About Hawaiian fonts

Four Hawaiian truetype fonts: HI Kakuhihewa (Courier), HI Manokalanipo (Times), HI Pi'ilani (Palatino), HI Keawe (Helvetica). Free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berton Hasebe

Berton Hasebe (b. 1982, Honolulu, HI) moved from Hawaii to study and work in Los Angeles, where he obtained a BA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2005.

In 2007 he moved to the Netherlands to study type design through the Type and Media Masters course at The Royal Academy of Art in the Hague (KABK). His typeface Alda was designed to function at very small sizes while remaining expressive. The bold is macho and delicate at the same time. Alda won an award at TDC2 2009. In the same year Alda was also selected by the Tokyo Type Directors Club to be included in its annual publication.

Since 2008 he resides in New York and has been working for Commercial Type, where he co-designed the extensive family Stag with Christian Schwartz and Ross Milne. Stag started as a small family of slab serifs commissioned for headlines by the US edition of Esquire magazine and eventually grew into a sprawling multi-part family including a flexible sans companion and two additional special effects display variants. Stag Stencil followed in 2009.

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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).

Breehn Sasaki

Born and raised in Hawaii, Breehn Sasaki studied at Chapman University, class of 2012. His typeface Fanfare (2013) was inspired by Japanese fans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

BTD (or: Big Toe Designs)
[Mike Brittain]

Honolulu-based Mike Brittain (b. 1971) is the designer of Cart-O-Grapher (2002, shopping cart dings) and Btd BeezWax (2006, grungy typewriter face).

Alternate URL of his company, Bigtoedesigns. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Bigelow
[Bigelow&Holmes]

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Daniel Pelavin

American type designer, born in Detroit, who lives in New York City. Designed ITC Kulukundis (1997), and ITC Anna (1991), the Cyrillic version of which was done by Svetlana Yermolayeva, Vladimir Yefimov and Alexander Tarbeev in 1993. Canton Market (1995) is an oriental simulation font. In 1996, he designed Test. Other early typefaces made by him include Sindbad, Circles, Triangles, and Squares, all geometrical pattern fonts. Chairman of the Type Directors Club, 2002-2003.

In 2009, he designed the 1940s art deco face Bokar.

In 2010, he created Marquue Faceted and Marquee Solid (which can be layered to make a 3d effect), China Market (oriental simulation), Setsuko, an oriental simulation face, Rilke (an adaptation of the lettering used by Gustav Klimt on his poster for the 1st Vienna Secession exhibition in 1898 and is named for Klimt's contemporary the poet Rainer Maria Rilke: caps only), Tribeca Script, Monograph (as if written with a Speedball B pen), Book Country (crude octagonal folksy face), Bing (art nouveau; Bing poster), HiFi (retro script), Twentieth Century (art deco headline sans), and Safety (1930s style).

In 2011, he added Tiki (a pair of Hawaiian faces), Salty Dog.

In 2012, he created the monoline uprigt connected script face Mimosa, which was inspired by the packaging for Moulinard Jeune, a line of French toiletries from the 1920s.

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

David A. Occhino
[David Occhino Design (was: Treehouse Graphic Design)]

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David Occhino Design (was: Treehouse Graphic Design)
[David A. Occhino]

Treehouse Graphic Design was David Occhino's font outlet. It is now called David Occhino Design. The Treehouse collection specialized in Startrek, futuristic, Disney and Indiana Jones style fonts, but has widened lately. Most fonts are commercial, but there are a few free ones:

• Exclusive Designs: Tangaroa (2009, tiki font), TradeWind, Nautilus, Graviton, Voyager, Cinema, Firefly, Forest, Emblem.
• Signage faces: Craftsmen (2010), Craftsmen Ornaments (2010).
• Movie Fonts: Safari (1996, based on the famous Indiana Jones movie logo created by Mike Salisbury and David Willardson; version 2 in 2011), Venture, Astro, Galax-E, Time Travel, Iron Hero, Knight, Blade, Aeronaut (1997, avant-garde).
• Art Deco Fonts: Aeronaut (1997; Aeronaut 2.0 in 2011), Cinema, Pan-Pacific (2010: based on the classic 1940s lettering style that was used for the signage for the famous Pan-Pacific Auditorium).
• Theme Park Fonts: Kingdom (1996, blackletter), Mansion, Encounter, World.
• Sci-Fi Fonts: Astro SE, Basestar, Blade, Encounter, Galax-E, Graviton, Nautilus, Time Travel, Voyager.
• Halloween Fonts: Hocus Pocus, Nautilus, Mansion 3.0 (1996-2009), MansionCryptBats (2009, free).
• Education Fonts: School.
• Free Fonts: Aurebesh, Forbidden Eye, Tangaroa Glyphs (Hawaiian petroglyphs, 2009), World Symbols, Big Thunder Dingbats (2009: Western dingbats).
• Western fonts: Big Thunder (2009).
• Fonts I can no longer find: Aurebesh, DNealianArrows, DNealianGuides, DNealianRegular, Starspeeder, StarspeederUpright, Pyramid's Venture, Victorian Mansion.

Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Forrest Troxell

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

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

Guava Graphics

Pictofonts and clipart at this Honolulu-based company. Commercial pictofonts include: Hawaiian Icons, Oriental Motifs, Hawaiian Motifs, Marine Life, Xmas Font, Petroglyphs, Tapa Type, Hawaiian Gecko, Hawaiian Deco. 15USD a shot. Free fonts: Hawn University (1997), Hawn Wedding (1997). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hale Kuamoyo
[Keola Donaghy]

Foundry making Hawaiian fonts for Mac and PC. Some free fonts here: HIKeaweBold, HIKakuhihewaBold, HIKeawePlain, HIKakuhihewaPlain, HIManokalanipoBold, HIManokalanipoRoman, HIPiilaniBoldItalic, HIPiilaniBold, HIPiilaniItalic, HIPiilaniRoman. Alternate URL. Yet another site. The fonts are made by Keola Donaghy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hawaiian diacritics

Hawaiian fonts are like Latin fonts except for two additional diacritical marks. The kahako is a macron, a short, horizontal line that appears over some of the vowels when they need to have a long pronunciation. The cokina is the single, open quote that appears frequently before vowels. It indicates a glottal stop, a clean break between vowels. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hawaiian Web Fonts (or: Coconut info)

Commercial fonts with Hawaiian diacritics. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hawaiian Windows Resources

Page with everything about Hawaiian fonts and Hawaiian on the web. Many links. Download Hale Kuamo'o's set of Mac/PC TrueType fonts. Direct FTP access. Included are HIKakuhihewaBold, HIKakuhihewaPlain, HIKeaweBold, HIKeawePlain, HIManokalanipoBold, HIManokalanipoRoman, HIPiilaniBold, HIPiilaniBoldItalic, HIPiilaniItalic, HIPiilaniRoman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keola Donaghy
[Hale Kuamoyo]

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Kualono

Hawaiian font jump site. Has some Hawaiian fonts. Plus explanations of the diacritices needed for Hawaiian: The kahako is a macron, a short, horizontal line that appears over some of the vowels to make them sound longer. The 'okina is the single, open quote that appears frequently before vowels. It indicates a glottal stop, a clean break between vowels. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Brittain
[BTD (or: Big Toe Designs)]

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MyFonts: Tiki typefaces

A brief list of tiki (Hawaian, tropical) typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noa Emberson

With a bachelors in graphic design from the University of Hawaii, Noa has set up shop in Honolulu. Behance link. Creator of the experimental Joy Stain font in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Outside The Line Fonts
[Rae Kaiser]

Outside The Line Fonts was founded by Rae Kaiser (b. 1951, Marshfield, WI), and is based in Eau Claire, WI, on the shores of Lake Monona. Rae's fonts include

• Typefaces from 2013: Farm Doodles, Chicago Doodles, Happy Hour Doodles.
• Flower and Leaf Borders (2012), New Orleans Doodles (2012), Ultra Condensed (2012), Birthday Doodles (2012), Reading and Writing Doodles (2012).
• Waikiki Doodles (2011), Vibrant Women (2011, female figure dingbat face done with Nancy Vala), London Doodles (2011), Woof (2011, dog silhouettes done with Nacy Vala), Lake Vacation Doodles (2011), Drop Cap One (2011), Cowboy Doodles (2011), Cordially Yourz (2011, handprinted).
• Yuletide Doodles (2010), House Doodles (2010), Paisley and Swirl Doodles (2010), Fondly Yourz (2010, hand-drawn serif face), Paris Doodles (2010---a great dingbat face), Leaf Doodles (2010).
• Knitting And Sewing Doodles (2009), Just People (2010, with justine Childs), Just Shoes and Purses (2009), Sincerely Yourz (2009, child's hand), Flower Doodles (2009), Just Flower Pots (2009, dingbats; with Justine Childs), Just Christmas (2009, Xmas dings done with Justine Childs), Just Frames (2009: with Justine Childs), Frames and Borders (2009, followed by Frames and Borders Too, 2010).
• Wedding Doodles (2008, dingbats, followed in 2009 by Wedding Doodles Too), Hearts and Swirls (2008, heart dingbats), Fruit and Veggie Doodles (2008), Crowns (2008, with Justine Childs), Yourz Truly (2008), Font Doodles Too (2008, a 31-glyph food clipart dingbat font), Home Sweet Home Dingbats (2008), Hodgepodge (2008, +Handlettered, 2010), Dearest John (2008, handwriting), Doodles (2008), Diva Doodles (2008), Architectural Lettering (2008), Plz Script (2008, brush), Plz Print (2008, brush), BlobsBrushstrokesAndBalloons (2009), Baby Doodles (2008), Doodles Too (2008), Guy Doodles (2008), Party Doodles (2007), Party Doodles Too (2008).
• Christmas Doodles (2007, dingbats), Christmas Doodles Too (2008), Holiday Party Words (2007, comic book style letters), Fleurons of Paris (2007), Ornaments of Paris (2007), Heart Doodles (2007, followed by Heart Doodles Too in 2008).
• Coffee and Tea Doodles (2006), Diva Doodles Too (2006, fun diva dingbats), Justine (2006, with Justine Childs), Architectural Lettering (1999), Cross Stitch, Doodles, DoodlesTheAlphabet, Food Doodles, Fooddoodles, Hat Doodles (2006), Tall Skinny Condensed.

See also here. Agfa/Monotype sells Architectural Lettering, Cross Stitch, CurlyQ, Doodles, DoodlesTheAlphabet, Food Doodles, Holiday Doodles, Office Doodles, Plz Print, Plz Print Brush, Plz Print Bold Condensed, Plz Script, the handprinted series (Best Regardz, Dearest John, Yourz Truly and Sincerely Yourz, 2009) and Tall Skinny Condensed (1999).

MyFonts link. Font Bros link. MyFonts interview. Klingspor link.

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Poole Foundry
[Wesley Poole]

Wesley Poole's foundry based in Kaneohe, HI, and established in 2006. Wesley Poole (b. California, 1952) was a sign painter and wine label designer in the Napa Valley (his companies were called Oasis Graphics and then Titus&Poole, and Poole Aert&Design) for almost 25 years before moving to Hawaii in 2002 due to multiple sclerosis. Typefaces:

• Pagoda International (2006, designed with his son Samuel Poole). A comic book font based on the lettering of the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu.
• Poole Standard (2006). A stylish headline face.
• Poole Chiselcut (2007). Digitization with the help of Rod Cavazos (PsyOps).
• Polynesiac (2007, Wesley and Samuel together). Simulation of Easter Island lettering.
• Jigger Statz (2007).
• Contempo Elan (Grand Script and Ornamental) (2006). A festive and assertive calligraphic script done by Wesley and Samuel Poole.
• Alphaluxe (2008). A calligraphic upright connected ronde script by Wesley and Samuel.
• Vingo (2006).

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

Rae Kaiser
[Outside The Line Fonts]

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Samuel Poole

Son of Wesley Poole, born in California in 1984. Sam lives and works with his father Wesley in Hawaii, and has cooperated with him on these fonts that were published by Poole Foundry:

• Pagoda International (2006, designed with his son Samuel Poole). A comic book font based on the lettering of the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu.
• Poole Standard (2006). A stylish headline face.
• Poole Chiselcut (2007). Digitization with the help of Rod Cavazos (PsyOps).
• Polynesiac (2007, Wesley and Samuel together). Simulation of Easter Island lettering.
• Jigger Statz (2007).
• Contempo Elan (Grand Script and Ornamental) (2006). A festive and assertive calligraphic script done by Wesley and Samuel Poole.
• Alphaluxe (2008). A calligraphic upright connected ronde script by Wesley and Samuel.
• Vingo (2006).

Scott Yoshinaga

Hawaiian designer of the grungy Crud font, 10 dollars shareware. At Plazm, he published Grunge (1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Todd Masui
[Visage Type (Subtle Studios)]

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Uli Kozok

Auckland, New Zealand-based creator of the free font Surak Batak. Kozok writes: The Batak alphabet, or surat batak, is descended ultimately from the from Brahmi script of ancient India by way of the Pallava and Old Kawi scripts. The Batak languages of northern Sumatra - Karo Batak, Toba Batak, Dairi Batak, Simalungun/Timur, Angkola and Mandailing Batak, and occasionally Malay. In most Batak communities, only the datu (priests) are able to read and write the Batak alphabet and they use it mainly for calendars and magical texts. This site has truetype fonts by Kozok for the Battak script: KaroNormal, MandailingNormal, PakpakNormal, SimalungunNormal, TobaNormal, VariantsNormal. Uli Kozok is Assistant Professor in Indonesian, Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Visage Type (Subtle Studios)
[Todd Masui]

Visage Type (now Subtle Studios) is a small foundry by Hawaiian designer Todd masui. It made fonts such as Vestige (great handwriting!), Quiver, Rota (1999), Brevier (2000), Monodesic (2000), Steadfast (1998, T26), Alloy (2000, a very clean face!) and Signal. Todd Masui also produced fonts for Nakedface.

At Garagefonts, Todd is selling Quiver, Amp (pixel font), Shadowy (children's handwriting), and Vestige. At PsyOps, he published Serus (2000). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Wesley Poole
[Poole Foundry]

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