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21 Lab
[Rodrigo Alberto Cavazos Rodriguez]

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
[Thomas Huot-Marchand]

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):

  • The 72-weight Garaje (from Garaje 55 to Garaje 100; Garaje 53 Unicase Black is free).
  • Minuscule. A ten style family for small print, which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. In Comedia he writes about legibility and the creation of Miniscule, which was optimized to be read at 2 to 6 points. His research for this at the ANRT was based on the theory of "compact typography" put forth by Emile Javal, a French ophtalmologist who explained his ideas in "Physiologie de la lecture et de l'écriture" (1905). For examples, see here and here.
  • The experimental typeface Minerale (2017). Minerale won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019.
  • In 2021, he released Album Sans and Album Slab. These fonts were based on designs by Walbaum. He explains: Justus Erich Walbaum (1768-1837), a confectioner by trade, carved his own cake molds. Quite gifted, he became a specialist, developing an activity as a punch-cutter, and eventually bought Ernst Wilhelm Kirschner’s type foundry. Considered to be one of the foremost creators of his time, he engraved gothic letters and Antiqua type, similar to those of Didot and Bodoni. But his romans had a different flavor, and for some, they contain the origins of the Grotesques that followed. In 2010, Thomas Huot-Marchand and SPMillot were asked to develop the typographic identity of the Musée d'Orsay that had been based on Berthold Walbaum since its very beginnings. They proposed adding distant cousins in later typographic styles: a bold grotesque and a thin slab serif, but these typefaces would ultimately remain unused. In 2020, Thomas Huot-Marchand decided to redesign them while developing an extended family. Album is a subtraction of Walbaum: with no serifs for Album Sans and with no contrast for Album Slab. Its silhouette retains some memory of the particular proportions and slightly flattened curves of Walbaum. Album Sans proposes a new reading of grotesques with an extended range of weights: the horizontal terminations of the R and the a, the binocular g, the junction of the k along with the singular design of the numbers, distinguish it from usual forms. The duplexed italics have a reduced slant.

Abstract Fonts link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

2SF

Vinnitsa, Ukraine-based group that designed the experimental techno typeface Lower Ladle (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

3 Things

Design studio in London that created an experimental geometric typeface called Shellington (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

52mm

Part of Prototype Experimental Foundry in New York City, this outfit designed the commercial Hebrew simulation font Kaiju (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

740kb

Brazilian creator (b. 1985) of az (2011, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Jay Bisset

Graphic designer in Berkhampstead, UK, who created an experimental typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A2 Graphics--SW--HK
[Scott Williams]

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
[Henrik Kubel]

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:

  • 4590
  • 60 Display.
  • Amplify (2013) won an award at TDC 2014.
  • Antwerp (2011). A readable text family designed by Kubel during an Expert Type Design Class in 2011 at Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp.
  • A2 Archi (2005, Henrik Kubel): an octagonal face.
  • A2 Aveny-T (2000, Henrik Kubel): Poster typeface commissioned as aprt of the identity of the Aveny-T theatre in Copenhagen.
  • Agriculture.
  • Archi.
  • Banknote.
  • A2 Battersea (1999, Henrik Kubel): inspired by Meta, DIN and Transport Alphabet. Followed in 2012 by Battersea Slab.
  • Bauhouse.
  • A2 Beckett (2008). A condensed sans family with the masculinity of Impact.
  • Boing.
  • Copenhagen
  • A2 CPH Tram (2009, Henrik Kubel): revival of an odd mini-serifed type found on the exterior of Danish trams, ca. 1920.
  • A2 CWM (2008, Henrik Kubel): constructivist type designed for the headlines and cover of Cold War Modern Design 1945-1970. Octagonal.
  • Dane.
  • A2 Danmark (2008, Henrik Kubel): a display stencil family.
  • A2 Ergonomics (2011).
  • Flavin Medium. A neon tube font.
  • A2 Flowers (2005, Henrik Kubel): arrows, fists, flourishes, ornaments.
  • A2 FM: slab serif family.
  • Foundation (2018) in Sans (Number 44, Condensed, Wide), Serif, and Serif Didot subfamilies. These are all revivals of skeletal typefaces. Foundation Sans Number 44 was inspired by Circular Gothic No. 44 (1879, Charles E. Heyer, for the Great Western Type Foundry). Foundation Sans Condensed and Foundation Sans Wide are derived from two types described as Caractères pour Marques de Linge (typefaces for marking on linen) in the Signes section of the first volume of Spécimen Général des Fonderies Deberny et Peignot (ca. 1934). Foundation Serif is based on Caractère No. 7, another Caractère pour Marques de Linge in that 1934 Deberny & Peignot specimen book. Kubel's inspiration for Foundation Serif Didot was a sheet of lettering (dated 1939) he discovered in the archive of the influential Danish architect and graphic/industrial designer Gunnar Biilmann Petersen, 1897-1968.
  • Grand. A stencil typeface.
  • A2 Grot 10 (2009, Henrik Kubel): a take on the Grot Series by Stephenson Blake. Grot 12 followed in 2015.
  • A2 Impacto (2005-2011, Henrik Kubel): Impact?
  • A2 Klampenborg (1997, Henrik Kubel): industrial style sans.
  • Kunstuff.
  • London (2010).
  • Magna.
  • Maximum.
  • A2 Mazarin (2017). A2 writes: Originally designed as a Garamond-inspired metal typeface by Robert Girard ca. 1921-1923, and published under the name Astrée by Deberny Peignot, the typeface was soon recut and renamed Mazarin by the English foundry Stephenson Blake in 1926. That single style original has now been expertly restored and reimagined as a contemporary typeface in multiple styles.
  • Melissa Script (2010).
  • A2 Monday (2003-2016, Henrik Kubel): based on 19th century English vernacular serif signage type.
  • Moscow Sans (2014-2015). Award winning custom fonts and pictogram system for Moscow Metro. Art directed and designed by A2 (Scott Williams and Henrik Kubel) with Margaret Calvert as type and pictogram consultant. Cyrillic script designed in collaboration with Ilya Ruderman.
  • Naive.
  • New Grotesque Square series (2015). A newspaper typeface modeled after a Stephenson Blake typeface. Followed by New Grotesque Round in 2015-2016.
  • New Rail Alphabet (2009). A refreshed and expanded version of Margaret Calvert's alphabet from the 1960s which saw nationwide use with British Rail, BAA, and the NHS. Developed in cooperation with Margaret Calvert.
  • New Transport (with Margaret Calvert). A digital version of Transport, the Jock Kinnear and Margaret Calvert typeface for the British road signs. New Transport will be commercially released in September 2013.
  • Register (2012-2017). A text typeface family inspired by French renaissance types.
  • Regular (2012-2016). Think Futura in new clothes. Accompanied by Regular Slab.
  • Sans, Slab and Serif typefaces for a redesign of The New York Times Magazine in 2015. The starting point for the Serif font is the Stephenson Blake Garamond-ish metal typeface Mazarin also known as Astrée from French foundry Deberny & Peignot. The slab fonts used for pull quotes and headlines are a continuation of the magazines existing Stymie font but in a condensed format. The sans fonts are linked to the industrial grotesque types, with metal type specimen versions of Futura and Akzidenz fonts as loose models for inspiration.
  • Nosferato.
  • Ole.
  • Outsiders (+Outsiders Light and many other weights). A slab serif family.
  • Parsons Green Medium.
  • A2 Record Gothic (2019, Henrik Kubel), after Robert H. Middleton's American grotesk, Record Gothic (1027, Ludlow). Kubel writes: In celebration of Record Gothic's eclectic history, we designed four related but independent styles: Slab, Mono, Stencil and Outline.
  • Square.
  • Staton.
  • Tagstyle.
  • Test.
  • Triumph.
  • A2 Typewriter (2000, Henrik Kubel): based on Olivetti Typewriter 22.
  • A2 Vogue Floral: a fashion mag modern display face in two styles.
  • Vogue Paris. Granshan 09 Type Design Competition. 1st Prize, Display fonts.
  • A2 Zadie (2005, Henrik Kubel): inspired by Edwardian railings surrounding the Royal Army Military College in London. Used on the cover of the Zadie Smith bestseller On Beauty (2005, Penguin Press, NY). Granshan 10 Type Design Competition. 3rd Prize, Display fontt described as an ornamental blackboard bold type.
  • 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.
  • English 1766 (2017). Kubel's take on Caslon.
  • Regular (2017). A sans family inspired by Memphis, Karnak, Stymie and Futura.
  • Schwiss (2018). Inspired by Akzidenz Grotesk and Helvetica.
Custom type by them include an alphabet for Qantas Airlines (2017), a masthead for Toronto Life (2010), a custom typeface for Banca Sella (2018), Qualcomm (2017), Arne Jacobsen (2018?), Evening Standard Newspaper (2018: 43 fonts), New York Times Magazine's Olympics issue (2018: a monowidth font for stacking), Eurosport Pyeongchang 2018, Weekendavisen (2007-2010), Design Museum London (2010), Faber&Faber (2009-2010), Afterall Publishing (2006-2010), Faulkner Browns Architects (2007), Penguin Press (2005), and Norrebro Bryghus (2005).

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]  ⦿

Aajwanthi Baradwaj

Communication designer in Mumbai, India. In 2011, he made an experimental modular typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Bass

Illustrator and graphic designer in Farnham, UK, who created some experimental counterless typefaces in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Hocking

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]  ⦿

Aaron Spriggs

Graphic designer and photographer in Milwaukee, WI. Behance link. He gridified / pixelized Adobe Myriad Pro and called it Aluminum Life Semibold (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aaron Underwood

Creator of the experimental typeface Invisible (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abby Bartels

During her graphic design studies in 2013, Abby Bartels (New Ulm, MN) designed an experimental typeface called Tiny Bubbles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abjad
[Ali Almasri]

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
[Bran (or: Fractal Eye)]

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acdije

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]

Asa Childress (Ace Productionz) created the experimental poster typeface Vision Division (2010). Fontspace link. Fontspace link to Ace Official, or Asa Childress. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Achim Reichert

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]  ⦿

Achraf Amiri

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)
[Christian Küsters]

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:

  • By Christian Küsters: AF Angel (1998, based on an old woodblock typeface), AF Satellite, AFWendingen, Cashier 1 AF (1998, dot matrix), AF Champ Fleury (1996, a Codex-like face), AF Hybrid (1996), AF Hadrian Roman (1998, art nouveau), AF Interface One and Two (1998, grotesque sans), AF Retrospecta (1998, exaggerated wedge serif family), AF Track AF One and Two (1998, white on black dot matrix printing), Unzialis (1994), Zip Code AF 30, 40, 50 and 60 (2001, hairline squarish sans family). Christian had a nice connection at Plazm, where he published Hadrian (1996), Retrospecta (1994), Unzialis (1994), Hybrid (1996) and Interface One (1996).
  • By Robert Green: AF PAN (1997, octagonal).
  • By Henrik Kubel: 4590, AF-Battersea (1999, a grotesque family), AF-CENTERA, AF-Copenhagen, AF-Klampenborg (2000, grotesque sans), CPH-ArabicNumbers, CPH-Medium, Grot-25.
  • By Sandy Suffield: CarPlatesCarPlates, AF Carplates (1998, squarish, including Carplates AF Bold Stencil).
  • By Paul Wilson: AF Screen (1999).
  • By Pete McCracken: INKy-black (1994).
  • By Carsten Schwesig: Nicoteen 13 AF (1998, grunge), AF Syrup (1998, slab serif).
  • By Paul Farrington: Camberwell AF One (1998, grotesque sans), AF Tasience (1998), Amateur 69 AF (1998, grunge).
  • By Dirk Wachowiak: AF Diwa (2002, large squarish sans), AF Generation (2002, huge squarish sans families called A, A2, A2A, Z, and ZaZ).
  • By Jean-Lou Désiré: Kub AF (2002, experimental).
  • By Johannes Bergerhausen and Gerard Paris-Clavel: LeBuro AF (2003, grunge in weights called Breau, Crade, Louche, Extra Crade, Demi Beau).
  • By Sylvia and Daniel Janssen: AF Nitro (2004, techno family in subfamilies called Intro, Riton, Trion).
  • By Anne Wehebrink: Oneline AF (1998, squarish sans).
  • By Paul Kehra: PostSoviet AF (2001, geometric sans family; with Cyrillic and Latin letters; weights called Culture, Free Latvian, Free Revolution, Ideology, Revolution).
  • By Simon Piehl: Spin AF (1998, squarish sans).
  • By Anthony Burrill: Video Wall AF (1998).
  • By Christian Küsters, based on lettering of H.T. Wijdeveld: AF Wendingen (1998, LED simulation).
  • Other: AFConstants (1998), Allen, Indy 500, Interface, AFLogotype (1998).

View ACME's typefaces. Acme's typeface library. Typefaces made by Christian Küsters. MyFonts selection for ACME. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Actiontype.de
[Tanja Diezmann]

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]  ⦿

Adam Brightman

Graphic designer in Northampton, UK. Behance link. In 2010, he designed Typegram, a modular typeface that consists of puzzle pieces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Broe

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]  ⦿

Adam Gorton

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]  ⦿

Adam Gravely

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]  ⦿

Adam Green

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]  ⦿

Adam Hadraba

Brno, Czechia-based designer of the animated experimental font Distances (2018) and Typelike Icon Set (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Lipien

Graphic designer in Gdansk, Poland, who made an experimental brush face in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adam Onza

American creator of the experimental typeface Pig Pen (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adhemas Batista

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]  ⦿

Adhi Pritish

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
[DYYA Fonts]

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Adine Marie-Amélie

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.

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Adnan Souri

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based creator of a free prismatic multiline (Latin) vector font in 2012. Devian tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adnauseum
[Christian Acker]

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
[Estranho Tipo (was: Adreson 74)]

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Adrian Wrzesinski

Plymouth, UK-based designer of the EEG-inspired typeface Dream (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Midzic

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
[Rabisco (was: AfroBreak)]

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Aga Magdziak

Warsaw, Poland-based designer of magnificent experimental typefaces in various vector formats. These include:

  • The free AI-format experimental slinky font family Scribble (2018).
  • The free color font Balloon (2018) and the free PSD-format font Balloon (2018).
  • The free textured font Neon (2017-2018).
  • The free experimental color font Splash Letters (2018).
  • The free vector typeface Brush (2017).
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Agnes Jekli
[Momegraphic]

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Agnes Jekli

Budapest-based creator of the experimental geometric typeface Optypo (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agnieszka Dudek

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]  ⦿

Agnieszka Gawlik

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]  ⦿

Agnieszka Mielczarek-Orzylowski

New York-based designer of the experimental typeface Blue Notes (2011), which was inspired by the jazz of Billie Holiday. [Google] [More]  ⦿

agnuaspflibko
[TarmSaft font factory]

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Agung Syaifudin
[Vuuuds]

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Ahmad Effendy
[Ahmad Effendy's FUSELAB fonts]

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Ahmad Effendy's FUSELAB fonts
[Ahmad Effendy]

Singapore-based Ahmad Effendy's gorgeous experimental font Fondgrafie-weird created for FUSELAB '95. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aidan Croucher

Graphic designer in Hastings, UK, who made an experimental typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ainezunouzu
[Akira Hayashi]

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]  ⦿

Ainsifont

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).

News. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aizhan Abdrakhmanova

Graphic designer in London who created Mirror (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akash Peeroo

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
[Family Font Mart]

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Akimbo Type Foundry (or: Pen and Lens Design)
[Kaleb Dean]

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
[Ainezunouzu]

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Akyfont Studio

Tuban, Indonesia-based designer of the experimental font The Black Knight (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alain Aebersold

Zurich-based creator of an experimental squarish 3d typeface (2013), tentatively called 360 Degrees.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan Bauchop
[Sophteck's Jungle and Typography]

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Alan Cheetham
[A-Studio]

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Alan Colvin

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]  ⦿

Alan Záruba

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
[Stereoplastika]

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Alden Verdan

Alden Verdan (Seattle, WA) made several experimental typefaces in 2012 and 2018. Particular typefaces by him include Blackline (a neon tube typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ale Casor

Bogota, Colombia-based designer of the experimental typeface Circonica (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandra Rodriguez

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]  ⦿

Alejandro Conde López

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]  ⦿

Alejandro Herrera

During Cosgaya's class at FADU / UBA (Buenos Aires), Alejandro Herrera created an experimental geometric typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejo Bergmann

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:

  • Sauce Type (2014: experimental).
  • The free modular sans typeface Cunia (2018)
  • The free bilined typeface Potra (2018).
  • Facon (2018). A free speed emulation font designed by modifying Christian Roberston's Roboto.
  • Bondi (2018). A free art deco poster type.
  • Fulbo (2019, with Emmanuel Baldor). A free athletic lettering / soccer shirt font family published at Rostype. See also Fulbo Tano.
Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksander Grødtlien

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]  ⦿

Aleksandra Korolkova

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]  ⦿

Alen Zdorova

Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of the experimental spray bottle Cyrillic typeface Mr. Font (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alena Belokonova

Florence, Italy-based designer of Albe Font (2014, imitating calligraphy), and a few experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessandro (Alex) Segalini

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:

  • A like Animals (2003). Also called A di Animali, this is an experimental typeface done together with illustrator Anna Donadelli.
  • 5G (2002). Handwriting.
  • Custom types: Guia Script (2006, for Gelati Carte d'Or Algida), Guia Script Greek (2006), Quintag (2002, handwriting), Forno (2004, hand-printed), Dolce (2005, a swift brush typeface for Barilla), Unione (2005, for a bank), Pacioli (2005, for Accademia Editoriale in Rome), and Phoebus (custom sailing boat vinyl lettering).
  • Limerick was designed in 2006 together with Marek Brzozowski.
  • In 2009, Segalini published Hemingway Pro, a commercial 9-style sans display family, available from Red Rooster. Hemingway Deco Initials is free though. Hemingway was inspired by the prize-winning novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952, Ernest Miller Hemingway).

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]  ⦿

Alessandro Sommer

During his studies, Bielefeld, Germany-based Alessandro Sommer developed the symmetric experimental typeface Otto in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessandro Vigoni

Creative Italian designer who managed to draw letters with water (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessio D'Amico

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]  ⦿

Alex Adam

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 Bruno

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

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
[Alex Camacho Pizarro]

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
[Alex Camacho Studio]

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Alex Contreras

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]  ⦿

Alex Davies

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]  ⦿

Alex George

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]  ⦿

Alex Hurst

Designer in Peterborough, UK, who created the experimental typeface Razor and the electric circuit typeface Ammeter in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex joystikX

Italian creator of the experimental geometric typeface Covenant (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Lasserre

Graphic designer in Toulouse, France, who created a geometric solid font and an experimental textured font in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Phipps-Attwell

Graphic designer in Leeds, UK, who created the typefaces Milo (2013) and Blueprint Letterforms (2013) during his studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Tatro

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]  ⦿

Alex Tatro

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
[Ursa Minor]

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Alex Trochut

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.

Typographic picture by TDC55.

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]  ⦿

Alexa Younger

Los Angeles-based creator of Runyon Canyon Chalk Typeface (2013) and Pendleton (2013, experimental typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Branczyk
[Face 2 Face (or: F2F)]

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Alexander Crookshanks

Blacksburg, VA-based designer of the experimental geometric font Make Art Not War (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Fjelldal

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]  ⦿

Alexander Gordon

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]  ⦿

Alexander Örn

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]  ⦿

Alexander Raadman

Den Haag, The Netherlands-based designer of several experimental 3d typefaces in 2018: Font Fury, Furytism. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Tibus

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]  ⦿

Alexander Wise

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]  ⦿

Alexandr Dragin

Graphic designer and illustrator in Krasnodar, Russia. He created some experimental typefaces in 2009-2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Echevarria

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]  ⦿

Alexandra Renee

Graphic designer in Utica, NY. His typeface Neuro (2012) consists entirely of circular arcs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Valuikina

Russian designer. Her typefaces for Latin and Cyrillic:

  • SK Paragrapher (2020, Shriftovik). A monumental geometric typeface whose structure was inspired by the paragraph glyph.
  • SK Brushwood (2020, Shriftovik). An experimental geometric typeface by Alexandra Valuikina and Tikhon Reztcov.
  • SK Fencer (2020). A display typeface inspired by the fine art of fencing.
  • SK Skrynka (2021). An octagonal technical typeface.
  • In 2021, Darya Cherevkova and Alexandra Valuikina co-designed the blocky experimental monumental font SK Quadratica (Latin and Cyrillic).
  • SK Pangramma (2021). In slab and sans versions, SK Pangramma is monolinear, geometric and experimental.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Wiedemann

Graphic designer in Ralegh, NC, who created an experimental typeface in 2010 called Georna. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Bobeda
[House of X]

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Alexandre Rivault

Parisian creator of the very experimental typeface Typographie Modulaire (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Tonneau

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]  ⦿

Alexandro Mattt Briones

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]  ⦿

Alexey

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]  ⦿

Alexey Atapin

Web designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His typefaces are often experimental and include:

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Alexey Sirke

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]  ⦿

Alexis Baran

Jersey City, NJ-based designer of the experimental typeface Geovetica (2015), created by deconstructing Helvetica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfonso Alba

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]  ⦿

Alfonso Armenteros Parras

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]  ⦿

Alfonso Gardel

Monterrey, Mexico-based designer of Tipografica (2014), a typeface based on simple geometric solids. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alhussein Ibrahim

Giza, Egypt-based designer of the free minimalist experimental typeface family Scritus (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ali Almasri
[Abjad]

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Ali Güzel

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]  ⦿

Alice Donadoni

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]  ⦿

Alicia Grady

Sarah Anne (2009) is an experimental typeface that was inspired by fashion designer Sarah Leach and her current brand Sarah Anne. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alicia Lee

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]  ⦿

Alina Lacoste

During her studies at UBA in Buenos Aires, Alina Lacoste created an untitled experimental typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alina Stepanenko

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the experimental prismatic Cyrullic typeface simply called Decorative (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alizée Ramiara

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]  ⦿

Alizée Thily

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]  ⦿

Allison Mowry

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
[Rinto Dwi Nugroho]

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
[Czech Design and Typography (studio experimentalniho design)]

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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
[Andreas Leonidou]

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
[Paul Chan]

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
[Raphaël Verona]

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:

  • Celstine. A school project typeface at ECAL in 2009.
  • Super Achachi (2013). A text typeface.
  • Dominicale Medium (2012). An expressive text typeface originally designed for the book Sacré.
  • Millionaire.
  • Rounded.
  • Renard (2014). A sans.
  • Thames Capsule (2015-2016). The Thames Capsule project stands out because of its historic relevance. A feud between founder T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and partner Emery Walker of the Doves Press culminated in Cobden-Sanderson stealthily hurling the last of the Doves Type letterpress blocks off London's Hammersmith Bridge into the River Thames in 1917. In 2014, Robert Green (Doves Type) managed to recover 150 original metal letterpress blocks with the help of divers from Port of London Authority, updating a digital facsimile of the typeface he had first issued in 2013. For a long time, I was under the impression that with Gaël Faure, he designed the commercial typeface Thames Capsule (2015-2016). But that is not so. Robert writes: It's basically a pirated version of my font with some details changed. They used all of my research, took my font and knocked up a quick cash-in. I checked their files, and around 90% of their bezier nodes are in the exact same positions as the version of my Doves Type that was available at the time: a mathematical impossibility if you're creating a revival from scratch.
  • Kirsch Rund Grotesk.
  • ThreeThousand.
  • Monaako (2016). An angular poster typeface.
  • Nirvana Bold (2019). A display typeface.
  • Atlantique Bermuda (2021). Totally experimental and on the edge.
  • Atlantique Miami (2021). He writes: This font gathers visual rhythmic waves of inspiration from English round hand script of the 18th century and Scotch Roman typeface of the 19th century.
  • Nirvana (2021).
  • Dark Matter (2022). DarkMatter is the combination of two historical models. Verona explains: In the 1920s, Jan Tschichold published Die Neue Typographie, in which he confronts the old models, which he associates with vernacular forms of expression, with radical forms based on a geometrical construction. The letter becomes the elementary atom and the method by which the typographic compositions are displayed on the page seems to be borrowed from architecture. The second model he refers to is that of the artist Johannes Itten.

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Alvin Alif

Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of an experimental typeface based on rectangles, triangles and circles (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvin Kwan

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]  ⦿

Alyssa Celentano

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]  ⦿

Alyssa Leary

Graphic designer in New York City. Creator of the geometric experimental typeface Echo (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amadeus Waltenspühl

Partner with Dario Hofstetter at Monom in Switzerland. Together, they designed 100 pixel and experimental fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amanda Chavez

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]  ⦿

Amber Charlton

British designer of the free experimental typeface Charlton (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amber Hicks

Graphic design student at Southampton University's Winchester School of Art, who created the purely geometric typeface Marcato (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amber Pitcher

Cape Town, Soth Africa-based designer of the expermental typeface Bad Geometry (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Dumont
[Polymorph]

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Amélie Valverde

During her graphic design studies in Lyon, France, Amélie Valverde created the experimental geometric typeface Moveo (2015) and Kutch (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ami Littlefair

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

Ami Shah (Mumbai) drew various experimental Latin alphabets in 2012. During her studies at IDC, IIT Bombay, she designed IDC Gujarati (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amina Fitaeva

Ukrainian designer of Lissitzky (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amir Zack

Creator of a number of typefaces at FontStruct in 2009: ANSAR (texture effect face), ANSAR DECO (horizontally striped face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amondo Szegi
[FONTana Typestudio]

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Amoona Saohin

During her graphic design studies at the American University of Kuwait, Amoona Saohin designed the triangle-themed geometric typeface Triagulum (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amsoft.cz

Czech Design and Typography (studio experimentalniho design). Vendor of Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amuki Studio
[Vanessa Zuñiga]

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]  ⦿

Amy Elms

Experiments with the Nodebox software led Amy Elms (London, UK) to develop the experimental typeface Circuline (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amy Kilner

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]

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]  ⦿

An Jarazzi

Singapore-based designer of the curvy multiline typeface IME (2014), which is based on fingerprint patterns. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Elisa

FontStructor who is experimenting with modular geometric black typefaces in 2010: Blind, Triangulo, Square, High. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Estrada

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]  ⦿

Ana Gomez Bernaus

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]  ⦿

Ana Kay

Moscow, Russia-based designer of the experimental Cyrillic typeface Linius (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Robiola

Designer in Rosario, Argentina. Creator of the experimental typeface Cowo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Vidal Satizabal

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]  ⦿

Anaid PG

Queretaro, Mexico-based designer of the experimental typeface Los Andes (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anastasia Linkova

Moscow-based designer of an eperimental Cyrillic typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anastasia Ovsyannikova

Moscow-based designer of the experimental Latin / Cyrillic typefaces Grungedidot (2013), Multilayer Font (2013), and Modular Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anastasiia Macaluso

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]  ⦿

Anders Kammersgaard

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]  ⦿

Anderson Guedes

Brazilian designer of the experimental typeface Venom (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anderson Maschio

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]  ⦿

András Szörös

Kecskemet, Hungary-based designer of experimental typefaces called Pulsepect Types (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andras Semler

Andras Semler (Sopron, Hungary) designed BARCS (2013), an experimental typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andre Toet Design (was: SO Design)
[André Toet]

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]  ⦿

Andrea Almo P

Amposta, Spain-based designer of the experimental modular typeface Sempitern (2018) and the reverse stress typeface Bood (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Bassan

Milan-based creator of the handmade experimental typeface Tracce (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Braccaloni
[Leftloft]

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Andrea Chopp

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]  ⦿

Andrea Grossy

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]  ⦿

Andrea Gyldenör

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

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.

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Andrea Marino

Andrea Marino (Marino Design, Firenze, Italy) created the contrasted experimaental typeface Didetica in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Montedonico

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
[Typecuts]

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Andrea Venditti

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]  ⦿

Andrea Wirth

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

Andrea Zucca (Livorno, Italy) created the kitchen tile typeface Looz (2012) and the modular circle-based typeface Spikkio (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Anselmo

Portalegre, Portugal-based designer of the geometric typeface No Reason (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

André de Castro

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]  ⦿

André Felipe

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]  ⦿

André Génard

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
[Via Grafik Gestaltungsbüro (was: Meanworks)]

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André Toet
[Andre Toet Design (was: SO Design)]

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André-Pascal Werthwein

During his studies, Mannhein, Germany-based André-Pascal Werthwein designed Generative Type (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreas Brunelius
[Gustav & Brun]

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Andreas Carlsson
[NoFont]

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Andreas Dauerer

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).

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Andreas Gustavsson
[Gustav & Brun (was: Jagjavi)]

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Andreas Koller
[Fontastic]

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Andreas Leonidou
[ALT Foundry]

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Andreas Pihlström
[Subtype (was: Typisc or Suprb)]

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Andreas Uebele
[Nice To Type (was: Übertype)]

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Andree Nguyen
[Nguyen Type]

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Andree Paat
[Kirjatehnika]

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Andrei Ograda

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
[Typeverything]

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Andreia Bersot

Graphic designer based in Rio de Janeiro. Creator of the experimental typeface Bossa (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrej Derbenev

Moscow-based designer of a geometric experimental Cyrillic typeface in 2012. More magnificent, often geometric, Cyrillic typefaces followed in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andres Hurtado

Designer in Cali, Colombia, of the experimental typeface Tipos Antiguos (2013) that was inspired by pre-Colombian art. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreu Balius Planelles
[Garcia Fonts&Co]

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Andreu Balius Planelles

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:

  • Garcia/Typerware offers about 50 fonts, including some very artsy typefaces, such as Fabrique (Andreu Balius), Futuda, Garcia Bodoni (Typerware), Alkimia (Estudi Xarop), Ariadna (pixel font, 1988-1989), Garcia Bitmap (1993), Playtext (Andreu Balius, 1995), Matilde Script (Andreu Balius, 1994: an embroidery face), Fabrique (1993, Andreu Balius) and Dinamo (1993, Balius and Casasin at Typerware), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994), Futuda (1993), Ozo Type (1994), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats), Mi mama Me Soba Script (1994), Parkinson (1994), Garcia Bodoni (1995), Garcia snack's (1993-1995), Juan Castillo Script (1995, irregular handwriting), and Vizente Fuster (1995), all by Andreu Balius and Joancarles Casasin, 1993-1995; Water Knife (Laudelino L.Q., 1995); Alquimia (Estudi Xarop, 1995); Jam Jamie (Malcolm Webb, 1996); Network (Alex Gifreu, 1996); Panxo-Pinxo (David Molins, 1996); Euroface 80 mph (Peter Bilak, 1996); Inmaculatta (Roberto Saenz Maguregui, 1997); Proceso Sans (by Argentinan Pablo Cosgaya, 1996); Afligidos deudos (Adria Gual, 1996); Route 66 (Francesc Vidal, 1997); Popular (Sergi Ibanez, 1997); Visible (handwriting by Fabrice Trovato, 1997); SoundFile (Reto Brunner, 1998); Ninja type (kana-lookalike alphabet by Charly Brown, 1995); Vertigo (Charly Brown, 1996); Loop UltraNormal (Franco and Sven, 1996); Inercia (Inigo Jerez, 1996).
  • Fontshop: FF Fontsoup.
  • ITC: ITC Temble (1996, a great subdued ghoulish face). With Joancarles P. Casasin, he created ITC Belter (1996) and ITC Belter Mega Outline (1996).
  • Typerware: Czeska was developed from Vojtech Preissig's woodtype typefaces. Andreu Balius completed the design and included an italic version and a large variety of ligatures (both for regular and italic).
  • Type Republic: Pradell, Trochut, SuperVeloz, SV Marfil Caps (2004), SV Fauno Caps. Pradell was freely inspired from punches cut by catalan punchcutter Eudald Pradell (1721-1788), and is considered to be Balius' main work. Trochut is based on specimens from the 1940s by Joan Trochut. SuperVeloz is a collection of the type modules designed by Joan Trochut and produced at José Iranzo foundry in the beginning of the 40's, in Barcelona. Digitized and recovered by Andreu Balius and Alex Trochut in 2004. Example of such composition of modules include the great art nouveau typefaces SV Fauno Caps and SV Marfil Caps. In 2007, he added Taüll, a blackletter type. Still in 2007, he did the revival Elizabeth ND, which was based on an old type of Elizabeth Friedlander.
  • In 2008, he created the Vogue mag like family Carmen (Display, Fiesta, Regular), which are rooted in the didone style. Carmen, and its flirtatious companion Carmen Fiesta, were both reviewed by Typographica.
  • Barna (2011) and Barna Stencil (2011).
  • In 2012, Trochut was published as a free font family at Google Web Fonts. It was based on Joan Trochut-Blanchard's Bisonte.
  • Lladro (2012) is a custom sans typeface done for the Lladro company.
  • Rioja (2013) is a grotesque typeface that was custom-designed for Universidad de La Rioja.
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Andrew Buckle

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). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Byrom

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]  ⦿

Andrew Byron

Type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Edward Fish

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]  ⦿

Andrew Grabelnikov

Creator of the paperclip font Mothership Connection (2009). He is located in Odessa, Ukraine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Lockhart

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]  ⦿

Andrew McConville

Designer in Milwaukee, WI. Behance link. Creator of the experimental typeface Tik (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew R. Makely

Interface designer from Lawrenceville, GA, who graduated from Georgia Tech in Atlanta, and who created the experimental typefaces AMBubbla, HalfTonBleenUpper. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Tindale
[Tyntyp]

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Andrew Vilar

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
[Andrij Type]

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Andrij Type
[Andrij Shevchenko]

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.

  • Agarsky (2006, a bold casual script face) which used to be called Agara until Berthold complained about the possible confusion with Agora.
  • Zion Train (2007, an experimental sans in 20 styles).
  • Andrij Script. See here.
  • Andrij Hand (a Cyrillic handwriting font, 2002-2006; see discussion).
  • Strudel (2002, informal handprinting).
  • ALS Agrus (2005-2006, a script face, Art Lebedev Studio).
  • Machinegun (2005, octagonal military look).
  • Magela (2003, a Cyrillic sans).
  • Hajdamaka (2004, a bouncy Latin/Cyrillic script).
  • Also check out his lettering (not fonts) in Kozaku (2005, a flowing Cyrillic script), XLibna (2005, another Cyrillic script) and here (2005).
  • The semi-serifed Oksana (2007, 6 styles), Oksana Sans (2007, +Condensed), Oksana Text (2008), Oksana Cyrillic (2007), Oksana Greek (2007), and Oksana Text Swash (2008). This was followed by Oksana Text Narrow (2011), Oksana Sans (+Wide) and Oksana Sans Compressed (2011), which have hairline weights.
  • Osnova Pro (2010): a sans family that covers Cyrillic, Greek and Latin.
  • Ababa (2002, Cyrillic lettering).
  • Turbota (2010) is a rounded Latin / Cyrillic type family that was was developed as part of an identity system for Turbota, a center for disabled children in the Ukraine.
  • Arsenal (2011). A free typeface that won a national Ukrainian type competition called the Mystetsky Arsenal contest.
  • Seaside (2011) is a Peignotian face.
  • Bandera Pro (2011) is a useful workhorse square serif type family that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Accompanied by Bandera Text (2014) and Bandera Display (2014).
  • Arsenal (2012) is a workhorse sans family for Latin and Cyrillic. It won the Mystetsky Arsenal contest, and is free.

    Zion Train Pro (2012, +Stencil): Originally ZionTrain was built as a (probably first in Cyrillic!) navigation typeface for the Kharkiv identity project and Kharkiv subway and airport navigation systems. We wanted comprehensible, distinctive letterforms, that can help everybody on the way from Babylon to Zion. The project was used in Kharkiv promotion at homeland and abroad, but was rejected by the new government. As a corporate typeface it was used for a few cultural projects. Now it is equipped with Slavic Cyrillic and Monotonic Greek.

  • Humus (2007-2022). A ten-style humanist / lapidary Latin / Ukrainian Cyrillic / Greek typeface that is characterized by flared terminals.

Additional URL.

MyFonts interview.

Showcase of Andrij Shevchenko's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrijana Miladinovic

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]  ⦿

Andrius Maknevicius

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]  ⦿

Angèle Banus

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]  ⦿

Angela Coote

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]  ⦿

Angela Korporaal

Toronto-based graphic artist who created the water-and-ink experimental alphabet drips (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angela Michanitzi

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]  ⦿

Angeles Moreno

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]  ⦿

Angesom Tesfasellassie

Graphic and print designer in Birmingham, UK. He created the experimental typeface AviationAirplaneEngines (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angus R. Shamal
[ARS Type (was ARS Design)]

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Anik Ya
[An An]

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Anita Jürgeleit
[Type This Studio]

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Anita Lam

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]  ⦿

Anji Ren

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

Ankhbayar Byambasuren is a digital artist based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Behance link. He made the ultra-fat experimental typeface TSELMEG (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ann Piecha

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]  ⦿

Anna Alekhina

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]  ⦿

Anna Balizs

During her graphic design studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts Budapest, Hungary, Anna Balizs created the experimental geometric typeface Triongl (2013).

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Anna Batog

Odense, Denmark-based creator of the free ai format font Paper (2013), which consists entirely of superimposed triangles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Brejsova

Graphic designer in Prague, who created the sharp-edged display typeface Annya (2013) and the experimental typeface Antipon (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Bulka

Moscow-based designer of the shaky handcrafted typeface Lefty (2015), which emulates left-handed writing of a right-handed person. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Chebakova

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]  ⦿

Anna Dardou

Paris, France-based designer of the experimental typeface Cercle in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna de Sando

Kansas City, MO-based creator of the distorted typeface Para (2012), which was designed during her studies at the Kansas City Art Institute.

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Anna Dorsey

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]  ⦿

Anna Drozd

During her studies, Yekaterinburg, Russia-based Anna Drozd designed the free experimental Latin / Cyrillic typeface Abraxas (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Karpinski

Student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Creator of Form Font (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Le ortz

French designer of the experimental all caps typeface Magnets (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Lukyanchenko

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]  ⦿

Anna Skrinnikova

During her studies at Royal Academy Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium), Anna Skrinnikova designed the experimental typeface Noach (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annaëlle Cousinié

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]  ⦿

Anne Faure

Lyon, France-based designer of the experimental typefaces Tangram (2017) and Alphabody (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Joshua

Dutch graphic designer in Roosendaal. Behance link. Creator of a colorful typographic experiment with overlays and weaving (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne-Sophie Hostert

Parisian typographer and graphic designer. She created the experimental typeface called Brush (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annika Mechelhoff

German designer of a few experimemtal typefaces in 2017 such as Futura Zensur, Futura Fragment and Futura Echo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthea Tay

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]  ⦿

Anthony Barnett

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]  ⦿

Anthony Neil Dart

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
[Santi Vilagran Casanovas]

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]

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.

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Antitype

Experimental typography. Under construction. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anto J. Lareneg

American designer (b. 1987) of Indigalian (2002), an extremely experimental font. Real name Lauren Rupp. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Gridz

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.

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Anton Izorkin
[Xaotik]

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Anton Koovit

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]  ⦿

Anton Sokolov

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
[Atelier Bubentraum (or: Nouvelle Noire)]

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Anton Woll Söder

New York City-based designer of the 3d experiment Type My Face (2015). Home page for DFMN. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoni Tudisco

Hamburg-based designer of Cleptotronik (2012), a 3d visual effects caps alphabet.

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Antonio Briano

Brazilian designer of the experimental typeface Perspective (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aoyce C

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]

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:

  • Brutildo (2006): squarish headline lettering.
  • Butalci (1998, a pixel font) is a part of Domen's diploma project at Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana, supervised by Janez Suhadolc.
  • Gyro (1998-2001) is an octagonal monospace font with 3 weights.
  • Exlibris (2001-2003) is an experimental face.
  • Pozor (1999) is a squarish sans, as for traffic signage.
  • Terragni (1998) is an alphabet study based on the floor plan composition analysis of the house 'Casa del Fascio' in Como by the architecta Giuseppe Terragni.
  • DinoUnicase (1997) is a variation on DIN Mittelschrift.
  • Narod (2003) was made for designing commemorative coins at 60th anniversary of Kocevje Summit.
  • JH Luzern (1999) is based on a scan of a hotel room card.
  • Pesjan Debu (2011) is a fat angular poster typeface created during TipoBrda 2011.
  • Narod Krepak (2010) is an art deco sans titling typeface created during TipoBrda 2010000000
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Apirah Infahsaeng

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]  ⦿

Apollinaria Volskaya

Moscow-based designer of the experimental Cyrillic typeface Nadachu (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aquila Quentin

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]  ⦿

Ardak Mukanova

At Saint Petersburg State University (in Saint Petersburg, Russia), rdak Mukanova designed the experimental typeface Cumulus (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Argos Sastre Santoveña

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]  ⦿

Arhan Yalin

Istanbul-based designer of the minimalist typeface Archmage (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ari Weinkle

Ari Weinkle (Brookline, MA) created the circle-and-straight segment typeface Sisyphus (2012).

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Ariana Pereira

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
[Negro]

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Arina Vermen

Vilnius, Lithuania-based designer of several experimental Latin and Cyrillic typefaces in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arjun Makwana

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)
[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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Arlinda Lalaj

Visual designer in Seattle, WA, who created Tenso Type in 2014. Tenso Type is based on a mesh design. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Armando Pacheco Ortiz

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]  ⦿

Armine Chilingaryan

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]  ⦿

Arnaud Le Roux

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]  ⦿

Arnaud Saunier

Based in Marseille, France, Arnaud Saunier created the free experimental typeface Polygonal in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arne Meganck

Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Dirtyfax. Arne lives in Kontich. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnildo Junior Gehring

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.

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Arron Tierney

Manchester, UK-based designer. Behance link. Creator of the triangle-themed typeface Kosmos (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

ARS Type (was ARS Design)
[Angus R. Shamal]

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).

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arseniiv

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
[Cecilia Rodríguez]

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]  ⦿

Artem Moiseev

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
[Barkar Designs]

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Artemiy Kremer

As part of Kiosk Works (or: Playfaces Type foundry) in Moscow, Russia, Artemiy Kremer designed the experimental Latin / Cyrillic typeface Afform (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Maria

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
[Typearture Type Foundry]

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Arthur Schwarz

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]  ⦿

Artur Basto

During his studies in Porto, Portugal, Artur Basto designed an experimental typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artur Faria

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
[FontArte (was: Magdart Fonts)]

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Artur Nakhodkin

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of an experimental typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arve Båtevik
[Store Norske Skriftkompani]

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Asa Childress
[Ace Productionz]

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Ascinct
[Grant Sparks]

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]  ⦿

Asgier Jónnson

Designer in the FUSE 12 collection of the experimental barely legible font Dofus. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ash Silva

Ash Silva (New York City) scanned water drops laced with ink to create a super-experimental Ink Drop Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashish Kalpund

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]  ⦿

Ashley Garrod

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.

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Asma Nazir

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
[Alan Cheetham]

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

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)
[Anton Studer]

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).

Typecache link.

Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier de Design Holistique
[Joel Maillot]

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
[Peter 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]  ⦿

Atelier Ter Bekke-Behage

Designer of several multicolored type experiments. The pictures below are taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Attila Horvath
[Official Classic]

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Audrey Stanton

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]  ⦿

Audria Brumberg

Designer of Punkgaraphy (2010), an experimental face. Audria is into adverting and graphic design and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Audy Irwantoro

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]  ⦿

Augusto Ramirez

Asuncion, Paraguay-based designer of the free experimentasl Bodoni typeface Bodowi (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurélien Guerout

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

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
[Maarten Dullemeijer]

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

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]  ⦿

Avoid Red Arrows

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]  ⦿

Axel Morin

Art director and photographer in Paris. He experimented in 2009 with gridded typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ayda Ekin Mete

During her studies in Izmir, Turkey, Ayda Ekin Mete designed the circular experimential typeface Nubia Smartphone (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aydi Rainkarnichi

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).

Open Font Library link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ayesha Kapadia

Mumbia-based creator of Taj Mahal (2013, an experimental Devanagari / Latin typeface that was inspired by the shapes of the Taj Mahal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ayla Meridian

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]  ⦿

Azmi Kamarullah

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
[Kyle Read]

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:

  • Ermine: The Ermine Type Family is derived from one of the most illuminated eras in American History. President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched his New Deal in 1929 to get America back to work after the now infamous market crash and Great Depression. Between 1935 and 1943, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was established by presidential order and employed more than 8 million workers. Some of the more visible projects were posters created to promote tourism in the country's National Parks. More than 2,000,000 posters were printed by the Federal Art Project's poster division. Almost all of these posters have been lost or destroyed. The Ermine Family is designed to be reminiscent of this era of public art, drawing from the wonderfully quirky lettering styles of the WPA National Parks Posters themselves.
  • Bota Display: a didone typeface.
  • Guilder: a multiline and outline typeface family.

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
[Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

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)
[Reza Rasenda]

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]  ⦿

Balasz Pusztai

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
[Florian Bambhout]

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.

Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bang Chau

Jersey City, NJ-based designer of Degrade Typeface (2014), a minimalist experiment. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Chaloux

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]  ⦿

Baptiste Datin

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]  ⦿

Baptiste Guesnon

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]  ⦿

Barbara Brownie

Londoner who created the experimental Bezier-driven Blended Alphabet in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barbara Masson

Paris-based designer (b. 1993) of the free experimental condensed typeface Gestalt (2016). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barbara Scodelario

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
[Artem Sinigur]

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]

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]  ⦿

Baron Chau

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]  ⦿

Barry Slater

Graduate from the Bath School of Art and Design. He designed a counterless geometric typeface called Second Half (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barry Spencer

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]  ⦿

Bart Miko

London, UK-based designer of the experimental square-themed typeface Miko18 (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bartolomeu Jacq

Creator of the experimental typeface Blackie (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bartosz Janczak

Graphic designer in London. Flickr page. Creator of some experimental faces, including several 3-d alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bas Vaerewyck

Graphic designer in Sint Niklaas, Belgium. He created the experimental typeface RLF (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatrice Keniausyte

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
[Roy Poh]

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]  ⦿

Becky Sewell

During her studies at Flamouth University, UK, Becky Sewell created the minimalist typeface Undervalued (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Belen Cagnoni

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]  ⦿

Ben Dolphin

UK-based designer, who created Synthetic Stencil (2011) and Pixel Error (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Mecke-Burford
[M-B Creative]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ben Neumann

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]  ⦿

Ben Saurine

Parisian designer of the experimental typeface GBG (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benan Barwick

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]

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]  ⦿

Benjamin Brandt

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
[Dépli]

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Benjamin Koh

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]  ⦿

Benjamin Pollach

Berlin, Germany-based designer of an experimental font for Wired Magazine (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Rylewski

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]  ⦿

Benjamin Tuttle

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:

  • Clark (2006).
  • Plebeian (2021). An experimental text sans that started as a formal experiment with the modularity of Frank E. Blokland's letter model. Plebeian can be purchased at Order Type Foundry.
  • Pastiche Grotesque (2021). Released at Order Type Foundry. He explains: Pastiche Grotesque is type design fanfiction looking at late 19th century Gothics through the lens of mid-20th century Neo-grotesques. It hypothesizes what a Neo-grotesque might look like if lower contrast forefathers like Akzidenz or Venus didn't exist.
  • Amalgam. A knife-edged typeface originally drawn for a poster designed for the 9th Annual Spectacle Shriek Show, a day-long horror movie marathon.
  • No Gothic. A digital revival of the American Type Founders Gothic No. 578, which was originally released by Inland Type Foundry as Gothic No. 8 and Keystone Type Foundry as Standard Gothic. While staying faithful to the original outlines, the revival adds a few modernizations like kerning, an expanded character set and OpenType stylistic sets that reflect the changes in design between the Inland and Keystone releases.
  • Spectacle (2019). A text face designed during his studies at Type@Cooper for the Spectacle Theater and its cheaply printed monthly calendar of programming.
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Benoît Bodhuin
[BenBenWorld (or: BB Bureau)]

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Benoît Champy

French designer of these free typefaces that can be downloaded at Dafont:

  • Stencil category: Game Plan (2011), Karen Stencil (2011), Fine Stencil (2011), Stencil Gothic (2011).
  • Constructivist: Konstructiv (2011).
  • Handprinted or marker fonts: Andi (2014), Dker Finepoint (2011), Dker Feltpen (2011), Dker Poster (2011).
  • Grunge: Aerial Demented (2011).
  • Shadow face: Oh Jay (2011).
  • 3d face: Bleuck (2011).
  • Geometric experimental typefaces: Rondie (2011), Again (2011), Kawai Desu (2011), Modular Tkno (2011), Modern Plate (2012).
  • Upright connected script: Bellefine (2011).
  • 3D Simulation face: Bonus (2011).
  • Tuscan: De Flandre (2012).
  • Experimental: Comic Tragedy (2013), Scan Me (2011), Jizz Mass (2011, a gooey play on snow cover at Xmas...).
  • Ransom note typefaces: Weird Cuts (2012).
  • Arts and Crafts: Home Square (2012).
  • Other: Flea Market (2013), Computer Aid (2016).
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Benoit Bohly

Vancouver-based designer of a few experimental typefaces in 2014. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berenike Eimler

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

Bernard Anne (Bordeaux, France) created the experimental circle-based geometric typeface Circa (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berserker Studio
[Christopher Mooij]

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
[Stefan Ruetz]

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]  ⦿

Bettie Belle

Manchester, UK-based student-designer of an experimental geometric typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bianca Di Pietro

Bianca Di Pietro (Designed by Bianca, Hamilton,Ontario) created the circle-based experimental typeface Infinity (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bibiani Berardi

Miami, FL-based designer of the exprimental school project font Interlaced Alphabet (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bienal Letras Latinas 2006

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.

  • Tipografías para texto: Cheché Sans (Alfredo Parada Larrosa), Política (Alejandro Paul), UnePipe (Félix Lentino), MelloSans (Fernando de Mello Vargas / Vicente Gil Filho), Average (Eduardo Rodríguez Tunni), Botija Sans (Juan Montoreano), Ema (Juan Montoreano), Loreto (Eduardo Tunni / Pablo Cosgaya), Special Type (Silvana Caruso), Matutina Serif (Aldo de Losa), Prima Sans (Ariel Katena / Alejandro Lazos), Tauran Regular (Raúl García Plancarte), Darka (Gabriel Martinez Meave), Romance (Nicolás Pisano), TT Carmina (Verónika Burian / José Scaglione), Athelas (José Scaglione), Den Dekker (Yomar Augusto), Siquot Antigua (Luis Siquot), Tuhun (Diego Mier y Terán).
  • Tipografías para título: Botota (Javier Quintana), Inconexa (John Moore), Makiritare (John Moore), Palaima (John Moore), Robin Bienal II (John Moore), Affair (Alejandro Paul), Ministry Script (Alejandro Paul), Suave Script (Alejandro Paul), Buffet Script (Alejandro Paul), Whomp (Alejandro Paul), Oxida (Angel Koziupa / Alejandro Paul), Cenizas (Angel Koziupa / Alejandro Paul), Chocolate (Koziupa / Alejandro Paul), Alma (Angel Koziupa / Alejandro Paul), Malambo (Angel Koziupa / Alejandro Paul), Koziupack (Angel Koziupa / Alejandro Paul), Candy Script (Alejandro Paul), Overlock (Daría Manuel Muhafara), Herencia (Diego Giaccone / Alejandro Paul), Sudestada (Diego Giaccone / Alejandro Paul), Boqueta (Gustavo Lassala), Póstuma (Roberto Raúl Janz), Moho (John Moore), BEC (Eduardo Castillo), Tosca (Cristián González Sáiz), Imperio (Juan Ignacio Siwak), Rotman (Oscar Salinas Losada), Non nova, sed nove (Javier Gómez), Minotax (Milagros Santini), Revolver (Octavio Alonso López), Revolución (Luciano Vergara), Mixa (José De Los Santos), FH After (Fabio Luiz Haag / Foco Design by Type), Chile Sans (Miguel Hernández).
  • Tipografías para pantalla: stgotic (Daniel Hernández), Rexel (Alejandro Posada / Carlos J. Roldán), cp_cursi (Carlos J. Roldán), Escrin (Martín Gonzalez).
  • Tipografías experimentales: Clave de Fá (Dimitre Lima), Sinestesia (María Victoria Lamas), HH Pólvora (Quique Ollervides Uribe), Goteira (Rogerio Lionzo), Cubius Concretius (Marcel Pereira Ursini), PD Boquerón (Johanny Franchi / Prodiseño), Beautiful Pixel (Guillermo Vizzari).
  • Tipografías de misceláneas: Desprecio (Carlos Carpintero), Bangalo vive (Carlos Carpintero), Olé Flamenco / Olé Torero (Víctor García), Orlas (Juan Luis Carrera), Minsap Liván (Padilla Sigler), Zabumba City (Fátima Finizola).
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Billy Bacon
[Nú-Dës]

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Billy Flynn

London-based designer of the poster typeface Grizzly (2013) and the experimental typeface Robust (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Binggy Zhao

Designer in Enschede, The Netherlands, who created the experimental typeface Unknown Secret (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Birdy Liu

Xian, China-based designer of Line Typeface (2014), a typeface based on lines found in the map of Xian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Birgit Mayer

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
[Brikk]

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Blaise Sumerah Kal
[Blaise Sumerah Kal (was: 4Logoz)]

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Blaise Sumerah Kal (was: 4Logoz)
[Blaise Sumerah Kal]

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]  ⦿

Blake E. Marquis

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]  ⦿

Blanche de Lasa

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
[Manuel Guerrero]

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]  ⦿

Blumoo

Poster artist in Lima, Peru. In 2021, he/she designed Experimental (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

B.N. Keerthana

During her studies, Woodlands, Singapore-based B.N. Keerthana created an experimental geometric typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bob Nguyen

Bob Nguyen is a graphic artist in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Creator of some experimental typefaces in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bobby Liu

Designer of the experimental typeface Logica (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bold
[Oskar Lübeck]

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
[Pieter van Rosmalen]

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

  • Aniek (2009: a children's script).
  • Bilo (2018: a grotesque).
  • Capibara (2007).
  • Dico (2004-2020). A varied suite of 45 typefaces by ncompassing eight proportional and monospaced sub-families (Sans, sas Soft, Mono, Code One, Code Two, Typefwriter, Slab, Mono Slab). It circles around a sans-serif van Rosmalen started in 2004 for design studio Teldesign, comprehensively updated and expanded upon in 2020. The monospaced script styles are loosely based on Corinthian Script for the IBM Selectric.
  • Nitti (2008: monospaced), Nitti Grotesk (2012-2014), Nitti Mostro (2015, +Stencil, +Disco, a splendid multiline headline typeface), Nitti Typewriter (2009).
  • Panno (2008, a sans), Panno Sign, Panno Text (2008-2010). By Van Rosmalen and van der Laan).
  • Pinup (fat rounded sans, done in 2008). In 2013, he published Pinup Dotted (a textured typeface).
  • Stanley (headline face, done in 2008; includes a stencil).
  • Puffin, Puffin Display (rounded informal sans families) and Puffin Arcade (a large bitmap font family).

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.

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Bomparte's Fonts
[John Bomparte]

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
[Boris Schandert]

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]  ⦿

Boon E. Lim

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]  ⦿

Boris Popov

Russian designer of the experimental font PT Duetto (2001-2002, Paratype).

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Boris Schandert
[BOODAS.DE]

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Boris Stoll

Swiss designer of the experimental geometric typeface Boris Light (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boris Vargas Vasquez

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)
[Mateusz Machalski]

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]  ⦿

Bosque Studio

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]  ⦿

Botond Csiby-Gindele

At the Visual Arts Institute, Eger, Hungary, Botond Csiby-Gindele (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania) designed the experimental square typeface Qadratic (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bowen Li

Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of the experimental typeface family Silo Park (2015), which was inspired by industrial architecture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

BQ Studio

Located in Paris, BQ Studio designed the experimental typeface Air in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bradley Stewart

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)
[Abraham Beltran]

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).

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Brandon Tyler Fields

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
[Webster&Wallace Creative Agency]

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Branislav S. Cirkovic
[TypoFlat]

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Brass Fonts
[Guido Schneider]

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).

Klingspor link.

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Brendan Ginsburg

Richmond, VA-based designer of Databent Type (2013), an experimental set of typefaces that makes your eyes hurt. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Kaszonyi
[Circus Design]

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Brian LaRossa

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:

  • Dada Tank: A condensed, rounded display typeface with a curious combination of thick and thin strokes designed. The alphabet was extrapolated from the title lettering on Dragan Aleksic's International Dada review (1922).
  • Irradiador: The heavy rectangle almost constructivist alphabets were extrapolated from the title lettering of Fermín Revueltas's 1923 journal which was a major early voice for the Mexican avant-garde movement called Estridentismo. It features two full alphabets of uppercase characters and common accents with eighteen ligatures between them.
  • Say So: Created in response to Robert Rauschenberg's This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so. It features full sets of uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols. All of the characters are a portrait of Iris Clert.

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]  ⦿

Brian McCall

Hamden, CT-based designer of the experimental typeface Innossence (sic) (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Briana Zajac

Designer based at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI, who created the minimalist experimental font Broken Arrow (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bridey

FontStructor who made Grizzly, ZXebbidy, Ocean liner, Linked (experimental) and Disco (texture face) in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bright Woo

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
[Michael Chereda]

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
[Björn Johansson]

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]  ⦿

Britta Siegmund

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]

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.

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Bruna Fonyat

Rio de Janeiro-based designer of the hairline sans typeface Fina (2015) and of the experimental modular typeface Fony Font (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruna Mix

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
[Pixel Orchestra]

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Bruno Fontanelle

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]  ⦿

Bruno Forcine

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]  ⦿

Bruno Formiga

Graphic and web designer in Cambridge, UK. Creator of Atomo (2013, an experimental typeface) and Medieval (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Kervern

French graphic designer. His typefaces include the experimental MetaMecane and Bell-Pae. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno La Versa

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
[Dalton Maag]

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Bruno Roda

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]  ⦿

Bunley Lim

Philadelphia, PA-based designer of the techno typeface Krypton (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Burdock

Burdock Design is located in London. It created the modular geometric tiling typeface Shapes (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bureau 205 (was: Trafik)
[Damien Gautier]

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.

Klingspor link.

View Damien Gautier's typefaces. Interview by Type Today. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bureau d'Investigation Graphique
[Nicolas Millot]

French designer based in Lille. He designed the video game typeface Arcade and the experimental hipster typefaces Music and Moebius. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Byoung-Il Choi

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.

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C. George Brown

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
[Davin Perry]

American designer who made the free experimental fonts Discus (2011, circle-based), Atlantean (2011) and Aced It (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cagdas Ilke Unal
[Föy Studio]

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Cagri Kara

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.

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Calango
[Jeroen Krielaars]

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]  ⦿

Calder Hansen

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
[Ricard Marxer Piñón]

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.

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Cameron Gibson

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]  ⦿

Cameron Humphries

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
[Ripe Type]

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Camila Errea

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]  ⦿

Camilla Cima

Designer in Milan. Behance link. Creator of the Stapler Font (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camille Baillot

Parisian designer of Wim Crouwel Type (2015, together with Sabine Condiescu and Julie Soudanne) and the experimental typeface Akot (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camille Kerdraon

Paris-based designer of the experimental wiry typeface Frissons (2019) and the Superveloz-inspired Binome (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Camille Moine

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]  ⦿

Camilo Herrera

San Carlos, Chile-based designer of the Google] [More]  ⦿

Canwei Lai

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
[Michael Genova]

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
[Styler Design]

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Carlijn Hoogenboom

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]  ⦿

Carlos de Toro

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]  ⦿

Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero

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
[Q-BO]

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Carmen Reina

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]  ⦿

Carol Hung

Art director in Toronto who made the experimental typeface Alienese (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carol-Anne Ryce-Paul

Visual designer at Sesame Workshop in New York City, who created Brandless Typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carole Gautier
[My Name is Wendy]

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Carolin Wohltmann

Hannover, Germany-based designer of the jagged experimental typeface Transformer (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Dahl

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]  ⦿

Caroline de Pont

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]  ⦿

Caroline Ibikunle

During her studies at UCA Farnham, UK, Caroline Ibikunle (Sutton, UK) created the experimental geometric typeface Neo (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caroline Kan

Design student in London. Designer of the experimental typeface Triangle (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caroline Prudhon

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]  ⦿

Carolyn X. Yang

Seattle-based creator of the experimental typeface Retro Loops (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carsten Ost

Experimental font designer in Germany. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Casey Castille

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]  ⦿

Casey Webb

Graphic designer in Albuquerque, NM. Creator of the experimental typeface Forestwood (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cassey Baker

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]  ⦿

Cata Rina

During her studies in Lisbon, Portugal, Cata Rina designed the experimental Chinese Arabic Alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Catarina Almeida

At the University of Aveiro, Portugal, Catarina Almeida created the experimental Everyday Typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Catarina Silvacs

FontStructor who made a number of pixelish experimental typefaces in 2011: Sweet Pain, Two and a half cookies, Marshmallows, Marshmallows 2. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Catarina Vilhena Cabrita

Graphic designer in Portimao, Portugal, who created the minimalist straight-edged modular typeface Anglar (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Céline Odermatt

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]  ⦿

Céline van Bakel

Hasselt, Belgium-based student-designer of the experimental typeface Onyx (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Céline Vandermeulen

As a student in Liè, Belgium, Céline Vandermeulen designed a grid-based geometric typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

César Rodríguez

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.

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Cecile Gavage

Namur, Belgium-based designer of Brasero (2011), an experimental typeface.She also created an upright connected school font family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cecilia Eleno

In 2011, Cecilia Eleno (Buenos Aires, Argentina) created the triangularly cut typeface Tipografia Abstracta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cecilia Rodríguez
[Art Serrano]

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Celia Grandhomme

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]  ⦿

Celina Oggero

Argentinian designer in Buenos Aires of an experimental poster typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cem Yönetim

Studio in Istanbul, Turkey. Designer of Cemo Sans (2018), an experimental typeface that features plenty of flattops and flatbottoms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cerys Wilcox

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]  ⦿

Ch Ng

Chinese designer of some experimental Latin typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chamichaze

Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of Lala (pixelish script), Sunday (great vertical-stripe stencil), Radiotic (rounded), Blabla (experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chanida Kittimethee

As a student at Boston University, Chanida Kittimethee designed the experimental typeface (2018) based only on lines and circles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chantelle King

Australian-born graphic design student at Manchester Metropolitan University. She created the experimental typeface Bang (2012).

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Charles Combs

Charles Combs from Austin, TX, runs the design studio Charles Combs Design. He created Ghost Font (2010, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles Pellens

Senior designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, who created Triangular (2013), an experimental 3d typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles S. Wilkin
[Prototype Experimental Foundry]

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Charlie Jennings

As a student in Edinburgh, Scotland, Charlie Jennings created the experimental minimalist sans typeface Beyond (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charline Finster

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]  ⦿

Charlotte Ferron

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 Gray

Charlotte Grey (Hastings, UK) drew an alphabet in one continuous line and called it Connected Typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charlotte Utecht

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]  ⦿

Chase Hasper

As a student at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI-based Chase Hasper created the experimental modular typeface Dord (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cheng Cheng

During her studies in Buffalo, NY, Vivian Cheng created the 3d typeface Cubes (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cher Van Tol

Illustrative designer in Den Haag, who made the experimental typeface Hoogtelijnen (2011), as if each glyph were a meteorological map. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cherdsak Chaiyaso

Bangkok-based designer of the experimental typeface Gothia (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chi Mwasinga

Creator in Cape Town, South Africa, of the straight-edged geometric typeface Harsh Phuk (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chiara Costanzo

San Diego, CA-based designer of the experimental threaded typeface Mercurial (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chiharu Tanaka

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:

  • The roman and ornamental retail typeface family HaruNami (2010, Psy Ops). She writes: HaruNami (spring wave) is a family of decorative typefaces which fuse together Japanese ornamentation with the Roman alphabet. My purpose with this project is to find a balance between the designs of the West and the East. My hope is to share the Japanese aesthetic with an International audience. HaruNami has a unique stylistic system that ranges from Simple to Ornate.
  • Corporate typefaces for Tokyu Hands (an icon set, dated 2002), Landor (San Diego Zoo), Psy/Ops (Chevrolet; Bollinger Motors). Louis, done for Chevrolet under the creative direction of Rodrigo Cavazos at Psy/Ops, is a six-style DIN-like industrial grotesque for Latin and Cyrillic.
  • The corporate typefaces Reitmans Script.
  • Tegaki. An experimental brush script.
  • Mie. A hand-drawn font that attempts to obfuscate the border between letters and art.
  • Txt 1010 (2014). An experimental typeface to make fancy borders using opentype prowess. Done together with Carolina de Bartolo while working at Psy/Ops.
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Chris Bentham

Leeds, UK-based graphic designer who created the display typefaces Bones (2012) and Cuckoo (2012).

Cargo collective link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Cappilla

Graphic designer in Agoura Hills, CA. Creator of some experimental typefaces in the period 2012-2014.

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Chris Dale

Student at the University of Greenwich, UK. Designer of the experimental typeface Binary Code (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Fleugel

Vancouver, BC-based designer of an experimental typeface in 2017, obtained by cutting an existing typeface in half. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Moore

Northampton, UK-based designer of the experimental typefaces Juniper Regularis (2014), Portmanteau (2014) and ramen (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Ro

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]  ⦿

Chris Shuttleworth

Leeds, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Dead Space (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chris Stephenson

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]  ⦿

Chris Thompson

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.

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Chris Webster

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
[Adnauseum]

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Christian Küsters
[ACME Fonts (or: CHK Design)]

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Christian Lang
[Dayflash]

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Christian Naths

Christian Naths (Edmonton, Alberta) created the experimental typeface Redacted (2013) and the icon font Climacons (2013, with Adam Whitcroft). Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian Pietrzok

Designer of a couple of experimental geometric typefaces in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christina Cedeño

During her studies at California State University, Long Beach, Christina Cedeño created Grow (2014), a typeface inspired by outdoor living wall panels. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christina Dias Andrade

During her studies at Middlesex University, London-based Christina Dias Andrade designed Missing Anatomy Typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christine ADM

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]  ⦿

Christine Thompson

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]  ⦿

Christoph Spatschek

German designer of the experimental typeface Zopf (2009, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christophe Corrette

Marseille, France-based designer of a swashy decorative and a 3d typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christophe Martin
[orangebleu (was Terra Nova, or 808 State)]

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Christophe Vermijlen

Fellow Belgian Christophe Vermijlen (Hasselt) created an experimental 3d typeface called Tilting Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Goodwin

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.

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Christopher Mooij
[Berserker Studio]

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Christopher Sieradzan

Graphic designer in Baltimore, who created a multicolored geometric experimental alphabet in 2013 called CMY Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Skinner

King's Lynn, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Pabulum (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Circus Design
[Brian Kaszonyi]

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.

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Ciscu Design
[Ciscu Gomez Garcia]

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
[Ciscu Design]

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Cláudio Campos

MA student in design at IADE in Oeiras, Portugal. He created Match Font (2011), an alphabet composed of match sticks. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cláudio Rocha

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:

  • ITC Gema (1998: a felt tip pen font) and ITC Underscript (1997, a grungy fat script).
  • Cashew (2000-2020). Cashew is a rounded squarish sans serif font, originally created as a logotype for Tupigrafia magazine (2000). In its 2020 iteration, done together with Lucas Franco, it is a variable font with one axis, from Regular to Extended.
  • Tenia.
  • Viela Regular (Claudio Rocha & Lucas Franco, 2008-2019). A great thick-and-thin typeface.
  • Unidin (sans display face).
  • Rock Regular (slab face). Rock Titling (1998-2019).
  • Old Future (a brush version of Futura).
  • Chacal Pixel.
  • Persplextiva (2001-2002, a bouncy hand-drawn 3d face done in the lettering style of Brazilian cartoonist Millor Fernandes).
  • Liquid Stencil (1998-2000). A brush stencil.
  • Feijoada Light.
  • Akrylicz Grotesk (2002, brush/paint face).
  • Sampa (1999-2019). An informal brush script.
  • Genova (2008-2020). A reinterpretation of Paganini typeface, lauched by Nebiolo type foundry in 1928 for hand composition and developed by Alessandro Butti under the supervision of Raffaello Bertieri.
  • Stampface (2006-2018, by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco). Based on a Headline Gothic metal type sample found in a reference book, which was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1936 for American Type Founders.
  • Pieces Stencil (2016). Think piano key or Futura Stencil.
  • Antonio Maria (2017): Antonio Maria, a font by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco, takes its shapes from the lettering found in the cover of Afixação Proibida (Display Prohibited), a book by the Portuguese poet Antonio Maria de Lisboa (1928-1953). In fact, Antonio Maria was the leader-writer of Afixação Proibida, a collective manifesto from 1949, that initiated the surrealist movement in Portugal. It is an inverted-contrast typeface with 150 ligatures and a large character set.
  • Rudolf Antiqua and Rudolf Initials (2018). A faithful revival of Rudolf Koch's Koch Antiqua (1922). Followed by Rudolf Text (2017-2020, Lucas Franco and Claudio Rocha).
  • Mefistofele. A revival in 2018 by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco of the modular stencil typeface Mefistofele (1930, Reggiani foundry).
  • Rudolf Titling (Lucas Franco and Claudio Rocha), a typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018.
  • Agora Titling Extra Light (2018).
  • Pieces Stencil (2016-2019). Pieces is a piano key typeface built on a modular system with emphasis on diagonal endings.
  • Moreira Serif (2019). A slab serif version of Morris Fuller Benton's art deco typeface Broadway (1927). In the 1930s, the Portuguese graphic artist Antonio Moreira Junior added serifs to Broadway's letterforms and marketed it under a new name. Moreira Serif revives that typeface.
  • Scarpa Titling (2019, Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco). An all caps typeface based on a nameplate found on the front door of a shoemaker in Treviso, Northern Italy.
  • Anton (2020, by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco). An art deco typeface modeled after a Dutch deco type seen on the Anton Antonius Kurvers's cover of Wendingen in 1927.
  • Esperanca Sans (2019). A Peignotian sans by Claudio Rocha & Lucas Franco.
  • Jaguaribe (2020). In Unicase and Serif versions, by Claudio Rocha. A squarish sans and serif pair based on the of letterforms drawn by Brazilian artist Gil Duarte.
  • Spinface (2020). An experimental turned letter font by Claudio Rocha and Lucas Franco.
  • Werner (2020-2021). A revival of A.D. Werner's famous deco inline typeface Dubbeldik (1972).
  • Densa (2020). Emulating 19th century wood types. Densa typeface was based on the Fantastic Voyage movie title in the 1966 poster
  • Tegel (2020-2021). Tegel is a layer font that emulates the ceramic tile letters found on a school façade in Delft.
  • Etna Futurist (2020, Claudio Rocha & Lucas Franco). Digital interpretation of Etna, a wood type produced by the Italian type foundry Xilografia Meneghello & Belluzzo, in the 1920s.
  • Cassiano (2020). A super-fat octagonal typeface based on letters found on a book cover by the Brazilian artist Belmonte (1896-1947).
  • Fortunato (2020). A digital interpretation of the lettering work done by the Italian Futurist genius Fortunato Depero (1892-1960) for advertising and editorial design. A pure Italian art deco typeface. The lowercases were developed from scratch.
  • Jurriaan (2021). A square block typeface.
  • Hendrik (2021, by Claudio Rocha & Lucas Franco). A revival of Simplex (Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos, 1937).
  • Martin (Swing, Straight) (2020). A beatnik typeface based on the letters found in the jazz record albuns designed by David Stone Martin (1913-1992).
  • Tesoura (2020). A paper-cut typeface.

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.

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Claire Crisci

Grenoble, France-based designer of the experimental typeface bold Grotesk (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claire Daisey

Claire Daisey (Muncie, IN) created the experimental typeface Sharp Edge (2013) that plays with negative spaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clara Antolin

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]  ⦿

Clarice Dall'Orto

London, UK-based designer of Conceptual (2014), an experimental font based on circles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clarinta Leoni

Graphic designer in Singapore who created the geometric chromatic typeface Rangeo (2013). Rangeo was inspired by Rangoli, a folk art from India. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clarissa Tossin

Designer at Die Gestalten of Arvore (2003, experimental). A'Brasil link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claude Pelletier

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:

  • Aerolite C Pone (2013). A calligraphic connected copperplate script.
  • Angelica CP (2011). After a Fotostar font, Angelica, ca. 1960.
  • Banner Star (2012). An American flag-themed display typeface.
  • Barrio CP (2011). An inline face based on a Neufville original.
  • BeansCP (2010, after a font found on page 10 of Art Deco Display Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo).
  • Bienetresocial (2003), BienetresocialBold (2003).
  • Bizarre and Bizarrerie (2010; based on Edwards and Inland, both designed in 1895 by Nicholas J. Werner at the Inland Type Foundry; renamed in 1925 by BBS)
  • Bloque Demo (2011). Experimental.
  • Bold (2008)
  • Bolina (2015). A copperplate calligraphic script after Dan X. Solo's alphabet shown on page 12 of Dan X Solo. Script and Cursive Alphabets (1987, Dover).
  • Bonte Divine (2017).
  • Carre (2009, athletic numerals).
  • Caslon CP (2012, based on Caslon 223 Bold).
  • Champignon (1999-2009, a formal calligraphic script)
  • Chartrand (2010, Victorian)
  • Chomage (2009)
  • Chopin Script (1999-2010, calligraphic; after Polonaise by Phil Martin)
  • Constanze Initials (2010). After Constanze Initials by Joachim Romann (1956).
  • Crayonnette (2000-2001). Same as his earlier font Derniere (1999).
  • DeClaude (2010, patterned and named after DeVinne)
  • Dojo CP (2011)
  • Dynamic CP (2010, based on page 48 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces as Dynamic Deco)
  • Ebony (2011). Based on a Marder&Luse design from 1890. Ebony is on page 38 of 100 Ornamental Alphabets by Dan X. Solo and also on page 43 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
  • Embrionic 85 (2012, +Swash Caps) and Embrionic 55 Swash (2012): an ink trap sans display family modeled after Robert Trogman's Embrionic in the FotoStar collection.
  • Essai (2003)
  • Euclid CP (2011): based on an 1880 typeface at Central Type Foundry.
  • Fancy Text (2004, blackletter)
  • Fantaisie1 (1999)
  • Gourmandise (2013), an exquisite Normandian-style didone display typeface.
  • Grandee CP (2014). Claude says that it is based on T.H. Grandee, but that is too cryptic for me...
  • Haricot (2010, a fat modular typeface based on Beans in the Dan Solo catalog)
  • Humeur (2001-2002, funny smilies)
  • IEC5000 (2011). A symbol font with electrical and other icons.
  • Initiales Medium (2011).
  • Jeux Cache (2016). A boxed letter font.
  • JohnHancockCP-Medium (2010, bold didone)
  • Landi Echo (2011). A remake of Landi Echo by Alessandro Butti (1939-1943).
  • La Tribune (2011). A newspaper type.
  • Le Golf or Le Trou (2010, art nouveau typeface by Antoine Szczebanski, digitized by Claude Pelletier; also on page 71 of the Solotype catalog)
  • Les Etoiles (2013): an inline typeface
  • Les Tuyaux (2018). A great slinky font.
  • Lionel CP (2010, a multiline typeface inspired by Letraset's 1973 typeface Stripes)
  • Louisa CP (2015). A free calligraphic copperplate script. Louisa CP is Louisa on page 56 of Script and Cursive Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo.
  • Malvern (1999)
  • Manquis CP (2012). A roman typeface.
  • Maratre (2013). A delicious connected copperplate calligraphic script that revives (or is almost identical to) François Boltana's Aurore (1993).
  • Monterey Wide (2011). A Tuscan ornamental face, based on a showing on page 22 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
  • Motscroises (1997)
  • Niaisage (2012). A lachrymal caps only typeface.
  • Oxford CP (2010, a multiline face, based on the 1960s typeface by Christine Lord)
  • Pasdecourbe (2003)
  • Pasdenom (2001, no punctuation)
  • Peak CP (2020). A revival of VGC's photo font Peak.
  • Pepinot (2012), an art nouveau typeface based on Coral Inline on page 190 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
  • Pistilli Roman (2011, after the original by Pistilli)
  • Postface (2012). A bold signage script face.
  • Rita Smith (2012). After Primavera by Rita Major.
  • Rogers, Rogers2 (1997). He says that it is not his font---that he just rearranged the glyphs. According to Claude, can be found in the book Treasury of Authentic Art Nouveau Alphabets, ed. Petzendorfer, Plate 23. It was made in 1902 by A.V. Haight for Inland Type foundry.
  • Salamandre (2012). A tall 19-th century style slab typeface based on Iguana, a design of Sally-Ann Grover.
  • Simplement (2011) is Cut-in Medium on page 163 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
  • Stylie Stymus (2012).
  • Threshold (2014).
  • TriangleETcircleShadow, TriangleETcircleShadowed (2010, 3d iron work style face)
  • UptightC (2010, multiline face).
  • Whitin Condensed Black (015). Whitin Condensed Black is Whitin Black Condensed on page 151 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
  • YagiUHFNo2 (2012).
  • Zenith CP (2016). A free connected calligraphic (wedding) script typeface.
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Claudia Leonardo

During her studies in Seimbra, Portugal, Claudia Leonardo designed the experimental typeface Fantastico (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudia Sanchez

Claudia Sanchez (Santiago de Cali, Colombia) designed the Latin display typeface oddly named Cirilica (2012) and the experimental alphabet HiTu (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudine Stepien

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]  ⦿

Claudio Piccinini

Type designer from Modena, Italy, b. 1969. Designer of these fonts:

  • Memory (1993): will be on the Fontomas CD for the Kids Organization Woldvision Germany later in 2002.
  • Ottomat (1994, Emigre), an avant-gardish font family.
  • Neoritmo (1996), a gorgeous semi-experimental font family completed in 2002 for Psy-Ops [read about its development here].
  • Reality (1996), Exegetic (1997), Fear Unknown (1997), Inexpressed (1997): all at Thirstype.
  • Ideal (1999), unreleased.
  • Ogilve (2001, Thirstype).
  • Squatront (2002, Thirstype): to be released soon.
He started Thoughtype, a site for critiques and type talk. Bio at Emigre. Speaker at ATypI in Rome in 2002. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Claudio Pousada
[SantoTipo]

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Claudio Reston
[Tipopotamo Fontes]

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Clémence Paulik

Lyon, France-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Holes (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clément Chauvin

Graphic designer in Nantes, France who created Typo 1 (a threaded typeface) and Typo 2 (a textured typeface) in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clemens Rothbauer

Dresden, Germany-based designer of the experimental (modular) typeface Sega (2009, 26plus-zeichen).

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Clotilde Olyff

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.

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Clouds Hintzmann

During her studies, Barcelona, Spain-based Clouds Hintzmann designed the experimental typeface Gigster (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clovis Vallois
[Nouvelle Noire]

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C.M. Dionysio

FontStructor who designed the experimental typeface Teste 2 (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CNESS

Senior at the University of Delaware studying Visual Communications. He/she designed the playful modular typeface Pea Pod (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Coco Anouk

Aka Adamas Regular. Coco Anouk designed the free fonts Paranoid (2012, experimental triangular typeface) and Pasion (2012, balloonish typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Codesign

Creator of the free experimental typeface UHU (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Coil Graphics

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]  ⦿

Colin R. Gibson

Derby, UK-based graphic designer who created experimental typefaces called Bipolar (2012) and OCD (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Coline Caillier

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]  ⦿

Collectif MBC (was: MBC Graph)

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:

  • From 2013: Juliano (2013, rounded sans for the restaurant Gusti del Gusto).
  • From 2014: Plumber (rounded slab serif), Esposito (rounded sans), Polaris (rounded sans), Juliano (2013, rounded sans for the restaurant Gusti del Gusto), Sept Nains (a seven style type system based on Fonderie Olive's Simplex Gras, 1937), Raymond (slab serif), Monolab (monospaced), Aftur (a sans caps typeface that is partly art deco and partly futuristic; influenced by Cassandre's Bifur), Antique Calque (a layered typeface system), Lazy Super (a pixel face) and the variable width and variable height experiment called Expendable.
  • Typefaces from 2015: Gnome (a sans done for the Centre Régional du Livre Franche-Comté), Monocle (a sans typeface for Cyclop Jazz Action), Laborio, Ploum (an art nouveau stencil), MFB (an art deco poster typeface family named after Morris Fuller Benton).
  • Typefaces from 2016: Saljan, Buck01.

Tumblr link. Behance link. Old URL. Typeface catalog [PDF]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Colleen Hancuch

During her studies in Chicago, Colleen Hancusch created a Geometrypography (2013), a typeface built up from simple geometric solids. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Colleen Kane

Graphic designer in Chicago, who created a hipster typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Collis Ta'eed

Sydney, Australia-based web designer, who created the ultra thin experimental typeface Machine Man (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Colophon
[David Bennewith]

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]  ⦿

Conor Dorsett

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]  ⦿

Corey Holms

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.

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Corey J. Dixon

British creator of Molecular (2011), an experimental typeface in which glyphs represent parts of organic chemical compounds. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corinne Lavaerts

Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental font Estippo 55. Corinne lives in Hove. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cornelia Aust

Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typefaces Split One and Split Two (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corradine Fonts
[Manuel Eduardo Corradine]

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.

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Corrie Boustany

Beirut, Lebanon-based designer of the experimental Arabic typeface Totem (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cortney Cassidy

Graphic designer in San Francisco, CA, who made the experimental typeface Sci-Fi (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Courtney

American creator of the display typeface Energetic Audacity (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Craig Cummings

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
[Teeline Fonts]

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Craig Stainton
[SelfBuild Type Foundry]

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Craig Ward

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).

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Cranbrook Design

Experimental typography by Cranbrook Academy of Art students:

  • Brian Acevedo: Thermal (2001).
  • Byoung-Il Choi: Contact (2001), Mirror (2001), Vestige (2001), Square (2001).
  • Warren Corbitt: Whyx (1999).
  • Mike Essl: Eat Lightning (2001).
  • Jeff Miller: Unamerican (2000).
  • Arjen Noordeman: the gorgeous neo deco font New Amsterdam (2000).
  • Kosta Stratigos: Heft (2002).
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Crissov

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]  ⦿

Cristian Boian

Designer and illustrator from Curtea de Arges, Romania. In 2011, he created the experimental typeface Alfabeta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristian Mantovani

Graphic designer from Bologna. Creator of the experimental typeface Zothik Bold (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristian Serron

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]  ⦿

Cristiana Costin

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 Muñoz

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
[Ilya Ruderman]

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]

Francisco Castro Miranda (aka Curious Flux) created DeLorimier, an experimental display font created in 2009 when he spent a summer in Montreal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cut Spencer

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the experimental rounded typefaces Sweetchuck and David. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cykle (was: Mr. Dogo)

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).

Old Behance link for Mr. Dogo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cyra Henn

Motion designer in Berlin, who created the animated typeface Cyber (2015) and the hyper-experimental typeface Ters (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cyril Aboubacar Fofana

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)
[Alois Studnicka]

Filip Blazek writes about typography. His own fonts include Pozorius, Studnicka Antikva and Duboryt. Alois Studnicka (Prague) seems to have designed PozoriusCESample. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daan Emmen

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
[Gregory Flajszer]

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
[Nino Bodac]

Daggertypo is a small type foundry based in Split, Croatia, founded by Nino Bodac in 2019. Typefaces:

  • Mode (2020). A 72-style iexperimental geometric typeface family that plays on reverse contrast.
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Daisuke Yajima

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
[Bruno 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:

  • Airbnb Cereal (2018). A sans typeface commissioned by Airbnb. Dalton Maag describes it as playful, open and simple.
  • Aktiv Grotesk (2010). Published as an alternative to Helvetica, a typeface Bruno hates with a passion. It also covers Chinese, Japanese and Korean. In 2020, it became a 3-axis (weight, width, italic) variable font.
  • Aller Typo.
  • Almaq.
  • Blenny (2014). A fat face didone by Spike Spondike.
  • Bligh (2015). A three-weight sans family.
  • Co (2007): a rounded monoline minimalist sans co-designed by Bruno Maag and Ron Carpenter.
  • Cordale: a text family.
  • Dedica (2007): a didone face.
  • Effra and Effra Italic (2007-2009): sans family by Jonas Schudel and Fabio Luiz Haag. Followed in 2013 by Effra Corp.
  • Elevon (2012). By Bruno Maag and Marconi Lima.
  • Fargo (2004): a humanist sans in 6 weights.
  • Foco. A sans family.
  • Grueber (2008): a slab serif.
  • InterFace (2007): an extensive sans family; one weight is free (2001). See also InterFace Corporate (2007).
  • Kings Caslon (2007). By Marc Weymann and Ron Carpenter.
  • Lexia (1999, Ron Carpenter and Dalton Maag): a slab serif family (Dalton Maag mentions the date as 2007). In 2019, Dalton Maag added Lexia Mono.
  • Magpie (2008). A serifed family by Vincent Connare for Dalton Maag.
  • Objektiv.
  • Oscine (2014, by Bruno Maag, Ron Carpenter, Fernando Caro and Rafael Saraiva). A rounded organic sans typeface.
  • Pan (1996). A text family at 1500 US dollars per style.
  • Plume (2004): a display typeface inspired by calligraphy, co-designed with Ron Carpenter.
  • Prometo. An organic stressed sans.
  • Royalty (1999, +Royalty Obese, 2007): a stunning art deco display family.
  • Scope One (2015). A free Google Font. It has a single light weight, whose slab serifs make it useful for headlines.
  • Setimo (2015). By Fernando Caro. A distinguished sans.
  • Soleto (2014, a simple sans by Bruno Mello, Fabio Haag, Fernando Caro, Rafael Saraiva and Ron Carpenter). Soleto won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.
  • Southampton.
  • Sparkasse Serif (2003-2005). A custom typeface.
  • Stroudley (2007): a sturdy large counter condensed sans by Bruno Maag, Ron Carpenter and Veronika Burian.
  • Tephra (2008): a collaboration with Hamish Muir. This is an experimental multi-layered LED-inspired family.
  • Tondo (2007, at Dalton Maag): a rounded information design sans family designed by Veronika Burian for Dalton Maag.
  • Tornac (2013). A casual script.
  • Ubuntu (2010): this is a team effort---a set of four styles of a free font called Ubuntu. This font supports the Indian rupee symbol. Some work for the Ubuntu Font Family was done by Rodrigo Rivas Costa in 2010. Download via Fontspace.
  • Verveine (2009). A casual script by Luce Averous.
  • Viato. A simple sans family co-designed by Bruno Maag and Ron Carpenter in 2007. This tapered terminal sans family includes Viato Corp (2007) and Viato Hebrew (2013).

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.

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Damián Bonomo

Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Vertical Control (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Damian Kidd

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
[Bureau 205 (was: Trafik)]

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Dan Heron

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.

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Dan Hoopert

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
[TypeOff]

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Dan Sayers

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
[Out of Step Font Company]

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Dan Walsh

Manchester, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Concept (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dana Asfoura

Italy-based designer of an experimental set of fonts called Wired (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dana Peretz

Designer in Haifa, Israel, who created an experimental font based on mouth movemens in 2013, called Phonetica.

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Dana Zoqash

Amman, Jordan-based designer of the interesting experimental Latin typefaces Jomethry (2014) and Origami (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dani Gimenez

During his studies in Barcelona, Dani Gimenez designed the experimental typeface Contrastes (2017) and the negatively inclined techno typeface Flip (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danial Zarif

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]  ⦿

Daniel Angermann

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]  ⦿

Daniel Basualdo

Argentian designer, b. 1986. Creato the experimental slab typeface Improvisation (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Boss

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]  ⦿

Daniel Felipe

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]  ⦿

Daniel H. Evans

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).

Typefaces from 2014: Sunday Clothes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Harper

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]  ⦿

Daniel Herrera

Artistic director in Madrid. Creator of the experimental skeletal bone font Palabras Muertas (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Justi
[Justi Design]

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Daniel Lanzrath

Graphic designer and art director in Daasdorf, Germany, b. 1983. In 2009, he created the geometric experimental typeface Bauklötze. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Litzow

Miami Beach, FL-based creator of the experimental typeface Schnell Tiger (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Maarleveld

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:

  • Purple Haze (2021-2022). Purple Haze is an experimental variable typeface with a readable regular weight and decorative dot matrix-themed extremes. The font works best when being animated or interacted with.

In 2021, he designed the optical illusion wire frame typeface Impossible Grid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Marsh

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

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]  ⦿

Daniel Tomlinson

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

Daniela Benitez (Bogota, Colombia) created a set of numbers useing a compass and ruler in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniela Cervantes

Designer of the partially erased typeface Minimal (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniela De Vita

During her studies at FADU / UBA in 2012, Buenos Aires-based Danila De Vita created an experimental typeface based on Futura. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniela Perez

Tijuana, Mexico-based creator of a great architectural / technical expperimental typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniele Coimbra

While studying in San Roque, Brazil, Daniele Coimbra designed the experimental geometric typeface La Luna (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniele Franchi

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]  ⦿

Daniella Martini

Designer in London of the experimental typeface PP Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danielle Duran

Freelance graphic designer in Los Angeles. Behance link. She got a BFA in Graphic Design from California State University of Long Beach (2012).

Creator of Yum (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danilo Santili

Brazilian graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of Actiontypes (2011), an experimental metallic linkage face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danny Rutledge

Brooklyn, NY-based designer of the blocky typeface system Chunkfunker (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daria Durova

During her studies at RANEPA in Moscow, Daria Durova designed the artsy typeface Dura (2018) and the experimental Cyrillic font Dasha (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daria Kalitskaya

Moscow-based student designer of an untitled modular experimental Latin typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daria Litovskaya

Tel Aviv-based designer of the Hebrew paleontological typeface Buga Buga (2016) and the experimental Molecular Font (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darina Lepisova

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).

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Dario Hofstetter
[Monom]

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Darius Samek
[Elster Fonts]

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Darren McPherson

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).

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Darri Ulfsson

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]  ⦿

Dartiailh Anais

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]  ⦿

Darya Cherevkova

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]  ⦿

Darya Fomicheva

Russian designer of some experimental fonts (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darya Martynova

Graphic designer in Moscow who created the straight-edged stick-shaped Cyrillic typeface Mynah (2015) and the experimental 3d typeface Altai (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darya Zharkova

Russian designer of the experimental pixelish typeface SK Fillout (a grungy pixelish font) (2021: at Shriftovik) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daryl Paz

New York City-based graphic designer who created Concept (2012), an extreme contrast headline or poster face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dasol Jung

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]  ⦿

Dath Hugo

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]  ⦿

Dave Elmes

Typographic experimenter in London who made Street View Font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dave Hänggi

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]  ⦿

Dave Wood

Creator of the paperclip alphabet Bulldog Clip (2008), which is here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Anthony

Washington, DC-based graphic designer. He created some experimental custom fonts such as Cuez (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Bennewith
[Colophon]

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David Brady

David Brady (The Creative Rebellion, London, UK) is an advertising designer. He created the experimental typeface Nokia (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Bubbins

Joppa, MD-based digital imaging specialist, who created the experimental typeface Stenco (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Carabias

Senior designer in Madrid, who created the experimental Simple Lines Font in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Conrad

Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Schleife (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Dale

David Dale (Baltimore, MD) created the experimental minimalist typeface Disorient in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Delahunty
[HandType Co (was: Cooee Design)]

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David Earls on fonts for TV

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:

  • Avoid fonts with thin horizontal lines - they will flicker like crazy on a television screen due to interlacing.
  • Pick fonts with a large x-height - that will allow you to experiment with smaller sizes but remain readable.
  • (Assuming a nominal resolution of 72pt) Dont use a font smaller than 18pt ever ever, and try and keep to above 21pt as much as possible.
  • Dont use finely seriffed fonts - the serifs will break down on screen unless they're set massive. Slab or wedge serifs are cool though - experiment.
  • For static screens, gaussian blur the end screen by "0.3" in Photoshop: this will help with flickering.
  • Be careful of red type, especially if its highly saturated. View your designs on a television or a broadcast monitor to be sure.
  • This is where people may disagree with me: Be wary of chunky fonts at smaller sizes, they can appear to fill in a little, much like print on newspaper.
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David Graham

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]  ⦿

David Hladik

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]  ⦿

David Karlsen

Norwegian graphic designer who made the counterless experimental Point Blob Font (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Kuchukhidze

Georgian graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of the Kandinsky or Mondiaan-inspired typeface Perittography (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Lafourcade

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]  ⦿

David Mcleod

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

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

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.

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David Rosa

Stony Brook, NY-based designer of the experimental typeface Spotlight (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Rust
[Optimo]

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David Soto

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
[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
[David Sum]

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David Vachnun

Tel Aviv-based designer of the minimalist experimental Latin typeface Specific (2015) and the Hebrew font Half (2013). Home Page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Waschbüsch

German designer of the experimental modular typeface Konstata (2013).

Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Youden

Montreal-based graphic designer who created the fancy geometric typeface Rocko (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Davide Zomer

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
[Cabbages&Kings]

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Dayflash
[Christian Lang]

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
[Benjamin Gomez]

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:

  • Mondara (2011). A Latin / Arabic typeface done for l'Institut du monde arabe designed by Benjamin Gomez, Mathieu Réguer, Aurélie Gasche and c-album. The Arabic has both Naskh and Kufi styles. Both the Latin and Arabic are absolutely gorgeous.
  • Pernod Ricard (2008-2012). A slab serif done for Watson Moustache (2012 version) by Benjamin Gomez and Sonia Da Rocha. The 2008 version, based on ITC Lubalin Book, done for Beevy, was designed by Benjamin Gomez.
  • Kufica (2008). Arabic typeface by Aurélie Gasche, with help of Mathieu Réguer, Antoine Barjini and Amir Dhia.
  • Treza (2010). Distributed by Die Gestalten, this playful display typeface was designed by Benjamin Gomez and Maroussia Jannelle.
  • Veolia Italic (2009). By Benjamin Gomez for Piaton Conseil.
  • Fraktur (2007). By Benjamin Gomez.
  • Insight Team (2008). A dot matrix typeface designed by Aurélie Gasche and Laurent Ungerer.
  • Musée de la danse (2009). An inline typeface by Benjamin Gomez.
  • Ink No (2006). An experimental typeface by Benjamin Gomez.
  • Muséum de La Rochelle (2004).
  • MAC VAL (2005). By Benjamin Gomez for Incident. MAC VAL stands for musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne.
  • Studio Apeloig (2006). Benjamin Gomez did several typefaces for Studio Apeloig, inluding Serpent à Plumes and Octobre.
  • La Ferme du Buisson (2005). A modular counterless typeface by Benjamin Gomez and Maroussia Jannelle.
  • Octobre (2006). By Benjamin Gomez and Philippe Apeloig, who conceived the font.
  • Caractère (2004). Interactive type experiment by Benjamin Gomez.
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Debra Adams

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]

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]  ⦿

Deivid Colkevicius

London-based designer of Abstract Typeface (2014). Creative Ice Media Group. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Deliberate Design
[Eric Eaton]

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]  ⦿

Delphine Lemaitre

During her studies at Saint-Luc in Liège, Belgium, Delphine Lemaitre designed an experimental modular typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Demonics
[Mateo Mok]

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]  ⦿

Demore Hoffman-Batey

Graphic designer in Omaha, NE, who designed the multilined display typeface Cenmaze (2016) and the experimental geometric typeface Demisphere (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denis Chapon

Creator of the free experimental typeface Abuela Grillo (2009), and of Denis Handwriting (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denise Steitz

Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Cutout (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Deniz Mistepe

Plovdiv, Bulgaria-based creator of the experminental typeface Demist (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Campos

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]  ⦿

Dennis Moya

Typographer and graphic designer from Geneva. He created Minimalist Type (2011) and The Geometric Type (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denoel Andre

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]  ⦿

Derek Dubler

During his studies in Long Beach, CA, Derek Dubler created the experimental typeface Bomboy (2014), which has circle-encased letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Derek Munn

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]  ⦿

Des Barzey

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]

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.

Cubanica fonts:

  • 24hrs.
  • Calaveras (2011). Based on a signage style in Buenos Aires called Fileteado.
  • Cuba (1996). A 3d signage typeface based on a sign for the restaurant La Flor de Cuba on Bergenline Avenue in Union City, New Jersey. It evokes of hand-painted signs on glass.
  • Dekalb (2017).
  • Diablitos (2011).
  • First Avenue (2000). Based on an old metal neon sign, it was first published at Plazm.
  • Imbalance (2002). An experimental sans.
  • Marquee.
  • Medina Gothic (2005). A clean sans family.
  • North Bergen (1996). A vernacular sans.
  • Sailor Gothic (2003).
  • Sombra.
  • Vitrina (1996). A connected signage typeface first published at Plazm.
  • Union Square. A bold stitching font, and at the same time a nice homage to the mosaic typography in the New York subway system.

Klingspor link.

View Cubanica's library of typefaces. View Pablo Medina's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Devin Agar

Santa Monica, CA-based designer of some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dhimas Novianto

Surabaya, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1993) of the minimalist experimental typeface Rahasia (2014). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dialekt Design (was: Robert Beck Design)
[Robert Beck]

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:

  • Learned Behaviour (1996-1997), Manipulator, LaPlaya, 1996, all experimental/exploratory typefaces available from 2Rebels.
  • Table Manners, 1997, PsyOps, 2Rebels, Prototype Experimental Foundry (defunct). Beck: Table Manners was born out of the desire for a highly readable text typeface with a subtle graphic edge that would amplify with size. This otherwise simple and geometric type shows its mischief through devilishly spiked-serifs and unexpected curves.
  • Loop. 1998. The loop typeface is a pure research project designed by Dialekt in order to investigate the development of simple letterforms through rigid, bold geometric structures and rigorous grid systems.
  • RagingBoner, 1999. Custom typeface designed for Burton Snowboards for product packaging and communications materials.
  • Hermetique (2001), designed initially for Cascades Paper's exclusive use on paper sample swatchbooks, soon to be released in modified form as a full family.
  • Private Press, 2001. This typeface was letterpress printed from an original 1858 10-Line woodtype specimen from the Wells, NY type foundry, and then digitzed in ultra high resolution to retain all the character and wear of this aged alphabet. It is available for purchase as a bitmap TIFF image collection only.
  • Asylum, 2005. Asylum is a hand-lettered typeface designed specifically for a snowboard project application for Performance Boardshop in Quebec. It contains 1,313 unique individual glyphs and comes in OpenType format.
  • Blaikie, 2006. Blaikie is a custom commission for Canadian Law Office Heenan Blaikie, a national copyright and patent law office. It was developed for proprietary use in all communications materials, as well as signage and wayfinding needs internally for all offices Canada-wide.

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Diana Atienza

Vancouver-based designer of the experimental photograph-based typeface Wreckage (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diana Kettern

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]  ⦿

Diana Marianovsky

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]  ⦿

Diana Salavisa

Editorial and graphic designer in Lisbon. During a workshop with Rita Dias at Fbaul, she created a font called Tetris (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Didem Ogmen

Graphic and lettering designer in Istanbul, who created these typefaces:

  • Bodoni Sans Serif (2013). A beautiful serifless Bodoni.
  • Siamese Webfont (2013). To save space in web pages, a lot of glyph contractions are proposed by Didem.
  • A custom brush script typeface for Tropic Labs (2018).
  • An inline football shirt typeface for a local apparel company (2018).
  • The color font family Terrazzo (2018). See also Terrazzo Mono (2019).
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Delgado

Diego Delgado is a graphic designer in Aranda de Dueo, Spain. In 2014, he created an experimental typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Gonçalves

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
[Pambo]

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Diego Quintana

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.

Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Digifonts

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
[HiType (was: DMTR.ORG)]

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Dinamo
[Johannes Breyer]

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:

  • ABC Diatype (+Mono) (2020). A Swiss sans by Elias Hanzer, Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb.
  • Favorit (2014) and Favorit Mono (2017). A basic sans family by Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb.
  • Grow (2013). An experimental collaborative font family. Many of the members are multilined and even prismatic.
  • The heavy sans typeface Heureka (2009-2013).
  • Laica (2020). By Alessio D'Ellena.
  • ABC Maxi (2020). A hipster typeface by Andree Praat, Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb. They write: With an underlying skeleton referencing mid-century and post-modern Swiss designs---including Josef Müller-Brockmann's CWS word mark (1958) and Marlyse Schmid and Bernard Müller Swatch logo (1981)---ABC Maxi's forms can by altered and animated by the user, stretching from Hairline to Black to everything in-between.
  • Pareto (2016). Western style typefaces by Erkin Karamemet, Fabian Harb and Johannes Breyer.
  • Prophet (2016). Prophet is designed in 2016 by Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb & Erkin Karamemet. Technical support and mastering by Chi-Long Trieu. It is inspired by Joseph Churchward's Georgina.
  • In 2019, Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb and Erkin Karamemet released Whyte and Whyte Inktrap at Dinamo.
  • Custom typefaces for Kunsthalle Zurich (CH), Warp Records (UK), Elton John (US), Yale Architecture (US), Manifesta 11 (CH), Harvard Graduate School of Design (US), Universal Music (GER), IBA Thüringen (GER), Festival B:om (KR), Gagosian Gallery (US), Planet Mu/Knives (GER/UK), LayTheme (GER) or the German, Estonian and Cyprus Pavillions at the 55th and 56th Venice Biennale.

Johannes Breyer. Fabian Harb. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diogo Pisoeiro

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]  ⦿

Dirk Erdmann

Osnabrück, Germany-based designer of the experimental grunge typeface Random (2017), which uses noise signals to disturb the glyph outlines. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dirk Uhlenbrock
[Eyesaw (was: Fontomas.com, or Signalgrau)]

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Djamel Chabane

Parisian visual communication student who created a couple of beautiful experimental typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Djordje Cupic

Sombor, Serbia-based designer who has created an experimental font in 2010. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

dmfstudio
[Robert Perendi]

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]  ⦿

Dmitry Derzhansky

Youngster from Chisinau, Moldova, b. 1988. Creator of the geometric experimental font Circles New (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dodam RJ

Seoul, Korea-based graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of the experimental typeface Crosswalk (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dom Nokes

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
[Aparat]

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Domingo Gamonoso

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

Dominic Gambetta (Dog Designs, Worcester, UK) created a Circle typeface in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dominic Le-Hair

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]  ⦿

Dominik Chrzastkowski

Polish designer in Gdansk who made some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dominik Cymer

Polish designer of the optical experimentation font Xuczlam (2000) and of Biasel (2000).

Fontspace link. Fontsnthings link. Old home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Don Zinzell
[Zinzell Design]

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Doogle26

Creator of the experimental typeface Doogle (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dora Juhasz

Hungarian designer of an experimental 3d typeface in 2018, and a handcrafted and experimental typeface in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dora Zadorozhnya

Uzhhorod, Ukraine-based designer of the experimental Cyrillic typefaces Architect and Savage in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dorothy Stephanie Baniak

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
[Jimmie Zu]

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

Doug Limin (Toronto) created the purely geometric typeface Subliminal Design (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Drhaieck

Heidelberg, Germany-based creator of the bespoke geometric experimental typeface Indyanna (2011) and of Daily Work (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Driv

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]  ⦿

DTM Inc

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]  ⦿

Dubraska Velasco

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

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]

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).

Dafont link. Klingspor link.

View Ko Sliggers's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

DYYA Fonts
[Adi Dizdarevic]

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
[EVCCo]

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e-a-t

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]  ⦿

Edgar Alejandro Reyes Ramírez

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]  ⦿

Edgar Jeronimo Navarrete Ureña

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]  ⦿

Edgar Tolentino Otero

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]  ⦿

Edgar Walthert

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:

  • Purple Haze (2021-2022). Purple Haze is an experimental variable typeface with a readable regular weight and decorative dot matrix-themed extremes. The font works best when being animated or interacted with.

His corporate typefaces:

  • Toneelmakerij typeface by Edgar Walthert in collaboration with Esther de Boer for the identity of the Dutch theater company De Toneelmakerij. Contains many icons.
  • Alpen Display and Text (2018), custom typefaces for Bühne Burgäschi by Edgar Walthert. Inspired by classic Swiss tourism posters from the 1930s and '40s. Alpen Display and Alpen Text is currently being further developed and will be released as Arosa Display, Arosa Text and Arosa Script.
  • De Patronenmaker typeface. For a website designed by Johannes Verwoerd, Walthert created a variable font based on the open source typeface Publica by Gustavo Ferreira, by pushing its extremes to 0 and 11. The website uses the same 26kb font file for all animations, menu and body text.
  • This Is Africa typeface for Ghetto Radio in Nairobi by Edgar Walthert, with Esther de Boer.
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Edoardo Santamato
[Invasione Creativa]

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Edouard Kron

Parisian designer of the circle-based monoline sans Typo Exp (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edouard Marpeau

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]  ⦿

Eduardo Beluco

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]  ⦿

Eduardo Camacho

London-based designer of XYZ (2012), an experimental modular typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Lourenco

Located in Criciuma, Brazil, Eduardo Lourenco created a multixcolored puzzle font called Tetris (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Monteagudo

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]  ⦿

Eduardo Montoya Flores

Los Mochis, Mexico-based designer of the octagonal stencil typeface Unlimited (2013) and of QR Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Omar Rodríguez Tunni

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
[Lee Mullen]

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
[Greig Anderson]

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]  ⦿

Egor Aranovich

San Francisco-based designer of the water splash font Splash (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Egor Gorbachev

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]  ⦿

Egor Stremousov

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]  ⦿

Eirik Ruiner Torgersen

Oslo-based designer of the 3d cubic font Cave (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eivind Nilsen

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]  ⦿

Ekaterina Tinmey

Graphic designer in Moscow who made an experimental Cyrillic typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ekaterina Vinogradova

Moscow-based designer of a number of experimental Latin or Cyrillic typefaces in 2014. These include Kukuruza (pixel font), and Wardrobe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ekaterine Novikova

Russian designer of the Latin / Cyrillic script typeface Basil (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

El Noodle

Designer of the free experimental typeface Cooksy Cutter (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

El Tipo

Spanish typographic experiment mag run by José Gil-Nogués Villén (b. 1971, Valencia) out of Oviedo, Asturias. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eléonore Bacher

During their studies at ESAG Penninghen, Paris-based Eléonore Bacher and Léna Consigny co-designed the experimental unicase typeface Michael Bublé (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Electric Keet

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]  ⦿

Elena Bykova

Moscow-based designer of the fantastic blocky Geometric Font (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Schaedel

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]  ⦿

Elena Schneider

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.

Cargo Collective link.

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]  ⦿

Eleonora Dalla Rosa

London, UK-based designer of an experimental modular stencil typeface, Fruet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elias Hanzer
[Hanzer Liccini]

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Elias Maroso

Creator of the experimental techno typeface Recombinante (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eline Hoedeman

Graduate of the Media College in Amsterdam, who designed the minimalist experimental typeface Diamant (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elisa Brandi

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]  ⦿

Elisa Tarchini

Morbeno, Italy-based designer of the op-art deco typeface Line Font (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elisabet Lozano Robles

Barcelona-based designer of the modular blackletter typeface Kory (2017) and the experiment in contrast and stress called Contrast (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elise Bowen

Designer in Salt Lake City, UT. At the University of Utah, she created an unnamed grid-based typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elise Chastel

Berlin, Germany-based designer of the experimental typeface Indecisive (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elizabeth Houtz

Student at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, CO. In 2012, she created Experimental Tape Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elizabeth Reeves

Boulder, CO-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Cryptocode (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ellen Micallef

Toronto-based designer of OOTB (2015, an experimental typeface) and Manju (2015, an organic typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elliott Burford

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]  ⦿

Els Bauwelinck

Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental pixel font Metric, and the font Metround. She lives in Temse. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Els Leclercq

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
[Darius Samek]

German designer of:

  • Kontext Dot (2021). A halftone printing font. Still in 2021, this was followed by Kontext H and Kontext V (an experimental font family that plays with optical effects).
  • Billund (2021). A textured marquee font emulating letters made with Lego pieces. Billund covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
  • The six-style gaspipe font Magpie (2021), which comes with additional stencil styles.
[Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Elysia Berman

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]  ⦿

Emelie Dahl

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]  ⦿

Emi Chen

Nanking, China-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of some experimental typefaces/posters. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emil Juul

During his graphic design studies in Haderslev, Denmark, Emil Juul created the monoline display typeface Acacia (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emilia Fiedorowicz

Polish graphic designer who created the octagonal experimental font Waniliowa. She also did the circular arc font Papaya (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emilie Montigny

Art director in Berlin who designed the experimental Binary Font (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emilie Ragouet

During her studies in 2015 at Designskolen Kolding in Kolding, Denmark, Emilie Ragouet designed several experimental typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emilie Rinna

French art student who created the electric circuit-themed font Saccade (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emiljo Zhupani

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]  ⦿

Emily Chan

Buffalo, NY-based designer, who created the experimental typeface Lines (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily Clarke

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]  ⦿

Emily Darnell

Designer and illustrator at YouWorkForThem in Minneapolis, MN. Her typefaces, made ca. 2008, include Polygons, Speakeasy (handwriting), and Adelaide (script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily Galea

Gold Coast, Australia-based student-designer of the experimental semi-octagonal typeface Heroic (2016). Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emily K. Moore

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]  ⦿

Emily Xiaofei Liu

Toronto-based designer of the experimental molecular typeface Xenon (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emma Bowey

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

Emma Cameron (Ensign Design, New Zealand) modified a didone typeface by adding triangles to stems in her experimental typeface Pleiade (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emma Hovel

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]  ⦿

Emma Julie Jensen

Norwegian design student at JCU, Townsville, Australi. She created an experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emma McCormack

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]  ⦿

Emma Philip

Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of an interactive 3d font called On The House (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emma Richards

Emma Richards (London, UK) is a graphic designer who experimented with two sahpes and created an entire alphabet with it in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emma Rigoli

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]  ⦿

Emma Rousseau

Parisian illustrator and art director. She created some experimental typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emma Vignati

Geneva, Switzerland-based designer of the experimental decorative caps typeface Dingbat (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emo Risaliti

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
[Gabriella Emoke Nemeth]

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

Enci Bognar (Budapest) is working on a hexagonal typeface called To Bee Cafe (sic) (2013). Steam Font (2013) is an experimental typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Engineering Geometry Systems

Creator of Machine Tool Grenadier (1997), an art deco style experimental face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eniko Deri

Based in Budapest, Eniko Deri has created several experimental typefaces in 2014, mixing geometrical concepts into the shapes of the glyphs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eniko Katalin Eged

Budapest, Hungary-based designer of an experimental typeface created by using nail polish on coated paper (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enikö Déri

Budapest-based designer of the experimental number font Just Numbers (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enoc Valenzuela

Rosarito, Mexico-based designer of the experimental stencil typeface Grafika Sans (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrico Bevere

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]  ⦿

Enrique Ollervides

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
[Hula Hula]

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ENSAD

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:

  • Bitmap (2003): a pixel typeface by Isabelle Guizard, Vladimir Mavounia Kouka, Grégoire Pierre, Gaëlle Richard.
  • Caffeine (2003): an experimental typeface by Benjamin Raimbault, Eric Bricka, Stéphane Elbaz.
  • Zinzolin (2003), a stencil typeface by Brieuc Dupont, Zai Jia Huang, William Hessel, and Cyrille de Jenken.
  • Cooker Black (2004): a take on Cooper Black, by Isabelle Guizard, Adrien Portehaut, Grégoire Pierre, Zai Jia Huang, Brieuc Dupont, Odile Delaporte, Boris Petrovitch-Njegosh, Vladimir Mavounia Kouka, William Hessel, Eric Bricka, Stéphane Elbaz, Gaëlle Richard
  • Bertrand (2003): A typeface by Grégory Bantzé, Étienne Chaillou, Vincent Défossé, Anne Denastas, Marielle Durand, Alicia Garcia Garcia, Anja Linke and Gabriel Pistre, based on work at the Fonderie bertrand in the late 19th century.
  • Rosart (2002): A font by Aiko Oshima, Vincent Ciccone, Franck Kauffman and Delphine Cordier, based on lettering by the famous 18-th century Belgian typographer.
  • Scripte (2002): By Sarah Fouquet, based on her own handwriting.
  • Cargoth (2001): By Amélie Boutry.
  • Jannet (2001): By Sandrine Auvray, Julia Cochonet, Sarah Fouquet, Boris Igelman, Jérôme Vogel, Yu Sou Yeon, based on Jannet's garalde revivals, ca. 1860.
  • Recréation (2000): A Garamond typeface recreated by Amélié Boutry, Germain Caminade, Laurence Cordellier, Boroka Gergely, Paule Palacios Dalens, Gilles Vacheret.
  • Poinçons (1999): Based on a Fournier font, implemented at ENSAD by Caroline Laguerre, Virginie Aiguillon, Maureen Valfort, Johanne Blain, Pierre Schnebelen, Cédric Murac, Alexandre Le Saulnier de Saint Jouan, Laurent Mészaros, Thibault Laurent.
  • Métis (1998): By Anne-Mari Ahonen, Dorothé Billard, Yolanda Gil, Maria Körkel, Isabelle Maugin, Juliette Poirot, Jennifer Ward.
This is a successor of the Collectif ENSAD, which was energized by Jennifer Ward, Maria Körkel, Dorothée Billard, Isabelle Maugin, Anne-Mari Ahonen, Natalia Suarez, Yolanda Gil and Juliette Poirot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eoin O Connor

Graphic designer from Dublin. He made the experimental Little&Large Font (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eponine Col

Paris-based designer of Peinture (2020) and Knee Play (2020), an animated font based on the play Einstein on the Beach. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Equality Sans

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
[Deliberate Design]

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Eric Ellis
[widmest.org]

[More]  ⦿

Eric Palliet

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
[RichyType]

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Eric Stafford

From the University of Delaware, Eric Stafford designed a broken experimental typeface and Mushu (a flowing script face), both in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric T. Iverson

Designer at the Futurex Project of Futurex Phat (2000). Working on Egyptoid and the gorgeous experimental font Ascii. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Erdokozi

Timisoara, Romania-based graphic designer. Behance link. He made the high-contrast display typeface Bloob (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Marinovich
[Nuform Type Foundry]

[More]  ⦿

Erik Sachse
[Napoleon Services (was: Napoleon Typefaces)]

[More]  ⦿

Erik van Blokland
[LettError]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Erin Kinnane

Designer in 2012 of the experimental typefaces Dots, Geo, Hair and Shapes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erin Myers

Detroit, MI-based designer of the experimental multilayered typeface Lightyear (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erin Redfield

During her communication design studies in Buffalo, NY, Erin Redfield created the experimental typeface Cable (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erman Yilmaz
[Informal Type]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

ESAL: Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine

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]

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:

  • Geo (a free kitchen tile or stencil font based on retro record covers).
  • Choripan. A revival typeface based on the classic round font Frankfurter (1970, Bob Newman at Letraset).
  • The free brutalist typeface Blknd (made with FontStruct).
  • The free sports lettering font Wim Pro.
  • The graffiti font SP011.
  • Refuse. A revolutionary or military stencil font. Free download.
  • Sumano. Squarish, tribal, and experimental. Free download.
  • Volume Dealers. A free bold art deco font This typeface that references the photo typeface Black Body (Peter Steiner, 1973) and the classic lettering of the album Vol 4 by Black Sabbath.
  • Swiss Grit. A free grungy typeface in the destructionist style of Brody and Carson.

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).

You Work For Them link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Escuadron Creativo

Lima, Peru-based desiugner of an experimental 3d typeface in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Esteban Munoz

Designer of the experimental typeface Fabianestem (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estefania Palacios

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 Vilson Vita de Sá]

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]

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]  ⦿

Estudio Manifiesto Futura SA de CV

Mexican design studio in Monterrey. In 2010, they created an experimental futuristic typeface called Polar. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estudio Mariscal
[Javier 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]  ⦿

Etcetera

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]  ⦿

Ethan Phan

At the University of the Arts in London, Ethan Phan designed the Victorian typeface Cinerva (2018) and the experimental Precursor (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eugene Tan Ze Wei

Freelance designer in Singapore, who created the experimental Grid Type in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eugenie Kang

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

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]  ⦿

Eunjee Kim

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
[Kristian Walker]

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]  ⦿

Eva Le Parc

During her graphic design studies at ECV in Paris, Eva Le Parc designed the molecular typeface Hybride (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eva Vopelkova

Usti nad Labem, Czechia-based designer of the experimental typeface Pronansiesjn (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eva Yarza Hilario

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
[E. Victor-C]

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]  ⦿

Eve Kuypers

Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the hookish experimental font Naeve Groovy. Eve lives in Pulle. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evelien Veltjen

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]  ⦿

Evelyn Bellreng

During her studies, Evelyn Bellreng (Niagara Falls, NY) used pieces of a can opener to design the experimental typeface Obscura (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evelyn Deetz

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
[Robot Smith]

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]  ⦿

Evi Leuridan

Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the experimental font Roller. Evi lives in Gistel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evolutionzone
[Marius Watz]

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]  ⦿

Ewelina Gaska

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]  ⦿

Ewelina Tamkun

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]  ⦿

Exopanda

Creator of the experimental geometric typeface Exoziti (2012, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eyal & Myrthe
[Eyal Holtzman]

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:

  • Normandia. Done during his studies at KABK.
  • Joel (Book, Display). Done during his studies at KABK.
  • Jerusalem (1996). A Latin / Hebrew font that attempts to harmonize the two scripts. This design was part of Eyal's post-graduate type design project at the KABK in 1996 and was later exhibited in Meermanno.
  • Rain Birds. Done during his studies at KABK.
  • Dille & Kamille. A handwriting font commissioned by a retail chain.
  • Soya. A potato cut font done for a book about artist Allie van Altena.
  • Rosart. A collaboration with The Enschedé Font Foundry. A revival of the Two Line English Body Rosart, designed in the 18th century by the Belgian type cutter Jacques François Rosart (1714-1777). This revival, based on original type specimens from the J. Enschedé collection, aimed to interpret the spirit of the original design as faith­fully as possible. Irregularities in the design had to be kept.
  • Staring. A revival of the unknown font used in the poetry book Gedichten van A. C. W. Staring (published by Nicolaas Beets in Zutphen, undated).
  • OD 1 2 3. A typeface commissioned by design and advertising agency OD in Rotterdam. The three fonts have identical spacing and can thus be superimposed. Text set this way emulates adhesive tape.
  • Sympatico (2016). A special design for the supermarket chain Jumbo, to replace Jumbo The Sans. That work was commissioned by Niels Alkema. The font is in use by the professional bicycle racing team Lotto NL Jumbo.
  • Douche (2006). A rounded monolinear sans done originally for the visual identity of theater festival <>Mooi Weer Spelen in Delft. This font mixes upper and lower case, all basically of the same height.
  • Kristal (2015, at Bold Monday). This 8-style book typeface with calligraphic roots was published in 2021. It is accompanied by kaleidoscopic ornaments and open caps that are ideal for monumental lettering.
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Eyal Holtzman
[Eyal & Myrthe]

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Eyesaw (was: Fontomas.com, or Signalgrau)
[Dirk Uhlenbrock]

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]

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]

Rick Banks (b. 1985, Manchester, UK) established F37 (Face37) in 2010 in London, UK. His typefaces:

  • F37 Xan (2010). A counterless geometric typeface based on a geometric solid typeface from 1925 by André Vlaanderen.
  • F37 Form (2010). A mimimalist circular experimental (Bauhaus?) font. He writes about Form: After looking at Armin Hoffman's Die Gute Form poster and Herbert Bayer's universal typeface I constructed an alphabet based on their letterforms. Inspired by Wim Crouwel's Soft Alphabet, I constructed a grid to create the modular alphabet and programmed very tight letterspacing into the font lending itself to the style of Die Gute Form.
  • F37 Bella (2011). An extremely contrasted didone display typeface. He says that he was influenced not only by Didot, but also by Pistilli and by Tschichold's Saskia. F37 Bella won an award at TDC Tokyo 2012. See also F37 Bella Pro (2020), in Text, Hairline, Stencil and Display substyles.
  • F37 Ginger (2013). A Swiss geometric sans inspired by the work of Herb Lubalin, Jan Tschichold and Paul Renner. The customized version of F37 Ginger, Boots Sharp (2019), was commissioned by Coley Porter Bell and True Story as part of an extensive rebrand. F37 Ginger Pro was released in 2019.
  • F37 Neue Grotesque (2013).
  • F37 Stencil Bella (2013).
  • F37 Glaser Stencil (2015).
  • F37 Bolton (2016). A sans family influenced by the style of Berthold's G.G. Lange.
  • F37 Jan (2016). Inspired by Jan Tschichold's geometric sans-serif and Matthew Carter's Bell Centennial font, F37 Jan features pronounced ink traps.
  • F37 Jagger (2017). A sans inspired by Edward Johnston's London Underground font.
  • F37 Bergman (2017). A Peignotian typeface family that revives a revival Hans Möhring's Florida typeface. The Swedish director Ingmar Bergman consistently used Florida in his films.
  • BHF Beats (2018): Working alongside Wolff Olins we were comissioned to create the new font for the British Heart Foundation. The letterforms are based on their iconic logo featuring waves of a heart beat.
  • F37 Bobby (2018). A warm text typeface.
  • F37 Ping Pong (2018). A 1970s style dot matrix font that was inspired by the 1970s Letraset font Pinball created by Alan Dempsey.
  • F37 Factory (2019). Named after Andy Warhol's The Factory in New York City, F37 Factory was inspired by stencil letters etched into marble in what was once a Hovis flour mill in Ramsgate. That building was designed by E. W. Pugin. F37 Factory was originally conceived for a commercial development project for Want Marketing and commissioned by London design studio Bold & Bold.
  • F37 Judge (2019). Banks's take on DIN and old wood types.
  • F37 Moon (2019). Influenced by Avant Garde and Futura, in 14 styles.
  • F37 Flux (2019). Experimental and intestinal.
  • F37 Neuro (2019). A Swiss sans family.
  • F37 Beckett (2020). A sans based on British road signs from the 1930s. F37 Beckett pays homage to the British Ministry of Transport's 1933 alphabet.
  • F37 Stout (2020). An octagonal family base on a letterpress font called Stoutheart.
  • F37 Gruffy (2020). A grotesque.
  • F37 Hooj (2020). A geometric sans family.
  • F37 Wicklow (2020). A 24-style wedge serif inspired by the Gaelic letter carvings by Irish sculptor Michael Biggs in Dublin. It includes a set of stencil fonts as well.
  • F37 Snake (2020). an octagonal industrial stencil typeface inspired by John Carpenter's film Escape From New York.
  • F37 Caslon (2020). He explains why the world needs another Caslon: F37 Caslon is our personal take on a stone-cold classic. Originally designed by William Caslon in 1726, this old-style serif has fascinated typographers ever since. Over the years, the font has been tweaked, reworked, modernised, pulled, stretched, squashed and embellished, as successive generations have created their own versions of Caslon, particular to their times and tastes. We have taken the best of these seminal Caslon revisions to create our own super family in a huge range of weights and styles. Our cut features a tall x-height, old-style numerals, capital italic swashes, ligatures and discretionary ligatures.
  • F37 Grotesc (2021). Inspired by Pica Sans.
  • F37 Attila (2021). A sans serif is inspired by Albert Auspurg's Krimhilde (1933).
  • F37 Drago (2021). A serif typeface based on Columbus (1892).
  • F37 Wyman (2021). F37 Wyman is based on lettering work created by graphic designer Lance Wyman in 1976, which was commissioned as part of the graphic identity marking 200 years of American Independence.
  • Corporate typefaces include Dunlop Sans, F37 Selfridges (=F37 Bella), F37 Avid (=F37 Ginger), Pamela (for Foilco), F37 Zip (for the hotel chain), Pizza Pilgrims, Dar Headline (octagonal), Lloyds Bank (icons).
  • F37 Lineca (2021). A fifteen-weight geometric sans with a strong emphasis on the horizontal.
  • Ocado (2021). A custom sans done for a grocery company.
  • Stonewall (2021). A sans font for Stonewall, a cmpany that has championed a world where LGBTQ+ people everywhere are free to be themselves and enjoy life fully.
  • F37 Incise (2021). A heavy, experimental display font, inspired by stone cutting.

He also published Type Trumps, a set of playing cards that feature the main typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Faak and Paat Studio
[Julien Fesquet]

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]  ⦿

Fabian de Lange

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
[La Bolde Vita]

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Fabian Fohrer
[Tightype]

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Fabian Harb

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:

  • Favorit (2014). A basic sans family by Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb. It was extended to Favorit Hangul by Mingoo Yoon in 2019.
  • Grow (2013). An experimental collaborative font family. Many of the members are multilined and even prismatic.
  • The heavy sans typeface Heureka (2009-2013).
  • Pareto (2016). Western style typefaces.
  • In 2019, Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb and Erkin Karamemet released Whyte and Whyte Inktrap at Dinamo.
  • ABC Maxi (2020, Dinamo). An experimental hipster-inspired gemetric sans family designed by Dinamo (Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb) and Andree Paat).
  • In 2020, Fabian Harb and Seb McLauchlan co-designed the extensive grotesque family Marfa at Dinamo. Marfa contains a monospaced subfamily, and comes with two variable fonts.
  • Custom typefaces for Kunsthalle Zurich (CH), Warp Records (UK), Elton John (US), Yale Architecture (US), Manifesta 11 (CH), Harvard Graduate School of Design (US), Universal Music (GER), IBA Thüringen (GER), Festival B:om (KR), Gagosian Gallery (US), Planet Mu/Knives (GER/UK), LayTheme (GER) or the German, Estonian and Cyprus Pavillions at the 55th and 56th Venice Biennale.
  • ABC Social done with the Dinamo team in 2021 as a retail version of a custom typeface designed by Fabian Harb and Tina Gabriel for the Australian periodical The Monthly in 2017. Harb writes: Dinamo's co-founder Fabian Harb himself first penned ABC Social as the custom display font for The Monthly, Australia's left leaning independent periodical covering politics, society, and culture. Over many years and many time zones, our super team has now extended it in all directions and for widespread release: Malte Bentzen worked on the very light styles, Fabiola Mejía on its monospaced family, Wei Huang on the regular and bold styles, Erkin Karamemet on Italics, with Rob Janes completing the mastering and production work.

Johannes Breyer. Fabian Harb. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fabian Pfeifhofer
[Protofonts (and Loosy Design)]

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Fabian Widmer
[Letterwerk]

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Fabien Gailleul

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.

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Fabien Roché

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]  ⦿

Fabienne Plangger

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
[SFB Fonts (or: Studio Fabio Biesel)]

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Fabio Lopez

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
[Marcio Hirosse]

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)
[Alexander Branczyk]

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
[Marcus Sterz]

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.

  • Adria Grotesk (2013). This was followed by Adria Slab (2014).
  • Aldrans (2009, minimal sans).
  • Anymals (2008) is one of my favorites: it has dingbats of imaginary undersea monsters.
  • Asimov (2009). What is this?
  • Baustelle Thin (2009, hairline sans).
  • Bikra (2010, Plain and Stencil).
  • Blitzplakat (2009). A poster face, white on black.
  • Darjeeling (2010) is a display family inspired by both Optima and Bodoni.
  • Doll (2008), Dollbats (2008).
  • Flint (2008). A hand-drawn squarish face.
  • Gerber (2009, pixel face).
  • Grafinc (2009). An ultra fat art deco. See also Grafinc Rounded.
  • Hausbau (2009, experimental).
  • Idrans Medium (2010). A poster face.
  • With Georg Herold-Wildfellner, he created the Victorian family Ivory in 2009.
  • Letterpress (2009) is an experimental grungy family in which he mixes glyphs of three classics, Jakob Erbar's Phosphor (Ludwig&Mayer Foundry, ca. 1923), Aurora (1912, Johannes Wagner Foundry) and Permanent Headline or simply Headline (Karlgeorg Hoefer).
  • Lignette Script (2011) is an extensive loopy monoline script font.
  • Loki (2009). A decorative pixel family.
  • The Marlowe family (2010) is pure art deco elegance---a play on geometric forms and elegance. Subfamilies include Marlowe Cocktail and Marlowe Swirl.
  • Moki (2011).
  • Mono Lisa (2020) by Marcus Sterz, in collaboration with programming experts Andrey Okonetchnikov and Juho Vepsäläinen. A commercial programming font to compete with Fira Code, Source Code, and Jetbrains Mono.
  • Motto (2009). An art deco typeface in the style of the Italian Futurismo of the 1920s, designed for using with two colors.
  • Mouse (2008-2009, pixel), Mousedings (2008).
  • Newcastle (2014).
  • Notdef (2009). A strange experiment.
  • The handwriting typeface Palma (2008).
  • Pinback (2009, techno).
  • Plaquette (2018). A collection of retro typefaces ranging from Victorian to Bauhaus to the sixties.
  • Publica Sans (2016). A clean geometric sans typeface family. Publica Play (2016) is a playful, and even more organic, sans that exploits many OpenType features. Publica Slab (2017) and Publica Sans Round (2021) complete the collection.
  • Scrap Outline (2008).
  • Slug (2009). A geometric typeface made for bicoloring.
  • Status (2009, super fat art deco).
  • Strangelove Next and Strangelove Next Slab (2010). This beautiful typeface was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's movie Dr. Strangelove. The original titles were designed by Pablo Ferro, who is one of the most acclaimed film title designers, especially famous for his hand-drawn lettering. Dr. Strangelove is a hairline face.
  • Substance (2013). A sans family.
  • Wenzel (2009). Handprinted.

Facetype's typeface library. See also here. View Marcus Sterz's typefaces.

Klingspor link. Behance link. Fontspring link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Facundo Beccaglia

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]  ⦿

Facundo Miranda

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.

Typefaces from 2020: LDS (free). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fadhil Ismail

Singapore-based designer of an experimental geometric alphabet in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fake I.D.
[Joshua Trees]

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
[Akihiro Oya]

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]

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]

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]  ⦿

Fanette Mellier

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]  ⦿

Fanette Mellier

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
[Typografische (was: Hardal Studio)]

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Fatima Verissimo

London-based graphic designer who created Nailed (2011, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Federico Galvani
[Happycentro]

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Federico Telleria

Castelar, Argentina-based graphic designer who created some pictograms and the experimental typeface Mai (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Feel Free Design
[Jelena Gagic]

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

Felipe Giglio "Feijao" (Sao Paulo, Brazil) created a few unnamed experimental typefaces in 2013. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felipe Memória

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]  ⦿

Felipe Rodriguez

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]  ⦿

Felipe Ronquillo

Creator of these experimental typefaces: Block&Middle Line (2011), Regulus Cubiculus (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felix Aaron Hülpüsch

Designer from Berlin who designed an experimental typeface in 2011. In 2012, he created Hülpman (an informal typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felix Braden
[Floodfonts]

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Felix Salut

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
[Nicholas Felton]

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]  ⦿

Ferdinand Stephane-Coldefy

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]  ⦿

Fermin Guerrero

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]  ⦿

Fernando Amengual

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
[Fernando Forero Foundry]

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Fernando Forero Foundry
[Fernando Forero]

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]  ⦿

Fernando Rangel

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]  ⦿

Fernando Volken Togni

Talented Brazilian illustrator. Creator at Unique Types of the free experimental typeface Yezza (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Figs Lab

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
[Jeremy Hally]

Figure Studio is the showcase of designer Jeremy Hally in Quebec. He made some experimental typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Filipe Ferreira

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).

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Filiz Sahin

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
[Ultramarin]

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Fitzbund

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the experimental typeface NEZ-1. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fizzyt

FontStructor who made the experimental typefaces Crossings and Clab in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flat-It
[Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

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:

  • 2021: Best Choice (a monospaced sans), Short Films (an art deco sans in twelve styles), Golden Decades (a 16-style sans that borrows from several sans genres).
  • 2019: Mid Century Sans, Tamba Sans, Rama Gothic Rounded, Bio Sans Soft.
  • 2018: Fairweather (clean sans), Kaneda Gothic (a basic severe condensed gothic), Vincente (a tall condensed display didone family).
  • 2017: Calling Code (monospaced programming font), Commuters Sans (elegant wide sans), Mighty Slab, Rigid Square (octagonal), Taro.
  • 2016: Bio Sans, Gomme Sans, Quiet Sans, Siro (sans).
  • 2014: Pero (condensed rounded organic sans), Kiro (minimalist organic sans), Graphie (modern geometric sans), Compasse (semi-condensed sans), Como (rounded sans).
  • 2013: Spoon (organic, rounded, monoline sans family), Antoinette Monogrammes (based on early 1900s embroideries by Janon Co; with frames), Clonoid (a sci-fi family that pays tribute to arcade game logos in 80s and 90s), All Round Gothic Demi (a sans based on perfect circles), Griffon (copperplate titling face), Antique Spenserian (based on Spencerian Script by Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan).
  • 2012: Geom Graphic (a retro sci-fi family that can be considered as a squarish version of Eurostile), Sheepman (modular), House of Cards, Space Colony (a lovely monoline futuristic techno family), Rama Slab (an antiqued wood-style slab serif), Rama Gothic. An antiqued sans serif family that recalls the wood type era), Diamond Ring (an art deco typeface inspired by Japanese cosmetics-packaging designs and posters from the late 19th and early 20th centuries), Controller (techno meets organic in this rounded squaris sans family), Revolution Gothic (an extended version of PAG Revolucion), 2008, which was inspired by retro propaganda posters and wallpainting in Cuba from the 60s to 80s; Revolution Gothic P followed in 2014), Diamond Ring (art deco).
  • 2011: Yummo (monoline organic sans), Sheepman (based on the wood type No. 506 of William Page), Onick (2011, an art deco neojaponist fat display face done for Wordshape), Shiva (2011, hairline sans), Mocha Mattari (2011, grunge), Dharma Slab (2011, inspired by 1800s-style wood type), Dharma Gothic (2011, +P), Rama Gothic (2011, also inspired by 1800s-style wood type), Dimensions (2011, squarish), Design System (2011, a large family based on 70s style techno typefaces), Speedometer (2011, condensed piano key face).
  • 2010: Stereo Gothic (2010: an extended all caps slightly techno sans family), Behrensmeyer Vigesimals (2010, a pixel format connected script), Civilite Vigesimals (2010, pixelized Civilite), Flat10 Arts and Crafts (2010), Flat20 Hippies, Flat10 Segments (2010), Flat10 Antique (2010), Flat20 Gothic (2010), Flat20 Streamer (2009, pixelized ribbon font), Flat10 Fraktur, Flat10 holy, Flat10 Holly, Flat10 Stencil, Flat20 Headline, Flat10 Artdeco, Word From Radio (2008-2010). Cigarette (2007, Bauhaus/Peignot-style).
  • 2009: African Elephant Trunk (2009), Concrete Script, Concrete Stencil (2009, a stencil calligraphic script), Perfect Magic (2009), HT Maison (2009, signage face), HT Farmacia (2009, connected school script), HT Espresso (2008, upright script), HT Cartoleria (2008, connected script), HT Cafe (2009), Sneaker Script (2009).
  • 2007-2008: Bistro Mono (2007, an awkward monoline face), Thousands (2007), Balaghat (2008), Garash Script (2008, a Halloween face), Woodstamp (2008), Banana (2008, brush script), Rebel Train Goes (2007, a piano key font), Rouge (2007, an elegant lipstick-on-the-bathroom-mirror pair of typefaces), Yasashii (2007, a great geometric art deco Broadway-style family, famous for being used in Damien Chazelle's La La Land, the 2017 blockbuster movie), Lily Wang (calligraphic script), Nothing (2007), Garash (2007, Arabic simulation), Moon Star Soul (2007, Western saloon font), Grandes Vacances (+ Une, Deux) (2007), Pansy Bo (calligraphic), Dremie (2007, an art deco headline typeface with Open and Fill weights), Grandes Vacances (2007, based on 19th century billboard letters), Xesy (2007, a fantastic "ronde" high-contrast upright connected script), Deluta Black (2007, a soft blackletter), Cotoris (2007, a 4-style family that takes inspiration from Koch Antiqua and the art nouveau movement).
  • 2006: Daisy Lau (calligraphic), Agedage Luxeuil (based on a monasteric script from the 8th century), Agedage Cancellaresca, Agedage Beneventan, Agedage Simple Versal (2006, Lombardic caps simplified), Amsterdam Modern (art nouveau influences), Flat10 [Holly, Holy, Stencil, Fraktur] (a set of pixel typefaces), Machiarge (a heavy connected brushed signage script), Chic Hand (connected script), Double Dagger (geometric stencil family), Fault (an art deco striped lettering face), Killernuts (headline serif typeface with brush stroke endings), Underconstructionism! (a rectangular look family with associated dingbats), Machia (decorative script), Kiwi (geometric hairline), Bagel (roundish comic book face), Jaguarundi (distressed), Boycott (distressed), Tokyotrail (futuristic techno family), Coconut (noisy outline face), Coconut Split, Fresh Tomato (LED simulation), El Piedra (letterpress emulation), 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), Bebas Kai (2014: free!), Bebas Neue (2010: free!), Bebas Neue Bold, Berlin89, Blackout (redesigned in 2011 as the ulta-narrow Dimensions), Boycott (grunge), Built-1970, Bunyan, Busted, Camera (2007), Canstop, Chiangmai (Thai simulation face), DBLline, Dijkstra, Dutchstyle, Fling, Graphite, Harcomaso, Hiexplosive, Hitech, Honeycomb, Junkmix, Kanatypo, KemikalHi, Machia (a calligraphic family), 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 (grunge), Pusab (ultra round; one free weight), Sushitaro, Typewrong, Celtics Modern (a Celtic family of fonts). At T-26, he published CRZ (2006), Guppy, Ohana (octagonal), Picnica (2006), and Wearetrippin.

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.

Interview.

View Ryoichi Tsunekawa's typefaces. Kernest link. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fleha Type
[Teja Smrekar]

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 the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.

Arkadika was further developed at tipoRenesansa, 2nd international type design workshop in 2011. At tipoRenesansa, 4th international type design workshop (2012), she created the contemporary serif typeface Paradigma.

In 2013, Teja received the 2013 Monotype Studentship at the University of Reading. At Reading, her gradaution typeface was Mirna (2014): Mirna is a text typeface for continuos reading with a playful stencil display style. It is suitable for editorial text settings in lifestyle, fashion and health magazines. Display stencil style is suitable for branding and packaging. The typeface is meant to be read on paper printed with high-quality offset printing technology, as well as on high resolution screens and reading devices. Mirna has Greek, Cyrillic and Khmer family extensions.

In 2019, she set up Fleha Type and promptly published the handcrafted typeface Katka.

In 2020, Fleha Type released the experimental modular script typeface Trico Script by Mitja Miklavcic and the weathered stencil typeface Linoma.

In 2022, Teja Smrekar designed Grato Marker at TypeMates. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Floodfonts
[Felix Braden]

Floodfonts has freeware fonts by Felix Braden (b. Koblenz, Germany, 1974, an ex-student at the Trier College of Design). In 2000 he founded the free-font site Floodfonts with Peter Hoffmann. After working for five years as an art director for Gaga-Design, Koblenz, he decided to set up his own graphic design studio in Cologne. He now lives in Cologne working as a freelance designer and as a art director for MWK Cologne. In 2016, he set up his own Felix Braden type foundry.

His free fonts at Floodfonts included Polaris (2011), Floodicons (2003), Hydrophilia (2003. He writes: Hydrophilia family was created in 2003 by Felix Braden as a further development of Moby and comes with two fonts: The gothic typeface (liquid) is a revised version of the pixel font (iced). Hydrophilia liquid got a lot of letterforms with a diagonal axis, which reminded me of the technical fonts used on early liquid crystal displays.), Squid (2002, free), SquidCaps (2002), Ninetwist (2002), Catherine (2002), Moby (2002, a Bauhaus style corporate and headline font for the Cologne based design bureau Glashaus), Babelfish (2002), Blendfontsexperiment (2001), Incpot (1997), Hammerhead (2001: an angular constructivist typeface---free), HammerheadBlack (2001), HammerheadBold (2001), HammerheadMedium (2001), Multikultur (1997, Fraktur font), MultikulturExtraBold (2001), Orchidee (2001), Sadness (2001), Wuestling (1997). His commercial typefaces at Floodfonts include Kontiki (2018: a woodprint emulation typeface family; a grungy version of Clarendon), Capri Pro (2011-2015): an expressive constructed sans serif typeface in the tradition of Kabel and Avant Garde, partly constructivist, and partly hipster.

Peter Hoffmann designed Alita (2001) and Lacuna (2001).

Commercial fonts at Fountain: Grimoire (since 2015 at Floodfonts), Sadness (2001).

In 2004, he cofounded Timetwist with Pia Kolle, where you can download Rabbits (2004, Kolle), Pirates Stoertebecker (2004, Braden at Floodfonts, a ransom note face), Pirates Drake (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), PiratesBlackbeard (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), PiratesBonney (2004, Braden at Floodfonts), Bigfish (2009, a Western billboard face).

At Ductype, Braden published Timetwisteight (2005, a pixel face).

At URW++, he published the Supernormale family (part techno, part pixel) in 2006.

At Volcano, he made the rounded display face Bikini (2010).

At Fountain, he published the original version of Capri in 2011. After Fountain's demise, it reappeared as Capri Pro at Floodfonts in 2015.

The Orchidee project started in 1999 led to a fantastic free font. Felix: Orchidee was created as a part of the business stationary of the restaurant Orchidee located in the luxory hotel Quellenhof in Aachen, Germany. After the founding of the restaurant the hotel manager realized that there earlier was a bordello in the city with the same name, so he wanted to change the name. At the time when our agency had to presentate the logotype the name was not appointed so I created the font. The restaurant was specialized on crosscultural european-asian cuisine. Because of that I wanted to mix up some elements of traditional asian typography with european typography. The letters are designed in freehand by the repetition of just a few basic elements. To create the rough outline I used xerox-copier because I wanted to have some chaotic elements to give the font a handmade touch.

Other free fonts: Coraline (2012), Sonar Script (2013), Rollmops (2013).

At FontShop, he published FF Scuba (2012), as an offline companion to Verdana. It was one of the winners of the Communication Arts Typography Annual 2013.

In 2019, he published Pulpo, a ten-style family inspired by Century Schoolbook and Clarendon.

In 2020, he released Turbine (at Fontwerk: a 14-style neo-grotesque family), and Arpona, an 18-style lapidary flared typeface with slight wedge serifs.

Typefaces from 2021: Capitana (an 18-style geometric sans with large counters; not as severe as Futura), Arpona Sans (a 20-style humanist sans with rhombic tittles).

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Behance link. Fontsquirrel link. Personal page. Another Behance link. Fountain Type link. Home page of Felix Braden. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Flor Jochimsen

During her studies at FADU in Buenos Aires, Flor Jochimsen combined Helvetica Bold and Light into an experimental hybrid typeface (2015). She also created a fantastic set of pop art posters in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flor Suarez

Graphic designer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who created the fat experimental typeface Elemental in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flora Palhegyi

Graphic designer in Sopron, Hungary. She made the modular experimental typeface Pixels (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Florencia Luna

Arica, Chile-based student-designer of the experimental Morrofont (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Florian Bambhout
[Bamboo Types]

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Florian Dudouit

French art director, graphic and type designer, and illustrator who lives in Rambouillet. His typefaces include the refined multilined bling typeface Epok (2008), a paper fold typeface called Happy Line, a geometric alphabet called Typ_O, and a type poster called Numbers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Floriane Rousselot
[Typelab]

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Flyer's Feeling
[Izumi Najamura]

Izumi Najamura is the Japanese designer of these free fonts: FF_FamilyCockpit (2006, blocky), FF_Himekazura-H (2006, blocky hiragana), FF_Himekazura-K (2006, blocky katagana), FF_LogicBox, FF_PetitBiscuit1.9, FF_SingaSong, FF_Suzuki-Al, FF_Suzuki-K. Mostly, these fonts are experimental and incomplete. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Font Nest

A collective of mostly Swiss type designers who showcase their designs. The designers are Aimée Hoving, Franz Hoffman, Jacques Borel, Harry Bloch, Matthias Gehri, Sylvain Aerni, Jacques Dousse, Thomas Eberwein, Juerg Lehni, Fabian Monod, Émilie Renault, Jérôme Rigaud and Pierre Terrier. No downloads yet. The list of fonts: Jawut (2002, Franz Hoffman, Juerg Lehni, Jérôme Rigaud, Pierre Terrier): a typeface inspired by André Baldinger's Newut / Puzzle (Fabian Monod) / Troyd (Sylvain Aerni) / Encoda MM (Sylvain Aerni): sans serif / Encoda Anfang (Sylvain Aerni): sans serif / Absinthia (Sylvain Aerni) / Punebot (Sylvain Aerni) / Alchemia (Sylvain Aerni) / Basicrounded (Sylvain Aerni) / Bacted_Flagada_Trigger (Sylvain Aerni): a dirty look font / Crux (Jacques Dousse): a gothic bitmap font / Frankental (Jacques Dousse): a dot matrix font / Multitool (Jacques Dousse): a dingbat font with firemen's tools / Hexagonipus (Jacques Dousse): a kitchen tile font based on lettering on Spitfires / TGV (Jérôme Rigaud) / Lafrui (Jérôme Rigaud): a connected lettering font / Plan De Paris (Jérôme Rigaud): lettering from an old plan of Paris / ScriptedPix (Jérôme Rigaud): a connected screen font / Rhizompix (Jérôme Rigaud): a screen font / Pix2x (Jérôme Rigaud): an experimental screen font / Condpix (Jérôme Rigaud): a screen font / handled_Matrix (Jérôme Rigaud): a dirty screen font / Soul&Funk (2002, Jérôme Rigaud) / Russian (2002, Jérôme Rigaud): a Cyrillic simulation font / mtrxs (Sylvain Aerni and Jérôme Rigaud): a dot matrix font / wellKrau (Pierre Terrier and Jérôme Rigaud): an irregularly tiled font / Minaco (Thomas Eberwein): a screen font family / Tilt (Thomas Eberwein): a dot matrix font. Blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Font Soup
[Phil Kiel]

This foundry's motto is: Font Soup is an independent type foundry that is primarily targeted at helping students and graduates break into the competitive world of being a type designer. Maze (2009) is a free biline stencil font. Font Soup is run by Phil Kiel, who is finishing the final year of his Graphic Arts Degree at Liverpool School of Art&Design. His typefaces include the Logotype family (2009---techno, with a stencil style thrown in), and the poster fonts Quam, P Warning, P Pong, P Fuzzy and P Maze. Behance link. A second Behance link. In 2009, we find Phil Kiel again at Phil Kiel Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Font Spectrum

Type foundry set up by Daniel Maarleveld and Edgar Walthert in Amsterdam in 2021. Future Fonts link. The typefaces at FontSpectrum:

  • Purple Haze (2021-2022). Purple Haze is an experimental variable typeface with a readable regular weight and decorative dot matrix-themed extremes. The font works best when being animated or interacted with.
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Fontan2.com
[Ivan Hristov]

Interesting geometric and experimental typefaces by Ivan Hristov in Bulgaria:

Behance link, where one can find tens of beautiful logotypes as well. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

FONTana Typestudio
[Amondo Szegi]

FONTana is a font design studio in Szeged, Hungary, started in 1999. Free and commercial typefaces (39USD/piece) by Gabor Kóthay (La Danse, Luxury, Sehrgut (Fraktur), Faximile (1999), L&R (1999), Monsoon (1999)), and Amondó Szegi (Telegdi family, which is based on the worn typefaces used by Abbot Nicolaus Telegdi at the Vienna Jesuit press in the 16th Century; Velorex (1999)). Very beautiful web page, and fantastic fonts in all respects!

Free typefaces: Zodiac (2000), Cards (Gyula Zsigri, 2001), Maldoror, Domino (Gabor Kóthay), Count, Csenge (a Hungarian rune font by Csaba Dávid), Qwerty (Gabor Kóthay, 2000), Y2K (Gabor Kóthay, 2000).

Early commercial fonts: Woodini (caps), Sleeping Beauty (caps), Zimbalo (1999, Amondó Szegi), Pacalsone (1999, Amondó Szegi), Paradox (1999, Amondó Szegi), Construct (2001, Amondó Szegi), Binario (2000, Amondó Szegi), Bikewrench (2001, Amondó Szegi), Cabin (2001, Gábor Kóthay).

At T-26, in 2001, Amondó Szegi published the commercial typefaces MuseFace (art nouveau), Glosso (2003), Xodus (2001, Regular, Italic, Forgotten), Kozma-Ornaments, all showing old Slavonic and/or Armenian influences in Latin letters. In 2000, he made Alian Ornaments (floral ornaments) for T-26.

At T-26, Gábor Kóthay published Adagietto (2000), Minerva (2000), Archetype (2000). At PsyOps, Gábor Kóthay published the formal script Anglia (2001), Berill (2001), and Plexo (2001).

Amondó Szegi's typefaces at T-26: Nexodus (2008, medieval style), Zenthes (2008), Alien Ornaments, Glosso, Iskola (2002, a Victorian typeface done with Silas Dilworth), Kozma (great ornaments), Melico, Melico Ornaments (2004, another great set), Xodus.

At P22, Szegi designed the curly typeface Mantra (2005). Amondó Szegi's Telegdi family is since 2001 available from P22.

At The Type Trust, he created the playful Gepetto (2006).

Typefaces from 2013: Ma (avant-garde, constructivist, done as an hommage to Lajos Kassak), Overdose, Sorry (kitchen tile typeface), Atett (hommage to Lajos Kassak), Street Soul, Samizdat, Velorex (brush script), Zsir (fat octagonal face), Kedves (hipster font).

Typefaces from 2014: Iseum, Pix Gotisch.

Among their custom corporate identity jobs, the Losonczi Hair Salon work (2012) is quite outstanding.

Dubstep (2012) is an experimental triangulated grid-based typeface.

In 2013, Glosso Novum (2013, Fontana Type Foundry), a remastering of Glosso (2003), was published. Nexodus (2013) is a reworking of his 2001 typeface Xodus, with new ornaments and zodiac signs, and more weights. Xodus (2001, Regular, Italic, Forgotten) revives work by Miklós Kis Misztótfalusi (Nicholas Kis), who was one of the first designers of Armenian type: He prepared his first set of exotic types before September 1685 for the Armenian printing house in Amsterdam. It was the knowledgeable mayor of Amsterdam who requested that those types be founded. These types were used to print the mayor's (Nicolaes Witsen) work entitled Noord en Oost Tartarye. Misztótfalusi's name appears in the colophon of the book. Later, in 1687, he found Georgian types, which were, in many respects, similar to the Armenian set. Since there was no printing house in Georgia, he designed the types on the basis of some manuscripts. Unfortunately, as legend has it, the types never reached the Georgian court, which had commissioned Misztótfalusi to design them. They were either lost or stolen somewhere in Sweden. However, a sample sheet survived and was found in 1980 in Amsterdam. It may seem to make no sense to re-Latinise the types of Misztótfalus, who himself was a great master in founding Latin types, and for whom Armenian types meant the first step in a new direction.

Typefaces from 2016: Crave Sans.

Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Behance link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

FontArte (was: Magdart Fonts)
[Artur Frankowski]

FontArte (est. 2004; ex: Magdart Fonts) is Artur Frankowski's foundry in Warsaw, launched in cooperation with Magdalena Frankowska. Frankowski is a Polish graphic designer, typographer, type designer and lecturer, b. 1965, Zamosciu. He taught typography at the Technical University of Warsaw and is professor of typography and design at the Faculty of Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2004 he finished his PhD thesis on legibility of type on cartographic maps at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2013 he presented a habilitation thesis on street lettering as an inspiration for a graphic designer. In 2015 Artur graduated from the Expert Class Type Design (EcTd) at the Plantin Institute in Antwerp. He has published type and visual communication-related articles in design&print magazines. Through FontArte he wants to preserve Polish typographic heritage, specially Polish Avantgarde and introduce new directions in Polish type design culture. Author of Typespotting Warszawa and co-author (with Magdalena Frankowska) of a book about Henryk Berlewi, a pioneer of functional typography.

He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Type on maps and at ATypI 2007 in Brighton on Designing a regional typeface. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on From Typespotting to Warsaw letters. Designer of several typefaces:

  • From the Magdart era: MF Ala i As, MF Norma 1 i 2, MF Trond, MF Multi Putli, MF Plazma, MF Towarowy, MF FCR, MF Proteza, MF Strzeminski.
  • FA Berlewi (2006): a stencil typeface based on poster lettering from 1924 by Henryk Berlewi. Together with Magdalena Frankowska, he wrote a book called Berlewi (2010). Henryk Berlewi was a Polish pioneer of typography and design.
  • FA Cindy (2002): shoe dingbats by Magdalena Frankowska.
  • FA Desiconz (2005): dingbats by Magdalena Frankowska.
  • FA Dropsy (2000)
  • Grotesk Polski FA (1996-2006): inspired by the first Polish typeface design---Antykwa Poltawskiego. Has sans weights, and one stencil style.
  • FA Domestic Godess (2005): domestic dingbats by Magdalena Frankowska.
  • FA Julian (2003): avant garde ransom face, based on Wladyslaw Strzeminski's lettering in the 1930 publication "Z Ponad".
  • FA Karaker: medieval script based on a scan.
  • FA Komunikat (2004): almost unreadable, an experiment in minimalism, inspired by Wladyslaw Strzeminski (1932).
  • FA Merz.
  • FA Modernista (2004): grungy sans based on Baccarat, an early 20th century typeface by the Polish foundry Jan Id'zkowski.
  • NASZ Stencil.
  • FA Norma (2000): destructionist.
  • Ozdoby Gardowskiego (2004): ornaments based designs by Ludwik Gardowski (1923).
  • FA Praesens (2004): great avant garde display face.
  • FA Prototyp (2007): minimalist unicase.
  • FA Relief (2006): pixelish.
  • Co-creator with Henryk Sakwerda in 2006 of Silesiana 2006 (see also here), a great calligraphic font whose development was supported by the Silesian Government.
  • FA Supersam (2003): dot matrix style.
  • FA Szczuka (2000): avant garde poster display typeface based on pixel type.
  • FA Zero One (2007): experimental pixel style type family.
  • Designer of a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II.
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Fontastic
[Andreas Koller]

Andreas Koller is a Senior Creative Technologist at Skype in London, designing, researching and prototyping product innovation and tools. In 2014 he graduated from the Information Experience Design MA programme at Royal College of Art. Before that he studied at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.

A specialist in generative and algorithmic art and design, he created the free software Fontastic: Fontastic is a library for creating font files in TTF and WOFF format which you can then use in any design program or website. It allows one to make fonts based on data, sensors, live feeds, or any other algorithm, or manipulate existing fonts to create one's own version. Fontastic was designed to make it as easy as possible to create a font in Processing. Under the hood, it uses doubletype, a Java font editor that builds font files according to the TrueType format, and sfntly to create Web Open Font Format files. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontbistro
[Oszkár Boskovitz]

Oszkár Boskovitz's Hungarian foundry. Before Fontbistro, he ran Nepfont Digital Foundry. He is a graduate of MOME, Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Budapest, Hungary. His fonts sold at Fontbistro include Balek, Blabla, Ecsetirás (2001, a brush typeface based on a typeface of Zoltán Nagy, 1967), Konwektor (techno), Hardware, Monostar (2014, a monoline rounded sans), Pannon Antiqua (2001, based on a family by Edit Zigány (1972), Pluto (2006), Shrapnel (organic), Syrup (2005, stencil), Tilos (2002, rough stencil family), Troppauer (2005, unicase), Tubyfex (2005, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontfabric
[Svetoslav Simov]

Fontfabric is the foundry of Svetoslav Simov, a visual designer who is located in Sofia, Bulgaria, b. 1984. They design highly innovative typefaces that have lots of style and flair. Most fonts cover both Latin and Cyrillic. Until 2022, their fonts were sold through MyFonts, but gradually they switched to their own independent shop.

  • Typefaces from 2008: Cubic (3d face), Clou (cloud-like letters), Colo (double-lined and geometric), Snail, Blou (very thick and counterless letters).
  • Typefaces from 2009: Uni Sans (first called United Sans), Kare (psychedelic), File (fat face), Zag (7-style monoline sans with tear drop terminals; it include Zag Drps and Zag Deco), Clou (cloudy letters), Facet (Black and Ultra: paper fold typefaces), Noveu (psychedelic, art nouveau), Pastel (brush face), Rolka (round ultra-fat and curly lettering), Val (rounded fat), Kvant (severe and octagonal), Duplex (fat techno), Avatar (ultra fat black), Dovde (bubbly, co-designed by Maria Karkova), LOT (fat art deco), MOD (ultra-fat), Oval (rounded sans), Quad (octagonal outline), Portal Strips and Portal Black (hyper-experimental geometric typefaces), Prisma (more ultra-fat experimentation) and Wigan (Wigan Thin and Bold of this paperclip typeface appeared in 2014).
  • Creations in 2010: Hero (free sans family), Null (ultra fat, free), Aston (a modern high-contrast rounded display face), DAN (free piano key font; Dan Pro is not free though), Solomon (headline sans family) [Images of Solomon: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii], Dox (ultra fat geometric poster face), Sudoku (a geometric display family with several biline and triline styles, done with Fontan2), VAL Stencil (a stencil in which repeating letters makes them tilt the other way; free), Code (2010, a fantastic monoline sans family; images: i, ii, iii, iv, v), Dekar (techno), Clipdings Web, Clipdings Travel, Clipdings Graphic Arts, Babydings, Artdings, Reader (Light, Bold: avant garde sans), SAF2010 (comic book/signage: well, Jan Erasms, the designer in 2006 of Menyaka for FIFA WC 2010 is not happy, calling SAF a blatant imitation), Age Free (free fat organic face), GOTA (a free fat finger sans face).
  • Typefaces from 2011: Gabriel Sans (grotesk family), La Boheme (signage face), Qero Mite (an organic monoline sans), Code Pro (caps only clean sans headline family), Solomon Sans (a headline monoline sans family).
  • Typefaces made in 2012: Nexa (a geometric sans in 16 styles), Nexa, Rex (free octagonal family for Latin and Cyrillic), Hagin (free), Intro (26-style superfamily in the Futura style) and Intro Inline (free Futura-style family for Latin and Cyrillic). Intro Condensed was created in 2014.
  • Typefaces from 2013: Nexa Slab, Nexa Slab XBold, Nexa Slab Bold, Nexa Slab Book, Nexa Slab Light. [Recognize the typeface by the a and the g (an 8 with a small piece missing).
  • Typefaces from 2014: Nexa Rust (a weathered letterpress emulation family of 83 typefaces by Radomir Tinkov, Ani Petrova, Svetoslav Simov and Vasil Stanev).
  • Typefaces from 2015: Bronn Rust, Bronn Script and Bronn Rust Extras is a handcrafted collection of 22 typefaces created on the coat tails of the hugely popular Nexa Rust and other typefaces in the grungy worn letterpress and layering vogue. The roundish tightly set broad-ranged sans typeface family Panton is sure to make waves for years to come---it is the typeface for mobile devices. Sensa (2015, Radomir Tinkov and Svetoslav Simov) is a handcrafted 21-style family divided into the subfamilies Sensa Brush, Sensa Pen, Sensa Wild, Sensa Sans, Sensa Serif and Sensa Goodies.

View Fontfabric's typefaces. In 2015, Ani Petrova, Svetoslav Simov and Radomir Tinkov co-designed the 214-style mammoth font system Intro Rust, a rough version of Fontfabric's Intro. The fonts are partitioned over Intro Rust, Intro Script, Intro Head and Intro Goodies. Still in 2015, we find Nexa Script.

In 2017, Plamen Motev and Svetoslav Simov co-designed Uni Neue, a total remake of Fontfabric's earler typeface Uni Sans (2009). Svetoslav Simov, Plamen Motev and the Fontfabric team (Vladislav Jordanov, Stan Partalev, Mirela Belova, Jacklina Jekova, Nikolay Petroussenko) produced Zing Rust, Zing Sans Rust and Zing Script Rust in the same year: it consists of 521 handmade typefaces.

In 2018, Mirela Belova and Svetoslav Simov co-designed the 20-style geometric sans typeface family Mont. Svet Simov and Svetlin Balezdrov co-designed the humanist sans family Squad, and Simov published the free all caps flared terminal font Colus in 2018. Gilam was designed in 2018 by Ivan Petrov, Plamen Motev and Svetoslav Simov---it is based on DIN, but is more geometric and has obliquely cut terminals.

In 2019, Svet Simov, Radomir Tinkov and Stan Partalev designed the 72-strong Noah family of geometric sans typefaces, which is partitioned into four groups by x-height from small (Noah Grotesque) to medium (Noah and Noah Text) to large (Noah Head). Codesigner of Mozer (2019, by Svetoslav Simov, Ani Petrova, Mirela Belova and Nikolay Petrousenko: a condensed headline sans family that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic; Mozer SemiBold is free).

In 2021, Svetoslav Simov and Vika Usmanova dusted off the 18-style update of Mont called Mont Blanc. It has very short descenders and medium-sized ascenders, two variable styles, and some redesigned glyphs. Its biggest problem will be the name---surely, the famous Swiss pen maker Mont Blanc will complain sooner or later about its trademark. I am puzzled about MyFonts, which did not catch this problem when they announced the typeface. In 2021, Simov also co-designed Code Next (a 20-style geometric sans by Svetoslav Simov, Mirela Belova and Stan Partalev; it includes two variable fonts).

Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

FontGroup
[Michael Hernan]

Creator of the Neotechnic series of (free) fonts: Accudigit Regular, Accudigit Body, Parma, Intermatrix (1998), Matricies, Hako, Basic. The designer, Michael Hernan made these fonts between 1995-1998, and writes: About Neotechnic Series: This series of Fonts reflect the information industry at the end of the 20th century and its obsession with classification. Each typeface captures a different aspect of our recent info-culture. He obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in 2008. At Reading, he designed Pseudo (2008). He started FontGroup in 2008, but that no longer exists (and the link died). His old site, sitehernan, has not been updated in many years. The last typefaces shown at FontGroup before its demise included: Isoglyph (2009), Pseudo (2008-2009), Helvetica Kiss Fit (2006), Helvetica PointSign, Helvetica MultiDigit, UnicaDeux (2006, after an André Gürtler design), KataKana, Galactic Slab, Hako (dot matrix), Bodoni Arabic Numerals, Accudigit Body (1997, pixel face), AfterModule (1997, pixelish), Basic RCT (1995, pixel face), Block Normal (1993), EuroPop, 469 (numerals), g1055, InterMatrix (1998, dot matrix), Matricies Positive (1996, gridded), Matricies Negative (1996), Newer Alphabet, Octane (2005, octagonal and geometric), Fuiji Numbers (pixel face), Parma Sixtyeight (1996, inspired by a No. 6 on the side of Nelson Piquet's 1984 Brabham Racing car), Photo Numbers (pixel face), Pre Recollect, Quartz, Readable Dog, Shasyoku Moji II, Steiner Numbers (2005, numerals), Week Day, Alumi (1996, a squarish typeface based on a design by Saul Bass), Astra (1996, after a 1973 Letraset typeface called Star Marquee), Epps Evans (1995-1997, after Herbert Spencer), New Alphabet (1996, experimental, minimal, based on Wim Crouwel's alphabet), Volume Control (1999, dings), Fine Line (1994), Humana, Clock Face (1995, numbers for clocks). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

fontgrube

Young German designers showcase their experimental (Mac) fonts. Included are fonts by Max Fiedler, Matthias Rosenkranz, Markus Volquarts, Jacques Pense, Doris Fürst, Alexander Gialouris, Olaf Claussen, Karsten Steens, Peter Pannes, Anna Gross, Marcel Staudt, Hanno Bennert, Josefin Kaiser, Stefanie Fortmann, Axel Peemöller, Katja Wolf, Anke Klasen, Nicole Simon. Direct downloads. Link died. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontmunkások
[Gábor Kóthay]

Gábor Kóthay (Fontmunkások) is a Hungarian type designer (b. 1962) who lives in Szeged. Gábor Kóthay's fonts include:

  • At T-26: Alphabet2, Alphabet4, Archetype, Axis No 1, Bacchus, and Tyrnavia in 2000, and the Roman inscription inspired family Minerva Modern, Minerva Display (a Roman family) in 2002. Also, Betabet sans, Betabet web, Gnosis (hairline italic), Oceanus (2004, hairline sans), Pelso (2004, hairline), Laureate (2004, hairline art deco), Picaresque (2004, irregular handwriting).
  • At FONTana: LaDanse, Y2K, Domino, QwertyRegular and Luxury, all in 1999-2000.
  • At P22: Driade (2005, Regular, Linea and Aged: calligraphic futuristic experiments), Zephyr (2001, curly; +Open Face), Schwarzkopf (2003, a Schwabacher face), La Danse (2001), Ambient (2001), the Schwabacher Fraktur font SchwarzKopf (2002), Caffe (2009: originally designed for the Artz Gallery Cafe in Budapest Hungary. The design is a contemporary handwriting style adapted from examples in lettering exercise books. It has been redrawn and expanded into six styles. The four weights were created by drawing the style using different mediums: Cappuccino in pen, Pastry in felt-tip, Lemonade in brush and Tobacco, the original, in pencil, and Poster and Poster Inline are additional styles).
  • At PsyOps: the formal script Anglia (2001), Berill (2001), SchwarzKopf (2002, Fraktur) and Plexo (2001).
  • At Job Art Studio (his own studio in Szeged, which he founded): Cats (free dingbats), Disasters (dingbats), Bubble (comic book font), 103 kék.
  • At Fountain: Zanzibar (2003, nice script face), Incognito (2007, a typical old map typeface), Dessau (2007-2008, a collection of eleven Bauhaus and Bauhaus stencil styles).
  • At Fontana: Zodiac, Tisza (2001-2007), a sans family. And Kinesis (2003), a sans typeface based on geometrically precise instructions.
  • At Cinqueterre Type Foundry: Eva (wedge serif; sample, another sample).
  • At Fontmunkások: Birdland (1999-2002), a minimalist face; Asphalt and Asphalt Signs (1996-2000), a slightly grungy set of fonts; Arcade (1999); Adagietto (2000); Flyer and Flyer Fossil (2002), a curly family.
  • Custom typefaces: Aqua Futurist (2008): a hairline unicase sans family with uncial influences. It is unclear if he had a hand in the typography of stockings, which I found on his site.
Blog.

Dafont link. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontopo
[Yoshihisa Nakai]

Free fonts made in Japan from 2006 until 2007 by Yoshihisa Nakai: FontopoBREEZE, FontopoELEPOP, FontopoFONTOPO, FontopoHATOPOPPO, FontopoNEUTRAL, FontopoNIKUKYU, FontopoORIENTAL, FontopoSOLID, FontopoSUBWAY, FontopoYANWARI. Mostly typographical experiments with incomplete character sets. Some handwriting fonts. Kana and Latin. Other designs: Synapse (2007), Planet to Planet (2007), Retro Paradise (2007), Fontopo Sunny Day, Planetarium, Dancers, Hannari, Kodomo Light, Kodomo.

Old URL. Dafont link. Another link. Link at Typingart. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontscafe (was: Fonts-Lab)

Fonts Lab was an Italian free font foundry with emphasis on "free", even for commercial use. The first fonts, all made in 2011, included Fonts-lab Gift, Fonts Lab Symphony, Free For Fonts-Lab Subscribers, Lady Jane Old, Five Dollars Matter, Writing Something by Hand, Hint Retro, Hint Retro Grunge, Soul Handwriting (brushy script), Variety, Universal College Draft (2011, a sketched sports jersey alphabet), Handwriting Draft (sketch face), Around 20 (experimental), Adelfy, Old Printing Press (grunge), Frank Handwriting, Sketch Me, Retro Lined Area.

Fonts Lab became Fontscafe, located in Milan.

Production in 2012: Making Lettering Tall, Universal College (grungy athletic letters), Marmellata Jam (connected script), Marmellata Jar 01 and 02 (connected fat signage scripts), Henry Rodeo Circus (Western face), Scrappy-Looking, Contribute Free Version (connected fountain pen script), Basically Serif, I'm Fashionista, Sign Handwriting, Chalk Hand Lettering, Chalk Hand Lettering Shaded, Voluptate (retro connected script), Retroactive (a great connected script face).

Around June 2012, something happened---possibly a complaint from the FontLab software people---, and the name changed from Fonts Lab to Fontscafe. In the same year, a commercial foundry was started via MyFonts.

Typefaces from 2013: Free Sketching, Hand Printing Press [in ten styles such as Meshed, Scraped, Normal, Stencil, Stamps, and Eroded], Egregio Script (retro script), Hand Shop Typography A20 (an 8-style poster font set that includes shadow and inline typefaces), Hand Shop Typography C30, and many more in the Hand Shop Typography pack, including the frame font Hand Shop Elements.

In 2014, we find Hand Christmas Doodle, My Valentines Love (heart dingbat font) and Bold Pressing (vintage letterpress typeface family, with ornaments).

Typefaces from 2016: Handwriting Draft (a great sketched font that shouts Leonardo da Vinci), Universal College (a grungy athletic lettering font, updated from an earlier 2011 version).

Typefaces from 2017: Hot Varsity Team, Hot National Team, Back To School Elements, Hot Winner Team, Ultimate College Team (athletic lettering), Display of Character.

Typefaces from 2018: Publishing Draft Script, Publishing Script, Ottanio Pack, Advertising Master, HandPrinting Press Eroded, Making Lettering, Hot Legend Team.

Fontspace link. Dafont link. Abstractfonts link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

For Home or Office Use
[Wolfgang Breuer]

"For Home or Office Use" is a strange name for a foundry, but that is exactly what it is. The fonts are made by Achim Reichert (Paris) and Wolfgang Breuer (Berlin). Their commercial Mac type 1 fonts include thhe experimental Try family (2Try-Strich, 3Try-Straight, 4Try-kerned, 7Try-Medserif, 8Try-Micro, 12Try-Lego, 131Try-Klingspor,- eo, 161Try-Bitter,- eo, 172Try-Reg, 1722Try-Fliess Fett, 1721Try-Reg Inline, 174Try-Serif, 1742Try-Serif Fett, 18Try-Annette), Abnehmen (free), A-Teile, A-Teile Neue, 0031aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0031eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0062aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0062eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0125aAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, 0125eAddStrokeWeight-Oblique, Almatadema-Eins, -Fier, -Vier, 0031aConvertToPath-Italic, 0031bConvertToPath-Italic, 0062aConvertToPath-Italic, 0062bConvertToPath-Italic, 0125aConvertToPath-Italic, 0125bConvertToPath-Italic, Densite, Ouvert, Knubb, Knubb-20, Birthday-Regular, Birthday-Bold, 0034Paper, 0034Paper-Italic, 0034Paper-Oblique, 0057Paper, 0057Paper-Italic, 0057Paper-Oblique, 0075aPaper, 0075aPaper-Italic, 0075bPaper, 0075cPaper, 0075dPaper-Italic, Free 0034-0075dPaper Font, Paper, 0031aPlotter, 0031bPlotter, 0031aPlotter-Bandzug, 0031bPlotter-Bandzug, 0031aPlotter-Twenty, 0031bPlotter-Twenty, 0062aPlotter, 0062bPlotter, 0062aPlotter-Twenty, 0062bPlotter-Twenty, 0125aPlotter, 0125bPlotter, 0125aPlotter-Twenty, 0125bPlotter-Twenty, 0125aPlotter-Breitband, 05aPlotter, F.T./Brown, F.T. Bold, la bonne heure, -bold, Lini Eins, Lini Drei - eo, Lini-Vier - eo, Love-1, Love-10, NEW FEw, NEW GEw, NEW Klein, sBit34, WIR 2, WIR 3, WIR 4, WIR 6Vi, WIR 7Vi.

The fonts by Breuer in this list include the A-Teile family, the Birthday family, and the Plotter family.

There is a free type software program called Abnehmen, as well as a number of experimental stroke-based fonts whose stroke thickness can be adjusted with Adobe InDesign, for example. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Forma & Co
[Joel Lozano]

Joel Lozano studied graphic design at the Escola Massana, Centre d'Art i Disseny in Barcelona. Barcelona-based codesigner with Robin Frank at T-26 of dingbats and letters derived from a motorcycle: Mototype (2008, 4 styles). The free Network Font (2011) is a monospaced, yet experimental concoction.

Joel Lozano, Dani Navarro and Roger Pau run Forma.co together in Barcelona. Forma.co published the tweetware rounded sans typeface Sant Joan Despi in 2014. Icons by Forma & Co include Pitney & Bowes brand icons (2015), the official Behance icons (2016-2017), Ayondo corporate icons (2019), Davy icons (2019: for an Irish stock broker).

Behance link. . Behance link for Forma.co. Forma & Co link. Personal home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Formist Foundry
[Mark Gowing]

Formist Foundry (Sydney, Australia) is part of Mark Gowing's Formist Group, which is a design studio, publisher and type foundry. The foundry specializes in experimental typefaces. In 2020, their catalog showed Boulder Mono (with the help of Ben Kiel), Black (a pixelish blocky font by Mark Gowing, Alexander Tanazefti, and Ben Kiel), Serous (emulating liquid letters; aided by Ben Kiel), Non Dit Dah, and One+Two (2018: nine bilined and stencil styles; by Elle Williams, Mark Gowing and Ben Kiel).

In 2020, Mark Gowing and Kris Sowersby started the design of a typeface to typeset Kris Sowersby's planned book, The Art of Letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Föy Studio
[Cagdas Ilke Unal]

During her studies in Istanbul, Cagdas Ilke Unal designed the sober sans typeface Gökteng (2015) and the beautiful Weather Icon Set (2015). At Föy Studio in London in 2019, Cagdas released the experimental typeface Flex. Behance link. Old link to Cadoo Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Foziya Al-aujan

As a student at Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Foziya Al-aujan (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia) designed a 3d experimental Arabic typeface (2017) and a decorative Latin typeface called Dracos (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fragtype
[Rodrigo Fuenzalida]

Graphic and type designer from Caracas, Venezuela, b. 1981, who moved first to Buenos Aires and then to Santiago in Chile. While mainly a type designer, he also practices calligraphy. He was involved in and set up multiple type foundries, including Fragtype. Fuenzalida designed these typefaces:

  • The art deco faces Erre.
  • The experimental typefaces Tructura, Tangram, Sicodelica (multiline), SuperC (2009, tall condensed) and Pixid (2010, pixel face).
  • Concrete Stencil (2010). Stencil meets calligraphic script.
  • Fux (2010). A rounded monoline sans.
  • 7Tees.
  • Aushaus: letters like music notes. This is also called Aubhaus.
  • Gerd (2009). An artsy stylish piano key font that used to be free.
  • LINE_A and K5 (multiline).
  • Cubo (aka Khubo, 2009, Die Gestalten). This 3d geometric family was a grand prize winner in the experimental typeface category at Tipos Latinos 2010.
  • Factur (2011) is an angular typeface.
  • Isosibilia. A 3d face. This typeface won an award winner in the experimental typeface category at Tipos Latinos 2010.
  • The connected upright script face Nedo.
  • The grunge typeface Belt.
  • The stencil Bodoni typefaces Giambo Stencil (2009, Die Gestalten) and Giambattista.
  • Titan (2011). A fat rounded poster face, downloadable from Google Web Fonts.
  • Fux (2010). A basic monoline sans family.
  • Poetsen One (2012) is a rounded signage sans typeface co-designed with Pablo Impallari.
  • Racing Sans (2012). A techno typeface that conjures up speed. Codesigned with Pablo Impallari, it is free at Google Web Fonts.
  • With Nicola Massi, he created the textura typeface Pirata+One (2012, Google Web Fonts).
  • Hermeneus One (2013, with Pablo Impallari) is a slab serif.
  • Tweegi (2013) is an elegant super-condensed serif typeface family.
  • Kardia (2014) is a rounded slightly elliptical warm-hearted sans family.
  • Libre Baskerville (2012, Google Web Fonts, Open Font Library, Github, and CTAN) was developed together with Pablo Impallari. It is based on 1941 ATF specimens, but it has a taller x height, wider counters and minor contrast that allows it to work on small sizes in any screen.
  • Libre Caslon (2012-2014). A free typeface family co-designed with Pablo Impallari.
  • Raleway (2010-2013). This popular free sans typeface family was started by Matt McInerney in 2010 and completed by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida in 2013. In 2017, it was extended to Rawline.
  • Libre Bodoni (2014) was developed by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida based on Morris Fuller Benton's Bodoni types---they optimized the glyphs for use on the web. Github link. Google Fonts link.
  • Latina (2015) is a humanist sans typeface family developed with the Latinotype team. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. Its headline styles have exaggerated humanist features, while its text styles are more subdued.
  • In 2016, Latinotype published the 32-style Corporative Sans Round Condensed, which was developed by Elizabeth Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida, under the supervision of Luciano Vergara and Daniel Hernandez.
  • Libre Franklin (Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida) is a revival of Morris Fuller Benton's 1912 classic, Franklin Gothic. Created in 2015, it was only published in 2016 at Google Fonts. Github link.
  • Taberna (2016). A vintage copperplate style family based on design trends in bar signage, liquor packaging and street wear. Codesigned by Jorge Cisterna at Latinotype.
  • Letteria Script (2017, Latinotype). A signage script family.
  • Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Mixta (Joya Type Foundry).
  • In 2018, Daniel Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida enlarged the fat all caps slab serif Latinotype typeface Rita that was originally started in 2010.
  • Market (2018, Latinotype) is inspired by hand-painted grocery store signs.
  • In 2019, Latinotype published the great super-slab typeface Breton which was designed by Daniel Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
  • In 2018, he published Multiple at Latinotype. Partly geometric and partly humanist, it has Sans and Slab subfamilies.

    In 2019, Alfonso Garcia and Rodrigo Fuenzalida released Utily Sans at Latinotype. Utily Sans is a slightly humanist take on Futura.

    In 2019, Fuenzalida released Atenas through Los Andes. It emerged as a mixture of science fiction and calligraphy, with notable influences of Eurostile and Microgramma. There is a fully stocked stencil subfamily, Atenas Stencil.

  • Mixta (2020, Latinotype). A total of 54 typefaces with these subfamilies: Mixta Sharp, Mixta Pro, Mixta Didone. Includes weights from Hair to Heavy.
  • Spock (2020). A 48-style demi-sans and demi-slab family by Luciano Vergara, Cesar Araya and Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
  • In 2020, he co-designed Ragtag (a ragtag of capitals) with Alexander Wright for In-House International.
  • Mixta Essential (or: Mixta Ess) (2020, Latino Type). A 12-style hybrid of a didone-inspired rectangle-shaped serif and a sharp wedge serif.
  • In 2020, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Alexander Wright and Michelle Benaim Steiner co-designed the exaggerated reverse stress (or: Italian) typeface Pata Slab at In-House International. All uppercase characters were built to fit precisely inside a square, so they are all the same width and height.
  • Mumford (2021). An 18-style display sans.
  • Outfit (2021, Google Fonts). Github link. This geometric font family was originally designed for the brand company Outfitio and On Brand Investments Pty Ltd. It includes a variable font.
  • In 2022, Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Alexander Wright published the decorative angular typeface family Broker at In-House International.

Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Behance link. Kernest link. YWFT link. Creative Market link. MyFonts link. Dafont link. Another Behance link. Google Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fran Mendez

Fran Mendez (London, UK) has a BA Honours degree in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca, Spain, a PGCE from Polytechnic University of Valencia (2008) and a Masters in Graphic Design (Communication and Editorial Design) from Escuela Superior de Diseño Elisava in Barcelona (2010). She created the experimental typefaces Morse Code (2014) and LDF Type (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fran Wilks

Creator of experimental typefaces in 2012: Rorschach (symmetric ink blots), SAL, Circular, ST. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francesco Murru

Münster, Germany-based designer of the hexagonal experimental typeface Serendipity (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francesco Zorzi

Florence, Italy-based illustrator. Designer of Ovo (2014), a font designed to be used for the cultural institutions of the town of Montevarchi, Italy. Its shapes are influenced by the architecture of the medieval town, and is based on arcs and a grid. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Anguís

Spanish designer who created the free experimental typeface Legotype in 2008 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Castro Miranda
[Curious Flux]

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Francisco Cerda Diaz

Chilean designer of the hybrid typeface Hibrida (2017), which was a school project at Universidad de Valparaiso. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Gigena

Buenos Aires-based graphic designer who dipped his toes in some modular experimental type projects in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Franco Lancio

Naples, Italy-based architect and graphic designer. Creator of the experimental typeface Autovelox (2007) and the connect-the-dots typeface Link City (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Franco Monti

Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Quadra. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frank Adebiaye
[Velvetyne Type Foundry (or: VTF)]

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Frank Baranowski
[Transkrypt]

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Franklin Veiga

Sao Luis, Brazil (and before that, Vancouver, Canada)-based creator of Flaot Stencil (2013, a modular stencil face), Obvious (2013, a hairline geometric experimental typeface) and Hideseek (2013, a straight-edged experimental typeface).

In 2014, he created the ultra-fat typeface Dreew.

In 2016, he published Modernista which was inspired by the work of Brazilian Architect Oscar Niemeyer.

In 2020, he released Andarillo (a display typeface inspired by vintage travel posters and magazines).

Typefaces from 2021: Sarttori (a stylish 6-weight display serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Franziska Stetter

Stuttgart-based designer. Student at the Rhode Island School of Design (2011-2013) in the MFA program. Her extensive portfolio includes the typeface Alfred (2012, a headline typeface inspired by the magazine Bomb), Insect Font (2007, experimental) and Never Sleep (2009, an angular font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frazer Sparham

Leeds, UK-based designer of an experimental neon alphabet (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frédéric Tracer

Born in 1984, Tracer graduated from the National College of Arts and Design Olivier de Serres in Paris. He is now based in London, where he is a freelance graphic and type designer. His typefaces include Ray Bartok (2008-2009, experimental), Gordan (2008), Pizza (2007), Cotyle (2007, all segments are circle arcs---type named after a pelvic bone he broke), and Vurt (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Freddie Line

Designer of the minimalist experimental typeface Disolve (sic) (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Freddy Jose Calero

Santo Domingo-based designer of the experimental typeface Split (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frederik De Bleser

Belgian graphic designer and software specialist who is assiocated with the Sint Lucas Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium. He designed various experimental types at these workshops. Speaker at the ATypI meetings in 2004 and 2005 in Prague and Helsinki. Developer of NodeBox, an app for creating generative design.

Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Advances in JS-based font creation technologies and tools. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fridayfonts
[Pascal Glissmann]

Free font site, est. 2009. The fonts being displayed and introduced were developed by students in seminars and workshops offered by Pascal Glissmann at the Academy of Visual Arts Hong Kong and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Fonts there from 2009

  • Yee Ting Cherry Chan: BambooConstruction.
  • Cherry and Liu Sze Wai: Cherrybomb.
  • Chan Ying: ChineseRadicals.
  • Yuki Leung Tsz Ning: ConstructionWithShadow.
  • Stephanie Ka Ying Lai: Crozline.
  • Cynthia Chan: Cubism.
  • Susie Law Wai Shan: ImbalanceSur.
  • by unknown: Impression
  • Siu Chi Ming and Eason: LightInk.
  • Siu Wing Lam: MTR.
  • Wong Hoi Ying: MobileCode.
  • Li Yan Yee: Neurons.
  • Liu Wing Yi: OldHongKong.
  • Wan Yee Kam: Potata.
  • Ruth Ng: RuthInk.
  • Aegina Kwan Ting Ho: SealScriptRoman.
  • Toby Cheung: Skin Seal.
  • Lung Yan Yu: Transbars.
  • Wian Wai Yan Lau: Unfold.
  • Sandee Tang: GeoGraphics.
  • Liu Shuj Yee: Blowing.
  • Mabel Pui man Choy: Burning.
  • Tsand Lai Yin: Buttons.
  • Carsten Goertz: Eurothai.
  • Chan Kam Kwan (Fanny): Flame.
  • Wong Kai Zen (Gemmy): hexyClover.
  • Annabellali: Ink.
  • Matina Long Ling Cheung: Matina.
  • Yuki Yi Pui Lee: MushroomFont.
  • Pascal Glissmann, Martina Hoefflin: Parasite.
  • Ting Hiu Nam: Staples.
  • Tinny Liu: Treeskin.
  • Ka Yee (Polly) Fung: Triangular.
  • Ng Siu Yin (Hilary): Triclips.
  • Ahyan: Vibrate.
  • Ka Man (Cindy) Tse: Circulia.
  • Ka Yan (Elaine) Ng: Bubblegum.
  • Lo Betty Wing Man: HongKongPattern.
  • Thomas Hawranke: Dickbine.
  • Ip Ka Wai (Maxwell): Impression.
  • Cheung Yung: Pain.
  • Yuen Man Li: Ink (grunge).

In 2010, new fonts were added. Here is a partial list:

In 2013, Glissmann moved to Parsons in New York City, where he continued the tradition of posting the student work. However, there are no more downloads, and links are not clickable. [Google] [More]  ⦿

From Parts Unknown
[Steven Waring]

Manchester, UK-based designer of these typefaces, often experimental and exploratory:

  • The free 1970s style headline typeface Kayfabe (2015) that combines Americana, love, paranoia and psychedelia in a fantastic package. Styles include Block, Block Outline, Round and Round Outline.
  • The Flo Headline family: Typeface creation that began life as a few letters for a Mexican Hotel logotype. The initial reference was Mayan symbology, however was unused for its initial intention. The project became more personal as it developed and various incarnations of the typeface ensued.
  • In 2017, he designed the free 13-weight modular typeface family Nona and the experimental typeface Ephemera.
  • The Leat Sans (2017). A bespoke stencil typeface family for wayfinding.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Frosti Gnarr

Frosti Gnarr Studio is a creative and graphic design studio in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland. Its art director is Frosti Gnarr, who has an MA from HKU in The Netherlands. He designed a few experimental and other typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FUSE

Fuse: Interactive Magazine, experimental fonts. Also available online, the Wired 2.07 article FUSE. List of fonts. List of FUSE fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gábor Kóthay
[Fontmunkások]

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Gabriel Buitrago

Bogota, Colombia-based designer of the minimalist deductive typeface Imagine (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriel Gonzalez

During his studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Gabriel Gonzalez designed Characterize (2013, an experimental typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriel Lopes

Gabriel Lopes (New York City) designed 3d Analglyph (2013), an experimental geometric typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriel Martinez Meave
[Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera)]

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Gabriel Moats

Digital artist in Bothell, WA. Creator of the curly display typeface Inplaco (2013) and of some experimental alphabets.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriel Tiller

Raleigh, NC-based designer, while at Parsons School of Design, of the experimental op-art typeface Wax (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriela Bindis

Sosnowiec, Poland-based graphic designer who created the experimental geometric typeface Openspace (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriela Popstoyanova

Sofia, Bulgaria-based designer of two experimental Cyrillic typefaces in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriele Cecere

Designer who studied at the Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy. Creator of this experimental typeface, called New International. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriella Emoke Nemeth
[Emöke Németh]

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Gabriella Erixon

Motion graphic designer in Stockholm, Sweden, who created the experimental typeface GE Type (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriella Thompson

Saratoga, FL-based designer of Armature (2014, experimental typeface) and Arqueado (2012, a combination of Baskerville and Arcus, a display typeface inspired by arches). The Armature typeface was finished during her studies at Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida. Gabriella was born in Panama and raised in Kansas City.

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Gabrielle Millecam

During her studies in Motion Design at Les Gobelins in Paris, Gabrielle Millecam created the experimental vector format typeface Filaire (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabrielle von Koss

Brazilian graphic designer in Sao Paulo. She created an experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gaëtan Buffon

During his studies at Ecole de Condé Lyon (France), Gaëtan Buffon created a typeface based on Google Maps images, called Venise (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gaia Production

Free fonts by the Japanese group called Gaia: Teigay, DaiChalk (handwriting), TimeTrek (blocky MICR font), the handwriting Gaiasian (2001), FudenM, Floydian (scratchy, Treefrog style), the hiragana font REO, the display fonts Daipop, Daiblur, DaiheadB, and the geometric experiment Kackin-01. Virtually no punctuation. Unclear who the designers are: Masako Ibayashi, Daisuke Katayama, Masako Tsuda or Naoki Matsui. Site not updated since 2001.

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Galdino Otten

Cartoonist from Recife, Brazil, b. 1966, whose sense of humor and artsistic prowess shine in his dingbat fonts. Dafont link. Fontsy link.

Creator of the experimental Almost Sanskrit (2009), Zodiac Nice (2009, astrological symbols), Xilo in Zodiac (2009), Xilo-Cordel-Literature (2009, dingbats), Cordel Circo Mambembe (2010), Inside Issue (2009), Stretched Signature Flex (2009), Action of the time (2009, grunge), the dingbat typeface Ugly Cars (2010), the grunge typeface Capitão Galdino (2008), the grunge typeface Saltpeter-N-Fungus (2010), Texture Road (2010, more grunge), BSB DF 50 (2010, grunge), Fine Serif (2009), and the nice dingbat typeface Ochent Silibrina (2009).

Fonts made in 2010: Sport 4 Ever (dingbats for Olympic Games), 60sPop (multiline face), DotSpot (dot matrix), IRON H METAL (tattoo, gothic), IngaStoneSigns (stone age glyphs), Ode2PasteUp (hand-printed), WideSquare (pixelish), ActionoftheTimeNewUL, BSBDF50, Haus-Sweet-Haus, INSIGHT-ISSUE-NEW, Movie Filmstrip, SquareChalk, Action Of The Time New (grunge), CordelValentine (dingbats), IngaStoneSigns (petroglyphs), SustainableAmazon, VeryDamaged (grunge), ParkTechCG (letters as in wired circuits), kidSWritten, Iron H MetallLight, LaceNice (knitted look), Ode2PasteUp, TextureRoad (grunge).

Fonts from 2011: Booklet Cordel (sketched), Cordel Encarnado, Nuclear Accident (texture face), Noncircular (techno), Old Press (grunge), Old Typography (grunge).

Fonts made in 2012: New Press (condensed sans family, +Eroded), Sketch Wall, Comic Gibi, Own Written, Comica BD (comic book shadow font), Cartoon Relief (a 3d cartoon typeface), Riscada Doodle (scratchy hand), Sketch Nice, Needlework Good (a stitching font), Biscuit Made, Just Skinny, Crazy Style, After Cheret (hand-drawn 3d shaded outline face), Spots in the mirror, TNT Xplosion, Escrita Toska (curly script), Cordel Movies (moviemaking dingbats), Fine N Tall, Cordel Groteska, From Street Art (free graffiti font), Sketch College (sketched athletic shirt font), Thin Press (grungy vernacular type), Sketch Serif, Relief BD, Maxxi Serif (very heavily slabbed serif face), Semi Cursive Gut, Sketch Coursive (sketch face), Salt Pet Non Eroded, Advanced Architecture, Very Fine Serif (a monoline Egyptian), Sketch Nothing, Freehand Nothing, Shark Attack (curly), Do Doodle, Maybe Pollock (dust texture face), Xilo Prosa (grunge), Thin Design, Amazon Palafita (hand-drawn 3d outline face), Snow Times, Snow Traces, USSR Army (rough army stencil with a Russian feel), Needlework US (stitch font), Old Scribe (Greek lapidary face), Nickel Bumpy, Soviet Style (stencil face), Top Modern (heavy slab serif), Lettering Set New, Carton East, Not Tuned TV (sketch font), Scar Bleed (scary font), Maxxi Dots (texture face, +Shadows), Dots Land Gotika (grungy blackletter), Stefanie Dots (textured letters), Karamuruh (textured caps), Broken Type (grunge: a glaz krak font), Touppeka (a Kafkaesque, tribal or painter's font), Old Dreams (grungy), Bad King (sketched typeface), False 3D (hand-printed 3d outline typeface), True2D, I Wrote All, Resistance Until The End.

Typefaces from 2013: Serifa Comica (comic book slab), Press Style Serif (letterpress style), Press Style Large, Triatlhon In (sic: a Greek simulation face), Go 2 Old Western (grungy wood type), Old Serif Gut, Press Style (letterpress style typeface), Dust Serif, Thing Press, Thin Grotesk Serif, Before Collapse (glaz krak face), Stencil Style New (a military stencil), Damaged Serif, Press Serif Cool, Press Feeling, Sketch Toska, Link Parties, Almost Cartoon, Cartoon Toy, Toy Toy Toon, Fine Style (didone caps), Fine Sans (Peignotian), Beyond Blackboard, Forgotten Junk (grunge).

Typefaces from 2014: Simply Rounded, Cartoon 2 Packages, Pain N Bleed, Yummy Lollipop, Hippie Movement, Rotunda Geo, Old Figaro Cursive, Cute Cartoon, Sketch Gothic School (sketched blackletter), Fine College (hatched athletic lettering face), Press Felling Eroded (letterpress emulation), School Book New (sketched), Stencil Cargo Army (military stencil), Fine Eroded, Grunge Poster, Education Is A Way, Cartoon Blocks, Cartoon Bones, Cursive Option, Odd Press (letterpress emulation), Cartoon Tunes, From Cartoon Blocks (3d), Hippie Movement, Yummy Lollipop, Needlework Perfect, Press Gutenberg (blackletter), Unic Calligraphy, Roundfed Eroded, Children's Book (outlined), Neon 2 News, Good Choice (shaded letterpress emulation), Cartoon 2 Us, O 10 Type, Dust West (grungy Western style), Comic Balloon, Caligraf 1435 (pirate era script), No Name Sans, Top Secret Stamp (grungy stencil), Fine Blackboard (blackboard bold, inline), Press Style Extra L (letterpress), Sounds Good (geometric sans), Sounds Eroded (shaded letterpress font), Cartoon Blocks Christmas, Street 2 Art (graffiti font).

Typefaces from 2015: Snaps Taste (a grocery store or comic book font), Snaps Taste Christmas, Calligraphy Hand Made, Silly Aliens (dingbats), Sketch Match (3d, sketched), Cartoon 4 Sports (dingbats), Kids Book, Almost Japanese (oriental simulation font, +Comic, +Cartoon), Inga Stone Redesigned, Money Money Plus (engraved money font emulation), Thin Cool, Old N New Media (dingbats), Thinkers World (scanbats of famous intellectuals), Magical Cord, Quick Writing, Eroded 2 Much, Stencil Army WW I (military stencil), Stencil WW II (military stencil), D-Day Stencil (military stencil), Western Bang Bang (weathered Western font), Modern Serif, Modern Serif Eroded, Money Money (handcrafted engraved currency font), Almost Japanese Smooth (oriental simulation typeface), Write Righ, Ease Christmas (dingbats), Sketch Script Cool, Ficticcia College.

Typefaces from 2016: Doodle Cafe Scents (dingbats), Christmas Cookies, Coffee Written, Soft Marshmallow, Niagra Faults, Sketch Toronto, Sketch Fine Serif, Sketch Handwriting, Typewriter Press, Typewriter Style, Sketch 3D, Maple 3 Cartoon (snow-covered letters).

Typefaces from 2017: Crazy Krabs, Old Barbwire, Gregory Packaging, Ghost Army Stencil, Old Wise Sketch (sketched blackletter), Packaging Funny, Blackboard Restaurant, Kavernosa (bony typeface), Little Kid.

Typefaces from 2018: 1927 Epoque, Cartoon Toy Turbo, Old Wise Lord (blackletter), Handmade Memories, Silly Cartoon, Old Press Original, Pet Shop, Cute Script, Dust West College (hatched), New Comic BD.

Typefaces from 2019: Eco Bamboo (Cartoon, Fun), Karamuruh Turbo (all caps with a quilted texture), Cordel Junina, Cordel de Mangai (240 dingbats), Cordel Rustika.

Typefaces from 2020: Beach Party Cartoon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Garage Fonts
[Ralph Smith]

Garagefonts (was Del Mar, CA, and is now in Sandy Spring, MD) was created in 1993 as a means to distribute the experimental fonts used in Ray Gun magazine (David Carson). The founders were Betsy Kopshina (Del Mar, CA) and Norbert Schulz. Review by Chris Macgregor. Garage Fonts was recently bought by Ralph Smith (PhilsFonts), who is located in Maryland (hence the move). Their main type family today is Freight by Joshua Darden. In 2017, GarageFonts joined The Type Network. MyFonts catalog. Catalog of GarageFonts' best selling typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Garcia Fonts&Co
[Andreu Balius Planelles]

Experimental foundry, est. 1993 in Barcelona by Andreu Balius who lives in Santa Maria de Martorelles near Barcelona. It existed for a few years and evolved into Typerware.

Garcia/Typerware offered about 50 fonts, including some very artsy typefaces, such as Garcia Bitmap (1993), Playtext (Andreu Balius, 1995), Matilde Script (Andreu Balius, 1994: an embroidery face), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994), Futuda (1993), Ozo Type (1994), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats), (Mi mama) Me soba Script (1994), Parkinson (1994), Garcia Bodoni (1995), Garcia snack's (1993-1995), and Vizente Fuster (1995), all by Andreu Balius and Joancarles Casasin, 1993-1995.

The list of typefaces as of 2007: Afligidos deudos (1996, grunge typeface by Adi&arave; Gual), Alexis (1997, handwriting typeface by Alexis Rom), Alfallufat, (1998, fun display family by Saíz), Alquimia (1995, grunge typeface by Estudi Xarop), Ariadna (1988-1989, pixel typeface by Andreu Balius), Braille (1999, by "Txarly Brown", a Braille simulation face), Bubbles (1996, dot matrix typeface by Franco Bonaventura), BuckShot (1994, total grunge by Malcolm Webb), Bunghole (1996, grungy pixel typeface by Michael G. Kippenhan), Calypso (1997, Txarly Brown), Cartolina (2000, poster stencil typeface by Jordi Fosch), Cero (2001, sans typeface by Miguel M. Velacoracho), Dinamo (1993, Andreu Balius), Dr. Zaius (1997, André Nossek), Euroface 80mph ad 100mph (1996, Peter Bilak: a joke typeface that reads more easily as one speeds up on a highway), Fabrique (1993, Andreu Balius), Floridax (1997, a stunning stencil typeface by Txarly Brown), Freddie Frog (1996, Malcolm Webb), Funny (2001, caps for kids, by Jordi Fosch), Futuda (1993, grunge by Balius and Perez Casasin), Game (2002, by Miguel M. Velacoracho), Garage (1997, grunge by Fabrice Trovato), Garcia Bitmap (1993, Balius), Garcia Bodoni (1995, an experimental Bodoni by Balius and Perez Casasin), Garcia Snack's (1993-1995, snack bar lettering by Balius and Perez Casasin), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994, Helvetica with cheese holes; by Balius and Perez Casasin), Hispana (1996, by José M. Ribagorda), Hokvo (1994, pixel style typeface by Perez Casasin), Inercia (1996, a rounded sans by Inigo Jerez), Inmaculatta (1997, grunge by Roberto Saenz Maguregui), Jam Jamie (1996, painted letter simulation typeface by Malcolm Webb), Janson (1997, grunge by Harald Weber), Juan Castillo Script (1995, by Balius and Perez Casasin, based on the handwriting of an old man in Albacete), Joroña (2001, Kafkaesque caps by Jordi Fosch), Kentucky (1997, grune by André Nossek), Loop Ultra (1996, Franco Bonaventura), Loreakop (1995, irregular hand by Txarly Brown), Martí Hand Script (1998, Saíz), Matilde Script (1993-1994, Balius), MCK mono (2005, pixel typeface by Milos Radosavljevic), Mi Mama Me Soba Script (1994, grunge script by Balius and Perez Casasin), Network (1996, Alex Gifreu), Ninja type (1995, kana-lookalike by Txarly Brown), Ozó Type (1994, an overprinted type by Balius and Perez Casasin), Pantacas (1998, grunge by Nicolas Gallardo), Panxo Pinxo (1996, David Molins), Parkinson (1994, grunge typeface by Balius and Perez Casasin), Playtext (1993-1996, Balius), Popular (1997, Sergi Ibañez), Proceso Sans (1996, only crosses, by Pablo Cosgaya), Rocky (1997, grunge by Harald Weber), Route 66 (1997, Francesc Vidal), Sablon (2005, a stencil typeface by Marcus Schreiter), Simple (2001, experimental typeface by Romulo Fernandez), Skupitajo (1998, graffiti letters by Nicolas Gallardo), SoundFiles (1998, totally off-the-wall experimental typeface by Reto Brunner), Surface (2001, grunge by Jordi Fosch), Temble (1993, Balius), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats by Balius and Perez Casasin), Trash (1996, grunge typeface by Matthias Rawald), Vertigo (1996, a Kafkaesque typeface by Txarly Brown), Visible (handwriting by Fabrice Trovato, 1997), Vizente Fuster (1995, handwriting by Balius and Perez Casasin based on scripts seen in the Sant Antoni market), Water Knife (1995, a medieval calligraphic script revival by Laudelino L.Q), Weird (1996, an experimental typeface by Mladen Balog). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gary Elsinger

Gary Elsinger (Annecy, France) designed the straight-edge techno typeface Helva (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gary Ferguson

Illustrator and web designer in Falkirk, Scotland, who made the great ultra-fat experimental typeface Flabby (2010) and the experimental geometric typeface Geograde (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gary Head

Illustrator and brander in Wollongong, Australia. He created the experimental modular blackletter typeface Roundtura (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gaspar Feher

Eger, Hungary-based student at Eszterhazy Karoly College in 2018. During his studies, he designed the display typeface Copacetic (2018) and the experimental font Defile (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gaynor Goffe

British calligrapher. Designer (with the help of Akira Kobayashi) of the OpenType calligraphic script Hamada (2007, Linotype). This typeface has multiple variants for all letters. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gekiketz

Japanese free font maker. Besides some kana fonts, the following Latin fonts were available in 2007-2009: GKZ-0701 (pixel), GKZ-BurnBurn (pixel), GKZ-CLB (pixel), GKZ-Frox (party face), GKZ-GAZI, GKZ-KAKU, GKZ-Oriduru (oriental simulation), GKZ-Speedwrite, GKZ-crossjam, GtsAbstract, GtsArcadia, GtsImprovisation, Gtsfrontline, Gtsgazigazi, Gtslandscape, Gtsprogressive, Gtsshiranami, Gtstransition. Most of these are pixel fonts or experimental. Hiragana typefaces: GKZ-Okome, GKZ-Shiranami, Katakana typefaces: GKZ-ORIDURUKANA, GKZ-RAIGEKI, GKZ-Radiohour (pixel), GKZ-Sryder. Obsolete URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gellert Szabo

Henred, Hungary-based graphic designer, who created some experimental typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gen Mori

Gen Mori's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion: Stereotype is an experimental font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gene Buban

Gene Buban (aka geneus1) is the creative and prolific designer at FontStruct in 2008-2009 of these typefaces:

  • Aerologica (2009): 3-d headline face.
  • Alphadings: DeTracks.
  • Altitudinus (2010).
  • Amplifica (+Carved, 2010).
  • Arkham Bloodletters (2008).
  • bay6
  • Bauhaus style: Slink (2009) is a tribute to Josef Albers---one could also call it a piano key font. Codename Bauhaus (2010).
  • Arc Brick 1:1 and 2:2 (2010).
  • Bevelicious (2009): 3d shadow face.
  • Bezziaiare (2010): an imitation of Futura.
  • Brikd is a fantastic headline face.
  • Bubble Lab EF (2008) and Bubble Lab Bang (2008): dingbat fonts.
  • Calligraphique (2010).
  • Candella (2013).
  • ChequereBoard (2008): a 3d face.
  • Christmas fonts: Kallosia Decorative (2009, blackletter), Snowflakes (2009).
  • Clone War (2008).
  • code2
  • Codename Bauhaus (2010).
  • Country Fried (Western style)
  • Crossfyre (2010).
  • Crystles (2014). He writes: In 1983, Atari released the Crystal Castles video game. You play Bentley Bear walking around castles and collecting gems. Trimetric instead of isometric. Interestingly enough, the initials of the highest scorer in the leaderboard is used to build the first castle. This font version is created using the same thin plated tiles that the player traverses through the castles.
  • Decorata (stylized art deco)
  • Didone fonts: Legality (2009, sharply serifed), Petrissage (2009).
  • Digibubble (2014: pixelish face).
  • Dingbats: DeTrayne (graffiti-clad trains), Happy Halloween (2009).
  • Egalite (2010): a blackletter face.
  • Direktype (2014: striped).
  • Elektronika (2009) and Circularities (2015). Pixelish.
  • ElSeeDee (2008, white on a black grid, inspired by the baggage claim LED scrolling message system at the Oakland Airport)
  • Effleurage (2009).
  • Eurostijl (2008)
  • Exersia, Excursia
  • Ferno (hell?)
  • Filmstryp (2008)
  • Flameon (2008) is a vertically striped athletic lettering font.
  • Fluoralei (2008) and Fluoralyte (2008) are all caps floral-themed typefaces.
  • Futuro (2008) and Futuro Extra Bold (2008).
  • Futurity Watch (2009).
  • Fragg (2014: a rounded stencil face).
  • Framestore (2008).
  • G1 Construx (2012). An arched textured typeface for "under construction" signage.
  • G1 Stenzilla (2012). A piano key stencil face. G1 Twyne (2014: Celtic knots), G12 Brayed (2014: Celtic knots), G1 Explo (2014), G1 Fasttrax (2013).
  • Gappy and Gappy LC (2010).
  • Geolateral
  • Glossierre (2009).
  • Graffikki (2010): graffiti face.
  • Hammerslab (2008) is a very thick heavy slab serif face.
  • Happy Halloween (2008): Halloween dingbats.
  • HellStruct (2008): flamed letters.
  • hollo, holloback, holloblack
  • HulkSmash has the look of cracked concrete blocks---has to be seen to be believed!
  • HyperLynk (2010).
  • Indiglo (2010).
  • Interblok Cylindrome (2011) and Interblok Stroke (2009): labyrinthine / Celtic knot / texture typefaces.
  • IronManic (2008, letters resemble armor steel plates with bolts)
  • IsoMatrix 3D (2009, an Escher deception in 3D), Bevelluzian (2010, 3d beveled checkerboard illusion).
  • Jaggs (2010): angular.
  • Karuso 68 (2009).
  • Leefer is a kitchen tile font.
  • Legere (2010, a roman face).
  • LegoManiax (2008).
  • G1 Lovelines (2016). A multiline typeface with embedded hearts that won an award in the 2016 FontStruct competition on the theme of love.
  • Lucid (2009).
  • Lush Alienne Caps (2014).
  • Microboto (2014).
  • Modulus and Modulus Black, ultra fat fonts.
  • Motternal (2011), a version of Othmar Motter's Motter Tektura.
  • Mucro Bold, a heavy metal band font
  • Multiverse Diagonality (2009).
  • Nontroppo (2010).
  • Outlier (2010).
  • Paradoxx (2011). Peignotian.
  • Periculum (2010): monoline sans.
  • pixsle
  • Pixsle (2010).
  • Predatoric ad Predatoric2 (2010).
  • Prikkle (2010): angular.
  • Ray Type Alpha (2014). A game font based on Konami's 1981 game Scramble.
  • Renovare S1 (2010) and Renovare S2 (2015). a slab serif.
  • Requiemme Decorum (Sept. 14th, 2009): blackletter. He writes: Exactly one year ago two of my cousins, Chris and Cleofe, got into a dealer-loaned Lexus for a trip after their main car was being repaired. Cleofe's husband, a CHP officer, was driving and their teen daughter was along for the ride. While on the freeway, the accelerator became stuck and they lost control of the car. As the runaway vehicle sped up to over 100 mph, all four passengers were killed in a fiery crash in the San Diego River. The loss was unquantifiably devastating. This immensely tragic event led my aunt to testify before congress with damning evidence that would initiate the recall of millions of Toyota vehicles. Requiemme Decorum was created on the way down to southern California for the funeral services. For Chris, Cleofe, Mark, and Mahala, may you all rest in peace and love.
  • Renovare (2010, +Renovare S1, S2): a slab serif.
  • Roboscript (2008): an upright connected school script.
  • Rubrix (2008): a Rubik cube dingbat font.
  • Sanserity (2013).
  • Scipio (2010).
  • Scribble Not (2010) is a texture face.
  • Sequencia (2010).
  • sedagive
  • Seriface and Seriface 2.0 (2010, a roman all-caps set).
  • Sharp-serifed almost modern typefaces: Legality, Petrissage, Effleurage, Karuso68.
  • Sinaloco (2014: in the style of Sinaloa).
  • Sirkles (2015). a dot-matrix typeface.
  • Sonorous (2010). Broadway-style art deco typeface.
  • Spartan Tech (2010): inspired by the multiplayer game Halo3.
  • Stanley Twobrick (pointy minimalist face)
  • Startrek typefaces: Transformicon (2009).
  • Stencilline (2014).
  • Streamlyne (2010, squarish, outlined).
  • Structurocca and Structurozza (2009): Horizontally stencilled black typefaces.
  • Swizelle (2015). A lava lamp typeface.
  • Tangience and Tangience Solid (2008) are fonts in which the glyphs are built up from circles glued together.
  • Tetrisyde
  • The Pax Man (2009): metallic whatever.
  • Trelief and Trelief Rounded (2010): multilined 3d beveled typefaces.
  • Tubric (2010): counterless.
  • Upriteous and Upriteous Black, condensed protestant fonts.
  • Victoriana (Victorian caps)
  • Vindicta Dualine (2011: Blackboard bold).
  • Wall-F: white squarish letters in black circles
  • Waverly, with scary pointed barbs like on German WWI helmets.
  • Weaver (Celtic knot-themed letters)
  • Xerro (2010): like Helvetica.
  • Yeomamuh, a fat look face.
  • Wypeout (2010)
  • Zorea (2014, inline font).
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General Dikki

Creator of the free geometric experimental typeface Porno Junky (2011, Fonts of Chaos). Bond Is Dead (2011) is a free dot matrix face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Geoff Huasca

Nice, France-based designer of the free broken stencil typeface Orion (2015), which was done for a school project at EC Arts et Création. [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Gabriel

Chicago, IL-based designer of the decorative typeface Blender (2015) and the experimental typefaces Flesh (2015) and Flesh Extreme (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Vinícios

Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gerald Puig
[Tipocondriac]

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Gerardo Pinzon
[Pollo Graphic Design]

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Gerd Casper

Gerd Casper (Kassel, Germany) created Fragmented Font (2015), a typeface experiment in which glyphs are broken into several pieces. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gergely Bogányi

Graphic designer in Budakeszi, Budapest, Hungary, who cofounded Typogravity Studio with Tamas Ilsinszki. Creator of the extreme contrast display typeface Slash Pro (2011), and the multiline prismatic typeface Grand Avant Garde (2011).

In 2012, he designed Lineo Serif (thin geometric face).

In 2013, he created a fantastic set of graph-based experimental capitals called Regenerative. Georabic (2013) is a calligraphic Arabic simulation font completely based on the principles of Arabic font design, i.e., with beginning, medial and end forms for each letter. He writes: Georabic Typface is my diploma work at Hungarian University of Fine Arts / Graphic Design Department. During my Erasmus studies in Istanbul I had the chance to learn a bit of Arabic language and typography and I realized that the logic of Arabic writing could be used for a calligraphic Latin typeface too. I started with calligraphy to find the right way to create the glyphs and the connections. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gergely Kókai

Born in Hungary, Gergö Kokai studied graphic design in Leicester in the UK and in Orleans, France. He interned at Fontshop International/Monotype in Berlin in 2015 and joined Alphabet Type as a font engineer in January 2016.

He created the themed typeface Watch My Shoes (2011, experimental). He also made the fat blocky Quadrata series in 2011, with styles called Child, Hippie, Light, Origin, and Scrib. [Google] [More]  ⦿

German Jiménez Pinilla

Bucaramanga, Colombia-based graphic designer (b. Santander) who graduated from Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota in 1993, and now runs a studio in Bucaramanga. He also teaches at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Seccional Bucaramanga.

Creator of Arko (2006), Mandela (counterless typeface), Nobde (2005), Mandela (2013), a dark counterless typeface. In 2014, he designed the heavy octagonal stencil typeface Arsan. In 2016, he published the techno poster typeface Magdalena and the experimental stick typeface Festis.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gernot Stangl

At TU Graz, Austria, in the late nineties, Gernot Stangl designed abc, an experimental Roman-Cyrillic font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gerrit van Aaken
[Praegnanz.de]

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Gestalten

German foundry, part of Gestalten Designstudio and Die Gestalten Verlag (dgv) in Berlin, a company self-described as follows In 1990, industrial design students Markus Hollmann-Loges, Andreas Peyerl and Robert Klanten began to curate and organise prototype design shows commissioned by the worlds biggest consumer fair in Frankfurt in between attending their lectures and writing their dissertations. Very much aware of the limitations of their field of study, they soon moved to Berlin, where they quickly met key people involved in the local Techno and cultural scenes. With the advent of desktop publishing, they formed a loosely organized graphic design agency called Die Gestalten and started designing flyers and posters for clients such as the groundbreaking club Tresor and the annual Loveparade. Its typefaces, by designer:

  • Bowling Club: Victor.
  • Boris Dworschak: Basic, Exakt (stencil), Ikiru Sans (organic).
  • Stefan Gandl: DS Yakuti (experimental).
  • Alexander Puell: dtype (fuzzy typewriter), Online Gothic.
  • Frank Rocholl: Nuri (sans family).
  • Alexander Wise: Mini (hip display sans), Hiploe, Winter (modernistic two-line display face).
  • Marc Schilkowski: Traffic Wide.
  • Soffi Beier: Pemba (connected 50s script), Engel (sans family).
  • Fulguro: Adhesive (octagonal script).
  • Pau Misser: Agrafia (LED simulation), Bustia (futuristic), Escacs, Fastig, Hodierna, Natja, Oliosa, trifasic (futuristic), Quelcome.
  • Clarissa Tossin: Arvore (experimental).
  • Nik Thönen: Regular Cargo (stencil;; the Bold version is free), Blender (sans), Regular (sans).
  • André Nossek: Sassy (2006).
  • Martin Aleith: Boxen, Haudegen (octagonal style), Halunken (rpounded octagonal), Feixen, Braten Fat, Logasmen.
  • Michael Luther: Forza (was: Pilot).
  • Alexander Meyer: Lacrima (typewriter face).
  • Donald Beekman: Beatbox, Breeze.
  • Mika Mischler: Brother (stencil), T-Star Mono Round (monospace).
  • Birte Ludwig: Yogasaan (Indic simulation).
  • Pact: BR Jaeger (gothic).
  • Dimitri Lavrow: Hard Case Striped, Hannover Milennial (sans).
  • Erik Worsoe Eriksen: Friends (sans), Kit Fat.
  • Critzla: Flomaster (with JayOne), Starlet (fifties script), Franz Jaeger (ultra fat).
  • Jutojo: Inbetween (experimental).
  • Alexander Tibus: Wirefox (experimental).
  • Timo Gässner: 123 Naiv (2006).
  • Mutabor: Lingua Digitalis Icon Set (2012).

Free fonts include Regular Cargo Bold by Nik Thoenen, RussianBread, DrEye and Doener Kebap Strong by Lund Sundson, as well as HardCase-Striped by Dimitri Lavrow. New releases. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gigjam Letterspace

Type blog with occasional type showings, but the names of the bloggers and designers remain a mystery. Types shown here include experimental typefaces such as NIP (2009) and the blocky L7 (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gijs & Joris

Gijs Sluijters and Joris Tol are Gijs & Joris, a creative team at DDB / Tribal DDB Amsterdam. They teamed up at the Willem de Kooning Arts Academy in Rotterdam while studying advertising.

They designed the experimental typeface MTA (2012) that is made by cutting forms out of the MTA New York City's Transit map. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gilberto Moya Perona
[Pisto Casero]

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Gillian Ludlow

Graphic designer who studied in Liverpool, UK. Creator of Bubbleman Type (2012, experimental), Typeface Numbers (2014), My London Underground Typeface (2014---a typeface family derived from the logo of the London Underground), and Merseyrail (2015, based on the M icon of the Merseyrail logo). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giorgio Dovas

Florence, Italy-based graphic and print designer who made the experimental LineType (2009), the fat grotesk typeface Vince Nkarawi (2011), and the ultra-fat Ovalian (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giovanni Frias

During his studies at Philadelphia University, Giovanni Frias created the experimental typeface Ravenna (2014), which was inspired by flocks of birds in Denmark's black sun. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giulia Boggio

Italian web designer based in London who sells her fonts via Type Department. Creator of Bastardo Groteskish, a sans serif typeface designed and developed from a university project into a fully working typeface (started in Milan in 2017 and finished in London in 2020). In 2021, she designed the free monolinear script typeface Boris, Rigatoni (an extended grotesk), Fabio Grotesk, Margo+Beuys Black (a hipster display typeface), and Milkman (a free experimental typeface, Blending caps from Fabio Grotesk and Blocus, designed by Martin Desinde).

Typefaces from 2022: Galgo Condensed (free), Fabio (+XM, +XF, _XS, +Brut). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giuseppe Cacciatore

Graphic designer, b. 1989, Italy. For a school project at Escuela de Arte in Madrid, he created a font called Dynamich. This is pure experimentation, based on Malevich's paintings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giustina

Artistic director in Lyon, France. Designer of the experimental typeface Lettre Numérauté (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gluk Fonts
[Grzegorz Luksza]

Aka Grzegorz Luk and just Gluk, Grzegorz Luksza is a Polish type designer (b. 1973) who specializes in ultra-decorative and experimental typefaces.

Creator of the free artsy font Wanta (2008), of Resagnicto (2010), of Rawengulk (2010), of Rawengulk Sans (2011), of Reswysokr (2011), of the bold slab serif typeface Zantroke (2011), and of the free calligraphic typefaces Odstemplik (2009), promocyja (2008) and Konstytucyja (2008).

He published the elegant serif family Foglihten (2010), which includes the inline typefaces Foglihten No. 1 (2011), Foglihten Fr02 (2011), Foglihten No. 3 (2011) and Foglihten No. 4 (2012). The latter is inspired by the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791. Foglihten Petite Caps Black (2012) and Foglihten Black PCS (2012) are high-contrast fat didone typefaces, minus the ball terminals. The series continues with Foglihten No. 6 (2012) and Foglihten No. 7 (2013).

Qumpellka No 12 (2011) is a flowing italic. Opattfram01 (2011) is a dingbat typeface with onamental patterns. The Okolaks family (2008) has a bit of an art deco feel. It covers East-European languages as well as Cyrillic. Sportrop (2008) is a neat multiline face. Gputeks (2008) is a delicate decorative face. Szlichta07 (2008) on the other hand is an experimental typeface based on tilting the horizontal edges about ten degrees up. Kawoszeh (2008) is a curly Victorian pre-art nouveau face. Spinwerad (2009) and Itsadzoke S01 (2010) and Itsadzoke S02 are display didones. Znikomit (2011) is an impressive lachrymal hairline slab face. See also Znikomit No. 25 (2012) and Znikomit No. 24 (2012; image by Benjamin Frazzetto).

Creations from 2012: Charakterny, Garineldo, Mikodacs (an Impact-like black display sans), Yokawerad (a didone headline face), Resagokr, Nikodecs, Garineldo SC.

Typefaces from 2013: Etharnig, Namskin, Namskout (a layered heavy display face), Prida 65 (spurred antique face), Ketosag, Prida 61, Gatometrix, Glametrix, Gallberik.

Typefaces from 2014: VECfont FogV4, EtharnigV (a bi-colored font), Risaltyp, Wabroye, Kleymissky, Sortefax (an outline font with engraved versions as on dollar bills), Dragerotypos (blackboard bold), Resamitz.

Typefaces from 2015: Prida 36, Sudegnak No. 3 (script), Vecfont Sudegnak (cartoonish), PridaEn (a vector font for color), Prida S4, Prida01, Prida02 Calt.

Typefaces from 2016: BroshN, Tofimpelik (+Candy), Prosh3, Digitalt, Agreloy (a lovely curly Victorian typeface), Gluk Mixer (ransom note font), Fogtwo No 5.

Typefaces from 2017: Prosh 4B (a variable color font), BroshK2 (an origami style color font, in OpenType SVG format), Fuetargio (a multiline bejeweled typeface).

Typefaces from 2018: BroshK, Rostef (all caps titling typeface), Fogthree.

Typefaces from 2019: ResotE, ResotE-Pastels (a color font), ResotYc (a decorative unicase font), Resot Yg, Liserif (a kinetic SVG font).

Typefaces from 2020: Digico M (a color font), Resotho (a wide all caps geometric sans).

Dafont link. Digart link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Open Font Library link. Scribus Stuff link. Fontspace link. Kernest link. Abstract Fonts link. Behance link. Font Squirrel link. Klingspor link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Glumbosch

Designer of the experimental Wavefont (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Glyph44 (or: Swash Hub)
[Petros Afshar]

London-based creator of the super-experimental geometric and hipster typefaces Artificer (2011), Insomiak (2015, a hipster typeface), Illusive (2014, alchemic), Tuna (2014), Kim (2014), Solaris (2017), Sleipnir (2012) and Flatland (2011).

Petros is also a talented typographic illustrator---see, e.g., his Blue Heron (2011). An example of his typography for information design: Table Tennis for the 2012 Olympics.

At Studio SAP in London, he had a hand in many illustrations and illustrative typefaces such as Sleipnir (2012).

In 2018, he designed the alchemic or hipster typeface family Geometrica, which comprises Arcane, Orion and Gravity. He also created the hipster font Bastion (2018, with Kimmy Lee and Matthew James) and the blackboard bold typeface Trindle Sans.

As Swash Hub, he designed the hexagonal Elixia (2018), the hipster font Avion (2018, with Joshua Baron), and the rounded lowercase sans Kaige (2018). It is possible that SwashHub is Kimmy Lee (London).

Still in 2018, Matthew James and Petros Afshar co-designed the Japanese emulation font Okami.

Typefaces from 2019: Bael (sans, by Petros Afshar and Matthew James), Berman Bold (a blackletter font by Petros Afshar and Matthew James).

Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Goh Yam Whee
[Strange Design]

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Gonçalo Caetano

Portuguese designer who created the Tuscan typeface Homem Morto (2012), which is named after the cult film. He also created an experimental graphical alphabet called Alfabunhas (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gonzalo Perez Campos

Lima, Peru-based designer of several display typefaces commonly called Letreando (2015). He also created the experimental Space Font (2015), Pulp Font (2015) and Cristal Font (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gorkem Tilic

Gorkem Tilic (Ankara, Turkey) created Tie alphabet and Shadow alphabet in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grace Boyle

During her studies at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC-based Grace Boyle created the display typeface Divetica (2015) be combining two weights of Helvetica. Her Progressive Synthesis experimental typeface (2015) is quite striking. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grace Cantril

During her studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Grace Cantril createdome experimntal typefaces (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grace Hamilton

At Loyola University in the suburbs of Chicago, Grace Hamilton designed the blocky black experimental typeface Hamburger Type (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gracie Vee

Bangkok-based and American-born designer of the free experimental architectural grid fonts Remarkable (2012) and Remark (2012). In 2013, she made the ultra-condensed ID typeface.

Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Graham Smith

Seaford, UK-based logo, identity and brand designer. He created the blocky experimental typeface Prone in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grant Pollock

Grant Pollock (Toronto, Ontario) combined Lucida Blackletter, Baskerville and Edwardian Script ITC when he made an experimental hybrid typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grant Sparks
[Ascinct]

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Graphiste2g

Paris-based designer of a few geometric, experimental, dot matrix, origami and 3d typefaces in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gray Ng

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based creator of vector format fonts such as RoundCondensed (2014: piano key style), Hue Font (2014: op-art), Foury (2014: kitchen tile font), Trimental (2014: a 3d typeface), Playful Kid (2014), Maze Font (2014), Roundty Condensed (2012), Shape Guide (2014: a compass-and-ruler font), Veuz Italic (2014: poster font), Reel Love Joining Font (2014).

In 2015, he made the experimental Prime Font and the paleolithic writing style font Paleo (2015).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Green Flame Type

Graphic design studio in Glasgow. They made the arc-of-circle typeface Green Flame Type (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Greg Mako

During his studies at the Ringling College of Art and Design in sarasota, FL, Greg Mako experimented with font blending designs: Hardgrove (Futura Medium + Georgia), Rivera (Baskerville + Bell Gothic), Cesta (Helvetica Light + Bodoni), Irizarry (Gill Sans + Adobe Jenson MM Swash), Kravette (Frutiger + Garamond), Mako (Helvetica Neue Ultralight + Stone Sans Semi), Poppe (Bellevue + Apex New Light), Parilla (Helvetica Neue + Harrington).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Greg Ponchak
[SINDSINDSIND]

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Greg Potter

St Leonard, UK-based graphic designer who created the experimental typeface Abstract Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gregg Brokaw

Thirstype designer who designed the geometric experimental font family Punch (1998) with Rick Valicenti. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gregorio Manetti
[PerSeo Design]

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Gregory Bry

Graphic design student at Columbia College in Chicago. He created a circle-based experimental typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gregory Flajszer
[Dadakool]

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Greig Anderson
[Effek-Tive]

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Greta Tercza

During her studies at the Visual Arts Institute in Eger, Hungary, Greta Tercza designed Hellvetica (2019: an experimental geometric typeface), the Morse-themed Morse (2019) and the handcrafted Rubber Duck (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grigoli Kopaliani

Antwerpen, Belgium-based designer of Fluky (2015), a set of experimental fonts obtained by automating the process of cutting up existing typefaces and recombining them. Anther experimental typeface is Ha (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grigori Evreinova

Tatiana Evreinova writes in 2005: Grigori Evreinov had created a pseudo-graphic typeface called Styled. The goal was to simplify visual perception of the typeface and to strengthen legibility. The Styled typeface includes 26 pseudo-graphic tokens that are very similar to standard typeface and could be perceived relying on previous user experience. Tatiana got a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tampere, Finland, in 2005. The Styled typeface minimized the number of eye movements in a research experiment. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grinder Collective
[Nick Kandy]

Athens, Greece-based designer of the origami typeface Fader (2017), the free multilined experimental typeface Simulation (2018) and the 3d typeface Stairway (2018).

In 2019, they published the free Latin / Greek stencil typeface GRT Revolution.

Typefaces from 2020: GRT Sugar (a custom handcrafted typeface for Melisourgeion). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ground Control (was: Penny Font Foundry, or: Pennyzine)
[Jason Ramirez]

As part of the (ex-) Chank Army, Jason Ramirez (b. 1978, Wisconsin) offers free and commercial fonts. He started out as Pennyzine or Penny Fonts, or Penny Font Foundry, with free fonts that were typically made with the Data Becker software program. Later, his fonts became commercial, and the new site changed its name to Ground Control.

The list of their free fonts, which are mostly in the grunge style that was in vogue ca. 2000: Locals Only (2011), Cocaine Nosejob (2008), Made (2004, grunge blackletter), Strip Club Motion Sickness (2003), One Fell Swoop (2003, scratchy calligraphic), Fear of a Punk Planet (2005), Futon Revolutionist (2002), Bill Hicks (2002, grungy blackletter), Elliot Swonger (2002), Elliots Bad Day (grunge), Don Giovonni (2006, grungy typewriter), Don Giovonni Makin Enemies (2006), Gumuski (2002), DUMMY (1999), Acid Reflux Baby (2002), Avenge Me (2004, multiline, octagonal), Times-New-Omen (1999), punk rock rummage sale (2001), Thatluvinfeelin1 (2001, a sexual positions font), cut-n-paste (1999), Maydogg (1999-2002, handwriting), My-wife-sucks (1999), Stamped-out (1999), Stank (1999), StankII (1999), uncle-tom (1999), uno (1999), Coopdeville (2002), Dirtysocks, FourMoreYears (2003), Punkrockrummagesale (2001), Theregoestheneighborhood (2003), Thiskettle (2002, handwriting), Mr. Rogers (2003), Regime Change (2004), Hotel Coral Essex (2006, grunge), Limp Noodle (2006).

Commercial fonts: Sparkle House (2011), Chompsky Fancy (2011), Redneck Superstar (2002, Chank's).

Dafont link. Yet another URL. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. Alternate URL. Direct downloads. Alternate direct download path. Ground Control web site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grzegorz Luksza
[Gluk Fonts]

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Guadalupe Gonzalez

Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Outset. [Google] [More]  ⦿

GuessWho

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of eClonius, a modular experimental face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guido de Boer
[Vormplatform]

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Guido Schneider
[Brass Fonts]

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Guilherme Lobao

Sao Paulo, Brazil-based designer of these typefaces in 2017: the art deco typeface family Bermudas, the experimental typeface Lanogaid, Quantum (sci-fi), Wide, Lardo, So Below, Alien, 104, Palette (hexagonal), Astrix, Gear, Rion Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guilherme Souza

Designer in Marilia, Brazil. He created experimental typefaces such as a counterless ultra fat face and a geometric display face (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guillaume Dubois

Guillaume Dubois (Grenoble, France) created the experimental typefaces Wired and riangular in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guillaume Faivre

Graphic designer in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France. He created a geometric typeface in three hours in 2012, and the result is not bad on the eye. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guillaume-Ulrich Chifflot
[Number Nine (or: N9)]

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Guillermo Galván Gómez

This Argentinian designer from Córdoba designed the experimental sans typeface Elva Sans (2003), as well as the pixel typeface Cosquin.web (2003-2004) and the techno typeface Chocolate Display (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guillermo Vizzari
[Yaniguille]

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Gunes Ozcan

Visual artist and illustrator in Sangamon, IL (was: Ankara, Turkey), who created the experimental typeface Planet (2013) as well as a colored alphabet (2017). Additional URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gunnar Vilhjalmsson
[Universal Thirst]

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Gurphavan Sekhon

London, UK-based designer of the cloudy typeface Drowning (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gurpreet Bangar

Illustrator and graphic designer in Birmingham, UK. He used road signs to construct his Motorway Madness alphabet in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gurvan Heurtel

During his studies at Lisaa, Rennes, Gurvan Heurtel designed the experimental 3d typeface Gesloten (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gustav & Brun
[Andreas Brunelius]

Swedish type designer associated with Jagjavi and later Gustav & Brun. See Andreas Gustavsson, who is possibly one and the same. Typefaces:

View Andreas Brunelius's typefaces. Creative Market link. View all their typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gustav & Brun (was: Jagjavi)
[Andreas Gustavsson]

Andreas Gustavsson is a Swedish designer, b. 1979, located in Nyköping. At MyFonts, starting in 2013, the name Andreas Brunelius started to appear as the designer of most of the typefaces. It is possible that Andreas Brunelius = Andreas Gustavsson. Gustavsson's typefaces were first published under the foundry name Jagjavi, but in 2014, that name changed to Gustav & Brun.

Creator of the simple hand-printed typeface Kohicle 25 (2009). See also his waxy letter studies from 2010.

At his commercial foundry, he published Pushups (2012, hand-printed 3d face), Itchy Handwriting (2012), Docklan (2012, textured face), Herbarium (2012, plants dingbats) and Old Earthy (2012, a hand-drawn font inspired by the mid 19th-century art movement with William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood).

Typefaces from 2013: Sweeper, Paper Cuts, Nanu and Nanu Simple Ornaments (hand-drawn poster font), Macro (fat headline or poster face), Macro Print (the eroded version of Macro), Karl and Karl Black (blackboard bold typeface family).

Typefaces from 2014: Caitiff (a fun poster typeface), Albus (comic book font), Expedition One (bichromatic geometric solid typeface), Sweeper Slanted (brush typeface).

Home page. Behance link. Another home page. Fontspace link. Dafont link. View all their typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gustavo Garcia
[Papanapa]

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Gustavo Piqueira

Brazilian graphic designer (b. 1972) who lives in Sao Paulo where he runs Rex Design with Marco Aurélio Kato and Valter Botoso. Gustavo also teaches typography at Faculdades Senac de Comunicaçao e Arts and is a member of the board of directors of ADG Brasil (Brazils Graphic Designers Association). In 1997, he founded the graphic and digital design company Rex Design with Aurélio Kato and Valter Botoso in Sao Paulo. Brief CV at Tipografia Brasilis. Klingspor link.

His fonts:

  • Autorama (1999, experimental).
  • At T-26: the futuristic family Motordrome (2006, rectangular look), Goog (2002, pixel face), Bizu (1999, grunge), Cabourg (2004) and the great experimental typeface Gilcimar.
  • Free fonts on Gustavo's web site (click on Culture, then on Fonts): Nimuendaju, Neufrank (dingbats), Zzz and Sid Family. To download these, you have to fill out a form for each one of them.
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Gustavo Santos

At UTFPR, Gustavo santos (Curitiba, Brazil) designed Expetimental types (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guy Newton

Guy Newton (Sydney, Australia) created the geometric solid typeface Swagger (2013), and the geometric outline typeface Fatbeat (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gwenn Espejo

Graphic designer and 3d modeler in Strasbourg, France, who created the hypnotic experimental decorative caps typeface Random Geometric (2015) by turning each glyph 360 degrees. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Habiba El Gendy

During her graphic design studies at Gaza Arts University, Cairo-based Habiba El Gendy created the experimental geometric Latin / Arabic typeface Arkan (2014), and the crispy Arabic typeface Habiba (2016). Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hadrien Degay Delpeuch

Parisian designer. Behance link.

Creator of various typefaces such as Neeo (2012, avant-garde), E-Pure (2012, geometric), Pixa (2012, hexagonal), Recompose (2012), TypEra (2012), and an unnamed alchemic typeface (2012).

In 2013, Hadrian published the experimental typefaces Texta and Beyond Font and the display sans Modular.

In 2015, he designed Deconstruct (experimental type) and Wide (a very narrow pixacao graffiti-inspired font created for the Graphic Design Festival Scotland competition).

Typefaces from 2016: Decorum. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hai Anh Le

Graphic designer in Budapest. Creator of the very experimental Iony Display typeface in 2011, described as spacefunk slab. Iony inspired a digital font by Antonio Morata called Zychotropic eYeFS (2013, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hakeem Abel Ben Youssef
[Neueform Studio]

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Halilcan Cayan

Designer in Istanbul, Turkey, who designed the experimental typeface Rudder in 2017. In 2018, Halilcan Cayan and Emrah Yildirim designed the roman caps / romain du roi style typeface Murmillo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hamish Muir
[MuirMcNeil Design Systems]

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Hamlet Au Yeung

Designer of experimental Latin typefaces (such as Ice Cube, 2012) and Chinese types (such as Nordic Alive, 2012: based on the minimal modernism of Scandinavian design). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Han Bit

Seoul-based graphic designer. In 2008, he designed Plamodel (LED font), Layer (experimental font), and Piece (octagonal and minimalist). His type designs in 2009 include Glasses (letters using frames of glasses).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Han Qimeng

As a student at University of London, Han Qimeng (Beijing, China) designed an experimental Latin typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hana Hassan

Cairo, Egypt-based designer of the experimental Latin typeface Viktor Navorski in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hana Lee

Graphic designer in Toronto who created some experimental typefaces in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

HandType Co (was: Cooee Design)
[David Delahunty]

Graphic designer in Dublin, where he ran Cooee Design. Some of his posters and projects are about experimental typography, such as A to Z (2009) and Cycles. Behance link.

David Delahunty is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that code/programming can add a fresh element to design. He used a program to create experimental glyphs in an imaginary alphabet, Alphabreak.

In 2017, he published Joosey Loosey (handcrafted typeface), Neistat (2017) and Webby (a web-textured font). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hanna Rasper

For a typography class in Berlin, Hanna Rasper created the wonderful typeface Flying Rat (2016) out of the shapes of pigeon droppings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hans van Sinderen

Designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, whose Pentakis font (2014) is based on a Pentakis dodecahedron solid. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hansje van Halem

Dutch graphic designer, b. 1978. Graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, who started her own studio in Amsterdam in 2003. She creates alphabets, textures and patterns, both digitally and manually, that she applies to designs for posters, illustrations and public space art works such as gates and floors. In 2017, she developed an experimental typeface called Wind at Typotheque. Technically produced by Peter Bilak, there is variable font version by Thom Janssen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hanzer Liccini
[Elias Hanzer]

Elias Hanzer is the Berlin, Germany-based designer of the sans typefaces EH Eins A (2018?), EH Normal (2017) and Eh Gut (2015). He also created typefaces Phase Phase. Together with book designer Lucas Liccini he founded Hanzer Liccini in 2018 in Berlin, which released these typefaces:

  • Arizona Oldstyle. In 2020, Elias Hanzer released the Arizona superfamily at Dinamo in 2020 and 2021. This includes sans, text, mix, flare and serif subfamilies and contains variable forms as well.
  • Colant (2020). Based on Columbia Antiqua, a Scotch/Modern-style serif typeface, featuring distinct angular details and produced by the Bauersche Giesserei (Frankfurt am Main) on the occasion of the 1893 World Exposition in Chicago.
  • Fake.
  • Matex (2019). A 7-style geometric sans inspired by both schoolbook/textbook grotesques and Bauhaus, including Herbert Bayer's mid-1920's lowercase Universal.
  • Moment.
  • Orbital.
  • Primago.
  • Timezone (2021). A transitional typeface close to Times Roman. The G has a protruding chin.
  • Vincent (2019). An experimental script by Elias Hanzer and Lucas Liccini. The letter forms are inspired by a script font designed by naval scientist Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey. The Hershey fonts were a collection of early vector fonts released in Hershey's report Calligraphy for Computers (1967).

Liccini is also involved in Studio Manuel Raeder. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Happycentro
[Federico Galvani]

Happycentro is a creative studio based in Verona, Italy. Members include Federico Galvani, Giuliano Garonzi, Roberto Solieri, Giulio Grigollo, Andrea Manzati, and Federico Padovani. Behance link. They made various experimental types. Federico Galvani and Sebastiano Boni drew the caps typeface ProtoType by hand. Giulio Grigollo made the avant garde typeface Architecta (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Happyloverstown
[Jonathan Calugi]

Very talented Pistoia, Italy-based designer (b. 1982). His typefaces:

A follower of Calugi writes: Jonathan is a young illustrator hailing from Pistoia, Italy. It's nearly impossible to not recognize his signature style: what at first appears to be a child-like doodling, a closer look will reveal a world of intricate, carefully crafted patterns and eccentric geometric forms. Hellofont link. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Happypets

Happypets is an experimental lab of graphic designers based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Type experiments only. No fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Happypill

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Galant (a curious bubbly experiment), Gescheit Trashed, Error Warning (pixel face), Eckich, Schokolade (severa, almost squarish), Gescheit, Digital Brazil, Regal. In 2009, he added Doppel, Druckloch, Destruct Embroiders and Galant. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Haralampos Andreanidis

Greek graphic designer. He created a number of minimalist/pizelish/squarish Latin/Greek fonts in 2009 under the name City Fonts. His Totem Font (2009) is experimental. Nomass Team Font (2009) is a squarish stencil. His typographic posters.

Alternate URL. Another URL. Behance link. Devian tart link. Nomass site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harald Geisler

German type designer, b. 1980, Frankfurt. He runs a design studio in Frankfurt.

His typefaces from 2010: Ciseaux Matisse (a counterless hand-printed all-caps typeface which is based on paper cut-outs), Zebramatic (a striped caps face), Sevigny (an experimental face based on threads), Speech Bubbles, and the fun poster typeface Whimsical Musical.

Fonts made in 2011 include Cute Letters (curly, hand-printed Valentine's Day pair of typefaces: Hearted and Heartless), Prince Charming, Princess Charming (doodly Valentine's Day face), Conversation Hearts (alphading face), Capital Love (an alphading typeface with hearts), and Unchain My Heart (Valentine's Day alphading typeface).

In 2012, he created the calligraphic connected script typeface Conspired Lovers and the seven-font set Light Hearted (which was inspired by a recording of Jean Baudrillard entitled Die Macht der Verführung (2006).

His largest type project in 2013 was Sigmund Freud Typeface, which was developed with the help of PDF file. That font was published in 2017 as Albert Einstein.

Still in 2017, he published Electric Cable (together with Julieta Ulanovsky) and had a Kickstarter project called Martin Luther.

In 2018, he teamed up with Sumbo Pinheiro to develop the fun typeface Excited Alphabets, which is based on Sumbo's illustrations.

Home page. Behance link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Harried Type
[Harry G. Blakeman]

Portland, OR-based designer of the hand-printed typeface Granite Letter (2013), the experimental typeface Moonblock (2015), the pixel typeface Protovision (2015), the techno typeface Anchorage (2015), the crayon typeface Autumn Pixels (2015), Barcode Decol (2015), and the hairline squarish typeface Granite Mode (2015). Typefaces from 2016 include Granite Postmodern and the squarish Turntable Aux (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Fuzzface, Graytype, Ventures.

Typefaces from 2018: Microchip (an LED or MICR font), Aroundabout (circle-themed), Blakeman Hand, June 5. Dafont link. Old personal URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harriet G. Goren

Harriet Goren (Brooklyn, NY) holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art (concentration in Painting) from Yale University. Type designer of the Morire (1994, emotional grunge) family sold by [T-26]. It is inspired by the Moiré effect [a pattern created by the overlaying of lines or grids at slightly different angles]. She tells the story of Morire here: "When I made Morire, I had been a designer for a couple of years and was really bored with what I was doing. I spent a lot of time looking at contemporary typography and observing what was going on. I didn't really consider myself part of any movement. I read an article, in Time magazine of all places, of a school in Camden, Maine called the Center for Creative Imaging. The article said it was like being in Florence during the Renaissance. I immediately thought I have to go there. It was incredibly expensive, like $1,700 for three days, and there was an intensive weekend course called something like Experimental Typography. Now this is 1994 or 1993, so these concepts were fairly new. The teacher was P. Scott Makela, who died fairly young but was brilliant and part of that whole David Carson school. Not really knowing anything about the course, I registered, and paid the massive amount of money. The workshop turned out to be three people and the teacher in the class, and it was basically a three-day intensive experience. We didn't even sleep. It was just three straight days of type design. They had state-of-the-art computers, at that time Macintoshes, and I had never had facilities like that. Makela gave us an assignment and over the weekend I designed the whole typeface. I wasn't even on drugs." Makela was impressed enough to suggest sending the font to Carson. Goren, flattered and flush with doubt, copied it to a disc and sent it through the mail. A few months later, she bought a copy of Ray Gun; Morire was emblazoned all over the pages, fully credited and even used on the cover. Carson had previously left a voicemail expressing interest in the typeface, but had never guaranteed its inclusion. That was the nature of things: fast, inspired, and without pretense or hierarchy.

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Harry Barlow

During his studies, Aldershot, UK-based Harry Barlow created an experimental typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harry G. Blakeman
[Harried Type]

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Harry Giles-Thornbory

Designer of Linotype Shapeshifter (1997, 3d geometric shapes) and Linotype Truckz (1997, letters in the forms of tire threads). His name is spelled as Harry Thorwbory on older Linotype sites. But elsewhere we find Harry Giles-Thornbory and Eliot Giles-Thornbory. Klingspor link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Harry Lee

During his studies at Falmouth University in the UK, Harry Lee created Average (2013), an experimental typeface obtained by overlays of twelve popular typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harry Poole

Graphic designer in London. During his stiudies at UCA Farnham in Surrey, England, he created Aztec (2012, an outline typeface with a stone cut look), Minty Modular (2012), King Modular (2012) and Current Cut (2012, arc and circle-themed typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harvard's DNA experiment

In 2012, scientist at Harvard University's Wyss Institute programmed DNA to interlock in such a way that certain shapes are made on a nanoscale. Their research, which was published in Nature, features a molecular picture with 107 designs, including emoticons, Chinese characters, numbers and letters from the Latin alphabet. The canvas is a rectangle measuring 64 nanometers by 103 nanometers, with 310 pixels. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hazem Ahmed

Tanta, Egypt-based designer of a free experimental decorative Latin all-caps typeface called Polygonal (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Head First Design
[Morice Kastoun]

Kastoun (b. 1977) lives in Melbourne and runs Head First Design. His typefaces:

  • Codesigner with Stephen Banham (The Letterbox) of Morice (2005, a paperclip face done with Niels Oeltjen).
  • In 2009, he published the free grotesque family Oceania.
  • Not quite Bank Gothic, Kastoun created Bernard Gothic No. 3 based on signage in port Melbourne from the 1920s.
  • Barefoot Gotham is a handlettering font custom made for the Barefoot brewery.
  • Kushtie (2010).
  • The Middlecase family (2015): the upper part of each glyph comes from the uppercase, and the lower half from the lowercase. Followed by Middlecase Next in 2017.
  • Sentic (2017). A geometric sans in Text and Display versions. Followed by Sentic Display (2020).
  • Mezza Display (2019).
  • Briery (2020). A sharp-edged display sans family in which many glyphs are held together by articulation points.
  • Squiggle (2021). A plump rounded inline sans.
  • Larrikin (2021). A 12-style distressed typeface that includes two scripts. The ten other styles imitate hand-carved woodcut lettering.
  • Ryker (2022). A 24-style monoline sans with a single stroke theme.

Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Heather DiFiore

New York City-based designer of the prismatic / geometric typeface Extension (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heather Marie Metcalfe

Graphic designer in Manchester, UK, who created the linked ring typeface Linked (2014) in the context of a university project on Alan Turing. She also designed the multicolored typeface Eightbit (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hector Carrillo Aspano

Barcelona-based graphic designer (b. 1988) who created the avant garde experimental typeface AMFE (2013), and Scanogram (2013). Creator of Bowman (2010), a font specially made as a typographic tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Cairo Slab UT (2013, available from Ultra Types) is a reworking of Slab Serif, a typeface found in 100 alphabets publicitaires (1946).

Typefaces from 2014: Odd Slab.

Behance link. Dafont link Fontspace link. Blogspot link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Helen Atkinson

University student in High Wycombe, UK, who created the experimental typeface Tube (2011) based on parts of the London subway system map. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Helen Rice
[Pretend Foundry (or: Fuzzco)]

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Helena Lunding Hultqvist

Kristianstad, Sweden-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of an alphabet consisting only of solid geometric shapes called Geoalfabet (2013). She also created the illustrated caps alphabet I Want To Be (2013).

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Helena Pérez Garcia

Graphic designer, illustrator and photographer in Valencia, Spain, who created a thin monoline typeface called Miranda Sans (2011), a slabby didone typeface called Cecilia (2011) and an experimental minimalist typeface called Rota (2011, with Pablo Funcia). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Helene Chataigner

Parisian creator of the experimental and artsy typeface Pierre Mallois (2012).

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Helga Guru

Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who created the great experimental typeface Somnium (2015), the connect-the-dots typeface Saturn (2015) and the artsy steampunk typeface Clock (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

HelloMe
[Till Wiedeck]

HelloMe is Till Wiedeck's Berlin-based studio. They created the following typefaces in 2011: HM Extra (the visual identity for HipHop musician Exzem is based around the custom alchemic typeface HM Extra), HM JuneGrotesk, HM Tilm (monoline, created with Timm Häneke). HM Walnut (2008) is a modular geometric experimental typeface. HM Club (2009) is an art deco typeface created as part of Videoclub's visual identity. HM Mary (2008) is almost in the piano key typeface genre. HM Melt (2008) is a very original logotype stencil typeface.

In 2014, they made the bespoke typeface Blom & Blom. In 2015, they published the children's block typeface Tiny. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Helsinki Type Studio
[Niklas Ekholm]

Finnish commercial type foundry, est. 2013 by Niklas Ekholm, Juho Hiilivirta, Jungmyung Lee and Jaakko Suomalainen. The typefaces:

  • Absolution (2016, by Niklas Ekholm). Experimental: Absolution is a pseudorandom typeface for holy scriptures and an ecclesiastical punishment.
  • Adult Antiqua (2013). A severe wedge serif by Niklas Ekholm.
  • Bastard Semibold (2012, by Jungmyung Lee).
  • Bookish Book (2011, by Niklas Ekholm).
  • Finlandica (2015, by Juho Hiilivirta, Niklas Ekholm and Jaakko Suomalainen). A free custom typeface. Finlandica was commissioned by the Prime Minister's Office as part of a visual identity for Finland. They write: Ink traps like cuts from a blunt ax, makes the typeface reliable in small sizes and gives it character in large headlines. Like the Finnhorse it's a breed suitable both as riding horse and workhorse. Free download. This font is sometimes referred to as the Suomi 100 font, as it was created for the 100th birthday of Finland.
  • HTS One and HTS One Mono (2016, by Niklas Ekholm and Jaakko Suomalainen). Techno.
  • Leighton (2012, by Niklas Ekholm).
  • Mignon (2011, by Niklas Ekholm).
  • Mogul (2012, by Juho Hiilivirta).
  • Nils (2011-2014, by Niklas Ekholm).
  • Railo Thin (2017, by Juho Hiilivirta). A widely monospaced typeface.
  • Relevant Regular (2011, by Niklas Ekholm and Jaakko Suomalainen).
  • Rodham (2016, by Juho Hiilivirta).
  • Scarla (by Jungmyung Lee).
  • Tyrant (2012, by Juho Hiilivirta).
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Hendrick Rolandez
[Moinzek]

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Henri Roussier

French designer (b. 1980) who lives in Cannes. Creator of Vincente (2005, a wayfinding sans typeface designed for Caplo Saint Vincent Clinic in Besançon, France), Diamond (2004, with Lars Harmsen and Boris Kahl, for Volcano Type), Xylopohone (experimental), Magny Cours [or Magnicourt, 2005), Typonautique (2008, with Ninja Himbert, for a watersports domain), Abrupte and Rollmops (experimental).

Klingspor link. Link to Studio Roussier in Cannes. Behance link. Volcano Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Henrik Fjeldberg

Norwegian designer of the grunge typeface Identity (2006), shown here. That font mixes Helvetica, Times, Comic Sans and Arial. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Henrik Kubel
[A2 Type]

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Henrique Faioli

Graduate of UNI-BH in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Behance link. He created the experimental symbolic SOE BOAT font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Henry Becker

As a student at MICA, Baltimore, MD-based Henry Becker designed the moiré-pattern typeface Chromogenic in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Herbert Binneweg

Belgian graphic designer, typographer and type designer, and a professor at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp) and at the Institute for Graphic Arts of the Plantin-Genootschap, also in Antwerp. He designed three experimental fonts and many book covers and posters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Here Be Monsters (or: Big Minion)
[Mat Bee]

Operating as Here Be Monsters and as Big Minion. UK-based designer (b. 1988) of the techno-experimental typeface Mixit (2014) and the squarish typeface family Bureau (2014: the shadow font is called Bureau Trend).

Typefaces from 2017: Wonky Ron, HBM Penultimate (hipster style), HBM Forista (+Sketchy, +Woody), Flexure, HBM Ridge (techno), Infektion (gory font), Happy Times, Razed, HBM Serenity, HBM Serenity Symbolism (dingbats), Old Time Villain, Zool Lives (handcrafted), Dirtee Box (grungy). Dafont link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Herr Hemker
[Jörg Hemker]

Jörg Hemker is a graduate of the Fachhochschule Dortmund, Germany. He worked as type designer and designer at Hesse Designstudios, and was art director at Claus Koch Corporate Communications. He lives and works in Hamburg, where he is mainly involved in corporate identity and corporate type (such as for Bosch Blaupunkt, Harry, dm, Metabo, Jette Joop, Deutsche Telekom, ARD, rbb, Rheinische Post, Fresenius SE, Mainova, Mercedes-Benz, Allianz, Commerzbank, State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Würth, Alperi and, REW). In 2005, he set up Herr Hemker. His typefaces:

  • FF Zwo (2002) and FF Zwo Correspondence (2002). Designed with Henning Krause.
  • FF Sero (2011). A humanist sans family.
  • The nearly monolinear sans typeface FF Nort (2017). In 2020, he added FF Nort Headline.
  • Ika and Ika Compact (2020, at Fontwerk).
  • He is working on Grotesk, a sans family proposed by Bauersche Giesserei in 1953, and Ikarus, a sans in the renaissance antiqua style.

FontShop link.

View Jörg Hemker's typefaces. Fontwerk link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hesse Design

German company in Erkrath, which created two experimental typefaces, Virus (1991) and Pahlwood (1992, destructionist). Run by Christine Hesse (b. 1957, Innsbruck--since 1988 Managing Director/owner of Hesse Design. Since 1993 Lecturer in design management at the Düsseldorf FH) and Klaus Hesse (b. 1954, Elberfeld---since 1988, designer and joint owner of Hesse Design. Chair of communication design in Dortmund and Essen, 1993-1999. Currently chair of applied art at the University for Art and Design in Offenbach/Main). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hi
[Megi Zumstein]

Hi is the foundry of Swiss type designer Megi Zumstein, b. 1973, together with Claudio Barandun. Megi is the creator of Albis (2005, squarish, Bringolf Irion Vögeli), Dorfbeiz (2009, HI), Idol Stencil (2004, Bringolf Irion Vögeli), V&A-Outline (2003, Graphic Thought Facility). All her typefaces are in the orbit of DIN and VAG Rounded.

House typefaces include New Elante (2007), Roxy (2008), and Countdown (2008, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hidekazu Sakakibara
[iAi-jp (was Fontage and Kivart)]

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Hidenori Motoyama

Tokyo-based graphic designer. He created the experimental typefaces HM02 (2011--a free 3d face), Spokeroom (2010, geometric and counterless), and Yellow Cream (2010, fat bubblegum face). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hiekka Graphics
[Ossi Gustafsson]

Hiekka Graphics is a Finnish design studio located in Västerskog, and run by Ossi Gustafsson. Their typefaces: HG Rollo (2008, free), HG Amokey, HG Fatbrass (nice ultra-fat type), Fatbrass II, HG Cappella (art deco with filled-in counters), HG Oliver, HG Akimoto (2008, fat slab display face), HG Sepu (2009, rounded techno), HG Pale (2009, half-stencil, half-paperclip face), and HG Kalevi (2009, an open display typeface with an additional stencil style).

Fonts made in 2010: Sketchetica (sketched Helvetica), Sketchetik (renamed Sketchetica?). Followed in 2013 by Sketchetik Fill.

In 2013, he published Tushi (an attractive brush face), Savu (hand-lettered) and Sini Bold and Sini Ornaments (poster typefaces).

Typefaces from 2014 include Golos.

Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hiep Tong

Nam Dinh, Vietnam-based designer, b. 1996, of the free experimental grid-based typefaces Bacotu (2018) and Biasachxua (2018), and the free beveled typeface Poppy Flowers (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

High Bold

High Bold, an information design company in Paris, created several interesting modular typefaces.

They married Neo Sans Ultra and Baskerville Italic in Caractère Hybride (2012). Circle (2012) is a modular typeface based solely on circles. Eight Font (2012) is another magnificent modularly designed typeface family.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

High Directive Fonts

Designer of the experimental typeface Abstract Abomination (2005). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hill Wong

Hong Kong-based designer of the experimental typeface Hello Old Boy (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Himanshu Khanna

FontStruct artist who made the experimental fonts Missie, Manie and Right Tryangle in 2008. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hira Fareed

During her studies in Karachi, Pakistan, Hira Fareed designed the very elegant art deco typeface Elevance (2014), and the experimental font Iris (2014), which is based on photographs of reading glasses. This was earlier called TypeMeetsVision (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hiroaki Nagai

Japanese designer. Nagai and Daisuke Yajima won an award at TDC55 for an experimental typeface called Utsuba Moon Avant Garde (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hitesh "Rocky" Malaviya

Designer of these typefaces:

  • The roundish display typeface family Laila (2014, Indian Type Foundry) for Latin and Devanagari. Free at Google Web Fonts.
  • Codesigner with Satya Rajpurohit (who did the Latin) of the Latin / Devanagari typeface Halant (2014, Indian Type Foundry). Halant too is free at Google Web Fonts.
  • Quantum Latin (2015, Indian Type Foundry). A great Latin typeface family in the style of Latin Wide. Followed in 2016 by Quantum Latin Rounded.
  • In 2015, Hitesh designed the Gujarati / Latin typeface family Hind Vadodara for ITF. Free Google Font download.
  • KunKun (2015, Indian Type Foundry). A handwritten (Latin) sans, perhaps with applications in cartoons and comics.
  • Hind Guntur (2015) is a free Google Font designed by Manushi Parikh and Hitesh Malaviya at Indian Type Foundry for use in Telugu. Github link.
  • Kihim (2019). Kihim is Malaviya's interpretations of the late artist Nasreen Mohamedi's abstract rhythmic drawings and photographs. Free version at Fontshare.
  • Panchang (2015-2021, Barbara Bigosinska, Hitesh Malaviya): a free typeface at Fontshare.
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HiType (was: DMTR.ORG)
[Dimitre Lima]

Dimitre Lima is a Sao Paulo-based Brazilian designer (b. 1979) who created a few typefaces in his Fluid Typeface Project in 2005. In 2005, Dimitre Lima set up DMTR.ORG and started selling his fonts at MyFonts. These include O AFerrugem (unicase, techno), Opus (2005, a computer-look modular sans), Gatu (2005, futuristic semicircle face), Clave de Fá (2006, experimental), O Geena (2007, straight-lined outlines), Arame (2006, an octagonal family including a stencil version), Velocipede (2009) and O Decomputer (techno sans).

In 2010, he started HiType [initial catalog].

Typefaces from 2012 include Geena Mono (a techno or programming monospaced font).

In 2015, he created the metalband typeface Metal.

HypeForType link. Klingspor link.

View Dimitre Lima's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hoang Ming Nguyet

At the University of Hanoi, Vietnam, Nguyet Hoang designed a hybrid experimental typeface in 2019 by mixing Raleway Dots, Rozha One and Marmelad. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hoekun Kim

Creator of the circle-based typeface Kinsey (2008), which was inspired by the work of Alfred Kinsey. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Holger Jacobs
[Mind Design]

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Holger Mertz

Stuttgart-based designer created Chidoni, a marriage of Chicago and Bodoni, for the collection of experimental fonts at FUSE95. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Holger Schmitz

Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Organ (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hollie Amelia Edwards

Student at Atrium University. Cardiff, UK-based designed the experimental typeface Lines And Space (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hollie Edwards

During her graphic design studies at Atrium University in Cardiff, Wales, Hollie Edwards designed the ornamental caps typeface The Captain Is A Storyteller (2012). She also created an unnamed experimental typeface in 2012. Her company is called Hollie Amelia Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Horea Grindean

UK-based type designer from Campia Turzii near Cluj, Romania. At his foundry, he published the minimalist geometric experimental typeface Creion (2010). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hoseok Lee

During his studies at School of Visual Arts in New York, Hoseok Lee designed the modular molecular typeface HS Bio (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Houda Benzakour

Marrakesh, Morocco-based designer of Bolight (2015), a decorative typeface that combines light and bold weights into one. [Google] [More]  ⦿

House of Burvo
[Matthew Burvill]

House of Burvo is the UK-based foundry of Matthew Burvill (b. 1984, Kent, UK) located in Colwyn Bay, Wales. His typefaces:

  • Big Softie (2011). A fat round bubble gum typeface destined to become a hit. It is Burvill's most popular typeface.
  • Checks (2010). Patterns for checks.
  • FreeDee (2010). A 3d typeface.
  • GHS (2010). GHS stands for Geometric Hairline Serif. It is influenced by the didone style.
  • Links (2010, modular).
  • NK Fracht Round and NK Fracht Square (2010). An octagonal typeface family.
  • Neue Konstrukteur Round and Neue Konstrukteur Square (2010, an engineered, mechanical typewriter font).
  • Poster Hand (2010).
  • Sequencia (2011). A monospace and semi-monospace typeface done at Die Gestalten.
  • This collection of typefaces from 2007: Angel of Death (techno), Architect, Baby's Definate Hit (art deco heavy stencil), Beauty Full (rounded), Burvo (art deco stencil), Bürvo Konstrukteur (octagonal), Indivisual (art deco stencil), Killer (octagonal), Neg Space (pixelish), Optical (geometric, experimental), PUMP (ultra black art deco).

MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link.

View Matthew Burvill's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

House of X
[Alexandre Bobeda]

Alexandre Bobeda is a type and digital designer, writer, author and publisher from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whose studio is House Of X. His typefaces include the experimental dystopian typeface Tecmo (2020) and the display typeface Weyni (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hubert Jocham

German über-type designer (b. 1965, Memmingen) who studied graphic design in Augsburg (Germany) and Preston (England). His degree project dealt with the history of the italic type of the renaissance and the relationship between roman and italic. In 1998 he moved to London to work for Henrion, Ludlow and Schmidt in corporate branding. He worked at one point for Frank Magazine in London. Today Hubert Jocham is a freelance designer located once again in Memmingen, Germany. He develops brandmarks and logotypes for leading brand agencies like Interbrand, Landor, Enterprise and Futurbrand. He designs text and headline systems for international magazines like GQ London, Vogue Moscow, Vogue France (2010), Vogue Turkey, L'Officiel Paris, and New York and German publishers like Milchstraße and Gruner&Jahr. He is responsible for the corporate type of Bally in Switzerland, the Kunsthaus Graz and Agfa Photo. He set up Hubert Jocham Type in 2007. MyFonts link. FontShop link. His typefaces:

  • Adonis.
  • The ecccentric serif families Alida Text and Display (2007).
  • Becca (2018). An extensive slab serif family.
  • Bent (sans family).
  • Bravery. A curvy wedge serif. Accompanied by Bravery Sans.
  • The Contra Sans and Contra Serif families.
  • Contura. Inspired by Jakob Erbar's Feder Grotesk, and designed with the fashion industry in mind.
  • The Crema family (2012) has various flowing thick signage script styles.
  • Debra. A modern grotesque.
  • Dolce.
  • Element.
  • Elsner&Flake fonts: EF Havanna (1996), EH Herbert (1996), EF Panther, EF Sahara, EF Keule and EF Tabard.
  • Esquina. An open and attractive sans.
  • The TV-screen-curved Fernseher family.
  • Fire.
  • The signage brush script typeface Flavour (2004).
  • Flow. A sharp-edged sans.
  • Glanz (2018). A high contrast fashion mag typeface family.
  • Glenda (2009). A script face.
  • Granat (2009). A 14-style rounded sans family related to Jocham's own Teleplu and Teleneue.
  • Jocham (2012). A fat connected signage script family that won an award at TDC 2013.
  • June, New June and New June Serif (1999, after the large x-heighted June, used in W-magazine and Harvey Nichols magazine).
  • Keks (2009). A broken angular type.
  • The industrial sans family Konsens (with related Konsens Stencil).
  • Leaf. A playful serif.
  • Legau (2007). A sans with lots of stroke modulation.
  • Libris, Bally Libris.
  • LTA Identity.
  • Madita (2011). An upright connected script family.
  • Magazine.
  • Matrona (2010). An ultra fat rounded family, awarded at TDC2 2011.
  • The display serif typeface Mighty.
  • Mommie (2006) was originally designed as a display typeface for L'Officiel magazine in Paris in 2003. It won a display typeface award at TDC2 2008, and was followed in 2008 by MommieBrush. Boris Bencic, the art-director asked Jocham to design a script with high contrast in the stroke, in the tradition of Spencerian Hand.
  • The wide basic sans family Monday.
  • Motora Sans (2011). A simple sans family which according to Hubert is pure gasoline and sweat.
  • Narziss (a beautiful high-contrast ornamental didone headline typeface, winner at TDC2 2010). Followed in 2012 by Narziss Pro Cyrillic. See also Narziss Grotesk and Narziss Text.
  • Neopop (2009). A circular type experiment.
  • New Libris Sans. This is a multi-weight extension of Libris, the corporate typeface of Bally, Switzerland, designed by Jocham in 1999. New Libris Serif.
  • Oktober.
  • Other Sans, Other Oldstyle.
  • Perfetto (2008). A classic serif family based on a typeface penned by Giovanni Francesco Cresci with an x-height of 8 mm, and published in his book Il perfetto Scrittore in 1570 (also seen in Tschichold's Meisterbuch der Schrift).
  • Polia (2014).
  • Ramon (2014).
  • Riccia (2010). A grotesk family with schizophrenic "a" and "g".
  • The angular serif typeface Rudolph.
  • Safran (2009). A solid 18-style sans family.
  • In 2005, he made the brush script headline typefaces Schoko and Drop.
  • In 2008, he added the brush signage families Schwung and Milk.
  • September.
  • Softedge.
  • Spring Sans (2008).
  • Susa (2009). A connected script face.
  • Tantris Sans (2014). Created for the book about the famous restaurant Tantris in Munich.
  • The comic book family Tasty (2005).
  • Teleneue.
  • Televoice (2018). A sans with elliptocal curves.
  • Venturio (50s diner face).
  • Verve Sans and Serif (2006-2007) are a pair of fun birds, especially the frivolous serif originally planned for a women's psychology magazine called Emotion. A few days after their publication, they were renamed Verse Sans and Verse Serif, probably because the name Verve clashed with Adobe's VerveMM font made in 1998 by Brian Sooy (by the way, there is also a Verve type family by Dieter Steffmann, dated 2000).
  • Vivid (2009).
  • Voice (2004-2005, elliptical sans). Subfamilies include Voice Edge, Voice Sans and Voice Shoulder, all done at URW. In 2007, Voice was removed from URW and is solely available at Hubert Jocham Type&Design. The family was extended and now includes many styles, subdivided in Voice (sans), VoiceEdge, VoiceShoulder, VoiceSerif, Voice Heavy, Voice Medium, Voice Ultra Bold, and TeleVoice.
  • The very interesting asymmetrically rounded Volt (2007), a sans family he claims improves on similar typefaces such as Bernhard Gothic, Barmeno, Dax, Prokyon, Voice Shoulder, and Phoenica.
  • Weekend.
  • Work ahead: this serif face (2005).
  • Xmas Rudolph (2006). A free display serif face.
  • Yuri (2017). A predominantly didone typeface with gently sloped serifs.

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Klingspor link. MyFonts interview. Volcano Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hugo Dias

Designer in Lisbon. He made experimental typefaces such as Gefaltet (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hugues Triadu

Perpignan, France-based designer of the experimental typeface Cosmos (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hula Hula
[Enrique Ollervides Uribe]

Mexican foundry run by Enrique "Quique" Ollervides from Mexico City. Faces include Polvora (2005-2007, a gunslinger face). Other typefaces: Bicolor (2007, fat VAG Rounded style in two colors), Bloke (2000, blocky), Fierros (2001, grid-based), Khaki (2002, sans), LED Gothic (2000), Luchita Payol (2001, lively poster lettering, with Mexican wrestling dingbats thrown in the ring as well), Mono (2006, experimental geometric face), Mutis (1999, sign language hands), Primero B (1999, designed by Cha, cutout lettering), Tabique (1999, corporate identity for Escenica), Urbe (2000, octagonal). Enrique is a speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hylton Adam Revell

Designer and illustrator in Cape Town, South Africa. He created the artsy deco typeface Minimal Grotesque Mono (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hyun Kyu Seo

Columbus, NJ-based creator of the squarish typeface Operator (2012). He also created Hangul Neue (2012, experimental Hangul font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

I Am God
[Robin Coenen]

I Am God (Titz, Germany) was set up by Robin Coenen and André van Rueth in 2017. Their typefaces: MGD Rotter, MGD Ikonoklast (designed as a homage to Rammellzee's manifest Ikonoklast Panzerism: Ionic Treatise Gothic Futurism (1979)), MGD TM11 (a typeface based on instructional letters that were shown in Technical Manual: Instructions for Learning International Morse Characters (1943) by the US War Department, in order to teach US military students the transcription of morse signals into Latin characters), MGD Orion, MGD Virilio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

I Shot The Serif
[Matthew Welch]

Original free fonts by American designer Matthew Welch: APLPLUS-Regular, AncientGeekRegular, BlackKnightRegular, CheatinRegular (experimental), College (athletic lettering), CollegeBold, CollegeCondensed, CollegeSemiCondensed, ElectricPickle, ElectricPickleBold, Far East (oriental simulation), Farewell, FatFingerRegular, Free3of9 and Free3of9Extended (1997, see also here and here), FuddRegular (1998, Cyrillic simulation), GoLong, Hit The Road, LEDRealRegular, LocustRegular (dingbats), NeverRegular, NewJobRegular, RushinRegular (1998, Cyrillic simulation font), SecretCode, Tiny (pixel face), TRTL, FrakturModern, KingsGambit, Mattbats, OneFortySevenRegular, WhiteRabbit, OddDog, Geek (Greek).

In 2012, he added the constructivist typeface Propaganda, as well as Tinier (a pixel font), Stadium and Libby (an all-caps sans family).

Dafont link. Fontspace link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

iAi-jp (was Fontage and Kivart)
[Hidekazu Sakakibara]

Tokyo-based Hidekazu Sakakibara runs iAi-jp, and before that, Frontage and Kivart. He is the [T-26] designer of the 3d typeface Toit (1998). He created several free fonts, including several brush typefaces, some dingbats of samurai fighters, and several experimental and techno typefaces: 26Floor, Ange-Italic, Ange-Regular, Ange-Symbol, Anneau, Asie, Ballon (bubblegum type for Latin, hiragana and katakana), Ballon-HKF, Ballon-KKF, Canne, Canon (a lava lamp font), Dactylo (circled typewriter letters), Fantome, Faux, Fleur, Flow (free for Latin and hiragana), Garcon, Glace-HIRAKANA, Glace-KATAKANA (3d typefaces), Goutte-Alphabet, Goutte-HKF, Goutte-KKF, iAi (Latin, hiragana, katakana), Ivresse-fleurs (free), Moped, Neige, Ombre, Orchestre26 (decorative alphabet), Paresser, Phoque, Pollen-Alphabet, Pollen-HKF, Pollen-KKF, Prise, Punition, Raffine-Hiragana, Raffine-Symbol, Ruban, Slide, Stitch-Beads, Stitch-Single, Stitch-Vase, Stitch-draft, Valse, Vitesse, Volant.

Dafont link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Iain Budgen

Guildford and/or Cranleigh, UK-based creator of the pixelish typeface Speakerbox (2014), the hipster typeface Yelofinch (2014), Pinkfinch (2014), Clock Icons (2014), Weather Icons (2014), the cryptic typeface Kruptos (2012) and of the pixelish typeface Type Beast (2013). Shapabet (2012) is an alphabet composed entirely of simple geometric shapes. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ian Party
[Swiss Typefaces]

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Idea mag

Great Japanese design magazine, possibly the best design mag out there today, often featuring articles on typography. It published Typography Today, a book edited by Helmut Schmid that introduces selections from 88 designers. It traces the course of modern typography from Lissitzky, Tschichold, Zwart, Emil Ruder, Karl Gerstner, Herb Lubalin, to Wolfgang Weingart, Wim Crouwel and Kohei Sugiura. The new edition includes art by Neville Brody, April Greiman and Ahn Sang-Soo. See also IDEA NO. 305: Type Design Today (2004), which has articles by

  • Robin Kinross: "Some features of the font explosion"
  • Jean-François Porchez: "Type design that changed the outlook of Paris"
  • Fred Smeijers: "From punchcutting to digital type design"
  • Akira Kobayashi: "Originality and Redesign of Typeface"
  • André Baldinger: "Succeeding experimental typefaces"
  • LettError: "Twin Cities - Typeface represent a city"
  • François Rappo: "Didot Elder - Radical revival of Historical Typefaces"
  • Matthew Carter: "Yale University Typeface Project"
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Igor Dolgov

Creator of MadPacman Font (2008) and Shadow Construct (2008).

Hellofont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

iGraphicz-Fonts
[Ilse Siengalewicz]

Free and commercial fonts by Ilse Siengalewicz from Kitzbühel, Austria: 2daysinVienna, Arco, BabyBird4, Bucco, CoPunto3b, H.Fielding, Incognito, Kappa, SnowFont, The-Crash, Tosay, ArtofNoise, aSena [a beautiful free handwriting font, 2001], AskYourself, Carneval, Crollo, CrossOver, Dicko, Draht, Fly2, Font03, Fractal [free!], FullMoon, Gap, GenFood, Giovedi [free!], GoodMorning, Font, Justgetit [free!], KnowHim, Laxx, LittleFont, Lonesome, Lo!, Nobodyneeds, Oftwundereichmich, Outofcontrol, PaperCut, Patago, PinkMarker, Points, RugDug, ShortDay, SnowFont [free!], SoFar, Stopit!, ThreeLines, TwoBoxes, Xmas special, Y2K. 5 or 10 USD per font. Some absolutely magnificent typefaces here, such as FullMoon, StopIt, and ArtOfNoise, all mostly based on experimental handwriting. Warning: tons of pop-ups and jack-in-the-boxes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ilse Siengalewicz
[iGraphicz-Fonts]

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Ilya Aesthetics

Located in Moscow, Ilya Aesthetics designed an unnamed experimental Cyrillic alphabet in 2013 ina project called Code Red. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ilya Ioj

Illustrator and designer from Niort, France. Creator of the experimental typefaces Lift (2008, geometric), Bgame (2011), Pen (2011) and Conceptualisation (2008), and of David's Font (2011). Zfont (2011) is an experimental excess done in a moment of mental weakness.

In 2013, Ilya designer Ioj Illustration Type (2013, Latin / Cyrillic) and Trait Gras.

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Ilya Ruderman
[CSTM]

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Ilya Vydysh

Sevastopol, Ukraine-based designer of the free vector format experimental 3d Cyrillic typeface Len (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

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Frenchman (b. 1957) who started making fonts in 2010, after a career in illustration, comics, and video games. In 2010, he created the free fonts BabyJo (pixel face), Bayday, Chrom (beveled face), LaPresse (grunge), Muffaroo, Poppy, Poppydot, Spacecard, Strokewith, Strokeless, ToonLand (comic book lettering), ToonLandBlack, ToonLandShad, TrashToys (grunge), WorldColors (3d face).

In 2011, he published Francobelge (comic book face), Freepress (grunge), Gamix (Western titling face), Inmyroom (dingbats), Majestrick (calligraphic), Onomatopaf (comic book dings), Outerzone, OuterzoneB, Starz (dingbats), Stenstreet (grunge), Tram, Tramix (texture face), TrashToys02, War-Lettersn, Mixagex, Massive Dynamite (grunge), Not Well (grunge), Actu, Blck, Gling (texture face), HeRioz (silhouettes), Brightoon (cartoonish brush face), Muzo (ink spill face), Sharpy, Space Shop (dingbats), Pulp Dance (hand-printed), Essef (art deco), Retro Sign (grunge), Labo (grunge), Exhausted, Komikoz, Puzzled, Toonimals (dings), Penstriped (sketch face), Cashier (grungy), Dan Hand, Hardwell (grungy caps), Colleged (athletic lettering), Goodjean (jeans texture face), Seaside Things (dingbats), Real Tek (techno), Zou (3d hand-printed caps), Painter, Border Line (grunge), Handout (grunge), Tract (grunge), Pulpatone (grunge), Logos I Love, Pal Antic (chancery hand), Twent (fat rounded display face), DoodFlow (dingbats), Afro Add (texture face), Crump (grunge), Big White, Dark Room (grunge), Manifesto (grunge), Tacketil (a FontStruct font), Otto Land (sketch face), Over (outline face), Under (brush dings), Baskertown (grunge), Nursery Tale, Panic (texture face), BlackNDot (ink spill face), Beyond (striped display face), Advert, Car Crash (grunge), Heartz, Starsteel, Smart Faces, Blackflag (a brushed blackletter), Dock 51 (grungy stencil), Lead (3d face).

In November 2011, he created a number of texture typefaces: Hotöcop, Pal Mod, Speedy (sketch face), Thirties Gold, Sunset GP.

Further 2011 typefaces: Poptivi, Shadow Mole, Super Modern Black.

Faces from 2012: Remanence, Winter Days (dingbats), Nowharehouse (grunge), Snuff (grunge), Cup of Tea (3d shadow face), Talk of the wall.

Typefaces from 2012: Egirlz (dingbats), Art Post (white on black poster lettering), Volutes (copperplate calligraphic script), From me 2 you (curly script), PS I Love You, Kolossal (caps only), Kraash, Alexandre (3d engraved headline face), Monstres de poche (dingbats), Alternate (grunge), Warning, Dreams (brush face), Headline Crack, Bump Pad (textured typeface), Carton (grungy white-on-black stencil face), Maybe maybe Not, Frames n Riboons (sic), Blackboard (sketched face), Logotronik (a 3d techno face), Big Bad Dogs (dingbats), Libre Expression (engraved copperplate typeface), Mecagothix (textured blackletter face), Destroy, Destroy Helpers, Buy More, Things we said (curly face), Lost Saloon (Tuscan), Salon de Coiffure (beveled), Brighton Pier (grunge), Motel Vacancy (grunge), Bates Shower (dripping blood typeface), Venus Furs (texture typeface), Showmen, True Men Tattoos (dingbats), Quicker (sketch font), Romanum Est (grungy Trajan face), Also (scratchy letters), Lazy Day (3d font), Pusher, Hard Dumb, The Idiot, Overflowing (grunge), Fast Foont (sketched), Melange (grunge), Jumbo Parade (circus font), Happy Monsters, Zozox (experimental), Magic Sound (packaging typeface), Arena Mascaras (dingbats), Top View (3d face), Flagadoum, Last King Quest, Rhythm n Blacks (textured face), Troll Sketched, Superpoz (a 3d painted typeface of exceptional beauty), HalloCuties (Halloween font), Gothik Steel (circus font), Silvestre Relief (3d titling face), Just Like That (comic book face), Numero 10 (athletic lettering), Tet de Mor (skulls), Facelook, Xmas Dad, Instant Marker, Ragtimer, Punk Dots (textured face), Onomato Vlam (comic book balloons), 8th Cargo (textured mechanical octagonal face), Zu Kabarett (creepy curly German expressionist face), Unusual Day One, Happy New One (party font), Xmas Doods, Xmas Doods 2, Higher, Usual Day One, Team 401 (athletic lettering), Doonga (comic strip letters), Killer's Move.

Typefaces from 2013: Them (fat brush), Ghost Code, Tiny Heroes (figurines), Over There (sci-fi), Higher than High, Abandon (sketched face), Broken Hearts, True Stories, A wolf at the door (wood style poster face), Elo Hand, Bots n Droids (dingbats), Toonimals 2 (dingbats), Halftoned Backup (textured face), Novlang (textured poster face), Come With Us, Ptits Pirates (pirate figurines), Board Dudes (skateboard dingbats), Big Bro's Watch (grungy), Doonga Slash (comic book face), Round About, Signz, Lethal League (grungy athletic lettering), Dark Times, Dandy Hat Trick, tardots (textured typeface), Dinoz (dinosaur dingbats), Big Surprise (fat script), Comix Loud, Arlequin, Fanzine Title, Scotch Taped, Phoenix (dingbats), Rock's Death (grunge), Tuamotu (textured), Trees Friends (dingbats), King Arthur Legend (blackletter), Fairy Strange, Flame On, Mystery, Money Go Round (ransom note font), Seven of One, Captain's Talk, Peaches en Regalia (sketch font), Wrong Board (textured or crayon typeface), Subito (comic book face), Extra Sales (signage face), Gimme Danger (grunge stencil), Alphabet City (graffiti font), Raleigh Rock, Rysky Lines, Splash, Good Vibers (comic book figurines), Tequilla Sunrise (3d shadow face), Graphers Blog, Star Waves, Splash, Action Comics, Wild Trails (wood plank typeface), Tiki Club (dingbats), Bad Striped (sketched face), Come With Me (paint drip face), Famous Oldies (textured face), Girly Toons (dingbats), Eshop Advert, Full Pack 2025, Dickson's Tale (a great grungy caps face), Hand Typewriter, Campus Relief (athletic lettering), ZalienZ (dingbats), Manga Style (oriental brush), Journal du Soir (letterpress emulation), Royal Delight (3d sketched face), Gothix Fate, Lettrisme (a letterpress ransom note font), NYC Zone 123 (graffiti face), Tedz (teddy bear dingbats), Merry Xmas, Last Day On Earth (textured typeface).

Typefaces from 2014: Dite Alla Giovine (flared cursive script), Heavy Gothik (textured blackletter), Comix Bubbles, King of Scotland (textured), Lazy Sketch, Arabica Export (coffee bag texture), Scream Again, Season of the Witch, Soul Festival, Back Ride 342, Cheap-Potatoes, Nine-Feet-Under (grunge), Remingtoned-Type, Search'n-Destroy, Starz-2, Vanished, On The Roof (or: On The Tops), Mad Groove Blast, Another Brick (textured face), Destination Future, Perversionist, Dex's Jobs (Treefrog-style typeface), Ptit Coeur d'Amour, Mickey's School (athletic lettering), One Way or Another (a hand-drawn poster typeface), Californian Cars (license plates), Building State Empire, Back on Lime (shadow face), Next Ups (graffiti face), PatchFun (textured face), Railway to Hells, Shut'em Down, Misunderstanding, Another Brick (textureface), Perversionist (grunge), Destination Future, Linographer, Polish Posterisation, For Girls Only, Half Price 4 You (sketched typeface), Secret Agency (bad ink grunge), Player One (a grungy baseball Script), Raw Notice, Home Mad Popsters, No Silly Walk There, Bad Coma (lovely grunge), Dark Net Warrior (grunge), Cowboy Movie (Western font), Palm Beach (textured typeface), Search n Destroy (textured), Carnaval de mai, Variations (textured), Black Jeans (weathered font), City of Light, Santa's Air Mail (snow-capped letters), Cheap-Potatoes, Nine-Feet-Under, Remingtoned-Type, Search'n-Destroy, Starz-2, Vanished.

Typefaces from 2015: Snake Jacket, Big Campus (athletic lettering), Penball Wizard, When The Eagles Dare, Urban Brush Zone (graffiti font), Wild West Pixel, World Black Shadow, Next Custom, Irresponsible Direction (grunge), Doodle Gum (textured), Posthuman (textured), Red Zone (glaz krak face), Smasher 312 (graffiti font), Columbine (dripping blood font), Tarentula's Web, Just Like This (retro funk), Eastern Brush (oriental brush typeface), Pulp Headlines (grungy typeface), War is Over (letterpress emulation), Thirties Relief, Flowers Power (sic) (floral caps), Direct du Gauche (inky brush), Jackpot (3d, sketched), Numero 10 Clean (athletic lettering), Lace Dreams (textured), Right Chalk (chalky crayon font), Lazy Sketch Black, Golden Age (shaded pixel font), Swamp Death (textured), Astounding News, Heavy Metal Rocking, Fifties Movies, Grunge Strokes 01, Cosmik Orchestra, Paysley Sports (sandy athletic lettering), No Safety Zone (grungy stencil), Quicksands (textured), Break It Down (glaz krak font), Naughty Cartoons, Mad Groove Clean (athletic lettering), Outlaw Stars (grungy Western face), Space Comics, Dirty Bowl 86 (athletic lettering), Cheap Potatoes Black (imitating pototo printing?), ExtraBlur (textured), Backside Air, Megalopolis, Curse of the Zombie, After the Goldrush, Avantgardiste 1934, Easy Fashion (textured), Free Thinking's Murder (textured), Phantom Zone (zombie texture), Snake In The Boot, Checkpoint Charlie (grungy stencil), For Girls Only Bold, Playing In The Mood (piano key face), Intergalactik Airlines, Les Mystères de Paris, Season of the Witch Black (blackletter), Resistance Is Futile (a great textured mechanical typeface), On The Tops Lights (matinee signage), Strawberry Fields, Serif of Nottingham, OnomatoBom (cartoon smaks).

Typefaces from 2016: Dynamix (a shaded comic book typeface), Black Santa (snowy letters), Astral Delight, Mr. Headlines (titling sans), Sister Spray, Shaka Pow (cartoon font), Jack in the Box, Glitter Campus (athletic lettering), Ghost Crazy (heavy brush), Prezident, Flowers Kingdom (psychedelic), Galaxy Corps (octagonal stencil), Stitchn School, Brown Shoes, Armagedon (dry brush), Smasher 312 (graffiti style), Bad Stories, Master Droid, Heavy Metal Box (grungy letterpress), Outerspace Shoping (sic), Extros Backstage (squarish), Jelly Crazies (jellybean font), Black and White Banners, Ballad of Dwight Frye (grungy), Crazy Sixties, SciFi Movies, Maximum Strength (athletic lettering), Evanescente (sketched typeface), Urban Ghost, Vif Argent (watercolor brush script), Demolition Crack (textured), How to Disappear, Public Market, Pyjama Party, Magician Rings (modular sans), Pale Blue Eyes (brush script), All The Mad men (sketched), Dixociative (white-on-black), White Flame (octagonal typeface), Asian Delight (oriental brush emulation), Candy Shop, Barb Wire Club, Super Weird, My Socks Line.

Typefaces from 2017: Scoubidou Rap, Good Morning (cartoon font), Graphik Arts (textured), Danger Zone Warning, Love The One You're With, Are You Hung Up (textured), Keys of Paradise, Mr Headlines Fancy, Game of Brush, Powerful, Ghost Shadow, Quick Menu Boards, Urban Fresh Air, Cheer Lace Leader (textured), Cracked Code (grunge), Very Simple Chalk, Fluo Gums, Very Popular, Personal Service, Blind Signature (crayon font), Blood n Guts, Quarterback Fight (octagonal athletic lettering), Supersonic Rocketship, Reboot Crush, Strange Path (dry brush font), Heroes Legend, Cache-Tampon, Championship (a great horizontally striped typeface), Silver Age Queens, Strange Tales.

Typefaces from 2018: Play With Fire, Scrunched, Megalomaniac Headliners, Craps of Paper (white on black), All Things Must Pass (textured), Presque Normal, Interfearence, Pop of the Tops, Universal Knowledge, Digital College, Cold Turkey (a handcrafted horror font), Strange Magic, Grandissimo, Best Prices (sketched), Magician's Daughter, Children's Theater (textured), Magnifico, Lethal Slime, Pop of the Pops, Slow Death, Folk Festival, Strange Marvel, Strong Impact (octagonal), Heavy Metal Blight, Mango Slice, Are You Jimmy Carl Black, Strange Clowns, Mechanical Animals, Fast Forward, Spanish Castles, Vintage Warehouse, Swamp Black, Pixelmania, Enigma key, Vlump (wooden plank font), Guns n Flash Comix, Black Streamer, East Border (military stencil), Bot Craftshop, Super Quick, Don't You Know?, Return of the Flash, Only The Strong (weathered athletics font), Hands Up, Strange Shadow, White on Black, Ed Wood Movies.

Typefaces from 2019: Inner Mounting Flame, Playtimes, Game Commands (white on black), Magic Spots (with a spotted texture), Vanishing (with a halftone effect), State Secret (squarish), All My Stitches (a hospital font), Lightyear Design, Ancient Ad, African Style (textured with African patterns), Secret Planet (sci-fi), Universal Ignorance, Give Peace a Chance, Hard Punk Gothic, Vraoum (speed emulation font), Galaxy Travels, Megapoliscape, Red Signal, Perfect Mystery (dry brush), Many Years Ago (mechanical, octagonal), Vintage Display (textured caps), Space Sport (textured, octagonal), Dancing Days, Steam Punk, Splatch (comic book font), Rear Defender (octagonal, stencil), Ghost Factory, Kids Magazine.

Typefaces from 2020: Bright Star (sci-fi), Fiesta Rumba (a matinee font), Sergeant Rock (a stencil typeface), Tricky Hearts (a vampire font), Organic Brand, Campus Riot (grungy), Crazy Love Song, Shiny Signature, Evil Highway, Slightly Eroded, Lightyear Shadow, City Player (graffiti), Night of the Deads (a horror font), Ka Blam (an all caps cartoon font), Unforgettable, Corrupted File (grungy, pixelish), Urban Heroes (a dripping paint font), Victorian Art Magic Remains, Kid Games, Restricted Area (a dripping paint stencil), Dark Poestry, Platinum Sign, Tacos de Tijuana (a Mexican party font), Retro Shine, Lower East Side (a graffiti font), Holidays Homework (a chalk font), Deep Shadow, Finger Printed, Crushed (a glaz krak typeface), Bing Bam Boum, Stars Fighters (a Star Trek font).

Typefaces from 2021: Baby Party, Shadow Of The Deads, Big Bad Bugs, Boldfinger (bold caps), Paperback Writer (sketched), Comics Tricks, Charming Sixties, Squarely, Mad King Games, Back to School (a varsity font), Youtube Star (an oily typeface), Silver Medal (beveled), Cosmic Blaster. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Imanol Buisan

Barcelona-based designer of Wire Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Imola Sarkadi

At Moholy Nagy University in Budapest, Hungary, Imola Sarkadi designed the experimental typeface Osteoporosis (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

In Cheol Hwang

Born in 1985 in South Korea, In Cheol Hwang is a product and industrial designer in Busan, South Korea. Creator of Pop-Up (2010), an experimental face.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ina Kuchuk

Czech designer of the experimental typefaces Imperfection (2018: scratchy) and Rock On (2018: textured). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Indestructible Type
[Owen Earl]

Owen Earl (Indestructible Type, Seattle, WA) takes a new look at old classics. He reinvents them from scratch, and redesigns each glyph very carefully. Some of his work is completely free, and other typefaces are commercial. His fonts:

  • Besley (2017). A redesign of Robert Besley's Clarendon. For modern times, the x-height has been increased, and a totally new italic has been added. Buy it at FontSpring. A Fatface weight was added in 2020, and the font family is now entirely free.
  • The free sans typeface Geo (2013).
  • The free sans typeface Quizzical (2015).
  • Renner (2017). A revival, from scratch, of Paul Renner's Futura. Totally free! Github link. FontSpring link. Open Font Library link. A major update, Renner 3.0, followed in 2018---it includes a variable font, a blacker Black and the thinnest Hairline ever. And due to a trademark dispute Renner became Jost in August 2018. In 2019, Cyrillic characters were added to Jost. Google Fonts link. See also the derived family Venryn Sans (2020).
  • Bodoni (2015). With Bodoni 6 and Bodoni 12 subfamilies. Includes a delicious Bodoni 6 Fatface. Extended in 2020 to amny optical sizes (6, 11, 16, 24, 36, 48, 72, 96), and a variable font. Github link. Google Fonts link for Bodoni Moda (2020; 64 styles). Bodoni Moda has optical choices in the static fonts, and is accompanied by a 2-axis (weight, italic) variable font. Github link.
  • Jones (2016).
  • Miedinger (2015). A clone of Helvetica. Only two weights were ever finished. Github link.
  • Umbra (2017). A variable Opentype font with two sliders---distance of the shadow, and time of the day.
  • Gnomon (2017). A free variable font: Gnomon is the first font ever to respond to the user's actual time. The shadow of Gnomon changes location throughout the day in relation to the time.
  • Copperplate CC (2020, at the Cowboy Collective).
  • Railroad Gothic CC (2020, at the Cowboy Collective).
  • Engraving CC (2020, at the Cowboy Collective).
  • Tiffany Gothic CC (2020, at the Cowboy Collective).
  • Drafting Mono (2021). A typewriter-like font but in which slabs are added not just to the lower case i and l as was the practice in the past. In eight styles.

Aka Ewon Rael. Github link. Another Github link. FontSpring link. Facebook page. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ines Pereira

During her studies at Universidade de Lisboa, Ines Pereira designed the circle-themed typeface Sphera (2017), Nova Fonte (2018) and Code 18 (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ines Roque

Lisbon-based designer who created the purely geometric display typeface INRO (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Inez Van Lamsweerde&Vindoodh Matadin

Creators of the half-image caps typeface Boy Alphabet (2010) for Vman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Informal Type
[Erman Yilmaz]

Istanbul, Turkey-based designer (b. Mersin, 1985) of the sticky tape typeface Anafor (2018). Yilmaz writes that Anafor is inspired by the pioneer of geometric abstract art and the creator of the avant-garde suprematist movement Kazimir Severinovic Malevich's suprematist compositions.

In 2019, Erman published the self-centered hipster typeface Oddee. Erman explains: Oddee typeface is based on the dissimilarities in personal fashions and the contradictions sparked between two schoolmates, Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffmann, the first of whom is known for his belief in finding no place for the concept of ornamentation in architecture and functional design, while the latter proposes the ornamentation could find a place within design through not being a direct force but being a contributing part to a collective aesthetical value in everyday objects. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ingeborg Lund

Graphic design student (BA) at Skolen for Visuel Kommunikation in Haderslev, Denmark. Creator of the electrical experimental typeface Iskry (2012).

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Ingel Martin

Tartu, Estonia-based designer of the experimental typeface Submarine (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ingga Alifa

At Limkokwing University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia-based Ingga Alifa designed the circular arc typeface Arc of Istanbul (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ingmar Spiller

German designer of the experimental typefaces Funke and Runic in 2010. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ingrid Bourgault

For Ludovine Loiseau's course at ERG in Brussels, Ingrid Bourgault (b. Quebec) created the free font Brush Lettering One (2014, OFL), which is based on Eben Sorkin's Merriwaether Bold Italic (2013). In 2015, she drew an experimental alphabet based on the grid system of the excellent Belgian newspaper Le Soir [on par with De Standaard], and created an experimental multicolor modular typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Inquietto
[Oscar Marchal]

Oscar Marchal (Inquietto; b. 1977) is an art director and creative director in Barcelona, who specializes in motion graphics, animation, 3D graphics, illustration, graphic design, cinema, TV graphics and multimedia applications. He has made some experimental typefaces: Pena (2009), Buga (2009), Sticky (2008), Rec (2008). Extravaganzza (2008) is a free sans typeface that can be found here. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Into the Type
[Slavka Jevcinova]

Or Slava Jevcinova. Designer from Bardejov, Slovakia, now located in Nice, France, whose first degree was an MA from J.E. Purkyne University in Czechia. She interned at Mota Italic in Berlin, and then started working for Fontwerk, a company specicializing in TrueType hinting. Since 2013 she is a freelancer and she regularly collaborates with the Rosetta Type foundry.

Graduate of the Type & Media program at KABK in Den Haag in 2014, where she created Kin, an unconventional serif type family which explores distinctive styles while maintaining consistency. It has phonetic support and a drop-dead gorgeous black.

In 2015, the 72-font family Skolar Sans (see also, Skolar Sans PE, 2016), codeveloped by David Brezina and Slava Jevcinova at Rosetta Type Foundry, won a silver medal at the European Design awards.

In 2017, Slavka Jevcinova published Avory Latin at Rosetta Type Foundry. Calling it retro-chic, she writes about this sturdy Latin / Greek / Cyrillic sans typeface family: Avory is a gently condensed sans that challenges convention. Tall, with broad shoulders, easily spotted from afar. Inspired by the lettering work of Czech designer Jaroslav Benda.

In 2019, she released the fashionable sans typeface Clarette at Future Fonts. Clarette pays special attention to Vietnamese.

In 2019, at Rosetta Type, together with William Montrose and David Brezina, she released the variable font Adapter (with three axes, for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

Typefaces from 2020: Wilmer (a multilayered three-dimensional ornamental Tuscan type family), Polaire (a monoline cursive stencil). Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Invasione Creativa
[Edoardo Santamato]

Invasione Creativa is based in Milan, Italy. At this studio, Benedetto Papi and Edoardo Santamato co-designed the free constructivist typeface Scighera (2014) and a set of round icons (2014).

In 2017, Edoardo Santamato designed the experimental typefaces Capitals Tokyo and Capitals New York. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

io ii

A student at Saint Petersburg State University who designed the experimental typeface Mobtsea (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ioana Vlad Munteanu

Graphic designer and typographer in Bucharest, Romania. Her typefaces include Deco Interrupted (2009, stencil) and Overlaping 80s (2009) (sic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ioannis Fetanis

Athens, Greece-based creative director and founder of Fetanis, b. 1983. He studied Graphic Design at AKTO (Athenian Artistic and Technological Group), and he graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He completed his studies in 2007 obtaining a Master of Arts in Design (Social Design & Visual Communication of N.G.O.) from Middlesex University, London.

In 2012, he created the layered typeface Yama by superimposing geometric structures.

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Ion Lucin
[Ionyc type]

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Ionyc type
[Ion Lucin]

New York City (and before that, Madrid)-based illustrator who created the minimalist typeface Minim (2012), the scratchy typeface Displaced (2013), the free geometric sans all caps typeface family consisting of Big John (2014-2016, with Carlos de Toro), Regular Jim and Slim Joe (2014). In 2018, he published the animated stencil typeface Randomize and the kinetic modular color typeface Ionyc (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iordanis Passas
[IP Art]

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IP Art
[Iordanis Passas]

Iordanis Passas (IP Art) is a designer in Athens, b. 1986, who was briefly located in London. He published some free typefaces including the grungy typeface Edirne (2015: free), the grungy Baston (2015: free for any use except police commercials), Athens (with Stergios Tsiamis), Peracto (2015, thin sans), Bomb Type (2015, sans), Koulouri (2014), Outer Space (2014, download), dPopper (2014), Born to be Condensed (2013), Serious Man (2013, a 3d typeface), IP Arial (2012, an experimental overlay typeface), Brush of Anarchy (2012, graffiti face), Cubes (2013), Mia (2014, free), Adamo (2014), The Kids Marker (2014), Gagalin (2014, a free brushy comic book font for Latin and Greek).

In 2015, Iordanis Passas and Anastasia Dimitriadi created the gorgeous Finos, which was inspired by Greek retro cinema (buy it here and check the free demo).

Typefaces from 2016: Repens (a free poster font), Sanek (a free handcrafted titling font; cyrillization in 2019 by Denis Kukushkin), April Ten.

Typefaces from 2017: David Carson (a free grunge ransom font to pay homage to David Carson), Figno (free rounded sans).

Typefaces from 2018: Meganek (free), Lulu Monospace (a free squarish font; with Stelios Ypsilantis), Depravo Stencil (which is advertized as free to anyone except police; covers Latin and Greek).

Dafont link. Fontspace link. Blogspot link. Behance link. Download many of his fonts at Free Typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ipsum Planet
[Pedro Pan]

Design group associated with Neo2 magazine in Spain, for which they created some (free) experimental typefaces. The designer seems to be Pedro Pan. These include the paperclip typeface Aria (2002), the bold rounded typeface Bassel (2002), Barco.D.A. (2006), Web (2002, pixel face), Teletype (2003, stitching font), Video (2002, blocky face), Puntogotic (2002, fuzzy blackletter), Gallega (octagonal), Zarautz (2006, fashionable simple sans, free here), Track (octagonal), Ciclo (2007, bike chain-themed glyphs), Rotring (arc-themed), Paperfont (2006, alphabet made out of paper), Canaletto (2006, rounded monoline font), New Euro (2002, vertically etched all-caps face), Pixar Five (2002, pixel face), Quiniela (2002, stitching font), Steroid (2008, Star Trek font), Spectrum (2002, rectangularly-pixeled face), Regaliz (2005, a multiline face), Icon (2002, a multiline face), Alpha and Airline (2002, octagonal monoline typefaces), Elo (2004, a good-looking art deco face), Tipod (2006, dot matrix face), Button (2002, dot matrix face), Lobula (2007, art deco), Bit (2002, pixel face), TCK-2000 (2000, futuristic), Rubik (2002, art deco), Error PostScript (2002), Strokes (2003, a multiline face), Maciza (2003), DNNR (2004), Sector-96 (2007, modular), Novich (2007, glyphs based on musical notes), Funk (2003, simple sans), De Stijl (2002), Hi-Fi (2002, pixelish), Salami. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iraldy Terrones

London-based creator of Process (2012), an experimental typeface inspired by circles. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Irina Kliusova

During her Masters studies in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Irina Kliusova designed an award-winning film poster called Cvet Granata (2016), and a multilined typeface, Aim (2016). She also designed several alphabets in 2016 that are based on the shapes of funky sunglasses. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Irina Kopytina

Graphic design student at ArtEZ school in Arnhem, Netherlands, who is originally from Moscow. She created the italic typeface Arnhemse jochies (2010) and the experimental typeface Breadclip (2012).

In 2014, we find her in Brussels, Belgium, where she created a gridded octagonal typeface.

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Isabel Fernandes

London-based designer of a moving light typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Isaiah Montoya

FontStructor, aka Aerolynx, who made the experimental typeface Spongeia (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ismael Fino

Graphic designer in Guadalajara, Mexico. Textures inspired him to create the geometric textured typeface FN Tekture (2010), FN RE EVO (2011), FN Revoluxion (2012), and the spurred military typeface Nacion Gothic (2012). Monotypo (2012) is a hairline fashion mag sans typeface.

In 2013, he created the ball terminal ornamental typeface Mexique. He drew inspiration from Porfirio Diaz and Mexico in the 1880s.

His typefaces can be bought via HypeForType. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Isshaan Johar

New Delhi-based designer of the experimental typeface Modernism (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Istvan Krizsanyik

During his studies at Budai Art School, Eger, Hungary-based Istvan Krizsanyik designed the art deco typeface FS Deco Display (2017, FontStruct) and a modular typeface in 2016.

During his studies at the Visual Arts Institute in Eger, Hungary, Istvan Krizsanyik designed Kaarosta Display (2018: a free Peignotian fashion mag sans with a funky capital E) and Noograd (a free display font).

In 2018, he carried out an experiment in which he firstv designed a font, then transformed it into a wave, applied a filter to the music wave, and converted it back to an image for a glitch effect. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Favalezza

Ivan Favalezza (Verona, Italy) designed the experimental geometric typeface Snowflakes Display (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Harsanto

Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer of the modular typeface Leak (2016), whose shapes are influenced by Balinese script. Snake (2016) is a free experimental typeface.

In 2017, he designed the display typeface family Wacaksana. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Hristov
[Fontan2.com]

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Ivan Moreno
[Jorge Iván Moreno Majul]

Jorge Ivan Moreno Majul is a graduate of Centro de Estudios Gestalt. At some point, he joined Pampatype. Based in Veracruz, Mexico, he designed the sans typeface Fresca (2011, Google Fonts) and the multiline layered colored and animated typeface Antorcha (2010). Antorcha, which revives the famous 1968 Mexico Olympics font, won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012. His typeface Wixarika won a prize at Cuarta Bienal de Tipografía Latinoamericana Tipos Latino in 2010.

Typefaces from2016: Teris, Palitroche Sans and Serif.

Typefaces from 2018: Saudade, Octothorpe (prismatic and op-art, based on Tony Wenman's font Stripes released by Letraset in 1972; released at Pampa Type in 2020), Automata, Presta (after Lucian Bernhard's 1908 Priester poster). Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Octothorpe.

Typefaces from 2019: Pone (striped: a revival of ATF's modular typeface system, Alpha-Blox, 1944).

Typefaces from 2020: Animal (a free 5-person effort for a South American screen text typeface competition, by the Bedepecus team that consists of Laura Barron Rivera, Pedro Elias Sosa Montoya, Ulises Ricardo Ortiz Cisneros, Miguel Angel Contreras Cruz, and Jorge Ivan Moreno Majul). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Rodéo Rodriguez

Designer in Pau, France. He made Grafeo (2011, experimental) and Caseo (2011, also experimental). Behance link. Other creations include Rodeo (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Rogov

Moscow-based graphic designer and illustrator who studied at the British Higher School of Art and Design. Creator of several Latin and Cyrillic display typefaces in 2015. These include Cross Mazigrot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivana Concilio

Ivana Concilio (Salerno, Italy) created the experimental CMD font (2012). What, how, why? She also made the wall-writing typeface Ribbonpop (2013) and the graffiti typeface FloWell (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivanna Locmanidis

For her type project at FADU UBA in Buenos Aires, Ivanna Locmanidis designed the ultra-condensed thin typeface Rhythm / Ritmo (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ivo Pimentel

Graphic designer in Entroncamento, Portugal, who created the angular experimental typeface Weird in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Izumi Najamura
[Flyer's Feeling]

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J. Ricardo Pareds Orozco

Ricardo Paredes (Erre Design, Monterrey, Mexico) designed the experimental geometric all-caps typeface Move Type in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

JAB Font Foundry
[Joseph Anthony Bartolo]

JAB is Joseph Anthony Bartolo's foundry, located in Tarxien, Malta. MyFonts sells the hieroglyph-inspired ransom note font Hieroglyphs Nefertiti Akhenaten (2006) as well as Hebrewish (2007), a faux Hebrew face. Megre (2010) is an exercise in unusual placements of serifs. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

JaCeeN 1

Designer of the hybrid font Times New Arial (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jacek Murzyn

Ennis, Ireland-based FontStructor who made these typefaces in 2012: Coffee, Arnold, Puncher, Fontstrome Centred, Flora New (kitchen tile face), Square Cutter, Ancientica, Flora, Abacus, JM Squers, JM Aleksandra, JM Dominik, JM Daniels (dot matrix face), JM Beata (experimental). In 2013, he designed Jacek Daniel's by taping up holes of a Jack Daniels No7 bottle case. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack Maschka

During his studies at Full Sail University, Jack Maschka (Orlando, FL) created the mechanical line exploration typeface Mantis (2014), which is inspired by designer Petros Afshar. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack Richardson

Graphic designer and illustrator who graduated from Cambridge School of Art in 2009, and who still lives in Cambridge, UK. He created several experimental typefaces in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jack Usine
[SMeltery Fonts]

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Jackeline González Morocho

Salinas, Ecuador-based designer of some geometric display typefaces in 2014 such as Neon and Prism. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jackie Kutsinski

Graphic designer in Chicago, who created Sticks of Gum (2012, squarish typeface) and Kringla (2012, experimental typeface based on the shapes of the Nowegian treat called Kringla). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jacques André

French type professor (b. 1938) who designed some experimental fonts such as Delorme (1989). Jacques André has been working in the field of structured documents and digital typography since 1980. He was the leader of the European Didot Project concerned with the digitization of types. He is Research Director at INRIA (the French National Institute on Computer Science) in Rennes, and his work covers the digitization of ancient books and the encoding of their fonts and glyphes.

Author of Histoire de l'écriture typographique: Le XIXe siècle français (2013, with Christian Laucou). From the blurb: Pour montrer toute la richesse de cette période, les auteurs ont choisi d'en raconter les aventures successives: les Anglais avec l'invention des caractères gras, des égyptiennes et des sans-sérifs; la fonderie GillÃé qui devient celle de Balzac puis de De Berny et qui rejoindra, à l'aube du XXe siècle, celle des Peignot; la saga des Didot, de la rigueur de Firmin à l'extravagance de Jules; l'Imprimerie royale, puis impériale ou nationale, ses caractères orientaux et ceux de labeur, qui perdureront tant qu'il y aura du plomb; Louis Perrin, qui réinvente les elzévirs; les grandes fonderies françaises, qui rivalisent d'invention et de copies, et, enfin, les évolutions techniques de tout le siècle. The book also contains chapters by Alan Marshall, Alice Savoie and Matthieu Cortat.

Author of Caractères numériques: introduction, in: Cahiers GUTenberg, 1997, pp. 5-44. Author of Histoire de l'écriture typographique---Le XXe siècle, (Atelier Perrousseaux, Gap, France, 2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

JAF34

JAF34 is an independent graphic designer in Prague. Creator of the thin experimental typeface Work 30 (2013) and the hipster typefaces Universum (2014) and Dupliciter (2014).

In 2015, he created the sans typeface FOTR, the wide display typeface Fat Pleasure, and the urban art stick font Primitive.

Typefaces from 2017: Circularis (organic sans based on the geometry of the circle), Circularis Alt.

In 2019, with Koi and Ahmed Eraqi, he co-designed Hurringtown Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Yeezus (conjuring up rave, rap, acid and futurism). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jai Sandhu

British designer of the experimental alphabet Deception (2012). He also made the bespoke heavy slab face Unique (2012).

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Jaileen Kaur

Noida and/or New Delhi, India-based designer of an experimental semi-watercolor typeface (2018) and the sans typeface Prima (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jaime Nascimento
[LAP Agencias de Comunicacao]

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Jake Thielmann

During his studies in Kiel, WI, Jake Thielmann designed the arc-based experimental typeface Eclipse (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jakob Jugovic

Slovenian designer of the experimental typeface Aanima and the graffiti typeface Mazaccio during the design workshop TipoBrda in 2007. Participant in the TipoRenesansa workshop in Slovenia in 2010, who designed Crepaldi (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jakob Nylund
[Just My Type]

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Jakob Runge
[Typemefonts (was: 26plus zeichen)]

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Jakub Caja

Prague-based designer who made his first typeface in 2011, a monoline sans. He also made the multilined connected script typefaces Andante (2011) and Forte (2011), and the micture-of-two-thicknesses typeface VKUS (2011).

In 2013, he published Publikum Book, which is inspired by Public (1956, Stanislav Marso), a typeface that was very popular in Czech newspapers, books and magazines. [A related typeface is Tomas Brousil's RePublic Text, 2003.] At the end of 2013, in cooperation with Georg Seifert (creator of Glyphs app) in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, Jakub designed Georg.

The angular signage typeface Baobab was designed in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James D. Molgaard

James Molgaard is a print designer in Hayward, CA. Behance link. He had the idea in 2011 to create glyphs out of bi-colored circles for testing color-blindness. His font is called Color Blind Font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Dolence

Den Haag-based creator of the Milks display family (2012), of Miks (2013, a mixture of Rockwell and VAG Round), and of the subway-inspired Metron (2012).

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James Fitzgerald

Graphic design student at South Essex College who lives in Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom. Creator of an experimental typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Geofrey Nunn

Graphic designer and typographer from Melbourne, Australia. Behance link. Creator of the geometric sans typeface Positano (2011). Corporate work includes the art deco typeface Butcher Florist done for Melbourne band Butcher Florist. Deer Sue is an experimental typeface with a prehistoric man theme. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James George Dunn
[Type For Now]

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James Isaac

Creative designer in Rochester, UK, who created the experimental Cycle Typeface (2012), in which all glyphs are made up of parts of a bicycle. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James L. Lewis

Cardiff, Wales-based designer of the free western style slab serif typeface Barn (2014), the handcrafted Quaint (2015, with Jorgen Grotdal, Ligature Collective), the blackletter typeface Tyre Black (2016), and the free wavy experimental typeface Hadron Sans (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Martin

James Martin is from Cincinnati but works as a designer in Atlanta. The computer mouse served as the catalyst for the funky Mousetrap alphabet (2006-2007). Not a font. In 2012, he created the free octagonal font Aluap Sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James McNaught

Edinburgh, UK-based designer of the alchemic typeface Evolution (2013). It was an experiment for his thesis: Based on Paul Renner's Futura (1928), it begins as archetypal Roman letterforms and gradually disintegrates into abstraction and illegibility. The aim was to represent how current typographers have taken what we recognise through association & cultural agreement to be our alphabet and modified it through ornamentation, subtraction or deviation to unreadable extents. This typeface, in its journey from perfect alphanumeric characters to illegible symbols, brings the notation of language to paradoxically its most abstract and most core forms: coded visual marks, decrypted into linguistic and semantic meaning. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Meeks

Buffalo, NY-based digital artist. Creator of the modular experimental AI Typeface (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Montalbano
[Terminal Design]

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James Nunn

Australian creator of the alchemic alphabet typeface Deer Sue (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Prior

James Prior from Toronto drew Beggars Alphabet (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James T. Edmondson
[Oh No Type]

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James Wickenden

London-based designer of the experimental typeface Escape (2013), which was inspired by parts of a staircase.

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Jamie Shirra

During his graphic design studies in Glasgow, Jamie Shirra created the outlined square-shaped typeface Block Dot (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jan Charvat
[Renegade Fonts]

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Jan Dietvorst

Den Haag-based designer of the very experimental geometric typeface Tangram (2011), The Monks Are Allright (2012), and Scripto (2011). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jan Duda

During his studies in Warsaw in 2013, Jan Duda designed the script typeface Szczud and the experimental caps typeface Tarot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jan Estrada-Osmycki

Jan Estrada-Osmycki is a Polish-Mexican designer, visual artist and musician, and member of the Zbiorowy art group. He composes and produces music under the Bass Jan Other moniker.

Warsaw-based creator of the high-contrast bespoke typeface Edit2010 (2010). At Three Dots Type, he designed Sudety (2018). In 2019, he published Telecom, a fiercefully avant garde experimental space age typeface.

At The Designers Foundry, he published the text typeface family Wulkan Display (2019).

Halisa (2021, The Designers Foundry) is a 60-style collection of semi-constructed grotesque typefaces with an industrial origin and mechanical character. Featuring super-elliptical curves, its designer is not identified on the web site. Halisa also features some variable format typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jan Kiesswetter

German designer who created the experimental display typeface Liquid Lines (2008) for Neo2 magazine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jan Lavtar

Ljubljana, Slovenia-based designer of the experimental typeface Triangular (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jan Sicko

Slovak designer of Vlna (2004), an experimental typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jan Sindler

While living in Karlovy Vary, Czechia, Jan Sindler designed Rodak (2014, a rounded sans typeface) and Maturia (2014, an ink-trapped school project typeface family that was influenced by Rathousky's Metron).

Recently, he joined Lucasfonts in Berlin. At Futurefonts, he published Rotor (2019), a monospaced typeface with an axis for rotating glyphs on the X axis, as if in three-dimensional space.

Graduate of the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2020. His graduation typeface there was Gabion, a text and display family.

Between 2018 and 2020, he developed the script typeface Afrikola.

Typefaces from 2021: Rotor (experimental; static and variable).

Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jan Thomás

Designer at Linotype of Linotype Alphabat, Linotype Element, Linotype Silver, and Linotype Startec, all experimental fonts made in 1999. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Janci Gejdos

During his studies in Ruzomberok, Slovakia, Janci Gejdos created the experimental typeface Initial (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jane Kiseleva

Graphic designer from Moscow. During her studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, she created the experimental Latin typefaces Overlap Regular (2014) and Ambigram (2014). In 2015, she created the neon light font HOV [HOV=House of Vans in London]. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Janet Nguyen

Graphic designer in Garden Grove, CA. Behance link.

Creator of the DNA-inspired experimental typeface Typosomes (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jani Zsuzsi

Budapest, Hungary-based designer of experimental typefaces such as Kaleidoscope (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Janique Le Bail

Janique Le Bail (Jellygraphers, London, UK, and Paris, France) created Jazz (2013, a rounded typeface for the publishing house Jazz), Tense (2013, a connect-the-dots typeface), Captain (2013, a modular heavy italic, renamed Capitaine), Drop (2013, based on a drop of water), and Antheor (2013, a hexagonal typeface).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jannik Bjørn Løkke

At the School of Visual Communication in Haderslev, Denmark, Jannik Bjørn Løkke designed the minimalist experimental typeface Cyanide (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Janno Hahn

Dutch designer and type designer (b. 1980, Enkhuizen) who studied at Graphic Lyceum in Amsterdam, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp. Since 2006 he operates under his own name, working in the field of printed and spatial type design, typography and graphic design. He specializes in (often Dutch deco) type found on the bridges and buildings of Amsterdam. He created the custom uncial typeface Bonifatius in 2007 for the municipality of Dokkum, The Netherlands. Other typefaces by Hahn include the squarish monoline sans Riso (2019), the experimental 3d typeface Typomorphosis (2019), and Bike Lane Stencil (2013, for use on Amsterdam bike lanes). He also made 25 other fonts with another Dutch designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jared Eberhardt
[We Are Not You]

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Jared Hamryszczak

During his industrial design studies in Warsaw, Poland, Jared Hamryszczak created the experimental minimalist typeface Zipp (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jared Hamryszczak

During his studies in Warsaw, Poland, Jared Hamryszczak created an untitled minimalist experimental typeface (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jared Richardson

Graphic and brand designer. Creator of the techno typeface Molar (2001, designed at Arnell Group, as part of an identity for a proprietary teeth whitening system), Sony Headphone (2001, custom), Sony Pictographs (2001), and the oriental simulation typeface Coreyan (1997, a hybrid of Korean and Japanese characters, designed to be read in the roman alphabet). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jarr Geerligs

Jarr Geerligs (Planet Jarr, Amsterdam) created a DNA inspired font and backgrounds for the Vogue Japan April issue of 2015. His experimental lettering work is exceptionally striking. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jarrik Muller

Dutch graphic designer in Amsterdam who has many typographic projects and occasionally creates a typeface. His typefaces are experimental and functional. One, called Puzzle, leaves it up to the user to position the sliding letters---quite an ingenious idea. Get Busy (2006) is artsy and futuristic. Escape (2006) is pixelish grunge. Union (2006), Get1 (2006, modular, computerized), Get Free (2007, a free piano key font done for Neo2, the magazine), Softmachine (2009), NB Light (2009, a techno matchstick typeface done with the help of Neubau), 3D (2009), Optical (2007, a futuristic geometric experiment), Contrast (2006), Lovely (2006), Muller Fontein (2006, experimental), Blok (2010, 3d and modular; see also Blok (2013, Dick Pape) which was influenced by Jarrik's Blok), Love (2006), and Volle Vrijheid (2006, very experimental) round out his dossier.

In 2014, he set up Citype. At Citype, he published the free pixelish typeface Amsterdam.

Old URL. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jasmine Kounang

Graphic designer in Brooklyn, NY. Using Glypha 55 Light as a skeleton, she created the Sequence typeface (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason E. Lewis

Director of Obx Labs and professor of design at Concordia University, Montreal, since 2002. With Bruno Nadeau, he developed creative type software called Mr. Softie. His bio at Concordia: Jason Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Computation Arts program at Concordia University. His research explores the semantics of interaction, and his creative practice revolves around experiments with dynamic, interactive and performative text. He teaches Interactive Media and Advanced Topics in Computational Media. Before entering academia he spent ten years leading projects in places such as Interval Research and the Institute for Research on Learning. He studied philosophy and computer science at Stanford University, and then art and design at the Royal College of Art, London, where he received an MPhil. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Esquenazi

Los Angeles-based designer of the boomerang-themed typeface xFont (2013), of the hexagonal typeface Buzz (2013), and of the experimental typeface Halvesvetica (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Janus

Designer at T-26 of the experimental Janus family in 1998.

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Jason Meagher

During his studies, Greenland, NH-based Jason Meagher designed an encircled experimental typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason R. Ramirez

Not to be confounded with Jason Ramirez (Pennyzine, Brooklyn, New York). Jason R. Ramirez (who also happens to be in Brooklyn, NY, where he does book covers and book design at St. Martin's Press) did an experimental alphabet (2009) made on the basis of photocopies of a single string, and another one based upon cracks in stones called Urban Decay (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jason Ramirez
[Ground Control (was: Penny Font Foundry, or: Pennyzine)]

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Jasper Joris

During his graphic design studies at Sint Lucasin Antwerpen, Belgium, Jasper Jors created an untitled experimental monogram typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Javier Frutos

During his studies, Almeria, Spain-based Javier Frutos designed the modular experimental typeface Practica (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Javier Mariscal
[Estudio Mariscal]

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Jérémy Joncheray

Teacher at the University of Strasbourg, France, who co-founded Studio 923a and Vaya. His typefaces include Apiaceae (2009, for fennel), and the circle-based Arillo (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jérémy Ruiz
[L'Ile Foundry]

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Jérôme Rigaud

Swiss typographer at Fontnest (which he cofounded in 2002 with Pierre Schmidt&Fritz Menzer while studying at ECAL) who designed these fonts at Font Nest: Wellkrau (pixel face, with Peirre terrier and Aimée Hoving), TGV, Lafrui (a connected lettering font), Plan De Paris (lettering from an old plan of Paris), ScriptedPix (a connected screen font), Rhizompix (a screen font), Pix2x (an experimental screen font), CPC (screen font), Condpix (a screen font), Angula (angular face), Thin Flower, P-Text (sans; with Pierre Terrier), Handled_Matrix (a dirty screen font), Soul&Funk (2002), Russian (2002, a Cyrillic simulation font), After The Rain, mtrxs (with Sylvain Aerni: a dot matrix font), Helveliga (with Fabian Monod and Sylvain Aerni), Jawut OT (with Pierre Terrier, Franz Hoffmann, and Juerg Lehni), Circulaheute, Courrierbitmap. He is a digital editor and designer. With Pierre Schmidt and Fritz Menzer he created Electronest (a company). In 2008, he created the experimental type family Futura Domus. Alternate URL. Currently, Rigaud is a London-based artist, designer, digital editor and technologist producing both design and art work for companies, collectors, and institutions. He has a continuing interest in going beyond the traditional boundaries of the art, business, science and technology fields through hybrid collaborations. His type design blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean Böhm

Konstanz (and before that, Frankfurt), Germany-based designer of JB Berlin (2015), an experimental typeface that is based on Berlin's map. In 2018, he designed the sans typeface family Regina, which includes Regina Mono. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean Romain

Bordeaux-based designer. Behance link. Creator of the experimental geometric typeface No Name Typography (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean-Lou Désiré

UK-based type designer, originally from Mauritius. He created Kub AF (2002, an experimental 3d face) at ACME. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jean-Michel Verbeeck

Jean-Michel Verbeeck (Konstruktiv, Mol, Belgium) made the experimental font Konstruktiv (2010) which he says can be downloaded here (but I could not find it). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeanne Arielle Rodriguez

Based in Calcocan, The Philippines, Jeanne Arielle Rodriguez created the free optical challenge font Rodriguez Geometric Paper (2013).

Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeannette Wiseth Karlsen

Designer in Slemmestad, Norway, who graduated from a school in Oslo in 2012. She created an experimental caps typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

JeeSuk Kim

Pasadena, CA-based designer of NchoV (2010), a typeface inspired by schools of anchovis. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeferson Damasceno Lima

Brazilian designer of Square Alphabet (2011, geometric, experimental), and the dot matrix typeface Digt R (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff T. Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis (Brooklyn, NY) makes custom typefaces (such as Elizabet Dee (2012)) as well as experimental ones. In 2012, he created the Western typeface Ye Olde Geometric, Strypeface (a beautiful multiline display typeface) and the rounded stencil typeface Alphabits.

Typefaces from 2014 include the 3d cubic typeface IsoType.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jekabs Osins

Designer whose Black Square Typeface (2012) is a nihilist experiment, in which each letter is a black square, as in Kazimir Malevich's Black Square painting. Beam (2012) is another typeface experiment. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jelena Drobac

Serbian student at Belgrade's Faculty of Applied Arts. Designer of the experimental sans typeface Relogio (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jelena Gagic
[Feel Free Design]

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Jelena Jacimovic

Belgrade, Serbia-based designer of the experimental typeface Kikirikisemenke (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jelle van Garderen

Jelle van Garderen (Bilzen, Belgium) created Jelle (2012, experimental typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jelle Zweegers

Eindhoven, The Nethrlands-based creator of the experimental typeface Synthetic Sequence (2014), his graduation project for at Academy of Fine Arts and Design AKV St.Joost in Breda, The Netherlands. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jemma Davidge

During her studies at Salford University in Manchester, UK, Jemma davidge created Bones (2012) and Fringe Cringe (2013), two experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jennifer Hall

Manchester, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Fragment (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jennifer Lee

Toronto-based designer of the experimental typeface Tundrik (2014) and of Material (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jennifer Lemoy

During her graphic design studies, Jennifer Lemoy (Valence, France) created the experimental typeface Vibration (2014), Sans Serif No. 3 (2016), and the vernacular typeface Typographie Urbaine (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jens Weigel
[Screentypo.org]

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Jeremiah Lobdell

Graphic designer at the Art Institute International of Minnesota. Creator of the experimental typefaces Custom Typeface #1 (2011) and Custom Typeface #2 (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeremy Hally
[Figure Studio]

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Jeremy Mickel
[MCKL (was: Mickel Design)]

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Jeremy Steiner

Graphic design student at The Art Institute of Indianapolis, 2011. Creator of the experimental typeface Rocco (2011)--think Rockwell marries Didot. He also made the tattoo / blackletter typeface Feral Wolf (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeremy Tankard
[Jeremy Tankard Typography]

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Jeremy Tankard Typography
[Jeremy Tankard]

Jeremy Tankard established Jeremy Tankard Typography in 1997, after corporate design work at Addison Design Consultants and Wolff Olins. This Londoner made some extraordinary and daring font families. In many of his typefaces, Jeremy mixes upper and lower case letters for more impact. A list of his typefaces:

  • FF Disturbance (1993, a unicase based on Sabon).
  • Alchemy (1998). Mystical. To be used with Enya's music in the background.
  • Blue Island (1999, Adobe).
  • The Shire Types (1998, consisting of Shire-Cheshire, Shire-Derbyshire, Shire-Shropshire, Shire-Staffordshire, Shire-Warwickshire, and Shire-Worcestershire). Shire Pro followed in 2011 and Shire Arabic in 2012. Shire is based on idiosyncratic vernacular lettering seen across Britain.
  • Enigma (1999-2015). A great text typeface family with influences going back o Hendrik van den Keere.
  • Shaker (2000) A sans serif with some flaring.
  • Harmony Greek, a typeface that netted him a Bukvaraz 2001 award alongside the Shire Types and Shaker.
  • Aspect (2002). A typeface with many ligatures and swashes.
  • Bliss (Agfa Creative Alliance). Bliss Pro (2006), a sans family, covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic ina harmonious fashion.
  • Corbel (2004). A sans family made for Microsoft's ClearType project, for which he received a TypeArt 05 award.
  • Custom designs: Epsilon (a very bold face, supposedly designed for the Düsseldorf branch of Frogdesign) and Harmony (for Telstra in Australia).
  • Kingfisher (2005). A transitional petit-Bodonesque serif family.
  • Arjowiggins (2006). Tankard cooperated with Arjowiggins and design agency Blast on AW Inuit that was commissioned by ArjoWiggins for the launch of the Inuit paper: it is a unicase Latin font inspired by Inuit letterforms. See also at MyFonts. The typophiles are unjustly upset at this sort of typeface though.
  • Trilogy (2009). This extensive typeface family consists of Trilogy Sans Compressed, Trilogy Sans Condensed, Trilogy Sans Normal, Trilogy Sans Wide, Trilogy Sans Expanded, Trilogy Egyptian Normal, Trilogy Egyptian Wide, Trilogy Egyptian Expanded, and Trilogy Fatface.
  • Fenland (2012). A 14-style ink-trapped sans.
  • Redisturbed. A classical unicase typeface.
  • Capline (2014). A bilined all-caps typeface family for titling work. It won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
  • Queezoid (2015).
  • Pembroke (2014). A British geometric typeface family with many weights ranging from Hair to Ultra.
  • De Worde (2017). An italic typeface family in seven weights to celebrate the 60th anniversary of e Wynkyn de Worde Society.
  • Wayfarer (2017). He writes: The typeface was originally commissioned for use with a new wayfinding system for the city of Sheffield in the UK. As Sheffield was the home to the type foundry, Stephenson. Blake & Co. it had been thought that their type, Granby Condensed would be suitable. The Granby family of types was developed during the 1930s as Stephenson, Blake's contribution to the general cashing in of other foundries on the popularity of Monotype's Gill Sans and the geometric sans serifs being introduced by the continental type foundries.
  • Hawkland and Hawkland Fine (2018). A text typefaceC with didone and transitional elements.
  • Brucker (2019). An 8-style angular expressionist typeface family.

Fontfont write-up. Alternate URL. Interview by Planète Typographie. Interview by Brendan Staunton. I Love Typography link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jerish Naidoo

Designer in Sydney, Australia, who dabbled in a few experimental typefaces, such as Ears (2012) and Coathanger (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeroen Krielaars
[Calango]

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Jesica Zuluaga

Cali, Colombia-based designer of a colorful experimental typeface dedicated to Andy Warhol (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesperi Virtanen

Finnish graphic design student in the UK. Creator of various experimental typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessamyn Rieke

Rochester, MN-based graphic designer who created the experimental display typeface Warble in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesse Merrell

Graphic designer in Los Angeles, who created Direction Slab (2012), and Utility Mono (2012, squarish, monospaced and monoline). Substitution Code (2012) is an experimental typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesse Tarlton

Typographer and graphic designer in Golden, CO. Creator of the all caps titling sans typeface called Bass Face (2011) and of the experimental pair of fat geometric display typefaces Do It Soft and Do It Hard (2010).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Camacho

During her studies, Jessica Camacho (Faro, Portugal) created Light Alphabet (2013) using LED lights and a camera. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Fourg

Strasbourg, France-based über-talented illustrator / designer who drew several experimental typefaces including Music Theory, Intuitive, Migration and Surrounding Sound. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Hiriart

Toulouse, France-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Temporal (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Johnson

During her studies at Leeds College of Art in Leeds, UK, Jessica Johnson designed the spectral experimental typeface Dimension Helvetica (2016). Defect (2016) is a typeface designed to be used on Anti Consumerism protests, designed in a way that reflects the illusion and missing information, the misleading advertising we are sold. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Ongko

Jessica Ongko (Atlanta, GA) is a Creative Circus student. She created A Type of Wire (2012), which was inspired by the wire legs of a breakfast in bed table from IKEA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Smith

During her studies at SUNY The College at Brockport, Jessica Smith created a experimental geometric typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica van Wegberg

Graphic designer and art director in Australia. Creator of the fat counterless typeface Blokk Funk (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessica Weimer

During her graphic design studies in Southampton, UK, Jessica Weimer created Inclinatio (2014, an experimental typeface) and Giant (2014, modular typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jessy Naudin

Jessy Naudin (b. 1995) is the Bourges, France-based designer of the counterless geometric typeface Devlose (2012) and of the hairline drafting typeface Go To The Sky (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

JET

JET is a designer in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. He created the experimental Weird Font and the 3d typeface Typo 01 in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiři Spa#269;il
[Jiri Spacil]

Czech designer (b. 1998) of the experimental typeface Dmesh (2014). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jihyeon Jamie Choi

During her studies in Seoul, Korea, Jihyeon Jamie Choi designed Eastern Gothic (2016, an oriental simulation typeface) and Blackberry (2016, an experimental Hangul typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jihyun Park

Seoul, Korea-based designer of several experimental typefaces that are derived from or inspired by Futura. These include Pastra, New Futura and Presentra. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jimmie Zu
[Dos BCN]

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Jimmy Lu

Designer of the experimental geometric typeface Korok (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jimmy Turrell

Newcastle, UK-based illustrator. Designer at Fontsmith of FS Erskine (2018), an experimental randomized display typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jingboo Young

During her studies Jingboo Young (Beinjing, China) created an experimental Chinese caps typeface called Chair (2014), and an all-caps Latin ornamental typeface without a name. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jingru Liao

Designer of the experimental typeface Ascend (2016). He explains: The concept of Ascend is inspired by the visual appealing of topography and Zaha Hadid's architecture. Ascend adapted Zaha Hadid's concept of parametric design. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiri Spacil
[Jiři Spa#269;il]

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Jiu Seo

Visual designer in Seoul. Creator of Cigarette Font (2012, experimental) and Metro Font (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jo Aguilar

Quezon City, The Philippines-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Geometreo (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joachim Müller-Lancé
[kame Design (was: kametype)]

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Joachim Schmitz

Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Such Mich (2004). He also made the beautiful dingbat typeface Kristallin (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jónas Valtýsson

Icelandic graphic designer, b. Reykjavik. He created the fat finger typeface Skar (2006) and designed many music album covers. About his experimental typeface Morthens (2007), he writes: Morthens is a strict script display typreface. The brief was to find a type typeface and design another typeface based on that. I decided to use a script typeface called Vitrina by Pablo Medina. I used it because I liked the method he uses creating his typefaces. He takes picture of his urban surroundings and bases his typefaces on them. I created a typeface based on the most prominent thing in my urban surrounding at the moment which is construcion sites. It has three weights called Ásbjörn, Þorlákur and Haukur. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira
[Ultra Types]

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Joana Ornelas

Funchal, Portugal-based designer of the great striped pattern typeface Stripped Type (sic) (2016), and of the experimental typefaces Tree Type (2016) and Tissue Type (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joana Pais

Joana Teles Rodrigues Pais is originally from Portugal, but lives in Milan. In 2009, she obtained a masters degree from the Scuola Politecnica di Design SPD in Milan. She made an experimental typeface called Small Urban Disasters (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joana Silva

Communication designer in Torrres Novas, Portugal, who designed Alfabeto Modular (2013), a highly experimental minimalist typeface for a university project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joancarles P. Casasín
[Typerware]

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Joanne Kwok

Joanne Kwok writes about her typeface Psyche (2013): Psyche is a display typeface that translates Derren Brown's mind-reading techniques into letterforms. The action ink dropping into clear water is used as a metaphor for mind-misdirection. The typeface describes the feeling and the mind-reading process during Derren Brown's performance. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joao Celio Caneschi

During his Masters studies at IED in Firenze, Italy, Joao Celio Caneschi created the display typeface Miscela (2015) and the experimental geometric typeface Vetrate (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joao Martins

Graphic designer in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2016, he created the experimental typeface Primitiva. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joao Vasconcelos

Designer at T-26 of Numb (2009, a 12-style octagonal family), Mink (2006, bold and regular), an experimental sans face, followed by Mink Complete (2007) and Mink 3D (2007).

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Joaquim Massana
[Tipos Reunidos (or: Petit Comite)]

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João Miranda
[Walking Fearless]

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Jocelyn Jean Pezon

Périgueux, France-based creator of the free multiline all caps font AAA (2014), the experimental minimalist Pema (2016), and the hair-themed Hair (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jocelyn Lau

Middletown, CT-based designer of the experimental Systematic Typeface (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jodie Koldijk

Graphic designer in Amsterdam who created Untitled (2012) and Random (2012), experimental typefaces. Her second font is called Font Twee (2012). She also created a Victorian typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jody Yeoh

Jody Yeoh (Singapore) and Hwee Chong Chan co-designed Book Typeface (2011), with 3d glyphs made up of books. Jody Yeoh now works in Beijing, China. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joe Scerri
[Joe Scerri Design]

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Joe Scerri Design
[Joe Scerri]

Joe A. Scerri is a British born Maltese-Australian graphic designer based in Zürich Switzerland. Since graduating with a diploma from Central Metrolpolitan College of Visual Art in Perth Western Australia in 1990, he has worked in publishing, multimedia, advertising and design, both in Sydney and in Basel. For the Spanish magazine Neo2, Joe Scerri created the free experimental dotted line typeface Kassette (2006). In 2005, he made the experimental typeface Faena (no download). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joel Kirckhoff

Cartoonist and graphic designer in York, PA. He created the experimental typeface Jet Fuel (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joel Lozano
[Forma & Co]

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Joel Maillot
[Atelier de Design Holistique]

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Joel Santos
[yrmk (was: Youremin)]

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Johanna Balusikova

Johanna Balusikova (b. 1974, Slovakia), now Johanna Bilak, studied typography at Atelier National de Création Typographique in Paris and at the Bratislava Art Academy in her native Slovakia, as well as at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in the Netherlands. She now works as a freelance graphic designer in The Hague, where she has lived since 1999. She designed Jigsaw (1999-2000) at Typotheque: this was originally intended as a Multiple Master font that varies from roman to stencil.

At ATypI 2004 in Prague, she spoke about "Experiment and typography". Co-editor with Alan Zaruba of We Want You To Love Type (2004, e-a-t). Since 2003 she is a partner in Peter Bilak's Typotheque. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Johanna Feth

Mannheim, Germany-based designer of Scherenschnitt (2016, a decorative caps alphabet) and Lepidoptera (2016, an experimental alphabet). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johanna Ruukholm

Tallinn, Estonia-based designer of Building CSS (2016), an experimental typefaces that is based on Yusuke Sugomori's font CSS Sans. Behance lonk. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johannes Breyer
[Dinamo]

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Johannes Brökel

Magdeburg, Germany-based designer (b. 1993, Magdeburg) of a minimalist rounded sans typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johanny Franchi

Designer of the experimental typeface PD Boquerón (2006, Prodiseño). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Baichtal
[Famished.org]

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John Bomparte
[Bomparte's Fonts]

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John Burgess

Midlands, UK-based graphic design student. Spirography (2011) is an experimental geometric display typeface inspired by the British engineer Denys Fisher's invention the Spirograph, a drawing toy that creates mathematical curves. Folded (2011) is a paper fold typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Dilworth

Artist in Salt Lake City. FontStructor who specializes in geometric pattern alphabets such as Cloaked Humanity (2010) and the blackletter version of it, Fraktured Humanity (2010, based on drawings from Albrecht Durer's De Symmetria). Other typefaces from 2010: Super Elevated, Shock, Elevated Humanity. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Meng

Beijing-based designer. His experimental Latin typeface Cloud Mountain (2013) won an award at TDC 2014. He explains: The Cloud Mountain Type inspired by Zhang Jiajie, the Chinese cloud-fog mountains and ancient Chinese landscape painting. Combined the traditional Chinese clouds landscape with western character. The Chinese saying: You cannot know the shape of a mountain when you stand on it. When you stare at the details of the font, you even can't recognize the letter itself, that is because you have already stand on the cloud-fog mountains. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Prashanth

Bangalore, India-based designer of the experimental typeface Hero (2015), whhich superimposes Trajan and Arial. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John S.C. Simpson

Art director in New York City. Born in Britain, he is a typographer, illustrator, painter, branding specialist and graphic artist. His largely experimental type design work includes the retro techno typeface Magazine No. 33 (2013), Salt (2013), Echo 08 (2013, a multilined logotype family), Digit 002 (2013), Can Pull Regular (2013), Loser 003 (2013), Wurm Digitail (2013, pixelish), Cant Blok (2013), Fac 003 (2013), Fac (2013), Pramb (2013), 12 Blocks New York (2013), Intro (2013), and Fast Forward (2013).

Typefaces from 2014: Leonardo (grunge and geometry experiment).

In 2015, he made the squarish typeface Cronin, the circle-based Can Pull, Flic Flim, the counterless typeface Winston, and the film noir typeface Cinema.

Typefaces from 2016: Aeon (a custom pixel typeface family for Nike New York), Radford (a squarish modular typeface family), Pig, Loser (squarish).

Behance link. Another Behance link. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Slattery

During his studies at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, John Slattery created some pixelish typefaces based on Islamic tile patterns, as well as some exoerimental typefaces called Two in One. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Spencer

Provo, UT-based designer of the experimental uncial font Pseudo Sachsen (2003) and of the handwriting font Hand Me Down (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Johnny Locke

Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to make the experimental typefaces JKLNo#1 through JLNo#7. JLNo#6 is a pixel face. In 2011, he made the mechanical industrial typeface Slabber.

In 2012, Locke added the art deco typeface Broadway Love (and Broadway Love 2), Moscow Berlin (2012, a constructivist or Cyrillic simulation typeface), Rubicone (a stenciled Egyptian), Industry Stencil, Thakur, TipTap Decor, Karma, and Sketch6. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon Charley

San Diego, CA-based designer of the circle-based typeface Expancel (2015), the experimental 3d typeface Optical, Hustle, the organic typeface Ed's Lawn and Gardening (2015) and a brush script typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon R. Grover

Computer programmer and information scientist. He used FontStruct to design many typefaces. These include the eye-themed display typeface The Eyes Have It (2020), MetaFont (2020---no relationship with Knuth's software), Film Crew (2019), Etaion Shrdlu (2018: Each letter has a width inverse to its frequency in English), Obvious Font (2019), Jamming (2018: a piano key font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon Ronnquist

Designer of the free orthogonally-stroked typeface experimentla typeface Origin Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonas Ersland

Designer of the barcode simulation typeface InMono (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonas Helgeneset

Jonas Helgeneset (Oslo, Norway) created the curvy decoratie headline typeface Smash (2011) and the experimental typeface Trendy (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Barnbrook
[Barnbrook (was: VirusFonts, Virus Foundry, Studio 12)]

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Jonathan Calugi
[Happyloverstown]

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Jonathan Ford

Graphic design student at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, in 2012. He currently lives in Chesterfield, UK. Creator of Metria (2012, an experimental prismatic typeface), Rainbow (2012, another prismatic typeface), and Erinnerung (2012, a solemn blackletter typeface).

I especially appreciate the anti-coke poster in his portfolio, which reads: For nine years the 450 workers at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City fought a battle for their jobs, their trade union and their lives. Three times they occupied the plant---on the last occasion for 13 months. Three General Secretaries of their union were murdered and five other workers killed.

To celebrate the Olympics in London in 2012, he created a typeface based on the Olympic rings, using a circular grid system. The typeface is called Olympia (2012).

In 2013, he created Core (an inline simple sans), Rounded Mod (geometric rounded circle-based sans), and Pixel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Gravier

Graphic designer in Nantes, France, who created Organique (2014, a series of experimental textured typefaces), and the Aztec-inspired Dédale (2014). In 2016, he created Tag (a stencil typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Lavoie

Quebec-based designer of the experimental typeface Smashed at UQAM (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Lowman

Aka Jonathan Looman. Dutch type and graphic designer. Alternate URL. His type work includes Fingertype (2007, letters made from fingerprints) and Van Bostelen Light and Heavy (2007, a great ultra-geometric basic experimental typeface that should win awards; named after one of his teachers, Herman Van Bostelen). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Novak

Portland, ME-based designer of the counterless polygonal typeface 60lb Text (2015, with Neil Patel). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonathan Puckey

Amsterdam-based designer. His first font is the experimental fingernail-shaped Malenky Bit (2003). He also made Moloko (2003), FontfjeCaps (2004) and Ready Made (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jonny Biggs

British creator of the connect-the-dots typeface Constellation (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joonghyun Cho

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the experimental typeface Force Fields of Typography (2014, Latin). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joram Hibbel

Amstelveen, Netherlands-based type designer who made an experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jordan Haig

During his studies at UCA Farnham, UK, Jordan Haig designed the experimental circle-based typeface Pleonasm (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jordan Lecointre

Vannes, France-based designer of the experimental font combination program Mutafont (2017). It was developed for his graduation from Head in Geneva. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jordan Metcalf

Cape Town-based graphic designer and illustrator, who made some experimental typefaces. Flickr page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Chuquihuanca

Designer of the minimalist experimental typeface Module (2014) and of Terminus Sans (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Iván Moreno Majul
[Ivan Moreno]

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Jorge Rico

Toledo, Spain-based graphic designer. He used the positions of the stars to create connect-the-points letters in his Constellation typeface (2012). He also made a nice icon set called War Signs (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorik Hengstmengel

Dutch student at KABK, Den Haag, who is working on a tiny pixel font, Daffodil (2006) and of the experimental typeface Quikzilver (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jose Tiago Morgado Soares

The free experimental font John Cage offered on Ines Mena Silva's web site has the name Jose Tiago Morgado Soares inside the font, so it is unclear who made it. [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Antonio Garrido Izquierdo
[Noem9 Studio]

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José Augusto

Guayaquil, Ecuador-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Geart (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Chamorro Salas

Graphic designer, who graduated in 2002 from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His experimental and cellular typeface Code Secure won an award at the 2005 FUSE type competition. [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Ernesto Rodriguez

Potsdam, Berlin-based graphic designer. He created Handschrift (2011) by using nothing but his hands and a photocopy machine. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Fabio

Brazilian codesigner with Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Garcia

Designer of the experimental display typeface Geo Destiny (2015), a typeface created during his studies in San Salvador, El Salvador. [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Tonacca

José graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile in 2007. For the type design course there, he created the display typeface Chichen Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josefine Juhl Østergaard

At the School of Visual Communication in Haderslev, Denmark, Josefine Juhl Østergaard designed the transformative typeface Flux (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Anthony Bartolo
[JAB Font Foundry]

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Joseph Shields

Art director in Brooklyn, NY, who designed the experimental minimalist geometric typeface Croc in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Spicer

Owensville and/or Vincennes, IN-based art student (b. 1985) and designer of the Courier-like Shavian font Shaw Mono (2004), ChordBoxes (2010, to create chord diagrams), Bee Skep (2004, for Deseret), Box Puzzle Font (2010), Litterae Ignotae (2010: A Lingua Ignota (Latin for unknown language) was described by the 12th century abbess of Rupertsberg, Hildegard of Bingen, who apparently used it for mystical purposes. To write it, she used an alphabet of 23 letters, the litterae ignotae), Seftos Nandor (2004, for an artificial language called Lower Geldorian), Sëftos Parathenia (2005, also in the Seftos script), this decorative serif (2006, experimental), Alberne Handlung (2007, a narrow all-caps Latin and Cyrillic face), Swartsbok (2007, a nice gothic font), Lumaro (2007, in the style of Times-Roman), Duck Hunt (2004, fat display face, based on the lettering of the title of the game), Anquietas (2004, "the Ancient alphabet from Stargate"), Gothic Book (2005), and Dadh Ath (2004, containing the Ath characters used to write Baronh created by Morioka Hiroyuki and used in Sekai no Monshou). Spicer now lives in Terre Haute, IN. Another web page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Tan

Joseph Tan (Singapore) designed the Peignotian typeface Finkze (2014) and the experimental typeface Minimal (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joseph Walsh

Graphic designer who studied at the University of Salford in Manchester, UK. His Euro (2012) is an exercise in art deco. Modernline (2012) is a five-weight sans family. He also created some experimental typefaces.

Salford Type Foundry link. Blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joshua Petersen

At Weber State Univeristy, Layton, UT-based Joshua Petersen designed the experimental typeface Mesinisermo (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joshua Trees
[Fake I.D.]

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Jön Ingi Einarsson

Reykjavik, Iceland-based graphic designer. He created the geometric paper-cut like typeface Building (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jörg Hemker
[Herr Hemker]

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Joy Paton

Inspired by Jean Hans Arp, a dada movement artist, Joy Paton (Leicester, UK) dropped some objects on a table, and made glyphs in this randomized manner. The experimental and nonsensical result is The Laws Of Chance typeface (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joyce Li Yan Yee

Design student in Hong Kong in 2009. Creator of the hyper-experimental typeface Neurons (2009, Friday Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Carlos Grafico
[Juan Carlos Pacheco]

Spanish design/typography site. Juan Carlos Pacheco made the experimental font Polilla (a cross between Flexure and Goudy) in 1997/1998. Spanish type scene. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Carlos Pacheco
[Juan Carlos Grafico]

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Juan José Marnetti

Juan José Marnetti (Argentina) is a graphic design student at the National University of Cuyo. He created the purely geometric experimental typeface called La Redó (2011). Jai (2011) is a gridded face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Mesa

Creator of the experimental typeface Mesa Analog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Ortega

At Escuela de Arte in Madrid, Spain, Juan Ortega designer several experimental modular typefaces in 2017. These include Cloven, Cloven Bold, Mambo, Landing, Building, Thorn, Nib and Iris. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Pablo Meza Recabarren

Graphic designer in Santiago, Chile. He created the experimental typeface Selknam (2009). His inspiration was the Selk'nam or Onas, an indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego (now extinct) and their initiatory rites for adolescents. The typeface was designed using FontStruct. Selknam Unicase followed in 2013.

Home page. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jucelle Lim

Graphic designer in Dublin, CA, who created several experimental typefaces in 2013, including Twirl It (ornamental caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julia Abdullina

Moscow-based designer of several experimental typefaces in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julia Benedetti Rutzen

At Parsons School for Design in New York City, Julia Benedetti Rutzen created the experimental typeface Sum1 (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julia Martínez Diana
[Antipixel]

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Julia Miaso

Cracow, Poland-based designer of the ultra-black block typeface System (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julia Nizak

Budapest-based designer of an experimental textured typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julia Roma

During her studies at ESDi in Sabadell near Barcelona, Julia Roma designed the destructive typeface Glitch (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julian Franky Tobon

Typographer from Bogota, Colombia. He uses textures in his posters. The texture of clothing inspired him to create an experimental alphabet in 2010. Alternate URL. Here and here are other experimental alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julian Kelly

Originally from Vermont, Julian Kelly is the Providence, RI-based designer an experimental SVG format typeface in 2016 called Eightynine. The source is available at Github. He writes: Eightynine is a typeface composed entirely of stroked SVG paths. The face was created as an experiment to see web type could freely shift weight as it was scaled. Unfortunately it isn't that practical to use, a JS script has to go through and replace all of the text on the page with inline SVGs every time the page reflows. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julian Pitto

Creator of the experimental typeface Vision (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juliana Martinez Medina

During her visual communication studies in Cali, Colombia, Julia Martinez Medina created the hybrid font Kriva (2012), based on a cross of American Typewriter and Gotham. She also made the tape-themed typeface Emburuje (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juliana Moreira

During her studies at Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal, Juliana Moreira (Villa Nova de Gaia) designed a vernacular experimental typeface (2013) called Esta um frio de rachar. Also, check out the lettering in the poster entitled Fotografia (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julie Hoang

Student at the University of the Arts in London. She created Frankfurt Chopped (0212, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julie Jup

Freelance graphic designer in Paris, who created the experimental caps typeface Typototem (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julie Vandebosch

Belgian of a very experimental minimal typeface called Modular (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julien Alirol
[Murmure]

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Julien Arbona

Graphic designer in Tours, France, who created the multiline typeface simply called Grid (2012). In 2013, he added the experimental stick font Antica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julien Fesquet
[Faak and Paat Studio]

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Julien Gionis
[KRFX Kazekami]

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Julien Priez

Julien Priez (b. 1986, Montreuil, France) studied typography and type design at Ecole Supérieure Estienne des Arts et des Industries Graphiques in Paris (2006, 2008). In 2010, he worked at Atelier Pierre di Sciullo in Montreuil. Recently, he was affiliated with the French type foundry FontYou. His typefaces:

  • Rag FY (2013). A wavy brush typeface co-designed by Julien Priez, Sofia Proisy and Charles Privé at FontYou.
  • Le Normandie (piano key face). Le Normandie was expanded at Fontyou in 2014 to a gorgeous display triple of fonts, Normandie FY (Modern, Gothic, Italian). Der Klaus (2011) is a blackletter version of Normandie.
  • Le Montreuil (2010). An experimental poster typeface family done at Estienne with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray et Franck Jalleau.
  • Le Briqueterie (2010). Done with Pierre di Sciullo's studio: a modular pixelish family.
  • Le Baaf (2010). Done with Margaret Gray: an experimental titling face, based on the stained glass windows of a cathedral in Ghent, Belgium.
  • Le Composite (2010). An imaginary letter font made under the guidane of Michel Derre and Franck Jalleau.
  • Le Jimmy (2009). A typeface done to invoke the 1930 mafia. A beautiful idea executed with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray and Franck Jalleau.
  • Typetool (2010). An ornamental caps typeface).
  • At Fontyou, Benjamin Lieb, Gia Tran and Julien Priez co-designed the hand-drawn typeface Brixton FY (2013). Not to be confused with two earlier typefaces called Brixton, one by Tom Chalky, and one by Luke Ferrand. Since two of the three Brixtons are commercial, I expected FontYou to change the name.
  • 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.
  • The punchy poster typeface Kraaken FY (2014) was designed by the FontYou team of Bertrand Reguron, Alice Resseguier, Valentine Proust, Julien Priez, Gia Tran, Jérémie Hornus, and Alisa Nowak.
  • In 2014, Jeremie Hornus and Julien Priez co-designed the hairline typeface Gauthier Display FY.
  • Mandinor FY (2014) is a decorative didone typeface---it comes with separate Gothic (blackletter) and Italian (Western) variants, and is accompanied by Mandinor Ornaments FY. Still in 2014, Julien Priez, Hugo Dumont, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed Rowton Sans FY, a sans family patterned after Gill Sans in six weights, from Hairline to Bold---named after Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, it has the Gillian lower case g but italic lowercase is a bit too far afield for my own taste, especially the squeezed g.
  • Boogy Brut (2020). A pointy decorative serif with many calligraphic influences. At Bureau Brut.
  • Julien also drew many calligraphic alphabets, some of which will eventually become fonts.
  • Michel Derre and Julien Prez jointly won the Bronze Medal in the Latin category for Abelha in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016.

Behance link. Julien Priez Drawing link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Julien Wacky

Julien Wacky (Lyon, France) designed the experimental typeface Helgarabo (2013), which was created by fusing Helvetica, garamond and Bodoni. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julieta Scordo

During her graphic design studies at the University of Buenos Aires, Julieta Scorda designed an experimental lachrymal typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juliette Charpentier

During her studies at Brassart Nantes, Juliette Charpentier designed the partial experimental typeface Curved (2017) based on Century Gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juliette Schack

Graphic designer who made the geometric experimental typeface Tangram (2011). Juliette is now based in Geneva, Switzerland, after previous jobs and training in Paris and Montreal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juliette van Lankvelt

Boekel, The Netherlands-based designer of the experimental typeface Drimatic Nova (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Julja Petrushevska

Graphic designer in Sofia, Bulgaria. Creator of the experimental triangular typeface 3Angle (2013). She also created a set of icons for an app called Xpensy that keeps track of household expenses. [Google] [More]  ⦿

June Hyeong Lee

Seoul-based creator of the experimental Latin typeface Tridna (2008).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

June Sagli Holte

Norwegian designer of the purely geometric alphabet Combine (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Just My Type
[Jakob Nylund]

Free experimental Adobe Illustrator alphabets by Jakob Nylund, who is based in Sweden. In 2012, J. Randall Harris extablished Just My Type as a commercial foundry in Tucson, AZ. However, Jakob Nylund's Just My Type has been around since at least 2008. However, Jakob's Just My Type was changed ca. 2012 into a photography site, so now there is just one Just My Type.

The best typeface created by Nylund is Soraya (2008), an art deco multilined beauty waiting to be fontified. Others include Layer Cake (2008), Tash (2008, a "moustache" font), Pyramid (2008), Twist (2008, very bold), AnalogueVsDigital (2008, pixelish), Leaf Type (2009), Align (2010), Fat Face (2009), and Sausage (2009, stylish and round).

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Just van Rossum

Dutch experimental nutty (in the good sense!) and prolific type designer (b. Haarlem, 1966) who created famous fonts such as Beowolf, Brokenscript, BeoSans, Trixie, Flixel (FUSE 2), and Schulbuch. He is also a font software expert who has initiated many ideas in the areas of type software. He teaches type design and programming at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, both in the bachelor graphic design program as well as in the Type and Media master course.

Just graduated in 1989 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK), where he studied under Gerrit Noordzij. After stints at Monotype in the UK and MetaDesign in Berlin he became an independent type designer, focusing on software design for type. He collaborated with Erik van Blokland under the name LettError. It is at that time that he published FF Beowolf has been included in the permanent collection of the MoMa in New York. He co-wrote RoboFog with Petr van Blokland in the mid-nineties, which can be regarded as a forerunner of RoboFont, and has been a very influential scripting type design tool in Python. His TTX/FontTools library is a crucial building block for lots of font software. He also wrote the original version of the DrawBot application.

He designed Phaistos (1990-1991, the Font Bureau, with David Berlow), which was inspired by the flared angular designs of Rudolf Koch such as Locarno). Designer or co-designer at LettError of LettErrorRobot-Chrome (2001), FFTrixie (X-files original), FF Advert (1991, a flared sans family), FF Justlefthand, FF Schulschrift (1991; in versions A, B and C following the German school script recommendations), FF StampGothic (1992), FF Confidential (1992, grunge), FF Karton (1992, a grungy stencil face), FF Flightcase (1992, a grungy didone stencil), FF Dynamoe (1992, a dymo label font, white on black), FF Hands, FF Brokenscript (1990, blackletter), Federal, and the random font Beowolf (1990, with Erik van Blokland).

FF Schulbuch (1991-1992) is a series of fonts based on the historical textbook types used in Northern and Southern Germany, and Bavaria. The Nord (North) variant is the closest relative of Helvetica. At FUSE 11, he designed What You See/What You Get (with Erik van Blokland).

Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on The Sound of Shapes & Shape of Sounds.

Bio at Emigre. FontShop link. Klingspor link. FontFont link.

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Justi Design
[Daniel Justi]

Graphic designer in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Daniel Justi graduated in Graphic Design and specialized in Art Direction by Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo. He currently works as a book cover designer and graphic projects for books and magazines.

His typefaces: Geleia Text (2015, which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016), Farloni (2013, monospaced, quirky, and inspired by typewriters), Darling (2013, an opentype-programmed informal decorative sans, perhaps for children's books), Arnica (2010, minimalist geometric), Silent Light (2009, monoline sans), Ataxia (2010, a text family that should hold up well in small sizes), Mood Type (a modular type experiment), Jsans (2009, an open sans family), and Jslab (2009, a slab counterpart).

Behance link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Justin Chen

Architecture student in Vancouver. He used FontStruct in 2009 to make Infinite Suite, a set of lowercase alphabets based on elements of an architectural floor plan. Each letter is a "room," equips with partition, stair, table, window, or a bed. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justin Wood

Justin Wood (Auckland, New Zealand) designed a geometric solid typeface called Geowood in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justine Jeannin

Angers, France-based designer of a typeface based on lightpainting, called Laserotype (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justine Montébrun

During her studies under Muriel Paris at ESAG Penninghen in Paris, Justine Montébrun created the experimental typeface Alphabet Modulaire (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justyna Brzowstowska

Photographer and typographer in Poznan, Poland. She created the experimental typeface Heelless (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Justyna Sikora

As a student in Wroclaw, Poland, Justyna Sikora created the experimental shadow typeface Itsgreatfont (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jutojo

Berlin-based design studio, which made the 3d paperclip font Inbetween (2009, Die Gestalten). Jutojo was founded in 1998 by Julie Gayard, Toby Cornish and Johannes Braun. They are affiliated with Die Gestalten. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juyeon Lee

During his studies in Brooklyn, NY, Juyeon Lee (b. Korea) created the circle-based typeface Metamorphous (2013-2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

K-0000

Florida-based graphic designer who made the neon light font Electric Ship (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaan Eke

French-Turkish graphic designer. During his studies at CAD in Brussels, Kaan Eke created the experimental geometric typeface The Grid (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kacy Choi

Hong Kong-based designer of the experimental typeface Waiting (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kadeem Kirton

Kadeem Kirton (Baltimore, MD) designed the LED photo font LED in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaen Graphics
[Tahar Azzaoui]

Kaen Graphics is a French studio based in Lille and/or Brussels. He also opertates as Benelux Graphic Designer. They created the experimental typeface Paintedfonts (2012) and the outlined WeWork (2008). Trustin (2012) is a display typeface created for Advertising Brands Magazine.

In 2014, Kaen Graphics published Wiggle Font (2014).

Behance link. Cargocollective link.

Run by Tahar Azzaoui (b. 1968). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kai Damian Matthiesen

During his Masters studies at the Royal College of Art in London, Kai Damian Matthiesen created Shadow Font (2014), Frankography (2015, a grungy hybrid typeface), Coercion (2015, prismatic), Snapshots (2015, octagonal textured caps) and Aby Warburg (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kai Harrison

Student at UWE in Bristol. During his studies at UWE, he used FontStruct to create these typefaces: Negative Shadow (2012, experimental), Drop Shadow (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaila Jacques

Designer of the terminal ball-inspired rounded sans typeface Bernard (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaitlyn Richards

During her graphic design studies in Savannah, GA, Kaitlyn Richards designed the loopy script typeface Milieu (2012) and the experimental layered art deco typeface Deco (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaja Piaskowska

Krakow, Poland-based designer of the experimental typeface Gap (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kakibito Sirazu

Japanese foundry with experimental kana fonts: ahiru-tate, ahiru-yoko, ajichi, katakamuna. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kaleb Dean
[Akimbo Type Foundry (or: Pen and Lens Design)]

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kame Design (was: kametype)
[Joachim Müller-Lancé]

Joachim Müller-Lancé is a German designer (born St. Wendel, Saar, 1961), who was trained in Basel and at the Cooper Union in New York. He had his own studio in Barcelona, where he taught information design at Elisava School. He was lead information designer for Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco for 3 years. Currently, he lives in Umkirch near Freiburg and/or San Francisco. Timeline of his achievements:

  • 1993. His Lancé type family (FF Lancé) won him the coveted Morisawa award in 1993.
  • His typefaces Flood (brush), Ouch and Shuriken Boy are available from Adobe.
  • He designed the kanji/Latin typeface Shirokuro, which won two awards at the 1999 Morisawa Awards.
  • 1996. He created an outline face.
  • 1997. He established kametype in 1997. Emodigi site.
  • 2001. In 2001, he started up Typebox with Mike Kohnke. His fonts there include Monodular (2003), Tiny Tim and TX Cortina (1997, an LED style face). At Bukvaraz 2001, he won awards for Nichiyou Daiku, Shuriken, Pesaro and Shirokuro.
  • 2002. He co-designed the dingbat font TXSignal Signifort (Typebox) with eight others.
  • 2006. At AND in 2006, he created the hand signal dingbat font H-AND-S together with Jean-Benoît Lévy, Diana Alisandra Stoen, Sylvestre Lucia and Mike Kohnke.
  • 2011. In 2011, he published Uppercut Angle (Delve Fonts), which was originally developed for the Krav Maga training center of San Francisco. Also at Delve, he (re-)published the futuristic family Cortina in that year. With Ernesto Gonzalez Serros, he co-designed Chato.
  • 2012. With Erik Adigard of MAD Design in Sausalito, he created the rounded octagonal monospace typeface family Oktal Mono (Delve Fonts).
  • 2015. Owlphabet (a decorative caps font).
  • 2015. Fleisch Wolf & Wurst: a fun German expressionist blackletter typeface.
  • 2015. Stenciletta (Delve Fonts).

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Creative market link.

View Joachim Müller-Lanceé's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kanny Yeung

Over 600 million people in the world are dyslexic. Kanny Yeung (New York City) started a typography project in 2012 to address two types of Dyslexia. Kanny introduced an alphabet that has very different glyphs, and is remotely related to Latin.

In 2014, she made the organic typeface Kanny Sans. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kardaw

Fontstructor who made Perpendicularity (2011), Ice2000 (2011), Just Lines (2011), Laundry Machine (2011, experimental), Washing Machine (2011), the 3d typeface Sebrantic (2011) and the experimental pixelish typefaces hite on Black (2011) and White on White (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karen Figueiredo

Based in Barcelona, Karen Figueiredo created the experimental mouse and program-generated typeface Dynamo (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karen Sampaio

Sao Paulo-based graphic designer. Behance link. She created the oddly serifed typeface Falta Alguma Coisa (2010). That typeface and the experimental typeface Somos Fortes (2011) can be freely downloaded at Unique Types. With Eduardo Batiston, she made the semi-stencil typeface Horizontes (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kari Elizabeth Stevenson

Designer (b. 1980) of the experimental stencil font RAMI (2003). Kari Elizabeth Stevenson is based at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karina Duarte

Graphic designer in Rio de Janeiro. Creator at Unique Types of the free experimental typeface Pequeninos (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karina Petersen

Born in 1982, this Danish designer dabbled in experimental typography while she was an intern at Gold Studio in Copenhagen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karl Bembridge

Freelancer in London, who created several experimental typefaces in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karl Nawrot

Experimental typeface designer. His creations include Oh, Marq, Otik, Dress (2012) and LM. Between 2009 and 2012, Karl Nawrot and Radim Pesko co-designed the experimental typeface Lyno. It is available in four styles, Ulys(ses 31), Stan(ley Kubrick), Jean (Arp) and Walt (Disney). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karl Uibo

Tallinn, Estonia-based designer of the extra condensed typeface Pumpkin (2017). The free font Shape Play Sans Serif (2017) was designed by changing the code in cascading style sheets (CSS), inspired by Yusuke Sugomori's experimental type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karla Zavala

During her studies in Savannah, GA, Karla Zavala designed the experimental bilined typeface Crossover (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karolien Pauly

Typographer and (hilarious) illustrator in Riemst, Belgium. She made Triangle Font (2011), Gradient Font (2011) and Circle Font (2011). Later in 2011, she made an untitled multiline display face.

Typefaces from 2012: Hurumufu (paperclip face).

In 2013, she made the monoline rounded geometric typeface Ziuxoa.

Home page. Behance link. Hellofont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karolina Lutkiewicz

Gdynia, Poland-based designer of the experimental Spatial Alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karthick Rajendran

Computer science engineer turned graphic designer, who is based in Coimbatore, India. In 2017, he created the experimental Latin typeface Glynch. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karyn Jacobsen

American designer who made the experimental line arrangement typeface Cube (2011) and the poster typeface Goo (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kassy Bull

As a student at Falmouth University (UK), Kassy Bull designed Georginked (2016), a typeface created by modifying Georgia using running water. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kat Gilbert

During her Graphic Design studies at Central Saint Martins in London, American / Austrian Kat Gilbert created a modular stencil typeface (2013) and a triangular experimental typeface called Sparkle Tune or Sparkling Tunes (2013), which was custom-made for a music band. She also made a stencil typeface in Phil Baines's course in 2013.

In 2018, she designed the triangulated typeface Gridlocked. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kata Toth

Hungarian designer of Balance (2018: a signature font), Noise (2017) and Said Softly (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kate Shash

Moscow-based designer of the experimental typeface Geom (2016), which was created on a doodled grid. The principle is timeless: draw a grid in some way, no matter how crazy. Then design all your letters by following lines in that grid. No exceptions. For her school, BHSAD, she designed a set of icons (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katerina Kinna

Athens, Greece-based interior architect and graphic designer who created the geometric typefaces Linea (2016) and Kapa (2016, based on triangles), and conceived the Kandinsky Calendar (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katerina Orlikova

Creator of these experimental geometric typefaces in 2010: Tasemnice, Semetrika, Metrika, Kaleidoscope. Katerina lives in Zlin, Czechia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katie Curd

Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of the octagonal experimental typeface Crossword (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katie Mancher

During her studies at Maryland Institute College of Art, Katie Mancher (Baltimore, MD) designed the warm text typeface Walden (2019). Inspired by Henry David Thoreau's book Walden, this typeface was designed for screen reading in order to inject an organic quality. In 2017 she designed the experimental typeface Another World on Earth. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katinka Juhász

Hungarian designer of the triangle-based experimental typeface Trigonom (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katrin Kempf

Designer in Darmstadt, Germany. Creator of the dotted display typeface Sao Paulo (2012) that experiments with ballooning effects. She is working on a serifed typeface in 2012.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katsuhiko Hibino

Designer in the FUSE 13 collection of the experimental font Omni, and of SantoDomingo (DeChile, DeDulce, DeManteca, Patzcuaro). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katsuji Tanase

Designer of the experimental fonts Asassin, Atomic&Uranium at Shift Factory. Tanasex may be bought at Font Pavilion. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Katy Gordge

Plymouth, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Terranova (2013) that was inspired by Steven Spielberg's sci-fi movies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keal Jones

Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of California, 2012. Creator of an experimental typeface in 2012. Keal also made Skate Plaza (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keita Soejima
[Fancy Graphic]

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Keith Bates
[K-Type]

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Kelly Gomez

Cali, Colombia-based designer of the experimental typeface Nordic (2016), which recombines pieces of glyphs from various fonts. She also designed the spring-themed all caps typeface acolchada (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelly Kwan

Kelly Kwan (Singapore) used hair as an inspiration for her Ubermessy font (2012). She used a dish shape to make the Dish typeface family (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelly Lemme

Graphic designer in Toronto who created the experimental typefaces Vertex and Orbit (2013). She also designed the brush typefaces Quillbee (2013) and Camper (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelly Maggio

New York City-based designer of a typeface constructed based on squares, triangles and circles called Trinagle Circle square (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelly Shami

Kelly Shami (New York City) is studying at The School of Visual Arts for a BFA in Graphic Design. She created the ball terminal experimental typeface Revolver (2012) and the flourished curly typeface Baby Jane (2012) during her studies at SVA.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelvin Soh
[The Wilderness]

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Ken Barber

Letterer and type director at House Industries. He also teaches experimental typography at the Maryland Institute's College of Art. His interests include the inter-disciplinary relationship between hand-lettering and type design.

His typefaces include Maddhouse (1994), Chalet (1996), Heads of the Household, Fink Bold (1996), Fink Brush (1996), Fink Casual (1996), Fink Condensed (1996), Fink Gothic (1996), Fink Heavy (1996), Fink Roman (1996), Fink Sans (1996). The Rat Fink series was made with Ed Roth. Part of the proceeds from each sale go to the estate of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.

At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about "Imre Reiner: the alphabet as art".

Ken Barber and Tal Leming combined forces in 2008 on the signage script family Studio Lettering Swing (House). He digitized Ed Gothic and Ed Script, both originally designed by Ed Benguiat. These fonts won awards at the TDC2 2005 type competition.

Smidgen (2011: winner of an award at TDC 2012).

Studio Lettering Slant (2008) and Blaktur (2007) won awards at Letter2 in 2011.

For many years, he digitized and designed fonts for House Industries. These include Sign Painter (a 9-style family), Plinc Italiano (2015: a digital revival by Steve Ross and Ken Barber at House Industries of Dave West's 1960s Photo Lettering Inc Bodoni-style italic called Italiano).

He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Lettering, typography or somewhere in between.

At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, his talk (shared with Tal Leming) was entitled Pac-Man fever, quantum mechanics and the design of digital type.

Typographic picture by TDC.

Ken Barber interview by T. Wilkins. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ken Gitschier

Graphic artist who worked for Agfa Monotype and then Monotype from 1988 until 2008, mainly as a hinting expert. Currently, he is a freelance designer in North Andover, MA. He made the scary handwriting font GitschHand (2001).

Setimo (2015) was co-designed by Fernando Caro, Ken Gitschier, Fabio Haag and Lukas Paltram at Dalton Maag in Brazil, and won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kenji Chang

Kenji Wai Chang was raised In Macau. In 2006, Kenji moved to the United States to study graphic design at San Jose State University. Her Mirage typeface (2012) is based on Salvador Dali's paintings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenny Lee

Kuala Lumpur-based animation designer. He created the experimental typeface Joints (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ket Monnyreak

Phnom Penh, Cambodia-based graphic designer and illustrator who created the geometric solid typeface Hamburger in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kevin Hayes

Adelaide, Australia-based designer of the experimental typeface Topsy Sans (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kevin L

During his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine-Arts of Brussels, Kevin L designed the experimental typeface Zwanze (2018), which is named after the favorite pastime of the people of Brussels. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kevin Yates

Creator of the experimental electronic circuit font Motherboard (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kichan Ma

Seoul, Korea-based designer of Hanger (2018), a fun display typeface that marries Neil Bold and Horatio. He also designed the programmed ultra-black Hangul / Latin poster typeface Tuem (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kim Hiorthøy

Norwegian designer at Function (Halvor Bodin's experimental design guerilla group) of Shinjuku, a semi-dingbat font published by FontShop in FUSE17. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kim Ho

Canadian designer of the experimental typeface Digital Punk (2011). Her Behance page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kim Matthé

Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font mbrace (letters made from pieces of braces), and Dr. Style. Kim lives in Rijkevorsel. The Typolis is a virtual project of his while he was a student. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kimberly Anderson

In 2015, Idaho Falls, Idaho-based Kimberly Anderson created a visual alphabet that is based on the cup rings of cranberry juice. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kimberly Mar

Graphic designer in Long Beach, CA, who created an experimental typeface called Replay (2013) based on the shapes of ribbons and wheels of cassette tapes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kimberly Meistrell

During her graphic design studies in Baltimore, MD, Kimberly Meistrell designed the experimental typeface Intuition (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera)
[Gabriel Martinez Meave]

Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera) is a commercial Mexican design firm founded in 1994 by Gabriel Martinez Meave (b. Mexico City, 1972), who is by far Mexico's most prolific and talented type designer. The only freebie is Presidencia at the Mexican Government site.

Meave.org deals with illustrations and other occult arts. Behance link. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. Interview. Some of his early typefaces were published at Tiypo. Diseño Kimera has made numerous custom fonts for Mexican clients. His typefaces:

  • Arcana (2000, +Manuscript) won an award at Bukvaraz in 2001. The script font Arcana was traced out with a pointed metal quill and then digitized to give it a thoroughly 19th century look. It won an award at TDC 2000.
  • In 2006, he made the powerful serif typeface Artifex.
  • Aztlan (1998) is a fun artsy slab serif.
  • Basilica (1999, +Rotunda) is an extra-condensed experimental font based on a modern high-contrast design. Award winner at TDC2.
  • Comanda (handwritten).
  • Darka (2005) is a roman blackletter face. This typeface won an award at TDC2 2006.
  • Economista is a text typeface created for the Mexican business newspaper El Economista.
  • Ferra Sabs, commisioned by the department stores El Palacio de Hierro.
  • Fulgora. Inspired by late-medieval Basarda and Civilité blackletter styles, the Kannada and Sinhala writing systems from Southern India, Celtic uncials, and diverse vernacular Mexican scripts, it includes a Black and a Negra style. Released by Sudtipos in 2019.
  • Indio (handwriting). Commissioned for a beer ad.
  • Integra: a contemporary roman sans family. It was republished by Sudtipos in 2019.
  • Jumex Sans (2012). Custom font for a fruit juice advertising campaign.
  • For Lagarto (2001) is based on the hand of Luis Lagarto, a colonial illuminator and scribe, working in Mexico City and Puebla in the late 1500s. It won an award at Bukvaraz 2011 and an Award of Excellence at the Type Directors Club of New York annual competition.
  • Liverpool Sans (2015). A corporate avant garde sans family of fonts for Liverpool, a Mexican chain of department stores.
  • Mexica (1996) is a large octagonal font family created to set text in náhuatl, the tongue of the Aztecs, but also the lingua franca of ancient Mexico. Mexica received an Award of Excellence at the Type Directors Club of New York annual competition. It was republished by Sudtipos in 2019.
  • Mystix is a rune font based on a secret alphabet for a Delaware Punch promotional program.
  • Neocodex (1996) is an organic family.
  • At Adobe he designed Organica (2000), a display semiserif. That typeface family was republished in 2021 by Sudtipos as Organica Pro.
  • Pearson Calligraphic (1999).
  • Presidencia (2008, free at the Mexican Government site) won an award at TDC2 2008 and at Tipos Latinos 2008 (for extensive text family). He writes about Presidencia Sans: Inspired by Toltec and Aztec architecture, the letterforms of Presidencia follow a humanist sans-serif scheme that combines Mexican character with Latin structure. This grand family was commissioned by the Mexican Federal Government, to suit its new identity program, impeccably designed by Mexican firm Ideograma. The type family comprises twenty variants, to cover a full spectrum of possibilities, from official documents to corporate signage, billboards and nation-wide campaigns in all media.
  • Puuc, according to Meave, was inspired by the Mayan puuc style of modular architecture.
  • Rondana (2002) is a rounded character family in the style of VAG Round. It was republished by Sudtipos in 2019, which writes that Rondana is a typographic tribute to the retro-futuristic aesthetics of the 1960s and 70s, as well as an exercise in purity of line.
  • Sol and Solida. Sol was made for a beer ad.
  • In 2011, he created the Telcel Sans family, which was commissioned by Mexico's main telecommunications company for use in corporate communication, advertising and printed matter, as well as billboards, television and many other visual media. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.
  • Tlatoani Sans won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010.
  • Tolteca.
  • Wordless Script (2019, at Sudtipos). A penmanship script with weathered outlines. Sudtipos writes: Wordless Script is the font of choice for writing those things that go beyond words. Based on the connected-scripts of the late 18th-century England, this typeface preserves the irregular finish and stroke gestures of the pointed nib. It is, so to speak, a personal rendition of the English roundhand as originally executed with the bird's quill. Imbued with a rococo, neoclassic, romantic spirit, Wordless Script radiates the gallantry of a time when the celebrated douceur de vivre that Talleyrand was so fond of was still alive and well; echoes of which still haunt us in our eclectic 21st-century, that now has once again come to appreciate again these magnificent styles of old. Wordless Script [...] is meant to be read with the eyes only or to be whispered into someone's ear.

Klingspor link. Behance link. Old Kimera type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kin Lu

Kin Lu (Canton, China) created an unnamed counterless modular Latin typeface and a circle-based typeface called Starbox in 2013. In 2016, he created the experimental typeface Ink In Water. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kir Rostovsky

Moscovite who designed Indy Typeface (2012), a typeface in which the outlines follow one of several segments in an arrangement of lines. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kirill Yudin

Novosibirsk, Russia-based designer of the free futuristic missing-stroke-segment font Solarian (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kirjatehnika
[Andree Paat]

Kirjatehnika is the type design practice of Andree Paat in Tallinn, Estonia. Their typefaces as of 2020:

  • Alloy Grotesk Heavy.
  • Alloy Slab Heavy. Alloy Slab is an old-timerly slab-serif based on the charming clunky Great-Primer Antique (George Bruce & Co.,1848).
  • Bougie Regular. An exaggerated didone.
  • Frukt Heavy. Psychedelic and puffy.
  • Goofy Bold. Goofy is a soft and playful reverse-contrast typeface based on the phototype era font Global by Aldo Novarese (1978).
  • Ladna Sans Medium.
  • Libre Office Sans (2016). A free font drawn in the open-source program Libre Office. No punctuation.
  • Maxi (2020, Dinamo). An experimental hipster-inspired gemetric sans family designed by Dinamo (Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb) and Andree Paat).
  • Metropol Black. A revival attempt of the original by Aldo Novarese (1966).
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Kisman Studio (was: Holland Fonts)
[Max Kisman]

Max Kisman (b. 1953, Doetinchem) is a Dutch freelance graphic designer who graduated in 1977 in graphic design, typography, illustration and animation at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1986, he co-founded TYP/Typografisch Papier, and taught graphic design and typography at various colleges in the Netherlands in the years following that. He is principal of MKDSGN, his studio in Mill Valley, California, and founded Holland Fonts, a foundry for his typeface designs in 2002. Max teaches graphic design, typography and typeface design in San Francisco. He currently lives in Mill Valley, CA.

His early typefaces: ExtendedMaxMixOne (1991), Rosetta, Jacque (1991, FontFont), Fudoni (1991), the experimental font Linear Konstruct (FUSE 2).

He wrote a coffeetable book on typography in the streets of Paris, but no book store in Paris seems to have it, and I have looked! He is editor of Tribe.

In 2002, he started Holland Fonts. His fonts there: Bebedot Blonde (2002), Bebedot Black, Bfrika (2002, an interesting African lettering font), Cattlebrand (2002), Chip 96 (2002), Chip 02 (2002), Circuit Closed (2002), Circuit Open, Interlace Single (2002), Interlace Double, Mundenge Rock (2002), Nevermind (2003, a cut-out style reminiscent of Saul Bass's movie titling types), Pacific Sans (2003), Pacific Serif (2003), Pacific Standard L, Pacific Standard B, Pacific Classic L (2002, artsy, stylish), Pacific Classic B, Quickstep Regular (2002, an angular font), Quickstep Bold, Quickstep Sans R, Quickstep Sans B, Submarine (2003, an octagonal font family), Traveller Regular (2002), Traveller Bold, Tribe Mono (2003, a tech font), Zwartvet (2002, a Van Doesburg/ De Stijl type font).

Four free ransom note fonts made in 2003: Dutch Doubles, Frisco Remix, We Love Your Font, MaxMix One. At Union Fonts, he (re-)published Bebedot, BFRIKA, Cattlebrand, Chip01, Chip02, Pacific, Quickstep, Submarine and Traveller in 2003, and Mata Hari (Indic simulation typeface in weights called Exotique, Hollandaise and Parisienne) and Xbats (2004, Christmas dingbats) in 2004.

In 2017, Max Kisman was asked to design a naked font for the Dutch printing association, Drukwerk in de marge. It is called Genitaal XXX.

Speaker at ATypI 2004 in Prague.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Illustration Daily link.

His bestselling fonts at MyFonts. Pic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Klaudio Bojaxhiu

Web designer in Corato, Italy, who created Helvetica Numbers Bored Me (2013), an experimental set of numbers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Klaus Nielsen
[Vinterstille]

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KLMNPRST.ru

Russian experimental typography and calligraphy site. Hard to decipher what is going on. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kmylo Darkstar

Buenos Aires-based designer of some experimental typefaces in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ko Junghyun

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the experimental typeface Universal Mutation (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ko Sliggers
[Dutchfonts.com]

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Kolektiv Studio
[Lukas Kijonka]

Kolektiv studio is a Prague based, multi-disciplinary design studio founded by Lukas Kijonka and Michal Krul. They designed the monospaced sans typeface Mono Dinner Pro (2013) and the experimental typefaces X (2015), Meetfactory (2012) and Width (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Konst & Technik

Design studio. Designer of several multicolored type experiments, such as one called Morse Alphabet (2006, stencil letters). The picture below is taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Konstantin Boldovskiy
[Konst.ru]

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Konstantine Studio

Commercial typeface foundry in Jakarta, Indonesia, run by "Ian" and "Abdilah". Its first typeface is Muffler (2014), which is inspired by retro brush signage for car races. Lacydes (2014) is a spurred advertizing typeface. Upjohn (2014) is a horror movie poster typeface. Curely (2014) is a free hand-drawn curly typeface, expanded to Curely Pro in 2017. Hemera (2014) is based on vintage matchbox packages.

Typefaces from 2015: Marthas, Risoless Script, Elska (a thick warm watercolor brush script), The Chalker (crayon font), The Bride, The Groom (brush script), Wanderlove (brush script), Rumbell (handcrafted poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Easy Lullabye (Swash, Sans), Wiggle (brush script).

Typefaces from 2017: Fathers (a vintage packaging script), Ride Slow (a handcrafted set of motorcycle culture fonts), Delight, Kehlin (retro poster style), Butter Love (dry brush), Fathers Script (vintage), Fili & Kyla (thin script), Husky Giggle (casual hand stroked brush font), Ruffle (dashing brush script), Dollyn Script, Halloween Rock, Love Hurts (ballpoint pen font), Moneyroll, Trakster, Trakster Serif, Noswatt, Noswatt Serif (copperplate style), Notstar, Rodenda, Hammet, Hastagirl (watercolor brush), Arzeti Script (informal monoline wedding script), Sicero (vintage display typeface by Abdilah), Sign Panthers Brush Script, Magle Sans, Magle Script.

Typefaces from 2018: Millerstone (connected calligraphic script), Bad Taste, Conserta (Victorian), Grestal Script, Beclave, Double Aunofa (Script and Serif), Summer Classico, Ahoy Amigo (font duo), Aunofa Serif, Aunofa Script, Delphin Spring, Delight Lettering Script, Tropical Asian, Vedacity (calligraphic), Rothe (vintage), Bigger Love (script), First Choice (calligraphic), Love Hurts, Hall Of Fun, Casual Font Bundle (which includes Easy Monoline Script, Subber Sans, Sintix, Rebel Four, and Grotes Sans), Hemera II (a vintage Victorian matchbox typeface), Asian Skyline, Queen Waffle, Rosse, Harvest Barn (script), Oh Samantha, Simple Monologue (calligraphic), Sweet Getaway (handwriting).

Typefaces from 2019: Vango (a sci-fi or speed font), Aghony (script), Conserta Royal (Victorian), Roast Serif, Mister Quenos (a fast food store signage font), Calisatt (an SVG brush font), Redstock Script, Suspiria Vampira (a Halloween font set), Hoffers (a children's book font), Closer (a Swiss sans), Hoffers (a marker pen font), Mackle (Script, Serif), Blante (Sans + Script), Millerstone, Kimball, Henave (flared sans), Valsday (Sans, Script).

Typefaces from 2020: Destrokes, Kremato (+Script, +Short, +Tall), Krasher (a painted brush SVG font), Rebelton (a 12-style all caps sans), Koutura (a fashion mag font), Kalleco (a free hand-printed typeface), Citypop (1990s Japanese retro pop style, with subfamilies Main Display, Neon, Screen, Digital and Automotive), Urban Shock (ultra-condensed), Renin (a Western super-heavy slab serif), Jaksel (a bold squarish sans typeface), Alkaria (a retro display typeface).

Typefaces from 2021: Kingsad (a 5-style wide flared display family), Ahoy Amigo (a type duo), Harvest Barn (script), Simple Monologue (a calligraphic script), Magle (a script typeface), The Sign Painters, Makalo (an African tribal font), Discopia (neo-futurist), Daguin (a fashionable display typeface inspired by the Middle Ages), Tropical Asian (a painted font), Fosty Blue, Kofje (a daring decorative serif).

Typefaces from 2022: Vogatron (sci-fi), Hwaiting Handwriting (emulating Korean), Hwaiting Serif, Hwaiting Sans (an experimental Korean vibe font), Walanor (a pop art font).

Tumblr link. Graphicriver link. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Konst.ru
[Konstantin Boldovskiy]

Moscow-based Russian foundry of Konstantin Boldovskiy (b, 1966, Pereyaslavka, Russia). He graduated in 1988 as an architect from the Khabarovsk Polytechnic Institute. Typefaces:

  • From 2010: BK Monolith, InSign Hand (an octagonal typeface with a sketched style), BK Bird, Alya Hand (a curly typeface based on the handwriting of Alya Boldovskaya), Type Tile (experimental), Hexial (a dot matrix face).
  • From 2011: Hexadot, Hexadot Thin and Hexadot Light (a textured family).
  • From 2013: Olymp80 (a techno typeface dedicated to the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, inspired by Nikolai Belkov's icons for these games).

Personal Behance link. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kornel Faludi

Graphic designer in Budapest, Hungary. Graduate of Loughborough University, class of 2018 (with a bachelor's degree), and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest in 2021 (with a master's degree). At Loughborough University (UK), Kornel Faludi designed a set of generative typefaces (2016), i.e., typefaces that are very modular and computer-generated to a large extent. His typographic oeuvre is quite experimental. Many of his fonts use just basic geometric structures such as circles, arcs and rectangles.

In 2019, he published Thin Stroke, Alien, the kitchen tile typeface Blocks, the organic typeface Swan, the blocky typeface Bagur, the prismatic typeface Baton, the rounded stencil typeface Stencil, the experimental typeface Geometric, the piano key typeface Darling, and the techno typeface Aquarius.

Creator of these display typefaces between 2015 and 2021: Aquarius, Black (piano key style), Blocky (kitchen tiles), Computer, Futuristic, Geometric (prismatic), Martian, Organic, Sliced, Stencil, Striped, StrokeLine, Thinline. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kostya Sasquatch

Moscovite illustrator and multimedia artist. His typefaces are mostly experimental and/or geometric: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kosuke Takahashi

Japanese designer (b. 1993, Tokyo) who studied at Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan, where he obtained a Bachelor of Art in Environmental Information. Creator of Braille Neue (2017), a typeface that combines Braille and Latin. According to Takahashi, Braille Neue is a universal typeface that combines braille with existing characters. This typeface communicates to both the sighted and blind people in the same space. Braille Neue consists of two typesets - Braille Neue Standard which is for English alphabet and Braille Neue Outline which is for Japanese and English. Our aim is to use this universal typeset for Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics 2020 to create a truly universal space where anyone can access information.

In 2013, he designed the free sans typeface Ootori. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kozmof

Japanese designer of a number of experimental typefaces in 2012, such as Techno, Trippy, and Icy.

In 2013, he designed the sans caps typeface Mathilda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

KRFX Kazekami
[Julien Gionis]

Greek graphic designer who has created some experimental typefaces such as Krok (2009, octagonal), MDMX (2009, kitchen tile), AFEX Box Type (2009; see also here, here, here, here, and here).

In 2014, Julien Gionis at KRFX designed the hyper-modular robotics typeface MDMX.

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Krishna Patel

Chatham, UK-based designer (b. 1995) of Tela (2017), an experimental typeface that is inspired by Wim Crouwel. It was published during his studies at Farnham UCA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Krista Langehennig

Krista Langehennig (Austin, TX) created the experimental typeface Geo during her studies in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristen Kay Morgan

Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the experimental vector font Method (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristi

Kristi, or Sandy87, is a Houston-based designer, b. 1987, who created the experimental techno font Get Ed Progress City (2007, based on "Get Ed", Red Rover Studios and Disney. 2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristian Walker
[Eurekaville]

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Kristie Ballard

While studying at Kingston University, Kristie Ballard designed the grungy experimental typeface Lost Language (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristin Rizzo

Graphic designer in Boston, who made a typographic poster called Gunsling Birds (2012) to promote Gunsling Birds, a future-noir rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristina Jandova

Czech designer based in the UK. Creator of these typefaces:

  • Laborat (2021, Monotype). A 6-style grotesk that struggles with its identity and wants to come out of the closet as a geometric sans.
  • FS Meridian (2019, at Fontsmith). A rhythmic geometric sans family with circular forms.
  • Antique Gothic (2017). A condensed vintage sans with extreme x-height, designed by Jean-Baptiste Levée (Production Type), with the help of Emmanuel Besse, Yoann Minet, Quentin Schmerber, Hugues Gentile, Pauline Fourest, and Kristina Jandova (who was an intern at Production Type in 2017).
  • Co-designer of Ofform (2019) with Marek Suchanek and Martin Vacha at Displaay. Ofform is a modular folded paper font that started out as a custom typeface for the fashion brand Ofform 3D.
  • Other typefaces: Utopian (experimental), OE Display, Pusa Serif, Kryptone (a polygonal experiment).
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Kristina Skoreva

Moscow-based creator of the photographic typeface Ink Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Krisztian Minya

Graphic designer in Budapest, Hungary, who created the experimental compass-and-ruler typeface Abovo in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Krystian Berlak

Krystian Berlak (Akkurat Studio, Lodz, Poland) designed the free experimental geometric 122 IOC font in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Krzysztof Stryjewski

Polish creator of the experimental almost cubist typeface Alfabet Picassa (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ksenia Levskaya

Ukrainian designer who made some experimental fonts in 2011, such as a bra font and a pipe font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kseniya Petrushak

Graphic designer in Kiev, Ukraine, who created the experimental geometric typeface Aktsidentny (2012), and the Cyrillic caps typeface Children's Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ksusha Miskaryan

Moscow-based designer of the experimental typeface El Lissitzky (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

K-Type
[Keith Bates]

K-Type is Keith Bates' (b. 1951, Liverpool) foundry in Manchester, UK, est. 2003. Keith works as an Art&Design teacher at a Salford High School. They custom design type, and sell some of their own creations.

Commercial typefaces:

  • Adequate (2012). A basic geometric monoline sans family.
  • Adventuring (2010, comic book style)
  • Alan Hand (2005, based on some blobby lettering, handwritten by printer and mail artist, Alan Brignall)
  • Alex (2002-2004)
  • Alright (2004, cursive script)
  • Anna (2002-2007).
  • Argot (2019). Characterized by square counters, this typeface family exhales brutalism and industrialism. See also Argot Machine (2019).
  • Artist Hand (2019).
  • Axis
  • Bank of England (2012, blackletter): Bank of England is loosely based on blackletter lettering from the Series F English twenty pound banknote introduced in 2007. The font also takes inspiration from German Kanzlei (Chancery) typefaces and the 17th century London calligrapher, John Ayres.
  • Banks & Miles (2018). Inspired by the geometric monoline lettering created for the British Post Office in 1970 by London design company Banks & Miles, a project initiated and supervised by partner John Miles, which included Double Line and Single Line alphabets. The new digital typeface is a reworking and extension of both alphabets.
  • Barbica (2015). A glyphic typeface.
  • Bricola (2020).
  • Brush Hand New (2013): Brush Hand New is a full font based on a copy of Flash Bold called Brush Hand marketed by WSI in the 1990s and more recently distributed through free font sites. Brush Hand was an anonymous redrawing of Flash which simplified, slightly lightened, smoothed out ragged edges, and improved the legibility of the original classic created by Edwin W. Shaar in 1939.
  • Building&Loan (2007, engaved face)
  • Bigfoot (2005, a Western font based on the slab capitals used by Victor Moscoso in his 1960s psychedelic rock posters)
  • Bolshy (2009)
  • Bolton750 (2003, a mechanical typeface done with John Washington).
  • Chancery Lane (2021). An italic text typeface that is based on chancery scripts.
  • Charles Wright (2016). A set of fonts based on the UK license plate fonts.
  • Chock (2009)
  • Circa (geometric sans)
  • Cloudbuster (2019). Inspired by Imre Reiner's Corvinus Skyline of 1934.
  • Club.
  • Coinage Caps (2017). Coinage Caps is a trilogy of small caps fonts based on the roman lettering used for the designs of British coinage. Coinage Caps Eric Gill is a regular weight, spur serif style drawn by Eric Gill for silver coin designs in the 1920s which were rejected by the Royal Mint. Coinage Caps Humphrey Paget is a medium weight serif based on the lettering of Thomas Humphrey Paget, designer of the Golden Hind Halfpenny first struck in 1937. This font simulates the soft, slightly rounded corners of the minted letterforms. Coinage Caps Kruger Gray is a glyphic, flare serif font typical of the bold style engraved by George Kruger Gray for numerous British and Commonwealth coins during the 1920s and 30s. This font also simulates the slightly rounded corners of the minted letterforms.
  • Collegiate (2009)
  • Component (2012). A font for lost civilizations and dungeon rituals.
  • Context (experimental)
  • Credit Card (2010, font for simulating bank cards)
  • Curwen Sans (2018). A monoline sans from the early 1900s originally created for in-house use at the Curwen Press in London.
  • Cyberscript (2006, connected squarish face)
  • Deansgate (2015). Deansgate and Deansgate Condensed are based on the clearest and most distinctive of the sans-serif letterforms used on Manchester street nameplates, and easily identified by a pointy Z and pointed middle vertices on M and W.
  • Designer
  • Digitalis
  • English
  • Enamela (2013). Keith writes: Enamela (rhymes with Pamela) is based on condensed sans serif lettering found on vitreous enamel signage dating from the Victorian era and widely used in Britain for road signs, Post Office signs, the plates on James Ludlow wall postboxes, railway signs, direction signs and circular Automobile Association wayfinding plaques throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The original model goes back to Victorian times, ca. 1880.
  • Engravia (2018). Engravia is a didone display typeface supplied in three varieties of engraving---Inline, Shaded and Sawtooth---plus a plain basic font.
  • Example (2017). A workhorse neo-grtesque typeface family.
  • Excite
  • Flip (2011), a western grotesk billboard face.
  • Flyer (2009, techno)
  • Frank Bellamy (2009, an all-capitals family based on the hand lettering of English artist Frank Bellamy, who is most famous for his comic art for Eagle and TV21, and his Dr Who illustrations for Radio Times)
  • Future Imperfect
  • Gill New Antique (2003)
  • Greetings
  • Helvetiquette
  • Hapshash (2010): an all capitals font inspired by the 1960s psychedelic posters of British designers Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (Michael English and Nigel Waymouth), in particular their 1968 poster for the First International Pop Festival in Rome. A dripping paint font.
  • Irish Penny (2016). An uncial typeface based on the lettering from Percy Metcalfe's influential pre-decimal coinage of Ireland, the Barnyard Collection.
  • Ivan Zemtsov (2009)
  • Kato (2007, oriental simulation face)
  • Keep Calm (2015). A geometric sans inspired by a British war poster from 1939.
  • Keith's Hand
  • Klee Print (2010, Klee Print is based on the handwriting of American artist Emma Klee)
  • Latinate (2013). A vintage wedge serif wood style typeface, and a rough version.
  • Lexie (an improved or "adult" version of Comic Sans) and Lexie Readable (2006, modified in 2015). Keith writes: Lexie Readable (formerly Lexia Readable) was designed with accessibility and legibility in mind, an attempt to capture the strength and clarity of Comic Sans without the comic book associations. Features like the non-symmetrical b and d, and the handwritten forms of a and g may help dyslexic readers.
  • Licencia (2016). A blocky typeface inspired by the tall, soft-cornered lettering on vehicle licence and registration plates world-wide.
  • Londinia (2016).
  • Matchbox
  • Max
  • Ming
  • Modernist Stencil (2009).
  • Monterey Pop (2020). A psychedelic / popart typeface based on Tom Wilkes's poster lettering for the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967.
  • Mythica (2012). A slightly condensed lapidary roman with copperplate serifs.
  • Modulario (2010): a contemporary sans.
  • New Old English (2010, blackletter)
  • Norton (2006)
  • Nowa (2004, a play on Futura)
  • NYC (octagonal)
  • Openline (2008, an art deco pair)
  • Oriel Chambers Liverpool: A Lombardic small caps font based on the masonry lettering on Peter Ellis's 1864 building, Oriel Chambers, on Water Street in Liverpool.
  • Pentangle (2008, based on album lettering from 1967)
  • Pixel
  • PixL (2002-2004)
  • Plasterboard (2004-2005)
  • Pop Cubism (2010) is a set of four texture fonts, combining elements of cubism and pop art.
  • Poster Sans (2006). A wood type family based on Ludlow 6 EC. See also Poster Sans Outline.
  • Rick Griffin (2006, more psychedelic fonts inspired by a 1960s Californian artist)
  • Rima (2020). A stencil typeface with heavy slabs.
  • Roundel (2009, white on black)
  • Runestone (2010, runic).
  • Sans Culottes (2008, grunge)
  • Serifina
  • Solid State (2008, art deco blocks)
  • Solus (2004, a revival of Eric Gill's 1929 typeface Solus which has never been digitized; read about it here)
  • Stockscript (2008, down-to-earth script based on the pen lettering of the writer, Christopher Stocks)
  • Susanna (2004)
  • Ticketing (2011): pixelish.
  • Total and Total Eclipse (2004, squarish display typefaces based on the four characters of Jaroslav Supek's title lettering for his 1980s mailart magazine, Total)
  • Transport New (2009: a redrawing of the typeface designed for British road signs. In addition to the familiar Heavy and Medium weights, Transport New extrapolates and adds a previously unreleased Light weight font originally planned for back-lit signage but never actually applied. Originally designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert beginning in 1957, the original Transport font has subtle eccentricities which add to its distinctiveness, and drawing the New version has involved walking a tightrope between impertinently eliminating awkwardness and maintaining idiosyncrasy.)
  • Union Jack (octagonal)
  • Victor Moscoso (2008, psychedelic)
  • Wanda (2007, art nouveau)
  • Waverly
  • Wes Wilson (2007, psychedelic, inspired by 1960s psychedelic poster artist Wes Wilson).
  • 3x5
  • Zabars (2001): a Western face.

His free fonts:

  • Blue Plaque (2006: a distressed font based on English heritage plaques)
  • Blundell Sans (2009)
  • Celtica (2007) has Celtic influences
  • Dalek (2005, stone/chisel face: Dalek is a full font based on the lettering used in the Dalek Book of 1964 and in the Dalek's strip in the TV21 comic, spin-offs from the UK science fiction TV show, Doctor Who. The font has overtones of Phoenician, Greek and Runic alphabets). See also Dalek Pinpoint (2018).
  • Designer Block (2006)
  • Flat Pack (2006)
  • Future Imperfect (2006, grunge)
  • Gommogravure (2005)
  • Greetings (2006), Greetings Bold (2006)
  • Insecurity (2005, experimental) won an award at the 2005 FUSE type competition.
  • International Times (2006, inspired by the masthead of the International Times underground newspaper of the 1960s and 1970s)
  • Keep Calm (2011). Related to London Underground.
  • Kindersley Sans (2017). A modernized version of David Kindersley's 1950s type used for many street name plates in Britain, about which Bates writes: Kindersley Sans is a humanist sans-serif that conserves the Gill-inspired character and some of the calligraphic qualities of Kindersley's lettering, it retains the Roman proportions and its Britishness, but traditional prettiness and intricacy are discarded in favour of a clean modernity.
  • Klee Capscript (2005: based on the handwriting and capitals drawn by artist Emma Klee (USA) for her Color Museum Mail Art invitation. The upper case is based on Emma's capitals and the lower case is freely adapted from her script)
  • Lexia and Lexia Bold (2004)
  • MAGraphics (2004)
  • Magical Mystery Tour (2005, outlined shadow face), Magical Mystery Tour Outline Shadow (2005), Magica (2015, a serifed titling typeface family).
  • Mailart (2004), Mailart Rubberstamp (2004), Mailart Rubberstamp Sans (2018).
  • Mandatory (2004, a UK number plate font based on the Charles Wright typeface used in UK vehicle registration plates).
  • McKnight Kauffer (2021). A retro poster font in the style of poster artist Edward McKnight Kauffer.
  • Motorway (2015), a companion typeface to Transport, the British road sign lettering. This is an extension of an original design by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert: The Motorway alphabet was created for the route numbers on motorway signage, and is taller and narrower than the accompanying place names and distances which are printed in Transport. However, for Motorway Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert created only the numbers 0 to 9, the capitals A, B, E, M, N, S and W, ampersand, slash, parentheses and a comma. So, although the lettering made its first appearance on the Preston bypass in 1958, K-Type Motorway is the first complete typeface and contains all upper and lower case letters, plus a full complement of punctuation, symbols and Latin Extended-A accented characters. As with the Transport alphabet the starting point was Akzidenz Grotesk, Motorway taking inspiration from condensed versions. Changes were mainly driven by a quest for legibility, resulting in some reduced contrast between horizontal and vertical strokes, and Gill-esque straight diagonal limbs on the 6 and 9, and high vertex for the M.
  • Penny Lane (2014). A a sans serif derived from twentieth-century cast-iron signs displaying Liverpool street names.
  • Possible (2020). A 10-style mini-serif typeface.
  • Provincial (2014). A Victorian set of outline fonts.
  • Ray Johnson (2006-2008)
  • Roadway (2005, based on New York roadside lettering).
  • Romanica (2017). A humanist sans.
  • Sam Suliman (2020). A condensed squarish typeface which was inspired by lowercase lettering on a Sarah Vaughan album cover designed by Sam Suliman in 1962. Suliman was born in Manchester, England in 1927. After working for McCann Erikson in London, he moved to New York where he took on freelance work designing album covers, particularly celebrated are his striking minimalist designs for jazz records. He moved back to England in the early 1960s, designing many book jackets, film titles and fabrics, also working in Spain and India before settling in Oxford in the 1980s.
  • Savor (2011). An art nouveau family.
  • Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club (2014).
  • Sinkin Sans (2014, free) and Sinkin Sans Narrow (2015, commercial). Open Font Library link.
  • Soft Sans (2010)
  • Subway Ticker (2005)
  • Taxicab (2016). A squarish style.
  • This Corrosion (2005).
  • Toppler (2018). A modern and full range top-heavy cartoon font family that includes a Popdots style. Bates was striving to improe on 1990s clasics such as Baby Kruffy (Ben Balvanz), Comix Heavy (WSI) and Startling (Dave Bastian).
  • Wildcat (2016). An athletics typeface family.
  • Zinc (2018). A monoline sans with diagonal nubs.
  • Colnage Caps Kruger Gray (2018). Coinage Caps is a trilogy of lapidary small caps fonts based on the Roman lettering used for the designs of British coinage.
  • Dalek Pinpoint (2018). Based on Dalek comic book lettering from the 1960s.
  • Icky Ticket Mono (2018). IckyTicket Mono is a monospaced font based on the coarsely printed numbering from 1960s bus tickets.
  • Sexbomb (2018). A psychedelic typeface family.
  • Mancunium (2019). A monoline sans family.
  • Straight Line (2020). An outlined font with chamfered corners and straight edges, possibly useful as a blackboard bold type.
  • We The People (a blackletter font based on the peamble of the American constitution).
  • Bowdon (2021). A six-style warm, Bodoni-inspired English Modern, influenced by the 1930s lettering of designer Barnett Freedman.
  • Oxford Street (2021). A condensed grotesque with horizontal and vertical stem terminals; it is a street a signage font that began as a redrawing of the capital letters used for street nameplates in the borough of Westminster, which in turn were designed in 1967 by the Design Research Unit using custom lettering based on Adrian Frutiger's Univers 69 Bold Ultra Condensed.

Custom / corporate typefaces: With Liverpool-based art director Liz Harry, Bates created a personalized font, loosely based on Coco Sumner's handwritten capitals, for the band I Blame Coco. Medium and Semibold weights of Gill New Antique were commissioned by LPK Design Agency. Stepping Hill Hospital and Bates created Dials, a pictorial font to help hospital managers input data about improvements. A custom font was designed for Bolton Strategic Economic Partnership.

Abstract Fonts link. View Keith Bates's typefaces. Dafont link. Yet another URL. Fontspace link. Fontsy link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kubra Terzi

During her graphic design studies in Istanbul, Kubra Terzi created a modular circle-based typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kulagina

Creator of Glace Accidental Typeface (2012). Kulagina is based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She describes the process of creating Glace: This typeface was created by transforming Baskerville type into something new. Each letter was drawn on a paper by ink and then pressed with a CD cover. The received print has been scanned and retouched. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kulturë Type (or: Kulture Type)
[Leonit Gashi]

Graphic designer in Pristina, Kosovo. Creator of these typefaces:

  • In 2022: Apostrof Grotesk (with exaggerated ink traps), Gin & Jüs (a display sans), Perandory (a free vintage wedge serif).
  • In 2021: Gogoli Grotesk, Trileqe (a fat typeface in Fatt and Hybrid styles), Gin Grotesk (a free inktrapped typeface), Bllok (a typeface inspired by cement blocks), Rentgen (a typeface inspired by x-ray machines and radiation), Trafika Monospace, Retrika, Lugati Sans (a post-modernist sans based on vintage prototypes found in Kosovo's print shops), Projekt Blackbird (a free grotesque), KT Cement (a blackletter font for black metal, gangs, or tattoos), Kaotizm (a dystopian font), Ignotus (a heavy display typeface), KT Striktus (a very narrow sans inspired by dadaism), Digitopia (octagonal, dystopian), Kaotik Grotesk.
  • In 2020: KT Servis (an industrial sans), Tsipuna Grotesk, Haire (an experimental mixture of grotesque and humanist sans), Metalurgjia 1932 (a metallic industrial type), Haperisa (an experimental cyberpunk typeface), Kool (techno, sci-fi), Armatura (a hipster condensed sans that Gashi considers as brutalist), Kyltyre (a great free blocky display typeface).
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Kurt Cornelis

Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the curly (octopussy?) experimental font Octopus. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kvedabble

Creator at FontStruct in 2008 of Boxer (a 3d face), Voop1 and Voop2 (3d, shaded), VoopedUp, VoopFilled, VoopClean, VoopedUpLight, and Shadowexp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kwame Bruce Busia

Graphic designer and photographer in Abu Dhabi, who designed the experimental geometric sans typeface Hikari (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyle Fletcher

Graphic design student at UW Stout (b. 1985) who worked with Luis Fitch. At Chank's place, he designed the Tuscan wood type Dickens McQueen (2006). Now based in Hudson, WI, he created the experimental typeface Algo Right (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyle Green

Providence, RI-based designer of the experimental typefaces Circuit (2014) and Mas Context (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyle Read
[Badson Studio]

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Kyle Reder

Denver, CO-based graphic designer who created the experimental typeface Evol (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyle Sparks

Information designer from Pretoria, South Africa, b. 1988, and student at the University of Pretoria. He created the experimental typeface Munch (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

La Bolde Vita
[Fabian Dornhecker]

Fabian studied communication design in Wiesbaden, Germany. Leipzig, Germany-based creator of the modern clean sans typeface Tans (2018). In 2019, he set up La Bolde Vita, where one can buy these retail typefaces:

  • Airo (2019), Airo Mono, and Airo Text (2021). An experimental hipster typeface, characteristic of the 2015-2020 period.
  • Residenz Grotesk (2019). A 30-style sans workhorse.
  • Samzara (2019). A great experimental typeface. Fabian writes: The final letters are based on a classic Slab Serif design, translating overall shapes and thick bracketed serifs into a digital Antiqua language. Unlike most other serif typefaces, Samzara's endings have the same line thickness as the thin lines of the letters, creating new and sometimes akward letter shapes.
  • Unzyale (2019). An experimental uncial.
  • BHV (2020). An experimental Sans and Serif set of hipster-gone-mad typefaces.
  • Kanton Gothic (2020). A grotesque typeface family influenced by the style of Morris Fuller Benton.
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La Mère Noelle
[Noelle Papay]

Noelle Papay (La Mère Noelle) created the experimental pixel typeface Caracterielle (2010). She is a freelance designer in Prague. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lacshan Manoskanthan

Graphic Designer, TV Editor and photographer based in London. A graduate of London College of Communication (University of the Arts London) in 2007, he has designed the experimental typeface Altstadt (2012), which was was inspired by a grid pattern initiated from the window facade of a 13th century half-timber town hall known as Das Alte Rathaus in Hattingen (Germany). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laila Belkaziz

Based in Marrakech, Morocco, Laila Belkaziz created the experimental typefaces Mon Empreinte (2014)(and Virgule (2014), which is entirely composed of capital J's. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laïc
[Maciej Polczynski]

Laic is the type foundry founded in 2018 by Warsaw, Poland-based type designer Maciej Polczynski. His typefaces:

  • As part of his Bachelor's project at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technologies in 2016, Maciej Polczynski (Warsaw, Poland) designed the sans typeface Ayka.
  • In 2016, as part of Warsaw Types, he designed the vintage technical typeface Cyrulik and writes: Cyrulik is inspired by technical stencil lettering found on electrical and mechanical devices in Warsaw, and a prewar headline display font---Cyklop---used in a newspaper called Cyrulik Warszawski. The font design combines a strong and sturdy form with delicate and modern details, reflecting the contemporary character of Warsaw. Cyrulik comies in Rounded, Sharp and Stencil styles and is free.
  • In 2017, at The Designers Foundry, he published the display typeface Solenizant, which covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
  • Obibok (2018): Obibok (2018). Obibok is a Polish word describing a lazy person. It is a modern sans serif typeface family consisting of five styles (Light, Regular, Bold, Black and Inversed). This fine geometric typeface was extended and modified in 2020 as Obibok Sans.
  • Maruder (The Designers Foundry). A reverse contrast typeface, 2018-2019.
  • Prostak. A plain geometric sans.
  • Ozzy.
  • Nieuk. An experimental modular typeface.
  • Krayewski: Krayewski is a display typeface based on sketch lettering of Andre de Krayewski from his book cover "Moje Okladki" (2014). Andrzej Krajewski (b. Poland) was an outstanding illustrator and designer who developed his own style mixing art-deco and pop art, and was trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under the supervision of Wojciech Fangor and Henryk Tomaszewski. Krayewski is unicased. It consists of Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts. It was released at Laic in 2019.
  • Retor (2018-2019). A 6-style text typeface family.
  • Rygor (2018). An art nouveau typeface based on lettering by illustrator and publisher Ignacy Chodorowicz.
  • Wiwat (2019). A contemporary sans inspired by deco. In six weights.
  • Nielot (2019). Nielot (Polish for flightless) is a plain, geometrical typeface. It was inspired by posters created by designers representing Russian Constructivism.
  • Figura (2019). A nearly monolinear contemporary interpretation of a grotesque typeface.
  • Eksces (2019). A squarish display family.
  • Ozzy (2019, Laic). Described as calligraphic funk, this typeface by Brody Neuenschwander and Maciej Polczynski cannot be properly classified. Several versions were released between 2029 and 2022, numbered Ozzy I through Ozyy VIII.
  • Figiel (2020). A stylish wide monoline sans typeface family inspired by art deco streamline architecture.
  • Elektyk (2020, +Stencil). A quirky exaggerated display typeface.
  • Hybrida (2020). The slab version of Eklektyk, daring, in-your-face, and dystopian.
  • Pion or Pionek (2020). A condensed all caps headline sans.
  • Monter (2021). An octagonal typeface that refers to mechanical items such as nuts and bolts.
  • Iskry (2022). A sparling display serif.
  • Fason (2022). A hipsterish condensed sans family.
  • Awaria (2022). Emulating old pixel fonts.
  • Blef (2022). A triagular cutout typeface family.
  • Kommune Stencil (2022) and Kommune Display (2022).
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LaLuna Chabbani

In 2016, as a student in San Francisco, LaLuna created the experimental typeface Coded using HTML CSS, and Javascript. This typeface is interactive and its edges point to a specific direction a user wants to explore. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lampejos -- Foncati -- Psicotipos

Brazilian typographic and art direction studio in Americana. Behance link, where it runs under the name Foncati. Creators of some experimental geometric alphabets in 2009. At this sub-site called Psicotipos, one can download free fonts such as Pasion and Fagulha (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lang Minho

Seoul, Korea-based designer of an unnamed experimental angular Latin display typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

LAP Agencias de Comunicacao
[Jaime Nascimento]

Jaime Nascimento (Leo Burnett, Lisbon) created the free experimental typeface LX Type (2014), which is based on the wiring of Lisbon's tram lines. Inside the font, we learn that the copyight belongs to LAP Agencias de Comunicacao, Lda and Leo Burnett. Behance link for Nascimento. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lara Alexandra Glück

Born and educated in Los Angeles, Lara moved to Europe to study at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. At typeoff.de, she created the experimental typeface Argos (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lara Hochreiter

Innsbruck, Austria-based designer of the experimental modular typeface Circus (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laris Polat

As a design student in London, Laris Polat created the high-contrast displasy typeface Larisp in 2016 and the experimental minimalist typeface Nothing in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lars Harmsen
[Volcano Type (MAGMA)]

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Lars Olav Mørk

Blommenholm, Norway-based designer of the experimental all caps typeface Junky (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laszlo Sandor

Typographer and designer in Budapest. He used staples as asource of inspiration for Staple (2008). He also made the geometric experimental typeface Duna (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Bell

Based in London, Laura Bell experimented with type in 2015. Her creations include Black and the modular typeface Barbican that was influenced by the work of Jonathan Barnbrook. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Broadbent

Brough, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Precious Cargo Banner (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Eydmann

Graphic designer in Brixham, UK, aka Laura Pakora Design. For a University of Plymouth project, she was asked to design letterforms based on Gino Severini's work. She looked into Futurism, Cubism and Pointillism, and created the experimental typeface Eclectic (2010) by cutting up Helvetica Bold into angular pieces. Petallic (2010) is an experimental typeface based on the architecture and design of the Guggenheim, Bilbao. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Garcia

Barcelona-based creator of the experimental modular typeface Burbon (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Rose Jackson

Graphic design student at the Manchester School of Art. She created the experimental typeface TXT (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Rupprecht

Olney, MD-based designer of the experimental typeface Titanium (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Tien

As a student in New York City, Laura Tien designed the experimental typefaces CSS (2015; inspired by sound waves) and Faze (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laurel Wan

Hong Kong-based student-designer of a circular and an experimental typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Brobin

Graphic design student at Bath Spa University, UK. She created Aztec Type (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauren Goldblum

Graphic designer in New York City. Behance link. Creator of Laced (2010), an experimental face. She also made the logotype Women Between Peace And War (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laurent Dubois

Spa, Belgium-based designer of two innovative experimental typefaces in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauriane Tiberghien

Parisian print designer who is working on some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laurie Millotte

Young French graphic designer who graduated in 2006 from Ecole Estienne. She lives temporarily in Vancouver. Typefaces by her include Personal (handwriting) and Funambule (experimental). Her thesis at Estienne was entitled Baskerville: rupture ou continuité? [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lauryn Raymond

Yateley, UK-based graphic designer. Creator of Distorted Type (2014, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lautaro Pesano

Graphic designer in Buenos Aires, who designed the dada or Die Brücke style font Ramonita in 2017. Earlier, in 2014, she designed the experimental interlocking typeface Werplonix. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lavernia&Asociados
[Nacho Lavernia]

Lavernia&Asociados is a design outfit in Valencia, Spain. Designers of some experimental type. An example: Lorem y Letras by Nacho Lavernia and Sebastian Alós (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lawrence

Durban, South Africa-based designer of Concept Font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lawrence Hart

Digital and graphic designer in Kent, UK. Designer of Schild Binär (2010), an experimental typeface based on binary expansions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lawrence Miha

Graphic designer in Melbourne, Australia, who created the experimentl geometric typeface Lorimier (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Le Moustache!

Le Moustache is based in Palma de Mallorca. They created the ultra-black experimental typeface Payopony (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Le parc Eva

Parisian designer of the minimalist experimental typeface Typeaugraphie (2016), created with droplets of water. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Léna Consigny

During their studies at ESAG Penninghen, Paris-based Eléonore Bacher and Léna Consigny co-designed the experimental unicase typeface Michael Bublé (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Léopold Coffard

Young French designer who created the minimalist experimental typeface Pepper (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leandro Fortuna

Brazilian creator at Unique Types of the free experimental modular fat typeface United (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leandro Moura

Designer and illustrator from Sao Paulo. He created these experimental typefaces in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leandro Nogueira
[Noinfonts]

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Leanne Parkin

Manchester and/or Preston, UK-based designer of Pyratrons (2011), an experimental typeface constructed on the basis of triangles. Leanne studied at the University of Central Lancashire. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Jones

Cardiff-based designer of the very experimental typeface Subvert (2013). He works for the Royal Mint.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Mullen
[Eelee Design]

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Lee Yap Yan

Design student in Hong Kong in 2009. Creator of the modular typeface Vibrate (2009, Friday Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Yin Pin

Malaysian student at UWE in Bristol, UK. FontStructor known as Skipper Lee, who made Control Points 001 (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leftloft
[Andrea Braccaloni]

Leftloft is a visual communications studio in Milan, founded in 1997 by graphic designer Andrea Braccaloni (b. Bologna, 1973), Francesco Cavalli, Bruno Genovese and David Pasquali. The studio is mainly engaged in corporate identity, and now also has an office in New York. Andrea Braccaloni teaches visual communication at the III Faculty of Architecture/Design at the Politecnico di Milano. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about new typefaces he designed the old-fashioned way, as a handicraft. Within the studio, there is a small lab for type design, called "Die kleine Fonderie", at which Andrea Braccaloni and Veronika Burian are active. Designs include LL Egeo (1999, shifted letters), LL Mila (2002, a condensed sans with a trademark "g"), LL Etica (2001-2002, a sans family that derives its name from Helvetica, and has soft strokes and wide apertures---in 2009, Etica Seriffo was published by Type Together as the "trappist type family"; see also LFT Etica Sheriff in 2016, and LFT Etica Mono in 2019), LL Chicane (2001, geometric and experimental, between paperclip and neon sign), LL Impresa (2001, octagonal-themed font), LL SanSiro (masculine sans family), LL EU (a delicate sans), LL Alice ditalunghe (transitional text face), LL Officiel (extreme didone titling face, developed for French fashion magazine L'Officiel, in collaboration with Patricia Sartori), LL Crudo (experimental, now LFT Crudo), LL Ubu Re (2002, made by lines and circles only), Lemon (1998), L'Amante Perduto (1999), Solferino Text (2007, with Luciano Perondi, for Corriere della Sera), Brera (2007, a sans family by Leftloft and Molotro).

In 2014, Leftloft published the semi-techno wayfinding typeface family LFT Iro Sans at Type Together. It has a unicase set of styles.

In 2020, he released the flared humanist sans typeface LFT Arnoldo at TypeTogether.

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lena Riabova

Graphic designer from Saint Petersburg, Russia, who graduated from National Academy of Arts and Architecture of Ukraine, faculty of graphic design and fine arts. She created a few experimental Cyrillic typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lena Staranchuk

Kiev-based designer of various splendid eye-catching geometric experimental typefaces in 2009. She also created Oksana (2009, a flowery face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lene M. Arensdorff Kristiansen

Danish designer (b. 1989) of the grunge ink spill typeface Arensdorff Ink (2011), of the experimental monoline typeface Elephont (2011), and of Egyptian Hieroglyphs Silhouette (2011) and Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs (2011).

In 2012, she created an unnamed black didone display typeface.

Home page. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lenny Hudson

Montreuil, France-based designer of Malesuko (2015, an experimental typeface based on inline railroad station lettering used by Northern Italy's Vigezzina railway), Beluga (2015, a bold blackletter typeface), and Craignos (2015, a collection of comic book style typefaces inspired by the lettering in 1950s monster movie posters).

In 2016, during his studies at ESAD Amiens, he designed the creamy black italic typeface Makaar, which is inspired by Arabic and Hindi writing systems. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leo Lonsdale

Designer in Melbourne, Australia, who created display or logo fonts such as a Latin alphabet Short Film Festival (2016) and a Cyrillic font called Constructivism (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leon Sam Hugues

British/French type and graphic designer currently who started his MFA studies in type design at Ecole Estienne in Paris in 2020. In 2018, he interned at Typofonderie (Zecraft). In 2019, he obtained a BA degree in type design from Ecole Estienne. In 2020, he joined Neil Summerour's Positype Flourish.

His typefaces:

  • Bill. Pixelish.
  • Brick
  • Candone. Partly inspired by Didot.
  • Dagobert
  • Dorset. A script with elements of chancery.
  • In 2021, Tim Vanhille, Léon Hugues and Matthieu Salvaggio co-designed the blackletter font Emeritus at Blaze Type.
  • Illume. Mismatched---almost a glitch font.
  • Jemmapes
  • Joly Text. A text family in the Dutch style, published by Blaze Type in 2020. Followed by Joly Display and Joly Headline. Type Network link.
  • Romane. Roman (Trajan) capitals.
  • Sigurd (2021, by Léon Hugues and Matthieu Salvaggio). A 21-strong decorative roman inspired by old German sagas and feudal armours.
  • Stratos (Mono, Sans). A monospaced typewriter font and a related sans typeface.
  • Thorn (2020). A sharp-edged text and/or display typeface family.

Home page. Type Department link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leonardo Buggy
[Tipos do aCaso]

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Leonardo Silva

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-based designer of the experimental stencil typeface Neo Path (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leonit Gashi
[Kulturë Type (or: Kulture Type)]

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Les Graphiquants

Graphic design studio in Paris, est. 2008. Designers include Maxime Tétard and Romain Rachlin. It is mainly involved in corporate identity and occasionally designs fonts for clients. Typefaces as of 2017 include Alsace (2012: modular all caps display typeface), Amsterdam (2012: an exercise in high contrast), Athènes (2009: experimental), Berline (2012: in Grotesk and Calligraphique substyles), Craft (2012: hipster style), Frankfort (2012), Intervalle (2016), Sofia (2011: Peignotian), Linbourg (2013), Rive (2010), and Lorraine (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leslie Willmers
[Optical Illusion Type]

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Leticia Freiria

Graphic designer in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, who created an experimental poster typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leticia Viegas

During her studies at UFPE, Recife, Brazil-based Leticia Viegas designed the experimental circle-themed typeface Elementar (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Letisha Stewart-Grteen

Birmingham, UK-based designer of Pokefont (2013, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Letterbeeld
[Sander Neijnens]

A discussion on the typography of numbers on shirts, by Dutchman Sander Neijnens, a Tilburg-based Dutch graphic designer (b. Valkenswaard, 1957) who drew a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. Specializing in numbers on athletic shirts, and displeased with the sameness of the letters in classical typefaces like ITC Machine or Superstars, he proposes serifed numbers, which were used by the soccer team Willem II from Tilburg in 2002-2003. A new athletic number design, King III, is in the works. He created Hia (a stencil typeface for use on doors and fences), Streep (horizontally striped letters for fences), and Klinker (based on street tile patterns).

Codesigner of the free font Tilburg Sans (2016) and Tilburg Sans Text (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lettering Garage
[Maximilian Huber]

Maximilian Huber (Lettering Garage; and before that, Cellar Door, Vienna, Austria) created an experimental sketched geometric alphabet called Cellar Sans (2011; images: i, ii) and a fashion mag typeface called Enie (2011, free).

In 2012, he published Leberkaas Grotesque (Ten Dollar Fonts), Justus, a blackboard bold typeface family, and Walden, a tall hand-printed poster typeface available from Ten Dollar Fonts.

Still at Ten Dollar Fonts, he published these typefaces in 2013: Mandag (sans titling face), Fredag (another sans face), Pista (a successful inline titling face), Selador (Ten Dollar Fonts), Strassenbahn (a sans based on text in Vieenese tramways).

Typefaces from 2014: Justus (a blackboard bold / tattoo font), Warpath (vintage hand-drawn typeface).

Typefaces from 2015: Work Hard, Live Well (handcrafted poster typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Stoa Sans (inspired by stone wall engravings and stoic philosophy), LK Better Days (a free Victorian signage typeface).

Typefaces from 2017: Ultra Sunshine family (handcrafted; consisting of Handsy, Frandsy and Garage Script), Dromeus (octagonal).

Behance link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

LettError
[Erik van Blokland]

LettError is a foundry in Den Haag, founded by the interesting duo, Just Van Rossum (b. 1966) and Erik van Blokland (b. Gouda, 1967). Many of their fonts can be found in the FontFont library.

Erik van Blokland is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK), class of 1989. He develops niche tools for type design and font production and has been involved with Tal Leming in the development of the UFO (for font sources) and WOFF (for font binaries) formats. Since 1999, he is a senior lecturer at the TypeMedia master at the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag. Erik developed many type software tools such as the acclaimed type interpolation tools MutatorMath and Superpolator, and the teaching tool TypeCooker.

Their typefaces:

  • At FUSE 11, Erik designed FF Beowolf (1989-1990, a randomized font, sometimes still called Beowulf; with Just van Rossum), FF Erikrighthand, FF Kosmik (1993), FF Trixie (based on an old typewriter: Trixie was taken from a typed sample from a typewriter owned by a friend in Berlin, Beatrix Günther, or Trixie for short.) and FF Zapata. Trixie was at FontShop until it was bought by Monotype. In 2023, it was withdrawn from the Monotype library.
  • Erik created LTR ThePrintedWord and LTR TheWrittenWord (2001), both free fonts designed to be unreadable.
  • LTR Salmiak (2001).
  • Critter (2001) and New Critter.
  • Bodoni Bleifrei.
  • LTR BitPull.
  • Federal: great dollar bill lettering font family, which earned him an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002.
  • What You See/What You Get (with Just Van Rossum).
  • At FUSE 2, Erik published Niwida.
  • FFAdvert.
  • Schulschrift.
  • FFHands.
  • FFBrokenscript.
  • LTR Monsta.
  • In 2005, Erik and his brother Petr made the Künstlerbrüder-Schriftfamilie of 30 fonts (10 widths, 3 weights) based on 3 width masters for each of two weights. It is a quirky and refreshing family made for banners for the Münchener Haus der Kunst in 2005.
  • Jointly with Erik Spiekermann and Ralph du Carrois, Erik developed Axel (2009), a legible system font.
  • His masterpiece, in my view, is the 2009 family Eames Century Modern, finished at House Industries, a take on Clarendon. It won an award at TDC2 2011. A special extra award was given at that competition for Eames Poster Numerals. For another complete modern Clarendon family, see Canada Type's Clarendon Text.
  • Plinc Hasler Circus (2011, House Industries) is a digitizztion of a photo era font, Circus, done by Hasler for Photo-Lettering, Inc. in the 1950s. This circus font was digitized by Erik van Blokland in 2011 at House Industries, with a helping hand from Ken Barber.
  • In 2016, he published Action Condensed at Commercial Type. Action Condensed was designed for the screen. Each of the family's four weights has three grades of the same width, allowing text to change weight on rollover without disrupting the layout. In 2020, he added Action Text in 16 styles, with Bright and Dark options. And variable styles.

Erik speaks often about his work. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, LettEror spoke about education in type design, and the RoboFab toolkit. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam and at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona [on interpolations with Superpolator3].

Klingspor link. FontShop link. Wired interview. Shop. FontFont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Letterwerk
[Fabian Widmer]

Fabian Widmer is a Swiss type and graphic designer in Basel and Zürich, b. 1981. He graduated in 2006 from the Schüle für Gestaltung Basel, and runs Letterwerk, which he cofounded with Dominique Bößner in 2008.

His (free) fonts: Mister Pix&Junior (2004, pixel font), BlackPearl (2005, not finished), Jungle (2005, experimental) and Kreuzfahrt (2005, religious dingbats).

His Nomad (2006, a sans family) and Carrosserie (2009, a display sans influenced by the 1930s; in 2011, new styles were added) are not free.

Carrosserie showcased.

His main work in 2012 is the six-layer stacking display family Modular Roman and Slab.

In 2014, they made Stencil Allround.

Typefaces from 2015: Nord (a typeface family with Inline, Form, Black and Sun styles; the beveled subfont is especially wonderful).

Typefaces from 2016: Fab Figures (several sets of decorative numerals).

MyFonts link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lewis Allen

During his design studies at the Arts University Bournemouth, Lewis Allen designed Ernesto (2013), an experimental typeface dedicated to Che Guevara. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lex Kominek

Calgary-based designer of Naranja (2005), an experimental typeface built up of quarter circles and L-brackets. Its dingbats are inspired by Clockwork Orange. Faces made with FontStruct in 2008: Robot Builder (Solid, Shaded and Open: squarish typefaces), Polygonal Lasso (Far West type: 938 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended A & B, Greek, Cyrillic, and Katakana), Marshmallow Script (based on Einhorn, Eclat, Deftone Stylus, and Magneto, all connected diner scripts), Crazy Eights (deck of cards), Ficus Stencil (+Compressed, +Condensed, +Extended, +Regular, +Zebra, +StencilOpen), Big Fat (+Vibrate, +Solid, +Shaded), Negatron (Regular, Solid and Fill), Tuscan Radar, Nuclear Depot Americum (495 glyphs consisting of stars), Nuclear Depot (Radioum, Neptunium, Plutonium, Uranium: a futuristic family that covers Cyrillic), Am I see are you pee see, eh? (a font that combines MICR with UPC-A). The links: big_fat_shaded, crazy_eights, ficus_stencil_compressed, ficus_stencil_condensed, marshmallow_script, negatron_fill, negatron_regular, negatron_solid, serpent_like_bold, tuscan_radar.

2009 creations: Haemophobe (pixel), Star Wreck, Mouthcaster (a bilined typeface based on the lettering on the front of the 1978 edition of the Scoutmaster's Handbook), Pasta (white on black), Medical Station Alpha (techno), Disco Stud (Chrome, Solid, Chrome Oblique, Solid Oblique), Affix, Infix (experimental and minimalist), Pinball Blizzard, Tears in Rain (a simplistic textura), Five Minute Hair Colour (slab serif), Seg Sixteen (LED face), Trajedy (pixel), Nobody 8 Italic (pixel), Home Sweet Home (a cross-stitch font), Wotan, Tiki Deaky, Writetyper, Chromatose (shadow family), Chocobot (an octagonal family containing Dark, Stacked (multilined), Milk, White), Big Fat (Shaded, Vibrate, Solid).

2010 creations: Fungal Sharp, Fungal Rounded (described by himself as a unicase stovepipe sans), Elliptical Lasso (Western ornamental caps), Astral Projection (a dot matrix typeface that updates Astra, a Letraset font designed by François Robert and Natacha Falda in 1973), Brick-block tops (3d effect), Knots, Spacerock (an extensive arc-based geometric family), Telephone (counterless), Pixular, StarWreck the Next Generation, Hockey Club, Brick-Block Tops, Bubblemania, Ziabelle Remix (outline, 3d, shaded), Hextone, Falcone (robotic face), but I didn't Trap the Deputy (Egyptian), Dinosaur Gothic.

Fonts from 2011: Apé'ritif (bilined), Csillagok (a futuristic face based on a Hungarian Star Wars poster), Valhalla (faux runic), Birodalom, Haboruja, Piezo, Felix (black art deco face).

Typefaces from 2013: Portafina, Portofino.

Typefaces from 2014: Hanz and Franz, McRasky (a MICR font), Apricpt, Classic Spacerock, Five Minute Hair Colour.

Typefaces from 2015: Big Fat Shaded Neue, Rampy, Managrom (monogram font), Spagett (connected cursive script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liam Hine

Liam Hine was born in Wegberg, Germany, in 1989. He lives in Leeds, where he is a graphic designer. He created the experimental typefaces Belt Up Lad (2011), Blame Tools (2011), Takes The Biscuit (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liam Mooney

British graphic designer who created the hairline typeface Airline (2011), which takes its forms from the exterior design of planes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Libor Kvetoslav Pokorny

Wakefield, UK-based creator of a triangle-based alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

L'Ile Foundry
[Jérémy Ruiz]

Jérémy Ruiz is a French graphic designer living and working in Milan, who also lived in Rome, Berlin and Barcelona. During his studies in Visual Communication at ESMA in Montpellier, he completed an internship at Charlie Hebdo in Paris, as a layout designer. He worked for several years as a freelance graphic designer. In 2021, he released the wavy typeface families Kuma, Kuma Rounded and Kuma Square.

Typefaces from 2022: Ekko (an interlocking sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Liliana Diaz

During her graphic design studies in Monterrey, Mexico, Liliana Diaz designed the typeface Pugh (2013), a mixture of Gotham Bold and Leitura. She also created the informal sans typeface Veintiuno (2013). In 2015, she created the free font Xisfani, which is based on the Otomi culture in Mexico. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lilit Harutyunyan

Graphic designer in Yerevan, Armenia, who created an experimenal typeface in 2012.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lilla My
[Ringlet T]

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Lilly Kashmir Marques

London-based designer of the experimental typeface Connect (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lin Ling

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-based designer of Square Monkey (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lina Grin

Lina Grin (or: Lina Grigorenko, or Alina Grigorenko) is from Moscow, Russia, where she studied at the British Higher School of Art and Design. At that school, she designed the dada paper cutout typeface People Were Here (2011).

She continued her studies at the University of the Arts London / London College of Communication, where she created the experimental circle-based typeface Sigma (2012), the "cloudy" Sky (2013), he playful Jamze (2013), Lily (2013), and the scratchy typeface Saiko (2013).

She also created the experimental geometric Latin typeface Zepta (2011), the free modular typeface family Utopia (2015), Loony (2015, a squarish font), Sex Revolution (2015, an icon font), the free circle-based Greko family, and the free compass-and-rular typeface Draw (2015). Currently, Lina is based in London. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linda Fruits

Fort Lauderdale, FL-based designer of the prismatic Far Out Alphabet (2014) and the circle-based experimental typeface Circle Back (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linda Montanez

New York City-based designer of experimental typographical pieces in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linda Moreno

Bogota, Colombia-based designer of the experimental colored typeface Infinite in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linda Rommens

Graphic designer from Breda, The Netherlands---she could practically be Belgian! In 2009 and 2010, Linda created some experimental typefaces. She also made the modular font Propedeuse (2009). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Line Birgitte Borgersen

Danish creator (b. 1987) of the experimental font Soft Triangles (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Line Otto

Founder of Stein & Otto in Haderslev, Denmark. Creator of Skraa 01 (2012), a typographic experiment in extreme contrast. [Google] [More]  ⦿

linehand

Experimental FontStructor who made LKine Between Nine (2009, spiky gothic face), Letterscape Edge Graphical ML (2009, multiline face), and Limigatope (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linotype First Intnl Design Contest

This Linotype competition in 1999 had four categories: text, headline, experimental and symbol. Winning designs were presented at the TypoMedia 2000 conference. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linotype Library GmbH

Large type German foundry Linotype controlling over 4000 fonts. The company was located in Bad Homburg since 1998. It was acquired by Monotype Imaging in 2006, after more than a decade under the helm of Bruno Steinert. On January 29, 2024, Monotype sent this message: As part of a consolidation of its online offerings, the Monotype Group has decided to discontinue the operation of Monotype GmbH's online store LinoType, effective 28.03.2024, and to transfer/novate this business unit in its entirety to MyFonts Inc. of 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA 01801---also a company of the Monotype Group. And that is the end of Linotype.

Linotype wrote about itself in 2008: Linotype GmbH, based in Bad Homburg, Germany and a wholly owned subsidiary of Monotype Imaging Inc., looks back onto a history of more than 120 years. Building on its strong heritage, Linotype develops state-of-the-art font technology and offers more than 9,000 original typefaces, covering the whole typographic spectrum from antique to modern, from east to west, and from classical to experimental. All typefaces (in PostScript(tm) and TrueType(tm) format as well as more than 7,000 fonts in OpenType(tm)) are now also available for instant download at www.linotype.com. In addition to supplying digital fonts, Linotype also offers comprehensive and individual consultation and support services for font applications in worldwide (corporate) communication. It publishes frivolous/experimental font collections under the name Taketype (1 through 4 now), and regularly publishes reworked classic and original text type families such as Compatil, Vialog, Satero, Linotype Sabon, Linotype Frutiger, Linotype Optima, and Linotype Univers. Its designers. A time line:

  • 1886: Ottmar Mergenthaler invented the Linotype machine.
  • 1890: Mergenthaler establishes the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, USA.
  • 1895: The D. Stempel foundry was born.
  • 1915: D. Stempel takes over the type foundry Roos&Junge, Offenbach (established in 1886).
  • 1917: D. Stempel acquires a majority share of the type foundry Klingspor Bros., Offenbach.
  • 1918: D. Stempel takes over the type foundry Heinrich Hoffmeister, Leipzig (established in 1898).
  • 1919: D. Stempel acquires the type division of W. Drugulin, Leipzig (established in 1800) and a share of the type foundry Brötz&Glock, Frankfurt (established in 1892).
  • 1927: D. Stempel acquires a shareholding in the Haas'sche type foundry in Basel/Münchenstein (established in 1790).
  • 1933: D. Stempel acquires a shareholding in the type foundry Benjamin Krebs (Successors), Frankfurt (established in 1816).
  • 1956: D. Stempel AG acquires full ownership of the type foundry Klingspor Bros., Offenbach (established in 1906).
  • 1963: Linotype takes over the type foundry Genzsch + Heyse, Hamburg (established 1833).
  • 1970: Stempel takes over part of the type collection of C.E. Weber (Stuttgart, est. 1927).
  • 1972: The Haas'sche type foundry in Basel/Münchenstein takes over the type foundry Deberny&Peignot, Paris.
  • 1978: The Haas'sche type foundry takes over Fonderie Olive, Marseille (established in 1836).
  • 1985: Linotype takes over of the type division of D. Stempel AG.
  • 1989: Linotype takes over the Haas'sche type foundry (established in 1790).
  • 1990: Linotype AG merges with Hell GmbH to become Linotype-Hell AG.
  • 2006: Acquired by Monotype Imaging.
  • 2024: On January 29, 2024, Monotype sent this message: As part of a consolidation of its online offerings, the Monotype Group has decided to discontinue the operation of Monotype GmbH's online store LinoType, effective 28.03.2024, and to transfer/novate this business unit in its entirety to MyFonts Inc. of 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA 01801---also a company of the Monotype Group. And that is the end of Linotype.

MyFonts link for Linotype Design Studio.

Catalog of the typefaces in Linotype's library [large web page].

View Linotype's library of typefaces in alphabetical order. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Linotype Second Intnl Design Contest

Winners of this year 2000 contest: Gary Munch (*)(GM Agora), Lucy Davies (Dot), Gabriele Laubinger (Sangue), Lutz Baar (Pisa), Stefan Pott (Konflikt), Renée Ramsey-Passmore (Renée display), Rachel Godfrey (*)(Clascon), Victor Luis Garcia (Zootype), Themina Rafique (Araby Rafique), Christian Vornehm (Seven Regular), Marcus Mc Callion (Marcusan), Andreja Brlec (Experimental Font), Georg Popp (*)(Sindbad), Peter Kin-Fan Lo (Ancient Chinese), Weselin Stojanow Rako (Tapestry Circle). The (*) indicates a first prize in its category. The others are second or third prizes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lisa Bukreyeva
[Lisa Kalev]

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Lisa Holland

Lisa Holland (Lisa Holland Design, UK) is a graphic design graduate from the University of Wales Newport. Behance link.

She made a great typographic illustration series called Iconic Women (2011). Creator of the experimental typefaces Wred (2011), Edscribel (2011) and Contortionist (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lisa Kalev
[Lisa Bukreyeva]

Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of the display typeface Aurum (2018), the rounded sans titling typeface Bulky (2018), the modern brush typeface Gent (2018), the paper cutout font Cut Me (2018), the experimental Dots Lines (2018) and the simple sans typeface family Atlas (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lisa Louvet

During her studies at ECV Digital in Paris, Lisa Louvet (Lille, France) created Translucide (2015, an experimental typeface) and Lineaire (2015, a deco typeface with a Super Veloz modular feel). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lisa Sochiera

During her studies in Darmstadt, Germany, in 2016, Lisa Sochiera experimented with letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lisandro Mansilla

Graduate from FADU, University of Buenos Aires, who created the typeface Odysea (2008), an experiment with ball terminals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lise G

Toulouse, France-based designer. She created a Funny Icons set and an experimental mirrored alphabet in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lissy Bonness

Born in Germany, Lissy Bonness moved to the UK in 2007 to study design. at the University of Northampton, where she graduated in 2012. Behance link.

She used sound signal time plots in her experimental typeface Sonic Typography II (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liu Si

Graphic designer in Paris. Behance link. Creator of the experimental typeface Accent (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liudmila Bredikhina

Type designer active at Swiss Typefaces. At Swiss typefaces, she designed these experimental or avant garde fonts in their Lab: Vogy Smog (2019), Kopy Me (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Livia Lukacs

Budapest-based designer of the experimental typefaces Geo 01 (2011, done for a school project) and Duett (2013, obtained by merging Aller with Futura). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liviana Popa

Graphic designer and art director in Bucharest, Romania, who studied at UNARTE. She created the experimental Water Alphabet (2010) and Space Alphabet (2012). In 2013, she custom-designed the squarish modular typeface Flower Shop. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liza Keller

Student at UW-Milwaukee, who made the display typeface Primitive Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lizon Khokhlov

Moscow-based designer of an experimental hipster Cyrillic typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lizy Gershenzon
[Vectro Type Foundry (was: Scribble Tone)]

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Locho Soo Kim

London-based designer of the compass-and-ruler typeface Locho Sans (2014; this includes a rounded stencil and a 3d version) and Locho Stencil Slab (2016). These typefaces were made during her studies at Central Saint Martins. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Logan Dufrn

Parisian designer of Geotype (2012, letters constructed from basic geometric shapes), and Quadritype (2012, an experimental rhombic typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lonsták Márton

Eger, Hungary-based designer of these fonts:

  • Dynama (2015). A versatile experimental modular font system.
  • Origma (2015). A paper-fold / origami typeface.
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Look at me Design
[Sara Haraigue]

Graphic design with a strong type component. Sara Haraigue from Paris created Cactus (2008), Geometric (2008) and Pik (2008), an ultra-fat blackened typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lo-ol Type foundry
[Loris Olivier]

Talented type and graphic designer based in Morgin and/or Grand-Lancy, Switzerland. After obtaining a BFA from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco, he started a Masters in the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag, graduating in 2015. After the KABK, he started working from Geneva on editorial identity, branding, editorial, graphic and type design. His spouse, Noheul Lee, is also a type designer. Loris's typefaces:

  • Animax (2016). A lineale geometric consisting of text and display.
  • Aragon (2014). A transitional serif for display.
  • Arancia (2016). A lineale geometric consisting of text and display.
  • Bachus (2016). A heavy brush script.
  • Brienz (2019).
  • Chablaix (2015). A neo-textura.
  • Civilitate (2016-2018). A blackletter with roots in Robert Granjon's Civilité..
  • Cozette (2016). A didone.
  • Fanny (2014). An exquisite display family.
  • Fournier (2014). A revival.
  • Gloubi (2019). A psychedelic font.
  • Groo (2013). A lineale neo-grotesk for text and display.
  • Kartel (2014). A lineale neo-grotesk for text.
  • Katchka (2014). An all caps typeface for Latin and Cyrillic.
  • Lemanic (2015). His graduation typeface at KABK. This large transitional text typeface family Lemanic is accompanied by a decorative blackletter typeface. Loris writes: The different weights and styles are made for magazine or newspaper environements. The entire family is constructed in order to decrease the usage of images next to the text. The shapes of the book weights and its inspiration are taken from the fluidity and the rhythm of the work of Fournier and certain shapes of the Romain du Roi.
  • McQueen Superfamily (2020). A 20-style sans family in Display and Grotesque subfamilies by Loris Olivier, Noheul Lee and Katja Schimmel, realeased by Fontwerk.
  • Medley (2015). A transitional serif for display.
  • Merle (2016). A slab serif.
  • Milwaukee (2014). A text typeface, + Stencil Bold.
  • Misc (2013). A serif, sans and script trio.
  • Moritz (2015). A slab serif.
  • Orniere (2016). A lineale humanist sans, slightly flared and lapidary, for text and display.
  • Phantom (2016). A transitional monospace serif (text and display).
  • Phily (2015). A lineale geometric consisting of headline and display.
  • Rouka (2015). A lineale neo-grotesk stencil typeface.
  • Saudade (2013). A transitional serif in text and display versions.
  • Scarpelli (2012). An étude in ball terminals.
  • Soprana (2014). A transitional serif in text and display versions.
  • Susanfe (2016). A sans typeface.
  • Tuilots (2014). A gorgeous calligraphic text typeface.
  • Tweelo (2014). A garalde.
  • Volpe (2015). A transitional serif for display.
  • Wicht (2016). A humanist serif.

Home page. Future Fonts link. Fontwerk link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lorena Skopelja

Paris-based designer of the experimental Latin-Cyrillic mizxed language typeface Hybrid (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lorenz Fidel Huchthausen

Lorenz Fidel Huchthausen (aka Tylo at FontStruct) is a young graphic designer and artist from Berlin. At FontStruct, he created the 2d and 3d outline typefaces Solidblock, Solidblock 3D, Smoveblock and ZigNZag in 2010. Further typefaces made in 2010 include FS Stein (counterless), FS Jaze (angular face), Nareaves (modular kitchen tile face), FS Above Ferrofluid (texture face), Riss (white on black stone chisel face), Blockage, Blockswosh, AB CD, Handot (dotted), Zirc (circular), FS Zig n Zag, FS Blaze (counterless, geometric), Rabina Stripe (rounded slab), Swulsh (psychedelic), FS Zeta B (futuristic industrial face), FS Lehev, FS One Brick Pixel Font, FS Cushi, FS Karo (texture face), FS Raunpe, Elmant, FS Jasemone, FS Mortalers (texture face), FS Papier 3D, and Pseudobraille (dot matrix face).

FontStructions from 2011: FS Fluze, FS Hommage a Frodo (3d face), FS Pixel Portrait (ultra-fat), FS Rinali (wavy), FS Gritta (a great stacked 3d face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Loretta Robinson

Californian designer who made a bird feather font called Bye Bye Birdy (2010). Loretta May Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Loretta Staples

Loretta Staples experiments with wire-frame and 3-d fonts. Interesting! [Google] [More]  ⦿

Loris Olivier
[Lo-ol Type foundry]

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Louis White

Student at the University of Creative arts in London, where he designed the experimental (gridded, yet rounded) typeface Handle Break Bar 64 (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Louise Dib

Graphic designer in Marseille, France, of Algerian origin, who created the Latin / Arabic experimental typeface Dixit (2014), which was inspired by the architecture of the Alhambra. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Louise Plate

During her studies in Lyon, France, Louise Plate created the experimental minimalist typeface Platon (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Louise Tattershall

During her studies at Leeds University in the UK in 2013, Louise Tattershall (St. Blazey, UK) created an experimental typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Loya Kiseleva

Moscow, Russia-based designer of the experimental Cyrillic typefaces Tabouret (2019) and Paintings&ElementsByABogomazov (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lu Caulfield

During his studies in Gdansk, Poland, Lu Caulfield created the experimental display typeface El Fabet (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luc Douchet

During his studies in Toulouse, France, Luc Douchet created Experimental Glitch Typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucas Blat Lage

Lucas Blat lage currently studies Graphic Design at Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo, and works as a Motion and Graphic Designer based in Sáo Paulo, Brazil.

Designer of the typeface called Circumactio (2012, sold by Ten Dollar Fonts). In 2014, he designed the experimental typeface Cisa.

Cargocollective link. HypeForType link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lucas Iacono

Graphic designer in Rosario, Argentina, who made the experimental all-caps typeface The X-Ray Font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucas Nijs

Belgian graphic designer (b. 1955) whose typefaces may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. His creations include Almost Twelve, a jagged font at any point size. He teaches at the Sint Lucas Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium, and at the Plantin Genootschap. At ATypI 2004 in Prague and the ATypI 2005 meeting in Helsinki, he spoke about experimental typeface design workshops. He organized several in Finland (Lahti98, Lahti99, Lahti00, Lahti02, Lahti03, Lahti04), Belgium (ETS00, Outlaws, rawhide, Re:) and Ireland (Dublin), accled . Tens of experimental typefaces resulted from these workshops. A sampling:

  • Lasse A. Kangasmaa (Finland): Feelings (1998).
  • Penttinen Heli (Finland): INFOTEX (1998).
  • Sami Saramäki (Finland): Styrox (1998, letters out of styrofoam).
  • Jussi Karjalainen (Finland): Melba (1998).
  • Janne Harju (Finland): Polis (1998, advertised as the love font).
  • Petteri Tikkanen (Finland): Staples (1998).
  • Sami Kortemäki (Finland): Essence (1999, letters from circles).
  • Kustaa Saksi (Finland): Rubik (1999).
  • Ilmo Mikkola (Finland): Hive (2000).
  • Nils Kajander (Finland): Makkinen was here (2000).
  • Hans Nissen (Finland): Mr Chickendance (2000).
  • Antti (Finland): Water (2000).
  • Tuomi Erkki (Finland): Wallpaper (2000).
  • Teemu Suviala (Finland): Goodiebag (2000).
  • Types done at ETS2000 by Belgian design students David Boon, Marthe Van Dessel, Joke Hautekiet, Veerle Claes, and Leen Ruyters.
  • Bob De Schutter (Belgium): Chainiac (2001, a space invaders typeface), Jellybounce (2003, a font for the blind and the seeing).
  • Nico Potvin (Belgium): Ghetto (2001, a 3d typeface based on things seen from his rooftop).
  • Dennis Schmitz (Belgium): Inbetween (2001).
  • Lindroth Tinka (Finland): artsy type (2001).
  • Salmi Pauli (Finland): Malabar (2001).
  • Karsikas Ilja (Finland): Shadowhand (2001).
  • Matti Riikonen (Finland): Reaper (2001, a font made to kill).
  • Eija Pimiä (Finland): Schema (2001, a shrink's font).
  • Aki Scharin (Finland): TuuKomplex (2001).
  • Frederik De Bleser (Belgium): Archetype (2002), Typolution (2003).
  • Els Broodthaers (Belgium): Re-Venge.
  • Experimental typography by Alexander Ka Cha'Ban, Tom De Smedt, Valerie Seys, Stefan Van Loon, and Ine Beerten, all from Belgium.
  • Tom De Smedt (Belgium): Industrial Type (2003).
  • Gary Gill: Chuck (2003, paint a typeface in letters).
  • Alexander Ka Cha'Ban: Hypnotype (2003).
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Lucas Rhys

As a student in Falmouth, UK, Lucas Rhys designed the hyper-experimental typeface Waveform (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucaz Mathias
[Estudio Cao]

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Lucia Domingues

Lucia Domingues (Lisbon, Portugal) created an experimental typeface called Forma E Contreforma (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucia Gonzalez Calvo

Graphic and editorial designer in Madrid. She constructed a bicephalous experimental typeface in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucia Moita Pedras

Graphic designer in Brussels who created the experimental circle-based sans typeface Lettres Imaginaires (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucia Verdejo Baron

Madrid and/or Dubai-based designer of the geometric solid typeface Cloudy (2014), which was created during a workshop led by Pablo Abad. She also created the beveled 3d typeface Arch (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luciana Cani

Lisbon, Portugal-based executive creative director for Leo Burnett Lisboa. Creator of LX Type (2014), an experimental typeface based on the electric wiring for trams. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luciana Sapuppo

During her studies at FADU / UBA, Luciana Sapuppo (Buenos Aires) created the experimental typeface Shargo (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucie Coupin

Graduate od ESAD Amiens. In 2020, she released a computer-generated experimental font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucien Marandola

Designer in Vissole, Switzerland, who created the free painted display typeface Huis Clos (2011) and of the experimental typeface DIN LAPS (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucky Ibrahim

Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Lucky Ibrahim remixed Futura when he created the elegant experimental typeface Colapsture (2013) and the experimental typeface AEO (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ludivine Loiseau

Born in Besançon, France, in 1983, Ludivine graduated from Ecole Estienne in Paris in 2006 and now lives and works in Brussels as a freelance graphic artist and illustrator for the Speculoos agency. Font creations include the handwritten Alphajet (2005) and the Ethiopian/Latin/Turkish/Hebrew mixed experimental font Kassidy. In 2008, she made NotCourier Sans (Open Font Library, a free typewriter family based on Nimbus Mono; Cyrillic glyphs added by Valek Filippov).

Kernest link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ludivine Schmidt

During her graphic design studies in Brussels, Belgium, Ludivine Schmidt created an experimental multiline typeface (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ludovit Gruska

During his studies at South Wales University, Cardiff-based Ludovit gruska created Discombobulate (2013, experimental typeface) and an untitled outlined typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Bolaños

Ecuadorian type designer. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his experimental typeface Chacana. At Pixilate, he published the hand-printed typeface Lu Px with Kemie Guiada in 2004. It is based on an architect's hand. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Luis Domingo

Student at Parsons in New York City in 2011. He created some experimental alphabets in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Dubon

Graphic designer in Guatemala City who created the sausage-style layered circle typeface Supertipo (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Miguel Munilla

Madrid, Spain-based desiigner of the pixel font Disomag and the experimental typeface Chapopote (2003-2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luisa Somaschini

Designer who studied at the Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy. Creator of this experimental typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luise Thoma

During her studies at FHWS in Würzburg, Germany, Luise Thoma designed the circle-based modular typeface Neonorm (2017) and the industrial sans Laundry Mono (2018). In 2019, from her home in Ravensburg, Germany, she designed 20 typeface as aprt of a project called Archetypes, in which she explores the connection between architecture, and in particular brutalism, and type design. The names of these typefaces: Ad Atlantic, Alagar, Alt Parallax, Arson, Baari, Big Bear Mono, Blanco Tolcka, Compound, Diatribe, Digitalize, Halcyon, Meteor, Odin Modi, Qobalt, Rambutan, Ravage Mono, Shrike, Unakit Mono, Unblock, Xerxes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luishock Martinez

Spanish graphic and type designer who made the experimental typeface Vinagre (2008) and of the alchemic typeface Dolor Lacus (2011). He is based in Madrid.

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Luka Zubic

Belgrade, Serbia-based designer of Qubik (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lukas Kijonka
[Kolektiv Studio]

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Lukas Placko

Puchov, Slovakia-based designer of the piano key typeface Alto (2013), the experimental Acolor2 (2013), and the Aztec-inspired Aztec and Azatec typefaces (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lukasz Redel

Polish graphic designer, b. 1981. Creator of the experimental typeface Typo Prooba (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke Bennis

Luke Bennis is an Australian designer living in Newcastle, NSW. Currently working as a Graphic Designer in the Marketing department for McDonald Jones Homes&also working as a freelance designer. Designer of an experimental typeface in 2010. He also made Varsity (2010), a typeface for the Zoloft crowd. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke Demas

Designer of the experimental poster typefaces Luke (2008, FontStruct) and Sophea Greek (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke Prowse
[NaN]

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Luke Russell

Leicester, UK-based designer of an alchemic and an experimental geometric typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke Siebenmorgen

Quebec-based designer of the experimental typeface Cape (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke Tierney

In 2012, Luke Tierney (London, UK) created a typeface based on photographs of smoke. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luke William Turvey
[Okaycat]

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Lula Rocha
[Sugiro Design (was Rocha Design)]

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LuRo

Creator of the modular typeface JHOBO (2010). LuRo lives in Puebla, Mexico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lusine Sargsyan

Designer and typographer. Experimental typefaces include a modular type (2009), and a matchstick alphabet (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

lva

Prague-based designer of the display typeface Perfo (2016) and the experimental hacker typeface The Glyph (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lydie Greco

London-based graphic designer and illustrator who did some experimental type design work in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

LZ

Seoul, Korea-based designer of an experimental typeface that is based on a grid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mátyás Czél

Typographer and photographer from Miskolc, Hungary, who is heavily into type experimentation, proposing, e.g., a modular type to make letters as high as desired by inserting vertical pieces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maarten Dullemeijer
[Autobahn]

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Maarten Idema

Dandm3 is the design place of Deirdre Idema (Irish born) and Maarten Idema. Maarten was a student at the KABK in Den Haag from 2003-2004. His graduation typeface at KABK was Pam (2004), which was specifically crafted for street maps. He also designed the experimental typeface Before. Unclear if Maarten is Dutch, Irish or Kiwi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maayan Kra-Oz

Tel Aviv-based graphic designer who made the ultra-experimental typeface TypoGaga (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Macaroon

UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Board Poster (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maciej Polczynski
[Laïc]

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Macron

Sells Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Madeline Quinn

Graphic designer in Newburgh, NY. She created the experimental geometric typefaces Jazz and Caps in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mademoiselle Aida

During her graphic design studies in Barcelona, Mademoiselle Aida created the experimental modular display typeface Kiungo (2013) and the display typeface Mezzarondi (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Madina Turchaninova

Art director in Moscow. In 2017, she designed the experimental Cyrillic hipster typeface Algay. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Madisen Fedo

Phoenix, AZ-based designer of an experimental multiline typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Madman Liu

Hong Kong-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Triangle (2014), which takes inspiration from Braggadocio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maeve O'Grady

Dublin-based designer of a few experimental typefaces in 2014, all called Fanfare. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Magda Tokar

Polish graphic designer in Opole, b. 1988. Creator of Alfabet dla mechanika (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Magna

A designer in Athens, Greece created the experimental typeface Magna in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Magnus Gaarde
[Skriftklog Grafisk Design (was: TypeEinz)]

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Maha Aldoubaie

Graphic designer at Coventry University (UK). Creator of the experimental Fingerprint Typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mai Saito

San Diego, CA-based designer of the experimental Latin typeface Human (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maisa Machado

Bauru, Brazil-based designer of the triangulated experimental typeface family Swamp (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Malcolm Garrett

Design director who dabbled a bit in font design. In FUSE 12, he published the grunge font Instrument. In FUSE 1, he published the experimental font Stealth. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Malou Verlomme

French type designer who graduated from l'Ecole Duperré in Paris and the University of Reading (2005). He cofounded the type foundry LongType in 2012. Since 2016 he works for Monotype UK. His typeface Ficus (2005) won an award in the Creative Review Type Competition 2005.

He wrote Technological Shifts in Type Design and Production (2006).

His typefaces: Respublika (2013, a humanist sans done with Gregori Vincens, Fontyou), Camille (2010-2011, for Camille Muller), ECAM (2009-2010, for the ECAM theater), Dijon (2011, for the identity of Dijon's Opera house), Arbre (2010, for the identity of the coffee brand L'Arbre de Cafe), Totem, Ficus (2005-2006), Syneas (2009, for Syneas), Digitaline (2007, a Futura-like family done for Agence Digitaline), Vingt-huit (2007), Sabasi (2008), Gem (2007, art nouveau), Oops (2006).

Marion Andrews, Malou Verlomme and Laurence Bedoin collaborated on the school fonts Écriture A and Écriture B which are presented in Modèles d'écriture scolaire (2013), a document issued by the French Ministry of Education. These fonts are available from Eduscol.

Verlomme set up Long Type in 2012 with Mathieu Chévara, Mathieu Reguer and Thomas L'Excellent.

In 2016, for Monotype, on commission for the Transport For London company, he redesigned / tweaked New Johnston, called Johnston100. It will be used in TfL's trains and station signage including for London's new Crossrail Elizabeth line that is scheduled to open in 2018.

In 2018, he published the geometric sans typeface family Madera and the revival typeface Placard Next (based on an old Monotype condensed poster typeface) at Monotype.

In 2019, he released the 12-style high-contrast Ariata (Text, Display, Stencil) at Monotype.

In 2020, he published the superfamily Macklin (Sans, Display, Text, Slab) at Monotype. Influenced by early 19th century designs in Europe, and especially by the work of Vincent Figgins, it is intended for use in headlines and short blocks of text. Variable fonts are also available.

Co-designer, with Clement Charbonnier Bouet, of Ionic No 5 (2021), a ten-style Clarendon that revives and refreshes a classic Linotype Clarendon-style serif for Monotype. Noteworthy is that the designers replaced Clarendon's ball terminals by 21st century serifs, even including the hipsterish coathanger f. The ball terminals are relegated to the "alternates".

In 2021, he took part in the development of Helvetica Now Variable (Monotype). Helvetica Now Variable was designed by Max Miedinger, Charles Nix, Monotype Studio, Friedrich Althausen, Malou Verlomme, Jan Hendrik Weber and Emilios Theofanous and published by Monotype. Monotype writes: Helvetica Now Variable gives you over a million new Helvetica styles in one state-of-the-art font file (over two-and-a-half million with italics!). Use it as an extension of the Helvetica Now family or make custom-blends from its weights (Hairline to ExtraBlack), optical sizes (four point to infinity), and new Compressed and Condensed widths. It contains 144 static styles.

In 2022, he released Boucan (a variable all caps font that can be animated to react to sounds and music).

Typecache link. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Malwin Béla Hürkey
[Weltfremd]

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Man Chung Lee
[Shellmoonsite]

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Manelius Cornelius

Lleida, Catalunya-based illustrator who created the experimental circle-based typeface Diccionario Ilustrado (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manfred Klein
[Moksford]

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Manfred Klein
[Manfred Klein: Geometrical type designs]

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Manfred Klein: Geometrical type designs
[Manfred Klein]

Manfred is always keenly aware of the geometrical nature of objects and things. Sometimes he is seduced by geometry for the sake of geometry. His Archimedean perversions have led him to a number of superb experimental type designs: AbstractConcretLogo, ArchitectsDreams, ArchitectsDreamsDwa, Architypo, ArchitypoOblique, Architypogra, ArchitypograPsychodeliqu, FamousBuildings, GalleriaGeometricaA, GalleriaGeometricaB, GeometricWanderlust, Graphis, GridPix, RomanArchitectura, TechnoMK, Typotraces-Cinque, WorkWithGridsStageC.

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Manon Delaporte

Parisian creator of the ornamental typeface Le Symptome (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manosij Sarkar

Graphic designer studying at the University of the Arts in London in 2012. In 2012, Manosij carried out a bilingual stencil experiment: This is an experiment on bilingual stenciled typography and different shapes. The stencil consists of six simple shapes which can be combined to produce Latin script in upper & lower case along with Devanagari script.

He drew a useful world map of traffic typefaces. Yatrakshar (2012) is a prototype of a set of bilingual stenciled typeface for the transport system in Maharashtra (a state in western side of India). It supports Latin and Devanagari script and covers the English, Hindi and Marathi languages used in the state of Maharashtra. The type is based on Britain's Transport typeface by Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir.

His last typeface of 2012 is Grid, which is designed on the basis of a 3d octagonal grid pattern.

In 2013, Manosij created Tinsel Town, a school project at IIT Guwahati for Prof. G. V. Sreekumar (IIT Bombay), which is supposed to be used as a masthead. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manuel Acosta

Guarenas, Venezuela-based designer of the multiline typeface Typossibilia (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manuel De La Fuente Baños

Designer in Valladolid, Spain, who created the experimental typeface Darkie (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manuel Eduardo Corradine
[Corradine Fonts]

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Manuel Guerrero
[Blue Typo]

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Marc Fernandez

As a student in Barcelona, Marc Fernandez designed an experimental typeface in 2016 that reflects the work of Kasimir Malevich. Later in 2016, he designed the text typeface Alego, which is influenced by stone cut types from the 18th century found in Tarragona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc-Alain Grenon

During his studies in Montreal, Marc-Alain Grenon designed the free futuristic typeface Evaa (2018) and the free experimental tilted typeface Meredith (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcel Backscheider

Mainz, Germany-based designer of a squarish font (2018) that was programmed with Nodebox, and a monoline modular typeface called Module (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcel Pereira Ursini

Designer of the experimental typeface Cubius Concretius (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcela Garza Garza

During her graphic design studies at the University of Monterrey, Marcela Garza Garza (Nuevo Leon, Mexico) created the experimental multiline typeface Cromwell Road (2013) and Spinto (2013). Spinto is inspired by Italian advertisements from 1890 until 1920, and has didone and Baskerville roots.

In 2014, she designed the book typeface Econ. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcell Aguilar

Sao Paulo-based designer of the ultra fat typeface Hong Kong (2010) and of this experimental face (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcelo Cabral

Lorena, Brazil-based creator of the experimental typeface Hyperlink (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcelo de Costa

Brazilian graphic and type designer based in Curitiba, Brazil. In 2018, Massimo Studio designed the bespoke wide sans typeface family Massimo. It is unclear who designed this great typeface---Behance associates it with Jean Wojciechowski, Marcelo de Costa, and Erick Donate. Marcelo published the experimental liquid typeface Oxy in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcio Hirosse
[Fabrika de Typos]

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Marco A. Corea

During his graphic design studies at the University National of Costa Rica in San Jose, Costa Rica, Marco Corea designed a 2-style 3d typeface family called Flex (2012) and the experimental typeface Bones (2012).

In 2013, he created the bullet-holed Bounce Font and the Origo script typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Antonio Ramirez Murga

Bolivian designer (b. 1985), with Steven Cespedes and Karina Llusco, of the octagonal counterless typeface Qdrd (2017). In 2018, he designed the boxed letter fonts Bloka and Avand.

Typefaces from 2019: Tramapunto (a halftone experiment). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Calamato
[Onetreeink]

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Marco Kouz

Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typefaces Tukan 01 and 02 (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Moreira

Marco Moreira is Magel Studio in Sao Paulo. Creator of the leaf-shaped typeface Follaje (2012) and the squarish Soccer Type (2013). Na Type (2013), Rubber Type (2013) and Dog Type (2013) are experimental, while Hand Type (2013) is ornamental caps alphabet.

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Marco Sterk

Amsterdam-based designer of Lugthart (2004, an experimental octagonal face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcos Balsini Garcindo

Born in 1977, this Brazilian graphic and web designer in Florianopolis created an experimental geometric typeface, Duotonic (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcus Byrne

Marcus Byrne (Melbourne, Australia, b. 1979) experiments with type design. He used light painting in the development of a 3d multiline font in 2013. AFL Finals 2013 is an athletic lettering typeface that was developed in both 2d and 3d. Phone Streak (2013) is a free brush typeface.

Mob Design. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcus Chambers

Californian designer of Byte (2011, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcus Eriksson

Swedish graphic, type and logo designer, and photographer, born and raised in Skelleftea in Northern Sweden, but now located in Vancouver. His typefaces include SD Stencil, Bolsrf (ultra fat), Street Typeface (squarish), Swedisc (avant garde sans), Crispy (hairline octagonal), SubStreet (sturdy sans headline face), Miru (experimental), Subscript (upright connected script), and Bulky (ultra fat). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcus Kelman

Scottish graphic designer who is based in Edinburgh.

Creator of Symmetrical Typeface (2012), a free hairline geometric sans that has the feature that each glyph is the same if flipped horizontally. He also made the hairline octagonal typeface Mono (2012), a monowidth, monospaced font in which each glyph of the same width and height.

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Marcus McCallion
[Undt Typefaces]

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Marcus Pinder

Graphic designer in San Francisco. Creator of the sharply cut experimental typeface Seattle (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcus Schaefer

Dessau, Germany-based designer. Since 2009 he works for Erik Spiekermann.

He created RaketenFont (2008, a pixel face) at FontStruct. His other fonts have a construction element, such as those posted on Behance: Pelican Uppercase (3d), Action Types (2010), the LED number typeface Braun Numbers (2010, based on Braun's famous ET 33 calculator) and the starred dot matrix typeface Raketentim (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcus Sterz
[Face Type]

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Mareena Jacob

Mareena Jacob (Mareena Design, Brooklyn, NY) created the experimental additive and subtractive typeface Sphota in 2014. She studied at the Pratt Institute in New York. Sadly, On October 15, 2014, Mareena Jacob committed suicide by jumping from her ninth floor dorm room. Linkedin page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marek Silpoch

Prague, Czechia-based designer of the experimental typeface Klaviatura (2015), in which all glyphs are based on the lower case n from Helvetica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mareks Krisjanis

Mareks Krisjanis (Nottingham, UK) designed an untitled minimalist typeface in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Margaret Calvert

Or Margaret Vivienne Calvert. Graphic and type designer (b. 1936, South Africa) and teacher, who after studies at the Chelsea College of Art became the partner of Jock Kinneir in 1964 in Kinneir, Calvert Associates. There, she designed type for signals, highways, the British Rail, airports, hospitals, the army, and the subway.

Designer in FUSE 9 of the experimental font A26 (1994).

She also made TransportD with Jock Kinneir in 1963, a URW++ font. This UK traffic signage typeface first started in 1957 comes in two weights, Medium and Bold.

Monotype Calvert (1980) is a retail Egyptian typeface that was originally used in Newcastle's Tyne & Wear Metro. Ashley Ng (San Francisco) did a great set of advertising posters for MT Calvert in 2012.

She taught at the Royal College of Art in London from 1966, and headed its graphics unit from 1967-1981. She was awarded an honorary degree by the University of the Arts London in 2004.

In 2009, Margaret Calvert and Henrik Kubel designed New Rail Alphabet, a revival of the 1964 British Rail alphabet of Margaret Calvert and Kinneir Calvert Associates.

Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert also created Motorway as a companion to Transport. That typeface was extended by Keith Bates in Motorway (2015).

Wikipedia entry. Linoype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Marginal Type
[Vincent Lacombe]

Graduate of Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, France, class of 2020. His graduation thesis was entitled Les caract®rave;res gothiques russes [Cyrillic blackletter typefaces]. During earlier graphic design studies at ECV Bordeaux (2012-2017), he created the display typeface Astek (2015) and the circle-based experimental typeface Ecotype (2016).

Now located in the Bordeaux area, he is doing some corporate graphic and type design for the local wine industry. In the context of his ANRT thesis, he designed a Latin / Cyrillic blackletter, Tamara Gothic (2018-2020) and a Latin / Cyrillic copperplate script, Sokolov 1821 (2018-2020). In 2020, he also designed the Scotch Roman typeface Album, and revived a Cyrillic didone by Moscow's S. Selivanovsky foundry (done between 1826 and 1834) as a font simply called Selivanovski (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Margit Urva

During her studies in Tallinn, Estonia, Margit Urva designed the experimental typeface Reflector (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Margot AG

Tours, France-based designer of the experimental typeface Pli (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Margot Trudell

Designer in Toronto. Behance link. She created the experimental texture alphabet called Mesh in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Margus Tamm

Estonian graphic designer. Creator of several experimental modular typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Chiara Cuppone

Designer in Barcelona who created the circle-based display typeface Baco (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Dolgich

Maria Dolgich (Tomsk, Russia) created Astron (2013), a constellation connect-the-dots typeface, and the chromatic pixelish typeface Zoom Zoom Stage (2013). In 2015, she designed the chromatic typeface Jazzy, and in 2016 the 3d typeface Open Space and the experimental typefaces Sever and Ellipse.

In 2017, she added the variable width typeface More Or Less. In 2018, she developed the semi-pixel font Antipode and the slinky Gradient. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Groenlund

Maria Grønlund is a Lystrup, Denmark-based digital artist who experiments with elaborate glyphs. She created, e.g., Embryo Letters (2013), Shredded Alphabet (2011), I See Numbers (2011).

In 2017, she published the plumpish color font Abelone at Fontself. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Hammerstrøm

Graphic designer in Oslo, b. 1987. Creator of the avant garde sans family Universe (2009).

In 2013, she published the geometric custom typeface Huxley and created the identity typeface for Kunsthall Oslo.

Underfundig is her studio in Norway.

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Maria José Torrero Heredia

Type designer from Monterrey and/or Hermosillo, Mexico. Comedian and illustrator. With Jeroen Krielaars, she created the modular experimental family Binary 2.0 (2011, Calango).

Her second typeface is the sqaurish bilined Fuck (2012).

Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Maria Laura Fernandez

Uruguayan winner of an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 for her experimental typeface called H Continua (codesigned with Andrea Grossy, Andrea Montedonico, Ruth Slomovitz). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria (Lourdes) Villarreal

Mexican designer (b. 1989) of Se Cortó (2011, experimental display face), El rastro del pintalabios (2011, handorinted) and Cuadro Cuadro Cuadro (2011, texture face). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Nyholm Jensen

During her studies, Herning, Denmark-based Maria Nyholm Jensen an experimental typeface (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Ramos Silva
[Marsi Desino]

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Maria Ruidiaz

Graphic designer in Barranquilla, Colombia, who created the experimental Typomusic (2015) and Frida Kahlo Icons (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Useche

Designer of the free experimental typeface DC Test (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

María José Manzano

During her studies in San Salvador, María José Manzano created the great triangulated typeface Geometric (2015). She also created an experimental alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

María Santini

Buenos Aires-based designer of the gorgeous experimental typeface Minotax. [Google] [More]  ⦿

María Victoria Lamas

Designer of the experimental font Sinestesia (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marian Garriz Jimenez

Graphic designer in Barcelona. In 2010, she made the textile texture face Bamba. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marie Bellando-Mitjans

Parisian illustrator who created an untitled experimental typeface in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marie-Aude Camus

Marie-Aude Camus (Paris, France) blended Latin, runic, kana and Braille characters in her design of a new experimental universal alphabet, La Mue (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marieke Deckers

Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the squarish experimental font Construct. Marieke lives in Meerhout. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marijana Rajcic

Mare Rajcic is an art director and graphic designer located in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2011, she created some logotypes, as well as a paper-fold typeface.

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Marin van Uhm

Designer of a multicolor geometric layered font system called Lettrage. This colored alphabet (2009) is from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. It consists of basic geometric forms only. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marina Maged

At the German University in Cairo, Egypt, Marina Maged designer a few snowflakes, the Latin typeface Cypher (2017), and the experimental Arabic typeface Eswed (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marine Grius

Lyon, France-based designer of the experimental typeface Foxessa (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mario Maquina

London-based designer of the experimental typefaces Poliedric (2015) and Network (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mario Saenz de Tejada

During his studies in Barcelona, Mario Saenz de Tejada designed the minimalist experimental typeface Soultype (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marion Bisserier

London-based graphic and type designer who graduated from the London College of Communication, but is French and grew up in Amsterdam. In 2020, she released the Good Girl typeface. She writes: Good Girl addresses the issue of female visibility within the field by exploring the occupation of space both in typographic form and political expression. Her presentation is unapologetic and uses demeaning phrases such as darlin, bimbo, gold digger, damsel in distress, and sugar babe.

In 2020, she designed the branding typeface Type 01 Regular for the Type 01 web site. Type Department link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marion Lapostolle

French creator of an experimental alphabet that features dots (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marion Ranché

Marion Ranché (Paris, France) designed the experimental typeface Graphite (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marion Thomas-Mauro

Parisian freelance graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of the deadly sins typefaces such as Gourmandise (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marit Angenita Otto

Dutch type designer who published the experimental typeface Jazmo in 2012 at URW: Jazmo is an offspring of an assignment I did for a Dutch architect. A classic building and coincidently the place of my studio in my hometown Zwolle, Netherlands, needed to be renovated. My job was to design the house numbers and signs for this building. This building I refer to was built in 1932 and designed according to the New objectivity architecture. Now it accommodates several artist and craftsmen and also houses students. In my design I used elements of the Art Nouveau.

In 2013, she published Smooth Buggaloo (URW++), a typeface that was inspired by the music of the sixties. Le Rock (2013, URW++) is a bouncy freeform display typeface. Labyrindo (2013, URW++) is inspired by Greek labyrinths.

In 2014, Marit published Pipeline (URW++), a gaspipe or paperclip typeface, Filistique (URW++, a flowing informal unconnected script typeface), and Nipon (URW++), a display typeface.

In 2015, still at URW++, she created the stylish display typeface Democrazia, the hybrid oriental/Arabic emulation typeface Eurabia, the display typeface family Kosmique, the meccano typeface C-Nation, the squarish stencil typeface Constructa, the squarish revolutionary typeface Picastro (the name is a contraction of Picasso and Castro; not to be confused with Leon Hulst's signage typeface Picastro, made a year earlier), and the display typeface New Daily.

Typefaces from 2016: Roundabout (an elliptical sans, URW++), Beyond Babylon (an Arabic simulation typeface, URW++) [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Marius Holtmon

Graphic design student at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo, Norway. In 2011, he made the experimental histogram-based typeface Grafont. Designer of Erga (2013), a decorative geometric sans-serif typeface with a 3d beveled look.

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Marius Jopen

German graphic design student in Konstanz. Just using triangles, he made the experimental typeface Dreieckstypo (2010, also called Peking Type over at Behance). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marius Watz
[Evolutionzone]

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Mark Chernyshev Gelendzhik

As part of Kiosk Works (or: Playfaces Type foundry) in Moscow, Russia, Mark Chernyshev Gelendzhik designed the modular Latin / Cyrillic typeface Cutter (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Foster

Graphic designer in Bristol, UK, who designed the colorful geometric solid typeface Mod in 2015. He also created various sets of icons for brands. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Gowing
[Formist Foundry]

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Mark Herd
[Remote Inc (or: StayPretty)]

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Mark Hogan

Mark Neil Hogan is based in Oak Park, CA. Designer of Unknown (2013), a typeface that will please all UFO enthusiasts because it is based on crop circles. In its genre, it is one of the most successful executions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Mora

Odessa, Ukraine-based designer of the free experimental poster typeface Bankay (2017), the free rounded sans stencil typeface Alexana (2017) and the free Alexana Neue (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Markie Darkie

Edmonton, Alberta-based designer of Alphageometry (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marko Aguirre

During his studies in Montreal, Marko Aguirre co-designed the experimental minimalist typeface Emmentype (2016) with Marie Chénier. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marko Grewe

Co-founder in 2008 of Avoid Red Arrows in Karlsruhe, Germany. Designer of the matchstick typeface Zuendli (2009, Avoid Red Arrows). Quitt (2008) is an architectural blackboard face. Markos Hand (2008) is his own handwriting. Fital (2008) is experimental. Empties (2008) is a dotted line face. Dirn (2009) is a fat bouncy face.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Markus Schwarz

Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface r-line (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marsi Desino
[Maria Ramos Silva]

Spanish designer Maria Ramos Silva (Marsi Desino, Santiago de Compostela) was born in Santa Comba (A Coruña) in 1982. She created Fifont (2010) and Caracol (2010, a wedge-serifed hand-printed face).

Designer of Calada (2013), a workhorse sans serif typeface developed during Typeclinic 6 and Typeclinic 7 in 2013.

In 2015, she graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading. Her graduation typeface, Sastre, is curved, angular, stressed, ink-trapped, and angry. It covers Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and can be used for stitching patterns.

In 2016, she finished the fantastic slab serif typeface Knile at Atipo. Two of the sixteen weights are free.

In 2018, Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos set up NM Type. Together, they designed the custom typeface Meister for Jägermeister. Still in 2018, Maria Ramos and Jordi Embodas co-designed Nomada Didone.

In 2019, Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos co-designed Movement, a free experimental variable font inspired by dance movements. In 2021, they created Trisco, a custom font for Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea.

Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of typewriter type. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Marta Serras

Barcelona-based creator of The Thread Font (2012), an experimental typeface that started out by winding a thread around pins in a grid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marta Yarza
[The Yarza Twins]

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Martijn Boskamp

Graphic designer in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, b. 1987. Behance link. For a project for the art academy in Rotterdam, he made the experimental typeface Blik Font (2010), which is based on crushed cans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martin Bajanik

Slovak designer of the experimental typeface Benka (2001) and of the pictogram typeface Via Dolorosa (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martin L'Allier

Martin L'Allier is a graphic design specialist in Montreal. His list of type and design links is very useful. Quebec-based designer of the experimental pixelized blackletter typefaces Ostrogoth and Wisigoth at UQAM (2003). A graphic design student at the University of Quebec in Montreal, his first typefaces can be bought at MyFonts. These include the monospaced and blocky Kg Stuttgart 1930 (2004) where Kg stands for Kunstgewerbeschule Stuttgart: it is based on a printed sample of a typeface designed in 1930 at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts, and shown in ABZ, more alphabets and other signs (J. Rothenstein and M. Goodings). Home page. In 2005, he created the FF Karo family (blackletter pixelized, FontShop). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Martin P. Pfeiffer
[Scooter Graphics (Fonts by Marty Pfeiffer)]

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Martin Silvestre

Parisian designer of the experimental typeface Stripes (2012).

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Martin Wenzel
[MartinPlusFonts]

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Martina Ginevra Albano

Industrial designer in Lucca, Italy, who created the techno font Adic (2013) and the free experimental typeface Leliel (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martine Andersen

Norwegian graphic designer, who created New Typeface (2012, experimental), Marune Five (2012, runic simulation typeface), and Spacematter (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

MartinPlusFonts
[Martin Wenzel]

MartinPlusFonts is the Berlin-based foundry of Martin Wenzel, a German type designer (b. Berlin, 1969). Graduate of KABK Den Haag in 1998. From 1998 until 2005, he worked at Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens. Martin now runs MartinPlus, first in The Hague, The Netherlands, and relocated to Berlin in 2005. He is also affiliated with Kombinat Typefounders. His oeuvre:

  • FF Marten (1991).
  • FF Rekord (grunge).
  • The award-winning sans serif font FF Profile (1999), a flared sans known for its little contrast. This evolved in a semi-hand-printed casual teenager, FF Duper (2009).
  • At FUSE 6, he created FUSE Schirft, now sometimes called Wenzel Schrift.
  • At FUSE 3, he created InTegel (1991), a font like Boris Mahovac's Kalendar.
  • FF Primary (1995, chiseled stone look).
  • Daela (free, this font evolved into FF Primary).
  • MediaPigeons (experimental, free).
  • Trinité Sans (based on Bram de Does' Trinité).
  • Ode (2010): a restaurant menu family, angular yet rounded. This type family evolved from Textura into a slightly broken readable set, in the German expressionist genre.
  • Realist (2011), Realist Narrow and Realist Wide. A sans family that can be bought at Kombinat Typefounders.

Old web site. Fontshop link. Klingspor link.

View Martin Wenzel's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mary Battlebury

Visual communication student at IADT in Dublin, who created many highly experimental geometric typefaces in 2014, including Molecule Type, Destruct, D-Struct, Con-Nect, and Constellation Type.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mary Chalkia

Munich-based art director. Creator of the experimental 3d polytope-shaped typeface Mair (2013), the geometric typeface Heads Off Why (2011, done for an animal rights poster), and the geometric experimental typeface RMT (2010).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mary Voronetskaya

Minsk, Belarus-based designer of the experiental typeface Constructivism (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maryam Shah

During her studies in London, Maryam Shah created the experimental typeface Motivational Quotes (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

MaryGrace Sickles

Albany, NY-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Angle (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marylou Chalon

Graduate of La Martinière Diderot, Lyon. Paris-based designer of some decorative typefaces in 2018, including Martin. In 2017, she designed mostly experimental typefaces such as Diakopi, Katagma, Les Attachées, and Douceur. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marysia Morrison

Vilnius, Lithuania-based designer of Invisibe Font (2013), an experimental typeface with missing pieces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Masahiko Kozuka

Japanese type designer and type director, b. 1929. Designer of the Kozuka Mincho (serif) and Kozuka Gothic (sans serif; poster by Ray Hansen) kanji families at Adobe, available in OpenType.

Masahiko Kozuka began making type in 1952. At that time, he had started working at the Mainichi newspaper, one of the leading nationwide daily newspapers in Japan, where he made hot metal text and headline typefaces. He worked at Mainichi from 1950 until his retirement in 1984. In the 1970s, in the transition from hot metal to digital type, he redesigned many fonts of Mainichi's newspaper typefaces. From 1984 to 1992, as type design director for Morisawa&Company, he supervised many type development projects such as the popular ShinGo typeface family, which is the main typeface in use in Japan today.

From 1992 to 2001, he supervised the Adobe Originals Japanese typeface development, and designed the Kozuka Mincho and Kozuka Gothic typeface families. He served as a part-time lecturer at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music from 1979 to 1997.

Download these OpenType fonts for free: KozGoPro-Medium, KozMinProVI-Regular, developed from 1997-2004. In 2009, the 15,713-glyph Kozuka Gothic Pro was published. see here.

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Masahiro Naruse

New York-based Japanese designer of the experimental vertical typeface Falling Script (2020), which won an award at 23TDC.

In 2021, he released MetamorBit, a pixel font for Latin and kana.

Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Masha Tamgina

Russian creator of the experimental typeface Quartz (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mat Bee
[Here Be Monsters (or: Big Minion)]

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Mateo Mok
[Demonics]

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Mateusz Machalski
[Borutta (or: Duce Type)]

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Matheus Coimbra

Curitiba, Brazil-based designer of the geometric solid typeface Tipogrfia em Quadros (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mathew Lucas

Stoke, UK-based graphic designer. Behance link. Magnum Opus (2011) is an experimental typeface inspired by alchemy and black magic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mathias Doblhammer
[Deeait Creates]

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Mathieu Lauwers

During his studies at Sint Lucas in Antwerpen, Belgium, Mathieu Lauwers created a lava lamp trynd a hybrid typeface (combining Adonis and Eagle) in 2015.peface [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matilda Dackevall

Graphic designer in Stockholm who was dabbling in experimental typography in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matilde Capacciola

Milano, Italy-based creator of an arc-based experimental typeface in 2014, during her communication design studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matirasa

Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based designer. He created the masculine typeface Venderburg (2011), the techno typeface Weekend Warrior (2011), Irisan Slice (2011, experimental), and Headplane (techno). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matrero G

Lanus, Argentina-based designer of Gayacos Primaria Bastarda (2002), Tapi (2006, monoline octagonal), Negada (2006, handwriting), Cementeria (2006), Chingolo Pro (2006), Letrograda (2006, bad typewriter), Bloqueada (2006), Alsina (2006), Reienhardt (2006, scratchy handwriting), Cholo Sperry Rand R20 (2006, old typewriter), Daft (2006, handwriting), Kill All Fonts (2006, experimental stencil), Venerada (2002, shadow face), Thapkie MG (2002, pixel face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Duncan

Boone, NC-based designer of the dot matrix typeface Redox (2015) and the experimental typeface Morph (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Gluszek

Warsaw, Poland-based graphic and type designer. Designer of the circle-based experimental typeface Gluszcenko (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Grey

Graphic designer and illustrator (b. Southampton, UK, 1993) who studied graphic design at University College Falmouth.

He created the dingbat face Social Networking Icons (2011) and the counterless geometric typeface Grobsidian (2011).

Other typefaces: Debunk (2012, a grunge family), Kranx (2012), Bloq (2012), Beehive (2012), Echo Gothic (monolinear and minimalist/geometric), Hanson, Interlocked, Pixter (dot matrix face), Scrawlster (hand-printed), Tubular Type, Unnamed.

He set up the Matt Grey type foundry in 2011 in Southampton. In 2017, he designed the octagonal and rounded octagonal typefaces Kunst, Kunst Imprint and Kunst Rounded. In 2020, he published the pixel family Pixter.

Catalog of his typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Matt Shearsmith

During his studies in Nottingham, UK, Matt Shearsmith created the expermntal typeface Russian Moon (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matt Tremaine

During his studies in Bath, UK, Matt designed the experimental typeface Fair Chaos (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matteo Panico

Avellino, Italy-based designer of the free blocky experimental typeface Sedici (2010, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matteo Ventura

Graphic designer and digital artist in Montreal. Behance link. His typefaces include DNA (2010, experimental), and Code (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Aaron Desmond
[Matthew Desmond]

MADtype (est. 1996) is Matt Desmond's place in the type world. He has had a prolific career that started out with shareware fonts while Matt was at the Minneapolis Technical and Community College. His page back then said A haven for quality shareware type for the Mac. Later, Matt started mattdesmond.com, and co-founded the Test Pilot Collective (est. 1998 with Joseph Kral and Mike Cina). Many of his early typefaces were experimental and/or futuristic. In late 2003, mattdesmond.com disappeared, and MADtype, commercial now, resurfaced at the MyFonts site. Currently, Matt is based in Minnetnka, MN. He has also lived in Atlanta, GA, Fayetteville, GA, Rochester, NY, Redwood City, CA, and San Francisco, CA. His fonts can also be purchased via You Work For Them. He also does commissioned type design. Some fonts are freely available at the Google Font Directory.

Retail types as of 2011:

  • Abel (2011, Google Font Directory). Abel Pro was published in 2013.
  • Aldrich (2011). A Bank Gothic style face, free at OFL.
  • Amber (2000): kitchen tile face.
  • American Gothic (1998): squarish.
  • Audebaud (2010): a 19-th century style French Clarendon (wood type look). The design was inspired by the work of Constant Audebaud, an engraver of wooden type that was used for posters. Audebaud's work appeared in the 1880s in the Deux-Sèvres département of France.
  • Beat (1998): rounded OCR face.
  • Brauhaus (2004): Textura face.
  • Cagliostro (2011). A free font at Google Web Fonts that is based on the handlettering of Ozwald Cooper.
  • Curbdog (1998).
  • Desmond Text (1998): a roman that has features of University Roman.
  • Distill (2009): a De Stijl font that shouts 1920s.
  • Dunelm (1996): emulation of 17th century printing styles.
  • Dwiggins Deco (2009): This typeface was originally designed in 1930 by W.A. Dwiggins as the cover for the book "American Alphabets" by Paul Hollister. Only the 26 letters of the alphabet were included on the cover, so the rest of the numbers, punctuation, symbols, and accented characters have been crafted in a matching [art deco] style.
  • Findon (2007): stencil.
  • Futuristic category: ER9 (1999), KAH (2005, LCD style), Lunarmod (1997), Retron (1997; can be considered as a retro upright connected script as well), Shifty (1998).
  • Grunge category: Bulletin (1997), Gothico Antiqua (1999), Rubba (1997), Stomper (1997--a rubber stamp font), Zapatista (1998-2007).
  • Handwriting, handprinting category: Casino Hand (2005), Ghouliez (1996), Handegypt (2002---hand-drawn slab serif), Handy Sans (1997, hand-drawn sans), Joppa (1997), Pufficlaude BT (1998).
  • Hessian (2009): Tuscan style wood type.
  • Hydrochlorica (2004): organic.
  • Invoice (1997).
  • Ironside Crosses (2004): dingbat face.
  • Marble Roman (2004-2009): angular roman all caps type.
  • Matterhorn (2013). A 9-style sans family created with Michael Cina for Disney. Not to be confused with the many retail typefaces that are also called Matterhorn, such as Paratype's PT Matterhorn (1993) and Treacyfaces' TF Matterhorn (1990s).
  • Pacioli or Luca Pacioli Caps (2007: emulating a mathematically constructed caps font by Pacioli (1509) published in his treatise De divina proportione.
  • Pixel category: Basis (1999), Mang (1997).
  • Plenti (2004): ultra plump.
  • Quantico (2007): octagonal.
  • Stencil category: Bandoleer (2009, +Tracer: a couple of stencil fonts with art deco and army influences), Madison (2007, slab serif stencil), Mercado (2005; has a non-stencil Mercado Sans).
  • Urbandale (2018). A basic sans family.
  • Variable (2004-2010): a sans-serif monoline typeface that includes ultra thin weights.
  • Vexed (2005): sketched face.
  • Wolfsburg (2007): blackletter stencil.
  • Wooddale (1999): wood type emulation.

Free types as of 2010: Marble Roman, Environ regular, Dorkbutt, Europa, Exsect, Inthacity, Liquidy Bulbous, Lustria (2012, Google Web Fonts), Stomper.

Commissioned types: 77kids (2007, for the children's brand; the sketched typefaces were done with Justin Thomas Kay), AE Aerie (2005-206, American Eagle Outfitters), AE Newburgh (2005-206, American Eagle Outfitters), AE Summer Fonts (2007, all for American Eagle Outfitters), EEL Futura (2006, for Enjoying Everyday Life), Nike World Cup (2006), Virgin America (2006).

Typefaces from 2019: Starfire (2019, a retro geometric sans).

Orphaned types that disappeared or were planned but never executed: BrotherMan, Caprice, Convolve, HipstersDelight, Lugubrious, ModestaSmallCaps, Serifity, Skitzoid, Sliver, ThrowupSolid, Auresh (1998, futuristic; Test Pilot Collective), Kcap6 (1998, with Cina; Test Pilot Collective), Epiphany (1997; Test Pilot Collective), Testacon (with Kral and Cina; Test Pilot Collective), Civicstylecom (1999; Test Pilot Collective), Lutix (1998; Test Pilot Collective), Xerian (1997; Test Pilot Collective), Swoon, Furtive (2004, a sans), the display typeface Flathead (2004), the blackletter typeface Bahn (2004), Mesotone BT (2006, Bitstream, a monoline sans), Practical (a monoline connec script, planned in 2007 but not published), Poliphili (planned in 2007, as a revival of an Aldus/Griffo font), Wutupdo (1996, Garage Fonts), GFDesmond (Garage Fonts), Drone, Golden Times (2014, a corporate small caps typeface for the University of Minnesota), Vapiano (2014: hand-printed typeface for Vapiano International).

Behance link. View Matt Desmond's typefaces. Fontspring link. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Burvill
[House of Burvo]

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Matthew Desmond
[Matthew Aaron Desmond]

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Matthew Lee

Preston, UK-based typographer and print designer. Creator of the tubular typeface Weaver (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Spencer

Student in illustration at the University of Westminster, UK. He created a condom alphabet (2011), which possibly was scanned in as a scanbat font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Stork
[Vextor Art]

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Matthew Tager

Graphic designer in Pretoria, South Africa, who created the experimental typeface Afrasian in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Welch
[I Shot The Serif]

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Matthew Yu

Graduate of York University, 2007. Now located in Brooklyn, Matthew Yu designed the experimental typeface FourEyes (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthias Nicolai

Designer from Freiburg, Germany, who is working on the display typeface Benderline Medium (2004) and the experimental typeface Flotto (2004). Handwriting and display typefaces he is working on. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mattia Montanari

Senior art director in Milan. Designer of the Oblio typeface (2012), an experimental typeface of the neurotic genre that was started in 2011 by Abneurone over at FontStruct, and that is typified by mistrust and disrespect of present day society. Montanari uses that symbology in his art and posters as well.

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Mattie Brass

During his studies at Northumbria University, Mattie Brass (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) designed a wiggly experimental typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matyas Szabo

Designer in Budapest, Hungary (and before that, in Oradea, Romania), who made Roundy (2012), an experimental 3d-effect geometric typeface. Other typefaces by him include the fat octagonal typeface Squary (2013) and the art deco typeface Trendy (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maud Guerche

French graphic and type designer. Maud's typefaces include Azimut (2013-2014: an experimental typeface), Archi (2013-2014: display type), Les Phares (2011: octagonal). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maud Kremer

During her studies in 2017, Verviers, Belgium-based Maud Kremer designed these experimental or hyper-geometric typefaces: Grille Modulaire, Triangula, Alphabet Illustré. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maureen Placente

Designer in Paris. Behance link. She created the experimental typeface Explode (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maurice Dusault

Dutch multidisciplinary designer and design strategist. During his studies at Parsons School of Design in New York City, he created Kollektiv (2017), an amalgam of the top 40 sans serif typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maurice Meilleur

Maurice Meilleur is a recovering political theorist turned graphic designer and design researcher and writer (in his own words). He completed a PhD in political theory from Indiana University Bloomington in 2004, and earned an MFA in graphic design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. He is an assistant professor of graphic design at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where he teaches and studies typography and design semiotics and methods. Earlier, he was assistant professor of graphic design in the Department of Art at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.

Maurice is writing a book on the principles and history of modular scripts.

His experimental modular typeface Kast was a jury finalist in the Society of Typographic Aficionados' 2016 ProtoType competition. He has developed Kast into paper, photographic, print, and digital artifacts, and begun to explore digital animation using Python and Drawbot as part of a larger investigation into typographic representation and parametric/algorithmic/generative formal systems. At ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, he spoke on modular scripts and generative design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauro De Donata

Roman designer of the striped optical illusion font Kwerk (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauro de Donatis

Roman graphic designer who made an exquisite "generative" skeletal alphabet, VX (2010). Cercles (2011), Nebula (2011) and Tangle (2011) are further experimental typefaces with mind-boggling details. I reproduce his "About" blurb because it is wonderful in its modesty---rare indeed, today: I didn't discover America. I am not an artist with a world-famous name. I don't solve political problems and what I write, never gets published. I have never supervised meetings. I have plans for my future, as a spiteful mouse from a famous cartoon. I don't smoke weed and I don't do coke. I can be someone or be no one at all. I do not have five figure number of friends, but there are some that are real and close to me. I'm not self-obsessed and probably never will be. And you shouldn't even to try to understand me... I'm only a design lover. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Brolet

During his studies at Saint-Luc in Liège, Belgium, Max Brolet designed the experimental typefaces Futumaliste (2016), Blocs (2016), Alphabet Pour Les Sourds (2016), and Deep Chocolate (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Castellarnau

Spanish designer of the experiental circular geometric typeface Sunrise (2010). Home page. Aka galundor and Maximo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Dunin

Austrian type designer who is based in Vienna. At the 13th Typeclinic in Slovenia in 2016, Max Dunin designed Boshi (a shattered sans typeface). At the 15th Typeclinic, held in 2017, Max Dunin perfected his sans serif typeface Boshi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Kisman
[Kisman Studio (was: Holland Fonts)]

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Maxim Ostrouhov

Designer of the squarish experimental typeface Geldian (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maxime Cresseaux

During her studies in Paris, Maxime Cresseaux created a geometric alphabet for an Irma Boom retrospective (2014, done with Nathan Collet). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maxime Delporte

Brussels-based designer who made some fonts, which include Ressasser (2007, experimental), Typo Training (2007, many hand-printed or hand-drawn types), Bolt (2007, a pixel font family), Culbuto (a pixel face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maxime Roulleaux

Parisian designer of the rounded sans typeface Louro (2018), the experimental New Braille (2018), and Electronic Pictograms (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maximilian Huber
[Lettering Garage]

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M-B Creative
[Ben Mecke-Burford]

M-B Creative is a British type foundry in Presteigne, Pows, est. 2013 by Ben Mecke-Burford, or just Ben Berford, who has created many stunning art deco and other typeface families.

Typefaces made in 2013 include MB Noir (an art deco sans), the experimental minimalist MB Negative Space, the piano key typeface MB Sixtythree, the gorgeous art deco/avant garde titling typeface MB Deco, and the circle-based monoline typeface MB Geometrixa.

In 2014, he published MB Vintage (sic: an art deco sans family), MB Empire (a sans that goes back to Gill Sans), MB Narrow (a compressed sans family), MB Edwardsson (handwriting font) and MB Picture House (an all caps art deco typeface family).

Typefaces from 2020: Faustian (medieval, blackletterish), Nuovo Deco (an improvement of MB Deco), Loopkin (a playful fashion mag didone). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

MCKL (was: Mickel Design)
[Jeremy Mickel]

Jeremy Mickel runs a design studio in Los Ange;les, where he moved to from Minneapolis in 2015. Before that, he was located in Brooklyn, New York and Providence, RI. Originally called Mickel Design, the studio and foundry was renamed MCKL in 2012. Mickel has taught at RISD and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

He is working on this VAR-Rounded sans serif style face (2007) that was based on plastic cut letters seen in New York's subway. See also here and here. Mickel's typefaces:

  • Router (2008, Jeremy Mickel): a rounded sans family.
  • Baro (2010, Chester Jenkins and Jeremy Mickel): Baro is inspired by memories of Antique Olive Nord, Roger Excoffon's landmark design originally commissioned for Air France in 1956. Nord, the heaviest weight of Antique Olive, was the starting point, but Baro shares DNA with other Village designs, including Apex New and Mavis.
  • Eventide (2009, Jeremy Mickel): octagonal and 3d family based on ideas by Paul Carlyle in the early 1940s. That Carlyle typeface had also made it into the PhotoLettering collection in 1971. Eventide was developed into a family at House Industries under the art direction of Ken Barber and Christian Schwartz, and won an award at TDC2 2011.
  • Superior (2010, Jeremy Mickel): a high-contrast transitional "nearly didone" face. Superior Title (2013) is described as a high-contrast missing link between Times and Bodoni. It was designed for fashion publications.
  • Shift (2010, Jeremy Mickel): a slab serif family that won an award at TDC2 2011.
  • Gonesh (2009, Jeremy Mickel): a great new sans family.
  • Aero (2010, Village Type) was developed in cooperation with Chester Jenkins. This poster family, inspired by Excoffon's Antique Olive, was awarded at TDC2 2011.
  • Letterboxes (2008). A stencil typeface that was part of a collaborative project with John Caserta at the Design Office.
  • Plinc Flourish (a 2011 digitization by Jeremy Mickel for House Industries). Based on William Millstein's Millstein Flourish, an upright script first designed for PhotoLettering Inc in the early 1940s.
  • Union (2011). A basic sans family, ideal for corporate design.
  • Jeremy Mickel created a digital version L.Harl Copeland's (prismatic, beveled, roman caps) Trillium typeface [originally done at Photolettering] in 2011 at the new digital Photolettering / House Industries.
  • Fort is a sans family published in 2012 by Village.
  • Playoff Sans and Playoff Serif (2015).
  • Adidas has partnered with MCKL to create an innovative suite of variable fonts. These fonts are being used across a wide spectrum of applications, including Creative Direction, Product Design, Graphics, Communications, Digital Experiences, and the brand campaign for the upcoming World Cup. In 2015, Mickel expansed the Adineue Pro family. In 2017 they started the first Adidas Variable Font, Adineue CHOP Variable, an octagonal athletic sans in a wide range of weights from hairline to black, and widths from extra-condensed to extra-wide. In 2018, Mickel embarked on Adineue Pro Variable.
  • Rosa Sans (2019: by Jeremy Mickel and Pentagram). A free geometric grotesk (in their own words) sans family.
  • Trust (2020). A flared typeface first used for the identity of the Commission on Presidential Debates (Trump versus Biden).
  • Logic Monospace and Logic Monoscript (2020). Mickel writes: Logic Monospace takes inspiration from midcentury typewriter fonts, including IBM Selectric's Advocate and the ubiquitous Courier, with additional references in slab serifs like Stephenson Blake's Scarab. While there are many great script typewriter fonts, including Olympia and Aristocrat, Logic Monoscript is a novel creation, with few examples of true connecting monospace scripts in existence.
  • Uber (2020). A custom job for Uber.
  • Owners (2021). iJeremy explains: Owners is an expressive family of fonts that takes inspiration from the dynamic energy of handmade signage as seen around Los Angeles.
  • RedHat Display, Text and Mono subfamilies. The open source fonts were originally commissioned by Paula Scher / Pentagram and designed by Jeremy Mickel / MCKL for the new Red Hat identity. Mickel writes: Red Hat is a fresh take on the geometric sans genre, taking inspiration from a range of American sans serifs including Tempo and Highway Gothic. The Display styles, made for headlines and big statements, are low contrast and spaced tightly, with a large x-height and open counters. The Text styles have a slightly smaller x-height and narrower width for better legibility, are spaced more generously, and have thinned joins for better performance at small sizes. In 2021 we added Light and Light Italic styles, and a Monospace family. Variable fonts with a weight axis are available. RedHat's official site.

Klingspor link. Village link. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Meagan Hyland

Designer in Dublin who graduated from the Limerick School of Art & Design. The moon on a clear night inspired her to create the experimental typeface Me and the moon (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Med Ness
[ONO Creates]

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Megan Biggin

During her studies at Manchester Met University in manchester, UK, Megan biggin created three experimental typefaces---Nature's Numbers (a honeycomb typeface), Chaos (2015) and The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out (a circle-based font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Megan Raats

Dutch graphic designer. During her studies at the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, she designed Amsterdam (2017), an experimental typeface inspired by the street map of Amsterdam. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Megan Raats

During her studies in Amsterdam, Megan Raats designed a typeface that is influenced by the street layout of Amsterdam. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Megi Zumstein
[Hi]

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Mehdi Lafenetre

Bordeaux-based designer who created some experimental typefaces in 2014. In 2014, he was studying at ESTEI in Bordeaux. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melanie Leonard

New York City-based designer of the display typeface Elo (2017). Its design is inspired by the music produced by the Electric Light Orchestra in the seventies. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melany

Melany is a graphic and motion designer. During her studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, she created the experimental typeface Darjeeling to Budapest (2018), influenced by the movie art of Wes Anderson. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melinda Schmidt

At the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Melinda Schmidt created the experimental typeface Flow Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melissa Jans

Belgian art director who created an experimental typeface using only two shapes (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melissa Lapadula

Aussie graphic designer from Melbourne who made the experimental fonts Tetris Quadrate (2007), Organic Space (2007) and 90 Flinders Street (2007). In 2008, she created the hand-printed type family Free Will and the futuristic techno family Road Trip. Also in 2008, her condensed poster family New Moon and the Railway Point family saw the light. She also does custom type. MyFonts link. She has a Bachelors in visual communication from Monash (2000) and a diploma of arts from RMIT (1997). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Melissa Lu

As student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Melissa Lu designed the boxy experimental typeface Calendar (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melissa Osterweil

Plainview, NY-based creator of Bitmap Typeface (2013) and Modular Typeface (2013, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melissa Trigueiro

Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Ricardo, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melissa Ya

Graphic designer in Sydney, Australia, who designed the experimental outlined typeface Discon (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melita Pupsaite

Creator of an experimental typeface in 2012 based on movements in parking lots. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mercedes di Paola

Graphic design student in Buenos Aires who made the blended experimental typeface Cadaver Exquisito (2012) and the piano key font Tipo Ironman (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Meriem Mghazli

Marrakech-based designer of Helvegut (2012), a series of playful extensions of Helvetica. She also did a signage project for her school, L'Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels, in 2012. Creator of Archi-Alphabet (2014), an experimental rhombic typeface. She also designed an ornamental card game set for Rummy (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mesh Design

Mesh Design is a graphic and web design outfit in Burton upon Trent, UK. It created a polygonal experimental face, simply called Mesh (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Metis Digital Type Foundry (or: Studio Io, or: Metis Foundry; was: Volume2a)
[Simon Bent]

Simon Bent from Melbourne (Metis Foundry, or: Studio Io; was: Volume2a) designed these typefaces in 2007-2008: Epsilon, Annual (modular, architectural), Tangerine, Deccade (experimental), Hoax [more scans: i, ii, iii, iv], Babylon (another modular experiment).

In 2012, he created the geometric sans typeface Acumen, and the sans family Silence. He is working on Fragile, Terminal, Link, Recurrence (very experimental), Autonomy, Motor, Velcro, and Elevator.

In 2013, he designed the sans typeface Figure.

In 2016, he published the ultra-condensed blackletter typeface Optimum Compress in Textura style.

In 2018, he published the great condensed brutalist octagonal typeface Texel, the experimental geometric typeface Pyxis (published by The Designers Foundry), and the geometric solid typeface Geometer.

In 2019, he added the ultra-fat Dot19, the monoline experiment LXII, the modular Alexandro, the geometric sans typefaces Software and Gertrudes, and the sans font Mizzen.

Typefaces from 2020: Geometer.

Typefaces from 2021: LXII Display (a prismatic typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Metka Bacar

Ljubljana-based designer of the display typeface Decklina (2015) and experimental typeface Poba (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Meurillon Lucas

Angers, France-based designer of the experimental display typeface Beat (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mia Dörwald

Based in Copenhagen, this Danish designer created some experimental typefaces in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Micaela Jauma

During her studies at FADU / UBA, Micaela Jauma (Buenos Aires) designed a blocky experimental typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Chereda
[BrightHead Studio]

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Michael Cina
[You Work For Them (or YWFT; formerly Cinahaus or TrueIsTrue)]

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Michael Elliott

At the University of Hertfordshire, Michael Elliott (London, UK) designed the experimental Hatfield Architecture typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Genova
[Carini Type Foundry]

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Michael Golovachev
[Scorpy Design Studio]

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Michael Hernan
[FontGroup]

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Michael J. Romanowski

Designer in 1996 of I Ching Futo and I Ching Maru, two experimental fonts with letters hidden behind blinds. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Kelly

United Kingdom-based winner of the grand prize in type design at the Tokyo Type Directors Club TDC 2019 for his experimental Latin typeface Virtual Reality. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Stevens

Omaha, NE-based designer of the experimental partially deconstructed typeface Fracture Sans (2015), which was finished during his studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Wallner

There are two Michael Wallners in type design. This one is based in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he works as a visual designer. In 2017, he designed an experimental deconstructed typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Weixlbaumer

Vienna-based designer of an experimental typeface in which each letter consists of about 300 smaller letters (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michaela Avory

Graphic designer in the UK, who created a triangular modular typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michaela Koselova

During her studies in 2014, Michaela Koselova (Nachod, Czechia) created the simple experimental Author's Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michaël Carreira

Designer in Leiria, Portugal. Student at ESAD.CR. Behance link. Creator of an experimental typeface in 2011, perhaps called Experience. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michail Kishkarev

Moscovite creator of the geometric experimental typefaces Karlygash (2013, free) and Mignon (2013, Cyrillic). In 2017, he designed the Cyrillic poster typeface Christmas Kotor (2017), which is named after Kotor in Montenegro. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michel M.

German freelance artist and designer, associated with URW++, b. 1964. He graduated in 1992 from Fachhochschule für visuelle Kommunikation und Design Münster. He created Tricky (2002, stencil face), Keys (2002), Hands on Albrecht (experimental font at URW, 2005, based on Albrecht Dürer's geometrically constructed letters), TrickyTracky, MovingMouse (computer key fonts), Oranda MM and Oranda SC (for NABU Münster), LuxSansBookNumsOsF and LuxSansBookNumsTab (for Mekomnet), CometoMama and CometoDaddy (done for invers-Weihnachts-Typo-Wettbewerb), GooseBump (Farmers, Plants, Desaster, Twinkle: free download!), Playstation (free dingbat font), Radieurorund ascii (free download), Teletron (grunge family done at Volcano Type). In 2010, he set up Fontschmiede with Frank Baranowski, another (ex-)URW++ designer. His fonts there include the techno typefaces Und4 (2008) and Line44 (2009), and the hand-printed typeface Just Deine (2011).

MyFonts page. Alternate URL. Klingspor link. Volcano Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Michel Welfringer
[Typografix]

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Michele Cricco

Michele Cricco (Todi, Italy) is a graphic designer who runs Crimic Design Studio in Todi, Umbria, Italy. He designed Weltam (2003, an experimental alphabet that makes frequent use of rotated letters; his thesis project at ISIA di Urbino in 2002) and Eidos (2004, another experimental font on the same theme). The studio does identity design for companies. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Huang

Visual designer in London who created several experimental typefaces in 2015 based on modular deconstructions of geometric typefaces such as Futura and Poster Bodoni. Some of her work is related to Super Veloz. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Hysom

During her graphic communication studies at the University of Northampton, UK, Harpenden, UK-based Michelle Hysom created Moire (2013). She created two experimental typefaces in 2013:

  • Digital Grunge. Grunge effect obtained by overlaying glyphs.
  • The Moiré Effect. Michelle writes: This was a typeface I designed inspired by the Moire Effect: a pattern created by the overlaying of lines or grids at slightly different angles. I came across this when creating an Artists Book about Grunge Typography and was inspired by Harriet Goren's Morire typeface.
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Michelle Luttman

Conifer, CO-based designer of the curly caps typeface Charlotte Script (2012). She also did an experiment in which Palatino was married with Romantiques, yielding Romantino (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle McCallister

Student at Flagler College in Tallahassee, FL. Creator of the great experimental octagonal typeface Mobio (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Mruk

Illustrator Michelle Mruk (Providence, RI) used the figure 8 to create the Loopback typeface in 2013. In 2015, now loacted in Brooklyn, NY, she designed the experimental typeface Summer Type. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Rowekamp

Graphic designer in Pittsburgh, PA, who created the experimental typeface Disassemble (2015). It was obtained by combining bits and pieces of Baskerville, Century Gothic, and Braggadocio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Samuels

Graphic design student in Rochester, NY. She designed a typeface based on outline crossovers in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Migle Miseviciute

Vilnius, Lithuania-based designer who, during her studies in 2020, designed a lovely curly experimental typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Ángel Padriñán Alba

Graduate of ENAP-UNAM in Mexico City. Creator of these typefaces: Espiral (2008; spiraly, curly, and free), Bolis (2009, signage), Ligera (2009), and Itálica, a typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the experimental type category. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Aguilar

Mexico City-based designer of Tourist (2012, an inline typeface), Holy Type (2012, experimental typeface), Lemon (2012, display typeface) and Profane (2012, alchemic typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Cabrera

Migual Cabrera (b. 1982, Costa Rica) studied Fine Arts and became an editorial illustrator in San Jose, Costa Rica. Known as Monfa, he created among other things the award-winning illustrative alphabet Mascaradas (2011). Arista (2011) is an experimental 3-d paper-fold face.

Now based in Mexico City, he published the experimental Favela in 2015. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Quinonez

Graphic designer in Orlando, FL, who created the water droplet alphabet Liquid Typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Sanches

Brazilian type designer from Recife who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include the great experimental font Arqueo, Bolha, Xilot and Snake. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mihaela Popa

Romanian graphic designer and illustrator from Bucarest. She created the spring-inspired Louisiana typeface in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mihaly Szilágyi

Based in Budapest, this painter and graphic designer created the 3d experimental caps typeface Breaking Type (2012) starting from Jos Buivenga's Museo. Aka Misi Szilagyi.

In 2014, he started from Neue Haas Grotesk (2011, Christian Schwartz) and extended it to an animated 3d font called Soap Bubble Type for a soap manufacture startup company in Hungary. It was co-developed and is co-owned by Virag Stibinger.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mihkel Trei

Tartu, Estonia-based creator of an unnamed geometric alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mikael Lorenzo

Art director in Lyon, France, who created the experimental textured typefaces Mise En Page, Empreinte (fingerprints), and Intuitive in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mikalai Konkov

Vilnius, Lithuania-based designer of several experimental geometric Cyrillic typefaces in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Argles

Graphic designer Mike Argles (Milton Keynes, UK) created the experimental piano key typeface Cut Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mikhail Kapralov

Moscow-based designer of an experimental squarish Cyrillic typeface in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miladinov Design
[Slobodan Miladinov]

Currently living in Montreal, Slobodan Miladinov is the Serbian-born designer of the calligraphic ITC Freemouse (1998), the refreshing dingbat font ITC Beorama (1998), Screaming Bull (1999), Triple Owl (1999), the nonchalant ITC Coconino (1998), the pixelish Oneight (1997), the Japanese calligraphy inspired Goosefont (1997), the experimental type Xoao (2001), and the scribbly Hojla-ho (1999).

FontShop link.

Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mind Design
[Holger Jacobs]

Mind Design is a British studio, which is responsible for quite a few, typically customized, typefaces. It was established by three people, Holger Jacobs (German founder of Mind Design in 1999), Claire Huss (who joined Mind Design in 2010) and Romily Winter (a British designer who joined Mind Design in 2011). Their typefaces are sold through The Type Foundry.

Holger Jacobs (b. 1967, Kleve, Germany) studied at Saint Martins College of Art & Design (1992-1994) and at the Royal College of Art, (1995-1997). He was briefly Art Director at Tuttle Publishing, Tokyo (1998-1999). Since 2011, he is Professor at the University of Applied Science, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Their typefaces:

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Mindaugas Gavrilovas
[Studio Cyro]

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Ming Chew

Singapore-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Plus Minus (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Min-Joo Ham

Min-Joo Ham (Seoul, South Korea, b. 1985) is a type designer, typographer and a graphic designer who studied graphic design at the Seoul Women's University (2005-2009). After that, she designed typefaces at the Korean type foundry S-Core. In 2015, she graduated from the TypeMedia program in Den Haag, and settled in Berlin. Future Fonts link.

During her Bachelor's studies, she created the experimental Latin / Hangul typeface Bang.

She designed Core Label (2012, S-Core": with Hyun-Seung Lee). Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham jointly designed the programmers' typeface Eco Coding (2012) and the huge Core Sans, Core Sans G (geometric), Core Sans M and Core Sans N, Core Sans NR, and Core Sans N SC families (supported codepages are MS Windows 1252 Latin1, MS Windows 949 Korean (Hangul) consisting of 11,172 letters and KS Symbols (Korean Symbols)).

In 2013, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham jointly designed the layered type system Core Circus---as a reaction to the hugely successful Trend typeface by Latinotype, I guess. The slab version is Core Magic (2014). See also Core Circus Rough (2014) and Core Magic Rough (2014), both jointly designed by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim. Core Slab M (2013) is a 31-style companion of Core Sans M---it is a soft rounded slab with some seriffy tails mixed in with standard slab terminals. Core Mellow (2013) is a condensed organic rounded sans family that comes in 21 weights.

In 2014, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham co-designed Core Sans D, Core Sans A, Core Rhino, Core Narae Pro (a Comic Sans alternative) and Core Deco (a 14-style art deco family).

The rounded versions of the Core Sans E, D and G families were designed in 2015 by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim under the names Core Sans ES, Core Sans DS, and Core Sans GS.

In 2015, Min-Joo Ham designed the Latin / Hangul typeface Koppla (2015) as a graduation project from the TypeMedia program of KABK, Den Haag. Koppla comes in title, bold, book, text and italic styles.

In 2017, at Fust & Friends, where she is part of the founding group of designers, she published the layered colorable retro script typeface family Teddy, which is loosely inspired by an alphabet drawn by Ernst Bentele in 2017. The family was awarded at TDC Typeface Design 2018.

In 2019, she released Dunkel Sans at Future Fonts and wrote: Dunkel Sans is a buzzing heavy weight display font, perfect to leave a fierce impression on posters and signage applications.

Seol Sans (2018) is a full Korean font family developed by Minjoo Ham, Akira Kobayashi and the Monotype Design Team. It features Neue Frutiger (an extension of Adrian Frutiger's Frutiger) for its Latin glyphs, and works harmoniously with Neue Frutiger World and Monotype's CJK typefaces: Tazugane Gothic (Japanese) and M XiangHe Hei (Chinese). Variable fonts published in 2022: M XiangHe Hei SC Pro Variable, M XiangHe Hei SC Std Variable, M XiangHe Hei TC Variable, Seol Sans Variable, Tazugane Gothic Variable, Tazugane Info Variable.

In 2020, she released Blazeface Hangeul at Future Fonts.

In 2020, Minjoo Ham and Mark Frömberg set up Hypertype in Berlin, a studio that specializes in Latin and Hangul scripts. They promptly designed Neutronic and Neutronic Hangul, which are proportional descendants of Mark Frömberg's earlier monospaced typeface, Gintronic.

At Github, Minjoo Ham and Mark Frömberg published the Latin / Hangul typeface family Hahmlet (2020). Hahmlet is inspired by a poster for the Korean Hamlet movie from the 1940s, created by an unknown letterer. Free download at Google Fonts. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Minttu Nurminen

Visual designer in Turku, Finland, who created the paperclip typeface Kati (2015), the experimental party typeface Late (2015), and the lava lamp typeface Sprout in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mir Waceeq

At the National Institute Of Fashion Technology, Mir Waceeq (Chennai, India) designed the free symmetric experimental typeface Duality (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mira Khandpur

Designer in Brooklyn, NY, who created the circular compass-and-ruler virtual identity typeface Brooklyn Bridge Park in 2016. Its glyphs are sectioned for easy coloring and stretching. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miranda Sehl

Creator of an alphabet with photographic light painting. Behance link. Miranda is a graphic designer in Albany, NY. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mireia Llosas

During her studies in Vilafranca de Panades, Spain, Mireia Llosas created the experimental typeface Aurora (2014), which plays on the theme of the wireless symbol icon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mirek Janczur

Mirek Janczur (Mirekulous, Albany, NY) created the free vector format halftone-themed texture typeface Burst (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miriam Sørli Onarheim

Graphic Design graduate of Solent University in Southampton, UK, who lives and works in Bergen, Norway. Her experimental typeface Mir Sans (2012 and 2013, vol. 1 and 2) is based on DIN.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mitch Greer

During his studies at Califonia College of the Arts, Mitch Greer designed the decorative and surreal typeface Dream and Fog (2019), and the experimental Octopus (2019) and East West Back And Forth (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mitch Oliveira

Aka mitch81093. During his studies at Flagler College, Saint Augustine, FL, Mitch Oliveira created the experimental typeface Screech (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mitchell Dupre

During his studies at Bowie State University, Landover, MD-based Mitchell Dupre Jr designed the geometric pattern typeface Thee Supre (2015). It is based on Russian suprematist art. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mithila Shafiq

For Neo2 magazine, she designed the (free) experimental alphabet (not a font) Molecular (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mitsutoshi Nobusawa
[Nobufont (was: Honey and Death)]

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Mizuki Tsujikawa

Born in France and raised in Japan, Mizuki Tsujikawa designed the experimental typeface Cube in 2016 at the School of Visual Art in New York. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MJ Graphics

Slupsk, Poland-based group that designed a dot matrix connect-the-dots typefaces in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mladen Balog

German designer of Molecular, Detector (2000, electrical circuit-themed letters) and Tsunami (2002) at T26. Not to be cofused with the 1998 Monotype font TsunamiMT. He also made the experimental font Weird (1996, Garcia Fonts). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mohamed Eissa

Cairo, Egypt-based designer of the experimental Arabic font Tasleem (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohamed Sayed Aouf

Graphic designer in Cairo, Egypt, who created Quadrilateral (2016), a free experimental Latin typeface obtained by superimposing parallelepids. He also designed the free font AX Curvature (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mohammed Shohail Bhuian
[Seemly Fonts (or: Fancy Fonts, Instagram Fonts, Comely Designs, or: Seemly Designs)]

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Moinzek
[Hendrick Rolandez]

Moinzek is Hendrick Rolandez, a designer in Bethoncourt, France who studied engineering at the institute of technology of Montbéliard.

He created the free art deco sans typeface Magna (2012), as well as a free and purely geometric typeface, ORI (2011), specifically for use in the design of logos.

In 2012, the condensed high-contrast fashion mag headline typeface Coco, also free, was published in eight styles. The 47 typeface (2012) pays homage to vintage lettering from 1947.

In 2013, Rolandez published the free contrasted fashion mag 12-style font family Valkyrie. Still in the didone fashion mag style, we find Glamor (2013), a free 24-font family.

In 2014, he created the free fashion mag typeface family Vanity.

Typefaces from 2021: Lea (a fashion mag didone).

Behance link. Dribble link. Aka Moinzek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moisés Arancibia
[SMOG (or: Santiago Motion Graphics)]

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Mok Ultra Pop Design

Graphic design and fashion outfit in Verona, Italy. Behance link. In 2009, they created a fun display typeface for 2010 Myflea Agenda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moksford
[Manfred Klein]

MoKsford Fraktur was roughly based on a bitmap font that came with the early Macs. Manfred made versions like Moksford BetaTest and Moksford Stencil. Other experimental typefaces of that era include Unciale Experimental, Jahn Caps Round (named after Klein's friend Joachim Jahn, who studied type with him in the fifties under G. G. Lange). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mom (or: MOM)
[Pedro Mascarenhas]

Mom is the foundry of Pedro Mascarenhas, a type designer from Lisbon (b. 1967, Lisbon). Creator of Art Deco Neue (2011, a hacker font).

In 2013, he published the poster / fashion mag display sans typefaces Eliane Ultra Light and Eliane Bold, and the double view experimental typeface Mirror Display.

In 2017, he published Align Vertical Mono.

Author of TyMS Typefaces Measure System (2021), a document that explains weights in typefaces, including nomenclature and best practices. In particular, he gives this ranking:
100 Hairline
150 Thin
200 ExtraLight
250 SemiLight
300 Light
350 Book
400 Regular
450 SemiMedium
500 Medium
550 SemiBold
600 Bold
650 DemiBold
700 ExtraBold
750 Heavy
800 Black
850 UltraBlack
900 ExtraBlack

HypeForType link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Momegraphic
[Agnes Jekli]

Agnes Jekli (Momegraphic) is a graphic designer in Budapest, Hungary. She developed an impressive multiline prismatic typeface called Agiko (2012), which was created for a Rubik's cube style puzzle. The letters of the alphabet are put together in a modular fashion by rotating and shifting basic multiline elements. This was done in cooperation with Aniko Köhegyes. She created another geometric typeface in 2012.

Behance link for Agnes Jekli. Behance link for Momegraphic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monica Fischer

German designer of the fifties diner family Frigidaire (2004, URW, designed with Peter Guckes) and of the handrwritten typeface Pirates&Robbers (2004, URW). Also with Peter Guckes, she created the experimental typeface Kettapila (2006, URW), the squarish and fashionable family FontForum Phet (2008, URW++) and the curvy Curly Lady (2006, URW++, with Peter Guckes).

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Monica Maccaux

Graphic designer, who has an MFA in Graphic Design at Otis College of Art & Design (Los Angeles) in 2012. She currently teaches graphic design at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is Creative Director at Blue Taco Design in Las Vegas. Monica created a few experimental typefaces in 2012, such as String Theory, Weird (a unicase typeface done with Sybille Hagmann; some initial work was done using FontStruct), Spoked (designed for a web site to promote bicycle awareness), and Triathlon (an organic typeface for triathletes, developed for her thesis project at Otis), and Weird (2011, experimental).

In 2013, she designed Kryptonian Script for Warner Bros' Man of Steel. In 2015, she created a typeface based on strings, Two Pencil Typeface, as well as the experimental typeface Motorix (released by the Psy/Ops type foundry in San Francisco).

In 2016, Monica Maccaux and Greg Lindy joined forces for the creation of the cursive school script font ABC Mouse Cursive.

Behance link. Blue Taco Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monica Vigo

Graduate of Miami Ad School. Madrid-based designer of Spree Park (2012, a fat counterless typeface), Batllo (2012, a wavy ornamental typeface to honor Gaudi), Diamante (2012, octagonal) and Typotato (2012, potato printing).

Varea (2013) was created for the identity of Irene Varea.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monom
[Dario Hofstetter]

Swiss outfit involved in type design. Run by graphic students at the HGKL, Amadeus Waltenspühl and Dario Hofstetter. They made 100 free truetype/opentype fonts: 001_monograf, 002_drei, 003_itchi, 004_tschiipoint, 005_dock, 006_molekular, 007_dart, 008_retne, 009_deuxtrois, 010_spacetab, 011_profil, 012_fumer, 013_sarger, 014_palcode, 015_chemic, 016_password, 017_river, 018_quader, 019_drugs, 020_cageone, 021_kravall, 022_tabs, 023_secret, 024_mops, 025_gitter, 026_a.dur, 027_fugu, 028_setball, 029_mars, 030_meteor, 031_code, 032_norm, 033_moses, 034_nonono, 035_raserblade, 036_rufio, 037_sugus, 038_xenix, 039_trace, 040_pepper, 041_collaps, 042_groove, 043_trickshot, 044_machine, 045_balk, 045_wood, 046_holeinone, 047_RZ, 048_blocktab, 049_raffel, 050_plaid, 051_bensen, 052_sargo, 053_window, 054_shavetab, 055_ruine, 056_dotsperinch, 057_amenon, 058_ment, 059_darttwo, 060_pointless, 061_skyline, 062_fett, 063_core, 064_enter, 065_arche, 066_screendesign, 067_chemicout, 068_b.dur, 069_korn, 070_salzstreuer, 071_archrune, 072_minim, 073_elloco, 074_opera, 075_fatcap, 076_flash, 077_manson, 078_upper, 079_render, 080_etage, 081_invader, 082_sagur, 083_korsett, 084_nagasaki, 085_mugge, 086_read, 087_macro, 088_amenam, 089_roomate, 090_worms, 091_wirbel, 092_please, 093_keyboard, 094_actop, 095_pina, 096_m.1280, 097_c.dur, 098_bens, 099_insider, 100_cagetwo. These are mostly pixel fonts, or basic shapes for ornaments. None of them are complete, but that is not the point---they are experimental. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Morgan Hayes

During her studies in Savannah, GA, Morgan Hayes designed the straight-edged experimental typeface Tessera (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Morgane Bhm

Parisian designer of fantastic futuristic lettering pieces, including one for Sophie Taeuber (2014) and one for an exhibition called Retrospective Albert Hollenstein (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Morice Kastoun
[Head First Design]

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Moritz Esser
[Tovaley Gestaltung]

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Mostafa Amin

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based designer of the free experimental Latin alphabet Hologram Letters (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mostar Design
[Olivier Gourvat]

Graphic and type design studio founded in La Boissière-d'Ans and/or Cubjac, France by Olivier Gourvat in 2004 and first located in Cubjac, Dordogne, France, and later in La Boissière-d'Ans, France. Olivier Gourvat originally worked as a graphic designer for various agencies, producing artwork, brands, corporate publicities and print layouts. He later joined the team at Chronicle Editions to create image content, cover designs, illustrations and maps for numerous books on the history of the twentieth century. Following his printing experience, he pursued web design and interactive web functions, founding a website company with three associates in 1999. Olivier is an über-talent.

Typefaces: Sofia (2009; a great sans family which includes a hairline weight), Sofia Pro (2012), Sofia Pro Soft (2014: a rounded version of Sofia Pro, soft as a baby's bottom), Sofia Rough (2015, letterpress emulation and layering, in the style of Trend or Nexa Rust), Sofia Rough Script (2015), Hexagon, Microbia, Bucharest, Interval (Condensed, Sans), Neolux (experimental), Riga (sans family), Visoko (striped; Visoko is a playful, geometric typeface inspired by post-modern fonts designed by Mecanorma in the 80s), Glamwords (2009, a 1970's glitter style face), Mozziano (2009, purely geometric), UNIcod Sans Pro (2010, a techno sans family), Kyrial Display Pro (2011, a mini-serifed sans family).

In 2012, Olivier Gourvat designed the flared typeface family Kara which was inspired by Basque (Euskaran).

Mettro Pro (2013) is an elliptical sans family that could attract a large fan base. Its hairline weight is called Mettro Air. A few weeks later, we learn that this family was renamed Metronic Pro. And a month later, Gourvat published Metronic Slab Pro (2013). It was followed by Metronic Slab Narrow in 2014.

Typefaces from 2014: Filson Pro (a geometric sans family with curvy R, k and t).

Typefaces from 2015: Univia Pro (a squarish sans family), Strato Pro (not to be confused with Sophie Brown's Strato from 2013; Strato is a legible classical roman serif typeface family), Chronica Pro (a clean geometric sans workhorse).

Typefaces from 2016: Interval Next (a successor of Interval Sans Pro), Filson Soft, Fengo (an oriental brush typeface by Olivier and Jean-Claude Gourvat that was influenced by Sino-Japanese and traditional Chinese hieroglyphic characters).

Typefaces from 2017: Rival Sans, Magnetic Pro (inspired by typewriter characters; with a mechanical aspect), Rival (slab serif).

In 2018, Olivier added Rival Slab and the soft sans serif Marlon Pro.

Typefaces from 2019: Archeron Pro (a sharp-edged serif and stencil typeface family), Ariana Pro (a 9-style geometric sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Natom Pro (an 18-style chunky low contrast geometric sans), Natom Pro Variable (a geometric sans), Sofia Pro Variable.

MyFonts link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Klingspor link. MyFonts interview. Images of some of Olivier Gourvat's commercial typefaces. Fontspring link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mr. Kuns

Creative studio in Pachuca de Soto, Mexico. Creator(s) of the experimental geometric solid typeface Kuns (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Muhammad Syadiq

Singapore-based designer of an experimental geometric alphabet in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Muhammed Geffir Al-Ridha

Indonesian designer (b. 1992) of Trifont (2011), a purely geometric counterless experiment.

Dafont link. Muhammed lives in Bandung. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MuirMcNeil Design Systems
[Hamish Muir]

MuirMcNeil Design Systems is a project-based collaborative between Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil, est. 2010. Their activities are focussed on exploring parametric design systems to generate appropriate solutions to visual communication problems. Hamish Muir is a founding principal of 8vo (1985-2001) and co-editor of Octavo (1986-1992). He currently combines work as an independent graphic design consultant specialising in editorial, information and systems design with teaching part-time at the London College of Communication. Paul McNeil is a London-based independent graphic design consultant specialising in type, information and systems design. He is a Senior Lecturer in Postgraduate Graphic Design at the London College of Communication and lead developer, MA Contemporary Typographic Media.

They have several parametric and modular software systems for typography and type design. These include 20-20 (done in 1974: a modular design idea in the spirit of FontStructor, but without any active software), Interact (done in 1994---grid-based parametric screen fonts), Three Six (an experimental optical / geometric type system consisting of six typefaces in eight weights. It explores the possibilities of using systematic principles to generate geometric typeforms which are distinctive at large point sizes but which can also be read at smaller sizes in bodies of extended text), Four Two (an extension of Three Six). The Three Six project led to a number of multiparametric dot fonts. It was published by FontFont in 2012.

In 2014, four commercial modular and pixelish typeface families were published, Panopticon (a system of layered 3d geometric typefaces), Intersect, Nine (Metric, Mono) and Interact. In that series, the nine-weight geometric almost-typewriter typeface Nine Mono (monospaced and monoline) stands out. The superfamily of pixelish and dot matrix fonts Two followed in 2015.

Muir helped Dalton Maag with the development of Tephra (2008), an experimental multi-layered LED-inspired family.

In 2016, the designed the dot matrix-themed identity for Typecon on the theme Resound. Still in 2016, MuirMcNeil released the geometric stencil typeface Cut.

THD Sentient (2017) is an all-capitals monolinear rounded proportionally spaced all caps sans type family in four weights, designed by Tim Hutchinson in collaboration with MuirMcNeil.

In 2017, Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir co-designed the stencil family Five.

Typefaces from 2018: Farset (MuirMcNeil and John McMillan), Feirste (a gaelic typeface by MuirMcNeil and John McMillan). Farset and Feirste are digital reinterpretations of the tiled lettering used for Belfast's historic street signage in matching Latin and Gaelic scripts.

In 2020, they released the Bauhaus typeface Two Bar Mono to complement the TwoPoint, TwoPlus and TwoBit series. Interlock (2020) is an experimental geometric bitmap typeface.

Worm (2021) is an experimental modular type system designed in seven compatible weights.

Typetoken link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Murmure
[Julien Alirol]

Created in December 2009, Murmure is a communication, design, web and art agency. It is composed of four members: Julien Alirol, Graphic Designer, Photographer&Web Designer; Simon Roche, CTO&Illustrator; Paul Ressencourt, Art Director; Cyrille Baekelandt, Programmer&SEO. Headquartered in Caen, its web site is based in Lille. They seem to have moved to Paris.

Designers of the ink drip face Typollok (2010), named after Jackson Pollok, who initiated the dripping ink technique.

In 2018, Jeremy Landes (Studio Triple), under the art direction of Julien Alirol and Paul Ressencourt, published the great display sans typeface Le Murmure, which won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mussy Simohamed

During his studies at the University of Huddersfield, UK, Mussy Simohamed (Leeds, UK) created the Tyre Art typeface (2014). He writes: This typeface was inspired by Toyata IQ typeface project. I tried replicating what they did but in a different way. I used my hand and a toy wheel taken from a JCB toy truck. Then I scanned the work and worked on it digitally.

He is in awe of assault rifles, and thus created the ornamental caps typeface Arsenal (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mustafa Eren

Istanbul, Turkey-based winner in the Chartpak Designer Velvet Touch Transfer Lettering Typeface Competition in 1988 for Diodyma, who works as a calligrapher. In 2020, he designed Kaunos at Hurufatfont. Kaunos experiments with serifs. Still in 2020, he released Lotape (calligraphic; digitized by Oguzhan Cengiz), Fibula (a display type), Didyma (a bilined display font), and Anglez (a formal swashy calligraphic script so named as it is inspired by the English Script) at Hurufatfont. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

My Name is Wendy
[Carole Gautier]

The Parisian design studio My Name is Wendy was founded in 2006 by Carole Gautier and Eugénie Favre. Their typefaces, often for clients, and nearly always experimental and on the edge, include

  • Burlesk (2018).
  • New Fabrik (2014). An industrial sans.
  • ViewWriter. Almost a typewriter type.
  • Paulownia. Curvy and experimental.
  • Wendy (2014). A bicolored monoline sans.
  • Freaks Alphabet (2014). A decorative caps typeface.
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mynameistosh

Creator of the Prefab typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Myriam Cordoba

Madrid-based designer of the straight-edged experimental typeface Angle (2013), which only uses directions determined by an isosceles triangle. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Myrza Nurlina

Shah Alam, Malaysia-based designer of the experimental car taillights font Optilight (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mzikayise Sithole

Born in Soweto, this designer now works in Johannesburg. Diamonds inspired him to create Taemane (2012). Taemane is Diamond in Sesotho.

In 2011, he made M Font, in which all letters are somehow derived from "m".

In 2012, he created the Learn Braille Font.

Old Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nacho Lavernia
[Lavernia&Asociados]

[More]  ⦿

Nadia Frolova

Russian photographer and graphic designer who created the experimental squarish typeface Plane (2010). Flickr page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nadia Paez Bertolotto

Ibiza-based Spanish graphic designer who made the square experimental typeface Arena (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nadir Ayden Tegguia

At Ecole de Condé in Lyon, France, https://www.behance.net/Nadir_Ayden_Tegguia designed the modular experimental typeface Mofik (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nagesh Shinde

[T-26] designer of the experimental typeface Seven (1999). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nakul Talgeri

Art director in Bangalore City. Creator of the Latin display typeface Kinglish (2014). Kinglish was a crowdsourced font created using a beer mug mark on coasters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Namaste

French creator of the free 3d experimental block font Namafont (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Namhee Kim

Creator of Locked Typeface (2015), which appears to be a school project at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NaN
[Luke Prowse]

British autodidact (b. 1983) who worked for or with Neville Brody's Research Studios, and founded NaN in 2020. He is based in Berlin. NaN was co-founded with Sydney-based Markus Piper.

Prowse designed the sans typeface Book First. In 2006, he created Times Modern, designed for The Times. It was first used on November 20, 2006. Reaction from the typophiles.

Sans Papier (2007, Umbrella Type, Veer) is a halftone and paper-inspired experimental concoction. Oscilloscope (2007) is a typeface in which the oultlines seem to be electrified---he calls it Filtered licks of electric, programmatic arcs. Crafted code, coded nodes, amphatic wave forming calm storming sparks. Oscilloscope is three juicy bolts of blue-volted love.

In 2018, Brody Associates announced their custom font, TCCC Unity, for Coca Cola. It was jointly designed by Neville Brody and Luke Prowse.

At NaN, he released the 10-style monospaced experimental serif family Nan Weiss (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: NaN Holo (), Rubik Beastly (a hairy version of the Google Font Rubik by Hubert and Fischer, Meir Sadan and Cyreal; The code used to generate it can be found here), NaN Fiasco (a disobedient sans-serif drawing inspiration from errata in the design, application and reproduction of letterforms).

Further additions to the generative font family Rubik in 2022, all published at Google Fonts: Rubik Wet Paint, Rubik Puddles, Rubik Moonrocks, Rubik Microbe, Rubik Bubbles, Rubik Glitch. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nano Radijas

Designer of the mysterious typeface Pink Noise (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Napoleon Services (was: Napoleon Typefaces)
[Erik Sachse]

Berlin (was: Weimar), Germany-based designer of the experimental straight-edged typeface Milumena (2016), the free font Ekkku (2016) and the geometric sans typeface Agggo (2016).

In 2019, as Napoleon Typefaces, he is showcasing and offering his experimental types: CheesyTots (2018), Heartbeats (2019), JonsHair (2018), Pito (2019), SerifNo02 (2019), Starla (2018: a great mono-height geometric typeface family), Summer (2019), Tina&Ben (2019), Captain Cadet (2019: text typeface).

Typefaces from 2020: Booz-uhm, Pito Slab. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nastya Ens

Moscow, Russia-based designer of the experimental typeface Mitosis (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nastya Sokha

During her studies in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Anastasiia Sokha designed an elaborate deco typeface called Memphis (2015). The name refers the Memphis Style promoted by the Memphis group in 1981, for whom decoration and styling was a game to combat austere modernism. They achieved this by combining flashy geometric shapes with bright colors. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natalia Drabik

Visual communication student in Berlin. She created the missing-piece typeface Economy (2011) as an experiment. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natalia Mirapleix

Spanish designer who created the free experimental typeface Orquidea in 2004 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natalie Rauch

From 2009 until 2013, Natalie Rauch studied towards a Bachelors in Communications Design at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Germany. In 2014, she obtained a Masters in Type Design at the University of Reading, UK. During an internship at Carrois Type Design in 2012, she created the experimental sharp-edged typeface Kink. For her Bachelors in 2013, she created the modern fashion mag typeface Anouk.

For her Masters at Reading, she developed the angular typeface family Raikka (2014). Raikka is a forceful unconventional multiscript typeface family that covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew. It is characterized by a calligraphic almost fuzzy italic that is in sharp contrast to the more severe regular weight. It was published in 2016 at bBox Type, where she also published Lonne (2017).

In 2019, she designed the fat high-waisted art deco typeface Oggle at Future Fonts. Type Department link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natalija Nikpalj Polondak

Born in 1971 in Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated on Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where she now works as an assistant. Simultaneously, she is doing a masters degree at ALU, Ljubljana, Slovenija, specializing in Visual Communications Design. Winner of an award at the 2005 FUSE type competition with her experimental security-oriented typeface "Monitoring". Digital reviver of the nice angular glagolitic font family Vrbnik Missal style (angular glagolitic, 1456) consisting of GLAG_1 (1995) and NIKI_l (1995). These fonts can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natalya Smirnova

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the experimental geometric 3d Cyrillic typeface Graphic Archaeology (2016), which was created as a project for the British Higher School of Art and Design. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natanael Gama
[Ndiscover (or: Ndiscovered; was: Natenine Type)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Natasa Gondry Denic

Graphic designer and typographer in Belgrade and Brussels. She created some counterless experimental typefaces in 2009 such as FullMetalTypo. The experimental (2d and 3d) typeface CF followed in 2010, and the hairline art deco typeface Chaplin in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natasha Lucas

Designer Natasha Lucas first began a series of visual experiments examining the interdependence of positive and negative spaces in typographic forms back in 2018 with her Bisect type system. Bisect was part of a larger coordinated visual system promoting a series of Harold Pinter's memory plays. She also designed the sister type system Diode (2020) at MuirMcNeil. In her own words: Bisect and its new sister alphabet Diode are intended to express the progressive fragmentation of language as it is eroded by the selective, faulty nature of memory. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natasha Michael Cherriath

During her studies, Dubai-based Natasha Michael Cherriath created an experimental suitcase-inspired typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nate Nielson

Cheney, WA-based designer of these typefaces: Arthuriel (medieval), Berkyspex (techno), BeviaGrowth (experimental), Brenin (unicase uncial), Brickfun (pixel), Bywater (uncial), Cheetah (fat display), Cipher (octagonal), Crown (uncial), Delivar, Drive, Drumsage, Efficient, Fanghorne (uncial), Figbead, Gaelothic (celtic), Galiden, Handshake (lego style), Havinoth (uncial), Humolion (experimental), Knowledge (indic simulation), Lancaster (indic simulation), Neoxidan, Nightime (uncial), Ockiahex (hexagonal), Paradox, Parfiche, Piecemeal, Pickel (pixel), Providian (uncial), Realight (fun experimental), Reliner (indic simulation), Rhubarb, Ribbon, Rimvet, Runestick (runes), Sageight, Skipfrog, Subrail, Toystack (pixel), Umbrella (clean geometric face), Valifas (uncial), Webgura, Westmarch. I assume that most typefaces were done in 2004-2005. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathalie Ashraf

Cairo, Egypt-based designer of an experimental subtractive Latin typeface called Incomplete (2013). It was part of a project at the German University in Cairo. She also created the Arabic compass-and-ruler typefaces Al Dababa (2014) and Coco (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathalie Nicklin

Graphic designer and illustrator in London. She created an experimental modular triangular typeface in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathaly Soto

Cartago, Costa Rica-based designer of the experimental typeface Freshline (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathan Collet

During his studies in Paris, Nathan Collet created ID font (2015), a geometric alphabet for an Irma Boom retrospective (2014, done with Maxime Cresseaux) and an experimental typeface, Archive (2014), for a music group.

In 2016, Nathan Collet, Antoine Desfilis and François Andrivet created the type design program that uses scanned fingerprints to create skeleton letters.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathan Connor

During his studies at Arts University Bournemouth, Nathan Connor created Sinuous Type (2015), whch is an experiment in which letters in existing fonts are morphed by mimicking the degrees of sinuosity of certain rivers, each river having its own characteristic curvature pattern. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathan Ellis

Birmingham, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface AZ Triangles (2015). This project was completed during his studies at UWTSD in Wales. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathan Tripp

American designer of the experimental typeface Negatively Positive (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nathanael Hemon
[Slang Graphic Design]

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Naum Type
[Pyotr Bushuev]

Peter or Pyotr Bushuev is the Pskov, Russia-based designer of the geometric typeface families Umbero (2016, retro deco) and Kontora (2016, for Latin and Cyrillic). He also designed the brush typeface Burelom (2015).

Typefaces from 2017: Juxta (Sans, Sans Mono, Script), Juxta Sans Mono, Ravensara Antiqua Stencil, Ravensara Sans, Ravensara Serif (a high contrast fashion mag font derived from didones; in Sans and Serif styles).

Typefaces from 2019: Base + Bloom (experimental).

Typefaces from 2020: Strikt (a viariable pixelish font on a 3x3 grid with two axes, weight and animation), Cascadeur (Pyotr writes: Cascadeur is a variable modular sans with 3 axes, a modernistic hommage to space-age typography).

Type Department link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nayantara Pande

During her studies in Pune, India, Nayantara Pande created the experimental poster typeface Provocateur (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ndiscover (or: Ndiscovered; was: Natenine Type)
[Natanael Gama]

Ndiscovered (and before that, Natenine Type) is Natanael Gama's site in Lisbon (earlier, in Caldas da Rainha), Portugal. Born in 1988, Natanael's first font is Chumbo (2010). Joana Correia joined forces in Ndiscovered.

In 2011, Natanel Gama designed Intimacy and Exo (free at Google Web Fonts). Free download. Exo is a rounded techno font family in 9 styles. See also Exo2 at Google Web Fonts, Open Font Library, and Fontspace. In 2015, he added the futuristic slab serif Exo Slab Pro and the beautiful rounded elliptical Exo Soft. A custom version of Exo2 was developed for Dutch Tv Channel BNNVARA in 2017. The free Ezarion (2018) completes the Exo2 family.

In 2012, he added the roman inscription style typeface family Cinzel, classic, well-proportioned and just drop dead gorgeous. And free. See also Google Web Fonts and the CTAN site. There is also the Cinzel Decorative subfamily, and a flowery decorative caps version of this by Nguyen Luan (2018).

Typefaces from 2013: Genica (a tweetware signage script).

Typefaces from 2014: Genica Pro, Mangerica, Mangerica Italic. Definitely, a very Latin sans, described by Natanael as follows: This design incorporates different styles into a consistent look. A pinch of script, a little of geometric and some humanist shapes as well create a very distinguishable sans-serif.

Typefaces from 2015: Taylor Sans (free at Open Font Library).

In 2016, Joana Correia and Natanael Gama co-designed the Latin / Tamil typeface Arima Madurai (free at Google Fonts). Their Arima Koshi (2016) covers Tamil, Malayalam and Latin. In 2016, Joana Correia and Natanael Gama co-designed the connected typeface Tidy Script at Indian Type Foundry.

Typefaces from 2017: Bruta Pro (Natanael Gama), Bruta Global (Natanael Gama), Artigo Global (a Venetian typeface by Joana Correia), Artigo Pro (a Venetian typeface by Joana Correia).

Typefaces from 2018: Opake (an experimental typeface in which the outlines are made with a single continuous looping curve), Feltro (brush script), Mastro Sans, Square Grotesk (free at Open Font Library), Point (a great geometric sans), Nazare.

Typefaces from 2019: Worker 3D, Ribbon Generator (free), Nazare Exuberant, Point Soft (a rounded sans family), Worker (an industrial all caps font family).

Typefaces from 2020: Thrillers (a display typeface for crime novel titles), Gluy (a 20-style almost geometric sans family that has a splendid hairline weight and a vigorous black style), Mastro (a 72-style text family with optical sizing).

Typefaces from 2021: Sinete (interlocking monograms), Fastpen (a monoline script).

Fontsquirrel link. Fontspace link. Behance link. Creative Market link. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Néstor Alejandro Ferranti

Argentinian designer (b. 1985) of the elegant and slightly spooky experimental typeface Dilana Experimentype (2008). Fontsy link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

nebo

Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of Mesevo (fuzzy look), Nebo, Proba (pixel face), Koschey (experimental), Sport2 and Sport3 (blocky), Mesevo2. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Negro
[Ariel Di Lisio]

Negro is a design site where some commercial fonts can be found, all designed by Ariel Di Lisio, a native of Buenos Aires. He studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires. From 1993 to 1997 he worked in the design department at Puma. Since 2015, he is a professor at FADU / UBA in Buenos Aires. Still in 2015, he set up Nodo Type Foundry in Buenos Aires together with Mexican designer Aldo Arillo.

His typefaces from before 2010: Marzo (2008: a hairline vogue typeface commissioned by the Argentinian mag Atypica), Donuts (2008: a layer of round upon a layer of round), Paz (2008: a stylish night club or fashion magazine family---stunning), Lynda (2008: an octagonal/mechanical face), Lunes (2007: art deco), Day (2007: art deco), Friday (2007: art deco), Nigga (2007: an ultra-fat art deco typeface with an experimental edge), Love (2007: a mini-serifed geometric beauty), Santino (2008: trying to bring waves into a simple sans face), Normal (2008: gorgeous, geometric and galant), Mate (2008: a geometric all caps typeface for magazine headlines), Caracas (2008), Soko (2009), Stola (2008), Pink (2008: experimental), Cascabel (2009: a kitchen tile typeface digitized by Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos), James (2009: a bullet hole-themed face), Inlove (2009, Sudtipos: a Lubalin-style poster face designed by Di Lisio and digitized by Alejandro Paul).

Typefaces shown in 2010, mostly experimental / geometric / art deco: Destiny, Drimpy, Hongki, Mobile, Moonglow, Normal, Vincent.

In 2011, Ariel published the futurismo face Saturna at Sudtipos [and I do not understand HypeForType's claim that it is an exclusve HypeForType font]. Their offices are in Buenos Aires and Caracas.

Typefaces from 2012 include Uma (with Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos: a gorgeous two-weight monoline sans family).

In 2013, he created the stencil typeface Anima for a housing project in Punta Chica, San Fernando, Argentina.

In 2015, he designed the cold sans typeface family Stockholm Type, and the display typeface Roska. In 2015, he set up Nodo Type Foundry in Buenos Aires together with Mexican designer Aldo Arillo.

Negro Nouveau link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Neha Ghag

Mumbai-based designer of an experimental typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neil Duerden

Based in Manchester, UK, Neil Duerden designed the experimental font Squish Sqoosh Sans Wide in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nelle McDade

Originally from Boston, Nelle McDade studied communicatrion design at Parsons in New York. Creator of an experimental pixelish CSS3-based typeface (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nemanja Jehlicka

Illustrator, art director and experimental type designer in Belgrade, Serbia. Blog. Creator of Zone Type Bold (2011, grotesque). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nemury (was: Tsuyatsuya Nemury)
[Tomosuki Kurosawa]

Tokyo-based designer of the geometric solid typefaces Patchwork App (2014) and Kikagiga (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neo2

Free experimental typefaces usually associated with the Neo2 blog and magazine. In Spanish. Neo2 (the magazine) started in 1994. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nepfont Digital Foundry
[Oszkár Boskovitz]

Hungarian type designer who studied at MOME, Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Budapest, Hungary, BA and MA, Communication Design, 1995-2000. Oszkár Boskovitz ran Nepfont Digital Foundry, and at some point, ca. 2009, changed its name to Fontbistro (dead link). He digitized the award-winning typeface family Pannon (2001) made by Edit Zigány in 1972. He is working on a book that will summarize Hungarian type in the 1970s and 1980s. His repertoire:

  • Experimental typefaces: Balek (2005), Cassius (2001), Tubyfex (2005).
  • Stencil: Syrup (2005), Digital Sherpa (2002), Tilos (2002, rough stencil family), Wagon (2001, another rough-edged family).
  • Brush style: Ecsetirás (2001, based on a typeface of Zoltán Nagy, 1967).
  • Techno: Krax (2001, free), Konwektor (2001), Moab (2002, family), Shrapnel (2004, octagonal family).
  • Signpainting: Thaifun (2003).
  • Simple monospaced fonts: Monostar (2002).
  • Unicase: Troppauer (2005, many weights).
  • Text families: Pannon Antiqua (2001, based on a family by Edit Zigány (1972).
  • Testosterone enhanced typefaces: Pluto (2006).
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Nerea

Designer of several experimental typefaces (2014) who is based in Sevilla, Spain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nermin Moufti

Syrian typographer and graphic designer in Chicago, who has also worked in Dubai and Toronto. Nermin holds a BSc in Visual Communications from the American University of Sharjah (UAE), as well as an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Media and Design from OCAD. She created the cooking utensil alphading typeface Shai (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neubau Berlin (or: NB Typography, or: Neubau Laden)
[Stefan Gandl]

Stefan Gandl was the designer at Designer Shock in Berlin of the pixel fonts DS1D, DS2D, DS3D, DSClone, DSClone3D, DSCutout, DSImitate, DSMufdi, DSMufdi3DL, DSMufdi3DR, DSNSW45, DSNSW55, DSNSW65, DSNSW75, DSNSW85, DSNSW95, DSP9RMX (with Markus Angermeier), DSP9RMX3D, DSSQR35, DSSQR45, DSSQR55, DSSQR553DL, DSSQR553DR, DSSQR65, DSSQR75, DSSQR85, DSTicket35, DSTicket45, DSTicket55, DSTicket65, DSTicket75, DSTicket85, DSTicket95, DSVDOTXT1, DSVDOTXT2, DSVDOTXTError. At the end of 2001, he established Neubau Berlin or NB Typography. He created DS Yakuti (experimental) and DS Lane (2001, trilined) at Die Gestalten. Fonts at Neubau include NB55RMS, NB55RBX, NB55RLS, NB55MS, NB55BX, NB55SET, NBFETT, NBFORM, NBRUND, NBTRANSFER, NBUNIVERS, and NBBLOCK, which are all mostly futuristic-looking designs. In 2008, they added the beautiful 6-weight (35, 45, 55, 65, 75, 85) NBGrotesk family (+Mono, +Mono Stencil), also by Stefan Gandl. In the Neubau series, we also find the gorgeous didone display typeface NB Antiqua Nero (+Italic), NB Antiqua Roman, Antiqua Libro, and NB Typewriter.

NB Architekt and NB Architekt Neue (2015) pay tribute to blueprint typefaces used during the Letraset era. The typeface is a classic modern monoline monospace that was originally designed by Gandl in 2002 and named NB55RMS.

Neubau made a concerted effort in the Akzidenz Grotesk genre. The classical AG became the starting point for the development of Neubau's distilled grotesque NBGrotesk (2008)---a strongly restricted, grid-based, brutally honest and optically non-corrected mono line type system comprising 28 styles. An optically balanced version of NB Grotesk's skeleton resulted in Neubau's popular NB International (2014) type system paying homage to the "international style" era. Coming full circle with NB International's conceptual successor---NB Akademie---(2016-2020) is a more distinctive and refined follower inspired by the studio homegrown Berlin influences. The in house, non-retail and beta versions of NB Akademie are called NB National. Gandl writes: The typeface's infuences and naming go way back to legendary German type designer Ferdinand Theinhardt and his revolutionary typeset Royal Grotesk (1880) designed for the publications of the Königlich-Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. After selling his own type foundry Ferd. Theinhardt Schriftgiesserei Berlin Theinhardt's Royal Grotesk became internationally successful as Berthold's Akzidenz Grotesk (1896)---the godmother of all modern grotesque typefaces.

Other typefaces: NB Plan Pro, Postmates (2017).

Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neue Deutsche (was: Der Graph)
[Wolf Böse]

Wolf Böse (Der Graph, NeueDeutsche, est. 2010, Berlin) is the alias of prolific German experimental font designer Thomas Helbig. His typefaces date from ca. 2009. In 2021, he opened a shop on MyFonts as NeueDeutsche. His typefaces there, published in 2021, include ND Dildo (an 8-style sex-positive rounded sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), ND Gestalt (experimental and circle-based), ND Kronenberg (experimental and circle-based), ND Alias (a modular font that uses basic geometric elements) and ND Gambit (an experimental font with glyphs composed of arcs, circles and line segments). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Neueform Studio
[Hakeem Abel Ben Youssef]

Lyon, France-based studio whose typefaces (such as Meteorite (2017) and Transnationale (2017)) are mainly logotypes or experimental. In 2018, Hakeem Abel Ben Youssef published the monoline sans typeface family Droiture as well as a smilarly styled Arabic typeface at Neueform. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neville Brody
[Brody Fonts (was: Brody Associates, Research Studios, Research Arts UK)]

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New Tropical Design Studio
[Tom Cunningham]

Byron Bay, Australia-based designer of these fonts in 2018: Modernist Milk (stencil), Signwriter, Cloak (stencil), Stamp & Co, Merchant (vintage sans), Big Show (layerable), Sea Spray (experimental minimalist stencil).

Typefaces from 2019: Farmhouse, Sophillia (an elegant sharp-edged display typeface), Modernica Tropico (a fashion mag titling typeface), Grange (a fine high-contrast fashion font), Dahlia (a mini-serifed font), Sunflora (a fashion font with some linked letters), Rockwell (a wedge serif---it takes a loy of chutzpah to design a typeface called Rockwell that is not a slab serif...), Botanica (an all caps fashion font), Coast & Co, Hunter, Marigold, MariSans, Work & Wear, Avalanche (a warm vintage wedge serif), Kinfolk, Wrangler, Sundays.

Typefaces from 2020: Salsico, Milkman, Evangelina (a hipsterish fashion mag font), Culture, Commune, Zephyr, Classico, Analogue, Gallery Modern (a sharp-edged display serif), Mattina Sera SVG (a dry brush typeface by Laura Bennett for New Tropical Design), Geomatik (a minimalist sans), Tangerine (a 1970s style display typeface), Sage (a high contrast decorative didone), Monte Carlo (a stylish all caps typeface).

Typefaces from 2021: Ginger (a romantic and artsy display serif), Silvera (a display serif), Stoned Youth (a disturbing graphic sans), Sign Writer, South Pacific, Grange (an extreme contrast fashion mag typeface), Vineyard (an ornate serif), Raygun Grotesk, Evangelina (a hipster display serif), Cost del Sol, Angelica (a display serif), Seaker (a decorative serif), Palm Springs, Starlight (a decorative serif), Palm Tree Icons (in vector format), Yorker (a decorative serif), Future Classic Sans, Lost Lovers (a boutique font), Sunshower Dreams.

Typefaces from 2022: Evangelina (a fashion mag typeface), Dark Paradise (serif). Type Department link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ngoc Le

Ho Chi Minh City-based designer of the free Adobe Illustrator format typeface Time (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

N-Gon

American designer (b. 1985) of the squarish experimental typeface Square Limit MCE (2004) and the scribbly handwriting typeface Visual Purple (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nguyen Type
[Andree Nguyen]

Nguyen Type is a small type foundry founded by Andree Nguyen in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In 2019, Andree released the display typeface family Iconique Sans, the cross-cultural Latin typeface House of Nguyen (2019) and the fantastic decorated caps typeface Khong Gian Am (2019: inspired by negative things and sins). In 2020, Andree designed Iconique Serif and the experimental typefaces Froot Mono and Seed Mono. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nhat Pham

Manchester, UK-based student designer of some experimental typefaces in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nice To Type (was: Übertype)
[Andreas Uebele]

Übertype, later renamed Nice To Type, is an independent type foundry based in Stuttgart, Germany and Japan. Established by Gabriel Richter and Andreas Uebele in 2017, Übertype designs and publishes high-quality typefaces for text and display with the focus on exceptional design and rigorous technical precision. Programming by Petr Pscolka, Opentype support by Alphabet Type, and font production by Christoph Koeberlin. Typefaces:

  • Massimo Grafia (2017, by Gabriel Richter and Andreas Uebele). Massimo Grafia is a vast experimental linear-grotesque typeface in four weights, with an option for more kink.
  • Crack Grotesk (2018, Gabriel Richter). A geometric sans.
  • Blow (2019, Yanik Hauschild). A display family.

Andreas Uebele (b. 1960) studied architecture and urban planning at the University of Stuttgart, and art at the Stuttgart State Academy of art and design. In 1996, he founded his own visual communications agency in Stuttgart, and since 1998 has been a professor for communications design at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NiceToMeetYou

Mrio (NiceToMeetYou) is into experimental type. His work includes Stitched to Death (2007) and the experimental stencil typeface Neue.Bold (2007). No sales or downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicholas Cintrón

Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface MoSys01 (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicholas Felton
[FELTRON]

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Nicholas Martin

Kingston, Jamaica-based creator of the modular techno typeface Curb (2013) and of Elemental Caps (2013, geometric and experimental). He also made the octagonal typeface Base (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicholas Zugaib

Creative director and founder of BOZ Design in London. He blended two fonts to make the experimental typeface Arrow (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Jones

British designer of the experimental typeface Pea Brain (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Kandy
[Grinder Collective]

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Nick Larson

Graphic designer in Salt Lake City, UT who created an experimental font in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Nedashkovskiy
[NN Type Foundry (or: NN Studio)]

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Nick Shea

Nick Shea is a designer based in East London. Creator of Ombra Brutal, which began as a brutalist interpretation of the typeface Motter Ombra designed by Othmar Motter.

Nick experiments widely with type. Noteworthy is his Albers Moiré, which is part of a project for creating complex type designs with a limited and easily interchangeable set of parts. The structure of Albers Moiré is based on the Bauhaus stencil type designs by Joseph Albers, and uses radiating lines to achieve the moiré effect when layered. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Sugiyama

Illustrator in Eugene, OR, who designed the cut up Times New Roam typeface New New Roman (2016) and the art deco typeface WC Fields Deco (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nick Wagner

Nick Wagner (Nick Wagner Design, Denver, CO) created the experimental typeface Cake Type (2012) and the organic sans typeface Zealot (2011).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicola Ball

Third year graphic design student at Salford University, who lives in Manchester, UK. Behance link.

She used Fibonacci patterns in her creation of the Turing alphabet (2012), named in celebration of Alan Turing's 100th birthday. Dutch city bikes inspired her in the design of the spoke and wheel font Amsterdam (2012).

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Nicola Giordani

Milan-based creator of the connect-the-dots typeface Concept (2012).

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Nicolas Gavrilenko

During his studies in Paris, Nicolas Gavrilenko designed the experimental typeface Paradox (2016). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicolas Millot
[Bureau d'Investigation Graphique]

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Nicolas Queffelec

French graphic designer located in Paris who created the experimental rubber band typeface Elasticum (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicolas Rodriguez

Graphic designer in Aix-en-Provence, France, who created the experimental typeface Build This Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Bogochow

Originally from the greater Boston area, Nicole Bogochow graduated with a BFA in Graphic and Interactive Communications from Ringling College of Art and Design. She is currently a freelance graphic designer residing in Sarasota, FL. Nicole experimented with hybrid typefaces. Her Industrial Sans (2014) blends Industria Std LT and Cottonwood, while Haiku combines Fette Fraktur with Ex Ponto in the strangest of marriages. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Charshaf

Beaverton, OR-based student. Creator of the experimental serif typeface Taurine (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Gavrilles

Boston-based photographer and typographer who is studying at Ringling College of Art and Design. The letter Y inspired her to create the experimental family Weye (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicole Gosé

Visual designer in Los Angeles, CA, who created the experimental typeface Flip The Serif (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicu Balan

Bucharest-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Linia (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nihar Patade

Mumbai-based student-designer of the straight-edged typeface Lines (2014) and the experimental geometric typeface 360 (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikhil More

Mumbai-based type and graphic designer. Creator of Mrs Chatterjee (2009, experimental) and Industrialization (2009, modular). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikiforos Kollaros

Athens, Greece-based designer of Ancor Pro (2010), a typeface in which some Bezier sections were removed in DIN. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikita Ezhevsky

Caddo, AL-based designer of several untitled display and geometric typefaces in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikita Pluzhko

Kiev, Ukraine-based designer of the experimental Cyrillic typeface Zvizdary (2017), in which all strokes follow the segments of the Jewish star of David. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Niklas Block

During his studies, Stuttgart and/or Heidelberg, Germany-based Niklas Block created some experimental typefaces. He shattered Arial and recombined its pieces in his Verspiegelt (2017). Broken Millionaires combines the hacker style with monetary glyphs for optimal effect. See also Währungsfont (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Niklas Ekholm
[Helsinki Type Studio]

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Niklas Fagerholm

Graphic designer in Sundsvall, Sweden, who made the experimental typeface Paper (2013). He is associate professor of graphic design at Mid Sweden University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Niklaus Troxler

Designer (b. 1947, Willisau, Switzerland) of several multicolored type experiments, such as one called Children are the rhythm of the world (2004, stencil letters). The pictures below are taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent.

Since 1998, Niklaus teaches at the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Niko Geens

Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Grid. Niko lives in Sint-Katelijne-Waver. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikodem Kupczynski

Krakow, Poland-based designer of the experimental typeface Smbls (2016) and some FontStruct typefaces. He also made Logotype Font (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikodem Kupczynski

Cracow, Poland-based designer of the experimental stencil typeface Smbls (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikolai Renger

Born 1982 in Karlsruhe. At Volcano Type, he designed part of Mr. J. Smith, the experimental font that won an award at the 2005 FUSE competition. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nilesh Singh

Digital artist Nilesh Singh (Mumbai, India) created the spiral typeface Rangoli (2012) and the experimental geometric typeface Devnagiri (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nils Gerheim

German designer of a blocky 3d experimental typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nils Kajander

Finnish designer of Makinen Was Here (2000, Lahti Institute of Design), a great font, but an even greater presentation. He is a multimedia designer who works in Helsinki for Evia Helsinki Oy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nima H.K.

Graduate of York University, who is working as a graphic designer in Toronto. Creator of experimental typefaces such as Slinkyy (2014, prismatic), Workshop (2014, multilined) and Pigment (2014, hairline). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nina Ulloa

Designer in Tucson, AZ, who made Deceptacon (2012), an optical experimental typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nino Bodac
[Daggertypo]

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Ninze Chen-Benchev

Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1987. Graphic designer in Brooklyn, NY, who created Kama (2015), an experimental typeface inspired by the work of Russian suprematist Kazemir Malevich. She also drew great cosmic typographic illustrations for Bullett Magazine in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nir Navon

Graphic designer in Petah Tikva, Israel. In 2014, he and Chi No co-designed the Latin / Arabic typographic poster Made in Jaffa. In 2015, he created a decorative all caps Hebrew typeface simply called Alefbet.

In 2016, he designed the striking octagonal striped typeface Tri, the experimental typeface Portal, and the geometric typeface Eret. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nishant Pratap

Creator of the title animation typeface Retro Switch (2013, vector format). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nitjueni typefaces

Free experimental fonts: Struktif, Praktik, In-sect, Mono-Fu, GRUPPO, CREW, CityLight, BadgeLove, Bas_Sub, Household. Mac and PC. Most fonts have missing glyphs and are thus useless. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NKMR Gen

During his studies in Tokyo, this designer designed the experimental striped Latin typeface Waveform (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

NM Type

Type foundry set up by Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos in 2017, jointly in Sweden and Spain. Their typefaces:

  • Kinetic (2017). Kinetic is a typeface family created by Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos. One of the main sources of inspiration for the design was the art of Alexander Calder, who started working with moving sculptures in Paris in the 1930s. The light, playful and soft appearance of Calder's mobiles was something Pretorius and Ramos wanted to translate into type forms. Kinetic won an award won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018.
  • Meister (2018). A custom typeface for Jägermeister.
  • Movement (2019). A free experimental variable font inspired by dance movements.
  • Trisco (2021). A custom font for Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea.
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NN Type Foundry (or: NN Studio)
[Nick Nedashkovskiy]

Or Nikolay Nedashkovsky, type designer and font engineer based in Moscow, working at Paratype. He also started an experimental type coop, called Type Improvisation.

Designer in 2020 at Paratype of Helsa Display, a slim and eccentric serif typeface for Latin and Cyrillic. Helsa Display is, in Nick's words a free interpretation of the narrow elzevirs of the beginning of XX century for use in titles and short texts.

With Ksenia Erulevich and Konstantin Lukyanov, he co-designed the soccer shirt font Russian Premier League (2018, at Art Lebedev).

Github link. Art Lebedev Studio link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

No Foundry

This German foundry publishes typefaces by students from HfG Karlsruhe. Their typefaces include Buckle, Coffea (polygonal), Cutter, Dolabra (wedge serif), Extragrosse Depeschenschrift, Fragment (polygonal), Friendship, GQOM 404, Kaeru Kaeru (2019, Isabel Motz), Morphose, New Rage (artsy, like from a painting), Shbshb Pixel, Slice, Uschi, Warsaw, William Wilson. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noa Emberson

With a bachelors in graphic design from the University of Hawaii, Noa has set up shop in Honolulu. Behance link. Creator of the experimental Joy Stain font in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nobufont (was: Honey and Death)
[Mitsutoshi Nobusawa]

Honey and Death offers free fonts designed by Mitsutoshi Nobusawa: The list: BlackoronAlp (2003), BlackoronKat, BlindfaithB (2003, experimental), BlindfaithBO, BlindfaithL, BlindfaithLO, BlindfaithO, BlindfaithR, BlindfaithRB, BlindfaithRBO, BlindfaithRL, BlindfaithRLO, BlindfaithRO, BlindfaithRR, ConnectlinePlains (2003, upright connected script), ConnectlineRail, ConnectlineSta, Constellation (2003, a planar graph), CooberBlackKat (2004, named after Cooper Black), CooberBlackOblKat, Dotline (2007, dotted line face), DotlineBold, DotlineHeavy, DotlineKat, DotlineLight, Dotline Slim (2017), FatfontInline (2004, psychedelic), FatfontOutline, FatfontSolid, GalaxyfaceAno (2003, experimental), GalaxyfaceHirAno, GalaxyfaceHirReg, GalaxyfaceKatAno, GalaxyfaceKatReg, GalaxyfaceReg, Griffinize (2003), HoneycombOut (hexagonal), HoneycombReg (2004), HoneycombSol, Ironbeadsfont (2005), Judaslike (2006), JudaslikeBegin, JudaslikeEnd, Keymaps (2004, a dot font), KnitfontA (2005), KnitfontB, LayerfaceOutline (2003, comic book style), LayerfaceSolid, LayerfaceUnion, Lightningvolt (2005), Lovedrops (2004), MakestencilAlp (2004), MechamaruAlp (2006), MechamaruKat, Paddleface (2003, Western), RyusenHir (2003), RyusenKat, Saigi, SeizaHir (2003), SeizaKat, Skateandfont (2003), Spacy (2003, letters made of bubbles), Sparkling (2003, another planar graph), Strongcil (2003, octagonal stencil), TansanHir (2003), TansanKat, TapefontAlp (2004), TapefontAlt, TapefontKat, Westerner (2006, Western face), Zigzag (2003). Direct download of the type 1 fonts and the truetype fonts. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nocive Lab

Italian studio based in Naples. It created some experimental typefaces. Behance link. No downloads or sales. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noel Pretorius

Swedish graphic and type designer whose company is called Made By Noel. He graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2015. His graduation project was Frances (2015). This flexible type system includes roman, script and sans styles, and covers Latin, Arabic, Greek and Cyrillic. He also made the custom children's script font Friends (2016), a set of numerals for Rolleiflex (2016), and a slightly modified Futura for a custom project called Folkoperan (2016).

In 2016, Noel joined TypeTogether as a type designer.

In 2018, Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos set up NM Type. Together, they designed the custom typeface Meister for Jägermeister.

In 2019, Noel Pretorius and Maria Ramos co-designed Movement, a free experimental variable font inspired by dance movements. In 2021, they created Trisco, a custom font for Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noelle Papay
[La Mère Noelle]

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Noem9 Studio
[José Antonio Garrido Izquierdo]

Noem9 Studio is an online studio created by Jose A. Garrido, a graphic designer who was born in Alcañiz, Teruel, Spain, in 1987, and lived in Zaragoza. Noem9 is currently based in London.

He created Avanth (2012), a modular experimental typeface that is very useful for logos and titles.

Typefaces from 2012 include Ballege (a partially free slab serif family that uses details often seen in college sports and that was inspired by the film MoneyBall by Bennet Miller).

Typefaces from 2013: Chronic (a free alchemic / hipster font inspired by native American legends), Essay (a copperplate headline sans published by Avondale).

In 2016, he made the custom prismatic typeface Happy Ending, and 36 days of Type (decorative caps). They also published the layered multiline retail typeface family eNeon (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Kick Off (based on sports graphics from the 1970s).

Typefaces from 2029: Inndam (modular).

Typefaces from 2020: Locker Numerals,

Creattica link. Creative Market link. Behance link. Dafont link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Noemie Courtois

Amsterdam-based designer of the experimental sans typeface Babble (2017) and the semi-deco sans typeface Batarde (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NoFont
[Andreas Carlsson]

Nofont is an absolutely wonderful Swedish type experiment page with many pixel fonts. The free fonts by Solna, Sweden-based Andreas Carlsson include Artek-BloxFilledTwiggy (1998, pixel font), Artek-BloxFilled, Artek-BloxTwiggy, Artek-Blox, Artek-OutlineTwiggy, Artek-Outline, Artek-Regular, Artek-Twiggy, ChemicalBreakfast-Normal, ChemicalBreakfast-Outline (1999), CWebLarge (2000, pixel font), CWebSmall, Ihateyou (2000), MWeb (pixel font), Positions-AttheMovies (abstract forms). Commercial fonts: DIN Cafe, Megafat (pixel font), NoInitials (caps). Experimental/futuristic fonts: Distribution, Intershitty, Sentenced, Tube, Klum, Click Megafat. Dingbats: I Hate You, Positions. It seems the fonts are no longer available for distribution.

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Noha Morgan

During her studies in Cairo, Egypt, Noha Morgan (or Noha Elsayed) designed the tall condensed display sans typeface Succinct (2016). Later, she published the ultra-condensed sans typeface Slender (2019) and the blocky experimental Arabic / Latin typeface FASA (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noinfonts
[Leandro Nogueira]

Noinfonts is the foundry of Brazilian type designer and teacher Leandro Nogueira, who is based in Sao Paulo. He studied graphic design at UNESP Baura from 1996-2001. Leandro designed these fonts:

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Nolen Strals
[Post Typography]

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Nora Ermejo

In 2009, Nora Ermejo used FontStruct to design a number of experimental typefaces, such as IBM's Font (horizontal logo stripes), Norattere, and Nor Line. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nora Kaszanyi

Designer at Type Department of Gaia Display (2020), an experimental sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Norbert Mayer

Graduate of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, class of 2014, who works as graphic designer in Budapest. Together with Hooh Studio, he created J21 (2015), a modular experimental geometric typeface inspired by Janson and the human anatomy. He also made a set of icons for Prezi (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Norbert Prell

Die Gestalten writes about Hungarian artist Norbert Prell who is based in Budapest: Growing up in an artistic family, Norbert Prell was confronted by art and creativity at an early age. This laid the foundation for his aesthetic appreciation and paves the way for his design career. Initially trained as a graphic designer at the art school in Pécs and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest, he then developed great interests in typography and font design. In 2010, he became an Erasmus student in the Department of Media Technology/Design Department at the HAW Hamburg (Hamburg University of Applied Science) to learn typography and calligraphy.

In 2013, he published the (very) humanist sans serif typeface Prell at Die Gestalten. Earlier, in 2012, he created the free circle-based experimental typeface Circle4.

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Norel Hassan

Graduate from the Cooper Union who created the abstract experimental commissioned typeface Open Lo in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nour Sadat

Graphic designer in Cairo who designed the experimental multiline typeface Interlaced (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nouvelle Noire
[Clovis Vallois]

Type and graphic design studio in Zurich, run by Clovis Vallois and Anton Studer.

Clovis Vallois (b. Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris) graduated in 2006 after studying visual communication in Freiburg, Germany. He worked for six months at the Studio Philippe Apeloig in Paris and subsequently set up his own design business. Clovis continued his studies in type design at the Zurich University of the Arts and graduated in 2008. Since then he has been working part-time at the Zurich University of the Arts while is running his design studio. In 2009 he was awarded with the Tokyo Type Directors Club 'Prize Nominee Work' for the Unknown Alphabet poster. In 2018, he designed NNNoire.

Anton Studer (b. Zürich, Switzerland) graduated as a graphic designer in 2006 and has since been working in the field of visual communication and type design. Anton Studer teaches part time at the Zurich University of the Arts in Zurich and at the Swiss college of textiles in Wattwil. He is the founding member of the Atelier Bubentraum which is an interdisciplinary design collective. Besides working extensively on several experimental font projects he has also worked on typeface projects with André Baldinger in Paris and developed the font Frank which is available at die Gestalten in Berlin and the Archiv Family which won Bronze at the European Design Award in Rotterdam in 2010. Anton was also awarded the Tokyo Type Directors Club 'Prize Nominee Work' for the Archiv typeface he created.

In 2012, the people at Nouvelle Noire in Zurich helped produce several of Apeloig's typefaces:

  • The geometric modular experimental typeface ABF.
  • ABF Lineaire (2013). A stencil typeface with elements of LED letters.
  • ABF Silhouette (2009). Based on ABF Petiit, this typeface was developed for the 2009 conference on the Space and Architecture of Libraries.
  • ABF Petit. Custom designed as part of a new corporate identity for the Association des Bibliothécaires de France.
  • Coupé (2013): The font Coupé is based on the streamlined elegance of vintage sports cars. Apeloig designed these letterforms for an exhibition of fashion designer Ralph Lauren?~@~Ys car collection. The exhibition made its European premiere at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris accompanied by a poster inspired by the clean engineering of the automobiles.
  • Poudre (2013). This font was created by Apeloig for a poster advertising an exhibition on the prolific inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. Apeloig's concept was inspired by Nobel's invention of dynamite and work with subatomic particles.
  • Ali (2013). An origami stencil typeface.
  • Aleph (1994). Based on a simple arc, and influenced by Excoffon's Banco (1952).

The Nouvelle Noire typefaces:

  • Medien (2009-2011). A sans typeface by Anton Studer created as a multipurpose all-media design.
  • Ernesto (2010). Created originally for the corporate identity of EWERK Freiburg, Germany. He says: The Ernesto typeface combines the grotesque and the geometrization of the past times to the modern times. Ernesto adopts the diagonal slant of the architecture in some letters of the alphabet.
  • Rekja (2009-2011, Anton Studer at Nouvelle Noire). This rounded transitional typeface won an award at TDC2 2012.
  • Rektorat (2018, Nouvelle Noire and Rudolf Barmettler): In 2001, during a renovation of the Zurich School of Applied Arts and Crafts (today ZHdK), hand lettered signage was discovered hidden behind ancient wallpaper. The letters were individually painted and had been applied by hand in 1930 as signage for the modernist building. The letter designs are assumed to be the work of Ernst Keller. Between 2001 and 2004, Prof. Rudolf Barmettler, in collaboration with students, digitized the letters and combined them into fonts. In conjunction with the recent renovation of the Design Museum, Prof. Barmettler, in collaboration with the Zurich-based type foundry Nouvelle Noire, has drawn Rektorat, a type family based on this historical lettering.
  • NN Forever Grotesk (2020). A wonderful entrance into the world of Helvetica and Univers. Modernist, almost hipster, modifications were introduced to make one smile (in their own words). While great, the walking stick of the capital G is (intentionally) too thin and cripples the design. Otherwise it is very refreshing. Under pressure, renamed later in 2020 to NN Nouvelle Grotesk.

Behance link. Clovis Vallois and Anton Studer spoke at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nú-Dës
[Billy Bacon]

Nu-des is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio that is involved in visual identity. They are experimenting with type. Its main designer, Billy Bacon, created the scribbly font Pasmado (1996) and Marola (1996). In 1997, he created the foundry Subvertaipe. In 2006, he made the blood-drip grunge typeface Caracura (2006).

Professor at PUC-Rio and at Kabum! Escola de Artes e Tecnologia.

Alternate URL.

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Nuform Type Foundry
[Erik Marinovich]

Erik Marinovich (Croatia) ran/runs Friends of Type and Nuform Type, and is based in Berkeley / San Francisco. He is the creator of some neat type posters in 2009. In 2010, he made more typographic posters. Police&Thieves (2011) is an illustrated caps alphabet (font?). FAC13 (2011) is an experimental alphabet.

In 2015, he designed the retro Viktor Script with James Edmondson at Oh No Type.

At Future Fonts, he published Brzo (2020: a display typeface inspired by the boldness of 90s basketball graphics), the reverse stress typeface Jaws (2018) and the vintage typeface Hermanos (2018-2021). He writes: Hermanos is a dedication to the hand painted signs found in the mission district of San Francisco. Its flared serifs, narrow stature and cheerful spirit make Hermanos a perfect compliment for packaging, restaurants and editorial headlines.

Designer of Ozik (2022), a bizarre four-weight display typeface that pays homage to the iconic lettering featured on Black Sabbath's Vol.4 album.

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null-ttf

This font is null. It's the smallest possible TrueType binary still valid on OS X and with most of its bytes wiped out. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Number Nine (or: N9)
[Guillaume-Ulrich Chifflot]

N9 is a French experimental type foundry run by Guillaume-Ulrich Chifflot. Chifflot's fonts from 1995-1996 made under the label "N9" or "Number Nine" include AnigGwar, AnigGwarFluffy, AnigGwarLight, BinaryTrash, CodeElizabeth, Drill, DrillBold, DrillDark, DrillDemiBold, DrillExtraBold, DrillExtraLight, DrillFluffy, DrillLight, DrillUltraLight, EdgeHorizontal, Layer, Rise, Rough, RoughBold, RoughDark, RufusOne, RufusOneDark, RufusTwo, Woof, WoofBlack, WoofBold, WoofDemiBold, WoofExtraBold, WoofExtraLight, WoofLight, WoofThin, WoofUltraLight. At some point, he started N9 or Number Nine and went partially commercial. He also made Baseline 303 (1999, commercial), Phuturized (1997, grunge), Computer Waltz (1997), Dodecadarian Remixes (2005), Dodecadarian EP (2005), Dummy XO (2004, free), Dummy (2004, free), Big Bang (1997), Colony-Bold (1995-2000), Colony (1995-2000), Hard Bleep (1997), Bleep (1997), Daedalus (2003), Layer, Rise from the Grave, Octovetica (octagonal), Rough Scholar (1996), Ultrawerk EP (1996), Woof Trash (1996), Rorschach (1996), Gotlib (1996), Burn (1995), Abwher Futura, Abwher Politika, RaveOne (1992), Zim Boom (1991), Dead Bodies Ecstasy (1991), Chaos (1989). His work contains mostly grunge and fonts with a computer theme. Other contributors to N9 include Clarisse Grossier, the designer of the dingbat typeface Tu Parles.

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Nurul Ain

Nurul Ain, a freelance graphic designer in Selangor, Malaysia, created the paper fold typeface Zaroux in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nutsa

Typographic experimenter from Tbilisi, Georgia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

OBOstudio

Obostudio is a Florence-based design studio specialised in brand development. They created OBO Font in 2012 and write: "Typefaces are like clothes. They either make us look good or bad. They also indicate what kind of character we want to portray." OBO Font is a new typeface inspired by the wind. OBO Typeface should be used for logo design, monograms and other creative fields feeling moved by the wind. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Obscure Typo

Southampton, UK-based designer of experimental typefaces called O-Typo, B-Typo, S-Typo, C-Typo, U-Typo, R-Typo and E-Typo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oded Ezer
[Oded Ezer Design Studio]

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Oded Ezer Design Studio
[Oded Ezer]

Givatayim, Israel-based Hebrew type design studio in London established in 2000 by one of the main Hebrew type designers of today, Oded Ezer (b. Tel Aviv, 1972). Ezer designed the award-winning font Mayai (Hebrew script: awards at TDC2 2001 and Bukvaraz 2001), Anemia, Kafka, Eden, Ezer Shapes, Neve Zedek, OE Meoded, OE Shalvata, OE Kafka, Franrühlya, Impacta, Anemia, Systeza (based on Schiavi's Sys) and Alchimai. In 2010, he published Rutz.

Another designer at the studio is Michel Sahar. Ezer graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art&Design, Jerusalem, with a Bachelor degree in Visual Communication Design (1998). He teaches typography and graphic design in several academies in Israel and other countries, among them the Bezalel Academy for Art&Design, Jerusalem, the Shenkar College of Engineering near Tel Aviv, the Wizo College of Design, Haifa, and the Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts Graphic Design Department, in Istanbul, Turkey.

Heebo (2015, Google Fonts link) is a Hebrew and Latin typeface family, which extends Christian Robertson's Roboto Latin to Hebrew. The Hebrew was drawn by Oded Ezer and the font files were mastered by Meir Sadan. Since the Hebrew design of this family is primary, the vertical metrics are different to the original Roboto family. This family is auto-hinted, whereas Roboto is hand-hinted, so the rendering quality of Roboto may be better on older Windows machines. The Heebo project is led by Meir Sadan, a type designer based in Tel Aviv. Github link. Open Font Library link.

At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Contemporary hebrew typography as an expression of a new identity. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Contemporary hebrew typography as an expression of a new identity. About his award-winning posters. The Oded Ezer Typosperma Project. Ezer's Flickr page. His experimental Hebrew typography is discussed by Uleshka in Ping Mag. It deals with a 3-d lettering experiment called Plastica, and describes many other ingenious projects. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Winner at D&AD 2011 with his typeface Rutz (2011, aka Vesper Hebrew).

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Official Classic
[Attila Horvath]

Hungarian outfit established in 2008 by graphic designers Mark Zador and Attila Horvath. Typefaces created by them are mostly techno or minimalist: Eniac Pro (2010), Solaria (2006), Kalgan (2004, kitchen tile face), Olivaw (2004, a typeface with a retro/futuristic 60s sci-fi feeling), Terminus (2004), Gaia (2006), Gladia (2006, horizontal slabs), Baley (2004, piano key face), and Aurora (2004).

Attila Horvath designed these rounded display headline typefaces in 2012: Multivac, Shingo, Unoa. In 2016, he designed Reticuli.

Typefaces from 2017: Mazura (a multiline prismatic creation that is equally useful for sports, car races, discotheques, sci-fi and op-art).

Behance link. YWFT link. Hypefortype link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oh No Type
[James T. Edmondson]

Oakland, CA-based designer, whose company is called Oh No Type. In 2011, he was a student at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Graduate of the Type & Media program at KABK in Den Haag in 2014. Before that, he was based in Leeds, UK. James teaches Type at Cooper West. In 2018, James co-founded Future Fonts, a platform for distributing fonts in-progress. Typefaces:

  • 2008: at FontStruct of the blackletter typeface Eclyptico and of Mopper.
  • 2010: Edmondson, Dode (script).
  • 2011: Edmond Serif (in progress) is being designed in Rod Cavasos Type Design class at CCA. Edmond Sans (2011) is a headline all caps sans face. Duke (Lost Type) is a beveled typeface based on the signage for the Cup and Saucer Luncheonette in New York. Wisdom Script (Lost Type) was originally designed for Woods of Wisdom, a 50 part poster series on bad advice. Working on a roman caps version in Ed Interlock style. Lavanderia (2011, free at Lost Type) is a signage script family inspired by fancy laundromat lettering in San Francisco's Mission District.
  • 2012: Edmond Sans (Lost Type).
  • Mission Script (2012) is a connected signage script, also inspired by lettering in San Francisco's Mission District.
  • 2013: Mission Gothic. Influenced by wood types, this sans was co-designed with Trevor Baum.
  • 2014: Covik, his graduation typeface at KABK. He writes: Covik was designed with the goal of creating a small text family with complimentary display typefaces which work together to create a rich typographic palette. How divergent could a style be while remaining kindred? In what ways could weight, width, proportion, and construction be played with in order to create a varied family? See also Covik Sans Mono.
  • 2015: Hobeaux (a take on Morris Fuller Benton's art nouveau typeface Hobo), Viktor Script (a retro script done with Erik Marinovich). Accompanied by Hobeaux Rococeaux (2016).
  • 2016: Vulf Mono (Vulf Mono is the official typeface of Vulfpeck, a funky four-piece rhythm section from Ann Arbor, Michigan. The typeface draws main inspiration from 12 point Light Italic, a font for the IBM Selectric typewriter.)
  • Year unknown: Bordeaux Script.
  • 2018: Obviously, Eckmann Psych (a psychedelic take on Otto Eckmann's art nouveau type), Ohno Blazeface, Cheee (a variable font).
  • 2019: Nonplus (counterless script), Primarily Script (a children's book font), Coniferous (based on signage at American National Forests).
  • 2020: Degular (sans, variable with three axes), Compadre (an all caps sans typeface), Ohno Fatface (in the true didone fat face tradition, with delicious conniving outlines; and a 2-axis variable font along width and optical size), Swear (an experimental serif with rotated pen angle; +a variable style).
  • 2021: Irregardless (experimental; with plenty of effects and container shapes).

Author of Some Tips on Drawing Type (2021). Klingspor link. Behance link. Dribble link. Old home page. Future Fonts link. Adobe link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Okaycat
[Luke William Turvey]

Takamatsu, Japan-based design division of The LOLO, a content creation company, which was established in 2006. Luke William Turvey (b. London, Ontario, 1978) who lives in Japan started out with street murals but is doing digital work now. His early fonts include Giacinta Ornate (2008, a lovely bastarda), Parabrite (2008, techno), Stefani EHYO Sans Rounded (2008, a clean geometric sans), Antikka (2008, art deco), Calisso (2008, experimental), LOLO Dingcats (2008), Clementine (2008: artsy serif), Okaytext (2008, a fashionable geometric sans in the style of Bernhard Fashion), Okay Cursive (2008, an upright connected script), Okay Crayon (2008), Okay Paint (2008), Japanese Brush Master (2008), Tag Banger (2008, graffiti font), Bapalopa (2008, more graffiti), Hive Mind (2008, nuts and bolts look), Trees of Africa (2008, dings), 3D Fantablock Beveled (2008), Shababa (2008, shadow font), LOLO Animals (2008), LOLO City (2008, inner city dingbat face), LOLO Cursive (2008, curly handwriting), Japoneh (2008, a great oriental-look drippy paintbrush font).

In 2009, Okaycat published Arco Crayon (blackboard writing, but also a lipstick font), 3D Blocky (with Natsuko Hayashida), Carbon Neutral, Hand Writing OC, Okay Cotton, Hand Cursive, Stitch Cursive, Antique Dubplate, Porto (rough calligraphic), Brush Writing OC, Nouveau Rock (engraved), Shababa, 3D Techno, Stefani EHYO (4-style geocratic sans), Japanese calligraphy poster. With Natsuko Hayashida, he did Rustic Stamp (grungy).

Fonts from 2010: Uncertainty (grunge), CASU Aerospatiale (an etched 3d font family), Geodot (a dot matrix face), Zampichi (a video game font family), Country Charm (Natsuko Hayashida: a dingbat face), The Inlines No Inlines (Natsuko Hayashida: a black rounded minimalist sans), CC Angular (Turvey: an octagonal typeface that comes with an outlined and shaded style), Pentastic (hand-printed), Candy Cursive (a monoline connected script).

Typefaces made in 2011: Okay-A (this font lets one make 3D letters that look to be fastened down with screws), Teselka (a 3d outlined shadow face), Joopica (a casual typeface created together with Natsuko Hayashida).

Typefaces made in 2012: Meksa (techno).

In 2013, he created Pixapp Inter (a pixel face).

Typefaces from 2014: Maple Street (a vintage wood type emulation typeface done with Natsuko Hayashida), Nunooska (a medium-heavy rounded sans).

Klingspor link.

View Luke William Turvey's typefaces. View the Okaycat typeface collection. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Oksana Globa

Ukrainian designer and illustrator who drew a Russian alphabet in 2011 out of tree leaves. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oleg Zhuravlev

Russian graphic designer. With Jovanny Lemonad, he created the octagonal family Bender (2009, free at TypeType). In 2009, he made the diagonally shaded typeface Absu. In 2010, he made the free hand-printed font Five Minutes, the octagonal typeface Red Apple, the corporate family Articul (organic), Toothy (Helvetica with horns), and the free dot matrix typeface Dited. MyFonts link. Behance link. Cargocollective link (with downloads). Typetype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Olena Mashinska

Ukrainian designer of the scanbat typeface Break Dance (2012). She also made the 3d experimental Cyrillic typeface Cube (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olga Godek

Graphic designer in Krakow, Poland. Her typefaces:

  • Klawo (2018). a minimalist monoline sans.
  • Lelum Polelum (2019). An experimental typeface.
  • Malewicz (2019). Named after suprematist artist Kazemir Malevich, Malewicz is a square-shaped experimental font family.
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Olga Tereshchenko

Talented Ukrainian designer. She has interesting illustrations, and her Latin and/or Cyrillic typefaces show tremendous potential:

  • Avangard (2012). A blocky outline family.
  • Black and White (2012). A great geometric / cubist experiment in the style of Mondriaan's paintings.
  • Diamond (2012). An experimental polygonal typeface.
  • Old Font (2012).
  • Malevich (2015, BBDO Studio). An abstract typeface to celebrate Russian suprematist Kazemir Malevich.
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Olga Umpeleva

Graduate of the Moscow State University of Printing Art, and of the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2020.

Moscow-based designer of the free font Tagesschrift (2005, Yanone, done together with Jan Gerner, A. Korolkova and V. Yefimov). Fontdeck link, where she is credited with the Paratype typeface PT Sans (2010). PT Sans can also be downloaded at Alex Barakin's site, at Fontspace, at Github, and at CTAN. Open Font Library link. The companion family PT Serif is also at CTAN. The full family, co-designed with Alexandra Korolkova and Vladimir Yefimov, will set you back over 1000 dollars however.

Federico (2007) is based on the handwriting of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936).

Pragmatica Slab (2011, Paratype, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov) was designed as a complement to the popular type family Pragmatica by Vladimir Yefimov and Isabella Chaeva (1989-2004) by the addition of square slab serifs. Paratype writes: Pragmatica Slabserif was designed as a complement to the popular type family Pragmatica by Vladimir Yefimov and Isabella Chaeva (1989-2004) by addition of square serifs. Inspired by Helserif (Phil Martin, 1978 [note from Luc to self: I think Paratype errs here, since Ed Kelton made Helserif in 1976]) which was formed in the same way by addition of square serifs to Helvetica (Eduard Hoffman and Max Miedinger, 1957). First sketches of Pragmatica Slabserif were created by Vladimir Yefimov in 1988 during development of Pragmatica. Olga Umpeleva designed the whole slabserif type family of six weights basing on that sketches.

She also did an upright connected educational script in 2011 at Paratype: Little Cecily (based on a Russian calligraphy sample book for primary schools, Propisi pryamogo pisma (Moscow, 1914)). Such scripts were implemented in school programs at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

In 2012, Olga published the curly upright script typeface Sevillana (Google Web Fonts, Brownfox Foundry) and the playful decorative typeface Henny Penny (Google Web Fonts and Brownfox).

Typefaces from 2013: M.Video (a corporate typeface done with Ksenia Erulevich at Art Lebedev Studio), ALS Schlange Sans (Art Lebedev Studio: a rich sans family with rounded terminals, and a toolbox "f"), ALS Schlange Slab.

Typefaces from 2015: Kudryashev Display (2015, Isabella Chaeva, Alexandra Korolkova and Olga Umpeleva). Kudryashev Display is a set of light and high-contrast typefaces based on Kudryashev text typeface. In addition to Kudryashev Display and Kudryashev Headline typefaces, the type family includes also two Peignotian sans-serif typefaces of the same weight and contrast, with some alternates. The serif styles were designed by Olga Umpeleva in 2011, the sans styles were created by Isabella Chaeva in 2015 with the participation of Alexandra Korolkova. The typeface was released by ParaType in 2015. Still in 2015, she designed Federico (a typeface based on the handwriting of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)).

Typefaces from 2017: Fado (a formal broad nib calligraphic beauty).

Typefaces from 2018: Kelpie (an inky and a monoline pair of scripts).

Typefaces from 2020: Noordenwind (her graduation typeface at KABK).

Typefaces from 2021: Westenwind (an experimental font that on purpose exaggerates the number and sizes of the serifs).

Kernest link. MyFonts link. Google link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Behance link. Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Oliver Surey

Winchester, UK-based creator of the experimental typeface Hypnotunnel (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olivia Basile

During her studies, Oswego, NY-based Olivia Basile designed the geometric typeface Electric Hooker (2012).

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Olivia Dajevic

Wellington, New Zealand-based created of the experimental quarish typeface Exposed Panes (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olivier Dolbeau

Bad link. French type designer at the open source type foundry Velvetyne in Paris. His creations include Flaubertine (2011, with Sébastien Hayez), Daubenton (2014, a display typeface inspired by engraved letters found in rue Daubenton in Paris). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olivier Gourvat
[Mostar Design]

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OMFD Official
[Stefanie Vogl]

Stefanie Vogl (OMFD Official, Berlin, Germany) graduated from FH Würzburg. In 2018, she designed the experimental typefaces Modal, Movement and Saedge. In 2020, at The Type Department, she released Dyade, a modern interpretation of old art nouveau fonts that combines curvy and modern elements. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Onetreeink
[Marco Calamato]

Marco Calamato (Onetreeink, CA) designed the geometric condensed typeface Gravity (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Onezero

Taunton, UK-based designer of the free experimental typeface Silhougeo (2016).

In 2017, Onezero designer the optical illusion font Illumo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ONO Creates
[Med Ness]

Singapore-based creator of the free font Nomed (2011). Nomed is based on a combination of triangles. Medness (2011, free) is a wonderful exploration of the limitations of geometry. Linguina (2011) is a 4-weight organic sans family.

In 2012, he published the free font Hyped (geometric and experimental).

In 2013, he created the free font Plethora 1984 (a fancy loopy rope font).

In 2015, they published the tentacled typeface Grafter.

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Onokono

Dublin-based designer of Average (2014), a typeface obtained by overlaying hundreds of fonts. Little & Large Font (2009) combines upper and lower case in a constructive manner. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Opey Bobo

Graphic design student at Flagler College in Saint Augustine Beach, FL. He made the experimental typeface Molecule (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ophélie Girard

Besançon, France-based student-designer of Opium (2016), a typeface created to achieve certain experimental optical effects. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Optical Illusion Type
[Leslie Willmers]

Graphic design and experimental typography by South African designer Leslie Willmers. Some classy fonts include Anathema (a GRAND font! Brush with a Japanese feel), Interzone, Saville (aristocratic caps), Anarchy, InsomniaBold, ComicScript, Optics and Teeth. Teachers's Pet comes with thin horizontal orthographic lines. What happened to this place? [Google] [More]  ⦿

Optimo
[David Rust]

Optimo is a Lausanne-based foundry established in 1997 by ECAL graduates Stéphane Delgado, Gilles Gavillet and David Rust. In 1998, they relocated to Geneva. Over the years, the foundry slowly developed a library of classic typefaces available for print, web, and mobile environments. The company publishes original typefaces designed by type designers such as François Rappo, Ludovic Balland, Joost Grootens and Team 77. All Optimo fonts are available exclusively from their web site.

Their early typefaces included Aerial, Chip, Flexo MM (1998, David Rust), Circuit (2002, David Rust; on the CD in Nathan Gale's type 1 book), Didot Elder (2004, a true revival of a family by Pierre Didot, 1819; it has devil-tailed S's and is similar in many places to Porchez's Ambroise. It was designed by François Rappo), Kornkuh, Nova MM, Steiner, Autologic, Detroit MM (1997), Kabin, Normal, 2000, Optimal (a kitchen tile font), Politics (squarish typeface by Gilles Gavillet), Montana (stencil by Gilles Gavillet), CEO (typewriter style by Rappo), Veglia, Zero. Most fonts are futuristic or experimental, with a few sans serif fonts thrown in at well. In 2003, David Rust and Gilles Gavillet co-designed Cargo (stencil), Hermes (typewriter type), Index and Politics. In 2006, Philipp Herrmann created the slab serif typeface Piek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

orangebleu (was Terra Nova, or 808 State)
[Christophe Martin]

French site proclaiming itself "lieu d'experimentation typographique". Click on "cuisines" and then on the yellow bullets (one per font). Christophe Martin's fonts are for PC and Mac: finished fonts include After 45', Coperniq, BoxRegular, Codex and Lexomil. This site has become an impossible maze. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oriana Flores

Caracas-based designer who made the ornamental caps typeface Dragonly Vitreaux SF (2010), as well as other experimental caps typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar & Ewan

Designers in East London and Stockholm. For the Spanish magazine Neo2, they created the experimental Laser Font (2008). In 2012, they published the rounded display sans typeface Leroy (Regular, Backslant) at Colophon. They explain: Leroy was based on a technical drawing found in a 60s model car magazine. The type was drawn with a lettering set, a system used around that time to letter maps and other precision drawings. It was presumably similar to Keuffel & Esser's Leroy set, hence the name. Leroy was designed for use on Bonobo's Black Sands album, which was released on Ninja Tune in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Fernando Guerrero Cañizares
[Sumotype Foundry]

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Oscar Ginter

During his studies at ESAG Penninghen in Paris, Oscar Ginter created the experimental typeface Parchi (2014) that was inspired by the architecture of the bridges in Paris. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Lopes

Porto, Portugal-based creator of Circle Typeface (2013), Couteau Suisse (2012, an alphabet based on the Swiss army knife), and Swiss Army Knife (2013). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Marchal
[Inquietto]

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Oscar Noguera

Illustrator and graphic designer in Barcelona. Behance link. He made the object-inspired experimental typeface ObjecType (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oskar Lübeck
[Bold]

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Ossi Gustafsson
[Hiekka Graphics]

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OSTYPE
[Yury Ostromentsky]

Yuri Ostromentsky is a type and graphic designer. He is a graduate of the Moscow State University of the Printing Arts (2002), where his graduation project was done under the supervision of Alexander Tarbeev. He has worked as a designer and art director for publishers and design studios. From 2004 to 2012, he served as art director of the magazine Bolshoi Gorod (Big City), for which he created several display typefaces as well as several original typefaces and Cyrillic versions of Latin fonts in collaboration with Ilya Ruderman. His typefaces were honored at the Contemporary Cyrillic 2009 and 2014 competitions. In 2004 he and Ruderman, Dmitri Yakovlev and Darya Yarzhambek created DailyType, a website.

Yuri ran OSTYPE as part of KunstGroup.ru. His typefaces include PrinsenGracht [Text (+Caps, +Italic), Display (+Caps, +Italic)], Poza, SSN Antique, Pilar, and Gegangen. His type system Best Life Serif (codesigned with Ilya Ruderman) won an award at Paratype K2009.

He became associated with Custom Fonts, and designed RIA in 2013. RIA won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.

In 2014, Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky founded CSTM. 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).

Typefaces from 2017: Stratos Cyrillic (at Production Type, with Ilya Ruderman; a Cyrillic version of Yoann Minet's 2016 geometric grotesque typeface Stratos: it received a Type Directors Club New York Certificate of Excellence 2017), Pseudo Russian.

Co-designer with Nikita Kanarev and Ilya Ruderman at CSTM Fonts of the 18-style exprimental typeface family Lurk (2020). It is based on an earlier version that was specially designed for the Russian youtuber Yury Dud.

Typefaces from 2021: CSTM Xprmnntl 03 (in uncial Cyrillic, gothic blackletter and inbetween styles). 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. At the end of 2021, Ostromentsky designed and published the 20-style (+variable font) Elzevir-inspired Maregraphe at CSTM / Type Today wth the help of Mikhail Strukov and Ilya Ruderman.

Typefaces from 2022: Zhivov (an experimental Latin / Cyrillic typeface based on early Cyrillic graphics). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Oszkár Boskovitz
[Nepfont Digital Foundry]

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Oszkár Boskovitz
[Fontbistro]

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Otto Maurer
[Otto Maurer (was: Tattoofont)]

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Otto Maurer (was: Tattoofont)
[Otto Maurer]

Tattoo artist and graphic designer from Dinslaken (Duisburg), Germany, b. 1968, Duisburg. Klingspor link.

Otto Maurer (Tattoofont) created Ipoint (2008, a 15-style fun-filled Bauhaus-inspired family), Black and Beauty (2007, blackletter family), Big Rain (2007), Blood (2007, dripping blood type), Preussen (2007, a 4-style blackletter family), Otto Bismarck Italic (2007), an italic blackletter face, and its parent, Otto Bismarck (2007). Designer of the free curly font Corps Script (2006) and Corps Script Shadow (2006). Creator with Sabrina of the free handwriting fonts Sabsis Handwriting Version 3 (2007) and Sabsis Handwriting (2007). Home page. Dafont link. Yet another URL.

In 2007, he went partially commercial and set up shop at MyFonts. His fonts there include the artsy Sailors Tattoo (2006), SailorsTattoo-waves (2007), Sailors Tattoo Pro Xmas (2007), Sick Skull (2007, scary), Tribal Maori (2007), MauBo Flatline (2007, experimental), Tribal Dingbats (2007), Tribaltypo (2007: quite interesting), MauBo (2007, mechanical look), Hotrod (2007), Blood (2007, scary), MauBo Flatline (2007, white on black) and Corpse Fairy (2007), Mrs. Sabo (2007, calligraphic and grunge hand), Tribal King (2007), Pierced (2007), Big Rain (2007), Detective Maurice (2007, a typeface with fingerprints on the alphabet), Cutdown Maurice (2007), Digital Maurice (2007), Good Old Fifties (2007, 11 styles), Tribal Dingbats II (2008, a tattoo font), Tribal tattoos III (2010), Hot Flames (2008), Drago (2008, a blackletter and alphading family), Party Night (2009), Tattoo Girl (2008).

Typefaces from 2009: Yuma (2009, Western saloon font), Freiheit (2009, blackletter), Lycaner (2009, blackletter), Sud France (2009, script), Psychbilly (2009, fat brush), Love Mom (2009), Vampire (2009), Animal Zoo (2009), Turtle (2009), Grunge (2009, cracked marble family), Crate (2009).

Typefaces from 2010: Big Mom (2010, a family that includes a blackboard bold style), Haike (2010).

Typefaces from 2011: Tinka Babe (2011, a gangster or tattoo script), Poisoni Pro (2011, tall art nouveau style brush face, with Shadow and College sub-styles), Lanzelott (2011, a very elegant retro display family, followed in 2017 by New Lanzelott), Stencilla (2011, a heavy stencil face), Guilin (2007, brushy), Darkwood (2011), Rock n Roll Typo (2011), Loreen (2011: an elegant display family that includes a hairline and a shadow style).

In 2012, he made the pointy Psychomonster typeface.

In 2013, Otto Maurer published the gangster tattoo font Bibiana as a companion for Tinka Babe.

Typefaces from 2014: Cupcakes Winterwonder (snowy font), Soul Winterwonder, Loreen Hollywood (art deco), Soul Material Design Dingbatz, Soul Love (Valentine's Day font), AZ Cupcakes, Soul (a sans family with some flaring), Christe Wagner (a great set of curly Victorian music sheet-inspired typefaces), Spider Type, Marie Lyn, Mariedean (a Victorian titling set, including decorative caps), Peachy (+ Shadow: a slab serif).

Typefaces from 2015: Maori New Zeeland, Chika Tattoo (12-style tattoo script), Chino Tattoo, Big Yukon (Wild West font), Bonecracker, Freibeuter NR (Western Tuscan family), Sailor Marie (tattoo font family), Baby Lyns ABC (children's book alphabet).

Typefaces from 2017: Anchorage (a sailor's tattoo font), Friedrichsfeld (blackletter).

Typefaces from 2018: Lettre Damour (handwriting font), Cryptolucre (started in 2014, Cryptolucre is a font specifically for all crypto currencies like Bitcoins, Litecoins, Ethereum, Ark, Siacoin and Golem--the icon version includes some existing currency logos and newly invented currency logos), Haike, Soul Leo (textured), Soul Skull, Tattooflash Fingers, Tattooflash Marie.

Typefaces from 2019: Stencilla.

Showcase of Otto Maurer's fonts. View the typefaces made by Otto Maurer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Out of Step Font Company
[Dan Steinbok]

Out of Step Font Company (est. 2013) is run by Canadian-born Toronto-based Dan Steinbok (b. 1978). It specializes in hand-drawn fonts. Creator in 2013 of Wll Writr Scrpt (sic) (graffiti font), Sailor Beware, Hello Sailor (tattoo font), Held x Fast (tattoo font), Giants (a sharpie font, done as a tribute to Mike Giant), I Refuse To Sink, Sailor's Fat Tattoo Script, Tattoo Thinline, Sailor Scrawl (tattoo font), Sailor Scrawl Fancy, Sailor Scrawl Black, Fancy Tattoo Script, Sailor's Delight, Morgante (experimental typeface inspired by the work of Angelica Baini and Marco Oggian), Team Fury (spurred typeface), Lightning Cruz, House Paint Slab (shaded face), Street Robot Slab, Second Base Line, Annihilate (a straight-edged typeface made with FontStruct), Street Math, Skramline, West Coast Geometric (inspired by the West Coast graffiti work of Mike Giant), Slash Geometric, Tall Boy West, Tall Boy West Hi, Tall Boy 3D. This latter series is based on cholo style and/or Mike Giant's style of West Coast graffiti. All fonts were made using FontStruct.

Typefaces from 2014: Batter Up, Fortitude, Cvlt Rvne Regular (Norwegian rune simulation typeface), Toni Regular (hipster font), Nuvio Demo, Congruency Demo, Turnonacular Demo, Giants-Regular, Held-x-Fast-Regular (tattoo font), Salto, House-Paint-Shadow-Regular (3d shadow face), Sailor-Stitch-Regular, Munich (ultra-condensed), Cleptograph, Raw Denim Audacity, Creatif, Nue Gothic (Nue Gothic Round followed in 2019), Simpleton Gothic, Street Robot Inline, Shipmates, Team Captain (octagonal and spurred), House Paint Shadow (a flat square house paint graffiti font with a floating shadow).

Typefaces from 2015: Playful Script, Sebastien Slab.

Typefaces from 2016: Sailor Stitch (pixel tattoo font), Bristle Brush Script, Elegrand Gothic, Mister Brightstride (brush script), Ruben Gothic, Creatif Regular (hipster style).

Typefaces from 2017: Brewmaster Gothic, Thick Brush, Botsmatic (pixelish), Annihilator, Sebastien Slab.

Typefaces from 2018: Batter Up, Walkthru, Strike Back, Backtrack (a cracked stone font).

Typefaces from 2019: Graf Script (graffiti), Simple Brush Script, Super Simple Brush Script, Annihilation, Bridal Shower Monoline script, Team Athletics, Sebastien Slab Round, Team MVP (octagonal, spurred), Brewmaster Gothic Round, Humbley Script.

Typefaces from 2020: Ghoulie Tattoo Script, Plum Brush Script, Bubble Frum.

FontStruct link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Owen Earl
[Indestructible Type]

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P. J. Bell

P.J. Bell (MIXFIT) lives in Los Angeles. A digital artist, he made the counterless experimental typeface No Retnuoc in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pablo A. Medina
[Design Culture (was: Cubanica Fonts)]

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Pablo Alfieri

Buenos Aires-based graphic designer and typographer, aka Alfieri. Flickr link. Behance link. He designed Playful (2010), a geometric font that was inspired by 3d toys for children. Odyssea 652 (2010) and Odyssea 632 (2011-2012, Thinkdust) are also geometric in nature. This poster showcases his lettering. With Mariano Farias, he formed Plenty. At HypeForType, Plenty published the arts and crafts typeface Odyssea (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pablo Vinagre

Brighton, UK-based (designer b. 1984, Madrid) of the experimental typeface Brighton (2012) and the bilined typeface Imperio (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paddy Hansen

Patrick Hansen is based in Brisbane, Australia. He designed a geometric solid typeface for a school project at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paka Pups

Italian designer (b. 1980) of the experimental typeface Speci.ALE (2009) and the geometric paper cut typeface Diamond D (2009). She is related to the Ludiko site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pal Elekes

During his studis at Visual Arts Institute Eger (Hungary), Pal Elekes designed an experimental prismatic typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pambo
[Diego Negrete Olmedo]

Pambo is a Mexican design collective in Tijuana to which Diego Negrete belongs. He has designed some fonts such as Pasele (2008), a fat bubblegum typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the experimental type category. It is sold by T26. His script typeface Picacho won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010. Guillermo Sariñana created Unidad (upright heavy script). The typeface 604 (experimental, art deco) (free download) rounds out the offering.

MyFonts link. Klingspor link. FADU-UBA link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pangramas
[Pedro Sanoja]

Pangramas is Pedro Sanoja in Barcelona and Buenos Aires. His typefaces include Hibrido (2008, a great sketch face), Kinetica (2009, experimental), and PobleNou (2009, based on things found in the Poble Nou area of Barcelona in which I lived for a few months in 1998 while visiting Pompeu Fabra University). Behance link. Before his Barcelona days, Pedro lived in Caracas, Venezuela, where he was a typographer and web designer. In fact, it was there that he first created Hibrido. He also made Vokodek Rmx 001 (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paola Bascón

German designer of the experimental typeface Nails and Strings (2010, Avoid Red Arrows). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paolo Palma

Italian designer (b. Fermignano, 1973) of the experimental font Elise (2000). He lives in Fermignano. At the School of Graphic Design in Urbino, he wrote a thesis on Wim Crouwel. As a result, his fonts are expertimental and geometric: Zen (2002, looks like lego blocks), Eroi (2001, artistic stencil font), Rainbow Type (2001, dot matrix font), CuboType (2001), Paradise (2001, fonts nailed to the wall), Ale (2000, only circles and lines, a cross between a kitchen tile and a Codex font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Papanapa
[Gustavo Garcia]

Papanapa is a Sao Paulo-based multidisciplinary design studio founded by Gustavo Garcia. Designer of these typefaces:

  • 2004: Almaga, Sketch Book, Tokiorama (oriental simulation).
  • 2005: Chubby Round, Chubby Square, Classic 1952, Ishtencil Popular, Round Balcony.
  • 2006: Bonfim (paper-fold face), Com Las Manos.
  • 2007: Bad Tattoo Artist, Brocos Tortos, Electro Punk, Molecula Toxica, Roundin.
  • 2008: Flat Pipe, a typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the experimental type category.
  • 2012: PeKu is a free alchemic display typeface inspired by the Mayan fabric patterns. It was developed especially for the tenth edition of PechaKucha in Brazil. Gigla is an avant garde typeface. George is a hand-drawn poster face. Hot Kiss is an informal sans. Divinitus is a mini-slabbed typeface family.

In 2020, Thiago Bellotti released Tocco (which is based on chunks of wood type; it includes a variable style) at Papanapa. Thiago also created the custom typeface Bib Sans (2021) at Papanapa.

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Paramdeep Bahia

British graphic and type designer. His (commercial) fonts include LDN Digital (2008, a dot matrix face), Cono Blok (2008, a beautiful fat condensed display face), and D1 (heavy octagonal face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Parsons The New School for design (was: Parsons School of Design)

Design school in New York. Experimental typography course by Charles Nix. Experimental Typography: Spring 2002. Experimental Typography: Fall 2001. Book Design: A History in Latin. Current type design professors include James Montalbano. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pascal Glissmann
[Fridayfonts]

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Pat

Graphic designer in Nantes, France, who created Agrega (2013), a swirling loopy typeface in motion. In 2014, Pat designed the hipster typeface Kass (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pat Mehbrei

Editorial and graphic designer in Adelaide. He is into custom typography: he made Blackletter New (2010), Thick and Thin (2009), and Neuhausstraße (2010), but my favorite is Impossible (2009), a typeface in which Escher-style improbable 3d contradictions occur. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patricia de Sousa Carvalho

Setubal-based Portuguese designer (b. 1973) who made Cethubala (1997), a funky Linotype face. She is involved in web and graphic design and illustration.

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Patricia Nadeau

Quebec-based designer of the experimental typeface Trisch at UQAM (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Berthiaume

Quebec-based designer of the experimental typeface Hamlet at UQAM (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Branigan

Patrick Branigan (Albany, NY) received my BFA in Communication Design from the University at Buffalo in 2010. Behance link. In 2010, he made the experimental geometric typefaces Mouse, Refresh, and EDM. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Owoc

Chicago, IL-based dreator of the experimental all caps typeface Physarum Polycephalum (2018): Inspired by biometric design, the act of designing through imitating nature, I utilized Physarum Polycephalum, a brainless semi-intelligent slime mold for its beautiful and organic forms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Ryan

Fountain Valley, CA-based designer of the experimental Source Font (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrick Spiers

Graphic designer and illustrator in Richmond, KY. He is currently exploring experimental typefaces.

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Patrick Tan

Art director (aka Rebel One) in Singapore. Creator of an experimental geometric headline font called Angular (2012).

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Patrimonio

Argentinian designer of a modular Supertipo Veloz style typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pauerr Alekumsalaam

Barcelona-based designer of the free experimental multiline typeface Fusion (2012, Adobe Illustrator format), and of the connected script signage typeface Dolorosa (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Chan
[Alternumerics]

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Paul Christ

During his studies in München, Germany, Paul Christ designed the angular typeface Oh No (2017) and the wavy typeface Crooked (2017). In 2018, he designed the variable font typeface Herbivore. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Hayden Duensing
[The Private Press and Type foundry]

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Paul Ndunguru

Student at ZIVA, a typography and graphic design school in Harare, Zimbabwe, led by Saki Mafundikwa. In 2001, he designed the experimental alphabet Amandungu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Perretti

During his studies in Rennes, France, Paul Perretti designed an experimental typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Russell

Kiwi designer, b. 1989. Behance link. As a student at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, he created Heartbreaker (2011), Beat (2011, experimental face) and Nostalgia (2011, an elliptical typeface based on the shapes of 1950's American cars). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paula Marr

Buderim, Australia-based designer of the experimental typeface Minimo (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paula Robalinha

Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo and George Vinícios of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pauline Goeders

In 2016, Pauline Goeders (Belgium) designed an experimental alphabet entitled Art Génératif. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paulo Bruno

Creator at Unique Types of the free experimental typeface Iguais (2011). Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paulo Damasceno

Art director at Ogilvy & Mother and later at Neogama, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Creator of Black Street Type (2014, graffiti typefaces) and Snooker Font (2014, an experimental circle-based typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pavlina Boneva

Graphic designer in Essen, Germany. In 2007, she created an experimental alphabet (not a font) in which every letter exists of six identically positioned nails and a black thread. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Furtado

During his studies in Sao Paulo, Pedro Furtado designed the experimental 3d typeface Planas (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Lobo
[Type Factory]

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Pedro M. Santos

Leiria, Portugal-based designer of the experimental typeface Dope (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Mascarenhas
[Mom (or: MOM)]

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Pedro Pan
[Ipsum Planet]

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Pedro Pelaez

Medellin, Colombia-based designer of the cardiogram-based typeface Deadmau5 (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Piña

Maracaibo, Venezuela-based designer of the experimental typeface Bengala (2013) during his studies at Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacin (URBE). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Reis Amado
[Typeforge]

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Pedro Sanoja
[Pangramas]

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Pedro Sorto

Art director in Brussels, who designed GEO type (2013, a geometric experimental typeface). Before Brussels, he worked in various studios in San Salvador and Barcelona.

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Père Sébastien Truchet
[Sébastien Truchet]

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Peng Hoe Low

Savannah, GA-based student who proposed Holocaust (2006), an experimental face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pepijn De Jonckheere

Brugge, Belgium-based designer of some experimental typefaces such as Spiegel (2019) and Gothic Marker (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pernille Jensen

Pernille Jensen (or Lundsgaard) designed the display typeface Go Xperiment (2013) during her studies in Haderslev, Denmark. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Perry Bronte

Student in Auckland, New Zealand, who created the alchemic typeface Xui (2013), the hipster typeface Ikawai (2014), and the experimental typefaces Ka Tiritiri O Te Moana (2014), Arapito (2014), Maungataniwha (2014) and Hapua Waikawa (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

PerSeo Design
[Gregorio Manetti]

Art director in Florence, Italy, who created the blocky experimental typeface Geometry in 2016 and the free pixelish typeface Minimetric (2016).

In 2017, he designed the modular stencil typeface family Linea4. Newest Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Cho
[Typotopo]

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Peter Guckes

German designer of the fifties diner family Frigidaire (2004, URW, designed with Monika Fischer), the experimental typeface Kettapila (2006, URW, with Monika Fischer), the squarish and fashionable family FontForum Phet (2008, URW++, with Monika Fischer) and the curvy Curly Lady (2006, URW, with Monika Fischer). FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Peter Huschka

German artist. Designer at Linotype of the experimental 3-weight family Sinah Sans LT (1994, an Indic simulation font) and the oriental simulation font family Linotype Chineze (2002, part of TakeType 4). In 2003, he created Picture Yourself with Karin Huschka, also at Linotype and reaped an award for it at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. The illustrations in Picture Yourself were based on ideas of the architect Oscar Niemeier.

Sync (2018) is a 26-style layered font system for chromatic typesetting. The first sketches were inspired by some hand-painted characters on a weathered beach sign at the French Côte d'Argent.

Linotype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Peter Olschinsky
[Atelier Olschinsky]

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Peter Rahder

Peter Rahder (Emmen, The Netherlands) specializes in geometric experimental design. He created a number of circle-based gridded alphabets in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Vajda
[Typeflash (or: Type+Play)]

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Petr Babak

Czech designer (b. 1967) who studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He founded Studio Machek & Babak. Since 2003, he works as a graphic designer at his own studio, Laboratory. Head of the Graphic Design and New Media department at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague since 2005.

Designer of the experimental typeface Prkno (1992-1993, wooden plank-shaped letters). At Briefcase Type in 2014, he published the grungy typefaces Prkno, Rezan, Sijan (a needle and thread font) and Trhan.

Interview (in Czech). Graphic design and new media web page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Petr van Blokland
[TYPETR (was: Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens)]

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Petra Kalouskova

Prague-based designer of the experimental typeface Autorska (2017), which is based on 80 kilometers worth of running paths as reported by a GPS app. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Petra Pelle

Petra Pelle (Media & Design Department, Visual Arts Institute, Eger, Hungary) designed theese typefaces:

  • Xorry (2021).
  • Furora (2021). An experimental display typeface.
  • An unnamed blcky initial caps font (2021).
  • Cherry (2020). A display typeface.
  • Blank (2020). A molecular stencil font derived from Vernon Adams's free Google font Nunito (2011).
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Petra Waldeyer

Designer in the FUSE 13 collection of the experimental font Kwarthel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Petros Afshar
[Glyph44 (or: Swash Hub)]

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Phaeton JP

Japanese creator of an experimental / outer space typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phat Phonts
[Wayne Thompson]

Phat Phonts is an Aussie foundry run by Wayne Thompson. Their fonts:

  • Architectural lettering family: Architect Bold, Architect Bold Oblique, Architect Light, Architect Light Oblique, Architect Medium, Architect Medium Oblique.
  • Sans typefaces: Euron, Equaliser, Equaliser Black, Equaliser Bold, Equaliser Stencil, Equaliser Stencil Black, Equaliser Stencil Bold.
  • Techno typefaces: Fresh, Pontoon (2004).
  • Experimental: Fuse Box Dry, Fuse Box Splat, Fuse Box Wet.
  • Grunge typefaces: Carbon Credit (2008), Carbon Tax (2008), Guttersnipe (2008), Not Sassure, RatBag (2005), Virus (2001), Stakeout (2007), Whatever (2007), Decon (2004), Wobbly Boot (2007: an eerie font), Chowdahead (2007), Demented Avenger, Dont Panic, Panic.
  • Playful typefaces: Ogre, PP Jungle Bones (2005, free).
  • Display typefaces: Otis Condensed, Lankas.
  • Handwriting: Zoobie Decaf (2006), Zoobie Doubleshots, Tully Bold (2007), Tully Light, Tully Medium, Bosin, Grimsby Hand, ITCDjango.
  • Comic book style typefaces: Spud Black Italic, Spud Black Upright, Spud Bold Italic, Spud Bold Upright, Spud Italic, Spud Upright.
  • Stencil: Zebbidy Stencil (2006).
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Phil Baines

British graphic designer who was born in 1958 in Kendal, Westmorland, and died in 2024. Baines graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1985 and the Royal College of Art in 1987. He worked as a freelance graphic designer, was Professor of Typography at Central Saint Martins College of Art&Design (now a university) in London (from 1991 until retiement), ran Phil Baines Studio, maintained Public Lettering (about type found in cities), and was Typographic Advisor to the Central Lettering Record CD-Rom project.

He designed FUSE Classic 1, Can You (1989), Ushaw (FUSE 8, FontShop, 1993), Toulon (1994), Horncastle (1994), VereDignum LT Std in Alternate, Decorative and Regular weights (2003, Linotype Taketype 5 collection) and Can You Read Me (FUSE 1, 1991).

His pages on public lettering in London.

His books include Signs, lettering in the environment (with Catherine Dixon, 2003) and Type&Typography (2002, with Andrew Haslam).

Author of Rookledge’s Classic International Typefinder (Christopher Perfect, Gordon Rookledge, Phil Baines).

At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he spoke on From the Motor Car Act to motorways. He has also a good reputation for taking people on typographic city tours, as he did in 2006 at ATypI in Lisbon, and at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Linotype link. FontShop link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin in which he explained how he and Catherine Dixon produced the lettering for the Pozza Palace in Dubrovnik on commission for the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Obituary in The Guardian. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Phil Kiel
[Font Soup]

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Phil Tait

British creator of the experimental Kreased and gridded Kreased Remix (2009, FontStruct). Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philip Cheng

Kuching, Malaysia-based designer of Experimental Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philip Kelly

Graphic designer in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2013, he summarizes his career: Early career working in New Zealand for not for profit clients in theatre, music and fine arts. Two years at Saatchi & Saatchi NZ followed by ten years in New York City as a type director, design director and photographer. Recently returned to New Zealand after two years in Shanghai.

Typefaces designed by him include Basalt (2011, bilined), Brutalism (2008), Cement (2009, octagonal), Hellvettika (1998, gothic, tattoo font), Esosquare (1998, squarish), Phrank (1997, experimental), and Hanson Unicase (2006).

In 2015, the custom octagonal typeface Pure Pakati was developed at Whybin TBWA Auckland for Tourism New Zealand. Its design team comprised Philip Kelly (design director), Karl Wixon (Maori design consultant), Kris Sowersby (type designer) and Rangi Kipa (Maori carver). Pure Pakati blends the traditions of wood type with the traditional indigenous carving style of Aotearoa (New Zealand) in a hand-carved and digital fonts.

Behance link. Another Behance link. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philip Trautmann
[Shaped Fonts (was: Phitra Design)]

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Philipp Luidl

Author of Die Schwabacher (2004), and Ornaments. Philipp Luidl and Günter Gerhard Lange coauthored Paul Renner (1978, Typografische Gesellschaft München). Philipp Luidl and Helmut Huber wrote Typographical ornaments (Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press; New York, N.Y.: Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co., 1985), a 368-page in-depth treatise on the subject. Cover page and selected images such as this end piece with tendril decorations, 17th century, this cast unit piece assembled from various elements, these great ornamented caps, and this vignette from the Academicism period. They divide type ornaments up by historical periods:

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Philipp York Martin

Hamburg, Germany-based graphic designer. Creator of Polygon Type (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philippe Apeloig

French type designer (b. Paris, 1962) who designed the experimental fonts Carré, Octobre (a stencil in the De Stijl genre), and Aleph in 1994. [The digital versions of these fonts are due to Franck Montfermé.] First prize at the Tokyo Type Directors Club in 1995, and a Judges' Special Prize at the same competition in 1999. Poster exhibition. Bio.

Since 1992, he has been teaching typography at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs.

In 2012, the people at Nouvelle Noire in Zurich helped produce several of Apeloig's typefaces:

  • In the De Stijl genre: Octobre (1994), Ndebele.
  • The geometric typeface ABF.
  • ABF Lineaire (2013). A stencil typeface with elements of LED letters.
  • ABF Silhouette (2009). Based on ABF Petiit, this typeface was developed for the 2009 conference on the Space and Architecture of Libraries.
  • ABF Petit. Custom designed as part of a new corporate identity for the Association des Bibliothécaires de France.
  • Coupé (2013): The font Coupé is based on the streamlined elegance of vintage sports cars. Apeloig designed these letterforms for an exhibition of fashion designer Ralph Lauren's car collection. The exhibition made its European premiere at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris accompanied by a poster inspired by the clean engineering of the automobiles.
  • Izocl (2013). At Nouvelle Noire.
  • Poudre (2013). This font was created by Apeloig for a poster advertising an exhibition on the prolific inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. Apeloig's concept was inspired by Nobel's invention of dynamite and work with subatomic particles.
  • Ali (2013). An origami stencil typeface.
  • Aleph (1994). Based on a simple arc, and influenced by Excoffon's banco (1952).
  • In 2016, he designed the numbers for the Slim d'Hermes watch.

Alternate URL. Photograph. Winner in 2009 of the typographic design award of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD). Nouvelle Noire Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philippe Nicolas

French graphic designer who lived in Perugia, Italy, and is now in Nantes, France. I would call him an experimental typographer. He likes experimenting, for example, with modular typeforms, as is apparent from his typefaces called Tubular Type, Type Lover, and Fold Type (2009). His Electro (2009) is supposed to look like your hair when you plug your fingers into the socket. Bang Bang type (2009, Western meets organic) and Frak type Abigaëlle (modular blackletter, 2009) and All Slab Western (2009) are further experimental typefaces.

In 2014, he designed the beveled typefaces Vernacolare, Prism Rounded, Prism, and Old Prism, and the circle-based display typeface Neo Quadrata. Terzo (2014-2017) is a delightfully excentric compass-and-ruler typeface. Modula (2014) is a minimalist modular typeface.

Behance link. Flickr page, where one can find more experimental types, like AbstractMin (2010), AbstractStruct (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Phillip Navarre

Knoxville, TN-based designer of the experimental monoline typeface Rail (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Picnic Paradise

Graphic and experimental type design studio in Berlin, with an interesting web site. Typefaces: Picnic Only (2004-2008), Industry Talk (2004-2008, dingbats), Alu II (2006, a simple filled-in-counters type), Barcode (2003), ECG (2003), Bricks (2003), TEU (2003), Antibody (2006), T.I.N.A. (2006, Arabic simulation typeface by Frauke Boggasch and Dominik Sittig), S-TAG-S (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Piero De Macchi

Italian type designer born in Turin in 1937. Designer at Nebiolo from 1956-1959. Freelancer and writer since 1971 at his own De Macchi graphic design studio. Most of his typefaces were commissioned by corporations. In 1992 he set up the calligraphic association Dal Segno alla Scrittura. His typefaces:

  • At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about Novarese, and about his new font family, Nomina, developed for the Italian telephone directories (SEAT). Commissioned in 1999, it was first produced in 2001. It replaced Mandel's Galfra which had been in use since 1977.
  • Iveco (1985): commissioned by the trucking company.
  • Pancarrè (2008). A sans typeface family under development (as of 2013).
  • Graphicus (2003). Done for the Graphicus magazine, Alberto Greco Publishing House of Milan. There are sans and serif versions.
  • The Renaissance chancery italic type Paloma (1992).
  • An experimental Bodoni family (1989).
  • Pitto (1997).
  • The neoclassic family Alexandra (1991-1992).
  • Norberto (2009). Done for an exhibition dedicated to Norberto Bobbio in 2009. A humanist curvy sans.
  • Fiat Advert (2007). A grotesk commissioned by Fiat.
  • The Carolingian script typeface Pennino (1996).
  • WDC2 (2005). Commissioned by Badriotto Palladino Agency for the Torino World Design capital communication briefs.
  • Exemplar (2005). This ten-style text family is the last unfinished alphabet of Aldo Novarese, completed by DeMacchi on request of the Novarese family.
  • A destructivist humanist face, Tremolino (since 1996).

De Macchi's company, De Macchi Progetti Grafici, is located in Torino.

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Pierre di Sciullo
[Qui Résiste]

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Pierre Fourny

Designer of La Police Coupable, a font that when cut horizontally is such that top halves and bottom halves can be matched almost at will to make new letters. It created controversyt, because "police" (font) also means the police force. So, the font is called "The police is guilty". As a result, the INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle, the French IP institute) refused the publication and registration of the trademark La Police Coupable. About the same time, Sarkozy accepted 170,000 Euros in cash in a brown envelope from a rich woman, and the corrupt French circus continues---the good are bad and the bad get rich. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pierre Nguyen

Pierre Nguyen (Welcome to Cloud) lives and works in Paris as a graphic designer. His poster typefaces include Papercut (2007, Die Gestalten), Director (2007, octagonal), Toyz (2007, art deco), Helium (2007, bloated glyphs), and Architype (2007, octagonal).

Creator of the delicate hairline sans George Anderson (2011) and the similar Johnny Graham (2011). Experimental typefaces by him include Vertical (2010, only vertical lines).

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Pierre-Yves Brun

French graphic designer in Montpellier who made several experimental fonts in 2010, such as Architekt, Progress and Delicious as Hell. In 2011, he added Forest (ultra-black poster face) and Sunrise. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pieter van Rosmalen
[Bold Monday]

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PinkLab
[Pinky Leung]

PinkLab is a Hong Kong-based creative studio, founded by Pinky Leung (b. Hong Kong), who has a BA in graphic design from Middlesex University, UK. In 2011, he designed the experimental typeface Plastic Bag. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pinky Leung
[PinkLab]

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Pisto Casero
[Gilberto Moya Perona]

Fine Arts graduate from UCLM (University of Castilla-La Mancha) in Spain, who works as a graphic designer in Cuenca, where he set up the Pisto Casero commercial type foundry in 2013, after a period of free font production. He worked at DO2 Magazine. Gilberto Moya Perona is the designer of most fonts at Pisto Casero, which in 2014 was based in Brno, Czechia.

Typefaces from 2011: Paper Cube (3d, outlined), the ink spill typeface Sopa de Letras, the fat counterless typeface Minimal, the outline typeface I Am Online With U, the 3d hand-printed outline typeface Indietronica, the stencil pixel typeface Stencil 8Bit, Wet Arial (a beautifully executed type treatment face), and the 3d pixel typeface Chip Tunes.

Typefaces from 2012: Awakened, Corrupted Democrazy (grungy), Czech Tales (a beautiful curly typeface inspired by traditional Czech fairytales), Neon Serif (multilined, prismatic), Democrazy (sans and serif with very tall ascenders).

Typefaces from 2014: I Am Online With You (a connected outline font family).

Typefaces from 2015: Santanelli (an all caps rounded hipster display typeface).

Home page. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pixel Drop

Cofounded by Joseph Johnson and Pratik Luharuka, Pixel Drop (Mumbai, India) created the experimental geometric solid typeface Primitive Font and the connect-the-dots Molecular Font in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pixel Orchestra
[Bruno Capezzuoli]

Bruno Capezzuoli (Pixel Orchestra, Rome) created the typefaces Glitch (experimental) and Ettore (alchemic) in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

P.J. Offner

Student in Cape Town, South Africa, who created the experimental 3d typeface Crisptal in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Plasebo Studio
[Sahap Kurtaran]

Creative design studio in Istanbul, Turkey. Designer of the hipster sans typeface Reaktif (2020) and the octagonal typeface family Alaca (2020).

Behance link for Sahap Kurtaran. Sahap graduated from Marmara University's Faculty of Fine Arts. He designed the experimental typeface Ballad in 2018. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Polina Joffe

Polina Joffe is a graphic designer based in central London. She is currently working as a freelance designer while doing an MA in Contemporary Typographic Media at London College of Communication. She is (was?) also a graphic design student at Middlesex University in London. Creator of the experimental geometric typeface Polik (2011-2012), which can be bought at Handmadefont.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Polina Larina

Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow. In 2016, she designed these semi-experimental typefaces for Laton and Cyrillic: Boyko, Pilma. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pollo Graphic Design
[Gerardo Pinzon]

Graphic design student from Queretaro, Mexico, who operates as Pollo Graphic Design. His typeface Portatil (2010) is a monoline geometric minimalist sans with a few curls on selected letters. Creator of the excellent experimental display typefaces Summer (2011) and Liquit (2010).

Dafont link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Polly Khvostova

Graphic designer in Samara, Russia, who deconstructed Georgia into a triplet of experimental typefaces in a project called Transformation (2013). She also made a set of icons called Zoo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Polymorph
[Amélie Dumont]

Polymorph is a Brussels-based outfit that groups designers who use free programming tools for artistic expression. It is run by Amélie Dumont and François Zajega. Dumont designed some fonts through programming with Metapost, Javascript, FreeCad and other tools. By 2021, she finished Chemins (2021: polygonal), Ductus (2020: +Mono), Fablab (2020: made with freeCad), MetaAccanthis (2020), Fraktur Meta (2019), Metatextura Linear (2018) and Metafraktur Linear (2018). Gitlab link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pommade

Designers of the experimental font gbg. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pooja Saxena

Indian graduate of New Delhi's National Institute of Fashion Technology and the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2012 who was born in New Delhi, lived in Bangalore and Hyderabad, and is now back in New Delhi.

Pooja's graduation typeface is Cawnpore (2012), a Latin / Devanagari multi-script family designed for readability in small print.

Fontstructor who made these typefaces in 2011: Picadilly Circus (dot matrix), Rise of the Cellphone (cellphone dings), Depot (dot matrix), Depot Devanagari, Type in Transit I (dot matrix), Electricals Ltd, Giovanni Ostaus, Nip And Tuck, Delhi Metro Sans II (dot matrix face), and Delhi Metro Serif. Pooja added many dot matrix style stitching fonts in 2011: Sajou I, II and III, Lettering For Stitchers I through X. These are digitizations of embroidery patterns from Elsie Svennas' book A Handbook of Lettering for Stitchers.

Chaukor (2009) is an experimental Devanagari face.

In 2014, she developed Cambay (Google Web Fonts; see also GitHub and Open Font Library). Cambay is a libre Devanagari sans typeface family designed to match the Latin font Cantarell (Dave Crossland, 2009). Still in 2014, she created the Gujarati / Latin typeface Farsan (free at Google Fonts; Github link).

In 2017, Pooja joined Type Together. Type Together interview, where we learn that she regrets not having studied mathematics. It's never too late, Pooja!

In 2021, she was part of the development of Belarius, a three-axis variable family that shifts from sans to slab serif, from condensed to expanded widths, and includes every possibility in between. Published by Type Together in 2021, it was developed under the guidance of Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, with type design by Azza Alameddine and Pooja Saxena, and additional kerning and engineering help from Radek Sidun, Joancarles Casasin and Irene Vlachou. Still in 2021 at Type Together, she started work on Bree Devanagari. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Porky Design
[Rob Miszkowski]

Porky Design is Rob Miszkowski (Swindon, UK). He created Air (2011, experimental / geometric typeface), and Robson (a high-contrast titling face).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Post Typography
[Nolen Strals]

Originally conceived in 2001 as an avant-garde anti-design movement by Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen, Post Typography specializes in graphic design, conceptual typography, and custom lettering/illustration with additional forays into art, apparel, music, curatorial work, design theory, and vandalism. In 2007, Strals and Willen incorporated Post Typography as a full time design studio. Their type and lettering subpage describes some custom typographic work. Noteworthy are Conjoined Font (2006), Negative Font (2006) and Pattern Font (2003, octagonal). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Praegnanz.de
[Gerrit van Aaken]

Gerrit van Aaken's essays on and dissections of some free fonts. In German. Gerrit also designed the free experimental typeface Gerrystyle (2005, 26plus-zeichen), by extreme manipulation and alteration of Aldo Novarese's Eurostile Bold (1962). At iFontMaker, Gerrit made the hand-printed Gerry Sans (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Prajay Harji

Graphic designer in London. Creator of Square Typeface (2013, experimental, bi-colored). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pramod Chavan

Aka Pumbum. The project Thread Typography takes us far into the experimental typography universe. The resulting images are beautiful. Pumbum is a calligrapher in Mumbai who graduated from the Sir JJ School of Applied Art.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Présence Typo
[Thierry Puyfoulhoux]

Friendly French Agfa Creative Alliance designer (b. 1961) who lives in Baratier. He was an ex-student of José Mendoza at the Imprimerie Nationale à Paris. He started Présence Typo in 2000. He published numerous typefaces in various places:

  • ITC: ITC Korigan Light (1997), ITC Friz Quadrata Italic (2003, to complete the ITC Friz Quadrata of 1965), Friz Quadrata Bold Italic (1994).
  • Agfa creative Alliance: Alinea (1995-1997).
  • Présence Typo: Cicero (1995; Cicero2 is promised), Bebop (1996), Adesso (1999), Classica (a very elegant family, 1999), Classica Gallic (2001), Madisonian (1999), Tschichold (1999, the only lineale typeface by Tschichold drawn in 1933-1936 for the Uhertype photo-typesetting machine), Presence (1998), Prosalis (1998), Tangram (2001), Tuxedo (1999, a fun didone experiment), Kouros (2003, a Greek simulation font), Indigo Sans (2003), Indigo Serif (2003), Classica Prestige, BigTicy (2005), Ubik (2004, an 8-weight sans family), Diana and Princess (2004, calligraphic typefaces, after designs by Roger Excoffon in 1956). A.M. Cassandre's Cassandre (1968) was largely unfinished, after having been turned down by Berthold and Olivetti. It was finished in a revival of sorts (3 weights) by Thierry and is still called Cassandre (2003) [Cassandre Original includes only the letters drawn by A.M. Cassandre. Cassandre Normal and Bold are completed and expanded interpretations of the original drawings of 1968. Cassandre was the last typeface designed by the great poster artist and type designer A.M. Cassandre (1901-1968)]. Fonts available at MyFonts include Fusion Engraved, Fusion Standard, Laricio, Tandem, and Zipper, Placebo Sans (2003), Tuxedo (1999, a fun didone experimental face), Placebo Serif.
  • Typotek: Tangram (1999, letters and dingbats made from triangles and squares), Présence (1999, sans serif), Classica (1999, serif), and Prestige (1999, serif).
  • Custom fonts: Add Electric City, Add Iron, ITC Friz Quadrata Italic (2003, to complete the ITC Friz Quadrata of 1965), Père Castor Flammarion (designed for Flammarion by José Mendoza and digitized by Thierry), Option Italique (designed as an italic for Optima), ITC Korigan (uncial).

Klingspor link. FontShop link. Linotype link.

View the typefaces designed by Thierry Puyfoulhoux. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Predrag Milankovic

Typographer and graphic designer from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He designed some nifty typographic posters. He created JPMst (2009), an experimental organic sans family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pretend Foundry (or: Fuzzco)
[Helen Rice]

Helen Rice and Josh Nissenboim run Pretend Foundry / Fuzzco, as an outlet to try out experimental fonts. Located in South Carlina, their typefaces as of early 2020 include:

  • Archdale
  • Benson
  • Constantine
  • Coplestons
  • Couch
  • Easley. A geometric sans.
  • Neue Heitz. They write: Commissioned by Heitz Cellar of Napa Valley, Neue Heitz is a refined, steely, digital version of the type they have been using on their bottles since the early 1960's. Neue Heitz features a Basque capital A.
  • Pinopolis and Pinopolis Mono. A real and a faux monospace font.
  • Puget. An ink-trapped rounded sans.
  • Septima. A fun all-caps display typeface.
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Protofonts (and Loosy Design)
[Fabian Pfeifhofer]

Fabian Pfeifhofer is an Italian/Tirolian designer, b. 1984. Creator of Ugloosy (2007, grunge), Loosydings Extended (2008), Karmoofel (2007, experimental; see also here), Freestyle Silouet, Funnighosts (2007, a Halloween font), Funghosts (2007), Tramyad (2007, grunge; see also here), Trashco (2007, grunge), Helvari (2007, a Helvetica-style family), Fracta (2007, a blackletter family).

Free fonts from 2006 until 2007: Blabloosy (grunge), bubbles bubbles (grunge), Loosydings, LoosydingsExpert, UntitledRegular, Freestyle-pictos, loosy-Italic, loosy-regular, mashen-Semi-expanded-Bold, ruculus-Semi-expanded-ExtraBold, ruculus (rounded futuristic face), Skirules-Sans2 (grunge), skirules-Sans-Expanded-Medium (grunge), skirules-Sans-Expanded-Medium, spikes, staccato, wing.

Typefaces from 2008: the grungy Dinstik. As Loosy Design, he also made the grunge typeface Malle (2007), Ambo Thin (2012: a monoline hipster script), loosydings-extended (2008) and the pixel typeface Blockline (2008). Creations in 2009: Slutotronic (dripping paint font), Illoosy (grunge), Training (dingbats), Camera (dings), Haloa-Heavy, Minuscula (uncial).

Dafont link. Another URL. Link at Devian Tart. Loosy Design link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Prototype Experimental Foundry
[Charles S. Wilkin]

Commercial foundry, est. 1994 in Brooklyn by Charles Wilkin (b. Buffalo, NY). Designers selling their fonts through them include

  • Charles Wilkin: Sequence, Policy, Velvet (1995, also at Plazm), Superchunk (which includes funny Picasso-esque dingbats of typefaces), Spin (1994), Spaceboy, Hi-Light (2002, an upright script family), Poly Anna (2001), Phink, DeScripto (grunge calligraphy), Decline, Broken, Dink (1994), Euphoria, Fatboy, Interstate60, MagnetoHalfSerif, PJCT (2003, sans).
  • John Wiese: Halo, Petulia, Cat Woman, Caitanya.
  • Robert Beck: Table Manners.
  • Frank Ford: Ghetto Prince (calligraphic grunge script).
  • 52mm: Kaiju (Hebrew simulation font).
  • Keith Tatum: Gliche.

Free fonts by Charles Wilkin: Creep (1995), Cypher (1997), Nude (1995), Pixely (2002).

Alternate URL. At MyFonts. Dafont link. Personal web site.

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Psy--Ops Type Foundry
[Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos]

Psy/Ops is Rodrigo Cavazos's foundry which initially consisted of artists and designers from the San Francisco Bay Area mainly interested in experimental type, type on the fringe.

  • Armchair Modern
  • Bitblox
  • The free pixel typefaces CR21 (2009) and CR21 Modern (2009), downloadable from Dafont.
  • Eidetic, EideticNeo (2000, at Emigre). The unicase version is called Eidetic Neo Omni. Eidetic Modern (1998) is the sans version of Eidetic Neo.
  • Faceplate Sans LE.
  • Harfang Pro (by André Simard).
  • HaruNami (by Chiharu Tanaka in 2010).
  • In 2010, Cavazos did custom work via T-26. For example, three prominent lettering styles from the famous Jack Daniels Black Label (ca. 1904) were developed into complete fonts. Jasper is based on the familiar logo lettering (and bearing Jack Daniel's given first name). Lynchburg Script (2010) is based on the Tennessee lettering in the label. Finally, the solid mechanical typeface Motlow is named for Lem Motlow, the nephew of Jack Daniel who managed and later inherited the Distillery.
  • Retablo Antiguo (1994).
  • Ruzena Antikva (1998).
  • Vidange Pro (2008, by Jack Usine).
  • Other typefaces: Adaptive Mono, Trillium (1995, T-26), VM74 (1996), Stigmata (T26), Spanner, Slag, Alembic (1995, T-26), CrucibleBurnin, DefaultGothic, DevilleThruster, Gnomad (1997, T-26), Oculus (1996, T-26, an organic face), Peregrine and Peregrine Titling (1996, Monotype), Phalanx (1996, chunky; Monotype), Philomela, Caligrafia de Bula and Caligrafia de Bula Regio (decorative initials), Transaxle Script (1994, a fifties font), and Skiffledog.
Other designers at Psy Ops include Tomi Haaparanta, Gábor Kóthay, Lars Bergquist, Julien Janiszewski, Stefan Kjartansson, Stefan Hattenbach, Robert Beck, Todd Masui, Evan Sornstein, Michel Valois, and Steve Mehallo. Cavazos is also called Roderigo Zscori-Cavaz. He is involved in 21 Lab, a design studio which started at the design school in Monterrey, Mexico.

View Rodrigo Cavazos's typefaces.

Klingspor link. FontShop link.

View the Psy-Ops typeface library. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pyotr Bushuev
[Naum Type]

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Q-BO
[Carlos Matteoli]

Q-BO is the foundry of Carlos Daniel Matteoli, a type designer from Santiago del Estero, Argentina, b. 1980.

Old URL. His typefaces, both free and commercial, often have a sci-fi or industrial component:

  • Djs Symbols (2011). A scanbat font of famous disc jockeys.
  • Q-Bo (2011) is a fat typeface in which each glyph occupies a perfect square.
  • 2Lines (2011) is a squarish bilined caps face.
  • Equ (2011).
  • Ovnis (2011, a flying saucer dingbat face).
  • Voker (2011, +Rounded: a techno family) and Basica (2011; +Basica 2.0, 2012; +Basica Cartoon, 2014), Teio (2011), Sistema (2011), Ameba (2011) and Abix (2011) are techno typefaces.
  • Bim (2011) is an outlined techno face. It was followed in 2012 by Bim Eroded.
  • Hexa (2011) is an experimental hexagonal face.
  • Cable (2011) is an experimental face.
  • Crakos (2011) is slightly grungy.
  • Kram (2011, +Espaciada) is a rounded techno / sci-fi / stencil face.
  • Spac3 (2011, a sci-fi all caps face), Spac3 Selenium (2014), Spac3 Halftone (2012), Spac3 Destroyed (2011), Spac3 Neon (2011), and Spac3 Tech (2011, a tech stencil face), Spac3 Slim (2017).
  • Digital (2011), Digital Cognitive (2011) and Digital Tech (2011): semi-pixelized.
  • Bim (2011).
  • Djs Symbols (2012). A scanbat of disc jockeys.
  • Plig (2012) and Plig Nova (2012). An avant garde family.
  • Capital (2012). A squarish all caps typeface.
  • Zuber (2012), Zuber Stone (2012, a heavy chiseled textured typeface), Zuber Tech (2015), and Zuber Future (2012, a fat counterless octagonal typeface).
  • Orena (2012-2016). A squarish caps-only futuristic typeface.
  • Complex (2012). A block-serifed all caps typeface.
  • Plig Nova (2012).
  • Amirox (2012). A fat counterless typeface.
  • Basica Industrial (2012). An industrial grunge face.
  • Zian (2012). A fat rounded sans.
  • Complex Bruja (2012).
  • Voker Baxer (2012).
  • Oxin (2012), Oxin Army (2013, stencil), Oxin War (2013), Oxin Brush (2013).
  • Moiser (2013), Moiser Techno (2013, counterless), and Heavy Moiser (2013). A purely geometric sans.
  • Argentina (2013). A copperplate style caps face, possibly created after a national soccer team lettering style. Followed in 2014 by the grungy Argentina Austral.
  • Rixon (2013). A mechanical octagonal typeface.
  • Gtek (2013). A sci-fi face. Followed by Gtek Broken (2014), Gtek Technology (2014), Gtek Nova (2014), Gtek Cavern (2015), and Gtek Minimal.
  • Xenik (2014).
  • Fiker (2014, squarish sci-fi face) and Fiker Futura (2014).
  • Oki (2014). A blocky outlined typeface.
  • Cerena (2015).
  • Zian V15 (2015). A rounded techno sans.
  • Begok (2015) and Begok v15 (2016). A techno sans.
  • Kiwik (2017). A heavy display sans.
  • Basica Cicionica (2017). A squarish techno typeface.
  • Ertek (2017). A trekkie font.
  • Abser 391 (2017). Straight-edged.
  • Spac3 Slim and Spac3 Tech v17 (2019).
  • Esba (2019).
  • Basica (2020).
  • Tauler (2020). A floriated typeface.
Creative Market link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Qian Hao

Student at the China Academy of Art in Shanghai. He created some experimental Latin alphabets in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Qondile Dlamini

Mbabane, Swaziland-based designer of Topotype (2013), an experimental typeface influenced by the shapes of coastlines. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Quad

Typographical experiments and type reconstruction. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Quadraat (or: RP Type)
[Raphael Picard]

Quadraat (or: RP Type) is a design studio based in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), set up by Raphael Picard, a graduate of the School of Applied Arts of la Chaux-de-Fonds (class of 2011), and Julien Méille, who graduated from the School of Applied Arts of la Chaux-de-Fonds in 2007). In 2019, he designed Maxy (2019), a super-extended sans family. In 2021, Rapahel Picard designed Basel Stadt (a wide monolinear experimental sans) and Portland Grotesk (a 4-style wide grotesk). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Quan Payne

Design director at Frost Design in Sydney and South Africa since 2007. Global Brand Design and Art Director for the London 2012 Olympic Games for Nike. Designer of quite a few (unnamed) typefaces in 2009-2012. These include several modular or experimental designs, a 3D typeface for Mr. Muz in Tasmania, an Escheresque typeface, a prismatic typeface, a didonbe typeface, and an op-art experimental typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Quarantype

Quarantype is a free family of ten crazy display fonts made in March 2020 under COVID quarantine by the prolific and talented Zetafonts team:

  • Quarantype Bikeride (Andrea Tartarelli)
  • Quarantype Campfire (Andrea Tartarelli)
  • Quarantype Chillout (Francesco Canovaro)
  • Quarantype Embrace (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini)
  • Quarantype Hangout (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini)
  • Quarantype Hopscotch (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini)
  • Quarantype Joyride (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini)
  • Quarantype Sackrace (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini)
  • Quarantype Sunshine (Francesco Canovaro). This was extended later in 2020 to a variable font by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Solenn Bordeau, Sunshine Pro.
  • Quarantype Uplift (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Maria Chiara Fantini)
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Quatrevingtquinze

Montelimar, France-based designer of the 3d gridded typeface Filaire (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

queencat

FontStructor who made the experimental typefaces Skyscrapers (2012, dingbats) and Building (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Quentin.cz

Vendor of Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Qui Résiste
[Pierre di Sciullo]

Pierre di Sciullo (b. 1962) is the award-winning Parisian designer of FF Flèches and Minimum. At FUSE17 (1997), he published SpellMe. Creative Alliance designer of Gararond. In 2000, he started QuiRésiste. Bio at FontFont. In FUSE 5, he created the experimental font ScratchedOut. There is also a free pixel family called Aligourane for the Tuaregs (in their national writing system, Tifinagh). Commercial pixel families: Zèbre, Minimum serifs, 3 par 3, and Minus. He also made a medieval-futuristic font Nicolas2000 (nice!), several experimental fonts such as Quantange, Syntetic, Basnoda, Miroir, Epelle-moi, Amanar (2009, runic), Kouije, Sintetik, Quantane, Paresseux, Sonia, and Spell me, as well as more traditional fonts such as Gararond, Gararond Lié, Gararaide, Garadico, Durmou, and destructionist fonts such as Découpé and Paris-Gretz. At Buildingletters, one can buy his Aligourane (1995) in these weights: Contour, Noir, Orner, Leger and Etroit, as well as Amanar (2003) in these weights: Condense, Decor, Demigras, Noir. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rabisco (was: AfroBreak)
[Afronsu Afronsu]

Aka afronsu Afronsu. Crazy Sao Paulo-based Brazilian designer (b. 1986) of the grunge typeface Antropofagia (2010). Born in 1986. He also made Urbana (2020), Futurista (2019: an experimental font), Afronsu (2011), Estaktu (2012, influenced by Sao Paulo's graffiti or pixacao), and Abstract Rua (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Biello

San Francisco-based graphic designer who created an untitled circle-based experimental alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Bjorn

Atlanta, GA-based designer of an innovative typographic poster for Martin Luther King Jr day in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel E. Millar

During her graphic design studies Edinburgh College of Art, Rachel Millar created the experimental typefaces Shatter (2012) and Fracture (2013: a bone fracture or glaz krak typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Graham

Graphic artist in Firenze (and soon London). She made Blackout (2010, a geometric face), and Pac (2010, a circular face, inspired by Pacman). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachel Needham

Virginia Beach, VA-based designer (b. 1995) of the ultra-experimental Secret Booze Font (2015). This font was finished during her studies at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rachelle Criticos

Melbourne, Australia-based designer of some experimental typefaces in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Radek Husak

UK-based graphic designer and digital artist. Creator of the experimental typeface Rectangulum (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Radha Joshi

Graphic design student in Pune, India. She made some experimental and ornamental Latin typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Radim Pesko
[RP Digital Type Foundry]

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Radu Turcanu

During his studies, Ipswich, United Kingdom-based Radu Turcanu designed the hipster typeface Linea Alternativa (2016) and the experimental techno typeface Xoy (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rafael Jordán/0Oliver

Rafael Jordan Oliver, aka Barry Bianco, is a graphic designer and calligrapher in Valencia, Spain, b. 1983, Alzira. Graduate of EASD in Valencia, class of 2013. His typefaces:

  • A geometric Futura / Bauhaus style typeface family called Geometric Obsession (2012).
  • The curly all-caps typeface Nord Type, which is based on the modern letters of Gregorio Muñoz at Valencia's train station L'Estació del Nord. It was his graduation project at EASD.
  • The commercial didone typeface Didac (2014). The Italic followed in 2015-2016. Buy it here.
  • At Type@Paris in 2015, he designed Carmen Maria (named after his wife), a sharp-serifed fashion mag typeface rooted in Carolingian calligraphy.
  • Las Naves Condensed (2017). A grotesque typeface designed under the art direction of Sebastian Alos for "Las Naves" foundation.
  • Bantha Sans and Bantha Serif (2017). Sturdy multi-purpose typefaces.
  • Bianco Slab (2017, Fontstore).
  • Brava Slab (2018). Almost monolinear, with Latin curves in the italics. Followed in 2019 by Brava Sans.
  • Ostium (2019). An inline unicase font with proportions close to classical romans.
  • Carmensin (2020). A humanist text family characterized by smooth curves, a large x-height and open counters. It includes a Display subfamily and some stencil styles.
  • Redoneta (2020). A 12-style geometric sans. Followed in 2022 by Redoneta Rounded (12 styles).
  • Tannen (2021). A layerable blackletter family, and an interpretation of Erich Meyer's Tannenberg (1933-1935).
  • Tannen (2021). A layerable German expressionist blackletter family, and an interpretation of Erich Meyer's Tannenberg (1933-1935).
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Rafael Nascimento
[Escaphandro (or: Rafael Cervi Barrozo)]

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Rafael Prado

Rafael Prado (Nakedz Crew, Sao Paulo, Brazil) created the experimental typeface Heavysquare (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rafaela Barrileiro

Graduate of IADE, based in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2016, she designed the experimental typeface Double. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raihan Nizar

Raihan Nizar (b. 1977) is the Indonesian FontStructor who made Cubos (2011, squarish and geometric), Pixelized Handwriting (2011), Lost in Future (2011, sci-fi face), Valdero (2011), Simplicity (2011, kitchen tile face), Bold Type (2011, octagonal), Fat Cribbo (2011, gridded), Block Out (2011, in the style of the commercial typeface Pincoya), Smooth (kitchen tile face), Quadro, Minimal (geometric, gridded, almost a kitchen tile face), Zkratchy (scratchy face), Retro Mania (almost a Western face), Techno Light, Blockz, Box Building (3d outline face), Metropol (outline techno face), Space Adventure, Electric City, Cubix, Revolution, Pixel, High Volume, and Letters In The Blocks in 2011. Many of these typefaces are pixelish.

Typefaces from 2012: Dequatrion (fat stencil face), Konnekto (electrical circuit font), Devoltas, Forsid (cubist painting font), Etnis (squarish), Electro (counterless and octagonal), Mr. Ken (very fat face), Squadlest (squarish), Neonize (dot matrix face), Simplicity (kitchen tile face), Sound System (squarish), High Volume, Bajaj Sans (gaspipe sans), Bulat (fat counterless typeface), Elektro (blocky, counterless), Elektro Forest, The Slabbers (Egyptian), Kotakisme (counterless and geometric), Bhekhathe (thin geometric typeface), Insomnia, Siliko (metal band logo font), Motakku (labyrinthine, op-art).

Typefaces from 2013: Yamko Rambe Yamko (alchemic typeface), Farmhand Script (poster script), Luikeza, The Ugly Script, Gerobak (fat, counterless).

Aka cablecomputer. Fontspace link. FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ralph du Carrois
[Seite4]

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Ralph Smith
[Garage Fonts]

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Ramiz Guseynov
[TipografiaRamis]

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Rana Bulbul

Rana Bulbul (Beirut) created the DNA typeface for Latin and Arabic in 2012. It is based on the structure of DNA. Rana also drew the experimental typeface Fuse 2 Use (2012, a circuit board font for Latin and Arabic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Randy Gregory II

Phoenix, AZ-based art director. Behance link. For a group he formed in Arizina called The Dead, he made a minimalist alphabet for its identity in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Randy Willoughby

Senior visual communications designer at TEAGUE in Seattle, WA. He created some experimental typefaces called Propagation (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raphael H. E. Morales

During his studies in Sao Paulo, Raphael H. E. Morales created the horizontally-striped typeface Efemero (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raphael Picard
[Quadraat (or: RP Type)]

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Raphaël Verona
[Altiplano]

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Raquel Hipólito

Raquel Hipólito (Lisbon) created an experimental display type called Write Design in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raquel Pacheco

Portuguese designer of the art deco typeface R Shape (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rashik Patel

Freelance graphic designer in Toronto who created the experimental modular typeface Stark Grotesk (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ratipat Pootonggate

Illustrator and icon designer in Phitsanulok, Thailand. Creator of the free rounded experimental typeface Adam (2019), the brush script font First Date (2019), and the free sans typeface Noah (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ratislav Hekel

Slovakian designer of Revidendum (2011, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raúl R. Tovar

Editor for the Information Technology department at the University of Texas at el Paso. He designed Fontovar (2003), an experimental geometric hairline face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rawan Hammad

Khobar, Saudi Arabia-based designer of Arabic Greeky (2014). A the College of Design at UOD, now located in Boston, MA, Rawan Hammad designed the modular experimental typeface ABMK (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ray Oranges

Ray Oranges (b. 1983, Firenze, Italy) pushed modular constructions to the limit in his experimental typeface A Quarter Of Cake (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raymond Prucher

New York and Dubai-based creator of the 3d display face Aurec and the geometric outline face Hinge (2010).

Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Razan Jilani

Berlin, Germany-based designer of Rubber Band Theory Font (2015) and an Arabic display typeface (2015). She also designed a proposal of Olympic icons for Amman 2040 during her studies in Berlin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Reanna Nicole

American creator of the experimental typeface Star Munchies (2013, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rebeca M. Souto

Weston, FL-based designer of an experimental alphabet based on the emulation of letters on a CRT screen. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rebellion Acceptance Overdrive: Type Design at CalArts 1988-2001

Experimental and contemporary type exhibition at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA), October 14-20, 2001. Hrant Papazian's harsh criticism of this exhibition and of the CalArts type program: "Nike typography. It appears that for almost 15 years now students of the type design program at CalArts have been taught to just do it. During the third week of October, CalArts staged a revealing (albeit severely under-promoted) retrospective of student work, dubbed Rebellion Acceptance Overdrive. Experimentation and discovery are at the heart of education, but this oeuvre had entirely too much deconstruction and not at all enough purpose. What is a type design program that doesn't teach you how to produce fonts others would like to use? Summer camp. Jens Gehlhaar was the one exception I noted, in terms of a student who took the CalArts philosophy seriously but refused to stop thinking, producing relevant experiments like the CIA Compendium, as well as tasteful, usable fonts such as Alfa Sans and Precrime. Then there was Lee Schulz with his dedicated craftsmanship and astonishing inspirational range: the hyper-decorative Antoinette; the gloriously organic Salome; the surprising low-res Batterie; the reserved Minister. But the bulk of the designs suffer from a clear lack of guidance, in the details as well as the roots. In the end, students who had both talent and intellect produced promising work from day one; the others were still producing crap upon graduation. What was the faculty teaching the students, exactly? Rebellion without a cause is just hooliganism. And now that the revolution has fizzled out, what will they teach, and who will want to learn it? The CalArts type design program has been about grunge typography. Although it's no longer fashionable to celebrate that, it remains relevant to discuss it, if only because it existed. This exhibit sparked - and could have helped answer - some interesting questions. What was destroyed/created when Ed Fella's entirely non-digital work was transmogrified into 99.44% pure bézier? What are the formal effects of our digital tools on the results? Why was Cholla converted from a botanical design to a mechanical one on its way to the commercial world? And the biggest question: how was this all worth it, to the students?". Read Lee Schulz's passionate reply. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Reeve Koh Jia Yuan

During Reeve's studiies at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore, she designed Customize Water Typeface (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rei Rei Co

Graphic designer in Paris who published these techno-grunge typefaces in 2017: RR Builden, Libellule, Tetsuo, Virevolt, RR Odeca (octagonal, 15 fonts in all). From 2018: RR Mythique Sans, RR Ueno (a variable width font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rem Koolhaas

This architect provided inspiration for the geometric experimental typeface Koolhaasian (2009). Koolhand (2009) is a free experimental typeface designed by Chris Papasadero inspired by some of the architecture of Rem Koolhaas. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Remco van Dun

Graphic designer in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Creator of some experimental typefaces, that can be viewed at Behance. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Remote Inc (or: StayPretty)
[Mark Herd]

Staypretty is a type collection that is part of the Toronto-based commercial type collective called Remote Inc, est. 2003 by Mark Herd. MyFonts link. With one exception, the typefaces are designed by Mark Herd (b. 1972, Toronto), include Tanya (far out experimental), Wellesley (a bouncy display face), Taraville (handprinting), Jean (rectangular lettering), StayPretty and Don Mills.

These fonts can be bought at MyFonts: SP Isis (minimalist font), SP Jean (a Bank Gothic exaggeration), SP Reka (more minimalism), SP Don Mills, SP Tanya (experimental), SP Taraville (2002; its dingbats are by Tara Rose Guild). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Remy Chard

Brisbane, Australia-based Remy Chard explains her experimental typeface Shadow Line (2013): Shadow Line was inspired by the architecture of The Queensland Museum to reflect the structural and geometric nature of the building and its continuous evolution of shadowing. The shadows cast from the museum were deconstructed to create elements that would form the typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ren Paga

Designer of the Dagupan Downtown (2013) and Ravenia (2013) typefaces. Dagupan Downtown leans towards Hebrew simulation. Ravenia (2013) is utterly experimental. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Renae Kleef

During her studies in Melbourne, Australia, Renae Kleef designed the experimental typeface Geodance (2016). It was inspired by dance moves and geometry. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Renaud Futterer

Parisian graphic designer and motion type artist, currently based in London. o-founded the Motion Design Studio Panoply in 2015 where he worked for Nike, Louis Vuitton and others. Home page. Creator of the typefaces Trinity (2008, 3d experiment) and Golden Moods (2008, bi-line, serif).

In 2018, he published Varsity (a variable font), and the motor sports sans typeface Force, and the free sans typeface Reno Mono.

In 2019, he released the neon font Flow and the 3d alphabet Circle. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Renaud Seguin

Made Selfish (Nombrilisme) for FUSE95, a very very experimental font, full of surprises. [Google] [More]  ⦿

René Knip
[Arktype (was: Atelier René Knip)]

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Renée Ramsey-Passmore

[T-26] designer of Paige (2000, experimental). Designer of the experimental type Linotype Renée Display, an award-winning font.

Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Renegade Fonts
[Jan Charvat]

Jan Charvat (Prague, Czechia) studied electrical engineering and computer graphic programming at Prague University. He set up his own commercial type foundry in Czechia in 2014 and works as a font engineer (with two years of font engineering experience at monotype in Bad Homburg) and type designer. His typefaces:

  • Globe Grotesk Display (2014). A sans typeface family inspired by Universal Grotesk (1951, Grafotechna). It is contemporary in some design elements (an organic b and a handicapped g spring to mind), yet it has inktraps and other features that hearken back to the era of print.
  • The poster typeface Velodrama (2015).
  • The soft sans typeface family Hela (2018).
  • The extended grotesk typeface Burt (2019).
  • The techno typeface family Deus (2020).
  • The free experimental typeface Rack (2020).

Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Capital additions to Georgian typography. Personal home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rens de Groot

Rens de Groot (Revolving, Amsterdam) made the geometric multiline typeface Lineatype (2011). It is based on a 32 x 24 grid. This grid is divided into 12 blocks. Each 8 blocks wide by 8 blocks high. The use of 9 lines per stoke is due to this grid. Free download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Responsive Type

A program that allows one to build fonts up from multicolored, multilined and concentric circles. Called Responsive Type Alphabet, the software is written in "Processing" (www.processing.org), a language and development environment designed to make visual software development simple and easy to learn. Concept by Hudson-Powell, and implemented by Julien Gachadoat, Michael Chang, Brian Cort and Michael Zancan.

A example typeface is Bicolor. The pictures below are taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Reza Rasenda
[Bagerich Type Foundry (was: Zealab Fonts Division, Zea Fonts, Zea Lab, Zeaspace)]

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Rhett Dashwood

Melbourne, Australia-based designer of these typefaces: Light Paint VR (2016), Memoire (2016, brush script), Balloon Type (2016), Yey Display (2015). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rhiann Irvine

Graphic design student at SUNY Purchase, NY. Creator of a dot matrix experimental face in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricard Marxer Piñón
[Caligraft]

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Ricardo

Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricardo Cunha

Braga, Portugal-based designer of the experimental typeface New Font (2013) and of the grid-based typeface family Geometry Serif (2013), which is really more a display sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricardo Matos
[Tipos de Portugal]

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Ricardo Perez

Celaya, Mexico-based designer of QType (2015, experimental). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricardo Ruiz

Morelia, Mexico-based designer. Dafont link. He created the experimental typefaces Drop (2011), .40 (2010) and the high-contrast display typeface Typocalli (2010). In 2011, he published the free Treefrog-style hand-printed typeface Watermark, which as inspired by the handwriting for Enya's CD cover for "Watermark". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Riccardo Fissore

During his graphic design studies in Italy, Riccardo Fissore created the experimental circle-based typeface Kuplat (2013) for an imaginary bubbly underwater world.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Bradbury

Richard Bradbury (UK) is a graphic design student. In 2011, he designed a modular typeface by intersecting circles---it is called Kaleidoscopic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Chinchilla

Honduras-born graphic designer and illustrator who is based in Miami. He created DMesh (2012), an octagonal or paper-fold typeface, about which he writes: In 2011 I came across a beautiful app called DMesh. The program itself used Delaunay triangles along with a complicated algorithm to turn any image into a beautifully stylish work of art. I got in touch with the creator of the app, Dofl Yun, and told him that I was interested in fleshing out a typeface inspired by D in the DMesh logo. He was excited about the prospect of there being a proper typeface related to his app. Dofl gave me his blessing and the result was the project you see here.

In 2013, he published Sans Comedy (or Sans Comic), in which he gave Comic Sans the hipster treatment.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard J. Bradley

Artist, calligrapher and type designer born in Portsmouth, England, in 1947. Richard Bradley designed ITC Bradley Hand (1995), Fine Hand (1987), Calligraphic Ornaments (1993, ITC; also in the Corel collection), and the flowing Bible Script (1979). Part-time teacher at the Portsmouth College of Art, and type designer for Linotype. From 2006 onwards, he cooperated with David Kettlewell at New Renaissance Fonts, where he jointly developed these renaissance-era fonts: AliceScrolltipRoman, RicksDecoratedUncial-Medium, RicksFolkloreRoman, RicksRelaxedHand-Italic, SevilliaDancingText, Sevilliastandingtext, Sevilliatiles, Ashbourne 1241 (2009, an uncial based on a gravestone in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, dated 1241). Future releases will include Ashbourne Uncials, Rick's Christmas card, Country Cursive, Curly Classic, Rick's Graphica, Rick's Rustic Caps, Rick's Rustic lettering, and Rick's Square Caps. In 2011, he and Linotype released a 3-style extension of Bradley Hand called Bradley Type. At New Renaissance Fonts, he released Bradley Chancery (2011), Alice Scrolltip (2006) and Sonnet Script (2011, inspired by the calligraphy of the Welsh artist and poet David Jones (1895-1974)). Bradley Texting (2014) is an informal script.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Richard J. Evans

Graphic designer and brander in Birmingham, UK. He created the typeface Runways (2009), which is based an aerial views of airports. Blog. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Tom

Very inventive graphic designer in San Francisco. He has created great typographic posters such as Gecko (2009), as well as a pixelish experimental typeface called Pheobo (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

RichyType
[Eric Schmitt]

Eric Schmitt's foundry established in 2006 in Frankfurt am Main. Some of his fonts are free and all have at least free demos. The list, as of early 2007: RT Cornelia (organic sans), RT Elsa, RT Francesca (a roman type in the style of Francesco Griffo's lettering), RT Francesca-bold, RT Francesca-italic, RT Gerda, RT Gerda-bold, RT Gerda-italic, RT Gerda-light, RT Gerda-light-italic, RT Klara Sans-bold, RT Klara Sans-italic, RT Klara Sans, RT Klara-Semibold, RT Klara-Tooled, RT Klara-italic, RT Klara-regular, RT Klebelettera (grunge), RT Le Papa (a Bodoni-inspired script), RT Paula (Futura-inspired), RT Questa, RT Questa-hoppel, RT Questa-italic, RT RichySans-bold, RT RichySans-kursiv, RT RichySans-light, RT RichySans, RT Tankstella (an experimental stencil). RT Magellan (2007) is a free medieval map font.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rick Banks
[F37 (or: Face37)]

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Ricky Hartley

London-based creator of My Skin (2012), a typeface based on samples of his own skin.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricky Richards

London-based freelance graphic designer who studied graphic design at Worcester University.

In 2011, he created the Rubix Cube Typeface, Suave (2011, an avant garde fashion mag family with art deco elements), Marble Display Font (2011, a geometric experiment).

In 2013, he created the modular display typeface Marilyn. iHis 2016 typeface Quizle is similar.

Behance link. Old URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rifky Rizaldi

Bandung, Indonesia-based graphic designer. He created the experimental decorative typeface Gardenia (2011). No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rike Catalani

Bauru, Brazil-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Typo Seven (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Riley Conaway

Graphic designer in Houston Heights, TX. He used coat hangers to make the wiry typeface Desperation (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Riley J. Shaw

Creator of At Night (2013, OFL), a font made up of rectangles and triangles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Riluri

Romanian creator in Cluj of the circle-based experimental typeface Riluri Mqsd (2012).

Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rinaldo Sutanto

Rinaldo Sutanto (Jakarta, Indonesia) created the squarish experimental typeface Maxsym in 2012.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ringlet T
[Lilla My]

Omsk, Russia-based designer of an experimental Latin typeface created by superimposing circles (2015), and Point (2015). She also created a set of icons and several color fonts in 2015, including the free EPS format typeface Colorplus and the colorful circle-based font Double (2015).

Typefaces from 2016: Cooking Icons, Font Bracket. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ringo Ho

Hong Kong-based designer of the experimental 3d typeface Crystallize (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rinto Dwi Nugroho
[Almeera Studio]

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Ripe Type
[Cameron Sweeney]

Australian outfit that offers some free fonts and some commercial fonts, all made by Cameron Sweeney (b. Hobart, Australia, 1983). After graduating in 2004, Cameron began his career working for a number of leading I.T. companies in Hobart and Melbourne as a senior graphic designer. In 2009, Cameron he decided to take the freelance plunge and founded Ripe Type. The font list:

  • Gradualism is an experimental typeface exclusive to RipeType. Gradualism was created for logotype and heading text in particular.
  • Unite, and Pristine Sans are both experimental (organic) sans typefaces.
  • Affinity is a rough-edged sans.
  • Celerity is a futuristic sans.
  • Ripe, one of my favorites here, is advertised by them as a geometric postmodern slab serif of uniform stroke width.
  • Pronounce (free) is a mechanical sans in two weights.
  • Memoirs (hand-printed).

Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rishabh Arora

Bindu is a circle-based experimental display font designed during Rishabh Arora's UKIERI student exchange at Adam Smith College in Scotland. He lives in New Delhi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rita Homem

Creator of the experimental typeface Alphabet Code (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rita Nicolaeva

During her studies in Moscow, Rita Nicolaeva created the experimental typeface Octopus (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rita Saad

Lebanese designer of the experimental typeface Mesomorph (2008). She explains: Mesomorph is digitally created and modified using a variety of repeated geometric forms that often echo the forms of arabesque or meso-american culture, such as Maya and Aztec. Initially derived from Islamic architechtural shapes these forms, taken together, embody a never-ending pattern. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ro Ella Atkins

During her studies at Falmouth, UK,Ro Ella Atkins designed the experimental typeface Robet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rob Holder

Wigan, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Domino (2011). He is studying design at Runshaw College. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rob Miszkowski
[Porky Design]

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Robb Mitchell

Leeds, UK-based designer of the experimental typefaces Side View and Ellipsis (circle-based typeface) in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robby Martin

Mebane, NC-based designer of the playful modular experimental typeface Birdie (2016). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Beck
[Dialekt Design (was: Robert Beck Design)]

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Robert Boyall

Robert Boyall (Norwich, UK) created a typographic spider in 2012 to create fear. Designer of the experimental dots and lines typeface Modular Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Jamal Gamby

Visual communication student at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. During his studies, he created a nice Eurostile poster (2012) and the striped experimentel typeface Papes (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Perendi
[dmfstudio]

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Robert Petrick (was: rwpstudio)
[Robert W. Petrick]

Robert Petrick (RWP Studio, New York) used to sell 20 fonts for 750 bucks. He specializes in comic book style typefaces.

His creations include Boink (a comic book typeface done at Letraset, 1994, and later ITC), Africana (2011, fat family), Boink Rounded (2012), Boink Dropshadow (2012, a variation on ITC Boink), Boink Scratchy Outline (2013), Gargoyle, Rhino, Streets, Tusk, Tutti Frutti, Blowfish (2012), Blowfish Inline (2013), Facade Caps, Angelica, Mirror (2011, +Mirror Two, 2012).

Typefaces from 2012: Pepino (loosely based on the classic font Hobo), Cherry Hill (an art deco era sans typeface), Blurt (hand-printed), Big Country, Bloop (hand-printed), Tagline (based on New York City graffiti).

In 2013, he published the display typefaces Invertigo and Candyman.

Grendel (2014) is a plumpish food signage typeface.

Typefaces from 2017: Meme (squarish).

Typefaces from 2018: SweetiePie (a monoline script that he calls casual faux antique).

Typefaces from 2021: Petrick Boink (a loony cartoon font based on his own ITC Boink from 1990).

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

View Robert Petrick's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Robert Suarez

San Jose, CA-based designer (as a student at San Jose State University) of the experimental compass-and-ruler typeface Medici (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Tepper

Graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He created Helvetica Style Avant Garde (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert W. Petrick
[Robert Petrick (was: rwpstudio)]

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Robert Young

Designer in Montreal who studied at UQAM (class of 1997) and created the circle-and-arc typeface Trois Ponts (2011) and the experimental alphabets Octogone (2011) and Paralysis (2011).

In 2013, he added the modular typeface Katoe and the 3d futuristic outline typeface Space. In 2018, he published the free linocut typeface Peter Peich in honor of Paul Peter Piech (b. 1920, Brooklyn, NY, d. 1996, Portcawl), printer and linocut artist. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roberto Cecchi

Treviso, Italy-based creator (b. 1975) of the original experimental typeface Aierbazzi (2008), in which letters are placed on top of each other to make combinations. He also made the free dingbat typeface Bagarozz (2010).

Home page. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robin Coenen
[I Am God]

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Robin Schwarz

During her studies in Osnabrück, Germany, Robin Schwarz designed the thin fashionable sans typeface Monopulsar (2016) and the hexagonal techno typeface The Algorithm (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robin Tepe

For a school project at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, Roben Tepe and Esther van Rijnen designed a free experimental typeface, Robes (2017), based on the architecture of their hom twon, Rotterdam. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robinson Cursor

Budapest, Hungary-based designer of the experimental font Tug (2012) and the condensed beveled typeface R9 (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robot Smith
[Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky]

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Rodolphe Heraud

Parisian designer of Nagulie (2014), Cheap (2014, based on Brazilian graffiti, called pixacao), Shattered (2014, experimental typeface), Rectangle (2014), Alinea (2014, modular and circle-based), Enigual (2014), Eklipse (2014) and Batonique (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Alberto Cavazos Rodriguez
[21 Lab]

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Rodrigo Araya Salas
[Rodrigo Typo (was: RAS Design)]

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Rodrigo Fuenzalida
[Fragtype]

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Rodrigo Grimer

Graduate from the Graphic Design program at Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (UEMG) in 2010, who currently lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Home page. Creator of the experimental typeface Banca (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Pires

Brazilian type designer from Recife (b. 1976) who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Chango (grungy brush hand), Estuque (scratchy hand), Quadrinaits and Rano Light (very experimental). He runs Studio Setemeia. Fontsy link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Ramírez

Designer at tipografia.cl in Santiago de Chile, who designed Carmen (serif family, see also here), TCLescuelerascript (1997, semi-calligraphic), TCLIndoSansItalic, TCLIndoSansLight, TCLtetra (2000). Was professor of Design and Typography at DUOC de Viña del Mar, Chile. Currently lecturer in the School of Design at the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. Other typefaces he created include CuzCuz (2004, an experimental Pre-Colombian face), Gemini, Obra (2002), Digna Sans (2002, see also here), New Maru (10px font, 2002; see also here) and TCL NumaX (1998). At Union Fonts, he designed the Digna family (2003) in Thin, Regular, Heavy and Bold weights. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Typo (was: RAS Design)
[Rodrigo Araya Salas]

RAS Design is Rodrigo German or Rodrigo Araya Salas, a designer from Santiago, Chile, b. 1987.

Rodrigo Typo link. RAS Design link. Dafont link. Dafont linkNewer Dafont link. Behance link. Fontspace link. Fontsy link. Abstract Fonts link. Old URL.

Creator of many hand-drawn free fonts.

His typefaces from 2008 and 2009: Super (2009, for signage), Snow (2009), Mari (2009), El Cubano (2009, dingbats of typefaces), Mental Freak (2009, outline), Freak Animals (2009), Brigada Ramona Parra (2009, dingbats), Happie (2009, dingbats), Santiago Icono (2009), Icono Skate Dingbat (2009), 78 Skate (2009), The Sorden (2009), Estilo Urbano (2009, stencil), Tetris (2009), Techno (2009), Kona (2009, childish hand), Parody Logoskate (2009, dingbats), Fat Love (2009), La Rata Bizarra (2008), Tabla (2008), A Mano Alza (2009), Maribel (2009, handwriting), Stencil (2009), Rayando (2008, chalky writing), Klam, Loco TV, Monos Frekis (2008, funny dingbats), Tabla (2008), Happie (2009, more funny dingbats), Funny Icons (2009), Kiltro (2008, dog dingbats), Pokemona (dingbats), Maniatico (scratchy outlined hand), Bizarro 1 (outline hand), Chile (dingbats), Freaky (2008, dingbats), Esquiso (outlined handwriting), Crazy Ras (outlined and hand-printed), Skatelove (2008, dingbats), Los de Abajo (2008, dingbats), Logoskate (2008), David (2008, flowing ultra fat face), Destruccion (2008, grungy), Skateboarding (2008, ransom note face), Mike Valley (2008, skateboard dingbats), Rodney Mullen King (2009, skateboard dingbats), El Chavo del 8 (2008, scanbats), Grande Maradona (2008, scanbats), Saintfont (2009, hand-printed), New Tetris (2009), September 11 Icon (2009, a powerful set of dingbats), Icono BMX (2009, bike dingbats).

Typefaces from 2010: Commando X (2010, a pixel dingbat typeface for computer games), Raya Irregular, Mari+David, Depressive Icon, Esquiso, Ego (2010), El Cubano (dingbats with typefaces), Barras Bravas (almost graffiti face), Globe Face (award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010).

Fonts done in 2011: Logo Font, Buen Dia (ransom note face), Drugstore (blackletter), Condorita (dingbats), KingKöng (a nice fat letter comic book face), Rolo (fat letter face), Logo, Comando X (a pixelized dingbat typeface based on video games), Catbox (2011, fat and rounded), Joia (a thin octagonal face), Plop (a "hip hop font").

Typefaces from 2012: Designio (rounded sans family), Nollie, Rocka (triangulated), Mosku (paint or blood drip face), Gigio Italia Bizarre (dingbats), Conny Rocket, Retro Hand Type (stitched), Wood (wood type simulation), Tritona, Nollie, Zdravo Maria (children's hand), Bordados (stitched typeface).

Typefaces from 2013: Mexe, Polly, Pintanina (+Pro) (comic book caps face; the Pro version appeared in 2015), Giger Free (inspired by the paintings of H.R. Giger), Rango (fat hand-printed face), Smile (fat signage face), Pequena (a fat finger typeface for children's books; in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Children One, Lollapalooza, BRP (dingbats), Koni Black, Cusco, Rorschach, Children One (poster font), Varial Hellflip, Marty (hand-drawn poster font for Latin and Cyrillic), Barricada [not to be confused with the Barricada font by Sudtipos].

Typefaces from 2014: Marty Spring, Munky Negra (a creamy signage typeface by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Raphael Rodriguez), Tobogan (ultra-black poster face), Lilirun, Peral, Zurita (brush face), Ruba, Street Animals (dingbats), NegritaPro (funky), Ruda (brush face), Muro (thick brush type), Cucho (signage typeface), BRC (hand-printed), Konga (a chocolaty creamy signage script originally from 2012), Pony, Guakala, Alboroto, Loyola (a cartoon script started in 2013, which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018), Froh (an informal fat stencil), Paihuen Pro (Mapuche-inspired letters), Helenita (perhaps useful for children's books; see also Helenita Dos in 2017), Macabro (a great hand-lettered and weathered typeface family), Box10, Ria, Bototo.

Typefaces from 2015: Mari+David, Good Friend (a primitive script), Galpon (a great vernacular signage and/or comic book typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic; extended in 2020, with Bruno Jara Ahumada, to Galpon Pro), Smile Pro (a fat multi-style handcrafted poster family of exceptional beauty; together with Andrey Kudryavtsev), Ardilla Small (a rounded organic sans by Rodrigo Araya and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Konga Pro (based on his own creamy script, Konga, from 2012), Mari & David (poster typeface), Forest Puyehue, Skatista (handcrafted script and skateboard dingbats), Ruba Style, Janmeid, Forma (experimental, robotic), Australia Skate (vernacular type), Tobi Black (for comic books and children's books, +Greek, +Cyrillic), Tobi Dirt, Basural (experimental).

Typefaces from 2016: Bowl, Aliengo (a fun Martian font family done with Andrey Kudryavtsev), Marty Two (a lovely handcrafted typeface, ideal for children's books), Minnie Play (a children's book typeface by Rodrigo Araya and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Camo (a layered typeface family by Rodrigo Araya and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Camo Dirt, Clarence World (with Andrey Kudryavtsev: a rounded cartoon font inspired by the logo of the Cartoon Network series Clarence; followed in 2017 by Clarence Two), Pequena Pro (+Cyrillic) (with Andrey Kudryavtsev), La Mona Kids, Konga Rock, Movskate (a skateboarding culture font by Rodrigo Araya, Juan Sepulveda and Patricio Gonzalez), La Mona Pro (72 styles: A feast of textures!).

Typefaces from 2017: Hatter Display (a Halloween font), Hatter Display Pro (+extensive dingbats), Hatter Cyrillic Display, Macabro Danger (wall paint style), Checkin Script (with four sets of travel dingbats), Caleuche (a bold weathered typeface, with Andrey Kudryavtsev; but that coauthorship was altered in 2021 to Franco Jonas Hernandez), Pequena Neo, Bike Park, Bike Park Two, Kawaii RT, Clarence Two, Portena, Mi Cocina (restaurant icons and dingbats), Big Foot Forest, Clarence Cyrillic (by Rodrigo Araya and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Galpon Spring, Spike Bot (by Rodrigo Araya and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Forest Two.

In 2018, Rodrigo Typo published these typefaces: Ding (a great fattish cartoon font, co-designed with Andrey Kudryavtsev and Franco Jonas; see also its extensions, Ding Pro (2019) and Ding Extra (2019)), Squick (a comic book / children's font family by Franco Jonas, Andrey Kudryavtsev and Rodrigo Araya), La Pica Pro (by Rodrigo Araya and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Catshape (dingbats by Rodrigo Araya), Tobi Pro (by Franco Jonas, Rodrigo Araya Salas, and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Spiro (a retro almost psychedelic lettering font based on the series The Boatniks; by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Andrey Kudryavtsev), La KonyBlack (by Rodrigo Araya and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Ruda Two, Nuby (Franco Jonas, Rodrigo Araya Salas and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Garita, Alquitran (based on pixacao), Alquitran Stencil and Alquitran Rust (by Francisco Paez, Rodrigo Araya Salas and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Rague Pro (a stone-cut font by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Andrey Kudryavtsev, which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018).

Typefaces from 2019: Hatter Halloween, Clarence Alt (a an almost bubblegum children's book sans by Franco Jonas, Rodrigo Araya Salas and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Nacho Rough, Naguel, Lolapeluza Two, Nacho (a Mexican party font by Rodrigo Araya and Franco Jonas).

Typefaces from 2020: Minado Rough, Toretto, Diablito One (a two-font and four dingbat-font package by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Bruno Jara Ahumada), Clarence Inline (a plump informal typeface family by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Franco Jonas Hernandez), La Pica Bonus (a vernacular or supermarket style font and dingbat family by Andrey Kudryavtsev and Rodrigo Araya Salas), Ancoa Slanted (an angular display family in 15 styles; by Andrey Kudryavtsev, Rodrigo Araya Salas and Franco Jonas Hernandez), Ruina One (rough, distressed), fj Trance (a reverse contrast Egyptian by Rodrigo Araya Salas, Franco Jonas, Valentina Faundes and Jorge Morales Salas), Tunning (an all caps speed font), Skippie (a comic book family by Andrey Kudryavtsev, Rodrigo Araya Salas, Bruno Jara Ahumada and Franco Jonas, and four sets of dingbats including Skippie Monster Lucha Libre and Skippie Monster Halloween), Ancoa (an angular 19-style layerable typeface by Andrey Kudryavtsev, Rodrigo Araya Salas and Franco Jonas Hernandez).

Typefaces from 2021: Rinno (a rounded geometric display family by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Franco Jonas Hernandez), Ripster, Elah (a children's book or supermarket font; with Andrey Kudryavtsev), Loyola Next (a 14-style sans by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Bruno Jara Ahumada), Clarence Pro (a vernacular supermarket font by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Franco Jonas Hernandez), Meche Pro (a 12-style ligature-rich poster typeface), Rambi, Willner (a 5-style display sans by Rodrigo Araya and Franco Jonas), Picaflor (a titling or children's book typeface by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Bruno Jara Ahumada), Picaflor Hand (by Rodrigo Araya), Picaflor Soft (a fine national park or children's book family of organic sans fonts by Rodrigo Araya Salas and Bruno Jara Ahumada).

Vectorlove won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012. Mona won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014. View Rodrigo Typo's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos
[Psy--Ops Type Foundry]

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Roelie Vuitton

Groningen, The Netherlands-based designer of the experimental typefaces Ninja ABC (2015) and Gothic X (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roger Excoffon

Born in Marseille in 1910, Roger Excoffon died in Paris in 1983. Co-founder of the Urbi et Orbi advertising agency in Paris, he was a graphic artist and type designer. He created the image of Air France, designed the symbols of the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, and designed many fonts. Porchez mentions that he lived from 1911-1984, not 1910-1983.

Books about him:

  • David Rault: Roger Excoffon, Le Gentleman de la typographie (2011, Atelier Perrousseaux, Paris).
  • Sandra Chamaret, Julien Gineste and Sébastien Morlighem: Roger Excoffon et la Fonderie Olive (2010, Ypsilon, Paris).
  • Jean-Philippe Bertin: Roger Excoffon, l'homme de la griffe et du paraphe (2008: thesis at Ecole Estienne).

Visual hommage by Peter Gabor. Picture. Signature. Some drawings by him: i, ii, iii. His typefaces include

  • Antique Olive (1962-1966, for Fonderie Olive). This was originally designed for the Air France logo. Bitstream's digital version is Incised 901. See also Chalfont by Alan Meeks, URW Antique Olive, and Antique Olive by Linotype. With almost reverse contrast, this sans typeface can't be used for body text. The heaviest weight is called Antique Olive Nord.
  • Banco (1951, Fonderie Olive). Digital remakes include ITC Banco (1997) (by Phill Grimshaw), Bnko (by Damien Gosset), Banco (by Dan Solo), New Banco (by Alessio d'Ellena) and Bandit (by Softmaker).
  • Calypso (1958, Fonderie Olive): a sexy curvy experimental display typeface that could be considered as op art. Revived by Ralph M. Unger at URW++ as FontForum Calypso (2005), by Brendel as Calypso (1994), and by Martin Pfeiffer at Scooter Graphics as Calypso Boy (1996). A free 2013 revival called Calypso PF by Joep Pohlen is based on the original matrices which Pohlen acquired from Stempel AG. Discussion at Typophile where Pohlen tells the story: Marcel Olive, owner of Fonderie Olive saw Excoffon experimenting with an enlarged print of a half-tone screen at Olive studio. He was rolling it up and looked through it like a kaleidoscope. A metal type with half-tone dots was not done before and a technical challenge to achieve. Marcel Olive saw the chance to profile the technical capabilities of his foundry and earn a worldwide reputation and gave Excoffon permission to execute the design proposal. After establishing the angle and size of the dots by Olive Studio each character was drawn dot by dot using a pair of compasses. According to José Mendoza y Almeida, who lead the team at the studio, Excoffon made sketches of the outlines of each character and in the studio shading was added by airbrush. The airbrush shading was converted to a dot-screen that went from deep black to white. It was quite a challenge to transfer the drawings with a pantograph and to scale this complex drawings in different type sizes to the matrices. Then it had to be milled, retouched and casted in lead reproducing all the dots of the dot-screen. Calypso was cast in four sizes: 20, 24, 30 and 36 pt and had 26 capitals, a period, an apostrophe (used a lot in French), and a hyphen..
  • Chambord (1945, Fonderie Olive): a Peignotian sans serif family. Deberny&Peignot published Touraine in 1947, after a design of Guillermo Mendoza (the father of José) in 1943. Chambord is a typeface published by Fonderie Olive in Marseille, which was headed by Roger Excoffon. The four basic weights of Chambord were designed by François Ganeau and published by Olive in 1946/1947. Legend has it that Roger Excoffon said he saw proofs of Touraine on Charles Peignot's desk, took the next train to Marseille, drew Chambord at Olive and beat Deberny&Peignot to market. Olive also had a better marketing machine at the time. By the end of the 40's, Charles Peignot tried to go to court over the Chambord/Touraine affair because the fonts were just too similar, but they settled financially out of court. José Mendoza also claims, as reported by Porchez, that Ganeau changed Vendôme after having seen an exhibition of Guillermo Mendoza's type in 1943. All of this may to some extent explain Peignot's initiative to create ATypI to protect typefaces.
  • Choc (1954- 1955, Fonderie Olive), an iconic brush face. Bitstream called its digital version Staccato 555. ITC commissioned Phil Grimshaw to create ITC Choc Light in 1997. Softmaker calls its version Chandler Pro. Sold by URW, Linotype, ITC, Monotype Imaging, Mecanorma and letraset under the name Choc.
  • Diane (1956, Fonderie Olive): a calligraphic script. Diane was digitally revived in 2008 by Mark Simonson and Mark Solsburg as Diane Script. It also inspired Ralph Unger's Gamundia (2010).
  • Mistral (1953, Fonderie Olive; later Mecanorma), the beautiful but overused connected script that resembles Excoffon's own hand. The Bitstream version is Staccato 222. SoftMaker's version are Malaga Pro (2016) and Zephyr (2019). Other versions: Mistral (ITC), Mstral (Adobe), Mistral (Linotype), Mistral (URW),
  • With François Ganeau, he designed Vendôme (1951-1954). But read the remarks above regarding Chambord.
  • Excoffon (1974). His last typeface about which he wrote Excoffon will be the end product of all my thinking, the sum of everything that I have accumulated during my career as a typographer. The typeface was never published because of a contractual misunderstanding. Bruno Bernard has been working on the archives of this typeface, and possibly a revival.

Linotype link. Article by John Dreyfus: The Speed and Grace of Roger Excoffon. FontShop link.

View Excoffon's typefaces. View Roger Excoffon's type designs and all digital revivals. Subpage with many digital versions of Mistral. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Roger Teeuwen

Dutch graphic designer of these typefaces: NET-regular (2002, connected dots, almost stitched), RANDOM (2003, a dot matrix font commissioned by the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam), SCORE (2003, pixel face), Antwerp (2003, letters are like in the train stations in Belgium), Drup and Drup Cursief (2006, experimental multi-line face). Based in Rotterdam, where he teaches at the Willem de Kooning Academie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rogerio Lionzo

Brasilia, Brazil-based graphic and poster designer. He works a lot of type into his projects. Designer of the flowery experimental font Goteira (2006), which I think would be just right to headline a novel on Roman orgies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Romain Albertini

Parisian art director and graphic designer. Creator of the experimental typeface Numberz (2009), in which all the capitals are made up of pieces of numbers. Other experimental fonts: Seven (only the 7 is used to make up letters), Binary (only 1 and 0 are used), and Suffer (letters made by removing chunks). Creator of CrisisFont (2010), a display typeface created to remmember the Greek finincial crisis of 2010. Its letters are quite geometric and seem lost in confusion. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Romain Gorisse

French graphic designer in Copenhagen, who created the experimental typeface Geogrotesk in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Romain Tronchin

Designer at ECAL (Lausanne, Switzerland) of the text typeface Monty Bundle (2020, with Paul Christ) and the experimental typeface Teta (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roman Mamontov

Jerusalem-based typographer and graphic designer who created the experimental minimal FontTape (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roman Postovoy
[Supremat]

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Romane Goudmant

Graphic designer in Namur, Belgium. For a school project, she used handprints to create the experimental typeface Handprint Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Romina Ayelen Busto

Graphic designer in Buenos Aires, who created an experimental counterless typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ron Sellers
[Ron Sellers Design]

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Ron Sellers Design
[Ron Sellers]

Two experimental fonts by Ron Sellers: Oneline (one stroke fonts), and Leonardo Medium. No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roos van Keulen

Rotterdam-based designer of a rubber-band-based alphabet called Facade (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rory Harnden

Wellington, New Zealand-based designer of Nosy Facetype (2014, a free typeface for ceeating human typefaces--it uses Opentype ligatures to achieve this remarkable feat), Kitsune Udon (2014, a free connected handwriting typeface) and Tryna No 5 (2014, a free hand-drawn poster typeface). Kitsune Udon provides very many glyphs per letter, and thus, text rendered in it simulates handwriting quite well. Similarly, Tryna No. 5 provides four variants per glyph. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rosalie Wilkinson

Helvetica 19 (2012) by Rosalie Wilkinson is a typeface created out of 19 weights of Helvetica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rosalind Carnes

During her studies at Cranbrook, Rosalind Carnes designed an experimental modular typeface (2013) and an experimental oily typeface called Here Here Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rosario Nove

Turin-based typographer and illustrator. The Corporation font (2011) is a geometric experiment. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rosh Torres

Joseph Rosh Torres (USA) is the designer of the great blocky display typeface Aureolines (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ross Berenson

This New Yorker created an alphabet with flapjacks, and then digitized his Pancake Type (2010). I think that this had already been done many years earlier by Jason Lewis. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ross Hammond

Lincoln and/or London, UK-based graphic designer who studied first at the University of London and then at the University of Lincoln. Creator of the sans typeface family June (2014), which was inspired by Adrian Frutiger's style. Five years later, we re-discover June (2019) at Schriftlabor (by Lisa Schultz and Ross Hammond). It has evolved into a 16-style low contrast sans family with humongous counters and a small x-height. Two variable fonts are offered as well. June Pro is a 20-style extension and update in 2021. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rossinsky Mihail

Graphic designer in St. Petersburg, Russia. He made the counterless geometric fat typeface D23IGN in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roxana Zegan

Quebec-based designer of the experimental typefaces Kiev Winter and Kiev Summer at UQAM (2003, with Sofia Madafi). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roy Eventov

Graphic designer located in New York City. Behance link. He has created some experimental alphabets (that were not turned into fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roy Poh
[Beautiful]

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Roz Indelebile

French graphic designer, b. 1985, who lives in Lyon. He created the experimental typeface Urban (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

RP Digital Type Foundry
[Radim Pesko]

RP is a small scale digital type-foundry established in 2009 by Czech designer Radim Pesko, who currently lives in London, and before that, Amsterdam. He is a regular contributor to various publications including Dot Dot Dot magazine. He currently teaches at Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam and co-guides a project for ECAL/University of Art and Design in Lausanne. His creations:

  • Agipo (2011-2014) and Agipo Mono. A sans workhorse family.
  • A-Gothic (2020).
  • Boymans was originally designed in 2003 as part of the identity developed by Mevis & Van Deursen for Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Its primary inspiration was the typeface designed by Lance Wyman for the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968. Boymans responded to the identity's need for a flexible as well as playful design. Designed in ten weights, each font has three versions: single line, double line, and triple line. By combining, layering, or coloring these versions, Boymans can generate an endless number of variations.
  • Correspondance: a reconstruction from memory of the typeface created by Adrian Frutiger for the Parisian Metro signage system. Its shapes might resemble those of Frutiger's famous typeface Univers.
  • Dear Sir / Madam. Based on Eric Gill's signs and lettering for W.H.Smith (1903-1907).
  • F Grotesk, in 3 weights.
  • Fugue (2010, 2 weights): Fugue was originally designed for Wonder Years, a book published in late 2008 by Roma Publications to mark the tenth anniversary of the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem. It contains genetic material of Paul Renner.
  • Girott (2011-2016). A condensed sans.
  • Larish Alte (2006) was originally designed for the identity of the contemporary art space Secession in Vienna. Its primary inspiration was a series of prints designed by Rudolf von Larisch and published at the turn of 20th century. Larish Alte is not available for licensing.Larish Neue is a by-product of Larish Alte. This version resulted from an attempt to create a contemporary looking typeface with the DNA of the original. Larish Neue is available in a single weight. Its cursive is in process and is expected in 2010.
  • Lyno (2009-2012, Karl Nawrot and Radim Pesko). A straight-edged experimental typeface available in four styles, Ulys(ses 31), Stan(ley Kubrick), Jean (Arp) and Walt (Disney).
  • Merkury: Conceived in 2001, this is an easy-going rounded monoline family.
  • Mitim: a family of fonts characterized by its triangular serifs, developed in collaboration with Louis Lüthi and Stuart Bailey. Mitim is a work in progress exclusively designed for Dot Dot Dot magazine and is not available for licensing. It has many dingbats.
  • Paabo (2021). Squarish with bullet holes.
  • Septima, a typewriter or monoline face, has asymmetrical letter forms that are individually adjusted---according to the space they occupy in a glyph window---in order to achieve equal tone of letter as well as to create highly recognizable forms for each character. Septima is a monospaced font available in a single weight supporting twenty-three Latin and five Cyrillic languages. Septima Cyrillic was developed in collaboration with Roman Gornitsky.
  • Sol (2004). This 3d typeface was created as a continuation of Sol LeWitt's 1974 project entitled "122 variations on incomplete open cubes" which consisted of 122 views of unfinished cubes constructed from wooden planks.
  • Specta (2011-2013). Custom font for the Eastside Projects of Birmingham. Used in BBC headlines. Not for sale.
  • Union is a synthesis of Arial and Helvetica. Union SMA was developed for visual identity of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 2012.
  • Friderick (2015). For the identity of the Fridericianum Museum in Kassel, Germany.

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rQuadrat
[Siegfried Rückel]

rQuadrat (Berlin) is a German design agency run by Siegfried Rückel (Fontcredit) and Georg(ij) Rijinachvili. Siegfried studied design at the University of Applied Sience in Potsdam under Luc(as) de Groot and Lex Drewinski. One of the typefaces shown and developed by rQuadrat is the experimental Gija (2004).

Rückel designed these typefaces:

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RTVH

During his studies in Moscow, RT VH created several experimental typefaces such as Three-Sided Font (2014), Jungle Font (2014) and Faery Font (2013: Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruggero Magri

Ruggero Magri (Catania, Italy) studied graphic design and art direction at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. He is still based in Milan. Magri developed an interest in typography, which led him to pursue courses in calligraphy sign painting, and lettering. During a workshop at Type Paris 2018, he designed the experimental interpolative typeface Cimer. He is now working on projects at Typofonderie with Jean François Porchez, and for AlfaType Fonts in Italy. In 2019, he published a set of Tuscan capitals.

Recipient of the 2019 SOTA Catalyst Award.

As a member of the Italian open source font cooperative Collletttivo, he released the free font Ignazio (2018: Text, Display). Ignazio Sans is a humanistic sans serif designed for the signage of Catania's underground. Born from the epigraphs and the signage that characterized the city across the centuries, the typeface has two optical sizes.

Graduate of the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2020. His graduation typeface was called Gesto. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rui Ribeiro

Illustrator in Birmingham, UK. Creator of an experimental counterless typeface in 2009. In 2010, he did similar typefaces called Shape Font V1 and Shape Font V2. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruslan Ielizev

Kiev-based Ukrainian graphic and web designer. He made the experimental halfline arrangement font Rusley (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruslan Khasanov

Ekaterinburg, Russia-based designer of Sauce Type (2014: experimental), Lumen Type (2012, experimental). Other experimental alphabets include Volna (2014, free, Vekta (2013; not to be confused with Neil Summerour's Vekta, and nor renamed Vetka: a prismatic compass-and-ruler font ideal for op-art), Superbugs (2012), Sunbeam (2012), MicroType (2011) and Magma (2012).

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Russell Mills

Designer in the FUSE 9 collection of Metal, an experimental pixel-ish font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rut Del Busto

Oulu, Finland-based designer of these typefaces in 2018: Nova (based on Gill Sans Ultra bold), a colorful dot-based typeface, and the bilined Lufont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruth Slomovitz

Uruguayan winner of an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 for her experimental typeface called H Continua (codesigned with Andrea Grossy, Andrea Montedonico, Maria Laura Fernandez). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruud van den Elzen

Influenced by the helix structure, Biohack is a typeface made in 2014 by Dutchman Ruud van den Elzen (b. 1987), aka De Jonge Kapitein. In 2016, we find him at Studio Roef in Den Bosch, The Netherlands. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Bugden

Ryan Bugden is an independent graphic and type designer based in Brooklyn. Before graduating from Type Media at the KABK in Den Haag, The Netherlands (class of 2019), he received his BFA in Graphic Design from RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), completed the Type@Cooper Extended Program, and worked as a senior designer at Pentagram and Red Antler. He currently runs R&M with Michelle Ando and releases typefaces independently and through Future Fonts. He is an adjunct professor of typography at School of Visual Arts in New York City.

His typefaces:

  • The angular serif typeface Fez (2014). Designed under the supervision of Cyrus Highsmith of Font Bureau while Ryan was studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, it was meant for the menu of The Red Fez, a restaurant in Providence.
  • Memoire (2016). A typeface that degrades with each use. It was designed for the fifth issue of Sub Rosa's biannual publication La Petite Mort.
  • Meek Display (2018-2019).
  • His graduation typeface at KABK was the experimental Spec (2019). Spec won an award at 23TDC.
  • Arcane. A custom typeface for the original Netflix series Arcane, based on the world of League of Legends.
  • Strawberry Western. A custom type for Kisa Shiga's independent anti-waste fashion label Strawberry Western. The identity is bilingual, drawn for both English and Japanese readers.
  • Getaway. A custom variable font for an alcohol-free bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
  • Kato Sake Works. iA custom typeface family for Kato Sake Works, a local sake brewery in Bushwick, Brooklyn run by Shinobu Kato. It includes Kato Mono.
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Ryan Cassidy

Los Angeles-based designer of Pliny (2018), a typeface that is based on the beer label for Pliny the Elder from Russian River Brewing. He also designed the octagonal mechanical typeface Mascot (2018) and the experimental Mash (2018).

In 2019, he published East Bay (garffiti-inspired, constructivist), Lightning, Lost Boy, Horror, Roar, Group Therapy, Uncle Fuzz, Feeding The Streets and Old Horror Movie Style Font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Huber

Photographer and graphic designer in Omaha, NE, who created the experimental April Type in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Kotar

Design student at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA. He created the experimental typeface Wired (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Ogborn

Student of Jennifer Kennard at Seattle Central Community College. Gun-toting Sarah Palin inspired him to make the target practice experimental typeface Going Rogue (2010). The site has a production video to boot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rylee Jackson

During her studies in San Francisco, Rylee Jackson designed the minimalist Avenir Altered (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryoichi Tsunekawa
[Flat-It]

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Ryoichi Tsunekawa
[Bagel & Co]

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Sabato Urciuoli

Turin-based Italian designer of Modena (2009, a modular experimental face) and Cinema Typography (2010, an art deco/modern display typeface of extreme contrast). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sabrina Ekecik

During her studies at Ecole Estienne in Paris, Sabrina Ekecik created the experimental typeface Burlesque Figures (2013). She also designed an original octagonal bespoke typeface for Europalia India (2013).

In 2014, she developed a fat didone typeface characterized by a Q with a ball terminal tail, and a handwriting typeface, Blanchard, that is based on manuscipts by typographer Gérard Blanchard (1927-1998). Still in 2014, Sabrina designed the manicured sans typeface family Helado (with Simon Becker and Benjamin Campana) and the free VAG Rounded-Fette Fraktur hybrid called Vagtur (with Simon Becker).

Typefaces from 2015: Paco (a falred display type), Bagnino (an elongated typeface family created for the Bains Douches municipaux de Paris), Berliner (blackletter).

https://www.behance.net/Ekeciksabrina">Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sabrina Janczewski

Aka Sab Jan. Art director in Buenos Aires who created the experimental typeface Street Shit in 2015 using design elements seen in the decorations of the Palermo Soho neighborhood. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sabrina Sa

Amman, Jordan-based creator of the experimental geometric Latin typeface Sorcile Sabrina (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Saed de los Santos

Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico-based designer of the experimental display typeface SDLS Gothic (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sage Bassett

Student in Cape Town, South Africa, who created an experimental geometric hand-drawn typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sahap Kurtaran
[Plasebo Studio]

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Saishraddha Malage

Indian illustrator and graphic designer who lives in Ahmadabad. He used lamps and wires to create the Batti typeface (Batti means bulb in Hindi) in 2010. Still in 2010, he made Mysirspecs (glyphs made of spectacles). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Salih Yücebas

Designer of the school project experimental font Energytye (2013), which started out by images of batteries. Urbanstone (2013) is an octagonal typeface that reflects on urban decay. Salih was based in Morphou, Cyprus, and is now in Izmir, Turkey.

Hagia Sophia (2013) is a display typeface that is based on the architecture of the church/mosque Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Snakes (2014) is a paperclip typeface. Kistype (2014) is based on Seher Kis's handwriting. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sally Fung

Toronto-based designer of the experimental ornamental typeface Delineated (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Salma Fahmy

Giza, Egypt-based designer of the experimental Arabic typeface Masafat (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sam Lai

During his studies in Selangor, Malaysia, Sam lai designed the pipe network-inspired typeface Consolidate (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sam Miller

Plymouth, United Kingdom-based designer of Didoni Stencil (2018) and Desire (2018: a typeface designed to be a reflection of Roman Polanski's most famous films). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sam Shand

Christchurch, New Zealand-based graphic designer. He made the modular counterless Six (2009), the experimental Ngaio (2009), Shands (2009, inspired by subway maps), and Thin (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samantha Dell

Graphic designer in Rochdale, UK, who is studying at Salford University. Creator of the experimental typeface AZ Freaky font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samantha Di Prospero

Illustrator in Rome, Italy. Together with Sabina Alcaraz, she created the alchemic display typeface Pintadera (2013). She also created an experimental watercolor typeface in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samantha Sequeira

During her studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Samantha Sequeira designed the experimental pointillist typeface Density (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sami Kuosmanen

Graphic designer in Helsinki, b. 1981. He created the experimental typeface KSM BDN (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samu Kamu

During his studies in Budapest, Samu Kamu designed Hybrid Letters (2014), a typeface that mixes Futura and Zapfino. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samual JB

Derbyshire, UK-based designer of Alphabetics (2013), a geometric solid typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samuel Ferreira

Brazilian creator at Unique Types of the free experimental typeface Importância (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samuel Semenetz

Sydney, Australia-based designer of Awake at 2am (2012), an experimntal typeface created by using long exposure photographs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sanchi Oberoi

As a student at Lady Shri Ram College for Women in New Delhi, Sanchi Oberoi designed the experimental Latin typeface Typographic Rivers (2017). For this, she used the rivers that flow through printed text. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sander de Voogt
[TypExpo]

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Sander Neijnens
[Letterbeeld]

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Sandor Debreczeni

Budapest, Hungary-based designer of Mir, an experimental display typeface, created in Cinema 4D in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sandro Londero

Udine, Italy-based designer in 2016 of the geometric solid typeface Moon and Diamonds (created to celebrate Aretha Franklin), Bazar (a sans loosely based on Mark van Bronkhorst's Conduit designed in 1997), Woman Serif, Man Sans (avant garde), and HausNCo (inline Bauhaus style).

In 2017, he designed the sharp-serifed Syrah and the sans typeface Halifax. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sang Mun

Graduate of RISD, 2012, who worked at the Walker Art Center in New York. Seoul, Korea-based designer and art director. Creator of the Latin text typeface Lancet Wounded (2012) and of the grunge experimental typeface ZXX (2012, free). Social commentary: As a reaction to government surveillance, the ZXX typeface is embedded with disruptive designs that are meant to combat optical character recognition processes. The four options for online communications camouflage [called XED, Noise, False, and Camo] each have characteristics that keep them legible to humans, but baffling to machines. Sang Mun: The project started with a genuine question: How can we conceal our fundamental thoughts from artificial intelligences and those who deploy them? Library Stack link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Santi Grau

San Francisco-based designer of some experimental typefaces: Noise (2016) is a typeface that morphs from serif to sans serif and light to bold depending on the audio input that it receives. Moire Type (2016) was developed in order to express sound through letters. Finally, Camper (2016) is a grotesque headline sans designed for Camper. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Santi Vilagran Casanovas
[Antidesign]

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Santiago Espino

Buenos Aires-based designer of an untitled counterless experimental typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Santiago Lucas

During his studies at Instituto Visión Tecnológica de Santa Rosa in La Pampa Argentina, Santiago Lucas created the triangle-based experimental typeface Trial (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Santiago Rodriguez

Bogota, Colombia-based designer of Noise Type (2012), an experimental typeface with oscillator noise superimposed on the outlines of the glyphs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

SantoTipo
[Claudio Pousada]

Argentinian outfit originally headed by Claudio Pousada and Mauro Oliver [who has since left]. Fonts include Pollochorizo (Paola Ciotti), Los fierros (Quique Ollervides Uribe), Luchita Payol (Quique Ollervides Uribe), América (El Sebra), Sapucai Picada (Paco Aguayo), Zamora Exquisita (Oscar Reyes), Rogamos (Ramiro Ozer Ami), HebraCaps (El Sebra), Mofles (Paco Aguayo), Tequila Heights (Oscar Borrego). English version. Dafont link. SantoTipo's experiment is open to anyone and runs in two phases: the first one requires a surveyor/photographer who discovers a design; the second involves the creation of a typeface or typographic object from the discovery. If you want ideas for fonts, just look at these pictures! CV at Sudtipos, where he is one of about five designers. His first creations there include Titanes (comic book face) and the Icons-of-Icons dingbat series (SL Cortazar, SL Borges, SL Evita, SL Fangio, SL Gardel), which were done at SinergiaLab, which Claudio founded earlier (note that the artists seem to be different though, and he merely assumed, I think, the artistic direction). Other typefaces include SL Che and SL Prolix. He has worked mainly in design for television, and was Director de Arte at "Multimedios América" in Buenos Aires for about ten years. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Fraser

Brighton, UK-based student-designer of an experimental geometric typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Haraigue
[Look at me Design]

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Sara KR

At the University of Dammam, Jubail, Saudi Arabia-based Sara KR designed the experimental DecoType in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Naser

During her studies at Central Saint Martins in London, Malaysian-born Sara Naser created the display typeface Culture Swap (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Strummer

FontStructor who made the experimental typeface Uncontrollable Urge (2011) and the pixel typeface Rock As Well (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Vrbinc

BA student at University of Ljubljana: Academy of Fine arts and Design, Department of Visual Communication Design, 2010-2013. In 2012, she is an exchange student at Aalto University: School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki.

Creator of the experimental typeface Hemifission (2012) and of Kutsu (2012).

Behance link. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Bachman
[SB Type]

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Sarah Butler

Leeds, UK-based designer (b. 1992) of the experimental decorative typeface Building Blok (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Khan

Founder and creative director of iKhan Design in Silver Spring, MD. Behance link. She created the experimental typeface Bobby Pinned (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Liriano

During her studies in New York City, Sarah Liriano created the geometric experimental typeface Apex Tria (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Pronier

Parisian designer of the modular typeface Feed Your Head (2013), which is constructed on the basis of circles and semicircles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Samayoa

Creator of the thin geometric sans typeface Olivia (2015). This typeface was done for a project at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. Later in 2015, she finished the experimental display typeface Perikito Sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Scialom

Parisian designer of the experimental typeface Triangle (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah St

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based designer of the experimental iD Font (2017) for the British fashion magazine iD. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarvagya Rajan

During her studies in Bangalore, India, Sarvagya Rajan designed the 3d typeface Let's Font (2017), and the experimental typeface Elliptic (2018), which is inspired by geometrically deconstructing an elliptic totapuri leaf. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sasha Osipova

Moscow-based designer of an untitled experimental typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Saskia Friedrich

Graphic designer in Berlin, who created the experimental typefaces Fritz and Sloped in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sathya Samuel

Bangalore, India-based designer of the experimental gridded typeface Capi (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Satya N. Rajpurohit

Satya is co-founder of the The Indian Type Foundry (ITF) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, in 2009. ITF is India's first digital type foundry providing Unicode compliant fonts. He studied at the National Institute of Design (NID) in India and interned with Linotype in Germany. He has also worked at Dalton Maag (London) and L2M3 (Stuttgart). He now works full time at ITF, creating original fonts in all the major Indian scripts along with their Latin companions. Satya studied graphic design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, where he specialized in motion picture graphics.

His type work includes ITF Devanagari (2001), this experimental display face (2006), this minimalist face (2007), this experimental sans (2007), Rail India (2007, an Indic simulation face) and this Devanagari (Hindi) typeface (2007). With Peter Bilak, he created Fedra Hindi (2010, ITF). In 2010, he received the SOTA Catalyst Award and published the Kohinoor family for Latin, Devanagari and Tamil.

In 2012, he designed the type family Engrez Sans. With Jyotish Sonowal, he designed the beautiful semi-calligraphic Tulika Bengali. It includes support for the Assamese, Bengali, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Garo, Kokborok, Meitei, and Mundari languages. Kohinoor Latin (2012) is a low-contrast humanist sans-serif suitable for both body and the display text.

The Indian Type Foundry published several typefaces at Google Web Fonts in 2014: Hind, Kalam, Karma, Teko and Rajdhani. Rajdhani is an Open Source typeface supporting both the Devanagari and the Latin scripts. The font family was developed for use in headlines and other display-sized text on screen. Its initial release includes five fonts. Satya Rajpurohit and Jyotish Sonowal developed the Devanagari component in the Rajdhani fonts together, while the Latin was designed by Shiva Nallaperumal.

In 2014, Sanchit Sawaria and Jyotish Sonowal finished the free Google Web Font Khand, an 8-style family of compact mono-linear fonts with very open counter forms. Developed for display typography, the family is primarily intended for headline usage. Its Latin is from Satya Rajpurohit, and Khnad carries the Indian Type Foundry label.

In 2015, Akhand (a condensed almost monoline sans that covers many Indic languages) appeared at MyFonts, where we learn that Satya Rajpurohit is the designer, but it is unclear who did what. That typeface was followed in 2016 by Akhand Soft.

Jyotish Sonowal extended Hind to the free 10-style Calcutta in 2015.

Satya Rajpurohit designed the sans typeface family Author (2017).

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SB Type
[Sarah Bachman]

New York City-based designer. In 2021, she designed Z3non, a groovy retro-futuristic typeface that fits in square blocks. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Scarlet Roberts

During her studies at Falmouth University, Scarlet Roberts (Worcester, UK) created the threaded experimental typeface Optimistic (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scooter Graphics (Fonts by Marty Pfeiffer)
[Martin P. Pfeiffer]

Public domain fonts designed by Marty Pfeiffer (Vancouver) include some gorgeous fonts such as the experimental font Simga or Moris Script. The full list includes Epsy Serif, Epps Evans, Nu Sans, Epsy Sans-Tight, Midnight, Pfeiffer Tall, Jubal Sans, Virtue (based on Apple's Chicago and Charcoal fonts), Especial Kay, Marty Bold, Moris Script, Nu Casual, Calypso Boy (1996, after Excoffon's Calypso, 1958), Electrode, Freak, Ground Slither, Scooter Boy, Simga, Nu Sans Monospaced, Lower, Nu Serif. Also commercial fonts such as the cash-register lookalike font Receipt 1.0.

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Scorpy Design Studio
[Michael Golovachev]

Samara, Russia-based designer of several experimental typefaces, mostly, but not exclusively from 2009 until 2013. These include Ringrid (experimental), Jamaica, Stubdetail, Elisabeth, Displace, Oshi Kito (patterns), Radius (an arc-based minimalist font), Squarefont, SOS, Applefont2 (based on Apple's logo), Egypt Concept (hieroglyphic simulation font), Punto, Anomaly (2005), Worm Form, Middle, Bendliner (paperclip font), Mobile Module, Constructure, Twillinger (modular), Longliner (piano key typeface in Crouwel's style), Anomaly2 (connect-the-dots face), Anomaly Quadro, New Display, Strange Font, Ptich (Martian font), Eleven Element (circle and arc font), Home Station (octagonal, techno), Horizontal (squarish and modular), Strategy (swastika-based typeface), Twirl (wavy), Microtwirl, Absolute Logic, Minim, Moonoom, Hybread, Breakthrough (numerals), Industrial Garbage (2013), Unnecessary Element, Electro Station (2009-2010), Circle In Sphere, New Paisley, Vertigo Vertical.

Noteworthy projects include Limiting Concentration (2010), an experiment with concentric circles.

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Scott Helbach

Scott Helbach (Chicago, IL) created the experimental geometric typeface Future Shock (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scott Wheeler

Auckland, New Zealand-based designer who made experimental typefaces such as Area (2011, futuristic) and Peace by Piece (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scott Williams
[A2 Graphics--SW--HK]

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Screentypo.org
[Jens Weigel]

Screentypo.org discusses experimental fonts and screen typography (in German). It is run by Jens Weigel (b. 1976, Marburg, Germany), who studied at FH Augsburg. He is the designer of StandUp (2002, a sans), and the beautiful Insekt (2003, with influences from Bernhard Roman) and InsektBiene (2004, roman titling face). Standup and Insekt are now available at URW (2004).

He also designed a bitmap font with large x-height, showcased here, as well as the italic bitmap font Arty, and Behemot. Currently, he is working on a humanist italic of Aldus Manutius (2003), based on a scan.

Klingspor link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sébastien Hayez

Type and graphic designer and art teacher, b. 1978, Lyon, France, who is based in Villeurbanne. He was artistic director at Crescend'O and curator of sifgners-book.com (2009-2018) and agfronzoni.com (2012-2018). His typefaces are mostly released at Frank Adebiaye's Velvetyne Type Foundry, which is committed to the Open Source movement---all fonts are free.

In 2011, he created the experimental typefaces Mourier (based on a geometric alphabet created in 1973 by Danish graphic designer Eric Mourier. The font uses square of 7 x 7 units and consists of unclosed lines. The first and only use was in the booklet The Myth about Bird B by Knud Holten), Semicir, BipHop, Broom, Flaubertine (with Olivier Dolbeau), Hangul and Rotunda. In 2013, he added Victorianna (thin Victorian slab serif), Runic Sans (inspired by a runic semi-uncial callygraphy seen on the Book of Kells), Courrrier (with three r's---a monospaced experimental typewriter face), Process (geometric, experimental), Lment (hipster typeface), Gnaw.

In 2014, he designed the free font VTF Victoriianna Thin at Velvetyne.

In 2020, with Ariel Martin Perez, he released the free typeface Cantique at Velvetyne. Cantique was inspired by some hand-carved titles used in post-romantic French bookplates, both for their ornamental qualities and for their kind of medieval mood.

Klingspor link. Velvetyne Type foundry, where one can download most of his fonts. Old URL. Behance link. Sébastien Hayez at Velvetyne. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sébastien Truchet
[Père Sébastien Truchet]

French type designer in Lyon, 1657-1729, whose name at birth was Jean Truchet. He was famous for his Truchet tiling system. Sébastien Truchet designed a modular typographic system during his last year in the School of Fine Arts of Besançon. His work was summarized in a thesis he wrote in 1704, and which is also reflected in Methode pour faire une infinité de desseins differens, avec des carreaux mi-partis de deux couleurs par une ligne diagonale: ou Observations du pere Dominique Douat, religieux au carme de la province de Toulouse, sur un Memoire inserédans L'histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences de Paris, l'année 1704, présenté par le reverend pere Sébastien Truchet, religieux du même ordre, Académicien honoraire (1722, Dominique Douat, Paris, chez Florentin de Laulne, rue Saint Jacques). Local download of that book.

In 2008, someone started the type foundry Sébastien Truchet and promptly published the modular counterless typefaces Module (2008) and Module 4-4 (2011) and the squarish humanist sans family Humanex (2011).

In 2020, Vanessa Zuñiga designed Sébastien, a set of color typefaces inspired by Truchet's tilings.

References: Jacques André; The tiling patterns of Sebastien Truchet and the topology of structural hierarchy (1987, Cyril Stanley Smith); Multiscale Truchet patterns<./i> (2018, Christopher Carlson). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sean Creighton

Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of Flightpath (2015), a typeface that is inspired by the lines created when the flight paths of commercial airlines are mapped out. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Hudson

During his studies in LasCruces, NM, in 2012, Sean Hudson created an experimental typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Maher

One of the trends in type design schools, started ca. 2010, was to make typefaces using genetic material from two existing ones. The results are called "offspring". One example of this is Sean Maher's art deco typeface Midtowne (2011), which combines ITC Kabel and Manhattan ITC. Akt (2011) is an extreme-contrast expermintal typeface.

Sean is a student at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in Denver, CO. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean O'Brien

Bristol, UK-based designer of the oddly concocted typeface Grocian (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Trimble

Graphic designer in London who created The Transparent Type (2012), a purely geometric typeface in two layers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sean Worley

Horsham, UK-based designer of the experimental typeface Divided (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seb Summers

During his communication design studies at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Seb Summers (Truro, UK) created the experimental typeface Fragmenta (2014) and the hybrid typeface Giltoma (2015, a cross of Optima and Gill Sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastia Gaya

Palma de Mallorca, Spain-based designer of Modular (2017) and Hexafont Neue (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastián Gagin

Graphic designer and illustrator in Buenos Aires (b. 1985, Buenos Aires). In 2009, he experimented with mechanical letters in Mech Type.

In 2011, he made the nearly-blackletter typeface Güten Tag (which was started in 2006), and the rounded sans typeface Seattle.

At Tipos Latinos 2012, Sebastián Gagin won an award in the display type category for Kiwi Extendida, which was inspired by the blackboard signs found in grocery stores around Buenos Aires.

In 2012, he created the connected upright Lara Script, and the beautiful monoline rounded sans typeface Seattle (which was inspired by Bauhaus). He created a number of vernacular typefaces for the Masticar food fair in Buenos Aires in 2012.

In 2017, he designed the stencil typeface Faena Art for the Faena Art foundation, which has chapters in Buenos Aires and Miami Beach.

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Sebastián Vivarelli

Web and graphic designer in Buenos Aires who created the experimental typeface Organica in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Big

Romanian designer of the free experimental typeface Tartarium (2016), which takes inspiration from the Tartaria tablets. Wikipedia writes: The Tartaria tablets are three tablets, discovered in 1961 by archaeologist Nicolae Vlassa at a Neolithic site in the village of Tartaria, about 30 km from Alba Iulia in Romania. The tablets, dated to around 5300 BC, bear incised symbols---the Vinca symbols--and have been the subject of considerable controversy among archaeologists, some of whom claim that the symbols represent the earliest known form of writing in the world. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Dittmann

Designer in Berlin, who created experimental typefaces such as Molekel (2012, a connect-the-dots molecular font), 45 Degrees Font (2012), Piefex (2008, pixel face), Stronghold (2008), Biefstreet (2009) and Black Holes Ghost (2008).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Rauch

Graphic designer in Vienna, who made an interesting tile system and font called Letterhex (2012). The result is a set of tiles or modules which can be used to generate a large variety of ornaments or words. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

See Jek Ng

Johor Bahru, Malaysia-based designer of the experimental typeface Horizon (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seemly Fonts (or: Fancy Fonts, Instagram Fonts, Comely Designs, or: Seemly Designs)
[Mohammed Shohail Bhuian]

Names associated with Seemly Designs and Comely Designs and Fancy Fonts and Seemly Fonts include Jamel E. Robin and Mohammed Shohail Bhuian. Bangladesh-based creator (b. 1984 or 1985) of Merry Christmas Go (2014, Christmas dingbats), Delphinium (2014, modular typeface), Calla (2014, ornamental letters; called Brush Moon inside the font), Christmas Go (2014, Christmas icons), Artindo (2014, rounded hand-printed sans) and Gerbera (2014, an experimental outline typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Crocus, Formiane (handcrafted), Xiovus (a rough brush face), Brown Foxy (a brush typeface), Burly Stain, Brown Crow, Funtos, Borsta (thick brush), Handwritten Artem, Burly, Goajubia, the handcrafted typefaces handwritten Artem and Vimofee, the grungy Grungoe, the outlined typeface Yarrow, the brush face Renbion, the sans typeface Carefaq.

Typefaces from 2017: Shurjota, Admixes, Darkling, Daichi, Deadway (gothic), Dorathy, Funbox, Getrox, Kadence, Quinni, Radburn, Red Runner, Rishima Tint, Rishima (monoline hand-printed), Brave Rocker, Mantre, Marlys Wilson, Bixens, Anxious, Plucky, Terbium, Fraxinus, Leilani (sans), Gresan (signage), Isrety, Sinewy (rounded sans), Foglia, Josen, Meriana (hand-printed), Landis (dry brush), Radburn, Deadway, Bince Triex (rounded sans), Celibe (sans), Rodless, Axile, Bexirow, Jacsony (dry brush), Rantox, Dream Booker, Saburio, Nioxra, Waking Dreamer, Faegan (sans), Quenby, Jugsar (fat brush), Priopa, Tenure (grungy), Hardy Street, Noisette, Disjunct (grungy), Nigella, Xioxca (grungy), Goajubia Next, Rocky Here, Grand Dreamer (sans), Speedwell (text typeface), Scabiosa, Celosia, Gaillardia, Matthiola, Clarkia (dry brush), Jaxcos (prismatic), Jacsony (drybrush), Nelumbo.

Typefaces from 2019: Sebqor, Sombir, Cherish Today, Rosbed, Bookish, Bonrin, Dokrak, Moorish Nonary, Notice Things, Single Step, Musicality, Axile, Funbox, Spring Season, Journey Planner, Rockwork, Notice Things, Finder, Caroos, Our Goal, Single Step, Rekobip, Mobstex, Bogwood.

Typefaces from 2020: Leman, Valentine Dream, Thrive Xmas, Christmas Respite, Good Mood, Our Santa, Christmas Love, Supposition, Stay Happy, Christmas Tree, Nest, Mother Wonder, Autumn Arbor, Keep Smiling, Be Honest, Spread Beauty, Spread Joy, Happy Dreamer, Delighted Panda, Christmas Eve, Derivation, Be Kind, Dream Arranger, Enjoy Summer, Fallen Dreamer, Father, Follow Through, Hello Brilliant, Hello Christmas, Hello Halloween, Mermaid, My Father, Natural, Obsessed Halloween, Shadowy, Spooky Haunt, Spooky Regime, Summer Garden, Syncopator, Target (textured caps), Travel, Vacation Planner, Veritas Christmas, Welcome Everyday, Sweet Summer, Halloween Occurrence, Bomka, Floweret, Keqima, Mando, Qiko, Runner, Demure Dogma, Epoch (Bold/Light/Regular), Floret, Goodenia, Grand, Hello Brilliant, Jacsony, Plight (Bold/Light/Regular), Queenship, Scabiosa, Sombir, Mamma, Mammy, Momcare, Mother, Mother Special, Mother Wonder, Valentine Things, Autumn Happiness and Valentine Monster.

Typefaces from 2021: Strong Passion (a scrapbook font), Striking Rainbow, Food Zone (a round vernacular caps font), Remind Him (hand-crafted), Monteya (a bold display serif), Our Happy Holiday, Sweet Daydream (hand-printed), Eerie House (a Halloween brush font), Scary Hours, Big Dreamer, Christmas Preference (hand-printed), Wake Up Now (a scrapbook font), Connect Christmas, Merry With Dream, Dark Misery, Spooky Sphere, Creepy Night (a brushed horror font), Happy Moment (all caps, handcrafted), Summer Motion, Inquisitive (handdrawn caps), Aim High, Hold On (an all caps brush font), Aim High, Positive Attitude, Take Chances, Hardy Mind, Pretty Magnolia, Summer Ink, Tidy Mom (a chalk font), Think Big, Precious Way, Just Believe (a marker pen font), Generous Monarch (a tall condensed dry brush typeface), Our Goodwill (hand-printed), Keep Me, Intense Emotion, Majestic Valentine (hand-drawn), Wow Darling (handcrafted), Love Taking, Love Radiate.

Typefaces from 2022: Easter Discover (condensed, hand-printed), Instinct Question (a condensed all caps brush font), Summer Fable (handprinted), Cute Rabbit (a fat finger children's book font), How Lovely (hand-printed), Summer Splendor (casual, hand-crafted), Individual Thinking, See You Again (handprinted caps), Juicy Fruit.

Some fonts are free at Dafont. Creative Market link for Jamel E. Robin. Fontspace link. Sellfy link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Seiji Hori

Graduate of the School of Visual Arts who lives in Brooklyn, NY. He created an experimental font in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seite4
[Ralph du Carrois]

Berlin-based design company, est. 2003, run by Ralph du Carrois and Jenny Horn. It ceased to exist, but du Carrois now runs Colaborate (sic): A four-style sans family done in 2001 for StudioMiR (free).

  • The Pixelpath series (2002): PiPaA35, PiPaB35, PiPaC35, PiPaD35. Free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

  • Selene Da Silva

    During her design studies in Caracas, Venezuela, Selene da Silva created the geometric experimental typeface Ambigua (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    SelfBuild Type Foundry
    [Craig Stainton]

    SelfBuild Type Foundry has commercial fonts by Craig Stainton (York, UK, b. 1974), who grew up in Newcastle, UK, and studied at Leeds Metropolitan University. Craig specializes in computer, LED and bitmap fonts.

    The fonts may be bought through DsgnHaus. These include SB Superbloc, SB Navigator, SB Expo (bitmap face), SB Grip (bitmap face), SB Degenerate, SB Modem, SB Tokyo [2004: a techno font designed for an exhibition of Japanese photography in London], SB Vibe, SB Message (2001, pixel font), SB Liquid, SB Byte, SB Websnap (pixel font). Downloadable demos without punctuation or numerals. Free font: SB Censor (2001). Experimental dot matrix font: go here. At FontHaus, he made Censor-Cameo. Experimental graffiti font: Graff (2005; see also here). Creator of Mighty Robot Lettering (2011).

    Typefaces from 2015: SB Basement (grungy), SB Phormic (grungy), SB Splinter (grungy), SB Standard (pixelish).

    Typefaces from 2017: SB Thorax, SB Carbon (a square monoline typeface, loosely based on computing logos of the 1980s), SB Flip, SB Pixelpaint, SB Raster (a block typeface), SB Sonar (techno; based on VHS tape packaging from the 1980s).

    Typefaces from 2020: SB Unica (by Folio Collective).

    Behance link. Klingspor link.

    View Craig Stainton's typefaces. Fontspring link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Selina Mistry

    At Norwich University of the Arts in Norwich, UK, Selina Mistry designed the experimental typefaces Geometric (2016) and Lines (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Seo Daeun

    Korean designer of the experimental typeface family Thunder and Lightning (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Serge Hollander

    Interior design architect who is based in Nabuntaran, The Philippines. In 2018, he designed the free experimental 3d geometric grid typefaces Geometrica and Geometrica Bold, and the trompe-l'oeil typeface Trans Font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergei Georgiev

    Talented photographer and art director in Sofia, Bulgaria. He created the experimental typeface Roll (2009), and Poker (2010). No downloads or sales. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Melnikov

    Designer in Kiev, Ukraine. Creator of the fat poster typeface Noko (2013), the experimental typeface Fract (2012), and the anthroposophic Latin/Cyrillic typeface Cedar or Kedr (2013). In 2014, he designed the free art deco typeface Sideboard, the free vector format font Moriarty. Typefaces from 2015 include Flomic.

    Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Oganesyan

    Designer in Fayetteville, AR, who created the vhighly experimental font Adius (2013), for which he drew inspiration from Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergi Delgado

    Sergi Delgado is a graphic designer and illustrator in Barcelona. He created the piano key modular stencil typeface Gado (2013). In 2015, he made the wonderful rotating op-art Candy Numbers.

    In 2017, Sergi Delgado and Daniel Wenzel co-designed the textured op-art typeface Aigua.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergio Gomez

    Spanish designer in Sevilla. Creator of SRGMarker (2009), Srg189 (2009, paper cut face), Linea (2008, geometric experiment), Interline (2009), Point (2009, dot matrix) and SQZR (2008, dripping blood font).

    His place is called srgworks. Dafont link. Old URL. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergio Lacueva

    Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the experimental typefaces LightSerge (2018) and Stock Market (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Serhat Ferat

    Swedish designer who studied in Sydney, Australia. At Behance, he made the experimental geometric face XYZ (2009), which must have been designed based on a mathematical program. He did the identity for an Uppsala-based group and designed the hip typeface Värmland's State of Mind (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Seripop

    Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum are visual artists and musicians who started collaborating in 2002 under the nom de guerre Seripop. Based in Montreal, Seripop has earned international attention for its stylistically distinct, silkscreened street posters. In 2005, Lum and Desranleau began experimenting with sculptural print installations which merge notions of city politics and visual perception.

    Creators of some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    SeungJoo Lee

    Seoul-based designer of a few experimental Hangul typefaces (2014) such as Miro Maze and Chess Font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sevi Spanou

    Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who created the experimental Latin typeface Textile (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sexy, bold and experimental typography
    [Vitaly Friedman]

    Examples of sexy, bold and experimental typography published by Smashing Magazine in a May 2008 issue. By Vitaly Friedman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    SFB Fonts (or: Studio Fabio Biesel)
    [Fabio Biesel]

    Ravensburg (was: Konstanz), Germany-based designer of the experimental sans typeface families Increase (2018) and Güggeli (2018). In 2019, he released the sans typeface Pedalo. In 2020, he designed the custom hipster typeface Knoblauch Jubilee. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shaade Oliveros Tavares

    Designer in North Carolina. Home page. Using Rorschach inkblot tests, he created the non-alphabetic experimental font Tool Malfunction (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shahab Siavash
    [Si47ash Fonts]

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    Shailja Doshi

    Graphic designer in Mumbai who created the experimental typefaces Twisted (2014) and Contra Font (2014) and the display typeface Leaves (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shane Erika Legaspi

    Los Angeles-based creator of Prototypeface (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shane Sullivan

    Austin, TX-based designer of the experimental typeface Genotype 5050 (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shane Zhong

    London-based designer of Trans Font (2014, experimental). Shane is studying at Central Saint Martins in London. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shannon Kilbride

    During her studies at Pratt, New York City-based Shannon Kilbride designed the experimental typeface TPX (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shannon Nicole

    Designer in LasCruces, NM, who created the modular experimental typeface Nightlight (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shaped Fonts (was: Phitra Design)
    [Philip Trautmann]

    Philip Trautmann (Phitra Design, b. 1996) is the Düsseldorf, Germany-based founder of Phitra Design in 2016. He renamed the foundry Shaped Fonts and was joined by Christoph Dörre and Nora Bruckhoff.

    Creator of the free handcrafted fonts PhitraDesign Handwritten (2013), Cookies+Milk (2016), Inkina (2016), Georgina (2016, a rounded stencil typeface), PhitraDesign Ink (2016), Skybird (2016), Skybird Rough (2016, free), and the sans typefaces Aquino (2016) and Sequel (2016: free).

    In 2016, Trautmann designed the letterpress emulation typeface Prequel, the informal monoline typeface Kanada and the experimental typeface Artypa.

    Typefaces from 2017: Grape, Coffee & Tea, Fish & Chips.

    Typefaces from 2018: Shelta Hand (comic book font).

    Typefaces from 2019: Snow Hut.

    Typefaces from 2020: Argio (a rounded all caps sans; +Rough, +Shadow), Honey & Jam.

    Typefaces from 2021: Magic Owl, Prequel Shadow, Patron (a variable rounded sans font with almost architectural letters), IceBear (art deco caps), Sunshine (script), Fresh Tea (a tall hand-printed font), Lifestyle (a monolinear signature font), Equil (roman caps, plus a stencil set).

    Typefaces from 2022: Mind The Caps. Behance link for Phitra Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shaun Brennan

    American designer of some experimental geometric alphabets in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shaun Farrugia

    Graphic designer in Msida, Malta, who created the experimental typeface Coal Miner (2013). In 2012, he created the sans typeface Latte Condensato. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shaun Koh

    Singapore-based designer of an exoperimental geometric typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shelby Foley

    Graphic designer in Collingwood, CO. She created a modular experimental typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shellmoonsite
    [Man Chung Lee]

    Man Chung Lee's site. Born in Hong Kong in 1976, he studied multimedia in Vancouver in 1999. Presently, he is the Creative Art Director of CREAM, Hong Kong's culture and art magazine. He created some free fonts such as the experimental AreaLINEe (2001) and AreaOUTLINEe (2001). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shikha Subramaniam

    During her studies in New Delhi, Shikha Subramaniam designed the experimental squarish typeface Aria (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shinobi Iroha
    [zetuei fonts]

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    Shinsuke Matsumoto

    Tokyo-based designer of the animated ornamental typeface Just Got Started (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shokd

    Lisbon-based designer of Horror (2012, an arts and crafts typeface) and Bella (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shruti Gunda

    San Francisco, CA-based designer of the experimental and modular typefaces Morph Code (2018) and Phyto (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shruti Sabu Ganesan

    San Francisco, CA-based designer of the experimental typeface Infinity (2016), in which the glyphs are drawn without lifting the pen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shu Chen

    Duluth, GA-based designer of the experimental typeface Type Dye (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shuji Kikuchi
    [Sugargliderz]

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    Si47ash Fonts
    [Shahab Siavash]

    Graphic designer who was based in Rasht, Iran, who dabbles in experimental Persian type design. Reportedly, he is based in Canada in 2020. He has made over 30 fonts, including ReZar, Nassim Distorted, Si47 Ash Dirty (a grungy Farsi font), Si47 Ash Dirty Neat, Si47 Ash Sole (2016, for Farsi). In 2016, he designed the Latin / Farsi font Kay Khosrow (12 squarish styles; for Latin, Arabic and Farsi), which comes with a coloured version. KayKhosrow and Sole are the first ever non-cursive Persian fonts, according to Siavash. Kay Khosrow Chromatic is the first Persian color font.

    In 2017, he designed SepidKhan (Persian Braille), Si47ash Dali, Si47ash NaPeyda, Si47ash Kaboos, Si467ash Garmalad, Si47ash Sangestan, Si47ash Dibacheh, Si47Ash Mash Nazanin, Si47ash Bulb (grungy Arabic typeface) and Si47ash Ruby.

    Typefaces from 2018: Si47ash Fontball (a Persian and Arabic color font), Si47ash Sorkhabi, Si47ash Mana, Si47ash Mashgh, Rainbow Dream Font (a Persian color font in the style of Gilbert), Si47ash Dirin, Si47ash Barbad, Si47ash Apadana, Si47ash Eima (modular, stencil), Dream Fonts (color fonts for Latin and Persian), Shabdiz.

    In 2020, he released Hezareh.

    Typefaces from 2021: Chelleh (a chubby font for Latin, Persian and Arabic), Astaneh (a Persian / Arabic typeface).

    Open Font Library link. Dribble link. Alternate URL. Yet another link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sibe Kokke
    [Type Generator]

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    Siegfried Rückel
    [rQuadrat]

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    Siggi Odds

    Sigurður Oddsson or Siggi Odds or Siggi Oddsson, was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1985, but spent a large part of his childhood in Vancouver, Canada. He graduated from college (in science) in 2005 and graduated with a B.A. degree in graphic design from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland in the spring of 2008. He is an illustrator and graphic designer. Typefaces created by him include Sniðagrind (2007, an experimental typeface inspired by Gateway, by designer Stephan Müller), Kögra (2006, a typeface based on fractals made at The Iceland Academy of the Arts), and Aryan Monkey (2007, a curly font done with Sveinn Daviðsson). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Silje Nyløkken

    Graphic design graduate from the WSoC in Oslo.

    In 2011, she created the geometric experimental face Wratex, and the high-contrast piano key typeface Connect (2011).

    In 2012, she added the refined connected semi-script typeface Continuum, the tattoo typeface Aboard, and the art deco marquee typeface Accent.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Silvia Bargelli

    Silvia Bargelli is a graphic designer in Livorno, Italy. She created a set of line-based geometric typefaces called Linja (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Silvia Baz

    Silvia baz (London) played around with glyph outlines at various sizes and angles and created a beautiful set of decorative caps in this manner. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sim Bison
    [Simon Marchal]

    Aka Sim Bison. Belgian graphic designer based in Namur. He created Réparation (2012, experimental typeface), Monoforme (2012, a typeface developed for the course of F. Bourgaux), and Tetrad (2012, a typeface done for the Médiathèque of the Communauté Française de Belgique. Experimental typefaces by Simon include Brisée (2012), Futura Minus (2012), TroisD (2012, a 3-d typeface), Helvetica Minus (2012).

    He created the experimental typefaces Arp (2014, named after Jean Arp, 1886-1966, apinter and sculptor, who cofounded the Dada movement in Zurich in 1916)), Moonboobs (2013) and Aqne (2013). At Behance, he showcased many other (unnamed) experimental typefaces.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simon Bent
    [Metis Digital Type Foundry (or: Studio Io, or: Metis Foundry; was: Volume2a)]

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    Simon C. Page

    Londoner who designed the experimental multiline typeface Rolet (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simon Dunbar

    During his studies at the University of Ballarat, Austyralia, Simon Dunbar created the experimental typeface Furrow (2013), which simulates piles of papers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simon Graham

    Designer who made Genome (2001) at Fontmonster (a site that expired). Born in Scotland in 1973, he studied in Glasgow and Edinburgh focusing on type design and experimental typography. After graduating with a degree in Visual Communication he briefly taught font design and development at Edinburgh College of Art. Now working as a freelancer out of Denmark, his clients include Deaconn Clothing, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Icon and Sony. He designed Don't Listen (2005), an anti-Bush anti-war font which won an award at the 2005 FUSE type competition. Aka A-Bombe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simon Marchal
    [Sim Bison]

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    Simon Murdoch

    Creator (b. 1989, UK) of Pixel Twist (2013, pixel face), Prime (2012, an experimental hexagonal typeface) and Blocked Out (2012). Inkie Block (2012) and Urban Curve (2013) are other geometric experiments. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simon Puzich

    German designer of the free experimental typeface Arow (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simon Thordal

    Simon Thordal (College of Visual Communication, Haderslev, Denmark) designed the free experimental geometric typeface Cryptex (2015), the experimental geometric typeface Encoded Mosaic (2016), and the wedge serif Latin / Cyrillic typeface Rust Modern (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simone Mariano

    Graphic designer in Rome, who used Roger Penrose's Penrose tiling in the construction of a set of ornamental numbers in 2013. For the Order Of Architects, P.P.C. of Rome and Province and the Order Of Engineers of Rome, he created a prismatic caps typeface called Seventeen Lines (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    SINDSINDSIND
    [Greg Ponchak]

    Greg Ponchak (SINDSINDSIND) is a graphic designer in North Royalton (Cleveland), OH. His company was called SINDSINDSIND, but in 2013, he sold his outfit to Thinkdust.

    He created the minimalist high-contrast Qag (2009, Mostar Design Company), Muneris (2010, squarish), some experimental typefaces, the minimalist geometric sans typeface Monolite (2013), Berque (2010, a minimalist rounded sans typeface with hints of DIN), Kolg Gothic (2011), Jirue (2011, high-contrast didone), Kajf (2011, piano key face), NERC (2011, avant-garde), ARGN (2011, a rounded monospaced stencil family), FOSU (2010, hairline avant-garde sans, at HypeForType), Kosumi (2014, experimental), Roxic (high contrast art deco typeface), Shine Pro (2014, a neutral sans), and Squoosh Gothic (2014, a headline sans).

    (Dead) Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Singular

    Mexican design studio in Monterrey. Behance link.

    Creator of Libertina (2012, experimental typeface), Hubbletype (2012, a sci-fi family), and Singularity (2012, a hyper-condensed thin typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sinyi Chen

    Taichang, Taiwan-based designer of a geometric display typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sipho Ngubeni

    Farnborough, UK-based designer of several experimental typefaces in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sixtine Gervais

    Graphic designer at l'atelier Lieux Communs, Rennes, France. In 2015, she created the grungy typeface Parade. She also designed the experimental minimalist octagonal typeface Manifesto XXI (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Siyi Wang

    Kansas City, MO-based designer of the experimental typeface Notation (2016). The terminal dots in the typeface are of variable size. In 2015, Siyi designed a set of pictograms for the city of Orlando. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Siyu Cao

    While studying at Nottingham Trent University, Siyu Cao created Lakeside (2012), a typeface inspired by natural forms and topography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Skriftklog Grafisk Design (was: TypeEinz)
    [Magnus Gaarde]

    Magnus Gaarde studied graphic design at Hoyer College of Visual Communication from 2001-2004. Google Plus link.

    Type Einz was Magnus Gaarde's Danish type site. His typefaces there, done ca. 2005, included Grandjean Grotesk, Bocoché, Package, Black Hole (ultra fat experimental display face), Junk Yard, Medea (sans), Aarhus (sans), Petrograd (squarish), and Psychosium Grotesk.

    He set up Skriftklog Grafisk Design in Skanderborg, Denmark.

    At Google Web Fonts, these free fonts can be downloaded: Basic (2011; see also Open Font Library), Habibi (2011, a high-contrast serifed face), Trykker (2011, a text typeface published by Sorkin Type). Google Plus link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Slang Graphic Design
    [Nathanael Hemon]

    Berlin-based graphic design company. In 2003, Nathanael Hemon (b. 1973, France) designed the free experimental font Brother. Hemon moved first to the US in 1983, and thewn to Berlin in 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Slavka Bozhinova

    Graphic designer from Sofia, Bulgaria, now based in London. Creator of a circular arc experimental Cyrillic typeface in 2012. She also created the experimental typeface Former (2012). The Plant (2012) is a modular geometric font experiment. In 2016, she designed a grid-based modular typeface and a monoline wavy typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Slavka Jevcinova
    [Into the Type]

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    Slobodan Miladinov
    [Miladinov Design]

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    SMeltery Fonts
    [Jack Usine]

    SMeltery is the French foundry of Jack Usine, based in Castillon-la-Bataille. Free fonts: Papier Sans (2010), Megalopolis Extra (2008), Vidange Pro (2008-2009, a sans at PsyOps; in 2010, a commercial version appeared), Geronto Bis (2008), Telerysm Mono 2 (2008), Trottoir (2007, inspired by the writing on the sewer covers of Pont-à-Mousson), Stigmate (2007), Sans Merci (2006), Jules Vernacular (2006, upright script), Alusine (2005), Geronto (2005, wow!), Justice (2004-2018, by Jack Usine and Fanny Garcia), Megalopolis (2004), Mon Nom (2004, mono), Oh My God (2004, experimental), Telerysm (2004), Telerysm Mono 2, Heretica (2004, gothic), Consume More (2004), Est-ce que (2004), Bankrutt (2004, blackletter stencil), Audimat (2003: a DIN-like family based on vernacular signage found in France), Audimat Mono (2005), Patronne (2003, octagonal), Enfer (2003), Redevance (2003, fifties diner font), Outil (2003), Work (2003), Watch TV (2003, stencil), Kebab (2003), Consume (2003, dingbats), Gazole (2003), Icone (2003), Ax&Swar (2003, artsy), TwentyOne (2003), Phylloxera (2002), Jack Usine (2002, great techno face), Charles (2002), Fat (2002). No longer supplied: Laplakett, Bogota, Lamemoire, Lafacture, Hustla, Goody, UseIn, CPUX, Daplakijtt, Zero. Commercial fonts: Vidange Pro (2008, PsyOps), Rouge Sans (2007), Sans Merci (2006), Vernissage (2006, stencil), Manifest Destiny (T26, 2006).

    In 2006, Usine and Fanny Garcia published Soupirs A through E, nifty ornaments based on the soupiraux found in Bordeaux). Experiments: Toypography (2004), TypoClock (2003).

    In 2013, Fanny Garcia and Jack Usine co-designed Excursion, which was inspired by designs seen during a walk through the streets of Marseille. They write: Excursion is a real bouillabaisse of decorative all capitalized typefaces. Among these, we find the art deco typeface Excursion Poste and the dingbat font Excursion Fadabats.

    Alternate URL. MyFonts page. Klingspor link. View Jack Usine's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    SMOG (or: Santiago Motion Graphics)
    [Moisés Arancibia]

    SMOG (Santiago Motion Graphics) is a design studio in Santiago (Chile) founded in 2007 by Moisés Arancibia and Pablo González. Typefaces by the studio include the display typefaces Alpaca, Hola Mundo, Mokeka, Mafia, Matas, Central, Chacon and Bikini.

    Felipe Cáceres helped out with the final production of these typefaces designed by Moisés Arancibia: Alpaca (a slab face), Mafia (an experimental face), Mokeka (a display face), Matas (a display face), Central (a display face), Chacon (a black rounded face), and Bikini (a squarish face).

    In addition, Moisés Arancibia created Menu (not at SMOG) and Hola Mundo (alien dingbats, some of which were designed by Sebastian Platz and Sebastian Pagueguy).

    All fonts are free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    S.N. Hussain

    Karachi, Pakistan-based FontStructor who made the gridded experimental mosquito net typeface Spores Monospaced (2010), sn Spores (2010), sn Discontinued (2010) and the squarish typefaces sn Boldface (2011) and sn Boldfont (2010). sn Blinds (2012, free) is a horizontally-striped typeface that is based on the IBM logo. Devian Tart link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Snoopsfish

    Marseille, France-based designer of some experimental and art deco typefaces in 2013. One of them is called Klimax. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Clausse

    Portland, OR and Sintra, Portugal-based designer of Rotating Typeface (2014, experimental). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Cuneo

    Buenos Aires, Argentina-based graphic designer who created the experimental bicolored retro typeface Cuca (2015). This was a course project for Tano Veron at Universidad de Palermo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Madafi

    Quebec-based designer of the experimental typefaces Kiev Winter and Kiev Summer at UQAM (2003, with Roxana Zegan). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Peres

    Porto, Portugal-based graphic designer who created the experimental typeface Tube Font (2012), based on a map of the subway of London. In 2013, she created Ljubljana, a typeface modeled after the architectural scenery of the Slovenian city (as a project at Aluo University of Ljubljana). She currently studies at the Faculty of Fine-Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Solana Roeleveld

    During her studies at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, Solana Roeleveld designed an experimental typeface entotled Architecture (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Solange Duhalde

    Aka Sanaky. Chilean designer of Antagona (2017), an experimental typeface that mixes Baskerville and Gotham. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Somer Mason

    Chattanooga, TN-based creator of a geometric experimental typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Soomin Lee

    Student at Parsons in New York. Creator of Dynamic (2009, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophia Apostolopoulou

    Graphic designer in Athens, Greece, who created Tutfont, Circlefont and the experimental sans typeface Geometric in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophia Drogoudi

    Greek graphic designer who made the experimental typeface Slide (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophia TypeLove

    Designer of the experimental Streco typefamily in 2022. This includes Streco Stencil Superfat---a geometric reversed contrast typefacee [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Ghesquier

    Bordeaux, France-based designer of Hello (2018: a floriated stencil typeface), the ransom note font Chus (2018), and the experimental geomtric typeface Luna (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Koch

    Parisian creator of an experimental typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Nolan

    Graphic designer in Manchester, UK, who created the experimental textured typeface Circus Museum (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Potterill

    Cambridge, UK-based designer of the Tuscan typeface Earl Soham (2015) and the experimental typeface By Half (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Soulie

    At ECAL in Geneva, Switzerland, Sophie Soulie designed the dental display typeface Ardentis (2017) and a modular expeimental typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophteck's Jungle and Typography
    [Alan Bauchop]

    Alan Bauchop (Sophtecks, Wellington, New Zealand) made these typefaces in 1998: Trix, ScreenyJubs, Earth People, Brickle, Cain, Chunk, Miniskip, Miniskap, Miniskup (techno), and the experimental Silo. Some pixel fonts.

    Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sotiris Sioutzioukis

    Designer in Aiani, Greece, who created an experimental display typeface and a dot matrix typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Soulbas

    Designer of the experimental grid typeface Espinas (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Srishti Verma

    During her studies at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, New Delhi-based Srishti Verma designed the Latin / Gurmukhi typeface Gabru (2019) and the experimental Helvetica Hack (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sruli Recht

    Graphic and type designer from Reykjavik, who created two experimental typefaces in 2008 with Jared Eberhardt: Syrillic, and Worn. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stafism

    Graphic designer and illustrator from Swindon, UK. He/she/they created these experimental typefaces in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steeven Rysak

    Mulhouse, France-based designer of an experimental typeface for FRAC Besancon (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefan Gandl
    [Neubau Berlin (or: NB Typography, or: Neubau Laden)]

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    Stefan Hitchen
    [ZESD]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Stefan Mader

    Graphic designer in Munich, Germany, who designed the thin typeface Vote in 2018 and the experimental working Class in 2019. Type Department link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefan Ruetz
    [Bert Typography]

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    Stefan Schlageter

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Lausanne. He created the experimental typeface Sulu (2009) while taking a course with Clotilde Olyff. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefan Schuster

    Stefan Schuster (Schuster Design, Berlin) is a senior art director, designer and photographer. Behance link. As Violent Elegance, he made two experimental free fonts (obtainable per email request). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefanie Vogl
    [OMFD Official]

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    Steffen Hartwig

    Essen, Germany-based designer of Maschine Grotesk (2014), a typeface for drawing machines. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steffen Kørner Ludvigsen

    Graphic designer and visual artist, b. 1990. He lives in Oslo. His typefaces, all made in 2009, include Tiny Little Miss Squirrel (hairline, curly), Big Fat Ugly Cow (fat fad face), Mr. Hedgehog (geometric experiment) and Just Comic (child's hand). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stella Seoyeong Park

    Graphic designer who graduated from Cranbrook Academy of art and now freelances in New York. Stella created the experimental arc-based typeface LOL ROLL LOL (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Step Ahead

    Experimental type design at the University of Wuppertal under Professor Heribert Birnbach and Dipl.-Des. Hartmut Schaarschmidt. Type experiments by these people, all dated ca. 2004:

    • Cornelia Aust: Split One, Split Two.
    • Holger Schmitz: Organ.
    • Marco Kouz: Tukan 01 and 02.
    • Joachim Schmitz: Such Mich, Kristallin.
    • Nicholas Cintrón: MoSys01.
    • Thilo Krapp: Emotional Code.
    • Denise Steitz: Cutout.
    • Markus Schwarz: r-line.
    • David Conrad: Schleife.
    The typefaces can be bought for 30 Euros. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephan Peters

    Graduate of the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, MN, class of 2011. Creator of Geometric (2014, an experimental typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephane Lopes

    Graphic designer in Les Mureaux, France. Creator of the experimental constructivist typeface Latinoruskov (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephanie Berduo

    Buenos Aires-based designer of the experimental typeface Robber (2014), which interpolates between Bodoni and Futura. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephanie Bonica

    Chicago-based designer of the ornamental typeface Downton (2013). She writes: typeface was inspired by BBC series Downton Abbey. The embellishments combine classic and modern elements. The aesthetic of this font reflects the feel of a 1920s brunch scene in Downton. Her Helvetica Reduced typeface strips down Helvetica to its bare minimum. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephanie Fast

    During her studies in Chattanooga, TN, in 2013, Stephanie Fast created an experimental typeface by using only three design elements---a straight line, an arc, and a rounded rectangle. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephanie Goetz

    During her graphic design studies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Stephanie Goetz created the experimental display typeface An (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephen Bird
    [Uusimaa Type Foundry Incorporated]

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    Stephen Lowe

    Stephen Lowe (Luton, UK) is a graphic design at De Montfort University. He created the geometric typeface Gridded (2011) and the organic modular typeface Rounded Off (2011). Pentography (2011) is a lines-only typeface with all vertices on the intersections of the complete graph formed by a pentagon. Folded (2011) and Sharp Folds (2011) are based on folded paper. Gridded (2011) is more experimental. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephen Miller

    Aka Radon2000. American student (b. 1989) at AIH (The Art Institute of Houston) who created the ornamental caps typeface Jaws and Claws (2011). He also created the experimental sans typeface Long Sans (2012).

    Stephen is a graphic designer in Houston.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephy So

    Irvine, CA-based designer of the experimental typeface Myot (2014). She also created Future Phone Icons (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephy So

    Stephy So (Irvine, CA) designed the modular stencil typeface MYOT (2014) which is based on straight edges, semicircles and quarter circles. MYOT stands for make your own type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stereoplastika
    [Alberto Rodríguez Diaz]

    Spanish graphic design, poster design and illustration outfit of Alberto Rodríguez in Toledo and Madrid. Some free artsy fonts on this site include Xstrema (2011, octagonal and experimental), Groteska (2009), Gordala (2009), Metal (2009), Tozuna (2009), Amable (2009, like the previous two, counterless fat octagonal typefaces) and Sierra (2009).

    In 2013, he designed the art deco sans typeface Finolis (Ultratypes) and the fun experimental set of numbers Yorokobu Numerografia No 43.

    In 2017, he designed Animal Alphabet.

    Behance link. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steven Acres

    Graphic designer in Brooklyn, NY. He made the custom logortype Chimaera (2010) for a mediaeval-style cafe. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steven Heller

    Prolific author, art director of the New York Times Book Review and founder and coChair of the School of Visual Arts, New York MFA/Design Program. He is the former editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design and author or editor of over 170 books on popular culture, graphic design history, and political art. MyFonts page on him. Editor of The Education of a Typographer (2004, Allsworth Press). Some of his books closest to type design and typography:

    The typeface Heller Sans JNL (2019, Jeff Levine) is named after Steven Heller as its designer digitized an experimental alphabet by Steven Heller. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Steven Schroeder

    Denton, TX-based designer of Type Babies (2011), a project in which the genetic features of two typefaces are mixed. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steven Waring
    [From Parts Unknown]

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    Steven Williams

    Based in Indianapolis where he teaches at the Art Institute of Indianapolis and runs Burnish and Press, Steven Williams's first font is a very geometric modular experimental typeface called Willstack (2011). His second font is Cubi V (2011), which was inspired by sculptor David Smith. His third typeface is an unnamed round squarish font (2011).

    In 2015, he designed the ironwood typeface Westfield Greek, and in 2018 he added Patio Shop. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stijn Druyts

    Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Television. Stijn lives in Minderhout. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Store Norske Skriftkompani
    [Arve Båtevik]

    Norwegian type designer, b. 1991, who graduated from Westerdals School of Art in Oslo in 2015 and ECAL in 2017. At ECAL in Lausanne, he finished an MA in Art Direction and completed an exhaustive comparative study of the Geometric Sans genre. He joined Lineto in 2017 and returned to Norway in 2020, where he set up his own commercial type foundry, Store Norske Skriftkompani, in Volda. His typefaces:

    • During his studies at Westerdals in Oslo, Arve Båtevik created the display typeface Toulouse (2014). Toulouse consists of a basic sans skeleton. Arve then added two weights, one in a 2 to 1 ratio, and one in a 1 to 2 ratio. This allows for some great designs for logos and posters.
    • In 2015, from his then base in Zurich, he created Sagen Grotesk as an interpretation of Schelter Grotesk (after Schelter Breite Grotesk, 1886), and developed Passelig Sans from the bottom up.
    • With Maura Paolozzi, he co-designed LL Prismaset A and B at Lineto (2003-2017). Both LL Prismaset A and LL Prismaset B are based on Rudolf Koch's Prisma (1930).
    • LL Supreme (2020, Lineto). He writes: LL Supreme presents a new take on Paul Renner's Futura (1927). [...] Working against the current tendency of interpolating entire families, each cut of LL Supreme was drawn separately and, as a consequence, has its own identity.
    • LL Ruder Plakatschrift. Done with Hans-Christian Pulver.
    • Store Norske Jazz Book & Italic (2015-2020) and Store Norske Jazz (2021). A sans typeface inspired by Frutiger's Univers and Hoefer's Permanent. In the end it is closer to Univers and a bit more playful (which is not hard---Frutiger's fonts are hardly playful). He writes: Store Norske Jazz is a typeface well within the aesthetically dodgy territory of the contrasted sans serif.
    • Store Norske Tyggis (2016-2020). A prismatic typeface that extends the phototype Or (1967, Andy Song for Studio Hollenstein).
    • Store Norske Trafikk Medium & Italic (2014-2020). A constructed sans serif, based on the Norwegian road sign typeface Trafikkalfabetet (Karl Petter Sandbaek, 1965, for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration). Trafikkalfabetet is modeled after the German road sign typeface DIN 1451, and the British road sign typeface Transport.
    • Store Norske Brus (2017-2020). Mecano-inspired letters.
    • Store Norske Foto Book & Italic (2015-2020). A sans that pays homage to phototype.
    • Store Norske Mekaniske (2020). A constructivist typeface based on the lettering on Akers Mekaniske Verksted's shipyard workshop in Oslo.
    • Store Norske Maleri (2020): Store Norske Maleri is a remix of Ehmcke's Mediaeval (Designed in 1917, published by Schriftgiesserei D. Stempel AG in 1920). I find the original intriguing in many ways, especially how he managed to sneak so many circles, triangles and squares---while still maintaining a rough arts and crafts aesthetic. In my version the capitals are quite true to the original, although I did put some more circles, triangles and squares in there. The lowercase, numbers and the remaining characters deviate quite a bit from the original.
    • Store Norske Stilig (2021). A colour remix and elaboration of a display phototype named Indigo by Andy Song (1936-1995), which was designed in 1972 for Studios Hollenstein Phototypo in Paris. In addition to the colour font, Stilig exists in Dark, Light, Solid and Open styles.
    • Store Norske Funksjon (2021). A display colour geometric solid font, based on a lettering alphabet by Erich Mollowitz that was featured in Moderne Vindusreklame [Modern Window Advertisement] (1933, Knut Schjefstad in 1933), an instructional book on shop front decoration. Knut Schjefstad (1905-1943) is best known for playing the long neck banjo in Norway's first jazz orchestra Sixpence.
    • Store Norske Ja (2021). A sans typeface that started out as a revival of Akzidenz Grotesk.
    • Store Norske Samvirke (2020) is an all-caps typeface based on the lettering found on the Oslo Samvirkelag store in the Kampen city district.
    • Store Norske Neon (2020-2021) is a remix of the Metall Standardbokstaver alphabet used by the sign makers at Neon Electric Limited AS, which was operational in the 1950s. Neon Electric was one of the main neon sign suppliers in Norway. They created signage for big events and important buildings, like the signs for the Oslo 1952 Winter Olympics and the Deichmanske Bibliotek [Oslo's Main Public Library].
    • Store Norske Bygg (2020-2021) is a monospaced typeface based on a lettering found on the offices of Frimann Bye & Winsvold A, a mortar and construction supplier in Oslo, in the 1920s and 1930s.
    • Store Norske Tango (2016-2021). A geometric typeface that sprung out of Arve Båtevik's MA diploma at ECAL in Lausanne. The project was based on Intertype Vogue (1930), the American response to the geometric wave in Europe in the 1920s. Store Norske Tango builds on Vogue's naiveté, according to Arve. It is more rude and playful, as it focuses on pure geometric shapes, with almost no optical correction. Most letters are nearly monolinear. The typeface has old school hyper slanted italics, often found in early sans serifs, offering two options for the degrees of tilt.
    • Store Norske Magi (2021). A sans family.
    • Store Norske Graut (2021). A wonderful rounded sans family that includes a Mono style.
    • Store Norske Skandia (2021). Arve explains its roots: Store Norske Skandia is a remix of "Skiltskrift", a typeface made for the redesign of Norwegian National Railway (NSB) in 1977. In 1973, Knut Skuland became the director of NSB. The company's communication was eclectic, and he wanted to unify their visual identity. They first bought the rights to use the British Rail identity. Skuland spoke with the director of the Danish National Railways who had bought the same identity some years before. The Danish director convinced Skuland of the impact the identity would have on Norway's visual culture. Skuland then decided to put together a team to reshape the British Rail identity, to fit the Norwegian environment and frame of mind. He commissioned industrial designer Odd Thorsen, art historian and Alf 130e, and designers John Engen, Knut Harlem, Paul Brand, Ruedi a Porta and Arild Eugen Johansen. They redesigned everything from the trains and uniforms to the type and colours. Paul Brand collaborated with a paint factory in Nittedal, to produce a colour blue that would be dark enough to contrast the white type, but still bright enough to be perceived as blue in dark Norwegian lighting conditions. The typeface is similar to the British Rail Alphabet in weight, but is a lot softer and more geometric. Unfortunately, many of the people involved in the project have passed away. I have spoken with John Engen, Halvor Thorsen (son of Odd), Paul Brand, Ruedi a Porta and Arild Eugen Johansen and none of them have any clear answers to who actually designed the typeface. But if there ever was a Norwegian grotesk from the modernist era, this is it. The original typeface was a single bold cut made for signage, and for the rest of the identity they used Helvetica. I have extrapolated on the "Skiltskrift" design, and made it into a small family of three weights, with matching italics.
    • Store Norske Baguette (2022). A primitive all caps sans based on several old French signage typefaces.
    • Store Norske Stempel (2022). After an alphabet used for certain texts on old Norwegian license plates (See also Store Norske Jernskrift.)
    • Store Norske Jernskrift (2022). Store Norske Jernskrift is a typeface based on the numbers found on old Norwegian number plates. He explains: On the 17th of january 1929, new regulations for car number plates took effect in Norway. They were referred to as Vertikal Jernskrift [vertical iron letters]. The design is similar to local hand painted roadsigns of the era. Most, if not all, were produced at Christiania Chablon & Stempelfabrikk (G. Enderle, 1904-1933) and Mignon Chablon & Stempelfabrikk (Jallik Johnsen, Wilh Olsen, 1931-1958).

    Personal site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Strange Design
    [Goh Yam Whee]

    Strange Design is Goh Yam Whee in Singapore. Intersections of circles, and only that, was used to create the outlines of the experimental but mathematically precise typeface Fleurmetry (2011) that was created by Goh Yam Whee (Singapore) in 2011. Stac (2013) is a 3d typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stuart Male

    Creator from Westgate on Sea (UK) of Gypt (2010), an experimental font that as inspired by hieroglyphs. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Cyro
    [Mindaugas Gavrilovas]

    Graphic designer in Vilnius, Lithuania, who designed an experimental sans typeface in 2016. As Studio Cyro, he designed free Lithuanian cultural typefaces at Berzulis in 2021, such as Kipsas and Ausrine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Grau

    Studio Grau (Berlin) created some unnamed geometric experimental typefaces in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Lovelock

    Studio in London. Their typefaces and alphabets include a patterned illustrated type (2015) and a colored geometric typeface for Square Art 11 (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Styler Design
    [Carl Cooper]

    Styler Design is Carl Cooper, who studied graphic design at the University of Sussex, UK.

    Creator of CC Stripes (2012), CC Dotz (2012, texture face), CC Ultra Sans (2012: an overlay of Arial, Futura, Gill Sans, Helvetica Neue and Myriad Pro), and CC Curve (2012, a monoline circle-based typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Su Shanshan

    Shanghai-based designer of Cucumber (2013), an experimental Latin typeface.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Subtype (was: Typisc or Suprb)
    [Andreas Pihlström]

    Swedish commercial foundry, est. 2006, earlier called Suprb or Typisc. Commercial fonts: NTMY (2009, ultra-black), Alasca (2008), Quick16 (2008: pure geometry), ASCA (2008, "the cousin of OCR"), Myld (2008, avant garde ideas), Wyld (2010, hairline version of Myld), DIRR (2007, an unreadable extra black concoction), ASCA and ASCA-D (2007, rounded octagonal), LIW (techno, in bold and regular versions), Wyld (2007, Avant Garde to the extreme), Quick16 (2008, experimental), Alkasca (2008), Building (2006), Asphalt (2007, avant garde). Free fonts: Quart (2008, kitchen tile style), SWEM (2007, experimental), Cloud (2006, hairline font with connected letters, by Andreas Pihlström). Alternate URL. YWFT link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sudhir Kuduchkar

    Typographer and graphic designer in Ahmedabad, India. He created the blocky perfectly square typeface squar-E (2011). Invisible (2011) too is blocky.

    In 2014, he made Dot Matrix Typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Suet Vinie

    Bristol, UK-based creator of a number of modular experimental typefaces in 2012. These include Cross (straight-edged, based on triangulations), Marquise, American Brilliant (textured and geometric), Diacubic (simulating a graph), Diatomic and Briolette (rhombic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sugargliderz
    [Shuji Kikuchi]

    Shuji Kikuchi from Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan, was born in 1972 in Osaka. His foundry, est. 2006, is called Sugargliderz.

    Free fonts: Frail (2011, a 6-style grungified didone family), Cuneiform (2006-2008, this is a cuneiform simulation font), Fragment Core, Proto Uncertain (handwriting), Shears, Unnamed.

    Commercial fonts: Puchiflit (2020: a typewriter slab serif that according to Kikuchi is a felt tip pen font), Pinch Remix (2020: hand-printed), Oddlini (2019: a 360-style basic grotesk family that covers all widths; it has obliques instead of italics), Oddlini 2 (2019), Knock Type (2017, a kana-Latin-Braille transcription font), Du (2016, a hand-printed font), Magendfret (2016, a warm typewriter family), Artlessness (2015), Bush (2014), Nora Pen (2014, a didone influenced by Walbaum), Uncertain Felttip (2008), the Palindrome family (2006, experimental), Pinch (2007, hand-printed), ScratchWithTheCoin (2007, grunge), Bagworm (2007, four styles, influenced by Tekton), Decay (2008, grunge), Beg Before (2008, grunge), Beg After (2008, grunge), Phoebus Palast (2008), Kropotkin (2008, 24 styles of a sturdy early 20th century grotesk), Rebuild-Square (2009, totally square family), Ponytail (2009, rounded), Violadabraccio (2009, serif), Lettera, Bush, Long Haul Trucker (2009, alphading/logo font), Michel (2009, didone).

    Klingspor link. Dafont link.

    View Shuji Kikuchi's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sugiro Design (was Rocha Design)
    [Lula Rocha]

    Brazilian foundry of Lula Rocha which evolved from Rocha Design in 2003. Lula Rocha designed the freeware typefaces Enigmaquatro (1999, disturbed pixel font), Hellvetikacinquenta (1999, gothic) and Skova (1999, with Rodrigo Bleque, LED influences).

    In 2016, he experimented with features of Adobe Illustrator in the design of Mondrian Type and Scrolling Pen Type.

    Lula Rocha is a professor at PUC Rio. Personal web page. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Suhaila Azeman

    Singapore-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Geometrical (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sulki and Min
    [Sulki Choi]

    This type team consists of Sulki Choi and Min Choi, graphic designers in Seoul, Korea, who first met in 2001 while studying for an MFA at Yale. Sulki is teaching at Kaywon School of Art&Design, and Min at the University of Seoul. Their typefaces include identities (Now Jump [for the exhibition at Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, 2008], Arko Pix [dingbats for the Arko Art Center, 2008]), experimental typefaces (FF Tronic [2003: a grunge typeface done with Hyun Cho], Stealth [2002], Blitz [2001: grunge]), pixel typefaces (Bmap) and more or less standard typefaces (Zephyr (2001, a humanist monospace family), Politie (2001), Transport Text [light-weight adaptation of the British road sign letterform, originally designed by Jock Kinneir and Magaret Calvert, 2003], Vitra Thin [2002: hairline sans], Bask Sans [2003]). Politie (2002) is a monospace adaptation of the typeface Wim Crouwel designed in the 1960s for the typewriter manufacturer Olivetti, which was released after decades as a digital font by the Foundry in London (Foundry Gridnik). Sulki and Min explain: Although neither the original nor the Foundry's interpretation were designed as fixed-width typefaces, its rigid, modular letterform seemed apt for a monospace adaptation. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sulki Choi
    [Sulki and Min]

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    Summer Yang

    During her studies in Hilversum, The Netherlands, Summer Yang created some experimental typefaces for Latin and Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sumotype Foundry
    [Oscar Fernando Guerrero Cañizares]

    Born in 1981 in Colombia, Oscar Guerrero lives in Pasto, Narino, in the southwest of Colombia. His graduation work in 2012 at FADU UBA (University of Buenos Aires) is the Venetian text typeface Epica. Epica was first released in 2014 at Sumotype and later, in 2020, by Sudtipos as Epica Pro.

    In 2014, he set up Sumotype Foundry in Bogota, Colombia. The Sumotype fonts include Proyecta (2014: a great wedge-serifed ultra-fat stencil typeface), Septima (2014, sans family for urban signage), Epica (2014 release: this typeface won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014), Farma (2014, a roundish headline sans), Republica del Diseño (2014, stencil), Moira (2014).

    Typefaces from 2015: Babar (an inspiring heavy poster typeface also headed for stardom).

    Typefaces from 2016: Pacha (free square-shaped tribal typeface with plenty of ligatures).

    In 2018, he published the creamy fashion mag italic headline font Vala (Monotype).

    In 2019, he added the retro script typeface Playland (Monotype).

    Typefaces from 2021: June (a variable font by Fer Cozzi and Oscar Guerrero), Fuga (an experimental hybrid sans).

    Typefaces from 2022: Gregor (a hybrid sans serif typeface family with two variants, Upright and Slanted; the design is inspired by some advertising graphic designs used in the United States during the 60's and 70's; published at Bastardatype), The Irish Pub (identity and custom typeface in a Celtic / beer bottle / German expressionist style).

    Typeface developer at Omnibus Type. Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sumpatha Jadee

    Bangkok-based designer of Kannika, a fat didone display typeface in 2012, to be published at Katatrad. He also made the experimental typeface Judeka (2012) and the fat poster typeface MMFK (2013, a great free dingbat-laden typeface dedicated to Mamafaka from Farmgroup).

    He creates typefaces for the Bangkok-based type foundry, Produce. In 2013, he co-designed Etch with Vorathit Kruavanichkit. Etch combines art deco, tattoo style and blackboard bold in a stylish display family.

    In 2014, Produce published the monospaced family Fixed (Vorathit Kruavanichkit, Sumpatha Jadee) which comes with a stencil style. They took the decorative stencil style to new heights in the six-font family Punch Pro (2014: Slab, Bracketed, Wedge, Deco, Hairline and Sans; by Vorathit Kruavanichkit and Sumpatha Jadee). Tech (2014, Vorathit Kruavanichkit, Sumpatha Jadee, Produce) is a techno / sci-fi typeface with a circuit-inspired sub-style, Tech 7000.

    In 2015, Vorathit Kruavanichkit and Sumpatha Jadee co-designed the street art typeface Lam. Talad Noi (2015) is a Latin & Thai signage and wayfinding system done for the Arsom Silp Institute of the Art Landscape (Architect: Shma SoEn). For Groove, Sumpatha created the wayfinding dot matrix typeface Groove, also in 2015. In 2015, he designed the fingerprint-inspired bespoke typeface Demark 2015.

    In 2017, he designed the custom Latin / Thai typeface Mogu Mogu, the custom FA Thailand Sans for the Football Association of Thailand (FAT), and the neo deco typeface Drouwel (Jadee was type director; the actual font was designed by Milan Pietaerents).

    In 2018, he published Satra (Latin / Thai) for the movie. Home page. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sun Jung Hwang

    Sun Jung is a graphic designer originally from South Korea. She graduated BA in graphic design at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), Den Haag, in 2006. Before her second stint at KABK, resulting in a Masters degree in type design, she worked in the fields of advertising and graphic design. Creator of Superhero (2011) and a few other experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sunhi Chumber

    Graphic and type designer in Birmingham, UK. Creator of the ultra-black experimental typeface Urban Future (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sunil Vallu

    Designer who experiments with type design. He used the triangular grid to make Polyface (2009). He also made the modular typeface Untitled (2008). He is currently pursuing a degree in New Media Design at the National Institute of Design in India. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Suomi Type Foundry
    [Tomi Haaparanta]

    Tomi Haaparanta (b. Vaasa, Finland, 1967) is a Finnish type designer and art director. He created many great fonts, and founded Suomi Type Foundry in 2005. Speaker at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki. MyFonts link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. His typefaces, suboptimally grouped:

    • Typefaces from 2016: Suomi Hand Script.
    • Typefaces from 2015: Tool (a classic, narrow and clean sans serif family with seven weights), Triangle (wedge serif typeface), Tip (a modulated sans).
    • Typefaces from 2013: Abandon (a basic sans family), This (a rounded family), Abiding (slab serif).
    • Typefaces from 2012: SciFly (a free rounded sans commissioned by Flyerzone).
    • Typefaces from 2011: Tow (a headline font family), Grumpy Black (Black 24 is based on the headline typeface ITC Grouch (1970, Ronne Bonder and Tom Carnase), and the other styles are increasingly of higher contrast).
    • Creations in 2010: Tenner (very plump and round, good for signage), Tart Heavy (fat slabs to drool over), That (a display family, +Open, +Irregular, +Bold), Thud (an industrial belt octagonal/mechanical family), Steelworks (a sturdy mechanical sans), Taste This (sans family), Telltale, Titillation (rounded), Tide (connected script emulating ink flow), Taffee (narrow sans), Televisio, Tournedot (a very cute and lively semi-serif headline face), Tempest, Tristan (hand-printed), Cider Script, Toffee Script (after an art nouveau typeface called Regina Cursive, which was published by H. Berthold Messinglinienfabrik und Schriftgiesserei around 1895). Tonsure Script (a high-contrast connected script), Ticketbook (for movie posters), Suomi Sans (a family with special counters).
    • Creations in 2009: Tar (rounded sans family), Marimekko (a slab family for a Finnish clothing company, adapted from its 1954 Olivetti typewriter roots), Vektori (monoline octagonal), Kaapeli (Tomi's take on Kabel), Suomi Slab Serif (related to American Typewriter), Marimekko Sans, Tee Franklin (gothic sans family, made for The British Vogue---check out the light weight; done with Brian Kaszonyi), Tobacco (octagonal, based on drawing program emulation), Pannartz (based on a scan of a 1476 text by Sweynheim&Pannartz), Suomi Hand (FontShop), That (4-weight serif family), Talbot (connected script patterned after the Talbot car logo), Taint (modular ink trap face), Tailor (slab serif), Tink, Tale 40, Tale 20, Story 40, Story 20 (all pixel fonts), Tictac (a 3D face), Giro (done on purpose to mimic the ugly Giro d'Italia geometric logo font), Tame (rounded sans), Suomi Script, Explosion (grunge).
    • Creations in 2007: Caxton Script (blackletter).
    • At ITC: ITC Tetra (2005, squarish face), ITC Tomism (2005, modeled after Church Slavonic), ITC Tyke (2004, a take on Cooper Black).
    • At Psy-Ops: Temporal, Torus.
    • At T-26: Talmud (1998, faux Hebrew), TyrantRoman (1998, an Exocet-style face, T-26), Tumbler, Torino-Book, Tonic, Terylene, Tension, Teebone, Task-Toobig, Target (2004), Tantalus, Aged (1999), and Taper (2009, slab serif), the experimental sans families Target Recut (2004).
    • At FUSE: FutuRoman (FUSE95).
    • Tang (2004, an anti-inkbleed sans family done for very small point sizes).
    • At Agfa Creative Alliance: Tangerine, Teethreedee, Twinkle.
    • With Klaus Haapaniemi and Brian Kaszonyi: the 15-font War family in 1999-2000.
    • At Linotype: TeebrushPaint LT Std (2003).
    • Game (family).
    • Tubby.

    Dafont link.

    View Tomi Haaparanta's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    superdeluxe

    Brazilian designer of the purely geometric experimental typeface Roulé Sans (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Supremat
    [Roman Postovoy]

    Roman Postovoy is a web and graphic designer based in Dedovsk, Russia. His typefaces mostly return to the Bauhaus period and the era of Swiss typography. In 2020, he published the 5-style wide geometric headline sans Benzin, the all caps Bauhaus typeface Weimar for Latin and Cyrillic, and the extra wide and heavy Hitchcockian typeface Anker.

    Still in 2020, he released Rigel, an all caps blackletter typeface which was inspired by a 1936 poster by American artist and illustrator Katherine Milhous for the Ephrata Cloister.

    Typefaces from 2021: Nucliometer (a piano key font), Lifeform (experimental), Uranus (a Latin // Hangul sci-fi typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Susana Carvalho

    Portuguese designer (b. 1979), who studied communication design at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon (FBAUL), and obtained her Master's degree at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (2004) and still lives in Den Haag. She created the experimental sans typeface Vertigo (2004). At the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, she obtained an MEd with a thesis entitled Counterspace: Classroom Space as a Pedagogic Tool in 2019. She founded Atelier Carvalho Bernau in 2005 with her partner Kai Bernau. She is a guest lecturer at KABK, the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (since 2011).

    At Atelier Carvalho Bernau in Den Haag, one can look at their commercial type families Atlas Grotesk (2012), Atlas Typewriter (2012), Neutraface Slab, Lyon Text, Lyon Display, and Neutral. Bespoke typefaces were designed for Esquire, Internazionale, and Munich Re. Atlas was released in 2020 at Commercial Type, where a Cyrillic version was added by Ilya Ruderman.

    The slab of the famous Neutraface family at House Industries was co-designed by Christian Schwartz, Kai Bernau and Susan Carvalho: Neutraface Slab Text, Neutraface Slab Display.

    Susana Carvalho published the bellbottom slab serif Plinc Tuggle at House Industries. It is a digitization of an earlier font by Photo Lettering Inc.

    In 2016, Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau published Algebra (Commercial Type): Algebra evolved from Granger, a headline typeface designed by Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau for the US edition of Esquire. Algebra is a broad-shouldered slab serif typeface built on superelliptical forms. Its loose spacing gives a remarkably comfortable texture in text, and its crisp detailing gives a distinctive and serious feeling at display sizes, particularly with some negative tracking. Algebra references Adrian Frutiger's Egyptienne, Georg Trump's Schadow, and Hermann Zapf's Melior. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Susie Morris

    During her graphic design studies, Susie Morris (Portland, OR) created the experimental typeface Alpine (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Suyeon Cho

    Seoul, Korea-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Rubber Balloon (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Suyoung Yang

    At the School of Visual Arts, Suyoung Yang (originally from Seoul, Korea) designed the geometric solid (Latin) typeface GeoType (2015) and an experimental circle-based typeface (also in 2015). Suyoung graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2019, and started work at Everything Type Company in 2019. Suyoung is based in Brooklyn, NY.

    In 2018, her bold and eccentric display typeface Chiifer won a Gold Award at the Graphis competition in the category type design.

    In 2019, under the mentorship of Courtney Gooch and Paula Scher at SVA, she designed an experimental typeface for the Korean record label DRDR. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Suzanne Lefebvre

    Rochester, NY-based interior designer. Creator of the experimental geometric typeface called Shift (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sveinn Þorri Daviðsson

    Sveinn Þorri Daviðsson was born and raised in Akureyri on the north-east side of Iceland. He moved to Reykjavik in 2005 to study graphic design at the Iceland Academy of the Arts (B.A. degree in 2008). After his graduation, he moved to Berlin, where he shares a studio space with his friend Siggi Eggertsson. His typefaces:

    • Times New Rope (2008).
    • Grindavik (monospace face). Inspired by Wim Crouwel's type design, Futhark runes and older cumae forms.
    • Tekkno. An isometric modular and angry face.
    • Papers. An origami typeface.
    • Russibani. A super-organic typeface done with Siggi Eggertsson.
    • Reinhardt. Done with Siggi Eggertsson, this typeface is based on old German woodcut posters.
    • Bad Times. A hand-printed Times Roman.
    • Ultima Thule. A grotesk headline typeface co-designed with Siggi Eggertsson.
    • Api. A curly typeface.
    • Ryksug. An experimental typeface.

    YWFT link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sven Gabriel

    Designer in Hamburg, Germany. Creator of the experimental typefaces Camo Hype (2013, abstract ornamental caps) and Stickz and Stonez (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetoslav Simov
    [Fontfabric]

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    Swiss Typefaces
    [Ian Party]

    Swiss Typefaces is a foundry run by Ian Party (Territet, Switzerland, b. 19777, Lausanne) and Emmanuel Rey. It evolved from B+P Swiss Typefaces and BP Type Foundry, where BP stands for Buechi et Party. Maxime Buechi is still loosely affiliated with Swiss Typefaces but is now spending more time in London. Ian Party studied first at ECAL in Lausanne and then at the KABK in The Hague. In 2004, he cofounded B&P Type Foundry with Maxime Buechi. Since 2005, he teaches type design at ECAL in Lausanne. Home page of Ian Party. The new site B+P Swiss Typefaces was born in 2011, and it was renamed just Swiss Typefaces at the end of 2013. Swiss Typefaces is headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland. Their fonts:

    • Romain BP and Romain BP Headline (2007). Party writes: Based on the Commission Jeaugeon's models and on Philippe Grandjean's classic character, the Romain BP celebrates the marriage of geometric rationality and elegance, of science and craftsmanship. The Romain BP Text is actually closer to the Commission's model than Grandjean's Romain du Roi. It is more synthetic in its structure, more radical, and thus, more modern. It is a contemporary text typeface based on a structure that was created in 1690, not a revival mimicking Greandjean's shapes..
    • Sang Bleu (2008), designed for the magazine SangBleu. This is a fantastic set of fonts based on the structure of Romain du roi. The collection also extends to extremes unusual like the Hairline Compressed or the Hairline Sans, providing graphic designers very strong stylistic tools. It includes light serif typefaces and very structured and geometric sans typefaces. I expect this project to be showered with awards. In 2014, Romain and SangBleu will be combined in a new SangBleu.
    • Celsiane (2007), a sans typeface with a chiseled-in-stone feel. Still being developed, it is based on Party's work at ECAL in 2004.
    • Esquire (2009): A custom headline typeface originally designed in 2007 for the gentleman's magazine Esquire under the art directorship of David McKendrick. It will be commercially released in 2009.
    • Aurora (2008, an experimental geometric face): not available.
    • Hebdo (2008): a private typeface for the swiss news mag L'Hebdo. It has two slab weights and nine sans weights.
    • Rosette BP: a serif typeface under development.
    • Didot BP: Codesigned with Maxime Buechi in 2003, this will be released in the spring of 2009.
    • La Police BP is a serif typeface by François Rappo.
    • Folkwang (2008): an exploration in the area of artsy transitional typefaces.
    • Codesigner in 2006 with Maxime Buechi of a corporate typeface for the Centre for Curatorial Studies Bard&Hessel Museum, New York.
    • BP Diet (2009) is an extremely fat and rounded jello-fed typeface. Chris Lozos calls it morbidly obese.
    • Suisse BP International (2011) by Ian Party is a very "Swiss" sans family by Ian Party. At the start of 2014, the Suisse collection consists of Suisse Works (a serifed family), Suisse Neue (with small slabs and/or serifs) and Suisse International (a sans; +Condensed, +Mono).
    • New Fournier BP (2011) is a 24-style Fournier family by François Rappo.
    • Simplon BP (2011) and its monospaced brother Simplon BP Mono (2011) were made by Emmanuel Rey. This geometric sans was made for information design purposes. Now just called Simplon.
    • Euclid Flex (2012-2013). This sans family does something unique in the type world---it uses opentype to provide a smorgasbord of alternate styles for each weight---a mammoth undertaking! These substyles are called pixel, mixed, unicase, dotted, one-line, cut, hidden, drops, contrasted, zigzag, circular, triangle, square, and street. It grew out of a 2010 typeface by Emmanuel Rey called Euclid BP.
    • New Paris (2014). A didone family with text and headline versions and a non-contrast sans version called Skyline. New Paris is characterized by soft-cornered vertices in the M, N, V and W.
    • Azer (codesigned with Wael Morcos and Pascal Zoghbi) won an award at TDC 2014.
    • Ikanseeyouall (2018): A fantastic exaggerated bulbous fat Caslon popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by designers like Tom Carnase and Ed Benguiat. Other typefaces in their experimental lab include Black Mamba, Kopyme, Vogy Smog, Euclid Mono, Krsna, Brrr, Euclid Stencil and Riviera.
    • Riviera Nights (2020). A sharp-edged sans family with narrow joins. Apparently, this typeface is usaed by Rolls Royce.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sylke Janetzky

    Designer in the FUSE 10 collection of the experimental font Atomic Circle. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sylwia Klatka

    Szczecin, Poland-based designer of attention-grabbing poster typefaces such as the fat elliptical Pillow (2019) and the experimental stencil typeface Mountains (2019), which was inspired by the Tatra mountains. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Synthetix Sainee

    Eger, Hungary-based student-designer of the experimental painter's typeface Marker (2014) and the free experimental display typeface Kurva (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    T4 Typography AB (was: Sinnebild, Olsson's Fonts, Torbjörns Typer, T-Type)
    [Torbjörn Olsson]

    T4 Typography after Sinnebild (which still exists). Its sister company, A4, designs newspapers. Libretto, a text font with old style figures, is absolutely gorgeous! Ludovico is also brilliant as a text face, while Ornaments Ink and Pen is an elegantly original dingbats font with ink spots. Other fonts include Interrupt Display (a Morris Fuller Benton revival, done in 2001), Fin Tertia Kursiv (2001, a great modern font, digitized from matrices found in the Norstedt collection, dating back to about 1750), More, Lights (dot fonts), GenderFeminine (1997), GenderMasculine (1997), Fournier Initialer, KumlienMM (1993), Kumlien-Initialer (1994), Mecanic (1992), MixtureMM (1994), RendezvousMM (1993), Ornaments, Ornaments Ink and Pen, Rössjor. Olsson is one of today's grand masters. And now, multiple master fonts Vadau and DejaVue! Lights One, Two, Three, Sarajevo, Cirkelnummer. And a splendid revival of Doves Type created in 1900 by Emery Walker and used by Thomas J. Cobden-Sanderson at their Doves Press (1900-1916). It is called DovesType (1996, OpenType versions now also available). The PDF file on that site has Troycer (1996), also by Olsson. By clicking on "Info", you get free Borders and Ornaments fonts.

    MyFonts sells the T4 fonts Motor Mouth (2006, by Martin Fredrikson), Batory (techno) and Batoswash (both monoline sans designs by Bo Berndal, 2006), Mixtra Roma (forced serif), Havel (super-condensed constipated slab serif), Mixtra Sansserif, and Mixtra Slabserif. Mixtra is a versatile and complete type family designed by Bo Berndal in 2006. Olsson's Havel (2006) is an updated interpretation of a Czech type design from the 1930s, different from condensed types of the same era, such as Spire (Sol Hess, 1937), Onyx (Gerry Powell for ATF, 1937) or Quirinus Bold (Alessandro Butti, 1939). In 2007, Olsson added these fonts: One Night Stand (experimental), Interrupt Display Pro (2007, in the style of Impact), Eknaton (a powerful Egyptian family), Museum Tertia Cursive (2007, inspired by a beautiful set of 126 matrices in the Swedish Norstedts type collection. These types were probably manufactured in Germany before 1750. The matrices are part of a set imported to Sweden by J.P. Lindh from Breitkopf and Härtel 1818), Museum Ornaments (2007), Museum Borders, and Museum Fournier (2007, inspired by a set of Rococo capitals designed by Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune ca. 1760. The matrices are part of a set imported to Sweden by J.P. Lindh in 1818 from Breitkopf&Härtel in Leipzig, Germany. They are now in the Nordiska Museum in Stockholm).

    Tyma Garamont (2007, five wonderful styles) was inspired by the Berner-Egenolff type sample from the 1560s. The Italic was inspired by a sample from Robert Granjon, also from the 1560s. The name TYMA is short for AB Typmatriser, a Swedish company founded in 1948, because the Second World War stopped all import of matrices for Linotype and Intertype typesetting machines. The templates for Garamont Roman were initiated by Henry Alm 1948. Bo Berndal was hired the following year, and continued the work by drawing and cutting templates for the rest of Garamont Roman, as well as for the remaining Garamont family. Bo Berndal stayed at TYMA until it went bankrupt in 1952. At that time Bo Berndal had already kick-started his career as type designer by drawing the typeface Reporter for one of the big daily newspapers, Aftonbladet, a version of Cheltenham for another daily, Dagens Nyheter, and copied several old typefaces for other customers. Librarian Sten G. Lindberg at The Royal Library of Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, procured copies of original type samples. Bo Berndal completed TYMA Garamont in 2007.

    Klingspor link. Alternate URL.

    View the typefaces designed by T4. View the T4 library. View Torbjörn Olsson's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tabitha Babcock

    Denver, CO-based designer of the experimental typeface Intent (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tabo Garcia

    Tabo (Gustavo) Garcia (alternate URL) is based in New York. He designed these fonts:

    • 2004: Almaga, Sketch Book, Tokiorama (Regular, Bold and Hashi: oriental font simulation).
    • 2005: Chubby Round, Chubby square, Classic 1952, Ishtencil popular, Round Balcony.
    • 2006: Bonfim, Com Las Manos.
    • 2007: Brocos Tortos (octagonal), Bad Tattoo Artist, Electro Punk, Molecula Toxica, Roundin.
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Taechit Jiropaskosol

    Bangkok-based graphic designer. He created the fat geometric typefaces Herzog (2008, with Travis Stearns) and Ally (2009), the high-contrast typeface Mankind (2009), and the retro slab serif YWFT Lollop (2009). You Work For Them link. With Michael Cina and Michael Paul Young, he created YWFT Agostina Alternate (2011). With Travis Stearns, he did the children's typeface Garnier (2011). You Work For Them link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tahar Azzaoui
    [Kaen Graphics]

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    Taissa Vasconcelos

    During her graphic design studies at the Instituto Federal de Pernambuco in Olinda, Brazil, Taissa Vasconcelos designed the experimental typeface Missing Pieces (2013) and the vernacular hand-printed typeface Namidairo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Talyn Perdikis

    Designer in Cape Town, South Africa. She made the pencil scrap alphabet Fuse (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tania Carvalho

    Lisbon-based designer of the straight-edged experimental typeface Reticular (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tania Shoukair

    Tania Shoukair studied visual communication at The Lebanese University, and worked as a graphic designer and illustrator in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Presently, she is based in Amsterdam. She created Kafiye (2012, a textured Latin typeface influenced by the traditional Arab headdress) and the experimental typeface Ink (2010): Colored ink thrown into clear water was documented and used to detect shapes resembling alphabet letters. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tanja Diezmann
    [Actiontype.de]

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    Tanja Hildebrandt

    Graphic designer and illustrator based in Karlsruhe, Germany. Creator of the art deco series Swap (2015), and several other typographic experiments. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tanja Oppel

    German designer Tanja Oppel combined blackletter and grotesk to get Fratesk (2012). In an interesting experiment, Tanja averaged 13 versions of Garamond: Adobe Garamond Oldstyle Figures, Garamond Classico, Garamond, ITC Garamond, Stempel Garamond, Adobe Garamond LT, Stempel Garamond Oldstyle Figures, ITC Garamond LT, Garamond 3, Garamond Premier Pro, Simoncini Garamond LT, Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond Three LT.

    Behance link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tanvir Ahmed

    Dhaka, Bangladesh-based designer of the experimental painted look typeface Banjonborna (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tar Yan World

    Free truetype fonts that represent ordinary kana and ancient and experimental kana. About fifteen fonts in all. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Taras Sgibnev

    Moscovite Taras Sgibnev says this about his experimental modular typeface Tatlium (2012): Tatlium was designed with a modular grid that was based on the photographed Tatlin's Tower replica inside Mayakovski's museum in Moscow [sic]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tarin Yuangtrakul

    Designer in Bangkok, who runs Tabby Design. He made the experimental geometric typeface Invisible Color (2010), the sketchy typeface Self-Contradiction (2010), and the curvy high-contrast free typeface Hyperbola (2010). In 2011, he created the free geometric monoline architectural lettering typeface Infinity, as well as Golden Sans, an alchemic hairline sans that is based on the golden ratio.

    In 2012, he designed Rush, a typeface in which letters are sliced and reconstructed.

    Behance link. Hellofont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TarmSaft font factory
    [agnuaspflibko]

    Futuristic, experimental, grungy stuff not found elsewhere, by agnuaspflibko in Sweden. Check Pormask Ytterhud. Tarmsaft is no more, though. Some of its fonts may still be found on archives, so here is a list of font names: Äggstock, ArsleGothic, ArsleGothic, Bajoran-Ancient-STsemicanonbased, Bajsmaskintjocksprutande, Bajsmaskin, Bajsmaskintjocksprutande, Bajsporr, BantarbjrnHeavy, BilligHora, Bonushora, Brottardolme, Brunkål, Brunst, BrunstCaps, Brunöga, FetmaHeavy, Fisring, Fisring, Fittsvamp, Flottig, FlytningarSvulstiga, Flytningarsprutande, Flytningar, FlytningarSvulstiga, Flytningarsprutande, GallaBlack, GallaBold, Galla, GallaBlack, GallaBold, Gathora, Gubbrra, elvetet, InavelFrtvinad, InavelKromosomkalas, InavelKusin, InavelMutant, InavelStorebror, InavelTetkaCyr, InavelTjockaSlkten, Kewken, Kattakodd, Kisskorv, Knarkarsvin, Knulla, Lantfnask, Läderbög, LillSnase, Lingonvecka, Manslem, Multihora, Muttprutt, Ollon, Onani, Pormask2039, PormaskRemix, Pormask-Ytterhud, Pormask, PormaskInnebrännare, PormaskInnebrännare, PormaskKlämd, PormaskKlämd, PormaskRemix, Porrblaska, Psttning, Pungen, Psttning, Reningsverk, Rättpick, Rugguggla, Rumpnisse, Runkspad, RuttenSpya, Rvkrm, Rvple, RvpleTjock, Rännskita, Rvkrm, Skinnbanjo, Skäggbiff, Snderfistad, SneflabbNormal, Snetripp, Snuskpk, SpinkigJvel, SpinkigJvel, Spräckaren, Spritad, Sprutfest, Spräckaren, Spyhink, Stjrt, Stngkorv, Stngkorv, Snderfistad, TarmSystem, Taskekseminflamerat, Taskeksem, Taskekseminflamerat, Tidelag, Tidelagskoprofag, Tjackluder, Tjockebo, TrampaIntePMinKukSlyna, TrampaIntePMinKukSlyna, TrampaIntePMinKukSlyna, Våldtäkt, Våldtäkt, Våldtäkt, Aptango, Åderpåk, Nobrain, Tjockebo, Äggstock, ÄggstockGravid, Åderpåk. The full archive has been restored by CybaPee at TypeOasis. Italian tarmsaft site. typeOasis archive. URL at DaFont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Roshal

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of an experimental Cyrillic typeface (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiane Queiroz Soares

    Brazilian designer from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, who is working on this modular experimental face (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatsdesign

    Pixel fonts, sometimes quite experimental: bit-01:cube-16-remix, bit-02:longbow, bit-03:urbanfluxer, ltr-02:morbid-vision, ltr-04:wireflame, ltr-05-dragonic, ltr-06:artcore, ltr-07:quiolax-demo, ltr-ex:moonlight, ltr-09:30/60. Located in Tokyo.

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tauba Auerbach

    Graphic designer and painter (b. San Francisco, 1981) who created the free hairline octagonal typeface Pomegranate in 2007 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. She also has many nice typographic posters in her gallery.

    In 2008, Dick Pape captured some of her work in his scanbat typeface Tauba Auerbach. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Taxdollars

    American creator of Typie Dot (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Teal Triggs

    Teal Triggs is director of postgraduate studies, faculty of art, design and music, Kingston University, London. She has written on graphic design, typography, and feminism. Her books include Type Design: Radical Innovations and Experimentation, and The Typographic Experiment: Radical Innovation in Contemporary Type Design (Thames&Hudson, 2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Teeline Fonts
    [Craig Eliason]

    Teeline Fonts is a digital type foundry launched by Craig Eliason (b. 1969, Houston, TX) in 2010. A professor of modern art and design history in the Department of Art History at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, MN, Craig researches the history of type design, and particularly the history of its classification and vocabulary. He began designing his own fonts in 2008. Craig obtained a Ph.D. from Rutgers in 2002. Read, for example, Face the Nation: National Identity and Modern Type Design 1900-1960.

    His typefaces:

    • Ambicase Modern (2010), a unicase font, and Ambicase Fatface (2011).
    • Flipper (2013), later renamed Backflip. Flipper won an award at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2014.
    • Cuttlefish (2021). A five-headed sans (+variable) superfamily with very different substyles called Neutral, Pragmatic, Optimistic, Luxe and Modern. He writes: Cuttlefish Pragmatic is a friendly sans in the mode of early-20th-century American Gothics. The Optimistic style is inspired by 20th-century ‘serifless romans’ that themselves took inspiration from Renaissance letters. The Modern styles are patterned after 18th-century high-contrast types, but excised of most serifs. Cuttlefish Luxe is a light and sophisticated contrasted sans. The Neutral styles are straightforward grotesques with even stroke weights.
    • Plenaire (2021). A pebbled and speckled optical effect font family.
    • Feneon (2021). An elegant multiline font family with possible uses as a neon font.
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    Teja Smrekar
    [Fleha Type]

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    Tejal Sampat

    Graphic designer in Buffalo, NY, who created the experimental typeface Meow (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Telmo Cendán Criado

    Graphic designer in Lugo, Spain. He created the multiline piano key typeface Typofunk (2011) and the experimental circular arc-themed typeface Chained (2011). Creator of the experimental typeface OVNY (2011), which has not a single curved section, and looks extraterrestrial to me.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Teo Gagliano

    London-based designer who is originally from Italy.

    Creator of the experimental caps typefaces Faber (2012) and NSWE (2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tereza Cenic

    Graphic designer and digital artist (b. 1987) from Nis and Belgrade, Serbia, who created some experimental fonts in 2009. These include a Cyrillic face, Creative Type (2010-2011, technical drawing typeface family) and Cutting Edge. In 2015, she made the hipster typeface Eliot Type. In 2017, she added the playful Fox Typeface (for Latin and Cyrillic).

    Aka Egotreep. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Terminal Design
    [James Montalbano]

    Terminal Design is the company of James Montalbano in Brooklyn, New York, est. 1990. He was the President of the Type Directors Club, 2002-2003. He teaches type design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Feature on him by John Berry. In 2019, he declared at Typedrawers: I'm so tired of type design, so we must assume that threw in the towel. James designed these fonts:

      • In an earlier life as part of Fonthaus, ca. 1994-1995, I believe that Montalbano designed fonts like DidotDisplayAntiqueTdi, DidotDisplayRegularTdi, ProgressivePsychoOneTdi (through Six) and SenzaTDI (many weights).
      • 718 (2010). A clean 24-style sans family influenced by as many typefaces as there are immigrants in Brooklyn. Named after the non-Manhattan area code.
      • Alfon (2003). Montalbano calls it a muscular text typeface. It has chamfered corners and cupped serifs.
      • Badinage. A connected retro script.
      • Cappella (2013). It is a direct result of the work done on the Fordham Chapel custom font commission. A one weight, all caps design based on wood carved lettering from a Fordham University chapel honoring fallen alumni.
      • Choice Sans, Choice Sans Compressed, Choice Sans Condensed (2014).
      • ClearviewADA, ClearviewADA Condensed, ClearviewHwy, ClearviewText, ClearviewText Compressed, ClearviewText Condensed. The legible sans serif family ClearviewOne, designed for highway signs, and used for US highway signs starting in 2002. The highway sign font family is called ClearviewHwy), and is further explored here. ClearviewHwy is used for highways in the USA starting in 2004 (see the discussion here). The OpenType version of ClearviewOne is called ClearviewText (2007). ClearviewADA (2007) is a family of Clearview fonts that conform to the letterform specifications for signage outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act legislation. Free download. Clearview was discontinued in 2016 by the US Federal Highway Administration, in favor of the older Highway Gothic from the 1940s: Report by Citylab.
      • Consul Caption, Consul Deck, Consul Display, Consul Text (2009). A 48-style text family. Optically sized, it emerged from a Gustave Mayeur design done by Montalbano for Mens Vogue. Consul has a hint of didone, but the brackets are rounded and the stems gently flared. In Montalbano's palette, this is one of the beauties.
      • Enclave (2007): A sixteen font slab serif family.
      • Fervent (2013). A sans version of Badinage.
      • Giacomo 2.0. a well-balanced and interesting sans-serif family. Includes Cyrillics.
      • Insouciant (2011). An upright connected script family..
      • At ITC: ITC Orbon 2020, ITC Orbon (1995-1996: a strange experimental typeface), ITC Nora (1997), ITC Freddo (1996, a fat poster typeface).
      • Kaboodle (2018). A wood type with extended Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
      • Kinney (2011). A type family for tables and information design. James's self-proclaimed attempt at creating a neutral serif.
      • Latin 512, Latin 512 Compressed, Latin 512 Condensed, Latin 512 Expanded. An 80-style didone family with triangular or wedge serifs typical of the Latin style.
      • Moraine (2009). A serif family with a wide generous feel. Stems are flexed and tapered and serifs are cupped.
      • Notary (2017).
      • Now Playing (2007): A digital revival of the naïve plastic lettering that was used on the marquee of the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
      • Quotient (2015). An elegant sans typeface family without italics. Montalbano describes it as trajan Sans because of its classical roman proportions. many details such as the rhombic dots on the i's are inscriptional in nature.
      • Rawlinson 2.0, Rawlinson 2.0 Condensed, Rawlinson Roadway (2003). A serif family, which includes a Condensed sub-family). NPS Rawlinson Roadway is an old style serif typeface currently used for the United States National Park Service's road signs. It was created to replace Clarendon and uses James Montalbano's wife's last name.
      • Shenandoah. A display type based on the wood letters at Shenandoah National park.
      • Social (2012). A rounded sans family for on-line use.
      • Tangent (2007): A geometric sans in sixteen styles.
      • Trilon, Trilon Compressed, Trilon Condensed, Trilon Expanded (2009): A sans typeface family. Montalbano calls it a 21st century gothic.
      • VF Sans, VF Sans Condensed (2011). An avant-garde family with 32 styles. James explains its release: Back in the late 90s I designed a family of sans serif fonts for Vanity Fair magazine. I based them on various sans serif designs from the 1930s with nothing particular in mind. They have been compared to Intertype's Vogue, and I do see the connection, but it wasn't my intention of doing a Vogue revival. They have been kept out of circulation these last many years at Vanity Fair's request, but it appears that during the last few years Vanity Fair has lost interest in them. They no longer grace the front cover of the magazine, and they appear with less and less frequency inside the publication. I've also noticed several pirated uses of them as they have popped up on some book jacket designs. So with Vanity Fair's permission I felt it time to set them free.
      • Yo Andy, Yo Frankie, Yo Lucy, Yo Sophie, Yo Zelda. The Yo series (2010) consists of 200 didone styles. It is subdivided into Yo Andy, Yo Frankie, Yo Lucy, Yo Sophie and Yo Zelda. This didone family has two axes (weight, extension) with 100 regular members finished in 2010 and 100 italics added in 2014. They reach in alphabetical order from condensed (Andy) to extended (Zelda).

      Montalbano designed custom corporate fonts for Condé Nast Publications, Warner Music, The American Medical Association, the U.S. National Park Service, Vanity Fair, Brides, Gourmet, Mademoiselle, Sassy, Details, Glamour, Jane, Self and Book. The list of font names, with links:

      • Collins Geometric.
      • DM Marquee. A dot matrix all caps design created for Mother NY for their client, Daily Motion.
      • Early Learning Sans. A family of 12 fonts designed for MeadWestvaco's Early Learning Products division for use in educational products teaching young students the basics of letter construction.
      • Fordham Chapel. Based on wood carved lettering from a Fordham University chapel honoring fallen alumni.
      • Fortune Titling. Based on the Fortune logo.
      • Glamour Display, Glamour Script. The latter is a roundhand script. Both were done for Glamour magazine.
      • JCP News Gothics. Created for DDB Chicago, for use in the It's all in there campaign for JC Penney. Should work with existing Monotype News Gothic fonts.
      • Johan Gothic. A condensed sans serif designed for Conde Nast Sports for Women, which changed its name to Women's Sports, which then changed its name to Women's Sports and Fitness. The type was named for the art director who commissioned it.
      • Lucky Gothic.
      • Mens Vogue-Mayeur. Mayeur Display, an original design created in 2005 for Men's Vogue. Based on 19th Century French text types from the Parisian foundry of Gustave Mayeur.
      • Now Playing. As part of the renovation of The Apollo Theatre, Now Playing was designed to reflect the plastic marquee lettering of the 1940s.
      • NPS Roadway. Montalbano writes: Designed to replace the Clarendon road guide sign typeface that the U.S National Park Service used as part of their identity. NPS Roadway was tested by Pennsylvania Transportation Institute and was found to decrease legend length by 10-15% while increasing readability by 11%. Part of a total redesign of the Park Service identity (that included the Rawlinson series of fonts) the font has been approved by FHWA (Federal Highway Administration) for use on all Federal roads.
      • Skinny Eric. A painfully thin version of Gill Sans, designed for Self Magazine.
      • Social. Two weights of a rounded sans serif design to compliment the Living Social logo design.
      • VF Didot, VF Sans, VF Sans Condensed, VF Script. All done for Vanity Fair. VF Didot is a slightly condensed design based on the many New York didot alphabets drawn during the 1940s and 50s. VF Sans is Vanity Fair's workhorse. VF Script is an original script created for Vanity Fair Magazine in 1999, loosely based on lettering found on a French Automobile Poster from the mid-1920s.
      • Vogue AG, Vogue Didot Extended. Vogue AG is a nine-weight sans serif design mixing elements of Futura and Avant Garde Gothic. The Extra Light weight was designed for Vogue magazine in 2004 while the remaining weights were added in 2007 and updated in 2011.

      Klingspor link. FontShop link. Linotype link. Behance link. View James Montalbano's typefaces done at ITC. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Terrana Cliff

    Art student in California. Creator of the experimental typeface Betamaze (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tetsuo Igarashi

    Tetsuo Igarashi's fonts are sold through Font Pavilion. Check out EMPTY and Parallel, experimental fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tetyana Golodynska

    Lisbon, Portugal-based designer of a modular typeface in 2016. Her experimental Sonimpar typeface (2016) changes provides several shapes for each letter according to its sound. She also made the symbol font Aerospace Code in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tezzo Suzuki

    Graphic designer, b. 1989, Kanagawa, Japan, who studied at the Department of Design, Tokyo University of the Arts, class of 2013. In the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag, Tezzo Suzuki designed the extreme display / sober wedge serif text typeface Groq (2015).

    Tezzo Suzuki at Velvetyne, where he published the experimental scribbly typeface Mess in 2020. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thayanna M. Schmaedecke

    Porto Alegre, Brazil-based designer of the experimental typeface Mozaik (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Foundry Types

    London-based foundry set up by David Quay and Freda Sack in 1989, and after Freda's death, continued by David Quay and Stuart de Rozario. Their typefaces were first made using the Architype label:

    • Architype Albers (1997).
    • Architype Aubette. Based on Theo van Doesburg's 1928 signage lettering for the Café Aubette in Strasbourg.
    • Architype Ballmer. A De Stijl typeface inspired by the experimental, universal letterforms drawn by Bauhaus trained Swiss designer Theo Ballmer for a series of 1928 posters, most notably for an exhibition on industrial standards.
    • Architype Bayer. Drawn from Bauhaus Archiv sketches for a minimal sans typeface that was created in 1925 by Herbert Bayer.
    • Architype Bayer-Type. Based upon Herbert Bayer's 1931 universal, modern serifed alphabet. Although the modern style appears to be a radical departure from his first sans single alphabet of 1925, the structure of this later serifed style is still grid based and geometrically constructed.
    • Architype Bill. The Foundry writes: Architype Bill was developed from the few letterforms created by Max Bill for a 1949 exhibition poster. All the forms, with the exception of the letter o, were constructed using only straight lines and triangles on a purely mathematical basis, that showed the continued influence of his earlier Bauhaus training, and the universal alphabet principle.
    • Architype Catalogue Outline, Architype Catalogue Solid (2016). Architype Catalogue originates from Wim Crouwel's Stedelijk Museum exhibition catalogue for sculptor Claes Oldenburg, 1970. The cover's soft padded letterforms evoke the artist's work. Oldenburg was so taken with the design, that he asked Wim Crouwel to complete the alphabet.
    • Architype Fodor. Based on Wim Crouwel's work, the Fodor letterforms were created for the magazine published by Museum Fodor, Amsterdam. To save cost it was designed to be typeset on their own electric typewriter.
    • Architype Ingenieur. Architype Ingenieur was inspired by Wim Crouwel's late 1950s exhibition catalogues and posters, for which he had created a few geometrically constructed, simplified letterforms. In the 1960 Venice Biennale Dutch entry poster, he drew grid-based letters with 45-degree angles for olanda, the style influenced by his boyhood fascination with naval lettering. A subtle variation appeared in the Stedelijk Museum catalogue for painter Jean Brusselmans. Several dot matrix versions followed. The themes and systems in these early letterforms are encapsulated in this new (2016) four-weight family Architype Ingenieur.
    • New Alphabet 1 through 3. Based on Crouwel's New Alphabet and developed in consultation with him)---a free version of this is New Alphabet (2008, Matt McInerney).
    • Architype Renner. Related to the early experimental versions of Paul Renner's Futura.
    • Architype Stedelijk (1997). LED-like, based on Crouwel's ideas. The Foundry writes: Stedelijk first appeared in the seminal Vormgevers poster, commissioned by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1968. Crouwel created a rigid grid system across the poster of 57 vertical by 41 horizontal lines, also forming the basis for the construction of the letterforms. Although all hand drawn, the resulting typeface had a machine-made appearance. This striking black and white poster with its visible grid became one of Crouwel's most iconic designs. Architype Stedelijk now re-creates these letterforms as a single alphabet typeface in a digital font.
    • Architype Schwitters. Developed from the phonetic experiments made by Kurt Schwitters with his 1927 universal alphabet.
    • Architype Tschichold. A very thin avant-garde sans: Architype Tschichold is a faithful rendering of Jan Tschichold's 1929 experimental alphabet which was influenced by Bayer's single-alphabet. His design was never put into production. This re-creates his original geometrically constructed design, including some phonetic characters.
    • Architype Van der Leck (1993-1994). Based on a 1941 De Stijl alphabet designed by Bart van der Leck for the avant-garde magazine Flax.
    • Architype Van Doesburg (1996). Based on a 1919 alphabet by Van Doesburg obtained by dividing a square into 25 equal smaller squares.
    • Architype Vierkant. This typeface was developed from the few letterforms that Crouwel created for an opening spread in a 1972 Drupa catalogue, on the theme "typo vision international".

    Their other fonts have the label Foundry and include Foundry Sans (1990, a humanist sans inspired by Stempel Garamond), Foundry Old Style (1990-1994, inspired by Nicholas Jenson's types), Foundry Wilson (a Baskerville that revives a 1760 font from Scottish type founder Alexander Wilson), Foundry Journal, Foundry Gridnik, Foundry Form Sans, Foundry Form Serif, Foundry Monoline (2000), Foundry Origin, Foundry Sterling (2002, sans serif, in the style of Bliss and Gill Sans), Foundry Context (a sans family), Foundry Dat, Foundry Dit, Foundry Fabriek (an industrial orthogonal almost military stencil developed in consultation with Wim Crouwel), Foundry Flek (a dot matrix font), Foundry Plek, Foundry New Johnston, and Foundry Wilson Expert.

    Michael Barbosa started work on Metroplis (1995) for Metroplisboa, the Lisbon subway, while he was working at Wolff Olins. That custom font project was finished by David Quay and Freda Sack. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    The Maccio (or: Webstilus)

    Italian designer of Ultras Liberi (2008), an experimental display face. Alternate URL. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Private Press and Type foundry
    [Paul Hayden Duensing]

    Paul Hayden Duensing (1928-2006) was a typographer and type designer who ran The Private Press and Type foundry, in Vicksburg, MI. Designer of Sans Descender, Chancery Italic (1966), Rustica Sixteenth Century Roman, Quadrata II, Janson Open (experimental), Van Krimpen Open Capitals (numerals only; designed by Will Reuter and cut by Duensing), Octavian Caps, Unciala, and Dartmouth (designed by Will Carter, cut by Duensing). In 1990, he published a gorgeously hand-set booklet entitled "Deutsche Druckschriften", in which he says: "The present portfolio attempts no campaign for Fraktur; rather it makes only a quiet appeal for consideration of a great, if neglected, calligraphic typeface." The blackletter types shown there are, I presume, made by him: Heinzemann No99M, Heinzemann No100M, Dürer No.256, Wallau, Jessen, Kasseler No. 40 Teutonic Text, Theuerdank No. 392, Wilhelm-Klingspor-Schrift, Blücher No. 387 and Koch Initials. He was a generous man, who in the last year of his life donated his typefounding machines, matrices and effects to young people.

    Mac McGrew explains Andromaque's genesis: Andromaque is a cursive form of uncial letter, mixing Greek forms of aeklmnstz with Roman forms of the other letters, yet retaining legibility and harmony. The original size was cut by Victor Hammer and cast in France. The 14-point size was begun by Hammer, but left unfinished at his death. The font was completed by his long-time friend, R. Hunter Middleton, in the early 1980s, and cast by Paul H. Duensing. Paul Baker did a digital version of Andromaque in 1995.

    Duensing died on November 9, 2006. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Student

    Essen, Germany-based designer of the experimental neon light alphabet Generativ Jazz (2011). Not a font, I think. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Wilderness
    [Kelvin Soh]

    Kevin Soh runs The Wilderness in Auckland, New Zealand. He created a few experimental typefaces for his graphic design projects. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Yarza Twins
    [Marta Yarza]

    The Yarza Twins, born in Vigo (Spain), are Eva and Marta Yarza. Marta graduated in 2012 with a degree in construction engineering. In 2014, she studied communication design (MA program) at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts, London (UK)). During her studies in London, Marta Yarza created Square Print (2014, a free artsy typeface), Japanica (2014, a free experimental Asian simulation typeface, with her twin sister Eva Yarza), and Plastic Crowds (2013, with Eva Yarza), about which they write: 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 2015, they designed Horas, Orchid (a decorative didone), Haustraks, and Sound Reactive.

    In 2016, Eva and Marta Yarza designed the almost polygonal typeface Batavier.

    In 2017, they published the industrial sans typeface FIA Formula E and the wide sans typeface Hilario YT.

    The Yarza Twins shop (where one can buy some of their fonts). Behance link for Eva Yarza. Behance link for Marta Yarza. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Theo Kontaxis
    [Theokon Design]

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    Theokon Design
    [Theo Kontaxis]

    Theo Kontaxis (Theokon Design) is an artist and architect in Athens, Greece, who created the experimental circle-based logotype Phont (2013, also called Olaphi). In 2014, he created the free multilined vector format Latin typeface family The Single Type. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Theygraphics

    TheyGraphics is a multidisciplinary graphic design studio. Working in advertising, retail, fashion, company profiles, broadcast, illustration, type design and music. Their offices are in Stockholm, Sweden and Prague, Czech Republic. The designers: Fredrik Forsberg (Stockholm), Jiri Adamik-Novak (Stockholm), Zdenek Patak (Prague). The fonts: Leda (experimental), Motion (hairline octagonal), Prank (Amelia-inspired), Logarex and Garamond Preissig. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thiago Camargo

    Brazilian creator at Unique Types of the free typefaces Continue Caminhando (2011, sign language face), Mobilidade Social (2011), Nova Tipo (2011, experimental) and Escada X (2011, a caps typeface inspired by wayfinding signs). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thibaud Cartigny

    Graphic designer in Paris. His typefaces include Shapeflow (experimental, 2009), Narra (2009, all caps, free), and Falcon (2009, shadow headline face, free). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thibault de Crespin

    Laval, France-based designer of the grid and compass-based typeface Ox (2014) and the modular typeface Triominos (2014) that uses only triangles as building blocks. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thierry Puyfoulhoux
    [Présence Typo]

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    Thijs Biersteker

    Art director in Amsterdam who made an alphabet for stirring coffee, called CoffeeFont (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thilo Krapp

    Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface Emotional Code (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Acton

    During his studies at University of South Wales (CCI/ATRiuM, Cardiff), Thomas Acton created the experimental typeface The Captain Is A Storyteller (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Carlotti

    Graduate of Cifacom in Paris. Designer of the experimental typefaces Juan Gris (2017, named after the abstract painter) and Charm Uy (2017).

    In 2018, he designed the angular typeface Berlingot. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Connan

    Paris-based designer of the experimental geometric cosmic typeface geotiqa (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Dang

    Los Angeles-based creator of the experimental typeface Tube (2008). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Huot-Marchand
    [256tf]

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    Thomas L'Excellent

    French type designer in Vincennes who studied at École des Arts décoratifs de Paris, and is associated with Media Studio Travers and Marge Design. In 2012, he cofounded Fonderie Long Type. His thesis at ENSAD in 2008-2009 deals with type in color: Penser la typographie en couleurs. In it, he argues that using two colors in glyphs might help with readability.

    Thomas created color-themed experimental / geometric typefaces such as Saubr (2007), Ordinair (2008), Humbl (2008), and Sainpl (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thomas Liam O'Callaghan

    British graphic designer (b. 1989) who lives in Leisester. Designer of Tampy (2009, hand-printed), Sketchy (2009), Plasticine (2009, hand-printed), Elleface (2008, a pencilled alphabet), Coffee (2009, rough texture), Illustrious (2009, ultra fat art deco), and Illuminate (2008, an alphabet made on the basis of a light pen and slow shutter photography).

    Dafont link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thos Fraile

    Graphic designer in London who created the experimental alchemic typefaces Ions (2016) and Kalopsia (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Thymoos

    Parisian graphic designer who created a number of vector format commercial typefaces starting in 2012. These include the alchemic typeface Utopia (2012), Lumberjack (2013), Marseille (paper-fold face), Copy, Paste, Cordialement, Empecher, George, Ondes, Queer, Smile.

    Behance link. Hellofont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tiago Siliprandi Giordani

    Porto Alegre, Brazil-based designer of the experimental typeface UUBA (2015). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tiana Vasiljev

    Graphic designer in London, UK. She dabbles in experimental type design, and created these alphabets (probably not actual fonts) in 2010: Circuit, Marbling, Slice. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tibor Lantos

    Budapest-based creator (aka Frodo 7) in 2009 at FontStruct of FontMoot 01 (pixel face), Brego, Magor (minimalist, De Stijl typeface), Andromeda Strain, Elrond (Tengwar font), Oil Stencil, Optill 2A and 2B and 3A and 3B (optical illusion fonts), Rivendell (Celtic weaving), Cubeology (patterned cubes), The Two Towers, Mike Wazowski (emoticon face), Edoras Stencil, Elessar, Earendil, LE Meta (dot matrix), Coccinella (dot matrix), +Two, +TwoB, Picosec, Picosec Rounded (ultra fat retro), Palindrome, Valimar, Fundin Eco, Fundin Regular, Lost Entropy (series of rectangular fonts), Bombs and Men (2009, modular and blocky), Eärendil, Chromosomes, Denethor-Sans (octagonal), Edoras-, Elspeth-, Elspeth-Grey, FontMoot-01 (pixel face), French-Defence-v2 (chess font), French-Defence (chess font), Gilgalad-v2, Gilgalad (octagonal), Hommage-a-Escher-LC1, Hommage-a-Escher-LC2, Legolas-Codex-Stencil, Legolas-Codex (blackletter family), Legolas-Stencil (+v2; art nouveau style), Mirkwood-Regular and Mirkwood Outline (pixel typefaces), Nimrodel-FS, Faramir (gridded), Faramir Black (octagonal, mechanical), Elessar, Vertebrae, Etudes Pour Noir et Blanc (01, 02, 02 Vertebrae), Eomer FS, Karyotype (horizontal stripes), Snooker Ball, Aragorn, Mirkwood Nano (pixel face), Mirkwood Second Iteration, Mirkwood First Iteration, Haldir (pixel face).

    Creations in 2010: Hasta Siempre (military stencil), Hasta Siempre Supplement (Fontstruct rendering of the iconic photograph of Che Guevara by Alberto Korda), Belfalas, Fractal Font, Sierpinski White, Sierpinski Black, Sierpinski Dalmatian, Remolino Stencil, Boikot Stencil, Legolas Pixel, Brego, Vortices (dings), Gamling, Coccinella Two (+B), Cyrillic 02, Waves, Hommage à Escher v2 extLat.

    Creations in 2011: Midori Dot (2011, a dotted kana face), Sierpinski Black Initials (a stunning decorative caps typeface based on Sierpinski triangles), Fontstructivism (constructivist Latin/Cyrillic face), Sierpinski White Initials, Vasarely Squares (experimental---letters based on Victor Vasarely's work), Hurin (counterless, created after Nagasaki by Tom Muller), Strider (an optical illusion 3d multilined face), Dot Dot White (texture face), Dot Dot Black (texture face), Garamond Italic SP (a pixelized version of Garamond Italic), Rohan (+NE01, +NE03: a textured lined 3d logotype family, +NE04, +NE10), Gray Scale (a very interesting texture experiment in which gray scales are "simulated" by simple font mechanisms).

    Fonts made in 2012: Font Neuf, Khazad (stencil font), Oktogon Stencil, Oktogon Outline, Thorin Stencil (army stencil), Deagol Stencil.

    Typefaces from 2013: the Voxelstorm family (3d, Escher-style), Elendil (3d face), Denethor Sans (strong mechanical sans), Mirkwood Nano (pixel face), Waves (op art).

    Typefaces from 2014: Wrath of Mordor (video game font), Gray Scale, Luthien Pixel (blackletter pixel), Gimli (Bevel Black, Inline Shadow, Inline, Bevel Shadow, Shadow), Zebroid, Hunor, Denethor Sans v2, Vasarely Squares (op-art), Waves (op-art), Ecthelion, Hast Siempre (octagonal stencil).

    FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tightype
    [Fabian Fohrer]

    Tightype is an independent type design collective, based in Konstanz, Germany, founded in 2015 by graphic design students Fabian Fohrer and Fabian Huber. Their typefaces from 2015: Fabrik (sans), Moderat (geometric almost monoline sans by Fabian Fohrer and Fabian Huber). In 2016, Fabian Fohrer designed Sneak, which is characterized by an oversized top-heavy capital S. In 2017, Fohrer designed Lemur. In 2018, Fohrer added the playful poster letter typeface family Exposit, the sturdy Fleya, and the sans typeface Plaid and its companion, Plaid Mono.

    Typefaces from 2019: Principal (a fresh sans typeface family), Mue (hip and experimental).

    Behance link. Fabian Fohrer's home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tijana Smiljkovic

    Belgrade, Serbia-based creator of the flared Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Klinopis (2013). She also made an unnamed rubber-band-inspired experimental typeface in 2013. Tea Regular (2013) is an elliptical sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Till Hopstock

    Born in Dortmund in 1978. Since 2000, he studies in Offenbach at the Hochschule für Gestaltung. He assisted Akira Kobayashi with some projects. At Typeoff.de, he created the experimental typeface India Gothic (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Till Wiedeck
    [HelloMe]

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    Tim Fishlock

    Tim Fishlock made an alphabet by using pieces of the London Underground Map. He also made an alphabet based on seats, and another one based on geometric shapes. Typetoken link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tim Rolands
    [Tim Rolands Digital Studio (was: TR Typographic Services, Phont Typographics, Stylus Digital Typography, Studio Renaissance)]

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    Tim Rolands Digital Studio (was: TR Typographic Services, Phont Typographics, Stylus Digital Typography, Studio Renaissance)
    [Tim Rolands]

    Tim Rolands (b. St.Louis, MO, 1970, based in Kirksville, MO and London, UK, but also in Stevens Point, WI) is an independent digital type developer, producing TrueType and Postscript typeface families for MacOS and Windows. He founded Tim Rolands Digital Design in 2001. Other names for his company include TR Typographic Services, Phont Typographics, Stylus Digital Typography, Studio Renaissance. His fonts can be bought at MyFonts.

    Tim's creations include Orlando (free), Anvil (also available in OpenType), Valor (2006, an experimental modern typeface that combines geometry and mediaeval Lombardic ideas), Miranda (an Aldine, roman caps family: Pro version appeared in 2012), Aegis, Prospero (1997, inspired by the early Romans of Nicolas Jenson; see Prospero Pro (1997-2008)), Illiad, Kimberly, Timotheus, Envoy (2001, garalde family), Odyssey (2001, classical Roman caps; see Odyssey Pro in 2017), Alexander, Runik Futhark (based on the earliest Germanic-Norse runes, known as the Elder Futhark).

    View Tim Rolands's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Timofei Dekalo

    Inspired by the work of Vladimir Shukhov and the period of industrialization in the Soviet Union, Timofei Dekalo (Marafont, Moscow) created several decorative caps typefaces in 2014. He created quite a few other experimental geometric or multicolored fonts as well. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tiny Factory
    [Yosiro]

    Latin experimental fonts made by Yosiro (b. 1974): BigupBold, Bigup, DotsHard, DotsSoft, Eltic, FunamoriKatakana, Gentle, Hearts, Shout, Berion, ChilliBold, Chilli, ChiwawaHard, DeliaBlack, Delia, Marjo, RoughBold. Designer of dotsJ, adgeles, readles, sold at Font Pavilion. At Digitalogue, he made the screen pixel fonts Vibes10, Echo8, Riddim7. At Shoeisha, he designed BDMango (Reg and katakana), Qual, Punch and Ancefan (Reg and katakana). On Dex's Fontrom#2, he has Jerk, King, and Massive. At Fontmania, he has Babylon. Several dot fonts and pixel fonts. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tipantone

    Tipantone is a Spanish graphic design group. It created a modular experimental typeface in 2012 that is patterned after Supertipo Veloz. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tiphaine Lacroix

    During her graphic design studies, Tiphaine Lacroix (Lorient, France) designed a few experimental typefaces (2015). In 2016, he created an angry handcrafted brush typeface, Les Nuits des Villes. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tiphaine Petitgas

    During her studies in Nantes, France, Tiphaine Petitgas designed the experimental hexagonal typeface Hexa (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tipocondriac
    [Gerald Puig]

    Experimental Catalan font foundry offering these Mac and PC fonts by Gerald Puig: Manifesto, Obsolet, Serifos Gor, Serifos Zzzzzzzz, Bustop. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TipografiaRamis
    [Ramiz Guseynov]

    Ramiz Guseynov was born in Russia and educated as an architect and graphic designer. After moving to the USA in 1991, where he worked as a graphic designer, Ramiz Guseynov became a part-time type designer who published his work at T-26. In 2004, he set up his own foundry, TipografiaRamis in Highland Park, IL.

    Klingspor link. Behance link.

    His typefaces:

    View Ramiz Guseynov's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tipopotamo Fontes
    [Claudio Reston]

    Tipopotamo Fontes is a Brazilian foundry in Rio de Janeiro (also called Elesbao e Haroldinho) offering 27 free fonts. Designers: Claudio Reston, José Bessa, Fabio Eis.

    Their fonts: AlmanaqueItalic, AlmanaqueNormal, AlmanaqueOutlineItalic, AlmanaqueOutline, AMassaFalida1, AMassaFalida2, AngularMedium, BacanaMesmoMedium, BacanaMedium, BlendadaNormal, BrailleSerif, BrasilisBold, Buchada (handwriting), Cadela (handwriting), CassulaDingbats (little men), CassulaTypeface (handwriting), Cistema (pixel font), EmboliaLunar (curly letters), LatrinaBlack, MobralMedium, NervosaNormal (handwriting), OdaraSemiBold (geometric experimental), SambambersBold, Supersonica, Surraundi (squarish letters), TechnocrataItalic, TechnocrataNormal. All fonts made in 1999-2001.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tipos de Portugal
    [Ricardo Matos]

    Tipos de Portugal was established in 2004 by Ricardo Matos, a Portuguese graphic designer. He created a disturbed techno font, Headline (2004), Snail (2004, serifed) (2003) and the informal display sans typeface Augumentin (2004).

    Ricardo Matos and Diego Potes run the graphic design studio Alva in Lisbon. Typefaces designed by Alva include Maneta da Corneta (2012), Garota dos Bosques (2012), Fifi da Linha (2010, slab face), Autista Malabarista (2012), Alberta dos Olivais (2010), Bala (2009), Gioconda Anaconda (2009), Canivete Sueco (2010), Bruna de Queluz (2011), Loira Cega (2012, experimental) and Ermita Hermafrodita (2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tipos do aCaso
    [Leonardo Buggy]

    In 1998 a group of friends decided to study typography and produce digital types in Pernambuco, Brazil. Two years later they organize an exhibition of their work and established Tipos do aCASO as the first Brazilian Northeast digital type foundry. In the following years they sold and distributed their own types from catalogs, small objects and merchandising stuff. The group gained national prominence participating and being rewarded in competitive design exhibitions like Tipografia Brasilis, Pernambuco Design Conference, Biennial of Design by ADG-Brasil and Biennial Tipos Latinos. Soon the invitations to give lectures and workshops around the country started. The collective turns into a business and developes important dingbat projects for the Pernambuco's Government such as Manguebats and Armoribats. Today, Tipos do aCASO returned to its origins and works as a collective again. Managed by its founder, Buggy (author of the only Brazilian type design book written in Portuguese) the type foundry undertakes researches and promotes educational activities focusing on letterpress, typography and typeface design. Some designers:

    • Diego Credidio: Cabra-da-peste, Wayana.
    • Miguel Sanches: a great experimental font Arqueo, Bolha, Snake, Xilot.
    • Rodrigo Pires: Chango, Estuque (grunge), Rano Light (very experimental), Quadrinaits.
    • Buggy (Leandro Araújo da Costa): Cordel, the bitmap font Disquete, Oxe, Regua, Ferro de Boi, Palm and Stone. Most of his fonts were made in 1999.
    • Alex Carvalho: Rec Block.
    • Marcos Buccini: the destructive font Estruturas, Cafeina, Poracaso, Quadra (pixel font).
    • Renata Faccenda and Joana Amador: Toinho (children's handwriting).
    • Helder Diniz: Grea.
    • Marcelo Garcia: Celo Bold.
    • Yuri: Yuri Manimals.
    • Luciana de Mari: 3x4.
    • Damiao: Vincent.
    • Priscila Farias.
    • André Moraes.
    • Antonio.
    • Marcia Maia.
    Others include Matheus Barbosa, Leopoldo Leal, Bosco, Plínio Uchoa Moreira, Kboco, Gustavo Gusmao, Eduardo Cavalcanti, Marina Pontual, Milena Thé, Joceanny Lima, Daniel Lopes, Maurício Nunes, Luciana Medeiros, Daniel Pinheiro, Nara Rocha, Virgulino Melo, José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo, George Vinícios, Paula Robalinha, Anderson Kleber, Carlos Santos, Fábio Henrique, Leonardo Rosa Borges. MyFonts link.

    Leonardo Buggy was born in Brazil in 1976. In 1998, two years before he graduated in design from UFPE, Buggy founded the first digital type foundry in northeastern of his country, Tipos do aCASO. Later, he worked as a graphic designer and art director collaborating and providing services to companies like Ford, Unilever, WalMart and Nannai Beach Resort. Between 2003 and 2006 he was cultural director of the Professional Association of Designers from Pernmabuco, APD-PE, and manager of Visual Arts and Design Centers of Recife City. At the same time he became CEO at Fundicio Design & Technology, member of Pernambuco's IT cluster. Still in 2006 he took a master's degree in Design also at UFPE. One year later, he wrote O MECOTipo, the first book published in Brazilian Portuguese about type design. In January 2008 he founded the Course of Technology in Graphic Design at Barros Melo College in Olinda City. He coordinated this first graphic design course offered in Pernambuco by a private institution until 2009, when he joined the staff of UFPE professors. He also organized and participated actively in conferences, exhibitions and competitions in Brazil and abroad, having been awarded on the 7th and 9th Biennial of Graphic design from ADG-Brasil, the 2004 and 2008 Biennial Tipos Latinos and the 2nd and 3rd Pernambuco Design. Currently, he works on post graduate programs in graphic design around his country and teaches typeface design, history of typography and printing techniques at the Design Center of CAA, UFPE. His most important fonts are Cordel, Disquete, Bitmap, Oxe, Regua, AvantBuggy, Lia and Fatwood. Located in Fortaleza, Brazil, he teaches at UFC. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tipos Reunidos (or: Petit Comite)
    [Joaquim Massana]

    Barcelona-based type and graphic and visual identity designers who published these fonts in 2006 at T-26: Brotxa (2007, fat hand-printed face), Canvas (a stencil experiment), Mequetrefe (2007, T-26, an informal 3-d block letter family), Cuca (an informal printed script family), La Fuente Dingbats, La Fuente (playful script and dingbats for sales signs), Cobalt, Dotdotis, Diario tuc-tuc (2005), Diamant.

    Petit Comite, the other name for Tipos Reunidos, was established by Quim Massana (the type designer) and Yolanda Martín. Tatiana Vallejo is a Mexican designer who also contributes. The Don family (T-26, 2007) is a fat didone display font with stylistic changes--it includes Don Paco Bold, Don Pancho Bold, Don Pascual Bold and Don Pepito Bold, and Cobalt (2002, T-26) is a 3-weight stencil family.

    MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Titipun Tubthong

    Titipun Tubthong is a designer in Bangkok. He created the experimental thai typeface Camera (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tivsoy

    Based in Pusan, South Korea, Tivsoy created the LED-inspired Shelvow font (2013, free), the experimental vertically striped font TVL and the extremely spaced stencil typeface Hide in 2013.

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    TNOP
    [Tnop Wangsillapakun]

    TNOP is Tnop (Teeranop) Wangsillapakun's outfit, est. 2005. Tnop is the Bangkok-born Chicago-based [T-26] designer of Bpositive (screen font), OneAM (1999, dot matrix font), Fliptura, Dodo (fantastic experimental display font!!), Square 45 (with technical assistance of Carlos Segura, Ben Husmann and Ana Reinert), and ItsOverCaptain (2000, game playing font). CV.

    Klingspor link.

    Tnop has worked with a wide range of clients such as Corbis Images, Nike, Coca-Cola, IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency), fashion designer Maria Pinto, Mitea (a small tea shop in Chicago), and Alongkorn (a high-level bespoke suit shop in Bangkok). He teaches design at Rangsit University in Pratumthani, Thailand. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tnop Wangsillapakun
    [TNOP]

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    Toan Vu-Huu

    French designer and design studio in Paris. He created SimpleKoelnBonnSymbols (2004), a rounded typeface and appropriate dingbat set for the Koeln Bonn Airport, which was done as part of the design effort of the design studio Intégral Ruedi Baur et Associés. Toan Vu-Huu teaches at ESAD in Amiens. Scan of some experimental fonts made by his students in 2008 at ESAD: My students just finished their second project for this year. The aim was to choose an object from their daily life and create a font out of it. From top to bottom we have Maël Fournier Comte (American Apparel Slip), Auré-Line Lecoq (Tooth Paste), Jérémie Garric (Allium), Céline Bouchez (Chewing Gum), Arnaud Dupond (Nails), Matthieu Laroussinie (T-Shirt). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tobias Ohlström

    Stockholm-based designer of the experimental typeface Eyevetica (2013), which was created during his studies at Beckmans College of Design. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Toby Roberts

    Graphic design student at Norwich University College of the Arts in the UK, 2012-2013. Behance link.

    Creator of the modular typeface On The Rocks (2012), which is based on circles and arcs.

    Serifless Sans (2013) is a geometric modular typeface family with a hairline and a rounded style. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Todd Stayner

    Californian designer who created the experimental Bigheaded Alphabet (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tois Estudio Creativo

    Located in Barcelona, Tois Estudio Creativo made the 3d typeface Indigo (2013).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Toko

    Sydney-based graphic design company which first started in Rotterdam in 2001 but relocated to Australia in 2006. They have a "confused type project", an architectural typeface, and various experimental typefaces done for some specific projects. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tokyo Type Directors Club: 2001 TDC awards

    The awards included the 2001 Judges' Special Prize for Yuji Koiso's wonderfully experimental kanji font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tom Barden

    Tom Barden created the geometric but also playful typeface Evolution (2009). He also made Africa Type (2010) and the octagonal athletic lettering typeface There It Is (2009). Visually Interesting (2009) is a type experiment. Unity (2011) is a heavy octagonal poster face. He is also working on Airport Icons (2011). He is based in London and is a graphic designer and photographer. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tom Cunningham
    [New Tropical Design Studio]

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    Tom De Smedt

    Belgian graphic designer and software specialist who is assiocated with the Sint Lucas Hogeschool voor Beeldende Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium. He designed various experimental types at these workshops. On his web site, you can find the (free) Panda truetype font made by his associate, Tom Van Iersel. He also made Pixie, a handwriting OpenType typeface (2004) that looks different each time. Speaker at the ATypI meetings in 2004 and 2005 in Prague and Helsinki. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tom Green

    During his studies in Nottingham, UK, Tom Green designed the experimental font Ling Noble 77 (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tom Lugtmeijer

    Graphic designer in Den Haag, The Netherlands. Creator of experimental typefaces such as Glam (2011, piano key face), Lucifers (2011, glyphs made with matches), and Elementen (experimental, modular). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tomás García Ferrari
    [Tomás García Ferrari's FUSELAB Font Dr.Mr.]

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    Tomás García Ferrari's FUSELAB Font Dr.Mr.
    [Tomás García Ferrari]

    Experimental font (absolutely fantastic in my view) by Buenos Aires-based Ferrari. Made for FUSE95. Another great Broadway-style font is Gordita. In ExVetica, he played around with Helvetica-Bold and transformed it. He teaches type design at FADU, University of Buenos Aires (UBA). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tomato

    Designer in the FUSE 13 collection of the experimental font Newcracks. Real name of designer unknown. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tomato Košir

    Prolific Slovenian graphic designer (b. 1978, Kranju) who made the typefaces Geotip (1998, geometric experiment), Grotesca (1998), Russia (1999, Cyrillic simulation font), Stisca (1999), Walbotomy (2000, Walbaum letters rotated to make other letters), Circularum (2000), Quadra (2000, a squarish font), QuadraII, Mikona (2000) and J477 (2000, underbelt and uppercut, left and right versions of minimalist ideas). He is designing the corporate identity of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. Designer of the sans typeface Finting (2006).

    Cofounder of the TipoBrda type design conferences, held annually since 2006 in Slovenia.

    From 2010 until 2012, he organized four type design workshops in Slovenia called tipoRenesansa. From 2012 onwards, these events were renamed TypeClinic. They are typically held in February and August of every year.

    Creator of the futuristic experimental typeface Laufr during the design workshop TipoBrda in 2008. From 2011 until 2013, he designed the didone family Rastignac (+Italic). Rastignac Bold appeared in 2014 and the excellentissimo didone fashion mag beauty Rastignac Black in 2015.

    He finished his master's degree in 2007 at the Department for Design, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In 2010 he became Assistant Professor at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. In the same year, he created Spacioneza. Other typefaces, designed ca. 2016: Mikona, Quadra, QuadraII, Stiska, Walbotomy, Circularum, Geotip, Grotesca, Russia (constructivist, or Cyrillic simulation font). .

    Behance link.

    Lolita Band poster (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tomi Haaparanta
    [Suomi Type Foundry]

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    Tomomi Maezawa

    Tomomi has a BA in Design Informatics at Musashino Art University, Tokyo. For his Assembly Type, Tomomi Maezawa (Liverpool, UK, and before that, London, UK) took four basic parts and and one screw and mafe an entire alphabet that can be hanged as signage or printed as a typeface. His Mecha Type (2013) is similarly composed of mechanical parts. Both projects were done while Tomomi was studying at Central Saint Martins in London towards an MA in Communication Design.

    In 2015, he designed a blackletter typeface. In 2018, he published the modular tubular 3d typeface Poinacr&eacite;. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tomosuki Kurosawa
    [Nemury (was: Tsuyatsuya Nemury)]

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    Tomoyuki Kurosawa

    Graphic designer in Tokyo, aka Nemury. Creator of the geometric and modular typefaces Patchwork (2014) and Minimumgram (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Toni Kane

    During her studies, Hull, UK-based Toni Kane designed the straight-edged experimental typeface Lightsaber (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tontcho Ponsoda Llopis

    Madrid, Spain-based designer of the multiline 3d typeface Neo Tontchesca (2017) and the experimental typeface Fulgor (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tony Panel

    Assieu, France-based student-designer of the experimental geometric typeface Red (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Torbjörn Olsson
    [T4 Typography AB (was: Sinnebild, Olsson's Fonts, Torbjörns Typer, T-Type)]

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    Torpedo

    FontStruct artist who made the experimental font SumB2B3 in 2008. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tovaley Gestaltung
    [Moritz Esser]

    Moritz Esser (Tovaley Gestaltung, Freiburg, Germany) designed the humanist slab serif typeface Nautinger (26plus-zeichen, and Die Gestalten) for his Diplomarbeit at FHF Freiburg in 2009. He also made the experimental typefaces Fraxel and Fraque. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tracy Hua

    New York City-based creator of these typefaces, ca. 2012: Jolly, Flap, Flora, Flow, Heartbreak, Stain, A Happy Day.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Transkrypt
    [Frank Baranowski]

    Frank Baranowski (b. 1960, Altenmedingen), of Neuenkirchen in Northern Germany, runs the Transkrypt foundry and has been designing typefaces since 1990. He studied Graphic Design at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste in Braunschweig, Germany. In 2003 transkrypt was started as a website to show typographic experimental projects, exercises on types and also typefaces, which were designed by Frank Baranowski. He also set up Fontschmiede. His most extensive project, the Lyrix Projekt, is a kind of typographic anthology of pop lyrics. He describes transkrypt as "a space for unusual and unused type-design and typography". He designs mainly experimental typefaces, such as Kaleido (2004), Clayborn (2004, slightly grungy), Concrete, EF Mrs. Beasley (1995, nice fat round letters, Elsner&Flake), Sputnik (2004, URW++, an oriental look family), Phoenikia, Tambourine (2004, URW++), BB Mr. Beasley (1995, Linotype) and EF Musical (Elsner&Flake, serifed and playful). His experiments also include Lyrix (type motifs from pop songs), Quak (Quadrat-Kreis System, a grid system for constructing letters as parts of circles and lines), Patchwork (2005), Pardon (2005) and Kryptik-Zyklus (his own type posters and art).

    Latest creations: Karoline (2005), New Telegraph (2007, slab serif), Funtype (2009, hand-printed), Monumental (2009, a fat typeface made for stacking), Dodgy Ultra (2009, fat face). He has a page on "Typen mit Schwung". He also designed many elaborate initial caps typefaces, such as Tookatooth Initialen, Schnabel, Alien Initials, Siamesisches Alphabet (Thai simulation face), Banderol Initialen.

    In 2010, he started Fontschmiede with Michel M, where further fonts, commercial and free, can be found: Mrs Beasley, Sputnik, Superia, Tambourine, Destroya, Alphabutts and Elemenz are free.

    In 2011, he published New Telegraph Arrows at Fontschmiede.

    In 2012, he created Journal 74 (Fontschmiede), a retro font family.

    MyFonts site. Linotype page. View the transkrypt typeface library. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Travis Poffenberger

    Florist in Washington, DC. Using Futura Bold as a basis, the typeface was covered by ornaments to make REEF (2012), an ornamental caps face.He also experimented with Helvetica Neue in the design of Inbredica (2013).

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    Travis Stearns

    Travis Stearns (was: I am Mint Condition) is a graphic and type designer in Minneapolisa, MN. He created the hand-drawn Hugo typeface in 2008 at YouWorkForThem. Other fonts there: Herzog (2008, fat experimental caps, with Taechit Jiropaskosol), Magoo (comic book style), Pineapple (2009, an art deco blackboard bold typeface), YWFT Morricone (2009, a great spaghetti western ultra slab serif with Italian features), Enigmatic Hand, Seaweed, Wellsworth Script (neurotic), Grosskopf (great fat poster font), YWFT Thinaire, Pierre (hand-drawn), YWFT Absent Grotesque (2008), YWFT Basel (2009, a cross of Spartan and Optima), YWFT Isanti (2010, neatly handlettered), YWFT Neighborhood (2008, an eroded vintage text font), Alexios (2010, a modular ornamental experiment), Odon, BLKMTL (runes), Garnier (child's hand), Fridge (hand-drawn outline face), Hannah (2009, three version of different widths; hand-set), Michel (2009), YWFT Motown (2009, a geometric slab serif), Valley (2009, a ball and stick-themed font), Skute (2009, free at You Work For Them, patterned after Cassandre's Bifur).

    Typefaces from 2012: Valley (a ball and stick display face), Basel (Basel is a heavy sans serif font that began as a revival of the metal type Spartan Black, an American copy of Futura developed in 1936, but ultimately took on a character of its own during the process).

    His blog.

    Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tri Nguyen

    During her studies at the Yoobee School of Design in Auckland, New Zealand, she created the experimental typeface Sailo (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tricia Smith

    During her studies at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tricia Smith created some experimental logotypes (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tristan Simon

    During his studies in Paris, Tristan Simon designed an experimental geometric typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Troy Hyde

    UK-based graphic designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2006. Once in a while, an experimental font makes me straighten my back. After seeing Troy Hyde's Channeled Light Font (2010), I got to think again about the inherent beauty of natural things, and how the laws of physics create almost perfect curves. Curves we can't get by tweaking Bezier points in a font editor. Here is what Try Hyde says about the process: This font is created inspired by the shapes found at the cross section of a rolled cylinder of corrugated paper. The scanner is a key part of the process: There is high definition at the point at which the paper touches the scanners surface. Light is also channelled though the tunnel of paper, thus becomes as integral a part of the font's shape as the paper itself. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Troy Vasilakis

    During his studies, Troy Vasilakis (Franklin Square, NY) designed the circle-based experimenal typeface Vulfpeck (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tsadock Inc

    Graphic design company. They made the Hebrew typefaces PostTI (2009; the Latin version is PostEnglishTI), Tsadock-Nue (2008), Tsadock-Japan (2008), Tsadock-Yad (2008), Tsadock-Lord (2008), and the Latin brush typeface Roughbrush TI (2009), Coffee TI (2009, experimental) and the Latin typeface FreehandTI (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tsuzumi Hukumi

    Taichung City, Taiwan-based designer of Moon Font (2015, circle-based and experimental Latin font) and an untitled Chinese font (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tulio Laanen

    Tilburg, The Netherlands-based designer of the experimental Japanese typeface One Hiragana Katakana (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    T.W. Chang

    T.W. Chang (aka Skinner and as Cheap & Juicy) has a BA in computer science and works as an illustrator and typographer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2013, he designed the spurred display typeface Sunflower. In 2017, Chang designed these display and experimental typefaces: Koteh, Deongster, Fuck The System, Anyaman Reka.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Txaber

    Bilbao-based designer of the experimental typeface Multiply Type (2013) and of the geometric Txaber Logotype (2012). New Neon (2013) is an artistic 3d creation of Taxber---it is a full alphabet rendered in 3d using paint and neon tube themes.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tyler

    Aka avendrakon. American creator (b. 1995, MA) of the experimental typefaces Subzero (2013) and Katfyred (2012). All were made with FontStruct. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tyler Lang

    Sarasota, FL-based student. Designer of this experimental hairline face (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tyntyp
    [Andrew Tindale]

    Tyntype is a digital type foundry in Stafford, UK, run by Andrew Tindale. Its typefaces include Paradise (2017: vernacular), Emilon (2017: a stylish display or poster sans family), Fac8 (2017: techno and bi-lined), Fals8, Paradise (2017: handcrafted), Hille (2017: text typeface), Arqus (2017: sans), Alosad (2016: a set of decorative caps), Skinny Dreamer (2017), Decodence (2017, monospaced neo deco), and Fals8 (grunge). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Factory
    [Pedro Lobo]

    Type Factory is Pedro Lobo, a Guimaraes, Portugal-based illustrator and designer. In 2011, he set up Uppertype to sell some of his fonts.

    Lobo created the experimental geometric typeface Monkey (2011), the geometric art deco family Jono (2011), the blackboard bold typeface YDXS (2011), and the logotype Sanjo (2011). Molesk (2011, a free slabby display face) is free.

    In 2011, he published the extensive fashion mag family Akila, which comes in two subfamilies, Akila Bouma, and Akila Didone, both adorned with refined outlines and high contrast. Images of Akila: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi.

    Typefaces from 2012 include Codhigo, Borba (a beautiful inline headline face), Wannabe, Desk (3d shadow face), Smart, Kleiner, Tabbaco and Fabrica.

    Personal page. Behance link for Pedro Lobo. Behance link for Type Factory. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type For Now
    [James George Dunn]

    Typographer and graphic designer in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He created Barcelona Octagon (2010), a name that everyone who has visited Barcelona will understand. In 2011, he added the experimental typefaces Interlaced and Eixample. Airship 27 (2011, Lost Type) is a tall condensed industrial sans face. Valley Fold (2013) is an origami typeface.

    Behance link. Another Behance link. Personal site of James George Dunn. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Generator
    [Sibe Kokke]

    Type Generator is a very interesting software project by Dutchman Sibe Kokke. It generates fonts based upon a set of parameters such as contrast, x-height, point positioning and curves, a bit in the style of metafont, and was developed with the help of tools like Drawbot and Robofab. Sibe Kokke is also the designer of experimental typefaces such as The King (pixel family), Mullerpier (grunge), Glue Print (grunge) and Arab (Arab type simulation in Latin handwriting). Sibe obtained a Masters in type design at KABK. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    type me, type me not

    Experiments in computational typography at MIT's Media Lab by John Maeda and his group, including Peter Cho. John Maeda's award-winning poster at the 1997 Tokyo Type Directors Club competition. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type This Studio
    [Anita Jürgeleit]

    Graduate of the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany, who was initially associated with URW++ in that city. She first set up her own foundry under her last name, but in 2021 started using Type This Studio.

    Co-designer with Michael Hoffmann of the stamped font URW Urban (2013). She also made the strong-willed handwriting typeface Quendel (2013, URW++; extended in 2015 to include the textured Quendel Wood and the eroded Quendel Crayon) and Hangulatin (2014, URW++). Hangulatin applies the principles of Hangul to make letter combinations in Latin. See also Hangulatin EN (2016).

    In 2015 she created the slim vintage / steampunk typeface Nitaah One (URW++) and the handsome super-tall 1970s cocktail lounge sans Allioideae (URW++, Latin and Cyrillic).

    In 2018, she set up her own type foundry, and published Umba Sans, a 30-style family that exudes joy and is useful for display applications. It is accompanied by Umba Soft (2018) and Umba Slab (2019).

    Typefaces from 2019: Cosima (a low contrast workhorse sans), Captura (a simplified geometric sans), Famosa (+the pearl-studded Famosa Diara), Diara (a colorable wedding font package including ornaments), Crossfit (an elliptical sans family), Hyper (a wonderful packaging font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Orangina (a creamy supermarket typeface), Mireille (a decorative serif) , Marilka (a snappy 4-style modern text typeface characterized by the vertical terminals atop a, c, f, s and z), Lovebeat (a Valentine's Day font).

    Typefaces from 2021: Every Core (an 8-style serif), Headlines (a 12-style + 2 variable font headline sans), Every (a 24-style serif).

    Typefaces from 2022: Crossfit Core (a 5-style rounded technical sans), Horizona (a 9-style harlequin typeface), Cosima Core Edition (an 8-style sans), Famosa Core Edition (a fashion mag family with hints of Victoriana), [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typearture Type Foundry
    [Arthur Reinders Folmer]

    Arthur Reinders Folmer (or Arthus) is from Haarlem, The Netherlands. Future Fonts link. He created the free ornamental all-caps typeface Magical Unicorn (2011), Elerium (2012, an upright italic), and the tringaulated Crystalline (2012). It has been a long wait, but finally someone had the courage to create a typeface with the name Obesitas: Obesitas Sans (2012), advertised as the mother of all fat typefaces. Pylon (2012) was inspired by electricity pylons.

    In 2013, he designed Angellocks, a semi-blackletter typeface.

    In 2016, he designed Utopia Initials and the ABC of Bad Events.

    Typefaces from 2017: The Disclosure Dingbats, Fabel, Pegacorn Initials.

    Typefaces from 2019: Schijn Variable (a gemstone-styled variable font, with layering and outlines). Schijn won an award at 23TDC.

    Typefaces from 2020: Gimme (experimental color fonts including Constructo and Battleships; +a variable font).

    Typefaces from 2021: Sugarshop. Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typecuts
    [Andrea Tinnes]

    Andrea Tinnes is a German type designer who occasionally teaches type design. She is associated with the Das Deck agency in Berlin. Through her own label, Typecuts, which she founded in 2004, she publishes as well as promotes all her type designs. After several years of teaching at Norway's Bergen Academy of the Arts she took on a professorship of type and typography at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle in 2008. She has a degree in communication design from the University of Applied Sciences Mainz and an MFA in graphic design from the California Institute of the Arts. Klingspor link. Her fonts:

    • PTL Roletta Ornaments, PTL Roletta Slab, PTL Roletta Sans, 2004-2010. A rounded family published at Primetype.
    • PTL Skopex Gothic (5 weights) and Serif (3 weights) for a total of 96 fonts, published at Primetype and Typecuts (2000-2006) (see also here). She says: Spektro (now PTL Skopex) was customized for the new identity system of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Under the supervision of Jan Jancourt and Matthew Rezac several new weights were added to the original family. In addition, the letters of the word MCAD were slightly altered and turned into a logotype font that works with the whole Spektro family.
    • DasDeck (2001), a family ranging from thin octagonal to thick stencil.
    • WeddingSans (2002), a contemporary sans family, quite useful.
    • Haircrimes No. 1 through 4 (2001), a modular and slightly crazy set of fonts.
    • Switch (2002): geometric and unicase.
    • Stitch-Me (2001).
    • Mimesis (2001), a typographic experiment.
    • Volvox (2001), five caleidoscopic fonts.
    • Custom fonts such as Burg Grotesk (2011-2013, for Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle, Germany), Burg Mono (2014, its monospaced version), Eastern Columbia (2005, commissioned by Reverb Studio), Los Angeles, Viceroy (2007; with Verena Gerlach; for the Viceroy Hotel in-house style), Broadway Hollywood Script (2005, commissioned by Reverb Studio), Los Angeles, and Trivium (2005, commissioned by Anne Burdick, the Offices of Anne Burdick, Los Angeles).
    [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typeflash (or: Type+Play)
    [Peter Vajda]

    Type examples in Flash, by Budapest, Hungary-based Peter Vajda. Examples from 2015-2016 include a Hebrew simulation alphabet and an experimental blackletter alphabet. The names: Hungarian, Greek, German, English, Zion, Arabic, Typeflash Sex. Still in 2016, he designed the pixelish Modul and Typeflash Digital, the 3d Typeflash Cube, the blackletter typefaces Box and Gothic, the experimental Loop, the arrowed typeface Sex, and the dot matrix typeface Chain.

    Typefaces from 2017: Figyelem (pixel typeface), Line (octagonal), Dot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typeforge
    [Pedro Reis Amado]

    Deactivated on November 26, 2009. Pedro Amado (Portugal) ran Typeforge, a collaborative open source type design project named after Fontforge, the free editor that is the editor of choice here. This project grew out of Livetype. Amado is working on Typeforge Gothic (2006), a full U&lc Grotesque Sans 1 Axis Multiple Master based on 1898 Berthold's Azkidenz Grotesk and 1905 ATF's Franklin Gothic typefaces. Paulo Silva is working on a typeface called NewBodonesque. An experimental font, PS2 (by "JLM", 2006) is also being developed. Great ex-page of links on typography. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typelab
    [Floriane Rousselot]

    French experimental typefoundry founded by Floriane Rousselot. Their typefaces are by young designers. A partial list of the designers:

    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typemefonts (was: 26plus zeichen)
    [Jakob Runge]

    Jakob Runge (M&uum;nchen, Germany) graduated from Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt and Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. In 2014, Jakob Runge set up Typemefonts in München, Germany, to market his own typefaces. Before that, he was involved in 26plus, or 26+, a foundry located in Kiel, Germany: It is a platform to present and encourage student-created fonts. In 2015, he started TypeMates with Nils Thomsen. Currently he works in Munich as an independent type and brand designer and typographic consultant. Apart from his work for design agencies, he teaches typography and type design at university of applied sciences in Münster since 2011.

    His early typefaces include the free condensed octagonal typeface Fracmetrica (2009). Other typefaces of Runge's designed in 2009 and 2010---all at 26plus-zeichen---include Singula, Edelsans (a geometric sans), Sinews (a manly sans which he compares with Klavika and Corpid), JJ Realis (a Swiss sans), Ugl-y (2010), Cojonna (2010; curly--an exercise on ball terminals), Capitalis Nova (2010, dot matrix family), Graphit (2010), Devion (2010, semi-angular serif face), Textrusion (2010, Escher-style trompe l'oeuil), Frgmt (2010, experimental), Samblone (2011, an Asian-look stencil face), TJ Evolette A (2011, with Timo Titzmann---a fashionable geometric grotesque caps family).

    In 2014, Jakob Runge set up Typemefonts in München, Germany, to market his own typefaces, starting with the slab serif typeface Muriza (dedicated site), FF Franziska (2014: an offshoot of his graduation typeface), Mem (experimental geometric face), and the geometric sans FF Cera. Runge began work on FF Franziska in 2012 as part of a Masters thesis at Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel under the guidance of Albert-Jan Pool and André Heers. Hamburg-based information designers Christian Hruschka and Stefan Semrau used FF Franziska for the new Bündner Tagblatt. The modern, fresh layout won the European Newspaper Award 2013 in the category of Typography. Dedicated web site.

    In 2015, he created Cera PRO, Cera Stencil, Cera CY, Cera Stencil CY, Cera GR, Cera Stencil GR, Cera, and Cera Stencil Std (an extensive sans and stencil family for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). In 2016, he added Cera Brush (in cooperation with Max Kostopoulos). In 2017, Jakob Runge teamed up with Lisa Fischbach for Cera Round Pro, an absolutely wonderful geometric rounded sans typeface family that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. In 2018, Jakob added Cera Condensed + Compact Pro.

    Jakob Runge, with the help of Lisa Fischbach, designed Harrison Serif Pro (a slab serif) in 2017 at Typemates.

    In 2016, Jakob Runge and Lisa Fischbach co-designed the bespoke sans typeface family SAM Text and SAM Headline at TypeMates for the food company S:A:M. Jakob Runge finished Urby and Urby Soft.

    In 2018, Runge published the techno/industrial sans typeface family Sinews Sans Pro at TypeMates.

    In 2019, Jakob Runge, Nils Thomsen and Lisa Fischbach released Halvar and wrote: Halvar, a German engineered type system that extends to extremes. With bulky proportions and constructed forms, Halvar is a pragmatic grotesk with the raw charm of an engineer. A type system ready to explore, Halvar has 81 styles, wide to condensed, hairline to black, roman to oblique and then to superslanted, structured into three subfamilies: the wide Breitschrift, regular Mittelschrift and condensed Engschrift. Halvar Stencil, which was released simultaneously, is a German engineering stencil font family.

    In 2021, Mona Franz and Jakob Runge published the sans families Gratimo Grotesk, Gratimo Classic, Grato Grotesk and Grato Classic at Typemates. Consulting on Cyrillic by Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky. They write: Grato and Gratimo are a system of typefaces joined by geometry but differing in genre and function. Grato's geometric core is shared by two designs with different terminals and different uppercase proportions to make a Grotesk and a Classic. And, for greater function and economy, both were redrawn for text and interface: Gratimo Grotesk and Gratimo Classic. [...] Grato is a family of two typefaces, modernist Grotesk and the humanist voice of the Geometric Suite Classic. A timeless typeface, it combines a pure, present voice with idiosyncrasy and luxury. Ignoring most calligraphic conventions, Grato is shaped by pure forms, low stroke modulation and square dots that contrast with almost perfect circles. Grato Classic pursues the classical proportions of early British geometric typefaces, while Grotesk inherits the industrial logic of early German ones. The result is a family of quirks and clarity, a substantial family for identity and editorial work. Grato includes a spectrum of nine weights, from fine hairlines to super heavy blacks.

    Runge's corporate custom typefaces include Lenbach Grotesk (2014).

    Klingspor link. Dafont link. Behance link for Runge. (old) link to 26pus zeichen. Jakob Runge's home page. Behance link for Typemefonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    TypeOff
    [Dan Reynolds]

    Typeoff was an Offenbach-based German type collective, est. 2004 by Daniel John Andrew Reynolds (b. 1979, Baltimore, MD), who blogs happily and frequently. Dan grew up in various cities in the USA, received a BFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2002, and moved to Germany in 2003 to study typography with Professor Fritz Friedl at Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. Dan was an intern at Linotype, and is still affiliated with Linotype. In 2004, he founded Typeoff.de. In 2007 he moved to the University of Reading for an MA in typeface design. Afterwards, he returned to Germany where he is based in Berlin and, for some time. In 2017, he helped Jan Middendorp set up the new foundry Fust & Friends. In 2018, he submitted his type history PhD dissertation at the University of Braunschweig, Germany, and joined LucasFonts in Berlin.

    Typefaces created by the collective include Argos, AT Stencil, Disco 3000, Ignaz Text, Ignaz Titling, India Gothic, Janus, Jeans, Pater Noster, Proportia, Sweet Pea, Teppic, Used to Love Her. The designers include the founder Dan Reynolds, and his collaborators David Borchers, Lara Glück, Till Hopstock, and Lukas Schneider.

    Dan's own typefaces at TypeOff include Ignaz Text (2004, originally called Ignaz Textura, and based on letters he found on a sepulchral memorial outside of St. Ignaz church in Mainz (Germany)), Ignaz Lombard Caps (2004), Ignaz Titling (2004), Janus (2004, a pixel face), Pater Noster (2004-2009, an uncial), Proportia (2004, a geometric sans), Sweet Pea (2004, an octagonal face), and Used to Love Her (2004, experimental). He is working on a Lombard Capitals face (2004), Teutonia Serif (2005, based on Teutonia, a geometric display typeface that was cut in Offenbach by the Roos & Junge type foundry in 1902; this squarish family is released under the name Mountain at Volcano Type in 2006) and Farewell Street (2004, sans family). Working on this condensed didone (2007).

    In 2007, he worked with Kobayashi at Linotype to produce a revival and extension of a 1930 sans family of Morris Fuller Benton, and named it Morris Sans (+Small Caps), which could be viewed as an organic version of Bank Gothic. Morris Sans was published in 2008 by Linotype.

    In 2008, he designed the serif family Martel in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the MA in typeface design at the University of Reading---it covers Latin and Devanagari. Martel Sans was published in the (free) Google Fonts collection in 2015. It was finished in 2014 in cooperation with mathieu Réguer. Github link.

    He is working on a Condensed Serif.

    Malabar (2008) won an award at TDC2 2009. Malabar also won the German Design Prize in Gold 2010. See the Linotype version Malabar Etext (2013).

    In 2013, Dan did a digital revival of Harold Horman's Western reverse stress typeface Carnival at House Industries. The original dates back to the 1940s when Horman co-founded PhotoLettering Inc.

    Codesigner with Matthew Carter in 2010 of Carter Sans (ITC), a flared lapidary typeface family.

    With Mathieu Réguer, he created the libre a monolinear, geometric sans typeface family Biryani (2015, Google Web Fonts) for Latin and Devanagari.

    In 2017, he published Rustic.

    In 2020, Eben Sorkin, Pria Ravichandran, Inga Ploennigs and Dan Reynolds co-designed the sans family Karow at URW.

    Type events of 2008 reviewed by Dan. Volcano Type link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin and at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Klingspor link. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam and at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Did photography kill punchcutting?. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of Jean Midolle's typeface Midolline. Volcano Type link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Type-ø-Tones versus FontShop

    FontShop's Petra Weitz wrote this to ATypI: A short aside by Erich Alb a few days ago mentioned the fact that FontShop sells a font which Adrian Frutiger considers to be a bad rip-off of one of his typefaces. In the FontBook we have credited the original designer, too. Based on the information supplied by the foundry, Type-ø-Tones of Barcelona, we had no reason to suspect any foul play involved. Here's the copy from Type-ø-Tone's catalogue: Tschicholina and Jeune Adrian are homages to two experimental projects carried out by two of the greatest typographers of all times. Tschicholina was inspired by a project by Jan Tschichold dating from around 1929. It is a *universal* font without distinction between upper and lower cases, and which has always been considered to have very little future; Jeune Adrian is another experiment with the same characteristics, made by the master Adrian Frutiger (everybody stand up!).... For FontShop's own FontFonts, we do make sure that new designs don't conflict with anybody's previous rights, but when it comes to the foundries who license us their fonts for distribution, we have to rely on their information. There have been cases where we thought a "new" font looked like something we'd seen before, and then we went back to the supplier to get the story. In this case, however, we took Type-ø-Tone's word and we are convinced that they naively did not see any harm in it. We will contact Joan Barjau and advise him to contact Adrian Frutiger. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typerider

    Creator at FontStruct in 2008 of the Balder family (heavy rounded), Rooftiler (experimental), Staccato Swash Caps (experimental), Peghole (+Wide), Carpetknife, Atomic Scissors, Safehouse (stencil), Kraakhaas (dirty stencil), Tyrone, BOP Closer (kitchen tile), BOP Carré (kitchen tile). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typerware
    [Joancarles P. Casasín]

    Typerware is a foundry in Barcelona set up in 1993 by Andreu Balius and Joancarles P. Casasín. It offers the following original fonts: TW Czeska, TW FaxFont, TW NotTypeWriterButPrinter, FF FontSoup, Matilde Script, Garcia Bodoni.

    Canas Cister Abbey font project.

    Creators of the award-winning typeface Universitas Salamantini (Andreu Balius and Joancarles P. Casasín).

    Interview with Penela. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    TYPETR (was: Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens)
    [Petr van Blokland]

    Petr van Blokland (b. Gouda, 1956) is an influential Dutch typpe designer and type technolgy specialist. In 1980, Petr co-founded Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens, which was a design and typography outfit in Delft (The Netherlands) that marketed RoboFog, a scripting language for Fontographer. From 1984 until 1989 he taught at the Academy for Visual Arts in Arnhem. Since 1988 he is a teacher at the Graphic and Typographic Design Department and the post-graduate course Type&Media of the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. In 1988, he received the Prix Charles Peignot. In 2017, van Blokland joined the Type Network as TYPETR. His typefaces:

    • Vijfzeven (1978, dot matrix).
    • Proforma (1984, available from Font Bureau) and Productus (1992, Proforma's sans sibling).
    • Prolinea (1999). The sans serif counterpart of Proforma.
    • Deforma (1999).
    • the Künstlerbrüder-Schriftfamilie (2005). A family of 30 fonts (10 widths, 3 weights) based on 3 width masters for each of two weights co-designed by Erik and Petr van Blokland. It is a quirky and refreshing family made for banners for the Münchener Haus der Kunst.
    • Bitcount (2017). A pixel font and layered pixel font project consisting of 300 fonts published by Type Network, advertized as the only pixel font you will ever need.
    • Upgrade (2018). A low-contast sans typeface family published at the Type Network.
    • Powerlift (2018). A chunky, funky, punchy display slab serif.

    Keynote speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal: Code All Your Graphic Designs with PageBot, DrawBot and Variation Fonts.

    Klingspor link. FontShop link. Old URL. Type network link. Old personal home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typeverything
    [Andrei Robu]

    Andrei Robu is a super-artist, award-winning photographer, art director, illustrator, type designer and rising star based in Barcelona. Andrei started freelancing ca. 2002 shortly landing clients like Sprite and Coca-Cola. In 2006 he became Chief Graphic Designer at Leo Burnett, Bucharest, Romania. In 2008 he joined Acme as a managing partner and design director. After three and a half years he left Acme and started his own practice. In 2014 he relocated to Barcelona where he works together with his partner Andreea Robescu. During his career he founded a few platforms for promoting other talents: Designers Go To Heaven (2009-2017), Calligraphica (2012-2017), Typeverything (2011).

    Andrei creates key visuals for branding, packaging, events and artist collections. He has worked with clients such as Adobe, Apple, Bloomberg, Nike, Jordan Brand, Stella Artois, Dailies, Fenwick London, Mastercard, Vodafone, VISA Epos, Coca-Cola, ESPN Magazine, Billboard, Wired, The Golden Globes, Exxon, Toyota, Hiscox.

    In 2011, he set up Typeverything in Barcelona. Typeverything features Andrei Robu's typefaces as well as those of other type designers such as Cahya Sofyan, Felipe Calderon, Natanael Gama, Adam Fathony, Matteo Broillet, Simon Walker, Drew Melton, Jason Carne, Lewis McGuffie, and Fer Cozzi.

    In his early type designs, we find extraordinary colored geometric experimental typefaces made in 2007 such as Idea, Trick Fun, Trick Squared, Trick (wow!).

    In 2009, he made Bs, Merci, Metropolis, Origami, and Think. In 2011, this was followed by Funky. These early typefaces are not featured in his foundry, Typeverything.

    His commercial typefaces:

    • Berry (2022). A seven-style+variable font family that oozes mischief and flexes its muscles.
    • Boldoni (2021). A fat face family.
    • Bourbon St (2020). A flashy experimental Marilyn-Monroe-just-walked-into-the-room kinda typeface.
    • Brule (2020). A throwback to the larger-is-better 1970s.
    • Champ (2021, by Cristi Bordeianu and Andrei Robu). A starkly incised display typeface family ranging from fashionable ultra-heavy to a flared thin. It includes a variable font as well.
    • Choco or Robu Choco Script (2017). An upright signage script.
    • Cottonhouse (2019). A Victorian typeface Cottonhouse by Andrei Robu, Kevin Cantrell and Arlo Vance.
    • Deia (2021). Advertized as a 7-weights bracketed serif that will do wonders on packaging projects.
    • Faroe (2022). A 7-style+variable font: a contemporary take on the art-nouveau period.
    • Fat Stencil Numerals (2016).
    • Fitzroy Display (2014). This art deco typeface was co-designed with Kevin Cantrell for the Fitzroy Condos in New York.
    • Flako Stencil.
    • Friseur. A supermarket script based on the 18th-century English roundhand.
    • Graf (2021). A very bold display and poster typeface that livens up the show with strategic ink traps.
    • Kitsune (2015). A thin connected script typeface published at The Designers Foundry. Re-released in 2019 by Typeverything.
    • Loggia (2020). A fashion mag typeface.
    • Loto Sans (2021). A geometric sans family.
    • Marques (2020). A luxurious display font.
    • Misfits (2018). A blackletter typeface.
    • Mochi (2021). An 8-style display sans with pointy terminals.
    • Motorino (2016). A connected retro script typeface.
    • Mr. Banks (2019) and Mr. Banks Serif (2020). Mr Banks is a stencil font.
    • Palace (2022). Based on vintage luggage labels from The Belle Époque (1890-1910).
    • Raval. A blackletter.
    • Roa Display. An angular and angry wedge serif.
    • Robu Bold. A retro signage script typeface originally created in 2010. Released in 2015 at The Designers Foundry. Re-released in 2019 at Typeverything.
    • Robu Grotesk (2017).
    • Robu Display (2017). In the fat didone genre.
    • Robu Stencil (2017).
    • Sharpie Pro (2020). A vernacular marker pen font.
    • Sports Numerals or Robu Sports Numerals (2017).
    • Vance Serif (2018). With Kevin Cantrell. They write: Vance Serif began as a proprietary typeface for Clayton Vance Architecture. Inspired by classical Roman architecture and proportions, Vance burgeoned from geometric angles and slants to decorative swashes and serifs to give life and nuance; architecture vivified by the human persona.
    • Writer (2022). A graffiti font.
    • Zufo (2017). A great children's book or comic strip typeface family.

    Subpage with more experimental type. Flickr page. Behance link. Behance link for Typeverything. Old web site. Typeverything link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    TypExpo
    [Sander de Voogt]

    TypExpo is Sander De Voogt's type site in The Netherlands. He designed Berkel, Ekster, Ekster Techno, Hangover and Rotterdam in 2004. All typefaces are in the experimental category. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TypoFlat
    [Branislav S. Cirkovic]

    TypoFlat is a personal and experimental project of interactive designer Branislav S. Cirkovic in Southern California. He created several free vector (EPS) faces such as Drea, Dron, Monk and Superstar (free here), all experimental and/or futuristic.

    Another URL.

    Dick Pape digitized these typefaces in 2010---they can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typografische (was: Hardal Studio)
    [Fatih Hardal]

    Istanbul, Turkey-based founder of Hardal Studiuo, and later Typografische. His typefaces include Hardal Serif (2018), the free experimental font Cylinder (2018), and the free experimental typeface Nisantasi (2018, a gothic fraktur).

    In 2018, Fatih Hardal and Mustafa Akülker co-designed the hipster sans typeface Unshaped. At Marmara University, he designed the commercial typeface Hardal Serif (2018).

    In 2018, Fatih Hardal and Muhittin Gunes set up Bold Type Istanbul. Their joint typefaces at Bold Type include the sans typeface families Bold Type Modern (2018) and Bold Type Grotesk (2018).

    One of his most remarkable typefaces is the Bauhaus-style fat font Quad (2018).

    Typefaces from 2019: FH Giselle, FH Fraktur.

    Typefaces from 2020: FH Cordelia Display (with Japanese brush stroke terminals), FH Oscar (a grotesque family inspired by Breite Grotesk, Akzidenz Grotesk and Monotype Grotesque; some alternate letters follow the hipster trend), FH Phemister (inspired by Phemister Old Style by Alexander Phemister), FH 1089 Display (a severe contrast fashion mag typefaces with a stunning negative 40 degree axis), FH Ronaldson (a sharp-edged typeface family; like FH Phemister, it is inspired by Ronaldson Old Style).

    Typefaces from 2022: FH Alpha (two styles, loosely based on Hermann Zapf's Optima), FH Ampersand (42 styles, inspired by Elzevir Gothic, 1897, ATF). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typografix
    [Michel Welfringer]

    Typografix is run by Belgian (?) Michel Welfringer, a graduate from La Cambre in Brussels. He designed Robotnik at Typograsfree. His own page showcases experimental typography. He also designed Normale (2005, with Nicolas Hoffmann) as a logo and titling font for the magazine BAM. With Nicolas Hoffmann, he set up AP Fonts in 2006. At AP Fonts, with Hoffmann, he designed Normale (2006) and Edibulle (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typorganism

    Flash-based typographic experiments created by Gicheol Lee, featuring fonts by Minimal and Emigre. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typotopo
    [Peter Cho]

    Peter Cho's web page with many type experiments. He explains: TYPOTOPO is a collection of works loosely themed around typography, virtual spaces, and technology. Digital technology can allow for new ways to express visualand textualmessages. Craft plays an important role in our digitally-mediated world. Through the experiments on this site, I am exploring how craft can apply to software artifacts, interactive systems, and other works created using the computer. Peter Cho won a Tokyo Type Directors' Club TDC 2002 awar for his interactive typography, "letterscapes". Letterscapes is a collection of twenty-six interactive typographic landscapes, encompassed within a dynamic, dimensional environment. In each landscape, a letter of the alphabet serves as the starting point for a playful, mouse-driven experience. Peter Cho is a designer and programmer based in San Francisco. He holds a masters degree from the MIT Media Laboratory. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ufuk Usta

    Talented illustrator in Istanbul. Creator of the sans typeface X Height Medium (2013) and of the experimental triangular typeface Pyramid (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ultra Types
    [Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira]

    Wete, or Wete Cacahuete, or Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira, or Juanra Pastor, or Juanra Wete Pastor, is a Barcelona-based graphic and type designer, b. 1984. He set up Ultra Types in 2012.

    Typefaces created by him include the useless monstrosity called Combo (2009), the hand-printed Deibi (2009, free), the text typeface Alba Serif (2010), and the fantastic geometric/mathematical caps face Roke 1984 (2010).

    TP Duro (2011) is a blackletter typeface inspired by an Albrecht Dürer design from 1525. It was published in 2019 at Vette Letters in cooperation with Martin Lorenz: VLNL TpDuro. Favela (2011) is a free tattoo face.

    In 2012, he designed an experimental / futuristic set of numbers for a Yorokobu magazine section called Numerografia. Still in 2012, he created the Alexander Grotesk typeface family (which can be bought at Ten Dollar Fonts), and Ut One (modular, arc-based).

    In 2013, he designed the sans typeface Reefont Condensed on commission for Reebok [under the creative direction of Manuel Lemus]. 4YFN (4 Years Fro Now, 2013) is a minimilaist custom typeface created for an event organized by Mobile World Congress. He also designed Stela UT (a layered stencil font) in 2013. Cairo Slab UT (2013) is based on an alphabet found in 100 alphabets publicitaires (1946).

    In 2014, he made an experimental connect-the-dots typeface with Drawbot. Intangibles is a custom-designed didone titling face. UT Rounded is free.

    In 2015, Wete made the angular brutalist display typeface UT Nickel.

    In 2018, Oscar Cobo and Wete co-designed the piano key variable font UT Morph, which was inspired by Wim Crouwel's Nagasaki poster.

    In 2019, Wete designed the logotype for TCM (Turner Classic Movies) and the identity and wayfinding symbols for Hotel El Call.

    Typefaces from 2021: UT Barrel (a fat face with serious ink traps).

    Behance link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Personal home page. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ultramarin
    [Finn Sködt]

    Ultramarin is the foundry of Danish designer Finn Sködt from Knebel (b. 1944, Aarhus), who created fonts such as Solaris (2011, slightly contrasted grotesk), Mentor (2011, fat pixel face), Q3 (2011, pixelish), Black Currant (2011, squarish), Zinar (Russian letter simulation, 1995), Empty Alphabet (experimental, 1998), Antikva (1999, a classic roman stone inscription alphabet), Primus Light (sans, 1994), and Black Currant (a compact sans made in 2000 for the Society of Bookcraft in Denmark).

    MyFonts link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Umberto Lignarolo

    Creator of Brace (2009), a type based on curly braces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Underware

    Underware is a (typo)graphic design-studio which is specialized in designing and producing typefaces. These are published for retail sale or are specially tailor-made. The company was founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki. Since 2002 Hugo Cavalheiro d'Alte is also part of the studio. They are based in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam. In 2017, they joined Type Network.

    Bas Jacobs and Akiem Helmling designed Dolly (2001), a 4-font book typeface with flourishes, brushy, sturdy, Dutch. They created Sofa, a precursor of Sauna (2002; +Sauna Mono Pro), which won an award at the TDC2 2003 competition. In 2002, they made Stool for a Finnish printing house, Salpausselän Kirjapaino Ltd. Ulrika is a custom display typeface designed for Proidea Oy (a Finnish film and video production company).

    Unibody 8 and 10 (2003) is a free OpenType pixel font optimized for FlashMX.

    In 2004, they created Auto, about which they write: Auto is a sans serif typeface which has three different models of italics, each with its own flavour. The font family consists of 3 x 24 fonts. With its three italics, Auto creates a new typographic palette, allowing the user to drive through unknown typographic and linguistic possibilities. Auto is fully loaded with both full Western and Eastern European character sets. Auto won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.

    Additional material on the web page: a wonderful intro to type basics, and an intro to OpenType.

    In 2004, they published the comic book / signage family Bello, which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.

    In 2005, Underware joined the type coop Village.

    In 2006, they published Fakir, a blackletter family with Hindi inspirations. Fakir won an award at TDC2 2007.

    Interview in 2008.

    In 2009, they published the connected script brush typeface Liza (+Text, Display, Caps, Ornaments), which has several versions for each letter.

    In 2015, Bas Jacobs, Akiem Helmling and Sami Kortemäki published the stencil family Tripper Pro.

    Zeitung Pro (2016) is a substantial sans family, designed for micro and macro use, with optical sizes, and a Zeitung Flex variable Opentype font to boot.

    Custom types: Stockmann Sans (2012, with Kokoro & Moi: for the Scandinavian department store), Kone (2012: for the elevator company), Mr. Porter (script with a dozen alternatives for each glyph to better simulate real handwriting; it was awarded at TDC 2012 and at Tokyo TDC 2012), Stool (Headline, Thin, Grand), Sauna Mono (for the Danish Jyske Bank), Fated (fat), Ulrika (rounded and informal, slightly plump: for Proidea Ltd, a Finnish video production company), Suunto (2012; for sports watches, i.e., Suunto's Cobra2, Vyper2 and Elementum).

    Underware received a prize in the TDC Tokyo Type Directorts Club 2020 awards for Grammato, a contribution in the area of animated and automated typography. Their typeface Y (2020) is an OpenType Variable Display typeface, based on higher order interpolation. It won an award at 23TDC.

    In 2021, Underware released Plakato Pro, a stencil family that expanded into the neon, outline, inline, video game, grunge, kitchen tile and prismatic versions.

    MyFonts interview. Type Network link.

    View Underware's typeface library. Speaker(s) at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo, where they introduce the notion of grammatography: writing with letters that are not prefabricated, but that react to the user and reader---grammatos. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Undt Typefaces
    [Marcus McCallion]

    Marcus McCallion (Undt Typefaces) is a one-man British commercial foundry located in Brighton (and now, London). He is affiliated with MyFonts. Since 2001 Marcus Leis Allion (formerly McCallion, b. London, 1971) has worked alongside Jonathan Barnbrook producing typefaces, corporate identities, and graphic design. Marcus is also Art Director of the copyleft record label LOCA Records. He also lectures at Kingston University.

    His fonts include Pills (2004, experimental), Punched (2004, experimental display face), Perfect Drug (a liquid face), Pleasure, Prevail, Prey for Satan, Priceless, Propaganda (German or Cyrillic simulation font), Pukka (squarish pixel face) and Puritan (geometry to the extreme).

    At Linotype, he published Marcu San.

    At Virus Foundry, he made Hopeless Diamond (2007, an exquisite 3d family), Expletive (2001, a great upright connected script), Echelon (2001, a paperclip type), Olympukes (2004, with Jonathan Barnbrook, was a free dingbat font at Fontshop), Olympukes 2012, State Machine (2004), Tourette and Tourette Extreme (2005, with Jonathan Barnbrook), and Regime (2009, a heavy slab serif family; with Barnbrook). In 2009, Marcus McCallion became Marcus Leis Allion. Twitface (2010) is a typeface system built from various Twitter profile pictures.

    In 2013, he created Pass-T and Pass-U, two gridded typefaces that are based on the matrix systems used on the tram and the U-Bahn in Berlin.

    Behance link. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Unique Types

    Launched in 2009, Unique Types is a special collection of fonts inspired by children suffering from physical disabilities. Each font is created under the Creative Common license and is free of rights and limitations on use. Free fonts include Ubiratan (2009, Gustavo Terra: bike dingbats), Nosewritten (2009, Welab), Iguais (2011, Paulo Bruno), Pequeninos (2011, Karina Duarte), Efeito Borboleta (2011, Yuri Chagas Lobo), Upixel (2011, Fata Comunicação), Pe da Letra (2011, Diego Araujo), Eric Oliveira (2011, Rodrigo Franz), Times To Go (2011, Danilo Siqueira), Importancia (2011, Samuel Ferreira), United (2011, Leandro Fortuna), Touching Letters (2011, Rafael Takeo), Com a outra (2011, Rodolfo Sarno), Somos Fortes (2011, Karen Sampaio), FaltaAlgumaCoisa? (2011, Karen Sampaio), Horizontes (2011, Karen Sampaio and Eduardo Batiston), Juntas (2011, Paulo Medeiros Carvalho (Feijão), NoAccess (2011, Felipe Bellintani), Connect (2011, Bruno Magalhaes), I Help AACD (2011, Felipe Vidal), Continue Caminhando (2011, Thiago Camargo), Escada X (2011, Thiago Camargo), Mobiludade Social (2011, Thiago Camargo), Nova Tipo (2011, Thiago Camargo), Yezza Font (2011, Fernando Volken Togni), Difference (2011, Giancarlo Meneghini), Perfect Font (2011, Johlen Teixeira). AACD stands for Associação de Assistência à Criança Deficiente. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Universal Thirst
    [Gunnar Vilhjalmsson]

    Icelandic designer and type designer in Reykjavik (and now Germany). Co-founder of Universal Thirst, an Indian and Icelandic type foundry that makes typefaces for the Indic, Latin and Arabic scripts. Gunnar studied graphic design at Iceland University of the Arts, and worked briefly in Reykjavik's creative industry before becoming a freelance designer and focusing on collaborations within the cultural sector. After completing his M.A. in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in 2010, he joined Monotype's London studio, working on major type projects for global brands. Since launching in 2016, Universal Thirst has taken on bespoke projects for Google, The Gourmand, Frieze Art Fair, DesignMarch, Monotype and Falcon Enamelware, and is scheduled to open its font library to the world in 2019.

    Gunnar co-designed the experimental display typeface Skuggasveinn with Siggi Eggertsson in 2005. He also co-designed Grasrot (2005). Old URL. At the University of Reading in 2010, his thesis typeface was Germain, a sturdy typeface that has some calligraphic origins (especially of course for its Arabic weight). The Latin appears to be a manly workhorse.

    Ryman Eco is a free multilined typeface created in 2014 by Dan Rhatigan and Gunnar Vilhjálmsson at Monotype that satisfies its two design goals---beauty and economy (it uses 33% less ink than a normal text font).

    In 2015, he developed a bespoke typeface for The Gourmand Magazine in cooperation with The Gourmand's artistic director, David Lane. The resulting typefaces, Gourmand Grotesque 777 and 888 won a bronze medal at the 2015 European design Awards competition.

    In 2019, Gunnar Vilhjalmsson, Kalapi Gajjar and the Linotype design Studio developed the 5-style Linotype Gujarati for use in print and on the screen. In 2019, he was part of a team that extended Matthew Carter's Devanagari from 1977 into Linotype Devanagari.

    Speaker at and coorganizer of ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Unlucky89

    Malaysian creator (b. 1989) of the experimental typefaces Reindeer (2011) and Ohm (2011). No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ursa Minor
    [Alex Tomlinson]

    Alex Tomlinson is an illustrator and graphic designer in Portsmouth, UK, b. 1992, who studied at Kingston University, and set up the Ursa Minor type foundry. In 2010 he designed the experimental fonts Drugs, Obesity and Prodigium OS. In 2020, he published Whirly Birdie (a variable font a display typeface inspired by American advertising of the 50s). In 2021, he designed the postage stamp style Bird Lore Capitals. It is accompanied by Grinnell (2021), a display typeface that was inspired by the nameplate lettering of the "Bird Lore" (now Audubon) magazine of the 1940s.

    Home page. Cargo Collective link. Another home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Urunoru: うろのる

    Kyoto, Japan-based designer of the experimental pixelish stencil typeface 3t3 5x3 (2015). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Utzey

    Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the experimental font Elharian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Uusimaa Type Foundry Incorporated
    [Stephen Bird]

    Experimental fonts developed by Steve (Stephen) Bird (aka Stehvelo), a Brit who has lived over 30 years near Helsinki. Direct download. The fonts:

    • Spyroclassic (2007): geometric text font. Its partner is Spyrogeometric (2007, avant-garde style).
    • Pixel typefaces: S64.
    • Display typefaces: Newsiren (2007), Spike (2007), Sfilth (2007), Santiako (2007, ultra-geometric sans), siren4 (2000), Splekta (2012, grotesk).
    • Scanbats: Stampere
    • Unicase: Bayer (2002, aka Sbayer), Chic (2002, aka Sheek).
    • Paperclip typefaces: Kaapeli (2002), Scable (2008-2017).
    • Stencil typefaces: Sblock
    • Disturbing the *** fonts: Stratford (2007, an angular typeface designed on the basis the 2012 Olympics logo typeface by Gareth Hague), Snevil (2007, a sans based on Neville Brody's work for FACE: upper case and lower case letters of the same size).
    • Nice text typefaces: Snidane (2007).
    • Rubber stamp fonts: Stamp
    • Experimental: Shardikka (2018), Strzeminski (2007, a decorative futuristic font with two baselines, after a 1932 original by Jan Strzeminski).
    • Other: Smerkan (2007-2018), Slimbits (2014), Schalk (2012, chalky), Splekta (2012, grotesk sans), Pyoro (2002, a geometrical sans), Pyoroblur-Bold (2007), SBHandRegular (2007), Shrbitov (2012, based on letters seen on a memorial in Prague).
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    Uvin Gunasena

    Graphic designer from Colombo, Sri Lanka. Creator of the experimental Mutation Typography alphabet in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valentin Adam

    French graphic designer who spent 2007-2009 at Ensaama Olivier de Serres in Paris. He does experimental type. His creations include Fake, Madone, Composite, Hommes Femmes (2008: geometric solid) Eleanor (hard sans), Marlene (octagonal), Magdalena, Versailles, Strates (multilined), Vanina-Vanina (artsy hairline sans), Quarante Cinq, TweenLady, Tatiana (hairline) and Lettuce. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valentin Wühr

    Muenchen-based designer of several experimental and deconstructed typefaces in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valentina Erofeeva

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow who created the experimental Cyrillic display typefaces UFO (2015), Mangal (2015) and Mehanicheskij Ubivec (2014, "mechanical killer"). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valentina Terzieva

    Graphic artist in London who mixed Kino and Harrington in a cloning experiment (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valentina Valldejuli

    During her photography and graphic design studies in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2015, Valentina Valldejuli created an experimental typeface, a gorgeous art deco set of numbers, and some comic book typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valeria García Yannoni

    Argentinian designer of the experimental typeface Yannon (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valerie Schäfers

    Student at the University of Wuppertal who made the experimental typeface hEAR (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valerie Van den Eynden

    At the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Valerie Van den Eynden designed a circle-based experimental font (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vanessa Serka

    Zagreb, Croatia-based designer of the ultra-fat typeface Rockflick (2015), Pirate Glyphicons (2015), and the Roman capitals typeface Dafnis (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vanessa Zuñiga
    [Amuki Studio]

    [More]  ⦿

    Vasgrav
    [Vasilis Gravaritis]

    Vasgrav is Vasilis Gravaritis, a graphic and type designer in Athens, Greece. He created the ultra-experimental typeface Athina in 2010. Triori (2010) has a grid-based design. Vasarely (2010) is based on the principle that horizontal lines through glyphs cause a flip from black to white and vice versa. This op-art typeface is named after Hungarian artist victor vasarely. In 2011, he designed Linus (squarish).

    In 2013, he published the condensed arc-based monoline sans typeface Capsula.

    Behance link. Hellofont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasil Stanev
    [VSF (or: Vasil Stanev Foundry)]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vasileios Synanidis
    [We Love Rain]

    [More]  ⦿

    Vasilis Gravaritis
    [Vasgrav]

    [More]  ⦿

    Vectro Type Foundry (was: Scribble Tone)
    [Lizy Gershenzon]

    Vectro Type Foundry is a Portland, OR-based type foundry with a curiosity for experimentation and technology. It is the type design branch of Scribble Tone (Portland, OR), which in turn was founded by Lizy Gershenzon and Travis Kochel. Lizy leads marketing and product strategy for Vectro. She is also a founder and owner of Future Fonts. During the last 10 years she has been a partner at Scribble Tone focusing on digital product design and strategy. She also contracts as a digital ux and product designer. Travis leads type design and direction for Vectro. He is also a founder and owner of Future Fonts. During the last 10 years he has been a partner at Scribble Tone focusing on type design and development.

    Warning: When I am on the Vectro site, my computer goes in overdrive and heats up, as if Vectro is an agent for bitcoin mining. I hope that this technical problem can be fixed.

    Their typefaces at Scribble Tone, Future Fonts and Vectro Type:

    • Skyward Sans (a free Hylian alphabet featured in Zelda's Skyward Sword).
    • Kicker (2012-2018). A layerable neon light font.
    • Iso (2018: a monospaced almost typewriter font). They write: It was inspired by old cameras, specifically Leicas and Nikons, which have really warm, slightly goofy, and tactile engraved text all over. Iso was renamed Vctr Mono in 2021.
    • The experimental prismatic variable font Whoa (2019).
    • Analog (2013, Travis Kochel). iA new take on wide industrial sans serifs.
    • Kablammo (2022).
    • Wildberry (2021, Travis Kochel). Based on the brushy lettering found on U.S. National Wilderness signage and trailhead signposts.
    • Chartwell (2011, Travis Kochel).
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Veerle Pennock

    During her studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands-based Verrle Pennock created the minimalist experimental typeface Reflection Pro (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Velckro

    Madrid-based Spanish graphic and type designer who made the experimental typefaces Pochismo (2012), Tanga-Tanga (2012), Maria Antonia (a free alchemic font made for Neo2 Mag #107), Viruta (2008, woozy letters), Papela (2009, an origami font), and Vinagre (2008).

    In 2012, he published the caps family Morcillona.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Velimir Pavic

    Croatian Masters student in graphics technologies and engineering in Zagreb, 2010-2011. He created the modular display typeface Fade (2010) which makes creative use of ball terminals. Quarity (2011) is an experimental labyrinthine face.

    In 2013, during his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb, he created Touch, a piano key typeface on a didone base. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Velvetyne Type Foundry (or: VTF)
    [Frank Adebiaye]

    Velvetyne Type Foundry (or VTF) is the French foundry of Parisian Frank Adebiaye (b. 1982, Versailles). It used to be called Velvetyne TypeForgery because he uses FontForge to design all his free fonts, which come complete with FontForge sources. Originally, it had many free fonts by Frank Adebiaye himself. At some point, it became more of a coop, and started publishing experimental typefaces by several contributors and collaborators. These fonts are reported elsewhere on my pages under the names of their designers.

    Creator of some free (often experimental) fonts in 2010-2011. Cooperators include Sylvain Henri, Jérémy Landes-Nones, and Sébastien Hayez. Frank's typefaces:

    • Ajonc.
    • Babacar (2012). He calls it an African fractur.
    • Babbage.
    • Backout (2012). He writes about this flared poster all-caps typeface: BackOut is what an African Albertus could be.
    • Barjavel and Barjavel Mono.
    • Basteljau.
    • Bi-lined typefaces: Eighteen, Bachibouzouk.
    • Bluff, Bold, Boxer, Cardinal, Grotesk, Jimmy: geometric experiments.
    • Chaumont: ransom note family.
    • Chedid.
    • Combat (2015). A wedge serif based on the title of an early 20th century anarchist newspaper published in Limoges, France, called Le combat social.
    • Compute, Elektron: computer-inspired typefaces.
    • Coqnegre Perspective: angular face.
    • Coqnegre Turismo, Stencil: art deco stencil typefaces.
    • Experimental typefaces: Blanka, Courrrier (sic), Faber, Firenze, Five, Georges, Ink, Jake, Lenny, Normant.
    • Fabuliste: an experimental modern face.
    • Fersen.
    • Forward (2021). A commercial futuristic font at Future Fonts, co-designed with Studio Triple.
    • Frank: monospaced techno blackletter face.
    • Geek, Inky, Marcelle, Ping: playful typefaces.
    • Gegenwart.
    • Gorki and Gorki Block: a pixel typeface and a constructivist brother.
    • VTF Grotesk (2010).
    • Format 1452: a DIN style typeface.
    • Hangul: A Korean simulation font.
    • Konzern: a texture font.
    • Kravitz.
    • Leyde.
    • Lineal: clean sans.
    • Lment.
    • Mandeville.
    • Mainz: Ornaments based on sewer plate designs in Mayence.
    • Manset: a geometric sans.
    • Meginhart.
    • Mercandieu: grotesk.
    • Metropolis.
    • Mono (2011). A monoline sans.
    • Mont Chauve: experimental.
    • Mourier. Based on a geometric alphabet created in 1973 by Danish graphic designer Eric Mourier. The font uses square of 7 x 7 units and consists of unclosed lines. The first and only use was in the booklet The Myth about Bird B by Knud Holten. Sébastien Hayez was the first to digitize the typeface (in 2002). Published by Velvetyne in 2011.
    • Murat.
    • Mutations.
    • New Wave: avant-garde.
    • Nkm.
    • Pierrafeu. A brush face.
    • Pompidou.
    • Prospective, Robusto Mechanica, Grey Charles: more geometric experiments.
    • Radikal.
    • Resistance (2016). A geometric sans serif created using Glyphr Studio by the students of ENSAD Paris at La Gééale.
    • Rhinox.
    • Rnic. A runic simulation typeface.
    • Sagittaire.
    • Slang.
    • Stencil typefaces: Free Jazz, Rogue Leader, Rogue Two, Stencil.
    • Steps Mono Mono (2015). An octagonal monospaced typeface created for the magazine Étapes.
    • Therow.
    • Thiefaine.
    • Vielfalt: dingbats.
    • Waltenberg.
    • Wozniak.
    • Zukunft (+Oblique): a geometric sans family.

    Author of a book on the life and work of Fran+çois Boltana (2012, with Suzanne Cardinal).

    Behance link. Open Font Library link. Klingspor link. Home page. Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vera Nunes

    Designer and illustrator in Lisbon, who created the expermental typeface Raposa (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Verena Seele

    Stuttgart, Germany-based self-appointed Visueller Kommunist (visual communist). Designer of Typeface Remixes & Remakes (2016), in which she recombines old Letraset fonts to make a slightly neurotic and nostalgic display typeface.

    In 2017, she designed a set of experimental typefaces called Hellvetica. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Verginiya Kadina

    Is it possible to design a typeface that is simultaneously octagonal and elliptical? The answer is an emphatic yes---as Verginiya Kadina shows in her 2011 creation called Kadina, which was finished while she was an MFA student at Lindenwood University in Saint Charles, MO.

    Now located in Boston, she created a delicate experimental curved grid typeface in 2012.

    Kadina Design link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Veronique Verbraeken

    Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where she designed the wonderful experimental font Nix. She lives in Lint. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vextor Art
    [Matthew Stork]

    American designer of Cell Bloch (2012, experimental), Astral Wave (2012, wavy) and Atlantius (2012, hand-printed). Atlantius is a font inspired by Sumerian cuneiform writing and hieroglyphics. Big Fat Marker (2012) and Marker Comp (2013) are fat finger fonts. Fonts made in 2013 include Cosmic Cube, Spindly Legs (hand-printed), Three Ring Circus and Martianesque. Several of his fonts are made with FontStruct.

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Via Grafik Gestaltungsbüro (was: Meanworks)
    [André Nossek]

    André Nossek (b. 1975) studied Communications Design at the University of Applied Sciences there. He founded the artists collective Via Grafik in 2003. Andrédesigned the fine screen (pixel) fonts Erebus (2000), Hunter (2000), Organ (2000), Dictator (2000), Hacker (2000), Ivorg (2000), Robotron (2000), Limbex (2001, in the Fontomas collection), Linotype Killer (a fat face), as well as Dictator. Sassy (2006) appeared at Die Gestalten.

    At Garcia Fonts, he created the grunge typefaces Kentucky (1997) and Dr. Zaius (1997). His design bureau in Mainz, Germany, is involved in graphics, illustration and typography. For a while available in Mac and PC formats at the HI-TYPE site. In 2004, he made the experimental face Slave for Neo2 magazine.

    FontShop link. Linotype link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vian Peanu

    Bucharest-based partner in Dos Cabrones, with Andrei Ograda. His fonts can be bought under the name at Creative Market.

    Vian Peanu designed Cirquit, It's Friday, Dioda, Sting, Desgraciado, Daedal, Bastard, Minette, Magnus (rounded piano key face), Lacuna (hairline stencil), Fat Lady (2010), Cylon, Dgtl, Kalypso, Sting, Passio, Maha, Qanat, It's Friday, Violently Violent (2011, art deco/piano key family), Asymptote (2011, thin display face).

    In 2012, Vian Peanu and Andrei Ograda co-designed Venin (a beautiful high-contrast thorned fashion mag family with art deco aspirations). Vian designed the layered typeface Uxie.

    Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vicente Garcia Morillo

    Art director from Madrid. Creator of the experimental patterns typeface Mowon (2009) and of the frilly Baudelaire (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vicente Lamónaca

    This Montevideo-based designer (b. 1967, Mexico City) has a degree in Graphic Design from the University ORT Uruguay. He lives in Montevideo since 1985. Since 2000, he teaches in the area of publishing in the Faculty of Communication and Design at University ORT in Montevideo, in the Faculty of Communication and Design. Since 2005 he is also teaching Typography II. He is a partner of the design studio Taller de Comunicación. Economica is said to be the first digital typeface made in Uruguay. Lamonaca is Director of Tipografia-Montevideo, Uruguay's first site dedicated entirely to typography. In 2011, he started his own blog, type portal and foundry, called Fábrica de tipos. Many of his recent typefaces are published with TipoType.

    Lamonaca created the experimental typefaces Quetzal and Equis Normal. He also made Chau Trouville (2010, a slab serif), Chau Philomène (2010, Google Web Fonts), Chau La Madeleine (2010, slightly elliptical), and Chau Marbella.

    Other typefaces: Muzarela (2011), Económica Sans Serif (2007, see also MyFonts or Google Web Fonts), Economica Cyrillic Pro (2016, with Sergiy Tkachenko), Economica Next (2017, with José Perdomo), Wurz and Wurz Display (2013), St Patrick (2013, TipoType---the oblique version of San Benito), Korn (2013, grunge), Arya (2013, a solid, bilined or trilined all caps sans family, Tipotype; extended in 2017 to Arya Rounded), Prevya (2013, inspired by the metalwork of the early twentieth century), Yapa (2013, a display titling typeface followed by Yapa Rough in 2014), and San Benito (2012, bold blackletter style).

    Editor of Tipografía Latnoamericana (2013, Wolkowicz Publishers), a book with contributions by Zalma Jalluf, Ewan Clayton, Julio Ferro, Eduardo Rodríguez Tunni, Fernando Díaz, Lautaro Hourcade, Viviana Monsalve, Patricia Benítez, Fabio Ares, María Laura Fernández, Miguel Catopodis, Alejandro Valdez, Juan Heilborn, César Puertas, Ignacio Martínez-Villalba, Felipe Cáceres, Francisco Calles, Crist&ocute;bal Henestrosa, María Teresa Bruno, Juan Pablo del Peral, Fábio Lopez, Fábio Haag, Tony de Marco, Francisco Gálvez, Marcela Romero, Aldo de Losa, Henrique Nardi, Gustavo Wojciechowski, Marina Chaccur, Juan Carlos Darias, Víctor García, Marina Garone Gravier, Juan Pablo de Gregorio, Cláudio Rocha, Cecilia Consolo, Pablo Cosgaya, Alejandro Paul, Rubén Fontana, Diego Vainesman, Oscar Yáñez, Dave Crossland.

    In 2017, Tipotype published Vicente Lamoncaca's 48-font family Arazati which was inspired by Edward Johnston's (humanistic sans) typefaces, although its design is not based on a literal reconstruction. Two monospaced variants called Arazati Codex are free. Arazati is the name of the place in Uruguay where Johnston was born in 1872. Arazati moved over to Underground in 2019.

    In 2018, he published the exclusive angular text typeface Alacena---only 220 licenses will be sold.

    Bio. Google Plus link. Klingspor link.

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    Victoria Silova

    During her studies at Stroganov University of Arts & Industry, Moscow-based Victoria Silova designed the experimental geometric typeface Bukva (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Victoria-Adelaide Bielmann

    During her studies, Lyon, France-based Victoria-Adelaide Bielmann designed the experimental decorative typeface Inception (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viktor Földi

    During his graphic design studies in Budapest, Hungary, Viktor Földi created a Chinese simulation typeface based on Rubik's cube, called Qubik (2014). This experimental innovative typeface family is worth a closer look.

    In 2015, he created the hipster typeface Parisiana. In 2018, he developed Resto, a font in which some glyphs of the free Montserrat font are recycled. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viktor Hammarberg

    Karlskrona, Sweden-based designer of the rune simulation typeface Fort Wendy (2014), The Medic (2014), Coco Puff (2014), Maniac (2014: avant garde), Agony (2014: hairline circle-based experimental typeface), Acne (2014), and the hairline sans typeface Galacticastle (2014).

    Dafont link. Aka Viktor Hamburger. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viktor Kharyk

    Ukrainian designer, b. Kiev, 1957. Graduate of the Senior College for Print and Design in Kiev in 1982. Viktor became art director at Sphera in Kiev. Main type designer at Düsseldorf-based company Unique GmbH since 1998. In 2012, he cofounded Apostrof with Konstantin Golovchenko. He designs Armenian, Greek, Georgian, Devanagari, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Arabic fonts, and is particularly interested in revivals of ancient, forgotten, or historically important typefaces and writing systems. His work:

    • At Elsner and Flake, he published EF Bilibin (2004, uncial), EF Abetka (2004), EF Gandalf (2004, uncial), Bilbo (2004-2008, an uncial family), Kiev EF (2002), Lanzug EF (2002, letters as zippers), Rose Deco EF (2001), EF Elf (2002, imitating Tolkien's writing), EF Deco Uni (2001-2004), EF Deco Akt Light (2001-2004), EF Fairy Tale (2003-2008, caps face), EF Varbure (2004, an experimental family), Rose Garden EF (2001, initial caps ornamented with roses; the text is uncial), and Viktors Raven EF (a spectacular caps font with letters made out of a raven).
    • At MasterFont: Abetka MF (1999, with Alexeev), Kiev MF (1976-2003), and Netta MF (1999, text family). These fonts have Latin and Hebrew components.
    • At Paratype, he published Uni Opt (2007, Op Art letters based on free brush technique similar to experimental lettering of the early decades of the 20th century; for instance to Graficheskaya Azbuka (Graphic ABC) by Peter Miturich and works by Victor Vasareli), Joker (1978, a subtractive font---since 2000, also in Cyrillic, Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Georgian, Armenian and Arabic), Blooming Meadow (2007, flowery ornaments), Bogdan Rejestrowy and Bogdan Siczowy (2006, based on Ukrainian Skoropis (fast handwriting) of the 16th and 17th centuries, and named after Ukrainian Getman Bogdan Khmelnitsky. The character set contains Cyrillic, Old Slavonic, Glagolitic, Latin and Greek alphabets), Lidia (2006, a lined engraving typeface based on a 1967 font by Iraida Chepil for Polygraphmash).
    • At 2D Typo: Florentin 2D (2011, angular family), New Hotinok 2D (2010, with Henadij Zarechnijuk).
    • Other work: Simeon 2D (2011, 2D Typo), some fonts at Face Typesetting (1970s), Getto (1970s), White Raven (2002), Handwritten Poluustav Ioan Cyrillic (1999-2001), Letopis (1983), New Zelek (1980s), UniAkt (2001, based on Unifont, an erotic caps face, done with Natalia Makievska).
    • Free fonts at Google Web Fonts, published via Cyreal: Iceberg (2012, octagonal).
    • Cyrillizations by Viktor Kharyk: Data 70 (1976; original from 1970 by R. Newman), ITC American Typewriter, Bullion Shadow (1984; of the shadow font Bullion Shadow (1978; original from 1970 by Face Photosetting), Calypso (1984; of Excoffon's 1958 original), Lazybones (1980s; of a 1972 Letraset font with the same name), Glagolitic (1983, Elvira Slysh, digitized in 2003), Augustea (1947, Allessandro Butti), Stencil (after a 1938 typeface by R.H. Middleton called Stencil), Columna (1980s; after Max Caflisch's original from 1955), Sistina (1951, Hermann Zapf), Weiss Kapitale (1935, Emil Rudolf Weiss), Vivaldi (1965, Friedrich Peter), ITC Tiffany (1974, Ed Benguiat, digitized in 1995), ITC Bookman Herb Lubalin (1974, digitized in 1980s), Berthold Cyrillic Helvetica Cyrillic (1980), Churchward Galaxy (1970s, J. Churchward, digitized in 1980s), Olive Bold Condensed (1980s, original of Roger Excoffon in 1962-1966), Motter Ombra (1980, original by O. Motter in 1975), Sinaloa (1981, original by Odermatt and Tissi in 1972), Serif Gothic (1990, original by Herb Lubalin and Tony DiSpigna in 1974), Dynamo (1980s, original of K. Sommer in 1930), EF Gimli and EF Gloin (2004-2010, mediaeval typefaces done at Elsner&Flake together with Marina Belotserkovskaja).
    • Other typefaces: Lili (multilined), Rutenia (by Henadij Zarechjuk and Viktor Kharyk).

    At TypeArt 01, he won first prize with Varbur Grotesque (1999-2001, with Natalia Makeyeva), third prize with Joker (1970-2000), and honorable mention with Abetka. At TypeArt 05, he received awards for UniOpt (2002, Kafkaeqsue Op Art display style) and Blooming Meadow (dingbats). In 2009, his 2006 digitization of Anatoly Shchukin's 1968 typeface Ladoga (+Text, +Display, +Ladoga Armenian) won an award at Paratype K2009.

    In 2016, Henadij Zarechnjuk and Viktor Kharyk designed Dnipro for Apostrof. The Cyrillic version of this font follows Ukrainian decorative traditions, initiated by Georgy Narbut and Mark Kirnarsky in the 1920s and continued until the 1980s. The Latin part has an uncial character.

    Typefaces made in 2018: Algor, Zluka (with Henadij Zarechnjuk; named after The Act Zluka, or Ukraine's Unification Act of 1919), XX Sans, Yurch (developed by Henadij Zarechnjuk and Viktor Kharyk by samples of calligraphic lettering by Ukrainian book designer Volodymyr Yurchyshyn), heb? [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Viktoriya Nestroynaya

    At the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, Viktoriya Nestroynaya created the display typefaces Crosstype (2017) and Gestures (2017), and a painted experimental Cyrillic typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viktorya Makovskaya

    Minsk, Belarus-based designer of the geometric typefaces Dotted (2019: an interrupted glyph typeface with a molecular feel), Lines (2019), Area Lines (2019), the geometric solid typeface Area (2019) and the multiline typeface Cables (2019) for Cyrillic and Latin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vincent Hardy

    San Francisco, CA-based designer of Kidag 3D (2018: a 3d version of David Samuel Oluwadamilare's Kidag font) and the modular 3d typeface Mod (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vincent Lacombe
    [Marginal Type]

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    Vincent Perrottet

    Designer of several multicolored type experiments from 2005 until 2008. The pictures below are taken from the thesis of Thomas L'Excellent. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vincent Puren

    Graphic designer, painter and illustrator from Clichy, France. He created Alphabook (2010), an experimental typeface inspired by the folding of books. Blog. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vincent Schwenk

    Hamburg, Germany-based creator of the free image font Baluga (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vincenzo Vuono

    Cupertino, CA (was: Palermo, Sicily)-based designer of Gravity, a compass-and-ruler font that is going to be used as an official font by Accademia di Belle Arti Palermo. He created the free experimental type family Mun (2012).

    He graduated from the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2015. His graduation project was Ruota (2015). Ruota is a superfamily is designed for the digital era, and intends to harmonize Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai and Arabic.

    Behance link. Graphicbox link. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vineet Prasad

    Preston, UK-based designer of a multiscripted experimental Indic typeface in 2013, called Letters to India. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vinicius Vargas

    Pelotas, Brazil-based designer of the experimental typeface Temporgal (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vinterstille
    [Klaus Nielsen]

    Vinterstille is Klaus Nielsen's Danish foundry in Aarhus (which used to be in Aalborg), set up in 2001. He used to have these freeware fonts: The Handwriting of Barbie's Jealous Sister (2001), RubThis (2002, grunge), Antfarm (texture face), WankerHand (2002), Stylebats Cleancut (2002, dingbats), Problematic Piercer (2011, experimental typeface based on body rings), and LonesomeLiar (2003). But all his fonts are commercial now. They are designed with full character sets for all Scandinavian languages as well as German. In 2015, Klaus designed the pixel typeface Parametric Glitch.

    Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vishwajeet Sawant

    During his studies in Pune, Vishwajeet Sawant designed the circle-based typeface Orby (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vision

    Russian designer of the hyper-experimental typeface Vision Division (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vista Ridar

    Creator of the experimental geometric modular typeface Ramasuri (2011, OFL). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vitaly Friedman
    [Sexy, bold and experimental typography]

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    Vitaly Ilyasov

    Branding and graphic designer in Moscow, who has made some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vitek Prchal

    Brno (was: Jihlava), Czechia-based designer of the hand-printed typeface families Hugo (2015, outlined and handcrafted), Snacker (2015, sans), Claire (2015, with Halloweenish Extras), Radka (2015) and Handy (2015) and of Personal Abstract Font (2015).

    Typefaces from 2016 include Ice Cream Font, Stack Up (handcrafted), Organic (handcrafted), Hippo In The Woods, Paoul (handcrafted), Cheesecake (brush font), George and Francis.

    Typefaces from 2017: Aloha from Deer (handcrafted and counterless). Behance link. Another Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vitor Braz

    Lisbon, Portugal-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Agaro (2011), the neon tube typeface Bulb (2011), Punku (2011), and the high-contrast fashion mag caps typeface Esquise (2011).

    In 2013, he designed the alchemic typeface Lunaria.

    Cargo collective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vivien Gorse

    Vivien Gorse (Toulouse, France) is a freelance designer who created these typefaces:

    • Inland Series (2014-2015). A revival of Inland Series (1895, Nicholas Werner, Inland Type Foundry). This typeface adds many Victorian or steampunk elements to a didone skeleton. It is also called Edwards, and Bizarre Bold (the BBS name of Edwards).
    • Rotury (2015). Also based on Inland Series.
    • Grosse Black (2014). A black slab serif typeface, ideal for poster work. Followed by the fat face Grosse in 2016.
    • Sèche Narrow (2015).
    • Beotian (2015). A German expressionist or heavy blackletter typeface.
    • Melville Bold (2015). A condensed grotesque titling face inspired by the work of French cinematographer Jean-Pierre Melville.
    • Moche (2014).
    • Lizard (2014).
    • Kanyon (2012). Experimental type.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vivien Lambert

    As a graphic design student in London, Vivien Lambert created the experimental typeface SAK (2014) as a tribute to Karl Elsener's iconic Swiss Army Knife. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vivien Urtiaga

    Paris-based web and graphic designer who made ElektroKlash (2009, experimental), 2KX (2010), Cosmo Bar (2011) and Hang On Type (2009, fat and counterless). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viyaleta Kublickaja

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Vilnius, Lithuania. Creator of Cocktail Font (2012), an experimental typefaces based on flexible straws. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vlad Ayuev

    Moscow-based creator of the experimental Cyrillic typeface Velvet Moss (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Fedotov
    [VP Creative Shop]

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    Vladimir Kolomeytsev

    As part of Kiosk Works (or: Playfaces Type foundry) in Moscow, Russia, Vladimir Kolomeytsev (Moscow) designed the experimental typeface Forma Bold (2019), influenced by Nebiolo's Forma. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Koncar

    Koncar is a visual artist and designer born in 1979 in Bjelovar, Croatia. He lives in Zagreb where he works as art director, information architect and designer at the multidisciplinary design studio Revolucija, which he co-founded in 2004. He is into experimental typography, by which he means that he creates alphabets (not fonts) out of objects. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Mitrovic

    Melbourne, Australia-based creator of Convergence (2014), an experimental typeface inspired by the dynamic forms of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladislav Krukovsky

    During his studies in Minsk, Belarus, Vladislav Krukovsky designed the triangulated hyper-experimental Cyrillic typeface Constructivism (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Volcano Type (MAGMA)
    [Lars Harmsen]

    Magma Brand Design in Karlsruhe, Germany evolved in 2004 into Volcano Type. Magma is headed by Lars Harmsen (b. Hannover, 1964) and Ulrich Weiss. Lars Harmsen spent the first four years of his life in Chicago. He then moved to Geneva with his parents for eight years, and then moved to Karlsruhe. He completed his schooling at the French section at the European School. He first studied history and Germanics in Freiburg before beginning to study design at Basel, Boston, Saarbrücken and Pforzheim. He got his degree in graphic design, and in 1996 he founded MAGMA [Büro für Gestaltung] together with Ulrich Weiß. He is the co-founder of STARSHOT GmbH, a design company for sports products, now based in Munich. MAGMA created Type Foundry Volcano-Type.de and the internet forum Slanted.de. In the meantime, Slanted.de has become the most active German typography forum. Volcano Type offers commercial and some free typefaces: DigiBo (Boris Kahl), Objects (free ransom typeface by the house), MonoPoint and DoublePoint (monospace dot matrix families by the house), Amiga Normal and Rounded (pixel typefaces by Boris Kahl), Screeny, Pixel and C64 Style (pixel typefaces by Boris Kahl), Fette Pixel (pixel typeface by Florian Gärtner), Teckbo (digital typeface by Boris Kahl, who writes: Retro-Avant-Garde for Club-Flyer-Honks and Plastic-Pussy-Chicks), Psycho (grunge by Boris Kahl), Wald Ast (tree branch look by Sandra Augstein), Wald Blatt (tree leaf look by Tanja Rastätter), Rollerblind (a pair of dot matrix typefaces by Boris Kahl), Chaucer (uncial by Boris Kahl), Glossy (dot matrix typeface by Sandra Hofacker), Brüll (a funny frog dingbat typeface by Andre Rösler), Pax (a free peace symbol typeface by Heidrun Weißschädel and Alexander Kassel), Mud (free typeface by Boris Kahl). And these display typefaces by Florian Gärtner: Republic, Tacora. And finally the Fone 1 through 3 grunge typefaces by Florian Gärtner. The typefaces of Lars Harmsen (or co-designed by him) at Volcano:

    • African look typefaces: Masai
    • Athletic lettering: Sports (grungy, with Kahl), Sports Skinny.
    • Blackletter: Fraktape Duct, Fraktape Sticky, Fraktendon (=Fraktur+Clarendon, co-designed with Kahl), Trigot (2010, modular, semi-blackletter by Michael Hubner), Black Sirkka, Frakturbo, SAR-Lupe
    • Diabolo
    • Dingbats: Genocide (free). Mr. J. Smith Eye, Mr. J. Smith Head, Mr. J. Smith Mouth, Mr. J. Smith Nose, and Mr. J. Smith Wanted are experimental dingbat typefaces by Nikolaii Renger, based on an idea of Lars Harmsen, and digitized by Ulrich Weiss and Boris Kahl. These won an award at the 2005 FUSE competition.
    • Experimental: Sewed (2009, stitched letters), Cross Fourty, Cross Sixty, Cross Ten, Cross Thirty, Cross Twenty, Cross Ultra
    • Grunge: Basalt, Magneta, Punta Negra, Mrs. Tape Tape
    • Hand-drawn: B-Scratch (2009, Harmsen and Egger's take on sketched letters), Amebo, Diabolo, Keycaps, Kulli (curly), Oboni, Wawe, Tape One Bold, Tapemate Outline, Tapemate Regular, Tape One Bold
    • LED style: Digibeck (Boris Kahl, 2000: a DVD player font), Strichcode (a family co-designed with Kahl).
    • Kitchen tile typefaces: Bus, Bus PI, both done with Boris Kahl.
    • Oriental simulation: Japanese
    • Patriot family, done with Boris Kahl: Saddam, Commander Robot, Fidel, Slobbodan, Osama, George.
    • Ransom note face: Kriminal
    • Sans families: Copy (2009).

    Behance link. Klingspor link. Volcano Type link. MAGMA Brand Design link.

    Their bestsellers at MyFonts. View Volcano's complete typeface library. See also here and here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Volker Busse
    [F25 Digital Typeface Design]

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    Voon

    Designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to make Stripes (an interesting and delicate dot matrix face), Firstone and FirstCut (both experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vormplatform
    [Guido de Boer]

    Founded by Guido de Boer (Utrecht), Vormplatform is a Dutch studio in which Roosmarijn ten Hoopen, Studio Airport, Ferry Booms and Jeroen van Loon participate. This is an eye candy site, where one can also find their free twitterware typeface Bariol (2012, +Italic), a rounded sans monoline with a large set of icons. This typeface was published by Atipo in Spain.

    In 2013, Guido designed the rounded sans typeface 225 Rounds.

    In 2016, for the city of Utrecht, he designed the daptive typeface U-Type.

    Personal web site. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    VP Creative Shop
    [Vladimir Fedotov]

    Bulgarian designer (b. 1991, Varna) of these typefaces in 2017: Nova (a great logo font), Selfish Script, Delicious Yellow Script, Emanuela (a charming upright calligraphic script), Mikaela Script, Sailor (handcrafted), Parrot, Octopus, Everest Script, Stork, Dork, Boxo, Pino.

    Typefaces from 2018: Cross Road, Desire, Marvin, Contraband (all caps display sans), Christmas (a ball terminal-laden font), Trixie, Musa, Vendée, Just Because, Splendor, Vovchik (art deco), Varna, Summer, Jane Doe, Opinio, Melancholy, MadHouse Sans, Rebel, Irina, Gentleman (art deco), Fancy, Rhino, Rimini, Tamira (high contrast luxury font), Aria (ultra-condensed), Elena, Good Wish, Kavaler (fashion mag typeface), April, Belinda Script, North East (high-contrast family), Golden Bird Serif (a fashion mag typeface), Dark Heart (an eerie typeface), Nova Logo, Maria (blackboard bold), Signature VP, Moderna, Hashtag, Fonatik, Sugar Serif, Spice Serif, Highway (vintage script), Ravenside (a fashion mag typeface family), Georgia (stylish), Pandora Display (piano key typeface), Desislava (a fashion sans with several selections of textures; the outline style is free), Young Rebel (a partially free spurred font duo), Alexandria (piano key style), Blu Purpl (a partly free sci-fi typeface family), Kalpazan (partly free: a tall condensed unicase font), Pinchik (a simple rounded sans), Echo (14-style squarish sans), Elephant (with a free Outline style), Golden Age (curly calligraphic script), Rose Gold (fashion mag serif), Godlike (monoline script).

    Typefaces from 2019: Propaganda, Mallie, Clementine Script, Phoeniks, Orenda (script), Monument, Rose Gold (a fashion mag typeface), Sunflower (+Script), Gentleman, Minibus, Lelushka (an inky brush script), Mondaze, Kindel (a stylish geometric typeface family), Kalorama (a font duo), Fabulist, Explorers, Errorist, Afterclap, Lotus Eater, Cute Animals, Black Gold (a stylish all caps typeface), Mantrum (brush), Highway (script), Exquisite, Belinda, Tamira, Pathway Script, Sunlight, Serendius, Portraits, Hysteria Script, Bock, Indigo, Bosnia (a monolinear all caps sans), Hippo Sans Serif, Zemarah (calligraphic), Portraits, Mooka Powder (font duo), Momentus, Searchlight, Dream (a fashion mag headline typeface), Melancholy, Knowhere (grunge), Elena (a luxury serif), Hashtag Moderna (a Peignotian sans), Musa Display, Ultimus and Ultimus Serif (fashion mag fonts), Alpha.

    Typefaces from 2020: Black Gold VP (a high contrast display font; with Plamen Petrov), Kompot (a condensed all caps decorative serif; co-designed with Plamen Petrov), Chalga VP (a decorative serif co-designed with Plamen Petrov), Ablation (a 6-style all caps geometric sans jointly done by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Midnight Tales (vintage decorative caps jointly done by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Akros (a fashion mag font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Daylight Dreams (a festive all caps typeface by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Zink VP (a bold all caps sans by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Billionaire Club (art deco caps; by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Blackpaper (a negative space font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Metria Street (a monolinear condensed interlocking sans by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Monday Boulevard (an all caps art deco typeface by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Sombre (a negative space font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Bubbble Gum (a 10-style rounded monolinear sans by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Equinox VP (a futuristic all caps font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Inertia (a logo font, with Plamen Petrov), Inure (a ball terminal typeface, with Plamen Petrov), Papillon VP (with Plamen Petrov), Bungalow VP, Fika VP (a rounded and modular typeface by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Kavo Serif (a 5-style all caps didone by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Kavo Inline (with Plamen Petrov), Kavo Sans (with Plamen Petrov), Silver Queen (a ball terminal typeface; with Plamen Petrov), Anteric, Agelast (all caps, futuristic sans), Quilin (decorative and swashy; with Plamen Petrov), Akros (an art deco serif typeface), Metria Street (art deco), Blackpaper (a font that experiments with negative space), Mischief (brush), Slang, Daylight Dreams, Kavo (a 17-style family), Midnight Tales, the tall slab serif Carnival VP (with Plamen Petrov), and the weathered Greenth (with Plamen Petrov).

    Typefaces from 2021, all by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov: Aisling (a six-style ultra-compressed sans), Stolen Love (a 16-style fashion mag serif), Cruell (a high contrast ball terminal laden fashion headline typeface), Mother VP (a high-contrast fashion font with plenty of ball terminals), Magoa (a serif typeface with extreme contrast), Sorcha (a ball terminal display font by Vladimir Fedotov and Plamen Petrov), Stolen Love (a fashion mag font), Defect (grunge), Tacenda (grungy caps in SVG and OTF formats), Magoa serif (a ligature typeface), Sonder Serif (decorative, for fashion mags), Oldink (grungy), Arowen (grungy, SVG format), Cruell Serif (with ball terminals), Mother Serif (also a play on ball terminals), Derau (a bitmap SVG watercolor font), Akrasia (an SVG watercolor font), French VP (an all caps glamour font adorned with gigantic ball terminals; with Plamen Petrov), Perfectly Splendid (a ball terminals all caps typeface; with Plamen Petrov), Italian VP (a 21-style tall slab serif in which the bold weight is still thin by international standards), Huova (a decorative all caps serif), Kompot Slab, Kompot Display, Unique VP (a fashion mag titling font with many ligatures and swashes), Bronx (sans and inline), Monday Boulevard (an art deco typeface), Chalga VPoutline (a classy outline font), Mila VP (a disturbing sans & serif hybrid), Kompot Sans (an all caps titling sans), Avoqado (a 6-style all caps sans with features of DIN), Kuchek (a ligature-rich decorative serif).

    Typefaces from 2022: Forbidden Love (a condensed fashion mag serif), Vintage Mintage (a display serif), Lonely Moon VP (a delicate yet eerie typeface), Malinger VP (an elegnat display serif), Sign That (a wild script), Redmark. Enchanted Love (a 7-style display sans).

    Creative Market link. Graphicriver link. Personal web site. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vrinda Soni

    New Delhi-based bisual artist who designed an experimental typeface, Lineart, in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    VSF (or: Vasil Stanev Foundry)
    [Vasil Stanev]

    Typographer and type designer in Sofia, Bulgaria, b. 1982, Sofia, who worked mostly for Svetoslav Simov's type foundry, Fontfabric, before setting up his own shop, VSF (Vasil Stanev Foundry).

    In 2010, he made the ornamental all caps Cyrillic typeface Orthodox. In 2011, he created the ornamental caps typeface Floralis (which was finished by Svetoslav Simov) and the experimental typeface Negativ.

    In 2012, he made Times New Roman Sans Serif.

    Nexa Rust is a set of 83 weathered letterpress emulation fonts that evolved from Nexa and Nexa Slab. This was a project by Radomir Tinkov, Ani Petrova, Svetoslav Simov and Vasil Stanev.

    In 2016 and 2017, he designed the mythological typefaces Bugazoo Letterbat and Etymonster, respectively.

    Typefaces from 2017: Combax (rounded sans), Tengwar Sindarin Latin and Cyrillic, Hel Grotesk Gothiq Cyr (a cyrillization of Kevin Yuen Kit Lo's Hel Grotesk), Celtic Cyr, Jardin Ornatis (decorated caps).

    Typefaces from 2018: Crona, Etymonster (a letterbat font), Mistnake (Halloween dingbats), Ergam, Cloch, Ufont (an aliens font), Needlephabet, Ornatis (a floriated caps alphabet for Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian and Hebrew).

    Typefaces from 2019: TDR (a heavy octagonal / mechanical typeface), Talljob, Moxic, Allebagra, Beejuice, Beltenebros, Pepo The Clown, Plump Fiction, Spartechno.

    Typefaces from 2020: Coque (a tall extra compressed font family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vuuuds
    [Agung Syaifudin]

    Aka Vuuuds. Denpasar, Indonesia-based designer of these typefaces in 2021: Alfine, Efton Serif (decorative), Emilea, Fistro (an avant garde fashion font with hipster traits), Fromy, Fugi, Hues Serif, Musky (decorative).

    Typefaces from 2020: Arsen (a font duo), Cagily (a decorative serif), De Hudson, Froyas, Gesmont (a striking fashion mag font), Kasual, Moric, Smith Signature, Tefis (a decorative serif), Thiago (a decorative serif), Lavagne (an almost-stencil), Carlsen (script).

    Typefaces from 2019: Claire (Sans, Script), Tango (a poetic irregular script), Serfict (calligraphic), Serfict Sans (outlined caps), Charles UK (a formal upright script), Moret (a children's script), Olifer (Serif+Script), Callies Script (swashy calligraphic script), Hector Ink (a Treefrog style ink splatter script).

    Typefaces from 2018: Theory, Ezalor (an inky script), Chase (a clean geometric sans family), Manila, Stay, Mono, Lipstick (a signature font), Figo (an inky script), New (sans), York (script), Roth, Reusk Script, Paris, Adelia, Rosie Kiley (a font duo consisting of the titling typeface Track and the script typeface Kiley), Artemis Script, Anter Script, Gloams, Redge, Muster Script, Stylish Script, Georgia Script.

    Typefaces from 2017: Bianca (signature font), Lisbeth Script, Wilder Script, Kalisa (signature font), The Bloom, Earnis, Mient, Styler, Erily Script, Miyuki (calligraphic), Mussie, Kesley Script, Faust Script, Recolter (a stunning poster typeface), Caities, Emily (script), Roth, Hukster, Rovist Script, Renith (connected script).

    Typefaces from 2016: Hulleva, Callet, Theos Script, Void (rounded sans), Lemonia, Revel (script), First Text (primitive script), Magical Script, Mauret Script (calligraphic), Rosgart (a signature font), Plore (experimental sans), Murtics (a signature font), Infister (minimalist modernist sans), Beafust, Astter (calligraphic script), Humos (connected school script), Hullist (connected handwriting), Happy Tum, Little Bite (children's book font), Millace (calligraphic script), Grafter (connected signage font), Elgard (brush script), Flotus (calligraphic), Pitter (fat finger font), Scripter (formal calligraphic style), Muffet (connected monoline script), Waltus Script (calligraphic and connected), Feruci, Evertype, Breital Script, Castellia, Enough Script, Rollfunk, Hottuf, Staiger (script), Fintype, Themost Script (calligraphic), Fuster Script.

    In 2015, he made the brush script typefaces Mauvet Rios, Reusk (a great informal calligraphic typeface), Mostter (calligraphic script), Foldeck (a rounded monoline sans), Quickfox, Serffost, Hurgey, Gothup, Gullick, Wilfur Script and Barkless, the hairline script font Catties, the fine hand-drawn poster font Monofor, the handcrafted connected script fonts Wellone, Anter Script, Cindelia, Ruffest and Perston, the handpainted Emillyne, Herlock, Forsa, the calligraphic font Herfume (loaded with alternates), the handcrafted font family Latype (Brush, Hand, Script, Serif, Condensed, Sans, Extras), the brush typefaces Nufertum (a great medieval travel log script), Nufertum Sans, Northline, Stokebridge, Fouyers Script, Heiger Script and Wayback, and of the handwriting font Allegate. He also designed Bubble Tea, Whalerig, Klasdot, Hello June, Retro Board, London Train, Rope&Bag, Strip Box, Yellow Jelly, Wide West, Funky Disco, Fat Burger, Sweet Lollipop, Dance Club, Crazy Type, Avicelyns (a connected script), Blackyard (a monoline connected script), and Nanoline Icons (which contains 2061 icons divided into 30+ categories: symbol, weather, building, financial & shopping, user, emoticon, hand gesture, medicine, body parts, image, audio, video, music, charts, map, security, document, furniture, kitchen, drink, fruit, food, chat, email, tools, text, communication, business, time, science, laundry, zodiac, kids, energy, animal, clouds, transportation).

    Typefaces from 2022: Georgia Script, Lecory (a fashionable typeface with high contrast). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Walking Fearless
    [João Miranda]

    Albufeira, Portugal and London, UK-based graphic designer who made the experimental typefaces Ivo (2012) and Poliphilo (2011). He also created an interesting drawing of Erik Spiekermann in 2011.

    Together with Bruno Rodrigues in 2013, Joao Miranda designed the modular typefaces Big and Memoria.

    Natalia (2014) is a fun free-for-personal-use hipster font.

    Typefaces from 2016: the thin delicate display typeface Calma Display, Phuc (described by herself as an ugly frog that turned to a beautiful font after its first Japanese ramen).

    Typefaces from 2017: Big.

    Typefaces from 2019: Add Fuel (all caps sans).

    Behance link. YWFT link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Walter van Rijn

    At Walter van Rijn's site, called Symbiotext, one finds a description of his Symbiote projects. One of these led to the grunge-style typeface Symlogidins (2012, free at OFL). This sans typeface is partially based on OSP-DIN.

    In 2014, Walter van Rijn created the Latin/Cyrillic typeface Putintin, showing both languages at the same time. He explains: If you type on a Latin keyboard the Latin letters appear on top and on a line underneath appears the Cyrillic, creating two lines of text at the same time. Please double the font size to get a readable text. If you type on a Cyrillic keyboard the Cyrillic appears on top with the Latin underneath. Putintin was created in response to the Russian annexation of the Crimea, which clearly breached UN resolutions and memoranda affirming Ukraine's territorial integrity, which Russia signed as well. To be precise, Resolution 2625 of 24 October 1970 and the Budapest Memorandum of 5 December 1994 (the Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine's Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons). OK now it is confirmed that the UN is dead, we need to re-establish East West communication, for which I propose this font. It is free at Open Font Library. This typeface remixes work by Harrisson, Pierre Huyghebaert, Femke Snelting, Ivan Monroy-Lopez, Yi Jiang, Nicolas Malevé and Ludivine Loiseau.

    In 2016, in keeping with socially relevant type design, he published Sym Being Human, and writes: I have inserted words within the capitals of this digital font. Words which are only readable by us, humans, and not by the computers which use the font. The words relate to the human rights and freedoms as they are formulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948.

    Open Font Library link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wayne Thompson
    [Phat Phonts]

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    We Are Not You
    [Jared Eberhardt]

    Los Angeles-based group interested in art direction, typography, print design, branding and graphic design. They designed these typefaces: Amare (2008, a severely octagonal face), Nauris (2008, a grunge stencil face), Opega (2008, octagonal), Dead Western Giant (2008, Western saloon face), Deco Ghost (2008, art deco), Worn (2008, by Sruli Recht and Jared Eberhardt of We Are Not You), Syrillic (2008, an experimental typeface by Sruli Recht and Jared Eberhardt of We Are Not You). Their new studio is located in New York. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    We Love Rain
    [Vasileios Synanidis]

    Berlin-based art director (at Rain Studios, or We Love Rain, his own studio) who created the scary brush font Phobos (2013) for Latin and Greek. In 2014, he published the equally frightening Dark Grime. Pharaos (2014) is an alchemic enigmatic typeface. Zen (2014) is entirely experimental. Pentel (2014) is a delicious fat brush family, while Rough (2014) is a rougher fat brush typeface.

    Behance link for We Love Rain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    We make POGO

    Pogo is a Buenos Aires-based design and art boutique established in 2008 by Ardi and Pampa. Creators of Know Type (2009, experimental), Zombienation (2009, graffiti), Primavera (2009, geometric experiment), Know Type (2010, geometric), Bufallo Type (2010), and Departure Type (2009, runic), Moonwalker (2010). Soko is an independent online magazine entirely designed and illustrated by POGO. Scumbag (2011) is a Victorian wedge serif face.

    Typefaces from the latter part of 2011 and the first half of 2012: Unicenter, Sailor, Rudy, Powa, Mery (Trajan caps), Lotus Flower, Liberty, Aquarius Bold (Trajan caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Webster&Wallace Creative Agency
    [Brandon Webster]

    The creative alliance of Brandon Webster and Wallace in Colorado is into identity design, photography, website design, print and packaging since 2004. Brandon Webster made the cool uber-experimental geometric typeface Mila in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    wecollide

    Creator of the experimental multiline typeface Flux Deux (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Weknow
    [Wino Sutarmin Kadir]

    Weknow is the foundry of Indonesian type designer Wino Sutarmin Kadir (b. 1979), who is based in Bogor, Jakarta. Weknow produced a large collection of free fonts from 2009 until 2012. He started making commercial fonts in 2012.

    Creator of the unicase sans typeface Weknow (2009) and the roundish MisstyPoland (2009).

    From 2010: Helenfont (2010), Dennis Vallera (2010), Kasumichan, Karitza, Mozzie, Wings, Sharon, Noakatz, dearladysandra, arachnidlove, Alexandra, Monica (2010), Natalie, Wayner 8088, Anime Queen (2010, pixelized), Nano (2010, pixel face), Glover (2010, circular face), Frozen Pandaman (geometric), Joenine (circular), Fun Record (geometric), Gembira (circular), Gabrielle, Solgas (circular), lifeforfun (2010), znowwhite (2010), Snowmask (2010), Nine (2010), Znowwhite (2010), Cecile (2010, experiment with triangles), Coreldraw (2010, geometric, monoline), DennisVallera (2010, inspired by the vector art of Canadian Dennis Vallera), Helenfont (2010).

    Designs from 2011: Michelle (circle-based), Emmilia (circle-based), Raynaliz, Polysoup, Seba, Selfregion (concentric glyphs), Wings of the dragons (octagonal), Spider, The Training Artist, Chewed Kandi, Sandra, Saintfighteraqua (geometric), Alexey (circle-based), Kristina (circle-based), Graphic Dream, Crystalcore (techno), Dominique (fat rounded), Formalart, Henderson (circle-based), Intanputripratiwi (circle-based), Kioshima (geometric), Gitchgitch (geometric), Justta, Dismecha, Self Region (labyrinthine), Alberto (monoline geometric), Abstrasctik (rounded and experimental), Nicole, Robotoc, Laggastic, Masterpanda, Mohr, Maruciel, Gabrielle, Carlos (a circle-based face), Life For Fun (geometric monoline sans), Lois Cesarano (hexagonal), Heather Thomas (circles and lines), Picaee (modular and leafy), Owaikeo (a circle and arc face), Celeste, The World, Future, Lanitta, Earthearth, Basic, Beautiful, Internationalist (monoline rounded sans caps face), Midnight Show, Plastic, Victory, Perfect, Superpower, Katarzyna, Invasion, Block, Wonderfull, Sweetest, Direction, Funrecord, Eternal Flame, Coreldarw, James Glover (circle-based), Superstar, Inside, Parallel, Million, Ocean, Never Ending Maze, Silverbend, Dragon Fly, Whatever You Want, Swinging Swan, Funatic, Soulmate, Superhero, Zetland, Letting The Cable Sleep, Weknow World, Universalisme, Ocean, Smiley Turtle, Family&Friend, Flower in the window, You&Me&Everyone Else, Astonishing, Grass Hopper, Merpati Putih, Extra Hot, Trees of Happiness, Blowing Bubble, Brain Storm, Good Morning, Flower Lover, Honestly, Jaguar, Modern Aristocrat, Pure and Simple Everytime, Ride the lightning, Proffesional (sic), Flight Stewardess, Antique Retro, Natural Technologies, Ethereal Sky, Conversation, Earth Heart.

    Free typefaces from 2012: Serta Kayu (multiline script), Emerald, Sweater (texture face), Fish Bone, Delicious Ketchup. The Dark Knight, String and Wire, Little Ant, Xtrapower, Standard International, Nice dream come true, Bavaria, Queen of the modern age, Science Fiction, Greatest View, Queen of the Modern Age, Made in earth, Arabian Knight, Emperor of Japan, Bill Gates Windows, Maximum Kilometer, Mineral Oil Resources, Motorcycle (curly caps), Eskimo and Polar Bear, Gladiator Sport, Aero Dynamic, Optical Fiber, High Logic, Generation (a nice all-caps shadow face), My Heart, Play Ground (multiline face), Cartoon Character, Windows in Japan, Quantum Leap (dymo label face), Computer Love, Electric City, and Copper, Valentine In Love, Weknow Windows, Punk, Graphic Design, Billy Jean Style, LMAO (rounded bold sans face), Take and Give, Indonesia Tanah Air, Swimmer Browser, Diamonds are forever (hexagonal and rounded), Tortoise, My Dear, Get Ready, Export Import, Miracle, Digital Ninja, Funtastic Million Moment, Funny and Cute, Samurai in UK, Bookmark, Once Upon A Time, Bird Feather, Respect, Aruna Aira Jasmine, Extra Cheese, Beauty and the beast, Kung Fu Master (oriental simulation typeface), Game Player (art deco), Modern Building, Trade and Mark, Grovy (sic) Kind of Life, King of Font and Typography, ABC (comic book face), Metro City (extended monoline typeface), The Art, Sprout and the bean, Scooter experiment, Sundown Sunrise (a rounded monoline sans), Art Heart, WindowsObject, Authentic Love, Dolphin Ocean Wave, British Pop Music, Master (sci-fi), Sneak Peeks, Like This, Crumble, Zebra Cross, Star Constellation, Water and Gasoline, Autumn, Aviator, So Cute, Crow Chief (bow and arrow font), Beard Rider, Skateboard, Panel, Swallow Sky Night, Hotel Motel (fat finger face), Techno Various, Zooming Track, Robo Cop, Dance Fever, West Java, Ivory Culture, Push The Button (art deco), Highway Patrol (blocked black typeface), Sausage, Little Atom, Mick Jagged, Life Is Final (copperplate), Total Hammer, Cybertooth, Modern Craft, Riding The World, Boarder (counterless), Essential Arrangement, Sensation, Helmet, Smile, Little Think Big Impact, Airplane, Young and Free, The Futurist, Creative Mind, House Builder, Falling in love, My Font (a rounded monoline oblique sans), Proffesional (sic) Edition, Young Forever, Brown Fox, We Know, Prehistoric, Frankenstein Monster, Great Adventure, You Makes Me Happy, The One and Only Me, Wireframe (3d face), Ceramic (3d face), Winner, The Amazing Me, Cycle, Asia Pacific, Written on the hand, Love is blind, Luxurious Sexy, Robotic, Nano (dot matrix face), King Of The World, Roller Blade, Antelope Run, Elemental, Champion Coffee Cup, Bandit, Arcade, Zetland, The Training Artist, Technique, Neon Glow, Fruit Vegetable, Archieve, Experiment Butterfly, French Fries, Remember Memory, Rocksteady, Electro Static Rain, Science Channel (stencil face), Surfing and Play, Umbrella, The Wizard, Great Leader, Bare Knuckle Fight, The Wizard of One Click, Extra Large, Stabilo Spidol, Onion Rings, Strawberry, Lets Do It Again, Modern Script, Amazing Symphony, Psychedelic, Jump Street, The Earth (modular), Brigade Army, Extraordinary, Cobra on Coconut Tree, Natural Beauty, Anything Mean Everything, Smoke on the water, Write A Letter, Everybody, Together, Planting And Seeding, Savior Light Our Way, All Around The World, Think More For Solution, Yesterday, Techno Tech, Prudent, Metamorphosys, Keep quite and simple (sic), India Hair Style, Catalyst, Bamboo Shoot, Global Capitalism, Water Drop, Thunder Jagger, The Science Archaeologist, The Happy Face Smile, Pyramid Inverted, Jailbreak, Game of Life, Fun Raiser, Athletic, Android Robot (sci-fi), Croissant Sandwich, Ocean Free, Thursday, Crochet Pattern, Firework, Futuristic, Pocket (rounded bold sans), Entertainment, Technology (bubblegum face), So This Is It (inline caps face), Everything (circle-based font), Auto Mobile, Futurism, Rhinoceros Break, Enormous (angulat headline face), The Quick (octagonal), Over The Mountain (wavy face), Frame Work, Interplanetary, Antariksa (rounded sans), Airwaves, Strong in the Heart, Pure And Simple Everytime (rounded organic sans), Gitchgitch (rounded organic sans), Monica, The Lazy Dog (grunge), True Self Reliant, Think Techno, Street, Symbol (constructivist), Post Rock, Moon Light (plump and round), Jumping Running, Green Avocado, Bunga Melati Putih, Bizzare, World Word, Little Rainy Day (dot matrix), Animaline (animal dingbats), Smart Watch, At Most Sphere, Sweet Lollipop (curly), Painting The Light, Flattered, Earth Aircraft Universe, Daydreamer, Earth Aircraft Universe, Flattered, Welcome to Planet Earth, People Quark, Friendly Robot, Biological, Splashing, Freezer, Ragatnia Clara (a nice script), The Happy Face Return.

    Typefaces from 2013: Cat Eyes, Stay True, Where Wolf, The Sound, Royal Jelly, Grumpy Cat, Aku Cinta Kamu, Yellow, Innovation, Invisible Man, Archieve, Electro Magnet, Bamboo Chopsticks, Valentine's Day, True Love, Club Golf, Your Smile, Guitar On Stage, Karate (oriental simulation), Recognition, Sleeping Beauty (plump lettering), Gelombang Radio, Frozen Ice, Sport Center, Reflection, Enjoy The Time, Fillet O Fish (brushed caps), Artistic, Flower Generation (psychedelia), Heart Shaped, Adore You, Jelang (textured typeface), Stargazer, Army Of Me, Xtreme Bike, Atomic, Fancy Curly, Mastermind, Scientist, Brother, Bahasa Indonesia (sans), Cyber, Photography, Super Creative, Black Stallion (script), Cartoon, Exposure (shadow face), The Ticket, Mercury (retro-futuristic), Agriculture (lava lamp typeface), Electronic, Transformation, The Night (gothic typeface), King Cobra, Bionic Heart, Goddess of Fortune, Guitar Acoustic, Magenta Flower, Java Island (lava lamp typeface), Ready Steady Go, Cute Monster, High Speed, Machine Gun, Random Face 1 (dingbats), Dear Diary, Shinobi Ninja, Stranger (octagonal), Discovery, Translation, Japan (oriental simulation), Digital Gothic, Techno, Butterfly (lava lamp typeface), Candlelight (eax drip face), Maverick, Movie Script Ending, Monochrome, Japan, Chunky Bar, The Greatest High (blackboard bold), Featured, Random Thing 1 (cartoon dingbats), Straw Hat, Where Are You, Plant On Lawn, The Innocent Face, Beat of Drum, ASDFA, Creamy Butter, Monster Rock, Plumbing, Mexicano Chili Sauce, Air Show (bubblegum face), This Is True, Fresh Mint, Laser Gun, My Game, Black Mamba, Drako Heart, Children Stories, Play The Game (with a McDonald's M), Let it be, Everlasting Song, Logotype, Blessing Son, Wino Sutarmin Kadir, Bad Boy, Bold and Blue, Quantum (sci-fi face), Oceanography, Elementary, Sailorman, Heart And Love, High Thin Light, Vintage Postcard (spurred), The Bartender (spurred), Inside The Boxes (rhombic type), Herbalism, Happy Home (lava lamp typeface), Wave Zone, Market Leader, The Monkey, Engine Power, Gamer, Story Telling (lava lamp typeface), High Flagship, Back to Nature, The Quick Motorcross (bilined, caps only, with a McDonalds M), Fisherman (lava lamp typeface), Step Forward, King of Pirate (art nouveau caps), Heritage, High in Love, Thin Decorative (spurred typeface), Little Cowboy, What The Fun, Aha Experience, Glitch (pixel face), Portable.

    Typefaces from 2014: Enjoy The Show (bubblegum font), Right Power, Xerxes, Selamat Hari Raya, Sincere Heart, Thermometer, My Angle (fat script), Restaurant, Life is font, Material Science, Wave Zone, Everything is a test, The kind of feeling, The President, Blue Ocean, Heavy Metal Gaze, Air-Planet, FOREST-THING (a black poster font), Here-Comes-The-Sun, VICE-VERSA, Wajah-mu-Malaikat, The Miracle, Over The Sky, Eternal Love, Under Stand, Lets Get It On, Salute, Please Forgive Me, Forest Jump. Dayak Shield, Golden Bar (piano key stencil face), Life To Find, Make Peace, Rocket Brothers, Space Truckin, Silver Knight, Zeppelin, Banana Split, Funny Sport, Material Science, Cinta Adalah Perhatian, Love is Attention, Philosophy, Swampthing, Something, Great Job, I Love You, Baby Metal, Millenium 3, White Sock, Liberate, Life Is Font, Chasing Tail, Listening, Sghining Pearl, Hall of Fame, The Good Life, Funky Claw, Pretty Clever, Breath, Continue, Eyes Believer, Samurai Sword, About, God is Watching us, Smile at face, Guitar Rumble, Si Cantik, She is Beautiful, Joker Shoes, Welcome to the jungle (brush face), Maximum High Tension, First Love, Great Heart, Computer Robot, Question of Science, Book Shelves, Billy The Kid (Western font), Times New Romance, Techno Capture, Chemistry, City Shine, Samurai and Blade, Hexagonal.

    Typefaces from 2015: Brigade of Love, Creative Culture, Axe For Warrior (dingbats), Bogor, Teleport Machine, Construction, Architecture, Underground (octagonal), King will be king, Knight of Light (medieval), Barbarian, Every Day, Thumbs Up, Defragmented (pixel face), Garden of Rose, House Music, Giant Universe, Element (a connect-the-dots typeface), Kingdom of Heart, Smart Talk, Take On Me, Symbolism, The Happiness, Dark Empire, Space of Time, Game Robot, Made in Indonesia, Morning Sunshine (art deco), Gravity Relationships, All About Love, City of Rock, Dear Baby, My Pleasure, Dear Lovely, Drea Reality, Charming Prince, Warehouse Project (geometric solids), Stone Rock, Script Machine, Pray Boy, Copy Paste, Baby Cuttie, Treasure Island, Impulse of Heart (fat rounded stencil), Extraordinary Craft, Brand New Colony (connected script), Digital Handmade, Learning, Aero Glass, Rainbow In Love, Catatan Harian, Sky Liner, A Lot of Love, Take Me Home, Shake It Off, Everything More, Qualified Good, We are the Word, Tshirt, Valuable, Weknow, Metal Kingdom, Phytoplankton, Kissing The Rain, Sunset Beach, Jazz Music, Dear Lovely, Dream Reality, My Pleasure, Boarder, Entertaintment-Show, Guardian, Indonesia, This-is-internet, Picture-of-you.

    Typefaces from 2016: Big Burger, Blues Melody, Kangaroo Punch, Dark, Amazing Day Everyday, Delicious Choice (lava lamp script), Panda Robot, Wijaya Fresh, Megapolitan Jakarta, Chalk Board, Mother Father, Knowledge Power, Singing Bird, Extra Machine (stencil), Airwave (rounded sans), Human Alter Ego (octagonal), Grand Prix, Serat Kayu, Daniel, Greatest Map, Jazz Sound, Amazing Sound, Algorithm (techno), Brother Army (upright connected script), Cannon Ball, Senorita Spain, Billionaire, Most Famous, The Innocent Army, Guitar Electric, Bracelet, Batman, Phenomenon, Arabian Prince, Taring Serigala, Happy Everydays Day, Coffee Time, Revolver (Western style), Space Object, Black Arrow, Candle-Light, Evergreen, Green Tea (foliate typeface), Harley Queen, Masquerade.

    Typefaces from 2017: Red Light Special, The Brain, Entrance, Auto Bots, Alive in Science Fiction, Harmonic Vibration, Hydraulics System, Mountain Dew, Flying Bird, Next Century (outlined), Read Book (trilined), Just Do Good, Purpose, Kasih Dan Sayang, Tobacco (scratchy typeface), Baby Superhero, Life in Digital Age, Black Star, Start Revolution, Artistic, Army of Me, Anything Mean Everything, Antariksa, Animaline Dingbats, Android Robot, Amazing Symphony, A Lot of Love, All Around The World, All About Love, The Ugly Font, Switch System, Across The Night, I Am A Robot, Polygon Star, The Creation, Amazing Day Everyday, A Lot of Love, Western Eastern (Far West font), Gangsters, Armored, All Around The World, Great Britain, Chintya Awuy, King and Queen, City of Rain, Sub Urban City, Spicy Paprika, King of Everything, Pondok Ratu Intan, Celestial Love, After Party, Underground 2.

    Typefaces from 2018: Age of Science and Technology, Autopilot, Age of Awakening.

    Typefaces from 2019: Primitive Heart.

    Typefaces from 2020: Thefotosintesis.

    Alternate URL. Behance link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Klingspor link. Fontm link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Weltfremd
    [Malwin Béla Hürkey]

    Malwin Béla Hürkey (b. 1989, Mainz, Germany) is a Wiesbaden, Germany-based graphic designer, photographer and also the founder of Weltfremd (est. 2010). He studied at University of Art and Design Offenbach, Bauhaus University Weimar, and University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden.

    Malwin created Mars (2011, an ultra-fat octagonal face) and Merkur (2011, a triangulated face). Initially, the fonts were free, but in 2011, they became commercial.

    In 2014, while studying at HfG Offenbach, Malwin designed the Japanese Inkan seal-themed typeface Nihon. This vertical order typeface has over 30,000 ligatures to make the characters fully interlocking.

    Inspired by the pioneering prefab architecture of Ernst May in Siedlung Römerstadt, Germany, Malwin created the anthroposophic typeface Bautype in 2015. Bautype is a geometric sans-serife with a humanist touch, suitable headlines and simple text.

    Dafont link. MyFonts link. Behance link. Home page. Fontspace link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Wen Pei

    Taipei, Taiwan-based designer of the experimental Latin typeface Sang (2020). This scribbled font is based on the shape of the human body and represents negative emotions such as decadence, pessimism, and despair. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wendy Penotet

    French designer of "Typograpie de l'an 3000" (2017), in which she hypothesizes about what type will look like in the year 3000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Weronika Cyganik

    During her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland, Weronika Cyganik designed the experimental typeface Triangle (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Whitney Gregg

    Savannah, GA-based designer of Tubby (2012), a typeface in which each letter was inspired by a carved bar of ivory soap. She also designed Geoffrey Script (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    widmest.org
    [Eric Ellis]

    Eric Ellis (widmest.org) is a graphic designer. He has some nice type posters (especially one called Reinvent The Alphabet that shows an experimental alphabet made up of arcs, rectangles and triangles), as well as a few fonts, including Arms (the endings of the strokes are hands). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Will Miller

    Chicago, IL-based graphic designer who is design director at Firebelly Design. He is working on a Bulmer/Bell/Caledonia-style typeface, which is discussed here in 2006. With Darren McPherson, he created the structural experimental typeface Skky (2011). Other type projects: Traverse (sans), Loquacia (headline face), Duco (3d origami-like creation), Klink (fat, geometric, and counterless).

    In 2016, Firebelly Design, Will Miller and Ross Burwell, all located in Chicago, co-designed the corporate identity font Flor Mono. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Will Taylor

    Typographer in London. Using Taylormade Type, he created his own interactive squarish alphabet called Vulnerable Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Willem Joubert

    Australian designer of the modular experimental typeface Heracles (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    William Addison Dwiggins

    Martinsville, Ohio-born illustrator, calligrapher, typographer, book designer, author, type designer and puppeteer, 1880-1956 (Hingham, MA). Pic (1955). All his typefaces were designed for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, where he worked for 27 years. He also was Acting Director of the Harvard University Press, 1917-1918. In 1919, he founded the Society of Calligraphers, Boston, and was in fact an accomplished calligrapher, who drew many ornaments and designed many jackets. Dwiggins studied lettering under Goudy in Chicago while a student at Frank Holme's School of Illustration. When Goudy moved to Hingham, Dwiggins followed and was to work there for the rest of his life. As a puppeteer, he often used the pseudonym Dr. Hermann Puterschein. His papers:

    • Some why's and wherefore's of the shapes of roman letters (1919), a short essay full of quotes, some good, but mostly derogatory, regarding the main text types in vogue at the time, such as Century, Caslon, Cheltenham, Pabst, Cadmus and Scotch.
    • WAD to RR, a letter about type design, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, MA, 1940. In this letter to a friend, RR, entirely written in a beautiful hand, he explains how to make type.

    His typefaces:

    • Arcadia (1943-1947). Mac McGrew: Arcadia was an experimental typeface designed by William A. Dwiggins for Mergenthaler in 1943-47, used in Some Random Recollections, by Alfred A. Knopf for the Typophiles as Chapbook XXII in 1949.
    • Caledonia (1938-1939). Known as Transitional 511 at Bitstream, New Caledonia at Adobe, and New Caledonia at Linotype. See C651 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002. Nicola Caleffi complains that New Caledonia and BT 511 are too weak and miss old style figures.

      Mac McGrew: Caledonia and Caledonia Italic were designed by William A. Dwiggins for Linotype in 1938, with Caledonia Bold and Bold Italic added two years later. A Bold Condensed version was produced by Lino for newspaper head- line use. Caledonia has been described as a modernization of Scotch Roman (and Caledonia is the ancient name for Scotland), but it is more than that. It also shows the influence of the Bulmer typeface, with a large portion of Dwiggins' individuality. He describes the typeface as having a "liveliness of action. [...] quality is in the curves---the way they get away from the straight stems with a calligraphic flick, and in the nervous angle on the under side of the arches as they descend to the right." Being designed specifically for the Linotype and its mechanical limitations, rather than being adapted from a foundry face, Caledonia Italic is particularly successful, and the whole family has become very popular. In text sizes, short descenders may be cast on nominal body sizes, while the more handsome long descenders (not made for italics) require one point larger body size. Compare Baskerville, Bulmer, Scotch.

    • Caravan Borders (1938). Four fonts available at Linotype (1976).
    • Charter (1946). Mac McGrew: Charter was an experimental, special-purpose typeface designed by William A. Dwiggins for Mergenthaler between 1937 and 1942. An upright script, only the lowercase and the few other characters shown were completed. For tests, these were combined with Electra caps. It was used in a limited edition book, The Song Story of Aucassin and Nicolete, designed and printed in 1946 by S. A. Jacobs at the Golden Eagle Press, Mt. Vernon, New York, with Electra small caps in place of regular caps. Between 2010 and 2018, Cristobal Henestrosa developed the titling typeface Royal Charter, a digital revival of Charter. With the help of Oscar Yanez, this became a retail typeface at Sudtipos called Mon Nicolette.
    • Eldorado (1953). Berry, Johnson and Jaspert give an earlier date, 1951. Created after a 16th century early roman lowercase by Jacques de Sanlecque the elder. Revived in 1993 at Font Bureau as Eldorado by David Berlow, Jane Patterson, Tobias Frere-Jones, and Tom Rickner. Mac McGrew: Eldorado is a contemporary roman designed by W. A. Dwiggins for Linotype about 1950, based on early Spanish models. The lowercase is compact, with a small x-height and long ascenders. Several italic letters have cursive or decorative forms; also notice the cap Y, with curved, serifless arms.
    • Electra (1934-1935), a text typeface with a distinctive Q but otherwise unobtrusive glyph shapes. Known as Transitional 521 at Bitstream. Mac McGrew: Electra is a contemporary modern typeface designed by W. A. Dwiggins for Linotype. The light weight was drawn in 1935, the bold a few years later. Aside from its readability and distinctive character, Electra is distinguished by a choice of italic forms. Electra Italic is really a sloped roman, while Electra Cursive, released in 1944, is more nearly a conventional italic form; only the lowercase is different. Like a number of the better Linotype typefaces, Electra also has a choice of short descenders, which will cast on the nominal body, or long descenders, which must be cast one point larger. Compare Fairfield. A digital revival was done by Jim Parkinson in 2010: Parkinson Electra. Parkinson did another revival in 2017, Aluminia, exclusively for use in Bruce Kennett's 2017 book on W.A. Dwiggins. In 2018, Laura Garcia attempted a revival while studying at Type West.
    • Experimental 267D.
    • Falcon (published in 1961) is an experimental font at Mergenthaler Linotype. Mac McGrew: Falcon was designed during World War II for Linotype by William A. Dwiggins and released in 1961. It seemed to him, he said, "to hit the middle ground between mechanical exactitude and the flow and variety of a written hand-suggesting some of that flow and variety but controlling it, so the letter can be repeated."
    • Hingham (1937-1943). Mac McGrew: Hingham was an experimental newspaper face, originally called Newsface, designed between 1937 and 1943 by William A. Dwiggins, for improved readability. Only the 7-point size was cut by Mergenthaler, and it was used only for tests.
    • Metro (1929-30). This famous sans serif family was published by Linotype in 1936-1937. It is also called Metroblack, and sometimes dated 1928. In digital format, it is known as Geometric 415 at Bitstream, and Metro Office, Metro #2, Metrolite, Metromedium and Metroblack at Linotype. It is DH Sans at FontHaus. It was revived as Examiner NF by Nick Curtis (2009). It lives another life as Grosse Pointe Metro at Group Type. Mac McGrew: Metrolite and Metroblack were designed by William A. Dwiggins and introduced by Linotype in January 1930, as the first American typefaces to join the trend to sans serif started by Futura and Kabel. These typefaces are less mechanical than the European imports, and were promoted as being less monotonous and illegible. The first two weights were soon followed by Metrothin and Metromedium. In 1932 several characters were redesigned; thereafter the series was promoted as Metrothin No.2, Metrolite No.2, Metromedium No.2, and Metroblack No.2, including the redesigned characters, but the original characters were available as extras. Metrolite No.2 Italic was shown in 1935, along with Lining Metrothin and Lining Metromedium, which are like the small caps of the regular typefaces. Italics for Metromedium No.2 and Metroblack No.2 were shown in 1937. Metrolite No.4 Italic and Metrothin No.4 Italic are essentially the same design but narrower, for mechanical purposes. Unique Capitals are made for some sizes of Metrothin and Metromedium. Alternative figures are made as follows: Gothic No. 39, for Metrothin No.2, similar to Spartan Light. Gothic No. 40, for Metrolite No.2, similar to Spartan Medium. Gothic No. 41, for Metroblack No.2, similar to Spartan Black. Gothic No. 42, for M etrothin No.2, similar to Kabel Light. Gothic No. 43, for Metrolite No.2, similar to Kabel Medium. Gothic No. 44, for Metromedium No.2, similar to Kabel Bold. Gothic No. 45, for Metroblack No.2, similar to Sans Serif Extra Bold.
    • Stuyvesant (1942-1947). Mac McGrew: Stuyvesant and Stuyvesant Italic were designed in 1942-47 by William A. Dwiggins, inspired by a quaint Dutch type cut by J. F. Rosart about 1750, and used in 1949 in The Shelby Letters, from the California Mines, 1851-1852, published by Alfred Knopf. An entirely different Stuyvesant, a novelty design, was made by Keystone before 1906, perhaps before 1900.
    • Tippecanoe (1944-1946). McGrew writes: Tippecanoe was an experimental typeface designed in 1944-46 by William A. Dwiggins for Mergenthaler, on the Bodoni-Didot theme. It was used in a book by Elizabeth Coatsworth, a friend of Dwiggins, The Creaking Stair, published in 1949 by Coward-McCann. Compare Louvaine Bold [by Morris Fuller Benton]..
    • Winchester (1944). Revived as ITC New Winchester by Jim Spiece. Mac McGrew: Winchester Roman and Winchester Uncial with their italics were completed in 1944 by William A. Dwiggins, the Uncial being an experiment aimed at making the English language easier to read by eliminating some of the ascenders and descenders typically used in this language. Italic caps and other characters were drawn in 1948 but not cut. Although made on Linotype matrices by Mergenthaler, fonts of hand type were cast and used only by Dwiggins and Dorothy Abbe beginning in 1950 at the Puterschein-Hingham Press, where they were partners until his death in 1956. In the specimen shown here, the uncial f appears in both italic alphabets. A regular italic f was cut but apparently not cast.
    • He worked with multiple typewriter manufactures including Underwood, Remington Rand, and IBM, but none of them were finished. He left a number of intriguing drawings which are now kept at the Boston Public Library. In his Dossier, Toshi Omagari combined these materials to make a cohesive monospaced typeface family: the upright was taken from a drawing of monospaced lowercase for an unknown client, and the italic was from the work he did for Underwood which he called Aldine.

    Matt Desmond created Dwiggins Deco in 2009 and writes: This typeface was originally designed in 1930 by W.A. Dwiggins as the cover for the book "American Alphabets" by Paul Hollister. Only the 26 letters of the alphabet were included on the cover, so the rest of the numbers, punctuation, symbols, and accented characters have been crafted in a matching [art deco] style. A free version called Dwiggins Initials KK was designed in 2012 by John Wollring. Noteworthy also is Stefan Hattenbach's Dwiggins Script (2018), developed together with Glenn Sjökvist.

    Books about Dwiggins include Bruce Kennett's W.A. Dwiggins A Life in Design (2017, Letterform Archive).

    Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. MyFonts link. Bio by Nicholas Fabian. Flickr picture group for Dwiggins.

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    William Christie

    During his studies at Adam Smith College, Leven, UK-based William Christie designed the thin avant-garde sans typeface Linear (2013), Shock (2013, experimental), and the heavy titling typeface Ten Commandments (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    William Cundall

    Illustrator and graphic designer in Leicester, UK, who runs Willis Design. During his graphic design studies at De Montfort University, he created two experimental typefaces in 2012 that are rooted in the basic geometric forms used in Bauhaus posters. Untitled (2012) is a bilined all caps script typeface. Typeface No. 23456463 (2012) also is experimental.

    In 2013, he created Grumpy Al's Typeface. His type anatomy drawings are wonderful.

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    William W. Workman

    Designer of the free experimental entirely square design FEZ (2012).

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    Wilma Traldi

    French-Italian graphic designer who made an experimental star-studdedc typeface in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wilson Thomas

    Designer (aka Funk King, b. Fort Knox, KY) who lives in Orlando, FL, and/or Apopka, FL. He used FontStruct in 2008-2009 to make over 550 decorative fonts, and became one of the world's top experts on FontStruct, FontShop's on-line font editor. Most of his fonts were withdrawn in 2012. He did a few commercial typefaces at his commercial foundry, Funk King. His creations include

    • A Bit Eccentric.
    • Alphabots
    • Alphadings: Picnic Basket (2014), Rat Race (2014), Pod Invasion (2014), On Hangers (2012, a commercial series that includes Pants on Hangers, etc), Dog Tag, Black Bird, Easter Egg Dots, Ser Egghead T. handlebar, Ovoidotta (now called Sniff), Play Book, BuddhaBuddha, Swizzle Sticks, Computer Backplate, Milky Way, Sprout, Football, Clapboard (for movie makers), Teed Off, Book Stack, Speaker Box, Ant Farm, Sound and Vision, Speaker Grill, Tom Tom, Caged Type, Conga Lounge, Spinal, Add Van, Frostruct, Picket Fence, Regatta, Cranestruct, Impossible Alphabet, Igloo Village, Mortar Board, Jack, Marionette, Golden Gate (+Short, +Solid), Crossed, Eff U ("the finger"!), Tall Big Top, Jackpot, Skulls&Cross Bones Redux, Crosshairs, Drama Club, Good Day Sunshine, Butterfly, Steps and Windows, Heartbroken, O Christmas Tree, Christmas Lights, Candle, Supper Time (alphadings of plates), Sands of Time (alphadings of hour glasses), Fishbones (commercial since 2012), Handy (alphading with hands), Hang Ten (feet alphadings) and High Five (hand alphadings), Armade and Ghost Ship Armada (ship alphadings), Cut Here (stitching alphadings), Schematic (electric circuit alphading), Masquerade, Mortar Board, Gear Bits, Gearswork, Hi-Lo Gears, Gears, Resistor, Gear Shift, Castle, Castle with Flags, Antique Keys, Rounded Keys, Pods, Piano Keys (+Alt, +Correct), Framework, Dixieland Jazz, Spats, and City of New Orleans (the last three are alphdings based on the same Victorian alphabet), Saturn, Piggy Bank, Voodoo Doll, Dice, Fist Bump.
    • Antennas, Antennas Outline
    • Antiquity
    • Arcostellati, Arcostellato, Arcangolo, Arcontorno (2011): a blackletter family.
    • Architect, Ruled, Gridworks, Blueprint (Solid, Dashed), Quadular (+Serif), Isometric Modified (+Light, +Bold Outline), Isometric (a 3d gridded family: +Basic Latin, +Basic Latin Lite, +More Latin, +Bold, +Black).
    • Art deco: Arc Neuvo (rounded letters), Arc Nuevo (2012, commercial), Toneelschuur (based on the letterhead created for the Theatre Toneelschuur Haarlem), Shift (bold), Eye Spy (this says Peter Sellers), Mod Squad.
    • Atomic.
    • Avenue, Avenue Alphabet (white on black).
    • Badge
    • Ball And Chain (neat), Ball Bearings.
    • Balls and Bats
    • Banjo (2012).
    • Barber Shop
    • Barcoded
    • Basket
    • Beachwear (horizontally striped)
    • Beat Block, Beat Box.
    • Beatnik.
    • Beltway.
    • Birdseye
    • Birdsteps
    • Bitten
    • Blackletter: Abbey
    • Blanket Serif Caps, Blanket Sans Serif
    • Block Inline Block
    • Block Mosaic (great gridded letters)
    • Blockheads
    • Blood Sweat&Tears
    • Bolla Fratturato (2011): outlined blackletter face.
    • Bolt, Bolted
    • Bon Mots.
    • Break, Balance Beam, After Party (2010).
    • Bubble Zwrap (2010).
    • Build A Bridge
    • Buzz Kill
    • Cafe Fumante.
    • Carp Black, Carp Blanc
    • Caterpillar, Tall Caterpillar.
    • Cattails
    • Chain Gang, Krazy King
    • Channel
    • Check Mate (checkered flag font).
    • Cherry Bomb.
    • Chubby
    • Cinder Block (2010): a 3d typeface with texture thrown in.
    • Circuit Board Solid, Circuit Board Outline, Circuit Board Outline Numbers, Circuit Board Simple, Micro Clean, Microcircuitz, Circuit Board Simple, Schematode (2013).
    • Circus Maximus Outline
    • Cirquela (2012). a non-FontStruct font, this is his first hand-printed typeface.
    • Clean
    • Cobblestones
    • Code Hijack (2014).
    • Compass (+Plain)
    • Connected scripts: Cruise, Jet Cruise (2009), Notched Script (upright, connected), Rough Script (italic, connected), square Script (pixelish, connected).
    • Computer Backplate, Milky Way.
    • Contempole
    • Crimped Pincushion (2010).
    • Crispy Inline (classy)
    • Crooked Marker, Marker
    • Crop Circles
    • Crownbar.
    • Curls And Twirls
    • Cut Here
    • Daisies (nice rounded square letters with painted daisies)
    • Decoscriptic, Decoish.
    • Diamonds Are Forever, Liberty (dot amtrix fonts)
    • Didactic fonts: Back to School.
    • Digital, Digital Whimsy (gorgeous fonts in which the meat of the glyphs is made up of 0's and 1's), Digital Italics, Digital Non-italics.
    • Dingbats: Digital Biz Bitz (2012), Capitalist Pictograms (2012), Kapitalist Kit (2011), Weather System (2011), Twelve Days of Christmas (2010), Learning For Business (2010), Calder Symbols (2010), Mad Aliens (2010), FSEmoticons, Maven Pictograms, Temp (weather dings), Sports Wave, Bullet Arrows
    • Dinner at 8
    • Diode
    • Directional
    • Ditier Cycles (2010): a grunge version of J. Hughes's Dirt Cycles.
    • Disco Ball, Disco Salvation.
    • Doggie Tracks (2010).
    • Dollars and Cents.
    • Domestic Bliss (+Solid), Blissful Hearts (Valentine's Day alphadings).
    • Domino, Dominodot
    • Dot matrix fonts: Belly Button (2013), Fandangle (2013), Trace Remains (2013), Billiards (2013), Pome (2013), Cow Poke (2013), Rouletto (2014), Crawler (2014), Zephyrelli (2012), Yoyo (2012), Carousel (2011), Corsivo Punti (2011), Wisp (2011), Amusement (2011), Menagerie (2011), Junk (2011), Iphont (white on black dot matrix face), Lyrical (dot matrix script), Petits Pois, Elli, Industrial Magic, Wind Chime, Domestic Bliss (2010, +Serif, +Sans Serif), Ying Yang (2009)
    • Double Decker
    • Eau de Kerning.
    • Efficiency (2010).
    • Eiffel family: mechanical.
    • Electrifunkified (2013).
    • Emergency
    • eq Regular, eq Radio Waves, eq Tight.
    • Erector Set (2010).
    • Extension Cord
    • Fairy Tale (curly)
    • Fantastic
    • Fast Cars, Fast Lane, Fast Forward
    • Fifty Famous Fairy Tales (bi-lined and bejeweled)
    • Flair Ornate, Flaired Script, Flair, Flaired
    • Floor Plan
    • Flash (gridded face)
    • Folk Art (wooden plank simulation)
    • Font Troll
    • Fractal, Wireframe, Hemisphere, Origami (now Mummification): experiments in glyph partitioning.
    • Funk, Funky palms
    • Gancio (2014). Hand-drawn.
    • Gemstone (letters in a mosaic)
    • Glyphs made from broken objects: Broken Combs, Broken Glasses
    • GI Joe
    • Grain
    • Graphont
    • Grid1, Grid2, Pas De Grille Pli Isométrique (+Plombé), Grille Noir Pli Isométrique (+Plombé), Grille Intrépide Pli Isométrique (+Plombé), Grille Facile Pli Isométrique (+Plombé).
    • Grunge typefaces: Feather (2010).
    • Gummy (2010).
    • Happily Ever After (2010).
    • Heath Robinson (gorgeous mechanical font).
    • Hexcavated (2010).
    • High Anxiety.
    • High Wire (dotted).
    • Honeycomb Black (hexagonal).
    • Horizontally Phased (like IBM logo from afar), Vertically Phased, Field Goal.
    • Hot Diggity Dog (2010): a monoline rounded sans.
    • Void.
    • Inline: Hi-Fi Deco, Track (+Filled), Crispy Inline
    • Imperfect Optical Experiment.
    • Ironside, Ironworks.
    • Isomixed (+Inline, +Inverted, +Light, +Inline Light), Isomixerd Moire (nine textured styles).
    • Jacks (2010): a stitching font.
    • Jeannie
    • Jelly Bean series: I's, Wide, O's, Split
    • Jetsons (futuristic).
    • Jolly Swash 9+Tall, +Tall Wide Tail).
    • Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope Solid
    • Kitchen tile typefaces: MadisonAveAvenue (2010), Edgar Fernhout (2012).
    • Lace
    • Ladder
    • Last Days Of Summer, Endless Summer, Beach.
    • Lattice, Lattice Black
    • Lean
    • Leaves
    • l-e-display
    • Little Miss Muffet.
    • Loom.
    • Love, Love Letters
    • Martini
    • Metroliner and Metroliner Deluxe.
    • MICR fonts: Wedge Solid.
    • Mike
    • Mitered, Zietgeist: striped 3d typefaces.
    • Modal.
    • Modern Ancient (chiseled font imitation)
    • Molecular (+Complex, +Complex 1), Dense Molecular Complex (1 through 5), Molecular Architecture, Tessellation 1 (+Continuous), Tessellation 2.
    • Monkey Bars.
    • Montreal (+Italics)
    • Monumental, Less Monumental,
    • Mortar Booted (+Thick, Separated, Mission, Booted Mission).
    • Mouthy
    • Music fonts: Fret Full (2010), Fret Station (2010).
    • MyBlock
    • Mystere (2012, grunge).
    • Necklace
    • Ninja.
    • Oblique
    • Octovision Remix
    • Open&Shuttered Day, Open&Shuttered Night
    • Oriental simulation/look: Shoji Pixel, Shoji Stage&Screen Soapbox, Chinese Democracy, Asian Influence.
    • Origami City (2010): formerly Simply Elevated Black. Simple Elevation (2012) is in the same family.
    • Outline Habitat
    • Ozmosis (2014), Ozian (2014), Cardinal (2014), Emblem (2014), Oblio (2014), Hollow Branch (2014)
    • Pallina (2010, + Stampino, +Diluente).
    • Palm, Tall Palm
    • Paperclip typefaces: Neue Werner Paperclip (2012).
    • Patterns
    • Pavers
    • Piccadilly (2010).
    • Pipes
    • Pisa.
    • Pixel Dust, Pixels Dusted, Zogg Domination (video game font)
    • Plaid
    • Pop Arc (2010). In the same style: Conveyor Belt, Milk Bottle, Cookie Cutter, Erector Set (2010).
    • Popsicle Sticks (nice vertically striped glyphs).
    • Playbook (2010).
    • Power Grid, Power Gridlocked
    • Process This (2010) and Flowcahrt (2010): based on graphs of computer programs.
    • Pump Boys (2010).
    • Puzzle
    • Quagmire (2010)
    • Radio Waves
    • Razorback Block
    • Receipt (2012): a dot matrix face.
    • Regular Habitat
    • Relativity
    • Remixintag (2011, a clone of Wallachia by Intaglio).
    • Repeat
    • Ribbodini (2010, ribbon font).
    • Riveted
    • Road Trip
    • Sausalito Nautica (2011).
    • Say What? (Exaggerated ink trap face)
    • Scaffoldini (2010): a 3d gridded face. Followed by Scaffo (2012), Scaffoldini Senza Griglia (2010), Scaffoldini Ascendente Contrario SG, Scaffoldini Ascendente Senza Griglia, Scaffoldini Contrario Senza Griglia, Scaffoldini Ascendente, Scaffoldini Contrario, and Scaffoldini Ascendente Contrario, Scaffoldini Prospettico (+Contrario, +SG).
    • Scichosis.
    • Scripts: Diode (+Dioded, Diodoubled, Diodocked, Diodedocked, Diodiced), Scherzando, Fontstitution, Rough Script, Scriptilicious, Whipped Cream, 45 Degrees, Script Town (2013), Aloha (2013), Sinal Strength (2013), Ink Well (2013).
    • Skulls, Skully
    • Slice N dice
    • Skyscraper.
    • Small Wonder, Small World
    • Snowflake (2010).
    • Soap.
    • Sole
    • Soma (2009): 3d letters mades from cubes.
    • Spooky Eyeballs (2009).
    • Squiggles
    • Stained Glass, Stained with Cross
    • Starburst
    • Stencil fonts: GI Joe (2012, military), Kid's Stencil (white on black), Black Tie, Matchstick, Stensei, Stencillated, Tri-Fold, Tri-Fold Cut, Tri-Fold Rounded, Stencil, Stencil Plate, Stencil Face, Semi Stencil, Psuedo Stencil, Psychedelic Stencil.
    • Stitching fonts: Cross Worded (2013), Cut Here (2014), Sampler
    • T-Shirts on a Clothesline
    • Swamp Frog and Tadpole: artsy fat letters
    • Swamp Funk, Mojo (curly letters)
    • Swatches.
    • Tabular
    • Tall Habitat
    • Techno look: Technified, Slick, Tangential (2010).
    • Tanqueray (2010): octagonal face.
    • Teepee (wood look)
    • Tennis themed: Racket, Net Ball, World Cup.
    • Tetrominoes Black (2010): a 3d typeface cloned from TP2 Marriott's Tetrominoes.
    • Textile
    • Texture fonts: Global (2011, globes), SS Half Tone (One, Two, Three), SS Watermark, SS Silk Screen (2010). These brush texture typefaces were cloned from Swifted Strokes by Mike Lee. Tramarada (2011) has a stunning woven look.
    • Thalistic.
    • The Adventure of the Dancing Men (2011, dingbats).
    • The Big Top
    • The Real McCoy
    • Tiki.
    • Time
    • Timpani, Timpaniless, Timpaniblok, Alien Crop Circles (outer space face).
    • Toothpaste (2011): imitating oozing toothpaste.
    • Trapezoidot, Zoidot, Dotz (dotted typefaces).
    • Upright connected scripts: Madie (2009)
    • Valentine's fonts: Hearts and Flowers, Hearts and Arrows, Keys to your Heart, Bed of Hearts
    • Vapors and Mirage: evaporating glyphs.
    • Vibration (2010). This multiline typeface was followed by Echo (2010).
    • Victorian fonts: Alouette, Swamp Funk
    • Void.
    • Waveform
    • WPA Household Arts Stripes, WPA Household Arts Chex, WPA Household Arts (poster stencil face)
    • Wee The People, Small World.
    • Werner Paperclip (2009), Paperclip (2010): paperclip typefaces after a 1974 original by Ad Werner.
    • Western fonts: Bolo (2010), Bow Tie (2010), Bowl (2010), Western Doodle, Sparky, Buckaroo, Diamond Buckaroo, Saloon and Desert Rose. Western style alphadings: Cart Before The Horse, Wagon Train
    • Weird
    • White on black typefaces: Tabs, Dot Keys, Rounded Keys, Block Keys, Keys.
    • Wiggles
    • Wim Crouwel-related fonts: Unknown Crouwel #1, Edgar Fernhout (2012: a Wim Crouwel tribute font in kitchen tile style taken from a 1963 poster), Kalender 1976 Letters (octagonal based on a Wim Crouwel calendar from 1976), Kalender 1976, Brusselmans (based on a Wim Crouwel poster), Rabobank (based on a Wim Crouwel poster), Brabant (based on a Wim Crouwel poster)
    • Woodcut, Woodcut Recut, Woodcut Banjo.
    • Woven.
    • Wrenched
    • Yay Team
    • Zebeast (Zebra-striped letters)
    • Zodiac Block

    In 2012, he added these fonts at MyFonts: Architect, Black Tie, Carousel, Check Mate, Cobblestones, Cruise, Dog Tag, Edgar Fernhout (2012), Fifty Famous Fairy Tales, Fratturato Digitale (pixelish blackletter face), Ghost Town, Jackpot, Jelly Bean, Keyboard, Kingdom (a castle font), Lagniappe (Victorian), Lyrical, Madie, Matchstick, Menagerie, Q Typ, Scaffo, Sprinkle, Stained Glass, Stencillated, Stensei (stencil), Sweet Valley, Toothpaste, Vibration MF, Yoyo, Zephyrelli.

    Typefaces from 2013 (no longer freely downloadable!): Pome (dot matrix), Cow Poke (dot matrix), Sausalito Nautica, Cut Here (stitching typeface), Belly Button (dot matrix face), Rouletto (bejeweled typeface), Picnic Basket (alphadings), Fandangle (dot matrix), Trace Remains (dot matrix), Billiards (dot matrix), Cross Worded, Script Town, Schematode (connect-the-dots), Electrifunkified, Aloha, Signal Strength, Ink Well, Satellite, Supper Time (alphadings), Mike (alphadings), Licorice, Conga Lounge OF, Monkey Bars, Daisies, Fractal OF (textured face), Saloon OF, Ball and Chain, Say What.

    Typefaces from 2014: the multilined or inline typefaces Ozmosis, Ozian, Cardinal, Hollow Branch, Emblem, and Oblio. The alphading typefaces Rat Race and Picnic Basket. The pearly dot matrix typeface Rouletto and Crawler. The video game typefaces Pod Invasion and Zogg Domination. The stitching typeface Cut Here. The pixelized typeface Code Hijack.

    Klingspor link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Additional URL. Myfonts link. MyFonts foundry link.

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    Windin Lin

    Chinese graphic designer who created several experimental typefaces in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Winnie Lee

    Baltimore, MD-based designer of the experimental typeface Futunie (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Winnie Tan

    Graphic designer from and in Singapore. Her first fonts appeared in 2009: Hybrid (experimental), Prahaha (rounded monoline sans), Rue (informal sans with bent strokes: it was her final project at VSUP, the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design Prague).

    Quandary (2010), her second typeface, is angular.

    In 2010, she published Rue Display at Type Together: Rue is an organic, casually ornamental, narrow-faced sans serif, and the gridded information design and wayfinding typeface Simple.

    Fun portrait by Lim Cheng Mei.

    Typefaces from 2013: Twilight (a monoline font that silumates synapses on the surface of neurons).

    Home page. MyFonts link. MyFonts foundry link. Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Wino Sutarmin Kadir
    [Weknow]

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    Wolf Böse
    [Neue Deutsche (was: Der Graph)]

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    Wolfgang Breuer
    [For Home or Office Use]

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    Wolfgang Weingart

    Swiss typography teacher (b. 1941) at the Basel School of Design/Switzerland since 1968. Interview. Brief CV. Author of Wolfgang Weingart: Typography (2000), a text called arrogant by Stuart Bailey. I bought the book, and must say that the ratio of message to volume is rather small. Adam Rotmil comments on his exceptional teaching capabilitis just before Weingart's retirement from HGK Basel in 2004. A famous Weingart quote, cited in Revival of the Fittest, Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces (Philip B. Meggs&Roy McKelvey): Four typefaces are enough to address every typographic problem. Every digitization of an old typeface is, for me, a fake. Another quotation: Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Won Kim

    Creator the experimental Chair Font in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Xaotik
    [Anton Izorkin]

    Russian graphic designer (b. 1983) who lives in Cheboksary. He created the futuristic typeface UniTek (2005), Simplistic Font (2008, futuristic sans), the experimental Concept Remixed (2009), the organic condensed typeface Unnipolis (2008), and the organic techno font Reactor (2007; see also Reaktor (2008)). Font2u link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Xavi Palouzié

    Graphic designer from Barcelona who made the potato stamp typeface Geo Basic Fifteen (2013), in which all letters are crafted from fifteen basic geometric shapes.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    x-ordinary

    Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of Splatpunk (simulating billboard lights) and Inphonicto (experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yai Salinas

    Graphic designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, at some point located in Madrid, Spain, who made the free purely geometric typeface called Geometric Way in 2010.

    In 2014, Yai made the free decorative caps typeface Craft (for craftsmen), the Greek-inspired caps typeface Hera and Destroy (2014: futuristic ornamental initials. Free download). In 2014, Tano Veron and Yai Salinas co-designed the free vector format colored display typeface Carioca.

    In 2015, Yai Salinas created the hipster typeface Hera, the free blueprint font Craft Font, free vector font Helana (color, all caps) and the free decorative caps typeface Sea.

    Typefaces from 2016: The free experimental draftsman typeface Lieben, the free textured ink-saving Arial GTI and Times GTI, the high contrast didone-inspired free fashion mag typeface Ginebra (revitalized in 2022 as GinZwei), the free decorative blackletter typeface Ethelvina, and the free thin connect-the-dots typeface Fina (which was designed for Design Hooks).

    Typefaces from 2017: Gaia (floral caps), Aires (a free color font at Fontself), the free textured color typeface Electra, the free colorful all caps Ariel Black typeface.

    Typefaces from 2018: Mercurio SVG (+color), Iris SVG, Russia 2018 (color fonts), Portugal, Sppain, Germany, England, France, Argentina, Flux (a nicely textured all caps color slab serif), Agatha (a free tall condensed slab serif).

    Typefaces from 2019: Margo (floral initial caps), Renata (a text family), Flora (textured caps), Easter (textured caps), Antiça, Crack (decorative caps), Christmas, Itze (a colorful textured all caps typeface), Demeter, Regia (floriated caps), Venus (free).

    Typefaces from 2020: Kaliope (a delicate and daring fashion mag display typeface), Acelga (a warm text typeface), Mora, Cut & Paste (a ransom note font), Nagy (Memphis-style exuberant capital letters), Block (3d), Konga (a wonderful color font).

    Typefaces from 2021: Mood Font (colourful and festive), Cleo (decorative caps).

    Flickr page, where she goes under the name Dopamina. Behance link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yamaru

    Designer of the free font Magic Circle Guruguru, an experimental all caps font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yana Lebedeva

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the experimental typefaces Medik (2016, inspired by glasses) and Mons (2016, circle-themed). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yang Song

    Los Angeles-based designer of the experimental typeface Structurhythm (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yaniguille
    [Guillermo Vizzari]

    Guille Vizzari is the Argentinian designer of the gorgeous experimental pixel-script typeface Beautiful Pixel (2006). He also created the equally gorgeous connected copperplate script typeface Ragazza Script (2012, Latinotype). His graduation work in 2012 at FADU-UBA (University of Buenos Aires) is the Trajan / roman caps typeface Esmeralda.

    In 2013, he published the lapidary flared serif typeface Esmeralda Pro at Sudtipos. Esmeralda Pro won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014.

    In 2014, Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari published Abelina Pro at Sudtipos. It is based on Yanina's thesis project in 2011-2012 at FADU/UBA simply called Abelina, which was mentored by Ale Paul and Ana Sanfelippo. Abelina won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.

    For the 3rd edition of Masticar (2014), an Argentine Gourmet fair, an exclusive hand-drawn poster typeface was developed by Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari for use in the identity of the fair. In 2015, Alejandro Paul, Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari combined forces in the signage script typeface Quotes (Script+Caps) (2015, Sudtipos).

    Envelove (2017) is a script typeface family consisting of Script, Icons, and Caps, designed at Sudtipos by Yani Arabena, Guille Vizzari, and Alejandro Paul. Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Envelove.

    Still in 2017, Guille Vizzari designed the great Moleskine notebook-inspired typeface family Proprietor at Sudtipos. Proprietor comes in Script, Icon, Deco, Wide, Open and Roman styles. Co-designed with Alejandro Paul, it won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018.

    In 2018, Yani Arabena and Guille Vizzari published the lively vernacular signage typeface family No Molestar, which won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019.

    Typefaces from 2019 include Buddies, a retro brush lettering font released by Sudtipos.

    Designer of the vintage handcrafted typeface Espiritu (2021, Sudtipos), together with Agus Pizarro Maire.

    Typefaces from 2022 by Yaniguille: Maison Maioli Text (a custom typeface for a floral boutique in London).

    Old URL. Facebook page. Behance link (joint page with Yani Arabena). Joint web page with Yani Arabena. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yann van der Cruyssen

    A video game aficionado, who made some fonts with FontStruct where he is known as Morusque: Serious Serif (2010, an exaggerated Italian face), Smorble (2010, gothic), Corridors (2010, experimental), Poque (2010, a 7x7 pixel face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yara-Marie Sayad

    Beirut-based designer of the left-leaning hairline typeface Trans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yasuhiro Yamaoka
    [YOFonts]

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    Yelena Pasquier

    During her studies in Nantes, France, Yelena Pasquier designed the grid-and-ellipse-based typeface Retine (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yeray Menendez

    This Spanish graphic designer created the experimental SquaredTimes font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yihe Bai

    Beijing, China-based designer (b. 1987) of the experimental Latin typeface Yarn (2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ying-I Lin

    During her studies in London, UK, Ying-I Lin designed the experimental typeface Window (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yingtong Tan

    Graphic designer in London. He made Fat Font (2011) based on paper folding.Chairs inspired him to make an experimental type family in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yip Sheung Yu

    Hong Kong-based creator of the experimental Chinese typeface Rolling Eyes (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yoan Villegente

    Bordeaux, France-based designer of Architectural Ground Plan (2015, a typeface based on architectural drawings), Alphabet Modulaire (2015, based on intersections of circles) and the beautiful geometric experimental Alphabet Cyrillique (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    YOFonts
    [Yasuhiro Yamaoka]

    YOFonts offers beautiful fonts like Trafica and Engraver Sans by Yasuhiro Yamaoka. Most are commercial. Some can be downloaded as freeware or shareware. Fontsquirrel link [where one can download Eau (+Douce Sans, +Naturelle Sans, 2003), EPF (1999-2006), Grov (2000-2002), Midiet (1990-2009, sans and serif), Nord (1992-2000, elliptical), and Telegrama (1992, pixelish)]. Freeware fonts (Mac/PC): Crematec Bold, Glyphian (runic), Grov Alphabet Regular / Italic / Condensed (1999), Grov Katakana, Grov Hiragana, Laitty (1993-1997, upright connected script), Lapidit (1994-2002, experimental), Liq (1995, LCD face), IgnorantModern (1993), Initia (geometric, circular), OneZero Alphabet, OneZero Katakana (pixel face), Ovals (border font), Quads (borderfont), SmooHG, SmooKK, Opuscula (2008-2011), Practica, Ovals Regular (Border font), Quads Regular (Border font). Font of the month (free): Philo AB, Philo KK, Philo HG.

    Other fonts: Angrite-Regular (1998), ArchaeoDeco (2001, art deco), Botaniq (organic, 2001-2002), Circles, CremSBold (1995-1997), CremacBea, CremacBeaBold, Crematec (techno), Cybertalk (2000), DippleKKS (1998, organic, molecular), Elementa (1990-1998, a techno family in Sans, Serif and Script styles), Engraver Sans (1995, Greek simulation family), Fact (1995-2005, information design family), Fol (1995, octagonal family), LiqMono, LiqMonoOblique, LiqRegular, LiqRegularOblique, ModCircle (1995), ModQuad (1996), Moderno (1997-2002, sans), Philo (1995-1996), Pica (1993-2005), Pixe (1992-1998), Practica (1991-2002, +Practica MsF), Nord-Bold (1998), OneZero-ABOneZero (1998), OneZero-ABZeroOne (1998), OneZero-ABZeroZero (1998), OneZero-KKOneOne (1998), OneZero-KKOneZero (1998), OneZero-KKZeroOne (1998), OneZero-KKZeroZero (1998), Serian (1997-2005, a German Schreibschrift), Trafica (1999-2002). In Font Pavilion 12 [dead link]: Smoo (1997-1998, Latin, katakana, hiragana). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yoichi Arisaka

    Yoichi Arisaka (Arisaka Design, Tokyo, est. 2003) created the experimental typeface FONTA (2011), which just consists of dots and rectangles. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yoshihisa Nakai
    [Fontopo]

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    Yosiro
    [Tiny Factory]

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    You Work For Them (or YWFT; formerly Cinahaus or TrueIsTrue)
    [Michael Cina]

    Michael Cina (Minneapolis) is the cofounder of WeWorkForThem and YouWorkForThem (in 2002), also known as YWFT. Before that, he ran TrueIsTrue, and before that was partner in Test Pilot Collective (which he left in 2001), and before that he ran Cinahaus. YWFT is located in Knoxville, TN and/or Baltimore, MD. The creative director is Michael Paul Young.

    Cina's fonts include the pixel fonts YWFT Caliper (1998), YWFT Bit (1998), 6x7oct (1998) and BlackGold; the handwriting font Cinahand; Blessed (1999, techno), YWFT Cam (1998, a slab serif based on industrial lettering), CommunityService, Crossover (1998, dot matrix with stars instead of dots), Composite (1998, octagonal), Formation (1999, a big octagonal family), Jute (2004, a masculine, military, sans-serif), YWFT Maetl (1999, octagonal, angular family), YWFT Moteur (a technical, retro, machine-like design; it briefly went under the name Alloy---in the early 2000s it was heavily used in the video gaming magazine Playstation), YWFT Novum (2002: a heavy block font that draws inspiration from a typeface originally used by the Swiss graphic designer Siegfried Odermatt), Pakt, Reversion (1997, squarish), Selector, Selek (1998, pixelish), YWFT Blackgold (2000, pixelish), Service (2001-2002, an octagonal family), YWFT Signature (1998), Trisect (1999, three-lined family), Unisect (1999, organic monoline sans), YWFT Ultramagnetic (1996, a popular rounded gothic typeface family), Ultramagnetic2 (1999), YWFT Ultramagnetic Expanded (2011), YWFT Ultramagnetic Rough (1996-2017), Unfinished. Bastard (1998), Kcap6 (with Matt Desmond), Cheese (1998), Novum (2002), Overcross (2002, unfocused letters), Stem (1998), Testacon (with Kral and Desmond, 1999), Praun (2002, pixel typefaces), OneCross (2002, pixelish stitching family), Estenceler (2004, a great stencil family a bit related to Milton Glaser's Glaser Stencil), Graphium (2004, octagonal Western style family), Expos (2004, graffiti or poster face), YWFT Pixacao (2007, after the Brazilian graffiti style), Vox (2007, monoline sans), Militia Sans (2007, like a Russian constructivist stencil), Jupiter (roman), Militia (2007, heavier stencil), Merc (2007, grunge), Guild (2007), Clarendon Text (2007, a complete revival), Jezebel (2007, script), Ambassador Script (2007, a digital revival of Novarese's typeface by that name), Enam (2002, influenced by Crouwel), Enigmatic Hand (2007), Dusty (2007, a Tuscan-eared Western font), YWFT Poplock (2007, experimental), YWFT Pakt (2004, geometric sans), Sudsy (2007), Black Sabbath (2008, ultra black slab serif, by Stefan Kjartansson), YWFT Belle (2008), YWFT Agostina (2008), YWFT Bitwood (2007-2017, pixelish Western typeface), YWFT Mullino (2009, letterpress emulation), Trithart (2008, grunge by Emma Trithart), YWFT Tapscott (2008-2017, informal and nostalgic all caps family, in the style of Rennie Mackintosh), Habano (2008, script), Amorinda (signage script), Retron (2008, connected script), MD01 (medical-themed dingbats), Adelaide (script), Centennial Script (calligraphic), Alexia (calligraphic), Ultramagnetic (experimental), Nash (1997, grunge), Amber (kitchen tile), Fab (3d), 6x7 Oct (1998, pixels and dots), Wool (2009, stencil), YWFT Matter (2009, a wide bold grotesque), YWFT Merriam (2009, a Clarendon-styled slab serif), Agostina Alternate (2011, with Michael Paul Young and Taechit Jiropaskosol), Ramsey (2012), YWFT Dessau (2013, schizograms and capitals like Bauhaus on drugs), YWFT League (2014, inspired by college football jerseys), YWFT Yoke (poster typeface done with Pintassilgo), YWFT Illuminati (2015, abstract capitals).

    Blog. His lovely g poster (2010).

    House fonts at YWFT by unknown designers: YWFT Knit (2010: knitting patterns), YWFT Motif (2015), Ramsey Condensed (2015), YWFT Roamer (2016), YWFT Whisky (alchemic), YWFT Psychosis, YWFT Processing (2001-2010: YWFT Processing was developed in 2001 for Casey Reas, the co-creator of the Processing programming language. We created this display face to be sharp, tall, unique and interesting...much like Mr. Reas himself. The font was derived from an original logo that already existed, and we continued the idea into a fully working six-weight font family. YWFT Processing was converted to Opentype format in 2010), YWFT Filbert (2012), YWFT Nim (2012, combining the hipster style with overlays for bevel and shadow effects), Dogma (2012, alchemic), Attic (spooky poster face, in EPS format), YWFT Yoke (textured all-caps), Riblah (2003, dot matrix), YWFT Fraktur (tattoo face), YWFT Burls (2013, fat poster typeface), YWFT Coltrane (2011, handdrawn poster typeface), YWFT Symplify (2013: haute couture snowflakes), YWFT Smoothie, YWFT Chance (2016), YWFT Skipper (2016), YWFT Wheatgrass (2016), YWFT Estee (2002-2017), YWFT Watermelon (2017), YWFT Ink (2017, originally designed in 2008), YWFT QUE, YWFT Burtonian (2017, named after Tim Burton), YWFT Crew (handcrafted), YWFT Maudlin (2017), YWFT Liana (2017; perhaps plumbing dingbats, who knows?), YWFT Victoria (2010: a bonbonnerie type), YWFT Valley (2017: a Memphis movement type), YWFT Wellsworth (2017), YWFT Harmony (2008-2017, a curly calligraphic script), YWFT Edger (2017), YWFT Chateau, YWFT Gummy (2002-2018), YWFT Blender (2018), YWFT Fluctuant (2018: a variable font), YWFT Gavin (a ransom note font) (2021), Ramsey (2021: a 54-style rounded squarish typeface), YWFT Hugo (2021: a child's hand).

    View Michael Cina's typefaces. Alternate URL. Behance link. Interview. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Youngha Park

    Youngha Park (Karim Rashid Inc, New York) created the experimental Quarterhaus typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Youssef Sarhan

    Based in Dublin, Ireland, Sarhan is a student at The National College of Art&Design, Ireland. He created just one typeface, a sans typeface made up of line segments and arcs of circles, called Beginnings (2008). He has projects involving geometric types and dot matrix types. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    yrmk (was: Youremin)
    [Joel Santos]

    Type foundry located in Lobão, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, run by Joel Santos (b. 1988, Porto, Portugal). Designer of Rounded Teen (2008, a very round and fat version of VAG Rounded), Rosley (2008, a decorative modern face), Simples (2008, hairline architectural sans), and Hausi Hausi (2008, experimental).

    MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yudha Destiangga

    Bandung, Indonesia-based designer of Wonderlnd (2014), an experimental typeface composed of graphical pieces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuji Koiso

    Japanese designer, born in Tokyo in 1966. Graduated from the Graphic Design Section of the Design Department of the Tama Art University in 1990. Currently working at Nippon Design Center Co., Ltd. He was awarded the 2001 Judges' Special Prize at the annual Tokyo Type Designers Club competition for a nice experimental font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yukino Kohmoto

    In 2017, Yukino Kohmoto (Tokyo, Japan) used the open source programming language Processing to create a hairline all caps sans typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuko Sugimoto

    Graphic designer in London. Creator of a few custom-made experimental typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yumi Asai

    Born in Japan. Designer who studied at the Parsons School of Design, New York City. Creator of this experimental typeface. Behance link. In 2010, she created New International. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yumi Tohyama

    Designer of this experimental set of icons in Letter Arts Review, vol. 18, No. 1, 2003. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yura Kusnar

    Designer of the futuristic minimalist typefaces Raz (2016) and Kenn (2016), the experimental triangle-based typeface Meer (2016), the deconstructed typeface Vant (2016) and Geometric Animals (2016, triangulated silhouettes). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuri Chagas Lobo

    Brazilian creator at Unique Types of the free experimental dotted typeface Efeito Borboleta (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuri Frolov

    Russian designer at Paratype of Alien Alphabet (2007), quite experimental. ParaType sells this dingbat face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yuri Sung

    Seoul, Korea-based designer of the experimental combinatorial typeface Fragment (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yurko Gutsulyak

    Located in Kiev, Ukraine, Yurko designed some very experimental fonts in 2008. He used circles and geometry to design the logo type Gouache (2010). His graphic design studio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yury Ostromentsky
    [OSTYPE]

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    Yves Faes-Dupont

    Designer at Typolis in Antwerpen, Belgium, where he designed the experimental font Wireframe, the happy font Zirco, and the pixelish font Square. Yves lives in Antwerpen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zack Anderson

    Chicago-based graphic designer. He created the organic experimental face Moxie (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zena C

    Bangkok-based designer of a few experimental Latin typefaces in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ZESD
    [Stefan Hitchen]

    Zesd is Stefan Hitchen's design studio and type foundry in Liverpool, UK.

    He created the experimental typeface Plinth (2011) and the octagonal techno typeface Ramscoop (2011). They also made some modular typefaces in 2011---one is called Flux. Catalog.

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    zetuei fonts
    [Shinobi Iroha]

    Japanese site. About 80 free and commercial fonts. Hiragana fonts that are very geometric. Among the free fonts, geometric experimentations such as metalflame and exMastang. The highly experimental hiragana/kanji font Shinoba (by Shinobi Iroha) is also free. Free fonts list (truetype, or Mac type 1): CHOUJYOU, GROSSFADERSCH01, GROSSFADERSCH02, HRKtKAI, Iiyodomu, KeikokuKoin, MEcanicules, MECCHAGO, MECHGOtHIC, Morseirclecode, ZetueiMinchoHIR, ZeueiMinchoSample, SHINOBIIROHAMincho (by Shinobi Iroha), SKYSCRAPER, ZebugRadesbit6, ZETUEcriptOblique, Z_HANGMASTA, ANALOGROOVE, Damaraa, Damarahum, Z_DebugRators, Z_exMastang, Z_metalflame, ZSHINOBIIROHA, Z_TANG6133NUM, Z_TT, ZtUBBAnomal, ZtUBBAZOUMOtSU. Most of these fonts have some kanji/kana connection, and are pixel or techno in nature. At FRONTLINE 01, they published Emiwarery Oblique (2002). In 2006, Yoshiaki Kano won an award from the TDC Tokyo for his oeuvre. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zhanar Bereketova

    Russian designer of the experimental geometric typeface Krok (2018). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Zhihua Duan

    Born in 1991, Zhihua Duan graduated from Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Fudan University, and is now located in Melbourne, Australia. He created the experimental Line Maze Type in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zhimet Cardozo

    Tangerangscheweg, Indonesia-based multimedia artist, b. 1980. He created the circle-based experimental geometric typeface MDRS-FD01 (2009).

    Behance link. Dafont link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zim and Zou

    Zim&Zou is a French graphic design studio based in Nancy, France. The team is composed of graphic designers Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann. Behance link. Weave Type (2010) was first made with nails and threads, and then rendered into a remarakable experimental geometric font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zinzell Design
    [Don Zinzell]

    New Yorker Don Zinzell designed Devilish, Zero, Amp, Gamma Ray, Five Regular and Typo, all experimental typefaces. Zinzell Design has been described in Margaret Richardson's book 3Type Graphics". Fonts sold at 79 USD a shot: Amp, Contained (dot matrix font), Container (dot matrix font), Devilish, Five (a great futuristic font), Gamma Ray, Impacto, Intnl Runway (pixel), Metra (fonts designed like furniture), Starlet, Vixa and Zero. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zipeng Zhu

    New York City-based designer of Electrica (2014), an animated stick typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zozu Edzech

    Designer and art director in Barcelona. Behance link.

    Creator of the ornamental slab typeface Suede (2011), the multiline ornamental titling typeface Nando (2011) and the circle-themed geometric typeface Cercles (2011).

    In 2012, Zozu designed the free alchemic typeface Nina.

    Behance link. Ultratypes link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zurab Kirtskhaia

    Tbilisi, Georgia-based designer of the Georgian typefaces Winston Geo (2016), Kir Tkheli (2016), and GDS 2015 (2015), as well as several untitled and experimental Georgian typefaces between 2013 and 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zurdo

    Typographer and digital artist in San Juan, Argentina. Creator of the artistic geometric typeface Strange Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zuzana Bysterska

    Calgary-based designer of the experimental handcrafted typeface Shudder (2017), about which she writes: Shudder was created using an unconventional tool: a plastic kid's snack container. The flexibility and shape of the tool allowed little control over the form of the letters. Each character was handwritten then digitized and edited. [Google] [More]  ⦿