Type Culture

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Type Culture [Mark Jamra] Advertised as Mark Jamra's Portland, ME-based digital type foundry and an academic resource. There is an extremely useful research directory, a great jump point for learning about type and its history. The site also has useful articles such as Jamra's article on optical image support and his article on form and proportion in a typeface. Mark Jamra (b. 1956) lives in Portland, Maine, where he designs type and teaches letterform and graphic design at the Maine College of Art. He did postgraduate work at the Basel School of Design, Switzerland, 1980-83, then worked for URW in Hamburg (where he lived for 12 years), and set up Jamra Design there. He left Germany in 1995. Fonts by Jamra: Alphatier (2001), a schizophrenic font that won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 and at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. Brynmorgen Greek. A Cherokee font done in 2011. Expo Sans (5 weights): Expo Sans won an award at TDC2 2004. Expo Serif Pro (2008, 8 styles). This typeface it won an award at TDC2 2009). The modern family ITC Jamille (1988). The multiple master text family Kinesis MM (1997-2002) produced at Adobe. Kinesis 3 (Adobe) features ten styles. Latienne (1991). Quelle Bold (1994). Tacitus. In 2016, Mark Jamra and Neil Patel co-designed a typeface for the West African N'Ko script. View Mark Jamra's typefaces. Brief bio. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. FontShop link. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of a multi-script type system for Africa.	EXTERNAL LINKS Type Culture [Designer info] Monotype link Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Main links to font link pages ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Switzerland ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿ Typography ⦿ Type scene in Kentucky ⦿ Type scene in Maine ⦿ Native-American fonts ⦿ African fonts ⦿