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A Montreal foundry run by Denis Dulude and cofounded by him and Fabrizio Gilardino in 1995. Denis Dulude closed shop in 2011 and returned all rights of fonts to their creators. [I wish everyone would be so generous...] The designers included Annie Bastien (Sofa, Scratch), Robert Beck (Table Manners), Christine Côté (the handwritten Nacht), Denis Dulude (Razzia), Patrick Giasson (Proton 102), Fabrizio Gilardino (Babbio), Marie Laberge-Milot (funny dingbats Fred Family), Anna Morelli (Quattr'Occhi), Serge Pichii (Thais Light), Clotilde Oliff (Douff: geometry in action), Martijn Oostra (Mold Family), Marc Tassell (Pilgrim Family), and Michel Valois (Perceval Family). MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Albertine's Fonts
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Art director in Montreal where he is with Paris Associates. Behance link. At FontStruct, he made the dot matrix faces Augustis (2011) and Augustis Squared (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer (b. Rome, 1966) who studied at KABK in Den Haag in 2004, and was at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, France, in 2001 and Parsons School of Design in New York in 1999, after a design career Venice, Milan, and Switzerland. He is teaching type design at UQAM in Montreal. He created Mignonne (2004, aka Mirabelle Mignone), which was "especially designed for small text setting under modern printing conditions". He also did the condensed Offbeat (1998, T-26, with Marco Tancredi). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
For the Australian wine brand Swoon, Amanda Mocci drew the hairline avant-garde face Swoon in 2010. Amanda is a graphic designer in Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer who has worked at the McGill Daily in Montreal (1997-1999) and SUNY (New Paltz, NY, 2003-2004), where she obtained an MFA in Intermedia Design in 2005. She wrote a thesis in which features of OpenType are used to replace bad words with good ones. Discussion at Typographica. Flash demo which does not work on several browsers. Scribbly handwriting fonts (no downloads) include Sugar and Spice, Shy Slacker, Francophile and Cranky Kid. Not updated since 2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rouyn-Noranda, Québec-based designer who created the sans family ITC Migration Sans (2009, Monotype). His second typeface was Harfang (2010, PSY/OPS: a 12-style transitional/a> family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: Gonza Family, Gonza Plus Family, LunaMartino, Manomessa, Quattr'occhi, Vague. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: NuclearReactor, ScratchNsniff (1997), SemiSans, Sofa (at UQAM in 1995, as a student there). Annie grew up in Laval, near Montreal, and is a graphic designer in Montreal. See also here. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Syed Hyder, one of the founders of the School of Computer Science at McGill University, Olivier Maquelin and Amar Goudjil, developed high-quality nonlinear context-sensitive Arabic fonts. One of the greatest hackers anywhere, Olivier wrote an in-house TrueType to PostScript converter in C in two afternoons (without hinting of course). Syed Hyder died in Pakistan on Easter Sunday, 2006. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Au fin fond de nulle part
| Au fin fond de nulle part is Montreal's Lucie Grenier's site, where she offers free and shareware dingbats: FFwebsuite (2000), Wateverding (2000), Casas (2000), FFFrames (2000), poste (2000), FFLiens (2000), fletp (or: FF Livres et Plumes, 2001), FF Fruits&Légumes (2002). Commercial dingbats: FF Holiday Webset 2, FF Websuite 3, 4, 5 and 6, FF Babioles. She also has beautiful fractals, well worth a visit. Lucie moved to Newfoundland around 1992. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Axel Harvey | Montreal-based astrologer and author, who obtained an MA in history from the University of Toronto in 1964. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
BaseLAB
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Based in Quebec and born in 1994, Bella Alma created the pixel face What A Pity (2010, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Benoit Morrissette | |
Montreal-based artist, b. 1989. Creator of the elegant stencil face Avee Black (2007). See also here. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Youngster from Quebec City, b. 1989. Designer of Noises Pop (2007, a futuristic face). No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marie-Louise Pépin's page on medieval resources and "enluminures". Has a Heraldic (uncial) truetype font for download. Medieval resources in Québec. Addresses and links. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charlérik Lemieux | Design student at UQAM in Montreal, who in 2009 won a typography award from the Fondation de l'UQAM. He designed a sans in 2009 that was showcased on pages 34-35 of Pica Magazine, volume 1. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Quebec City. She played around with a roman capitals face and designed Been There Done That (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His custom-made faces from 2006-2007 include these: Rewards (with Kris Sowersby), Always Radio (with Markus Rakeng), 2Wice Egyptian, Apex Compact, Apex New Condensed, Baro Heavy, Baro Light, Baro Medium, Baro Super, DPA Gothic, Endzone, Galaxie Ariane, Galaxie Copernicus, LMVDR, Modernismo, Snickers. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the paper fold face Paper&Love (2010). Chris was born in and lives in Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based graphic designer who created the stitching font Knitmap (2Rebels). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: Nächt. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based graphic designer. His work includes a typeface, Plateaux (2009, a hairline architectural drawing face)---clean as a whistle, it seems to have been used in some movie titles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Claude Belhumeur | Designer from Lasalle, Quebec who created a Chinese zodiacal sign face in 1979. Google patent link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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The Colgate Collection at McGill University is Canada's finest type book and specimen collection. It probably rivals any collection in North America as well. The link leads you to just the first half of the type specimen collection (Text format for most of that list). Part of the collection on typography. Part of the collection on typefounding and type-cutting. I know that there are fine books at Harvard and other Ivy League libraries, but none (!!!) allows the use of scanners or digital cameras in the rare books divisions. Duplication is possible at a cost well above the purchase price of the (rare) book if you need a reasonable number of copies. But McGill is open for business. Free, democratic, accessible to "the people", even the poor, the way it should be. Cameras and scanners are allowed. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At Concordia University in Montreal. Pankaj Kamthan's page on PostScript. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Catherine (aka Coy Dreamer, b. 1992) lives in Quebec and made the handwriting font Thirteen Candles (2008). She also runs a small script archive where one can find ALCharisma, ALHeavenly, AmazoneBT-Regular, AmbianceBTSwash-Regular, Annabelle, AriosoNormal, BrockScript, CACChampagne, CACLaskoCondensed, CACPinafore, Cheeseburger, Cheri, Cookies, DiscoMonkey, DreamLover, Elegant, Fontana, GoodGirl, GoodVibrationsScript, HappyBirthday, HoneyLight, JackieO, KristenITC-Regular, LainieDaySH, Laurell, MarketingScript, MeaCulpa, NadineScriptExtra, PassionsConflictROB, Qwigley, RivaLetPlain, Ronita, ScriptMTBold, Shimmer, SloopScriptTwoLessSlant, StereoHifi, TheNautiGalROB, Thursdoo, TwinkleStarROB, UpDock, WendyMedium, WendyMedium, akaDylanPlain. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel Lajeunesse | Free interleaved 2 of 5 barcode TrueType font at the BarCode1 site. Also free EAN-13, UPC-A and UPC-E barcodes by Daniel Lajeunesse at the same site. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fellow Montrealer who created Spencerian Flourish Moustaches (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director of Strut Magazine in Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Gatineau, Quebec. Creator of Mr. Font (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Quebec City. He created the commercial pixel faces David Sans (2005), David Sans Condensed (2005) and David Device (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Montreal. While taking a course from Colizzi at UQAM, he designed the hexagonal typeface Hexactly (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based graphic designer who created the fancy geometric face Rocko (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Former ballet dancer. Montreal designer and owner and founder (with Fabrizio Gilardino) of 2Rebels in Montreal (since 1995). His fonts: 2RebelsUn, 2RebelsDeux, BadDeni, CaféNoir, CleanCut, Cuty, Gréco, Junk, K.O. dirty, Menace, Mutation, Nameless, PlasticMan, Razzia, South, Tape, Tex, Tex-Loose (1998), ThinMan, Voyou. FontShop link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dialekt Design (was: Robert Beck Design)
| Canadian graphic designer and creative director Bob Beck has been living in the Montreal area since 1995. In 1999, he set up Dialekt Design. His typographic oeuvre is extensive:
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Digital Empires
| Original display fonts by Orlando-based ex-Montrealer and ex-McGiller Stephen Tune: Men In Blue (1998), IronCladBolted (1997), IronClad (1997), Odishi (oriental simulation) (1997), Fantique Four (1997), Seafaring (1997), Spawned (1997) and Draft Gothic (1997). Type based on the logos of popular comic books and movies. Free demo samples only. Dead link. The web site closed its doors in 2003. |
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Emilie René-Véronneau is a Montreal-based freelance graphic designer of Techno Peignot (remix of Peignot) and of a tribal font, Amazon. No downloads. View samples at ERV Design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Book containing specimen of 6300 commercial digital typefaces, compiled by Paul Morency and josé Perez (2004). It comes with a handy on-line font database. Paul Morency has been in the advertising and printing field for more than 20 years. José Perez is a self-employed pre-press technician, providing services to printers, digital photography, page layout and printing services. Both are based in Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chi Huynh (Ethan Cote) from Montreal interviews type designers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eve Duhamel from Montreal is into illustration and design. She designed the handprinted Wonderland font in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eyad Al-Samman is a graphic designer, typographer, photographer, translator, and a freelance literary journalist. He was born in Sana'a city, Yemen, in 1976. Eyad has a Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering. He started working as a graphic designer in 1999. His first typeface is Concordia (named after the university in Montreal where he studied). Sherbrooke (2009), a free pair of sans serif fonts, is named after Sherbrooke Street in Montreal (Luc's home...). Creator of Samman (2011), Castile (2011, kufic style), Nasser (2011), Zawiya (2011). In 2012, he made Eyadish (Latin and Cyrillic): Eyadish is specifically designed for commercial, educational, cultural, and social purposes related to infants, babies, kids, and children. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1985) of the grunge faces Plane Crash (2012), The Sickmen (2010), The Blood Shack (2010), Dead Kansas (2010), Forever Black (2009) and Survival Horror (2007) and the scanbat fonts Watch The City Burn (2008), Kids From Snow Hill (2009), Northern Territories (2011, grungy caps), DC Comics (2011), and This is my town (2008). Writing You A Letter (2009) is a simple handwriting font. We Spray (2009) and This Is My Town (2010) are dingbat fonts. Dafont link. Aka The Wondermaker. Dividing time between Paris and Montreal. Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frenchman who started out in Grenoble in paris, but is now based in Montreal. Designer of the octagonal paper fold typeface Danses Libres (2012) and the titling font Nougatine (2012). These fonts are free. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based designer whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: Angry, Babbio, Boggle, Carbon, Hanbuhrs, Manesca, Nonlinear, Nunavik, Scritto Politto Freako, Toxin, Duchamp-Dirty (2001), DV9 (with Marie-France Garon). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Figure Studio
| Figure Studio is the showcase of designer Jeremy Hally in Quebec. He made some experimental typefaces in 2010. Typojungle link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Font Compare is a handy little utility that allows one to compare three true-type fonts at a time and to easily see whether a font contains all the numbers and punctuation, as well as the international characters needed for writing French. Free Windows utility by Lav Plourde. Direct download. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance designer in Montreal. Creator of the Felt Gothic family at [T-26]. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Montrealer Gary Katch designed a beautiful symmetric (up=down) chess font called Chess Montreal. Truetype, shareware. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gary Paitre (Digital Dude) is an American-born Montrealer, whose design work took him to the "bubbly" logo for BUI Optometrics (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
GautFonts
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Interview. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Montrealer who designed ITC Redonda (1998), Baylac (at Agfa, then ITC) and the Comic Strip family. Planned are the calligraphic font Herald (for Font Bureau), the protest font Infamy, and Robin Hood. He created the following Agfa Creative Alliance fonts: Evita, Baylac, Link, Lineale, Iona, Marnie and Toots (1997, based on calligraphy by Villu Toots). Alternate link. He designed the great calligraphic font Scrivener in 2000 (I guess the Herald project at Font Bureau must be dead then). Agfa's page on him. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Grype
| Grype was set up by Charles Leroux (b. 1980, Montreal) in Montreal. He created Rendezvous GRP (2008, inspired by the lettering of Ben Shahn on the cover of the novel Rendezvous with Destiny), Condemned (2008, grunge) and Banished GRP (2008, a Western saloon font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Tom Kouri's Montreal-based graphic design and web company. Involved in "Branding&Web", Tom Kouri is partially involved in custom font design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jacques Bertrand | Jacques Bertrand works in the Department of Psychology at the University of Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He designed the Mac fonts Amour Tendre, Bertrand, Jean Camil, Nancy Blue, Petit Bonheur (see also here), Provence, Puccini and Steinbeck (Mac only). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Janice Wong (Run Comrade, Chicago, IL) is studying at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, working towards her Masters of Design and MBA (2013). She created some custom handlettered faces called Custom POP Fonts in 2010 for the POP Montreal festival. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During a course of Alessandro Colizzi in Montreal, Janilie Fleury created the Peignotian typeface Styletto (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based type designer who created the bubblegum shadow face Urban Streets (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Director of Obx Labs and professor of design at Concordia University, Montreal, since 2002. With Bruno Nadeau, he developed creative type software called Mr. Softie. His bio at Concordia: Jason Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Computation Arts program at Concordia University. His research explores the semantics of interaction, and his creative practice revolves around experiments with dynamic, interactive and performative text. He teaches Interactive Media and Advanced Topics in Computational Media. Before entering academia he spent ten years leading projects in places such as Interval Research and the Institute for Research on Learning. He studied philosophy and computer science at Stanford University, and then art and design at the Royal College of Art, London, where he received an MPhil. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer who emigrated from New York to Montreal. His mostly unreleased fonts are of the "extreme" type: Compounda, Michalski Glacial Roman, and X-Height. He released Treble (2002), a techno font, at T-26. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: Kidy, Freysk. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Jellyka (was: Cutty Frutty)
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Dafont link. Other names used by her: Jey d'Edvikhan and Jellyka Nerevan. Another URL. Yet another URL. Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jonathan Lavoie | Quebec-based designer of the experimental face Smashed at UQAM (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Mont-Rolland, Québec-based designer (b. 1984) of Idiot (2007, grunge), karabinE (2007, pencil-shadow grunge), 84 Rock (2006, grunge), Charles S (2006), Chocolat Bleu (2006), Desperado (2006), Docteur Atomic (2006, grunge), Alfred 24 (2006, grunge), Trop Flou (2006, grunge), 1-2-3-Go (2006, grunge), reflet électrik (2006), Verdy (2006, grunge), Verdy Evolution (2006, grunge). Home page. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Quebec-based designer (b. 1988) who created Westfalia Sans (2010), the grungy Black Metal Sans (2009) and the handwritten Jon Sans (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lebanese student who was at McGill University in Montreal. Developer of a free Mac font, Mesha, based on the Phoenician script from the Mesha stela. She also has some interesting exercises on Arabic typography from the American University in Beirut (AUB). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Journée Grafika was held on September 16, 2003 in Montreal. Speakers included Erik Spiekermann, Ed Fella, and Denis Dulude. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montrealer who wrote a thesis in 2006 on typography while studying in Paris. It includes a 2-minute video clip on the influence of geometric elements in typefaces, and draws on the work of Kurt Schwitters. He is working on a very original geometric outline font called Carousel (2007) [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based designer. Behance link. Creator of the decorative curly face Amary (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pointe Claire, Quebec-based designer of the elegant freeware font Menuetto (1994; available from the FontFreak site), Floralies (1994), and Obtuse Highlight. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
KreaXion Design
| Christian Plourde (KreaXion Design) is the Montreal-based designer of the grunge font Stcum (2003). He states: "Font done with scans of the Montreal's subway and bus tickets." He also made the destructionist font Krunchy (2004), Sketch (2004), Fast, Tuyau, Values (2004), CP (2004, handwriting), Special Blend (2004, a grunge face), Grind (2004, a grunge face) and Fishy (2004, a gorgeous face with letter shapes made up from various fish). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Lara Assouad Khoury was born in Montreal, and graduated from the American University of Beirut with a Bachelor in Graphic Design degree (BGD) in 1998. She worked as a designer at LeoBurnett (Lebanon, 1998-2000). After one year in Cairo, she moved to Dubai (UAE) and worked as a Senior Designer for Landor Associates (2001-2005) where she was involved in the design of extensive corporate identity projects for large Middle Eastern companies and institutions, such as the visual branding for the country of Jordan. She has graduated with an MA from the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy (France), where she studied under renowned type designers such Hans-Jürg Hunziker, André Baldinger, and others. She has researched and is in the process of developing her own extensive Arabic Naskh font. She taught graphic design and Arabic typography courses, at the American University in Dubai. She is an independent type and graphic designer since 2005. She embarked on a project in 2005 with Fred Smeijers to make an Arabic sister, Fresco Arabic, for Smeijers' Fresco family. For this, she takes inspiration from calligraphic samples of the Maghrebi script. Fresco Arabic won an award at TDC2 2008. Her geometric experimental Arabic face Tabati (2010) won an award at TDC2 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Last Soundtrack
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Home page. Dafont page. Another URL. And another URL. And another one. And another one. In 2010, he went commercial at MyFonts under his real name, Guillaume Séguin. MyFonts link for Last Soundtrack. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Anderson, SC. Creator of Catwalk (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Québec City-based creator of the octagonal font VEGESIGNES (2009, FontStruct). This font also appeared in 2010 at Open Font Library. It consists of almost 3,000 glyphs. And I have no idea what these glyphs are supposed to be used for. Dafont link. Aka Leaurend-Lavie-Hyppere (Laval) Chabon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A few cute fonts from the net are archived here. Incredibly, the page belongs to 13-year old Marie Claude from Montreal. She even offers to make your web logos. Link died. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Louise is from Montreal, worked in Los Angeles for a time, and is a graduate student in art direction at ECAL, Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (University of Art and Design Lausanne) in Switzerland. At Font Bureau, she worked on a revival project in 2010. There she did Recta, an old typeface by Aldo Novarese, about which Sam Berlow said: I like it because it is clunky and sweet at the same time. Sort of Futura, Din, Haas Grotesk...smashed together. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Montreal who is working on an art deco font, Lychee. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lucie Lacava is a design consultant based in Montreal. Her company Lacava Design Inc. founded in 1992 has developed an international expertise in editorial design and visual identity, recognized for its architectural approach to design and streamlined use of custom typography. Her most prestigious awards include the Society for News Design "Best of Show" and "World's Best Designed Newspaper". Lacava has lectured internationally on the topics of newspaper design and typography. She has served as a judge for news and design organizations and has been published in critical books on the topic of newspaper design. Lacava is past president of the Society for News Design (2001). As Lacava Design Inc, she has her finger in almost every newspaper design contract in Canada. For example, in 2003, she redesigned La Presse in Montreal. Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Luke Siebenmorgen | Quebec-based designer of the experimental face Cape (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Marc Coulombe | Montreal-based graphic designer. Creator of Azoumbie (2007), a face with blackletter roots. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Montrealer who designed the gothic font Bakus (2002, Chank). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Quebec-based designer whose first font as a student is Emile (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: Fred (1996), a funny dingbat font. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: Chicane (1998), DV9 (with Fabrizio Gilardino), Midlaw, DV9, LeftBrain, RightBrain and Superman-u. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Martin L'Allier is a graphic design specialist in Montreal. His list of type and design links is very useful. Quebec-based designer of the experimental pixelized blackletter faces Ostrogoth and Wisigoth at UQAM (2003). A graphic design student at the University of Quebec in Montreal, his first typefaces can be bought at MyFonts. These include the monospaced and blocky Kg Stuttgart 1930 (2004) where Kg stands for Kunstgewerbeschule Stuttgart: it is based on a printed sample of a typeface designed in 1930 at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts, and shown in ABZ, more alphabets and other signs (J. Rothenstein and M. Goodings). Home page. In 2005, he created the FF Karo family (blackletter pixelized, FontShop). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital artist in Canada (b. 1978) who created tam-bd (2004, a comic book face). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based designer and teacher at Concordia University. On his web site, there are interesting articles on Roger Excoffon's typefaces Nord, Banco, Choc and Mistral, as found on the streets of Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and digital artist in Montreal. Behance link. His typefaces include DNA (2010, experimental), and Code (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based designer. Home page. He made Toolbox (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and desiger in Quebec City. Creator of the LED style face 8 Bis (2011) as well as the Angle logotype (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The rare books collection at McGill University in Montreal has hundreds of books on typography donated to the library by William George Colgate of Toronto ("the William Colgate collection"). It has over 13,000 monographs now on type design and the history of the book, and many specimen books dating from 1850-1950, including a lot of the work of W.A. Dwiggins. Try a keyword search for "type" and "specimen"! The curator is Richard Virr. The person in charge of the Colgate Collection is Donald Hogan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based designer whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. His creations include Perceval family (1997, also at Psy/Ops). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Nova Scotian who works at GrammaTech in Ithaca, NY. Mike McDougall (ex-University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. student) created a random type 3 font called "Tekla" as an undergraduate student at McGill University, under the supervision of Luc Devroye. He used several handwritten samples as parents to create random offspring. A companion article entitled Random Fonts for the Simulation of Handwriting has appeared in "Electronic Publishing" in 1995. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Miladinov Design
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Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Software developed in Jason Lewis's group at Concordia University in Montreal. It is graphics software developed by and for artists, and permits experimentation on letter shapes. One of its chief developers is Bruno Nadeau. Examples have been created by Tania Alvarez and Anna Oguienko, among others. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Indonesian designer (aka Smprvl) of the techno face SMPRVL (2011). He studied graphic design at ADVY Yogyakarta, but lives in East Montreal. Behance link. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nathalie Dumont | Montreal-based designer who obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading. She is working on the text family Gabrielle since her student days at Reading. Co-moderator of LeTypographe.com. Professor at Concordia University in Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Nicolas Baillargeon (Montreal) is a talented art director. His campaign for Tabasco (2011) is outstanding. In 2011, he made an unnamed 3d typeface. Reserva (2011) is a vintage stencil family made for a brand called Reserve 51 for the Bâton Rouge restaurant. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fellow Montrealer who is an art director and graphic designer, and has on occasion created typefaces for his design work. Over The Breaks Studio. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based creator of the liquid glyph face Zapato (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nu School
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Graphic designer in Montreal. His sans typeface Nicole (2012) is a sans-serif typeface inspired by the humanist FF Meta. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based art director and web designer. Creator of the dot matrix face Raster (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Patricia Nadeau | Quebec-based designer of the experimental face Trisch at UQAM (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Quebec-based computer scientist who has been involved in the multilingual and Unicode world. He was one of the authors of a proposal adding Tifinagh to Unicode. He is currently working with people in France and Niger on the development of OpenType fonts to support Tuareg. He is also involved in other African scripts such as Moroccan and Sahelian Arabic and a recent script from the Congo (Mandombe). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Patrick Berthiaume | Quebec-based designer of the experimental face Hamlet at UQAM (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Patrick Giasson runs Behaviour Design in Montreal. He studied type design at Reading in 2004, and worked for some time at Wolff Olins and Agfa Monotype UK. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on The typographic inception of the Cherokee syllabary. He states: "A Cherokee man named Sequoyah single-handedly invented the Cherokee script at the beginning of the nineteenth Century. In a reversal of the usual process, Sequoyah explicitly developed the syllabary in a shape which would make it--in his own words--suitable for print, and deliberately took inspiration from Latin typography for the design of some of its characters. The actual translation of the syllabary into print further involved typographic considerations to establish its definitive forms. In what represents an exceptional case in the history of writing systems, the cherokee syllabary can be considered an essentially typographic syllabary." His typefaces include:
Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he created La Bonne Aventure (2012, prismatic and slightly art deco), the rope-themed typeface Noeud Marin, the shadowed boat name typeface Bleu Marine (2012), the multiline caps face Origami, the moustache-inspired caps face Mous Type, the multilined display face Empire, the handdrawn Une Typo Faite A La Main, and the prismatic typeface Anabelypster. After a bout of salmonella, he created Intestino, still in 2012. In Motion (2012) is an awesome prismatic art deco typeface. Images of his stunning work: i, ii, ii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x. His Cathédrale project (2011) starts from a squarish face and transforms it gradually into one that contains the features of a cathedral. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based designer of an informal sans face (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pica Magazine
| Annual type and design publication, started in 2009 by three graphic design students at UQAM in Montreal: Ariane Perpignani, Gabrielle Lamontagne and Nadia Samadi. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer and student in Quebec City. Creator of this cool casual hand-lettered face (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based designer (b. 1990) of Pixie Dust (2009, handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polices True Type pour codes secrets
| Baden Powell Society offers an archive of free "secret code" fonts, including semaphor, morse, tictactoe, and letter permutation fonts. Maintained by Pierre Duff, an Akela from Repentigny near Montreal. Pierre also designed CodeCarre, Semaphore (1996) and TICTACTO (1996). This site carries the following scouting fonts by Duff: Alpha-decale-apres, Alpha-decale-avant, Alpha-inverse, Chiffrage-simple, Code-carre, Semaphore, Tic-tac-toe, Voyelles-chiffr*e, all made ca. 1996. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Random fonts
| Mike McDougall (ex-University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. student) created a random type 3 font called "Tekla" as an undergraduate student at McGill University, under the supervision of Luc Devroye. Tekla uses several handwritten samples as parents to create random offspring. Tekla's letters vary every time a character is needed. A type 3 font of unique versatility, Tekla may be used to simulate drunkenness, and, as the sample shows, varying degrees of instability on one page. It should prove useful in testing character recognition software. A companion article entitled Random Fonts for the Simulation of Handwriting has appeared in "Electronic Publishing" in 1995. See also here. Additional URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Raphaël Daudelin | Montrealer who designed the sans face Ubiquity (2003) and the monospaced mon-width sans face Feed Mono (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in Montreal who created the circle-and-arc face Trois Ponts (2011) and the experimental alphabet Paralysis (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rogé Rogé
| Sylvain Rogé is an art director in Montreal. His company is called Rogé Rogé. Behance link. He created the asymmetrically slabbed face Yacht Club (2011) and the related Captain Type (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Roxana Zegan | Quebec-based designer of the experimental faces Kiev Winter and Kiev Summer at UQAM (2003, with Sofia Madafi). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Royalty Font Foundry
| Specializing in handwritten faces, free fonts here include Gribouille1, NoMoreDiet and RoyalHand. Fonts by Maxime Savary (Ecole d'actuariat, Laval University, Québec). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Rubicon Computer Labs Inc.
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Yet another URL. This site offers free demo fonts by Rubicon: Bentley (Bembo-like), BurnettDemo-Normal, FrobisherCondDemo-Normal, FrobisherCondDemo, FrobisherDemo-Normal, FrobisherDemo, GisborneDemo, GuilfordDemo-Normal, GuilfordDemo, HilbertNeue, HilbertNeueCondDemo-Normal, HilbertNeueCondDemo, HilbertNeueDemo-Normal, HudsonCondDemo, HudsonDemo, IGaramondDemo-Normal, IGaramondDemo, Karat, KaratDemo-Normal, OpulentDemo-Normal (humanist sans), OpulentDemo, SGaramondDemo-Roman, SGaramondDemo, TribuneCondDemo, TribuneDemo, UranusCondDemo-Normal, UranusCondensedDemo, UranusDemo-Normal, UranusDemo. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer based in Montreal, New York and Bern. Devian Tart link. He created the roundish high-contrast art deco face Artificial Timepiece (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer, some of whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations from this North Vancouver, BC-based typographer: Elder, Stoned OldStyle, Thais (2rebels, 1997). Designed ITC Drycut (1997), ITC Ancestor (1997), ITC Gramophone, and ITC Ironwork (1997). At Alphabets Inc, check Coupage, Mager, Mira, Pattern, General and Sharp. SP Cutouts (dingbats) won an award at the 1999 Type Directors Club. In 2011, he joined the FontStruct crowd, and published the pixelized family Ruthenoreum A1 through A5, and Ruthenorum B1, and Greece A1. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum are visual artists and musicians who started collaborating in 2002 under the nom de guerre Seripop. Based in Montreal, Seripop has earned international attention for its stylistically distinct, silkscreened street posters. In 2005, Lum and Desranleau began experimenting with sculptural print installations which merge notions of city politics and visual perception. Creators of some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sofia Madafi | Quebec-based designer of the experimental faces Kiev Winter and Kiev Summer at UQAM (2003, with Roxana Zegan). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Quebec City-based designer of the display face L'abécédaire des robots (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefoundry in Montreal. French creator of Cry One Duc (2012), a graffiti font created in memory of CRY1, a graffiti artist in the 1980s. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
An apprenticeship with Alessandro Colizzi at UQAM in Montreal led Stephanie Sansregret to the design of Casseau Italic (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Abitibi, Quebec-based media personality. He is working on MigrationSans (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefaces from 2012: British Museum 1490 (ornamental caps), Nature Font (grungy caps), Mosaique (2012, a textured typeface). Fontspace link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Studio Digitalys
| Graphic design studio in Montreal headed by Karine Provençal-Leblanc. Alternate URL. Designers of the handwriting font Carnage (2006, no downloads) and the grunge face Sission (2006, no downloads). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Subtitude
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Graphic designer in Montreal. Behance link. Creator of a pixel typeface (2012), 3 ponts (2011, stencil face) and Reach The Sky (2011, condensed organic sans face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2010, she designed the map face Cartola, which grew out of a project at EINA in Barcelona and is based on Mrs Eaves. Mar 34 (2011) designed exclusively for the identity of Estruch, a restaurant located at the Plaza of the Cathedral in downtown Barcelona. The project was made in collaboration with Raquel Quevedo, who used the typeface for designing a graphic system for the identity. Both the face&the graphic design are based on postal service paraphernalia. Momo (2011) is a typeface that is developed based on the concepts of dada by El Lissitsky&Kurt Schwitters. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Great pages on Unicode by Patrick Andries. In French. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In the B.A. program for graphic design at the Université du Québec a Montreal, there are about five typography courses. Instruction in French. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Urban Pixel (or: UP Font Studio)
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Urhixidur Fonts Type Foundry
| Daniel U. Thibault (computer scientist at RDDC Valcartier, Quebec) designed the Kzinti (2002, his interpretation of Larry Niven's "dots-and-commas" Kzinti script), 3Strands-Regular (2002, rope font), Apollonian (2002, a Greek-based late-mediaeval secret alphabet attributed to Apollonius of Tyana), Deseret (2002), Drow_Angular, Drow_Rounded (2002, originally designed by the on-line Elven Kingdom of Arèthane), KhemiticHieratic (2003, role-playing face), MIB2 (2002, alien glyphs from Men in Black II), Matoran (2003, glyphs by the LEGO group for its Bionicle world), Nug-Soth (2002, a secret alphabet), Passage_du_Fleuve (2002, an occult script derived from Hebrew). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Art director and illustrator in Montreal. Designer of Subinter (2003) at Subtitude, together with Sébastien Théraulaz. She also designed Subytro (2006, a didone titling face), Subalde (2005), Subelek (2009, a heavy geometric face) and Suboel (2005, Christmas icons pixelized; with Theraulaz). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based graphic designer, who created the arrowed typeface Quahetam (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wyld Type
| WyldType is an independent type design firm and typographic technology research lab located in Montreal. The WyldType catalog started with typefaces created with common type design tools and techniques, with the intention of expanding the list with more complex designs and experimental typefaces procedurally generated with the use of the custom tools we create. Wyld Type, est. 2010, is run by type software ace Bruno Nadeau (b. 1982). Bruno lives in Levis, Quebec. His first commercial typeface is Geiger (2010 a geometric typeface inspired by type found in the intros of Commodore 64 games). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Montrealer who designed the free display font Bold Display 19412K at Chank (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based designer of the free pixel typeface Zuptype. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Albertine Nerevan is a Quebec-based designer, b. 1973. 
Barcelona-based foundry involved in custom font work, est. 2005. Original fonts: Inclusive (2007), Urbanium (2005, a bold display face), Handwritten, Eixample (2008, octagonal and rounded), Screech (2008) and Begyptienne. Modified fonts (or re-fonts in their words) include Le Grand Palais (stencil, for La Force de l'Art, Paris, 2006), BeTV (for a Belgian TV channel), and VijfTV (a modification of Chalet for a Flemish TV station). Their custom types include 
Brigitte Schuster is a graphic designer, calligrapher and lettering artist who graduated in 2008 from Concordia University in Montreal (only one block away from Luc's house...). She writes about herself: I am an independent Art Director (Graphic Design), Print Artist and Photographer practicing in Montreal, Canada. I am currently teaching typography and photography courses in the Graphic Design department of a college in Montreal. After attending a three-year graphic design program in Munich, Germany, I spent a few years working there both as an employee for print and web agencies, and as a freelancer. In 2005, I completed a Bachelor in Fine Arts, with a specialization in painting from the Italian Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, Italy. [...] I moved to Canada in 2005 where I continued working in and for the graphic design industry. In 2008 I completed the Graduate Certificate in Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice at Montreal's Concordia University. In my graphic design practice I ideally work in editorial design, also corporate branding, with a focus on typography. Over the last year or two, I developed a great interest in type, which I express in my 
With just one name (the other one was lost in an accident!), Chester, the type designer, was born in Montreal in 1971, and worked at Thirstype in Chicago. In 2005, he started up the type coop 
Quebec-based typographer and type designer (aka Diogene) who specializes mainly in revivals of obscure or old typefaces. 
Montreal-based graphic designer who made a great typographic poster called 
J.F.Y. Daniel Gauthier (GautFonts) was born in Montreal in 1964, and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. His fonts from 2005, many of them reworked versions of earlier fonts by him: BarrelOfMonkeys, Beethoven, Burris, BurrisBlack, BurrisBlackShootout, BurrisShootout, ChainFontBlack, ChainFontOpen, ChangChang, ChangChangWoodcut, DirtyDarren, FireStarter, FrootStand, GriffinDucks, Jenna Myles, LollipopLettering, Lymphnodes, PooCorny, PooSmooth, Quake3ArenaBats (scanbats), 
Jean-Baptiste Levée is a French type designer who commures between Paris and Montreal. He designs custom and other typefaces. 
Quebec-based creator (b. 1991) of the handwriting fonts Jellyka Delicious Cake (2011, calligraphic), Jellyka Lucky Day (2011), 
Canadian designer who lives in Grenville, Quebec, and works in Hawkesbury, Ontario. He is praised for some of the best grunge faces ever made. His work includes All Used Up (2006), 
Montreal-based creator of an animal caps typeface, 
Currently living in Montreal, Slobodan Miladinov is the Serbian-born designer of the calligraphic 
Danny Demers (Montreal) and his friends set up Nu Schhol in 2010. They write: Inspired by his sensei's wise words, "Respect the Old School, Beware of the New School", Danny Demers vowed to avenge fallen typographers such as Lubalin, Gill and Miedinger. Carrying tradition of the way of the bezier by founding the Nu School in 2010. Nu School aims to produce quality work while emphasizing our enthusiasm on working with other young creatives to push the boundaries of design. 
Very talented Montreal-based illustrator and digital artist. 
In Chelsea, Québec, Lee-Jeff Bell designed many type families that are patterned after major historical type families, mimicking what Bitstream did in the late eighties. He also developed Thames and Helv Condensed, and Unifont. Rubicon claims that their fonts are optimally hinted for even very small screen resolutions. The fonts: 
Quebec-based designer (b. 1971) in 2010 of the 
Sébastien Théraulaz from Lausanne lives in Montreal since 1997. There, he started his type foundry Subtitude (as part of Sub Communications Inc). The first fonts: Subix (2005, bitmap font), Subedge (2005), Subamera (2005, free), Subaccuz-Bold, Subaccuz-Light, Subaccuz-Regular (2003, all free), Subinter (2003, with Valérie Desrochers), SubinterLightCondensed (2003), Subelair (2005), Subeve (erotic outlines, free), Subroyal (2005, octagonal), Subalde (2005, Valérie Desrochers), 
Talented Mexican graphic designer and digital artist based in Montreal, who is pushing the boundaries of experimental typography with creations like Fabric Type (2009), which was developed at Concordia University in Montreal. Examples: 
TZDZ is Bernardo Pereira (graduate in graphic design from ESDI/UERJ in 2004) and Aline Rodrigues (a graduate in print and pattern design at SENAI). Originally located in Brazil, they now operate out of Montreal. 
Small foundry in Montreal, est. 2008 by 
