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Aaron D. Schmiedel
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Judy Litt at QuaLitty Design in Austin discusses typography, and provides links to font sites and font software, and offers general advice on all things typographic (hinting, font choice, font editors, etcetera). Faulty web page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Austin, TX, Adam Chavis designed a wiry typeface (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
AFS Ltd
| Alex, Chaya, Rashi, Ruth Fancy and Tzipporah (1992) are free Hebrew fonts made in 1992 by Aaron D. Schmiedel at AFS Limited: 7815 La Cabeza, Dallas, TX 75248. Download here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Alphabet Innovations International -- TypeSpectra
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In 1974, he set up TypeSpectra, and created these type families: Adroit (1981), Albert (1974), Analog (1976), Bagatelle (1979), Cartel (1975), Caslon (1979), Criterion (1982), DeVille (1974), Embargo (1975), Heldustry (1978, designed for the video news at the fledgling ABC-Westinghouse 24-hour cable news network in 1978; incorrectly attributed by many to Martin's ex-employee Ed Kelton: download here), Innsbruck (1975), Limelight (1977), Oliver (1981), Opulent [Light and Bold] (1975, by George Brian, an amployee at Alphabet Innovations), Quint (1984), Sequel (1979), Spectral (1974), Welby (1982). His fonts can be bought at MyFonts.com and at Precisiontype. He warns visitors not to mess with his intellectual property rights, but I wonder how he can have escaped the ire of Linotype by using the name Helvetica. In any case, the fonts were originally made for use on photo display devices and phototypesetters. Some are now available in digital format. Near the end of his life, Phil's web presence was called MM2000 (dead link). Check his comments on his own faces. URW sells these faces: URW Adroit, URW Agenda, URW Avernus (after Martin's design from 1972), URW Baskerville AI, URW Beacon, URW Bluejack, URW Cartel, URW Cloister, URW Corporate, URW Criterion, URW Didoni, URW Fat Face, URW Globe, URW Goudy AI, URW Heldustry, URW Helserif, URW Introspect, URW Legothic, URW Martin Gothic, URW Martinique, URW Pandora, URW Polonaise, URW Quint, URW Scenario, URW Souvenir Gothic, Souvenir Gothic Antique (the Souvenit Gothic family was designed by George Brian, an employee of Alphabet Innovations at the time: it was AI's first text family), URW Stanza, URW Stark, URW Timbre, URW Viant, URW Wordsworth. Interview. Bye Bye Blackbird performed by Phil Martin in Largo, Florida. The final message on his last web page, posted posthumously read: MARTIN, PHIL, 82, of Largo, died Tuesday (Oct. 4, 2005) at Largo Medical Center. He was born in Dallas and came here after retiring as a writer, singer-songwriter, commercial artist, and comedian. As a high school student, he worked as an assistant artist on the nationally syndicated Ella Cinders, and at 18 wrote and drew Swing Sisson, the Battling Band Leader, for Feature Comics. He was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II, where he served as a bombardier in Lintz, Austria. On his 28th mission shelling the yards in Lintz, his B-24 was hit and he was listed as missing in action until the war in Europe ended. He was a comedian on The Early Birds Show on WFAA in Dallas. As a commercial artist, he founded two multinational corporations to market typeface designs and is credited for designing 4 percent of all typefaces now used. He also wrote columns and articles for typographic publications. Locally, he sang original lyrics to old pop standards in area piano bars, and in 1999 produced 59 issues of the Web book Millennium Memorandum, changing the title to MM2000 when he issued the first edition of the new Millennium on Jan. 3, 2000. Survivors include his wife, Ann Jones Martin; and a cousin, Lorrie Hankins, Casper, Wyo. National Cremation Society, Largo. Phil Martin's digital typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Codesigner with S. John Ross of Cumberland Fontworks in Austin, TX, of Cock Boat (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andersen Agency
| Agency in Wichita Falls, TX, run by Bill Andersen. Their commercial Kindergarten family is sold through Font Factory. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Stone carver from Houston, Texas, who designed a full roman alphabet in 2001 as an alternative for Trajan for stone carvers. Ray Larabie then created Texhenge (2001) according to Andy's specifications, while Andy tested the font out on real marble. In Andy's own words: I approached Ray Larabie by email in early 2001 and asked him to produce a "texhenge" font for our project here in Texas, to build the first full-size stone circle in over 2000 years. I wanted a modern font to replace Trajan as the ideal stonecarving font for our age. He and I labored over the design of the three special symbols (dagger, double dagger, per mille sign) for several months until Ray's final design, represented in these two fonts, which are in my opinion beautiful and perfect. The main stone was to be a smooth limestone, but in 2001 I began laying out a test in six inch high lettering on carrara marble, a text of Ray's perfect Latin and "et" sign, and a tribute to my lovely wife Kathy. The test was interrupted and postponed until 2008 when I carved it. The bench sits outside our home, just off the sidewalk. It is a popular resting spot for us senior citizens, and we have seen young lovers enjoying a moment alone in quiet conversation. I am honored to have this font, and to have carved it first. Much more is planned for the font as the Texhenge.com stone circle project progresses over the years. The bench in which "Kathy and Andy" is carved is dedicated by Andy to Kathy McKee. Download these fonts here: Texhenge-Bold, Texhenge-Tight. Or go to this dedicated directory. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lubbock, TX-based type designer at Fonted House, a typefoundry she started with Sara Snyder, with whom she codesigned the tall hand-printed caps typeface Canoe (2012). In 2013, she published the connected script typeface Matchmaker (Fonted House) and the ampersand font Quirky Sands. Creative Market link. Aka Angie Makes. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Austin, TX, Anika Samples created the curly script face Sissy Hankshaw (2011), about which she writes: Helvetica Rounded Bold and Dorchester Script were combined to create this typeface as a typographic embodiment of Tom Robbin's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues protagonist Sissy Hankshaw. A stunning, modelesque wanderlust with cucumber-sized thumbs (and therefore a superior ability to hitchhike), Sissy's feminine beauty is referenced with Dorchester while Helvetica Rounded adds an awkwardness in hommage to her over-sized appendages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Dallas, TX, who graduated in 2012 from the University of Wisconsin (B.Arts) in Madison, WI. Creator of the free display typefaces Diminuendo, Wedged, and Crossed Wires Condensed in 2012. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Annie Opitz Olsen, a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, was previously a Reno printer and calligraphy teacher. She works for Wycliffe Bible Translators and has given type design training workshops in Bangalore and Mexico City. Creator (with Victor Gaultney) at SIL International (Dallas, TX) of the Open Font License package of sans serif fonts called Andika Design Review (2006, weights called A through G). She writes: Andika is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font designed especially for literacy use, taking into account the needs of beginning readers. The focus is on clear, easy-to-perceive letterforms that will not be easily confused with one another. It contains about 600 glyphs. Currently, the fonts are named Andika DesRev A and Andika DesRev B. Alternate URL where one finds Andika Basic (2008). See also here. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, where she updated the type world on the newest features of Andika, which is constantly being expanded. Interview. Google Font Directory link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anthem Type
| Foundry with free offerings such as Lunch (a shadow outline face), Nicotine, Silver Sideshow, Civilian, Decade, Uptown) and pay fonts (Joey Nelson's Silver Sideshow). The designers in Plano, TX are: Kenn Armstrong, Taber Buhl, Kingsley Harris, Ryan Santos, Peter Smith, and Joey Nelson. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bar codes, MICR, signatures, logos. Located in San Antonio, TX. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aridi Graphics (or: Aridi Computer Graphics)
| Company based in Dallas, TX, that markets Marwan Aridi's great drawings. His borders, ornaments, initial caps, ribbons and banners are almost legendary. They are for now in EPS format, and truetype and type 1 versions are available for many. Alternate URL. He sells great sets of drawings for the following: Arabic Calligraphy Art, Arabic Caps&Fonts, Web Clips, Initial Caps I, Initial Caps II, Initial Caps III, Initial Caps IV, Historical Ornaments Patterns&Frames, Arabesque Ornaments, Arabesque Borders, Olde World Borders I, Olde World Borders II, Calligraphia, Olde World Ornaments, Ribbons, Banners&Frames, Ornamental Backgrounds, Crests, Ribbons&Frames, Typography&Printer's Ornaments, Aridi Fiesta, Business 1, Background Two, Arabesque Designs. Alternate URL. Arab Caps has many fonts. Package of 30 display fonts for 500USD. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born and raised in Mexico City, Armin Vit is a graphic designer and writer now living in Austin, Texas. He is co-founder of UnderConsideration and its myriad sites. His last employment position was at Pentagram. He now runs UnderConsideration's Department of Design. With his partner, Bryony, he has co-authored the books Women of Design and Graphic Design Referenced. Designer of the futuristic fonts Modular (2001) and Tirkovet, and of Stress (letters obtained without lifting the pen). He attended the School of Graphic Design at Anahuac University in Mexico City and taught typeface design at the Portfolio Center, marchFIRST, Atlanta, GA. Home page. After Atlanta, he moved on to Chicago, and later to Austin. At TypeCon 2003, he told this dream about Hrant Papazian, I quote: I dreamt that Hrant came to my house, the weird thing is that it was his typophile picture only (since that is as far as I know what Hrant looks like). So he came in, and went "Number Two" in my bathroom without flushing, after that, he headed out to the kitchen to hang out and stuff. So I go into my bathroom and see these unflushed turds in my toilet. I go up to Hrant and say "Excuse me, Hrant, you left your turds in my toilet." His response involved handing me a plunger and adding "This should fix it." And that was it. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
List of font names for the Arts&Letters Corporation. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type outfit in Dallas, TX, with some free fonts, some commercial fonts (BOSS fonts: 4000 fonts for 30 USD), and some typography essays on anti-aliasing. There seems to be a connection withComputer Support Corporation. It released at one point in 1996 a big CD of fonts called Arts&Letters, which I believe is related to Bay Animation. These were renamed fonts from elsewhere. About 100 fonts were at this site. A sampling of the free fonts: Amos-Normal, ArcherNormal, Asia-Extended-Bold, Banco-Normal, Barrett-Condensed-BoldItalic, CallimarkerItalic, Cane-StripedNormal, Cane-Hollow, CoffeeSackExtendedItalic, CraneNormal, Dominon-Normal, Enview-Bold, Glaze-Normal, Gorgio-Normal, Leo-Normal, Orient2Normal (oriental simulation), PennantNormal, Plank-ExtendedNormal, RoninNormal, ShalomNormal (Hebrew simulation), Tangiers-Normal, ThreeDeeNormal, WampumNormal. The list of about 2000 fonts I am aware of, all made between 1995 and 2001, is here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Austin, TX, who created Game Over Font in Illustrator in 2012. It is a squarish face that comes with outline and 3d versions. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Texas-based designer (b. 1981) of the grunge faces Rosebud (2010), Caged Prisoner (2010), Patriot Anthem (2010), Andalusian Trial (2009), Street Blues (2009), The New Metropolitan (2008), American Bravado (2008), Chicago House (2008), Perrymint (2008), Gridlock'd (2008), and Ascent 2 Stardom (2007-2008). He also made Doux Papaya (2010, a dessert menu face), Brig Maven (2010, organic), Stealth Magnum (2010), Dutch&Harley (2010), Cafe Lounge 19 (2008), Beauregard (2010, +Hollow), and Mighty Gizmo (2009, outline face). He sometimes uses the aliases The Original 19 and BGizzle Fonts. Blog. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Austin, TX-based designer (b. 1985) of te circle-and-arc-based font Big Poppa E (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bill Andersen
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Billy Hayes
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Austin, TX-based creator of the vector format font Slime (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Abilene, TX-based designer of the connected script typeface Real Quality (2013). This typeface as created for a class at ACU. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bob Dobbs
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Boldperspective
| San Antonio, TX-based creators of the free Victorian web font Jokal (2011). The designer is possibly Sean McCabe. In 2012, Sean went commercial at Creative Market, which now sells Jokal and GeoCon Light. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Bren Burrill
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Brian Jacob
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Brian Willson
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Brody Neuenschwander was born in Houston, Texas in 1958. He studied art history at Princeton University and the Courtauld Institute, London, receiving his PhD in 1986. He studied calligraphy at Roehamp-ton Institute under Ann Camp and then became assistant to Donald Jackson. Since 1988 he has worked as a free-lance calligrapher, first in Wales and now in Bruges, Belgium. Clients have included the U.S., UK, and Belgian governments, the BBC, Time-Life Books, and the Royal Mail. He has worked with director Peter Greenaway on several films, including "Prospero's Books" and "The Pillow Book." Brody is currently working to install trilingual signage in the Coptic quarter of Cairo. Brody got the Belle Lettere Award in 1997. John Berry's report of a presentation. His presentation at Sonoma State University. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Buttfaces Digital Type Foundry
| Based in Dallas, TX, Buttfaces Digital Type Foundry offers some original fonts, both free and commercial, designed by Tobias Tylus. The semi-grunge fonts include Buttweasel, Enema Light and Buttzilla. All his 40-odd fonts can be bought in one package for 50 USD. Demos of some families such as Skuttlebutt (grunge, 1997). Newest free fonts: Buttoni, Grumpybutt. Commercial faces: Doopah, Buttskratch, Tookus, Buttinsky, Butt-Naked, Hindsight, Poopchute, Butthead, Buttkowski, Buttwriter, Headbutt, Buttskerville, Curliebutt, Chunkybutt, Punkass, Ciggiebutt, Skuttlebutt, Alien Butt. Since 2003, the sales have moved to MyFonts: Butt Bongo, Butt Scratcher, Butt Smuggler, Butt Writer, Buttheads, Buttkowski, Buttmap, Buttskerville, Buttweasel, Buttzilla, Chunkybutt, Ciggiebutt, Creakybutt, Curliebutt, Dingbutts, Enema, Headbutt, Poopchute, Punk Ass, Sillybutt, Stinkybutt. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Caitlyn Cotter is a graphic designer from Austin, TX. During her studies at St. Edward's University, she created a hand-drawn art nouveau typeface that was illustrated on a Toulouse Lautrec style poster (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of North Texas in Denton. Designer of the woodprint-look font Emilee (2003), which he sketched, then scanned, using several woodcarving books (1950's) from his library at UNT as reference. He also designed the display faces Max Openace and Max Closed as well as Bunker, Engine, Ethan, and Smack. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Calvin Glenn
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Celeste McKeon (Austin, TX) created Hairy Font (2011) and Ribbon Font (2011, script face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Dallas, TX. He created the art deco face Dirty House (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charles Combs from Austin, TX, runs the design studio Charles Combs Design. He created Ghost Font (2010, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charles Duncan
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Web developer and designer, b. 1985, who lives in Austin, TX. Creator of the organic face Stewart Sans (2009). Dafont link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chicken Billy
| ChickenBilly.com offers art and illustrations by Billy Hayes from Fort Worth, TX, who describes his site as follows: Take Hanna Barbera, Hulk Hogan, James Brown, Fort Worth Zoo, B.B. King, Hank Williams III and Jesus Christ, mix until the image is bright like a angel. Add a pair of cowboy boots and jeans, some Mexican beer, your choice, and put it all on a page using only flat vector shapes.. Creator of the crazy outline caps typeface Pollo Pueblo (2012) and the Tekton-style architectural typeface Skwirl (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Chris MacGregor
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Union Type Supply used to be run by Chris MacGregor in Houston, TX, who was (is?) a web communications specialist at Halliburton. He also used to run Penultimate Type in Seabrook, TX. He founded About with Don Synstelien. His typefaces: Zehrgut (grunge face), Orti (by Jean-Jacques Tachdjian---a filled-in display face), Utile (high-contrast serif font designed by Matthew Chiavelli, Jeff Gillen, Chris MacGregor and Jean-Jacques Tachdjian), Afrobats, Bridgework, Citore, Emulate, Emulate Bold, Epaulet (1994), Tagged, Boxonoxo, Burner, Datapad, Empanel, Emulate, Esboki, Esdeki, Estuki, GleeClub, HiroItalic, HiroOutline, HiroSharp, Hiro, IttoBlock, IttoRound, JaySetch (named after Jay Setchell, who was Chris MacGregor's boss at Imagination Plus, The Woodlands, TX), LeslieSmith, Manitu, Metolurgy, MittenHollowHollow, MittenLeftLeft, MittenRightRight (1996), PepClub, Planet100, PlanetFiveHundred, PlanetSevenHundred, PlanetThreeHundred, ReverberateBold, Reverberate, Tagged, Tshtars, Unite, UtileCaustic. Some typefaces in this list were published by [T-26] (such as Epaulet, Emulate, Mitten, Tagged). On-line gallery. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of Wayland Baptist University and Abilene Christian University (20107). Graphic designer in Lewisville, TX, who designed the display titling face Holbrook (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of Cannibal (2012, scartchy hand), Die Already (grungy caps), The Dead Saloon (2012, Western caps face), the scratchy scary typeface Dead Bitch (2012), the athletic lettering face No Honor Roll (2012), the grungy Redux (2012), Konquer (2012), Sandy Ravage (2012), and Digital Anarchy (2012), the blood drip typefaces Spiked (2012) and XSpiked (2012), and the brushed typeface GwizsK (2012). In 2013, he designed Barbaric, Welcome To Texas (graffiti font), Chopper City (a spurred constructivist typeface), Maya Rose (a script face), Chaos and Pain (a tattoo font), Abandon (grungy poster face), Virtual Bliss, and Pale Horse (a dagger font), Malevolentz (grungy caps), Shrapnel (grungy caps). Home page. Personal home page for Designs By Chris. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Austin, TX, this designer created the handprinted Schoolboy text in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American vector artist (b. 1988) who runs Vector Tea and lives in Midland, TX. Creator of the handwriting face Certain Tea (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A commercial Windows tool to create web pages that use your own fonts. By CoffeeCup Software from Corpus Christi, TX. It also has a medium-sized font archive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cole Evans
| My Fonts: Cole Evans (a.k.a. Little Lord Fontleroy, the Prince of Print) is a one man typographing entity. Cole Michael Evans (b. 1985) lives in Austin, TX according to one site, and in Dallas, TX, according to another. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Cole Michael Evans
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Courtney Brooke James (Austin, TX) created an unnamed monoline caps face in 2013 while studying at The University of Texas at Austin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Craig Eliason
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Cumberland Fontworks
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Fontspace link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
D. Jules Gianakos (Zapruder Design, Brooklyn, NY) is the Houston-born creator of Dealey (2012), an outline font based on HelveticaNeue LT 65 Medium. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dan M. Zadorozny
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Lettering artist from Texas who is based in Brooklyn, and specializes in chalk lettering and shop signage. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the serif typeface Adjacent Lowercase (2004). Student in Austin, TX. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Darcy Baldwin
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David Fleming Nalle
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Shields holds a BFA from Memphis State University and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He lived in Brooklyn where he co-founded the design studio Viewers Like You, and was a design consultant in New York. He designed Goofypop and Frank Rounded. Now an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Shields researches and catalogues wood type, and organizes the extensive Rob Roy Kelly wood type collection there. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, and at TypeCon 2012 in Milwaukee. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font designer at SIL in Dallas, TX, where she finished two free Burmese fonts in the Padauk family (2002-2005). That SIL project was managed by Martin Hosken. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dennis Ludlow
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Graphic designer in Dallas and Amarillo who graduated from Texas Christian University (Fine Arts in Graphic Design). Creator of the grotesque all-caps face Franchise Bold (2009). Free download at Lost Type, Dafont and Fontspace. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dick Pape
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Dick Pape
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Dinghorns is a free truetype font with Texas longhorns. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DJBFontography
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In 2011, she made DJB C Lyle Run, DJB Blueprint, DJB Crazy Goofy Cool, and DJB Cassandra. Typefaces designed in 2012: DJB Play Misty For Me (made in conjunction with Misty Cato), Bean Pole, DJB Liz, DJB Worn at the knees, DJB Cris Script, DJB Doodle Beans, DJB Squirly Q, DJB Jacked Up Kinda Luv, DJB Lena, DJB Pookiedoo, DJB Geeks Who Wear Glasses, DJB Brewhaus Special, DJB Emily's Garden (curly alphabet, codesigned with Lauren Grier), DJB Room Mother Script, Lucy Lu. Dafont link. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Wood type collectors weho started building a collection in 1940 in Dobbs Ferry, New York. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Doyald Young
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Doyald Young: Logotypes and Letterforms
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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:
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] ⦿ |
Duncan Roberston (Austin, TX) created a 42-cut typeface family called New Alphabet 13 (2013) after Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in El Paso, TX. Behance link. He created a blackletter face from first principles in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eternal Maelstrom Studios (or: [emfont])
| Free fonts by Jason Harlan of Austin, TX, at this studio (Eternal Maelstrom Studios or [emfont]) with a Japanese techno look. The techno fonts typically have only 26 letters without punctuation or numbers: Akihibara (Latin with a kana look), AnimePornstar, Ddsnet, Freshmen (2000), Honeyflash, Kogal, Pornohouse (LED simulation), Third Party, Akihibarahyper (2001), Clovers (2001), Crafty (2001), Dreampop (2001), JackFrost (2001). Catalog of his fonts. Dafont link. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Commercial Ethiopic software and fonts: handwriting fonts such as WashRa (1995), Ethiopia (1996), Wookianos (1997), YebSe (2000). Plus a free Sabaean Script font. Based in Houston. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eye Envision Studios
| Elite Webdesigns (or: Eye Envision Studios, link died ca. 2004) offered Bren Burrill's free dingbats: Elite1websets, Elite2webset, Elitebitsnpieces, Elitecircledesigns, Elitekaleidos, Eliteremotesplashin. These were all made in 2000, and are very useful as web page icons. Bren Burrill hails from Corsicana, TX, and works as a photographer. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A PO Box company company in Universal City, TX, involved in multilingual computing. It offers some Cyrillic fonts in a decorative pack (Artisan, Brush Stroke, Graceful Script, Kids Hand, Mechanical Pen, Mechanical Pen Wide, Old Cyrillic, Showtime). Other fonts can be found on various archives: for example, see Timesse CE (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonts and software for multilingual computing. From Universal City, TX, a commercial site covering most major languages, especially Cyrillic, East-European and Slavic languages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontdotcom
| Major Thai font outfit and font download site. It carries many Thai fonts, such as TX Kikku (by Puey Ounjai, aka Toxin), Nook Freehand (2005, a Thai/Latin face by Nook Nattaya), and NP Naipol All In One (2005, by Pol Udomwittayanukul, aka Naipol). Ounjai also made TX Love (2005), a Valentine's Day font, TX Timesquare (2006, handwriting), TX Jello (2006). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonted House (Lubbock, TX) was started by Sara Snyder and Angie Baldelomar. Together, they designed the tall hand-printed caps typeface Canoe (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Garland, TX. BibleScript: Commercial Greek and Hebrew font package. Has a shareware version. Windows and Mac. Their fonts are also here: GU-Greek (2001), GU-Hebrew (2001), Greek (2001), Greek-Uncials (2005), Greektl, Hebrew (2001), Hebrewtl, OLBGRK (2003), OLBHEB (2003), Scholar (1997). "GU" stands for Galaxie Unicode. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hickory Creek, TX-based designer of the decorative typefaces Howard (2012) and Audrey (2012), created during a class project in which hybrids had to be made based on a cross of Aerator and Didot. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
General Glyphics
| Tom Davis is the principal of Dallas-based General Glyphics, which in 1993 marketed these border dingbats: Borders-Argyle, Borders-BourbonStreet, Borders-Cartographer, Borders-DotRule, Borders-Droughts, Borders-FatWaves, Borders-Intersect, Borders-Karnak, Borders-Nieman, Borders-NiemanOpen, Borders-SantaFe, Borders-ScotchWaves, Borders-SmallDiamonds, Borders-Surveyor, Borders-Thebes, Borders-Transom, Borders-ZigZagOne, Borders-ZigZagTwo, Borders-Zues. Seems to have moved on to other things. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
George Thomas
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He started selling his fonts in 2012 through his company, Creative Market. These include Peruse, Terra Stamp, Nimble Pen, Lamson Marker, Prova, Hand Block, Notch, Jaywalk and Hand Slab. Home page. Creative Market link. Design Moo link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Waco, TX-based designer of SimpleJane (2002), Fathappy (2002), fun-times (2003), Glad (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Grandheaven Fonts (was: Fontage Road)
| Free original and very grungy fonts without real utility: The Rundown, Sixtys Finale, Such A cutup, Tarantia, Harrisment 10, Led to Ruin, The Radical Land, Anime Dressup Girls, Overbent2000, Bexarian-Realm, Lavanian-Light, The-Hockey-Stick, Travesty-10, Vulture-Head, anime-dressup-girls, anorex, carp, creepland, final80, led-to-ruin, long-road, long-road32655, metairian, night-starker, nineties-finale, nuecies, rachal, radland, seventies-finale, snipsnip, snipsnip245, strangeness, way-way-west, way-west, y2k, derivfromanahal, argheightiesaregone, halfhalf, ano-rexia, argh, louisianaanana, rachalia, revengeforyourstolenbodies, carrion, bisonic, tulsie. All fonts by Charles Duncan from Brownsville, TX. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Texan designer of the fat finger font Elementary (2013). . Behance link. [Google]
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HP2PS is based around an HPGL-2 interpreter written in Postscript. Free. By Texas Imperial Software Products. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Iconian Fonts
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Indian language fonts for PC and Mac. Commercial site from Houston, TX: maker of fonts and software products. Fonts include Hindi [ex: SheelRekha, RoopLekha, Kamal], Gujarati [ex: Shefali, Nita, Anarkali, Agni], Punjabi [ex: Pushpa, Suman, Badal, Arup], Bengali [Jayanti, BornaMala], Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Sanskrit [ex: Sansipro], Malayalam and Assamese. Fonts for transliteration include Diplomat and MonoPali. HTML editors for these languages as well. Free Om_SuniKanth font. Run by Sunny Kallara. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
J. Daniel Escareno (Houston, TX) created the all-caps typeface Levels in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jack Kilmon
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Jack's Scribal and Epigraphic Fonts
| Houston's Jack Kilmon designed many archaic and epigraphic TrueType fonts. Free for academics. His site also has an archive of some fonts by Reinhold Kainhofer (RK Ancient Fonts), and some Coptic, Hebrew, Hieroglyphic and Greek fonts. A list of his creations: Early Phoenician (8th century BC), Moabite/Mesha Stele Epigraphic, Lachish Ostraca Cursive Palaeohebrew, Elephantine Papyrus Cursive, Jack's Early Aramaic (10th c. BCE), Nabataean Aramaic, Jack's Samaritan, Jack's Siloam Inscription, Jack's Dead Sea Scroll Scribal (or DSS Scribal) (based on Great Isaiah Scroll), Jack's Habakkuk Scribal (based on Pesher Habakkuk), Jack's Meissner Papyrus Cursive, Dead Sea Scroll Scribal, Latin Epigraphic, Roman Rustica (Capitalis Rustica), Latin bookhand from 1st to 6th century, C. Sinaiticus Uncial Greek, Early Greek Epigraphic, Greek Minuscule with Ligatures, Carolingian Minuscule, Insular Minuscule, early Gothic, Gothic Textura Quadrata, C. Sinaiticus Uncial Greek, Early Greek Epigraphic, Greek Minuscule with Ligatures, Jack's Etruscan. Essay on the history of writing. And an archive of Greek, Coptic, Hebrew and hieroglyphic fonts. Dafont link. Marc Smith is not kind in his critique of Kilmon, who he calls an amateur (page 65). He deplores (page 69) that most letters, o, b, p and y included, have the same height in Kilmon's work. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer and photographer in San Antonio, TX. He created the circle arc-themed minimal sans face Don't Feed The Designers (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jacob Type
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His commercial foundry, Jacob Type, was established in 2012 and is located in Texas. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Jake Luedecke
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Designer at T-26 of the ultra-fat and overweight Mammoth (2004). Stolarski lives in San Antonio, TX. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jason Harlan
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Aldine (2011, Lost Type) is a wood-look headline face based on original proofs of a 19th Century American Wood Type alphabet, Aldine Expanded. It was created and embellished by Javier Viramontes at the University of Texas, Austin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jeff Gillen
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American designer of the brush face Boulle (2011), a typeface designed for a course at The Art Institute of Austin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
According to Identifont, Joe Taylor designed Blippo Black in 1969 at FotoStar. Currently he is the curator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum in Crosbyton, TX. It was inspired by Herbert Bayer's 1925 experimental "universal typeface". Blippo versions: Scangraphic, URW. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dallas, TX-based creator of the Fette Fraktur-inspired blackletter face FF Illustrati (2011). Free after registration here. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joey Nelson
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Jonathan Keene
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Graphic designer from Waco, TX, working in Santa Fe, NM. He started making some typefaces during his studies in 2012, but these remain unnamed and unpublished. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Texan creator of the ornamental alphabet Fowl (2012). She is doing a BFA in Graphic Design at the Art Institute of Houston. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jose Robles's foundry in Kyle, TX, is called Letter Balm. Creator of the splashy font Freshly Squeezed (2011) and of the graffiti font Street Legal (2013). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dallas, TX-based creator of Malayalam Origami Type (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kasey Villarreal is a graphic designer from Georgetown, TX. Creator of the hand-made typefaces Twigs (2012) and Ice Cream (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from San Marcos, TXZ, who drew a cute typographic character Little Miss Avenir (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Austin, TX, Keo Pierron created the Pages Alphabet (2011). Check also his poster called Ponzu Sushi House (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kevin Larson received his PhD in cognitive psychology in 2000 from the University of Texas at Austin. His academic research was on word recognition and reading acquisition. He currently works for Microsoft's Advanced Reading Technology team in Redmond, WA, and is working on the scientific understanding of ClearType and other reading technologies. At ATypI 2003, he spoke about the recognition of words. He provided evidence to support the following theory: "The reader recognizes each of the letters at the same time (in parallel) and assembles a word." (As opposed to sequential recognition and assembly, or word shape recognition.) Speaker at ATypI 2007 in Brighton. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, his talk was entitled Don't we have enough fonts? A summary: Few can distinguish differences between typefaces beyond a serif / sans-serif difference, particularly with text faces. If readers can't detect these differences, then we are wasting a lot of time and effort. Many researchers now believe that that people have two evaluative systems - one that involves slow, effortful, deliberative thinking - and one that is automatic, fast, and pre-attentive. The second, called rapid cognition, allows people to make rapid judgments with relatively little information. For example, it only takes 50ms (1/20th of a second) to make a judgment about the aesthetics of a website that is similar to a judgment made after a long exposure. Our studies demonstrate that the personality of a typeface is identified with rapid cognition and that it impacts our recognition of the words written with the typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Lewisville, TX, who made the inline display face Highland (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Killer Fonts
| Fonts by L. Theodore Ollier, named after famous killers, dead presidents, dictators, brainiacs, cowboys and notables. About 10 dollars a piece, the mostly handwriting fonts are designed by L. Theodore Ollier. TrueType or PostScript, Mac or PC. Partial list of font names: ButchCassidy, DaVincian, DahmerBits, DillingerConcise, Jeffersonian, OswaldConspiracy, PoeNevermore, RipperScript, ZodiacCleartext, ZodiacCryptik. Fonts are named after Lizzie Borden, Jeffery Dahmer, John Dillinger, Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald, Gainsville Ripper, Jack The Ripper, Sirhan Sirhan, Zodiac Killer, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, George Washington, Napoleon, Genghis Kahn, Beethoven, Leonardo Da Vinci, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Michaelangelo, Buffalo Bill, Butch Cassidy, Jesse James, Billy The Kid, Columbus, Helen Keller, Blood Type AB, Blood Type Serum, Angouleme, Angoulema-Decora, Dr. Not, Ellipsis, Esarti, Linia, Sanserio, Serima, Slide Rule, Stop Gap. L. Theodore Ollier used to run The Pensword Type Foundry in Austin, TX. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Designer from Garland, TX (b. 1990), who created the handwriting font Kiminims (2006). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kindergarten and New Kindergarten are two 4-font families for school age children. With and without rules and arrows. Commercial product, truetype and type 1. Kindergarten (2000), New Kindergarten (2002). Company located in Wichita Falls, TX. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kontour
| Swiss designer Sibylle Hagmann (b. 1965) runs Kontour, est. 2000. With a BFA in 1989 from the Basel School of Design and an MFA from the California Institute of Arts in Valencia in 1996, she became art director of the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles, and she is now working as a designer and art director for institutional publications and she teaches at the University of Houston in the graphic communications program. Cholla won at Bukvaraz 2001. She also won an award at Granshan 2008. She designed these typefaces:
CV. Bio at Emigre. FontShop link. Behance link. Interview by MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Krista Langehennig (Austin, TX) created the experimental typeface Geo during her studies in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dallas, TX-based designer of the free display face Clumsy (2010) and of the vector format font called Steed Font (2009) and of the handprinted Funktion (2011). Designmoo link. Alternate URL. In 2012, Kyle started selling his Steedicons font and vector format icons. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Lauren Ashpole
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Arlington, TX-based designer of the fun poster typeface Kalos (2012). Another Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Houston, TX-based designer of the tall hand-printed poster face Sunshine (2012) and of the fat outline face Arrowhead (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at TCU in Fort Worth, TX, who created the Tuscan typeface Stivali (+Inline) in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Texas (b. 1990) who created the handwriting font Lauri (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Austin, TX. She created the ornamental organic caps face Great Expectations (2012). Her posters are quite noteworthy. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Houston-based designer of the nad-printed Curly Script (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator in Dallas, TX, of Pixeliza 20 (2013, pixel face), and WordBits (2013, pixel face). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His work influenced Burgues Script (2007, Sudtipos). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student, born in Monterrey, Mexico, and living in Dallas, TX. She created a techno face called ModernPop (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luedecke Design Font Co (was: LDF Fonts)
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Fontspace link. Dafont link. Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Illustrator, designer and art director in Austin, TX. He created the poster stencil face Bon Poster (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Majus Corporation
| George Thomas is a font expert who owns Majus Corp in Dallas, a company he founded after having contributed to many of the major font foundries. Creative Alliance designer: The first font to be released from Majus Corp., and licensed exclusively to the Creative Alliance, is Civilite MJ. The face was originally cut by Robert Granjon in 1557. This Civilité dates from 1994 and is based on a model by Louis Ferrand (1922). He also created the film fonts Eightball, Highball, and Cueball, which were licensed to Alphabet Innovations (Phil Martin's company). MyFonts page. Phil Martin said about him: George Thomas came to work for me. A technical genius in my view. He made my studio the branch office of Merganthaler. When type director Mike Parker quit Merg to found Bitstream and hire away all Merg's type-knowledgable people, Steve Byers had no way to keep Merg in production except for what George and I did for him. His fonts have the MJ suffix. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Texas. El Lissitsky's Proun series inspired an ornamental caps font in 2012. Cargo collective link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marwan Aridi
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From Spring, TX, Alsoft's commercial font manager for Mac OS X. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brooklyn-based blogger, editor and writer, who was born in Dallas and studied law at the University of Florida. She used iFontMaker to create the clean handprinted typeface Maud Print (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Maury McCown
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Michael Hamm
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Calligrapher and letter artist in Austin, TX. He has made several attractive calligraphic alphabets (not fonts). Behance link. Examples of his calligraphic alphabets: I, II, III, IV, V, VI. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Houston, TX-based creator (b. 1989) of Syera Inline (2012, pen-drawn), WW Digital (2011, LED style) and WW Pencil (2011, pen-drawn). Home page at WebWorks in Houston, TX. Aka MJP WebWorks USA. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Now here is a new idea proposed by Miekala Cangelosi, a freelance designer in Texas: take an existing font and use it to compose glyphs in a bigger font. The glyphs are like atoms, if you wish, of the new font. This will test (break?) the 1000x1000 or 2048x2048 grids people and font software enthusiasts are used to deal with, and support my call for much much larger grid sizes in font files. Anyway, Miekala used Bebas Neue to create an all caps face in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of an alphabet made from shattered glass (2011). Miguel is based in Houston, TX. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Until June 2002, distributors for many foundries, such as 2rebels (Montréal, Québec); 3 Island Press (Rockland, Maine); Daggar Design (Brooklyn, New York); Lagartija Desino Grafico (Puerto Rico); Radiateurfontes (Lille, France), Synfonts (Omaha, Nebraska); Union Type Supply - now "AboutType" (Houston, Texas). In June 2002, it closed its doors. Jeff Gillen himself, the principal, designed these fonts: BLIND FAITH, BLUELINE, BLUEPRINT, BUREAUCRACY FAMILY, CLOUD9, FAITH, GREED, GROOVY FAMILY, HERSCHEL KRUSTOFSKY, HYMAN KRUSTOFSKY, JOBLESS, JOKER, MELTDOWN, MARTIAN HOLIDAY FAMILY, MISSING LINK, NUCLEUS, RAYGUNS, REPUBLICRAT, RIDDLER, ROLLOVER FAMILY, SIBLEY POTATO FAMILY, SLACKER BOOKSTORE&TRIBAL MASKS. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mindcandy Design
| Foundry and font vendor in Austin, Texas, created in 1995. As a vendor, it offers an outlet for twelve formerly autonomous font makers: 2 Rebels, 3 Island Press, Abouttype, Brainreactor, Emboss, Mindcandy, Lagartija, Lunchbox, Plazm, Radiateur, Synfonts and Verge. One of the designers is Jeff Gillen. List of Mindcandy's own fonts: Blind Faith, Blueline, Blueprint, Bureaucracy+Municipal, Bureaucracy+State, Bureaucracy+Federal, Cloud 9, Delirious, Delirium, Faith, Groovy, Groovy+Oultine, Herschel Krustofsky, Hyman Krustofsky, Invacuo+Bones, Invacuo+Cloak, Invacuo+Valid, Jobless, Joker, Meltdown, Missing Link, Contamination (borders), Phace, Smacky, Bureaucracy+Electoral, MartianHoliday, Nokius (pixel font family), Nucleus, Rayguns, Riddler, Rollover, Rollover+Outline, Sibley Potato+AuGratin, Sibley Potato+Baked, Sibley Potato+Fried, Sibley Potato+Mashed, Sibley Potato+Salad (Mayo), Sibley Potato+Salad (Mustard), Slacker+Bookstore, Tribal Masks. Simon Daniels at Microsoft writes: "Despite using a Flash font viewer and having posted a claim that they 'embrace the latest technologies to deliver your message in virtually any medium', Mindcandy restricts others from embedding their fonts within Web pages. This is particularly strange given the fact that their free fonts are set to 'installable embedding'." TypoViewer is nice. Mindcandy, the vendor decided in June 2002 to sell the fonts in their collection at 1 USD a shot, but I wonder if that does not violate the agreements with the designers. They also state that they are ready to get out of the font business altogether. And at the end of June 2002, the doors are closing on Mindcandy. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
In 2013, he/she created Hadley Numerals (based on the numbers originally generated by Gunter Gerhard Lange for his Derby typeface), and Hadley Stencil (based on the letters originally generated by Gret Mengelt-Mergenthaler and Walter Ballmer for their Swiss typeface TEXPO). Free download. North Dallas Forty (2012, free) is based on the custom letters in the original 1979 movie posters and marketing materials for the film North Dallas Forty. In 2011-2012, Dick Pape created a number of free fonts based on designs pointed out to him by Mindofone, and he calls them his Mindofone collection, 86 files strong. They include French Alphabets (FA) and French Advertising Alphabets (FAA). The French Advertising Alphabets were designed by M. Moullet in Brussels in 1946. The FAA series: FAA3DLettresEnRelief, FAAAllongees, FAAAllongeesBold, FAAAntiqueAllongee, FAAAntiqueGrasse, FAAAntiques, FAAAntiquesGrasses, FAABaroque3DInitiales, FAABlockLettresEnRelief, FAACameoHollow, FAACaracteresdeFantaisie, FAAChevauchantes, FAACubiques, FAAEcossaises, FAAEcritureGrasseEmoussee, FAAEgyptienneGrasse, FAAEgyptiennesEmoussees, FAAFantaisie, FAAFantaisieBlaireau, FAAFantaisieHardi, FAAFantaisieHaut, FAAFantasio, FAAFloralGothiqueInitiales, FAAFrenchMecane, FAAItalianHeavySlab, FAALettresAuCrayonItalic, FAALiberty, FAANormandes, FAANormandesAllongees, FAAOmbreeEnRelief, FAAOnciale, FAAOrientales, FAAPochoir, FAARomainClassique, FAARomainTypographique, FAScenesPaysannes, FAASerifEgyptienne, FAAVetteFantasieAntieke. The FA series consists first of all of digitizations that are from a booklet by signpainter Roumond entitled 32 Alphabets Modernes, published in Paris by A. Charayron and Léon Duran, some time in the 1930s. Pape's 32 fonts are FAModerne0369, FAModerne0562a, FAModerne0562b, FAModerne0946aBold, FAModerne0946bBold, FAModerne1367a, FAModerne1367b, FAModerne2021a, FAModerne2021b, FAModerne2491a, FAModerne2491b, FAModerne2491c, FAModerne2491d, FAModerne4441, FAModerne5204, FAModerne5204a, FAModerne5204b, FAModerne5204c, FAModerne6183a, FAModerne6183b, FAModerne6518a, FAModerne6518b, FAModerne6518c, FAModerne6518d, FAModerne7287a, FAModerne7287b, FAModerne7666, FAModerne7798, FAModerne9002a, FAModerne9002b, FAModerne9321a, FAModerne9321b. The other fonts in the FA series are FAAntique2748, FAAntiqueShaded, FACondensedGothic, FACondensedReversedGothic, FAGillSignWritersGuide, FAGothicInitials, FAHerrickSignWriters, FAJeuSubstantoBold, FAPutti, FARoundSans4901, FAThin3394, FATransportReversed4858, FAUltraLight, FAVineInitials, FAWildFlowers. Further typefaces by Dick Pape: Cathedral (2011, a sketched expressionist face, based on Martin Wait), ColorLinesFont (2010, based on work by Anton Gridz), ColorOutLinesFont, FuroreMexicoCameo, FuroreMexicoNormal, FuroreMexicoPlain, FuroreMexicoWide. The Furore series was made in 2011 based on Furore No. 11 The Mexico Issue (Piet Schreuders, Amsterdam, 1978). | |
Texan creator of the bouncy angry Post-Generative Trauma (2008), the grunge face Necros (2008), and the star-spangled letter face Adric (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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He created the ornamental caps face McDonald in vector (EPS) format. He made a scanfont called Roman Print Variously Shaded (2009), which is an ornamental caps alphabet in EPS format based on document from ca. 1800. In 2010, he used iFontMaker to create the handprinted outline face Shadow Hand. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Austin, TX-based designer. Her type designs are available via Creative Market, and include the hand-printed typeface Mabel (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Navarr Tethyr Barnier's made poaint.exe (2009, handwriting face made with Fontcapture) and Anime Symbol (2009, Fontcapture font). Barnier is from Spring, TX. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nick Curtis (b. Chicago, 1948) lived in Texas from 1952-1997, and lives since 1997 in Gaithersburg, MD and Alexandria, MD. From ca. 1990 onwards, he has been designing fonts, first for free, and then commercially. He had a great reputation as a "revivalist" type designer, with a particular interest in retro fonts and art deco types. In 2003, his site had become too popular and too expensive to maintain, and thus he went commercial as Nick's Fonts. Interview. Free downloads at TypOasis. Complete list of names and other info, maintained by Sander de Voogt. Interview in which we learn about his fondness for Corel Draw as a type design tool. Near the end of 2012, he posted this comment on his web site: Fifteen years ago, I embarked on a wonderful voyage of discovery, when I created my very first font with Fontographer 3.15. My maiden voyages were, frankly, rather clunky and amateurish, but I have been told that they showed promise. Well, sure enough, thanks to the diligent (and patient) efforts of Ilene Strizver, I polished up my craft enough to sell my humble efforts---first as a sideline business and, since 2006, as my full-time job. In total, I have produced over eleven hundred fonts---almost five hundred of them freeware fonts, which I conservatively estimate have been downloaded and enjoyed by over three million people worldwide. Unfortunately, this past year has brought a series of unanticipated setbacks, culminating in the loss of my wife's beautiful mind and soul to the scourge of alcoholism. In an effort to generate extra income to cover the expenses for her long-term care, I have proposed a number of, I believe, innovative ways to revamp the online font business; unfortunately, those efforts have fallen flat, primarily due to the professional font community's abject fear of crossing the $165 million Elephant in the Room. I even offered a special discount rate of 75% off retail price for full-time students of Typohile Forum. To date, there have been zero takers. Hell: even the webfont kit of one of my own fonts which I purchased from myfonts.com turned out to be an empty folder. Talk about a run of bad luck. Which leaves my with you, dear readers. If you or someone you know has had fun or made a buck from my humble efforts throughout the years, please donate whatever you can---even a lousy dollar would help---to help me out. I would greatly appreciate it. Home page. Dafont link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. View the typefaces designed by Nick Curtis. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Nick Curtis: Commercial faces
| Nick Curtis (b. Chicago, 1948) lived in Texas from 1952-1997. Since 1997, he is in Gaithersburg, MD and Alexandria, MD. Since the 1990s, he has been designing fonts, first for free, and then commercially. He had a great reputation as a "revivalist" type designer, with a particular interest in retro fonts and art deco types. In 2003, his site had become too popular and too expensive to maintain, and thus he went commercial as Nick's Fonts. Interview. Free downloads at TypOasis. Complete list of names and other info, maintained by Sander de Voogt. Interview in which we learn about his fondness for Corel Draw as a type design tool. Home page. His free fonts are listed elsewhere. On MyFonts, he says this about himself: Nick's Fonts is a modest little foundry dedicated to the preservation of our rich typographic heritage. Most of the foundry's designs are based on authentic historical sources, gleaned from the massive collections of the Library of Congress. If you are looking for a font that captures the essence of the Wild West, the Gay Nineties or the Jazz Age, look here first: if it is not in the catalog, it will be soon. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
NIMX Typefoundry
| Display and dingbat fonts from a foundry in Dallas, TX. Denny Driver made the dingbat font MonkeysTail. Calvin Glenn (the principal?) made the multiple master font Steelhand (35 dollars). Catalog. Philsfonts sells their family Monotype NIMX Jacoby (by Calvin Glenn), as well as Jitterbug and Jitterbats (jointly by NIMX and Laurie McCanna, 1994). Designer of NIMX Quirks (1994, dingbats), Monotype Tekno and NIMX Robust (1994). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Ojay Juarez
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Resident of South Padre Island, TX, who made the Western display faces Eminent (2010) and Round Up (2009, Fontcapture) and the sketched blackletter face Twenty 12 (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Penelope has a Bachelor's degree in Arts with a Major in video art from Caracas, Venezuela. She currently works as a freelance graphic designer in San Antonio, TX. Creator of Orderup (2011, commissioned by the Orderup restaurant in san Antonio): This is a font I created for Orderup, by digitally tracing over the Sackers Gothic font they used for their logo to give the hand-drawn style they wanted for their new image. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
PenUltimate Type Foundry
| Foundry in League City, TX, started in 1993 by its head designer, Chris MacGregor. Fonts available through [T-26], Prototype and Image Club. About 40 dollars per face. Interesting display faces include Citore, Zehrgut, LeslieSmith and Manitu. Also check the dingbats Afrobats and Nerybats. It is unclear if Chris designed all of these fonts. I wish they would indicate who made what. Anyway, the list of typefaces: Afrobats, Nerybats, Tagged, Citore, Emulate, Emulate Bold, Bridgework, Epaulet, Utile Inky, Utile Inky Italic, Utile, Utile Italic, Utile Coastic Italic, Utile Caustic, Leslie Smith, Zehrgut, Neohead, Itto Round, Empanel, Empanel Bold, Arrgoculture, Itto Block, Linkletter, Fleming Tall, Fleming Short, Delfinola, Attune, Fleming multiple master, Manitu, Monte Family, Pep Club, Stans. Here he says in 2009: I have over forty commercial typefaces available for sale through various type re-sellers around the world and my average yearly income off the typefaces is $115, even though I regularly see my typefaces in use on the web, on TV in print and in video games. I used to think that one day I'd have a nice supplemental income from my typefaces but the reality of the situation is that people like you don't value the effort that goes into making a typeface. I haven't designed a new typeface in eight years now and I have no desire to do so. Why should I when you're going to be a big bitching twat you greedy self-centered tantrum throwing teenager? Fuck the foundries? You and others who haven't paid for the typefaces you use have been fucking the foundries for years. Fuck the foundries? Fuck you. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Phil Martin
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Located in Houston, TX, this company sells a PostNet barcode font for Mac and PC. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Puey Ounjai
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The 8MB Fonts zip file has some standard truetype fonts. Among the rarest in the collection: 404px (pixel font, 2000), AgencyFB-Reg (Font Bureau), LucidaGrande, LucidaSansUnicode, Orgv01 (pixel font, 2002, by orgdot.com), the Texas Instruments fonts Ti86Pc, Ti86PcBold, Ti86keys and Ti86keys, and the Indic fonts from Microsoft such as Tunga and Raavi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
RAILhead Design (later: Maury McCown Foundry)
| Maury and Karen McCown from Bedford, TX, ran this nice foundry. Boren and raised in Texas, Maury has been making fonts since 1992, but stopped at some point stating I am no longer making fonts, and I don't want any "font advertisement". Now in Lake Jackson, TX, Karen seems to have dropped out of the picture. Maury's early fonts were free, under the label RAILhead Design: handwriting fonts Karen Sue, Stingray, PutterDo, Farkas, FunnyFace, grunge fonts Poltergeist and Doggie Doodie, and the dingbats HeadsAndFaces. Plus AbuseLite, Cheeka, Faerie, Flinker, Fluvii, Kitty, Mister, MrMcCown, NuGothic, TilterLite, WraithLite. Skitz And Amy are no longer there (they used to be at the now defunct mFONTS). $$ fonts at RAILhead: Chop Block (nice fat letters), Dead Font, Fomas Tart, Nugget, O-Negative, Phast Phont, Phatty, Sharpie, Simpleton, SloMo (nice tall handprinted letters), Stingray, Twin Slime, Crash Test. In 2010, Maury went commercial as Maury McCown Foundry. He made the tall-legged Scrawny in that year. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer from Keller, TX, whose fonts at Garagefonts include the futuristic family Transpond (1999-2000). Home page. FontShop link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Editor for the Information Technology department at the University of Texas at el Paso. He designed Fontovar (2003), an experimental geometric hairline face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alyson L. Hill (Department of Psychology, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX) discusses readability of web sites. Dated 1997. One of her conclusions: In this experiment, Times NR (proportionally spaced) was faster than Courier New (non-proportionally spaced), while Arial (proportionally spaced) was slower than Courier New. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Texas-vased creator of the handprinted face Rebecca (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Fort Worth, TX, who created T.M. Wardell (2012, a connected script face) and Liquid Flame (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Richard Diaz Granados
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Graphic designer in Houston Heights, TX. He used coat hangers to make the wiry typeface Desperation (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
San Antonio, TX-based barcode font company. At 150USD a shot, you can get Code39, Code128, UCC128/EAN128, Code93, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, MSI-Plessey, PostNet, PlanetCode, 4 State, UPC/EAN/ISBN and more. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rob Roy Kelly (b. Nebraska, 1925, d. Tempe, AZ, 2004) collected wood type from local printers for use by his students at the Minneapolis College of Art&Design. He began gathering the types in the late 1950s and continued adding to the collection over the next decade. He started researching the history, manufacture, and use of the growing collection partly in response to questions that arose from working with his students. His research was first published in the 1963 issue of Design Quarterly (No. 56), and was followed in 1964 by a limited-edition folio of specimen sheets from the collection, entitled American Wood Types 1828-1900, Volume One. Kelly's research would culminate with the publishing in 1969 of American Wood Type, 1828-1900: Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types and Comments on Related Trades of the Period. Since 1993, his substantive wood type collection now resides at the University of Texas. At Dover, he published 100 Wood Type Alphabets. Kelly's final work with the Collection came in the early 1990s when he was asked by Adobe Systems to participate in a project to develop digital revivals of historic wood types as part of the Adobe Originals program. As consultant to the project, Kelly helped select, from his own collected materials, the type styles that would be made into digital fonts. Kelly died in January 2004. Obituary, which states: He studied design at the University of Nebraska and the Minneapolis School of Art and served in the Army during the Korean War. Later he did graduate work at the School of Art and Architecture at Yale, where he studied with Josef Albers, Alvin Eisenman, Alvin Lustig, Herbert Matter, Leo Lionni, Lester Beall and Alexey Brodovitch. He both taught and administered graphic design programs at the Minneapolis College of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Western Michigan University and, most recently, at Arizona State University. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A study collection, with extensive specimens, held by the Design Division of the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. This is one of the most, if not the most, extensive web presence for wood type. The collection, as of mid 2009:
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Graphic designer from the Dallas Fort Worth area. Creator of Finger Font (2011): all glyphs are parts of fingers. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Dallas, TX. In 2012, he was working on the display face Santeria. At he Type @ Cooper program in 2012, Rolando C. Alcantara designed Murnau. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Samuel John Ross
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From Georgetown, TX: supplier of custom Truetype and Type 1 handwriting and logo fonts. Beware: a custom block letter handwriting font at 100 dollars plus shipping. For a cursive handwriting font, 300 dollars and up! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sander Wolf
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Sander's Conspiracy
| Based in Plano, TX, Sander Wolf (b. 1972), who runs Sander's Conspiracy, created these fonts: Messy Annie, Silly Annie, Sticky Annie (1997), Lonely Annie (1997), all handwriting fonts. MyFonts site. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Wife of S. John Ross from Austin, TX, who runs Cumberland Fontworks. In 2001, she designed the font Marshmallow. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lubbock, TX-based type designer at Fonted House, a typefoundry she started with Angie Baldelomar, with whom she codesigned the tall hand-printed caps typeface Canoe (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Texas-based designer (b. 1985) of Rini Darklight (2004, handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Scriptorium (Ragnarok Press, Fontcraft)
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Images of his best selling fonts. Special subpages:
Fonts from 2013: Original Django (after the titling font in Quentin Tarantino's movie Django Unchained). |
Houston, TX-based designer, b. 1983. Creator of the simple octagonal typeface family SB Modern (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sean McCabe
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FontStructor who made Sensei322 Collegiate Font (2012), based on the athletic uniforms of the Baylor football team. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sharkshock
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On August 28, 2001, Dennis announced that he would stop producing fonts, forever. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
University of Texas student (BA in Advertising, 2013) who lives in Austin, TX. Creator of the bilined typeface Windwritten (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Beaumont, TX-based creator of Angulus (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Shondra Eppinger (Midland, TX) created a cat silhouette ornamental caps typeface simply called Cat Typography (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sibylle Hagmann
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Signfonts.com
| Commercial font studio, also called Art&Sign, located in Fort Worth, TX, started in 2001 by Steve Contreras. He writes: Created by Sign Artists, with the look of hand lettering. Casual and script fonts designed specifically for Sign painters and Artist, for use in vinyl cutting and large format printing. Some fonts could also be used for comic book purposes or general display. Their typefaces include: A&S-Christmas-Script, A&S-Graphina-Chisel, A&S-Happy-Jack, A&S-Harliquin, A&S-Motherlode, A&S-Pen-&-Ink-Roman, A&S-Popcorn, A&S-Porkchop-Primitive, A&S-Porkchop, A&S-Puff-Daddy, A&S-Rhino, A&S-Rister, A&S-Shocard-Block, A&S-Sign-Gothic, A&S-Signwriter, A&S-Snapper-Script, A&S-Speedway, A&S-Wizard, Jiggy Roman, Marquee, Marquee Chisel, Graceland, Brushwacker, Omni, Omni Chisel, Omni Chisel Regular, Xtreme Script, Roadhouse, Brushwacker Script, Cricket, Edoras, Black Swan, Blaze, Bone Casual, Cartoon, Wizard Bold. Ace High (2010) and Tuscano Script (2011) are Western Victorian typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The SIL Encore Font System, version 3.0, is a library of over 1600 phonetic characters and linguistic symbols in truetype and type 1 formats. Four font families are included in the SIL Encore Fonts package: SIL Doulos (similar to Times), SIL Sophia (similar to Helvetica), SIL Manuscript (monospace, like Prestige), and SIL Charis (enlarged x-height). The pre-1993 family can be downloaded for free here. A free subset, SIL IPA93 Fonts 2.0, can also be obtained here [it does not include SIL Charis]. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Dallas, TX, est. 1934. Founded over 70 years ago, SIL International is a faith-based organization that studies, documents, and assists in developing the world's lesser-known languages. SIL's staff shares a Christian commitment to service, academic excellence, and professional engagement through literacy, linguistics, translation, and other academic disciplines. SIL makes its services available to all without regard to religious belief, political ideology, gender, race, or ethnic background. Fonts in Cyberspace is an archive of many multilingual fonts. SIL Fonts, free to all, and professionally put together include the following:
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"The SIL Tai Dam Fonts are regular and bold versions of the traditional Tai Dam script and are closely based on handwritten letters. [...] Over half a million Tai Dam people (also known as Black Tai or Tai Noir) live in northwestern Vietnam and northern Laos. Their language is a member of the Tai-Kadai language family and is closely related to Laotian and Standard Thai. [...] Special thanks are due to Mr. Faah Baccam, whose drawings have served as the basis for the development of these fonts." These fonts, developed by J. Victor Gaultney at the Summer Institute of Linguistics, are free. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nuosu SIL (2008) is a single Unicode font for the standardized Yi script. The script was standardized in the 1970s by the Chinese government. In the process of standardization, 820 symbols from the traditional scripts of the Liangshan region were chosen to form a syllabary. The syllable inventory of a speech variety from Xide County, Sichuan was used as the phonological basis for standardization. For the most part there is one symbol per phonologically-distinct syllable and vice-versa. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Snail Fonts
| One money font, "tweeker", plus free fonts boomerang monkey, boomerang monkey deluxe, dilate, earthling, five cents, indian poker, internal, neon-like, number one (dingbat), poodle lover, possum droppings, rathole, reverence, space cowboy, special k, sugar, sugar [dissolve], tweed, and wetalmorker. The designer is Jonathan Keene from Dallas, TX, who created these fonts at the young age of 14. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Aka Radon2000. American student (b. 1989) at AIH (The Art Institute of Houston) who created the ornamental caps face Jaws and Claws (2011). He also created the experimental sans typeface Long Sans (2012). Stephen is a graphic designer in Houston. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stereo Type Haus
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At FontStruct in 2009, he made the Victorian family Cartelle (+Inline), the pixel family Microdot, and Chico. Granados spends his time between New York City and Austin, Texas. View Richard Granados's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Steve Contreras
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Denton, TX-based designer of Type Babies (2011), a project in which the genetic features of two typefaces are mixed. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
SubGenius (was: BOBCO SubGenius Fonts)
| Type 1, TrueType, Mac and Windows formats of the outrageous and funny Bobco dingbat fonts made by Bob Dobbs (aka Atom Funway Plastico) from Dallas, TX, designer and type designer (although he claims help from Popess Lilith von Fraumench). A dozen Bobco fonts have been published to date such as Dr. Legume, Funway and the BOBCO series. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Surface Type
| About 15 faces by Houston-based Michael E. Hamm: free fonts include Acidic, Actrial, Bountiful, Bounty, Gouge, Ozlo, Packet, Slurry. Unavailiable for now are Dwight, Elixir, Meekius, Silly Ass Thin, Silly Ass Thick, and Forge. Mostly grunge type. Good web page. Truetype for PC, type 1 for Mac. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Teeline Fonts
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He published Ambicase Modern (2010), a unicase font) and Ambicase Fatface (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Texas Instruments gives its fonts away for free: BA-II-PlusSymbols, CBL-Symbols, Cabri-Symbols, TI-10-KeySymbols, TI-15-KeySymbols, TI-30MultiViewKeys, TI-30X-IIKeySymbols, TI-30Xa-SEKeys, TI-34-IIKeySymbols, TI-36X-IIKeySymbols, TI-40-KeySymbols, TI-73-KeySymbols, TI-89-symbols, TI-92-symbols, TI-College-Symbols, TI80KeySymbols, TI81symbols, TI8285ProgramCode, TI8285ProgramCodeBold, TI82STATSfr, TI82symbols, TI83symbols, TI85symbols, TI92ProgCodeBold, TI92ProgCodeN, TINspirekeys, Ti73ProgCodeBold, Ti73ProgCodeN, Ti83Pluspc, Ti83PluspcBd, Ti83ProgCodeBold, Ti83ProgCodeN, Ti86Pc, Ti86PcBold, Ti86keys, Ti89pc, Ti89pcbd, Ti92Pluspc, Ti92Pluspcbd, Voyage-200KeySymbols. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Living End
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In 2011, she went commercial at MyFonts as Lauren Ashpole Foundry, located in Brooklyn, NY. Her fonts there include Starry Night (1998), Sewing Patterns (2010, silhouettes of women), Sewing Patterns 2 (2012), Origami Bats (2010), Horseshoes And Lemonade (1998), Forgotten Playbill (2011), Bikes (2011, dingbats), Paper Hearts (2012, a Valentine's Day font), and Candy Randy (1998). Dafont link. Fontspace link. Another Fontspace link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Foundry run by L. Theodore Ollier from Austin, TX. It disappeared. Its fonts have the PTF prefix, not to be confused with the PTF commonly used now by the Porchez Typefoundry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he designed the (free) curly upright typeface family Mocha Script. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Three Islands Press (was: The Type Quarry)
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Alternate URL. MyFonts link. Alternate URL. alternate site. Agfa-Monotype page. Fonts sold by Mindcandy. FontShop link. Klingspor link. |
Houston, TX-based digital illustrator, who created the illustrated caps alphabet Etho Simian (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tobias Tylus
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Texan who is working on Republika Gothic Thin (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Todd Milligan (Dust Bowl Artistry, Fort Worth, TX) created some custom athletic lettering typefaces in 2013 for organizations such as TCU and C-USA. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tom Davis
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During her studies at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tricia Smith created some experimental logotypes (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and biologist in Austin, TX, who made the signage family Local (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
TX fonts and PX fonts
| Young U. Ryu from the Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Dallas developed Type 1 fonts for use in mathematical texts set in TEX, in 2000. It was based on Adobe Times and Helvetica, the TX fonts. His PX fonts are type 1 fonts based on Adobe Palatino, URW Palladium and Adobe Helvetica for doing mathematics. After some modications by Thomas Esser in 2002, more recent versions of the TX fonts and PX fonts were placed on the CTAN archives. In the documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: The Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts for Times based on the rule thickness of Times =, , + , / , < , etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts. He contributed these ranges to the GNU Freefont project: Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF), Mathematical Symbols (U+2200-U+22FF). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Great typesetting tips by R. Michael Conner (Austin, TX). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of Phoenix Regular (1992), while at the Daily Texas in University Station, TX. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka The Butterfly, Vanessa Bays specializes in very clean hand-printed typefaces. Texan creator (b. 1982) in 2013 of All Things Pink, Sophmore Year, Diamond Girl, Always In My Heart, Georgia Belle, Chocolate Covered Raindrops, Miss Smarty Pants, Flower Power, Just for Giggles, Isabelle Layne, Cutie Patootie, Life's A Beach, VB Dings, Eternal Promise (upright connected script), The Urban Way (comic book font), Anjelika Rose, Jessica Elaine, My First Crush, A Gentle Touch, Penelope Loves Anne, You Make Me Smile, Simple Kind of Girl, Passing Notes, VB Dings, Wednesday, Bubble Letters, Panic Stricken, Yummy Cupcakes, Ribbon of Hope, Vanessa's Valentine, Scrapoholic, Curly Shirley. Typefaces from 2012 include the free hand-printed typefaces Dazzling Divas, Smell The Roses, Urban Class (coic book style), Spring Rolls, Puppy Bellies, Too Tight, Daddy's Girl, Simplicity, Sloppy Hollow, Vanessa Loves You, Forget Me Not, Scrap It Up, Lilian, Caffeine, Sixteen, Kelli Lynn, By The Butterfly, Live Laugh Love, Little Miss Priss, LoveNess Three, Whisper a dream, Kenzie, Seriously, Hyperness, My Skinny Jeans, Love Me Forever, Sweetness, Workaholic, Connected (connect-the-dots face), Vannessa Marie, Christmas Eve, Lazy Day, Angel Toes, Fat Marker, Amanda Rae, Slopness, So Posh, I Lovers You, Wassup, DashNess, Chunkyness, Thinnyness, Bigness, Christmas Lightness, Lil Guy, Ness, LoveNess Two, Girl Next Door, Skinnyness, This Sux, VaNess, DotNess, LoveNess, Just Playin, Squishy, Cuteness. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fort Worth, TX-based creator of a commercial font collection that covers most Indian languages: Gujarati Radhika, Gujarati Priti, Gujarati Palana, Hindi Vijay, Assamese Vijay, Bengali Vijay, Tamil Vijay, Telugu Vijay, Sanskrit Vijay, Punjabi Vijay, Malayalam Vijay, Malayalam Radhika, Kannada Vijay, Marathi Vijay, Nepali Vijay, Oriya Vijay, Indian Artwork-Vijay. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Texan bookbinder who used iFontmaker in 2011 to create Howie Stretch, a handprinted face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From ETT (Educational Techniques and Technology) in Kingwood, TX: commercial font packages such as Teacher's Font Series(24 USd per font), School Font Collection (50USD per font), and ArithmeFonts Collection (49 USD per font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Young Ryu
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Freelance animator and cartoonist in Houston, TX, b. 1952. Creator of the free comic book font Zebtoonz (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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College Station, TX-based creator of the modular techno typeface 
Born in Dallas in 1923, and retired in Florida, Phil Martin had an 
This company sells about 4000 fonts for 30 USD (which appear to be renamed fonts from elsewhere) and has a few free downloads. They sell a BOSS Font Manager (20 USD). Run by Arts&Letters Corporation out of Carrollton, TX. Interestingly, the same fonts, with the same names, are also at Computer Support Corporation. 
Designer and illustrator at Hatch in San Francisco, who hails from Boerne, TX. His typefaces include 
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Graphic designer and web developer in Chicago, who moved there from Austin, TX. 
Designer and lettering artist in Austin, TX, who created the warm display face 
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Fonts and dingbats for gamers by S. John Ross from Austin, TX, and Denver, CO. Typefaces include Sans Sara (2011, organic sans), Growly Grin (2011), Powell and Geary (2011), 
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Dick Pape (Texas) has been digitizing images and alphabets for many years. His typefaces include many revivals, all very true to the original images. Early in 2013, we agreed to host his 1,600 fonts on our site. Storage alone ais initially of the order of 700 megabytes. Because of the sheer size of the collection, we have a 
Dick Pape (Dallas, TX) is digitizing the Dan Solo books one by one, and has digitized many other sources of alphabets and images. He started making fonts ca. 2007. In 2009, he was doing Solo's art deco tome. He is on several font-making forums such as 
Darcy Baldwin (DJBFontography) is the Texas-based designer of these handwriting faces in 2007: DJBABITOFFLAIRE, DJBADEE1, DJBAMANDAG, DJBANGELA, DJBANNALISE, DJBANNETTEscript, DJBCHERE, DJBCHRISTINEC, DJBCINDA, DJBCINDAs, DJBDAWN, DJBDOODLEDOO, DJBELIZABETHK, DJBELKE1, DJBEMILYS, DJBEuroscript, DJBGINAE, DJBGISELLA, DJBJANELLE, DJBJANINE, DJBJENB2, DJBJENNA, DJBJENNIFER, DJBJENNIFERscript1, DJBJOAN, DJBJOYscript, DJBKATHERINE, DJBKATRINE, DJBKEELYB, DJBKEELYBscript, DJBKELLEY, DJBKENNAscript, DJBKIRA, DJBLINDSE1, DJBLINDY, DJBLIZ, DJBLORRAINE1, DJBMANDY, DJBMEGAN, DJBMETA2, DJBMISH, DJBMichael, DJBPOOKIEDOO, DJBRITA2, DJBSOFEE1, DJBTABITHAscript, DJBWENDY, DJBWENDYPscript, DJBWRITESALOT. In 2008, she made DJB Treasure Hunt, DJB Curlie Wurlie, DJB 2Cute4U, DJB Heart of Dixi. Fonts made in 2009: DJB For Annie, DJB Sloppy Joe. 
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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. 
Austin, TX-based creator of several alphabets with sharpie pens. One of these, Sharp5, was turned into a 
Creator of a logotype / athletic lettering type family for the University of North Texas, called 
Born in Philadelphia and a resident of Texas, Dan Zadorozny's creations at Iconian. He is a prolific type designer who specializes in techno and sci-fi typefaces. 
Brian Jacob (Detroit, MI) created the illustrative alphabet 
Designer living and working in Dallas, TX. He created some 
Born in Missouri in 1979, Kimberly moved first to Texas and later (in 2007) to China, and most recently, to Orlando, FL. She made some free fonts (often handwriting styles), and also ran a personal handwriting font service [those fonts have names that start with KGD]. 
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Penman, b. 1859, San Antonio, TX, from Hungarian parents. His maternal grandfather, Ladislaus Ujhazi, was Governor of Kameron and the Count of Saros. He traveled a lot and was a versatile and multi-dimensional person. He spent most of his life in New York, and died in 1910 in San Francisco. Author of 
Jake Luedecke (LDF Fonts, or Luedecke Design Font Co) (b. 1999) is the Dallas, TX-based creator of preponderantly hand-printed and pixel typefaces. These include 
Dallas, TX-based creator of the 
Type blog by Ojay Juarez (TX). Aka mmolai. Ojay used Fontifier to create the handwriting font 
During her graphic design studies in Houston, TX, Monica Villarreal designed the ornamental typeface 
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Dave Nalle was born in Beirut in 1959, but lives and works in Texas. He is currently in Manor, TX. From his 
Free fonts by Dennis Ludlow (Sharkshock Productions, Raleigh, NC), such as 
The SIL Yi Font is a single Unicode font for the standardized Yi script used by a large ethnic group in southwestern China. Designed by SIL International, 7500 West Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, Texas. Yi is spoken by the Yi people (also known as Lolo) in Southern China (in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi). The script is a purely syllabic script which was developed on the basis of an older, ideographic system. 
Free fonts made by Huntington Beach, CA-based Lauren Ashpole (b. 1982, Corpus Christi, TX): 
Thomas Ramey, a graphic designer from Austin, TX, who grew up in Pasadena, TX, created the hybrid font 
