Backpacker

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Backpacker [George Triantafyllakos] George Triantafyllakos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1980. In 2004, he was a PhD student, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Founder, with Manolis Pratsinakis, of Backpacker, where one can find free Latin and Greek typefaces: BPLatinNumerals, BPbigHead, BPchildLefty, BPchildFatty, BPchubby, BPchubbyFat, BPdots, BPilialena, BPletterSquares, BPletterSquaresWide, BPmolecules, BPmouse, BPmyhand, BPneon [paperclip face], BPpong [light stencil face], BPsquareHand, BPtall, BP PhD Sans, BP PhD Italic, BP PhD Mono, BP Inktrap, BP Script. These include quite a few handwriting typefaces. Commercial handwriting fonts at Cannibal (2001-2005): BPPallas, BPOlga, BPMaria, BPHaroula. In 2007, he added BP display black, BP mono and BP mono italics, and BP script. In 2008, BPreplay was created as a correction of MgOpenModata. Creations in 2009 and 2010: BPOApeloig, BPScript, BP Typewrite, BP Imperial (think Impact), BP Dots (30 monospaced dot fonts). He set up the independent foundry Atypical. Designer of TapeBold (2015, iFontMaker). In 2016, he released the free all caps sans typeface Hellenica for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. In 2017 he participated in the team of designers who won the competition for the design of the new visual identity of the National Library of Greece (George D. Matthiopoulos, Dimitris Papazoglou, George Triantafyllakos and Axel Peemöller). Fontsquirrel link. Kernest link. iFontMaker link. Cannibal Fonts link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Backpacker Monotype link Dafont page Fontspace page Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Greek/Coptic ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Handwriting fonts ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Children's handwriting fonts ⦿ Typewriter fonts ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ Paperclip faces ⦿ Neon tube or faux neon typefaces ⦿ iFontMaker fonts ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿