TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on
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Creator of Atrium (2012, a squarish sans family based on the pen art of W.E. Dennis), Saugatuck (2011, grunge) and Sello (2011, a unicase hand-drawn, geometric sans-serif with a touch of retro). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Another Limited Rebellion
| Richmond, VA-based graphic design studio, founded by Noah Scalin, a graduate of the NYU Tisch School of The Arts and a lifelong activist. One of its designer is Kristin Murray. Blog. Free fonts based on skulls: Skullphabet1 (2007), Skullphabet2 (2008). Dafont link. Home page. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Lynchburg, VA-based designer of Thinny (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Armageddon
| Michael Jones (aka Armageddon) is an American designer (b. 1971) who lives in Alexandria, VA. Home page. Creator of the free fonts AD Blackmini 10 (2005) and AD Emjay Lowercase (SanSerif 10, Serif 10 and Black 10) (2005), four pixel fonts all made with Bitfontmaker. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
August Dietz | Letterer and Intertype director of typography from Richmond, VA. Credited with the face Dietz Text, which is also attributed in places to Oswald Cooper. August Dietz patented a blackletter with two incised white lines for Barnhart Brothers&Spindler as Design 79792 on November 5, 1929. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Print and web designer in Lynchburg, VA (b. 1986) of Obelisque (2009, handwriting font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Breauhare Fonts
| Foundry created in 2006 by Virginia Beach, VA-based Harry Warren (b. 1961, Cape Charles). Digitization of the typefaces by Bob Alonso (of BA Graphics). MyFonts sells Cooper Goodtime (2007, inspired by the lettering used on the CBS-TV variety series The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (1969-1972)), Happy Trails (2007, based on the lettering (all upper case) that was used on most Trailways buses from 1936 through the very early 1960s), Jesus Saves (2008), Jesus Heals (2010), Neon Bugler (2008, a neon-light or paperclip font; digital help by John Bomparte), Future Bugler (2008), Future Bugler Upright (2010), Handmade Bugler (2009, digitized by John Bomparte), Southern Nights (2009, disconnected script), Scan (2010, a barcode-themed font), My Left Hand (2011), Minnesota Plaid (2011, a gaspipe family digitized by John Bomparte), and Dime Store (2007). Showcase of Harry Warren's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer Brian Bjorkman (Richmond, VA) created Conectatype (2010), a connected typewface that was influenced by pixels, mazes, Islamic calligraphy and cuneiform. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Senior at VCUArts working towards a B.F.A. in Graphic Design. Richmond, VA-based creator of the casual handprinted face Murakami (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chemical symbols font for PCs by J. Eric Slone (Alexandria, VA). Freeware only from Bio-Rad/Sadtler. "Chemfont is a Windows font package that simplifies the entry of chemical equations. The font includes all upper and lower case Greek characters, superscripts, subscripts, many chemistry-specific symbols like reaction arrows; and of course, the Roman typeface for normal typing. Chemfont comes in two styles: serif, which is like Times New Roman, and sans-serif, which is like Arial." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christopher Rogers is a multidisciplinary designer in New York. After working for three years as a sign maker in Virginia, Chris moved to New York, attending SVA for Graphic Design, studying in the area of graphic identity, information design, illustration, packaging, and book design. Chris Rogers made the sans face Indicator in 2010 for Best Made. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cottage Graphics
| David Rood is the Harrisonburg, VA-based designer of BluePrint in 1992, a Tekton lookalike, and Rood Caps. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Blue G or Blue Gangsta is an all-caps typeface created by Daniel Redfern (Virginia) in 2012. It consists of dice assembled in the shape of letters. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The official publication of The Design&Publishing Center. Subscription required. Showker Graphic Arts, 15 SouthGate, Harrisonburg, VA 22801, USA. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dezcom Typefaces
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His typefaces include Dez Yinznat Stencil (2012, a military stencil dedicated to the industrial past of Pittsburgh), Dez Quo Vadis Titling (2010), Dez Boulder (2010), Dez Squeeze (2009, +Fat), Leporello (2004) and the semi-techno face Align Sans (2005). He also created Now (2005), a geometric sans family with several novel ideas, which was followed by Now Bold (2006) and Weimar Plakat 1923 Pro (2006-2007, constructivist; a Bauhaus / De Stijl-like typeface; see also here). In 2006, he worked on the sans families Boulder Ego and Boulder Alter Ego, Now Regular, Now Light, Now Gaunt Display (hairline), Squeeze (2006, a bold headline family), Fat Squeeze (2007, an even bolder sans headline family), Tovarich and Froggy (2006). Flickr page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Born in Richmond, VA, in 1976. Cocreator of TX Signal Simplifier (2002, Typebox), a hilarious information design dingbat face. MyFonts writes: Eight designers present a set of icons that indicate the fun and fantastic world of signage. Each collaborator's solution represents a completely different interpretations on signage vernacular. The designers are Erik Adigard, Cynthia Jacquette, Akira Kobayashi, Michael Kohnke, Patricia McShane, Joachim Müller-Lancé, Jean-Benoît Lévy, Kevin Roberson, Diana Alisandra Stoen. Codesigner of H-AND-S (2006, AND) with Jean-Benoît Lévy, Sylvestre Lucia, Mike Kohnke and Joachim Müller-Lancé. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Digitek | Baha Yaaqob or Taoufiq: 7631 Leesburg Pike, Suite B, Falls Church, VA 22043-2520, USA. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Diphthong Type Foundry
| Max Hancock is the designer (b. 1972) of the lovely organic font Diphthong (2002). He worked at Diphthong in Singapore. After Diphthong was designed, he was hired to design custom, branded font designs for the companies Dome Capital and Top News. In 2011, Max founded the Diphthong Type Foundry in Fairfax Station, VA, where he currently works on a variety of type projects. Max Hancock lives in the Washington D.C. area. MyFonts foundry link. Marcus carleton Hancock created the handprinted face Marcus Age Ten (2011, iFontMaker). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
DT&G Typography
| Type News site run by Freddy Showker. The Design&Publishing Center is owned by Showker Graphic Arts&Design, Harrisonburg, VA. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dunwich Type Founders
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Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic and web designer in Richmond, VA, where she studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her typefaces include Acoma (2010), which has a native American Indian look---it is based on the motifs and style of the Acoma Pueblo's traditional pottery. The type was applied as an identity system for the National Museum of the American Indian. She also made Lean (2010), a typeface made to illustrate a book on a fight between a whale and a squid. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Virginia who runs Fevera Graphics. Creator of the techno barcode-simulation face Barcode (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontFreak
| Big archive (over 3000 fonts, and at least 300 dingbats and over 1200 Mac fonts), with special dingbat category. List contains great-looking fonts. An exemplary page, with the designers clearly identified (with links), and easy fast downloads. Dingbat archive. Worth a very strong bookmark. The designer and boss is Richmond, VA-based Ole Larsen. Some original dingbat fonts as well, such as BatBats, BorderCorners, BorderCorners2, BugBats, Eagles, Florals1, Florals2, FlowerOrnaments, Hole In One, PensnPencils, Pirates1, Pirates2, Rothenburg-Decorative-Normal, SeasonsGreetings, WedDing, YeeHaw. The FontFreak links are also highly recommended. New fonts. Type designers. Dafont. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Freehand Profit is a Los Angeles based artist who earned his name as a graffiti artist in DC and Northern Virginia. In 2005 he graduated Corcoran College of Art&Design with a BA in Fine Arts. Creator of the squarish face Westrider 2057 (2011), which was inspired by classic West Coast graffiti letter styles. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gab's Graphics
| Gabrielle Gaither designs mainly dingbat fonts. She ran Gab's Graphics, then JustKissMe.com, and finally turned her shareware collection into a commercial collection at RAH Creative. She lives in Springfield, VA. Some of her fonts: BasicButton, BasicStars, Keagan (1998, handwriting), Renaissance Scrools. Shareware (2 ort 5 USD): Butterflips, Flakey, Kitchen Tile, Luv n kisses, Quilter's delight, Running n circles (1998), Seperates, Sun n moon (1998), Whirlygigs, Scrollworks, To and from, Boxed in, Basicbutton, CompuPhont, Hooters, Jewelerskit1, SoenSquares, YouThere. Commercial fonts: Geared Up, Interfacer (demo font here), Capsulated, Paisley, Bauble (I through IV), Petey Rone, eShopper, Swish, To and from, Interfacer, Web Kit Dividers, Web Kit Buttons, Web Kit Menus, Web Kit Borders, Web Kit Backgrounds, Web Kit Bundle, Be My Guest (1998-1999), Spirograph. Her web page. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Sign designer. He made the Victorian signage font families Tyler (2003), Palmer and Dixie at Letterhead. Tyler was inspired by E.L. Brown who taught penmanship and engrossing in the late 1800's. He designed Brien in 2003, based on lettering by Iskra Johnson. At SignDNA, he published the script face Monika. Letterhead had this bio: Gary Godby's career as a sign artist has spanned nearly 28 years. He has worked in commercial sign shops in Virginia and Florida. While in Florida he spent thirteen years at Disney's in-house sign shop. In 1995 he returned to his native Virginia to work for Graphic Services, Inc., a large commercial shop in Manassas. Graphic Services is a full service sign and display company that primarily works for builders and developers. The shop employs 42 people with Gary's primary role as designer. "When you're designing," Gary says, "you see a project go from concept to reality, and I get alot of gratification out of that." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. He created a modular gridded grungy face called Trifecta (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1983 in Arlington, VA, Giselle is a first year student of music composition at LSU in Baton Rouge, LA. She designed the Boston bull terrier dingbat font Boston Love (2006). Yet another home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hadeer Omar has a BFA in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University. Behance link. She created the squarish Arabic typeface Lefeen (2010). It is unclear if this is the same as the design agency Elfekra in Alexandria, Egypt---they also show a squarish typeface called Lefeen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jasbir Singh | Jasbir Singh (Maboli Systems, Inc., P.O. Box 3629, Wise, VA 24293) made the Punjabi truetype typefaces AnandpurSahib Lippi and Jhelum Lippi. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jason Levesque (b. 1975) from Chesapeake, VA, created two free fonts: stuntcut (grunge), stuntgoth (blackletter outline). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
John Mitchell Design is located in Richmond, VA. Behance link. Creator of the stencil face Cut-Out (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Journey's End
| Based in Glen Allen, VA, Journey's End produced Grandhappy (2009, simple connected script), Leaf Filled and Leaf (2005, Cindy Thomason), an elegant handprinted look face. Linden (2006) is a quaint countryside inn sign font. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Illustrator and art director in Arlington, VA. Behance link. Creator of three-style art deco family Baby Cakes (2012, TenDollar Fonts). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Liberty University in central Virginia of the handprinted Rare Blair (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at the Corcoran College of Art&Design, who lives in Arlington, VA. Creator of Caterpillar (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Richmond, VA-based designer of the typographic portrait of Hitchcock (2012), which only used letters from his film posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Matt Spire (b. 1984) is the Washington, DC or Leesburg, VA-based designer of the grunge fonts Ethopool, Hekran, arachnid, optimistic, shihel, Shifteds (2002). Aother URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chester, VA-based illustrator, aka Karbacca, b. 1985. He created the handwriting face Rusty's Handwriting (2009). Bartlett Photography and Design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MetalHead
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Michael Noyes is a freelance calligrapher/custom type designer in Annandale, VA. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Miller Type Foundry
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Student at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Fairfax, VA. She created the elaborate all caps face Clock (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the handprinted face Lula (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Virginia Tech. Creator in Blacksburg, VA, of Paperclip (2011) and the piano key face Shima based on the Hiroshima poster (1957) by Wim Crouwel. Behance link. Creattica link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oliver Conte Design
| Custom creations by Oliver Conte at Oliver Conte Design (Fairfax, VA) in PostScript and TrueType. Free fonts: Grootesk (1997), Grunge (1997), Logoonripple (1997), Maya Symbol, Munstermash (1997), Perspection (1997), Presshure, SansChiseled (1997), Skechie (1997), Twylite Zone (1997). Commercial fonts: Shards, Gainly, Gainlier, Scathed, Unscathed, TwyliteZone-Book (1997). I can't find the commercial fonts any more. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Page Plane
| Typography blog by Chuck Green from Glen Allen, VA. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Patrick | Designer based in Richmond, VA. Creator of three hairline/monoline Gill-inspired sans faces, Gill One, Gill two and Gill Three (2007). See here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Peter Baker's old English page at the University of Virginia
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In 2010, he published the elegant Carolingian face Eadui: Reproduction of English Caroline Minuscule as written by Eadui Basan, a scribe at eleventh-century Christ Church, Canterbury. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Open Font Library link, where he is known as psb6m. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Plastic Typefaces (or: Mediastudio)
| Matthew Langley's fonts: Argent, Atmosphere, the Black family (Black Distorted is free), ChromoDomes (52 bald headed dingbats), MediaMod, Miles Modern Display, the Open family, Pacifica (fantastic face!), the Phaseshifter family, Toner, under (1997), Giant Robots, Plasticbats, SE1. Diodes, Black and under are free. Link disappeared. Langley has lived in Falls Church, VA, and Arlington, VA. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Polygraph
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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] ⦿ | |
Located at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, the Rare Book School offers some type courses. For example, in July 2002, James Mosley (retired librarian of the St Bride Printing Library in London, and founding editor of the Journal of the Printing Historical Society) taught a course on "Type, lettering, and calligraphy, 1450-1830". He will repeat this in 2003. In June 2002, Archie Provan (Professor of Typography at the RIT School of Printing Management and Sciences, and co-author of A Primer of Typeface Identification (1976) and 100 Type Histories (1983)) taught a course entitled "Introduction to the history of typography". In 2003, Stanley Nelson will teach about the history of typography from 1450 until the present. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Renata Pokrywińska is at the Uniwersytet Artystyczny in Poznań, Poland. She created the Milosz text typeface in 2011 in honor of Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004), a Lithuanian-born poet who was part of the catastrophist school of poets in the 1930s. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Virginia-based artist who made JayOctober (2011, a condensed display face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Leesburg, VA, who is scheduled to graduate in 2011 from George Mason University. She created an ornamental alphabet in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator at Liberty University (in central Virginia) of Quik marker (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Company run by Roger Hartley, Pennington Gap, VA. The link went dead--its parent is The Design Center / DT&G. Some of the fonts are shown here: the Western fonts Hoedown and Laredo, the blackletter fonts Showcard, Water Lily, the caps font Penelope, the medieval script font Hemingway, the athletic lettering font Yorktown, and display faces Wellington (round hand calligraphy), Rumrunner, Rathskeller, Norseman, Almanac, Apothecary, Applegate, Archer, Archer Shadow, Carrie Lane, Dutch Master, Emporia, Flavius, Gigabyte and Hapsburg. All these are on their 60 USD CD called "The Great American Font Works", which has (had!) 132 nice decorative display fonts in all. In the old days, the font Jaclyn could be downloaded for free. The list of fonts, all made in the period 1992-1995: AceReporter-Bold, AceReporter-BoldItalic, AceReporter-Italic, AceReporter-Normal, Alchemy-Black, Alchemy-Bold, Alchemy-Light, Alchemy-Normal, Almanac, Antigone, Apothecary, Applegate, Archer, ArcherShadow, Aztek, Bandit, BaroniPoster, Bastion-Bold, Bastion-BoldItalic, Bastion-Italic, Bastion-Normal, Bebop, BerniesJukeJoint, BrightSky, CarrieLane, Chiaroscuro, Compute, Delphi, Derby, Duffy, DuffyInline, Durham, DutchMaster, Emporia, Entendre, Enterprise, EuroBold, Fairlane, Fatso, Figment, Flavius-Wide, Flynn, FlynnHollow, FriarTuck, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Gorky, GravureText, GuildSans-Bold, GuildSans-BoldItalic, GuildSans-Italic, GuildSans-Normal, Hapsburg, Hemingway, Hoedown, IBeam-Extruded, Inagodda, Ivanna-Mediaeval-Bold, Ivanna-Mediaeval-BoldItalic, Ivanna-Mediaeval-Italic, Ivanna-Mediaeval, Jaclyn, Jalopy, Jamaica, Jitterbug-Bold, Jitterbug-BoldItalic, Jitterbug-Italic, Jitterbug-Normal, Jitterbug, JitterbugB, JitterbugBO, JitterbugO, Kapanti, Kashmir, Kasparov, KeyWest, Keyclick, Krypton3, LED, Laredo, Layla, MardiGras, Marilyn, Matinee, Metro, Monica, NewWorldText, Norseman, Obsidian, Parade, Peacenik, Penelope, Phoebe, Pompeii, PompeiiB, PompeiiBold, Projectile, Publisher, Quasar, Radical, Rathskellar, Rathskeller, Recycler, RibaldEncounter-Bold, RibaldEncounter-Normal, Roundup, Rumrunner, Sailing-Freehand, Sanford, Satchmo, Scratch, Secret, Serenade, ShowBiz, Showcard, Sigmond, SilverDollar, SkinnyDip, Sophocles (Greekish stone-cut writing), Sport, StCroix, Sunshine-Bold, Sunshine, SunshineB, Superbowl, Taiwan, ThisEndUp, Toons, Tophat, TophatEngraved, TraciJo, TwinTubes, Twizzler, VanRose, WaterLily, Wellington, Westchester, Westside, Yorktown. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
SUBFLUX experiment
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He offers these free typefaces under the Subflux label: Alpha Male Modern (1997), AthleticSupporter, BallparkWeiner (connected fifties script), BarBenderBold, BobbiTheHippie, BongoFraktur (in Koch's Neuland style), CargoCrate (stencil), CollegeBoy (athletic lettering), FlandersRideItalic, FlandersRide, Fleetwilly, FlyTrapExtended, Hair Brush, HighlightsCondensed, Helga Broad, Hilda Broad, JimThorpeHigh (octagonal / mechanical), LevelFourteenDruid (medieval), LifestyleCondensed (avant garde), NotANumber, On That Shark (angular), RetroSuperSkinny (Peignotian), SatansMinions, Scrawlly, Scritchy Eye, Zerengetti (African look), ZiggyStandard. Rossi calls himself also "Loveless". Dafont link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
TK Type
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Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Centreville, VA-based graduate of Edinboro University, who was inspired by MASH when he designed the constructivist or minimalist typeface MASH Marathon (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type Palettes
| Interesting examples of headlines and bodies of text. Great examples on the choice of type and the spacing of characters. By Logic Arts Corporation's Chuck Green in Glen Allen, VA. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typerror
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Typografik
| Mauricio Reyes is the designer of the ITC Binary family (1997), a semi-serif family that blends elements of Helvetica and Times. The type designer was born in Mexico City, trained in London, and now lives in Falls Church, VA, in the Washington, D.C., area where he operates his studio Typografik. ITC Binary was chosen as the official font for the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney Australia and was used by Nike, Swatch, IBM, NBC and Coca-Cola. He also made the Beta pixel family. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
"Visual Telemetry is a collaborative partnership between Gab Gaither and Robyn A. Harton". Based in Richmond, VA. They specialize in high-quality graphics based in part on Gabrielle's fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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