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Creator (b. 1992, Singapore) of the all caps brush face The Calligraph (2011, cloned from Swifter Strokes by "badgerkin"). He also made the experimental faces Insanity (2011). The typefaces were made with the help of FontStruct. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Agnes Natalie (Singapore) created the human figurine typeface Mrs. Stretchy (2012). Another Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ahmad Effendy's FUSELAB fonts
| Singapore-based Ahmad Effendy's gorgeous experimental font Fondgrafie-weird created for FUSELAB '95. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the squarish text typeface Gloomy (2008). At Behance, we learn that she is from Singapore (if it is the same Alicia Lee). There she published Shysosa (fat counterless face), Sensosa (gridded face) and Resosa (counterless display face) in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based design studio. Vendor for the major foundries. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based designer of fonts at Garagefonts, including Special K (1999), a font with Latin letters in the form of Hangul (Korean). Very original! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singaporean pixel artist. She created the pixel face Peanut (2010, FontStruct). Aka Nerdsaurus, and as Arieltan97. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
art_design_nine (or: Stereotype)
| Free fonts Inn, Khole, Chemical Brothers. Fonts by Andy Naylor from Singapore. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Beautiful
| Beautiful is a design studio set up by creative director Roy Poh in Singapore. He created Chair Type (2011, experimental), Vera (2011, a baby curl caps face) and Mickey (2011), a playful alphabet based on Mickey Mouse. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The Beijing Hanyi Keyin Information Technology Co is a joint venture between CAPT (the Chinese Academy of Printing Technology) and TAICEM, based in Singapore, and was established in 1993 in Beijing. The company developed many (principally Chinese and Japanese) fonts using the Ikarus system, and partners on many projects with URW++, which sells these Hanyi fonts: Fang Song, Hei, Song, Song Medium, Yuan, Hupo, Kai, Lishu, Wei Bei, Zong. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Singapore who created the modular typeface Avalon (2009, a FontStruct face?), as well as Origami Type (2010), SeaSpray (2010, experimental and gridded), and Neue Miedinger (2010, an interesting play on Helvetica). Home page. Another home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bhawani S. Sapkota (NUS, Singapore) designed the Nepali font Gorkhali (1996). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
AParanar and TML Kamalam are free truetype fonts offered at this site at the National University of Singapore. Fonts by Mr R. Kalaimani (distributed by THARAGAI TAMIL TRUETYPE FONTS, Astro Scientific Centre at The Singapore Science Centre). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based designer of Rivier (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based graphic designer. She created Utopia (2010), a blackletter typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singaporean designer. Creator of Quite Qwerty (2011), a slanted geometric face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Craftsman in Singapore, who created the beautiful poster layered font Berif (2012). He also created sketched versions of Goudy Old Style, Century Gothic, and Hattenschweiler. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Nanyang University in Singapore. Creator of a few modular typefaces in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Singapore, who created the flowery face Fleur (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Hong Kong in 1968, Dennis Poon was a designer in San Francisco and Stockholm. He currently works at Philips in Singapore. At the Typebox foundry, he designed TxElf (2002, blockish almost-bitmap font), TX Hex (2002) and TX Gitter (2001, a simplified Codex-like face). FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based designer of the modular face Tecbloc (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Diphthong Type Foundry
| Max Hancock is the designer (b. 1972) of the lovely organic font Diphthong (2002). He worked at Diphthong in Singapore. After Diphthong was designed, he was hired to design custom, branded font designs for the companies Dome Capital and Top News. In 2011, Max founded the Diphthong Type Foundry in Fairfax Station, VA, where he currently works on a variety of type projects. Max Hancock lives in the Washington D.C. area. MyFonts foundry link. Marcus carleton Hancock created the handprinted face Marcus Age Ten (2011, iFontMaker). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Singapore-based artist, b. 1991, who made the geometric techno face ThatBad for a logo of a Singapore based DJ-duo, ThatBad. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singaporean photographer and graphic designer who graduated from Temasek Design School. Her typefaces Goldrush (2011) and Villains (2011) both have an avant-garde look. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Info on Tamil things, including fonts and software. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Queenstown, Singapore-based creator of a Japo-Tibetan simulation face (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Germaine Chen Shiyun graduated in Visual Communications from Temasek Polytechnic, and is currently pursuing a BA in Design Communication at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore. She created Money Talks (2011) and ChiChi (2011, an ornamental caps face inspired by fashion illustrations). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Intersections of circles, and only that, was used to create the outlines of the experimental but mathematically precise typeface Fleurmetry (2011) that was created by Goh Yam Whee (Singapore) in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Singapore who put condoms on glyphs in FF Durex (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
TAMILNET.ttf (version 1.0) True Type Font (trial version free) by Naa Govindasamy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singaporean designer of Acid Queen, Destroy (1999), Polyester (1999), Replicant (1999, Asian simulation font), Fudge (1996) and Hijack (1996) at GarageFonts. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Singapore who made the typefaces Rectangulum (2010) and Rick Griffin (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based creator of the art deco typeface family Arts Hub (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jody Yeoh (Singapore) and Hwee Chong Chan codesigned Book Typeface (2011), with 3d glyphs made up of books. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Singapore. Behance link Creator of Zoology (2012, an alphabet with animal glyphs). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and typographer in Singapore. Behance link. Creator of a beautiful ornamental caps typeface called Destination (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Singapore, who made the texture face Complexity (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kelly Kwan (Singapore) used hair as an inspiration for her Ubermessy font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Brisbane, Australia, who was born and raised in Singapore. In 2012, he created the decorative typeface Bunny Ears. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A typical art deco advertising, taken from the Straits Times in Singapore, February 1936. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and graphic designer who drew a funny alian monster alphabet in 2010, called Dee W. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcode designer in Singapore. His company, Barcode Resource. CCode39 (2006) is free at Dafont, but his other barcode fonts are commercial. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he published the free font Hyped (geometric and experimental). | |
Singaporean designer of Megfont (2008, irregular handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based designer of the hand-drawn Silent Typography (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Singaporean designer (b. 1981) of the straight-edged face One (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free Tamil truetype fonts: AParanar (by R. Kalamaini), TML Kamalam (by Astro Scientific Centre). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Singapore-based creator of Scape (2012, an architectural typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Singapore. Creator of the warm rounded typeface Interlude (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singaporean designer (b. Turkey) of the backgammon-inspired face Tavla (2011). Inci Belli (2011) is a wavy typeface experiment that is inspired by traditional Turkish tea glasses. Turksh Corporate Alphabet (2011) is inspred by Turkish corporate logos. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design studio in Singapore. They created the ornamental caps face Keen Green Type (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Phunk Studio
| Designer at Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore. Behance link. Dafont link. College of the Arts in Sinagpore. Creator of McGurr Script (2005, handprinted) and Inhumane Sans (2011, a severe angry sans). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at Tharagai Software in Singapore who published many Tamil fonts, some of which can be found at R. Padmakumar's archive. His fonts include: Agni (1994), Anuradha (1994), AParanarTSC (1998), TSC_Paranar (1998), Arasu (1994), Aswini (1994), Barani (1994), Mani (1994), Sivabalan (1994), Sivagami (1994), TSC_Kannadaasan (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Singapore who practices typography there. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based creator of the counterless pixelish face Alvoneca (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Singapore, Sahara Abdullah's logo lettering (2011) for her own brand is quite nice. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based designer. She created a typeface based on Whisper in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Singapore, who drew a mosquito-based alphading face called Bloody Bugger (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Signapore of Shancalluna (2010, an organic face). He/she writes: Semi-serif decorative font based on Calluna. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Shellen Teh (Singapore) designed Calliaera (2012) based on Palatino. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Chris Pearson discusses the typeface choices of Singapore's newspapers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based designer (b. 1985) of 7x7 (2004, outline pixel face), which used to be downloadable from Devian Tart. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Singapore who created the child's handwriting faces Squishy Playground (2008) and squishymellows_handwriting (2008). She also made Dear Diary (2008, handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free Tamil OpenType fonts have been released under the GNU General Public License:
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Tamil.net
| Great page for Tamil font links and downloads, maintained by Kumar Mallikarjunan. This includes the TSCII Font Collection for Unix (BDF, TCF formats), TSC_Aandaal (R. Kalaimani, 2001), TSC_Kannadaasan (R. Kalaimani, 2001), TSC_Paranbold-Bold, TSC_Paranar-Ho (R. Kalaimani, 2001), TSC_AParanarPDF (R. Kalaimani, 2001), TSC_ParanarPDF-Italic (R. Kalaimani, 2001), TSC_AvarangalFxd (Sinnathurai Srivas, 1990), TSC_Kannadaasan, TSC_Thunaivan (MicroMart, 2002), TSC_Avarangal (Sinnathurai Srivas, 1990), TSCJananiNormal (Arasan, Applesoft), Tamil_Avarangal31TSC truetype font (Sinnathurai Srivas), AparanarTSC truetype font (R. Kalaimani of Tharagai Software, Singapore), MylaiTSC truetype font (monospaced font by Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram), and the SriTSC truetype font (Dr. K. Srinivasan). Kumar himself created TABMalli (1999) based on Tamilnet 99. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design student in Singapore. Baba Sans (2010) is a gridded typeface inspired by Paranakan floortiles with angular features. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thunaivan (MicroMart, 1998) is a free Tamil TrueType ont following the new TSCII 1.6 Tamil font standard. ThunaivanTSC, developed by Ravindran Paul, Malaysia is based on Thunaivan font face widely popular in Malaysia and Singapore. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Singapore, who created Twiiterholic (2011, texture face), Facebooker (2011), The Link (2011, paperclip face), as well as octagonal and slabby font families. His work on Behance. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographic Safari in Singapore
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Singaporean designer of BloodyValentine (1997) and Bollocks (1996) at GarageFonts. Dafont link, where one can download McGurr Script (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Xmin Chia (Singapore) studies visual communication at NTU (Nanyang Technological University Singapore). She created the angular face Vertex (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yi Jun (Singapore) combined Impact and Edwardian Script to get My Font (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Singapore, who created Halftone (2011, texture face) and Tungsten (2011, paperclip face). Her work on Behance. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based designer of Bento (2008, ornamental caps), Bright Lights (2008), Zebra (2008) and AG Stencil (2008: very nice!). His web site is also called 110, or the Institute for Process Thought&Design. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based creator of the caps face Candy Font (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Singaporean designer of the monoline face 
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