1000 Turkish fonts

Archive with 1000 fonts that have Turkish encodings. This includes the Bitstream collection, the Vista collection, the Myriad and Warnock Pro series, and Yevida (Jeremy Dooley). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abdullah Tasci

Born in 1945 in Kayseri, Turkey, Abdullah Tasci entered the Fine Arts Academy in 1967 and graduated from the Graphic Department in 1972. In 1982 he became Assistant Professor at Mimar Sinan University, and retired in 2000. In retirement, he designed font families such as Tasci Kursiv (2000, calligraphic), Tasci Kufi, Tasci Calligraphy and Nokta. Kufiz (2000, Latin) was influenced by the engravings of the Ottoman art and Rumi ornamentations. Tasci Kufi (2009) is constructivist. In 2010, he created the Tasci Sans, Serif and Tasci Condensed families. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ahmet

Young Turkish creator of Square Comic (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahmet Altun

Turkish type designer (b. 1954) who sells through MyFonts. He graduated from Hacettepe University in 1989.

In 2010, he created Dopamin (a high-contrast display sans), Square Comic, and Nilish (monoline geometric display sans).

In 2011, Ahmet created the art deco chic family Turquoise, the techno sans family Altuna Sans, the semi-handprinted Shirin, and the organic and elliptical monoline sans family Deria Sans. Sterk (2011) is a legible and open masculine sans family. Glode (2011) is a masculine geometric sans family. Calligra (2011) is an elegant almost calligraphic flared sans. Ephesus (+Shadow) is a caps-only titling sans family. Tillom (2011) is an elegant decorative face. Ondule (2011) is a horizontally-striped texture face. Brounde (2011) is a rounded monoline slab family. Eggy (2011) is a monoline sans display face with slightly shaky outlines. Uno (2011) is an organic display face.

Typefaces made in 2012: Ferforje (curly all caps face), Daphne (a handdrawn all caps poster family), Mancho (a stylish caps only sans family), Cillop (elliptical sans), Typonil (elliptical sans), Omar (squarish poster font).

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Ahmet Burak Bal

Turkish designer at FontStruct of Q-Key (2008, rounded and fat), and Nano (2008, white on black, and squarish). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akile Nazli Kaya

Turkish born Akile Nazli Kaya (b. 1980) is a graduate of the Graphic Design Departmant of Bilkent University in Ankara. Her experience in animation and film studies started in 2005 at Film School Zlin in Czech Republic. Today, she is an animator and film director located in Prague. Behance link.

Creator of the semi-serif typeface Idiot (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessandro (Alex) Segalini

Freelance Italian graphic designer in Rome (b. near Piacenza, 1976) who graduated with an M.S. in Industrial Design in 2004 from the Politechnic of Milan with a thesis entitled Ernesto Hemingway: una font tra letteratura e tipografia: a font between literature and typography. In it, he describes his typeface Ernesto Hemingway. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke about that same typeface. He created some fun fonts such as A like Animals (2003, also called A di Animali, an experimental face done together with illustrator Anna Donadelli), and 5G (2002, handwriting). He has made custom type such as Guia Script (2006, for Gelati Carte d'Or Algida), Guia Script Greek (2006), Quintag (2002, handwriting), Forno (2004, handprinted), Dolce (2005, a swift brush face for Barilla), Unione (2005, for a bank), Pacioli (2005, for Accademia Editoriale in Rome), Phoebus (custom sailing boat vinyl lettering). In 2005, he took a position as graphic design instructor at the Department of Graphic Design of Bilkent University (Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey). Since 2007, he is at the Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey. PDF file with samples of his fonts. Limerick was designed in 2006 together with Marek Brzozowski. At ICTVC 2007, he spoke about 20th century Bodonians. Home page. In 2009, Segalini published Hemingway Pro, a commercial 9-style sans display family, available from Red Rooster. Hemingway Deco Initials is free though. Hemingway was inspired by the prize-winning novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952, Ernest Miller Hemingway). Typophile link. Alessandro's page with hundreds of useful links. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ali Riza Saçan

Istanbul-based conceptual artist, b. 1982. He created Isimisiz (2007), almost like lettering used by architects, and the handwriting font AlirizaSacanHand (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aliyasar Isgoren

Izmir-based art director in Turkey. His type designs include Dantelmax (2007), Divani (2007), Dantelmin (2007) and Giftsirme (2007). They are mostly handprinted. No downloads. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alper Yildirim

Graphic designer and typographer in Ankara, who made the grungy Deconstype (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alpkan Kirayoglu

Alpkan (b. Istanbul) moved abroad and studied graphic design at several art schools such as School of Visual Arts in New York and Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. After finishing college, Alp worked for Poulin+Morris, a New York graphic design studio focusing on environmental design projects. He obtained a Masters in type and media program at KABK. His graduation work at KABK was Baron (2011): Baron is a modern display typeface inspired by super-ellipse shaped typefaces by Hermann Zapf such as Melior and Zapf Elliptical. Intended to be used in large sizes, Baron tries to differ from early pointed pen models with its friendly terminals and some asymmetric counters. Baron family consists of Baron Regular, Italic, and Bold. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amir Asgari

Turkish designer, who created the pixel typeface Game Over (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antrepo
[Mehmet Gozetlik]

Mehmet Gozetlik runs Antrepo in Istanbul, Turkey. A digital artist and designer, he created a modular font family aptly named Modul (2008). Behance link. These commercial pixel-based techno families are marketed as Modul 300 dpi (2008) and Modul 72 dpi (2008). In 2009, he made Public Gothic, a free version of New Deal, the custom font used in The Public Enemies made by Jeff Knowles and Neville Brody for this film. Public Gothic is an industrial but also vintage family of free fonts consisting of PB Square, PB Vintage, PB Circular, and PB Federal. Free download here. Additional links: Antrepo4, A2591, Video of his TypeCon 2011 presentation.

Scans of Public Gothic: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apostrophic Laboratory
[Fredrick M. Nader]

One of the most dynamic foundries from 2000 until 2003. The "Lab" was run by Apostrophe (Fredrick Nader) and was based in Toronto. It has produced well over 1000 original free fonts, in all formats (type 1, truetype, and opentype, PC and Mac), and nearly all fonts have full character sets. Many have character sets for extended European languages and Cyrillic as well. It was for a few years the only active producer of multiple master fonts. Download site at Typoasis. Original URL, now being reworked. Highlights:

• Miltown (from the Matrix movie).
• Fluoxetine (old typewriter).
• Desyrel (handwriting, Dana Rice).
• PicaHole-1890Morse font.
• Ritalin has almost 500 glyphs, and is a family designed for Latin, Greek, Turkish, eastern European, Cyrillic and Baltic.
• The 3-axis multiple master ImpossibleMM (of Mission Impossible fame).
• Carbolith Trips (letters from cuneiforms).
• Diehl Deco (revival of 1940 lettering by Wooster Bard Field; with Marley Diehl).
• Textan (with Rich Parks or Richard D. Parker; inspired by the Chinese Tangram).
• Poultrygeist (horror comic font).
• Hard Talk (an R-rated font by Slovenian Marjan Bozic).
• Independant (with Phynette; a faithful revival of a 1930s font by Collette and Dufour for Maison Plantin in Belgium---a fantastic Art Deco font family).
• Metrolox ("Enemy of the State" font, with Karen Clemens; a Unicode font with 567 glyphs for over 20 Latin-based languages and some math symbols).
• Komikaze, Komikazba, Komikahuna and Komikazoom (comic book fonts: 1280 glyphs for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Baltic, Turkish, East-European, with dingbats and Braille).
• Republika (a 300-font techno family; read about it here).
• ChizzlerMM (3-axis multiple master, a reworked version of Graham Meade's Chizzler).
• Street (a 87-font family by Graham Meade).
• Amerika (fantastic Armenian-look font series, with support for Greek, Cyrillic/Russian, Baltic, Turkish and Central European).
• The dingbats Eyecicles and Texticles, both with Graham Meade.
• Insula (2001, a Celtic/uncial font with Cybapee).
• Komika (2001, 50 comic book fonts designed with Vigilante).
• Labrit (a great Fraktur font, with Graham Meade).
• Frigate (a Roman-kana font by Melinda Windsor).
• Scriptina (an unbelievable calligraphic font by Apostrophe, 2000-2001). In 2010, CheapProFonts published an extension, Scriptina Pro.
• Freebooter Script (an equally unbelievable calligraphic font by Graham Meade, 2001).
• Choda (a display font like none you have seen before; Apostrophe and Meade, 2001).
• Endor (with Meade, a Gothic font; 2001).

• Apostrophe: Day Roman (2002, the first digitization of Fr. Guyot's "Two Line Double Pica Roman", designed in the early 1600s), Bombardier (2002), Propaganda (2002), PropagandaCyrillic (2002), PropagandaGreek (2002), Contra (2003), Ergonome (2002), Ergonomix (2002, techno dingbats), Alfabetix (2002), SoMM (2002, a multiple master font), Templo (2001, a pixelish font), Zoloft, Miltown, Witches Brew, Celexa, Labrat, Effexor, Fluoxetine, Tralfamadore, Halcion, RxMM, Paxil, Valium, Fight This, Ritalin, Xanax, Maskalin, PicaHole, ImposMM, MiltownII, Carbolith, Komikaze, Komikazoom, Komikahuna, Diogenes, Komikazba, MistressScript, Sledge, Mary Jane, Republika, StarBat, Merkin, Erectlorite, Halter, Estrogen, Steinem (based on Dalton Maag's British Steel typeface), Lab Mix, Mary Jane II, Amerika, Masque, Konfuciuz, Mastodon, Broad, Amerika Sans, Scriptina, Karnivore, Cholo, Sedillo and Reprobate (all three based on Mike Sedillo's handwriting, 2001), Templo (screen font family, 2001).
• Marjan Bozic and Apostrophe: Hard Talk.
• Karen Clemens and Apostrophe: Wellbutrin, Metrolox, Jagz.
• CybaPee and Apostrophe: Cyclin, Lady Ice, Insula.
• CybaPee, Graham Meade and Apostrophe: Yellowswamp, Lady Ice revisited.
• Steve Deffeyes: Loopy.
• Marley Diehl and Apostrophe: Diehl Deco.
• Fleisch and Apostrophe: Colwell, Hadley.
• Steve Graham: Hypnosis.
• Frank Guillemette and Apostrophe: Ankora.
• Jeri Ingalls and Apostrophe: Paxil.
• Neumat Ick and Apostrophe: Icklips, Powderfinger.
• Keya Kirkpatrick: Extasy
• Keya Kirkpatrick and Apostrophe: Kimono.
• Jeff Lan: Healthy Alternative, Haven Code.
• Su Lucas and Apostrophe: Barbarello.
• Brigido Maderal and Apostrophe: Lab Bats.
• Graham Meade: Quastic Kaps (8-weight family, 2003), Quixotte (2002), Mechanihan (2002), Kameleon (2002), Lady Ice Extra (2002), Gizmo (2002), Zillah Modern (2002), Wazoo (2002), JamesEightEleven (2002), Equine (2001), Street Corner (2001), Freebooter Script, Street (31 font sans and slab serif), Bipolar Control, Lane, Street, Street Slab, 2nd Street, Kronika, Thong, Whackadoo Upper, Charrington, Lady Copra, Zebra, Extra Meade Pack, Control Freak, Dekon, Asenine, Heidorn Hill (a Fraktur font), Castorgate, Troglodyte.
• Graham Meade and Apostrophe: Moondog (2001), Choda, Futurex, Duralith, Epyval, BooterMM, Pamelor, Sabril, Erinal, Karisma, Whackadoo, Bicicles, Drummon, Primary Elector, Youthanasia, Grunja, Prussian Brew, ChizMM, Luciferus, Labtop, Gilgongo, Labrit, Kandide, Brassiere (which became the commercial face Ipscus in 2009), Eskargot, Endor, Labag.
• Graham Meade and Rich Parks: Luteous, Luteous II.
• Link Olsson and Apostrophe: Librium, Severina, Poultrygeist, Extrano, Komikandy.
• Rich Parks and Apostrophe: Textan, Glaukous, Textan Round, TexSquareMM, TexRoundMM.
• Alejandro Paul and Apostrophe: Fontcop, Usenet, Cayetano, Elektora.
• Evelyne Pichler: Sindrome.
• Evelyne Pichler and Apostrophe: 1910 Vienna.
• Phynette and Apostrophe: Independant.
• Peter Ramsey and Apostrophe: Distro, Futurex Distro (2001).
• Dana Rice and Apostrophe: Desyrel, Lilly.
• Wayne Sharpe: Ovulution I and II.
• Jessica Slater: Wiggles.
• Jessica Slater and Apostrophe: McKloud.
• Derek Vogelpohl: Phosphorus, Florence sans, Plasmatica, Covington, Avondale, Phosphorus II.
• Melinda Windsor: Plastic, Frigate.
• Robby Woodard: Ashby (2001).
• WolfBainX and Apostrophe: Tribal, Komika.
• Yol: Traceroute.

Arabia Ware Benelux

Vendor of Mac and PC fonts for several languages and from a variety of companies. Only commercial stuff for Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, Tamazight, Turkish, Greek, Indic, Thai, Eastern European, and Korean. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnulf Sopp

Times NR Turkish and Arial Turkish by Monotype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asli Caglar

Graphic designer in Istanbul. She created the display typeface DarSans in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atakan Garslan

Turkish designer. Home page. His typefaces cover scripts that I dot recognize: Köktürkish by Tugrul Çavdar, Gokturk, Orkun and Firca (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Attila Korap

Font technology specialist at Linotype, Germany. He was born in Manisa (Turkey) in 1974 and grew up in Marburg (Germany) before moving to Frankfurt in 1994. He studied political science and computer science at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität and later at the Fernuniversität Hagen. He joined Linotype as an intern in 2000 before becoming the full time Font Technology Specialist in 2002. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about Automation in font production. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik on the topic of web fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baglama Icin Türküler

Tuerkfra is a truetype font with all Turkish accents. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Basar Ugur

Turkish designer (b. 1982), who lives in Istanbul. Creator of Fortyfive (2008), a geometric sans face, and Veysel (2009). Dafont link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bayer Corp

A collection of fonts from Bayer Corp (1995): AlbertusExtraBoldW1, AlbertusMediumW1, AntiqueOliveW1, AntiqueOliveW1Bold, AntiqueOliveW1Italic, AvantGardeBook, AvantGardeBookOblique, AvantGardeDemi, AvantGardeDemiOblique, Bookman, BookmanDemi, BookmanDemiItalic, BookmanItalic, CGOmegaW1, CGOmegaW1Bold, CGOmegaW1BoldItalic, CGOmegaW1Italic, CGTimesW1, CGTimesW1Bold, CGTimesW1BoldItalic, CGTimesW1Italic, CenturySchlbkBold, CenturySchlbkBoldItalic, CenturySchlbkItalic, CenturySchlbkRoman, ClarendonCondensedW1Bold, CoronetW1Italic, GaramondW1Antiqua, GaramondW1Halbfett, GaramondW1Kursiv, GaramondW1KursivHalbfett, Helvetica-Narrow, Helvetica-NarrowBold, Helvetica-NarrowBoldItalic, Helvetica-NarrowItalic, Helvetica, HelveticaBlack, HelveticaBlackOblique, HelveticaBold, HelveticaBoldItalic, HelveticaItalic, HelveticaLight, HelveticaLightOblique, LetterGothicW1, LetterGothicW1Bold, LetterGothicW1Italic, MarigoldW1, PalatinoBold, PalatinoBoldItalic, PalatinoItalic, PalatinoRoman, UniversCondensedW1Bold, UniversCondensedW1BoldItalic, UniversCondensedW1Medium, UniversCondensedW1MediumItalic, UniversW1Bold, UniversW1BoldItalic, UniversW1Medium, UniversW1MediumItalic, ZapfChanceryMediumItalic, ZapfDingbats. See also here. Further fonts are here. Bayer's Courier families for Greek, East-European, Cyrillic, Turkish and Latin. Type 1 collection. All these fonts are in fact part of an old Lexmark printer package. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berrin Sun

Berrin Sun (Istanbul, Turkey) created the display face Berries (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beycan Çetin

Creator of the pixel face Fiery Turk (2008), the slightly eroded black sketchy face Matiz (2009), and the grungy outline face Kerata (2009). Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Fontspace link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

BloGrafik

Turkish type blog with a small archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Burak Besen

Winner of an award in Alessandro Segalini's type design class at Izmir University of Economics in June 2007 with the grunge stencil face Cig Kofte. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Burak Cinar

Turkish designer. Behance link.

Creator of the hand-drawn text and dingabt font My Little Fellas (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Busra Akinci

Turkish graphic designer who created a curly hand-drawn alphabet in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Can Usta

Turkish graphic and type designer and photographer from Istanbul. Behance link. Creator of Farctolik (2008-2009, a bouncy display face). Images: 1, 2, 3, 4. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Candan Isca

Turkish creator of Guggen Type (2011), which was inspired by the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Candan is located in Ankara. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cem Gül Yaziyüzleri

Turkish designer of these fonts, which are either techno or grunge: Edgex, Meropolis, Phrunklin, Britannica, FucksMessAge, This Torture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Colak

Istanbul-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of the techno face A Wi Fi (2008). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cypriote metafont
[Alan M. Stanier]

From Essex University, Alan M. Stanier's metafont for Cypriot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cyreal
[Gayaneh Bagdasaryan]

Cyreal is a type foundry with expertise in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Its founders are lecturers at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. They are

• Gayaneh Bagdasaryan. Gayaneh began working as a type designer in ParaType in 1996. She has done cyrillization work at ParaType, Typotheque, Linotype, Bitstream, The Font Bureau, ITC, Berthold and Emigre. Her typeface Red Klin received a TDC2 2000 Award. Her New Letter Gothic won an Award for Excellence in Type Design at the Kyrillitsa 99 International Type Design competition in Moscow, 1999. Gayaneh graduated from the Print Design Department of Moscow State University of Printing Arts (2000), and Ryazan College of Art (1992). Designer in 1999 at Paratype of LetterGothic Baltic, LetterGothic Central European, LetterGothic Cyrillic Asian, LetterGothic Cyrillic International, LetterGothic Cyrillic Old Russian, LetterGothic Multi Lingual, LetterGothic Turkish, LetterGothic Western. She made the Cyrillic version of Licko's Base Nine and Base Twelve families (2003) and of Albert Boton's ITC Eras (called PT ITC Eras). Klin Black (2004, Paratype, decorative caps in the style of Russian fine art ca. 1900) is an original. Finally, she designed ParaType New Letter Gothic (1999) and ParaType Original Garamond (2000).
• Alexei Vanyashin. Type designer with expertise in Cyrillics. Winner at the Granshan 2010 International Type Design competition with Florian (Second place in the Cyrillic Text Typeface category). He completed the Type&Typography Master Level course in 2010, and studied typography at the Stroganov University of Arts and Industry.

Fonts:

• Cyrillizations: Akzidenz-Grotesk Condensed, AG Book, Apack (Pisa), Base Nine, Charlie, Fedra Sans, Fedra Serif, Filosofia, Greta, Griffith Gothic, Eras (ITC), Lobster (free, 2011, after Pablo Impallari's Lobster), Neuland, Original Garamond, Renault.
• Armenian: Newton Armenian, Pragmatica Armenian, Haykakan Kar.
• Custom: GEO Text, GEO Display.
• Retail: New Letter Gothic, Red Klin, Schmale, Florian.
• Free at Fontsquirrel: Artifika (2011), Brawler (2011), Rationale (done with Olexa Volochay and Vladimir Pavlikov).
• Free fonts at Google Font Directory: Artifika (2011, by Yulya Zhdanova and Ivan Petrov), Aubrey (2011, art nouveau by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan), Vidaloka (2011, a didone done by Alexei Vanyashin and Olga Karpushina), Lora (2011, a contemporary serif by Olga Karpushina), Federant (2011, by Olexa Volochay: this revives the Reklameschrift typeface Feder Antiqua by Otto Ludwig Nägele (1911)), Federo (2011, high-contrast sans by Olexa Volochay based on J. Erbar's 1909 font Feder Grotesk), Podkova (2011, slab serif), Wire One (2011, monoline sans).

D. Cünbüscü

Ankara, Turkey-based designer of the sans headline face Quatro (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dara Kilicoglu

Turkish designer of the pixel face Rodchenko 10 (2010), a bitmap revival of its original used by Alexander Rodchenko and other Russian artists during and after Russian revolution. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Deniz Basar

Turkish designer, b. 1989. She created the dingbat faces Aman Neyse (2011), Neden Olmasin (2011) and Istanbul (2011, city outline dings), all made with FontStruct. Anadolu (2011) is an Anatolian culture dingbat face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Deniz Elektronik Lab (or: dELAb)

Turkish designers of the electronic symbol font Resistors Direncler TR (2000) and Turkiye75 (1999), a Turkish dingbat font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Cünbüscü

Turkish/German designer of the strong art deco display face Quatro (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dj_KaRTaL kartal

Turkish designer of the graffiti font Carsi (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dogu Kaya

Graphic designer in Istanbul, Turkey, who created Oh My Gosh (2011, fat octagonal), Fil (2011, sans display face), Five Pixel, Kasa (octagonal and monospaced, seemingly for computer programs), Rounded (a monospaced face), and Horoz Unicase in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ebru Baranseli

Turkish graduate from Hacettepe University, FADA, Graphic Design Department, in 1996. He started an MFA in Anadolu University in Eskisehir, where he graduated in 2003. He now works as an instructor there. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Alphabetical revolution and the effect of Turkish typographic design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ece Dicmem

Istanbul-based illustrator. Behance link. She created an extra skinny typeface provocatively called OMGSHITFUCK (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ectaco

In 1999, this company produced a number of fonts that combine Latin with other languages such as Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish and Arabic. Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emin Barin

Noted Turkish calligrapher who has drawn some fine alphabets. Picture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Engin Korkmaz

Great type examples by Turkish designer Engin Korkmaz. [Google] [More]  ⦿

EquilibriuM

Turkish digital artist, b. 1989, who lives in Istanbul. Creator of the runic Arabic-looking Iquilberium (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Spiekermann

German type designer and graphic designer par excellence, born in 1947 in Stadthagen. He set up MetaDesign in Berlin in 1979. In 1988 he set up FontShop, home of the FontFont collection. He holds an honorary professorship at the Academy of Arts in Bremen, is board member of ATypI and the German Design Council, and president of the ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers). In July 2000, Erik left MetaDesign Berlin. He now lives and works in Berlin, London and San Francisco, designing publications, complex design systems and more typefaces. He collaborated on the publication of the comprehensive FontBook. He teaches typography at the Art Academy in Bremen, and is guest-lecturer at several schools around the world.

In October 2003, he received the third Gerrit Noordzij Prize, which is given every other year to a designer who has played an important role in the field of type design and typography. It is an initiative of the postgraduate course in Type&Media at the Hague Royal Academy of Art with the Meermanno Museum (The Hague).

His essay on information design.

Biography. Bio alt Linotype. Laudatio by John Walters of Eye Magazine. Blog.

Presentation at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. Presentation at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. Interviewed in 2006 by Rob Forbes. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin.

He made the following typefaces and type families:

• Lo-Type (1913, Louis Oppenheim) was digitally adapted by Spiekermann for Berthold in 1979-1980. BERTLib sells it as Adlon Serif ST.
• PT 55 (1986), the precursor of FF Meta.
• Berthold Block
• Berliner Grotesk (1979-1980, Berthold): based on an old Berthold AG face from 1923.
• FF Govan
• The huge families FF Meta1, FF Meta2, FF Meta3 (2003), FF Meta Condensed (1998) and FFMetaCorrespondence. The FF Meta families (1985) were originally designed for Bundespost, which did not use it--it stayed with Helvetica for a while and now uses Frutiger. Meta comes with CE, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish sets as well. Weights like Meta Light (Thin, Hairline) Greek are available too. Spiekermann is a bit upset that Linotype's Textra (2002, a face by Jochen Schuss and Jörg Herz) looks like it was cloned off Meta.
• Meta Serif by Christian Schwartz and Erik Spiekermann, promised for May 2007. Kris Sowersby will also help, but the 2007 deadline seems to have been optimistic.
• ITC Officina in versions Sans Book (1989-1990) and Serif Book (1989-1990).
• Boehringer Sans and Antiqua (1996): custom types.
• Grid, which appeared in FUSE 3.
• Codesigner with Ole Schaefer (FontShop, 2000) of FF InfoDisplay and FF InfoText in 1997 and of FF InfoOffice in 2000.
• NokiaSans and NokiaSerif (2002, company identity family). This was in cooperation with Jelle Bosma. Before Nokia Sans and Serif, Nokia used Rotis. Nokia Sans and Serif were replaced by Nokia Pure (Bruno Maag) in 2011.
• Glasgow Type (1999), for the city of Glasgow, taking inspiration from the Rennie Macintosh types.
• Heidelberg Gothic (1999).
• Symantec Sans and Serif (2003): custom types.
• FF Unit (2003-2004; see also here), another sans family, which won an award at TDC2 2004. This was followed by FF Unit Rounded. And FF Unit Rounded started according to Erik as Gravis, the largest Apple dealer in Germany. FF Unit Slab (2009) is the product of a cooperation between Kris Sowersby, Christian Schwartz, and Erik Spiekermann.
• ITC Officina Display (2001).
• FF Meta Thin Light and Hairline (2003) and FF Meta Headline (2005).
• Bosch Sans and Bosch Serif (2004).
• The SeatMeta family (2003) for Seat.
• DB Type in six styles (Serif, Sans, Head, Condensed, Compressed, News): designed in 2005 in collaboration with Christian Schwartz for the Deutsche Bahn (train system in Germany). Some typohiles say that it reminds them of Bell Gothic and Vesta.
• A Volkswagen company family based on a correction of Futura.
• The DWR House Numbers Series (2006): four fonts with numerals for house numbers: Contemporary House Numbers, Tech House Numbers, Classic House Numbers (based on Bodoni), Industrial House Numbers (stencil). DWR stands for Design Within Reach.
• Tech (2008, FontStruct), a rounded squarish headline face.
• Axel (2009): developed jointly with Erik van Blokland and Ralph du Carrois, it is a system font with these features:
  • Similar letters and numbers are clearly distinguishable (l, i, I, 1, 7; 0, O; e, c #).
  • Increased contrast between regular and bold.
  • High legibility on the monitor via Clear Type support.
  • Seems to outperform Courier New, Verdana, Lucida Sans, Georgia, Arial and Calibri, according to their tests (although I would rank Calibri at or above Axel for many criteria).

Picture of Eric Spiekermann shot by Chris Lozos at Typo SF in 2012.

FontShop link.

View Erik Spiekermann's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Erolcan Özdemir

Turkish creator of the gorgeous all-caps brush script Silk Road (2009) and of Grafitrk (2009, graffiti face). Another alias: Selman Ay. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ersin Ileri

Photographer from Istanbul. He made a nice typographic poster of Che Guevara. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Esra Oguz

Graphic design and typographer in Ankara. She made Rope (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eurofonts 2001

Commercial truetype fonts for Western and Eastern European languages, Turkish, and Baltic. Based in Poland. [Google] [More]  ⦿

EversonMono for MacOs

Free Mac fonts in the EversonMono series for CSX, Celtic, Croatian, Cyrillic, Esperanto, Gaelic, Georgian, Greek, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Ogham, Romanian, Sami, and Turkish. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eyho

Plenty of Turkish fonts here: CrazyCreaturesBold, CreepyRegular, DavidaBoldBT-Regular, GalleriaPlain, IglooLaser, MilanoLet, PioneerITCbyBT-Regular, TurkmenBodoni, TurkmenCoopertino (1995, Murad Khadjiew), TurkmenDecor, TurkmenHelveticaNormal (1994, Vagif Zeynalov), TurkmenJikharev, TurkmenParkAvenue-Normal (1995, Murad Khadjiew), TurkmenParsek, TurkmenStandardPosterC (1995, Murad Khadjiew), TurkmenTimesNormal (1994, Vagif Zeynalov). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ezgi Didem Dagci

Istanbul-based designer who made the experimental face Spectacles (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Faruk Akin

Turkish type designer. His repertoire consists of a number of techno or modular faces, a contructivist face (Attack), some upright connected scripts (like the Arabic simulation face Alibaba), some geometric sans faces, a hexagonal face (Hexa). Scans: I, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fatih Gül

Graphic designer and art director (at TUT Agency) in Istanbul, Turkey, who graduated from Anadolu University in 2007. Behance link. Creator of the experimental display face Majmin (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Filiz Sahin

Filiz Sahin (2012) is an American interactive designer, originally from Istanbul. Her work includes Knit Type (2012, a free stitching font), Stitching Font (2012), Drop Type (2012, a free EPS format ornamental caps face), Spider Type (2012, a modified Helvetica Bold), and a hand-drawn all ornamental caps face (2009). Muscle Type (2012) is a free EPS-format font inspired by bundles of muscles. Sablon (2012) is an organic all-caps type family. Hair Type (2012) consists of strands of hair. Dooooodle Type (2012) are doodled ornamental caps. El Yazi (2012) is a 2d and 3d school script font on EPS format. Cosmo Path (2012) is a free spaceship-inspired EPS vector font.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Font Turka

Font archive in Turkey. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FontFabrik
[Lucas de Groot]

FontFabrik was established in 1997 in Berlin by Luc(as) de Groot (b. 1962, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands). He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Den Haag, worked from 1989-1993 as a freelancer at the design bureau Premsela Voonk. From 1993-1997, he was with Meta Design in Berlin as typographic director in charge of many corporate design projects. In 1997, he set up his own studio, FontFabrik. Since 2000 his fonts are also sold under the Lucasfonts label. He creates retail and custom fonts, and made his reputation with his humongous font family Thesis. Originally, he published most of his retail fonts with FontFont, but his "FF" fonts were withdrawn from FontFont in 1999, and renamed with LF instead of FF, where LF stands for LucasFonts. Here is a partial list of his fonts:

• TheAntiquaB (1999 Type Directors Club award), TheAntiquaE, TheAntiquaSun. TheAntiqua received a TypeArt 05 award.
• FF Thesis.
• FF TheSans, now LF The Sans Classic, LF The Sans Basic and LF The Sans Office.
• FF TheMix, now LF The Mix Classic, LF The Mix Basic and LF The Mix Office.
• FF TheSerif, now LF The Serif Classic, LF The Serif Basic and LF The Serif Office.
• LF The Sans Condensed, LF The Sans Mono, LF The Sans Mono Dc, LF The Sans Mono 11pitch, LF The Sans Mono Cd Office, LF The Sans Typewriter (was FF The Sans Typewriter (1996)). An OEM was made for the SPD party called SPD 2002 TheSans.
• Grundfos TheSans (2007): a commissioned font.
• FF Nebulae, now LF Nebulae.
• FF Jesus Loves You all, now LF Jesus Loves You all.
• FF TheSansMono and others.
• MoveMeMM (erotic multiple master font)
• ThesisMono (multiple master font).
• Agrofont (1997, for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries), Agro Sans, developed in collaboration with the Dutch design bureau Studio Dumbar.
• Fohla Serif (2001, for a Brazilian newspaper in Sao Paulo: this collection includes a multiple master font, FohlaMM).
• Spiegel and SpiegelSans (for Der Spiegel). Alkso called LF Spiegel Sans and LF Spiegel Serif. The Sans comes from Franklin Gothic, and the Serif from Linotype Roitation.
• Sun (1997, for Sun Microsystems).
• Taz (sans family, 2002), Taz III (2003, including a hairline weight) and Taz Text (for "taz", the magazine). Are these the same fonts as Tazzer and Tazzer Text?
• LucPicto (dingbats for private use at FontFabrik). Not available to the world.
• Volkswagen Headline and Volkswagen Copy (1996), extensions of Futura. Note: the other Volkswagen house font is VW Utopia, a descendant of Utopia.
• Rondom (finished in the LF Punten family: Punten Straight, Punten Extremo and Punten Rondom).
• Corpid III (sans family, 2002-2007, with support now for Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish).
• BellSouth Basis, Serif and Bold, developed with Dutchman Roger van den Bergh.
• LeMonde (2002, new headline family). An OEM family made for LeMonde in 2001 includes Lucas-Bold, Lucas-BoldItalic, Lucas-ExtraLight, Lucas-ExtraLightItalic, Lucas-Italic, Lucas-Light, Lucas-LightItalic, Lucas-SemiBold, Lucas-SemiBoldItalic, Lucas.
• BolletjeWol (1997, Fontshop).
• Transit and Transit Pict (both at FontShop).
• MetaPlus (1993, with Erik Spiekermann).
• Calibri and Consolas (2004), two OpenType font families designed for Microsoft's ClearType project (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs). Calibri received a TypeArt 05 award. Also, it won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.

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

Frederic Rich

Frenchman (b. 1984) who created the pixel game font Pixel Invaders (2012), Night Train 382 (2012) and Night Train 315 (2012). This font supports many languages, including for example : Romanian, Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic), Croatian, Slovenian, Bosnian (Latin and Cyrillic), Bulgarian, Russian, Belarussian, Macedonian, Turkish.

In 2012, he created the grungy poster face Mezzanine.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FREELANG Fuentes

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]  ⦿

Galina Andreevna Bannikova

Russian type designer, 1901-1972 (d. Moscow). Faces include Bannikovskaya (1946-1951, at Polygrafmash, which was inspired by the Russian Grazhdansky early and mid 18th century typefaces: the digital version is Paratype Bannikova (1999), revived by L. Kuznetsova), Baikonoer (1960-1969) and Kama (1967-1971). Lyubov Kuznetsova at Paratype created Bannikova (1999; Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Old Russian, Multilingual, Turkish, Western, Cyrillic Asian), a clean serif text family.

See here for a picture, which shows without a shadow of a doubt that she was Donald Rumsfeld's real mother. Alternate URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gavsulazam

Arabic and Turkish font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gazoz

Istanbul-based designer of the calligraphic face Mutlu Ornamental (1999-2002). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gelecek
[Gorkem Cetin]

Turkish site run by Gorkem Cetin, with 3MB worth of fonts useful for Turkish. Included are the ghostscript font collection, various Monotype fonts with support for Turkish and Cyrillic (Times-Roman, Arial, Bookman OldStyle), and two fonts by Mustafa Baser, called x_PS and X11_PS. Direct download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gencay Karakus

Istanbul-based designer who studoes at Sabanci University. He created the minimalist sans face Bitpazari (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gizem Apak

Student at Sabanci University, Turkey, b. 1989. She created the upright script face Muffin (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Glyphobet (was: mattt's fonts)
[Matt Chisholm]

A type designer from Santa Cruz, CA (and now Oakland, CA), Matt Chisholm (Glyphobet; was: mattt's fonts) created mainly handwriting and display fonts. He obtained a BA in Mathematics from UC Santa Cruz. All his fonts were initially free---these included MRPHONE1, MRPHONE2, MRPHONE3, MRPHONE4, MRPHONEAlternates, CheckerHat, EverydayFont (Roland Berger, 1994), Flow (1994, with Roland Berger), JRandomC, KozmicJaggedHands, LEADvilleASTROnautInline, LEADvilleASTROnautSystem, LettersLaughingDissectionandDestruction, LettersLaughingattheirExecution, LettersLaughingbyQuantizedandCalibrated, Matttschain, Matttsrope, Matttsstring, Matttsthread, Matttswire, OvialCaps (Rutherford Gong, 1996; scanned by Matt Chisholm), Ovial, Pixel, PsychoticElephantHeadline, PsychoticElephantText, RubbingFont (1995, with Susan Wilson, 1995), Shark (a powerful and original roman/blackletter hybrid revised in 2007), SirFigGothick, SwissCheesed, ToBeContinued (Alex Chisholm, 1996), Underlapped, DisorganizedCockroach, Ripple, SerpentKnotform. Alternate URL. Check out his Alphabet Soup Project, which randomly mixes glyphs from several languages. Ljubljana in particular (2007), with its Greek, Cyrillic and Latin glyphs, is stunning.

In 2010, he set up shop at MyFonts as Glyphobet. His fonts there include the bewitched Zenith (2010), Ljubljana (2010), Haylurker (2010), and the experimental Breuckelen (2010). Anadolu (2010) was inspired by the distinct style of sign lettering in rural Turkey. Home page. Alternate URL. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gorkem Tilic

Gorkem Tilic (Ankara, Turkey) created Tie alphabet and Shadow alphabet in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gravitart
[Oghuzan Ocalan]

Oghuzan Ocalan (Gravitart Branding and Design) is a Turkish graphic designer who lives in Hanau, Germany. Cofounder of the Turkish Typographic Society in 2010.

He created the futuristic experimental face Upstract (2009), the ultra-fat counterless Tombul (2010), and the organic pair of faces Badona (2009).

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

Gui Machiavelli

Stockholm-based designer of the squarish logotype Konfess (2011) for the University of Istanbul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

guvenir

Free Turkish fonts for the PC: Courier-New and Times-New-Roman families. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Halit Açıkgöz

Turkish designer of the bouncy squarish font Halit (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hans J. Simon Verlag

Commercial font vendor offering fonts such as Kyrillisch Romance, Polnisch Alpina, Lautschrift Metrik, Altgriechisch, Neugriechisch, Hebraisch, Turkisch Courier, Tschechisch/Slowakisch Romance, Kroatisch Romance, Mergensymbole. Between 90 and 390DM per font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hans Reichel

Born in Hagen, NRW, Germany, in 1949, Hans Reichel died in 2011 in his studio in Wuppertal. Musician and type designer.

As explained by Ulrich Stiehl, Reichel made the sans serif Barmen for H. Berthold AG in München in 1983. The company renamed it Barmeno in 1990, but went bankrupt in 1993. Berthold Types Ltd snook in under the pretense of being the successor of H. Berthold AG, and trademarked the name Barmeno in the USA. It published Barmeno Pro in 2006. So, Reichel went to FSI and published FF New Barmen (1 and 2) there in 1999. Berthold Types Ltd objected to the name, and forced FSI to change it. Thus, FF New Barmen became FF Sari.

Reichel also made the successful FF Dax sans serif family (1995-1997), which as byproducts included FF Daxline (2005) and FF Dax Compact (2004).

Typefaces by Reichel that are less in the limelight include FF Routes (2001, dingbats) and FF Schmalhans.

Old home page. Klingspor link. FontShop link.

His typefaces showcased. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hayrullah Yorganci

Creator of a psychedelic typographic poster called Typographic classic cars (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heter publisher

Free Tatar truetype font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hyperarchive keyword search: Turkish

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Idil Celiktemur

Designer based in Istanbul. He made a custom typeface for the band Stateless. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ihlas.net

Turkish font site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ilker Ture

Istanbul-based CReator of a nice typographic Istanbul poster (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Infinitype

German company that sells 9999 fonts on a CD for 229 USD. One can download 20 fonts for free, as a teaser. The company is run by Martin Kotulla, owner of Softmaker, who also made the MegaFont CD. Many (most?) fonts are licensed from URW and come with a performance guarantee. Font catalog. Most fonts cover all European languages. Font catalog. Direct download of that catalog. Font name equivalences. The list: Aargau, Abott Old Style, Accent, Accolade, Adelon, AdLib, Advertisers Gothic, Aldebaran, Alfredo, Allstar, Alternate Gothic, Alte Schwabacher, American Text, Ancona, Ancona Condensed, Ancona Extended, Ancona Narrow, Antigone, Antigone Compact, Antigone Nord, Antigone Condensed, Antiqua, Artistic, Avignon, Avignon Condensed, Avignon PS, Ballad Script, Ballantines, Balloon, Barbedor, Barbedor Osf, Baskerville, Baskerville Nova, Baskerville Old Face, Bay Script, Belfast Serial (a remake of Forsberg's Berling), Belfort, Bellboy, Benjamin [based on ITC Benguiat; identical to Softmaker's B693 Roman], Benjamin Condensed, Benjamin Gothic [free here; this comic book style face is based on ITC Benguiat Sans (1979-1980) and is similar to B691 Sans from Softmaker)], Benson, Bergamo, Bergamo Osf, Bernhard Condensed, Bernhard Fashion, Bestseller, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bluff, Boa Script, Bodoni, Bodoni Display, Bodoni No. 2, Bodoni Recut, Bodoni Recut Condensed, Bodoni Standard, Bonita, Book PS, Boston, Boulder, Bravo, Bristol, Broadway, Broadway Engraved, Brush Script, Bryce, Calgary, Calgary Osf, Cambridge, Cambridge Serial, Canossa, Canyon, Carlisle, Casablanca, Casad, Caslon, Caslon Antique, Caslon Osf, Caslon Elegant, Casual, Cathedral Open, Centrum, Century Old Style, Century Expanded, Century PS, Century Schoolbook, Chandler, Chantilly, Chantilly Condensed, Chantilly Extra Condensed, Chantilly Display, Chantilly Serial, Chatelaine, Cheltenham, Cheltenham Condensed, Cheltenham Old Style, Cheltenham Extra Condensed, Cimarron, Clarendon, Clarendon Serial, Clearface, Clearface Serial, Cleargothic, ClearGothic Serial, Colonel, Comix, Commercial Script, Compressed, Computer, Concept, Concept Condensed, Congress, Cooper Black, Copperplate Gothic, Copperplate Condensed, Cornered, Courier PS, Curacao, Curzon, Deco B691, Deco Black, Deco C720, Deco C790, Deco F761, Delano, Delaware, Denver, Derringer, Diamante, Digital, Durango, Disciple, Egyptian Wide, Egyptienne Standard, Elegant Script (revival of the 1972 Berthold formal calligraphic face Englische Schreibschrift), Elmore, Ennis, Entebbe, Estelle, Ewok, Expressa, Falcon, Farnham, Fette Engschrift, Fette Mittelschrift, Flagstaff, Flipper, Florence Script, Fraktur, Franklin Gothic, Franklin Gothic Condensed, Franklin Gothic Condensed Osf, Franklin Original, Frascati, Fremont, Front Page, Fuego, Function, Function Condensed, Function Display, Function Script, Gainsborough, Gandalf, SoftMaker Garamond, SoftMaker Garamond Condensed, SoftMaker Garamond No. 7, Garamond Elegant [based on Letraset Garamond], Garamond Nova, Garamond Nova Condensed, Garamond Original, Garamond Standard, German Garamond"> [based on TypoArt Garamond], Giulio, Glasgow Serial [based on Georg Salden's Polo, 1972-1976], Glendale Stencil, Gotisch, Goudita, Goudy Catalogue, Goudy Handtooled, Goudy Old Style, Goudy Heavyface, Granada, Grenoble, Grotesk, Handmade Script, Harlem Nights, Helium, Henderson, Hobo, Hoboken, Hobson, Honeymoon, Horsham, Hudson, Huntington, Iceberg, Illinois, Imperial Standard, Inverserif, Isonorm, Istria, Italian Garamond [based on Simoncini Garamond], Japanette, Jessica, Joseph Brush, Jugendstil, Kaleidoscope, Karin, Kingston, Koblenz, Kremlin Script, Leamington, Letter Gothic, Lingwood, Litera, Livorno, Lyon, Macao, Madeira, Malaga, Marriage, Marseille, Marseille Serial, Maurice, Medoc, Melbourne, Melville, Mercedes, Metaphor, Mexico, Micro, MicroSquare, MicroStencil, Moab, Mobil Graphics, Montreal, Napoli, Neutral Grotesk, Nevada, Newcastle, Nicolas [after Lanstpn's Nicolas Cochin], OCR-A, OCR-B, Oklahoma, Old Blackletter, OnStage, Opus, Organ Grinder, Orkney, Ornitons, Osborne, Otis, Palazzo, Palladio, Palmer, Pamplona, Park Avenue, Pasadena, Pedro, Pelota, Peoria, Persistent, Persistent Condensed, Persistent Osf, Philadelphia, Pizzicato [based on Letraset's Plaza], Plakette, Pollock, Prescott, Prestige, Quadrat, Raleigh, Roman PS,, Salmon, Sans, Sans Condensed, Sans Diagonal, Sans Extended, Sans Outline, Sans PS, Sans PS Condensed, Savoy, Savoy Osf, Saxony, Scott, Seagull, Sebastian [based on ITC Serif Gothic], Sigvar [based on ATF's Baker Signet], Soledad, Square Serif, Stafford" [based on Rockwell MT], Stafford Serial, Sterling, Stratford, Stymie, Sunset [a version of ITC Souvenir], Sunset Serial, Sydney Serial, Tabasco, Tampa, Tampico, Tioga Script, Toledo [based on Trooper VGC], Typewriter, Typewriter Osf, Typewriter Condensed, Unic, VAG Rounded, Velo, Veracruz, Verona, Violin Script, Winona, Worcester. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Inka Menne

Designer of several CE versions of FontFont fonts. Designed the sans serif fonts FF Dax CE (2001), FF Dax Turkish (2001), after initial designs of Hans Reichel. Second prize at the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library for Linotype Grassy (1999). See also here. She became Inka Strotmann. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Istanbul Fontfabrik
[Alper Ide]

Alper Ide (Istanbul Fontfabrik) is the Turkish designer of Kirschbaum (2008). He lives in Istanbul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ISType

ISType (Istanbul Type Seminars), conceived by Onur Yazicigil (Sabanci University) and Alessandro Segalini (Izmir University of Economics), is a lecture and workshop series devoted to encouraging typographic literacy in Turkey, was held from 11-14 September 2011 in Istanbul. This first annual event had lectures and practical workshops on typographic education and theory by embracing history, calligraphy, technology, math, programming, and drawing and art. The speakers included Ewan Clayton, James Clough, Petr Van Blokland, Brody Neuenschwander, Alessandro Segalini, Karel Van Der Waarde, and Onur Yazicigil. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaan Topaloglu

Turkish graphic designer in Izmir, who made DropFont (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kök Turki alphabet

Writing system used by Turkic-speaking peoples in Central Asia from the 6th to the 8th century AD. It is sometimes called Kök Turki runes because of the resemblance of its letter forms to those of the (Germanic) runic alphabet. The script occurred in two forms, monumental and cursive, and was written either vertically downward or horizontally from right to left. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kutan Ural

Graphic designer in Ankara, Turkey. Creator of KTN Fingerwriting (2011) and Sans Serif Didot (2011, a Peignotian face). Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lexmark CD

(Dead link). Fonts that ship with Lexmark printers (free download), covering East-European, Baltic, Turkish, Greek, Cyrillic and Latin: AlbertusExtraBoldW1, AlbertusExtraBoldWE, AlbertusExtraBoldWL, AlbertusExtraBoldWT, AlbertusMT-Italic, AlbertusMT-Light, AlbertusMT, AlbertusMediumW1, AlbertusMediumWE, AlbertusMediumWL, AlbertusMediumWT, AntiqueOlive-Bold, AntiqueOlive-Compact, AntiqueOlive-Italic, AntiqueOlive-Roman, AntiqueOliveW1, AntiqueOliveW1Bold, AntiqueOliveW1Italic, AntiqueOliveWE, AntiqueOliveWEBold, AntiqueOliveWEItalic, AntiqueOliveWL, AntiqueOliveWLBold, AntiqueOliveWLItalic, AntiqueOliveWT, AntiqueOliveWTBold, AntiqueOliveWTItalic, Apple-Chancery, AvantGardeBook, AvantGardeBookOblique, AvantGardeDemi, AvantGardeDemiOblique, Bodoni-Bold, Bodoni-BoldItalic, Bodoni-Italic, Bodoni-Poster, Bodoni-PosterCompressed, Bodoni, Bookman, BookmanDemi, BookmanDemiItalic, BookmanItalic, CGOmegaW1, CGOmegaW1Bold, CGOmegaW1BoldItalic, CGOmegaW1Italic, CGOmegaWE, CGOmegaWEBold, CGOmegaWEBoldItalic, CGOmegaWEItalic, CGOmegaWL, CGOmegaWLBold, CGOmegaWLBoldItalic, CGOmegaWLItalic, CGOmegaWT, CGOmegaWTBold, CGOmegaWTBoldItalic, CGOmegaWTItalic, CGTimesW1, CGTimesW1Bold, CGTimesW1BoldItalic, CGTimesW1Italic, CGTimesWE, CGTimesWEBold, CGTimesWEBoldItalic, CGTimesWEItalic, CGTimesWG, CGTimesWGBold, CGTimesWGBoldItalic, CGTimesWGItalic, CGTimesWL, CGTimesWLBold, CGTimesWLBoldItalic, CGTimesWLItalic, CGTimesWR, CGTimesWRBold, CGTimesWRBoldItalic, CGTimesWRItalic, CGTimesWT, CGTimesWTBold, CGTimesWTBoldItalic, CGTimesWTItalic, Candid, Chicago, Clarendon-Bold, Clarendon-Light, Clarendon, ClarendonCondensedW1Bold, ClarendonCondensedWEBold, ClarendonCondensedWLBold, ClarendonCondensedWTBold, CooperBlack-Italic, CooperBlack, Copperplate-ThirtyThreeBC, Copperplate-ThirtyTwoBC, Coronet-Regular, CoronetW1Italic, CoronetWEItalic, CoronetWLItalic, CoronetWTItalic, Eurostile-BoldExtendedTwo, Eurostile-ExtendedTwo, Eurostile, EurostileBold, GaramondW1Antiqua, GaramondW1Halbfett, GaramondW1Kursiv, GaramondW1KursivHalbfett, GaramondWEAntiqua, GaramondWEHalbfett, GaramondWEKursiv, GaramondWEKursivHalbfett, GaramondWLAntiqua, GaramondWLHalbfett, GaramondWLKursiv, GaramondWLKursivHalbfett, GaramondWTAntiqua, GaramondWTHalbfett, GaramondWTKursiv, GaramondWTKursivHalbfett, Geneva, GillSans-Bold, GillSans-BoldCondensed, GillSans-BoldItalic, GillSans-Condensed, GillSans-ExtraBold, GillSans-Italic, GillSans-Light, GillSans-LightItalic, GillSans, Goudy-Bold, Goudy-BoldItalic, Goudy-ExtraBold, Goudy-Italic, Goudy, Helvetica-BoldOblique, Helvetica-Condensed-Bold, Helvetica-Condensed-BoldObl, Helvetica-Condensed-Oblique, Helvetica-Condensed, Helvetica-Narrow, Helvetica-NarrowBold, Helvetica-NarrowBoldItalic, Helvetica-NarrowItalic, Helvetica-Oblique, Helvetica, HelveticaBlack, HelveticaBlackOblique, HelveticaBold, HelveticaLight, HelveticaLightOblique, HoeflerText-Black, HoeflerText-BlackItalic, HoeflerText-Ornaments, HoeflerTextRegular-Italic, HoeflerTextRegular-Regular, JoannaMT-Bold, JoannaMT-BoldItalic, JoannaMT-Italic, JoannaMT, LetterGothic-Bold, LetterGothic-BoldSlanted, LetterGothic-Slanted, LetterGothic, LetterGothicW1, LetterGothicW1Bold, LetterGothicW1Italic, LetterGothicWE, LetterGothicWEBold, LetterGothicWEItalic, LetterGothicWL, LetterGothicWLBold, LetterGothicWLItalic, LetterGothicWT, LetterGothicWTBold, LetterGothicWTItalic, LubalinGraph-Book, LubalinGraph-BookOblique, LubalinGraph-Demi, LubalinGraph-DemiOblique, Marigold, MarigoldW1, MarigoldWE, MarigoldWL, MarigoldWT, MonaLisa-Recut, Monaco, NewCenturySchlbk-Bold, NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic, NewCenturySchlbk-Italic, NewCenturySchlbk-Regular, NewYork, Optima-Bold, Optima-BoldItalic, Optima-Italic, Optima, Oxford, PalatinoBold, PalatinoBoldItalic, PalatinoItalic, PalatinoRoman, StempelGaramond-Bold, StempelGaramond-BoldItalic, StempelGaramond-Italic, StempelGaramond-Roman, Taffy, Univers-Bold, Univers-BoldOblique, Univers-Condensed, Univers-CondensedBold, Univers-CondensedBoldOblique, Univers-CondensedOblique, Univers-Light, Univers-Oblique, Univers, UniversCondensedW1Bold, UniversCondensedW1BoldItalic, UniversCondensedW1Medium, UniversCondensedW1MediumItalic, UniversCondensedWEBold, UniversCondensedWEBoldItalic, UniversCondensedWEMedium, UniversCondensedWEMediumItalic, UniversCondensedWLBold, UniversCondensedWLBoldItalic, UniversCondensedWLMedium, UniversCondensedWLMediumItalic, UniversCondensedWTBold, UniversCondensedWTBoldItalic, UniversCondensedWTMedium, UniversCondensedWTMediumItalic, UniversW1Bold, UniversW1BoldItalic, UniversW1Medium, UniversW1MediumItalic, UniversWEBold, UniversWEBoldItalic, UniversWEMedium, UniversWEMediumItalic, UniversWGBold, UniversWGBoldItalic, UniversWGMedium, UniversWGMediumItalic, UniversWLBold, UniversWLBoldItalic, UniversWLMedium, UniversWLMediumItalic, UniversWRBold, UniversWRBoldItalic, UniversWRMedium, UniversWRMediumItalic, UniversWTBold, UniversWTBoldItalic, UniversWTMedium, UniversWTMediumItalic, ZapfChanceryMediumItalic, ZapfDingbats. 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LucasFonts
[Lucas de Groot]

Sells fonts made by Luc(as) de Groot at FontFabrik in Berlin. MyFonts link. Established in 2000, their most popular faces include Thesis (the family that includes TheSans, a long-time bestseller), Sun, Taz and Corpid. At MyFonts, one can get Calibri, Consolas, LF Corpid III (contains support for Turkish, Cyrillic and Greek as well), LF Jesus Loves You All, LF Nebulae, LF Punten, LF Spiegel, LF Sun, LF Taz III, LF TheAntiqua, LF TheAntiquaSun, LF TheMix, LF TheSans, LF TheSansMono, LF TheSerif, all by Lucas de Groot.

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

MacCampus

The commercial TurkoFont series for the Mac (type 1, truetype). FontShop link. MacCampus specializes in foreign language fonts primarily for the Macintosh, but also for Windows. The library of over 150 high-quality font packages supports many languages. Cyrillic, Greek, Latin fonts for Eastern European, historic scripts and transliteration fonts for many languages are their core business. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MacCampus
[Sebastian Kempgen]

Europe's largest independent foreign language font developer for the Macintosh, which is directed by Sebastian Kempgen from Germany. Fonts include: Western Languages (CoreFont series), Eastern Europe (CE-Font series), Cyrillic (Professional series: RomanCyrillic Pro, Ladoga Pro etc. (text fonts); DEsign fonts: Faktor, Inessa Cyr etc. (headline, handwriting); Olliffe Fonts: Batumi, Schechtel, Russian Open (display type; example: Mashinka); Scientific Cyrillic (includes old orthography, accents, old characters); Old Church Slavonic (Cyrillic and Glagolitic, Square and Round); Non-Slavic Cyrillic: Roman CyrTurk, Ladoga CyrTurk), Greek (Modern Greek and Classical Greek (Agora and Parmenides)), Icelandic&Faeroese (PolarFont series), Irish&Welsh (Gaelic, Celtic in the CeltoFont series), Romanian (DacoFont series), Turkish (TurkoFont series), BalkanFont series (Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Maltese), Basque (BaskoFont series), Saami (SamoFont series), Georgian, Armenian, Coptic (such as the Pachomius font), Cuneiform, Sabean, SinoFont series for Vietnamese plus more or Chinese (Pinyin) transliteration, phonetic Fonts (Trubetzkoy&Phonetica), Transliteration Fonts. Some of its fonts (like Campus Ten/Twelve and Magister Book) are now sold through Agfa/Monotype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Magenta

Free Greek fonts in the Polytonistis software pack. Windows. Alternate URL for MgAntique, MgAvantG, MgBodoni, MgFuture, MgOldTimes. There are also sets of unicode fonts for Greek (single accent and multiaccent/polytonic), Latin, Turkish, and West and East European languages. This site carries these free Magenta Latin/Greek fonts, made in 2004: MgOpenCanonica-Bold, MgOpenCanonica-BoldItalic, MgOpenCanonica-Italic, MgOpenCanonica, MgOpenCosmetica-Bold, MgOpenCosmetica-BoldOblique, MgOpenCosmetica-Oblique, MgOpenCosmetica, MgOpenModata-Bold, MgOpenModata-BoldOblique, MgOpenModata-Oblique, MgOpenModata, MgOpenModerna-Bold, MgOpenModerna-BoldOblique, MgOpenModerna-Oblique, MgOpenModerna. The latter fonts were implemented/digitized by Alexias Zavras and Konstantinos Margarites. They can be modified and used for further development, in the style of the Bitstream Vera fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mahmut Bulut

Programmer and typographer in Eskisehir, Turkey. He created the brushy face No Mercy (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

MD-Type
[Mehmet Dogan]

Cypriot type designer Mehmet Dogan runs MD-Type in Mersin, Cyprus. Creator of the rounded squarish typeface family MD Type Rounded (2012), which also covers Turkish. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mesut Ugurlu

Mesut Ugurlu, art director at McCann Erickson in Istanbul, designed the font I have been waiting for all my life---Penis Type (2011), especially the multi-purpose Y. Images: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii. Behance link. Creator of the fanciful Evil Eye font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Minority languages of Russia on the Net
[Esa Anttikoski]

Esa Anttikoski's page with minority Russian language links. Has fonts for Altai/Mari, Kazakh, Tatar, Chechen, Chuvash (TimesEC), Udmurt, Ossetian, Karelian, Yakut. His font Abur (2000). Subpage on Russian minority language fonts. In particular, free fonts offered include

• Eurasian fonts for Bashkir, Buryat, Chuvash, Kalmyk and Tatar (Cyrillic): Bookman Eurasian, Chancery Eurasian, Gothic Eurasian, Mono Eurasian, Palladio Eurasian, Roman Eurasian, Sans Eurasian, Sans Condensed Eurasian, Schoolbook Eurasian. The original fonts were created by URW++, the Cyrillic part by Valek Filippov, and were modified by Esa Anttikoski. These fonts can be distributed and modified freely in accordance with the GNU General Public License.
• Kildin fonts for the Kildin Saami dialect: Bookman Kildin, Mono Kildin, Roman Kildin, Sans Kildin.
• Mansi fonts for the Mansi language: Schoolbook Mansi.
• Paleoasian fonts for Chukchi, Eskimo, Itelmen, Ket, Koryak and Nivkh: ER Bukinist Paleoasian, ER Univers Paleoasian.
• Sakha fonts for Dolgan and Yakut: Bookman Sakha, Chancery Sakha, Gothic Sakha, Mono Sakha, Palladio Sakha, Roman Sakha, Sans Sakha, Sans Condensed Sakha, Schoolbook Sakha.
• Sayan-Altai fonts for Altai, Khakas and Shor: Chancery Sayan-Altai, Roman Sayan-Altai, Schoolbook Sayan-Altai.
• Uralic fonts for Altai, Khanty, Komi, Mari, Nenets, Selkup and Udmurt: Bookman Uralic, Chancery Uralic, Gothic Uralic, Mono Uralic, Palladio Uralic, Roman Uralic, Sans Uralic, Sans Condensed Uralic, Schoolbook Uralic, Zagadka.

Murat Yegul

Turkish creator of the readable handprinted face McMuratti (2011) and the squarish face McAlberto (2011). He also made the upright connected school script face McLeonardo (2011), McLeona (2012), the cratchy handprinted McVincenzo (2011) and the spiky face McAlbertina (2011).

All his typefaces are free.

Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mustafa Celik

Istanbul-based creator of a fashion mag typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mustafa Kural

Turkish illustrator and graphic designer who lives in Istanbul. He created the compass and ruler custom face Girginler (2011). Tintotype (2011) is an experimental geometric typeface for posters and motion graphics. It comes with an interesting subfont called Tintotype Icons. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mustafa Sarsay

Turkish designer of the pay pixel face MyMS (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mya Mya

Turkish visual artist who made the hairline sans face Thin White Duke (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Namik Kemal Sarikavak

Turkish type designer. His work includes some pixel faces, as well as the angular NKS Kesim (2010), the pixelish stencil face NKS Bes Nokta (2010), and NKS Sergi94. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Naverhtrad

FontStructor who made Basmachi (2009): Basmachi is a Central-Asian flavoured typeface inspired by Cyrillic titling fonts in popular use in Kazakhstani public schools. In 2009 he made Brokenscript Rectangular (+Smooth, +Regular: nice blackletter font), Young Young Turkic (2009, a Cyrillic FontStruct based very loosely on the Serbian Cyrillic Bedrock typeface, designed specifically for the Kazakh and Kyrgyz alphabets), and LeanLeft (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nib-Type
[Onur F. Yazicigil]

Onur Yazicigil was born and raised in Turkey and currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey. He received his BFA in Graphic Design from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey and MFA in Visual Communication Design from Purdue University, Indiana, USA. Currently he teaches Graphic Design and Information Design classes at Sabanci University in Istanbul. Onur's design and research interests include book and poster design, information design, type design and history, and calligraphy and lettering.

He designed Lokum Sans, a humanistic sans typeface for display purposes, that is also legible in text sizes. At Google Web Fonts, one can download his Duru Sans (2011), which was used in the proceedings and other publications of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts.

His thesis was entitled Humanist San-serif versus Grotesque San-serif.

Typedia link. Google plus link.

In 2009, he set up Nib Type. Alternate URL. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, where his talk is entitled The lack of Latin typographic heritage and type design in Turkey. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nihat Feyizoglu

Turkish designer of Nihat (2010, handprinted). [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]  ⦿

Okobo
[Oguzcan Kaganoguzbeyoglu]

Designer of an experimental Turkish corporate alphabet in 2010, inspired by Koert van Mensvoort's Corporate Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Omer Köse

Ömer Köse is a Turkish student at Erciyes üniversitesi, b. 1986. Dafont link. Creator of the dot matrix face LCD Dot (2008), made with the help of FontStruct. Aka BlackX. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Orcan Ogetbil

Turkish designer of the (free) Serafettin cartoon font family (2008): SerafettinCartoon-Bold, SerafettinCartoon-BoldItalic, SerafettinCartoon-ExtraLight, SerafettinCartoon-ExtraLightItalic, SerafettinCartoon-Italic, SerafettinCartoon, SerafettinCartoonCondensed-Italic, SerafettinCartoonCondensed. This family is a modified and corrected version of Thukkaram Gopalrao's GPL'd font TSCu_Comic (1999). Old links for Gopalrao include Thinnai, Tamil Linux, and Sourceforge tail Linux. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Orkhon

Omniglot's page on the Orkhon alphabet. I quote: The earliest known examples of writing in any Turkic language were found in the Orkhon river valley in Mongolia in the 19th century. They date from the early 8th century AD and the script in which they are written is known as the Orkhon alphabet. Inscriptions dating from the later 8th century AD in a slight variant of the Orkhon alphabet, known as Yenisei or Siberian runes, have also been found around Yenisei and other parts of Siberia. Because of a superficial resemblance to the Runic alphabet, the alphabet is also known as Orkhon or Turkic runes. This resemblance is probably a result of the writing materials used - most inscriptions are in hard surfaces, such as stone or wood, and curved lines are difficult to inscribe in such surfaces. The Orkhon alphabet is thought to have been derived from or inspired by a non-cursive version of the Sogdian script. By the 9th century AD, the Orkhon and Yenisei alphabets were replaced by the Uighur alphabet, which developed from the cursive version of the Sogdian script. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Osman Tülü

Turkish type designer and typographer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ozgür Ozserin

Özgür Özserin is a Turkish art director who lives in London. Behance link. Creator of the free angular display face Kimpet (2008-2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philippe Cochy

French (Corsican) designer of the semi-calligraphic script face Pecita (2009). Home page, which is entirely set in this script, yet is text-searchable and used as a regular font---great example to follow. Pecita also covers Greek, Turkish, Vietnamese and IPA. Alternate URL. See also the Open Font Library. Font Squirrel link. Kernest link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pierre A. MacKay

Pierre A. MacKay presents some Turkish metafonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

qmer

Omer is based in Izmir, Turkey, where he is a self-declared graffiti artist, b. 1995. He designed the angry hand-drawn gothic face "ar" (sic) in 2008. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Quartet Systems
[Eric Wannin]

Eric Wannin's French commercial foundry with PC and Mac fonts for all European languages, most Indic languages, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, Amharic, Inuit, Slavonic, Greek, Tibetan, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, Cri. Hieroglyphic fonts too. Free font family: EuroQuartet. These fonts have one glyph only, the Euro symbol. It has some bar code fonts too.

Multilingual fonts. They cover Braille, East European languages, Turkish, Baltic, Cyrillic, Icelandic and Greek. According to the Google] [More]  ⦿

Raif Ceyhun Sahin

Istanbul-based creator of the good-looking fat pixel face Pika (2011). Behance link. He completed his design education at Sabanci University in Istanbul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

rchrdskjmr

Turkish creator of the handwriting font rchrdskjmr's handwriting (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Repro Cemýl Font Serýsý

Turkish font series from the 1990s: AllegroScriptItalic, BahamasBold, BahamasHeavyPlain, BangkokPlain, BoulvardItalic, BrooklynBold, BrooklynBoldItalic, BrooklynItalic, BrooklynPlain, CupertinoPlain, DawnCastleBold, DawnCastlePlain, FrankensteinPlain, FreeportPlain, FujiyamaBoldItalic, FujiyamaExtraBoldItalic, FujiyamaItalic, FujiyamaLightItalic, FujiyamaLightPlain, FujiyamaPlain, HomewardBoundPlain, KoalaBold, LincolnPlain, MemorandumPlain, MotorPlain, MysticalPlain, OttawaBold, OttawaBoldItalic, OttawaPlain, OttawaPlain, ParagonPlain, PenguinBold, PenguinLightPlain, RenfrewNormal, SwitzerlandBlackItalic, SwitzerlandBlackPlain, SwitzerlandBoldItalic, SwitzerlandCondBlackItalic, SwitzerlandCondBlackPlain, SwitzerlandCondLightPlain, SwitzerlandInseratPlain, SwitzerlandLightItalic, SwitzerlandLightPlain, SwitzerlandNarrowBold, SwitzerlandNarrowBoldItalic, SwitzerlandNarrowItalic, TimpaniBoldItalic, TimpaniHeavyItalic, TimpaniHeavyPlain, TimpaniItalic, USABlackItalic, USABlackPlain, USALightItalic, USALightPlain, UnicornPlain, VogueBold, VoguePlain. Seems like a copy of some old Corel collection. [Google] [More]  ⦿

rzrarti (or: Saint Never)
[Lee Waterman]

American youngster (b. 1994) who created the pixel faces Piksalet (2009) and PixelYourLife (2007). Alternate URL. Not sure, but his last name could be Meric. Dafont link. In 2008, he created the techno face rzrarti. As Saint Never, Lee Waterman created the pixel faces PixelFaceOnFire, 7LineDigital, Alphabeta, Digitalix, KTech and SkrewdUpSoulz in 2007. Designer of the barcode font SmallBars (2007). As Meric from Turkey, he made Ustura (2008), using FontStruct. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sait Yilmaz

Designer in Istanbul, Turkey. He made Outliney (2008, 3d hand-drawn), Puru (2008, a fat minimalist face---his best in my view), Fontobox (2008) and Pixart (2008). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samonyolu

Turkish site with these fonts: STVMyriadBlack, STVMyriadBlackItalic, STVMyriadBold, STVMyriadLight, STVMyriadLightItalic, STVMyriadNormal, all Turkish versions by Adobe of Myriad. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarp Sozdinler

Graphic design student at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Before that, he was art director in his native Turkey (b. Izmir, 1989), where he studied computer engineering at Bahcesehir University. Behance link.

Creator of the 3-weight type family Bled (2012), which has some rounded cornes and feels like a distant relative of DIN. A lot of design thought went into this typeface. We are promised a free download soon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sercan Sargül

Istanbul-based graphic design on faculty of Fine arts in Kutahya Dumlupinar University. He created Peignotian magazine font in 2011. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Serkan Toros

Turkish creator of the minimalist monoline sans face Corbis (2012). Its design is based on the Corbis logo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sinan Alpaslan

Istanbul-based graphic designer. Behance link. He created the organic face Sharp (2011). Poster entitled Kuresel is anma (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Southern Software Inc. (SSi)

SSi sells foreign fonts for Arabic, Urdu, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Baltic, Burmese, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Cree, Simplified Chinese, Ethiopian, Inuktitut, Gaelic, IPA, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Mayan. Farsi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Syriac, South Arabian, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ugaritic, and Vietnamese. Plus musical dingbats. Of course, they did not make a single of these fonts themselves. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tamer Koseli

Designer from Istanbul, who was born in Switzerland. Behance link. He created an organic display face called Doku (2011), which can be downloaded here. Enso (2011) is a rounded stencil face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taner Ardali

Turkish art director and graphic designer in Istanbul. Work page. Creator of the Embrio family of sans faces in 2009. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tatar language

Esa Anttikoski's page with Tatar links. Tatar is in the Turkish family of languages and is spoken in the Republic of Tatarstan, in a number of districts in Bashkortostan, Mari El, Udmurtia, Mordovia, in most regions of Russia and in a few districts of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaidzhan, Kirgizia, Tadzhikistan and Turkmenistan. This page has a free Tatar truetype font from Kheter Publishers. Description of some Tatar fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tatarstan Internetta

Free Tatar truetype font. Click in lower left corner. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taygun Kurtulus

Born in 1988, Taygun Kurtulus studies computer engineering at Istanbul University.

Creator of the counterless multi-shaded typeface Newtime (2010).

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

Tilde (was: AG Fonts)

Reinis Ludvik's Riga-based Latvian font design and software development company sells high quality fonts (adapted from Bitstream fonts) for Baltic, Cyrillic, Turkish and Eastern European languages. Includes the AG Baltia fonts by Andrejs Grinbergs. Commercial Cyrillic fonts based on Bitstream fonts. The Tilde/AG Fonts collection published between 1991-1995 also includes these families designed by Andrejs Grinbergs: AGAalenBold, AGBengaly, AGCenturion, AGCrown, AGFriQUer, AGGalleon, AGGloria, AGLetterica, MyFonts link where one finds Snowbird (2011, informally handprinted family), Constellation Pro (geometric sans family), Kette Pro and Rigaer Tango Pro (calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Toughluck Fonts

Creators of the shattered glyph face tl quix (2007). Home page in Turkey. [Google] [More]  ⦿

TrFonts

Original fonts and dingbats: Ataturk (2003, dingbats by Kursad Cakir), TrSahinsan (2001), TrSahCeviz, TrSahAlako-Bold, TrSahDungeon-Regular, TrSahFuturaBT-Bold, TrSahFuturaBT-BoldItalic, TrSahFuturaBlackBT-Regular, TrSahFuturaBT-Light, TrSahFuturaBT-LightItalic, TrSahFuturaBT-ExtraBlack, TrSahInstitution, TrSahKomikazba, TrSahLarissa, TrSahPanther, TrSah-Engebrechtre-BoldItalic, TrSahEngebrechtre-Bold, TrSahEngebrechtreExpanded-BoldItalic, TrSahEngebrechtreExpanded-Bold, TrSahEngebrechtreExpanded-Italic, TrSahEngebrechtreExpanded, TrSahEngebrechtre-Italic, TrSahEngebrechtre, TrSahWaltDisneyScript, TrSahTurkiye, TweetyandFriends, YildizTeknikUniversitesi (the last two are dingbat fonts by Naci Kucukkaya). Well, not quite. The TrSah-Engebrechtre series is taken directly from Ray Larabie, for example. I don't read Turkish, but I assume that these fonts were just augmented with Turkish diacritics. Justin, the creator of the Walt Disney Script font complains that TrSah Walt Disney Script is an unauthorized re-branding of his font, and he points out that TrFonts has changed the copyright to "Ceviz:Net&Walt Disney Company". The designer seems to be Kursad Cakir. About Decotech (2001), he writes: is a new rendition of a Walt Disney World Tomorrowland-style font. Seizing inspiration from designs by Daniel Pelavin and Neville Brody -- whose distinctive typefaces help define the retro-futuristic style of New Tomorrowland -- DecoTech features capitals from Metropolis Science Centre and Space Mountain, as well as an original lowercase set. Decotech TL offers some extra capitals: the uppercase contain the common "Tomorrowland" character set, while the lowercase contain some additional designs based on signage from Port Discovery at Tokyo Disney Sea. These can be used alone or mixed with DecoTech upper/lowercase for more design possibilites. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Turkcestan

Free Uzbeki, Tatar Cyrillic, Tatar Turkish, Kazak, Bashkirian, Azeri and Turkish fonts. Plus links for all these Turkic languages: Altai, Azerbaijani, Balkar, Bashkir, Chagatay, Chuvash, Cuman, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karachay, Karaim, Kazakh, Khakas, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Nogay, Old Uyghur, Orkhon, Ottoman, Shor, Tatar, Tofa, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut, Yellow Uyghur. All of this is maintained by Johan Vandewalle in Belgium. KYRG [Google] [More]  ⦿

turkey.org

A 555K file with about 25 Turkish truetype fonts including Arial, Courier and Times families from Adobe and/or Monotype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Turkish download selections

Freeware Turkish-English Truetype fonts. Direct download. The fonts include America, Bahamas, Banff, CasperOpenFace, Cupertino, DawnCastle, Erie, Frankenstein, HPArial, HPTimes-New-Roman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Turkish Freeware and Shareware Selections

Archive contains freeware English-Turkish truetype fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Turkish lira symbol

Turkey selects a new symbol for its currency on March 1, 2012. However, there already exists a lira sign. Andreas Stötzner hits the nail on the head with this remark: It is NOT a new character. (!) There is the Lira sign existing at codepoint 20A4, typographically a variant of the sterling glyph. End of story. (Note that by annotation it is specified just as LIRA, not as Italian or Turkish Lira per se.) Everything else is just nonsense. If you wish now to tune the design of 20A4 according to the new Turkish briefing, feel free to do so. But I won't, because it's rubbish. And if ever our Turkish friends come to raise the request of a new character before ISO, I will say: 20A4. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Turkish Software

Several Turkish font packages can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Turkish Typographic Society

Established in 2010, this organization brings Turkish typographers, type designers, calligpraphers and lettering artists together . Active Facebook sub-page with many type samples. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Türkçe Font

Archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typedepot
[Alexander Nedelev]

Typedepot is a small type foundry currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria, founded by MyFonts link and Veronika Slavova in 2009. Graphic designer from Sofia, Bulgaria, b. 1984 (Dimitrovgrad). Creator of the display faces Glide (2009, done with Veronika Slavova), Glide Sketch (outline version), and Slide (2009, ultra-condensed). With Veronika Slavova, he designed the multiline family Pista (2010) and the organic Oxo family (2010), which includes a stencil, Corki (2011, a condensed slab serif), and Oxo College Barrister Sans (2010) covers Latin, Greek, Eastern European languages, Cyrillic, Turkish and Baltic. Parallel (2010) is an ultra-condensed typeface for anorexics. Piron (2010, by Nedelev and Slavova) and Matilde (2010, by Nedelev and Slavova) are free. Banda (2011) is a 16-style semi-serif type family characterized by a tall x-height and rounded semi-serifs [one free weight]. Centrale Sans (2011, Slavova and Nedelev) is a modern sans family.

Behance link. MyFonts link. Old URL. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Typodisiac
[Hikmet Guler]

Typodisiac is a free font foundry (est. 2011) run by Hikmet Guler, a freelance designer in Istanbul. Behance link. His creations:

• Dunn (2011) is a modular geometric typeface. The letters are created by modifications of only rounded rectangles.
• Dash (2011) is a multiline circular-arc based typeface.

Ugur Islim

Turkish designer who lives in Istanbul. Creator of the ornamental family Neo Orient Type (2011) and of Neo Orient Initials (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ugur Matban

Turkish creator of Pixelia (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ulusal Okul

Mersin-based Turkish designer (b. 1969) of UlusalOkul.Comizgili (2006), a handwriting face, with lines, useful for teaching. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

UNESCO Kazakhstan

Type 1 and truetype fonts for Armenian by Ruben Tarumian: ArialArmenGarBold, ArialArmenGarItalic, ArialArmenGar, ArmoldGar, ArTarGrqiNorGarBold, ArTarGrqiNorGarItalic, ArTarGrqiNorGar, ArTarumianMatenagirGarBold, ArTarumianMatenagirGarItalic, ArTarumianMatenagirGar, ArTarumianTimesGarBold, ArTarumianTimesGarItalic, ArTarumianTimesGar. And the Cyrillic fonts by Garkavets (2000): BookmanUrumBold, BookmanUrumItalic, BookmanUrum. Plus QypchakDiacriticBoldItalic (has characters and ligatures, used in "Codex Cumanicus" and Qypchaq written monuments XIII-XIV centuries, also made by Garkavets, 2000), QypchakDiacriticBold, QypchakDiacriticItalic, QypchakDiacritic. From ParaGraph, the Cyrillic fonts SchoolBookAC-Regular, SchoolBookAC-Italic, SchoolBookAC-Bold, SchoolBookAC-BoldItalic. From Garkavets, the Cyrillic fonts TimesUrumNewBold, TimesUrumNewBold-Italic, TimesUrumNewItalic, TimesUrumNewNormal. By Ralph Hancock, the Greek font VusillusOldFaceItalic. And finally, from Adobe, the Turkish fonts TmsRoman, TmsRomanBold, TmsRomanBoldItalic, TmsRomanItalic. Direct access. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Unicode ISO 8859

Description of character sets.

• 8859-1 Europe, Latin America (Afrikaans, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Galician, Irish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.)
• 8859-2 Eastern Europe
• 8859-3 SE Europe
• 8859-4 Scandinavia (mostly covered by 8859-1 also)
• 8859-5 Cyrillic
• 8859-6 Arabic
• 8859-7 Greek
• 8859-8 Hebrew
• 8859-9 Latin5, same as 8859-1 except for Turkish instead of Icelandic
• 8859-10 Latin6, for Eskimo/Scandinavian languages

UniType

Commercial Windows XP packages sold with foreign language fonts in TrueType and PostScript, called GlobalSuite, GlobalWriter and GlobalOffice. Includes most foreign languages. For example, in the Cyrillic sphere, they have Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian plus over 50 additional Cyrillic languages such as Azeri, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Moldavian, Mongolian, Tadzhik, Tatar, Turkmen and Uzbek. And for North Indian, they have Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, and Sanskrit. [Google] [More]  ⦿

urw++

URW++ Design&Development GmbH is a Hamburg-based foundry established in 1995 by Svend Bang, Hans-Jochen Lau, Peter Rosenfeld, and Jürgen Willrodt. URW stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, named after Gerhard Rubow and Rudolf Weber, cofounders of the original URW company from which urw++ evolved. It offers a whole range of font services and has an extensive (7000+) font library. At the basis of the early development of many classy PostScript fonts. For example, in 1999, URW++ donated the 35 core PostScript fonts (renamed) under the GNU GPL license to the Ghostscript project. The great 3000-font CD costs about 2000DM. Other CDs are more expensive: on the ITF CD, each font is about 100DM! URW sells fonts and font families with complete rights (you can change, resell, embed, anything, except use the original name), with examples ranging from 2k for a complete family of 12 to 5k for a collection of 250 fonts. This practice continues until today: URW++ thus provides a great service to software developers who want to include high-quality typefaces in their software applications. URW has offices in many countries. In the first decade of the 21st century, freelance type designer Ralph M. Unger contributed most frequently to the URW library. OpenType collection guide (in PDF).

Selected releases: URW Egyptienne, URW Grotesk (1985, Hermann Zapf), Anzeigen Grotesk (2009), Clarendon No 1 URW, Nimbus Sans (300 Euros), Nimbus Sans Novus (400 Euros), Nimbus Sans Europa (covering Latin, Greek, Baltic, Cyrillic, Central European, Turkish, Romanian, and so forth), Nimbus Roman No 9 (2001), Nimbus Sans Global and Nimbus Roman Global, each at about 2000 Euros, and each containing 35,000 glyphs, from kanji/Chinese/Korean to all European languages. House faces done for corporations: DaimlerChrysler Corporate ASE (after the Corporate ASE series for Daimler-Benz by Kurt Weidemann), Siemens Schriftfamilie, Deutsche Telekom Schriftfamilie, ZF Friedrichshafen, Körber Argo, URW++ SelecType Raldo (2001, for Igepa).

MyFonts lists their bestsellers. Catalog of their faces [large web page warning]. Another catalog of URW's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Vistawide

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]  ⦿

Volkan Ölmez

Graphic designer in Istanbul. On Behance, one can view his squarish artsy Muscle Font (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wordmark
[Fahri Özkaramanli]

An on-line tool to showcase the fonts installed on one's computer. Description: [...] Wordmark.it detects fonts installed on your system with a small Flash script written by Marko Dugonjic of Type Tester. It also uses Remy Sharp's font detection script. [...] I'm Fahri Özkaramanli (b. Nicosia, 1980), a freelance visual communication designer living in Istanbul. I received my BA in Visual Communication Design at Istanbul Bilgi University in 2005 where I am a candidate in VCDMFA and currently teaching Web Design and Interactive Web Projects courses as a part time instructor. [Google] [More]  ⦿

WorldScript Macintosh Support

WorldScript: language utilities for the Mac (free downloads). Includes Turkish, Cherokee, Uralic Cyrillic, Georgian, Icelandic, Maltese, Vietnamese, Celtic, Intuktitut, Greek and Coptic support. Page maintained by Michael Everson. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yaman Terzioglu

Istanbul-based creator of the pixel face Constituent (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yasemin Ezberci

Turkish designer, b. 1985. She created the simple handwriting face Yasemin Sans (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yavuz Selim Can

Istanbul-based graphic designer. Behance link. Another Behance link. Creator of a number of typefaces, including this one (2010) and the avant-garde sans face Gnostic (2011). Flickr link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yazi Tipi

Turkish archive with over 7000 fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yazýtipi Dosyalarý
[Naci Kucukkaya]

Five truetype fonts by Naci Kucukkaya: TTF Resistors, TTF_TRAC (radio amateurs club of Turkey logo), CWfont (Morse), TTF_YTU (Yildiz Technical University logo), TweetyandFriends (Tweety dingbat font), and Turkiye75 (Turkish flag, ataturk pictures, and Turkish nationalist dingbats). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yesim Endes

Istanbul-based creator of a hilarious type poster called Typeman (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yildiray Atas

Turkish graphic designer who made a colorful typographic poster called Pantone (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zeynep Yildirim

Born and raised in Turkey, Zeynpep moved to New York City to study at the Parsons The New School for Design. She graduated in 2010. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Designer of Venice Door Dingbats (2012) and Colombo (2012, text face).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿