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Tealeaf Digital Type Foundry [Dave Lawless]

Tealeaf Digital Type Foundry (or: Little Red Circles) was a Manchester, UK-based foundry, which existed from ca. 2000 until ca. 2004. Designers included Carl Seal, Dave Lawless, Tony Howell, Jon Ratcliffe and Kyle Seal. There were about 30 commercial Mac fonts and about 25 free PC/Mac fonts in truetype. By designer:

• Dave Lawless: 3d Blox, Architext, AU79, Breathe, Bubblewrap, Optimistic, Typeone.
• Mark Bradley: Phobia.
• Tony Howell: Yuleo.

The other designers made BaskerSans 4, Bitmapbreakfast, Bull, Butter, Calliglession, Calligruffy, Carl Seal, Chewy, Crushedtalc, DuoGypsy, EasyLino, Forma, Geek, Grivant, Growbag, Gypsy, Inbreed, Index, Instamatik, Kyleaged5, Kyleaged5half, Ladyboy, Leavingglassvegas, Litrecs, Matrix, Mend, Metis Rota, Mr.fish, Munch, Next, NuChina, Nudgeashak, NuEngland, NuJapan, Number, Passion, Print is dead, Raygun, Reop-sans, Rupture, Scritch, Shakasonik, Shati, SheMale, Skript, Something, Stamp, Synsis, Timig, Tweak, Underworld, Unruly Cucumber, Unstuklino, Untitled, User-unknown, Whanted, Yatta, Yuleo, Basker Sans 4, Optimistic, Phobia, Typeone. Freebies: Skript, Tweak (Mac and PC, truetype).

Dave Lawless now runs Fontmill Foundry (also called Studio Liddell Ltd Graphic Design), and sells his fonts via MyFonts. Carl Seal set up Little Red Circles and took most of the fonts to that site, where they can be downloaded for free.

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