TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Thu Mar 14 09:58:02 EDT 2024

SEARCH THIS SITE:

IMAGE SEARCH:

FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE

LUC DEVROYE


ABOUT







Type scene in California



[Art deco poster for Napa Valley champagne by Californian artist Poto Leifi]








SWITCH TO INDEX FILE


101 Editions
[Carolina de Bartolo]

Founded by Carolina de Bartolo, 101 Editions is the San Anselmo, CA-based publisher of the book Explorations in Typography: Mastering the Art of Fine Typesetting and its iOS companion app. 101 Editions also offers full-service creative direction for a wide range of visual communications. It specializes in contract publishing, typographic consulting and custom typefaces.

Explorations in Typography Mastering the Art of Fine Typesetting is both the title of a 2011 book and the name of a web site by Carolina de Bartolo and Erik Spiekermann. The site is worth a visit, as users can "set" their own text. Their own blurb: [The book] is a vast collection of beautiful typesetting examples. Page after page, a brief article by Erik Spiekermann has been set in hundreds of different ways in hundreds of different typefaces, creating an extended visual taxonomy of typesetting that allows you to learn by looking. With complete type specifications on every page and examples set in hundreds of typefaces (many from the FontFont library), the aggregate effect is an ersatz type catalog as well as an extensive resource of typesetting ideas.

Her typefaces include Txt101 (2014: a fresh typeface for mock text and borders, designed in collaboration with Chiharu Tanaka at Psy/Ops).

Carolina graduated from the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

323 Productions
[Arnie Gabriel Gonzales]

Original anarchist fonts by 323 Productions (Arnie G. Gonzales, Los Angeles, CA): the formidable dingbat font Anarquia v1.0 beta, with revolutionary glyphs, and drawings of the world's great anarchists. And Calaveras 323 (1999), a horror scanbat font with glyphs related to the Dia de los muertos. It can also be found here.

Old web site. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A Primary Kind of Life

Californian designer of several series of handcrafted typefaces. The names of the typefaces start with APL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Monroy

Art director in Santa Monica, CA, who created Tube Alphabet in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Sittig
[xtypa]

[More]  ⦿

Aaron-Harper Lee

Palo Alto, CA-based designer of a stunning typographic wasp in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abel Vieyra

San Bernardino, CA-based designer of Dongle (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abstract Office (was: Subtext Office)
[Benjamin Woodlock]

Benjamin Woodlock (Subtext Office, Los Angeles, CA) designed Utopique in 2014. Utopique is a revival of a flared passionate French sans-serif designed by Enric Crous-Vidal---known for his promotion of Latin seductive elements in typefaces---in the early 1960s.

And a mere two weeks after its release, Utopique had to be renamed Anomique, undoubtedly because of an oligopolistic complaint by Adobe to protect its trademarked name Utopia.

In 2013, he designed the 3-style custom typeface McBean for the California Institute of the Arts as an extension to the school's branding. McBean was expanded to sixteen styles in 2017 for general release, including McBean Sans, Slab, Italic and Beast.

Later typefaces: Reynaldo (Reynaldo is an athletic slab-serif trained for confident display typography. Reynaldo is inspired by the antics of 19th century Clarendons with traces of industrial signage, from wrought-iron details to layered brush-strokes), Safety Gothic (a bold octagonal typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

AcuteType
[Stirling H. Alexander]

This outfit used to sell and give away fonts made by Stirling H. Alexander until it closed in 1996. Based in Orinda, California, they also were into custom handwriting and custom calligraphic fonts. Free typefaces included Lingbats and Ling Print Brush. Alexander made a dozen fonts in all. Acutetype morphed into a porn site and then another site since 1996, but Stirling H. Alexander has nothing to do with that. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Kramer

Graphic designer in Los Angeles who created Navy Seal (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Nienow
[Nienow Brand]

[More]  ⦿

Adam Villareal

San Jose, CA-based designer of the graffiti typeface Origraph (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Wojewidka

Adam Wojewidka (San Francisco) created the computer code-inspired typeface 32 Bit Risc (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adelmo Cabello

San Diego, CA-based designer of the free all caps art deco sans typeface Brooks Type (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adhemas Batista

Brazilian art director, graphic designer and illustrator based in Los Angeles. Born in 1981 in Sao Paulo. Behance link. He designed various display typefaces for his projects: Mariana (2005) is an experimental typeface for the Havaianas web site. Cristiane (2005) is a Bank Gothic-inspired sans. Mathews (2005) and Ana Rayssa (2005, upright connected script) are experimental types. Antonio (2005) is a fat rounded sans. Josefa (2005) is a grunge typeface created for Brahma Bier. Adilson (2005) is a super-fat display face. Rose (2005) and Douglas (2005, also a super-fat display face) were created for Sensorama ID. Other typefaces include Mark, Mike and Cris. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Admix Designs
[Joe Prince]

Joe Prince (Admix Designs) was a student at Academy of the Canyons near LA, 2007-2011. His typefaces:

Google Font Directory link. Additional Google link. Klingspor link. Devian Tart link. Cargo collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adobe Systems Inc

The company that changed typesetting by the introduction of PostScript and type 1 fonts. Adobe Systems, based in San Jose, California, was started by John Warnock and Chuck Geschke in 1982. In 1999 it became a billion dollar company. The success of the PostScript graphics programming language, a printing industry standard since the mid-1980s, explains its early success. The company grew thanks to other popular products such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, and thanks to the introduction of the PDF format for document. Sumner Stone was the Director of Typography from 1984 to 1991. He initiated Adobe's design program, where classic fonts (including Garamond and Caslon) were revived by type designers such as Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly, and others. New type designs such as Minion and Myriad saw the light. The Adobe type design group was later headed by David Lemon, with the help of Thomas Phinney. Other gems in the Adobe arsenal include the PostScript Type 3 format, which permit designers to use programming tools (loops and calculations) to show typefaces. This font format was dropped after a decade (although one can still use it in PostScript programs) because ATM, Adobe's Type Manager for screens, cannot ghandle them. The Multiple Master format, which allows an infinite number of fonts to be interpolated between a set of master designs was also promising. It too was dropped in 1999 after about a decade.

Adobe Fonts at Type Network.

Catalog of Adobe fonts in order of popularity. Catalog of fonts in alphabetical order [large web page warning]. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Ortiz
[Manchaware]

[More]  ⦿

Adrian Saucedo

Adrian Saucedo, a graphic designer in San Diego, created Monster Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adriana Vigil

Santa Rosa, CA-based designer of a floriated caps typeface in 2015. Adriana grew up in Northern California. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adriel Almirol
[Hypoetical]

[More]  ⦿

Aerotype
[Stephen Miggas]

Aerotype is a foundry in Camarillo, CA (formerly in Glendale, CA). It sells the typefaces of Stephen Miggas. Many types were designed around 1998, and most were rejuvenated and updated in 2005. A list of Aerotype's typefaces typefaces:

  • Pixel fonts: Airlock, AirlockWebDings, Fronteer One, Fronteer Two, Microtooth, Microtooth Web Dings, No Biggie One (+Bold), No Biggie Two (+Bold).
  • Old typewriter fonts: Obsolete (+Bold, XBold, Light, XLight).
  • Handwriting or informal scripts: Fave (2019), Arbordale (2014, calligraphic), Bountiful, BountifulBold, Khaki (2007, fun script), Khaki Alternate, Mission, Sanscripta (+Heavy), Siesta, Southbee, Stay True (2011, tattoo-inspired), Turbinado (2018), Boundless, Chillin, Angeleno, Game Street, Jumpshot.
  • Stencil typefaces: Expedition Stencil (+Heavy, +Thin), Hogwild (2010).
  • Blackletter: Octoberfest, Kingshead (+Alternate, Alternate Gothic, Alternate Light, Gothic, Light), Ladybat (+Alternate, Alternate Light, Light), Ravenwood One (+Bold, Condensed), Ravenwood Two (+Bold, Condensed), Wilhelmschrift, Ravenwood, Octoberfest (blackletter), Gothicus (2006, after Rudolf Koch's Maximilian), Dractura, Dracena.
  • Destructionist: Derailer (2016), Americanus (2016, emulating 1800s newsprint type), Dogjaw (2009), Thunderhouse (2009), Sluicebox (2008), Americanus, Conquistador Medium, Derailer (2006), Fiesta, Indigo Medium, Rebound (+Bold, Light, Super, XLight), Coldsmith, Blackstock, Boilerplate, Geoduck, Ghost train.
  • Techno: Durandal (+Black, Flat, FlatBlack, FlatLight, Light, Recycle.
  • Octagonal typefaces: Expedition (+Heavy, Thin, Super, StencilSuper), Protocol (+Alternate, Alternate Light, Alternate Bold, Bold, Light).
  • Dymo label simulation typefaces: Recycle Alternate, Recycle Alternate Reverse, Recycle Reverse, Recycle Standard), Public Works.
  • Display typefaces: Pacifico (2009), Rebound, Roughneck, Fiesta (Mexican style), Mediterano, Pitchfork, Serendipity.
  • Western style: Buckboard (2009), Bootstrap (2010, a estern wood-inspired slab serif), Planchette, Protocol, Leadville (Egyptian), Saloon After, Saloon Before, Boxwood, Caboose, Copperjack (2006, Egyptian), Silverton (Egyptian).
  • Pre 1999 typefaces that have been discontined or renamed: Clique Serif, Bevel-Broken, CliqueWedge, Vector, Corrode, Looneywood.
  • Dingbats: Antique Macabre Ornaments (2007).
  • Wood type: Coldsmith (2016), Sluicebox (2016, letterpress style), Applewood (+Alternate, 2009), Blackstock (2015).
  • Brush scripts: Zooja (2016).
  • Script typefaces: Fave (2019-2020).
  • Calligraphic typefaces: Duende (2016), Meritage (2014, a contrast-rich brush face)), Keepsake (2012, also advertised as a tattoo script typeface family), Spindrift (2012).

Creative Market link. View Stephen Miggas's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aesthetic Type
[Michael Jarboe]

Aesthetic Type (Cardiff, CA) was founded in 2014 by multi-disciplinary creative Michael Jarboe alongside his partner Robin Jarboe. Michael holds a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and Robin a BA in Art History from the University of California San Diego. Before Aesthetic Type, Michael Jarboe ran the type foundry Reserves. Aesthetic Type published the hairline sans typeface Anon Line (2019), and Anon Grotesk (2014-2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agnes Han

Student at Otis College of Art and Design in California who created a monoline sans typeface called Seymour (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aiki Chen

Designer, b. Shanghai, China, who is based in Los Angeles. Designer of the didone typeface Touch (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aimee Tejeda

San Diego-based designer of the angular typeface Vampire (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

AisleOne
[Antonio Carusone]

Interesting graphic design and typography news and blog site by Antonio Carusone. His CV in his own words: Born in Queens, NY into a colorful Italian family, Antonio Carusone has been in the creative arts since he was a child. His early artistic talents led him to NYCs esteemed, High School of Art and Design, where he graduated in 1997. He then attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and The Academy of Art College in San Francisco, where he studied Computer Animation. Currently Antonio resides in NYC, where he is a Senior Art Director at Ogilvy. Prior to Ogilvy he was an Art Director at Atmosphere BBDO where he worked on projects which have included Lays, Dial, Red Stripe, AOL, NFL, Gillette, Cingular, Audi, Verizon, and Bank of America. Type subpage. Commercial typefaces: Enotmik (2008, a monocase display typeface available in two weights, Light and Bold. Designed on a grid, Enotmik (2008) is made up of 90 and 45 degree angles). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A.J. Ortillo

San Jose, CA-based designer of Klapp Klapp (2016), which is a typeface inspired by Yukimi Nagano, the lead singer of soul band Little Dragon. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan Blackman

Alan Blackman has a BA in anthropolgy and sociology from Queens Collede, NY (1950) and a BLitt in social anthropology from Oxford University, England (1957). He graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the late 1950s. He was a letterform instructor at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. His first typeface, Galahad (Adobe, 1995), is calligraphic, elegant and rough-edged.

In 2012, he published the smilie alphading typeface Say Cheese at Linotype.

Linotype page. Adobe page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alan Dague-Greene

Type designer (formerly Alan Greene) who is presently at MvB Design in charge of font production. Before that, he was head of custom font creation at FontShop San Francisco, and was also briefly at T26.

His typefaces:

  • The huge serifed family FF Atma (2001).
  • Indispose (T26).
  • MVB Peccadillo (2002, MVB). Done with Holly Goldsmith.
  • MVB Sirenne family (2002). Done with Mark van Bronkhorst, this large family is based on an 18th century design, with optical sizes.
  • The free font family Courier Prime (2013), created for John August and Quote Unquote Apps, made for screenwriters: Courier Prime is optimized for 12 point size, and matches the metrics of Courier and Courier Final Draft, so you can often swap it out one-for-one. Other Couriers just slant the letters to create faux italics. We give you a whole new typeface [with true italics], modeled off the script of vintage typewriters. The competition was Mac Courier [the 1990 Apple system font made by Bitstream] and Courier Final Draft [used in the Final Drafdt screenwriter software]. At Open Font Library, we find Courier Prime Code (for programmers) and Courier Prime Sans, both designed in 2015. Finally Courier Prime was added to Courier Prime in 2019. Github link.
  • Codesigner at American Type Founders Collection of ATF Alternate Gothic (2015, Mark van Bronkhorst, Alan Dague-Greene, David Sudweeks, Igino Marini, & Ben Kiel). ATF Alternate Gothic is a new, significant digital expansion to 40 fonts of Morris Fuller Benton's classic 1903 design.
  • MVB Salis. A 16-style corporate sans family.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alastair Johnston

Noted type historian in Berkeley, CA. Alastair Johnston is a partner in Poltroon Press, Berkeley. He taught college level courses in typography for over 30 years. He has published scores of books and won the Award of Excellence in the AIGA Just Type Show. His published works include bibliographies and discographies, as well as Alphabets to Order: The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens (New Castle, 2000), Nineteenth-century American designers & engravers of type by William E. Loy (co-editor/designer; Oak Knoll Press, 2009), Hanging Quotes (Cuneiform Press/University of Houston, Texas, 2011), Typographical Tourists: Tales of tramping printers (Poltroon Press, 2012) and Transitional Faces: The Lives and Work of Richard Austin, type-cutter, & Richard Turner Austin, wood-engraver (Poltroon Press, 2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aldus Type Studio

Mysterious outfit that used to be located at 731 S La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, CA 90036. It set type primarily for advertising agencies. Between 1997 and 2000, Art Paquette modified and improved some existing fonts. There is also an Aldus company related to Mark Myers in San Diego that used to bundle its fonts with TypeTwister---this was a different company not connected to Aldus Type Studio. The San Diego company changed its name to Aldus Digital Graphics, was bought by Supreme Graphics in 2011, and is no longer in business.

Fonts from Aldus that are traveling the internet include AestheticPlain, AllegroSwashes, Angel, Angel, AssayExtraExtended, AssayRimmed, Cardinal, Cruickshank, Dainty, Dominican, FantasiaCaps (based on Fantasia from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. III), GothicCaps (based on Gothic from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), Lettresombrees, LubnaCaps (based on Lubna from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. II), Nabel (based on Nabel from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), Napoli (based on Napoli from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. II), Penelope, Regal (based on Regal from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), Romant (based on Romant from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. III), Royal (based on Royal from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. II), Spire, SpireAlt, SpireExtraLight, SpireExtraLightAlt, SpireShaded, WahingtonAntiqueOpen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aled Anaya

Graphic designer from Escondido, CA. He created the fat counterless slab typeface Manzana (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleisha Marie La Roque

During her studies at SJSU, Milpitas, CA-based Aleisha Marie La Roque designed the angular typeface Chunk (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Chavetta

Creator of this hairline typeface for the San Francisco magazine (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Elumba

San Francisco-based designer of the circle-based typeface Roundabout (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandr Khomyakov

San Francisco-based designer of the text typeface Pudra (Powder) (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Buka

Alex Buka (Archy Studio, in Vienna, Austria, and Marina del Rey, CA) created Designosaur (2012, a bold sans typeface).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Fuentes

Illustrator from Los Angeles. Designer at You Work For Them who made the hand-lettered typeface Por Vida (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Ignacio

La Mirada, CA-based designer of Soda Lime, a colorful typeface of broken glass (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Jacque

Alex Jacque (b. 1986, Virginia) is a designer and developer based in Oakland, CA (was: Baltimore, MD). He studied at the University of Michigan School of Art&Design and was located at that time in Ann Arbour, MI. He obtained an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Creator of Coop Blackletter (2016, a soft blackletter version of Cooper Black), Dequindre (2015, based on the capitals of Fette Buhe Fraktur by Walter Buhe, 1914-1915), Teip (2014, a multiline layerable all caps typeface), Pila (2014, techno stencil), Handu (2012, hand-drawn sans-serif inspired by the hand-painted type and signage on the streets of Kolkata, India), Atrium (2012, a squarish sans family based on the pen art of W.E. Dennis), Saugatuck (2011, grunge) and Sello (2011, a unicase hand-drawn, geometric sans-serif with a touch of retro).

Behance link. Klingspor link. MyFonts foundry link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alex Merto

Creator of the erotic alphading alphabet Effing (2010). Alex lives in Brooklyn, NY, was born in New York City, and was raised in Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Orvell

Alex Orvell (San Francisco) created the grotesque caps typeface Posterijen in 2013. It was inspired by Dutch postal design, hence the name. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Parada

Graphic designer in West Covina, CA. Creator of the modern psychedelic typeface Essencea (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexa Younger

Los Angeles-based creator of Runyon Canyon Chalk Typeface (2013) and Pendleton (2013, experimental typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Marshall

Scottish type designer, b. 1935. He studied architecture and graphic design in London and founded Marshall Arts. In 1980, he moved to Santa Barbara, CA. Creator of Ingram BT (2004, Bitstream), a tall typeface with Arts and Crafts features. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexander McCracken
[Neutura]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Ponce

Born and raised in California, Alexander Ponce (Riverside, CA) developed the prohibition era typeface family Brewhibition in 2014 during his graphic design studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Varanese

Art director and graphic designer in San Francisco who likes the color red. Behance link. Creator of stylish logotype, found art, or display typefaces: Baroquen (2010), Bent Type (2010), Decoder, Determinant (2010, art deco), Edgewise (2009; art deco stencil, also called a piano key face), Elektrotrash (2009), Estereo (2010), Metrobloc (2010; modular), Eurobloc (modular), Victropolis (serifed), Determinant (more art deco). Behance link. The web page is rather confusing, so it's hard to tell which images are of fonts and which are just pictures of alphabets. Some fonts are free, such as the grungy Antechamber (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandria Pico

During her studies, Santa Clarita, CA-based Alexandria Pico created an angular poster typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexia Yang

Graphic designer from Long Beach, CA. She created an illustrated caps typeface inspired by contortion, called Grotesque Beauty (2011). Parakeet (2011) is a display face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Lennon

Website developer and graphic designer in San Diego, CA. Creator of the unconnected handcrafted typefaces Olive Love (2015), Little Beetle (2015), Sailboat (2015, horizontally striped font), Christmas Card Font (2015), Grotto (2015, textured), Jello Fever (2015), Enchanted (2015), California (2015, horizontally striped), Happy Baby (2015) and Pretty Girl (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Valentine (connected script). Creative Market link. Another Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ali Sabet

Ali Sabet (Pixopop foundry, Irvine, CA) is the creator of Pixopop Kawaii Girls (2012), Pixopop Dodo (2012), Pixopop Roughcut (2012), a dingbat font of characters owned by Sabet Brands. He also made Pixopop Confusion (2012) and Pixopop Monstalove (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ali Spondello

Graphic designer in Los Angeles who created a grungy ransom note font in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alisara Tareekes

Los Angeles-based fraduate of the TDi program at the University of Reading, UK, 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alissa Barendse

At San Francisco State University, Alissa Barendse designed the 3d outline typeface Surface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allie Wong

Graphic design student at Cal State University in Long Beach, class of 2013. Creator of the all caps typeface Dance Robot Dance (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allison Ho

During her studies at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Allison Ho (Berkeley, CA) created the modular typeface Virtuoso (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alonso Lopez

Graphic designer in San Diego, CA, who created the modular typeface Futuristic Military (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alonzo Felix

Graphic designer at Oak Studios in Brooklyn, NY, and now working as Alonzo Felix Studio in San Francisco. After earning a BFA in graphic design at LSU he studied typographic application and theory in London and type design at Type@Cooper in New York, 2011-2012. He created the circus billboard typeface Tightrope (2011, Lost Type Coop) and the rounded sans typeface Neighbor (2012, at Type@Cooper).

Cargocollective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alonzo Gutierrez

Graphic and web designer in Sacramento, CA, who created a Baskerville-themed magazine cover in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphabet Soup (or: Michael Doret)
[Michael Doret]

Michael Doret is a commercial hand lettering artist in Hollywood, CA, but born in New York in 1946. A graduate of The Cooper Union, he was interviewed by MyFonts in 2011. He worked at PhotoLettering as an assistant of Ed Benguiat. Klingspor link. Behance link. Veer writes: A graduate of the Cooper Union, Michael has run his own design studio for many years - first in New York City - and currently in Hollywood. An eight-time winner of the New York Art Directors Club Silver Award, Michael is a specialist in logos and letterforms. His unique typographic vision blends elements of lettering, illustration and graphic design. The inspiration for his work has come from such diverse sources as matchbook covers, theater marquees, enamel signs, early and mid-20th century packaging, and various other artifacts of this great land of ours. Although for much of his career he executed his work in traditional media, he now works almost exclusively in a digital format. In 2006, he set up his own foundry, Alphabet Soup.

Fonts sold by MyFonts. Behance link. FontShop link.

His typefaces:

  • Dark Angel (2013). A gloomy black blackletter hybrid.
  • Deliscript (2009): an upright connected script with accompanying slanted version. It was inspired by neon signs in from of Canter's restaurant in Hollywood. Winner at TDC2 2010. And a winner in the Type Design category, CA Magazine's Award of Excellence in their 2011 Typography issue.
  • Deluxe Gothic (2010), a Bank Gothic style face. DeLuxe Gothic was also the name that Intertype used for their version of Bank Gothic. Images: i, ii), iii.
  • Dynascript (2011). Patrick Griffin did the Opentype programming. Dynatype (2012) is the upright, slightly more formal cousin of Dynascript.
  • Grafika (2009): a gorgeous 1930s art deco typeface originally designed for the credits of the movie Savages. Doret calls it extreme deco.
  • Metroscript (2006, Alphabet Soup): a connected retro script.
  • Orion (2003): an upright, linear script, based on an enameled sign (probably of 1930s vintage) that designer Michael Doret picked up at a Paris flea market.
  • Power Station (2006): a 3-d athletic lettering and beveled family, with styles such as Block, Wedge, Block Low, Block High.
  • Steinweiss Script (2010): a 2200-glyph curly script typeface called Steinweiss Script (2010), which captures a lot of the spirit of Steinweiss's album covers from the late 1930s and 1940s. (Opentype programming help by Patrick Griffin).

Creative Market link. View Michael Doret's typefaces. The typeface libray at Alphabet Soup. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alyssa Naguit

Daly City, CA-based designer of the high-contrast typeface Madonna (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amanda Chavez

Santa Clarita, CA-based designer of an experimental alphabet in 213 during her final year of studies at the Art Institute of California, Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amanda Childress

During her studies, Amanda Childress (Apple Valley, CA) created the fashion mag typeface Amity Pro in 2014. This typeface is inspired by Didot and Avenir. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amanda Norris

During her graphic design studies at Chapman University, Amanda Norris (Orange, CA) created the bird cage-themed typeface Bye Bye Birdie (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Bonet

French graphic and type designer who graduated from Ecole Estienne in 2005 with a thesis entitled La cancellaresca, L'âge d'or de la calligraphie italienne.. She also studied visual communications at Ecole Duperré in Paris. She has an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on her typeface Polydom, which covers Latin, Greek and Devanagari. Her other typefaces include Groe (2010), We Folk (2010, caps only), Operetta (a cancellaresca based on Tagliente's lettering), PSA (an iconographic and sans type system for Peugeot and Citroen), and Gustan. She lived in Los Angeles. In the spring of 2010, she joined Dalton Maag in South London as a type designer.

At Dalton Maag, she helped out with Nokia Bengali, which won an award at Granshan 2014.

Roxane (2011, Rosetta Type) covers Latin and Devanagari.

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

American Type Founders Collection (or: TypoBrand LLC; or: ATF Type)

Mark van Bronkhorst set up TypoBrand LLC in Berkeley, CA. As part of TypoBrand, he published several typefaces that are modern digital reinterpretations of typefaces at American Type Founders by famous type designers such Morris Fuller Benton. The collection is published by TypoBrand LLC under the names ATF Type or American Type Founders Collection. Codesigners include Igino Marini and Ben Kiel. TypoBrand writes: Reinterpreted and carefully crafted, the ATF Collection offers more weights and widths, expanded character sets, and robust typographic features in type designs beautifully suited to modern use and media. From the printed page to the screen, the new ATF Collection brings a tradition of typographic richness to the digital era. Their typefaces:

  • ATF Alternate Gothic (2015, Mark van Bronkhorst, Alan Dague-Greene, David Sudweeks, Igino Marini, & Ben Kiel). ATF Alternate Gothic is a new, significant digital expansion to 40 fonts of Morris Fuller Benton's classic 1903 design.
  • ATF Brush (2015). In five weights, this classic brush face is based on ATF Brush by Robert E. Smith, American Type Founders, 1942.
  • ATF Garamond (2015, Mark van Bronkhorst, Igino Marini, & Ben Kiel). An 18-style family based on the Garamond designed between 1918 and 1923 by Morris Fuller Benton and Thomas M. Cleland. ATF Garamond was first released in roman and italic styles around 1918, drawn by Morris Fuller Benton, head of the American Type Founders design department. In 1922, Thomas M. Cleland designed a set of companion swash italics and ornaments. Bold and bold italic variants were released in 1920 and 1923, respectively.
  • ATF Headline Gothic (2015, Mark van Bronkhorst, Igino Marini, & Ben Kiel). A newspaper font originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1936. Sharp and round contours are provided.
  • ATF Livermore Script). By Mark van Bronkhorst, Igino Marini, and Ben Kiel.
  • ATF Poster Gothic (2015, Mark van Bronkhorst, Luis Batlle, Igino Marini, & Ben Kiel). Based on a design by Morris Fuller Benton, 1934. Thirty fonts in all!
  • ATF Railroad Gothic (2016, Mark van Bronkhorst, Luis Batlle, Igino Marini, & Ben Kiel). The designers write: First introduced by the American Type Founders Company in 1906, Railroad Gothic was the quintessential typographic expression of turn-of-the-century industrial spirit---bold and brash in tone, and a little rough around the edges. A favorite for the plain speak of big headlines, Railroad Gothic quickly gained popularity among printers. Its condensed but robust forms were likely a source of inspiration for later families of industrial sans serifs. The ATF original was extended with four new weights.
  • ATF Wedding Gothic (2015, Mark van Bronkhorst, Luis Batlle, Igino Marini, & Ben Kiel). An 18-font engravers gothic based on an original from ca. 1901.
  • ATF Franklin Gothic (2019, Mark van Bronkhorst, Igino Marini, & Ben Kiel). A broad and multi-weight interpretation of Morris Fuller Benton's classic from 1905, Franklin Gothic, which only had bolder weights. For the lighter styles, the designers were inspired by Benton's Monotone Gothic.

Type Network link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Amir Shaker

California City, CA-based designer of the free squarish typeface Simple (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amourette Chuzel

As a student at California State University, San Bernardino, Amourette Chuzel (Palm Springs, CA) designed the vintage all caps typeface Dion (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment Co.

Typeface importer and vendor and foundry located on Fourth Avenue and Park Avenue South in New York City, with offices in Burbank, CA, and Chicago, IL. Their typefaces included Annonce Grotesque. Amsterdam Continental ceased operations.

A Handbook of Types (PDF catalog). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy Bao

San Francisco-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Shanghai (2017, brush font), Prague (2017, handcrafted in art nouveau style), Palm Springs (2017), Buenos Aires (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy Beth Castleberry

Graphic designer at ABC Design in Abilene, TX, who created the connected script typeface Sassy Pants in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy Dietrich

American designer, b. 1967, California. Married to Ken Russell, who runs Atlantic Fonts in Camden, ME.

At Atlantic Fonts, she designed the hand-printed typefaces Kinglet (2012, curly), Honey Bee (2011), Once (2010) and Clue (2010).

In 2013, Amy published the playful poster typefaces Trail Map (2013) and Merci. Farmstand (2013) is a hand-printed typeface that is accompanied by the dingbat font Farmstand Goodies. Wheat (2013) is a stylish rough-edged script face. Eeeek (2013) is a Halloween dingbat typeface. Solstice (2013) is hand-printed.

Typefaces from 2014: Shoebox, Reading (bouncy typeface), Lion (an African-themed typeface), Suntea (a children's book script), Fini (cartoon font), Fini Things (girly dingbats), Catbird (whimsical).

Typefaces from 2015: Goby (a great children's book font with fun sea life dingbats called Goby Graphic), Laughing Gull (a fun cartoonish font), Digby (Atlantic Fonts).

Typefaces from 2016: Sanderling(children's script), Dinghy (beatnik style) and Dinghybats, Storyboard (a primitve painter's font), Quince (a handcrafted typeface), Kiwi (a juice bar font accompanied by the dingbat font Kiwi Fruits).

Typefaces from 2017: Meow (a children's script), Answer (handcrafted, unicase), Peapod (a textured patterned all caps typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Junglegym, Turmeric.

Typefaces from 2019: Pattycake (a children's book font), Espadrille (a mixed case monoline display sans), Galavant (a cartoon font with interlocking letters), Seaglass.

Typefaces from 2020: Darcy (a wonderful beatnik typeface), Parula (hand-drawn with lots of oomph due to its energetic line variations).

Typefaces from 2021: MollyO (a scrapbook script), Rabbet (a fat finger font).

Old URL under the name Amy Dietrich Russell. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Amy Dittman

Saint Cloud, MN-based designer of a fat 3d poster typeface in 2014, during her studies at St. Cloud State University. It was inspired by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's song "Gold" featuring the chorus to the song. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy E. Conger
[L'Abécédarienne's Original Handlettered Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Amy Hood
[Hoodzpah]

[More]  ⦿

Ana Gomez Bernaus

Letterer, illustrator, art director and designer in Los Angeles (was: New York City). Creator of Octave (2011): Octave has been created with the intention of fusing together the graphical elements of written musical composition with the English alphabet.

In 2012, she created the tall high contrast fashion typeface Kilimanjaro. Her Textappeal lettering from 2014 is also noteworthy. Her experimental typeface Floating Typescapes won an award at ProtoType in 2016.

Behance link. Old Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Patrícia Ferreira

During her studies at Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD) in Porto, Portugal, Ana Patrícia Ferreira created a poster typeface family in 2014 that was patterned after Joan Trochut Blanchard's Super-Veloz. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AND
[Jean-Benoît Lévy]

Swiss design company, est. in Basel in 1987. It expanded in 2000 and created an office in San Francisco. MyFonts link. Jean-Benoît Lévy, Diana Alisandra Stoen, Sylvestre Lucia, Mike Kohnke and Joachim Müller-Lancé created the hand signal dingbat font H-AND-S. ocreator of TX Signal Simplifier (2002, Typebox), a hilarious information design dingbat face. MyFonts writes: Eight designers present a set of icons that indicate the fun and fantastic world of signage. Each collaborator's solution represents a completely different interpretations on signage vernacular. The designers are Erik Adigard, Cynthia Jacquette, Akira Kobayashi, Michael Kohnke, Patricia McShane, Joachim Müller-Lancé, Jean-Benoît Lévy, Kevin Roberson, Diana Alisandra Stoen.

The studio is run by Jean-Benoît Lévy (b. 1959, Pully, Switzerland). Lévy is a visual communicator who has been active since 1983 in Switzerland. After his studies at the Basel School of Design with teachers such as Wolfgang Weingart and Armin Hofmann, he opened his studio AND in 1987. Jean-Benoit received his green card in 2001 and is now sharing his time between United States and Europe. He designs logos, corporate identities, postage stamps, coins, posters, and books. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

And Repeat
[Martin Grasser]

And Repeat is an art and design studio based in the Bay Area, founded by Martin Grasser. Grasser's typefaces:

  • B Mono is a bespoke typeface created for use in the Braintree identity system. Designed with Josh Finklea (Sharp Type, The Village) B Mono is available in four weights (light, regular, medium and bold).
  • Anki (2013-2014). A bespoke rounded sans typeface.
  • In 2019, Martin Grasser and Zrinka Buljubasic co-designed 188 Sans for And Repeat / Future Fonts. They write: The Regular weight, based loosely on Frank Hinman Pierpont's Monotype Grotesque, calls to mind early 20th century workhorse sans-serifs.
  • Sunnyside (2021, by Martin Grasser and Zrinka Buljubasic). Sunnyside is a slab serif rooted in the aesthetic language of 70's California.

Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andeh Pinkard
[Press Gang Studios (was: Shonenpunk, or: Andeh Fonts, or: Teabeer Studios)]

[More]  ⦿

Andre Recinto

San Diego, CA-based designer of the floriated caps typeface Entanglement (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Hu

Hacienda Heights, CA-based designer of the display typeface One Shot (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andres Chavez

Santa Ana, CA-based designer of a multicolor geometric solid alphabet called Geometric Type (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andressa Anantharaju

Designer in San Francisco. In 2014, she created Ksztalt (2014). This contemporary sans typeface was inspired by the architecture of the Jewish Museum of San Francisco, and the shapes of modern Hebrew letters. She is motivated by this quote by Antoine de Saimt-Exupery: A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreu Balius Planelles

Born in Barcelona in 1962, Andreu Balius studied Sociology in the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (1980-1984), and graphic design at IDEP in Barcelona (1985-1989). He holds a PhD in Design from the University of Southampton (UK). He founded Garcia Fonts&Co in Barcelona in 1993 to show his experimental designs. He cofounded Typerware in 1996 with Joancarles P. Casasín. Typerware existed until 2001 and was based in Santa Maria de Martorelles, a village near Barcelona. He cofounded Type Republic (see also here), and ran Andreu Balius (tipo)graphic design. He is presently an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

Balius won a Bukvaraz 2001 award for Pradell. Pradell also won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. SuperVeloz (codesigned with Alex Trochut) won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.

At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Pradell and Super-Veloz. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke about the Imprenta Real. Coorganizer of ATypI 2014 in Barcelona.

Author of Type at work. The use of Type in Editorial Design, published in English by BIS (Amsterdam, 2003).

FontFont link. Linotype link. Behance link.

His production:

  • Garcia/Typerware offers about 50 fonts, including some very artsy typefaces, such as Fabrique (Andreu Balius), Futuda, Garcia Bodoni (Typerware), Alkimia (Estudi Xarop), Ariadna (pixel font, 1988-1989), Garcia Bitmap (1993), Playtext (Andreu Balius, 1995), Matilde Script (Andreu Balius, 1994: an embroidery face), Fabrique (1993, Andreu Balius) and Dinamo (1993, Balius and Casasin at Typerware), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994), Futuda (1993), Ozo Type (1994), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats), Mi mama Me Soba Script (1994), Parkinson (1994), Garcia Bodoni (1995), Garcia snack's (1993-1995), Juan Castillo Script (1995, irregular handwriting), and Vizente Fuster (1995), all by Andreu Balius and Joancarles Casasin, 1993-1995; Water Knife (Laudelino L.Q., 1995); Alquimia (Estudi Xarop, 1995); Jam Jamie (Malcolm Webb, 1996); Network (Alex Gifreu, 1996); Panxo-Pinxo (David Molins, 1996); Euroface 80 mph (Peter Bilak, 1996); Inmaculatta (Roberto Saenz Maguregui, 1997); Proceso Sans (by Argentinan Pablo Cosgaya, 1996); Afligidos deudos (Adria Gual, 1996); Route 66 (Francesc Vidal, 1997); Popular (Sergi Ibanez, 1997); Visible (handwriting by Fabrice Trovato, 1997); SoundFile (Reto Brunner, 1998); Ninja type (kana-lookalike alphabet by Charly Brown, 1995); Vertigo (Charly Brown, 1996); Loop UltraNormal (Franco and Sven, 1996); Inercia (Inigo Jerez, 1996).
  • Fontshop: FF Fontsoup.
  • ITC: ITC Temble (1996, a great subdued ghoulish face). With Joancarles P. Casasin, he created ITC Belter (1996) and ITC Belter Mega Outline (1996).
  • Typerware: Czeska was developed from Vojtech Preissig's woodtype typefaces. Andreu Balius completed the design and included an italic version and a large variety of ligatures (both for regular and italic).
  • Type Republic: Pradell, Trochut, SuperVeloz, SV Marfil Caps (2004), SV Fauno Caps. Pradell was freely inspired from punches cut by catalan punchcutter Eudald Pradell (1721-1788), and is considered to be Balius' main work. Trochut is based on specimens from the 1940s by Joan Trochut. SuperVeloz is a collection of the type modules designed by Joan Trochut and produced at José Iranzo foundry in the beginning of the 40's, in Barcelona. Digitized and recovered by Andreu Balius and Alex Trochut in 2004. Example of such composition of modules include the great art nouveau typefaces SV Fauno Caps and SV Marfil Caps. In 2007, he added Taüll, a blackletter type. Still in 2007, he did the revival Elizabeth ND, which was based on an old type of Elizabeth Friedlander.
  • In 2008, he created the Vogue mag like family Carmen (Display, Fiesta, Regular), which are rooted in the didone style. Carmen, and its flirtatious companion Carmen Fiesta, were both reviewed by Typographica.
  • Barna (2011) and Barna Stencil (2011).
  • In 2012, Trochut was published as a free font family at Google Web Fonts. It was based on Joan Trochut-Blanchard's Bisonte.
  • Lladro (2012) is a custom sans typeface done for the Lladro company.
  • Rioja (2013) is a grotesque typeface that was custom-designed for Universidad de La Rioja.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Byrom

Andrew Byrom was born in Liverpool, England in 1971. After Graduating from the University of East London in 1996 he opened his own design studio and worked for various clients including Penguin Books, The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, The Industrial Design Centre, Time Out Online and The Guardian Newspaper. Around this time he also began teaching graphic design at The University of Luton and Central Saint. Martins. Byrom moved to the USA in 2000 to teach at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. He has recently been commissioned to design typefaces and type treatments for Elle Decoration, The New York Times Magazine, McGraw-Hill, and Turner Classic Movies. In 2006 he moved to Long Beach to take up an Associate Professor position at California State University, where he is currently the Area Head of the Graphic Design Department. He created the experimental typeface Interiors (2002), about which AIGA writes: Interiors (3D type) is a collaboration between type designer Andrew Byrom and designer Joel Wolter. It was originally conceived as a digital font (Interiors) and was inspired by an old wooden chair in Byrom's office that, when looked at from a certain angle, resembled the letter h. Using the three-dimensional principles of this simple form, and closely adhering to type design conventions, 26 letters of the alphabet were drawn and generated as a font. The characters were then constructed in three dimensions using tubular steel into full-scale furniture frames. Because the underlying design concept is typographical, the end result becomes almost freestyle furniture design. Letters like m, n, o, b and h can be viewed as simple tables and chairs, but other letters, like e, g, a, s, t, v, x and z, become beautifully abstract pieces of furniture. He also made the distressed font Bloodclot, the stencil family Byro Stencil (free), Byro Sans, 1byrosquare (2000), 2byroround (2000), ByroBlock Stencil (2000, stencil), Concussion (dot matrix with various size dots), Easy Vie, Venetian (2009, like Venetian blinds), Fresh (1995, scratchy type), Ply, Rage, St. Auden, Bandaid (2006), 3D Dot Matrix. He divides his time between teaching, designing for various clients and playing with his sons, Auden and Louis. He has recently been commissioned to design typefaces and type treatments for Elle Decoration, The New York Times Magazine, McGraw-Hill, and Turner Classic Movies. In 2006 he moved to Long Beach to take up an Associate Professor position at California State University, where he is currently the Area Head of the Graphic Design Department. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew H. Leman
[E-phemera (was: HPLHS Prop Fonts, and earlier: Prop Fonts)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Hart

Andrew Hart is a Corona-based American digital photographer (b. 1988), who runs a small free font archive. Another archive of his. Dafont link. Another URL. Yet another URL. And still another one. And another one. And one more. His later fonts refer to SickCapital.Com.

His own fonts include Gothickella (2017, blackletter), Sailorette Tattoo (2015), Elkwood (2014, sans), Snowinter (2014, sans), Rebel Pixy (2014, tattoo script), Pride of the Young (2014, hipster style), Scribblet (2014), Tall & Slim (2014, a great tall-legged poster typeface), Tribal Threat (2014), Boldenstein (2014), Fireflies (2014), Rio Frescata (2014, curly), Alpaca Scarlett (2014), Alpaca Solidify (2014), Vanity Script (2014: a vampire script), SC Gretchin and Timmy (2013), Fun In The Jungle (2013), Pixelic War (2013), A Glitch In Time (2013), Giraffe And Co (2013, an African-themed typeface), Chameleon Dreams (2013: a fantastic wacky party typeface), Angelic Serif (2012), Angelic Peace (2012), Pyrite Script (2012), Pyrite Crypt (2012), Body Piercing And Chains (2012), Love til Killed (2012), Hollywood Capital (2012), Donaldo Regrecka (2012), Deadly Black Chain (2012), Dirt2 Copperbolt (2012, grungy copperplate), Truskey (2011, grunge), Sick Capital Kingston (2011), Full Moon On (2011), Grafitik Riot (2011, graffiti face), Electric Panda (2011), Last Draft (2011, grunge typewriter), CaliforniabyDirt2 (2010), JusticebyDirt2 (2010), SC Gum Kids (2010), SC Tinas Baby Shower (2010), Little Ryan (2010, handwriting), Sick Capital Vice (2010), Star Avenue (2009), Cute Tattoo (2009), DuerTWO (2009), Dirt2Stickler (2009), Ithornët (2009, grungy blackletter), NoXWay (2009, graffiti grunge), Skulls and Splatters (2009), Hacjiuza (2009, hand-drawn blackletter; +Dirty), Popstar Autograph (2009, comic book style script), The Quickest Shift (2009, curly script), DuerTwoo (2009, bloody horror font), Malgecito (2009, grunge), Ithornët (2009, grungy medieval pirate font), Little Bliss (2009), Loyal Fame (2009, curly script), Angelic War (2009, grunge), Soulstalker (2009, grungy blackletter), Kings of Pacifica (2009, ransom note font), GanixApec (2009), GoodPeace (2009), KatyBerry (2009), OffTheDrugs (2009), ThinFranq (2009), WILDAFRICA (2009, African-theme multiline face), St. Andrew (2009, a spray type font), Hawaii Lover (2009, grunge calligraphic script), Aristotle Punk (2009, grunge), Juicy Hunt (2009, grunge), Dead Hardy (2009, Victorian), Kate Perry (2009, fifties script), Kate Berry (2009, fifties script), Vloderstone (2009, hairline slab serif), Good Peace, Off The Drugs, Thin Franq (2009, hairline), Ganix Apec (2009, sans), Jailbox1 (2009, grunge), Blast Beat (2008), Ghosttown-BC (2008, Western style), Dead Secretary (2008, grunge), DIRT2-DEATH (2008, grunge), Robot Head (2008), Alpaca 54 (2007, grunge), Hawaii Killer (2007, Coca Cola grunge), Splinter2 (2007, grunge based on Franklin Gothic), Everyday Ghost (2007, grunge), Plague Death (2006, grunge), SEXtalk69 (2007), Screamz1 (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Hochradel

Riverside, CA-based designer of the grungy letterpress typeface family Calamity (2016), the rounded sans poster typeface Tiny Tim (2016) and the heavy poster typefaces Industrious (2016: Industrious is the font friend that will punch you in the mouth when you need it), Third Rail (2016, inspired by old train signage), Reach Sans (2016, +Inline) and Templeton (2016, wood type influences). Andrew taught design at California Baptist University.

In 2017, he designed the display sans typeface Quokka. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Hoyem

Californian designer with Linnea Lundquist of a great roman transitional family Aitken commissioned in 2002 for Arion Press. Arion Press writes: Hoyem has taken advantage of twenty-first century technologies in order to revive what is believed to be the first type family cut and cast in America. In 1796 two Scotsmen named Binny and Ronaldson started a type foundry in Philadelphia, the first in the country to endure. By 1800 they had produced a remarkably beautiful and utilitarian type, identified simply as Roman No. 1. It is a Transitional face, between Old Style (as in Caslon) and Modern (as in Bodoni). The type was used by Jane Aitken, daughter of Robert Aitken, the famous printer of the American Revolution, and an accomplished printer herself, for the printing of the first American translation of the Bible, by Charles Thomson, in 1808. It was reintroduced by American Type Founders Company in 1892 under the name Oxford and was used by a succession of fine printers, such as Daniel Berkeley Updike, Bruce Rogers, and the Grabhorn Press. Arion Press has 1,200 pounds of the original type that once belonged to the Grabhorn Press. Oxford was cast for hand composition only and was not adapted for Linotype or Monotype composition. The matrices are now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution and unavailable for further casting. In 2002, Hoyem worked with type designer Linnea Lundquist, assisted by Andrew Crewdson, to create a digital version of this historic face, which he renamed Aitken. The Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin is its first use for book printing. The Aitken design has been optimized for letterpress printing, allowing for the spread of ink biting into paper just like with the original metal type design cut by Binne&Ronaldson. For this book, the type has been printed from photopolymer plates. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Vilar

Long Beach, CA-based designer of Geometric Type (2015), an experimental typeface that is based on curves and tangential lines. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Walpole

Interactive developer in San Diego, who created the meccano typeface Erector Set in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Zhao
[Andy Hinomiya]

[More]  ⦿

Andy Chung

Graphic designer in Vancouver and/or San Francisco. He created the free font Neighborhood Type (2009). Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andy Clymer

Andy Clymer grew up in Irvine, CA and studied at San Diego State University in 1998. At that time, he was working on Stencil Fraktur (2002). In 2004-2005, he studied type design in the Masters program of the KABK in Den Haag. He joined the typeface development department of Hoefler&Frere-Jones in New York in 2005. He has been an instructor in the Type@Cooper program in New York since 2011.

From 2005 until 2018, Andy worked at the Hoefler&Co. type foundry, where he contributed to the typefaces Vitesse, Forza, Ideal Sans, Archer, Surveyor, and spearheaded the design of Operator and Obsidian (2015: a decorative copperplate engraved emulation typeface---various kinds of 3d illumination in Obsidian were obtained by an algorithmic process.

In 2019, he co-developed Mingei Mono for the Mingei International Museum along with Yomar Augusto.

In 2020, he released Tilt. Tilt is a family of (variable) typefaces inspired by three dimensional lettering found in storefront signage. Subfamilies: Tilt Neon (mimics the construction of neon tube lettering), Tilt Prism (based on prismatic lettering, cast or cut in a material), Tilt Warp (resembles peeling vinyl stickers). The variable fonts have two axes, horizontal rotation and vertical rotation.

Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andy Do

At UC Davis, andy Do created the nice multicolor lettering piece Rebirth (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andy Hinomiya
[Andrew Zhao]

A student at Caltech who created the fat finger font PuchiMono in 2013. Wonderful blurb too: PuchiMono is a handwritten coding font that emphasizes readability and style. No other font can compare. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aneel Nazareth

San Francisco-based MIT graduate, designer of the iconized alphabet font Anillo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Resendiz

San Francisco-based designer of the 3d shadow typeface Pemex Placas (2016). It is inspired by graffiti artist Pemex's style of cholo block letters seen in gang graffiti. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angela He

Stanford, CA-based designer of these free handcrafted typefaces in 2018-2019: Qtpi, Sicko (horror font), Good Day, Maze (3d), Efflux. She writes that these five fonts were designed in ten hours. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angeline Dy

Creator of the pixel typeface New Noise (2014), which was influenced by Pachinko games. This typeface was finished during her studies at UCLA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angeline Galvez

Graphic designer in San Francisco, CA, who drew Emotional Alphabet in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angie Cheng

For a school project in San Francisco, Angie Cheng created the connect-the-dots typeface Constellation Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anie Ajamian

For a school project in Los Angeles, Anie Ajamian started from Gill Sans and created a trimmed version of it called Elie Sans (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ann Marie Andrews

San Jose, CA-based designer of the sturdy titling typeface Hansen (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Grosh

Anna Grosh was born in Krasnoyarsk City, Siberia and now resides in San Francisco, California. She earned a Bachelor degree in Architecture from the Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Architecture and Construction, and completed a Masters in Interior Design at the Open Social Academy of Design in Moscow. She is in the process of getting her second masters in graphic design at the Academy of Art University. She specializes in typographic design, illustration and graphic design. In 2010, she embarked on an ornamental typeface. She is working on an ornamental caps typeface.

Old Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Seslavinskaya
[Popkern]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anna-Sofia Giannicola

Prolific artist in san Francisco, who drew a colorful decorative bird-themed all caps alphabet called Flock (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annie Brennan

At Chapman University, Annie Brennan (Orange, CA) designed the display typeface Sugar Wraith (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ansherina Bohol

During her studies at California State University Long Beach, Ansherina Bohol designed the display typeface High Beam (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Balanza

Graphic designer in San Diego, CA. Creator of the display sans Disconnected (2013): Disconnected is a typeface that was designed for Disconnected Salon in North Park, San Diego. The typeface was created to mimic the letters of Disconnected Salon's original logo. This typeface will also be used for a lot of Disconnected's upcoming marketing campaigns including Graphic Ts, billboards, and more. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Mejia

California State University, San Bernardino-based student designer of the display typeface Barba (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Soto

South Californian designer of a flame font, Sotoflame (2002). Involved with B.J. Harvey in Apollo 26. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Vallejos

Anthony Vallejos (Irvine, CA) created the tattoo / blackletter typeface Love=Evol (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Carusone
[AisleOne]

[More]  ⦿

Antonio Cavedoni

Italian designer from Sassuolo, Modena (b. 1979). He obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading (2009), based on his Latin / Cyrillic typeface Enquire and his dissertation on the work of the Officine Simoncini. After Reading, he started an internship and eventually worked as a full-time employee in the type group at Apple in Cupertino, CA. He left Apple in September 2016 and is now working on his own typefaces in Milano, Italy.

Speaker at Typecon 2012 in Milwaukee. His blog from Reading. Unger's Workshop at Reading. Flickr link. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anuragh Sundar

Creator (b. 2000, California), aka Cheese, of the shaky fat finger typeface Mom (2013), and of the hand-printed typefaces India Blaze (2013), Brian Font (2013), Boss (2013), CheezyPie (2013), Swerve (2013), Banana (2013), Awesome (2013), Dumplings (2013), Curviness (2013), Pie (2013), Pickle Puff (2013), Superfont (2013), BoxyRobo (2013), Panneer Is Awesome (2013), Coolfont (2013), asdfghjkl (2013), Zepher (2013), Blackcity (2013) and Random (2013). He also made Pie1 (2013), Areo (2013, a black on white pixel face), Cool (2013) and Cheese (2013).

Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anwar Ibrahim
[Urban Hook-Upz]

[More]  ⦿

Apollo 26
[Brian Jaramillo Harvey]

B.J. Harvey is the Californian designer at Chank's Store of the free "bj's Halloween Fontpak " (4 fonts, 2001). He is working on a ton of other fonts, like Apollo Sans, Motorpsycho, Geek Gothic (a comic book face), Apollo46, Zimmer, Nu Cairo, Sotoflame (2002), Japanasonic, Japanacea, Japanorama, Eurmama (oriental simulation font), Jawa (oriental simulation), SD Police (stencil, not for sale), Rigby, Neopolitik, Metis, Motorpsycho. Opened Apollo26 in July 2002, where you can buy Flame N Skull, DEFCON 1 through 5 (or: Billabong, Special effects, X-Games 23, Von Zipper and Machine). APOLLO26SumoX (2002) is free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apple Fonts

Alternate URL. The history of all fonts used and produced by Cupertino, CA-based Apple. A brief summary of this:

  • Corporate fonts and brand identity
    • Motter Tektura (designed by Othmar Motter of Voralberger Graphic in 1975): before the first Macintosh, Apple used Motter Tektura to accompany the Apple logo. "According to the logo designer, Rob Janoff, the typeface was selected for its playful qualities and techno look, in line with Apple's mission statement of making high-technology accessible to anyone."
    • Apple Garamond, the new corporate font used when the Macintosh was introduced in 1984. ITC Garamond (Tony Stan, 1977) was condensed to 80% of its normal width by Bitstream, who also adjusted and hinted it. Apple Garamond was used in most of Apple's marketing. The Wikipedia comment: "Many typographers consider ITC Garamond in general, and Apple Garamond in particular, to be poorly designed typefaces. A common viewpoint is that the algorithmic scaling distorted the typeface."
    • Myriad Pro: starting in 2002, Apple began using Myriad Pro Semibold (a sans serif face) in its marketing, gradually replacing Apple Garamond. MyriadPro and MyriadApple can be downloaded here.
    • Gill Sans Regular: used in the marketing of the Newton PDA.
  • Fonts of the original Macintosh All but one of these bitmap fonts were due to Susan Kare. The fonts were originally named after stops along the Paoli, Pennsylvania commuter train line: Overbrook, Merion, Ardmore, and Rosemont. Later, under pressure from Steve Jobs, names of world cities were chosen. A number of different variants of each font were algorithmically generated on-the-fly from the standard fonts. Bold, italic, outlined, underlined and shaded variations were the most common.
    • Cairo: a bitmap dingbat font, most famous for the dogcow at the 'z' character position.
    • Chicago (sans-serif): the default Macintosh system font in System 17.6.
    • Geneva (sans-serif): designed for small point sizes and prevalent in all versions of the Mac user interface.
    • London (blackletter): an Old English-style font.
    • Los Angeles (script): a thin font that emulated handwriting.
    • Monaco (sans-serif, monospaced): a fixed-width font well-suited for 912 pt use.
    • New York (serif): a Times Roman-inspired font family. Freely avaliable from Apple.
    • San Francisco: a ransom note face.
    • Venice (script): a calligraphic font designed by Bill Atkinson.
  • Fonts in Mac OS X
    • Lucida Grande: the primary system font in Mac OS X (all versions). Lucida Grande looks like Lucida Sans, but has more glyphs. It covers Roman, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai and Greek. Many of its 2800+ glyphs were added by Michael Everson to the original collection.
    • Mac OS X ships with a number of high-quality typefaces, for a number of different scripts, licensed from several sources.
    • LastResort (designed by Michael Everson of Evertype): used by the system to display reference glyphs in the event that real glyphs needed to display a given character are not found in any other available font. Wikipedia states: "The glyphs are square with rounded corners with a bold outline. In the left and right sides of the outline, the Unicode range that the character belongs to is given using hexadecimal digits. Top and bottom are used for one or two descriptions of the Unicode block name. A symbol representative of the block is centered inside the square. By Everson's design, the typeface used for the text cut-outs in the outline is Chicago, otherwise not included with Mac OS X. The LastResort font has been part of Mac OS since version 8.5, but the limited success of ATSUI on the classic Mac OS means that only users of Mac OS X are regularly exposed to it."
    • Apple Symbols (2003-2006): a 4000+-glyph dingbat font that complements the symbols from Lucida Grande, inttroduced first in Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther").
    • Zapfino (a calligraphic typeface designed by and named after renowned typeface designer Hermann Zapf for Linotype, based on an example he first drew in 1944): Zapfino utilizes the most advanced typographic features of the truetype format, and is partially included in OS X as a technology demo for ligatures and character substitutions.
    • Mac OS X Snow Leopard comes with four new fonts in 2009: Chalkduster (emulating chalk on a blackboard), Menlo (a monospaced family based on Bitstream's Vera Sans Mono that replaces Monaco for applications such as Terminal and code editors; see also Deja Vu Sans Serif Mono), Heiti SC and TC and Hiragino Sans GB.
  • Fonts used in other devices
    • Espy Sans: designed in 1993 by Apple's Human Interface Group designed the typeface Espy Sans specifically for on-screen use. It was first used for the Newton OS GUI and later integrated into Apple's eWorld online service.
    • eWorld Tight: a bitmap font used for headlines in Apple's eWorld. The metrics of eWorld Tight were based on Helvetica Ultra Compressed.
    • Chicago (see above): bitmap typeface used in Apple's iPod music player since 2001.

The Apple Design team won two awards at 25 TDC in 2022, pne for SF Arabic (a contemporary interpretation of the Naskh style with a rational and flexible design; this extension of San Francisco serves as the Arabic system font on Apple platforms. Like San Francisco, SF Arabic features nine weights and variable optical sizes that automatically adjust spacing and contrast based on the point size of text. The typeface features an extensive repertoire that covers numerous vocalization, tone and poetic marks, extended vowel signs, honorifics and Quranic annotations. SF Arabic provides support across the following languages: Arabic, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Sorani, Mazanderani, Northern Luri, Pashto, Persian, Rohingiya, Sindhi, Urdu, and Uyghur) and SF Symbols 3 (over 600 new symbols including representations of devices, game controllers, health, communication, objects, and tools; it prides greater control over how color is applied to symbols, and has a variable font srtyle as well). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Applied Aesthetics
[Julian Bittiner]

Swiss-American designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for the slab serif typeface Tourist. In 2020, he designed the experimental typeface Zigzag. He works at MetaDesign in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Applied Design Works

Applied Design Works was founded in 2015, with offices in New York and Los Angeles. In their own words, Applied specializes in design, planning, strategy, and implementation for a broad range of mission-driven organizations. Their team includes Craig Dobie, Founding Creative Director, Brad Scott, Founding Managing Director, and Elliott Scott, Creative Director.

Atkinson Hyperlegible (2019-2020) is a free neo-grotesque typeface created by Applied Design Works for Braille Institute of America, Inc, which is based in Los Angeles. Named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson, it has been developed specifically to increase legibility for readers with low vision, and to improve character recognition. The project was the winner of the Graphic Design category in Fast Company's 2019 Innovation by Design Awards. In this video, Craig Dobie, Brad Scott, and Elliott Scott provide a behind-the-scenes look at the development of Atkinson Hyperlegible. Google Fonts link.

The physical 4-style font family was designed by Elliott Scott, Megan Eiswerth, Linus Boman and Theodore Petrosky.

Atkinson Hyperlegible differentiates common misinterpreted letters and numbers using various design techniques:

  • Recognizable Footprints: Character boundaries clearly defined, ensuring understanding across the visual-ability spectrum.
  • Differentiated letterforms: similar letter pairs are differentiated from each other to dramatically increase legibility.
  • Unambiguous Characters: designed to increase legibility and distinction.
  • Exaggerated forms: shaping of letters is exaggerated to provide better clarity.
  • Opened Counterspace: open areas of certain letters are expanded to provide greater distinction.
  • Angled spurs and differentiated tails: they increase recognition and define distinctive style.

CTAN link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

April Carter Grant
[La Lettre de Luxe]

[More]  ⦿

April DiMartile

BFA Graphic Design student at California State University, Long Beach. She writes in 2012: Chromosthesia is an experimental typeface designed in a Typography 2 class. The concepts as well as ideals of Vassily Kandinsky were used to construct each letter by using common shapes found in his paintings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aqua Type
[Caroline David]

Santa Barbara, CA-based type designer who created Death Ray (2012, electrical shock alphabet). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aqua Type

Type foundry in Santa Barbara, CA. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arabetics
[Saad Dean Abulhab]

Arabetics is run by the Iraqi-American New York-based type designer, librarian, and systems engineer Saad Dean Abulhab (b. 1958, Sacramento, CA, d. Brownstown, MI, 2021), who in 2000 patented the Mutamathil (unified and symmetric) type style for Arabic. He grew up in Karbala and Baghdad, Iraq, but was born in Sacramento, CA. He attended the University of Baghdad, and holds a Bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University and a masters degree in library and information science from Pratt Institute, both in New York. He resides in the USA since 1979. In 2004, he set up Arabetics. His type design work covers Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Kurdish, and Pashtu. Obituary.

His typefaces include Zena (2009), Layal (2007), Mehdi (2005: follows the guidelines of the Mutamathil Taqlidi type style), Sabine (2008: it too follows the guidelines of the Mutamathil Taqlidi type style), Fallujah (2005), Mutamathil Falujah, Yasmine Mutamathil, Mutamathil Taqlidi, Arabic Mutamathil, Arabic Mutamathil Mutlaq (2004), Arabic Mutamathil Tibaah, Arabic Mutamathil Mutlaq Tibaah, Arabic Mutamathil Muttasil and Arabic Mutamathil Tibbaah Muttasil. Mutamathil and Mutamathil Taqlidi include optional Lam-Alif ligatures. See also Kufa Mutamathil (2011). Other font families: Nasrallah, Silsilah, Yasmani, Mutamathil, Yasmine Mutamathil, Amudi, Amudi Mutamathil, Anbar (2008), Handasi, Yasmine Mutlaq, Jazm (2010), Jalil (2011).

In 2012, he added Nuqat, Nastarkib, Lahab, Ibrani, Hallock, Arabetics Latte (for Latin and Arabic), and Banan (Mutamathil Taqlidi type style).

In 2005, he created Handasi, about which he writes: The idea behind Handasi, Arabic word for engineered, was to design a font without a single curve that would at the same time resembles traditional curves-rich Nask style. The font strictly uses straight lines. The design of Handasi is based on the Mutamathil Taqlidi design style where each letter is represented by one normal glyph assigned the basic Unicode number and an additional final shape glyph to letters capable of dual connection within traditional Arabic text. No initial, medial, or standalone shapes are provided.

Arabetics Symphony (2012) is a sans serif Latin typeface with a comprehensive support for the Arabetic scripts, including Quranic texts.

In 2013, he published PF Nuyork Arabic at Parachute. His Arabetic fonts from 2013 include Nagham, Arabetics Harfi (for Latin and Arabic), Camille, Raqmi and Raqmi Monoshape.

In 2015, he published Hazim (in Mutamathil Taqlidi style), Sada (for small devices, in Mutamathil Taqlidi type style), Khatt, which follows the Arabetics Mutamathil Taqlidi style.

Typefaces from 2016 include Mashq, possibly the first typeface implementation ever of the early Quranic scripts of the Early Mashq, Mashq Kufi, and Mashq Ma'il. The font family design is primarily based on the scripts of the Quran manuscripts of the Topkapi Museum, the Bergstraesser Archive, and other scattered samples.

Typefaces from 2018: Arabetics Detroit.

Typefaces from 2020: Arabetics Aladdin.

Hiba Studio link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

aRc (or: Azelea Rodgers Creations)
[Azelea Rodgers]

aRc was established in 2008 by Azelea Rodgers (b. 1974, The Philippines). It is located in Lathrop, CA.

A graduate from Skyline College, she created the alphabet tracing font Kerp (2008) for kids in pre-kindergarten. She also made Rosebud (2008, letters composed of thorny rose stems), Asvet Mono (2009, a playful stencil), Azelea (2009), Edil Script (2010), Laureen (2010, a calm calligraphic script), Alexy (2011, a ribbon script), and Lelet Script (2009). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arcelia Ramos

San Ysidro, CA-based creator of the display typeface Alzheimer (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arelly Vallejo

Palm Springs, CA-based designer of a custom bilined typeface in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ariel Roth

Designer in Los Angeles, who created Pucker Up (2013), a lipstick typeface.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ariel Soon

During her studies at San José State University in California, Ariel Soon designed the display typeface Tenderly (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arman Chairanza

Riverside, CA-based designer of the calligraphic Orris Root (2017), the bush script Light Butterfly (2017), the hairline calligraphic typeface Bounderas Script (2017), the calligraphic script Pink Coyotes (2017), and the Treefrog brush script Moodellyna (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Armel Design
[Armel Patanian]

Graduate of Santa Monica College, class of 2021, who is based in Los Angeles. Designer of the display typeface Bad Tour (2021). Linkedin link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Armel Patanian
[Armel Design]

[More]  ⦿

Arnie Gabriel Gonzales
[323 Productions]

[More]  ⦿

Arno Chen

Student at City College of San Francisco. Working on StelklBlack (2005), a school project font that has Broadway display influences. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artfarmers

Type foundry in Los Angeles. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Baker
[Arthur Baker Designs (or: Glyph Systems)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Baker Designs (or: Glyph Systems)
[Arthur Baker]

American calligrapher in Andover, MA, who worked for many foundries, and ran several studios. He ran Glyph Systems in Andover, MA, and before that, Alpha Omega and Maverick Designs. Baker grew up in Berkeley, CA, and attended school on the West Coast and New York City. After serving in the U.S. Army, he studied under calligrapher Oscar Ogg and had private lessons with George Salter and Tommy Thompson. Some of Baker's earliest designs were made available through Photo-Lettering Inc., and his first widely-available commercial typeface was published in 1965. Baker's first book was published in 1973. Arthur Baker died in 2016 at the age of 86. Tribute by Allan Haley. His typefaces were all calligraphic:

Some explanations by Freddy Nader: The Baker Argentina and Danmark typefaces were variations on his Signet. Baker originally made Signet for Headliners International in the 1960s, where he worked full time. In 1972 he was approached by VGC and told that they would pay him royalties as well if he made the same typeface for them. Royalties were a relatively new thing back then - Tommy Thompson was the very first person to ever earn royalties in type (in 1944 for his Thompson Quill script for Photo Lettering Inc), and he wasn't a type designer per se, he was a calligrapher. Lured by the idea of royalties coming his way from two different directions for the same face, Baker did a Signet for VGC. When Bob Evans, owner of Headliners, found out, he threatened to sue VGC for trademark infringement (copyright for typefaces was unheard of at the time - every major photo type house had "similar" fonts, and whenever someone got exclusives made by outside designers under a royalty program, it was only a matter of weeks before they were knocked off and changed slightly by other type houses, big and small). So in order to avoid a trademark infringement lawsuit, VGC called their typeface Baker Signet, instead of just Signet, and went further by asking Arthur Baker to make a lighter version and a condensed version. The lighter version was called Baker Argentina, the condensed version was called Baker Danmark. The "Number One" prefix was added to both so that when the inevitable knockoffs happened, type buyers would know which type was made first. About Baker Sans, Freddy writes: The Baker Sans was a knockoff of Helvetica. It was a massive family of a lot of fonts, rendered very ugly by camera stretching and slanting. Eddie Bauer used it as their corporate typeface for a long time in order to avoid the expensive fees of licensing Helvetica. Tim Ryan ended up digitizing it for Arthur Baker in the mid 1990s for a lot of money. That digital version is now being sold by ITF under one of its many companies (either Arthur Baker Design, or Arthur Baker Designs, or maybe Maverick Designs).

MyFonts link. Klingspor link. View Arthur Baker's typefaces. Linotype link. MyFonts page. Another MyFonts page. And still another MyFonts page. FontShop link. View Arthur Baker's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arturo Cortez

Oxnard, CA-based designer of the creamy font Complex Roots (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashley Cheou

At the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, Ashley Cheou designed Grotesk Regular (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashley Quackenbush

Californian designer of the bilined constructivist typeface Comrad Viet (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashley Sabatino

At California College of the Arts in San Fracisco, Ashley Sabatino designed a CSS-based typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashlynn WJ Tan

San Francisco-based designer of the display typefaces Mille Crepe (2017) and Music (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asketic Design Studio
[Mikelis Bastiks]

Outfit in San Francisco, London and Riga, Latvia, est. 2007. Most typefaces are designed by Mikelis Bastiks and Aigars Mamis. These include:

  • Cirulis and Cirulis Display (2017). An art deco display sans family of two weights, named after Ansis Cirulis (1883-1942, Latvia), who was one of the first Eastern European designers. Cirulis's heritage is characterized by letters with asymmetric widths, sliced cuts and various intrinsic features. Dedicated site.
  • Luzumpunkts (2009). A free script typeface by Mikelis Bastiks.
  • Sniegs (2010). A free fat modular typeface by Mikelis Bastiks.

Home page. Dedicated web site for the Cirulis font. You Work For Them link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Astrolux
[Glenn Parsons]

Commercial foundry in Oak View, CA, est. 2011, by Glenn Parsons (b. New York City). Creator of UXB Stencil and its companion UXB Spray in 2011, rough stencil typefaces. He also designed the tattoo typeface Dragon Fang (2011), Sugarbang (2012, comic book style), and the octagonal wedge typeface Spacepod (2012).

In 2013, Glenn created the comic book style typefaces Rocket Pop, Rocket Pop Outline and Koo Koo Puff. Signal 1885 (2013) is a vintage cursive script.

In 2014, he published Hexxes (a hexagonal typeface family), the retro futuristic mutant typography typeface Redrail Superfast.

Typefaces frrom 2015: Barn Owl (layered eroded wood style).

Typefaces from 2016: Bonewire, Tin Sign (vintage weathered style).

Typefaces from 2017: Digideco (retro-futuristic).

Typefaces from 2018: Fabbabi (a retro headline type), Surfoid, Smilodon (crayon font).

Typefaces from 2021: Fluffenhaus (a display typeface about which Glenn writes: The glyphs are soft serve ice cream, sorta Cooper Black after too much party. A fun playful look that suggests the 1960s and 1970s).

Typefaces from 2022: Monoicono (encircled icons related to environmental, health, weather, emergency, quality control, and synergy). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Athaya

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the free race car font Draco (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atlantic Fonts
[Ken Russell]

Atlantic Fonts in Camden, ME, is the foundry of type designer Ken Russell (b. 1962, CA). His typefaces are mostly hand-printed. In 2010, he published Sync, Radio, Kahiki, Clue, Once (curly), Episodian (retro techno), Rewire, and History. In 2011, he added the fat funky typeface Earthling, Orange Cat (hand-printed poster face), and the fun typefaces Gruyere, Mountain Goat (comic book style) and Monarch AF.

Typefaces from 2013: Rowboat, Judlebug (a children's book script).

Typefaces from 2014: Atlantic Doodles, Began (elliptical futuristic wide sans), Steamboat (semi-calligraphic ribbon style script).

Typefaces from 2015: Hightide (hand-lettered script).

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

Aude Degrassat

Student who graduated in 2008 from Ecole Estienne in Paris. She wrote a thesis on Albert Boton, and developed a gothic typeface that was published in the magazine Etapes. She presently works at Uzik in Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Audrey Gould

Audrey Gould (Audrey Gould Design, San Francisco, CA) created several customn typefaces in 2013 and 2014. Several of these seem to have been for Nike. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aure Font Design
[Aurora Isaac]

Aurora Isaac (Aure Font Design, Issaqua, WA) is a California-born type designer. She created the uncial typeface Aure Westra LP (2011) and the Victorian family Aure Zeritha LP (2011).

Typefaces from 2018: Aure Brash (an outline font that speaks with the cheeky inuendo of a sassy parrot), Aure Nox (semi-haunted; with modulated stems), Aure Teddy (art nouveau style), Aure Declare (a text typeface family accompanied by several sets of extraordinary and quite complete astrological symbols), Aure Sable (also with astrological symbols), Aure Wye, Aure Jane.

Typefaces from 2019: Aure Zeritha. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aurora Isaac
[Aure Font Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Austin Long

Artist, graphic designer, and photographer in San Francisco. In 2011, he earned a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from California State University, Monterey Bay. Creator of the free antique-look display typeface Passau (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Autograph Creative

Autograph is a brand consultancy in Emeryville, CA, specialized in art direction and graphic design. People include Aaron Pou, Donerik Dela Cruz and Mark Hausler. They designed the sans typefaces United Nations (based on WWII German Autobahn road signs and Helmut Lang) and Shadow Sans (art deco). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Autologic

Newbury Park, CA-based outfit where Slimbach and Stone worked at one point. Its staff designed (and in some cases, imported, via Autologic SA in Lausanne, Switzerland) some nice typefaces in the mid eighties such as the Champfleury family (1985), Geometrica (1985), Kis-Janson (1985), Media (1976, André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt and Erich Gschwind), Melencolia (1985), Signa (1978, André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt and Erich Gschwind) and Trinité (1981, Bram de Does, part Bobst Graphic, part Autologic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Autologic Information International

Thousand Oaks, CA-based developer of electronic prepress technologies. Active in the newspaper industry. Bought by Agfa on October 4, 2001. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Autumn Lane Paperie
[Beck McCormick]

Or Rebecca McCormick. Californian designer of some handcrafted typefaces.

Typefaces from 2022: Tiramisu Sans (a scrapbook font), Delvey Modern Serif Font (a boudoir font).

Typefaces from 2020: Duchess Script, Moxie, Sanibel, Bitte, Brioche.

Typefaces from 2019: Angeleno Brush Script, Tropical Trail Script, Waterssong Brush Script, Key Larrgo (brush script), Homebrewer, Wild Children, River Road, Dear Journal, Catalunya Script, Sassfras, Azusa sans, Fall Ember (wild calligraphy), Blossomberry, Souls Wuld (font duo), Inverness, Beach Say Script, Bolabos Script, Wyldling Script, Unbridled Script, Delish, Reynolds Square, Jamjar Script, Globetrotter (signature script), Mardi Gras, La Boheme Script, The Glen Brush (a Treefrog script), Boogie Down, Fete Casual Script, Resfeber Script, Salt and Sea, Barcelona Nights, Farmhouse Country, Friday Vibes Script, Katiekate Font Duo, Ethanol Sans, Kirsteny Sans, Lilykins Sans.

Typefaces from 2018: You Are Capable of Amaz, Sweet Tea Always, Welcome to our Home, Gypsy Soul, Salt and Sea, Be a Pineapple, May Your Coffee Be Strong, Adventure Awaits, Seas The Day, Ocean Child, Beach Daze, Sunday Funday, Barcelona Nights, Save Water Drink Wine, Sasshole, Keep Calm and Craft On, Flipflops and Tanlines, Salty Hair Don't Care, Cardio is Hardio, On wednesdays We Drink, All You Need Is Love And tacos, Sunshine and Tanlines, Beach Hair Don't Care, Farmhouse Country, As For Me and My House, I Run on Vitamin Sea, Cruise Hair Don't Care, Sunrise Sunburn Sunset, Flipflop Tribe Handlett, She's Whieskey in a Teacup, The Snark is Strong with this one, Friday Vibes, The Sass is Strong With This One, Shady Beach SVG, Resting Beach Face Hand, Remember Who You are, Home is Where the Heart is, Fresh from the farm SVG, Motivated Handlettered, Bride, I Need a Hug, Ethanol Sans, The hangover is Strong, Slay, Good Vibes Only, Momboss, Wildflowers, Pinot, Ink-Credible, Mother of Girls, You Had Me At Merlot, Love Herat, Whiskey Makes Me Frisky, Team Mom, Need More Tattoos, Maybe Swearing, Y'All, This Girl, Queen of Caffeine, Island Girl, Watch Me Sip Chardonnay, Sugar Spice Cocktail, Namastay, Sassy Handlettered SVG, Made with Love, That Wife Life, Socially Awkward, Katiekate Inline, Auttie, Ampersand Mania, Sugar Love, Party dress, Dream, Springbreak, Whiskey Girl Script, Irton Inline+Solid, Patisserie Script.

Earlier typefaces: Warmth (2017), The Island Sans (2018), Parkchester Script (2017), Backyard Garden (2017), Just Daring Hearts (2017), Lush sans (2017), Conquistador Serif (2017), Oh Savannah (2017: signature font), Plumeria Brush Script (2017), Orange Grove (2017), Cherokee Rose (2017: calligraphic script), Sweet Jasmine (2017: calligraphic), Florida Girl (2017), Florida Girl Sans (2017), Magnolia Plantation (2017), Breakwater (2017), Miami Vibes (2017), Coquina Clam (2017), Sugar Dumplin Sans (2017), Sea Breeze (2017), Chicken & Waffles (2017), Da Beach (2017), She Sells Seashells (2017), Bless Your Heart (2017), Buttermilk Biscuit Sans (2017), Lovely Nirvana (2017), Just Darling (2017), Croissant (2017), Summer Market (2017), Rose Bud (2017), Spring Market (2017), Amazeballz Brush (2015), Auttie Girl Hand (2015), Stabby Penguin (2015, dry brush script), Giraffy (2015), Smirk (2014), AJ Normal (2014, children's hand emulation) and Beck Callig (2014).

Creative Market link. Creative Market link for Bourbon Lettering. Creative Market link for Beck McCormick. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Avantexte Press

Outfit in Oakland, CA, which made the geometric typeface Hitchcock (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AvanType
[Habib Khoury]

Israeli designer Habib Khoury (born in Fassouta, Upper Galilee, 1967) is presently Executive Creative Director of Avant Design Communications, which specializes in trilingual typography and communications. The type division, AvanType, offers commercial Latin, Arabic and Hebrew typefaces. He holds a Masters degree from Central Saint Martins College in London. Habib spent several years in Haifa, London, and New York, and is now based in Cathedral City, CA.

His Hebrew designs: Casablanca, Derby, Falafil, Girnata, Rituals, Talona. His Latin fonts include Adorey, Alluremda, Granada, Merkory and Stocky. He won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Maqsaf. At TDC2 2003, he won a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design for Falafil.

His Arabic typefaces include Chiaka, Ghirnata (1996), Sinan (1992), Alwadi (1996), Onwan (1998), Shallal Ultra Light (1995), Saljook (1997), Barhoom (1995), Alkhoury (1997), Sayaf, Maqsaf and Qasab (1998).

He won an award at TDC2 2006 for Hogariet (2005, a Hebrew face) and at TDC2 2008 for Al Rajhi (an Arabic text family). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Azelea Rodgers
[aRc (or: Azelea Rodgers Creations)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Balsamiq Studios
[Michael Angeles]

Sacramento, CA-based designer of the free Google font Balsamiq Sans. Balsamiq Sans is a rounded sans typeface created for the Balsamiq Wireframes software and has been in use since version 2.1 in 2011. It contains 942 glyphs in two weights with italics/obliques, and includes the basic and extended Latin character set, Cyrillic, some symbols, dingbats, mathematical symbols and technical symbols. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bao Nguyen

Sacramento, CA-based designer. Cargocollective link. He created geometric logotypes called Virtuous (2012) and Espionage (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barmoor Foundry
[Tracy Sabin]

Barmoor Foundry showcases handcrafted and script fonts created by Californian illustrator Tracy Sabin. Typefaces from 2016: Lechlade (inspired by the handwriting of the great British pen and ink artists Edward Lear, John Tenniel, E. H. Shepard and Edward Ardizzone), Antibes.

Typefaces from 2017: Barmoor (inspired by Garamond), Nobbin (a quirky children's book font used in the book Nothing To Do).

Typefaces from 2018: P22 Muschamp Pro (P22: midway between a beatnik type and a curly vampire script).

Typefaces from 2019: P22 Schneeberger (a curly and playful handcrafted typeface family). Sabingrafik link.

Typefaces from 2021: P22 Torrone (an art deco script).

P22 link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Barsha Dahal

Barsha Dahal (Oakland, CA) created the Lady Boy typeface in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beary Design (or: Letter Beary)
[Dian Haniffan Hadi]

Or Dian Haniff. Yogyakarta, Indonesia (and/or San José, CA)-based designer of Brimstone (a scrapbook script) (2022), Smile Hana (a scrapbook script) (2022), Miss You (a scrapbook script) (2021), Walmars (a scrapbook script) (2021), Welove (a scrapbook script) (2021), Billie Family (script) (2021), Valentday (2020), Hello Valentines (2021), Agia Mary (2020: a creamy upright script), Hello Dove (2020: a fine script), Helena Sweety (2020), Hi Joana (a playful script) (2020), Animal Paws (2020: a textured font for children's books), Cat Paw (2020: a scrapbook font), My Butterfly (2020), Gallmore (2020), Hellstand (2020), Cat OPaw (2020), My Butterfly (2020), Gallmore Slab (2020), Plants Lovin (2020), Magic Love (2020), Manaline (2020: a monoline script), Magic Love (2020), Love and Heart (2020), Pineapple Slice (2020), Salted Caramel (2020), Hello Summer (2020), Ruby Dance (2020), Hardiness (2020), Sidelines (2020), Bannie (2020: a signage script), Sidelle (2020), Smitta Bali (2020: script), Gantrol (2020: a great retro signage script), Gantry (2019: identical to Gantrol?), Sottel (2019), Hamelin Script (2019:a signage script), Hatmi White (2019), Amatins (2019), Anuin (2019), Dino Kids (2019), Gatelo (2019), Baby Fun (2019), Nora Halim (2019), Bannie (2019), Mama Bunny (2019), Hansley (2019: a script), Chellion (2019: a meaty script), Casttano (2019), Gritten (2019), the display typeface Great Brington (2019), Dalena (2019: script), the children's book font Happy Kids (2019), the slab serif typefaces Helman (2019) and Arizon (2018), the decorative font Good Brinton (2019), the copperplate serif font Heiden (2019), the script typefaces Queen Elena (2019), Sennita (2019), Shantty (2019) and Belico (2019), and the marker pen font Moyudan (2019). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Beatnik lettering

Beatnik lettering probably started in the fifties via magazines and movie credits. Hand-drawn, the letters are bouncy, uneven and often interlocking. Several examples of beatnik lettering were given by Jeremy Gullotto (Pasadena, CA) in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Becca Line
[Charles Siu]

San Francisco-based designer of the figurine-themed decorative initial caps typeface Keith Haring (2012; during his studies at the University of San Francisco). Muni Streetcar Display Font (2015) is inspired by the San Francisco Muni System Light Rail Display.

Behance link. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beck McCormick
[Autumn Lane Paperie]

[More]  ⦿

Bedoobie Designs
[Blake Bedard]

Riverside, CA-based designer of the poster typeface OC Life (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Behdad Esfahbod

Seyed Behdad Esfahbod MirHosseinZadeh Sarabi is an Iranian-Canadian software engineer, type expert and free software developer. He worked at Google in Mountain View, CA, and at Facebook (2019-2020). At the time he quit Facebook, his annual salary, as reported by The New York Times, was 1.5 million dollars.

Behdad Esfahbod was born in 1982 in Sari, Iran. While at high school Esfahbod won a silver in the 1999 International Olympiad in Informatics and then gold in 2000. He studied computer engineering at Sharif University in Tehran while discovering the world of computer typography and open source.

In 2003 he moved to Canada, studied computer science at the University of Toronto (MSc, class of 2006), became a regular contributor to GNOME---he was a director at GNOME Foundation from 2007 to 2010, serving as the president from 2008 to 2009---and many other open source projects. Esfahbod was among the founders of Sharif FarsiWeb Inc. which carried out internationalization and standardization projects related to open source and Persian language. He worked at Red Hat, Google, and generally became the go-to person regarding everything font and text rendering in open source projects. Among the projects he has led are the cairo, fontconfig, HarfBuzz, and pango libraries, which are standard parts of the GNOME desktop environment, the Google Chrome web browser, and the LibreOffice suite of programs. He received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for his work on HarfBuzz. In 2012, he obtained an MBA from the University of Toronto as well.

Speaker at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. The abstract of his talk there explains the current status of the FontTools package: FontTools/TTX is a Python package for converting OpenType font fonts to / from XML. It was developed in early 2000s by Just van Rossum and has been in wide use by the type community since, mostly for testing and inspection, but its development has had stopped for the most part. In Summer 2013 I resurrected FontTools development by adding support for many tables that have not been supported before (EBDT/EBLC, CBDT/CBLC, sbix, COLR/CPAL, SVG, ...), as well as implementing new tools: a full font subsetting tool, font inspection tool, font merge tool. In this talk I will talk about the community gathered around the new FontTools development as well as my plans to expand FontTools into a full Open Source font production pipeline. Speaker at ATypI 2015 in Sao Paulo. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on The Open Source Python Font Production Pipeline.

Addendum: Read his personal story involving psychological torture by the Iranian government. New York Times article in August 2020 about his Iranian experience: Esfahbod was arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' intelligence unit during a 2020 visit to Tehran. He was then moved to Evin prison, where he was psychologically pressured and interrogated in solitary confinement for seven days. They downloaded all his private data from his devices. Iranian security forces let him go based on his promise to spy on his friends once he was back in United States. According to Linkedin, he is now based in Edmonton, Canada.

Wikipedia link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Balvanz
[Fontalicious]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ben Debaan
[Tommy of Escondido's Alien Fonts Page]

[More]  ⦿

Ben Goddard

Temecula, CA-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Fargo (2016), which is based on the Coen Brothers classic Fargo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Goetting

Ben Goetting hails from Brooklyn, but is now based in southern California. In 2014, he designed an all caps rounded blackletter typeface called Grandmaster Clash. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Haber

Californian designer of the grungy but interesting Mexican look typeface Taco font (shareware). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Suarez

FIDM graduate (b. 1990) who works as a graphic designer in Los Angeles. Creator of a strong octagonal headline typeface in 2012 called Vincent.

Dafont link. Behance link. Cargo Collectrve link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Truelove
[Typelove Fontworks]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Horak

Los Angeles-based designer of an inky hand-drawn poster typeface (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Woodlock
[Abstract Office (was: Subtext Office)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Benjie Escobar

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the free squarish display typeface Orale Sans (2021). Other fonts, all in the motorcycle gang blackletter tattoo style, include Kanye Killed It (free), Calidad (free), Appreciation (free) and Chibi OE. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benny Stram

Creator of the handwriting typeface Steavie Weavie (2005). Digital type student at City College of San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berkeley Fonts
[Richard Lasseigne]

Oakland, CA-based Richard Lasseigne (Berkeley Fonts) made these Devanagari and Sanskrit typefaces in 1988-1994: TmsNagari, BF_Devanagari. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernardo Rojas

During his studies at the Art Institute in San Diego, CA, Bernardo Rojas created the ornamental caps alphabet Paat (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Betatype
[Christian Robertson]

Betatype was established in 2003 by Christian Robertson, and is located in Concord, CA. It offers custom type design services as well as commercial fonts. Christian completed the BFA program in Graphic Design at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, and was a partner at Mansfield Design Company in American Fork, UT. He joined Google where he presently works.

While at Brigham Young University, he designed Alexandre (2004, a roman influenced by blackletter), Blackletter No.36, Uncial New (2004, an uncial with a unicase feel), Aloe (2003), Betatype No. 28 (2003, a semiserif), Ulysses (2003), Pill Aberration, Raisin Nut, Pill Gothic (2001, a sans family published in 2004 at Umbrella Type/Veer), Beezer Sans, Uncial Slab, Sketch No. 26, Sketch No. 25, Dear Sarah (2004, a contextual handwriting typeface done with great care, available from Umbrella Type), and Factory.

Betatype published these fonts:

Google Plus link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bezz Javan

Los Angeles-based multimedia designer. In 2018, he published these display typefaces: Cubart (3d), Esquare, Slinky, Dumber, Dumberer, Blockage (3d), Chizzeld, Lotty Dotty, Dimetia, Nockt, Domals, Hangerz, Sirkly, Geomiez, Diamonz (rhombic), Cirquetta (labyrinthine), Whetted, Solark, Eggo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bigelow&Holmes
[Charles Bigelow]

Bigelow&Holmes was founded by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. Charles Bigelow (b. 1945, Detroit) is a type designer and teacher, who runs his own studio, Bigelow&Holmes. Bigelow was a colleague of Donald Knuth at Stanford University when Knuth developed his Computer Modern typeface family for TeX. In mid-2006, Bigelow accepted the Melbert B. Cary Distinguished Professorship at Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Print Media. Before that, he taught at Stanford University, Rhode Island School of Design, and other institutions. Typefaces designed by Bigelow:

  • The Lucida family (1985). Lucida is used in several scientific publications such as Scientific American. Its origins go back to Computer Modern. I find it more appropriate for screens than paper, but that is just a personal view. The Lucida family contains LucidaConsole (1993), LucidaSansTypewriter (1991), LucidaFax, LucidaCalligraphy, LucidaBright, Lucida Blackletter (1991, a bastarda) and Lucida Handwriting. It has been recently expanded to comply with the Unicode Standard, and includes non-Latin scripts such as Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew. Charles Bigelow created the font families Lucida Math (with Kris Holmes, 1993), Lucida Sans (with Kris Holmes, 1985), Lucida Typewriter Sans (with Kris Holmes, 1985) and Lucida Serif (with Kris Holmes, 1993). The paper by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, The design of a Unicode font (Electronic Publishing, 1993, pp.289-305), explains the design issues such as letter heights, readability studies, and typeface designs for readers versus non-readers of the various scripts.
  • Syntax Phonetic.
  • Leviathan (1979).
  • Apple Chicago (1991), Apple Geneva (1991).
  • Microsoft Wingdings (1992).
  • For the Go Project, Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow designed the free typeface families Go Sans and Go Mono in 2016. The font family, called Go (naturally), includes proportional- and fixed-width faces in normal, bold, and italic renderings. The fonts have been tested for technical uses, particularly programming. These fonts are humanist in nature (grotesques being slightly less legible according to recent research) and have an x-height a few percentage points above that of Helvetica or Arial, again to enhance legibility. The name Go refers to the Go Programming Language. CTAN link.
Ascender link. Wikipedia link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Font Squirrel link. Ascender link. Lucida Fonts is a dedicated commercial site. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bill Dawson

Bill Dawson (XK9, Los Angeles) is a graphic designer who has interesting things to say about type--his Typethos series of type quotes is a must-read.

At [T-26], he designed Megahertz (1998, techno family) and Leger (monoline minimalist sans family). Klingspor link. Behance link. XK9 link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bill Duncan
[G. William Music Production]

[More]  ⦿

Billie Heitzman

Billie Heitzman (b. Arizona) graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in fine arts and advertising. Creator of Hot Goo (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bizzarro Foundry
[Zachary Bizzarro]

American designer of Growth (2018: a curly font inspired by the Parkmerced neighborhood in San Francisco), Quandary (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blackdreamist
[Keith Hayden]

Blackdreamist is Keith hayden's type foundry in Kansas City, MO. Keith Hayden is graphic designer, specializing in photo-manipulations, illustrations, and branding. Born in Kansas City, where he lives and works, Keith studied at the Art Institute of San Diego, and then at the Art Institute of Kansas City where he received a Bachelors degree in Graphic Design.

Creator of Minimalisto (2012). Benthem (2012) is a wonderful free art deco typeface family. Ambrosia (2014) is an all caps display typeface.

Behance link. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Blake Bedard
[Bedoobie Designs]

[More]  ⦿

Blake E. Marquis

Graphic designer who was first in New York City and later in Venice, CA. Artist who sells via YouWorkForThem. He designed several interesting typefaces in 2008 such as Figo (experimental Spanish-style face), Penny (hand-drawn), Dubby, Circus Maximus, and Boar. Farnum (2010) and Clairemy (2010) are hand-printed EPS format alphabets. In 2012, Clairemy was also published in OpenType format. Beautifully advertized in gonzo style: Hand-drawn in the night air with a DC-3 propeller blade, YWFT Clairemy is 327 glyphs of pure, bistromathic glory, and contains OpenType alternates that would make DeGaulle perm his moustache. York (2013) is an ornamental caps typeface family that can be used to layer and create 3d effects.

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

Blake Haber

Santa Barbara, CA-based designer of the freeware fonts Printer's Ornaments, Matador, Isla Bella, Taco Salad (1994), ItalianMosaicOrnaments, and Muddy's Water.

Blake Haber is married to Michelle Dixon, who runs the foundry Dixie's Delights.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bob Aufuldish
[FontBoy]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bonnie Shaver-Troup
[The Lexend Project]

[More]  ⦿

Boondox
[Michael Sharpe]

Free package in 2011 maintained at the CTAN TeX archive by Michael Sharpe from UCSD, who writes: The PostScript fonts in this package were derived from the STIX OpenType collection, with regular and bold weights of calligraphic, fraktur and double-struck (aka blackboard bold). The font names: BoondoxCalligraphic-Bold, BoondoxCalligraphic-Regular, BoondoxDoubleStruck-Bold, BoondoxDoubleStruck-Regular (blackboard bold style), BoondoxFraktur-Bold, BoondoxFraktur-Regular. Still in 2011, he published Dutch Calligraphic, a reworking of Elzevier's free math calligraphic font ESSTX13. Another CTAN download site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Borna Aaron Grcevic

Croatia-born graduate of School of Design in Zagreb and the TypeMedia program at the KABK in The Hague in 2017. He is currently located in Cupertino, California. Linkedin link.

His slab serif graduation typeface Grotto (2017) plays on the contrast between industrial massiveness and catwalk aesthetics. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brad Brace

Californian designer of fonts at Garagefonts, including the texture dingbat font family GF Millennium (1997-1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brad Tucker

Valencia, CA-based designer of the serif typeface Need a crit (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bradley Krebs

During his studies in Los Angeles, Bradley Krebs created circle-based the bullet hole typeface Grooph (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Braille Institute of America

The Braille Institute of America is located in Los Angeles, CA. In 2019, Elliott Scott, Megan Eiswerth, Linus Boman and Theodore Petrosky co-designed the totally free sans typeface family Atkinson Hyperlegible. Named after Braille Institute founder, Robert J. Atkinson, this font is characterized by differentiated letterforms, angled terminals, and a genuflexed lower case q.

Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brandi Stansbury

Based in Cayucos, CA, Brandi Stansbury (b. 1978) designed the hand-printed typeface Brandeez (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brandon Alvarado

Iowa-based typographer and graphic design who was born in California. He created Brodovitch (2011), a fashion mag modern decorative typeface based on Alexey Brodovitch's 1951 typeface Al-Bro. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brandon Carrillo

Los Angeles-based student-designer of the 3d typeface ISO (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brandon Duffany

Brandon Duffany (from Southington, CT) studied Computer science at Cornell University, and is now based in Mountain View, CA. Creator of the hand-printed Sharp Curve (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brandon Johnson

Brandon Johnson (Ragnarama, Costa Mesa, CA) created the display typeface Alabaster in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brandon Lyon

Designer, photographer, and animator based in Southern California. He created a Tuscan display typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Branislav S. Cirkovic
[TypoFlat]

[More]  ⦿

Brenda Maciel

Brazilian graphic designer based in San Bernardino, CA. She created the vernacular typeface Graninha Extra (2016) which is based on mural ads in Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brenda Walton

Northern Californian illustrator and calligrapher. She designed ITC Cancione (1997), which includes some floral ornaments and tendril-like flourishes. Straight from the wineries in Napa Valley.

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

Brennan X. George

Sacramento, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Oceanic (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brent Couchman

Designer and illustrator at Hatch in San Francisco, who hails from Boerne, TX. His typefaces include Sasquatch (2011, a bilined custom face), and Milk (2011), a very thin slab face. He is working on the multiline typeface Hello (2011), and on the Victorian ornamental typeface San (2011). Flickr link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brett Jackson

Brett Jackson is a San Diego-area type designer. Empty web page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brett Roeder
[Scorpion Tree]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bri LaReau

Graphic designer in San Francisco, who created the backslanted typeface Atomic in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian A. Jaramillo
[LetterCult]

[More]  ⦿

Brian Acevedo

Cranbrook Academy of Art student who designed Thermal (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Bonislawsky
[Versus Twin]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Brian Jaramillo
[Foundry-X]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Brian Jaramillo Harvey
[Apollo 26]

[More]  ⦿

Brian Petrello

San Francisco-based student-designer of Patina, an italicized sans-serif mono-spaced display font inspired by retro classic car typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Stell

Brian Stell works in the Font and Text team within Google's Internationalization Engineering group. He has been focused on engineering to make web fonts fast for all languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Roboto: faster than a speeding bullet. The abstract sounds interesting: This talk looks at the current status of Google's work to deliver fonts 'instantly' to Chrome users. With 'instant' fonts, website designers no longer have to choose between web fonts (that slow the site down) or 'web safe' fonts (that are only available in limited styles). Imagine being free to use your branding fonts in extra-light, book, normal, medium, bold, or ultra-bold - with italic, condensed, and slab variants. A brief overview of how the technology works is presented along with references to more information. Also discussed are efforts to make this work on other major browsers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Toth
[Foundry 73]

[More]  ⦿

Brianna Depue

During her studies at SJSU, Brianna Depue (Fremont, CA) designed the art nouveau typeface Mucha (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bright Ideas Fonts
[Rick Hutchinson]

A foundry which made over 500 fonts, mostly in 1998-1999, and was located in Carlsbad, CA, where Gail Conwell edited their Bright Ideas Magazine at that time, and Rick Hutchinson is listed as one of the directors / managers / owners. Dafont link. Another URL. Font Squirrel link.

Typefaces in alphabetical order with a few additional fonts mentioned separately later: Abraham, Accumulation, Adderley, Aerosol, Akimbo, Alexander, Amadeus-Regular, Amadeus, Amadeuz, Anderson, Arkitex, Arthur, Ashley, Asphalt, Asphalt'Wicker', Avante, Aztecan, Backlit, Balcony, Banshee, Barbarian, Barnaby, Barney, Beanbag, Bender, Bicycle, Billie, BlackRose, Blanchard, Blazed, Blossom, Bodkin, Bogsley, Boingo, Bonham, Botica, Bradley, Braxton, Brittany, Brownie, Bubbly, Bullwinkle, Bumper, Bunker, Butterscotch, Cajalco, Camelot, Candles, CandlesChrome, Candy, Canterbury, Cappuccino, Capsule, Carbiner, Carousel, Carrington, Carson, Casanova, Catfish, Cathedral, Catnip, Cecily, Ceremony, Challenge, Chamberlain, Chance, Chantilly, Cheetah, Chilled, Chocolate, Chopstick, Chump, Conniption, Corrigan, Corrosion, Crawford, Cyborg, Daffodil, Dakota, Danferno, DantesInferno, Darcie, Daytona, Delineator, Dementia, Diamondhead, Donika, Donnah, Dribble, Einstein, Elizabeth, Energy, Espresso, EspressoBI, FabreseDemi, Fairytale, Fallbrooke, Fiancee, Fido, Fionah, Fontana, Fonture, Fortress, Framed, Frankie, Frazier, Freddy, Frederick, Frizbee, Funhouse, Futana, Gapetto, Gatsby, Gemini, Gershaw, Gobbledygook, Godfrey, Goliath, Gonzales, Gonzo, Gothica, Graphitti, Grasshopper, Grendel, Griffin, Groovy, Habibe, Hannah, Hansel, Haskel, Havisham, Hawthorne, Henderson, Hendrix, Higgins, Highland, Holmes, Horton, Humphry, Hutchinson, Incense, Independence, IndependencefromBrightIdeas, Interpret, Invisible, Jacinda, Jacoby, Jaddarack, Jagger, Jamboe, Jangazoo, Jeremy, Jigsaw, Jokester, Joplin, Joseph, Joshua, Jubilee, Junior, Kaboom, Kamden, Karissa, Katherine, Kaufman, Kayleigh, Kendra, Kennedy, Khaki, KhakiBold, KhakiBoldOblique, KhakiOblique, Khakiripp, Khakiwrink, Kilcher, Killian, Kincade, Kingdom, Kinison, Klinker, Komodo, Kramer, Kromeon, Kryski, Kurrajong, Kyanna, Labrador, Leallie, Leland, Licorice, Limousine, Lindsy, Liquitek, Lockleer, Lockwood, Londonderry, Loyalty, Machine, Maddox, Madman, Magazine, Magellan, Maggie, Magician, Majesty, Malachite, Malone, Mandolin, Margarita, Marilyn, Marley, Marmalade, Marquardt, Martin, Mascara, Masters, McMahon, Mckinsey, Mechanizm, Meddler, Michelle, Milano, Millenium, Moccasin, Mongrel, Monolyth, Monster, Montey, Montoya, Moonstar, Morgan, Morrison, Morteza, Moteefe, Muskrat, Mustard, Napkin, Neolite, Newlywed, Nirvana, Noodles, Nouveau, OldWood, Oliver, Omicron, Pajama, Palooza, Panache, Paperclip, Papercut, Parbuckle, Parkinson, Paschico, Patches, Patriot, Patton, Payton, Pebbles, Pegasus, Perkins, Phantom, Picante, Picasso, Pickles, Pigeon, Pinhead, Pirouette, Platinum, Poodle, Pugsly, Quantum, Quentin, Radford, Ragetta, Ramirez, Rampart, Ramsey, Rapunzel, Rathskeller, Ravage, Ravish, Razor, Rebecca, Recess, Rediculous, Reefrash, Remeus, Revenge, Rhackoon, Rhodes, Ricksha, Riesling, Rockafella, Rockford, Rockola, Romance, Romulus, Rookie, Rutger, Ruxton, SMCChicago, SMCHollywood, SMCMiami, SMCMonteCarlo, SMCPhoenix, Sabien, Sampson, Samurai, Sangrial, Sapphire, Sapporo, Sawyer, Scarab, Scarlet, Scirocco, Scorpio, Scratch, Scrubblack, Scrubbold, Scrubcle, Scrublight, Sebastian, Seymour, Shakah, Shardee, Sheela, Skatty, Sketcher, Skyline, Skywalker, Snoozie, Snowboard, Squared, Stacker, Starsky, Stencil, Stencilla, Stiltskin, Sublime, Sundance, Surkle, Surrender, Swashed, Swingreg., Tagger, Tamarin, Tamborine, Tanner, Tantrum, Tarzana, Taylor, Teriyaki, Thompson, Thrash, Thrust, Tiddwell, Trapeze, Trident, Trinket, TrujillietXtra, Tuolumne, Twinkle, Tybette, Urbana, Vargas, Ventolin, Ventura, Vitrono, Vulmere, Waynne, Weiland, Whitney, Windsong, Winslow, Winton, Wonton, Wookie, Zargon, Ziggie.

Additional fonts not in the list above: Andrew, Boogie, Fracas, Mandrel, Sinclair, Tuxedo, Varsity.

Annotations:

[Google] [More]  ⦿

Bright Ideas Magazine
[Gail Conwell]

50USD/month, edited by "Bright Ideas". Bright Ideas is produced under the direction of Creative Director Gail Conwell. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brigitte Lopez

Ventura, CA-based designer of the display typeface Pad Thai (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brittani Renee

Brittani Renee (Brittani Design) grew up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She graduated from San Jose State University in 2012, where she published the display typeface Duet (2012), which is based on Julia Childs' personality. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brittany Thomas

During her studiesm, Pasadena, CA-based Brittany Thomas created the display typeface Hipstache (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bryan Mason
[Typekit]

[More]  ⦿

C. Joey Mann

Los Angeles-based designer of College New Modern (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cagri Kara

Los Angeles (and before that, Istanbul)-based creator of the cube-shaped counterless typeface Cube (2012) and of the experimental alphabet Comic (2012).

In 2017, Cagri designed the free all caps sans headline typeface Womby.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caitlin Murphy

Student at DeVry University, Bakersfield, CA. Creator of the hand-printed typeface Eric Thin (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Calder Hansen

During his studies at Brown University (Providence, RI) and at Type West, Calder Hansen designed the experimental display typeface Rinca (2019). Calder explains: The contrast axis of a typeface is a line describing how weight is distributed in the letters. Strokes parallel to the axis are thick; strokes perpendicular to it are thin. Rinca is an exploration of what happens when the contrast axis is curved rather than straight. It is based on the shapes created by a broad-nib pen that changes angle as it draws based on its position relative to the arc of the axis. This creates a texture that is strange but self-consistent. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caleb Colestock

Art director in San Diego, CA, who created the piano key typeface Peel and the outlined display typeface Do Good Work in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caleb Warren

Redding, CA-based designer of the poster typeface Shasta (2014). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

California Historical Society
[Jaime Henderson]

Archivist at the California Historical Society in San Francisco, who reproduced, highlighted and commented on many nice images of classical typefaces. Jaime writes: All the materials I select for Type Tuesdays come from the Kemble Collection, which features type founders' specimen books, printing and graphic design periodicals, ephemera and much more. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

California Type Foundry (19th century)

Nineneteenth century San Francisco-based foundry, also called Wm. Faulkner&Son, and Painter&Co. [Google] [More]  ⦿

California Type Foundry (20th century)

San Francisco-based foundry, est. 1941 and located at 440 Battery Street, not to be confused with a foundry of the same name in the 19th century. California Type Foundry Price List [and] Specimens was published ca. 1947. The typefaces shown are primarily Lanston Monotype typefaces: 20th Century, Caslon, Coronet, Eden, Flash, Onyx, Stymie, Swing, Tourist Gothic, Ultra Bodoni and Valiant. [Google] [More]  ⦿

California Type Foundry (21st century)
[Dave Lawrence]

This type foundry was started in 2019 by Dave Lawrence, perhaps to honor and revive the California Type Foundry from the 20th and 19th centuries. Their typefaces:

  • CAL Bodoni Casale (2019). This typeface has been painstakingly crafted from hi-res scans of 4 original Bodoni printings. It is a splendid reproduction, although the ear of the lower case g is too small with respect to the overhangs on the lower case a and r.
  • CAL Bodoni Terracina (2020). An italic didone family.
  • CAL Bodoni Palazzo (2020). An exact reproduction of Bodoni's largest display caps typeface.
  • CAL Bodoni Ferrara Origin (2020). A spectacular display serif.
  • Hermanz Titling (2021). A chiseled capitalis monumentalis titling font in Trajan style based on inscriptional caps drawn by Hermann Zapf.
  • Oceanwide (2021). He describes this revival of one of Frutiger's forgotten geometric sans designs: Back in 1968, Frutiger was approached by Pentagram to make a design for British Petroleum. They wanted a "new version of Futura". However, they wanted him to make a couple adjustments. First, they felt that Futura was "too fiddly." By this, they meant that it narrowed too much at the joins. (Joins are for example where the round and straight parts of the 'd' meet.) This is something that is necessary for small print text (to prevent ink clogging), but is not necessary at large sizes. Second, they wanted it to be entirely geometric, using the circular shape with minimal optical corrections. Unfortunately this font was not even used very consistently in the BP brand. A haphazard mix of Futura and Frutiger's BP font ensued. It was then replaced by another font design very soon after. My design is different in several ways. First, the commas and quotes are a more modern style. I tried his original commas, but these just didn’t work to 21st century eyes. Second, in his drawings, Frutiger went for a more standard u with a downstroke on the right. However, Oceanwide has a simpler u. Third, I made more optical adjustments. At the direction of his employer, Frutiger reluctantly put no font optical corrections into the letters. So I think my optical adjustments are similar to what Frutiger would have wanted. Fourth, I extended the weight into the light and extra light ranges. Fifth, the rest of the font I created according to the principles of Adrian Frutiger, but with no sources for inspiration. Here is Frutiger's design philosophy, in his own words: "If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful." The words about the spoon were the ones I kept in my mind as I tried to make the curves ultra smooth, and the shapes ultra simple.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Calligraphics
[Paul Veres]

Calligraphics is Paul Veres' outfit in Berkeley, CA. Paul Veres was born in 1944 in Budapest, and started out as a calligrapher and graphic designer. He is the creator of Caterina (1999-2004, Psy/Ops; a calligraphic sans used in some places by movie director Francis Ford Coppola), and of Linotype Banjoman Roman (1996, an avant-garde font) and Linotype Aperto at Linotype (1995-1996: a lapidary typeface).

Fonts at Calligraphics: Caterina (1998), Aperto (1995, a stressed sans family), Harmonica (2005, script), DemiTasse (2001), Gargoyle (2001, a rounded informal script) and Espresso (2001).

FontShop link. Linotype link. Klingspor link. View Paul Veres's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Calvin Antwan Matthews

Graphic designer in Irvine, CA. He created the custom typeface Whistle (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cameron McEfee
[Octicons]

[More]  ⦿

Cami Naccarato

Fort Collins, CO-based designer of Roofroots (2015), a typeface custom-made for Roofroots. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Candyce Fritsch

San Diego, CA-based designer of the hipster typeface Sonora (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caressa Cunningham

San Francisco-based designer of the display typeface Glitch (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl Anderson
[Carl's Web Log]

[More]  ⦿

Carl Crossgrove
[Terrestrial Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carl Rohrs

Commercial lettering artist, scribe, teacher and sign painter in Santa Cruz, CA, since 1977. Rohrs has been teaching lettering and typography since 1984 at Cabrillo College and UC Santa Cruz extension. His mentors included Father Edward Catich, Hermann Zapf and Karlgeorg Hoefer.

Codesigner at Wolfram Research of some Mathematica fonts, such as Math5, Math5Bold (1998).

Since 2015, editor of Alphabet, the quarterly journal of San Francisco's Friends of Calligraphy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl Stephen Junge

Illustrator and poster designer in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, who lived from 1880 (b. Stockton, CA)-1972 (d. Des Plaines, IA). Many of the ornamental typefaces in the Barnhart Brothers&Spindler catalog of 1931, Typefaces: border designs, typecast ornaments, brass rule: selective specimens of preferred matter, are due to Junge. His typefaces:

  • Caslon Italic Specials (1924).
  • Swagger Capitals, which already appeared in the 1922 catalog of BBS. Swagger Capitals was reworked by Nick Curtis in 2004 as Mazurka NF [the lower case of Mazurka NF is based on Gothic Novelty Title, perhaps not a Junge type]. Swagger Capitals also inspired Pencraft (2010, Intellecta Design).

    Mac McGrew: Swagger Capitals or Swagger Initials were designed by Carl S. Junge for BB&S in 1925. They are virtually monotone, with an elongated flourish on each of the letters, most of which are cursive in character. There are only twenty-four letters, without X or Z. The foundry promoted them as being usable as initials with various typefaces.

  • Many ornaments were collected and digitized by Nick Curtis in Junge Holiday Cuts NF (2004).
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Garcia

San Francisco-based designer of the horizontally striped typeface Construct (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Lujan

Fresno, California-based designer of the brushy signage typeface Brandit (2015). Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl's Web Log
[Carl Anderson]

Type web log run by Carl Anderson in Portland, OR. Carl Anderson is the designer of Cyclist (2005), a font done as a project in Amy Conger's class at the City College of San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carly Plaskett

Carly Plaskett (Carly Lane Design, San Francisco, CA) created the late art deco typeface Fillmore (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carmel Type (or: Just Lucky)
[Drew Melton]

Drew Melton (Carmel Type and Just Lucky, Los Angeles, CA) is a graphic and type designer, letterer and occasional illustrator. He has worked for a wide range of clients including McCann, Saatchi & Saatchi and Penguin Books. Many of his typefaces are exquisite.

He created the vintage shaded typeface Lastra (2014, improved in Lastra Display in 2015), Westward Numerals (2014), Steel Cut (2014, numerals), Chisel (2014, numerals), Show Stopper (2014, a signage typeface), Ballpoint Script (2014; released in 2019 at Typeverything), Awning Display (2014), Brite Script (2014, Ten Dollar Fonts), Handsome Script (2014, a calligraphic copperplate script), the signage typeface Sideshow (2014) and the Tuscan typeface Magnifique (2013, +Inline, +Shadow).

Typefaces from 2015: Numerals (Book Club, Butcher Block, Chisel, Chisel Shadow, Chisel Fill, Elegante, Elegante Fancy, Yuma), Dolcetto (a stunning swashy calligraphic copperplate script for stately occasions), Lumber Co (an Italian Western wood style font family at The Designers Foundry; together with Jason Carne), Rubber Boots (a text typeface with considerable contrast), Stockpile (numerals), Luxus Gothic (blackletter), Yuma Numerals. In 2015, Jason Carne and Drew Melton co-designed the large condensed titling typeface family Skyward and wrote: Robust, towering, and geometrically refined, Skyward is a surefire classic cocktail of equal parts utility and elegance. Stuffed Crust, bold and loud, will be a hit too. Drew writes: Big and greasy never looked so good.

Typefaces from 2016: Boulangerie (a Tuscan typeface by Drew Melton), Motor City (by Drew Melton and Jason Carne; an industrial strength slab serif; the name Motor City was already taken by Casey Cole in 2012, so we'll wait and see if there will be a name change in the works).

Creative Market link. Behance link. Ten Dollar Fonts link. Carmel Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carmela Ocampo

In her typography class, Carmela Ocampo (Claremont, CA) created Grotesque, a typeface that was inspired by the alien creature in Watchmen by Alan Moore. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caro Latorraca

San Francisco, CA-based designer of the creamy typeface Tape Font (2017), which is inspired by the rolling waves and the movements of the ocean. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carol Liao

Carol Liao (Los Angeles) created a Plantin specimen booklet in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carol Twombly

Born in 1959 in Concord, Carol Twombly studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and under Charles Bigelow at Stanford, and joined the Bigelow&Holmes studio for four years. In 1988, she joined Adobe and started designing typefaces. She was featured in 5 American Type Designers by Spurius Press. In 1994, she won the Prix Charles Peignot. In 1999, she retired from type design.

Linotype link. FontShop link. Typophile link.

A book about Twombly by Nancy Stock-Allen (Oak Knoll Press, Newcastle, 2016): Carol Twombly: Her Brief But Brilliant Career in Type Design.

Her typefaces:

View the typefaces made by Carol Twombly. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carolina de Bartolo
[101 Editions]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Caroline David
[Aqua Type]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Caroline Hadilaksono

Designer currently living in Los Angeles. She graduated from Otis College of Art and Design graphic design program, with a minor in illustration, and founded the open source type cooperative The League of Movable Type with Micah Rich in 2009. Designer, with Tyler Finck, of Junction (2009), about which she writes: Inspired by my favorite humanist sans serif typefaces, such as Meta, Myriad, and Scala, Junction is where the best qualities of serif and sans serif typefaces come together. It has the hand-drawn and human qualities of a serif, and still retains the clarity and efficiencies of a sans serif typeface. It combines the best of both worlds. Junction was updated in 2014.

Co-designer, with Micah Rich and Tyler Finck, of League Gothic (2009-2011), which is modeled after Morris Fuller Benton's Alternate Gothic No. 1 (1903), and League Spartan Bold (2014), which is a revival of ATF's Spartan.

Kernest link. Klingspor link. The League of Movable Type link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caroline Hadilaksono
[The League of Movable Type]

[More]  ⦿

Carolyn Crampton

Art director, teacher, designer and illustrator in San Francisco, who designed several typefaces ca. 2016: Express Ultra Edges, Critter, Cordial, Melior Ultra, Meliuor Light, Beloved. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolyn Lai

During her studies at UCSD, Carolyn L created the hand-printed typeface Caro (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Casady&Greene (Fluentlaserfonts)
[Terry Kunysz]

Casady&Greene, Inc. started out as two separate little companies, CasadyWare and Greene, Inc. CasadyWare, which was founded by Robin Casady in August 1984, began producing Fluent Fonts, which were bitmapped typefaces for the Macintosh. The 1984 set of fonts have copyright lines that mention Richard A. Ware. As soon as PostScript fonts appeared, CasadyWare got hold of the first version of Fontographer and produced the first downloadable PostScript fonts, even beating Adobe, the originators of PostScript, to the punch. These were marketed as Fluent Laser Fonts (FLF) out of Carmel, CA.

The FLF series includes Abilene (Western), Alexandria (1986, slab serif family), Black Knight (1991, blackletter), Bodoni FLF (1986), BodoniUltra (1986, a fat didone), Bonnard (art nouveau), ButtonHighlight, ButtonPlain, Calligraphy (1986), Campanile (a great didone face), Checkbox, Chicago FLF (free at OFL), Collegiate (1988, sports lettering), Coventry Script (calligraphic), Cutouts FLF (1992, cargo stencil), Desperado, Dorovar Carolus (1988, Carolingian; see also D790 at Softmaker and Carolingia (1991, William Boyd)), DryGulch, Epoque (art nouveau), FattiPatti, Fletcher Gothic (1992, art nouveau), Galileo (1987, didone), Gazelle (1988, calligraphic script), Gatsby (1986, pure art deco), Giotto, Gregorian (1986, English Gothic style blackletter), Harlequin FLF (1990), Highland Gothic (1992), Jott, Kasse (1992), Kells (modern round Gaelic font, 1988), KeyCaps, La Peruta, Meath (modern round Gaelic font, 1988), Michelle (1992, art deco, marquee face), Micro, MicroExtend FLF (1986, like Microgramma), Monterey (1986, Peignotian), Moulin Rouge (1992, an art nouveau typeface by Richard A. Ware), Nouveau (1990, art nouveau), Paladin (1988, blackletter), Pendragon (1991), Phoenix Script FLF (1990), Prelude (1986, connected script), Regency Script (1986, calligraphic copperplate script), Right Bank (1986, art deco), Ritz (1986, art deco in the style of Broadway), Rocko (1992, rounded like VAG Round), SansSerif FLF (1986, a large geometric sans family), Sedona Script (1990, connected, calligraphic, semi-psychedelic), Slender Gold (1992, script), Vertigo (1992, condensed monoline sans), VertigoPlus, Zephyr Script (1986, brush script).

Many fonts were digitized by Richard Ware, and some were designed by Mike Wright. The contact was Terry Kunysz in Salinas, CA.

On July 3, 2003, Casady&Greene closed it doors permanently. However, one of its designers, Mike Wright, writes: I believe that all the fonts that were developed by the company are now in the public domain. Robin Casady and I are thinking of putting up a site with free downloads of all of the old C&G public domain fonts--mainly as a way of attracting Mac users to see iData 2.

Robin Casady in 2003: I founded Casady Company in 1984 to publish fonts for the new Macintosh. The name changed with incorporation to CasadyWare, Inc. Around this time I met Mike Greene who was looking for a software project to do after SpellsWell. I talked him into doing a program that became QuickDEX. Later CasadyWare, Inc. merged with Greene, Inc. and became Casady & Greene, Inc. Over the years, my role in management reduced as my interests in other areas developed. In the last ten years I have had no official management duties at C&G. About a year ago I removed myself from the Board of Directors.

Some fonts could be found at TypOasis [defunct link]. Fontex link. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Casey Castille

Oakland, CA-based designer (b. 1975) at FontStruct in 2008 of the smudged typefaces Smudge New Roman and Chinese Chairs, as well as the experimental typefaces Navajo Blankets, Progesterone, Guru Blackletter (Indic font simulation), June Cleaver (dot matrix), Sugandha Shringar (Indic font simulation), Aravinda Incense Sticks (more Indic font simulation) and Guru Saksha (still more Indic simulation). Wayang Kulit (2008, caps only) was inspired by Javanese shadow puppets. Dafont link. Graffiti fonts made by him in 2008: Professional Muse, Gladiator Cruel. On the side he runs a business selling pin-up calendars. Fontsy link. Home page. Full name Casey Castille Nassberg (nee Shelton). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Castle Type
[Jason Castle]

Designs by Jason Castle from San Rafael, CA, who studied psychology at Dominican University of California. He does custom font design and sells commercial typefaces through MyFonts and FontShop. Blog. These include:

  • A: AfrikaBorders, Afrika Motifs, Agency Open (M. F. Benton, 1934, revival Jason Castle), Agency Gothic Inline, Ampersands, Azbuka (2005, a heavy slab serif).
  • B: Brasileiro (2007, an art deco face).
  • Carisma (2007, a clean geometric sans), Carlos (art deco inspired by Elektra), Castle Fleurons, Chinoise (2008, based on hand lettering that is reminiscent of a style of ancient Chinese square-cut ideograms), Cloister Black, Copperplate Script, Cradley (2015, a Caslon titling family with Greek and Cyrillic, named after the birthplace of William Caslon).
  • D: Deko Initials (1993, discontinued in 2007; based on NADA0 drawn in 1972 by Marcia Loeb), Dionisio (2008, didone).
  • E: Eden (Bold, Light; originally designed by Robert H. Middleton in 1934).
  • F: Fat Freddie, Futura CT and Futura CT Inline (2007, based on Futura ND, but discontinued after only a few weeks).
  • G: Goudy Lombardy (Lombardic), GoudyStout, Goudy Text, Goudy Trajan (1994-2010, free; +alternates).
  • H: Handsome (2002, nice finger dingbats, aka fists).
  • J: Jensen Arabique (left field art deco, based on work of Gustav Jensen, 1933).
  • K: Koloss (art deco).
  • L: Latin CT (2008, 6 styles), Latin Wide, Laureat, Lise Informal (2008, hand-printed), Lombardy.
  • M: Maximilian CS (Rudolf Koch, 1917), Metropolis Bold and Shaded (based on the 1932 Stempel cut as designed by W. Schwerdtner), Minotaur (2008, an original monoline design based on an Oscan votive inscription from the second century BC; looks like simulated Greek).
  • N: Norberto (2009, an all-caps Bodoni; +Stencil).
  • O: Ogun (2008, inspired by an Egyptian-style Russian block alphabet and useful for athletic lettering; formerly named Azbuka).
  • P: Plantain (2002, a digital version of Plantin Adweight, a 1913 typeface by F. H. Pierpont), Plantain Stencil (2009), Progreso (2010, a condensed, unicase, serif gothic type design inspired by the hand-lettering on Russian posters from the 1920s).
  • R: Radiant, Radiant Extra Condensed CT (both Radiants are revivals of Roger Middleton's typeface by that name, 1940), Ransahoff (2002, ultra condensed didone), Rudolf (1992, based on Rudolf Koch's German expressionist work such as Neuland).
  • S: Samira (2008, art nouveau style; based on Peter Schnorr's Schnorr Gestreckt, from 1898), Shango (1993, based on Schneidler Initials by F.H.E. Schneidler (1936), and including a digital version of Schneidler Cyrillic (1992); extended in 2007 to Shango Gothic and in 2008 to a 3-d shadow version, Shango Chiseled, and in 2009 to Shango Sans), Sculptura (2005, an all caps typeface based on Diethelm's Sculptura from 1957), Sencia (2008, based on Spanish art deco stock certificate lettering from 1941), Sonrisa (2009, art deco family---Sonrisa Thin is free), Standard CT (a neo-grotesque family), Standard CT Stencil (2012: free).
  • Tambor (Light, Black, Inline, Adornado) (1992) (note: Jason claims that it was remotely based on Rudolf, which in turn was based on calligraphy of Rudolf Koch), Trio (an art deco sansserif), Trooper Roman (discontinued).
  • V: Vincenzo (2008, a slabby didone), Warrior (2009, a 3d font based on Ogun; +Shaded).
  • X: Xavier (art deco family based on Ashley Crawford by Ashley Havinden, 1930, revival by Jason Castle in 1992).
  • Z: Zagora, Zamenhof (2011: an all caps poster face with constructivist ancestry, named after the inventor of Esperanto), Zuboni Stencil (2009, Latin and Cyrillic, constructivist and perhaps even military).

Klingspor link. Behance link.

View Jason Castle's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cathe Holden

Creator of a calligraphic alphabet in 2010. She lives in Petaluma, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Catherine Leigh Schmidt

American type designer, b. 1992, who has a BFA in Graphic Design from RISD, class of 2014. She currently teaches Graphic Design in the MFA program at California College of the Arts.

In 2016, she published the free Google Font Yatra One (original design from 2014), a free Latin / Devanagari / Marathi brush typeface inspired by the hand-painted signage of a local railway in Mumbai. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cathy Davies

In 2001, Cathy Davies obtained an MFA in Photography/Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts. She used to offer her free fonts at "Free fonts of the Television Age", a site that disappeared. Her original fonts include SoftHits, Chemist (script), Chemist Periodic, Stereo HiFi (fifties look), Slumber Party (1997), and Good Girl.

Another URL. And another one. Fontsquirrel link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Céline Thierry

At the University of Reims, Céline Thierry (Chaumont, France) designed the display typeface Astro (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cecilia Navarrete

Designer from Los Angeles. Creator of 3D Wire Alphabet (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cedar Publishing
[Luke D. Owens]

Type designer, b. Hillsboro, OR, 1957, who got interested in fonts while working as a typesetter on a Linotype typesetting machine at a small newspaper in San Diego in the late 1970s. He recently began designing fonts working from old galleys to resurrect some of the old fonts he used to use, and has decided to make these fonts available to the public.

Fonts made by Luke Owens (Cedar Publishing): Owens (1994), Endorse (1995), Same-Sex Marriage Script LDO (2004: script face), Broadsheet LDO (2002: Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Oregon LDO (an extensive sans family, 2004: Regular, Bold, Black, Oblique, Bold Oblique, Black Oblique), Portland LDO (Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic, 2004: based on Palatino), Snail Mail LDO (2004), Oregon LDO Condensed (Regular, Bold, Black, Oblique, Bold Oblique, Black Oblique), Oregon LDO Extended (Regular, Bold, Black, Oblique, Bold Oblique, Black Oblique), Oregon LDO Vanishing (Regular, Bold, Oblique, Bold Oblique), Waukegan LDO (2004, another sans family: Regular, Bold, Black, Oblique, Bold Oblique, Black Oblique: based on Eurostile) and Waukegan LDO Extended (Regular, Bold, Black, Oblique, Bold Oblique, Black Oblique), and the family 1066 Calligraphy (1999). Pic.

Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Celebrity Fontz
[Jose Jimenez]

Specializing in celebrity signature fonts, this Arcadia, CA-based foundry (est. 2008) is run by Jose Jimenez (b. Costa Mesa, CA, 1963). MyFonts link. It sells the following typefaces: Nursery Rhyme Initials (2004), Hire Me (2009), American Presidents (2008: a collection of all 44 U.S. Presidential signatures including Barack Obama), Signers of the Declaration of Independence (2008: a collection of all 56 signers of America's Declaration of Indepdendence).

In 2009, they added Tough Dude (childish handwriting), Western Americana (famous signatures), and Coulant Classique (calligraphic).

In 2010, he created a mix of calligraphy and brush in Classic Cool, as well as an ordinary hand-printed Wet Pussycat, and the all caps typefaces Snowflake Drop Caps, Crumpled Parchment (grunge), Mauro Poggi Ornamental Caps, and Flowery Drop Caps. Lil'Punk (2010) is a grungy hand-printed face. 20th Century German (2010), Maurice Dufrene Initials (2010, art nouveau) and Sassa Mixed (2010, inspired by Swiss art from 1939) are ornamental caps typefaces.

First Ladies (2011) consists of signatures of first ladies. Parisian Ornamentals (2011) is an ornamental shadow caps typeface modeled after an alleged 1810 design by J. Gillé [ahem, Gillé died in 1789...]. Other 2011 designs: Landscape Alphabet, Hollywood Stars (signatures), American Revolution (signatures), American Authors.

In 2012, he published Cartoon Characters Vol. 1, Medieval Times (illuminated caps), Pretzel Dough, Cats (alphadings), Bellflower (Victorian caps), Florid Renaissance (floriated caps), Victorian Ornamentals, Griffith Initials, Mother's Hand, Art Deco Flowery Initials (which are Victorian or art nouveau, and not really art deco in my view), Santerini Initials (inspired by Italian hand-etched designs dating back to 1839), 19th Century American Initials (art nouveau ornamental caps), Godfrey Sykes Initials (inspired by the decorations of Godfrey Sykes, whose work was greatly influenced by that of Raphael and Michelangelo), Alphabet of Death (a series of Northern-Renaissance-style woodcut letters based on the work of Hans Holbein the Younger), Lombardia Illuminata (Lombardic ornamental capitals), Straight Angles, Body Art (silhouettes), Italian Gothic (a full set of decorative initials inspired by 16th-century Italian calligrapher Giovanni Battista Palatino), Letters And Lace (ornamental caps), 26 Flowers (floriated drop caps), Brushwork (oriental brush face), Sfondo Fiorito (flourished caps).

Typefaces from 2013: English Monarchs (signatures of British monarchs), Kitchen Utensils (ornamental caps), Devilish, Papillon Woodcuts (a digital revival of an ornate alphabet by French engraver Jean-Michel Papillon dating back to 1760).

Typefaces from 2015: Kids at Play (ornamental caps).

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

Celeste Provost

Celeste Prevost is a designer and iconographer working out of San Francisco, California under the name Design is Fine. She created the thunder-and-lightning typeface Hand of God (2010).

Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cesar Kobashikawa

Graphic designer in San Diego, who created the EverQuest Next font and icon set in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chad Hogan

West Hollywood, CA-based designer of the handcuff-inspired typeface Ergo (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chad Palmer

San Diego, CA-based designer of the decorative blackletter typeface Old Style Loser (2017), the connected monoline script Alpine Hand (2017), the horror brush script The Letter Evil (2017), the spurred sans titling typeface Cape Horn (2017) and American Gothic (2017). His life's motto: I like to draw letters, take photographs, and drink whiskey...but not always in that order. Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chad Reichert

Chad Reichert is the proprietor of spirit3design, a studio specializing in graphic design and typographic endeavors. He received his undergraduate degree in graphic design from Valparaiso University, attended graduate school at the California Institute of Arts and completed his MFA in graphic design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Chad is also an assistant professor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. He teaches time-based media, typography, visual communications and graphic design history. His fonts: the rounded squarish typeface Nicollet (2003), Tense, Eve Three (text type), Construct, Bandwidth (pixel family), Fancysingle, Nicollet, Stitch (stitching font), Hudson, Palio, Stargazer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Character
[Herbert F. Van Brink]

Prolific Woodland Hills, CA-based typophile and type designer (1937-2013) whose portfolio consisted largely of revivals and who used the alias Character for his typographic work. The Los Angeles Times posted this obituary: Herb passed away after a brief fight against esophageal cancer. He was a 42 year resident of Woodland Hills CA. Son of the late Jean and Mary Van Brink, he was born in Manhattan, graduated from Stuyvesant High School (1952) and Queens College (1956) and always considered himself a New Yorker. He had a long career in Information Technology and retired from Arco. He loved traveling, bowling, genealogy, and was a bridge Life Master among his many interests. He was a trickster and a perfectionist. He leaves his wife, Paula, his son, David Van Brink and DIL Deb Culmer of Santa Cruz CA, his daughter Qarin Van Brink and SIL James Ray of Burien WA, grandchildren Amelia and Wilhelmina Ray Van Brink, brother and sister-in-law Jeffrey and Louise Van Brink of E. Northport NY and nephews Matthew and Jordan Van Brink.

His typefaces:

  • Animal dingbat fonts: AbecedarianZoo (2003, created from an alphabet in Art Explosion 200,000), Turf&surf (2005).
  • Alphadings: Jennifer's train (2011), ABCPlay (2005), DiddleTheMouse (2005), Silly Set (2005), Stone Carving (2005), Snow Persons (2005), Alaskan Ice (2005), Peppermin Canes (2005), USStarsNStripes (2003, first called USFlags), XmasTree (2002), XmasTree II (2004), Xmas Alpha (2005).
  • Erotic alphabets: Flotner (2002, based on a scan of the human character alphabet by Peter Flötner (1534)), SilvestreBodies (2006, based on a figurative alphabet designed by Joseph Balthazar Silvestre in 1834, with engravings made by Girault), ErotiCaps Outline (2007), ErotiCaps Solid (2007), WeygelBodies (2006, adapted from Martin Weygel's 1560 interpretation of Peter Flotner's 1534 figurative alphabet).
  • Stained glass themed fonts: ModernStainedGlass (2007), ModernStainedGlass2Tone (2007).
  • Capital alphabets: Cameo Antique (2011, after Cameo Antique on page 17 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces---a shaded outline version of the typeface called NightShade, on the same page of Dan Solo's book; the only known digitized fonts of NightShade are "Shadowed Serif" by James Fordyce (1994) and NigelSadeSH, from Soft Horizons (1993)), Modern French Capitals (2010, after a set of capitals drawn by Alphonse Mucha), Mucha French Capitals (2010, similar?), Marcel Caps (2007; based on "Crossroads" by August Will (1891)), WoodLook (2007, an improvement of 101's Wooden Alpha BlockZ), 3DAlphabet (2008, based on an alphabet coloring book designed by Jean Larcher, 1978), RomantiqueInitials (2007, based on work by Aridi), Blistered, BlisteredFramed, BlisteredReverse (2005, based on Marwan Aridi's Blister from the Initial Caps Vol I), ChiseledRound, Contemporary CH (2010), CourierInitials (2005, based on an alphabet by Johan)), Eclectica (2003, party-theme), FeathersInYourCaps (2002), FlowerSketches (2002), LACETRIM (2002), LeafyStencil (2003), QuiltedStippled (2004, based on an embroidery alphabet created by DesignsInStitches), RetroCapsBW (2004), RetroCapsWB (2004), Rope5 (2004, rope font), Rustic Black Shadow (2011. He explains: In the Solotype Catalog of 4,147 typefaces, RUSTIC is shown with a black shadow. RUSTIC WHITESHADOW has a white shadow. However, the Solotype digital font named RUSTIC has no shadow. Similar no-shadow fonts are also available as Pinewood (by Rick Mueller and one by Dieter Steffmann) and as Woody (by DincType). As of October, 2011, no digitized version of Rustic Whiteshadow is known. Character has produced a font named RusticBlackShadow, which matches the font named Rustic in the Solotype Catalog. Dick Pape had created an earlier version named Pepin Press Caps FA204, based on fonts contained in the Pepin Press book Fancy Alphabets. ), THINROPE (2002), VALENTINEHEARTS (2002), Printed Circuit (2005), SportsABC (2005), Feathered Flight (2005), Joe Clement (2007, Western pixel face), Ribbon Shadow (2007).
  • Fonts based on scans from Awesome Alphabets (Mike Artell, 1999, Good Year): SketchBoards, SketchBones, SketchClothes, SketchLogs (2005), SketchPencils, SketchPipes, SketchTools, all done in 2005.
  • Athletic lettering: Collegiate Heavy Outline (2006), Real Madrid 2011-2012 (2011, an expansion of a font by "Adriano"), The Football League (2011), Adidas Euro 2008 (2011), Puma World Cup 2010 (2010: based on Crepello, a custom-made font by Paul Barnes for Puma, that was used on the jersey of Italy, Switzerland and Uruguay during the 2010 FIFA World Cup), Adidas Unity (2010), LINKEB+Regular (2008) uses the lettering of the Geaux font used by LSU.
  • Pixel or dot matrix style fonts: Dash It All (2007, based on Cooper Black), Even Hearted (2007, an improvement of CK More Hearts), Square 9x9 (2007).
  • Brush typefaces: Skippingbrush (2006), GraffitiPaintBrush (2008).
  • Dingbats: Being Sport Pictograms (2008).
  • Scanbats: PilobusSilhouettes (2010) is based upon a human alphabet photographed by John Kane.
  • Techno: BultacoDual (2010), Dr Who 42 (2007), London MMXII (2008), ArrowheadLake (2009, +Shadows, +Sunlit; based on the nearly blackletter typeface Arrowhead from the Solotype Catalog and alphabet books).
  • Historic typefaces: Driftwood 67 (2011, Driftwood on page 67 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), ArrowheadLake and ArrowheadLakeShadows (2011, based on Solotype Catalog p.74), Cutin (2011, a simple rounded monoline sans called Cut-in Medium on page 163 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces),Cutin (2011, a simple rounded monoline sans called Cut-in Medium on page 163 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), Pepin FA288 (2011, based on Matra, or Bifur, on page 54 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces by Dan X. Solo), Varicka (2010, from "Decorative Condensed Alphabets", by Dan Solo, p. 94. It is similar to Red Rooster's Triple Gothic Condensed, but the Solo's font has different features), MaxfieldParrish140 (2007: From an incomplete (no "N") hand-drawn alphabet by Maxfield Parrish. See figure 140 of "Letters&Lettering" by Frank C. Brown, 1921. This is a different source than the P22 Parrish font family.), Ronde Antique (2009, based on page 110 of the Verlag Gerlach 1881 catalog).
  • Other: Scramble Mixed (2006, scrabble face), Happy Fourth, Emperor AN (2009: this semi-art nouveau typeface is Emperor on page 42 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces---not the same as Dan Solo's Emperor at MyFonts), Wood Gothic Caps (2011, blackletter), WoodWud (2011), Gallia Two (2010, based on a font found on page 55 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces as Gallia No. 2), Charleston (2010, based on page 46 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), Azteca Regular (2010: based on Azteca Condensed by Dan X. Solo, page 74 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), Othello Fill and Solid (2011, derived from Othello on page 155 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces), Sharons Shadows (2010, +Bold), Masked Menace (2012, based on Bodoni Poster).

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. And another one. See also at abfonts. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charis Marshall

Charis Marshall (Los Angeles, CA) created Shrapnel Sans in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Bigelow
[Bigelow&Holmes]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski (b. Andernach, Germany, 1920, d. San Pedro, CA, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. Typefaces styled after Bukowski's work: Bukowski (2014, Ingi Kristján Sigurmarsson), Buk (2017, Jefferson Camargo). Dedicated web site.

Some quotes:

  • Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
  • For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
  • You have to die a few times before you can really live.
  • The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
  • That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles M. Geschke

Charles Geschke is the founder, with John Warnock, of Adobe (in 1982), and the inventor of PostScript. The type 3 and type 1 font formats are an essential part of the PostScript language. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Charles Siu
[Becca Line]

[More]  ⦿

Charlie Edmiston

Charlie Edmiston (Los Angeles, CA) created Measly (2013), a free modular display sans typeface.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charlie Lederer

San Francisco, CA-based designer of the wide display typeface Tempeh (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chase Babb

Californian designer (b. 1993) with a great motto: No I won't design something just for you. If I make it, it has to be publicly available.

Creator of Liquid Crystal (2012, the ultimate LCD typeface family), Linkin Park (2012), Unbound Pro (2012, a free industrial stencil typeface), Adele, a monoline avant garde sans headline face, modeled after the cover of the CD album Adele 21 by singer and song writer Adele. Couture Bold (2012, free font) is a solid thick sans all caps typeface based on the Chanel logo.

Open Font Library link. Home page. Devian tart link. Aka styrofoamballs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chaz Bojorquez

Quoting RTEA about this graffiti artist: Chaz Bojorquez believes that true self expression comes from the soul. At an early age, in the 1950's, he experienced the graffiti tradition of the East Los Angeles Mexican-Americans. Los Angeles 'Cholo' style graffiti was dictated by a [time-honored] code of writing. Allegiance to that code of traditional writing brought you respect. In 1968, out of high school with a liberal arts/mathematics diploma, and one year of state college, Chaz enrolled into Chouinard art school (known today as Cal Arts). He also studied Asian calligraphy from Master Yun Chung Chiang (Master Chiang studied under Pu Ju, brother of the last emperor of China). Following these experiences, in 1969 he combined the tradition and honor from Cholo gang graffiti and his education from Chouinard with the spiritual skills of Asian calligraphy. Chaz was one of the first graffiti writers from Los Angeles with his own style. After more than decade of tagging in the streets in the 1970's and early 1980's, came a deeper need to understand: why do we do graffiti? [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chelsea Weaver

Chelsea Weaver (Portland, OR and before that, Camarillo, CA) studied graphic design at California State University Channel Islands. She designed Newspaper (2012, an experimental typeface) and Piri Piri (2013, a curvy display typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chen Li
[Use Type-1 Fonts in PDF Papers]

[More]  ⦿

Chen Zhang

Graduate of Iowa State University, now based in San Francisco. In 2016, she designed the display typeface The Curl, which is inspired by curled paper. She also made Tarot Card Icons (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cherrie Wang

During her studies, Fullerton, CA-based Cherrie Wang designed the teardrop typeface Drop (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cheshire Dave

San Francisco-based commentator and artist. Writer and director of the video clip Behind the Typeface in which he showcases Cooper Black (1922) and Goudy Heavyface (1925), its Monotype rip-off by Goudy himself. Interview by Karen Huang. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chiara Costanzo

San Diego, CA-based designer of the experimental threaded typeface Mercurial (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chiharu Tanaka

Chiharu Tanaka was born and raised in Japan. She completed her Bachelor's degree of Textile Design in Tokyo and worked at design companies for a few years. She subsequently received her MFA in Graphic Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2009, and remained in San Francisco area ever since. She worked as a graphic and type designer for John McNeil Studio (2009-2010), Landor Associates (2009-2010), Psy/Ops (2010-present) and Morisawa (2016-present). Her typefaces:

  • The roman and ornamental retail typeface family HaruNami (2010, Psy Ops). She writes: HaruNami (spring wave) is a family of decorative typefaces which fuse together Japanese ornamentation with the Roman alphabet. My purpose with this project is to find a balance between the designs of the West and the East. My hope is to share the Japanese aesthetic with an International audience. HaruNami has a unique stylistic system that ranges from Simple to Ornate.
  • Corporate typefaces for Tokyu Hands (an icon set, dated 2002), Landor (San Diego Zoo), Psy/Ops (Chevrolet; Bollinger Motors). Louis, done for Chevrolet under the creative direction of Rodrigo Cavazos at Psy/Ops, is a six-style DIN-like industrial grotesque for Latin and Cyrillic.
  • The corporate typefaces Reitmans Script.
  • Tegaki. An experimental brush script.
  • Mie. A hand-drawn font that attempts to obfuscate the border between letters and art.
  • Txt 1010 (2014). An experimental typeface to make fancy borders using opentype prowess. Done together with Carolina de Bartolo while working at Psy/Ops.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Chis Pauley

Freelance designer in San Jose, CA. Graduate of TypeWest, class of 2021. His graduation typeface was Turbochron is a retrofuturistic monolinear techno type family that pays homage to cars of the late 20th century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CHOMP font collection
[Elliot Weinstein]

CHampions Of the Mac Proletariat. Fonts created by Elliot Weinstein (freeware). Included are many East-European language fonts such as Bryansk, Cracow, and Sverdlovsk. There is also a phonetic font. Other fonts are Chefdijon (with cooking symbols), Fontana, Fraction Fonts, Newport News and Riverside. Can't find the fonts any longer.

Elliot Weinstein used to run Devonian International Software Company out of Montclair, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Choz Cunningham
[Exclamachine Type Foundry]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Chris Cappilla

Graphic designer in Agoura Hills, CA. Creator of some experimental typefaces in the period 2012-2014.

Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Forrette

San Francisco-based designer of the sans typeface Hill (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Komashko

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the display typeface Fresas (2016) for a reality show pitch for MTV. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Papasadero
[Fwis]

[More]  ⦿

Chris Ru Crueldad

Gilroy, CA-based designer of the athletic lettering font Faithful 49ers (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian Robertson
[Betatype]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Christina Cedeño

During her studies at California State University, Long Beach, Christina Cedeño created Grow (2014), a typeface inspired by outdoor living wall panels. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Fabela

Graphic designer in Long Beach, CA, who created the modular typeface Notts (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Simmons
[MINE San Francisco]

[More]  ⦿

Christopher Slye

Born in Los Altos, CA, Christopher Slye studied art history at the University of California at Santa Cruz and worked as a graphic designer until joining the type group at Adobe in 1997, where he assisted with the design and production of Adobe's type library. He was involved in the creation of Adobe's OTF fonts, and had a hand in both Myriad Pro (1992, with Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly and Fred Brady) and Tekton Pro. At Font Bureau, he designed Elmhurst (1997), a 7-style transitional family. He was Technical Product Manager, Type, at Adobe in San Jose, and managed all type-related business and licensing activity at Adobe, including its cloud font service, Adobe Fonts. In 2021, he became president of Type Network, succeeding Paley Dreier in that role.

FontShop link. MyFonts link. FontBureau link. Adobe link.

At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, he spoke on CFF on the web. The abstract is quite promising and the talk may quite opossibly be the highlight of the technical program at that meeting: Digital type outlines are described, for the most part, in either of two fundamental formats: PostScript or TrueType. Today, OpenType fonts convey PostScript outlines with CFF (the Compact Font Format), which is an optimized successor to the original Type 1 font format. Although the world of print output has been dominated by PostScript Type 1/CFF, the TrueType format has prevailed in the Windows and Mac OS operating systems. TrueType is well known for its accommodation for extensive hinting instructions, evident in many Windows core fonts which have become de facto standards on the web.In the explosion of web fonts during recent years, TrueType's reputation as a screen font format and its superior rendering in Windows browsers has made it a virtual requirement for those seeking consistency and quality in type rendering with web fonts. However, with recent improvements in text rendering from Microsoft's DirectWrite, CFF rendering quality will soon be comparable to TrueType in the next generation of Windows browsers. Despite its second class status on the web today, CFF still possesses advantages worth assessing as its rendering quality on screens approaches parity with TrueType. For example, CFF is inherently compact, and its PostScript (Bezier) paths are the default format for virtually all font designers. This presentation will explain the technical and practical advantages of the CFF font format and compare them to TrueType. It will examine what the future holds for CFF as a web font format, and make the case for CFF as a worthy, if not superior, solution for web typography.

Klingspor link. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Toumanian

Murrieta, CA-based designer, b. 1986. His Flickr page. He created the pixelish typeface Alpha Quadrant (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christy Elizabeth Kong
[Ckongfu]

[More]  ⦿

Chuck Davis
[Letterhead Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ciara Rouze
[Saige Rouze]

During her studies at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI Ciara Rouze (Mammoth Lakes, CA) designed the handcrafted silhouette alphabet font Bad Cabbage (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cigdem Michalski

Cigdem "Chi" Michalski (ChiChiLand, San Francisco, CA) is an illustrator whose work is mainly related to children. One of her typographic posters, Sweet Little Ones (2015), is especially appealing. [Google] [More]  ⦿

City College of San Francisco

Some type courses are offered here: GRPH 151 Lettering and Type and GRPH 152 Digital Font Creation. Both taught by Amy Conger. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ckongfu
[Christy Elizabeth Kong]

Irvine, CA-based designer of Ancient Khan (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clanbadge
[Daniel L. Isdell]

Clanbadge is a foundry in San Jose, CA. MyFonts link. Daniel Isdell (b. 1955, Washington, DC) sells a great font, The Celtic Knot Font (2001), that permits one to make thousands of Celtic knot patterns. An interesting idea, to say the least. The clue is here. MyFonts link.

On MyFonts, he writes: Daniel Isdell Dan Isdell is a graphic artist, web designer and programmer living in San Jose, California. He has been a font addict from an early age, first with pencils and markers and then with good old Speedball pens. He designed his first full font at age 15. Attending a technical high school gave him the opportunity to learn typesetting by hand with movable metal type. His parents were both bookbinders and one of his first jobs was working at a real type foundry, where part of his job was stocking the linotype machines with fresh lead and melting galleys full of no longer needed type. Later, working as an engineer allowed him to use computers and CAD systems to design letterforms. As a Senior Web Design Engineer and graphic artist he had the opportunity to apply his love of typography to logos and user-interface design. Although he has yet to publish any of his letterform fonts, he has released the Celtic Knot Font. Its development stemmed from his interest in his hereditary Scottish culture, and the study of Celtic knotwork as embellishments for his leatherwork, knife-making and jewelry-making hobbies. The Celtic Knot Font has been a big success with well over 8000 copies sold. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Claudia Parga

Graphic designer and photographer in San Diego, CA. During her studies at The Art Institute of California-San Diego in 2016, she designed a few display typefaces, including a silhouette alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudio De Laurentiis

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of an experimental geometric typeface (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cliff Little

Cliff Little (Little Type House, Los Angeles) created these typefaces in 2017: Westbot (Western), Wild Things (handcrafted), Glitch. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Coda Gardner

San Francisco, CA-based designer of the ghouly fonts Double Feature (1997, a blood drip font) and RockyHorrorPictureShow. In 2015, she created War Text Inverse.

Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cody Borden

Los Angeles-based designerLos Angeles-based designer. He designed Futata (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cody Small

Cody Small (San Diego, CA) created the counterless poster typeface Rauschenberg (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Coffee Napkin

Roseville, CA-based graphic designer who created the custom draftsman's hand typeface Jasmine Victoria (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Colby Parson

Los Angeles-based creator of the techno fonts Divlit (2009) and East Lift (2010).

Home page. Alternate URL. Fontsy link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cole Bemis

Frontend developer in San Luis Obispo, CA, who designed a great set of SVG format open source icons called Feather (2018). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cole Huckabee

Californian creator (b. 1988) of the unicase fat finger typeface Just Cole (2012). Other creations include Just Coles Block (2012, outlined face) and Just Coles Cursive (2012).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Comicraft (was: Active Images)
[Richard Starkings]

Comicraft was founded by Richard Starkings and John Roshell in 1992. Located in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, they do lettering and design for the comic book industry and make comic book fonts. At one point they were also called Comic Book Fonts. The current presidents are Rita Simpson and Richard Starkings. Alternate URL. T-26 link. Creative Market link. Some fonts: Sanctum Sanctorum (2003), Grandguignol (2003), MagicalMysticalFour (2003), Smash (2003), Aztech, Joe Kubert, Gobbledygook, Meanwhile, Matinee Idol [Nick Curtis has a much nicer script font by the same name, sold by MyFonts], Manganese (Asian-lookalike by Richard Starkings), Altogether OOky (by John Roshell), AbsolutelyFabulous, Achtung Baby (1997, Richard Starkings: a brutalist typeface), Adamantium, Alchemite, AstroCity, AstroCity International, Bithead, BrontoBurger, CarryOnScreaming, Chills, ClobberinTime, Comicrazy, Destroyer, DivineRight, DoubleBack, DutchCourage (1995, an art deco family), Elsewhere (art nouveau), Flameon, Framistat (2000, JG), Frostbite, GrimlyFiendish, Hooky, Hellshock, IncyWincySpider, JimLee, JoeMad, KissAndTell, KissAndTell International (2000, JG), Meltdown, MonsterMash, PhasesOnStun, PulpFiction, ResistanceIs..., RunningWithScissors, SchoolsOut (1999, John Roshell), SezWho/SezYou, SpookyTooth, Spills, Splashdown, StandBy4Action, Stormtrooper, TheStorySoFar, ToBeContinued, Thrills, WildWords, WildWords International, YuleTideLog, Zoinks, ZAP Pack, Digital Delivery, Jeff Campbell (2000, by JG), Los Vampiros, DeadMansChest, Cutthroat International (2000), Rigor Mortis (2000, John Roshell), DangerGirl, Thingamajig, Red Star, Red Square, Drop Case, Too Much Coffee Man, NearMyth, Stonehenge, Golem and SwordsAndSorcerers (medieval or runes fonts). Their monster fonts collection includes MonsterMash, CarryOnScreaming, Chills, GooseBumps, CreepyCrawly, Grimly Fiendish, IncyWincySpider, SpookyTooth, Meltdown and TrickorTreat dingbats. In 2005, MyFonts started selling their collection. Fonts by Starkings include Achtung Baby, Carry On Screaming, Clobberin Time, Flame On, Goosebumps, Grimly Fiendish, Sez, Splashdown. The full font list: Absolutely Fabulous (1999), Achtung Baby (1997), Adam Kubert (2005), Adamantium (1999), Alchemite (1997), Altogether Ooky (1999, vampire script), Area51 (2005, an octagonal typeface with a military stencil)), Astro City (2005), Astronauts In Trouble (2005), Atomic Wedgie (2005), Aztech (2005), Battle Cry (2005), Battle Scarred (2005), Belly Laugh (2005), Biff Bam Boom (2005), Bithead (1997), Blah Blah Blah (2005), Bronto Burger (1996), Carry On Screaming (1996), Chatterbox (2005), Cheeky Monkey (2005), Cheese And Crackers (2005), Chills (1997), Clobberin Time (1995), Comicrazy (1995), Creepy Crawly (2005), Cutthroat (2005), Danger Girl (2005), Dave Gibbons (2005), Dead Mans (2005), Dear Diary (2005), Designer Genes (2005), Destroyer (1999), Digital Delivery (2005), Divine Right (1998), Doohickey (2005), Double Back (1998), Dreamland (2005), Drop Case (2005), Dutch Courage (1995), Elsewhere (1998), Euphoria (2005), Exterminate (1999), Face Front (2005), Flame On (1997), Forked Tongue (2005), Framistat (2005), Frostbite (1997), Girls Girls Girls (2005), Gobbledygook (2005), Golem (2005), Goosebumps (2005), Grande Guignol (2003), Grimly Fiendish (1998), Hedge Backwards (2005), Hellshock (1997), Hooky (1999), Hush Hush (2005), Hyperdrive (2005), Incy Wincy Spider (1996), Jeff Campbell (2005), Jeff Campbell Sketchbook (2005), Jim Lee (1998), Joe Kubert (2005), Joe Mad (1999), Kiss And Tell (1999), Ladronn (2005), Los Vampiros (1999), Manganese (1999), Matinee Idol (2005), Meanwhile (2005), Meltdown (1997), Mike Wieringo (2005), Monster Mash (1997), Near Myth (2005, a grunge face, since 2007 also at T26), Nuff Said (2005), Overbyte (2005), Paranoid Android (2005), Pascual Ferry (2005), Pass The Port (2005), Phases On Stun (1995), Primal Scream (2005), Pulp Fiction (1996), Red Square (2005), Red Star (2005), Resistance Is (1997), Rigor Mortis (2005), Rumble (1994), Running With Scissors (1997), Sanctum Sanctorum (1998), Santas Little Helpers (2005), Schools Out (1999), Sean Phillips (2005), Sentinel (2005), Sez (1998), Shannon Wheeler (2005), Shannon Wheeler (2005), Smash (2005), Snowmany Snowmen (2005), Soothsayer (2005), Spellcaster (2005), Spills (1997), Splashdown (1997), Spookytooth (2005), Stand By4 Action (1997), Stonehenge (2005), Stormtrooper (1997), Thats All Folks (2005), The Story So Far (1998), Thingamajig (2005), Thrills (1997), Tim Sale (1999), Tim Sale Brush (2005), Tim Sale Lower (2005), Timelord (2005), To Be Continued (2005), Too Much (2005), Tough Talk (2005), Treacherous (2005), Trick Or Treat (2005), Wall Scrawler (2005), Wiccan Sans (1999), Wiccan Serif (1999), Wiccan Special (1999, see also T-26), Wild And Crazy (1997), Wild Words (1995), Yada Yada Yada (2005), Yeah Baby (2005), Yuletide Log (1996), Zoinks (2005), Phil Yeh (2006), Zzzap (2006), Battle Damaged (2007), Speeding Bullet (2006), Foom (2007), Letterbot (2007), Timsale (2007), Cutthroat (2007), Framistat (2007), Area 51 (2007, techno, octagonal), CC Comicraft (2007), Ratatat (2008), Mad Scientist (2008), Monologous (2008, T-26), HolierThanThou (2008, T26), Elephantmen (2008, grunge typeface at T26), Storyline (2008, T-26), Primal Scream (2009, T-26), Spillproof (2009, T-26), Sign Language (2008), Moritat (2009, T-26, by John Roshell), Pass The Port (2009, T-26), Credit Crunch (2009), Elsewhere (2009, art nouveau), Code Monkey (2011, monospaced yet informal), Glitter Girl (2011, hand-printed), Rassum Frassum (2011, comic book face), Rocket Man (2011, a retro futuristic family), Spaghetti Western (2011, signage face), Sunrise Till Sunset (2012), Samaritan and Samaritan Tall (2013, with John Roshell).

In 2014, John Roshell published the school font Dash To School.

Typefaces from 2015: Samaritan Lower (by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), Dusk Till Dawn Buried (expressionist).

Typefaces from 2016: Questionable Things (with John Roshell: a question mark font).

Typefaces from 2017: Evil Schemes (by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), Regeneration, Obey Obey Obey (by Starkings and Roshell).

Typefaces from 2018: Samaritan Tall Lower (by Starkings and Roshell), Blah Blah Upper (by John Roshell and Richard Starkings), Evil Doings (by Richard Starkings and John Roshell).

Typefaces from 2020: Elektrakution (a Greek simulation font family by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), This Man This Monster (by John Roshell and Richard Starkings).

Typefaces from 2021: Richard Starkings Brush (2021; a comic book typeface by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), Scoundrel (a comic book face by Richard Starkings and John Roshell).

Creative Market link. View Comicraft's typefaces. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Computer Modern fonts
[Donald E. Knuth]

Donald Knuth's Computer Modern family was developed by Stanford's most famous computer science professor, Don Knuth, in the 1970s and 1980s, with the help of Hermann Zapf and a group of people at Stanford University. It was a monstrous achievement, that started first with the development of the Metafont graphic description language for glyphs. The 72 original fonts are free. They are described by a set of 36 parameters. Each glyph is a carefully crafted computer program written in Metafont. It stands today as the prime example of parametric font design. Many individual fonts were designed using Metafont, but not one came has come close in scope and achievement to the Computer Modern collection.

The Computer Modern fonts, and their derivatives, are the main fonts used by the scientific community thanks to the TeX typesetting system. Derivatives include Lucida (by Knuth's colleague at Stanford, Charles Bigelow). Lucida is used by Scientific American. The commercial MathTime font family originally developed for the American Mathematical Society (AMS) by Michael Spivak, and then extended by Y&Y, and the AMS, includes a large set of mathematical characters.

Included in the CTAN subdirectories, where one can download the fonts and the sources, are now three sets of type 1 PostScript fonts, Basil K. Malyshev's BaKoMa fonts, the American Mathematical Society (or Bluesky) versions, and the Paradissa font collection for Computer Modern, Euler and Computer Modern Cyrillic, also by Basil K. Malyshev. There are also PostScript type 3 versions of the Computer Modern fonts. Doug Henderson made some outline fonts (in metafont). Concrete is a metafont family designed for Knuth's Concrete Mathematics book by Knuth himself between 1987 and 1999. In the three decades that followed the development in the late seventies, only rarely have glyphs been corrected or altered---one such instance was an error in cmmib5.

Truetype version of the fonts are here.

Download Computer Moder Unicode (or CM Unicode) either in PostScript or OTF formats. This family is called CMU (2007) and font names are standardized as CMU Serif, CMU Typewriter Text Regular, CMU Bright Bold Extended, and so forth. This set was created by Alexey V. Panov. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Computer Safari
[Jay Pierstorff]

Computer Safari (located in Woodland, CA) is a foundry whose early-90s fonts, all made by Jay Pierstorff, are still around in some archives. Look for Airlock-Regular (a trekkie stencil face), Alchemi, Cappiona, LeroyFont, MotorCity, NCC1701A-Regular, NCCINLINE-Regular, Quadrant, Romulus-Plain, Safari-Plain, Sashimi-Regular. Free fonts at the site, all made in 1992: Cappiona, College, LeroyFont, MotorCity, Quadrant. The other fonts can be bought on the SafariGold CD.

Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Conor Mangat

British designer (b. 1968, South East London) of Platelet (1993, inspired by California license plate systems---organic and dysfunctional, and in my view an eyesore) and Boks (1994) at Emigre. A graduate from CalArts in 1994, he returned to London in 1999 for a Masters in Typeface Design at Reading University. He is also a freelance typographic designer whose latest font project is called Protocol, which he originally developed Protocol (2001) as a student at the University of Reading. He works in San Francisco. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the Euro currency symbol. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cool Fonts Online
[Todd Dever]

Cool Fonts in Long Beach, CA, was created in 1995 by Todd Dever (b. 1962, USA). It offers Todd Dever's funky and sometimes grungy font creations. Very incomplete trial version fonts are downloadable for inspection. List of fonts: Block Dog (1996), Black Dog (2009, 3d-hand-drawn), Jean Splice (1999), Freak, Smash (old typewriter), Overexposed, RingOfFire, Zapped, Z-Rex, BlackDog, Poozer (2006), Truncheon (2006), Yaroslav (avant-garde, art deco), Twiddly Bitz (pixel font), Tritto (handwriting), Skribler, KillerAnts, Goombah, Bokonon (haunted style). Full versions sold at Philsfonts and MyFonts sells BlackDog, Bokonon, Cowboy Burt, Freak, Goombah, Jean Splice, Killer Ants, Newt Juice, Okra Cubo, Overexposed, Poozer, Ring O Fire, Skribler, Smash, Snoofer, Tritto, Truncheon, Twiddlybitz, Yaroslav, Z-Rex, Zapped. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Corey Holms

Graduate from Cal Arts (1996), who runs CoreyHolms.Com in Fullerton, near Los Angeles. MyFonts link. MyFonts foundry link. Most of his fonts were republished in the 2020s at Canada Type.

Designer of Compunabula (2015: a low resolution, 8-bit alphabet imagined for our high resolution world), NE10 (2010, a stencil / neon tube typeface), This (a stencil typeface), Area (2008, Umbrella Type, an art deco nightclub face; hints of Avant Garde), Mode (2007, experimental modular type, Umbrella and later Canada Type, Babbage (2005, Umbrella Type, a capricious typewriter font), Sange (2002, a dot matrix blackletter font), Brea and Brea Light (2004, a dot matrix blackletter family at Umbrella Type; republished in 2021 at Canada Type), Mince and Mince Shadow (2004, Umbrella Type), DecadesOS (2002, for Decades Inc), Air-Port (1999), Attractor (2001, based on Alexei Tylevich's NoGlow), Granule (2009, fat rounded sans), Cartridge (2001), Claes (2001, based on a Wim Crouwel design), Consume (1996), Den (1998, for the Digital Entertainment Network), Digital (1997, for "The Apartment"), Empire (1995), Fascia (2002), Hobart (2001, a kitchen tile font), Pea (2005, Veer: letters made up of springs), Phia (another kitchen tile font), Progress (2001, for Progress City), Rasputin, RMX, Savante (1999), Sears (2000), Stencil, Thirty, Untitled and WebType (2000). Many of these fonts are futuristic, experimental, logo-inspired or minimalist.

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

Corey Hu

Machine learning engineer who studied at UC Berkeley.

Github link. Google Fonts link. In 2021, he published the sans family Urbanist at Google Fonts. Urbanist is a low-contrast, geometric sans-serif inspired by modernist typography and design. The project was launched by Corey Hu in 2020 with nine weights and accompanying italics. It also includes two variable fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corey Worrell

Graphic designer, b. 1990, who lives in Sacramento, CA. Creator of the free fonts Lazy (2007) and Sketchathon (2008) that can be downloaded from Dafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cortney Cassidy

Graphic designer in San Francisco, CA, who made the experimental typeface Sci-Fi (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Counterpoint Type Studio
[Jason Anthony Walcott]

Established in 2013 by Hollywood, CA-based Jason Walcott (formerly operating as JAW Fonts and as Jukebox Type), b. 1971, Michigan, Counterpoint Type Studio started marketing fonts in that same year. The first batch included India Ink (2013), Raspberry Jam (a delightfully curly vampire script), Profiterole (a feminine pastry shop script), and Califunkia (pure psychedelia), and Domani CP (a faithful digital revival of an old photo-typositing typeface called ITC Didi. Originally designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnese, Domani brings to life a font that has been somewhat neglected by the digital era until now).

In 2014, he added Swashington.

In 2015, he designed Plectrum CP (a Peignotian sans typeface family with very large x-height). Later in 2015, he set up Jukebox Collection.

Typefaces from 2016: Schmalfette CP. He writes: SchmalfetteCP is the result of another collaboration between designers Jason Walcott and Rob King. King suggested that Walcott revive this wonderful and somewhat forgotten sans serif typeface from the mid 1950s. Originally designed by Walter Haettenschweiler in 1954, Schmalfette Grotesk was used for many years in the German magazine Twen. The typeface was notoriously hard to acquire at the time and graphic designers in the USA often resorted to cutting letters from the Twen magazines and reusing them in their own designs. Later, when digital type came along several typefaces very similar were created that claimed to be digital revivals of Schmalfette Grotesk. However, they are actually only loosely based on the original. The proportions are different and in some cases a lower case was added. The original font was all caps. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Courtney A. Russell

Freelance graphic designer in Los Angeles who created the art deco typeface Lily Carver (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cover Poets
[Matthew Vest]

Cover Poets is a type foundry set up by UCLA music librarian and font enthusiast Matthew Vest (Los Angeles, CA) in 2020. Matthew focuses on new fonts inspired by 20th century architects and designers. His typefaces:

  • Highway Bungalow (2020). Inspired by Austrian-born American architect Rudolf Michael Schindler's hand lettering, this 8-style font adheres to two principles: first of all, all strokes are either vertical or horizontal; and secondly, all lower case letters, "x" excepted, have one of two heights (and oddly, "a", "e", "s" and "z" belong to the "tall" category).
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cozy Fonts Foundry
[Tom Nikosey]

Type designer (b. 1951, New York) in New York City, who studied at Pratt. His type foundry, Cozy Fonts, is located in Bell Canyon, CA.

Creator of the Arabic simulation typeface Aladdin (2012), Skratchbook (2012), Toms Finger (2013, hand-printed cartoon typeface, +Toms Pinky, +Toms Thumb), Noodlerz (2013), Posterface (2014, +Sans; modular poster font family), Speener (hand-printed), Victory Script (2015), Archiva (2016: a useful rounded yet squarish condensed typeface family, +Stencil, +Dropline), Slenderz (2016: a handcrafted sans family), and Ds Hand (2016, based on the hand of Danielle Nikosey).

Typefaces from 2017: Civic Sans (a 13-style sans family for billboards).

Typefaces from 2018: Irongate.

Typefaces from 2019: Flintlock.

Typefaces from 2020: Planetype (futuristic, modular), Slatz (an ultra-condensed sans and serif family).

Typefaces from 2021: CF Cozyscript (a monolinear retro school script), CF Nixt (a seven-style simple monolinear geometric sans in the mid-century American and Swiss traditions, perhaps leaning closest to Avenir).

Typefaces from 2022: Neuliner (a 7-style metro-retro font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

CP Labs

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of some typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Craig Frazier

San Francisco-based designer of Critter, (1993) a Linotype font with letters in the form of animal figures (the first letter of the animal is used for this purpose) originally created for The Alphabet Critter Playbook.

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

Creed Manceras

During his studies in Rialto, CA, Creed Manceras designed the modular typeface The Grid (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cris Bernabe-Sanchez

Typographer, illustrator and web designer in Westwood Village, CA. Graduate from UCLA's Design|Media Arts program. . Designer of the octagonal techno typeface Digital Circuit (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cris Wicks

Graphic designer from San Diego. Creator of some great type posters in 2009 and 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Crystal Suovanen

San Diego-based designer (b. 1983) of Handwritten Crystal (2008). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cuban Council

Design company in San Francisco made up of three Danes (Toke Nygaard, Per Jorgensen and Michael Schmidt) and an American, Michael Buzzard. Their typographic output thus far is limited to the Buildingletters Project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Curtis Clark

Curtis Clark of the Biological Sciences Department at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, CA, designed these fonts between 1992 and 1998: Linear B, Piecharts, Female and Male Symbols (1996), Moon Phases, Celtic Ogham, Elder Futhark, Beth-Luis-Rearn, Beth-Luis-Nion and Woolbats (occult dings, astrological symbols). Free downloads. His site is also called Mockingbird Font Works.

Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cuttlefish Fonts
[Jason Pagura]

Cuttlefish Fonts offers free original fonts by Cupertino, CA-based graphic designer Jason Pagura, such as Rutaban (2001), Bernur (1996, sans), Gemelli (handwriting), Gohan (fat finger comic book lettering, updated into ShinGohanSix in 2007), Bolonewt (2003), Antherton Cloister (2003, based on insect antennae. Discussed here) and Rutager (2001). He was working on Palormak (2006, futuristic).

Between 2006 and 2010, he published Agamemnon, a large and warm transitional slab serif typeface with wood type influences that covers Latin, Cherokee, Cyrillic and Greek.

Later typefaces include Cartmeign and Posterony (2007, anthroposophic).

Dafont link. 1001fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cyberian Khatru
[Ronnie Cruz]

Cyberian Khatru is a studio specializing in logos and fonts inspired by fantasy, science fiction, and comic books. Its founder is Filipno type designer Ronnie Cruz, b. 1966, Asinaan, Panaasinan. Cyberian Khatru is located in Hayward, CA.

His fonts include techno and gothic typefaces such as Bone Voyage (2010), Iron Warrior (2010, octagonal), and Jupiter Squadron (futuristic). Shanghai Babe (2010) is an oriental simulation face. Blue Thunderbird (2011) is based on native American symbolism. Brush With Death (2011) is a brush face. Byrning Bridgez (2011) is a trekkie font. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cynthia Jacquette

New York-born and Los Angeles-based designer at the Typebox foundry, where she designed Wirish, and co-designed the funny dingbat typeface TX Signal Simplifier (2002). Obtained an MFA in graphic design in 2000 from the California Institute of the Arts, and worked for some time after that at Disney. She also created the Medusa typeface. CV. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dalice Travillion

During her studies in Los Angeles, Dalice Travillion designed Boduura (2017), a blend of Bodoni and Futura. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Borufka
[Jake&Dan (or: Creatogether)]

[More]  ⦿

Dan Ross

Australian / Canadian programmer who lives in Los Angeles. In 2021, he designed Flow, a typeface for wireframing, prototyping and experimenting, which just consists of horizontal strokes of varying lengths. Flow is free at Google Fonts.

Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dana Rice

Designer at Apostrophic Laboratory, of Desyrel (handwriting font) and Lilly in 2000. Born in Québec, she now lives in Los Angeles. Obsolete URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Barcelles III

Corona, CA-based designer of the custom font Ichii (2014), which was inspired by the Japanese splatter film Ichi the Killer. The letters are made up of many chopped up body parts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Curiel

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Daniel Curiel designed the squarish sci-fi typeface Spazoid (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel L. Isdell
[Clanbadge]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daniel McKinney

San Dieo-based designer of Bit Squared (2014), which was a project at Brigham Young University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Patrick Simmons

Sacramento, California-based designer of Vertigo (2014), a hobbly sans typeface that was inspired by Hitchcock's movie. Vertigo and a few hand-drawn fonts can be bought at Simmons's site. He also designed the hand-drawn poster typeface Strongman (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Robichaud
[DR Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Williams

During his studies, Daniel Williams (Angwin, CA, b. 1986) combined the famous monospaced OCR font Data Control and the wedge serif typeface Narkisim Regular to obtain Corrupt Data (2014). He designed Meat Hook in 2014 using FontStruct. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danielle Duran

Freelance graphic designer in Los Angeles. Behance link. She got a BFA in Graphic Design from California State University of Long Beach (2012).

Creator of Yum (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danielle Goodman

Graphic designer in San Diego who used Doyald Young's Gallant to make beautiful posters entitled Brahms Letters (2011) for an event that took place at the Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts in New York, featuring the work of Johannes Brahms. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danielle St.Oegger

San Jose, CA-based designer of the school project typeface Allure (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dante

San Francisco-based designer of the genie-inspired typeface shown here (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daphne Designs
[Julia Beynon]

Graphic designer and fashion model Julia Beynon (Daphne Designs, Los Angeles) created the handwriting all caps outline typeface Bully Boys (2003), downloadable from DaFONT. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darden Studio
[Joshua Darden]

Joshua Darden is an exceptionally gifted typeface designer with a studio in Brooklyn, NY. Joshua Darden (b. 1979, Northridge, CA) founded the ScanJam Design Company in 1993, together with Tim Glaser. At ScanJam, he designed numerous retail and custom typefaces. In 2000, Josh Darden left Scanjam to work for the Hoefler Type Foundry. In 2004, he founded Darden Studio. In 2005, he joined the type coop Village. He has lectured at the University of California Santa Barbara and at Parsons School of Design and School of Visual Arts. Interview with Josh Darden. Old URL. FontShop link.

Typefaces designed by Darden:

  • Index (Garage, with Tim Glaser), review by Fred Showker).
  • Birra Stout (2008): a free chunky beer label font. Followed by Birra Bruin (2019, by Elena Schneider at darden Studio): a German expressionist typeface.
  • Jubilat (2008). Darden writes: Commissioned by Michael Picon for First; further development underwritten by Tatler Asia&La Semaine. Recipient of a Type Directors Club award as Untitled. Jubilat explores the history of the slab serif in six weights, with generous curves and efficient spacing in both dimensions. Its large lowercase and high contrast make it suitable for headlines, decks, and sidebars.
  • Bergamot (under development).
  • Profundis (1999, with Timothy Glaser; Profundis andd Profundis Sans in three styles each, all accompanied by Ornaments).
  • Vittoria.
  • OUT (Garage, with Tim Glaser).
  • Grosvenor.
  • Firth.
  • di Valzer.
  • Hauteur.
  • Cassandra.
  • GarageFont.
  • HolyCalliope (1999, with Timothy Glaser).
  • Omnes (2005, Village). This has a hairline weight.
  • Diva (Garage, with Tim Glaser, 1996). See also Omnes Cyrillic (designed by Eben Sorkin, John Hudson, Joshua Darden, Maxim Zhukov, and Viktoriya Grabowska) and Omnes Arabic (designed by Joshua Darden and Titus Nemeth).
  • Locus.
  • Interact (Garage).
  • Freight (2004-2009, Garage): an extensive, all-round family of typefaces including Freight Sans Pro, Freight Display Pro, Freight Micro Pro, Freight Text Pro, and Freight Big Pro (2005; its heavier weights are high-contrast didones). The slab serif, sans and serif versions are related and derived from each other, in some cases, by snap-on technology (in the spirit of Thesis or Scala or Nexus). Freight Sans Condensed Pro followed in 2012 and Freight Sans Compressed Pro in 2015. Freight Micro Pro (2009) was specifically created for use in phone books and small size applications. Freight Macro Pro is more suited for corporate branding. Review by John Berry. Freight Neo Pro (a humanist sans) was published in 2013. In 2015, he offered the free font Freight Big Bold (2005) via Open Font Library. Freight Round Pro was added in 2016. Finally, in 2017, Freight moved to Type Network.
  • Josh Darden collaborated with Chrstian Schwartz on Erik Spiekermann's FF Meta Headline (2005).
  • Virtuoso Life (2005): a proprietary custom display typeface for the Virtuoso Limited magazine.
  • Corundum Text (2006): a fantastic and full family based on Fournier's pre-modern alphabet from 1742. It covers all European languages and comes with almanac symbols, ligatures, zodiac symbols, the works. Corundum Text won an award at TDC2 2007.
  • Untitled (2006, Joshua Darden Studio). It won an award at TDC2 2007.
  • Dapifer (2011) and Dapifer Stencil (2015). Commissioned by Mucca Design for One Atlantic. By Joshua Darden, with design and production assistance by Thomas Jockin, Scott Kellum, Noam Berg, and Lucas Sharp.
  • Halyard (2017). An information design sans typeface family by Joshua Darden, Lucas Sharp and Eben Sorkin.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Darren Donahue

San Diego-based designer of the decorative initial caps typeface Reaper (2014, based on Blackmoor). This typeface was done for an assignment at The Art Institute of California-San Diego. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darren Duterte

Los Angeles-based Darren Duterte (b. 1993) designed the sans typeface Kamay at Otis College of Art and Design in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darren M. Boudreau
[Inception 8]

[More]  ⦿

Darren McArdel

Graphic designer who started in Los Angeles, where he ran Beautiful Bastards. Subsequently, he is associated with Questus Inc and Big Country Labs, and was located in Costa Mesa, CA and Tustin, CA. He currently works in Seattle, WA.

His early typefaces: Mushman (2012) is a techno-sans typeface inspired by the adventurous spirit of actor Steve McQueen, who raced motorcycles under the false name "Harvey Mushman."

His second typeface, Bronson (2012, free if you ask), is a display type inspired by Danny "Tunnel King" Lewinski, Charles Bronson's character in The Great Escape.

In 2013, he created the elegant (free) futuristic typeface Astroman.

In 2014, Darren designed the free hipster typeface Skandi, which was inspired by Nordic runes. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darren Odden

Darren Odden (Odden Creative Media, San Francisco, CA, and before that, Santa Cruz, CA) revived the decorative typeface Aphrodite (1970s, Richard Nebiolo, PhotoLettering Inc) in 2015 first as Neue Riesling and then as Gillespie. Earlier digital revivals of Aphrodite include Riesling (1994, Bright Ideas) and Mighty Ditey (Nick Curtis). Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dasol Jung

At California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA-based Dasol Jung designed Cropcircle (2015) and the experimental 3d typeface Symbiosis (2015). In 2016, she designed the Asian look eyelash-inspired typeface Wishlash. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dave Lawrence
[California Type Foundry (21st century)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dave Savage

Savage Monsters Industries is Dave Savage, a one man studio specializing in fun graphics for web and print. Products and services include illustration, graphic design, original fonts, hand lettering, and animation, Dave Savage's work has shown in gallery shows in New York, Los Angeles, Kansas City, DC, Atlanta, Durham, Cleveland, and Seattle. The Savage Monsters Secret Lair is currently located in the Pacific Northwest, but was oroginally in Los Angeles. He has been creating fonts since 1994. These are mainly grungy, scary and comic book typefaces.

Typefaces in alphabetic order: BackwaterSaint, BlockoEmpty, BlockoSolid, BlockoSupremo, Bloodsnot, Burnout, CheapFantasy, Cluck, Comic, Creepy, Enchilada, FancyTrashBag, FancyTrashDiamond, FancyTrashJewel, FancyTrashNeon, Fiendish, FonziesErawaxEmporium, Gladwell, GladwellDisintegrated, GoonheadDeluxe, GrafIcks, GreekFreak, IndustrialSpill, IronSpleen, KookyKarakturs, LardoDeluxe, MidnightCoffee, NuggetBoy, Pirate, PortlyShoplifter, SavageBlock, SavageMonsters, Scratch, SlimShoplifter, SpikedPunch, SuggestionBox, UphillBattle, WiggleVision, Zombie.

In 2018, Aaron Bell and Dave Sac=vage co-designed Industrial Spill, Tipsy Waitress (beatnik, cartoonish) and Super Chill MC. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dave Simpson
[Sign DNA]

[More]  ⦿

David Bailey

Graduate of Drexel University, where he studied under John Langdon, and now a freelance letterer and logo designer based in Alameda, CA, and a type designer at Delve Fonts. His web site was originally called Bezier Wrangler. In 2016, he finished the post-graduate type design program at Type@Copper West. His typefaces:

    Modern Blackletter (2005) and this grotesk display font (2006).
  • Overpass (2011, Delve Withrington and Dave Bailey). Sponsored by Red Hat, and inspired by Highway Gothic, a set of sans-serif typefaces developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration and used for road signage in the USA (but also used in many other countries), and freely available from Github and Open Font Library. See also Transpass (2011-2019).
  • The layerable Western style display font Discourse (2012-2014, published by Delve Fonts).
  • Prospectus (2018, Lost Type). An angular typeface family inspired by Oldrich Menhart.
  • Summa Inline (2018). An exquisite typeface, it is unclear who did the digitization, Delve Withrington (Delve Fonts) or Dave Bailey (on whose web site the typeface is showcased).
[Google] [More]  ⦿

David Calavitta

David Calavitta (Hold Fast Hope) is the Californian designer of the Tuscan typeface Bee's Knees (2016, based on an emroidery sample book rom the 1930s) and the brush typeface Sloth (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Contreras

Los Angeles-based graphic designer who created Paperclip Type in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Croy

Los Angeles-based designer, sign letterer and illustrative typographer. The TDC Annual in 2009 shows his Fuck Modernism poster. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Hamuel
[Lighthouse]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Jonathan Ross
[DJR Type]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Kazaryan
[Lalelum]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Koeth

David Koeth, a designer and professor in Bakersfield, CA, created the Problem Child Typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Kuettel

Technical leader for Google Fonts who is based in San Jose, CA. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: The Rapid Adoption of the Web Fonts & The Opportunities that Lie Ahead. He also spoke at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Lance Goines

San Francisco-based poster artist and writer, b. 1945, d. 2023. Author of A Constructed Roman Alphabet, a Geometric Analysis of the Greek and Roman Capitals and of the Arabic Numerals (David R. Godine, Boston, 1982). Each character of his roman alphabet is described using compass and ruler in the style of the romain du roi. Wonderful! He also wrote An Introduction to the Elements of Calligraphy (3rd ed. 1968; reprint, Berkeley, California: Saint Heironymous Press, 1975).

In 2017, he designed an art nouveau poster based on a 1921 poster by Jugendstil artist Leopold Forstner. Wikipedia page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Lemon

David Lemon (b. 1953) studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. At the California College of Arts and Crafts, he studied graphic design (BFA, 1979). After eight years in the magazine and newspaper sector, he joined the type design staff at Adobe Systems in 1986, where he managed the group which designs and produces Adobe's non-Asian fonts, and presently manages the entire Type Development team. Designer of the Copal font family (1994, Adobe: a fat poster family). He is involved in Adobe's OpenType project. Under his management, support for type 1 fonts and multiple master fonts was halted. He announced his retirement in early 2017, and settled in Lihue, Hawaii.

At ATypI meetings he is invariably the tallest participant, and often the only one wearing a cowboy hat. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam.

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

David Lopez

High school graphic design teacher in Corona, CA and an Associate Professor at Riverside City College. Creator of Tusken Slant (2011), a display face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Myriad Rosenbaum
[David Myriad's FontORama]

[More]  ⦿

David Myriad's FontORama
[David Myriad Rosenbaum]

David Myriad Rosenbaum (El Sobrante, CA) created high quality free fonts for Ugaritic (Ugaritic 3.1) and old Phoenician (Phoenician Moabite).

Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Nong

Burlingame, CA-based designed associated with Distler&Nong, and Shiftype. Creative Alliance designer of the dingbat typeface Nucleus One. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Ryan

Author of Letter Perfect The Art of Modernist Typography 1896-1953 (San Francisco, 2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Schweinsberg
[TypeDesigner]

[More]  ⦿

David Siegel

Educated at Stanford (M.Sc. in digital typography in 1985 under the supervision of Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow) and before that at the University of Colorado at Boulder (undergraduate math degree in algorithms under Hal Gabow). Type designer. Creator of these architecturally-inspired type families:

  • Eaglefeather (1999), P22). An arts and crafts font made for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which owns various manuscripts of the beautiful lettering of this American artist and designer, 1867-1959. This font family is based on the alphabet designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Eaglerock project in 1922. Extended in 2012 and 2018 to P22 Eaglefeather Pro. Codesigned with Carol Toriumi-Lawrence.
  • Tekton (1988, Adobe). Tekton was released by Adobe in 1989. Ideal for architectural writing, an OpenType family, called Tekton Pro, was released in 2000. Adobe lists Jim Wasco as a co-designer. The glyphs are based on the hand-lettering of Seattle-based architect and author Francis D.K. Ching.
  • Graphite (1991, FontBureau). Graphite (FontBureau, 1991) is a drafting letter based on the hand of San Francisco draftsman Anthony Celis LaRosa.
  • He worked with Hermann Zapf, trying to get Knuth's METAFONT program to produce beautiful typefaces. He worked again with Zapf on Zapfino.
His page has discussions on typography in general, and handwriting and architectural fonts in particular.

He heads Studio Verso, a site-design consultancy in San Francisco.

Author of The Euler project at Stanford Stanford, CA (1985, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science).

CV at FontBureau. Interview. FontShop link. Klingspor link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

David Sudweeks

David Sudweeks pursued graphic design at Brigham Young University where he focused his studies on lettering and type. After completing a brief apprenticeship with type designer Mark van Bronkhorst in California, David took up the position of Type Director at FontShop San Francisco. He now works primarily from his home studio outside Raleigh, North Carolina writing and curating type as a member of FontShop's editorial staff, and drawing type on the side.

He used FontStruct in 2008 to make the dotted typeface Pullchain, which could be used for teaching children how to write.

Codesigner at American Type Founders Collection of ATF Alternate Gothic (2015, Mark van Bronkhorst, Alan Dague-Greene, David Sudweeks, Igino Marini, & Ben Kiel). ATF Alternate Gothic is a new, significant digital expansion to 40 fonts of Morris Fuller Benton's classic 1903 design.

In 2019, Sudweeks designed the serif typeface family MVB Dovetail at MVB Fonts.

Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daze Fonts
[Jason Daze]

Free handwriting fonts by Jason Daze from Los Angeles: Shumway, Battled, Vesty Mess, Angrydragon, Pahants. [Google] [More]  ⦿

D.C. Scarpelli
[The Ampersand Forest]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dead Image Design
[Gregory W. Jacobson]

Greg Jacobson is a print designer and poster artist in Los Angeles. He founded Dead Image Design and does custom font design (besides many other things). He made Millesime (2008), an old style typeface with weathered outlines. It can be downloaded at Chank's place. Other fonts (without downloads): DID Alexius Script (connected, calligraphic), DID Crunk Deco, DID The Skinny, Jascha Hand, Gadoosh (hand-printed), Marquee Slop, Garbanceras. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dear Sue Fonts
[Ming Ong]

Dear Sue Fonts is a type foundry created by Nifty Denny design studio in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, CA. In 2020, one of its designers, Ming Ong, created Oggie Marker and Camp Wendigo (a brush font).

Typefaces from 2021: Slippery Slope (a handdrawn storybook font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Deborah Ho

Los Angeles-based designer of Funderful (2013), a colorful hand-painted all caps alphabet (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Deborah Mitchell

Born in Caracas, Deborah is currently studying fine arts at California State University. She made a great type poster that explains typographic terminology. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Deffeyes Design
[Steve Deffeyes]

Steve Deffeyes from Fairfax, CA, is the designer of free fonts such as Sabon Sans, Kells (uncial/Celtic), Gondola SD (2001, calligraphic), Ramsey SD (2001, uncial), MarkerSD (1999), Roman SD (1999), Loopy (2001-2009, Apostrophic Labs [dead link]), Futurex Arthur (2009). His Oblivion family (2003) is here, here and here. Here, we find the artificial language families Dwemeris (2004) and Oblivion (2003). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dela Ariella Delaram

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the blocky 3d typeface Alien Child (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Deliberate Design
[Eric Eaton]

Eric Eaton is a graduate from the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA (1997). He is a design director at Wired Digital in San Francisco, since 1996. He has made some experimental fonts (not downloadable): Bricks Are is a 2001 take on Akzident Grotesque, JAT is a 2000 serif face. Deliberately (2001) is a stencil face, Labyrinth (1999) is the ultimate pixel face, 3 by 3. Popva (1993) is based on a version of a logo for the City of New York (Street Cinema). [Google] [More]  ⦿

DeLonzo Pope

San Francisco-based designer of this calligraphic cursive script (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Delve Fonts (was: Delve Media Arts)
[Delve Withrington]

Delve Withrington (Alameda, CA; b. 1970, Asheville, NC) studied at Savannah College of Art and Design, designed signage, print projects and web pages in addition to designing custom typefaces, worked for Fontshop, and in 2004, joined the type team at Agfa Monotype, which morphed into Monotype Imaging, Redwood City, CA. From Asheville, NC, he moved around and ended up in San Francisco. In 1996, he founded Delve Fonts in Berkeley, CA (in fact, Delve Media Arts, and later renamed Delve Fonts). He has collected a virtually complete list of books on typography. Author index. MyFonts link. Designer of these typefaces:

  • Beleren (2015). A custom typeface for the trading card game Magic: The Gathering (Hasbro).
  • Blasphemy Initials: a free (and also commercial...) spooky font.
  • Blot Test (1999): a dingbat font inspired by the work of noted German psychologist Hermann Rorschach [1885-1922].
  • Cody (1999): an informal comic book face.
  • Continuo (1996): an all caps bilined outline face.
  • Cortina (2011). A futuristic family by Joachim Müller-Lancé.
  • Delve Hand (1996-2003).
  • Eucalyptus Regular.
  • Eulipia (1997-2003): organic.
  • Helfa (2011). Delve writes: Readability is baked in with a generous x-height, fine proportions that have a medium height to width ratio, and reasonable contrast in stroke weight variation.
  • Filmotype Washington (for Font Diner). Designer unidentified.
  • Muskeg. A combination of German expressionism and brush styles.
  • Oktal Mono (2012, a rounded octagonal modular typeface by Joachim Müller-Lancé and Erik Adigard of MAD studio in Sausalito).
  • Peso (1999): an octagonal family inspired by a parking sign discovered in Guanajuato, Mexico.
  • Quara (2009): a techno sans.
  • Smith & Nephew (2003) and Smith & Nephew Cyrillic (2015), rounded sans typefaces in the style of VAG Rounded.
  • Tilden Sans (2004-2009): low contrast, large x-height.
  • Tome Sans (2020). A 10-weight sans superfamily, with a variable font option.
  • Uppercut Angle (2011). A signage typeface by Joachim Müller-Lancé. It was originally developed for the Krav Maga training center of San Francisco.
  • Ysobel (2009; winner of an award at TDC2 2010). Delve co-designed the newspaper type family Ysobel (Monotype) with type designers Robin Nicholas, head of type design at Monotype, and Alice Savoie (Frenchtype, Monotype). The sales pitch: According to Nicholas, the idea for the Ysobel typefaces started when he was asked to create a custom, updated version of the classic Century Schoolbook typeface, which was designed to be an extremely readable typeface - one that made its appearance in school textbooks beginning in the early 1900s. See also Ysobel eText Pro (2013).
His Art work often involves type. Bitstream's Type Odyssey 2 (2002) has Continuo, Blot Test, Peso, Peso Negative. In 2009, Steven Skaggs designed Rieven Uncial and Rieven Italic at Delve Fonts. Pic.

Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Delve Withrington
[Delve Fonts (was: Delve Media Arts)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Demonics
[Mateo Mok]

FontStructor in Los Angeles (and before that, Oakland, CA), who made DM/LM (2012: ultra black), dm Subfour (2012, experimentally vertically striped typeface), dm Streamline (2012), dm Clas (2012), dm New Humanist (2012), dm Blockd (2012), dm Scythe (2012), dmcm Erebus (2012, counterless), dm Kronos (2012), dm Parkway (2012, art deco), dm Parkway 3 (2012, for the Oakland Parkway Theater), dm Parkway 2 (2012), dm Xu (pixel face), dm E dim (2012), dm E light (2012), dm Eiros (2012, +Aliens, +Typicals, +Unrecognisables), dm Pop (2012), dm Informe 00 (2012), dm Solidus (2012), dm Me (2012, stencil), dm Nova (2012), dm Supernova (2012, a condensed piano key face), dm S 1 (sans), dm Spira (2012), dm Minium (2012, a jungle face), and the powerhouse slabs dm Banx10 (2012), dm Banx 11 (2012), dm Metrigue (2012, blackletter), dm Istruct (2012, pixel face), dm Wharf (2012), dm Solidis (2012).

Typefaces from 2013: dm Yes, dm Legimono. Typefaces not mentioned above includePixtalic (pixel), Mecca, No, Silo, Glatajn, Lm, Legimono, Stuckingranite (3d), Solidus, Subfour (piano key stencil), dm-Blockd, dm-Cantilever, dm-Eiros-aliens, dm-Eiros-typicals, dm-Informe-00, dm-Informe-01, dm-Informe-02, dm-Informe-11, dm-Kronos, dm-Me, dm-mecca, dm-Metrigue, dm-Minium, dm-New-Humanist, dm-no, dm-Pop, dm-readable-sans, dm-regulr, dm-Scythe, dm-silo, dm-Solidis, dm-Solidus, dm-Spira, dm-Subfour-Lb, dm-Subfour, dm-Supernova, dm-Xu, dm-Yes-{c}, dm-Yes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denise Clendenin
[Sassy Rose's Graphics Garden (or: Sassy Graphics)]

[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]  ⦿

Dennis Ortiz-Lopez

Prolific NY-based designer (born in East Los Angeles) who specializes in faithful revivals of old masters and logotype, in Latin and Hebrew. He made over 500 fonts including. He is also a translator and illuminator of Biblical period Hebrew and Aramaic. His clients include The Vatican (Pope John Paul II's Holocaust commemerative CD) and Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. His specialties are translations worded in the language and style of the period in which the Biblical text was composed. His translation and enumeration of kabbalistic writings, otherwise known as Hebrew Mysticism and numerology, demonstrate the mathematical base of Biblical miracles.

MyFonts wrote this analysis of his work: Dennis Ortiz-Lopez is a hugely talented New York type designer. lettering artist&typographer, with around 600 typefaces to his credit. Typographic quality in the magazine market doesn't get much better than Rolling Stone magazine---well, guess who was their typographer (as well as InStyle, Sports Illustrated, People, etc.). Dennis made a successful transition to the digital era around 1989, keeping up his prodigious output. Dennis is also known by his Hebrew name, Siynn bar-Diyonn. Dennis follows the footsteps of great American type designers such as Morris Fuller Benton and Herb Lubalin. And he likes contrasts, too: his typefaces are very narrow or very wide, very thin or very fat. If you love Franklin Gothic but always felt like it's not fat and wide enough. try [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Derek Dubler

During his studies in Long Beach, CA, Derek Dubler created the experimental typeface Bomboy (2014), which has circle-encased letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Derek Shafer

Southern California-based designer (b. 1998) of the blackletter pixel typeface Digi Castle (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Design Dojo

San Jose, CA-based designer of the comic book typefaces Dojo Toon (2018) and Dojo Pen Master (2018), and the modular display typeface Dojo Kick (2018) [Google] [More]  ⦿

Design Panoply
[John Shaver]

Californian designer of San Luis (2017, brush script), Grembo Duo (2017), the hand-brushed Eiffel (2016, with iconic dingbats such as a kakmadam poodle), the monoline script typeface Cosmodrome (2016), the brush script typeface Maloishes Emellie (2016) and (2016), the whimsical typeface Canterbury (2016), the casual script typeface Wendell (2015), the hand-drawn sans poster typeface Tender (2014), the letterpress emulation typeface Blocklyn (2016), the art deco typeface Nouvelle (2014) and the tall poster typefaces Simplesse (2013) and Hensel (2013). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Design Studio

Founded in 2009, by designers Ben Wright and Paul Stafford, DesignStudio is a global brand and design agency with offices in London and San Francisco. For AirBNB, they commissioned Lineto to create a typeface family Circular Air Pro (based on Circular LL). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Devin Agar

Santa Monica, CA-based designer of some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Devin Bosco Le

Westwood, CA-based designer of the toothpaste emulation typeface Halcyon (2016) during his studies at UCLA. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Devin Doty

During his studies, Devin Doty (Santa Monica, CA) created the all caps typeface Scrap Metal Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Devon DeLapp

Graduate of the University of Washington, b. Los Angeles. In 2005, he founded DeLapp Design. Designer of the display typeface Gaq. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dian Haniffan Hadi
[Beary Design (or: Letter Beary)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Diana Goldberg

Orange, CA-based designer of the eerie typeface Nocturnal (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diane Ehlers
[Magpie Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Diane Pascual
[The Gypsy Goddess]

[More]  ⦿

Diane Soong

Temple City, CA-based designer of Fancy Fan (2014), a decorative typeface based on oriental fans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Buller

During his studies, Thousaand Oaks, CA-based Diego Buller designed Isometrika (2015, a 3d typeface), Ciago Sans (2016) and Portfolio (2016, a monoline sans typeface family). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dillan Watts

During her studies, Playa del Rey, CA-based Dillan Watts designed the display typeface Juicy (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dixie's Delights
[Michelle Dixon]

This used to be a wonderful page, but Michelle Dixon seems to have retired from the font making business. There used to be five shareware dingbats fonts: African Ornaments One, Cave Painting Dingbats One, Mayan Dingbats, Pre-Columbian Ornaments One, and Printers' Ornaments One (Mac PS), plus about 45 other original fonts (not shareware). In her wonderful collection, the following of Michelle Dixon's creations stand out: Arrighi Copybook, ItalianMosaicOrnaments, Beautiful, LondonHouse, Love Letter Typewriter, Gaudy Medium, Rusty Nail-Medium (the last four are all old typewriter fonts), and the display fonts Isla Bella (art nouveau), La Negrita, Arty Nouveau, Victorian, Art Nouveau Fonts, Bad Dog-Black, Berlin, Caslon Frenzy, Dixon's Vixens Caps, AntiqueMonoTW, DangerousTypoWriter, Elegant Nouveau Initial Caps, Fruitbasket, Matador, Manhattan, Modern Scribe, Ovid, Spillage, Tacos, Tolstoy, Typewriter, Love Letter, Basketcase, ChiliPepperDingbats, Postage Stamps, Garish Monde, Taco Modern, and Beautiful Ink. All fonts are between 5 and 30 dollars a piece, but often there are four fonts per face. In August 98, the absolutely gorgeous calligraphic font Beautiful Ink became available as a 10USD shareware font in Windows TrueType. Many designs are by Blake Haber, who is Michelle Dixon's husband. Located in Santa Barbara, CA.

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

DJ Monkeyboy

Monterey, CA-based designer (b. 1981) of the erotic shadow typefaces Norp Icons (2003) and Norp Icons 2 (2004). Devian Tart link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DJR Type
[David Jonathan Ross]

DJR Type (Conway, MA, and before that, Deerfield, MA, and before that Los Angeles, CA, and before that, Lowell, MA) stands for David Jonathan Ross Type. Originally from Los Angeles, he was a student at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, where he studied information design and typographic tradition. In 2007, he joined Font Bureau as a junior designer and was assisting with custom projects and expanding Font Bureau's retail library. Soon after that, het set up DJR Type. In 2016, DJR Type joined Type Network and pulled all his typefaces from MyFonts. He also runs Font of the Month Club.

In 2018, he was the tenth winner of the Charles Peignot Prize. His typefaces:

  • Manicotti (2010). An ultra reversed-stress Western saloon style typeface that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014. DJR Manicotti won an award at TDC2 2007. For a free lookalike, see Plagiacotti (2009, Saberrider).
  • Lavinia.
  • Climax Text (2006) is a text and display series that was designed for Hampshire's student newspaper.
  • Trilby (2009, Font Bureau). Trilby is based on a 19th century French Clarendon of wood type fame.
  • Condor (2010, Font Bureau). This is a 60-style art deco family. By 2020, it had a 3-axis (weight, width, italic) variable version.
  • Turnip (2012) is an angular and manly text face, also published at Font Bureau.
  • In 2013, Ross and Roger Blcak revived Nebiolo's Forma for the redesign of Hong Kong Tatler, a fashion mag, supervised and commissioned by Roger Black, who was then based in Hong Kong. Read about the whole process in this piece by Indra Kupferschmid. Page specially dedicated to DJR Forma. In 2021, Belgian national broadcaster VRT picked DJR Forma for all its entire range of media.
  • Bungee (2013, Google Fonts) won an award at TDC 2014. This homeless typeface, which comes in Regular, Hairline, Inline, Outline and Shade versions, is free: Bungee is a font family that celebrates urban signage. It wrangles the Latin alphabet to work vertically as well as horizontally.
  • In 2014, David Jonathan Ross created the formidable 168-style programming font family Input (Font Bureau). Input is free for private use. It won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014 and in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition. See also the proportionally spaced typewriter family Input Sans.
  • Gimlet (2016). A 112-style Opentype family loosely based on Georg Trump's 1938 typeface, Schadow, and advertized as funky and functional. Ross writes: Gimlet is half Schadow, half imagination, and nothing else. And like its namesake beverage, Gimlet is a little tart, a little sweet, and can really pack a punch. Gimlet Variable Bold Condensed followed in 2019. Gimlet XRay (2020) is an An experimental colorized version of Gimlet that exposes what goes on under the hood of a variable font, visualizing control points, bounding boxes, kerning, etc. Amazingly, this variable color font has six axes, weight, width, oncurve point size, offcurve point size, glyph utline weight and point outline weight.
  • Fern and Fern Micro (2014, Font Bureau). A Venetian typeface designed for screen.
  • Output Sans.
  • Fit (2017, by David Jonathan Ross and Maria Doreuli). A tall black display family that runs from ultra-compressed to very wide. It screams Use me for the Oscars! Fit was first developed as a variable font. It won an award at Granshan 2017.
  • DJR Lab, or Lab Variable (2017), is a free pixelish variable font.
  • Under miscellaneous, we find an untitled French Clarendon and an untitled semi-serif.
  • Font of the Month Club fonts from 2017: Nickel, Roslindale (Roslindale is a text and display serif that takes its inspiration from De Vinne, a Victorian oldstyle typeface named for the nineteenth century printer and attributed to Gustav Schroeder and Nicholas Werner of the Central Type Foundry), Zenith (blackboard bold), Crayonette (a revival of Henry Brehmer's scriptish Crayonette, 1890), Bild (a compressed headline font based on the American gothic type styles from the 20th century; a variable font followed in 2019), Pappardelle Party (spaghetti Western style), Roslindale Text, Klooster (followed in 2021 by Klooster Thin).
  • Font of the Month Club fonts from 2018: Bradley DJR (a revival of the blackletter typeface Bradley, 1895, William H. Bradley), Extraordinaire, Rhody (slab serif), Map Roman (an all caps vintage mapmaker font), Output Sans Hairlines, Rumpus Extended, Roslindale Light, Merit Badge (a variable color font).
  • A tech type virtuoso, he charmed me with his art deco variable font Extraordinaire (2018) that was influenced by the diamond-shaped forms found in the center of the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Typefaces from 2019: Heckendon Hairline, a condensed Clarendon.
  • Typefaces from 2020: Dattilo (a variable style revival of Aldo Novarese's slab serif Dattilo (1974)), Pomfret.
  • Typefaces from 2021: Rustique (rustic capitals), Megazoid (a chunky geometric sans), Job Clarendon (with Bethany Heck, who wrote: Job Clarendon is an homage to job printing---display-heavy designs made for posters and flyers in the heyday of letterpress printing. This style of Clarendons was wildly popular in this genre of work, and I've always been interested in how adaptable they were. The style was fattened, squished and stretched to accommodate lines of text both short and long and type foundries across the globe each found their own unique features to contribute to the Clarendon stew. Ross pulled the design to both extremes but had his work cut out as he explained: The chasm between Hairline and Black was far too wide to interpolate across effectively, so I incorporated new drawings in the Extra Light, Regular, and Bold weights to act as additional tentposts to support the design).

Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw and at ATypI 2017 in Montreal. Klingspor link. Home page. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

DKNG Studios
[Nathan Goldman]

Designer in Los Angeles who co-founded DKNG Studios in 2005 together with Dan Kuhlken. Graduate of Type West in San Francisco, class of 2020. His graduation typeface there was Parlor. He explains: Equally at home in your favorite childhood pizza parlor or an establishment with classier fare, Parlor pays homage to 1970s fast food culture, but beyond the surface its historical roots are in Victorian Era wood type specimens. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dom Romero

Los Angeles and Albuquerque, New Mexico-based designer of the octagonal typeface Great in 88 (2013), Endorphins (2014, a triangulated connect-the-dots typeface), Modern Hype (2014), and Free Love (2014, a sans family). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dominic Pedruco

Based in San Francisco, Dominic Pedruco created Vendre (2014), a sans typeface for fashion magazines. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dominique Demetz

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the free handcrafted display typeface Dominique (2016) and the handcrafted typefaces Chase (2016) and Alyssa Kayla (2016). In 2017, Dominique designed the condensed handcrafted typeface Dorothy Miranda and the outline typeface Lestrade.

Typefaces from 2018: Gregson, Grainne, Sofia Amoti, Amelie Camille (handcrafted sans), Karlie Elizabeth (hatched).

Typefaces from 2019: Elisabeth Clara, Gina Ann, Noah and Nicole (a fat finger font), Karla Camilla, Anna Kay. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dominique McNair

Graphic illustrator in Aliso Viejo, CA. Creator of a decorative monster alphabet typeface in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Don Sterrenburg

Don Sterrenburg (Camarillo, CA) has been active in an array of visual disciplines since 1963, holding positions in graphic design, type design, and art direction. He has taught lettering and typography at four U.S. universities. Sterrenburg is the recipient of several awards for design and typographic excellence from the Printing Industries of America and the U.S. Small Business Administration.

In 2016, he designed the text and inline typeface Summa Inline at Delvefonts. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Donald E. Knuth
[Computer Modern fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Donald E. Knuth

Professor of computer science at Stanford University, who by himself changed the world of mathematical and scientific typesetting when he developed TeX in the 1980s. That system needed fonts, so he developed a program called Metafont that permits a simple software description of a glyph. And with Metafont, and the help of Hermann Zapf, he created the Computer Modern type family. This is a tour de force, because each letter in the 72 original fonts has only one descriptive program that contains several parameters. Different parameter settings yield the typefaces, from italic to roman and bold, from 5pt to 10pt and 17pt optical settings, and from sans to serif and typewriter. Since a few years ago, he is Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.

In 1983, Hermann Zapf and Donald Knuth headed a project to develop a font set called Euler. One implementation of that is AMS Euler Text.

Author in 1998 of Digital Typography (CSLI Publications). His METAFONT Book is free.

In 2013, he received the Peter Karow Award in typography. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Donovan Mansinon-Salazar

San Diego-based designer of Foxxy Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Doug Alves
[Nacionale]

[More]  ⦿

Doug Heintz

San Francisco-based designer of Dalliance (2007), a sans based on Frutiger. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Doug Novak

Designer of Jackass (1996) at the Exploding Font Company in San Diego. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Down10
[Jesse Burgheimer]

Down10 is San Francisco-based Jesse Burgheimer, the designer of the wormy font Munificent (1997) based on the logo of the Muni (San Francisci Municipal Railway) designed by Walter Landor, of Swerve (2000, octagonal), of Jamtoaster (2000, based on the logo of Adaptec), and of McLawsuit (2000, based on McDonald's lettering for the arches). Spokes (2004) is a heavy geometric typeface based on the English IDM recording artists Plaid, from the cover of their album Spokes. The original typeface design was made in The Designers Republic for Warp Records.

There is also a Down10---probably Jesse Burgheimer---at FontStruct, where several modular typefaces made in 2015 can be downloaded: Billing-Black, Billing-Bold, Billing-Heavy, Billing, Bitties, Changeup, Enforcement-Bold, Enforcement-Light, Enforcement, Fipi-Lele, Fipi-Lele-Shadow, Foilness (a textured halftone typeface), Grateful (Western font), MICRal (a MICR font), Munificence (an inline typeface), Ordinance-Bold, Ordinance-Light, Ordinance (stencil font), Scanlord, Stripelane, Tracking-Blur, Tracking-Outline, Tracking (pixel typeface).

Fontspace link. Dafont link. FontStruct link. Home handwriting (or: Android Fonts) at Dafont offers Foilnes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DownHill Publishing
[Ramón Abajo]

Free and commercial school fonts by Ramón Abajo, all made in 1999 or 2000: Ramon is a high school Spanish teacher in California. His fonts are floating around in cyberspace. His fonts were also for sale at Fonts 4 Teachers (or: Tiende Escolar). They are now available via New York City-based DownHill Publishing, which was founded in 1998 in Los Angeles, California. A list: AbcAlegria, AbcAmSignLang, AbcAmSignLangLetter, AbcBulletin, AbcClocks, AbcCursive, AbcCursiveArrow, AbcCursiveArrowDotted, AbcCursiveDotted, AbcCursiveDottedLined, AbcCursiveLined, AbcDNManus (AbcDNManusArrow, AbcDNManusArrowDotted, AbcDNManusDotted, AbcDNManusDottedLined, AbcDNManusLined, AbcDNManuscript), AbcDomino, AbcFaces, AbcHeadlines, AbcKids, AbcMath, AbcPhonicsOne, AbcPhonicsTwo, AbcPrint, AbcPrintArrow, AbcPrintArrowDotted, AbcPrintDotted, AbcPrintDottedLined, AbcPrintLined, AbcTeacher.

The DownHill Publishing fonts are grouped into Print Writing, D'Nealian, Box Writing, Cursive Writing, Phonics, Sign Language, Seasonal, Decorative. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Doyald Young
[Doyald Young: Logotypes and Letterforms]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Doyald Young: Logotypes and Letterforms
[Doyald Young]

Graphic designer, typographer, type designer, author, teacher and lecturer, born in 1926 in Holliday, TX. He died on February 28, 2011 due to complications following a heart operation. He attended Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Trade Technical Jr. College, and Art Center College of Design where he has taught for 27 years and holds the honorary title Inaugural Master of the School. Doyald drew characters, often of a calligraphic or handlettered nature. He was deeply influenced by his mentor, Hermann Zapf.

Steve Heller writes: When digital programs like Fontographer made it easy for anyone with a computer to create typefaces, many of them purposefully inelegant, he advocated a high level of craftsmanship that he believed had been lost. In so doing, Mr. Young challenged a new generation to reject so-called grunge design in favor of precision. When the American Institute of Graphic Arts awarded Young its 2009 Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Marian Bantjes wrote Taste. Practicality. Formality. Understated prestige. The combination of those qualities forms as perfect a descriptor of Young's work as any you are likely to find, both in the process and the result. Although he is widely known for his elegant curves and scripts, he has never been a showy designer---there is not a trace of ego in his work. The range of letterforms able to flow at any time from his hand is great, and there is no way to particularly define Young's mark unless you have seen the hand-drawn comp. That is where his work is unmistakable: perfect letterforms drawn in pencil at a surprisingly small size without so much as a mark of hesitation or awkwardness. The style varies but the fluidity and perfection do not.

Links and media: Scott Erickson's movie on Doyald Young. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Short obituary and video. Longer video about his life. Steven Heller's obituary in the New York Times. Obituary by Marian Bantjes for AIGA.

He was adored and respected for his craft and gentleness. Portrait. Another portrait (credit: Louise Sandhaus). Author of several influential texts:

His typefaces include the extra bold condensed sports scripts fonts Home Run Sanscript (1999) and Home Run Script (1999, a connected bold retro signage script), Young Gallant (2010, a formal calligraphic script based on the alphabets his teacher, Leach, trained him on), ITC Eclat (1985, 1992, fat script face, which was used for titles by Comedy Central and the Queen Latifah movie Beauty Shop), Young Finesse (2003, an Optima-inspired thin headline typeface used in his book, Fonts&Logos), Young Finesse Italic (2006), Guts (1976, VGC), and Young Baroque (1984, 1992, Letraset; calligraphic Spencerian copperplate script; this is copied by Castcraft as OPTI Yen Script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

DR Fonts
[Daniel Robichaud]

Originally from Montreal, Daniel moved to Los Angeles to create visual effects and contributed to the movies Apollo 13, The Fifth Element and Titanic. He developed an interest in animation, created the short film Tightrope, and directed the feature-length cartoon Pinocchio 3000. Daniel Robichaud worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Digital Domain and FOX.

At Letraset, he published the semi-stencil typeface Epitaphe.

In 2021, he set up DR Fonts and released the 20-style techno sans font family Absentia Sans (2021) and the 20-style Absentia Slab. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dr. Kulbir S. Thind

Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind (San Mateo, CA) designed a set of Gurmukhi Unicode fonts, AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, which are available under the terms of GNU license from the Punjabu Computing Resource Center. He is a specialist on Gurbani, Gurmukhi and Punjabi fonts. Alternate URL at Sikhpoint. Sikhnet link. Alternate URL at Punjab online. His fonts:

  • The Amr family: AmarHindi, AmrLipi, AmrLipiHeavy, AmrLipiLight-Bold, AmrLipiLight, AmrLipiSlim, AmrLipiThick, AmrLipiThickTight, AmrNeon, AmrOutlined.
  • The Anmol family: AnmolAmrit-Bold, AnmolAmrit, AnmolAmritLight-Bold, AnmolAmritLight, AnmolKalmi, AnmolLipi-Bold, AnmolLipi, AnmolLipiHeavy, AnmolLipiLight-Bold, AnmolLipiLight, AnmolLipiSlim, AnmolLipiThick, AnmolLipiThickTight, AnmolNeon, AnmolOutlined, AnmolRaised, AnmolUbhri.
  • ApniHindi.
  • Asees was made in 1997.
  • The Gurbani family: GurbaniAkhar, GurbaniAkharHeavy, GurbaniAkharLight, GurbaniAkharSlim, GurbaniAkharThick, GurbaniHindi, GurbaniLipi, GurbaniLipiBold, GurbaniLipiLight, GurbaniLipiLightBold, GurbaniRomanizing, GuruDevan. Two GurbaniLipi fonts and a Hindi font may also be found here. GurbaniAkharThick is also here. And here, we have GurbaniAkharHeavy and GurbaniAkharThick. And here are GurbaniAkhar Light, Heavy and Thick. GurbaniAkharSlim is here. This site has GurbaniLipiBold, GurbaniLipi, GurbaniKalmi, GurbaniLipiLightBold, GurbaniLipiLight, GurbaniRaised, GurbaniUbhri. This site has GurbaniAkharHeavy, GurbaniAkhar, GurbaniWebThick. His fonts have some nice ornaments too.
  • WebLipiHeavy (2002) and WebAkharThick (2002). Here is WebAkharThick (2002). See also here.
  • SamtolAmritLight (or: DRChatrikWeb) is here, here, here and here.
  • Kulbir Singh Thind added Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) to the GNU Freefont project.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Dreamer Design
[Robin Spehar]

Robin Spehar at Dreamer Design (Topanga Canyon, CA) is the winner of an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002, with Dreamer DD, a comic book font. Their commercial fonts include balloon fonts (Optimus, Roman Star, Prime, Lance a Lot), dead poet fonts (Keats, Whitman, Blake, Thoreau), historical fonts (Pike Hand, Zeus, Plate, Emperor), futuristic fonts (Hal, Omega, Didg), character fonts (It's Evil, Raven, Talon, Visigoth), and comic book fonts (Staccata, Shrapnel, Topple, Quagmire). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Drew Melton
[Carmel Type (or: Just Lucky)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Drew Wilson

Carlsbad, CA-based creator of the Pictos1 and Pictos2 series of commercial dingbats. He drives home the point that for icons and logos, one can now use CSS and @font-face to use scalable fonts instead of static images. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Duran Hernandez

Clovis, CA-based designer of the architectural typeface Eames (2014), designed to honor Eames's architecture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dustin Lee
[RetroSupply Co]

[More]  ⦿

Dwight Creative

Dwight Creative (San Diego, CA) developed several commercial typefaces in 2012-2013. These include: Novatny, Arik, Erora, El Reon, Firmin, and Sofian. Buy the fonts via Graphic River. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dylan Smith

Rocklin, CA-based designer of the decorative modular sans typegace Tronica Rounded (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Echo Foxx Studios
[Kristie Drews]

Michigan (was: Los Angeles)-based designer of the outlined handcrafted typeface Tropikal (2016), the floral caps typeface Rhea (2017), and Into The Wilderness (2017).

In 2018, she designed the ink splatter font duo of Forest and Pine (free demo). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edgar Salazar

During his graphic design studies in La puente, CA, edgar salazer created a scanbat alphabet typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edna P. Nerona

Web design consultant from San Diego, CA. Creator of the display typeface Pueblo Unido (no downloads). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Goulart

San Francisco-based designer of the extreme stencil typeface Mars (2015), which was finished during his studies at San Francisco State University. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Viramontes

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of Ribbon Serif (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edward Dalton Pelouze
[San Francisco Type Foundry]

[More]  ⦿

Edward Fella

Born in Detroit in 1938, Ed Fella is a former commercial artist and professional graphic designer who practiced for 30 years in Detroit. After receiving his MFA from Cranbrook in 1987, he taught in the graduate Graphic Design program at CalArts in Los Angeles for another 30 years. He is currently a Professor Emeritus and continues working on campus in his studio on a wide-ranging series of his own idiosyncratic projects that stubbornly resist categorization although they freely partake in the conventions of typography, photography, illustration and fine art.

His typefaces:

  • Out West (1993, Emigre). Designed on a 15 degree ellipse in 1993.
  • FellaParts (dingbats) published in 1993 at Emigre.

Author of Edward Fella: Letters on America, Photographs and Lettering. From the book's blurb: [This book] gives insight into his idiosyncratic world by combining and juxtaposing examples of his unique hand lettering with his photographs of found vernacular lettering.

In 1997 he received the Chrysler Award, and in 1999 he got an Honorary Doctorate from CCS in Detroit. His work is in the National Design Museum and MOMA in New York. Claire Agopia wrote Edward Fella "I am the vernacular" (2007) for her graduation from Ecole Estienne.

Ed Fella poster by Guadalupe Sanchez (2013).

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

Edward Pelouze

Born in 1799, died in 1876. Edward Pelouze was the second son of Edmund Pelouze, and a key figure in the Pelouze type foundry family. In 1817, he worked for the Boston Type Foundry, and later in Boston, he worked for Phelps, Dalton and Co, He moved to New York to work as a typefounder for White's (1829) and set up his own foundry, the Pelouze Foubndry, in 1830. In the central part of his life, he moved type equipment to San Francisco and set up a foundry there in 1848. But he returned to Boston, where he bought the Boston Type Foundry in 1853 with John K. Rogers, to form the John K. Rogers Foundry. His three sons, whom he had introducted to typefounding, would all become successful typefounders as well. Not to be coinfused with his son, Edward Dalton Pelouze or his grandson, Edward Craige Pelouze. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edwin Diaz

Riverside, CA-based designer of the decorative all caps alphabet Yummy Calamari (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Egor Aranovich

San Francisco-based designer of the water splash font Splash (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

elbow
[Patrick Lindsay Gravette]

Patrick Lindsay Gravette's San Francisco-based graphic design company. They have about 10 original fonts. Check out the free fonts GraElbow-AnglicanPaper, Elbow-Profilactic, Elbow-SaulWeintraub, Elbow-ado, Elbow-c64, Elbow-hhgg, Elbow-tils, Elbow-xtctype-Heavy, Elbow-xtctype-Light (old typewriter). Fonts are in type 1 and truetype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Electric Typographer
[Judith Sutcliffe]

Judith Sutcliffe (Audubon, IA) is the Electric Typographer (est. 1986, Santa Barbara, CA). She has made absolutely exquisite highly original typefaces, which are sold by many foundries and vendors, including Will-Harris.

Her typefaces: Abelard (1988, mediaeval), LeonardoHand (Da Vinci's handwriting--greeeeaaaat), Lutahline (clean hand-printed family), ArabiaFelix, Petroglyph (nice dingbat series), AuntJudy, BlockParty, PetroglyphHawaii, ItalianAElectric, TaglienteInitials (another great calligraphic font), TommysType (letters on a clothesline), Kiilani, and Troubador (1988-1989, mediaeval) and Troubador Initials (1989). Atomic Type sells her fonts. Other fonts: Petroglyph Hawaii (1993), Daylilies, Greene, GreeneGreene, Insecta, Leaves, OldstyleChewed, Finfont, Flourish, Hawaii Set, Maskerade, Santa Barbara Electric (1989, a Lombardic / uncial face; + Barbara Svelte, + Barbara Plump), Schampel, Electric Stamps, Daly Hand, Kiilani, Mesopotamia (1992). Emodigi site. At Will-Harris House, we find these fonts by Judith Sutcliffe: Catastrophe, Tommy, Daly Hand and Daly Text (based on the casual calligraphy of Pacific Northwest artist George Daly), Finfont (fish), Daylilies, Leaves, Flourish (calligraphic family), Greene&Greene (architectral lettering), a Hawaiian set consisting of Kiilani, Hibiscus (alphadings), and RockArt dingbats, Insecta (dings), Oldstyle Chewed, Leonardo (neat handwriting of DaVinci simulated), Petroglyphs, Schampel (blackletter), Serpent, Maskerade (masks), Tagliente (nice old-fashioned lettering and caps).

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

Elena Kozhenkova

San Diego, CA-based designer of the modular typeface Index (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elijah Butler

Victorille, CA-based designer of these typefaces in 2015: Mafia (art deco), Rude (vintage display style). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eliot Peper

Eliot Peper (The Frontispiece, Oakland, CA) is a self-publishing author. In 2016, he designed the squarish typeface Cumulus for one of his book covers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elisabeth Prescott

San Francisco-based graphic designer who created the custom typeface Holland Mail (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elise Granados

San Francisco-based creator of the ink blot typeface Kleck (2012). Elise can also be found under EG Design Studios, and under Elise Wong.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ella Yates

San Diego, CA-based designer of a decorative caps alphabet in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elliot Weinstein
[CHOMP font collection]

[More]  ⦿

Elo Marc

San Diego-based designer of the Western typefaces Wood Print (2015), Sky High (2014) and Faroest (or Forest) (2014). Dafont link. Home page. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elvira Anai Contreras

Los Angeles-based creator of the very modular typeface Haus (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emery Butler

San Diego, CA-based designer of a modular typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emigre
[Zuzana Licko]

Sacramento, CA-based foundry established in 1984 by Zuzana Licko and Rudy Vanderlans. They were "in" during the grungy early 1990s, but ran out of steam and out of fashion around the turn of the century. They had their own magazine, and were in the limelight in the 1990s. Massimo Vignelli famously said at a meeting: Emigre is the worst thing that ever happened to this country. It's unbelievable the damage they have done. A total disaster. [Laughter] You laugh, but you should cry.

Lea Chapon's thesis at Estienne in 2006 was entitled Emigre : typographie et critique de la typographie---strangely, it was removed from the school's web site---Emigregate? The typophiles are not gentle with their critique. In the collection, we find these fonts: Arbitrary (1992), Awkward (1991), Berkeley (1990), Citizen (1990), Elektrix (1990), EmigreEight (1990), EmigreFifTeen (1990), EmigreFourTeen (1990), EmigreTen (1990), EmperorEight (1990), EmperorFifTeen (1990), EmperorNineTeen (1990), EmperorTen (1990), IndustrySans, KubotaFont (1991), Lunatix (1990), Marvelous (1991), Matrix (1988-1991), NeoTheo, Oblong (1990), STICadillac (1990), Sample (1990), Senator (1990), Simplex, TemplateGothic (1991), TotallyGlyphic (1990), TotallyGothic (1990), Transportation (1990), UniversalEight (1990), UniversalNineTeen (1990), VariexBold (1990), VariexLight (1990), VariexRegular (1990), Zenith (1990). Also, by designer:

  • Nancy Mazzei and Brian Kelly: Backspacer (1993).
  • Zuzana Licko: BaseMono (1997, a monospaced family), BaseNine (1995), BaseTwelve (1995), Dogma (1994), Filosofia (1996, Emigre's (unicase) version of Bodoni), Hypnopaedia (1997), Journal (1993), the Lo-Res family (pixel fonts at sizes 9, 12, 15, 21, 22, 28, made in 2001), Modula (1990-1995), MrsEaves (1996, Emigre's version of Baskerville), Mr Eaves Sans (2009), Mr Eaves Modern (2009), Narly (1993), Program OT (2013, a rounded sans family), Quartet (1993), SodaScript (1995), Solex (2000), Tarzana (1998), Triplex (1990), Whirligig (1994).
  • Bob Aufuldish and Eric Donelan: BigCheese (dings, 1993), ZeitGuys (1994, funny dingbats).
  • John Hersey: Blockhead (1995, Alphabet and Illustrations), Thingbat (1995).
  • Conor Mangat: BoksHeavy (1994), BoksThin (1994), Platelet (1994, inspired by California license plate systems---organic and quite dysfunctional).
  • John Downer: Brothers (1999), Council (1999), Triplex Italic (1990), Vendetta (1999).
  • Sibylle Hagmann: Cholla (1999).
  • Frank Heine: DallianceFlourishes (2001), DallianceRoman (2001), DallianceScript (2001), Motion (1993), OaklandEight (1990), OaklandFifTeen (1990), OaklandSix (1990), OaklandTen (1990), Remedy (1992).
  • P. Scott Makela: DeadHistory (1994).
  • Miles Newlyn: Democratica (1992-1993), Missionary (1992), SabbathBlack (1994).
  • Rodrigo Cavazos: EideticNeo (2000).
  • Jonathan Barnbrook: Exocet (1992), Manson (1993), Mason (1993).
  • Edward Fella: FellaParts (1993), Outwest (1993).
  • Jeffery Keedy: KeedySans (1991).
  • Mark Andresen: NotCaslonOne (1995).
  • Claudio Piccinini: Ottomat (1996).
  • Rudy VanderLans: Suburban (1994).
Alternate URL.

View Zuzana Licko's typefaces. Alphabetical listing of Zuzana Licko's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Emilee Serafine

During her studies in San Francisco, Emilee Serafine created Kip Script (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily Arnaut

Letterer and graphic designer based in Los Angeles. In 2016, Emily created a drop cap alphabet. In 2017, she designed Iva Sans and the dot matrix typeface Dotty (free at FontStruct). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily Atwood

Emily Atwood is an independent designer based in New York City. She has previously worked as a Senior Designer at Pentagram Design in New York City for Paula Scher, leading identity, editorial, campaign and web design projects. In 2014, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, and obtained a BFA in Graphic Design + Digital Media at Laguna College of Art + Design in 2017. She is currently involved in the Type at Cooper Extended Program Certificate in Type Design at The Cooper Union in New York City. She is also an adjunct instructor in the design departments for Laguna College of Art and Design in Laguna Beach, California and The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her typefaces:

  • Uraniya. A book typeface inspired by a book printed in 1928---an almanac called Uraniya containing the literary works and life of Fyodor Tyutchev, who was an acclaimed Russian poet and diplomat.
  • A typeface planned for release by Order Type Foundry in 2022.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily Johnson

Graphic designer at Vision Design Studio in North Long Beach, CA. Creator of the seventies funk style typeface Groove (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily Kluzak

As a student in San Diego, CA, Emily Kluzak created a decorative handcrafted alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily Tai

For a project at MICA in San Francisco, emily Tai created the rounded sans typeface family Betty (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily Xie

Santa Monica, CA-based designer of the modern decorative caps typeface Geometric Alphabet (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emma Linh

Emma Linh Stark is a brand designer, writer, and artist based in San Jose, California. Graduate of Type West in San Francisco, class of 2020, and art director at Service Now in Santa Clara since 2019. Her Type West graduation typeface was the quirky reverse contrast Sway (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enya Persson

New media artist in San Francisco, who designed the humanist sans typeface Egg in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

E-phemera (was: HPLHS Prop Fonts, and earlier: Prop Fonts)
[Andrew H. Leman]

Andrew Leman is a prop designer in Hollywood, CA. The type foundry HPLHS Prop Fonts (was: Ephemera, Prop Fonts) was started by Hollywood's Andrew Leman, and is now located in Pasadena, CA. Some fonts are free, most are commercial.

Dafont link. Klingspor link.

Andrew Leman's fonts:

  • Cablegram (2001, old typewriter face, T-26).
  • Leviathan.
  • Garamold (2007, 2 styles).
  • Journalistic (2007, a blackletter inspired by the nameplate of a New England newspaper from the 1920s).
  • Blackburn (2006, distressed).
  • RTemporal (2006, blackletter).
  • Fonts in the HPLHS series, dated 2002: HeadlineTwoHPLHS, OldStyle1HPLHS, OldstyleItalicHPLHS, OldstyleSmallCapsHPLHS, Rogo, SlabSerifHPLHS, TelegramHPLHS, WW2BlackletterHPLHS, WW2BlackltrAltHPLHS, HPLHS-Lovecraft Cursive and Block (replica of H. P. Lovecraft's own handwriting), HPLHS-Autograph Lanier (replica of the 1875 handwriting of Sidney Lanier, a 19th century American poet), HPLHS-TextSerif (really Linotype Antique No. 1), HPLHS-TypoScript, HPLHS-TextSerif Oblique, HPLHS-Bulfinch, HPLHS-Colwell, HPLHS-Colwell Italic, HPLHS-Cromwell, HPLHS-National Oldstyle (after Goudy's font by that name), HPLHS-Post Monotone, HPLHS-Atlas Italic, HPLHS-Italic, HPLHS-Victoria (from the 1923 ATF book), HPLHS-Manuscript Caps, HPLHS-Tome Pi, HPLHS-TypoGothic, HPLHS-Copperplate Roman, HPLHS-Gothic520, HPLHS-Times Gothic, HPLHS-Persnickety, HPLHS-Roman Engraved, HPLHS-Mercantile, HPLHS-Mercantile Oblique, HPLHS-Mercantile Card, HPLHS-Headline Modified, HPLHS-ExtraExtra, HPLHS-Extra (wood type), HPLHS-Forsythe, HPLHS-MetroThin, HPLHS-MetroLight, HPLHS-MetroMedium, HPLHS-MetroMedium Italic, HPLHS-MetroBlack, HPLHS-Policy Gothic, HPLHS-Black Gothic, HPLHS-Gothic Compressed, HPLHS-Black Condensed, HPLHS-Black Oblique, HPLHS-Electro Gothic, HPLHS-Blackletter (an irregular hand-drawn textura font based on the lettering of French heraldic engraver Charles Demengeot).
  • The E-phemera Font Collection, available from MyFonts, which includes these fonts, with a majority being retro or script typefaces: Policy Gothic (2012, an eroded caps face), Mooseheart (2012), Operapolitan (2012), Fishwrapper (2012), Fred (2007, inspired by a 1930s typeface by Fred G. Cooper), Schreibweise (2007, a pirate-flavored font inspired by a hand-lettered manuscript dating from 1492), Cablegram-Regular, Golden Ticket (2003: Base, Fill, Highlight; a digitization of hand-drawn poster lettering by Otto Heim from 1925), Cablegram-Urgent, Cablegram-Madras, Cablegram-Ottoman, Julius Klinger (2003, based on 1925 fabric lettering by Julius Klinger), Cablegram-Zagreb, DMV Printer, Landry Gothic, Telegrafo, Toronto Gothic (2003: worn wood type or letterpress emulation, close to Condensed Titling Gothic #11), Vogue (pencil-lettered caps), Penitentiary Gothic (+Fill, +Lolite, +Hilite, +Shadow), Chicago House, Compliments (+Upright), Satisfaction (script based on 1930s cigarette ads), Vandal Broke Extra Juicy, Lanier (2004), Impersonal. The Cablegram and DMV series are typewriter fonts. Heck Italic (2010) is based on captions, labels and legends appearing on 19th-century maps and natural history engravings by Johann Georg Heck. Dai Vernon (2010) is based on the handwriting of card magician Dai Vernon.

View Andrew Leman's typefaces. View the E-phemera typeface collection. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Erewhon
[Michael Sharpe]

Erewhon (nowhere) is a transitional font based largely on Andrey V. Panov's Heuristica, but with so many changes that Michael Sharpe, its designer at UCSD in San Diego, decided in 2014 to offer it as an enhanced alternative. Heuristica (2008-2012) extended the Utopia font family made available by the TEX Users Group, adding many accented glyphs, Cyrillic glyphs, ligatures, superior and oldstyle fixed-width figures in all styles. Erewhon has 1398 characters and is free at CTAN. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Eaton
[Deliberate Design]

[More]  ⦿

Eric Giovanola

Los Angeles-based designer of the calligraphic typeface Doyald (2004). He is working on this sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric J. Siry

San Francisco-based designer who modified Tobias Frere-Jones's Hightower (Font Bureau, 1996) for Rolling Stone. That custom font is called Abbey. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Liu

During his studies in 2016, Eric Liu (Fremont, CA) designed a display typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Lobdell

Creative director in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2015, he designed the sans typeface family Affogato. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric MacLeod

Art director and typographer in La Mirada, CA. He created the upright monoline connected script typeface Rosaleigh (2009) and the flared sans typeface Chupacabra (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Michael

Californian graphic and web designer, b. 1984. Behance link. He created the monospaced squarish font Confection Cubes (2010). Free download here.

Dafont link, where his name is Eric Zwierzynski. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Nguyen

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-born designer who lives in Los Angeles. as a student there, he designed the all caps Sweet Alphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erica Sirotich

Erica Sirotich (San Francisco) iwsmages inspired by children, animals and anthropomorphic critters. She designed Creature Alphabet (2012) for a children's print for Cuddlefish Press. These letterforms are based on the Adelle Basic font from Type Together. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erica Valadez

Fullerton, CA-based designer of Old English Caslon (2017), a hybrid of Old English and Caslon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erick Campos

During his studies in Riverside, CA, Erick Campos designed an LED alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Adigard
[M-A-D]

[More]  ⦿

Erik Marinovich
[Nuform Type Foundry]

[More]  ⦿

Erik Molano

Graphic designer and typographer in Los Angeles. In 2010, he created the slightly organic and slightly rounded Noni Sans as part of a student project at the Art Center College of Design. [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. Author of Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (2nd Edition) (Adobe Press, Second Edition, 2002, First Edition, 1993). He taught 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 at 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 typeface from 1923.
  • FF Govan (2001, by Ole Schaefer and Erik Spiekermann).
  • 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 typeface by Jochen Schuss and Jörg Herz) looks like a cloned of Meta. FF Meta Condensed won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
  • Meta Serif (2007) by Christian Schwartz, Kris Sowersby and Erik Spiekermann. Later extensions by Ralph du Carrois and Botio Nikoltchev.
  • 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). Developed jointly with Christian Schwartz and Josh Darden.
  • 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).
  • In 2012-2013, Ralph du Carrois and Erik Spiekermann co-designed Fira Sans and Fira Mono for Firefox / Mozilla. This typeface is free for everyone. Google Web Font link. Open Font Library link. It is specially designed for small screens, and seems to do a good job at that. I am not a particular fan of a g with an aerodynamic wing and the bipolar l of Fira Mono, though. Mozilla download page. CTAN link. Google Web Fonts download page. Google web Fonts published Fira Sans Condensed (2012-2016) and Fira Sans Extra Condensed in 2017.
  • In 2013-204, Erik created HWT Artz, a wood type published in digital form by P22, which is based on early 20th century European poster lettering. Named after Dave Artz, a Hamilton Manufacturing retiree and master type trimmer, the proceeds of the sales will go to the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum.
  • In 2015, Fontfont published FF Real, in 13 weights each for FF Real Text and FF Real Head. This typeface family by Erik Spiekermann and Ralph Olivier du Carrois is influenced by the German grotesques from ca. 1900 by foundries such as Theinhardt and H. Berthold AG.
  • In 2022, Erik Spiekermann, Anja Meiners, and Ralph du Carrois published the neo-grotesque superfamily Case at Fontwerk. It includes Micro and Text subfamilies.

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

FontShop link.

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

Erika Fisher

San Francisco-based designer of the brushed display typeface Happy Camper (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erin Hiromoto

Orange, CA-based designer of the triangulated typeface Spacewink (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erin Macadaeg

Redwood City, CA-based designer of a Disney-inspired alphading font (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erin Sykes

Designer in San Diego, who created an alphabet with matches, called Ignite (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erin Wheatley

Erin Wheatley (Erin Wheatley Design, Pasadena, CA) created the curly typeface Romeo (2013).

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

Ernest Karchmit

During his studies, Sacramento, CA-based Ernest Karchmit designed a stunning lettering piece entitled Logic (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ernst Deutsch

Born in 1887 in Vienna, Austria, Ernst Deutsch first worked as a costume designer and studied under Gustav Klimt. In Paris, he worked on costumes for Coco Chanel, before moving to the United States in 1929, where he changed his name to Ernst Dryden and was employed from 1933 onwards as a costume designer for Universal, Columbia and Selznick in Hollywood. He died in Los Angeles in 1938.

Designer of Tango Kursiv (1913, +Fett; aka IKA Schriften), and the prototypical silent movie fonts Tango Antiqua (1913), and Tango Antiqua Halbfett (1916), all published by J. Klinkhardt in Leipzig. Digital revivals by Nick Curtis (Rhumba Script NF: free revival of Tango Kursiv) and Oliver Weiss (Walden Font) (WF Paletti, 2016-2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Errol Olson

As a student, Huntington Beach, CA-based Errol Olson created a circuit board font in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Esquivel Type foundry (was: Aeasea Type Foundry)
[Raul Esquivel]

Raul Esquivel is a designer, illustrator and photographer in Los Angeles, CA. He founded Aeasea Type Foundry in 2014 and Esquivel Type foundry in 2015 and sells his typefaces via Creative Market.

Typefaces from 2014: Isomoth Pro, Knell (a hand-drawn art deco-styled poster face), Goodway Slab, Fissure, Metros (a geometric sans family with two free weights).

In 2015, he made the didone-style typeface Wolf Shadow, the slab serif Bark Slab, and Bowie Sans.

Typefaces from 2017: Leonidas (vintage, almost wood type, all caps typeface family), Legion. Creative Market link. Newer Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estevan Gutierrez

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the movie title sequence typeface Clerks (2017) and the ultra fat display typeface Grand (2018). Typefaces from 2020: Abi (textured caps), Octubre, Magnolia Varsity, Grand (blocky letters), Arrested, Twenty-Five. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estranged Illusions

Mary (aka Estranged Illusions, b. 1986) is from Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. She created a nice typographic poster entitled Power of Words (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eugene Herrera

Delano, CA-based designer of Yujkore Handwriting (2009), which was made with Fontifier. All his fonts in one zip file. Direct access to YUJKORE0.eot and to yujkorehandwriting.ttf. This file contains Mac-specific versions of the font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evan Adams

Evan Adams graduated with a Computer Science degree from Oregon State University and has been with Google since 2005. He worked on Google Slides, ensuring consistent line-breaking in the face of different browsers, OSs, font files, font-rendering engines, zoom levels and kerning. Adams is currently part of the Google Fonts team, where he focused on discovering the best strategies for delivering Korean fonts. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. Graduate of the TDi program in 2018 at the University of Reading. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evan Eckard

Located in Bakersfield, CA, Evan Eckard created the hipster typeface Socalibre (2014), which has a distant relationship with Californian graffiti. Other commercial typefaces include the rounded sans typeface Road House (2014) and the semi-stencil typeface Brigade (2014).

Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evyn Fong

Davis, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Girly Alphabet (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Exclamachine Type Foundry
[Choz Cunningham]

Choz Cunningham (b. 1975, Santa Cruz, CA) is a Las Vegas and more recently, Nashville, TN-based designer and artist, who set up Exclamachine in 2005. Until 2012, exclamachine published free fonts. In 2012, it went commercial via MyFonts.

Designer of Whiskey Songs (2007), Crass Roots, Crass Roots Alt (2016), and Crass Roots OFL (2007, stencil), Misqot (2006), The Troubles (2006), Limberjack (2006, an ornate wood titling font), this blackletter-inspired serif face (2006), Futurelic (2006, futuristic), Zugzwang (2006), Sketchy Times Bold (2005, grunge), Sketchy Times (2005, grunge), Basket of Hammers (2005, a nice wallpainting/graffiti font). His company, also called Exclamachine Foundry, where these fonts can be downloaded: The Black Bloc (2006, blackletter-inspired), MISQOT (2006), Kutura Frontalis (2006), PaulMaul (2006), Zugzwang (2006), Sketchy Times (2006), Carlos Caffeinated (2006), Basket of Hammers (2006), Disc Inferno (2006, LED simulation), Rosda Laevigata)2007, handprinting), and this heavy metal band font (2006).

In 2012, Choz published the commercial typefaces MISQOT (scratchy) and Paul Maul XT (irregular hand-printed face).

Typefaces from 2013: FinFang (comic book style caps), Lestatic Slashed (+Condensed), Lestatic Obsidian Outline (grungy), Lestatic Lashed (Arabic simulation face), Lestatic Celerite, Lestatic Carved, Lestatic CSS, Lestatic Withered Condensed, Lestatic Withered, Lestatic Sliced.

Dafont link. Open Font Library link. Home page. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Exel Soriano

Mission Viejo, CA-based designer of Caveman (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Exploding Font Company

Foundry located in San Diego, CA. Vendor of fonts by a variety of artists:

  • Gary Hustwit: Head Honchetts.
  • Chank: Ammonia, Orbital, Spacekrafty (very nice font, with Khai).
  • Doug Novak: Jackass (1996).
  • Samantha Cole: Florem Lactis.
  • Dean Vacarro: Jitterbug.
Full list of fonts: Ammonia, Cosmic, Drunk, Dutch Oven, Dutch Treat, Dutch Family Suitcase, EatPoo Fat, EatPoo Skinny, EatPoo Tall, EatPoo Family Suitcase, Florem Lactis, Guarello Collegiate, Gutter, Head Honchettss, Head Honchos, Integral, Jackass, Jawbox, Jawbox Chanky, Jawbreaker, Jawbox Family Suitcase, Jitterbug, Lavaman, Mantisboy, Maraschino, Motorlodge, Napkin, Napkin Bold, Napkin Family Suitcase, Oblivia (used to be free), Orbital, Parkway Motel, Residoo, Resort-O-Tel, Shakopee, Slide, Slide Blastosphere, Slide Family Suitcase, Smudged, Space Krafty, Space Toaster, Space Family Suitcase, Superior, Udo, Udo Wide, Udo Leaned, Udo Wide Leaned, Udo Family Suitcase. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fabrice Ducouret
[Fabulous Rice Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fabulous Rice Fonts
[Fabrice Ducouret]

Fabrice Ducouret (Fabulous Rice, b. 1981) was a Paris-based film maker and designer. He uses the funny pseudoname Subarashi Sakana. His home town is Chatenay-Malabry but he currently lives in Berkeley, CA.

Fabrice created Kwaliteit (2007, dymo label font), Message in a bottle (a simple hand-printed face), Scrawling, Smoothie (primitive hand), Diskoboll (2002), Colcothar (2008, African bold sans), April 16 (2008, child's script), Fly Leg (another children's hand), No Futur (2008, grunge), GeoffDarrow (3d hand-printed outline face), Fabrice Handwriting, and Anthracite (2003, shaded metal surface simulation).

In 2010, he went commercial. His commercial typefaces include Tar Teen (2010, an art deco all caps family).

In 2012, he published commercial versions of these fonts: Smoothie (hand-printed), Peau Lisse (ornamental caps), Open Hype (hand-printed), Kwaliteit (grunge), Herod (grunge), Fontaine (hand-printed), Ferric (hand-printed caps), Fabrice (hand-printed), Dumb Thick (hand-printed), Deadly Thin (hand-printed), Darrow (outlined 3d face), Colcothar (a great hand-drawn poster face: based on a calligraphic alphabet I often use for my comic books, my film title sequences, or my notebooks), Bold Mine (hand-printed), Ask for Damage (hand-printed), April 16 (child's hand), Anthracite, 3X3 (dot matrix).

Sworded (2015) and Metal Cry (2015) are great layerable typeface families.

View Fabrice Ducouret's typefaces.

Dead Dafont link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Facsimile Fonts
[Robert Trogman]

Foundry which offers fonts by Robert Trogman, a graphic designer now living in Palm Springs, CA, where he runs Trogman Signs. His fonts include

  • Buxom (3d face). For a digital version, see Buxom SB (Scangraphic).
  • Roberta (1962, FotoStar: an art nouveau face).
  • Yagi Double (the CNN Logo). This was digitized in 1996 by Alan Jay Prescott as New Yagi Bold, 2008 as Miyagi (with a few twists) by Thinkdust, and as Yagitype and Axitype by John Wu (Archetype) in 2010.
  • Binner (art deco).
  • Blippo (display)
  • Handel Gothic (sans).
Originally these were fonts made for phototypesetting---Handel Gothic and Blippo, e.g., were available at Fotostar. He says about himself: My career began in 1942 as an apprentice in the composing room. Because of WWII I was able to get several jobs; working at the College Press under the tutiledge of Richard Hoffman and a night job at LA Type casting the first arrival of Times Roman. Because of the pursuit of the alphabet it led to working with some of the best in the business: Saul Bass, Herb Rosenthal and Charles Eames. My commercial career began in the early 1960s with the revival of Jugenstill fonts and becoming an agent for Berthold. I was able to bring on the photolettering market many original designs under the name of Facsimile Fonts and later FotoStar International. In total, he made over five thousand film fonts under the name of Facsimile Fonts and FotoStar International.

He writes for Recognition Review as Dr. Type and gives seminars on typographic design. A type consultant, he was at one point lecturer on typographic layout and design for California State University at Los Angeles. As Trogman explains to Harold Lohner about Roberta: I originally hand cut this font in 1962. It is based on a Belgian restaurant sign. I named it after my daughter Roberta. Many Mexican food companies used this font, but they didn't know it was from Europe. Dan Solo was going to digitize it for me, but he retired from the font business last year. Just give me credit for the design and it is all yours to do what you want. Trogman's picture. Roberta D was remade by Ralph M. Unger in 2003 for URW. Trogman, however, is upset with URW: URW++ has been warned by me to stop selling typefaces I originally licensed to Berthold Fototype, Stempel, Bitstream, Mecanorma and Letraset. They have never responded to my accusation of piracy. He is a graduate from the University of California at Santa Barbara. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fade Hurricane
[Robert Lievanos]

A multidisciplinary branding, signage, logo and design studio based in Southern California. Designer of the octagonal machismo typeface Power Slam (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fascination Workshop
[Jason Warriner]

Jason Warriner's foundry located in Oakland, CA. Their dingbat fonts include Moon Phases (2008) and On The Ground (2008). Jason was born in 1974 in Woodland, CA and has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Featherbeat
[Grant Beaudry]

Los Angeles-based designer of the monoline script Silverlake (2015) and of the free handcrafted typeface Refuge (2015). In 2021, he released Vintage Varsity, (a handcrafted rounded chamfered varsity font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fiona Mares

Motion designer in Orange, CA, who created Connect-The-Dots (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flashfonts
[Leslie Cabarga]

Flashfonts is Zavier Leslie Cabarga's Los Angeles-based foundry. Leslie Cabarga is a baby boomer from New Jersey and author of The Lettering and Graphic Design of F.G. Cooper, the Illustrator/Fontographer/Fontlab resource book, Logo Font&Lettering Bible (2004), and Learn Fontlab Fast (2004, with Adam Twardoch). He runs Leslie Cabarga Design in Los Angeles. His lettering prowess is apparent in this drive-in sign for "Betty Boop's Drive-In" (which inspired Nick Curtis to make Drive-Thru NF), FontShop link. MyFonts link.

Leslie Cabarga's typefaces:

  • Raceway (1995), a famous retro script.
  • Casey (2007), a fat-bottomed script at Font Bureau.
  • Streamline. Another fifties diner or Chevrolet grille font.
  • Kobalt and Kobalt Kartoon (at Font Bureau), great for displays.
  • Ojaio, a beautiful art deco font.
  • Central Station, an original display face.
  • The retro script Magneto.
  • Neon Stream (1995, Font Bureau). Connected retro nightclub letters.
  • Peace: an original psychedelic 60s font based on an alphabet copyright 1997 by Wes Wilson, creator of the classic 1960s Fillmore Poster Lettering style; see here.
  • Saber (2002), a mix of uncial, Fraktur, gothic and Exocet.
  • Love, a psychedelic 60s font also based on Wes Wilson's lettering. In Solid, Open and Stoned styles. At Font Bureau, 1997.
  • Esselte's Cabarga Cursiva. Cabarga Cursive was jointly designed in 1982 by Leslie Cabarga and his father Demetrio.
  • Cocoanut, Grassy Knoll, Straight Light, Straight Medium, Rocket (1995), Progressiv, Cymbal Regular, Dotcom Medium, Generik Regular, Graffiti Regular, Angle, Badtyp, Haarlem (2000), Margarete, Primitiv, Progressiv, Rocket, Rocket Gothic, Straight, Bellbottom, Hihat, Baseball. Jo the Webmistress on Cabarga.

Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Florence Fu

Florence Fu is a writer and designer based in the Bay Area, by way of New York. She holds a B.A. in art history and a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. Currently, she is the Editorial Associate at Letterform Archive, where she writes about the collection and supports exhibitions. In 2019, she graduated from the type design program at Type West with an ultra-condensed hairline fashion mag typeface, Ginza. She writes: The typeface is created with the spirit of Japanese avant-garde fashion designers, who manifest creations that are confident, thoughtful, and conceptual. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Florian Mihr

Designer born in Duesseldorf, Germany, but living in Los Angeles. Creator of the free fonts King Georg (2012, blackletter), Cinerama (2012), Stadium1946 (2012), Stadium1956 (2012), SoCal (2012, a graffiti face), Tight Writer (2012, old typewriter font).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontalicious
[Ben Balvanz]

Original fonts by Ben Balvanz from Cedar Rapids, Iowa (b. Cedar Rapids, 1975), who now lives in South California. His original Fontalicious domain ceased in 2005 but was repurchased in 2007 with the help of Font Bros. Some fonts can be downloaded here and here. The list: Topanga (2017), Coney Island (2002), Cheeseburger (2002), Tabletron (2002, LCD font), Senor Pooglins, Plush (2001), Slide, Discotech, Galaxy, Pacfont, Rusty, PinniePoker, Geeves (tall letters--great), Moonpie Cadet, Fidelle, FontTwelve, Mister Easy, Mister Dope, Frosty, Chankenstein, Discotech, VintageVacation, Dazzler, Joinks!, Cyberwhiz, Swinkydad, Sonic Superpowers, Mikey Jax, Klink-o-mite, Caveman, Gloo Gun, Skylab 600, Cyberpop, Cyberjimmy, Smartie Capos, Jenkins, Earwax, Pimpbot 5000, Dreamy, Quinkie, Milkfresh, DateRape (great), SpaceAce, GirlieLeslie, Groovalicious Tweak, Porky's, International Chunkfunk, SuperTrooper, Chachie, Zodiastic, Great Head (dingbats), Chick (sassy!), the Eight Track family, Speedfreek, the Odyssey family, AlphaStep, Alpha Clown, dopenakedfoul, Lounge Bait, SpaceBeach, Jubie, Bean Town, Funkotronic, UndieCrust, and Poppycock, Pornhut, Robokid, Kinkie (Valentine's Day font), BorderMon (dingbat), Technicolor, Tennis (stencil), Moloky, JabbieJunior, Rave Queen, Alpha Niner, Croobie, Wednesday, Populuxe, the nice BoozeBats, Geekbats, Garage Sale, Arcade, Glamocon Retrobats, Fontalicious Thingbats, Good Head, Baby Kruffy, Kruffy, Fine-O-Mite, Disco Inferno, Jokewood, Toggle, Swinger, SurfSafari, OmegaMax, Pogo, Elvis, Trendy University (stencil), Hoedown, Fat, Atomic, Rocket, 12 Good, Moonpie Cadet Good, Dynomite, Superstar DJ (dingbat), Kravitz, Kravitz Thermal, hungrumlaut, Sporto, Sabadoo, Snappy, Chickabiddies (geek dingbats), Mandingo (1999, buncy hand-printed style), Heartbreaker, Smilage, 52 Pickup, Return of the Retrobats (wow!), Wunderland, Omega, Great Head, Air, Blackjack, BlackjackRollin, Borneo, CharlesAtlas, Cheri, CheriLiney (2001, Valentine's Day theme), DeejaySupreme, DigitCube, DigitLoFiShift, DigitLoFi, Digit, DimitriSwank, Dimitri, DiscoInferno, DunebugAlternates45MPH, DunebugAlternates, Dunebug, Dunebug45MPH, Freestyle, Garanimals, Gas, GleeClub, Jenkinsv20, Jenkinsv20Thik, JenkinsKeepinitReal (1998), KravitzExtraThermal, Moderna, MoogSchmoog, Moog, PussycatSassy, PussycatSnickers, Queer, Redensek, Sanka, Schmotto, SchmottoPlotto, Squarodynamic01 through 10 (pixel fonts), Stretch, SupervixenHoneyedOut, Digit, Digit Cube, Supervixen, TheKids (1999), TrendyUniversity, UltraSupervixenHoneyedOut, UltraSupervixen, WeLoveCorey, Manchester (great), Weltron (stencil font), Weltron Power, Mullet, Rolloglide, Planet, Gravity, Alba, BilloDream (2001), Stretch, Pasteris (based on the handwriting of Matthew Pasteris), PornStarAcademy (sports shirt lettering), Mullet, SuperStars (stars), Krupke (2002), Fresh Bionik, Stoney Billy (2001, not free), Hustle (2001, not free), Rustler (2001, Western font, not free).

At T-26: Marshmallow (2001, rounded monoline geometric face), Superfly (2002, a Western font), Thursdoo (2002), Pacfont Good (2002), Thug (2002), Dokyo (2002, a free competitor of Futura Extra Black and Folio Extra Bold), Supreme (2002), Fresh (2002, at Chank's place), Juice (2002), Pinball (2002, not free), RunTron1983 (2002), Pixel Pirate (2002), Odysseus (2002).

Rascal Miniatures, Wonderkid, Smilage Regular, Milk with Peanut Butter and Barnaby Candy machine are 2009 comic book style creations.

Other 2009 fonts include Gringo Enchilada, Brute Strength, Blonk and Sparkle, Cheri Liney, Metroflex, Weltron (techno family), Sanka, Rolloglide (multiline), Pussycat, Poppycock, Pasteris, Moog Schmoog, Moog Synthesizer, Magnum, Krupke, Joinks, Jabbie, Hustle, Hungrumlat, Gravity, Fresh, FineOMite, Dunebug 45mph, Coney Island, Blackjack, Atomic, Air Regular, Shatner, Pixel Pirate, Munkeyshine, Thursdoo, Swinkydad, Surf Safari, Supreme, Stoney Billy, Speed Freaks, Bike Riding Chopper (Tuscan), Popcorn Loaded (ultra fat), Malibu Oceanside, Snafurter (Sinaloa?), Der Weiner Stentzel (stencil), Wordworth Byte, Blingo Diamond and Tiger Roams Jungle (art deco chic).

Fonts from 2014: Blonk, Kangaroo, Giant, Jingles, Rascal, Coopman, Sinafurter (Sinaloa meets Frankfurter), Supergum (bubblegum font), Tiger, Popcorn, Der Weiner Stentzel (rounded stencil), Milk, Plague (scary font), Wonder (popart), Globitron (art deco), Death Squad (brush face), Spring Break, Tigra (stencil),Tigra (stencil), Fantastic, Parker (signage script) and the vector sets Mid Century Patterns, Banners (01, 02, 03, 05), Campus (01, 02, 03, 04: athletic lettering), Chickabiddles, Holiday 03, Jewelry, Lip Service 03, Optical Illusions, Seals, On The Radio, Viva, Hipster, Geometric Patters (+02).

Interview. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Yet another URL. And another one. Many fonts sold since 2007 by Font Bros (see here for the announcement). URL from 2005-2007. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fontasmic
[Sawyer Hume]

Fontasmic is located in Hesperia, CA. It is run by Sawyer Hume (b. 1971, Victorville, CA), the designer of Woodchip (2008, Kafkaesque grunge), IronOn (2008, a masculine octagonal collection), Hondo (2008, a Western billboard obeso-sign typeface) and Hondo Grunge (2008). Machismo (+Titling) are display-size plump typefaces made in 2009---ideal for posters. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

FontBoy
[Bob Aufuldish]

Bob Aufuldish is an Affiliate Associate Professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Currently, he is Design Director of Sputnik CCAC, a student-staffed design office producing work for the College. Bob has a BFA and MFA in graphic design from Kent State University, Ohio. Aufuldish set up Fontboy in 1995 in San Anselmo, CA, together with Kathy Warinner. FontBoy is now called Aufuldish&Warinner. His typefaces:

  • Armature (1997, grungy), Armature Neue (1997-2010, fontBoy) and Armature Neue Sans (2014, fontBoy).
  • New Clear Era (1999, fontBoy).
  • ZeitGuys (1994, Emigre). Very funny dingbats done together with Eric Donelan.
  • Big Cheese (1992, Emigre). Very funny dingbats done together with Eric Donelan.
  • Aufuldish's typefaces at FontBoy not mentioned above: OldMoney (truetype), Baufy (1994), RoarShock (dingbats in the style of Zapf Dingbats), Punctual (a connect-the-dots typeface family), Viscosity (1996, with Kathy Warinner), Whiplash (1994), RoarType One (a "pixel" font where each pixel has been replaced by two alternating characters from the RoarShock dingbats), Panspermia (grunge).

Bio at Emigre. MyFonts site. FontShop link. View Bob Aufuldish's typefaces. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

FontFont

Berlin-based FontShop International, started by Erik Spiekermann, Joan Spiekermann, and Neville Brody in 1989/1990, offers its own line of digital fonts under the FontFont label. The FontFont library contains around 2,000 original fonts. Its designers included Just van Rossum, Erik van Blokland, David Berlow, Max Kisman, Tobias Frere-Jones, Fred Smeijers, Martin Majoor, and many others. FontShop has offices in San Francisco as well. In July 2015, FontShop and FontFont were bought by Monotype.

Designers.

They are focusing on web fonts today. Their initial web font package included DingbestWeb, DroidsWeb, InfoWeb-Bold, InfoWeb-Italic, InfoWeb-Normal, KosmikWeb, MarketWeb, PixelsDream (by Zuzanna Licko), SheriffWeb-Bold, SheriffWeb-Italian, SheriffWeb-Roman, TrademarkerWeb, TypestarWeb-Black, TypestarWeb-Normal.

The free fonts page has InterOffice (two dingbat fonts made in 2001 by Andreas Jung, Markus Hanzer, David Berlow, Fedor Hüneke, Erik van Blokland, Robert Snider, chester, Hans Reichel, Nicole Kapitza, Christoph Kalscheuer, Joachim Müller-Lancé, Paul Neville, Barbara Klunder, György Szönyei, Matthias Thiesen, Norbert Reiners, Joancarles Casasín, Gert Wiescher, Fabrizio Schiavi, Mindaugas Strockis, Theo Nonnen, Alan Greene, Donald Beekman, Martin Wunderlich, Critzler, Stefan Kisters, Dung van Meerbeeck, Ole Søndergaard, Nick Shinn, and Mårten Thavenius), FF Dingbest (by Johannes Erler and Olaf Stein), FF Xcreen, and many Euro symbols to go with their standard fonts.

PDFs of many fonts.

Catalog of FontFont's typefaces [large web page warning]. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fontforge

Not to be confused with the software. Creator of the free font Santa Barbara Streets (2013, OFL) that is based on street signs: The city of Santa Barbara, CA, has a distinctive font on its street signs; the city claims it is called "Mission" but it does not match any font with that name I have found. So I have created this font to match the street signs and have added lower case letters of my own design for fun.. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontmenu.com
[Michel Bujardet]

Michel Bujardet (a Frenchman living in West Hollywood, CA) runs Matchfonts, and started Fontmenu.com in August 2001. Commercial fonts, and free demos in all formats.

A partial list of fonts:

  • Square Text (old English).
  • Block Letters (orthography for kids), Skryptaag (2001, educational).
  • Boulons (letters made from nuts and bolts).
  • Kindergarten (funny typefaces), Learning Handwriting (K2), Learning Cursive Handwriting (Grade 2-4), Japanese Hiragana-Katakana (Year 1).
  • Morse code.
  • Dictionary phonetic notation for pronunciation.
  • The calligraphic fonts Chancellerie Moderne (1998, chancery hand), Oncial, Rodolphe, Willegha.
  • The dingbat fonts Dinosotype, Matched Potato, Nahkt hieroglyphs, SilBooettes, Angelots, Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans.
  • The monospaced fonts Bordofixed, Dactylographe (1997), Normafixed, Oloron fixed width screen font).
  • The mathy fonts Oloron program, Hexalist and Numberslist.
  • The handwriting fonts Charlotte, Louise, Mariette, Milko, Pierre, Quinze, Raoul, and Thibault.
  • The pixel font 8-PinMatrix.
  • The Bauhaus font BabyFace.
  • The Chinese simulation font Chinoiseries.
  • The LED fonts Diode, Cristolikid and Display.
  • The Greek simulation font Grecques.
  • The display fonts Zébrures (striped letters), Venitiennes, Ruban Dis-Moi, Parador, Osselets, Octogone, Metropolitain (art nouveau), Malabars, Halloween Match, Coulures, Chapou Relief, Candy Kane, Calebasse, Bujardet Freres and Big Bacon.
  • The MICR font MICR E13B.
  • The serif typefaces Baguad, Chap Clerk, Parlante, Presse, TSF&Co (art deco; +Heavy).
  • The sans serif typefaces Bordini, Boum-Boum, Halotique (a sans family), Junien, and Normographe.

Alternate URL for his shareware typefaces. MyFonts link for his commercial typefaces. Alternate MyFonts link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fontographer

Font editor first developed at Altsys and later taken over by Macromedia and finally, in 2005, by FontLab. The latest version (5.0, Mac and Windows) was released by FontLab in June 2010 and costs 400 USD. I applaud the fact that it still supports type 1 and in particular, type 1 multiple master format. But it also produces OpenType fonts and TrueType fonts. It is loaded with yummy features.

The original creators included Jim von Ehr, David Spells, James Brasure, Tom Irby, John Ahlquist, Kevin Crowder, Parry Kejriwal, David Fung, and Eon Chang. The pre-FontLab Fontographer was sold by Macromedia, Inc., 600 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Fontographer v4.1 had a list price of $495, but was generally available for under $300. Fontographer used its own format for files, which has the same mathematical basis as Type 1, but could generate .TTF files. A copy of FOG4.1 was recently placed on alt.binaries.fonts. Free copies are floating around on some Russian FTP sites but you'll have to do your own detective work. Description. Technical notes.

In April 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia. John Hudson remarks about this sale: Regarding Fontographer: it is very unlikely indeed that Adobe's purchase of Macromedia will lead to a new version of Fontographer. It is much more likely that the produce will be retired completely, and will simply no longer be available. The history of Fontographer and FontLab has shown very clearly that for a large software company like Macromedia or Adobe a font tool is simply not worth development investment. The potential market is simply too small to interest them. Font tools need to be developed by small companies seeking a niche market, and FontLab has demonstrated that this approach can be very successful. I suggested some years ago that Macromedia should simply give the Fontographer code, including the aborted 5.0 version, to Jim Gallagher. He has spent a good portion of his life nursing this code and providing tech support to Fontographer users, so if there is any future to Fontographer it seems to me that he deserves to guide it and to benefit from it, if possible. Perhaps Adobe might consider this. They have been generously supportive of the makers of FontLab, DTL FontMaster, etc., with their OpenType SDK code, so clearly encourage competition in the font tools business. Giving Fontographer to Jim for a dollar, and letting him do whatever he wants with it -- which might include open sourcing it, I suppose -- seems to me the best thing that could be done with this product. Otherwise, it might as well be withdrawn from the market, because it is never going to be updated by Adobe or any other large software company."

In May 2005, Adobe/Macromedia sold Fontographer to FontLab, where Jim Gallagher (Der Fontmeister) will continue development of the software. In November 2005, Fontographer 4.7 was published--for the first time, it could be used on Mac OS X. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FontPanda
[Nic]

FontPanda (Los Angeles, CA) offers a free font making service via scans of templates. There is a subpage of fonts made by them. This service started in July 2012. The fonts are on the web site for a few days.

Typefaces from 2014: Suzanna, Learn to Spell, Extra Grotesque, Lost and Found, Jolly Beggar, Chicken Scratch, Travis Sans MS, Teenishly Beautiful, White Bear Lake, Supernova, BigHonk Handwriting, Dave The Eagle, Chips & Salsa, Treat Yo Self, Light of the world, Stretchy Pants, Hermes Epoca, Torpedo Empire (old typewriter font), Ripper, Bailey Bowers.

Typefaces from 2013: Happy Pappy, I am Seventeen, Jason Sharpie, Serif Sketch, Asdf, QJae, Kimmun, Everything Rhymes with Orange, Jennilyn's Everyday, Tickets to Elton John, Simply Lin, Black Jack (fat finger font), I Eat Crayons, Wrtty, Sajid, Weaselbee Beans, Hammer, Jimmy Flashcard, Stampede, Spooky Spiders, Scrawl, Lavalamp, Pizza by Alfredo, Marmelade Toast, Morning Coffee, Zack and Sarah, Pinky Promise, Shipwreck, Indigo Unicor (hand-printed), Madman (fat finger font), Soft Script (an elegant über-curly script), Sugarpie, West Coast, Jenny Penny, Ordinary Day, Little Miss Wonderful, No Other Name, Swagmasta, Marivi Handwriting, Black beauty, Circular Quay, Stamping Nico, Loose Typewriter, Minneapolis, Perpetua Evenity, Mockup, Dizzy Does It, Heina's Hurry, Inkyflutterby.

The typefaces from 2012 include: Pen2, Alice Oranges, Daydreamer, Sparkly Lights, Rags to Riches, Lauvik, Lighthouse, Slippery Dip, Chicken Scratch, Straight and Narrow, Christmas Gift, Light at the end, Upcycled Mama, Violety Crumble, Minnie Mousse, The Toadfrog, Enchanted Castle, Chase's Sketch, Bee Burts, Think Thick, Kristen always not so normal, Elmo, Dina's Handwriting, Fall is still like summer, Lemonjuice, I Still Believe, Iced Latte, Snow White, McEnneking, Lara Prints Bold, Lara Prints, Laura's Letters, Casual Perfectionist, Capitol Chase, Jeans Font, Paresh, Skitser Swift, B-McE, Top of the world, Skitser Square, Santa Barbara, Zay, Skitser Cartoon, Skitser Marker, Skitster Fineliner, Charlotte, Yafont, Fancy Nancy, Swan, Beehives are sticky, Little Bird, Ginjah Ninjah, Aye Bay Bay, The Joynt, Afromatic, Allen, Typo (old typewriter), Innocent, DH Hand Scribblies, Crae, Kiki, Distinctly Dan, Jorgieporgiepuddinpie, Megaink, The Hand of Tes, Rithondinmin, Alain Perso, Slim Jim, Wisdom is better, Betsilicious, My Derp Handwriting, Love You Heaps, College RA, Rich's Riting, AaaaaalRock, Joshie, Lo Style, Ishwar, Straight Up Zody, Calli Girl, Josie1, AllieO, FunkyPunky, Mariposa, Nic's Handwriting, Mari's Handwriting, Hanna Handwriting, KSA Font.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontronics

Free Mac fonts by Sigler Design in San Francisco: Gong, Gooch, Assface, Ditch Pudding, Bran Black. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FontShop International (or: FSI)

Established in 1989 in Berlin by Erik Spiekermann, Joan Spiekermann and Neville Brody. Also offices in San Francisco, Australia, Austria and Norway. It has a formidable collection of fonts, better known as the FontFont collection. It is a major source of new type, and organizes a Conference in Berlin each year, called TYPO Berlin. In 2015, FontShop was sold to Monotype.

Fontshop team. Designers. Subpages: FontFeed (font news), FontStruct (free modular fontre), FontBook, Font education.

Catalog of FontFont's typefaces [large web page warning]. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

For Personal Gain
[Matthew Lew]

Graphic designer in San Francisco. His work includes the free monospaced typeface For Personal Gain (2014), which has two sub-styles, For Profit and For Non-Profit. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Form Studio

Form Studio (Los Angeles, CA) created the didone display typeface Metropolitan (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Forrest L. Norvell

Type commentator and analyzer in San Francisco who has written on Hrant Papazian's bouma theory, Futura, web typography, chirography and readability. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Forrest Norvell
[Typomancy]

[More]  ⦿

Forrest Troxell

Graphic designer, artist and surf kook, who studies graphic design at California State University Channel Islands. He was born in San Diego and grew up in Hawaii. Behance link.

Creator of Bajai (2012), a poster typeface inspired by Bali. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FotoStar
[Robert Trogman]

Los Angeles-based company that distributed a 5000+ library of two-inch film fonts for display typefaces, some of which were original, such as Yagi Double (the CNN logo font) and Yagi Link Double. It ceased operations in 1985. Trogman maintains a design studio in Palm Springs, California.

The FotoStar collection includes Blippo (1970), Handel Gothic (by Robert Trogman), Buxom (a beveled 3-d athletic lettering typeface sold, e.g., by Elsner&Flake as Buxom SB, Scangraphic) and Embrionic (an ink-trapped typeface family revived by Claude Pelletier).

Yagi Link Double was revived by Alex Haigh as Miyagi (2008, Thinkdust). Yagi Bold and Yagi Double were revived in 2010 by Gus Thessalos as Retro Mono Wide and Retro Stereo Wide, respectively. Gus Thessalos revived Yagi Link Double as Retro Stereo Thin.

Nick Curtis revived Horse Tank as Feedbag NF (2015), Welling Black as Well Said Black NF (2014) and Angelica as Vauxhall NF (2014).

Claude Pelletier too revived Angelica: see his free font Angelica CP (2011).

In 2015, Harold Lohner revived Roberta, which Trogman cut based on an art nouveau sign in a Belgian restaurant in 1962.

FontShop link.

FotoStar is a small web page made by yours truly that showcases some typefaces in the FotoStar collection taken from their catalog, Film Font Digest FotoStar Graphic Supply.

Images of some of his fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Foundry 73
[Brian Toth]

Graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, class of 2005. Freelance designer in San Francisco who created the free outlined hipster bitmap typeface EightBit (2015, free) and the race car inspired 12-font family Racer (2016), which as a free Medium subfamily, and various overlay, outlined, and stencil styles.

Typefaces from 2017: Piko, Block Head (a layerable squarish typeface family), Old Boy, Falcon SS (sans serif), Falcon SR. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Foundry-X
[Brian Jaramillo]

Foundry-X is a digital type foundry distributing original display type by Brian Jaramillo. Brian is a former journalist who now designs for his own clothing company in Long Beach, California. Other projects include VersusTwin, a collaborative foundry with Brian J. Bonislawsky established in 2004, and Agency 26, a collaboration with George Soto. Typefaces by Jaramillo include Ink Gothic (2004, a slab serif done with with Bonislawsky), JAF Peacock (2007-2010, Just Another Foundry: done with Tim Ahrens), Bipolar (2009, +Decorative, +Poster) and Occulista (2009, versatile inline family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Beltran

Digital artist in Baja California, who created the pixel typefaces Squarebit, 1980, Newsgeek, Toy, VGA Typewriter, That Boy, and Heartbit in 2016. In 2017, he designed the pixel font Awkward. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frank Gemignani

Santa Cruz, CA-based designer (b. 1968) of ASL Hands by Frank (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frank Grießhammer
[Kiosk Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Frank Hainze
[MicroLogic Software]

[More]  ⦿

Franko Rosas

Graphic designer in San Diego and Tijuana, who created the block typefaces Powinaky, Liber and SqL in 2010. Baika (2010) is a thin avant-garde face. On Behance though, he mentions Barcelona as his home base. Finalist in the 17th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival's Poster Competition. Besides some custom typefaces, he also designed experimental typefaces such as Liber13 (high-contrast squarish poster face) and Lisa The Lush. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fred Brady
[Fryda Berd]

Fryda Berd is Fred Brady. Type designer who worked at Adobe, and who created Autologic Kis-Janson. Fred Brady (helped by Jim Wasco) designed Adobe Sans and Adobe Serif, which were originally introduced with Acrobat, to stand in as fall-back fonts for missing typefaces. They came with Adobe Acrobat version 2 (1994). In 1992, Adobe released Myriad, a neutral humanist sans family. The design team consisted of Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly, Fred Brady, and Christopher Slye.

Designer of Quake, a quite useless font showing wiggly characters. See also here. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fred Carriedo

Graphic designer in Modesto, CA. He created the bold grungy typeface Abridge (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fred Machuca

Long Beach, CA-based [T-26] designer of the headline typeface Roppongi (1997).

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

Freehand Profit

Freehand Profit is a Los Angeles based artist who earned his name as a graffiti artist in DC and Northern Virginia. In 2005 he graduated Corcoran College of Art&Design with a BA in Fine Arts. Creator of the squarish typeface Westrider 2057 (2011), which was inspired by classic West Coast graffiti letter styles.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frisk

Californian designer of the grungy sans typeface Fliped (sic) (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Froyo Tam

Froyo Tam is a transmedia artist and curator, working across many disciplines in design, photography, and animation. She runs Y2K Aesthetic Institute together with Evan Collins. Froyo is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Designer of the free techno display typeface Ferrite Core (2019) and Ultra Hi Gloss (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fryda Berd
[Fred Brady]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fuk Studio Labs

Milan and Los Angeles-based studio, aka Fukstudio and Fukstudiola. In 2017, they published Rodeo (2017, an angry angular typeface family), Ultra Boost (unorthodox), Uncaged, Mocha, Prima Donna Script, Antica Roma (handcrafted), Maxfield (a script inspired by Rick Owens), Vittorie, Castello (blackletter font) and Merch (weathered blackletter). Towards the end of 2017, all typographic activity ceased, and the say to have jumped to retail clothing.

Instagram link. Graphicriver link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fumi Omori

Graphic designer in Los Angeles and/or Baltimore (where Fumi is studying at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2014) who made a typographic goldfish poster for TDC59 in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FUSE '98

Typography meeting held from May 27-29, 1998, in San Francisco. A report by Chris Macgregor. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fwis
[Chris Papasadero]

Fwis is a graphic design group in Portland, Cupertino and Brooklyn. One of its art directors is Chris Papasadero. As a sideline, they will design an occasional font. Pylon (2007, art deco) is their first production. No downloads. 2009 fonts, again without downloads: Omnistroke Sans, Omnistroke Square, Eurochair, Paratype and Nuit. Koolhand (2009) is a free experimental typeface designed by Chris Papasadero inspired by some of the architecture of Rem Koolhaas. [Google] [More]  ⦿

G. Alex Gonzalez

Type designer from Los Angeles. His creations include Funny Book Sans (2010, comic book face) and Orange Whip (2005, a multiline comic book face). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

G. Alex Gonzalez
[Sluggo Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

G. R. Bourne
[GeoBo Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

G. William Music Production
[Bill Duncan]

Bill Duncan sells music fonts she made for use with Finale. These include: BDNotes, Brackets, BracketsBold, ChordSuffix, ChordSymbol, EnclosureSans, EnclosureSerif, EngraverTime (not for sale), Hairpins, Salzedo, Loops&Squiggles, Rehearsal, RehearsalSans, RehearsalDbl, RehearsalSansDbl, Rolls, RollsBig, TempoTime, TempoTimeSans. Now located in Seattle, GWMP was founded in 1984 by Bill Duncan as a commercial music production company. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabe Canchola

San Francisco-based designer of the rounded sans typefaces Round (2019), Round Color (2019) and Faint (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabe Ferreira

Cypress, CA-based artist Gabe Ferreira (was, but no longfer is Crate Art Design in Long Beach, CA) designed the wedge serif typeface Thera Standard (2010), the slab serif typeface Crate (2010), and the octagonal techno typeface Time Never Quits Turning (2012).

Facebook page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabe Silverstein

Gabe Silverstein is a product designer from Los Angeles. Designer of Foxtale (2022), which was inspired by an ancient Hebraic scriptural style, boasting flared seraphs. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gabee Carlile

Creator of Gabee The Gomba (2013, a free fat finger typeface). Born in Los Angeles in 1997. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriela DiSarli

Long Beach, CA-based illustrator. Designer of a textured colored decorative typeface called Thai (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gaby Puerto

San Francisco-based designer of the inline typeface Parkmerced (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

GagaFonts (or: Gaga Design)
[Jens Gehlhaar]

Jens Gehlhaar is a filmmmaker and type designer. He has directed commercials for Nissan, Apple, Emirates Airlines and Microsoft. As a creative director, Gehlhaar has worked on a broad range of projects for Coca-Cola, MTV, EPSN, Volkswagen and more. His foundry, Gaga Design (or GagaFonts) is/was based in Bad Ems, Germany. Gehlhaar also hangs his pyjamas in California.

At GagaFonts he released the JensHand family (1995), Amoebia and AmoebiaRain (1993, organic family), Cornwall (1993, sans), Blindfish (1992), Capricorn (1994, free at Die Gestalten), Copycat (1994), GagaSingles (Amati, Lettuce and Somnolence, 1993), RemGothic, MoveYourHead, SophiesDream, Westpark and Gagamond (1993). All are available through DsgnHaus and Apply Design. Many aree also available via Radar Design at Faces.

In 2019, FontFont released Gehlhaar's FF Neuwelt in 33 styles. He writes: FF Neuwelt is open, inviting, highly legible, and strikingly handsome. Combining the straightforward clarity of a geometric sans with a welcoming warmth, FF Neuwelt's eight display and text weights, vast range of alternates and extended character set, make for a family with few limitations. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gail Conwell
[Bright Ideas Magazine]

[More]  ⦿

Ganesha Balunsat

Freelance designer in Berlin who graduated from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Creator of the didone typeface Evoque (2014). In 2012, she created Nightclub Wayfinding Icons.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gareth Finucane

Designer at FontStruct, aka Garphynk, located in San Francisco. He created afternoon (condensed pixel face), Blocparty (constructivist poster style), Bloc Party Outline, foldz (dot matrix), tuesday, xtrude (3d shadow face). All fonts made in 2008. In 2011, he added Arrowback, and in 2012 Duffica (counterless). Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Garret Verstegen

Los Angeles-based designer of the geometric typeface Zev (2013) and the pixel typeface Terrage (2014).

In 2014, he made the grungy typeface Rekaptcha.

Aka Terrage. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gary Hustwit

San Diego-based designer at the Exploding Font Company (San Diego) of Head Honchettes, Oskar and Nicotine. At Monotype, he published the dingbat typeface Head Honchos. At T-26, he contributed Superior and Superior Smudged (1996). In the 1990s, he also designed the free grunge font Gutter: I designed this ugly grunge font for the cover of a noir novel by Peter Plate called "One Foot Off the Gutter". I took Franklin Gothic, splattered it with whiteout, xeroxed it a ton to degrade it further, and rescanned it.

Klingspor link. FontShop link.

Hustwit is best known for Helvetica, a documentary film about Helvetica and the influence of type in our lives, by Gary Hustwit, released in 2007. From the web site: Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type. Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day. The film was shot in high-definition on location in the United States, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France and Belgium. [...] Interviewees in Helvetica include some of the most illustrious and innovative names in the design world, including Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Experimental Jetset, Michael C. Place, Norm, APFEL, Pierre Miedinger, Bruno Steinert, Otmar Hoefer, Rick Poynor, Lars Müller, and many more. Screened in Montreal on May 5, 2007, at Concordia University, the reaction was unanimously positive. The editing, pace, music and visual content are just perfect. The humour of Hustwit shines through when he pits the rationalists (pro-Helvetica people) against the emotionalists (the grunge crowd). The interviews with Massimo Vignelli (very funny), Wim Crouwel, Erik Spiekermann (about Helvetica: "bad taste is everywhewre"), Paula Scher (she said that Helvetica was used by the war corporations in Vietnam and is the cause of the Iraq war) and Michael Bierut are very entertaining. Maybe on purpose, maybe not, Hustwit used the Germans as a comical counterweight. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gaston Yagmourian

Gaston Yagmourian (b. Argentina) is an independent design director as well as an MFA instructor at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. Wonderful artsy fonts designed by Yagmourian include Daliesque, KikinCaps, KikinLow, Notgarmon, Surreal, U27fog, U26fog, and Slantalic. Some used to be shareware, some payware. In any case, Gaston has withdrawn from the font business, and that's it. Sad for such a talented person! Ooops---he came back via Behance in 2011, and showed us the custom typeface San Diego Zoo (2011), which was done with Chiharu Tanaka. In 2012, he published Rantifusa Bold (wood type style).

Link to Etsy shop. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Genevieve Holtmeyer

During her studies, San Francisco-based Genevieve Holtmeyer created the vintage handcrafted typeface Beguile (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gennady V. Osypenko

Ukrainian art director in San Mateo, CA, b. 1983. Graduate of International Solomon University in 2004. Designer of the beautiful blackletter typeface Betali (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Geo Ben

Los Angeles-based creator of the very cleverly and beautifully executed futuristic uncial typeface (if you can picture such a beast!) Saoirse Smalls (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

GeoBo Fonts
[G. R. Bourne]

GeoBo Fonts is a San Diego-based foundry, established in 2004 by G.R. Bourne. Their typefaces can be bought at MyFonts: Daisy (2004, a bouncy display face), Gothika, Scimitar, Raven, Nifty, RomanSanSer (2004, designed to have features of both University and Times-Roman), BlackThorne. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Geoff Alleger

Geoff Alleger lives near San Francisco, and was born in 1981. At Devian Tart, he designed a wonderful (but not downloadable) font, Imagination. [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Valeriano

Los Angeles-based designer of the display sans typeface Breathe (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Williams

George Williams's site (now defunct) site was a discovery! George Williams (b. 1959) wrote spline-generating code and then went on to produce several fonts with his software between 1987 and 1998:

  • Art nouveau style: Carmen, Ambrosia (1989), Fantaisie Artistique, Baldur, Monopol, Parisian, Peignot, Bocklin, Edda.
  • Lombardic: Lombardic.
  • Victorian: Caprice, Ringlet.
  • Uncial: Uncial Animals, Roman Uncial Modern.
  • Ornamental caps: Versal, Decorative, Square Caps, Extravagant Capitals, Floral Caps, Morris, Andrade.
  • Display typefaces: Crystal, Flash, Cupola, Santa Barbara Streets (2013-2014; after the street signs in Santa Barbara, CA).
  • Blackletter: Rotunda (1998), Bastarda, Textura Modern, Fractur (a remake of Wittenbach).
  • Art deco: Piccadilly, Mirage (1999, prismatic).
  • Calligraphic: Humanistic.
  • Text: Caslon.
  • Slab: Monospace.
  • Sans: Caliban.
  • Bamboo Gothic (2007).
  • TIS620-2529 (a Thai font).

George Williams writes: I have been slowly working to provide free unicode postscript fonts for the three major groupings of styles used by European (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic anyway) type designs: serif, sans-serif and typewriter (or Times, Helvetica and Courier). Monospace is my approximation to Courier. Close examination will reveal that it is a bad copy of courier. Caslon Roman (1992-2001) is a serif font (designed by William Caslon in 1734), it's not a bad copy of Times, it's a bad copy of something else. Caliban is a bad copy of Helvetica. If Microsoft can call their version of Helvetica Arial, then Caliban seems appropriate for mine. Yet another URL.

George Williams is best known as the inventor and creator of FontForge, the biggest and best free font editor today. It made him the darling of the Open Software community. Interview with OSP.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Geovani Arevalo

Graphic design student in Los Angles in 2015. While interning, also in 2015, he created a custom kitchen tile font for Playboy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gerado Arechiga

Whittier, CA-based designer of Jeep (2012, a blackboard bold face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giannabella Sacco

Italian-Venezuelan designer who grew up in both countries, graduated from The American School of Milan (ASM) in Milan (2009), and currently enrolled in the BFA program at Otis College of Art and Design.

With James Kenneally, she designed the free fun informal typeface Reacoo (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gilbert Garcia

Gilbert Garcia graduated in 2012 from the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Creator of Tova Hei (2012, an open typeface typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gino Belassen

Los Angeles-based designer of the free children's font Mathieu (20155). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gino Bellasen

Los Angeles-based graphic and type designer (b. 1994, Scottsdale, AZ) who studied at Chapman University. He designed the children's script typeface Mathieu (2016). Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Giovanna Ghio

San Francisco-based web and graphic designer. Creator of the handwriting typeface NeonGigi-Medium (2005). Digital type student at City College of San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giulia Mucciarelli

Mountain View, CA-based designer of the monoline marker pen font Leo & Penny (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Glenda de Guzman

Graduate in 1992 from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a BS in Printing. While a co-op student for Monotype Typography in California, she hinted fonts. She has also carried out research at Microsoft with Robert Norton. She joined Font Bureau in 1994, but moved a few years later to Southern California.

  • Designer at Font Bureau of Bradley Initials (1994, after spectacular art deco capitals originally designed by William H. Bradley---see the 1934 ATF catalog, where it is called Bradley Ultra Modern Initials).
  • She also designed Math1-Bold, Math1, Math1Mono-Bold, Math1Mono, Math2-Bold, Math2, Math2Mono-Bold, Math2Mono, Math3, Math3Bold, Math3Mono-Bold, Math3Mono, Math4-Bold, Math4, Math4Mono-Bold, Math4Mono, Math5, Math5Bold, Math5Mono, Math5MonoBold for Wolfram's Mathematica package in 1996 (truetype versions here or here or here).
FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Glenn Pajarito

Born in Seattle, raised in San Diego, and working in NYC, Glenn Pajarito currently is Senior Art Director at Saatchi & Saatchi X. Creator of a corporate hand-printed typeface family for Wendy's called Wendy's Breakfast (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Glenn Parsons
[Astrolux]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Global Type

Report by John Berry in Creative Pro about a type event he organized on August 10 2000 in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gloria Kondrup
[Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography]

[More]  ⦿

Glyfyx
[James Beall]

Creative studio in San Francisco run by James Beall. Creator of the pixelish typeface family Bitblox (2013) which includes styles such as Regular, Embiggened, Stackable, Outline, Dimensional, Monospaced, Blocked and Dingbats. Bitblox was created for Glyfyx, Inc. by James Beall and PSY/OPS Type Foundry.

PSY OPS link. Bitblox link. [Google] [MyFonts] [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 (retro futuristic), 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.

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. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gold Tooth Graphics
[Tim Middleton]

Sacramento, CA-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of these typefaces in 2021: Forge (a rough typeface that was crafted by hand), Cali Style (script), Recess, Orange County, Long Beach (vintage caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Golden Doodle Fonts
[Sadie Taylor]

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the simplified rounded sans typeface Golden Quips (2018), and the script typefaces Golden Memory (2018) and Golden Grace (2018: monoline). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grace Lee

Grace Lee (Pasadena, CA) created the Pole Dancing all-caps typeface in Yee Chan's class at Art Center College of Design in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Graffiti Fonts (or: Highground Industries, or: Highground Graffiti Fonts, or: Fulltime Artists)
[Matthew Napolitano]

Matt Napolitano (b. 1977) runs Highground Industries (ex-Highground Graffiti Fonts, ex: Fulltime Artists) in Milpitas and/or San Jose, CA. The company also goes by the name Graffiti Fonts and is known as Rase One Full Time Artists over on Dafont.

Commercial graffiti fonts: first, there is a group of such fonts by Matt Napolitano, who runs the site (Dim Basic, Wild Style, Pilot Rase, RaseOne Original, RaseOne Outline, Human Rase, New Digital). There are free contributions by Ray Larabie (Funboy, Bomr, Degrassi, Graffiti Treat, Hawkeye, Yytrium), and Johan Waldenström (Writers, Writers2, writers3, Writers Bold, Writers Condensed, Homeboy, 08Underground, 5Cent, B-Boy, Subway).

Fonts from 2019: Rase Nicolous.

Fonts from 2018: Descent, Rase Grimm.

Fonts from 2017: San Jose (graffiti font), Strokes (dry brush style).

Fonts from 2014: Wild Style (graffiti).

Fonts from 2013: RapScript (graffiti), Olde Crilt (blackletter).

Fonts from 2012: Rase GPL (squarish, free at OFL).

Fonts from 2011: Gang Bang (2011, graffiti tag style), Scrawl (graffiti style).

Fonts from 2010: Stencil Font, Wild Style (tattoo or metal band font), New English (blackletter), Mad Props (brush), Graffick (futuristic), Olde Gangsta (blackletter), Back Spin, Ruckus, Pre Cursive (2007: lined school font; free at Open Font Library), Caption (brush), CaliCholo (brushy wall writing by LA gangs), Skin Art (an all caps tattoo family), Ballers (calligraphic brushy script).

Fonts from before 2010: Standard Cap (2007, brush face), Hardway (2005, graffiti), Burner (2006), Scraper (2007, caps only paintbrush face), Fresh Paint (2006, like Scraper), Street Artist (2008, tag font for graffiti), Rase Downe (2006, graffiti face), Tough Guy (2001, mechanical family; +Stencil College), Dafunk, Fatcap, Pilot Rase, Califas (2006), Califas Chisel (2013), Scrawler (2006), Wild Style (2006), Rase Tribals (2006), Uni Wide (2006, graffiti font), Rase One (2004), Magik Marker (2006), Paint Cans (2003), Rase Basic (2003), Same Gang (2004).

Klingspor link. OFL link. Graffiti Fonts link. Full Time Artists link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Graham Bradley
[Roxaboxen]

[More]  ⦿

Graham Hicks

Graham Hicks Product Designer at Slack in San Francisco, and maker of Emoji Finder. Originally from Connecticut, Graham studied Industrial Design at Carnegie Mellon before spending almost two decades working as a designer in California. For the Type West program, he designed the chunky typeface Clinker (2019), and wrote: Clinker is a chunky display typeface built from thick overlapping strokes. Its misaligned construction leaves gaps at the corners, creating an unusual texture while still remaining readable. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Graham Hicks

San Francisco-based designer at Testpilotcollective (TPC) of the squarish font family Command Module (2002), and the dot matrix font Control Module. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Graham J Design
[Graham Jeong]

San Francisco-based designer of the handcrafted typeface G-Money (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Graham Jeong
[Graham J Design]

[More]  ⦿

Graham Phisher

Los Angeles, CA-based digital artist, who, I am sure, is a Tom Waitz admirer. Designer of the Sleezy Motel font (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grain Edit

Blog related to a bookseller in Oakland, CA. They state: Grain Edit is a blog that covers contemporary graphic design and illustration as well as design from the from the golden era of advertising (1950s-1970s). Besides found tidbits of news, interviews and events we will be posting obscure kids books, annuals, type catalogues, corporate manuals, and designer monographs from our shelves. Type subpage. Archives. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grant Beaudry
[Featherbeat]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

GraphicsFamily

Los Angeles-based designer of the hand-crafted typeface Escapar (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Greek House of Fonts
[Sebastian Riessen]

Sebastian Riessen is the San Diego-based creator of the rounded fat typeface Greek House Fat (2006-2009, caps only). Dafont link. Free fonts: Greek House Basic, Krakt and Symbolized. Pay fonts: Greek Curlz, Greek Collegiate, Greek Ole English, Greek Script, Greekhouse 70s, Greek Applique, Applique Outlined, Greek Ancient, Greekhouse Heavy, Greek Junior High, Collegiate Outline, Wicked Olde English, English Skript, Greek HouseSymbolized (2012), Greek Fathouse, Greek Marker Bold, Greek Freight Tag, Greekhouse Scribbled, Greekhouse Studz, Greekhouse Stitched.

Fontspace link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Greg D. Mathews

CleanIcons is a 5-dollar set of icons in both graphic and font formats. It was designed in 2012 by Greg D. Mathews, a software engineering student at San Jose Stae University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Greg Lindy
[Lux Typographics (was: Intersection Studio)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Greg Meronek
[Gregoryfonts]

[More]  ⦿

Greg Thompson

Born in Nebraska, 1958, and resident of Mount Dora, FL. He graduated in 1985 from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California. In 1989 he began using Fontographer to make PostScript versions of existing typefaces for Chicago area design firms. At the invitation of Roger Black and David Berlow he became the first independent designer to contribute to the Font Bureau library. After Font Bureau, he joined Type Network.

Greg Thompson designed these typefaces:

  • Bodega Sans and Bodega Serif (1990-1992), originally released at Font Bureau. These are formal families, wearing a tuxedo for an art deco reception. Allan Haley's review of Bodega. Seee also Castcraft's OPTI Jake.
  • Agenda (1993-2000, Font Bureau). A 54-style humanist sans family influenced by Edward Johnston's Underground (1916). Bluty (2000) seems to be a copy of Agenda. Agenda was remastered in 2022 as Agenda One at Type Network.
  • Broadcare (2020). A 25-style expandsion and exploration of Morris Fuller Benton's art deco classic, Broadway.
  • FB Century Bold Condensed (1992). After the 1906 design at ATF by Morris Fuller Benton.
  • Clicker (1992-2005, Font Bureau). This soft octagonal typeface was drawn in 1992 for TV Guide and has since been used by CSI, Pepsi One, and Quicksilver. In 2005, Thompson has expanded the design, initially inspired by machine-readable type, to 44 new styles including italics and small caps. Type Network offers 30 styles of this soft techno design.
  • Commerce (1991-1992, Font Bureau). With Rick Valicenti.
  • Ooga Booga (1994). With Rick Valicenti at Thirst Type.

FontShop link. View Greg Thompson's typefaces. Article about Greg Thompson at Type Network. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gregory Madden

Graphic designer in Lompoc, CA, who made the ornamental caps typeface ABC (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gregory W. Jacobson
[Dead Image Design]

[More]  ⦿

Gregoryfonts
[Greg Meronek]

Californian Greg Meronek's creations: the freeware fonts Roller Coaster, Cutted, PissOffTheProfessor, Radioactive Roman, and Woodring Bold. Also, some fonts by Jason Fasi: Night Sky, The Floopi Family and Hozenozzle Thin. Greg also made Cyn Regular, Charcoal First (1997), Cetus, Again and Again, A La Carte (by Gavin Kalinthia?), Gregorio, Greg Sans, Jasona Davina, Mondo Techno, Moron, Mopey Lady, Mashnote, OoLaLa, PooPoo, Peoni, Oldendays, OldDogsNewTricks Caps. Find also Naz Grunge, Roller Coaster, and Woodring Bold. His commercial fonts include the nice artsy Bluff, Bubba Enbloque (Garagefonts), Greg Sans, Gregorio, Harumph, HOZENOZZLE, HOZENOZZLE New, Hozenozzle Thin, Jasona Davina, Mashnote, Mondo Techno, Mopey LADY, Moron, Old Dog New Tricks Caps, Oldendays, Oldendays 2, Ooo la la, Pensmooth, Peon, Piss Off The Professor, PooPoo, Ugly Face, and Woodring Bold.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guea-Yea Lian

Glendale, CA-based graduate of the Art Center College of Design, who created an unnamed slab serif typeface in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guilhem Greco
[Herofonts (was: Hypefonts)]

[More]  ⦿

Guiselle Mena

New Auberry, CA-based creator of Bellisima (2013), a slightly grungy poster font in the style of Bernhard Bold. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gunnar Swanson

Graphic designer of a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. Based in Ventura, CA. He also seems to be the designer of ACMc, a pixel version of Clarendon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gustav Holtz

Graphic designer in Minneapolis, MN, and San Francisco, CA, who made the custom typeface UV Vodka (2012, 3d). At Dribble, he showcased Messing With Type (2012, a yet unnamed cursive typeface).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gustave F. Schroeder

Punchcutter, b. 1861 (Berlin), who made many typefaces. He worked at the Central Type Foundry and then ATF in the late 1800s, and was living in St. Louis, MO, in 1891 and in Mill Valley, CA in 1892. The Inland Printer announced in 1895 that Schroeder had joined the Pacific States Type Foundry in San Francisco. His typefaces straddle the Victorian, arts and crafts and art nouveau eras.

His typefaces include:

  • Victorian style typefaces at Central Type foundry, done early in his career: Apollo (1888), Atlanta (1885, based on a design of Andreas V. Haight), Harper (1882, curly), Hogarth (1883), Jeffderson (1890), Jupiter (1888), Lafayette (1885), Morning Glory (1884), Scribner (1883), Victoria (1886, with Nicholas J. Werner), Victoria Italic (1891), Washington (1886). Apollo was revived by Nick Curtis in 2014 as Gloriosus NF.
  • At Marder, Luse and Co: French Old Style Extended.
  • At Pacific States: Aldus Italic (before 1891), Sierra (before 1897).
  • Arts and crafts typefaces at Central Type Foundry: Eccentric (1881, available in digital form at Monotype (Agfa), Solotype, Jeff Levine (2020: called Oddly Nouveau JNL), and Adobe. There is also a free version, Eccentrical, from an unknown designer.
  • Art nouveau typefaces done at Central Type Foundry: Art Gothic (1885), Multiform No. 1 through No. 4 (1892).
  • Othello (1886, Central Type Foundry). A black condensed rounded typeface that became very successful thanks to its revival (copy?) by Morris Fuller Benton. Digital versions include Bathysphere (2013, by Seymour Caprice) and Nick Curtis's Iago NF (2011).
  • Geometric Condensed (1882, Central Type Foundry, with W.W. Jackson). Revived in 2014 under the same name by Robert Donona.
  • For Barnhart Bros and Spindler: Era (1891) and Era Condensed No. 5 (1891). These typefaces were done with Nicholas J. Werner. Pastel was originally called Era.
  • For ATF: Empire Initials (ca. 1898), McCullagh No. 2 (1897, a remarkable art deco typeface twenty years ahead of its time). Patent application for McCullagh.
  • Geometric (+Italic, Condensed, Antique). Done in 1881 at Central Type Foundry. The Condensed and Antique are from 1883. For a digital version, see HWT Geometric (2013) by Hamilton Wood Type / James Grieshaber.
  • DeVinne (1890-1896, Central Type Foundry). This design was sold to Stephenson Blake. Digital versions available at Bitstream and Wooden Type Fonts. Bitstream writes about its version: This revival of the Bruce Foundry's No. 11 is typical of the nineteenth century types derived from the work of Didot and Bodoni; the typeface remains popular with lawyers and government printers. In fact, Theodore Low De Vinne opposed this kind of design as hard to print and read; he had Century designed to replace it.
  • Other typefaces at Central Type Foundry: Cushing Old Style (1890), Erebus (1889), Hades (1889), Johnston Gothic (1892, with Nicholas J. Werner), Laclede (1897), Novelty Script (ca. 1891), Old Style Bold (1886), Old Style Script (1887), Quaint Roman (1890 or 1895), Royal Script (1887), Typewriter (1884), University (1889). Mac McGrew on Royal Script: Royal Script originated with the Central Type Foundry branch of ATF in St. Louis in 1893. It is much like the later Typo Script, but wider. In spite of that similarity, it appeared in ATF specimen books as late as 1968. In the 24- and 30-point sizes there are normal and small versions of lowercase, caps being the same. Early specimens designated these large and small sizes as No.1 and No.2 respectively, later specimens as No. 551 and No. 552. Hansen's Newton Script is the same design.
  • The angled serif font family Romana (1892). Digital versions by Linotype, Elsner & Flake (called EF Romana) and Bitstream. Bitstream puts this didone design in the proper context: The French interest in the revival of suitably edited Oldstyle romans as an alternative to a world of Modern typefaces started in 1846 when Louis Perrin cut the Lyons capitals. About 1860, as Phemister was cutting the Miller & Richard Old Style in Edinburgh, Theophile Beaudoire turned the idea of the Lyons capitals into a complete Oldstyle typeface, with similar overwhelming success; it was generally known as Elzevir in France and Roemisch, Romanisch, Romaans or Romana in Germany, Holland and Switzerland. In 1892, Gustav Schroeder, at the Central Division of ATF, expanded the series, adding a boldface under the name DeVinne. It was promptly copied, initially in Europe by Ludwig & Mayer, and spread rapidly throughout the US and Europe, becoming the best known member of the series. ATF made popular an ornamental form under the name De Vinne Ornamental.
  • Patent applications: unnamed face for BBS (1891), another unnamed face (1893), an unnamed art nouveau face and another unnamed serif face (1893, for VJA Rey).

FontShop link. Google patent link.

Typefaces by him at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Guy Green

San Diego-based designer of Rarity Font (2012), a medium-bold sans typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guy Noren

Guy Noren (Berkeley, CA) is a photographer and digital artist. Behance link. He created the hairline sans Gleam (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gyorgy Szabo

Los Angeles-based designer of Maze Technology (2003, octagonal). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gyum Kevin Heo

Los Angeles-based graduate of the Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Graphic Design. Klavika and Meta inspired Gyum Kevin Heo in the design of Kevin Sans (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

H2D2
[Markus Remscheid]

Graphic and web design company in Frankfurt. Fonts to their credit: LT Mhai Thaipe (1997, Thai simulation script by Markus Remscheid, Linotype), LT Russisch Brot (1997, Linotype, a grunge typeface by Helmut Ness and Markus Remscheid), H2D2 Flame (OCR-A face, commercial), H2D2 Pochi (commercial headline face), H2D2 Lefthand (2006, children's handwriting, free). Special designs include a stencil font based on the license plates in Tobago, Alevita (based on Helvetica), H2D2TEXT-8PT (pixel face), Bizz Screen 10pt (pixel face), Audioplast (for a music label by that name), Norma (a futuristic typeface for V2). Offices in Frankfurt and San Francisco. I suspect that the type designer is Markus Remscheid. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Habib Khoury
[AvanType]

[More]  ⦿

Habib Placencia Adissi

Habib is a graphic designer based in San Francisco specializing in typography and identity systems. Graduate of TypeWest, class of 2021. His typefaces:

  • Monasterio (2021): his wedge serif graduation typeface at Type West. Monasterio is a display type family inspired by the sculptural works of Luiz Ortiz Monasterio and informed by Edward Catich's Origin of the Serif.
  • Genoa (2022). Genoa is a digital revival of a roman type indicative of the French Renaissance, printed by Christophe Plantin during the 16th century. This revival was an excercise in form and an excursion into an interpretation of historic forms for a contemporary context. Genoa was created during the first term of the Letterform Archive's Type West program.
  • Nayarit (2020). Nayarit is a condensed typeface inspired by analog typography seen throughout Mexico City's residential streets. Nayarit was designed with the vernacular in mind alongside a hint of nostalgia.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Hagop Moumdjian

Graphic designer in Los Angeles, CA, who created the hipster typeface Ex Machina (2015), which is described as cryptic, mechanical and surreal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hai Trinh

San Diego, CA-based creator of a decorative caps typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hanisha Amin

While studying graphic design at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Hanisha Amin (b. UK), who was raised in Arkansas, created an unnamed techno typeface in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hannah Hinson

Fresno, CA-based designer of Paperclip (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hannah Kelly

American designer (I presume) of the formal art deco typeface Catsby (sic) (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hannah Steinberg

Hannah is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati's College of Design (Bachelor of Science in Design). She grew up in Cincinnati and currently lives in San Francisco.

In 2012, she created the multined typeface simply called Illumination.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hans Bacher

German animation artist who lives in Southern California where he works for Disney Feature Animation. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His typefaces were mostly made at Agfa-Monotype:

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

Harold Berliner

Printer, and one of the last (metal) typefounders in the USA. Located at P.O. Box 6, Nevada City, CA 95959. Some of his typefaces are listed here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harris Design
[James M. Harris]

James M. Harris' Colorado Springs, CO-based foundry sells five fonts designed by himself, SignPix (1, 2, 3, 4), Earth Font One (1993), PictographOne (1996), and Strasbourg (blackletter) through Fonthaus and Agfa/Monotype. It specializes in tourist and road signs. Harris Design will turn your logo into a (TTF or type 1) font. List of fonts.

Jim Harris made the old shareware fonts Bellerose (1992, an avant-garde face: poster by Benbouzid Fatim-Zohra), Bellerose Pro (various weights are done in 2016), Mazama, Premium Thin, RhyoliteVertical (1990) and Andesite (1991) which can be found on many archives. He also made Harris Modern Extended.

Old home page. Creative Market link. Dafont link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hart Armstrong

Art director in Los Angeles. Creator of Black Light Type (2012), a colorful alphabet poster. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hayden De Jong

Moreno Valley, CA-based designer of Slug Alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

HazGear Safety Font

"HazGear SafetyFont is a superb collection of over 100 Protective Gear symbols in a TrueType font. It's easy to use, provides superior resolution and detail, and maximum compatibility with all major computer applications, including word processing, spreadsheet, drawing, and database programs." One safety font for 100 USD, five for 200USD. From Molecular Arts Corporation in Anaheim, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heather-Lynn Aquino

Californian illustrator who drew Alphabeast (2010), a hairy monster alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hebrew Type
[Hillel Smith]

Informative web site on the history of Hebrew, mainly concerned with typography and bookmaking. It is run by Hillel Smth, a graphic designer and illustrator based in Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hector Santos
[Sushi Dog Graphics]

[More]  ⦿

Hector Santos
[Living Scripts of the Philippines]

[More]  ⦿

Hector Santos
[Tagalog Script]

[More]  ⦿

Henry Warwick

New Jersey native who lives in San Francisco. He states: "Over the years I've had the good fortune to be very involved with photolettering and type design. In the 1980's I set headlines, letter by letter by letter, on a VGC Typositor at Phil's Photolettering in Washington DC. The desktop computer quickly destroyed that entire industry, and that is how I became involved with computer graphics. In the early 1990s, I designed type for FontBank, and consulted for several other type companies, including Microsoft and Galoob Toys. It's nearly impossible to make a living in type design these days, as the industry was basically done in by a combination of legal precedents and rampant piracy. Having worked on "conventional" / Wester / Roman fonts for so long, I've acquired a preference for unusual or obscure fonts or alphabets. I am always available for type design work or consulting." His designs (not downloadable) include Coptic Chelt, Fruthrak Sans, Ojibway Futurae, Cyrillic-Helv-Flash-8pt, KTR-katakana10, Celestia, Daggers, Enochian Times and Nugsoth. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Herbert Bayer

Austrian type designer and artist, 1900-1985. A very inflential artist, Bayer joined the Bauhaus in Weimar as a student in 1921, and was a professor ("young master" they called those ex-students who became professors) there from 1925-1928. Bayer was head of the workshop of Graphic Design and Printing at the Bauhaus school of architecture and art in Dessau. He fled Nazi Germany in 1938, and worked in New York until 1946 for such clients as Dorland International, Thompson, Wanamaker's, and developing exhibitions and general graphic design for large corporations. In 1946 he moved to Aspen, Colorado and continued as consultant to firms such as Container Corporation of America. He died in Montecito, near Santa Barbara, CA, in 1985. His typefaces include Universalschrift or Universal Alphabet (1925-1930) and Bayer-Type (for Berthold, 1930-1936). See also this image. He is best known for his unicase proposal (as in Universalschrift).

Dedicated web site. FontShop link. Picture. Klingspor link.

Revivals of his work:

  • At P22: P22 Bayer Fonetik (1997, Michael Want), P22 Bayer Shadow, P22 Bayer Universal.
  • By Jonathan Hill: WerkHaus (2008) is a 5-style revival.
  • Victory Type published Bayer Modern in 2009, and Bayer Sans a decade earlier.
  • Nick Curtis: Debonair Inline NF (2008) expands Herbert Bayer's 1931 experimental, all-lowercase "universal modern face," Architype Bayer-Type, by adding an uppercase and adding an architectural inline treatment.
  • Architype Bayer by The Foundry.
  • Arthaus (2015, Johgn Moore).
  • Paulo Heitlinger did Sturmblund (2008) and Bayer Condensed (2008).
  • Bauhouse Universal (2017, Stephen Bau.
  • Universal Regular (2016, Luca Taddeo).
  • Bayer Next (2014, Sascha Lobe).
  • Struktur (2012, Shiva Nallaperumal).
  • New Universal Tall (2011, Henry La Voo).
  • Bauhaus 93 (URW++).
  • K-haus 105, K-haus 205 (2019). Two typeface families by Adrian Talbot of Talbot Type to celebrate 100 years of Bauhaus. The style is influenced by Herbert Bayer's universal alphabet.

A list of commercial typefaces based on Herbert Bayer's work. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Herbert F. Van Brink
[Character]

[More]  ⦿

Hernando G. Villa

Mexican-American artist, based in Los Angeles. He began his career illustrating books around 1910. Later achieved fame as a poster designer, creating the Chief and other posters for the Santa Fe Railroad in the 1930s. His lettering on a 1923 ad for Piera Nova was the inspiration for Raconteur NF (2008, Nick Curtis). It is an über-stylish art deco typeface ideally suited for the lounge of Elliot Spitzer's Emperor's Club. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Herofonts (was: Hypefonts)
[Guilhem Greco]

Herofonts (was: Hypefonts) offers commercial fonts with free demos. This company in San Francisco was set up in 2013 by Guilhem Greco (France). The typefaces from 2013 include Strong Glasgow (arts and crafts typeface), Deadmobil (a grungy version of the Mobil logo font), Midnight Moon, Google Spies, Tarantino (grungy wood type), Bronx Bystreets (grunge), Hidden Archives, Stallions, Hidden Archives (grunge), Broken Detroit (grunge), Motor (2013, a lovely scratchy grunge face), New Motor (2013), Twisted Stallions (scratchy typeface), Stallions, Dust Overhaul and Grunge Overlords.

Typefaces from 2014: Primetime, Polar Vortex (grungy, 3d, beveled), Crushed, Flexsteel (techno), Diamond Dust (an eroded script), Delicacy, Primetime (sans).

Typefaces from 2015: Above (thin sans), Quartzo, Stargazer, Neoteric (geometric sans).

Typefaces from 2017: Meteora (a slab serif originally coded in Metafont), Blackthorns (squarish sans), Crystal Symphony (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2018: Mirfak, Maybe One Day, Youth Touch (script), Nightmare Pills (grunge).

Typefaces from 2019: Moonglade (a sharp monoline sans), Dreamwood, Deadmobil (grungy), Miralight (script).

Dafont link. Fontspace link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Creative Market link for Herofonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hex
[Nick Sherman]

Hex was founded by Nick Sherman (b. 1983). Nick is a typographer and typographic consultant based in New York City and Los Angeles. He is a co-founder of Fonts In Use and a graduate of the Type@Cooper typeface design program at Cooper Union. He serves on the board of directors for the Type Directors Club, the Adobe Typography Customer Advisory Board, as well as the artistic board for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. He has taught typography, typeface design, letterpress printing, and responsive design at MassArt and Cooper Union. He previously worked at Font Bureau, Webtype, and MyFonts, directing web design and promotional material for typefaces.

Originally from Hyannis Port and Boston, MA, he studied graphic design at MassArt in 2005. His degree project there, entitled A Modern Day Specimen Book, is beautifully presented, and leads us through thoughts on type classification to the idea of type molecules, with the nodes in the molecules representing styles or descriptions or dates, and the edges representing typefaces. He is interested in wood type, and occasionally helps out the organizers of the TypeCon conferences.

As a designer at MyFonts (from 2007 until 2010), he was in charge of the interviews, presentations, and web designs of their successful and useful pages.

In 2010, he joined Font Bureau. Flickr page.

He is the founder of Woodtyper, an online journal focused on large and ornamented type and related matters. He also set up the type documentation project Type Record together with Indra Kupferschmid. His type designs:

  • Ambient (2005): a simple geometric monoline logotype for Ambient Devices.
  • Sargent (2004): inspired by the lettering on the gravestones at Boston's Old Granary Burial Ground.
  • Meatland (2004): a grotesk inspired by the lettering on a shop in Jamaica Plain.
  • Plan 9 (2005): a squarish masculine sans typeface originally designed for a TV program called 3-B which would feature B-movies, including many horror flicks.
  • HWT Brylski (2017, P22 Hamilton Wood Type Collection), named for retired wood type cutter Norb Brylski and designed to be cut as wood type at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. It incorporates several themes that were common in 19th-century type design, including split Tuscan serifs with angled mansard-style sides, heavy weight placement at the top and bottom of letters (traditionally referred to as French or Italian/Italienne), and an extended overall width. The design was started in 2011 and released in 2017. David Jonathan Ross assisted with the final digital font production.
  • Cleaner. Inspired by casual lettering seen in everyday settings: laundromats, work trucks, comics, parking signs and diners.
  • Flight Center Gothic, designed for Michael Bierut's team at Pentagram as part of a restoration of the TWA Flight Center, Eero Saarinen's 1962 icon of modernist architecture at JFK airport in New York City. The typeface is a reinterpretation of the building's original signage lettering, with origins in Johannes John's Fette Kursiv-Grotesk, originally released as a standalone italic in 1892 by the J. John Söhne type foundry. David Jonathan Ross assisted with the final font production.
  • Forester (2019), a typeface inspired by rounded lettering on signage at many parks in North America.
  • French Tuscan. A Tuscan typeface modeled after a wood type-like typeface in the collection of Lanes Press.
  • Horn Please. Inspired by a quirky, chamfered lettering style often used for Horn OK Please truck signs in India. The widths are drawn for variable interpolation.
  • Kobodaishi. Kobodaishi is a digital interpretation of Electra, originally designed by W.A. Dwiggins.
  • Kultur. An ultra-condensed grotesquea: It follows the ultra-narrow flat-sided headline typeface genre sometimes referred to as Inserat.
  • Curvature.
  • Laureate. A digital revival of Laureate, a typeface originally released by the Keystone Type Foundry at the turn of the 20th century. Sherman's version is based on an adaptation by the Ludlow Typograph Company.
  • Lauweriks. Lauweriks was inspired by the Quadratuuralfabet, designed by Dutch architect and designer J.L. Mathieu Lauweriks in 1900. The new typeface adds a lowercase and refines or replaces the forms from the original caps-only design.
  • Lupino Sans and Serif. Influenced by newspaper type.
  • Manifold Sans and Serif. An expansion of the original manifold monospaced typeface for IBM Selectric typewriters.
  • Margo. Margo is inspired by classic hand-lettered movie titles and book jackets from the 1940s and 1950s. Many of its distinctive features follow lettering from films art directed by Lyle R. Wheeler, including All About Eve, The Gunfighter, The Secret of Convict Lake, and dozens more.
  • NYC Sans. NYC Sans is a typeface originally commissioned by New York City's official tourism agency, NYC & Company, as their brand typeface. The design began with my digitization of the type system from the 1970 NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual. In collaboration with Jeremy Mickel and with design direction from Emily Lessard, additional weights and refinements were developed.
  • Papanek. Inspired by the energetic handwriting of industrial designer and social critic, Victor Papanek, this typeface began as a commission for use in a book on Papanek by Al Gowan. Many characteristics of the design come directly from samples of Papanek's writing.
  • Phive. Based on Stephenson Blake's Condensed Sans Serifs No. 5, including a range of optical size variations.
  • Plastic Script.
  • Service Gothic (2020). A vernacular sans with a variable font thrown in.
  • Skelter. Based on a piece of blackletter calligraphy by Jaki Svaren.
  • Strike. A hairline sans based on an alphabet found in 50 Alphabete fuer Techniker und Fachschulen by Eric-Jean Müller.

He wrote Type from the Crypt about horror fonts. He started the Flickr group called Manicule about pointing hands (fists; see, e.g., here and here). He wrote the long essay on printing fists called Toward a History of the Manicule (2005). Check out this pic he took of Lucha Libre posters in Mexico City in 2009. He also designed the poster for the 2008 documentary on wood type called Typeface.

Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam. Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hilary

Californian creator of the hand-printed typefaces Hilary, Patty, My Cursive, Rachelle, Jack, and Gia (2012, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hillel Smith
[Hebrew Type]

[More]  ⦿

Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography
[Gloria Kondrup]

Gloria Kondrup is Executive Director of the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT), which was founded in 2015 in memory of Professor Leah Hoffmitz Milken, a typographer, letterform designer and faculty member at ArtCenter. It is based in Pasadena, CA. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal: Is our Sabon your Sabon?. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of typographic voices of protest and persuasion. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Holly Goldsmith
[Small Cap Graphics]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Holt510
[Jonathan Holt]

Designer and illustrator, living and working (as Senior Communications Designer at HelloSign) in Oakland, CA. In 2020, he published these display typefaces, all more or less related to the San Francisco area: Twin Lakes (a reverse stress Western slab serif), Northern California (n interlocking font), Cannery Row (a slab serif), Juicebar (squarish), Front Street Tiki (tiki fonts), Laurel District Script, Discography, Worlds Fair, Mechanics Special, Hella Good. Many of his fonts are loaded with interlocking pairs of letters.

Typefaces from 2021: Main Drag, Rumpunch (all caps, retro). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hong Nguyen

Sacramento, CA-based designer of Phi (2015), an informal typefaces in which glyph proportions are related to the golden ratio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hoodzpah
[Amy Hood]

Hoodzpah is a branding and design studio headquartered in Southern California, and run by Amy and Jennifer Hood. Their fonts in 2020 include Lone Pine (a reverse contrast Western font by Amy Hood inspired by Route 395 in California, Beverly Drive (a left-leaning script by Amy Hood), Beale (a display font by Amy Hood inspired by Memphis, TN), and Palm Canyon Drive (a retro monoline script by Amy Hood inspired by Palm Springs, CA).

Amy also did some movie title projects for Disney.

Typefaces from 2021: Chapman Ave (a layered vintage font), Santa Ana Sans, Seat Geek Headliner (a corporate sports typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

HowJoyful Studio
[Joy Kelley]

Crestine, CA-based Joy Kelley (b. Chile) designed these script typefaces in 2017: Joyful Letters, Darling Letters, Bold Lady, Amapola, Stand & Roam. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hrant H. Papazian
[The MicroFoundry]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hugo Baeta

Hugo Baeta is a designer and front-end developer living in San Francisco. Originally from Lisbon, Portugal, Hugo studied web design and new media at the San Francisco Academy of Art University and, in 2019, type design at Type West, where ihis graduation typeface as Madrigal. He writes: Madrigal is a sans serif type family, inspired by Southern European, fascist-era type, with a transformed blackletter structure, and a cinched silhouette. Named after Mrs. Madrigal from Armisted Maupin's Tales of the City, this type family embodies a lot of the fictional character's traits. Madrigal has variable thickness. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hype Type Studio
[Paul Hutchison]

Los Angeles, CA-based Paul Hutchison runs Hype Type Studio. He created several custom typefaces ca. 2012. In 2013, he published the didone stencil typeface Stencil Two at Ten Dollar Fonts.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

hyperdigitalinteraction
[Ken Phipps]

Mill Valley, CA-based Ken Phipps designed about 30 freeware fonts including ChewMe, Veiney, Spam, Wasup, O-Rama, Waisted3, AvantXerox, Psychmetal, Squint, Wholsed, Cudegrated, Cudelight, BGSmoothed. Direct access. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hypoetical
[Adriel Almirol]

Designer (b. 1979, San José, CA) who made the graffiti typeface Hypografic (2010) and the fingerpainted typeface Fingerlinger (2012).

Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ian Lynam
[Wordshape]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ian Lynam

Graphic designer (b. Plattsburgh, NY, 1972) and type designer who studied graphic design at Portland State University and the California Institute of the Arts. He currently runs a multidisciplinary creative studio specializing in unique solutions for international clients. The studio has been based in Tokyo since 2005. Lynam writes for a number of design, typography, and cultural publications including Font Magazine, This American Life, PingMag, and Neojaponisme. In 2008, he released his book Parallel Strokes, an investigation into the intersection of type design and graffiti. He created these commissioned fonts: Diesel Sans, Tri (dot matrix as in billboard lights). He also made Hanger, Garland Sans (based on stencil letters used by British designer, educator and theorist Ken Garland, 1929-2021), Inversion (uncial), Cruller (a fantastic handlettered typeface based on a German lettering book from 1910), Bon Appetit (a custom cut Antique Olive for Bon Appetit magazine), Cooper Pink, Cooper Swash Italic Traditional & Cooper Swash Italic Custom, Cooper Italic (2010, after Cooper's original from 1924), Cooper Initials (2010), Cooper Old Style (2010), Cooper Capitals (2010), Cooper Text (2010), Cooper Fullface (2010), Clobber (2010, is a stencil typeface designed for readability at very small sizes), Hanger, Rubber Vloeren (a geometric display typeface adapted from an alphabet used by Piet Zwart in the Netherlands for a series of advertisements for rubber flooring), Ensenada (a typeface designed based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico) and BeautifulDecay.

Before Ian Lynam Creative Direction and Design, Ian was involved in Wordshape, and I guess he still is. The main people are Ian Lynam, Simon Gane and Selena Hoy. MyFonts link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ian Stone
[Tymime Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Incantation
[Pei-Ti Ying]

Incantation in Highland Park, CA, sells the fonts of Pei-Ti Ying, such as the runic font Incantation Runic (2002). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Inception 8
[Darren M. Boudreau]

Darren M. Boudreau (Inception 8) is the Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based designer of Resident Evil Movie (2003), a tweaked TimesNewRoman. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ink Me This
[Kestrel Montes]

Santa Rosa, CA-based designer of these typefaces in 2017: Perfunktorily, Que Sera (monoline script), Emma Lou, Picky Girl, Daffodilias (monoline script), Standing Up, Eclipse (blackboard bold), Verbatim, Another Wild, Argentinian Nights (calligraphic), Great Mischief (calligraphic), Beyond March (calligraphic), Echo Falls (inky calligraphic pen script), Des Montagnes, All Formal Monogram, All Hand, All Formal, All Modern, Nectar (thin sans). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Irene Hsu

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the display typeface Gossamere (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Irwin Sol

Irwin is a designer and artist from San Diego, California. During his studies at Type West in 2019, Irwin designed the sharp, curvy, reversed-stress typefcae family Cleaver. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Gulkov

Russian graphic designer working out of San Francisco. His work includes a few nice Cyrillic typographic pieces, some icon sets and digitally revived Vjaz lettering (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Gulkov

Ivan Gulkov (San Francisco) created several types in the Vyaz lettering style, which is an interlocking condensed style based on 13th century church Slavonic titular letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack Curry

New York City-based type and brand designer, who has a BFA (2008-2011) from California State University at Long Beach, and used to work in Los Angeles. He studied typeface design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2011.

Author of articles Typodarium 2012 (Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz, August 2011), The 3D Type Book (Laurence King Publishing, June 2011), and Typography 31 / TDC 2010 Annual (Collins Design, Dec. 2010). He published Foundation: Process and Reflection (2011, The Cooper Union).

His typefaces:

  • Foundation Grotesque (2011-2012). Developed at The Cooper Union, it is vaguely based on an early 20th century typeface by Linotype called Philadelphia Gothic.
  • Dash (2010). A free octagonal typeface.

His blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack W. Stauffacher

Jack Stauffacher (b. 1920 or 1921, d. 2017, Tiburon) was a master printer who worked with metal and wood type and printed everything from business cards and tickets to fine art books and museum monographs. Jack was at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon) during the early 1960's. He started the Laboratory Press and taught the creative possibilities of letterpress. He left there about 1964. Later he ran the Greenwood Press in San Francisco, and lived in Tiburon.

Robert Harlan describes Jack Stauffacher's involvement in Sumner Stone's "Cycles" font.

John Berry on Jack Stauffacher and his use of large wooden letters in illustrations. Jack wrote a lot about typography, e.g., Janson, a Definitive Collection (The Greenwood Press, 1954), Hunt Roman: the birth of a type, (1965), and Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco (2003, edited by Jack).

Hunt Roman is a type designed by Hermann Zapf in the early sixties in collaboration with Jack Stauffacher. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jackie Lobos

At California State University Dominguez Hills, carson, CA-based Jacqueline Lobos designed the display typeface Sharly in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jackson Burke

Born in San Francisco in 1908, Burke died in 1975. He studied at the University of California in Berkeley. From 1949 until 1963, he was type director for Mergenthaler-Linotype, succeeding C.H. Griffith. He developed the TeleTypesetting System (TTS) for magazines and designed some fonts for native American languages. He designed Trade Gothic (1948-1960), Majestic (1953-1956) and Aurora (1960).

Aurora is a newspaper type. Bitstream's digital clone is News 706, now simply called Aurora. Mac Mc Grew: Aurora is a newspaper typeface designed by Jackson Burke for Linotype in 1960, and is made only in 81/2-point, combined with its own italic or a choice of standard bold typefaces, as far as we can determine. Of course, its origins go back to the German grotesques, ca. 1928.

Mac McGrew: Majestic is a newspaper typeface produced by Linotype staff designers in 1955. It is similar to Corona, but was made in very few sizes.

Mac McGrew writes about Trade Gothic: Trade Gothic is a Linotype family of gothics designed by Jackson Burke, and is basically very nearly the same as News Gothic. An early typeface on that machine was Gothic No. 18, which in small sizes was like a nineteenth- century face, but in large sizes was essentially the same as News Gothic Condensed. In 1948, with the return to popularity of American gothics after European sans serifs had replaced them for a while, the small sizes were recut, to match the larger ones, and all were paired with Gothic No. 20, an adaptation of Alternate Gothic No.2. The following year more condensed versions of both weights were offered as Gothic No. 17 and 19. The bolder weight was very similar to Alternate Gothic No.1, but the lighter weight retained its round-sided design, unlike News Gothic Extra Condensed. As the popularity of these typefaces continued to grow, Linotype changed the name to Trade Gothic Condensed and Extra Condensed, with their bold typefaces, and in 1955 added Trade Gothic and Trade Gothic Bold in normal widths. The light or regular weight is virtually the same as News Gothic, but the bold weight has flat sides on its round letters, making it a wider version of Alternate Gothic, unlike the News Gothic Bold developed about the same time by Intertype and a little later by other sources. (In a 1977 Linotype specimen book, the names reverted to Gothic Nos. 17 to 20.) Trade Gothic Extended and Bold Extended were announced early in 1959; for this bold weight the flat sides finally gave way to round sides, more like the News Gothics from other sources. Compare Monotone Gothic, which is essentially a wide version of News Gothic. In 1962 the last of this family appeared as Trade Gothic Light and Italic, the upright typeface being similar to Lightline Gothic. Unfortunately, Trade Gothic regular had been called Light (in distinction from its bold mate) in some Linotype literature, leading to some confusion when the actually lighter version appeared later. Altogether it has been a very popular and widely used series. Compare News Gothic, Alternate Gothic, Monotone Gothic, Lightline Gothic, also Record Gothic.

Digital versions of Trade Gothic appeared at Adobe and Linotype. In 2008-2009, Akira Kobayashi and Tom Grace unified and extended Trade Gothic to Trade Gothic Next (17 styles). SoftMaker has Transfer Gothic and URW offered Tradus. Links to implementations: Trade Gothic (Adobe), Trade Gothic (Linotype), Trade Gothic Next (Linotype), Trade Gothic Next Soft Rounded (Linotype), News Gothic (Bitstream), News Gothic (ParaType), News Gothic (Tilde), News Gothic (URW++), News Gothic (Adobe), News Gothic (Linotype), Trade Gothic for Nike 365 (Linotype), Monotype News Gothic (Monotype), News Gothic No. 2 (Linotype), News Gothic SB (Scangraphic Digital Type Collection), News Gothic SH (Scangraphic Digital Type Collection), News Gothic EF (Elsner+Flake), News Gothic No 2 (URW++). In 2017, Lynne Yun (Monotype) made a layerable and colorable extension of Trade Gothic called Trade Gothic Display.

Fontshop link. Klingspor link. Linotype link. FontShop link.

View various versions of Jackson Burke's Trade Gothic. View digital versions of Trade Gothic. Another catalog. And another one. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jacob Diaz

Whittier, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Simpson (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jacob Massey

San Jose, CA-based designer of an untitled text typeface in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jacob Ploesser

Laguna Niguel, CA-based designer of the heavy metal font Helvetica Metal (2018). It was bound to happen some day---the use of the word Helvetica to denote a typeface or font, and not necessarily a font that looks like Helvetica. One could say that Helvetica was xeroxed. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jacqueline Barba

Howard Beach, CA-based designer of Viola (2014), an ornamental caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jacqueline Rabun

This Californian jewelry designer made a jewelry alphabet called The Temporium (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jaelyn Buckner

Bakersfield, CA-based designer (b. 2003) of the cyberpunk typeface Adapt (2020-2022). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jaime Henderson
[California Historical Society]

[More]  ⦿

Jaime Van Wart
[Ketchup n Mustard]

[More]  ⦿

Jake Kincaid

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the modular, grid-based Octagonal Typeface (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jake Masakayan

Pasadena, CA-based designer of Bounce (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jake Pryor

Brentwood, CA-based designer of the hand-printed typeface Craft Script (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jake Spirek

Californian designer of Surfstyle (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jake&Dan (or: Creatogether)
[Dan Borufka]

Jake Rathmanner and Dan Borufka run a design studio with offices in Vienna and San Francisco, called Jake&Dan, and also called Creatogether. In 2010, they published a free font, the futuristic Danarama. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Alworth

Torrance, CA-based designer, who, during his studies at OTIS College of Art and Design, created Newfangled Grotesk (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Beall
[Glyfyx]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

James Brendan Williams

James Williams is an artist and designer residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he recently concluded a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts. During his studies at Type West in 2019, James Williams designed Barry, a typeface that was influenced by the early 20th century typeface Berthold Bloch and the robust curves of early neon lettering. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James D. Molgaard

James Molgaard is a print designer in Hayward, CA. Behance link. He had the idea in 2011 to create glyphs out of bi-colored circles for testing color-blindness. His font is called Color Blind Font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Everett

Graphic designer in Irvine, CA. In 2017, he created the handcrafted typeface No Look. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Hernandez

Californian graphic designer who created the all-caps breast-inspired alphabet called Venusian (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James J. Connell
[James J. Connell Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

James J. Connell Fonts
[James J. Connell]

A designer from Pasadena, CA, who graduated in 2007 from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. In 2008, he set up James J. Connell Fonts. His font designs include Paine (2008, humanist almost Peignotian sans; one style only) and Sumi Strokes (2008, simple abstract brush strokes). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

James Kass

Ripon, CA-based designer of Code2000, Code2001 and Code2002, free Unicode fonts. The shareware font Code2000 has 36000 glyphs, including Japanese and all European languages. He has free downloadable Unicode charts, info on Unicode in Netscape/HTML, the freeware Ol Cemet' (or JKSantal) font. His free Code2001 includes Old Persian Cuneiform, Deseret, Tengwar, Cirth, Old Italic, Gothic, Aegean Numbers, Cypriot Syllabary, Pollard Script, and Ugaritic. James Kass is located in Lake Isabella, CA. Discussion by the typophiles (with complaints about the wide spacing, the letters g, 2, J, and other typographic matters). The font is the default at the JSTOR site.

Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Lafuente

Graphic designer in Seattle, WA (was: San Jose, CA), who created the free marker pen all caps typeface Parker (2014), Sergeant (2015, military stencil), Oak Ash (2015), and the hand-drawn Pearl District (2015).

Typefaces from 2016 include the handcrafted Kindling.

In 2017, he made 56th Street (free at Pixel Surplus).

Typefaces from 2019: Ignite (a condensed squarish all caps typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James M. Harris
[Harris Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

James S. Ferguson
[Type Arts]

[More]  ⦿

James T. Edmondson
[Oh No Type]

[More]  ⦿

James White

Whittier, CA-based designer of Vato Land (2011, runic simulation face) and of the tattoo/graffiti typeface Latos Vocos (2013). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jamie Bartlett

Denver, CO-based designer of the handcrafted Quipley (2017) and the poster sans typeface Milkbox (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jamie Otelsberg

Jamie Otelsberg is a visual designer originally from Los Angeles, CA, and living in Essen, Germany. She is currently working for a Bay Area-based design firm and volunteering at a human-computer interaction lab in Kerala, India. She currently works at OH No Type Co. in Oakland, California. Graduate of TypeWest, class of 2021. Her graduation typeface, Theka, is a casual Latin display type family that was originally inspired by hand-painted municipal signs and ads seen everywhere in rural South India, especially on roadside walls. As most of the signs are in Malayalam, Theka was an experiment to see how a type recipe derived from Malayalam lettering could apply to a Latin type design.

At Type Cooper 2020, Jamie designed Ruhling, wich is loosely inspired by Elizabeth Friedländer's almost fat face Elizabeth. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jamie Stark

Laguna Niguel, CA-based designer of the barbed wire typeface Hardwired (2017) and the circuit typeface Wired (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jamie Walpole

Graphic design student at the Art Institute of California in Los Angeles, who made the display typeface Iron Kabinet (2011). He also made the 3d typeface Puzzle (2011). Jamie lives in Culver City, CA. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jamila Mehio

Beirut, Lebanon-based illustrator and letterer. Graduate of the American University of Beirut who started additional studies at The Academy of Art University, San Francisco, ca. 2016. Designer of the brushy Cola Pen Type typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jamile Marques

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the hexagonal typeface Sambo (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jamison Reisbeck

San Diego, CA-based designer of the graffiti font Cholo Goth (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jane Choi

Jane Choi is a graphic designer in Los Angeles. In 2013, she created a 3d outline typeface called Jane's Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jane Hong Won Choi

Valencia, CA-based designer of the hexagonal and minimalist typeface Covert (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jane Yu

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of Lemon Meringue (2017, handlettered font) and Fiorella (2017, connected script font). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Janelle Flores

San Jose, CA-based creator of the geometric typeface Legorreta Light Display (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Janet Nguyen

Graphic designer in Garden Grove, CA. Behance link.

Creator of the DNA-inspired experimental typeface Typosomes (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Janice Fishman
[Janice Prescott]

Janice Fishman (Sunnyvale, CA) was previously known as Janice Prescott. Her typefaces include

  • Together with Holly Goldsmith, Jim Parkinson and Sumner Stone, Janice Fishman designed the following families: ITC Bodoni 12 Book (1994), ITC Bodoni 6 Book (1994), and ITC Bodoni 72 Book (1994).
  • Shannon (1982, Agfa / Monotype). A slightly flared typeface developed with Kris Holmes.

Linotype link. FontShop link. MyFonts link for Janice Prescott. Monotype link for Janice Prescott. FontShop link for Janice Prescott. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Janice Prescott
[Janice Fishman]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Janine Roberson

During her graphic design studies in Los Angeles in 2013, Janine Roberson created a few pen-drawn alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jared Alconcher

Oakland, CA-based motion graphic designer, who created the typeface Conch (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jared Andrew Schorr

Graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Montclair, CA-based designer of Bear's Monsterbet (2014, an ornamental monster alphabet). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jared Benson
[Typographic Collaboration (or: Typophile.com)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jared Eberhardt
[We Are Not You]

[More]  ⦿

Jasmine Kelley

Angwin, CA-based graphic designer, who created the stick typeface Madeon (2012) and the experimental typeface Glimatude (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Anthony Walcott
[Jukebox Collection]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jason Anthony Walcott
[Counterpoint Type Studio]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jason Anthony Walcott
[JAW Fonts (Jukebox Type)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jason Castle
[Castle Type]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jason Catiis

Graphic designer in San Francisco. Designer of the macho sans typeface Westlake Industrial (2015)---this geometric sans is influenced by Futura and Kabel but gained some testosterone on the way. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Daze
[Daze Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Jason Esquenazi

Los Angeles-based designer of the boomerang-themed typeface xFont (2013), of the hexagonal typeface Buzz (2013), and of the experimental typeface Halvesvetica (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Lee

Designer in Oxnard, CA, who made a blackletter face in 2010. He also designed Futura Holiday Dingbats (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Mark Jones

Designer and illustrator in Long Beach, CA, b. 1984, Santa Rosa, CA, whose foundry is simply called Jason Mark Jones. He created Skunkling (2011) in Inline and Theline versions. These fit together perfectly for possible two-colour designs. In 2012, he designed the beveled typeface Sullivan (Lost Type). Check also the Marquis version of Sullivan made in 2013 by Adam Bowlin.

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

Jason Munninghoff
[Type Cargo (was: Evening Office)]

[More]  ⦿

Jason Pagura
[Cuttlefish Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Jason Vagner

Jason Vagner and Stephen Coles man the Californian branch of FontShop in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Warriner
[Fascination Workshop]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Javier Garcia

Graphic designer in San Francisco, who created the modular sans typeface Descansa in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Javiera Schmidt Silva

During her studies, Canyon Country, CA-based Javiera Schmidt Silva designed the sans typeface Humm (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

JAW Fonts (Jukebox Type)
[Jason Anthony Walcott]

JAW Fonts (and before that, JAW Arts Fonts, and Jukebox Type) was founded by Jason Walcott (b. Trenton, MI, 1971) from Hollywood, CA. Jason grew up in New Jersey, and now resides in Southern California. He graduated from Kean College of New Jersey (now Kean University) in 1997 with a BFA in illustration. JAW Fonts features many elegant calligraphic and comic book style typefaces. JAW Fonts ceased operation in 2003 and Jason reintroduced his collection of fonts in a revised form under the new name of Jukebox Type.

The original list of typefaces includes Acroterion JF (2002, formal script), Adage Script JF (2002, formal script), Alpengeist, Andantino (2003), AnnabelleJF (2002, a formal script), Baileywick Curly, Baileywick Festive, Baileywick Gothic, Baileywick Happy Grams (star dingbats), Baroque Text JF (2003, a great Fraktur font based on a hand-lettered alphabet drawn by Ross George), Boxer Script, Bronson Gothic, Buena Park (2001, Victorian vintage type influenced by Clarendon), Cathexis (2010, a heavy poster font), Cavetto, CharadeJF (2001, informal script), Debonair, Fairy Tale, Fanfare (2004, a bouncy serif family), Fenway Park, Friki Tiki, Geometric Soul (2004, an art deco all caps face), Gypsy Switch, Holiday Times, Hucklebuck (2003, upright connected signage face), Jeffriana, John Andrew JF, KonTiki (a family published in 2002 containing Aloha, Enchantment, Hula, Kona, Lanai, Lounge and Trader), Lady Fair, Luxury Royale (2003), Manual Script JF (2002), Martini (2004, a brush script), Mary Helen, Opulence JF (2002, formal script font), Peregroy, Periwinkle (2006), Cabernet (2006, frilly didone), Polynesian (2004, Hawaiian-look typeface that could also pass for an oriental simulation face), Primrose JF (2002, formal script), Rambler Script, Randolph, Retro Repro (2002, based on a script by Jerry Mullen from 1953), Saharan, Scriptorama (Hostess, Markdown and Tradeshow), Shirley Script JF (2003), Southland, Spaulding Sans, Stanzie, Stella Ann (2005), Stephanie Marie JF (2003), Tamarillo (2005), TwisterJF (2003), Valentina Joy, Varsity Script, Viceroy, Walcott Gothic (Fountain, Hollywood and Sunset), Groovin (2005, Umbrella Type), Wonderboy. The fonts of this West Hollywood, CA-based foundry can be bought at MyFonts.com. In 2003, he started Jukebox Type and started offering his fonts at Veer. In October 2003, Veer acquired Jukebox Type outright.

In 2005, they added Rootin Tootin (Western style), Dulcimer (soft script), Block Party, Dandelion, Marmalade (idyllic script).

In 2006, he created Jukebox Bookman, a 6-weight family, and the brush script typeface Stephanie Marie.

In 2007, he added Hellenic Wide (after a 19th century ATF font), GiggleScript JF, Savoir Faire (after a handlettered slogan in 1940 for Chesterfield cigarettes), Lollipop.

2008 additions: Hogwash (paintbrush face), Antiquities Technobaby.

2009 additions: Cynthia June (calligraphic).

Typefaces from 2010: Eloquent (a didone in the style of Pistilli).

Counterpoint Type Studio was established by Walcott in 2013. In 2013, Jason designed the psychedelic typeface Califunkia and the calligraphic script typeface Profiterole. Domani CP (2013, CounterPoint)) is a faithful digital revival of an old photo-typositing typeface called ITC Didi. Originally designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnese, Domani brings to life a font that has been somewhat neglected by the digital era until now.

This is the list of fonts sold by MyFonts in 2015. It is just a subset of the fonts made by Walcott:

Jukebox Type has these typefaces:

Klingspor link. View the Jukebox Type typeface library. View the JAW Fonts typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jay Pierstorff
[Computer Safari]

[More]  ⦿

Jazmen Bradford

Student at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. He created the squarish typeface Proto (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

J.D. Beltran
[San Francisco Art Institute]

[More]  ⦿

Jeahn Laffitte

Los Angeles-based designer of Bold Griod Font (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean-Benoît Lévy
[AND]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jeanette Silva-Torres

During her studies at San Francisco State University, Jeanette Silva-Torres designed the flared display typeface Winkel (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeanie Chong
[No More Bad Type]

[More]  ⦿

Jed Bridges

San Diego-based designer of Cerus (2010), an octagonal typeface inspired by arcade games. Free download. Designmoo link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jee Sook Kim

Jee Sook Kim (Pasadena, CA, but born in Seoul, Korea) writes about his typeface Jee Sans (2012): Jee Sans is a medium weight sans serif typeface that has cursive qualities.

Behance link. He designed a calligraphic faux logo for the 19th century composer Donizetti, and shows in images how Doyald Young guided him in that design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

JeeSuk Kim

Pasadena, CA-based designer of NchoV (2010), a typeface inspired by schools of anchovis. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Kahn

Jeff Kahn is a professional designer with expertise in brand identity, logo and logotype design, and packaging design. Some of his clients include Landor & Associates, Proctor & Gamble, Sierra Club, Revlon, Purina, Hewlett Packard, IBM, TaylorMade, and Hyatt Hotels. Jeff graduated from Art Center College of Design with a BFA, where Doyald Young was his teacher. He is located in Santee, CA.

In 2012, he created Touch Tone Extra Condensed Light, and wrote: Touch Tone introduces a condensed lowercase and oblique italics to the uppercase font inspired by the Dr. Strangelove movie titles designed by Pablo Ferro. Touch Tone's naive hand-drawn strokes rely on a quirky variable width-brush. They are looser, more textured, tactile, more informal, with quirky nervous lines.

Typefaces from 2013: Sedona.

In 2014, Jeff published the rounded organic sans typeface Cushy (2014).

In 2017, he published Hot Tamale.

In 2018, he added Clarendon Rough. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Kellem
[Slanted Hall]

[More]  ⦿

Jeff Miller

Cranbrook Academy of Art student who designed Unamerican (2000), Belief, and New Deal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Rubow

Jeff Rubow is an American graphic designer, illustrator and type enthusiast. At Lindstrom Design in Glendora, CA, he published Sticks (a comic book face) and Mr Jenkins (comic book style) in 2010. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Salisbury

Los Angeles-based designer, b. 1988, of the grungy typeface Franc Gothique Brush (2014). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Warrington
[Tonalcase]

[More]  ⦿

Jeffery Keedy

Born in 1957 in Battle Creek, USA, Jeffery Keedy is an educator, designer, type designer, and writer, who has been teaching in the Graphic Design Program at California Institute of the Arts since 1985. He is best known for Keedy Sans (1989, Emigre). Keedy Sans was influenced by Ed Fella's style with inconsistent spacing, and rounded and sometimes sliced characters.

Other fonts by Keedy include HardTimes (1990), NeoTheo (1989), Jot, LushUs (part of FUSE 4, see also here), SkelterBold, and Zanzibaralt.

FontShop link.

Author of Emigre: Graphic Design into the Digital Realm (1993, Rudy Vanderlans, Zuzana Licko, Mary E. Gray, Jeffery Keedy). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jen Herr

She studied at The Art Institute of California in LA, and obtained a Bachelors of Science in Graphic Design in 2008. She created the curly hand-printed typeface Much Ado (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jen Montgomery

Designer living and working in Los Angeles. Behance link. In 2011, she created a hand-drawn Animal Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jenica Shipley

Lake Forest, CA-based graphic designer who created the soft handcrafted typeface XO Brush in 2017. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jennifer Nassef

Burbank, CA-based designer who made the fashion mag typeface Jaylinn (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jenny Ambrose

Los Angeles-based creator of the calligraphic poster Shit Will Alays Butt Out (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jens Gehlhaar
[GagaFonts (or: Gaga Design)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jeremie Spangrude

Art director in Simi Valley, CA. Creator of the roman caps typeface Louie (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeremy Grant

Los Angeles-based designer of the alchemic or hipster typeface High Tighto (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeremy Mickel
[MCKL (was: Mickel Design)]

[More]  ⦿

Jeremy Taylor
[my Fontbook]

[More]  ⦿

Jerilee Petralba

Los angeles-based designer of the modular typeface Zingers (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jerry Chiong

During his studies in Northbridge, CA, Jerry Xiong created the decorative typeface Orchit (sic) (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jess

Designer and illustrator in San Clemente, CA, who graduated from the Art Institute of California. Her typefaces include Siewert (2013, a custom techno typeface for Siewert Shipping Co) and Crux (a display typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jess Burns
[Jess Frederick]

Graphic and web designer in San Diego, CA, who created the script typeface Musical Alphabet in 2013. In 2014, she published Roundabout, Paisley Numerical Font, and Strobe Font (a textured typeface inspired by epilepsy). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jess Frederick
[Jess Burns]

[More]  ⦿

Jesse Burgheimer
[Down10]

[More]  ⦿

Jesse Merrell

Graphic designer in Los Angeles, who created Direction Slab (2012), and Utility Mono (2012, squarish, monospaced and monoline). Substitution Code (2012) is an experimental typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesse Pascarella

Designer in Los Angeles who did a nice cover for George Schneider Photography (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Alcantar

San Diego, CA-based designer of Kryponita (2016), a typeface that is probably inspired by kryptonite bike locks. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Bergmann

Costa Mesa, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Damp (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Clark

Orange, CA-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Get Quarky (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Garcia

As a student at California State University, Fullerton, Jessica Garcia designed the typeface Compressed (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessie Yang

San Francisco-based web designer who made a stylish Optima poster in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesus Maldonado

San Diego, CA-based designer of the school project font Place Base Neon (2016: multilined). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiayin Song

Santa Ana, CA-based designer of a photographic alphabet called The Old Shanghai (2019) as well as a decorative 3d alphabet (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jill Bell
[Jill Bells's Cyberstudio]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jill Bells's Cyberstudio
[Jill Bell]

A graduate of UCLA and Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles-based Jill Bell has worked as a graphic artist, primarily creating letter forms, logotypes, signage, calligraphic elements, icons, and handwriting pieces, starting ca. 1980. At one point, she worked as sign painter in a shop and as a production artist for Saul Bass.

Original fonts and artwork by Jill Bell include It's A Breeze, ITC Clover (1997), ITC Gigi (1995), ITC Hollyweird (1995), ITC Carumba (1995), ITC Caribbean (1996), ITC Smack (1995, ink-stain typeface), ITC Stranger (1997), Jill's Miro, Bruno (handwriting font), Swank (2000, Agfa: a fuzzy-edged calligraphic font).

At TypeCon 2016 in Seattle, she had a timely talk: The Best of Clients at the Craziest Time: Hand-lettering & Font Design for the Trump Hotels. The abstract: It began with creating a logotype for The Spa by Ivanka Trump. The lettering was so well received by Ivanka, their ad agency and others running the Trump hotel empire that Bell's lettering quickly became the de facto style for their current advertising and branding: from hand-lettered headlines to a font to be used throughout the Trump hotels.

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

Jill Morrison

Graphic designer/student at City College of San Francisco. Working on this fifties face (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jill Wong

Berkeley, CA-based Jill Wing created GAAHK Latin (2014), a Latin equivalent of Jason Kwan's Chinese techno typeface GAAHK that was created for the Graphic Arts Association of Hong Kong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jim Bogenrief

Jim Bogenrief (Pasadena, CA) modified ITC Tiffany when he created the fancy didone fashion mag typeface AM Debbie (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jim Kurrasch
[Jim Kurrasch's Kanji]

[More]  ⦿

Jim Kurrasch's Kanji
[Jim Kurrasch]

Jim's Kanji are shareware kanji characters (2550 in all) drawn in 1994 by Jim Kurrasch from Goleta, CA. James Kenneth Kurrasch (1948-2003), a Vietnam veteran and Japanese sword expert, died in 2003. His fonts can be downloaded here and here. They were converted to type 1 in 1999 by Jim Parsons (Verge). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jim Parkinson
[Parkinson Type Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jim Schachterle

San Francisco-based designer. In 2010, he created the slab typeface Midern, and the geometric logotype typeface EO. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jim Wasco

Type designer who worked at Adobe from 1989-2002 and for Monotype from 2003 until today. His typefaces in chronological order:

  • 1974 to 1989: As a freelance, he assisted Jim Parkinson in the Cochin, and Kennerley revivals, an old Perspective metal type design, and Rolling Stone alphabet additional weights Elephant, Italics and Condensed, done in pen and ink. For several ad agencies, he designed the Franzia winery logo, and many other logos for packaging and advertisementsi and was mainly a lettering a logo artist.
  • 1985: He produced font designs for DHL Express and SFO International Airport at Primo Angeli Inc.
  • 1986 to 1989: He produced various font families like Garamond, Goudy, Eras, American Typewriter, Futura and Stymie at SlideTek using a B-Spline vector graphic system.
  • 1989 to 2002: He produced fonts at Adobe Systems in Redwood City, CA. There, he designed Tekton Bold, Mythos (1993: a mythical figure caps face done together with Min Wang), Tekton GX (with David Siegel), Waters Titling word ligatures. He designed and produced the Romaji Latin characters of Heisei Maru Gothic W4 and W8, Adobe Sans and Adobe Serif. He did font production work on ITC Garamond, ITC Cheltenham, Albertus, Castellar. He helped expand Adobe Originals to Pro character sets in Jenson Pro, Minion Pro, Kepler, Sanvito Pro, Cronos, and Calcite Pro. He played an important role in the production of Multiple Master fonts.
  • 2003 to present: He produced fonts at Monotype Imaging:
    • For Microsoft, he designed the family of five weights of Segoe based on Segoe Regular.
    • He directed design production and programmed OpenType features for Segoe Script and Segoe Print.
    • He designed Wasco Sans a font for the gaming and flight simulator groups at Microsoft.
    • He designed AT&T Sphere Gothic Sans fonts.
    • He designed a new slab serif family for Gatorade.
    • He directed a new design for General Electric called GE Sans.
    • He designed and directed production of various non-Latin scripts for Monotype for Armenian, Ethiopic, Khmer, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew and African language scripts including Tifinagh, N'Ko and Bamum.
    • He designed the original geometric sans font family Harmonia Sans (2011), which is a blend of contemporary geometric sans serif lettershapes and classic calligraphic proportions. Jim Wasco was aided by George Ryan in the production of the typeface family. He said: I wanted to create a simple and legible typeface by pulling the best aspects of classic geometric sans designs, such as Futura and ITC Avant Garde Gothic.
    • He directed a language expansion project for Edward Johnston's London Transport fonts, adding Cyrillic and Greek.
    • He designed a script typeface based on Ed Benguiat's calligraphy for the ITC logo in 1970 called Elegy (2010-2011). Elegy has 1546 glyphs, and was awarded at TDC2 2011.
    • He designed nine new weights for the Neue Aachen font family (2012) expanding it to 18 fonts including Italic.
    • He designed swash caps and directed Morris Freestyle.
    • He designed ITC Avant Garde Pro ligatures for the new OpenType version.
    • He designed Baskerville Cyrillic and Greek for E reader fonts (2012).
    • Daytona (2015) is a sans family that grew out of a desire to provide improved fonts for use in televised sporting events.
    • Elicit Script (2018, by Laura Worthington and Jim Wasco). A hybrid (casual and formal) scrpt typeface based on pointed pen Spencerian Script handwriting.

Linotype link. Linotype interview. FontShop link. Pic. His talk at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona was entitled OpenType features for Script Typefaces. Linotype link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jimena Gamio

Peruvian type designer based in Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jin Sohn

Californian graphic designer. She created Jin Gothic (2013, a slab serif) during her studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jisun Noh

San Francisco, CA-based designer of Prototypeface (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jj Moy

John Moy Jr, or Jj, is a graphic and industrial designer based in San Francisco. Behance link. Creator of La, a monospace sans serif typeface for Latin and Thai. Winner of TFACE: Thai Typeface Competition 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

J.J. Yoon

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the squarish display typeface Window (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joachim Müller-Lancé
[kame Design (was: kametype)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jodie Lee

Los Angeles-based designer of vintage chic. Her handwriting fonts include Newtown (2015), Highschool (2015), Kyron (2015), Solo (2015), Tamara (2015), KK (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joe C. VanDerBos
[Vander Font (was: Joe VanDerBos Type foundry)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Joe Prince
[Admix Designs]

[More]  ⦿

Joel Decker

Californian (b. San Jose, 1970) who studied philosophy, science and literature at San Diego State University before he attended California Institute of Art where he received a B. F. A. in Graphic Design. He started his freelancing career in San Diego and worked his way up the Coast to Seattle where he has worked for an architecture firm.

He designed FF Inkling (1997, a rabbit-eared upright script).

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

Joel Felix

Freelance designer in Stockton, CA, who graduated from Sacramento State University. Creator of the free font Citizen Slab (2012).

In 2016, he published the vintage rail car display typeface Pullman, and the equally nostalgic Clarendon-inspired 49ers Faithful display typeface. Joel writes: Faithful is based on the iconic SF monogram introduced in the early 1960s, and a continuation of the 49ers' logo-type introduced in mid-to late 1980s. It was developed in cooperation with Benjamin Mayberry, the creative manager of the San Francisco 49ers.

Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joelle Duff

Ventura, CA-based designer of the free curly script typeface Peony Charming (2013) and of Olive Charming (2013). She is a calligrapher and wedding blogger.

In 2014, she designed Daisy Charming and Rose Charming.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joey Koslik

Orange, CA-based graphic designer. Creator of the curvy typeface Stoked (2014), which was inspired by the surf culture. In 2016, he designed Trailhead. Behance link. Newer Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joey Lopez

Joey Lopez (of Joey Lopez Design) is studying towards a Bachelors degree at the Art Institute of California, Orange County. He has created several free typefaces:

Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John B. Wundes
[Wundes]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John D. Berry

Ex-developer of U&lc, the well-known type magazine at ITC in New York. After ITC's demise, he moved to San Francisco, and is best known nowadays for his excellent articles on typography at CreativePro.com. He is the author and designer of Dot-font: Talking About Fonts and Dot-font: Talking About Design (Mark Batty Publisher, 2006), and the editor of Language Culture Type (ATypI/Graphis, 2002), Contemporary Newspaper Design, and U&lc: influencing design&typography. He also wrote Now Read This (Microsoft, 2004), a book about Microsoft's ClearType project.

He writes and consults extensively on typography, and he has won numerous awards for his book designs. He lives in Seattle with the writer Eileen Gunn.

John Berry was on the board of the Type Directors Club from 1999 to 2003, and was President of ATypI from 2007 until 2013. In 2008, he joined Microsoft as a Program Manager in the typography team. He is the founder and director of Scripta Typography Institute.

At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the Bukvaraz type competition. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about newspaper type. John was the closing plenary speaker at ATypI 2007 in Brighton. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam and at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Davis

Type designer from Southern California, who designs type at Reno, NV-based Letterhead Fonts, which in turn is run by Chuck Davis. Many of his designs are Victorian / Western.

At Letterhead Fonts, he designed these typefaces: 20 Six Letters (with Noel Weber), 20 Six Panels (with Noel Weber), LHF Bergling Panels (2012, after J.M. Bergling, ca. 1900), Boston Ballpark, LHF Classic Panels 2 (2011, with Kaitlin Sims), Cool Blue 2 (2014, based on Letterhead's Cool Blue from 2002), General Store, Hambone, Heritage, Kips Bay, Metro 39 (inline, art deco), Monogram Diamond (based on J.M. Bergling), Monogram Oval, LHF Pipeline (2012, inspired by Alf Becker), LHF Ridgecrest (2012), Ringer, LHF Encore (2014: Victorian calligraphic designs), Woodmere, LHF Brooklyn (2015), Bella Vista (2015).

Klingspor link. Letterhead Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Desrosiers
[Soft Horizons]

[More]  ⦿

John Fingerhüt

Irvine, CA-based designer of the alchemic typeface Runes (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Isles

Lancaster, CA-based designer (b. 1979) of the dot matrix typeface 60s Scoreboard (2016, FontStruct). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John J. Palmer
[Palmer and Rey]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Kellogg

John Kellogg (b. 1986) is the Californian creator of the graffiti font Jungle Life (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John M. Fiscella
[Production First Software]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Merrifield
[Stiff Upper Glyph]

[More]  ⦿

John Ritter

Designer at Adobe of the human skateboard figures alphabet font, Rad (Adobe, 1993-2002). Linotype page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Roshell
[Swell Type]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Roshell

Designer (b. 1970, Mountain View, CA) of many (most) fonts at Comicraft, a comic book font outfit in Los Angeles, CA, a company he cofounded with Richard Starkings in 1992.

Some fonts: Altogether OOky, Addams-AltogetherOoky, Addams-Capitals, Addams-Regular, CCBithead-Bark, CCBithead-Byte, CC Bryan Talbot (2008, created for Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland), CCHooky-Open, CCHooky-Solid, CCAlchemite, CCChills, CCDigitalDelivery, CCDivineRight-Regular, CCDoubleBack-Future, CCDoubleBack-Past, CCElsewhere-Regular, CCFlameOn, CCFrostbite, CCGrimlyFiendish-Regular, CCJimLee, CCJoeMadInt, CCLosVampiros, CCMeanwhile, CCMeltdown, CCMonsterMash, CCSpills, CCSplashdown, CCStormtrooper (1997), CCTheStorySoFar-Regular, CCThrills, CCToBeContinued, WildAndCrazySFX. With Richard Starkings, he designed Achtung Baby (2001), Adamantium and DoubleBack in 2001 for Agfa/Monotype. Other designs: Dave Gibbons (2006), UpUpAndAway (2005), Forked Tongue (2005), Paranoid Android (2005), Snowmany Snowmen (2005), Gibbous (2006), Astronauts in Trouble, Chatterbox, Red Star, Tough Talk, Sean Phillips, Atomic Wedgie, Pass The Port, Divine Right, Shoutout, Battle Scarred, Danger Girl, Primal Scream, PhaseSonStun, Yeah Baby, Nuff Said (2005), Trick Or Treat, MonsterMash, CarryOnScreaming, Chills, Goosebumps, CreepyCrawly, GrimlyFiendish, IncyWincySpider, Spookytooth, Meltdown and TrickOrTreat dingbats, BiffBamBoom, Spellcaster, Cheese And Crackers, FaceFont, Hedge, Meanwhile, Wildwords International, Comicrazy, Storyline (2006), Happy Holidays (2007), Foom (2007).

MyFonts sells these fonts by him: Adamantium, Alchemite, Altogether Ooky (vampire script), Area51, Aztech, Battle Cry, Bithead, Chills, Dave Gibbons, Dead Mans, Destroyer, Digital Delivery, Divine Right, Drop Case, Elsewhere, Euphoria, CC Fairy Tale (2007), Face Front, Fighting Words, Flame On, Foom, Frostbite, Gibbons Gazette (2009, Gobbledygook, Golem (2002), Grimly Fiendish, Happy Holidays, Hellshock, Hip Flask, Holier Than Thou, Hooky, Hyperdrive, Joe Kubert, Meanwhile, CCMild Mannered (2007), Monologous, Near Myth, Overbyte, Phat Boi, PhilYeh, Rough Tongue, Sanctum Sanctorum, Scott McCloud, Smash, Speeding Bullet, Spills, Splashdown, Spookytooth, Stonehenge Runes, Stormtrooper, Storyline, Thats All Folks, The Story So Far, Thingamajig, Thrills, Tim Sale, Tim Sale Brush, Timelord, Treacherous, Treasure Trove (2007), Up Up And Away, Wild And Crazy, Zzzap, Deadline (2007), Kickback (2007, with David Lloyd), Sticky Fingers (2007, scary).

Typefaces made in 2008: Ratatatat (2008), CC Mad Scientist (2008), HammerHorror (2008), EnemyLines (2008, based on WWII lettering used by the nazis), Cutthroat Lower (2008), Philyeh (2008), Doohickey Lower (2008), CC Sign Language (2008, fruit vendor lettering).

Typefaces made in 2009: SpillProof (2009), Slaphappy (2009), Hooky (2009, spraycan style), Long Underwear (2009), Digital Delivery (2009), Grande Guignol (2003, art nouveau), Bronto Burger (2009), Elsewhere (2009, art nouveau), Exterminate (2009, stone carving face), You Blockhead (2009), CC Rugged Rock (2009),

Creations in 2010: Wild Words Lower (2010), Back Beat (2010), Rick Veitch (2010, based on the lettering of comic book artist Rick Veitch), Credit Extension (2010), Shiver (2010, with Richard Starkings), Shake (2010, with Richard Starkings), Elephantmen (2008-2010, squarish family).

Contributions from 2011: Knobbly Knees, Ed McGuinness (comic book script family), Big Top, Clean Cut Kid, Dash Decent (a very round almost-bubblegum family), Fancy Pants (connected script), Goth Chic (blackletter).

Fonts from 2012: Lunar Modular, Lunar Orbiter, Lunar Rover, Geek Speak, Ancient Astronaut, Totally Awesome (comic book caps face).

Fonts from 2013: Samaritan and Samaritan Tall (with Richard Starkings), Ghost Town (a family of seven gold rush era typefaces), Colleen Doran (a comic book family: A Distant Soil is a classic bold and beautiful science fiction/fantasy comic book series by creator, writer, artist and letterer Colleen Doran. A Distant Soil is being remastered and re-released by those awfully nice chaps at Image Comics and Colleen commissioned Comicraft to create the definitive bold and beautiful Colleen Doran font, based on her original pen lettering), Mega City (an elliptical in-your-face advertising signage typeface family), Soliloquous (fat rounded hand-printed comic book family), Excalibur Stone, Excalibur Sword, Legendary Legerdemain (+Leggy), Cool Beans (beatnik font).

Fonts from 2014: Shaky Kane (based on the comic books by that name), Resistance Is Lowered (techno), Hero Sandwich Ingedients, Hero Sandwich Combos (a layered set of informal typefaces combined in many ways), Monstrosity (a ghoulish typeface), HighJinks, Onomatopedia, Killzone, Killswitch, Killjoy.

Fonts from 2014: Mike Kunkel (based on the hand of comic book artist Mike Kunkel).

In 2015, John Roshell (Comicraft) created the comic book typeface family The Sculptor based on Scott McCloud's lettering. Other fonts from 2015 include AB Flock Poster, Hypnotique, Samaritan Lower (by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), Graveyard Smash, Maladroit, Extra Extra (pen-lettered newspaper headline font family), Merry Melody, Temporal Shift and Temporal Gap (computer emulation typeface), Temporal Shift and Temporal Gap Expanded, Temporal Shift and Temporal Gap Compressed, Danger Girl Hex (with Jeffery Scott Campbell), J. Scott Campbell Lower (with Jeffery Scott Campbell).

Typefaces from 2016: Victory Speech Lower, Man Of Tomorrow, Thrills, Holy Grail, A Likely Story, Victory Speech, Questionable Things (with Richard Starkings), The Story Begins + Ends, Pixel Arcade (video game font), Schadenfreude (octagonal style), Vengeance Is Mine.

Typefaces from 2017: Right In The Kisser, Music To My Eyes">, True Believer.

Typefaces from 2018: Metcon (+a stencil version, Metcon Rx), Summer Fling, Samaritan Tall Lower (by Starkings and Roshell), Blah Blah Upper (by John Roshell and Richard Starkings), Ultimatum, Wuxtry Wuxtry (art nouveau), Single Bound (a sans), Evil Doings (by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), Prince of Darkness (a gothic layered font family), Empire State Gothic, Empire State Deco.

Typefaces from 2019 by John Roshell: Whatchamacallit (a variable cartoon sans with weight, width and italic axes), Ask For Mercy, Excelsius, Space Race, When Suddenly.

Typefaces from 2020: FX Machina (squarish, octagonal), Origin Story, Cybervox, CCQuigglesmith (a beatnik font), Ripped Bam Boom, Dynamic Duo, If This Be Doomsday, Elektrakution (a Greek simulation font family by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), Whatchamacallit, CCMighty Mouth, This Man This Monster (by John Roshell and Richard Starkings), Simply Marvelous, Meanwhile Uncial, Transylvanian (a jungle font), Shark Snack, Letterhack Sans, Letterhack Serif.

Typefaces from 2021: Ultimatum MFV (a 21-style chamfered military typeface family including several stencil fonts), Grim N Gritty, Richard Starkings Brush (a comic book typeface by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), Scoundrel (a comic book face by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), Tall Tales (a fat finger font).

Typefaces from 2022: Beyond Belief.

Klingspor link. FontShop link.

View John Roshjell's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

John Salas

Benicia, CA-based designer of the FON-format font Electronic (2004). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Salazar

During his studies at the University of Notre dame, John salazar (Garden Grove, CA) created Kandinsky Alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Shaver
[Design Panoply]

[More]  ⦿

John Warnock

John Warnock (d. 2023) was the founder, with Charles Geschke, of Adobe (in 1982), and the inventor of PostScript. The type 3 and type 1 font formats are an essential part of the PostScript language. He also proposed the PDF file format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johnny Ung

During his studies in Long Beach, CA, Johnny Ung created the decorative typeface Flip (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jolie O'Dell

Jolie O'Dell has been a professional copywriter, journalist, and editor in the SF Bay area since 2000. She created the grunge typefaces Dude Ranch (209) and Gun Show (2009).

Her ChampagneCoupe face mixes a monoline sans with art nouveau elements.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon Carlos Morales

San Francisco-based designer of the free modular typeface Exan (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon Charley

San Diego, CA-based designer of the circle-based typeface Expancel (2015), the experimental 3d typeface Optical, Hustle, the organic typeface Ed's Lawn and Gardening (2015) and a brush script typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon Cox

Jon Cox is a graphic designer in Santa Ana, CA. His work includes a beautifully lettered poster in the style of Egon Schiele (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Ankiewicz

Fremont, CA-based designer of the modular Ankiewicz Block typeface family (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Cofer

Web and graphic designer in Santa Clara, CA. He created the grotesk typeface Haus in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Gray

Book cover designer, whose whimsical handlettering was fontified by Fontshop in the 2006 Hewlett-Packard headline font, HP PSG (2006, FontShop), used in its Flash ads. Discussion at typophiles. Aka Gray318. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Hasson

Jonathan Hasson of Hasson Graphics in San Francisco created the monoline typeface Salient (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Holt
[Holt510]

[More]  ⦿

Jonathan Tipton-King

Creator of a few typeface anatomy posters for typefaces such as Baskerville and Archer, in 2012. Jonathan is a graphic design student in Fremont, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jordan Carr

Long Beach, CA-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Quite Blankly (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jordan Gushwa

At he Type @ Cooper program in 2012, Jordan Gushwa designed Bettie Cooker.

Design Research Committee is the studio of Jordan Gushwa and company currently located in Doha Qatar. Jordan is a graduate of Cranbrook 2d where he studied under Elliott Earls. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge de Buen Unna

Jorge de Buen (b. 1956, Mexico City) studied Graphic Design in Mexico City. In 1994 he moved to Tijuana to work in marketing and communication projects for the Agua Caliente race and sports books. He has conducted several workshops and conferences at many important Latin American institutions. The second edition of his book Manual de diseno editorial (Santillana, 2000) is published in 2003, and the third edition in 2009. He spoke at ATypI 2003 in Vancouver on a new approach to typometry, and at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City on quotation marks (las comillas), where he pointed out that the <<...>> used in Spanish were just a natural evolution of the standard quotation marks (66...99).

He designed Unna Romana (2003), Unna (2004, serif family, done at Imprimatur) and Bardahlkia (1994). He often shows up in LA for type activities.

He moved to Querétaro in 2009 and is graphic designer there---his studio is called Imprimatvr. The first typeface published at Imprimatvr is Caliente (2012).

In 2011, he placed Unna up for free download at the Google Font Directory, and started cooperating with Hector Gatti and Pablo Cosgaya at Omnibus Type.

At Tipos Latinos 2012, Jorge won an award in the text category for Unna regular.

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

Jose Arroyo

Jose Arroyo (Arroyo Designs, Los Angeles) created a nice typographic poster entitled Math Is The Answer (2013). During the Syrian crisis of 2013, he made a typographic peace poster.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jose Caldera

Los Angeles-based creator of the hand-printed typeface Caldera (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jose Jimenez
[Celebrity Fontz]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jose Morquecho

San Jose, CA-based designer of the vector format chrome look typeface Retro 80s (2017), which is based on Futura Bold outlines. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Baum

Creator of the modular typeface Phresh (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Garcia

San Jose-based designer (b. 1983) of the free lava lamp font Juiced (2013).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Stitzlein

Portland, OR-based creative director where he works at Nike. Before settling at Nike in Portland, he worked at Landor Associates, Stone Yamashita Partners, Chronicle Books, Pentagram, and CKS Partners and was living some of that time in San Francisco. He graduated from the College of DAAP at the University of Cincinnati.

His type designs include the Sgiv1Text family in 1999, at first done as an OEM for Silicon Graphics Inc. This SGI corporate typeface evolved a couple of years later into the retail font Monolein (T-26).

He also designed the Sempra Energy Corporate Typeface and the modern family ITC Tactile (2002). The latter font family won an award at the TDC2 2003 competition.

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

Josh Hadley

Joshua Hadley worked at Ascender Corporation from 2004 until its demise. He studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the School of Printing Management and Sciences. He was briefly involved in type design, creating the Native American-themed Blackfoot (a collection of fonts for creating decorative borders), and working at Monotype's Palo Alto, CA, office. Between 1994 and 2004, he developed a number of programs, techniques, and procedures for developing fonts of all sorts. These included simple scripts for font development, a graphics-intensive kerning editor, and programs to make complex multi-script fonts of fifty thousand glyphs.

With Steve Matteson, Hadley designed (a reincarnation of) Binner Gothic (original by John F. Cumming).

Currently, Josh Hadley is a software developer for Monotype's Font Tools and Technology group. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joshua Darden
[Darden Studio]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Joshua Lurie-Terrell

Sacramento-based letterpress printer and typesetter. Obtained a BA in Literature from CSU Sacramento. He works as a graphic designer for the California State Legislature, and runs the successful type blog Typographica with Stephen Coles as well as Hewn and Hammered. He also runs the successful type blog Typographica with three others. Recently, he started Urban Cartography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joshua M. Spohrer

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the squarish typefaces SFmunicipal M and N (squarish, and a kitchen tile version), inspired by lettering on the older MUNI trains in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joshua Mauldin

Art director who was in North Hollywood, CA, and is now based in Charlotte, NC. Developer of custom typefaces for the 2009 film Long Nights Moon. Promotional poster. In 2016, he designed the delightfully irregular Uptown Sans.

Home page. Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joshua Tetreault

Creator of Frank Gina Typeface (hmmm---the name suggests what this is about), Friday Night Type (2009, alphadings made out of used condoms), and the calligraphic Albinoni Script (2009). He is a 2007 graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jovani Silva

Los Angeles-based designer of the dot-themed typeface Left Behind (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jovino Graphic Design

Californian graphic designer who created Best (2002, pixel font), ElCajonBoulevard (2002, narrow font), ZTermBlock (2001, pixel font), ZTerm (2001, pixel font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joy Coleman

Located in San Jose, CA, Joy Coleman is the creator of the Dr Seuss typeface in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joy Kelley
[HowJoyful Studio]

[More]  ⦿

Joy Reddick

Type designer who worked at Adobe, and who created Autologic Kis-Janson italic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joyce Huang

Los Angeles-based designer of a monoline display typeface in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Antonio Zamarripa Esqueda

Designer (b. Los Angeles, 1968, aka "Dibujado") of KLONP (2003), ProdottoInCina (2005), Lethality (2003), Cullit (2003), Cmon Near (2003), Smite (2003), Ciao (2003), WOH (2003), Yeh (2003), Unocide (2003), Pizarron (2003), Peels (2003), daBoss (2003), TheShaker (2003), Nusaliver (2003), Arbust (2003), RobustA (2003), Mousey (2001), Faces Plain (2003), OilBats-Basic (2003), 5x5-Basic (2003, pixel font), Peacechild (2003), PeaceNow-Basic (2003), blunt (2003), PineLintGerm Mousey 2.0 (2003), ClubDia (2003, grunge font), ARashNaziBlurb 1.0 (2003, grunge font), Blunter (2003, handwriting). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Leon

Juan Leon (Pasadena, CA) created an unnamed modular geometric typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Mondragon

Juan Mondragon (San Jose State University, class of 2013) created the decorative typeface Onda in 2013. This wavy typeface was inspired by Frank Gehry's architecture.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jucelle Lim

Graphic designer in Dublin, CA, who created several experimental typefaces in 2013, including Twirl It (ornamental caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Judith Sutcliffe
[Electric Typographer]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jukebox Collection
[Jason Anthony Walcott]

This is the new foundry of Hollywood, CA-based Jason Walcott, who formerly ran JAW Fonts, Jukebox Type, and Counterpoint Type Studio. JAW Fonts ceased operation in 2003 and Jason reintroduced his collection of fonts in a revised form under the new name of Jukebox Type. Established in 2015, Jukebox Collection started out with these typefaces, which are mainly remastered and recycled typefaces from JAW Fonts and Jukebox Type with original designs going back to the period 2001-2007, roughly spaeking:

View the Jukebox Collection typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Julia Beynon
[Daphne Designs]

[More]  ⦿

Julia Cadar

Art director who studied at San Diego State University and California State University. In 2014, she created the dadaist typeface Fat Julia for the Yogurtland brand . [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julia Masalska

San Francisco, CA-based designer of Braillephabet (2018), a connect-the-dots Braille emulation typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julian Bittiner
[Applied Aesthetics]

[More]  ⦿

Juliane Bone

California-based designer of the fat finger font Scenders (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Juliane Bone

Bakersfield, CA-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Scenders (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julie Ma

At San Jose State University, Julie Ma (Milpitas, CA) designed the industrial octagonal typeface Syzygy (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julie Viera

Los Angeles-based creator of the Peach Fuzz typeface (2012) and of Circa (2012, a circular arc typeface).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julieta Giner

Los Angeles, CAbased designer of the experimental circle-based typeface Westworld (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

June Lin

San Francisco-based designer of A Modern Typeface (2011), which is a refreshing take on the didone genre by lengthening and making oblique the thick slanted strokes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Junki Hong

Graduate of California Institute of the Arts (MFA) and Konkuk University (BFA). Valencia, CA-based designer of Rabbit (2018), a typeface with rabbit shoe-themed serifs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Allen

Located in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico, Justin Allen (b. California) used FontStruct to create the tall skinny font Delgado (2013), which was inspired by public lettering in Oaxaca.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Barreras

Artist in San Francisco who designed the decorative caps typeface Fiend in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Chen

For a JANM (Japanese American National Museum) exhibit on the topic of the atomic bombs of 1945, Justin Chen (Torrance, CA) designed a custom typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Crisostomo

San Francisco-based graphic designer who drew the Canopy alphabet (2009, letters in the form of a canopy). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Greene

Los Angeles-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Chloe Lavender (2016, connected signage script), Black Coffee (2016), Wooden Atelier (2016, a weathered stencil font), Explore (2016), Caleb (2016, free) and Savannah (2016). He also designed the blackletter typeface Religion (2016).

Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Hooper

Californian designer of GFHypnotrance (1996) at GarageFonts.

FontShop link. . [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Lee

Justin Lee is a digital designer based in Oakland, CA, who studied computer science and design at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently works as a product designer at Udemy, an online education company. In 2019, for the Type West program, he designed Maxine. He writes: Maxine deviates from the traditional elegance of pointed pen calligraphy by introducing concavity and flares. Maxine Display features high contrast and a rigid and condensed skeleton making it appropriate for large sizes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Post

Designer and artist at Surrealistic Designs in Merifee, CA. As a student he created a decorative all caps alphabet based on sails (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Sloane

Sloane is a designer, artist and independent publisher working in West Los Angeles. He has collaborated with Ghostly International, Total Luxury Spa, 2x4, Sharp Type, Columbia GSAPP and many others. Justin has been part of exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Printed Matter, The Tokyo Institute of Photography and The Museum of Arts and Design.

He released his debut 2-style typeface, Simula, with Sharp Type in 2019, with assistance of Lucas Sharp and My-Lan Thuong. Simula is an elegant unconventional yet functional typeface with strong calligraphic traits. [Google] [More]  ⦿

K. Kris Yoo

Kris Yoo was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. She is an interaction designer in Newport Beach, CA.

She created a pictogram font (2012) and as a Peignotian sans called Kris Sans (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kacy Domovan

Los Angeles-based designer of the hand-printed typeface Hunky Uncle (2014). She operates as Domo Designs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kai Buskirk

Studio X as founded by Kai Buskirk in 1987 and became an official design studio 1988. Kai L. Buskirk (b. 1967, California) is the son of a German immigrant. At Fontspace, one can download his free fonts, such as the minimalist sans typeface A Beat By Kai (2011).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kailey Haerr

Illustrator in San Diego who designed Alphabet Crystals in 2015, and Fantasie Tales and Pretzel in 2016. She also created several untitled modular typefaces using FontStruct in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaitlyn Rasmussen

During her studies in San Diego, Kaitlyn Rasmussen created the angular emotional typeface Anxiety (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaitlyn White

During her studies at San Francsco State University, Kaitlyn White designed Construct Regular (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kamal Mansour

Kamal Mansour, educated in Cairo, used to run Kappa Type in Palo Alto, CA, and was involved in software, fonts and keyboards for some languages. Thereafter, he joined Monotype in 1996 where he is now involved in OpenType implementations for various scripts including Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew. At Monotype, from his base in Los Altos, CA, his responsibilities includes growing the library of non-Latin scripts, investigating potential products, in-house consulting, as well as assisting customers with font specifications.

He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Nastaliq style through open type, about which he writes: Designed by Pakistani calligrapher Mirza Jamil, Noori Nastaliq is a calligraphic Urdu script typeface originally devised for use on a Monotype imagesetter in the 1970s. Once this proprietary equipment became obsolete, Noori Nastaliq could not be readily implemented for many years with the digital technology at the time. With the advent and maturation of OpenType technology, Noori Nastaliq is once again alive. In spite of the many graphic complexities of Nastaliq style such as its oblique alignment to the baseline and its cursive connections, OpenType proved sufficient for the task.

In 2015, Patrick Giasson and Kamal Mansour co-designed the Arabic script typeface Bustani at Monotype. Bustani is the first OpenType font to offer full classical Naskh contextual shaping. It covers Arabic, Farsi and Urdu. Bustani won an award at TDC 2016.

Speaker at TypeCon 2012 in Milwaukee and at ATypI 2015 in Sao Paulo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

kame Design (was: kametype)
[Joachim Müller-Lancé]

Joachim Müller-Lancé is a German designer (born St. Wendel, Saar, 1961), who was trained in Basel and at the Cooper Union in New York. He had his own studio in Barcelona, where he taught information design at Elisava School. He was lead information designer for Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco for 3 years. Currently, he lives in Umkirch near Freiburg and/or San Francisco. Timeline of his achievements:

  • 1993. His Lancé type family (FF Lancé) won him the coveted Morisawa award in 1993.
  • His typefaces Flood (brush), Ouch and Shuriken Boy are available from Adobe.
  • He designed the kanji/Latin typeface Shirokuro, which won two awards at the 1999 Morisawa Awards.
  • 1996. He created an outline face.
  • 1997. He established kametype in 1997. Emodigi site.
  • 2001. In 2001, he started up Typebox with Mike Kohnke. His fonts there include Monodular (2003), Tiny Tim and TX Cortina (1997, an LED style face). At Bukvaraz 2001, he won awards for Nichiyou Daiku, Shuriken, Pesaro and Shirokuro.
  • 2002. He co-designed the dingbat font TXSignal Signifort (Typebox) with eight others.
  • 2006. At AND in 2006, he created the hand signal dingbat font H-AND-S together with Jean-Benoît Lévy, Diana Alisandra Stoen, Sylvestre Lucia and Mike Kohnke.
  • 2011. In 2011, he published Uppercut Angle (Delve Fonts), which was originally developed for the Krav Maga training center of San Francisco. Also at Delve, he (re-)published the futuristic family Cortina in that year. With Ernesto Gonzalez Serros, he co-designed Chato.
  • 2012. With Erik Adigard of MAD Design in Sausalito, he created the rounded octagonal monospace typeface family Oktal Mono (Delve Fonts).
  • 2015. Owlphabet (a decorative caps font).
  • 2015. Fleisch Wolf & Wurst: a fun German expressionist blackletter typeface.
  • 2015. Stenciletta (Delve Fonts).

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Creative market link.

View Joachim Müller-Lanceé's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kami Kalandjian

Northridge, CA-based designer of the display typeface Armenika (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karl Nayeri
[Prime Graphics (was: PolyType)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kasey Mahoney

Californian designer. Creator of the typeface 101 (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kassi Tamres

Southern California-based Kassi Tamres created the calligraphic typeface Mog Gothic in 2011 at iFontMaker. Other creations there include Gizmo Hand (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kat Catmur

Graduate of CalArts who lives in Los Angeles. She designed the thin geometric typeface Acquiesce in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kat Madrigal

Kat Madrigal (UC Berkeley, CA) designed the clean sans typeface Purifico in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katarina Stojkovic

Los angeles, CA (and before that, Belgrade, Serbia)-based designer of Geometric Hurricane (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katelyn Kreitzer Kreitzer

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the alchemic typeface Cogni (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katherine Foster

San Francisco, CA-based designer of the hipster typeface Duboce (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kathleen The

Downey, CA-based designer of the seashell-inspired typeface Shellter (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katie Heater

Irvine, CA-based designer of the brush font Moon Beam (2020), the script font Fly By Night (2020), and the rubber stamp font Porthallow (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katie Orenstein

Katie Orenstein, an art history graduate of UCLA, started KO Design in Los Angeles in 2010. Creator of the iFontMaker font KO Fancy Pants (2010, a hand-printed face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kayla Eldenburg

During her studies in San Diego, CA, Kayla Eldenburg designed a balackletter alphabet (2015), the lava lamp typeface Paisley (2015), and a silhouette font (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kayla Martinez

Orange, CA-based designer of Motion Font (2015, a simple light sans typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kayla Peterson

North Hollywood, CA-based graphic designer who created the Midnight Leaves display typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaytie Gamble

Long Beach, CA-based designer of the display typefaces Reboot (2012) and Hello Deer (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

KB Studio
[Kourosh Beigpour]

Type foundry in Los Angeles, CA, run by Kourosh Beigpour. Its typefaces:

  • K-B-Cuneiform (2012), a cuneiform typeface used in Order of Darius the Great (by R.M. Ghiasabadi, Shoor Afarin Pub).
  • Jomhuria (2015). A free Google Font for Persian/Arabic and Latin, suitable for headline and other display usage. The Arabic script was designed by Kourosh Beigpour, and the Latin was designed by Eben Sorkin. The font is engineered by Lasse Fister, and the technicalities build upon those developed by Khaled Hosny for his Amiri font. Github link.
  • Katibeh (2015-2016). A free Google web font for Arabic and Latin. Katibeh is a headline font based on the Naskh script, infused with some qualities of the Thuluth script. Arabic design by Kourosh Beigpour, Latin design by Eduardo Tunni, engineering by Lasse Fister. Github link. They write: Jomhuria is a dark Persian/Arabic and Latin display typeface, suitable for headline and other display usage. The name means republic, and the spark of inspiration for the design was a stencil of Shablon showing just a limited character set just for the Persian language without any marks, vowels or Latin glyphs. Shablon was designed 30 years ago in Iran, and is reinterpreted by Kourosh to incorporate contemporary techniques, aesthetics and of course some personal taste. While inspired by the spirit of Shablon, Jomhuria is a new typeface that stands on its own. Kourosh created an additional original Latin design that is tailored to harmonize with the aesthetics of the Persian/Arabic design. Open Font Library link.
  • Mirza (2015-2016). A free Google Font for Arabic based on the Naskh script. Github link.
  • Kanun and Kanun Chromatic (2015-2016). Arabic typefaces that won an award at Granshan 2017.
  • Anaqa (2021, Canada Type). An Arabic typeface originally intended as a companion for Canada Type's Semplicita Pro.
  • Qasida (2021, Canada Type). A lively curly Arabic plaything.
  • Risala (2022, Canada Type). A modern calligraphic Arabic typeface in the Naskh / Muhaqqaq tradition.
Behance link. Google Plus link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keal Jones

Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of California, 2012. Creator of an experimental typeface in 2012. Keal also made Skate Plaza (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keidi Rehe

Estonian designer who made a Basque / slab serif face in 2011. In 2013, she created the tweetware font Jannsen and was located in San Francisco.

Devian Tart link. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keith Hayden
[Blackdreamist]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kel Troughton

California native who attended Cooper West in 2018. During that study year, he started the design of Oaks, which was published in 2020 at Future Fonts. Oaks is a display typeface with a friendly attitude and a great deal of character. [...] It is based on the sign painting letter structure of the late 1800s with influences from Showcard greats like Ross F. George and E. C. Mathews. Originally designed as a toolkit for the small country grocery stores I grew up visiting in Sonoma County, California. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelli Willcoxson

Graphic designer in Murrieta, CA. In 2021, she designed the display sans typeface Quirk. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelly Morrison

Los Angeles-based designer of a squarish industrial typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelly Nettles

Graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute who cooperated on the typeface Kuchar (2012). She also made the free font Puff Paint (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelsey Rahmgren

Graphic designer in the San Francisco Bay area who created the curly script typeface Dame in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelsey Schott

Orange, CA-based designer of the modular typeface Chardonnay (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelsey Thayer

Graphic designer and typographer in Clifton Park, NY. In 2010, he created TechnoServe and Modular. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelsi Mathey

Chapman University graduate who was born and raised in Redlands, CA. In 2012, she created the caps typeface Not For Fake Lovers, which was inspired by French iron work. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelvin Esparza

San Jose, CA-based designer of the outlined display typeface Essentials (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ken Lunde

Dr. Ken Lunde is Manager of CJKV Type Development at Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA. He holds a Ph.D. (1994) in Linguistics from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wrote Understanding Japanese Information Processing (O'Reilly&Associates, 1993), and CJKV Information Processing (O'Reilly&Associates, 1999). He also wrote CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean&Vietnamese Computing (O'Reilly). In 2010, Adobe will release the first genuinely proportional Japanese font, Kazuraki (by Japanese type designer Ryoko Nishizuka), which was developed at Adobe in 2009 under his management.

Ken managed the Source Han Sans project---these are open source fonts released in 2014 by Adobe and Google for Japanese, Chinese and Korean. He also headed the development of Source Han Serif.

In 2018, Ken Lunde and Masataka Hattori co-designed Soukou Mincho (free at Fontsquirrel).

In 2019, he created the experimental variable font Width at Adobe. Github link.

Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of The History of Japan's Era Name Square Ligatures, and in particular, the two-kanji square ligatures for the five most recent eras, Reiwa (2019), Heisei (1989), Shouwa, Taishou and Meiji. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ken Messenger

Burbank, CA-based art director who created the futuristic family Krakatoa (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ken Phipps
[hyperdigitalinteraction]

[More]  ⦿

Ken Russell
[Atlantic Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kendra Wiley

Menlo Park, CA-based designer of the pixelish Snake Font (2016), which is based on the 8-bit phone game Snake. This typeface was done during Kendra's studies at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenji Chang

Kenji Wai Chang was raised In Macau. In 2006, Kenji moved to the United States to study graphic design at San Jose State University. Her Mirage typeface (2012) is based on Salvador Dali's paintings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenji Enos

West Sacramento, CA-based designer of the rounded sans Simplex (2012), the tall-legged Twiggy Display (2012), the sans family Locksmith Display (2012, an experiment on inline), the arched shadow headline typeface Architype (2012), the bicolored geometric typeface El Grito (2012), Squirrel Display (2012), the geometric layered typeface Chunky Display (2012), and the Western slab typeface Slabtastic Display (2012).

Typefaces from 2013 include Samuel Display (+Clean, +Ruff), Industry Display (+Raised, +Inline, +Lined: an octagonal typeface family), Winter Display (a spurred typeface), Delilah Display, Wellington Display. The Condensed weight of this family is tweetware. Rockefeller Display has mini-slabs characteristic of copperplate. Barker Display is a condensed straight-edged typeface. Elizabeth Display has so many different crazy terminals that it must be classified as high-Victorian.

Typefaces from 2014: Euclid Display (octagonal, free), Cornelius Display (weathered slab serif), Quentin Display.

Typefaces from 2015: Magnolia Display (free), Bear Display (a heavy octagonal typeface), Mable Display (spurred vintage typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Bear (modular and squarish), Rosemary Display (a great slab serif family), Magnolia Display, Quentin Display v.2, Ember Display (a high-contrast didone), Elder Display (a free transitional style typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: Kenjiboy Village Plus (reverse stress psychedelia).

Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenley Tiesmeyer

During his stiudies at Chapman University, Kenley Tiesmeyer (Orange, CA) designed the color font Marble Sans (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenneth MacKillop

Student at City College of San Francisco who created this handwriting font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenneth Woodruff

Freelance designer and animator, who lives and works in San Francisco. He created the train station display family Next Stop (2005). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kenny

Type designer from Huntington Beach, CA, who created Negatori, Eclipse and Castro. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenny Myers

Ventura, CA-based creator of the chiseled look typeface ABC (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenny Rollins

Graduate of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. Web and graphic designer in San Francisco who created the typeface Konverse (2013, octagonal). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kestrel Montes
[Ink Me This]

[More]  ⦿

Ketchup n Mustard
[Jaime Van Wart]

Art director in Los Angeles, who studied at NC State University (class of 2008). Jaime Van Wart was a full-time product and visual designer for IBM's Lotus software group, and designed original typefaces and custom lettering. She created the Victorian typefaces Restoration and Vodarna in 2009. In 2018, she designed the display sans typeface Gipsy, the modulated sans Pacific, the blackletter typeface Eastwatch, and the geometric sans typeface Admiral. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kevin Barrett Kane

Book and type designer in Denver, CO (and San Francisco, CA) with an exquisite taste for fine classical typefaces. He cofounded The Frontispiece in 2015, and currently serves as senior book designer at University of California Press. He has designed books for Stanford University Press, Chronicle Books, Amazon Publishing, Dzanc Books, FG Press, and John Wiley & Sons. Graduate of Type West in San Francisco, class of 2020. His typefaces:

  • FPO (2020). FPO (for placement only) is a classy and classical typeface for books started during his studies at Type West in 2020.
  • Bremer Antiqua (2022?). A revival of Bremer Presse Antiqua (Willy Wiegand, 1912), a typeface designed for and used exclusively by the Bremer Presse.
  • Mustard Sans. Based on letters in the Lehmann Label Collection.
  • Benson Ultra. Presentation in the course Introduction to Type Design with Graham Bradley.
  • Rosc Geometric. A modular multi-layer typeface, designed in the Experimental Letterforms Workshop by Sun Helen and Maria Doreuli.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Kevin Mao

San Francisco-based designer of the hexagonal typeface Hex Song (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kevin McMahon

San Jose, CA-based designer of the cartoon fonts Dojo Toon (2017), Dojo Wave (2017) and Ann Telnaes (2017: based on the handwriting of political cartoonist Ann Telnaes). Other fonts: Dojo Block (2017), Ronin (2018: brush style).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kidon Bae
[Tive Inc]

[More]  ⦿

Kile Brekke

Fine artist, fashion photographer and graphic designer in San Francisco. She created Paperboat (2010, geometric, art deco) and Meisky (2010, a Peignotian sans). I also like her other work, which is often in gray, black and white---see, e.g., her Bonnydoon Syrah wine bottle label design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kim Cyprian

San Diego, CA-based illustrator who created the decorative caps set Ocean Alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kimberly Gordon

Woodland Hills, CA-based creator of Grunge Type (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kimberly Mar

Graphic designer in Long Beach, CA, who created an experimental typeface called Replay (2013) based on the shapes of ribbons and wheels of cassette tapes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kimmy Design
[Kimmy Kirkwood]

Kimmy Kirkwood (b. 1988, Seattle, WA) (Kimmy Design) studied at Chapman University, and lives in Santa Monica, Orange County. He graduated in 2018 from the University of Reading's MATD program.

Kimmy created a gracious curly calligraphic script face, Madeleine (2010), which is based on a logo she designed for Hotel Le Sirenuse.

At Dafont, one can download Kuppel (a hairline display sans) and Hammer Head, both done in 2010 as well.

Phase two of Kimmy's career started late in 2010 as Kimmy Design, where one now has to pay for Madeleine (2010) and Katelyn (2011). Addison (2011) is a wood type Western circus poster font in two styles, West and Circus.

In 2012, Kimmy created the counterless art deco typeface Chelsnuts, the worn wood type typeface Cpl Kirkwood, Elizabeth Script, and Paper Cutout Pro.

In 2013, Kimmy published Lunchbox Slab, the grungy Appareo, the condensed minimalist sans family Maxwell Sans, its companion Maxwell Slab, the scriptish typeface Lunch Box, and the bold headline family Station (inspired by old train station typography).

Typefaces from 2014: Catalina (hand-drawn typeface family with sub-styles called Anacapa, Avalon, Clemente Script, Typewriter and Extras, ideal for hand-drawn menus, table cards, chalkboards, and wall quotes), Amorie (a skinny hand-drawn family, with styles called Modella, Nova, SC and Extras).

Typefaces from 2015: Avaline Script, Baker Street (vintage hand-drawn typeface family), Burford (a 16-style vintage layered family), Burford Rustic (layered font family).

Typefaces from 2016: Bourton (a layered font for vintage yacht club or whiskey bar logos; it is the sans version of Burford; sufamilies include Drop, Lines and Outlines), Rainier (handcrafted).

Typefaces from 2017: Evanston Alehouse (octagonal, beer bottle style, slightly copperplate), Bourton Hand.

Typefaces from 2018: Clifton (his MATD graduation typeface): Clifton is a modern type family with many weights and contrast styles. It supports Latin scripts as well as Greek, Cyrillic and Arabic. Originally intended as a book typeface, it was designed so that all the weights and styles would work together as a cohesive family.

Typefaces from 2019: Refinery (an 85-style octagonal family based in early 20th century signage), Evanston Tavern (Evanston Tavern is a square typeface and the sans-serif version to Evanston Alehouse. Inspired by the years that prefaced the ratification of the American Prohibition, this typeface mimics the signage commonly seen outside of saloons, taverns and alehouses during that time.), Winslow Book (a playful modern Scotch).

Typefaces from 2020: Roadhouse (a layering typeface family that is part of the greater Evanston type collection, which is inspired by American typefaces commonly used at the turn of the century leading up to prohibition), Winslow Title (a decorative didone family), Winslow Title Script (monoline), Hawkes (Sans, Script, Variable Width Sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Madley (a 12-style soft slab serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Bourton Text (an elliptical sans in 42 styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kimmy Kirkwood
[Kimmy Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kiosk Fonts
[Frank Grießhammer]

Kiosk Fonts (Berlin) was founded in 2008 by Frank Griesshammer (b. 1983, Nuremberg, Germany), a graduate of HBKsaar in Saarbrücken (2008) and of the Masters program in type design at KABK (2010). His graduation project in Den Haag involved the multi-pen typeface Quixo (2010), which seems to be have just the right flexibility for packaging and ads. Frank lived in Den Haag, but joined Adobe's type department in 2011.

His alphabets from 2008: Fleischwurst Fett (blackletter), Drückerei (grunge by Haiko Günther), Sommerfest, Rex Mundi (by Haiko Günther), PX Barok (a stitching and needle typeface), Ghana Signpainters Divine Healer (by Haiko Günther), Pappe (randomized cut-out face), Wüste Fraktale (a pixel blackletter by Haiko Günther), A4, Ghana Signpainters Safari (by Haiko Günther), Ghana Signpainters Cocktail (comic book and ad style by Haiko Günther), Format, Black Frituur (blackletter by Haiko Günther), Monaural (geometric), Steelcut (based on Woodcut; by Haiko Günther), Coswig, Roundenau (very rounded).

In 2009, he did revivals of Memphis (original by Rudolf Wolf, 1929) and Stempel Elan (original by Hans Möhring, 1936). The latter typeface was published by Linotype.

In 2013, he made HWT Tuscan Extended (Hamilton Wood Type). Hamilton Wood Type explains: It is based on the 1872 William Page & Co. version, while also bearing a very close resemblance to the Morgans & Wilcox Tuscan Extended and No. 2106 from Tubbs Manufacturing Co. It is similar to the Heber Wells Tuscan Extended. All four manufacturers were eventually acquired by Hamilton. The Hamilton designation for this design was simply No. 303. The National Printers' Material Co. of New York also offered a similar Tuscan Extended.

FontShop published his school project font Quixo as FF Quixo in 2013. Quixo won an award at TDC 2014.

In 2014, Frank designed the free Source Serif typeface family at Adobe, to accompany Paul Hunt's Source Sans Pro (2012). It is a transitional family influenced by Perre Simon Fournier's styles from 1742. Google Web Fonts download link. CTAN download. He designed the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs that are included with Source Han Serif (2017). In 2021, Frank Griesshammer updated Source Serif. This new version of Source Serif supports six weights and five optical sizes, both in static and variable formats. Design changes were made from the original Source Serif Pro.

At Adobe, he participated in Adobe Handwriting (based on the handwriting of Frank Grießhammer, Ernest March and Tiffany de Sousa Wardle).

Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam where he spoke on a renewed effort at Adobe with respect to kerning.

In 2019, Colophon and Frank Griesshammer released DM Serif Display and DM Serif Text at Google Fonts. Based on Adobe Serif Pro (by Frank Griesshammer), it is a high-contrast transitional typeface with only one weight. Github link.

Klingspor link. Old URL. Old home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kirk Shelton

Graphic artist and illustrator from Martinez, CA. Designer of Haliwax (2012), License Plates (2012), CocosFritos (2010), Quickrite (2010), GhettoMarquee (2010), Love Romance (2010, Valentine's day dingbats), Hellafont (2009, outlined and hand-printed), Blog the Impailer (2009, a 3d face), Apocalypse Fax (2009), Brutal Tooth (2009), My First F (2009, hand-printed), Negatron (2009, futuristic), DeccoDisco (2009), Tyro Sans (2009), Take Out the Garbage (2009, hand-printed), Pee Pants Script (2009), Oakland Hills 1991 (2009, burning letters), Santa Carla (2009, futuristic), Faucet (2009), Kitten Meat (2009), Koobz (2007, 3d cubic face) and Bowellberalta (2007, rounded fat caps-only face).

Dafont link. Fontsy link. Designmoo link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kisman Studio (was: Holland Fonts)
[Max Kisman]

Max Kisman (b. 1953, Doetinchem) is a Dutch freelance graphic designer who graduated in 1977 in graphic design, typography, illustration and animation at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1986, he co-founded TYP/Typografisch Papier, and taught graphic design and typography at various colleges in the Netherlands in the years following that. He is principal of MKDSGN, his studio in Mill Valley, California, and founded Holland Fonts, a foundry for his typeface designs in 2002. Max teaches graphic design, typography and typeface design in San Francisco. He currently lives in Mill Valley, CA.

His early typefaces: ExtendedMaxMixOne (1991), Rosetta, Jacque (1991, FontFont), Fudoni (1991), the experimental font Linear Konstruct (FUSE 2).

He wrote a coffeetable book on typography in the streets of Paris, but no book store in Paris seems to have it, and I have looked! He is editor of Tribe.

In 2002, he started Holland Fonts. His fonts there: Bebedot Blonde (2002), Bebedot Black, Bfrika (2002, an interesting African lettering font), Cattlebrand (2002), Chip 96 (2002), Chip 02 (2002), Circuit Closed (2002), Circuit Open, Interlace Single (2002), Interlace Double, Mundenge Rock (2002), Nevermind (2003, a cut-out style reminiscent of Saul Bass's movie titling types), Pacific Sans (2003), Pacific Serif (2003), Pacific Standard L, Pacific Standard B, Pacific Classic L (2002, artsy, stylish), Pacific Classic B, Quickstep Regular (2002, an angular font), Quickstep Bold, Quickstep Sans R, Quickstep Sans B, Submarine (2003, an octagonal font family), Traveller Regular (2002), Traveller Bold, Tribe Mono (2003, a tech font), Zwartvet (2002, a Van Doesburg/ De Stijl type font).

Four free ransom note fonts made in 2003: Dutch Doubles, Frisco Remix, We Love Your Font, MaxMix One. At Union Fonts, he (re-)published Bebedot, BFRIKA, Cattlebrand, Chip01, Chip02, Pacific, Quickstep, Submarine and Traveller in 2003, and Mata Hari (Indic simulation typeface in weights called Exotique, Hollandaise and Parisienne) and Xbats (2004, Christmas dingbats) in 2004.

In 2017, Max Kisman was asked to design a naked font for the Dutch printing association, Drukwerk in de marge. It is called Genitaal XXX.

Speaker at ATypI 2004 in Prague.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Illustration Daily link.

His bestselling fonts at MyFonts. Pic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

K.K. Rakitawan

Art director who runs KK Design in San Francisco. He created the bulby liquid typeface Dreamer (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

K.N. Luna

Scientist from San Diego, CA, who made these screen and/or pixel typefaces at FontStruct in 2010: Light Bar, Light Dot, Pokemon Pixel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kosal Sen
[Philatype]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kosta Stratigos

Cranbrook Academy of Art student who designed Heft (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kourosh Beigpour
[KB Studio]

[More]  ⦿

Kreative Korporation (was: Relay Fonts, or: Kreative Software)
[Rebecca Bettencourt]

Relay Fonts (Rebecca Bettencourt, aka Beckie RGB, and also known as Kreative Korporation and Kreative Software) offers a number of free fonts.

  • Their main list of fonts, 2003-2010: Alisha, CosmicSpamMS, DotCom, Eighteen, Felicia, FluorineLite, FluorineLiteMikiana, Glass, GlathenGirl, Infinity, Kaileen, Kawakimi, LongIsland, LongIslandIcedTea, Madgecrack, MikaPro, Miranda25, Miranda27, OpenDocRocks (hairline sans), SixthKristenSquirt, Sorority, Tenbitesch, ThiMegaTampon.
  • Designers in 2008 of the large free typeface Constructium seen at the Open Font Library.

    They write: Constructium is a free font for supporting constructed scripts, as encoded in the Unofficial ConScript Unicode Registry. It is based on SIL Gentium and thus released under the SIL Open Font License. Constructium is ideal for mixed Latin/Greek/Cyrillic, IPA, and conlang text, thus well suited for conlangers' web sites. In addition to most Latin and Greek, basic Cyrillic, and IPA extensions, Constructium supports the following conscripts: Tengwar, Cirth, Amman-Nar, Olaetyan, Seussian Latin Extensions, Sylabica (isolated forms only, no syllables), Unifon, Solresol, Glaitha-A, Glaitha-B, Deini, Kamakawi (encoded at U+F000), and Klingon.

  • They made the pixel fonts Chixa, Epilepsy Sans (2011), Fairfax (+Bold, +Italic, +Serif), FluorineMicro, Goethe (+Bold), Hippauf, KKFixed4x5, KKFixed4x7, KKPx4, Magdalena (+Bold), McMillen (+Bold), Mischke (+Bold), Monterey (+Bold), SeaChelUnicode, SixteenSegments, dwtMicro, dwtMicroMask.
  • Fontstructor who made SF Subway (2011), a kitchen tile typeface based on tiled lettering seen in the San Francisco MUNI system, Underclocked (2012), Great Rounded Matrix (2012, a dot matrix face), Fonteriana (2014), Thin Martin (2014).
  • Discontinued fonts: Berkelium Bitmap, Endcurled, Lauren, Sunflower's Illegible Writing, Berkelium Type, Fluorine, Mikkav, Unmodified Fax, C Colon Backslash, Hydrogenfluoride, Modern Grease, Copyright Renewed, Infinite, Signatures.
  • Conlang fonts: Constructium, Nuvenon (Tehano Venon for Ayeri).
  • The Urban Renewal series revives the old Apple typefaces with new names: Liverpool (aka London), Sanfrisco (aka San Francisco), Los Altos (aka Los Angeles), Torrance (aka Toronto), Athene (aka Athens), Parc Place (aka Cream, aka Palo Alto), Valencia (aka Venice).
  • Faithful recreations in 2011 of pixel fonts of old computers, notably Apple II [BerkeliumIIDHR, BerkeliumIIHGR, PRNumber3, PrintChar21, Shaston320, Shaston640, ShastonHi320, ShastonHi640], Commodore 64 [Berkelium1541, Berkelium64, Giana, PetMe, PetMe128, PetMe1282Y, PetMe2X, PetMe2Y, PetMe64, PetMe642Y], Apple Lisa [EmptyFolders2X3Y, EmptyFoldersRaw, Engelbart2X3Y, EngelbartRaw, LisaCalcPaper2X3Y, LisaCalcPaperRaw, LisaGraphPaper2X3Y, LisaGraphPaperRaw, LisaGuidePaper2X3Y, LisaGuidePaperRaw, LisaProjectPaper2X3Y, LisaProjectPaperRaw, LisaSketchPaper2X3Y, LisaSketchPaperRaw, LisaTerminalPaper2X3Y, LisaTerminalPaperRaw, LisaTerminalPaperSmall2X3Y, LisaTerminalPaperSmallRaw, PriamWhamos2X3Y, PriamWhamosRaw, SomeAcronym2X3Y, SomeAcronymRaw, StartupFrom2X3Y, StartupFromRaw, Twiggy2X3Y, TwiggyRaw], and others [Antiquarius, CandyAntics, ColleenAntics, DosStartDefaultFont, ItalianPlumber, Speccy].
  • Custom fonts: Jewel Hill, Miss Diode n Friends, This is Beckie's Font.
  • Under the alias of Jon Relay, Rebecca made mostly handwriting fonts: Eighteen, Nineteen, Felicia (2002), Ditch The Logical, Endcurled, Alisha (2003), AdministratorPassword, BerkeliumBitmap, BerkeliumType, CopyrightRenewed, Cosmic Spam, DotCom, DWT, Eighteen, Fluorine (+Lite), Fonteri, Glass (3d face), Glathen Girl (2004), Hydrogenfluoride, Infinity, Jewel Hill, Kaileen (2004), Kawakimi, Make Lots of Graphs, Jon'sNewRoman, Jon'sSupercondensed, Kelly, Lauren, Matal, Miranda 27, Mikkav, Modern Grease (Greek simulation), OpenDocRocks, Plastic, ReturnofRelayScript, SCSIPort, Sexy Sara (2002), Sixth Kristen Squirt, Sorority, Teen Dreem Magazeen, Tenbitesch, UnmodifiedFax, Jewel Hill (2002, based on artwork by Amy Taramasso).
  • Typefaces from 2012: Hippauf (pixel face), Fairfax (pixel family), Thi Mega Tampon, Tenbitesch (curly face), Sorority, Miranda 25, Mika Pro, Madgecrack, Long Island, Long Island Ice Tea.
  • Typefaces from 2013: Constructium (a text typeface adapted from J. Victor Gaultney's Gentium (2003)).
  • Typefaces from 2017-2019: Kreative Square (a wide monospaced sans), Fairfax HD.

Dafont link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristen Ankiewicz

Kristen Ankiewicz offered lovely type 3 fonts and postscript examples of fancy things such as curlicue letters, and beads. She also has a lovely Celtic alphabet done in Adobe Illustrator. Fractal postscript demos as well. All free, of course. The fonts are here. Kirsten runs Ankiewicz Studios, an art studio in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristi Weber

Graduate of the University of Califiornia at Santa Barbara. Designer of a floral alphabet in 1983 simply called Kristi's Caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristie Drews
[Echo Foxx Studios]

[More]  ⦿

Kristin Hinkley

Graphic designer who graduated from Chapman University, and who is based in Irvine, County, CA. The wrought iron of New Orleans inspired her typeface French Quarter (2011). Kristin Hinkley design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristina Micotti

Graphic designer and illustrator in San Diego who made several decorative hand-printed typefaces such as Animal, Dash Sans, Slabby Strings, Woolly Bully.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristina Ramos

Kristina Ramos (Union City, CA) created the curvy tall-legged sans typeface Kamber (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristine Arth

Kristine Arth (San Francisco, CA) is the founder and principal designer behind Lobster Phone. During a workshop at Type Paris 2018, she designed Mademoiselle Didot, a curvaceous typeface that celebrates the human form with references to Firmin Didot and Eero Saarinen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kurt Texter

Design student in San Francisco who made the fun typre drawning called Velociraptor (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyle Bridgman

Designer in Los Angeles who created a South Miami style deco typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyle Macy

Art director in San Francisco who created the poster typeface Chocolate Heads (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyle Miller

Kyle Miller Creative is located in Los Angeles. Kyle created a free set of numerals (in vector format) called Ledgewood (2013) as an homage to West Coast modernism. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kylee Fauss

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the octagonal typeface Poutine (2016), which was influenced by Russian constructivism. [Google] [More]  ⦿

La Lettre de Luxe
[April Carter Grant]

Los Angeles-based designer of these handcrafted typefaces in 2017: Emmerin (emulation of chalk writing), Bull Run, Gingha (curly font), Abbazzo Comic, Basic Bits (a casual monoline sans typeface), Fairelyn Fantasy, Lipstick on the Mirror, Murderino, Murderino2. Creative Market link. Creative Market link for Design Tyrant. [Google] [More]  ⦿

La Renaissance Girl

San Diego, CA-based designer of the handcrafted typeface School Girl (2016) and the dry brush typeface Paintbrush (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

L'Abécédarienne's Original Handlettered Fonts
[Amy E. Conger]

Amy Conger's free fonts: Halcyon (handwriting), Splurge (handwriting), Ticket Caps, Thicket (1999), Respess Capitals (2003), Duerer Latin (1995-1997), Cricket (1997, double-stroked hand), Gaudin, Revolving Door, Duerer Everyday Tools. Mostly original, mostly handlettered fonts, plus a gallery of unusual lettering and texts. She teaches type design at the City College of San Francisco.

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

Lalelum
[David Kazaryan]

Based in Los Angeles, California, Lalelum was founded by designer David Kazaryan in 2021. In 2022, he released Square Cat (a blocky art deco typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

LaLuna Chabbani

In 2016, as a student in San Francisco, LaLuna created the experimental typeface Coded using HTML CSS, and Javascript. This typeface is interactive and its edges point to a specific direction a user wants to explore. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lana Gao

Graphic designer in San Jose, CA, who created the angular typeface Summer Color (2012) and the artsy typeface Cheesy (2012). Before California, Lana lived in Shanghai.

Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Landon Blake

Fontstructor who made My Orchard (2012, a fattish modular typeface). Aka Sunburned Surveyor.

Home page. Landon is a land surveyor in California and Nevada and lives in Stockton, CA, after graduating from the Flathead Valley Community College in Montana. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lani Kercado

Los Angeles, CA-based designer. Creator of the tall hairline typeface Caribbean Blue (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lara Alexandra Glück

Born and educated in Los Angeles, Lara moved to Europe to study at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. At typeoff.de, she created the experimental typeface Argos (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lara Khodanian

During her studies in San Diego, CA, Lara Khodanian designed the pixelish typeface Hundertwasser (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lara McCormick

Lara has a Bachelor of Arts, Sociology (1993) from UCLA, a Masters in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2007), and a certificate in typography from the Cooper Union in New York (2011). She taught at Pratt in New York from 2007 until 2009, at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 2007 until 2011, and at the New Hampshire Institute of Art from 2012 onwards. Lara designed a few typefaces during her career. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Larry Brady

Lawrence Robert Brady (b. International Falls, MN, 1936-d. Salida, CO, 2023) was an American calligrapher, type designer, graphic designer, and educator. He studied Fine Arts at Montana State College and then completed a Masters Degree in design from California State University Long Beach. He taught for some time at Cerritos College. Brady's type designs include the titling font he designed in the 1980s for the J. Paul Getty Trust and Museum in Los Angeles (he was commissioned by Saul Bass to work on the museum's identity). Obituary. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Larry Young
[Planet Lar]

[More]  ⦿

Laura Bennett
[Laura Bennett Design]

[More]  ⦿

Laura Bennett Design
[Laura Bennett]

Los Angeles-based designer. During her studies at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN, Laura Bennett designed a constructivist typeface (2012). In 2014, she designed Egidio. In 2020, she designed the dry brush font Mattina Sera with the help of New Tropical Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Garcia

Laura Garcia is a graphic designer and illustrator from Nicaragua where she worked several years in advertising and marketing agencies. In 2019, for the Type West program, she designed the angular Oldrich Menhart-inspired typeface Monimbo. Still at Type West, she revived W.A. dwiggins's Electra (1935) as Azzalea (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Pol
[Olio Studio (was: Pol Designs)]

[More]  ⦿

Laura Schneider

Los Angeles-based creator of a typographic logo for The Little Bureau (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Tjho

Laura is a graphic designer and illustrator based in the Bay Area. Graduate of TypeWest, class of 2021 At TypeWest, she designed the curvy display typeface Emerald (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Young

Santa Rosa, CA-based creator of the display typeface Ambrosia (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Armenta

Graphic designer in Orange, CA. Creator of the display typeface Flunk (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Ashpole
[The Living End]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Filzenger

San Diego, CA-based student-designer of the initial caps typeface Flower Sans (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Hart

Lauren E. Hart is an art director and graphic designer in San Francisco. At Type West 2019, she designed the soulful sans typeface family Apatow in Condensed, Text and Black styles, with many references to movie poster design, in particular comedy blockbuster posters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Hostetter

During a study period at Type@Cooper West in San Francisco, Lauren Hostetter (Sacramento, CA) designed the Dutch style text typeface Hydraulis (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Jochum

Berkeley-based brand director at Quip. Graduate of Type West in San Francisco, class of 2020. Her graduation typeface there was Gramercy, a high contrast, high drama typeface, with both display and text styles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Kobayashi

Lauren Kobayashi (Bakersfield, CA) created the Wedgie typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Owen

Freelance graphic designer in San Diego, who created these typefaces in 2013: Kiya (a beautiful display typeface that brims with native Indian symbolism), Feesh (a sketched typeface), and Cabana (a blackboard bold typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauri Johnsen

Based in Orange County, CA, Lauri Johnsen is working on the stencil typeface Tuscan Stencil (2005) and Breccia Stencil (2004). Designer of a 2-pixel (!!!) font described here (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laurie McCanna

Freelance computer illustrator in Pacifica, CA. Author of "Creating Great Web Graphics". Some free art. Designed a few typefaces of her own, mostly licensed to NIMX Foundry: Scat, Scat Dingbats, Jitterbat (1994), Jitterbug (1994), Holiday Mix, and Faces. Other typefaces include Spud Dude, Beebop (2009, a sixties party font), and NIMX Nature Mix (NIMX, 1995).

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

Laurie Szujewska

Sonoma-based Adobe art director and designer of the Adobe font Giddyup (1993, with rope letters). And of the ornament font Giddyup Thangs. From her web page: Laurie Szujewska is the principal of Szujewska Design, a firm specializing in graphic design and typography for use in the education and entertainment of children. Ms. Szujewska received her MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art, where she studied with Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, Wolfgang Weingart, Armin Hofmann and Edward Tufte. She joined Silicon Valley's Adobe Systems early in its formation, serving as art director in Adobe's type products division under the leadership of Sumner Stone. Szujewska was responsible for the design of the award-winning Adobe Original type specimen books series, the magazine Font and Function, and the creation of the typeface Giddyup. The recipient of numerous design awards, she has taught design and typography at the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She also studied and maintained a studio at the Center for Book Arts, New York City.

MyFonts page. Poster by Joao Esse Andrade (2013). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lawrence McLinden

Designer and illustrator in Woodland Hills, CA, who designed the knife-edged custom display typeface Evoliti in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leah Stang

Culver City, CA-based designer of the display typeface Clockwork Orange (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leandro Senna

Creator of a gorgeous ironwork caps typeface (2014) that can be viewed here. He is part of the design collective WOW in Cupertino, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leanna Jones

During her studies in San Diego, CA, Leanna jones created the decorative typeface Ecru (2013): Ecru is a typeface designed specifically for a multicultural fashion and lifestyle magazine. Henna tattoos have played a large role in the development of the typeface as well as inspiration from floral patterns found in Southeast Asia. The font is meant to embody the beauty of this culture by incorporating these motifs within each letter. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Beckwith

San Francisco-based designer of the artsy typeface Tanah (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Hendrix

Lee Hendrix and Thea Vignau-Wilberg wrote The Art of the Pen Calligraphy from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II (2002, Getty Publications, Getty Museum, Los Angeles). The promotional blurb about this beautiful booklet: The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the Mira colligrophioe monumenta, a flamboyant demonstration of two arts-calligraphy and miniature painting. The project began when Rudolf's predecessor commissioned the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay to create a model book of calligraphy. A preeminent scribe, Bocskay assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historic scripts. Many were intended not for practical use but for virtuosic display. Years later, at Rudolf's behest, court artist Joris Hoefnagel filled the spaces on each manuscript page with images of fruit, flowers, insects, and other natural minutiae. The combination of word and images is rare and, on its tiny scale, constitutes one of the marvels of the Central European Renaissance. The manuscript is now in the collections of the Getty Museum. Forty-eight of its pages are reproduced in this book, containing samples of classic italic hands; historical, invented, and exhibition hands; Rotunda, a classicizing humanist script based on Carolingian minuscule; classically based scripts; and Gothic blackletter and chancery. Other publications include An Abecedarium: Illuminated Alphabets From The Court Of Emperor Rudolf Ii An Abecedarium: Illuminated Alphabets From The Court Of Emperor Rudolf II (1997). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lehu Zhang

San Francisco, CA-based designer of Impression Display (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leimone Design

Oakland, CA-based designer of the hairy display typeface Wet Dog (2013). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Leo Ventura

Graphic designer who lives in Tustin, CA. Creator of the techno font Steel (82013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leon del Muerte

Metal band performer (Impaled), and designer of the great dripping blood font Solstice of Suffering and of the gothic font Incantation (1995). His company, called GraveTech, was located in San Pablo, CA.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leon Ingram

Designer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. North Hollywood, CA-based designer of Malfeasance (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leslie Cabarga

Agfa Creative Alliance designer Leslie Cabarga has the following thesis: all free fonts are either of poor quality or are in some way pirated. This is a disappointing view from a talented type designer. Clearly, there are top-of-the-line original free fonts out there made by the likes of Apostrophe, Nick Curtis, Manfred Klein, Petra Heidorn and Dieter Steffmann. On the other hand, Cabarga is right about the abundance of poor quality fonts (unfortunately, both free and commercial), and the proliferation of pirated fonts, renamed time and again, but the renaming is mostly done by commercial companies (often cheap CD vendors). The page used to be here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leslie Cabarga
[Flashfonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Leslie Sam Kim

Graphic designer based in Los Angeles, who created a a rounded signage typeface called Chubs (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

LetterCult
[Brian A. Jaramillo]

Brian Jaramillo's page that highlights remarkable work by type designers, letterers, sign painters, graffiti artists, stone carvers, calligraphers, poster artists, and graphic designers. Its founders are Brian Jaramillo and Ray Frenden (a custom letterer), and frequent contributors include Jonathan Selig, Alex Savakis and David Hubner. Brian himself runs the Agency 26 lettering blog, where one can ogle his own lettering experiments from 2009: Bikini Killin' (alphabet), a toy font for Tokidoki, Hilton poster lettering, the word Boston, Fuck you lettering, So long sucker poster, Lowercase g, LetterCult logo, Kanye Unabomber art deco lettering.

Behance link. Brian is located in Signal Hill, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Letterform Archive
[Rob Saunders]

A great source of typographic images collected since 1980 by Rob Saunders, who is based in San Francisco. A visual treasure trove, well-documented. Rob Saunders has been collecting letterforms for over 35 years, while pursuing a career as a designer, teacher, children's book publisher, and marketing consultant. His collection contains many books and ephemera of historical and inspirational interest to type designers. He founded Letterform Archive in 2013 to share his collection with the design community. Frequent speaker at TypeCon meetings. Speaker at ATypI 2015 in Sao Paulo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

LetterGraphics
[Marc Jones Barry Kimbrough]

Photolettering foundry run by Marc Jones Barry Kimbrough in Culver City, CA. Russell Bean worked for the Los Angeles studio of Lettergraphics International in charge of lettering, logo design and converting type designs to film fonts. It was at this time (1973) that the Washington family (digital version at Type Associates, Russell Bean's present company) was completed. The company ceased operations in the mid-1980s.

The 1968 catalog of Lettergraphics featured typefaces like the psychedelic Mod Poster in Alfred Roller's Viennese secession style. The 1974 catalog of Lettergraphics shown in ULC 1974 includes these typefaces:

  • House styles: Virginia, Vantage, Grading, Joe, Heritage, Chaparral, Radius, Nectar, JoJo, Dojo, Harvey, Spatz, Mamoru, Wellington, Sebastian, Belden, Parquet, Della, Nippy, Hess, Totemic, Ruby, Big Fat, Simoes Classic, Serendipity, Kiwi, Angelo, Bethany, Right-On Neon, Klein Lined, McGrath, Fitzner Caps, Skidoo Outline, Plastic.
  • By Joseph Churchward: Twenties, Churchward Sans, Churchward Roman, Churchward Lined.
  • By Marlene Steen: Steen Sans.
  • By Michael Di Canzio: Di Canzio Sans.
  • By Donald Carboni: Carboni.
  • By Patrick Collins: Arlenette.
  • By Edston J. Detrich: Detrich Sans.
  • By Martha A. Rowland: Rowland Grotesk.
  • By John E. Lorish: Lorish Shadow.
  • By Alfted Guerra: Times Square.
  • By Reynolds M. Roberts: Roberts Square.
  • By Peter Solly: Colescombe.
  • By Robert F. Brightman: Streak, Brightman.
  • By Robert L. Cooley: La Grange, La Grange Black.
  • By Herbert L. Frager: Frager Punch.
  • By Anthony Liliefeldt: Padua.
  • Ray L. Herness: Herness Script.
  • Robert E. Gotsch: Botsch Glob, Botsch Toe.
  • Donald L. Vernon: Chrome.

Digital revivals:

  • Latitude Sans (2019, Stiggy & Sands). A heavy sans based on Lettergraphics' Free.
  • Mushmouth PB (2019, Phil Bracco). A revival of the comic book font Albert.
  • Nudity PB (2018, Phil Bracco) revives Ad Shadow as a layerable font.
  • Wintermint (2018, Phil Bracco) revives and extends the flared almost psychedelic typeface Lori.
  • Boilermaker (2018, Stiggy&Sands) is a revival of the tall condensed sans LetterGraphics typeface Flair G100.
  • The psychedelic (art nouveau inspired) typeface called Cantini (1972) was digitally revived and expanded by Patrick Griffin as Salome (2007, Canada Type).
  • Intrigue is a Lettergraphics film typeface that was digitized, revived and expanded to a large octagonal / mechanical typeface family, Contraption, by Phil Bracco (Pink Broccoli).
  • Scrwby (2013, Phil Bracco) is a revival of Surf.
  • Virginia (2008, Russell Bean) is a digitization of an old avant garde typeface by Bean himself from ca. 1970 that won a Lettergraphics typeface competition. It was extended by two weights and redrawn in 2016 as Virginia Neo.
  • Rebecca Alaccari (Canada Type) designed Goudy Two Shoes in 2006, an expansion of the film typeface Goudy Fancy by Lettergraphics.
  • Good Grief PB (2015, Phil Bracco) started out as a revival of Carmel (or Karmel).
  • MardiKrewePB (2015, Phil Bracco) started as a digitization of a (psychedelic) film typeface called MardiGras by Lettergraphics.
  • Maile was digitized and extended by Stiggy & Sands as Husk in 2018.
  • Gene Eidy's Sukiyaki (1968, Lettergraphics) was eventually digitized (without permission) by Jonathan Smith as Hirosh (1993). In 2020, Steve Harrison did a proper digital revival giving full credit to Eidy---his free typeface is also called Sukiyaki.
  • Laurel was revived and extended/modified by Stiggy & Sands in 2019 as Lorette.
  • Rackem PB (2019, Phil Bracco) is a beatnik font that started as a digitization of the LetterGraphics film typeface Eightball. There are other Eightball film fonts of a very different look elsewhere, so that name is a bit confusing.
  • The bullethole typeface Circue Solid was revived by Phil Bracco as Blackhole PB (2019).
  • Wood Grotesk. This font was revived and expanded in 2020 by Stiggy & Sands as Bugleboy. Berkshire Pro (a plump display typeface).
  • Caren. A great stencil font revived in 2021 by astigmatic One Eye as Rinzler AOE Pro.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Letterhead Fonts
[Chuck Davis]

Chuck Davis (Palmdale, CA) is the founder of Letterhead Fonts, which is now loacted in Reno, NV. LHF was established in 1999. They specialize in sign and logo fonts, taking inspiration from wood type and late 19th century style typefaces.

Free fonts "Letterhead Tuscan" (handlettering), Quadrex (2006, 3d effect font), and Wal-Mart People (dingbats). Early display fonts include Esoteric (1999), Wall Dog, Double Gild, Convecta, Smalts, Splash, Lisa. His Atkinson collection has a few nice lettering alphabets: Heavy Sign Script, Eccentric French, Fancy Roman and Modern 1908 Classic (now called Cafe Nouveau).

Mike Stowe designed Old Blackletter in 2001. Ken McTague made the hand-lettered style typeface Boston Truckstyle. Designed by Brian Kniceley in 2000: LHF Henderson Church, LHF Ohnimus Florid, LHF Ohnimus Spiked, LHF Strong Tea House, Strong Caliope, Strong Nouveau.

Fonts made around 2000 by Chuck Davis: LHFActionMovie LHF Bulletin Plug, LHF Classic Block, LHF Condensed French, LHF Convecta (2005, beveled face), LHF Cool Blue, LHF Crouching Tiger, LHF Def Artist, LHF Def Writer, LHF Double Gild, LHF Eccentric French Lt, LHF Esoteric, LHF Heavy French Roman, LHF Heavy Sign Script, LHF Jami (2000), LHF Letterhead Tuscan, LHF Lisa, LHF Modern 1908 Classic, LHF Quantum (2001, techno family), LHF Smalts, LHF Splash, LHF Tuscan Full Block (Western style), LHF Wall Dog, LHF Letterhead Tuscan. Fonts made in 2001 by Chuck Davis: LHF Advertisers Plug ATK, LHF Argentine Solid, LHF Boston Truckstyle, LHF Esoteric New, LHF Grants Antique, LHF Mister Kooky, LHF Mister Spooky, LHF Scriptana (2003, angular calligraphic script).

The following are all by Chuck Davis: Kung Faux (2021: oriental simulation), LHF Antique Shop, LHF Fat Cat (2011, a round informal typeface influenced by Alf Becker's rounded block letterstyle), LHF Bank Note (2007), Quadrex (2005), Menace (2004, comic book style), Michelle (2004, calligraphic script), LHF Ambrosia (2004, free), Sofia Script (2003), Stanford Script (2003), Sarah Script (2003), Fancy Full Round (2003, a Western typeface inspired by Al Imelli, ca. 1900), Matthews Thin (2003, tall caps face), New Modern Classic (2003), LHF Birgitta (2003, roman style typeface, inspired by an E.C. Matthews book), LHF Happy Fun Ball (2003, comic book style), CD Esoteric, OldSignFont, Robin, LHFDefWriter, LHFDefArtist, LHF Amarillo (2001, a spurred serif), LHFBeckerMonogramEnglish, LHFBeckerPosterScript, LHFBeckerRoundedBlock, LHFConclaveFLATreg, Cool Blue (2003), LHFConclaveFLATwide, LHFConclaveROUNDreg, LHFConclaveROUNDwide, LHFConclaveSHARPreg, LHFConclaveSHARPwide, LHFCrouchingTiger, LHFCrouchingTigerCONVEX, LHFEquinox, LHF Esoteric3 (2004), LHFMirageBOLD, LHFMirageITALIC, LHFMirageREG, LHFMonogram, LHFQuantumCONVEX, LHFQuantumREG, LHFRomanaClassico, LHFScriptana (great lettering font), LHFTimberlodge, Village, Kelly Ann, Outlaw, Hensler (2002, a cigar box face), Antique Half Block (2002, wood type), Spurred Egyptian, Wolverine, Ortlieb, Super Thick&Thin, Denise, Hensler, Charlotte, Antique Half Block (2002), Supabad (2003), Brianna (2003, techno), Happy Fun Ball (2003, comic book family), Naylorville (2004), LHF Grant's Antique (2004, caps only Victorian face), Michelle (2004), Cafe Corina (2006, a decorative 19th century style free font by Chuck Davis), LHF Ambrosia (2004, a purely Victorian free font by Chuck Davis), Lincoln (2006), No Fishin (2006), LHF Bell Boy (2004, a free art deco font, Chuck Davis), LHF Full Block (2003; free slab serif athletic number typeface by Davis), Mike's Block (free slab serif by Davis), Old Block (free athletic numbering typeface by Davis), LHF Old Stock (2007), (2007, lettering from old stock market certificates), Hick Sticks (2007, letters made from sticks), LHF Fast Slant (2007, comic book style), LHF Cartoon Cowboy (2009), LHF Big Daddy (2012, fat signage family), LHF Comic Caps 2 (2014), LHF Advertisers Square (2014, after a signage alphabet by Al Imelli, 1922), LHF Asylum (2015, scratchy brush), LHF Black Rose Script (2016), LHF Mastercraft (2017).

Typeface categories: 3D, 30's and 40's, 50's and 60's, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Bold, Calligraphic, Cartoon, Casual, Circus, Condensed, Convex, Corners, Decorative, Distressed, Early 1900's, Extended, Fire Truck, Formal, Gothic, Graffiti, Inline, Late 1800's, Layered, Light, Modern, Old English, Ornaments, Panels, Prismatic, Racing, Railroad, Ribbons, Roman, Sanborn Map Co., Sans Serif, Scripts, Scrollwork, Shadow, Stock Certificate, Swashes, Victorian, Western, Word Art.

Designers: Arthur Vanson, Brad King, Bruce Bowers, Charles Borges, Chuck Davis, Dan Sawatzky, Dave Correll, Dave Smith, David Parr, Denise Bayers, Duncan Wilkie, Francis Lestingi, Jeff Marshall, John Davis, John Studden, Kaitlin Sims, Ken McTague, Mark Searfoss, Mike Erickson, Mike Jackson, Patrick Kalange, Rob Cooper, Steve Contreras, Tom Kennedy.

At one point, Chuck Davis was running Blu Creative Media, where he published BLU Esoteric (1999).

Interview at MyFonts. Letterhead link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Liat Anan

New York City-based web and graphic designer (b. 1984, Los Angeles) who created the bilined headline typeface Doubletri (2011). She studied first at Tel Aviv University and then Instituto Europeo di Design i Barcelona. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liborio Gonzalez

Liborio Gonzalez (Liborio Designs, Anaheim, CA) created the Con Safos display typeface in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lighthouse
[David Hamuel]

David Hamuel (Lighthouse) is a Chatsworth, CA-based illustrator and designer. Creator of commercial Hebrew fonts in the Umbrella Type Collection at Veer: Shirah Joie, Shirah 25, Poster 1492, Kitra 77, Hannah Joie, Hamuel Nine Five, Ayasha. These fonts can also be purchased from MyFonts: Ayasha, Hamuel Nine Five, Hannah Joie, Kitra 77, Poster 1492, Shirah 25, Shirah Joie. Most fonts were made in 2006. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lilly Rocha

Graphic designer in Los Angeles, who created the floral typeface Talavera in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linda G. Kittlitz

San Francisco-based designer of this bouncy hand-printed typeface (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lindsay Mannix

Codesigner, at Polygraph in Falls Church, DC, with Jason Mannix of the blackletter face Enzian (2011), which was awarded at TDC2 2011. The blurb about Enzian at TDC: Enzian is the product of a German research fellowship sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. We set out with two goals: to better understand the technical nuance and complicated history of German Blackletter and produce an original typeface inspired by our findings. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lindstrom Design
[Nils Lindstrom]

Nils Lindstrom is a Glendora, CA-based logotype and type designer. He is the creator of the elegant script typeface Elfin (2007, a fanciful reinterpretation of the elvish type found inside the ring in J. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings), and the heavyweight upright signage script Beppo (2011). Jeff Rubow designed Sticks (comic book face) and Mr Jenkins (comic book style) at Lindstrom in 2010.

In 2017, he designed Athellia (an upright condensed formal script).

In 2022, he released Smart Deco (a tall and pure deco typeface).

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

Linh Nguyen

During her studies at San Jose State University, Linh Nguyen (Vietnam) designed the cursive display typeface Novus (2017), the serene Renaissance-style text typeface family Jenriv (2017), and the mannered sans typeface Jaina Sans (2017).

Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Linnea Lundquist
[Sweet Fonts Collection]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Linnea Lundquist

Noted calligrapher, who also designs type. Stigmata won the Silver prize in the Morisawa Type Design Competition in 1999. It is her fantastic interpretation of European Gothic Cursive writing from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Linnea is responsible for the roman transitional family Aitken commissioned in 2002 for Arion Press. Arion Press writes: Hoyem has taken advantage of twenty-first century technologies in order to revive what is believed to be the first type family cut and cast in America. In 1796 two Scotsmen named Binny and Ronaldson started a type foundry in Philadelphia, the first in the country to endure. By 1800 they had produced a remarkably beautiful and utilitarian type, identified simply as Roman No. 1. It is a Transitional face, between Old Style (as in Caslon) and Modern (as in Bodoni). The type was used by Jane Aitken, daughter of Robert Aitken, the famous printer of the American Revolution, and an accomplished printer herself, for the printing of the first American translation of the Bible, by Charles Thomson, in 1808. It was reintroduced by American Type Founders Company in 1892 under the name Oxford and was used by a succession of fine printers, such as Daniel Berkeley Updike, Bruce Rogers, and the Grabhorn Press. Arion Press has 1,200 pounds of the original type that once belonged to the Grabhorn Press. Oxford was cast for hand composition only and was not adapted for Linotype or Monotype composition. The matrices are now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution and unavailable for further casting. In 2002, Hoyem worked with type designer Linnea Lundquist, assisted by Andrew Crewdson, to create a digital version of this historic face, which he renamed Aitken. The Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin is its first use for book printing. The Aitken design has been optimized for letterpress printing, allowing for the spread of ink biting into paper just like with the original metal type design cut by Binny&Ronaldson. For this book, the type has been printed from photopolymer plates. In 2008, she joined Mark van Bronkhorst at Sweet Fonts and designed Sweet Upright Script with him. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Liquisoft
[Ryan Ford]

Ryan Ford (Liquisoft) is a Southern California-based designer and typographer, b. 1982. Creator of Fonce Sans (2005-2006, a Swiss-style family), and Stapler.

Home page. MyFonts page. Behance link. Not to be confused with Ryan Ford, the son of Randy Ford (ARRF Designs). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Living Scripts of the Philippines
[Hector Santos]

"Fonts for the Buhid, Hanunóo, and Tagbanwa scripts still used in the Philippines are available.": 25USD for six fonts in any format you like. Send check to Sushi Dog Graphics, P.O. Box 26A54, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Page by Hector Santos. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liz Conley

Liz Conley is an illustrator, graphic designer and type designer from Portland, Oregon. Now based in San Francisco, she designed the blackboard bold typeface Gemline (2015). Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Liz Fu

Liz Fu (Liz Fu Studio, San Francisco) designed the thin Scandinavian sans typeface Productiv in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lizz Bacon

During her design studies at Chapman University in Orange, CA, Lizz Bacon created the hand-drawn typeface Split Ends (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

LLW Studio
[Lori LeBeau-Walsh]

Lori LeBeau-Walsh (LLW Studio, Winchester, CA) is an American commercial artist and graphic designer who has a passion for lettering and typography.

In 2010, she made Ocean Beach, Studio Neon, a classical multiline display family. Market Street Neon (2011) is a multiline caps face. Asta (2011), named after the pup in the Thin Man movies from the 1930s and early 1940s, is an art deco / streamline moderne all-caps display font.

In 2015. Lori created the Christmas holiday font Studio Ribbon.

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

Lord Type
[Mikey Weeks]

Mikey Weeks (Encinitas, California) is the founder of and creative director at MDAVIDWEEKS. He also runs the type foundry Lord Type (est. 2021). In 2021, he released El Camio (a throwback display font paying homage to the classic automotive typography of the 50's and 60's) and The Life (a surfy throwback font).. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lorena Corona

At the Art Institute of California in San Diego, Lorena Corona designed a modular kitchen tile typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Loretta Robinson

Californian designer who made a bird feather font called Bye Bye Birdy (2010). Loretta May Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lori LeBeau-Walsh
[LLW Studio]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Los Angeles Type Founders

Extinct type foundry. They published Type specimen book for Los Angeles Type Founders (early 1970s). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lou Fillingham

Designer in San Francisco who created the art deco typeface Golden Empire (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Louis Lemoine

American designer of the techno display typeface Linotype Spacera (1996, part of TakeType 4). Based in California. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Louis Lombardo

As a student, San Jose, CA-based created the pixelish typeface Bitzy (2016, FontStruct). FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Louise Fili

Founded in 1989, Louise Fili Ltd is a graphic design studio specializing in brand development for food packaging and restaurants. Formerly senior designer for Herb Lubalin, Louise Fili was art director of Pantheon Books from 1978 to 1989, where she designed close to 2,000 book jackets. She has received Gold and Silver Medals from the Society of Illustrators and the New York Art Director's Club, the Premio Grafico from the Bologna Book Fair, and three James Beard award nominations. Fili has taught and lectured extensively, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale.

She is co-author, with Steven Heller, of Italian Art Deco, British Modern, Dutch Moderne, Streamline, French Modern, Deco Type, Deco España, German Modern, Design Connoisseur, "Typology Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age" (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1999), Typology, Stylepedia, Euro Deco, Scripts, Shadow Type, Belles Lettres, Cover Story, and Stencil Type. Fili has also written Elegantissima, Grafica della Strada, Graphique de la Rue, The Cognoscenti's Guide to Florence, and Italianissimo. A member of the Art Directors Hall of Fame, she has received the medal for Lifetime Achievement from the AIGA and the Type Directors Club.

Her book cover (done with Jessica Hische) won a design award at TDC 55. Fili was also honored with the 2018 SOTA Typography Award.

In 2015, she made a futuristic counterless typeface, Mardell, which is named after retired Hamilton type cutter Mardell Doubek. It was published in 2016 as HWT Mardell in the HWT (Hamilton Wood Type) collection over at P22.

In 2017, Louise Fili, Nicholas Misani and Rachel Michaud co-designed the art nouveau typeface Montecatini, which is inspired by Italian travel posters from that era. In 2019, Louise Fili, Nicholas Misani and Andy Anzollitto expanded this typeface to the 24-style Montecatini Pro.

Marseille (2017) is co-designed with Nicholas Masani and Andy Anzollitto. It is an art deco-inspired letterform that is based on Louise Fili's cover design for the Marguerite Duras novel The Lover.

Keynote speaker at TypeCon 2018 in Portland, OR. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lu Feng

Lu Feng is a graphic designer living in Valencia, CA. She graduated in May 2017 with an MFA in graphic design from California Institute of the Arts, where, in 2015, she designed the rope-inspired rounded geometric sans typeface Loop Sans. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucas Benjamin Sharp
[Sharp Type]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lucky Drop

New York City-based FontStructor, born in The Philippines and raised in california, who made the modular typefaces Duo (2013) and Death Trap (2014). FontStruct link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucy

Long Beach, CA-based designer of Beetle Legs (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke D. Owens
[Cedar Publishing]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Luke Davisson

During his studies, Luke Davisson (Napa, CA) created the hairline sans typeface Clean & Mean (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lunova Labs

Walnut Creek, CA-based studio that specializes in patterns. In 2014, Lunova published the hexagonal Flowers for Metatron typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lux Typographics (was: Intersection Studio)
[Greg Lindy]

Lux Typographics (Los Angeles, CA) was established in 1996 by Greg Lindy and Michael Rey. It is mainly involved in custom typography. Greg Lindy is the sole type designer for Lux Typographics and is a founding member, along with Michael Rey, of Intersection Studio in Venice, CA. Greg Lindy is the founder and creative director of Lux Typographic + Design, which he launched in 2009. Greg lives and works in Los Angeles, and teaches type design at The Otis College of Art and Design.

Typefaces, first available via Thirstype, include Lux Sans (2003), Section (2003, a sans family), Omega (a connected display face), Crank8 (2005, with Henk Elenga, as seen in Esquire Magazine; designed specifically as the font for Elenga's retrospective show and catalog), Autoknit (knitting font), Carinho (for Johnson & Johnson), Forge (for an Alaskan seafood company), SH Grotesk (for Simply Hired), Splenda, GDT Gothic (for the identity of the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Gustan (+Gustan Display, Gustan Densa, Gustan Forma and Gustan Signa), Resource Grotesk (for Resource Decor), and Nova (2003).

Lux Typographics joined the type coop Village in 2005.

In 2012, Lindy published the rounded sans family Colette.

In 2016, Monica Maccaux and Greg Lindy joined forces for the creation of the cursive school script font ABC Mouse Cursive. Still in 2016, he designed the sans typeface family Fabriga with exclusively horizontal and vertical terminals.

Typefaces from 2017: Cahuenga.

Klingspor link. Village link. Defunct Thirstype URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lyam Bewry

Lyam Bewry is a graphic designer living and working in San Francisco (in 2020). Before 2020, he worked in London for studios including Magpie, Pentagram, Paul Belford Ltd and GTF. At Type Cooper 2020, he designed Slabra, a bold slab-serif typeface that takes a fresh look at the idiosyncratic contrast found in early type design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lydia Baillergeau

San Francisco-based designer, a graduate from San Jose State Univerisity with a BFA in graphic design. She created a beautiful typographic poster of Charlie Chaplin (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lydia So

Graphic designer in San Jose, CA, who created a great-looking web site and set of postcards for a hearing loss project called Barriod (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

M. Brickley

Sacramento, CA-based designer of the sans titling typefaces Shirtline (2019) and Hightree (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mabak

Mabak, b. 1990, is the Californian designer of the handwriting font Rankaze's Handwriting (2007). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mac Katana

Graphic design student at Cal State University in Long Beach, 2012. Creator of the clean sans typeface Macillac Sans (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Macromedia (Fontographer)

Makers of Fontographer. Macromedia, Inc., 600 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Fontographer v4.1: list price $495, but available for under $300. For example, Diskovery sells it to students in the US for 228USD (129+99), Windows and Mac. Also included in Macromedia Graphics Studio bundle, which may be available as a competitive upgrade. A well-established font editor on the Mac and the PC, the tool used for many fonts currently on the market. A demo version is available from Macromedia on CD. Fontographer uses its own format for files, which has the same mathematical basis as Type 1, but can generate .TTF files. A copy of FOG4.1 was recently placed on alt.binaries.fonts. Free copies are floating around on some Russian FTP sites but you'll have to do your own detective work. Latest deal: for 200USD, get the Macromedia Designers bundle, which included Fontographer, Freehand, Xres,&Extreme 3D. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M-A-D
[Erik Adigard]

M-A-D is an interdisciplinary design agency with primary expertise in branding and visual communications. Located in Sausalito, CA, its main designer is Erik Adigard.

In 2012, Erik Adigard and Joachim Müller-Lancé co-designed the rounded octogonal monospaced typeface family Oktal Mono (Delve Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maggie Brennan

Graphic designer in San Diego, CA. In 2013, she designed Structured (2013), a technical / architectural typeface with joyous rhythm and New York style sophistication. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Magpie Fonts
[Diane Ehlers]

Monterey, CA-based Diane Ehlers (Magpie Fonts, Font Queen 100) made all her fonts with either Fontstruct or Font Creator from High-Logic. FontStruct (2008-2010) carries AllLinedUp-MP, Bigfoot-MP, ChainOfFools-MP, ChipOffTheOldBlock-MP, FancySansationCaps-MP, Fuzzy Concept, KnotMyFont-MP (multilined face), LeanMeanFontMachine-MP, New-Sansation-MP, Nickish-MP (named after Nick Curtis), NoClue-MP, NotReally3D-MP (athletic lettering), OddlyDisconnected-MP, Really2D-MP (athletic lettering), SerifsUpDude-MP, SerifsUpDudeFat-MP, SerifsUpDudeSkinny-MP, SonOfBigfoot-MP, Stacked-MP, StarRoars-MP, Cushy-MP (fashionably ultra-fat), FutureDeco-MP, Xs-n-Os-MOP (a stitching font), DizzyDiamonds-MP (another stitching font), Spires-MP, SeeSpot-MP, MazedAndConfused-MP, Pearlies-MP, FacetFolly-MP, SortaDingy-MP, OhSoStudly-MP, Marcelled-MP, Scodi-MP, ToxicAssets-MP, and Keyholed-MP. With the help of John Hill, some her fonts made it to the Open Font Library, where one can find Chain of FoolsMP, Dizzy DiamondsMP, FacetFollyMP and FutureDecoMP (all made in 2008).

Creations from 2012 include West n Wild (a Far West face), FutureDeco2-MP (art deco), Trellis MP (caps with Dalmatian spots). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maher Sinjary

Creative director in San Francisco, who created the modular compass-and-ruler typeface Sinjary (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mai Saito

San Diego, CA-based designer of the experimental Latin typeface Human (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

M&H Type (or: Mackenzie&Harris)

Metal type foundry (est. 1915) located at 1802 Hays Street, San Francisco, CA 94129. Some of its types are listed here. From their site: The venerable firm of Mackenzie&Harris, established in 1915, is the oldest and largest type foundry for letterpress printers in the United States. Also known as M&H Type, it offers for sale an extensive selection of fonts of type for hand composition and keeps current with printing technology by providing digital typography as well as traditional lead typecasting and Monotype composition. M&H Type is associated with Arion Press, fine printers and publishers of deluxe limited-edition books, and the Grabhorn Institute, which sponsors educational and apprenticeship opportunities. All share the premises of a handsome1928 industrial building in the Presidio national park of San Francisco. Types available from them. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manchaware
[Adrian Ortiz]

Adrian Ortiz (aka Manchaware, b. 1983, Davis, CA) designed Bemani (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mani Salazar

San Diego-based creator of the curly typeface Venice (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manuel S. Ramirez

Pasadena, CA-based designer of Motive (1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mara Kirsten Stitt

Student at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design majoring in Communications Design. Mara lives in Colorado. Mara's font I Want To Ride My Bicycle (2011) takes inspiration from bicycle parts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Alcock

British graphic designer who created a wonderful gridded typeface to illustrate the Pantone colors. He lives in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Bacani

Carson, CA-based designer who studied at the Art Institute of Los Angeles. In 2016, he designed a modular rhombic typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Jones Barry Kimbrough
[LetterGraphics]

[More]  ⦿

Marc Liu

San Jose, CA-based designer of Afro (2015), a sans typeface based on SF Comapct. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Pascua

Norwalk, CA-based designer of the display typeface Basket (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Calamato
[Onetreeink]

[More]  ⦿

Marcos Hirschfeld

San Diego, CA-based Venezuela-born designer of a star-themed alphabet for a typography course at graduated the Art Institute of California San Diego in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcus Chambers

Californian designer of Byte (2011, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcus Pinder

Graphic designer in San Francisco. Creator of the sharply cut experimental typeface Seattle (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcus Wesson
[Typezilla]

[More]  ⦿

Marek Jeziorek

Marek Z. Jeziorek was born and grew up in Poland, and studied mathematics, informatics and mechanics of the University of Warsaw. In 1976, he relocated to the United States, where he obtained an MSc in Computer Science in 1980 from UW (University of Wisconsin, Madison). He worked as compiler engineer at Intel and joined Google in 2003. Marek joined Google's font team in July 2015 as a Technical Program Manager.

Speaker (with Behdad Esfahbod) at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on the topic of The Open Source Python Font Production Pipeline: The Open Source Python Font Production Pipeline is a set of tools build by the open source community, including Google developers. It has been used by Google to produce Google's Noto font families. It can be used by anybody to automate their font production as well. The pipeline takes various inputs (e.g., *.glyphs files) and compiles them into multiple binaries (*.TTF and *.OTF files among others). This presentation is about why Google wanted to have an open source font toolchain, how the toolchain [aka pipeline] was architected, engineered and debugged and how Google uses it to produce and validate Noto fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Margaret Andersen

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the hipster typeface Chimera (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Margo Chase
[Margo Chase Design (was: Gravy Designs)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Margo Chase Design (was: Gravy Designs)
[Margo Chase]

Margo Chase (b. 1958, d. 2017, Apple Valley, CA) was an American graphic designer. Originally a biology major with intentions of becoming a veterinarian, Chase studied design at California Polytechnic Colege, San Luis Obispo. She created logos for the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Her company, Margo Chase Design (founded in 1986) was involved in the branding of numerous entities, such as Target stores, as well as celebrities such as Cher, Madonna and Selena. Chase Design Group has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and the UK. Chase lived in Los Angeles, California. In addition to working as a graphic designer, Chase taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and Long Beach State University. She died in a plane crash while practicing an acrobatic sequence on July 22, 2017.

Margo Chase created or enabled some exquisite typefaces such as Celtic Envision, Box Gothic, Bradley, Edit, Evolution (1998), Kruella (1997), Portcullis (by Brian Hunt), Pterra-dactyl, Shiraz (1998), Tribe (by Ferris Emery) and Vitriol. Many of these fonts have a gothic flavour.

Richard Lipton's Ecru, Talon and Shogun typefaces at Font Bureau are based on Margo Chase's lettering.

Klingspor link. View Margo Chase's typefaces. Wikipedia link. Video at Lynda.com. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Maria Sergushova

During her studies in Los Angeles in 2017, Maria Sergushova designed an arrowed typeface that was inspired by the Game of Thrones TV series, the arrowed typeface Devanas Trap, and Around The World Dingbats. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariah Kohl

Orange, CA-based designer of the decorative typeface Melody and a Korean typeface in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maribel Gress

San Francisco-based designer of Modular Alphabet (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marina Sauri

Based in San Francisco, Marina Sauri designed the paper fold typeface Streamers (2009) as part of a project at EINA (Escola de disseny i Art de Barcelona). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Allen

California-based [T-26] designer of Aurelius (1994, a spindly typeface ideal for dungeon party announcements), and Riot. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mark Caneso
[ps type (was: ppwrkstudio)]

[More]  ⦿

Mark Carroll

San Francisco-based designer of the sci-fi typeface Hyperion (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Harris

Mark Harris (Thousand Oaks, CA) studied typography at UCLA. Designer in 1998 of Crumudgeon (sic) and CrumudgeonDeceased (for Bayer), and of TwoVooDoo. At Garagefonts, he published Lelk (2000, a cute irregular font), Bone Spurs (1998) and GF Cheebop (1998). At T-26, he published the dingbat font Form (1997).

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

Mark Heliger

Mark Heliger (San Diego, CA) had a 46-year career in the publishing industry including pre-print production, typography and graphic design. From 2013 until his death in 2019, he directed Gallery Yosemite in Oakhurst, CA. He inked and digitized the handwriting of Matt Groening for The Simpsons at Skillset/Alpha Graphics in mid 1990. In 2019, his friend Paul Feldman explained the genesis of that font: I worked on the project with him and was at Matt Groening's home in Venice California when he inked the samples of his handwriting for us. We designed the font with alternate letters so it would look little less like a typeface. In the end we handed the finished font Groening and Groening Bold to his art director Millie Smythe. This all happened because it was the first year of the Simpsons and Matt became too busy to chalk every text balloon for his other print projects. Millie went on to direct Futurama. We had NDAs and contracts to keep that font from the public for many years.

There were many digital versions based on the font used by the Simpsons:

  • First, there was Gene Cowan's Groening (1991).
  • That font was modified and extended by Jon Bernhardt as Akbar (1996-2000).
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Hogan

Mark Neil Hogan is based in Oak Park, CA. Designer of Unknown (2013), a typeface that will please all UFO enthusiasts because it is based on crop circles. In its genre, it is one of the most successful executions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark M. Riddle

Based in North Hills, CA (was: Spring Valley, Canoga Park, Van Nuys, or San Diego, all in California), b. ca. 1968. Designer of Gilligan's Island (1995), after the font used in the famous television series.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Minjares

Los Angeles-based designer of Magra (2015), a humanist sans typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Olivas

Designer in San Francisco, who created the thin sans display typeface Nemo (2018) that is characterized by its filled-in joins. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark van Bronkhorst
[MvB Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mark Visbal

American type designer in Santa Barbara, CA. His typefaces: Taos (native American look), Albuquerque (a decorated version of Taos), Dot Gain, Easy Grunge, Santa Barbara. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Markus Remscheid
[H2D2]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Marna Hill

Type designer and artist at Lettering Delights who made mostly alphadings and scrapbooking fonts. She was an art major at the University of California and started drawing in 1990. A partial list: Love Hearts, Hannukah Tags, Pine, Fall Sprigs, Boo, Peachy Jardin, Palm, Boat'n, She Shells, By The Sea, Fore, Field O Daisies, Boy Party, Girl Party, Spring Fling, XOs, Sweet Pinks, Little Sprigs, Floral Treat, Dottie Petite Fleur, Floral Treat, Holly Peppermint, Merry Joy, Mistletoe Kisses, Stocking Stuffers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marsh Wise

Fort Loudon, PA-based creator of the military fonts CrappyWehrmachtTypewriterBold (1996), SS-Runes, WWIIGermanTacSymbols (1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marshall Almeida

Illustrator and animator who graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Creator of the beautiful iFontMaker fonts De Pooches and De Pooches Lite (2010, sketched). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martha Sue Coursey

Illustrator, designer, artist and art director in San Francisco. Graduate of CCA (with a BFA) and of Type West in San Francisco, class of 2020. Her graduation typeface there was called Curiously. She explains: Curiously is fueled by a fascination for 15th century Roman letterforms and beautiful children's books. It comes in Regular, Black and Text and Ornaments. The family works well for logos, branding, book covers, and editorials. Perfect for artisan brands or handmade goods. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martin Archer

Southern Californian who designed ITC Eastwood (1997, grunge), and Fear. The flared typeface Teen (2000) is due to Martin Archer and Ray Larabie. Home page. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Martin Grasser
[And Repeat]

[More]  ⦿

Marvin Sum

During his graphic design studies at Rialto, CA, Marvin Sum created the display typeface Illuminati (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mary Huang
[Typeface]

[More]  ⦿

Masselyn
[Tiffany Profet]

Valencia, CA-based designer of these handcrafted typefaces in 2017: Darlin One, Lucky Lisp, Nonsuch Nonsense, Hitherto, Lovely Bones. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Match Fonts
[Michel Bujardet]

Match Fonts is the West Hollywood, CA-based foundry led by Michel Bujardet (b. Bordeaux, France, 1951), who is Mike Budge on alt.binaries.fonts. They make and sell interesting font paks. A particular favorite of mine is the Calligraphic Fonts Pack 2, which has the beautiful medieval-look typeface Rodolphe (2001), together with the Chancellerie family, the blackletter font SquareText, and a few Uncial fonts called Oncial. Free demos. Cursive Handwriting is a 6-font pak for teaching handwriting. Also offering a handwriting and signature font service. Among free offerings, check Le Blackmail (ransom font). Also, commercial fonts for these languages: Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hawaian, International Phonetic (IPA), Hebrew, Hieroglyphs, Hungarian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Marshallese, Polynesian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian, Yiddish.

Interesting typefaces: Boulon (letters with bolts), Bujardet Freres (French restaurant type), Calebasse (1997, semi-psychedelic), Chinoiseries (Chinese look-alike), Cristolikid (LCD), Diodes Light, Grecques, Halloween, Malabars, Metroplitain (art nouveau), Monogram, Octogone, Osselets (bones), Parador, Ruban Dis-Moi, SilBooettes, TSF et Compagnie, Venitienne, Yiddilatin, Zebrues, and the dingbats Dinosotype, Alphabetzier, Nahkt Hieroglyphics, Norman Prince (children's handwriting), Angelots, Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans, La Main Guided, La Main Solid (both children's tracing fonts), Bordini, Bordofixed, BoumBoum, ChapClerk, Dactylographe (nice!), Halotique (sans serif), Tortillon (2001, art deco), Normographe (great too!), Normafixed, Oloron, Parlante (serif family), Presse (typewriter), Technicien. Plus handwriting fonts Skrypta, Skryptaag (upright and connected), Willegha. a Morse Code font. The Halloween pack includes Coulures, Halloween, Osselets and SilBooettes. Fixed width fonts include Dactylographe, Oloron, Bordo, Norma. Direct access. Interview and photo. Alternate URL (in French), with many more fonts, such as the handwritten Pierre, Mariette. MICR E13 B font.

Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mateo Mok
[Demonics]

[More]  ⦿

MathMaker Fonts

Commercial site that offers TrueType and PostScript fonts for use in Mac text processing software. By Mountain Lake Software in San Francisco. They advertise "The affordable way to type math", but omit to mention that TEX and the Computer Modern fonts are free and better than any other competing product as of 1999. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Matt Martini

San Francisco, CA-based designer of the sans typeface Bowie (2015) and the hand-drawn typefaces Zafu (2015, in Zafu Fluffed and Zafu Firm versions; rounded and ideal for posters), Couch (2015), Lisa (2014) and Matta Sans Condensed (2014). Tumblr link, Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Smith

San Diego, CA-based designer of Viper Fangs (2016, free), Coffin (2016, free spiked hexagonal typeface), Judas (2015, free metal band font), Demon Letter (2015, a free blackletter font), Metal Blackletter (2015) and Metal Curve (2015, free). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Vlach

Matt Vlach is a California-based graphic and type designer, and art director. Graduate of TypeWest, class of 2021. At TypeWest, he developed De Spira (2021), a research-driven revival, remix, and reinterpretation typeface [based on] scans from an original copy of Pliny The Elder's "Natural History". His graduation typeface at Type West was the Windsor genre yummy retro display serif typeface The Hills (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Aaron Desmond
[Matthew Desmond]

MADtype (est. 1996) is Matt Desmond's place in the type world. He has had a prolific career that started out with shareware fonts while Matt was at the Minneapolis Technical and Community College. His page back then said A haven for quality shareware type for the Mac. Later, Matt started mattdesmond.com, and co-founded the Test Pilot Collective (est. 1998 with Joseph Kral and Mike Cina). Many of his early typefaces were experimental and/or futuristic. In late 2003, mattdesmond.com disappeared, and MADtype, commercial now, resurfaced at the MyFonts site. Currently, Matt is based in Minnetnka, MN. He has also lived in Atlanta, GA, Fayetteville, GA, Rochester, NY, Redwood City, CA, and San Francisco, CA. His fonts can also be purchased via You Work For Them. He also does commissioned type design. Some fonts are freely available at the Google Font Directory.

Retail types as of 2011:

  • Abel (2011, Google Font Directory). Abel Pro was published in 2013.
  • Aldrich (2011). A Bank Gothic style face, free at OFL.
  • Amber (2000): kitchen tile face.
  • American Gothic (1998): squarish.
  • Audebaud (2010): a 19-th century style French Clarendon (wood type look). The design was inspired by the work of Constant Audebaud, an engraver of wooden type that was used for posters. Audebaud's work appeared in the 1880s in the Deux-Sèvres département of France.
  • Beat (1998): rounded OCR face.
  • Brauhaus (2004): Textura face.
  • Cagliostro (2011). A free font at Google Web Fonts that is based on the handlettering of Ozwald Cooper.
  • Curbdog (1998).
  • Desmond Text (1998): a roman that has features of University Roman.
  • Distill (2009): a De Stijl font that shouts 1920s.
  • Dunelm (1996): emulation of 17th century printing styles.
  • Dwiggins Deco (2009): This typeface was originally designed in 1930 by W.A. Dwiggins as the cover for the book "American Alphabets" by Paul Hollister. Only the 26 letters of the alphabet were included on the cover, so the rest of the numbers, punctuation, symbols, and accented characters have been crafted in a matching [art deco] style.
  • Findon (2007): stencil.
  • Futuristic category: ER9 (1999), KAH (2005, LCD style), Lunarmod (1997), Retron (1997; can be considered as a retro upright connected script as well), Shifty (1998).
  • Grunge category: Bulletin (1997), Gothico Antiqua (1999), Rubba (1997), Stomper (1997--a rubber stamp font), Zapatista (1998-2007).
  • Handwriting, handprinting category: Casino Hand (2005), Ghouliez (1996), Handegypt (2002---hand-drawn slab serif), Handy Sans (1997, hand-drawn sans), Joppa (1997), Pufficlaude BT (1998).
  • Hessian (2009): Tuscan style wood type.
  • Hydrochlorica (2004): organic.
  • Invoice (1997).
  • Ironside Crosses (2004): dingbat face.
  • Marble Roman (2004-2009): angular roman all caps type.
  • Matterhorn (2013). A 9-style sans family created with Michael Cina for Disney. Not to be confused with the many retail typefaces that are also called Matterhorn, such as Paratype's PT Matterhorn (1993) and Treacyfaces' TF Matterhorn (1990s).
  • Pacioli or Luca Pacioli Caps (2007: emulating a mathematically constructed caps font by Pacioli (1509) published in his treatise De divina proportione.
  • Pixel category: Basis (1999), Mang (1997).
  • Plenti (2004): ultra plump.
  • Quantico (2007): octagonal.
  • Stencil category: Bandoleer (2009, +Tracer: a couple of stencil fonts with art deco and army influences), Madison (2007, slab serif stencil), Mercado (2005; has a non-stencil Mercado Sans).
  • Urbandale (2018). A basic sans family.
  • Variable (2004-2010): a sans-serif monoline typeface that includes ultra thin weights.
  • Vexed (2005): sketched face.
  • Wolfsburg (2007): blackletter stencil.
  • Wooddale (1999): wood type emulation.

Free types as of 2010: Marble Roman, Environ regular, Dorkbutt, Europa, Exsect, Inthacity, Liquidy Bulbous, Lustria (2012, Google Web Fonts), Stomper.

Commissioned types: 77kids (2007, for the children's brand; the sketched typefaces were done with Justin Thomas Kay), AE Aerie (2005-206, American Eagle Outfitters), AE Newburgh (2005-206, American Eagle Outfitters), AE Summer Fonts (2007, all for American Eagle Outfitters), EEL Futura (2006, for Enjoying Everyday Life), Nike World Cup (2006), Virgin America (2006).

Typefaces from 2019: Starfire (2019, a retro geometric sans).

Orphaned types that disappeared or were planned but never executed: BrotherMan, Caprice, Convolve, HipstersDelight, Lugubrious, ModestaSmallCaps, Serifity, Skitzoid, Sliver, ThrowupSolid, Auresh (1998, futuristic; Test Pilot Collective), Kcap6 (1998, with Cina; Test Pilot Collective), Epiphany (1997; Test Pilot Collective), Testacon (with Kral and Cina; Test Pilot Collective), Civicstylecom (1999; Test Pilot Collective), Lutix (1998; Test Pilot Collective), Xerian (1997; Test Pilot Collective), Swoon, Furtive (2004, a sans), the display typeface Flathead (2004), the blackletter typeface Bahn (2004), Mesotone BT (2006, Bitstream, a monoline sans), Practical (a monoline connec script, planned in 2007 but not published), Poliphili (planned in 2007, as a revival of an Aldus/Griffo font), Wutupdo (1996, Garage Fonts), GFDesmond (Garage Fonts), Drone, Golden Times (2014, a corporate small caps typeface for the University of Minnesota), Vapiano (2014: hand-printed typeface for Vapiano International).

Behance link. View Matt Desmond's typefaces. Fontspring link. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Allen

Designer in Ladera Ranch, CA. He studied Art and Design at California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo before taking work at Surfer Magazine. Creator of a nice Happy Newyear 2013 poster, as well as a great typographic cycling poster called Jedidiah (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Andrade

San Francisco-based designer, developer, photographer, and musician. Behance link. He created the typeface Sender (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Butterick
[MB Type]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Desmond
[Matthew Aaron Desmond]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Ladewski

Long Beach, CA-based creator of the modular typeface Mr Joker (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Lew
[For Personal Gain]

[More]  ⦿

Matthew Napolitano
[Graffiti Fonts (or: Highground Industries, or: Highground Graffiti Fonts, or: Fulltime Artists)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Vest
[Cover Poets]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Wyne

Matthew Wyne (Wyne Enterpises, San Francisco) designed the distressed wood type typeface custom typeface Be Block Web for The Gap in 2017. He explains how he managed to reduce an existing 600k font to about 100k in size without compromising the effect. In 2018, he published the text typeface Clef, a Venetian-inspired font (loosely based on Centaur) that is optimized for text. It features classical proportions, asymmetrical serifs, moderate contrast and a humanist axis. Cleft is the house font of Wyne Enterprises. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maura O'Docharty

During her studies at San Francisco State University, Maura O'Docharty created the (Edwardian) decorative caps typeface Edweirdian (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maureen Perry

During her studies at the University of South California in Los Angeles, Maureen Perry created a set of numerals (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauricio Mir

Brazil-born Mauricio Mir now works as a designer in Oakland, CA. From 2011 until 2013, he studied at Laney College, where a school project led him to develop the Avon typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauro Gatti

Italian illustrator in Venice, CA, who designed the fun free fat poster typeface Slabbo (2016), described as a bold, messy and strong slab serif. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauro Toledo

Type designer from Torrance, CA, who made the futuristic monoline typeface Untitled (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Infeld
[Xerographer Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Max Kisman
[Kisman Studio (was: Holland Fonts)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Max Privalov
[Prive Studios (was: Government Studios, or: GVMNT)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

May-Yen Lee

Corona, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Marvel (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

MB Type
[Matthew Butterick]

Matthew Butterick (b. 1970, Michigan) grew up in New Hampshire. He got his B.A. degree from Harvard University in visual&environmental studies, also studying mathematics and letterpress printing. His work is in the permanent collection of the Houghton Library at Harvard. Butterick started his design career at the Font Bureau as a typeface designer and engineer. At the beginning of the Internet era, he moved to San Francisco and founded website design and engineering company Atomic Vision. Atomic Vision was later acquired by open-source software developer Red Hat. More recently, Butterick got a law degree from UCLA and has been practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles, Butterick Law Corporation. He operates a web site called Typography for Lawyers and another one called Butterick's Practical Typography.

In 2010, he published Typography for Lawyers. MyFonts link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Font Bureau link. He has some great one-liners, such as The only good Copperplate is a dead Copperplate. Matthew Butterick's creations:

  • Agitprop: in the FUSE 12 collection.
  • Wessex (1993): A family published at Font Bureau in 1993. Font Bureau writes: Initially conceived by Matthew Butterick as a Bulmer revival, Wessex took on characteristics of Baskerville&Caledonia as design proceeded. In 1938, W.A. Dwiggins had taken the hard necessities of the non-kerning line-caster italic duplexed onto the same widths as roman, and turned them into design virtues. Inspired by the surprising beauty of his wide-bodied Caledonia italic, Butterick used it as a model for Wessex.
  • Hermes (1995, 2010, Font Bureau). Blurb at Font Bureau: Schriftguss and Wollmer called it Hermes; Berthold called it Block. Hermann Hoffmann's 1908 design inspired FB Hermes, which evokes the German grotesks that were workhorses of factory printing 100 years ago. Blunt corners suggest the wear and tear of rough presswork. Matthew Butterick created the original styles in 1995. In 2010, he added more weights, italics, and alternate glyphs to expand the family's versatility. Currently, the family contains Hermes Classic and Hermes Maia.
  • Triplicate. A large family of typewriter fonts that feature both monospacing and proportional spacing.
  • HeraldGothic (1993, Font Bureau). A condensed typeface with bevelled, or octagonal, corners.
  • Chunk.
  • Alix FB (2011, Font Bureau). A monospaced family based on two IBM selectric typewriter face, Prestige Elite and Light Italic.
  • Equity (2011) is a readable text family, based on Ehrhardt.
  • Berlin Sans (1994). Font Bureau: Berlin Sans is based on a brilliant alphabet from the late twenties, originally released by Bauer with the name Negro, the very first sans that Lucian Bernhard ever designed. Assisted by Matthew Butterick, David Berlow expanded this single font into a series of four weights.
  • Advocate and Advocate Slab (2015-2017). A large sans and slab family. Caps only.
  • Concourse (2013-2017). A large sans family.
  • Valkyrie (2018).
  • Century Supra (2018). A modern typeface.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

MCKL (was: Mickel Design)
[Jeremy Mickel]

Jeremy Mickel runs a design studio in Los Ange;les, where he moved to from Minneapolis in 2015. Before that, he was located in Brooklyn, New York and Providence, RI. Originally called Mickel Design, the studio and foundry was renamed MCKL in 2012. Mickel has taught at RISD and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

He is working on this VAR-Rounded sans serif style face (2007) that was based on plastic cut letters seen in New York's subway. See also here and here. Mickel's typefaces:

  • Router (2008, Jeremy Mickel): a rounded sans family.
  • Baro (2010, Chester Jenkins and Jeremy Mickel): Baro is inspired by memories of Antique Olive Nord, Roger Excoffon's landmark design originally commissioned for Air France in 1956. Nord, the heaviest weight of Antique Olive, was the starting point, but Baro shares DNA with other Village designs, including Apex New and Mavis.
  • Eventide (2009, Jeremy Mickel): octagonal and 3d family based on ideas by Paul Carlyle in the early 1940s. That Carlyle typeface had also made it into the PhotoLettering collection in 1971. Eventide was developed into a family at House Industries under the art direction of Ken Barber and Christian Schwartz, and won an award at TDC2 2011.
  • Superior (2010, Jeremy Mickel): a high-contrast transitional "nearly didone" face. Superior Title (2013) is described as a high-contrast missing link between Times and Bodoni. It was designed for fashion publications.
  • Shift (2010, Jeremy Mickel): a slab serif family that won an award at TDC2 2011.
  • Gonesh (2009, Jeremy Mickel): a great new sans family.
  • Aero (2010, Village Type) was developed in cooperation with Chester Jenkins. This poster family, inspired by Excoffon's Antique Olive, was awarded at TDC2 2011.
  • Letterboxes (2008). A stencil typeface that was part of a collaborative project with John Caserta at the Design Office.
  • Plinc Flourish (a 2011 digitization by Jeremy Mickel for House Industries). Based on William Millstein's Millstein Flourish, an upright script first designed for PhotoLettering Inc in the early 1940s.
  • Union (2011). A basic sans family, ideal for corporate design.
  • Jeremy Mickel created a digital version L.Harl Copeland's (prismatic, beveled, roman caps) Trillium typeface [originally done at Photolettering] in 2011 at the new digital Photolettering / House Industries.
  • Fort is a sans family published in 2012 by Village.
  • Playoff Sans and Playoff Serif (2015).
  • Adidas has partnered with MCKL to create an innovative suite of variable fonts. These fonts are being used across a wide spectrum of applications, including Creative Direction, Product Design, Graphics, Communications, Digital Experiences, and the brand campaign for the upcoming World Cup. In 2015, Mickel expansed the Adineue Pro family. In 2017 they started the first Adidas Variable Font, Adineue CHOP Variable, an octagonal athletic sans in a wide range of weights from hairline to black, and widths from extra-condensed to extra-wide. In 2018, Mickel embarked on Adineue Pro Variable.
  • Rosa Sans (2019: by Jeremy Mickel and Pentagram). A free geometric grotesk (in their own words) sans family.
  • Trust (2020). A flared typeface first used for the identity of the Commission on Presidential Debates (Trump versus Biden).
  • Logic Monospace and Logic Monoscript (2020). Mickel writes: Logic Monospace takes inspiration from midcentury typewriter fonts, including IBM Selectric's Advocate and the ubiquitous Courier, with additional references in slab serifs like Stephenson Blake's Scarab. While there are many great script typewriter fonts, including Olympia and Aristocrat, Logic Monoscript is a novel creation, with few examples of true connecting monospace scripts in existence.
  • Uber (2020). A custom job for Uber.
  • Owners (2021). iJeremy explains: Owners is an expressive family of fonts that takes inspiration from the dynamic energy of handmade signage as seen around Los Angeles.
  • RedHat Display, Text and Mono subfamilies. The open source fonts were originally commissioned by Paula Scher / Pentagram and designed by Jeremy Mickel / MCKL for the new Red Hat identity. Mickel writes: Red Hat is a fresh take on the geometric sans genre, taking inspiration from a range of American sans serifs including Tempo and Highway Gothic. The Display styles, made for headlines and big statements, are low contrast and spaced tightly, with a large x-height and open counters. The Text styles have a slightly smaller x-height and narrower width for better legibility, are spaced more generously, and have thinned joins for better performance at small sizes. In 2021 we added Light and Light Italic styles, and a Monospace family. Variable fonts with a weight axis are available. RedHat's official site.

Klingspor link. Village link. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mean Tangerine
[Tyler Young]

Pixel foundry run by Santa Cruz, CA-based (was: Calgary, Alberta-based) designer Tyler Young. He writes about his Mean tangerine foundry: Mean Tangerine began in 2003, when founder Tyler Young recognized a need for fonts that would hold their shape in small sizes on screen. Running an online motocross/supercross magazine at the time, he found himself wanting all the selection of traditional PostScript type but within the pixel font world. Without many options, Young began designing his own fonts by hand, translating his designs into published fonts. Mean Tangerine was named for one of his favorite childhood songs by the Beatles, "Savoy Truffle"

His typefaces include the kitchen tile pixel typeface Trixie&Blinker (2004, pixel versions of kitchen tile letters), the pixel typeface Slim (2006, very readable!), the pixel typeface Minus (2005), the dot matrix family Soda (2005), the pixel typeface Consist, the pixel typeface Tex Standard 7 (2007), the script pixel typeface Katie (2005), the futuristic display typefaces Flipper (2004), Atom (2003), Nuetron (2003, "inspired by Andreas Lindholm's industrial work"), the pixel typefaces Fredman (2004), Checker (2004), Belleville (2004), Errata Properus (2003), Dorothy (2003), Dope (2004, pixel font), Khaki (2004, pixel family), Commence (2004, pixel family), Biceps (2004, pixel family) and Rolos ( (2002-2003), Shale Modern (2003, pixel face), Arc Classic, Astromo 2017, Chip Classic, Chip Modern, Astromo 2018, Biceps, Bri++LeModern, Celophane Classic, Chain, Chain Unicase, Chaos, Clarus, Clarus even, Clarus Hi, Clarus Lo, Cursor, Disclosure, Dope Classic, Dope Short, Dorothy, Electron Classic, Gumdrop Bubble (2002-2003), Ice Classic, Montessa, Money Narrow, Resolution, Roma, Roma Mini, Screen Sans, Screen serif, Sheriff's Girl Tight, Troy, and Raster (2004).

He also runs Tyler Young Creative, an impossible site that does not display at all on my browser. Behance link. Their 142-font library can be had for 100 dollars. Elsewhere, we read that he is located in Santa Cruz, CA. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mediumextrabold (or: M XB Foundry)
[Philip Cronerud]

Commercial type foundry based in San Francisco. Their typefaces, some of which were made by Philip Cronerud:

  • From 2016: Edie Text, Maud (a fashion mag display typeface), Galleri.
  • From 2015: Atelier (sans), Blanche, Practice (sans), Everyday (sans), Deursen (sans), North (serifed display typeface), Inkwell (sans).
  • From 2014: System (monospaced system font), Wired (a display typeface inspired by Richard Kostelanetz rigorous arrays of lines and grids), Grotezk or MXB Grotesk (a geometric sans), Pavilion (a bespoke prismatic typeface for Printed Pages), Duplex (geometric sans).
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Megami Studios (or: Incstone design by Megami)
[Rob Barba]

Rob Barba (b. 1971, Los Angeles) (Megami Studios, est. 2004) is the Washington, DC-based designer of these free fonts in 2008: Gauche Display (script), Orthotopes (fat, slightly rounded, and gorgeous), Vocaloid (geometric sans), Vocaloid Oblique, Voynich. In 2009, he made Reaver.

At MyFonts, one can buy Voynich, Reaver, Orthotopes, Semiautonomous Subunit Clade (2009, sci-fi), Gauche Display (2010), American Sensation (2010, a techno family), Onigiri (2012), and Shibuya Dancefloor (2009, a techno family), Une Nuit Parisienne (2010, a techno family), Xero (2010, a sans family with irregular stroke widths).

Some time in 2009, their fonts went commercial and their address changed to Ashburn, VA.

In 2013, Megami Studios published the cartoonish family Pennywhistle, and in 2018 The Happiest Cruise In Anaheim (inspired by signage at Disney World) and Doki Doki Tokimeki (for mangas).

Typefaces from 2019: Ferrocarbon (an industrial octagonal design), Shenandoah Clarendon. Benjor (a bold unicase headline font), Odaiba Soul (a minimalist monolinear rounded sans in their Cool Japan series). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Megan Baggett

Californian designer of Ruban (2016) for a project at St. John's University in New York City. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Megan Hamrick

During her studies, Santa Barbara, CA-based Megan Hamrick designed Flat Line Type (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Megan Hansen

Creator of the curly blackletter typeface German Type (2014). Megan is involved in The Student Advertising Graphics Association, which is the student chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Los Angeles at CSU Northridge. It groups graphic designers and CSUN students interested in visual communication. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Megan Jurcak

Illustrator in San Francisco who obtained an MA in graphic design in 2014 from Savannah College of Art and Design. Creator of Breezeblocks (2014), a typeface inspired by the band Alt-J and their single, Breezeblocks. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Megan Salgado

Graphic designer in Carlsbad, CA, who made the thin hand-drawn floriated typeface Flourish (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Megan Toy

Californian designer (b. 1991) who, with the help of Fontcapture, created the mostly hand-printed typefaces Quirk, CutiePop (2009), Cloudy (2012), Fourth Grader (2012), MeganBats and MeganHand (2009). Sweetie Hand was drawn in 2013.

Dafont link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Megan Van Vlear

Naguna Niguel, CA-based designer of Cabin Hand (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Meley Laetitia Sie

San Diego, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Seahorse (2015) and of a set of tree dingbats (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melinda Haverstock

Melinda Haverstock (Placentia, CA) created Oakley Women's Script (2012) for the eyewear company. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melissa Briggs

Hayward, CA-based designer of the elegant typographic poster You've got red on you (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melissa Monroy

San Diego-based designer of the children's handwriting font Krissa (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melissae Elhajj

Campbell, CA-based designer of Gregothic (2017), a Latin / Arabic blackletter typeface that is influenced by Gregorian chants. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mercedes Rodriquez

During her studies, Fontana, CA-based Mercedes Rodriquez created the counterless poster typeface Full Face (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Meredith Mandel

In 2009, Californian Meredith Mandel graduated with a BFA in Communication Arts from the Otis College of Art and Design. At The League of Moveable Type she designed Chunk (2009), an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines. Her Chunk Five font was extended as Chunk Five Ex in 2013 by Peter Wiegel.

Kernest link. Typedia link. Fontown link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Meredith Uyeyama

Sacramento, CA-based designer of the arts and crafts / art nouveau sans typeface After Dark (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Meryl

Californian creator of the fat finger typeface Mosaical (2012).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mew Varissara Ophaswongse

Software engineer and type designer based in San Francisco, originally from Bangkok. At Type@Cooper West, Mew Varissara Ophaswongse (who graduated there in 2018) developed the reverse stress typeface family Sandwich (2019), which contains styles called Hoagie (a cartoon font), Lettuce Italic, Lettuce Regular, Sandwich Bold, Sandwich Italic, and Sandwich Regular. Sandwich won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019.

Still at Type@Cooper West, Mew designed Fraktur Alemannia, a revival of a Ludwig & Mayer typeface from 1910.

Designer of Konstrukt (2020), which is based on the geometric solid alphabets of André Vlaanderen (1928).

She developed TypeTuner, a browser extension that allows the user to apply a local font to any web page, as well as to configure values for variable font axes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

M&H Type (or: Mackenzie&Harris Typographers and Typefounders)

Mackenzie&Harris Typographers and Typefounders since 1915. Located in the Presidio in San Francisco, they offer metal type. Their 119-page catalogue was published in 1994. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Micaela Ballew

Micaela Ballew is a graphic designer born and raised in the Napa Valley, California. In 2014, she was working towards her BFA at Pacific Union College. Designer of Typeaux (2014), a hybrid typeface based on Didot and American Typewriter. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Abbink

Mike Abbink (b. 1967) earned a BFA in Fine Arts, and another one in Graphic Design and Packaging from Art Center in Pasadena. Born in 1967, he was a graphic designer at Meta Design San Francisco doing corporate and web design. In March 1999 he co-founded Method, Inc., a San Francisco-based company specializing in communication strategy, interaction and graphic design. Mike Abbink is the Executive Creative Director of the Brand Experience and Design Team within IBM Studios. Before that, he worked as a Creative Director for the Museum of Modern Art, Wolff Olins (New York), Saffron Consultants, Method (also co-founder) and as a Design Director at Apple Computer. His typefaces:

  • The sans serif family FF Kievit (2000). This font family is also in the FontBureau collection, and is by many seen as the long-term replacement of Helvetica and Frutiger. FF Kievit won the typeface award at the ISTD TypoGraphic Awards 2001. It was also used to make the house font CDU Kievit for the CDU party in Germany. With Paul van der Laan, he co-designed FF Kievit Slab in 2013 in nine styles. In 2019, Abbink and van der Laan released FF Kievit Serif, which has wide apertures and large counters that make it quite legible.
  • At Agfa Monotype, he and others designed the large GE Inspira family (2003-2005), about which Michael writes: I actually spent over a year working on the design of Inspira. It was Patrick's [Patrick Giasson] early concept that GE was drawn to, but at that time, it was way too funky and more display like then they wanted. I then took patricks original thoughts and spent several months refining the roman and created an italic (which Patrick did not do) which was then handed to monotype to create more weights and refine a bit. What you see in Inspira now, is quit different from Patrick's original concept. However, the more unique forms from Inspira are indeed driven by patricks original drawings and are the interesting forms of the font (v, x, z, y). I was also involved with art directing and working with the Monotype team (for over a year) in developing all the other iterations of inspira. All told, there were many people involved in the refinement of the Inspira font family. but I must say I would have to take a large credit in the design of inspira along with Patrick. I believe Patrick's designs and my designs created a nice balance that has made Inspira what it is today and of course let's not forget the hard work of monotype in really taking the font to the next level with all the weights, the condensed version, and exotics (Greek, Cyrillic, Turkish, etc.). Michael now works at Wolff Olins in New York. GE Inspira Sans and Serif (Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen, Bold Monday) won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition.
  • From 2000 until 2006, he created FF Milo, which was followed in 2009 by FF Milo Serif. These typefaces were developed for magazine and newspaper print and have therefore short ascenders and descenders. Paul van der Laan helped with the production. In 2014, the series was augmented with FF Milo Slab (by Mike Abbink and Jesse Vega).
  • In 2014, Abbink finished Brando (Bold Monday), which won third prize in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition. It was followed in 2016 by Brando Sans (Bold Monday).
  • IBM Plex (2017). A large free font family created by Mike Abbink and Bold Monday for IBM's new corporate identity. It includes IBM Plex Sans, IBM Plex Serif and IBM Plex Mono subfamilies. Direct download at Github. Aneliza (2018) is a fork that has a single storey g in the italics.

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

Michael Angeles
[Balsamiq Studios]

[More]  ⦿

Michael Bartalos

San Francisco-based designer of the party animal dingbat font Bartalk (1996, T26). In 2015, he made a paperclip typeface.

Klingspor link. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michael Doret
[Alphabet Soup (or: Michael Doret)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michael Felch

Fremont, CA-based designer of the graffiti font dapalini (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Forbes

Beaumont, CA-based designer of the display typeface Gotcha (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Jarboe
[Aesthetic Type]

[More]  ⦿

Michael Jarboe
[Reserves (or: AE Type)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michael Regan

Orange, CA-based designer of 35mm (2013), a film strip typeface.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Sharpe
[Nimbus 15]

[More]  ⦿

Michael Sharpe
[Erewhon]

[More]  ⦿

Michael Sharpe
[Boondox]

[More]  ⦿

Michael Sharpe
[newpx]

[More]  ⦿

Michael Sharpe
[newtx]

[More]  ⦿

Michael Sharpe
[URW Garamond No. 8]

[More]  ⦿

Michael Shelton

Graphic designer in Long Beach, CA, who graduated from the Art Institute of California. Creator of the futuristic typeface Ascension (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Slevin

Californian graphic designer who made Caramel (2009, handwriting), Scribble (2009, based on his own hand), Slevdog (2009, based on his own hand) and Dora (2009, outlined and hand-drawn), mostly with Fontcapture. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Starkman

San Francisco-based designer of Galvanize (2007), an industrial geometric sans face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Stickley

Michael Stickley graduated with a BFA in Drawing and Painting and developed a focus on early 20th century art, architecture, and design, which grew into an interest in typography and type design. He works as a graphic designer in the print, interactive, and broadcast fields. Long Beach, CA-based designer of the Arts&Crafts / Goudy-inspired P22 Stickley Text Pro (2009, P22). P22 published Stickley Optical Font family in 2013. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michael Vanderbyl
[Vanderbyl Design]

[More]  ⦿

Michael Worthington

Program Director, Graphic Design program California Institute of the Arts. Designer of the Fraktur font Dominatrix (1994) and of Kookoo (1994).

In 2012, he designed the techno typeface Aviator.

Interview in 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michel Bujardet
[Fontmenu.com]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michel Bujardet
[Match Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michele Hauer

Campbell / San Diego, CA-based designer of the decorative didone typeface Misha Nova (2017) and the minimalist sans typeface South America (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Dang

During her studies at the University of Redlands in California, Michelle Dang created the embroidery font Life's Thread (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Dixon
[Dixie's Delights]

[More]  ⦿

Michelle Uyeda

During her studies, Torrance, CA-based Michelle Uyeda created the ball terminal-laden didone display typeface Doheny (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

MicroLogic Software
[Frank Hainze]

Frank Hainze (Emeryville, CA) used to sell typefaces such as Adorable, Artisan, Celebrity, Crescent, Duchess, Elegance, Formal, Heather, Imperial, ImperialBold, ImperialBoldItalic, ImperialItalic, Legend, MajesticBold, MasonBook, MasonBookOblique, MasonDemi, MasonDemiOblique, Opera, Salsa, Samurai, Victorian (blackletter, 1994), Wedding.

No longer in business. The fonts are still out there, however. For example, check Samurai here.

Ulrich Stiehl documents all forged fonts on the PrintMaster CD and reports that the quality is remarkably good. Examples: Advantage = ITC Avant Garde Gothic, Architect = Adobe Tekton, Editor = ITC American Typewriter, Enchanted = ITC Korinna, Fantasy = ITC Tiffany, Gallery = ITC Galliard, Geneva = Linotype Helvetica, Gourmand = ITC Garamond, Imperial = ITC New Baskerville, Manuscript = Linotype Palatino, Mason = ITC Lubalin Graph, Mirage = ITC Benguiat, Optimum = Linotype Optima, Tiempo = Monotype Times. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Sousa

Miguel Sousa is a Portuguese graphic designer with a big interest in Typography and Typeface Design. After completing his five-year degree in Technology and Graphic Arts from the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar in 2002, he worked for the children's books publisher O Bichinho de Conto for one year, as a graphic designer, typographic designer, book designer, web designer and web developer. Before going to Reading he also worked in MBV Design as a graphic designer, web designer and web programmer.

He graduated from the Master of Arts in Typeface Design programme at the University of Reading, where he developed text typeface named Calouste with extensive support for the Latin and Armenian scripts. Calouste (2005) won an award at TDC2 2006.

In April 2006, he joined Adobe's type development department. He had a hand in these Gerard Unger fonts in 2006, custom produced for the University of Reading: RdgSwift-Bold, RdgSwift-BoldItalic, RdgSwift-Italic, RdgSwift-Regular, RdgVesta-Bold, RdgVesta-BoldItalic, RdgVesta-Italic, RdgVesta.

In 2013, he created the beautiful typeface Gothic Round (Hamilton Wood Type): After Hamilton bought out Page, Wells and Morgans & Wilcox, they briefly offered the various cuts from their former competitors before standardizing. In settling on which version would best inform this new digitization, designer Miguel Sousa of Adobe looked at specimens from the Newberry Library in Chicago as well as visiting and printing at the WNY Book Arts Center and of course the Hamilton Wood Type Museum to get a full immersion into this font project. Ultimately it was settled upon to use exemplars from multiple cuts to create a more pleasing hybrid. The Upper case was primarily based on the Heber Wells version, while the lower case referenced the Wm. Page version. Overall some of the most jarring quirks found in various versions were left out in favor of a solid type. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mika Yokota

Mika Yokota (Los Angeles, CA) designed several unnamed geometric (triangular, hexagonal, circular) typefaces in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mikal Barbera

Los Angeles-based designer of the typeface Ogham English (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Doughty
[Mike's Sketchpad: Free Font Archive]

[More]  ⦿

Mike Emory
[Static Type]

[More]  ⦿

Mike Gembarski

Laguna Beach, CA-based designer of the playful alphabet Bow Typed (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Kohnke
[Typebox]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mike Marcoux

During his studies at Point Loma Nazarene University, Mike Marcoux (Mission Beach, CA) created Bitmap Alphabet (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Marquez

Pasadena, CA-based graphic designer. Creator of the art deco typeface Blade (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike R. Stevens

Designer and old-timer in the signpainting business in San Jose, CA, who influenced sign layout in a big way. Mike Stevens died of a heart attack in 1989 at the age of 46. At the SignDNA foundry, we find reincarantions of many of his alphabets, such as Magic, Stix (art deco), Happy Script, Master, ArRoyo, Tahoe, Staton, BigSur, DuVall, BigRed, BigMedicine, Tenor, Phoenix, Vasona. His bio at SignDNA states: I hope sign people are inspired once again by these great lettering styles of Mike's -- now available as typefaces. MyFonts link.

Author of Mastering Layout: The Art of Eye Appeal and Ninety-Nine Showcards: A Photo Album, and frequent contributor of articles on layout to SignCraft magazine. MyFonts: Few sign artists in recent times have had as much influence on sign layout as Mike Stevens. He not only mastered lettering and layout, but is also credited with starting a renaissance in sign lettering on the West Coast.

Nick Curtis also created some typefaces that were inspired by him, such as Mikeys Roman NF (2011), Marky Marker NF (2008, comic book font) and Mikey Likes It Corpulent NF (2008, signage face). . [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mike Teal

Mike Teal (Mike Teal Design, Victorville, CA) created the condensed sans typeface Sacredd (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mikelis Bastiks
[Asketic Design Studio]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mike's Sketchpad: Free Font Archive
[Mike Doughty]

From Studio City, CA, Mike Doughty's free font archive. This page also has his tech fonts, "Generic Tech", in all formats for all computers. Mike created Wichita in 1997 with Chank Diesel. Alternate URL. Has a good dingbat archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mikey Weeks
[Lord Type]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Milai Swan

Oxnard, CA-based designer of the grungy typeface Mexico Hypoxic Zone (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miller Type Foundry
[Richard Miller]

Richard Miller (Miller Type Foundry) was located in Annandale, VA, but now resides in Phoeniz, AZ. Born in Pacifica, CA, he is a type and graphic designer.

Creator in 2009 of the sans and headline sans family Mr. Jones. The Richard Miller all caps sans family (2009) is testosterone-powered. It was followed by the softer Richard Miller Rounded (2009), the rounded signage typeface Kalico (2010), Manwriting (2010), Nikaia (2010, a contemporary sans family), Nikaia Script (2010), Swagg (2011, humanist sans family with one slab serif "r" thrown in to make a statement), Westin Black (2011, a take on Cooper Black), Gilman (2011, a text family), Gilman Sans (2011, to accompany Gilman Serif for large bodies of text), and Project Fairfax (2009, stencil).

In 2014, Miller published the multi-width geometric typeface Uniform. That was followed in 2015 by Uniform Rounded and Uniform Italic.

In 2016, he published the large techno typeface family Tactic Sans: Tactic Sans was created to be as versatile as a special forces operator. Tactic Round is its rounded cousin. Towards the end of 2016, he finished the geometric sans typeface family Mercenary.

Typefaces from 2017: Veronica Script and Caps, Blunt.

Typefaces from 2018: Intervogue (a revival of Vogue (1929, Stephenson Blake) and Intertype Vogue, competitors of Kabel and Futura in the 1930s), Intervogue Soft.

Typefaces from 2019: American Auto (a retro monoline script family).

Typefaces from 2020: Uniform Pro (a 42-style geometric sans).

Fontsquirrel link. Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mindy Duits

Mindy Duits (Huntington Beach, CA) created the decorative typeface Flloyd in 2014. Its design is inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's stained glass windows. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MINE San Francisco
[Christopher Simmons]

MINE is the studio of Christopher Simmons, a Canadian-born, San Francisco-based designer, writer, design advocate and educator. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which, Just Design, focuses on design for social change. In 2015, he created a custom corporate headline sans typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ming Ong
[Dear Sue Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mini Press
[Rachel Kick]

Hand lettering artist in Los Angeles. In 2020, she designed the hand-drawn typefaces Pen & Ink and Paperly, the mini-serifed display typeface Rincon and the brush font Quilotoa.

Typefaces from 2021: Kindred (hand-crafted), Kindred (handlettered), Jungle Giant (a monolinear font duo), Kumbaya (a hand-drawn sans), National Forest (a rounded sans similar to those used on park signs; accompanied by a bold script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Missy Barclay

Missy Barclay (Long Beach, CA) created a stencil typeface called Stencil (2012) that uses some ball terminals. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Misty Reed

Designer in San Francisco, who created the curly display typeface Zingara in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mitch Greer

During his studies at Califonia College of the Arts, Mitch Greer designed the decorative and surreal typeface Dream and Fog (2019), and the experimental Octopus (2019) and East West Back And Forth (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mitchell Austin

Californian designer of the very black typeface Chub Rock (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohr Design

Fantastic commercial fonts by Mohr Design, located in Santa Barbara, CA: JM Tiles Round / Tiles Block are great kitchen tile fonts for making logos, JM Elements Mono / Elements Duo is hip and JM Janomo Dot / Janomo Line is futuristic. The company has been in design since 1974, but has only ventured into type design recently. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Molly Brown

Graduate of the Pratt Institute, 2006. San Francisco-based illustrator and painter who drew an animal alphabet in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Molly Suber Thorpe

Calligrapher and lettering artist from Los Angeles who graduated from The American University of Paris and UCLA's Design Communication Arts program (class of 2009). Today, Molly lives in Athens, Greece. She wrote these books:

  • Modern Calligraphy: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started in Script Calligraphy (St. Martin's Press, 2013).
  • The Calligrapher's Business Handbook (2017).
  • Mastering Modern Calligraphy (St. Martin's Griffin, 2019).

In 2019, she designed the monoline script font Cantaloupe. In 2020, she released the handcrafted Outside Voice, the monoline script Honeydew, the monolinear all caps ligature-rich art deco typeface Lempicka for Latin and Greek, and the Tuscan typeface Wiley.

In 2021, she designed Very Matcha (a retro serif) and Charlot (a vintage all caps typeface).

Releases from 2022: Magritte (a surrealist serif; dreamy and slightly psychedelic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Monica Bosque

San Jose, CA-based designer of the display typeface Frida (2016), which is named after Frida Kahlo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monica Lopez

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of Branchlike (2014), a tree branch-inspired display typeface. This typeface was developed during her studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monica Maccaux

Graphic designer, who has an MFA in Graphic Design at Otis College of Art & Design (Los Angeles) in 2012. She currently teaches graphic design at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is Creative Director at Blue Taco Design in Las Vegas. Monica created a few experimental typefaces in 2012, such as String Theory, Weird (a unicase typeface done with Sybille Hagmann; some initial work was done using FontStruct), Spoked (designed for a web site to promote bicycle awareness), and Triathlon (an organic typeface for triathletes, developed for her thesis project at Otis), and Weird (2011, experimental).

In 2013, she designed Kryptonian Script for Warner Bros' Man of Steel. In 2015, she created a typeface based on strings, Two Pencil Typeface, as well as the experimental typeface Motorix (released by the Psy/Ops type foundry in San Francisco).

In 2016, Monica Maccaux and Greg Lindy joined forces for the creation of the cursive school script font ABC Mouse Cursive.

Behance link. Blue Taco Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monterey Software
[Tom Hoskins]

Free Code 39 TrueType font offered by this Los Angeles-based company run by Tom Hoskins. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Morgan Blodgett

Morgan Blodgett (Aliso Viejo, CA) created an untitled blackboard bold typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Morgan Stockton

Morgan Stockton was born in Merced, CA, and grew up in Lansing, KS. During her studies in Kansas City, MO, she created the display typeface Jemma (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Morten Halvorsen

Graduate of Westerdals School of Communication, Oslo. San Francisco-based associate creative director and art director at the ride-sharing company Lyft, who, in 2020, made the shaky handwriting font Shake, which is based on the handwriting of Halvorsen's mother, who is struck with Parkinson's disease. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mortimer Leach

Mortimer Leach was a lettering specialist. He worked on national accounts both in New York and in Los Angeles, and for twenty years maintained his own freelance studio. He was best known for his work in advertizing, and won many awards for lettering. During the 1950s, Mortimer Leach became Director of the Lettering Department at Art Center School, Los Angeles. He wrote Lettering for Advertising (1956) and Letter Design in the Graphic Arts (1960). The former book deals with American display lettering techniques in the Mid-Twentieth Century. Leach uses Caslon, Bodoni and Futura to demonstrate how, and how not, to create beautiful headline lettering for advertisements.

His influence cannot be underestimated. His students include type designers like Rick Cusick. Inspired by Mortimer's lettering, Riley Cran named a 56-style didone typeface family after him, Mort Modern (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mostyn Griffith

During his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (class of 2018), Mostyn Griffith (Palo Alto, CA) created the display typefaces Solum Serif (2015) and Lenor Black (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mountain Lake Software

Children's handwriting fonts: School Text [Plain, Bold, Lined, Lined-Bold, Arrows], all made in 1994. Commercial Kiddo font. Based in San Francisco. Register to obtain the free font Dracula. Their free lined educational font SchoolScriptLined (1994) is here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mr. Ortiz

Southern Californian who created the grunge typefaces Mr.Ortiz (2009) and DyslexicEnglishTeacher (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

MusicEd

Commercial music fonts made by "Rachel". The MusicEd Fingerings font collection contains Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Sax and Brass. The basic MusicEd font (truetype) is a general music font with, in addition, Kodály and Orff style notation, keyboard tablature and Curwen/Kodály handsigns. MusicEd is run by MusicTeachersTools.Com, located in Castro Valley, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MusiQwik Fonts
[Robert Allgeyer]

Robert Allgeyer's MusiQwik series of music fonts (2001-2008) is now hosted by me. In 2009, Allgeyer wrote: Welcome to my now-obsolete home page. In early 2009, I removed my web site from the Internet. I have done enough of it, and reached the stage in my life where I want to spend time doing other things. I have left this page for a couple of extra months, so that occasional visitors can find it, before I finally remove everything. I now live in Ormond Beach, Florida USA. Formerly, I was in Aptos, California USA. My name is prominent on the Internet due to my music fonts, fiction, essays, and travel comments. However, do not confuse me with the Midwestern jazz musician, the artist, the dancer, or any number of others with my same name. His free fonts besides MusiQwik and MusiSync, include Bongos, FretQwik, and MusiTone, all made in 2001. NWC Scriptorium has further fonts by him: NWslur (2002), Romital (2002, text font). In 2005, he added NoteHedz.

Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MvB Design
[Mark van Bronkhorst]

MvB Design (later called MVB Fonts) is Mark van Bronkhorst's company in Albany, CA, est. 1991 in San Francisco. It was also known as Markanna Studios Inc. Its fonts were first distributed by FontHaus, then by MyFonts, and most recently by Type Network.

In the list below, unless explicitly mentioned, Mark van Bronkhorst is the designer: GryphiusMVB (2003), MVB Solano Gothic (2007-2009, six Bank Gothic lookalikes done for the city of Albany, CA), MVB Celestia Antiqua One and Two (1993-1996, a rustic font family in the Caslon Antique genre; it contains zodiac signs), MVB Greymantle (1993, Kanna Aoki), MvB Magnesium (1992-2003, Adobe: a hefty, contrasted, all-caps sans serif with angled terminals that pays homage to American sign lettering), Magnolia MvB (1997), Airedale (1992), BovinePoster or MVB Bovine (1993), DickAndJane (1994), MildewRoman (1994), QuercusRegular (1993), PFAnimals (1993), PFCommerceCommunication (1992), PFFoodDrink (1992), PFHolidaysCelebrations (1992), PFHouseholdItems (1993), PFTransportTravel (1992), QuercusHard (1993), MVB Emmascript (1996, Kanna Aoki), MVB Café Mimi (1996-2003, Kanna Aoki), MVB Pedestria (2002, a sans family by Akemi Aoki), MVB Pedestria Pict (2002, dingbats by Akemi Aoki), MVB Verdigris (2003-2011, a garalde close to Sabon), MVB Fantabular and MVB Fantabular Sans (2002, Akemi Aoki, monospaced, typewriter-style), MVB Grenadine One and Two (2003, sans families by Akemi Aoki), MVB Peccadillo (2002, by Holly Goldsmith and Alan Greene), MVB BossaNova (Holly Goldsmith, 1997), BatmanForever1 (1994, Maseeh Rafani/Warner Bros and Mark van Bronkhorst), Breakdown (1996), HornyDave (1995, based on illustrations of Georgia Panagiotopoulos), HypnoclipsLogoFont (1997), Ovidius (1993), Subterfuge (1995), ZedGothicMvB (1996), HotsyTotsy, MVB Sirenne Six, MVB Sirenne Text, MVB Sirenne Display (2002, display serif family by by MvB and Alan Greene), Veriris Pro Text (2003-2011).

MVB Sacre Bleu (2007) is an award-winning handwriting typeface about which Joshua Lurie-Terrell writes: Sacre Bleu is the most flexible and accessible informal script of 2007, and rivals some of the best typefaces in this vein from the past decade. He compares it with Christian Robertson's Dear Sarah, Dave Farey's Lettres Eclatees, Letterror's Salmiak and Nick Cooke's Olicana, another very successful face.

In 2008, Mark set up Sweet Fonts, where he and Linnea Lundquist designed Sweet Upright Script (2008), and Mark published the quintuple line blackboard board family Sweet Titling No. 22 (2010), Sweet Square (2011---in the style of Bank Gothic), Sweet Sans Pro (2011, a sans family from Hairline, Sweet Gothic to Heavy. He says: The family is based on antique engraver's lettering templates called masterplates. Professional stationers use a pantograph to manually transfer letters from these masterplates to a piece of copper or steel that is then etched to serve as a plate or die. This demanding technique is rare today given that most engravers now use a photographic process to make plates, where just about any font will do. But the lettering styles engravers popularized during the first half of the twentieth century---especially the engraver's sans---are still quite familiar and appealing. It is in the style of Burin Sans and Sackers Gothic. And Embarcadero MVB (2010, a near-grotesque superfamily).

In 2012, van Bronkhorst released MvB Mascot (a signage script).

In 2013, MVB published the utilitarian sans family MVB Solitaire.

For Whole Foods Market, he created the corporate typefaces Grace's Hand and Molly Text in 2014.

In 2015, Mark van Bronkhorst set up TypoBrand LLC in Berkeley, CA. As part of TypoBrand, he published several typefaces that are modern digital reinterpretations of ATF typefaces. The collection is published by TypoBrand LLC under the names ATF Type or American Type Founders Collection. At ATF Type foundry, they co-designed, sometimes with others, classics such as ATF Alternate Gothic (2015), ATF Brush (2015), ATF Egyptian Antique (an expansion of Schraubstadter's Rockwell Antique by Mark van Bronkhorst, Igino Marini, and Ben Kiel), ATF Garamond (2015), ATF Headline Gothic (2015), ATF Livermore Script (by Mark van Bronkhorst, Igino Marini, and Ben Kiel), ATF Poster Gothic (2015), ATF Railroad Gothic (2016), and ATF Wedding Gothic (2015).

In 2017, he designed the plastic template font family MVB Diazo.

Type Network link. Linotype link. FontShop link. Alternate URL. Klingspor link.

View Mark van Bronkhorst's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

my Fontbook
[Jeremy Taylor]

Jeremy Taylor's wonderful free web font viewer to browse and display one's font collection. Created in 2009. He lives in San Diego. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nacionale
[Doug Alves]

Brazilian graphic artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles, CA. Home page. He made a few all-caps frilly floral caps typefaces, such as one designed for Havaianas Ipe, and Mari (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nancy Ingersoll

California-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Blueberry (2017), Muffin (2017), Fish Taco (2017) and Fried Egg (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Naomi Tirronen

Los Angeles-based designer of the text typeface Dudamel (2019), which is named after conductor Gustavo Dudamel. It was developed during a workshop at Type Paris 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natali Rodriguez

San Francisco-based creator of the charming ink splatter logotype Colaito (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natalia Kowaleczko

Creative director, strategic brand builder, and illustrator living in San Francisco. Her graduation typeface at Type West in 2019 was Meltdown, a warm Latin text typeface named to describe the state of the union in 2019 under the supreme narcissist. Her studio is called Natiko Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natalie Baron

Designer of the spooky font Goosebumps (2021) during her studies at Chapman University in Orange, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natasha Smith

During her studies, Oakland, CA-based Natasha Smith created the rounded sans typeface Lunar Heights (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nate Coonrod

Long Beach, CA-based graphic designer who created interesting typographic examples including Artacular (2010) and Haberdashery (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathan Davis

Nathan Davis is trained in sculpture and installation, and received his MFA in Design from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Nathan runs a creative studio called Arcadian Studio with his partner Jennifer Davis, and is an Assistant Professor Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. His talk at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona was entitled TYPO TAPAS Type of Place: Global Vernacular Type Archive. His aim is to develop a global user-generated archive of vernacular typography in the 21st century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathan Goldman
[DKNG Studios]

[More]  ⦿

Neha Hattangdi

Creative director at Meta Design in San Francisco. In 2014, Stan Zienka and Neha Hattangdi coidesigned the grid-based hipster typeface family Mica. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neil Manansala

American designer (b. 1993 aka LuigiFreak101) of the octagonal typeface Mario Luigi 2 (2007) and the handwriting typefaces Scoder Hand (2008) and Scoder Refined (2011). Alternate URL. The designer lives in Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neil Secretario

Atlanta, GA (and before that, San Clemente, CA)-based designer, with Riley Cran, of Calafia Casual Script (2017, Lost Type). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neon Gray

Graphic design and art direction studio. They created the custom art deco typeface Olimpyc (2007). It is a cooperative run from Baltimore and San Francisco by Liam Devowski, Benjamin Domanico, Joyce Kim, and Samuel Ortiz-Payero. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Netscape + Fonts = Hebrew

Hebrew site at Stanford. Free Hebrew web fonts, including Elrofont, made at Stanford (it seems). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neumat Ick

Codesigner, with Apostrophe at Apostrophic Laboratory, of Icklips, Pieces of Eight (a pirate dingbat font), and Powderfinger, all made ca. 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neutura
[Alexander McCracken]

Neutura was formed in 2003 by Alexander McCracken, who is located in San Francisco. His typefaces have a large geometric component: Aerion, Aperture (slab serif family), Autobahn, Belfast (octagonal black-bowled headline face), Cerie Outline, Children (paperclip face), Circle (avant garde style), Deuce (ultrafat), Deuce Round (fat and counterless), Estrella (2011, a high-contrast fat vogue didone titling face), Frank (fat and counterless), Frank Stencil, Frank3, Gulden Draak (blackletter), Interpol (texture face), Magnum (2006, for Neo2 magazine: free), Maisalle, Neutrino (ultra-fat futuristic beauty, 2006), Neutura (clean geometric sans family), Orange (geometric hairline sans), Orange Round, Rabbit, Register (architectural sans), Royale (fat decorative didone), Sabre (octagonal), Sarcophagus (very original blackletter), Slayer Heavy, Spade (fat and counterless), SPQRExlight, Syrup (paperclip font), Vendella (2011), Wafer (ultrafat). At T-26, he published Children (2006, a paperclip font), Deuce and Sarcophagus.

Behance link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

New Typography
[Vernon Adams]

Vernon Adams (born England, 1967) was a furniture restorer, woodcarver and typeface designer. On August 24, 2016 Vernon Adams passed away from injuries sustained in a scooter accident in May of 2014. New Typography was his type design site. Vernon graduated in 2007 with an MA in type design from the University of Reading and lived in San Clemente, California. His wife Allison now holds the trademark and/or copyright to most of his fonts.

He developed Mako (2007), a type family for text and image in magazines. Earlier, he created AutoPacHousehold. Nobile (2010) is part of the Google font directory. Through the Open Font Library, one can get the source Fontforge code for this open source sans family. About Mako, he writes that he submitted the font to Fontsmith, which sat on it for a while and rejected it, only to publish a few weeks later Lurpak, which according to Vernon is too similar to his rejected design. Free fonts at Google Code by Vernon, as of the end of 2010 include Coda (a heavy elliptical face), Nobile (mentioned above), Corben (a curvy bold typeface in the style of Cooper Black), and Gruppo (a thin sans).

In 2011, he added Coustard (a slab serif family), Damion (connected signage script), Smythe (Victorian), Radley (display face), Oswald (a reworking of the Alternate Gothic style: see this dedicated page; Oswald was updated continually by Vernon Adams until 2014. Vernon added Light and Bold weights, support for more Latin languages, tightened the spacing and kerning and made many glyph refinements throughout the family based on hundreds of users' feedback. In 2016 the family was updated by Kalapi Gajjar and Alexei Vanyashin to complete the work started by Vernon, and support languages that use the Cyrillic script), Candal (sans), Pacifico (connected signage face), Bangers (comic book face), Anton (heavy sans), Bevan (a reworking of Beton, a traditional slab serif display typeface created by Heinrich Jost in the 1930s), Six Caps (a condensed headline face), Meddon (a display font created from the handwritten script of an Eighteenth century legal document), Rokkitt (an Egyptian), Paytone One (headline face), Holtwood One SC (wood block simulation face), Monofett (white on black), Carter One (casual face), Francois One (gothic sans), Sigmar One (think mid twentieth century pulp magazine advertising), Bigshot One, Metrophobic, Mako, Francois One, Nunito (rounded; CTAN link), Shanti, Sigmar, Muli (minimalist sans), Kameron (an Egyptian), Stardos Stencil, Bowlby One, Bowlby One SC (fat poster face), Tienne (serif), Monoton (a multiline face in the style of Koch's Prisma, 1931), Sancreek (emulating an ornamental wood font), Amatic SC (hand-printed poster family), Sancreek (a Tuscan face), Oswald (in the old Alternate Gothic tradition of sans typefaces---a free Google font; CTAN link), Rammetto (based on the Stephenson Blake uppercase display font Basuto, released in 1926), and Michroma (modeled after Microgramma).

Typefaces made in 2012 include Bench Nine (Google Web Fonts: based on old Stephenson Blake typefaces), Oxygen (a sans typeface available from Google Web Fonts; forked in 2016 at Open Font Library as Comme and in 2017 as Oxygen Sans, with two new oblique styles), Oxygen Mono (Google Web Fonts), Norican (free script font at Google Web Fonts based in part on Stephenson Blake's Glenmoy from the 1920s), Cutive (free at Google Web Fonts, based on the IBM typewriter typefaces Executive and Smith-Premier), Pontano Sans (Google Web Fonts: a light basic sans), Trocchi (Google Web Fonts: derived from Nebiolo's Egiziano, and Caslon & Co's Antique No.4 and Ionic No.2), Seymour One (Google Web Fonts: derived from Sigma One), Anaheim (sans, Google Web Fonts), Cutive and Cutive Mono (Google Web Fonts: based on the typewriter typefaces of IBM's Executive and the older Smith-Premier).

Typefaces from 2013: Mondo (sans), Anton (grotesque).

In 2016, Jacques Le Bailly extended Nunito to a full set of weights, and an accompanying regular non-rounded terminal version, Nunito Sans. Another extension of Nunito is Iunito (2019, unknown designer).

In 2020, Jacques Le Bailly, Cereal and Vernon Adams (posthumously) released the sans typeface family Mulish at Google Fonts. Mulish is a minimalist sans, designed for both display and text typography. It was initially drawn in 2011 by Vernon Adams under the name Muli and then refined until 2014. In 2017 the family was updated by Jacques Le Bailly to complete the work started by Vernon after he passed away, in collaboration with his wife Allison, an artist who holds the trademark on the typeface family name. In August 2019, it was updated with a variable font weight axis.

Donations to Vernon's family. Memorial. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Google Plus link. Fontsquirrel link. Klingspor link. Github link. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

newpx
[Michael Sharpe]

Michael Sharpe (UCSD) created newpx, a free font package at CTAN: This package, based on pxfonts, provides many fixes and enhancements to that package, splitting it in two parts---newpxtext and newpxmath---which may be run independently of one another. It provides scaling, improved metrics, and other options. For proper operation, the packages require that the packages newtxmath and pxfonts be installed and their map files enabled. The text package relies on an extension of the TeXGyrePagella Type1 fonts that is provided with this package. Note that TeXGyrePagella is a math and scientific text font based on Palatino. This package is meant to be a replacement for Young Ryu's pxfonts---a complete text and math package with roman text font provided by a Palatino clone, sans serif based on a Helvetica clone, typewriter typefaces, plus math symbol fonts whose math italic letters are from a Palatino Italic clone. [Google] [More]  ⦿

newtx
[Michael Sharpe]

Michael Sharpe (UCSD) created newtx, a free font package at CTAN: This package, based on txfonts, provides many fixes and enhancements to the txfonts package, splitting it into two separate packages---newtxtext and newtxmath, which may be run independently of one another. It provides scaling, improved metrics, and other options. In particular, newtxmath offers a libertine option which substitutes Linux Libertine (provided with TeXLive and MikTeX) italic and Greek letters for the default Times letters, providing a good match for the Libertine text font, which is heavier than Computer Modern but lighter than Times, and in my experience, looks very sharp and clear on the screen. Newtxtt (2014) is a typewriter font subfamily. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nic
[FontPanda]

[More]  ⦿

Nicholas Gonzalez

Graduate (BFA) from San Jose State University, 2011. San Jose, CA-based designer of the stitching font Octave (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicholas Larimer
[Turncoat Studio]

[More]  ⦿

Nicholas Pavkovic

Nicholas Pavkovic, who has a math and music education, writes about his 1988 creation, Pulp Modern: Nicholas lives in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Bizzack

Designer of the free handcrafted typeface Bizzack (2016) during his studies at Expression College in Emeryville, CA. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Cottrell

Designer and art director from San Diego, CA, who studied at San Diego State University. Working on this display sans face (2006) and on Stitch Gothic (2006, sans). This other display sans (2006) is a large family that competes with DIN, Franklin Gothic (slightly) and Interstate (1993, Tobias Frere-Jones). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Oeffling

Nick Oeffling (b. Santa Monica, CA) designed the zebra-textured fingerprint-inspired typeface Touch in 2016 during his studies at Chapman University in Los Angeles. It was created to celebrate the fifteen year anniversary of the film noir thriller Memeno. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Preston

Palm Springs, CA-based designer of Cathedral Sans (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Quintero

Dallas, TX (was: San Diego, CA)-based designer (b. 1983) who specializes in typefaces and tattoo designs. Creator of the free spurred font FT Anchor Yard (2012), the squarish typeface Jetpacks (2018), the tattoo fonts Last Forever, Mag Lines and Round Liner, the rounded spurred typeface Heck Yes (2018), and the hand-drawn typefaces Space Slant (2018) and Leatherwork (2013). In 2019, he released the display typefaces Fresh Flowers and Welcome to Texas. In 2020, he released the Western reverse contrast font Texicali, the squarish typeface House+Home, the black metal font Degenerate, and the handcrafted typefaces Motel, Paerland, Nick Q Hand and Show Poster. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Seils

As a student in Emeryville, CA, Nick Seils designed the free typeface Seils Sans (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Sherman
[Hex]

[More]  ⦿

Nick Slater

Palo Alto, CA-based designer of the free font Woodshop. It was at one point freely downloadable. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicola Householder

During her graphic design studies at Pratt, Brooklyn, NY-based Nicola Householder (originally from San Francisco) designed the display typeface Adler (2014) and Moiré typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Blue

Los Angeles-based designer of the bloated counterless typeface Pine (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Gosé

Visual designer in Los Angeles, CA, who created the experimental typeface Flip The Serif (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Jaffe

Nicole Jaffe (Los Angeles) created the viny typeface Splinter (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Wong

Creator in San Francisco of the hand-lettered caps alphabet Pointer Rustic (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Zhu

Los Angeles-based creator of Lollipop Fonts (2012, spiral designs). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicolette Notthoff

Trabuco Canyon, CA-based designer of the origami typeface Scout Entertainment (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nienow Brand
[Adam Nienow]

San Diego, CA-based graphic designer. In 2021, he released these vintage display typefaces: Almetz, Cedros, Desert Display, Highline, Lanai (a tiki font), Mesa, Morro, Ramona, Rincon Script, Saratoga, Seagaze. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nik Kantar

Designer in Los Angeles, where he studies at Cal State. Behance link. Designer of Gauge (2010, a pixel display face) and Base (2010, an artsy ultra-fat display face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikki Lhota

Encinitas, CA-based designer of an art deco alphabet (but not a font) in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Niklas Design
[Niklas Johnson]

Swedish graphic designer, b. 1991, who obrained a Masters degree at IED in Florence, Italy. He is currently based in Stockholm. His typefaces:

  • At Santa Barbara City College in California, Niklas Johnson designed the artsy display typeface Picasso (2015) and the vintage typeface Nick (2015).
  • In 2017, he created an untitled octagonal typeface and the serif typeface Niccolo.
  • In 2021, he released the free squarish industrial sans family Ampero.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Niklas Johnson
[Niklas Design]

[More]  ⦿

Nikola Kantar

Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1985, he moved to California, where he graduated in 2011 from Cal State in LA with a degree in graphic design. He still lives in Los Angeles. Behance link.

Creator of the squarish typeface Base (2012) and the pixelish typeface Square Warz (2012), which was modeled on the Space Invaders game. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikoo Nooryani

During her communication design studies in Los Angeles, Nikoo Nooryani created the grungy typeface Civic Detritus (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nils Lindstrom
[Lindstrom Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nimbus 15
[Michael Sharpe]

Nimbus 15 (2015-2016) is a free font package developed and maintained by UCSD's Michael Sharpe. The package is intended to provide a set of basic Latin (OT1, T1 and TS1), Greek and Cyrillic based on the Nimbus Core 2015 released by Artifex in October 2015. That core contains the URW++ clones of Courier, Helvetica and Times. The individual fonts in this package, with prefixes zco (Courier, 3 weights), zhv (Helvetica, 2 weights) and ztm (Times, 2 weights), are provided in both otf and pfb format. The font named zcoN-Regular is a narrow version of zco-Regular, and is much better suited to rendering code than the latter. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nina Chen

Graduate of Academy Of Art University, who grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. San Francisco, CA-based designer of the rounded stencil typeface tube (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

No More Bad Type
[Jeanie Chong]

Jeanie Chong (b. Hong Kong) graduated from Otis College of Art and Design and now lives in Los Angeles (since 2007) where she is a graphic designer, and started No More Bad Type.

Creator of the thin typeface Steno (2010-2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noah Ross

Californian FontStructor (aka winty5, b. 2002) who made these typefaces in 2012: 5Stenserif, 5Stencipix, 5GeoZtenzil, 5GeoSolid, 5 Quadrislash (kitchen tile face), 5 Micropix, 5Reverserif, 5Curvo, Shadow, Circlex (kitchen tile face), Quadrupus, Dissolvis, Rossian Alphabet, Fatty, Payperklipz, Roboto Sans and Roboto Serif, Krakk, Arkadeland (pixel face), Pew Pew Pew, Kalium Sans, Tini, Hexa, Pyramis, Doodley, Maaschine, Hexor, Digitus, Quark, Blobbie, W5's Remix, Laser Cannon, Poke, Razorblade, Titanium and Titanium II (blocky monospaced stencil).

Typefaces from 2013: 5Zanin, 5Tintin, Chyldren, 5 Goldminer (Western font), 5 Circuit Board, 5 Mikrothin (pixelish), 5 Crayoned, 5Blockletter, 5 Mikropix, 5 Computron, 5 Letterblack, 5 Singlebrik, 5 Kitty, 5 Mikrodotz, 5 Didgit (+Solid, +Stencil), 5 Microchip, 5 Hexpix, 5 Band (ultra-condensed), 5 Futurex, 5 Zero, 5 Pixwriter, 5 Caveman, 5 Ultramini, 5 Foundation, 5 Structonix, 5 Stenserif, 5 Psycho (labyrinthine), 5 Med Grids, Skribal, 5 Carnival (Western, slab serif), Undersea, Jester, 5 Winter Sans, 5 Zlash, 5 Darius, 5 Drop That Bass, 5 Computerized (LED face), 5 Kallum Sans Neue (octagonal), 5 Final Frontier, 5 Muta Sans, 5 Med Grid, 5 Dagger Unicase, 5 Threezy, 5 Curvo, 5 Railway Script (upright connected script), 5 Champagne, 13/5 Atom Sans, S Tekknosystem (techno), 5 Maach, 5 Dotmatrix 1979, 5 Skware cat Scratch Fever, 5 Pixdeath, 5 Metrik (octagonal), Droido, Skribble Black, Kindergarten, 5 Recieptprint (pixel face), 5 Monopix (pixel face), 5 Contrastio, 5 Beans, 5 Beans II, 5 Geomedings, 5 Fatal Error, 5 Identification Mono, 5 Megabam, 5 Futurebit, 5 Space Station, 5 Computers in Love.

Typefaces from 2014: 5 Kreeper, Mad Pixels, 5 Zonex, Robot Killer, Roman New Times (grunge), Devastation.

Dafont link. Another Dafont link as Noah the Awesome. Aka Winter Design Studio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NONBook
[Ryan Maelhorn]

NONBook is Ryan Maelhorn's foundry located in Bellefonte, PA. Ryan Maelhorn (b. 1978, State College, PA) created the free font Mob (2012, bold sans), the commercial Mob Pro (2012), and Bounce (2012). In 2014, he published the grungy typeface Mottle.

Dafont link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Norstandard

Norstandard is a new standard in the Armenian font encoding that works on both Mac and PC. A collection of Armenian truetype fonts using this standard can be had as part of a 75 USD package. By Windsor Productions, Pasadena, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nour Puch

San Diego, CA-based designer of the squarish typeface Happy Idiot (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

NSM Worldwide (or: Greek House of Fonts)
[Phelan Riessen]

San Diego-based designer (b. 1971) of the free fonts Halloween Too (2015: dripping blood font), Joe Caps Underwood (2015: an old typewriter font), Bad Pad Distressed (2013) and Social Icons (2013), and of the ransom note fonts Distressed Ransom Note (2013), Scary Halloween (a blood drip font) and Yet Another Ransom Note (2013).

In 2016, he designed the dot matrix typeface Ugly Sweater and Ugly Sweater Font Icons.

Typefaces from 2017: Kurlz, Collegiate Greek, Greek House Varsity (Greek athletic lettering), Greek House Brotherhood (varsity font), Joe Underwood (distressed typewriter).

Typefaces from 2018: Hallowed Eve (dripping blood font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nuform Type Foundry
[Erik Marinovich]

Erik Marinovich (Croatia) ran/runs Friends of Type and Nuform Type, and is based in Berkeley / San Francisco. He is the creator of some neat type posters in 2009. In 2010, he made more typographic posters. Police&Thieves (2011) is an illustrated caps alphabet (font?). FAC13 (2011) is an experimental alphabet.

In 2015, he designed the retro Viktor Script with James Edmondson at Oh No Type.

At Future Fonts, he published Brzo (2020: a display typeface inspired by the boldness of 90s basketball graphics), the reverse stress typeface Jaws (2018) and the vintage typeface Hermanos (2018-2021). He writes: Hermanos is a dedication to the hand painted signs found in the mission district of San Francisco. Its flared serifs, narrow stature and cheerful spirit make Hermanos a perfect compliment for packaging, restaurants and editorial headlines.

Designer of Ozik (2022), a bizarre four-weight display typeface that pays homage to the iconic lettering featured on Black Sabbath's Vol.4 album.

Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

OCR-A: Richard Wales
[Richard B. Wales]

Metafont definition for the OCR-A Optical Character Recognition Font. By Richard B. Wales from UCLA's Computer Science Department. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Octicons
[Cameron McEfee]

Octicons is a font made for font-based icons on web pages. It was developed by new media designer Cameron McEfee (San Francisco) in 2009. Github link. Another link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oh No Type
[James T. Edmondson]

Oakland, CA-based designer, whose company is called Oh No Type. In 2011, he was a student at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Graduate of the Type & Media program at KABK in Den Haag in 2014. Before that, he was based in Leeds, UK. James teaches Type at Cooper West. In 2018, James co-founded Future Fonts, a platform for distributing fonts in-progress. Typefaces:

  • 2008: at FontStruct of the blackletter typeface Eclyptico and of Mopper.
  • 2010: Edmondson, Dode (script).
  • 2011: Edmond Serif (in progress) is being designed in Rod Cavasos Type Design class at CCA. Edmond Sans (2011) is a headline all caps sans face. Duke (Lost Type) is a beveled typeface based on the signage for the Cup and Saucer Luncheonette in New York. Wisdom Script (Lost Type) was originally designed for Woods of Wisdom, a 50 part poster series on bad advice. Working on a roman caps version in Ed Interlock style. Lavanderia (2011, free at Lost Type) is a signage script family inspired by fancy laundromat lettering in San Francisco's Mission District.
  • 2012: Edmond Sans (Lost Type).
  • Mission Script (2012) is a connected signage script, also inspired by lettering in San Francisco's Mission District.
  • 2013: Mission Gothic. Influenced by wood types, this sans was co-designed with Trevor Baum.
  • 2014: Covik, his graduation typeface at KABK. He writes: Covik was designed with the goal of creating a small text family with complimentary display typefaces which work together to create a rich typographic palette. How divergent could a style be while remaining kindred? In what ways could weight, width, proportion, and construction be played with in order to create a varied family? See also Covik Sans Mono.
  • 2015: Hobeaux (a take on Morris Fuller Benton's art nouveau typeface Hobo), Viktor Script (a retro script done with Erik Marinovich). Accompanied by Hobeaux Rococeaux (2016).
  • 2016: Vulf Mono (Vulf Mono is the official typeface of Vulfpeck, a funky four-piece rhythm section from Ann Arbor, Michigan. The typeface draws main inspiration from 12 point Light Italic, a font for the IBM Selectric typewriter.)
  • Year unknown: Bordeaux Script.
  • 2018: Obviously, Eckmann Psych (a psychedelic take on Otto Eckmann's art nouveau type), Ohno Blazeface, Cheee (a variable font).
  • 2019: Nonplus (counterless script), Primarily Script (a children's book font), Coniferous (based on signage at American National Forests).
  • 2020: Degular (sans, variable with three axes), Compadre (an all caps sans typeface), Ohno Fatface (in the true didone fat face tradition, with delicious conniving outlines; and a 2-axis variable font along width and optical size), Swear (an experimental serif with rotated pen angle; +a variable style).
  • 2021: Irregardless (experimental; with plenty of effects and container shapes).

Author of Some Tips on Drawing Type (2021). Klingspor link. Behance link. Dribble link. Old home page. Future Fonts link. Adobe link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olgaa Press

Santa Cruz, CA-based designer of a modular typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olio

Olio is a digital design and branding studio based in Los Angeles, California. In 2019, they published Laura pol's sci-fi typeface Brutux OL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olio Studio (was: Pol Designs)
[Laura Pol]

Graphic designer in Venice, CA, and before that, in Miami, FL. During her studies, Laura Pol (Pol Designs) created the free blackboard bold display typeface Wamed001 (2013) and the modular typeface Aroma Bold and Light (2013, free).

In 2014, she designed the alchemic typeface Tyde, the sans typeface Kohmar, and the free geometric sans typeface Aqua Grotesque that reminds us of the 1940s.

In 2015, she designed the free squarish typeface Novu-M.

In 2019, she designed the sci-fi typeface Brutux OL at Olio Studio.

In 2021, she published Poster West and the monospaced pixel fonts Digi A and Mono B at Olio Studio..

Personal home page. Behance link for Pol Fesigns. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olivar Greenbarg

Fresno, CA-based designer of Mr Suave (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olivia Armitage

During her studsies in San Diego, Olivia Armitage created a the pixelish Richard Meiere Custom Typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oneless Act
[Tom Tor]

Design studio in Los Angeles where one can buy these fonts by Tom Tor: Sisamouth, PushPins, Johan Vaaler, Black Bees (rounded stencil), Ticket Master, Apple Tree, Blue Monday, Enso. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Onetreeink
[Marco Calamato]

Marco Calamato (Onetreeink, CA) designed the geometric condensed typeface Gravity (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oo Yi Lo

San Francisco-based creator (b. 1993) of the music note-themed typeface Sing With Me (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

OpenType hullaballoo from FontShop San Francisco

The FontShop message from Petra Weitz starts like this: Heard all the hullaballoo about OpenType, but bored to death by technical jargon? We don't blame you. and goes on as follows: With its scalability and typographic features, OpenType is clearly the font format of the future. It recommends: OpenType does everything that the old PostScript and TrueType formats can do, and they are compatible with all modern operating systems and software. Ditch those old files and upgrade your favorite fonts to OpenType. OK, time for a reality check: TrueType and PostScript are both scalable and have neat typographic features---they are not different from OpenType features. In its basic form, OpenType is a raw shell around TrueType and PostScript. In its sophisticated form, it offers built-in ligatures and glyph replacement information. One could also have glyph replacement and ligature functionality with PostScript and TrueType, a fact often omitted by the OpenType supporters! I have been using ligatures with type 1 fonts for over 15 years in a TeX environment, so the OpenType hype is quite incredible to some oldtimers like me. To advise people to ditch those old files is just commercial spam: pay a second time for the same fonts, please. To hear all this from FontShop, which I consider one of the best font companies, is quite disappointing. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Orizema Cruz

During her studies, San José, CA-based Orizema Cruz designed the display typeface Echo (2017). She writes: Designed for Trent Reznor (singer-songwriter and film score composer of over thirty years) this typeface is inspired by the lyrics and sound of his industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Ramirez

San Jose, CA-based designer of a hipster typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oso Meza

Chioco, CA-based designer of the modular typeface Aim (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Outfit

Outfit is the Los Angeles-based husband and wife team of Larry Nguyen and Wendy Tuan (a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley). At Type Department, they published the attention-grabbing eccentric display typeface Buona Display (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oxana Barsukova

Graphic designer in Pasadena, CA. Creator of the all caps display typeface wallclock (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ozan Karakoc

Ozan Karakoc Design Studio is based in Los Angeles, CA. Ozan (b. Turkey) studied at Marmara University. In 2017, he created the free minimalist monoline sans typeface Atiba (2017).

IN 2018, he designed the free sans typeface Medel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

P. J. Bell

P.J. Bell (MIXFIT) lives in Los Angeles. A digital artist, he made the counterless experimental typeface No Retnuoc in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

P. Scott Makela

Scott Makela (of the Cranbrook Academy of Arts) designed Dead History for Emigre. Born in St. Paul, MN, in 1960. In 1999, he died at age 39 in Detroit from a rare virus. Scott made Dead History (1990, Emigre) by using the "blend fonts" option in Fontographer to mix Bell Centennial, VAG Rounded and a shareware font. The Fight Club movie uses a font by him that looks like Folio Bold Italic. Interestingly, it took a friend of mine only one hour to replicate that movie font.

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

Pacific States Type Foundry

San Francisco-based foundry (at 409 Washington Street), also called Hawks&Shattuck, and A.E.&W.F. Shattuck. Its work can be seen in Type Foundry Specimen Book and Price List of Printing Types Rules Borders Ornaments Machinery Tools and Supplies (1893: san Francisco) and Handy Book of Specimens (1899).

In 1895, Gustave Schroeder joined the company to produce original typefaces. Typefaces and ornaments include Pacific Bikes (1895), Pacific Cubs (1895), Aldus Italic (1895, by Gustave Schroeder), Sierra (by Gustave Schroeder), Pacific Victoria Italic (1898, a version with lowercase of Nicholas Joseph Werner's Victoria Italic of 1891 at Central Type Foundry). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paeak Khmer '98
[Phylypo Tum]

Khmer font links and help. A free Khmer text editor (Paeak Khmer '98) and free Khmer fonts (Aksor Khmer&Aksor Khmer Moul, 1997) by Phylypo Tum who was at UCLA when the fonts were first published. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Page Technology Marketing

Also called Page Tech Inc. San Diego-based outfit that produced a package of (renamed?) fonts in 1991-1994: Alamo (Western font), Announce, Articulate, Aurora, Baxter, Bethel, Bockloo, Calculator, Calico (stencil font, +Cyrillic), Campfire, Centurion, CheckStub (MICR font), Excellence, Freedom, Graduate, Indio, LaCosta, Maryland-Italic, Maryland, Merced, Mettler, Miami (Broadway?), NovaScript, Oakland, Oxford, Palomar, Parker, Parsec, Quincy, SanDiego, Shadow, Silicon, Springer, Sunnyvale, TopHat.

Typefaces from 2019: Bills Mafia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paige Carmichael

Orange County, CA-based designer of Puebla Picado (2015, a Mexican party font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Palmer and Rey
[John J. Palmer]

Typefounders and printing press in San Francisco. The Miller&Richard Type Foundry of Scotland opened a branch in San Francisco in 1878, headed by John J. Palmer. This branch was sold to Palmer and Valentine J. A. Rey in 1882. In 1884, Palmer&Rey acquired the assets of the Pacific Type Foundry. The company then merged into American Type Founders in 1892. They published New specimen book (1884, San Francisco), in which we find several original typefaces, such as the Octic series (athletic lettering, octagonal) and the very Victorian typeface Oxford.

Digitizations: In 2010, Nick Curtis created a digital version of their Courier, and called it Pony Xpress NF. Rightly So NF (2011, Nick Curtis) is a squarish typeface based on Geometric Gothic from the 1884 specimen book of Palmer and Rey---it is hard to imagine that this almost pixelish style was around at that epoch. Oxford was revived by Nick Curtis as Palmer Oxonian NF (2011). Octic was revived in 2012 by Nick Curtis as Easy Eights NF. Alto Rey NF (2014, Nick Curtis) revives an 1884 wedge serif design. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

ParaType

The main digital type foundry in Russia. ParaType was established as a font department of ParaGraph International in 1989 in Moscow, Russia. At that time in the Soviet Union, all typeface development was concentrated in a state research institute, Polygraphmash. It had the most complete collection of Cyrillic typefaces, which included revivals of Cyrillic typefaces developed by the Berthold and Lehmann type foundries established at the end of 19th century in St. Petersburg, and artwork from Vadim Lazurski, Galina Bannikova, Nikolay Kudryashov and other masters of type and graphic design of Soviet time. ParaType became the first privately-owned type foundry in many years. A license agreement with Polygraphmash allows ParaType to manufacture and distribute their typefaces. Most of Polygraphmash staff designers soon moved to ParaType. In the beginning of 1998, ParaType was separated from the parent company and inherited typefaces and font software from ParaGraph. The company was directed by Emil Yakupov until February 2014. After Yakupov's death, Irina Petrova took over the reins.

Products include FastFont, a simple TrueType builder, ParaNoise, a builder for PostScript fonts with random contours, FontLab, a universal font editor and ScanFont, a font editor with scanning module. Random, customized fonts. Multilingual fonts including, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, Georgian and Hebrew fonts for Macintosh and Windows.

Catalog. Designers. Alternate URL.

Famous typefaces by Paratype include Academy, Pragmatica, Newton, Courier, Futura, Petersburg, Jakob, Kuenstler 480, ITC Studio Script, ITC Zapf Chancery, Amore CTT (2004, Fridman), Karolla, Inform, Hafiz (Arabic), Kolheti (Georgian), Benzion (Hebrew).

The PT Sans (Open Font Library link), PT Serif and PT Mono families (2009-2012) are free. PT stands for Public Type. Another download site. PT Sans, for example, consists of PTSans-Bold, PTSans-BoldItalic, PTSans-Caption, PTSans-CaptionBold, PTSans-Italic, PTSans-Narrow, PTSans-NarrowBold, PTSans-Regular.

Other free ParaType fonts include Courier Cyrillic, Pushkin (2005, handwriting font), and a complete font set for Cyrillic.

Type designers include Vladimir Yefimov, Tagir Safayev, Lyubov Kuznetsova, Manvel Schmavonyan and Alexander Tarbeev. They give this description of the 370+ library: The Russian constructivist and avant garde movements of the early 20th century inspired many ParaType typefaces, including Rodchenko, Quadrat Grotesk, Ariergard, Unovis, Tauern, Dublon and Stroganov. The ParaType library also includes many excellent book and newspaper typefaces such as Octava, Lazurski, Bannikova, Neva or Petersburg. On the other hand, if you need a pretty typeface to knock your clients dead, meet the ParaType girls: Tatiana, Betina, Hortensia, Irina, Liana, Nataliscript, Nina, Olga and Vesna (also check Zhikharev who is not a girl but still very pretty). ParaType also excels in adding Cyrillic characters to existing Latin typefaces -- if your company is ever going to do business with Eastern Europe, you should make them part of your corporate identity! ParaType created CE and Cyrillic versions of popular typefaces licensed from other foundries, including Bell Gothic, Caslon, English 157, Futura, Original Garamond, Gothic 725, Humanist 531, Kis, Raleigh, and Zapf Elliptical 711.

Finally, ParaType offers a handwriting font service out of its office in Saratoga, CA: 120 dollars a shot.

View the ParaType typeface library. Another view of the ParaType typeface collection. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Parker Bennett

Parker Bennett works at Mogulsoft in LA. He is the designer of a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. In 2014, he published Stack Icons (Branding, Social, and Social Minimal). Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Parkinson Type Design
[Jim Parkinson]

Jim Parkinson's Parkinson Type Design is based in Oakland, CA. This prolific type designer was born in 1941 in Richmond, CA, and lives in Oakland, CA. Originally, a letterer, he went digital in 1990. His Keester and Azuza typefaces won awards at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. MyFonts on Jim Parkinson and on his Parkinson Foundry. His impressive output:

  • Typefaces at the Parkinson Foundry: Fresno (2001, inline gothic), Hotel (2001, inline caps), Azuza (2001, a Latin serif family designed for newsprint; some italics were based on Dwiggins' Electra), Amboy (2001, inline like for signpainting), Chuck (2004, a display titling face), Richmond (2003, a geometric sans family in the spirit of Dwiggins' Metro, Erbar by Jakob Erbar and the Underground type of Edward Johnston), Modesto (2001, strikingly similar to John Downer's Panatela, even though both admit that this an unbelievable coincidence; Parkinson's copperplate gothic evolved from Parkinson's lettering on the famous Ringling Bros. and Barnum&Bailey Circus logo), Balboa (2001, a 19th century style condensed sans; extended to a wonderful chromatic layering typeface family in 2015 as Balboa Plus), Sutro (2003, a 19-style slab serif family), Wigwag (2003, a display family inspired by the mid-twentieth century Speedball lettering of Ross George and the work of Samuel Welo and Cecil Wade), Amador (2004, blackletter), Cabazon (2005, blackletter), Avebury (2005, blackletter based on types from the Caslon Foundry), and the lovely Benicia (2003, influenced by GoldenType). He writes about Azuza: In the 1990s I drew a text face for the San Francisco Chronicle. It was based on W. A. Dwiggins's Electra and incorporated many features of the Linotype Legibility Series: More compact, with a taller lowercase X-height, etc. That type was called Electric and it was the Chronicle's text face for nearly a decade, surviving several redesigns. From that, I made Azuza, a more detailed and sensitive style.
  • At ITC (now Linotype), he designed ITC Bodoni, ITC Bodoni Twelve, ITC Bodoni Seventy Two, ITC Roswell Two, ITC Roswell Four (1998) and ITC Roswell Three (1998).
  • His typefaces at Font Bureau include Antique Condensed Two, Buster, Comrade (1998, nice poster font, after the constructivist lettering by Belgian artist Jozef Peeters), El Grande (1991, fat display face), Parkinson (1994), Poster Black (1993), Showcard Gothic (1997), Showcard Moderne.
  • At the Agfa Creative Alliance, he published Showcard Moderne, Antique Condensed Two, Bonita, Commerce Gothic (1998), Diablo (1996), Dreamland (1999, retro-futuristic), Fancy Stuff (1999), Generica Condensed (1994, grotesk), Industrial Gothic (1997), Mojo (1996; psychedelic, in the lettering style that was popularized by 1960s San Francisco artists Wes Wilson and Rick Griffin), Pueblo (1998).
  • At Adobe, one can find Montara, his striking and psychedelic Mojo, and the gorgeous Jimbo.
  • At FontFont, we have the FF Moderne Gothics series [FF Motel Gothic (1996), FF Matinee Gothic (1996), FF Goldengate Gothic (1996)] and FF Catch Words (1996).
  • At Chank, he created Keester (2001).
  • He designed the 4-weight family Electric for the San Francisco Chronicle (it was close to Dwiggins' Electra), but the Chronicle is no longer using it.
  • Parkinson Electra (also based on Dwiggins's type) was published by Linotype in 2010.
  • Typefaces from 2012: Meatball (fat lettering-style typeface), Hoosier Daddy (Western font).
  • The list of newspapers and magazines using his fonts: Activa, Atlanta Journal, Birkenstock, Boston, Brownsville Herald, The Daily Cardinal, Charlotte Observer, Charleston Post&Courier, Chicago Tribune, The Citizen, Journal of Comm, Cromos, Daily Californian, Dallas Morning News, Rochester D&C, Financial Morgen, Design Magazine, Detroit Free Press, Editor&Publisher, El Graphico, National Enquirer, Entrepreneur, Esquire, SF Examiner, The New Examiner, Fast Company, New Fast Company, Montreal Gazette, Hamilton Spectator, Herman Miller, Ilta=Sanomat, InStyle, Kathemerini, Las Vegas Life, Newsweek.
  • Typefaces from 2014: Sutro Deluxe (a layered chromatic wood type emulation font family that extends his 2003 font, Sutro).
  • Typefaces from 2017: Sutro Initials (a chromatic layered pair of fonts), Aluminia (a revival of Dwiggins's Electra) designed exclusively for use in Bruce Kennett's book on W.A. Dwiggins.

MyFonts interview. FontShop link. More FontShop material on him. Klingspor link.

View Jim Parkinson's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Paruksheen Dhunjisha

Interior designer in Los Angeles. In 2015, she drew a decorative flowery all caps alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Broderick
[Rotodesign]

[More]  ⦿

Patrick Carroll

Sonora, CA-based designer of the techno typeface Concept 01 (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Dower

San Diego, CA-based designer of the fractured display typeface Control Type (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Lindsay Gravette
[elbow]

[More]  ⦿

Patrick Ryan

Fountain Valley, CA-based designer of the experimental Source Font (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Schlesselmann

Orange, CA-based designer of the spurred display typeface Toro (2016) which shows some vintage Spanish influence. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patty King

Californian graphic and type designer who claimed to be influenced by the impressionists. Patty King died in 2002, just after submitting ITC Bette. Check ITC's Women in Type. Her mostly calligraphic typefaces:

ITC wrote this after her death, about her last font, ITC Bette: Known to her friends as Patty and her family as Trisha, King grew up in northern California. Though she displayed artistic inclinations at an early age, it wasn't until her mid-twenties that she decided to pursue her talent and returned to college to study graphic design. Patty gravitated easily to calligraphy, lettering, and then typeface design. Over the succeeding years, a diverse list of clients commissioned her services. Sadly, this is the last typeface design ITC will license from Patty King. She succumbed to a prolonged illness just prior to completing the design. At her request, all royalties from the sale of this---and all her other ITC fonts---will be donated to the charity she identified before her passing.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Patty King at MyFonts. View Patty King's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Paul Brent
[Polyglyphic]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Paul Cooley

Paul Cooley Design (Los Angeles) has an interesting blog worthy of a visit. He is working on a sans workhorse face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul D. Hunt
[Pilcrow Type]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Paul Donald

San Francisco, CA-based designer of these typefaces in 2015: Pierre (a sans typeface for the new magazine Designing 7x7), Foundry Gridnik Unicase (octagonal), and Pachinko Bold Italic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Ferguson
[Typefaced! Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Paul Hutchison

Paul Hutchison (Hype Type Studio) is a British Designer and Art Director based in Los Angeles, California. Paul and the brand team at Nike Football (David Frank, Mason Caldwell, Maria Cortinas) were commissioned to design and build a custom typeface for the Nike Football Program. This resulted in the Nike Fottball Typeface (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Hutchison
[Hype Type Studio]

[More]  ⦿

Paul Kimball

Designer who drew a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Kreizenbeck
[Scout Studio]

[More]  ⦿

Paul Lukes
[Smart Minds]

[More]  ⦿

Paul Veres
[Calligraphics]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Paul Wang

Berkeley, CA-based designer of a handcrafted dada style font, a color font of corporate logos of the Fortune 500, and the handwriting font Old School in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paulo Angelo Santiago

Graphic and interaction designer and photographer, based in San Jose, CA. He created the thin chic curly typeface Audrey (2012), which is named after Audrey Hepburn.

In 2012, he designed Obscura and wrote: Obscura is derived from Tim Burton and his inspiration of German Expressionist films during the 1920s. Distorted perspectives, jagged angles and contrast between light and dark.

Still in 2012, he created the (virtual) design and a (virtual) information pictogram set for Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pavel Lipcean

Chisinau, Moldova, and later Carlsbad, CA-based creator of Corporation Font (2011), an all caps sans face: I began building this font when I felt lack of business class type of fonts that should be professional, straight and legible. The font gives a feeling of power, confidence and quality.

In 2014, he designed the minimal sans typeface family Englandia.

In 2015, he made the free futuristic typeface Artificial Mind.

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

Pazu Guy

Pazu Guy is a South Californian youngster, b. 1994. She created the handwriting font Michie! (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Franca

San Diego, CA-based designer of the decorative typeface Papagaio (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pei-Ti Ying
[Incantation]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Peter Cho
[Typotopo]

[More]  ⦿

Peter Fonseca

San Francisco, CA-based designer of the rounded monospaced sans typeface Neha Mono (2016). In 2017-2018, he published the free typeface Brass Mono: A free retro monospaced font inspired by 70's electrical and mechanical design. It's open source, a solid choice for writing code, and pairs well with shellectric colors. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Kowaleszyn

Californian designer of the smeared typefaces Static (1992), Poltergeist (1995), Realstamp (1996) at GarageFonts. FontShop link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Peter Lejeck

Modesto, CA-based creator of the hand-printed Dry Erase DFCG (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Nevins

San Francisco poster artist (b. 1968), whose hand-lettered alphabets are in the art nouveau tradition. His alphabets are being digitized by Scriptorium. Fonts there include NevinsHand, Nevins Avant and Exotique (the latter font looks like lettering of Alphonse Mucha). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Peter Ovens-Brown

Brisbane, Australia and Long Beacg, CA-based designer (b. 1990) who created the heavy techno typeface Geometric Black (2012) which was influenced by old Russian propaganda posters.

Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phat Diep

Creator of the handwriting typeface Leafon (2005). Digital type student at City College of San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phelan Riessen
[NSM Worldwide (or: Greek House of Fonts)]

[More]  ⦿

Philatype
[Kosal Sen]

Kosal Sen (b. 1982, Philadelphia) is a graphic and identity designer, aka Koleslaw. He used to live in Philadelphia, but is now in Anaheim, CA.

  • His early typefaces, some of which were free, include the graffiti typeface Drupal (2005), Unnamed Sans (2009), "Kosal Says Hy" (sic, 2003), Olney (2010, a basic square sans), Gravity Sans (2010, slab serif; +GravityNova, GravitySupernova), Merge (2011, a plumpish round monoline sans family), Philly Sans (2008, comic book style face) and the comic book typeface Arfmoochikncheez (2006).
  • In 2009, he founded Philatype. At Philatype [Twitter link], he created Olney (2010; inspired by the Bank Gothic style; Olney Light is free), Ryno Slab (2009, macho), Markup (2007, a fresh hand-printed comic book style face), Gravity (2010, slab serif), Tryst (2013, transitional: free download), Lovato (2014, a 5-style wedge serif family with a free Lovato Light style), and Merge (2011, free). Merge Pro Greek and Cyrillic (2012) are co-designed with Elexei Vanyashin.
  • Creator of this heavy slab face (2006) in true Western wood type style.
  • Regalia (2014) is a heavy angular typeface.
  • Sen is a free 3-style geohumanist sans.
  • Toddle (2015): a sans modeled after Google's logo.
  • In 2016, he started work on Grotesque MetaUltra.
  • Regalia (2018). Inspired by Emigre's typeface Brothers.
  • Tylerwolf (2018). An architectural marker font.
  • In 2021, he released the octagonal typeface Brothers Circus.
  • Lansen (2021).
  • Bourse (2021). An all-caps wedge serif typeface based on the letters adorning the entrance of the historic Philadelphia Bourse building. Has a chiseled version as well. .

Kosal was embroiled in a minor controversy. He claimed that Wilton's commercial font Shallow (2005) was based on Kosal Says Hi. Wilton subsequently removed it from its site.

Also called Typophilesal Ko, and Koleslaw. 1001 Fonts link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Dafont link. Behance link. Fontspring link. Alternate URL. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Philip Cronerud
[Mediumextrabold (or: M XB Foundry)]

[More]  ⦿

Philip Cronerud
[Truly Type]

[More]  ⦿

Philip Ilatovsky

San Francisco, CA-based designer of the rounded pixelish typeface FP Pixelbits (2017, free at FontStruct). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phylypo Tum
[Paeak Khmer '98]

[More]  ⦿

Pilcrow Type
[Paul D. Hunt]

Type and graphic designer from Joseph City, AZ. His first degree was from Brigham Young University. He was a type designer at P22/Lanston from 2004-2007. In 2008, he obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading where he designed the typefaces Grandia and Grandhara (Indic). In January 2009, he joined Adobe just after Thomas Phinney left. He lives in San Jose, CA. His talk at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona was entitled The history of non-Latin typeface development at Adobe.

He created Howard (2006, a digitization of Benton's Sterling), P22 Allyson (2006, based on Hazel Script by BB&S; a winner at Paratype K2009), the P22 FLWW Midway font family (2006-2018: Midway One, Two and Ornaments; based on the lettering found on the Midway Gardens working drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright from 1913---tall-legged and casual), Kilkenny (2005, P22), a Victorian-style font based on the metal types named Nymphic and Nymphic Caps which were designed by Hermann Ihlenburg in 1889. This typeface has almost 1000 glyphs and comes in OpenType format. It includes Cyrillic characters. Check the studies here and here. For another revival of Nymphic Caps, see Secesja by Barmee.

Designer of the display typefaces Seventies Schoolbook (2004) and Interlocq (2004).

Hunt also digitized Goudy's Village (2005). Village was originally designed by Fredric Goudy in 1903 for Kuppenheimer & Company for advertising use, but it was decided it would be too expensive to cast. It was later adopted as the house face for Goudy's and Will Ransom's Village Press. The matrices were cut and the type cast by Wiebking. The design was influenced by William Morris's Golden Type. This Venetian typeface was digitized by David Berlow (1994, FontBureau) and by Paul D. Hunt (2005). Hunt's version was eventually released in 2016 by P22/Lanston as LTC Village.

He revived Hazel Script (BB&S), which he renamed Allyson (2005).

Still in 2005, he created a digital version of Sol Hess' Hess Monoblack called LTC Hess Monoblack.

In 2006, he published a nice set of connected calligraphic script fonts, P22 Zaner. Bodoni 175 (2006, P22/Lanston) is a revival of Sol Hess' rendition of Bodoni. He was working on Junius (2006), a revival/adaptation of Menhart Antiqua. Frnklin's Caslon, or P22 Franklin Caslon, was designed in 2006 by Richard Kegler and Paul Hunt in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This slightly eroded font set includes faithfully reproduced letterforms digitized directly from images of impressions made by Benjamin Franklin and his printing office circa 1750. It comes with a set of ornaments.

In 2007, he used Goudy's 1924 typeface Italian Old Style in the development at P22/Lanston of LTC Italian Old Style. That typeface was remastered and extended to cover several languages by James Grieshaber in 2011.

In 2014, Paul Hunt finished work on the wood type revival font HWT Bulletin Script Two (P22 & Hamilton Wood Type). This backslanted psychedelic typeface can be traced back to the wood type manufacturers Heber-Wells (Bulletin Condensed, No. 5167), Morgans and Wilcox (Bulletin Script No. 2, No. 3184), Empire Wood Type (1870: Bulletin Script), Keystone Type Foundry (1899: Bulletin Script), Hamilton (117), and Wm. H. Page & Co (No. 111 through No. 113).

Free fonts at Google Web Fonts: Source Sans Pro (2012; Source Sans Pro for the TeX crowd), Source Code Pro (2012, a companion monospaced sans set by Paul D. Hunt and Teo Tuominen). Source Serif Pro, its Fournier-style relative, was developed at Adobe by Frank Grießhammer. They can also be downloaded from CTAN and Open Font Library.

Fun creations at FontStruct in 2008-2009: Possibly (a stencil loosely based on the Mission Impossible series logo), Probably (same as Possibly but not stenciled), Med Splode, Arcade Fever, negativistic_small, New Alpha_1line, New Alpha_4line, New Alpha_bit, New Alpha_dot [dot matrix font], New Azbuka [after Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet from 1967], positivistic, slabstruct_1, slabstruct_too, structurosa_1, structurosa_bold, structurosa_bold_too, structurosa_caps, structurosa_faux_bold, structurosa_leaf, structurosa_script, structurosa_soft, structurosa_tape, structurosa_too, structurosa_two, Slabstruct Too Soft, Structurosa Clean Soft, Structurosa Script Clean, Structurosa Clean, Structurosa Clean Too, Structurosa Clean Leaf, Structurosa Boxy, Stucturosa Script Heavy.

In 2010, he designed he programming font Sauce Code Powerline. Well, this is probably a renaming of Source Code by some hackers. Just mentioning that sauce Code is on some Github pages.

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

Pirates-Suck.com

Dead link. Anti-piracy site run by Dixon, CA-based Tim Starback from Emigre, ca. 2000. Tim's email on these pages: starback@mother.com. This page is like Police Academy I--how to become a font policeman in five easy lessons. This linked Piracy-Watch.com [link also defunct], a site concerned with software piracy, which was of marginal interest anyway as fonts are not software. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pixion

Sebastian from San Francisco is a scientist. He is working on a font tentatively called Primus (2006) (was: Tensa). See also here. He also wirks on the serif typeface Tosca (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

P.J. Onori

Aka Some Random Dude. Design technologist and photographer living in San Francisco and working at Seabright. Designer of the pixel typeface SomeRandomFont (2007). He creates typographic icons and tools that are useful for web pages.

  • Iconic (2011; see Iconic Stroke in 2012) is a great (and free) set of 177 icons in raster, vector and font formats. GitHub link.
  • Cue is a fantastic public domain gestural icon system which focuses on legibility and symbolic representation.
  • Bitcons is a pixel icon set consisting of 120 marks, available in various colors/sizes and 100% free to use. Sanscons is a CSS-friendly version of Bitcons---allowing you to set custom backgrounds on your icons.
  • Privacy Icons (2012) was designed to communicate various states of privacy around content sharing.

Fontsquirrel link. Fontspace link. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Planet Lar
[Larry Young]

Larry Young (San Francisco) runs Planet Lar and is the designer of LYBinkyFont (1999), a comic book font based on the letterforms of comic book artist John Heebink. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

PM

Page by Jaime Henderson about PM, a trade publication dedicated to the work and stylish inclinations of production managers, was started in 1934 by the PM Publishing Company of New York. As a publication of Sol Cantor and Dr. Robert L. Leslie's type firm The Composing Room, PM provided young American art directors with an introduction to modern design, especially the work of European designers and styles. After an eight year run, the publication's focus on graphic design brought about a title change to AD, and Intimate Journal for Production Managers, Art Directors, and their Associates. For those interested in touching PM, both PM and AD are available in the California Historical Society's library in san Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Poetic Poetical
[Seungeun Chung]

Poetic Poetical is a design studio based in San Francisco. One of its designers is Seungeun Chung. In 2019, Seungeun Chung designed the 3-style geometric sans typeface family Neuville. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Polyglyphic
[Paul Brent]

Los Angeles-based Paul Brent (b. 1974, Los Angeles) created Caslon Latina (1965---a Caslonesque face, yes, but with the contrast and feel of a didone), Dubai (sans) and Sinclair (2011, display sans).

In 2013, he published the slightly flared and calligraphic sans called Sandena. He confesses to influences of Optima and Palatino. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Polythene Designs

Studio in Los Angeles, CA, Palo Alto, CA, and/or Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. In 2017, they published Blackmeans Script, the free Duvetica, the free Charlotte Script, the free Helmut Script, the free signature script typeface Diemme, the wide connected script typeface Comme (free), the free signature font Amelie Script, and the marker script Beluga (free).

Commercial script typefaces from 2017: Rochambeau Script, Stutterheim Script.

Typefaces from 2019: Fehren. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Poole Foundry
[Wesley Poole]

Wesley Poole's foundry based in Kaneohe, HI, and established in 2006. Wesley Poole (b. California, 1952) was a sign painter and wine label designer in the Napa Valley (his companies were called Oasis Graphics and then Titus&Poole, and Poole Aert&Design) for almost 25 years before moving to Hawaii in 2002 due to multiple sclerosis. Typefaces:

  • Pagoda International (2006, designed with his son Samuel Poole). A comic book font based on the lettering of the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu.
  • Poole Standard (2006). A stylish headline face.
  • Poole Chiselcut (2007). Digitization with the help of Rod Cavazos (PsyOps).
  • Polynesiac (2007, Wesley and Samuel together). Simulation of Easter Island lettering.
  • Jigger Statz (2007).
  • Contempo Elan (Grand Script and Ornamental) (2006). A festive and assertive calligraphic script done by Wesley and Samuel Poole.
  • Alphaluxe (2008). A calligraphic upright connected ronde script by Wesley and Samuel.
  • Vingo (2006).

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

Popkern
[Anna Seslavinskaya]

Letterer, open source supporter, and visual designer from Russia (b. 1988) who is based in San Francisco. Graduate of BHSAD (the British Higher School of Art and Design) in Moscow, class of 2013. She founded Popkern. Her typefaces:

  • The hexagonal (student project) display typeface Sanity (2013). Free download.
  • The oriental simulation typeface Sangha (2014). free download. see also here. Extended to the free Sangha Kali in 2018. Both Sanity and Sangha cover Latin and Cyrillic.
  • The hipster typeface La Revolution Française (2015).
  • At Popkern, she published the oblique all caps sans typeface Twelkmeyer (2017). It was inspired by the pathos of the late revolutionary asceticism and architectural projects of V.F. Twelkmeyer. Dedicated site for Twelkmeyer.
  • Luftayah (2018).
  • The free blackletter typeface Health Goth. For a retail, version, see Type Tomorrow.

Github link. Type Tomorrow link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Porter Fig Studios

Illustrator in Los Angeles. In 2018, he designed the African style typeface Safari, Chunkee, and the futuristic typeface Zzyzx. Link to Porter Fig Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Povi Pullinen

Povi Pullinen (Regular Studio, os Angeles, CA) designed the Western display typefaces Home Cook'n and Dastardly Bandits in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Press Gang Studios (was: Shonenpunk, or: Andeh Fonts, or: Teabeer Studios)
[Andeh Pinkard]

Press Gang Studios is the latest name of Andeh Pinkard's place on the web, Before that, it was called Shonenpunk, and before that, Andeh Fonts, and before that, Teabeer Studios. Andeh Pinkard (b. 1980) is the Whittier, CA-based comic artist and designer (b. 1979) of these free (and often, comic book) fonts:

  • Typefaces from 2020: Mechapunk, Super Gossip (a comic book family).
  • Typefaces from 2019: Shoujo Pop.
  • Typefaces from 2017: Wrecking Krew (glaz krak font).
  • Typefaces from 2016: Outrun Future (brush type), Badonk-a-donk 2 (cartoon font), Comic Douche.
  • Typefaces from 2015: Battle Breath (very rough comic book style), Fighting Wordz.
  • Typefaces from 2014: Punch It, Manga Speak 2, Dreamgirl's Dream.
  • Typefaces from 2013: Grind Zero, Pixel Dead, Space Punk, Skrunch (comic book face), Otaku, Otaku Rant Bold, At Risk Youth, Pixelpunk.
  • Old Evils (2012) and Sugar Death (2012): brush typefaces.
  • Counter Hit (2012), Roof Runners (2012) and Roof Runners Active (2012). A triplet of comic book typefaces.
  • All Exes Must Die (2012), Hangover Monday (2012).
  • Welcomic Bros (2011, hand-printed), Boom Tank (2011, angular family), Outlander (2011, poster face), Shin Akiba Punx (2011), Pandora Limiter (2011), Geekriot (2011), Punkboy (2011), Pandora Limiter (2011, manga face).
  • DealspinnerTBS (2010), MicCheckTBS-Bold (2010), Obssessed (2010), StubbornHeartzTBS (2010), comichuslte (2010), Setlist TBS (2010, comic book style).
  • Facepunch (2009), Goon Spectre (2009), Indy Pimp (2009, comic book style), 30 Pack Girl (2009, comic book style), Fighting Spirit (2009, brush face).
  • Brutal Dude (2008, scratchy comic book face), AkibaPunx-BoldItalic, AkibaPunx (2008, comic book typefaces), Vigilante Sidekick (2008, comic book style), Street Cred (2008, comic book style family), Rise Up (2008, comic book style).
  • Gunblade (2007), Webcomic Whore (2007, comic book face), Taste of Steel (2007), Post Human (2007), Walk The Plank (2007, letters made from planks), Webcomic Whore (2007, comic book face), Shonenpunk v2 (2007, comic book face), Whisked away (2007), Doujinshi (2007, comic book face), Badonk-a-donk (2007, comic book style), Firewall Zero (2007, techno), Badonk-a-donk (2007, comic book), Adam Warren (2007, comic book family; see also here), Manga Speak (2007, comic book).
  • Keisadiya (2006), Robo Pimp Slap (2006), Dirty Duo (2006, handwriting), Shellhead (2006, blockish family), Zerogene (2006, handwriting), Shank (2006, handwriting), Shonen Punk Custom (+Bold) (2006, comic book style typefaces), Endbuster (2006, robot anime inspired).

Links: Devian Tart link. Dafont link. Another Devian Tart link. At FontStruct, he made pinkee_1. Fontspace link. Another Devian Tart link. 1001 Fonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Prime Graphics (was: PolyType)
[Karl Nayeri]

Sports glyphs, dingbats, ornaments, by Karl Nayeri, made in 1993 at PolyType, now Prime Graphics. Nayeri studied at University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Institute of Technology of Tehran. He now lives in West Palm Beach, FL.

His fonts: Polytype-Optix, PolytypeAllure, PolytypeAnimals, PolytypeArrowtek, PolytypeArtdeco, PolytypeBirds, PolytypeBusIcon, PolytypeCorners, PolytypeCorners, PolytypeFruits, PolytypeHolidays, PolytypeImages, Polytype Leisure (2004), PolytypeOptyx, PolytypeOrnaments, PolytypePatterns, PolytypeVegetables. MyFonts sells these typefaces by Nayeri: Achiva, Arius, Aviana, Balboa, Betique, Bohemian, Boracho, Bristol, Exvoto, Fouras, Fulton, Janus, Kaptiva, Montique, Polyma, Polytype Animals, Polytype Images, Polytype Birds, Polytype Ornaments, Polytype Sports, Polytype Fruits, Polytype Arrowtek, Polytype Leisure, Polytype Business Icons, Polytype Vegetables, Polytype Allure, Polytype Holidays, Polytype Art Deco, Polytype Optyx, Polytype Corners, Polytype Artimus I Frames, Polytype Artimus II Frames, Polytype Brutus I Frames, Polytype Brutus II Frames, Polytype Dumas I Frames, Polytype Dumas II Frames, Polytype Medoc I Frames, Polytype Medoc II Frames, Polytype Numa Frames, Polytype Patterns, Shiraz, Signum, Sombrero, Soraya (2004, avant garde), Vasco, Vitalique, Wichita, Woko, Xerxes, Yakima, Zealous. For a period of time, he permitted distribution of his library to International Type Fonders, but now his fonts can be bought from MyFonts.

The typophiles raised an argument about Soraya (2004), which seemed very close to Cirkulus (Michael Neugebauer, Letraset).

Klingspor link.

Images of some of Nayeri's typefaces. Catalog. The Prime Graphics typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Prive Studios (was: Government Studios, or: GVMNT)
[Max Privalov]

Max Privalov's foundry, Government Studios (was: GVMNT), was based in Los Angeles. Government Studios was originally a film studio, designing fonts for future film projects.

Typefaces from 2012: the bamboo cut-tipped caps typeface Envy Races (with possible use in fashion mags), the Peignotian typeface Counterfeit Black, and the wide wedge-serifed slightly engraved high-contrast titling typeface Black Feud.

In 2014, Government Studios designed the spiky all-caps typeface Spotlight and the flared typeface Opium (which was designed using the herbarium specimens of Papaver somniferum).

In 2016, the Government Studios label was replaced by Prive Studios, and Max Privalov became Max Prive. As Max Prive, he designed the sans typefaces Skin in 2016 and Muguet in 2017.

Typefaces from 2018: Merrant (a 3-style geometric grotesk straight from the Futura era).

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

Production First Software
[John M. Fiscella]

Production First Software offers edriginal, revival and historic designs and specializing in non-latin scripts including Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Thai, mathematical symbols and pi characters. It is run by John M. Fiscella in San Francisco since 1990, with most typefaces created immediately after that. John M. Fiscella designed the fonts for symbols and many of the alphabetic scripts for the unicode charts and all typefaces complky with unicode standards.

List of typefaces: BernalPF, Blck2LineGothicPF Logo, Blck3LineGothicPF Logo, Blck4LineGothicPF Logo, CourPF, CourPF Bold, CourPF BoldOblique, CourPF Oblique, EdwardianMansePFTitling, EriePF, EuroPF-Bold, EuroPF-BoldOblique, FiftiesPopPF, GrandVictorianPFTitling, HlvPF Bold, HlvPF BoldOblique, HlvPF Medium, HlvPF Oblique, ItalianatePF, ItalianateMulticolor1PF, ItalianateMulticolor2PF, ItalianateMulticolor3PF, ItalianateSansPF, LafayettePF, LosPFBold, MisionPFAntique, MisionPFBold, MisionPFBook, MisionPFBookMetal, MisionPFLight, MisionPFTitling, PalouPFTitling, PiazzaPFScript, RadioPF, RadioCityPF, SymbolPF Bold, SymbolPF BoldItalic, SymbolPF Italic, TexMexPF, TmsPF Bold, TmsPF BoldItalic, TmsPF Cursive, TmsPF Italic, TmsPF Rom +, TmsMathPF Cursive, TmsHebWidePF Rom, UnvPF Bold, UnvPF BoldOblique, UnvPF Oblique, UnvPF Medium, UviewPF Bold, UviewPF BoldOblique, UviewPF Oblique, UviewPF Medium, ZenonPFTitling. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

ps type (was: ppwrkstudio)
[Mark Caneso]

Mark Caneso is a graphic and type designer who lived in Garden Grove, CA, Kapolei, HI, Beaverton, OR, Austin, TX, and now, Mount Pleasant and/or Charleston, SC. He founded ppwrkstudio (or: ps type) in 2004.

His typefaces include the free sans Quatro and the commercial contemporary sans FB Ratio (2009, Font Bureau, a sans family in 6 styles that grew out of ps Ratio and ps Ratio Headline). In 2009, Quatro became commercial. It was followed by ps Quatro Slab and Quatro Ultra Black in 2010 and Quatro Sans in 2012.

Other typefaces include Campaign Grotesk (2015, FontShop), ps Caneso (2010, monoline sans), Runda, ps Untitled, ps Untitled Sans, ps Turiya Light (2009, organic sans), ps Runda (2010, sans), ps Neplus Ultra (2010, ultra thick slab), ps Dot Test (dot matrix face), and ps Fovea (2009, contemporary slab). Also in the works is the dot matrix typeface FF Diode (2009).

Typefaces from 2016: Hatch (slab serif, which can be bought here).

Typefaces from 2017: Ditch (a great inline typeface), Blue Sky (a sans family for branding).

Typefaces from 2019: Pika Ultra (an ultra fat script).

Typefaces from 2020: Campaign (Sans, Serif, Slab).

Typefaces from 2021: Decoy (a 12-style soft inky serif), Hoss Grotesk (Hoss Sharp and Hoss Round: grotesques), Condenser (a 36-style condensed sans family), Hegante (a fat brush typeface), Naylor Stencil (a custom typeface for Brooklyn-based artist Jason Naylor).

Cargocollective link. Adobe link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Psy--Ops Type Foundry
[Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos]

Psy/Ops is Rodrigo Cavazos's foundry which initially consisted of artists and designers from the San Francisco Bay Area mainly interested in experimental type, type on the fringe.

  • Armchair Modern
  • Bitblox
  • The free pixel typefaces CR21 (2009) and CR21 Modern (2009), downloadable from Dafont.
  • Eidetic, EideticNeo (2000, at Emigre). The unicase version is called Eidetic Neo Omni. Eidetic Modern (1998) is the sans version of Eidetic Neo.
  • Faceplate Sans LE.
  • Harfang Pro (by André Simard).
  • HaruNami (by Chiharu Tanaka in 2010).
  • In 2010, Cavazos did custom work via T-26. For example, three prominent lettering styles from the famous Jack Daniels Black Label (ca. 1904) were developed into complete fonts. Jasper is based on the familiar logo lettering (and bearing Jack Daniel's given first name). Lynchburg Script (2010) is based on the Tennessee lettering in the label. Finally, the solid mechanical typeface Motlow is named for Lem Motlow, the nephew of Jack Daniel who managed and later inherited the Distillery.
  • Retablo Antiguo (1994).
  • Ruzena Antikva (1998).
  • Vidange Pro (2008, by Jack Usine).
  • Other typefaces: Adaptive Mono, Trillium (1995, T-26), VM74 (1996), Stigmata (T26), Spanner, Slag, Alembic (1995, T-26), CrucibleBurnin, DefaultGothic, DevilleThruster, Gnomad (1997, T-26), Oculus (1996, T-26, an organic face), Peregrine and Peregrine Titling (1996, Monotype), Phalanx (1996, chunky; Monotype), Philomela, Caligrafia de Bula and Caligrafia de Bula Regio (decorative initials), Transaxle Script (1994, a fifties font), and Skiffledog.
Other designers at Psy Ops include Tomi Haaparanta, Gábor Kóthay, Lars Bergquist, Julien Janiszewski, Stefan Kjartansson, Stefan Hattenbach, Robert Beck, Todd Masui, Evan Sornstein, Michel Valois, and Steve Mehallo. Cavazos is also called Roderigo Zscori-Cavaz. He is involved in 21 Lab, a design studio which started at the design school in Monterrey, Mexico.

In 2020, he released the labyrinthine typeface Laberintia. View Rodrigo Cavazos's typefaces.

Klingspor link. FontShop link.

View the Psy-Ops typeface library. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Punchcut

In 2002, Jared Benson and Joseph Pemberton formed PUNCHCUT in Emeryville, CA, where they "design, operate and produce Typophile, a collaborative, online typographic community."

In 2012, they published the free sans typeface Amble at Fontsquirrel. Pemberton writes: In 2010 Sun licensed it for inclusion in the JavaFX SDK for mobile handsets. Any similarity to Droid stems from a similar creative brief over at Ascender Corp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Q. Kim

San Francisco, CA-based designer of Genius-M (2018) and Genius-P (2018), two abstract art typefaces influenced by Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso, respectively. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Quan Vu

San Leandro, CA-based designer of 208 (2009) and Mouse (2009), experimental typefaces. Home page. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Quiet Design Fonts
[Ron P. Dunant]

Quiet Design Fonts is a Grass Valley, CA-based design consulting firm, which sells the Architect Small Block font (2004, by Ron Dunant), a serious competitor for Comic Sans. The company is run by Ron and Mary Ann Dunant. MyFonts site. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rabin Deka
[Ratne Research]

[More]  ⦿

Rachael Legge

Scottish graphic/ux design student located in Los Angeles. In 2019, she designed the didone fashion mag typeface Effrontée. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Biello

San Francisco-based graphic designer who created an untitled circle-based experimental alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Guglielmo

Designer in San Diego, CA, who created a typographic Shoe Canvas (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Kick
[Mini Press]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Moises

Oakland, CA-based designer of the outlined typeface Substratum (2016), which is inspired by modern artist Charley Harper who is best known for his highly stylized wildlife paintings and screenprints. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Ortiz

Glendale, CA-based designer of Sourwood (2017), Ruthie (2017: an oldstyle type), and NPS Geo 1940s and NPS Geo 1940s Press (2017: a sans typeface family). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel T. Nicoll

Designer from Culver City, CA, who made an unnamed heavy display sans in 1995. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rafael Dinner
[Rafael Dinner's fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Rafael Dinner's fonts
[Rafael Dinner]

MIT student who designed his own fonts at MIT, TrueType and PostScript. Illusion of 3D. Check out Reverb, ArgentumSilver, Daisy, StilettoBlack, StilettoSilver, Diamond, Grease (an oil slick typeface), Kontrast, and Rotondo Silver (texture face). Will do custom work. Type 1 versions.

Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rafael Valente

Rafael Valente (Redondo Beach, CA) created the ornamental typeface Diamonds Fall (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rameel Raymundo

Los Angeles-based designer of the sans typeface Live Evil (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ramón Abajo
[DownHill Publishing]

[More]  ⦿

Ramon Tejada
[Work Progress]

[More]  ⦿

Randy Jones
[ToadFonts (was: AquaToad)]

[More]  ⦿

Ranjani Agrawal

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Mini Henna (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ranny Viquez

San Francisco-based artist and photographer who runs Atomica Media. Creator of the handwriting typeface Atomica Tica (2005). Digital type student at City College of San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raph Levien

Type and technology expert and computer scientist presently working for Google in Mountrain View, CA. His blog was totally dedicated to free and open software. Raph Levien is a software engineer and tech lead of Android Text on the Android UI Toolkit team at Google. A well-known software guru, he was a lead developer for Gfonted and Spiro (a font editor), and helped out with Gimp, among many other things. Raph's previous work includes Google Fonts and the open source Ghostscript PostScript/PDF engine. The topic for his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is on better techniques for interactively designing curves, and he also used these tools to design Inconsolata, one of the fonts available on the font API (see CTAN).

Inconsolata (2005) became an instant hit as a monospaced programming font. It was modified by Raph Levien and Kyrill Tkachev as late as 2011. Further modifications were done by Michael Sharpe. CTAN link. See also Open Font Library for this relative of Franklin Gothic.

Raph is working on a revival of ATF Century Catalogue, and proposes it as a replacement for the skinny Computer Modern fonts used in TeX. Other fonts in the pipeline include Century Catalogue, Bruce Rogers' Centaur types, Museum Caps, LeBe Titling, LeBe Book, ATF Bodoni and ATF Franklin Gothic.

Raph's type page, where one can download his didone fonts ghr10 and ghmi10 (2009) and look at Soncino Italic (2009), a lively informal text font.

In 2007, he finally published the Museum Fonts package (see also Open Font Library) based on historical metal Centaur fonts, all free. He writes:

  • Museum Sixty is based on 60 point metal Monotype Centaur. The source for A-Z& is the specimen page opening American Proprietary Typefaces, ed. David Pankow. The primary source for the lowercase is the original Centaur specimen booklet by Lanston Monotype, London, 1929.
  • Museum Fourteen is based on 14 point metal Monotype Centaur. The primary source is the text of Americal Proprietary Typefaces.
  • Museum Bible is based on 18 point metal Bible Centaur. The source is the booklet, "An Account of the Making of the Oxford Lectern Bible", Lanston Monotype, Philadelphia, 1936.
  • Museum Foundry is based on the 14 point original foundry version of Centaur, as cut by Robert Wiebking of Chicago. The source is "Amycus et Célestin", printed at the Museum Press in New York, 1916.

Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik and at ATypI 2015 in Sao Paulo. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raquel Q. Maihofer

Californian creator of the white-on-black font Knockout (2009). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rasmus Andersson

Swedish software expert who lives in San Francisco and who has worked for Dropbox, Facebook, Spotify, Lear Corporation and Spray. His own company is called Notion. His typefaces:

  • The Open Source screen typeface family Interface (2017), which builds on Christian Robertson's Roboto. It covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. It seems that this family was renamed Inter UI in 2019. Inter is now downloadable at Google Fonts. Github link, where one can find a variable font version. CTAN link.
  • Manix Sans (2019). A minor update of Inter UI.
  • Linik Sans (2019), a further update of Inter and Manix Sans.

Open Font Library link. Github link. Linkedin link. Aka rsms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ratne Research
[Rabin Deka]

Between 1998/99-2004, San Jose, CA-based Rabin Deka (now in Mount Prospect, IL) developed Aadarsha Ratne Internet, an Assamese font that can be found here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raul Esquivel
[Esquivel Type foundry (was: Aeasea Type Foundry)]

[More]  ⦿

Ray Buetens
[Slub Design (was: Lawn Dart Fonts)]

[More]  ⦿

Raymound Ramirez

Irvine, CA-based creator of a great piano key style poster entitled Schweizisk Stil (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rea Irvin

Rea Irvin (b. San Francisco, 1881, d. US Virgin Islands, 1972) was an art director for the New Yorker magazine. In 1925, he designed Irvin, the typeface that became the alphabet used by New Yorker Magazine. Mats were made by Monotype for private use by the magazine's printers. He created the famous New Yorker logo, a portrait of dandy Eustace Tilley. About the genesis of this typeface, the wiki says: The New Yorker signature display typeface, used for its nameplate and headlines and the masthead above The Talk of the Town section, is called "Irvin" or "Irvin type," after him. An alphabet drawn by the American etcher Allen Lewis, who had received training in woodcutting in Paris, was used as the typographical basis for the "Irvin type." Irvin may have spotted Lewis' lettering, which was drawn to imitate a woodcut, in a pamphlet entitled "Journeys To Bagdad", and liked it so much that Irvin asked Lewis to create the entire alphabet. Uninterested in this project, Lewis suggested that Irvin create the alphabet himself---this became the Irvin type. Digital versions of this:

  • New Yorker Type (Gert Wiescher, 1985).
  • UpperEastSide, UpperWestSide: free fonts by David Rakowski from the 1980s.
  • NewYorkerType (1985, Gert Wiescher). This was extended in 2011 to NewYorker Plus.
  • Karl A. Petersen (Picacho Peak, AZ) created his own version of Lewis's font in 2021, simply called Allen Lewis.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Reardon & Krebs

Publishers of Type Book (1955, San Francisco), a 300+ page book with specimens of the most important typefaces of that time. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rebecca Bettencourt
[Kreative Korporation (was: Relay Fonts, or: Kreative Software)]

[More]  ⦿

Reddoor Blog

Great design blog with "free lessons", including several ones on typefaces and typography. Located in El Segundo, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Reem Essayli

San Francisco-based designer of the Peignotian typeface In Flux (2016). This typeface was created during her studies at San Francisco State University. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Renata McElvany

Long Beach, CA-based designer of the colorful all caps typeface Candy Worm (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Renee Granillo

Graphic designer and illustrator in Laguna Beach, CA. Creator of the display typeface family Kingdom (2012), which includes a multiline style. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Reserves (or: AE Type)
[Michael Jarboe]

Reserves (and, since 2012, AE Type) is a commercial foundry offering mostly techno faces. It is located in Carlsbad and Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA, and run by Michael Jarboe. Mike graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and now lives and works in San Diego.

The earliest typefaces: Base (stencil), Evac (octagonal), Claes (a heavy blacked out display typeface named after Swedish sculptor Claes Oldenburg), Raider, Error (LED simulation face), Reserves03 (2009), Output II (2009), Scape (octagonal stencil), Void, Vacant (2009, monoline stencil), Debacle (2009), Scam (2009; a fun geometric experiment), Immortality, Asecs, Analog SE, Scheme (pixel face).

Typefaces made in 2010: Idiom (2010, a piano key family inspired by P22 Albers), Vector RG (2010, an octagonal typeface inspired by the 1979 Atari Asteroids video game UI screen font), Sevigne (2010, monoline geometric avant-garde sans that looks a bit like a stencil), Velvet (2010, a heavy rounded block retro typeface inspired by the typeset album covers of the protopunk rock band The Velvet Underground), Monocle (2010, monospaced and monoline geometric sans).

Typefaces made in 2011: Scape (2011, rounded monoline stencil family), Velvet (2011), Defense (2011, octagonal slabbed stencil), Offense (2011, strong octagonal mechanical family), Vanitas Bold (2011, Peignotian fashion mag typeface rooted in didones).

In 2012, Mike published Enamel (a condensed sans family---the inline version of Sorren), Sorren (a condensed sans influenced by neo-grotesque designs, and dada in style), Sorren Ex, Vanitas Stencil and Memoire (a charming fashion mag monoline hairline stencil).

Typefaces from 2013: A large Neue Haas Grotesk / Helvetica-style sans family called Acronym, from Hairline to Extra Black and Outline.

Typefaces from 2014: Reload (octagonal), Reload Stencil (military stencil). Reload Alt and Reload Alt Stencil were added in 2015.

Typefaces from 2015: Averes Title (a sharp geometric sans titling typeface), Averes Title Roman (fashion mag styles).

Klingspor link. Behance link. Flickr site. Behance link. MyFonts link.

View Mike Jarboe's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

RetroSupply Co
[Dustin Lee]

Dustin Lee (RetroSupply Co, Portland, OR, and before that, Palo Alto, CA) sells RetroType, an add-on for Illustrator to make text appear retro. After setting up RetroSupply in 2013, he made the handcrafted poster fonts Roaster (2015) and Wild Fire (2015), the bold octagonal typeface Authority (2015, in standard, rounded and distressed sub-styles; inspired by public transport typefaces from the 1970s; with Scott Fuller), the monoline connected script typeface Palm Canyon Drive (2015: inspired by California in the 1940s and 1950s), the cartoon font Nincompoop (2015; we find this note: Nincompoop was designed by award-winning illustrator, designer, teacher and author Von Glitschka. Until now, this font was part of Von's personal collection of resources. Now you can have this hand crafted typeface for your personal arsenal), the multiline logo font family Solid 70 (2015), and the semi-blackletter typeface Unlucky (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Night Hawk (art deco), Over Easy (art deco), Leutner (multilined: the text is unclear whether Dustin designed this himself, or whether Aaron Sechrest is the designer), Transistor (super-condensed, retro), Komrade (a layered constructivist font), Firebox (a western typeface co-designed with Scott Fuller).

Typefaces from 2017: Blockprint, Machine Shop.

Typefaces from 2021: Lovestruck (psychedelic).

Behance link. Creative Market link for Dustin Lee. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ria Anderson

Oakland, CA-based graphic designer and typographer. She created RF Franklin Phonetic (2011), RF Shavian (2011), and RF Deseret (2011). These were all designed to be part of the RF Phonetic Suite, a group of typefaces designed to support historic phonetic English alphabet reform. She also completed the Tamil typefaces Jatiya (2007, Tamil complement to the open-source Latin/Greek/Cyrillic typeface Gentium, designed by Victor Gaultney) and Surai (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricardo Baltazar

As a student at San Francisco State University, Ricardo Baltazar designed an innovative techno display typeface inspired by window signs in San Francisco. He called it Windw St (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard B. Wales
[OCR-A: Richard Wales]

[More]  ⦿

Richard Beatty
[UC Berkeley]

[More]  ⦿

Richard Hue

Graphic and web designer in Anaheim, CA, who created the rounded monoline typeface Space in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Lasseigne
[Berkeley Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Richard Lucas

American codesigner with Andrew Leman of Penitentiary Gothic (2003): a commercial license plate font identical to that for California. It has five styles including three-dimensional embossing effects. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Richard Miller
[Miller Type Foundry]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Richard Perez

Based in San Francisco, Richard Perez (kinny Ships) has some nice examples of fresh typography, including a brilliant colorful poster made in 2009. Via HypeForType, one can buy his experimental typeface Protozoa. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Starkings

Founder of Comicraft in Los Angeles. Designer of comic book fonts. At Agfa in 2001, he published the comic book fonts Achtung Baby, Adamantium and DoubleBack (with John Roshell). He designed a large number of typefaces at Comicraft, including one named after himself, Richard Starkings (2011).

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

Richard Starkings
[Comicraft (was: Active Images)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Richard Tom

Very inventive graphic designer in San Francisco. He has created great typographic posters such as Gecko (2009), as well as a pixelish experimental typeface called Pheobo (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rick Cusick

Calligrapher, b. Stockton, CA. Art director of Letter Arts Review magazine since 1992. Designer of Nyx (1997-2002, Linotype, Adobe). Presently, Rick was Manager of Font Development at Hallmark Cards near Kansas City, MO, until some time between 2012 and 2016. Nyx won an award at Bukvaraz 2001.

Author of What Our Lettering Needs The Contribution of Hermann Zapf to Calligraphy & Type Design at Hallmark Cards (2012, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press). This books deals with Hermann Zapf's years (1966-1973) as a consultant to Hallmark Cards. Zapf's typefaces there include Crown Roman, Jeannette, Hallmark Uncial, Crown Italic.

Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rick Griffin

Richard Alden Griffin (1944-1991) was a Californian artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. He died on his Harley Davidson in an accident.

He indirectly inspired many digital typefaces. For example, Nick Curtis's Ponsonby NF is based on a 1967 poster by Rick Griffin. This poster from 1984 inspired Nick Curtis to make the futuristic typeface Circuit Bored NF. Rick Griffin (2010) by Jasmin Roslan is also based on Rick's lettering. And so is the psychedelic typeface Rick Griffin (2006) by Keith Bates. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rick Hutchinson
[Bright Ideas Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Rick Morton

Rick Morton (ImagiMedia, Newbury Park, CA) designed the hand-printed typeface Tickyric (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rie Amaki

New York and Pasadena, CA-based designer of the display family Hierarchy, which won an award at the TDC2 2001 competition (Type Directors Club). Rie studied with Jens Gehlhaar at the Art Center College of Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rik Verlin Livingston
[Zono Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

RK Type
[Ryin Kobza]

Ryin Kobza (RK Type, San Francisco) created the art deco family Verano (2011), the free font Masher (2012), and the 70s pixel fonts 3d Mine (2016), Code Mine (2016) and Datamine (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rob Barba
[Megami Studios (or: Incstone design by Megami)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rob Kandefer

Aka Maker21. Los Angeles-based designer (b. 1975) at T-26 of the 6-weight octagonal family Nightjar Text (2006) and its 7-weight curly/blackletter sister family Nightjar (2006).

Alternate URL. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rob Saunders
[Letterform Archive]

[More]  ⦿

Robby Woodard
[WoodardWorks Type Design (was: Robby Woodard Design and Illustration)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Robert Allgeyer
[MusiQwik Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Robert Arnow

Illustrator and graphic designer who is Director of Creative Investigation at Incitement Design in New York City. His calligraphy was turned into calligraphic brush typefaces such as Mustang (2009) and Streetbrush (2009). In 2010, he created Graffiti Classic and Graffiti Classic Taglets (dingbats).

In 2013, he published the brush script typeface French Kiss. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Robert Bringhurst

Author of The Elements of Typographic Style (1992), by many considered as the best book in typography ever written. Revisions were done in 1996, 2004, 2005 and 2008 [review, web, lecture]. Interview with Delve Withrington. He is also a prize-winning poet.

Other books by him include A Short History of the Printed Word (1999, with Warren Chappell).

Biography, from which I quote: Robert Bringhurst was born in Los Angeles in October 16, 1946 and spent his years growing up in the border provinces and states between Western Canada and the United States. He acquired a BA from Indiana University in 1973 and an MFA from the creative writing program at UBC in 1975, where he later taught. Bringhurst collaborated with West Coast artist Bill Reid on a book of Raven Myths, and Bringhurst later wrote a book about Reid's sculpture. Bringhurst is known not only as a poet but also in the fields of typography, linguistics, art history and Native studies. He received the Macmillan Prize for Poetry in 1975 and currently resides in Vancouver. He has some memorable type quotes, such as this one: By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist.

Discussions of The Elements of Typographic Style: The typophiles [John Savard: Sounds like The Elements of Typographic Style is the masterwork it was acknowledged to be, but one that has to be taken with a grain of salt. It is a rich mine of information, but it does not set the bounds for all that can be done in typography], Sam Potts [ETS's position on typography after all isn't so different from saying the best movies were made in the 40s in Hollywood and so we, today, should be making black and white movies to uphold the tradition. Imagine a filmmaking manual that argued for this.], Mark Simonson, Maurce Meilleur.

In 2016, he published Palatino: The Natural History of a Typeface: This book provides a detailed and sumptuously illustrated history of the evolution of all members of the Palatino tribe: foundry Palatino, Linotype Palatino, Michelangelo, Sistina, Aldus, Heraklit, Phidias, American Palatino, Enge Aldus, Linofilm Palatino, Zapf Renaissance, PostScript Palatino, Palatino Nova, Aldus Nova, and Palatino Sans. It includes new specimens of the foundry and Linotype faces printed by hand directly from the metal, as well as hundreds of color illustrations documenting the artistry and care expended in creating these components of our typographic heritage.

He spoke at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg and at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Robert E. Gotsch

Californian poster artist in the flower power era. Designer of the film fonts Botsch Glob and Botsch Toe. These fonts were shown in a Lettergraphics ad in U&LC in 1974. Classic posters list. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Grabhorn Collection

A collection of over 10,000 volumes focusing on traditional letterpress printing. It has many type specimen books and permits photocopying. It is part of the San Francisco Public Library. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Lievanos
[Fade Hurricane]

[More]  ⦿

Robert Slimbach

After a start at Autologic in Newbury Park in 1983, this prolific American master craftsman (b. Evanston, IL, 1956) helped pioneer digital type design at Adobe (which he joined in 1987) and created

  • ITC Slimbach (1987).
  • ITC Giovanni Book (1988).
  • Adobe Garamond (1989-1991).
  • Adobe Jenson (1996) and Adobe Jenson Pro. Combining Nicolas Jenson's roman designs with Ludovico degli Arrighi's italics.
  • Utopia (1989-1991) [Utopia Opticals was released in 2002].
  • Minion (1990-1991): Minion was first released in 1990, and became later the first Adobe Opentype font. It has support for Greek and Cyrillic, including polytonic Greek. Minion Cyrillic is from 1992. By 2021, this text typeface featured 32 styles, and was published as Minion3.
  • Myriad (1992, with Carol Twombly). Myriad Arabic and Myriad Hebrew were first published in 2011.
  • Poetica (1992). In 2010, Paulo Heitlinger compared Poetica, in its smooth perfection, with P22 Operina, which is closer to the original chancery models of the 20th century, and he thinks Poetica lacks the vigor and dynamism of the originals (and P22 Operina does not).
  • Sanvito (1993).
  • Caflisch Script (1993, not my favorite script).
  • Cronos (1996). Image by Jamie Groenestein). modeled after Kuester's Today Sans. Image of Cronos Pro Display.
  • Kepler (1996).
  • Warnock Pro (2000), which won an award at the Type Directors Club (TDC2) 2001 competition.
  • Brioso (2002). A calligraphic/renaissance family comprised of over 40,000 glyphs. Images of Brioso: A poster by Kristina Reinholds, a poster by Nick di Stefano.
  • Garamond Premier Pro (2005), based on originals found in the Plantin Museum in Antwerp. Weights include GaramondPremPro-BdItalic, GaramondPremPro-Bold GaramondPremPro-Italic, GaramondPremPro-Medium, GaramondPremPro-MediumIt, GaramondPremPro-Regular, GaramondPremPro-SbIt, GaramondPremPro-Semibold. Greek, Latin and Cyrillic are covered.
  • Arno Pro (2007: typophile discussion) is in the style of Adobe Jenson Pro. Review by Typographica Thomas Phinney: Arno is what you might call a modernized Venetian oldstyle. I think of it as having the same relationship to Adobe Jenson that Minion has to Garamond Premier.
  • Adobe Clean (2009). David Lemon: After more than 25 years in the type development business, Adobe decided to have its own corporate typeface family. The Creative Suite uses were early versions of a family designed by Robert Slimbach. Now that it has been officially adopted at Adobe, I can tell you about our latest design, called Adobe Clean. There is no plan to make it available for licensing, but you will be seeing more of it in Adobe materials and products as time goes on. Our initial question was "Why not just keep using Myriad Pro and Minion Pro?" These typefaces were designed to be timeless, and they are among our most popular families. But that second part points to the catch in this situation: Myriad, in particular, is used to represent many other companies, including businesses close to Adobe's (such as Apple and Verizon). Adobe wanted a fresh look that could remain unique. While some typeface designers do much of their work for corporate clients, this area was new to us. Robert&I met with the leaders of Adobe's Experience Design and Brand teams to develop a design brief. They wanted a 21st-century feel combined with an earnest readability. As the project grew, Christopher Slye led regular follow-up meetings with the client teams to keep them up to date and tease more input out of them. Robert's accustomed to aiming his work at the more general case, so it was an interesting challenge to have a very specific set of design goals. What he produced is as classic as all his other designs, but with an uncharacteristic blend of contemporary touches for on-screen rendering and a more progressive feel.
  • Adobe Text (2010), a transitional family included in the standard font set for Adobe Creative Suite 5. Adobe Text won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
  • Adobe Hand (2012). Adobe Hand also won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
  • Trajan Pro 3 (2011, with Carol Twombly) and Trajan Sans (1989). The Trajan Sans family comprises six weights, ranging from Extra Light to Black (matching the weight range in Trajan Pro 3), with language coverage for Pan-European Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek. Maxim Zhukov advised on the design of the Cyrillic portion of the family, and Gerry Leonidas advised on the Greek, while Frank Grießhammer provided technical production support. Trajan Sans won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
  • Ryoko Nishizuka designed Ten Mincho (2017), a Japanese typeface in the Adobe Originals collection. Ten Mincho also features a full set of Latin glyphs, collectively known as Ten Oldstyle and designed by Robert Slimbach.
  • Pelago (2017). A semi-formal sans family that won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018.
  • Acumin. A 90-style neo-grotesque typeface family.

For Warnock Pro, he got an award at the Type Directors Club (TDC2) 2001 competition. In 1991, he received the Prix Charles Peignot for excellence in type design. Minion Pro Greek, Minion Pro Cyrillic&Greek and Brioso Pro won awards at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. At TDC2 2006, he won an award for Garamond Premier Pro. Arno Pro won an award at the TDC2 2007 competition. In 2018, he received the Frederic W. Goudy Award for Typographic Excellence at Rochester Institute of Technology. Bio at Linotype. Minion Pro now ships with Acrobat Reader and covers all European languages, including Greek and Cyrillic.

View Robert Slimbach's typefaces. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Robert Suarez

San Jose, CA-based designer (as a student at San Jose State University) of the experimental compass-and-ruler typeface Medici (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Trogman
[FotoStar]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Robert Trogman
[Facsimile Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Robey Pointer

A software guy and musician from San Francisco, Robey did not like the monospaced Menlo font that comes with Max OS X.6. He tweaked it and created the better-looking free typeface Mensch (2010). Mensch, as Menlo, is a font for showing computer code. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robin Soltis

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the funky fifties typeface Lounge Serif (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robin Spehar
[Dreamer Design]

[More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos
[Psy--Ops Type Foundry]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Roger Schami

Roger Schami (b. 1991), aka Hoodboi, is a designer in Los Angeles, who, during his BFA studies at ACCD (Art Center College of Design) in 2012, created Blok, a display typeface designed for the 2015 Milan Work Expo. Blok uses standard heavy geometric shapes.

Founder of RO-SC (2019), andv art director at Seoul Projects since 2020. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rolando Bojorquez

Glendale, CA-based designer of an all caps 3d alphabet in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ron Caltabiano's music fonts
[Ronald Caltabiano]

Ronald Caltabiano (b. 1959) is an American arts administrator and composer of contemporary classical music, with his music showing elements of modernism and romanticism. A composer, he has served on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, Peabody Institute (Peabody Conservatory) of the Johns Hopkins University, and San Francisco State University, where he also was Associate Dean of the College of Creative Arts until June 2011. In January 2011 Ronald Caltabiano was named dean of the Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University (Indianapolis, Indiana).

He designed some music fonts. Downloadable demo fonts and online purchase were available, but seem to have disappeared. The fonts included Ghent Percussion Font Set (2 fonts), Sicilian Numerals (Figured Bass and Roman Numerals), and Rehearsal Font Set (3 fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ron P. Dunant
[Quiet Design Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ronald Caltabiano
[Ron Caltabiano's music fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Ronnie Cruz
[Cyberian Khatru]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rosalind Carnes

During her studies at Cranbrook, Rosalind Carnes designed an experimental modular typeface (2013) and an experimental oily typeface called Here Here Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rosanna Ma

Mountain View, CA-based designer of the monolinear sans typeface Give Me The Scoop (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rosie Lomas

During her studies, Riverside, CA-based Rosie Lomas designed a handcrafted vintage typeface called Middle of the Night (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ross Milne
[Working Format]

[More]  ⦿

Rotodesign
[Patrick Broderick]

Santa Cruz, CA-based Patrick Broderick's fonts at Rotodesign: Anhedonia, Blurb!, Bootleg, Castaway, Conundrum, Creature, Crunky, DamagedGoods, HorrorHotel, Jinky, KlippyDingbats, Maynard, Moto, MotorheadGrotesk, Omnivore, Papercut, Potrzebie, RotodesignDingbats, Salaryman, Squaresville, UtilityBoldCondensed, Whiffy, Zombie (a very fat brush face). See also here.

Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link.

Catalog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roxaboxen
[Graham Bradley]

A Lebanese American, Graham Bradley grew up in Pasadena, CA. He studied twentieth-century European history at the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated in 2009. He also graduated from the Type@Cooper program at The Cooper Union in New York. Graham designs printed materials, lettering, typefaces, and the occasional website. He is located in California. Before founding Roxaboxen, Graham was the first employee at Frere-Jones Type, where he worked with Tobias Frere-Jones on Mallory and Retina. He is an instructor at Type West at the Letterform Archive.

During his studies at Type@Cooper in 2012, he designed Anacapa, and writes: Anacapa is an attempt to subtly express, in type, the identity of my home state: the cool, gray calm of beach volleyball courts in the early morning, the dispersed energy of Los Angeles, the warmth of the sunlight on the rocky Central Coast... It is an imagined piece of California's vernacular, designed to be as flexible and complex as the emotional range it seeks to capture.

His typeface Madtown (2019, Future Fonts) is inspired by letters from the American West, in particular the styles that have a capital oh with wedge-shaped serifs. In 2019, he also released the arts and crafts-inspired Mara des Bois at Future Fonts.

Other typefaces by Graham include Ogilvy Serif (2021, with Jeremy Mickel), and Bacterium (2014, a molecular typeface done for Alexander Issey Inc; it has multiple versions for each glyph). Graham also helps with type design at MCKL Type, Jeremy Mickel's type foundry in Los Angeles.

Future Fonts link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roxxie Jonas

LA-based creator of Pea Missive Cursive (2007, handwriting). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rudy VanderLans

Born in Voorburg, The Nerherlands, in 1955, Rudy VanderLans is the co-founder in 1984 of Emigre, a digital type foundry and publisher of graphic design related software and printed materials based in Northern California. At Emigre, he designed Variex (1988, a monoline geometric face), Suburban (1993), and Oblong (1988).

Interview. Another interview. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Russell Bean
[Type Associates]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Russell Naylor

Venice, CA-based winner in the Chartpak Designer Velvet Touch Transfer Lettering Typeface Competition in 1988 for his architectural drawing typeface Architect. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruthi Auda

Ruthi Auda is an artist, designer, and explorer in Long Beach, CA, who graduated from Biola University in 2008. Art Director and Owner of CAMP Design Group. Creator of the beveled all-caps typeface Camper (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Blackman

Got to like the swashy lettering in the Spaghetti poster (2011) by Ryan Blackman from San Diego. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Cassidy

Los Angeles-based designer of Pliny (2018), a typeface that is based on the beer label for Pliny the Elder from Russian River Brewing. He also designed the octagonal mechanical typeface Mascot (2018) and the experimental Mash (2018).

In 2019, he published East Bay (garffiti-inspired, constructivist), Lightning, Lost Boy, Horror, Roar, Group Therapy, Uncle Fuzz, Feeding The Streets and Old Horror Movie Style Font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Castillo

Graphic designer in San Francisco. Behance link. Creator of the Tape Type alphabet (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Corey

Los Angeles-based graphic and type designer, b. 1975. MyFonts link. He created these typefaces: Fairport (2007, an all caps poster typeface), Pentangle (2009, art deco), Fortress (2009, ultra black), Calendaar (2009, monospaced), Occidental (2009, sans), Sir Lord Baltimore (2009, serif family). Fonts from 2010: Auberon (2010, a fat didone display face).

His latest typefaces include Abraxis (2013, a decorative alchemic typeface) and VolumeFour (2018: a heavy, geometric art deco sans-serif display typeface inspired by the custom lettering of Black Sabbath's Vol 4 album).

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

Ryan Ford
[Liquisoft]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Hutson

Ryan Hutson is a graphic and type designer based in the Bay Area. Graduate of TypeWest, class of 2021. His wedge-serifed graduation typeface, Tanrie, revisits 20th century American book jackets to explore how particular lettering traits can be distilled across a typeface. He explains: It draws inspiration from the idiosyncratic qualities of lettered pieces across the works of W.A. Dwiggins, George Salter, and Philip Grushkin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan J. Fong

Designer in Los Angeles who created Quadray (2012, a modular typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Keightley

Graphic designer and illustrator in Walnut Creek, CA, who set up his own type foundry in 2014. He created these typefaces:

  • The connected script typeface Sparkle Script (2014).
  • Butternut (2014). A distressed sign painting typeface family.
  • Conifer (2015). A blocky geometric poster font.
  • Fika (2015). A cursive script font.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Lyse

Designer in Los Angeles, who created the Portsmouth typeface (2012), which is based on the letters he designed for the Portsmouth Brewery logo while studying at UCLA. It was published in 2012 by Open Window and by Rocket Type (with Dathan Boardman).

In 2013, Ryan co-designed the round-edged display typeface family Aldin with Dathan Boardman of Open Window. The poster typeface Portsmouth Second Fleet (2013, +Textured, by Ryan Lyse and Dathan Boardman) is the rag tag, wild bunch companion to Portsmouth.

Typefaces from 2019: Delmonico (a vintage typeface by Dathan Boardman and Ryan Lyse). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ryan M. Smith

This Ryan Smith is a designer in the San Francisco Bay area. He created the display typeface Revolver Bold in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Maelhorn
[NONBook]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Singer

Designer born in Laguna Beach, CA. He used iFontmaker in 2011 to create Akzidenz-Grotesk Ultralight Hand. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan T. Kelley

Fontana, CA-based creator of the Decaying Monsters decorative caps alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Whitaker

Californian designer of the free ultra-black display typeface Boredom (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryin Kobza
[RK Type]

[More]  ⦿

Rylee Jackson

During her studies in San Francisco, Rylee Jackson designed the minimalist Avenir Altered (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Saad Dean Abulhab
[Arabetics]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sabrina Davis

Orange, CA-based designer of Cookie Cutter Typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sadie Taylor
[Golden Doodle Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

SafetyFonts

From the Molecular Arts Corporation in Anaheim, CA: "SafetyFonts is a superb collection of five TrueType fonts, each containing over 100 safety symbols. Topics covered include Hazardous Materials, Personal Protective Gear, Bio-hazards, Health, and Emergency Medical Services. " 200 USD for a pack of five fonts (Mac or PC). HazGear font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Saige Rouze
[Ciara Rouze]

[More]  ⦿

Salila Trk

During her studies in San Francisco, Salila Trk created Pavena (2015, a calligraphic typeface) and Blunt (2015, a handcrafted typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sam Croswell

Graphic design student in Oceanside, CA. Behance link.

Creator of the octagonal industrial typeface Factory (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sam Palencia

Moreno Valley, CA-based designer of the typeface Glory (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sam Siavash Anvari

Graduate of the MFA graphic design program at OTIS College of Art and Design. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin, where he addressed the topic of the emergence of a sub language called P-English by which chat and email users utilize Roman English characters to convey messages in Persian language. This led him and Spiekermann to design appropriate OpenType typefaces with smart glyph replacements. Sam lives in Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samantha Alva

Corona, CA-based designer of the decorative caps alphabet Wild Lavender (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samantha Taj-Eddin

San Jose, CA-based designer of Build An Alphabet (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samuel Goldstein
[Writ Large Fonts]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Samuel Osh

San Francisco-based designer of the geometric sans serif typeface Mote (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samuel Poole

Son of Wesley Poole, born in California in 1984. Sam lives and works with his father Wesley in Hawaii, and has cooperated with him on these fonts that were published by Poole Foundry:

  • Pagoda International (2006, designed with his son Samuel Poole). A comic book font based on the lettering of the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu.
  • Poole Standard (2006). A stylish headline face.
  • Poole Chiselcut (2007). Digitization with the help of Rod Cavazos (PsyOps).
  • Polynesiac (2007, Wesley and Samuel together). Simulation of Easter Island lettering.
  • Jigger Statz (2007).
  • Contempo Elan (Grand Script and Ornamental) (2006). A festive and assertive calligraphic script done by Wesley and Samuel Poole.
  • Alphaluxe (2008). A calligraphic upright connected ronde script by Wesley and Samuel.
  • Vingo (2006).
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

San Francisco Art Institute
[J.D. Beltran]

Students at the San Francisco Art Institute got together to create the hand-printed typeface Kuchar (2012). These include Cory Bates, Tyler Cross, Michael Figge, Erin Hall, Elise Inferrera, Antonia Kimatian, Roman Koval, Joey Kuo, Riho Kurematsu, Noell Nelson, Kelly Nettles, Kegan Snyder, Dayna Rochelle Stanley, and San Francisco Art Institute professor J.D. Beltran. Kuchar is based on the handwriting of filmmaker George Kuchar, as found on the labels of his VHS and mini-DV tapes.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

San Francisco Type Foundry
[Edward Dalton Pelouze]

Edward Dalton Pelouze was a typefounder, 1824-1864. Son of Edward Pelouze, Edward Dalton set up the San Francisco Type Foundry in 1853. His father had a few years before that moved type machinery to San Francisco fromn the East Coast. Edward Dalton returned to New York City in 1858 to work for James Conner. He was killed in a battle in the Civil war in 1864. The San Francisco Type Foundry was sold to Painter in 1866. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Santi Grau

San Francisco-based designer of some experimental typefaces: Noise (2016) is a typeface that morphs from serif to sans serif and light to bold depending on the audio input that it receives. Moire Type (2016) was developed in order to express sound through letters. Finally, Camper (2016) is a grotesque headline sans designed for Camper. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Paske

During her studies at Type West in 2019, Sara Paske designed Sanni, a 4-style no-nonsense almost monolinear sans family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Pastrana

Graphic Design graduate from The Art Institute of Los Angeles at Santa Monica. In 2013, she created Costura Letra, G-Rated, and Costurita, three typeface families that were inspired by embroidery stitching. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Crow

During her studies at Art Institute of San Diego, Encinitas, CA-based Sarah Crow designed the decorative Indiana Jones Alphabet (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Lasiter

During her studies in El Cajon, CA, Sarah Lasiter created the caps alphabet Contortion (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sascha Hopson

Sascha Hopson is a multidisciplinary designer based in Oakland, California. He is passionate about brand systems, iconography, typography, color theory, and spatial design. Outside of design, he is preoccupied with community, cities, film, transportation, Black art, and natural wine. Graduate of TypeWest, class of 2021, where his graduation typeface was Spades, Spades is a display face with expressive ink traps and sharp serifs with five weights ranging from thin to black. Spades was inspired in part by the early Black Arts Movement and 70s sci-fi cinema. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sassy Rose's Graphics Garden (or: Sassy Graphics)
[Denise Clendenin]

Tens of original dingbat fonts made by Denise Clendenin (who is based in California) in 1998-1999: Americana, AmericanaTwo, ArtDeco, ArtNouveau1, ArtNouveau2, BirdsOne, BirdsTwo, Butterflies, CarouselHorses, CelticDesignsI, CelticDesignsII, CornersBorders, DecoBorders, DecoDividers, Designs1, Designs22, Designs3, DividersMisc, Ellipses, FancyFish, FloraDeco, Flowers1, Flowers2, Flowers3, Flowers4, FolkArt, FolkArt2, FolkArtDividers, FunFish, IndianDesigns, JapaneseDesigns, MoreRoses, RosesRoses, Sealife, Ships, TeddyBears, TeddyBears2, VictorianDesignsOne, VictorianDesignsThree, VictorianDesignsTwo, Wildflowers1, Wildflowers2. Excellent quality, smooth outlines.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Catalog. Old dead URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sawyer Hume
[Fontasmic]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Schessa Garbutt

Schessa Garbutt received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Southern California and founded Firebrand in Inglewood, CA. Graduate of TypeWest, class of 2021, where Schessa designed the art nouveau genre display text typeface Thumbalena Display. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scorpion Tree
[Brett Roeder]

Foundry, est. 2011 in Irvine, CA, by Brett Roeder. Brett designed the squarish modular typeface Scorpion Tree (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Scott Christensen

Boulder, CO-based designer of the free truetype font Puzzled, ca. 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scott Holtog

Designer of Gypsy Eyes (2009, a scratchy hand). Scott is a recent graduate of the BFA Graphic Design Program at San Jose State University now living in Berkeley, CA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scott Hultgren

Californian designer who made Optical Dillusion (2011, psychedelic druggie multiline font), Miterra (T-26, 2000, pixel family) and Love (2011). Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Scott Kellum
[Typetura]

[More]  ⦿

Scott Nuss

Aspiring architect, amateur graphic designer, and amateur typographer in San Luis Obispo, CA. Gifted a flair and taste for techno, he created Gears of Peace (2010), Disco Diva (2007, multilined, all caps), PerfectDarkZero (2010, stencil), and Nuss Motorsports (2010; stenciled upper case). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scout Studio
[Paul Kreizenbeck]

Sacramento, CA-based designer of the vintage signage typeface Blind Pig (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scripps College

A typeface by Frederic Goudy from 1941. The Italic followed in 1944. Mac McGrew: Scripps College Old Style was designed and cut in 1941 by Frederic W. Goudy, as a private typeface for the school of that name in Claremont, California. Goudy calls it a straightforward, simple design that displays no freakish qualities. It was used by students at the school for experimental design projects which were printed on an old handpress. The italic was cut three years later.

Digital revivals:

  • Scripps College Old Style (1997, Monotype), by Sumner Stone. Scripps College commissioned this digital revival of Scripps College Old Style.
  • Richard Beatty's Goudy Claremont (1993).
[Google] [More]  ⦿

SDMMUG

The San Diego Macromedia User Group (SDMMUG) organized a two-talk meeting on November 14, 2002, featuring B.J. Harvey and Brett Jackson, who spoke about the efficient generation of fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Dougherty

Designer and art director who was active in New York City and Los Angeles from 2000 until today. At TypeParis 2017, he created Binge Watcher, a low contrast slab serif intended for big, bold messaging [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Lee

Sean Lee, a graphic designer in Pasadena, CA, created the calligraphic typeface Satisfactory Script (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Lenahan

San Diego, CA-based designer of Future Militia Impact Stencil (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Somics

Sean Somics (Santa Barbara,CA) created the typographic poster Design With Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Stanton

Graduate of San Jose State University. San Jose, CA-based designer of Diva (2012), a modular typeface that was influenced by the style of Mariah Carey. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Yoon

Glendale, CA-based designer of the outlined typeface Lattice (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Riessen
[Greek House of Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Selene Chang

During her studies, Santa Ana, CA-based Selene Chang designed Klink (2018, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergey Schmidt

Los Angeles-based designer of over 100 icon sets, each consisting of between 10 and 20 icons. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Serj Khorozian

New media designer in Sunnyvale, CA, who created the hairline serif typeface Tenuis in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seungeun Chung
[Poetic Poetical]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Seyeon Kang

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of Greek and Roman Mythology Typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shan Yam

San Rafael, CA-based designer of a curly typeface in 2012, possibly called Sweet Pea and/or Shan Serif. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shane Erika Legaspi

Los Angeles-based creator of Prototypeface (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shane Fleming

Creative and art director from Tiburon, CA. He has made many typefaces: Hamburg (modular, as in train stations), Xorben (sans family, soon to be free), Dani (grunge), Antiquity (rough outlined-serif), Ledgement (chancery hand), Ridalin (modern sans with a stunning hairline weight), Statement (dot matrix), Xerak-024 (dot matrix), Rivec, Colorspace (dot matrix).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sharp Type
[Lucas Benjamin Sharp]

Lucas Sharp is a designer (b. 1986, San Francisco) set up Sharp Type in Brooklyn, NY, and later in New York City proper. Before that, Lucas Sharp was involved with Typeslashcode in New York. In 2011, he and Juan Carlos Pagan set up Pagan&Sharp in Brooklyn, NY, but they split a few years later. In 2015, Lucas Sharp and Chantra Malee [at Sharp Type, Malee handles business, brand management, marketing, graphic design and sales] started Sharp Type in New York City. In 2020, the collaborators and type designers included Josh Finklea, Connor Davenport, Marc Rouault, My-Lan Thuong, Calvin Kwok, and Justin Sloane. Lucas Sharp's typefaces:

  • Happy Stache (2010). A blackletter.
  • Hera (2010). A ball terminal-laden ornate didone done for his thesis at Parsons. His talent shines through his award-quality ornamental didone family, Hera Big (2010), which is an extension of his earlier thesis work.
  • Designer Sucks (2010). An ultra-fat and counterless typeface.
  • The free fat counterless typeface Doughboy (2010). In 2014, Greg Gazdowicz and Lucas Sharp co-designed Doughboy Pro, a bubble bath typeface.

    Lucas Sharp does penmanship drawings such as Go Big Or Go Home (2010) and We're on a roll (2010).

  • Together, Pagan and Sharp published Malleable Grotesque Regular (2011).
  • Sharp Sans (2013, Incubator subfoundry of Village). Sharp Sans is a geometric sans with a non-geometric semi-curvy italic. Sharp Sans No. 2 (2015) is more geometric. It has Bayer / Bauhaus alternates, Lubalin avant garde style interlocking capitals, and pays tribute to those styles. Sharp Sans No. 2 (2015, Incubator): While Sharp Sans No. 1 ends its round monolines with diagonally sheared terminals, Sharp Sans No. 2 shears those terminals on a 90 degree angle.
  • Ogg (2013) is a fashion mag typeface inspired by the hand lettering of 20th century book designer and calligrapher Oscar Ogg. Ogg won an award at TDC 2014. Review by Bethany Heck.
  • Frauen [Roman, Script] (2015, Incubator). A calligraphic pair. The Roman is partially based on the calligraphy of Friedrich Neugebauer [on the cover of an almanac of Berlin debutantes published in 1945 titled, Die schönsten Frauen der Welt], and partly Lucas's own creation. Production assistance from Wei Huang.
  • Sharp Sans was modified in 2016 for Hillary Clinton's campaign, on commission for Michael Bierut of Pentagram. They write: The newest iteration of Sharp Sans was conceived for the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign. Michael Bierut and the Pentagram team chose Sharp Sans Display No.1 as the main typeface of the campaign identity, but such a monumental project required a sturdier and more utilitarian typeface. The new Sharp Sans is completely redrawn and shaped by the rigorous typographic demands of modern visual communications. What sets the new Sharp Sans apart is a raised x-height, and newly opened counters that make it optimal for both text and display layouts; a new, more versatile approach, of which the two Display versions were not previously designed for. The set has Slab and Stencil styles as well.
  • In 2016, Sharp designed a custom Trajan-inspired typeface for Anthonly Lent, the jeweler.
  • Sharp Grotesk (2017), 259 fonts strong and several years in the making. Village writes: Sharp Grotesk sits at the intersection of mid-century modernist rigor and Victorian hand-hewn vernacular. Lucas considered Adrian Frutiger's monumental Univers suite of fonts, with its grid of multiple weights and widths, applying this underlying construction principle to letterforms echoing the forms of American and northern European wood types. Sharp Grotesk won sixth prize in the TDC Typeface Design competition in 2017.
  • Lucas Sharp and Connor Davenport finished the Dutch oldstyle typeface Eros Text in 2017. Eros Text was influenced By Jan van Krimpen's Sheldon and Bram de Does's Lexicon. Eros Text B has longer ascenders than Eros Text A.
  • Halyard (2017). An information design sans typeface family by Joshua Darden, Lucas Sharp and Eben Sorkin.
  • Respira Black (2017). A contemporary blackletter inspired by Spanish and English models from the 15th and 16th centuries.
  • Sharp Slab (2018).
  • Beatrice and Beatrice Display (2018) by Lucas Sharp assisted by Connor Davenport and Kia Tasbihgou: Beatrice is a new kind of typeface. The family is an exploration of contrast methodologies, combining various aspects from the canon expansionist systems, inverted contrast, and the contrast behavior of standard sans-serif grotesks. These methodologies were dissected and used as cornerstones in building our own system, with the final result landing largely in unexplored territory. Built on the foundation of a traditional American Gothic but with tight-as-can-be spacing, the superfamily spans a robust set of weights and includes 2 optical sizes: a super high-contrast, tightly packed Display cut, as well as a standard low-contrast cut, designed to function beautifully in a wide range of optical sizes.
  • In 2019, Lucas Sharp and Marc Rouault wrapped up Doyle at Sharp Type. The chubby Doyle interpolates between Cooper Black and ITC American Typewriter.
  • In 2021, Lucas Sharp and My-Lan Thuong, assisted by Wei Huang and Marc Rouault, designed Salter. Slater Roman is based on calligraphic book jackets by Georg(e) Salter from 1941, and Salter Italic is inspired by two of Oscar Ogg's book jacket alphabets from 1942.

Type catalog, 2010. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Shaver Studios

Shaver Studios, located in central California, created the futuristic squarish typeface Uzi (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shawn Eyer

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Liberal Studies, John F. Kennedy University. Creator of the Phoenician symbol dingbat font Kadosh Samaritan (2000-2003), which can be found at the site of Orinda Lodge, Orinda, CA. He writes: The Samaritan typeface is a particularly ornate and fascinating form of the Semitic alphabet. It presents the letters of the Hebrew script in a form more akin to ancient Phoenician than modern Hebrew. The characters in Kadosh Samaritan are based on the Samaritan letters as found in the Masonic writings of Albert Pike (1809-1891). This typeface will be useful to Biblical scholars as well as to researchers of the literature of Freemasonry. Kadosh Samaritan follows the modified Michigan-Claremont encoding scheme found in the popular Scholars Press Hebrew fonts. This allows the user to transform unpointed Hebrew set in a Scholars Press font into Samaritan characters simply by changing the font. To facilitate this function, I have duplicated some characters where appropriate because in Tiberian there are special versions of certain letters (kaf, mem, nun, peh, tzadi) when they come at the end of a word. This was not done in ancient manuscripts, and there are no final forms of Samaritan glyphs. On the many keys unused by Samaritan characters, Kadosh Samaritan offers a number of useful kabbalistic and Masonic symbols, with a particular emphasis on the Scottish Rite. Among the supplements to be found are the double-headed eagle, the logo of the Scottish Rite Research Society, and the various crosses used in Scottish Rite signatures. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shea Sjoberg

Graphic designer at Astro Studios in San Francisco. In 2016, he created the free monospaced typeface Arkitextura. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sheena Tyler

During her studies at the Art Institute of Los Angeles, Sheena Tyler designed the outlined typeface Hi-Jack (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shelby Bonilla

New media designer in San Francisco, who created the inline typeface Ribbon Folds in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shirin Amouei

Milpitas, CA-based student-designer of an untitled display typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shruti Gunda

San Francisco, CA-based designer of the experimental and modular typefaces Morph Code (2018) and Phyto (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shruti Sabu Ganesan

San Francisco, CA-based designer of the experimental typeface Infinity (2016), in which the glyphs are drawn without lifting the pen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sibylle Hagmann

Swiss designer Sibylle Hagmann (b. 1965) runs Kontour, est. 2000.

With a BFA in 1989 from the Basel School of Design and an MFA from the California Institute of Arts in Valencia in 1996, she became art director of the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles, and she is now working as a designer and art director for institutional publications and she teaches at the University of Houston in the graphic communications program (since 2002). Cholla won at Bukvaraz 2001. She also won an award at Granshan 2008. Kontour joined Type Network in 2016.

She designed these typefaces:

  • Twin Cities (2002, Kontour: an octagonal face).
  • Cholla (a large rounded sans family, a slab family, a wide family and a unicase subfamily; in 1999 at Emigre). She writes: The Cholla typeface family was designed in 1998-99 and named after a species of cactus indigenous to the Mojave Desert. Cholla was originally developed for Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Denise Gonzales Crisp, then art director of the college's design office, collaborated with Sibylle Hagmann to design a family of typefaces that would include a vast variation of font weights.
  • Odile (2005, Kontour, also released at Village). Odile is based on an experimental typeface of W.A. Dwiggins called Charter. Sybille writes: Dwiggins contemplated Charter as the italic companion to Arcadia, Experimental No. 221. The Charter project progressed sporadic stalled during the Second World War and came to a halt in 1955. Charter remained incomplete and was never commercially released. Assessing Charter's whimsical design, its fragments were rethought and developed into a comprehensive text family.
  • Elido (2013). She writes: Elido follows Odile's proportions and matches the weight and typographic color of its serif twin. Elido is a sans with classical proportions. A slight geometric hint and open counters convey an airy feel.
  • Axia (2013, a sans serif family with several stencil styles). Originally designed for the Rice University School of Architecture in 2011, this contemporary sans found some inspiration in the TwinCities typeface family created by Sibylle Hagmann for the University of Minnesota in 2003.
  • Kopius (2016). This great text typeface family is loosely inspired by Herbert Thannhaeuser's Liberta (VEB Typoart). She added Kopius Condensed in 2017.
  • In 2020, she realeased Utile (+Display). Utile was influenced by Hermann Zapf's Optima in its flaring and by Roger Excoffon's Antique Olive in its brashness.

CV. Bio at Emigre. FontShop link. Behance link. Interview by MyFonts. Type Network link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Siena Goggia

Photgrapher and designer in Santa Barbara, CA, who created a couple of typefaces in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sign DNA
[Dave Simpson]

SignDNA is run by Dave Simpson (Winters, CA). Commercial sign and display fonts, including many scripts, often by Dave Simpson himself. Other designers:

  • Bob Behounek made ChicagoStyle, NewCity, SantaFe, KedzieLite, Heading Script, Pravda Casual, Pulaski Script, Archer. (This must be in error--there is a contradiction between the web page and the information in the fonts.) In the latest page, these fonts are credited to "Behounek". I can't follow this.
  • Paul Martin made Caz Fat, El Sid, Journeyman, WarBird (great signature-type font), RaceCarChisel, FastEddie, Squirt (upright, calligraphic).
  • Wm. J. Krupinski designed Bill's Holiday, Cube a Rama, Toon Copy, Med Ved, Toon Block.
  • Dan Antonelli created the 3-d fonts Banner Priz, Corinne, Lori Slant, Nicole, Tommy B, Rocinante, Zak, Prizmatic Numbers.
  • Mike Stevens made Magic, Stix, Happy Script, Master, ArRoyo, Tahoe, Staton, BigSur, DuVall, BigRed, BigMedicine, Tenor, Phoenix, Vasona.
  • Jack Wills made Nitro, Whoa, Brougham, Kreem, Buzz, Daffy Script, Hot Rod, Matilda, Jules Shado, Jules, Brave Heart, Monterey Script, Mr. Charles, Newmann.
  • Tramp Designs (Tramp Warner) made Eurolian (techno), Grafix (techno), Metal, Radical, Ripped, Salza, Sawblade, Starbound, Straight Laced, Tramp and Victory.
  • Kirby Stafford made Big Boy (2001), Lowered, Pencil Stroke and Whoop T Do.
  • Ray Larabie made Mecheria, Silentina, Soap, Tank, Zosma Bold, and Zosma Lite.
  • Gary Godby made Monika (script).
  • House fonts (by Dave Simpson, I guess): Amazing Grace, American Eagle, Amps, Ands, Andy, Auction Block, Autographic, Automat, Aztec, Banner Heavy, Banner Long n Lean, Big Cheese, Big Kiss, BuckShot, Bull Frog, Bulletin Black, Cadet, CopsRobbers, Crown Title, CrownTitle Priz Wide, Cut Out Script, Daytona Script, Dave the Wave, Deco Roman, Denny, Denny Bold, Dogwood, Downtown, Dragonfly, FiveCents, Golden Eagle, Half Dome Block, Half Dome Script, Heaven, Hell, Hex, Hillbilly Opteamaw, HogWort, Huckelberry, Jade, Kaylon, kaylon Heavy, Lone Wolf, Loose Spokes, los Pintores, Lumax, Lynewood Crakd, Mac, Marcel Dubo, Marcel Jones, Marker Magic, Marvels Navel, Medicine Hat, Miss Kitty, Monika, Nelson ShoCard, Nelson ShoCard Fat, Neon, Neon Script, Neon Tubes, O'Daly, Picasso, Playground, Race Car Casual, Race Way, Raceway Priz, Rosebud, Santa Cruz, Savage, Scriptboy, Shakey Jake, Shoefly, Slope, Smoothy, Snappy, Snappy Thin, Space Patrol, Spatz, Spatz HiLite, Speed Stroke, Street Rod, Stringline, Strout, Sundowner, Swing, Tank, Taylor Caz, Thin Man, Thin Man Bold, Tug Boat, Tys Optimus, Waldo, Woody.

Note: Nick Curtis: Dave Simpson purchased the rights to [Nick Curtis's] Creampuff for $167, and has been selling it for the past 11 years or so as Waldo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Simon Blockley

Art director in Orange County, CA. Behance link. Designer of X-Acto Type (2011, techno face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Simone Arora

During his studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Simone Arora designed a super-tall sans typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Slanted Hall
[Jeff Kellem]

Slanted Hall features the type designs of Jeff Kellem, who is located in the Silicon Valley Bay Area, California. In 2012, after a 20+ year hiatus, Jeff Kellem returned to type design. The first typeface release of 2013, 1403 Vintage Mono Pro, includes Latin (including Vietnamese), Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew. An updated version was released in early 2016. He writes: 1403 Vintage Mono was inspired by the 1960s era IBM 1403 mainframe line printer and the 52 glyphs on the A and H print chains. It is an all uppercase, monospace (fixed width) font and has been expanded way beyond what the original printer supported. He is working on 1403 Hebrew Sans.

In the 1980s, Jeff focused on music notation fonts while working on music notation software research and is also designing new typefaces for scoring, with planned releases in 2020. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Slub Design (was: Lawn Dart Fonts)
[Ray Buetens]

Slub Design is the new outfit of Ray Buetens and Staci Sambol, a husband and wife graphic design team from Santa Cruz, CA.

Free fonts: Alfredo's Dance, BeetleJ, I-SEE-SPIRALS, Mrs.-Strange, MyDogSpotGrid-Bold, PYGLT-Crumbled, Polyglot (a hacker fontfamily), StubMM (multiple master).

As Lawn Dart Fonts, Ray Buetens offered free fonts such as Alfredo's Dance, ISeeSpirals, Mrs. Strange, Polyglot, BackBod, MyDogSpot, DebMel, KrazyKool (by Julian Buetens), BeetleJuice, and his masterpiece, the monospaced multiple master font stubMM.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sluggo Design
[G. Alex Gonzalez]

Cletus (G. Alex Gonzalez of Long Beach, CA) made three free fonts: ElHombre (1999), OlKelly, and the handwriting font Arnett. Handwriting and signature font service as well. Hombre at Chank. At MyFonts, one can buy Orange Whip (2005), a multiline caps face, and El Hombre. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Small Cap Graphics
[Holly Goldsmith]

Holly Goldsmith has a BA in Art from Brooklyn College. She worked first at (Mergenthaler) Linotype, then at Photo Lettering and World Typeface Center before moving to Los Angeles. In LA, she worked at Xerox's type design department for a few years before starting her own company, Small Cap Graphics, where she is engaged in both graphic design and custom type design, with clients such as Agfa Monotype, ITC, DsgnHaus, Disney Corporation and Margo Chase Design.

She designed Novella (1996, DsgnHaus: an Arts and Crafts font), ITC Bodoni Six (1994, with Jim Parkinson, Sumner Stone, Janice Fishman), ITC Bodoni Twelve (1994, with Sumner Stone, Jim Parkinson and Janice Fishman), ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two (1994, with Sumner Stone, Jim Parkinson, Janice Fishman), Bossa Nova MvB (1995, at MvB Design), MVB Peccadillo (2002, with Alan Dague-Greene), Havergal (1994, Agfa), and ITC Vintage (1996, with Ilene Strizver).

At Bitstream, she designed Melanie BT (a script typeface), Liorah (2000, a connected script), Hank BT, Missy BT, Ryan BT (2000, jungle font), Raven, Raven Evermore.

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

View Holly Goldsmith's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Smart Minds
[Paul Lukes]

Paul Lukes (Paul Lukes Design) lives in San Francisco, and is involved as Smart Minds in advertising branding. He designed the futuristic Acoma Lower Case in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soft Horizons
[John Desrosiers]

A font collection by this Los Angeles outfit of John Desrosiers has flooded many archives. All fonts have the SH letters in their names. There is a fair amount of cloning, but there are also many first-time revivals (such as Lainie Day, based on a 1943 script by Bluemlein). The list of fonts: AceBinghamS, AceBinghamSH, AddisonLibbySH, AlfonsoWhit, AlfonsoWhiteheadSH, AndyMacarthurSH, AnneBoleynSH, AntonioMountbattenS, AntonioMountbattenSH, ArrowsAPlentySH, AssadSadatS, AssadSadatSH, AutomationRimmed, OttoMasonSH, BIGCSHAD-Normal, BIGCSHAD-NormalEx, BIGCSHAD-NormalWide, BIGCSHADLefty, BeauTerrySH, BennieGoetheSH, BibiGodivaSH, BibiNehruSH, BlondieBurtonSH, BookwomanDemiItalicSH, BookwomanDemiItalicSH, BookwomanDemiSH, BookwomanDemiSH, BookwomanExpLightSH, BookwomanExptLightSH, BookwomanLightItalicSH, BookwomanLightItalicSH, BookwomanLightSH, BookwomanLightSH, BookwomanMonoLightSH, BookwomanMonoLightSH, BookwomanSwashDemiSH, BookwomanSwashDemiSH, BookwomanSwashDemiSH, BookwomanSwashLightSH, BookwomanSwashLightSH, BrailleS, BrailleSH, BuckyMerlinS, BuckyMerlinSH, CameronStendahlSH, CarlTellerSH, CarrieCattSH, CassTaylorSH, ChartreuseParsonsSH, ChasThirdSH, ChaseCallasSH, ChaseCallasSH, ChildBonaparteSH, ChuckWarrenChiselSH, ChuckWarrenDesignSH, ChuckWarrenDesignSH, ClaudeCaesarS, ClaudeCaesarSH, CluKennedySH, CoffeeCamusInitialsSH, ColetteColeridgeSH, CooperPlanck2LightSH, CooperPlanck4SH, CooperPlanck6BoldSH, CooperPlanck8HeavySH, CybilListzSH, DizzyDomingoSH, DizzyFeiningerSH, DocTermanBoldSH, DodoCasalsSH, DodoDiogenesSH, EdithDaySH, EmGravesSH, EngelEinsteinSH, ErnestBlochSH, ErnestBlochSH, ExxPresleySH, FarEast, FleurFordSH, ForefrontBookObliqueSH, ForefrontBookObliqueSH, ForefrontBookSH, ForefrontBookSH, ForefrontDemiObliqueSH, ForefrontDemiObliqueSH, ForefrontDemiSH, ForefrontDemiSH, FractionsAPlentySH, FredFlahertySH, GabbyGauguinSH, GarryMondrian3LightItalicSH, GarryMondrian3LightSH, GarryMondrian4BookItalicSH, GarryMondrian4BookSH, GarryMondrian5SBldItalicSH, GarryMondrian5SBldSH, GarryMondrian6BoldItalicSH, GarryMondrian6BoldSH, GarryMondrian7ExtraBoldSH, GarryMondrian8UltraSH, GarryMondrianCond3LightSH, GarryMondrianCond4BookSH, GarryMondrianCond5SBldSH, GarryMondrianCond6BoldSH, GarryMondrianCond7ExtraBoldSH, GarryMondrianCond8UltraSH, GarryMondrianExpt3LightSH, GarryMondrianExpt4BookSH, GarryMondrianExpt5SBldSH, GarryMondrianExpt6BoldSH, GarryMondrianSwashSH, GeorgeMelvilleSH, GraceAdonisSH, HankKhrushchevSH, Heavenetica2ULtOblSH, Heavenetica2ULtSH, Heavenetica3ThinOblSH, Heavenetica3ThinSH, Heavenetica4LtOblSH, Heavenetica4LtSH, Heavenetica5OblSH, Heavenetica5PSBldOblSH, Heavenetica5PSBldSH, Heavenetica5SH, Heavenetica6MedOblSH, Heavenetica6MedSH, Heavenetica7BoldOblSH, Heavenetica7BoldSH, Heavenetica8HvyOblSH, Heavenetica8HvySH, Heavenetica9BlkOblSH, Heavenetica9BlkSH, Heavenetica9PUBlkOblSH, Heavenetica9PUBlkSH, HeaveneticaBoxedBoldSH, HeaveneticaCond2ULtOblSH, HeaveneticaCond2ULtSH, HeaveneticaCond3ThinOblSH, HeaveneticaCond3ThinSH, HeaveneticaCond4LtOblSH, HeaveneticaCond4LtSH, HeaveneticaCond5OblSH, HeaveneticaCond5SH, HeaveneticaCond6MedOblSH, HeaveneticaCond6MedSH, HeaveneticaCond7BoldOblSH, HeaveneticaCond7BoldSH, HeaveneticaCond8HvyOblSH, HeaveneticaCond8HvySH, HeaveneticaCond9BlkOblSH, HeaveneticaCond9BlkSH, HeaveneticaCond9PUBlkOblSH, HeaveneticaCond9PUBlkSH, HeaveneticaExtd2ULtOblSH, HeaveneticaExtd2ULtSH, HeaveneticaExtd3ThinOblSH, HeaveneticaExtd3ThinSH, HeaveneticaExtd4LtOblSH, HeaveneticaExtd4LtSH, HeaveneticaExtd5OblSH, HeaveneticaExtd5SH, HeaveneticaExtd6MedOblSH, HeaveneticaExtd6MedSH, HeaveneticaExtd7BoldOblSH, HeaveneticaExtd7BoldSH, HeaveneticaExtd8HvyOblSH, HeaveneticaExtd8HvySH, HeaveneticaExtd9BlkOblSH, HeaveneticaExtd9BlkSH, HeaveneticaMonoBoldSH, Hebroid, HeleneHissBlackSH, HenryPatrickSH, KarlKhayyamSH (Arabic simulation face), KarlaJohnson5CursiveSH, KarlaJohnson5RegularSH, KarlaJohnson6BoldCursiveSH, KarlaJohnson6BoldSH, KarlaJohnson7ExtraBoldCursiveSH, KarlaJohnson7ExtraBoldSH, KarlaJohnson8HeavyCursiveSH, KarlaJohnson8HeavySH, LainieDaySH, LatinoPal3LightItalicSH, LatinoPal3LightSH, LatinoPal4ItalicSH, LatinoPal4RomanSH, LatinoPal5DemiItalicSH, LatinoPal5DemiSH, LatinoPal6BoldItalicSH, LatinoPal6BoldSH, LatinoPal7ExtraBoldSH, LatinoPalBlackSH, LatinoPalCond4RomanSH, LatinoPalCond5DemiSH, LatinoPalCond6BoldSH, LatinoPalExptRomanSH, LatinoPalSwashSH, LeeToscanini3LightSH, LeeToscanini5RegularSH, LeeToscanini7BoldSH, LeeToscanini9BlackSH, LeeToscaniniInlineSH, MarcusHobbesSH, MartinMaxxieSH, MaudeMeadSH, MikePicassoSH, NealCurieRuledSH, NealCurieSH, NewMilleniumSchlbkBoldItalicSH, NewMilleniumSchlbkBoldSH, NewMilleniumSchlbkExptSH, NewMilleniumSchlbkItalicSH, NewMilleniumSchlbkRomanSH, NewMilleniumSchlbkSHBold, NewMilleniumSchlbkSHBoldItalic, NewMilleniumSchlbkSHItalic, NewMilleniumSchlbkSHRoman, NigelSadeSH, OttoMasonSH, PaulPutnamSH, PcEncodingLowerSH, PcEncodingSH, PennSilvaSH, PhilSimmonsSH, Polonaise, RobWebsterExtraBoldSH, SalTintorettoSH, SamBarberInitialsSH, SamPlimsollSH, ShellyMarisSH, ShlomoAleichemSH, SissyRomeoSH, SlimStravinskySH, SpruceByingtonSH, SueVermeer4LightItalicSH, SueVermeer4LightSH, SueVermeer5MedItalicSH, SueVermeer5MediumSH, SueVermeer6DemiItalicSH, SueVermeer6DemiSH, SueVermeer7BoldItalicSH, SueVermeer7BoldSH, SunYatsenSH, SuzanneQuillSH, SymbolsAPlentySH, TamFlanahanSH, TempsExptBoldSH, TempsExptItalicSH, TempsExptRomanSH, TempsSwashSH, TessHoustonSH, TexCatlinObliqueSH, TexCatlinSH, TonyWhiteSH, WaltHarringtonSH, WesHollidaySH, WesHollidaySH, XavierPlatoSH, YuriKaySH, ZappedChancellorMedItalicSH, ZappedChancellorSHMedItalic, The Heavenetica family, for example, is a clone of Helvetica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Solvita Marriott

Designer in Modesto, CA, who created the ornamental caps typeface Native Voices (2012). She also made beautiful typographic posters entitled Berlin (2012) and Languages Matter (2012). For Trattortia Sorrent Panini, she made a custom art deco typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Somerset Studio

Californian foundry that sells a few artists' fonts: Stanyan, Garamouche, Monet, Cezanne, TerraCotta (based on Frank Lloyd Wright's hand), Dard Hunter. Part of Stampington Company. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sonkarlay Vaye

Designer in Vacaville, CA. I like the 3d headline typeface Gazette used by him in a poster in 2011. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sophia J. Caldwell

San Jose, CA-based designer of the signature font Lifestyle (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Speezbag

Speezbag (Los Angeles) created an unnamed modular typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Spencer Wierwille

Graphic designer in Los Angeles who created the speed-themed techno typeface Fantastic in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Spyrographics

Designers in Santa Maria, CA, of Chevron Dingbats (1994) and McBoing Boing (1994, a comic book face). Dafont link. Fontspace link. Fontfreak link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stacey Clarke

Californian graphic designer, b. 1980. Her work includes a nice typographic poster entitled Phoenix rising in type (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stacy Zurcher

San Francisco-based designer of this fun curly font (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stan Zienka

Creative director at Meta Design in San Francisco. In 2014, Stan Zienka and Neha Hattangdi coidesigned the grid-based hipster typeface family Mica. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stanley Dai

Web designer in San Francisco who created the decorative didone typeface Ogee in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stanley Diaz

Stanley Diaz (San Francisco, CA) is a web and visual designer who studied at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco (2012). He created Byzantium (2012): It was byzantine-inspired. It is a serif typeface with sharp angled serifs, along with a relatively large x-height which gives it great legibility at small sizes.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Star Retrieval Systems

One free TrueType font, Ancient Plate. Sells sets of about 20 standard text fonts, grouped as the "Freiman Display Fonts" or "Bassin Floating Fonts". No designer names, no info on how the fonts were made and by who. Other fonts: Paghetti (1994, according to them, based on SWFTE's Stimpson), Z-DabbleDown (1998), STAR:JWBrass (1998), Chris, Diped Thick (shadowed outline font), Kakuk, STAR-Bold, STAR-Light, STAR-Openface, STAR-OpenfaceBold, STAR-Typewriter, STAR-TypewriterBold, STAR, STAR:GizmoFloat, STAR:RazorMaidFloat, STAR:Schlimeyer-Book, STAR:SharonAClassic, STAR:Z-DabbleDown, Sling, State-Shadow, Willshire-Classic, Willshire-ClassicBold, Willshire-ClassicGravure, Willshire-Squire, Willshire-SquireExtended, Willshire-SquireExtendedBold, Willshire-SquireUltra, Willshire-SquireUltraBold. The fonts used to be here, as part of the Netstar company in Phoenix. Inside the fonts, we find the address "14252 Culver Drive, Suite A828, Irvine, CA 92714".

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Static Type
[Mike Emory]

Mike Emory at Static Type in Menifee, CA, is the designer of the graffiti font DieDieDie (2001) and of Mikey (2001). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stefan Tabencki

Graphic designer in Los Angeles who created the very flared typeface Conflux in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephanie Courtney

American designer from San Francisco (b. 1986) who created this frilly hand-printed font (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephanie Garcia

Visual designer in San Francisco. Creator of the vintage Victorian typeface Isabella (2013), dedicated to her great-grandmother, Isabella Perez.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephanie Hanson

Riverside, CA-based designer of the barbed wire emulation font Double Edge (2015) and the all caps Peignotian typeface Parker Elite (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephanie Kubo

Designer, illustrator and letterer in Oakland, CA. Behance link. Creator of several hand-drawn alphabets that simulate engraved textures, wood texture, and beveled types, and emalate the Western wanted poster look. Examples: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephen Coles

Aka Stewf. Stephen was a Utah-based graphic designer who used to design layouts for the USLC Chronicle. A typeface identifier with an encyclopedic mind, he runs the successful and lively type blog Typographica with Caren Litherland [that site was founded by Joshua Lurie-Terrell in 2002. Coles joined a couple years later. Matthew Bardram and Patric King helped out for a while]. He was Type Director at FontShop San Francisco from 2004-2010. Stephen is now a writer and typographic consultant, doing work for a variety of foundries and design studios. He founded Fonts In Use and is the Associate Curator and Editorial Director at Letterform Archive.

Author of The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces (2012, Harper Design) and The Geometry of Type: The Anatomy of 100 Essential Typefaces (2013, Thames & Hudson, UK). Amazon link.

Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal.

His typefaces:

  • The Mac version of "Monica", Andy Crewdson's digitization of Monica Lewinsky's handwriting (in notes she wrote for Bill Clinton).
  • Eerostyle (2008), created with FontStruct. Eerostyle is a parody of Eurostile.
  • The FontStruct fonts Pebble Soft, Pebble, Morricone (Far West spoof), Leaflet Gap (kitchen tile), Leaflet Wide Stem, Leaflet Stem, Leaflet, Varsity (athletic lettering), MinimalBloc Gap (kitchen tile).
  • WPA Gothic and WPA Gothic Deco (also done at FontStruct). These are poster typefaces inspired by posters produced in the 1930s by FDR's WPA (Works Progress Administration) such as this one. Similar poster typefaces would include Futura Display, Tourist Gothic, FF Moderne Gothics, Refrigerator, and MVB Solano Gothic.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Stephen Collier

San Jose, CA-based designer. Behance link. Creator of the floriated caps typeface Morris (2011). This typeface was based largely on work done at San Jose State University while completing a BFA degree in graphic design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephen Delgado

Burbank, CA-based designer of the free labyrinthine vector format typeface family Remus (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephen Miggas
[Aerotype]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Stephy So

Irvine, CA-based designer of the experimental typeface Myot (2014). She also created Future Phone Icons (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephy So

Stephy So (Irvine, CA) designed the modular stencil typeface MYOT (2014) which is based on straight edges, semicircles and quarter circles. MYOT stands for make your own type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Cochrane

San Francisco-based creator of the free pixel typefaces Marietta Five (2013, FontStruct) and Marietta Seven (2015). Dafont link.Urb Rapper [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Cooley

Steve Cooley (from Silicon Valley) used iFontMaker in 2010 to create a number of hand-drawn dingbats and fonts: CooleyAloha, CooleyCasual, CooleyCats, CooleyChunk, CooleyDraftsmanship, CooleyGreetingCardSans, CooleyGreetingCardSerif, CooleyInconsistentDouble, CooleyInverted, CooleyQuestionableSans, CooleySlowball, CooleyUrbanScrawl, Rawr, RobotArms.

At FontStruct in 2008, he created Pew Pew Pew (futuristic), Netlabel Round, and Redneck Astronaut (ray and laser gun dingbats). Blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Deffeyes
[Deffeyes Design]

[More]  ⦿

Steve Dell

Steve Dell teaches digital art design at Miami ad School in California. His site has an Adobe InDesign course, where one can find a beautiful type history primer, and a zipped font folder with these fonts: ACaslonPro-Italic, AGaramondPro-Regular, AJensonPro-Regular, ArnoPro-Bold, ArnoPro-Italic, ArnoPro-Smbd, BickhamScriptPro-Bold, BickhamScriptPro-Regular, BlackoakStd, GrotesqueMTStd-Black, GrotesqueMTStd-Bold, GrotesqueMTStd-BoldExtended, GrotesqueMTStd-Condensed, GrotesqueMTStd-ExtraCond, GrotesqueMTStd-Italic, GrotesqueMTStd-Light, GrotesqueMTStd-LightCond, GrotesqueMTStd-LightItalic, GrotesqueMTStd, HelveticaNeueLTStd-Bd, HelveticaNeueLTStd-Blk, HelveticaNeueLTStd-It, HelveticaNeueLTStd-Md, HelveticaNeueLTStd-Roman, MFCFranklinCornersFive-Regular, MFCFranklinCornersFive-Regular, MFCFranklinCornersFour-Regular, MFCFranklinCornersFour-Regular, MFCFranklinCornersSix-Regular, MinionPro-Regular, MyriadPro-Bold, MyriadPro-It, MyriadPro-Regular, NewsGothicStd-Bold, NewsGothicStd-BoldOblique, NewsGothicStd-Oblique, NewsGothicStd, NuevaStd-Bold, NuevaStd-BoldCond, NuevaStd-Regular. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Forney

Illustrator in Oakland, CA, who created the art deco typefaces Casablanca (2015) and New York-Paris (2015). Many of his illustrations are rooted in the French art deco style of Cassandre. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Matteson

Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Printing graduate who lived in California and in Holland, MI, and now resides in Louisville, Colorado. He was a disciple of Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes. MyFonts page on him. In 1990, he started work at Monotype in Palo Alto to create the Windows truetype core fonts Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New. He stayed with Monotype and then Agfa/Monotype until 2003 (when he was probably fired, but that is only an unreliable guess), directing type development from the design office in Palo Alto, CA. Bio at Agfa/Monotype. He has directed branding projects such as Agilent Technology's corporate sans serif and Microsoft's corporate font family 'Segoe'. At the same time, he was involved in producing bitmaps and outline fonts for cell phones and TV set top environments. He has worked extensively designing Greek, Cyrllic, Thai, Hebrew and Arabic alphabets to satisfy the requirements of customers such as IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, Sun and Sybase. In 2004, he co-founded Ascender Corporation in Northbrook, IL, where he remained Type Design Director until Ascender was bought by Monotype, where he now heads the type design team (12 people in all, as of 2013).

CBC interview in 2012. Fontspace link. FontShop link. At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, he spoke on typefaces for Android OS.

His typefaces:

  • Amanda.
  • Andale Mono (Monotype), Andale Mono (Ascender). This is a monospace sans-serif typeface designed for terminal emulation and software development environments. It was originally created by Monotype. Andalé Mono was first distributed as an Internet Explorer 4.0 add-on under the name Monotype.com. In version 1.25 of the font, it was renamed to Andale Mono, distributed with Internet Explorer 5. It is often used by programmers, and is bundled with Mac OS X.
  • Andy (Monotype), his first face, a design based on a friend's lefty handwriting. Published at Agfa's Creative Alliance.
  • Arimo (2010). A free sans family at Google Web Fonts that is metrically compatible with Arial. TeX support and further downloads on CTAN.
  • Ascender Sans Mono (2004-2008, Ascender). Metrically compatible with Courier New. Ascender Serif (2005, 4 styles) is metrically compatible with Times New Roman.
  • Ascender Uni Duo is a fixed-width comprehensive Unicode-compatible font available with support for the Unicode Standard. Ascender Uni Duo is a 39MB TrueType font with approximately 53,000 glyphs. The Latin and related glyphs (designed by Steve Matteson) are Sans Serif, with Gothic ideographs drawn in Japanese style, and complementary styles for other scripts. There are also versions of Ascender Uni that provide localized support for Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. OpenType layout support is included for Arabic (initial, medial, final, isolate, and required ligature forms, as well as basic mark positioning), and vertical writing for CJK locales (consisting mostly of Latin, symbol, punctuation, and kana glyph variants). Character Set: Latin-1, WGL Pan-European (Eastern Europe, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic. Ashley Crawford.
  • Ascender Sans (Ascender).
  • Ascender Serif (Ascender).
  • Ayita (2006, Ascender), a decorative sans family co-designed with Jim Ford.
  • Bertham Pro (2009, Ascender). Four styles including Open, after Goudy's Bertham.
  • Bierstdat (2021). A sans typeface that could replace Calibri later in 2021 as Microdoft's go-to font in Microsoft 365 apps.
  • Blueprint (1993).
  • Binner Gothic (Monotype).
  • Blueprint (Monotype).
  • Cambria (Ascender).
  • Carnero (2019, Monotype). Steve describes this sans family as a feisty hybrid of precise geometry and calligraphic flair.
  • Chicory (2006, Ascender). A calligraphic script face.
  • (2010). A free family at Google Code that is metrically compatible with Courier New. See also OFL.
  • Creepy (Ascender Corporation): a Halloween font designed with Carl Crossgrove.
  • Curlz (1995, Monotype). Done with Carl Crossgrove, based on wrought iron on chairs.
  • Dempster (2016, with Jim Ford at Ascender). The original iangular industrial design, by Jim Ford, goes back to 2010.
  • Droid Sans Mono Pro (Ascender), Droid Sans Pro (Ascender), Droid Serif Pro (Ascender). and Droid Sans Mono: a font family designed in 2006-2007 by Steve Matteson at Ascender for Google's Android project, mobile phone software for handsets. Free download at CTAN.
  • Dujour (2005, Ascender): an art deco revival of the 1930's typeface Independant by Joan Collette and Jos Dufour for Plantin. Compare with the free Independant by Apostrophic Labs.
  • Endurance Pro (2009, Ascender): neo-grotesque sans. Endurance Pro Cond (Ascender).
  • Facade (Monotype).
  • Fineprint (Monotype). A design loosely based on his own penmanship ("on a good day"). Another Creative Alliance face.
  • Friar Pro (2009, Ascender): Friar Pro is a revival of Frederic W. Goudy's "Friar" typeface. Goudy described this typeface design as a 'typographic solecism' as it combines a lowercase of half-uncial forms from the 4th through 7th centuries with an uppercase of square capitals from the 4th century. Friar was originally designed in 1937 and used to print a Christmas keepsake produced by Goudy and printer Howard Coggeshall. The fire that burned Goudy's studio in 1939 destroyed the drawings and matrices before many metal fonts were cast. Of all that was lost in the fire, Goudy once said he missed Friar the most.
  • Futura Now (2020: a 107-style family by Steve Matteson, Terrance Weinzierl, Monotype Studio and Juan Villanueva, that includes variable fonts as well as subfamilies called Text, Display, Headline, Inline, Outline, Shadow and Script).
  • Georgia Pro (Ascender).
  • Gill Floriated Caps.
  • Goudy Fleurons (2010, Ascender).
  • Goudy Modern MT (Monotype).
  • Goudy Ornate (2002). Unsure if Matteson made this or Carl Crossgrove.
  • Kennerley. Based on Goudy's Kennerley family.
  • Kidprint (Monotype).
  • Kootenay (2006, Ascender), a sans family.
  • LeBeau (Ascender): a signage font.
  • Liberation Mono, Sans and Serif (2007-2009, Ascender). A set of free open source fonts done for Red Hat Inc.
  • Lindsey Pro (2006, Ascender): a cursive script based on his niece's hand.
  • Louisville Script (2008, Ascender): ordinary handwriting.
  • Massif (2006-2011, Monotype). Odd name, since Jean Joveneaux made a font called Massif in 1957. How can Monotype get away with a trademark for this is beyond me.
  • Mayberry (2008, Ascender): a 14-font sans family with extremely large x-height and strange proportions. Mayberry semibold is free. Mayberry Pro (Ascender).
  • McZee, a Microsoft symbols font.
  • Miramonte Pro (2006, Ascender). A geometric-meets-humanist sans after the typeface Marsuv Grotesk by Stanislav Marso at Grafotechna, 1960.
  • Open Sans (2010, Ascender). A free family by Steve Matteson. See also at Google Fonts. In 2021, he added the rounded companion, Open Sans Soft (20 styles).
  • Overpass and Overpass Mono (2011-2019), designed by Delve Withrington, Dave Bailey, and Thomas Jockin. A free open source sans font. The design of Overpass is an interpretation of the well-known Highway Gothic letterforms from the Standard Alphabets for Traffic Control Devices published by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration in 1948. It was created for Red Hat Inc. Dedicated web page. Link at Delve Fonts.
  • Newstyle. Based on Goudy's 1921 typeface, Newstyle. See also Newstyle (2018, Steve Matteson).
  • Pericles Pro (2005, Ascender): an Ascender typeface based on the work of Robert Foster who created the original for American Type Founders in 1934), a 433-glyph OpenType font for Greek simulation or stone cut looks.
  • Pescadero Pro (2005, Ascender),
  • Pescadero Pro: a serif face.
  • Rockwell Team (Ascender): an athletic lettering face.
  • Rebus Script (2009, Ascender): done with Terry Weinzierl.
  • Scooter Script (2009, Ascender): comic book style face.
  • Segoe Chess (Ascender), Segoe Mono (Ascender), Segoe TV (1997-2004, Ascender: done for MSNTV).
  • Tinos (2010). A free serif family at Google Fonts that is metrically compatible with Times New Roman. Download at CTAN, where one also finds TeX support maintained by Bob Tennent. Nerd Fonts patch.
  • Tipperary eText (2012-2013), Monotype.
  • Titanium Motors (2012, Monotype), Titanium (2006, Ascender): techno typefaces.
  • Truesdell (1994, Monotype): a revival and extension of the "lost" Goudy types cut in 1931. Also at Creative Alliance. Also includes Truesdell Sorts.
  • Tucker Script (2009, Ascender): ordinary handwriting face.
  • Twentieth Century Poster (2002), an art deco display font straight from the late 1920s.
  • VAG Rounded Next (2018, Monotype). Developed under the direction of Steve Matteson, this revival of the 1979 classic corporate font of Volkswagen AG has new weights and adds support for Greek and Cyrillic. The MyFonts site co-lists Tom Grace as designer.
  • Verdorgia (2010): an ugly duckling.

Klingspor link. Fontspace link. View Steve Matteson's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Steve Mehallo

Steve Mehallo was born in San Francisco in 1967. He is a freelance graphic designer, educator, illustrator and font designer specializing in brand strategies, custom font development and logos. His clients have included Monotype, Microsoft, Ascender Corp, The Unicode Consortium, Netscape, TiVo, Nike, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Learning Company and several more. He is also a past president of the Art Directors and Artists Club of Sacramento, board member of Another Poster for Peace, was the lead curator of the contemporary graphic design exhibition Spoken With Eyes at the UC Davis Design Museum and has taught design courses at UC Davis, Santa Clara University, The Art Institute of California and Sacramento-based American River College. First Redwood City, CA, and now Sacramento, CA-based. Creator of these fonts:

  • The street lettering font Alta California in 1994 (Agfa): Alta California is a ransom note-style sample of wood type and other types.
  • The beautiful old typewriter family Chandler 42 at Psy/Ops.
  • MartiniAtJoes family (1996-1997) is available through Agfa-Monotype and PsyOps: futuristic meets the 50s.
  • Niedermann Grotesk (2011). He writes: It is a peculiar style of lettering---which was originally inspired by the Sachplakat (object poster) work of Lucien Bernhard---and adapted for hot metal in 1908 by Hermann Hoffmann. 100 years ago, the style became a workhorse of the German printing industry.
  • Escoffier Capitaux (2008) is named for culinary legend Auguste Escoffier (1846-1835) and inspired by lettering used in vintage French advertising---including the work of commercial illustrator/fashion designer Ernst Dryden (1887-1938), with a hearty serving of 1960s ligatures influenced by the work of Herb Lubalin (1918-81) as well as a twist of Claude Garamond (1480ish-1561).
  • TwentyFourNinetyOne (2008, Ascender Corp) is a reinterpretation of the alphabet of 1919 by Theo van Doesburg.
  • Jeanne Moderno (2009) is an art deco take on Bodoni, in 9 styles.

Klingspor link. FontShop link. Blog. MyFonts link.

View Steve Mehallo's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Steve Ross

Canadian graduate (b. Ottawa) from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010. He grew up in Halifax. Interested through his wife in the Mayan culture, Steve designed the typeface Yukatek at Reading. His motivation: A modern text typeface for books, with custom features for Mayan languages.

In 2011, Steve joined the Adobe Type Team.

Steve also designed fonts for House Industries, such as Plinc Italiano (2015: a digital revival by Steve Ross and Ken Barber at House Industries of Dave West's 1960s Photo Lettering Inc Bodoni-style italic called Italiano).

Grid Büro link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Silvas

Graphic designer in Hollywood, CA. He created the handwriting typeface Wookieebyte (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steven Rivera

Graphic designer in Oaklnad, CA, who created The Loop (2016), a modular typeface that is inspired by The Loop in Chicago. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stiff Upper Glyph
[John Merrifield]

Stiff Upper Glyph is John Merrifield's type foundry in Seattle, WA (and before that, Los Angeles, CA), est. 2012. Their typefaces:

  • Semidocile Bold (2012-2017). A rounded fat finger display typeface that could be useful for signage and packaging.

Tumblr link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stirling H. Alexander
[AcuteType]

[More]  ⦿

Stjepan Ilich

Based in San Francisco. Creator of the Tuscan typeface Stari Grad (2014), which was inspired by Dubrovnik, Croatia. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stone Type Foundry
[Sumner Stone]

The Stone Type Foundry in Guinda (ex-Rumsey and ex-Palo Alto), CA, is Sumner Stone's outfit, which he founded in 1990. Born in Venice, Florida in 1945, Sumner Stone is a major designer, and creator of the Stone family. He studied calligraphy with Lloyd Reynolds at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and then went to work for Hallmark cards as a lettering artist. In 1979, he became type director at Autologic, and in 1984, he became the Director of Typography at Adobe Systems (until 1989). His typefaces:

At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he spoke about The foundation of the humanist sans serif. As of 2008, his entire collection can be licensed for 20 computers in an educational lab for just 300 dollars. Scripps College pages. CV at Agfa. Bio at Linotype. Page at Emodigi. His lecture in 2007 on W.A. Dwiggins. PDF file of his work. Signature. 2012 Newyear's card. Interview by MyFonts in 2014. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

View Sumner Stone's typefaces. Summary overview of Sumner Stone's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

SubConArt

Collage artist in San Francisco who made the avant garde monospaced sans typeface Ambiguous in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Suleyman Yazki

Istanbul-born graphic designer and typographic researcher, now located in Geneva, Switzerland. During his studies in the Master of Graphic Design program in Rennes (France), he created Lita (2012), a thin grotesk typeface. L'Atelier (2012) is an experimental typeface designed with Colophon Foundry (UK) for the international Chaumont graphic design festival.

In 2013, he created the distinctive typeface Auger for Auger Paris: Created by Raymond Jacquet in 1946, the studio, which has the distinction of being one of the last existing typography and wood engraving studios, has been managed by the typographer and engraver Vincent Auger since 2004, who perpetuates this prestigious studio. To improve the image of the studio, the aim of the new identity was to think up a character relating to the book and its history. The design is based on a more contemporary didone, while strongly influenced by Art Deco aesthetics.

He joined Studio Dumbar in Rotterdam. Graduate of the School of Applied Arts of Rennes (France) and of DSAA LAAB Academy in 2014. In 2014, he started work at Prologue Films in Los Angeles. At Fontfabric, he published the free Latin / Cyrillic stencil font Rafale (2014) and the art deco font Auger.

Behance link. Old URL. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Summer Ordoñez

San Diego-based designer of the school project font Handy (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sumner Stone
[Stone Type Foundry]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sun Helen Isdahl Kalvenes

Sun Helen Isdahl Kalvenes (b. Stavanger, Norway) was based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is now in Oakland, CA. In 2012-2013, she studied towards an M.A. in Type Design at the KADK (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art School of Design). In 2013, she graduated from the Type & Media program at the KABK in Den Haag. Her graduation typeface was Ricochet. Ricochet is inspired by the speedball D-series, which uses ball-shaped nibs developed by American sign painter Ross Frederic George. Ricochet is bulky and round, and has little contrast. It is warm and quite suitable for illustrative applications. Ricochet can be bought at Future Fonts.

Earlier work by her includes some calligraphy, a corporate typeface for the KADK (2012), and an unnamed slab serif typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Susan Kare

Born in 1954 in Ithaca, NY, Susan designed some of the original bitmap fonts for the original Mac in 1983-1984, including Chicago, New York, Monaco (download), FiveDots, Geneva, Cairo (dingbat font), LosAngeles, Athens and San Francisco (1984, ransom note font), while being a Creative Director at Apple (1982-1985). For Danger Research, she created the bitmap fonts Hamilton 5, Hamilton 6, Waverley 5, Waverley 6, Bryant 7 (2000). Interview with Cybergrrl. Atomic Media sells these pixel fonts of hers: Kare Five Dots (family), Ramona (script pixel font), Harry, Everett, Kare Six Dots (family), Biology (dings), Kare Dingbats, MiniFood, Ned, Sampler.

MyFonts catalog. Interview.

She explains the choice of names for the original Mac fonts: The first Macintosh font was designed to be a bold system font with no jagged diagonals, and was originally called "Elefont". There were going to be lots of fonts, so we were looking for a set of attractive, related names. Andy Hertzfeld and I had met in high school in suburban Philadelphia, so we started naming the other fonts after stops on the Paoli Local commuter train: Overbrook, Merion, Ardmore, and Rosemont. (Ransom was the only one that broke that convention; it was a font of mismatched letters intended to evoke messages from kidnappers made from cut-out letters). One day Steve Jobs stopped by the software group, as he often did at the end of the day. He frowned as he looked at the font names on a menu. "What are those names?", he asked, and we explained about the Paoli Local. "Well", he said, "cities are OK, but not little cities that nobody's ever heard of. They ought to be WORLD CLASS cities!" So that is how Chicago (Elefont), New York, Geneva, London, San Francisco (ransom note font), Toronto, and Venice (Bill Atkinson's script font) got their names.

Kare is also known for the original set of Mac icons.

The Apple fonts shown below are outline fonts made by Bigelow & Holmes on commission, based on Susan Kare's original pixel fonts. Susan Kare did not design the outline fonts sold by Apple at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Susanna Dulkinys

San Francisco-based creative consultant and designer (b. 1961), and Fonttype designer of Letter Gothic Slang. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sushi Dog Graphics
[Hector Santos]

Los Angeles foundry of Hector Santos, who created commercial fonts for Tagalog, Buhid, Hanunuo'o and Tagbánuwá. Baybayin is the name of the former Filipino writing system. Today there are three forms of the baybayin still being used in the Philippines. These are the scripts of the Buhid and Hanunuo'o peoples of Mindoro and the Tagbánuwá people of Palawan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sweet Fonts Collection
[Linnea Lundquist]

From Myfonts: The Sweet Fonts Collection represents an effort to locate and revive obscure, engraved lettering styles that are at risk of fading away, as well as to re-interpret familiar designs for broader application. Sweet Fonts is located in San Francisco, and is a spin-off/side show of Mark van Bronkhorst (MvB). Their fonts: Sweet Upright Script (2008, MvB and Linnea Lundquist), Sweet Gothic, Sweet Gothic Serif (2009: both in the style of Copperplate Gothic), Sweet Titling No. 11 (2009, art deco), Sweet Titling No. 22 (2010: multilined), Sweet Square Pro, Sweet Sans On Air, Sweet Sans Pro. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Swell Type
[John Roshell]

Type foundry set up in 2020 by Comicraft's John Roshell, who is based in California. In 2020, he released the squarish all caps family Silver Streak (+variable font), the futuristic typeface Hyperspace Race and the 25-style (variable) display family Paradise Point.

Typefaces from 2021: Beardstown (a gritty hardworking retro all caps font), Goodland (49 styles; inspired by painted signs on industrial buildings in the town of Goleta, California; +a variable font with width, weight and slant axes).

Typefaces from 2022: Beachwood (an 81-style (+variable) chamfered font based on vintage street signs in Los Angeles, and named for Beachwood Drive which leads to the famous Hollywood sign), Beachwood (an 81-style (+variable) chamfered font based on vintage street signs in Los Angeles, and named for Beachwood Drive which leads to the famous Hollywood sign).

Custom fonts, many of them done for Rovio: Angry Birds, AB Flock, AB Stella, Avatar, Bad Piggies, Clash Royale, Fairy Tale Twist, Looney Tunes Dash, Marvel Strike Force, Rovio Game. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sylvia Prats

Graphic designer in San Diego, who created the alchemic typeface Navajo (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tagalog Script
[Hector Santos]

Tagalog Script (from the Philippines): 20USD for six fonts in any format you like. Send check to Sushi Dog Graphics, P.O. Box 26A54, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Page by Hector Santos who lives in Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Talita Machado

Production Artist at City College of San Francisco, who lives in Dale City, CA. Working on the digitization of an ultra-thin curly font: Dengo (2005). Also working on Natura (2005), a really irggular scribbly face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tami Ortan

San Francisco-based designer of the condensed typeface Cosmopolis (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tamye Riggs

San Francisco-based type persona, who used to work at Garage Fonts/Phil's Fonts, and then at Fontshop (until 2005). Coeditor with Richard Kegler and James Grieshaber of Indie Fonts (2002) and Indie Fonts 3 (2007). Coauthor with James Grieshaber of Font: Classic Typefaces for Contemporary Graphic Design. Involved in Typelife. MyFonts page. Presently Executive Director, SOTA (Society of Type Afficionados) and TypeCon. In December 2015, she was appointed executive Director of ATypI. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tania Raposo

Graphic designer from Portugal who obtained a Bachelors in Graphic Design from ESAD.CR in Caldas da Rainha, and a Masters in type design from KABK, Den Haag, 2010. She interned for one year with Rob Saunders in California (where she was curatorial assistant at Letterform Archive), taught at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco City College and Type@Cooper West program (where she also was program coordinator), and was based for some time in Brasilia, Brazil. Currently she lives in the Netherlands where she works as freelancer, collaborating with the foundry Feliciano Type, and teaching typography at the Type and Media Master.

At KABK, she designed the Guia family in2010 for pedestrian wayfinding. In 2009, she did a revival (still at KABK) of Frank Hinman Pierpont's 1925 face, Horley Old Style. In 2016, she designed the pixel font TatiFox (FontStruct).

Also check her type portraits: Ang San Suu Kyi, Jose Ramon Horta, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela.

In 2018, House Industries published Coryn Didot and writes: Coryn Didot updates the Modern type style's elegant hairline strokes and crisp serifs by introducing a seductive squircular silhouette. Truly a font for lovers of alluring typography. Coryn Didot is based on a Photo-Lettering alphabet drawn by C.E. "Les" Coryn. The original appeared in the company's 1965 Alphabet Thesaurus Vol. 2 under the name Galax Didot. A revised design, introduced in the early 70s as Galaxy Didot, served as the basis for House Industries' version which was digitized by Tania Raposo in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tara Larson

Huntington Beach, CA-based designer of the brush typeface Happy Dance (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tatiana Rodriguez

Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the textured typeface Goldfish (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tatiana Tamayo

For a typography class in san Diego, Tatiana Tamayo designed a handcrafted typeface called Tetris (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tauba Auerbach

Graphic designer and painter (b. San Francisco, 1981) who created the free hairline octagonal typeface Pomegranate in 2007 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. She also has many nice typographic posters in her gallery.

In 2008, Dick Pape captured some of her work in his scanbat typeface Tauba Auerbach. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taylor & Taylor

Publishers in 1939 in San Francisco of Types, Borders and Miscellany of Taylor & Taylor, with Historical Brivities on their Derivation and Use. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Té Baybute

Designer in New York City.

Behance link. Creator of the free typefaces Manhattan Hand, The Missus Hand and The Missus Hand Oblique (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ted McFarland

Graphic designer in Fountain Valley, CA, who created Section 3 (2015, a constructivist typeface), Super Neon (2015, a neon light stencil typeface), and Remote Security Camera Icons (2015, on commission for Zettaguard's remote IP camera viewing/management website). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Teri Kahan
[Teri Kahan Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Teri Kahan Design
[Teri Kahan]

Teri Marie Kahan (b. Seattle, 1954, d. Costa Mesa, CA, 2012) had a grapphic design business in Costa Mesa, CA. She designed the dingbat font ITC Connectivities (1996), ITC Surfboard (1997), the new age dingbats ITC Holistics (1998), the Hawaian-styled brush typeface ITC Puamana (2004, script), ITC Kahana (2004), and the caps-only elegant ITC Cherie (1997). She also made the Lexus Font for Toyota. Autumn 2002 issue of the Journal of the Society for Calligraphy, in which her work and life is featured.

View Teri Kahan's typefaces. Obituary. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Terrana Cliff

Art student in California. Creator of the experimental typeface Betamaze (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Terrestrial Design
[Carl Crossgrove]

Terrestrial Design is Carl Crossgrove's web site. Crossgrove graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in Printing /Typography, and has shown a life-long interest in calligraphy and lettering. Now based in San Francisco, he has worked at Adobe, where he designed the Multiple Master hand-printed (semi-Celtic or stone-carved) families Reliq (1998), Reliq Std Active and Reliq Std ExtraActive in 2002, and where, with the help of Kim Buker Chansler and Carol Twombly, he co-designed the Western fonts (Adobe's Wood Series) Origami (hookish, in the expressionist style of Menghart and Preissig), Pepperwood (1994), Ponderosa (1990), Rosewood (1994) and Zebrawood (1994). He was also active at ITC (ITC Minska, 1996) and Agfa Monotype (Origami, a Menhart or Preissig style family; and Mundo Sans, 2002: a 14-weight humanist family, which includes a fantastic hairline sans).

Other fonts by Crossgrove include Othello (2002, with Steve Matteson), Wakerobin (based on hand-painted billboards, posters and signage lettering of the mid-19th century), Scripsit (which was named Judges' Choice in Serif Magazine's 1996 type design competition), Tarantella Script, Ranunculus, Penmark, Curlz MT (1995, Monotype; with Steve Matteson).

Beorcana (2006) is a 28-part serifless roman in the style of Optima or typefaces like Albertus, Stellar, Tiepolo, Barbedor, Lydian and Amira. In the making since 1992, this flared calligraphic book typeface was released by Monotype in 2006. Stephen Coles states: Beorcana is Crossgrove's best and most complete design yet. I can declare from personal experience that it is beautifully drawn and sets very well, small or large, thanks to three optical size masters. It will be a hit with fans of calligraphic sans serifs like Optima. It won an award at TDC2 2007 and was one of the best types of 2007. Florian Hardwig writes: The typeface has no serifs, yet its the opposite of a grotesque. It exhibits the rhythmic contrast and the humanist proportions of a renaissance roman. Its letters please with vividly dancing forms in every detail. However, this obvious calligraphic derivation never seems inappropriately fancy even the spruce swash italics are down-to-earth in a convenient way. The Thin isn't anemic and the Ultra isn't heavy-handed. Crossgrove really knows his stuff. Beorcana Pro (2006-2013) comes in Regular, Display and Micro styles.

Nebulon (2008) is an organic typeface that won an award at TDC2 2009. This retro-futuristic, soft superelliptical display sans-serif design was renamed Biome a year later.

With Rod McDonald, he created Egyptian Slate (2009, Monotype).

Linotype published ITC Galliard Etext in 2013, after the 1978 garalde typeface by Matthew Carter called ITC Galliard. It lists Carl Crossgrove as its designer.

In 2014, Crossgrove published the Burlingame typeface family at Monotype. He calls this sans collection sturdy, muscular and decisive.

From 2003 until 2014, he designed the OEM Monotype font Halesworth Etext.

In 2017, he published the comic book typeface family Cavolini at Monotype. Still in 2017, Karl Leuthold, Juan Villanueva and Carl Crossgrove co-designed the breezy script typeface Sagrantino (Monotype) in Regular, Highlight and Shadow substyles.

In 2018, Monotype's Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix, Juan Villanueva and Lynne Yun co-designed Walbaum, a reimagined superfamily with 69 total fonts, in five optical sizes. Monotype writes: Walbaum was meticulously crafted by Monotype's Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix, and Juan Villanueva to bring Justus Erich Walbaum's high contrast didone style masterpiece to the 21st century. Walbaum has over 600 glyphs with OpenType typographic features like small capitals, old style and lining figures, proportional and tabular figures, fractions and ligatures. Also included in the family are three decorative and ornament fonts.

At the end of 2018, he published the rough-edged calligraphic typeface Amarone at Monotype.

Typefaces from 2019: Mundo Serif (Monotype).

Linotype page. Adobe's page. MyFonts page. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

View Carl Crossgrove's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Terry Gatechair

During his studies, Oakland, CA-based Terry Gatechair created the experimental typeface Spiro (2015). For a neighborhood cafe that is connected to the sex-positive/BDSM scene in San Francisco, Terry created several art nouveau lettering pieces influenced by Kolomon Moser. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Terry Kunysz
[Casady&Greene (Fluentlaserfonts)]

[More]  ⦿

Terry Ma

During his studies, Terry ma (Pasadena, CA) created the ironwork typeface Cloture (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Test Pilot Collective

Test Pilot Collective (est. 1998) is a type foundry located in San Francisco, CA, USA. Typeface designs by Joseph Kral, Matt Desmond, and Michael Cina. The fonts were available via Makambo: 6X7OCT (Michael Cina), AMBER (Matt Desmond), AMERICANGOTHIC (Matt Desmond), AOLSUCKS (Joseph Kral), ATARIBABY (Joseph Kral), Auresh (StarTrek font, Matthew Desmond, 1998), BASIS (Matt Desmond), Bastard (Michael Cina, 1998), BEAT (Matt Desmond), Braille (Joseph Kral, 1999), CALIPER (Michael Cina), CAM (Michael Cina), Cheese (Michael Cina, 1998), CINAHAND (Michael Cina), Civicstylecom (1999, Matt Desmond), COMPOSITE (Michael Cina), CROSSOVER (Michael Cina), CURBDOG (Matt Desmond), DATDATA (Joseph Kral), DESMONDTEXT (Matt Desmond), DOUBLEOSEVEN (Joseph Kral), ER9 (Matt Desmond), Europa (Matthew Desmond, 1998), FIREFLYLOVE (Joseph Kral), FORMATION (Michael Cina), FOURFORTY (Joseph Kral), GOTHICOANTIQUA (Matt Desmond), HALFWIT (Joseph Kral), INVOICE (Matt Desmond), JOESFOOT (Joseph Kral), Kcap6 (dingbats by Michael Cina and Matthew Desmond, 1998), KRALHND (Joseph Kral), Lakestreet (grunge font by Joseph Kral, 1998), LUNARMOD (Matt Desmond), Lutix (StarTrek font, Matthew Desmond, 1998), MAETL (Michael Cina), MECHANICAL (Joseph Kral), NANOCODE (Joseph Kral), NASH (Michael Cina), OCRJ (Joseph Kral), OCRK (Joseph Kral), OCTOBRE (Joseph Kral), OPENLUNCH (Joseph Kral), PLATFORMS (Joseph Kral), PYROTECHNICS (Joseph Kral&Michael Cina, 1998), RAZORSUITE (Joseph Kral), REFLECTOR (Joseph Kral), RETRON (Matt Desmond), SAARIKARI (Joseph Kral), SCREWMOPHEAD (Joseph Kral), SELECTOR (Michael Cina), SHAOLINSTYLE (Joseph Kral), SHIFTY (Matt Desmond, 1998, also [T26]), Stem (Michael Cina, 1998), STICK26 (Joseph Kral), Stomper (Matthew Desmond, 1999), SUBITO (Joseph Kral), Testacon (by Cina, Desmond and Kral, 1999), TRISECT (Michael Cina), TRYPTOMENE (Joseph Kral), TWINSITES (Joseph Kral), ULTRAMAGNETIC2 (Michael Cina), UNISECT (Michael Cina), WOODDALE (Matt Desmond), WRONGWAY (Joseph Kral), Xerian (Matthew Desmond, 1997), XERXES (Joseph Kral, 1998), ZEBRAFLESH (Joseph Kral). They made a custom font for Citibank, a modification of Joe Kral's OCRK (1998).

MyFonts site. Dafont link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Thavin Rajanakhan

Berkeley, CA-based designer. His typefaces include TT240 (an octagonal design), TT Gothick, TT Quilt, and TT Turf C (2021: a display typeface developed during a workshop at TypeCooper; TT Turf C is inspired by wrist movements in different dance styles such as Turfing (Oakland) and Khmer Apsaras (Cambodia)). [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Ampersand Forest
[D.C. Scarpelli]

Scarpelli's design and production clients have included the California Attorney General's Office, Napa/Sonoma Magazine, the American Cancer Society, Catholic Healthcare West, UC Hastings School of Law, Chevron, Frito Lay, the Oakland A's and the San Francisco Giants. He regularly designs theater graphics for companies throughout the Bay Area, and is resident Graphic Designer for 42nd Street Moon, Bay Area Musicals, and Silicon Valley Shakespeare. Additionally, he has created and edited several art books in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His original training is in the theater. With his husband Peter Budinger, he has written and directed several plays, and appeared in numerous productions. They were theater majors, playwrighting students, and improv disciples together at Yale University. Scarpelli is currently Associate Director of the School of Web Design + New Media at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. He designed these typefaces:

  • Donovan Display (2021). A modern tall display serif in twelve styles.
  • Pawl (2020). A 48-style elliptical sans family. He writes: Pawl lives in the same visual landscape as fantastic modular superfamilies like Eurostile, Agency, Geogrotesque, Barlow, and even the great American Gothics.
  • Worriment (2019: a vampire typeface).
  • The extroverted display typeface family The Fudge (2019), which comis in Skinny, Sleek, Thicc and Chonk styles.
  • Pamplemousse (2019), originally called Chelsea Morning: A family of casual-but-chic Sunday-morning display faces. Pamplemousse started out as a typeface based on the lettering of Gustav Klimt in his poster for the first exhibition of the Vienna Secession movement (Art Nouveau). This drifted into an homage to Rea Irvin's iconic masthead typeface for the New Yorker magazine. Finally, with the addition of a lowercase (absent from Irvin's typeface), a significant revision away from both Klimt and Irvin into a more casual space, Pamplemousse was born.
  • Ampir. A casual Modern typeface, suggestive of gilt sign-maker letterforms, influenced by the modular type forms of Yakov Chernikov. Roman and Cyrillic character sets.
  • Disquiet: Disquiet is a weird little display typeface designed to convey the free-floating anxiety of the mid-20th century. It is based on a single nongeometric form: the temple piece of a pair of horn-rimmed glasses---the kind worn by sweaty little men in offices who always seem to run the world in Atomic Age thrillers.The form is hexagonal, to give each letter a sense of being locked in---trapped. The double stroke gives it a nasty little bit of queasiness. And the negative spaces within the letters form mini-glyphs of their own---perfectly geometrical inside the fractured outer strokes.
  • Swonderful (2019). An art deco typeface family with many different styles of interlocking.
  • Haggis (released in 2020, but designed earlier): Haggis was intended to be a pseudo-sans-serif version of a traditional Insular Uncial. A bastard child of pub signage and rubber duckies, Haggis is not without its charms, and it certainly doesn't take itself too seriously.
  • Mrs Keppel: Inspired by Stephenson Blake's 1884 typeface Windsor Light Condensed (made famous by Woody Allen's title sequences), Mrs Keppel finally appends an italic to this iconic face. Gentle in its design but firmly anchored in the fin-de-siècle, Mrs Keppel moves us forward to the 1910s, redolent of Ragtime and spiked tea. Named for the mistress of King Edward VII, who was likewise illegitimately linked to a Windsor.
  • Donovan Display (2021). A modern tall display serif in twelve styles.
  • Wiblz Serif (2021). A 12-style didone.
  • Carollo Playscript (2021). A ten-style slab serif that is inspired by typewriter type.
  • Nerone (2021). A slightly despotic display typeface.
  • Budinger Oldstyle (2021). A ten-style semi-Venetian renaissance text typeface.
  • Tremendo (2021). A 48-style gothic sans with many hipster elements such as the coathanger lower case f.
  • Wodehouse (2021). A vintage display trio with a hint of deco.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

The Audacious Brush

Oakland, CA-based designer of Tiki Serenade (2019: calligraphic) and Anaiyah Sunshine (2019: a brush script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Gypsy Goddess
[Diane Pascual]

San Francisco, CA-based designer of the brush typeface Boho Babe (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

The League of Movable Type
[Caroline Hadilaksono]

Another cooperative where one can submit open source fonts, which is currently located in Anaheim, CA. Initial contributors in 2009 are Micah Rich, Caroline Hadilaksono, Haley Fiege, and Andrea Bergamini. The project was started by Micah Rich and Caroline Hadilaksono. Their manifesto: As designers on the web, we have a calling to raise the standards of the web-design world. We're not the only ones who value good design, and it's time for the web world to catch up with it. We understand the challenges that comes with the internet, but with our recent discovery of @font-face, we started getting excited. For those who aren't up to speed, @font-face is a fairly new addition to web styling, letting a designer specify the location of their own font files. Instead of having to design with just a handful of web-friendly fonts, we'll be able to use any typeface we desire. Well, that's our vision, anyway. There are people who design typefaces for a living, and we want them to make money off of something that they do well. This revolution is not a movement against type foundries and type designers; it's quite the opposite. The kind of revolution we want is a change in the way people think about doing business. We want type foundries and typographers to start thinking, "Maybe there's nothing wrong with giving things away sometimes." It's not always about the money, sometimes it's also about making a contribution to the society, in this case, the design community. Giving one typeface away for free will most likely only boost sales, and it's a good deed. We want more people to look at it like that: like they have a responsibility to do something good for their peers. We're not asking type designers and type foundries to sacrifice profit, we're asking them to contribute to a greater cause, to create a community where we not only have a high design standard for print and web alike, but also a community where we're able to share our creations, knowledge, and expertise with our peers and the world. Blog.

In-house free font creations include League Gothic (2009-2011) [League Gothic is a revival of an old classic, and one of our favorite typefaces, Alternate Gothic No.1. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company (ATF) in 1903. The company went bankrupt in 1993. And since the original typeface was created before 1923, the typeface is in the public domain.] and League Spartan (2014) [a bold geometric sans based on ATF's Spartan].

In 2017, they started an on-line type design course with type designer Thomas Jockin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Lexend Project
[Bonnie Shaver-Troup]

Bonnie Shaver-Troup, EdD, the creator of the Lexend project (which is based in Irvine, CA), is focused on making reading easier for everyone. As an educational therapist, Bonnie created the first Lexend typeface in early 2001 aiming to reduce visual stress and to improve reading performance for those with dyslexia and other struggling readers. Today, Bonnie's goal is to make the Lexend fonts accessible to a larger spectrum of users.

Bonnie writes: Lexend is a variable typeface designed by Bonnie Shaver-Troup and Thomas Jockin in 2018. Applying the Shaver-Troup Individually Optimal Text Formation Factors, studies have found readers instantaneously improve their reading fluency. Lexend was expanded to Arabic in January 2020. The Shaver-Troup Formulation was applied to Arabic with advise from Arabic typeface designer, Nadine Chahine. Lexend is based on the Quicksand project from Andrew Paglinawan, initiated in 2008. Quicksand was improved in 2016 by Thomas Jockin for Google Fonts. Thomas modified Quicksand for the specialized task of improving reading fluency in low-proficiency readers (including those with dyslexia. In 2019, Thomas Jockin released the free seven font family Lexend (Deca, Exa, Giga, Mega, Peta, Tera and Zetta) at Google Fonts, together with Bonnie Shaver-Troup. Github link. Dedicated site.

Thomas Jockin writes that Lexend is empirically shown to significantly improve reading-proficiency. As prescription eyeglasses achieve proficiency for persons with short-sightedness, Lexend's families were developed using Shaver-Troup Formulations. We will eventually release all seven families as a single variable font featuring its own custom axis. Lexend is thus an implementation of Bonnie Shaver-Troup's 2000 study, in which she theorized that reading performance would improve through the use of (1) hyper expansion of character spacing [which creates a greater lag time and reduces potential crowding and masking effects], (2) expanded scaling, and (3) a sans-serif font [to reduce noise]. Lexend is indeed hyper-widely spaced. [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Living End
[Lauren Ashpole]

Free fonts made by Brooklyn, NY-based (and before that, Huntington Beach, CA-based) Lauren Ashpole (b. 1982, Corpus Christi, TX): Kremlinology (2012, constructivist), Bikes (2011, bike dingbats), Forgotten Playbill (2011), Sewing Patterns (2010, silhouette dingbats), Sewing Patterns 2 (2012), OrigamiBats (2010), Thirty-Nine Smooth (1997), A T&Love (1998, curly hand), Publicité d'Epoque (dot matrix face), Candy Randy (1998, party font), Horseshoes&Lemonade (1998, 2009: white on black letters), Horseshoes, Paper Hearts (2001), Scooby Doo (1998), Hecubus (1997, hand-printed), Starry Night (1998, 2009), Boo Boo Kitty (1997-1999: textured, for comic books), Scooby Doo (hand-printed), and Southbats (1998, dingbats of heads). Her font 39smooth (1997) can be found here.

In 2011, she went commercial at MyFonts as Lauren Ashpole Foundry, located in Brooklyn, NY. Her fonts there include Starry Night (1998), Sewing Patterns (2010, silhouettes of women), Sewing Patterns 2 (2012), Origami Bats (2010), Horseshoes And Lemonade (1998), Forgotten Playbill (2011), Bikes (2011, dingbats), Paper Hearts (2012, a Valentine's Day font), and Candy Randy (1998).

Typefaces from 2014: Hellmuth (2014, based on the Tuscan writing on the Hellmuth Building) .

Typefaces from 2015: Herbaceous Border (2015, floral caps).

Typefaces from 2016: Bar Book (dingbats), Parallel Lines.

Typefaces from 2017: Sewing Patterns 3.

Typefaces from 2018: Roundabout (a display type with circus font textures), Mistletoe (a color SVG font).

Typefaces from 2019: Thornback (sketched).

Typefaces from 2020: Sacremende (a chunky, slightly messy display font inspired by the retro California aesthetic and, in particular, old surf rock posters).

Typefaces from 2021: Space Time (a starry stackable shadow font). Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

The MicroFoundry
[Hrant H. Papazian]

From the Center for Digital Innovation at UCLA, Hrant Papazian designs and works with type, and is a specialist of Armenian. He has even done multiple master fonts for Armenian. Born in 1968 in Beirut, Hrant specializes in Armenian fonts and legibility issues in general. Designer of Linotype Maral. Founder of The Microfoundry, where he practices type design for Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Armenian and Georgian. The company is located in Glendale, CA. Latin typefaces: Harrier, TMF Daam (with sub-version Domination, Brutaal and Cristaal, all useful as dungeon typefaces), TMF Paphos, TMF Patria (serif). Armernian fonts: Linotype Maral, TMF Arasan (see here for a download), TMF Roupen. Georgian: TMF Akhalkalak. Other fonts: Brutaal, Cristaal, Trajic NotRoman (unpublished, a destructured version of Trajan, submitted to and rejected by Emigre), and DominationAvailable. In 2004, he joined Ultra Pixel Fonts, where he made the pixel typeface Mana. An entertaining speaker and all-round type boulevardier, he will be remembered for many of his insightful and entertaining quotes. He invented the word Helvomita, and once replied this to a poster: I will now Fartura in your general direction. Bio at MyFonts.com. Bio at Linotype. Bio at ATypI. Interview by Daidala. He won an award at Granshan 2008. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. FontShop link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

The Organic Type

Foundry in Oakland, CA est. 2011. Creators of the unique monoline handwriting font Odell (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

The Parmenides Project

Symposium on hand and computer on June 10-11, 2001, in the San Francisco Public Library. Speakers: Robert Bringhurst, Dan Carr, Peter Koch,&Christopher Stinehour. [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Rare Form

California-based design team run by Kyle R. Thompson, an art director/designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2017, Kyle published the Peignotian typeface Vincenza Display. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Dang

Los Angeles-based creator of the experimental typeface Tube (2008). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas G. Goss

Thomas Goss from Arroyo Grande, CA, is the designer of the freeware kid handwriting font Child's Play (1998). He is working on Uncle Pablo. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Ledin

Illustrator in the San Francisco area, b. 1970. Dafont link. Creator of the signage typeface Tom Bombadill (2009), Bone Hymie (2009), Tioem Handwriting (2009), Tioem Open (2009), Tioem Black Distressed (2009), Dullard (2010, 3d, sketched), Flim-Flam (2009). He also made the lined didactic font Life Lessons (2009), the multilined scratchy typefaces The Spaz (2010) and Scrum Bucket (2009), the grungy Rock Biter (2009), Truffle Shuffle (2009, Kafkaesque), Metal Up Your Ear (2009), Griswold (2009), Seismacrap (2009), Snarky's Machine (2009, 3d shadow face), and Grog-Binge (2009, hand-printed).

Creations in 2010: ChickenButt (textured comic book face), Janky, SailorLarry-ExtraFancy (ornamental caps), SailorLarry-Fade, SailorLarry-Fancy, SailorLarry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thomas Ramey

Thomas Ramey, a graphic designer from Austin, TX, who grew up in Pasadena, TX, and was located in San Francisco and Nashville, TN, now operates out of Seattle, WA. He created the hybrid font Black Sans (2011) by combining DIN with the blackletter typeface Linotext.

In 2012, he designed the (free) curly upright typeface family Mocha Script.

In 2013, he designed the blood splatter font Sin.

In 2014, he created the layered cartoonish font Storyland, the ink splatter typeface Isaiah 53, the wide typeface Lightyear, the blackletter typeface Easy Company, and the roundish typeface Thunder Pants (extended in 2016: see further on).

Typefaces from 2015: Aventuras Stencil, Stella Grace (children's script), Sunshine Sans (+Spurred, +Stencil, +Rounded), Sugarfoot (Western), Country Bluegrass (Western), Baker Street Script, Yellowstone.

Typefaces from 2016: Thunder Pants (handcrafted collection that includes the Halloween font Scaredy Pants, Narly Pants, Touchdown Pants, and Spangled Pants), Blacklisted (Peignotian sans), Old Glory, Survivor Wood (a wooden plank font modeled after the Survivor TV series), Survivor Display (cleaned-up version with several inline styles).

Behance link. Creative Market link. Newer Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

THUNKdesign

THUNKdesign from San Francisco. No access without Shockwave. Some great fonts though: Clog is fantastic! JetBlack, Tubular, CropCircle, Connected, Fang. Goopdrop, SpacedOut, Crown round out the fonts. No idea how or where to order the fonts, or who the designer is. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tien Nguyen

San Diego, CA-based student-designer of the rune-inspired display typeface Hyberia (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tiffany Profet
[Masselyn]

[More]  ⦿

Tiffany Wardle

Now Tiffany de Sousa Wardle. She obtained a Bachelors of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Graphic Design from Brigham Young University, worked in magazine design in New York City, and returned to her native Utah to teach as an adjunct professor in Graphic Design at BYU while based in Pleasant Grove, UT. At Reading (UK), she obtained a Master of Arts in the Theory and History of Typography and Graphic Communication. Presently, she is based in San Jose, CA. She manages a great web page on type books and is involved in many typographic projects: Interrobang (A SOTA Publication), Indie Fonts III (a type book), TypeCulture (another type book), the Society of Typographic Aficionados (as a board member), the Association Typographique Internationale, Typophile (as a moderator).

She designed a Bauhaus-style rounded font not available for public consumption. She also made the gorgeous font Affiché (2002), which is inspired by turn-of-the-century posters of Charles Loupot.

At Adobe, she participated in Adobe Handwriting (based on the handwriting of Frank Grießhammer, Ernest March and Tiffany de Sousa Wardle). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tim Biskup

American artist, b. Santa Monica, CA, 1967. His work is influenced by psychedelic art, tiki type, and popart. House Industries is rumoured to be making typefaces based on Tim Biskup's work. In 2016, Ana Palacios designed Tim Biskup, also based on his work. Wikipedia link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tim Middleton
[Gold Tooth Graphics]

[More]  ⦿

Tim Ryan
[Type Revivals (or: SourceNet)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Timothy Horton

Long Beach, CA-based designer of the elliptical display typeface Cactus (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ting Yen

Graphic designer in San Francisco who created the labyrinthine typeface Maze (2015) and the free Food and Drink Icons (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tive Inc
[Kidon Bae]

Kidon Bae is a multi-disciplinary designer from Los Angeles, California, currently residing in Seoul, South Korea. In 2017, Kidon created a custom modular typeface for Tive Inc's branding. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

TLai Enterprises
[Tom C. Lai]

Tom C. Lai from Berkeley, CA, makes and markets stencil and military sign fonts, such as MD Military Stencil A (2001, commercial), Amarillo USAF (shareware, octagonal typeface), AmarilloUSAF Pro (2001, commercial), LongBeachUSN (commercial US Navy and Marine Aircraft fonts), and sci-fi fonts such as Gravicon (shareware) and SteelWolf (commercial).

Foxtrot Medium. More direct access. Other fonts by him: Chesslaer (1991), Schneller (1991).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ToadFonts (was: AquaToad)
[Randy Jones]

Randy Jones, who runs AquaToad and ToadFonts, is a free lance graphic designer who was in New York, but now lives in San Francisco, CA, where he is a freelance graphic designer and principal of Aquatoad Design. His typefaces:

[Google] [More]  ⦿

Today LA

Designer of the all caps shadow font Los Angeles (2020, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Todd Dever
[Cool Fonts Online]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Todd Stayner

Californian designer who created the experimental Bigheaded Alphabet (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tokkan Sono

Californian anime artist. Creator of the runic simulation typeface Runic Facade (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tom C. Lai
[TLai Enterprises]

[More]  ⦿

Tom Hoskins
[Monterey Software]

[More]  ⦿

Tom Mullaney

Thomas Mullaney is Associate Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University, where he is currently working on a project entitled Hot Metal Empire: Script, Media, and Colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, a history of Linotype and its career in the non-Latin alphabetic world. He is also completing a two-volume history of China's development of a nonalphabetic information infrastructure encompassing telegraphy, typewriting, and computing. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on The Font that Never Was. The summary of this intersting piece of history dating back to 1921: Since the invention and popularization of hot metal printing in the United States and Europe, engineers and entrepreneurs dreamt of a day when linotype and monotype technologies would conquer the Chinese language, just as they had Arabic, Armenian, Burmese, Devanagari, Hebrew, Korean, and over one hundred other scripts. In the early 1920s, the much-celebrated release of a new font---the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet by Mergenthaler Linotype, and later by the Monotype corporation---led many to believe that the day had finally come. In this presentation, I chart out the quixotic history of Linotype and Monotype's efforts to enter the Chinese market, examining the linguistic challenges that had long prevented China's absorption into a Western-dominated "hot metal empire," the design process by which artists in Brooklyn and London crafted these new fonts, and ultimately the profound cultural misunderstandings that doomed the projects to failure.

Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of Sinotype III, the first Chinese bitmap font (which he is trying to revive). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tom Nikosey
[Cozy Fonts Foundry]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tom Preston-Werner

Aka Mojombo over at GitHub in San Francisco. From 2003 until 2007, he made a free pixel font called CubeSixel on a 7x7 grid. It is designed for use at 8pt size with no aliasing. Inside, the font is dated 2003 and owned by Cube6 Media. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tom Tor
[Oneless Act]

[More]  ⦿

Tom Tor

Tom Tor Studios has offices in Los Angeles and Tokyo. Designer in Tokyo (was: Los Angeles) (b. 1985) of the themed display typefaces Tom Tor (2008, geometric sans), Pavadee (2008, free upright script), Khmer (2008, Khmer simulation face), Fugue (2008), Kampuchea (2008). He also made the pixel typeface Silom (2008). He writes: Formally trained in Communication Design and type designer, Tom Tor is visual rather the verbal. This is especially evident in Tor's Landmine Awareness poster design. Stark but symbolic images are used as the sole means of conveying the malicious cruelty brought on by leftover landmines. His work is strongly inspired by the Avant Garde art movements of Europe.

He was commissioned in 2009 to design S-21, a modernist face (in his own words). Sisamouth was designed in 2009 in honor by Cambodian singer Sinn Sisamouth.

Typefaces from 2010: Black Bees (a fat stencil pair).

In 2013, he designed the Latin typeface Chams and the geometric sans typeface Enso. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tommi Sharp

Tommi Sharp Gill is a freelance designer from East Tennessee based in San Francisco. She is a graduate of the Type@Cooper West program. At Future Fonts, she published the potato font Taters. At Type du Nord, she released the free vintage label font Cortinas (2022). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tommy of Escondido's Alien Fonts Page
[Ben Debaan]

The best Startrek and Alien Fonts page. Many fonts here are made by Tommy of Escondido (in real life: Californian Ben Debaan), Mike H. Lee and Josh Dixon. You will find: Bajoran, Borg, Cardassian, Dominion/Jem Hadar canon, Ferengi, Tim Miller Ferengi, Old Style Klingon, Hollow, New Style Klingon, Q'onos, Rihannsu Romulan, Trill, Old Vulcan beta release, Modern Vulcan, Qo'noS (1998), Kazon, Fabrini, Preserver, Binar, El Aurian, Malcorian, Voth, Vidiian, Krenim, Nyrian, Taresian. Centauri, Cardassian, B5 Windings, Binar, StarTrek, Babylon 5, SF Alien fonts. Also, a Dune Chakobsa language page. Great alian fonts page. Has special pages with Startrek fonts such as Kilrathi, Babylon 5 alien fonts, made principally by Mike H. Lee (Vorlon, Minbari, Minbari type II, Shadow, Narn, Pak'ma'ra, The Great Machine of Epsilon 3, Centauri, Babylon 5 wingdings, Markab, Brakiri, Gaim, Drazi, Hyach, Abbai, Llort, Anti-Life Runes, B5 Station Human). We also find New Aurabesh by Peter Schuster, Yavin 4 by Tommy of Escondido, Ewok by Mike H. Lee, Guild by Mike H. Lee&Josh Dixon, Fremen by Mike H. Lee, Josh Dixon&John Quijada, Galach (Imperial) by Mike H. Lee, Josh Dixon, Dinotopian by Mike H. Lee&Josh Dixon, Drac by Mike H. Lee&Josh Dixon, Krell by Mike H. Lee, Kromagg by Mike H. Lee, Kzinti by Daniel U. Thibault, SG-1 Go-ald by Tommy, Thomas More Utopian by Mike H. Lee, Visitor by Tommy. Newest fonts: ST Insurrection Son'a.ttf, Twighlight Zone "to serve man" Kanamit.ttf, Babylon 5 Life Machine ttf. Time Digital on Ben Debaan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tonalcase
[Jeff Warrington]

Half of Tonalcase in Los Angeles is Jeff Warrington. In 2010, Jeff designed the grotesque typeface Lodgecode. YWFT link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tony Evreniadis
[Visualize United]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tony F. Baby

Digital artist from Los Angeles (b. 1988) who created the geometric sans typeface Modeno (2008, Futura or Bauhaus style). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Toxetica

An orphaned needle-themed beauty designed in 2010 by a Californian new media designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tracey Wallace

During her studies, Murrieta, CA-based Tracey Wallace designed the free French, feminine, dreamy, whimsical, and playful typeface Amélie (2017), which is named after the 2001 movie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tracy Sabin
[Barmoor Foundry]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tracy Tatsumoto

Tracy Tatsumoto earned an MFA in design from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. During her studies at Type West in 2019, Tracy Tatsumoto designed the angular almost stone-cut typeface family Libraz. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tran La

Tran La (Los Angeles, CA) is a game designer who calls himself Mr. Fedex, because he always delivers. Creator of the fearless font Furia (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Trevor Tarczynski

Trevor Tarczynski (Studio Destro, Los Angeles) created a number of typefaces in 2013: Leitvox (sans), Muerte (a cholo font), Atkins, Biscuit, Sheffield, Ephram.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tribby Type

Jeremy Tribby is a multi-disciplinary designer from California. He studied art and art history at UC Berkeley and is a graduate of Type West in San Francisco, class of 2020. Tribby Type (San Francisco) is a custom typography, design, and engineering shop run by Jeremy Tribby. He has worked with large brands like Google and NBC, non-profits like EFF and Edupath, agencies like Instrument and Character, and startups like Chefs Feed and Shift. Github link. His typefaces:

  • The free variable font Barlow (2017, Google Fonts). He writes: Barlow is a slightly rounded, low-contrast, grotesk type family designed by Jeremy Tribby. Drawing from the visual style of the California public, Barlow shares qualities with the state's car plates, highway signs, busses, and trains. The family includes 54 manually-hinted styles in three widths and nine weights, as well as obliques, suitable for large and small digital and print use. Customizable weights and widths are available via the included variable font (GX) file. Barlow is named after internet pioneer, EFF co-founder, songwriter, and activist John Perry Barlow, in tribute to his lasting impact on the information superhighway. The original motivation was to replace the DIN Engschrift font currently used by the Eletronic Frontier Foundation by an open source font that does not look too different. Github link for Barlow. Google Font links for Barlow, Barlow Condensed and Barlow Semi Condensed. Additional free download. Typedrawers link. His Arthouse family of typefaces for NBC, which was based on Barlow.
  • Tribby Grotesk.
  • Galiano.
  • Kinzig (2020). A blackletter developed during his studies at Type West.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Tribe

Bi-monthly mag from FontShop San Francisco launched in January 2001. Edited by Max Kisman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Truly Type
[Philip Cronerud]

Designer from Stockholm, Sweden, who moved to Amsterdam in 2011 where he founded the type foundry mediumextrabold in 2013. His collection of typefaces is characterized by conceptual design, clean aesthetics and functional form in the Scandinavian tradition. His typefaces are treated like real objects, i.e., each family comes in editions and consists of 50 to 1000 copies. When sold out, they are no longer available. The catalog of mediumextrabold:

  • Atelier (2015)
  • Blanche (2015)
  • D1 Models (2015). A bespoke typeface.
  • Deursen
  • Duplex
  • Edie
  • Everyday (2015)
  • Galleri
  • Grotezk (2015)
  • Inkwell
  • Maud
  • North
  • Pavillion
  • Practice
  • System
  • Tilda
  • Wired

    In 2016, Cronerud set up Truly Type, and writes: We are a San Francisco based type publisher, founded in 2016. Trulytype is used as a platform to produce and distribute typefaces made in close collaboration with a growing number of artists, institutions, writers and designers. The typefaces at Truly Type:

    • Afrika Sans (2017).
    • Blanche Sans (2015).
    • Dakota Serif (2019).
    • Dooijes Sans (2018). They write: In the mid-1950s Dick Dooijes had started the development of a typeface that would come to be known as Mercator, the dutch Helvetica. First presented it proved to be an immediate, sensational success. The years passed, and yet, there was still no legitimate version around. When we started our research we wanted to be true to the bolder weights and modernize the lighter ones. Finding cues in archival specimens the result was a subtle refinement to the original. Dooijes Sans, named after its creator has been entirely reworked and expanded from multiple weights, including italics and alternative character styles.
    • Everyday Sans (2014).
    • Faux Sans (2017).
    • Grotex Sans (2013).
    • Kawara Sans (2017).
    • Maud Serif (2016).
    • North Serif (2019).
    • Ordinary Sans (2014).
    • Practice Sans (2018).
    • Tilda Sans (2019).
    • Tilt Sans (2017).
    • Ulrich Serif (2018).
    • Werk Sans (2015). A display sans influenced by mid-20th century architecture journals.
    • Winona Sans (2015).
    • Yoko Sans (2017). Characterized by square counters.

    Home page of Philip Cronerud. [Google] [More]  ⦿

  • Tu Nguyen
    [TuNeuwin]

    [More]  ⦿

    Tu Nguyen

    San Diego-based designer of these handcrafted typefaces in 2018: Butter Me Up, Adventure in Woodfall, Silly Rabbit. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tucker Friend

    Art director and photographer in San Francisco, who created a thick slab typeface in 2014 called I Love My Friends (athletic lettering style). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TuNeuwin
    [Tu Nguyen]

    San Diego, CA-based designer, b. 1988, of mainly children's book fonts. These fonts are all from 2018: Trash Panda (dry brush), Christmas Workshop (curly)m Lemon Lime Octopie (font duo), Tropical Flamingo (font duo), Mushroom Growing, Simple Love (a Valentine's Day font), Christmas Puppies, Star Bright Moon Light (font duo), Tiki Tiki Festival, Rudolph's Holiday Party, See You Later Alligator, Worthy Story (inky script), Orange You Glad?, Silly Rabbit (a rabbit ears script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Turncoat Studio
    [Nicholas Larimer]

    Los Angeles-based designer of the handcrafted wayfinding typeface Jaywalker (2017) and the hand-printed Boy Detective (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tyler Schuppert

    Los Angeles, CA-based designer of the display typeface Muck (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tyler Waite

    Graphic designer in Bakersfield, CA, who created the electronic dance flyer font Electro Rush in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tyler Young
    [Mean Tangerine]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tymime Fonts
    [Ian Stone]

    Ian Stone (Gardena, CA, b. 1989) runs Tyime Fonts. He designed the offbeat 1950s cartoon font Bucktooth (2013), the fun cartoon font Boshi (2015) and the retro typeface Quirkophonic. Earlier, in partnership with Tavish Stone, Ian Stone created the free comic book typeface Wayoshi (2011), which was inspired by the logos of the Wario Land and Yoshi series. Tymime Fonts is a subsidiary of Eyedelon Productions.

    Old URL. Dafont link. Aka Flaming Eyeball Productions. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Type @ Cooper West

    The Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union, in partnership with Letterform Archive, offers a post graduate certificate in Typeface Design, public workshops and a lecture series in San Francisco, California. This one-year certificate program is the equivalent of the Extended program that has been offered on campus in NYC (the "regular" Type Cooper program) since 2010. The program started in January 2016. Core classes meet on Monday and Tuesday evenings plus one weekend per term, and elective classes meet mostly on weekends and sometimes evenings. Teachers include Sumner Stone, Jessica Hische, Jim Parkinson and Rob Saunders. The program coordinator is Cara Di Edwardo. Classes take place in The Monotype Classroom at Letterform Archive Type Annex. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Arts
    [James S. Ferguson]

    Foundry located in Thousand Oaks, CA, run by James S. Ferguson. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Associates
    [Russell Bean]

    Russell Bean (Type Associates of Pyrmont, Australia, est. 1993) is an Australian type designer (b. Parkes, NSW, 1947). He worked in many ad agencies and later in the studios of the local photolettering houses, redrawing typefaces for filmfont setting as well as hand-composing headlines using photo-mechanical devices.

    In the early seventies, he designed a five-weight Avant-gardish family named Virginia (now also digitized).

    He then worked for the Los Angeles studio of Lettergraphics International in charge of lettering, logo design and converting type designs to film fonts. It was at this time (1973) that the Washington Family was completed. Upon his return to Australia that year, he teamed up with a long time colleague to form a design and art group in Sydney.

    Russell has been responsible for the creation of many Australian icons, including the Qantas logo. Russell Bean has served on the executive committees of The Australian Type Directors' Club and Australian Graphic Design Association.

    Typefaces available from MyFonts include Bougainville (1994-2005, a condensed sans family), Bougainville Neo (2021: 16 styles), Fremantle (1994), Beanwood Script (1997, a calligraphic script co-designed with David Wood), Craigie Halpen, Eumundi Sans [also available in the Agfa Creative Alliance], Eumundi Serif, Linear, Melissa, Rhodamine Blue, Sanguine (2004, handwriting), Semaphone (brush writing), Washington (1973, art deco family--really nice geometric letterforms with at least one hairline weight), and Xaltier.

    He designed ITC Christoph's Quill (2004), Billabong (2006, 1950s handlettering), Charleston Caps (2007, art deco) and the comic book lettering typeface Rhapsodie (2006).

    In 2007, he added the Threepoints East, North and West sans typefaces.

    About the Avant-Garde-style geometric sans family Virginia (2008), Bean writes: she was the most popular headline typeface around, at least in my home town in the year of her release circa 1970. That was the year my five-weight design won the inaugural (and only) Lettergraphics International Alphabet design competition and shut out 5000 competitors. Alas, Lettergraphics ceased to trade from its LA studios after the mid-80s and Virginia's two-inch film fonts were left to collect dust on the cutting room floor.

    The Koomerang family and Karmel (flare-legged retro display) were added in 2008.

    In 2009, Bean created Comp Sans 226, Argyle Rough, Empirical (12-style DIN-like sans family), Dotmap (pixel family) and Macquarie Heavy.

    In 2010, he made the poster signage typeface Hangtime.

    In 2013, he published the hand-printed typeface famiy Progeny.

    He is associated with Keith Morris in the type foundry Bean & Morris.

    In 2015, Russell created Macaroni Sans. In 2017, he added the calligraphic script typeface My Pimp.

    Typefaces from 2019: Aodaliya (an ultra-condensed typeface family).

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

    Type Cargo (was: Evening Office)
    [Jason Munninghoff]

    Santa Barbara, CA-based designer who created these typefaces in 2016: Portland, Salt & Wax, Modern Outdoor (stencilish, with a sketched shadow).

    Typefaces from 2017 include the neo deco typeface Drake.

    Typefaces from 2020: Camp, Mr. Poster (a painted look, SVG format). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Revivals (or: SourceNet)
    [Tim Ryan]

    Tim Ryan is a Thousand Oaks, CA-based type designer and font enthusiast, who has helped me out generously with font links in the 1990s. FontShop link.

    His fonts are distributed by ITF and Monotype and Precision Type. Font list: AES, AcmeTR, AdmiralTR, AlpineWhiteTR, AncientTextTR, AssayTR, August family, AutomationTR, BinnerGothicTR, BinnerTR, BlackboardLinedTR, BlackboardTR, BoboCapsTR, BonGuia, Bondage-Oblique, Bondage-Regular, BoomerangTR (1995, a typical art nouveau face), CameraStencilTR, CartoonPartyCapsTR, ChopinTR, CiviliteTR, ClaudiusTR, CollegeCapsTR, CoreDumpTR, DirectionTR, EclipseCapsTR, EngravedTR, ExpressTR, FlairTR, FrenchCapsTR, GabrielleTR, GaelicCapsTR, GoudyMediaevalTR, HelvinBlackTR, HelvinTR, HostessTR, KhayyamTR (Arabic simulation face), KiddoKapsTR, KleukensTR, LadyDawnTR, MaximeTR, ModTR, PencilCapsTR, PlayBlocksTR, SaltinoTR, SansPlateCapsTR, SchoolScript-Bold, SchoolScript (1994), SchoolScriptDashed, SchoolScriptLined-Bold, SchoolScriptLined, ShalimarTR (Indic simulation), ShalomTR (Hebrew simulation), SimplexTR, SpringtimeTR, SukiakiTR (Japanese simulation), SusieQTR, VarianteInitialsTR, WashingtonTextTR, XerxesTR (Greek simulation face, now at Monotype), SchoolOblique.

    Santa Barbara, CA-based SourceNet used to market school fonts, ca. 1992-1994, such as those listed above: SchoolScript-Bold, SchoolScript (1994), SchoolScriptDashed, SchoolScriptLined-Bold, SchoolScriptLined, but also DnealianCursive, DnealianCursiveLined, DnealianManuscript, DnealianManuscriptLined. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Type West 2019

    The graduates of Type West in San Francisco in 2019, and their revival and other typefaces:

    • Madrigal by Hugo Baeta
    • Ginza by Florence Fu
    • Monimbo by Laura Garcia
    • Rinca by Calder Hansen
    • Apatow by Lauren Hart
    • Clinker by Graham Hicks
    • Meltdown by Natalia Kowaleczko
    • Maxine by Justin Lee
    • Sanni by Sara Paske
    • Cleaver by Irwin Sol
    • Libraz by Tracy Tsutsumoto
    • Barry by James Williams
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type West Class of 2020

    A program at the Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Students: Michelle Liane Adams, Libbie Bischoff, Martha Sue Coursey, Nurullah Gokdogan, Nathan Goldman, Lizzy Ha, Lauren Jochum, Kevin Barrett Kane, Emma Linh, Leigh Maki, DJ Murphy, Michael Stark, Jess Smith, Jeremy Tribby, Kristina Yuen, Bert Zhang.

    Instructors: Graham Bradley, Maria Doreuli, James Edmondson, Grendl Löfkvist, Kel Troughton. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type West Class of 2021

    A program at the Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Students graduating in 2021: Chris Pauley, Chris Skillern, Claire Shin, Creighton Tynes, Duc Cao, Habib Placencia Adissi, Jamie Otelsberg, Karla Pasten, Laura Tjho, Matt Vlach, Michelle Devlin, Pranavi Chopra, Roy Tatum, Ryan Hutson, Ryan Molloy, Sascha Hopson, Schessa Garbutt, Tamara Segura, Vanna Vu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typebox
    [Mike Kohnke]

    With Joachim Müller-Lancé, Mike Kohnke (Oakland, CA) is the American cofounder (b. 1967) of the Typebox foundry in San Francisco in 2001.

    The typefaces: 9volt, Belt 9 (2003), Infolinga (2003, communication dingbats), Reflux, Sylmar, Svolt, TX Blotch (inky), TX Manifesto (includes a stencil font), TxSwitch (2002), TX Map Bits (2003, pixel map icons), TX Hex, TX Signifier, TX Tiny Tim, TX Toolshop (ornaments), TX Wirish, TX Monodular, TX Lithium, TX Gitter, TX Elf (pixel family) and TX Cortina (1997, an LED style typeface by Joachin Müller-Lancé).

    At AND in 2006, Mike Khnke created the hand signal dingbat font H-AND-S together with Jean-Benoît Lévy, Diana Alisandra Stoen, Sylvestre Lucia and Joachim Müller-Lancé.

    Free fonts by Mike Kohnke: Free Farm (pixel font), Free Fix, Free Lithium Katakoto (by Akira Kobayashi), Free Signal Signifier (2002), Free Tinka, Free Toolshop (dingbats).

    TX Signal Signifier was made jointly by Mike Kohnke, Akira Kobayashi, Jean Benoit-Levy, Joachin Müller-Lancé, Kevin Roberson, McShane Adigard Design, Diana Stoen, and Cynthia Jaquette in 2003.

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

    TypeCon 2004

    TypeCon 2004 was held in San Francisco's Hotel Nikko from July 22-25. Speakers include Roger Black, Matthew Carter, John Downer, Dave Farey, David Lance Goines, Shelley Gruendler, Allan Haley, Michael Harvey, Cyrus Highsmith, Alastair Johnston, Max Kisman, Akira Kobayashi, Mike Kohnke, Tony de Marco, Joachim Müller-Lancé, Jim Parkinson, Claudio Rocha, Freda Sack, Erik Spiekermann, and Armin Vit. Reports by Cheshire Dave, Typographica, the Typophile community. Photos by Karl Frankowski, Andy Clymer, Chris Lewis, Gary Munch, Joshua Lurie-Terrell, Keith Tam, Frank Jonen, Jill Bell, Zara Evens, Joshua again, Mark Simonson, Jan Middendorp, Richard Kegler, Max Kisman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TypeCon 2010

    TypeCon 2010 took place at the Century Plaza Hyatt Regency in Los Angeles, from August 17-22. The speakers included Akira Kobayashi, Doyald Young, Jill Bell, Teri Kahan, Andrew Byrom, Sean Adam, Richard Kegler, Kevin Larson, J.-F. Porchez, Hrant Papazian, Hank Richardson, Matthew Carter, John Downer, Gerald Bieler, Chaz Bojorquez, Ricardo Martins, Johanna Drucker, Kris Sowersby, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Shelley Gruendler, Miguel Sousa, Adam Twardoch, Satya Rajpurohit, Roger Black and Adrian Wilson. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TypeDesigner
    [David Schweinsberg]

    David Schweinsberg (Pasadena, CA) is developing a Unified Font Object Editor for macOS in 2021 called TypeDesigner. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typeface
    [Mary Huang]

    Free software that takes a picture of a typeface taken with the computer camera, and creates a typeface according to the mood. Announced as a typographic photobooth, Typeface is a software program by Mary Huang that lets users choose an instance of a parametric font depending upon a human face. Software by Mary Huang, a graduate of CIID in Denmark. She is originally from California where she studied Design and Media Arts at UCLA. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typefaced! Fonts
    [Paul Ferguson]

    Paul Ferguson is/was a designer in San Francisco who used to work for Organic Online, Inc. He ran "Typefaced! Fonts", but that site has disappeared. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typefaces available from US foundries

    List of all (metal) typefaces available for sale from these six US typefounders:

    • M & H Type (Mackenzie & Harris), 1802 Hays Street, San Francisco, CA 94129

    • Swamp Press, 15 Warwick Road, Northfield, MA 01360

    • Barco Type (F & S Type Founders Inc.), 237 S. Evergreen, Bensenville, IL 60106

    • Quaker City Type Foundry, 2019 Horseshoe Pike, Honey Brook, PA 19344

    • Michael and Winifred Bixler, Box 820, Skaneateles, NY 13153

    • Harold Berliner, Printer, P.O. Box 6, Nevada City, CA 95959
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typekit
    [Bryan Mason]

    Typekit was founded by Ryan Carver, Bryan Mason and Jeffrey Veen in 2008, and is located in San Francisco. Typekit, the software, is a 2009 pay-as-you-go proposal for web page fonts, but there is a monthly bandwidth limit: We've been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license. We've built a technology platform that lets us to host both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smoothes out differences in how browsers handle type, and offers the level of protection that type designers need without resorting to annoying and ineffective DRM. As a Typekit user, you'll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you'll be able to use real fonts. This really is going to change web design. We'll be launching this summer with a great collection of beautiful and hardworking typefaces. We'll offer a free version of the service to get you started, and a low-cost way to grow from there. A truly scalable professional version will follow soon after. Interview with Bryan Mason. As of 2011, the only type designer on staff is Tim Ahrens. In October 2011, Typekit was acquired by Adobe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typelove Fontworks
    [Ben Truelove]

    Californian Ben Truelove designed the 70s style computer font family Reboot for Latin and Hebrew in 2019. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typetura
    [Scott Kellum]

    Scott Kellum is the Los Angeles-based founder of Typetura, a typography as a service company offering both bespoke and ready-made typographic solutions which can enable easy variable font usage online. Type Network interview in 2022. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typezilla
    [Marcus Wesson]

    Type blog by a Los Angeles-based ad agency art director. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TYPO San Francisco 2012

    TYPO, one of Europe's popular design conferences [see TYPO Berlin and TYPO London], added an annual event in San Francisco, starting in 2012. TYPO San Francisco 2012 took place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), April 5-6, 2012 centering around the theme Connect. The speakers were mostly graphic designers, not type designers---the type design community is represented by Jim Parkinson (type designer), Jessica Hische (type designer), Yves Peters (type critic) and Neville Brody (type destroyer).

    Flickr group. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TYPO San Francisco 2013

    TYPO's annual event in San Francisco took place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), April 11-12, 2013 centering around the theme Contrast. The speakers included a mix of type and graphic designers, with an occasional software guy thrown in for good measure. The list: Jessi Arrington, Ludovic Balland, Marian Bantjes, Peter Bil'ak, Matthew Butterick, Keetra Dixon, Jens Gehlhaar, Meena Kadri, Erik Kessels, Somi Kim, Travis Kochel, Eike (Hort) Koenig, Faythe Levine, Tom Manning, Christoph Niemann, Mike Salisbury, Satsuki Shibuya, Erik Spiekermann, Jeff Veen, Armin Vit, Ursus Wehrli. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TYPO San Francisco 2014

    TYPO's annual event in San Francisco took place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), April 10-11, 2014 around the theme of rhythm. The speakers included a mix of type and graphic designers, with an occasional software guy thrown in for good measure. The list included type designers Boris Kochan, Gabriel Martinez Meave, Dan Rhatigan, René Knip, David John Ross, Yanone and Sibylle Haggman. The star speaker was Victor Moscoso, a poster artist from the psychedelic era. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TYPO San Francisco 2015

    TYPO's annual event in San Francisco took place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), April 30-May 1, 2015 around the theme of focus. The speakers included a mix of type and graphic designers, with an occasional software guy thrown in for good measure. The list includes Yusef Alahmad, Jen Bilik, Nadine Chahine, Menno Cruijsen, Sarah Deragon, Tobias Frere-Jones, Agustin Garza, Nataly Gattegno, Daniel Gjøde, Adam Lewis Greene, Sarah Hyndman, Alastair Johnston, Chip Kidd, Ellen Lupton, Thomas Phinney, Louise Sandhaus, Rob Saunders, Joachim Sauter, Mark Simonson, Sumner Stone, and Tash Wong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TypoFlat
    [Branislav S. Cirkovic]

    TypoFlat is a personal and experimental project of interactive designer Branislav S. Cirkovic in Southern California. He created several free vector (EPS) faces such as Drea, Dron, Monk and Superstar (free here), all experimental and/or futuristic.

    Another URL.

    Dick Pape digitized these typefaces in 2010---they can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typographic Collaboration (or: Typophile.com)
    [Jared Benson]

    Executive Creative Director and Punchcut Founder. Typophile.com is run by Jared Benson, who is Jonathan Hoefler's webmaster since 1999, from San Francisco. Incredible web pages! Jared designed Review Beta, Yakuza (Japanese letters), Benson Caps (pixel font), Benson Linear (pixel font), Pixeltrap (2003), Bitmuni (2003, based on San Francisco MUNI train windows: a fantastic creation!), Trinary (2003, a crazy bar-coding typeface invention), Benson Nonlinear (another font for small point sizes), Freiburger (2003, based on a scan from from D.B. Updike's Printing Types, Vol 1, pg. 87. This was the type used for the first Bible printed in France: Freiburger, Gering and Kranz, Paris 1476) and Academic. At FontStruct, he created the Singularity family in 2009. Typophile.com is a general information site on type with essays, discussions, tutorials, examples, beautifully organized. On April 8, 2002, Jared spilled hs coffee on one of the most interesting places in the type world with this message: While we encourage healthy debate and meaningful discussion, posts containing inflammatory remarks and/or personal attacks will be deleted in their entirety by the board moderator. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typomancy
    [Forrest Norvell]

    Great blog with commentary on type and type design by San Francisco-based Forrest Norvell. Not updated since 2005. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typophile News&Events

    Messages, announcements, discussions, links, a world web site by and for type designers, Typophile is/was managed by Jared Benson, Joe Pemberton, and their firm Punchcut in San Francisco. Typophile's moderators are/were Jared Benson, Joe Pemberton, Christian Robertson, Stephen Coles, Yves Peters, Paul Hunt, Dan Reynolds, Tamye Riggs (now resigned), Zara Evens, Eben Sorkin, and Tiffany Wardle. Regular censorship, but one of the best, if not the best, home for type designers on the web. There was a brief hiatus in 2015 and 2016, but the site reopened in November 2016. The new layout is for mobile devices and looks absolutely awful on big screens. Messages are limited to 329 characters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typotopo
    [Peter Cho]

    Peter Cho's web page with many type experiments. He explains: TYPOTOPO is a collection of works loosely themed around typography, virtual spaces, and technology. Digital technology can allow for new ways to express visualand textualmessages. Craft plays an important role in our digitally-mediated world. Through the experiments on this site, I am exploring how craft can apply to software artifacts, interactive systems, and other works created using the computer. Peter Cho won a Tokyo Type Directors' Club TDC 2002 awar for his interactive typography, "letterscapes". Letterscapes is a collection of twenty-six interactive typographic landscapes, encompassed within a dynamic, dimensional environment. In each landscape, a letter of the alphabet serves as the starting point for a playful, mouse-driven experience. Peter Cho is a designer and programmer based in San Francisco. He holds a masters degree from the MIT Media Laboratory. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    UC Berkeley
    [Richard Beatty]

    The University of California at Berkeley releases freely downloadable versions of Goudy's 1938 Venetian font Berkeley Oldstyle, now called University Old Style. History of the font in the "readme" file: Goudy was commissioned in 1938 to design a new family of typefaces for the University Press at the University of California-Berkeley. He preferred the name University Old Style, but the University staff preferred adding the name of the state. In his translations of Goudy's types, Richard Beatty returned to Goudy's preference for naming the family--it fits computer menus more easily. Beatty's translations are based on Goudy's original designs and do not reflect the changes made by Monotype when they were given permission to copy the typefaces and sell them under the name of 'Californian.'

    In 1995, Beatty was commissioned by the University of California at Berkeley to design additional typefaces that would be heavy enough for campus signage and with a family relationship to Goudy's University Old Style. In 2000, Beatty was commissioned by the University of California at Berkeley to design demi-bold typefaces that fit between the roman and bold in weight and black typefaces that go beyond bold in weight without the variations of the fonts designed by Beatty specifically for signage.

    The family comprises UniversityOS, UniversityOSBlack, UniversityOSBlack-Italic, UniversityOS-Bold, UniversityOS-BoldItalic, UniversityOSDemi, UniversityOSDemi-Italic, UniversityOS-Italic, UniversityOSSC, UniversityOSSCBlack, UniversityOSSCBlack-Italic, UniversityOSSC-Bold, UniversityOSSC-BoldItalic, UniversityOSSCDemi, UniversityOSSCDemi-Italic, UniversityOSSC-Italic, UniversityOSTitling, UniversityOSTitling-Bold, UniversityOSSCSign, UniversityOSSCSign-Italic, UniversityOSSign, UniversityOSSign-Italic, UniversityOSSignTitling. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ulfur Kolka

    Úlfur Kolka is a graphic designer in Reykjavik, Iceland (and now, Inglewood, CA), who created the poster lettering typeface Andmaeli (2010), which is based on Helgi Hoseasson's protesting signs. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Urban Hook-Upz
    [Anwar Ibrahim]

    Fresno, California-based designer of King David (2020: graffiti), Southside (2020: graffiti), Mr. Brown (2020: designed in memory of the Catawba Brown family of North Carolina), Fresno Vato (2019: based on the Mexicano Tag style of Central California), Best of Merit 9 (2019: a graffiti font), The Scribber (2017, graffiti font), Asian Influence (2016), Mestizos Unidoes (2016, graffiti style), Plan A Emcee (2016, graffiti style), Graffiti Cheecks Style (2016), Tha Funk (2016, graffiti), Zig Or Zag (2016, graffiti style), Urban Hook-Upz (2006, graffiti font) and Sexy Slant (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    URW Garamond No. 8
    [Michael Sharpe]

    A set of four Garamond fonts developed by URW in 2000, and released in the public domain bu URW. There are free type 1 fonts and free truetype fontsi (see also here).

    The fonts were modified and fixed, first by Ralf Stubner, then by Gael Varoquaux (in 2009), and finally by Michael Sharpe (University of California at San Diego) in 2012 who added old style figures and small caps. Michael also provides full TeX support. The font was renamed NewG8 by Michael Sharpe who developed it further between 2013 and 2017.

    Uli Stiehl points out that URW Garamond No. 8 is a digitization of Garamond Antiqua by Compugraphic, also called CG Garamond Antiqua. When Agfa took over Compugraphic and Monotype took over Agfa, CG Garamond survived in the Monotype collection. It was also in the Hewlett Packard (HP) Laserjet printers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Use Type-1 Fonts in PDF Papers
    [Chen Li]

    Chen Li (UC Irvine) takes us through the exercise of insuring that PDF files generated from Latex sources use type 1 fonts and not poor botmap substitutes. Information on dvips. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Val To

    Monterey, CA-based student-designer of a display sans typeface in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valentine J.A. Rey

    Palmer&Rey was a foundry in San Francisco in which Valentine J.A. Rey was a partner with John J. Palmer. Rey was involved in it from 1882 until 1892. Their work includes typefaces by Gustave F. Schroeder. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vander Font (was: Joe VanDerBos Type foundry)
    [Joe C. VanDerBos]

    Joe VanDerBos (ex-VanDerBos Type foundry, now Vander Font) is the designer in Sonoma, CA, of Retrofit (1995), available from DsgnHaus, and of the scratchy font CandyKitchen, available from MyFonts. He also made Beachbuoy (2003), Charminette (2003, fifties lettering) and Ovallique (2004, a Dom Casual retrofitted elliptical seventies TV-era typeface).

    Joe VanDerBos has worked as an illustrator and designer for 15 years in Austin, Chicago, San Francisco. He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Western Michigan University, and resides in Sonoma County, California. His business provides web development, illustration, custom typography and animation to clients in the technology, financial services, travel and publishing industries. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vanderbyl Design
    [Michael Vanderbyl]

    In 2006, TDC 27 gave an award for logotype design to Michael Vanderbyl and Ellen Gould of Vanderbyl Design in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vanessa Lam

    Los Angeles-based designer with BA degrees in fine art and communications from UCLA, and a degree from the Art Center College of Design. Creator of the Peignotian typeface Vevey Type (2011, Lost Type). Vevey is a condensed sans inspired by the Swiss riviera.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vernon Adams
    [New Typography]

    [More]  ⦿

    Versus Twin
    [Brian Bonislawsky]

    Foundry, est. 2004 by Brian Bonislawsky and Brian Jaramillo (Harvey) and located in Long Beach, CA, and Las Vegas, NV. The fonts are realeased through Veer/Umbrella. Jaramillo has been associated with DEFCON and Apollo26, while Bonislawsky was active at Astigmatic and Font Diner. Yves Peters reviews their production. Typefaces include Ink Gothic (2004-2009, slab serif), Fuel (2007; ink trap city, with a fifties-diner-meets-Dr.-Spock feel), and Occulista (a bunch of inside-outside multiline typefaces). Now also at MyFonts. In 2008, they jointly designed Wickenburg (Wild West meets grunge), and Sistine (a family that now includes a heavy stencil). Creations from 2014 include the army stencil family Bomburst.

    MyFonts link.

    View the typefaces published by Versus Twin.

    View the typefaces made by Brian Bonislawsky. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vibrant Graphics

    The effect of TrueType fonts on AutoCAD performance. Essay by Greg Robinson, of LTCC in San Francisco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Victor Gonzalez

    Los Angeles-based designer of these typefaces in 2019: Rex Modified (a multi-line modification of Fontfabric's Rex), Elftal (a soccer shirt font inspired by Wim Crouwel's grid method), Art Deceau (a soccer shirt font inspired by art deco). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viet Huynh

    San Francisco-based designer of Kult (2012), a monoline headline or poster sans family that includes an inline style. It took inspiration from the Chalet Comprime typeface by House Industries. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vina Rathakoune

    During her studies in San Diego, CA, Vina Rathakoune designed the sci-fi typeface Astra Display (2013), a custom display font for the Japanese band 4Sho. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vincent Hardy

    San Francisco, CA-based designer of Kidag 3D (2018: a 3d version of David Samuel Oluwadamilare's Kidag font) and the modular 3d typeface Mod (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vincenzo Vuono

    Cupertino, CA (was: Palermo, Sicily)-based designer of Gravity, a compass-and-ruler font that is going to be used as an official font by Accademia di Belle Arti Palermo. He created the free experimental type family Mun (2012).

    He graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2015. His graduation project was Ruota (2015). Ruota is a superfamily is designed for the digital era, and intends to harmonize Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai and Arabic.

    Behance link. Graphicbox link. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vinod Balakrishnan

    Vinod Balakrishnan is a lead senior computer scientist in the Photoshop Engineering team, based in San Jose, California. He has been part of the typography team at Photoshop since 2002. He has worked on bringing variable fonts, OT-SVG fonts, the Glyphs panel, and different script support to Adobe products. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of the type 1 font format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vipul Chopra

    Californian graphic design student. Creator of the squarish typeface Iphone Font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Virginia Yu

    San Francisco-based designer of Dysektid Grotesque (2014), an octagonalized grandchild of Akzidenz Grotesk. She was born and raised in New York, and received her design education from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Visualize United
    [Tony Evreniadis]

    Graphic designer and art director in Grevena, Greece, was was at GreekTV.com in San Francisco, and studied at the University of Michigan, class of 2017. His typefaces include Flow (2016, a rounded Latin / Greek sans typeface for use in titles and logos), Funky Handwriting Font (2016), Nipson (2013) and Helexpo (2013, trade fair icons and logos). At MyFonts in 2023, he published the display typefaces VU Rock n Roll, Soul and VU Milwaukee. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vito Tassinari

    During his studies at San Francisco State University, Vito Tassinari designed the trilined all caps typeface Traq (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vivi Furlong

    California-based designer of My Icon Set (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vivian Hunag

    Vivian Hunag (Rosemead, CA) created the avant-garde sans typeface Eureka in 2014 during her studies at LACHSA. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    vivid studios

    A design company based in San Francisco. The site includes an interesting article on "Information Interaction Design". [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Voice of the Shuttle

    Alan Liu from the Department English, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, has a page offering a small archive of downloadable old English fonts for the Mac, including AELFRIC, New York Old English, Nero, Vimose, and The Junius Package. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Votum Sanguinis

    Los Angeles-based outfit with many Mexican influences. Alternate page. In 2010, they designed a number of gothic (blackletter or horror) fonts, including Fontorror, Pakalian, Posada Diablo, Llorona, Nican Mopohua Regular (grungy), Kansas Rainbow (based on the lettering in the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie), Otto Regular (in Saul Bass's movie style), and Federico Fellini Amarcord (art deco--after the movie). Infante, Pendleton Demibold, Volturi, Barathion, Schindler Active (inspired by the style of Austrian and later American architect Rudolph Schindler (1887-1953)), and Captiva were created in 2011, Nutcracker Script was designed in 2012, and Boxeo, John Carpenter Halloween Movie Font, Mimiloco (influenced by the Mexican and Korean cultures dominating the Los Angeles scene) and Cinderella Slipper Font in 2013. Personal web page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wai Har Lee

    Production artist/student at City College of San Francisco, who lives in Dale City, CA. Working on this brush face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wally Olins
    [Wolff Olins]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Wanda Muench

    San Francisco-based designer who is working on a Bifur-Matra style typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Warren Corbitt

    Cranbrook Academy of Art student who designed Whyx (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    We Are Not You
    [Jared Eberhardt]

    Los Angeles-based group interested in art direction, typography, print design, branding and graphic design. They designed these typefaces: Amare (2008, a severely octagonal face), Nauris (2008, a grunge stencil face), Opega (2008, octagonal), Dead Western Giant (2008, Western saloon face), Deco Ghost (2008, art deco), Worn (2008, by Sruli Recht and Jared Eberhardt of We Are Not You), Syrillic (2008, an experimental typeface by Sruli Recht and Jared Eberhardt of We Are Not You). Their new studio is located in New York. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wedchayan Arpapornnopparat

    North Hollywood, CA-based designer of the simple geometric typeface called Feeling Right (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wendy Xu

    Lettering artist and graphic designer in Los Angeles. Her first typeface was the brush script Moka (2012), which was finished while she was studying at Type@Cooper. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wes Wilson

    Robert Wesley Wilson is a psychedelic era poster artist, b. Sacramento, CA, 1937. He now lives in Aurora, MO. Colin Brignall writes: His most favoured form of lettering developed as a direct influence of Alfred Roller's lettering for an exhibition of Secessionist design in 1903. This lettering was generally rectangular in form and therefore ideally suited for Wilson whose work often involved wrapping words around predetermined, free-flowing areas in order to fill up space. White space being considered bete noire to the psychedelic poster designer whose style of work was intended as a reaction to the prevailing clean Swiss style of typography! Colin concludes: Wes Wilson disappeared from the San Francisco scene as quickly as he and his contemporaries and their highly individual art form breezed in, heading for the Ozark mountains in Missouri in the early 1970s to live, apparently, a reclusive lifestyle. [...] His legacy though is an incredible art form that forty-five years on is revered as truly classic of its time. Wilson's style is also known as the Fillmore Poster lettering style.

    Several typefaces were made that are based on Wes Wilson's lettering. These include Wes Wilson (2007, Keith Bates), Mojo (1996, Jim Parkinson, Adobe), Butterfield (1993, David Nalle), Genie (2006, Rebecca Alaccari, Canada Type), Jonah (2005, Rebecca Alaccari, Canada Type), Roller Poster (2006, HiH: named after Alfred Roller), and Peace and Love Solid by Leslie Cabarga.

    View some of the digital typefaces that are based on Wes Wilson's work. Facebook link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wesley Poole
    [Poole Foundry]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Whyehate

    San Jose, CA-based abstract 3d artist. Designer of emprok (2007), a graffiti tag font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Willem Van Lancker

    Willem Van Lancker is a designer and writer. He works for Google and lives in San Francisco's Mission District. Between 2009-2011, Willem Van Lancker designed ODD (an ultra fat face, done for RISD), Nads Slab (a slab stencil typeface done for the athletic teams of RISD) and Medgadget (a squarish typeface designed for but never used by the online journal of medical technologies, Medgadget).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    William S. Gillies

    William Gillies (b. 1911, San Francisco) was an illustrator and lettering artist. He designed the clean hand-printed typeface Gillies Gothic for the Bauersche Giesserei in 1935, where he also published Florentina in 1934. Gillies Gothic is also called Flott. Mac McGrew writes: Gillies Gothic is an unusual monotone cursive style, rather than a gothic in either meaning of that term. It was designed by William S. Gillies of New York City in 1935, in two weights, but cast only by Bauer in Germany. Aside from the fact that it is not a connected script, it is somewhat similar to Kaufmann (q.v.), although many letters have unusual forms. Medium and hairline weights are said to have been designed, but not cut.

    For a digital version, see Giulio Pro (SoftMaker), Giulio No2 (2012, SoftMaker), Gillies Gothic (ITC), Gillies Gothic EF (Elsner+Flake), Gillies Gothic (Linotype), Gillies Gothic (URW++), Gillies Gothic SH (Scangraphic Digital Type Collection), Gillies Gothic SB (Scangraphic Digital Type Collection), Opti Goal Gothic Bold (by Castcraft), Gillies Gothic (by Philip Kelly, 1982), Gillies Gothic MN (by Mecanorma), G731 Script (by Softmaker), and Gillies Gothic Bold (by Dan Solo).

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. View William Gillies's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    William Salas

    Graphic designer from El Segundo, CA, who did a beautiful typographic poster/experiment called Sunsilk (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    William Starr Pelouze

    Typefounder, 1828-1903. Son of Edward Pelouze, William Starr set up the Wm Pelouze Type Foundry in 1856n San Francisco. However, after a few years he quit the typefounding business to make a fortune elsewhere. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Willie Yapching

    San Francisco, CA-based designer of the rounded signage script typeface Bucareli (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Willis A. Baird

    Disciple of Charlton V. Howe, who together with Howe was considered as the master of the engraver's script. Born in Santa Cruz, CA, in 1882, he died in Brooklyn, NY, in 1954. Partly educated by C.P. Zaner in 1909, he met William E. Dennis (for whom he penned some diplomas and did some other artwork) and became a partner in The Dennis and Baird Studio in Brooklyn. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Winston Scully

    Winston Scully is a type designer, lettering artist, and graphic designer living and working in San Francisco, California. He graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University, worked for a while in branding and packaging from Baton Rouge, LA, and studied at Type@Cooper West in San Francisco, before setting up Continental Type with Scott Biersack in 2017.

    Creator of the free typeface Davy Crockett (2015), a great titling display type that is genetically related to the fat face didones.

    In 2016, he designed Highground (Bold, Stencil), a typeface he started during his studies in 2016 at Type@Cooper West. He writes: The early stages of Highground were inspired by Nicholas Jenson's Rotunda. [...] Highground is a fun typeface for your punk band to make shitty posters to hang on electrical poles around town. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Wolff Olins
    [Wally Olins]

    Wallace "Wally" Olins (b. 1930, London; d. 2014) co-founded the famous design company Wolff Olins in 1965. Presently, it has offices in London, San Francisco, Barcelona, New York and Tokyo. This company is guilty of many custom typefaces, and employed at some point people such as Jeremy Tankard.

    WO specializes in brand typing. One of their custom typefaces is Renault (1972). It is a somewhat industrial transitional typeface family. Digital versions include R690 Roman (on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002), Renault (URW) and Renault EF (Elsner and Flake).

    In 1993, National Westminster contracted them to make the NatWest corporate family, which was then drawn by David Quay and Freda Sack, and digitized by Bruno Maag. Wolff also designed the beautiful Tate Gallery Corporate Typeface. During his employment at Wolff Olins (UK), Michael Barbosa started work on Metroplis (1995) for Metroplisboa, the Lisbon subway. This typeface was subsequently drawn by Freda Sack and David Quay at The Foundry, London.

    Typedia link. Linotype link. FontShop link. Wikipedia link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    WoodardWorks Type Design (was: Robby Woodard Design and Illustration)
    [Robby Woodard]

    Robby Woodard is the Fresno, CA-based designer of fonts at Garagefonts such as Clarice (2004, a lapidary semi-sans with 16 weights), Arbuckle (2001-2003, fat comic book style; see Black, Bright: bubblegum typefaces), Clairmont (2002, a huge sans serif family), Dixon (2001, a monoline sans family with a hairline weight, garagefonts), Elkhorn, Fargon (2002, avant-garde family), P22 Hedonic (2003, a delicate slab serif family; +a chiseled version), Montclaire (2003, an interesting way of adding serifs to a sans serif font) and Bancroft (2000). At the L'ab [dead link], he designed the avant garde family Ashby (2001). He is working on Wiggins (2004) and Laconic (2007, a severe-looking futuristic sans). Alternate URL. Other fonts: Inyo (a high contrast slab serif), Joachim (Basque style), Kritter (mythological dings), Veggieburger (cartoon caption font with hints of Tekton), Nudgewink (2010-2018, P22, a bouncy comic book face), Clarice (2001-2009, a lapidary (flared serif) family, Garagefonts). FontShop link. Myfonts link. Laconic and Veggieburger are free at Fontsquirrel.

    In 2019, he added extreme weights (from hairline weights to extra black weights) to Joshua Darden's popular Freight series: Freight Big Compressed Pro (2019, a sturdy rational newspaper masthead and book cover typeface by Robby Woodard and Phil's Fonts), Freight Display Compressed Pro (2019), Freight Text Compressed Pro (2019), Freight Sans HPro Hairlines, Freight Sans HCnd Pro Hairlines, Freight Sans HCmp Pro, Freight Sans UPro Ultra Black.

    Typefaces from 2020: P22 Posies (a six-font system for creating multi-colored floriated initial caps in the spirit of illuminated manuscripts), P22 Bangersfield (P22: a casual monoline comic book font designed to replace or compete with Comic Sans).

    Typefaces from 2021: Quirkwood (Canada Type: a reverse stress Western font; Canada Type describes it as a spaghetti western with Shazam and Wile E. Coyote cast in prominent starring roles, a bluegrass album of Edith Piaf covers).

    Typefaces from 2022: ,a href="https://canadatype.com/product/robbins/">Robbins (a soft flared slightly undulating sans).

    Fontspace link. Klingspor link. Kernest link.

    View Robby Woodard's commercial typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Wordshape
    [Ian Lynam]

    Commercial fonts at this boutique type foundry and publisher operating in Tokyo, jointly run by Ian Lynam and Thien Huynh. Ian Lynam is a New Yorker who studied Graphic Design at Portland State University (B.S.) and California Institute of the Arts (M.F.A.). He is professor at Temple University Japan, as well as at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He operates the Tokyo design studio Ian Lynam Design and the hybrid publishing imprint and type foundry Wordshape. MyFonts link. Images of most of Ian Lynam's typefaces.

    • Cern (2013). A sans family based on Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk and Univers, with large x-heights.
    • Vaud (2013). Ian writes: Vaud is a family of 40 weights of neutral, yet formally nuanced grotesk typefaces that takes inspiration from Helvetica, Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers and the original metal types from Switzerland, yet had a slightly larger x-height for more pronounced legibility.
    • Plural (2013). A futuristic sans family.
    • Sketch Caslon Italic (2013).
    • Raffish (2013). This is an ornamental caps typeface based on Henk Krijger's Raffia typeface.
    • Entity (2012). A basic sans family with slightly rounded corners.
    • Okojo (2012), Okojo Slab (2012) are geometric sans and slab serif typefaces influenced by the type designs of Paul Renner and Herb Lubalin. They were followed by Okojo Slab Display (2012) and Okojo Display (2012). In 2016, he rebundled everything as Okojo Pro and Okojo Slab Pro, Okojo Pro Stack and Okojo Slab Pro Stack.
    • Pompeian Cursive (2010). An elegant calligraphic script based on the original drawings by Oswald Cooper for BBS in 1927.
    • His Cooper series. Cooper Swash Italic Traditional & Cooper Swash Italic Custom, Cooper Italic (2010, after Cooper's original from 1924), Boul Mich (2010, after Oswald Cooper's 1927 art deco typeface), Cooper Initials (2010), Cooper Old Style (2010), Cooper Capitals (2010), Cooper Text (2010), Cooper Black Condensed (2010), Cooper Black Swash (2010), Cooper Screamers (2010, oversized exclamation points), Cooper Black Italic Pro (2013), Cooper Italic Pro (2013), Cooper Fullface Italic Pro (2013).
    • Cruller (2010). A spidery display typeface that is based on lettering from a 1910 German lettering book.
    • Hanger (2004).
    • Rubber Vloeren. A geometric display typeface adapted from an alphabet used by Piet Zwart in the Netherlands for a series of advertisements for rubber flooring.
    • Ensenada is a typeface designed based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico.
    • Clobber Grotesk (2010) is a grotesk typeface designed for readability at very small sizes. It is accompanied by a nice stencil style.
    • International Blackletter (2010) is a collaborative display typeface designed for fun, together with Simon Gane and Selena Hoy.
    • Devil's Advocate is a digital version of the heavy blackletter typeface Cathedral Text found in the 1934 ATF typeface from the American Specimen Book of Type Styles (by ATF).
    • Sandberg Honorarium (2003) is inspired by the work of Dutch typographer Willem Sandberg.
    • Inversion (2010) is an uncial face.
    • Designer with Eli Carrico of the heavy stencil typeface Black-Out (2010, Wordshape) and the paperclip family Interno (2004), which was based on Walter Ballmer's logo for Olivetti in 1960.
    • Neuerland (2010) is an update of Rudolf Koch's Neuland.
    • Dorsal (2011) is a splendid versal lettering typeface that cries Absinthe Overload.
    • Off Broadway (2011) is a casual art deco face related to Oz Cooper's Boul Mich and to Nubian (ATF).
    • Cinta Adhesiva (2011, done with Mexican designer One Eye) began as a typeface designed for the masthead of a graffiti fanzine called Free Copy---the monumental letters painted by L.A.-based graffiti writers Crae and Hael greatly influenced the feel of the typeface.
    • Maat (2011) is a modular geometric stencil piano key face. It is a loose interpretation of a handlettered alphabet by the late Dutch designer Jurrian Schrofer called Sans Serious which was included in Wim Crouwel's publication Letters of Maat. It is inflected with a bit of influence from British designer Ken Garland's similar lettering form the cover of his textbook, The Graphics Handbook.
    • Effete (2011) is a tall stylish typeface similar in weight and proportion to fonts like Imre Reiner's skyline typeface Corvinus.
    • Adora (2011) is a typeface similar to Walter Tracy's AdSans.
    • Kihachiro Swash Italic (2011) has garalde forms but Caslonian curved terminals and weighty serifs. Kihachiro Geometric (2011) recalls Antique Olive and Futura.
    • Kirimomi Swash (2011) is a pair of garalde typefaces. Kirimomi Geometric (2011) is a humanist sans.
    • Kommisar (2012) is Lynam's version of the Trajan capitals alphabet.
    • Smythe Sans (2012) is a contemporary geometric sans serif family that is quite readable on-screen and in print.
    • Stebl Grotesk (2012) and Stebl Slab (2012) are workhorse typefaces for sturdy jobs.
    • Raker (+Stencil) and Raker Display (+Stencil) is a 40-style octagonal typeface family published in 2015. It was inspired by science fiction and space travel.
    • Iggy (2015) is based on the lettering of Australia-based Oklahoman artist, animator and lifelong skater Darin Bendall.
    • Stamen (2016). A 12-style sans typeface lost in time.
    • Smythe Sans Pro (2016) and Smythe Soft Pro (2016).
    • Biwa and Biwa Display (2017). A grotesk family by Ian Lynam and James Todd.
    • Glot (2019). A 10-style flared terminal sans family by James Todd and Ian Lynam. See also Glot Round from 2020.

    Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of From Bijin-ga to Brutus, in which he explains the work of graphic designers Hokuu Tada (1889-1948) and Seiichi Horiuchi (1933-1987). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Work Progress
    [Ramon Tejada]

    Ramon Tejada's design consultancy in Los Angeles, CA, is called Work Progress. Ramon is a graduate of Wheaton College (MA), Bennington College (MFA), and Otis College Of Art & Design in Los Angeles (2013) (MFA). Creator of the sans display typeface Ron (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Working Format
    [Ross Milne]

    Ross Milne (b. 1985) works and lives in Vancouver, Canada where he studied at the Emily Carr University. After graduating with a degree in Communication Design (2007), he moved to Den Haag, where he studied type design at the KABK, and graduated in 2008. In early 2009, he returned to Vancouver. He works as a contributing designer with Commercial Type while pursuing his own projects in graphic design and type design. His foundry and studio is called Working Format. His typefaces:

    • He created the clean and elegant slab serif typeface Foxtrot (2008), which includes an interesting Hairline weight.
    • Stag (2009, Commercial Type), co-designed with Christian Schwartz and Berton Hasebe.

      They write: Stag started as a small family of slab serifs commissioned for headlines by the US edition of Esquire magazine and eventually grew into a sprawling multi-part family including a flexible sans companion and two additional display variants that are probably best described as special effects.

    • Charlie (2010, Typotheque).
    • Echo Pro (2015, Typotheque) is a sans serif counterpart to Charlie typeface.
    • Custom typefaces include Everyone (ca. 2013: a great fat rounded sans for the Sport BC brand), and Sled Island (2013: for a 4-day festival in Calgary.
    • Buckshot (2015) is a script typeface inspired by lettering found on the Ile d'Orleans, Quebec. The peculiar lettering style is the result of one craft-person, well-known in the area but anonymous outside. In 2018, inspired by the same source, he published a similar vernacular typeface at Commercial Type, Superette.
    This Nice image of ribbon letters shows his talent. See also this neat b. Alternate URL. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Writ Large Fonts
    [Samuel Goldstein]

    Writ Large Fonts is Samuel Goldstein's micro-foundry located in Los Angeles, California, est. 2012. Samuel's first font is the butterfly dingbat typeface Royal Flutter Dingbats (2012), and an accompanying alphading typeface Royal Flutter (2012). He also designed WL Lunatrix (2012), WL Scribble Flinger (2012), WL Rasteroids (2012, a simulation of text on low resolution and rasterized monitors), WL Rasteroids Monospace (2012), WL Rasteroids Old (2012), WL Entangle Metal (2012), WL Circuits Circuits (2012) and WL Scrawl My Children (2012).

    In 2020, he published the 12-style WL Dot Matrix. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Wundes
    [John B. Wundes]

    Graphic designer John B. Wundes (b. 1971, California) established the Wundes foundry in Hayward, CA, in 2005. MyFonts catalog.

    • Ossuary (2005) is a font in which each letter is formed using a uniquely arranged pile of skulls. The font was inspired by images from the Kostnice ossuary in Sedlec, Kutna Hora near Prague.
    • Neona (2006) takes inspiration from neon signs.
    • Road Stencil (2006) is a font based on painted street markings: The letters are stretched roughly six times their normal height so that when viewed from an angle, the text is seen as proportional.
    • In 2007, Wundes published Boilerplate, Broadveau (art nouveau), Sprouts (which he calls bonsai nouveau), Fairybook (ornamental caps face), Caard (credit card text face), Museum Initials (scanned from the engravings of Freeman Delamotte, 1879), and Henry8 (16th century caps font).

    View John Wundes's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Xandra Y. Zamora

    Calligrapher and designer in Los Angeles, who did calligraphic work for Halle Berry, Dustin Hoffman, Joe Walsh, John Travolta and Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Ozzy Osbourne, Quincy Jones, and Elizabeth Taylor. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Brides, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, Inside Weddings, Martha Stewart Weddings, Letter Arts Review, People and US Magazines, as well as print, television, and films such as Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

    At Delve Fonts, she published the calligraphic typeface Quita in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Xerographer Fonts
    [Max Infeld]

    Max Infeld (b. 1981, aka Xerographer Fonts) from Chico, CA, makes free fonts and offers a free font-making service. He surged onto the font scene in 2012, and is currently located in Ojai, CA.

    Creations in 2012: Perspect (3d face), Nuevo Stencil, Dingus, Dirty Serif, Skinny Serif, Batt Marber, Hollavetica (2012, grunge), Stick Tickle, Carve Your Table (2012), Stripe Fest (2012, 3d, hand-printed), Craycray For You, Feed The Bears, Yummy Nubs, Yum Nub Extended, Sleeping in Lecture (2012, informal 3d face), Zombie Checklist (2012, hand-printed), Lisas First Class (2012, hand-printed), Stick Four, Two Stick, Spacetime, Drunk Tattoo, Bantum Caps (2012, hand-printed stencil face), Funny Zebra, Sick Future (2012, grungy), Fuzzy Handcuffs, Black Spiral, Happy Caps, Come Party, Hellawood, Chronic Gothic, Ice Cream Party, Grassevent (2012, texture face), Electrical (2012, letters cracked by lightning), Rockster, Strungout, Bubbletea (2012, bubblegum font), Yumernub, Nighthour, Pointy, Simplehand, Linerstencil, Stickchop, Tapetype, Rolling Deep (2012, based on arcs of circles), Pony Rides, Bambu, Stolen Script, Secret Sauce, Eighties, Negative, Turds, Identify (2012, a fingerprint font), Another Party, Mighty Roping, Copy Stand, Cloudstorm, Teardrops, Friends Forever, Delicious Applepie (texture face), Crackvetica, Stormtime (grungified face), Therp (2012: 3d face), Spookies, Freeline (3d engraved face), Super Serious, Robot Shadow (2012: 3d face), Great Arrows, Great Shadow (2012: textured face), Alien Fur, Graffical, Bent Out, Splatish, Seamonster, Thirds Hand (2012: 3d outline face), Particle Physics, Poster Script (2012: rough script), Badazzle (2012, texture face), Serifvetica, Make Impact (2012, a 3d headline typeface), Stenciltration, Naughty Pipe, Qrurl, FunHaus, Flame Time, Steller Script, Summer Festival (2012, grungy caps), Major Earthquake (2012, grungy outline text face), Hot Sweat (2012, texture face), Metal Crime (2012, a cracked marble typeface), Summer Blacktop, Great Farmer, an angular typeface, Lucky Scratcher, Future Moon (textured face), Shatter Web (2012, a glaz krak face), Power Play (2012, another glaz krak face), Magic Crystal (2012, yet another glaz krak typeface), Rough Cut, Rock Harder (2012, texture face), Shred Hard, Clock Work, Major Veins, Paint Scratch, Break Away, Quick Comic, Summer Scriptastic, Absolute Money, Brush Sand, Playhouse, Pleasure Wash, Meat Market (dripping blood font), Paper Folder, Scratchingly, Fresh Sticks, FunTrucks, Quick Rodeo, Poster Bold, Open Bars (horizontal stripes), Outline Twelve, Spot Event (grungy outline face), Final Slash (textured typeface), Munchies, Meltasstic, Some Bubbles, French Sugar (very curly script), Cream Cone, Zap Deal, Crack Snacks, High Method, Crack Bars, Wall Fresh, Star Wonder, CurlyQue, Summer Script, Happy Lines, Just Marker, Solid Marker, Straight Hand, Wurm Fun, Rave Time (sketched face), Graff Caps, Erect Angle (outlined and hand-printed), Circle Caps, Story Time, Upper Side, Lower Side, Tech Haus (sketched), Boneyard, Status Update, Eigth Grade (sic), Table Shank, Serial Lover, Freaky Night (blood drip font), Future Girlfriend, Summer Scare, Faster Stronger, Smoking Cracks (texture face), After School, Cutting Edge, Animal Cracker, Sticky Mad, Comic Chub, Right Way, RockLess, CleanFade, Exploded Capital, Size Matters, EightBite, Extra Dimension, Cap Scratched, FanCom, Optic Nerd, Spooky Stencil, Five Dozen, Great Mix, LowCase, Swirl Insertion, Lube Splash, Organic Vines, Fall Greetings, Plant Type, Fast Brush, Hair Bows, Limo Caps, Bold Shake, Path Check, PopCap, Angle Stroke, Scratch Point, China Town (oriental simulation), Gunky Ick, Super Fade (textured), Practical Script, Delicious Outline, Fourth Dimension, College Scribble (sketch font), Dirty Western, Freeky Typewriter, Creature Builder, Bang Time (a rough brush), Fall Harvest (sketch face), EuroParty, Fire Proof, Eye Scare, Empire Caps, Pleasure Castle (a great barbed face), Scribble Time (sketched font), Star Rising (poster font), Dottline, Euro Horror, Metal Show (metal band font), Fantastic Sunset, Toxic Waste, Alien Waffle (textured face), Rewind Forward, Stitchy Times, Snug Bum, Star Fishy, Ghost Clouds, Epic Slash, Childs Persprective, Thin Fine, Metal Event (chiseled face), Tight Box, Saber Husk, Major Scare, Terminal Event, Pirates Bay, Wicked Cockney, Great Splunk, Diamond Cut, Treehause Horror, Indie hand, Sweet Revenge, Chronical Script, Peaceful Violence, Basic Header, Hand Work, Ninja Turtle, AquaColor, Furry Sack, Mad Style, Alien Dot, Dirty Feature, Wine Basement (connected script), Pen War (scratchy script), Angelina, Skate Around, Wide Thin (brush face), Frisky Vampire, SuperBling, Chronic Harvest, Fur Handcuffs, Darth Fader (textured face), House Rave, Snow Frosting, Post News, Straight Baller (white on black poster face), Heavy Weight, Angry Nerds (brush face), Future Style (hand-printed 3d face), Liner34, Tweak Diner, Frosty Holiday, Zap Control, Kids Outline, Shock Treatment, Flesh Digster, Shredding Harder (grungy scratchy typeface), Metal Chakra (barbed wire face), Childs Funtime, Super Cut, Holy Scriptacular, Tangent Print, Chung Flew, Lucky Money, Oven Bread, Soda crack, Quick Dirty, Victory Cut, College Dropout (athletic lettering), Comic Shadow, Mystery Forest (sketched), Code Danger, Slash King, Phat Rave (sketched), Tiger Tails, Major Rules, Cloud Home, Flower Header (floriated caps), Tiny Friends, Tasty Sundae, Leaking Type, Saturday Evening, Agenda Clash, Tripple Dots, Plain Handline, Cutefold, Gift Exchange, Reaganald Script, Broadway Event (marquee face), Gotfaded (textured face), Disco Rush, Some Lines, Inside Flower, Scratch This, Alien Sweater (stitch font), Fantom Bantum, Stripe Fun, Thrift Store, Legit Outline, Country Gold, Chrome Fancy, Barnyard Massacre (Treefrog style), Holiday Event, Art Times, Flesh Shop, Heart Baller, Free Kittenz, CreamPuff, Outline Around, Quivering Noodle, Rocking Lines, Tugboat, Comic Bubble, Hand Shadow, Sans College, Winter Ice, Cutout Poster, Woodblock Cutter, Handy Stencil, Dirty Cursive.

    The following typefaces were designed by Matt Barber: Gateway Drug (2013), Crankdeal (2012, a hand-printed poster face), Mad Caps, Third Leg (multiline typeface), Late Nights, Sewn Tight (2012, stitch font), Black Widow (2012).

    The following typefaces were co-designed with Dylan Tellesen in 2012: Dingleberry (+Solid), Threed, Brushingtons, Excellent Stencil, Handrelief, Partyline, Basic Chrome, Spot Lights, Big Spit, Code Bars, Color Blind, Skullvetica, Diamond Plate, Blambu, Hounds, Knity (texture face), Eightballer, Another Line (a basic straight-edged monoline sans), Rocking Poster, Robotic Revolution, Organic Nature, Underground Event, Surf Shack, Greater Shadow, Razor Slice, Big Print (textured face), Scripty Caps.

    Typefaces made in 2013: Fresh Maker, Lucky Dogs, Quickly Write, Gourmet King (glaz krak font), Austin Lights, Pony Maker, Crystal House (grunge), Secret Event (textured face), Indian Tiger, Great Camp, Cowboy Would, Western Racing, Stripe Attack (textured font), Art Bang (grunge), Quick Scratch, Cold Brew, Fresh Twist, Nine Eight, Going Fast, Mega Riches, Taste Bomb (textured face), Brighten Days, Supergraf (a brushy graffiti face), Last Hand, Spring Ninja (brush face), Circuit City, Global Village, Yard Gnome, Lite Hand, Metal Block (Zero, Two, Three: scanbats), Indie Rock, Ancient Story, Super Drag, Slight Rocking, Over Scribble, Quickly Caps, Crack Deco, Victory Time (faded formal script), Futuristic Outline, Another Student, More Party, Brush Grunge, Zipper Fries, Diamond Lux, Splatter Funtime, Durh Shapes, Frosty Winter, Whole Space, BlockWood, Soda Water, Magic Scribble, Seaming Stitchy, Thrash Party, Line Fever, Great Bush, Right Price, Tight Carve, American Freedom, Jimbos Print, Quick Cut (faded face), Super Cracks (glaz krak face), More Party, Half Faded (textured face), Charcoal Script, Future Lines, Dot Outline, Half Tones, Shady Walk, Quick Slash, School Notes (sketched face), Block Party, Wonderful Party, Heart Stripe, Heart Beat, Heart Hole, Paint Balls, Golden Lights, Spring Party (texture face), Shockvetica (glaz krak face), Safe Paper, Sword Fighting, Camo Wear (textured face), Disco Night (art deco), Reverse Frick, Scratchy Fun (sketched), Fun Origami, Special Exit, Kid Print, an old typewriter collection (Dirty Olympia, Sterling Keys, SuperKeys, Quiet Type, Hermes Rocket, Double Studio, Light Fingers), Designer Pixels, Beauty Salon (Treefrog script), Headshot, Mega Bone, Fantastic Habits, Fridge Letters (textured), Kids Blocks (scanbats), Theater Event (grunge), Circle Pixels, Taste Bomb, Kite High, Run Away (3d) Dirty Coal (brushy), Dot Sticks, Twerk Fifty, Dance Lights (textured), Steam Rose (textured), Donkey Punch, Fold Line (origami), Tiger Nuts (textured), Fun Bear, Standard Header (letterpress, 3d), Marble Wasteland, Bender Lines, Magical Springtime, Open Hatch (hand-printed), Retro Tastic, Space Zombie (hand-printed), Mad Triangle (textured typeface), Sweaty Party (a fun sketched typeface), Freaky Manor (gothic typeface), Special Brand (texture face), Western Clown, Company Problem, Derp Icons, Pixel Hour (textured face), Basic Scratch, Indie Sellout, Next Level (textured face), Third Rail (grunge), Real Trap (athletic lettering), Bang Party, Title Solution (textured face), Special Third (textured face), Deal Maker (textured typeface), Liquor Bank (3d), Electrical Neue, Eighties Locker (grunge), Visual magnets (textured typeface), Final Relief (textured), Comic Tans, Bright Headline (hand-printed), Tiger Bawl, Cut Away (cutout letters), Kings Castle (textured face), Southern Riots (grunge), Slick Wave (textured face), Smash Break (texture face), Thin Simple, Super Rocket, Kids Game, Eighties Shades, Melt Factory, Pirate Zombie (grunge), Doktor Scratch, Mix Tape (textured face), City Tags, Gotcha (3d face), Wild Scratch (textured), Inter Fade (textured), Urban Labels (textured), Hot Tropics, Quantum Pixel (grungy), Minus Plus, Lower Scratch, Flying High, Broken Mustangs (script), Byte Shades (textured), Bolt Light (textured), Just Quick, Hotrocks, Total Event, Racing Flow, Energy Drink (textured), Inside Box (a wonderful metal-look textured typeface), Heat Wave (a wide poster face), Great Miami (arched typeface), Disco Midnight, Clean Scratch, Vegas Nights (textured and smudgy), Pirate Disco, Swift Chops, Zero Hype, Dot Tricks (grungy), Shaken (glaz krak font), Great Points (textured), High Level (textured), Break Time (textured), Circus Party, Crash Site (glaz krak face), Lower Resolution, Fifty Hours (script), For Sale (script), Broken Fixed (script), Hieroglyph Licks, Think Plan, Fancy Shadow, Forwards Backwards, High Sales, Slash Thirty (blood drip face), Universal Freaky, Event Shark, Bone King, Sharking, Magnetic, Paper Shreads, Summer Watermelon, Bubble Yums, Crazy Eyes, Danger Waffles (textured face), Early Scare, Farm Barns, Freckle Jackson, Greater Sales, Indian Summer, Mixed Thirty, Positive Warp, Reasonable Speculation, School Party, Scratching Matters, Lemonade Summer, High Style (textured face), Biology, Aweseome Style, Box Lines, Cloud Ahead, Going Around, Hot Flash, Major Stripe (sketched face), Pixel Draw, Summer Fire, SuperTack, Sure Real (Treefrog style), Totally Straight, Mega Gothic, Basic Hand, Chief Scare, Plain Slice, Sail Away, Gone Away, Chubby Muffin, Crack King, Dirty Jobs, Paris Label, Phone Home, Kids Party, Zombie Stitch, Moden Post, Rock Bait (Treefrog style script), Tent Sale (brush face), Event Maker, Quantum Ants, Cheap Horror, Extra String, Scratch Times, Snorkel Whisp, Dirty Looks, Bould, Window Crash (glaz krak face), California Harvest, Twerking Nasty, College Movie, Easy Horror, Brush Some, Autumn Two, Season Fourteen, Always Never, Fresh Bone, Scare Camp, Twinkle Fingers, Dirty Bandit, Metal Clash, Simple Folks, Sunrise Disco, Danger Zone, Swift Break, Dusty Salmon (textured face), Urban Poster, Tasty Drips (dripping paint font), HardLine (3d font), Technophilia, Zombie State, Come Inside, Popular Invite, Tough Horror, Wonderful Phonograph, Zombie Scratch, Thunder Crack, Fresh Riot, Metal Atlas, Grunge Shack, Gif Wrap, Punk Inside, Disco Break, Quantum Future, Major Black (textured), Stone Bird, Fantastic Party, Quick Money, Fast Time, Hecka Grunge, Electric Night, Tasty Swirl, Helping Stranger, Radical Llamas, Real Gold, Double Shadow, Space Cats, Space Fight, Furious Racing (textured typeface), Snow Flakes, Solid Event, First Place, Total Shock, Hairy Fun, Cats String, Dragons Breath, Stripe Disco, College Bytes, Late Club, Road Skin (textured), City Heights (textured), Easy Bricks, Insert Fun, Grunge Kids (textured), Solid Brand, Winter Decor (snow crystal font), Doctor Meow, Real Fast, Major Sketchy, Easy Romance, Globtastic, Noses, Strike King, Salty Would, First Contact, Extra Zero, Space Bang, First Avenue, Dirty Shocker, Delicious Candy, Drop Inside.

    Typefaces from 2014: Divide Conquer, Mad Pic Nic (textured), American Lights (dry brush), Chromest, Absolute Invite, Fancy Sauce (simulates an oriental typeface), Fair House, Gansta Walk (graffiti typeface), Spring Away (script), Heavy Load (fat brush), Amazing Sunshine, Club House, Magic Status, Big Party, Ocean Twelve, Lost Type, Spring Harder (textured), Escape Great, Fine Things, Cut Five, House Boat (textured), Splat Matrix, We Spring (gunge), Great Band (textured), Sky Limit, Four Six, Quick Sales (textured), Vegas Neon, Xero Typique, Ink Special, Bad Luck (glaz krak face), Handing Over, Megaphilia, Late Drank, Atlas Grunge, Right Track (textured), Square Deal, Great Party, Next Wave, Doges Walk, Dirty Locals, Boulder Scare, Clean Easy, Come Around, Fresh Holiday, Half Light (a condensed brush face), Light Curls, Lower Case, Magic Beauty, Much Funky, Plain Lines, Ten Fresh, Simply Fresh, Windy Metro, Play Along, East City (textured), Bernal Heights (grunge), Metalblock Delta (textured), French Disco (textured), City Magic (textured), Thunder Head, Lucky Diamonds, Great Storm, Neon Taste (textured), Night Hawk, Trap Music (a sketched typeface), Close Race, Major Label, Fresh Track (an all-caps brush typeface), Jack Trades, Cut Blox, Metal Block Theta (textured), Fired Bread, Angry Beavers (script face), Get Real, Lost Ray, Slot Machine, Animal Planet, Very Rich, Hawt Would, Above Ground, Grave Pain, Heaven Gate, Countrry Diamonds, Master Strike, Great Ending, Dreaming Pandas, Olden Times, String Tyme, Wrecking Ball, Great Nineties (sketch face), Lightning Blaze, Club Night, Certain Times, Clean Bubbles, Disco Party, Stoned Heights (glaz krak font), Can Opener, Metal Block Tango, Disco Fresca, Static Heights, Chronic Deal, Fire Block, Capital State, Burger Hut, Chicken Waffles, Bro Hugs, Indie Hype, Smoking Pistols, Mega Play, Light Break, Fadevetica, Metal Block Serif, Dream Stencil, String Piano (grunge), Binaty Waters (textured), Soth West, Magic Pens (fat finger font), Mega Bits (dot matrix), Zebra Disco, Luxury Import, Rapid Sloths (Treefrog-style handwriting), Spring Rage, Delicious Mocha (textured), Tropic Disco, Sprung Breakers, Urban Trails, Many Times (textured), Spring Headliner (textured), Party Lights (rounded stencil), Slick Ride (grungy), Burn Side (textured), City Stencil (grungy), Love Joy (textured), Neon Disco, Witches Brew (halftone texture), North Beach (textured), Metal Black Naked, Metal Block Ultra, Wet Razors, Cat Meow (sketchy face), Dance Away, Salty Beach (textured typeface), Great Horizons, American Western, Start Menu (halftone texture typeface), Zip Down, World Peace, Super Round, Spring Fruit, Open Lounge, Magic Kids, Fresh Candy, Four Stars, Gold Ring, Fun Time, Dark Box, Major Clue, Alert Notice, Love Riot, High Boat, Real Hard, Canada Mist (textured), Flavor Maker (textured), Spring Daisy, Great Springtime, Danish Crack (glaz krak), High Rating, Awesome Play, Flash Dance, Super Awesome, Paint Night, Pixel Drip, Ready Start, High Flight, House Music, Alternative Nineties, Technologic, Beaver Scratches, Spring Bump, Fancy Animal, Graph Master, Many Lines, Quality Control, Hot Discovery, Disco Trap, Ripe Dusk, Spring Dance, Electrical Storm, Electro House, North Cowboy, BiteTyme, BubLight, ChronicSales, ColdSpring, DeliciousFrosting, FloweringBuds, FrenchDance (white on black), Frequency, GetAround, GiftCards, LargeCrayon, MadSkilz, MetalShred, PeaceFight, ProximaFour, RightPlace, RockingTimes, ShwedyBawls, ThinkLight, WildThang, Make Out (crayon font), Clean Dirty (another crayon font), Digital River, Jaged Edge (sic), Loathing Fear (a great Treefrog style typeface), Metal Spectacular, Quit Work (crayon font), Special Delivery, Big Crump, High Fence (glaz krak face), Delicious would, Neon Tech, Right Brew, After Work, Pit Stop (textured), Strong Void, Love Scratch, Maiden Voyage, News Worthy, Mint Coin, Hipster Bike, Ready Made, Ten Dimensional, New Highs, Banlieue Disco (textured face), Punk Event, Soup Kitchen, Such Money, The Pulse, Thirdly (3d face), Train Station (a great ultra-fat rounded sans), Goldfinger (script), Neurotick, Hawt Comix, Talking Louder, Mind Storm, Astral Projections, AncientSprawl, BeautifulThangs, BoulderRough, ChronicMethodMB, CleanSimpleDT, DropKickMB, EasyDoughDT, FairBanks, FaultLineDT, FiftyShadowsDT, FrenchPirates, FuelControl, FunMeatsDT, GrandCircleDT, GreatFriendsDT, GreatSails, HawtFriend, JuicyCultureDT, JustWriteDT, LearningMachine, LearningMachineItalic, Marijuana, MegaLife, RedPanda, SecretTickleMB, SlickRoadsDT, SmokingParadise, StarDancing, StringTheory, StrongEventDT, ThinkingAcademicDT, ThugLoveDT, California Delights (connected script), Super Freak (textured), Extra Highs, Slime Bawls, Metal Witch, Grape Soda, Little Spooky, Such Frosting, Monster Slash, Burn Time (textured), Quick Fade (textured), Urban Animal, Prison Escape, Super Fear (dripping blood font), Final Days, Racing Numbers, Pirate Spider, Walking Dead, Hatch (textured), Strawberry Longcake (curly), Mad Zombies, More Dimension (3d), Popular Culture, Princess Cake, Wine Tasting (vampire script), Toxic Powers, Zombie Treats (rough brush), Total Eclipse (brush), Whisky Lickers, Brain Washers, CityVetica, Turn Up, Basic Sharpie, Electronic Voyage, Swingers, Heavy Loading, Solid Waste (textured typeface), Swingers, HighLines (sketched typeface), IceCold (textured), ManyGifts, OpenStore, PlaidEvent (textured), RustyNail, SickDream, WantedPirates, BreakingNews, FantasticSeasons, FantasyMachine, FluShots (rough brush), GreatWinter, HeavenlyWings (sketched), KentuckyBourbon, LoveBombs (rough brush), MicroBrew, Slashtacular, XmasLite, Golden Dabs (grunge), Urban Paints, Making Ideas, Just Brains.

    Typefaces from 2015: Extra Reaper (horror font), DigitalStream, EightyOne (sketched), GrandStencil, GrandZeroes, LightFuze, LiquidMagic, MetalReason, MiamiShades (shadow font), TakenBlack, TakenBlackItalic, TeaParty, WinterCrops, WonderInk (tattoo font), YoungRanger (connected script), Late Noise, Dark Papers (textured), College Thrash (sic), CrispyBones, DrawingMachine, JusticeWanted, KrampsHandso, PolarBears, SolutionFive, Shock Colours, Washer (textured), Dynamatics (textured font), Flowery Death, Pushing Sticks (dry brush font), Righty Marks (marker pen font), Baked Trains (graffiti font), Chronic Delivery (signage script), Intaglio Plains, Modern Reality (dry brush script), Nuevo Trenta, Rastaerize, World Shocker, Grape Blaster, Slate, Stencil Disco, Technocracy, Yarden Tawns, Flaunts (textured), Ringlead (textured), Freshly Thinking (script font), Plutonium (textured), Space (textured), Boulevard, Nuevo Disco, Stamp Ink, Educated, Krusty Signs, Quagent, Dusty Hotels, Cracked (glaz krak face), Amplitudes (techno sans), Frozen Rita, Beast Mode Suite (an avant garde family; +Disco), Epicenter (athletic lettering), Kitchen Cowboy (modular and spurred), Forest Lakes, Northern Montgomery, Biometric (techno family), Modernism, Higher Pixels, Grandious Vengeance (scratchy script), Second Avenue, Just Perforate, Grave Danger, California Designs, Natural Products, Boxing Chocolates, Beyond Space (textured), Asterisk, Katchy Markers (rough dry brush), Black Ties (sketched), Twenty Singles, Great Shake, Monster Energy (textured), Precious Moments (vampire script), Nuevo York (a vampire script), Faux Antique (another vampire script), Zero College, Fun Sized (drop shadow face), Blueberry Waffle, Stale Marker, 12 ounces, Raw Diet, Megadeal, Blklite (textured), Prison Break, More Candy, Fuel Tanks, Hot Bone, Break Point, Fresh Waters, Lower Haight, Carnal Devices, Juicy Boxes (sketched font), Special Case, Urban Life (dingbats), World Beings (dingbats), Twenty Something (textured), Many Fun, Expensive Solutions (brush), Dopeframes, Fun Lines, This Way (handcrafted arrows), Rinse Wash, Trap House (crayon font), Love Marks (dingbats), Viral Fun (scanbats), Grape Dragon (brush script), Juicy Rags, Pleasure Riot.

    Typefaces from 2016: Reinebow (a color SVG font), DecoRated (art deco), Recreational (3d, outlined), Tiny Shack (3d, outlined), Sugar Cakes, Regime Change, Treasure Hunt, Taco Fiesta (Mexican simulation font), Crystal Breath, Purple Drank, Denominator, Perceptual (art deco), Realismo (futuristic), Banquetier (a monoline deco typeface), Continents, Asperian, Fonderian, DeadTasty, Distinguished, DraftHouse, FreakyTwenties (white on black poster typeface), LuckyTricks, (outlined) MajorChronic, (outlined) Moulden (outlined), OldeBarnsby, (outlined) Marquez (crayon script), Hand Typist, Fauquier, Blockchain (3d style), Zombie Story, Private Fort, Spiral, Spherism, Swaingarm Yori, Solarium (outlined techno typeface), Tracksion, Hail Stormz (grunge), Paper Scraps, BombingStencil (textured), ExtraSprinkles (textured), MagneticFriends, PerfectChisle, PrizedStudy (sketched), RealPrizesItalic (tattoo script), RealPrizesVeryItalic, SketchyBuilder, Tragic Prequel, Twisty Pixel, Movie Nite, Gaslighter, BeautyScript, BlackSmith, Education (grungy athletic lettering), Kickstop (white on black), LemonadeHustler, PrinceCharming, SurfPoint, Wickers, BigTangle (triangulated), FlavoredCrayons, FreshCandies, RedlightDistrict, SingleOrigin, SnakeBite, SpringRaces (children's script), Valencia (dry brush script), BoldDrink (textured), BrandStruck (sketched), CarteBlanche, DarkStars (sketched), FreightCarts, HipsterFactory (sketched), HugeCrunch (textured), LateVaping, Masquerade, Neturality (white on black), Playgrounds, Prescriptivism, RockSolid, SewModern, SimpleLucky, TotalFreak, Transylvania, WasteFactory, WickedSeventies, WindowMarkers, Boards (sketched), BigSmoke, BrightSigns, ClubSport, DatBox (3d, white-on-black), EasyPeople (signage script), GouldenTreatise, Invertage (white-on-black), SpaceTransit, Above Stars, Band Stand, Market Crash (glaz krak typeface), Opiated Values, Stamped Envelopes, Higher Bounties, Gothic Friends (blackletter tattoo font).

    Typefaces from 2017: Abraxeous, Schwifty (outlined shadow font), Freaks (scary font), Musky Dawn, Tigerian (tiger-striped letters), Banqued (sketched), Basket of Candy, Bouquet (handcrafted blackboard bold), Percolation, Scrapbuckets, Guangzhou (oriental simulation), Budtender (outlined), Cryptographic, Moleculan (connect-the-dots style), Robustly Brewing, Wonder Age, Graphemic, Simulacre (bilined), Squanch (squarish), Wysterium (a hatched display typeface), Value Stamp, Discover Earth, Dreaming Castle, Metal Shard, Warm Showers, Ripe Apricots, Plenty of Metal, Spackler (dry brush), Falconers, Ephemerian, Brackish Pond, Lemon Shower, Delinquence, Couper Blaque, Pelanquier, Karpow, Graphisme, Martienso, Bacon Request, Corpsey, Cloudier (cloud-themed font), Draft Quick (draftsman font), Forgivable Sin, Manufactured Consent, Comedy Show (shaded), AvailableReservation, CandyDelish, ForgeMelt (textured), FreshSteaks, FunSpace (textured), Gouldage, StuckBrayers, Substrate, SunsetBreak (textured).

    Typefaces from 2018: Infinity Lights, Prescribe, Huge Party, Fun Play (a 3d shadow font), Clown Shoes, Astronmica (hipster style), Bronium, Mastum, Brisquet (bilined), Mega Dose, Space Melons, Retaillistic (stencil), Algorithma (bilined), Basket Fries (crayon font), Elusive, Splasher, Midcentury, Miswak, Parabolic, Xelita.

    Typefaces from 2019: Brewski, Trash Fort, Rough Path, Uncertainty, Scrizbels, Psychographia, Caustic, Zipties, Light Roast, Liquor Market, Boublies, Monolithic, Brick Roads, Blokqued, Chonkies, Brushings, Fugly Stick, Fresh Bagel, Scratchers, Fentanyl, Crypto Prices, Chonky, Mucho Fiesta, Leather Jackets (grungy), Peroxide (shattered letters), Postructure (sketched), Lubricants (brushed), Train Yard, Shipment (rough stencil), Action (halftone font), Bathing in Acid.

    Aka Xerographer.

    Dafont link. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    xpunkdreamdoll

    LA-based designer of the ornamental caps typeface Under The Sea (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    xtypa
    [Aaron Sittig]

    Xtypa is Aaron Sittig's type site. Aaron is a student at the University of California at Berkeley who has set out to develop a text face to set his papers in. See also here. He is working on Gematria (2003), a mix between a grotesque and a humanist sans, and Wedge. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yamel Haro

    Los Angeles-based designer of Octopus Type (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yang Song

    Los Angeles-based designer of the experimental typeface Structurhythm (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Y.B. Oh

    Y.B. Oh (YB Studio, Los Angeles, CA) designed the rounded sans (stencil) typeface family Neon (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ying Chen

    Arcadia, CA-based designer of the Peignotian typeface Never (2014). Ying grew up in Taiwan. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yi-Ting Chen

    Designer and artist based in Irvine, CA. In 2021, he created a decorative all caps typeface called Spectrum. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuanchen Jiang

    Yuanchen Jiang is a designer working in graphic design, motion, branding and storytelling, who is based in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Yale University School of Art (MFA), class of 2015, and China Central Academy of Fine Art (BFA). Developer of a series of typefaces for The Jungle Book movie (2016). These cover Latin, Japanese, Chinese and Thai. In 2017, Jungle was published at MyFonts.

    He also designed the vintage high-contrast Latin typeface Antiqua Roman (2015) which is based on letters drawn by Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke in 1907.

    In 2018, Yuanchen designed Mary Roman and AI. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yuanyuan Su

    Graduate of Central Academy of Fine Art in China. During her studies at Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA-based Yuanyuan Su designed Metamorphosis (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuexin Huo
    [YX Type]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yuliya Gorlovetsky

    Graphic designer in San Francisco. While studying at The Cooper Union in New York, she created a revival of the bulky condensed bold modern typeface Coronation (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuma Naito

    Los Angeles-based creator of a geometric deco stencil font in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    YunJu (Julie) Yeow

    Born in Taipei. During her studies at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, Julie designed Juju Sans (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuya Sano

    Japanese graphic designer based in Oakland, California. In 2018, he designed the octagonal stencil typeface September. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yvan Martinez

    Codesigner of Ghetto, with Joshua Trees, at Fake I.D. in Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yvanna do Couto

    During her studies at CSULB, Mission Viejo, CA-based Yvanna do Couto designed the tall decorative typeface Guarden (2015), taking inspiration from an ancient key. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    YX Type
    [Yuexin Huo]

    During his studies at Rhode Island School of Design, Yuexin Huo (Glendale, CA) created the text typeface family Monark (2018) and Monark Neue (2019). Other typefaces include Hourglass (2018), Slab (2018: an angular typeface-not a slab serif), Stonehenge (2018: an angular typeface) and Hotel (2018).

    In 2019, he set up YX Type, and promptly published Monarky. He writes: Rooted in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, it captures the anguish and distortion and suppresses them into ruthless letterforms. Top-heavy stems, heavy serifs, and low-contrast forms are all extractions of Dostoevsky's dilemma. Still in 2019, he added the 14-style sans family Hua.

    Typefaces from 2022: Blizka (an angular serif inspired by calligraphy; 13 styles), Promea (a 14-style grotesk). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Zachary Bizzarro
    [Bizzarro Foundry]

    [More]  ⦿

    Zack Onisko

    Head of Growth and Marketing at Creative Market. Designer of these fonts in 2015: Let's Go Dancing, Zack's Scratch, Lost Highway. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zack Patterson

    Designer of the monoline sans typeface Rowe (2012). Zack lives in Emeryville, CA.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zack Suhadolnik

    Zack Suhadolnik is an artist in San Francisco. Creator of the Back Hand ornamental typeface (2012), which was inspired by a piece done by artist Andrew Walker. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zapfest

    From September 1 until October 31, 2001, there was an exhibition on calligraphy and type design honoring the work of Hermann and Gudrun Zapf in the San Francisco Public Library. Photo reportage by Jill Bell. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zeynep Dilmen

    San Francisco, CA-based designer of a deco typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zoe-Zoe Sheen

    Graphic designer and visual artist living in Los Angeles. She created the caps typeface Bitch Tits (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zono Fonts
    [Rik Verlin Livingston]

    Wonderful collection of Mac and PC fonts by Rik Verlin Livingston. Direct download. The fonts: Zono (comic book style), ZonoBold (comic book style), ZonoCreatureCaps (2000), Zono Dingbats (2000: a gonzo dingbat face), ZonoPlanetClipArt, ZonoToon, ZonoToonBold, ZonoToonCompressed.

    Dafont link. Rik Verlin graduated in 1987 from the San Francisco Art Institute. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zurb Playground

    Campbell, CA-based creators of the free icon font Foundation Icons (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zuzana Licko
    [Emigre]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿