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Village [Chester Jenkins] Foundry of Chester and Tracy Jenkins, which is based in the East Village of New York City. Under their own label, established in 2005, they published Galaxie Polaris (2005, geometric sans; the Light is very thin). Village is also a type coop for these foundries: Feliciano Type Foundry (Mario Feliciano in Portugal): Rongel (2005), B-Sides (2004), Morgan Project (2003), Flama (2002), Stella (2000), Garda (1998), Grotzec Headline Condensed (1998), Merlo (1997). Joshua Darden (Brooklyn, NY): Omnes (2005). KLTF (Karsten Luecke in Goettingen, Germany): Litteratra (2005). Lux Typographics (Michael Rey and Greg Lindy in LA): Crank 8, Section, Lux Sans, Nova. Orange Italic (Christian Schwartz in NYC): Local Gothic (2005). Thirstype: launched in 1994 by Rick Valicenti to publish his font Bronzo, and soon expanded to present the work of Barry Deck, Magnus Rakeng, Patric King, Chester, Paul Sych, Frank Ford, Patrick Giasson, Claudio Piccinini, and Hugo d'Alte. Faces: Kaas (Hugo d'Alte, a "blackletter typeface for the 21st century, with Latin, Cyrillic, and Hebrew alphabets", Mavis (Chester), and the architectural hairline outline typeface Daily (2003, with Tracy Jenkins). Type Initiative: Type Initiative is a typefounding and design collective based in Canada and Greece. It was co-founded by type designers Michail Semoglou and Keith Chi-hang Tam. Faces: Arrival (2005). Underware: Bello (2005), Auto (2004), Sauna (2002), Dolly (2001). Kontour (Sibylle Hagmann): Odile (2005). Hugo d'Alte: Kaas (2005), a geometric blackletter covering extended Latin, Cyrillic, and Hebrew.	EXTERNAL LINKS Village [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Very thin (hairline sans) typefaces ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Architectural lettering/typefaces ⦿