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A New Machine
| Foundry, est. 2011, in Raleigh, NC, by Kent Swecker. A New Machine created the beautiful hairline hand-printed typeface Hair Line (2011), Sweck Sans (2011, a sans with some contrast and a large x-height), Unstable (2011, a paper cut face), the sketch typeface Crosshatch (2011), and the modular FontStruct-like typeface Model UR (2011). In 2012, he made Quarry (an outlined hand-drawn shadow font), Holt Sans (a Peignotian family), Unstable Slab, Mitosis (using bubbly dots), Radial (prismatic), and Airwave (techno). Typefaces from 2013: Benthic (decorative geometric caps), Tubbs (a beefy poster face), Dot To Dot (a dotted and lined pair of school fonts), Emjay (sketched blackboard bold typeface). Typefaces from 2014: Art Party (a festive hand-drawn typeface co-designed with with Erin Solomon), Carawan (a rounded sans family), Back and Forth, Fat Nib (splatter brush face), Smoot (whimsical typeface). Typefaces from 2015: El Guapo (a handcrafted typeface co-designed with Erin Solomon), Nervy, Current (thin connected script). Typefaces from 2016: Etymon (Skyline style), Big Trees (Victorian, Western), Igor (a beatnik style font). Typefaces from 2017: Down With The King (a great techno headline typeface). Typefaces from 2018: Thickness (hand-drawn), Chisel Brush, Dot to Dot, Dot To Dot Cursive (dotted line font, perhaps for teaching children in school). Typefaces from 2019: Artie Deco, Marie Jeanne. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the French school font AA Cursive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based company that sells these school fonts: TrueType-Schulschriften (including Lateinische Ausgangsschrift mit 1, 2, und 4 Linien, Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift mit Lineaturen, Schulausgangsschrift, Druckschriften Hamburg und Bayern, MO-MARA, auch mit angepassten Buchstaben für die 1. Klasse, Schwungübungen für die Schreibschriften, mit und ohne Linien), TrueType-Rätselschriften (which includes mainly dingbat fonts), and TrueType-Schulpiktogramme (dingbats such as Symbole und Sinnbilder für den Schulalltag, Anlautschriften, Bausteinschriften, Kästchenschriften, Matheschriften mit dem Zahlenstrahl, Rahmenschriften, Spaßschriften und Symbole, Uhren). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Greenville, SC-based designer of the school font Classy teacher (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the dotted letter lined font Preschool. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bucharest, Romania-based designer of Handwritten Typeface (2014), which reminds me a bit of some German school script styles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adrian Williams
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British advertising typographer and type designer, b. 1950, Somerset. Co-designer with Rosemary Sassoon of the school fonts Sassoon Primary and Sassoon Infant in 1990. See also Sassoon for Start-Bee (2020) and Sassoon Infant Pro (2020). He ran Club Type/Adrian Williams Design Limited in Merstham, Surrey (UK). His typefaces now owned by Monotype Imaging: Bulldog (2005-2010, +Slab: based on 1870 Figgins), Column, Congress (1974), Congress Sans, Eurocrat, Leamington (1978, can be found at Elsner & Flake), Mercurius, Monkton, Poseidon, Raleigh (1978), Rileyson (2010), Seagull (1978, + Bob McGrath, design owned by Ingrama), Stratford, Worcester Rounded (1974), Worchester. Perhaps the most famous in this list is the slab serif family Congress (1974), which has been digitally revived to death by URW++, Elsner&Flake, TypeShop, Scangraphic, SoftMaker, and Linotype. Williams was attached to the Swiss foundry Ingrama, where he made Leamington, Raleigh and Seagull. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Agung Syaifudin
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Graduate of the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, class of 2013. During her final year in the communication design program at Emily Carr, Alanna Munro created the dot matrix typeface Pig (2012). In 2016, at Lost Type, she designed the 8-weight sans typeface family Tofino, which is advertized as a West Coast Swiss. I hope that the name will stick, but surely, Greg Nicholls (designer of an earlier typeface called Tofino) and the foundry Tofino Type in Kelowna, BC, can't be too thrilled. Designer of the stencil typeface Sahlia (2020). Designer of the calligraphic typeface Avona (2020) and the text typeface Avona Serif (2021): The Avona family of fonts are inspired by fantasy games and calligraphy. Avona Serif is intended for flavourful user interfaces. Avona Serif draws inspiration from Carolingian letter forms and aims to captured the calligraphic round, wide structure. Typefaces from 2021: Formulate (a rounded sans typeface family that inludes dotted outlines for youngsters learning to write). Cargocollective link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His typefaces were made in 2006 and 2007: Recorder Face, Recorder Eye, Recorder Eyes, Sabaean GG, Ugaritic GG. Little School (2001) is an large school script font family that looks a bit like Little Days (2001, West Wind Fonts) but with rulers and lines thrown in. And Little Days in turn is genetically linked to Memimas. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer who lives in Buenos Aires and who teaches graphic design and typography at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has worked as an art director in prestigious Argentina-based studios, handling high-profile corporate brands such as Arcor, Marta Harff, Morph, SC Johnson, Danone, and Movicom. He runs Estudio Paul. Professor at Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Co-creator, with Apostrophe at Apostrophic Laboratory, of Usenet (2000), FontCop I through IV (2000) and the pixel font family Cayetano. Published the dot matrix font Stardust with T-26 in 2000. Designed the gorgeous font Elektora in 2000. He developed with Michael Lynch a 17-font Tennis set of grid-based pixel fonts. At Typeworx, he published Reflex (2002), a commercial 6-style unicase font family. Another web site by Alejandro. Cofounder of DAS, a design studio in Buenos Aires. Cofounder of Sudtipos (2003), where he does custom work and creates new typefaces. His work there includes Tierra (a titling face), Latinaires (2003-2018: originally called Latina Sans), Reflex, Downtempo (2003), Stardust and Mosaico (1999, pixel face). Still at Sudtipos, he digitized the beautiful handwriting/calligraphic typefaces by Angel Koziupa called Alma (2005), Murga, Habano and Tiza, which together with his script typeface Argenta (2004), Oxida (2005), the medieval script typeface Mama Script (2004, designed with Alfredo Graziani), Divina (2004, with Alfredo Graziani), and the sans family Kautiva (2004) can be bought via Umbrella Type. For children's orthography, he developed Estrada Hand, on commission for Editorial Estrada. He was working on the serif family Libertina (2004). Herencia (2004, a handwriting typeface done with Diego Giaccone), Grover (2004, slab serif), Milk Script (2004, with Alfredo Graziani), Mama Script (2004, with Alfredo Graziani), Politica (2004, a techno typeface with a very thin Thin weight) are at Sudtipos. The Bluemlein Scripts (2004-2005, Umbrella and Veer) are based on the calligraphic renderings of Charles Bluemlein, shown in a 1943 ink catalog: Miss Le Gatees, Mr Rafkin, Mr Keningbeck, Mr Lackboughs, Lady Dawn, Mrs Von Eckley, Mr Sheppards, Mr Dafoe, Mr Canfields, Mr Stalwart, Mr Sandsfort, Mr Leopolde, Mr DeHaviland, Mr Blaketon, Miss Stanfort, Miss Packgope, Miss Fajardose, Mrs Saint-Delafield, Mrs Blackfort, Mr Sopkin, Mr Sheffield, Miss Lankfort, Herr Von Muellerhoff, Dr Sugiyama, Dr Carbfred. (Note: Soft Horizon's Lainie Day (1993) is an earlier free font in the style of Lady Dawn and Mr Lackboughs). In 2011, that series was made available at Google Web Fonts. Sudestada (2005, Sudtipos) is a handwriting script developed with Diego Giaccone. Cuisine (2005, Umbrella Type) is an informal bold script. Mousse Script (2005, Sudtipos) is based on Glenmoy, a 1932 Stephenson Blake typeface. Suave Script (2005) is a 4am jazz bar script. Ministry (2005) is related in style but less funky, Chocolate (2005) is for sales ads, and Cenizas (2005, with Angel Koziupa) is straight from an old manuscript. Whomp (2006, Umbrella) was based on a partial sign-painting font by Alf Becker (1930s), and so was Buffet Script (2006, Sudtipos). Affair (2006, Umbrella) is swashy and calligraphic, while Candy Script (2007) and its italic version Sugar Pie (2011) are based on Argentina's market lettering. Galgo Script (2007) is a brush calligraphic font based on a design of Angel Koziupa. Burgues Script (2007) is an ornate calligraphic script based on the lettering of calligraphy teacher Louis Madarasz (1859-1910) (award at TDC2 2008). Burgues Script, Adios Script (2008: it won an award at TDC2 2009), Feel Script and Sugar Pie all won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008. Sinfonieta (2006) and Buffet Script are fifties style connected scripts. Feel Script (2007) is based on lettering that calligrapher and logo designer Rand Holub created in 1950 and that was subsequently captured in Intertype's typeface Monterey (1958). Some letterforms were redrawn from vintage American magazine ads (some by Holub himself), Cuisine (2008, food advertising script), Pronto (2008, comic book style, by Alejandro Paul and Angel Koziupa), Grover (2004, rounded sans family), Grover Slab (2004). Burgues Script, Adios Script, Feel Script and Sugar Pie all won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008. Calgary Script (2008, Umbrella) is a pure signpainting job. Accolades from all typophiles for his calligraphic wunderkind, Compendium (2008). The 2009 haul: Sugar Pie (signage font), Bravissima Script, Theorem (upright semi-script). Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. The year 2010 starts off with a bang, five awards at Tipos Latinos 2010: a grand prize for Brownstone Sans, and four standard awards, for Semilla, Kewl Script (for food packaging and store windows), Calgary Script, and for Business Penmanship. Typefaces from 2010 include the baseball lettering typeface Fan Script and the tattoo script face Piel Script (piel=skin), which was influenced by Burgues Script and more remotely by showcard lettering by B. Boley (1930s, Sign of the Times Magazine). Piel Script won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012. In 2011, he and Koziupa made the fat signage typeface Aventura and Viento (a grunge version of their earlier 2004 face, Brisa). He added one retro connected signage font to the Filmotype collection in 2012, called Filmotype Kitten (original from 1955). Filmotype Zephyr (2012) is an italic roman formal script. Filmotype Yukon (2012) is inspired by the classic Palmer style of penmanship. Storefront (2012) is a swashy signage typeface based on an incomplete alphabet by Alf Becker. His signage script typeface Hipster Script won an award in the TDC 2012 competition and at Tipos Latinos 2012. Typefaces from 2013: Rolling Pen (a connected script that recalls the business penmanship genre), Bellissima Script (based on a copperplate calligraphic alphabet from Bellezas de la Caligrafía by Ramón Stirling, 1844). In 2014, he helped Panco Sassano, a lettering artist and illustrator from Mar del Plata, who designed the wide connected semi-calligraphic handwriting typeface Horizontes Script (Horizontes subsequently won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016). Still in 2014, he published the fat packaging or signage script Bowling Script, which is based on Freely Drawn Italic, a non-font alphabet by Ernst Bentele (1953). In 2015, Alejandro Paul, Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari combined forces in the signage script typeface Quotes (Script+Caps) (2015, Sudtipos). Merengue Script (2015, with Panco Sassone) is a fun creamy script, ideal for pastry shops, tea rooms or supermarkets. Steak (2016) is a connected vintage signage script based on an Alf Becker design. Envelove (2017) is a script typeface family consisting of Script, Icons, and Caps, designed at Sudtipos by Yani Arabena, Guille Vizzari, and Alejandro Paul. Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Envelove. Still in 2017, Guille Vizzari and Alejandro Paul co-designed the great Moleskine notebook-inspired typeface family Proprietor. Proprietor comes in Script, Icon, Deco, Wide, Open and Roman styles. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018. Rigatoni (2017): A skyline didone based on mid-20th century example by Eugen Nerdinger. Bibliophile Script (2017). A pair of copperplate calligraphic typefaces. Fixture (2018: a 72-font grotesk family published by Sudtipos). Newbery Sans Pro (2018). A simple workhorse sans typeface family that is inspired by German industrial design and the lettering of Eugen Nerdinger. Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Tennis Set, Bibliophile Script, French Bulldog, Envelove, La Taqueria, and Speakeasy Set (a collection of (copperplate) script, sans, modern, flare and gothic substyles). From 2019: Hot Salsa (a retro brush script; with Ximena Jimenez), Old Letterhand, Clockmaker (arts and crafts style), Steak Script (inspired by an old alphabet by Alf Becker), Address Sans Pro (a sans family inspired by Butti and Novarese). In 2019, Alejandro Freitez and Claire Menager, under the art directoship of Alejandro Paul, designed the multistyle wood type look / Western / Victorian / reverse stress / hyper-decorative Presley Slab. Typefaces from 2020: Apothicaire (a wonderful quaint serif family in the frivolous didone genre; three variable fonts, 16 styles in all), Inglesa (a penmanship script), Dilemma, Dilemma Serif (Dilemma is a sans/serif type system with 42 styles; it is inspired by the anonymous Polyphème, Cyclopéen and Extra Condensé designs from the early 1900s at the Peignot Fonderie; two variable fonts are included), Sporty Pro (a large sports / athletics font family). Typefaces from 2021: Plethora (an 18-style family and two variable fonts that build on Julius Herriet's Old Style Ornamented for Bruce Type Foundry; Alejandro added various frills, ligatures, weights, exaggerating in true Victorian spirit), Magari (a fat face or Normande; Alejandro likens it to Italian classics of the 19th century though), Regional (27 styles, plus variable styles). Typefaces from 2022: Wienerin (a revival and expansion of Olympia (1929) by Carl Otto Czeschka, one of the members of The Wiener Werkstätte). 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Illustrator and cartoonist Alex Glatz (Alex Glatz Studio, Nuremberg, Germany) designed a handcrafted typeface in 2017, as well as a school script in the style of Deutsche Normalschrift (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
English calligrapher, b. 1895, Grimsby, d. 1982, Hove, Sussex. Student at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, disciple (in his own words) of Edward Johnston. In 1921, he co-founded the Society of Scribes and Illuminators, and was honorary secretary from 1931 to 1933. He wrote several books on handwriting, including A Handwriting Manual (1932), many times reissued, e.g., in 1954 by Faber and faber in London. In 1960, Alfred Fairbank and Berthold Wolpe co-authored Renaissance handwriting: An anthology of italic scripts (Cleveland: World Publishing Co). His last book was A Book of Scripts (1968, London: Pelican Books). In 1932, Alfred Fairbank proposed Dryad Writing for schools. It is a connected regular and legible style of writing that was influenced by Francisco Lucas (16th century, Spain), and could be called chancery script. After the Second World War he founded the Society for Italic Handwriting. His only typeface was the first italic for Monotype, Bembo. This was not the italic that was put out for general use, and was eventually released (in 1928) as Bembo Narrow Italic. It is sometimes referred to as Fairbank Italic. The Bembo family is of course due to Stanley Morison at Monotype, after models of Francesco Griffo and Giovanni Tagliente. It has digital reinterpretations such as Bamberg Special (Softmaker) and Bergamo (Softmaker). It is possible that Fairbank MT (2003, Robin Nicholas) is named after him. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Paris in 2016, Alice Hien designed the school script typeface Guariguette and the squarish titling typeface Jean. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alina Sava
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Designer of the monoline connected script typeface Quatre (2017, at Blank is The New Black). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreas Göbel
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Ania Wielunska
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Designer in Bombay, who made a custom Hindi font (2012), as well as a typeface for teaching children how to draw the Latin alphabet. He also created Hexy (2012, a hexagonal family that includes an inline face), Hindustan Hipsters Icons (2012), the thin geometric typeface Elefont Sans (2012) and the paperclip typeface Incomple (2012). Another Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cofounder, with Ralph du Carrois, of bBox Type. Creator of the free Google Web Font ABeeZee (2012), a sans typeface created to help children. The font was published by Carrois Type Design and extended to include ABeZeh Icons (2016), ABeZeh Slab (2016) and ABeZeh Konfetti (2016). She also designed the rounded sans typeface Gute (2018, with Ralph du Carrois at bBox Type) and the rough handwriting typeface Mamotschka (2017). In 2015, Fontfont finally published the full family FF Real, in 13 weights each for FF Real Head and FF Real Text. The typeface family is influenced by the German grotesques from ca. 1900 by foundries such as Theinhardt and H. Berthold AG. In 2017-2018, that family was extended to 52 styles in all thanks to a new set of italics. The designers are listed as Erik Spiekermann, Ralph du Carrois and Anja Meiners. They write: The design of FF Real is rooted in early static grotesques from the turn of the century. Several German type foundries---among them the Berlin-based foundries Theinhardt and H. Berthold AG---released such designs between 1898 and 1908. The semi-bold weight of a poster-size typeface that was lighter than most of the according semi-bolds in metal type at the time, gave the impetus to FF Real's regular weight. In the words of Spiekermann, the historical example is "the real, non-fake version, as it were, the royal sans serif face", thus giving his new typeface the name Real (which is also in keeping with his four-letter names, i.e. FF Meta, FF Unit). FF Real is a convincing re-interpretation of the German grotesque style, but with much more warmth and improved legibility. With a hint towards the warmer American grotesques, Spiekermann added those typical Anglo-American features such as a three-story g and an 8 with a more defined loop. To better distinguish characters in small text sizes, FF Real Text comes in old style figures, f and t are wider, the capital I is equipped with serifs, as is the lowercase l. What's more, i-dots and all punctuation are round. In 2022, Erik Spiekermann, Anja Meiners, and Ralph du Carrois published the neo-grotesque superfamily Case at Fontwerk. It includes Micro and Text subfamilies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anke Arnold
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Anke Art
| Wernau (was: Wendlingen), Germany-based Anke Arnold's free fonts: aa QWERTZ-Tasten (2012: German keyboard font), aa Halftone (2012: texture face), aa Tafelschrift (2012, school font), Car Go Frame (2011), Car-Go Plain (2011, modeled after German license plate lettering), Typo Garden (2010, alphadings), 80er Teenie Demo (2009), Acki Preschool (2009), Just Another Stamp (2009), Firlefanz (2009, curly letters), Pixelstitch (2006), AnkeHand (2003), Hole-Hearted (2003, Gill Sans with hearts), KRITZEL (scratchy pen), MilkyWay, FrightNight, Eminenz (2002), Scribble, Skribus, Why, TooLazyToPractice, XXX, CheapInkkilledmyPrinter, Storch (alphadings), Alexandras-Stempelkasten, Anatevka-Caps, BulletMix, Catwalk, Duke, Dukeplus (2000, blackletter), Riddleprint, Anke-Print, AnkeCalligraph, Titanic, Wasser, butterbrotpapier, distracted-musician, dyslexic, manko, quixotic, verrutscht, zladdi, barcoded, BulletMix2, CAR-GO-2, Fortunaschwein (nice curly script; no punctuation or numbers), Round, BigBrothers&Sisters, BoringLesson, CrimesceneAfterimage, Incognitype (old typewriter), Jenna'sPopsicles, Japanese Brush (1996), Knuffig (2000), MonkyBusiness, Olympia2000, Samba, Dandelion, Kritzel (2003, scratchy hand), Krystal (2000, snow simulation typeface based on Gill Sans), Nervous, ParryHotter (2001, a Harry Potter blackletter face), Pffft, Tschiroki, Heart2Heart (heart alphadings), Anke Sans. English page. For 10DM (5 USD), Anke will make your handwriting into a font! Alternate URL. Dafont link. Another link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Strasbourg, France-based designer of Diagonale (2015), Vel Textus Nova (2014, inspired by both Textura and Suetterlin Schrift), the monospaced typeface Wisconsin Monospaced (2014), of Cro-Magnon Antique (sans) and of the maritime sans Fsk (2013). Behance link. Tumblr link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spanish designer of the school fonts Escolar1, Escolar2Negra, Escolar4Puntos, and Escolar5Calada in 1992. Download here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spanish place in Madrid with commercial fonts for teaching children: Escolar (+Flecha, +Pro, +Cuadricula), Preescolar, Preescolar pro, Infantil, Preainfantil, Junior (+Venezuela), Trazos (tracing fonts), Precalimex, Calimex (used in Mexico), Calimex Pluma, Andina (used in Chile), Caliprico (used in Puerto Rico), Basica, Caliper (used in Peru), Calipro, Calirredo (used in the Domican Republic). Also: Ibarra Antiqua, Pautas, Elzevir, Mates (math symbol fonts), Gregoriano (blackletter). Anyetipo also has a type making service. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Cartilha de Bitu (1955, 6a ed., Sao Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional), a school writing book for use in Brazil. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
aRc (or: Azelea Rodgers Creations)
| aRc was established in 2008 by Azelea Rodgers (b. 1974, The Philippines). It is located in Lathrop, CA. A graduate from Skyline College, she created the alphabet tracing font Kerp (2008) for kids in pre-kindergarten. She also made Rosebud (2008, letters composed of thorny rose stems), Asvet Mono (2009, a playful stencil), Azelea (2009), Edil Script (2010), Laureen (2010, a calm calligraphic script), Alexy (2011, a ribbon script), and Lelet Script (2009). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Russian designer of Propisi7 (2004, a connected Cyrillic school script). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author in 1969 of an article in Die deutsche Schrift of Schulschrift in Deutschland (about handwriting education in schools in Germany). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of the penmanship book Barnes's National Vertical Penmanship (New York: American Book Co., 1899). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ashley's Mom
| School Fonts for Beginning Writing, designed by Kim Voss (Ashley's Mom) and published by Mayer-Johnson Co., is a series of 13 fonts to be used for designing curricular adaptations and educational materials for teaching reading, writing, and spelling. Available for both Windows and Mac, they come in both TrueType and PostScript formats. Twelve of the fonts are in various "dashed" manuscript configurations for tracing. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Atelier Laia
| Spanish type foundry, est. 2013. One of its founders, Santos Bregaña, writes: Of Croatian origin, Santos Bregaña is born by chance in the city of Pamplona in 1965 on the very day that Le Corbusier drowns in Cap Martin. After studying architecture in San Sebastian and Barcelona he launches the Laia Atelier in 1996 where he focuses on interior design, and on graphic and industrial design projects associated with the culinary culture and business. In 2008 he receives, along with co-creator Anne Ibañez Guridi, the Art Director's Club of New York Sphere Award for their body of work for the restaurant Mugaritz. He leads Tabula, a publishing house dedicated to the spread of culture and gastronomy, and is a speaker on public forums and seminars related to high cuisine. His porcelain designs and his O! Luna, Tabula, and Linneo collections have received international praise and are in many of the best restaurants and hotels in the world. In 2013 Atelier Iaia published the calligraphic Iturzaeta-inspired typeface Lamia, a joint effort of Santos Bregaña, Julen Cano Linazasor and Maore Sagarzazu: The Lamia font is inspired by the work of the most famous calligrapher of the Basque Country, Jose Francisco de Iturzaeta Eizaguirre (Getaria, 1788-Madrid, 1853). His writing method was compulsory in Spanish schools since 1835. His "unpolished Spanish font" tried to be more effective than the more commercial English version by avoiding embellishments and excessive rear tearing. More akin with the liberal values imported by the French, his offerings sought uniformity, speed and efficiency to ensure that those in the less-favored echelons of society had an effective communication tool. From his "General collection of characters of European Letters" published in Madrid in 1833, we have chosen the "lower case pancilla reformed" represented in one of the prints. We have tried to reinterpret it by keeping its essence but also ensuring that it is viable for potential contemporary uses which, thanks to its good readability and effectiveness in longer texts, basically means as a decorative or display font. The upper case was generated using the lower case as a reference. Waskonia (2013, Santos Bregaña) is inspired by Basq gravestones from the 8th century. Earlier work of Santos Bregaña includes the Kai (Basque) typeface family (199701999, with Mikel Enparantza) at Garagefonts. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Many handwriting types used by schools around Australia; New South Wales 1&2, Queensland 1 and 2, South Australia 1&2, Tasmania 1&2, Northern territory, Western Australia and Victoria. Designed for writing skills in the 5-12 years age group. The fonts are made by "New Horizons". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Azelea Rodgers
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Portland, OR-based handwriting consultants and authors of Portland State University's handwriting book Write now: a complete self-teaching program for better handwriting (Portland, OR: Continuing Education Press, Portland State University, 1991). Earlier, they also published Italic letters: calligraphy and handwriting (1984, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bartek Nowak
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bBox Type
| Berlin-based type foundry run by Ralph du Carrois and Anja Meiners. Their friends are Jenny du Carrois, Natalie Rauch, Mark Froemberg, and they cooperate with Erik Spiekermann, FontShop, Monotype, (URW)++, Adam Twardoch, Alphabet Type, Okan Tustas, The Fontpad, TN Typography, Mota Italic, Akaki Razmadze, Hasan Abu Afash, Fontef, Lettersoup, and Thomas Maier. As of 2018, their typefaces include:
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Bedoodle
| Susan Derrick's foundry in Dayton, OH. Her fonts can be bought at MyFonts. Alternate URL. The list of creations (2005): Ancestry (caps), Angeline, Angelique (both curly scripts), Banderole, Fred and Ginger (two-line display face), Garden Gate (gate-inspired curly script), Monogram, Oxymoron (simple sans), Relativity, Scrapbook, Beads (dingbats) and Beading. In 2006, some handwriting fonts by Matthew Derrick were added: Funnies, Grimble Castle, Paparazzi, Scratch Pad, Selvin, Love Me and Wavy Gravy. Additions in 2009: Barack, Mrs. Obama, Malia (upright connected script), Violette (female script), Abbatia (ornaments), Frame Ups (frames), Sasha (didactic font with lines). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Benedikt Gröndal
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Frenchman Bernard Vivier made some wonderful school handwriting fonts (with rulers) between 1998 and 2003: BV_Api, BV_Batboi, BV_Baton, BV_Baton_Italiques, BV_Rondes, BV_Rondes_Boite, BV_Rondes_Ital, BV-Cursive-Ital-Italic, BV_Baton-Boite, BV_Rondes2, BV_Rondes2-ital, BV_Rondes_Ital, Bv-Arial-Boite. Old dead URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Spain who runs Siloseno Estudio DG. In 2012, he created the fun sea-themed display typeface A Novena for which he was inspired by images from his Galician home town of Santa Eugenia de Ribeira. Siloseno is a school script font created for the Siloseno graphic design studio. Finally, Colonialistas (2011) is inspired by flags. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German teacher and typographer who created the calligraphic metafont Suetterlin, which can be found here. This font can be used for writing in the so-called Schwell style. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the comic book font Badaga (2020), the brush caps Brushia (2020) and the dot matrix font Dott Preschool (2020: for tracing letters). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free truetype fonts with dots and/or arrows for helping kids write: PrecursiveNew, PrecursiveNewArrow, PrecursiveNewDashed (2000). Produced by "Handwriting for Christian Schools". See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
North Coast, Australia-based creators of the display typefaces Samatta (2015, a Peignotian sans), Milk Barn (2015), Canyon (2015, handcrafted, with an outline typeface in the style of athletic lettering), Pocket Knife (2015, +3D), Otter Pop (2015), Meso (2015 a tribal font set with Inca themes), Fuego (2014) and Creamsicle (2014, signage type). Typefaces from 2016: Schoolyard (children's didactic hand-lettered fonts), Millstreet (based on a font found in a school book from 1886). Typefaces from 2017: Parapet (blackletter). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Blue Vinyl
| Blue Vinyl (est. 1997) has free and commercial designs by Jess Latham (b. 1974, Birmingham, AL). The early typefaces (before 2003): Grumble (1999, grunge), Hot Fudge (2003), Dia De Los Muertos BV (2003, Halloween-style dingbats), Delorita BV (2003), Dance Craze (2002), Redford (2002, black display font), CharmsBV (2002, dingbats), LearningCurve BV (for children), HornyDevils, Princess (girls stuff dings), TurnTable (2001), Vinyl Smooth (2001), StereoLab, 60sChic, Airwave, Cafe Noire, Lucky Charms, Punk Rock, Chains, Slasher, Blue Melody, Sugar Coma (1999, junk food dingbats), Metal on Metal, Hearts, Crushed Out Girl, Nuwave, Deco Cafe, Screen, Rock Star (dingbats), Gothic Ultra Trendy, Film Star, Mary Jane, Turning Japanese, Lushus, Rockabilly, (my favorite thick display letters) Moma Grape, Modular 2000, Cyber Phonic, Comic Zine (3d), Grrlz Stuff, Retro Bats, Terrible Nervz, Pop Up, Moonbow, Tropicana (Luau dingbats), Tiki Tooka, That 70's Ding, Karaoke Superstar, Pippi, Pocket Calculator, Kool Ding, Kool Ding 2, LittleTroubleGirl, Grumble, SeeingStars, AllStarBV, Awesome80sBV, HellcatsBV, HotRodGangBV, Stereolab, SweetHeartsBV, BumbleBeeBV, CandyStoreBV, CHAINSColorFill, ComicZine, CHAINS, EeronautsBV, Charms, Film-Star, JimmyDoodles, LooseCruseBold, LooseCruse, MODULAR, MonkeyWrench, OneTrickPony, PubertyStrike, PUNKROCKColorFill, PUNKROCK, Plexifont (see-through letters), SeeingStars, SooperDooper, TerribleNerves, Pandamonium BV, TrickorTreatBV, WebstarBV, Sonic Reverb (2003), Jacks (2003), Rodeo Girl BV (2003, handwriting), Jacks BV (2003, free), Majorette, Albedo, Retroclassics (two dingbat fonts), Westmore BV, KnockOut, Spellbound (2000), Speedway, Chocolate Mint Surprise, Pinky, Sparky, Glamorous, Bohemian Garden Party (1999), Fashionista (brush), Pink Martini, ValentinesBV, Macrame BV One (2002, single, double and triple-lined commercial font), Macrame Super Triline (2002), Redford BV (2002), Charms, Wedding Wishes (2002, dingbats), Bric A Brac BV (2002), Meringue BV (2002, handprinting), Retro Classics 3BV (2002, dingbats), Roller Baby BV (2003). 2004: Swan Song (calligraphic), Shimmer (connected cursive handwriting), Spin Cycle, Rock Star 2.0 (dings), Gros Marqueur (marker pen typeface). 2005: MyScars, My Bleeding Scars, Azuki (Japanese brush simulation), Taroca, Taroca Extras. 2006: BV Sans (2006), PrintClearly (2006, children's orthographics). 2007: Save Her (ecological dingbats), Confection (fancy script), Parsley Script, Pointed Brush. 2008: Synthetique (dot matrix), Lavender Script (calligraphic), Giant Head (ultra fat signage face), Synthetique (thin dot matrix), Print Clearly, Dashed and Bold (simple sans), Disko (comic book style). 2010: Darlena (a swashy didone), Italian Hand (a connected script), Love Romance (Valentine's day dingbats), Patchouli Display (2009-2010), Secret Admirer (connected script). 2011: Fancier Script (signage face), Garden Brush (a flowing brush script). 2013: Blue Vinyl (signage script). Barmbrack (a decorative, almost sign-painted typeface). 2014-2015: Felt That (connected marker script). 2016: Relation (connected retro brush script). 2017: Head Turn (handwriting), Said In Script (handwritten cursive script). 2018: Enticing Script. 2020: Fudge Sauce. Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. View the typefaces made by Blue Vinyl. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
School font made in 2002 by an unknown designer. Download here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bruno Selles
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German designer (b. Stettin, 1864, d. Stuttgart, 1941). He studied lithography from 1878-1882, and worked as a lithographer in Stuttgart from 1891-1895. After that, until 1939, he was a free-lance graphic designer in Stuttgart. He made these typefaces:
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Carlos Campos
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Carol Cockeram
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CAT Design Wolgast
| Wolgast-based type designer Peter Wiegel (b. 1955) runs CAT Design Wolgast. Designer of these free fonts:
Dafont link. One more URL. Fontspace link. Yet another URL. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. The list of his truetype and opentype typefaces as of 2011: 18thCenturyInitials, 18thCenturyKurrentStart, 18thCenturyKurrentText, Alfabilder, AlteDIN1451Mittelschrift, AlteDIN1451Mittelschriftgepraegt, AmptmannScript, ApolloASM, Avocado, Barnroof, BerlinEmail, BerlinEmail2, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifShadow, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, Beroga, Beroga, BerogaFettig-Bold, BerogaFettig-Bold, BertholdMainzerFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, BertholdMainzerFrakturUNZ1A, BertholdrMainzerFraktur, Blankenburg-Regular, BlankenburgUNZ1A-Italic, BlankenburgUNZ1A, CasaSans-Regular, CasaSans, CasaSansFettig-Bold, CatShop, CentreClaws, CentreClawsBeam1, CentreClawsSlant, ChunkFiveEx, CntgenKanzley-Regular, CntgenKanzleyAufrecht, DIN1451fetteBreitschrift1936-Regular, DiscipuliBritannica, DiscipuliBritannicaBold, Doergon-Regular, DoergonBackshift, DoergonShift, DoergonWave-Regular, Elb-Tunnel, Elb-TunnelSchatten, Elbaris, ElbarisOutline, ElficCaslin, EricaType-Bold, EricaType-BoldItalic, EricaType-Italic, EricaType-Regular, ErikaOrmig, Eureka, FibelNord-Bold, FibelNord-BoldItalic, FibelNord-Italic, FibelNord, FibelNordKontur, FibelSued-Bold, FibelSued-BoldItalic, FibelSued-Italic, FibelSued, FibelSuedKontur, GoeschenFraktur, GoeschenFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, GoeschenFrakturUNZ1A, Gondrin, GreifswalderTengwar-Regular, GreifswalerDeutscheSchrift, GruenewaldVA-Regular, GruenewaldVA1.Klasse, GruenewaldVA3.Klasse, H1N1, HelvetiaVerbundene, KochFetteDeutscheSchrift, KochFetteDeutscheSchriftUNZ1A-Italic, KochFetteDeutscheSchriftUNZ1A, LeipzigFrakturBold, LeipzigFrakturHeavy-ExtraBold, LeipzigFrakturLF-Bold, LeipzigFrakturLF-Normal, LeipzigFrakturNormal, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-Bold, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-BoldItalic, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A-Italic, LeipzigFrakturUNZ1A, Luxembourg1910, Luxembourg1910Contur, Luxembourg1910Ombre, MMX2010-Regular, Maassslicer3D, Maassslicer3D, MaassslicerItalic, MaassslicerItalic, Makushka, MakushkaKontura, MakushkaQuadriga, MakushkaSecunda, MeyneTextur, MeyneTexturUNZ1A-Italic, MeyneTexturUNZ1A, Midroba-Regular, MidrobaSchatten, Moderne3DSchwabacher, ModerneFetteSchwabacher, ModerneFetteSchwabacherUNZ1A-Italic, ModerneFetteSchwabacherUNZ1A, ModerneGekippteSchwabacher, MoradoFelt-Regular, MoradoMarker, MoradoNib, MoradoSharp-Regular, Murrx, Nathan-CondensedRegular, Nathan-ExpandedRegular, Nathan-Semi-expandedRegular, Nathan, NathanAlternates-CondensedRegular, NathanAlternates-ExpandedRegular, NathanAlternates-Semi-expandedRegular, NathanAlternates, Nomitais, Nomitais, Numikki, Numukki-Italic, Numukki-Italic, Numukki, Powerweld, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, PreussischeVI9, PreussischeVI9Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten-Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten, Proletarsk, Prsent60, Quimbie, Quimbie3D, QuimbieShaddow, QuimbieUH, Quirkus-Bold, Quirkus-BoldItalic, Quirkus-Italic, Quirkus, QuirkusOut, QuirkusUpsideDown, RostockKaligraph, RotundaPommerania, RotundaPommeraniaUNZ1A-Italic, RotundaPommeraniaUNZ1A, Rudelskopfdeutsch-Aufrecht, SchatternvonPreussischeVI9, Schulfibel-Nord-Linie-2, SchwabenAlt-Bold, SchwabenAltUNZ1A-Italic, SchwabenAltUNZ1A, Stage, StrassburgFraktur-Regular, TGL0-16, TGL0-17, TGL0-17Alt, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-2, TGL31034-2, Tank, TengwarOptime, TengwarOptimeDiagon, TitilliumMaps29L-1wt, TitilliumMaps29L-400wt, TitilliumMaps29L-800wt, TitilliumMaps29L-999wt, TitilliumText22L-1wt, TitilliumText22L-250wt, TitilliumText22L-400wt, TitilliumText22L-600wt, TitilliumText22L-800wt, TitilliumText22L-999wt, TitilliumTitle20, UtusiStar-Bold, UtusiStar, VarietScala, Varietee, VarieteeArtist, VarieteeCabaret, VarieteeCascadeur, VarieteeCasino, VarieteeCirque, VarieteeColege, VarieteeConferencier, VarieteeFolies, VarieteeIkarier, VarieteeJongleur, VarieteeMirage, VarieteeRevue, VarieteeTheatre, Via-A-Vis, Vrng, Waschkueche, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WiegelKurrent, WiegelKurrent, WiegelKurrentMedium, WiegelKurrentMedium, WiegelLatein, WiegelLateinMedium, WolgastScript, WolgastScript, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwoBold, WolgastTwoBold, XAyax, XAyax, XAyaxOutline, XAyaxOutline, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D, YiggivooUnicode3D, ZeichenDreihundert-Regular, ZeichenDreihundertAlt, ZeichenHundert-Regular, ZeichenHundertAlt, ZeichenVierhundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundertAlt, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe, kaufhalle, kaufhalle, kaufhalleblech, kaufhalleblech, moebius. His type 1 fonts as of 2011: Avocado, BerlinEmail, BerlinEmail2, BerlinEmailBold, BerlinEmailHeavy, BerlinEmailOutline, BerlinEmailSchaddow, BerlinEmailSemibold-Bold, BerlinEmailSerif, BerlinEmailSerifSemibold, BerlinEmailSerifShadow, BerlinEmailWideSemibold, Beroga, BerogaFettig-Bold, CasaSans, Elb-Tunnel, Elb-TunnelSchatten, Maassslicer3D, MaassslicerItalic, Numukki-Italic, Numukki, Powerweld, PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3, Quimbie, QuimbieUH, RostockKaligraph, TGL31034-1, TGL31034-2, UtusiStar-Bold, UtusiStar, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WolgastScript, WolgastTwo, WolgastTwoBold, YiggivooUnicode-Italic, YiggivooUnicode, YiggivooUnicode3D-Italic, YiggivooUnicode3D, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe, kaufhalle, kaufhalleblech. A list of typefaces in alphabetical order, with descriptive comments provided by Reynir Heidberg Stefansson from Iceland: 18th Century Kurrent (Kurrent-style handwriting, Wiegel-coded), Alfabilder (Alphabetic picture font for the German alphabet), Amptmann Script (Partly-connected, upright writing, used on Prussian Railways pattern drawings), ApolloASM (Jugendstil, vaguely resembling an ornate Bocklin), Avocado (Handwriting, broad-nib pen-style), Berlin Email (Narrow sans-serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded), Berlin Email Serif (Narrow serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded), Beroga (All-minuscule, rounded marker-style sans-serif with ca. 8° slope), Berthold Mainzer Fraktur (Fraktur in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding), Blankenburg (Semicondensed Tannenberg in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding), Casa Sans (Squarish, broad-nib pen-style block writing), CatShop (Serif, soft of an acid-washed didone), cbe Normal (Sans-serif, narrow, somewhat cuneiform), Centre Claws (Sans-serif, Art Deco display, a bit like Broadway), Cöntgen Kanzlei (Cöntgen Kanzley) (Fraktur-based calligraphy by Heinrich Hugo Cöntgen, Wiegel coding), DiffiKult (Sans-serif, display, no horizontal lines), DIN 1451 fette Breitschrift 1936 (The now-withdrawn Wide version of DIN 1451 traffic font), Discipuli Britannica (UK school handwriting), Doergon (Slab-serif, narrow-ish, all majuscule), CAT Eckmann, Elabris (Elbaris) (Sans-serif, caps/smallcaps, shades of DIN1451 Engschrift), Elb-Tunnel (Sans-serif, based on signage in the old Elbe tunnel in Hamburg), Elbic Caslon (Elfic Caslon, Elfic Caslin) (a Caslon for the Queen Galadriel), Erika Type (Erica Type) (Slab-serif, typewriter, comes from Wiegel's old Erika typewriter), Eureka (Serif, caps/smallcaps, Art Deco/Jugendstil), Fibel Nord (2009, sans-serif, based on German school primer), Fibel Sued (2009, sans-serif, based on German school primer), Fibel Vienna (Sans-serif, based on Austrian school primer), Fundamental Brigade (Sans-serif, geometric, some UNZ1 ligatures), Göschen Fraktur (Goeschen Fraktur) (Fraktur with a biblical feel, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding), Gondrini (Gondrin) (Sans-serif, geometric, display, shaded outlines, cookie-cutter), Greifswalder Deutsche Schrift (Handwriting, based on Rudolf Koch's Offenbacher Kurrent, Wiegel coding), Greifswalder Tengwar (Tengwar handwriting in Offenbach style), Gruenewald VA (Latin-style schoolhand, Wiegel coding), H1N1 (Heavy display typeface made of parallel wavetrains), Hardman (Heavy, wide, squarish logotype with connecting letters), Helvetia Verbundene (Swiss handwriting), Immermann (Display, resembles a seriffed Radio/Rundfunk, UNZ1 coding), Kaufhalle (Display, recreation of HO Kaufhalle logotype), Koch Fette Deutsche Schrift (Very plain fraktur, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding), Leipzig Fraktur (Fraktur for bread text, Wiegel coding), Leipzig Fraktur UNZ1A (Fraktur for bread text), Luxembourg 1910 (Sans-serif, Jugendstil display typeface from old spice drawers), Maass Slicer (Maassslicer) (Sans-serif, oblique display face, orig. logotype), Makushka (Sort-of an Elabris with minuscules, looks overlayable), Men Nefer (Slab-serif, geometric, UNZ1 coding), Midroba (Spur-serif, display, all-majuscule, heavy, octal), MMX2010 (Sans-serif, display, caps/smallcaps, TV game machine feel), Moderne Schwabacher (Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding), Moderne Fette Schwabacher UNZ1A (Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding), Möbius (moebius) (Sans-serif, display, bicolour (u/c = non-spacing fills, l/c = spacing outlines)), Morado (Connected handwriting with nib or marker pen), Murrx (Heavy display typeface made from ellipsoids on NE-SW axis), Mutter Krause (Serif, slanting, Jugendstil-feel), CAT Neuzeit and CAT Neuzeit Schatten (2012-2014), Nathan (Slab-serif, hand-drawn.), Nomatais (Nomitais) (Elabris with multiple levels of outlines), Numukki (Conlang, knotted-line, good for separators and scenebreaks), Powerweld (Sans-serif, Bauhaus style, all-minuscule), Präsent 60 (PI font with various East German logos), Preussische IV 44 (PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3) (Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type IV 44 version 3), Preussische VI 9 (Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type VI 9 version 2), Proletarsk (Sans-serif, monoline, doubled-up questionmark), Quast (Brush type, all-majuscule, very rough outline), Quimbie (Sans-serif, all-majuscule, resembles Amelia), Quirkus (Sans-serif), Ring Matrix (LED matrix with ring LEDs, solid LEDs and ring LEDs with shadow), Rostock Kaligraph (Very round calligraphy, resembles rotunda), Rotunda Pommerania (Rotunda style, Wiegel-code (Regular only) or UNZ1-coded), Rudelskopf deutsch (Sans-serif, based on Kurrent-style letterforms), Schwaben Alt (Schwabacher in Wiegel- (Rg only) or UNZ1-coding.), Stage (Sans-serif, narrow, Art Deco, fleeting taste of Broadway), Strassburg Fraktur (Handwritten fraktur, ornate majuscules, Wiegel-coding), Tank (PI font with (gas/petrol) tank station logos), TengwarOptime (Optima for Tengwar), TGL 0-16/0-17 (East German versions of DIN 16 and DIN 17 blueprint types), TGL 31034-1, TGL 31034-2 (East German versions of DIN 6776 / DIN EN ISO 3098 blueprint types), Utusi Star (Sans-serif, slight resemblance with Rundfunk), Varieté (Sans-serif, all-majuscule or caps/smallcaps), Vis-A-Vis (Serif, all-majuscule, split in middle), Volk Redis (Kurrent handwriting, anno 1930-1941), VrÃ¥ngö (LED matrix type like Ring Matrix), Waschküche (Serif, resembles Antykwa Torunska), Wiegel Kurrent (Kurrent-style handwriting), Wiegel Latein (Latin-style handwriting), Wolgast Script (Sloppy-looking handwriting with a broad-nib pen), Wolgast Two (Latin/Cyrillic handwriting), XAyax (Serif, Jugendstil, narrow, all-majuscule), Yiggivoo Unicode (Sans-serif, wide, tall x, board game packaging feel), Youbilee (PI font with various jubilee laurels), Verkehrszeichen (Zeichen) (PI fonts with traffic signs (in layers)), Verkehrszeichen alt (Zeichen Alt) (PI fonts with old traffic signs (in layers)). Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. Kernest link. Klingspor link. CAT Fonts link. Fontesk link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the child script font Hansel (1993). She is part of the Apply Design Group. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial cursive (didactic) writing site, with a few pay fonts named CCW Cursive 1 through 5, CCW Precursive 1 through 4. All come in dotted, lined, outlined and arrow styles to help young students. The company, CCW Resources, is located in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Namur, Belgium-based designer of Brasero (2011), an experimental typeface.She also created an upright connected school font family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cercurius (was: Lars Törnqvist Typografi)
| Born in Karlstad, Sweden, in 1952, Lars Törnqvist now lives in Stockholm. Lars Törnqvist's designed many typefaces, first at Lars Törnqvist Typografi, and then at Cercurius:
And a jump list for Fraktur fonts. MyFonts link to his foundry, Lars Törnqvist Typografi. View Lars Törnqvist's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Creator of the school font RomaScript (1997). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Characters (or: Character Type)
| René Verkaart (Maastricht, The Netherlands, b. 1970) established Characters in 2004. He also has an office in Düsseldorf, Germany. His type designs:
He co-founded Stoere Binken Design. Blog. Klingspor link. Behance link. Dafont link. I Love Typography link. Volcano Type link. Fountain Type link. |
Famous American teacher of penmanship, b. 1864. Author of Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship (1920), Gems of Flourishing (1888), and The New Zanerian Alphabets (1900, Zaner & Bloser, Columbus, OH). This site describes his story: In 1888, Charles Paxton Zaner founded the Zanerian, College of Penmanship, in Columbus, Ohio. The schools curriculum included courses that prepared students for careers as penmen who, at that time, wrote by hand most of the documents used by business and industry. The school also trained students to become teachers of penmanship, illustrators, engravers, and engrossersspecialists in the kind of ornamental writing used for diplomas and certificates. In 1891, Zaner sold a share of the Zanerian to Elmer Ward Bloser, whom he met in 1883 while the two men were students at Michaels Pen Art Hall. Bloser, who had been working as an instructor at the Spencerian Business College in Cleveland, was a superb penman, and he had accumulated the capital necessary to sustain the college in its early days (when its three instructors had only three pupils). By 1895, the Zanerian College of Penmanship had become the Zaner-Bloser Company, an institution that offered courses in penmanship, published professional materials about handwriting and illustration, and sold handwriting supplies. In 1904, Zaner-Bloser published The Zaner Method of Arm Movement, a landmark text that taught the simplified style of writing learned by students at the Zanerian to children in elementary schools all over the United States. This book also applied the findings of psychologists who had discovered that young children completed manual tasks more easily if allowed to use the large arm movements that were natural to them at their early stage of motor skills development. In 2006, Paul Hunt designed a set of connected calligraphic scripts, called P22 Zaner. | |
Charles Sartwell (Knoxville, TN) explains where to find children's handwriting fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer (b. 1991), aka CMunk, who used FontStruct to create most of his typefaces. Dafont link. In 2008 he designed Flag Semaphore (+Smooth, Peace), Articulate, Font from NATO (military slab serif), Glockenwerk (pixel clock font), Glockenwerk Uhrzeit, Flags-and-NATO (dingbats), Font from NATO alpha, Tall, Flying-Circus (Western showtime typeface to imitate the Monty Python titling font), LCD-display, Simple (stencil font with 700 glyphs), TMNT, Tetris, sharp-pixels, Raster, Quad (nice stencil face), Inverted, Propaganda (Cyrillic font simulation), Empty Monospace, Pride, Stadium, Rounded, Dear God (script pixel face), Celtic Style. In 2009, he added 7x12 Pixel Mono, @bcde, Abstract Letter Patterns, Music, Texture, Diagonal, Gothic, Illusio, Unispace (typewriter type), Narrow Serif, Delta, Alien Double (great!), Donut, Flags-and-NATO, Simple-Fraktur-Initial, Simple-Fraktur, Texture, Friendly Serif, (+Soft), Invisible, Sharp, Heavy Diacritics, Concentrium, Continuous Digital Display, Elves, Pixies, Space Movie (+Ligatures), Flag Semaphore (+Smooth, +Peace), Articulate, BBT Biline Twist, Biline Twist, Empty Monospace, Unfix, Infix, Pride, Tyre Stencil (like tire threads---nifty...), and Overlap. FontStructions from 2010: Even (gridded), Brilliance, Slalom Vision, Quirky Serif, 7x12PixelMono, Ball Terminator, Gearbox, Prefix, Upside Down, Way Too Small (a minimalist pixel face), Butterfly, Ribbon Gymnastics, 2D Barcode, Horizon Stencil, Biline Twist, Blocktur, Symmetricus (alien writing?). FontStructions in 2011: 12 dice, Monotwist (tall, monospaced), Squarific (fat octagonal), Swirl (curly), Sweet (Victorian), Easter Eggs, 50 Fifty (experimental, geometric), Squarific (+Stencilious), Spiralix (spiral-themed for Latin and Cyrillic), Bloccus, Feet (monospaced). Creations from 2012: Düpbøl (German expressionist face), Slice, Blocktur, Alien Double, 7:12 serif (pixel face), Blick, Dry Heat (Isolates and Initials, Medials, Finals: an Arabic simulation family), FF9 Coin Slots, FF8 Untalic, FF7 w1de, FF6 Lean Mean, FF5 Bamana, FF4 Circulation, FF3 3times7, FF3 Runization, FF1 Glitchy, Squared, Puzzlish, Steep, Digitalis (octagonal), 50 Fifty (artsy and geometric), Monotwist, Infix. FF stands for Forgotten Fonts. Typefaces made in 2013: Ribbons And Banners, Digital Rome (pixel face), Censorship, Interlock, Bouma, Glaedelig Script, Hand XL Smooth, Vascomat, Spitzschtruct (emulation of Suetterlin), Neonic, Fish Scales, 7:12 Serif, Analogly, Squarific Fraktastic, Metro Sans (pixelish). Typefaces from 2014: Word Games, Shadows, Yuuroppuna pixel, Spines, Numbers, Tal Dansk, Zahlen Deutsch, Insular Typewriter, Nudge Nudge (dot matrix), 7:12 Serif (monospaced pixel font), Jovian, Squarafic Fraktastic, Computer Says No, Runic, Fluorescent (neon tube typeface). Typefaces from 2015: Hexagonia, Kapow (a comic book font), Fauxreign (a Thai emulation font). Typefaces from 2016: Ziplock (art deco), Vexillum (maritime signal flags). Typefaces from 2019: Drop Cap (Lombardic), Fun with Cubes (3d). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christian Urff (Lernsoftware Mathematik, Friedrichshafen, Germany) created the free informal school script typeface Grundschrift (2013, OFL). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frenchman Christian Verchery has been making school fonts, with and without lines for elementary school education in France. Some reported to me that Christian Verchery died in 2000. His fonts include the Plum (PlumBAE, PlumBAL, PlumBDE, PlumBDL, PlumNAE, PlumNAL, plumNDE, plumNDL), Seyes (SeyesBDE, SeyesBDL, SeyesNDE, SeyesNDL) and Crayon (CrayonE, CrayonL) series, some with lines as for first graders. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Dafont link. Another link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christophe Beaumale designed the free upright script educational handwriting fonts, Cursif and Cursif&Lignes (without and with lines). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sydney, Australia-based designer of Clara (2018: a school font) and the free architecturally-inspired typeface Articular (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Athis-Mons, France-based designer of the pixel school font Bubble school (2016) during her studis at Lisaa. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Columbus, OH-based Zaner-Bloser Company published a penmanship book to celebrate the life of a Zanerian scholar, C.C. Canan, C.C. Canan Collection of Penmanship---The Canan Book (1921, The Zaner-Bloser Company, Columbus, OH). Clinton C. Canan was a penman born in Pleasantville, PA, in 1873. In bad health, he died at a young age in 1904 in Bradford, PA. Sull writes about him that he was equaled by no living penman in delicate, accurate, free-hand ornamental penmanship. He attended the Zanerian College in 1893, and taught penmanship for two years at Cleary College in Ypsilanti, MI. Later he taught penmanship at Cedar rapids Business School in Iowa and at the Shissler College in Norristown, PA. Samples of his penmanship: i, ii, iii. Letterhead. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Club Type
| Original typefaces designed by Rosemary Sassoon and Adrian Williams (b. Bridgwater, Somerset, 1950), an English advertising typographer and type designer. Located in Red Hill, Surrey, Club Type was founded in 1985 by Williams and Sassoon. Before that, Williams had been been converting many established metal designs for the new filmsetting devices in 1969, and continued with conversions into the digital era. This led to the production of custom made fonts for Renault, Marks&Spencer, Jaguar Cards and Foster's Lager among others. Wide font services. Sassoon worked on scripts with joined letters. She is most famous for her Sassoon Primary font family (primary school writing). Adrian Williams designed the following families: Admark (1990), Bulldog (1999, a grotesque family based on 1870 Figgins), Bulldog Slab (2009), Bulldog Hunter Std (2010, another slab version), Club Type (1998-2002: his inspiration was the lettering used for cartoon captions in the Mercurius Aulicus, England's first regular newspaper, from 1642 to 1647), Club Type Script Pro (quill pen script), Column (1992), Congress Sans (1992), Eurocrat (1991), Leamington, Mercurius (1989, a bouncy typeface inspired by the lettering used for cartoon captions in the Mercurius Aulicus, England's first regular newspaper, from 1642 to 1647), Monkton (1990: incised, with a bit of Trajan, and a bit of gravestone type), Monkton Aged (2020), Monkton Book Condensed (2020), Monkton News (2020), Monkton Incised (2020), Poseidon (1991), Raleigh (1977, with Carl Dair and Robert Norton; see Softmaker's R651 Roman and Raleigh Serial, and Bitstream's Calligraphic 631), Rileyson (2010, humanist sans family; +Great, +Teen, +Parent), Seagull, Stratford [see Stratford SH, Scangraphic], Veronan and Worcester Rounded and Worchester. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Typeface library. View Adrian Williams's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Spanish creator of the free lined dotted school font Cole Carreira (2013). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Colophon Foundry
| Colophon Foundry was a London and Los Angeles-based digital type foundry established in 2009. Its members comprised Benjamin Critton (US), Edd Harrington (UK), and Anthony Sheret (UK). The foundry's commissioned work in type design was complemented by independent and interdependent initiatives in editorial design, publishing, curation, and pedagogy. It grew out of the Brighton-based design studio, The Entente (Anthony Sheret&Edd Harrington) in April 2009. Benjamin Critton (Brooklyn, NY) joined them later. In December 2023, it was acquired by Monotype.
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Comicraft (was: Active Images)
| Comicraft was founded by Richard Starkings and John Roshell in 1992. Located in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, they do lettering and design for the comic book industry and make comic book fonts. At one point they were also called Comic Book Fonts. The current presidents are Rita Simpson and Richard Starkings. Alternate URL. T-26 link. Creative Market link. Some fonts: Sanctum Sanctorum (2003), Grandguignol (2003), MagicalMysticalFour (2003), Smash (2003), Aztech, Joe Kubert, Gobbledygook, Meanwhile, Matinee Idol [Nick Curtis has a much nicer script font by the same name, sold by MyFonts], Manganese (Asian-lookalike by Richard Starkings), Altogether OOky (by John Roshell), AbsolutelyFabulous, Achtung Baby (1997, Richard Starkings: a brutalist typeface), Adamantium, Alchemite, AstroCity, AstroCity International, Bithead, BrontoBurger, CarryOnScreaming, Chills, ClobberinTime, Comicrazy, Destroyer, DivineRight, DoubleBack, DutchCourage (1995, an art deco family), Elsewhere (art nouveau), Flameon, Framistat (2000, JG), Frostbite, GrimlyFiendish, Hooky, Hellshock, IncyWincySpider, JimLee, JoeMad, KissAndTell, KissAndTell International (2000, JG), Meltdown, MonsterMash, PhasesOnStun, PulpFiction, ResistanceIs..., RunningWithScissors, SchoolsOut (1999, John Roshell), SezWho/SezYou, SpookyTooth, Spills, Splashdown, StandBy4Action, Stormtrooper, TheStorySoFar, ToBeContinued, Thrills, WildWords, WildWords International, YuleTideLog, Zoinks, ZAP Pack, Digital Delivery, Jeff Campbell (2000, by JG), Los Vampiros, DeadMansChest, Cutthroat International (2000), Rigor Mortis (2000, John Roshell), DangerGirl, Thingamajig, Red Star, Red Square, Drop Case, Too Much Coffee Man, NearMyth, Stonehenge, Golem and SwordsAndSorcerers (medieval or runes fonts). Their monster fonts collection includes MonsterMash, CarryOnScreaming, Chills, GooseBumps, CreepyCrawly, Grimly Fiendish, IncyWincySpider, SpookyTooth, Meltdown and TrickorTreat dingbats. In 2005, MyFonts started selling their collection. Fonts by Starkings include Achtung Baby, Carry On Screaming, Clobberin Time, Flame On, Goosebumps, Grimly Fiendish, Sez, Splashdown. The full font list: Absolutely Fabulous (1999), Achtung Baby (1997), Adam Kubert (2005), Adamantium (1999), Alchemite (1997), Altogether Ooky (1999, vampire script), Area51 (2005, an octagonal typeface with a military stencil)), Astro City (2005), Astronauts In Trouble (2005), Atomic Wedgie (2005), Aztech (2005), Battle Cry (2005), Battle Scarred (2005), Belly Laugh (2005), Biff Bam Boom (2005), Bithead (1997), Blah Blah Blah (2005), Bronto Burger (1996), Carry On Screaming (1996), Chatterbox (2005), Cheeky Monkey (2005), Cheese And Crackers (2005), Chills (1997), Clobberin Time (1995), Comicrazy (1995), Creepy Crawly (2005), Cutthroat (2005), Danger Girl (2005), Dave Gibbons (2005), Dead Mans (2005), Dear Diary (2005), Designer Genes (2005), Destroyer (1999), Digital Delivery (2005), Divine Right (1998), Doohickey (2005), Double Back (1998), Dreamland (2005), Drop Case (2005), Dutch Courage (1995), Elsewhere (1998), Euphoria (2005), Exterminate (1999), Face Front (2005), Flame On (1997), Forked Tongue (2005), Framistat (2005), Frostbite (1997), Girls Girls Girls (2005), Gobbledygook (2005), Golem (2005), Goosebumps (2005), Grande Guignol (2003), Grimly Fiendish (1998), Hedge Backwards (2005), Hellshock (1997), Hooky (1999), Hush Hush (2005), Hyperdrive (2005), Incy Wincy Spider (1996), Jeff Campbell (2005), Jeff Campbell Sketchbook (2005), Jim Lee (1998), Joe Kubert (2005), Joe Mad (1999), Kiss And Tell (1999), Ladronn (2005), Los Vampiros (1999), Manganese (1999), Matinee Idol (2005), Meanwhile (2005), Meltdown (1997), Mike Wieringo (2005), Monster Mash (1997), Near Myth (2005, a grunge face, since 2007 also at T26), Nuff Said (2005), Overbyte (2005), Paranoid Android (2005), Pascual Ferry (2005), Pass The Port (2005), Phases On Stun (1995), Primal Scream (2005), Pulp Fiction (1996), Red Square (2005), Red Star (2005), Resistance Is (1997), Rigor Mortis (2005), Rumble (1994), Running With Scissors (1997), Sanctum Sanctorum (1998), Santas Little Helpers (2005), Schools Out (1999), Sean Phillips (2005), Sentinel (2005), Sez (1998), Shannon Wheeler (2005), Shannon Wheeler (2005), Smash (2005), Snowmany Snowmen (2005), Soothsayer (2005), Spellcaster (2005), Spills (1997), Splashdown (1997), Spookytooth (2005), Stand By4 Action (1997), Stonehenge (2005), Stormtrooper (1997), Thats All Folks (2005), The Story So Far (1998), Thingamajig (2005), Thrills (1997), Tim Sale (1999), Tim Sale Brush (2005), Tim Sale Lower (2005), Timelord (2005), To Be Continued (2005), Too Much (2005), Tough Talk (2005), Treacherous (2005), Trick Or Treat (2005), Wall Scrawler (2005), Wiccan Sans (1999), Wiccan Serif (1999), Wiccan Special (1999, see also T-26), Wild And Crazy (1997), Wild Words (1995), Yada Yada Yada (2005), Yeah Baby (2005), Yuletide Log (1996), Zoinks (2005), Phil Yeh (2006), Zzzap (2006), Battle Damaged (2007), Speeding Bullet (2006), Foom (2007), Letterbot (2007), Timsale (2007), Cutthroat (2007), Framistat (2007), Area 51 (2007, techno, octagonal), CC Comicraft (2007), Ratatat (2008), Mad Scientist (2008), Monologous (2008, T-26), HolierThanThou (2008, T26), Elephantmen (2008, grunge typeface at T26), Storyline (2008, T-26), Primal Scream (2009, T-26), Spillproof (2009, T-26), Sign Language (2008), Moritat (2009, T-26, by John Roshell), Pass The Port (2009, T-26), Credit Crunch (2009), Elsewhere (2009, art nouveau), Code Monkey (2011, monospaced yet informal), Glitter Girl (2011, hand-printed), Rassum Frassum (2011, comic book face), Rocket Man (2011, a retro futuristic family), Spaghetti Western (2011, signage face), Sunrise Till Sunset (2012), Samaritan and Samaritan Tall (2013, with John Roshell). In 2014, John Roshell published the school font Dash To School. Typefaces from 2015: Samaritan Lower (by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), Dusk Till Dawn Buried (expressionist). Typefaces from 2016: Questionable Things (with John Roshell: a question mark font). Typefaces from 2017: Evil Schemes (by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), Regeneration, Obey Obey Obey (by Starkings and Roshell). Typefaces from 2018: Samaritan Tall Lower (by Starkings and Roshell), Blah Blah Upper (by John Roshell and Richard Starkings), Evil Doings (by Richard Starkings and John Roshell). Typefaces from 2020: Elektrakution (a Greek simulation font family by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), This Man This Monster (by John Roshell and Richard Starkings). Typefaces from 2021: Richard Starkings Brush (2021; a comic book typeface by Richard Starkings and John Roshell), Scoundrel (a comic book face by Richard Starkings and John Roshell). Creative Market link. View Comicraft's typefaces. Fontsquirrel link. 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Jacci Howard Bear takes us on a tour of commercial school fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designers of the school font Edelfontmed (1998), which was made for Edelvives SA. Download here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cozy Fonts Foundry
| Type designer (b. 1951, New York) in New York City, who studied at Pratt. His type foundry, Cozy Fonts, is located in Bell Canyon, CA. Creator of the Arabic simulation typeface Aladdin (2012), Skratchbook (2012), Toms Finger (2013, hand-printed cartoon typeface, +Toms Pinky, +Toms Thumb), Noodlerz (2013), Posterface (2014, +Sans; modular poster font family), Speener (hand-printed), Victory Script (2015), Archiva (2016: a useful rounded yet squarish condensed typeface family, +Stencil, +Dropline), Slenderz (2016: a handcrafted sans family), and Ds Hand (2016, based on the hand of Danielle Nikosey). Typefaces from 2017: Civic Sans (a 13-style sans family for billboards). Typefaces from 2018: Irongate. Typefaces from 2019: Flintlock. Typefaces from 2020: Planetype (futuristic, modular), Slatz (an ultra-condensed sans and serif family). Typefaces from 2021: CF Cozyscript (a monolinear retro school script), CF Nixt (a seven-style simple monolinear geometric sans in the mid-century American and Swiss traditions, perhaps leaning closest to Avenir). Typefaces from 2022: Neuliner (a 7-style metro-retro font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
CreaSchool
| Tebessa, Algeria-based designer of school fonts for Arabic. In 2021, he released Arabic Dotted. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Creative Chaos
| Kymm (Creative Chaos) is the creator in 2009 of free hand-printed typefaces, such as Chaos, Swooshy, Jer, Kinda In Love (Valentine's Day font), Another Handwriting Font, Chicken Scrtach, Connect The Dots, Wishful thinking, and Nana Hand (+Outline), all free. Commercial: Expired (2009), Tallboy family (2009), School Hand Font Family, in the style of teachers in school---6 styles. Annoying downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cubo
| Florent Courtaigne graduated in graphic design - ENSAD / Art Décoratifs de Paris. He founded created Cubo Fonts in 2008, and works as a graphic designer and drawing teacher in the LISAA Design School in Paris. Now a graphic designer, illustrator and art director based in Paris, Florent Courtaigne is the creator of the free circle arc and straight-line fonts Cyclo and Cyclo Bold (2006). In 2008, Florent started selling fonts at Myfonts: Cyclo (which used to be free), Cortex (2010, monoline sans), Maline (2008, an upright script), Phylactere (2008, a technical, almost architectural, script), Mercurio, Delicate (2009, connected script typeface renamed Delikaat some time later). In 2009, Florent added Chaman (Tibetan influences) and Pixo (named after the graffiti style in Sao Paulo, pixação). The 3d interlocking character font family Volume was designed in 2011. In 2012, Florent Courtaigne and Grégoire Pierre co-designed the Leonardian typeface family. Courtaigne created Liliming (2012), a slab serif family that was orginally designed for Liliming, a famous Shanghainese feminine fashion brand. Typefaces from 2013: Crealab (an organic techno font family originally designed for CREALAB, a company in Shanghai). In 2014, Courtaigne made the circuit font poster Hack Yizu. Typefaces from 2022: Fluid (a fluid, liquid typeface). Klingspor link. Dafont link. Behance link. Old URL for Cubo. View all typefaces by Cubo Type / Florent Courtaigne. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Cuchi qué tipo
| Graphic and type designer based in Jaén, Andalusia. Carlos investigates street signs and traditional lettersigns in his city for a university project called Rótulos chuléricos de Jaén. His web site, Cuchi qué tipo, is both a blog on type design (in Spanish) and a showcase for his own typefaces. His type designs:
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Cybertype (was: Western Commercial Arts Company (WCA Co))
| Cybertype is Kevin Simpson's web presence. He used to run a site called the Western Commercial Arts Company (WCA Co). Kevin is a freelance designer in Wokingham, East Berkshire, U.K. He used to do custom type design. His fonts include Dead Oak, Emphive, Stainless Steel, Faux, Fiftyfour, Jonathan, Optika, MrJones, Remington, Shel, Stewart, diGriz, Shel, Optika (hoowee!), Obscura (great target vision font), Swiss92, Chatham, Eadwy, Jonathan, Hoopy Frood. Agfa-Monotype, he published Aitos (2000), a beautiful fat lettering display font. Portobello is a connected children's educational font. Kevin offers a host of type services. In 2014, he created the free bespoke typeface Red Kite for Kinetik Design. Home page. FontShop link. Behance link. Kinetik Design link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Letterer and designer in Mexico City. In 2017, she designed the text typeface Tessitura especially for small print sizes. Co-founder of the Tipas Type type foundry in Mexico City together with Monica Munguia (who by 2020 has left the studio), and Sandra Garcia. Dafne Martinez studied graphic design at Facultad de Artes y Diseño, UNAM, and has a Masters in typography from Centro de Estudios Gestalt. She specializes in calligraphy and lettering. In 2019, Dafne Martinez, Monica Munguia, and Sandra Garcia co-designed the roundish informal children's book typeface Xantolo and the wood type / slab serif typeface Xihtli. In 2019, Dafne Martinez and Sandra Garcia designed the copperplate calligraphic typeface Especial for a common Mexican beer brand Member of the Sic Typus Creatus Est team (Dafne Martinez, Jorge George, Leonardo Delgado, Iordan Evair and Federico Biagioli) that designed Calmadita in 2020 for the Torneo tipografico competition. Calmadita is an angular slab serif meant for Ipads and Kindles. In 2021, Dafne Martinez and Sandra Garcia published Achtli (Book, Didactic), a rounded sans typeface for early readers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dafont
| Useful French archive with nice categories such as Cartoons, Horror, Tech, Fantasy, Script, Symbols, Famous fonts, pixel fonts, typewriter, Gothic. It has grown to be the number one site in the world for publishing new free fonts. All designers are clearly identified, and all font information is easily accessible. Links. About 10000 fonts now, with monthly additions. Newest stuff. Links to all designers. All pre-October 2009 fonts in one 660MB download file. Run by Rodolphe Milan (France, b. 1972). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French developer of the school script font Cursive Dumont (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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David Occhino Design (was: Treehouse Graphic Design)
| Treehouse Graphic Design was David Occhino's font outlet. It is now called David Occhino Design. The Treehouse collection specialized in Startrek, futuristic, Disney and Indiana Jones style fonts, but has widened lately. Most fonts are commercial, but there are a few free ones:
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David Sudweeks pursued graphic design at Brigham Young University where he focused his studies on lettering and type. After completing a brief apprenticeship with type designer Mark van Bronkhorst in California, David took up the position of Type Director at FontShop San Francisco. He now works primarily from his home studio outside Raleigh, North Carolina writing and curating type as a member of FontShop's editorial staff, and drawing type on the side. He used FontStruct in 2008 to make the dotted typeface Pullchain, which could be used for teaching children how to write. Codesigner at American Type Founders Collection of ATF Alternate Gothic (2015, Mark van Bronkhorst, Alan Dague-Greene, David Sudweeks, Igino Marini, & Ben Kiel). ATF Alternate Gothic is a new, significant digital expansion to 40 fonts of Morris Fuller Benton's classic 1903 design. In 2019, Sudweeks designed the serif typeface family MVB Dovetail at MVB Fonts. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
British teacher with a research interest in foreign cursive handwriting fonts. He wrote this "doc" document on the topic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the signage script Hafsa (2016), the school script font Rabat (2016) and the grungy outlined Coofee (sic) (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Deja Vu Sans Writing
| Hung Tin Tse developed Deja Vu Sans Writing (2013), a large free font derived from Bitstream's open source typeface Deja Vu. Intended for teaching proper writing to children, it is free. OFL download link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Delbanco-Frakturschriften
| Gerda Delbanco's German foundry in Ahlhorn, specializing in blackletter fonts. Great web presentation, and gorgeous glyphs. The company is owned by Gerda Delbanco, but it is not clear if she designed some or all of the typefaces. Some fonts were designed by Gerhard Helzel, and others by Christian Spremberg. This is one of the best sources of blackletter fonts in the world. Names of the fonts, which are nearly all historical revivals of the great blackletter fonts: Alte Schwabacher, Andreas Schrift, Breitkopf Fraktur, Caslon Gotisch, Claudius (1998, after Rudolf Koch, 1934-1937), Deutsche Kursive, Deutsche Werkschrift (+halbfett), Deutsche Zierschrift, Eckmann Schrift, Eisenacher Fraktur (1994, by Christian Spremberg), Ehmcke Schwabacher, Fette Gotisch, Fichte Fraktur, Frühling (after Rudolf Koch's original from 1917) [sample 1, sample 2, sample 3], DS-Garalang, DS-Garamond, DS Gotenbrg, Hermersdorf, Humboldt Fraktur (after a typeface by H. Rhode), Kleist Fraktur (1996, after the Walter Tiemann original from 1927-1928), Wilhelm Klingspor Schrift, Koch Fraktur, Rudolf Koch Kurrent (after the original school alphabet by Koch, done in 1935), Kurrent (a connected writing font based on examples from J.B. Henning, ca. 1817), Lincoln Gotisch, DS Maximilian Gotisch, DS Maximilian Zierbuchstaben, Normal Fraktur (this is a nameless typeface in the group of Biedermeier-Fraktur typefaces which also includes Schelter's Schulfraktur; also known elsewhere as Armin-Fraktur, Bürenstein-Fraktur, Mars-Fraktur and Pressa-Fraktur), Offenbacher Schwabacher (1996, after the 1899 font by Gustav Ruprecht at Rudhardsche), Old English, Peter Jessen Schrift (1997, after the original from 1924-1929 by Rudolf Koch), Post Fraktur, DS Ratdolt Rotunda, DS Salzmann Fraktur, DS Schmuck, Strassburg, DS Suetterlin, Tannenberg (after a 1933 Stempel typeface by Emil Meyer), DS Thannhaeuser Fraktur, DS Unger Fraktur (1999), DS Walbaum Fraktur, DS Wallau (1996, after Rudolf Koch, 1924-1936), Wartburg Fraktur, DS Weiss Gotisch, DS Wilhelm Klingspor Schrift, Wohe Kursive and Zentenar Fraktur (1997 (after F.H.E. Schneidler's original from 1937). Some of the copyright notices refer to the Bund für deutsche Sprache und Schrift, and others to PrimaFont, and this may explain some of the foundry's history. 1994 catalog. Part of the 1999 catalog. Part of the 2002 catalog. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Original fonts as well as font links (about 1800). All fonts made by Dennis Palumbo, a writer from New York, who used to make fonts for Atari. Some fonts were free, but most are now pay fonts, it seems. Commercial fonts: Vector 3d (1996), Flash Cards Addition (1998), Clock-Digital, Film Strip, BabyBlock, DecorativeBorders (4 fonts), OldWest, Ceramic Tile (2005), I Beam (2005), Porthole (2000), SanSerifUltra Condensed, SanSerifOutline, OldWest 3D, Brick, ZebraLumber, SerifOutline, Dalmation, Vector (4 fonts), Brick3D, OldEnglishEmbellished (1999, Fraktur), ChainLink, Fractions, SanSerif 3DShadow, Serif3D Shadow, Marquee, First Grade (lined school font), Pennant, USA States, USA Map, Piano Keyboard, Gallya Ornamented (1995), Diamond Plate (2000), Clock Digital (1997), Picket Fence (2000). Shareware: Bobcat (2 fonts), Panther (4 fonts), Caracal Backslant (2 fonts), Lynx (4 fonts), Ocelot (4 monowidth fonts), Cheetah (2 fonts), Serval (2002), Puma (2000, 4 weights), Ceramic Tile (2005), Film Font (2006), One Stroke (2007, octagonal, hairline), Gallya (2008). The list of his fonts: Baby Block Brick, Brick 3D, Ceramic Tile, Chain Link, Clock - Digital, Dalmation, Decorative Borders, Decorative Borders 2, Decorative Borders 3, Decorative Borders 4, Diamond Plate, Filmfont, FilmStrip, First Grade, Flash Cards - Addition, Fractions, Gallya, Gallya Ornamented, Highway Broken Line, I Beam, Marquee, Old English Embellished, Old English Embellished Bold, Old English Embellished Bold Italic, Old English Embellished Italic, Old West, Old West 3D, One Stroke, Pennant, Piano Keyboard, Picket Fence, Porthole, PVC Pipe, San Serif 3D Shadow, San Serif Outline, San Serif Ultra Condensed, San Serif Ultra Condensed Bold, Serif 3D Shadow, Serif Outline, Vector, Vector 3D, Vector Bold, Vector Bold Italic, Vector Italic, PVC Pipe, USA Map, USA States, Zebra Lumber. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The German handwriting model for schools (Deutsche Schreibschrift) was also adopted in Austria as these examples from 1953 (due to Professor Alois Legruen) and 1971 show. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of Primary Trace Guide (2011, FontStruct), a font for tracing. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DizajnDesign
| Slovak designer who lives in Bratislava. He created the sans typefaces Deva Ideal (2007, 10 styles dedicated to the beauty of women! See also here) and Poleno Sans (2007), a great custom typeface with the broken look of Preissig's old typefaces and poster type. Poleno was originally designed in 2006 for the Slovak folk dance ensemble Poleno, as a part of their corporate identity. It has 12 styles now. Dezen (2010) is a contemporary, mechanical grotesque typeface family. It includes a Stencil subfamily. Komu (2010) is constructivist. His graduation project at the Type and Media MA program of KABK was Preto (2009), a multilingual type family which explores the impact of serifs in legibility and readability (+Sans, +Sans Basic). He says: The three core styles that structure the family (sans, semi and serif) are particularly useful in the context of multilingual typesetting to achieve an even colour in equivalent texts written in different languages. In 2010, he created Rukou, a script that reminds me of Sütterlin. In 2011, he made Anca (playful rounded monoline sans). Typefaces from 2013: Preto Serif, Razom Script (an angular monoline script). Typefaces from 2014: Preto Semi. Typefaces from 2015: Kontrast Grotesk (Display, Grande). In 2016, Cesar Puertas and Jan Filipek co-designed the newspaper typeface Bagatela for La Republica. In 2018, he published Nakoso. In 2019, Martina Rozinajova and Jan Filipek co-designed the Slovak school writing font Skolske Pismo. MyFonts link. Behance link. Cargocollective link. Fontspring link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Creator of the free typeface School Cursive (2011, OFL). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial outfit marketing D'Nealian handwriting fonts and software. Based in LaSalle, MI. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Prof. Don Becker of the German Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made his Sütterlin font (1995) available to the public. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DownHill Publishing
| Free and commercial school fonts by Ramón Abajo, all made in 1999 or 2000: Ramon is a high school Spanish teacher in California. His fonts are floating around in cyberspace. His fonts were also for sale at Fonts 4 Teachers (or: Tiende Escolar). They are now available via New York City-based DownHill Publishing, which was founded in 1998 in Los Angeles, California. A list: AbcAlegria, AbcAmSignLang, AbcAmSignLangLetter, AbcBulletin, AbcClocks, AbcCursive, AbcCursiveArrow, AbcCursiveArrowDotted, AbcCursiveDotted, AbcCursiveDottedLined, AbcCursiveLined, AbcDNManus (AbcDNManusArrow, AbcDNManusArrowDotted, AbcDNManusDotted, AbcDNManusDottedLined, AbcDNManusLined, AbcDNManuscript), AbcDomino, AbcFaces, AbcHeadlines, AbcKids, AbcMath, AbcPhonicsOne, AbcPhonicsTwo, AbcPrint, AbcPrintArrow, AbcPrintArrowDotted, AbcPrintDotted, AbcPrintDottedLined, AbcPrintLined, AbcTeacher. The DownHill Publishing fonts are grouped into Print Writing, D'Nealian, Box Writing, Cursive Writing, Phonics, Sign Language, Seasonal, Decorative. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
DS Design
| North-Carolinian distributor of the Kidbag type collection. Kid Type Paint was designed by Jane Scarano and Jake Scott. Designer at Creative Alliance of the kid's handwriting typefaces KidType 1 and 2, as well as DingBrats (1993, dingbats). Dead FontShop link. Jake and Scott Scarano (now defunct link!) are credited at FontShop with the 1993 creative Alliance ruled kid's lettering typeface Kid Type Ruled, and the brushy 1993 typefaces Kid Type Crayon, Kid Type Marker and Kid Type Paint. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Infadot is a suite of five fonts specially developed for pre-school and primary school teachers. Commercial product. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dyana Weissman
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When you download eBuch, you get these school fonts: Schulschrift95 (2001, Edelweiss), Druckschrift95 (1997, Edelweiss). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designers of the educational font Schulschrift95 Normal (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eduscol is a web site of the Ministère d'Éducation Nationale for French educators. In June 2013, a package of school fonts became available for free download. These are serious writing fonts, with and without lines, that cover upright and italic scripts, and connected and unconnected handwriting. The type designers in charge of the development were Marion Andrews, Malou Verlomme and Laurence Bedoin. For samples of Écriture A and Écriture B, and a comparison with existing school fonts, check Modèles d'écriture scolaire (2013), a document issued by the French Ministry of Education. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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EFI makes and sells D'Nealian-style, Zaner-Bloser-style, Harcourt Brace-style, Peterson Directed Handwriting-style, McDougal, Littell-style, Getty-Dubay Italic (handwriting method developed by Barbara M. Getty and Inga S. Dubay), and Palmer style handwriting fonts. The Harcourt and Brace HB Cursive and HB Manuscript font families are useful for connect-the-dots and orthographic exercises. 250USD for the HB family for one school. They mention that their fonts are in over 8600 schools. At 4 styles per school, that looks like a 8.6 million dollar affair... Also, two Braille fonts at 10 USD a shot. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sells handwriting-fonts designed to exactly replicate many educational handwriting styles. In particular, they have these:
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Electronic Font Foundry
| The Electronic Font Foundry (EFF) in Ascot, Berkshire, UK, sold most classical fonts at about 15 dollars per weight, and made custom fonts. Established in 1984, the foundry had 1300 fonts by 2012. The font designer and owner was Edward Detyna, who died in March 2014. People are reporting to me that the fonts are in limbo, and that Detyna's family is not replying to requests for information. On July 4, 2002, Apostrophe wrote this: I'm currently having a difficult time trying to predict the past of EFF LondonA, EFF Liz, EFF Eric and EFF Formal, to name a few. I have a feeling that these folks just happen to be twins with entities that are currently across the Atlantic from them, namely Adobe Garamond, Cooper Black, Gill Sans and Copperplate Gothic. A friend of Detyna's writes this: When I met him at least twenty years ago, Edward and his associates had a font design studio based in Ascot, near London. He is a mathematician/statistician turned typographer, and was really on top of type design at the time. There are academic articles published on mathematical subjects on the internet. He's an old man now, but still a very smart guy. When he started, with fonts for Acorn RISC-OS (now defunct, but leading-edge British computer of mid-eighties to -nineties), he had very advanced and sophisticated algorithms for anti-aliasing and hinting, and his hand-hinting is still better than almost any other fonts I have used for screen work. He still sells fonts and adapts to user requirements promptly. I recently asked him to adjust the hinting on a font and he turns it around in a day. Jason Koxvold wrote to me in 2017: I knew Edward back in 1990 or so, when I was 13, and he mentored me to a great degree. For a while I worked an internship of sorts at EFF, and then one day, my mother came to see what I was up to---he gave her the job of office manager. He was a tremendously helpful and meaningful person to me then as a very young man with a passion for typography. Closed captioning fonts for TV, made according to the EIA 708-B specifications, include EFF Sans Serif CC, EFF Serif CC, EFF Sans Serif Mono CC, EFF Serif Mono CC, EFF Casual CC, EFF Script CC, EFF Small Caps CC. EFF also has fonts for Vietnamese, Greek, Hebrew, and Cyrillic. EFF Primary is a large family of educational fonts. EFF Utamaru is an oriental simulation font. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Author of Die Drucker der Wagnerschen Buchdruckerei in Ulm 1677-1804 Band II Vignetten Signete Initialen (Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz, 1984). A typical vignette. Vignette 142. Vignette depicting Silvanus. The Wagnerschen Buchdruckerei issued this Schreibschrift in 1765. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer who graduated from ENSAD Paris (2013), ANRT Nancy (2014) and CELSA Paris (2015) and is now based in Paris and Nancy. In 2021, with the help of Jerome Knebusch, she published the (commercial) didactical modular rounded sans typeface Prelettres. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German foundry based in Berlin, active from 1866 until 1917, when it was acquired by H. Berthold AG. Klingspor's file on Gursch. Typefaces published by them include:
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Located at the University of Paris, Emmanuel Beffara designed the French Cursive font (2004), a cursive hand-writing font family in the style of the French academic running-hand. It comes in Metafont format. Experimental type 1 versions are available too: TeX-fcbx10, TeX-fcc10, TeX-fcf10, TeX-fcr10. See also here (last updated in 2004). He also created CMLL (2006, type 1), a set of symbols used in Linear Logic, designed for use with standard Computer Modern fonts. University link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the connected educational font A La Main (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charleston, SC-based designer of Ernie Alphabet (2016), Skinny Chicken (2016), Alexander Handwritten (2016), Nautical Flag Alphabet (2016), Grade School Hand (2016) and Brush Pen (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free children's teaching fonts by ELC (Estherville Lincoln Central Community School District): ELCZB, ELCZBLined, ELCZBTP (2001). Page by first grade teacher Mary Twentyman. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Santiago, Chile-based studio consisting of Tono Luis Rojas Herrera, Pato Patricio Arellano Lufi, Kote José Soto Buzzetti, and Paulina Reyes Naranjo. Kote Soto is the designer of the upright pencil script (school font) typeface TCL Grafito (2016, with Felipe Cceres, ca. 2005) following instructions of the Chilean Minister of Education. They made a corporate typeface called BCH for use by Banco de Chile (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and designer in Palma de Mallorca. She created some hand-drawn school fonts, both connected and non-connected, in 2013, in a learning to read project called Pipo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Experluette
| Olivier Randier's pages devoted to typography. Has sub-pages on hyper Casse, his project on the listing and study of all 65000 signs/symbols from all languages. There is also l'Outil, a gallery of nice typographical examples. Olivier Randier, Lionel Buchet and others helped with the development of a set of school fonts for SG Création (a company owned by Gérard and Marc Seintignan). These fonts were commercialized since about 2008 under the name SG Education. Link for Olivier Randier. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sells a 2000 font (TT and T1) CD called Fantastic Fonts for 13USD. Plus 300 truetype handwriting fonts for 13USD. And 300 funky fonts for 13USD. Font Magician (13USD) lets you create special effects. Kid's Fonts (300 truetype fonts) for 13USD. Based in Rockland, DE. Footnote: Expert Software is one of the world's largest font cloners. I doubt that they ever made an original font. For example, under the label Ly's Media, they renamed all the WSI "Hand-Plain" series LEHN001 through LEHN283, and sold them once again. It is a real mess. Download that collection here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Filiz Sahin is an American interactive designer, originally from Istanbul. Her work includes Geogram (2012, an octagonal typeface), Wave Me In (2012, a free wavy EPS-format font), Knit Type (2012, a free stitching font), Stitching Font (2012), Ant Type (2012, another stitching font), Drop Type (2012, a free EPS format ornamental caps face), Spider Type (2012, a modified Helvetica Bold), and a hand-drawn all ornamental caps face (2009). Muscle Type (2012) is a free EPS-format font inspired by bundles of muscles. Sablon (2012) is an organic all-caps type family. Hair Type (2012) consists of strands of hair. Dooooodle Type (2012) are doodled ornamental caps. El Yazi (2012) is a 2d and 3d school script font on EPS format. Cosmo Path (2012) is a free spaceship-inspired EPS vector font. Che's Bone (2012) is a bone-themed typeface. Mood Type (2012, free) is a beautiful EPS-format font that takes inspiration from modern Swedish furniture. Doodleista (2012) is a condensed poster face. Typefaces from 2013: Look Up (a hand-drawn arrowed poster typeface). Typefaces from 2014: Mink (free hand-printed font). Typefaces from 2018: Tonton (a children's book font), Tonton Green (crocodile skin texture). Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flat-It
| Japanese foundry in Nagoya that offers free and commercial Latin fonts made by Ryoichi Tsunekawa, who also runs Bagel & Co, Dharma Type, HolidayType and Prop-A-Ganda. Most of his work was done at Flat-It. His typefaces:
MyFonts link. Fontsquirrel link for their free fonts such as Bebas (2005, industrial sans), Boycott, Gesso, and Pusab. Typefaces from 2022: Senpai Coder, Madromit (a layerable futuristic font inspired by the early computer fonts), Tokyo Olive (art deco), Poipoi (a layerable 3d or bubblegum font). YWFT link. Bagel & Co. link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Dafont link. View Ryoichi Tsunekawa's typefaces. Kernest link. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Florent Courtaigne
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Florian Hardwig
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Florian Hardwig (b. near M¨nchen) is a graphic designer based in Berlin, Germany, where he runs a studio together with Malte Kaune, Kaune & Hardwig. Since 2007, he has been teaching Typography at the Brunswick School of Art. Florian can frequently be found on Typophile, where he is one of the moderators of the Type ID Board. Co-editor of Fonts In Use, he collects and takes pictures of peculiar letterforms in print and in the wild. He spoke at ATypI 2007 in Brighton. His "manuscribe" is a research project on international school scripts and the dialects of handwriting. His slides on this project. In 2017, he helped Jan Middendorp start up the Fust & Friends foundry in Berlin. Fust & Friends link. Flickr page. Comparison of Bauer Bodoni and Linotype Didot. A piece on school scripts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontfarm
| Natascha Dell (Fontfarm, Aachen) is a graduate from FH Aachen (Germany) who wrote a thesis in 2004 on the use and abuse of typography on the web. Fonts designed at Fontfarm in 2005-2006 by Kai F. Oetzbach and Natascha Dell: Agendatype (+Swash), Goffik-Outline, Goffik-Shadow, KofiPure (in Sans, Serif and SemisKursiv), NakoticaBarrow (techno), Nafi (2005, upright connected script and some dingbats), Caput (2008, a sans family), Jenny (a six-style family that grew out of Jenson Antiqua into a more angular carapace), Parker-Barrow (a sans+slab experiment). Typefaces by the same pair in 2011: Gedau Gothic (grotesque family), Ergilo (angular serif family). Newtype is a 36-style superfamily for headlines, information design and short passages. |
Fontmenu.com
| Michel Bujardet (a Frenchman living in West Hollywood, CA) runs Matchfonts, and started Fontmenu.com in August 2001. Commercial fonts, and free demos in all formats. A partial list of fonts:
Alternate URL for his shareware typefaces. MyFonts link for his commercial typefaces. Alternate MyFonts link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Outfit that sells 31 children's handlettering fonts created by Ramón Abajo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonts Arena
| FontsArena is a curated typography website with a focus on web typography and high quality free fonts. It is run by Berlin, Germany-based Aline Sava. Aline herself designed the free font Alphabet Caps Lined (2018, an all-caps font with penmanship lines, designed for primary school and kindergarten education support), and published it at Open Fonts Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
DownHill Publishing sells Classroom fonts for teachers, parents, students&librarians including manuscript, cursive,&D'Nealian-style fonts for learning handwriting, math, reading,&phonics in English&Spanish, plus clip art, math&ASL symbols. This is a commercial outfit. They give away just one font, ABC Kids. Math fonts: ABC Math, ABC Domino. The catalog of fonts, all made in 1999: AbcAlegria, AbcAmSignLang, AbcAmSignLangLetter, AbcBulletin (connect-the-dots typeface), AbcClocks, AbcCursive, AbcCursiveArrow, AbcCursiveArrowDotted, AbcCursiveDotted, AbcCursiveDottedLined, AbcCursiveLined, AbcDNManusArrow, AbcDNManusArrowDotted, AbcDNManusDotted, AbcDNManusDottedLined, AbcDNManusLined, AbcDNManuscript, AbcDomino, AbcFaces, AbcHeadlines, AbcKids, AbcMath, AbcPhonicsOne, AbcPhonicsTwo, AbcPrint, AbcPrintArrow, AbcPrintArrowDotted, AbcPrintDotted, AbcPrintDottedLined, AbcPrintLined, AbcTeacher, Fun Art (dingbats). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stanley Ng (Cary, IL) offers fonts for beginners, with dashed lines and directions of writing. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundation Type
| John Greatorex of School Fonts in Australia wrote to me: I am not associated with Nick Garzo, nor do I like what he has done. He is offering our fonts for free download without permission, and as such depriving small very poor Black schools in Australia a source of income. I have tried unsuccessfully to contact Nick Garzo for years. Nick Garzo indeed offered at some point a free sans font family called Foundation (1997), which comes in sub-styles called Dots, Cursive, Regular and Outline. So, please buy the originals from School Fonts (John Greatorex, Shepherdson Community Education Centre, Casuarina, Australia). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Author of Caligrafia Vertical (1956), a school writing book for use in Brazil, which adopts the north american vertical writing system as seen, e.g., in Barnes' Barnes; National Vertical Penmanship (1899). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frantisek Storm
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Franziska Hubmann was born in Vienna, Austria, and studied graphic, communication and type design there. She has worked as typographer and type designer ever since. She is associated with Schriftlabor. In 2017, she graduated from the typeface design program at the University of Reading. Her typefaces:
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Archive and discussion of free school fonts such as Jarman, Jardotty, Primer Print, Print Clearly, Penmanship Print, Zyia Learns Letters, Learning Curve BV. Also a listing of shareware and commercial school fonts. A nice start page if you need such fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Friedrich Soennecken (b. 1848, Iserlohn-Dröschede, Sauerland; d. 1919, Bonn) was an entrepreneur and inventor. He was the founder of Soennecken, a German office supplier. In 1875 he founded F. Soennecken Verlag, a commercial enterprise in Remscheid, Westphalia. His main invention is the round writing style of calligraphy and the pen nib associated with it. In 1878, Soennecken developed a method for creating glyphs, based on metal elements that are arcs or straight lines. The center lines of the glyphs are aligned with a grid. This was introduced in the German educational system in 1913. He wrote didactic texts on his construction method and on penmanship for the classroom. For example, he authored Methodical Text Book to Round Writing, A. Eltzbacher & Co., 1879. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gabriel Martinez Meave
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Designer of the children's orthographic font Young Reader. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gene Buban (aka geneus1) is the creative and prolific designer at FontStruct in 2008-2009 of these typefaces:
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Web site of project Gente by the "Gente team", which consists of type designers David Espinosa (Colombia), Sergio Aristizabal (Colombia), Sandra Garcia (Colombia), Manuel Lopez Rocha (Mexico) and Oscar Guerrero Canizares (Colombia). There is also a graphic design team (Ana Varela and Bladimir Blacho Moya, from Colombia; Ramses Lopez in Panama; Cecilia Vilca Ocharan in Peru; Victoria Clemente in Spain; Fellype Silva do Nascimento in Brazil). Gente Tipografia is dedicated to typography and type for the Wounaan people in Colombia who face extinction. One of 65 endangered local tribes in Colombia, the 9500 Wounaan live principally near Chico. In 2016, the web site opened its doors and showed these Latin / Wounaan (basically, Latin, with a few extra symbols such as barred u's) typefaces for free download: Wouniek-Agpierra, Wouniek-Dasii (by Sandra Garcia and Manuel Lopez Rocha), Wouniek-Nempom (by Sandra Garcia and Manuel Lopez Rocha), Wouniek-TheerbaAgpierra, Wouniek-TheerbaDasii, Wouniek-TheerbaNempom, Wouniek-Chaanden (a cursive school script by Sergio Aristizabal, Sandra Garcia, Manuel Lopez Rocha and Oscar Guerrero Canizares). Facebook link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Georg Salden
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Gerda Delbanco
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Gerhard A. Bachmaier
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Diplom Engineer and painter from Hamburg who designed or digitized over 210 Fraktur fonts. He is heavily involved in the Bund für Deutsche Schrift und Sprache. Helzel is the designer at Delbanco-Frakturschriften of DS-DtWerkschrift (1997), DS-Fruehling (1996), DS-MaximilianGotisch (1994), DS-MaximilianTitel (1994), DS-Post-Fraktur (1997). He has hand-digitized over 200 Fraktur fonts, including
Helzel also offers a free "Frakturconverter" program for Windows which transforms Antiqua fonts into Fraktur fonts. List of his fonts as of 2009: (Anker-)Schul-Fraktur, Accidenz-Gotisch, Akzidenz-Gotisch, Aldine, Albion-Gotisch, Alt-Fraktur, Alt-Gotisch (Bradley), Alt-Deutsch (after Ferdinand Theinhardt, 1851), Alte Münchner Fraktur (after a 1850 typeface by Gustav Lorenz), Alte deutsche Schreibschrift, Alte Schwabacher, Amts-Fraktur (after Heinrich Wilhelm Hoffmeister), Andreae Fraktur, Andreas-Schrift, Angelsächsisch, Angelsächsisch, Verzierte, Antike Gotisch, Aramäische Quadratschrift, Astra, Bastard, Bernhard-Fraktur, Bismarck-Gotisch, Breite deutsche Anzeigenschrift, Breite Kanzlei, Breitkopf-Fraktur, Britannia (Alt-Gotisch), Büxenstein-Antiqua, Büxenstein-Fraktur (after a house style at D. Stempel, 1912), Canzlei, Caxton, Caxton-Type, Claudius, Courante Gotisch, Danziger Fraktur (after A. W. Kafemann), Derby, Deutsche Reichsschrift (after a 1910 typeface by Wilhelm Woellmer), Deutsche Schrägschrift, Deutsche Schreibschrift (Bismarck-Zeit and Goethe-Zeit: school fonts), Deutsche Schrift, Deutsche Werkschrift, Deutsche Zierschrift, Deutsch-Gotisch, Deutschland, Dresdner Amts-Fraktur, Eckmann-Schrift, Einfache Kanzlei, Elegant, Element, Enge Gotisch (2008, after an 1880 font by Bauersche Giesserei), Enge moderne Kanzlei, Enge König-Type, Enge Kanzlei, Englische Antiqua, Faust-Fraktur, Fette Gotisch, Fette Schwabacher, Fichte-Fraktur, Fractur, Französische Antiqua, Frühling-Fraktur (1997, after Koch's original from 1917), Garamond-Antiqua, Genzsch-Antiqua, Germanen-Fraktur (this is the same as Stempel's Normannia from 1905), Germanisch, Goethe-Fraktur (after Wilheml Woelmmer), Gotenburg, Graeca, Gronau-Gotisch (after Heinrich Ehlert, 1850), Gursch-Fraktur, Gutenberg-Fraktur, Gutenberg-Bibelschrift, Gutenberg-Gotisch, Haenel-Antiqua, Halbfette Aldine, Halbfette Kanzlei, Halbfette Normalfraktur, Halbfette Schwabacher-Flinsch, Halbfette Wallau, Hamburger Druckschrift, Hamburger Fraktur, Hamburger Schwabacher, Hammonia-Gotisch, Hansa-Fraktur, Hansa-Gotisch (after a Genzsch & Heyse original), Hebräisch, Hellenistische Antiqua "Graeca", Hölderlin (after Eugen Weiss, 1937), Holländische Gotisch, Hoyer-Fraktur, Humboldt-Fraktur, Hupp-Fraktur, Ideal-Fraktur, Jean-Paul-Fraktur, Jubiläumsfraktur, Kaiser-Gotisch, Kanzlei, Karl-May-Fehsenfeld-Fraktur, (after a 1870 font used in the Karl-May books) Karl-May-Radebeul (after a 1890 font used in the Karl-May books), Kirchengotisch, Moderne, Kleist-Fraktur, Kleukens-Fraktur, Koch-Antiqua, Koch-Fraktur, König-Fraktur G14, König-Type, Kühne-Gotisch, Kühne-Schrift, Kurante Gotisch, Kurmark, Lichte National, Liebing-Type, Liturgisch (after Otto Hupp, 1906), Logos, Ludlow-Wartburg-Fraktur (after Ludlow, ca. 1920), Magere Wallau, Mainzer Fraktur, Manuskript-Gotisch, Mars-Fraktur, Maximilian-Gotisch, Mediaeval-Gotisch, Leipziger Altfraktur (after a 1912 typeface by Carl Kloberg), Midoline (after Jean Midolle's typeface from 1840 at Julius Klinkhardt), Moderne Kanzlei, Moderne Kirchen-Gotisch (based on an original from ca. 1880), Mönchs-Gotisch, Morris-Gotisch (Uncial-Gotisch, Unzial-Gotisch, after Emil Gursch), Münster-Gotisch, Neu-Gotisch klein, Neudeutsch(-Hupp), Neue (moderne) Fraktur, Neue Schwabacher, Nordisch-Antiqua, Normal-Fraktur (1999, after the font by Gustav Schelter, 1835), Normannia-Fraktur, Nürnberg, Offenbach, Post-Fraktur, Psalter-Gotisch, Ratdolt-Rotunda, Reklame-Fraktur halbfett, Renaissance-Fraktur, Renaissance-Kanzlei, Renata (after a Schwabacher of the Bauersche Giesserei, 1914), Richard-Wagner-Fraktur, Romeo Fraktur (2009, after a Stempel font from 1910), Rundgotisch, Russisch-Römisch, Salzmann-Fraktur, Schmale Accidenz-Gotisch, Schmale Haas-Gotisch, Schmale halbfette Fraktur, Schmale halbfette Gotisch, Schneidler-Schwabacher, Schraffierte Gotisch "Stella", Schreibschrift, Schul-Fraktur, Schwabacher, Schwabacher Mager Gross (after Albert Anklam, 1876), Sonderdruck-Antiqua (2008, after a 1913 typeface by Deberny and Peignot), Stahl (2007, after a 1937 typeface by Hans Kühne), Stahl Kursiv (2009, after Hans Kühne), Stella, Stempel-Fraktur, Straßburg (a blackletter based on fter H type by H. Berthold, 1926), Tannenberg, Thannhaeuser-Fraktur, Tiemann-Fraktur, Tiemann-Gotisch, Tiemann-Mediaeval, Unger-Fraktur, Verzierte Angelsächsisch, Verzierte Musirte Gotisch, Victoria-Gotisch (Viktoria-Gotisch), Wallau, Wartburg-Fraktur, Weber-Fraktur, Weiß-Fraktur, Werkschrift Germanisch, Wieynck-Gotisch, Wilhelm-Klingspor-Gotisch, Wohe-Kursive (after Wolgang Hendlmeier, 1988), Wohe Textura (2009, after Wolfgang Hendlmeier), Zeitungs-Fraktur, Zeitungs-Schwabacher (halbfette Neue Zeitungs-Schwabacher, to be more precise---based on a 1900 typeface by Pustet), Zentenar-Buchschrift. Catalog from 1996. Article in 1995 by him on Normal Fraktur. Another catalog, in pieces: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII. Antiqua catalog. | |
Frankfurt-based designer of some children's fonts and dingbats: LoKinderDingsbums-Links, LoKinderDingsbums-Rechts, LoKinderSchrift-Dunkel, LoKinderSchrift-Hell (fat round poster typefaces), all dated 1994. Dafont link, where we find the name Simon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gert Wiescher
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Giaime Del Bello
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Giaimefontz
| Italian designer specializing in handwritten and hand-cratfed fonts. In 2020, he released the monoline upright school script typeface Dear Penpal Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Gianni Marcolongo
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Graffiti Fonts (or: Highground Industries, or: Highground Graffiti Fonts, or: Fulltime Artists)
| Matt Napolitano (b. 1977) runs Highground Industries (ex-Highground Graffiti Fonts, ex: Fulltime Artists) in Milpitas and/or San Jose, CA. The company also goes by the name Graffiti Fonts and is known as Rase One Full Time Artists over on Dafont. Commercial graffiti fonts: first, there is a group of such fonts by Matt Napolitano, who runs the site (Dim Basic, Wild Style, Pilot Rase, RaseOne Original, RaseOne Outline, Human Rase, New Digital). There are free contributions by Ray Larabie (Funboy, Bomr, Degrassi, Graffiti Treat, Hawkeye, Yytrium), and Johan Waldenström (Writers, Writers2, writers3, Writers Bold, Writers Condensed, Homeboy, 08Underground, 5Cent, B-Boy, Subway). Fonts from 2019: Rase Nicolous. Fonts from 2018: Descent, Rase Grimm. Fonts from 2017: San Jose (graffiti font), Strokes (dry brush style). Fonts from 2014: Wild Style (graffiti). Fonts from 2013: RapScript (graffiti), Olde Crilt (blackletter). Fonts from 2012: Rase GPL (squarish, free at OFL). Fonts from 2011: Gang Bang (2011, graffiti tag style), Scrawl (graffiti style). Fonts from 2010: Stencil Font, Wild Style (tattoo or metal band font), New English (blackletter), Mad Props (brush), Graffick (futuristic), Olde Gangsta (blackletter), Back Spin, Ruckus, Pre Cursive (2007: lined school font; free at Open Font Library), Caption (brush), CaliCholo (brushy wall writing by LA gangs), Skin Art (an all caps tattoo family), Ballers (calligraphic brushy script). Fonts from before 2010: Standard Cap (2007, brush face), Hardway (2005, graffiti), Burner (2006), Scraper (2007, caps only paintbrush face), Fresh Paint (2006, like Scraper), Street Artist (2008, tag font for graffiti), Rase Downe (2006, graffiti face), Tough Guy (2001, mechanical family; +Stencil College), Dafunk, Fatcap, Pilot Rase, Califas (2006), Califas Chisel (2013), Scrawler (2006), Wild Style (2006), Rase Tribals (2006), Uni Wide (2006, graffiti font), Rase One (2004), Magik Marker (2006), Paint Cans (2003), Rase Basic (2003), Same Gang (2004). Klingspor link. OFL link. Graffiti Fonts link. Full Time Artists link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Greg Lindy
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Greg Shum
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GRIN3
| A group of independent designers from Poland, heade by Bartek Nowak, and located in Staromiejska. Nowak has been designing typefaces since ca. 2000. Typefaces:
Aka Leitmotif. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. GRIN3 link. Old free font URL. Creative Market link. Home page. Showcase of Bartek Nowak's commercial fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Ground Control (was: Penny Font Foundry, or: Pennyzine)
| As part of the (ex-) Chank Army, Jason Ramirez (b. 1978, Wisconsin) offers free and commercial fonts. He started out as Pennyzine or Penny Fonts, or Penny Font Foundry, with free fonts that were typically made with the Data Becker software program. Later, his fonts became commercial, and the new site changed its name to Ground Control. The list of their free fonts, which are mostly in the grunge style that was in vogue ca. 2000: Locals Only (2011), Cocaine Nosejob (2008), Made (2004, grunge blackletter), Strip Club Motion Sickness (2003), One Fell Swoop (2003, scratchy calligraphic), Fear of a Punk Planet (2005), Futon Revolutionist (2002), Bill Hicks (2002, grungy blackletter), Elliot Swonger (2002), Elliots Bad Day (grunge), Don Giovonni (2006, grungy typewriter), Don Giovonni Makin Enemies (2006), Gumuski (2002), DUMMY (1999), Acid Reflux Baby (2002), Avenge Me (2004, multiline, octagonal), Times-New-Omen (1999), punk rock rummage sale (2001), Thatluvinfeelin1 (2001, a sexual positions font), cut-n-paste (1999), Maydogg (1999-2002, handwriting), My-wife-sucks (1999), Stamped-out (1999), Stank (1999), StankII (1999), uncle-tom (1999), uno (1999), Coopdeville (2002), Dirtysocks, FourMoreYears (2003), Punkrockrummagesale (2001), Theregoestheneighborhood (2003), Thiskettle (2002, handwriting), Mr. Rogers (2003), Regime Change (2004), Hotel Coral Essex (2006, grunge), Limp Noodle (2006). Commercial fonts: Sparkle House (2011), Chompsky Fancy (2011), Redneck Superstar (2002, Chank's). Dafont link. Yet another URL. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. Alternate URL. Direct downloads. Alternate direct download path. Ground Control web site. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Original fonts at this German site: Druckschrift Bayern (sans), and these school fonts for writing between lines (also known in German as Lateinische Ausgangsschrift), all copyright Joot-Soft: Schreibschrift 1./2. Klasse, Schreibschrift 3. Klasse, Schreibschrift (or: BREY Schreibschrift). These were designed by Lothar J. Brey from Landshut (Germany). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the school font Zauberschrift. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem
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Japanese font foundry committed to making open license fonts based on old prints. It is run by Judicare and Eunice. Fontspace link. The fonts:
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H. Pollhammer is the creator with Herbert Pesendorfer of the Schulschrift 69 and Schulschrift 95 families (Austrian school writing). Residing in Salzburg. See also here. Alternate URL where one can find Schuschri69-0, Schuschri69-1, Schuschri69-4, Schuschri95-0, Schuschri95-1. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jacci Howard Bear discusses the various styles of cursive and manuscript fonts used to teach handwriting:
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The Handwriting for Windows software contains a cursive handwriting font. Commercial product. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
UK handwriting interest group. Links and information. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alison McRae's page on good handwriting, especially for kids. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Handwriting Models
| Handwriting Models An Icelandic Manual, 1883 [fre download] was written by Benedikt Gröndal (1826-1907), an Icelandic poet, painter, draftsman, calligrapher and library historian. After a master's degree in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Copenhagen in 1863, he taught, wrote, and published a periodical, Gefn. In 2007, a foreword and useful introduction to handwriting models was added by Gunnlaugur Briem, and he placed all on his web site for free download. I quote: In 1875, Denmark changed handwriting models, replacing blackletter cursive by copperplate. This extended to its Icelandic dominion, where copybooks and model sheets in the new style were in short supply. Eight years later, a much needed handwriting manual by Benedikt Gröndal was published. The old style and the new are similar in appearance but have different letterforms. This picture shows the old blackletter cursive (top) and the new copperplate (bottom)---it was taken from Almanak Hins íslenzka þjóðvinafélags, Copenhagen (1877). Gröndal's copperplate and Gröndal's ronde. The foreword by Briem also shows a Danish ronde that appeared in Rundskrifts-Bogen; til Skolebrug og Hjemmeøvelse, ca. 1880. He also grabs the opportunity to showcase the most handsome of all Icelandic copperplate models done by Jón Þórarinsson in Skrifbók með forskriftum, 1. hefti (Reykjavík, ca. 1896). The American Palmer method, more open but less gracious, is illustrated in this alphabet from 1922 by Steingrímur Arason (from Litla skrifbókin, Reykjavík. Variants of this are shown in the alphabets of Guðmundur I. Guðjónsson, published between 1939 and 1953. Briem concludes: Handwriting based on copperplate was largely abandoned in Icelandic schools in 1984. It was replaced by italic, a modern monoline version of renaissance handwriting that owes much to Ludovico Arrighi's approach. A large selection of model sheets in this style is available for free download from the internet. He also shows Italiuskrift05, his own suggestion for schools. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss type designer in Obstalden, Switzerland, born in 1922 in Horgen am Zürichsee, who was associated with ETH Zurich for a long time. He died in 2014. In his obituary, Meier's long-time friend and former publisher Erich Alb wrote: He was a tireless, quiet craftsman, alone in his room, away from everything, who worked with endless stamina. The high quality of his calligraphic work, his sure eye in drawing letterforms, his teaching skills, his drawing, painting and graphic work distinguish him as a unique international figure. Meier created these typefaces:
His books include Die Schriftentwicklung (published in 1995 by Syntax Press in Cham, Switzerland). This teaching book contains over sixty of Meier's calligraphic specimens, as well as a historical survey of scripts from ancient Greece to today. One of Meier's specimens, entitled Roman Lapidary 1st Century, was worked into a digital typeface family by Elsner and Flake as Meier Kapitalis (2013). References: Superb analysis of his life and contributions by Roxane Jubert (in French). See also Swiss Typographic Magazine Nr 3: Hans Eduard Meier 1922-2014, by Erich Alb, Cham, Switzerland, 2014 [Erich Alb, who knew Meier quite well, spoke about Meier's life at ATypI 2015 in Sao Paulo]. Linotype link. FontShop link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. View Hans Eduard Meier's typefaces. View various digital versions of Syntax and Humanist 531. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Köln-based designer whose web page has several pages related to calligraphy and Rechtschreibreform as well as calligraphy and handwriting education in schools. His (free) typefaces:
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German propose of the Volksschrift for use in schools in Bavaria in 1933. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German type designer, b. 1980, Frankfurt. He runs a design studio in Frankfurt. His typefaces from 2010: Ciseaux Matisse (a counterless hand-printed all-caps typeface which is based on paper cut-outs), Zebramatic (a striped caps face), Sevigny (an experimental face based on threads), Speech Bubbles, and the fun poster typeface Whimsical Musical. Fonts made in 2011 include Cute Letters (curly, hand-printed Valentine's Day pair of typefaces: Hearted and Heartless), Prince Charming, Princess Charming (doodly Valentine's Day face), Conversation Hearts (alphading face), Capital Love (an alphading typeface with hearts), and Unchain My Heart (Valentine's Day alphading typeface). In 2012, he created the calligraphic connected script typeface Conspired Lovers and the seven-font set Light Hearted (which was inspired by a recording of Jean Baudrillard entitled Die Macht der Verführung (2006). His largest type project in 2013 was Sigmund Freud Typeface, which was developed with the help of PDF file. That font was published in 2017 as Albert Einstein. Still in 2017, he published Electric Cable (together with Julieta Ulanovsky) and had a Kickstarter project called Martin Luther. In 2018, he teamed up with Sumbo Pinheiro to develop the fun typeface Excited Alphabets, which is based on Sumbo's illustrations. Home page. Behance link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Harald Suess
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Harald Suess: Deutsche Schreibschriften für den Satz
| An essay by Harald Suess written in 1994. He surveys the German school scripts from 1765 until 1993. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Harvey Tonkin
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Harvey&Karen Tonkin
| Aussies Harvey&Karen Tonkin have created Victorian cursive fonts that might also be used for primary schools. Address: 31 Deschamp Road, Noranda, WA 6062. URL that mentions their work. Fonts by Harvey Tonkin: DottedVicModCursive (1998), VicModCurJoinedNormal (1998), VicModCursiveNormal (1993). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Helmar Fischer
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Henri Rogelet
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Herbert Pesendorfer is the creator with H. Pollhammer of the Schulschrift 69 and Schulschrift 95 families (Austrian school writing). Residing in Salzburg. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the free fonts Regnad Kcin (handwriting), Curses (connected orthographic handwriting), HoneyLaura (handwriting), Newt (handwriting), Eggplant (dingbats), Treats (alphading font with ghosts). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hung Tin Tse
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Ian Barnard
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Designer of the Norwegian school font Norsk Skoleskrift (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free clipart and some free fonts: ClipzBirthday (alphadings), ClipzBusybee (alphadings), ClipzSmallworld (first grade emulation font), ClipzBirds, ClipzButtons, ClipzFlowers, ClipzSmallworld ClipzStardust. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DSM Martland House in Haydock, UK, sells Infadot, "a suite of 4 specially developed post cursive computer fonts and a phonetic depict font designed to enable teachers and parents to quickly and easily produce their own resources for teaching hand writing for all ability levels." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ingo Zimmermann
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Ingofonts
| Ingofonts is a foundry in Augsburg started by Ingo Zimmermann (b. 1967) in 1994. It offers Fraktur fonts, handwriting fonts, sans serif fonts, Antiqua fonts and some pixel fonts. Full fonts go for 50 USD a piece and up. Some fonts are free. Many fonts are adaptations or revivals of historically important fonts. Ingo also practices calligraphy, and in particular, calligraphy for wine labels. The list:
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Nice set of articles by Gio Fuga on some Italian penmanship books from the late 19th and 20th centuries---see also here and here. He discusses
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Ján Filípek
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Links and samples of children's orthography fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the free school script typeface Jacob Cursive (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Article in Norwegian about the life of Norwegian calligrapher and typographer Jakob Rask Arnesen, 1918-2008. A type specialist, he devoted his life to calligraphy, the development of models for handwriting in schools, and books on letterforms and type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech engineer. Creator of the upright connected school script Písankové psaí Jakub Sloup opt (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
James Kilfiger
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Jane Scarano
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Jarno Lukkarila
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Jason Ramirez
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Between 2005 and 2012, Jasper Habicht (Accipiter Media, Germany) created the free typefaces Roaat Regular (for Khmer), Al Saqr (for Arabic), Maya Modern, Pixelfont, Ukussa (for Sinhala), Kayah Li (for Karen), Deutsche Kurrent (deutsche Schreibschrift), Blissymbolics, PixelFraktur, Vexillogic Symbols, Braille, Airport (a segmented font), and Karakorum (for Mongolian) in 2012. Jasper was born in 1986 in Duisburg, Germany, and is affiliated with the University of Köln, where he specializes in Modern Chinese Studies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
JB Foundry
| JB Foundry was established by Jean Boyault (b. 1960, Suilly La Tour, France), a type designer who lives in Suilly La Tour. He is the designer of the cursive and other school fonts for teachers, all free and made in 2006-2007: JBCursive, JBEtude-Regular, JBMatrice, JBBatonRond-Bold, JBBatonRond-Extra, JBBatonRond-Italic, JBBatonRond-Regular, JBChantier, JBCursive++Feutre, JBCursive++Marqueur, JBCursive++Normal, JBFil, JBRond, JBScolaireT1-Bold-Italic, JBScolaireT1-Bold, JBScolaireT1-Italic, JBScolaireT1, JBScolaireT2-Bold-Italic, JBScolaireT2-Bold, JBScolaireT2-Italic, JBScolaireT2. Typefaces made after 2007: Simple Ronde (2011, upright connected script), JB Etude (2007), JB Script (2010), JB Haut>, JB Lames (2008), JB Elegant (2008), JB Cursive, JBStyle (2008), JB Fil Std (2009) and JB Calli (2008). Commercial typefaces: JB Davayé (2010, connected upright script), Belladone (2010, a graceful display family), Maceriam (2010, +Nova, +Putri, +Lapide: letters cemented into walls---a great idea). From 2011: Old French School Bold (upright connected script), Filature (a monoline connected upright script). Typefaces from 2012: Only One Dollar (a shaky script), JB Cursive 3, Purple Line, Purple Deco, Suilly La Tour, Typha Latifolia, Bouclettes (a curly upright typeface). Typefaces from 2013: Friandise (a decorative typeface reserved for chocolate enthusiasts), Capucine (a chocolate store pair of typefaces), Cuivrerie (a flared interlocking typeface based on lapidary inscriptions found in Bourgogne), Suilly La Tour (calligraphic script), Gaston (a large script family), Typha, Centaurea (a beautifully executed layered type system based on a didone with curved serifs), Toubib (hand-printed). Typefaces from 2014: Hirondelle (connected script), Lecteur Heureux (connected upright loopy script), Happy Reader (connected script), Hopeful Giraffe (a very tall and thin upright script). Typefaces from 2015: HopefulGrasshopper (a fun printed script), Henri Modeste (an experimental didone typeface), Gaston (upright connected ronde script), R+C (the ultimate explicit ruler-and-compass technical drawing typeface with filled, outlined and sketched substyles). Typefaces from 2016: Belle Allure (connected upright school script). Typefaces from 2017: Badinerie (flowery semi-connected connected script), Badinerie Love (with hearts added), badinerie Christmas. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Jean Boyault
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Jean-Baptiste Levée
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Or Werdet ainé, le père Werdet, Joseph Werdet, or Joseph Verdet. French penman, b. ca. 1770, d. 1854. As a writing master, penman, school script developer and calligraphy expert, he wrote several writing manuals:
Werdet taught penmanship at the Kycée de Bordeaux in 1809. In 1812, he became professor at Ecole Normale Suoérieue in Paris. One of his bâtarde copperplate calligraphic alphabets inspired Josep Patau's Werdet Script in 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean-Claude Gineau is a French font designer who specializes in school fonts to teach handwriting. Designer of the commercial school script Gino School Script (1997). I was puzzled by the many copies and redesigns of this font on the web until Olivier Berten explained it to me: At some point, the bold version did find its way to Dafont. As the windows cmap of that file is corrupted, Antoine Fétet made his version of it, changing the uppercase Q (and some other smaller things) and making a bolder version. Some teacher nicknamed Maternellecolor made some variations on that same file. So did another one in order to add lines for school use. None of them having asked any permission for it or even having managed to get in touch with Jean-Claude Gineau. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean-Marie Douteau (France) made free school handwriting fonts (with and without rulers): Ecolier, Ecolier_lignes, Ecolier_court, Ecolier_lignes_court, Douteau, Obase, Odumo, Odumo Ecolier (2001-2006, calligraphic, for schools). See also here, here and here. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jess Latham
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JH Fonts
| Joe Hatem (JH Fonts, Beirut, Lebanon) is a part time lecturer at Notre Dame University Beirut. He created these Arabic typefaces in 2013: JH Amira, JH Beirut, JH Firas, JH Farid, JH Dalya, JH Paola, JH Khalil (squarish), JH Hala, JH Diwani (a calligraphic font that took three years to complete; see also JH Diwani Simplified Light released in 2019), JH Fares (a modern Kufic font). In 2015, he made the Arabic typefaces JH Thuluth, JH Dima and JH Diwani Thuluth, and the children's (Latin) handwriting font JH Lea Cursive. Typefaces from 2016: JH Naskh Expanded (extended by JH Naskh Expanded light in 2021). Typefaces from 2017: JH Rawan (a geometric font), JH Lina Magazine, JH Hadi. Typefaces from 2018: JH Lina, JH Roy, JH Farid, JH Fadi, JH Rawan, JH Hala, JH Mars, JH Lea (connected monoline script), JH Nazih, JH Yara. Typefaces from 2020: JH Fatina (a superb Arabic typeface family with covering the Sounboli, Naissabouri, Diwani and Thuluth calligraphic scripts), JH Zoya Cyrillic (a monoline school script for Latin and Cyrillic). Typefaces from 2021: JH Haroun (a calligraphic Thuluth script), JH Noha (a geometric Arabic typeface family). Behance link. Facebook link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Young designer (b. 1995) who jumped on FontStruct in 2009, and burped up these fontstructions in just a few weeks: Defune, Echelon, Elfont, Embossed, Ghost, High-Noon, JINX, Needle (horizontal stripes), NightScape-Reverse, NightScape, Post-It-Notes, ShReD, The-Vine, Thorn, ZORRO, nikki-tikki-too-tom, squrible (cacography). Still in 2009, he created the bilined family Alkador (+Light, +Dark), the alphading Sound Waves, the artsy Jirix (!!!), Postage, and the scratchy Oops. Other typefaces there include Petal, Kryptonian and Error. He calls himself a grasshopper in the field of fontmaking. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Barcelona in 1950, Joan Barjau is a graphic and type designer, cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and animator who taught at Eina in Barcelona from 1984-1993. Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Analfabeta Regular (1999, with Flavio Morais), Analfabeta Pics (1999, with Flavio Morais), Analfabeto (+Pics, 2007, another vernacular typeface done with Flavio Morais), Ebu Script (1991-2013, a technical script done with José Manuel Urós), Iva (1993-2007), Jeune Adrian (1997), MeMimas (1991-2007, upright connected script done with José Manuel Urós; a Spanish school script commissioned in 1991 by publisher Barcanova), MeMimasAlternate, the great Sniff (1995, poster family), Talqual (1997, handwriting), Tschicholina (1997, unicase font inspired by Tschichold), Xiquets Primitives (1995, dingbats), Zubizarreta (1997, an award winner at Bukvaraz 2001; Zubizarreta Tosca is clearly Kafkaesque; the whole family is a mix between Neanderthal simplicity and Basque toughness). In 2013, Joan Barjau published the cartoonish typeface family Sniff, which he first created in 1995. He writes: Joan Barjau used the pseudonym Sniff while working as a cartoonist for the Spanish satirical magazine El Papus, and Sniff is also the typeface based on the style of lettering he used for the balloons. FontShop link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in York, UK, Joanne is interested in children's reading and writing. Creator of two fonts in 2008: Qongosushi has a kind of raw but chunky feel and might look good on Menu or Magazine heading pages, whereas Qyrillic would be for Chapter Headings in children's or fantasy stories. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joe Hoffman
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Joe Mahfouz Hatem
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Joel Brogniart from the University of Lyon created the connected school handwriting font Cursiv JB based on Cursif by Christophe Beaumale. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
With Joe Hoffman, Joel Miller designed tens of fonts at ScenoGrafica from 1995-1997. These include Angelou, Autumn, BabysBlocks, BastilleDay, Bugs, Buonarroti, CakeandCandles, CandyCanes, CaptainSmith, Chaucer, ChineseNewYear, ChristmasDay, Cityscape, Clemens, ColumbusDay, Coward, Dante, DayoftheDead, Dinosaurs, Easter, Einstein, FathersDay, Faulkner, Fermi, Fiesta, Fitzgerald, Foster, Halloween, Hanukkah, HappyNewYear, Headliner, HeartsandFlowers, Heller, HollyTime, Jefferson, Keller, Kwanzaa, MPrimaryLined, MPrimaryTrainerLined, MPrimaryLined, MPrimaryTrainerLined, Melville, Michener, ModernCursiveTrainerLined, ModernCursiveTrainer, ModernCursive, ModernCursiveLined, ModernCursive, ModernCursiveLined, ModernCursiveTrainerLined, MothersDay, OCasey, OldGlory, Orwell, Paine, Party, Picnic, Pinter, PowWow, PunkinPatch, Quilt, Rainforest, Rand, RoshHashanah, SaintPaddy, Sampler, Scott, Shaw, Simon, Snowcap, Sousa, Spenser, SpringTime, StNicholas, StarSpangled, Stockings, SummerBeach, Tarkington, Thanksgiving, ThanksgivingII, Valentine, Valentine1, Waugh, Whitman, Willson, WinterWonderland, Winthrop, Wright, Zola. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
John Greatorex
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John Hudson
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John Hudson's six rules for teaching handwriting
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Author of The theory and practice of handwriting (1894, New York: William Beverley Harison). Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1951, John Moore is a Venezuelan type designer. He studied graphic design in the Institute of graphic design Neumann from 1972 until 1976. In 1980 he took a workshop with Milton Glaser and since 1983 he has worked as an art director and creative director in many advertising agencies. He designs type since 1976. His typefaces Gordis (a fattish comic book family) and Tepuy won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the non-text and experimental typeface categories, respectively. At Tipos Latinos 2010, he won twice in the display category, for Victorina and Radio Time. His typefaces: (New) Maracay (2013, a large layered Victorian signage family), Fine Art OT (2013, brushy typeface), Roadline Italic (2013, a retro script), JMTF Robin (2013, a layered post-modernist display family), Virgin Script (2013), Radio Time (2013, fat retro signage script), Radio Time Icons (2013), Palaima (2013, an aboriginal style face), Factor (2012, a layered geometric font), Onda (2012, a wavy psychedelic face), Blockee (2012), Aliykit Open (2012, a multiline typeface), VE Inconexa (2006, outline architectural face), VE Makiritare (2006, a double labyrinthine script that is based on symbolisms used by the Makiritare or Yecuana, river people who live in the village of Santa Maria de Erebato in the Venezuelan jungle on the border with Brazil), VE Moho (2006; or simply Moho in 2014), VE Palaima (2006, futuristic, Amazonian), Radio Time (fifties style script, with Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos), Fruta (stencil, influenced by Glaser?), Glaser Stencil Round, Gothike (sharp-edges), Aqua (ultra round), Club, Caracas (sans; +Caracas Pro, 2015; see also Caracas Stencil Pro, 2015), Factor (hookish), Space Lab (futuristic family), Robin (headline), Victorina (multiline Victorian poster typeface which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010), Victorina Black Shadow (2011), Waterman (2010, a flowing undulating script family), Spacelab (2010, futuristic) and RobinBienalII (2005). Sudtipos sells these fonts of his via MyFonts: Makiritare (bilined, based on woven baskets), Palaima (experimental, runic), Precolombino (petroglyphs), Tepuy (rounded version of Makiritare), Roadline (2009, fifties diner font), Sacred Geo (2011, a geometric dingbat font that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012), DeCoro (2011, art deco family), Sacred Geo Tiling (2011), Primate (2012, an African look typeface family), Morenita (2012, a connected fifties or school script), Takox (2012), Petroglifos (2012), Xtencil (2012, a rounded stencil influenced by Milton Glaser; followed by Xtencil LC and UC in 2013 and Xtencil Pro in 2015). Typefaces from 2014: Moho Sport Pro (layered athletic lettering typeface family), Scripta Pro and Gothic (40s-style lettering typeface inspired by the style of L.H. Copeland), InkArt Labels, Moho (named after Laszlo Moholy-Nagy), MohoBis Pro (a multilined version of Moho), Moho Condensed, Moho Script, Duvall (named after Edward J. Duvall, who published Modern Sign Painting in the late 1940s; Duvall won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014). In 2015, the Moho series continued with Moho Style. He also made Arthaus (2015, a fantastic Bauhaus font family inspired by Herbert Bayer's universal alphabet), MyCard (a techno type), NeoScript Pro and Hierra (after a font by Dan Solo) in 2015. In 2016, he designed Artime (a sci-fi font), Virtual. Typefaces from 2017: FunFont (cartoon style). | |
Influential French type designer, born in Sèvres in 1926, d. 2018. He worked with Maximilien Vox in the early 1950s. From 1954 to 1959 he was the assistant of Roger Excoffon at the Fonderie Olive, Marseille. From 1985 until 1990, he was a professor at the Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, where his students included Thierry Puyfoulhoux, Frank Jalleau, and Poul Søgren. Neufville republished many of his fonts. Books about his work:
FontShop link. Linotype link. FontShop link. Wikipedia link. Showcase of Mendoza's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Joe is the British creator of the free font Krips2 (2008), which was made primarily for teachers who are using the 'Cripps' scheme to teach spelling and handwriting in British schools but glyphs have been added which will cover other languages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Juan-José Marcos
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Designers of the educational font MM Schuldruck (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Juliet Shen
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Dutch Creative Alliance designer of Uncia (1999, uncial), Rudolph (Fraktur), Julius Primary (1999, a school font family), Amadeo (handwriting, 1999, with Fiel van der Veen) and Augusta (1999, +Cancellaresca, +Schnurkl). He published Xander (2001) at Agfa, a font based on the handwriting of the Dutch type designer Alexander Verberne. Finally, he published the calligraphic script family Gaius (2002), the calligraphic Bastarda typeface family Bernhardt Standard (2003), the Fraktur typeface family Frakto (2003), and the blackletter family Rockner (2005) at Linotype. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Just in Type (was: Tipomovel)
| Just in Type (ex-Tipomovel) is a Brazilian foundry run by Tony de Marco (b. 1963) and his brother Caio de Marco in Sao Paulo since 2005. They were joined later by Diego Maldonado. Tony de Marco was an illustrator for Folha de S. Paulo, 1987-1994. He co-edits Tupigrafia with Claudio Rocha Franco. As a type designer, he created over 50 typefaces for the newspaper Noticias Populares, for America Online, and the magazines Moderna, Saraiva, FTD and Atica. Free fonts at the Tipomovel site included Ariana, Beabá, Bloco, CyberComix, Cyber Rounded, Cyber-Zinha, Digital Typewriter, Egly (my favorite--a Bodoni with curly serifs), Futura Vítima, Futura Vítima Bold, Futura Vítima Extra Bold, Games, Genoveva, Helvetica Backlight, Illinoise, Macmania Bold, Neurastenic, Notícias Populares, Oficina Bold, Pin ups, Pixel, Pravda, Sequestro, Simbolo, Splash, Stalin, Sumô, Super Braille (created for the Dorina Nowill Foundation), Times Change, Tipografia, Toxic Bodoni, Web Power, Zine. Samba LT (2003, Linotype, designed with Carlo de Marco; this art deco typeface was inspired by the lettering art of J. Carlos, a Brazilian illustrator during the early 20th century) won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. Just in Type typefaces include HallowHell Dingbats (2006, Halloween dingbats), Drop It (2005, dot matrix), Illinoise (2005, techno-grunge, by Tony and Caio de Marco), Kindergarten (a school font), Pixel Zoo (2008, dingbats), Inferno Dingbats (2008), Brazil Pixo Retro (2007, rune simulation), Fractal (2010), Concreta (2011, a stencil typeface in the style of Josef Albers, done with Niko Fernandez). In 2012, Tony de Marco and Diego Maldonado co-designed Garoa (a black rounded sans). Influenced by Herb Lubalin, it was derived from the free font Garoa Hacker Clube (done with Diego Maldonado). In 2014, Bernardo Faria and Tony de Marco created the masculine typeface family Terrorista, and wrote this blurb: Terrorista is a homage to everyone who fought against the Millitary Regime in Brazil from 1964 to 1985. The Terrorista Marighella features generous inktraps, fits perfect for small sizes. Terrorista Dilma has the same design as the Marighella, but without inktraps, made for display. The last typeface from the package is Terrorista Lamarca, stencil version. This is the font for the political propaganda machine. Completely in line with Tony's exuberant and delightfully mischievous views, he published Represent (2017), a typeface with sexual orientation symbols that can be compared with Luc Devroye's own Sekushii font from 2002. In 2019, Tony de Marco and Monica Rizzolli released the free octagonal typeface family Tomorrow at Just in Type. Github link. Open Font Library link. Typefaces from 2020: Letrix1 (a programmed experimental variable font). Typefaces from 2021: Just Pixo (a seven-weight pixacao font by Tony de Marco and Monica Rizzolli designed for monumental type sizes and vertical alignments, and released by Latinotype; +a variable font). Fontspace link. MyFonts link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch experimental nutty (in the good sense!) and prolific type designer (b. Haarlem, 1966) who created famous fonts such as Beowolf, Brokenscript, BeoSans, Trixie, Flixel (FUSE 2), and Schulbuch. He is also a font software expert who has initiated many ideas in the areas of type software. He teaches type design and programming at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, both in the bachelor graphic design program as well as in the Type and Media master course. Just graduated in 1989 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK), where he studied under Gerrit Noordzij. After stints at Monotype in the UK and MetaDesign in Berlin he became an independent type designer, focusing on software design for type. He collaborated with Erik van Blokland under the name LettError. It is at that time that he published FF Beowolf has been included in the permanent collection of the MoMa in New York. He co-wrote RoboFog with Petr van Blokland in the mid-nineties, which can be regarded as a forerunner of RoboFont, and has been a very influential scripting type design tool in Python. His TTX/FontTools library is a crucial building block for lots of font software. He also wrote the original version of the DrawBot application. He designed Phaistos (1990-1991, the Font Bureau, with David Berlow), which was inspired by the flared angular designs of Rudolf Koch such as Locarno). Designer or co-designer at LettError of LettErrorRobot-Chrome (2001), FFTrixie (X-files original), FF Advert (1991, a flared sans family), FF Justlefthand, FF Schulschrift (1991; in versions A, B and C following the German school script recommendations), FF StampGothic (1992), FF Confidential (1992, grunge), FF Karton (1992, a grungy stencil face), FF Flightcase (1992, a grungy didone stencil), FF Dynamoe (1992, a dymo label font, white on black), FF Hands, FF Brokenscript (1990, blackletter), Federal, and the random font Beowolf (1990, with Erik van Blokland). FF Schulbuch (1991-1992) is a series of fonts based on the historical textbook types used in Northern and Southern Germany, and Bavaria. The Nord (North) variant is the closest relative of Helvetica. At FUSE 11, he designed What You See/What You Get (with Erik van Blokland). Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on The Sound of Shapes & Shape of Sounds. Bio at Emigre. FontShop link. Klingspor link. FontFont link. View Just van Rossum's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German scribe, type designer and unbelievable calligrapher, b. 1914 in Schlesisch-Drehnow, d. 2000 in Offenbach. Following schooling in Schlesien and Hamburg, he served a four-year typesetting apprenticeship from 1930-1934 in Hamburg and later at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Offenbach am Main. From 1939 until 1945 he was in active military service and became a prisoner of the Russians. After that ordeal, he became a calligraphy teacher at the Werkkunstschule in Offenbach, and developed a universal pen with novel writing and drawing techniques for the company Brause. It is at that point that Hoefer started designing types as well. From 1970 to 1979, Hoefer was a lecturer and later professor at the HfG (School of Design) in Offenbach. From 1981 to 1988, Hoefer ran summer calligraphy workshops in the USA (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Washington, and other cities). In 1982, Karlgeorg Hoefer founded a calligraphy workshop in Offenbach for everyone, with evening courses and summer school, and in 1987, the registered association "Calligraphy Workshop Klingspor, Offenbach, Supporters of International Calligraphy." From 1987 to 1995, he was the chairman of the association while teaching continuing courses and summer school classes with leading foreign calligraphers. Hoefer has written two books about calligraphy: "Das alles mit einer Feder" (Brause, 1953) and "Kalligraphie, gestaltete Handschrift" (Econ, 1986). Numerous articles about Hoefer's work have appeared in calligraphy journals in Holland, France, the USA, and Japan. In 1989, the book "Schriftkunst/Letterart Karlgeorg Hoefer" was published as part of Calligraphy-Editions Herbert Maring (Die Kalligraphie Edition, Hardheim, Germany, 1989). For his activities as a calligrapher, Hoefer received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1993. His typefaces:
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Kemie Guaida
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Kent Swecker
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Kerns&Cairns
| American type designer, b. 1980, who graduated from the RISD, and worked at Font Bureau (as Senior Custom Designer) and Type Network (as Custom Type Director) in Boston. She set up Kerns & Cairns, also in Boston. Interview at Daidala. Interview by Christian Palino. Her typefaces:
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Kevin Simpson
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Kid Letters
| Kid Letters is a set of eleven instructional style truetype fonts designed in 2005-2006 by Juan José Marcos, a professor of classical languages in Plasencia, Spain. 60 Euros for the set: KidLetters-Bold, KidLetters, KidLettersArrows, KidLettersDotted, KidLettersDottedGuided1, KidLettersDottedGuided2, KidLettersDottedSquared, KidLettersGuided1, KidLettersGuided2, KidLettersMajuscules, KidLettersSquared (2006). This font family is specifically designed for teaching kids how to write, using aids such as dotted glyphs, lined letters, directional arrows and a combination of these. Letters do link to each other in a natural fashion. These manuscript fonts contain all the common signs, as well as accented characters - acute accent, grave accent, circumflex, tilde, diaeresis or umlaut mark, ring, cedilla, ae and oe ligatures, o slash and German double s - for Western European languages (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Danish, Norvegian, Swedish and Icelandic, among others) and current symbols. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
KidsFonts
| TraceFont, NealFont and ColorFont by Teresa Knezek from Fairbanks, AK. Truetype for PC and Mac. Shareware. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A brush font published by Monotype in 1998. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kim Voss
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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]. MyFonts link. FontSquirrel link. Home page. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Fontsy link. Abstract Fonts link. Fontspring link. Klingspor link. Google Web Font Directory link. Creative Market link. Family home page. Her fonts, by year:
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Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera)
| Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera) is a commercial Mexican design firm founded in 1994 by Gabriel Martinez Meave (b. Mexico City, 1972), who is by far Mexico's most prolific and talented type designer. The only freebie is Presidencia at the Mexican Government site. Meave.org deals with illustrations and other occult arts. Behance link. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. Interview. Some of his early typefaces were published at Tiypo. Diseño Kimera has made numerous custom fonts for Mexican clients. His typefaces:
Klingspor link. Behance link. Old Kimera type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [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] ⦿ | |
Kinkido
| Commercial Japanese foundry that sells the typefaces of Yoshizaku Imada. The typeface library: Seicho Mincho-tai Kinryo, Seicho Mincho-tai Kinryo B, Shincho Kankokutai Keisetsu, Shisen Souchou-tai Ryusou, Sakigake, Fumite, Shiori, Saotome, Madoka, Hokuto, Uguisu, Ishibumi, Kurofune, Yabusame, Takasago, Bateren, Genroku, Edo, Hayato, Kizahashi, Sakuragi, Kotonoha, Sayoi, Motoi, Ikehara, Manabu, Kuramochi, Hisanaga, Yukawa, Minami, Taira, Akebono, Sagano, Naniwa, Aoi, Kamome, Hanabusa, Taoyame, Kuretake, Masurao, Waji Oh Hanabusa, Waji Oh Kuretake, Waji Oh Kotonoha, Waji Taoyame, Waji Masurao, Imarisu, Pokkuru, Hatsuhiyamato, Wakabayamato, Minoriyamato, Hanarenge, Hanakocho, Hanabotan, Nanohana, Shogakukan Antique, Kana Minyu Mincho, Kana MInyu Gothic, Tsuya, Go Curl, Heisei Maru Gothic-tai, Mincho, Koran Hoso Socho, Bokassy, Imaryu, Imaso. They have a special section on kanji fonts for children and schools. Typecache link. En Fontke link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
All 25 Fraktur fonts here were digitized by Klaus Burkhardt. After his death, his son Klemens was distributing the fonts. The typefaces: Altenburger Gotisch, Balmung, Fette Bernhard, Behrens-Schrift, Trump Deutsch, Hupp Fraktur (1999), Hans-Sachs-Gotisch, Kleukens, Hartwig (1999), Sinkwitz Gotisch, Sinkwitz Regular, CoellnCurrent, Deutsche Kanzlei, Enge Münchner Fraktur, Grosse Gotisch, Hotterfont, Jean-Paul-Schrift (a revival of a fraktur by Breitkopf of the 1790s, done in 1999), Scherenschnitt (2003), Klaus-Fraktur, Nuernberger, Barlösius (1999), KühneSchrift (2000), Walthari, Lautenbach, Leibniz Fraktur (1912, Genzsch&Heise; revived in 2003 by Petra Heidorn, in 2012 by Ralph M. Unger and in 2016 by Softmaker as Leibniz Fraktur Pro), Lyrisch Fraktur, Eckmann, Deutsche Kursiv, Peter-Jessen-Schrift, Romantisch, Rhapsodie. Other typefaces: Funny Type, Civilité, Fette Ella Kursiv, Ginkgo Schrift, Grossmütter Schreibschrift, Regenmettel, Sütterlin (2000, after the original by Ludwig Sütterlin, 1914; see DS-Sütterlin by Delbanco), Krimhilde, Kalligraf, Boutique. There was a nice sub-page with beer capsules featuring Fraktur lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A German page about Sütterlin, the "Deutsche Schreibschrift". It includes a free font by Klaus Düring appropriately called Deutsche Schrift (1996). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Koelooptiemanna Productions (was: KosteX)
| Dutchman Roel Koster made the royalty-free KosteXSchool (or: SchoolKX) font for kids' letter tracing. It is in fact an Avant-Garde style font. Direct access. See also here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in 1974, "Kote" José Soto Buzzetti founded the type collective TCL in Chile. He teaches at the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Universidad Diego Portales and Universidad Católica de Chile. Later he cofounded Estudio Negro. Typefaces by him, made ca. 2005 include TCL Chanchocero, TCL Grafito (a school font done with Felipe Caceres), TCL Lila (with Tono Rojas) and TCL Mapocho. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kristy Hatswell
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Kymm
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L' Encrier
| Philippe Tassel at L'Encrier made free school handwriting fonts: Beaumale, Du Cahier (1994). Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Developers of Pack Scola, a set of school fonts for use in France and Belgium. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French school font archive. It also has a few school fonts created by Lakanal itself ca. 2006 such as cursive and beauger. I could not locate the name of the designer or even the name of the web site owner except that Lakanal is related to a school in Lille, a suburb of Belgium. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lars Törnqvist
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A German school font in use since 1953. The metafont la package simulates it. A slightly simplified form used in Hannover since 1973 is Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marion Andrews, Malou Verlomme and Laurence Bedoin collaborated on the school fonts Écriture A and Écriture B which are presented in Modèles d'écriture scolaire (2013), a document issued by the French Ministry of Education. These fonts are available from Eduscol. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Professor of Applied Arts who graduated from Ecole Estienne. Designer (with H&eacut;loïse Tissot) of a French school font, which he presented in March 2005 during a meeting held at the National Museum of Edication in Rouen, France. The link given here refers to a PDF which contains the proceedings of that meeting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Maine-based photo editor, designer, and web guy. Creator of the upright connected (school) script font Fifth Grade Cursive (2011), Smotth Papyrus (a smooth version of papyrus), the cleanly hand-printed Mathilde (2012) and Popcorn Mountain (2012). In 2013, he created Frosting For Breakfast (script face), Turkeyface, Mathilde (script face), Que Rompa (an extreme-contrast poster face: the full family is commercial), Pretty City Kitties, Mousedrawn, and the gorgeous technical handwriting typeface #1 Ichiro. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free school fonts: Schulschrift95 (2001, Edelweiss), Druckschrift95 (1997, Edelweiss), MM Schuldruck (2001, Judex). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Graphic bureau Az-Zet of the Cyrillic/Latin fonts AZ HighWayC (1990-1995, similar to Broadway, Morris Fuller Benton, ATF, 1928), and AZ PoligonC (1990-1995). See also here. He also designed the educational font series Didactica (1997), useful for both Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Les Besnardtypo
| The French type designers Michel (b. 1942) and Rosalyne Besnard (b. 1946) live in Rouen. Under the brand Les Besnardtypo, they jointly designed Micmac (Agfa Creative Alliance, 1997), ITC Odyssee (1996), ITC Typados (1997), Rom (Creative Alliance, 1998), Bouchon (Letraset, 2000), Huit (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1972), Sargon (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1974: bilined and futuristic), Migraph (Agfa Monotype, 1999), PistolShot LT Std Normal and Light (Linotype, 2003), Nazca (Monotype Imaging, 2005), Sargon (Monotype Imaging, 2006), First One (Monotype Imaging, 2006: a family for teaching the alphabet to children), Mickros (Monotype Imaging, 2007), Pantin (Monotype Imaging, 2007), De Gama (Monotype Imaging, 2008), Pasta (Monotype Imaging, 2008). As of 2015, Monotype sells De Gama, Filao, First One, Gamira, Huit, Makina, Mickros, Modern B42, Nazca, Pantin, Pasta, Robotool, Sargon, Season. Linotype page. FontShop link. Another FontShop link. View Michel Besnard's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Lia Wijayanti
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Linkpen Handwriting Fonts
| UK-based Carol Cockeram has been creating fonts since ca. 2010, specializing in fonts to help students with handwriting, such as dotted letters, letters with arrows, joined handwriting fonts, and cursive and precursive (print) styles. In 2021, she released Linkpen Primary (24 school fonts with and without guiding lines). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Little Type Factory
| Ipswich, UK-based designer of the rugged Flintstone typeface Rocky Ryder (2019), the papercut typeface Papier Couper (2019) and the handcrafted Bloopy (2019). Typefaces from 2020: Cartoon Kid, Rawbone, Billy Witch (a vampire script), My Star, Wham (a cartoon font), Decors (a decorative serif), Pobble, Monsta Rocka, Bombleberry, Whoosh (a cartoon font), Splatt (a cartoon font), Honey Hoops, Roller, Hoola Hoopa, Cobnut, Windmills (a lava lamp font), Squire (Master, Servant), Paper Phil, Wisper, Peejay (+Stripes), Rainbow Ryder. Typefaces from 2021: Fun Bone (a skulls and bones font), Jolly Jigsaw, Kid Cursive (a monolinear school script font). Behance links: Neil Cattermole, More Neil Cattermole, Little Type Factory. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Penman, b. 1859, San Antonio, TX, from Hungarian parents. [Some say January 20, 1860] 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 worked in Sterling, IL, Jersey City, NJ, and Poughkeepsie, NY. He spent most of his life in New York, and died in 1910 in San Francisco. Author of Lessons in Advanced Engraver's Script, published by C.W. Jones in Brockton, MA. Zaner&Bloser published The Madarasz Book - The Secret of the Skill of Madarasz in 1911, based on documents and sources given to them by Louis Madarasz's widow, Clara K. Madarasz. Scan of a calligraphic alphabet called Commercial College. Scans from the 1911 book: capitals drawn in 1909, death notice from 1910, engraved capitals, instructions, image, letter in 1902 to zaner and Bloser, lower case alphabet, Madarasz Script, Plate five alphabet, sample, signature, another signature, yet another signature, teachable capitals, portraits at ages 25, 35 and 45. His work influenced Burgues Script (2007, Sudtipos) and Jamaica script (2018, Alex Ivanov, Vates Design). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based graphic designer (b. 1865, Lahr, d. 1917, Berlin) who in 1915-1917 invented the Sütterlin Schreibschrift, which was used to teach children handwriting. Various Sütterlin fonts can now be found on the web. It was introduced in the German schools starting between 1924 and 1934, and was used until 1941-1950, depending upon the region, when standard handwriting was taught. Scans: German writing style, Latin writing style, picture from 1914, the alphabet, another view, a practice book from a Berlin school, 1919, his own handwriting, how to hold the pen. References: Marcus Hahn's course at the University of Saarland covers the Sütterlin Schrift. See also the 1983 essay by Wolfgang Hendlmeier: A, B, C, D, E. Anselm S. Bär wrote a brief biography in 1999. Harald Süß penned Deutsche Schreibschrift Lesen und Schrieben lernen, (Augsburg, Augustus Verlag, 1992). See also Hans Jensen's text, Die Schrift in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, (Hamburg, 1935). Digital fonts for Sütterlin:
Author of Neuer Leitfaden für den Schreibunterricht (Albrecht-D&7uml;rer-Haus, Berlin, 1926). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lux Typographics (was: Intersection Studio)
| Lux Typographics (Los Angeles, CA) was established in 1996 by Greg Lindy and Michael Rey. It is mainly involved in custom typography. Greg Lindy is the sole type designer for Lux Typographics and is a founding member, along with Michael Rey, of Intersection Studio in Venice, CA. Greg Lindy is the founder and creative director of Lux Typographic + Design, which he launched in 2009. Greg lives and works in Los Angeles, and teaches type design at The Otis College of Art and Design. Typefaces, first available via Thirstype, include Lux Sans (2003), Section (2003, a sans family), Omega (a connected display face), Crank8 (2005, with Henk Elenga, as seen in Esquire Magazine; designed specifically as the font for Elenga's retrospective show and catalog), Autoknit (knitting font), Carinho (for Johnson & Johnson), Forge (for an Alaskan seafood company), SH Grotesk (for Simply Hired), Splenda, GDT Gothic (for the identity of the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Gustan (+Gustan Display, Gustan Densa, Gustan Forma and Gustan Signa), Resource Grotesk (for Resource Decor), and Nova (2003). Lux Typographics joined the type coop Village in 2005. In 2012, Lindy published the rounded sans family Colette. In 2016, Monica Maccaux and Greg Lindy joined forces for the creation of the cursive school script font ABC Mouse Cursive. Still in 2016, he designed the sans typeface family Fabriga with exclusively horizontal and vertical terminals. Typefaces from 2017: Cahuenga. Klingspor link. Village link. Defunct Thirstype URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
M. Kahler
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Designer of ArtDecoBlock (2003), Jason Bunetta Hand (2002), DooHickiesOneNormal, DooHickiesTwoNormal (fleurons!), JasonBunettaTwoNormal, LineArtDooHickiesOne, LineArtDooHickiesTwo (useful paragraph separators), MaxineNormal, ShadowLandNormal, SimplePrintNormal, all in 2002. In 2003, she made Connect the Dots. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer who graduated from l'Ecole Duperré in Paris and the University of Reading (2005). He cofounded the type foundry LongType in 2012. Since 2016 he works for Monotype UK. His typeface Ficus (2005) won an award in the Creative Review Type Competition 2005. He wrote Technological Shifts in Type Design and Production (2006). His typefaces: Respublika (2013, a humanist sans done with Gregori Vincens, Fontyou), Camille (2010-2011, for Camille Muller), ECAM (2009-2010, for the ECAM theater), Dijon (2011, for the identity of Dijon's Opera house), Arbre (2010, for the identity of the coffee brand L'Arbre de Cafe), Totem, Ficus (2005-2006), Syneas (2009, for Syneas), Digitaline (2007, a Futura-like family done for Agence Digitaline), Vingt-huit (2007), Sabasi (2008), Gem (2007, art nouveau), Oops (2006). Marion Andrews, Malou Verlomme and Laurence Bedoin collaborated on the school fonts Écriture A and Écriture B which are presented in Modèles d'écriture scolaire (2013), a document issued by the French Ministry of Education. These fonts are available from Eduscol. Verlomme set up Long Type in 2012 with Mathieu Chévara, Mathieu Reguer and Thomas L'Excellent. In 2016, for Monotype, on commission for the Transport For London company, he redesigned / tweaked New Johnston, called Johnston100. It will be used in TfL's trains and station signage including for London's new Crossrail Elizabeth line that is scheduled to open in 2018. In 2018, he published the geometric sans typeface family Madera and the revival typeface Placard Next (based on an old Monotype condensed poster typeface) at Monotype. In 2019, he released the 12-style high-contrast Ariata (Text, Display, Stencil) at Monotype. In 2020, he published the superfamily Macklin (Sans, Display, Text, Slab) at Monotype. Influenced by early 19th century designs in Europe, and especially by the work of Vincent Figgins, it is intended for use in headlines and short blocks of text. Variable fonts are also available. Co-designer, with Clement Charbonnier Bouet, of Ionic No 5 (2021), a ten-style Clarendon that revives and refreshes a classic Linotype Clarendon-style serif for Monotype. Noteworthy is that the designers replaced Clarendon's ball terminals by 21st century serifs, even including the hipsterish coathanger f. The ball terminals are relegated to the "alternates". In 2021, he took part in the development of Helvetica Now Variable (Monotype). Helvetica Now Variable was designed by Max Miedinger, Charles Nix, Monotype Studio, Friedrich Althausen, Malou Verlomme, Jan Hendrik Weber and Emilios Theofanous and published by Monotype. Monotype writes: Helvetica Now Variable gives you over a million new Helvetica styles in one state-of-the-art font file (over two-and-a-half million with italics!). Use it as an extension of the Helvetica Now family or make custom-blends from its weights (Hairline to ExtraBlack), optical sizes (four point to infinity), and new Compressed and Condensed widths. It contains 144 static styles. In 2022, he released Boucan (a variable all caps font that can be animated to react to sounds and music). Typecache link. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Manfred Klein
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Manfred Klein's Fonteria
| Frankfurt-based designer (b. 1932, d. 2018) whose creative output is so large that he deserves a separate web page. His URL at Moorstation from 2000-2007. New page on him by Florian Rochler. Font squirrel link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Author of A Cartilha do Povo (1954), a school writing book for use in Brazil. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 1949, Manuel Rollan Rodriguez (d. 1996) set up the publishing house Editorial Rollan in Madrid. It became a very successful venture. For the Spanish educational publisher Edelvives SA, he designed the school font Edelfontmed. It was made public by Compolaser S.L. in 1998, and can be downloaded here. He also made a musical notation font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based Armenian type designer (b. 1960, Artashat, Armenia) and graphic artist. In 1984 graduated from the Moscow Poligraphic Institute, department of Polygraphic Product Design. He worked for the Type Department of Committee of Print in Yerevan, and for the publishing houses Ayastan, Luys and Sovetakan Grokh. At Microsoft's request, in 1999, he was consulted for the Armenian section of the Sylfaen project. Creator of PT Margarit Armenian and Asmik (1997, Armenian, based on PT Petersburg, 1992, by Vladimir Yefimov), available from ParaType, where he is an active type designer. These fonts won awards from the Type Directors Club in 1999. At ParaType, he also published Propisi Cyrillic + western (1997, a school script family), PT Henman Pictograms (2001, based on Armenian ornaments revived by Henrik Mnatsakanyan), Cooper BT (2000, a Cyrillic version of the Bistream family by the same name), Henman Western, Karolla Western (2002, art nouveau face, based on an alphabet of Lucian Bernhard, 1912), Zagolovochnaya Western (2002, based on a Caslon model from 1725), Haverj Western (2004, flared mini-serifed typeface with an f and a j ready for the paralympics), PT Margarit (1997, based on PT Bodoni by A. Tarbeev), Bardi (2004, Paratype, an extra compressed decorative stenciled typeface based on the lettering created in 1970s by the Armenian type designer Henrik Mnatsakanyan (1923-2001)), Haverj (2004, Paratype, also based on Mnatsakanyan's work), and PT Noah (1997, to accompany Tagir Safayev's PT FreeSet, 1992). Asmik, and Humanist 531 Cyrillic (the latter co-designed with Isay Slutsker) won awards at Bukvaraz 2001. In 2007, he designed the text and display family Susan (Paratype; award winner at Paratype K2009), which was named after his wife. Award winner at Granshan 2008. In 2010, he designed the Ripe Apricot humanist sans family (ParaType). Narevik (2011, Paratype) is a dynamic low contrast design with slightly rounded triangle serifs. In 2011, he created the free Google Web Font Marmelad, meant for headlines. Jacques Francois and Jacques Francois Shadow (2012, Cyreal) were co-designed with Alexei Vanyashin. They are revivals of the Enschedé no. 811 type specimen (ca. 1760) by Jacques François Rosart (1714-1774), made for Enschedé Printing House. Free at Google Web Fonts. Typefaces from 2013: Vaccine (a slab serif family, ParaType). This was followed in 2014 by the humanist Vaccine Sans (2014, with the help of Alexandra Korolkova and Gayaneh Bagdasaryan). In 2015, he made Levnam (ParaType), a sans with wide proportions for small text. In 2016, Alexander Lubovenko and Manvel Shmavonyan co-designed the 30-style Latin / Cyrillic workhorse sans typeface family Mediator, which was followed in 2017 by Mediator Serif. In 2018, Alexandra Korolkova and Manvel Shmavonyan designed Fact at Paratype. Fact is based on Frutiger. The fact type system contains 48 upright styles with variations in width and weight and eight italics of normal width. Vast (2021, Paratype) is a 56-style sans family, with three variable fonts, by Manvel Shmavonyan and Alexander Lubovenko. Choices are from thin to black and regular to extra wide. FontShop link. Catalog. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French calligrapher from Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux. Designer of a French school font, which was presented in March 2005 during a meeting held at the National Museum of Education in Rouen, France. The link given here refers to a PDF which contains the proceedings of that meeting. Marion Andrews's school font has a basic monoline sans caps style tilted at only 5 degrees, and a connected lower case whose rhythm was influenced by the Dryad Writing style of Alfred Fairbank (1932). Marion Andrews won an award for writing organized by the Ministère de l'Éducation nationale in France. Marion organized a workshop on Fraktur/Gothic fonts, from 21-26 July 2003, in the Jura region of France. See also here. Marion Andrews, Malou Verlomme and Laurence Bedoin collaborated on the school fonts Écriture A and Écriture B which are presented in Modèles d'écriture scolaire (2013), a document issued by the French Ministry of Education. These fonts are available from Eduscol. PDF with some of her work. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German writing expert, 1894-1981. In 1950, Rudolf Koch and he proposed a Deutsche Schreibschrift for the fourth grade of Bavarian schools. [Details of that proposal.] He developed Fibeldruckschrift in 1957. Martin wrote Die Entwicklung der deutschen Schreibschrift in 1960. No metal font was made of his proposals, but Delbanco created a digital version called DS Hermersdorf. Picture from 1950. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Martin Kotulla
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Graphic designer and illustrator in Slovakia. In 2019, Martina Rozinajova and Jan Filipek co-designed the Slovak school writing font Skolske Pismo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
School font made in 1999 by an unknown designer. Download here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Match Fonts
| Match Fonts is the West Hollywood, CA-based foundry led by Michel Bujardet (b. Bordeaux, France, 1951), who is Mike Budge on alt.binaries.fonts. They make and sell interesting font paks. A particular favorite of mine is the Calligraphic Fonts Pack 2, which has the beautiful medieval-look typeface Rodolphe (2001), together with the Chancellerie family, the blackletter font SquareText, and a few Uncial fonts called Oncial. Free demos. Cursive Handwriting is a 6-font pak for teaching handwriting. Also offering a handwriting and signature font service. Among free offerings, check Le Blackmail (ransom font). Also, commercial fonts for these languages: Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hawaian, International Phonetic (IPA), Hebrew, Hieroglyphs, Hungarian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Marshallese, Polynesian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian, Yiddish. Interesting typefaces: Boulon (letters with bolts), Bujardet Freres (French restaurant type), Calebasse (1997, semi-psychedelic), Chinoiseries (Chinese look-alike), Cristolikid (LCD), Diodes Light, Grecques, Halloween, Malabars, Metroplitain (art nouveau), Monogram, Octogone, Osselets (bones), Parador, Ruban Dis-Moi, SilBooettes, TSF et Compagnie, Venitienne, Yiddilatin, Zebrues, and the dingbats Dinosotype, Alphabetzier, Nahkt Hieroglyphics, Norman Prince (children's handwriting), Angelots, Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans, La Main Guided, La Main Solid (both children's tracing fonts), Bordini, Bordofixed, BoumBoum, ChapClerk, Dactylographe (nice!), Halotique (sans serif), Tortillon (2001, art deco), Normographe (great too!), Normafixed, Oloron, Parlante (serif family), Presse (typewriter), Technicien. Plus handwriting fonts Skrypta, Skryptaag (upright and connected), Willegha. a Morse Code font. The Halloween pack includes Coulures, Halloween, Osselets and SilBooettes. Fixed width fonts include Dactylographe, Oloron, Bordo, Norma. Direct access. Interview and photo. Alternate URL (in French), with many more fonts, such as the handwritten Pierre, Mariette. MICR E13 B font. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Maternellecolor (France) made these school script fonts: Boite-pleine, Boite-vide, Cursive (seems to be based on Cursive by Antoine Fetet, which in tuen is a modification of Jean-Claude Gineau's Gino School Script from 1997), Cursive-Fléchée, Maternellecolor-creuse, Maternellecolor-creusesans, Maternellecolor-cursive-case, Maternellecolor-graphisme, Maternellecolorgraphisme2, Maternellecolor-numération-espace, Maternellecolor-trace-cursive, Picto-Moustache. All these are made in 2005-2006. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Matthew Napolitano
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Swiss high school teacher. Author of Von der Basisschrift zur persönlichen Handschrift (Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Aargau, Swizerland, Buchs, 2003). His Basisschrift, proposed in that book and developed together with Hans Eduard Meier, is now used in some Swiss cantons (such as Luzern (since 2010), Basel and Bern) for use in schools, replacing the Schnürlischrift that was officially in use in Switzerland since 1947. Erich Alb describes the history of Basisschrift, which I quote here in German: Zusammen mit Max Schläpfer entwirft Hans Eduard Meier vorerst die Basisschrift. Grotesk oder Steinschrift genannt, hat sie keine Bögen und wird in der ersten Primarklasse eingesetzt. Später wird sie in ABC1 umbenannt und in Zusammenarbeit mit Elsner+Flake durch die ABC2 und die ABC4 ergänzt. Der Schriftschnitt ABC3 wird nach den ersten Anwendungsjahren als pädagogisch nicht sinnvoll verworfen. Die ABC2 hat Bogenansätze und wird im zweiten Schuljahr geübt. Die ABC4 ist verbunden geschrieben und wird auch im zweiten Jahr geübt. Alle drei Schriften gibt es aufrecht und kursiv, als Druckfont bei E+F Schriftenvertrieb. Zu diesen Schriften hat Meier Lehrbücher und Übungsbl&aauml;tter gestaltet. In 2016, Elsner and Flake published the entire family as ABC Basisschrift. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This French outfit specializes in beautiful handwriting fonts, often calligraphic or with an old look. Prices vary from 50 to 200USD per font: Calligraphie Parchemin, Calligraphie Princesse, Ambassador, Karen, Charlotte, Sebastian are some of the fonts. Your personal handwriting font for 360USD. For a few extra dollars, you can have alternate characters made as well, such as dingbats, math, bold characters, signatures, or special accents. They also sell the handwriting fonts of famous people: Delacroix, Rousseau, Van Gogh, Voltaire, Gauguin, Chateaubriand, Monet, Mme de Sévigné, Georges Sand, François Rabelais, Victor Hugo, Rimbaud, Georges Washington, Nostradamus, Léonard de Vinci. For 600 dollars, you can get an 8-font set of your handwriting which, under Word, will make the letters change as you write. Finally, they offer a collection of orthographic fonts for kids (for connected handwriting): abcCP3Lignes, abcCP2Lignes, abcCEMLignes and abcCPEM, the former three being lined. Recent link for purchasing the fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Medienwerkstatt Mühlacker
| German commercial school font outfit based in Mühlacker. Free demo fonts. The categories: Lateinische Ausgangsschrift, Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift, Schulausgangsschrift, Druckschriften, Druckschriften Bayern, Pädagogische Zeichensätze, Zeichensätze für die Mathematik, Weihnachtsfonts, Sekundarfonts. There are subpages for Swiss and Austrian school fonts. Of the many fonts, here are some made by Manfred Klein: KreuzWort, Norddruck, Sdfett, Vahalb, Veraus, Verfett. Ralf Lohuis (from Hünxe) made these fonts: Adam, Atlas, Bausteine, Blackwhite, Boxquestion, Domino, Eisenbahn, FlaggenABC, Geheim, Guitar, KreuzWort, Lapunkt, Lineatur, MatheRechner, MatheTangram, Meteo, Musik, Norddruck, Nordspur, Saspunkt, Sdfett, Sport, Telegraf, Trainee, Vahalb, VeenPikto, Veraus, Verfett, ZahlenABC. Subpage on school fonts. Christmas fonts made between 1999 and 2002, also by Lohuis: Fichten, Lichterglanz, Osterei, Schnee, Tannen, Verschneit, Weihnacht. Sub-page on Swiss school fonts where one finds CH Schrift 1 through 4, and Stein and Stein 1-Linie, Stein 2-Linie and Stein 4-Linie. At the Austrian school font sub-page, we find Druckschrift and Schulschrift 95. There is also a set of Suetterlin fonts. An alphabetic list: ABCKIDS, Abgedeckt, Animalabc, Anlaut, Anlautbilder 1, Anlautbilder 2, Astro, Atlas, Ausdruck, Babylon Keilschrift, Baerchen, Bausteine, BayernOutline, BayernSpur, Bayernband, Bayerndruck, Bayernf, Bayernfine, Bayernline, Bayernmiba, Bayernpunkt, Bayernpunktliniert, Bayernunter, Blackfoot, Blackwhite, Boxquestion, Braille, Briefmarken, CH-1_B, CH-1_L1, CH-1_L2, CH-1_L4, CH-1_R, CH-1_SPF, CH-1_Um, CH-1_ouL, CH-1_out, CH-1_pt, CH-1_ptL, CH-2_B, CH-2_L1, CH-2_L2, CH-2_L4, CH-2_R, CH-2_SPF, CH-2_Um, CH-2_ouL, CH-2_out, CH-2_pt, CH-2_ptL, CH-3_B, CH-3_L1, CH-3_L2, CH-3_L4, CH-3_R, CH-3_SPF, CH-3_Um, CH-3_ouL, CH-3_out, CH-3_pt, CH-3_ptL, CH-4_B, CH-4_L1, CH-4_L2, CH-4_L4, CH-4_R, CH-4_SPF, CH-4_Um, CH-4_ouL, CH-4_out, CH-4_pt, CH-4_ptL, Clocktime, DIN-Schrift Kapitalien, DIN-Schrift bold, DIN-Schrift capitals, DIN-Schrift italic, DIN-Schrift outline, DIN-Schrift shadow, DIN-Schrift, Dinosabc, Dontworry, Dontworry, Druck Au, Eisenbahn, Faces, Faraline, Fichten, First, FlaggenABC, Geheim, Gotisch unicial, Guitar, Gutenberg Druckschrift, Halloween Bilder, Halloween Schrift, Handschrift, Hieroglyphen Monumental, Hieroglyphen Papyrus, Hieroglyphen hieratisch, Isis, Kanzlei kursiv, Keys, Kontur, KreuzWort, Lahalb, Lapunkt, Lapunktliniert, Lateinaus, Latf, Latline, Latmiba, Latout, Lauflos, Launter, Lautgebueden, Lichterglanz, Lineatur, Linequestion, Lokos, Luftballon, Maps, Maramo, Math.Soma, Mathe.Adam, Mathe.Domino, Mathe.Euklid, Mathe.Euler, Mathe.EuroAdam, Mathe.Gaus, Mathe.Geobr, Mathe.Rechner, Mathe.Riese, Mathe.Tangram, Mathematik Bilder 1, Mathematik Bilder 2, Meteo, Mixed, Musik Notensatz, Musik, Noline, Nomiba, NordFaraFu, Norddruck, Nordf, Nordfine, Nordout, Nordpunkt, Nordpunktliniert, Nordspur, Nounter, Novokal, Osterei, Phoenizisch, Phonetic, Phonetic, Puzzle, Rounded bold Bold, Roemer, Saspunkt, Saspunktliniert, Schnee, Schuf, Schul 95, Schulaus, Schuline, Schulout, Schulunter, Schumiba, Schwunguebungen 1 Bilder, Schwunguebungen 2 Bilder, Schwunguebungen 3 Bilder, Schwunguebungen 4 Zeichen, Spiegel, Sport, Ste-1_1L, Ste-1_2L, Ste-1_4L, Ste-1_PL, Ste-1_Pt, Ste-1_SP, Ste-1_Um, Ste-1_bo, Ste-1_no, Ste-1_oL, Ste-1_ou, Ste-2_1L, Ste-2_2L, Ste-2_4L, Ste-2_PL, Ste-2_Pt, Ste-2_SP, Ste-2_Um, Ste-2_bo, Ste-2_no, Ste-2_oL, Ste-2_ou, Ste-3_1L, Ste-3_2L, Ste-3_4L, Ste-3_PL, Ste-3_Pt, Ste-3_SP, Ste-3_Um, Ste-3_bo, Ste-3_no, Ste-3_oL, Ste-3_ou, Suetterlin L2 outline, Suetterlin L4 outline, Suetterlin Lineatur 2, Suetterlin Lineatur 4, Suetterlin bold, Suetterlin normal, Suetterlin outline, Suetterlin, Suedout, Sueline, Suemiba, Sueddruck, Sueddrne, Sueddrnkt, Sueddrnktliniert, Sueddrur, Sueddrter, Tannen, Telegraf, Tiere, Tierspuren, Traffic, Trainee, Uhrzeit, Unterlinie, Vahalb, Valine, Vamiba, Vapuli, Vaunter, VeenPikto, Veraus, Veraus, Verbig, Verf, Verout, Verpunkt, Verpunktliniert, Verschneit, Weihnacht, WinkerABC, Xschrift, Zahlen.ABC, Zahlen.XYZ, Zetadrei, Zetaeins, Zetazwei. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Michel Besnard
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Michel Bujardet
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Michel Bujardet
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Michel Lun
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Michel Troy
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Miguel Angel Padriñán Alba
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Nador, Morocco-based designer of the dotted Tamazight font Amsawad Azday (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian co-designer, with Riccardo Olocco, of the school fonts Italica Basic and Italica Next (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer, who has an MFA in Graphic Design at Otis College of Art & Design (Los Angeles) in 2012. She currently teaches graphic design at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is Creative Director at Blue Taco Design in Las Vegas. Monica created a few experimental typefaces in 2012, such as String Theory, Weird (a unicase typeface done with Sybille Hagmann; some initial work was done using FontStruct), Spoked (designed for a web site to promote bicycle awareness), and Triathlon (an organic typeface for triathletes, developed for her thesis project at Otis), and Weird (2011, experimental). In 2013, she designed Kryptonian Script for Warner Bros' Man of Steel. In 2015, she created a typeface based on strings, Two Pencil Typeface, as well as the experimental typeface Motorix (released by the Psy/Ops type foundry in San Francisco). In 2016, Monica Maccaux and Greg Lindy joined forces for the creation of the cursive school script font ABC Mouse Cursive. Behance link. Blue Taco Design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montessori
| On this site, we have two collections of truetype fonts. The first one is a Helvetica-style collection by Thomas A. Osthege (Eurocomp HH, 1993) with these fonts: HH123quadrRechnenQuadrate, HH123Rechnen, HHKursiv, HHmod123quadrModifiziertRechnenQuadrate, HHmod123ModifiziertRechnen, HHmodModifiziert, HH and HHUmrissUmriss. The second one is a collection of children's fonts and dingbats by Dr. Gert Wettschureck (Frankfurt, Germany, 1994): LoKinderDingsbums-Links, LoKinderDingsbums-Rechts, LoKinderSchrift-Dunkel, LoKinderSchrift-Hell. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Spanish designer of the free connected school script font Morasoft (2013). I have difficulties parsing the five-part name. I guess Rafael is the third first name, and González is the first family name. Now, Morales, the first first name is a standard family name. I presume that Socrates is there as an homage to his globe-trotting Greek uncle. No, that is wrong. In reality, we have two guys: suspect number one is Socrates Morales, and suspect number two is Rafael Gonzalez Rodiguez. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Children's handwriting fonts: School Text [Plain, Bold, Lined, Lined-Bold, Arrows], all made in 1994. Commercial Kiddo font. Based in San Francisco. Register to obtain the free font Dracula. Their free lined educational font SchoolScriptLined (1994) is here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mr. Black Fonts
| Iztapalapa, Mexico City-based graphic designer. Creator of Pixa Square (2014: a dot matrix typeface family that includes some arcade game dingbats as well), Domino (2014: digitization of a typeface by Sabino Gainza), Norma Script (2014, avant-garde sans), Norma Cursiva (2014), Macmillan (2014, sans), El Corondel (2014, signage script), Taller (2014, done with Manuel Flores), Mr. Pascal (2014: LED or kitchen style typeface for numbers on watches), Britannia Capital (2014: a calligraphic copperplate typeface), Alfaomega (2014, avant-garde sans), Alfaomega Cursiva (2014, school script font), Espiral (2013, a Victorian school project font at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas UNA). In 2016, Ayi Studio (Mexico City) published the constructivist typeface family Alek Rodchenko, which was jointly designed by Miguel Angel Padrinan Alba and Victor Manuel Flores Lopez. One must assume that they run Ayi Studio. Behance link. Newer Behance link. Old Wordpress link. Newest MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Turkish creator of the readable hand-printed typeface McMuratti (2011) and the squarish typeface McAlberto (2011). He also made the upright connected school script typeface McLeonardo (2011), McLeona (2012), the cratchy hand-printed McVincenzo (2011) and the spiky typeface McAlbertina (2011). In 2012, he made a tall-ascendered version of Garamond, called Garamond Tall. In 2016, he designed Dolomites Extra and Redhead. All his typefaces are free. Home page. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nan Jay Barchowsky
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Designer in 2009 at FontStruct of Somge DT, a hairline dotted line font for teaching children writing by tracing. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During a type design workshop in 2016, Brussels-based Naomi Desmedt created the school script typeface Scolaire. She also designed a heavy titling typeface that same year. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the custom typeface La Seño (1998-2001) for an editorial company. This typeface extends Memima and can be used to teach connected handwriting to school children. Typography professor since 1996 at the University of Buenos Aires. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Natascha Dell
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Born in Takamatsu, Kagawa-ken, Japan, in 1984, Natsuko is a Canadian-educated graphic designer who publishes most of her typefaces at Okaycat. She created the high school handwriting fonts Geisha Holiday (2008) and Exchange Student (2008, Okaycat), and the dingbat fonts Little Japan (2008, exquisite Japanese dingbats) and Trees of Africa (2008, Okaycat). Hand Cursive and Stitch Cursive (2009) are upright connected scripts. Ribbon Cursive (2009) was developed from Mercator's Italic Hand. 3D Blocky (2009) is a hand-drawn 3-D font done with Luke William Turvey at Okaycat. Art of Japanese Calligraphy (2009, Okaycat) is a kanji font with calligraphic glyphs developed in cooperation with calligrapher Shigeru Nomura. With Luke William Turvey, she did Rustic Stamp (2009, grungy). List of fonts as of the end of 2009: 3D Blocky, Art Of Japanese Calligraphy, Brush Writing OC, Courier Coco, Exchange Student, Geisha Holiday, Grunge Decay, Hand Cursive, Hand Writing OC, Japanese Brush Master, Japoneh, Little Japan (2008, dingbats), Porto, Ribbon Cursive, Rustic Stamp, Stitch Cursive, Trees Of Africa. Fonts made in 2010: Flower Sketch (dingbats; see Flower Sketch Neue in 2014), The Inlines, The Inlines No Inlines, Kanji OC (a Latin font with a brushed Kanji character in place of each letter), Super Hand, Country Charm (dingbats), Rocktopus, Asian Scroll (kanji face). Fonts from 2011: Okay Marker, Script Love (connected script), Muju (Asian brush script), Joopica (a grungy casual typeface done with Luke William Turvey), Okay Berry (connected script), Orchids (flower dingbats), Seashells (dingbats), Sumi (2011, a beautifully raw brush face), Mushrooms (2011), Azsitra (2011, handwriting), Right Hand (2011). Fonts made in 2012: Ferns (dingbats), Arco Web (hand-printed, with Luke William Turvey), Oracle Bone (based on ancient Chinese glyphs), Arco Dot (think "Dalmatian"), Azola (hand-lettered caps), Azsion (a sketch font), Flowertype (a pair of floriated typefaces), Azoe (hand-drawn all caps poster face), Christmas Cards (greetings and ornaments). Fonts from 2013: Swallowtail Butterflies, Flows, Flows Stencil, Komela (a curvy thin poster font), Arco Star (done with Luke William Turvey), Star Cursive, Cosmos Cursive, 3D Cocoro, Cocoro (a sketched handlettered display typeface done with Luke William Turvey), Anika (curly, scratchy hand-printed typeface), Birds (hairline drawings of birds), Azebra (textured script), 3D Cursive. Typefaces from 2014: Macchiato, Maple Lane Cursive, Forest Cursive (connected script), Azola (an elegant connected letter cursive script), Cat Talk (outlined font), Maple Lane, Maple Street (with Luke William Turvey), Shaqa (inline), Hiew (ball terminal-laden display typeface). Typefaces from 2015: Flaticons, Lawson (retro script). Typefaces from 2016: Cosmic Pattern (a connect-the-dots typeface), Canadian Animals, Lawson Vintage. Typefaces from 2017: Easy Hand. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Swedish design site. The owners made some interesting free fonts: New Begindings, Fubbick (based on fraudulent signatures), Bintje Bold (potato print face), and New Handwriting (2007, based on a unsuccessful handwriting reform that the Swedish head council of education attempted to implement during the mid 70s). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Neil Cattermole
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Creator of the classic Germanic blackletter hand simply called Blackletter Hand (2014). It has elements of Suetterlin. Creator of Cyanotype (2014) and EngineerHand (2014), both engineering or architect draftsman scripts. In 2014, he created an irregular handwriting font, Saucy Jack, and wrote: A true Victorian handwriting font. Don't use the Jane Austen font to emulate Victorian or later handwriting; by the Victorian era, the pen had been invented and people no longer used quills like Miss Austen did. This was very obviously written with an actual pen rather than with a dipper, quill or biro; it comes from a letter purportedly written by the famous Englishman, Mr John D. Rypper. It is suited to any period ranging from the invention of the pen (1830) to the popularity of the biro (1965). Ron's Font (2014, in a style not unlike hat of Jack Kerouac or Hunter Thompson) and Nick's Font (2014) emulate irregular handwriting as well. Station (2014) is an all-caps sans typeface based on the font used in Toronto's subway stations. DN Titling (2014) is an ultra-compressed font based on the titling used in the pop-psychology textbook Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. He designed the following Greek / Coptic fonts in 2014: Antonios-B, Antonios-D, Athanasius-B, Athanasius-D, Copt-A, Copt-B, Copt-D, Coptic-A, Coptic-B, Mina-A, Mina-B, Shenouda-A, Shenouda-D. In 2015, he published Draughtsman, an internationally standardized typeface for Latin, Greek and Curillic for labelling architectural and engineering blueprints, as found in the GOST standard 2.304-81. Open Font Library link. Fontspace link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nick Garzo
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French designer in 2004 of these free school fonts: CrayonPoints, CrayonPointsEcriture, CrayonPointsSeyes. Nicolas works for the groupe départemental de la Loire de l'I.C.E.M. Pédagogie Freinet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the semi-circuit typeface Techno Font (2016) and the handcrafted 3d notebook typeface School (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based foundry established in 1921 by Johannes Wagner together with his brother Ludwig and his brother-in-law Willy Jahr. That business moves to Ingolstadt in 1949. Their metal types included Krystal-Grotesk, Grotesk Pfeiler (1927: a tall radio font), Reporter (Carlos Winkow, 1938), Kurmark (1934, blackletter; revived by Gerhard Helzel; it was also published originally with Wagner & Schmidt) and Kabinett-Fraktur (1938, also called Unger-Fraktur as it is based on work of Johan Friedrich Unger; Unger-Fraktur also made it to Berthold, ca. 1925), and Sütterlin-Schreibschrift (1939). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A 1.3MB file with D'Nealian fonts (for orthography) by EFI. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Madrid-based creator of the upright connected school script typeface Rainer Rilke (2013), named after the poet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ocha Puyaber
| Chilean type designer who creates and studies type designs that are rooted in Chilean culture. His fonts cover many local languages including Aymara, Mapuche and Rapa Nui. His work is done using free software such as Inkscape and Fontforge. In 2021, he released Good Love Song (an upright monoline heart-themed script), Good Song, Persik Flor Linde and Persik Flor Simple, which are monolinear cursive fonts that are based on Chilean school scripts. The heart-themed version of this font is Persik Flor Amor (2021). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Oesterreichische Schulschrift
| Oesterreichische Schulschrift: Austrian School Writing Letters developed in 1995 by Gerhard A. Bachmaier. In metafont format. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graduate of the Moscow State University of Printing Art, and of the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2020. Moscow-based designer of the free font Tagesschrift (2005, Yanone, done together with Jan Gerner, A. Korolkova and V. Yefimov). Fontdeck link, where she is credited with the Paratype typeface PT Sans (2010). PT Sans can also be downloaded at Alex Barakin's site, at Fontspace, at Github, and at CTAN. Open Font Library link. The companion family PT Serif is also at CTAN. The full family, co-designed with Alexandra Korolkova and Vladimir Yefimov, will set you back over 1000 dollars however. Federico (2007) is based on the handwriting of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936). Pragmatica Slab (2011, Paratype, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov) was designed as a complement to the popular type family Pragmatica by Vladimir Yefimov and Isabella Chaeva (1989-2004) by the addition of square slab serifs. Paratype writes: Pragmatica Slabserif was designed as a complement to the popular type family Pragmatica by Vladimir Yefimov and Isabella Chaeva (1989-2004) by addition of square serifs. Inspired by Helserif (Phil Martin, 1978 [note from Luc to self: I think Paratype errs here, since Ed Kelton made Helserif in 1976]) which was formed in the same way by addition of square serifs to Helvetica (Eduard Hoffman and Max Miedinger, 1957). First sketches of Pragmatica Slabserif were created by Vladimir Yefimov in 1988 during development of Pragmatica. Olga Umpeleva designed the whole slabserif type family of six weights basing on that sketches. She also did an upright connected educational script in 2011 at Paratype: Little Cecily (based on a Russian calligraphy sample book for primary schools, Propisi pryamogo pisma (Moscow, 1914)). Such scripts were implemented in school programs at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. In 2012, Olga published the curly upright script typeface Sevillana (Google Web Fonts, Brownfox Foundry) and the playful decorative typeface Henny Penny (Google Web Fonts and Brownfox). Typefaces from 2013: M.Video (a corporate typeface done with Ksenia Erulevich at Art Lebedev Studio), ALS Schlange Sans (Art Lebedev Studio: a rich sans family with rounded terminals, and a toolbox "f"), ALS Schlange Slab. Typefaces from 2015: Kudryashev Display (2015, Isabella Chaeva, Alexandra Korolkova and Olga Umpeleva). Kudryashev Display is a set of light and high-contrast typefaces based on Kudryashev text typeface. In addition to Kudryashev Display and Kudryashev Headline typefaces, the type family includes also two Peignotian sans-serif typefaces of the same weight and contrast, with some alternates. The serif styles were designed by Olga Umpeleva in 2011, the sans styles were created by Isabella Chaeva in 2015 with the participation of Alexandra Korolkova. The typeface was released by ParaType in 2015. Still in 2015, she designed Federico (a typeface based on the handwriting of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)). Typefaces from 2017: Fado (a formal broad nib calligraphic beauty). Typefaces from 2018: Kelpie (an inky and a monoline pair of scripts). Typefaces from 2020: Noordenwind (her graduation typeface at KABK). Typefaces from 2021: Westenwind (an experimental font that on purpose exaggerates the number and sizes of the serifs). Kernest link. MyFonts link. Google link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Behance link. Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Oliver Weiss
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Discussion (in French) of school scripts appropriate for French classes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Olivier Randier
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Orenari (or: Oren Ari)
| Lia Ari or Lia Wijayanti. Madiun, Indonesia-based designer of these typefaces in 2019: Birly (a children's book font), Omiwa, School Holic (a school font set with various degrees of texture and shading), Really Better, Caramel Macchiato, Little Miku, Lovantine (a Valentine's Day font), Pixe Lony, Hey Elsie (a Valentine's day font), Romantine (a hyper-curly Victorian Valentine's day font). Typefaces from 2020: Mollroy, Cherish Moment, Cloud Bread (rounded, handcrafted), Kopi Senja (a fat finger font), Magic Story (a beatnik typeface), Kiddy Times, Night Birds, Hello Rainbow, Sushi Cat, Jasmine Bloom, Candy Cake, Hola Zozo (a chubby grocery store typeface), Belligan. Typefaces from 2021: Mr Halloween, Things To Remember (handdrawn scrapbook caps), Moon Earth (a fat finger font), Mique (a smooth heavy brush typeface), Yes Margo, New Romantine (a romantic monolinear display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Orthographic fonts (Verchery, Beaumale, Ducahier, Vivier). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of Smiley (not smilies!), Frowny, Oak Leaf (registration required), and Trace Font for Kids. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
P. Moreau / Veuve Hérissant
| The print shop and foundry of Pierre Moreau was operational in Paris from 1640 until 1792. It had various directors, listed here in chronological order:
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Commercial fonts by Will Software, mainly for orthography and teaching purposes: DR-BY2, DR-BY2Bold, DR-BY2Italic, DR-BYEl2, DR-HH, DR-HH2, DR-HH2Bold, DR-HH2Italic, DR-HHEl2, DR-HHEl2Bold, Fraktur, HW-Jeff, HW-Stone, KL-Antiqua2, LA-El2, LA-El2Bold, LA-El2Italic, Old-London, SAS-2, SAS-2Italic, SP-AB, SP-AnlPflanzen, SP-Anlaut3, SP-DRHH3, SP-DRHHQuadrat, SP-DRHHRahmen, SP-DRViereck, SP-Geld, SP-Inlaut1, SP-Mathe3, SP-SASQuadrat, SP-SASQuadratItalic, SR-Abstrakt1, SR-Blatt, SR-Puzzle, SR-Radierer, SR-Schatten, SR-Schloss, SR-Tiere, SR-Wappen, VA-Pe, VA-Pe2, VA-Pe2Bold. Some dingbats. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Page Studio Graphics (or: Pixymbols)
| Page Studio Graphics is Roger Vershen's Oro Valley, AZ-based company specializing in symbols and symbol fonts, founded by him in 1986. Roger Vershen died in Tucson, AZ, in 2003. The fonts (grouped under the name PIXymbols) include ADA symbols v.2.0, Africa, Alphabox, Alphacircle, Ameslan (ASL), Antorff (blackletter), Antorff Fractions, Apothecary, Arrows, Astrology, Backstitch, Boxkey, BoxNLines, Braille grade 2, Casual, Chalk Casual, PIXymbols Chess, Command Key, Courex (typewriter family), Crossword, PIXymbols Deco Glass (2001), Digit&Clocks (+LED symbols), Dingbats&Online, DOSScreen, Fabric Care, FARmarks (Federal Aviation Regulations lettering), Flagman (semaphore), Fractions, Gridmaker, Highway Gothic (U.S. Department of Transportation's Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs), PIXymbols Highway Gothic 2002, Highway Signs (U.S. Department of Transportation), Hospital&Safety, LCD, Linea (2002, prismatic), Luna, Malkoff (calligraphic font), Marina, Meeting, Mejicana (2001, a Mexican party font), Menufonts, Morse, Musica (instruments), Newsdots, Orchestra, Passkey, Patchwork, PCx, Phone, PIXymbolsMusica, Prescott (2001, Western), Penman (2001, connected script), PrimerD (letters with lines), Recycle, Roadsigns, Shadowkey, Signet (family), Signet Shadow, Squared, Strings, Stylekey, Tolerances&Datum, Travel&Hotel, TV List, Unikey, US Map, Vershen (2001), Xcharting, Xstitch. They also sell EPS files of all Arms of Swiss cantons, and many nice initial caps. Look also for Faux Hebrew (simulated Hebrew), as part of the Faux package that also includes Faux Sanskrit, Faux Runic, Faux Hebrew, Faux Japanese, Faux Arabic, Faux Chinese and Faux Chinese Sans. Alternate URL. Previews at MyFonts. Klingspor link. View the Page Studio Graphics typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Paul Alan Grosse is a very prolific Gurmukhi type designer (among many other things, often technical things---check out his own computer-generated Sudoku and Kakuro puzzles, for example). He created over 200 free Gurmukhi typefaces:
Fontspace link. Old URL. Another site for his Gurmukhi fonts. Paul Grosse's main web site. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paul D. Woods
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Portuguese author of Tipografia: origens, formas e uso das letras (2006, Paulo Heitlinger, Lisbon) and Alfabetos, Caligrafia e Tipografia (2010, Lisbon). Born in Lisbon, he studied nuclear physics in Germany. He lectured on communication design at the Universidade do Algarve. His pages (in Portuguese) are quite complete, with a great glossary, a beautiful section on the history of type, a mag called Cadernos de Tipografia, links to type design in the world in general, and in Brazil, Spain and Portugal in particular, and more general information on type. Font-making how to. Useful timeline of 16th century writing manuals. An absolute must. He has also created or revived a number of typefaces, which can be bought on-line. An incomplete list of his typefaces:
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Peax Web Design
| French creator of mostly (free) hand-printed fonts. Typefaces from 2019: PW Halloween. Typefaces from 2018: PW Christmas Stars, PW Christmas Time, PW Cartoonist (marker pen font for cartoons), PW Stixs, PW Hairz, PW Foodblog (dingbats), PW Haunted, PW Balloon. Typefaces from 2017: PW Skriptt. Typefaces from 2016: PW Xtra Thin, PW Line Font, Sharp Brush, PW Straight, PW June 16, W Feb16. Typefaces from 2015: PW cartoon marker, PW Fine, PW Xmas 2015, PW Beardfont (sketched), PW Strokes, PW June Font, PW Irregular, PW Irregular 2, PW Kool, PW Mambo, PW Stripes, PW Big Blocks, PW 2015, PW Jazzy. Typefaces from 2014: Gingerbread, Dolphins, Christmas Candles, Tinsel Letters, PW Handy Social Icons, PW Christmas Tinsel, PW Alabama, PW Rectangular, PW Odissey, PW Rounded Scratch (iFontmaker), PW Roughs, PW August, PW Barbecue, PW June Script, PW Bella, PW Another Script, PW Curves and Dots, PW Rounded Script, PW April, PW Ghost (brush face), PW Brusheez, PW Fairy Tales, PW Shaded (3d and shaded), PW Perspective, PW Infinity, PW Dotted, PW Scared, PW Tribe, PW Icons, PW Cactus, PW Filament, PW Opened, PW Toonz (cartoon dingbats), PW Rectangle, PW Squared, PW School Script. Typefaces from 2013: PW Smokey, PW Very Scratchy, PW Oblique, PW Foodicons, PW Scratchy, PW Simple Handwriting, PW Curly Regular Script, PW Loops, PW Twirly, PW Hachures, PW Script 09, PW Narrow (clean hand-printed typeface), PW Stretched, PW Noodle Thing, PW Left Hand, PW01 Script, PW New Arrows, PW Manuel Free, PW Brush Me, PW Arrow Font, PW Signature Two, PW Patchworks, PW Bold Script, PW Small Icons, PW Fatscratch, PW 403, PW Scritch, PW Gothic Style, PW Quick Write, PW Chalk (scratchy face), PW Cinderblox (collage font), PW Little Hearts, PW Scriptease, PW Cool Font, PW Peax Valentine Love, PW Tornado, Peax Drawnicons, PW Verticalized, Peax Webdesign Free Icons, PW Bubbles, PW Broderie, PW Schools Out, PW Scolarpaper, PW Back to School (lined school font), PW Groovy, PW Marker, PW Patchy Work, PW Scratched (sketched face), PW Fly Me To The Moon, PW Dolmen, PW Survival, PW Handscript, PW Script, PW Ornaments, PW Freshpaintings. Typefaces designed in 2012: PW Savane, PW Brush Script, PW Whoops, PW Happy New Year (party font), PW Children, PW Simple Script, PW Double Script, PW She's Amazing, PW Happy Christmas, PW Graffiti, PW Comics, PW Christmas Gifts, PW Circle, PW Worlds End 2112, Peax Webdesign Circles, PW Signature, PW Christmas, Five Years Old, PW Signatures, PW Yummy Donuts, PW Chains, PW Lettres Barres, PW Slimy, PW Windy, PW Zigzag, PW Ficelles, PW Trombone (paperclip style), Sketch Icons, Handylined, PW Fluidhand, PW Serif Scratch (sketched face), Simple Rounded (puffy cloud face), Stripped Rounded, Peax Handwriting, Animaletters (alphadings), Peax Webdesign Arrows, UI Mockup, Friday Free Dots, Sunday Script, Gel Stripped, Cheveux d'ange, Mywriting (fat finger font), Xperience Pasta, Decomposition Phase 1. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Peax Web Design link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pedro González Jorquera
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PeGGO
| Type designer graphic designer, calligrapher and illustrator from Chile, who graduated in graphic design in 2005 from the Universidad del Bío-Bío., b. 1977, Santiago de Chile. Aka PeGGO, a foundry established in 2002. MyFonts link. PeGGO designed some commercial fonts, such as:
Calligraphic works include L'Ecole d'Fine Arts (2009), Latinisiert Fraktur Neue (2014), Paradise Duck, Eclesiastes (based on "La Rueda" of Sheila Waters, 1981). Creative Market link. Behance link. MyFonts foundry link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Pelikan Lehreinfo
| After registration, you can download school fonts at this German site (PC and Mac): SAS-Schulausgangsschrift (school style introduced in the DDR in 1968), Lateinische Ausgangsschrift (introduced in Germany in 1953), Druckschrift Hamburg, Druckschrift Bayern, Druckschrift Bayern 2001, Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift (by M. Kahler at Pelikan, 2001), Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift (unliniert). On subpages, one can see samples of Picturalis. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Persik Flor
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Peter Wiegel
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EFI made the Peterson directed handwriting style font family (250 USD per license). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
P-Font Dispenser (was: Yuji-3001)
| Free original fonts by Yuji Adachi: Nice Age, Arcade (pixel font family that includes a horizontally-striped style, 1998), Bop Gun, No Problem, Dymos, One Nation, Atari 80, Bad Matrix and Lavalite, Dimension (kids' orthographic font, 1999), UHF (baseball shirt lettering, 1999), LogoSystem (1998), Bangalore (Stephen Coles says that this is still the world's best small pixel script), Radio Dept, Ole Segments, Code3X (barcode font, 1999), Neo Dymos, Major Kong (handprinting, 1999), Ohio Player. Font Pavilion sells his Dymos (katakana), One Nation, Bop Gun, Logo System. In Digitalogue's DPI72 package, he published the screen pixel fonts CODE14X (1999), DryBones7 (1999), Tempo9 (1999). Promised fonts: Wax, Problems, Bad Matrix, Atari80, Neo Dymos, No Problem, Ole Segments. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Philippe Tassel
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Phontz
| Designer of a dingbat font, Phonics Bats (2020), for learning letter sounds. Useful for pre-K, kindergarten, and first grade students. She also released Phonics Animals (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pierre Moreau
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PiROG
| Free school fonts by Frenchman Henri Rogelet, ca. 2000: Abaque (2011, abacus font), Alphonetic, AlphoneticGB (two phonetic fonts), Cursiv, Monsieur et Madame (a funny dingbat font, 2002), Scriptcasecole, Scriptecole, Scriptecole2. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pixilate Designs
| Download the following beautiful handwriting and handprinting fonts made by Mexican designer Kemie Guaida, who lives in Helsingborg, Sweden: Balderas (2002), BlackoutSans (2001), BlackoutSerif (2001), Manita (2001, a simplistic hand, done with Jorge Villalobos), Manita Dingbats (2000), Leonel (based on characters drawn by architect Leonel Terres, 1999-2001), Montreal Architect (1998), Patchanka (2001), Marginal (2001), Soli (1998, with Solange Guaida), OnderBold (2001), Kemie (2001), Rafa (2001), Unicase (2001). Pixel/bitmap typefaces include Antenna8, Antenna10, Antenna11, AntennaSemi, Beachball, Egghead (2002), Gardenias (connected pixel script), Ladybug, Lilabit, Pixilated (2002), Roundabout, Sober, Stoneheart and Unipixel. She was working on the connected script typeface Monolinear (2004). Further typefaces include Lu Px (2004, another architecture's handwriting face), Tokig Px (2012, hand-printed), Rolig Serif Px (2008), Lango Px (2008), Lango Px Thin (2013), Lango Px Fat (2013). In 2013, Kemie published an ornamented low-contrast sans typeface called Bellota (based on Gesine Todt's Snippet) and the hand-printed Pocket Px, Pocket Swash, and Pocket Serif Px. Bellota and Bellota Text are now downloadable from Google Fonts and Github. In 2014, Kemie published a warm replacement family for Comic Sans, called Jolly Good Sans. It was expanded in subsequent years and seems especially suited for children's books. Typefaces from 2015: JollyGood Proper, Pocket Swash Px. Typefaces from 2016: Raski, JollyGood Sans Condensed, JollyGood Proper Unicase. Typefaces from 2017: Jolly Good Proper Condensed, Amike (an architectural handwriting font family). Typefaces from 2018: JollyGood Serif. Typefaces from 2019: Bookbag (a rounded sans font family for teaching children to read and write), Skriva (a comic book or blueprint script). Typefaces from 2020: Jolly Good Proper Serif. |
Présence Typo
| Friendly French Agfa Creative Alliance designer (b. 1961) who lives in Baratier. He was an ex-student of José Mendoza at the Imprimerie Nationale à Paris. He started Présence Typo in 2000. He published numerous typefaces in various places:
Klingspor link. FontShop link. Linotype link. View the typefaces designed by Thierry Puyfoulhoux. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Jump page for free school fonts in Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Primary School Fonts
| The Sheperdson Community Education Center's Primary Math's Font set includes 3-d geometric shapes, coins, 2-d shapes, die typefaces, LED digits, math symbols and fractions and pies. There is also a cursive script set for children at 25 Aus$. All by Rupert Russell. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Children's orthographic fonts by Philippe Tassel (Ducahier) and C.Verchery (CrayonE, CrayonL, PlumNAE, PlumNAL). Plus a phonetic Arial-lookalike by Réal Saint-Jacques (Apicar). Plus several relevant links. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Production Type
| Jean-Baptiste Levée is a French type designer based in Paris. He is a co-founder of the Bureau des Affaires Typographiques, and teaches typeface design at ESAD Amiens (and before that, at the Caen-Cherbourg school of Arts & Media and at the University of Corte). His latest work is mostly published at Production Type which he manages. He designs custom and retail typefaces, and has won multiuple awards for his type designs. Other designers publishing at Production Type include Yoann Minet, Sandra Carrera, Yohanna My Nguyen, Emmanuel Besse, Mathieu Réguer, Quentin Schmerber and Loic Sander. In 2020, the support team included Hugues Gentile, Dorine Sauzet, Suehli Tan and Igino Marini. Levée's typeface portfolio:
Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam and ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. Behance link. Old URL. Klingspor link. Home page of Jean-Baptiste Levée. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Queensland Schoolfonts
| Greg Shum sells his Queensland School Fonts (handwriting) series here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Archive with orthographic fonts. Included are KHK-Fibelschrift mit Linien, SchuDruck1 (österreichische Schuldruckschrift), Schuschri 95-0 (österreichische Schulschrift seit 1995), and Sütterlin. See also here. There is also some history of Austrian school fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech designer of Comenia Script (Storm Type), an upright script designed for teaching writing. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the educational connected handwriting font Mamae Que Nos Faz (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rainer Will
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Rainer Will
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Rais Bilal
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Ralf Lohuis
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Ralph Oliver du Carrois
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Ramón Abajo
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Located in Coushatta, LA, this Parish site has an archive with some free "school fonts": FirstGrader, LearningCurve, LearningCurveDashed, MSDWTManu, PrimerPrintBold, PrimerPrintMedium, PrintBold, PrintClearly, PrintDashed, SchoolText, SchoolTextBold, AbcPrint, AbcPrintArrow, AbcPrintDotted, AbcPrintDottedLined, AbcPrintLined. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1937 in Breslau, Germany, Renate Tost is now based in Dresden. She studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. From 1961 until 1968, she worked towards a new school script in the DDR, culminating in her design, Schulausgangsschrift (SAS) in 1968, a typeface that was later digitized in 1990 by Typoart. She taught at the Paedagogischen Hochschule in Dresden. Author of many books and articles, all in German and on the topics of school scripts or calligraphy. These include
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René Verkaart
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Prior to a four-year stint as a lecturer in typography at the faculty of design and Art of the free University of Bolzano (2009-2013), Italian type designer Riccardo Olocco freelanced as a graphic designer in Milan and elsewhere in Italy. He graduated in 2014 from the MATD program at the University of Reading, UK. In 2019, he obtained his Ph.D. at Reading's Faculty of Typography and Graphic Design. In his thesis, A new method of analysing printed type: the case of 15th-century Venetian romans, he focuses on 15th-century Venetian roman types, combining the use of bibliographical knowledge and analysis of letterforms. Riccardo writes on type design and type history. Besides his ongoing investigation into Francesco Griffo's roman types, his research with James Clough on Bodoni's types will be published by Codex. He is also a member of the Nebiolo History Project. Designer, with Michele Patanè, of the commercial caps typefaces Cordial Bloom (2009) and Cordial Cherry (2009). Together with Jonathan Pierini, Olocco reinterpreted Bodoni's work in 2014. Their Parmigiano Typographic System, which is named after Parma, the city where Giambattista Bodoni (d. 1813) established his printing house, attempts to revive, interpret and boldly extend Bodoni's work. There is not a single official original Bodoni---Bodoni's Manuale Tipografico contains many slightly different examples---, and so, the first challenge was to create coherent relationships between various optical sizes (Piccolo, Caption, Text, Headline) and weights. Besides the Parmigiano Serif family, Olocco and Pierini also developed the creative extension Parmigiano Sans. There are also Stencil, Typewriter, Egyptian styles, to name a few. The Parmigiano Typographic System was published in 2014 by Typotheque, but was developed a few years before that. In 2014, he was a founding partner in the new CAST type foundry in Bolzano. His typefaces at CAST include
Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of Nicolas Jenson's roman type. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Richard Douglas is the designer of Penmanship, a font with letters between lines. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Richard Starkings
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Creator of the free school fonts Kiwi School Handwriting (2013) and Kiwi School Handwriting with Guides (2013), both based on the style described in the New Zealand Ministry of Education 'Teaching Handwriting' manual. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rodolphe Milan
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Roel Koster
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Roger Vershen
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Roland Hüse
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UK-based creator of the children's handwriting fonts AgrafieLL (1994) and Agrafie Alexie LL (1994), both available from Linotype. He also made Linotype Textur Gotisch (2002) and Linotype Textur Lombardisch (2002, a textura). Linotype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Saarbrücken-based designer of the freeware font Suetterlin (1995). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The French type designers Michel (b. 1942) and Rosalyne Besnard (b. 1946) live in Rouen, France. Under the brand Les Besnardtypo, they jointly designed Micmac (Creative Alliance, 1997), ITC Odyssee (1996), ITC Typados (1997, art nouveau), Rom (Creative Alliance, 1998), Bouchon (Letraset, 2000), Huit (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1972), Sargon (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1974: bilined and futuristic), Migraph (Agfa Monotype, 1999), PistolShot LT Std Normal and Light (Linotype, 2003), Nazca (Monotype Imaging, 2005), Sargon (Monotype Imaging, 2006), First One (Monotype Imaging, 2006: a family for teaching the alphabet to children), Mickros (Monotype Imaging, 2007), Pantin (Monotype Imaging, 2007), De Gama (Monotype Imaging, 2008), Pasta (Monotype Imaging, 2008), Gilde (2014: a monoline script), Didosystem (2017: a connect-the-dots font). Linotype page. FontShop link. Another FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Roselyne Besnard's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Rosemary Sassoon
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Great German type designer (b. Nürnberg, 1876; d. Frankfurt, 1934) who worked mainly at the Klingspor foundry. He founded the Offenbach Werkstatt in 1921. Many of his typefaces can be classified as German expressionist. These include Kabel (a sans), and Neuland (an angular poster face). An early Nazi sympathizer and supporter, Koch's fonts were heavily used by the Nazi regime. This page lists 158 royalty-free Christian symbols drawn by Rudolf Koch, a religious Lutheran, with the collaboration of Fritz Kredel (1900-1973) (see also here). His typefaces, with notes on digitizations:
In 1984, Wolfgang Hendlmeier discussed the blackletter typefaces in Koch's oeuvre: A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Brief bio by Wolfgang Hindlmeier (1984). Koch's involvement in handwriting education in Germany led to these Schreibschrift examples from 1930 (also called Deutsche Verkehrsschrift), and to the development by Martin Hermersdorf of the Deutsche Schreibschrift for fourth graders in Bavaria in 1950. Wood engraving of Koch by Bernard Brussel-Smith. Publications by Rudolf Koch:
References:
Rudolf Koch's carved lettering inspired spin-offs like PGF Americas (2021, Pedro Gonzalez). FontShop link. Klingspor link. Biography by Nicholas Fabian. Bio at Linotype. Bio in German. The Koch Memorial page [now defunct] offered historical notes and many free revivals of his typefaces. View digital typefaces based on Rudolf Koch's work. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Runes & Fonts (or: My Handwritings)
| Kazincbarcika, Hungary-based type designer Roland Hüse (b. 1980) sells his fonts through My Handwritings (Kazincbarcika, Hungary), which was renamed Runes&Fonts. His first font is Zuider Postduif (2012, an informal type family). Florida Shark (2012) is a free Death Metal or tattoo version of one of his commercial fonts. Tamiami (2012) is a headline typeface. Granny's Handwriting (2012), Script Demolition (2012), Sharon Lipschutz's Handwriting (2012), Isa Por Es Homou (2012) and Kinga's Handwriting (2012) are hand-printed typefaces. Napping Cat (2012) and Cubic Sub (2012) are angularly designed, while Mgla (2012) is round and plump. Greek Stone (2012) is a squarish Greek simulation face. On The Road (2012) is a textured typeface. Whirly Wood (2012), Hargita (2012, inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Dreamcatcher (2012) and Bee Ridge Vantage (2012: see also Bee Ridge) are grunge typefaces. Individigital (2012, +Black, +Thin) is a techno set of typefaces. Typefaces from 2013: November Sky (art deco sans), Windy Wood, Cool Weekdays, Yellow Peas Light (clean thin monoline sans; free), Back To The Future 4, Yellow Peas Demo (hairline sans), Yellow Peas Bold, Pagan Winter (bilined), Beer Money (brush face), Poor Weekdays (+Serif), Hun Legion (inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Freehand Roman, Esthajnal (inspired by ancient Hungarian runes), Buffalo Chicken (a connected script), Telihold. Typefaces from 2014: Sunny Winter (thin script), Sunny Merry Christmas (dingbats), Fox in the snow (connected hand), Dersu Uzala Brush (Asian brush), Good Karma (connected script), Stitch Warrior, Chickpeas, Jaspers Handwriting, Margarita in August, Wheatland, Slim Extreme (a gorgeous geometric hairline sans), Sparkler (a clean geometric sans), Factory Worker, Brushido (Japanese simulation font), Mojito in June, Mesa Grande, Altering The Future, Black Olives (thin calligraphic script), Hangyaboly (comic book font), Fecske (Peignotian sans), Windy Rain, Rainy Wind (calligraphic script), Comic Roman, Wizard of the Moon, Urban Stone (grunge version of Urban Tour), Urban Tour (avant garde sans), Wacky Sushi (hiragana emulation), Constrocktion (multilined typeface). Typefaces from 2015: She Always Walk Alone (handcrafted), Transatlantic Cruise (an outline script), Csemege (upright connected script), Milano Traffic (sketched typeface), Undergrunge Tornado (a great brush font, +Cyrillic, +Hiragana, +Katakana), Dirt Road, Kikelet, Kikelet Brush, Have A Great Day (rough brush script), Sorsod Borsod, City Birds (script), Loonaria, Texas Grunge (brush script), Solaria (minimalist techno), Biloxi Script, Chicken Fried Steak, Texas Grunge (brush face), Sharky Spot, Autumn Chant (connected script). Typefaces from 2016: Tribal Case (decorative caps), Shopping Script, Biloxi Calligraphy, Tribal Case (tattoo font), Ting Tang, Alaska Script, Take It Easy (fat finger font), Mi Amor (wide monoline handwriting), Spring Script, Fox in the Snow (connected school script), Kazincbarcika Script (a gorgeous calligraphic script). Typefaces from 2017: Interconnected, Bar Hoppers, Ciao Baby (retro signage script), De Rotterdam, Abigail Script. Typefaces from 2018: Christmas Wish Calligraphy, Christmas Wish Monoline, Chicago Moonshine (art deco), Poker in October (a layered color typeface), Personalitype (connected monoline script), Yellow Peas (sans), The Laughing Wolf (script), Italian Breakfast, Saturday Champagne, Teach (by Moataz Ahmed), Long Night (signature script), Relapse (rough brush script), Just Be (brush script), Air in Space (stencil), Beach Script, Interconnected, Beaumaris (slab serif). Typefaces from 2019: Christmas Wish (calligraphic script), Brachetto (a formal calligraphic typeface developed together with lettering artist Leah Chong), Mulled Wine Season, Colder Weather (spurred), Unlocking Your Dreams (brush script), Gold Under The Mud (a fine scratchy brush script), The Mumbai Sticker (script). Typefaces from 2020: Delugional, Roberts Script, Alone Together Script (a swashy tattoo script), Shopping Script (a signature font), Shape Variable Script (a variable script font that can be programmedi to react to music), Jam Session (blackboard bold), Un Jour Merveilleux (a script), Stars + Love. Typefaces from 2021: Long Story Short (a monolinear signature script), The Racoon Quest (a condensed all caps typeface), Delugional (Greek emulation), Neon Love (a monolinear neon sign script font released at Schriftlabor). Fontspace link. Dafont link. Creative Market link, Old URL. Home page. Another Fontspace link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Rupert Russell
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Vendor of Australian school fonts including Victorian script fonts, a set of math fonts with many geometric shapes, and dotted outline fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ryan Martinson
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Ryoichi Tsunekawa
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Sam Jones
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Sandra Garcia (b. Bogota, Colombia) first studied at the Universidad del Area Andina, Bogota and then obtained a Masters in typography from Centro de Estudios Gestalt in Veracruz, Mexico. Freelance designer and teacher at Universidad de la Comunicacion, in Mexico City. Sandra created the wayfinding sans typeface Colectiva in 2017 together with Tipas Type, a type foundry she co-founded. Colectiva was originally designed for Mexico City's subway system. In 2019, she published Emperatriz at Latinotype. She collaborated on the design of the typographic family Woun Iek for the native Wounaan Colombian language. In 2017, she received the Clap international award for the project Xantolo, a font for children's publications. Xantolo was part of Tipas Type, a space created by women to promote female work in the typographic field. For a Mexican beer brand, Sandra Garcia and Tipas Type designed the splendid blackletter typeface Corona (2018) and the copperplate calligraphic typeface Especial (2019). In 2019, Dafne Martinez, Monica Munguia, and Sandra Garcia finally released the roundish informal children's book typeface Xantolo and the wood type / slab serif typeface Xihtli. In 2019, Dafne Martinez and Sandra Garcia designed the copperplate calligraphic typeface Especial for a common Mexican beer brand In 2021, Dafne Martinez and Sandra Garcia published Achtli (Book, Didactic), a rounded sans typeface for early readers. In 2022, Sandra Garcia released the ultra-condensed reverse stress Western typefaces Extra C and Extra C Variable at Tipastype. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo. Co-author of the book Elementype, a practical guide to typographic use. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Sandro Roberto Fetter (Porto Alegre, Brazil) has a PhD from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, class of 2019. His 553-page thesis, entitled Letra Escolar Brasileira: design de uma famÃlia tipogáfica para o ensino da escrita manual, is perhaps the most extensive scholarly work on school fonts ever written. At that same university, he teaches typography, type design and digital interface design. He also earned a Masters in graphic design from Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI/UERJ, 2011). In 2019, as part of his doctoral thesis in the Graduate Program in Design of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, and supervised by Airton Cattani and Edna Cunha Lima, he designed Letra Brasileira, a script typeface to support handwriting lessons based on three main guidelines: simplicity, accessibility, and tradition. It includes a cursive, a simple style, a contemporary style, as well as the traditional Brazilian continuous cursive model. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Santos Bregaña
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Sara Goldstein (Sydney, Australia) created a custom school font in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sarah Starak
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Sassoon Williams
| Born in 1931, Rosemary Sassoon is a British handwriting and script expert who has worked a lot on didactic scripts for children. She obtained a PhD from the University of Reading for her work on how models and teaching methods affect children's handwriting. She is the author of these texts:
She is best known for her Sassoon Primary font family (primary school writing; see the 2000 typeface Sassoon Infant). Her fonts were developed by Adrian Williams of Club Type. At MyFonts, they operate as Sassoon-Wiliams. The list:
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ScenoGrafica
| Original display and special occasion fonts by Joe Hoffman and Joel Miller at ScenoGrafica, all designed from 1995-1997, such as Angelou, Autumn, BabysBlocks, BastilleDay, Bugs, Buonarroti, CakeandCandles, CandyCanes, CaptainSmith, Chaucer, ChineseNewYear, ChristmasDay, Cityscape, Clemens, ColumbusDay, Coward, Dante, DayoftheDead, Dinosaurs, Easter, Einstein, FathersDay, Faulkner, Fermi, Fiesta, Fitzgerald, Foster, Halloween, Hanukkah, HappyNewYear, Headliner, HeartsandFlowers, Heller, HollyTime, Jefferson, Keller (sign language face), Kwanzaa, MPrimaryLined, MPrimaryTrainerLined, MPrimaryLined, MPrimaryTrainerLined, Melville, Michener, ModernCursiveTrainerLined, ModernCursiveTrainer, ModernCursive, ModernCursiveLined, ModernCursive, ModernCursiveLined, ModernCursiveTrainerLined, MothersDay, OCasey, OldGlory, Orwell, Paine, Party, Picnic, Pinter, PowWow, PunkinPatch, Quilt, Rainforest, Rand, RoshHashanah, SaintPaddy, Sampler, Scott, Shaw, Simon, Snowcap, Sousa, Spenser, SpringTime, StNicholas (letters in the shape of cozy snowy houses, 1995), StarSpangled, Stockings, SummerBeach, Tarkington, Thanksgiving, ThanksgivingII, Valentine, Valentine1, Waugh, Whitman, Willson, WinterWonderland, Winthrop, Wright, Zola. ScenoGrafica has hundreds of commercial fonts in categories appealing to teachers--many cute fonts and dings, some primary school fonts, some math&science fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
School Fonts (was: Shepherdson Community Education Centre)
| Jean Greatorex is the Aussie designer (Casuarina, NT) of the freeware font YMVictorianDots (1995). Commercial font set (20 A$$) includes 3D Geometric Shapes, Australian coins, 2D geometric shapes, die typefaces, digital numerals, math symbols, fraction pies and tallies. His "Shepherdson Community Education Centre" is now called School Fonts. Among handwriting fonts for kids, he has NSW Foundation (7 weights), Qld Modern, Qld Beginners (7 weights), Tasmanian School Fonts (8 weights), SA Beginners (7 weights), Victorian, WA, NT and SA Linked Cursive. The math set includes Geometric Shapes, Any Fraction, Mathematical Symbols, and Time and Money. The handwriting sets come with seven fonts, Bold, Dots, Cursive, Outline, Regular, Numbered Dots and Numbered Outline. He also has New Zealand school handwriting fonts (7 styles), Stick&Ball (4 fonts), Letter Box (4 fonts) and Casual (2 fonts). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
School scripts: Florian Hardwig
| Florian Hardwig surveys the commercial school scripts--for the free ones, check my pages. His list contains:
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A commercial outfit for children's educational fonts. Part of Matchfonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
SchoolHouse Fonts
| Commercial educational fonts from Signature Software, aka vLetter, run by Dave Fenwick. Includes D'Nealian and Zaner-Bloser style schoolhouse fonts. All demos are complete except for the lower case a. Defective web page. Schoolhouse Fonts is a product of vLetter, Inc., 509 Cascade, Suite H, Hood River, OR 97031, USA. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German foundry somehow related to BERTLib/Fontstuff in Berlin, through which they sell their creations: Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift Pro, Lateinische Ausgangsschrift Pro (didactical connected script), Needle Printer Schrift (dot matrix), Standard Grotesk ST (+Condensed, Extended, Extra Condensed). Berthold AG used to be located in Taufkirchen, hence the name. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
School fonts and dingbats at Will Software. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Schulschriften
| Rainer Will Softwareentwicklung (Schöffengrund, Germany) developed these school and cursive writing fonts: DR-BY2, DR-HH2, LA-El2, VA-Pe2. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Free German school fonts, all made by Ralf Lohuis from Hünxe in 2002: Bayernmiba, Latmiba, Nomiba, Schumiba, Suemiba, Vamiba. There are even more commercial fonts for uses in schools, including official pedagogical handwriting fonts, Christmas fonts, and many symbol fonts for mathematics and other subjects. Most fonts were designed between 1996 and 2000. Free demos: Adam, Atlas, Bausteine, Bayerndruck, Blackwhite, Boxquestion, Domino, Eisenbahn, FlaggenABC, Geheim, Guitar, KreuzWort, Lahalb, Lapunkt, Lateinaus, Lineatur, MatheRechner, MatheTangram, Meteo, Musik, Norddruck, Nordspur, Saspunkt, Schulaus, Sdfett, Sport, Sueline, Telegraf, Trainee, Vahalb, VeenPikto, Veraus, Verfett, ZahlenABC. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Scola is a commercial upright script for schools sold by La Classe in France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Scriptorium (Ragnarok Press, Fontcraft)
| Dave Nalle was born in Beirut in 1959, but lives and works in Texas. He is currently in Manor, TX. From his wiki page: Dave Nalle is a political writer, game author and font designer who was active in the early history of the development of the internet. He is Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, a group that promotes libertarianism within the Republican Party and is Senior Politics Editor at Blogcritics online magazine and is the CEO of Scriptorium Fonts. A creative and prolific designer, he has made hundreds of beautiful (often historic) fonts. His outfit, Scriptorium (based near Austin, TX, est. 1989), also does custom font and logo design. At some points, Scriptorium was also known as Ragnarok Press and Fontcraft. It specializes in artsy and ancient typefaces. Some subset of the fonts is made by Michael Scarpitti. Free font demos. Images of his best selling fonts. Special subpages:
Fonts from 2013: Doge (a Venetian font based on a J.M. Bergling revival), Original Django (after the titling font in Quentin Tarantino's movie Django Unchained). Fonts from 2014: Highball, Carillon (based on a typeface by Samuel Welo), Edifice (based on lettering by J.M. Bergling). Fonts from 2015: Gods of Mars (an inline sci-fi typeface), Rykov (based on a 1930s Ukrainian constructivist style; Latin and Cyrillic), Vie Moderne (French art deco), Dahlgren, Grand Concours (art deco), Tantalus, Power Tie (art deco), Marquis Greeking. Fonts from 2016: Ekberg Modern (based on lettering samples by Samuel Welo from poster designs of the 1920s), Knuckleduster, Tzaphkiel, Sarandiel, Primrose Initials, Elizabethan Script (chancery style), Zeitschrift (an art nouveau font based on the Ver Sacrum magazine), Wendingen (Dutch deco), Memento Mori (Tuscan), Rounders (art deco). Fonts from 2017: Buzzmill (wooden plank font), Pumpkin Patch Initials, Talinn, Reliquary, Nopalito, Scattershot (script). Typefaces from 2018: Marionettas (a Mexican horror movie poster font), Fascination, Architextura, Santa Sangre, Glyphos. Typefaces from 2019: Cafe Corso (art nouveau), Comic Classix. Fnts released in 2020: Epigramatic (based on lettering by Dard Hunter for the Roycroft Press in the early 1900s), Cryptos (graffiti). Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. View David Nalle's typefaces. Scriptorrium's library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Scrowleyfonts
| Tanya Davis (Scrowleyfonts) is a type designer in Shrewsbury, UK (b. 1966). Her typefaces:
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Shen Design
| Born in New York where her father was a translator for the United Nations, Juliet Shen (Shen Design) graduated from the University of Reading in 2006. Creator of Bullen (2006), named after Henry Lewis Bullen of ATF fame. It was inspired by typefaces found in the ATF catalogs. This quirky typeface was added to the Font Bureau catalog in 2011. Juliet was a speaker at ATypI 2007 in Brighton on Searching for Morris Fuller Benton. She currently is the principal of Shen Design, a graphic design studio she founded in 1989, and has taught design and typography at School of Visual Concepts, Cornish College of the Arts and Art Institute of Seattle. Current projects include type design for the University of Oxford Press children's division: in 2007, she made the Earlybird type family for Oxford University Press's educational division. In 2009, she made Lushootseed School and Lushootseed Sulad fonts for the Tulalip Tribes, Washington State. AwanZaman (2016, Type Together) by Mammoul Sakkal (Arabic part) and Juliet Shen (Latin part) grew out of the Arabic newspaper type Awan Sakkal had designed on commission for a Kuwaiti newspaper in 2007. Speaker at TypeCon in 2007 and 2008 and at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam. Her Font Bureau bio mentions that she started out as a painter and became a graphic designer later. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. Typecache link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Signature Software (or: Vletter Inc.)
| Expensive, so-so quality signature/custom handwriting fonts at this company run by Dave Fenwick. Signature Software, Inc., 489 N. 8th St. Suite 201, Hood River, OR 97031. About 100 US dollars per handwriting font. West Europeans pay almost double. Demo fonts for personal handwriting, as well as D'Nealian and Zaner-Bloser style schoolhouse fonts. All demos are complete except for the lower case a. Alternate URL. The company is also called Vletter Inc What I find incredible is that the home page says that over 75,000 handwriting fonts have been sold. That adds up to a nifty 7.5 million dollars in raw income over a twelve year period. Alternate URL. Their children's font series DMOACursive (2000) and DMOBCursive (2000) was posted on alt.binaries.fonts in November 2002. It also sells handwriting fonts of US presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, as well as a font in the style of the Declaration of Independence. In 2017, they published the handcrafted typeface family Dakota. Inside that font, the dates are 1994, 1999 and 2015, and the design is attributed to Dave Fenwick and Doug Dyer. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sivioco
| Stoke-on-Trent, UK-based designer of the modular typeface Path Type (2014) and Mara (2016, a grungy sans). The cursive part of this school script font was designed by Ian Barnard. Typefaces from 2017: Vittoia, Ink Block (rubber stamp emulation), Bessemer (octagonal, chamfered, industrial). Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
SoftMaker Software GmBH (or: freefont.de)
| SoftMaker, Martin Kotulla's German foundry in Nürnberg, is selling the 10,000-TrueType font Megafont XXL CD (50 USD, www.megafont.de). Every month, a different font or font family (TT and T1) is given away for free. The MegaFont XXL has most standard Monotype/Adobe/Linotype families (up to 1995/1996). They say that most fonts are licensed from URW++ and Brendel Informatik (Cologne). Contents of MegaFont XXL's predecessor, MegaFont Profi CD, here. Since early 2001, you can download one font family from the CD MegaFont XXL here. Martin Kotulla also started infiniType, a collection of 5050 fonts at a good price (Mac and PC). That collection grew to 7444 fonts in InfiniType 4 in 2016. The XXL series has character sets for Western and Central European languages, Turkish, and Celtic, and comes with many expert sets. For historical accuracy: older packages by Softmaker include the 3333-font (TT and T1) MegaFont Profi CD-2.0 (99DM), the 5000-font MegaFont Euro (50 Euro), the Truepack Profi-CD and the 500-font TypeMaker 5.0 Profi-Pack (10DM). Their early fonts were renamed and had the attribute Serial in the name. Samples of some of these fonts/families: Adelon Serial (1996, after Albertus MT), Melbourne Serial, Nashville Serial (+Heavy), Nevada Serial, On Stage Serial, Ornitons Serial, Penthouse Serial, Plakette Serial, Priamos Serial, Quadrat Serial, Quebec Serial, Riccione Serial, Rochester Serial, Salzburg Serial, Stafford Serial, Sunset Serial, Sydney Serial, Thames Serial, Toledo Serial, Valencia Serial (Heavy), Valencia Serial (Xlight), Verona Serial, Volkswagen Serial, Wichita Serial. In 2008, SoftMaker started selling fonts on MyFonts: fonts there include the 28-style Suetterlin family (2008), based on the handwriting taught in German schools in the first half of the 20th century, Harald Handwriting (2009), Agilo Handwriting (2009), Wally Handwriting (2009), Vittorio Handwriting (2009), Turandot Handwriting (2009), Tommi Handwriting (2009), Veneto Handwriting (2009), Tolomeo Handwriting (2009), Sarx Handwriting (2009), Salew Handwriting (2009), Roxana Handwriting (2009), Renate Handwriting (2009), PizPaz Handwriting (2009, Mexican style), Schneid Handwriting (2009), Pietro Handwriting, Phil Handwriting, Nadine Handwriting, Kuno Handwriting, Larissa Handwriting, Lizzy Handwriting, Juri Handwriting, Jeff Handwriting (2009), Josh Handwriting (2009), Jelena Handwriting (2009), Jaro Handwriting (2009), Jacques Handwriting (2009), Hilly Handwriting (2009), Harico Handwriting (2009), Hakon Handwriting (2009), Stone Handwriting (2009), Federico Handwriting (2009), Fabio Handwriting (2009), Emmi Handwriting (2009), Davio Handwriting (2009), Alec Handwriting (2009), Brian Handwriting (2009), Armand Handwriting (2009), Claude Handwriting (2010), Cathy Handwriting (2010), Clay Handwriting (2010), Danielle Handwriting (2010), Feliks Handwriting (2010), Foster Handwriting (2010), Giorgio Handwriting (2010), Giovanna Handwriting (2010), Guga Handwriting (2010), Giuliano Hanriting (2010), Carlo Handwriting (2009), Brouet Handwriting (2010), Bjarne Handwriting (2009), Fuego (2015: a retro script, after Letraset's Flamenco), Agnieszka Handwriting (2009) and Thery Handwriting (2009). Additions in 2010: Tabasco (a geometric based on the phototype font by John Schaedler), Tabasco Twin (a bilined typeface after John Schaedler's Paprika), Advertisers Gothic (a revival of a 1917 typeface by Robert Wiebking), Ad Lib (a revival of a quirky 1961 typeface by Freeman Craw for ATF), Accent (brush face), Flagstaff (oblique techno face), Cornered (with angular pieces), Abilene (Western; caps only), Comix, Cathedral Open (nice open face), Boa Script (2010), Bryce (2010, brush script), Brush Script (2010, after the original ATF font by Robert E. Smith from 1942), Bernhard Fashion (2010), Abbott Old Style (2010, after a 1901 semi-Victorian font by Joseph W. Phinney), Artistic (2010, after Ariston, a 1933 typeface by Martin Wilke), Elegant Script (2010, a revival of Berthold's Englische Schreibschrift), Garamond Serial (2011), the Suetterlin family. The typefaces remastered in 2012 include Chandler Pro (this is Rofer Excoffon's 1955 brush typeface Choc; see also Staccato 555 by Bitstream and Chalk by Corel), Cheltenham Pro, Cleargothic Pro (after Morris Fuller Benton's flared version of Clearface, Clearface Gothic, 1907), Cooper Black Pro (+Stencil), Bristol Pro, Tioga Script Pro (after Georg Trump's 1956 script by that name, but aka Time Script). Free download: Huntington-Bold [-> Handel Gothic], Huntington-Light, ImperialStd-Bold [-> URW Imperial] ImperialStd-BoldItalic, ImperialStd-Heavy, ImperialStd-HeavyItalic, ImperialStd-Italic, ImperialStd-Medium, ImperialStd-MediumItalic, ImperialStd-Regular, ImperialStd-Xbold, ImperialStd-XboldItalic, KremlinScript-Bold [-> Kuenstler Script], RaleighSerial-Bold, RaleighSerial-Heavy, RaleighSerial-Regular, Scott [-> Stop], TiogaScript-Bold [-> Time Script], TiogaScript-Light, TiogaScript-Medium. Handwriting fonts shown at MyFonts in 2013: Allan Handwriting, Andrew Handwriting, Eleanor Handwriting, Enrico Handwriting, Estelle Handwriting, Jay Handwriting, Jaz Handwriting, Jesco Handwriting, Justine Handwriting, Kris Handwriting, Laszlo Handwriting, Lennart Handwriting, Luitpold Handwriting, Manolo Handwriting, Marbo Handwriting, Marcello Handwriting, Murielle Handwriting, Pablo Handwriting, Paolo Handwriting, Pascal Handwriting, Picto Handwriting, Rainer Handwriting, Reyno Handwriting, Ronaldo Handwriting, Teje Handwriting, Theo Handwriting, Valerian Handwriting, Vincent Handwriting, Vogel Handwriting, Volker Handwriting, Wilma Handwriting. The blackletter collection published in 2016 by SoftMaker includes these typefaces: Albrecht Duerer Fraktur Pro, Barock 1720, Breitkopf Fraktur Pro, Coburg No1, Coburg No2, Coelnische Current Pro, Diamant Gotisch Pro, Fleischmann Gotisch Pro, Fraktur No2 Pro, Fraktur No3 Pro. Later in 2016, SoftMaker published its revival collection, which includes Alternate Gothic Pro, Amsterdamer Garamont Pro, Antiqua Pro, Balloon Pro (brush), Caslon Antique Pro, Century Old Style Pro, Elmore Pro (architectural hand), Falcon Pro (retro brush), Cheltenham ExtraCondensed Pro Bold, Casual Pro (a copy of Thomas Nevison's Casual Pro from 1935), Garamond Nova Pro, Giulio Pro (a copy of Gillies Gothic), Josephs Brush Pro (a copy of Joseph Churchward's Churchward Brush), Malaga Pro (a copy of Roger Excoffon's Mistral), Melville Pro (after Murray Hill), Pedro Pro (a revival of the brush script Dom Casual by Peter Dombrezian, 1950-1953, at ATF), Salmon Pro (a revival of François Boltana's Stilla from 1973), Soledad Pro (based on Helmut Matheis's Slogan (1959, Ludwig & Mayer)), Somerset Pro (a revival of the Letraset font Shamrock designed in 1978 by Alan Withers), Sterling Pro (based on Stentor, designed in 1964 by Heinz Schumann at Typoart), Violin Script Pro (based on Vladimir Script by Vladimir Andrich, 1978). Typefaces from 2019: American Text (after an original condensed textura by Morris Fuller Benton), Angelo (after a Victorian typeface called Anglo by Barnhart Brothers ans Spindler, ca. 1895), Balloon No2 (just like SoftMaker's Balloon, based on Max Kaufmann's Balloon from 1939 at ATF), Balzac (after Johannes Boehland's Balzac from 1951), Amber (after Amelia by Stanley Davis, 1964), Karin Pro (a revival of OttoWeisert's art nouveau script Kalligraphia), Beale Charming (2019, after an art deco typeface by Collis Clements, ca. 1974), Bernhard Condensed No2, Bluff No2 (2012-2019, after Julius Kirn's brush script Bison, 1938), Boss (2012, after the sci-fi typeface ITC Bolt (1970, Tom Carnase and Ronne Bonder)), Broadway No2 (2012), Cavalier (2012), Century Schoolbook Pro (2019: after Morris Fuller Benton's typeface from 1919), Century PS Pro (2019: after New Century Schoolbook), Commercial Script No2 (2012, after Morris Fuller Benton's Spencerian script), Cristoforo (2012: after Columbus, a Victorian typeface by Hermann Ihlenburg), Dillon No2 (2012, after Jan Van Dijk's Demian), Disco (2012), Dom (2012; after Peter Dombrezian's Dom, 1952), Durango No2 (2012; after K. Sommer's Dynamo, 1930), Egyptian Wide (2012, after walter H. McKay's Egyptienne from 1952), Eller Initials (2012), Entebbe (2012: after F. Scott Garland's Enviro, 1982), Estelle (2012, based on Vince Whitlock's Equinox from 1988), Florentine (2012, after Ludvig S. Ipsen's ATF Florentine Old Style (1896)), Fraktur No2 (2012, after Johann Christian Bauer's Fette Fraktur, 1850), Frenzy (2012), Giulio No2 (2012, after William S. Gillies's Gillies Gothic, 1935), Greyhound (2012), Harlekin (2012, after Colin Brignall's retro script Harlow Solid (1977)), Hobo No2 (2012, after Morris Fuller Benton's Hobo, 1910), Hubert (2012, after Jan van Dijk's Van Dijk from 1982), Hudson (2012, a brush script), Ingrid (2012), Inverserif (2012), Japanette (2012, an oriental simulation face modeled after Barnhart Brothers and Spindler's 1893 font, Wedge Gothic ML, aka Japanet), Kalligraphia (2012, after Otto Weisert's art nouveau script, Kalligraphia, from 1902), Legend Script (2012, after F.H. Ernst Schneidler's faux Arabic simulation font Legende from 1937), Looking Glass (2012, after Phil Martin's Introspect, 1971), Messing (2012, after W. Schwerdtner's Metropolis from 1928), Metallic Sky (2012, after Mekanik, a Letraset typeface from 1988 by David Quay), Mister Big (2012, after Juergen Riebling's Mr. Big from 1972), Openface No2 (2012, after Augustea Open done in 1951 by Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese), Organ Grinder (2019, based on Franz Heigemeir's Organda from 1972), Paladin (2012, a blackletter, also called P650 Blackletter and Excalibur), Pergamon (2012, a deco hairline sans modeled after Premier Lightline (1969, Colin Brignall for Letraset)), Pinocchio (2012, based on a psychedelic typeface by Gustav Jaeger from 1973; earlier called P732 Deco by SoftMaker), Pretoria (2012, earlier called P820 deco by SoftMaker; a revival of the Edwardian typeface Pretorian by P.M. Shanks and Sons, ca. 1880s), Publicity Gothic (2012, based on Sidney Gaun's 1916 typeface for BBS), Quartz (2012, after Alan Birch's LCD from 1981), Reflex (2012, based on Refracta, made in 1988 by Martin Wait), Regency Script (2012: was R690 Script), Rosa (2019, after Herb Lubalin's ITC Ronda, 1970), Rough Script (2012, based on Imre Reiner's Reiner Black, 1955), Rovinj (2012, after a font by Phil Martin), Shotgun (2019, based on a film font from 972 by J. Looney for VGC), Siegfried (2012, art nouveau style), Slager (2012, based on Flash by Edwin Shaar, 1937), Sprint (2012, after Aldo Novarese's Sprint from 1974), Station Script (2012, after a 1946 typeface pair, Studio and Flambard, by Adolf Overbeek), Status (2012, after Michael Neugebauer's Squire from 1980-1987), Tico (2019), Unziale (2012), Yorkshire (2019, formal calligraphy), Zanzibar (2019, after a 1950s Filmotype font), Zephyr (2019; after Rofger Excoffon's Mistral, 1953). View the Softmaker library of typefaces. 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Author of Von der Schrift und den Schriftarten (Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag, Mannheim). These have a history of type and lettering, instructions on lettering (e.g., stroke guide for Antiqua Majuskeln, Lombardische Versalien, and Gotische Majuskeln), some type specimen (mainly German, from the early part of the 20th century), some alphabets, drawn by her, information on the German school scripts, and a German type and lettering glossary: i, ii, iii, iv. It was probably published between 1956 and 1959. In 2010-2012, Dick Pape created a number of (mostly caps-only) typefaces based on that book. These include SSWAntiquaPionsel, SSWAntiquaVersalien (a caps set based on Ludovico Vicentino, 1523), SSWCelticAntiquaOutline, SSWFederAntiqua, SSWHollowScript, SSWHolz (Lombardic caps), SSWJensonsAntiqua, SSWLeopoldAntiqua, SSWLombardischeVersalien, SSWMannheimOrnament, SSWPlakatschrift (a useful outline alphabet), SSWRoundPrinting, SSWRusticAlphabet, SSWRusticScript, SSWSchablonenschrift (Bauhaus-style stencil face), SSWUrbanAntiqua-Versal, SSWWoodcuts. | |
Creator of the free lined school font School Script Dashed. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A number of school fonts from Will Software, made in 2001: SP-Anlaut3, SP-DRHH3, SP-DRHH318248, SP-DRHHRahmen, SP-DRViereck, SP-Inlaut1, SP-Inlaut118248, SP-Mathe3. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Encyclopaedia Britannica: Style of cursive script developed by Platt Rogers Spencer (d. 1864) of Geneva, Ohio. Energetically promoted by five sons and a nephew, the Spencerian method became the most widely known system of handwriting instruction in the third quarter of the 19th century. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Two tracing fonts for kids: NealFont (2000), Trace (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Handwriting Software to trace dots, intended for kids. Software comes with three trace-the-dot fonts. "Included with StartWrite are the Manuscript (Zaner Bloser), Modern Manuscript (D'Nealian), and Italic (Getty-Dubay or Portland Italic) font styles." With an additional cursive font, 50USD. Based in Salt Lake City. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stolat Studio
| Stolat Studio is a Warsaw-based creative agency founded by Michal Janica, Igor Kubik and Ania WielunDska. Irt specializes in branding, communication design, strategy and typography. Type designer Anna Wielunska (b. 1992) is based in Warsaw, and studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. She created Musso (2016), a remarkable brushy vernacular script typeface that is loaded with alternates to emulate real handwriting. Since about 2010, there has been an explosion of brushy typefaces, but even in this crowded field, Musso stands out. Later in 2016, Ania Wielunska and Mateusz Machalski co-designed the weathered typeface family Gangrena. Her last typeface from 2016 was the connected school script Koszyki, also co-designed with Mateusz Machalski. In 2016, as part of Warsaw Types, she designed the (free) elegant artsy typeface Lombard, which is loaded with ball terminals and slightly inclined. She writes: Lombard is a combination of an expressive script inspired by traditional Warsaw neon lettering and block letters typical for local craftsmen signage. The design was influenced by the Jubiler neon sign. This combination resulted in a font that is decorative and yet modular. In 2017, she designed the 18-style typeface Gelato Sans (Borutta). That typeface was republished in 2020 at Stolat Studio. In 2017, she participated in the Bona project, which set out to revive and extend Andrzej Heidrich's old typeface Bona. Mateusz Machalski contacted him for advice on the revival project. The resulting typeface families were published by and are available from Capitalics. The centerpiece is the warm and wonderful text typeface Bona Nova. It is supplemented by the extreme contrast typeface family Bona Title and the inline typeface family Bona Sforza. Participants in the project also include Leszek Bielski, Ania Wielunska and Michal Jarocinski. Google Fonts link for Bona Nova. Github link for Bona Nova. In 2018, Ania Wielunska designed Lazarus (Regular, Italic, Upright Italic, Fraktur). Dedicated web site. A revival of the New Polish Karakter from 1594 by Jan Januszowski, Jan Kochanowski and Lukasz Gornicki. Typefaces from 2020: Gangrena (a weathered black typeface originally done in 2016). In 2020, the team at Capitalics in Warsaw, namely Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka and Ania Wielunska, revived Adam Poltawski's Antykwa Poltawskiego (1928-1931) as Poltawski Nowy (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Storm Type Foundry
| Storm Type is a major Czech foundry that offers the inspiring work of Frantisek Storm (b. 1966, Prague). Most typefaces are made by Storm himself. The typefaces:
Alternate URL. Myfonts write-up. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about his own Czech typefaces, on his Czech Typeface Project, and on the life of Josef Týfa. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Freeware program for teaching the Suetterlin handwriting style. Includes a free Suetterlin truetype font (by Roman Georg Arens, Saarbrücken). Informative page by Marcus Hahn from the Historisches Institut der Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sultan Fonts
| Aden, Yemen-based designer of several typeface at Sultan Fonts (est. 2003 by Sultan Mohammed Saeed), which is run by Sultan Maqtari [I do not know the relationship between Sultan M. Saeed and Sultan Maqtari though]. Sultan Mohammed Saeed Noman was born in Aden in 1962. He was the first to computerize Musnad (Old South Arabian Writing System) in Unicode (at the Linguistic Department of the University of California 2007). He developed more than 90 Arabic font between 2000 and 2017. Author of the book Sultan's Fonts (2009). He developed a Naskh typeface that simulates Quran publishing. In addition, he taught graphics at several institutes, such as CISCO, New Horizons, Balfaqih. Typefaces from 2013 until 2014: Nizar (a Latin/Arabic script typeface), Sahareeg, Pumice, SF Change (2012; a cursive typeface for Latin, Arabic, Urdu, and Farsi; an award winner at The 2014 Horouf Type Design Competition; see also SF Change Pro (2020)), Hussein. Typefaces from 2016 include SF Mada. Typefaces from 2017: SF Tobba, SF Old South Arabian, SF Yazan (inspired by oriental kufi and Qairawani kufi), SF Sultan. Typefaces from 2018: Sultan Ruqah (for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Uthmani, and Kurdish), SF Marwa, SF Droob7 (original from 2014, covering Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Latin), SF Mabsut (an Arabic typeface in the style of Maghribi (Moroccan Mabsut)), SF Saggar (SF Saggar is a Naskh style Arabic typeface that is inspired by an alphabet written by the calligrapher and artist Mohamed Said Al-Saggar in the 1970s to simplify Arabic printing), SF Nizar (2014-2018: a Latin / Arabic Ruqah style typeface based on the handwriting of poet Nizar Qabbani; followed in 2020 by Sultan Nizar Pro), SF Handwriting (a set of school fonts for Latin and Arabic). Typefaces from 2019: SF Abyan (for Arabic, Persian, and Urdu), SF Khaled. Typefaces from 2020: SF Manchit, SF Pumice. Typefaces from 2021: Plain (an 18-style variable Arabic font by Sultan Maqtari), SF News, SF Article (Arabic and Latin). Typefaces from 2022: SF Hussein (a Flintstone font), SF Liberty VF (the variable font versions of SF Liberty), SF Liberty (a workhorse organic sans in 18 static styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Sultan Mohammed Saeed
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Susan Derrick
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Sütterlin --- Deutsche Schreibschrift
| German pages by Andreas Göbel about the Sütterlin way of writing as proposed by Ludwig Sütterl;in (1865-1917) which was taught in schools in Germany from 1915 untril 1941. It is also called German handwriting (Deutsche Schreibschrift). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German page about the Sütterlin writing system developed by Ludwig Sütterlin (1865-1917). Page by Marcus Hahn, Historisches Institut der Universität des Saarlandes. The software has some Sütterlin truetype fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German wiki page on Sütterlinschrift, named after Ludwig Sütterlin, and introduced in Preussen in 1915 to teach school children a writing script. Image of a practice book in Berlin in 1929. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swansbury
| Educator Nan Jay Barchowsky from Aberdeen, MD, designed many fine handwriting fonts. She wrote BFH, a Manual for Fluent Handwriting (Aberdeen, MD, 1997) and runs Swansbury Inc. Her connected and didactical fonts are part of a commercial package, BFH. In 2002, John Butler made a connected OpenType version of Barchowsky Fluent Hand. MyFonts sells Barchowsky Dot and Barchowsky Fluent Hand. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Publisher in Brazil that released the school writing manual Cartilha do Guri in 1962 and 1968. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tanya Davis
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Commercial didactic fonts. I have no idea who is behind this---no names are mentioned on the web site. For starters: What country are you in? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Educational handwriting fonts. Great dingbat and alphading archive too, all organized and presented by Joanne Lindgren. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Teresa Knezek
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The Difficult Type
| James Kilfiger (The Difficult Type) designed the free calligraphic typeface Inkcallig (2006), as well as T-Ball (2006, handwriting), LetsTrace (2006; a *very* readable light sans, even at small sizes), LetsTraceruled (a school font), Letstraceitalic, Pugsley (2006, a bi-ped Tuscan, based on an eighteenth century clock maker's sign from an old edition of Signs of the Times magazine), Pugsley Oblique (2006), AlphabetofChildren (2006, based on 16th century illuminated caps), Animal Silhouette (2006), Fold (2006, an origami-inspired face), Pierce Roman and Oblique (2006, after Gentium), Untitled1 (2010, a chess font), Tudor Rose (2010, script), Fold (2011, paper fold face), Transcends Games (2011, fututuristic), Lets Trace (2011, a school font for tracing), Tudor Rose (2011, an ornamental fat finger family), Pierce Oblique (2011, an angular face), Chess (2011), Wire Wyrm (2011, hairline serif face), Orthoventional Upright (2011), Ackermann (2013), Fifteen (2013, a faux bitmap font) and Contrans. In 2013, he designed the free monospaced typeface Quinze Narrow. Link at the Open Font Library. Aka Zeimusu. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The Icelandic Method
| A free instruction booklet by Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem written in 1985, and concerned with handwriting education for Icelandic children. Nan Jay Barchowsky, who published it in her series called Cursive Italic News says: The Ministry of Education in Iceland is introducing italic handwriting in schools. That is the result of pressure from teachers who were dissatisfied with the style they had, a copperplate-based business hand. A group of Icelandic teachers who are interested in experimental teaching of italic formed a working party last year, They were interested in the method and asked Briem to put together instructions that could be used with children by teachers who had little or no experience with italic. The members of the working party initially paid for the printing out of their own pockets. Dr. Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem donated his work. The scheme has been very well received. Letters of support have come in from handwriting experts in many parts of the world, Education authorities in other countries have suggested collaboration. The PDF showcases three font families by Briem himself, Italiuskrift05 (his casual handwriting for instructions, dated 1985), BriemAnvil06 (serif family) and BriemAnvilSans07 (sans family). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A free font, vicmodcu, for "Victorian Modern Cursive Handwriting" (truetype). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the Schreibschrift typeface Balmung (D. Stempel, 1934). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thierry Puyfoulhoux
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Thomas A. Osthege
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Illustrator in the San Francisco area, b. 1970. Dafont link. Creator of the signage typeface Tom Bombadill (2009), Bone Hymie (2009), Tioem Handwriting (2009), Tioem Open (2009), Tioem Black Distressed (2009), Dullard (2010, 3d, sketched), Flim-Flam (2009). He also made the lined didactic font Life Lessons (2009), the multilined scratchy typefaces The Spaz (2010) and Scrum Bucket (2009), the grungy Rock Biter (2009), Truffle Shuffle (2009, Kafkaesque), Metal Up Your Ear (2009), Griswold (2009), Seismacrap (2009), Snarky's Machine (2009, 3d shadow face), and Grog-Binge (2009, hand-printed). Creations in 2010: ChickenButt (textured comic book face), Janky, SailorLarry-ExtraFancy (ornamental caps), SailorLarry-Fade, SailorLarry-Fancy, SailorLarry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tim Ryan
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Spanish archive with school fonts, both lined and unlined, dotted and solid: Boo, Edelfontmed-Regular, Escolar1, Escolar2Negra, Escolar4Puntos, Escolar5Calada, Massallera, MeMima, Mestra-4 (DoblePautaPuntejada), Mestra1 (MemimaPautada), Mestra2 (Memima-Puntejada), Mestra3 (Pauta-doble), PalMeMim. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tom Nikosey
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Tony de Marco
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Located in Cornwall, UK, this company has free educational font downloads: Christopher Jarman's Jarman, Jardotty, Jarital and Jumper. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
"Trace font for kids", by PJ Cassel Designs, 1997. Free at this site run by Home Education and Homeschooling. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish designer Trine Rask lived in Den Haag from 2003-2004, as a graduate student at the KABK. In her final project there, she designed North (published in 2008 by LazyDogs), a book typeface suiting the textimage of the four Scandinavian languages, Danish, New Norwegian, Bokmal and Swedish. Trine Rask teaches type design at The Danish School of Media and The Danish Design School in Copenhagen. Author of Skriftdesign - øvelser på papiret (2009). In 2009, Trine went commercial at MyFonts. Her early fonts include Tommy Slim (2003, an all caps font to be used at 48 points and above), Case (a casual printed face), Pixel, Covergirl (2006, a stylish upright connected script for the fashion industry), Jewel (extra heavy with large contrast), and Brandts (sans serif). Her rounded typeface family Rum (2009) won an award at TDC2 2010). Rum is not named after the drink, but is just Danish for "room, space". In 2010, she published Rum Sans, a humanist modular sans serif to accompany Rum. In 2021, she added a poster version, Rum Plakat. In 2012, Trine designed Bornholm Tejn, named after the Tejn village on the rocky Danish island of Bornholm. It is a rough stone-cut polgonal typeface. It was followed some time later in 2012 by Bornholm Sandvig, in 2013 by Bornholm Dondal (stone-cut emulation) and in 2016 by the lowercase variant, Bornholm Tejn Low. She also published Rum Serif that year. In 2013, she finished Bornholm Allinge (chiseled stone face). Rum Sans (a humanist sans in 11 styles) and Rum Soft Sans (11 styles) were part of the commercial typeface library at Incubator / Village, but showed up in 2021 at MyFonts. Typefaces from 2019: Matita Geometric (a 5-style humanist geometric typeface designed with mathematics in mind), Matita Connected, Matita Written (hand-printed to teach handwriting), Slik. Typefaces from 2020: Matita Informal. Typefaces from 2022: Rum Silhouette. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
TrueBlue
| Located in Canegrate, Italy, TrueBlue is the foundry of Gianni Marcolongo (b. Legnano, 1963). He created the scholastic (upright and connected) handwriting font Pinocchio (2006), the connected calligraphic typefaces Emanuela (2008) and Martina (2007), TB FireSigns (2007), TB Matrix (2007, dot matrix font), TB Abacus (2007), TB Valentine A and B (2008, Valentine Day-themed dingbats), Philo Logic (2012, an extended sci-fi family), and the American-flag inspired TB StarsAndStripes (2007). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Creator of the upright connected school font script Katamotzikasi (2012, OFL). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type Revivals (or: SourceNet)
| Tim Ryan is a Thousand Oaks, CA-based type designer and font enthusiast, who has helped me out generously with font links in the 1990s. FontShop link. His fonts are distributed by ITF and Monotype and Precision Type. Font list: AES, AcmeTR, AdmiralTR, AlpineWhiteTR, AncientTextTR, AssayTR, August family, AutomationTR, BinnerGothicTR, BinnerTR, BlackboardLinedTR, BlackboardTR, BoboCapsTR, BonGuia, Bondage-Oblique, Bondage-Regular, BoomerangTR (1995, a typical art nouveau face), CameraStencilTR, CartoonPartyCapsTR, ChopinTR, CiviliteTR, ClaudiusTR, CollegeCapsTR, CoreDumpTR, DirectionTR, EclipseCapsTR, EngravedTR, ExpressTR, FlairTR, FrenchCapsTR, GabrielleTR, GaelicCapsTR, GoudyMediaevalTR, HelvinBlackTR, HelvinTR, HostessTR, KhayyamTR (Arabic simulation face), KiddoKapsTR, KleukensTR, LadyDawnTR, MaximeTR, ModTR, PencilCapsTR, PlayBlocksTR, SaltinoTR, SansPlateCapsTR, SchoolScript-Bold, SchoolScript (1994), SchoolScriptDashed, SchoolScriptLined-Bold, SchoolScriptLined, ShalimarTR (Indic simulation), ShalomTR (Hebrew simulation), SimplexTR, SpringtimeTR, SukiakiTR (Japanese simulation), SusieQTR, VarianteInitialsTR, WashingtonTextTR, XerxesTR (Greek simulation face, now at Monotype), SchoolOblique. Santa Barbara, CA-based SourceNet used to market school fonts, ca. 1992-1994, such as those listed above: SchoolScript-Bold, SchoolScript (1994), SchoolScriptDashed, SchoolScriptLined-Bold, SchoolScriptLined, but also DnealianCursive, DnealianCursiveLined, DnealianManuscript, DnealianManuscriptLined. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
TypeManufactur (was: GST Georg Salden Typedesign)
| Born in Essen, Germany, in 1930, Georg Salden is the nephew of Helmut Salden (1910-1996), a book and font designer in the Netherlands and a resistance fighter against Hitler. From 1950 until 1954, Georg studied advertising design at the Folkwang School in Essen (1950-1954). Later, he taught typography for five years at Folkwang. Until 1971, he was a freelance graphic designer specializing in typography and calligraphy. In 1966, he received an award in the international VGC competition in New York for the headline typeface York. He completed three fat weights of York (VGC) and four heavy weightys of Angular (VGC) before 1973. At Berthold AG in Berlin, he completed the phototypes Transit in 1969 and Daphne in 1970. From 1971 onwards, he cooperated with six German and 24 international foundries, producing about ten fonts per year, under the name GST (Georg Salden Types) and later Context-GmbH. For example, he did 35 fonts for Fototransit. Between 1972 and 1984, he created these typefaces: Aster 4.2, Polo (7 styles), Bilbao, Caslon (4 styles), Basta (5 styles), Stresemann (8 styles), Parabella, Mäander, Brasil (8 styles), Magnet, Hansa, Bonjour, Tandem, Futuranea (a rounded set of 18 styles; royalties for the name were paid to Bauersche Giesserei), Congress (6 styles), Ready, Salut, Loreley (4 styles), Loretta (4 styles), Gordon (7 styles), Volante, Tap (3 styles), Sketchy (4 styles), Gallopp, 1 Videon, Deutschkurrent, Corvey (2 styles), Klicker and Dalli (2 styles). In 1977, he converted some of his headline typefaces into text fonts for the Diatronic, spending a lot of time on the kerning tables. Before 1988, he drew Basta, Polo, Tap, Turbo, Gordon, Brasil, and Dalli. These were digitized by hand between 1989 and 1992 on the Ikarus system. The families were also expanded. For example, just for Polo, we have these styles: 11, 22, 66, 77, G, Fino, schmal, eng, extracondensed, kyrillisch and griechisch, with old style and lining figures in both Mac PostScript and PC truetype formats. New typefaces in this productive period include Carree, Axiom, Votum, Zitat, Rolls, Essenz, Planet, Trigon, and Deutschkurrent. Videon got four new heavy weights, and Daphne was redesigned for use as a text typeface. In 2003, he set up Typemanufactur which he managed until 2008 with Daniel Resing and Tanja Link. Typemanufactur sold the GST typeface library. In 2009, Ludwig Uebele took over this company by himself. He takes care of the web presence, the font licensing, web font production, opentype production and all managerial aspects. After the end of all contracts with VGC, Berthold AG and GST/Context GmbH, all rights of the font collection belong to Georg himself. Nowadays, he is critical of the lack of quality in recently designed typefaces. In FontBlog, we find a discussion of the Polo vs. Meta controversy, in German, with a reply by Erik Spiekermann who says that his FF Meta was influenced by many types, not just Polo, but also Syntax, News Gothic and Akzidenz Grotesk. The success of Polo reaches beyond FF Meta. For example, Walter Brendel's Glasgow Serial is also based on Polo. Typophile discussion. Also noteworthy is Georg's success in the removal of Revis (2011, Coen Hofmann, URW) from the URW library as it was judged too close to Daphne. Scans and technical discussions of some of his typefaces:
In 1993, Benjamin Kempas made a 12-minute documentary in Georg Salden's life and work entitled Der Schriftgelehrte. Behance link. Fontshop link. Klingspor link. Bio. Wikipedia link. What A Character is a web site dedicated to Salden's fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typoecke
| General type site (in German) run by Helmar Fischer from Dresden. Type history. Pages about educational fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typofabric
| Plymouth, UK-based foundry, est. 2009. In 2009, they made the organic and slightly experimental sans typefaces Aplica, Shelter, Qero Lite and Qero Nite, and the schoolbook handwriting typefaces Sweety and Sweety Hollow, and the industrial Fabrikey (2009). In 2010, Dois Debe made the calligraphic typeface Shanklin. In 2012, Typofabric published the ball terminal typeface Coquelicot and the techno script typeface Methylene. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typolar (was: Jarno Lukkarila Type Foundry, or: Format Design)
| Jarno Lukkarila (b. 1978) works mainly in graphic design. As the author of the typography reference book Tekstuuri: typografia julkaisijan työvälineenä (2001, Helsinki: CredoNet) he is one of the few writing about the subject in the Finnish language. He ran a typography-oriented design studio called Format Design in Helsinki and lectures part time on typography in Finnish design schools. Lukkarila was recognized as a type designer in the Morisawa Awards 2002, where his Xtra Sans typeface received the bronze prize in the Latin category. Lukkarila studied type design at the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, in the postgraduate course Type&Media highlighted by the writing and letter design workshop of Gerrit Noordzij in 2000. Before this he graduated as graphic designer in Finland. Format Design became Jarno Lukkarila Type Foundry, and in 2010 morphed into Typolar, which is based in London. Typolar is run with Teemu Ollikainen and Saku Heinänen. His type families, most of which start with an extreme hairline weight.
Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Mersin-based Turkish designer (b. 1969) of UlusalOkul.Comizgili (2006), a handwriting face, with lines, useful for teaching. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Urban Pixel (or: UP Font Studio)
| Foundry in Montreal, est. 2008 by Michel Troy (b. 1969). Behance link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Their fonts:
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Vasava Fonts
| Catalan designer Bruno Selles (b. 1976) set up Vasava Artworks (and later, Vasava Fonts) in Barcelona in 1997. In 2018, he joined the faculty in the Masters in typographic design program at Elisava in Barcelona. Selles created fonts like VSV-Alergia-Bold, VSV-Alergia-Regular, VSV-ByPass-StencilBold, VSV-Epidermis-Black, VSV-Leila-Bold, VSV-Leila-Medium, VSV-Melon (Light and Regular), VSV-DingDong (I and II), VSV-Lengua-RoundedRegular, VSV-Pachuca-Regular, VSV-Pachuca-Suau, VSV-Romina-Bold, VSV-Romina-Light, VSV-Romina-Regular, VSV-RominaRounded-Light, VSV-RominaRounded-Regular, VSV-Rotula-Regular (2001, by Toni Selles, used to be a free stencil font), VSV-Tirania-Caps, VSV-Tirania-RoundedCaps, ADN, ADN-katakana (pixel fonts, 1998), Neurona, Neurona-katakana (pixel fonts, 1999) and Retina. Some fonts used to be free (but they have gone totally commercial now, it seems). Custom typefaces include the official Nike Barca font used by the Barcelonba soccer team. Typefaces from 2015: Matchpoint (a scoreboard or sports jersey typeface), Amaretta (a Suetterlin script-style typeface renamed Amarissima after a few days), Synopsis (a classic small caps or titling typeface). Typefaces from 2017: Kröwn (3d, beveled). Typefaces from 2018: Parca (a grotesk sans). Typefaces from 2019: Abu Dhabi (a custom typeface for Etihad Airlines' magazine Atlas). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Sofia, Bulgaria-based type designer associated with Fontfabric, aka Djo Venci, Ventsislav Dzhokov and Ventsislav Djokov. His typefaces:
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In the early part of the 20th century, British calligrapher Vere Foster (1819-1900) designed a set of figurative initials for one of his calligraphy workbooks. These were turned into a font simply called Foster Figurative Initials by David Nalle in 2016. Vere Foster called it Comic Alphabet in his book. Foster was also active as a penman. In the UK in the 1940s, children were taught the Vere Foster Civil Service Script which was a simplified form of copperplate (roundhand). It was written with a straight pen fitted with a moderately flexible dip nib. That script was promoted in Vere Foster's New Civil Service Copy Book Series (ca. 1919, Blackie and Son, London), about 50 books in total. PDF file of Vere Foster's Copy Books Lettering, Plain and Ornamental (ca. 1900). Local PDF file for that same book. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of LST (2011, octagonal, at T26), of the beautiful stencil font Crisafulli (2002, still at T26) and the VAG-Rounded lookalike Chocolat (2007, at T26). Typefaces from 2017, when he set up his own foundry, Crisafulli: Jasmin (a tribute to the ancient stories of The Thousand and One Nights), Retrospectif (a gorgeous tall condensed monoline sans with shadow versions, in the style of the 1930s and 1940s). In 2020, he designed Bella Copia (an upright monoline school script) and Noahs Ark. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Vintage Type Co (or: Vintage Design Co)
| Crowborough, East Sussex, UK-based designer Ian Barnard (Vintage Design Co) created the curly hand-drawn typeface Warrior in 2014. With Sam Jones, he designed the school script font Path Type (2014). In 2015, Ian created the vernacular script Northern Soul, the brush script Enjoy The Ride, the free handcrafted typeface Foxhole, the brush font Sun Kissed, the connected monoline script typeface Smoothy and the letterpress emulation font Saltash. In 2016, he designed the poster typeface Sticky Lollipop, the American Oak series (Script, Serif, Slab, +scratchplate drawings by Emma Lindley), the vintage artisanal display typeface family Sugar Boats, the handcrafted Outbound and Money Penny Script, VTC Symbols, the sans titling typeface Fruitbox, Money Penny Sans, the handcrafted travel poster typeface Cool Britannia (2016), and the connected script font Bloomsbury, which is accompanied by Bloomsbury Sans and Bloomsbury Serif. In his Wood Type series (2016), he emulates old worn wood type and letterpress type---try out the free Condensed Slab Rough. Typefaces from 2017: Simple Things (old typewriter font), Dorchester Display (Victorian), Besties, Montebello (monoline script), Radiant Beauty (brush script), Adrenaline Brush, Foxtrail Script, Bookend (a super-condensed sans). Typefaces from 2018: Lemon Bird (free), Beautiful Grace (Serif, Script). Typefaces from 2019: Bloke (a revival Miller & Richard's classic metal typeface Egyptian Expanded). Typefaces from 2020: Andre's Diner (Peignotian). Creative Market link. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
School font collection at 40 USD for the lot. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ostrava, Czechia-based designer of these free fonts: Gunny Handwriting (2003), Tincushion (2003-2014), Hieroglyphic (2002, paperclip font), Fashionism, Milanotica (2012), Gunny Rewritten (2014), Blrrpix Strict (2014, pixel face), Kvantita (2014, script), Simply City (2014, organic sans). Typefaces from 2015: Jack Brusher (brush font), Gunny Manual, Gomes Strikes Agaian, Octagonal, Fashionism (thin sans), Bublina The Dog (comic book face), Quality of Life. Typefaces from 2016: Residualni (brush calligraphy), Ales&Hegar Raw (outlined party present font; inspired by the book "Mladezi" by Mikolas Ales (1852-1913). Its cover was designed by Milan Hegar who tried to imitate Ales's ornamental upper case letters from the original 1910s magazines). Typefaces froom 2017: Vitkova Pisanka (handwriting type loosely based on what was taught in Czech elementary schools in the 1980s), Ruffiano & Loseri, Eighties Monster (outlined and textured sans). Typefaces from 2018: Bublina The Mongrel (comic book script), Whatacolor (a watercolor brush font), Indiana Jones (his take on the font from the Indiana Jones logo), Pixlashed, Krasomila (hand-drawn letters used in credits of the movie Pysna princezna (The Proud Princess) (1952)). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vuuuds
| Aka Vuuuds. Denpasar, Indonesia-based designer of these typefaces in 2021: Alfine, Efton Serif (decorative), Emilea, Fistro (an avant garde fashion font with hipster traits), Fromy, Fugi, Hues Serif, Musky (decorative). Typefaces from 2020: Arsen (a font duo), Cagily (a decorative serif), De Hudson, Froyas, Gesmont (a striking fashion mag font), Kasual, Moric, Smith Signature, Tefis (a decorative serif), Thiago (a decorative serif), Lavagne (an almost-stencil), Carlsen (script). Typefaces from 2019: Claire (Sans, Script), Tango (a poetic irregular script), Serfict (calligraphic), Serfict Sans (outlined caps), Charles UK (a formal upright script), Moret (a children's script), Olifer (Serif+Script), Callies Script (swashy calligraphic script), Hector Ink (a Treefrog style ink splatter script). Typefaces from 2018: Theory, Ezalor (an inky script), Chase (a clean geometric sans family), Manila, Stay, Mono, Lipstick (a signature font), Figo (an inky script), New (sans), York (script), Roth, Reusk Script, Paris, Adelia, Rosie Kiley (a font duo consisting of the titling typeface Track and the script typeface Kiley), Artemis Script, Anter Script, Gloams, Redge, Muster Script, Stylish Script, Georgia Script. Typefaces from 2017: Bianca (signature font), Lisbeth Script, Wilder Script, Kalisa (signature font), The Bloom, Earnis, Mient, Styler, Erily Script, Miyuki (calligraphic), Mussie, Kesley Script, Faust Script, Recolter (a stunning poster typeface), Caities, Emily (script), Roth, Hukster, Rovist Script, Renith (connected script). Typefaces from 2016: Hulleva, Callet, Theos Script, Void (rounded sans), Lemonia, Revel (script), First Text (primitive script), Magical Script, Mauret Script (calligraphic), Rosgart (a signature font), Plore (experimental sans), Murtics (a signature font), Infister (minimalist modernist sans), Beafust, Astter (calligraphic script), Humos (connected school script), Hullist (connected handwriting), Happy Tum, Little Bite (children's book font), Millace (calligraphic script), Grafter (connected signage font), Elgard (brush script), Flotus (calligraphic), Pitter (fat finger font), Scripter (formal calligraphic style), Muffet (connected monoline script), Waltus Script (calligraphic and connected), Feruci, Evertype, Breital Script, Castellia, Enough Script, Rollfunk, Hottuf, Staiger (script), Fintype, Themost Script (calligraphic), Fuster Script. In 2015, he made the brush script typefaces Mauvet Rios, Reusk (a great informal calligraphic typeface), Mostter (calligraphic script), Foldeck (a rounded monoline sans), Quickfox, Serffost, Hurgey, Gothup, Gullick, Wilfur Script and Barkless, the hairline script font Catties, the fine hand-drawn poster font Monofor, the handcrafted connected script fonts Wellone, Anter Script, Cindelia, Ruffest and Perston, the handpainted Emillyne, Herlock, Forsa, the calligraphic font Herfume (loaded with alternates), the handcrafted font family Latype (Brush, Hand, Script, Serif, Condensed, Sans, Extras), the brush typefaces Nufertum (a great medieval travel log script), Nufertum Sans, Northline, Stokebridge, Fouyers Script, Heiger Script and Wayback, and of the handwriting font Allegate. He also designed Bubble Tea, Whalerig, Klasdot, Hello June, Retro Board, London Train, Rope&Bag, Strip Box, Yellow Jelly, Wide West, Funky Disco, Fat Burger, Sweet Lollipop, Dance Club, Crazy Type, Avicelyns (a connected script), Blackyard (a monoline connected script), and Nanoline Icons (which contains 2061 icons divided into 30+ categories: symbol, weather, building, financial & shopping, user, emoticon, hand gesture, medicine, body parts, image, audio, video, music, charts, map, security, document, furniture, kitchen, drink, fruit, food, chat, email, tools, text, communication, business, time, science, laundry, zodiac, kids, energy, animal, clouds, transportation). Typefaces from 2022: Georgia Script, Lecory (a fashionable typeface with high contrast). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Walden Font
| Walden Font (est. 1997) sells historical typefaces&clip-art by Oliver Weiss from Winchester, MA. Walden's site includes a brief history of blackletter, as summarized in the PDF document The Gutenberg Press: Five Centuries of German Fraktur (1997). Typefaces by categories:
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Creator of a free metafont set called Schulschriften (2012). These are historical German school fonts. This package comes with TeX and Latex tools and pre-coded lined pages. There are many fonts, upright and tilted, categorized as follows:
Author of Schulschriften---von Sütterlin bis heute. Die TEXnische Komödie, vol. 24 (2012) 4, 12--41. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer born in Dresden in 1906, who lives in Lehre-Flechtorf near Braunschweig. He studied under Rudolf Koch in Offenbach in 1927 and worked at the Ludwig&Mayer Type Foundry as type designer from 1930-1971. His typefaces:
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German cartographer (b. Berlin, 1894, d. 1972, Berlin) who worked at AEG (Berlin) in the 1920s and then at Adrema Maschinenbaugesellschaft (Berlin) until 1937. He was an independent designer from 1937 onwards. At Berthold AG he designed these typefaces:
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Designer at Schriftguss AG of these typefaces:
Also written Walter Schnippering. Digital versions: Aktuell is similar to the digital typefaces Athletic Script, Sport Script and Spoleto (Novel Fonts). [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] ⦿ | |
WCM
| WCM, or Woods Creative Media, which is based in Salburg, UK, is run by Paul Woods (b. 1980, Bolton, England). At MyFonts, it sells Skulebook (2007), a school book-style hand-printed font. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Webcodesigns
| Adelaide, South Australia-based designer of the brush typefaces Jolly Bobby (2017), Mistletoe Kisses (2017), Honey Jester (2017), Friday Feels (2017), Prince Rollick (2017), Delightful Dog (2017), Crafty Cat (2017), Buttersky (2017), Abigail&Dean (2017), Jacinta Brush (2017), Juanita Brush Script (2017) and Juanita Script (2017), Brooklyn (2017, sans), the monoline Blackline Script (2017), the Valentine's day script Love Alice (2017), Lemon Zest Script (2017, brush script), the high contrast titling typeface Benjamin (2017), Michael Marker (2017), the thin sans typeface Sansica (2017), the handcrafted Sweet Pavlova (2017), Luca Bell (2017), Mila Jane (2017), Karlie School (2017: school script, with lines), Be Kinder (2017), Blue Daisy (2017), and Jumping Jasper (2017), the ProFuturic typeface family (2017), the clean sans typefaces Albot (2017) and Ariona (2017), Scat Cat (2017), the Peignotian typeface Ravish (2017), the text typeface Alfred (2017), and Zuey Handwriting (2017). Typefaces from 2019: KH Prickles. Creative Market link. Behance link. Dafont link. Another alias is Kristy Oborne. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Site where one can download Schuschri95-0 (orthographic handwriting font by Hildehrad Pollhammer and Herbert Pesendorfer from Salzburg, 1995), MM (sans serif by Judex, 2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wiescher Design
| Gert Wiescher was born in Braunsbach am Kocher, Germany, in 1944. Based in München, Gerd Wiescher designed many classy and classic Bodoni families, as well as New Yorker Type (1985). All of his typefaces are carefully fine-tuned and balanced. Wiescher founded first Munich Type and then Wiescher Design and Autographis. He is known as a hard, fast and prolific worker. His exquisite typefaces can be bought at MyFonts. Catalog of his bestselling typefaces. Interview in 2008. Wikipedia page. Creative Market link. List of typefaces:
Author of many books, including Zeitschriften & Broschüren (Systhema-Verlag, München, 1990), Schriftdesign (Systhema-Verlag, München, 1991), and Blitzkurs Typografie (Systhema-Verlag, München, 1992). The following text was excerpted from his wikipedia page: At 14 years of age, Wiescher went to Paris to study fine art. He financed his stay by doing portraits on the Place du Tertre on Montmartre. In the sixties Wiescher studied graphic design at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. (Since November 2001, Berlin University of the Arts.) He financed his studies by sidewalk painting and drawing portraits. While doing sidewalk paintings, he met the typeface designer Erik Spiekermann, who inspired his love of this branch of design. After two years he quit his studies, and went to Barcelona where he worked at the offices of Harnden & Bombelli, for whom he designed the OECD-Pavilion of the 1970 Osaka World Expo. In 1972 he moved on to Johannesburg working as an art director at Grey and Young advertising . In 1975, he returned to Germany, working first for DFS+R-Dorland, and then for the "Herrwerth & Partner" ad agency. At Herrworth, he was involved in introducing IKEA into the German market. In 1977 he became a creative partner in the Lauenstein & Partner ad agency, creating mainly campaigns for large German retail chains. In 1982 he started his own design office, creating work for editors (Markt & Technik, Systhema and Langen-Müller-Herbig), computer companies (House of Computers, FileNet) and he worked for Apple Computers designing their publications (Apple-Age and Apple-LIVE). View Gert Wiescher's typefaces. Wikipedia link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Will Software
| Rainer Will Softwareentwicklung (Schöffengrund, Germany) developed many school and cursive writing fonts, ca. 1996-2005. They sell their fonts in 10 to 30-font packages, such as handwriting, Altdeutsche schrift, Barcodes, Schulschriften (school fonts). There are also East-European, Cyrillic, Greek, Thai and IPA fonts. Here, we have demos for various programs, and if you download and unzip them, you will discover these alphading fonts: FT-BruchTon, FT-HochztsGlocken, KD-Kaesweich, HB-Kegel, HB-Kegelhardt, HB-Kegelweich, KD-Pilz, KD-Singvogel, and these dingbat fonts: NW-BioBlatt (leaves, 1998), Pikto5 (1997). The caps font IN-Barock is here. Will Software made hundreds of fonts, including the handwriting fonts Jeff and HW Stone (1998), KL-Antiqua2, Old-London, Fraktur. A fuller list, by type:
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Designer (aka Funk King, b. Fort Knox, KY) who lives in Orlando, FL, and/or Apopka, FL. He used FontStruct in 2008-2009 to make over 550 decorative fonts, and became one of the world's top experts on FontStruct, FontShop's on-line font editor. Most of his fonts were withdrawn in 2012. He did a few commercial typefaces at his commercial foundry, Funk King. His creations include
In 2012, he added these fonts at MyFonts: Architect, Black Tie, Carousel, Check Mate, Cobblestones, Cruise, Dog Tag, Edgar Fernhout (2012), Fifty Famous Fairy Tales, Fratturato Digitale (pixelish blackletter face), Ghost Town, Jackpot, Jelly Bean, Keyboard, Kingdom (a castle font), Lagniappe (Victorian), Lyrical, Madie, Matchstick, Menagerie, Q Typ, Scaffo, Sprinkle, Stained Glass, Stencillated, Stensei (stencil), Sweet Valley, Toothpaste, Vibration MF, Yoyo, Zephyrelli. Typefaces from 2013 (no longer freely downloadable!): Pome (dot matrix), Cow Poke (dot matrix), Sausalito Nautica, Cut Here (stitching typeface), Belly Button (dot matrix face), Rouletto (bejeweled typeface), Picnic Basket (alphadings), Fandangle (dot matrix), Trace Remains (dot matrix), Billiards (dot matrix), Cross Worded, Script Town, Schematode (connect-the-dots), Electrifunkified, Aloha, Signal Strength, Ink Well, Satellite, Supper Time (alphadings), Mike (alphadings), Licorice, Conga Lounge OF, Monkey Bars, Daisies, Fractal OF (textured face), Saloon OF, Ball and Chain, Say What. Typefaces from 2014: the multilined or inline typefaces Ozmosis, Ozian, Cardinal, Hollow Branch, Emblem, and Oblio. The alphading typefaces Rat Race and Picnic Basket. The pearly dot matrix typeface Rouletto and Crawler. The video game typefaces Pod Invasion and Zogg Domination. The stitching typeface Cut Here. The pixelized typeface Code Hijack. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Additional URL. Myfonts link. MyFonts foundry link. View Wilson Thomas's commercial typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer (b. 1977), who studied graphic design in Paris as well as calligraphy and typography at the Scriptorium de Toulouse. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a type designer in a packaging design agency. He collaborated with Ladislas Mandel on Renaissance writings. Since 2001, he lives at least part of the time in Asia. During this period, he designed Latin and Khmer typefaces for NGOs in Cambodia, for example. On his web site, he says that he enjoys full freedom in his work. When he is not designing typefaces, he spends time in nature or prepares vegetarian food and pastries. His work was discussed by Yves Peters. Dribble link. FontShop link. He designed the following fonts:
A long interview with Julien Gineste became a book, Xavier Dupré, itinéraire typographique / typographical itinerary (2019, Zeug). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Yasuhiro Yamaoka
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Yellow Design Studio
| Yellow Design Studio is a fine art, graphic design and typography studio based in Sanibel, FL, and before that, in Madison, Wisconsin. The font designer is Ryan Martinson (b. 1972), who is from Chetek, WI. Rena Martinson is the other partner in the venture. Via MyFonts, they sell fonts such as Cardium (2021: an almost geometric font family in 54 styles), Draft Natural (2019), Draft (2018: a 144-style sans superfamily, followed by Draft B later in 2018), Lullabies (2016, watercolor brush script), Kiln (2016, an eroded caps only letterpress typeface), Canvas Acrylic Megafamily (2016, by Ryan and Rena Martinson), Sucrose (2015, a letterpress emulation family with eight levels of textured distress), Sant Elia Script (2015), Lulo (2014, a stackable chromatic typeface family), Lulo Clean (2014), Thirsty Soft (2014, a vintage signage script family), Eveleth (2014, a detailed vintage letterpress emulation family), Gist (2014, an inline slab serif; one weight is free), Gist Rough (2014, rough letterpress), Verb (2012, a very open sans family; +Verb Condensed, 2013, +Verb Compressed, 2013 +Verb Extra Condensed, 2013), Thirsty Script (2012, a retro connected signage script, which by his own admission, is based on Jack Edmondson's Wisdom Script, a fact he did not originally mention in the typeface description), Thirsty Script Shadow (2012), Thirsty Rough (2012), Thirst Script Extrabold (2014), Anodyne (2012, grungy caps), Veneer (2012, letterpress style), Veneer Clean (2016), and Veneer Extras (2012, dingbats), Melany Lane (2011, a connected school script), Skitch (2011, sketch / blackboard bold face); +Skitch Shaded, Magesta Script (2010, a grungy calligraphic script), and Wausau (2010, an all caps grunge face). Klingspor link. Creative Market link, Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
YOFonts
| YOFonts offers beautiful fonts like Trafica and Engraver Sans by Yasuhiro Yamaoka. Most are commercial. Some can be downloaded as freeware or shareware. Fontsquirrel link [where one can download Eau (+Douce Sans, +Naturelle Sans, 2003), EPF (1999-2006), Grov (2000-2002), Midiet (1990-2009, sans and serif), Nord (1992-2000, elliptical), and Telegrama (1992, pixelish)]. Freeware fonts (Mac/PC): Crematec Bold, Glyphian (runic), Grov Alphabet Regular / Italic / Condensed (1999), Grov Katakana, Grov Hiragana, Laitty (1993-1997, upright connected script), Lapidit (1994-2002, experimental), Liq (1995, LCD face), IgnorantModern (1993), Initia (geometric, circular), OneZero Alphabet, OneZero Katakana (pixel face), Ovals (border font), Quads (borderfont), SmooHG, SmooKK, Opuscula (2008-2011), Practica, Ovals Regular (Border font), Quads Regular (Border font). Font of the month (free): Philo AB, Philo KK, Philo HG. Other fonts: Angrite-Regular (1998), ArchaeoDeco (2001, art deco), Botaniq (organic, 2001-2002), Circles, CremSBold (1995-1997), CremacBea, CremacBeaBold, Crematec (techno), Cybertalk (2000), DippleKKS (1998, organic, molecular), Elementa (1990-1998, a techno family in Sans, Serif and Script styles), Engraver Sans (1995, Greek simulation family), Fact (1995-2005, information design family), Fol (1995, octagonal family), LiqMono, LiqMonoOblique, LiqRegular, LiqRegularOblique, ModCircle (1995), ModQuad (1996), Moderno (1997-2002, sans), Philo (1995-1996), Pica (1993-2005), Pixe (1992-1998), Practica (1991-2002, +Practica MsF), Nord-Bold (1998), OneZero-ABOneZero (1998), OneZero-ABZeroOne (1998), OneZero-ABZeroZero (1998), OneZero-KKOneOne (1998), OneZero-KKOneZero (1998), OneZero-KKZeroOne (1998), OneZero-KKZeroZero (1998), Serian (1997-2005, a German Schreibschrift), Trafica (1999-2002). In Font Pavilion 12 [dead link]: Smoo (1997-1998, Latin, katakana, hiragana). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Author of A Cartilha Moderna (1964), a school writing book for use in Brazil. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yoshizaku Imada
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Yuji Adachi
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