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066.FONT
| 066.FONT is a Polish foundry based in Konskie with some commercial fonts (Linotype Kropki (1997), Dr066, Kfontz) and some free fonts (DNA, Zawijasy, Mieszkanie9 (a halftone curly hand), Plaq, Plaq 108). Kfontz and Dr066 are old typewriter fonts, and Kropki is a dot matrix font. The free fonts are for handwriting. Some fonts at MyFonts.com, such as Pokrak (2009, grunge family), Longinus Pro (2008, a 9-style family of medieval roughly outlined alphabets), Old Stefan (2008, five styles of grungy typewriter), Kra Kra (2008, grunge), Poldi (2007, 3d handprinted), Poldi No 2 (2008), Bloor (2008), Crazy David No 1 and 2 (2006, grunge), Karacan Pro (2005, eroded look), Polish Dirty News (2005, grunge), Nieanana (2005), Jackcake (2005), Mada693, Nonpress (2006, grunge), Plaq (2005, halftone simulation face), Dr066, KfontZ, Zawijasy (1997, a curly hand, now commercial), Punx (2006, grunge), 066 Army (2006, grunge), Kulfonus No. 1 and 2 (2007, grunge), Duck Duck (2006), Finito (2008, grunge script), Wopi Script (2005), Pimpus (2009, grungy script) and Wopi Script No. 2 (2005) and No. 3 (2007). The designer is Piotr Wozniak from Konskie (b. Poland, 1980). Polish link. Dafont link.. Linotype page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Polish graphic artist, printer, illustrator and a type designer (b. 1881, Warszaw, d. 1952, Krakow). He studied at the Art Academies of Krakow, München, Leipzig and Berlin, and became art director from 1912-1927 in Warszaw at the Zaklady Graficzne B. Wierzbicki i S-ka. From 1927-1930, he was technical head at a printshop in Warszaw. From 1930 on, he edited the magazine Grafika in Warszaw with F. Siedlecki and T. Gronowski. From 1922-1939, he taught graphical and print techniques at the High School for Journalism in Warszaw. He ran his own print shop, Jednosc, in Kielce from 1945-1949. He designed fonts that were widely used by Polish printing houses until the 1960s. His main type family, Poltawskiego (1931) was the first original Polish type family. It was digitally recreated by Bogusaw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk (JNS TEAM) in 2000 under the name Antykwa Pó&lslash;tawskiego starting mainly from MetaPost. It has also been digitized/revived by Felix Steffen. Twardoch's description of his contributions. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Aga Silva is an ex-architect/urban designer, who now lives in Krakow, Poland. Creator of Maya Tiles (2012), Ballpen (2012, handprinted), Mickey Script (2012), Nillie's Love Letters (2012), Grand Duchess (2011, script face), Rosette110621 (2011, kaleidoscopic dingbats), Brasserie (2011, connected script), Marker Script (2011), Skarpa LT (2011, an avant-garde hairline face), Skarpa Regular (2011), Skarpa Bold (2011), Auld Magick (2011, blackletter), Two Am (2011), and Fantasy Dingbats (2011). Aka Mme. Ping, her work can also be found at Fontspace and Dafont. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish design student who made a typeface while studying in Krakow from 2003-2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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New York-based designer of the experimental face Blue Notes (2011), which was inspired by the jazz of Billie Holiday. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aleks is the Polish designer of Absenced Streetsoul (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish design student who made a typeface while studying in Krakow from 2003-2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Foundry in Ypsilanti, MI. Kadmos, Bosporos (both classical Greek), Czasy, Szwajcarski (Polish), and Demotiki (modern Greek). Nice fonts, 85 US dollars per face. Jeffrey Rusten swears that these are the highest quality fonts for polytonic Greek. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrzej Dzieniszweski | Creator of the commercial chess font Akiba Pro available from thr Polish Internet Chess Center. Andrzej lives in Jelenia Gora, Poland. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish illustrator and graphic artist, b. 1928, Warsaw. He created the beautiful initial caps face Bona. He also did nice lettering on some film posters, and designed bank notes, postage stamps, postcards and book covers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish typographer involved in GUST.org fonts for Polish, and son of Roman Tomaszewski, another Polish typographer. Author of Leksykon pism drukarskich Warszawa, Krupski i S-ka, 1996. Antykwa Poltawskiego, one of the few original Polish typefaces, is being digitized in an innovative way as a *parametrized* Type 1 font. The project is being co-sponsored by GUST, the Polish TeX users group. The typographical supervision is being held by Andrzej Tomaszewski (son of Roman Tomaszewski, R.I.P., a famous Polish typographer and a former member of the ATypI board). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
She created the text face Arnie (2011). She writes: Arnie is a text typeface designed for books and poetry. Due to calligraphic origin, rather classical proportions and flat curves, it seems solid and stable. While big counters and varying line weight make it look light and airy in long texts. She also created the signage script face Cookie (2011), which is free at Google Web Fonts. Panna Kotta (2010) is an upright italic. Ladaco (2008) is inspired in Polish folkloric cut-outs. Krotta One (2012, Google Web Fonts) is an italic typeface. It was renamed Kotta a few days later. | |
Ania Szerszen (Wroclaw, Poland) created the beautiful ornamental caps typeface Dream Shepherds (2012) and the oblique piano key typeface Lullaby (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of Cyber System 2-3 (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anna Giedrys, who is based in Poland and Czechia, works as a graphic designer focusing on visual identities, illustrations, and typeface design. She obtained an MA in graphic design and visual communication from the University of Fine Arts in Poznan (Sign and Typography Studio). During her exchange studies of graphic and fashion design at Vilnius Fine Arts Academy (Lithuania), she fell in love with calligraphy, lettering, and pattern design. Currently, she runs her own studio Ancymonic and collaborates with Rosetta Type Foundry. Google Plus link. Her typefaces:
Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Polish designer with Tomasz Kaftal of the informal script face Stellina (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish design student who made a typeface while studying in Krakow from 2003-2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish archive with SSi TrueType fonts, it seems. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer (b. 1989) who created Balls (2006), Ross (2006, handwriting), MPL (2006, handwriting), Dominos (2006, handwriting), Qlfones (2006, handwriting), Melsy (2006, handwriting) and New Age (2007, handwriting). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rafa Brzeziski's Polish archive with over 7000 fonts. It has subarchives for Polish fonts, comic book fonts and bitmap fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Antraxja Fonts (or: Atrax)
| Antraxja Fonts (or: Atrax) is a Polish foundry which offers these free fonts made by Rafa Brzezinski in 2004: ARTUR, AntraxjaGoth1938 (blackletter), Art (art nouveau), BATTLEFIELD (war lettering face), BananaShow-Medium, CrashTest, CrashTestItalic, CrashTestShadow, Cybernetyka (futuristic family), CybernetykaItalic, CybernetykaNormal, CybernetykaOutline, DarkPalladin, HistoryBrush, Kreskwka-Italic, Kreskwka (handwriting), Monster, MonsterShadow, Mortis, Orchidee, REFORMA, RETURNTOCASTLE (gothic), Speed+, Speed+2, Techno, cherif, medusa (blocky lettering), mortis, weronika, Bajareczka, Camilla, Cherif, Top Secret (stencil). Alternate URL. Another URL. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
antyktor
| Antykwa Toru\'nska (1952-1958, released by the Polish state foundry in 1960) is a serif font designed by the Polish type designer Zygfryd Gardzielewski (1914-2001) which has been reconstructed and digitized as Type1 by Janusz Nowacki. Three free Polish type 1 fonts called antyktor. Alternate site. Gardzielewski died in October 2001. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish calligrapher, b. 1984. Creator of the experimental face Typo Prooba (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer who lives in Wroclaw. He has made some inspired posters of typographic value. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I do not know whether this graphic designer's name is Aubo lessi or Krzysztof Tryk. In any case, he lives in Otwock, Poland. Dafont link. In 2010, he took Bodoni as a model to design Muscle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish archive. The 87MB zip file contains most of the (commercial) EuroFONT collection: EFNAbigail, EFNAbsolut-Bold, EFNAbsolut, EFNAdalbert, EFNAdalbertBold, EFNAdalbertCnt, EFNAdamas, EFNAdamasBold, EFNAgabus-Italic, EFNAgabus, EFNAgabusBlack, EFNAgabusBlackCnd, EFNAgabusBold, EFNAgabusBoldItalic, EFNAgabusEngraved, EFNAgapes, EFNAlegoria, EFNAntyk, EFNArletta, EFNArlettaCzarna, EFNArlettaJasna, EFNArras, EFNArystone, EFNBarka, EFNBass, EFNBeate, EFNBelki, EFNBelkiII, EFNBenita, EFNBinokle, EFNBlackout, EFNBlacky, EFNBookOut, EFNBrawo, EFNBukoff, EFNBulgars, EFNButik, EFNCeline, EFNCeltyk, EFNChapter, EFNChicagoCube, EFNCienki, EFNCyrkiel, EFNCzarnyDiament, EFNDamian, EFNDance, EFNDaniel, EFNDebraCzarna, EFNDebraJasna, EFNDekorator, EFNDelfin, EFNDelfinBold, EFNDeseczki, EFNDetlef, EFNDingsy, EFNDokument, EFNDolores, EFNDustin, EFNDustinBold, EFNDustinBoldItalic, EFNDustinItalic, EFNDziurki, EFNEfekt, EFNElisheva, EFNEliza, EFNEnergia, EFNErazmus, EFNEtiopia, EFNEtiopiaCnt, EFNEukalipte, EFNFarba, EFNFarmer, EFNFelix, EFNFelixOpen, EFNFerrus, EFNFlorian, EFNGaled, EFNGaramo-BoldItalic, EFNGaramo, EFNGaramoBold, EFNGaramoCnd-Bold, EFNGaramoCnd-Italic, EFNGaramoCnd, EFNGaramoCndBoldItalic, EFNGaramoItalic, EFNGaucho, EFNGedeon, EFNGeorgia, EFNGermanik, EFNGilead, EFNGileadBlack, EFNGileadBlackCnd, EFNGileadBold, EFNGileadCnd, EFNGileadCndBold, EFNGileadHvSh, EFNGileadHvy, EFNGileadHvyCnd, EFNGoldenBlack, EFNGoldyOlds-Bold, EFNGoldyOlds-BoldItalic, EFNGoldyOlds-Italic, EFNGoldyOlds, EFNGoldyOpen, EFNGondola, EFNGothic, EFNGradientLogo, EFNGramatyk, EFNGramatykBold, EFNGraphos, EFNGrasses, EFNGrawer, EFNGregorio, EFNGustowny, EFNGutenberg, EFNHandy, EFNHandyBold, EFNHannait, EFNHarfa, EFNHarlem, EFNHasspis, EFNHebanus, EFNHebanusJasny, EFNHebel, EFNHebron, EFNHundred, EFNIberia, EFNImpresja, EFNIndiana, EFNJasmin, EFNJessica, EFNJoannes, EFNJonatan, EFNJonatanII, EFNKameleon, EFNKangoo, EFNKangooShinny, EFNKaret, EFNKarolus, EFNKastlers, EFNKetling, EFNKlasyk, EFNKlasykBold, EFNKlasykItalic, EFNKlawiatura, EFNKoenig, EFNKogelMogel, EFNKokos, EFNKorzenie, EFNKredki, EFNKreska, EFNKropelki, EFNKropleWody, EFNKunszt, EFNKursywa, EFNKuteLiterki, EFNKwiatki, EFNLaciaty, EFNLaten, EFNLatenCShad, EFNLatenCnd, EFNLatenLtSh, EFNLegenda, EFNLemon, EFNLeonis, EFNLiberus, EFNLinneus, EFNLiterki, EFNLiterkiEmi, EFNLitografia, EFNLitografiaBold, EFNLitografiaCnd, EFNLitografiaCndBold, EFNLubellus, EFNMalarz, EFNMalowany, EFNManuel, EFNMaretta, EFNMaszyna, EFNMcGregor, EFNMechanik, EFNMeduse, EFNMeduseWhite, EFNMeksyk, EFNMellotron, EFNMemphisSans, EFNMessage, EFNMetaloweLiterki, EFNMetropolia, EFNMiddayLights, EFNMiddayOutl, EFNMobil, EFNModernista, EFNMokreLiterki, EFNMonitor, EFNMost, EFNMotek, EFNMotyl, EFNNissan, EFNNissanBold, EFNNissanBoldItalic, EFNNissanHeavy, EFNNissanItalic, EFNNocneNiebo, EFNNocny, EFNNoemi, EFNNunete, EFNOdAnonima, EFNOknoFont, EFNOliwier, EFNOliwier3D, EFNOliwka, EFNOrient, EFNPalace, EFNPalaceBold, EFNPalaceBoldItalic, EFNPalaceItalic, EFNPalce, EFNPapirus, EFNPapirusCnd, EFNPastele, EFNPisak, EFNPisakBold, EFNPisakCienki, EFNPodartaKartka, EFNPoster, EFNPosterGradient, EFNPosterShadow, EFNPoszarpaneLiterki, EFNPrague, EFNPragueBold, EFNQuadrus, EFNRachel, EFNReDigit, EFNRebook, EFNRexFont, EFNRexFontKonturowany, EFNRobin, EFNRobinBold, EFNRobinHeavy, EFNRondo, EFNRut, EFNRytm, EFNRytmII, EFNSafari, EFNSalem, EFNSamuels, EFNSecess, EFNSerenade, EFNSerenadeWhite, EFNSerpentine, EFNSerpentineBold, EFNShadows, EFNShanghai, EFNSkrypt, EFNSpokojny, EFNStars, EFNStart, EFNStraightNew, EFNStraightNewBold, EFNStudio, EFNStudioBold, EFNStudioItalic, EFNSymeon, EFNSymeonBold, EFNSymeonCnd, EFNSymeonCndBold, EFNSzafir, EFNSzarfa, EFNSzeroki, EFNSzerokiFun, EFNSzklany, EFNSzkolnyZeszyt, EFNTablica, EFNTamiza, EFNTamizaBold, EFNTapes, EFNTatra, EFNTeheran, EFNTess, EFNTextury, EFNThailand, EFNTower, EFNTriangle, EFNTusz, EFNUncjalis, EFNWaranus, EFNWatch, EFNWatchBold, EFNWeiss, EFNWeissBold, EFNWeissBoldItalic, EFNWeissItalic, EFNWenecja, EFNWenezuel, EFNWerset, EFNWestEast, EFNWidok, EFNZawijany, EFNZecer, EFNZefir-Bold, EFNZefir, EFNZepsutaMaszyna, EFNZnak. It contains, in addition, a substantial number of Corel, Ray Larabie, Letraset, Monotype, Bitstream and URW fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefoundry in Opoczno, Poland. Their type designs include the all caps poster face WILK (2012: This font was created specially for fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood and it was inspired by the big bad wolf). STIFF (2012) is a squarish typeface. Borba (2012) and Frykas Regular (2012) are minimalist monoline sans typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Barbarja
| Polish graphic designer. She made the artsy fonts Barbarjowe-Krzywki (2001) and Geometyczna (2002), as well as the handwriting fonts Barbarjowe-Pisanki (2001) and "not-included" (2000). Alternate URL. Her illustrations and other art can be found here, here and here: A typical illustration, woman 1, woman 2, woman 3, woman 4, woman 5, woman 6, woman 7, woman 8. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Barmee.com (was: Czcionki.com, or: Barme Fonts)
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Font list (with repetitions): 4Mini, BarmeReczny, Elementarz, Fiesta, GotykPoszarpany, GrubaBerta, Hieroglify, Infantyl, KeiserSousa, Kobajashi, Kwadryga, Magda, Manifest-Niski, Manifest, MaszynaAEG, MiniMasa, MiniSet, MiniSter, Nerwus, Nokian, Nokian2, Opeln2001-Prosty, Opeln2001, Opeln2001Szeroki, Pascal, Passja, Premiership, RecycleIt, Sandwich, SecesjaPL, Szablon, Wabene, Xar, Zakret, MiniForma, MiniStrzalki, Miniline, Minitot, Ulisson, Astalamet (2002), Gosford (2002), Volan (2002), Establo, QuatronFat, Infantyl (2002), Quatron (2002), YnduFat (2002), YnduOut (2002). URL not accessible to my browser (Mac+Firefox). This site carried these fonts in May 2008: 4Mini, Afarat-ibn-Blady, Astalamet, AstalametPure, BarmeReczny, Cyree, DorBlue, ElementarzDwa, Erton, Establo, EstabloFat, Fiesta, Gosford, GotykPoszarpany, GrubaBerta, Hieroglify, HongKong (oriental simulation), Infantyl, InfantylFat, InfantylItalic, InfantylOut, Jiczyn, KeiserSousa, Kobajashi, Komix, Kwadryga, Lola, Magda, Manifest-Niski, Manifest, MaszynaAEG, MaszynaRoyalDark, MaszynaRoyalLight (typewriter types), MiniBet, MiniForma2, MiniJasc, MiniKongo, MiniLine2, MiniMasa, MiniQuan, MiniQuanMniejszy, MiniSet2, MiniSter, MiniStrzalki, MiniTot, Nerwus, Nokian, Nokian2, Opeln2001-Prosty, Opeln2001, Opeln2001Szeroki-Metro, Opeln2001Szeroki, Pascal, Paskowy, Passja, Quatron, QuatronFat, RecycleIt, Sandwich, SecesjaPL, Sloneczko, Szablon, Tabun, TechnicznaPomoc-Italic, TechnicznaPomoc, TechnicznaPomocRound, Ulisson, Vaderiii, Volan, Wabene, Xar. In 2011, he established the commercial foundry GRIN3. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Bartek Szczepanski (Koszalin, Poland) made a simple geometric sans face called Culinar (2011) and a basic handprinted face, Milosz (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Son of Piotr Wozniak, b. Konskie, Poland, 1994. He created the children's handwriting font Bart Script No. 1 (2006, 066.FONT). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the deconstructed font Easy (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
BIZNET Central European (ISO 8859-2) X Window Fonts : 395 fonts that comply with ISO 8859-2 for X Windows. For 10 zlotys, you get the fonts on diskette, and for 70 zlotys on a CD. Downloads over the net are free. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Blaise Adamczyk (aka de Seingalt) is the Polish designer (b. 1986) of Rounded (2006), an all caps stencil face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish type designer involved in GUST.org fonts for Polish such as QuasiTimes, QuasiPalladio, QuasiHelvetica, QuasiCourier, QuasiChancery, QuasiBookman, Antykwa Pó&lslash;tawskiego (based on work by Adam Pó&lslash;tawskiego (1923-1928), constructed by Bogus&lslash;aw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk). He developed the Latin Modern fonts (2003, type 1) based on Knuth's Computer Modern fonts. In 2006, Nowacki and Jackowski published free extensions of the Ghostscript fonts in their TeX Gyre Project: Adventor, Bonum, Cursor, Heros, Pagella, Termes, Schola, Chorus. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brandwide
| Visual identity and graphic design company in Krakow, Poland. Tomasz Ulman is the designer of the highly creative (free) Babybox font in 2008. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish type designer who lives in Vienna. At Mecanorma in the early 1970s, he made Zelek Black, Zelek Shadline, Zelek Bold, and Zelek Boldline. Zelek Black looks twisted and almost geometrically impossible. Dan X. Solo in his Dover book "Moderne Alphabets" shows an identical face, renamed Zelda. In 2009, Zelek pops up again in a slightly reworked version by Simon Griffin for Wired UK. Typophile discussion. The Russians have their own versions, starting with a 1987 semi-clone by G. Klikushin, which in turn inspired the 1993 face---far removed from Zelek's Zelek---, New Zelek about which its publisher Paratype writes: The typeface was developed at TypeMarket in 1993 by Alexey Kustov on the base of artworks of Viktor Kharyk and Lidia Kolesnichenko (1979), that were developed as a Cyrillic adaptation of the typeface of Bronislav Zelek, Mecanorma. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Brykczyński | Polish type designer who created Grotesk 2+9. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bysiu Pysiu
| Maciej Ostañski is the Polish designer of Bip (2006, handprinted) and Sweeet (2008, ice cream shop script). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish graphic designer, b. 1981. Creator of the monowidth techno face Slimroundfont (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer. Creator of the organic display sans faces Opti Font Bold (2007) and SFR Angellero (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer from Copenhagen, b. 1975. He studied graphic arts at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in 1997-1998 and at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, in 1999. Creator the free grunge typewriter family Traveling Typewriter (2006) and of the squared LCD pixel face ChessType (2008). Dafont link. Yet another URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer, b. 1991. Her first name is Marlena. Creator of Liternictwo (2009, a frilly medieval caps face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish extensions of the Computer Concrete fonts. Originally done in Metafont by Boguslaw Jackowski and Marek Ryćko, the type 1 versions were done using pktrace by Wlodek Bzyl. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cipe Pineles | Typographer, graphic designer, artistic director, teacher and maquettiste, b. 1910 in Slovita, Poland. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish graphic designer in Gdansk. Creator of the futuristic octagonal face C82 (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
B. Jackowski's Polish versions of Computer Concrete (metafont, TFM, PL files). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cuda Wianki
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In 2011, they made the grunge faces Paciak, Fs Ornaments, Ony, Printed Claude and Xylograph (grunge). Totem (2011) is an octagonal face. Too Sweet To Eat (2011) is a 3d hand-drawn family. Typefaces created in 2012: Pisak (handprinted), Makata (decorative), Lalalo (a monoline sans overlay system) and Lalalo Frames. Behance link. Cuda Wianki Studio. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Czcionki.com
| Barmee (Bartek Nowak) and PitDGulash, both from Poland, use Tymex Service to publish their free fonts now: 270-Fudge, Ariendesse, Brrritty, Dirty-Dung, Ekoclean, Elementarz, Fiesta, Ginger-Snake, GotykPoszarpany, KeiserSousa, Lola, Magda, MaszynaAEG (old typewriter type), Momentum, Nerwus, Nokian, Nokian2, Pascal, SecesjaPL, Stuk-Puk, Trix. They used to be at Barmee.com, Czcionki.com and Barme Fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dada Studio
| Dada Studio (Babice Nowe, Poland) is run by Michal Jarocinski (b. 1980, Warsaw), who designed Dada Slab Pro (2012) and Dada Sans (2012, a hairline elliptical sans typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Polish graphic designer in Katowice. Behance link. He seems to have designed some geometric faces in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielińscy are from Warsaw, where they set up Hipopotam. Together, they created the hand-drawn 3d outline face Bubol (2011), the handprinted Cartographer (2011), the grungy caps face Mr. Black (2011), the upright connected monoline script face Mrs White (2011), and the constructivist face Olifant (2011). In 2012, they added Mr. Robot (an octagonal overlay family that can have shadows) and Mr. Orange (handprinted). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish type designer who published two fonts with Linotype: Nove Ateny (a great grunge font made in 1994), and Linotype Fresh Ewka. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
DejaVu Fonts
| The DejaVu fonts form an open source font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts. Free download. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters (see Current status page for more information) while maintaining the original look and feel through the process of collaborative development. Included are DejaVuSans-Bold, DejaVuSans-BoldOblique, DejaVuSans-Oblique, DejaVuSans, DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold, DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique, DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique, DejaVuSansCondensed, DejaVuSansMono-Bold, DejaVuSansMono-BoldOb, DejaVuSansMono-Oblique, DejaVuSansMono-Roman, DejaVuSerif-Bold, DejaVuSerif-BoldOblique, DejaVuSerif-Oblique, DejaVuSerif-Roman, DejaVuSerifCondensed-Bold, DejaVuSerifCondensed-BoldOblique, DejaVuSerifCondensed-Oblique, DejaVuSerifCondensed. Authors and contributors comprise Adrian Schroeter, Ben Laenen, Dafydd Harries, Danilo Segan (Cyrillic), David Jez, David Lawrence Ramsey, Denis Jacquerye, Dwayne Bailey, James Cloos, James Crippen, Keenan Pepper, Mashrab Kuvatov, Misu Moldovan (Romanian), Ognyan Kulev, Ondrej Koala Vacha, Peter Cernák, Sander Vesik, Stepán Roh (project manager; Polish), Tavmjong Bah, Valentin Stoykov, and Vasek Stodulka. The idea is to eventually cover most of unicode. Currently, this is covered: Latin (+supplement, extended A and part of extended B), IPA, Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, N'ko, Tifinagh, Lao, Canadian aboriginal syllabics, Ogham, Arabic, math symbols, arrows, Braille, chess, and many dingbats. Alternate download site. Wiki page with download information. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The GR-Soft_TimesPol truetype font (Polish accents in Times). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the faded face Wydzieranki (2004) and of the handwriting faces Bazgroly (2004), Bartlomiej Gil (2004) and Jacek Zieba-Jasinski (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the optical experimentation font Xuczlam (2000) and of Biasel (2000). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Photographer in Warsaw. He designed the curly Ars Kosmo (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish page on the use of fonts on various operating systems. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Druga Strona-Fonty-Windows
| Kuba Tatarkiewicz's font pages. Kuba also made a bunch of Polish modifications of Monotype's Dante (1992) in 2005 entitled Dante-BoldItalicPL, Dante-BoldPL, Dante-ExpertBoldItalicPL, Dante-ExpertMediumItalicPL, Dante-ExpertPL, Dante-ItalicPL, Dante-MediumItalicPL, Dante-MediumPL, Dante-PL, Dante-TitlingPL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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The Polish TEX users group evolved into GUST and then e-foundry. Here you can find goodies in truetype and type 1 such as
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Polish designer of some free fonts: Drogowskaz (2006) mimics the typeface used on Polish traffic signs. He also made the sans face BN-67.9010-03 (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Empty Page Studio
| Lukasz Kulakowski, a Polish graphic designer in Dublin, Ireland, created the free typeface Mosaic Leaf (2011), which was inspired by Akzidenz Grotesk typeface. In 2012, he published Orbits (a multiline face, done with Zbyszek Czapnik). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Endie
| Endie (Michal Lewkowicz) is the Polish designer of Bojivojova-12 (1999---this blackboard bold face is his best), Dafxter, Drapu Drap (1999, white on black), Dziewaty Final, Endiesonix, Inna, Jeff-Kovalsky, Kszywometrja, Lifeline (1999), Mike Brychkowsky, Nowa Arial Style, Lenka Krajniak, Subway-Sign, Tahalm-pl, Teknik-14, in or before 2001. In 2002, he designed Ich Bin Endie, Milan Krajniak, Io, Joke Prod, Lomax, Marika Anna Tarnofsky, Splywaj (dripping paint face), Mike Brychovsky, Throniser, JoseAndreas, StreetSoul. Older URL. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish foundry, located in Wroclaw. They sell barcode fonts (click on kody kreskowe), multi-language fonts, and many regular fonts, especially designed for East-European languages. The font "EFN PolskieStrony 2000 10pt" is a Polish bitmap truetype font that can be found here in the file pols2.zip. The free formal script font EFNDecoratorPS (type 1) can be found by clicking on Wypróbuj under eurofonty. EFN JuglansC (2000) is here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial truetype fonts for Western and Eastern European languages, Turkish, and Baltic. Based in Poland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish design student who made a typeface while studying in Krakow from 2003-2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabio 2k
| Polish graphic and poster artist. His fonts (no downloads) include Fabio (cropped circle font). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Face 2 Face (or: F2F)
| Polish designer Alexander Branczyk, b. 1959, (Frankfurt, Germany) is the main typographer at F2F (Face 2 Face), which is based in Berlin and Frankfurt. Other participants include Stefan Hausen, Alessio Leonardi, Torsti Maier-Bautor, Thomas Nagel, Haike Dehl and Sybille Schlaich. F2F specializes in what it calls anarchistic typography. Branczyk made F2F CzykagoTrans (1995) and a few other experimental fonts, as well as Bellczyk, CZYKago-Cameo, CZYKago-Quer, OCR-Alexczyk, OCR-Bczyk, SubberlogoMini, TheczykM, MadzineScript, BurnoutChaos, Frontpage, MonakoStoned, Entebbe, OCRFBeta and OCRHeike. Other designers: Thomas Nagel (ScreenScream, Shakkarakk, ElDeeCons, Madame Butterfly, Pixmix, Shpeetz, TyrellCorp), Heike Nehl (LoveGrid, Starter Kid, Lego Stoned, Twins), Alessio Leonardi (PrototipaMultipla, TagliatelleSugo, Mekanik Amente, Metamorfosi, provinciali, AlRetto, F2F TechLand, F2FAlLineato, F2FMekkasoTomanik, F2FSimbolico (1992, dingbats), Poison Flowers (1992)), Stefan Hauser (F2FBoneR, Haakonsen), Sybille Schlaich (Styletti Medium). Face2Face groups the designers of Moniteurs and xplicit ffm. Bitstream link. Alternate URL. In 2003, these designs by Alexander Branczyk appeared in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection: F2FBurnoutChaos LT Std, F2FCzykago LT Std Light, F2FCzykago LT Std Semiserif, F2FCzykago LT Std Trans, F2FEntebbe LT Std, F2FFrontpageFour LT Std, F2FMadZine LT Std Dirt, F2FMadZine LT Std Fear, F2FMadZine LT Std Script, F2FMadZine LT Std Wip (1992), F2FMonakoStoned LT Std, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Regular, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Shake, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Bold, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Regular, F2FTechLand LT Std. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Felix Steffen is a German designer who moved in 1991 from Munchen to Warsaw, fascinated by the exotic life and lettering of post-communist Poland. He lives and works in Poland. He designed the Blanke family for use in Polish telephone directories. Felix claims that he got his ideas for that font from some writings in the train station of Kattowitz, from which he first developed the font Krakowa. He is currently working on the digitization/revival of Poltawskiego, a classic Polish text face, and the first typically Polish face, designed in the late 1940s by Polish type designer Adam Jerzy Poltawski (1881-1952). Felix's company in Warsaw is OM-Grafika. Someone reported to me that Felix Steffen is now Felix Tymcik. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fernando Forero Foundry
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Central European font links at Filip Blazek's Czech site. Great jump site for typography in general. Some links are taken from my own pages. Jump page for Polish typography. List of the special Polish characters: A, a, E and e ogonek; C, c, N, n, O, o, S, s, Z, and z acute; Lslash, lslash, Zdotaccent and zdotaccent. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer, b. 1989, based in Warsaw. Creator of WIP July (2009), a text serif face modeled after some 19th century designs, with full support for East-European languages. In 2010, he made the heavy geometric sans face Sonatic, the octagonal techno face Speeds, and the ronde squarish face Agrotos. Digart link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Florence (or: Bombastudio)
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In 2012, she published Lucrezia, an overzealous decorative caps typeface, and Henry (a free retro script all caps family named after Henry Ford). Cargo Collective page with interesting posters such as Archer (2011) and Einstein.. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Font Boutique
| The Font Boutique is a commercial foundry started in 2002 by Heinrich Lischka from Köthen, Germany, who was born in 1968 in Groß Strehliz, Poland. An autodidact and freelancer, he taught some courses in 2005 at FH Magdeburg-Stendal. Lischka designed these fonts:
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Font Smoothing
| Krzysztof Szafranek explains font smoothing on computer screens. Things like antialiasing and subpixel rendering get a thorough treatment. Subpixel rendering seems to be the method of choice as of 2009, with Windows Vista's version called ClearType and the Masc OS X version called Quartz. I quote some of his conclusions. Unfortunately, a designer cannot ensure that users will see HTML text exactly as designed. Rendering the whole page as an image or Flash file is not a sensible alternative due to performance, usability and accessibility concerns. What, then, can a designer do to ensure maximum legibility and a good look of a type?
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FontArte (was: Magdart Fonts)
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Fontika
| Fontika is run by Polish graphic designer Kamil Szyd&lslash;o. In 2009, he created the modern faces Antika, Fontika, BadFace and Limak, and the techno face Horporacyjny. Digart link. Born i 1974, he lives in adresJastrz&ecedil;bie Zdrój [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FontLand | Polish outfit which in 1998 published a collection of truetype fonts that included FLDrzewiasty, FLFiftyFifty, FLGoracaLawa, FLGotycki1, FLGotycki2, FLGotycki3, FLGotycki4, FLGotycki5, FLGotycki6, FLGotycki7, FLJazzowy1, FLJazzowy2, FLJazzowy3D, FLJazzowyCien1, FLJazzowyCien2, FLJazzowyDziurawy, FLJazzowyGruby, FLJazzowyOzdobny, FLJazzowyPasiasty, FLJazzowyPopekany, FLKonstrukcyjny1, FLKonstrukcyjny2, FLKonstrukcyjny3, FLKonstrukcyjny4, FLKonstrukcyjny5, FLKonstrukcyjny6, FLKonstrukcyjny7, FLKonstrukcyjny8, FLKonstrukcyjnyKolczasty, FLKonstrukcyjnyPofalowany, FLKreskowka1, FLKreskowka2, FLKreskowka3, FLKreskowka4, FLKreskowka5, FLKrzywy1, FLKrzywy2, FLKrzywy3, FLKrzywyReczny1, FLKrzywyReczny2, FLNowy1, FLNowy2, FLNowy3, FLNowy4, FLNowy5, FLObramowanyKarciany, FLObramowanyOzdobny, FLOzdobny1, FLOzdobny10, FLOzdobny2, FLOzdobny3, FLOzdobny4, FLOzdobny5, FLOzdobny6, FLOzdobny7, FLOzdobny8, FLOzdobny9, FLPismoReczne1, FLPismoReczne10, FLPismoReczne11, FLPismoReczne12, FLPismoReczne13, FLPismoReczne2, FLPismoReczne3, FLPismoReczne4, FLPismoReczne5, FLPismoReczne6, FLPismoReczne7, FLPismoReczne8, FLPismoReczne9, FLProsty1, FLProsty2, FLProsty3, FLProsty4, FLProsty5, FLProsty6, FLProsty7, FLProsty8, FLProstyKolczasty, FLProstyObramowany1, FLProstyObramowany2, FLProstyOzdobny, FLProstyWojskowy, FLRomanski1, FLRomanski10, FLRomanski11, FLRomanski12, FLRomanski13, FLRomanski14, FLRomanski2, FLRomanski3, FLRomanski4, FLRomanski5, FLRomanski6, FLRomanski7, FLRomanski8, FLRomanski9, FLRomanskiFalisty, FLRomanskiObramowany, FLRomanskiPasiasty, FLRomanskiPlamisty, FLRomanskiSpeed, FLRozwiany, FLStarogrecki1, FLStarogrecki2, FLStarogrecki3, FLStarogrecki4, FLStarogrecki5, FLStarogrecki6, FLStarogrecki7, FLStarogrecki8, FLStaropolski1, FLStaropolski2, FLStaropolski3, FLStaropolski4, FLStaropolski5, FLStaropolski6, FLStaropolski7, FLStaropolski8, FLSymbole1, FLSymbole2, FLSymbole3, FLSymbole4, FLSymbole5, FLSymbole6, FLSymboleFale, FLSymboleFigury1, FLSymboleFigury2, FLSymboleFigury3, FLSymboleFlagi1, FLSymboleFlagi2, FLSymboleFlagi3, FLSymboleGwiazdy1, FLSymboleGwiazdy2, FLSymboleKlawiatura1, FLSymboleKlawiatura2, FLSymboleKlawiatura3, FLSymboleKlawiatura4, FLSymboleMatematyczne1, FLSymboleMatematyczne2, FLSymboleMatematyczne3, FLSymboleMiny, FLSymbolePaski1, FLSymbolePaski2, FLSymboleStanyUSA, FLUnikatowyCartoon, FLUnikatowyCiern, FLUnikatowyGrecki, FLUnikatowyKolczasty, FLUnikatowyKwiatowy, FLUnikatowyLawa, FLUnikatowyLodowy, FLUnikatowyObramowany, FLUnikatowySpeed, FLUnikatowyZoom. The fonts can be downloaded here. Their fonts FL Pismo Techniczne (1999) and FL Pismo Techniczne Pochyle (1999) are both downloadable here. Here we find these fonts made in 1999: FLKrzywy2, FLModny3, FLPismoReczne10, FLPismoReczne11, FLPismoReczne13, FLPismoReczne4, FLPismoReczne8, FLProstyOzdobny, FLStarogrecki8, FLStaropolski3, FLStaropolski4, FLStaropolski7, FLStaropolski8. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Advertised as the center of Polish type. It has an active archive with many new postings. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font.org
| Several free Polish fonts at this great page by Adam Twardoch. Included are STF Andromeda (free, truetype by Adam Twardoch), Antykwa Torunska (freeware; designed by Zygfryd Gardzielewski and digitized by Janusz M. Nowacki). There is also a nice archive of free fonts from major foundries, including URW's DTC fun fonts, DTC PlazaM22, DTC Funky M01, DTC Brody M20. The latter three fonts are by Digital Type Hamburg. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
font.org
| Site closed. Adam Twardoch and Martin Schumacher presented here font.org, a fusion of Ogonek and Shumi's Homepage. Links, utilities, and more links to font-related activities and sites. Adam Twardoch was born in Poland in 1975, and specializes in East-European type. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Polish commercial foundry. Their main product is the Naomi Sans family. Other fonts include OCR-A, OCR-B, Monospaced and eTerminal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonty PL
| Grzegorz Klimczewski, who runs Fonty PL, a Polish foundry, is the Polish designer of a commercial font that mimics the letters found on Polish traffic signs, called Tablica drogowa. He also made the commercial faces Naomi Sans, Rashel Serif, Grawer (monoline with many hairline weights), Pismo Szkolne (upright script), OCR-A, OCR-B, eTerminal, and the monospaced/typewriter family EFN AgeMono (10 styles). Pixel fonts by him include include EFN Cena, EFN Elegants, EFN Screen Banners, EFN Impressive, EFN Machines. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Spanish language site for various non-Latin language fonts. A sampling: Afus Deg Wfus 2 (for Berber), AlKatib1 (2001, an Arabic face by Naseem Amjad), Albanian, Alice_0 (Lao face by by Ngakham Southichack), LAOMAY_5 CHAREUNSILP (Lao face by by Soupasith Bouahom), Arial AMU (1999, Armenian face by Ruben Tarumian), BaltFrutigerLight, BaltHelveticaMedium, BaltNewCenturySchoolbookMedium, BaltOptimaMedium, BaltTiffanyMedium, BaltUniversityMedium, CarloAtor (1997, Arabic family by Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), Caligraf-W, Ciula (1996, a Romanian face by Paul Hodor), Cursiv (Romanian), AnlongvillKhek, GabrialAtor (another Arab family by Timm Erickson), Gin, Greek (1993, by Peter J. Gentry&Andrew M. Fountain), HandSign (1993, Sam Wang), HFMassisShantNUnicode (1990-1994, an Armenian unicode face by BYTEC Computers and Massis Graphics), HONGKAD (1994, a family by Dr. Hongkad Souvannavong), IsmarBold, IsmarLight, Lakshmi, X000000A (1994, a lao face by Sith Bouahom), LAOMAY_2-CHAREUNSILP, Alice3Medium, Alice0Medium, Langagedessignes (1998, by Philippe and François Blondel), NorKirk (1997, a great Armenian face by Ruben Tarumian), NovaTempo (for Esperanto), Pazmaveb (for Armenian), ILPRumanianB100 (1996, by Charles J. Coker), Saysettha-Lao, Saysettha-LaoBold, SenzorgaAnhok, Timok, Tribuno, Turn-W, TimesUnicode, ArialAMU, PoliceTypeAPI (for Armenian), Cieszyn-Regular, PoojaNormal, Shibolet (1995, Hebrew), Shree-Ass-0552 (2000, by Modular InfoTech), Tudor-Semi-Lite, Webdunia, TimesNRCzech, TNRLiboriusVII (2001, a fully accented Times face by Libor Sztemon), GreatMoravia (2001 Libor Sztemon, Czechia), Johaansi-ye-Peyravi (2001, a full accent blackletter face by Libor Sztemon, Czechia), TimesNREuskaraEuransiEsperanto (2001, Libor Sztemon). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gentoo's Fast TrueType Font Guide is Artur Brodowski's guide for the use of truetype fonts in the Gentoo Linux distribution. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He published the elegant serif family Foglihten (2010), which includes the inline faces Foglihten No. 1 (2011), Foglihten Fr02 (2011) and Foglihten No. 3 (2011). The latter is inspired by the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791. Foglihten Petite Caps Black (2012) is a hiogh-contrast fat didone face, minus the ball terminals. Qumpellka No 12 (2011) is a flowing italic. Opattfram01 (2011) is a dingbat face with onamental patterns. The Okolaks family (2008) has a bit of an art deco feel. It covers East-European languages as well as Cyrillic. Sportrop (2008) is a neat multiline face. Gputeks (2008) is a delicate decorative face. Szlichta07 (2008) on the other hand is an experimental face based on tilting the horizontal edges about ten degrees up. Kawoszeh (2008) is a curly Victorian face. Spinwerad (2009) and Itsadzoke S01 (2010) and Itsadzoke S02 are display didones. Znikomit (2011) is an impressive hairline slab face. Creations from 2012: Mikodacs (an Impact-like black display sans), Yokawerad (a didone headline face), Resagokr. His first name is Grzegorz. Dafont link. Digart link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Open Font Library link. Scribus Stuff link. Fontspace link. Kernest link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graffiti site in Lublin, Poland. At Dafont, one can download a free outlined graffiti font, Graffiti Funky Throw Up (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
GRIN3
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Dafont link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. GRIN3 link. Old free font URL. Showcase of Bartek Nowak's commercial fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Polish graphic designer in Wroclaw, b. 1982. Home page. He created the futuristic face Entrophic (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
GUST is the Polish TEX Users Group. This document describes, in Polish, the many directories and files here. Notable are the type 1 fonts Antykwa Torunska and seria PL by J.M. Nowacki, Quasi-Palladio IV'98 and QuasiTimes IV'98 by B. Jackowski. There are also many metafonts. Maintained by Staszek Wawrykiewicz. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
H. Hanemann | Foundry in Helsingfors, ca. 1870. It was founded in 1842. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands. With Karolina Lijklema, he runs the studio Lijklema Design in Warsaw, Poland. Author of Free Font Index (2008, The Pepin Press, Amsterdam). It contains comprehensive letterproofs of more than 500 fonts from 35 type foundries in 17 countries and interviews with 6 font designers. All fonts contained in the book are included on the accompanying CD and are licensed for personal and commercial use. The following have contributed fonts to this CD: Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute, Brain Eaters Font Co, Brode Vosloo, Bumbayo Font Fabrik, Dieter Steffmann, Fenotype, Flat-it type foundry, Fonthead Design Inc., GUST e-foundry, Grixel, Igino Marini, Janusz Marian Nowacki, La Tipomatika, Larabie Fonts, Manfred Klein Fonteria, MartinPlus, Misprinted Type, Nick's Fonts, Objets Dart, Reading Type, Rob Meek, SMeltery, Shamfonts, Sonntag Fonts, Typedifferent, Typodermic Fonts, VTKS DESIGN, Vic Fieger, WC Fonts, Yanone, boodas.de, defaulterror, eightface, exljbris, pizzadude.dk. As far as I can tell, all these fonts can be downloaded for free from the usual web archives. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Helena Nowak-Mroczek | Polish type designer who created the serifed Hel family, wich comes with a stencil style, Helikon (+Outline). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Henryk Sakwerda | Polish post-WWII type designer and calligrapher, b. 1942, Katowice. He graduated in 1965 from Technikum Poligraficz. In 1970, he designed Typos. From 1975-1980, he designed Akant. He also made Monitor. Codesigner with Artur Frankowski in 2006 of Silesiana 2006, a great calligraphic font whose development was supported by the Silesian Government. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Poster, set and graphic designer, illustrator, and cartoonist, b. Warszawa, Poland, 1914. He graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in 1939, where he was Professor from 1952-1985. Honorary Royal Designer, Royal Society of Arts in London. Fabrizio Schiavi's grunge font Moore003 was inspired by Henryk Tomaszewski's poster lettering for the Moore Exibition (Warsaw, Poland 1959). MyFonts states: "The headline Moore is composed of paper collage. The lettering, in Tomaszewski's vision, contrasts in ways that recall the contrast of Moore's sculptures." [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Hipopotam
| Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielińscy are from Warsaw, where they set up Hipopotam. Together, they created the hand-drawn 3d outline face Bubol (2011) and the constructivist face Olifant (2011). In 2012, they added Mr. Robot (an octagonal overlay family that can have shadows) and Mrs Green (a 20-style family of quaint typefaces). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Hubert Adamek | Polish designer of the handprinted face Szarpany (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Hypnotype
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Google Plus link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
i-ching
| The i-ching package by Wlodek Bzyl contains I-Ching-Regular in type 1 format and various macros and TEX files. Author of The Tao of Fonts (TUGBoat, vol. 23, pp. 27-40, 2002, in which he explains about font design using Metafont and MetaPost. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ingram Publishing put 1000 fonts (mostly from URW) on a CD and sells it for 139 Euros. Polish vendor of the same CD which has many PDF files with samples. Font list (PDF). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish FontStructor who made the chalky caps face Pierd Marianny (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish street and graffiti artist. Designer of the interesting squarish-looking connected monoline face Iqq (2006). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer, b. 1988. Creator of the geometric face Circle (2007-2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish print, graphic and type designer who lives in Poznan. She was inspired by Polish embroidery in her design of several typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Polish designer of Danova. He wrote Niewielkiego slownika typograficznego, and edits the 2plus3d magazine. He created Danova (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based designer (b. 1974, Bydgoszcz, Poland) of the great avant garde font Droelma (or: Skylounge, 2000), and the dingbat font Seppuku, both free at Typotek. Jakob calls hiimself "Droelma, da King". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of Kuba_reczny (2000, handwriting), Pepsi and Jamiroquai. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of Poterski-HND-CE-Bold (2006). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jan Id'zkowski Giesserei
| Jan Id'zkowski Giesserei was located in Warsaw. The most important type family in its collection was Antykwa Poltawskiego (+Italic, Bold, BoldItalic) designed in 1931 by Adam Jerzy Poltwaski. Other typefaces included Nil (1934ff, a copy of Wolf's Memphis) and Baccarat (sans). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jan LeWitt | Polish graphic and type designer, b. 1907 (or 1908?), Czestochowa. He noticed how bad Hebrew type looked compared to Latin. So, in 1929 he designed the Hebrew alphabet Chaim. This alphabet became very popular in Israel since it departs from its Latin nemesis. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish type designer in Stycznia involved in the restauration of historical Polish type designs. At GUST.org, he created fonts for Polish such as QuasiHelvetica, QuasiCourier, QuasiChancery, QuasiBookman, Antykwa Pó&lslash;tawskiego (based on work by Adam Pó&lslash;tawskiego (1923-1928), constructed by Bogus&lslash;aw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk), Antykwa Toruńska (based on work by Zygfryd Gardzielewski, electronic version by Janusz M. Nowacki). Alternate URL for the latter face. He runs FOTO ALFA. At the latter page, you can find these fonts in which Nowacki participated: Antykwa Toruska, Antykwa Pótawskiego, Rodzina krojów PL, Rodzina fontów LM (Latin Modern), Quasi Palatino, Quasi Times, Quasi Bookman, Quasi Courier, Quasi Swiss, Quasi Chancery. The Quasi series are Polish versions of standard URW and Ghostscript fonts. The Rodzina series are Polish versions of the Computer Modern families. In 2005, he placed these fonts on CTAN: Kurier and Iwona. Kurier is a two-element sans-serif typeface. It was designed for a diploma in typeface design by Malgorzata Budyta (1975) at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Roman Tomaszewski. The result was presented with other Polish typefaces at the ATypI conference in Warsaw in 1975. Kurier was intended for Linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar periodicals. The design goals included resistance to technological processes destructive to the letter shapes. As a result, amongst others, the typeface distinguishes itself through intra- and extra-letter white spaces as well as ink traps at cross-sections of some elements constituting the characters. The PostScript and OpenType family covers Latin, East-European languages, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. Iwona covers all of these too and is Nowacki's alternative to Kurier. Both sans font families have many useful mathematical symbols as well. In 2006, Nowacki and Jackowski published free extensions of the Ghostscript fonts in their TeX Gyre Project: Adventor, Bonum, Cursor, Heros, Pagella, Termes, Schola, Chorus. In 2008, two styles of Cyklop were published. This was a generalization and extension of a historical type. He writes: The Cyclop typeface was designed in the 1920s at the workshop of Warsaw type foundry "Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idzkowski i S-ka". This sans serif typeface has a highly modulated stroke so it has high typographic contrast. The vertical stems are much heavier then horizontal ones. Most characters have thin rectangles as additional counters giving the unique shape of the characters. The lead types of Cyclop typeface were produced in slanted variant at sizes 8-48 pt. It was heavily used for heads in newspapers and accidents prints. Typesetters used Cyclop in the inter-war period, during the occupation in the w underground press. The typeface was used until the beginnings of the offset print and computer typesetting era. Nowadays it is hard to find the metal types of this typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
j.dsky
| j.dsky is a Polish foundry located in Sobotka, and run by Jacek Dziubinski. Jacek designed the experimental modular graffiti faces Tagged One and Tagged Two (2010) as well as the silhouette dingbat face Just Boys (2010). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Creator at OPD in Poland of Alauda (1970). Adam Twardoch writes: This intricately drawn, beautifully clear typeface bears a strikingly modern appearance which remains fresh after 30 years. Although slightly slanted, Alauda retains its balance by using half-serifs. In essence, Desselberger follows Poltawski’s design postulates, but does so far better and more consistently than Poltawski himself has ever done. Initially, Alauda was meant for release on photosetting, with Desselberger having prepared three styles (roman, italic and bold), with over 350 characters each. Unfortunately, the typeface has never been released, and OPD has ceased to function in 1976 due to a financial crisis. Twardoch is working on a digital version with Desselberger. He also made the art deco face Akantis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The "exe" files, when unzipped, have a bunch of truetype fonts for East-European languages such as Polish, and for Cyrillic. Included are ArialMT, TimesNewRomanMT, CourierNewMT, Cyrillic-1, and Eastern-EuropeRoman. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer in Krakow, b. 1979. Creator of the great Koch Antiqua style face Baumgartner (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish design student who made several typefaces while studying in Krakow from 2003-2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at University of Arts in Poznan, Poland. Creator of the angular gothic arch-shaped Maastricht typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Photographer and typographer in Poznan, Poland. She created the experimental face Heelless (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer who may have made some typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish design student who made a typeface while studying in Krakow from 2003-2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kaktus | Polish designer of the scribbly face Bazgrak Kaktus (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the nice octagonal logotype Cremezzina (2010). Kamil lives in Krakow, Poland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer and assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. Behance link. Creator of Hoptype (2012) about which he says: Hoptype is a screen font I designed during Ala ma font(a) workshop in Katowice. The workshop was led by Martin Majoor, Filip Blazek, Marian Misiak, Eben Sorkin and Ann Bessemans and curated by Ewa Satalecka. The typeface is designed especially for iPad applications for children who are not yet fluent readers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish design student who made a typeface while studying in Krakow from 2003-2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Karlos Design
| Polish designer who lives in Krakow. Creator of the sans font Kroj and the accompanying dingbats face Piktogramy (2007). No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish dark artist. Designer of Detalitum (2007). No downloads. Born in 1988, he lives in Ceglow. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Krakow, Poland-based creator of the oblique techno face The League (2011) and the liquid ink face The Very Black (2011). Behance link. Together, Tom Nowak (Nowak Studios) and Karol Gadzala created the Lean Serif type family in 2012. They explain: Lean is Cologne based digital agency specialized in CGI, Photomanipulations, 3D Modelling and Sound Engineering. Lean is working with an international clients, especially with automotive companies like Lamborghini, Seat and some more. Perhaps not a full font, but the ornamental caps in her Just Do It series of banners for Nike in 2010 are also interesting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
She wri tes: Karolina Lach is a graphic designer, web designer and typographer residing in New York. She currently works as the Senior Designer for Kiwibox Media, a social network and online magazine for teens. A graduate of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, she has studied under Mike Essl, Emily Oberman, James Craig, Maxim Zhukov and Hannes Famira. Graduate from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010. She created Sora there in 4 styles, Regular, Italic, Black and Arabic. Karolina tried to give Sora a distinctive Oz Cooper / Frederic Goudy American look. Pompiere (2011, a free font at Google Font Directory, is a low contrast condensed sans serif font with tall ascenders and small x-height, which is based on lettering outside a new York firehouse. Arbutus (2011, a free spiky slab face at Google Web Fonts) is a sturdy medium contrast slab serif cactus skin font. In 2012, she designed Amarante (art nouveau). Behance link. Home page in New York City. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Poznan, Poland, who created the Cerna Hora and Shakira (Arab look glyphs) typefaces in 2009. In 2010, he did the sans face Katika. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish vendor in Warsaw for Linotype, Agfa, Fontshop, Tilde, Elsner&Flake and Berthold fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer (b. 1989, Poland) of the rune simulation face Latin Runes (2011, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
KNC Graphics (by "Konrad" in Poland) created the simple geometric sans face Simple Is Best (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2011, he created the fun free display face Odyssey [it became commercial a bit later---see Ten Dollar Fonts]. Sherif 3000 (2012, athletic lettering) is a serif, bold, display typeface inspired by Teddy jackets we can see in old American movies or TV. Brainwash (2012) is a free dripping soap typeface in EPS format. Aequitas (2012) is a constructivist family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer in Warsaw (b. 1985, Warsaw). He created the broad nib calligraphic face Trsc (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Krzysztof Belzowski | Polish designer of the faux Hebrew face Izrael (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish designer (b. 1973) of the grunge typewriter family Lucznik 1303 (2010). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish creator of the experimental almost cubist face Alfabet Picassa (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Gdansk, Poland. Creator of a structured blackletter typeface family called Circa (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer in Poznan, b. 1985. Creator of the organic display faces Arcaner (2007) and Rothica (2007). Digart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Boguslaw Jackowski, aka Jacko, writes: The Latin Modern fonts are based on the Computer Modern fonts released into public domain by AMS (copyright (C) 1997 AMS). They contain a lot of additional characters, mainly accented ones, but not only. This family is free and in type 1 format. Developed by B. Jackowski&J. M. Nowacki thanks to Metatype. Direct download. See also here. Font names: LMCaps10-Italic, LMCaps10-Regular, LMRoman10-Bold, LMRoman10-BoldItalic, LMRoman10-Italic, LMRoman10-Regular, LMRoman12-Bold, LMRoman12-Italic, LMRoman12-Regular, LMRoman17-Regular, LMRoman5-Bold, LMRoman5-Regular, LMRoman6-Bold, LMRoman6-Regular, LMRoman7-Bold, LMRoman7-Italic, LMRoman7-Regular, LMRoman8-Bold, LMRoman8-Italic, LMRoman8-Regular, LMRoman9-Bold, LMRoman9-Italic, LMRoman9-Regular, LMRomanDemi10-Italic, LMRomanDemi10-Regular, LMSans10-Bold, LMSans10-BoldItalic, LMSans10-Italic, LMSans10-Regular, LMSans12-Italic, LMSans12-Regular, LMSans17-Italic, LMSans17-Regular, LMSans8-Italic, LMSans8-Regular, LMSans9-Italic, LMSans9-Regular, LMSansDemiCond10-Italic, LMSansDemiCond10-Regular, LMSansQuotation8-Bold, LMSansQuotation8-BoldItalic, LMSansQuotation8-Italic, LMSansQuotation8-Regular, LMSlanted10-BoldItalic, LMSlanted10-Italic, LMSlanted12-Italic, LMSlanted8-Italic, LMSlanted9-Italic, LMTypewriter10-Italic, LMTypewriter10-Regular, LMTypewriter12-Regular, LMTypewriter8-Regular, LMTypewriter9-Regular, LMTypewriterCaps10-Regular, LMTypewriterSlanted10-Italic, LMTypewriterVarWd10-Italic, LMTypewriterVarWd10-Regular. Articles about the Latin Modern Fonts:
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Lemkos
| Font page for people from the Carpathian mountains created by Walter Maksimovich. Several Ukrainian Cyrillic TrueType fonts (ER Kurier, ER Univers, ER Bukinist, ER Architect Proportional) designed by Gavin Helf. Also a Polish New Times font (free). Gavin Helf's ERUniversIF2 and ERUniversIV2 (1994; modified by Curt Ford for "Digital Russian" project, 1998; subsequently remodified for Internet use by Ken Petersen, 1998) are also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typographic poster based on the work of Annie Leibovitz. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lukasz Czarnota (aka Luke Black) is the Polish creator of Prophet (2008, futuristic). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2007, Lukasz created a three-style Latin and Cyrillic corporate family for empik, one of Poland's largest press and music retail store networks. At the same time, FontShop International released two of Lukasz Dziedzic's families (FF Clan and FF Good). In 2008, FontFont released FF Clan Italic and FF Pitu. FF Clan is a sans family in seven weights and six widths. FF Good (60 styles in all) is used in the Polish-language tech magazine Komputer Swiat. FF Clan Web has 168 styles! But most praise went to the elegant FF Pitu, about which Adam Twardoch writes FF Pitu started off in 2002 as a set of swashy capitals accompanied by lowercase that sits somewhere between a didone italic and a Copperplate script. Its most characteristic features are probably the pronounced stroke modulation and blade-shaped sharp stroke endings, which are slightly softened by generous calligraphic loops with foxtail terminals. Tiffany Wardle drools This is gorgeous. Provocative even. The stems which mimick a sharp nib pen ... well it certainly doesnt shy away from anything. This is what people should think of when they want something that looks opulent, lavish and exclusive. This is a font for a private club with high bench seat and private alcoves with velvet curtains. In 2010, he published the free sans family Lato at Lato Fonts / Google Font Directory / CTAN. tyPoland is the foundry he started in 2010. In 2011, FontShop published the text family FF More. Klingspor link. FontShop link. Google Code link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer, b. 1981. Creator of the experimental face Typo Prooba (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lukasz Szubski (Lodz, Poland) was born in 1980, and is associated with the studio Graphic Background (or GB Studio). He created Stitch (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer for broadcast and motion, located in Warsaw. Behance link. He created Music Font (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Polish graphic designer, b. 1986, based in Nisza, aka Rym do\0Swierczek. Creator of Technical Forest (2009, techno), Sergeant TechnicFont 2 (2007), Triballaka (2009) and the handwriting fonts Sergeant Porfolio (2006) and Triballaka (2004). Devian tart link. Fontspace link. Aka Sergeant Swierq. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer in Opole, b. 1988. Creator of Alfabet dla mechanika (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Magdalena Frankowska is the cofounder, with Artur Frankowski, of Fontarte in Warsaw, Poland, in 2004. Fontarte developed several typefaces including contemporary new designs as well as Polish avant-garde revivals. Graphic designer and type designer. Her M.A. from Warsaw University dealt with women artists in the surrealist movement (1997). Creator of these typefaces:
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Graphic designer in London, who has created some typefaces in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish type designer who, for her diploma thesis in typeface design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Roman Tomaszewski, created Kurier (1975). In 2005, Janusz Marian Nowacki digitized the Kurier family, and added an alternative family, Iwona. Kurier was intended for Linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar periodicals. The design goals included resistance to technological processes destructive to the letter shapes. As a result, amongst others, the typeface distinguishes itself through intra- and extra-letter white spaces as well as ink traps at cross-sections of some elements constituting the characters. The PostScript and OpenType family covers Latin, East-European languages, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. Also, both sans families cover the most frequently used mathematical symbols. All type families are freely available from the CTAN archive. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer in Wroclaw, b. 1980. Creator of the experimental minimalist face Taki Prosti (2009) and the techno face Font na w&lslash;asne potrzeby (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Polish design student who made a thinly serifed text face (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and architect in Wroclaw, Poland, who runs Camfora Design Studio. He seems to have created two typefaces in the family Tengwar New (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer and photographer, who created the squarish face Coca Power in 2002. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Laski, Izabelin-based Polish designer of Olivia (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Maria Eska | Polish type designer who created the art deco face Eska. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Prismatique (2011) is a noncommercial font inspired by the art deco vase Nanking from 1925---a bit in the Futurismo style. Home page at Verine Design in Lodz, Poland. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Maria Nowak | Polish type designer who created Maryna (Roman, outline). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graduate from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010. Marian designed Timeline for her thesis. Timeline is a full family with serif, sans and Arabic subfamilies. It is intended for information design---the serif is kept uncomplicated while the sans and Arabic are basically monoline styles. Marian has both a Polish and a Czech background. With Tomek Bersz, she runs a studio in Warsaw. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski. Creator of the rounded minimalist organic monoline sans family PLEJ (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic and txtile designer. Creator of M Typeface (2009, sans). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Warsaw-based creator of the blackletter-inspired typeface Raus (2012), which also could pass for a Cyrillic simulation font. It was possibly made with Pawl Wypiech. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Warsaw-based designer of Joanne (2012), an elliptical monoline sans typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Warsaw, Poland-based graphic and type designer. Designer of the circle-based experimental face Gluszcenko (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Polish designer of the grunge face Masturbator (2004) and the bone face Bone Daddy (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the free face 26 Alco (2010, alcohol-related dingbats). Dafont link. Alternate URL. Poster (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michal Adamiec (b. 1987) is studying at the Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland. He made Murena (2012, a bouncy sans family), Cello Sans face (2010, organic), and the techno-inspired Penumbrum (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of Dark Garden, a free thorn-like font with Polish and German characters, 1999-2004. It The typeface is based on author's original hand drawings. The letterform is complex, with all characters decorated with spikes resembling thorns or flames. Alternate URL. Alternate site. Access via NONAGS. Polish fonts at this site include Arial CE, Times New Roman CE, Courier New CE, Strony US. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the free font PKP (2003), after the lettering used by the Polish railways. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michal Nowakowski | Polish designer of the Tolkien-inspired font TengwarFormal11 (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish digital photographer (b. 1981) who lives in Torun. Creator of the dot matrix font Bus Led Display Small (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish American illustrator in Chicago. Creator at FontStruct in 2009 of Prof. Downer's Iowa Tonic (inspired by Brothers and Council, by Downer), Fleet (alomost octagonal), Bankowy Gotycki (outline face patterned after Ban Gothic), Bolt Plate, Garibaldi (+Bold, +Black), Nocturnis, Lastustruct (kitchen tile) and Macrogular. In 1999, he created the very original Aborigine (1999). Additional URL. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the futuristic faces Deltafonte (2004), Ryszard (2004). He also made the handwriting faces Gleitpfad (2004) and Glidepath (2004), the informal printing face Mikolajf (2004), and the kitchen tile face Hopscotch (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milczar | Polish designer of the handprinted face Milczar22 (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design studio in Krakow, Poland. They made some typefaces in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Polish designer of the organic sans face Monika (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer in Torú, b. 1984. Creator of the organic face Circle (2007-2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1983 in Kujawy (Poland), and a 2008 graduate from the University of Fine Arts in Poznan, Natalia Seczkowska's first font, showcased at Behance, is called David (2011). It has a bit of a Victorian look. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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In 2010, he created the computer game fonts ET Pixel Mark 1, 2 and 3, as well as the techno fonts Sinclair Logo, 4KSTNCL (techno stencil), LDR Dream (futuristic), LDR HAET (counterless), LDR#3, LDR#6, LDR Manufacture (circle-based geometric face), DOT/LED Scope and DOT/LED Illumination. Monolithic is modular to the extreme. Safe Plastelina (2010) is a soft experimental face. In 2011, he added LDR Hexatron, LDR #8, Sector 034, Microfuture. Typefaces from 2012: Keen Blades (sci-fi), LDR #1, Nakki LDR (sci-fi), Tegma. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish graphic designer. Home page. Nina is exploring geometric concepts such as in her Teleport (2011, monoline hexagonal), in her Stripes typeface (2010), in Do Not Cut (2011), in CLN 3000 ID (2011), in the multiline face Pink Twist Alphabet (2011), in the handprinted poster face Bambi Letters (2011), and in Garaz (2011). Ksavery (2011) is an architectural typeface designed for the logo of the Krakow School of Art and Fashion Design's blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Budapest. Behance link. In 2010, she created an art deco alphabet simply called ABC. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idzkowski i S-ka
| Polish foundry in Warsaw active in the early part of the 20th century. At e-foundry, Janusz M. Nowacki extended and digitized one of their high-contrast typefaces, and called it Cyklop (2008). Free downloads here. Nowacki explains: The Cyclop typeface was designed in the 1920s at the workshop of Warsaw type foundry "Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idzkowski i S-ka". This sans serif typeface has a highly modulated stroke so it has high typographic contrast. The vertical stems are much heavier then horizontal ones. Most characters have thin rectangles as additional counters giving the unique shape of the characters. The lead types of Cyclop typeface were produced in slanted variant at sizes 8-48 pt. It was heavily used for heads in newspapers and accidents prints. Typesetters used Cyclop in the inter-war period, during the occupation in the underground press. The typeface was used until the beginnings of the offset print and computer typesetting era. Nowadays it is hard to find the metal types of this typeface. The font was generated using the Metatype1 package. Then the original set of characters was completed by adding the full set of accented letters and characters of the modern Latin alphabets (including Vietnamese). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
TrueType-related links by Adam Twardoch. Info on Polish letters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of a fat counterless face in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
OPD | Polish foundry, which existed from 1969-1976. Its history was told by Adam Twardoch: OPD was founded in Warsaw in 1969 under the direction of the Polish type designer and long-term Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) board member Roman Tomaszewski. Until 1976, it existed as a research center of the state printing industry, gathering a group of Polish designers involved in lettering with a goal of creating a series of new typefaces for use in printing. Before OPD, very few original typefaces were designed in Poland. A major moment in the existence of this typeface development center was a font design contest held in March 1971 in Dresden, East Germany, where several Polish fonts designed at OPD specifically for that event received awards. One of the most interesting typefaces developed under the auspices of OPD is Alauda, designed by Jerzy Desselberger, who is a world-renowned specialist for Middle European birds. As a member of international ornithological associations, Desselberger writes about birds, supplementing the texts with beautiful illustrations. He occasionally deals with type, and Alauda (Latin for lark) is one of his typographic creations. This intricately drawn, beautifully clear typeface bears a strikingly modern appearance which remains fresh after 30 years. Although slightly slanted, Alauda retains its balance by using half-serifs. In essence, Desselberger follows Poltawski's design postulates, but does so far better and more consistently than Poltawski himself has ever done. Initially, Alauda has been meant for release on photosetting, with Desselberger having prepared three styles (roman, italic and bold), with over 350 characters each. Unfortunately, the typeface has never been released, and OPD has ceased to function in 1976 due to a financial crisis. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish type development center from the communist era. OPD was founded in Warsaw in 1969 under the direction of the Polish type designer and long-term Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) board member Roman Tomaszewski. Until 1976, it existed as a research center of the state printing industry, gathering a group of Polish designers involved in lettering with a goal of creating a series of new typefaces for use in printing. Before OPD, very few original typefaces were designed in Poland. A major moment in the existence of this typeface development center was a font design contest held in March 1971 in Dresden, East Germany, where several Polish fonts designed at OPD specifically for that event received awards. One of the most interesting typefaces developed under the auspices of OPD is Alauda, designed by Jerzy Desselberger, who is a world-renowned specialist for Middle European… birds. As a member of international ornithological associations, Desselberger writes about birds, supplementing the texts with beautiful illustrations. He occasionally deals with type, and Alauda — [Latin for lark] is one of his typographic creations. Adam Twardch: This intricately drawn, beautifully clear typeface bears a strikingly modern appearance which remains fresh after 30 years. Although slightly slanted, Alauda retains its balance by using half-serifs. In essence, Desselberger follows Poltawski’s design postulates, but does so far better and more consistently than Poltawski himself has ever done. Initially, Alauda has been meant for release on photosetting, with Desselberger having prepared three styles (roman, italic and bold), with over 350 characters each. Unfortunately, the typeface has never been released, and OPD has ceased to function in 1976 due to a financial crisis. Currently, Desselberger is working with Adam Twardoch on a digital version. Other faces by ODP include Hel, Helikon (by Helena Nowak-Mroczek), and Bona. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Katowice, Poland-based designer (b. 1982) of MediaWorks Drivec Font (2006), a smooth pixel face, and of Pebe Pixelblack (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pawel Burgiel
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Pawel Konkol is the Polish designer of the handwriting fonts Smolna and Rybnik. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Penciak | Polish type designer who created the calligraphic face Lubol. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in Stargard, Pomerania, in 1940, he was the technical director and their cofounder of URW Software&Type GmbH in Hamburg (URW stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, after the first two the founders, Rubow and Weber, and was succeeded by URW++), and developed the Ikarus program. Since 1988, Karow and Zapf cooperated on the hz program for micro-typography of texts. Karow published "Digital Typefaces" (Springer, 1994), "Typeface Statistics" (URW Verlag, Hamburg, 1993), and "Font Technology" (Springer, 1994), and is an expert in font technology. In 2003, he was the first recipient of the Dr. Peter Karow Award established by DTL to honor people with extraordinary and innovative achievements in the field of font-related technology. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Great little piece of PostScript code requiring ghostscript to generate AFM files from the pfb/pfa files and an optional pfm file. By B.Jackowski (Gdansk, Poland), based on James Clark's printafm.ps (with alterations by d.love@dl.ac.uk and L. Peter Deutsch). To be used as "gs [-dNODISPLAY] -- pf2afm.ps disk_font_name". I found this program to be more robust than the well-known pfm2afm of Ken Borgendale. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Poznan, Poland, wo works at Heroes Design. Creator with Anastazja Borowska of the hairline face Les Memories (sic) (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Information and user interface designer at Designr.it in Florence. His diary on the web is exquisitely typeset. He has tens of useful tips for web typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer, who may have some fonts, but his page causes navigation problems. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the handprinted face PieterReczny (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish typographer involved in GUST.org fonts for Polish such as QuasiHelvetica, QuasiCourier, QuasiChancery, QuasiBookman, Antykwa Pó&lslash;tawskiego (based on work by Adam Pó&lslash;tawskiego (1923-1928), constructed by Bogus&lslash;aw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk). Read about that last project here in their 1999 EuroTeX article Antykwa Pó&lslash;tawskiego: a parameterized outline font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish web designer (b. 1989) who lives in Warsaw. Creator of Minimal Pixel Font (2006). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator from Wroclaw, Poland, who made the original angular face Totalica (2010), and Paperbend (2010). He also has an active type blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
PitDGulash is the Polish designer of 270-Fudge, 700-Fudge, Antibiotech, Antibiotic, Ariendesse, Ariendezze, Brrritty, Celofan, Dirty-Dung-Solid, Dirty-Dung, Ekoclean, Floup, Lick'-em, Mich, Momentum, Mumendoom, Stuk-Puk, Trix, Wymaz, Ginger-Snake. I have this eerie feeling that PitDGulash is none other than Bartek Nowak (aka Barme). His fonts are now here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish type pages. Huge well-documented archive of Latin fonts and dingbats. Links, catalogs, and discussions (in Polish). Dingbat and regular archive by Barmee. Also an erotic font archive. Direct access. Alternate URL. Plus font tool downloads: Typograf 4.0, Font Creator 3.1, FontPage, FontXplorer, TypeTool 1.2. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
PL fonts
| The PL fonts are a set of Polish extensions of the Computer Modern fonts. The type 1 and metafont code is in the public domain. Created by Janusz M. Nowacki, the 77 fonts are PLCaps10-Regular, PLDunhill10-Regular, PLFibonacci8-Regular, PLFunny10-Italic, PLFunny10-Regular, PLInch-Regular, PLMathExtension10-Regular, PLMathExtension9-Regular, PLMathItalic10-BoldItalic, PLMathItalic10-Italic, PLMathItalic12-Italic, PLMathItalic5-Italic, PLMathItalic6-Italic, PLMathItalic7-Italic, PLMathItalic8-Italic, PLMathItalic9-Italic, PLMathSymbols10-BoldItalic, PLMathSymbols10-Italic, PLMathSymbols5-Italic, PLMathSymbols6-Italic, PLMathSymbols7-Italic, PLMathSymbols8-Italic, PLMathSymbols9-Italic, PLRoman10-Bold, PLRoman10-BoldItalic, PLRoman10-Italic, PLRoman10-Regular, PLRoman12-Bold, PLRoman12-Italic, PLRoman12-Regular, PLRoman17-Regular, PLRoman5-Bold, PLRoman5-Regular, PLRoman6-Bold, PLRoman6-Regular, PLRoman7-Bold, PLRoman7-Italic, PLRoman7-Regular, PLRoman8-Bold, PLRoman8-Italic, PLRoman8-Regular, PLRoman9-Bold, PLRoman9-Italic, PLRoman9-Regular, PLRomanDemi10-Regular, PLSans10-Bold, PLSans10-BoldItalic, PLSans10-Italic, PLSans10-Regular, PLSans12-Italic, PLSans12-Regular, PLSans17-Italic, PLSans17-Regular, PLSans8-Italic, PLSans8-Regular, PLSans9-Italic, PLSans9-Regular, PLSansDemiCond10-Regular, PLSansQuotation8-Italic, PLSansQuotation8-Regular, PLSlanted10-BoldItalic, PLSlanted10-Italic, PLSlanted12-Italic, PLSlanted8-Italic, PLSlanted9-Italic, PLTeXExtended10-Regular, PLTeXExtended8-Regular, PLTeXExtended9-Regular, PLTypewriter10-Italic, PLTypewriter10-Regular, PLTypewriter12-Regular, PLTypewriter8-Regular, PLTypewriter9-Regular, PLTypewriterCaps10-Regular, PLTypewriterSlanted10-Italic, PLTypewriterVarWd10-Regular, PLUnslanted10-Regular. The fonts were originally created by Janusz M. Nowacki in 1997 and released during the meeting of the Polish TeX Users Group (GUST) in Bachotek. Several minor bugs were removed during a few years of using the fonts. Total re-arrangement of the collection and adaptation to the Windows environment took place out in 2000 and was carried out by the JNS TEAM (Boguslaw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Essays and information by Adam Twardoch on the kropka (dot accent), kreska, ogonek, kreska ukosna, and Polish diacritics in general. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free Polish fonts at Stanislaw Staszic University of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pracownia Liternictwa i Typografii
| Type and type design center in Krakow, Poland, aka the Lettering and Typography Studio Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, headed by Wojciech Regulski. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish Fontstructor who made the broken face Gilotyna (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish programmer. Creator (b. 1988) of the runic artificial language font Vojnic Rounded (2009, FontStruct) and of Vojnic (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Web designer and illustrator in Sandomierz, Poland. In 2009, he created the wonderful handprinted faces Akvilon and Vanishing Point. He is working on the sans face OffDaHook (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the grunge face Pismak. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish pixel face outfit, which gives away its creations here: RittswoodProfile6 (2004), RittswoodImpresive6 (2004), RittswoodOffice_lg (2004), RittswoodYoungEx7 (2004), RittswoodYoung08 (2004), RittswoodPlaza8 (2004), RittswoodClassic08 (2004), RittswoodProfile_6-Bold, RittswoodProfile_6-Regular, RittswoodTechnical-Regular, RittswoodThreeOranges-regular, RittswoodYoung-Extended, RittswoodYoung-Regular (2005). Others are commercial. We have (with the prefix Rittswood omitted) ThreeOranges7, Mataxa8, Office2, Profile5, Profile9, Fagot, WoodAloha, ImpresiveNew, Rozania, Makro, Friday, Metric, Lui, Profile, Place3_10, Place2_10, Place1_10, Avchai, OfficeLong, Office, Organic, Woodcode, Argentina, WoodRulez, Tronic, Tower, Atomic, Fix, Plaza, Cube, News, Impresive, Magnum, Classic, Young, Technical, Prestige, Hand, Pix Gothic 7 (2006), PIXleft_5 (2006), PIXroma_8 (2006), Rittswood Impressive (2006), RedStar (2006). Dafont link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish type design pages by Robert Chwalowski. On-line type book on good and bad typography by Robert Chwalowski, in Polish. He is the author of Typografia typowej ksiazki (2001) (Typography of a typical book). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Robert Kubas (aka Graffiz) is a Polish graphic designer who made the sans face Elevation (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Robert Miszka | Polish designer of the handprinted face Galileo (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the thick paint font RP Mola (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Robi D.J. Gienek | Polish designer of the scribbly faces N.A.S., Writers---DJ-Gienek, DJ Gienek&Franca2r (2001-2004). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish type designer, typographer, writer and printer (b. Poznan, 1921, d. Warszaw, 1992). From 1968 until 1981, he was the leading type expert at the Polish Printing Industry Union. From 1966 until 1978, he edited Litera, a type magazine in Poland. From 1965 until 1975, he lectured on typography at the University of Arts (ASP) in Warsaw and College of Arts (WSSP) in Lodz. In 1968, he founded Osrodek Pism Drukarskich (the Centre of Typefaces) in Warszaw. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Krakow, Poland, and born in 1970, Romuald designed the condensed ouline font Armin (2007). Dafont link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Polish creator of the handprinted font Cute (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A 3MB font rar file with the Microsoft base font collection, which includes support for East-European and Cyrillic languages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian foundries, ca. 1870 | This list is extracted from the (German) text of Die Industrie Russlands in ihrer bisherigen Entwicklung und in ihrem gegenwärtigem Zustande mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der allgemeinen russischen Manufactur-Ausstellung im Jahre 1870 Industrielles Handbuch für das Gesammtgebiet des russischen Reiches, Band 1-2 (1872-1873, Friedrich Matthaï, Gera: Griesbach). The Finance Ministry reports ten foundries in 1870. A lot of type was imported from foundries like F. Flinsch (Frankfurt). The leading foundry in Russia was Osip Lehmann (founded in St. Petersburg in 1854). Also in St. Petersburg, one of the main printers there, Moritz Wolf, has started a foundry as well. There are other small foundries associated with the Academy of Sciences, with the Senate, with the Ministry of War, with the Office of the Emperor, and with the Interior Ministry, for example. Other small foundries include W. Besobrasow&Cie in St. Petersburg, and Iwan Glasunow (I presume also in that city). In Moscow can one find the oldest foundry in Russia (for Slavonic scripts), which is associated with the Sinodal printing company. Smaller foundries in Moscow include those of Ries and of Tschuksin. Mr. Steffenhagen runs a small foundry in Mietau. As Russia also comprised Poland then, we learn that Warsaw had three foundries, of which that of S. Orgelbrand (founded in 1836) was the largest and most impoortant. The other two were run by W. Schreiber and P. Swichotzki, respectively. Finally, the Alexander University in Helsingfors also had its own foundry, founded in 1842 and run by H. Hanemann. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
S. Orgelbrand | The largest and most important foundry in Warsaw in 1870. It was founded in 1836. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish design student who made Milosz (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wroclaw, Poland-based designer (b. 1991) who created Sahara Handwriting (2008). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the futuristic face Cleev Reticulean (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Breslau (Poland) in 1978, Sebastian Onufszak is a German-Polish illustrator, designer and director. He is located in Augsburg, Germany. Creator of the experimental geometric typeface Black and White (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brussels-based creator of Polsku Regula (2010, Open Font Library). He also made Reglo (2012, free at OSP). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer (b. 1981). Creator of Bazgroly (2006, handwriting font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Silesian Letters
| Adam Twardoch is a Polish type expert (b. 1975) who lived in Frankfurt (Oder), after graduating in cultural studies in the same city. Since the summer of 2000, he is type consultant of MyFonts, and in the summer of 2002, he became type consultant at Linotype. He also ran Font.org, which closed around 2005. In January 2004, he joined Fontlab as "Scripting Products and Marketing Manager". Currently he is Product and Marketing Manager at FontLab and MyFonts. Designer of TTG Andromeda (2001, now Andromeda SL), inspired by a 1970's-like logo design for the "Andromeda" cinema in Tychy, Poland. Fontspace link. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about East-European diacritics, and Cenrral European type support. In 2007, he designed Nadyezhda SL One, based on Jim Lyles' Bitstream Vera Mono. SL stands for Silesian Letters. Speaker in the TypeTech Forum at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, and at numerous other type design and type tech meetings. Subpage with samples of Polish type, 1918-1990. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Silesiana 2006
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Stanislaw Ziolkowski | Type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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The Courier-like font with all Polish diacritics: Teletext New PL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
STR: Studio Typografii Realnej
| Stefan Szczypka's type studio in Warszaw. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic and typographic design studio in Wroclaw, Poland. Behance link. They are involved in original typographic work and lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the handprinted faces My Own Script PL (2011) and dagita (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the military face KoszPL (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British font service house: can sell you most of the commercial fonts. Sells also fonts for Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Farsi, Greek, Gujurati, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese (Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji), Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh. Has barcode fonts, and is a special distributor of the Royal Mail Barcode font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The TeX Gyre Project was started in 2006 as the brainchild of Hans Hagen (NTG). It is described in The New Font Project (Hans Hagen (NTG), Jerzy Ludwichowski (GUST) and Volker RW Schaa (DANTE e.V.), presented at BachoTeX2, 2006). From the project, which is being implemented by GUST's e-foundry guys, Bogusaw Jacko Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki aka Ulan: All of the Ghostscript font families will eventually become gyrefied as the result of the project. Gyrefication, also called LM-ization, was first applied to the Computer Modern Fonts and their various generalizations with the result known as the Latin Modern (LM) Fonts. The Gyre fonts each have 1200 glyphs that cover basically all European scripts (including Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), and have Vietnamese characters added by Han The Thanh, and Cyrillic glyphs by Valek Filippov. Available in Type 1 and OpenType, they come under a very liberal license (free, modifiable, unlimited use, and a request to rename altered fonts). The TeX Gyre fonts are
Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jörg Knappen's page on the European Computer Modern fonts. "The following languages are supported by the Cork encoding: Afrikaans, Albanian, Breton, Croat, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish (modern orthography), Italian, Letzeburgish, Lusatian (Sorbian), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaetian (Rumantsch), Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of Adler Clean (2009, Open Font Library), a "clean" derivative of the typewriter face Adler Monospace. Type 3 version only. I generated the truetype, opentype and typ[e 1 versions. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the Cindy Crawford photo face Cindy (2000), and of the display face Aklatanic (2004). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of Neogeo (2008, FontStruct: gridded solid letters), Sonny Boy Williamson (2008, FontStruct) and Superlue (2008, FontStruct, rounded octagonal). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Together, Tom Nowak (Nowak Studios) and Karol Gadzala (YLLV, Krakow, Poland) created the Lean Serif type family in 2012. They explain: Lean is Cologne based digital agency specialized in CGI, Photomanipulations, 3D Modelling and Sound Engineering. Lean is working with an international clients, especially with automotive companies like Lamborghini, Seat and some more. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gdansk-based Polish graffiti artist (b. 1982) who made the computer screen look font c-82 (2006). No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tomasz Dudziak (b. 1982, Poland), aka Thomasso, created the hip comic book face Aklatanic TSO (2006). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tomasz Jura | Polish graphic designer (b. 1943). In 1991, he drew a naked woman alphabet for the title page of "Szpilli". Other humoristic drawings are here, under the theme "How to make love today", based on a poster sold by the German monthly journal Das Magazin. A specimen is in "Menschenalphabete" (Joseph Kiermeier-Debre and Fritz Franz Vogel, 2001). See also here, here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tomasz Kaftal | Polish designer with Anna Hodel of the informal script faces Alamakota (2004) and Stellina (2004). See also here (where the name seems to be Tomasz Wrobel). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polish graphic designer in Wroclaw. Creator of the sans display face The Big Boy Uno (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zakopane, Poland-based designer (b. 1975) who created the handwriting faces Bartlomiej Gil (2011), Tomasz Skowronski (2011), WojciehPochrzest (2011), Bazgroly (2011), the grungy Stempel (2011), the 18th century handprinted Konstitucja Polska (2011, which is based on the text of the Polish Constitution of 1791), the grungy Kornik (2011), the grungy Halny (2011), the grungy Dukarnia Polska (2011), and the fat poster face Polska On Line (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the free text family Apolonia (2011), which was based on SIL Sophia. This face is a result of Welna's doctoral dissertation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance designer in Gdansk, Poland. Behance link. He created a nice type poster called M for Mathematics in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Traffic Sign Typefaces: Poland
| Ralf Herrmann discusses Polish traffic typefaces. Quoting some passages: The typeface has a very simple geometric design almost without any typographic corrections. Only one style is in use. There is no condensed style available and no variations for positive/negative contrasts. There are two digital versions: Tablica drogowa (commercial) by Grzegorz Klimczewski and Drogowskaz (free) by Emil Wojtacki. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Israeli type designer, b. Radomska, Poland, 1909, d. 1981. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
TypeTalks2---the second edition of the symposium---took place at the University of Arts in Poznan, Poland, from 18-19 June 2011, and was organized by David Brezina and Anna Giedrys in collaboration with the University of Arts in Poznan and the Foundation of the Academy of Fine Arts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Typographic posters from the collection of the National Museum in Poznan, at the Miejska Galeria Sztuki in Lodz, Poland. Featuring type-based posters of five designers, Philippe Apeloig, Takenobu Igarashi, Tadeusz Piechura, Taku Satoh, and Ruedi Wyss. Especially the work of Taku Satoh from the early nineties (neo-ornamentalism) is quite impressive. Letters are constructively worked into futuristic designs and ads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arial and Times truetype families with all Polish diacritics. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Urszula Lopata (Poznan, Poland) is first and foremost an illustrator and digital artist. She designed a modular face, Mahbula (2011), which feels and smells like a FontStruct font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Archive of free foreign language fonts covering Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Celtic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Old English, Farsi, Georgian, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Myanmar, Nepali, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual Art Trends | The East-European typographic scene of the past 50 years reviewed by Adam Twardoch. Site temporarily in limbo. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Polish design student who made a typeface while studying in Krakow from 2003-2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontsquirrel link. Behance link. Blogspot link. Creator of some interesting typefaces in 2008: Argon, Jackson (handprinted, inspired by Michael Jackson). Located in Poznan, Poland. In 2009, she made the Armata family of elliptical sans faces for Latin and Cyrillic. This face is free at Fontsquirrel, where it was published by Sorkin Type. She also uses the name Viktoriya Grabowska at Google Font Directory, where one can download her angular face Passero One (2011) and the sturdy yet balanced balanced text face Fjord One (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish design student who made a typeface while studying in Krakow from 2003-2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer (b. 1980) of the pixel font Mutter LVS, of the hookish font Rammstein (1999, named after the rock group), which can be found here, and of the scribbly handwriting font Sehnsucht (1999). See also here. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wojciech Kalinowski was born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1969. Since 1990, he has designed and carved inscriptions and reliefs in stone, commemorative plaques, and gravestones. He also deals with computer graphics, digital typeface and logo design, and wallpapers. Klingspor link. He started the NovaCut face ca. 1986. He created Medieval Sharp (2011, blackletter), which originated 15 years earlier from a stone inscription alphabet. Consola Mono (2011, OFL) is a monoline monospace sans. Classica (2011) is a classical roman family. SquareAntiqua (2011, OFL) is a wavy informal face. Cursive Sans ad Cursive Serif (ca. 1997, OFL) and Modern Antiqua (1997, OFL) are also based on stone inscriptions. Consola Mono (2011) is a monospaced face. Klaudia and Berenika (2011) is a Celtic style family. Roundstyle (2011) is a sans display family. Modern Antiqua (2011) has a strange name for a font that is neither modern (i.e., didone) nor Antiqua---it is an organic, or liquid, face with the gothic flavor of Jonathan Barnbrook's types. He created the free monospaced "programming" fonts NovaCut, NovaFlat, NovaOval, NovaRound, NovaSlim, NovaSquare, and NovaMono (2011, OFL): NovaMono is the monospace font especially created for programming, text editors and for terminal-use. NovaMono contains a large number of symbols, operators and other miscellaneous signs. NovaMono is a missing part of NovaFont Family. Nova Font is the family of six fonts. There are: NovaCut, NovaFlat, NovaOval, NovaRound, NovaSlim and NovaSquare. Now, the seventh part of the family - NovaMono. The following Unicode ranges are supported:
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Polish type design professor who is active in TYPO, a Polish design studio, also called Sign and Typography Studio. Wojcieh (Wojtek) Janicki's page in Poland is called Genetyka Litery. Creator in 2010 of the Genetika family, which includes a Sans, a Serif and a Slab-Serif. He also made Nilaya and Recognita. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic and web designer from Bialystok. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish type designer, b. 1976, Gliwice, Poland. He studied graphic design at the Fachbereich Gestaltung of the Fachhochschule Bielefeld. After some training with LeonardiWollein in Berlin, he moved to Hamburg where he works today. At URW, he published Komisz (2004, outlined handprinted face), Buchstaby (2004), Friederike (2004), Szablon (2004), Sztiefel (2004), Sztempel (2004), Sztark (2004, handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Print and design expert in Katowice, Poland. He created some artful type posters in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish fonts: links, explanations, code tables, maintained by Zbigniew Koziol. Read about the following codings of the special Polish characters: Mazovia, Dom Handlowy Nauki, Cyfromat, Microvex, LOGIC, IEA = Instytut Energii Atomowej w Swierku, IBM Latin-2 (DOS - Latin-2, CP852), ISO Latin-2 (ISO-8859-2), CP1250 = Microsoft Windows Code Page 1250, also called a Latin-2. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zbyszek Czapnik | Polish codesigner with Lukasz Kulakowski of the free multiline face Orbits (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
20, 50 and 150 font packs (Polish truetype fonts for Windows) at reasonable prices. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of Blok (2011, pixelish), Full Font (2011, counterless), Enigma (2012) and Domino (2011, fat face). Zuzanna graduated from Ecole Boulle (Paris) in 2008, with a degree in industrial design. She is currently studying media arts at the Polish-Japanese IT Institute in Warsaw. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish type designer, 1914-2001. Creator of Antykwa Toru\'nska (1952-1958, released by the Polish state foundry in 1960). He was also known for woodcuts, postage stamps and illustrations. Bogusaw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk created a series of digital fonts under the same name. Gardzielewski's biography, told by Andrzej Tomaszewski. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Graphic designer in Gdansk, Poland, who made an 
Agata graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poland, where she studied graphics and paintings. Presently, she is a graphic designer in Graz, Austria. She created colourful 
Polish graphic designer and illustrator. She created the grungy typeface 
Polish graphic designer, aka 
Ania Kruk (b. 1987, Poznan, Poland) is a designer in Barcelona. She has studied towards an MA in design at the University of Aerts in Poznan, 2005-2011 and obtained a Masters in Advanced Typography and Editorial Design in 2010 at Eina (Escola de Disseny i Art, Barcelona). 
Freelance graphic designer from Poland. She studied graphic design and visual communication at the University of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland (Sign and Typography Studio), and graduated as a Master of Arts. Currently freelances for several design studios. In 2011, she designed the playful rounded 
Original fonts by Polishman Bartek Nowak (aka Barme, b. 1973) made in 2000-2001: BukwaNormal (Cyrillic), Nokian (pixel font), Passja, Xar, BarmeReczny, Elementarz (orthographic writing for kids) [see also 
Polish type designer, b. 1936. Designer at Mecanorma of 
Cuda Wianki graphic design studio in Warsaw, Poland, was founded by Aleksandra Dabniak and Paulina Rek, two graduates from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. 
Graphic designer and fine artist in Cieszyn, Poland. His only connection thus far to type design is the creation of ten circular-grid based numerals, called 
Polish designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Le Chat Sans (inspired by a 1930s poster), Tetromino, Diamond, Alpha Spot, Ossicles (like ECG output), Cubistic1, Peter's Chess Pieces. In 2009, he added the artistic BO86. [
Polish graphic designer who created the octagonal experimental font 
Marta Podkowińska is the Polish designer of a few great type logos such as Bomba (2009). She also made the exquisite 
FontArte (est. 2004; ex: Magdart Fonts) is 
Polish type designer who teaches graphic design at the Secondary Art School in Bydgoszcz. Second prize at the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library for the handwriting font 
Polish designer (b. 1973). 
A group of independent designers from Poland, heade by Bartek Nowak, and located in Staromiejska. Nowak has been designing typefaces since ca. 2000. Typefaces:
Polish foundry of Szymon Celej, located in Warsaw. Celej is a graduate of the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (New Media Art Department). Typefaces: 
Poznan, Poland-based graphic and type designer, b. Sulechow, 1983. 
Polish / American designer who used 
Graduate of the London College of Communication. In 2011, he created the free fat geometric counterless face 
Polish type designer who created the caps face 
Blogger, web/graphic Designer, and new media art student in Warsaw, Poland. She created the beautiful blackboard bold typeface 
Warsaw-based designer, b. Warsaw, 1967. Quoting 
Polish designer of the fun cat dingbat face 
Polish graphic designer in Krakow, b. 1976. Creator of the funky face 
Polish graphic designer. 
Polish designer of the irregular and scary Spider Bite (2009). [
A Polish 
Michal Nowak (Neoqueto) is the Koszalin, Poland-based designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to make the horizontal stripe face Mastercore (+Laddered), Cut The Paper (arched face), Vision Division (techno), Axis (condensed pixel face), PixelIconix (emoticons), Mionta (2010, futuristic; FontStruct), Stencil 4000 (2010, FontStruct), Auricom (futuristic), Vision Of Division, the broken marble face Sector 017 (grunge---followed in 2011 by Sector 034), Tetraminos, Sinclair Logo, the beveled Mekotek, Pictograms Audio, and the extended square face Mechion. 
Kielce, Poland-based type designer who was born in 1971 in Kielce. Since 2010 he has been working as a freelance graphic and type designer. He created 
Polish design student who made the rhombic typeface 
Web and graphic designer from Poznan, Poland. Creator of the typeface 
Silesiana 2006 is a project that involves a typeface designed in Poland after World War II. Supported by the government of Silesia (Poland), the (re)creators are Artur Frankowski (Warsaw), a type designer from the digital era, and Henryk Sakwerda (Katowice), a pre-digital typographer and calligrapher. The result is a gorgeous calligraphic typeface. To celebrate this, a free (!) conference was held on November 15, 2006, at The Castle of Enterprise and Art in Cieszyn and The Silesian Library in Katowice. Speakers include Artur Frankowski, Gerry Leonidas, Verena Gerlach and Filip Blazek. See also 
Graphic designer in Prague and Katowice, Poland. 
Polish 
Tomek (Keady) is the Polish designer of a neat curly-jazzy logotype called 
TYPO, or Sign and Typography Studio in English, was founded by Krzysztof Kochnowicz, b. 1955. Kochnowicz started teaching in 1989 at the State College of Fine Arts (now Academy of Fine Arts) in Poznan, Poland. His typefaces include 
Freelance graphic and type designer. He came from Crimea (Ukraine) but currently lives in Poland. She obtained an MA in Graphic Design (Type Design) from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan in 2010. Since 2010 she is an assistant at the Sign and Typography Studio of the University of Arts in Poznan. 
