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Etcetera Type Company (or: ETC; was: Finck Font Co) [Tyler Finck]

Graphic designer and musician (b. 1982) at the New York studio AWP who grew up in Maine and is currently based in Ithaca, NY. In 2018, he founded Etcetera Type Company, which is based in Spencer, NY.

His typefaces:

• The fat counterless caps typefaces Blackout and Blackout Midnight (2008). Blackout Sunrise (2013) is an outlined face and Blackout 2am is a reversed font. Blackout Noon followed in 2014. Free download of Blackout at the League of Movable Type.
• Ostrich Sans (2011). This typeface comes in many weights, including a beautiful Ostrich Sans Inline and a hairline. In 2016, this was followed by the layered monoline sans typeface family Ostrich Proper (+Inline).
• Knewave (2011, Google Web Fonts). A brush signage face. League of Movable Type link.
• Porter Sans (2013). A large wide headline type family. It has a free inline outline weight. Later additions include Porter Sans Ink (2014) and Porter Rough (2016). Porter FT, which includes new rounded styles, was added in 2017.
• Elm (2013). Hand-printed.
• Lickety Split (2013). A crayon or brush face.
• Almost (2013). A poster typeface.
• Guilder (2011-2013). A free typeface family with an inline thrown in.
• Ithaca Sans (2013).
• Fartlek Sans (2014). A handcrafted poster typeface.
• Katahdin (2014). A free font.
• Upstater (2014). A a classical American gothic with shaded and layered styles.
• Grandstander (2014). A comic book face. Grandstander Classic (2017). In 2020, Grandstander became a free Google font---and a two-axis variable font was added for the occasion.
• Boo City (2014). A pixel face.
• Didactic Display (2014). A grungy typeface.
• Upstater Ink (2014). A grungy typeface.
• Finck32A (2014).
• Saturnight (2014). A heavy brush typeface.
• Typocopia (2014). A letterpress emulation typeface.
• Taurus Mono (2014). An outline font.
• Southpaw (2014). A nice informal hand.
• Chawp (2014). A crayon face.
• Mr. Brunch (2014). A brush face.
• Gluten FT (2014).
• Flabbergast (2015). A didone.
• Korsque (2015). A layered typeface.
• Bico (2015). A rounded condensed organic typeface.
• Ichabod (2016). An antiqued serif typeface.
• Altitude Condensed (2016).
• Imbue (2016). A condensed didone poster typeface (also called a skyline typeface) at Google Fonts. See also Imbue FT (2017). ETC Imbue (2019) is a variable font version of Imbue with a variation in optical size from Text to Display.
• Retrograde (2016). A monoline and monospaced organic sans.
• Plainview (2016). A squarish and fat typeface.
• Nonesuch (2016). A condensed sans.
• Juju (2016). An octagonal layered typeface family.
• Atiga (2017).
• Mr Brunch FT (2017). A children's book font.
• League Mono (2017). A free font.
• ETC Gluten (2018). An organic font family.
• ETC Epilogue (2018). A variable sans font. Github link. Google Fonts link. Prologue (2020) is a reworking of ETC Epilogue.
• ETC Anybody (2018-2020). A 72-style variable font with weight, width and slant axes. Free at Google Fonts. He writes: Anybody is a big family that combines an affinity for Eurostile plus a heavy dose of 90s inspiration. It's flexible enough to adapt to a variety of situations. From UltraCondensed to ExtraExpanded, type set in Anybody can take up a tiny amount of horizontal space or so much space that you'll need several lines. Its high x-height and low cap height help exaggerate extreme widths and weights. Github link.
• Furrow (2018). A grungy sans.
• Cease (2018). A squarish techno typeface.
• ETC Trispace (2019). A variable font with weight and width axes, based on League Mono.
• ETC Tourney (2019). A variable octagonal font, playing on the theme of outline versus inline. Free Google Fonts download (2020-2021). Github link.
• Struthio (2019). A rounded sans.
• Birdo (2020). An inline typeface.
• Gluten (2021). A free script font family at Google Fonts.

Alternate URL, called The League of Movable Type. Typedia link. Kernest link. League of Movable Type link. Creative Market link, Klingspor link. Dafont link. Home page. Creative Market link. Abstract Fonts link. Google Plus link. YWFT link. Old home page. Behance link. Github link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Etcetera Type Company (or: ETC; was: Finck Font Co)
 [Buy fonts]
 [Designer info]
Fontspring link [Buy fonts]
Dafont page
Fontspace page
Behance page
Creative Market page
Klingspor Museum page
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search

INTERNAL LINKS
Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Wood Type ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Very thin (hairline sans) typefaces ⦿ Brush script typefaces ⦿ Signage typefaces ⦿ Typefaces that emulate crayons ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Handwriting fonts ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Comic/cartoon fonts ⦿ Letterpress ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Octagonal typefaces ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ Skyline Typefaces ⦿ Type scene in Maine ⦿ Fonts for programming ⦿ Children's handwriting fonts ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿