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BuyMyFonts (or: BMF) [Alessio Leonardi]

Alessio Leonardi (b. Florence, 1965) is an Italian designer and type designer who lives in Berlin since 1990. He worked in Berlin at MetaDesign of Erik Spiekermann and in Frankfurt at xplicit. In 1997, with Priska Wollein, he opened the office Leonardi Wollein Visuelle Konzepte in Berlin. His humor shows through his letters and his many dingbats.

In 2002 he founded Buy My Fonts that produces typefaces for corporate applications and also for standard use.

Speaker at ATypI in Rome in 2002. In 2004 he published his book From the Cow to the Typewriter: the (true) History of Writing. The Alberobanana project tries to suggest an alphabet that could have been. In 2007, he started the pixel font project BMF Elettriche. Available from MyFonts, it includes 648 styles. Speaker at ATypI 2007 in Brighton.

Linotype link. Typefaces.de site.

His fonts include

• F2F Ale Ornaments (1994, +Rotato, +Spirato), Ale Signs, Ale Transport: all done at Linotype.
• F2F Allineato (1995): grunge, part of the Face2Face project.
• Alternativo Franklin Gothic
• Aposto
• F2F Al Retto (1995): grunge, part of the Face2Face project.
• BMF Ale Pi Fonts
• BMF Atypico (1994): organic.
• FF Baukasten (1995): grungy pixel face.
• BMF Bolbody, or Bolbodico.
• Bodetica
• BMF Brohan Black (2000)
• BMF Bread Type.
• BMF Brera.
• FF Cavolfiore
• FF Coltello (+Figure)
• BMF Cratilo Poster (1996, +Signs): angular face.
• Cool Wool
• Cotton Club
• Debaq Face
• BMF Elleonora Dun Tondo, BMF Elleonora Dun Cane (1994): script typefaces.
• Etica Temporale
• Font Card (2000)
• FF Forchetta (+figure)
• BMF Fontcard (2000): Monospaced, modular.
• FF Graffio (+Visivo) (1995): scratchy graffiti face.
• Graffiti One, Two, Three and Four (1993): at AA International.
• Ha Manga Irregular (+Pictures)
• FF Handwriter (+Symbols)
• Happy Days
• BMF However
• Kaos
• BMF Imme Gothic (2001): made for the official communication of the wedding of Imme and Alessio.
• BMF Just Do It Again (1999).
• FF Letterine (+Archetipetti, +Esagerate, +Teatro): kid font family.
• BMF Love and Hate Pie (2010)
• F2F Madame Butterfly (1995)
• FF Matto, FF Matto Porco, FF Matto Sans, matto Sans Porco: blotchy.
• Metadoni
• F2F Metamorfosi (1995): experimental, part of the Face2Face project.
• FF Mulinex
• BMF Mekanikamente
• F2F Mekkaso Tomanik
• BMF Objects Pi (2010)
• Omegalo
• BMF Planets Pi (2010)
• F2F Poison Flowers (1994).
• FF Priska Serif (+Little Creatures)
• F2F Prototipa Multipla
• F2F Provinciali
• BMF Quaderno
• Samuele
• Schering type family (2000): done for a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Berlin. Includes Sans, Serif, Letter.
• BMF Serbatoio (1991): Pixel face, originally called This Is Not (My Beautiful Wife). Includes Pieno, Vuoto, Prospettico.
• F2F Simbolico
• BMF Sicily (1991): grungy ransom note face.
• Stone Washed
• F2F Tagliatelle Sugo
• Tagliatelle Poster, Tagliatelle Grazie, Tagliatelle Tagliate
• Tempore
• BMF Testuale, BMF Testuale Sans, BMF Testuale Cornici (1994): angular family.
• BMF Zazi.
• BMF Zodiac Pi (2010)

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
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INTERNAL LINKS
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