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AKOFAType
| Located in Powder Springs, GA, AKOFAType has published the following dingbats with symbology from Ghana: Adinkra Calabash, Adinkra FineFine, Adinkra WantaWanta (2007). The designer is Kwesi A. Amuti (b. East Lansing, MI, 1974). He is working on Steady Rockin (a display face) and Fat Head. Typedia link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Creator of Atrium (2012, a squarish sans family based on the pen art of W.E. Dennis), Saugatuck (2011, grunge) and Sello (2011, a unicase hand-drawn, geometric sans-serif with a touch of retro). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
East Lansing, MI-based graphic designer who created a typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundry in Ypsilanti, MI. Kadmos, Bosporos (both classical Greek), Czasy, Szwajcarski (Polish), and Demotiki (modern Greek). Nice fonts, 85 US dollars per face. Jeffrey Rusten swears that these are the highest quality fonts for polytonic Greek. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Saginaw, MI-based creator (b. 1989) of the grungy dymo label face Sensitivity (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kalamazoo, MI-based designer who is working on Vox (2004), a speech-based typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Angelyn Littmann (Studio Gidde, Michigan) created GiddeHand (2011, handprinted). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Saginaw Valley State University (MI). In 2012, she created the free typeface Duckie. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Saginaw Valley State University (MI). American designer of Timeportal (2011), created while studying at SVSU. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Grosse Pointe, MI. Creator of these unfonted alphabets: Buttery Noodles (2010, comic book style), Fun With Paper (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Caro, MI-based creator of the grungy dymo label face Night Out (2011) and the grungy typeface Funky Olive (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bigelow&Holmes
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Brand Labs
| Company in Rochester, MI. Fontspace link. Creators of the 3d beveled face Wednesday Matinee Shadow (2010). Dafont link. The designer is possibly Kevin Skinner. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Student at the University of Michigan who lives in Clarkston, MI, where she works as a graphic designer at Integrated Marketing Solutions. Creator of Sans Staple (2010), a typeface composed of juxtapositions of staples. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bruder Graphik
| Based in Dearborn Heights, MI, Bruder Graphik specializes in hand-drawn fonts. One of its first products is Graph Paper (2008). Randall Charles Bruder (b. Dearborn, MI) runs Bruder Graphik. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer. College for Creative Studies Detroit graduate. His face Chipper (2011) is based on the form of chocolate chips. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Charles J. Strong | Lettering teacher in Detroit in the early part of the 20th century. He contributed to art nouveau, and published Strongs Book of Design (1910). In 2010, one of his art nouveau alphabets was faithfully digitized by Ken Ray as Strongs 1917 Sharp. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Student at Saginaw Valley State University (MI). Creator of the dymo label grunge face Jukebox (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michigan-based creator of the free brush face Flare (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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. Behance link. MyFonts link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
David H. Shepard | Inventor of the optical reader, b. Milwaukee, 1923, d. San Diego, 2007. Shepard majored in electrical engineering at Cornell and earned a masters degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan. Obituary in the New York Times, from which I quote: Mr. Shepard sketched out the familiar boxy numbers on credit cards, called the Farrington B numeric font, on a cocktail napkin at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, his wife said. The shapes were meant to be as simple and open as possible because gasoline station pump islands were among the earliest places optical character recognition was used; the shapes were meant to minimize the effects of smearing with grease, oil and other substances. The font with a 7 that looks like two sides of a rectangle has persisted even as the numbers have faded from use: the magnetic strip on the cards back now carries the necessary information. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in Bay City, MI. New-York based designer of Quicksilver (1976, Letraset). He writes: I'm Dean Morris, the designer of the typeface "Quicksilver" that came out in 1976 as part of Letraset's Letragraphica range of rub-down fonts, the stylishly aggeressive ones in the yellow pages of the catalog. I named the typeface "Quicksliver" because it looked like bent thermometers - quicksilver being a nickname for mercury (I never meant it to suggest neon), and because "Quicksilver" had some of the cooler letters such as Q, K, E, and R. The name was my second choice, however. Letraset Englishly felt that my first choice, "Polished Sausage", would be "rather unpopular iln foreign markets". I designed it as a 16 year-old kid in John Glenn High School in Bay City, Michigan, and sent Letraset a xerox of a tight sketch of 3" letters kerned with the heavy outlines slightly overlapping as I originally intended. I drew only the skinny S without an alternate and submitted no punctuation (what did I know?). Letraset must have wanted it real fast (fifties nostalgia and disco were WHITE HOT then, remember), because they did the finished art themselves at 5" high (they can't have known my age, maybe they had no confidence in my technical talent), starting with the E as did I in the design stage. And what a gorgeous rendering job they did in the pre-Mac days of ruling pens, straightedges, and hand-drawn curves (those aren't compass curves)! Letraset stayed very close to my tight sketch, designed the punctuation, and suggested an alternate but wierd wide S, which I approved, figuring there was probably no other decent way to design it. I imagined the punctuation would match the stroke width of the letters but they drew them narrower and slightly oddly, but I figured what the hell. If you wondered, "What was I thinking?" when you looked at the A, B, E, F, K, N, Q, R, and Y, I'll tell you. I was simply trying to describe part of the letter being drawn in the wrong direction. I thought I was so clever. For instance the E cross-stroke goes from right to left rather than from left to right like, oh, any other Roman cap E in history. R and Q diagonals came from waaaaaaaay on the other side, N goes waaaaaaay around the wrong way before starting the diagonal. "Chrome" letters can branch but these "glass tube" letters don't! Alas, digitization came along eventually and fontographer technology followed. Crash went sales of rub-down type, and control of artwork was pirated without my knowledge and beyond my control, which I don't condone but I totally understand. The first album cover I saw with Quicksilver was Men At Work's first smash LP, then punk pioneer Stiff Records' logo appeared on 45 rpm labels with a clearly Quicksliver-inspired F. For about ten years I, family, and friends collected food packages, posters, took photos of signs, etc. with Quicksliver from around the world. I think it's about the easiest typeface to mishandle ever. Eventually I stopped trying to keep track of it. Maybe I'm overestimating its popularity now after 30 years (I totally forgot about it for about a decade), but to me seeing it around at all is itself a rave. I can't remember why I Googled "Quicksilver Letraset" a few days ago and what I found was a whole community of sites for font identification and original name lists (where they bothered to accurately credit me as designer which gets me RIGHT HERE). It makes me feel less forgotten even though I don't see royalties. BTW, I never did, nor did Letraset ask me to, design a lower case version. Feel free to pass along this modest piece of graphic microhistory to any Letraheads. The story has a sad ending, because Ray Larabie published Tight in 2007 at Typodermic, which is a copy of Quicksilver. Dean Morris's photo stream at Flickr. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Detroit Type Foundry | Extinct type foundry, which published a Specimen Book in 1951. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Detroit, MI-based designer of a Barack Obama poster (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DragonFang Fonts
| Russ Herschler (DragonFang Fonts, Royal Oak, MI; b. 1967) designed Moria Citadel (2002), a grunge font in the style of Stonehenge, an old Formatt Presson font on which it is based. He also made Crom (2007, comic book face). Home page. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Bay City, MI. In 2011, he designed a type family called Swiss Miss. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Allen from Wyandotte, MI, b. 1966, designed E-Dragon's Font (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Detroit, 1938. A teacher of graphic design at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, he designed Out West on a 15 degree Ellipse in 1993. He published FellaParts (dingbats) and OutWest in 1993 at Emigre. He wrote Edward Fella: Letters on America, Photographs and Lettering. In 1997 he received the Chrysler Award, and in 1999 he got an Honorary Doctorate from CCS in Detroit. His work is in the National Design Museum and MOMA in New York. Claire Agopia wrote Edward Fella "I am the vernacular" (2007) for her graduation from Ecole Estienne. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Saginaw Valley State University (MI). In 2012, she created the free dymo label typeface family Goonberry and the hairline typeface Demure Fleur. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Detroit-based designer, b. 1990. Behance link. Her typeface Zeitgeist (2010) was inspired by Bauhaus artwork by German artist Marianne Brandt: simple geometric monoline glyphs, with a few curves thrown in for a minimal amount of warmth. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ypsilanti, MI-based creator of Folded Paper Font (2012). | |
Detroit, MI-based designer of the experimental multilayered typeface Lightyear (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eurekaville
| Funky Lloyd Wright (2002) is an experimental font based on Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas. Interesting quote by FLW on this page: "Television is bubble gum for the mind". Kristian Walker is Art Director at TaigMartin Advertising&Public Relations, and professor of web design at Southwest Michigan College. His home page is called Eurekaville. Other fonts: Nikolas (2002), Rattled Nerves. No downloads (yet). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fictionalhead (was: Smashmethod)
| Fictionalhead is the outfit of Dan Meyer (Michigan, b. 1982), who before that had a web site (now obsolete) called Smashmethod. His Smashmethod fonts have names that start with SM: SM_contextisM (2003, octagonal), SMPixelism (2005), SM Pianoism (2004), SM Perceptionism (2004), SM ContextisM (2004), SM ReversisM (2003, techno), Sugar Water, Glue, Wide Angle, Mad Flava, SMballerisM (2003, circle dingbats), SMpletzisM, SMshenisM (2003, sans), SMreversisM (2004), SMsuggestivisM (2003, erotic outline font), SMvinylisM (2004), SMscriptisM (2004, handwriting), SMcrystalisM (2004), SMwaterisM (2004), SM_middlisM-Bold (2005), SM_middlisM (2005), SM_obscenisM-Bold (2005), SM_obscenisM (2005), SM_scriptisM (2004), SMbluisM (2003), SMbournisM-Bold (2006), SMbournisM (2006), SMhollyisM (2006), SM_coarsisM (2006), SM_euphorisM (2006), SM_inkisM (2006), SM_ownisM (2006), SM_phantisM (2006), SM_pigisM (2006), SM_recussionisMCaps (2006), SM_recussionisMRegular (2006). His Fictionalhead fonts have names that start with Fh and are all dated 2007: Fh_Euphoria, Fh_Ink (sketch font), Fh_Letter, Fh_Nicole, Fh_Obscene, Fh_Reverse, Fh_Scribble, Fh_Script, Fh_Space, Fh_Ugly, Fh_Sheena, Fh_Perception, Fh_Owned, Fh_Join, Fh_Holly, Fh_Faith, Fh_Blue, Fh_Annie. o Additions in 2009: Fh Lentil, Fh_Allisa. These are mostly handwritring and techno fonts. In 2012, he added FH Hyperbole. Devian tart link. Home page. Dafont link. Another Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Michigan-based designer (b. 1961) of the scribbly typeface Childhood (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This foundry, a subsidiary of Dreadful Productions of Royal Oak, MI, made some free horror fonts in 2002: Gorgo, MonsterChild, Dread, Gooey, Lastman, Morgus. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fritz lives in Manchester, Michigan with his wife Sara and his children Oscar and Abigail. He teaches at the University of Michigan, and he runs a letterpress studio, The Manchester Press. Creator in 2011 of a few grunge style faces at iFontMaker: Fritz Old Style, 1776, Fritz Roman, Fritz Roman Nova, Special (K). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Furocious Studios
| Kep Jekura, an artist from Michigan, designed furocious_fuzzy (2007), Furocious_TN (2007, grunge) and Furocious Wild (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Mac McGrew writes: Mission was designed for BB&S by Sidney Gaunt in 1905, but patented by George Oswald Ottley. It is a rather novel face, with long ascenders and short ascenders. Serifs are triangular, like some members of the Latin series. Most noticeable is the way some strokes in the capital letters are joined with curves, especially in the B. Compare Viking. Ottley lived in Detroit at the time. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Grayfire Fonts
| John Litwinowicz (Grayfire Fonts, Royal Oak, MI) designed the futuristic faces Blades GF Free (2006), Voya Gui GF (2006), Fireye GF (2006), Fireye GF3 (2007) and Sharps GF (2006). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Walled Lake, MI-based creator of Devine (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bay City, MI-based designer at Saginaw Valley State University (b. 1973) of Building Bloc (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Marquette, MI. Hemade the display typeface Don't Count Your Chickens (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Detroit-based designer and calligrapher. Designer of ITC Isbell (1981, with Richard Isbell; see here). Jerry has worked for over 50 years in Detroit, where he designed the lettering for Cadillac, and co-designed the ITC Isbell font. An anecdote from Susan Skarsgard: "At one point, Jerry saw an ad from Signature Software for having a font made out of one's handwriting for about 99 dollars. Jerry sent in his "sample", and he received his font in the mail. Some time later, he noticed his own beautiful handwriting in a national ad campaign for Buick, and realized that Signature Software must have done something underhanded. Soooo, lucky Jerry cashed in from Buick. That font is now called Camelot." FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Saginaw Valley State University (MI). Designer of Scribble Scratch (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michigan-based creator in 2009 at FontStruct of Haus der Kunst (dot matrix), Epic Cubed, Dominoes, DigiClock Solid, Identity, Braille, Morse Code, House MD, Stedelijk (pixel face), Mojo (+Raised, + Inlay: piano key faces), and Epic Sphered. Additions in 2009 include the military stencil look family Goshawk, Razz, Razzle Dazzle, Tic Tax (pixel), Invasion. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jim Leszczynski (Mount Pleasant, MI) is pursuing a BFA in graphic design at Central Michigan University. Creator of Ministry (2011, Lost Type), a typeface for antique cars, phone numbers and anything deemed timeless. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic Design student studying at University Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts. Creator of the elegant display typeface Morse (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Midland, MI-based graphic designer. He is working on this blackletter face (2006), this simple architectural sans face (2006) and this blackletter face (2006). Home page. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jukebox Type (was: JAW Arts Fonts)
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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). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Julie Weber is a graphic designer educated at Eastern Michigan University. She created the monoline architectural caps face Handwritten (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kady was born in Detroit, Michigan. She is currently pursuing an undergraduate BFA in graphic design at Central Michigan University with a concentration in printmaking. Kady Jesko made a 1960s retro face called Airplane (2011, Lost Type). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Saginaw Valley State University (MI). In 2012, she created the free typefaces Spring Script and Hello Seattle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mount Pleasant, MI-based design student at Central Michigan University. Creator of the shadowed typeface Tiro (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ann Arbor, MI-based graphic and interaction designer. He created Torture Dingbats in 2009. Useful for op-ed pieces about the war crimes trial of Cheney and Bush. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Ann Arbor, MI, who created the ornamental caps typeface Derive (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Clarkston, MI-based designer. In 2011, she made the themed typeface Scissors. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Larson Mirek Design (or: LMD)
| Robert Mirek of Lathrup Village, MI, designed the dingbat Totem Forms (2005), available from MyFonts. The dingbats refer to their Native American style art work. Robert Mirek is partner of Larson Mirek Design (LMD), a small design studio located in the metro-Detroit area. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Grand Rapids, MI-based interaction designer and photographer. Behance link. He created Stringbean (2009, FontStruct), a hairline condensed sans. As iFontMaker, he created the hairline handprinted face Outy Thin (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German-born letterer (b. Penzig, 1936) who lives in Michigan. Font Bureau writes: Richard Lipton designed the Hoffmann family from letters drawn and then cut out of paper as free-standing forms by contemporary Michigan lettering artist Lothar Hoffmann. Lipton follows creative development of contemporary lettering forms closely, searching for ideas that will yield type series. He digitized Hoffmann with Font Bureau in 1993, preparing four full weights, each supported by an expert set, plus a titling face. MyFonts also credits him with Goudy Handtooled at Bitstream, but I do not know the extent of his contribution to that digitization. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Madhav Deshpande | From Dr. Deshpande at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, a series of PostScript and truetype fonts for Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit: "The Nagari "Madhushree" font works for Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi. "Mandakini" works for Sanskrit and Hindi, and can do all the dotted letters used to transcribe Urdu sounds. The Roman diacritics font, "Manjushree-CSX," follows the CSX coding, but has a lot more diacritics. The print quality of the Devanagari fonts approximates the typography of Nirnayasagara press." [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer at McCann Erickson in Detroit, MI. He created SF Block (2010), an ultra fat blocky face. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Match&Kerosene
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Typefaces designed by Sheldon (b. Michigan, 1984) include Slab Sheriff (2009), Western, Kerosene Boxley (2009, a multiline art deco revival of a Solotype font; some say that it is based on a pair of 1972 alphabets by Marcia Loeb called Zig Zag and Rainbow), Kerosene Woodtype (2009), Kerosene Retroface, Kerosene Stereo (2009, revival of an Italian face from 1869), Kerosene Killowatt, White Wolf (2009, condensed horror movie face). Typefaces designed in 2011: Quimby (Copperplate Gothic style titling face), Black Bear (2011, straight-edged display family), Swifty (2011), Grizzly Bear (a set of 12 constructivist titling faces), Detroit (a modular family for superpositions), Prismatic (another superimposable multi-purpose family), Duotone (2011, Duotone is a layered font system that allows one to title two-tone headlines), Volcano Gothic, Volcano Island (jungle look family), Lightyears. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Media Wrench Type
| All the fonts at this outfit were created by Sean Tejaratchi of Craphound Magazine. Shut down in April 1999. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer from Garden City, MI, b. 1980. Creator of the futuristic font Intentional (2003) [see also here] and the oriental simulation font Marts (2003) [see also Samurai (2003)]. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michael Prewitt (was: the Font Drawer)
| Michael Prewitt is based in Lincoln Park, MI. Michael Prewitt's MichaelsDingbats and Sema (Christian symbols) were both shareware fonts from the late 1990s, and his place on the web was then called The Font Drawer. He also made Bits and Pieces around then. In 2009, he went commercial. His first commercial font was the gothic Attica (2009). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Student at Northern Michigan University. FontStructor who made Dimensional (2011), a 3d-face with a hexagonal design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michael Vokits (Michigan State University; based in Mt. Pleasant, MI) created Drunken Calligrapher (2001), as well as A Lurker's First Face (2005, serif face). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mike Beens is a graphic designer specializing in hand lettering and identity design. Mentored by Lothar Hoffman, Jerry Campbell and Dick Isbell, Mike worked in Belleville, MI, for 25 years under the name Case Studio, Inc., and taught lettering and typography for fourteen years. Designer of the sturdy text and large omnibus text family P22 Makinac (2011). Images: i, ii, iii, iv. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
M.J. Bailey (GD Fonts) is a student at Saginaw Valley State University (MI). In 2011, he created the grungy handprinted faces Loose Ends and Sea Turtle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michigan-based designer of the handprinting font Led2112 (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Dearborn Heights, MI, who created the art nouveau face Centric (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font seller and typographical services in Detroit. This page lists all PostScript fonts available at this bureau. They coincide roughly with the Adobe list. Beebe's list of their 2065 fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Troy, MI-based designer of the sans face Runyan (2006), part of his thesis in his College (the College for Creative Studies). He designed Hamsa (2006). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
QualiType
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Based at Northern Michigan University, R. Krohn created a gothic architecture and stained glass face called NMU Gothic Architecture (2011, FontStruct). Never mind that there are no Gothic cathedrals in Michigan... [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ramesh Kushwaha | Designer at the University of Michigan of Vernmala, a Hindi typeface (all formats). At one point, in the early 1990s, he was associated with Medcom in Ypsilanti, MI. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Reel Hood
| Aisha Scott (Reel Hood, Detroit, MI) is an American type designer. Aisha's first commercial typeface is the playing card face Giglio Rosso (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Remedy 667
| Nick Polifroni (Remedy 667) is an American designer, b. 1980, who lived in Belleville, MI, and Portland, ME. Creator of the scratchy font Orange Book (2007), the sans faces Asymek (2011) and Glasket (2011), the grungy Fueled by Schlitz (2011), the grungy Boxpot (2011), and the display face Absender (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Student at Saginaw Valley State University (MI). Designer of Kate (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Detroit-based designer, illustrator and letterer active in the automobile industry, who has worked with both ATF and ITC. Creator of Americana (1967), who did a lot of work for the auto industry. Americana, a display face with huge x-height and short serifs, was the last type cut in metal by the ATF in 1967. Digital versions of Americana include Freedom (Autologic), Flareserif 721 (Bitstream), American Classic (Compugraphic), AM (Itek), Colonial (Varityper), Almeria (Softmaker) and Amherst (Corel). He also made ITC Isbell (1981, now available at Bitstream [as Revival 821] and Elsner&Flake; see Iceberg on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002, and Isabell at FontSite). Linotype link. FontShop link. . [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Detroit, who created the dot matrix face Astroboy (2010, or is it called Digit All One?). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Detroit-based designer of Body (2011), a typeface that was inspired by the human body. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Samantha Sutton (Sutton Fonts, Michigan) designed the free fonts Ballroom Waltz (2012, calligraphic) and High Octane (2012, a museum font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Traverse City, MI-based graphic designer and photographer, who studies at Grand Valley State University. She made some helpful type posters that illustrate typeface classification. A | B | C | D | E. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A workshop run by Underware in Detroit on stencil type, with a lot of information on the design of such typefaces. An ad hoc typeface was made called Chopshop. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CBC interview in 2012. Fontspace link. FontShop link. At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, he spoke on typefaces for Android OS. His typefaces:
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Noted calligrapher, who works at General Motors Design Center in Warren, Michigan, where she is Lead Product Designer and Lettering Specialist. Picture. MyFonts page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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In 2012, we discover Thomas Canale The Sequel at Saginaw Valley State University [what is the relation with Thomas Canale?]. And also this second Dafont link. The "Sequel" created the spiky handprinted typeface Outback (2012). Canale designed Cropfont (2012, +Serif, +Xtra). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Timothy Speaker was born and raised in Saginaw, Michigan. Tim received a Bachelor of Science degree in English Literature and Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches graphic and type design at Anderson University in Anderson, SC. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tubbs Mfg Co
| American wood type manufacturer. The company, located in Ludington, MI, started in 1903 when Charles Tubbs (of Tubbs and Co. in South Windham, CT) died. It was sold to Hamilton in 1918. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typeco.com
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Ted L. Kruse's barcode company, loated in Rochester Hills, MI. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Unicode Font Guide For Free--Libre Open Source Operating Systems | A guide to Unicode-based fonts and script projects that are ideal for free/libre/open source (FLOSS) operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD. Maintained by Ed Trager, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Under Pan-Unicode fonts, he lists in 2005:
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Unifont.org
| A selective guide to Unicode-based fonts and script projects that are ideal for free/libre/open source (FLOSS) operating systems like GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. News about open source font projects. Managed by Ed Trager, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Vander Font (was: Joe VanDerBos Typefoundry)
| Joe VanDerBos (ex-VanDerBos Typefoundry, now Vander Font) is the designer in Sonoma, CA, of Retrofit, available from DsgnHaus, and of the scratchy font CandyKitchen, available from MyFonts. He also made Beachbuoy (2003), Charminette (2003, fifties lettering) and Ovallique (2004, a Dom Casual retrofitted elliptical seventies TV-era typeface). Joe VanDerBos has worked as an illustrator and designer for 15 years in Austin, Chicago, San Francisco. He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Western Michigan University, and resides in Sonoma County, California. His business provides web development, illustration, custom typography and animation to clients in the technology, financial services, travel and publishing industries. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Student at southwestern Michigan College. Dowagiac, MI-based creator of several beautiful type classification posters, showing the differences between the Lineale subfamilies Grotesque, Neo-Grotesque, and Geometric. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Youngster from Michigan, b. 1994. Creator of BloodSplatter (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zachary Mazur's foundry in Macomb, MI. He created Cosmic Sans (2012), an unfortunate name because a font by that name was made in 2008 by Aaron Spaulding at Open Font Library and has been reported on my pages since that date. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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A Kalamazoo, MI-based designer working on 
Alex Jacque (b. 1986, Virginia) is a designer and developer based in Ann Arbor, MI. He studied at the University of Michigan School of Art&Design. 
Ann Arbor, MI-based creator of 
Graphic designer and typographer in Ferndale, MI. She did some 
Creator of Messy Ben (2012, handprinted) and 
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: 
Brian Jacob (Detroit, MI) created the illustrative alphabet 
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. 
JAW Arts Fonts was created by Jason Walcott (b. Trenton, MI, 1971) from Hollywood, CA. It features many elegant calligraphic fonts, many comic book style faces. 
Southfield, MI-based company founded in 1991 by John Colletti. The 150-strong 
Student at Saginaw Valley State University (MI). In 2012, he created the free tapered handprinted typeface 
Ann Arbor, MI-based graphic designer who created the elegant high-legged serif face 
Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Printing graduate who lived in California and in Holland, MI, and now resides in Louisville, Colorado. 
Grand Rapids, MI-based graphic designer. His fonts include 
Michigan-based designer of the grunge faces tommytxtey#4 (2011), Couriertxt (2011), and Uknowjack (2011), and of Stickfig (2011) and 
Thomas Kaeding started his own foundry in Ann Arbor, MI, in 2011. Typefaces made in 2012 include 
