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Type design in Singapore

[Vintage art deco ad from The Straits Times, 1936]

Luc Devroye
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
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Aditya Banerjee

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

Agnes Natalie (Singapore) created the human figurine typeface Mrs. Stretchy (2012).

Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahmad Effendy's FUSELAB fonts
[Ahmad Effendy]

Singapore-based Ahmad Effendy's gorgeous experimental font Fondgrafie-weird created for FUSELAB '95. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alicia Lee

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]  ⦿

alt.type

Singapore-based design studio. Vendor for the major foundries. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvin Tan Boon Siang

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]  ⦿

arieltan97

Singaporean pixel artist. She created the pixel face Peanut (2010, FontStruct). Aka Nerdsaurus, and as Arieltan97. [Google] [More]  ⦿

art_design_nine (or: Stereotype)
[Andy Naylor]

Free fonts Inn, Khole, Chemical Brothers. Fonts by Andy Naylor from Singapore. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beautiful
[Roy Poh]

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]  ⦿

Beijing Hanyi Keyin Information Technology Co Ltd

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]  ⦿

Benjamin Koh

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

Bhawani S. Sapkota (NUS, Singapore) designed the Nepali font Gorkhali (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CFA: Singa-Tamil truetype fonts

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]  ⦿

Charles Chin

Singapore-based designer of Rivier (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charmaine Ang

Singapore-based graphic designer. She created Utopia (2010), a blackletter typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chen Daizhong

Singaporean designer. Creator of Quite Qwerty (2011), a slanted geometric face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clarence Wee

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]  ⦿

Daniel Mulyadi

Student at Nanyang University in Singapore. Creator of a few modular typefaces in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daryl Lee

Art director in Singapore, who created the flowery face Fleur (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Kei Yip Poon

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]  ⦿

Devin Japiter

Singapore-based designer of the modular face Tecbloc (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diphthong Type Foundry
[Christian Max Hancock]

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]  ⦿

Faris Kassim

Singapore-based artist, b. 1991, who made the geometric techno face ThatBad for a logo of a Singapore based DJ-duo, ThatBad. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fiona Finn Tao

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]  ⦿

First Singapore Tamil WWW Archive

Info on Tamil things, including fonts and software. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gary Chua

Queenstown, Singapore-based creator of a Japo-Tibetan simulation face (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Germaine Chen

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]  ⦿

Goh Yam Whee

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]  ⦿

Huong Nguyen

Art director in Singapore who put condoms on glyphs in FF Durex (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

IRDU, Centre for the Arts&National University of Singapore

TAMILNET.ttf (version 1.0) True Type Font (trial version free) by Naa Govindasamy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jackson Tan Tzun Tat

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]  ⦿

Jasmin Roslan

Designer in Singapore who made the typefaces Rectangulum (2010) and Rick Griffin (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessie Gong

Singapore-based creator of the art deco typeface family Arts Hub (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jody Yeoh

Jody Yeoh (Singapore) and Hwee Chong Chan codesigned Book Typeface (2011), with 3d glyphs made up of books. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joemin Kok

Graphic designer in Singapore. Behance link

Creator of Zoology (2012, an alphabet with animal glyphs). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kai Ying Gan

Illustrator and typographer in Singapore. Behance link. Creator of a beautiful ornamental caps typeface called Destination (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katherine Phang

Graphic designer in Singapore, who made the texture face Complexity (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelly Kwan

Kelly Kwan (Singapore) used hair as an inspiration for her Ubermessy font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kendrick Leow

Graphic designer in Brisbane, Australia, who was born and raised in Singapore. In 2012, he created the decorative typeface Bunny Ears. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Khasana Blush Cream ad

A typical art deco advertising, taken from the Straits Times in Singapore, February 1936. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lim Yi Ling

Illustrator and graphic designer who drew a funny alian monster alphabet in 2010, called Dee W. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Tan

Barcode designer in Singapore. His company, Barcode Resource. CCode39 (2006) is free at Dafont, but his other barcode fonts are commercial. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Med Ness

Singapore-based creator of the free font Nomed (2011). Nomed is based on a combination of triangles. Medness (2011, free) is a wonderful exploration of the limitations of geometry. Linguina (2011) is a 4-weigt organic sans family.

In 2012, he published the free font Hyped (geometric and experimental).

Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Megy

Singaporean designer of Megfont (2008, irregular handwriting). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Merlina Sanusi

Singapore-based designer of the hand-drawn Silent Typography (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Tan Si Yi

Singapore-based graphic designer. She created the clean informal sans face Robby (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

mmmmo

Singaporean designer (b. 1981) of the straight-edged face One (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

National University of Singapore

Free Tamil truetype fonts: AParanar (by R. Kalamaini), TML Kamalam (by Astro Scientific Centre). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neville Hew

Singaporean designer of the monoline face Govern Slab (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicholas Lim Wen Kai

Singapore-based creator of Scape (2012, an architectural typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nur Illiyana Mohd

Graphic designer in Singapore. Creator of the warm rounded typeface Interlude (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oguzcan Kaganoguzbeyoglu

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]  ⦿

Onethird

Graphic design studio in Singapore. They created the ornamental caps face Keen Green Type (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phunk Studio
[William Chan]

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]  ⦿

R. Kalaimani

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]  ⦿

Rishad Patel

Graphic designer in Singapore who practices typography there. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rizal Mohamed

Singapore-based creator of the counterless pixelish face Alvoneca (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sahara Abdullah

Based in Singapore, Sahara Abdullah's logo lettering (2011) for her own brand is quite nice. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Lew

Singapore-based designer. She created a typeface based on Whisper in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shahidah Simt

Graphic designer in Singapore, who drew a mosquito-based alphading face called Bloody Bugger (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shanflower

Designer in Signapore of Shancalluna (2010, an organic face). He/she writes: Semi-serif decorative font based on Calluna. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shellen Teh

Shellen Teh (Singapore) designed Calliaera (2012) based on Palatino. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shirokage Ryuki

Singaporean designer of the scratchy face CV Font Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Singapore's newspaper types

Chris Pearson discusses the typeface choices of Singapore's newspapers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soh Chad Alaksandus

Singapore-based designer (b. 1985) of 7x7 (2004, outline pixel face), which used to be downloadable from Devian Tart. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Squishymellows

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]  ⦿

Tamil OpenType fonts

Free Tamil OpenType fonts have been released under the GNU General Public License:

Opentype tables were added by T. Vaseeharan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tamil.net
[Kumar Mallikarjunan]

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]  ⦿

Tay Evon

Graphic design student in Singapore. Baba Sans (2010) is a gridded typeface inspired by Paranakan floortiles with angular features. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thunaivan Web Fonts

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]  ⦿

Tony Wang

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
[Etienne Mineur]

Type on the streets of Singapore. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Valeri Novalianto

Singapore-based designer of Les Cheveux (2012), a typeface that was inspired by hair. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vrisha Malatheesha

Graphic design student in Singapore who created the tribal face Totem (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

William Chan Wai Liam

Singaporean designer of BloodyValentine (1997) and Bollocks (1996) at GarageFonts. Dafont link, where one can download McGurr Script (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Winnie Tan

Graphic designer from and in Singapore. Her first fonts appeared in 2009: Hybrid (experimental), Prahaha (monoline sans), Rue (informal sans with bent strokes: it was her final project at VSUP, the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design Prague). Quandary (2010), her second typeface, is angular. In 2010, she published Rue Display at Type Together: Rue is an organic, casually ornamental, narrow-faced sans serif, and the gridded information design and wayfinding face Simple. Home page. MyFonts link. MyFonts foundry link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Xmin Chia

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

Yi Jun (Singapore) combined Impact and Edwardian Script to get My Font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yiyang Chen

Graphic designer in Singapore, who created Halftone (2011, texture face) and Tungsten (2011, paperclip face). Her work on Behance. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yong

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]  ⦿

Zac Ong

Singapore-based creator of the caps face Candy Font (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zaidi Salleh

Graphic designer in Singapore. Behance link. Creator of the high-contrast art deco typeface Gazette (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿