mod, FS Rapidly, Circles Filtered, FS Bezier Pixel, FS Fatline (piano key face), FS Reprint (a piano key typeface in the style of Wim Crouwel), FS Try Again, FSZen, FS Thicken, FS Lean Clean, FS Idea (avant-garde), FS Semi Circle, FS Big Moment, FS Oblique, FS Curvature, FS Fragile, FS Hurry, FS Smooth Joke.

Typefaces from 2014: FS Geometrik, FS Broadcast, Experimental WIP, MS MicroIsh, FS Punchline.

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Jacek Machowski
[Macha]

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Jack Jaget

American designer of the rounded sans typeface Jaget Doron and the piano key typeface Jaget Rina (VGC). Rina is his daughter and Doron his son. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack West

Active FontStructor who started publishing creations in 2013. Notable contributions include FS Logo (2014), Minecraft Logo (2013), Slurpee (2014), Film4 (2014, constructivist), HP Slant (2014, an extreme piano key typeface), Dr. Capaldi Prototype (2014), XD Boogie Regular (2016: an octagonal typeface used in Disney's XD movie). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Grieshaber
[Typeco]

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Jamie Place
[FontBlast]

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Jarrik Muller

Dutch graphic designer in Amsterdam who has many typographic projects and occasionally creates a typeface. His typefaces are experimental and functional. One, called Puzzle, leaves it up to the user to position the sliding letters---quite an ingenious idea. Get Busy (2006) is artsy and futuristic. Escape (2006) is pixelish grunge. Union (2006), Get1 (2006, modular, computerized), Get Free (2007, a free piano key font done for Neo2, the magazine), Softmachine (2009), NB Light (2009, a techno matchstick typeface done with the help of Neubau), 3D (2009), Optical (2007, a futuristic geometric experiment), Contrast (2006), Lovely (2006), Muller Fontein (2006, experimental), Blok (2010, 3d and modular; see also Blok (2013, Dick Pape) which was influenced by Jarrik's Blok), Love (2006), and Volle Vrijheid (2006, very experimental) round out his dossier.

In 2014, he set up Citype. At Citype, he published the free pixelish typeface Amsterdam.

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Jason Matthew Everett
[Chaos Fonts]

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Jay

American FontStructor who made Dripped (2013), Afterwords (2013), Blocked (2013, blocky face), Subject To Flux (2013, piano key face), ClaWrite Square (2013), and Aethyrial Basic (2013, squarish). Aka Aethyrial and as eklipse13. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jérôme Bruley

In 2014, Jérôme Bruley was studying design in Lille, France. In that same year, he created a Bauhaus-style typeface called LMVDR, which is named after Mies Van Der Rohe, architect and director of the Bauhaus school, on who's work the font is based. In particular, the piano key glyphs are inspired by the German Pavillion in Barcelona (1929). He also created Sail Font (2014) and the free AI format watercolor brush typeface Bud Powell (2015).

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Jenson Marklund

At the School of Visual Arts, Jenson Marklund (Brooklyn, NY) designed the piano key typeface Winson (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Rabotnicoff

During her studies at UBA in Buenos Aires, Jessica Rabotnicoff designed the squarish piano key typeface Grill One (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jing Yo

Taiwanese designer of many FontStruct fonts, including the piano key typeface Azul (2019), FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

JMT Sausage
[Dick Pape]

A piano key typeface made by Dick Pape in 2011, based on a vector alphabet designed by Jakob Nylund (Just My Type). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira
[Ultra Types]

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Joao Faraco

Brazilian FontStructor who made the piano key typeface Phyllon (2010) and Bar Dot (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joao Oliveira
[Onrepeat Studio]

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Joao Pedro Franco

Portuguese designer (b. 1980) of the gorgeous writing typeface Dry Ink (2004), of the script typeface arpadhw (2004), of the sans typefaces PB (2008) and Often (2007), and of the squarish display typeface MinaR (2003). He is working on the stencil typeface Maple (2007). Based in Lisbon.

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João Faraco

Brazilian designer in Rio de Janeiro (b. 1985) who graduated from ESPM-RJ. Designer of Bar Dot (2010), Faraco Hand (2009), and Phyllon (2010, piano key face). Home page. Fontsy link. Behance link. Another home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joern Oelsner

Jörn Oelsner (b. 1981, Flensburg, Germany) is a German type and graphic designer based first in Antwerp, Belgium, and later in Vegby, Sweden, and Ulricehamn, Sweden. He graduated at the Design Factory International in Hamburg, Germany. While studying he worked for URW++, Hamburg. After graduation he worked in several graphic design studios in Europe. His own design studio is OE Design. He mainly develops corporate typefaces, and now lives in Ulricehamn / Gothenburg, Sweden.

Some of his projects are the corporate typeface of Sport 2000 (in cooperation with URW++, Hamburg), the corporate typeface of the Andorra Telecom SOM and the corporate typeface of the National Television and Radio Spain RTVE (both in cooperation with Summa, Barcelona).

His type designs at URW++ include Ruca (2010, blackletter), Neustadt (2010, URW++: a legible elliptical monoline sans family, which was originally designed as a corporate font for Sport 2000), Stina (2012, a stitch font done for profonts), Ribera (2012, a contemporary sans) and Bloket Pro (2013: a piano key typeface).

In 2014, he created the layered typeface family Graphique Pro Next (Profonts), which is a revival and extension of the famous Graphique Pro designed in 1945 by Hermann Eidenbenz.

His main contribution in 2015 is the 20-style URW Geometric typeface family, which is modeled after the German geometric typefaces from the 1920s. In 2016, he added URW Geometric Condensed and URW Geometric Extended to that family.

Typefaces from 2018: URW Dock (a contemporary geometric type family inspired by the square sans typefaces of the 60s, and in particular Eurostile), URW Dock Condensed. In 2020, 20 Extended styles were added to URW Dock.

Typefaces from 2020: Cerco (a 12-style warm rounded geometric sans).

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John Booth
[Typohaus (or: Bau Type Foundry)]

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John Lopez

FontStruct artist who made the upright retro connected script typeface Flapjacks (2008), the filled-in octagonal typeface Oppression (2008), the heavy display typefaces Private Dick (2009, +SmallCaps), Facestomper (2009), Science Fiction (2009), Oppression (2009), Dystemic (2009), the pixel typeface Pixco (2009) and the kitchen tile typeface Nine (2008). Latest fonts from 2009: Rodney (alarm clock letters), Sophisticate (pixelish), Rhodesia (piano key font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Skelton
[Afrojet Type Foundry]

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Jon R. Grover

Computer programmer and information scientist. He used FontStruct to design many typefaces. These include the eye-themed display typeface The Eyes Have It (2020), MetaFont (2020---no relationship with Knuth's software), Film Crew (2019), Etaion Shrdlu (2018: Each letter has a width inverse to its frequency in English), Obvious Font (2019), Jamming (2018: a piano key font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Hill
[The Northern Block (TNB)]

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Jonathan Hiscott
[Hiscott Foundry]

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Jonathan Hoefler
[Hoefler (was: Hoefler&Frere-Jones, and Hoefler Type Foundry)]

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Jonathan Holburn

During his studies at Falmouth University in Falmouth, UK, Jonathan Kevin William Holburn created a modular piano key stencil typeface in the style of Joseph Albers's work entitled Bauhaus Typography Experiment (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joost Schmidt

German typographer and painter, b. Wunsdorf (1893), d. Nüremberg (1948). He studied at Bauhaus from 1919-1925, and started working with type in 1923. From 1925 until 1932, he was a professor at Bauhaus. After the war, he became professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Berlin. He created some typical Bauhaus alphabets.

Digitizations:

  • Uhertype (2008, Paulo Heitlinger) is a revival of his lettering.
  • Jose Manuel Uros) is a monoline geometric / organic family with an odd Futura Black style piano key Stencil thrown in. He writes that the inspiration came from the Bauhaus Dessau im Gewerbemuseum Basel exhibition poster, designed in 1929 by Franz Ehrlich after a sketch by Joost Schmidt, and hence the name Joost.
  • Neubau (2009, Ramiz Guseynov) is a condensed geometric display family with sans and slab serif subfamilies, which took inspiration from Joost Schmidt's lowercase letters developed from 1925 until 1928 at Bauhaus Dessau. Neubau Grotesque (2010) is an elementary minimalist sans face. Neubau Serif is a slabby version---this entire family was inspired by Bauhaus proponent Joost Schmidt, 1925-1928.
  • The piano key typeface Joschmi (2018, Flavia Zimbardi). An Adobe Originals font designed as part of an effort to revive Bauhaus treasures, and named after Joost Schmidt.

Paulo Heitlinger's page on Schmidt. Wikipedia. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

José Manuel Urós

Aka Josema Uros. Self-taught programmer in Barcelona, b. 1956, who set up the type foundry Type-O-Tones in 1992. He is also involved in Neue in Barcelona. Since 1993 he has been teaching at Eina, Elisava, ESDI and IDEP. His typefaces:

  • Arboria (2013). An art deco or architectural sans family published by Type O Tones. Its skeleton was used in the art deco sans stunner, Arbotek (2013).
  • Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona of Ebu Script (2007). This is a techno script created together with Joan Barjau.
  • Chico (2009). Chico was by designed by Javier Mariscal and Josema Uros specifically for the final roll of credits in the animated film Chico y Rita. It was commercially released in 220 by Type-O-Tones as Chico.
  • Hannover Modern (1996, Type o Tones). Part of a series of fonts used at the Estudio (Javier) Mariscal in Barcelona.
  • Joost (1995-2010). Also done at Type o Tones, this is a monoline geometric / organic family with an odd Futura Black style piano key Stencil thrown in. He writes that the inspiration came from the Bauhaus Dessau im Gewerbemuseum Basel exhibition poster, designed in 1929 by Franz Ehrlich after a sketch by Joost Schmidt, and hence the name Joost.
  • Memimas (2007). A connected upright script, done with Joan Barjau at Type o Tones.
  • Matricia (2007). A dot matrix typeface done at TypeOTones done with Pera Ribalta.
  • Mundo Demibold (1997, Type o Tones). This comic book typeface is inspired by a series of drawings used in the Señor Mundo comic strip of the 1990s. It is in the style of Javier Mariscal.
  • Vulcano (2007, TypeOTones). A typeface developed together with Tori Alimbau and Luis Mendo.
  • At KABK in Den Haag, where he did graduate work in type design, he created Rumba as a final project (2004).
  • DINosaur (2016, Type-o-Tones). A rounded sans related to the DIN norm.
  • Skope (2019, Type-o-Tones). Skope is an experiment in horizontal stress and the extreme lettering style of comic masters such as Josep Coll or Manuel Urda from his cartoons in the pages of the classic TBO (Barcelona, 1917-1998). Some of the features of Skope are borrowed from the masthead of the magazine Triunfo (Valencia, Spain, 1946-1982), and remind this reviewer of the work of Lucian Bernhard in the 1910s.
  • Rothwood (2020). A slab serif family.
  • Final Six (2021, Type-o-Tones). A commercial adaptation of lettering developed for the European Waterpolo Final in 2014.

Interview by MyFonts.

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

José Velázquez

Monterrey, Mexico-based designer of Antler (2011, a piano key typeface), Fontera (2011) and VUJ (2012, octagonal). Creator of the neon typeface Rech Neon PseudoScript (2012) done for Brazilian film maker Rafael Rech.

Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josef Albers

German-born designer (b. Bottrop, 1888, d. New Haven, CT, 1976) associated with the Bauhaus School that made artistic ripples from 1919-1933. He joined the faculty of Weimar Bauhaus in 1922 as a stained glass maker, and became professor there from 1925 until Bauhaus closed in 1933 under Nazi pressure. He emigrated immediately to the United States where he became head of a new art school, Black Mountain College, in North Carolina. In 1950, he left North Carolina to become head of the Department of Design at Yale University until his retirement in 1958. Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist. The Josef Albers papers and documents (from 1929 until 1970) were donated by the artist to the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art in 1969 and 1970. His typefaces:

  • Display (1923).
  • Schablonenschrift (1923-1926). This is one of a series of stencil typefaces Albers designed while teaching at the Dessau Bauhaus.
  • 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).
  • Kombinationsschrift auf Glas (1928-1931; combine a few elements). This was revived as 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 typefaces in the style of Kombinationsschrift piano key fonts.

Digital descendants of Albers's work include ThM Architype Albers (2013, Thijs Mertens), Architype Albers (Freda Sack and David Quay of The Foundry, 1997), P22 Albers (P22), Futura Black (Bitstream), Alber New (2010, Chris Dickinson at Moretype), Concreta (Tony de Marco and Niko Fernandez, 2011, at Just in Type), Modernist Stencil (Keith Bates, 2009, at K-Type), Sessions (John Skelton, 2009, at Afrojet), Idiom (Mike Jarboe, 2010, at Reserves), Gridiot (2003-2011, Peter Bain), Plaster (Eben Sorkin, 2011), Slink (Gene Buban, 2009), Albers (Crissov, 2009), Albers Numerals (2015, Tomek Zastawny), Duo (Omer Chafai), Rigid (Marta Cerda Alimbau, 2010), Albers Moiré (Nick Shea), Little Tittle (Michael Blair, 2012), Tp Floral (Two Points, 2006), Decade (Robert Holmkvist, 2015), Bauhaus Typography Experiment (Jonathan Kevin William Holburn, 2014), and Modular Alphabet (Isa Lloret, 2015).

References: Regarding the Economy of Typeface (an article explaining Albers' vision for typography), Josef Albers: Interaction of Color (1975, New Haven: Yale University Press), François Bucher: Josef Albers: Despite Straight Lines: An Analysis of His Graphic Constructions (1977, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), Brenda Danilowitz and Fred Horowitz: Josef Albers: to Open Eyes: The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale (2006, Phaidon Press), Eva Diaz: The Ethics of Perception: Josef Albers in the United States (2008, Volume XC Number 2 of The Art Bulletin), Nicholas Fox Weber and Fred Licht: Josef Albers: A Retrospective (1988, New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications), Nicholas Fox Weber, Fred Licht and Brenda Danilowitz: Josef Albers: Glass, Color, and Light (1994, New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications), The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Juan Ignacio Siwak

Buenos Aires-based designer of the great totalitarian typeface Imperio (2004). He runs the free on-line poetry mag El Tripulante. Via MyFonts, one can buy his squarish headline family Imperio (2009), which includes a piano key style (Imperio Giga Black) and a Western style (Imperio West).

In 2020, he designed the pre-colombian dingbat typeface Precolombina (based on ceramic pottery, clothing, and petroglyphs from the southern cone of South America) and Postman. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Julien Fesquet
[Faak and Paat Studio]

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Julien Priez

Julien Priez (b. 1986, Montreuil, France) studied typography and type design at Ecole Supérieure Estienne des Arts et des Industries Graphiques in Paris (2006, 2008). In 2010, he worked at Atelier Pierre di Sciullo in Montreuil. Recently, he was affiliated with the French type foundry FontYou. His typefaces:

  • Rag FY (2013). A wavy brush typeface co-designed by Julien Priez, Sofia Proisy and Charles Privé at FontYou.
  • Le Normandie (piano key face). Le Normandie was expanded at Fontyou in 2014 to a gorgeous display triple of fonts, Normandie FY (Modern, Gothic, Italian). Der Klaus (2011) is a blackletter version of Normandie.
  • Le Montreuil (2010). An experimental poster typeface family done at Estienne with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray et Franck Jalleau.
  • Le Briqueterie (2010). Done with Pierre di Sciullo's studio: a modular pixelish family.
  • Le Baaf (2010). Done with Margaret Gray: an experimental titling face, based on the stained glass windows of a cathedral in Ghent, Belgium.
  • Le Composite (2010). An imaginary letter font made under the guidane of Michel Derre and Franck Jalleau.
  • Le Jimmy (2009). A typeface done to invoke the 1930 mafia. A beautiful idea executed with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray and Franck Jalleau.
  • Typetool (2010). An ornamental caps typeface).
  • At Fontyou, Benjamin Lieb, Gia Tran and Julien Priez co-designed the hand-drawn typeface Brixton FY (2013). Not to be confused with two earlier typefaces called Brixton, one by Tom Chalky, and one by Luke Ferrand. Since two of the three Brixtons are commercial, I expected FontYou to change the name.
  • In 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jason Vandenberg, Jérémie Hornus, Julien Priez and Alisa Nowak co-designed the creamy script Vanilla FY. It was renamed Vanille FY after a few days.
  • The punchy poster typeface Kraaken FY (2014) was designed by the FontYou team of Bertrand Reguron, Alice Resseguier, Valentine Proust, Julien Priez, Gia Tran, Jérémie Hornus, and Alisa Nowak.
  • In 2014, Jeremie Hornus and Julien Priez co-designed the hairline typeface Gauthier Display FY.
  • Mandinor FY (2014) is a decorative didone typeface---it comes with separate Gothic (blackletter) and Italian (Western) variants, and is accompanied by Mandinor Ornaments FY. Still in 2014, Julien Priez, Hugo Dumont, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed Rowton Sans FY, a sans family patterned after Gill Sans in six weights, from Hairline to Bold---named after Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, it has the Gillian lower case g but italic lowercase is a bit too far afield for my own taste, especially the squeezed g.
  • Boogy Brut (2020). A pointy decorative serif with many calligraphic influences. At Bureau Brut.
  • Julien also drew many calligraphic alphabets, some of which will eventually become fonts.
  • Michel Derre and Julien Prez jointly won the Bronze Medal in the Latin category for Abelha in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016.

Behance link. Julien Priez Drawing link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Julio Ruiz

Designer in Guatemala City who created the piano key typeface Brutal Condensed in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Thomas Kay
[Version Type Foundry (was: Industrial-Organic.Net)]

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Kandella's Art

Siberia-based designer of display typefaces. These include Cameron (2021: stylish caps), Dream Catcher (2020: tribal, alchemic), Flora (2021: floriated caps), Cathleen (2021: a stylish hipster font), Dekart (2021: an art deco piano key typeface), and Spring Tales (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karolina Biskup

At the Academy of Fine Aets in Krakow, Poland, Karolina Biskup designed the piano key typeface Bryka (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katarzyna Krakowian

Wroclaw, Poland-based designer of the piano key stencil typeface Chojrak (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katerina Kiricheva

Sofia, Bulgaria-based designer of the Cyrillic typefaces Quirinus Cyrillic (2015) and Onyx Cyrillic (2015, extending Gerry Powell's original from 1937), and the Latin / Cyrillic piano key stencil typeface Zebra Sans (2015, a school project). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelly-Laila Al-Saleh

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

Kevin King
[Kingthings]

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Kevin Nay

Nice, France-based designer of Font No5 (2015), a piano key typeface with ball terminals. He also made Les Eleves du Boudoir No 5 (2015). [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 typeface was awarded First Prize in the Granshan 2010 competition for Armenian text types. Arek was finally published by Rosetta Type Foundry in 2012.

After graduation, he started freelancing as a graphic and type designer in Amsterdam. Partner at The Place.

Other typefaces 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).

His typefaces: Arek, Hagatir, Boujour (2008, piano key typeface), Mulsaq (2008, Arabic), Moudwi, Nuqat (2010: a dot matrix typeface by René Knip, Khajag Apelian, Jeroen van Erp, and Reza Abedini).

Graphic Arabic (Wael Morcos and Khajag Apelian) won an award at Granshan 2017.

IBM Plex Sans Arabic (2019, by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Wael Morcos and Khajak Apelian) is a free typeface family at Google Fonts.

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

Kingthings
[Kevin King]

Keven King (Kingthings) is the British designer (born in Kent in 1959, educated at the Graphic Design College in Exeter/Devon, and based in Exeter) of these fonts, many of which have Celtic influences. His typefaces:

  • 2002: Kingthings-Gothique (oranmental face), Kingthings-Hand, Kingthings-Hand-Light, Kingthings-Organica, Kingthings-Petrock, Kingthings-Petrock-Light, Kingthings-Xander, Kingthings-Xander-Outline.
  • 2003: Kingthings-Calligraphica, Kingthings-Calligraphica-Italic, Kingthings-Calligraphica-Light, Kingthings-Chimaera, Kingthings Flashbang, Kingthings Flourishes (Arabic simulation face), Kingthings-Italique (blackletter), Kingthings-Kelltika---Kevin-King.-2003 (fantastic Celtic style caps face), Kingthings-Sans, Kingthings-Whizzbang, Kingthings-Xander-Outline.
  • 2004: Kingthings Linear K, Kingthings Pique'n'meex, Kingthings-Annex (started in 1981: ornamented letters), Kingthings-Printingkit (old typewriter), Kingthings-Spike (blackletter), Kingthings-Typewriter (old typewriter), Kingthings Versalis, Kingthings Wrote, Kingthings-Xstitch. Some fonts have calligraphic/medieval or Celtic influences.
  • 2005: Kingthings Poppalok (ornamental dot matrix face), Kingthings Embroidery, Kingthings Spikeless, a blackletter face.
  • 2006: Kingthings Petrock, KingthingsChristmas (ornamental).
  • 2007: Kingthings Willow (great ornamental face; a commercial Pro version exists at CheapProFonts), Kingthings Willowless, Kingthings Exeter, Kingthings Extortion (ransom note face), Kingthings Facetype, Kingthings Lupine (the Pro version was done in 2009 at CheapProFonts), Kingthings Lupineless.
  • 2008: Kingthings Wrecktangle (piano key font), KingthingsSerifique, Kingthings Clarity, Kingthings Gutenberg, Kingthings-Conundrum (oriental simulation face: the Pro version follows in 2012), Kingthings-Eggypeg, Kingthings-Inkydinky, Kingthings-Knobson, Kingthings-Spirogyra, Kingthings Bloone, Kingthings Tendrylle, Kingthings Foundation.
  • 2009: Kingthings Slippery Lips, Kinthings Spike Pro (blackletter, commercialized by Cheap Pro Fonts).
  • 2010: Kingthings Lickorishe, Kingthings Scrybbledot.
  • 2011: Kingthings Scrybbledots Pro and Kingthings Scrybble Pro (sketch typefaces).
  • 2012: Kingthings Frontwards, Kingthings Sans, Kingthings Kurllie (curly Victorian caps).
Alternate URL. Cheap Pro Fonts catalog. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kiosk Works (or: Playfaces Type Foundry)

Russian commercial experimental type foundry of Dima Barbanel and/or Vladimir Kolomeytsev (Moscow), which publishes typefaces by several designers, who are mostly based in Saint Petersburg. Typefaces include: Afform, Cutter, Forma bold.pdf Fuller, Germanica, Giovanni (a piano key typeface), Handwrt, Hrustal 13, Matisse, Medieval, Meteorito, Moskek, Naturalist, Ocbita, Pitcrew, Potexa bold, Potexa regular, Siberia, Tempo (Outline 1, Outline 2, Regular), Uncial, Worms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Komboh
[Hans Thiessen]

Komboh is Michael W. Mateyko and Hans B. Thiessen. Hans Thiessen is the Calgary, Alberta-based creator of the free piano key typeface Strict (2008). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Konor Abrahams

During his studies at RGD, Konor Abrahams (Toronto, Ontario) designed the piano key typeface Oppose Display (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kornel Faludi

Graphic designer in Budapest, Hungary. Graduate of Loughborough University, class of 2018 (with a bachelor's degree), and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest in 2021 (with a master's degree). At Loughborough University (UK), Kornel Faludi designed a set of generative typefaces (2016), i.e., typefaces that are very modular and computer-generated to a large extent. His typographic oeuvre is quite experimental. Many of his fonts use just basic geometric structures such as circles, arcs and rectangles.

In 2019, he published Thin Stroke, Alien, the kitchen tile typeface Blocks, the organic typeface Swan, the blocky typeface Bagur, the prismatic typeface Baton, the rounded stencil typeface Stencil, the experimental typeface Geometric, the piano key typeface Darling, and the techno typeface Aquarius.

Creator of these display typefaces between 2015 and 2021: Aquarius, Black (piano key style), Blocky (kitchen tiles), Computer, Futuristic, Geometric (prismatic), Martian, Organic, Sliced, Stencil, Striped, StrokeLine, Thinline. [Google] [More]  ⦿

KurzProject in Type Design
[Martina Flor]

The type designs in Martina Flor's class at Fachbereich Design Dessau's Department of Design (in Dessau, Germany) are showcased here. They are free to download. Most fonts were created using Glyphs. A list of free creations:

  • AlmondLight-Regular (2014). By Mandy Haueisen.
  • Atvice-Bold (2014). By Philipp Rösler.
  • Awesome Type (2012). By Anna Rössler.
  • Blackmama (2014). A piano key typeface by Egon.
  • BurlingtonAntiqua-Regular (2014). By Maximilian Fuchs and Martin Heinemann.
  • Couch (2012). By Lukas Marx.
  • Countess (2012). An art deco typeface by Katja Segal and Carla Neumeister.
  • Dangerfont (2012). A stencil font by Andreas Dymke.
  • Frisko (2012). By Justus Streit.
  • Gentle (2012). A piano key typeface by Charlott.
  • Goldstrich-Regular (2014). By Ekaterina Feil, and Henriette Funke.
  • Harry (2012). A hipster font by Lisa Schmidt.
  • IceLYC (2012). By Yang Qian.
  • Kandinsky-Heavy (2012). By Wladimir Omelyanchuk.
  • Knatz (2014). An organic sans by Thomas Kores and Claudia Vollmer.
  • Lisbell (2014). By Maria Musiol and Florian Patal.
  • Luo (2012). An oriental simulation typeface by Luo Liyun.
  • Monarc Serif (2014). A metal band font by Benjamin Broschinski.
  • Marianne (2012).By Julia Hofmann.
  • Mathilde-Regular, MathildeThin-Regular, Mathildebold-Regular (2012). By Erik Baumann.
  • MinnaDrop (2014). A ball terminal-laden didone by Vanessa Bisky and Romy Fey.
  • Nelia (2012). By Aileen Wilke.
  • NewFont-Regular.
  • Oktober-display-Regular, Oktober-text-bold-Regular (2012). A didone typeface by Johannes Hirsekorn.
  • SafetyMedium (2012). A modular typeface by Christoph Thürsarn.
  • SlantCharlott (2014). By Clara Fendel and Saskia Seiler.
  • Slim (2012). By Chen Ran.
  • Starcrafter (2014). A video game font by Carl Müller and Franz-Julius Pelz.
  • Strukt (2014). An art deco typeface by an unknown student.
  • Triangle (2012). By Xie Tian.
  • XF Baby (2012). By Robert Schlaak.

Non-downloadable fonts from 2013: Kong (Gustavo Neiva and Christian Sandig), Nougat (Julia Heilck, Marcel Weimann and Sandra Salm), Sparrow (by Linda Kuehne), Nanu (Margarethe Quaas and Michelle Günther), Heartbreaker (by Anne Rösch and Katharina Zschiesche), Wasted (by Jakob Wolf), Open (by Anja Hiebsch and Markus Angelmahr), Madame (by Laura Spang and Sophie Hawaleschka), Pingo (an origami typeface by Nina Rüb and Franziska Timm). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kutan Ural

Graphic designer from Ankara, Turkey, who wotked in Istanbul and is now based in London. Creator of Chapul (2013, hand-drawn typeface inspired by protest wall writing in the Gezi uprising), KTN Fingerwriting (2011), Uzun (2012, piano key typeface), Istanbul (2013, a bilined headline face), and Sans Serif Didot (2011, a Peignotian face), Brek (squarish), Mode.

Typefaces from 2017: Wesley Gothic (free).

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

Laura Casenne

During her studies in Lyon, France, Laura Casenne created a modular piano key typeface (2015) and the squarish typeface family Cailleto (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Poinson

During her studies in Lyon, France, in 2014, Laura Poinson created a modular piano key typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Knowles

Manchester, UK-based designer of the piano key typeface Bliss Bath Bombs (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lazly Bateman

Sopron, Hungary-based designer of the piano key typeface Monostein (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leander Lenz

Darmstadt, Germany-based graphic designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to create Afrobeat (+II, a piano key family), Afroblack (piano key typeface), Samoa, Serpentine, Freestyle, Criss Cross (2008), Apollo, Samoa (+Ultabold), Underground> (inspired by Pincoya Black), Freestyle, Shadow (fat rounded), Explorer, Beatboy Rounded, Contemporary (kitchen tile face), Fiesta (2009, ultra-fat octagonal), Battista (2009, an organic font with Bodoni influences), Boldy (2009), Breezy (2009, octagonal, ultra-fat), Jin-Jin (playful), Odyssey (art deco ultra-black), Disco Queen (2009), Sketch (slab serif), Mister O (+Bold), Clockwise, My Name Is Font, Beatboy Square, Mister O (dot matrix), No Room For Squares, Accident (Grotesque, Arabesque (a gridded version)), Tony Montana (+Divided), Turning Point, VincentVega (+Outline, +Bold), Beatboy (pixel family), Circles Horizon, Papua (ultra fat), Papua Square (kitchen tile), Winky Light, Winky, Circles, Nu Edge Regular, Cosmos, Toasty, Around The Block, Wave (kitchen tile), Nu Edge, OneMore Time (stencil), Techno Mouse (white on black pixel face), Techno Dog.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leo Camus

Chilean designer of the free condensed squarish piano key typeface Modula (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Letters en Plaatjes
[Thijs Mertens]

Thijs Mertens is a Dutch designer in Arnhem who runs the design studio Letters en Plaatjes since 2009. He used FontStruct in 2009 to create ThM PurSans, ThM BlackBox (stencil), ThM For Minimal, ThM Papercut, ThM Concept, ThM Monomode, ThM Firefly, and ThM Freaktur (sic).

In 2011, he made ThM Trade Stencil, ThM Tomahawk, ThM Thin (thin and octagonal).

In 2012, he added ThM Toronto, ThM SPQR (athletic lettering), ThM Bone, ThM Tibetan (blackletter), ThM Trade (slabby), ThM Tulipe, ThM Mini, ThM LCD.

Typefaces from 2013: ThM Liga, ThM Architype Albers, ThM Marksman (stencil face).

FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

lieann

Designer of the free piano key / art deco typeface Beauty (2020). Inside the font, we find the name Francy though. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lillan Team
[Oscar Cobo]

During his studies in Barcelona, Oscar Cobo created the modular Tuscan typeface family Batto (2015, free) and Atzur (2015, free). In 2016, he published the commercial version, Atzur Pro.

In 2017, he designed the free modular display typeface Golem.

Typefaces from 2018: Haki (a free squarish variable font), Carbono (an octagonal family in 42 styles, and a 3-axis variable font), UT Morph (with Wete; a piano key variable opentype font that was inspired by Wim Crouwel's Nagasaki poster).

Typefaces from 2019: Concasse (a sans typeface family, +a variable font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

L.N. Heinz

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Bloc (piano key font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Londyn Adams

American designer of the piano key typeface Lure (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucas Mercado

Cordoba, Argentina-based designer of the free piano key typeface Chappa Black (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucas Potronnat

During his studies in Lyon (France), Lucas Potronnat created a piano key typeface (2014) and a modular grid-based typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucy Maitre

Lucy Maitre (London, UK) created the free piano key stencil typeface Pontiff (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Vicente Hernandez

Luis Vicente Hernandez (Dos Decadatres, or DDCT) is a Spanish designer in Madrid who created the free pixelish typeface Houndstooth in 2007 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. His typefaces include Anchor Deco (2009), Caponata (2009, elegant display face), Maxima (2009), Aguadulce (2009), Super League Font (2010), Minima, Absurda, Houndstooth, Unga Unga (primitive counterless comic book face), Perruna, DDCT Abstrusa (2009), Black Diamonz (2009, rhombic), Bouncing Wisdom (2010, a face in the style of Rennie Mackintosh), Boaz (2010, a display headline face for Go Skateboarding Mag), Farewell (2011), Averis (2011, an art deco display face).

In 2012, he created the tall piano key typeface Buho.

Typefaces from 2013 include OOG.

Typefaces done between 2013 and 2017 include Hoot (used in the Tao Te Ching book).

Bespoke typefaces: Suanzesburg (for TheCube), Sphere (for Henry Blake).

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

Lukas Placko

Puchov, Slovakia-based designer of the piano key typeface Alto (2013), the experimental Acolor2 (2013), and the Aztec-inspired Aztec and Azatec typefaces (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lukman Hakim

Semarang, Indonesia-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Gedrig (2018). In 2020, he released the multiline sci-fi typeface Spaceline and the jazzy piano key font Jack. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M. Eugenia Lopez Zafra

Architect and graphic designer in Madrid, Spain, who created several modular typefaces in 2016, including a piano key style, a circle-themed style, and a geometric solid style. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Macha
[Jacek Machowski]

Rzeszow, Poland-based designer of the free hyper-condensed typeface Dugas (2019) and the free calligraphic typeface Uncial (2018). Dribble link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Madgas
[Matthieu Leclerc]

Design group in Strasbourg, France, led by Matthieu Leclerc. His typeface Curvelegant (2012) shows high contrast between vertical and horizontal, and as such, tends towards the piano key category.

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

Manorota Studio

Studio in Barcelona. Their typefaces include Pernocta (2014, a piano key stencil typeface), and Basic (2016, a geometric solid typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Margarida Ferreira

Graduate of the University of Lisbon, class of 2018. Lisbon-based designer of the piano key typeface Pianoforte (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marina Garci

Barcelona-based designer of the piano key typeface Gala (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marina Herrero

Graphic designer in Barcelona who created the piano key typeface The Pianist (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marina Zertuche

During her studies in Monterrey, Mexico, Marina Zertuche created the piano key stencil typeface Montagu (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark O'Neill

Hereford, UK-based designer (at Hereford College of Arts) of the free piano key typeface Agent (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marta Cerdá Alimbau

Graphic designer in Barcelona who founded her own studio in 2008. In 2018, she joined the faculty in the Masters program in typographic design at Elisava. She has been working since 2008 on some gorgeous typefaces, such as Ophelie (2008), 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 typeface Nido.

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

Martina Flor
[KurzProject in Type Design]

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Mateo Mok
[Demonics]

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Matevz Medja
[Gigofonts--Gigodesign]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Tyndall
[Dismantle Destroy]

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Matthieu Leclerc
[Madgas]

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Maxim Smith

Designer in New York City, who created a piano key typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M-B Creative
[Ben Mecke-Burford]

M-B Creative is a British type foundry in Presteigne, Pows, est. 2013 by Ben Mecke-Burford, or just Ben Berford, who has created many stunning art deco and other typeface families.

Typefaces made in 2013 include MB Noir (an art deco sans), the experimental minimalist MB Negative Space, the piano key typeface MB Sixtythree, the gorgeous art deco/avant garde titling typeface MB Deco, and the circle-based monoline typeface MB Geometrixa.

In 2014, he published MB Vintage (sic: an art deco sans family), MB Empire (a sans that goes back to Gill Sans), MB Narrow (a compressed sans family), MB Edwardsson (handwriting font) and MB Picture House (an all caps art deco typeface family).

Typefaces from 2020: Faustian (medieval, blackletterish), Nuovo Deco (an improvement of MB Deco), Loopkin (a playful fashion mag didone). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mehmet Abaci
[Studio Typo]

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Mel Rodgers

Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at York College of PA, who studied at Maryland Institute College of Art. Fontstructor who made Glyphorama (2012), a beautiful condensed high-contrast squarish piano key typeface. It was renamed Gropius. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mercedes di Paola

Graphic design student in Buenos Aires who made the blended experimental typeface Cadaver Exquisito (2012) and the piano key font Tipo Ironman (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Merzhase Exchange
[Peter Sherbarth]

Free Mac fonts by Peter Sherbarth at Merzhase Exchange include Sumo (2001, piano key font) and Kassiber. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Golovachev
[Scorpy Design Studio]

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Michael Jarboe
[Reserves (or: AE Type)]

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Michael Parson
[Typogama]

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Muhammad Hastian
[Hazztype (was: Helve Tian)]

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Nathan Jephcott

Nathan Jephcott (Gramaton Design, Melbourne, Australia) created the piano key typeface Vertalen (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nattapon Muangtum

Bangkok-based designer of Origami Font (2012, a piano key typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neruuu

Art director and illustrator in Barcelona. His typefaces include Fecunda (2012, LED style), Tan Sols, Maneira (comic book face), and an unnamed piano key face.

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Nick and Adam Hayes
[Identikal Foundry]

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Nick Curtis
[Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2004]

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Nick Curtis
[Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2005]

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Nick Curtis
[Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2006]

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Nick Curtis
[Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2007]

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Nick Curtis
[Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2008]

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Nick Curtis
[Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2009]

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Nick Curtis
[Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2010]

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Nick Curtis
[Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2011]

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Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2004
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Typefaces made by Nick Curtis from 2004, not listed elsewhere on these pages. Bayern Handschrift, De Rigueur NF, Refugio Rustic WBW, Refugio Refined WBW, Ponte Vecchio NF, Brazzaville NF (based on Congo, a 1910 font by Barnhart Brothers \& Spindler), Moonshine Script NF (a casual connected script patterned after an offering from the 1930s chapbook 60 Alphabets by The Hunt Brothers), West Coast Antics (based on a showing from Carl Holmes' 1950s book, ABC of Lettering), Nanki Poo NF (based on Mikado from the Boston Type Foundry), Picture Postcard NF (a Broadway style typeface based on work by lettering artist Alf Becker), Curly Shuffle NF (described as a mix of Alf Becker's style and Leslie Cabarga's), Hardy Har Har NF (based on Samoa from BB&S, 1900), Krazy Kracks NF (based on the so-called California style of lettering used extensively in travel posters of the 30s to the 50s. This version is based on its interpretation by Carl Holmes in a Walter T. Foster artbook entitled ABC of Lettering), Whoa Nelly NF (a comic book face--based on Dan X. Solo's Funhouse), Bushwacked, Cressida (triline face), New Boston (far West typeface of the "italian" kind), Rumble Seat, Kartoon Kutz 3&4 NF, Magic Twanger NF, Snoodle Toons NF, Beanie Kopter NF, Delysian NF (based on Greeting card from the 1923 catalog of BB&S), Mazurka NF (based on Swagger Capitals and Gothic Novelty title from the 1923 catalog of BB&S), Jungle Holiday Cuts NF (based on holiday ornaments by Carl S. Junge, 1929), Stone Soup NF (based on lettering for a 1925 Buster Keaton movie), Tintern Abbey NF (based on the lettering for a 1905 poster for the Austrian National Highway by artist Gustav Jahn), Period Borders NF, Parsnip and Parsnip Outline (Will Ransom designed the exemplar for this series for Barnhart Brothers&Spindler in the early 1900s---the typeface was originally named Parsons (1918), after the advertising director of a Chicago department store), Wurstwagen (suggested by a poster for beer, designed by German artist Ludwig Hohlwein around 1920), Jackson Park NF (1920s style), Kenosha Antique NF (from the 1903 Racine typeface of Barnhart Brothers&Spindler), Catty Wumpas (based on lettering of Ross F. George). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2005
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Typefaces made by Nick Curtis from 2005, not listed elsewhere on these pages. Chantilly Lace NF (2005: uppercase letters by Bergling and lowercase letters by Roland W. Paul), Edda MorganaNF (medieval English), Gnarly Dude NF (rough script based on material of Ross F. George), Whirled Peas NF (based on a typeface called Whitestone Scrawl by Dan X. Solo in his "Showcard Alphabets"), Cool Cat Jim NF (based on a 1953 headline by Jim Flora in Park East Magazine), Sulphur Springs WBW (bone font), Grand Rapids (based on a typeface named Archer from the 1905 specimen book from Barnhart Brothers&Spindler), Hasta La Pasta (designed after a typeface from a pre-1900 specimen book from the Central Type Foundry of St. Louis, called Spiral), La Coupole (based on lettering on a 1927 menu by prominent poster artists Razzia), Shadowlands (this is like Wilcox Initials from the 1992 Solotype Catalog), Possum Saltare NF (a Trajan column style caps face), Pismo Clambake NF (a connected formal script typeface after a Richard Gans handwriting typeface from 1933, Gloria), Ransom Clearcut NF (an extension of Will Ransom's 1920s caps-only typeface Clearcut Shaded Caps for BBS), Almost Heaven (sold in the early 1900s as Perfection), Goodbye Crewel World (stitching font), Jimbatz NF (dingbats inspired by album cover artist Jim Flora), Bad Dookie NF (from The Advertising Cartoon Clip Art Book, 1971), Maple Leaf Rag NF (revival of Nova Bold by Continental Typefounders), Surely You Jest NF (called Arbor in the 1890's type specimen catalog from Farmer, Little&Co), Merry Old Soul NF (a display typeface discovered in one of the many books on sign writing produced by Eric Matthews), Funky Tut NF (205; the caps are based on J.M. Bergling's Morocco (1914), and the lower cases on Bergling's Kermaic Text (1914)), Groove Thang NF (based on a font called Dado), Novadam Obese (geometric black modern typeface based on a logotype by the same name of Joan Trochut Blanchard, ca. 1940s), Smackeroo NF (2005, engraved US dollar-bill style typeface based on Steelplate, a monocase typeface from ca. 1900 by Barnhart Brothers&Spindler), Snooty Fox NF (an elegant typeface found in Pen&Brush Lettering and Practical Alphabets, Blandford Press, Ltd., London, 1929), Chez Nous (based on Card Italic from a 1930s Mergenthaler Linotype Company specimen book), Slapdash Deco NF (2005, based on a showcard alphabet presented by Cecil Wade in his Manual of Lettering), Rockin Roman NF (from Blandford Press' Pen&Brush Lettering and Practical Alphabets), Kunstgewerbe NF (artsy typeface after work by J.M. Bergling, 1914), Details Details NF (a geometric design from Pen and Brush Lettering and Practical Alphabets), Escondido NF (inspired by an Austrian travel poster designed by Johann Süssenbek in the 1930s), Ballyhaunis NF (based on Celtic lettering by Laurence Schall, early 1900s), Inglenook Corner NF (based on art nouveau lettering by Laurence Schall, early 1900s), Mohair Sam NF (caps based on letters of Samuel Welo, and lower case based on ATF's Romany Script), Partenkirchen NF (a Basque style display face), Helena Handbasket NF (after Antique Light, found in the 1888 edition of the James Conner & Sons United States Type Foundry specimen book), Kudos Kaps NF (2006: five nice ornamental caps and associated alphabet and border sets, including a Lombardic set, an engraved set; they are based on typefaces from Ludwig&Mayer). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2006
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Typefaces made by Nick Curtis from 2006, not listed elsewhere on these pages: Magic Lantern NF, Duly Noted NF (after an ATF typeface from 1912 called Freeahand), Got That Bling NF (a connected script based on the work of Al Mack, from his Lettering: Brush&Pen in the Single Stroke), Haarlem Nights NF (based on a 1920 Dutch poster for Public Placement Services by Johan Dijsktra), Architectuur NF (based on De Stijl type lettering by H. Th. Wijdeveld, 1925), Gandy Dancer NF (a revival of Tabard, ca. 1912, ATF), Pomfrit Dandy NF (based on Frys Ornamented No. 2 by Stephenson Blake), Smith Premier (Clean and Schmutzy) NF (a typewriter pair after the letters of the Smith Premier No. 3), ed Hot Mama NF (2006), Jumbo Mumbo NF (a revival of Independant done in 1930 by Collette and Dufour), Union Telegraph NF (2006), Major Production NF (which was followed in 2009 by Major Pro Extras NF), Teeny Boppin NF (gleaned from Schrifti Alphabeti, a book of Cyrillic alphabets published in Kiev in 1979), Rutin Tutin NF (based on Wild West lettering found in Schrifti Alphabeti, 1979), Jampact NF (2006, an ultra fat headline face), Beagle Boyz NF (a bouncy typeface based on a Cyrillic alphabet presented in the book Schrifti Alphabeti, 1979), Midtown Tessie NF and Downtown Tessie NF (mosaic tile typefaces), Scary Scrimshaw (based on a 1968 poster for a Doors concert), Speedball No1, Speedball No2 SW (2001), Speedball No3 (2001), Bellagio NF (an interpretation of Robert Wiebking's 1917 font Advertisers Gothic, designed for BB&S), High Society NF (2006, a fashion mag typeface based on an alphabet found in Lettering for the Commercial Artist by Blandford Press, 1946), Osiyo Dohitsu NF (based on letterforms in the Cherokee Syllabary, reputedly devised by Sequoyah in the early nineteenth century; it has petroglyphs as well), Micro Manager NF (pixel face), Paper Caper NF (2006), Shady Grove (a condensed version of Thorne Shaded), American Pi NF (2006: ATF ornaments from the catalogs between 1913-1934, including some designed by Will Bradley, Frederic Goudy and George Trenholm), The Donald NF (a hyper-curly decorative face), Boo Meringue NF (a Halloween font based on Lithotint (1897, ATF)), Lesser Arcana (a mystical type), Zyklop NF (2006), Deux Chasses NF (based on ATF's Thermotype), Bon Mot NF (based on Barnhart Brothers&Spindler's Engravers Upright Script), Munchkin Land NF (based on a work called Thor, issued by Frederic Wesselhoeft Ltd of London in the 1930s), Didgeree Doodle NF (2006, a curly cursive originally released as Bernhard Heavy Antique Cursive by the Bauersche Giesserei by Lucien Bernhard), Kudo Kaps One, Two, Three and Four NF (a total of eight classical initial caps typefaces), Crane Titling NF (medieval-inspired uppercase letters drawn by famed book illustrator Walter Crane with charming, if somewhat quirky, lowercase letters by J. W. Weekes), DecimoSexto NF (+italic) (includes Spanish Roman letters and Griffo style italics, both hand-drawn by Francisco Lucas in Madrid, 1577), Visillo Adornado (a caps typeface based on the typeface Vesta, originally designed by Albert Auspurg for H. Berthold AG, Berlin in 1926), Edsel Font, Deco Dingbats. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2007
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Typefaces made by Nick Curtis from 2007, not listed elsewhere on these pages: Dundee Castle NF (based on lettering by Harvey Hopkins Dunn, 1930), Sheik Of Araby NF (2007), Aethelred NF (a unicase typeface, with alternate characters in several of the lowercase positions, is patterned after Mosaik, designed by Martin Kausche for Schriftgiesserei Stempel in 1954; Sultan (2005, Canada Type) is also based on Mosaik). Cerulean NF (a sans based on Lining Gothic No. 71 (BBS and ATF, 1907)), Rimshot NF (script), Jaunty Gent NF (based on the upright connected script Forelle, aka Rheingold Kräftig, by Erich Mollowitz in 1936-1937 for the Hamburg foundry of J. D. Tennert&Sohn), Baby Cakes NF (a bubblegum face based on a 1974 release by Karlgeorg Hoefer at the Ludwig&Mayer foundry called Big Band), Amper Sans NF (after Hobby, a script designed in 1956 by Werner Rebhuhn for Schriftgießerei Genzsch&Heyse), Wacky Duck NF (2007), By George Titling NF (inspired by silent movie lettering), Dinky Rink NF (partially based on Steile Futura), Fuller Brush NF (a bouncy signage script from The New Lone Pine ABC of Showcard and Ticketwriting by Australian author C. Milnes), Tiddly Winks NF (2007), Iraan (a stars and stripes typeface based on the ATF typeface Rodeo), Haut Relief (a 3d typeface based on a 1960s typeface called Sculpture), Fiddle Sticks (based on West Banjo (Dave West, 1960s)), Djibouti (an African theme font modeled after African Queen (Dave West, 1960s), Wacky Duck NF (2007), Turing Car NF (2007, a monospaced typeface based on a lineprinter font from the 1960s, the Unisys 0776), Route 66 NF (based on the typefaces used on U.S. Highway signs from the 1930s to the 1950s), Anna Nicole NF (2007, based on the upright semiscript Mirabelle (1926, Wagner&Schmidt); Nick Curtis: Round, firm and fully-packed, it is sure to get attention anywhere it is used.), Keynote Speaker NF (an awkward blocky typeface patterned after Bloomsbury (1920s, P. M. Shanks&Sons)), Twitty Bird NF (2007, an architectural drawing font based on Dan X. Solo's Conway), Balder Dash NF (the caps are based on Breda-Gotisch (1928, H. Berthold AG) and the lowercase on Goudy Text)), Outer Loop NF (2007), Tutti Paffuti NF (after Stymie Black Flair by Dave West for Photolettering), Weedy Beasties NF (after a variation of Seymour Chwast's Blimp), Bully Pulpit NF (2007), Keepon Truckin NF (a 3d typeface based on Milton Glaser's Baby Fat). In the 1970s, Vincent Pacella made a Photolettering Egyptian headline typeface called Blackjack, which was digitized in 2007 by Nick Curtis as Flap Jacks NF. ITC Jeepers and Woodley Park (based on Naudin) won awards at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. Artone (Seymour Chwast, 1968) was revived as Loose Caboose NF (2007). Edwin Sisty's upright curly semiscript Belcanto (1970s, Photolettering) was revived in 2007 by Nick Curtis as Glissando NF. F.W. Kleukens' Kleukens Antiqua (1910) was digitized by Nick as Kleukens Antiqua NF (2007). Holo Fernes NF (2007) is based on Christian Heinrich Kleukens' Judith Type (1923), a hookish hell-inspired face. Pudgy Puss (2007) is an ultra-fat modern display type based on Fat Face (Herb Lubalin, Tom Carnase). Omaha Bazoo (2007) is patterned after Viola Flare, issued by Franklin Photolettering in the 1970s. Lateral Incised NF (2007) is an engraved old style typeface originally released in 1929 as Gravure by the London foundry of C. W. Shortt. Tall Scrawl NF (2007) is an original Curtis hand-printed font. Alfred Riedel's Domino (Ludwig&Mayer, 1954) was revived as Idle Fancy NF (2007). Boxcar Willie NF (2007) is a quaint curly face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2008
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Typefaces made by Nick Curtis from 2008, not listed elsewhere on these pages: Dave West's Nickelodeon was revived by Curtis as Lily Hilo NF (2008). Funky Rundkopf NF (2008) is an adaptation of an LED simulation font of Ray Larabie, called Dignity of Labour. Daffadowndilly NF (2007-2008) is based on art work by Alf Becker from the 1940s. Babes In Toyland NF (2008) has some of the Rennie Mackintosh charm and is based on "Sheet music for Babes in Toyland, USA, 1903". Anagram Shadow NF (2008) is based on handlettering from a 1928 poster for a steamship line by renowned British artist Austin Cooper. Kandinsky NF (2008) is based on shapes found on Kandinsky's painting Succession (1935). An experimental typeface by Jeremy Pettis, illustrating the concept of kangaroo, inspired Pal Joey NF (2008). One of René Knip's experiments, a unicase typeface with an Arabic feel, was digitized by Nick Curtis as Turban Hey NF (2008). Calamity Jane (2008) is a stylish Edwardian script based on a 1930s logotype for the Theatre Moderne in Paris. Orion Radio NF (2008) is a 1930s style display typeface on an African theme. Quinceanera NF (2008) is a a new take on an old dry-transfer standard from the 70s named Barrio. Jobber Wacky NF (2008) is a bouncy handlettering font based on designs of Alan Denney found on greeting cards in the 1950s and 1960s. Franciscan Caps (2008) is based on a 1932 typeface by Frederic Goudy called Franciscan. Morning Glory (2008) is a simple display typeface that goes back to the Cleveland Type Foundry, 1893. Tickety Boo (2008) is a take on Goudy Fancy (or: Goudy Black Elongated Swash). Yo Quiero Taquitos uses letters taken from Rotalución Decorativa (Barcelona, 1940s), Disco 79 (2008, multiline), Eclectic Crumpany (2008, multiline monocase neon or paperclip typeface based on The Electric Company TV Show), Fire Down Below (2008, block gothic), Joufflou NF (2008, very fat), Bala Cynwyd NF (2001) is an Arts&Crafts style poster typeface inspired by lettering of Dard Hunter. Csiszarz Latein NF (2008) recreates an old typeface (ca. 1910) of J.V. Csiszarz. Owah Tagu Siam NF (2008) is a faux Thai font. Langoustine Rouge NF (2008) is based on Dan Solo's Sorbonne. Cecil Wade again provided inspiration for Bloc Party NF (2008). My Little Eye NF (2008) is an elegant piano key font. Roundabout NF (2008) is rounded octagonal. Neubank NF (2008) is Nick Curtis's take on Bank Gothic. Warp Three NF (2008) is a Bank Gothic-style family with an uppercase as in Agency Gothic (1932-1933, Morris Fuller Benton) and a lowercase from Square Gothic (1888, James Conner). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2009
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Typefaces made by Nick Curtis from 2009, not listed elsewhere on these pages: Society Page NF (semi-script based on Morris Fuller Benton's Announcement, 1916), Glyphix One NF (dingbats), Glyphix Two NF (dingbats), Velveteen Round NF (based on Vellvé's only font, 1971), Steno Stout NF (the venerable Underwood Victoria typewriter on steroids), Diosa Rubia NF (condensed headline face), Mono Amono NF (octagonal), Turista Flaca NF (based on Baltimore Type Foundry's Tourist Extra Condensed), Boop Boop NF (based on handlettering found on Hallmark Studio Cards of the 1950s), Samosata NF (based on Bernhard Gothic), Waddem Choo NF (based on Tschichold's Transito from 1931), Jane Plain NF (architectural blueprint style), Hacky Sack NF (a zany typeface based on Ross F. George's Stunt Roman), Free Holeys NF (after the 1972 Letraset font Beans by Dieter Zembsch), Kingstown NF (semiscript), Kudos Kaps NF (2006: five nice ornamental caps and associated alphabet and border sets, including a Lombardic set, an engraved set; they are based on typefaces from Ludwig&Mayer), Melvin Eustace NF (handlettered), Weekly Bazaar NF (based on Harpers by the Central Type Foundry), Really Big Shoe NF (after a Cleveland Type Foundry typeface called Oxford), Bellwether Antique NF (after a 1913 typeface by Georg Belwe), Garmisch Rund NF (inspired by Rundgotisch, Emil Rudolf Weiss, 1937), Whitefriars NF (based on a font from the Blackfriars Type Foundry in London), Society Page NF (a curly serif typeface based on Morris Fuller Benton's Announcement Roman, designed for American Type Founders in 1917), USA Resolute NF (a unicase headline typeface based on Morris Fuller Benton's Eagle, ATF, 1934), Saturday Morning Toast (2001, based on the logotype font of the Saturday Evening Post from the 1920s), Examiner NF (based on Dwiggins' Metro from the 1930s). Hans Lijklema's Free Font Index has a CD which contains AirstreamNF-Italic, CalamityJaneNF-Bold, CalamityJaneNF, DaddyLonglegsNF, HamburgerHeavenNF, HeavyTrippNF, HutSutRalstonNF (2001), OrionRadioNF, ParkLaneNF, PhattPhreddyNF, RhumbaScriptNF (a silent movie font), Riot Squad NF (2000, after Otto Heim). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2010
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Typefaces made by Nick Curtis from 2010, not listed elsewhere on these pages.

Typefaces made in 2010: Conners Corners NF (2010: gleaned from the 1888 specimen books of James Conner's Sons United States Type Foundry), Tumbling Dice NF and Banner Year NF (both were done after scroll typefaces featured in the 1869 MacKellar Smiths and Jordan specimen book), Standing Room Only NF (after Broadway, designed by Morris Fuller Benton for ATF in 1928, originally named Broadway Poster), Proud Mary NF (a plump typeface based on Joseph Churchward's Marianna), Slapsie Maxi NF (based on a Carl Holmes alphabet found in Holmes's ABC of Lettering), Umbriago NF (trying to do a Cooper Black Swash Italic), Picaro NF (based on Harlequin), Palo Pinto NF (based on Pacella Vega Extended 10, a 1960s typeface by Vincent Pacella), Cartella NF (a 3d beveled shadow typeface based on a Morris Fuller Benton 1934 offering for American Type Founders called Poster Gothic), Pracht Antiqua NF (a faithful rendering of the cuddly headline script typeface Pracht Antiqua Schmallfett, which was designed by Carl Pracht for the Norddeutsche Schriftgießerei in 1942), Gitfiddler NF (a futuristic oblique typeface based on the lettering on a package of Gibson guitar strings from the 1950s), Seta Reta NF (after Walter Diethelm's 1965 VGC typeface Arrow), Kleukens Kursiv NF (after Kleukens Scriptura, 1926 by F.W. Kleukens), Kallilu NF (a display face, after George Piscitelle's VGC typeface Thomac from the 1960s), Occidental Tourist NF (an avant-garde sans inspired by Dave West's Futura Casual), Schelter Grotesk NF (after Schelter's Breite Grotesk, 1886), Vuvuzela NF (a casual, almost sign-painted, and nearly African display face), Block Party NF (2008, a 3d face), Cromwell NF (a faithful digitization of Cromwell, 1913, Morris Fuller Benton, ATF), Liguria NF (2010, after a typeface found in a Nebiolo specimen book, ca. 1900), Pony Express NF (2010, after Palmer and Rey's Courier from 1885), Linndale Square NF (a beefed up version of Geometric, 1885, Cleveland Type Foundry---a typewriter style face), Binghamton NF was inspired by the wedge-serifed angular typeface Bingham (Vincent Patella, PLINC). Albert Kapr designed Faust in 1959, so Nick's derived sans typeface is called Kaprice NF. Double D NF (2010, +Fill, +Outline) is a 3d beveled typeface based on Dave Davison's Dimensional from the 1970s. Old Softy NF (2010) is a rounded typeface based on Round Gothic (Keystone Type Foundry, 1884 catalog). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nick Curtis: Typefaces from 2011
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Typefaces made by Nick Curtis from 2011, not listed elsewhere on these pages: Jersey City NF (modeled after Times Gothic (1905, ATF)), Petty Despot NF (2011, also modeled after Times Gothic, and possibly renamed from Jersey City NF after Berthold---yes, the same Berthold again---complained about the name Jersey since one of its fonts by Gustav Jaeger was named Jersey. This is my educated guess..., and two thumbs up to Nick for picking the appropriate name Petty Despot NF). Olde Megrat NF is patterned after Antikva Margaret, designed by Zoltán Nagy for VGC in the mid-60s. Herkimer Bunrab NF is an upright scriptish typeface with bunnyears that is based on Hercules (1926, Amsterdam Type foundry). Blackbarry NF (2011) is a faithful revival of Deutsch Black (1966, Barry Deutsch, VGC), a unicase piano key typeface. Bindlestiff NF (2011), which won the 2011 Devroye Memorial Medal for funniest typeface name, revives Schmallfette Binder Style (1959, Joseph Binder, Stempel AG), a squarish tightly set headline face. Decked Out NF (2011) is a fat inline typeface modeled on Dektiv in Homage to the Alphabet. Bazoo Tow NF (2011) is a fun fattish headline typeface that is a faithful reroduction of Basuto (1927, Stanley Baxter for Stephenson Blake). Are You Shaw NF (2011) is an all-caps blackboard bold typeface inspired by Pygmalion, a typeface found in Homage to the Aplhabet. Hoodoo U NF (2011) is a roly-poly romp through the alphabet, based on Jürgen Riebling's irrepressible Mr. Big from the 1970s. Big, bold, bubbly and a little brash, it's a natural choice for happy headlines. The handlettered Mikeys Roman NF (2011) has an uppercase based on the work of Mike Stevens, and a lowercase based on the work of Alf Becker. Outgribe NF (2011) is a rough, raw typeface that is based on the lettering in Ben Shahn's iconic poster protesting the execution of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1927. Nellie Kay NF (2011) is a monoline script face, based on an example by Ross F. George. Shaq Attack NF (2011) is a wooden plank style or brushy typeface inspired by an alphabet of Alf R. Becker. Relampago NF (2011) revives Hans Möhring's bilined typeface Elegante Lichte (1928). Squirrely Shirley NF (2011) is a bouncy typeface based on Phoenix (unknown creator) in Schriftatlas. Spread Out NF (2011) is modeled after Ross F. George's Split Caps. Salzburger Plakat NF (2011) is based on an Austrian winter sports festival poster from 1907 by Swiss poster designer Otto Baumberger (1889-1961). Rightly So NF (2011) is a squarish typeface based on Geometric Gothic (1884, Palmer and Rey)---it is hard to imagine that this almost pixelish style was around at that epoch. Kenotaph NF (2011) is a condensed headline slab serif modeled after Stymie Obelisk (1930s, Morris Fuller Benton). Vasari NF (2011) is based on Ancient Gothic (1891, William W. Jackson, Keystone Type Foundry). Moslem (Boston Type Foundry) was revived as Suffiya NF (2011). Looky Cookie NF (2011) has eyes placed on the glyphs. Iago NF (2011) is a powerful headline sans inspired by two ATF typefaces from the 1880s, Othello and ATF Black Caps. Big Bag NF (2011) is called an industrial-strength titling face by Nick Curtis---it has design elements of Hans Eduard Meier's Syntax Antiqua. Highpoint Gothic NF (after Morris Fuller Benton's 1932-1935 typeface Raleigh Gothic Condensed). Fernburner NF is an all caps shadow face, modeled after Hans Bohn's 1929 typeface Orplid. Planscribe NF is based on types used by the Leroy Automatic Lettering Machine, a tool for architects. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nikhil Tokas

New Delhi-based designer of the lachrymal piano key typeface Clavier (2018), which was developed during his studies at Pearl Academy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Niko Fernandez

Brazilian art director who has worked with with Tony de Marco at Just in Type. From Brazil, he moved to Amsterdam. His typeface Concreta (2011, done with Tony de Marco) is a stencil typeface in the Bauhaus and piano key styles. It was inspired by the work of Josef Albers.

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Nippa Downey

Nippa Downey (DJ Nippa) is the creator in 2008 at FontStruct of these typefaces: NCD Paperclip (2008), NCD Paperclip Closed, the NCD Black Square family (2008, he writes: The Black Square of Kazimir Malevich is one of the most famous creations of Russian art in the last century. The first Black Square was painted in 1915 to become the turning point in the development of Russian avant-garde.), Snake, Snake Rebel, Mooch Rounded II and Mooch Squared II.

Additions in 2009: The NCD Dot Matrix family (many styles), NCD Grand Theft Autostruct (based on the logo for the Playstation/Xbox computer game "Grand Theft Auto"), NCD Dorky Corners Sans, NCD Amphibian (+Stencil), NCD Blagger (+Stencil), NCD Gigantica2, NCD Gigantica, NCD Brick Stacker, NCD Amoeba family (dot matrix), NCD Deejayon (nice), NCD Blagger (+Stencil), NCD Phusion Bold (octagonaal), NCD PS Magazine (+2) (octagonal), NCD Fabrica 50 (vertical stripes), NCD Scansion, NCD Octangle 20, NCD Neopolicia Harlequin, NCD Reinforcia (piano key, stencilized), NCD White Picket Fence, NCD Autonium Small Caps (not free...).

In 2010, he created the NCD Chromica family (athletic lettering typefaces) and NCD Bezica 10 (elliptical), NCD Nu Arc Stencil Linked, NCD Nu Arc Linked Stencil, NCD Edding 5.0 (brush), NCD Patchwork (texture face), NCD Embroidery (+Comp Size), NCD Snippa Sharp (2011), NCD Nufraktura Gothic (2009), NCD Autonium Small Caps.

Typefaces from 2012: NCD Black Square, NCD Black Square II.

Typefaces from 2013: NCD Neopolicia (+Drop Serif, +Harlequin, +Jump Drop), NCD Grand Theft Autostruct (based on the logo for the Playstation/Xbox computer game "Grand Theft Auto"), NCD Isometrica Horizontal 1 (3d block face), NCD Mooch Squared, NCD Mooch Rounded II.

In 2014, his striped octagonal art deco typeface NCD Deconium SC Black Serif Inlines won an award at the FontStruct Inline Font Competition. Other typefaces from 2014 include NCD Reinforcia and NCD Dottica Serif 60.

Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

No Regular Fonts
[Alexander Sheliketo]

Goryachiy Klyuch, Russia-based creator of the unruly Rhyhorn (2016), the brush typeface Come Alive (2016), the free sans typeface North (2016), the free piano key typeface Kicker (2016), which is a bit in the style of Wim Crouwel's famous Hiroshima poster. He also made Fearless (2016), Zephyr (2016), the free rounded squarish typeface Futures (2016), and the 6-style display typeface Marlen (2016), which includes deco and stencil options. Skeleton (2016) is inspired by human skeletons.

Typefaces from 2017: Rocket, Nerd (hipster family), Zerr (heavy brush style). Buy the fonts here. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nohamad Foda
[Fo Da]

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Nupur Chowdhary

Bangalore, India-based designer of the free piano key stencil typeface Quibus (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ogentroost
[Diederik Corvers]

Ogentroost is the typographic wing of Dutch corporate identity designer Diederik Corvers, who is located in Dordrecht near Rotterdam, where he runs Klaar Ontwerpen.

He made these corporate identity typefaces: Thoth, Quattron, 123Interim, Ogentroost (1993-2013, an italic for posters, and an accompyanying humanist sans), Durertype Capital and Digital (1992-2012), Export (2002: a rounded stencil), Together (1997, a script), CrossWord (another stencil), Suomi (2004, an elliptical sans), Suomi Slab (2005). The Suomi Ultra weight is free.

Early typefaces include Cross (2003, a stencil type), Landvast (2006), Ogle (2006, a monospaced typeface), Oldskool Black (2007, a fat poster typeface), Paintstripper (2010, a piano key stencil face), Rule (2011, a gothic with humanist traits).

Typefaces from 2012: Ancona, Beep Beep (an experimental textured typeface), Novus (2012-2013, a didone based on the logo he made for the Dutch National Television news show Nieuwsuur).

In 2014, he published Serious Sans, the grown-up brother Comic Sans never had. The limited character version of this font is free. The full typeface is at MyFonts.

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

ogre

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the elegant rounded fat piano key style display typeface Fort Sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Onrepeat Studio
[Joao Oliveira]

Onrepeat is the type foundry established by Joao Oliveira (b. 1986) in 2011. Oliveira is (was?) a communication design student at Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD) in Matosinhos, Portugal. 1986. He also freelanced as a designer in Porto before moving to London. His typefaces:

  • Gothular (2011).
  • The 12-style artistic piano key display sans family Bohema (2011).
  • The super-high-contrast didone fashion mag typeface system Port (2013). Port was revisited in 2014 and led to the exquisite 10-style experimental didone typeface Port Vintage.
  • Nympha (2020). In his own words, it is a luxuriously exuberant serif typeface, exuding femininity and glamour.
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opipik

Pixel font specialist who created these pixel typefaces using FontStruct in 2013: fs Inspira 2 (pixel face), fs Mikibit, FS Tacticalreminds, FS Terc.butyl (slab serif), Fin Competition, Opipik's Caps, Stencil, Cond, Alter Ego, Anakin, Nonsense Remix, Simple, Fluid PX (pixelish), Fluid, Shamewriting (wide techno face), The FS Ion (stencil), Opirus Semi-Serif, Launching a similar one, F Serif Q, Opirus OPIK, Sans Tai Na, Leftleaning, FSPx Kayah D70, 1234 Font, Random Regular.

Other typefaces made in 2013 include fs Logo, fs Mansion, fs Kismet, LASO Serif, fs Ad, fs Groszak's Dreams, fs Road Sans, fs Connet (retro automotive script), fs Large, fs Mico, fs Use, fs By, fs Part, fs Strongness, fs Permutoo 1 through 7 (op-art), fs Ethstruct, fs Ais (wood type simulation), fs Eng (like fs Ais), fs 01, fs Jim Jam (sencil), fs Sor, fs Nothing (blackletter), Anakin Mono (a sci-fi face), Shaak Sans, LASO Serif, 42 Stencil, 42 Sten Grid (kitchen tile face), 42 Bold (piano key face), 42 Sten Vert, Sten Bold Vert, 42 Light Vert, 42 Bold Vert, 42 Light Grid, 42 Cond, 42 Light, 42 Black, Iont Slab (monospaced), Experiment Elongated Ears, Pixel Old English, Check It, Trifolium Stencil (like a Bauhaus stencil), Avatars New, Shaakmono, and Better Sans.

Typefaces from 2014 include fs Pixalic (a great textured typeface), fs Weighted, fs Monital, fs Pixnod Serif, fs Gaelpix, fs Jenson 1 (+Italic), fs Hand2, fs Wood Type 1, fs135 Opinno Serif, fs135 Inno Huge, fs Dotnudge Biggerterm, fs Nudgershoots, fx 8x6, fs Eng, fs Streetsign, fs Fassyrian, fs Apjop, fs Jenson 1, fs Stenserife, fs Recover, fs Lapa 1 Bold, fs Dotital, fs Lapa 1, fs Hikinspot, fs Geofut, fs Samil, fs Pxalic, fs Stdb Regular, fs Papeda, fs Greekpix, fs Stylized Arpeggios, fs Teimodern, fs My Take on Parsifal 1, fs Samil, fs Eco, fs Dotmatrix Serif Mono, fs Dotmatrix Sans, fs Uahkoch, fs Fluffy, fs Computer Says No Mild Italic, fs Paseky Ideograms, fs Eatit Bold, fs Mind, fs Switch, fs Dotty Serif, fs Smallmicro, FSerifQ, fs Afterline, fs FontstrFillersMono, fs Four Ideas.

Typefaces from 2-15: fs Konhex.

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Oscar Cobo
[Lillan Team]

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Osman Aktas

Designer of the ornamental typeface Book Stamps Figure (2020), the wavy typeface Iplik Osm (2020), and the blocky typeface Dolgun (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Passiv Sportlerin

FontStructor who made the piano key typeface Dooris (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Bokslag
[Font Studio Four]

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Peter Sherbarth
[Merzhase Exchange]

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Putra Cetol Studio
[Putra Novembria Candra Kusuma]

Karanganyar, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1989, of these typefaces in 2018:

  • Oriental simulation fonts: Japanese Emperor (2022: emulating Japanese).
  • The spurred typeface Darkrise.
  • The circus font The Circus Show.
  • The futuristic typeface Digitechno.
  • The curly script typeface Valentijn.
  • The monoline poster typeface Revalate.
  • The monoline cursive script typefaces Simplyline, Cinta Cantik, Antiqueline, The Beautyline, Aiushtya, Skywave, Simbok Pudjie and Yesie.
  • The vintage typeface Nuri.
  • The retro signage script typeface Vintage Party.
  • The tall octagonal typeface Armor.
  • The display typefaces Ratigk, Deco Tech, Horstail and Murai.
  • Playlines.
  • The tiki font Tikiland.
  • The script typefaces Jofi, Beauty Love, Bigfun, and Rhonde (a free swashy calligraphic typeface).
  • The upright scripts Shathika, Sweetyhearts and Shaquilla.
  • The brush typefacesAuthorfun and Pax Suyud.
  • The weathered condensed Therlalu.
  • The color fonts Garis Lengkung and Circuitra.
  • The textured typeface Quiltrix.
  • The poster typeface Audrey.

Typefaces from 2019, mainly calligraphic except if specified otherwise: Attaira (art deco and script), Arshaka (a great vampire blackletter font), Honey Berry, Vanetta, Safiar (font duo), Havina, Eurolite (a modular sans), Florita (font duo), Silky Candy, Ultimate Slayer (brush), Zahiya (a ronde), Networld (a mesh font), Stranger Creature, Amella, Grimscy, Visaka (a tall spurred wedge serif), Micayla, Rougher (brush), Slatter, Rygid (a straightened script), Mixy Missy (an oily script), Qunky (a formal script), Marceila (upright script), Glamoury (calligraphic), Thicxer, Madhen (script), Secret Darling, Keshia, Mahaputra (a spurred swashy Victorian typeface), Busther (brush style), Sherley, Shanela, Rotters (script), Sweety Lovers (script), Aliyah, Laureta, Tashia, Smash Wall (a glaz krak typeface), Delacruz (techno), Elvino (techno), Crava (a vintage display typeface), Bornena (curly script), Vintage Queens (for vintage signage), Kanaya, Yuanita, Daysha, Thickline, Maze Line (labyrinthine), The Doctor (a signature font), West Kingdom (fat signage script), Pixel Bit, Barstrip, Arjunka, Waffle Latte (monoline and connected), Strip Deco (Broadway style), Corlita Script, Fathur (signature script), Royal King (inline, vintage), Boldest (an oily fat font), High Mount (titling sans), Stasya, Ultimate Class (a thin monline script), Hai Eisya (geometric sans), Dirty Rock (grunge), Hello Eisya, Boldline, Dvorak (dry brush), Ayana, Bigdot, Ghaya, Scary Night, Keytip (Victorian), Melodious Script, Lusya, Nachelle.

Typefaces from 2020: Techno Board (a circuit font), Happy Christmas Party, Roadstone (a signage script), Cavilay Script (wild calligraphy), Urban Sketart (a fine mural art font), Shecarea, Rose Thorns, Retroparty (a bold script), Lovely Couple, Macrosty (a bold script), Amarithe, The Bold Street (a fat graffiti font), Rahaely (script), Nightcrow (a fiery font), Vintage King (a grungy vintage signage script), Vintage Party (a signage script), Gayesha, Water Splash, Clarinta (a wide hairline calligraphic script), Kinghawk, Audrena (a monoline script), Royal Queen, Headbrush, Coldcoast (script), Mahacara, Goldenlife (an upright signage script), Lyodra (a monoline script), Mayla (wild inky calligraphy), Faylake (a fat finger font), Grandmora (monoline script), Qonitya, Clowney (an inky script), Shafiqa (a rabbit ear script), Spirly (curly, Victorian), Quentara, Roxer, The Excited (signature script), Street Road (modular), Rasputia (a calligraphic script), Retroking.

Typefaces from 2021: Antique Vignette (a stylish script with extreme contrast), Love Paradise (a scrapbook font), Vintage Reclame (an upright retro advertizing script), Bulky Book (in the piano key genre), Scarf Bandana, Double Pineapple, Lychee Farmland, Single Tangelo (a cuddly casual typeface), Grandtown (a bold retro script), Dizzy Fence (a beatnik font), Cheesy Bread (a bold supermarket font), Roughpen, The Night Lamp (a horror brush font), Monokind Script (a monoline script), Cristaloak (a script with a weathered outline), Cute Love Story (a scrapbook font), My Love Letter (a monoline scrapbook script), Feldberg (a dynamic display typeface), Morrello (a rounded wide display serif), Quaker Ladies (Victorian), Spooky Monsta, Abstract Style (a geometric solid typeface), Ballsye (a fat finger font), Burning Hammer (a font with flaming letters), Falsetto Signature, Kharinniswa (a bold and wide serif typeface), Roshmary (a condensed monolinear sans), Unpredictable (a condensed display sans), Surprise Spring (script), Handaru (a wide script), Queen Veronica (a monolinear script), Strong Grandpa (a bold retro signage font), Rahardian (a signage script), Candrika (a vintage spurred typeface), Euphoria Party (a psychedelic font), Spookies Identity (this is what a font infected with pestilence or leprosy would look like), Alvarisky, Springate (script), The Knight (script), Hello Audrey (an upright script), Winslet (a bold script), Hello Audrey (an upright script), Winslet (a bold script), My Beautiful Story (an inky script), Romantic Dates (calligraphic), Blossom Heart (script), Happy New Year Party.

Typefaces from 2022: Japanese Emperor (emulating Japanese), Binlay (script), Child Krafter, Fresh Spring (a scrapbook script), Our Infinity Love (a wonderful connected script with a warm rhythm), East Aurora (a bold slab serif), Heathfield (a bold vintage serif). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Putra Novembria Candra Kusuma
[Putra Cetol Studio]

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Qimplef

FontStructor whose fonts in 2011 include several pixel typefaces, as well as Kinex (dotted outline face), Amazeling (white on black mazed letters), Blocked, Way Too Long (super-tall letters), Sketch, Split, Block Stack, TI-83 (based on the Texas Instruments TI-83 calculator), Impossibly Thin (the tallest pixel font in existence), Xtra Wide, 3 by 3 smooth, Blah, Royal Tile, Space Out, Triangular and Gridlines, Stripes, FS Logo Deco Version, Tilt A Grid, Grille, Outline, Px 7x13, Mission (dot matrix face), Simple (stencil), Easygoing (mechanical / octagonal), PX 8x8 (pixel face), Nine Zero (squarish), Insanity (labyrinthine), Mainframe (an octagonal typewriter face), Highlight (3d shadow face), Ribbon (piano key face), Paper Cut (kitchen tile face).

Creations from 2012: Double Vision, Brackets, Super 8, Chunky, Pipeline (outlined), Fontstruct2 (monospaced fat pixel face), No Signal, Machete.

In 2013, he made Square Weave. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rach Roth

Creator of Dapper (2012, a piano key typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ramiz Guseynov
[TipografiaRamis]

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Randi Ilhamsyah
[VZ Type (was: Vasgaz Creative)]

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Ray Meadows

Aka p2pnut, b. Wales, 1943, who started making fonts in 2009 at FontStruct. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Klingspor link. In 2010, Ray Meadows set up shop at MyFonts.

Prolific creator at FontStruct in 2009 of the 3d typefaces Alphabox, Alphabox Reverse, Alphabox Lite, Alphabox Lite Complete, Alphabox Shadow and Alphabox Basic. He also made RM Playtime (outlined 3d family), Art DECOrated, Single DECOr, Romantic (+Carved, +Carved Shadow), TripleDECOr, New Romantic, SOFA, Mondrianish, Eye Test, Meltdown (grunge), Ameslan (American Sign Language), DECO Noir, DECOction, DECOserif (+Bold), DECOoction (+Bold Open), DEChrome, DECOpix, DECOr (a pure art deco typeface like Levine's Art Lover JNL), DECOThin (+Medium), Scrapheap, Westward (Far West font), Cheese Fondue, Alphabox Reverse (shadow font), AlphaRune, Spaced, Gothicky, Grand Prix, Entrees (alphadings), Compround, Phatzzo (nice!), DECOr8, Gothicky, Gothicky Grey, RM Ginger, RM Albion (blackletter), and Opening (outline face). RM Squarial (2009) is a hairline sans. Its 3d version is RM Squarial 3D. RM Typewriter (2009, +Medium, +Bold, +Old) is an old typewriter face. RM Serifangle (outline art nouveau face, +3D, +Chrome, +3DChrome) and RM Corrugation (postage stamp, white on black style) are both interesting. RM DECO Serif (2009) is in the RM Typewriter style series. RM Bowie Basic is a futuristic typeface based on the typeface used on Mars in "The Waters of Mars" (2009). RM Playtime Stencil (2009) is a rounded stencil typeface based on RM Playtime Solid. There are more styles such as RM Playtime 3D.

Additions in 2010: RM New Albion (blackletter), RM Lined, RM Serifancy (Western face), RM Almanack (+Old), RM Tubeway (+Chrome), RM Thinny, RN White Letter, RM Blacklet, RM Squarial (+Ribbon, +3d), RM Typewriter Old, RM 7even, RM SideSlip, RM Teeny, RM Teeny 1.5, RM Narrowboat (+3D) (athletic lettering).

His typefaces at MyFonts include RM Victoriana (2010, caps only Victorian face), RM Whiteletter (2010), RM Signwriter (athletic lettering), RM Deco (pure Broadway art deco), RM True to Type (typewriter face), RM Scrapheap, RM Elegance (condensed, with high ascenders), RM Playtime, Graphite

Creations in 2011: RM Celtic, RM Uncialic (+RMWL Uncialic: Carolingian), RM Opensans, RM A Sign of the Times, RM Sans, RM Oliver (bold rounded sans), RM Soft Sans (wonderfully round sans), RM True To Old Type (old typewriter), RM True to Type (new typewriter), RM Middy, RM Phatso (textured), RM Phatso 2.0, RM Phatso 2.0 Solid (texture typefaces).

Creations in 2012: RM Luceat (a bullethole typeface), RM Jazz Age, RM Basic Serif (roman face), Alphabox (a 3d family: +Reverse, +Lite, +Reverse Stencil), RM Slab, RM Slabb, RM Tubes (3d typeface), RM Smoothsans (rounded sans), RM Romantic Carved (+Shadow: a beautiful set of beveled typefaces), RM Westward, RM Typerighter, RM Uncorrugated, RM Snowtime, RM Smooth Jazz, RM Smooth Age, RM Nova Albion (blackletter), RM Tubes Chrome, RM Squarial FS10, RM Basic Serif.

Typefaces from 2013: RM Bloc, RM Greek, RM Victoriana, All Bricks, RM Deco, RM Random Outline, RM Random 3D, RM Random (cartoon face), RM Celtic Condensed, RM Westus Condensed, RM Westus (Western, spurred), RM Hunky (chunky and modular), RM Thunk (piano key face, thick and chunky), Westward Ho (spurred Western face), RM Hangle (chuunky and elliptical).

Typefaces from 2014: RM Firmstone (+Outline, +Condensed, +Outline Condensed), RM Ebdon Outline, RM Imber Outline, RM Moss Outline, RM Imber, RM Art Decorated, RM Celtic Inline.

Typefaces from 2015: RM Deco, RM Stoney, RM Mondrianish, RM Stoney Shaded, RM Middy, All Bricks, RM Shepherds.

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

Raymound Ramirez

Irvine, CA-based creator of a great piano key style poster entitled Schweizisk Stil (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rebeca da Silva

Rio de Janeiro-based designer, b. 1990. During her type design studies at Senac, she created the piano key typeface Tipografia (2012, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

regular one

FontStructor who made Unibore 1.1, Bright Future, Sterile Crooked, Schablone, Poor Jimmy, Cru2 (texture face), Chunk Norris (+v2, a very very black counterless face), Flip (for flipping letters as in airports in the 20th century), Birthday (ultra-fat), Primitives, Dead Rat Malfunction (blackboard bold face), Unibore, Monobore Slab (typewriter face), Cellardoor, College Dropout, Fruits, Toystore, Molly Starfish, 0101, 0301, 0201, and 0102 in 2011. He created the piano key type family mnml mdrn (2011), Wouldstock (2012), Wouldstock Alternate (2012), Unibore Bold 0.1 (2012, +Half), The 45 (2012), The 45 ALT 01, The 45 ALT 02, The 45 Alternate Fill (2012), Plain Vanilla (2012), MNMI Bliss (2012), Buttercream Typewriter (2012), Liteboard (dot matrix face), Schreber Mono (2012, +MonoThin, +Thin), Easy 2C (2012, a curvy Italian typeface), Umbrella (2012), Easy To See (2012, a fat Italian Western face), Obvious Sans, Unsynbld Mono (2013), Dead Rat Malfunction Bold (tattoo font).

Typefaces from 2014: Nudges (dot matrix). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Reserves (or: AE Type)
[Michael Jarboe]

Reserves (and, since 2012, AE Type) is a commercial foundry offering mostly techno faces. It is located in Carlsbad and Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA, and run by Michael Jarboe. Mike graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and now lives and works in San Diego.

The earliest typefaces: Base (stencil), Evac (octagonal), Claes (a heavy blacked out display typeface named after Swedish sculptor Claes Oldenburg), Raider, Error (LED simulation face), Reserves03 (2009), Output II (2009), Scape (octagonal stencil), Void, Vacant (2009, monoline stencil), Debacle (2009), Scam (2009; a fun geometric experiment), Immortality, Asecs, Analog SE, Scheme (pixel face).

Typefaces made in 2010: Idiom (2010, a piano key family inspired by P22 Albers), Vector RG (2010, an octagonal typeface inspired by the 1979 Atari Asteroids video game UI screen font), Sevigne (2010, monoline geometric avant-garde sans that looks a bit like a stencil), Velvet (2010, a heavy rounded block retro typeface inspired by the typeset album covers of the protopunk rock band The Velvet Underground), Monocle (2010, monospaced and monoline geometric sans).

Typefaces made in 2011: Scape (2011, rounded monoline stencil family), Velvet (2011), Defense (2011, octagonal slabbed stencil), Offense (2011, strong octagonal mechanical family), Vanitas Bold (2011, Peignotian fashion mag typeface rooted in didones).

In 2012, Mike published Enamel (a condensed sans family---the inline version of Sorren), Sorren (a condensed sans influenced by neo-grotesque designs, and dada in style), Sorren Ex, Vanitas Stencil and Memoire (a charming fashion mag monoline hairline stencil).

Typefaces from 2013: A large Neue Haas Grotesk / Helvetica-style sans family called Acronym, from Hairline to Extra Black and Outline.

Typefaces from 2014: Reload (octagonal), Reload Stencil (military stencil). Reload Alt and Reload Alt Stencil were added in 2015.

Typefaces from 2015: Averes Title (a sharp geometric sans titling typeface), Averes Title Roman (fashion mag styles).

Klingspor link. Behance link. Flickr site. Behance link. MyFonts link.

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Rian Hughes
[Device Fonts]

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Richard A. Schlatter

Creator of typefaces at VGC, such as the Glyphic Series (1972, in piano key style) and Wexford (1972).

Wexley (2009, Harold Lohner) is a digital revival of Wexford. Wexford (2009, Daylight) is another digital revival. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richie

FontStructor who made the condensed piano key typeface Big Mono (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Holmkvist
[Holmkvist Creative]

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Roland Lehle

In 2019, Benedikt Matern and Roland Lehle (Yung & Frish, Germany) co-designed the piano ket typeface Scoop Display.

In 2020, they released Ronnys Handwriting. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Roman Postovoy
[Supremat]

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Roman Shchyukin
[Zerotoohero]

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Ron Ruedisueli
[Sed4 Type Foundry (or: Sed4tives)]

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Ronnie Dela Cruz
[Active Sphere]

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Ruben Planas

Vinaros, Spain-based student-designer of the free rounded slab serif typeface Turol (2017), the piano key typeface Bubul (2017) and the arched typeface Preto (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryoichi Tsunekawa
[Flat-It]

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Sasha Iacob

Web, type and brand designer in Buchaest, Romania.

Creator of the Ma href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/3556703/Nagasaki-free-font">free piano key typeface Nagasaki (2012), which was modeled after the Hiroshima 1957 poster by Wim Crouwel.

He created the bold grotesque display typeface Brock Bold (2011) based on a compass and ruler design.

In 2021, Sasha Iacob and Vlad Poparlan designed the free geometric stencil typeface Fino Black.

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

Scorpy Design Studio
[Michael Golovachev]

Samara, Russia-based designer of several experimental typefaces, mostly, but not exclusively from 2009 until 2013. These include Ringrid (experimental), Jamaica, Stubdetail, Elisabeth, Displace, Oshi Kito (patterns), Radius (an arc-based minimalist font), Squarefont, SOS, Applefont2 (based on Apple's logo), Egypt Concept (hieroglyphic simulation font), Punto, Anomaly (2005), Worm Form, Middle, Bendliner (paperclip font), Mobile Module, Constructure, Twillinger (modular), Longliner (piano key typeface in Crouwel's style), Anomaly2 (connect-the-dots face), Anomaly Quadro, New Display, Strange Font, Ptich (Martian font), Eleven Element (circle and arc font), Home Station (octagonal, techno), Horizontal (squarish and modular), Strategy (swastika-based typeface), Twirl (wavy), Microtwirl, Absolute Logic, Minim, Moonoom, Hybread, Breakthrough (numerals), Industrial Garbage (2013), Unnecessary Element, Electro Station (2009-2010), Circle In Sphere, New Paisley, Vertigo Vertical.

Noteworthy projects include Limiting Concentration (2010), an experiment with concentric circles.

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Sed4 Type Foundry (or: Sed4tives)
[Ron Ruedisueli]

Dutch professional music producer and audio engineer who founded his own record label. He also makes (mostly free) fonts. His work:

  • A FontStruct series called STF Letters op Maat, which attempts to recreate all alphabets designed by Dutch Bauhaus designer Jurriaan Schrofer (1926-1990). That list: STF Cutout 1985 (+Solid), STF JS Bevel (+Fill), STF Grafisch, STF Etage Aanduiding (17x17-Inline 1, 17x17-Inline 2, 17x17-Medium Fill, 17x17-Multiline, 17x17-Full Fill, 5x5 Matrix, Hi-res) [op-art, prismatic], STF Gemeentereiniging, STF Berlage (after the letters Schrofer originally designed for The "Beurs Van Berlage", a commodity market building located in the centre of Amsterdam. Later it was also digitalized and used to for the Dutch passport), STF Elevated (3d shadow typeface), STF Semiotica (Incised Outline, Incised, Book, Regular, Title), STF Sater, STF Sans Severe (Light, Heavy, Outlined, Multilines), STF Sans Rounded, STF Avant-Garde i10, STF Schrofer Modular Blocks, STF Social Human Trends (Outlined, Solid, Fill Isolated, Outined Isolated), STF Girokantoor, STF Marx (Solid, Striped), STF Squared Sans, STF Onleesbaar Alfabet (Stroke, Solid, Outlined), STF Bols Jaarverslag, STF Bredero (for the Bredero Bouwbedrijf), STF A.S.C. Communications, STF Connaissance et Langage, STF Paspoort, STF Last Warning (v1), STF Connected Squares (+Fill, +v2 Headline, +v2 Fill, +v2 Outline).
  • Other FontStruct typefaces, now over 180 in all, made in 2017-2018. Included are STF Down Vote, STF Slab Inn (a Western font), STF Polygon Window (hexagonal), STF Kalender (based on a 1976 calendar with octagonal letters by Wim Crouwel), STF See You in 2019 (a tiled font), STF Uni (a varsity font), STF Geo Gothique, STF Tegel (a kitchen tile font), STF Don't Count on Me, STF Hyster (a modernist stencil), STF Der Zyklus, STF Scriptorium (blackletter), STF Paradox, STF Sutoraipu Origami Multiline, STF Sutoraipu Origami Filled Stencil, STF Futureline, STF Frescher (Escher-inspired), STF Whiskey-A-Go Go, STF Labrat (op-art, prismatic), STF Tranziztor, STF Otto Font Schirach (mosaic lettering), STF BFG (condensed piano key style), STF Ace of Maze, STF Amsterdam School, STF Neon Flux, STF Wendingen 1922 (based on a old brochure by Wendingen for the Internationale Theater Tentoonstelling Amsterdam 1922; letters designed by Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld (1885-1987)), STF Van Nelle (based on an early 1900's poster ad for Van Nelle coffee), STF Purple Maze, STF Militia Stencil, STF Idiocracy (stencil), STF Rode Draad, STF Praesens (based on the lettering found in the second issue of Polish avant garde architectural magazine Praesens), STF Fabricon (a De Stijl stencil; +Outline, +CrossSection), STF Defrag, STF Trilineae, STF Bolsjewie (constructivist), STF Kraftwerk (a tiled typeface; after a 2015 poster by Chuck Sperry for Kraftwerk), STF De Stijl, STF Portfolio Peeters (a tribute to Belgian modernist artist Jozef Peeters (Antwerp, 1895-1960), based on the folder art for his 1921 linocut portofolio), STF Sector 7 (military stencil).
  • Pax Romana. Based on the capitalis monumentalis seen at the base of Trajan's Column.
  • STF Espionaje. Inspired by the lettering found on a vintage sheet music cover art for "La Java bousculée" (1924).
  • STF Oudvreugde's Ontwaken. Based on the Dutch deco lettering of Dutch graphic designer Frederika Sophia (Fré) Cohen (1903-1943). The letters were taken from a book cover design for the "Arbeiders-jeugdcentrale Amsterdam" which was published in 1924.
  • Typefaces from 2019: STF Blauhaus (Bauhaus-inspired), STF Type O Negative, STF Bodidone, STF Textualis Batavicum (blackletter), STF Alhambra Blvd, STF Type O Negative, STF Ein Berliner, STF Geo Grotesque (in the style of TT Norms and LL Circular), STF Innercity (art deco), STF Photonia (futuristic), STF Square Grylls, STF Mizollen (labyrinthine), STF Mr Bob Doubalina, STF Plateau Disco (groovy), STF Uncialis Modularis (uncial).
  • Typefaces from 2020: STF Schlanke Schöne, STF Care Sensitive.

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Sergey Mikheev
[Sergio Storm]

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Sergi Delgado

Sergi Delgado is a graphic designer and illustrator in Barcelona. He created the piano key modular stencil typeface Gado (2013). In 2015, he made the wonderful rotating op-art Candy Numbers.

In 2017, Sergi Delgado and Daniel Wenzel co-designed the textured op-art typeface Aigua.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergio Storm
[Sergey Mikheev]

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer who studied at studied design courses at: Michigan State University and at California Institute of the Arts. In 2022, he released Gardariki (in the style of Wim Crouwel's piano key typefaces; for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Shinya Okabe
[Daylight Fonts]

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Shiope

During his/her studies at the Visual Arts Institute in Eger, Hungary, "Shiope" designed the curly piano key typeface Calliope (2019) and the dripping paint font Khula (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Simon Piu

Graphic designer in Aix-en-Provence, France, who created the paino key / stencil typeface Zebra (2014-2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Smartfont
[Stanislav Hatznik]

Ukrainian designer of the techno typeface family Sfera (2018), which includes Sfera Stencil. Sfera was inspired by titanium bullet resistant combat helmets.

Typefaces from 2019: Predictor (a modular piano key typeface), Writer Autograph (a monoline script).

Typefaces from 2020: Flogotop (an 8-style titling sans family).

Typefaces from 2021: Gorus (a 30-style all caps monolinear sans with industrial strength square counters), Bill Poster (with t he rhythm of a piano key font), Neosim (a cartoon or stone age font), Flogotop Logo Mark. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Solana Nader

During her studies at FADU / UBA in 2013, Solana Nader (Buenos Aires) designed the decorative ultra-fat piano key typeface Abd2. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stanislav Hatznik
[Smartfont]

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Stefano Fusaro

Graphic designer in Milan who created the broken line display typeface Cusack (2012), the counterless geometric octagonal typeface Rectagon (2012) and the piano key font Proof (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Studio Aurora (was: Platform Design)

British designer based in Dubai and/or London, whose company is called Studio Aurora (was: Design by Platform, or: Platform Design). His typefaces:

  • In 2018: the stylish display typeface Ceylon, the ultra-condensed typeface Burokku (free trial) and Sukima Stencil.
  • In 2019: Equinox (sans and serif: a caps only fashion mag typeface), La Rosa (a fashionable mini-serifed typeface), Everglade (sans), Palm Beach (a delicate all caps sans), Ranahan (a tall all caps sans), Bliss Bucket (octagonal caps), Enzyme (a monoline sans), Quebec (a Peignotian sans).
  • In 2020: Nightfall (a fashion mag display type), Eclipse (a tall intestinal serif), Felix (a condensed display serif), Lexington (a great art deco typeface), Musque (a fashion mag serif), Leilani (a display serif), Kassan, Sunscreen (a soft serif), Adagio, Skylight, Gyoza (a fashion mag typeface), Belize, the Americana series [Wichita (a slab serif), Sedona (stencil), Dinetah, Prescott (script), Cedar Park, Laredo, and Quaker], Acapulco (a great Peignotian sans), Legion (a wedge serif), Ekland (a display sans), Aurora Grotesk, Quavo (a fat finger font), Artemis (a flared typeface), Kangri (a stylish stencil serif typeface), Oakland (a stylish all caps display typeface), Rothko (art deco inspired), Fjord Stamp (a soft bold serif), Fjord Bold, Seminyak, and the handwriting series [Jolly, Quavo, Sanshand, Kurafuto, Aurora Script].
  • In 2021: Jacuzzi Club (reverse stress), Tankobon (a flared deco typeface), Laredo Rounded (octagonal).
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Studio Bayley

Shoreditch, London-based type designer. His fonts: Block (2019: bilined, layered, embossed), Fixer (2017: multilined, layered), Empire (2016), Rocket (2015: a bold all caps sans), Boxer (2015: inline), Figgy (2015), Acorn (2015), Viriditas (2014: leafy), Mongo (2014), Axe (2013: hexagonal), Albert (2013), Butcher (2013: stencil), Liquor (2013: a spurred tattoo font), Telegram (2013: a piano key font), Victoria. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Studio Typo
[Mehmet Abaci]

Mehmet Abaci (b. 1978) is based in Istanbul. In 2014, he established Studio Typo, where one can buy his typefaces. Limited forms of the fonts can be downloaded fpr free from the Dafont site.

Creator of the elegantly plump rounded sans typeface Vinyl Cuts (2013), Samatya (2013, a unicase piano key typeface), Boldie (2013), Laundry Day (2013, alphadings), and the wood log typeface Timbers (2013).

Typefaces from 2014: Smush, Slim Fir (athletic lettering), Typonome, Typo Slab, Neons, E-Square (sci-fi typeface), Screamer, Typoline (piano key typeface), Omniblack (flared display face), Papillons (flared caps), Typoster (a great fat geometric slab serif typeface family accompanied by an equally great shaded outline style), Typo Comica (a family drawn to compete with Comic Sans), Tipo Press, Manyeto (calligraphic), Quatroline (prismatic typeface), Wardoom, Cabold Comic, Digiform, Akaju (oily fat typeface with lighting effects), Almira, Bonebastic, Comic White Rabbit, Sinema (a bit of retro movie art deco), Sober, Cali Brush, Tiny Plate, College Player, Smart Kid, Barbed, Wideroy, Angella (+outline: a poster family), Megi Sans.

Typefaces from 2015: Bro 4D (outlined 3d capitals), Typo GeoSlab, H&B Sketch (a gorgeous sketched didone), Mixiva (a six-style athletic lettering slab serif family), Typo Sketch (sketched font), Malter Sans, Parole Script, Degaws (a great sketch font), Typo Comics, Gribal, Gribal Shadow, Early Times (a sans family), Quizma (an elegant sans family), Super Seven (shaded), Typo Slab Inline, Type Slab Irregular, Geoma (hairline geometric sans), Double Bubble (bubblegum typeface), Mona Bella, Typo Grotesk, Typo Grotesk Rounded, The Matic, Typografix (avant garde sans), Move X (techno family), Savaro Stencil (in the geometric style that is characteristic of Futura Black), MindBlue (sans), A Space.

Typefaces from 2016: Wox Striped (multiline typeface), Wox Modelist (organic sans), Aprikas (sans), Meltix (techno sans family), Widolte (sans family), Mayeka, The Wireframe, Typo College (athletic lettering), Halftone Poster, Chocolate Bar (oily and gleaming), Type Round (circle-based sans typeface family).

Typefaces from 2017: Zelta Six (octagnal), Wida Round (round sans), Prestij (geometric sans), Typo Style, Naughty Squirrel (fat poster typeface family that includes hatched and shadow styles), Typo Quik, Ageta (bubblegum style), Rock On (glaz krak typeface), Typo Square, Typo Angular Rounded, Planetium-X (monoline, techno), Big Pixel (octagonal), White Festive, Watchword Hairline.

Typefaces from 2018: At the Midday, Typo Hoop (rounded circle-based sans family), Typo Longest (tall condensed sans), Maccos (a multilined font family), Asectica, Magettas (rounded monoline sans), Bluefish, Bluefish Eroded, Bluefish Scratched, Quesat (rounded sans), Quesat Striped.

Typefaces from 2019: Manti Slab College, Pesta Stencil, Type Draft (a drafting font), Pages Grotesque (a caps only geometric sans), Typo Cut-Out, Swera, Minalis (futuristic).

Typefaces from 2020: Typo Cut-Out Shaky, Typo Oval, Typo Formal (a tall monolinear sans), Typo Ring (circle-based, monolinear), Manti Slab, Manti Sans (+Fixed), Geco Strong (a fat sans), Tually, Slabten (an inline typeface), Minalis Double (an inline typeface). Home page. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Superkij
[Adhi Nugraha Sapto Aji]

Designer of these typefaces: Geovani (2020: a stylish display typeface), Gorgeous (2019: a dry brush script), The Coolkids (2019: a signage script), Flaurent (2019: a tall display typeface, almost in the piano key genre). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Supremat
[Roman Postovoy]

Roman Postovoy is a web and graphic designer based in Dedovsk, Russia. His typefaces mostly return to the Bauhaus period and the era of Swiss typography. In 2020, he published the 5-style wide geometric headline sans Benzin, the all caps Bauhaus typeface Weimar for Latin and Cyrillic, and the extra wide and heavy Hitchcockian typeface Anker.

Still in 2020, he released Rigel, an all caps blackletter typeface which was inspired by a 1936 poster by American artist and illustrator Katherine Milhous for the Ephrata Cloister.

Typefaces from 2021: Nucliometer (a piano key font), Lifeform (experimental), Uranus (a Latin // Hangul sci-fi typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Svetoslav Simov
[Fontfabric]

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Swifty Typografix (was: Command (Z))
[Ian Swift]

Ian Swift, aka Swifty, designed Dolce Vita, Hand Job and Miles Ahead at his London-based outfit, Command (Z), which he set up in 1995. Defunct and replaced by Typomatic in 1998. Other fonts: Coltrane (1994, inspired by old John Coltrane record sleeves), Funkadelic (1999), Bad Eggs (1997, a hand-drawn stencil font), Obsolete, Repo-Thin, Slice of Cake (1996), Positive Ident (1996), Bit Normal, Fat Arse (1997, a sofa-shaped font shown in Nathan Gale's book as due to Mitch, who is also credited with the liquid font Perpetual (1998)), Gunshot (1992), Keep it Locked, Bear, Cut It Out (stencil), Get Stoked, Chain Gang (stencil), Sci Fi Classic, Astral Funk, Beat Box Bold, Too Cool, Soul Tree (stencil), Thought (organic), Bad Bull (stencil), Phat Black, This Reg, Dingwalls Plain, Jumbo Light, Jumbo Bold, Coltrane Phat (piano key style), Single Whip, Five Point Fuzzy. Emodigi site. His Maze 91 at FUSE 1 is very interesting--it shows what you can do with rectangles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

TamaCide
[Erry Nugraha]

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of the monoline script typeface Leitona (2019), the free script typeface Bagilatte (2019), the piano key typeface O Line (2019), and the script typefaces Always Saturday (2019) and Wild Flannel (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tathagat Singh Parihar

Freelance designer in Gurgaon, India. In 2019, he published the tuxedoed piano key typeface Anetta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taylor Frith-Brown

During her studies at Savannah College of Art and Design, Talor Frith-Brown (Houston, TX) created the piano key stencil typeface Raffiné (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Telmo Cendán Criado

Graphic designer in Lugo, Spain. He created the multiline piano key typeface Typofunk (2011) and the experimental circular arc-themed typeface Chained (2011). Creator of the experimental typeface OVNY (2011), which has not a single curved section, and looks extraterrestrial to me.

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Tesia Goddard

Creator of the piano key typeface Sinser (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

th3lonius

FontStructor who made Gendai Block and Gendai Round in 2013, two piano key typefaces modeled after Wim Crouwel's well-known Hiroshima poster. [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Northern Block (TNB)
[Jonathan Hill]

The Northern Block (TNB) is Jonathan Hill's foundry based in Leeds and/or Sheffield and/or Newcastle, UK, est. 2006. The designer and funder is Jonathan Hill (b. Sheffield, 1971) who lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Maria Pigoulevskaya joined The Northern Block as type designer in 2012. Home page. Free fonts by Jonathan Hill can be found at Dafont and Fontspace.

Another Dafont link. MyFonts link. Hellofont link. Behance link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Alternate URL.

In 2010, he started FontStructing typefaces. His first was the grungy wooden plank typeface Timber Remnants. Also in this category is Laser Disco (2008, futuristic).

Typefaces from 2006 until 2008: Sylar (2008, a techno family in 16 styles), Geta Robo (2008, a mechanical typeface influenced by Japanese animation), Arctic Patrol (angular family), Dokter Bryce (2008, octagonal and severe), Orange Royale (2008, 8 styles of fat techno and stencil fonts), CorTen (2008, octagonal ultra-fat stencil), QueueBrick (2008, LED simulation), Center Forward (2008, futuristic), Platform One (2008, a futuristic family), Line Wire (2008, octagonal, influenced by the work of Dutch designer #Wim Crouwel), StealWerks (2006, LED-inspired stencil face; published at T-26) and Blockout (2007, 5 weights of a futuristic blocky type family). In 2008, these were followed by more computer-related typefaces such as VideoTech (futuristic), JoyRider and AstroNaut (octagonal+futuristic, now at T-26). WerkHaus (2008) is a 5-style family inspired by the minimal sans typefaces of Herbert Bayer and the Bauhaus movement.

Typefaces from 2009: Scriber (2009, octagonal techno family), Get A Robo (2009, a 10-weight mechanical family influenced by Japanese animation (Anime)), Ten Gu (2009, paperclip font remastered from the 1970's Letragraphica font Tangui), Orange Royal (2009, rounded stencil), VideoTech (2009, inspired by computer games for the Commodore 64), SkyWing (2009, rounded typeface inspired by Japanese computer console games, such as Captain Tsubasa created by Yoichi Takahashi), VanBerger (2009, an octagonal family influenced by the De Stijl movement), Logan Five (2009, techno family inspired by the 1976 sci-fi film Logan's Run), Zaius (2009, a bold sans family that includes a stencil style, all based on Ed Benguiat's work for the 1968 movie poster for Planet of the Apes), Oric Neo (2009, a free octagonal techno family; +Stencil), VanBerger Stencil (2009, a free geometric sans influenced by Theo Van Doesburg and the De Stijl movement), Aldo (2009, +Open: a bold stylized type typeface re-worked from the original 1970s movie poster The Battle For The Planet Of The Apes), Sylar Stencil.

Typefaces from 2010: Intropol (2010; image), Arcle (a monoline organic sans), Hoxton (humanist sans family), Lintel (monoline sans family with a large x-height), Knul (monoline sans), Dohrma (a machismo geometric face; +Inline), Planer (a technical writing family), Otomo (a Japanese techno family that includes a stencil), Yodo (a geometric experimental family in 3 weights), Nu Order (a sans family that includes a very thin weight), PyeMan (2009, a piano key font named after the PacMan game), ProtoFet, DraftWerk (a minimal rounded typeface inspired by architecture and furniture detail drawings), DyeLine (a geometric face with a great hairline weight), Cobol (2010, great octagonal monowidth face), Draftwerk (architectural lettering), Olympik (a gorgeous multiline family based on Letraset's Optex, 1970), Kaine (a slab family inspired by 1960s spaghetti westerns: +Stencil, +Outline, +Italic +Block; Hill says that The grid template is based on Welt Extra Bold from Letraset with detailed changes, additional characters and new style variations.), Brion (a modernization and extension of A. Mailay's rounded sans font Arpad (1971, VGC); Kaine Block, the counterless version, is free at Dafont). Mekon (2010) is a fat sans display typeface with a free horizontally striped style. It revives and extends Peter Steiner's phototype Black Body (1973). MarkusLow (2010) is a revival and extension of Basilea (1965, Markus Low, VGC). Teletex (2010; +Ultra Light, +Light, +Medium) is a typewriter style slab serif whose design was influenced by Rockwell.

Typefaces from 2011: Dekal (nice fat multiline family, +Inline), Norpeth (2011, a humanist neutral sans family), Bosko (+Stencil, +Block), Bosko Block (2011, free), Woolworth (sans family), NeoGram (sans family), Juhl (an organic/ geometric sans family with the bowls of b, c, d. p and q modeled after chairs). Millar (2011) is a simple monoline sans family. Tondu (2011) is a strong sans poster face---its early version, Tondu Beta (2011), is free. Gelder Sans (2011) is a clean modern sans serif typeface. Brokman (2011) is a contemporary 10-style sans family. Vitro (2011) is a monoline geometric sans family. Beval (2011) is a humanist sans family. Nurom (2011), Monsal (2011), Tadao (2011) and Kuro (2011) are additional sans families. Heltar (2011) is a revamping, TNB style, of Helvetica. Regan Slab is a readable slab family. It was followed in 2012 by Regan (the sans version) and Regan Alt.

Jonathan Hill's most popular typefaces.

Type designs done in 2012: Hackman (elliptical sans), Borda (octagonal), Savile (humanist sans), Metrik (a nice geometric---borderline organic---sans family), Metral (rounded octagonal typeface), Uniman, Kobern (a strong sans), Reznik (techno sans).

Type designs from 2013 by Jonathan Hill: Nauman (a humanist sans family with attention paid to the triple (1, i, j)), Gunar, Nuber (followed in 2018 by Nuber Next), Eund (a modulated sans), Corbert (Bauhaus-inspired sans), Corbert Condensed.

Typefaces from 2014: Byker (geometric sans), Schar (humanist sans), Loew (geometric information design sans; extended in 2018 by him and Donna Wearmouth to Loew Next (for Latin and Cyrillic) and Loew Next Arabic), Bitner (spurless organic sans named after bitcoins), Modum, Modum.

Typefaces from 2015: Facto (a simple sans family with large x-height), Halcom (influenced by Futura), Scharf, Itoya.

Typefaces from 2016: Syke Mono (a stylish monospaced typeface family), Oyko (an octagonal industrial typeface family), Kylo Sans, Syke (a sans typeface family), Hoxton North (a condensed humanist, very British, sans), Celdum (geometric sans).

Typefaces from 2017: Tomarik, Typold.

Typefaces from 2018: Paradroid, Sprout (a low-contrast 6-weight sans).

Typefaces from 2019: Roag (an industrial geometric sans paying homage to mechanical designs of the 1930s), Syke (14-style sans), Scharf (a sturdy sans family), Mynor (a modern squarish sans inspired by machine-readable typefaces of the 1950s including OCR-A and B).

Typefaces from 2020: Corbert Wide, Blom (a humanist sans family).

Typefaces from 2021: Waldo (a 4-style bold, stencil-focused display typeface loosely based on a 1973 science fiction movie poster for The Battle For The Planet of The Apes), Nauman Neue (a 60-style humanist sans), Kopik (a comic book typeface with rounded forms; it was inspired by the 1960's architectural handwriting style practised by draftsmen), Duran (a 14-style geometric sans with built-in strength).

Creative Fabrica link. View Jonathan Hill's typefaces. Another list of Jonathan Hill's fonts. Interview in 2014. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

The Pyte Foundry
[Ellmer Stefan]

The Pyte Foundry was established in 2015 by Ellmer Stefan in Oslo, Norway. During the course of the year 2016 Ellmer Stefan released a new free display font every consecutive Monday. They explain: Paying tribute to the typographic diversity of the 19th century, this project's aim is not historical accuracy---none of the typefaces are strict revivals of specific typefaces produced in the Victorian era. It is rather a revival in spirit---indulging into stylistic manifoldness and idiosyncratic hyperbolism. The digital fonts are generated using a component-based system that globally applies changes made to independently adjustable letter parts, such as stems or serifs. This approach mirrors the production methods envisioned for the making of wood types around 1880: in American Wood Type 1818-1900 (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York; 1969) historian Rob Roy Kelly refers to a series of inventions by William H. Page using interchangeable modules in the creation of wood type letters enabling the rapid manufacturing of new styles.

The list of typefaces from 2016: Prhyme, Alcove, Mortar, Plakat, Cabaret, Antique, Galore (piano key style), Lyrics, Protocol, RoutineA, RoutineB, Routine C, KinkA, Kink B, Moloch, Symptom, Residue (ultra-condensed), Perdu (Western, Italian), Turmoil, Polymer, Houdini (wide slab serif), Umbra (shaded style), Montage (mechano style), Flounce (Tuscan Western font), Throng (piano key style), Italian (reversed stress style), Epitome (ultra-condensed didone), Overdose (Italian), Overdone, Gyrator, Henry I, Plumb A, Blockage, Seryph (stitching font), Octango (a chiseled typeface), Potpourri (decorative caps), Persiflage, Radiator Italic, Ortho (octagonal), Nihilist, Errata, Dosage, Radiator, Vulture, Filocalus, Latency, Postulate, Syzygy, Cuneiform, Cuneimorf, Absolu (a great decorative titling typeface family), QFWFQ.

In 2016, he designed Levvel Script (brushy), and Sentralen Oslo.

Skald (2017) is a set of three typefaces designed for a series of classics issued by Norwegian publishing house Skald Forlag.

In 2018, he designed the custom type system Diller Scofidio + Renfro (for the New York-based architecture firm).

In 2019, they released Triptych (Roamn, Italick, Grotesque). He writes: Triptych consists of three distinct styles amplifying the notion of structural differentiation within a typeface family. The triplet of Roman, Italick [sic] and Grotesque is designed to take on clearly defined hierarchical functions in a typographic system. Roman and /Italick are irreverently free interpretations of the sturdiest of all sturdy book faces ever produced, namely O.S. (Old Style Antique No.7 by Miller & Richard of Edinburgh first issued in 1858). Most probably not designed by Miller & Richard's prime punchcutter Alexander Phemister. Despite its name, Triptych is of secular, utilitarian nature: its unsentimental, at times mechanical drawing makes for a stubbornly robust and economic design. Bare any bourgeois flamboyance it is suited for confident and hardworking typography. Where other typefaces are promoted as workhorses, this one is a mule.

Also, for the celebration of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland's 150th birthday in 2019, he released the wedge serif roman inscriptional capital typeface Gustav Display. Still in 2019, he added the bespoke flared lapidary typeface Hamran and the custom typeface Aurlands Display.

In 2020, he designed the economical sans family Oslo Sans for the City Council of Oslo. He also released Compagnie, a set of three typefaces that are a digest of various French and Swiss wood type Grotesques from the second half of the 19th century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Theophile Signard

French designer (b. 1970) of the ultra-fat counterless typeface Fat Shanghai (2012) and the wide squarish typeface Shanghai Night Fat (2012).

FontStructor, aka Theo Theo, who made Half Naked (2012), Shu Ling Regular (2012), Song Extended (2012) and Konradz (2012, a condensed borderline unreadable piano key typeface). FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thijs Mertens
[Letters en Plaatjes]

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Thijs Meulendijks

Dutch designer of the free piano key typeface Antwerp (2015, Citype), which is also called 2602. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tianrui Zhang

Minneapolis, MN-based designer (while studying at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design) of the Eight Trigrams typeface (2014), which combines geometric modularity and stencil. Soundtype (2014) is a piano key typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Till Wiedeck
[HelloMe]

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TipografiaRamis
[Ramiz Guseynov]

Ramiz Guseynov was born in Russia and educated as an architect and graphic designer. After moving to the USA in 1991, where he worked as a graphic designer, Ramiz Guseynov became a part-time type designer who published his work at T-26. In 2004, he set up his own foundry, TipografiaRamis in Highland Park, IL.

Klingspor link. Behance link.

His typefaces:

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Tobias Frere-Jones
[Frere Jones Type]

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Tobias Herz

German designer of a digital revival in 2017 of the film font Hunyady Gothic (1974, Daniel Hunyady). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tom Kershaw

Boston, MA-based creator of the elegant piano key typeface Blok Tab (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tomaso Baj
[Grafici Senza Frontiere (was: Tomaso Typo Baj Fonts)]

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Tudor Banciu

Romanian designer of Tudy 1311 (handcrafted typeface) and Dacian Donarium in 2014. In 2015, he created CyberGothic (almost piano key style), Thi and Darkwoman (handcrafted). Other fonts include Ud and the prismatic / Memphis style typeface Hipstravaganza. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Type of its Own

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Let It Out (an octagonal piano key font), FRANK (3d billboard letters), Be-Bop Don't Stop, Get You, Jubilee Line, Cop Talk, Victoria Line, Get It, Jeez (geometric), 4Wood March, Tetrux (tetris pieces), Tetrix (tiles), 4Wood, Chew It, Lime Scale, Boogie Ripple, Streetier (ultra condensed), Built Up (octagonal art deco), Britanya, Ponder World, Tube Station (tiles), Sharp Prpgress, Bubbles Strong, Bubbles, WideBol, James, Struction, PowerZap (tiles), Power Zomg, Power Zip, Power Zoom Mai King, Pixel Hand, Retro Perspective, CCaps, CurbCaps, Neogeo Linesman, Sans Spamalot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typeco
[James Grieshaber]

James Grieshaber earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Rochester Institute of Technology. Based first in Rochester, NY, and then in Chicago, IL, and then again in Rochester, Grieshaber ran Typeco, a typographic services and solutions company established in 2002. James Grieshaber (b. Detroit, 1967) most recently was on staff of P22 Type Foundry, where he designed many type families and helped establish International House of Fonts. He has been honoured with an award of Excellence in Type Design from Association Typographique International (ATypI) for his Gothic Gothic (2004, blend of blackletter and English style), and by TypeArt'05 (for Operina Cyrillic). Designer and Co-editor of the Indie Fonts book series, Grieshaber now teaches typography at RIT and runs Typeco. MyFonts sells his fonts now. YouWorkForThem sells the Super Duty family (stencil), Glyphic Neue, the Trapper families, Chunk Feeder, Gothic Gothic and Cusp. Identifont page. FontShop link. Behance link. Details on some of his typefaces:

  • Gothic Gothic (2001), an extended blackletter co-designed with Christina Torre. In 2004, he received an award of Excellence in Type Design from Association Typographique International (ATypI) for his Gothic Gothic type design.
  • The Glyphic Neue display family was inspired by the Op Art style of lettering in the United States that ran rampant in many photo type houses in the 1960's and 1970's---I like to call it the "piano key style".
  • Chunkfeeder (2002) is a beautiful monospaced octagonal OCR-like family.
  • Cypher (2003, an LED/LCD family) has 24 weights. Of these, Cypher7 is free.
  • Duty (2002) is a sans typeface co-designed at T26 with Lee Fasciani.
  • The stencil family Super Duty (2004) has 8 variations. There are also techno variant called Superduty Condensed, Superduty Regular, Superduty Narrow and Superduty Text.
  • Cusp (2001-2005): a techno display family with 18 weights, including an LED style, art deco styles and Cusp De Stijl.
  • Trapper (2004) is an 8-weight exaggerated ink trap font family which comes in Trapper Round and Trapper Sharp versions.
  • Zaftig (2008, Typeco) is a super-fat face.
  • P22 Operina (2003, in Romano, Corsivo and Fiore versions) is based on Vicentino Ludovico degli Arrighi's calligraphy used in his 1522 instructional lettering book La Operina da Imparare di scrivere littera Cancellarescha. This book contains what is considered to be the earliest printed examples of Chancery Cursive. P22 Operina won an award at TypeArt 05. Operina Pro contains over 1200 glyphs. In 2010, Paulo Heitlinger compared P22 Operina favorably to another digital chancery font, Poetica (by Robert Slimbach, Adobe), which, according to him [and I agree], lacks vigor and dynamism.
  • P22 Posada (2003, with Richard Kegler): based on lettering of Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada (1851-1913) that was used for some of his posters and broadsides.
  • P22 Arts and Crafts Tall (1995, art nouveau), P22 Arts and Crafts Hunter (1995). Both based on alphabets by Dard Hunter, 1908-1910.
  • P22 Art Deco Chic (2002), based on the Art Deco hand lettering of Samuel Welo, ca. 1930. P22 Art Deco Display (2002) is a Broadway style face.
  • Churchy (2002).
  • He offered (offers?) a handwriting font service for 100 USD. Free trial typeface Reenie Beanie (2002). Signature font service for 50 USD. Reenie Beanie (2002) is now offered (as a joke, I assume) as part of the Google open font directory (for free web fonts).
  • P22 Garamouche (2004, with Richard Kegler). Comes with Garamouche Ornaments (2004).
  • Segoe Print (2006, Monotype Imaging). [Isn't this Googlee's competition?] This is an informally hand-printed typeface co-designed with Brian Allen, Carl Crossgrove, James Grieshaber and Karl Leuthold at Ascender.
  • P22 Cezanne Pro (2006). Has over 1,200 glyphs.
  • P22 Yule (2005; Heavy, Inline): a stone chisel family with a hint of Neuland.
  • P22 Numismatic (2005): originally offered by the Devinne Press, and based on ornaments and letters used by 15th and 16th century engravers of seals and coins; however it looks very much like Otto Hupp's Numismatisch (1900, Genzsch&Heyse).
  • Black Ops One (2011) is a military stencil face, available at the Google Font Directory.
  • Short Stack (2011) is Grieshaber's free contribution to the Comic Sans genre. It was published by Sorkin Type and can be downloaded from Dafont.
  • Atomic Age (2011) is a free font at Google Font Directory. It was inspired by 1950s era connected scripts seen on nameplates of American cars.
  • Sarina (2011). A connected script published by Sorkin Type.
  • Supermercado One (2011, Google Font Directory) is a low contrast semi geometric typeface inspired by naive industrial letters. More a signage typeface than a web font.
  • Typeco Grecian (2012, FontStruct) is loosely based on a Wells & Webb Grecian style woodtype circa 1846.
  • Typeco De Stijl (2012, FontStruct) is based on Van Doesburg's De Stijl magazine's name plate in 1923. Typeco Topaz Serif Tall (2012, FontStruct) is a pixel typeface. Typeco New Wave (2012, FontStruct) is an op art party font.
  • Metamorphous (2012, Sorkin Type) borrows its arches from Gothic cathedrals---it was inspired by Jonathan Barnbrook and by the free font Morpheus. Google font download.
  • HWT Geometric (2013, Hamilton Wood Type Foundry) is a squarish wood type family: Geometric began its life as a metal typeface from the Central Type Foundry, circa 1884. Soon after, this design was officially licensed to Morgans & Wilcox and was shown in their 1890 catalog in Regular, Light and Condensed Light variations. After acquiring Morgans & Wilcox, Hamilton Manufacturing offered Geometric Light Face Condensed as their own No 3020 and the Geometric Light Face as No 3021. HWT Geometric has been expanded digitally to include a Regular Condensed version.
  • Trattatello (2014). An Apple system font.
  • HWT Archimedes (2017, P22). A revival of the Page No. 122 wood type called Mansard Ornamented, done together with Richard Kegler (P22) and Virgin Wood Type. They write: This new digital version is a simultaneous release with Virgin Wood Type and features a variety of styles including the standard screw head option plus a Phillips head, hex/Allen wrench head, and even the vexing Apple pentalobe tamper resistant star screw. As a bonus, the screwheads themselves are accessible via a glyph palette, so you can put the screws to Comic Sans, or any other font, if you so desire.

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

Typehand Studio
[Yanuar Adi]

Semarang, Indonesia-based type designer, b. 1992. His typefaces from 2020: the script typeface Moonlight Sonata, Happy Lucky, Mirabelle (script), Den Basuky (a dry brush script), Musashi (squarish and interlocking), Bratterly (a monoline script), Anastasya (a signature script), Signaline (a font duo), Camilla (a thick poster brush script), Ravenda (a unicase piano key font), Rosseville (a flowing script).

Typefaces from 2021: Eksellena (a weathered blackletter), Etheryna (script), Anderlacht (a vintage all caps font with antiqued outlines), Puertofino (script), Rhinestone (an expressive hand-printed font), Alleyosha (a Treefrog style brush script), Hayabusha (a squarish typeface with interlocking letters), Sancho, Cornetta, Lucky Sunshine (calligraphic), Kintapani (a brush script), Sendang Mulyo (brush script), Manokwary (script).

Typefaces from 2022: Mariska (emulating Japanese), Sophia Laluna (a display serif with an astrological vibe). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Typogama
[Michael Parson]

Typogama is the personal foundry of Swiss designer Michael Parson (b. Geneva, Switzerland, 1979), who published these fonts in 2003 as part of Linotype's Taketype 5 collection: Anlinear LT Std Bold, Anlinear LT Std Light, Anlinear LT Std Regular, Arabdream LT Std (Arabic simulation face), ClassicusTitulus LT Std, Hexatype LT Std Bold, Morocco LT Std, Jan LT Std, Ned LT Std, Pargrid LT Std Cross, Pargrid LT Std Regular, Pargrid LT Std Trash, Piercing LT Std Bold, Piercing LT Std Code, Piercing LT Std Regular, Raclette LT Std.

Most of Parson's fonts cover both Latin and Cyrillic.

In 2004, he made Clans (T-26, blackletter) and Boulas (T-26).

In 2006, he released these at T-26: Boutan (Indic simulation face), Heraldry (dingbats), Palm Icons (dingbats for golf), Wingbat (aircraft dingbats).

In 2007, still at T-26: Heraldry, Thunderbolt 73 through 76 (from techno stencil to techno sans).

In 2008, at T26: Ealing (geometric sans family, with a hairline), Bauhau (6 weights), Jane (a rounded sans in 12 weights), Quean, Halja (a modular sharp-edged blackletter with illuminated capitals), Faddish (a high-contrast vogue family), Big Boy (11 styles, a slab family from grunge to regular, accompanied by BigSigns, a hand sign font).

Fonts from 2010: Tinsel (condensed), Rusty (Latin / Cyrillic constructivist typeface inspired by snowboarding), Vindaloo (+Outline, T26), Kimbo (octagonal slabby family), Cyrus (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Calvin (a monoline sans family, +Hairline), Checkpoint (rounded display sans that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014), Fuera (2011: a bilined typeface, T26).

In 2013, he published Selecta (an organic rounded sans, T26), Thunderbolt (an octagonal army style typeface family with a military stencil, T-26), Xcetera (2011), Ignorance (an American 19th century style penmanship font), Psalta (an octagonal blackletter typeface), Nadsat (a geometric display sans with some interlocking letters), Cobono (organic sans), Prox (sans face), Zurika (a wonderful crazy script face), Faddish (T26: a fashion mag typeface), Heraldry (T26), Cedi (YWFT: a hand-printed typeface family with huge multi-character ligature set to simulate real handwriting), Tcho (T26: a soft rounded sans family that covers Latin, Thai, Arabic, Greek and other scripts), Dejecta (a striking scratched titling face, T26), Nedo (2011, a bold prismatic display typeface inspired by the work of Nedo Mion Ferrario in Venezuela), Quam (2012, an elliptical sans family), Pictypo (2012, a useful icon typeface).

In 2014, he updated the interlocking poster display typeface Tinsel (T26---original from 2010) and published the fantastic cartoon / comic book typeface family Bangbang. Siggy (2014) is a funky typeface. Lale (2014), which won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition, uses the opentype features to set up a font system for flowers. Jane (2014) is a rounded sans typeface family. Vulgat (2014) is a vibrant display typeface based on uncial letterforms. Elsuave is a free rounded piano key typeface.

Typefaces from 2015: Chickenz, Framez, Jackazz, Raubam (free), Martinaz (signage script).

Typefaces from 2016: Auro (rounded sans), Dejecta (rough and ragged), Apollonius (a swashy didone), Rosengarten (vintage type influenced by Lucian Barnhard), Deleplace (influenced by didones), Furius (Tuscan style).

Typefaces from 2017: Kurstiva (an informal sans family), Banja (a plump signage script), Bignoy (Wild West, modernized), Kimbo (octagonal), Mensrea (organic sans with beveled, inline, and various layered and graffiti styles), Nibbles (a food truck-inspired dingbat typeface), Huggy (an art nouveau typeface influenced by the work of Heinrich Heinz).

Typefaces from 2018: Brinnan (a wide sans), Zoltana (a floriated, abll terminal-laden fancy titling typeface), Genesa, Kufin (a free Kufic emulation typeface), Madden (an angry dry brush poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2019: Ahsing (oriental look font), Convexion (a creamy display typeface), Vidocq (based on 19th century woodcut styles).

Typefaces from 2020: Fiducia (inspired by the first Swiss banknotes), Gorgonzo (a creamy bold typeface designed for attention grabbing headlines), Thrifty (a clean minimalist sans family).

Typefaces from 2021: Oildale (an oily and creamy display typeface), Conica (a fine extra bold condensed poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2022: Xotor (a double-inline or prismatic font with octagonal outlines).

Behance link. Klingspor link. Hellofont link. MyFonts link.

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Typohaus (or: Bau Type Foundry)
[John Booth]

Bau Type Foundry, or Typo Haus, was cofounded by John Booth and Jake Ivill in Manchester, UK. They created the blackboard bold typeface Bayer 13 (2014, FontStruct) and the paino key typeface Bayer 14 (2014, FontStruct).

Before Bau, John Booth studied at Manchester's University of Salford. During his graphic design studies in Manchester, UK, John Booth did what I had been waiting for all year long---create a typeface to honor the 100th birthday of Alan Turing in the Alan Turing year. The typeface is grid-based and called Decoded (2013).

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Typotheticals (was: F.O.N.Type)
[Graham Meade]

Typotheticals (F.O.N.Type) (est. 2002) is a supplier of fonts from a number of independent amateur foundries that make up the C.O.I.F.F (Collective of Independent Font Foundries) group. Originally free fonts, the fonts are now commercial and can be bought at MyFonts. It is run by Graham Meade in Melbourne, Australia. Font families for now:

  • From Three Mile Island (Graham Meade): RaveParty, Nightmare in Blend Mode.
  • From Tomcat Type: Why Damn It, Deedaceous, Cortilic (nice austere Courier-style letters).
  • From Fontological Foundry: Where U @ (a comic book style).
Also: Chyletoon (2021; a cartoon font family in 24 styles), Umerica (2019), Lemonite (2019: sans), Ipscus (2009, after an earlier free font by him, Brassiere), Skuair (2009), Xeilo (2008), Damure (2006), Sweetmix (2006), Norlik (2006, 6 styles), Nok (2006, 18 style sans family; with Daniel Athburton), Koster (2006, swashbuckler family), Whinter (a simple sans family), Carnova, Metasyntal, TN Caluminy, Modcon and Modcon Outline (2007, futuristic family), Tsudoman, Tsudotin, Tsudovac, Delechol, Etched Fractals (Bank Gothical style), Binary Snafu, Meichic, Phollick, Italican Oblique, Czaristane, Hulbert, Frogster, Typothetical 1, Stripwriter, Eutheric, Gyant, Gurnee, Quoral, Freekenfont, Kylemott, Elspeth GM, Worstveld Sling, Cordin (2005), Jains (2005), V-Hand (2005, informal script). This site offers Cordin Freebie (2005). In 2006, Thomas Phinney from Adobe insulted Graham on Typophiles by stating: You make somewhat lower quality and much less expensive retail fonts, and I sought out my job at a company that makes relatively high quality and expensive (when not bundled) fonts.

For completeness, Graham Meade's fonts at MyFonts: Alum, Aunchanted Elite, Blound, Caluminy, Capitalus Diabolus (2014, a beveled neon-look typeface based on Lucifer No. 10), Carnova, Cordin, Cyne (2004), Czaristane, Dbased Material, Elspeth GM, Etched Fractals, Etho (2013, +Etho Wide), Eutheric, Flute, Frangle (2013, octagonal), Freekenfont, Frogster, FrownTown, Gurnee, Gyant, Houral Etched, Hulbert, Humper, (2005), Ilbit, Italican Oblique, Italican Script (2004), Jains, Jointed (2008), Koster, Kylemott, Laural Hardy (2011, piano key family), Marjoram (2008), Meichic, Modcon, Nacissism (sic) (2013), Neu Phollick Alpha, Nok (2006, with Daniel Athburton), Norlik, Phollick, Physe (an organic display sans in 16 styles) (2020), Quiffed, Quoral (2003), Ramadesh, Reluxed, Rhomus Omnilots (geometric dingbats), Simiate, Stripwriter, Sweetmix, Thyne (2020: a lachrymal serif in 14 styles), Typothetical 1, Tzaristane (2005), V-Hand (2005), Wastrel (2004), Whinter, Whyst (2020: squarish and monolinear in 28 styles---almost a gas pipe font), Wiki, Worstveld Hand, Worstveld Sling (2005, with ), Worstveld Sting.

Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Dafont link.

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Ultra Types
[Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira]

Wete, or Wete Cacahuete, or Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira, or Juanra Pastor, or Juanra Wete Pastor, is a Barcelona-based graphic and type designer, b. 1984. He set up Ultra Types in 2012.

Typefaces created by him include the useless monstrosity called Combo (2009), the hand-printed Deibi (2009, free), the text typeface Alba Serif (2010), and the fantastic geometric/mathematical caps face Roke 1984 (2010).

TP Duro (2011) is a blackletter typeface inspired by an Albrecht Dürer design from 1525. It was published in 2019 at Vette Letters in cooperation with Martin Lorenz: VLNL TpDuro. Favela (2011) is a free tattoo face.

In 2012, he designed an experimental / futuristic set of numbers for a Yorokobu magazine section called Numerografia. Still in 2012, he created the Alexander Grotesk typeface family (which can be bought at Ten Dollar Fonts), and Ut One (modular, arc-based).

In 2013, he designed the sans typeface Reefont Condensed on commission for Reebok [under the creative direction of Manuel Lemus]. 4YFN (4 Years Fro Now, 2013) is a minimilaist custom typeface created for an event organized by Mobile World Congress. He also designed Stela UT (a layered stencil font) in 2013. Cairo Slab UT (2013) is based on an alphabet found in 100 alphabets publicitaires (1946).

In 2014, he made an experimental connect-the-dots typeface with Drawbot. Intangibles is a custom-designed didone titling face. UT Rounded is free.

In 2015, Wete made the angular brutalist display typeface UT Nickel.

In 2018, Oscar Cobo and Wete co-designed the piano key variable font UT Morph, which was inspired by Wim Crouwel's Nagasaki poster.

In 2019, Wete designed the logotype for TCM (Turner Classic Movies) and the identity and wayfinding symbols for Hotel El Call.

Typefaces from 2021: UT Barrel (a fat face with serious ink traps).

Behance link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Personal home page. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Umbreon 126

Tamagotchi, or Umbreon 126, made several fonts with the aid of FontStruct in 2012 and 2013. These include pixel typefaces (FS Rebellion, FS Rept, FS Comic Mono, FS Flower Shop, FS 126 Serif), but also truly large workhorse typefaces. For example, FS 126 Sans (a pixel sans face) has 4871 characters and covers Nko, Lisu, Armenian, Tai Le, Ogham, Thaana, Georgian, Coptic, Kayah Li, Tifinagh, Samaritan, and Lao. The 3114 glyph pixel typeface FS Semioriginal covers Hiragana, Katakana, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Bopomofo, Georgian, Greek, and Cyrillic. The 2000+ glyph pixel typeface FS Unoriginal covers Hiragana, Katakana, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Bopomofo and Tifinagh. Other typefaces include FS Fat Piano, FS Typ Stencil (piano key face), FS Frakletter (blackletter) and FS Stupid Me (white on black typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

V. Sarela
[Yautja]

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Velimir Pavic

Croatian Masters student in graphics technologies and engineering in Zagreb, 2010-2011. He created the modular display typeface Fade (2010) which makes creative use of ball terminals. Quarity (2011) is an experimental labyrinthine face.

In 2013, during his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb, he created Touch, a piano key typeface on a didone base. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Version Type Foundry (was: Industrial-Organic.Net)
[Justin Thomas Kay]

Brooklyn-based Justin Thomas Kay runs Version Type Foundry, and before that, Industrial-Organic.Net. His lettering designed mostly for industrial clients is very original and artistic. Behance link. Noteworthy designs: various headline typefaces for Swindle Magazine, lettering for Isis (the artist), frivolous logotype for Back in Black, Garland. One can purchase typefaces from Version Type such as Garland Monospace (2011, a piano key logotype---condensed, monospaced, and stencilish) and VTF Park (2011, a counterless geometric face). Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vicky Sabater

Graphic designer at MIETIS who is based in Capellades, Spain. In 2018, she designed the stencil / piano key typeface Burger, and the high contrast typeface Desk Type, which was a project at ESDAP Serra i Abella. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Virag Nobile

Virag Nobile (Milan, Italy) created the Bauhaus stencil / piano key typeface ComuniGó (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vladimir Fedotov
[VP Creative Shop]

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VP Creative Shop
[Vladimir Fedotov]

Bulgarian designer (b. 1991, Varna) of these typefaces in 2017: Nova (a great logo font), Selfish Script, Delicious Yellow Script, Emanuela (a charming upright calligraphic script), Mikaela Script, Sailor (handcrafted), Parrot, Octopus, Everest Script, Stork, Dork, Boxo, Pino.

Typefaces from 2018: Cross Road, Desire, Marvin, Contraband (all caps display sans), Christmas (a ball terminal-laden font), Trixie, Musa, Vendée, Just Because, Splendor, Vovchik (art deco), Varna, Summer, Jane Doe, Opinio, Melancholy, MadHouse Sans, Rebel, Irina, Gentleman (art deco), Fancy, Rhino, Rimini, Tamira (high contrast luxury font), Aria (ultra-condensed), Elena, Good Wish, Kavaler (fashion mag typeface), April, Belinda Script, North East (high-contrast family), Golden Bird Serif (a fashion mag typeface), Dark Heart (an eerie typeface), Nova Logo, Maria (blackboard bold), Signature VP, Moderna, Hashtag, Fonatik, Sugar Serif, Spice Serif, Highway (vintage script), Ravenside (a fashion mag typeface family), Georgia (stylish), Pandora Display (piano key typeface), Desislava (a fashion sans with several selections of textures; the outline style is free), Young Rebel (a partially free spurred font duo), Alexandria (piano key style), Blu Purpl (a partly free sci-fi typeface family), Kalpazan (partly free: a tall condensed unicase font), Pinchik (a simple rounded sans), Echo (14-style squarish sans), Elephant (with a free Outline style), Golden Age (curly calligraphic script), Rose Gold (fashion mag serif), Godlike (monoline script).

Typefaces from 2019: Propaganda, Mallie, Clementine Script, Phoeniks, Orenda (script), Monument, Rose Gold (a fashion mag typeface), Sunflower (+Script), Gentleman, Minibus, Lelushka (an inky brush script), Mondaze, Kindel (a stylish geometric typeface family), Kalorama (a font duo), Fabulist, Explorers, Errorist, Afterclap, Lotus Eater, Cute Animals, Black Gold (a stylish all caps typeface), Mantrum (brush), Highway (script), Exquisite, Belinda, Tamira, Pathway Script, Sunlight, Serendius, Portraits, Hysteria Script, Bock, Indigo, Bosnia (a monolinear all caps sans), Hippo Sans Serif, Zemarah (calligraphic), Portraits, Mooka Powder (font duo), Momentus, Searchlight, Dream (a fashion mag headline typeface), Melancholy, Knowhere (grunge), Elena (a luxury serif), Hashtag Moderna (a Peignotian sans), Musa Display, Ultimus and Ultimus Serif (fashion mag fonts), Alpha.

Typefaces from 2020: Black Gold VP (a high contrast display font; with Plamen Petrov), Kompot (a condensed all caps decorative serif; co-designed with Plamen Petrov), Chalga VP (a decorative serif co-designed with Plamen Petrov), Ablation (a 6-style all caps geometric sans jointly done by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Midnight Tales (vintage decorative caps jointly done by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Akros (a fashion mag font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Daylight Dreams (a festive all caps typeface by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Zink VP (a bold all caps sans by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Billionaire Club (art deco caps; by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Blackpaper (a negative space font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Metria Street (a monolinear condensed interlocking sans by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Monday Boulevard (an all caps art deco typeface by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Sombre (a negative space font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Bubbble Gum (a 10-style rounded monolinear sans by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Equinox VP (a futuristic all caps font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Inertia (a logo font, with Plamen Petrov), Inure (a ball terminal typeface, with Plamen Petrov), Papillon VP (with Plamen Petrov), Bungalow VP, Fika VP (a rounded and modular typeface by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Kavo Serif (a 5-style all caps didone by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Kavo Inline (with Plamen Petrov), Kavo Sans (with Plamen Petrov), Silver Queen (a ball terminal typeface; with Plamen Petrov), Anteric, Agelast (all caps, futuristic sans), Quilin (decorative and swashy; with Plamen Petrov), Akros (an art deco serif typeface), Metria Street (art deco), Blackpaper (a font that experiments with negative space), Mischief (brush), Slang, Daylight Dreams, Kavo (a 17-style family), Midnight Tales, the tall slab serif Carnival VP (with Plamen Petrov), and the weathered Greenth (with Plamen Petrov).

Typefaces from 2021, all by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov: Aisling (a six-style ultra-compressed sans), Stolen Love (a 16-style fashion mag serif), Cruell (a high contrast ball terminal laden fashion headline typeface), Mother VP (a high-contrast fashion font with plenty of ball terminals), Magoa (a serif typeface with extreme contrast), Sorcha (a ball terminal display font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Stolen Love (a fashion mag font), Defect (grunge), Tacenda (grungy caps in SVG and OTF formats), Magoa serif (a ligature typeface), Sonder Serif (decorative, for fashion mags), Oldink (grungy), Arowen (grungy, SVG format), Cruell Serif (with ball terminals), Mother Serif (also a play on ball terminals), Derau (a bitmap SVG watercolor font), Akrasia (an SVG watercolor font), French VP (an all caps glamour font adorned with gigantic ball terminals; with Plamen Petrov), Perfectly Splendid (a ball terminals all caps typeface; with Plamen Petrov), Italian VP (a 21-style tall slab serif in which the bold weight is still thin by international standards), Huova (a decorative all caps serif), Kompot Slab, Kompot Display, Unique VP (a fashion mag titling font with many ligatures and swashes), Bronx (sans and inline), Monday Boulevard (an art deco typeface), Chalga VPoutline (a classy outline font), Mila VP (a disturbing sans & serif hybrid), Kompot Sans (an all caps titling sans), Avoqado (a 6-style all caps sans with features of DIN), Kuchek (a ligature-rich decorative serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Forbidden Love (a condensed fashion mag serif), Vintage Mintage (a display serif), Lonely Moon VP (a delicate yet eerie typeface), Malinger VP (an elegnat display serif), Sign That (a wild script), Redmark. Enchanted Love (a 7-style display sans).

Creative Market link. Graphicriver link. Personal web site. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

VZ Type (was: Vasgaz Creative)
[Randi Ilhamsyah]

Serang, Banten, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1999) of the eerie scratchy typeface Nightmare (2018), the techno typeface Attack (2018), and the handcrafted typefaces Jouright (2018), Galunggung (2018), Janari (2018), and Carraosh (2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Sallvacia (script), Rumasa (blackletter), Kayambang (constructivist), Nozty (all caps sans), Aslina, Hanca (a piano key typeface), Harita (a condensed bold sans), Kulan (dry brush), Saggacity (dry brush), Felicia Signature, The Lovely Script, The Astanna Script, Blodeyn, Sallvacia Script, Allington (an inky script), Latecya.

Typefaces from 2020: Katampi Pisan (a wild script), Canterpids (Sans, Signature), Barudaks, Brimington (brush script), Campbell, Bridgeriden, Winear (a funky display type), Singaparna Script, Angeater (a dry brush script), Mencrang (an all caps comic book type), Aderia, Arastela, Gloverley, Rosekind (an SVG dry brush script), Mitchell Signature, Deborah (an inky script), Sacred Love, Shakies (a textured script), Atkinson Signature, Gattegher, Hello Jellita, Alejo (inline), Giovanetta Script, Spring Beauty, Benedela Signature. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Wataru Aiso

Japanese designer of Fray Deco (2018). Typefaces made at FontStruct by him include Detour (2019), Handsmooth (2019), Playful Deco (2019), Bullet Train (2018), Gothicized Art Deco (2018), Koffie Stencil (2019: piano key style), Rounder (2019), Border of Breath (2019), Two Stage Stencil (2019), and Horse Power Nick (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Weknow
[Wino Sutarmin Kadir]

Weknow is the foundry of Indonesian type designer Wino Sutarmin Kadir (b. 1979), who is based in Bogor, Jakarta. Weknow produced a large collection of free fonts from 2009 until 2012. He started making commercial fonts in 2012.

Creator of the unicase sans typeface Weknow (2009) and the roundish MisstyPoland (2009).

From 2010: Helenfont (2010), Dennis Vallera (2010), Kasumichan, Karitza, Mozzie, Wings, Sharon, Noakatz, dearladysandra, arachnidlove, Alexandra, Monica (2010), Natalie, Wayner 8088, Anime Queen (2010, pixelized), Nano (2010, pixel face), Glover (2010, circular face), Frozen Pandaman (geometric), Joenine (circular), Fun Record (geometric), Gembira (circular), Gabrielle, Solgas (circular), lifeforfun (2010), znowwhite (2010), Snowmask (2010), Nine (2010), Znowwhite (2010), Cecile (2010, experiment with triangles), Coreldraw (2010, geometric, monoline), DennisVallera (2010, inspired by the vector art of Canadian Dennis Vallera), Helenfont (2010).

Designs from 2011: Michelle (circle-based), Emmilia (circle-based), Raynaliz, Polysoup, Seba, Selfregion (concentric glyphs), Wings of the dragons (octagonal), Spider, The Training Artist, Chewed Kandi, Sandra, Saintfighteraqua (geometric), Alexey (circle-based), Kristina (circle-based), Graphic Dream, Crystalcore (techno), Dominique (fat rounded), Formalart, Henderson (circle-based), Intanputripratiwi (circle-based), Kioshima (geometric), Gitchgitch (geometric), Justta, Dismecha, Self Region (labyrinthine), Alberto (monoline geometric), Abstrasctik (rounded and experimental), Nicole, Robotoc, Laggastic, Masterpanda, Mohr, Maruciel, Gabrielle, Carlos (a circle-based face), Life For Fun (geometric monoline sans), Lois Cesarano (hexagonal), Heather Thomas (circles and lines), Picaee (modular and leafy), Owaikeo (a circle and arc face), Celeste, The World, Future, Lanitta, Earthearth, Basic, Beautiful, Internationalist (monoline rounded sans caps face), Midnight Show, Plastic, Victory, Perfect, Superpower, Katarzyna, Invasion, Block, Wonderfull, Sweetest, Direction, Funrecord, Eternal Flame, Coreldarw, James Glover (circle-based), Superstar, Inside, Parallel, Million, Ocean, Never Ending Maze, Silverbend, Dragon Fly, Whatever You Want, Swinging Swan, Funatic, Soulmate, Superhero, Zetland, Letting The Cable Sleep, Weknow World, Universalisme, Ocean, Smiley Turtle, Family&Friend, Flower in the window, You&Me&Everyone Else, Astonishing, Grass Hopper, Merpati Putih, Extra Hot, Trees of Happiness, Blowing Bubble, Brain Storm, Good Morning, Flower Lover, Honestly, Jaguar, Modern Aristocrat, Pure and Simple Everytime, Ride the lightning, Proffesional (sic), Flight Stewardess, Antique Retro, Natural Technologies, Ethereal Sky, Conversation, Earth Heart.

Free typefaces from 2012: Serta Kayu (multiline script), Emerald, Sweater (texture face), Fish Bone, Delicious Ketchup. The Dark Knight, String and Wire, Little Ant, Xtrapower, Standard International, Nice dream come true, Bavaria, Queen of the modern age, Science Fiction, Greatest View, Queen of the Modern Age, Made in earth, Arabian Knight, Emperor of Japan, Bill Gates Windows, Maximum Kilometer, Mineral Oil Resources, Motorcycle (curly caps), Eskimo and Polar Bear, Gladiator Sport, Aero Dynamic, Optical Fiber, High Logic, Generation (a nice all-caps shadow face), My Heart, Play Ground (multiline face), Cartoon Character, Windows in Japan, Quantum Leap (dymo label face), Computer Love, Electric City, and Copper, Valentine In Love, Weknow Windows, Punk, Graphic Design, Billy Jean Style, LMAO (rounded bold sans face), Take and Give, Indonesia Tanah Air, Swimmer Browser, Diamonds are forever (hexagonal and rounded), Tortoise, My Dear, Get Ready, Export Import, Miracle, Digital Ninja, Funtastic Million Moment, Funny and Cute, Samurai in UK, Bookmark, Once Upon A Time, Bird Feather, Respect, Aruna Aira Jasmine, Extra Cheese, Beauty and the beast, Kung Fu Master (oriental simulation typeface), Game Player (art deco), Modern Building, Trade and Mark, Grovy (sic) Kind of Life, King of Font and Typography, ABC (comic book face), Metro City (extended monoline typeface), The Art, Sprout and the bean, Scooter experiment, Sundown Sunrise (a rounded monoline sans), Art Heart, WindowsObject, Authentic Love, Dolphin Ocean Wave, British Pop Music, Master (sci-fi), Sneak Peeks, Like This, Crumble, Zebra Cross, Star Constellation, Water and Gasoline, Autumn, Aviator, So Cute, Crow Chief (bow and arrow font), Beard Rider, Skateboard, Panel, Swallow Sky Night, Hotel Motel (fat finger face), Techno Various, Zooming Track, Robo Cop, Dance Fever, West Java, Ivory Culture, Push The Button (art deco), Highway Patrol (blocked black typeface), Sausage, Little Atom, Mick Jagged, Life Is Final (copperplate), Total Hammer, Cybertooth, Modern Craft, Riding The World, Boarder (counterless), Essential Arrangement, Sensation, Helmet, Smile, Little Think Big Impact, Airplane, Young and Free, The Futurist, Creative Mind, House Builder, Falling in love, My Font (a rounded monoline oblique sans), Proffesional (sic) Edition, Young Forever, Brown Fox, We Know, Prehistoric, Frankenstein Monster, Great Adventure, You Makes Me Happy, The One and Only Me, Wireframe (3d face), Ceramic (3d face), Winner, The Amazing Me, Cycle, Asia Pacific, Written on the hand, Love is blind, Luxurious Sexy, Robotic, Nano (dot matrix face), King Of The World, Roller Blade, Antelope Run, Elemental, Champion Coffee Cup, Bandit, Arcade, Zetland, The Training Artist, Technique, Neon Glow, Fruit Vegetable, Archieve, Experiment Butterfly, French Fries, Remember Memory, Rocksteady, Electro Static Rain, Science Channel (stencil face), Surfing and Play, Umbrella, The Wizard, Great Leader, Bare Knuckle Fight, The Wizard of One Click, Extra Large, Stabilo Spidol, Onion Rings, Strawberry, Lets Do It Again, Modern Script, Amazing Symphony, Psychedelic, Jump Street, The Earth (modular), Brigade Army, Extraordinary, Cobra on Coconut Tree, Natural Beauty, Anything Mean Everything, Smoke on the water, Write A Letter, Everybody, Together, Planting And Seeding, Savior Light Our Way, All Around The World, Think More For Solution, Yesterday, Techno Tech, Prudent, Metamorphosys, Keep quite and simple (sic), India Hair Style, Catalyst, Bamboo Shoot, Global Capitalism, Water Drop, Thunder Jagger, The Science Archaeologist, The Happy Face Smile, Pyramid Inverted, Jailbreak, Game of Life, Fun Raiser, Athletic, Android Robot (sci-fi), Croissant Sandwich, Ocean Free, Thursday, Crochet Pattern, Firework, Futuristic, Pocket (rounded bold sans), Entertainment, Technology (bubblegum face), So This Is It (inline caps face), Everything (circle-based font), Auto Mobile, Futurism, Rhinoceros Break, Enormous (angulat headline face), The Quick (octagonal), Over The Mountain (wavy face), Frame Work, Interplanetary, Antariksa (rounded sans), Airwaves, Strong in the Heart, Pure And Simple Everytime (rounded organic sans), Gitchgitch (rounded organic sans), Monica, The Lazy Dog (grunge), True Self Reliant, Think Techno, Street, Symbol (constructivist), Post Rock, Moon Light (plump and round), Jumping Running, Green Avocado, Bunga Melati Putih, Bizzare, World Word, Little Rainy Day (dot matrix), Animaline (animal dingbats), Smart Watch, At Most Sphere, Sweet Lollipop (curly), Painting The Light, Flattered, Earth Aircraft Universe, Daydreamer, Earth Aircraft Universe, Flattered, Welcome to Planet Earth, People Quark, Friendly Robot, Biological, Splashing, Freezer, Ragatnia Clara (a nice script), The Happy Face Return.

Typefaces from 2013: Cat Eyes, Stay True, Where Wolf, The Sound, Royal Jelly, Grumpy Cat, Aku Cinta Kamu, Yellow, Innovation, Invisible Man, Archieve, Electro Magnet, Bamboo Chopsticks, Valentine's Day, True Love, Club Golf, Your Smile, Guitar On Stage, Karate (oriental simulation), Recognition, Sleeping Beauty (plump lettering), Gelombang Radio, Frozen Ice, Sport Center, Reflection, Enjoy The Time, Fillet O Fish (brushed caps), Artistic, Flower Generation (psychedelia), Heart Shaped, Adore You, Jelang (textured typeface), Stargazer, Army Of Me, Xtreme Bike, Atomic, Fancy Curly, Mastermind, Scientist, Brother, Bahasa Indonesia (sans), Cyber, Photography, Super Creative, Black Stallion (script), Cartoon, Exposure (shadow face), The Ticket, Mercury (retro-futuristic), Agriculture (lava lamp typeface), Electronic, Transformation, The Night (gothic typeface), King Cobra, Bionic Heart, Goddess of Fortune, Guitar Acoustic, Magenta Flower, Java Island (lava lamp typeface), Ready Steady Go, Cute Monster, High Speed, Machine Gun, Random Face 1 (dingbats), Dear Diary, Shinobi Ninja, Stranger (octagonal), Discovery, Translation, Japan (oriental simulation), Digital Gothic, Techno, Butterfly (lava lamp typeface), Candlelight (eax drip face), Maverick, Movie Script Ending, Monochrome, Japan, Chunky Bar, The Greatest High (blackboard bold), Featured, Random Thing 1 (cartoon dingbats), Straw Hat, Where Are You, Plant On Lawn, The Innocent Face, Beat of Drum, ASDFA, Creamy Butter, Monster Rock, Plumbing, Mexicano Chili Sauce, Air Show (bubblegum face), This Is True, Fresh Mint, Laser Gun, My Game, Black Mamba, Drako Heart, Children Stories, Play The Game (with a McDonald's M), Let it be, Everlasting Song, Logotype, Blessing Son, Wino Sutarmin Kadir, Bad Boy, Bold and Blue, Quantum (sci-fi face), Oceanography, Elementary, Sailorman, Heart And Love, High Thin Light, Vintage Postcard (spurred), The Bartender (spurred), Inside The Boxes (rhombic type), Herbalism, Happy Home (lava lamp typeface), Wave Zone, Market Leader, The Monkey, Engine Power, Gamer, Story Telling (lava lamp typeface), High Flagship, Back to Nature, The Quick Motorcross (bilined, caps only, with a McDonalds M), Fisherman (lava lamp typeface), Step Forward, King of Pirate (art nouveau caps), Heritage, High in Love, Thin Decorative (spurred typeface), Little Cowboy, What The Fun, Aha Experience, Glitch (pixel face), Portable.

Typefaces from 2014: Enjoy The Show (bubblegum font), Right Power, Xerxes, Selamat Hari Raya, Sincere Heart, Thermometer, My Angle (fat script), Restaurant, Life is font, Material Science, Wave Zone, Everything is a test, The kind of feeling, The President, Blue Ocean, Heavy Metal Gaze, Air-Planet, FOREST-THING (a black poster font), Here-Comes-The-Sun, VICE-VERSA, Wajah-mu-Malaikat, The Miracle, Over The Sky, Eternal Love, Under Stand, Lets Get It On, Salute, Please Forgive Me, Forest Jump. Dayak Shield, Golden Bar (piano key stencil face), Life To Find, Make Peace, Rocket Brothers, Space Truckin, Silver Knight, Zeppelin, Banana Split, Funny Sport, Material Science, Cinta Adalah Perhatian, Love is Attention, Philosophy, Swampthing, Something, Great Job, I Love You, Baby Metal, Millenium 3, White Sock, Liberate, Life Is Font, Chasing Tail, Listening, Sghining Pearl, Hall of Fame, The Good Life, Funky Claw, Pretty Clever, Breath, Continue, Eyes Believer, Samurai Sword, About, God is Watching us, Smile at face, Guitar Rumble, Si Cantik, She is Beautiful, Joker Shoes, Welcome to the jungle (brush face), Maximum High Tension, First Love, Great Heart, Computer Robot, Question of Science, Book Shelves, Billy The Kid (Western font), Times New Romance, Techno Capture, Chemistry, City Shine, Samurai and Blade, Hexagonal.

Typefaces from 2015: Brigade of Love, Creative Culture, Axe For Warrior (dingbats), Bogor, Teleport Machine, Construction, Architecture, Underground (octagonal), King will be king, Knight of Light (medieval), Barbarian, Every Day, Thumbs Up, Defragmented (pixel face), Garden of Rose, House Music, Giant Universe, Element (a connect-the-dots typeface), Kingdom of Heart, Smart Talk, Take On Me, Symbolism, The Happiness, Dark Empire, Space of Time, Game Robot, Made in Indonesia, Morning Sunshine (art deco), Gravity Relationships, All About Love, City of Rock, Dear Baby, My Pleasure, Dear Lovely, Drea Reality, Charming Prince, Warehouse Project (geometric solids), Stone Rock, Script Machine, Pray Boy, Copy Paste, Baby Cuttie, Treasure Island, Impulse of Heart (fat rounded stencil), Extraordinary Craft, Brand New Colony (connected script), Digital Handmade, Learning, Aero Glass, Rainbow In Love, Catatan Harian, Sky Liner, A Lot of Love, Take Me Home, Shake It Off, Everything More, Qualified Good, We are the Word, Tshirt, Valuable, Weknow, Metal Kingdom, Phytoplankton, Kissing The Rain, Sunset Beach, Jazz Music, Dear Lovely, Dream Reality, My Pleasure, Boarder, Entertaintment-Show, Guardian, Indonesia, This-is-internet, Picture-of-you.

Typefaces from 2016: Big Burger, Blues Melody, Kangaroo Punch, Dark, Amazing Day Everyday, Delicious Choice (lava lamp script), Panda Robot, Wijaya Fresh, Megapolitan Jakarta, Chalk Board, Mother Father, Knowledge Power, Singing Bird, Extra Machine (stencil), Airwave (rounded sans), Human Alter Ego (octagonal), Grand Prix, Serat Kayu, Daniel, Greatest Map, Jazz Sound, Amazing Sound, Algorithm (techno), Brother Army (upright connected script), Cannon Ball, Senorita Spain, Billionaire, Most Famous, The Innocent Army, Guitar Electric, Bracelet, Batman, Phenomenon, Arabian Prince, Taring Serigala, Happy Everydays Day, Coffee Time, Revolver (Western style), Space Object, Black Arrow, Candle-Light, Evergreen, Green Tea (foliate typeface), Harley Queen, Masquerade.

Typefaces from 2017: Red Light Special, The Brain, Entrance, Auto Bots, Alive in Science Fiction, Harmonic Vibration, Hydraulics System, Mountain Dew, Flying Bird, Next Century (outlined), Read Book (trilined), Just Do Good, Purpose, Kasih Dan Sayang, Tobacco (scratchy typeface), Baby Superhero, Life in Digital Age, Black Star, Start Revolution, Artistic, Army of Me, Anything Mean Everything, Antariksa, Animaline Dingbats, Android Robot, Amazing Symphony, A Lot of Love, All Around The World, All About Love, The Ugly Font, Switch System, Across The Night, I Am A Robot, Polygon Star, The Creation, Amazing Day Everyday, A Lot of Love, Western Eastern (Far West font), Gangsters, Armored, All Around The World, Great Britain, Chintya Awuy, King and Queen, City of Rain, Sub Urban City, Spicy Paprika, King of Everything, Pondok Ratu Intan, Celestial Love, After Party, Underground 2.

Typefaces from 2018: Age of Science and Technology, Autopilot, Age of Awakening.

Typefaces from 2019: Primitive Heart.

Typefaces from 2020: Thefotosintesis.

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Will Silva
[Will Silva Design]

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Will Silva Design
[Will Silva]

Art director in Sao Paulo, who designed the logotype Soul (2016). In 2019, he designed the free display typefaces Jack Russel (sic) (squarish), Boxer, Bolton (piano key style), Pointer, Husky, and Yorkshire (trilined). [Google] [More]  ⦿

William Bayley (or: Bayley Design)

Brand designer William Bailey (b. 1990), alias William Suckling (Bayley Design, Hastings, UK and/or Camberwell, UK, and/or London, UK) studied at Brighton University.

Typefaces from 2020: Côte (2020: an elegant all caps geometric sans with various multiline styles).

Typefaces from 2019: Block (beveled).

Typefaces from 2017: Fixer (a free layered typeface in 3D, Display, Inline, Line, Outline and Regular styles).

Typefaces from 2016: Porto, Empire.

Typefaces from 2015: Rocket (bold sans), Boxer.

Typefaces from 2014 include Figgy (formal monoline connected face), and Mongo.

In 2013, he designed Telegram (piano key typeface), Quackers, Drunken Sailor, Victoria (a Victorian titling face), Chomp (comic book style typeface), Albert Sans and Slab (decorative), Iron, Butcher (a free thin stencil face), Liquor (free Victorian typeface), Axe (a free hexagonal typeface).

Typefaces from 2012: the free monoline hand-drawn typeface Acorn, Bourbon (a free monoline sans), Tool Kit (dadaist), Obey (a free elliptical sans), Pathway (free), Thrice (a typeface made by using only three shapes), and Perspective (free).

In 2011, he created an unnamed geometric typeface.

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William Leverette

FontStruct artist who in 2008 created Jaguarundi and Jaguarandi Scanline, two African look fonts. He also made the slab serif typeface Instruct Serif and its sans brother Instruct Sans, Block Bottom, and the stylish typefaces Asgard Annarr, Asgard Oldstyle, Asgard Titling Small Caps, Asgard Elongated, Asgard Small Caps, Billy Baud, Asgard, Asgard Ultra, Asgard Titling and Asgard Heavy. He also started the bulldog-jawed slab family Slabgard (+SmallCaps). His latest experiments are with the 3-d metal look, as in Cool Iron, Hot Lead and Hot Iron. His tiled typefaces Tic Tac Toast and Digital Dust are also great. He also made Structurosa Shadow, Squarely, StarStruct and the creative pixel series Med Led 1.1, Med Asylum, Med All, Med Lsd, Med Ish, Private Pixels Italic. Check also his tall piano key fonts Coltrane Compressed, Coltrane Display and Coltrane Gothic. He added a scary ghost series Medula, Medula Black and Med Yeti and variations on Structurosa called Structurosa Neo and Neo II. Leaf Ultra, Leaf Poister, and Leaf Poster Dashed use leaves to form letters. Designer in 2009 of Zingaling (kitchen tile), Slubscript, More Latin Trajedy (+Titling Capitals). Allegorica (2009) is what a medieval stencil might have looked like. Jettletter (2009) is a blackletter face. As Will I, he made these typefaces in 2009: More Latin Trajedy (pixel typefaces), Djangogh (2009, a piano key face; see also Djangogh Unpenned, 2013, and Djangogh 2x, 2011) and Starfokker.

Fonts made as Will I in 2010 include Slab, Asgard Annarr, Slubscript, Jettletter, Zingaling LC, MiniMallow, LitBit, WPA Go Thin (nice mechanical typeface cloned from Stephen Coles' WPA Gothic), Spark Bit, Fat Bit, Frosty Bit, Esau, iChip (pixel face), Allegorica 2.0b, Spark Bit, Stampede (Western face).

Creations from 2011: Sketch Bit (grunge), fs Kronos (angular), Geodoni Extra Black Condensed (in the piano key genre), Archly Gothic, Zingaling LC (art deco kitchen tile typeface cloned from Intaglio's Zingaling), W Stripes The Font (texture face), Polygonal ii (octagonal and counterless), Ohm Run Slab, fs Cogni (bike chain font), fs Cognate (similar), fs Pythagoras, fs Rondeau.

In 2012, he revised RM Uncialic (by Ray Meadows) to RMUncialic+, and added fs Light (white on black), fs Galactica and fs Isthmus (piano key stencil family in several styles).

In 2013, he published fs Floresta, fs UnStruct, fs Fermat (roman lettering), fs Alhambra, fs Radiata and 1/8ish center square (gridded). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wim Crouwel

Willem Hendrik Crouwel is a Dutch graphic designer who was born in Groningen in 1928, and died in Amsterdam in 2019. He studied at the Academy Minerva from 1947-1949. In 1952, he founded his design agency, and in 1963, he created the Total Design agency together with four others. In 1967, he created his New Alphabet for cathode ray tubes---it had only vertical and horizontal strokes. It was used in the Dutch pavillon at the World Exhibition in Osaka in 1970. Crouwel became professor of industrial graphic design in 1973 at the Technical University of Delft and was also professor of art at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. From 1963 until 1984, Crouwel managed all posters and catalogs for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. In 1981, he became director of Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, and remained director until 1991.

Besides New Alphabet (1967), he also designed Stedelijk (1968, for his poster for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam), and the Fodor Alphabet (1969, pixelish). He led Total Design in the 70s.

His typeface Gridnik (1974), an octagonal typeface made for a typewriter, was never released as a font. Crouwel's love for grids had earned him the nickname Gridnik or Mr. Gridnik. This name is well-deserved: he once stated, I am a functionalist troubled by aesthetics.

Creator of Dutch postage stamps in 1976.

In 2009, Crouwel won the Gerrit Noordzij prize. In 2019, he won the TDC Medal. Biography.

In 2007, there was a special Crouwel event in Paris. Pictures of Crouwel by Michael Levy: Crouwel with Pierre Bernard, Crouwel and Étienne Robial, Crouwel signing books, portrait.

Many have continued along the path shown by Crouwel:

Flickr group on Wim Crouwel. Wim Crouwel Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 28 September 2019-22 March 2020. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Wino Sutarmin Kadir
[Weknow]

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Wordshape
[Ian Lynam]

Commercial fonts at this boutique type foundry and publisher operating in Tokyo, jointly run by Ian Lynam and Thien Huynh. Ian Lynam is a New Yorker who studied Graphic Design at Portland State University (B.S.) and California Institute of the Arts (M.F.A.). He is professor at Temple University Japan, as well as at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He operates the Tokyo design studio Ian Lynam Design and the hybrid publishing imprint and type foundry Wordshape. MyFonts link. Images of most of Ian Lynam's typefaces.

  • Cern (2013). A sans family based on Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk and Univers, with large x-heights.
  • Vaud (2013). Ian writes: Vaud is a family of 40 weights of neutral, yet formally nuanced grotesk typefaces that takes inspiration from Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers and the original metal types from Switzerland, yet had a slightly larger x-height for more pronounced legibility.
  • Plural (2013). A futuristic sans family.
  • Sketch Caslon Italic (2013).
  • Raffish (2013). This is an ornamental caps typeface based on Henk Krijger's Raffia typeface.
  • Entity (2012). A basic sans family with slightly rounded corners.
  • Okojo (2012), Okojo Slab (2012) are geometric sans and slab serif typefaces influenced by the type designs of Paul Renner and Herb Lubalin. They were followed by Okojo Slab Display (2012) and Okojo Display (2012). In 2016, he rebundled everything as Okojo Pro and Okojo Slab Pro, Okojo Pro Stack and Okojo Slab Pro Stack.
  • Pompeian Cursive (2010). An elegant calligraphic script based on the original drawings by Oswald Cooper for BBS in 1927.
  • His Cooper series. Cooper Swash Italic Traditional & Cooper Swash Italic Custom, Cooper Italic (2010, after Cooper's original from 1924), Boul Mich (2010, after Oswald Cooper's 1927 art deco typeface), Cooper Initials (2010), Cooper Old Style (2010), Cooper Capitals (2010), Cooper Text (2010), Cooper Black Condensed (2010), Cooper Black Swash (2010), Cooper Screamers (2010, oversized exclamation points), Cooper Black Italic Pro (2013), Cooper Italic Pro (2013), Cooper Fullface Italic Pro (2013).
  • Cruller (2010). A spidery display typeface that is based on lettering from a 1910 German lettering book.
  • Hanger (2004).
  • Rubber Vloeren. A geometric display typeface adapted from an alphabet used by Piet Zwart in the Netherlands for a series of advertisements for rubber flooring.
  • Ensenada is a typeface designed based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico.
  • Clobber Grotesk (2010) is a grotesk typeface designed for readability at very small sizes. It is accompanied by a nice stencil style.
  • International Blackletter (2010) is a collaborative display typeface designed for fun, together with Simon Gane and Selena Hoy.
  • Devil's Advocate is a digital version of the heavy blackletter typeface Cathedral Text found in the 1934 ATF typeface from the American Specimen Book of Type Styles (by ATF).
  • Sandberg Honorarium (2003) is inspired by the work of Dutch typographer Willem Sandberg.
  • Inversion (2010) is an uncial face.
  • Designer with Eli Carrico of the heavy stencil typeface Black-Out (2010, Wordshape) and the paperclip family Interno (2004), which was based on Walter Ballmer's logo for Olivetti in 1960.
  • Neuerland (2010) is an update of Rudolf Koch's Neuland.
  • Dorsal (2011) is a splendid versal lettering typeface that cries Absinthe Overload.
  • Off Broadway (2011) is a casual art deco face related to Oz Cooper's Boul Mich and to Nubian (ATF).
  • Cinta Adhesiva (2011, done with Mexican designer One Eye) began as a typeface designed for the masthead of a graffiti fanzine called Free Copy---the monumental letters painted by L.A.-based graffiti writers Crae and Hael greatly influenced the feel of the typeface.
  • Maat (2011) is a modular geometric stencil piano key face. It is a loose interpretation of a handlettered alphabet by the late Dutch designer Jurrian Schrofer called Sans Serious which was included in Wim Crouwel's publication Letters of Maat. It is inflected with a bit of influence from British designer Ken Garland's similar lettering form the cover of his textbook, The Graphics Handbook.
  • Effete (2011) is a tall stylish typeface similar in weight and proportion to fonts like Imre Reiner's skyline typeface Corvinus.
  • Adora (2011) is a typeface similar to Walter Tracy's AdSans.
  • Kihachiro Swash Italic (2011) has garalde forms but Caslonian curved terminals and weighty serifs. Kihachiro Geometric (2011) recalls Antique Olive and Futura.
  • Kirimomi Swash (2011) is a pair of garalde typefaces. Kirimomi Geometric (2011) is a humanist sans.
  • Kommisar (2012) is Lynam's version of the Trajan capitals alphabet.
  • Smythe Sans (2012) is a contemporary geometric sans serif family that is quite readable on-screen and in print.
  • Stebl Grotesk (2012) and Stebl Slab (2012) are workhorse typefaces for sturdy jobs.
  • Raker (+Stencil) and Raker Display (+Stencil) is a 40-style octagonal typeface family published in 2015. It was inspired by science fiction and space travel.
  • Iggy (2015) is based on the lettering of Australia-based Oklahoman artist, animator and lifelong skater Darin Bendall.
  • Stamen (2016). A 12-style sans typeface lost in time.
  • Smythe Sans Pro (2016) and Smythe Soft Pro (2016).
  • Biwa and Biwa Display (2017). A grotesk family by Ian Lynam and James Todd.
  • Glot (2019). A 10-style flared terminal sans family by James Todd and Ian Lynam. See also Glot Round from 2020.

Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of From Bijin-ga to Brutus, in which he explains the work of graphic designers Hokuu Tada (1889-1948) and Seiichi Horiuchi (1933-1987). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Yana Erysheva

Florence, Italy-based designer of the piano key typeface Quik (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yanuar Adi
[Typehand Studio]

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Yautja
[V. Sarela]

This is one of the most talented FontStructors, but also an active musician. On Behance, he/she is listed as Van Saarland from Hameenlinna, Finland, and on FontStruct since 2014 as V. Sarela, from Oulu, Finland.

Typefaces from 2011: Teotihuacan (inspired by a Mexican poster), Micra (a monospaced OCR-A font), Fast Driving, Rendez-Vous (a condensed serif font inspired by the cover of "The Essential Jean Michel Jarre"), Carat Condensed, Carat, Wolfen (a copperplate style condensed face), Futuroid (sci-fi), Instrumenta (after Neville Brody's Industria), Modern Vision (based on the opening credits from The Terminator and The Running Man), Future Earth (futuristic: based on a typeface used in The Terminator logo which is also the base for the font "Earth"), Phatprogy (+Extra Phat).

Typefaces from 2012: Modus Operandi, Ikonomi (squarish sans), Genera, Hexathrone, Liquid Crystal Serif, Wulthraesk (constructivist), Electionale, Major (a high contrast didone), Commandant (2012, like Futura Stencil), Comfutur (a beautiful stencil typeface with a bit of Futura Black), Qode (a retro-futuristic LED style typeface), Graphyto (a heavy slab face), Heavy Royale, Thiage (Thai simuation face), Bravis, Cirquetry, Solidis, Velocifero (bilined), Heavy Royale, Jet Set Groove, Reactor A1 (futuristic stencil), Polymoda (an abstract font), Lino II, Sequencer (+Condensed), Hertzace (square retro-futurist), Cifira (art deco), Saturation (monoline sans), Katana (+Bold, +Condensed), Countura (abstract and minimalist), Stripelane (horizontally striped), Vortexa (in the style of Data 70), In Nomine Matrix, Afterburner, Afterburner Phase II, High Rise (Western typeface), Sulaco, Polaroid, Tech Noir (a dot matrix typeface based on the nightclub sign from The Terminator), Slabbers II, Windician (art deco), Cryptocube, DMC 12, Ken Jp (oriental simulation typeface), PxlSQ, Scorpione, Monotronic, Advancer (dot matrix face), Avico, Discolyde, Film Sequence, Modern Vision (based on an unknown typeface which was used in the opening credits of The Terminator, The Running Man, Class of 1999, and also used on Robert A. Heinlein's book covers (there's a font called Heinlein which is similar)), Cromagnon, Gace, Midora Sans, Squarium (constructivist), Cheque Matte (octagonal; athletic lettering), Plusminus, Advancer Lite, Magnetofunk (retro-futuristic), Integrafia (piano key stencil face), Network9, Cechida, Rendez-Vous (condensed square slab face), Rendez-Vous II, Equantum, Karelian Stencil, Cryptocube, Neolexia, Ambiente, Stencilae (stencil), Linearis (horizontally striped), Contrafacia A and B (horizontally striped typefaces), Stereovision, Hypetron (based on the TRON logo), Degré (hexagonal), Typorabilis, Wunderkind (kitchen tile face), Kiova Captura, Biomehanika.

Typefaces from 2013: Starast Maxi, Starast Next, Lugar, Siquid (dot matrix face), Devico (constructivist), Meco (based on Meco's logo), Confiant A, Confiant B, Zerusta, Carat, Combonaut, Jet Set Groove, Cifira, Gace, Condensbit, Synditon, Abciria, Vulthraesk, Rendez-Vous (+II), Instrumenta (based on Neville Brody's Industria), Saturation, RndEX, Rewinder, Power Electronics (an octagonal typeface based on the Captain Power logo), Obsidian Deco (a gorgeous fat piano key typeface), Electrone, Plusminus, Connector Module, Scorpione, Perficio, XOX Design, Da Capo (bold slab serif), Gradiator, Phatprogy, Genexus, Finica Sharp Script, Power Electronics (based on the Captain power logo), Aftertouch (a wide sans), Telecharger, Vicenti, Modicea, Submachine (based on Stanley Davis's Amelia), Genera Deux (a computer font), Genexe, Network 9 (connect-the-dots), Square Earth, Future Earth (trekkie font based on an old Terminator logo), Cechida, Supernature, Siberiada (a great Russian simulation typeface with a medieval touch), Defigma (bilined), Carat, Back to the future (based on the movie logo; called Rewinder on FontStruct), Vibrion (techno face), Connector Module, Wunderkind (a tiled typeface), Yaguar, Pacific Serif (slab serif), Aerogenes (wide techno font), Windician, Commandant (a wide art deco stencil face).

Typefaces from 2014: Brigadier, Freelight (rounded stencil), Stencilae, Protocol Sans, Vicenti, Submachine, Dalecarian, Equantum, Twiphex, Waremann, Wolfen, Waltraud, Carat, Teotihuacan, Rendez-Vous (+II), Major (didone), Ambiente, Kiova Captura (based on the font used in Kiev camera manuals), Glissando, Vibrixean (sci-fi), Licoricette, Protagon (Greek simulation), Rewinder, Ardeus (futuristic, LED simulation), Techsyna (sci-fi), Rezonans (piano key style), Modern Vision, Trideko Display (multilined typeface), Xeometro (octagonal), Verbica, Megalith (a great black slab), Calibro.

Typefaces from 2015: Coffee,-Juice,-Food-2, Electric-Blue, Karakteristika (blackletter tattoo font), Memogo (horizontally-lined font), Proximitro, Stratus, Super-Eurobeat, Verdisquo, HI-NRG, Modern Vision (based on a font used in the opening credits of The Terminator, The Running Man, Class of 1999), Workflow (stencil), Blackwing.

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

Yung & Frish
[Benedikt Matern]

In 2019, Benedikt Matern and Roland Lehle (Yung & Frish, Germany) co-designed the piano ket typeface Scoop Display.

In 2020, they released Ronnys Handwriting. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Yve Ludwig

Yve Ludwig studied graphic design at Yale College in 2000, and received an MFA in graphic design at the Yale School of Art in 2005. Before joining Pentagram, she worked as a graphic designer at Yale University in the Office of the University Printer, where she art directed and designed projects commissioned by clients throughout the university. Since 2012, she has her own studio.

Yve made a custom piano key typeface for the North Carolina Museum of Art in 2012 under the art direction of Michael Bierut. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zerotoohero
[Roman Shchyukin]

Bryansk, Russia-based cofounder in 2011 with Valery Zaveryaev of the Russian type foundry Gaslight.

Typefaces from 2011: Bad Script (Google Web Fonts: an informal hand-printed typeface).

Typefaces from 2012: Quadratish Serif, Quadratish Solid, Rock Logo (a metal band font co-designed with Valery Zaveryaev), Delgado (an elegant tall and thin fashion mag typeface for Latin and Cyrillic), Teco, Teco Sans (an octagonal military typeface family), Teco Symbol, Teco Sans Stencil, Teco Serif, Wide Display and Wide Display Ribbon (unicase headline typefaces), Actio (a spurred inline typeface), Roz, Wary (a pop art typeface that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014),

Typefaces from 2013: Delgado Sans, MNSTR Shadow and MNSTR Line (free inline typefaces), Gen (techno), Tesla (+Round).

Typefaces from 2014: Sofya (a monoline script font, released by Gaslight).

Typefaces from 2015: Aorta (a piano key stencil typeface), MxMy (Peignotian caps).

Typefaces from 2016: Fada (all caps sans for titling), Barbecue (a circle-themed deco typeface first called BarBQ), Fada (by Roman Shchyukin), Pleinair, Rawer (sans, +stencil, +outline), Misty (by Valery Zaveryaev), Agio (by Valery Zaveryaev).

Typefaces from 2019, done at his own new foundry Zerotoohero Design: Premium (for the Russian channel Premium), Shock Sans (a weathered typeface done for the Russian channel Shoking), Harvest (for the Russian restaurant Urojai), Grotesque (One, Two: for Plates Studio), Comedy (a custom cartoon font for Shandesign Studio).

Typefaces at Zerotoohero, not identified with Roman Shchyukin: Lovely (by Shandesign, for the Russian channel Lubimoe), Wolf Sans (created for a Russian IT company). Behance link for Zerotoohero. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Zess Type

Seoul, Korea-based creator (b. 1985) of the modular Hangul typeface Black (2015). Substyles include Neon, Stripe and Meltdown. In 2016, they developed the squarish Hangul typefaces BOM and First Black, as well as Zesstype Grafika (free), Zblack Meltdown and Zblack Neon Sign.

Typefaces from 2017: Grafika Type 2, 3 and 4 (piano key style). Home page. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zetafonts

Zetafonts is a font foundry created by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Debora Manetti. Almost all of these fonts were created as part of the design process for logos and printed materials. Many were created for the experimental magazine ego[n]. Foundry in Florence, Italy, although the Behance page places them in the United States. [z]fonts is the font development section of Studio Kmzero, a Florence (Italy) based Design and Communication Agency. Studio Kmzero is an Italian design firm in Firenze consisting of three graphic designers, Francesco Canovaro, Debora Manetti, and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini.

Also called ZeroFont.

Francesco Canovaro and Adolfo Monti are the designers of the simple bold sans typeface Arista (2007). They also made the basic sans typefaces Cibreo, zProzak-Bold, zProzak and zProzakLight in 2006, and Sugo in 2007. We also find Antipasto (2007, clean elegant sans, by Matteo Di Iorio), Arsenale White and ArsenaleBlue (2009, children's hands, done by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Jonathan Calugi), Bistecca (2005, a bellissima extra-condensed serif font created for ego[n] 5 and for the cover of ego[n] 4), Braciola (2006; monospaced and octagonal, with stencil styles added), Bubblebody, Byron (2006, handwriting), Delizioso (2008, art deco), Docporn (comic book style), Duepuntozero Pro (2006-2008), Handvetica (2005, arched), Happyfruhzero, Modulo3 (2008, an artsy beauty), New Romantic (curly grunge), Prozak (2006), Sala de Fiestas (2005-2006, by Debora Manetti, free download at OFL), Senzacuore, Square80 (2009), Sugo, Taller Evolution (2009, geometric sans), Taller, Tallest (2009, ultra-condensed), Targa Monospace (inspired by license plate lettering), Targa (2002), TargaMS (2002), TargaMSHand (2002), Tutor (2006, rectangular, pixelish---what I call a piano key font), Toller (2009, ultra-condensed), Filetto (2009, a sans modeled after DIN 1451 done with Francesco Canovaro and Katiuscia Mari).

In 2014, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro co-designed Amazing Grotesk (+Ultra).

The free font Amazing Infographic was published in 2016.

Dafont link. MyFonts link.

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Zetafonts (or: Studio Kmzero, or: ZeroFont)
[Francesco Mistico Canovaro]

Italian design firm in Firenze consisting of three graphic designers, Francesco Canovaro, Debora Manetti, and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini. It has evolved into Italy's premier and most prolific type foundry. Canovaro's Behance link. Also called ZeroFont and Zetafonts, this type foundry exhales joy---in every design and presentation, the passion of the designers bubbles to the surface. Blending a delicious sense of humour and a great aesthetic taste, Zetafonts is a typographic delight. Their typefaces:

  • Adlibitum (2018). A textura blackletter typeface family.
  • Anaphora (2018). Anaphora is a contemporary serif typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro (roman), Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini (italic) and Andrea Tartarelli. It features a wedge serif design with nine weights from thin to heavy. Its wide counters and low x-height make it pleasant and readable at text sizes while the uncommon shapes make it strong and recognizable when used in display size. Anaphora covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
  • Aliens and Cows (2016). An ultra-condensed all aps sans family by Canovaro.
  • Arturo (2018), by Francesco Canovaro.
  • Atlantica (2017). A signage script family.
  • Lightstrike (2016). A thin (and free) brush font by Canovaro.
  • Byom (2016). A tweetware organic sans typeface family by Francesco Canovaro.
  • Adlery (2016, +Cyrillic). A brush script by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini.
  • Adlibitum (2016). A blackletter typeface by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro.
  • Morbodoni (2016). A display didone by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro.
  • Altair (2016). A display sans by by Francesco Canovaro based on Digitalino.
  • Aquawax (2015). A sans family by Canovaro and the Zetafonts team. Extended in 2019 to Aquawax Pro by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli.
  • Armonioso (2014). A creamy connected signage script.
  • A Day Without Sun (2014, by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini).
  • Another Shabby (2014, a primitive script by Francesco Canovaro).
  • Antipasto (2007, by Matteo Di Iorio). A clean elegant sans by Canovaro.
  • Arista (2007) and Arista 2.0 (2010). A simple rounded bold sans typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro and Adolfo Monti. In 2017, Francesco Canovaro updated these to Arista Pro.
  • Arsenale White and Arsenale Blue (2009). Children's hands, done by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Mi, Debora Manetti, Katiuscia Mari, and Jonathan Calugi.
  • Beatrix Antiqua (2016, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli). This humanist sans-serif typeface is part of the Beatrix family (Beatrix Nova, etc.) that takes its inspiration from the classic Roman monumental capital model. Its capitals are directly derived from the stone carvings in Florence's Santa Croce Cathedral. Beatrix keeps a subtle lapidary swelling at the terminals suggesting a glyphic serif, similar to Hermann Zapf's treatment in Optima. Some weights are free.
  • Bimbo >(2018). A child emulation handwriting font developed as an extension and redesign of the original Arsenale White typeface created with italian illustrator Jonathan Calugi.
  • Bistecca (2005). A bellissima extra-condensed serif font created for ego[n] 5 and for the cover of ego[n] 4.
  • Braciola (2006). Monospaced and octagonal, with stencil styles added.
  • Brushstrike (2015). By Canovaro.
  • Byron (2006). Handwriting.
  • In 2010, Canovaro designed the plumpish bubblegum typefaces Bubblebody Fat and Bubbleboddy Extra Light. These fonts were discontinued in 2016 and replaced by Bubbleboddy Neue.
  • Bulletto (2015). A retro baseball script.
  • Cibreo. A basic sans typeface by Canovaro and Monti.
  • Cinematografica (2017). An ultra condensed small caps movie typeface used in the advertising campaign for Lucca Comics 2017 Festival. This film noir family features eight weights from thin to heavy with open type alternate glyphs and some full word ligatures.
  • The rounded geometric sans family Cocomat (2015, Zetafonts, by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Debora Manetti and Francesco Canovaro) was inspired by the style of the twenties and the visions of Italian futurists like Fortunato Depero, Giacomo Balla and Antonio Sant'Elia. Updated in 2019 as Cocomat Pro.
  • Cocosignum (2017). Cocosignum Corsivo Italico and Cocosignum Maiuscoletto are both based on Italian art deco styles.
  • Codec (2018) by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli is a geometric sans typeface family in which all terminal cuts are horiontal or vertical. See also Codec Pro (2019).
  • Delizioso (2008). Art deco.
  • Digitalino (2013).
  • Docporn (comic book style).
  • Duepuntozero Pro (2006-2008). A condensed rounded sans famly by Adolfo Monti and Francesco Canovaro. The Pro version was released in 2019.
  • Filetto (2009). A sans modeled after DIN 1451 done by Canovaro, Debora Manetti and Katiuscia Mari.
  • Florentia (2017). An 18-style lapidary typeface family influenced by the renaissance and luxury.
  • In 2018, Debora Manetti and Francesco Canovaro designed the brush handwriting font Freehand Brush.
  • Handvetica (2005). Arched.
  • Happy Frush Zero (2014). A random note font.
  • Happy Funghetto (2015). Fifties style lettering.
  • Heading Pro (2017). A condensed sans typeface by Francesco Canovaro. Followed in 2018 by Heading Pro Ultra Compressed, Heading Pro Extended, and Heading Pro Text.
  • Hello Script (2015). Curly and calligraphic.
  • Modulo3 (2008). An artsy beauty.
  • New Romantic (curly grunge).
  • Panforte (2013) and Panforte Serif (2013): hand-drawn typefaces. Panforte Pro followed in 2017.
  • Prozak. Consists of zProzak-Bold, zProzak and zProzakLight (2006). A basic sans typeface by Canovaro and Monti.
  • Sala de Fiestas (2005-2006). Free download at OFL.
  • Square80 (2009).
  • Studio Gothic (2017, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli) is an 8-style geometric sans family based on Alessandro Butti's geometric sans classic, Semplicita.
  • Sugo (2007). By Canovaro and Monti.
  • Taller (2009, ultra-condensed), Taller Evolution (2009), Tallest (2009, ultra-condensed).
  • Targa Monospace. Inspired by license plate lettering.
  • Targa (2002), TargaMS (2002), TargaMSHand (2002). Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, who developed Targa in 2002, based his design on the peculiar sans serif monospace typeface with slightly rounded corners and a geometric, condensed skeleton that Italy had been using for its license plates. In 2022, Francesco Canovaro redesigned this font into a versatile multi-weight typeface, Targa Pro, which includes Targa Pro Mono (which keeps the original monospace widths), Targa Pro Roman (with proportional widths), both in five weights plus italics, the handmade version Targa Hand, and Targa Pro Stencil.
  • Tutor (2006). Rectangular, pixelish---what I call a piano key font.
  • Zerocalcare is a typeface family created for the branding of Lucca Comics & Games Festival 2016. It is based on the digitised handwriting of italian comic artist Zerocalcare, and it uses open type substitutions to mimick the flow of real handwriting. Free at Dafont.
  • Double Bass (2018): A jazzy 4-style typeface family that pays tribute to Saul Bass's iconic hand lettering for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm film title sequence and other movies, Bass's vibrating, almost brutal cut-out aestethics, and the cartoonish lettering and jazzy graphics of the fifties.
  • Another Shabby (2018) is a brush script typeface family designed by Francesco Canovaro for Zetafonts with Cyrillic letters designed by Alina Golovan.
  • Sugo Pro (2018, Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli). It was designed in 2006 by Francesco Canovaro in two weights (regular and extralight) and later used by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini as base inspiration for the design of the successful Zetafonts' Cocogoose Pro typeface. In 2018 the family was completely redesigned by Andrea Tartarelli, expanding the original glyph set to include Cyrillic and Greek and adding three extra weights and italics. The restored and revamped version is named Sugo Pro Classic. In 2020, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Mario De Libero drew the 60-style Cocogoose Pro Narrows family, which features many compressed typefaces as well as grungy letterpress versions.
  • Extenda (2018) is a thin-to-wide grotesque advertising or movie credit family with some of the DNA of Impact or Compacta. By Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli.
  • In 2019, Blacker Sans (Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli) and Blacker Pro (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli) were released. The 63-strong fashion mag powerhouse Blacker Sans Pro (Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli) followed in 2020. Zetafonts writes: Blacker Pro is the revised and extended version of the original wedge serif type family designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli in 2017. Blacker was developed as a take on the style that Jeremiah Shoaf has defined as the "evil serif" genre: typefaces with high contrast, oldstyle or modern serif proportions and sharp, blade-like triangular serifs.
  • The extreme wedge serif and reverse stress typeface family Blackest (2018, Andrea Tartarelli and Francesco Canovaro).
  • In 2019, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli published the monolinear geometric rounded corner amputated "e" sans typeface family Cocogoose Classic and the condensed rounded monoline techno sans typeface family Iconic.
  • Klein (2019) is (in their words) Zetafonts' love letter to the grandmother of all geometric sans typefaces, Futura. Starting from a dialogue with Paul Renner's iconic letterforms and proportions, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli decided to depart from its distinctive modernist shapes with slight humanist touches and grotesque solutions---with some design choices evoking the softness of humanist sans serifs like Gill Sans. The end result is a workhorse superfamily of 54 fonts with full coverage of Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. The original display-oriented family, developed in nine weights with matching italics (from the hairline thin to the sturdy black), has been paired with a text version (with slightly higher x-height, better readability and maximum legibility at small point size) and with a condensed version, to be used for space-saving display solutions in editorial and advertising formats. With a name that is both a nod to its humble functionality and an homage to French nouveau realiste artist Yves Klein, this typeface aims to become your next trusted companion in all your adventures in print, digital and motion design.
  • Kitsch (2019, Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini) mixes angular medieval elements and old style letterforms. Thicker (2020, by Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli). They write: A geometric sans typeface on steroids, it was first designed in the muscular extrablack weight with the aesthetics of high-power dynamic typefaces used in sports communication, and then developed in the lighter weights where the shapes show some vintage-inspired proportions and the slightly squared look that nods to Novarese famous Eurostile, eponymous with retro-futurism..
  • Stinger (2020, a 42-style reverse contrast family by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini).
  • As part of the free font set Quarantype (2020), Francesco Canovaro designed Quarantype Chillout and Quarantype Sunshine. Sunshine Pro (2020, Zetafonts) was designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Solenn Bordeau expanding the original Quarantype Sunshine design by Francesco Canovaro, which in turn was designed as a typeface for good vibes against Covid-19. Sunshine Pro is an experimental Clarendon-style font with variable contrast along the weight axis---contrast is reversed in light weight, minimized in the regular weight and peaks in the bold and heavy weights.
  • Eastman (2020, by Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli with help from Solenn Bordeau) is a 178-font geometric sans workhorse family with Bauhaus genes developed for maximum versatility both in display and text use, with a wide weight range and a solid monolinear design featuring a tall x-height. It comes with a two axis variable font (weight, italic angle). It was followed by the 46-style font Eastman Grotesque (2020, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli), which comprises an interesting Eastman Grotesque Alternate subfamily with daring and in-your-face glyphs, and the 88-style Eastman Condensed (2021, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli).
  • Garbata (2020). A round typeface loosely based on Windsor and Cooper Black, having a variable type option that offers many weights. Between sans and serif.
  • Bogart (2020, Francesco Canovaro and Andrea Tartarelli). An homage to the low-contrast oldstyle fat faces, like Cooper Black (Oswald Bruce Cooper, 1922), Windsor and Goudy Heavy Face (Frederic W. Goudy and Sol Hess, 1925-1932), and more recently, Bookman.
  • Stadio Now (2020). A revival by the Zetafonts team of Aldo Novarese's Stadio (1974), a reverse contrast sans that was published only as a rub-on transfer typeface. It comes with a multi-axis variable font that greatly enlarges the design space.
  • Amazing Slab (2021). A 20-style typeface family designed by Francesco Canovaro, Mario de Libero (who did the inline versions), Sofia Bandini and Andrea Tartarelli, developed from the Amazing Grotesk family designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini. Characterized by outward-pointing top serifs, this typeface is designed for use in athletic lettering, logos and titling. Zetafonts writes: Mixing an Egyptian serif, low contrast approach with the curved endings and open shapes of humanist sans grotesques, it was developed to embody the energetic and friendly nature of the startup scene---a feeling of innovation, information and energy, with a desire for simplicity and straightforward communication. The basic design shapes for the font come from the strong personality of the extrabold letterforms drawn by Francesco Canovaro for his StartupItalia logo, that informed the display design of the four darkest weights (from medium to black).
  • Coco Sharp (2021). A 62-style sans feast, and two variable fonts with variable x-height, by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli.
  • Arsenica (2021). A 43-style decorative serif by Francesco Canovaro for Zetafonts, and developed by a design team that included Mario De Libero, Andrea Tartarelli and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini. It comprises two variable fonts and subfamilies Display, Text, Alternate and Antiqua.
  • Asgard (2021). A 72-strong experimental display sans superfamily with a 3-axis (weight, width, slant) variable font, designed by Francesco Canovaro, Andrea Tartarelli ans Mario De Libero.
  • Heading Now (2021). A 160-strong titling font (+2 variable fonts) by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli and Mario De Libero that provides an enormous range of widths.
  • Salad and Salad Interlock (2021-2022). These typefacea are based on vernacular signpainting, extending Debora Manetti's Sala de Fiestas.
  • Bakemono (2021). Canovaro writes: the design space of fixed vs. proportional width, mixing the lessons of mechanical typewriter technology with the intuitions of eastern brush calligraphy. The name of the typeface comes from the Japanese shape-shifter monsters that could change their form freely between human and animal, and aptly describes the metamorphic nature of this wide superfamily coming in proportional, monospace and intermediate subfamilies. bakemono supports Latin, Cyrillic, Aarabic and kana, and comes with a variable font option.

Corporate typefaces were designed for Lucca Comics and Games, Digitalic Magazine, Kair, Unicoop, and Istituto Europeo di Design.

Behance link. Zetafonts home page. View the Zetafonts library. Abstract Fonts link. I Love Typography link. MyFonts link. Type Department link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Zhalgas Kassymkulov
[Architaraz Type (or: Kassymkulov Design)]

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