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Hackberry Font Foundry (Was: NuevoDeco Typography, or: Bergsland Design) [David Bergsland]

In 2009, Hackberry Font Foundry grew out of NuevoDeco Typography, which in turn was a commercial foundry that formed part of Bergsland Design located in Mankato, MN, and before that, Las Lunas, NM, and run by David Bergsland (b. 1944, Buffalo, NY), a 1971 graduate of the University of Minnesota. Author of Practical Font Design: 2nd Edition: Rewritten for FontLab 5. Klingspor link. Creative Market link, as Radiqx Press. His fonts:

• Aargh!- Light and Heavy.
• Abiquiu Black.
• Ablati (2009)
• Out of Nuevo Litho (1993) appeared Abrect (2009).
• Abwyn.
• Academi (2010).
• Adieu (1998). Adieu Two (2006, an almost blackletter script).
• The high-ascendered and bouncy sans typeface Aerle (2009).
• Aero Script (2001, and its extension, JargonPro, 2004)
• Aggressian (2012). An angular and angry typeface.
• Akme Pro (2002). Akme (2002, an industrial sans family).
• Albe Sans (2000).
• Allektra (2002).
• AllSpeed.
• Altra (2006).
• AmeriDistort (old typewriter, Seamus Mills).
• Amico (2008, a sans family).
• Amitale (2008). Amitale (2008) has eight styles in each of AmitaleBook and AmitaleWide.
• Araldo (2021). A comic book sans.
• Aramus (2008). Aramus is an old style text face.
• Archaic Penpoint Pro (2004, stylish blackletter).
• Ardone Book (2007, garalde, a close relative of his own Diaconia Old Style, which in turn was influenced by the 19th century Dutch bible font, Minister (Linotype)). Ardone Book (+ Italic) is accompanyied by a sans called Arinar, and a slab serif called Alexandrya.
• Artichoke (2007). A calligraphic printed script typeface with rough outlines, which according to the typophiles is a shameful clone of Chris Costello's Papyrus.
• Out of Aramus grew Artimas (2009), a "book" family with tall ascenders.
• Arturo (2008). A flared sans serif based on an alphabet found in Dan Solo book.
• Artz (2002).
• Astaire Pro (2004). He writes: This is a deco-style text OpenType Pro font loosely based on Koch's Locarno as seen in KochAltschrift a recent free German tribute to Koch's work. I was familiar with Meeks' Letraset presstype version called Locarno, but I never liked the proportions used by either Meeks or Koch. So I radically revised ascender, descender, and x-height to make them more usable.
• Attend.
• Auntie Pat (2008). A decorative script face.
• Avenue (2002)
• Beatz (by or with Seamus Mills).
• Biblia, Biblia Serif (2017-2021) and Biblia Display (2022). Biblia is a lapidary outgrowth of Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt's typeface Minister from 1929.
• Bergsland Engravers Pro (2005).
• Bergsland Display (2005).
• In 2005, he created Bergsland Fashion and Bergsland Round
• Bergsland Pro.
• Bilbo Black.
• Bilbo Pro Fiesta.
• Bjorgi Pro (2004).
• Bling (2009).
• Boxy (2018).
• Brinar (2006). A Koch-inspired slightly playful humanist sans text family.
• Briskly (2016).Handwriting style.
• Buddy (2010). Buddy Slender (2011) is an informal display sans family.
• Bulkr (2017). Bergsland's replacement of heavy titling faces like Impact.
• Bushing (2010). An interpretation of Cushing No. 2 by ATF.
• Caesar.
• Chivalry.
• Chunkie (2010).
• Contenu (2010). A text book family. Followed by Contenu EBook (2012).
• Cushing Two (2011).
• Cutlass (2010). Uncial, created in a swashbuckling style.
• Diaconia Old Style (1994-2001).
• Draetha (2017). A monoline sans.
• In 2006, he added Fiscal, a squarish sans typeface
• For his book Practical Font Design With FontLab 5, David Bergsland designed a set of text typefaces in 2016, Librum, Librum Sans, Librum E, Bookish, and Bream (the display version of Librum).
• Nordstrom.
• NuevoLitho (1993).
• Poniard (2011). A medieval script.
• Sturdy (2006, heavy sans).

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