Black Fox Foundry

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Black Fox Foundry [Ivan Kostynyk] Ivan Kostynyk (Black Fox Foundry) is a graphic designer, aka Ivan K or Ivan Kay, who lives in Toronto, and studied graphic design at Ontario College of Art and Design, or OCAD. His type designs are both free and icommercial, can be found at Practice Foundry and Ten Dollar Fonts. He also created a few commercial typefaces. Creator of Egypt 22 (2011, a free heavy slab serif, which includes smilies), Lloyd Serif (2010), a refined piano key typeface. It covers Latin, Ukrainian and Russian, and was inspired by Bill Loyd and by the Ogaki typeface. In 2010, he set up his own foundry. At it, he published the soft monoline sans typeface Soft2911 (2011). In 2012, he created a geometric sans based on Futura for Chun+Ivan Design, called Anchor2. Pontus is a free geometric sans typeface available from Practice Foundry. In 2014, he published the oriental simulation typeface Takoshi (Ten Dollar Fonts: Takoshi is a finely crafted modern interpretation of 15-17th century Cyrillic writings. Takoshi also features influence from Japanese/Chinese calligraphic writing. Takoshi has a balanced contrast of thick and thin and sharp triangular shapes). Chun+Ivan Design is located in Toronto and is run by Chun Hu, Ivan Kostynyk and Philip Wu. Klingspor link. Another Behance link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Black Fox Foundry [Buy fonts] Behance page Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ The Canadian type scene ⦿ Type design in Ukraine ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Smilie Fonts ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Oriental simulation fonts ⦿ Triangulated typefaces ⦿