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]  ⦿

Aaron Sittig
[xtypa]

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Aaron-Harper Lee

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

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Adhemas Batista

Brazilian art director, graphic designer and illustrator based in Los Angeles. Born in 1981 in Sao Paulo. Behance lnk. He designed various display typefaces for his projects: Mariana (2005) is an experimental face 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 face 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. Hisc typefaces:

• Maven Pro (2010) is a sans characterized by constant curvature and vertical cuts. It was created by Joe Prince, courtesy of Vissol Ltd.. It is an extensive free typeface, and in fact, it is more than free: visitors can request that a new glyph be added. Vissol is a British web design company.
• Valencia (2011). A condensed art deco family in five weights that is free at Lost Type). Image by Ryan Kiley.
• Varela (2011). A sans serif face. Followed by Varela Round.
• Questrial (2011). Influenced by Helvetica.
• Geostar (2011). A blackboard bold face. Followed by Geostar Fill (2011).
• Handlee (2011). Free Google Web Font.
• Squada One (2011). Free at Google Web Fonts, it is a squarish Impact-like family.
• Bemio (2012). Published by Lost Type, it is an ultra bold sans.
• Klinic Slab (2012).
• Venera (2012, Lost Type).

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.

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]

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Adrian Saucedo

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

Adriel Almirol
[Hypoetical]

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Aerotype
[Stephen Miggas]

Aerotype is a foundry in Glendale, CA. It sells the creations of Stephen Miggas. Many typefaces were developed around 1998, and most were rejuvenated and updated in 2005. A list of Aerotype's faces 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: Bountiful, BountifulBold, Khaki (2007, fun script), Khaki Alternate, Mission, Sanscripta (+Heavy), Siesta, Southbee, Stay True (2011, tattoo-inspired) Boundless, Chillin, Angeleno, Game Street, Jumpshot.
• Stencil faces: Expedition Stencil (+Heavy, +Thin).
• Blackletter: 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: 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 faces: Expedition (+Heavy, Thin, Super, StencilSuper), Protocol (+Alternate, Alternate Light, Alternate Bold, Bold, Light).
• Dymo label simulation faces: Recycle Alternate, Recycle Alternate Reverse, Recycle Reverse, Recycle Standard), Public Works.
• Display faces: Pacifico (2009), Rebound, Roughneck, Fiesta (Mexican style), Mediterano, Pitchfork, Serendipity.
• Western style: Buckboard (2009), Bootstrap (2010), Planchette, Protocol, Leadville (Egyptian), Saloon After, Saloon Before, Boxwood, Caboose, Copperjack (2006, Egyptian), Silverton (Egyptian).
• Pre 1999 faces that have been discontined or renamed: Clique Serif, Bevel-Broken, CliqueWedge, Vector, Corrode, Looneywood.
• Dingbats: Antique Macabre Ornaments (2007).
• Wood type: Applewood (+Alternate, 2009).
• Stencil faces: Hogwild (2010).
• Calligraphic faces: Keepsake (2012, also advertised as a tattoo script typeface family), Spindrift (2012).

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

Agnes Han

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

Aimee Tejeda

San Diego-based designer of the angular face 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 faces: 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]  ⦿

Alan Blackman

Californian calligrapher and letterer Alan Blackman's Galahad (Adobe, 1995) is one of the most beautiful and balanced faces on earth. I hope it will not get overused and abused by pizza joints and holiday-in-Cancun advertisers. He used to write gorgeous calligraphic letters to himself. Alan was a letterform instructor at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco for several years. Linotype 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.

Fontfont link. FontShop link. Notes from a talk on typography.

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 , 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 face [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].

Aldus Type Studio

Mysterious outfit that used to be located at 731 S La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, CA 90036. Between 1997 and 2000 it modified and improved some existing fonts. There is also an Aldus company (but this time related to Mark Myers in San Diego) that used to bundle its fonts with TypeTwister---this may or may not be a different company. 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. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aled Anaya

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

Alejandro Chavetta

Creator of this hairline typeface for the San Francisco magazine (2008). [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 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. Behance link. [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.

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Alex Parada

Graphic designer in West Covina, CA. Creator of the modern psychedelic face Essencea (2011). [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 face with Arts and Crafts features. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexander McCracken
[Neutura]

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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 faces: 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]  ⦿

Alexia Yang

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

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]  ⦿

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:

• 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 face originally designed for the credits of the movie Savages.
• 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 family, with styles such as Block, Wedge, Block Low, Block High.
• Steinweiss Script (2010): a 2200-glyph curly script face 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).

View Michael Doret's typefaces. The typeface libray at Alphabet Soup. [Google] [MyFonts] [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 Duperre 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. Roxane (2011, Rosetta Type) covers Latin and Devanagari.

Typecache link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [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 handprinted faces Kinglet (2012, curly), Honey Bee (2011), Once (2010) and Clue (2010).

In 2013, Amy published the playful poster typeface Merci.

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

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

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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]  ⦿

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

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Andreu Balius Planelles

Born in Barcelona in 1962, Andreu Balius studied Sociology in the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, and graphic design at the IDEP School. 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.

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 faces, 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 faces. 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 faces 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.

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)]

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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 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 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 Binney 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 Binney&Ronaldson. For this book, the type has been printed from photopolymer plates. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Zhao
[Andy Hinomiya]

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Andy Chung

Graphic designer in Vancouver and/or San Francisco. He created the free font Neighborhood Type (2009). [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]  ⦿

Angie Cheng

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

Anna Grosh

Born in Siberia and now a resident of San Francisco, Anna Grosh finished her first masters in Moscow at the Open Social Academy of Design and 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. [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 face Love=Evol (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Carusone
[AisleOne]

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Antonio Cavedoni

Italian designer from Modena (b. 1980) who made Clara (2007, sans). His blog from Reading, where he was a student. He obtained an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on his Latin / Cyrillic typeface Enquire. After Reading, he started an internship in the type group at Apple in Cupertino, CA.

Unger's Workshop at Reading. Flickr link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Cavedoni

Born and raised in Sassuolo, Italy, he studied in Reggio Emilia, Bristol and Reading. He now works as a type designer in California. Speaker at Typecon 2012 in Milwaukee.

Designer of Ciccio and the sans face Micerino (2007). [Google] [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 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 shadowed 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.
  • 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: a 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 face used in Apple's iPod music player since 2001.

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

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

AquaToad
[Randy Jones]

Randy Jones, who runs AquaToad, is a free lance graphic designer who was in New York, but now lives in Santa Clara, CA, where her is a freelance graphic designer and principal of Aquatoad Design. Creator of Eason (2007, Fountain: a playful revival of Nicolas Jensons 1470 roman), Olduvai (2004, a fun old lettering face available at Umbrella Type; +Small Caps), Phaeton, Saint Nicolaus (2003, his take on Jenson, but not a revival), Chagrin (2003, serif face), AT Tenement (2003, wood type simulation), Neweue Helvetica (2003), Extra Wide Sans (2002) and the organic sans serif Cuillere (2003). New project (2003). An Eurostyle/Gothic project (2003). Working on a Sans Companion (2004). Saint Nicolaus was renamed Eason (2005) and now includes inline and titling versions. Hillbrook and Moped (upright connected fifties diner script: Sans, Script, Retrolux) were created in 2009.

Klingspor link. [Google] [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).

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

Arnie Gabriel Gonzales
[323 Productions]

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Arno Chen

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

Ashley Quackenbush

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

Astrolux
[Glenn Parsons]

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

In 2013, Glenn created the comic book style typeface Koo Koo Puff.

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [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 handprinted. In 2010, he published Sync, Radio, Kahiki, Clue, Once (curly), Episodian (retro techno), Rewire, and History. In 2011, he added the fat funky face Earthling, Orange Cat (handprinted poster face), and the fun faces Gruyere, Mountain Goat (comic book style) and Monarch AF.

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

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

Aure Font Design
[Aurora Isaac]

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

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

Aurora Isaac
[Aure Font Design]

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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 face 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 faces 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 some nice faces 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]  ⦿

Avantexte Press

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

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

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Bao Nguyen

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

Ben Balvanz
[Fontalicious]

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

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Ben Haber

Californian designer of the grungy but interesting Mexican look face 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. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benny Stram

Creator of the handwriting face 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 faces in 1988-1994: TmsNagari, BF_Devanagari. These are here. [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 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 face done with great care, available from Umbrella Type), and Factory. i

Betatype published these fonts:

• Dear Sarah [Veer, 2004]. Dear Sarah is a contextual font that uses the contextual alternates feature of OpenType in an exemplary way. At the same time, people are complaining why OpenType's RAND feature is not implemented anywhere yet.
• Pill Gothic [Veer, 2004].
• Doublewide [Veer] (2006).
• Apertura [Veer]: a large sans family.
• Grant Avenue [Veer]: a large sans family.
• Zebramond.
• Serif Beta (2009): very promising free serif family!
• Ubuntu Title Font: a free rounded minimalist titling font.
• Uncial Slab (2003): a free unicase face.
• Emporium (2009): a display type inspired by Main Street.
• Roboto (2011). A free face developed at Google for its Android 4.0, and declared dead upon arrival by the typophile community since it does not know whether it is a humanist sans or a grotesk face. Roboto Slab followed in 2013. Image of Roboto. Google Web Fonts download link. Google Web Fonts link for Roboto Slab and Roboto Condensed.
• Ubuntu Titling.

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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. In mid-2006, Bigelow accepted the Melbert B. Cary Distinguished Professorship at Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Print Media. Typefaces designed by Bigelow:

• The Lucida family (1985) is used in several scientific publications. 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).
• Syntax Phonetic.
• Leviathan (1979).
• Apple Chicago (1991), Apple Geneva (1991).
• Microsoft Wingdings (1992).

Bill Duncan
[G. William Music Production]

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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]  ⦿

Blackdreamist
[Keith Hayden]

Blackdreamist is Keith hayden's typefoundry 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.

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

Bob Aufuldish
[fontboy.com]

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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. [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 face Need a crit (2003). [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 face Al-Bro. 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]

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Brenda Walton

Northern Californian illustrator and calligrapher. She designed ITC Cancione (1997). ITC writes: Cancione includes a large number of floral ornaments and tendril-like flourishes. Straight from the wineries in Napa Valley, if you ask me.

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [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 face Hello (2011), and on the Victorian ornamental face 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]

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Brian A. Jaramillo
[LetterCult]

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Brian Acevedo

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

Brian Bonislawsky
[Versus Twin]

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Brian Jaramillo
[Foundry-X]

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Brian Jaramillo Harvey
[Apollo 26]

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Bright Ideas Fonts

A foundry which made over 500 fonts, mostly in 1998-1999, and seemed to be located in Carlsbad, CA, where Gail Conwell edited their Bright Ideas Magazine at that time. 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:

• Accumulation: a hacker font.
• Amadeus: music-themed letters.
• Boingo: a beautiful curly script.
• Griffin: bewitched letters.
• Moteefe: an art deco face modeled after Marcia Loeb's 1972 alphabet.
• Riesling: an ornamental hairline display face.
• Windsong: calligraphic script.

Bright Ideas Magazine

50USD/month, edited by "Bright Ideas". Bright Ideas is produced under the direction of Creative Director Gail Conwell. [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 face Duet (2012), which is based on Julia Childs' personality. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bryan Mason
[Typekit]

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C. Joey Mann

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

Caitlin Murphy

Student at DeVry University, Bakersfield, CA. Creator of the handprinted face Eric Thin (2011). [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 (19th century)

San Franciscvo-based foundry, 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 faces. [Google] [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 at Psy/Ops and of Linotype Banjoman Roman (an avant-garde font), Caterina (2004, a calligraphic sans used in some places by movie director Francis Ford Coppola), and Linotype Aperto at Linotype (1996). MyFonts write-up. Other URL. Other fonts at Calligraphics: Caterina (1998), Aperto (1995, a stressed sans family), Harmonica (2005, script), DemiTasse, Gargoyle and Espresso. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Calvin Antwan Matthews

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

Cameron McEfee
[Octicons]

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Carl Anderson
[Carl's Web Log]

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Carl Crossgrove
[Terrestrial Design]

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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. He designed Caslon Italic Specials and Swagger Capitals, which already appeared in the 1922 catalog of BBS.

Swagger Capitals was reworked by Nick Curtis in 2004 as Mazurka NF. And many ornaments were collected and digitized by Nick Curtis in Junge Holiday Cuts NF (2004). 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. [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]  ⦿

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. Klingspor Museum PDF. Typophile link.

Her typefaces:

• FB Californian (1987-1994, with David Berlow and Jane Patterson).
• Adobe Caslon (1990). Poster by Rachel McKay.
• Chaparral (1997).
• Charlemagne (1989).
• Lithos (1989, the famous stone-cut look face).
• Mirarae (1984). This face with its characteristic mid-eighties oversized x-height won her the Morisawa Gold Prize.
• Myriad (1992, with Robert Slimbach), Myriad Wild, Myriad Sketch, and Myriad Tilt.
• Nueva (1994, +Extended).
• Trajan (1989, Adobe).
• Viva (1993).
• The Western faces Pepperwood (1994), Rosewood (1994), Ponderosa (1990) and Zebrawood, all codesigned with Kim Buker Chansler and Carl Crossgrove. Pepperwood was patterned after a 1877 wood type by Vanderburgh, Weklls and Company. [Caution: Some say that she did *not* co-design these typefaces, contradicting MyFonts and other sources.]

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

Carolina de Bartolo
[Explorations in Typography]

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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 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.

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

Casady & Greene
[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. 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).

The FLF series includes Abilene (Western), Alexandria (2004, slab serif family), Black Knight (blackletter), Bodoni, BodoniUltra, Bonnard (art nouveau), ButtonHighlight, ButtonPlain, Calligraphy, Campanile (a great didone face), Checkbox, Collegiate (sports lettering), Coventry Script (calligraphic), Cutouts (stencil), Desperado, Dorovar, DryGulch, Epoque (art nouveau), FattiPatti, Fletcher Gothic (1992, art nouveau), Galileo, Gazelle (calligraphic), Gatsby, Giotto, Gregorian (blackletter), Harlequin, Highland Gothic, Jott, Kasse, Kells (modern round Gaelic font, 1988), KeyCaps, La Peruta, Meath (modern round Gaelic font, 1988), Michelle (art deco, marquee face), Micro, MicroExtended, Monterey, Moulin Rouge (1992, an art nouveau face by Richard A. ware), Nouveau (art nouveau), Paladin (blackletter), Pendragon, Phoenix Script, Prelude (connected script), Regency Script (calligraphic), Right Bank (2004), Ritz (2004, art deco), Rocko, SansSerif, Sedona Script (connected, calligraphic), Slender Gold, Vertigo, VertigoPlus, Zephyr 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 can be found at TypOasis. Fontspace link. Fontex link. Font Squirrel link. Scan of some fonts. Dafont 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 faces 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 graduated from Dominican University of California. He does custom font design and sells commercial faces 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.
• 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, handprinted), 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 face 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 face 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), 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 face 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).
• 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).

Cathe Holden

Creator of a calligraphic alphabet in 2010. She lives in Petaluma, CA. [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. [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 Eurostyle) 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 handprinted Wet Pussycat, and the all caps faces Snowflake Drop Caps, Crumpled Parchment (grunge), Mauro Poggi Ornamental Caps, and Flowery Drop Caps. Lil'Punk (2010) is a grungy handprinted face. 20th Century German (2010), Maurice Dufrene Initials (2010, art nouveau) and Sassa Mixed (2010, inspired by Swiss art from 1939) are ornamental caps faces.

First Ladies (2011) consists of signatures of first ladies. Parisian Ornamentals (2011) is an ornamental shadow caps face 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).

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-anfd-lightning face Hand of God (2010). [Google] [MyFonts] [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 face Nicollet (2003), Tense, Eve Three (text type), Construct, Bandwidth (pixel family), Fancysingle, Nicollet, Stitch (stitching font), Hudson, Palio, Stargazer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Character

Prolific Woodland Hills, CA-based typophile and type designer (b. 1937) whose portfolio consists largely of revivals. The 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 shadowed 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 faces: 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 face Arrowhead from the Solotype Catalog and alphabet books).
• Historic faces: 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 face 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. Yet another URL. Fontspace link. And another one. See also at abfonts. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Bigelow
[Bigelow&Holmes]

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Chase

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. Dafont link.

Creator of Liquid Crystal (2012, the ultimate LCD typeface family), Linkin Park, 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 face based on the Chanel logo.

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 (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]

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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]  ⦿

Choz Cunningham
[Exclamachine Type Foundry]

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Chris Cappilla

Graphic designer in Agoura Hills, CA. Creator of some experimental typefaces in 2012.

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Chris Forrette

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

Chris Papasadero
[Fwis]

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Christian Robertson
[Betatype]

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Christopher Means

Designer in Long Beach, CA.

In 2012, Christopher created CM You Got Me wet, CM Fresh Paint, CM Big Fat Paintbrush, CM Garaflora (floriated Garamond caps), CM Chipped Paint (ornamental caps), CM Sans Serif 2012 (+Aged), CM Jungle Adventure (textured typeface), CM Hot Nurse (chalky font), CM Bank Tower College (an athletic lettering font), CM Western Woodblock (+No. 2), CM Mummy Tape, CM Party Headline (textured caps), CM Shark Week, CM Tropical Script, CM Old Western, CM Cold Request CM Moving Forward (techno face), CM Old Firehouse (grungy), CM Grunge Party.

In 2011, he designed CM Tattoo Dragon, CM Bloat, CM Handwriting One (brush face) and CM Old Halftone. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Slye

Born in Los Altos, CA, he 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 assists with the design and production of Adobe's type library. He was (and still is) 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 created Elmhurst (1997), a 7-style transitional family. Presently, he is Technical Product Manager, Type, at Adobe in San Jose.

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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Toumanian

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

Chuck Davis
[Letterhead Fonts]

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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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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 Huckabee

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

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Comicraft (or: 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. 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), Area51 (2005), 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 (2005), 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 face 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, handprinted), Rassum Frassum (2011, comic book face), Rocket Man (2011, a retro futuristic family), Spaghetti Western (2011, signage face).

View Comicraft's typefaces. [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.

Included in the CTAN subdirectories, where one can download thef onts 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. [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), Twiddlybitz (pixel font), Tritto (handwriting), Skribler, KillerAnts, Goombah, Bokonon. 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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Corey Holms

Graduate from Cal Arts (1996), who runs CoreyHolms.Com in Fullerton, near Los Angeles. MyFonts link. MyFonts foundry link. Designer of NE10 (2010, a stencil / neon tube typeface), Area (2008, Umbrella Type, an art deco nightclub face; hints of Avant Garde), Mode (2007, experimental modular type, Umbrella), 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), 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 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 face Sci-Fi (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Counterpoint Type Studio
[Jason Walcott]

Established in 2013 by Hollywood, CA-based Jason Walcott (JAW Fonts, Jukebox Type), b. 1971, Michigan, it started marketing fonts in that same year. The first batch included Raspberry Jam (a delightfully curly display face), Profiterole (a feminine pastry shop script), and Califunkia (pure psychedelia). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cozy Fonts
[Tom Nikosey]

Type designer (b. 1951, New York) in New York City, whose typefoundry is Cozy Fonts, located in Bell Canyon, CA.

Creator of the Arabic simulation face Aladdin (2012) and of Skratchbook (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [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).

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

Crate Design
[Gabe Ferreira]

Cypress, CA-based artist Gabe Ferreira (Crate Art Design in Long Beach, CA) designed the wedge serif face Thera Standard (2010) and the slab serif face Crate (2010).

Creator of the octagonal techno typeface Time Never Quits Turning (2012).

Facebook page. [Google] [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 face 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, insect antenna influences! Discussed here) and Rutager (2001). He was working on Palormak (2006, futuristic).

From 2006-2010, 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]

Ronnie Cruz (Cyberian Khatru) is Filipino type designer, b. 1966, Asinaan, Panaasinan, Philippines. His fonts include techno and gothic faces such as Bone Voyage, Iron Warrior, 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. Cyberian Khatru is located in Hayward, CA. [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 face 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]  ⦿

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

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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 L. Isdell
[Clanbadge]

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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]  ⦿

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 face 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 founded the ScanJam Design Company in 1993, together with Tim Glaser. At ScanJam, he designed numerous retail and custom faces. In 2000, Josh Darden left Scanjam to work for the Hoefler Type Foundry. In 2005, he joined the type coop Village. 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 font.
• 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).
• Locus.
• Interact (Garage).
• Freight (2004-2009, Garage): an extensive, all-round family of faces including Micro, Sans and Text versions. 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). In 2005, Freight Big (the heavier styles are high-contrast didones) and Freight Display were added. Freight Sans Condensed Pro followed in 2012. Review by John Berry.
• 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.

Darren M. Boudreau
[Inception 8]

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Darren McArdel

Graphic designer in Los Angeles, where he ran/runs Bautiful Bastards. Subsequently, he is associated with Questus Inc and Big Country Labs, and is now located in Costa Mesa, CA.

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. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dave Savage

Illustrator in Los Angeles. Behance link. He has been creating fonts since 1994. These are mainly grungy, scary and comic book faces. 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. [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]

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David Jonathan Ross
[DJR Type]

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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 manages the group which designs and produces Adobe's non-Asian fonts. Designer (b. 1953) of the Copal font family (1994, Adobe: a fat poster family). He is involved in Adobe's OpenType project. At ATypI meetings he is invariably the tallest participant, and often the only one wearing a cowboy hat. 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]

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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).

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David Nong

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

David Ryan

Author of Letter Perfect The Art of Modernist Typography 1896-1953 (San Francisco, 2001). [Google] [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). David Siegel made Eaglefeather for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which owns various manuscripts of the beautiful lettering of this American artist and designer, 1867-1959. P22 Eaglefeather Pro is a large extension released in 2012.
• 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.

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]  ⦿

Daze Fonts
[Jason Daze]

Free handwriting fonts by Jason Daze from Los Angeles: Shumway, Battled, Vesty Mess, Angrydragon, Pahants. [Google] [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 face 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 (handprinted), Marquee Slop, Garbanceras. [Google] [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), 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]  ⦿

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 the 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. New books. One of the first places to consult, in my view. New type books. MyFonts link. Designer of these typefaces:

• 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.
• 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.
• Tilden Sans (2004-2009): low contrast, large x-height.
• Uppercut Angle (2011). A signage face 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 codesigned 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 faces 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.

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

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demonics

FontStructor in 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.

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

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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.

His typefaces: OL America The Beautiful (2013, a fashionable didone without ball terminals), OL Braggadocio (Braggadocio is a 1930 design by William A. Woolley), OL Candida Medium Condensed / Extra Condensed, OL Caslon Light / Bold, OL Chamfer Woodtype, OL Contact Bold Condensed, OL Contact Deco Caps, OL Corvinus Bold Condensed, OL Corvinus Versailles, OL Edenesque, OL Egiziano (+Comstock, 2005), OL Egmont (2005, +Medium, Medium Italic, Condensed: after Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos), OL Engraver's Roman, OL Engraver's Classic Roman (2009), OL Franklin Wide, OL Franklin Extra Bold / Extra Bold Italic, OL Franklin Triple Condensed, OL Garamond (2003), OL Gotham Gothic, OL Grecian Classic Bold Condensed / Bold Extra Condensed, OL Grecian Display, OL Grecian Modern (the Grecian series imitates wood type), OL Gothic Wide and Bold, OL Hairline Gothic (2009), OL Headline Gothic Triple Condensed, OL Heavy Metal Grecian, OL Jenson Bold Condensed / Extra Bold Condensed, OL Latin Classic Condensed, OL Lightline Gothic, OL Marksman Shot, OL Marla Bold, OL Miehle Classic (2009, +Condensed), OL Newsbytes Gothic, OL Purrrbank Gothic, OL Qumran Torah Hebraic Set, OL Racer Roman, OL Raleigh Gothic, OL Roman Compressed (2004), OL Roman Wide Deco Caps, OL Smokler (2006), OL Sharon Gothic Stoned, OL Sinead Stoned and Pointy, OL Smokler, OL Smokler Deco Caps, OL Thorne with Shadow, OL Twenty-five Deco Semicondensed, OL Windowpane Gothic, OL Woody Blocked, OL Avril Roman (2003, a flared face, after Emil Rudolf Weiss), OL Brierwood Grecian, OL Butterfly, OL Egyptian, OL Franklin, OL Garamond, OL London Black, OL Machina Black (2003, octagonal, mechanical), OL Manhattan, OL Marquee, OIL Newsbytes (2003, bold and black newsprint faces), OL Radiant, OL Round Gothic, OL Siynnamin Gothic, OL Skeleton Gothic, and HispanicHeritage (1999).

His fonts are sold through Phil's Fonts, Dsgnhaus, International Typefounders, and MyFonts. His 2001 fonts are signed Siynn bar-Diyonn, which is his Hebrew name. His Hebrew fonts published in 2007 include OL Hebrew Formal Script, OL Hebrew Neo Black, OL Hebrew Block, OL Hebrew Calligraphica, OL Hebrew Chisel, OL Hebrew Cursive, OL Hebrew Deco, OL Hebrew Handwriting, OL Hebrew Handwriting Deco, OL Hebrew Headline, OL Hebrew Prismatic, OL Hebrew With Tagin, and OL Qumran Torah.

Buy his fonts at MyFonts. Interview at the end of 2002, in which he recalls the start of his career at Rolling Stone magazine in 1979.

Showcase of Dennis Ortiz-Lopez's typefaces at MyFonts.

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Devin Agar

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

Devin Doty

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

Diane Ehlers
[Magpie Fonts]

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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, 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. Check also here. Many designs by Blake Haber. Located in Santa Barbara, CA. Dafont link. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DJR Type
[David Jonathan Ross]

DJR Type (Lowell, MA) stands for David Jonathan Ross Type.

His fonts include Lavinia and Manicotti (an ultra reversed-stress Western-look display face), an untitled French Clarendon and and untitled semi-serif. Originally from Los Angeles, he was a student at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, where he studied information design and typographic tradition. The fat Egyptian typeface DJR Manicotti (Western saloon style) won an award at TDC2 2007 (for a free lookalike, see Plagiacotti (2009, Saberrider)).

In 2006 he was working on this semi-serif font (2006), as well as Climax Text (2006). Climax is a text and display series that was designed for Hampshire's student newspaper.

After graduation, he joined Font Bureau as a junior designer and is currently assisting with custom projects and expanding Font Bureau's retail library. In 2009, he published Trilby (Font Bureau), based on 19th century French Clarendon of wood type fame.

His 2010 project at Font Bureau was his biggest yet--a 60-style art deco family called Condor.

Turnip (2012) is an angular and manly text face, also published at Font Bureau.

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

Donald E. Knuth
[Computer Modern fonts]

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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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Donovan Mansinon-Salazar

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

Doug Alves
[Nacionale]

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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 face 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.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. [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). 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.

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Doyald Young
[Doyald Young: Logotypes and Letterforms]

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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 recent heart operation. Picture. 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. 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:

• Logotypes and Letterforms (1993, Delphi Press). Review. It includes the corporate typefaces and original and revised logotypes he created for General Electric, Sony, Hilton International, John Deere and other businesses. Steve Heller: It was well received by designers for its defiance of fashionable trends.
• Fonts&Logos (1999, Delphi Press, and 2000, Sherman Oaks). A book of examples, it includes many logos designed by him for the cosmetic, fashion and entertainment industries. Review. Bette Midler logo (2002). Grammy Awards logo (1988). Prince, The Hits Collecton, cover (2000). Sinatra, The Man and his Music TV Special (1981). Logo for Apex Engraving (1974).
• The Art of the Letter (2003, Smart Papers, Hamilton, Ontario).
• Dangerous Curves Mastering Logotype Design (2008, Delphi Press). Delphi Press was his own company.

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 face used in his book, Fonts&Logos), Young Finesse Italic (2006), Guts (1976, VGC), and Young Baroque (1984, 1992, Letraset; calligraphic Spencerian copperplate script). [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.

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 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]  ⦿

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 face Pueblo Unido (no downloads). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edward Dalton Pelouze
[San Francisco Type Foundry]

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Edward Pelouze

Born in 1799, died in 1876. Edward Pelouze was the second son of Edmund Pelouze, and a key figure in the Pelouze typefoundry 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]  ⦿

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 faces, which are sold by many foundries and vendors, including Will-Harris.

Her typefaces: Abelard (1988, mediaeval), LeonardoHand (Da Vinci's handwriting--greeeeaaaat), Lutahline (clean handprinted 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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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. 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), Narly (1993), Program OT (2013, a rounded sans family), Quartet (1993), SodaScript (1995), Solex (2000), Tarzana (1998), 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 (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).

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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 faces: Policy Gothic (2012, an eroded caps face), Mooseheart (2012), Operapolitan (2012), Fishwrapper (2012), Fred (2007, inspired by a 1930s face by Fred G. Cooper), Schreibweise (2007, a pirate-flavored font inspired by a hand-lettered manuscript dating from 1492), Cablegram-Regular, Golden Ticket-Base, Cablegram-Urgent, Golden Ticket-Fill, Cablegram-Madras, Golden Ticket-Highlight, Cablegram-Ottoman, Julius Klinger (2003, based on 1925 fabric lettering by Julius Klinger), Cablegram-Zagreb, DMV Printer, Landry Gothic, Penitentiary Gothic-Regular, Telegrafo, Penitentiary Gothic-Fill, Toronto Gothic, Penitentiary Gothic-Hilite, Vogue (pencil-lettered caps), Penitentiary Gothic-Lolite, Penitentiary Gothic-Shadow, Chicago House, Compliments-Regular, Compliments-Upright, Satisfaction (script based on 1930s cigarette ads), Vandal Broke Extra Juicy, Lanier (2004), Impersonal. The Cablegram, Penitentiary 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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Eric Eaton
[Deliberate Design]

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Eric Giovanola

Los Angeles-based designer of the calligraphic face 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 MacLeod

Art director and typographer in La Mirada, CA. He created the upright monoline connected script face Rosaleigh (2009) and the flared sans face 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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Erik Adigard
[M-A-D]

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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. He teaches typography at the Art Academy in Bremen, and is guest-lecturer at several schools around the world.

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

His essay on information design.

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

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

FontShop link.

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

Erin Sykes

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

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 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 typfaces MISQOT (scratchy) and Paul Maul XT (irregular hand-printed face).

Typefaces from 2013: 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]  ⦿

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.

Explorations in Typography
[Carolina de Bartolo]

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. Carolina is located in San Francisco. 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 faces (many from the FontFont library), the aggregate effect is an ersatz type catalog as well as an extensive resource of typesetting ideas. [Google] [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 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).

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Fiona Mares

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

Flashfonts
[Leslie Cabarga]

Flashfonts is 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, a famous retro script.
• Casey (2007), a fat-bottomed script at Font Bureau).
• Streamline.
• Kobalt and Kobalt Kartoonare (at Font Bureau), great for displays, in the style of Neuland.
• Ojaio, a beautiful art deco font.
• Central Station, an original display face.
• The retro script Magneto.
• Neon Stream.
• 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. At Font Bureau.
• 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, Progressiv, Cymbal Regular, Dotcom Medium, Generik Regular, Graffiti Regular, Angle, Badtyp, Haarlem, Margarete, Primitiv, Progressiv, Rocket, Rocket Gothic, Straight, Bellbottom, Hihat, Baseball. Jo the Webmistress on Cabarga.

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: 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 handprinted 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).

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. [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 faces made in 2009---ideal for posters.

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

fontboy.com
[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. Fontboy (est. 1995, San Anselmo, CA, principals: Bob Aufuldish and Kathy Warinner, now called Aufuldish&Warinner) made OldMoney (truetype), Baufy (1994), RoarShock, Punctual (a connect-the-dots typeface family), NewClearEra, Viscosity (1996, with Kathy Warinner), Whiplash (1994). Mostly baroque modernism fonts. The Roarshock dingbats remind me of Zapf Dingbats, while Armature (1997) is just a regular semi-grunge font. Armature Neue (1997-2010) is a monoline face. Panspermia is the king of grunge. RoarType One is a "pixel" font where each pixel has been replaced by two alternating characters from the RoarShock dingbats. Bob also did the very funny dingbats Zeitguys One and Two (1994) and Big Cheese (1992) at Emigre. Bio at Emigre. MyFonts site. FontShop 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 include 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.

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 faces), 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 faces Baguad, Chap Clerk, Parlante, Presse, TSF&Co (art deco; +Heavy).
• The sans serif faces 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 2013: 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, Enchanted Castle, 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.

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]  ⦿

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]

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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 face inspired by Bali. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FotoStar
[Robert Trogman]

Los Angeles-based company that distributed a 5000+ library of two-inch film fonts for display faces, 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. Blippo (1970) and Handel Gothic (by Robert Trogman) are in that collection. And so is Buxom, a beveled 3-d athletic lettering typeface sold, e.g., by Elsner&Flake as Buxom SB (Scangraphic).

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, rewspectively. Gus revived Yagi Link Double as Retro Stereo Thin.

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-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 Bonislwasky), JAF Peacock (2007-2010, Just Another Foundry: done with Tim Ahrens), Bipolar (2009, +Decorative, +Poster) and Occulista (2009, versatile inline family).

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [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 faces 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 faces such as Liber13 (high-contrast squarish poster face) and Lisa The Lush. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fred Brady

Fryda Berd, alias 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.

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

Fred Carriedo

Graphic designer in Modesto, CA. He created the bold grungy face Abridge (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fred Machuca

Long Beach, CA-based [T-26] designer of the headline face 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 face Westrider 2057 (2011), which was inspired by classic West Coast graffiti letter styles.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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. The design team consisted of Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly, Fred Brady, and Christopher Slye.

Klingspor link.

Designer of Quake, a quite useless font showing wiggly characters. See also here. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fumi Omori

Graphic designer in Los Anglese who made a typographic poster for TDC59 in 2013. [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 Ferreira
[Crate Design]

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GagaFonts (or: Gaga Design)
[Jens Gehlhaar]

Jens Gehlhaar at GagaFonts made 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. Gaga Design is based in Bad Ems, Germany. Gehlhaar also hangs him pyjamas in California. [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]  ⦿

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 face Head Honchos. At T-26, he contributed Superior and Superior Smudged (1996).

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 face 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]  ⦿

Geo Ben

Los Angeles-based creator of the very cleverly and beautifully executed futuristic uncial face (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 faces 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]  ⦿

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 face typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giovanna Ghio

San Francisco-based web and graphic designer. Creator of the handwriting face NeonGigi-Medium (2005). Digital type student at City College of San Francisco. [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).

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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Grabhorn Collection

List of type specimen books in the Grabhorn Collection of the San Francisco Public Library. [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]  ⦿

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 Phisher

Los Angeles, CA-0based 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]  ⦿

Greek House of Fonts
[Sebastian Riessen]

Sebastian Riessen is the San Diego-based creator of the rounded fat face 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. [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]

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Greg Thompson

Born in Nebraska, 1958. 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.

Based in Mount Dora, FL, Greg Thompson is the designer of Bodega Sans and Bodega Serif at Font Bureau. Allan Haley reviews Bodega. He also created Agenda, FB Century Bold Condensed (1992, after the 1906 design at ATF by Morris Fuller Benton), Clicker (1992-2005), Commerce (1991).

About Clicker: Greg Thompson's original soft octagonal Clicker 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.

At Thirstype, he created Ooga Booga (1994, with Rick Valicenti). Bluty (2000) seems to be a copy of Agenda.

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

View Greg Thompson's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gregory Madden

Graphic designer in Lompoc, CA, who made the ornamental caps face ABC (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gregory W. Jacobson
[Dead Image Design]

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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]  ⦿

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.

His typefaces include the angled serif font family Romana (1892), the script font Quaint Roman (1895), DeVinne (1890-1896, sold to Stephenson Blake; now available at Bitstream), Era (ca. 1892; with Nicholas J. Werner for BB&S), an unnamed face for BBS (1891), another unnamed face (1893), an unnamed art nouveau face and another unnamed serif face (1893, for VJA Rey), an art deco face for ATF (1897--remarkable, 20 years ahead of the art deco movement), Pastel (originally called Era) and Eccentric (1881, an arts and crafts face available in digital form at Agfa (now Monotype) and at Adobe).

FontShop link. Google patent link. Klingspor 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]  ⦿

GVMNT
[Max Privalov]

Max Privalov's foundry, GVMNT, is based in Los Angeles. He created the bamboo cut-tipped caps typeface Envy Races (2012) and the Peignotian typeface Counterfeit Black (2012). Later in 2012, he published the wide wedge-serifed slightly engraved high-contrast titling face Black Feud. [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 face 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 face for V2). Offices in Frankfurt and San Francisco. I suspect that the type designer is Markus Remscheid. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [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. He created the Agfa-Monotype fonts New Gothic Light (2001), Architec (2001, architectural and lined), Blockade (2001, grunge), Tuscany (2001, a beautiful scribbly hand), Woodcut Alpha (2001, Kafkaesque) and West Of China (2001, a great oriental-looking calligraphic font). Other fonts include Spoleto (2001, a funky hand-drawn face).

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 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 also made the old shareware fonts Bellerose (1992, an avant-garde face), Mazama, Premium Thin, RhyoliteVertical (1990) and Andesite (1991) which can be found on many archives.

Old home page. 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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Hector Santos
[Sushi Dog Graphics]

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Hector Santos
[Living Scripts of the Philippines]

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Hector Santos
[Tagalog Script]

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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.
• 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.
• Paulo Heitlinger did Sturmblund (2008) and Bayer Condensed (2008).

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 face ideally suited for the lounge of Elliot Spitzer's Emperor's Club. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

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, CA. Graffiti Fonts was also run by them. And so is 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 2012: Rase GPL (squarish, free at OFL).

Fonts from 2011: Gang Bang (2011, graffiti tag style), Scrawl (graffiti style).

Fonts from 2013: rapScript (graffiti), Olde Crilt (blackletter).

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 (lined school font), 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), Rase One (2004), Magik Marker (2006), Paint Cans (2003), Rase Basic (2003), Same Gang (2004).

Klingspor link. OFL link. Graffiti Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hilary

Californian creator of the handprinted typefaces Hilary, Patty, My Cursive, Rachelle, Jack, and Gia (2012, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

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 face in weights called Exotique, Hollandaise and Parisienne) and Xbats (2004, Christmas dingbats) in 2004.

Speaker at ATypI 2004 in Prague.

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

His bestselling fonts at MyFonts. Pic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Holly Goldsmith
[Small Cap Graphics]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hrant H. Papazian
[The MicroFoundry]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hype Type Studio
[Paul Hutchison]

Los Angeles, CA-based Paul Hutchison runs Hype Type Studio. He created several custom typefaces ca. 2012.

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 face 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), Inversion (uncial), Cruller (a fantastic handlettered face 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 face designed for readability at very small sizes), Hanger, Rubber Vloeren (a geometric display face 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. [Google] [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]  ⦿

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

Hunt Roman is a type designed by Hermann Zapf in the early sixties in collaboration with Jack Stauffacher. He 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). 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. He now runs the Greenwood Press in San Francisco. 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. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jackson Burke

San Francisco, 1908-1975. He studied at the University of California in Berkeley. From 1949-1963, he was type director for Mergenthaler-Linotype. FontShop link. He created Trade Gothic (1948-1960), Majestic (1953-1956), Aurora (1960, a newspaper type; the Bitstream digital cloine is News 706). In 2008-2009, Akira Kobayashi unified and extended Trade Gothic to Trade Gothic Next (17 styles).

Mac McGrew writes: Trade Gothic is a Linotype family of gothics designed by Jackson Burke, and is basically very nearly the same as News Gothic. An early face 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 faces continued to grow, Linotype changed the name to Trade Gothic Condensed and Extra Condensed, with their bold faces, 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 face 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 unified and extended Trade Gothic to Trade Gothic Next (17 styles). SoftMaker has Transfer Gothic and URW offered Tradus.

Fontshop link. Klingspor link.

View various versions of Jackson Burke's Trade Gothic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jacob Wilen

Talented new media designer in San Francisco who graduated in 2010 with a BFA at the Academy of Art University. Home page. In 2010, he created a needle-themed beauty, Toxetica (or Toxectica). It comes with a phenomenal poster. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jacqueline Rabun

This Californian jewelry designer made a jewelry alphabet called The Temporium (2010). [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 Beall
[Glyfyx]

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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 Hernandez

Californian graphic designer who created the all-caps breast-inspired alphabet called Venusian (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James J. Connell
[James J. Connell Fonts]

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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, humanistic almost Pegnotian 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 M. Harris
[Harris Design]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

James T. Edmondson

Leeds, UK-based designer. Behance link. Dribble link. In 2011, he was a student at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Old home page. Typefaces:

• 2008: at FontStruct of the blackletter face 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 face 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.

James White

Whittier, CA-based designer of Vato Land (2011, runic simulation face) and of the tattoo/graffiti face Latos Vocos (2013). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jamie Walpole

Graphic design student at the Art Institute of California in Los Angeles, who made the display face Iron Kabinet (2011). He also made the 3d face Puzzle (2011). Jamie lives in Culver City, CA. Behance link. [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]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

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 Benson
[Typographic Collaboration (or: Typophile.com)]

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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
[JAW Fonts (Jukebox Type)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jason Castle
[Castle Type]

[MyFonts] [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. 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. [Google] [MyFonts] [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 Walcott
[Counterpoint Type Studio]

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Jason Warriner
[Fascination Workshop]

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JAW Fonts (Jukebox Type)
[Jason Anthony Walcott]

JAW Fonts (and before that, JAW Arts Fonts, and Jukebox Type) was created by Jason Walcott (b. Trenton, MI, 1971) from Hollywood, CA. It features many elegant calligraphic fonts, many comic book style faces. His bestsellers at MyFonts. 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, 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 face 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 face 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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jay Pierstorff
[Computer Safari]

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Jazmen Bradford

Student at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. He created the squarish face Proto (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

J.D. Beltran
[San Francisco Art Institute]

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Jean-Benoît Lévy
[AND]

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Jeanie Chong
[No More Bad Type]

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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. [Google] [MyFonts] [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]  ⦿