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21 Lab
| Design studio in Monterrey, Mexico, run by Rodrigo Alberto Cavazos Rodríguez. It offers Nieu Font (2012, organic), Free Font 21 (2010, a free paperclip face) and the counterless gometric alphabet Navia (2012). Clasia (2013) is an interesting experimental sans typeface. It looks geometric, but has original stroke cuts meant for legibility. In its presentation, the designer works with subtly shaded parts where strokes join---I guess that is also for enhanced legibility. Fontspace link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
256tf
| 256tm is the foundry of Besançon, France-based designer Thomas Huot-Marchand (b. Dole, France, 1977). He studied under Peter Keller at the ANRT in Nancy, and teaches at the École d'Art de Besançon. He has been Director the Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT) in Nancy since 2012. His typefaces are distributed by 205tf (was: 205 Corp, or 256tm):
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Vinnitsa, Ukraine-based group that designed the experimental techno typeface Lower Ladle (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design studio in London that created an experimental geometric typeface called Shellington (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Part of Prototype Experimental Foundry in New York City, this outfit designed the commercial Hebrew simulation font Kaiju (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian creator (b. 1985) of az (2011, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Berkhampstead, UK, who created an experimental typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A2 Graphics--SW--HK
| Scott Willimas is the cofounder (with Henrik Kubel) of A2. Before that, it was called A2 Graphics/SW/HK, a London based design bureau founded in 1999 by Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel. At A2, he designed the elliptical typeface family Cubbit, as well as the pixel typeface game Over and Eyeslies. Williams and Kubel co-designed AF-Klampenborg (1997-1999) and FY-Brush Script Regular. In 2014, Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel (A2 Type) co-designed A23D, a 3d-printed letterpress font. It was fabricated by model making specialists Chalk Studios. The font is presented by New North Press, which specializes in traditional letterpress printing. Adrian Harrison made a short film about the birth of the font, charting its progress from preliminary sketches to first inking and printing at New North Press. A23D won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A2 Type
| A2-Type (or simply, A2) is a type foundry set up in the autumn of 2010 by the London based design studio A2/SW/HK. The designers are Henrik Kubel and Scott Williams. A2's bespoke type design is mainly the responsibility of Henrik Kubel, though every typeface is developed and approved by both partners. Kubel is self-taught, making his first typefaces while studying at Denmark's Design School from 1992 until 1997. Their typefaces:
At ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam, he spoke about New Transport. Winner of the type design prize at the Tokyo Type Directors Club TDC 2019, with Matt Willey, for the New York Times Magazine Olympic font. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Communication designer in Mumbai, India. In 2011, he made an experimental modular typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and graphic designer in Farnham, UK, who created some experimental counterless typefaces in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his grpahic design studies in Norwich, UK, Aaron Hocking created the rounded modular typeface Theo (2016) which can be used for coloring and overlays. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and photographer in Milwaukee, WI. Behance link. He gridified / pixelized Adobe Myriad Pro and called it Aluminum Life Semibold (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental typeface Invisible (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in 2013, Abby Bartels (New Ulm, MN) designed an experimental typeface called Tiny Bubbles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Abjad
| Ali Almasri is the Zarqa and Amman, Jordan-based designer (b. 1986, Zarqa) of the experimental typefaces X-Fire (2006), Relaxic (2005) and Graphiro (2005). He set up the type foundry Abjad in 2014. His typefaces include a fun inline custom typeface for the Wisam barber shop in Zaqra (in 2013), Swissra (2014, a Swiss sans-styled Arabic typeface), Swissra Condensed (2015), Molsaq Pro (2015: a rounded poster font family that features a modern Arabic Naskh with very short descenders and ascenders, and an all-caps Latin counterpart), Allabbad (2017, inspired by the fun hand lettering of Arab graphic design icon Mohieddine Allabbad), Afeesh (2017), Nogoom (2017: inspired by the titles of Egyptian Magazine Alostudio, which used to be published during the 50s-60s), Molsaq Arabic (2015), Molsaq Latin (2015), and Gerlaneu (2006, a 6-style octagonal and geometric family). In 2020, he co-designed Palsam Pro (Abjad) with Alja Herlah. This rounded sans typeface covers Latin and Arabic. Regarding Palsam Arabic, they write: The main highlight for Palsam was the cursive companion. For the first time, the calligraphic Ijaza style was used as a model for designing the Arabic cursive. The Ijaza is a hyper combination of Naskh and Thuluth, which makes it perfect to be a companion for the upright Naskh. Typefaces from 2021: Manchette Fine (an Arabic typeface), Manchette (an Arabic headline typeface that was inspired by the hand-written Naskh newspaper headlines during the 1960s and 1970s). Behance link. Klingspor link. Behance link for Abjad. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Abneurone Typografix (or: Abneurone Trauma Types, or: Neurone Error, or: Abneurone Fluid Types, or: Cirque Traumaccord)
| French foundry on the margins of type society, obsessed with psychotherapeutic experiments, hyper-experimental, and indeed mental, typefaces. This outfit goes under various names. At FontStruct, where most of its fonts are produced, it is known as Neurone Error. At Dafont, it is known as Abneurone Fluid Types. Its commercial branch at MyFonts is called Abneurone Typografix or Abneurone Trauma Types. Their first commercial fonts are ATT49 Fanfare, ATT48 Thrax, ATT47 Candies, ATT46 Exlixir, ATT45 Transfix, ATT44 X-Cute, ATT43 Small Proteus, ATT42 Childhook, ATT41 Arcane, ATT40 Lysergic4a, ATT39 Liquor, ATT38 Once Upon A Damned, ATT37 Innocence, ATT36 Kidding, ATT35 Bestiaire (2011), ATT34 Lysergic 2a (2011), ATT33 Koan (2011), ATT32 Faun Call (2011), ATT31 Paraphilia (2011), ATT30 Lysergic 1b (2011), ATT29 Mad Hatter (2011), ATT28 Minimori (2011), ATT27 Tripton (2011), ATT26 Lysrergic3a (2011), ATT25 Multicoloured Rythm (2011), ATT24 Swallow (2011), ATT23 Artlien (2011), ATT22 Dopamine (2011), ATT21 ABTOY (2011), ATT20 Rankle (2011), ATT19 Ink Lust (2011), ATT18 Overabundance (2011), ATT17 Ink Circus (2011), ATT16 The Orgians (2011), ATT15 For Whom The Bell Tolls (2011), ATT10 Stereo (2011), ATT11 Heterodoxa (2011), ATT12 Psilocybine (2011), ATT13 Sync (2011), ATT14 Prehisto (2011), ATT8 Human Decay (2011), ATT9 Eroded Eclosion (2011), AT4 Parallax (2011), ATT7 Medieval Sweet Shop (2011), ATT6 Detected Future (2011), ATT5 Hard Sync (2011), ATT4 Chalice (2011), ATT3 Outer Christ (2011), ATT2 Macpanic (2011), ATT1 Nimal Nimoy (2011), AT54 Intermezzo (2011), AT26 Metamorph Candies (2011), AT29 Dystrogonyx (2011), AG2 Placenta (2011), AT17 Farandole (2011), AT27 Innocence (2011), AT3 Nuclear Project (2011), AT38 Nanogonyx (2011), AT49 Neuromicr (2011), AT16 Faun Call (2011), AG1 Neuroticons (2011), AT55 Neo Geo (2011), AT36 Mad Hatter (2011), AT51 Pharmaceutic (2011) and AT5 Childhook (2011). The FontStruct production in 2011: 00dot 5 TRANSFIX, 00dot 15 DYSTROPHIE POLYGONALE, 00dot 20 CURSED, 00dot 13 PARALLAX, 00dot 12 NUCLEAR TARGET, 00dot_7_nimal_nimoy, 00dot 17 SYNDROME F.K., 00dot 9 NEW TO, 00dot 6 DECLINE AND CODE, 00dot 3 ROBOX, 00dot 2 MINIDECO, 0dot 26 INKSECTS, 00dot 32 STEREO, 00dot 10 SMART PLAYGROUND, 00dot 33 FUTURE NOW, 00dot 23 BLING STREET, 00dot 4 TOXINE, 00dot 31 FAUN CALL, 00dot 19 ELIXIR, 00dot 30 DWARF LOGIC, 00dot 8 THRAX, 00dot 14 A NEW FORM OF BEAUTY, 00dot 22 HETERODOXA, 00dot 27 KIDDING, 00dot 21 INNOCENCE, 00dot 34 PICTORIAL ABUSE, 00ne Stretched Empty Cow (2011, a piano key stencil face), 00ne Empty Cow (2011), 00ne Medication (2011), 00ne Pills, 00ne Minipills, 00ne Stency, 00ne Neurelm, 000tag6 LYSERGIC, 000tag4 ROBOX, 000tag NUCLEAR WARFARE, 00ne dat / dot, 00ne Bat Kidding (+Stencil, +Stencil Quadrillé), 00ne Stencirc, 00ne Neurocirc Neue Deco, 00ne Neurocirc, 00ne Neurologo, 00ne Nutech, 00ne Nutech Black, 00ne Top Pix (+Clean), 00ne Not So Atroce Pixels (+Black), 00ne Videotech, 00ne Videotech Tamagochi, 0One Bad Video, 0One Exagg Superstrong, 00ne Blockollida, 00ne Minicut, 00ne Neuromoog, 00ne Exagg, 00ne XChurch, 00ne NeuroNeoq, 00ne Imprimante Matricielle, 00ne C64 NeurOOpart2, 00ne Heterodoxa, 00neZnorg, 00ne Znorg Heads, 00ne Zwrappearing (dotted and textured), 00neVideotech, A Present for Intaglio (2011, cloned from Intaglio's Wallachia), Inicial 1 (2010, an improvement of a typeface by Infotipografia), Neo Geo (2011), NE XS, NE 4x4 Technirement, NE Religious Migraine, NE Abtechre. NE Churching, NE Strange Light Pax Pact, NE Cellphone Cutie Punched Cards, NE Cellphone Cutie, NE Obl. NE Pax Pact, NE Pictorial Abuse, NE Charlie Chaplin Cybernetic Brains, NE Chaplin Cyborg, NE Unknown Remix, NE Neurofat, NE Neurocompressor, NE Neurocompressed Pictograms, NE Alien Orders, NE Filament Techneriment, NE Strange Light Pax Pact, NE The Eye, NE Moving Parallels, NE Alien Orders, NE Reordered Alien Orders, the NE New Newbix family, Parallax (2011). Typefaces made in 2012 at FontStruct: AFT1 Heterodoxa, AFT2 Forbidden Apple, AFT3 Kidding, AFT4 Spacelab Parallax, AFT5 Detected Future, AFT6 Lysergic 2b, AFT7 Lysergic 2a, AFT8 Transfix, AFT8 Smart Kids, AFT10 Candies, AFT12 Neo Geo, AFT13 Arcane, AFT15 Hard Sync, AFT17 Cortech Hallucination, AFT18 Lysergic1b, AFT20 Abtech, AFT21 Bling Chief Story, AFT22 Ink Lust, AFT23 Faun Call, AFT24 Toying, AFT27 Fluffy Clown, AFT30 Koan, AFT31 Innocence, AFT33 ETPheuneHeume, AFT34 Neuromicr, AFT35 Tripton, AFT36 Intermezzo, AFT37 Rankle, AFT38 Dark Rankle, AFT39 Rankle Distone, AFT40 Smart Kids, AFT41 Smart Playground, AFT42 Lysergic 4a, AFT43 Small Proteus, AFT44 Lysergic 3a, AFT45 New Forgee, AFT46 Space Connect, AFT47 Mondrian Drone, AFT48 Bark At The Code, AFT49 Stereo, AFT50 Artlien, AFT51 Liquor, AFT52 Neuromecha, AFT53 Lysergic 1a, AFT54 Dinoxyde, AFT55 Human Decay, AFT56 Eroded Eclosion, AFT57 Outer Christ, AFT58 Boing Code, AFT59 Nimal Nimoy, AFT60 X-Church, AFT61 Macpanic, AFT62 Lovely Breeze, AFT63 Mad Hatter, AFT64 The Orgians, AFT65 Chalice, AFT66 Ssaammothrax, AFT67 Panthrax, AFT68 Less Is More Neuromicr 2, AFT69 Paraphilia, AFT70 Psilocybine, AFT71 Childhook, AFT72 Once Upon A Damned, AFT73 For Whom The Bell Tolls, AFT74 Medieval sweetshop, AFT75 Nanoprehistoryx, AFT76 Pictorial Abuse, AFT77 Bestiaire, AFT78 Fanfare From Outer Space, AFT79 X-Cute, AFT80 Medication, AFT81 Wrong DNA, AFT82 Wrong DNA, AFT83 Minimal Disto, AFT84 Abacadabra, AFT85 Pharmaceutical, AFT86 Code Flu, AFT89 High-Diving Blindness, AFT90 Nopix, AFT91 Floppy Disk O, AFT100 Farewell dawn, AFT104 Locked-in Glow, AFT105 Vivant, AFT106 Sharp Gloss, AFT107 Madame Guillotine, AFT108 Newbic, AFT109 Ataxie, AFT110 Strenuous MICR, AFT111 Effaceur, AFT113 Zeppelin Legacy, AFT1010 Jabbering, AFTN1, BUT1 Quarx, BUT2 Newbix, BUT3 Disto Matricielle, BUT4 Tomono, BUT5 Blurred Clown, BUT7 Religious Pill, BUT8 Nopix (octagonal), BUT9 Tipi Video, BUT10 Slanxic Acid, BUT11 Metamphetamental, BUT12 Znorgs, BUT13 Soyokaze, BUT15 Stick Tech, BUT16 Uninteresting Tech. In the Testament series from 2012 until 2013, we mention Testament 132 New Indication, Testament 131 The New Orgians, Testament 128 Camphre, Testament 126 Neuromoog, Testament 122 Dissecting Geometry, Testament 115 Placenta Numérique, Testament 116 Abnormal Fairy, Testament 109 Madame Guillotine, Testament 85 Axone, Testament 84 Keen, Testament 83 Minimixture, Testament 52 Neuromecha, Testament 51 Liquor, Testament 50 Artlien, Testament 49 Stereo, Testament 48 Bark At The Code, Testament 56 Eroded Eclosion, Testament 55 Lysergic 1a, Testament 54 Inflated, Testament 59 Nimal Nimoy, Testament 60 X-Church, Testament 64 The Orgians, Testament 67 Panthrax, Testament 66 Human Decay, Testament 69 Chalice, Testament 47 Mondrian Drone, Testament 44 Lysergic3a, Testament 42 Lysergic 4a, Testament 27 Arcane, Testament 11 Minimori, Testament 8 Transfix, Testament 7 Lysergic2a, Testament 6 Lysergic 2b [The Lysergic series is about very large (around 200 cases high) grid pixel fonts with a severe inclination to psychedelism], Testament B Formaldehyde, Testament C Neuroticons, Testament Artefact, Testament Back Home, Testament 1 Heterodoxa, and Testament 12 Neo Geo. He also created an Archive series in 2012, which features an ornamental caps typeface called Archive 10, a geometric typeface called Archive 5, TEST PPain, and a textured typeface called Archive 8. He has a Trauma series that features Trauma 145 Razzmatazz Architect, Trauma 126 Lysergeek Boy, Trauma 127 Lysergeek Girl. Typefaces from 2014: Trauma 155 Overly, Trauma 151 Migraine Bit. In 2017, Abneurone allowed me to host his 120-strong Abtox series, which grew out of the FontStruct collection between 2014 and 2016. Download directory. All fonts in one zip file. The complete list: Abtox 1 ATAXIE, Abtox 10 GRIEF, Abtox 100 CORRODED SPACESHIP_0, Abtox 101 LYSERGIC GAMMA_1, Abtox 102 TOXIC DATA, Abtox 103 NEUROTIC CHURCH_3, Abtox 104 SCHIZOPHRENIA TYPE_1, Abtox 105 TWO STAGES OF CONTAMINATION_2, Abtox 106 DINOXYDE_1, Abtox 107 FAUN CALL_0, Abtox 108 SMART KIDS_9, Abtox 109 FORBIDDEN APPLE_1, Abtox 11 SANTA CLAWS, Abtox 110 DYSTOPIAN GEOMETRY_0, Abtox 111 CHEMICAL ABERRATION_1, Abtox 112 DOUBLE-DEALING_3, Abtox 113 FORBIDDEN PLANET_4, Abtox 114 KARMIC_4, Abtox 115 DIZZY MOLECULES, Abtox 116 COMPUTING ELSEWHERE_0, Abtox 117 DEEP LOW_2, Abtox 118 MODULOTNIK, Abtox 119 DATACIDE_3, Abtox 12 CLOUD BLOOD, Abtox 120 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS_7, Abtox 13 CHILDHOOK_C, Abtox 14 BACTERIA_0, Abtox 15 ALCESTE_3, Abtox 16 PSILOCYBINE_1, Abtox 17 AXONE_1E, Abtox 18 GALACTIC ORGAN_0, Abtox 19 NEUROMOOG_1, Abtox 2 TANTRISME_1, Abtox 20 UFOLOGY, Abtox 21 PAIN PDJ_4, Abtox 22 MY VALENTINE_0, Abtox 23 SUCROKID, Abtox 24 FLOPPY DISK CODE, Abtox 25 VERKIDGO, Abtox 26 NEO GEO_1, Abtox 27 MANDRAGORE_F, Abtox 28 HORNS TO COME_1, Abtox 29 NITROX BEAT_7, Abtox 3 DECORATORIO, Abtox 30 FLYBUTTER_1, Abtox 31 MATRIX YELL_0, Abtox 32 BUBBLE GUMMY_A, Abtox 33 SPAWN_2, Abtox 34 SQUARRY_0, Abtox 35 BUBONIC AK47_0, Abtox 36 VINAIGRE GOTHIQUE_3, Abtox 37 NEO POMPOUS, Abtox 38 EFFACEUR GLUED_1, Abtox 39 EFFACEUR BAROQUE_8, Abtox 4 OVERLY_6, Abtox 40 EFFACEUR SOLID_3, Abtox 41 EFFACEUR CODA_5, Abtox 42 DARK ATROXID_1, Abtox 43 LUMINOUS ATROXID_9, Abtox 44 DRUGGED UP ATROXID_0, Abtox 45 NEUROMECHANIC, Abtox 46 CAMPHRE_4, Abtox 47 FEAST OF UNIQUE RITES, Abtox 48 CHALICE, Abtox 49 SPACE DRUG_0, Abtox 5 NEW PUPPY_0, Abtox 50 TRONIXHALLEY_1, Abtox 51 NO DUMMY, Abtox 52 LOST CHILDHOOD_1, Abtox 53 TRAUMATOLOGY_0, Abtox 54 THE NEW ORGIANS_7, Abtox 55 AMOEBA PUNK_2, Abtox 56 MEDICATION, Abtox 57 SIDE EFFECTS_3, Abtox 58 RE-VOLT_1, Abtox 59 CYBERNODE_1, Abtox 6 RAZZMATAZZ ARCHITECT_1, Abtox 60 OUTER CHRIST, Abtox 61 NEW CIRCUS_0, Abtox 62 ART DRONE, Abtox 63 COAXIAL_2, Abtox 64 PONG !_2, Abtox 65 LYSERGEEK GIRL_0, Abtox 66 NEWBIC_1, Abtox 67 BRAIN SURGERY_4, Abtox 68 RETROFUTURE PRECIOUS_0, Abtox 69 TRIPTONITE_2, Abtox 7 LOG_3, Abtox 70 NEUROMICR_8, Abtox 71 HUMAN DECAY, Abtox 72 INK LUST_0, Abtox 73 PANTHEIST_2, Abtox 74 X-CUTE_6, Abtox 75 DATAXY_4, Abtox 76 FRAGRANCE_0, Abtox 77 TOOTH AXIS_2, Abtox 78 MADAME GUILLOTINE_0, Abtox 79 NARCO_2, Abtox 8 KOAN, Abtox 80 GENOMETRY_1, Abtox 81 SAFE TRAIN_4, Abtox 82 NO ISLAND, Abtox 83 LOCKED-IN GLOW_5, Abtox 84 ABNORMAL FAIRY_A, Abtox 85 ACME_0, Abtox 86 GLITCHY ELIXIR_1, Abtox 87 BLACK ELIXIR, Abtox 88 NEW INDUCTION_0, Abtox 89 MECAMYTHIC_3, Abtox 9 ABSTEREO_4, Abtox 90 MEDIEVAL SWEETSHOP, Abtox 91 PARAPHILIA_0, Abtox 92 HARD SYNC_3, Abtox 93 SECT TOY_1, Abtox 94 ARTEFACT_2, Abtox 95 SPACE LAB, Abtox 96 WAX, Abtox 97 E.T. PHEUNE HEUME_C, Abtox 98 COLD FLOWERS_2, Abtox 99 INJECTING DOPAMINE_0, Abtox ALIEN TOYS_14, Abtox NEUROTICONS_13, Abtox X-HEADZ_37. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Abraham Beltran
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Design studio in Mexico City. Creators of the experimental typefaces Suger (2014), Basic Type (2014), Ejekalt Type (2014) and Otoño (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ace Productionz
| Asa Childress (Ace Productionz) created the experimental poster typeface Vision Division (2010). Fontspace link. Fontspace link to Ace Official, or Asa Childress. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type designer based in Paris, who makes experimental commercial fonts at "For Home or Office Use" (Frankfurt). One of his families is called Lini (2000, semi-technical). Others: 2Try-Strich, 3Try-Straight, 4Try-kerned, 7Try-Medserif, 8Try-Micro, 12Try-Lego, 131Try-Klinspor, 161Try-Bitter, 172Try-Reg, 1722Try-Fliess Fett, 1721Try-Reg Inline, 174Try-Serif, 1742Try-Serif Fett, 18Try-Annette, Densite, Ouvert, Knubb, Knubb-20, Lini Eins, Lini Drei, Lini-Viers, Love-1, Love-10, NEW FEw, NEW GEw, NEW Klein, sBit34, WIR 2, WIR 3, WIR 4, WIR 6Vi, WIR 7Vi, WIR 7Vi Fat. Achim also runs Vier5 with Marco Fiedler, a graphic design studio. At Vier5, he published the experimental typeface SVT (2010) and the futuristic angular Shake (2010), which was originally designed for the Centre d'art Contemporain de Brétigny in France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creative director and founder of Illustrashion Magazine, based in London. Known as Prince, Amiri used to live in Brussels, where he was art director and graphic designer. Home page. In 2010, he published a booklet, Didot Fashion Victim. His fashion-inspired lettering is quite amazing, and so are his fashion illustrations. In 2011, he continues his amazing mixtures of typography and illustration in his design of a wall logo for Boutique no. 7 in Moscow. He also made the hairdo experimental caps typeface Touffe (2011). More fashion and vamp illustrations: Milano 2011, New York 2011, Paris 2011, Sophia Loren, Sofitel Brussels Le Louise (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ACME Fonts (or: CHK Design)
| Started in 1996, by Christian Küsters and Andy Long (from South London), ACME Fonts is a London-based foundry, offering fonts by Küsters and these designers: Anthony Burrill, Gérard Paris-Clavel&Johannes Bergerhausen, Jean-Lou Désiré, Paul Farrington, Robert Green, Paul Kehra, Henrik Kubel, Simon Piehl, Alex Rich, Carsten Schwesig, Sandy Suffield, Dirk Wachowiak, Anne Wehebrink and Paul Wilson. Christian Küsters is an ex-student of Matthew Carter at Yale. Born in Germany, he now lives in Oberhausen. Buy the fonts at MyFonts. The company evolved, I guess, into CHK Design. MyFonts link. Interview. Klingspor link. The ACME font list:
View ACME's typefaces. Acme's typeface library. Typefaces made by Christian Küsters. MyFonts selection for ACME. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Actiontype.de
| German designers of some experimental 2d and 3d fonts, under the guidance of Professor Tanja Diezmann from the Hochschule Anhalt in Dessau. Fonts include Isometrie (sans), Actiontype Bold (3d), Actiontype Light, Actiontype Serif (slab serif). Using these fonts as base models, several random fonts were constructed by interpolation. Actiontype is managed by Marcus Schaefer in Dessau. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Northampton, UK. Behance link. In 2010, he designed Typegram, a modular typeface that consists of puzzle pieces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital artist from Limerick, Ireland. Devian tart link. At FontStruct, he created the ultra thin squarish typeface Lithe (2010). In 2011, he created the thread-themed experimental alphabet I Hate Thread. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Manchester, UK-based typographer and digital artist who studied at Pendelton College in Manchester and at The University Of Salford. His stern display typeface High Rise (2010) was inspired by concrete city monsters. In college, he created several other (unfinished) alphabets: i, ii, iii, paper cut typeface, Weekender (counterless, paper cut-out face), Elena (2014, an extreme contrast wedge-serif typeface), McGowan, Mercury (2014, a minimalist stencil typeface), Kraftwerk (2014, octagonal and techno). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Studied Graphic Design at London Guildhall University from 2000-2003. Worked for six months in a design/marketing agency working on commercial projects for clients such as Wella and Vodafone. At present designer for a design/print company based in Newbury, UK. With the experimental typeface Landing Ship, he won an award at the 2005 FUSE competition. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at the University of Creative Arts based in Farnham, in 2012-2013. He created the experimental circular font Modular in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brno, Czechia-based designer of the animated experimental font Distances (2018) and Typelike Icon Set (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Gdansk, Poland, who made an experimental brush face in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American creator of the experimental typeface Pig Pen (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian art director, graphic designer and illustrator based in Los Angeles. Born in 1981 in Sao Paulo. Behance link. He designed various display typefaces for his projects: Mariana (2005) is an experimental typeface for the Havaianas web site. Cristiane (2005) is a Bank Gothic-inspired sans. Mathews (2005) and Ana Rayssa (2005, upright connected script) are experimental types. Antonio (2005) is a fat rounded sans. Josefa (2005) is a grunge typeface created for Brahma Bier. Adilson (2005) is a super-fat display face. Rose (2005) and Douglas (2005, also a super-fat display face) were created for Sensorama ID. Other typefaces include Mark, Mike and Cris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bangalore, India-based art director. In 2014, he made a great experimental hybrid typeface. In 2015, he added the display typeface Whitecap. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adi Dizdarevic
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Parisian graphic designer. She created the experimental typeface CLAP (2012) to represent rhythm, and illustrated it on the Serge Gainsbourg song Des clip crap des bang des vlop et des zip. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based creator of a free prismatic multiline (Latin) vector font in 2012. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adnauseum
| Adnauseum is an experimental design studio in Brooklyn, NY, run by Christian Acker, an American type designer (b. 1979, Norwalk, CT) who graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York City in 2002. Christian occasionally guest lectures typography classes at Parsons. He set up Adnauseam in 2002 and Handselecta in 2003. He designed Sailor Gothic (2003), the Spanish-looking font Sailor Jerry (2002), Joker Straight Letter (2006), Mene One NY Throwie (2006), Mesh One AOK (2006), Meskyle Laid Back (2006), Sabe Ghetto Gothic (2006), and 24Hrs (2002, Cubanica). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Adreson Vilson Vita de Sá
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Plymouth, UK-based designer of the EEG-inspired typeface Dream (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fatnobrain was Adrien Midzic's design studio in Paris. Born in 1982, he co-founded Pizza Typefaces with Luc Borho in 2018. Midzic designed these typefaces or type families: Fine (lineal), Blokus (free pixel font, 2009), Cimen (strong sans, designed for Smacl Entraide), Mesquine (lineal), Blitz, Cucha, Stencil Reverse, Huit (2009, a gorgeous didone headline face), Stenha (stencil). Fonts made in 2010: The ETH family (art deco sans). Custom typefaces by Midzic: Aquitaine (2013, for Région Aquitaine), Nilka (2013, for his personal identity), No End (2013, a fat didone), Ethon Serif (2013, a perked up serif typeface for Penguin Books), Kasai Est (2011, for the Congo-based Kasai Est Magazine), Festival De Film Documentaire (2011), Nevenka (2011, condensed sans). In 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jason Vandenberg, Jérémie Hornus, Julien Priez and Alisa Nowak co-designed the creamy script Vanilla FY. It was renamed Vanille FY after a few days. Still in 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the very humanist sans family Saya FY and Saya Semisans FY. Adrien Midzic and Joana Correia co-designed Saya Serif FY (2015). At the free font cooperative Velvetyne, he published the sans typeface Lack (2014). In 2015, he made the 3-style sans typeface Suber for an art fair in Paris. The roman transitional typeface Bota Serif (2015), which was inspired by Cochin (designed by Charles Peignot in 1912) is a custom font designed for Hotel des ventes de Poitiers. In 2017, it was finally released for retail. In 2016, Adrien designed the bold titling typeface Debeo and the modern condensed Latin/Arabic typeface 29LT Adir (with Naji El Mir; at 29 Letters). In 2017, he published the piano key typeface Mixal, which became a large experiment on variable fonts and is free for everyone. Typefaces from 2018: Kern, Kern Office (a sans with some Futura features), Forno (sans), VTF Lack (a free single weight monoline geometric sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, published by Velvetyne), Metal (an all caps multi-width variable font originally designed for marché Dauphine), Orelo (a 120-style high-contrast fashion mag font family; +Orelo Hangul, 2020). Typefaces from 2019: Ultra Solar (experimental), 1871 Mane (a custom sans typeface), Wasa (a tense sans in seven styles), Shrill, Gangster Grotesk (free), Stupid (a hacker / hipster font), Kern (geometric sans). Typefaces from 2020: Shreck Issue (very tall and ultra-condensed), Metal (brutalist), Version ACT (a two-axis variable font), Debeo (a heavy sans), Dozza (a hybrid family named after ITC Mendoza by Jose Mendoza Almeida), XMX (experimental). Typefaces from 2021: Campingo (a roundish informal typeface inspired by camping and outdoor life), Bota (with Ines Davodeau: first designed for Boissnot&Tailliez, Bota is a modern interpretation of Georges Peignot's Cochin (2012)), Pleasure (hipsterism pushed to the fringe of addiction), Model Standard (ModelStandard Mono, ModelStandard SemiMono, ModelStandard Sans). Dafont link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Another Behance link. Hellofont link. Velvetyne link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Afronsu Afronsu
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Warsaw, Poland-based designer of magnificent experimental typefaces in various vector formats. These include:
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Agnes Jekli
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Budapest-based creator of the experimental geometric typeface Optypo (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Akademia Sztuk Pieknych w Krakowie in Krakow, Poland, Agnieszka Dudek designed the super-heavy Overweight (2017) and the super-condensed Prolong (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Agnieszka Gawlik created the all caps shadow typeface Noon (2016) and the experimental stick typeface Vertical (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New York-based designer of the experimental typeface Blue Notes (2011), which was inspired by the jazz of Billie Holiday. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
agnuaspflibko
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Agung Syaifudin
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Ahmad Effendy
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Ahmad Effendy's FUSELAB fonts
| Singapore-based Ahmad Effendy's gorgeous experimental font Fondgrafie-weird created for FUSELAB '95. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Hastings, UK, who made an experimental typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ainezunouzu
| Akira Hayashi (Ainezunouzu) is the Japanese designer of the experimental Latin fonts UzuAutotwo, UzuBalloonO, UzuBalloon, UzuBiscuit, UzuBmp01_06 (pixel), UzuCheeseO, UzuCheese, UzuCracker and UzuRenga. He also made the handwritten kanji fonts UzuPen, UzuPencil, UzuKaku, UzuMaru, UzuFace, UzuOfTsuchiyaB, UzuOfTsuchiya, UzuFude. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French digital type foundry, est. 2007, located in Lille. The type coop includes Stéphane Meurice, Xavier Meurice, Sébastien Delobel (the three founders), as well as Jérémie Perrin and Baptiste Servais. Commercial fonts include these made by Atelier Télescopique: Stone Heure (2007, multiline), Ader, Bepierre (pixel), Beye (pixel), Birinte (experimental), Boureuse (an elegant geometric sans), Byme, Capulco, Ciceron (dot matrix), Delory (clean sans), Dicion (dot matrix), Dixca (pixel), Fisher, Fluo (2012-2014, a stencil font by Xavier Meurice and Sébastien Delobel), Hic, Kune (sans family), Lailuya, Lienne, Mentable (dot matrix), Mento (clean sans), Merik, Miante, Micale, Mulette, Naconda, Nalfabait (dings), Natomi (techno), Nibalsmith (ultra-fat), Norak, Normal, Peindice, Rabik (paperclip face), Raoul, Rijsel (2013, sans), Rondie (kitchen tile), Rubal, Scard, Screenex, Stone Heure (prismatic), Singolo, Sphiquesy, Steroid, Stuce, Tino, Tomica, Treen, Varo, Velinge (dings), Veu, Vrette, Vure, Yoli (dings), Xatif, Zofage. Corporate typefaces by them include the Quechua family (for the sports company Quechua in Domancy, France), which consists of four typefaces, Bionnassay (for cross-country skiing), Forclaz (mountain hiking), Arpenaz (for recreational hiking) and Capcir (for Nordic skiing). | |
Graphic designer in London who created Mirror (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance graphic designer and photographer in Quatre Bornes, Mauritius, who created an art deco architectural font, Archi, in 2013 as a school project. In 2014, he designed a hairline sans and an experimental geometric typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Akihiro Oya
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Akimbo Type Foundry (or: Pen and Lens Design)
| Akimbo is the experimental type foundry of American designer Kaleb Dean. As of 2020, his typefaces included Blaque, Harveaux (Modern and Grotesk) and Caeli (a six style sans). Most of the fonts have variable versions. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Akira Hayashi
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Tuban, Indonesia-based designer of the experimental font The Black Knight (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zurich-based creator of an experimental squarish 3d typeface (2013), tentatively called 360 Degrees. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alan Bauchop
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Alan Cheetham
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Creative director in Minneapolis, MN, working at Cue Inc. He designed the superb experimental typeface Popular Front (2012) using circle arcs only. Home page of Cue. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech designer (b. 1964), who holds an MA in Typo/graphic studies from London School of Printing. He founded Alba studio Ltd. in 1996, now Alba Design Press Ltd. in Prague. With his colleagues and design historian Dr. Iva Janakova he co-founded the design magazine Deleatur and served as editor. He teaches at the Academy of Architecture and Design in Prague (where he is a current PhD. candidate) and the Merz Academy in Stuttgart (2002). He was on the organizing committees of the International Graphic Design Biennale in Brno 2004, 2006 and the ATypI Congress 2004 in Prague. At the latter meeting, he and Johanna Balusikova introduced their own project called e-a-t experiment and typography. Creator of Cogito (2004), an experimental typeface. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Making democracy visible. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alberto Rodríguez Diaz
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Alden Verdan (Seattle, WA) made several experimental typefaces in 2012 and 2018. Particular typefaces by him include Blackline (a neon tube typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bogota, Colombia-based designer of the experimental typeface Circonica (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mexican designer of the deco typeface Progessist (2017), the symbolic typeface Maya (2017), the frilly typeface Talaverains (2017) and the experimental Max Font (2017) and Another Rectangular Font (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spanish designer from La Coruna, b. 1976. He created Matricula Espanola (2007, an all caps sans face) and N-Gage (2007, a futuristic experiment). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During Cosgaya's class at FADU / UBA (Buenos Aires), Alejandro Herrera created an experimental geometric typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of Universidad Nacional de Rosario, and co-founder of Designals who is associated with the free font foundry Rostype, which is also located in Rosario. He is the cofounder of Rosario Design, an event aimed at students and design professionals whose objective is the exchange of experiences in order to promote academic ties with the professional field of design. He designed these typefaces:
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Norwegian art director and graphic designer in Oslo. He has done Banana Hello (2010), an alphabet in which all curves come from bananas. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of Moscow University of Printing Arts in 2006 where she studied under Alexander Tarbeev. She teaches type design and typography there. In 2007, her book for Russian students on typography was published (English title: Alive Typography). She received many awards for her work and is a frequent speaker at type design conferences. In particular, she received the prestigious Prix Charles Peignot in 2013. After that she became Type Director at ParaType in Moscow. Designer of the beautiful Cyrillic serif family Leksa (a winner at Paratype K2009) and the accompanying Leksa Sans family from 2004 until 2007. This was followed by equally gorgeous families such as Fence (2009, an ultra-fat artistic beauty). Skoropix is an experimental pixel typeface done with FontStruct. She also made Belladonna (2008, a stunning modern typeface for Latin and Cyrillic; a winner at Paratype K2009 and Grand Prize winner at Granshan 2011), Skoropix (with FontStruct), and the experimental typeface Cless (2009). She spoke about Cyrillic at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. She received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family Fourty-nine face. Alternate URL. At MyFonts, one can buy Gorodets [2009: a Russian decoration typeface based on traditional wood-painting style from the town Gorodets on the Volga river, Russia], Leksa and Leksa Sans], Blonde Fraktur (2010: written with a quill by Alexandra Korolkova and prepared in digital form by Alexandra Pushkova), Airy (2010, a curly script), Airy Pictures (2010, animal and plant dingbats), Bowman (2010: a blackboard children's script), PT Serif (2011, Paratype's superfamily of 38 fonts, co-designed with Vladimir Yefimov and Olga Umpeleva; Open Font Library link), PT Circe (2011, a geometric sans family with a neat Thin weight; Third Prize for Cyrillic text typefaces at Granshan 2011), and Cless (2010: ultra fat and counterless). Together with Isabella Chaeva, she made PT Mono (2012, Google Web Fonts and Open Font Library). In 2012, Vasiliy Biryukov and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed the Christmas dingbat font Gingerbread House, together with a plump display face, Gingerbread. In 2013, Vasily Biryukov and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed the soft roundish sans typeface Kiddy Kitty (link). In 2014, she cooperated with Maria Selezenava on a revamped Journal Sans typeface at Paratype, called Journal Sans New (Latin and Cyrillic). This geometric sans in the style of Erbar Grotesk and Metro Sans is a major extension of the Journal Sans typeface (1940-1956, SPA, in metal form, and 1990s in digital form). Still in 2014, she co-designed Stem, a geometric large x-height Latin / Cyrillic sans serif with optical sizing, with Isabella Chaeva and Maria Selezeneva at Paratype. This was followed in 2015 by Stem Text. In 2015, she and Alexander Lubovenko co-designed Circe Rounded, which is an extension of her earlier Circe typeface (2011), both published by Paratype. In 2018, Paratype extended that family with Circe Slab (by Alexandra Korolkova and Olexa Volochay). Still in 2015, Alexandra Korolkova and Alexander Lubovenko published Aphrosine at Paratype, a typeface based on pointed pen script and situated somewhere between handwriting and calligraphy. Many alternatives and smart OpenType features help Aphrosine look like real handwriting. Codesigner of 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. In 2016, she designed FF Carina, a delicate and absolutely stunning decorative didone. In 2018, Alexandra Korolkova and Manvel Shmavonyan designed Fact at Paratype. Fact (2018) is based on Frutiger. The Fact type system contains 48 upright styles with variations in width and weight and eight italics of normal width. At the end of 2018, Alexandra Korolkova, Alexander Lubovenko, and the Paratype team finished Six Hands, which is a collection of six handcrafted typefaces: Black, Brush, Chalk, Marker, Condensed and Rough. In 2019, Vitaly Kuzmin and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed the free sans serif typeface Golos Text at Paratype. It was originally commissioned by Smena (AIC Group) for state and social service websites. Typefaces from 2020: Sber (the type system for Russia's Sber Bank; by Korolkova and the Paratype team), Tupo Vyaz (a free modular closed sans serif font with very simple design and some elements from the northern variant of Vyaz slavonic calligraphic hand), Grrr (at Paratype, with Dmiry Goloub; a techno family characterized by an oversized lower case f). MyFonts interview. Kernest link. Klingspor link. View Alexandra Korolkova's typefaces. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of the experimental spray bottle Cyrillic typeface Mr. Font (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Florence, Italy-based designer of Albe Font (2014, imitating calligraphy), and a few experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance Italian graphic designer, b. near Piacenza, 1976, who graduated with an M.S. in Industrial Design in 2004 from the Politechnic of Milan with a thesis entitled Ernesto Hemingway: una font tra letteratura e tipografia: a font between literature and typography. In it, he describes his typeface Ernesto Hemingway. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke about that same typeface. Initially, he worked in Rome, with interests extending across linguistics, book design, information design, calligraphy, lettering, visual identities, and designing with multiple languages. In 2005, he took a position as graphic design instructor at the Department of Graphic Design of Bilkent University (Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey). In 2007, he took a position at the Izmir University of Economics in Izmir, Turkey. In 2010 he co-founded ISType, a lecture and workshop series devoted to encouraging typographic literacy in Turkey. Presently he teaches typography and type design at Texas State University, School of Art & Design. He is the typographer and graphic designer for Contra Mundum Press (CMP), a boutique publisher based in New York and Paris that specializes in world literature and other genres. He created these typefaces:
At ICTVC 2007, he spoke about 20th century Bodonians. Typophile link. Alessandro's page with hundreds of useful links. Behance link. Klingspor link. Home page. PDF file with samples of his fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies, Bielefeld, Germany-based Alessandro Sommer developed the symmetric experimental typeface Otto in 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creative Italian designer who managed to draw letters with water (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at Istituto Vittorio Emanuele III di Palermo, in sicily, Alessio d'Amico created the stencil typeface Just Me (2015). He also designed the absolutely wonderful experimental typeface Morse Code in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Software developer in Bucharest, Romania, who specializes in generative and algorithmic art and design. Github page. He has used Andreas Koller's Fontastic tool to create a family of generative experimental typefaces in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex is a senior Visual Communications and Advertising student at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. He created the (free) ultra fat typeface A/Bru Subtle (2010). Home page of A Bru Design in Flagstaff, AZ. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex C. Beaumont (ACB Graphics) is a student at London College of Communication. He creates experimental designs, and this includes a typeface called Fracture (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex Camacho Studio
| Graphic designer and illustrator from Barcelona who has an MA from Central Saint Martins, and works in London since 2009. His typefaces:
Cargo collecive link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Alex Camacho Pizarro
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Graphic designer in Chihuahua, Mexico. He created the experimental typefaces NSY (2013, alchemic), Chingon (2012), Goldie (2012, a tall display face), and Russhood (2012, constructivist). Metra (2012) is a gorgeous techno display face. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Caterham, UK-based designer. Creator of the experimental circle-based typeface Circle One (2012). During his studies at University of the Creative Arts Farnham in the UK, Alex Davies designed the experimental typeface Triangle One (2013) and the hipster deco typeface New Type (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of a few fun experimental fonts. One, Volvo 240SW (2015) is inspired by the boxy shape of the Volvo 240 Station Wagon. Another, Paco (2015), is modular and circular. In 2016, he designed Niblets, Bevelry,Paco, Quobe. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Peterborough, UK, who created the experimental typeface Razor and the electric circuit typeface Ammeter in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of the experimental geometric typeface Covenant (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Toulouse, France, who created a geometric solid font and an experimental textured font in 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Leeds, UK, who created the typefaces Milo (2013) and Blueprint Letterforms (2013) during his studies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS, Alex Tatro designed the fashion mag sans typeface V Fancy (2017) and an experimental noisy screen typeface (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Alex Tatro created the experimental typeface Chevwrite (2014). In 2018, she published the free fashion mag typeface V Fancy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex Tomlinson
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Brooklyn, NY-based grandson of Joan Trochut of Super-Veloz fame, b. 1981, Barcelona. After completing his studies at Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny in Barcelona, Alex established his own design studio in Barcelona before relocating to New York City. He is the codesigner with Andreu Balius of SuperVeloz (2005, TypeRepublic), a digital version of his grandfather's typeface. It won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. Balius says about this typeface originally created by Joan Trochut from 1920-1980: Super-Veloz could be considered as an Ornamental type design, but in its core it is an experimental typeface based on a set of modular features that, with the combining of its modules, a great range of typefaces, ornaments ---even illustrations---, could be made. That is perhaps the most interesting experiment in early modern type design ever made in Spain during the immediate years after the War. The lecture, considering the borders between type design and ornament design, will introduce the context where Joan Trochut's Super-Veloz was produced (from sketches to published brochures and speciments) in 1942. Also will explain how Super-Veloz works. It is really a "type-ornament" design that could be considered on the edge of what we call type design. Alex has created design, illustration and typography for a diverse range of clients: Nike, Adidas, The Rolling Stones, Katy Perry, BBC, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, The Guardian, The New York Times and Time Magazine. Alex Trochut's lettering must be seen to be believed---it has to be genetic transmission. Recurring themes include adorned initials and modular types. His numerical all-caps alphabet for British Airways is phenomenal and pushes the bling-bling to the fashionable extreme. Stunning dollar sign drawn by him in 2007 for Acido Surtido. In 2009, he published Neo Deco at HypeForType. Noteworthy type treatments of that year include Nixon and the Futurecraft logo. In 2012, he designed Trojan Font (like Trajan). He also did some stunning multiline alphabet for V Magazine. Also noteworthy is a swashy calligraphic logo for Wiz Khalifa and Atlantic Records. In 2013, Barcelona-based creative agency, Herraiz Soto commissioned Alex Trochut to create an original typeface collection titled Raw for Notegraphy. In 2017, he made the color font Megazero at Fontself in Opentype SVG format. In 2018, Alex Trochut and Sudtipos cooperated on Utopian and Dystopian. Utopian is a color font family based on primary colors and pure geometric shapes, influenced by Bauhaus and De Stijl. Dystopian, its black and white companion with square features of Renner's original Futura drawings, emits a darker look and evokes Trumpian gloom and doom. Behance link. Debutart link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Los Angeles-based creator of Runyon Canyon Chalk Typeface (2013) and Pendleton (2013, experimental typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alexander Branczyk
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Blacksburg, VA-based designer of the experimental geometric font Make Art Not War (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oslo-based graphic designer and art director who has desiged some logotypes. Behance link. He used black censureship strips to create the calligraphic experimental typeface Shame (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Johannesburg, South Africa. Behance link. He created some experimental typefaces, alongside some display fonts. Examples: Kokface (a constructivist beauty), a circle-themed stencil face, Revolt, and an octagonal face. In 2012, he made another set of experimental typefaces called Engineering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Malmö, Sweden-based designer, who set up Kanon Foundry in 2019 together with Tor Weibull. During his studies in Malmö, Sweden, Alexander Örn (b. 1993) designed the monoline sans typeface Prokrastina (2016). In 2017, he made the angular wedge serif typeface Rakel and the vernacular sans typeface Folke. In 2018, he added a typeface specially designed Amplitud for aircraft cockpits: there are many diagonal lines, which are less influenced by the (horizontal and vertical) vibrations of the airplane. At Kanon Foundry, he designed the retail typeface Operand (2021, by Alexander Örn; a low contrast, almost monolinear sans serif that draws inspiration from the 1930s Scandinavian functionalist design era) and co-designed these corporate typefaces with Tor Weibull: the angular sans typefaces Bedow Head and Bedow Hand (2020), NLTG Wave Display & NLTG Wave Serif (for the Nordic Leisure Travel Group). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Den Haag, The Netherlands-based designer of several experimental 3d typefaces in 2018: Font Fury, Furytism. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin-based designer (b. 1978, Ostfildern-Ruit) who studied at FH Wiesbaden. Creator of the unbelievable experimental font Wirefox (Die Gestalten, 2006), consisting of diagonal lines only. See it to believe it! He also designed Ambiva, which creates the illusion of type by showing the characters' shade only. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer, who has made Thin (2009, octagonal), Arrow (2009), Decade (2009), Fat (2009), Hiploe (2009), Player (2009, upright connected script), Mini (Bauhaus style), Winter (paperclip face), and Unic (experimental). Some typefaces can be bought. Old link at Die Gestalten. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Krasnodar, Russia. He created some experimental typefaces in 2009-2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Catalan graphic and type designer. For her final thesis project in Barcelona, Alexandra Echevarria created Andtype (2013, a Peignotian slightly flared typeface named after the country of Andorra). In 2011, she created the experimental typeface CHii. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Utica, NY. His typeface Neuro (2012) consists entirely of circular arcs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian designer. Her typefaces for Latin and Cyrillic:
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Graphic designer in Ralegh, NC, who created an experimental typeface in 2010 called Georna. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alexandre Bobeda
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Parisian creator of the very experimental typeface Typographie Modulaire (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian graphic designer who created experimental typefaces such as Futidot (2013), and 1 Point Dudh (2013). Le First (2013) is a squarish typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mexican creator of Maming (2012, spindly), the pixelish typeface Mattta Ahari (2011), Coluca Modern Side (2011, an octagonal semi-stencil face), the sturdy poster typeface La Camerino (2011), the grungy Indieo (2010), the condensed typefaces Tipulada (2011) and Condenzel (2011), the experimental typeface Autobahn (2011), the squarish NRCO (2011) and the experimental Vai Gone (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian graphic and type designer. His mostly experimental typefaces include Isopronto (2011, geometric), Vampire (2011), Blamed Neverland (2011, a connect-the-dots face), Lighter (techno), and Coffee (2011, ultra-condensed). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Web designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His typefaces are often experimental and include:
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Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the decorative typeface Boroda (2019: stencil, and oriental emulation), Tetris (2019: pixelish) and Blender (2019: prismatic). All typefaces cover Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jersey City, NJ-based designer of the experimental typeface Geovetica (2015), created by deconstructing Helvetica. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Medical imaging researcher and specialist at Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico. He hooked up with Mexican type designer Manolo Guerrero and together, they co-designed the experimental typeface Sonotipo (2015) that emulates a cardiogram or other medical electronic signal. Sonotipo won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies, Madrid, Spain-based Alfonso Armenteros Parras designed the free pixel font family Notorobo (2017) for Memex's UI. He also created the experimental geometric typeface Stijla (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Monterrey, Mexico-based designer of Tipografica (2014), a typeface based on simple geometric solids. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giza, Egypt-based designer of the free minimalist experimental typeface family Scritus (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ali Almasri
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Turkish type designer who specializes in experimental fonts. In 2021, he released Goygoy (a condensed organic sans), Fragment (an angular typeface seemingly made by superimposing triangles), Amorphic and Bebek. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in London, UK. While still in Milan in 2012, she created a multilayered display face. In 2015 she designed an experimental multi-stroke type system called Designer Dream---the strokes are fixed but one can chose from a selection of outlines. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sarah Anne (2009) is an experimental typeface that was inspired by fashion designer Sarah Leach and her current brand Sarah Anne. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the squarish text typeface Gloomy (2008). At Behance, we learn that she is from Singapore (if it is the same Alicia Lee). There she published Shysosa (fat counterless face), Sensosa (gridded face) and Resosa (counterless display face) in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at UBA in Buenos Aires, Alina Lacoste created an untitled experimental typeface (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the experimental prismatic Cyrullic typeface simply called Decorative (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lorient, France-based co-designer, with Justine Herbel, of the modular display typeface KWay (2018). In 2017, she designed the experimental hybrid typeface Jukebox. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at ESAG Penninghen in Paris, Alizée Thily designed the hipster typeface Yung Lean (2016) for the Swedish music group Yung Lean. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American type, web, and brand designer in Baltimore, MD. She combined Adobe Caslon and Gill Sans to make a blended experimental typeface in 2010. View her typographic study of Gill Sans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Almeera Studio
| Or Rinto Dewangga. Kedu, Temanggung, Indonesia-based designer, b. 1985, of these script typefaces in 2018: Twinkle, Zetetic, Oklahoma Script, Stela, Santa Fe, Wall Street (a luxurious signature font), Lambretta, Kongo, Blackbeard, Sinister Brush, Zimphony. Typefaces from 2019: Halycoon (for signage), Magenta, Qiara (font duo), . Typefaces from 2020: The Boldstyle (a creamy upright signage script), Morrissley (wild, calligraphic), Sefilya, Milkshake Scriptsweet, Dorithy, Applezack, Floristya Script (swashy, calligraphic), Crusty Breads, Fairytales, (a Valentine's day script), Wonderlove Monograms, Floral Split Monogram, La Foonte, Vanquish, Sanbrush, Cool Baby, Helen Paris, Froogstones, Droop Sheep, Betterlove, Pinapples (sic), Rectoversa, Magic Winter, Romantic Rhapsody, Royale Amoure Font Duo, The Rollingstar, Srinthile Script, Northland, Wonderia, Artisoul Signature (a monoline signature script), Bilderberg (a bold display serif typeface), Beauty Gadish (calligraphic). Typefaces from 2021: Astralie (an angular calligraphic serif), Astralie (a display serif), Galeoge (a circle-based monolinear art deco sans), Marvella Typeface (a display serif), Billiers (a display serif), Metaphora (a fat swashy script), Mongbeach Script (a wild calligraphic script), Monasha Script, Babylone Script, Sefilya Script (a scrapbook script), The Northland + Southland Combinations (a vintage sans and script duo), Gloomy Saturday (a font duo), Abraghen (an experimental serif), Sallenas Grandes (a display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Alois Studnicka
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Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography | An exhibition held in Orlando, FL, during the AIGA Orlando, July 15-30, 2007, and elsewhere in the USA between 2005 and 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
ALT Foundry
| ALT is the type foundry of prolific type designer Andreas Leonidou from Limassol, Cyprus, b. 1986. His main work is commercial, but there is also a substantial collection of free fonts. He created Foldgami, Apollo 13 (techno, futuristic), Fatgami, Origamia, Paper Roll, Alt Retro (2010, multilined family), Alt Tiwo (2010, fat counterless), Alt Matey (2010, a family that includes a multiline style; the piano key typeface Alt Matey V2 followed in 2012), ALT Lautus (2010, a minimalistic monoline sans family), Japanese Cities Type Experiment (2010), ALT Alternatice (2010), ALT Vxt11 (2010, a high-contrast art deco octagonal face), ALT Aeon (2010, a unicase but multiline family), Alt Re 32 (2010, techno), ALT Mun (2010, a curlified family), ALT Breo (2011, octagonal family), ALT Exline (2011), Jun Script (2011, connected contemporary upright script), ALT Ayame (2011, condensed squarish family ain the piano key style, +Long), Alt UAV31 (2011, an octagonal experiment), Alt Moav (2011, a striking geometric caps face. Images: i, ii, iii), Alt Geko (2011, an art deco caps face), and Archetype (unicase, Bauhaus). Free fonts at Devian Tart: Alt Retro (2010, multilined family), ALT Hiroshi (2011, ornamental), ALT Deville (2011, spurred). Typefaces made in 2012: DNR001 (hipster style), ALT Kora (for the identity of Drone), ALT Fat (monospaced squarish caps face), ALT Exodus (sci fi face), Alt Wet (a paint splatter face), Alt Sku (ornamental didone face), Alt Robotechnica (pixel face), Exodus (a blackletter style straight-edged typeface), Juk01 (an ornamental mechanical, or steampunk, typeface), Alt Sake (a thin condensed poster typeface). Typefaces from 2013: Modu (alchemic, hipster style), Modu Deco, Bely (a severe-looking almost constructivist Latin/Cyrillic typeface). Typefaces from 2014: Ren (a free vintage display typeface family). Typefaces from 2015: ALT Hazer (a great free shadow sans), ALT Smaq (a family of eight free beveled styles for Latin and Greek). The free fonts as of 2015: ALTBELY, AltJoli, AltPixelsGoneBad, AltRe32-Duo, AltRe32-Normal, AltRenDuo, AltRenRegular, AltRenRetro, AltRenShadow, AltRetroBlack, AltRetroBold, AltRetroLight, AltRetroRegular, AltRetroThin, Alt-Twitchy, AltVxt11, Altapollo13, AltAeon-Black, AltAeon-Bold, AltAeon-Light, AltAeon-Medium, AltAeon-Thin, AltAeonRegular, AltAxlDeco, AltAxlRegular, AltDEVILE, AltGeko-AltGeko, AltMateyv2-Black, AltRobotechnica, AltSku, AltSkuItalic, AltUAV31, AltWet, Altapollo13-Black, Altapollo13, althazer, altsmaq2.8, altsmaq4.8, altsmaq6.8, altsmaq8.8, altexodus, altfatgami, altfatitalic, altfatregular, altfoldgami. Typefaces from 2016: Sadistic (a free scratchy font), System Code (free programming font). Typefaces from 2017: Rekt, Rogue (free). Typefaces from 2018: Alt Catwalk (a fashion mag typeface family), Frantic, Looper (a compass-and-ruler font), Silent Scream (a free dry brush font). free). Flickr link. Behance link. Hellofont link. Devian Tart link. Klingspor link. Creative Market link. View Andreas Leonidou's typefaces. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Alternumerics
| Free experimental fonts consisting of pieces of text, made by Paul Chan of Alternumerics: Blurrybutnotblind (2001), SelfPortraitasaFontV2 (2001), Sexualhealingshiftfor (2000), Thefuturemustbesweet (2000), ActUpBeta2001 (2001, with Mary Patten), Politicstocome (2005), Therivergone (2005), Thewavegone (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Altiplano
| Editorial and graphic designer and art director based in Lausanne, Switzerland, who graduated from ECAL in 2009. Since 2012, he teaches typography and type design at Eracom Lausanne---École romande d'arts et communication---and ECAL. He set up ASltiplano in Lausanne. His typefaces:
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Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of an experimental typeface based on rectangles, triangles and circles (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver. Creator of the free information design typeface Fabrica (2011, Practice Foundry). He wanted to make Fabrica into the most legible typeface for mobile screens. His Rytm typeface (2011, renamed Theatre I think) is an experiment: Rytm was built based on the height and width, letter spacing and kerning of Helvetica. Yes indeed, each Helvetica glyph was replaced by a correctly sized black rectangle. Behance link. Fontspace link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
While studying at Washington University in St. Louis in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, this New Yorker designed the experimental typeface Dry Martini (2012)---this typeface consists of thick circles and arcs, and thin sticks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in New York City. Creator of the geometric experimental typeface Echo (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Partner with Dario Hofstetter at Monom in Switzerland. Together, they designed 100 pixel and experimental fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Santa Clarita, CA-based designer of an experimental alphabet in 213 during her final year of studies at the Art Institute of California, Los Angeles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British designer of the free experimental typeface Charlton (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at Southampton University's Winchester School of Art, who created the purely geometric typeface Marcato (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, Soth Africa-based designer of the expermental typeface Bad Geometry (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amélie Dumont
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During her graphic design studies in Lyon, France, Amélie Valverde created the experimental geometric typeface Moveo (2015) and Kutch (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Ami Littlefair created Paperclip (2013), Colostic (2013: purely geometric shapes), Backtrack (2013) and Croudi (2013, a stitching typeface). Inspired by the constructivist movement, she created Geometric Typeface (2013) by superposing and juxtaposing geometric solids. Other geometric experiments include Line Alphabet (2013), Diagonal Alphabet (2013, a stitching font), Connecting Alphabet (2013). In 2014, she made the free hipster font Aesthetika. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ami Shah (Mumbai) drew various experimental Latin alphabets in 2012. During her studies at IDC, IIT Bombay, she designed IDC Gujarati (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of a number of typefaces at FontStruct in 2009: ANSAR (texture effect face), ANSAR DECO (horizontally striped face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amondo Szegi
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During her graphic design studies at the American University of Kuwait, Amoona Saohin designed the triangle-themed geometric typeface Triagulum (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech Design and Typography (studio experimentalniho design). Vendor of Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amuki Studio
| Vanessa A. Zuñiga Tinizaray (aka Amuki) is a graphic designer and art director in Loja, Ecuador. She works a lot with pre-Colombian, Inca, and South American cultural patterns. Vanessa created the experimental typeface Pacha (2010), which is based on old Indian patterns. In 2012, she designed the modular color font INTI, and the cultural pattern typeface family Sara. In 2014, she designed the modular typeface Oraculo and the bribeware display typeface Lineas Y Puntos. Amaru Creador won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014. In 2015, she created the free display typeface Abyaster, and the multiline Bolivian pattern typeface Khurus. Her typefaces Modular 46 and Tiwanacu (decorative Nazca-themed caps) won awards at Tipos Latinos 2016. Typefaces from 2016: Criolla (an ornamental circus font, extended to Criollabat in 2019). In 2017, she designed an extraordinary multiline ancient Mexican culture-themed decorative typeface, Coatl Serpiente, and published the Arhuaca op-art patterns. Typefaces from 2017: Tinkuy Patterns (a free op-art pattern font related to native Andean cultures; in 2021, published by Sudtipos with gdigitization by Alejandro Paul), M46C (experimental, and modular), Entorno (a modular prismatic typeface), Arhuaca (a precolombian pattern font). Typefaces from 2020: Nunka Anent Dingbat, Sébastien (a set of color typefaces inspired by Truchet's tilings). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Experiments with the Nodebox software led Amy Elms (London, UK) to develop the experimental typeface Circuline (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amy Kilner (Sheffield, UK) was inspired by Kandinsky's paintings when she created the Kandinsky Font (2013, Font Bureau). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An An
| Anik Ya (An An) is the graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who created the design culture typeface Rasoir (2014), named after the Miu Miu Rasoir sunglasses. She also created the experimental typeface Kaiv (2014), which is named after sunglasses by Paul Smith. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Singapore-based designer of the curvy multiline typeface IME (2014), which is based on fingerprint patterns. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who is experimenting with modular geometric black typefaces in 2010: Blind, Triangulo, Square, High. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ana Estrada Martos is a UX/UI developer in Madrid, Spain. In 2018, she designed the free experimental modular typeface family Dana. This typeface, conceived in an 11x12 grid, consists of lines and circle arcs, and is named after the X-Files star Dana Scully. The font is also coded directly in HTML. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Letterer, illustrator, art director and designer in Los Angeles (was: New York City). Creator of Octave (2011): Octave has been created with the intention of fusing together the graphical elements of written musical composition with the English alphabet. In 2012, she created the tall high contrast fashion typeface Kilimanjaro. Her Textappeal lettering from 2014 is also noteworthy. Her experimental typeface Floating Typescapes won an award at ProtoType in 2016. Behance link. Old Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow, Russia-based designer of the experimental Cyrillic typeface Linius (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Rosario, Argentina. Creator of the experimental typeface Cowo (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Barcelona. In 2016, she created the sturdy text typeface Cantera, perhaps most useful for engineering and building applications. Quantum (2016) is an experimental typeface based on circles, while Avier (2016) is even more experimental, while staying in the techno realm. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Queretaro, Mexico-based designer of the experimental typeface Los Andes (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based designer of an eperimental Cyrillic typeface (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based designer of the experimental Latin / Cyrillic typefaces Grungedidot (2013), Multilayer Font (2013), and Modular Font (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A freelance artist and illustrator based in Palermo, Italy, and born in Russia, Anastasiia Macaluso created various handcrafted typefaces in 2015, including a mummy-themed font, a bloody font, a bubblegum font, a couple of crayon typefaces and watercolor and dry brush types. In 2015, she started selling her work, such as the vampire script font Rodion, the crayon typeface Carbon Script, and a drop-dead gorgeous set of vector format snowflakes. Typefaces from 2016: Prosto (a handcrafted Latin / Cyrillic typeface), Sofia (thick brush. free), Astrid (hipster style), Giglio (paperclip style). Typefaces from 2017: Palma Nana (script). Typefaces from 2019: Module (a monoline display typeface), Unmoor (an outlined and color rope font). Typefaces from 2020: Katrin Sketch, Be My Candy.nastasiiaMacaluso-Module-2019 [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Danish graphic designer and art director in Odense, who works at STUPID Studio. He created a great geometric modular typeface by superimposing simple geometric figures, and called it Paxono (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian designer of the experimental typeface Venom (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Batel, Curitiba, Brazil-based foundry of Anderson Maschio (b. 1980, Curitiba). Creator of the ultra-fat decorative typeface Chumbitos (2007, a winner in the experimental type category at Tipos Latinos 2008), available from MyFonts (this was followed by Chumbit02). He also made the experimental type family consisting of Anark Diet Stencil, Anark Fat Stencil, and Anark Natural Stencil (2007). Creator of Magricela (2009, octagonal). He is working on Austera (2007, a basic sans) and Phyta (2007, an experimental typeface with stretched out connected letters). In 2016, he made a custom font for Juliano Monteiro Studio. Check also his gorgeous art work based on Chumbitos. Link to Fictilia. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Kecskemet, Hungary-based designer of experimental typefaces called Pulsepect Types (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andras Semler (Sopron, Hungary) designed BARCS (2013), an experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andre Toet Design (was: SO Design)
| Andre Toet Design (and before that, SO Design is a Dutch studio run by André Toet (b. 1950, Den Haag). He was educated at the KABK under Gerrit Noordzij from 1974 until 1976, and at the Central School of Art and Design in London under Nicolete Gray from 1976 until 1977. From 1979 until 1980, he worked as a designer at Total Design with Jurriaan Schrofer and Wim Crouwel. Andre Toet Design is located in Apeldoorn (was: Amsterdam). Creator of Artu (2012, monospaced display face), Battersea (multiline face), Billiard (2012), Bloggy (experimental), AT Move Bloggy (2010), Decoupe (experimental), AT Move Decoupé (2012: a modular font based on a French game from 1906), Holborn, Mezzo (mimimalist), AT Move Pipi (2012, a playful textured caps typeface created jointly with Jasper Nijssen), AT Move Mezzo, AT Move Powerplay (1976, and redone in 2011: multilined), Musica, Nath, Powerplay, Tremelo, Wiggle. Creations from 2012: AT Move Holborn (a 3d outlined neon sign face), AT Move Tremelo (based on the logotype Microtel), Artu, AT Move Wyggle, AT Move Wolfszn, AT Move Skewy (2012), AT Move Specx and AT Move Specx Stencil (a slab serif based on the cover of a 1955 French School-Notebook; help with the design from Jasper Nijssen). Typefaces made in 2013: AT Move Altera, AT Move Altera, AT Move Herengracht (an inline typeface), AT Move Artu Super Super Heavy, AT Move Bulky (glaz krak font), AT Move Quipo (an amoebic font), AT Move MMM (with Jasper Terra and Jasper Nijssen: a rounded organic sans typeface. They write: The design is based on a old Soap-Powder advertisement. MMM is very useful for headings and/or logotypes.), AT Move Strano (squarish stencil), AT Move Nath (optical illusion typeface first made in 1974 at the Central School of Art and Design in London, and digitized in 2013 with the aid of Jasper Terra). Typefaces from 2014: AT Move Frutta, AT Move Straw (by André Toet and Jasper Nijssen), AT Move Riff Raff (octagonal, with Jasper Nijssen). Typefaces from 2015: Bombola. Typefaces from 2016: AT Move Bombola (elliptical style). Typefaces from 2017: Tremelo. Typefaces from 2018: Powerplay (trilined). Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Amposta, Spain-based designer of the experimental modular typeface Sempitern (2018) and the reverse stress typeface Bood (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based creator of the handmade experimental typeface Tracce (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrea Braccaloni
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Graphic designer and typographer in Ferndale, MI. She did some type posters (e.g., on the Arts and Crafts Movement), and some calligraphic work. She also designed some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Uruguayan winner of an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 for her experimental typeface called H Continua (codesigned with Maria Laura Fernandez, Andrea Montedonico, Ruth Slomovitz). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at the Danish school of Media and Journalism in Copenhagen, Andrea Gyldenör designed the 3d typeface View (2015) and the geometric experimental typeface Peak (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrea Malpede (Nocive Laboratory, Naples, Italy) works in London. He created the ornamental alphabet called Maxicanito Nocive Font (2011). He also did Baboletor (2011, a superposition of basic geometric shapes), and Busy (2011). In 2013, he designed Xylophone (an experimental 3d font) and Siick Nocive. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrea Marino (Marino Design, Firenze, Italy) created the contrasted experimaental typeface Didetica in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Uruguayan winner of an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 for her experimental typeface called H Continua (codesigned with Andrea Grossy, Maria Laura Fernandez, Ruth Slomovitz). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrea Tinnes
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Architect and visual designer in Puglia, Italy. In 2021, he designed the free experimental modular typeface Hofmann, which was inspired by the work of Swiss designer Armin Hofmann. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based designer of Dazed&Confused (2011): Custom font derived from Serifa for the fashion section themed 'Vibrations/Movement'. The font looks as though it shivers/vibrates. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrea Zucca (Livorno, Italy) created the kitchen tile typeface Looz (2012) and the modular circle-based typeface Spikkio (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Portalegre, Portugal-based designer of the geometric typeface No Reason (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Reproducing his bio: I'm a graphic designer graduated from PUC-Rio and co-author of the illustration book "FUNK what beat is this," published in 2009 by Aeroplano. During 2010, I gave lectures on the development process of the book at PUC-Rio and ESDI. I have specialization in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design and Business Management at IBMEC-Rio. I have worked at 19 design, O Globo Online and Yahoo! Brazil. I currently live in New York and attend the MFA in Communication Design at Pratt Institute. During the summer of 2012, I was part of the creative team of the Rio2016 Olympic and Paralympic games. His typefaces include Ubique Infotype (2013, with Rob Gonzales). Ubique overlays several typefaces to create a special effect. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at Campus Agreste da UFPE, Caruaru, Brazil-based André Felipe (b. 1997) designed the modular typeface Eferena (2016), the pixel typeface Sneak Attack (2016), the squarish typefaces Soccer Jersey (2016), Porque (2016) and Quatro (2016, inspired by Bauhaus), the pixel font Peepo (2016), Beheaded (2016), and the slatted typeface Retrosynthwave (2016). Typefaces from 2017: Greetings (experimental). Typefaces from 2018: Revolta (pixacao style). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian artist, b. 1954, Antwerpen. The DITT writes this about him: André is an adult dyslexic. At Bridges 2009, he presented an experimental typeface on which he had been working since 1975, under the title Zen Art. In 2007, he created another experimental geometric face, Alphabet Candy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
André Nossek
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André Toet
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During his studies, Mannhein, Germany-based André-Pascal Werthwein designed Generative Type (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreas Brunelius
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Andreas Carlsson
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Graphic designer in Berlin. His typefaces include Asgard Grotesk (2012), Evil Neue (2012, sans), Jjang (2012), Ladro (2012), Schicke (2012, geometric sans), Tano (2012), Sherman Mono (2012), Tsukunft (2012, experimental), Arsene (2012), Decodorant (2012), Kirky (2012), Nordfrost (2012), Sedadda (2012), Sloth (2012, an avant garde sans), Svangard (2012), Yueah Mono (2012), and Kamek (2012, a great feather pen rendering of a Venetian renaissance typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreas Gustavsson
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Andreas Koller
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Andreas Leonidou
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Andreas Pihlström
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Andreas Uebele
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Andree Nguyen
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Andree Paat
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Graphic designer from Bucharest (and now Burriana, Spain) who made these typefaces in 2011: STT, Rock, Square, Desgraciado, Cylon, Kalypso, Dgtl, Passio, Sting, and VCT. Via Dos Cabrones, he partners with Vian Peanu. He hooked up with Pose Radu in 2017 and set up The Jumping Foxes. Through The Jumping Foxes, they commercialized Radu's Matisse design as JF Matisse (2017). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrei Robu
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Graphic designer based in Rio de Janeiro. Creator of the experimental typeface Bossa (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based designer of a geometric experimental Cyrillic typeface in 2012. More magnificent, often geometric, Cyrillic typefaces followed in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Cali, Colombia, of the experimental typeface Tipos Antiguos (2013) that was inspired by pre-Colombian art. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andreu Balius Planelles
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Born in Barcelona in 1962, Andreu Balius studied Sociology in the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (1980-1984), and graphic design at IDEP in Barcelona (1985-1989). He holds a PhD in Design from the University of Southampton (UK). He founded Garcia Fonts&Co in Barcelona in 1993 to show his experimental designs. He cofounded Typerware in 1996 with Joancarles P. Casasín. Typerware existed until 2001 and was based in Santa Maria de Martorelles, a village near Barcelona. He cofounded Type Republic (see also here), and ran Andreu Balius (tipo)graphic design. He is presently an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Balius won a Bukvaraz 2001 award for Pradell. Pradell also won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. SuperVeloz (codesigned with Alex Trochut) won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Pradell and Super-Veloz. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke about the Imprenta Real. Coorganizer of ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. Author of Type at work. The use of Type in Editorial Design, published in English by BIS (Amsterdam, 2003). FontFont link. Linotype link. Behance link. His production:
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Maidstone, United Kingdom-based programmer. Designer of the experimental typefaces Circula Track (2016) and GX Stretched Lines (2016), and the free grungy handcrafted typeface GX Ruff Stuff (2016). | |
Andrew Byrom was born in Liverpool, England in 1971. After Graduating from the University of East London in 1996 he opened his own design studio and worked for various clients including Penguin Books, The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, The Industrial Design Centre, Time Out Online and The Guardian Newspaper. Around this time he also began teaching graphic design at The University of Luton and Central Saint. Martins. Byrom moved to the USA in 2000 to teach at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. He has recently been commissioned to design typefaces and type treatments for Elle Decoration, The New York Times Magazine, McGraw-Hill, and Turner Classic Movies. In 2006 he moved to Long Beach to take up an Associate Professor position at California State University, where he is currently the Area Head of the Graphic Design Department. He created the experimental typeface Interiors (2002), about which AIGA writes: Interiors (3D type) is a collaboration between type designer Andrew Byrom and designer Joel Wolter. It was originally conceived as a digital font (Interiors) and was inspired by an old wooden chair in Byrom's office that, when looked at from a certain angle, resembled the letter h. Using the three-dimensional principles of this simple form, and closely adhering to type design conventions, 26 letters of the alphabet were drawn and generated as a font. The characters were then constructed in three dimensions using tubular steel into full-scale furniture frames. Because the underlying design concept is typographical, the end result becomes almost freestyle furniture design. Letters like m, n, o, b and h can be viewed as simple tables and chairs, but other letters, like e, g, a, s, t, v, x and z, become beautifully abstract pieces of furniture. He also made the distressed font Bloodclot, the stencil family Byro Stencil (free), Byro Sans, 1byrosquare (2000), 2byroround (2000), ByroBlock Stencil (2000, stencil), Concussion (dot matrix with various size dots), Easy Vie, Venetian (2009, like Venetian blinds), Fresh (1995, scratchy type), Ply, Rage, St. Auden, Bandaid (2006), 3D Dot Matrix. He divides his time between teaching, designing for various clients and playing with his sons, Auden and Louis. He has recently been commissioned to design typefaces and type treatments for Elle Decoration, The New York Times Magazine, McGraw-Hill, and Turner Classic Movies. In 2006 he moved to Long Beach to take up an Associate Professor position at California State University, where he is currently the Area Head of the Graphic Design Department. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at the University of Huddersfield, Andrew Edward Fish (Blackpool, UK) created Only Human (2015), a very experimental circular typeface inspired by El Lissitzky's brand of constructivism. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the paperclip font Mothership Connection (2009). He is located in Odessa, Ukraine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrew Lockhart (b. Sandy, OR) runs Andrew Lockhart Design in Montana, where he is a student at Montana State University. As a FontStructor, he made Thick Round, Sport Classic (athletic lettering face), Thin Stripe, Bold Stripe, and Stripe Bold in 2010. Locked Up (2010) is based on a vector image of a combination lock. Home page. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Milwaukee, WI. Behance link. Creator of the experimental typeface Tik (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Interface designer from Lawrenceville, GA, who graduated from Georgia Tech in Atlanta, and who created the experimental typefaces AMBubbla, HalfTonBleenUpper. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrew Tindale
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Long Beach, CA-based designer of Geometric Type (2015), an experimental typeface that is based on curves and tangential lines. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrij Shevchenko
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Andrij Type
| Andrij Shevchenko (b. 1973) (aka Andrij Che) is the Berdyansk-based Ukrainian designer of the following typefaces, somne of which can also be had from MyFonts. Behance link. In 2012, he started Ukrainian Type.
Showcase of Andrij Shevchenko's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Leskovac, Serbia-based graphic designer. In 2021, she published Circle Fantasy, an experimental typeface that combines just two elements, thin circle arcs and bold rectangular segments. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Manchester, UK-basded designer in 2018 of an experimental 3d mesh-based typeface to recall Marshall McLuhan's The medium is the message adage. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at ESAG Penninghen in Paris, Angèle Banus designed the bilined display typeface Esoteria (2017). In 2015, she designed two experimental typefaces as a tribute to Belgian singer Stromae. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of Disrupt (2019), a geometric sans typeface with left-leaning i, l, 1 and 4, in order to willfully disrupt. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based graphic artist who created the water-and-ink experimental alphabet drips (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Angela Michanitzi (AVMC Studios, London, UK) created the tweetware squarish typeface AM Oceanus in 2014. Other typefaces include Hyperion (oriental simulation face), Water, Crystal (experimental typeface), Dione (3d), Crius, and AM Gaea (2014). Angela lectures at the University of the Arts in London. Dafont link. Behance link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mexican designer of the hand-printed Bolita, the kids typefaces Nino and Bíblica, the unicase Bauhaus, the round typeface Aqua, the grunge typefaces Gap and Heart, the handwriting typefaces Pessoa and Pincelazo, Geometrics, Matisse, the minimalist typeface Moogdula, Offset, the sans typeface Quatro, the windowed typeface Ventana, Voluble, Starline, Santa Clara, the trekkie typeface Wet Alien, and the experimental typeface Chida, mentioned here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and print designer in Birmingham, UK. He created the experimental typeface AviationAirplaneEngines (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Angus R. Shamal
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Anik Ya
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Anita Jürgeleit
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Graphic designer. She created the display typeface Penguin (2012) and received a Creative Summit award for the packaging design for Kikkoman, in large part due to the effective use of a fantastic custom typeface. She also created the board game Typopoly in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his computer science studies in Cambridge, MA, Anji Ren programmed an experimental font, Gru Grammar (2014), using only a quarter circle and its negative. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ankhbayar Byambasuren is a digital artist based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Behance link. He made the ultra-fat experimental typeface TSELMEG (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cambridge, UK-based designer of the experimental stick figure typeface Line Eyes (2016) and a colorful geometric all caps tape font (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based designer of the artsy typeface Kandinskiy (2013), the octagonal Cyrillic typeface Type Bolt (2013), and the multilayered geometric font Structura (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts Budapest, Hungary, Anna Balizs created the experimental geometric typeface Triongl (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Odense, Denmark-based creator of the free ai format font Paper (2013), which consists entirely of superimposed triangles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Prague, who created the sharp-edged display typeface Annya (2013) and the experimental typeface Antipon (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based designer of the shaky handcrafted typeface Lefty (2015), which emulates left-handed writing of a right-handed person. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the playful typeface Redrum (2014), and of the experimental typefaces Muscari (2014), Eat (2014), Milk (2014), Forest Fish (2014) and Polychrome (2014). Anna is based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris, France-based designer of the experimental typeface Cercle in 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kansas City, MO-based creator of the distorted typeface Para (2012), which was designed during her studies at the Kansas City Art Institute. Blogspot link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Allendale, MI-based student at Grand valley State University. Designer of the architectural typeface Damn Bad (2014) [at least, I think that is the name of the typeface]. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies, Yekaterinburg, Russia-based Anna Drozd designed the free experimental Latin / Cyrillic typeface Abraxas (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Creator of Form Font (2012, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the experimental all caps typeface Magnets (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Moscow. During a type design workshop in 2017, Anna Lukyanchenko designed the dada typeface Psychodelic Serifim. She writes: I was inspired by Dmitrovskaya station in Moscow metro and created two sets of characters, based on trapezium: characters from one set are wide on the top, and from the other set on the bottom. They can be combined or used separately. This Latin / Cyrillic all caps typeface has no relationship with the psychedelic style of the 1960s and 1970s. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Royal Academy Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium), Anna Skrinnikova designed the experimental typeface Noach (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Lyon, France. She created the colorful textured geometric solid typeface Dyslexie (2013), the geometric display typeface Codex (2016), and the connect-the-dots electronic circuit typeface Le Lien (2016, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lyon, France-based designer of the experimental typefaces Tangram (2017) and Alphabody (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch graphic designer in Roosendaal. Behance link. Creator of a colorful typographic experiment with overlays and weaving (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian typographer and graphic designer. She created the experimental typeface called Brush (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of a few experimemtal typefaces in 2017 such as Futura Zensur, Futura Fragment and Futura Echo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Singapore-based creator of the straight-edged experimental typeface January (2013) and of Kontora (2013), a hand-drawn typeface that emulates the stark contours that marked the typefaces of the beautiful women in the Tang dynasty in China and the Meiji period in Japan. In 2018, Anthea published the 3d experimental typeface Architext. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Melbourne, Australia, whose studio is called Could Not Sleep. He created the experimental loopy typeface called Boundary (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and motion graphics designer in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he worked as Ontwerp.tv (Idea currency) Pty Ltd. He is now located in Seattle, WA. He created several experimental alphabets, often of a geometric nature, such as Geometric Chic (2008-2009) and Beauty (2009). The Bends (2011) is a hairline curly-yet-straight display face. SansGoma (2011) is a hairline slab poster face. Nu Gothic (2011), Nu Modern (2011) and especially Vironica (2011) are fashion mag display typefaces. Neu Nouveau (2011) is a curly art nouveau face. Numera (2011) is an organic fashion mag face. Killoton (2011) is super-fat and beautiful. Creations in 2012: An art deco example in his Janelle 1945 work. Vorm Type, inspired by the work of Wim Crouwel, is a rounded blocky typeface that is monospaced in the x and y directions. Typefaces from 2013: Canada (alchemic). In 2015, he created a series of posters called Vignelliisms illustrating one-liners by Massimo Vignelli. Typefaces from 2017: Canada (I can't believe that he has trademarked the name Canada). Home page. Behance link. Ontwerp link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Antidesign
| Freelance designer in Girona, Spain. Behance link. He created the multiline neon-look techno typeface Adtype01 (2010) and the futuristic typeface Adtype00 (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Antipixel
| Julia Martínez Diana (b. 1990) is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studies graphic design at UBA. In 2004, she set up the type foundry Antipixel. Julia created Circoex (2008) and the hand-printed Culia (2008). Additions in 2011: Culita (hand-printed), Presa (techno, +UltraLight), the Savia family (hand-drawn typefaces, including a 3d Shadow style), PGY. Creations from 2012: Aracne, Iso (hexagonal), Belta (hand-printed), Nue (monoline display sans). Typefaces from 2013: Eneas Expanded (wide poster lettering), Aracne Condensed, Aracne Ultra Condensed (hand-printed caps face, +Light). Typefaces from 2014: Enyo (hand-drawn poster font), Enyo Serif (2014), Italo (hand-drawn), Lamia (hand-printed, renamed Lamiar after a week). Typefaces from 2015: LeOsler. Typefaces from 2016: Austral Slab (layered textured typeface family), Austral Sans (free for personal use), Austral Sans Stamp. Typefaces from 2017: Escalope (a handcrafted layered font, +icons). Typefaces from 2018: Fuse V.2 Printed (with Salvador Rodriguez at W Foundry). Typefaces from 2019: Pasto (an experimental unicase). Typefaces from 2020: Dingos (a joyful extra bold handcrafted display typeface). Typefaces from 2021: Equinox. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Experimental typography. Under construction. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American designer (b. 1987) of Indigalian (2002), an extremely experimental font. Real name Lauren Rupp. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ukrainian illustrator in Kiev. He created a paper cut numerical alphabet in 2009, called Figtype, and a free experimental typeface called Color Lines in 2010. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anton Izorkin
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Anton Koovit was born in Tallinn, Estonia, in 1981, and studied graphic design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, ESAG Paris and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 2006, he obtained a masters in type design at KABK in Den Haag. Anton set up his own company Khork OÜ in 2006. In 2007 he moved to Berlin, Germany. He is "extraordinary assistant professor" of typography/type design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2012, he and Yassin Baggar set up Fatype, a type foundry in Berlin and Neuchatel, Switzerland. His most well known typeface design is Adam BP (2007, B&P Foundry), a 4-weight sans family. He also designed Aleksei (2010, unreleased serif face), GQ Slab, GQ Baton (b Anton Koovit and Yassin Baggar), U8 (2010: a grotesk family based on lettering in the Berlin underground), Arvo (2010: a free slab serif family at Google Font Directory, co-designed with Yassin Baggar). Anton Koovit and Yassin Baggar offer a new take on U8 in their UCity typeface family (2019). Experimental typefaces by him include Kork Sausage, Boudo (collage alphabet), Planton, Velo (geometric). Allan (2010) and Arvo are free at the Google Directory. Fontsquirrel link. Behance link for Fatype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
St. Petersburg-based graphic designer who made the experimental typeface Can You Read Music (2010), in which letters are replaced by music notes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anton Studer
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New York City-based designer of the 3d experiment Type My Face (2015). Home page for DFMN. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hamburg-based designer of Cleptotronik (2012), a 3d visual effects caps alphabet. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian designer of the experimental typeface Perspective (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Creator of The Simple Font (2012, experimental, geometeric and minimalist) and Geometric Font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aparat
| Domen Fras completed his masters at London's Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design in 2000. In 2002 he founded the type & design studio Aparat in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Since 2011 he is a full-time assistant professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. Speaker at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. His largely experimental work:
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Designer and illustrator Apirah Infahsaeng ("Synthetic Automatic", Brooklyn, NY) made Elastic (2004), based on wrapping a series of rubber bands around a 3x3 pegboard grid. Four (2004) takes inspiration from the dot matrix display in the popular children's game Connect Four. Seven Board of Cunning (2004) is a modular paper fold typeface constructed with Chinese tangram puzzle tiles. In 2004, he also made an ascii typeface drawn from Helvetica Neue R, created and manipulated using Microsoft Word [sic], called Helvetica Neue R Microsoft Word. He studied art at the University of Connecticut. In 2008, he drew a custom didone display typeface for New York Magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based designer of the experimental Cyrillic typeface Nadachu (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aquila Quentin (aka Qkila on the fluid) is a French designer, most likely located in Nimes. Creator of the human typeface dingbat font Fluid Death Qkila (2011), of Vandal on The Fluid (2011, shadow display face), of Broken Fluid (2011), Fluid Christmas (2011), Fluid Spiral (2011), Rock n Fluid (2011) and of the counterless geometric typeface Cube Kila (2011). In 2013, he designed Level 01, Bombing, Quenelles, La Bande en Baskets (baseball script), Super Cube, Smoke The World, Mr. Poppey, Haricot Magique, Moulin Rouge, Slam (a confident script face), Je n'aime pas le lundi, Love You Mom (+Shadow), Felix (brushy script), Carte Postale (neatly hand-printed letters), Dos Campos, Promotion (grungy caps), Shoes Center, Vertige, Sold Out, Chomage (a textured typeface), Origine du Monde, Metropolis, Crazy Cookies (a 3d face), Spectro, Sea&Turtle, Vamos A La Playa, Bad Boy (dingbats), Yo Mama (outlined typeface), Fat & Cap, Miaou, Basscrw, Fluid LCD, Jam Session, and Fluid Maska (grunge), La Chim de 23:50, Milk Shake Fraise, Made in France, Quand Tu N'es Pas La (a shaded typeface), Souvenir, Filament Galactique, Street Hunter, Eau de Rose, Good Life, Poker Style, Painterz, Spoutnik (constructivist typeface), Jeans de Nîmes, Clothing Brands (script), Moulin Rouge, Mexican Fiesta (Victorian ornamental typeface). Typefaces from 2014: This Night (grunge), Mirabelle (fat brush script), Kaleidoscopic Vision (dingbats), Kaleidoscopic Mind (dingbats), Chrome, Ghetto Fabulous, Pink Vapor (upright connected brush script), Cargo, Snack, Queen of Today (script), Trouble (grunge), Hip Hop Lab 1, Grind, Road Trip (graffiti font). Typefaces from 2015: Moi Je M'en Fous (brush script), Peinture Fraiche (fresh paint sign emulation). Typefaces from 2016: Bigiliw Patterns (ornaments). Typefaces from 2020: Whole Trains (a graffiti font). Home page. Dafont link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At Saint Petersburg State University (in Saint Petersburg, Russia), rdak Mukanova designed the experimental typeface Cumulus (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of Escuela Superior De Diseño De La Rioja in Logrono, Spain, class of 2016. Madrid-based creator of the vector format font Theo (2014). This 3d experimental font was influenced by De Stijl. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Istanbul-based designer of the minimalist typeface Archmage (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ari Weinkle (Brookline, MA) created the circle-and-straight segment typeface Sisyphus (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ariana Pereira (Viseu, Portugal) made the experimental typefaces PAC ABC (2011) and Castelo Branco (2011). Still in 2011, she made an experimental modular typeface that is modeled after Supertipo Veloz. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ariel Di Lisio
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Vilnius, Lithuania-based designer of several experimental Latin and Cyrillic typefaces in 2019. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and designer in Mumbai, India, who studied at M S University of Baroda, class of 2012. In 2017, he designed the experimental 3d typeface Imaginarium for the 3d printing company Imaginarium. This is possibly the first font that can be printed in 3 dimensions. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arktype (was: Atelier René Knip)
| Dutch type designer located in Bloemendaal. Jan Middendorp wrote about him in A.R.K. Ten Years of Type Related Projects 1994-2004 (2004), summarizing Knip's work at Atelier René Knip, mostly experiments in type design. Knip (b. 1963) is a graduate from the St. Joost Academy in Breda, class of 1990. Since 1992, Knip has operated a design studio in Amsterdam, Atelier René Knip. Recently, Knip and his brother Edgar formed a new company, Gebroeders Knip, which produces furniture and accessories in which letterforms are integral parts of the objects design. One of his experiments, a unicase typeface with an Arabic feel, was digitized by Nick Curtis as Turban Hey NF (2008). In October 2012, Knip and another Dutch designer cofounded Arktype, but by 2020, the other Dutch designer left that company. Typefaces at Knip's site as of 2020:
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Visual designer in Seattle, WA, who created Tenso Type in 2014. Tenso Type is based on a mesh design. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Puerto Rican type designer, b. 1991. He lives in Caguas. His first type design is the experimental typeface Just Around The Corner (2010). His foundry is called ArmandoP. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Academic Art College in Moscow, who now works as a designer in Moscow. Creator of the amoebic experimental Cyrillic typeface Clara (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian graphic designer who created Meneïde (2013, a free blackletter stencil) and Foresee (2013, a free geometric display typeface). In 2014, he created the free experimental typeface Coda as a tribute to Paul Renner. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Marseille, France, Arnaud Saunier created the free experimental typeface Polygonal in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Dirtyfax. Arne lives in Kontich. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Balneario de Camboriu, Brazil. He reduced the serifs in Courier New and created Courrier Digital (2012). Spacender (2012) is another experimental typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Manchester, UK-based designer. Behance link. Creator of the triangle-themed typeface Kosmos (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ARS Type (was ARS Design)
| ARS Type is an Amsterdam-based foundry with some commercial fonts by Angus R. Shamal. Shamal had earlier published fonts with T-26 and Plazm. Fonts can be bought via Fontshop. The fonts: AudioVisual1, Code, Kamp, Kamp Serif, Retro City, OCRU, Toycube, Mortal, Maquette (1999-2000), Angelring, ARS Bembo, Contrast, Dandy, EcologyModern, Hartu (handwriting), Temper, ARS Novelty (2011, a free hybrid style face), ARS Polythene (pixel font family), Misanthry, Syntax (OsF format sans serif), CensorSans (1994), CensorSerif (1994), Credit (1995), Epilogue.pfa (1995), Exert (T-26), Humain-Graphica (1995), Humain-Synthetica (1995), Platrica (1994), Roscent (1995), ARSFortune (2000, futuristic), ARS Region (2002, Bauhaus sans), District (experimental), Descendiaan (1998), Zero Rate (futuristic), Tegel (1998, stencil, kitchen tile), Twenty (octagonal, techno), Trio (dot matrix fonts), Maquette (1999), Region, Product (2007, sans typefaces), Mr Archi, Prime (display), Deviata (unicase face), Forum I-AR (after Forum I, a 1948 font by Georg Trump), Freie Initialen-AR (2007, after a 1928 set of caps for Stempel Garamond), Fry's Ornamented (2007; a revival of Ornamented No. 2 which was cut by Richard Austin for Dr. Edmund Fry in 1796), Graphique-AR (2007; a shaded typeface based on a 1946 design by Eidenbenz for Haas), Gravur-AR (2007; a digital version of a type designed by Georg Trump and issued as Trump-Gravur by Weber in 1960), Initiales Grecques (after a Firmin Didot design, ca. 1800), Lutetia Open (2007; based on Jan Van Krimpen's Lutetia), Old Face Open (2007; a digitization of Fry's Shaded, an open all caps Baskerville cut by Isaac Moore for Fry, ca. 1788), Open Capitals (2007, after Jan Van Krimpen's 1928 typeface for Enschedé called Open Kapitalen), Romulus Capitals (2007; after the caps series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1931), Romulus Open (2007; after the Open series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1936), Rosart 811 (2007; open caps after Enschedé no. 811 by Rosart), Zentenar Initialen (2007; based on blackletter initials of F.H.E. Schneidler, ca. 1937). Fontshop link. Designer link at FontShop. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
FontStructor who made Weee (2010), Qada (2010, blackboard bold open face), Qada Treuga (2010, Mexican-themed), Queue BB (2010), Queue (2010, art deco), Tribe Lock (2010, gridded), Calcula (2010, + rounded: an LED family), Verba (2010, dot matrix face), Oldecod (2010, dot matrix face), Polynomial semiserif (2010), Phosphora (2010, texture face), Znot (2011), Robotic Handwriting (2011), Thinkapth (2011), Endomorphism (2011), Caseda (2011), Zare Ornamental Border (2011), Spheretta 5x7 (2011, dot matrix typeface with circles), Kryptos (2014), Subpixel A (2014), aHexasegment (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art Serrano
| Cecelia "Cecy" Rodriguez ("Art Serrano", Tampico, Mexico) designed the techno typeface Electric Feel (2010), Chilly (2009, hand-printed, hairline) and Crazy Diamond (2009, black typeface with small holes). Fontsy link Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
St. Petersburg-based Russian designer of Reflex, a typeface that marries old ustav influences with modern scripts, SirSerif, Line Font (pixelish), Taliman (angular), Griffit, Malevich (totally experimental), Zavitok Font (upright script), and Face (script). Alternate URL. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artem Sinigur
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As part of Kiosk Works (or: Playfaces Type foundry) in Moscow, Russia, Artemiy Kremer designed the experimental Latin / Cyrillic typeface Afform (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of the experimental typefaces Gearbox, Gotha (octagonal), Nippon Garden, Labyrinth, Nano (pixel), Machine Script, Plank stencil, Ballistix, San Andreas (recreation of the Grand Theft Auto font), Machina (a macho octagonal heavy face), Electro, Hiro (oriental look), Japanica (oriental look, based on Hiroshi), Mage, Silkscreen Alt (pixel, a modification of Jason Kottke's Silkscreen). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arthur Reinders Folmer
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Geneva, Switzerland-based designer of (a digital version of) Vierkant (2016), the experimental square typeface first proposed by Wim Crouwel. He also designed El Doble (2018), Maximaal (2016) and the Peignotian typeface Gank (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Porto, Portugal, Artur Basto designed an experimental typeface (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Porto, Portugal. He created the octagonal typeface Numb (2010) and the experimental type Folded Square (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artur Frankowski
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Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of an experimental typeface in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arve Båtevik
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Asa Childress
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Ascinct
| Grant Sparks (aka as Phesix or Ascinct, b. 1985) is the Perth-based designer of the experimental typeface Conscept (2005) and of Consphere (2004). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in the FUSE 12 collection of the experimental barely legible font Dofus. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ash Silva (New York City) scanned water drops laced with ink to create a super-experimental Ink Drop Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born and brought up in Mumbai, Ashish Kalpund graduated from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art in 2009. He explains about his ornamental typeface Kundankari (2011): Kundankari, is a prime example where art of jewelry making helps complement the beauty of an Indian woman. Introduced by Mughals, this art form is still prevalent in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat. This jewelry involves the process of embellishing pearls and precious stones in a frame of goldstring. Another link. In 2010, he made several experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Liverpool who graduated from Liverpool John Moores University in July 2009 with a BA Hons in Graphic Design. She made CircleType (2009, letters based on lines and arcs) and the experimental modular typefaces Craft Fonts and Tessellated Fonts. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic Arts graduate of the WInchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Asma is a graphic and type designer. Designer of experimntal typefaces such as Genius Loci (2012), Transmission Towers Typeface (2012), Unity Typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A-Studio
| Nottingham / Derby, UK-based designer. He made the straight-edged experimental display typefaces Lazer Addiktz (2013: free EPS format typeface) and Next Level (2013). In 2016, he published an all caps poster entitled Alphabetica and the octagonal typeface family Ghetto. In 2021, he released Uberdank (an all uppercase modular mono slab serif display typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ata Syed (Karachi, Pakistan) has a dual identity at FontStruct, where he is one of the most prolific contributors. He is known there as thalamic and as minimum. Behance link. Typefaces made in in 2008 as thalamic: Hello (connected upright script), Epilogie (blocks), WimSoft (+U/C), Chunk Chip, Konstruct (Russian constructivism face), Sensei Says, FS Tributary, Twotype Font, Urge (fat octagonal), Subliminal, FS United One, The Game of Type, Anaximander Zooom!, Corrupt and Corrupt Ed (piano key stencil fonts), Blueprint, Monomum, Synergy, Insert Coin Italic, Write I Careful, Write I Casual, Write I Dump, Loop UC, Loop LC, Emergic, Prick!, Insert Coins Pixels, Retro Electro, Bubble Lab IJ, Bubble Lab Bang, A Needle Pulling Thread, Send, Scan (IBM logo look), Intermittent and Intermittent Sans (stencil typefaces), Melt x DR and Melt x tDR (dot matrix), Oval x DR and Oval x tDR (original design by theDesignersRepublic for Issey Miyake), On Grid, Indigo (almost blackletter), orange_2 (dot matrix), Scan (horizontal stripes), Bass, Grape (simple pixel face), Nachahmung and Nachahmung Block (fat and extra condensed, Wim Crouwel simulation typefaces), Nachahmung Block Serif, Conjunction, Interjection, Is It, Sangular (nice experiment), Anonon (nails in square letters), Purple and Purple Very (slab serif headline typefaces, pixelized), Arc Echo (biline and strutted), The Question (a fantastic 3d paper fold imitation face), FS Minimal (a fantastic ultra fat decorative face), FS FontStructor, Vibrant (multiline labyrinthine or op-art face), Writ (upright pixel script), Castor, Ooki (octagonal), Industrial, The I Flat, The I, Indiscrete, Analog (connected script), Dent (mechanical), Digital (connected script), Hello Hello, and Sensei Says. In 2009, he made Clone It, Entwined, C64, Helix, Fontsration, Bent, Stripe Zoo, Dull, Indent (stencil), Quartertined (kitchen tile), Firox, Orfix, A Priori, Ignore, Confused, S-Ookii, Ookii (octagonal), Very Becoming, Crisis Averted, Crisis (neat bold octagonal face), Penmanship, Up All Night, Sleep All Dayi, Chunk Chip, Grayletter (upright script), Soso, Mostly Harmless (textured face), Etched, La Cross, Twotype, Etched Bare, Aught (One, Two, Three), as: Inflate (Pop, Pfft, Puff, Poof), Istic, Very Becoming, Ignore, Ought, Balance, Broken, Dry Flat (dot matrix), La Cross, Etched (+Bare), Fontsration (+Refined: multilined beauties), FS Institutional (fat multiline face), FS Industrial, FS Pixelayers. Additions in 2010 as thalamic: fs Section, fs Reboot, fs Easy DNA Auto Stencil, fs Institutional (+Ho, +Elements), fs Quartertined, fs Stencil 2.0, fs Rivet, fs Intaglish, fs Dumb Italic, fs Loop Gap, fs GoTeam (stencil), fs ITilic, fs Kerplunk (Startrek face), fs Dumb Italic, fs Ribbon, fs Beringer, fs Ooki Woodcut, fs Croissant (stencil), fs 45 (octagonal stencil), fsXO, fs Pipe, fs Confused Less. Fonts from 2011 as thalamic: fs Xenon (a paperclip face), fs Instant, fs Twist, fs WIP (blackletter), fs Sparc, fs Reboot (texture face), fs Pod, fs Flute Tune, fs Special, fs Watch Out (stencil), fs Etched Nyle (labyrinthine face), fs No Kerning Required (2011, connected upright script). Creations in 2012 as thalamic: fs Flip, fs Mom, fs Noise, fs Noise II, fs Junk, fs You Are Here, fs Flash (outlined), FS Easy Too (paperclip face), FS Strict, FS Fix, fs in three (octagonal stencil face), fs Single, fs Wakarimasen, fs r-failed (white on black), fs Permutation X, fs Pan Am, fs Institutional, fs Institutional 2, fs Chunky (counterless), fs Grayletter (textured face), fsXply (op-art). Creations in 2013 as thalamic: fs So Not Right, fs Grid Urdu (pixel face), fs Not So Right, fs Six Sticks, fs Half (octagonal family), fs Bored, fs Make it Happen, fs Salvage, fs To Be Discarded, fs Connect (stencil), fs Whomp, fs Praxis, fs Fez (3d face), fs Input, fsTramp, fs Five Alive, fs Hote-Zyd (labyrinthine), fs Patterns (Layers, Quarters), fs Five Alive (origami font), fs Go To Sleep (retro speed font), fs Vaerktoj (inspired by the brand identity of Hoejmark Cycles), fs Permutation B, fs Jester, fs Permutation XII (op-art), fs Insatiable, fs Electronic, fs Carbon (a nice chequered face), fs When We Were Young (multiline typeface), fs Shogun Tiny (a lined kitchen tile typeface), fs Optical, fs When We Were Young (multilined), fs Slate, fs Shogun (gridded), fs Iie (+Filled), fs Blocky (dot matrix), fs Thalamic. Creations in 2014 as thalamic: fs Perhaps, fs Perhaps Perhaps, fs Stability (Turmoil, Flux), fs Industrial (an artsy fat dot matrix face), fs Rehash, fs Ah, fs Curly, fs So, fs Flint, fs ICK (blackboard bold style), fs Wiggle, fs Grid, fs Ah. Creations from 2015 as thalamic: fs B-Chain (bike chain font), fs Risque (art deco), fs Squangular (Impair, Square, Flair, Pair), fs Oval, fs MIP, fs Flower (kitchen tile face). Creations as minimum: fs Chips (2014), fs Oh (2014, piano key style), fs Stack (2014, +Overflow), fs llljjj (2014), fs Turn Off The Sun (2014, beveled), fs Zag (2013 textured), fs Zig (2013, textured), fs Mullions (2013), fs The Italic (2013), Gridlock (2009), Mingle Minx (2009), Mingle Co (2009), Mingle (2009, gridded letters), Bevel (2009, 3d beveled family), illiij (2009, multiline family), m.ove.r (2009, multiline family), Grayscale (2009, multiline family), fs Cubed (2010, 3d-face), Bas Relief (2009, 3d face), Silver (2009, 3d face), Tin (2009), Lead (2009), Bevel (2009), Bevel Just (2009), Bevel Just Shadowed (2009), Ceci n'est pas une vague (2009), A Fault in Reality (2009, optical effect font), Blit Slash (2009, experimental), Blit Hack (2009), Dot Dot Hex (2009), Super Black (2009), fs Overlap (2010), fs Fabric (2010, texture font), fs Original (2010), fs Ink Blot (2010), fs Dots and Dashes (2010), fs I Square (2010), fs Squared Up (2010), fs Super Black (2010), fs Unoriginal (2010), fs Minimum (2010, geometric stencil face), fs Pin and Thread (2010, stitching face), fs Shade (2012, 3d face). FontStructions from 2011: fs Perpetual (dotted line face), fs Slither, fs No Escape, fs Prompt (a DNA-inspired biochemical lab face), fs Plus H (horizontally striped face), fs Arc Test 2:2 (a modular blackboard bold face), fs V Simple (2010, textured face), fs Instant, fs Permutation V, fs Rehash Monoic (labyrinthine), fs Meta (texture face), fs Scroll, fs Scroll Not (stencil). FontStructions from 2012: fs Translucent (a texture face), fs Bank, fs Shade, fs Confined (white on black), fs Institutional (+Vo, +HeVe, +Ho, +He, +Ve: texture typefaces), fs Bang, fs Random (textured face), fs Random Pattern, fs Lead, fs Tin, fs Silver, fs Tungsten. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Atelier Bubentraum (or: Nouvelle Noire)
| Atelier Bubentraum is Anton Studer, a designer located in Zürich. We also find himn asssociated with Nouvelle Noire in Zurich. His transitional slightly angular typeface Rekja (2011) won an award at TDC 2012. For Neo2 magazine, he designed the (free) experimental paper-fold font The Folded Font (2008). Other typefaces: Frank (2007, a commercial grotesque blackletter sold by Die Gestalten Verlag), Motion (2008, experimental), Hausbau (2008, free, experimental), Minimeter (2008, free ruler-themed font, for Neo2), Archiv (2008-2010), Goodbye (2009). Together with Clovis Valois, he set up Nouvelle Noire in 2012 in Zurich. At Nouvelle Noire, he published Rekja (2011) and Medien (2011). Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Atelier de Design Holistique
| Designer in Camboulazet (was: Albi and Toulouse), France, who created the didone display typeface Black Italic in 2014, and the blackletter Gothique, the wavy Dancing Font, Tape Font, Mosaique, the splendid Mono Gorille, Curiosité, the free geometric sans typeface Activitic, and the signage font Shibby in 2016. In 2017, he designed Sharpness Grotesk. Typefaces from 2018: Joplin (a free experimental pair of typefaces that play on positive and negative spaces), 518 (a free color font), Meta (a courageously named emoji-enriched free monoline rounded sans; I am sure that under pressure from FontShop, it was renamed 518 after a few weeks), Spectacle (free), Fracture (a free blackletter font). Typefaces from 2019: Abac (free). Typefaces from 2020: Spectacle (free). Behance link. Another URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Atelier Olschinsky
| Vienna, Austria-based design studio, est. 2002 by Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss. They published the type family Ato (2012), which has Sans, Slab and Display (art deco) subfamilies. Outer Space (2012), Sato (2012, a bilined display typeface), Neopolis (2012, futurismo), Deconstruct (2012), Chaos (2012) and Construct (2012) are experimental. Bato (2012) is an alchemic type family. And Vato (2012) is a wonderful brushy poster headline face. In 2017, he published the bespoke typeface BirdYard, the free AO Grotesk (with poygonal outlines), free display sans typeface family Matol, the free geometric solid typeface AOX, which comes in Stencil and Regular styles, the free polygonal typeface family AO Mono, and the free monospaced Minimal Mono. Typefaces from 2020: Kaomo (monlinear, monospaced), AO Mono (polygonal). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of several multicolored type experiments. The pictures below are taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Attila Horvath
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Graphic designer in Ann Arbor, MI. Her hipster typeface Tatter was created in 2014 as part of a typography course at the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of Punkgaraphy (2010), an experimental face. Audria is into adverting and graphic design and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her design studies in Singapore, Audy Irwantoro created an experimental typeface, Traveller (2013), that is based upon the road map of the city country. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Asuncion, Paraguay-based designer of the free experimentasl Bodoni typeface Bodowi (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freaky Typeface (2013) is a collaborative experimental school project of Aurélien Guerout and Michael Descharles at Ecole d'Art Maryse Eloy under the supervision of Eva Kubinyi and Jean Widmer. Aurélien lives in Montreal. Behance link. Linkedin link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aurélien Vret is a multidisciplinary artist and type designer. Born in Noisy-le-Sec, France, in 1987, he studied visual art at the fine arts school in Toulouse (Isdat). He studied type design with François Chastanet and obtained his B.F.A. in 2010. Now based in Vincennes near Paris, he designed an experiment type based on Frutiger called L'in-vu. In 2017, he created his first real typeface, Prosaic, at Typofonderie under the guidance of Jean François Porchez. Typofonderie describes Prosaic as a postmodern vernacular sans. They write: Prosaic Black is comparable to the Antique Olive Nord, while the thinner versions can refer to Frutiger or some versions of the Ladislas Mandel typefaces intended for telephone directories. To a lesser extent, the search for forms and counterforms can be reminiscent of Jeremy Tankard's Fenland or certain Evert Bloemsma typefaces such as FF Balance or FF Legato. Interview by Porchez. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Autobahn
| Dutch company run by Jeroen Breen, Maarten Dullemeijer and Rob Stolte, who all graduated from Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU). Autobahn designs special graphical projects, often with an illustrative and typographical angle. They offered these free fonts made with tomato paste, toothpaste and other things: Autobahn-Gelvetica, Autobahn-Heldentica, Autobahn-Tomatica (2008). Autobahn Grafisch Ontwerp is based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The designers are Jeroen Breen (b. 1981), Maarten Dullemeijer (b. 1982) and Rob Stolte (b. 1981). Their house fonts are Air Light (techno) and LEF. In 2010, they produced the exquisite typeface Petronius, which is based upon a typeface designed by surrealist Joop H. Moesman (1909-1988). The Alphabet in stone typeface by Dom Hans van der Laan, a Dutch monk who lived from 1904 until 1991, was digitized in 2011, and the project can be seen here. Contributors include Willem Noyons, Maarten Dullemeijer and Rob Stolte. This typeface is based on the proportions found in Trajan. In 2017, they created the typeface Jakobus for the identity of 1N, an old church that was reshaped into living space by Zecc Architects. The typeface cmes close to Dutch deco. In a project called Hacking Habitat (2015), they combined Arial Black and Times into a hybrid typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
AVMC Studios (London) created a Water font and a Crystal font in 2013---both are experimental and are based on digital images of water and crystals. It is part of the AVMC Group in London. Other typefaces include Hyperion (2013, oriental simulation), Crius (2013), and Uranus (2013, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The students of arts and design at HfG Karlsruhe present their work in 2008: Amoto (Nadja Schoch), Barbarossa (Peter Stahmer: grunge), Cirrus (Antonia Huber: liquid style), Fourty Five Degrees (Emanuel K: octagonal), Hopfen (Martin Borst: display sans), Letrix (Miriam Bauer: modular octagonal), Lokomo (Claudia Kappenberger: experimental), Mayfield Display, Monta (Stefanie Miller), Moto Moto (Piero Glina: octagonal), Nancy (Masa Busic: art deco), Oceanic (Simone Gier: rounded techno), Platine (Lise Naujack: multiline, inspired by chip wiring), Pluk (Simon Roth: poster stencil), Quitt (Marko Greve: experimental multiline), Sophonho (Daniel Schludi: display sans), Vahen (Nicolaz Groll: display sans). Avoid Red Arrows is run by Marko Grewe, Stefanie Miller, Simon Roth, and Peter Stahmer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director and photographer in Paris. He experimented in 2009 with gridded typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Izmir, Turkey, Ayda Ekin Mete designed the circular experimential typeface Nubia Smartphone (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cirebon, Indonesia-based designer of the free hand-drawn typeface Amburegul (2014) and of AlphanumericQR (2014, alphabet and numbers based on the QR-Code generator). In 2015, Aydi created the free Morse fonts BukanMorse, BukanMorse One and BukanBinary. In 2016, he designed the handcrafted Yantiq, and the experimental Agrly (which is based on the QR Code). | |
Mumbia-based creator of Taj Mahal (2013, an experimental Devanagari / Latin typeface that was inspired by the shapes of the Taj Mahal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Textile and graphic designer in Sydney, Australia, who created the experimental gothic typeface Nu Veau Goffik (2011), and Dead man Running (2012, a hand-drawn typeface based on Regula Old). A more recent Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Indonesian designer in Bandung (b. 1991) who created the Indonesian-themed ornamental typefaces Seselendangan (2010) and Loveleaves (2010). In 2012, he added Absurd Sans, a typeface with missing pieces. In 2014, he designed the spurred Western typeface Texas Troupe. Autumn Rats (an all-caps cartoon / poster typeface), Newside FP, Zigzagzug, Raw District, Lugina FP (rounded sans), Crissco (a dot matrix typeface) and Pocket Thrilled followed in 2015. In 2016, he made Kelpotico (textured). Home page. Another URL. Behance link. Dafont link. Tumblr link. Old home page. Another Tumblr link. Society6 link. Another Behance link. Yet another Behance link. Aka Ask me and as Carrot Rope. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Badson Studio
| Badson Studio is a type foundry in Buena Vista (was: Denver), CO, launched by Kyle Read in 2014. Kyle Read (b. 1987 or 1988) hails from the American Northeast and lived in Chatham, NJ. He studied graphic design and printmaking at Savannah College of Art and Design (class of 2010), and has created typefaces for Abercrombie & Fitch in Columbus, Ohio. He studied type design at the Type@Cooper Extended Type Design Program in New York. We believe, but are not sure, that Kyle started Proof&Co. In 2015, these commercial typeface families had been published by Read at Badson Studio:
Before Badson Studio, Kyle created the layered multiline typeface Pinscher (2013), the rounded sans typeface Penfield (2013), the experimental typeface Geoface (2013), the warm titling typeface Holden (2013), the multiline straight-edged typeface Countdown (2013), and the art deco family Flagpole (2013). In 2013, he received the 2013 SOTA Catalyst Award. Home page for Kyle Read. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bagel & Co
| Japanese foundry that offers these free Latin fonts made by Ryoichi Tsunekawa around 2005: Kiwi (geometric hairline), Bagel (roundish comic book face), Coconut (noisy outline face), Coconut Split, Fresh Tomato (LED simulation), Dried Tomato (LED simulation), Dutch Style, Mocha Harrar (great stencil face), 103 (experimental, Bank Gothic style), Airhead, ArealBlack, Awkward, BagelNew, BagelOld, Banbino, Bebas (2005, industrial sans), Berlin89, Blackout, Built-1970, Bunyan, Busted, Canstop, Chiangmai (Thai simulation face), DBLline, Dijkstra, Dutchstyle, Fling, Graphite, Harcomaso, Hiexplosive, Hitech, Honeycomb (hexagonal), Junkmix, Kanatypo, KemikalHi, Meegoreng, Mikrob, Natsupopy, Overwork, Palsu, Plamo, Plasitico, REC001, REC002, REC003, Resistance, SQRT, STdigi (LED font), Shandy, Superstar, Tembaga, Tenaga, Tomodachi, Tragedia, Trucker, VRdigital, VRembroidery, Welcome2M, Workaholic, Zeebraa, plot-A, plot-K, Appendix 3, Gesso, Pusab, Sushitaro, Typewrong. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Kernest link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Bagerich Type Foundry (was: Zealab Fonts Division, Zea Fonts, Zea Lab, Zeaspace)
| Founded in Bandung, Indonesia in the middle of 2019 by graphic designers Reza Rasenda (b. 1993) and Riska Chandra Dewi, Zealab Fonts Division specializes in and is inspired by urban culture, luxurious brands and street posters. Reza Rasenda designed these typefaces in 2020: Crenzo (a free sci-fi typeface), Pherome (a fashion-conscious display serif), Arguman (an aerodynamic or speed font), Oldblue (an interlocking retro font), Digitany (pixelized), Ethique, Brightfate (with Riska Candra Dewi; a sharp-edged typeface that conjures up images of a guillotine), Bagerich (an art nouveau genre display typeface by Reza Rasenda and Riska Candra Dewi), Digitany (pixelish), Rigeko (a refreshing display typeface), Chillion (in the heavy rounded serif genre), Anglestein (a sans inspired by retro car and amplifier lettering), Millik (a sturdy angular poster typeface), Bellinzo, Shirens, Roundlane, Oldblend (a 4-style circle-based sans family, possibly renamed Oldblue), Richson (a sans inspired by pop punk, rock, hardcore music and skateboarding), Airbolt (a futuristic racing font), Roseford (a display typeface), Qultiva (a display typeface), Ethique, Hochland (tall, condensed, urban), Rodenberg (a beer bottle font), Aveline (a display serif), Quilla, Monschone (a fashion mag sans in one style). Typefaces from 2021: Neima (a decorative serif), Nagoda, Chuten (a display typeface), Ephidona (a decorative serif), Claycozoa (an intestinal typeface), Elgista (incised and hipsterish, with mostly trapezoidal stems), Amovand (a decorative serif), Willton, Olieva, Waffold, Bogam (a great free black display font), Voca (brutalist, in their view), Gover (a gaspipe sans, +stencil), Agne (a decorative serif). Typefaces from 2022: Vifellia (an experimental condensed display serif, in which the left side serif is curved and the right side serif is straight). Type Department link for Zealab. Type Department link for Bagerich Type Foundry. Typefaces from 2022: Guffonia (a hyper-decorative hipster typeface), Baunk (futuristic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
During his studies in Budapest, Balasz Pusztai designed the rounded modular poster typeface Industria (2016) and the experimental typeface Burda (2016), which is based on the crisscrossing lines of Burda's famous pattern books. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bamboo Types
| Foundry that grew out of the now defunct and controversial Gasoligne in Brest, France, which was run by Yves Patinec (Roubaix) and his brother. The Bamboo Type fonts rescued from Gasoligne in 2008 are Neborg Sans (2008, organic and techno), Mignone (2011, fat organic face), Bambhout Connect Trial (2010), Bambhout (2009, experimental), Oxea (2008, organic), Magenta (2009, italic display type inspired by Inverserif from Infinitype, which in turn has roots in Speedway from FontBank, Concorde from Brendel Informatik, OptiIambic from Castcraft, and so forth), and Veeko, Veeko Wide (informal and organic). Bamboo Types says that the fonts were designed by freelance designer Florian Bambhout. I don't believe that for a second----that name was made up. Typefaces from 2014: Meditation. |
Jersey City, NJ-based designer of Degrade Typeface (2014), a minimalist experiment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rennes, France, who created the über-modular typeface One Curve (2015), in which each glyph is either a rectangle or a quarter circle. He also made the free monoline sans typeface Crossed Type (2015) [careful: the zippyshare download site has viruses]. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I think that if one is going to experiment, then there should be no limits to how far one can go---explore, enjoy and explode. In this spirit, I presume, Parisian Baptiste Datin created his Chromosome Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer based in Paris and Stockholm, who graduated with a master's and a bachelor's degree in graphic design from ESAD Valence, in 2016 and 2014 respectively. In 2013, he did a post-graduate diploma in Fashion at Duperré (Paris) after completing a technical degree in visual communication at Estienne (Paris). Baptiste did a five-month internship in 2015 at Underware, working on Cyrillic and learning Python scripting and type design from Bas Jacobs. He released the semi-experimental typeface Agate at the Swedish foundry So Type. Agate was originally designed to be used as a display font for Strates, an architecture magazine edited by Baptiste Gerbelot Barillon who took part in the early days of the project. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Londoner who created the experimental Bezier-driven Blended Alphabet in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris-based designer (b. 1993) of the free experimental condensed typeface Gestalt (2016). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the European Institute of Design in Sao Paulo. She created a modular geometric face, the round display typeface Fonte bem querer and an experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barkar Designs
| Barkar Designs ws founded in 2019 by Ukrainian designer Artem Sinigur. Creator of the experimental geometric design typeface Barcore (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Barnbrook (was: VirusFonts, Virus Foundry, Studio 12)
| Jonathan Barnbrook was born in 1966 in Luton, England. He is a type and graphic designer and filmmaker. Since 1990 he has worked with cultural institutions, activist groups and charities and produced a steady stream of posters. He is also known for his collaborations with Adbusters and Damien Hirst, his work for David Bowie, and his typefaces released by Emigre and Virus (his own foundry). He started Virus in 1997, and works out of the Barnbook Studio (now Studio 12) in London's Soho. Virus Foundry became just Barnbrook ca. 2017. He specializes in cult-type typefaces. MyFonts interview. Creative Pro interview. Bio at Emigre. In 2007, Mathieu Réguer wrote a thesis at Estienne on Barnbrook. Barnbrook designed these typefaces:
Fontworks link. MyFonts link. FontShop link. Showcase of Jonathan Barnbrook's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Sydney, Australia, who created Network Typeface (2014). This modular chromatic typeface lends itself easily to glyph compositions in Latin, Chines and devanagari, and is also usefl for creating icons. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate from the Bath School of Art and Design. He designed a counterless geometric typeface called Second Half (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Australian type and graphic designer, b. 1983. He specializes in experimental typefaces (examples: Angel, Back, Blank, Block, Flip, Flow, Game, Intercom, Iris, Length, Maze, Missing, Found, Neutral, Newt, Origami, Quilt, Shift, Soviet, Spiral, Switch, Takara, Thai, Womb, Woven). Build is a kitchen tile/stencil face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London, UK-based designer of the experimental square-themed typeface Miko18 (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental typeface Blackie (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in London. Flickr page. Creator of some experimental faces, including several 3-d alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Sint Niklaas, Belgium. He created the experimental typeface RLF (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vilnius, Lithuania-based designer of Link (2019: a typeface was inspired by the Z. Bauman's concept of liquid modernity) and Dual (2019: art deco). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Beautiful
| Beautiful is a design studio set up by creative director Roy Poh in Singapore. He created Chair Type (2011, experimental), Vera (2011, a baby curl caps face) and Mickey (2011), a playful alphabet based on Mickey Mouse. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
During her studies at Flamouth University, UK, Becky Sewell created the minimalist typeface Undervalued (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at UBA who created a few typefaces such as the experimental typeface Frecasjon (2012) and who designed a few beautiful retro posters, also in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
UK-based designer, who created Synthetic Stencil (2011) and Pixel Error (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ben Mecke-Burford
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Ben Neumann is a graphic designer in Auckland, New Zealand, who graduated from Auckland University Of Technology (AUT). In 2014, during his studies, he created the experimental typeface Athena Black. In 2016, he published the classical serif text typeface M1911. Behance link. Newer Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer of the experimental typeface GBG (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British designer who created glyphs from icons in order to create the experimental Punk Rock Font (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
BenBenWorld (or: BB Bureau)
| Benoît Bodhuin (aka Ben Ben) lived in Tournai, Belgium, and after a brief spell in "chti" country, i.e., in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, he relocated to Nantes in France. He studied mathematics and graphic design. Freelance graphic designer since 2004. In 2011, he set up Benben World at MyFonts. Designer of the pixel fonts Logotix (2004), Latham and 5x7 Negatie Moyenne. In 2010, he made the paperclip typeface Pipo (first published in 2011 by Die Gestalten, and in 2017 by bb-bureau). He created the commercial angular sans typeface S-L (2006) which was originally made for the University of Arts Saint-Luc in Tournai. It was published by Volcano. Commercial typefaces include S-L Bold (2012, a hexagonal typeface based on his design at St. Luc in 2006), Zigzag (2012, Volcano Type; a font originally made for the Vivat theater), and Marianne (2012, BenBenWorld: an inline and modular typeface family). In 2013, he published the stencil / fractured typeface Mineral. In 2014, he designed the experimental triangle-based Bauhaus-inspired Side A typeface. In 2016, Bodhuin designed the expressive Italian typeface family BB Book A and bb-book Contrasted. He added the wedge serif BB Book B, BB Book Mono and BB Book Text to that series in 2018. Typefaces from 2017: Brutal, Elastik. Typefaces from 2019: Grotesk Remix (extended to Grotesk Remix Monospace and Grotesk Remix Variable in 2020), Tme (experimental: an update of Sl drawn in 2006 for the University of Arts Saint-Luc de Tournai), Standard-bb, Pickle Standard (extravagant and thought-provoking). Typefaces from 2020: Gikit (in Text and Title version, for a perfect gridnik feel), Ballpill (designed for printing at very small sizes). Typefaces from 2021: Bilibot (an experiment with overlapping strokes), Pimpit (rounded, condensed and with reverse stress), Volcano Type link. View Bodhuin's commercial typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
During his studies at The School of Visual Communication, Aarhus, Denmark-based Benjamin Brandt designed the experimental outlined display typeface Accessori (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Benjamin Gomez
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Graphic designer from Singapore who created the modular typeface Avalon (2009, a FontStruct face?), as well as Origami Type (2010), SeaSpray (2010, experimental and gridded), and Neue Miedinger (2010, an interesting play on Helvetica). Home page. Another home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin, Germany-based designer of an experimental font for Wired Magazine (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Motion designer in Versailles, France, who created the hexagonal psycho typeface Opium in 2015. Quartz (2015) is a modular typeface based on shapes of minerals. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brooklyn-based graphic designer with an interest in lettering and typeface design. He studied graphic design in Raleigh, North Carolina and received a certificate in typeface design from the Cooper Union in 2019. Benjamin Tuttle is a volunteer at the collectively-run microcinema Spectacle Theater since 2017, contributing film programming, poster design, trailer editing, and more. He is Design Director at Ultravirgo. His typefaces:
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Benoît Bodhuin
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French designer of these free typefaces that can be downloaded at Dafont:
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Vancouver-based designer of a few experimental typefaces in 2014. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Darmstadt in 1989, Berenike is a student at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. Behance link. Creator of an alphabet, Corner (2010). This is not a font, I think. Creator of Peek (2011, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bernard Anne (Bordeaux, France) created the experimental circle-based geometric typeface Circa (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berserker Studio
| Berserker Studio is Christopher Mooij's graphic design studio in Monterrey, Mexico. He created La Revolucion and Green in 2009. He designed the hairline geometric typefaces This is her type (2010) and BRSRKR (2010), and the experimental geometric typefaces Bibo (2010), Nova (2010) and Balla (2010). At the end of 2010, he started work on a big avant garde sans family called República Sans. Raw (2011) is a modular experimental face. Behance link. Cargo Collective link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bert Typography
| This was also called A Hundred Dollars and a Dog (AHDAAD), located in Mainz, Germany. This studio, run jointly by Isabelle Gehrmann and Stefan Ruetz, did graphic design and art direction. Creators of some (free) experimental typefaces for Neo2 magazine in Spain, such as Bert (2005, a futuristic face). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Manchester, UK-based student-designer of an experimental geometric typeface (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bianca Di Pietro (Designed by Bianca, Hamilton,Ontario) created the circle-based experimental typeface Infinity (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Miami, FL-based designer of the exprimental school project font Interlaced Alphabet (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Exposition on type held from 2-3 April 2006 in Sao Paulo. It included a type competition with as jury Francisco Calles Trejo, Luciano Cardinali, Juan Carlos Darias, Priscila Farias, Rubén Fontana, Vicente Lamónaca, Candelaria Moreno, César Puertas, and Rodrigo Ramírez. There were 70 laureates from over 400 submissions. Pictures.
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Billy Bacon
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London-based designer of the poster typeface Grizzly (2013) and the experimental typeface Robust (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Enschede, The Netherlands, who created the experimental typeface Unknown Secret (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Xian, China-based designer of Line Typeface (2014), a typeface based on lines found in the map of Xian. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Austrian designer of the experimental typeface Urbana Ltd (2009), which won an award at the TDC2 2010 type design competition in the category of display typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Björn Johansson
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Blaise Sumerah Kal
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Blaise Sumerah Kal (was: 4Logoz)
| Blaise Kal (who used to call her web presence 4Logoz) is the Dutch designer of Blzee v1.03 (2003, handwriting), BlaiseHand (2001), Blaise (experimental, 2001), Crashed Scoreboard, Amsterdam (2001, pixel imitation), and Blame My Parents. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer who was first in New York City and later in Venice, CA. Artist who sells via YouWorkForThem. He designed several interesting typefaces in 2008 such as Figo (experimental Spanish-style face), Penny (hand-drawn), Dubby, Circus Maximus, and Boar. Farnum (2010) and Clairemy (2010) are hand-printed EPS format alphabets. In 2012, Clairemy was also published in OpenType format. Beautifully advertized in gonzo style: Hand-drawn in the night air with a DC-3 propeller blade, YWFT Clairemy is 327 glyphs of pure, bistromathic glory, and contains OpenType alternates that would make DeGaulle perm his moustache. York (2013) is an ornamental caps typeface family that can be used to layer and create 3d effects. Another URL. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer who has a BA from La Cambre in Brussels, and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, 2012. Her MA project involved the development of seven handwriting typefaces (called Blanche) to be used in email. This was done together with Stina Gromark. She also created an experimental typeface called Typemotif (2012). Unrelated to type design, Blanche is responsible for a fun verbalized text utility called Ohhhhhhhhh. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Blue Typo
| Blue Typo is owned and run by Erendida Mancilla and Manolo Guerrero since 2000. Manolo Guerrero (San Luis Potosi, Mexico) is the Mexican creator of Deconstructa (2005, grunge), Hybrid Screen (2005), and Optica (2008, an opart or optical illusion texture face). Optica won an award at TDC2 2009 and a grand prize at Tipos Latinos 2010 (in the experimental type category) and can be bought at MyFonts under the Cocijotype label. Optica is a tribute to Colombian artist Omar Rayo's optical art. FontStructions by him in 2009 include Block 02 (stencil). In 2009, he also made the experimental face MiniBlock (Cocijotype). In 2010, Sticky was published---it is an experimental brick face. Sonotipo (2016) is an experimental typeface co-designed with Alfonso Alba. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. https://www.behance.net/bluetypo">Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Poster artist in Lima, Peru. In 2021, he/she designed Experimental (2021). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies, Woodlands, Singapore-based B.N. Keerthana created an experimental geometric typeface in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bob Nguyen is a graphic artist in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Creator of some experimental typefaces in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the experimental typeface Logica (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bold
| Founding creative director of Differ Design in Stockholm. Founder and Creative Director of the Swedish design agency Bold (in 2011). Prior to Bold he was the Design Director at The Brand Union's Stockholm office. He has many years of international experience having worked and studied in Japan, New York, Dubai and London. His typefaces include Nordea Sans (for Nordea Bank), Labyrinyth (pixel style), Lateral (vertically striped face), Pop-Up, Fine Line, and Basic Shapes (a geometric experiment). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bold Monday
| Bold Monday is an independent font foundry established by Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen and based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (and before that, The Hague). Pieter van Rosmalen (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) studied advertising and graphic design at Sint Lucas in Boxtel and graduated from the postgraduate Type & Media program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague in 2002. He runs Bold Monday's Eindhoven office. In 2018, Bold Monday joined The Type Network. Pieter van Rosmalen has designed retail as well as custom typefaces for clients worldwide, such as NBC Universal, Audi AG, General Electric and KPN. One of Pieter's designs is used for street signs in South Korea. Pieter's retail typefaces in the Bold Monday catalog include
Bold Monday also has typefaces by other designers. In 2012, Bold Monday published the trompe l'oeuil typeface Macula (Jacques Le Bailly) which is based on designs by Oscar Reutersvärd. Oskar (2002-2013). They write: Oskar, designed by Paul van der Laan, is a typeface inspired by Dutch architectural and advertising lettering from the early 20th century. Particularly the style of lettering that was painted on walls and shopfronts, or executed in metal on buildings. This kind of typography did not exist as metal printing types, but was instead painted manually by sign painters, or drawn by architects. Initially the typeface was designed in 2002 for the lettering of a monumental school in The Hague, designed by architect Jan Duiker in 1929. In 2012, they published the trompe l'oeuil typeface Macula (Jacques Le Bailly) which is based on designs by Oscar Reutersvärd. Further typefaces include Feisar (techno), Flex (sans), Naomi (1999) and Pixel Package. GE Inspira Sans and Serif (Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen, Bold Monday) won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition. In 2018, Pieter published the experimental pixel-inspired typeface family Alterego. Typefaces from 2021: Stanley: Bold and broad-shouldered, Stanley is a poster typeface collection in three styles rooted in the first sans-serif designs of the 19th century---the grotesques. Stanley is available in Normal, Stencil, and Stencil Rough. Pieter designed custom typefaces for worldwide clients amongst others Agis, Audi, Teldesign, KPN, The government of South Korea (road signing), The Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (OV Chipcard), USA Today (Futura Today, 2012, with Paul van der Laan), and NBC Universal. For Holland Festival in 2014, Paul van der Laan designed the stencil typeface HF Stencil (in collaboration with design studio Thonik, Amsterdam, and Diana Ovezea), a design inspired by Glaser Stencil. Logo. FontShop link. Adobe link. Type Network link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Bomparte's Fonts
| Bomparte's Fonts is John Bomparte's (b. Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1959) foundry in Wake Forest, NC. A graphic and type designer, John Bomparte was the assistant to, and a protege of renowned type designer Ed Benguiat, at the legendary Photo-Lettering Inc. It was there that John was surrounded by other great type designers such as Tony Stan, Vic Caruso, Vincent Pacella and Bob Alonso. John designed the art deco sans typeface Hamptons BF, and another art deco headline face, Take Two BF. In 2006, he published the 12-style family Blackletter Sans and the exquisite poster semi-Greek simulation art deco typeface Abstrak BF (modeled after a 1931 ATF font by Robert Foster called Abstract). In 2007, he surprises with the 1920s poster font Michelle BF, the hand-printed Brandy BF, its follow-up Johnny Script BF (2008), the quirky Freaky Frog BF, the dot matrix halftone effect font Subliminal BF, the frizzy Glow Gothic BF (2007), and the gorgeous swashy 3-style blackletter family Black Swan BF (2007). His 2008 typefaces: Jacky Sue BF (based on the hand of Jackie Geerlings), SoHo Nights BF, Hamburger Font BF (a rounded fat face), and the art deco sans serif typefaces Sidewalk Cafe BF (2008) and Hamptons BF (2 weights). Emerge BF (2009) is a flare serif inspired by Admiral, c.1900, from the Keystone Type Foundry. Freedom Writer BF (2009) is a connected handwriting script face. Danielle BF (2010) is hand-printed, based on the hand of Danielle Paradis. Factor BF (2010) is an electronic / futuristic / techno face. FingerSpeller BF (1994) is an American sign language typeface. Retroscript BF (2010) and Capistrano BF (2010) are beautiful connected scripts. In 2011, he added the fat felt tip pen typeface Sherbet BF and the funky rounded display typeface Dragonfly BF. In that same year, he published the stunted black wood type typeface Squat (BA Graphics, based on earlier work of or with Bob Alonso). Typefaces from 2012: Rockport BF (a gaspipe font inspired by 19th century wood types), Wilmington Script BF (an upright loopy connected script). In 2014, Seagrass BF, a connected script, and My Write Hand BF were published. Footloose (2015, BA Graphics) is a dynamic script typeface that was unfinished when Bob Alonso died. John Bomparte finished it. Typefaces from 2016: Shandy BF (a playful connected script). Typefaces from 2018: Petals BF. A flourished curvaceous ornamental didone. Typefaces from 2021: Between The Lines BF (a display typeface with some Super Veloz vibe). Klingspor link. Catalog of some of his commercial fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
BOODAS.DE
| Sankt Augustin, Germany-based creator (b. 1981) of the pixel typeface BOODASDREIECKE (2007): all the pixels are in fact small triangles. He also designed BOODAS.DE|Subtract (2007, negative octagonal), My (2007), Boodas.de|My|Regular (2007, octagonal, free), Redhead (2007, geometric, experimental), Bourier (2007, like Courier with bowls filled in and frills added), Slimbo (2008, hairline geometric). All his fonts are free. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Malaysian graphic artist, nicknamed Boom Yee. He created the experimental decorative typeface Reindeer (2008) while he was a student at Tunku Abdul Rahman College. No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian designer of the experimental font PT Duetto (2001-2002, Paratype). FontShop link. Klingspor link. . [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Boris Schandert
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Swiss designer of the experimental geometric typeface Boris Light (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Buenos Aires. In 2012, he made the experimental typeface Absurda, which in spirit, and to some extent in form, conjures up images of dadaism. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Borutta (or: Duce Type)
| Borutta (or Duce Type) is the creative studio of über-talented Warsaw-based designer Mateusz Machalski (b. 1989), a graduate of Wydziale Grafiki ASP in 2014, and of Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. His oeuvre is simply irresistible, charming and a worthy representative of the Polish poster style---witness Alergia (2016), Magiel Pro (2017) and Madiso (2017). He is the creator of the blackletter-inspired typeface Raus (2012), which also could pass for a Cyrillic simulation font. It was possibly made with Pawel Wypych. He also made Kebab (2012, a fat caps face), Duce (2012, art deco: withdrawn from MyFonts after Charles Borges complained that it was a rip-off of his own Gloria), Fikus (2012), Woodie (2012, a condensed rough wood type face), Polon (2012), Aurora (2012, a German expressionist poster face), Musli (monoline connected script), HWDP (2012, poster font), Wieczorek Script (2012, hand-printed), Hamlet (2012, a sword and dagger typeface, renamed to Prince), Caryca (2012, Cyrillic simulation, done with Pawel Wypych), Bezerro (2012, poster face), Bitmach (2012, pixel face), Meat Script (2012, a caps only market signage brush script), Krac (2012, a tall poster font), Hermes (2012: Ten Dollar Fonts), Berg (2012, a roughened blackletter face), Buldog (2012), Dudu (2012, tall condensed face). In 2012, Polish designer Wojciech Freudenreich and Mateusz Machalski combined forces to design the techno typeface SYN, which is based on an earlier De Stijl-genre alphabet by Freudenreich. In 2020, they released the free typeface family SYN Nova, which includes additional styles and a variable font. Machalski likes old wood types, which inspired him in 2012 to publish a wood type collection of weathered display typefaces: Condom, Hype, Whore, Banger, Buka. Elo (2012) and Duce (2012) are fat weathered wood types. Typefaces made in 2013: Wood Type Collection 2 (which includes Brie, Kaszti, Mader, Modi, Rena, Roast, Ursus), Zigfrid (headline face), Salute (letterpress style), Benito (a letterpress or geometric wood typeface), Bojo (heavy wood style poster face), Picadilly (heavily inktrapped open counter sans family), GIT (a manly headline sans), Lito (an eroded poster typeface), Haine (vernacular caps), Aneba (an organic sans family, renewed in 2016 as Aneba Neue), Vitali (sans), Korpo Serif (slab serif), Korpo Sans (elliptical family; +Greek, +Cyrillic). Typefaces from 2014: Adagio Slab, Adagio Serif, Adagio Sans (a superfamily not to be confused with the 2006 typeface Adagio Pro by Profonts), Adagio Sans Script, Adagio Serif Script, Adagio Slab Script, Tupperware Pro. Tupper Pro (42 styles) was designed by Mateus Machalski and the RR Donnelley team. Typefaces from 2015: Tupper Serif (again with RR Donnelley: a custom superfamily for pairing Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew an Greek; for Tupperware), Vitali Neue, Legato Serif, Corpo Serif, Corpo Sans, Zigfrid, Picadilly (a great ink-trapped sans typeface family with an erect g). Typefaces from 2016: Nocturne (just like Magiel, this free typeface was designed as part of the Warsaw Types project: this wedge serif text typeface is inspired by the lettering on stone tablets commemorating the victims of World War II, and prewar Jewish shop signage), Favela (an experimental, geometric sans, for headline and fashion magazine use), Gangrena (a weathered typeface system co-designed with Ania Wielunska), Migrena Grotesque (earlier named Enigma Grotesque but probably in view of a clash with the name Enigma used by Jeremy Tankard changed to the appropriately named Migrena Grotesque), Alergia Grotesk (a take on the classical geometric grotesque style, in 60 weights, for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Alergia Remix (a hipster / hacker / Futura take on Alergia Grotesque). Typefaces from 2017: Nocturne Serif, Massimo (copperplate semi-serif influenced by New York; originally called Madison, they were frced to change the name to Massimo), Magiel Pro (a geometric display family influenced by Polish banners from the Russian occupatuon era, 1945-1989; it has a charming Black and a hairline, and covers Cyrillic too). A particularly intriguing project in 2017 was Bona, 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. Typefaces from 2018: Bilbao (an innovative blend of sans, slab and mono genres in 18 styles), Cukier (a logo font family inspired by the vernacular typography from Zanzibar). In 2018, Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka and Przemek Hoffer co-designed the six-style antiqua typeface family Brygada 1918, which is based on a font designed by Adam Poltawski in 1918. Free download from the Polish president's site. The digitization was made possible after Janusz Tryzno acquired the fonts from Poltawski's estate. The official presentation of the font took place in the Polish Presidential Palace, in presence of the (right wing, ultra-conservative, nationalist, law and order) President of Poland, Andrzej Duda. Calling it a national typeface, the president assured the designers that he would use Brygada 1918 in his office. It will be used for diplomas and various other official forms. In 2021, with Anna Wielunska added to the list of authors, it was added as a variable font covering Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to Google Fonts. Github link. Typefaces from 2019: Gaultier (a sans family that is based on the styles of Claude Garamond, Robert Granjon and Eric Gill---a serifless Garamond and Gill Sans hybrid; includes a fine hairline weight), Aioli (a commissioned type system), Promo (a rounded sans family), Sigmund (the main style is inspired by the Polish road signage typeface designed in 1975 by Marek Sigmund: With the increase of weight, Sigmund turns into a geometric display in the spirit of vernacular typography from the signs of Polish streets; followed in 2022 by Sigmund Pro (15 styles)), Podium Sharp (based on Dudu, this 234-style family is a hybrid between different old Polish modular and geometric woodtypes such as Rex, Blok and Bacarat; note that 234=2x9x13, so fonts are numbered in Univers style from 1,1 (ultra-compressed hairline) to 9,13 (ultra expanded heavy)), Harpagan (an experiment in reverse and unusual stresses). Typefaces from 2020: Tyskie (a custom sans for Tyskie Magazine), Habibi Display (an ultra-fat display typeface inspired by bold Arabic headline typefaces), Podium Soft, Afronaut (an experimental Africa-themed font). 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. Typefaces from 2021: Alfabet (a 20-style Swiss-inspired sans with narrow connectors, with support for Latin (+Vietnamese), Greek and Cyrillic scripts, including Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Serbian forms), Change Serif (a 10-style Robert Granjon-genre garalde designed as a part of Mateusz Machalski's PhD project, carried out in 2015-2021; the main goal was to create a typeface allowing for the typesetting of complex humanistic texts, containing many historical letterforms; each font contains 4000 glyphs and covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), Engram (a soft geometric sans family in 22 styles; close to his own earlier font, Enigma, 2016). Typefaces from 2022: Yalla (inspired by Arabic headline type). Home page. Behance link. Personal Behance link. Behance link for Duce Type. Another link. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Design studio in Buenos Aires. Behance link. Their typefaces are mostly on commission for certain packaging or identity projects. These include Familia (2010, leaf and tree-themed all caps face), Goma (2010), Exagon (2010), some types for Atypica (2010) and Lucchetti (2010). Zero (2011) is a great striped logo face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At the Visual Arts Institute, Eger, Hungary, Botond Csiby-Gindele (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania) designed the experimental square typeface Qadratic (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of the experimental typeface family Silo Park (2015), which was inspired by industrial architecture. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Paris, BQ Studio designed the experimental typeface Air in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At the Winchester Scool of Art, Southampton, UK-based graphic designer, who created the techno typeface Bond and the experimental typefaces Spectrogram and Play Stereo in 2014. Bond is a geometric typeface inspired by Wim Crouwel's "New Alphabet" (1967). In 2015, he designed the soft-cornered modular typeface Aaronic and the ultra-experimental spectral typeface Dot Raw and the free gridded typeface Gridli (2015). In 2016, he created the free techno sans typeface Peon, and the free Helghan Sans (based on the Helghast font and alphabet in the video game Killzone). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bran (or: Fractal Eye)
| Mexican graphic designer, b. 1986, who lives in Hermosillo. He created a number of typefaces, some of which are free. Also known as Fractal Eye. The list of fonts, all made between 2006 and 2008: Tulip, Fragments of Eter (2007, upright connected paperclip script), Next Level (display sans), Ironbeauty, Esquizofrenia (grunge), Nü, Yellow Move (a great art deco sans), The King and Queen (2007, grunge medieval calligraphy), Foelia (dot matrix), Ank (2007, grungy sketch face), Nü Creactivo 2008 (spurred Western face), Further, One and Four, Quiñók (2007, experimental), Defekto (2007, gothic), Mondula (more calligraphic grunge). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
During his studie at Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, NY, Tyler Fields designed the experimental typeface 5ive-Se7en (2014), which was inspired by 1980's rockband logos, and type styles such as Babyteeth and Glaser Stencil by Milton Glaser. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brandon Webster
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Branislav S. Cirkovic
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Brass Fonts
| Cologne-based group of type designers, founded in 1996: Guido Schneider, Hartmut Schaarschmidt, Martin Bauermeister, René Tillmann, Rolf Zaremba. There are many original free fonts here: Amnesia (René Tillmann; now also sold by URW), Anorexia (G. Schneider, 1996), Battery, Battery Seriph, Battery Leak (Tuschemann, 1996), Matula (G. Schneider, 1997), Nobody (G. Schneider), Paul D (Guido Schneider, 1996), Sanctus, SubZero (Guido Schneider, 1996), SynkopSemi, Veto, Visitor (R. Zaremba, 1996), BiaBia (very avant-garde, G. Schneider, 1996), Corpa Gothic (sold by URW++), Cuba (G. Schneider, 1997), Hone (Piano Dog, 1996), Saw, SoloSans (G. Schneider, 1996), Souper, Styptic, Fluxgold (slabserif, G. Schneider 1999), Rotwang (G. Schneider 1998), Styptic (Tuschemann, 1995), Stoneman (Tuschemann, 1998), Jaruselsky (1997, G. Schneider). Well, that is, these fonts have just the basic alphabet and all numbers 3 and 6 have been removed. The full versions are ultra-expensive, at about 110DM per weight (typically, 4 weights per font). More fonts: Temptice (dingbat by A. Groborsch/G. Schneider 98/99, 80DM), Tara (G. Schneider, 1998, 240DM), Corpa Serif (G. Schneider 1998), Fiona Serif, Slab and Script family (2003, G. Schneider). URW marketed these fonts: BF Anorexia, BF Corpa Gothic, BF Corpa Serif, BF Cuba, BF Fluxgold, BF Invicta, BF Jaruselsky, BF Matula, BF Nobody, BF Paul'D, BF Rotwang, BF Solo Sans, BF Stoneman, BF Stypic, BF SubZero, BF Tara. Custom fonts by Schneider: Girato (Giraffentoast), Fiona (MDR - Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk), Sion Script (Sion Brauerei), Supralux (Super RTL). He is working on Veltro Pro (a script) and Breite Kanzlei (blackletter). MyFonts sells BF Anorexia (a grunge typeface by Schneider), BF Corpa Gothic (a DIN-like family done in 1997 by Schneider), Corpa Gothic Pro (a 2019 revival of Corpa Gothic), BF Corpa Serif (1997, a slab serif family by Schneider), BF Cuba (a pixel typeface by Schneider), Fiona Script (2006, connected), Fiona Serif, BF Fiona Slab (2006, Guido Schneider), BF Fluxgold (1998, Schneider), BF Invicta (2006, a roman inscriptional family by Schneider), BF Jaruselsky (1997, Guido Schneider), BF Matula (1996, an organic typeface by Guido Schneider), BF Nobody (1995, a roman typeface by Schneider with pointy experimental serifs), BF Paul D (a grunge blackletter typeface by Schneider), BF Rotwang (1997, a transitional typeface by Guido Schneider), BF Solo Sans (1995, Schneider's grotesk family), BF Stoneman (1997, a decorative poster typeface by Schneider), BF Styptic (a grunge paperclip typeface by Schneider), BF Sub Zero (experimental, by Schneider), BF Tara (1999, a humanist sans family by Schneider), BF Girando Pro (a garalde made by Guido Schneider in 2010). Typefaces from 2018: BF Rotwang Pro (a redesign by Schneider of his 1997 typeface, BF Rotwang; named after C.L. Rotwang, the inventor of the Mensch-Maschine from the film Metropolis (1925/1926), BF Rotwang relates to the high-contrast transitional and didone styles), BF Konkret Grotesk Pro (a 16-style grotesk family by Guido Schneider with over 1500 glyphs per font). Typefaces from 2021: BF Garant (a 20-style geometric sans with open counters, tapered spurs and diagonal cut ascenders and descenders). View Guido Schneider's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Richmond, VA-based designer of Databent Type (2013), an experimental set of typefaces that makes your eyes hurt. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brian Kaszonyi
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Raised in Atlanta, Brian earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from MICA in Baltimore, MD. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is an alumnus of Milton Glaser's Summer Program and a founding member of The Children's Publishing Design Forum. A designer, artist and illustrator recognized by many awards, Brian designed these art-historical typefaces in 2014:
In 2018, Brian LaRossa and Erica Carras co-designed the Bauhaus typeface Staatliches. The alphabet revives and extends Herbert Bayer's title lettering on the cover of the first Bauhaus exhibition catalogue from 1923. It features full sets of capitals, numbers, punctuation, and symbols, in addition to alternate widths, discretionary ligatures, and common Latin accents. Staatliches is free at Google Fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hamden, CT-based designer of the experimental typeface Innossence (sic) (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer based at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI, who created the minimalist experimental font Broken Arrow (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made Grizzly, ZXebbidy, Ocean liner, Linked (experimental) and Disco (texture face) in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Beijing, China-based designer of the compass-and-ruler font Delighted (2016) and the experimental Latin typefaces Bound (2019) and Binding (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
BrightHead Studio
| Ekaterinburg, Russia-based creator of the free information design grotesque face Casper (2012). This typeface covers Latin and Cyrillic. Chereda also created an experimental Cyrillic pixel font in 2009. In 2013, Michael published the free Latin / Cyrillic text typeface Marta and the free Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface Bravo. In 2017, Chereda designed the neogrotesque typeface Studio Sans for Latin and Cyrillic. Behance link. Fontspring link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Brikk
| Garamond Corpvs (2017) is a typographical set of posters created by Swedish illustrator and typographer Björn Johansson (Stockholm) as an in-depth pseudo-scientific research about the shapes of the Latin letters. The project is based on Geoffroy Tory's book Champ Fleury from 1529. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Hanover, Germany, who studied at FHH in Hanover. Behance link. Another Behance link. She is experimenting with letters, and designed letters by dissolving ink in water (Tinten in Wasser), such as in the Sepia alphabet (2009). Connected (2009) is another experimental alphabet. There is also the avant-garde Sepia family (2009). Fency (2009) uses fences to populate the glyphs. High Five (2010) is a monoline geometric hairline sans. Poster. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brody Fonts (was: Brody Associates, Research Studios, Research Arts UK)
| Neville Brody (b. 1957, North London) is a famous graphic designer who has influenced the practice of design in the 1990s. He created record covers, did magazine design and was art director for projects for companies like Christian Dior, Nike, and the BBC. His company was first called Research Studios, and then morphed into Brody Associates. In 2018, Brody joined Type Network with a new foundry, Brody Fonts. Largely focused on typography, Brody has been at the forefront of many developments in type culture, from his hand-drawn headlines for The Face magazine and experimental typographic platform FUSE to global fonts for Coca-Cola, Samsung, and Channel4. Iconic posters by him include the Tyson vs Tubs Tokyo poster from 1988. Check also Pat Tmhu's Brody-style Weather Forecast poster (2012). Other people working on Brody's original site include Mike Williams and Simon Staines. His early type was experimental, and was collected under the name FUSE fonts. Direct access. He did the following FUSE fonts: in FUSE 1, he started with the experimental font State; in FUSE 5, he published Virtual; at FUSE 6, he published Code; at FUSE 7, he drew Crash (Regular and Cameo); in FUSE 8, he showed us Religion (Order, Obidience, Loss of Faith); at FUSE 9, he did F-AutoSuggestion (1994); in FUSE 11, he published Peep, a font only showing parts of letters; in FUSE 13, Ritual, in FUSE 14, CyberStatic, in FUSE 15, F-City Avenue (1997), in FUSE 16, GeneticsSecond Generation, in FUSE 17, Echo Downloaded, Page Three, in FUSE 18, Lies. Born in 1957 in London, his fonts include FF Autotrace (1994, a sans family progressively distorted by Fontographer's autotrace feature), F Cyber Static (1997, letters based on layered sequences of halftone dots), Arcadia (1990), Industria (1990, readapted in 2012 by Yautja into the free font Instrumenta), Insignia (1990), Blur (1991; FF Blur is from 1992; see poster), FF Pop (1991, a rectagular font originally made for a German music TV program), FF Dirty (1994), Gothic (1991), Harlem (1991). In 1993, Neville Brody published the poster font family FF World (FontFont), which used his lettering from his Tyson versus Tubbs Tokyo match poster (1988). This became a free web font in 2010 over at FontFont under the name FF World Wide Web. In 2006, Neville Brody published Times Modern, designed for The Times. The press release states: The new typeface, called "Times Modern", encapsulates the paper's heritage while adapting to the demands of the new compact format. Like The Times' previous typeface, Times Classic, Times Modern has been designed as a bespoke type family. The Times is the only newspaper to create and use bespoke fonts, all other UK newspapers purchase ready-to-use fonts. The project has been led by Ben Preston, Deputy Editor of The Times, in partnership with Neville Brody, formerly art director of The Face, and lead designer on Actuel, City Limits and Arena magazines. Brody also worked on the redesign of Times2 in 2005. Collaborating with Neville is lead designer Jon Hill supported by Research Studios' Luke Prowse. Jon has worked on many large editorial projects, including the design of supplements for The Guardian, the redesign of Swiss newspaper Le Temps and UK business-to-business magazine Media Week. Twenty-three year old Prowse has created the new Times Modern headline font for the newspaper. That press release has been blasted by the typophiles for being plainly wrong ("The Times is the only newspaper to create and use bespoke fonts, all other UK newspapers purchase ready-to-use fonts." What, and how about The Guardian, for example?) and disrespectful of its designers (you really have to dig through it to learn that Luke Prowse actually did the type work). And controversy keeps following Neville Brody: in 2009, New Deal, a constructivist typeface, was made for the Micheal Mann film "Public Enemies", starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. The bloggers comment that the type is "rubbish" (sic), and that others such as Chank beat him to this type style. In 2012, Research Studios published Vetena (HypeForType). For FIFA's World Cup in 2014, Neville Brody custom-designed Case Brody for England's Nike kit. In 2015, Neville Brody designed Horseferry and Chadwick for the new visual identity for UK broadcaster Channel 4. In 2018, Brody Associates announced their custom font, TCCC Unity, for Coca Cola. It was jointly designed by Neville Brody and Luke Prowse. The first fonts at Brody Fonts in 2018 are BF Bonn (1989-2018) and BF Buffalo. Neville Brody originally designed the geometric sans BF Bonn for The Boon Ausstellungshalle and the Bundeskunsthalles signage and identity systems in 1989-1991. BF Buffalo (2009-2018) is a soft octagonal punk-meets-sci-fi design debuted as an editorial type in 2009 in Arena Homme Plus. It later appeared as the signature face for London's Anti Design Festival. Brody significantly reworked Buffalo with the help of David Jonathan Ross. Linotype link. Klingspor link. FontShop link. FontFont link. Short bio. Check out another biography at FontNet. Type Network link. |
Rio de Janeiro-based designer of the hairline sans typeface Fina (2015) and of the experimental modular typeface Fony Font (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and art director in Recife, Brazil, who created a typeface out of moving light called Typo Photografic (2013), and an untitled mosaic font in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bruno Capezzuoli
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Londrina, Brazil-based designer of the free blackletterish typeface Delirium (2017), the music evoking typeface KYXH (2017), and the experimental connect-the-dots typeface Nygotha (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at Philadelphia University in Philadelphia, PA, Bruno Forcine created the experimental typeface Bromos (2014), which was named after the chemical element bromine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and web designer in Cambridge, UK. Creator of Atomo (2013, an experimental typeface) and Medieval (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer. His typefaces include the experimental MetaMecane and Bell-Pae. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Catania, Italy. He created the ultra-geometric typeface Eidos (2013). In 2015, at Zetafonts, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini designed CocoBikeR (2015) to celebrate the hipster and bike cultures. Bruno La Versa did the illustrations for that project. CocoBikeR (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) is part of the successful Coco Gothic typeface family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bruno Maag
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Designer from Lisbon. He created the modular experimental typeface Pista (2010), which is based on sections of model car race tracks, and could be considered prismatic or op-art. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Philadelphia, PA-based designer of the techno typeface Krypton (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Burdock Design is located in London. It created the modular geometric tiling typeface Shapes (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bureau 205 (was: Trafik)
| Damien Gautier (b. 1971) studied typography in the Atelier de création typographique at l'Ecole Estienne, Paris. He co-founded Trafik, a type studio in Lyon. More recently, his fonts are distributed via 205 Corp and 205 TF, which he founded. He also teaches graphic design at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. He runs the publishing house Editions deux-cent-cinq which publishes books on graphic design and typography. At Typotek, he designed LeQuincaillerie (fifties font, 2000), LeMenuiserie (2000), LeConfiserie (2000, an electronic panel font), LeConfiserie Couleur, L'ekran Dix (a pixel font), LeBoucherie-Ornament (2000), LeBeaune (1995-2011, a flared roman lettering typeface created at first for the town of Beaune in Burgundy), Alcala (1994). For Salomon (the ski company brand font), Damien Gautier received a Trophée d'Or nomination at the Integraphic Congress in Paris in 2003. MyFonts, where his foundry is called Trafik, and then Damien Gautier, then "205", Editions 205, and finally Bureau 205, sells these typefaces: Colonel (stencil), Laikran (pixel family), Le Bazar, Le Beaune, Le Chaufferie, Le Confiserie, Le Confiserie Couleur, Le Gendarmerie, Le Menuiserie, Le Quincaillerie, Pam (2005, counterless), Plaak (2013-2014, a large sans caps family inspired by French street name signs; co-designed with Olivier Raimbaud and Corentin Noyer), Robin (2010, a dingbat typeface with arrows, co-designed with Delphine Sigonney). In 2010, Gautier created Caporal (an elegant clean stencil face), Le Francois (a set of stylish capitals). In 2009, Damien Gautier designed Bloo (a wedge-serifed typeface). Salomon is a corporate typeface family. Typefaces of Damien Gautier and Quentin Margat in 2010: Amiral (cargo stencil), Alcala (started in 1994, finished in 2010, this text family is based on renaissance forms and was used to print a Bible). With Quentin Margat, he created some typefaces in 2011 such as Maax (an information design sans family), Norr (styles include a didone, a slab serif, and two sanses), Colonel, and Beretta (dot matrix family). In 2013, Damien Gautier designed Maax Mono and Maax Rounded, both at Editions 205. In 2019, he published Plaax as an extension of Plaak. Subfamilies include Sathonay (super-condensed), Griffo, Pradel, Terme, Foch and Ney, from super-condensed to wide. In 2021, Damien Gautier published the experimental sans typeface Heliuum in which letters can have different baseline heights. View Damien Gautier's typefaces. Interview by Type Today. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Bureau d'Investigation Graphique
| French designer based in Lille. He designed the video game typeface Arcade and the experimental hipster typefaces Music and Moebius. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cranbrook Academy of Art student who designed Contact (2001), Mirror (2001), Vestige (2001), Square (2001), Realm, Embryo, Manic Punch, Vacation, and the beautiful experimental font Nomad (2001). Please look at the unbelievable Shockwave presentation on Choi's page!!!! He also created Alicia (2002, T-26). Free fonts: Fruity drink Carbiontenned, Handergus Life Rough, Matrchwell, MettallictA NEW, The Neighborhood Parade. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at Manchester School of Art (Manchester Metropolitan University) in Manchester, UK, C. George Brown designed an interesting pair of geometry-themed typefaces, Rund and Rund SSE (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cabbages&Kings
| American designer who made the free experimental fonts Discus (2011, circle-based), Atlantean (2011) and Aced It (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cagdas Ilke Unal
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Los Angeles (and before that, Istanbul)-based creator of the cube-shaped counterless typeface Cube (2012) and of the experimental alphabet Comic (2012). In 2017, Cagri designed the free all caps sans headline typeface Womby. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Calango
| Jeroen Krielaars (Calango) is a Dutch web designer in Amsterdam who made an animated prismatic geometric typeface called Moshun (2010). Krielaars created Moshun using the program Adobe After Effects in less than three days. Buy it exclusively from HypeForType. In 2011, he teamed up with Maria Jose Torrero Heredia from Mexico to create the latest addition to his typeface collection, the experimental and modular Binary 2.0. Typogami is another layered animated font made in 2011. In 2012, Jeroen released Webster, an animated font described as follows: Webster is an extensive animated typeface with a nerdy look. It comes with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation and special characters. All together it counts over a 150 glyphs. With 13 customizable features, you can create over a gazillion looks. That's right, over a gazillion! In 2014, Jeroen co-designed the animated octagonal typeface Magnus with Linn Fritz, and the animaited typeface Razor (Animography) with Jeffrey Schreiber. He created the animated rounded sans typeface family Mantis in 2014. In 2016, Jeroen Krielaars and Pablo Balcells co-designed the animated pixel typeface Pixelar based on Balcell's 2012 original. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
During his studies at Brown University (Providence, RI) and at Type West, Calder Hansen designed the experimental display typeface Rinca (2019). Calder explains: The contrast axis of a typeface is a line describing how weight is distributed in the letters. Strokes parallel to the axis are thick; strokes perpendicular to it are thin. Rinca is an exploration of what happens when the contrast axis is curved rather than straight. It is based on the shapes created by a broad-nib pen that changes angle as it draws based on its position relative to the arc of the axis. This creates a texture that is strange but self-consistent. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Caligraft
| Beautiful (programmed) experimental letters derived from fonts. This is based on the Masters Thesis in Digital Arts, obtained in 2005 by the Catalan designer Ricard Marxer Piñón, 2006. For this, he wrote the "Geomerative" library of programs, which includes a truetype importer and interpreter. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
During his graphic design studies at Edinburgh Napier University, London-based Cameron Gibson created Ferro (2015) and writes about this 3d experimental typeface: Ferro is a typeface made up of strong Neodymium Magnets and Ferrofluid. Cameron also created Connectivity (2015). In 2021, he released the display serif typeface Fidra at Type Department: Fidra is inspired by Scotland's rugged coast and is influnced by charismatic Latin typefaces of the old type foundries, in particular Scottish type foundry Miller & Richard's Antique No.12. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator in Brisbane, Australia, of Chromatic Typeface (2012), Frances Brush (2020: an SVG font), Jupiter Brush (2020: an SVG font), Oakwood Press (2019), Anticial (2020: script), Workshop Brush (2020: an SVG font), Acid Wash (2021), and Lunar Palms (2021). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cameron Sweeney
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Buenos Aires-based designer of a calligraphic typeface (2015) and of the art deco font 461 Fabil (2015), which is a hybrid of Helvetica and Code Light. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Milan. Behance link. Creator of the Stapler Font (2012, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer of Wim Crouwel Type (2015, together with Sabine Condiescu and Julie Soudanne) and the experimental typeface Akot (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris-based designer of the experimental wiry typeface Frissons (2019) and the Superveloz-inspired Binome (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Kid Pixel. Valence, France-based designer of the animated decorative caps typeface Tidy (2017) and the experimental animated fonts Fire (2017), XRay (2017), Splash (2015), and Snake (2017). In 2018, she made the animated font Bubble. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of Art Design College of Guangdong Industry Technical College in 2016. Art director and graphic designer in Guangzhou, China. As type designer he took commissions from Zcool. In 2017, he released Yishan Yuzhuan, which draws inspiration from Qin Lisi's Shushan Carved Stones. Also, in 2017, he had a hand in Zcool-YingShuTi (Zhongqi Electronic: free download). His graduation typeface was the experimental labyrinthine Chinese typeface Suo (2016). Also in 2016, he designed the molecular Chinese font Collective. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Carini Type Foundry
| Carini Type Foundry is Michael Genova's experimental type foundry. Two free fonts, Handsom (1997, sign language font) and Adler (1997, an old typewriter font), both in type 1 and truetype formats. Artistic page design. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Carl Cooper
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Dutch designer who lives in Alphen aan den Rijn. She experimented in type design and produced typefaces like Leestekens (2012: glyphs constructed on the basis of punctuation only) and Warburg (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Logroño, Spain, Carlos studied graphic design at ESDIR (Escuela Superior de Diseño de La Rioja), and type design in the Advanced Typography Master class of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (EINA). He was first based in Barcelona, but currently works out of London. In 2013, he designed the humanist mediterranean sans typeface Born (tweetware). In 2014, he created Neon (2014), a set of capital numerals, for the September issue of Yorokobu Magazine. Neon is inspired by American road movies from the 80's and 90's. In 2015, he created Yorokobu numbers for the magazine. Still in 2015, he designed Recia (Indian Type Foundry): an angular ten-style wedge serif typeface family. Free at Fontshare. Typefaces from 2016: 3D Experimental. In 2018, he graduated from the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag. His graduation typeface, Azor, was designed for editorial use. He explains: Azor is a typeface for display and text that requires comfortable legibility, personality and a human touch. Azor's italics are quite angular for added contrast with the romanstyles. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Venezuelan graphic and type designer (b. San Cristóbal, Estado Táchira, Venezuela, 1977). He studied Graphic Design between 1995 and 1998 in the Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Antonio José de Sucre (IUTAJS) Extensión Mérida, Venezuela. He runs the design studio Andinistas in Bogotá, Colombia, which he set up in 1998 with a few others. Creator of the beautiful typeface Cazon (1999-2007, a grunge script in 7 styles that includes Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres, Dingbats A and B) and of Escuadra (2003), Biologia (2003), Denedo (2003; the discussion by typophiles centers around how interesting this 3d font is experimentally---a bit like the type version of M.C. Escher's drawings, full of impossibilities), Modelia (2006), Nikona and Nikona Dual (2006, octagonal, with Rafael Rincón), Avecedario, Btamax (1999-2008, comic book style and grunge), Día D, Nativa, Codiga Icons (dingbats), Codiga (1999-2007, an 8-style octagonal family including Codiga Stencil and Codiga Dingbats), Codiga Pura (octagonal face), Pepelepu, Gancho petare, Guerrilla, and Hirofórmica (grunge). His calligraphic script family Panamericana (2007) comes in many grungy and experimental flavors: Blanca, Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco, Seis and Dingbats. With María Angélica Estrada Cano, he designed the hand-drawn font families Makika (2007) and Lita (2007; in five styles---Gris, Negra, Humo, Molis, and Dingbats). His blog. In the area of combat-ready explosion-inspired letters and dingbats, check his eight-weight family Hiroformica (2007, Andinistas; for a free version, see DaFont). In 2007, he created the calligraphic grunge family Rosadelia, and the grunge lettering and crow dingbats family Gancho Petare. In 2008, he published Heleodora (beautiful scratchy hand), Magola (Negra, Supra Negra and Stencil), Navaja 1 through 4 (a collection of grunge fonts with grungy dingbats), Lucrecia 1 through 3 (a fat connected script family ranging from clean to splattered), Pomarosa (irregular hand) and Pomarosa Dingbats, Bochalema (+Dingbats, a comic book family), and Alcira 1 through 3 (nice scribbly grunge scripts). In 2020, he designed Man Ray (a wild and weathered calligraphic font, and a pirate era weathered caps typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Carlos Matteoli
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While styudying at UdK Berlin, Carmen Reina co-designed the experimental modular typeface together wth Johannes Breyer. This typeface uses a few circular arc- and rectangular-shaped modules. It is inspired by Nebiolo's Fregio Mecano. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Toronto who made the experimental typeface Alienese (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual designer at Sesame Workshop in New York City, who created Brandless Typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Carole Gautier
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Hannover, Germany-based designer of the jagged experimental typeface Transformer (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From 2009 until 2012, Carolina Dahl studied at HDK, the School of Design and Crafts, Göteborg, Sweden. She experimented in 2013 with monoline typefaces. One Unit Typeface (2013) is based on sticks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental font Overlap, an exercise on overlapping Bezier curves. Caroline lives in Antwerpen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at UCA Farnham, UK, Caroline Ibikunle (Sutton, UK) created the experimental geometric typeface Neo (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design student in London. Designer of the experimental typeface Triangle (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in Nanterre, France, Caroline Prudhon created the experimental typeface Quitte ou Double (2016) and the bubblegum typeface Chewie (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Seattle-based creator of the experimental typeface Retro Loops (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oakland, CA-based designer (b. 1975) at FontStruct in 2008 of the smudged typefaces Smudge New Roman and Chinese Chairs, as well as the experimental typefaces Navajo Blankets, Progesterone, Guru Blackletter (Indic font simulation), June Cleaver (dot matrix), Sugandha Shringar (Indic font simulation), Aravinda Incense Sticks (more Indic font simulation) and Guru Saksha (still more Indic simulation). Wayang Kulit (2008, caps only) was inspired by Javanese shadow puppets. Dafont link. Graffiti fonts made by him in 2008: Professional Muse, Gladiator Cruel. On the side he runs a business selling pin-up calendars. Fontsy link. Home page. Full name Casey Castille Nassberg (nee Shelton). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Albuquerque, NM. Creator of the experimental typeface Forestwood (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cassey Baker (Philadelphia) went on an experimental tour, and created a beautiful multilined multihued geometric typeface called Arc Nemesis Rainbow Display Typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Lisbon, Portugal, Cata Rina designed the experimental Chinese Arabic Alphabet (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At the University of Aveiro, Portugal, Catarina Almeida created the experimental Everyday Typeface (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made a number of pixelish experimental typefaces in 2011: Sweet Pain, Two and a half cookies, Marshmallows, Marshmallows 2. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Portimao, Portugal, who created the minimalist straight-edged modular typeface Anglar (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Type Media program at KABK in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2019. Her graduation typeface, Coat, is a fashionable distinguished sans with subtle flaring. The Roman and Italic live in tetrahedron design spaces, each with four masters spanning three axes (weight, contrast and angle). The result is a variable font that offers a wide range of styles. Before Type and Media, she completed her BA in Graphic Design in Luzern. She works as a graphic designer in Switzerland, where she designs typefaces (independently, and for Lineto), magazines and identities. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hasselt, Belgium-based student-designer of the experimental typeface Onyx (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student in Liè, Belgium, Céline Vandermeulen designed a grid-based geometric typeface in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mexican type designer in Queretaro. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his experimental typeface Masiva. In 2013, he created the art deco typeface Roberta, which is characterized by various alternates, including some that are influenced by Didot. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Namur, Belgium-based designer of Brasero (2011), an experimental typeface.She also created an upright connected school font family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2011, Cecilia Eleno (Buenos Aires, Argentina) created the triangularly cut typeface Tipografia Abstracta. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cecilia Rodríguez
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Lyon, France-based designer of the dingbat typeface OK (2019), the custom typeface Piña (2017), the circle-based experimental typeface Equinoxe (2015) and the Belgian blackletter beer label fonts Baston (2016) and Bxl (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Argentinian designer in Buenos Aires of an experimental poster typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Studio in Istanbul, Turkey. Designer of Cemo Sans (2018), an experimental typeface that features plenty of flattops and flatbottoms. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at the University of South Wales, Atrium, Cerys Wilcox (Cardiff) designed the experimental typeface Space (2017), the handcrafted Eilwen (2017) and the scary spiky The Freaks of Fairytales (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chinese designer of some experimental Latin typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of Lala (pixelish script), Sunday (great vertical-stripe stencil), Radiotic (rounded), Blabla (experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at Boston University, Chanida Kittimethee designed the experimental typeface (2018) based only on lines and circles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Australian-born graphic design student at Manchester Metropolitan University. She created the experimental typeface Bang (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charles Combs from Austin, TX, runs the design studio Charles Combs Design. He created Ghost Font (2010, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Senior designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, who created Triangular (2013), an experimental 3d typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charles S. Wilkin
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As a student in Edinburgh, Scotland, Charlie Jennings created the experimental minimalist sans typeface Beyond (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at L'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique in Nantes, France, Charline Finster created the inky typeface Knochen (2014) and an experimental alphabet called Crease (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris-based designer who graduated in 2013 from Université Paris-Est with a Masters in innovation, design, luxe. During a workshop mentored by Laure Boer and Sebastian Bissinger of the Berlin-based Bank Studio, Charlotte created the experimental geometric typeface La Déco (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charlotte Grey (Hastings, UK) drew an alphabet in one continuous line and called it Connected Typeface (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies at ESADHar in Le Havre, Charlotte Utrecht (Bordeaux, France) created Absence (2014, a minimalist sans typeface), Lakof (2015, drug-fueled typeface), BW (2015, deco sans), and Delusion (2015, a multistroke font also designed under the influence of drugs). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI-based Chase Hasper created the experimental modular typeface Dord (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Buffalo, NY, Vivian Cheng created the 3d typeface Cubes (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrative designer in Den Haag, who made the experimental typeface Hoogtelijnen (2011), as if each glyph were a meteorological map. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bangkok-based designer of the experimental typeface Gothia (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator in Cape Town, South Africa, of the straight-edged geometric typeface Harsh Phuk (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
San Diego, CA-based designer of the experimental threaded typeface Mercurial (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chiharu Tanaka was born and raised in Japan. She completed her Bachelor's degree of Textile Design in Tokyo and worked at design companies for a few years. She subsequently received her MFA in Graphic Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2009, and remained in San Francisco area ever since. She worked as a graphic and type designer for John McNeil Studio (2009-2010), Landor Associates (2009-2010), Psy/Ops (2010-present) and Morisawa (2016-present). Her typefaces:
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Leeds, UK-based graphic designer who created the display typefaces Bones (2012) and Cuckoo (2012). | |
Graphic designer in Agoura Hills, CA. Creator of some experimental typefaces in the period 2012-2014. | |
Student at the University of Greenwich, UK. Designer of the experimental typeface Binary Code (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vancouver, BC-based designer of an experimental typeface in 2017, obtained by cutting an existing typeface in half. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Northampton, UK-based designer of the experimental typefaces Juniper Regularis (2014), Portmanteau (2014) and ramen (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in New York, Chris holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an undergraduate degree in Architecture from UC Berkeley. Creator of Gauze (2009), Clique (2009, ultra-geometric), Hoop (2009, Helvetica on bubbles) and Mr Aves (2009; an ornithological spoof of Mrs. Eaves). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Leeds, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Dead Space (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Leeds, UK. Chris experimented with exaggerated ligatures in his Interconnect (2012), and the results are fresh, beautiful and promising. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sydney-based designer of the custom typeface Euclid (2012), which is inspired by Oliver Byrne's The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid. Aka Lumiko. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kansas City, MO-based architect and photographer, who created a 3D typeface in 2011. In 2012, he made Digital Snow (simulating snow with pixels), What The What (experimental 3d face), Wicker and Lateral Lines. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christian Acker
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Christian Küsters
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Christian Lang
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Christian Naths (Edmonton, Alberta) created the experimental typeface Redacted (2013) and the icon font Climacons (2013, with Adam Whitcroft). Github link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of a couple of experimental geometric typefaces in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at California State University, Long Beach, Christina Cedeño created Grow (2014), a typeface inspired by outdoor living wall panels. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Middlesex University, London-based Christina Dias Andrade designed Missing Anatomy Typeface (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer who is now located in Chicago, IL. For a club night in Frankfurt, she created the straight-edged techno typeface Sexpol (2014). For KISD Gala 2012, she designed an experimental geometric solid typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Coauthor with Steven Heller in 2000 of "Letterforms: Bawdy, Bad and Beautiful: The Evolution of Hand-Drawn, Humorous, Vernacular, and Experimental Type", Watson-Guptill, New York. Christine Thompson, designer at the New York Times on the Web since the site's inception in 1995, has won multiple awards for her work in interactive media. She lives in New York. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the experimental typeface Zopf (2009, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marseille, France-based designer of a swashy decorative and a 3d typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christophe Martin
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Fellow Belgian Christophe Vermijlen (Hasselt) created an experimental 3d typeface called Tilting Type (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Chesterfield, UK. He created the experimental typeface Yatagan (2009). Xone (2009) is a geometric typeface inspired by shapes and children's building blocks. Flux (2009) is a hand-set typeface created in response to creative writing about time and reality. The multiline Flux Deux followed in 2012. Yatagan (2012) is an oddly-curved monoline typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christopher Mooij
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Graphic designer in Baltimore, who created a multicolored geometric experimental alphabet in 2013 called CMY Alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
King's Lynn, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Pabulum (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Circus Design
| Finnish art director Brian Kaszonyi is the designer of CircusRootbeer, Circus Robot and Circus Mouse (1992). Co-designer with Tomi Haaparanta of the FUSE95 experimental font FutuRoman. Codesigner with Peter Kaszonyi of CircusRex (1993). All these fonts are still available from FontHaus. Codesigner with Tomi Haaparanta and Klaus Haapaniemi of the 15-font War family in 1999-2000. In 2013, in cooperation with Tomi Haapranta, he created a decomposed monoline layered text face, Tee Franklin. His corporate typefaces include designs done for Finnish pulp and packaging giant Stora Enso. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ciscu Design
| Ciscu Design (Barcelona) created the display typeface No and the experimental typeface Pixelated Stripes in 2014. Its designer, Ciscu Gomez Garcia, studied at ESDI in Barcelona in 2014. IN 2015, he proposed the Mayus and Minus typographic experiment in which uppercase and lowercase elements are mixed in one hybrid typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ciscu Gomez Garcia
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MA student in design at IADE in Oeiras, Portugal. He created Match Font (2011), an alphabet composed of match sticks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cofounder of Now Type, Cláudio Rocha is an Italian Brazilian illustrator and designer (b. 1957) who was first based in sao Paulo, then in Treviso, Italy, and currently in The Netherlands. Now Type is jointly run with his son Lucas Franco (b. 2001). He edited Tupigrafia, a magazine dedicated to typography and calligraphy in Brazil. Partner of Oficina Tipografica Sao Paulo. His typefaces include:
He published the books "Projet Tipográfico" (Ed. Rosari), "Trajan e Franklin Gothic" (Ed. Rosari), and "Tipografia Comparada" (Ed. Rosari). Claudio now lives in Treviso, Italy, from where he launched the type magazine Tipoitalia in 2009. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Grenoble, France-based designer of the experimental typeface bold Grotesk (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Claire Daisey (Muncie, IN) created the experimental typeface Sharp Edge (2013) that plays with negative spaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design student in Buenos Aires, class of 2013. Designer of a geometric experimental typeface called Times (2013) and of the hybrid serif typeface Nivo (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London, UK-based designer of Conceptual (2014), an experimental font based on circles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Singapore who created the geometric chromatic typeface Rangeo (2013). Rangeo was inspired by Rangoli, a folk art from India. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Die Gestalten of Arvore (2003, experimental). A'Brasil link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Quebec-based typographer and type designer (aka Diogene) who specializes mainly in revivals of obscure or old typefaces. Dafont link. Yet another URL. Abfonts carries many of his fonts. Fontspace link. His typefaces:
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During her studies in Seimbra, Portugal, Claudia Leonardo designed the experimental typeface Fantastico (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Claudia Sanchez (Santiago de Cali, Colombia) designed the Latin display typeface oddly named Cirilica (2012) and the experimental alphabet HiTu (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Lyon, France, Claudine Stepien designed a grid-based typeface based on the principles explained in Manuel de Création Graphique by Armin Hofmann. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer from Modena, Italy, b. 1969. Designer of these fonts:
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Claudio Pousada
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Claudio Reston
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Lyon, France-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Holes (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Nantes, France who created Typo 1 (a threaded typeface) and Typo 2 (a textured typeface) in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dresden, Germany-based designer of the experimental (modular) typeface Sega (2009, 26plus-zeichen). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian designer (b. 1962) who lives in Brussels where she taught (teaches?) at the École supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre and at the École supérieure de l'image. Her fonts were published by 2Rebels in Montreal, and by FontHaus in the USA. Her fonts are experimental and geometric in nature. Some creations: Billes (1995), Boulbar (1995), Boules (1996), BubbleBath (1996), Craaac (1996) Caaarc (1996), Design, Douff, Graphic, Handex (1995; an alphading based on fists), Inbetween (1996), Lines (1994), Lolo (1992, funny figurines), Minimex (1996), Modern (1996), Perles (1995), StencilFull (1997), StencilFullBraille (1997). She is most famous for her avant-garde geometric fonts Alpha Bloc (1994) and Alpha Geometrique (1994) published by Font Bureau. Alpha Geometrique Compact, for example, is a Bauhaus style stencil face. FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Clotilde Olyff's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies, Barcelona, Spain-based Clouds Hintzmann designed the experimental typeface Gigster (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Clovis Vallois
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FontStructor who designed the experimental typeface Teste 2 (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Senior at the University of Delaware studying Visual Communications. He/she designed the playful modular typeface Pea Pod (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Adamas Regular. Coco Anouk designed the free fonts Paranoid (2012, experimental triangular typeface) and Pasion (2012, balloonish typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the free experimental typeface UHU (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creators of an experimental font called Gridsystem (2005), which won an award at FUSE 2005. Their web page will never win an award. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Derby, UK-based graphic designer who created experimental typefaces called Bipolar (2012) and OCD (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During a course at ERG in Brussels, Coline Caillier created the free font ARC Old Standart (2014, OFL). This typeface is based on Alexey Kryukov's Old Standard TT (2006-2008). In 2015, she designed the experimental modular typeface Origami. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design collective in Orchamps near Besançon, France, est. 2012, consisting of graduates in the Masters program of the École des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, i.e., Clément Moussard, Antonin Buchwalter, and Simon-Pierre Chapuis. Their typeface creations:
Tumblr link. Behance link. Old URL. Typeface catalog [PDF]. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Chicago, Colleen Hancusch created a Geometrypography (2013), a typeface built up from simple geometric solids. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Chicago, who created a hipster typeface in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sydney, Australia-based web designer, who created the ultra thin experimental typeface Machine Man (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Colophon
| David Bennewith runs Colophon in Auckland, New Zealand. He created a few experimental typefaces in 2003-2004: Concorde (a diamond shape pattern font), Mobile Carrion (Courier-style face) and Pukeko. In 2016, he produced Lincoln Mitre, a free font with a military history. He writes: In the early 1950s the US NAVY and Air Force commissioned MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington) to begin Research & Development for what was to eventually become SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Environment)---a computer network designed for strategic, early warning air defence---in retort to a new technology-enabled reality of long range attack from the sky [and weapons of mass destruction], and new forms of Super Power paranoia that would lead to the Cold War. The SAGE network---capable of real-time mass data processing---worked with large computers, networking equipment and radar sites to produce an image of the protected airspace over the U.S. continent. One element of the computer network was the AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central, a computerised command and control system, produced by IBM military Products Division. The AN/FSQ-7 was equipped with command post digital display desks operated by a soldier, using a light gun, push buttons and voice communication to identify and track targets, and if necessary plot an intercept course to them. Work on computer display systems began almost simultaneously with the computers operational design, leading to the design of a new typography for the console's displays, designed to mitigate human error in reading and reporting of data displayed on the screen. Taking into account that the type system would be used in situations of pressure and stress, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Mitre Corporation commissioned large studies into type legibility, as well as undertaking their own legibility tests. The goal being to create a type design that would work both technically, over various display systems [Cathode Ray Tube and Dot-Matrix displays], and visually (as a whole) while creating maximum visible differentiation between individual glyphs within its alphanumeric and graphic system, therefore reducing mistakes in recognition between signs that are commonly mistaken for one another: for example I, L and 1, or 0 and O. The outcome of the L/M type system is a programme for creating a typeface that doesn't necessarily aid legibility---which is arguably a context based phenomenon---but presents a solution to the problem of producing maximum letter differentiation in a given type design system – which aids character recognition and acquisition. The L/M types were never developed to render continuous text but call signs (the designation of the aircraft followed by an identification number), more visual signals, or data, than lexical semantics. Yet, these call signs find their way back into civil society via air disasters reported through media, like the disappearance of MH370 or the shooting down of MH17. The resources dedicated to the research and development of the L/M typefaces alone are remarkable, for example, declassified reports reference what appears to be all published studies in legibility available up to the time. We can see what is possible, and also what is impossible, with seemingly infinite resources. For example, it is impossible to define any particular author of the font, or ascertain how many people worked on its development. its design being part of a contingent and iterative process, over what appears to take place over many years. Curiously, to this day, the original drawings of the type system remain classified in The MITRE Corporation archives. These fonts are digitisations of the alphanumerics I found in many military and research reports connected to the L/M type system. Each font is connected to a particular visual display on which the letters, digits and symbols would be rendered. Punctuation and accents have been added for convenience in use. Library Stack link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design student at Falmouth University in Falmouth, UK. He used lines only to construct, as a bridge, the glyphs of Frequency (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate from Cal Arts (1996), who runs CoreyHolms.Com in Fullerton, near Los Angeles. MyFonts link. MyFonts foundry link. Most of his fonts were republished in the 2020s at Canada Type. Designer of Compunabula (2015: a low resolution, 8-bit alphabet imagined for our high resolution world), NE10 (2010, a stencil / neon tube typeface), This (a stencil typeface), Area (2008, Umbrella Type, an art deco nightclub face; hints of Avant Garde), Mode (2007, experimental modular type, Umbrella and later Canada Type, Babbage (2005, Umbrella Type, a capricious typewriter font), Sange (2002, a dot matrix blackletter font), Brea and Brea Light (2004, a dot matrix blackletter family at Umbrella Type; republished in 2021 at Canada Type), Mince and Mince Shadow (2004, Umbrella Type), DecadesOS (2002, for Decades Inc), Air-Port (1999), Attractor (2001, based on Alexei Tylevich's NoGlow), Granule (2009, fat rounded sans), Cartridge (2001), Claes (2001, based on a Wim Crouwel design), Consume (1996), Den (1998, for the Digital Entertainment Network), Digital (1997, for "The Apartment"), Empire (1995), Fascia (2002), Hobart (2001, a kitchen tile font), Pea (2005, Veer: letters made up of springs), Phia (another kitchen tile font), Progress (2001, for Progress City), Rasputin, RMX, Savante (1999), Sears (2000), Stencil, Thirty, Untitled and WebType (2000). Many of these fonts are futuristic, experimental, logo-inspired or minimalist. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
British creator of Molecular (2011), an experimental typeface in which glyphs represent parts of organic chemical compounds. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental font Estippo 55. Corinne lives in Hove. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typefaces Split One and Split Two (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Corradine Fonts
| Manuel Eduardo Corradine Mora was born in Bogotá in 1973. He graduated from the School of Graphic Design of the National University of Colombia in 1996, and became a graphic designer. He started by custom-designing fonts and by making typefaces for his own company, Casa Papelera El Cedro (The Cedar Papermaking House), for printing invitation cards. With other designers like Carlos Fabián Camargo, John Vargas and César Puertas he formed Tipográfico in 2007 to strengthen the type discipline in Colombia. Corradine Fonts is Manuel Corradine's own foundry in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2006. Today, he is one of Colombia's principal type designers. He also teaches at Universidad Piloto de Colombia in Bogota. Fonts from 2007: Kidwriting (a family which includes Kidwriting Dingbats 1 and 2), Garabata (a fantastic handwriting face), Garabata Dingbats, Hexagona Digital, Quadrat (grunge), Quadrat Old (grunge), Quadrat Dirty (grunge), Quadrat Broken, Quadrat Ugly, Neogot (experimental, 8 styles). Fonts from 2008: Mucura (handwriting), Prissa (handwriting), Salpicon (a script), Cuento Serif (a bouncy hand-printed family), Memoria (brush script), Charco, Happy Day (comic book family with Happy Day Dingbats), Espectro (a swinging script with swashes and a Dingbats style), Furia (handwriting), Candelaria (based on house signs in the La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá), Old Village (1600's style), Old Village Ornaments, Rapidda (a successful simulation of quick handwriting), Hueca (an outline children's script), Antigua (an old swashbuckler family), Colegial (a great-looking hand script), Pincel (a fantastic paint brush family with accompanying splatter dingbats), Trazo (Corradine's handwriting), Arcos (a techno family), Caveman (a primitive stone-look type family), Rumba (two styles; an elegant flowing brush script), Parche (graffiti family), Elegance Monoline (a greeting card script typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008), Abuelito (script). Fonts from 2009: Helga (flowing script), Mussica (+Swash, +Antiqued: a delicate Victorian typeface; followed in 2017 by Mussica Italic), Guarapo (hand-printed), Toxic (futuristic stencil), Emotion (comic book face), Bloque 3D, Rock and Cola, Betco's Hand, Telefante (comic book family), Nancy's Hand (more comic book hand-printing), Alambre (multiline/paperclip), Sensual (calligraphic hand), Zape (in the style of Tekton), Antrax Tech (grunge), Masato (handwriting), Hu Kou (oriental simulation). Fonts fgrom 2010: Miel (a curly script), Oferta (a signage script), Corradine Handwriting (and Corradine Handwriting Italic, 2015), Alberto (connected hand), Changua (hand-printed). Fonts from 2011: Plebeya (2011, connected hand), Mimi's Hand Connected, Legendaria (an extensive connected calligraphic family). Fonts from 2012: Tecna (a techno family co-designed with Sergio Ramirez), Neuron (a fantastic 16-style rounded elliptical sans family created together with Sergio Ramirez), Bucanera Soft (blackletter), Bucanera Antiqued (grungy blackletter), Official (a simple monoline sans family), Almibar (a connected calligraphic Spencerian script), Eterea (a roman all-caps family), Eterea LC (the lower case set), Canciller (an italic roman, done with Sergio Ramirez), Quarzo (2012, a formal copperplate script done with Sergio Ramirez). Typefaces from 2013: Neuron Angled (still with Sergio Ramirez), Alianza Slab (a great-looking slab family), Alianza Italic and Alianza Script (a packaging font), all made jointly by Manuel Eduardo Corradine and Sergio Ramirez. Typefaces from 2014: Whisky (a large blackletter family with inlines and fills for layering co-designed with Sergio Ramirez; related to German expressionism, it won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016), Whisky Italics, Beauty Script (with Juan Sebastian Rincon), Emblema and Emblema Headline (tall-legged art deco sans family by Duvan Cardenas), Wild Pen (a 1200-glyph set of typefaces that can be used to simulate handwriting thanks to smart replacements in Opentype), Sinffonia (a thin informal typeface with oodles of choices for swashes). Typefaces from 2015: Be Creative (a vintage display typeface), Typnic (a varied handcrafted layered and script typeface family; rhymes with picnic), Typnic Headline Slab. Typefaces from 2016: Naugles (thick display face based on the Naugles logo), Scrans (a modern signage script), Bloque (heavy slab family), Bloque Italic. Typefaces from 2017: Cristal (layered, triangulated and beveled font family, including exquisite Cristal Dingbats and Cristal Frames), Almibar Pro (connected calligraphic script). Typefaces from 2018: Tierra Script, Pueblito (rustic style). Typefaces from 2019: Austera Text (a comfortable workhorse serif). Typefaces from 2020: Kidwriting Pro. Klingspor link. Behance link. Creative Market link. MyFonts link. Fontspring link. Font Squirrel link. View Corradine's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Beirut, Lebanon-based designer of the experimental Arabic typeface Totem (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in San Francisco, CA, who made the experimental typeface Sci-Fi (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
American creator of the display typeface Energetic Audacity (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
UK-based designer in 2008-2009 of the free fonts ABC (using arcs of circles), UNC (2008, gorgeous multiline headline face), Getting Blocky (geometric, abstract), London 2012 (based on the font of the Olympic Games), Fox Font (extremely simple monoline sans), Artree (2008, hairline geometric monoline sans), myfoxhandwritenItalic (2008, sic), Moraz (2008, experimental titling font), WeWant (2008, hand-printed), Kylie Baker (2009, soft techno avant garde face), My Handwriting, Contempory (2008, elegant avant-garde sans), Alta (2008, hand-printed geometric sans experiment), GettingBlocky (2008, experimental), MyFox (2008, simp0le sans), and Everyone (aka London2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Craig Eliason
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Craig Stainton
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Craig Ward is a British graphic designer and art director wjho moved to New York City in 2009, where he set up Words and Pictures in 2011. In 2015, he created the experimental typeface Fe203, and wrote: To form the glyphs, a tiny amount of ferrofluid was placed between two glass plates and subjected to a combination of spinning vertical and horizontal magnetic fields. The result is an array of complex hieroglyphics and shapes - each one as unrepeatable as a snowflake - that simultaneously call to mind ancient indigenous markings or symbols from science fiction. Designer of nice typographic examples, such as his Hairy Futura (2008). He designed the fat didone display typeface Lovechild (2009) and the spurred typeface Killer (2013). Other typefaces: Go Vote (2012, a brush poster and modular typeface for the American elections), Dark White (didone), Epitaph (alchemic), NM Serif (2015, for the branding of Dior's new perfume, Sauvage), England World Cup Kit (2018). | |
Experimental typography by Cranbrook Academy of Art students:
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Designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to make Raphigraphy, a dot matrix font based on a proposal by Louis Braille from 1839. Other creations: Just1s (concept font), Just1s Times 4, Moon 3x3 Square (Latin alphabet for partially sighted people after William Moon (1818-1894)), Moon 4x4 Thin, Geascript (squarish), QWERTY, Daumen, Daumen 9, 7seg (LCD font), 5x7int (pixel face). His Albers is a remake of Schablonenschrift by Albers (1920s). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and illustrator from Curtea de Arges, Romania. In 2011, he created the experimental typeface Alfabeta. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Bologna. Creator of the experimental typeface Zothik Bold (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones, Uruguay-based designer of the free left-leaning experimental typeface Distorsion Milenia (2020), which was done for a school project at Escuela Carne. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in Bucharest, Romania, Cristiana Costin created Single Line Typeface (2014) and Braila City Icon Set (2014). In 2016, she designed a hybrid of Bodoni and Gill. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cristóbal graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, he created the white-on-black experimental typeface Ona (inspired by the people of Tierra del Fuego). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CSTM
| CSTM Fonts is a digital type foundry in Moscow founded by Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky in 2014. Educated as graphic designers, Ilya and Yury have created many custom typefaces and Cyrillic versions for a well-known Latin typefaces. Since 2008 Ilya Ruderman is curating the Type and Typography course at the British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow). Closely associated with Commercial Type, Ilya Ruderman added Cyrillic versions to Paul Barnes's Austin (2003) typeface in 2009 and 2016. In 2015, Ilya and Yury published Kazimir, a didone typeface family for Latin and Cyrillic, taking as a model the typeface used in The History of Russian Philology by P. N. Polevoy (1900, A. F. Marx Publishing House). It was followed in 2016 by Kazimir Text. In 2017, they published the almost brutalist wayfinding sans typeface family Navigo (which was used by Gillibrand's presidential campaign in 2019 and 2020, and by Moscow's Zoloto Group), and the experimental (hipster) typeface CSTM Xprmntal 01. Pilar (2015) is a poster sans for Latin and Cyrillic. Giorgio Sans Cyrillic (2016, Ilya Ruderman) is a cyrillization of Christian Schwartz's condensed fashion didone typeface Giorgio Sans. In 2017, he published Stratos Cyrillic (at Production Type, with Yury Ostromentsky; a Cyrillic version of Yoann Minet's 2016 geometric grotesque typeface Stratos: it received a Type Directors Club New York Certificate of Excellence 2017). In 2020, Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky released the variable sans typeface Normalidad, which started in 2019 as a custom design for MTS, a Russian mobile network operator. Type Today link for CSTM Fonts. In 2021, CSTM Fonts released the 42-style sans family Loos (Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian), a typeface designed by Yury Ostromentsky, Ilya Ruderman, and Daria Zorkina. Advisers on Georgian included Alexander Sukiasov and Lasha Giorgadze. Behance link. Type Network link. Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Curious Flux
| Francisco Castro Miranda (aka Curious Flux) created DeLorimier, an experimental display font created in 2009 when he spent a summer in Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the experimental rounded typefaces Sweetchuck and David. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian-Chinese graphic designer who created Celsius (2015), Megève (2013), Apollo (2012, a monoline avant-garde typeface), Comma (2012, a geometric typeface), FoldFont (2011), Croxxtypo (2011, octagonal), and CrossTypo (2011). | |
Motion designer in Berlin, who created the animated typeface Cyber (2015) and the hyper-experimental typeface Ters (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at London College of Communication, Cyril Aboubacar Fofana designed the experimental typeface FF Bilboa Newspeak 84 (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech Design and Typography (studio experimentalniho design)
| Filip Blazek writes about typography. His own fonts include Pozorius, Studnicka Antikva and Duboryt. Alois Studnicka (Prague) seems to have designed PozoriusCESample. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
During his studies at SintLucas in Boxtel, Oirschot, The Netherlands-based Daan Emmen (b. 1996, Oirschot) designed the minimalist typeface Invisible (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dadakool
| Dadakool (or DK) was founded by Parisian Gregory Flajszer and Padovan Alex Mazzuccato Mezzoccoli in 2005, after they met each other during their studies in Paris. They created the 3d experimental typefaces DK01 (2005) and DK Stencil (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Daggertypo
| Daggertypo is a small type foundry based in Split, Croatia, founded by Nino Bodac in 2019. Typefaces:
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Japanese designer. Together with Hiroaki Nagai, he won an award at TDC55 for an experimental typeface called Utsuba Moon Avant Garde (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dalton Maag
| Swiss designer Bruno Maag (b. Zürich) founded Dalton Maag in 1991, and set up shop in Brixton, South London. He serves the corporate market with innovative type designs, but also has a retail font line. Ex-Monotype designer Ron Carpenter designs type for the foundry. In the past, type designers Veronika Burian worked for Dalton Maag. A graduate of the Basel School of Design, who worked at Stempel and was invitedd by Rene Kerfante to Join Monotype to start up a custom type department. After that, he set up Dalton Maag with his wife Liz Dalton. He has built the company into a 40-employee enterprise with offices in London, Boston, Brazil (where the main type designer is Fabio Luiz Haag), Vienna and Hong Kong. The Dalton Maag team designed these commercial fonts:
Fonts sold at Fontworks, and through the Bitstream Type Odyssey CD (2001). At the ATypI in 2001 in Copenhagen, he stunned the audience by announcing that he would never again make fonts for the general public. From now on, he would just do custom fonts out of his office in London. And then he delighted us with the world premiere of two custom font families, one for BMW (BMWType, 2000, a softer version of Helvetica, with a more virile "a"; some fonts are called BMWHelvetica), and one for the BMW Mini in 2001 (called MINIType: this family comprises MINITypeRegular-Bold, MINITypeHeadline-Regular, MINITypeHeadline-Bold, MINITypeRegular-Regular). Other custom typefaces: Tottenham Hotspur (2006), Teletext Signature (by Basten Greenhill Andrews and Dalton Maag), Skoda (Skoda Sans CE by Dalton Maag is based on Skoda Formata by Bernd Möllenstädt and MetaDesign London), UPC Digital, BT (for British Telecommunications), Coop Switzerland (for Coop Schweiz), eircom, Lambeth Council, Tesco (2002), PPP Healthcare, ThyssenKrup (Dalton Maag sold his soul to these notorious arms dealers; TK Type is the name of the house font), Co Headline (2006), Co Text (2006, now a commercial font), Telewest Broadband, Toyota Text and Display (2008), TUIType, HPSans (for Hewlett-Packard, 1997). His custom Vodafone family (sans) (2005) is based on InterFace. In 2011, Dalton Maag created Nokia Pure for Nokia's identity and cellphones, to replace Erik Spiekermann's Nokia Sans (2002). The Nokia Pure typeface has rounder letters, and is simultaneously more legible and more rhythmic. In 2010, the Dalton Maag team consisted of Bruno Maag and David Marshall as managing and operations directors, and Vincent Connare as production manager. The type designers are Amélie Bonet, Ron Carpenter, Fabio Haag, Lukas Paltram and Malcolm Wooden. In 2015, Kindle picked the custom serif font Bookerly by Dalton Maag for their typeface. Still in 2015, Dalton Maag custom designed the sans typeface family Amazon Ember for Amazon for use in its Kindle Oasis. Free download of both Amazon Ember and Bookerly. Dalton Maag created the custom typeface family Facebook Sans in 2017. Bressay (2016). Stuart Brown led the design and did the engineering for Bressay (design by Tom Foley, Selma Losch, and Spike Spondike, at Dalton Maag, London), which won an award at TDC 2016. Later additions include Bressay Arabic [designers not identified by Adobe] and Bressay Devanagari [designers not mentioned by Adobe]. ATT Aleck is a large custom typeface family designed in 2016. Netflix Sans (2018): Netflix replaced Gotham to combat spiraling licensing costs and commissioned its own bespoke typeface: Netflix Sans under design lead Noah Nathan. Free download. The family include Netflix Sans Icon (2017). Comments by designers at The Daily Orange. In 2018, Dalton Maag designed the custom typefaces Itau Display and Itau Text for Itau Unibanco, a large Brazilian bank. In 2019, Dalton Maag produced a corporate typeface for Air Arabia. Venn (2019, Bruno Maag). A 5 weight 5 width corporate branding sans typeface, with an option to get Venn Variable. Typefaces from 2020: Dark Mode VF (a humanist sans designed specifically for digital user interfaces, offering subtle grade adjustments to counteract the effects of setting light type on a dark background, as is common with many dark mode digital reading environments; it has two axis in its variable type format---weight and dark mode), Highgate VF (a variable humanist sans inspired by traditional British stone carving), Goldman Sans (a free clean sans family that includes three variable fonts; Goldman Sachs lets you use it except to criticize the company or any other capitalist pigs). Interview in 2012 in which he stresses that typefaces should above all be functional. View the Dalton Maag typeface library. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw and at ATypi 2015 in Sao Paulo, where he gave an electrifying talk on type design for dyslexics (with Alessia Nicotra). Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal and at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Vertical Control (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Damian Kidd (UK) created the optical effect font Nucleus (2011). Each letter is created from 360 seperate spikes that all link to the centre. Printing at different sizes causes distortion so that the type typeface always seems different. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Damien Gautier
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Dan Heron (Manchester, UK) explains his experimental typeface Kittinger (2013): Inspired by Colonel Joseph Kittinger and his record-breaking skydive from 31,300m in 1960. The letter forms are based on the outlines of buildings seen from above, referencing the view Kittinger had as he fell to earth. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dan Hoopert (UK) created the Wire typeface in 2012, a 3d type project. While not a digital font, it is nevertheless a feat to be able to fit wires in three dimensional space to make these letters. What we need now is digital font technology to follow up on his idea so that we can rotate and turn 3d letters at will. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dan Reynolds
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Dan Sayers (aka iotic) is an app developer and software engineer, who studied mathematics at Oxford from 1994 until 1998, and evoluionary systems at Sussex from 2008 until 2010. He designed La Avería en El Ordenador (2011, OFL), an average of all 725 fonts on his computer. The fontfamily was split into Avería, Avería Sans and Avería Serif. Now, this may seem like a simple thing, but it is not! He took almost a year to complete this task, giving it a lot of thought. In the process, he created Font Path Viewer, a free web app for viewing the font outlines (with control points) of all fonts on one's system. He did the following clever thing: each font contour was split into 500 equal pieces (a serious exercise for Bezier fanatics), numbered from 1 to 500, and all 500 positions were averaged (over the fonts on his system) to obtain Avería. Interpolations between fonts have been attempted before (see Superpolator, or Font Remix), but to have it automated in this way is quite another achievement. More images of Avería: i, ii, iii. Averia Serif Libre (2012) exists in six styles, and there are also the Averia Libre, Averia Sans Libre and Averia Gruesa Libre families. These are available from Google Web Fonts. So, here is my small request for Dan: build an on-line tool, based on the Bezier outline cutting principle you pioneered, for interpolating between two typefaces. The user would submit two fonts, and the interpolation would be shown on the screen after a couple of seconds. I am sure you can do it! Abstract Fonts link. Google Plus link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dan Steinbok
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Manchester, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Concept (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italy-based designer of an experimental set of fonts called Wired (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Haifa, Israel, who created an experimental font based on mouth movemens in 2013, called Phonetica. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amman, Jordan-based designer of the interesting experimental Latin typefaces Jomethry (2014) and Origami (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Barcelona, Dani Gimenez designed the experimental typeface Contrastes (2017) and the negatively inclined techno typeface Flip (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at Inti International College Subang (IICS), Petaling Jaya, Malaysia-based Danial Zarif designed the experimental circle-themed typeface The Trinity (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German graphic designer who has his own studio. He created the (free) experimental font family Drebiek (2008) around the theme of the triangle, the morbidly obese Diet-Fat (2008), Cartoons Abstract (2009), the monoline Cinga (2009), the experimental Boss M (2009), the art deco stencil typeface Trage Keinen Namen (2008) and the simple handwriting typeface Berger&Berger Caps (2009). One can also download a font tool called Typometer. At Dafont, he calls himself Dundeee. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Argentian designer, b. 1986. Creato the experimental slab typeface Improvisation (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies in 2015, Daniel Boss (Portsmouth, UK) created the experimental typeface Negative and the straight-edged hipster typeface Crosswise (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Union City, NJ-based creator of the multilined caps typeface Nu Alpha (2012) and the experimental multiline typeface November (2012). He moved to Orlando, FL, to study at Full Sail University. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History, University of Utah, in Salt lake City. As Fugitiveglue at FontStruct, he made Allemande (2010), and Havre (2009, gridded), as well as the more experimental Luggage Lifter (2010), Root Canal (2010), Unexamined Zipper (2009) and Gawe (2010). Routeo (2010) is art nouveau, and Ampul (2010) simulates Arabic. Perforane is a heavy mechanical/octagonal unicase typeface, while Guasco (2012) is a curly high-contrast face. Perforance became the basis of a large family of fonts, like PERF Blur (textured face), PERF Glow, PERF Solid, PERF Solid 3D, PERF Knockout 3D, PERF Punch1 3D, PERF Punch3 3D, PERF Punch1, PERF Punch2, Cuevita (2012). Typefaces from 2013: Apocalipsis, Boot Liquor (a western face), Galactica Alphabetz, Clownstruct, Ball Chain (texture face; +Light). | |
During his studies in Birmingham, UK, in 2012, Daniel Harper created a modular typeface just by using two shapes, an arc and a straight line segment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artistic director in Madrid. Creator of the experimental skeletal bone font Palabras Muertas (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel Justi
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Graphic designer and art director in Daasdorf, Germany, b. 1983. In 2009, he created the geometric experimental typeface Bauklötze. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Miami Beach, FL-based creator of the experimental typeface Schnell Tiger (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer based in Amsterdam, with a strong interest in generative design and kinetic typography. He has taught typography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and typography at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem. Maarleveld co-founded Font Spectrum in 2021 with Edgar Walthert in Amsterdam. Future Fonts link. The typefaces at FontSpectrum:
In 2021, he designed the optical illusion wire frame typeface Impossible Grid. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Photographer in Chenhassen, MN, who made a pixel typeface and Five Day Font (hand-printed: overlay of his handwriting over five consecutive days) in 2012. Personal web site. Trailhead (2012) is a pseudofont made from sticks and ropes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel Reuber (Cologne, Germany) used Impact to design the ornamental caps font Goldsun (2012). His experimental water-inspired typeface H2O (2012) is simply spectacular. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Southampton Solent University, who lives in Portsmouth, UK. He created the experimental typeface Tube (2012) based on parts of the London subway system map. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniela Benitez (Bogota, Colombia) created a set of numbers useing a compass and ruler in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the partially erased typeface Minimal (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at FADU / UBA in 2012, Buenos Aires-based Danila De Vita created an experimental typeface based on Futura. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tijuana, Mexico-based creator of a great architectural / technical expperimental typeface in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
While studying in San Roque, Brazil, Daniele Coimbra designed the experimental geometric typeface La Luna (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Dublin, Ireland (was: Milan, Italy). In 2020, he designed the free futuristic rounded sans typeface Mango, the thin experimental font Joky, the high contrast experimental typeface Nera and the organic sans Elegantly. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in London of the experimental typeface PP Type (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance graphic designer in Los Angeles. Behance link. She got a BFA in Graphic Design from California State University of Long Beach (2012). | |
Brazilian graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of Actiontypes (2011), an experimental metallic linkage face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brooklyn, NY-based designer of the blocky typeface system Chunkfunker (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at RANEPA in Moscow, Daria Durova designed the artsy typeface Dura (2018) and the experimental Cyrillic font Dasha (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based student designer of an untitled modular experimental Latin typeface in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tel Aviv-based designer of the Hebrew paleontological typeface Buga Buga (2016) and the experimental Molecular Font (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Prague-based designer of Bubblegum Font (2012, +Outline, Spatial, BigLine, Line, Normal), CEP (2010, an experimental typeface influenced by in-ear headphones), and Oxalis (2012, highly experimental family). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dario Hofstetter
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Darius Samek
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Designer from Chicago, IL, who is now in New York City. Home page. Creator of the Western typeface in the Italian style, called Umidità 1832 (2009), about which Darren writes: This re-interpretation of an 1832 wood cut by Caslon was created for the Spring 2009 edition of the literary-arts journal Ninth Letter. With Will Miller, he created the structural experimental typeface Skky (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Icelandic graphic designer. In 2008, during a course called Holy Geometry at the Academy of the Arts in Iceland, he created the geometric modular typeface Rotunda. In 2009, he made the sans headline face Vesuvio. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian illustrator and designer. Creator of JPO (2012), a squarish typeface named after the event it was created for, les Journées Portes Ouvertes des Gobelins. He also made Irregular (2012, a paper cutout face), History (2012), an experimental typeface that uses various layers of overlays. Tribu (2012) is hand-drawn. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian type designer. In 2021, Darya Cherevkova and Alexandra Valuikina co-designed the blocky experimental monumental font SK Quadratica (Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian designer of some experimental fonts (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Moscow who created the straight-edged stick-shaped Cyrillic typeface Mynah (2015) and the experimental 3d typeface Altai (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian designer of the experimental pixelish typeface SK Fillout (a grungy pixelish font) (2021: at Shriftovik) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
New York City-based graphic designer who created Concept (2012), an extreme contrast headline or poster face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, CA-based Dasol Jung designed Cropcircle (2015) and the experimental 3d typeface Symbiosis (2015). In 2016, she designed the Asian look eyelash-inspired typeface Wishlash. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies, Valenciennes, France-based Dath Hugo created the round display typeface Slot (2014), the austere typeface family Bauhaus (2014), aand the experimental organic sans font Mobius (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographic experimenter in London who made Street View Font (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin, Germany-based designer of Loqi (2016, an organic circle-based monoline sans custom-designed for a brand of bags), Moe (2015, decorative hipster caps), Satellites (2014, outlined geometric font inspired by the logo of DLR---the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft und Raumfahrt), Turna Round (2014, a roundish display alphabet), and Living Rooms (2014, an interlocking square-shaped blocky alphabet inspired by floor tiling). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the paperclip alphabet Bulldog Clip (2008), which is here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Washington, DC-based graphic designer. He created some experimental custom fonts such as Cuez (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Bennewith
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David Brady (The Creative Rebellion, London, UK) is an advertising designer. He created the experimental typeface Nokia (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joppa, MD-based digital imaging specialist, who created the experimental typeface Stenco (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Senior designer in Madrid, who created the experimental Simple Lines Font in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Schleife (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Dale (Baltimore, MD) created the experimental minimalist typeface Disorient in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Delahunty
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David Earls explains the do's and don'ts for type on TV, a medium he has worked with for some time. Summarized here, he says:
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During his studies at the University of Southampton, David Graham created the experimental squarish typeface Step (2012). As a freelance designer in Blackburn, UK, he created the hexagonal typeface Hexis (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Prague-based designer of the geometric experimental typeface Anthology (2015) and the display sans typeface Note (2015) whose tall ascenders emulate musical notes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Norwegian graphic designer who made the counterless experimental Point Blob Font (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Georgian graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of the Kandinsky or Mondiaan-inspired typeface Perittography (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies in Lyon, France, David Lafourcade created the constructivist typeface Rus 35 (2014), the Trajan typeface Oedipe Antique (2014) and the Fraktur typeface Dornach (2014). In 2015, he made the crazy arts-and-craftsy typeface Whaye, the geometric script typeface Fibule (which has starter, middle and end glyphs), and the hacker typeface Gaio. Typefaces from 2016: Aldgate (inspired by London transport signs), Dragonfly, Rallonge (a circle-based typeface designed to be stretched). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Australian who made several typefaces between 2009 and 2012, some of which are freely downloadable in EPS format. He created the alchemic typeface Framework in 2012. Shortcut (2012) is a minimalist experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Neustadt ("saberrider") is the designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to make the experimental fonts Eye Pain, Colorblind, Big Blue (like IBM's stripes), Cord, Fontsract (a nice stencil face, based on piano keys), Dice (great; based on an idea of Daniel Pelavin, 1996), Blux (liquid crystal), Blockiger (octagonal), athletica (athletic lettering), divided (two lines, octagonal), edgewalker (heavy slab serif), geomatrix (filled-in letters), olympica. Other creations include Picto People (2008, a great people figure dingbat font), Carmack (2008, octagonal), Pluto (2008, white on black), Pluto Lowercase, Arena Berlin (2008), Katja (2008), Average (2008), Unbalanced (2008), Solido (2008, based on Ata Syed's FS Minimal), Noise (2008, grungy school letters), and Diagonalis (2008, diagonally striped letters). In 2009, he added Hexastruct, Curvy, Genero (fat face), Plagiacotti (Western saloon font, based on Manicotti, 2007, by David Jonathan Ross), Rasterman (+Bold) (gray effect fonts), Krummbein, Cohen, Mister N (handwriting), Monobono (shadow face), Letter Case, Mikado (3d-stroke font), Boulder (ultra-fat), Night Shift (semi-stencil), Tuvalua, Ripper (fat, counterless), Poff, Blackstruct (blackletter), Borders and Borders2 (outlines of countries). Typefaces from 2010: Squeeze, Puncture (dot matrix outlined), Yobbo (condensed, counterless). Typefaces from 2012: Thunderdome. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Ramsay Jr. studied at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, class of 2013. Creator of the free display font Wind Tunnel (2013). The free experimental font Cutupica (2013) was created by taking capitals from Helvetica Bold, diving each character into quadrants, and rotating opposing quadrants 180 degrees. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stony Brook, NY-based designer of the experimental typeface Spotlight (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Rust
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David Soto (DS Designs, Forest Hills, NY, b. 1986) created Box Bend DS (2009, octagonal face) and Square Nic (2009), an experimental face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Sum
| Budapest-based designer of the piano key typeface family Tango (2012), the thin octagonal typeface Standard (2012), the piano key typeface Slink (2012), and the experimental typefaces Wang (2012), Galtor (2012, an inline font available from Ten Dollar Fonts) and Krix (2012). Typefaces from 2013: Fatty, Borg (free), Neugol (a geometric sans with slanted cuts). He writes about Borg: Borg is a geometric typeface with a curved incision. My inspiration was Swedish furniture. The PAOK FC is a Greek football team and they used my font on their new jersey in 2015. In 2016 Levante UD, SSC Napoli and Paris Saint-Germain too used my font on their new jerseys. Behance link. Devian Tart link. Hellofont link. Home page for Titus Prod. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
David Sum
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Tel Aviv-based designer of the minimalist experimental Latin typeface Specific (2015) and the Hebrew font Half (2013). Home Page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German designer of the experimental modular typeface Konstata (2013). Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montreal-based graphic designer who created the fancy geometric typeface Rocko (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student of Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, who was born in Trento, Italy. He is heavily into sup-fitting geometric experimental typefaces that flirt with the optical limits. One example is his NMTCS typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Davin Perry
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Dayflash
| Christian Lang (Austria) went commercial in 2010 at MyFonts as dayflash. His first typefaces there were Signque (2010, a monoline geometric sans that uses only lines and pieces of circles), Rotundus, Rotundus Rounded (2010) and Pandtos (2010, elliptical). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Dépli
| Design and type design studio in Paris founded in 2007 by Vadim Bernard, Aurélie Gasche and Benjamin Gomez (who is the main type designer in this group). Their typefaces are mostly commissioned, but include a few retail typefaces as well:
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Author of "abcdefg" [a better constraint driven environment for font generation] (1989 Raster Imaging and Digital Typography conference, pp. 54-70), as employee of Xerox PARC. She describes an experimental system that automates the generation of letters in a font from four master characters (o, h, p and v). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Deeait Creates
| Mathias Doblhammer (DeeAit) is a graphic designer and illustrator from Vienna, His typefaces include Benchmark (2007), Fashion Victim (2009, hairline avant-garde face), Bowler (2008, rounded and ultra-fat), the octagonal / rhombic typeface Symbolis (2012), and Lazy Fox (2009, connected octagonal experiment). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
London-based designer of Abstract Typeface (2014). Creative Ice Media Group. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Deliberate Design
| Eric Eaton is a graduate from the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA (1997). He is a design director at Wired Digital in San Francisco, since 1996. He has made some experimental fonts (not downloadable): Bricks Are is a 2001 take on Akzident Grotesque, JAT is a 2000 serif face. Deliberately (2001) is a stencil face, Labyrinth (1999) is the ultimate pixel face, 3 by 3. Popva (1993) is based on a version of a logo for the City of New York (Street Cinema). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
During her studies at Saint-Luc in Liège, Belgium, Delphine Lemaitre designed an experimental modular typeface (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Demonics
| FontStructor in Los Angeles (and before that, Oakland, CA), who made DM/LM (2012: ultra black), dm Subfour (2012, experimentally vertically striped typeface), dm Streamline (2012), dm Clas (2012), dm New Humanist (2012), dm Blockd (2012), dm Scythe (2012), dmcm Erebus (2012, counterless), dm Kronos (2012), dm Parkway (2012, art deco), dm Parkway 3 (2012, for the Oakland Parkway Theater), dm Parkway 2 (2012), dm Xu (pixel face), dm E dim (2012), dm E light (2012), dm Eiros (2012, +Aliens, +Typicals, +Unrecognisables), dm Pop (2012), dm Informe 00 (2012), dm Solidus (2012), dm Me (2012, stencil), dm Nova (2012), dm Supernova (2012, a condensed piano key face), dm S 1 (sans), dm Spira (2012), dm Minium (2012, a jungle face), and the powerhouse slabs dm Banx10 (2012), dm Banx 11 (2012), dm Metrigue (2012, blackletter), dm Istruct (2012, pixel face), dm Wharf (2012), dm Solidis (2012). Typefaces from 2013: dm Yes, dm Legimono. Typefaces not mentioned above includePixtalic (pixel), Mecca, No, Silo, Glatajn, Lm, Legimono, Stuckingranite (3d), Solidus, Subfour (piano key stencil), dm-Blockd, dm-Cantilever, dm-Eiros-aliens, dm-Eiros-typicals, dm-Informe-00, dm-Informe-01, dm-Informe-02, dm-Informe-11, dm-Kronos, dm-Me, dm-mecca, dm-Metrigue, dm-Minium, dm-New-Humanist, dm-no, dm-Pop, dm-readable-sans, dm-regulr, dm-Scythe, dm-silo, dm-Solidis, dm-Solidus, dm-Spira, dm-Subfour-Lb, dm-Subfour, dm-Supernova, dm-Xu, dm-Yes-{c}, dm-Yes. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Omaha, NE, who designed the multilined display typeface Cenmaze (2016) and the experimental geometric typeface Demisphere (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the free experimental typeface Abuela Grillo (2009), and of Denis Handwriting (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Cutout (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Plovdiv, Bulgaria-based creator of the experminental typeface Demist (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located both in Venezuela and in Barcelona, this web designer created the ultimate minimalist ultra fat boxy font Black Block Box in 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer and graphic designer from Geneva. He created Minimalist Type (2011) and The Geometric Type (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Denoel Andre, who runs Wanker Studio in Rennes, France, created the wavy typeface Fluide in 2013, and the experimental geometric typeface Fabrik Art in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Long Beach, CA, Derek Dubler created the experimental typeface Bomboy (2014), which has circle-encased letters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brooklyn, NY-based graphic designer, who also claims Norfolk, VA, as his home. He deconstructed a hairdryer---its pieces made up the glyphs of Split Ends (2011). About Silverback (2011), he says: Using the economical downturn of 2008 as a point of inspiration, I created a font that captured historical monetary references and personal feelings toward Wall Street. I studied old stock certificates and began to simplify the forms. Keeping the design cold and intimidating, I included nods to razor blades and the illuminati. He made the copperplate-look typeface Thick Block (2012) for the upstart Brooklyn restaurant The Brooklyn Sandwich Society. Still in 2012, he combined the copperplate and Western signage styles in his Applewine typeface. In 2013, he created the Venetian typeface Stonewall Roman. He will extend this elegant and promising typeface to a full-fledged family in 2014. Ragehaus is the web presence of Derek and his wife Kim. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
New York City-based graphic designer, who has worked in London. Behance link. In 2010, he created the Model T Ford Face (2010), a typeface based on bent frames of glasses. The Porsche sunglasses led to Porsche Carrera Rear Ended (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design Culture (was: Cubanica Fonts)
| Pablo A. Medina designs all fonts at Cubanica Fonts in New York. He is a Communication Design professor at Parsons the New School for Design and lives in the East Village of New York City. He has also taught at Maryland Institute College of Art. MyFonts page. Cubanica became Design Culture in 2016.
View Cubanica's library of typefaces. View Pablo Medina's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Santa Monica, CA-based designer of some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Surabaya, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1993) of the minimalist experimental typeface Rahasia (2014). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dialekt Design (was: Robert Beck Design)
| Canadian graphic designer and creative director Bob Beck has been living in the Montreal area since 1995. In 1999, he set up Dialekt Design. His typographic oeuvre is extensive:
Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Vancouver-based designer of the experimental photograph-based typeface Wreckage (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Trier, Germany. Creator of Olivia Regular (2013, a retro script), Font Attic (2013, experimental typeface), Timeline (2013) and Frieda (2013, a hand-printed typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Originally from Jerusalem and based in New Jersey. During her studies in New York City, Diana Marianovsky designed the experimental Mondriaan-inspired typeface Chiaroscuro (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Editorial and graphic designer in Lisbon. During a workshop with Rita Dias at Fbaul, she created a font called Tetris (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and lettering designer in Istanbul, who created these typefaces:
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Diego Delgado is a graphic designer in Aranda de Dueo, Spain. In 2014, he created an experimental typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rio de Janeiro who graduated in 2011 from the College of Digital Design, Instituto Infnet. He created the intriguing square-shaped experimental font Cubica2 in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Diego Negrete Olmedo
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Creator (b. 1988) of a geometric type family in 2009. He is based in Santiago, Chile, where he studied type design at the University of Chile and runs a graphic design and photo illustration business. Techno font made in 2009 according to strict geometric rules. Hetilica (2009) is a free shop signage font. Halfway (2009) is a free experimental typeface in which half of the strokes are missing. Link at Tipos de Cartagua, where one can download Hetilica. Scans of Unnamed Font 2 (2010): i, ii. | |
Type foundry based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Their typefaces are all related to Letras Latinas 2002: Chill Out (organic sans), Newine, Predec (experimental serif placement), Corporation (organic italic sans), Galas (outline headline face), Literal (display), Metropolis (octagonal style), Tecno Funk (grunge), Baldosas (3d cubes, stacked), Klee, Overexpose Bi (grunge), Overexpose Tri (grunge), Air Bag (grunge). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dimitre Lima
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Dinamo
| Dinamo is a Swiss type foundry in Heiden established by Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb after graduation from schools in Zurich, Basel and Amsterdam. Johannes and Fabian were visiting teachers at the Estonian Academy of the Arts, Tallinn. Johannes is teaching type design at University of the Arts Berlin (UDK) and HfG Offenbach. Fabian is lecturing typography at the School of Design St. Gallen. Their typefaces:
Johannes Breyer. Fabian Harb. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tomar, Portugal-based designer of the angular typeface Aga (2011), Alpha (2011, sci-fi), Espasmo (2011, futuristic and triangular, in 22 weights: Ten Dollar Fonts), Espasmo Hand (2011, a curvy version), Ladoni (2011, an angular version of Bodoni), the futuristic monoline typeface Omega (2011), and of the very experimental families Xing Xang Xung (2011) and Que (2011). In 2011, he started a commercial foundry. Typefaces from 2012 include Barceloneta (an alchemic typeface at Ten Dollar Fonts) and Magna (a gorgeous fat didone typeface). Cargocollective link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Osnabrück, Germany-based designer of the experimental grunge typeface Random (2017), which uses noise signals to disturb the glyph outlines. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dirk Uhlenbrock
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Parisian visual communication student who created a couple of beautiful experimental typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sombor, Serbia-based designer who has created an experimental font in 2010. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
dmfstudio
| German studio of Robert Perendi, who designed the free experimental fonts andre-bold, andrefist, andrefistshdw, andre-gestaucht-bold, andre-t-light in 2007. Located in Leipzig. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Youngster from Chisinau, Moldova, b. 1988. Creator of the geometric experimental font Circles New (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Seoul, Korea-based graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of the experimental typeface Crosswalk (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Waffle, Nice Shot (target alphading face), Plumstruct (a beautiful partition face), Roadblock, and Mthr Fckr (stencil, +Alt). In 2009, we find Trouble and Stripe (vertical stripes), Quarterback (athletic lettering face), Fuzz (experimental texture face), Nice Shot (alphadings), Metric, Fourmat, Mongol Metric (squarish), Volume Metric (3d), Volume Metric (+LO, +HI, 3d typefaces), Archityped (based on Bayer's Architype), Subbed Station, Neo Modul (counterless), Heffer (counterless), Perfd (dot matrix), South Central Swiss, Jaunt, Checkout II, Kurrupttd, Checkout, Container ISO Regular, Perfd Regular (pixelish), Lost Outline Condensed (pixel face), Nice Shot (alphadings), Korruptica (Helvetica grungified), Aurora (+II), Beagle (blackletter), Yoga, Trouble and Stripe, Roadblock. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Domen Fras
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Art director in Tarifa, Spain, b. 1980, who studied at the University of Barcelona. Behance link. Creator of the experimental typeface Drops (2010), which can be bought at HypeForType. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dominic Gambetta (Dog Designs, Worcester, UK) created a Circle typeface in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A resident of Peterborough, UK, graphic designer Dominic Le-Hair created Ribbon (2009, multiline caps), Tribbon (2009, a free layered font family that can be tested here), Frankenface (2009) and Clipper (2009, experimental). Spykado (2009) is an electric-discharge-meets-Luc's-hair font. Hyaline (2010) is a bicolored affair---letters only appear after overlaying colored glyphs. Gas Alphabet (2013) emulates a gas furnace. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer in Gdansk who made some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish designer of the optical experimentation font Xuczlam (2000) and of Biasel (2000). Fontspace link. Fontsnthings link. Old home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Don Zinzell
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Creator of the experimental typeface Doogle (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarian designer of an experimental 3d typeface in 2018, and a handcrafted and experimental typeface in 2019. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Uzhhorod, Ukraine-based designer of the experimental Cyrillic typefaces Architect and Savage in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and typographer in Toronto. In 2009, she created the experimental geometric typeface Kolo (This typeface design was inspired by tin can pull tabs. Thank you chicken of the sea.), the cool Newmar (Newmar was designed to compliment the symbol above. Influences: paperclips, Julie Newmar 1966&a gold belt. This typeface has two ascender lines&three descender lines.), and the curly display face Gallnut (gallnut---a round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree.). Home page. About Newmar, she writes: Newmar was designed to compliment the symbol above. Influences: paperclips, Julie Newmar 1966&a gold belt. This typeface has two ascender lines&three descender lines. In 2012, Dorothy published the fun alchemic family Gelato (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dos BCN
| Creative studio in Barcelona run by Jimmie Zu. In 2013, they published Loopita Complex, the hexagonal display typeface Hexelia, the alchemic Benet Doble Line, the free alchemic / hispter typeface DOS Amazigh, the experimental typeface Tipos Dobles, and the compass-and-ruler typeface Sensilist. Rainbow is a fun display typeface. Typefaces from 2014: Magnetype (experimental typeface). Behance link. Another Behance link. Hellofont link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Doug Limin (Toronto) created the purely geometric typeface Subliminal Design (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Heidelberg, Germany-based creator of the bespoke geometric experimental typeface Indyanna (2011) and of Daily Work (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Malaysian-born graphic designer (b. 1983), who works out of Shanghai. Behance link. In 2009, he created the experimental grungy typeface Between Skin for issue No.6 of Territory magazine, in collaboration with Chris Wong. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
They say that DTM stands for Dan Tha man. This site is a spoof of more serious business sites and seems to be located in Krommenie, The Netherlands. Behance link. Creator of the Zipper font in 2010. In 2011, they created Oh My Goth (a gothic face) and Alphabeetje (multiline face). In 2012, the paperclip typeface Ester was published. In 2013, they created a 3d alphabet called Inside Job. Mr. Right (2014) is a multiline script typeface influenced by Rechtman (1992, David Rakowski). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Institute of Design of Caracas, Venezuela, b. 1992. Caracas, Venezuel-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Tres (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Duque Ecatorce is a trio of Bogota, Colombia-based designers, Camilo Ruano, Jaime Jimenez and Alejandro Cusso. Together, they created the free experimental iFontmaker typeface Duque E14 (2018). The designers explain: Two days after the presidential election in Colombia, evidence of fraud came out on the news and social media. Application forms E14, where judges registered the number of votes for each candidate obtained in each table, had been altered. Blank spaces had become numbers that favored the candidate Ivan Duque, who was supported by the Uribismo, the political force that has governed the country over the last 16 years. Based on the irregular numbers with which the forms were altered, we designed the complete font that we launched for free with the name of Duque E14. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutchfonts.com
| Ko Sliggers, b. 1952, Bloemendaal, The Netherlands, was a young designer at Studio Dumbar. After that, he became a professional cook in Rotterdam, Italy and France, switched back from food to design, producing challenging visuals at Studio Anthon Beeke and, in 2002, set up a one-man studio in Lalleweer, in the province of Groningen, called Dutchfonts. He was trained by Chris Brand at the St. Joost Academy in Breda. Ko created these commercial typefaces: DF Tapa (2007, irregular hand), Camino (2006, an austere sans), Ko (1997, six stencil styles), Etalage (2000), Arienne (2000), Staple Mono (monowidth typewriter family), Staple Txt (2005), Pommes (based on type cut out of potatoes; 8 styles), Daantje (dog dingbats) and Ko (1997, rough stencil). His own web site. MyFonts page, where you can buy DF-Arienne, DF-Etalage, DF-Ko, DF-Pommes (2005, potato cut typeface family), DF-Staple Mono, DF-Tapa (2007, grunge), DF-Mercat (2007, dingbats inspired by Barcelona's Ramblas), DF-Pigtail (2008, seventies-style script family), DF-Zzzz (2009), DF Camino (2009, a sans that is modeled on traffic sign sans typefaces), DF Stromboli (2010: It was written with a coffee spoon, acting like a broad pen, in the ashes of the Stromboli volcano right on top of a scanner. ), DF DejaVuPro (2010, an amalgam of sans typefaces), DF Game Over (2011, sketched face), DF Scheurze (2012, a great fat rough stencil face). Typefaces from 2013: DF Riga (grungy pixel face), DF Abit (another grungy pixel face), DF Dudok (a grungy pixel face). Typefaces from 2015: DF Charlie Go (free typeface designed immediately after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris), DF Park (experimental font started in 2013, originally made to dress up the facades of a food exhibition). |
DYYA Fonts
| Adi Dizdarevic (DYYA Fonts) is a graphic designer in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Creator of the ultra fat Quincha-look typeface QUB (2010) and of the experimental scanbat font Bacteria (2012). In 2013, Ari designed the hipster typeface Mowai, as well as Basit, Flont, QHome, Ubud, Angleline, DYYA, GenDot, Konector, Ahoi, Linen, 99A. Typefaces from 2016: Linq (paperclip style), Konektor (free). Behance link. Hellofont link. Behance link for DYYA. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
E. Victor-C
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E-a-t (experiment and typography) is a joint Czech and Slovak enterprise that through publications and exhibitions tries to increase the visibility of Czechoslovak type design. Exhibitions in 2004 include Brno and Prague. In 2005, one is planned in Bratislava. Review by Dan Reynolds. Old dead link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Puebla-based Mexican designer of the liquid typeface Cell Zero, El Chalán, Morphosys, the experimental typeface Euphoria and the system font typeface A6, mentioned here. His typefaces also include PS BellyBoy, PS Iskra (thin geometric) and PS La Morena (which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008). Creator of the free sans typeface PS Isomatriz (2009). Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his experimental typeface Ps Pronts OS29. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Originally from Mexico City (b. 1983), Edgar seems to be based in Dubai now. He designed the futuristic typeface Neutronium (2009). He created the experimental typefaces Kooler o Normal (2009), Naujoks Love (2009) and Edgarpiramide (2009) and the comic book typeface Jeronimo Cartoon (2009). Abstractfonts link. Additional link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mexican graphic designer who graduated from SAE Institute Mexico and who is based in Ecatepec. His posters and covers can be found here and here. He has made some techno and experimental fonts, such as "Techy". With Pablo Impallari, he made the basic rounded monoline sans typeface Terminal Dosis Light (2010). Posters of Dosis were made in 2013 by Maylen Leita in Buenos Aires. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type and graphic design pages by Edgar Walthert, b. Sursee, Switzerland. In 2007, he graduated from the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag. Since then he is free-lancing. He completed TazIII in 2008 for Lucas de Groot in Berlin. In 2008, he moved to Amsterdam to work as an independent graphic and type-designer. In Amsterdam, he hosts Letterspace Amsterdam, a monthly series of lectures about experimentation, innovation and research in type. In 2021, he set up Font Spectrum together with Daniel Maarleveld. His typefaces include Agile (2007, a sans family done at KABK), Grosse Pläne, Instant Schrift (2000: Redesign of Isonorm 3098 matching the radical restrictions of the Instant design-manual), and Sonic Waves (an experimental typeface that was created for dublab, a radio station based in Los Angeles, and was drawn using sound waves that can actually be played as an audio file). Agile was further developed in 2011 with weights ranging from hairline to fat, and appeared in 2013 as a retail typeface at Incubator / Village. He published the constructed sans typeface family Logical in 2018 at Bold Monday / Type Network. His typefaces at FontSpectrum:
His corporate typefaces:
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Edoardo Santamato
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Parisian designer of the circle-based monoline sans Typo Exp (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toulouse, France-based designer of these display typefaces in 2016: Airport (octagonal), Roman Cubic (beveled), Sinusoide, Death in Blue (hipster), Archeotomy, Target, Dubonnet (art deco), Eclipse (experimental geometric), Samba, Grade, Rounded, Blackstar, Cloison, Tool. Behance link. Behance link for A2A4. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sao Paulo-based designer, b. 1985. Creator of the experimental typeface Jesus Chorou (2010), the alchemic typeface Shuv (2013), the art deco typeface Terecodeco (2012) and the poster face Grossa (2010). In 2013, he designed Cities in Construction. Home page. Dafont link. Behance link. Hellofont link (for buying his fonts). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based designer of XYZ (2012), an experimental modular typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Criciuma, Brazil, Eduardo Lourenco created a multixcolored puzzle font called Tetris (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Venezuelan industrial designer since 2005, who worked at the Universidad de Los Andes from 2005-2016. Cofounder of Cacao C.A. in 2006, one of the first design studios in Merida, Venezuela. In 2016, he left for Spain where he obtained a Masters in Design and Illustration at UPV in Valencia. Designer of the Light alphabet (2017) and Furniture Alphabet (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Los Mochis, Mexico-based designer of the octagonal stencil typeface Unlimited (2013) and of QR Type (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buenos Aires-based graphic designer and prolific type designer who runs Graphic Design Firm. Since 2005, he has been teaching typography together with Marcela Romero and Pablo Cosgaya at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas. Behance link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Google Plus link. Interview by MyFonts. His typefaces, haphazardly organized:
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Eelee Design
| Designer in Newcastle, UK. Creator of the beautiful mechanical / octagonal typeface Ball Breaker (2012) and of the free experimental typeface Brailler (2012). Behance link. Fontspace link. Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Effek-Tive
| Effektive (Greig Anderson) practices graphic design and communication in the UK. Among its many creations are some experimental typefaces such as Circul8 (2009) and Pixel8 (2009). Behance link. Originally from Aberdeen, Scotland, Greig graduated with a BA (Hons) Graphic Design degree in 2004 and previously spent 4 years working withinn the Scottish/UK design industry at multi disciplinary agency Curious (Previously CuriousOranj) based in Glasgow. Greig spent the academic year 2008-2009 in Sydney. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
San Francisco-based designer of the water splash font Splash (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Kharkiv, Ukraine, b. 1994, who created the inspirational rectangle-themed Ukrainian typeface Kilby in 2016. In 2018, he added the eerie script typeface Limbo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Novosibirsk, Siberia-based designer. In 2017, he created Memesique, which was announced as a unicase grotesk from the 1960s, and is in true piano key style. In 2020 he published FE Planking 2020 (a font for drunks, with letters fighting to stay upright; Latin and Cyrillic), FE Sector (a horizontally segmented font), FE Wrong (a font with deliberate flaws), FE 5 Cent (a pixelish typeface), FE Blacking Out (a dingbat font with blotches for blacking out text), FE Gigant, a typeface that evokes supremacy and Soviet era government buildings. Its massive proportions convey the spirit of Soviet constructivism. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Oslo-based designer of the 3d cubic font Cave (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His student project at the Kunsthøgskolen in Bergen, Norway, has two experimental fonts, AKA the Bomber and AKA the Artist, both finished in 2006. See here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Moscow who made an experimental Cyrillic typeface in 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based designer of a number of experimental Latin or Cyrillic typefaces in 2014. These include Kukuruza (pixel font), and Wardrobe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Russian designer of the Latin / Cyrillic script typeface Basil (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the free experimental typeface Cooksy Cutter (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spanish typographic experiment mag run by José Gil-Nogués Villén (b. 1971, Valencia) out of Oviedo, Asturias. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During their studies at ESAG Penninghen, Paris-based Eléonore Bacher and Léna Consigny co-designed the experimental unicase typeface Michael Bublé (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the experimental fonts E-Keet Paragon Black, E-Keet Morese Flat, E-Keet Beans, and E-Keet Altaica. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Moscow-based designer of the fantastic blocky Geometric Font (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual communications designer in Germany. At 26plus, we can find her Amsterdam (a series of five fonts with Grachten, Vel, Huis, Fiets and Bloemen as themes, all modularly constructed from a few basic forms). In 2012, she published the Picassonian geometric experimental typeface MeM, done together with Jakob Runge, at 26plus. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Dortmund, Germany, who lives in Husavik, Iceland. Her design company is called Elefont. After studying visual communication in the university of applied sciences in Dortmund, she co-founded the design studio Radau. Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011. Elena designs logos, retail and custom fonts. She is a visiting lecturer at HBK Saar and LHI Reykjavík, and a mentor at Alphabettes, a network to support and promote women in the type industry. Creator of these typefaces: Eskorte (2011, her graduation project), Eskorte Persian (2011), Klebo (2011, mechanical / octagonal), Eskorte Armenian (2011), Paroli (2011, a bold rounded signage face, Die Gestalten), and Biec (2012). In 2013, Eskorte was published by Rosetta Type. Eskorte supports Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and over ninety languages using the Latin script. Titus Nemeth was consulted for the Arabic portion. In 2016, Elena Schneider and Miles Newlyn co-designed the almost reverse contrast typeface family New Herman. In 2019, she published the experimental techno typefaces Halunke and Konsole at Future Fonts. She writes about Konsole: Konsole is a clean sans serif typeface with a touch of technology. Inspired by audio equipment, it gives off robotic energy. A variable font was added in 2019. Still in 2019, she released the German expressionist typeface Birra Bruin at Darden Studio. At Tomorrow Type, she released the Cyrillic version of Halunke (2020). Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
London, UK-based designer of an experimental modular stencil typeface, Fruet (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Elias Hanzer
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Creator of the experimental techno typeface Recombinante (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Media College in Amsterdam, who designed the minimalist experimental typeface Diamant (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Florence, Italy-based designer of the experimental typeface Monocle (2015), which represents Elisa's eyes---the left part is sharp, while the right side is blurred. In 2015, she also designed the hairline avant garde typeface Flamingo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Morbeno, Italy-based designer of the op-art deco typeface Line Font (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based designer of the modular blackletter typeface Kory (2017) and the experiment in contrast and stress called Contrast (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Salt Lake City, UT. At the University of Utah, she created an unnamed grid-based typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlin, Germany-based designer of the experimental typeface Indecisive (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, CO. In 2012, she created Experimental Tape Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Boulder, CO-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Cryptocode (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based designer of OOTB (2015, an experimental typeface) and Manju (2015, an organic typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Multidisciplinary designer, b. Melbourne, Australia, 1984. Currently working at R/GA, New York. Creator of the experimental dot-to-dot typeface Freckles (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental pixel font Metric, and the font Metround. She lives in Temse. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental handwriting font Somethingels, an interesting overlap of thick and thin strokes. She also made Elsans. Els lives in Bornem. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Elster Fonts
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Art director living in Williamsburg, VA, who studied at the Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Creator of the experimental typeface Incognita (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator in Karlskrona, Sweden. During her studies, she designed a stylish experimental circle-based alphabet (2014) and a minimalist typeface called 11/3 (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nanking, China-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of some experimental typefaces/posters. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies in Haderslev, Denmark, Emil Juul created the monoline display typeface Acacia (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish graphic designer who created the octagonal experimental font Waniliowa. She also did the circular arc font Papaya (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Berlin who designed the experimental Binary Font (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in 2015 at Designskolen Kolding in Kolding, Denmark, Emilie Ragouet designed several experimental typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French art student who created the electric circuit-themed font Saccade (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Saint Louis, MO-based designer of the geometric eperimental typefaces Befold (2014) and Groot (2014). Emiljo was born in Pogradec, Albania and studied at the St Louis Community College. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buffalo, NY-based designer, who created the experimental typeface Lines (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Emily Carke (Melbourne, Australia) designed these typefaces: Bosork (2013, is a trilined display typeface that was inspired by the New York and Boston subways), Melbourne (2016, a free hipster font published by Citype), Fraction (2015, experimental). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer and illustrator at YouWorkForThem in Minneapolis, MN. Her typefaces, made ca. 2008, include Polygons, Speakeasy (handwriting), and Adelaide (script). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gold Coast, Australia-based student-designer of the experimental semi-octagonal typeface Heroic (2016). Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Emily Moore (Rochester, NY) created an experimental shadow caps typeface called Houdin (2012), based on Avenir. During a type design class of Kris Holmes, Emily Moore (Rochester, NY) designed Sanscery (2013), a calligraphic sans. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toronto-based designer of the experimental molecular typeface Xenon (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Emma Bowey is the Manchester, UK-based designer (b. 1990, London) of Mancitecture (2015, an experimental font influenced by the architecture of Manchester), the spindly handwriting typeface Alphasplat (2012, Treefrog style) and of Mancitecture (2013), Chippy Handwriting (2012), Bond Me (2012, a piano key face), Sponge (2012, a fat poster font), and Tickle Me Elmo (2012). Aka Girl with the AWOL muse. University of Salford link, where she participates in Salford Type Foundry. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Behance link. Aka Chippy Bowey. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Emma Cameron (Ensign Design, New Zealand) modified a didone typeface by adding triangles to stems in her experimental typeface Pleiade (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brussels-based designer who studied at the University of Minnesota in 2008. Home page. Creator of Three Sided Square (2008), a caps font based on a triangulation of the outlines of letters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Norwegian design student at JCU, Townsville, Australi. She created an experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at University of Huddersfield, Emma McCormack (Liverpool, UK) designed a slinky all caps typeface and an experimental typeface in 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of an interactive 3d font called On The House (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Emma Richards (London, UK) is a graphic designer who experimented with two sahpes and created an entire alphabet with it in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies at ESAAB Nevers, Emma Rigoli (Clermont-Ferrand, France) designed the purely geometric typeface Hommage a Fanette Mellier (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian illustrator and art director. She created some experimental typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Geneva, Switzerland-based designer of the experimental decorative caps typeface Dingbat (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer (b. Prato, near Florence, 1959) of Kniff (1993, Font Bureau). He lives and works in Agliana (Pistoia). He is involved in poster design, corporate imaging, and wine label design. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he described the development of the highly original and beautiful tall narrow didone typeface Kniff for logo and display purposes. For an experimental sports shirt font, one might consider his Summertime (1993). Home page, where one can savour his wine labels. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Emöke Németh
| During her studies in Budapest, Hungary, Emöke Németh designed the free decorative all caps compass-and-ruler typeface Half Philip (2017), and the experimental Stitched Alphabet (2017). Designer of the piano key typeface Opaque (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Enci Bognar (Budapest) is working on a hexagonal typeface called To Bee Cafe (sic) (2013). Steam Font (2013) is an experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of Machine Tool Grenadier (1997), an art deco style experimental face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Budapest, Eniko Deri has created several experimental typefaces in 2014, mixing geometrical concepts into the shapes of the glyphs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest, Hungary-based designer of an experimental typeface created by using nail polish on coated paper (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Budapest-based designer of the experimental number font Just Numbers (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rosarito, Mexico-based designer of the experimental stencil typeface Grafika Sans (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy-based graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of an experimental typefaces Jellymorph (2012) and No IS (2011), which use the Perlin random number generator and trigonometric functions to create glyph outlines. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Quique Ollervides Uribe. After studying graphic design at the Universidad Intercontinental in Mexico City, Quique joined forces with Cha! and founded Hula+Hula, a design studio strongly influenced by uninhibited use of color, humor, odd typography and lots of hand-drawn elements. They have worked for MTV Latin America, Cartoon Network, KidRobot, Nike, Frito-Lay, L'Oreal, Televisa and various major record labels. His work has been shown and published in galleries and books from Mexico to Japan, and some of his fonts F76F73 are distributed by T26. In 2006 he co-founded KONG, Mexico's first low-brow art and design store and gallery. He taught typography at the Universidad Intercontinental during the years 1997-2006 and at CENTRO in 2006. Designer at T-26 of Polvora (2007, T-26, a cross between old typewriter, Western, and Spanish inquisition), LED Gothic (2003, T-26) [see also here]. Designer at the Argentinian outfit SantoTipo of Los fierros and Luchita Payol (2000-2009; +LaRuda, + Tecnica). Picture. He runs the Hula Hula foundry, where he published Khaki (a clean sans face). He also made the fluid Fabio, Gú, the handwritten Ingenua, the hand dingbat typeface Mutis, Polilla, Suave, Tabique, Taka San, Urbe, the experimental typeface HH Pólvora (2006), the hookish Acerina and the blocky Bloke, shown at Tiypo. Enrique spoke at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. T-26 link. MyFonts link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Enrique Ollervides Uribe
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This is a gallery and a discussion of the fonts created by the students at ENSAD since 1997. A partial list with the original (now defunct) links:
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Graphic designer from Dublin. He made the experimental Little&Large Font (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris-based designer of Peinture (2020) and Knee Play (2020), an animated font based on the play Einstein on the Beach. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A free vector format typeface designed in 2013 by Caprice Yu and Steve Peck in the fight for equal marriage rights. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eric Eaton
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Eric Ellis
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Paris-based designer who created several experimental geometric typefaces in a series called Monoide (2014). He also created Butterfly Alphabet (2014) and many awe-inspiring techno illustrations. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eric Schmitt
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From the University of Delaware, Eric Stafford designed a broken experimental typeface and Mushu (a flowing script face), both in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at the Futurex Project of Futurex Phat (2000). Working on Egyptoid and the gorgeous experimental font Ascii. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Timisoara, Romania-based graphic designer. Behance link. He made the high-contrast display typeface Bloob (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Erik Marinovich
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Erik Sachse
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Erik van Blokland
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Designer in 2012 of the experimental typefaces Dots, Geo, Hair and Shapes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Detroit, MI-based designer of the experimental multilayered typeface Lightyear (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her communication design studies in Buffalo, NY, Erin Redfield created the experimental typeface Cable (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Erman Yilmaz
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ESAL is the Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine in Metz. One can study type design there. The active group has established a site with some free fonts made by the students. The free typefaces posted in 2013 include Artemis (by Diane Rohn, 2012), Boom (by Cécile Etienne, 2012), Crypt (by Aude Schmittheisler, 2012: a squarish stencil face), Effilé (2012, by Valentin Mirouf), Escape (2012, by Estelle Bizet: a straight-edged typeface), Geomhotic (2012, by Isaline Rivery), Jyk (2012, by Jung Yoon Kim: straight-edged), Kazan (2012, a prismatic typeface by Eric Chapuis), Misenpli (2012, by Céline Kriebs: origami typeface), Morse (2012, a Morse-based typeface by Romuals Kabala), ODR (2012, a modular typeface by Audrey Pereira). The text family Messine (2012) was created as a cooperative project in workshops at ESAL led by Alejandro Lo Celso and Jérôme Knebusch. Contributors were Céline Kriebs, Romain Gamba, Bernard Gissinger, Aude Schmittheisler, Gaía Fyot, Eric Chapuis, Francis Ramel, Audrey Perreira, Fanny Woimant and Isaline Rivery. Image of Messine Titrage. Image of Messine Quotidienne. Facebook page. Their seminar series is called Let's Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Escaphandro (or: Rafael Cervi Barrozo)
| Rafael Nascimento (b. 1977) is a Sao Paulo, Brazil-based graphic designer whose fonts are mostly free. FontStructor who made these modular display typefaces in 2014: Wim Gestreept (an octagonal typeface inspired by Wim Crouwel's work), Sao Paulo (pixacao emulation), Pixel Spaceships, Chippanze (+LoRes, +DotMatrix), Kamada, Illusion (op-art based on the work of visual artist Martijn Sandberg), De Lorean, Pulse (pixel face), De Stijl, Soundwave (experimental), Ninja Gaiden, Pony PX, Act1, Platypus, Geo Geo, Expressionista, Soundwave Round, Video, Geo Libre (a tangram font). Typefaces from 2019: the dot matrix typeface Ghouls (attributed to Rafael Cervi Barrozo). Typefaces from 2020:
Typefaces from 2021: Volume Round (Volume Round takes its cousin Volume Dealer structure to a retro-weird leve; it too is inspired by late 1960s photo typesetting designs, and in particular the works of Peter Steiner, adding a little sci-fi flair to the details). Typefaces from 2022: Ghosts (a 4-style experimental geometric display font), CMYK (an experimental textured typeface). |
Lima, Peru-based desiugner of an experimental 3d typeface in 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the experimental typeface Fabianestem (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in Barcelona in 2014, Estefania Palacios created the interesting modular display typeface Wooblo (2014, updated in 2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estranho Tipo (was: Adreson 74)
| Adreson V.V. de Sa (b. Ilha Solteira, SP, Brazil, 1974, aka Adreson74, or: Capa da Cyberjapa) is a Brazilian designer who lives in Porto Alegre. Creator of the free experimental fonts Quadradinho (2004), Aline II (2007, sans), Garrancho (2001, handwriting), Juliana (2002), Julifesta (2002), Bebete (2007, old typewriter), Rita (2007, fuzzy dots; caps only), and Drek (2002). In 2007, he went commercial and started Estranho Tipo (also at MyFonts). His first type family there was the condensed tall sans family Aline II (2007). This was followed by Bebete (2007, old typewriter face). Future MyFonts font: Possessa (2008-?). Alternate URL. Dafont link. Blog. Alternate URL. Blog (in Portuguese). Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Estudio Cao
| Lucaz Mathias (Estudio Cao, Jacarei, Brazil) designed the blackboard bold art deco typeface family Bink (2012), the experimental typeface Tupiaria (2015), and the gorgeous colorful ornamental caps typeface Latinidad (2015). Behance link. Home Page. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Mexican design studio in Monterrey. In 2010, they created an experimental futuristic typeface called Polar. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estudio Mariscal
| Estudio Mariscal (Javier Mariscal) is a Barcelona-based design studio that experimented a lot with letters in designs. It created Hannover-Modern in 1996-1997 (for the World Exposition in 2000 in Hannover), available at type-o-tones. For Hannover Modern, Jose Manuel Uros developed one Egyptian style of this typeface. Chico (2020). Chico was by designed by Javier Mariscal and Josema Uros specifically for the final roll of credits in the animated film Chico y Rita. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sicilian studio in Catania. Behance link. The purely experimental typeface Catania (2011) is meant to be readable no matter in which direction the paper is held. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At the University of the Arts in London, Ethan Phan designed the Victorian typeface Cinerva (2018) and the experimental Precursor (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance designer in Singapore, who created the experimental Grid Type in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2014, Eugenie Kang (London, UK) and Bhavik Samani cooperated on the experimental United typeface. They used five basic shapes to draw al the letters of the Latin and Hangul alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
EunJee Kim, also known as Joy, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in graphic design, in 2012. She is actively working on her personal projects, and as a freelance graphic designer in New York. She did an experimental shaky version of Futura in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012, who works in New York City. Creator of Experimental Typeface 01 and 02 (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eurekaville
| Funky Lloyd Wright (2002) is an experimental font based on Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas. Interesting quote by FLW on this page: "Television is bubble gum for the mind". Kristian Walker is Art Director at TaigMartin Advertising&Public Relations, and professor of web design at Southwest Michigan College. His home page is called Eurekaville. Other fonts: Nikolas (2002), Rattled Nerves. No downloads (yet). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
During her graphic design studies at ECV in Paris, Eva Le Parc designed the molecular typeface Hybride (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Usti nad Labem, Czechia-based designer of the experimental typeface Pronansiesjn (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based designer of the minimalist monoline sans typeface Plastic Crowds (2013, with Marta Yarza): Inspired by old cinema marquees and by the 60s advertisements of NASA, we created this unique upper case typeface for the art collective Plastic Crowds. In 2014, she added Orchid (2014), a ball terminal typeface influenced by didone fat typefaces. She was also involved in the design of a custom typeface for the Banh Mi 11 store in London, together with Sam Phong Nguyen and Sergio Tatoli. She also co-designed Japanica (2014, a free experimental Asian simulation typeface, with Marta Yarza). Home page at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
EVCCo
| EVCCo is the foundry of London, Ontario-based type designer E Victor-C, est. 1980. EVCco has engaged in numerous acts of illustration, photography, and graphic design for clients representing fields as diverse as education, architecture, and the music industry. He created West Warp (2010), Evcial (2000, monoline geometric avant garde sans) and Chapeau (2010, experimental). In 2020, he released the art nouveau-inspired typeface Annadalea. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the hookish experimental font Naeve Groovy. Eve lives in Pulle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Heusden, Belgium-based creator of a modular typeface in 2013. Behance link. Maber (2013) was designed by her specifically for iPhones. Caberino (2013) is an art deco marquee typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies, Evelyn Bellreng (Niagara Falls, NY) used pieces of a can opener to design the experimental typeface Obscura (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artist in Copenhagen who was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. In 2017, she created an alphabet by using nails and a thread, and described the experiment as follows: The Nailed It font was a group project with Martin Billy Malek and Melina Miller at KEA---Copenhagen School of Design and Technology. This font had been created by tying a single piece of thread around pins. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky
| Based in Vladivostok, calligrapher Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky (Robot Smith, or ET Lettering Studio) created Braxton (2013, a brush script published by Fontfabric---one style is free), and Construct (2012, a constructivist experiment with geometric solids). In 2014, he created the semi-connected vintage signage script (or marker script) typeface Suzee FY (Fontyou), the creamy script Kumiz FY (with Gia Tran, Fontyou), which is a renamed version of Maio FY (with Gia Tran, at FontYou). In 2016, together with FontFabric, he designed the great free rough-edged script typeface Resphekt (Latin/Cyrillic). Another alias is Robot Smith. Behance link. Behance link for ET Lettering Studio. Dribble link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental font Roller. Evi lives in Gistel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Evolutionzone
| Norwegian type designer Marius Watz created the very nice pixel fonts Protozoan square (1996; well, this is really a squarish organic face) and Amoeba_FivePX (1996). He is part of the Norwegian group "Function", together with Halvor Bodin and Kim Hiorthøy. With the latter two, he designed F Shinjuku in 1997 in the experimental FUSE series, based on Tokyo graffiti and inspired by the hip-hop culture. In the same series, he did F Where the Dog is Buried (octagonal, with Norwegian style dingbats), also in FUSE 17 in 1997. I-Ching (1997) is a three-font dingbat series consisting of Classic, Batman and Kogu. Psychoboy (1997) is a scratchy script. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Warsaw-based graphic designer, who created the free dry brush typeface Mazak and the experimental decorative caps typeface New Color Font in 2015. In 2018, she designed a gorgeous abstract multiline poster alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lodz, Poland-based designer (b. 1987) of the rune emulation font Runny (2016) and the experimental typefaces 1987 Nukmat (2016) and Bez Rail (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental geometric typeface Exoziti (2012, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eyal & Myrthe
| Eyal Holtzman (Den Haag, The Netherlands) is a graphic and type designer who was born in Haifa, Israel in 1969. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and teaches typography and graphical arts in various places. He set up Studio Eyal and Myrthe together with Myrthe Stel. Eyal Holtzman has designed many corporate and some retail typefaces. typefaces for clients such as The Enschedé Font Foundry and Nationale Nederlanden. His work has been exhibited in many places, including in Museum of the Book---Meermanno in Den Haag. MyFonts writes: In the book Ha, daar gaat er een van mij! (Hey, there goes one of mine!, a chronicle of graphic design in The Hague from 1945 to 2000, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2002) he is called "one of the most idiosyncratic letter talents from The Hague" and in Dutch Type (010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2004) expert Jan Middendorp describes his letters as being "among the most original alphabets produced in the Netherlands", (...) "tapping into an idiom that no other type designer working in the Netherlands has ever used". His typefaces:
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Eyesaw (was: Fontomas.com, or Signalgrau)
| Dirk Uhlenbrock's (b. Essen, 1964) studied communication design at BUGH Wuppertal. His typographic contributions were presented under various labels such as Signalgrau, Fontomas.com, Eyesaw, or TypeType. His fonts: Buddies (funny dingbat font), Scrabble (1999), Pizzo (pixel font, 2000), Accient (2000), EURASIAOblique, Freak (1998), SpaceAge, Fivejive (2000), Missu (2001), T-Series (a family by Stephen Payne (UK, 2000) for Territory), XXX (1998, sexy silhouettes), Y2k (2000), Basm (family by Miguel Basm Visser, 2000), Corner-bi and Corner-mono (both by Ole Fischer for Fischer Jr Design), Persona, Creatures (dingbats by Dirk Uhlenbrock, 1998), Thaipe, Thaiga, (squaregrid (Jay Marley, 2001), Bath (Heiko Hoos, 2001), Honey (Dirk Uhlenbrock, 2001), Pinx (Dirk Uhlenbrock, 2001), Tuna Salad (Dirk Uhlenbrock, 2001), Evo (2002), EvoThin (2002), Gen3000 (2002), Gen3000Thin (2002), HanneloreOutline (2001), Hannelore (2001), MassBlack (2002), MassOutline (2002), Mass (2002), MassStriped (2002), MassThin (2002), Microbe (2002), PellegriniItalic (2002), Pellegrini (2002), PileOutline (2002), Pile (2002), Rickshaw (2002, Indic letter simulation), Swisz (2002), SwiszThin (2002), TurbonItalic (2002), Turbon (2002), Apollo9, Apollo9Italic, Bite, Blob, BlobThin, Bubble, BubbleWild, Crack, Creatures, Dennis, Dioptrin, Dna, Electrance, Frakt, Launchpad, ORAV, Paul5, Paul6, PlakatOne, PlakatTwo, Push, Rubbermaid, RubbermaidSingle, Ticker, Tubeone, Tubetwo, Tvdinner, TvdinnerFull, Ufo, UfoItalic, Yodle. At Fountain, he designed Robotron and Super and Girl (2003, a Bauhaus experiment). Kombi was created in 2003. The Fontomas CD published in 2005 (40 dollars for 75 fonts) is reviewed by Yves Peters. On it, we find older fonts as well as newer ones by Dirk himself: Ove, Gen1000 (DNA style), Hannelore, Mass, Micro B, Pellegrini (script), Pile, Swisz, Turbon, Rickshow (Indic simulation). At 14. tage der typographie in 2013, he spoke on Grafik gegen Rechts. Dafont link. Old URL. Another old URL. Alternate URL. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Fountain Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
F25 Digital Typeface Design
| Volker Busse (F25 Digital Typeface Design) is a graphic designer at Grafikkontor in Berlin. Designer of the old typewriter simulation fonts F25 Executive (2008), F25 BlackletterTypewriter (2006), Typewriter Condensed (2007), Telegraphem (2004), Cella (2007) and Daisy Wheel (2007). He also made Am Sans (2005), which he derived from a 1960s sample of Intertype Vogue (itself a geometric and clean-lined sans, ca. 1930), and F25 Bank Printer (a MICR family, 2005). At FontStruct, he made F25 Borderfont (2009, a multiline family including styles called Alita and Kapata), F25 Fontstruction 157 (2009, experimental), and Hidden Text 01 (2009). Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
F37 (or: Face37)
| Rick Banks (b. 1985, Manchester, UK) established F37 (Face37) in 2010 in London, UK. His typefaces:
He also published Type Trumps, a set of playing cards that feature the main typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Faak and Paat Studio
| French design studio in Bordeaux set up in 2012 by Julien Fesquet and Benoit Baron, who were joined by Julien Taddei in 2013. Designers of the free display typeface Cascade Grotesk (2014), which is an experimental hybrid between Cascade Script and Brandon Grotesque. They also created the free high-contrast font Delicate (2014) and the free varied caps typeface 26 (2013). In 2016, they finished the Escher style typeface Deus. LVtiK (2017) is a take on Helvetica. Khodja (2016) is a piano key typeface. Slantit (2017) is an experimental stone cut typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Digital artist in Heerlen, The Netherlands, who created Back To Black (2011, experimental face), Hello Type (2011, sans headline face), Just Meet Me Halfway (2009), an experimental font made for two-coloring, and Eclectic (2011, a free octagonal face). At OFL, he makes 01 Base (2010, sans) available. Typefaces from 2014: Cigarettes & Coffee (a free vernacular brush typeface). Dafont link. Devian Tart link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabian Dornhecker
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Fabian Fohrer
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Dinamo is a Swiss type foundry established by Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb after graduation from schools in Zurich, Basel and Amsterdam. Johannes and Fabian are visiting teachers at the Estonian Academy of the Arts, Tallinn and regularly teach at UDK Berlin and University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen. Their typefaces:
Johannes Breyer. Fabian Harb. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabian Pfeifhofer
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Fabian Widmer
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French designer who graduated in 2011 with a DSAA from ESDRA in Lyon. Paris-based creator of Potemkin (constructivist face), Fractions (experimental), Sex Type (fun), Frogs, Glossy Bitch (connected paint simulation face), Western Spaghetto and Face Cachée. In 2013, he collaborated with designers Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak at FontYou on the design of the astrological simulation typeface Astral FY. The same group of three collaborated in 2014 on Naive Gothic FY. In 2014, fabiel Gailleul and the Fontyou team co-designed Seawave FY. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Lille, France-based designer of the modular typeface family La Croisette (2014), he hexagonal typeface La Rubis (2015), the display typeface La Carabosse (2015), and Bunraku (2015). Solidarité 77 is an intertwined paperclip-style typeface created in 2016 by Fabien and Vincent Roché for the Association Solidarité Femmes Le Relais 77 which helps women that were victims of domestic violence. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in Linz, Austria, Fabienne Plangger, now based in Barcelona, created the experimental typefaces Silk Paper Font (2013), Old Spice (2013, a rune simulation font), Marbling (2013), Rorschach (2013) and YO (2013). In 2014, she released a Juan Miro-style typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabio Biesel
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Rio de Janeiro-based designer of the text typeface Colonia (1999-2004), and of the experimental typeface Ryad. Graphic designer. Co-founder of the group Fontes Carambola. In 2016, his typeface Mini Rio won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabrika de Typos
| Fabrika de Typos is a Brazilian fondry run by Marcio Hirosse (b. 1969) in Sao Paulo. He made Destroyer (2007, splatter grunge), Helena (2007), Boogaloo (2006), Casual (2006), Expedito (2006), Impresso (2006), Club (2006), Qualque Coisa (2006), Pig (2006), Boogaloo, Casual, Error (2006), Sherley XXX (2006), Thailandesa (2006, Thai simulation face), Expedito, Impresso, Club (2006, stencil), Ferrugem (2006, grunge), Qualque Coisa (2006), Saco de Pao (2006, grunge), Clean (2006, experimental), Poesie Noire (2006, a great multiline calligraphic face), Fuck You Las Vegas (2005), Serial Killer (2004, bloodied Arial), Tragedia (2004), Font Macabra (2004), Font Abuso (grunge), Font Cartaz (2004, stencil face), and Font Mexicana. He created Ballom (psychedelic), Anarchy, Macabra, Cartaz, Crash, Tragedia, Abuso, Estragou de novo (1999), Sucata Special, Brother Bear, Floppy Disk, Punk Dingbats (2004-2005, destructionist typefaces), Swiss AntiNormal (2005), Jooy (2007, grunge), Deusdeti (2007, double script), Deux ex Machina (2007, blackletter-inspired), Comunista (2007, constructivist), BONDAGE-DEMO-VERSION (2007), CASULO-DEMO (2007), D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-R-D-E-M-O-V-E-R-S-I-O-N (2007), GARTEN-VON-DORNEN-BLACK---DEMO-VERSION (2007), GARTEN-VON-DORNEN-DEMO-VERSION (2007), Load (2007, grunge), LYSSA-DEMO-VERSION (2007), MUMIA-DEMO-VERSION (2007), OFF-SET---DEMO-VERSION (2007, grunge), Pig (2006, rough stencil typeface), PLEASURES-DEMO-VERSION (2007), Querencia-Army-DEMO-VERSION (2007), TETARIA (2007), FDT Sodomy (2008, blackletter), FDT Carreto (2008), all freely downloadable. In 2017, he created the colored Memphis-style typeface Denoise. Commercial typefaces: Circus de Terror, Rapariga (curly), Indiana, Hard Core, Iemanjai, Disorder, Joy, Deusdeti, Deux ex Machina, Comunista, Destroyer, Off Set, Pleasures Poesie Noire, Helena, Base, Clean, Casulo, Serial killer. Creations in 2012: Big Pig, Suicidal Tendencies. In 2015, he made FDT Wonderland. Dafont link. Yet another URL. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Face 2 Face (or: F2F)
| Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1959, Alexander Branczyk is the main typographer at F2F (Face 2 Face), which is based in Berlin and Frankfurt. Other participants include Stefan Hausen, Alessio Leonardi, Torsti Maier-Bautor, Thomas Nagel, Haike Dehl and Sybille Schlaich. F2F specializes in what it calls anarchistic typography. Branczyk made F2F CzykagoTrans (1995) and a few other experimental fonts, as well as Bellczyk, CZYKago-Cameo, CZYKago-Quer, OCR-Alexczyk, OCR-Bczyk, SubberlogoMini, TheczykM, MadzineScript (curly vampire typeface), BurnoutChaos, Frontpage, MonakoStoned, Entebbe (a ransom note font), OCRFBeta and OCRHeike. Other designers: Thomas Nagel (ScreenScream, Shakkarakk, ElDeeCons, Madame Butterfly, Pixmix, Shpeetz, TyrellCorp), Heike Nehl (LoveGrid, Starter Kid, Lego Stoned, Twins), Alessio Leonardi (PrototipaMultipla, TagliatelleSugo, Mekanik Amente, Metamorfosi, provinciali, AlRetto, F2F TechLand, F2FAlLineato, F2FMekkasoTomanik, F2FSimbolico (1992, dingbats), Poison Flowers (1992)), Stefan Hauser (F2FBoneR, Haakonsen), Sybille Schlaich (Styletti Medium). Face2Face groups the designers of Moniteurs and xplicit ffm. Bitstream link. Alternate URL. In 2003, these designs by Alexander Branczyk appeared in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection: F2FBurnoutChaos LT Std, F2FCzykago LT Std Light, F2FCzykago LT Std Semiserif, F2FCzykago LT Std Trans, F2FEntebbe LT Std, F2FFrontpageFour LT Std, F2FMadZine LT Std Dirt, F2FMadZine LT Std Fear, F2FMadZine LT Std Script, F2FMadZine LT Std Wip (1992), F2FMonakoStoned LT Std, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Regular, F2FOCRAlexczyk LT Std Shake, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Bold, F2FOCRBczyk LT Std Regular, F2FTechLand LT Std. Alexander Branczyk studied visual communication at HfG Offenbach under Friedrich Friedl. From 1988 until 1994, he was project manager at Erik Spiekermann's MetaDesign. Since 1994, Alexander is partner and managing director of xplicit Gesellschaft für visuelle Kommunikation mbH (xplicit.de) based in Frankfurt/Main. Alexander Branczyk is co-publisher of Emotional Digital, and since 2003 a visiting professor for typography at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Codesigner of Czykago Rough (2019, with Manuel Viergutz), Brush Poster Grotesk (2017, a fun semi grungy typeface designed for the children's exhibition 1,2,3 Kultummel from Labyrinth Kindermuseum Berlin by xplicit, Berlin (Annette Wüsthoff, Alexander Branczyk and Mascha Wansart) and Manuel Viergutz; loaded with glyphs and decorative extras like arrows, dingbats, emojis, symbols, geometric shapes, catchwords and decorative ligatures), TWIGS 4 kids (2020: designed for a garden exhibition for children by Daniela Costa, Julia Stanossek, Alexander Branczyk and Manuel Viergutz). Showcase of Alexander Branczyk's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Face Type
| Austrian foundry located in Vienna, est. in 2008 by Marcus Sterz (b. 1971) and Andrej Waldegg. MyFonts link. Unless exlicitly mentioned, all typefaces are by Marcus Sterz. You Work For Them link.
Facetype's typeface library. See also here. View Marcus Sterz's typefaces. Klingspor link. Behance link. Fontspring link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
During his studies in Buenos Aires, Facundo Beccaglia created two typefaces---an unnamed experimental blackletter typeface (2013), and Filo 74, an uncial-style display typeface (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Buenos Aires-based designer of the geometrically tiled typeface Puntos Suspensivos (2013) and several experimental geometric display typefaces in 2016, such as Typo 002, Ego, Font 3, and Plural. | |
Singapore-based designer of an experimental geometric alphabet in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fake I.D.
| From their web page: "Fake I.D. is Joshua Trees and Yvan Martinez. To the disappointment of many, our design studio doesn't make phony documents. But we do make a living providing art direction and design for print and web." Joshua Trees teaches experimental typography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Based in Los Angeles, CA, Fake I.D. published Ghetto Nuovo, Ghetto Vecchio and Ghetto Novissimo, which were developed in conjunction with SUGO magazine and the Venice Biennial of Visual Arts: these are free Hebrew and Latin fonts complete with numerals, punctuation, accented characters, signs and symbols. In all, 225 characters. Ghetto's naming convention refers to 16th-century Venice, Italy, home of the world's first legally separate neighborhood for Jews and its three historic areas of settlement. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Family Font Mart
| Free fonts by Akihiro Oya in truetype format for Mac and PC: Nishichiba, NerimaNumber, BERLIN-REDRAIN-Italic, BERLIN-REDRAIN-Regular, Canarendon-Broken, Chubu-08-Normal, G.B.BOOT, GENERAL, GUNJU (very original stencil font), Horror-Impact-B, KANEIWA-alp-regular (simulated Japanese), Logic-twenty-five-A, Logic-twenty-five-Normal, Logic-twenty-five-Q, MEN'S-COSME, MINIMALHARD, MINIMALHARD2, NAKAMURA, Overheads, R.P.G.-KATAKANA, R.P.G., TAPEMAN, Telavision, VIET-MAP-LOVE, cubic-millimeter, enikusu-HG, square-millimeter, super-detective-kids, tamio-qn6, trattorian-2, videobeast-80's, namco_regular. Two of these are katakana fonts. All of them may be classified as experimental. Many can be used at small sizes on screens ("pixel fonts"). Dafont link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Famished.org
| John Baichtal (Famished.org) is the designer (b. 1971) of the art deco typeface Cronus (2002), Globe (a pixel font), Addled, Creamed Corn, 121, Boa Hamata, One Twenty One, November 14th, Peanut, Pinnacle (a deformed font), Plateau, Quigley, Skinny, Stogie, the kitchen tile typeface Abacus (2002), Equanimity Stencil (2002), Ripsaw (a Tuscan display font, 2002), Girder (2002), Equanimity Linked (2002), Faxt (2002, pixel font), Purvey Grecian (2002), Gold (2002, sans serif), Mullet (2002), Eidolon (2002), Sloth, Tourmaline (a great art deco typeface with many gorgeous ligatures), Transaction, Octuple, Mullet (2002, sans), Hellios (2002, a bitmap stencil font with spikes), Nairoby (2002, experimental), Tray (2002), and Dactylic (2003, octagonal). Some free Mac fonts are supposed to be here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fancy Graphic
| Keita Soejima's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Squash, SPORTS WEAR, Portable, Cheese, Mog (2000), Plamoframe, Scooter E, Scooter J, Sportswear Sweat E, Sportswear Sweat J. Many fonts have katakana and romaji versions. Home page. Newest additions: Cartridge E, Edit E, Sponge E, Basic E, Portable E, Squash E. Mac fonts by Keita Soejima and Yo-Yo: two free Roman fonts (French Curve, Marking Marker), one Thai font (Taikana) and an experimental hiragana font (Koike) at this site run by Keita Soejima. Page at DEX Image. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer of a very creative rhombic multicolor layered font system called Circus. The picture below is taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic and type designer in Paris. Between 1997 and 2007, she created these fonts (no downloads or sales though): Simplette (sans), Anthrite (experimental), Futurenner, Machine, Insitu, Annabelle (connected upright script), Régule, Singe, Serafine, Chantilly (VAG Round style), Remix 1, Remix 2, Elico (octagonal, mechanical), Fracture, Poule (dot matrix), Texto (experimental, dot matrix). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fatih Hardal
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London-based graphic designer who created Nailed (2011, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Federico Galvani
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Castelar, Argentina-based graphic designer who created some pictograms and the experimental typeface Mai (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Feel Free Design
| Belgrade, Serbia-based designer of the square-shaped experimental typeface Lena's Font (2013) and the colorful geometric solid typeface Geometry (2015). Jelena can best be described as a minimalist artist and illustrator. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Felipe Giglio "Feijao" (Sao Paulo, Brazil) created a few unnamed experimental typefaces in 2013. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
With a Bachelor's degree in design from PUC in Rio, Felipe (Rio de Janeiro, b. 1977) is involved in brand design for various companies. His Archimedes Memória typeface (2002) was created for the DBA's brand identity design. It is on the popular Bank Gothic typeface. Designer of the ultra-geometric experimental typefaces Memoria (2000), done for Power Systems Research, and Archimedes (2002), done for DBA Engenharia de Sistemas. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montevideo-based designer who created 53 PNAV in 2012, the fattest font ever, together with Nicolas Branca. This typeface was chosen for the Type and identity of 53 Premio Nacional de Artes Visuales de Uruguay (Uruguayan national arts awards). In 2010, he made the dot matrix typeface Minima. Carlos (2012) is a chiseled face. In 2016, he designed the sans typeface Elemental. Behance link. Newer Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of these experimental typefaces: Block&Middle Line (2011), Regulus Cubiculus (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Berlin who designed an experimental typeface in 2011. In 2012, he created Hülpman (an informal typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Felix Braden
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Inventor of the Galapagos Game. In 2017, he got together with the Swiss type foundry Dinamo and created the Galapagos Typeface, which consists of 70 modularly composed typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FELTRON
| New York-based Nicholas Felton's fonts at FELTRON: the pixel fonts Remove (OpenType), Foss (caps inspired by Icelandic writing), Whip, Amtrix S (pixel type), Megabit, Sibilance, Amtrix 4, Amtrix 5, Amtrix 6. He also made the experimental geometric typeface Shipflat (2004, T-26), which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in Strasbourg, France. Behance link. Together with Anaîs Lecomte-Boinet, he took aerial pictures of the Roseraie garden behind La Maison romane in Épinal, and then developed a geometric display typeface from it, called RoseTyler (2012). That font was then used to decorate walls of buildings, both indoors and outdors. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Carmelo, Colonia, Uruguay in 1983, then based in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied Visual Communication at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design, and now back in Montevideo, Uruguay, this graphic designer created the counterless geometric typeface Circ (2011), and the triangulated experimental typeface VIGA (2011). Fermin has a Bachelors degree in Industrial Design (2009). At his foundry, also called Fermin Guerrero, one can buy VIGA and MANIFESTA (2012, a De Stijl typeface). For his Bachelors thesis at HEAD in Geneva, he created the typeface Genève (2014): In developing Genève I was inspired by the typeface used by French printer/editor/publisher Henri II Estienne in his famous book Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, published in Geneva in 1572. This typeface was brought to Geneva by Henri's father, Robert Estienne, who, before settling in Geneva and working as Calvin's printer, was the printer of France's King, François I. This typeface highly influenced the typographers and printers in Geneva at that time. Henri and Robert Estienne's work in Geneva helped it to become one of the most important cities in Europe for print and typography in the sixteenth century. Genève consists of four styles: Classique (humanist serif), Austère (geometric serif), Spontanée (humanist sans-serif) and Alternative (stencil, display version). Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2015. His graduation typeface was Exentra which was was conceived for publications promoting forward-thinking through a contemporary and experimental vision of modern culture and trends. It supports Latin, Gurmukhi and Greek. In addition, Fermin added the fat face didone / gothic mixture mixture font Black Display for applications in fashion, and the super-angular and scary Franky as sub-styles of Exentra. In 2017, he published Thesaurus, the renaming and outgrowth of Genève, at Typotheque. Thesaurus Display Italic followed in 2018. Well-deserved winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a grand prize. In 2019, he designed Brick Pro (Display, Text) for Colophon, which explains: Brick's foundations lie in the signage of three prominent pubs in London's East End, The Jolly Butchers (Brick Lane---now closed), The Royal Oak (Columbia Road), and The Prince Albert (Acton Street). Referencing their Art Deco traits, with a trace of Art Nouveau heritage, Brick is Fermín Guerrero’s re-interpretation and continuation of the vernaculars elegant gestures, brought into the 21st century. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Argentinian artist / painter / illustrator, b. 1966. Creator of the experimental typefaces Borges (2005), Latita (2000, organic), Ñanduti (2000), Pacífica (2000, based on Arial, the typeface used for the Iraq war declaration), Huev (2004), and Misiones. In 1984, he become Profesor Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Buenos Aires. Currently, he is a professor of design at Universidad Católica de Asunción, Paraguay. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fernando Forero
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Fernando Forero Foundry
| Fernando Forero (b. 1978, Tunja) ran EisartGraphic.com together with Weronika Kwiatkowska, and moved from Bogota to Kalisz, Wielkopolska, Poland, where he started Fernando Forero Foundry. He is now located in Warsaw, where he works as a graphic and type designer and illustrator. Designer of Ishia Antiqua (2013, a cursive hand), Urbania (2013, a dusty face), Ilex (2012, hand-printed), Baltan (2012, a calligraphic script), Old Stamps (2011, scanbats), Boys and Girls (2011, dingbats), Aliovha (2011, a monoline elliptical sans), Old Nyleshina or Old Nyleshna (2010, roughened calligraphy), Vexa (2010, grunge), Ornamentus (2010, an interesting modular ornamental face), Melonella (2010, a medieval script), Cioran (2010, aged letters), Ornalia (2010), Selbst (2010, hand-printed caps), Nugg (2010, grungy), Feeda (2010, a curly face), Intuitiva (2010, grungy), Czarnulka (2010, script), Khamus (an earthy calligraphic face) and Últimos Ritos (a hybridization between the forms of the Cyrillic and Roman characters), two typefaces that won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008. He also made the grungy Refaxed (2008) and Efficient Fax Font (2010), and the experimental Aleah (2010) and Ovhol (2010). In 2014, Forero published the grungy letterpress emulation font family Asfalto. Devian tart link. Behance link. Another Behance link. Klingspor link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graduate of IED Barcelona. Queretaro, Mexico-based designer of the free striped op-art typeface NaNo (2014, FontStruct) and the hyper-experimental Triangle (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Talented Brazilian illustrator. Creator at Unique Types of the free experimental typeface Yezza (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris-based outfit that specalizes in interactive design. In 2016, they experimented with that in type design when they exploited some Opentype features in the free font Datalegreya (see also Open Font Library): Datalegreya is a typeface which can interweave data curves with text. It is designed by Figs, on the basis of open source font Alegreya Sans Thin SC by typographer Juan Pablo del Peral. Datalegreya can be used in all contexts where small space is available to synthetically display graphical data: connected objects, embedded displays, annual reports, weather report and stock prices. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Figure Studio
| Figure Studio is the showcase of designer Jeremy Hally in Quebec. He made some experimental typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer and digital artist in Porto, Portugal. He made a nice typographic poster entitled Free Tibet (2010), and designed a number of experimental typefaces in 2010. In 2011, he made Souca (multilined), Ayuthaya (blackletter), Gourmet (art deco), Graphic Monkeys (bilined), a curly face and an ornamental caps face. Typefaces from 2012: Colambo (an early 20th century grotesk), Honkers (rounded sans). Behance link. [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] ⦿ | |
Finn Sködt
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Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the experimental typeface NEZ-1. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made the experimental typefaces Crossings and Clab in 2011. [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] ⦿ |
Fleha Type
| Participant in the TipoRenesansa workshop in Slovenia in 2010, who designed the angular typeface Arkadika (2010). She also made the pixel typeface Piksna (2010). Her first degree in fine arts was from the University of Maribor. She also has a degree from |