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A New Machine
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In 2012, he made Quarry (an outlined hand-drawn shadow font), Holt Sans (a Peignotian family), Unstable Slab, Mitosis (using bubbly dots), Radial (prismatic), and Airwave (techno). Typefaces from 2013: Dot To Dot (a dotted and lined pair of school fonts), Emjay (sketched blackboard bold typeface). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Adam Roe
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Adam Roe
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Designer from North Carolina who made the angular techno face Litha (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Albert Larizza
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Graphic designer in Ralegh, NC, who created an experimental typeface in 2010 called Georna. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Peace College in Raleigh, NC, Angela Diaz designed the modular typeface Addiaz (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Greensboro, NC-based designer (b. 1987) who runs Dirty Little Cards. Creator of Dirty Little Secrets (2011), Poisoned Apples (2011), and Little Sparrow (2011, thin handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies at RISD in Providence, RI, Barron Webster, who is originally from North Carolina, created a pair of display sans typefaces called Barcelona and Barcelonetta (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fayetteville, NC-based designer (b. 1986) of the pixel face River_City_Ransom_Ingame_Font, based on the in-game font from River City Ransom. FON format only. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Raleigh, NC, who created the sans family Clark (2006). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bomparte's Fonts
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John designed the art deco sans face Hamptons BF, and another art deco headline face, Take Two BF. In 2006, he published the 12-style family Blackletter Sans and the exquisite poster semi-Greek simulation art deco face Abstrak BF (modeled after a 1934 ATF font by Robert Foster called Abstract). In 2007, he surprises with the 1920s poster font Michelle BF, the handprinted Brandy BF, its follow-up Johnny Script BF (2008), the quirky Freaky Frog BF, the dot matrix experimental font Subliminal BF, the frizzy Glow Gothic BF (2007), and the gorgeous swashy 3-style blackletter family Black Swan BF (2007). His 2008 faces: Jacky Sue BF (based on the hand of Jackie Geerlings), SoHo Nights BF, Hamburger Font BF (a rounded fat face), and the art deco sans serif faces Sidewalk Cafe BF (2008) and Hamptons BF (2 weights). Emerge BF (2009) is a flare serif inspired by Admiral, c.1900, from the Keystone Type Foundry. Freedom Writer BF (2009) is a connected handwriting script face. Danielle BF (2010) is handprinted, based on the hand of Danielle Paradis. Factor BF (2010) is an electronic / futuristic / techno face. FingerSpeller BF (1994) is an American sign language typeface. Retroscript BF (2010) and Capistrano BF (2010) are beautiful connected scripts. In 2011, he added the fat felt tip pen face Sherbet BF and the funky rounded display face Dragonfly BF. In that same year, he published the stunted black wood type face Squat (BA Graphics, based on earlier work of or with Bob Alonso). Typefaces from 2012: Rockport BF (a gaspipe font inspired by 19th century wood types), Wilmington Script BF (an upright loopy connected script). Klingspor link. Catalog of some of his commercial fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
This North-Carolinian made Screwwy Jubilee Font (2010) and ChunkyMunky (2010), two handprinted faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Raleigh, NC-based designer of Hexel Sans (2011), which was inspired by the hexagonal patterns seen in beehives. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Callout
| Callout is the Greensboro, NC-based foundry of Kyle Lambert. Designer of Pipe Dream (2011, a face inspired by video games from the 1990s), Hookshot (2011), Reacher Sans (2011, a monoline stencilish warm sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Charlotte, NC, who during her internship with Arzberger Stationers, created some caps faces in 2011; Flora (floriated), Suzy (oriental simulation), Caroline (calligraphic), Sassie (Victorian), and a blackletter face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Print and graphic designer in Charlotte, NC. Creator of Cureton (2010), a display face in which all letters have the same height and are above the baseline. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Concord, NC-based creator of a steampunk caps typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Connie Myers
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Raleigh, NC-based designer of Ephemeral (2012), a modular typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and typographer from North Carolina, who studied graphic design at the Savannah College of Art&Design. He created the geometric counterless face King Pong (2010). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Wilmington, NC-based designer of the shareware font ScrewedUpTypewriter, showcased at (but not downloadable from) Fred Showker's page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Greenboro, NC-based creator of an Escheresque logo for Overfield (2012) and of a savvy logo for a charter yacht in the British Virgin Islands called Grand Cru (2012). | |
Delve Fonts (was: Delve Media Arts)
| 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:
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Delve Withrington
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Dennis Ludlow
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District (was: CV Type)
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His creations from 2010-2012: Aeron (2010, semi-serifed family, with a crippled lower case h), Hijinx (2009, a headline face), Verlico (2009, a take on Optima), and Frusta (2010, a 5-style slab serif family), Level (2010, an elliptical sans family), Reverie (2011, a curly sans), Encoder (2011, a slabby stencil family), Blancmange (2012: a tall informal semi-brush family), Reverie OT (2012). Typefaces from 2013: Hoban (Light and Bold, a pair of high-contrast fashion mag faces), Fair Sans (unicase), Fair Sans Text. |
Doghead Studio
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DS Design
| North-Carolinian distributor of Type Designer and creators of the Kidbag type collection. Kid Type Paint was designed by Jane Scarano and Jake Scott. Designer at Creative Alliance of the kid's handwriting faces KidType 1 and 2, as well as DingBrats (1993, dingbats). Dead FontShop link. Jake and Scott Scarano (now defunct link!) are credited at FontShop with the 1993 creative Alliance ruled kid's lettering face Kid Type Ruled, and the brushy 1993 faces Kid Type Crayon, Kid Type Marker and Kid Type Paint. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Eccentrifuge
| The Eccentrifuge Blackletter Directory aims to be an exhaustive online reference for all commercially available blackletter fonts (but he only deals with commercial type). Run by John Butler of North Carolina (he was in Atlanta, GA). John Butler designed the Butler Antiqua family (2002) in the style of Ruzicka and Dwiggins. Eccentrifuge assists type designers in navigating and managing the complexity of OpenType feature programming, Euro conversion, character encoding and Unicode, Python scripting, bitmap embedding, and to a certain extent, internationalization. It also specializes in developing connected OpenType font designs at a level of fluidity previously unavailable, allowing your designs to achieve a true handwritten look. Jobs include Emigre's Mrs. Eaves OpenType, an OpenType version of Erik Van Blokland's Kosmik, and Barchowsky Fluent Hand OpenType. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designers in Raleigh, NC, of Unreal Tournament, a (free) gothic font used for the titling in one of their computer games. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Raleigh, NC-based designer who created the round organic Appietype family in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brooklyn-based creator of Monel 400 (2011), a multiline art deco poster face commissioned by Duke University. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flash Design
| Alberto Larizza (Flash Design, North Carolina) created Deco Font (2011). He was born in Italy in 1985. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Mac and Windows commercial software for font problem diagnosis, repair, and organization. It can be used to convert between type 1, OpenType and truetype. Morrison SoftDesign is located in Charlotte, NC. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontVista is a 30USD font viewing, cataloguing and printing Mac utility by Morrison SoftDesign, Charlotte, NC. Free demo. FontVista supports TrueType, MultipleMaster, Postscript Type 1, and Bitmap fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial Mac and PC software by Morrison SoftDesign (Charlotte, NC) for converting fonts between type 1, OpenType and truetype. Not cheap. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial Mac utility by Morrison SoftDesign, located in Charlotte, NC. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Galen Lawson
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American experimental photographer from Clayton, NC. Designer of Lined Lines (2009, handprinted) and Handwritten Heather (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Heather Gibson (Calluna Design, Mooresville, NC) created the bitmap face Elevated (2010, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A graduate of NC State's College of Design, Heidi created a slabby monoline typeface there in 2009. Born in Columbus, OH, she lives in Raleigh, NC. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jane Scarano
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Graphic design student at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Behance link. Creator of On The Vine (2012), a pixelish typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean hails from South Carolina and studied art history at Queens College in Charlotte, NC. Designer of Dizzy (1995), Elli (1993) and Rats (1997, with the help of Jill Pichotta) at Font Bureau. These are grunge handwriting fonts, except for the great calligraphic font Elli, originally commissioned in 1989 by the Houghton Library of Harvard University, in honor of Eleanor Garvey, curator emerita of the library's Department of Printing and Graphic Arts. Rats was based on the handwriting of children's book illustrator Scott Nash: Its small body height and tall ascenders support an oldstyle spirit drawn from early second-century Roman cursive scripts. Dizzy was made for an artist's book about Dizzy Gillespie. Creative Alliance's font Hatmaker (1996) consists of two all caps faces, one of which was inspired by Ben Shahn's hand-constructed alphabet. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
His typefaces:
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John Bomparte
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John Butler
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This bookseller from Greensboro, NC, specializes in calligraphy. "We supply calligraphers, lettering artists, illuminators, bookbinders and papercraft enthusiasts with books, tools and supplies including fine papers. Our selection of calligraphy books and supplies is unequaled in the world." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2011, John Stevens and Ryuichi Tateno combined forces to publish the four-font calligraphic brush series Stevens Titling at Linotype. It comprises Stevens Titling Boar Brush, Wolf Brush, Sable Brush and Badger Brush styles, all based on the Trajan style. Cargo collective link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Jon Jennings
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Graphic designer in Raleigh, NC, who created Cloud Nine (2011), a balloon font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kent Swecker
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Asheboro, NC-based designer (b. 1989) who created the handwriting font For Shem:D (2005). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kyle Lambert
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Lunchbox Design
| Adam Roe is the American [T-26] designer of Blinddate, BMetaphorA, DecEpicure, Dumpster (stencil), Epicure, Epitaph, Girlfriend, Intention, Lunchbox, Metaphor, Percolator, Technique. Runs Lunchbox Design in Charlotte, NC: Metaphor family, Ashtray, Boogieman (1999), Gas Station, the Girlfriend family, and the Malaise family. Font list. Fonts sold by Mindcandy, where you can find Adolerscence, Airmail, Alexander, Angobie, article10, Ashtray, BlindDate, Category, Charisma, Dumpster, EightTrack, Epicure, Epitaph, GasStation, Girlfriend, Intention, Lunchbox, Malaise, Metaphor, MulletHead, NotQuite, NowWhat, Outahere, Percolator, PillowTalk, PromDate, Replicant, Sabotage, Sandbox, Secretary, Soapbox, Solace, Substance, Surrogate, Technique, Undertow. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
He once said Each letter should have a flirtation with the one next to it. The story told by his son Clyde (Chromatype, Charlotte, NC) in 2010: It was a quote developed during the time of using the typositor for phototypesetting headlines. Herb Lubalin, Aaron Burns and ITC were clients of ours who often required the careful and considered placement of one letter next to the other. We had to take into account the positive and negative space between letters. This was being done in a red light safe darkroom, exposing each letter one at a time and watching it develop under a "glass" which held liquid photo developer. Being a flirtatious man, my father came up with that quote during that period which was around 1985-1986. A couple of years later he became a consultant for a few companies including Adobe in their earliest years. That quote can be found in one of Adobe's first specimen books "Adobe Type Guide, Volume 1". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mad Irishman
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Marianfonts (or: MarianFudge Design, or MFD)
| Marianfudge Design 99. Free fonts by 1-year old Tommy Cary (Hight Point, NC). The fonts: 15teen, Apocalypse, ArmyofGawd, Astra, Averen, AvoidLongLines1, BackupGeneration1, BayouCowboy, BeirutSugar3, BigLog, Binary, Bodenhand (neat handwriting), Brian Cary, CaptainLethargic, CheapPizza, Chi, ConNinguna, ConspiracyMeadows, CorneliusMaurits, DarkEmpire, Discussion, DjCourageous, Eli50b1, Fargas, FatCyan, Fayettenam, FifteenStories, Grasko, Gunther, Heliosphere, HugYourIntern1, Hydrophonic, IamMonomer, IamMonotonous1, Idiot, InnieOuttie, Invalid, JanglyBounce, LosDelQueso, Marianfudge, Mondo, Morelife, Mr. Doodely Doo, NyakSquared1, OrphanageRiot1, Oscilloscope4, Primagrosa, Rascal, Relieftechnik1, RoboticMonkey1, Routine, Royal, SalinasMotionClerk1, SkippyGreeny, Stereophonic1, TapeLoop, TawattypeBloch, TawattypeII1, TelemarketingSuperstar, TelemarketingSuperstarItalic, TexasLED, TheWorldsFieryDemise, ThebGL, TributetoNova, Victor, Warren1, Backadelica, MethaneDwarf, StereoSaturn. Direct access. |
North Carolina-based designer (b. 1970) of the photo dingbat face Beatbox (2007) and the scanbat face Instant Graffitication (2010). Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Matt Perkins
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Matt Stevens (Charlotte, NC) created a great series of mechanically deconstructed caps called The Exploded Alphabet (2013). In a similar style, he designed illustrations for an article on European Supercars for Wired UK, also in 2013 Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Raleigh, NC-based designer. He did the logotype and identity for Le Chateau Cinq (2013), a high end French cuisine and jazz fusion restaurant. A merge of Chunk Five and Dubtronic Solid yielded the Chunktronic typeface (2012). His foundry is called the Frankenstein Type Foundry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Winner at TDC 27 in 2006 in the poster category with a great piece called Masquerade. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcode software company located in Raleigh, NC. Two free "3 of 9" barcode fonts by Bear Rock Technologies: C39HrP24DmTt, C39P24DmTt. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Cherry Hill, NC, who created the sans headline typeface Arch Grotesk (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Patrick Michael Murphy
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Phoenician Alphabet
| At NC-based Salim George Khalaf's page on ancient Phoenicia, find free truetype fonts (Mac, PC): Nakht Hieroglyphics, Eshmoon (1996; Phoenician runes by Salim himself) and Ugaritic1 (by David Myriad Rosenbaum, El Sobrante, CA). Alternate URL. It has a great tree of language genealogies, placing Phoenician around 1600BC, with as child languages Proto-Arabic (1500BC), Old Hebrew (900BC), Archaic Greek (1000BC), Etruscan/Latin (900BC) and Aramaic (800BC). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Waxham, NC-based vendor of barcode fonts and software. These cover Code 128, Code 3 of 9 (Code 39), EAN, UPC, Postnet, Interleaved 2 of 5, PDF417, ASP Barcodes, PDF417, OCR-A, OCR-B, MICR, and Data Matrix barcodes, and cost between 75 and 129 dollars per barcode style. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
RAH Creative used to be ROBYNA.COM, and before that, Robyn's Fonts. The owner is Robyn Harton (b. 1964, North Carolina). She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. Based in Richmond, VA, Robyn Harton's commercial dingbat creations and borders include RA Lotus (for Mandalas), RA Holiday (Xmas font), RA Lotus2, RA Seichim Hand, RA Seichim Regular, RA Protection, RA Mandalas, RA Eye Frames (free sampler font), RA Hand, RA Crystals, RA Ganesh, RA Egypt Web Sites, RA Eye Menus, RA Geo Borders, RA Geo Menus, RA Geo Buttons, RA Sea Life, RA Reiki-Seichim Plus Hand, Butterflips (great butterflies!!), Capsulated, EShopper, LuvNKisses, Paisley, Quilter's Delight, RunningNcircles, Seperates, SunNMoon, ToAndFrom, Bauble (I through IV), Interfacer, Kitchen Tile, Scrollworks, Whirlygigs, RA AllSmiles, RA Aten, RA Cats, RA Happy Things, RA Unknown Symbols, RA WebFrExtras, RA Fatima, RA India Borders, RA Masks, Flakey, Geared Up, Petey Rone, RA Web Frames, Amenti RA (2001). The fonts can also be purchased at MyFonts.com. Catalog of some typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Reelhouse
| Adam Roe, the founder of Lunchbox Design, now runs Reelhouse, where he sells his 65 fonts for 600USD. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Charlotte, NC-based vector artist, b. 1981. Home page. Designer of Rickman Script (2002), a child script face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Using iFontMaker, Robin Parrish (North Carolina) created Robin's Hand (2011, fat finger face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Russ Rowlett (University of North Carolina) made the Pointers font (arrows). Urban Fonts carries his upright script New Venice (2007). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Salim George Khalaf
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Designer in North Carolina. Home page. Using Rorschach inkblot tests, he created the non-alphabetic experimental font Tool Malfunction (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sharkshock
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On August 28, 2001, Dennis announced that he would stop producing fonts, forever. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Spectrum Designs (was: Connie Starsongs)
| Web page design and scanning services. Free Truetype (PC, Mac) fonts designed by Connie Myers from Charlotte, NC such as the nice handwriting font Connie's Print. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Graphic designer in North Carolina. Behance link. He created two experimental fonts, Fanetik (2011) and Unfolded (2011, 3d). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Makers of the freeware font Samarkan (1993), a Latin font with Indian-looking glyphs. According to this page, Samarkan was made by a fellow called Samarkan. This page attributes it to Ethel Enterprises P.O. Box 1069, Murphy, NC 28906-1069). See also here and here. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tommy Cary
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Manfred Albracht's font creation program that allows type 1 to truetype conversions. DS Design, 1157 Executive Circle, Suite D., Cary, NC 27511, USA. Alternate link. You can also buy ScanFont, FontExpert, SigMaker, TypeTool, FontLab. Also, custom font design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typography in Decay (TiD)
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Fontsy link. Fontspace link. Old URL. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Raleigh, NC. Creator of these typefaces in 2012: Ezra (she says: Ezra is a Modern typeface designed to break the stereotype of Moderns only being used in the fashion industry. I was heavily inspired by Bodoni's regularity with measurable and repeatable forms and sought to create a typeface that utilized the interchangeable parts concept and pushed Modern typefaces past design stigmas), Beehive. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Foundry, est. 2011, in Raleigh, NC, by 
Bomparte's Fonts is 
Doghead Studio is the personal foundry of designer Jon Jennings. Jennings created the free handwriting font Lucidity (2008). 
Originally from North Carolina (b. 1979), Jesse Ragan studied type design at Rhode Island School of Design. After college, Jesse designed typefaces at Hoefler&Frere-Jones, where he had a hand in Gotham, Archer, and several other families. Since 2005, he has worked independently in Brooklyn, developing typefaces and lettering for a variety of clients. His work can be found at Font Bureau, House Industries, and Darden Studio. He also teaches typeface design at Pratt Institute and Cooper Union. He won an award at 
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Calligrapher and letterer in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who occasionally designs 
Ex-North Carolinian designer who has a BFA in graphic design from Columbia college Chicago, and lives in Chicago. 
Graphic designer from Raleigh, NC. Recent graduate from the College of Design at NCSU. Creator of a 
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Mad Irishman has original fonts by 
Graphic design student in Greensboro, NC. She created a 
Wake Forest, NC-based designer. Creator of 
Free fonts by Dennis Ludlow (Sharkshock Productions, Raleigh, NC), such as 
Speedball pens were invented by Hunt Corporation (or Hunt Company) which was located in Camden, NJ and later (since 1958) in Statesville, NC. The highlights of that company: 
Charlotte, NC-based Matt Perkins' fonts Das Reicht Gut and A Scratch are interesting display fonts. He made about 20 fonts in all, many of them at the peak of the grunge font deacde: A Scratch, 
