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" <...> is the title of a new graphic design magazine (now based in Den Haag, The Netherlands) intended to fill a gap in current arts publishing. It is not interested in re-promoting established material or creating another 'portfolio' magazine. Instead, it offers inventive critical journalism on a variety of topics related both directly and indirectly to graphic design culture. " Editors: Jurgen Albrecht, Stuart Bailey, Peter Bilak. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
21 Inch
| 21 Inch is Michael Lugmayr's company in Rotterdam. His fonts were promised in 2003---still waiting. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Barcode fonts for barcode schemes used by the Dutch PTT, and in the Australia Post Address barcode. For 99USD, bizfonts sells the RM4SCC fonts package. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type design mag started in September 2003 by Underware in The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch type historian who collected many art nouveau type specimen, including some rare alphabets drawn by the Rotterdamse Schilderschool. Nadeem Muzaffar's Bibelot (2010, a custom typeface) is based on one of these alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aad van Dommelen
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Student at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands, b. 1991. He created the optical illusion typeface Lines (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graduate from the Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver) and the KABK in Den Haag in the Type and Media program (2009). Originally from Lethbridge, Alberta, Abi designed a modular type generator. At KABK, he created Arietta, a small family consisting of a simply constructed transitional roman and a bold roman, as well as multiple italic companions. He works as a graphic designer at Commercial Type in New York City. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch foundry in Bergen op Zoom. Psychoscout is an initial caps font, originally developed for the Psychoscout record by Flat Earth Society (2006). It was made commercial in 2011. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Acute Studio
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Creator of the hairline face Opium (2010) characterized by teardrop terminals. Creator of Paige (2011), developed at the tipoRenesansa 3rd international type design workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This is an attractive and bouncy papercut display face. Marge (2011) is edgy and highly legible even at very small sizes---it was developed at the tipoRenesansa 2nd international type design workshop. Paige Italic (2012) was done at tipoRenesansa 4 and TypeClinic 5 (2012). Her KABK graduation typeface was Editura (2013), a a type family for serious publications, magazines, as well as non-fiction books. At The 8th International Typeclinic in 2014, she continued work on an untitled text typeface. At Die Gestalten, she published Paiper, an extraordinarily balanced and readable 6-style text family with angular flared glyphs that are genetically related to folded paper strips. In 2014, Diana collaborated on the design of HF Stencil with Bold Monday and Studio Thonik. Made for Holland Festival, HF Stencil is based on Glaser Stencil. In 2016, Diana published Equitan Sans and Equitan Slab at Indian Type Foundry, marrying industrial era rustiness with modern functionality. In 2017, she designed Tiny Sans and Albert Samuels Clock Type. Codesigner in 2017 with Samo Acko and Sabina Chipara of the typefaces Passenger Display (2017) and Passenger Serif (released in 2019: a Clarendon). Passenger Display is a high-contrast didone-style font family. It is intended for use in headlines, signs, or posters. Passenger Display is a high-contrast didone-style font family. It is intended for use in headlines, signs, or posters. In 2019, Diana Ovezea and Samo Acko added Passenger Sans, which is characterized by horizontal and vertical terminal strokes and small apertures, and delivers a relaxing read in long texts. With Sabina Chipara, she co-designed the 8-weight simplified sans family Bega at Indian Type Foundry. Diana Ovezea also published the sharp-edged 14-style Matteo in 2017. At Future Fonts, she published Bizzarrini (together with Sabina Chipara) and Silverspoon, ca. 2018. She writes about the wonderful Bizzarrini: Though the idea originates from a Stefan Schlesinger ad sketch for a Paris couture house, we straightened up this typeface and made it seem engineered and sharp. It gets its name from the Bizzarrini Manta, a wedge-shaped concept car designed in 1968 by Giorgetto Giugiaro. Bizzarrini has extremely long wedge serifs. Following Schlesinger's sketch, it features very tall capitals with an out-of proportion middle-line (very big heads on S, B and R). Silverspoon is a contemporary take on Copperplate Gothic. In 2019, she released the connected monoline sans script Akin (done with Sabina Chipara) and the geometric sans family Matteo at Indian Type Foundry. Typefaces from 2020: Silverknife (a tall and skinny version of Silverspoon), Capra (a headline typeface with a bouncy baseline. This project started as a one-day challenge to recreate a piece of lettering on the Glass Menagerie poster designed by David Klein in 1958). At Fontshare, Diana Ovezea and Sabina Chipara released the free calligraphic script Britney. In 2021, Barbara Bigosinska, Rafa Buchner and Diana Ovezea set up Blast Foundry. At Blast Foundry, she published Granblue, a great experimental typeface family for boxing titles. Typefaces from 2022: Duplet (a 14-style geometric sans with a techno vibe; by Diana Ovezea and Rafal Buchner at Indian type Foundry), Duplet Rounded (also 14 styles), Duplet Open (the 14-style companion of Duplet). Home page. Behance link. Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
In 1972, he published the inline art deco typeface Dubbeldik at Mecanorma as a transfer sheet typeface. Dubbeldik was digitally revived in 2020 by Claudio Rocha (Now Type) as Werner. See also Dubbeldik (Mecanorma). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rotterdam-based typefounder, b. 1754, d. Oldenbarneveld, NY, 1828. He published Proeven van Letteren die Gevonden Worden in de van Ouds Beroemde Lettergieterye van Wylen de Heeren Voskens en Clerk, Nu van A. G. Mappa (Rotterdam, 1781). I cite from that link: In 1780, the father of Adam Gerard Mappa bought a large part of the Amsterdam typefounding firm of Voskens&Clerk, and Mappa soon discovered that he had talent for typefounding. He began his own business in Rotterdam where he issued this specimen book, but moved to Delft a few years later. There he become embroiled in the Patriot movement and led a volunteer regiment in the unsuccessful revolution of 1787. He was banished from Delft, spent a few years in France, and in 1789, emigrated to America with his type foundry on the advice of the Ambassador to France Thomas Jefferson. Mappa set up his new business in New York. According to a contemporary letter, and supported by the type in this specimen, his foundry contained not only "the Western, but the Oriental languages at the value of at least [pound sign] 3,500 New York currency." There was not much call for type in exotic languages, and while Isaiah Thomas considered his Dutch and German type "handsome," his "roman were but ordinary." Mappa was not skilled enough to produce the type needed by the new nation, and the foundry was advertised for sale on 1 February 1794. At least some of Mappa's equipments was acquired by Binny&Ronaldson, although their business did not start until 1 November 1796. This specimen book came to them with Mappa's typefounding equipment. Harvard's Houghton Library has a copy of the 1781 publication which contains a handwritten note by Theo L. de Vinne (which I was not allowed to photograph by Harvard's tight-sphinctered librarians). So here is what this letter says: Dirk Voskens was a typefounder of Amsterdam, a coster of types, not a cutter of punches. In 1677 he bought the foundry of Bleau and it was kept by his heirs and successors, (1) Dirk Voskens (2) Weduwe van Dirk Voskens (3) Voskens&fils (4) Voskens + [illegible]. In 1780 the foundry was sued for 8974 francs. P[illegible] were J. Enschedé and Sons, Ploos van Amstel, Preiter, Posthmans, DeBruyn and deGroot. How Mappa acquired possession does not appear. [...] Mappa got into trouble and had to take refuge in New York, where he began business as a type founder. He did not succeed. It is not known which became of the material he had in New York. To this, Bullen added by hand: It was purchased by Binny&Ronaldson. P.M. Kernkamp kindly sent me additional information on Mappa. He points out that Mappa was typefounder in these cities: Rotterdam (1780-1782), Delft (1782-1787) and New York (1789-1792). The 1780 date is also put into question because Mappa's father died in 1779. Mappa was active in a small army of patriots in Holland, and after a defeat in 1787 against Prussia, he was banned from Holland for six years. It may explain his emigration to America in 1789. He lived in New York until 1792, then in Second River, NJ, until 1794 and finally in Oldenbarneveld (Oneida Co., NY). His foundry, then in Albany, NY, was sold in 1803 for 1200 guilders. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adam Katyi
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based designer of the outlined caps typeface Batavia (2016). It is an all caps typeface inspired by the gilded lettering on an old Amsterdam trading post built in 1920. He also designed the free Hex Font (2016). Home page. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Romanian designer in Amsterdam who created the free typeface Soul Puddle (2014). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His Studio and Flambard typefaces were revived in 2008 by Hans van Maanen as Adams (Canada Type). SoftMaker's versions of Studio (1946, Lettergieterij Amsterdam) are called S850 Station Script (2019). Mecanorma also has a version. Finally, there is a pirated version of Flambard from 1998, called Studio Bold. See also OPTI Bold (by Castcraft). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2017, Underware developed the super-adaptive and parametric typeface family Duos Pro. MyFonts page. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Speaker at ATypI 2017 in Montreal. At ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, Bas Jacobs and Akiem Helmling introduced the high order interpolation system for fonts called HOI. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Originally from Zürich, he is currently studying graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Creator of the playful slab typeface Albina Medium (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 1994 he started his own studio Dutch Design in Hamburg, and finally he co-founded FarbTon Konzept+Design with Jörn Iken, Birgit Hartmann and Klaus-Peter Staudinger, a professor at the University of Weimar, but Pool, Iken and Hartmann left FarbTon in 2005. Their corporate partners were DTL (Frank Blokland), URW++ (mainly for hinting), and Fontshop International. They also got freelance help from Nicolay Gogol and Gisela Will. Up until today, FarbTon has made about ten corporate types. He has worked at URW++ as a freelancer, contributing text and classification expertise to the book URW++ FontCollection. He has been teaching typeface design at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel between 1995 and 1998 and has taken up that job again in 2005. Fonts done by Pool include FF DIN (DIN-Mittelschrift is used on German highway signs, 1995; image, another image: for more images, see FF DIN Round at issuu.com), FF DIN Round (2010; +Cyrillic; in use; sample), FF DIN Web (2010), Jet Set Sans (for JET/Conoco gas stations), DTL Hein Gas (for Hamburger Gaswerke GmbH), Regenbogen Bold (for a radical left party in Hamburg, a roughened version of Letter Gothic), and Syndicate Sans (2012, for Syndicate Design). He also made FF OCR-F. In 2022, FontFont released a major set of updates and extensions of the FF DIN family, all co-designed by Albert-Jan Pool and Antonia Cornelius. These include:
Together with type-consultant Stefan Rugener of AdFinder GmbH and copywriter Ursula Packhauser he wrote and designed a book on the effects of type on brand image entitled Branding with Type (Adobe Press). An expert on DIN typefaces, he spoke about DIN 16 and DIN 1451 at ATypI 2007 in Brighton, and wrote an article entitled FF DIN, the history of a contemporary typeface in the book Made with FontFont. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Legibility according to DIN 1450. Pic. | |
Illustrator from Mexico City. He created a number of typefaces in 2010: i, ii, iii. He settled in Nieuwegein Zuid in The Netherlands. In 2013, he created Berlinier, a monoline sans with gothic arches dedicated to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Herreria is a display type with small Tuscan ends, and Punched Card is a heavy display face. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Norway from Dutch parents, Oslo-based Aleksander Schipper created Frank (2012) and Proto Mono (2012) during his graphic design studies at Westerdals School of Communication. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aleksandra's graduating project Pilot is an angular display typeface with German expressionist influences. It won the first prize as a titling face at The Fine Press Association's inaugural Student Type Competition, and won an award in the TDC Typeface Design competition in 2017. From 2012 until early 2017 Aleksandra worked as a type designer at LucasFonts in Berlin. In the beginning of 2017 she moved to the Netherlands to work independently. Aleksandra's retail typeface in the Bold Monday catalog: Pilot (2017). She also designed Necktie. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Diacritics as a Means of Self-Identification. In that talk, she looked at several Eastern European nations that were created during the 19th century, and in particulat, Latvia. Bold Monday link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Vlekkeloos. Dutch designer of the textured typeface Ziggy Zaggy (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex Révész
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Alex Scholing
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Alex van Galen
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Alexander Overdiep
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Den Haag, The Netherlands-based designer of several experimental 3d typefaces in 2018: Font Fury, Furytism. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. Dutch photographer and graphic designer who made Absolute (2011, architectural drawing sans). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Museum in Amsterdam that houses collections of the University of Amsterdam. It is headed by Mathieu Lommen. One part of the museum deals with designa and typography. It contains, e.g., a series of works given to the university by Lettergieterij Amsterdam, voorheen N. Tetterode, in 1971, and houses the archivers of S.H. de Roos, Dick Elffers, Atie Siegenbeek van Heukelom, Jurriaan Schrofer, Jan van Toorn, Gerard Unger and Irma Boom. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alpha Quantum
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Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Alumia
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Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
As a student in Zwolle, The Netherlands, Alysia Bonte created a straight-edged papercut typeface (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amal (b. 1990, The Netherlands) designed the modular typeface Amal (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Ypenburg, the Netherlands, who created a minimalist script typeface in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amber Kuivenhoven
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Dutch penman (b. Utrecht, 1657 or 1658-1718) who published Exemplaar-Boek Jnhoudende Verscheyde nodige Geschriften. Geschreven en Gesneden in Amsterdam in 1679, and Schat-Kamer van Verscheyde Geschriften in 1685. Perlingh became a citizen of Amsterdam in 1683. He kept a boarding school where calligraphy was taught. The first issues of the books written by Perling were published at his own expenses, the later ones were published by members of the family De Broen, engravers and publishers in Amsterdam. Ambrosius Perling reached a high fame during his lifetime as the last writing master who could hold in honor the calligraphic tradition of the Dutch republic. De Broen advertised his scripts as produced by the jewel of the writing masters and in fact the fame of Perling as unsurpassed calligrapher lasted well into the XIXth century, both in Holland and abroad. Croiset van Uchelen writes: While 16th and early 17th century Italian handwriting had still been formed in a rather compressed and angular manner, the Dutch masters developed a broader and more rounded variant which, so far as writing line is concerned, was written at a wider sloping angle. This hand, which could be written more quickly, was imitated and developed further by a number of English masters .... S. Morison in his introduction to the book of Heal on the history of 26 27 calligraphy in England stresses the important role played by Perling alongside the Frenchmen Barbedor and Matherot. Specimens of Perling's writing were reproduced by English masters as Snell, Champion and Bickham. Also in Spain Perling's influence was felt, as demonstrated by the insertion of a letter by him in the manual of Servidori (1787). Bibliography by T. Croiset van Unchelen in The writing master Ambrosius Perling (in: Quaerendo, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 167-197). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
America Cantarino (Delft, The Netherlands) created Lady America Type (2013). [It is unclear if this is the name of the font---another possible name is Modern Dresses.] This is a collection of dingbat fonts for layering that permit overlays of dresses on models for fashion fits. an interesting idea that seems to be first in the type world. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amsterdam Typography
| Signage map of Amsterdam maintained by Arno Verweij. A growing collection of photographs of letters and numbers that document typography in public spaces in Amsterdam since 2019. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Capelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands-based designer of the silhouette font Sulbassy (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andre Toet Design (was: SO Design)
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Creator of Artu (2012, monospaced display face), Battersea (multiline face), Billiard (2012), Bloggy (experimental), AT Move Bloggy (2010), Decoupe (experimental), AT Move Decoupé (2012: a modular font based on a French game from 1906), Holborn, Mezzo (mimimalist), AT Move Pipi (2012, a playful textured caps typeface created jointly with Jasper Nijssen), AT Move Mezzo, AT Move Powerplay (1976, and redone in 2011: multilined), Musica, Nath, Powerplay, Tremelo, Wiggle. Creations from 2012: AT Move Holborn (a 3d outlined neon sign face), AT Move Tremelo (based on the logotype Microtel), Artu, AT Move Wyggle, AT Move Wolfszn, AT Move Skewy (2012), AT Move Specx and AT Move Specx Stencil (a slab serif based on the cover of a 1955 French School-Notebook; help with the design from Jasper Nijssen). Typefaces made in 2013: AT Move Altera, AT Move Altera, AT Move Herengracht (an inline typeface), AT Move Artu Super Super Heavy, AT Move Bulky (glaz krak font), AT Move Quipo (an amoebic font), AT Move MMM (with Jasper Terra and Jasper Nijssen: a rounded organic sans typeface. They write: The design is based on a old Soap-Powder advertisement. MMM is very useful for headings and/or logotypes.), AT Move Strano (squarish stencil), AT Move Nath (optical illusion typeface first made in 1974 at the Central School of Art and Design in London, and digitized in 2013 with the aid of Jasper Terra). Typefaces from 2014: AT Move Frutta, AT Move Straw (by André Toet and Jasper Nijssen), AT Move Riff Raff (octagonal, with Jasper Nijssen). Typefaces from 2015: Bombola. Typefaces from 2016: AT Move Bombola (elliptical style). Typefaces from 2017: Tremelo. Typefaces from 2018: Powerplay (trilined). Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer (b. 1966) with Fred Smeijers in 1993 of DTL Nobel at the Dutch Type Library, which was based on a type of Sjoerd H. De Roos. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
André Toet
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Typographer, born in 1967, who taught at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer (1893-1963) and cutter of the squarish Houtsneeletter (Enschedé, 1927). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Angèle Kamp
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Angele Kamp
| Dutch artist and graphic designer who has designed several hand-lettered fonts. Her typefaces include Moon Child (an inky script) (2020), Oh Livey (2020), Hey Girl (2020) and Wild Love (2020). Typefaces from 2021: Minty March (a condensed almost hand-drawn serif), April Blossom, August Boy, Ciera (a watercolor SVG font), Cute Lovey, De Novembre, Florentina, Flower Child, Girl Crush, Golden, Hey Girl, Jamie Woods, Januar, Joyeux Christmas, Minty March, Modern, Modern Mia, Mohria (a condensed display serif), October Storm, Olive Sky (brush script), Skinny, Sookie, Spring Rain (a dry brush script), Sweet September, Willow Bloom, Sophia Reign (script), Angele (a stylish display serif), Tilly (a monolinear script), River Jade. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
During her studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Angelica de Jong designed the handcrafted flower power font Curvy Straight (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies, Nieuwleusen, The Netherlands-based Angelique Wesseling created an all caps display typeface (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Angus R. Shamal
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Dutch creator at FontStruct of the texture typeface Enigmatic (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One of their typefaces is Lasio Grotesk (2013). Typefaces animated in 2014 include Spirograph, Bahn, Binary 2.0, Mantis, Pincoya, Moldover (octagonal typeface), Huboost, Fiesta, Novecento, Haywire, Lovelo, League Spartan, Jasper, Magnus, Fat Frank, Isotype, Razor, Anodine and Amelie. In 2015, they made Burstype and Friction. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anke van der Meer
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Ann Bessemans (b. 1983) obtained her Ph.D. in 2012 from Leiden University (under Gerard Unger) and Hasselt University. She grew up in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. In 2011, she finished the Expert Type Design Class with Frank Blokland at the Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp, and created the typeface Matilda. Matilda was specially designed to help make kids make the transition from reading simple type forms to more complex ones. Her PhD in 2012 entitled Type Design for Children with Low Vision was jointly supervised by Gerard Unger at Leiden University, and Bert Willems at Hasselt University. Her research interests include the interrelations between image & word, typography, font design, legibility, reading graphic design, book design and modular systems. She speaks regularly about legibility. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam and at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona. In 2014, Ann Bessemans designed a Belgian postage stamp that set a Guinness record of 606 words on one stamp. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on READSEARCH---A Platform for Reading Research (together with Kevin Bormans and Maarten Renckens). READSEARCH, launched in 2015, is Bessemans's research group that studies reading from a multidisciplinary and scientific perspective, covering both impaired and normal readers. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch graphic designer in Roosendaal. Behance link. Creator of a colorful typographic experiment with overlays and weaving (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands-based designer of the display typeface Stiletto (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Author of Body Type (1969), reedited in 2011 by Spinhex, Amsterdam, with the help of René Knip. Nijhof and Lee write: Body Type is a re-edition of the legendary naked-women alphabet by Anthon Beeke originally published in 1969. This alphabet, which was published in the famous Kwadraadblad serie by Pieter Brattinga, is a carefully composed representation of the letters of the alphabet using naked women. Beeke made the alphabet as a tongue in cheek response to Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet published in the same serie a year earlier. This new edition which is in colour, is complimented and enlarged with the numbers modelled by naked men all on individual sheets. It also contains a cahier with the history of the alphabet and a block containing the letters which can be used to make a streamer. His alphabet is also referred to as the "Nude Alphabet" in Kwadraat (Steendrukkerij De Jong&Co, Hilversum, The Netherlands, 1970). Using twelve nude women, it is also known as | |
Dutch antique book seller specializing in typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Friesland, 1620-1687. Dutch punchcutter and typefounder, who worked in Leipzig. He was not responsible for the types that bear his name today---they were in fact due to Miklós Tótfalusi Kis (Nicholas Kis). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Anton van de Repe
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Dutch poster artist, 1887-1958. Guthschmidt and Guthschmidt Condensed (Tom Wallace, 2008) are based on a 1924 KLM Royal Dutch Airline poster designed by Antonius Guthschmidt. The poster draws on the imagery of the legend The Flying Dutchman. Other posters with art deco lettering by him include Gastentoonstelling (1930) and Kurhaus Scheveningen (1930s). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Studio in Amsterdam. In 2016, they designed an art deco typeface for the new identity of The Wilpsche Dijk. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vendor of Mac and PC fonts for several languages and from a variety of companies, active ca. 1999. The fonts covered Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, Tamazight, Turkish, Greek, Indic, Thai, Eastern European, and Korean. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arabic type site. Displayed font families include AT (by Tarek Atrissi), Al-Futtaim (by Mamoun Sakkal), and work by Nadine Chahine. Corporate calligraphy by Samir Sayegh. He holds a MFA in design from the School of Visual Arts in New York, a MA in interactive multimedia from the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands, and a BA in graphic design in his homeland, Lebanon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aradia is a free runes and astrology font developed in 2000 by Merlin Software. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. In 2011, he made the squarish typeface Mandaicana, about which he writes: Mandaicana is one of the few Mandaic type[faces] which exist in the world. Mandaic, the most Southeastern Aramaic dialect spoken in antiquity in Babylonia (Mesene, Characene, Khuzistan), reflects similarities to Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, both belonging to the Eastern Middle Aramaic branch. Although most scholars located the origin of the baptizing community in the East Jordan regions (Mark Lidzbarski, Rudolf Macuch, Kurt Rudolph) the Mandaeans are considered to spent a large part of their still controversial and mysterious history alongside the big rivers (Euphrates, Tigris, Karunriver) in the southern borderland between present-day Iraq and Iran. This was followed by Ardwan Malka and Englaiscana (2011). In 2018, he designed Ardwan Lidzbarski, which is based on the Mandaic handwriting of German scientist Mark Lidzbarski. Ardwan Manuscript (2019) is a cursive font based on Mandaic manuscripts. In 2021, he published Ardwan Drower, a mandaic font based on Ethel Stefana Drower's handwriting and philosophy. Lady Drower was a British cultural anthropologist who studied the Middle East and its cultures. She was regarded as the main specialist in Mandaeism and authored the book The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rotterdam-based creator of an ornamental caps typeface called Zabalt (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freeware font viewer (aka amviewer) for Windows. Can deal with the entire Unicode range. People report to me that this viewer should be avoided at any cost, as viewing truetype fonts becomes impossible once FontViewer is removed. So, please, please, please, do not ever install amviewer. Mike Ady's fix and help page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate from the Academy of Art and Design in Arnhem (1998) and of the Cranbrook Academy of Art (2000) who designed the gorgeous neo deco font New Amsterdam (2001), Deadgun (2000, as a past tribute to Raygun), Yeehaw, Blood Thirsty, Wanted Dead or Alive, Diamond, and Al Capone Was Here. At Union Fonts, he published New Amsterdam, Are You In?, and Roger That, fonts also showcased at Cranbrook. In 2005, he decided to go public and make his fonts available for free: Becoming Animal, Free Doughnut, Human Behavior, Deadgun, Yeehaw, Blood Thirsty, Wanted Dead or Alive, New Amsterdam, Are You In?, and Roger That. Noordeman is an art director and a designer, and has offices in North Adams, MA, and Brooklyn, NY. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arktype (was: Atelier René Knip)
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Recently, Knip and his brother Edgar formed a new company, Gebroeders Knip, which produces furniture and accessories in which letterforms are integral parts of the objects design. One of his experiments, a unicase typeface with an Arabic feel, was digitized by Nick Curtis as Turban Hey NF (2008). In October 2012, Knip and another Dutch designer cofounded Arktype, but by 2020, the other Dutch designer left that company. Typefaces at Knip's site as of 2020:
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Arno Verweij
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Amsterdam-based designer (b. 1996) of the fat finger fonts Architect Hand (2015), Lovinn (2015), The Brown Fox (2014) and Sketchy (2014). In 2016, he designed Hella August Hand and Hello August Sans. Typefaces from 2017 include Hello August (handcrafted). Dafont link. Link to 97 Designs. Creative Market link. Creative Market link for Veraart. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ARP's free text utilities (MS-DOS) and TTF-fonts
| Two TrueType fonts: ARP Numfont replaces characters by ASCII values, and Celtic-Iberian is just that. All fonts by Anton van de Repe. Contains an archive of 40 Arabic fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
ARS Type (was ARS Design)
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The fonts: AudioVisual1, Code, Kamp, Kamp Serif, Retro City, OCRU, Toycube, Mortal, Maquette (1999-2000), Angelring, ARS Bembo, Contrast, Dandy, EcologyModern, Hartu (handwriting), Temper, ARS Novelty (2011, a free hybrid style face), ARS Polythene (pixel font family), Misanthry, Syntax (OsF format sans serif), CensorSans (1994), CensorSerif (1994), Credit (1995), Epilogue.pfa (1995), Exert (T-26), Humain-Graphica (1995), Humain-Synthetica (1995), Platrica (1994), Roscent (1995), ARSFortune (2000, futuristic), ARS Region (2002, Bauhaus sans), District (experimental), Descendiaan (1998), Zero Rate (futuristic), Tegel (1998, stencil, kitchen tile), Twenty (octagonal, techno), Trio (dot matrix fonts), Maquette (1999), Region, Product (2007, sans typefaces), Mr Archi, Prime (display), Deviata (unicase face), Forum I-AR (after Forum I, a 1948 font by Georg Trump), Freie Initialen-AR (2007, after a 1928 set of caps for Stempel Garamond), Fry's Ornamented (2007; a revival of Ornamented No. 2 which was cut by Richard Austin for Dr. Edmund Fry in 1796), Graphique-AR (2007; a shaded typeface based on a 1946 design by Eidenbenz for Haas), Gravur-AR (2007; a digital version of a type designed by Georg Trump and issued as Trump-Gravur by Weber in 1960), Initiales Grecques (after a Firmin Didot design, ca. 1800), Lutetia Open (2007; based on Jan Van Krimpen's Lutetia), Old Face Open (2007; a digitization of Fry's Shaded, an open all caps Baskerville cut by Isaac Moore for Fry, ca. 1788), Open Capitals (2007, after Jan Van Krimpen's 1928 typeface for Enschedé called Open Kapitalen), Romulus Capitals (2007; after the caps series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1931), Romulus Open (2007; after the Open series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1936), Rosart 811 (2007; open caps after Enschedé no. 811 by Rosart), Zentenar Initialen (2007; based on blackletter initials of F.H.E. Schneidler, ca. 1937). Fontshop link. Designer link at FontShop. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Arthur Reinders Folmer
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Artur Schmal
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He used Fontifier to design the handwriting typeface Arthur'sHandschrift (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artware
| Rotterdam's Niek van Driel's makes one diode-light font freely available to the public. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Aschwin de Hoog
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Atelier Carvalho Bernau
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Kai Bernau (b. 1978) studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Schwabisch Gmünd in Germany before relocating to the Netherlands, where he graduated from the Design & Typography course of the KABK in The Hague in 2005 with his successful Neutral Typeface project. He continued in the KABK's Type and Media Master course where he graduated in 2006. Since 2011, Kai teaches type design in the Master in Art Direction program at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2005, Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau formed Atelier Carvalho Bernau, which is based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Typefaces:
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Atomic Media (was: SmartDust)
| Matthew Bardram (b. New York City, 1965) is the Tucson, AZ-based [T-26] founder of Atomic Media, who specializes in bitmap fonts. He designed Atomic, Centrifuge, Bromide (at T-26), Crackle, Klaxon. At Nakedface (now gone), he made Arachnid, Bitpak, Bylinear, DhexInline, Genetica, Economy Large, Empiric, Hypersigna (2005, bitmap face), Montreal (the family) and two katakana fonts. His Bitpack includes the following pixel fonts: Bylinear (2000), Cellular (2000), Genetica (2000, free download), Genetrix, Macroscopic, Metodic, Microscopic, Noir, Scriptometer, Remote (2000), Monocule (2000), Joystik, Centrifuge, Quantaa (2000), Bionika, Megalon (2000), Wired, Badfish. Bardram's Digipak includes Atomic-Inline, Atomic-Outline, Bionika-Black, Bionika, Genetrix-Crossed, Genetrix-Square, Genetrix-SquareCore, Genetrix-SquareHollow, Joystik, Macroscopic-A, Macroscopic-B, Macroscopic-C, Macroscopic-D, Macroscopic-E, Methodic-Bold, Methodic, Microscopic, Noir, Scriptometer-SanScript, Scriptometer. Additional typefaces: a 3D pixel font called Boxer 3D (2002), Neuronic (2002-2004, nice outlined pixel font; see also here), Fusionaire (2002, a display font) and Wijdeveld, a squarish font based on the lettering of poster artist Wijdeveld from The Netherlands. In 2005, these fonts were added: Magnetica, Imperium, Ratio, Hypersigna, Sequence and Tempora, all by Matthew Bardram. Sausan Kare's pixel fonts at Atomic Media: Mini Food, Kare Dingbats, Biology, Everett, Harry, Ramona, Kare Five Dots, Kare Five Dots Serif, Kare Six Dots, Kare Six Dots Serif. Alternate URL. Interview. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Attak Fonts
| Attak is a two-headed graphic design firm formed in 2004 by Peter Korsman (b. 1982) and Casper Herselman. It is based in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. In May 2016, Peter Korsman left Attak to start Autograph. Attak has some free and some commercial typefaces. Behance link. Their fonts, ca. 2009: AT AK-47, AT Babyfat, AT Blaser, AT Concours, AT Dienstuhr, AT Discipline, AT FFW, AT Helix, AT Hide and Seek, AT Hieronymus, AT Janus Kiep, AT Kerremus, AT Klaxon, AT Korsakopf, AT Litewriter, AT Mepper, AT Mohawk, AT Moker, AT Monoload, AT Muntel, AT Peetroleum, AT Praktikum, AT Promille, AT Ramseier, AT Riot, AT Sirca, AT Sirca alternate, AT Slyper, AT Snotnose, AT Streeep, AT Tabak, AT T'Atteljeej, AT TCB, AT Timeline, AT Trash Bold, AT Willi, AT With Machines, AT Zippora. Notable products: AK-47 simulates Cyrillic; Helix is a stencil face; Muntel and Concours are fat art deco typefaces; Practicum and Tabak are octagonal; Riot leaks blood; Sirca is based on arcs of circles; Streep is a multiline font. I presume that Peter is the main font designer in the team, as he already made fonts as early as 2003 for Burodestruct (see, e.g., BD Burner, BD El Max, BD Sirca, and BD Bardust, downloadable here). By 2017, their catalog includes AT AK-47, AT Baballero, AT Babyfat, AT Blaser, AT Concise, AT Concours, AT De Palm, AT Dienstuhr, AT Discipline, AT El Muerte, AT Falten, AT FFW, AT Ginn, AT Helix, AT Hide and Seek, AT Hieronymus, AT Hindenburg, AT Imperiale, AT Janus Kiep, AT Kerremus, AT Klaxon, AT Korsakopf, AT Kuhn, AT Litewriter, AT Mepper, AT Mohawk, AT Moker, AT Monoload, AT Muntel, AT Peetroleum, AT Praktikum, AT Promille, AT Ramseier, AT Riot, AT Sang Noir, AT Sirca, AT Sirca alternate, AT Slyper, AT Snotnose Heavy, AT Streeep, AT Syndicate, AT Tabak, AT tAtteljeej, AT TCB, AT Timeline, AT Trash Bold, AT Willem II, AT Willi, AT With Machines, AT Zippora, BD Bardust, BD Burner, BD El Max, BD Sirca. A more detailed breakdown per designer:
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The 83 speakers: Peter Bain, Rob Banham, Mark Barratt, Rob Becker, Donald Beekman, Sofie Beier, Aaron Bell, John D Berry, Ann Bessemans, Filip Blazek, Frank Blokland, Irma Boom, David Brezina, Matthew Carter, Nadine Chahine, Paresh Choudhury, Alessandro Colizzi, Bill Davis, Jo De Baerdemaeker, Rafael Dietzsch 2, Paul Dijstelberge, Catherine Dixon, Nikola Djurek, Maria Doreuli, Craig Eliason, Ramiro Espinoza, Victor Gaultney, Verena Gerlach, John Giannopoulos, Frank Griesshammer, Fritz Grogel, Elaine Guidero, Cyrus Highsmith, Will Hill, Viktor Kharyk, Eric Kindel, Henrik Kubel, David Kuettel, D. Udaya Kumar, Indra Kupferschmid, Kevin Larson, Edwina Lee, Werner Lemberg, David Lemon, Jean-Baptiste Levee, Mathieu Lommen, Rob McKaughan, Thomas Milo, Fraser Muggeridge, Titus Nemeth, Sandrine Nugue, Pierre Pane-Farre, Elena Papassissa, Thomas Phinney, Albert-Jan Pool, Cesar Puertas, Krista Radoeva, Rathna Ramanathan, Alice Rawsthorn, Daniel Reynolds, hyun guk ryu, Keitaro Sakamoto, Rainer Scheichelbauer, Georg Seifert, Juliet Shen, Nick Sherman, Fred Smeijers, Mirjam Somers, Brian Stell, Adi Stern, Claus Soerensen, Mariko Takagi, Adam Twardoch, Gerard Unger, Hans Van Maanen, Leonardo Vazquez, Peter Verheul, Werner Wolff, Yanone, Yuri Yarmola, Pascal Zoghbi, Erik van Blokland, Petr van Blokland, and Paul van der Laan. The program was very strong, and reinforced the reputation of The Netherlands as the mecca of type design in 2013. Several awards were announced during the meeting: Gerrit Noordzij received the TDC Medal [large pic warning], Don Knuth received the Peter Karow Award, and Alexandra Korolkova received the Prix Charles Peignot for best type designer under the age of 35. Picture reports: Cesar Puertas. Twitter reports. Seen.co link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the rounded blocky typeface Aukster. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Autobahn
| Dutch company run by Jeroen Breen, Maarten Dullemeijer and Rob Stolte, who all graduated from Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU). Autobahn designs special graphical projects, often with an illustrative and typographical angle. They offered these free fonts made with tomato paste, toothpaste and other things: Autobahn-Gelvetica, Autobahn-Heldentica, Autobahn-Tomatica (2008). Autobahn Grafisch Ontwerp is based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The designers are Jeroen Breen (b. 1981), Maarten Dullemeijer (b. 1982) and Rob Stolte (b. 1981). Their house fonts are Air Light (techno) and LEF. In 2010, they produced the exquisite typeface Petronius, which is based upon a typeface designed by surrealist Joop H. Moesman (1909-1988). The Alphabet in stone typeface by Dom Hans van der Laan, a Dutch monk who lived from 1904 until 1991, was digitized in 2011, and the project can be seen here. Contributors include Willem Noyons, Maarten Dullemeijer and Rob Stolte. This typeface is based on the proportions found in Trajan. In 2017, they created the typeface Jakobus for the identity of 1N, an old church that was reshaped into living space by Zecc Architects. The typeface cmes close to Dutch deco. In a project called Hacking Habitat (2015), they combined Arial Black and Times into a hybrid typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Autograph
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Avesta Fonts
| Amsterdam's Jan Pieter Kunst offers Avesta (Persian 5th/6th century), a five font family that is based on the typeface used in the Avesta edition by K.F. Geldner. Freeware. PC, type 1 and truetype. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the phototype headline sans font Annonce fett (+licht) at Berthold (1967) and Lettergieterij Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of the calligraphic master scribe book entitled Schreibmeisterbuch für Herzog Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (1600s). See also here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For her type revival project at KABK, she picked Lutetia (2013) and writes: Lutetia was designed as a commission from Enschedé by Jan van Krimpen. The drawings of the typeface were ready in the middle of 1924 and first cut and cast in 16 point size in the Enschedé Type Foundry. For the first time the typeface was used in the book dedicated to the exhibition that took place in Paris in 1925. Therefore the name Lutetia reffers to the Roman name of Paris. Her KABK graduation typeface family was Mala (2013). Loaded with opentype features and choices of widths, Mala was created for cartographic purposes. It was published by Bold Monday in 2016. In 2016 she published Abelard at Indian Type Foundry and wrote: Abelard is a modern (or neoclassical) family with 10 font styles. It is a contemporary take on classic types like Baskerville, Bulmer, and Scotch Roman that has been optimised for text embedding on eReaders. The design features elements ensuring even text color, including case-sensitive forms, prominent punctuation marks, ligatures, and four sets of figures. Each font also contains ornaments resembling pen nibs, bullet points, and arrows. In 2017, she published the didone fashion mag typeface family Rion and the text typeface Neco at Fontstore. Rion was republished in 2018 at Indian Type Foundry. Typefaces from 2018: Bonny (a decorative serif font family published by Indian Type Foundry; see also Bonny at Fontshare). In 2019, Noopur Choksi and Barbara Bigosinska published the sturdy wedge serif text typeface family Sapien at Indian Type Foundry. Still in 2019, Manushi Parikh and Barbara Bigosinska released the octagonal athletics font Fielder at Indian Type Foundry. Somehow this octagonal typeface seems to have been evolved into the 5-style free typeface Nippo at Fontshare. In 2021, Barbara Bigosinska released the 12-style didone family (+two variable fonts) Boska at Fontshare. Boska has quite extreme contrast and some calligraphic hooks in the c, f, k, r, s, x and z glyphs that make it perhaps less suitable for text but more in line with fashionable displays. Bevellier (2019-2021; by Arya Purohit and Barbara Bigosinska) is a 16-style (+variable) rounded condensed organic sans family. In 2021, Barbara Bigosinska, Rafa Buchner and Diana Ovezea set up Blast Foundry. At Blast Foundry, she designed the wonderfully expressive sharp-edged display typeface Sharf. Boska was published as a free font at Fontshare. Behance link. Bold Monday link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Den Haag, Barbara Zeitler created an architectural lettering typeface family (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Henk Kolkmeyer was a Dutch designer, 1901-1988. His poster from 1922 entitled Waarom Droeg Je Geen Muts Als Ik has some early art deco / late art nouveau lettering. In 2012, a free font was published by Koeiekat (John Wollring) entitled HK Display. It is a free interpretation of an art deco alphabet designed by Henk Kolkmeyer for a poster for the Veiligheids Museum in Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Baron von Fonthausen
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He was working on commercial fonts such as TyPress, Ballpoint and B-Day. Sardines (2008, Vette Letters) is described by Jan Middendorp as an amusing parade of heavyweight characters crammed into squares. In 2010, that monospaced family was expanded to VLNL Neue Sardines (42 styles). Designer of the pixel font Mekka. Macula (2010) is a trompe l'oeuil typeface that is available from Bold Monday. It was inspired by Oscar Reutersvärd's impossible perspectives and M.C. Escher's optical illusions. In 2016, Jacques Le Bailly extended Vernon Adams's Nunito (2011) to a full set of weights, and an accompanying regular non-rounded terminal version, Nunito Sans, which is free at Google Fonts and Open Font Library. In 2018, he designed the free family Crimson Pro (a major update of Sebastian Kosch's Crimson from 2011) and VLNL Thueringer (at Vette Letters), and wrote: Jacques got inspired by Albrecht Düer's 15th century Fraktur (blackletter) alphabet, and decided to design a contemporary rounded version of it. It's a modern techno-style blackletter with a (beer)truckload of interesting design details. In 2019, he released the free font Livvic. Livvic is a 16-style custom corporate sans typeface designed by Jacques Le Bailly for LV (Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited), an insurance company based in the UK. The typeface is part of a brand redesign. In 2020, Jacques Le Bailly, Cereal and Vernon Adams (posthumously) released the sans typeface family Mulish at Google Fonts. Mulish is a minimalist sans, designed for both display and text typography. It was initially drawn in 2011 by Vernon Adams and then refined until 2014. In 2017 the family was updated by Jacques Le Bailly to complete the work started by Vernon after he passed away, in collaboration with his wife Allison, an artist who holds the trademark on the typeface family name. In August 2019, it was updated with a variable font weight axis. Behance link. Bold Monday link. %Z Liebe Petra, Die Site ist jetzt erstmal dafür gemacht, um Leuten zu zeigen was ich gerade mache. Leider sind die meisten der gezeigten Fonts noch nicht ganz fertig und werden deshalb noch nicht angeboten. neben Schriftgestaltung, mache ich auch noch Grafik-Design. Im Moment arbeite an der Font TyPress, die bei der 1. Ausgabe folgende Schnitte enthalten wird: Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold-Italic, Caps-Roman and Caps-Bold. Unsicher ist noch wo, oder von wem sie vertrieben werden. Der Font B-Day wird 1 Schnitt haben und wenn alles gut geht, wird sie ab Februar 2002 von Lineto (www.lineto.de) verkauft. Wenn Sie interessiert sind an meinen Entwürfen, oder z.B. an Custom-Type, fragen Sie bitte nach. Oder, wenn Sie gerne sehen möchten, wie meine Schriften im Druck aussehen, kann ich Ihnen ein PDF schicken. Freundlichen Grüsse, Greetings, Baron von Fonthausen, auch Jacques Le Bailly [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Ossendrecht-based Dutchman. He made several typefaces in 2010. Examples of his fonts: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch creator of the free script typeface Bart Handschrift (2012). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1876 in Utrecht, died in 1958 in Blaricum. Bart van der Leck was a Dutch painter and designer. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondriaan he founded the De Stijl (abstract, geometric) art movement. In 1930, he was commissioned by Jo de Leeuw, owner of the prestigious Dutch department store Metz&Co. to design interiors, window packaging, branding and advertising. For these print materials van der Leck developed a rectilinear geometrically constructed alphabet. In 1941, he designed a typeface based on this alphabet for the avant-garde magazine Flax. One digital version of this typeface exists: Architype van der Leck (1994, by David Quay and Freda Sack of The Foundry). The wiki page writes: The typeface is geometrically constructed, and based upon an earlier stencil lettering alphabet van der Leck designed in the early 1930s for use in branding and advertising Jo de Leeuw's presigious Dutch department stores Metz&Co. The typeface shares structural similarities with Theo Van Doesburg's 1919 geometric alphabet, and anticipates later typographic explorations of geometric reductionism of Wim Crouwel's 1967 New Alphabet and early digital typefaces like Zuzana Licko's typefaces Lo-Res and Emperor 8. One of his alphabets was creatively used by Marc ter Horst in Restaurant Walem. In 2012, for an exhibition in Paris, Chloe Marchand designed a special van der Leck style poster. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vollebregt won the Gold Medal in the Latin category for Vonk in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016. Vonk was his graduation typeface at KABK, and was released by Morisawa in 2018. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch type designer who died ca. 1669. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Bas Bouwense
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At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about education in type design. FontShop link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin and at ATypI 2017 in Montreal. At ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, Bas Jacobs and Akiem Helmling introduced the high order interpolation system for fonts called HOI. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Amsterdam-based designer of Cubic Typeface (2012) and a triangular / hexagonal typeface in 2013. His company is About Design. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dutch creator (b. 1995) of the free modular typeface Mind Escape (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amsterdam-based studio that created the mysterious display typeface Unbark (2014), the experimental Antitype (2014), and the labyrinthine Lockwork (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Extraordinary Dutch calligrapher, who writes in an oriental style. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ben Blom
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(Dutch?) designer of the free hipster typeface Human (2015) and the fat finger font Spookyhouse (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bert Bos studied Mathematics in Groningen (1982-1987), and wrote a thesis about Graphic User Interfaces (1987-1993). He worked on an Internet browser and the surrounding infrastructure for the Faculty of Arts in Groningen and is now working for The World Wide Web Consortium on style sheets and math. He lives in Sophia Antipolis near Nice in France. Author of Cascading Style Sheets---designing for the Web (3rd ed.) (2005, Hakon Wium Lie & Bert Bos). He also created a free transitional family in metafont and opentype for use with TeX, Gladiator and Gladiator Sans (1991). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of New Sans (2004), Intercity (2003), Night Rider (2004), Roos (2003), Stilo Sans (2003), Fresh Light (2003), Comic Tip (2003), Frutto (2003), Peppchi (2003), Dibbel (2003), Grumna, Grumna Outline, Fountain Pen, Lettertiep, Fuder, Fuder Bold, and Grassi. Most of his fonts involve handwriting. In 2006, his fonts were removed from the web. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Beware of the Moose
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Creator of the squarish monospaced modular typeface Memory Square (2020: made using only 25 juxtaposed rectangles), the dot matrix typeface Modulair (2020) and the monolinear rounded organic sans typeface Maisonneuve (2020). Typefaces from 2021: More Blocks (concentric squares), More Dots (a concentric circle dingbat font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in Enschede, The Netherlands, who created the experimental typeface Unknown Secret (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Blaise Sumerah Kal
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Blaise Sumerah Kal (was: 4Logoz)
| Blaise Kal (who used to call her web presence 4Logoz) is the Dutch designer of Blzee v1.03 (2003, handwriting), BlaiseHand (2001), Blaise (experimental, 2001), Crashed Scoreboard, Amsterdam (2001, pixel imitation), and Blame My Parents. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Dutch designer (b. 1995) of the scribbly font Toaztie Roaster (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies, Utrecht-based Bob Hensen designed the engineering drawing typeface Line ABC (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 1964 he won, together with Franco Albini and Franca Helg, the Compasso d'Oro, the most prestigious Italian award for design, for the Milan Metro station design. The typeface used for the Milan metro was called Noorda. Noorda is a modification or optimization of Helvetica. Several other subway systems later used his typeface, including the entire New York City subway system in the 1960s, as well as other subway signage projects for Noorda in Sao Paulo, Naples and the regional train network in Lombardy. In 1965, Noorda and fellow Milan-based designer Massimo Vignelli were among the seven founders of Unimark International, an American design firm with offices around the world, including Chicago and Milan. Noorda is best known in the United States for Unimark's work with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. These wayfinding fonts were revived in 2017 by Gabriel Ruiz as New York City Metro Font. Noorda was a professor in graphic design at Societa Umanitaria in Milan, ISIA Urbino and IED in Milan. From 1996 to 2001 he was a professor of visual communication at Politecnico di Milano. Additional link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bobby Voeten (Crop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) designed the animated sans typeface Haywire in 2014 and Rubber Font in 2015. In 2015, he also designed Exova Dashboard Icons. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spijkenisse, The Netherlands-based designer of an untitled dripping paint font in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bohemian Coding
| Bohemian Coding was founded early 2008 in the Netherlands and is being run by Pieter Omvlee. It develops a number of shareware applications for Mac OS X. These include Fontcase (elegant font management) and DrawIt. DrawIt is a vector editing application with support for bitmap-like image filters. Vector editing as well as the filters are completely non-destructive which means that a vector layer can still be edited even after a stack of filters has been applied. I guess DrawIt can be used as a first step in font design (exported formats include jpg, tiff and png), but it is not a font editor. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bold Decisions
| Mads Wildgaard (Bold Decisions, Arnhem and now Amsterdam, The Netherlands) designs type. His typefaces include
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Bold Monday
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In 2018, Bold Monday joined The Type Network. Pieter van Rosmalen has designed retail as well as custom typefaces for clients worldwide, such as NBC Universal, Audi AG, General Electric and KPN. One of Pieter's designs is used for street signs in South Korea. Pieter's retail typefaces in the Bold Monday catalog include
Bold Monday also has typefaces by other designers. In 2012, Bold Monday published the trompe l'oeuil typeface Macula (Jacques Le Bailly) which is based on designs by Oscar Reutersvärd. Oskar (2002-2013). They write: Oskar, designed by Paul van der Laan, is a typeface inspired by Dutch architectural and advertising lettering from the early 20th century. Particularly the style of lettering that was painted on walls and shopfronts, or executed in metal on buildings. This kind of typography did not exist as metal printing types, but was instead painted manually by sign painters, or drawn by architects. Initially the typeface was designed in 2002 for the lettering of a monumental school in The Hague, designed by architect Jan Duiker in 1929. In 2012, they published the trompe l'oeuil typeface Macula (Jacques Le Bailly) which is based on designs by Oscar Reutersvärd. Further typefaces include Feisar (techno), Flex (sans), Naomi (1999) and Pixel Package. GE Inspira Sans and Serif (Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen, Bold Monday) won an award in the TDC 2015 Type Design competition. In 2018, Pieter published the experimental pixel-inspired typeface family Alterego. Typefaces from 2021: Stanley: Bold and broad-shouldered, Stanley is a poster typeface collection in three styles rooted in the first sans-serif designs of the 19th century---the grotesques. Stanley is available in Normal, Stencil, and Stencil Rough. Pieter designed custom typefaces for worldwide clients amongst others Agis, Audi, Teldesign, KPN, The government of South Korea (road signing), The Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (OV Chipcard), USA Today (Futura Today, 2012, with Paul van der Laan), and NBC Universal. For Holland Festival in 2014, Paul van der Laan designed the stencil typeface HF Stencil (in collaboration with design studio Thonik, Amsterdam, and Diana Ovezea), a design inspired by Glaser Stencil. Logo. FontShop link. Adobe link. Type Network link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
BOLT Graphics
| Martijn Rijven (BOLT Graphics) is a Den Haag-based Dutch type designer who started out at Kombinat Typefounders. His fonts include Kwadra (octagonal), Berlina (a take on blackletter), Bastard (based on type used in "Bastard", a Thai manga comic book), Frigidaire (fifties display face), Bitscream, and "Dense Dumb and Dirty". [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Wim Crouwel's Hiroshima poster (2011) served as a model for Boris's unnamed piano key typeface created in 2011. And a 1968 poster for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam was the model for another typeface created by Boris in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thev award-winning font family by Circulo de Tipógrafos is called Balduina, and was published in 2010. Boudewijn Ietswaart passed away on December 23, 2010. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Boudewijn Rempt
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Tilburg, The Netherlands-based designer of the school project typeface Hackje (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Trinité won him the prestigious H.N. Werkman Prize in 1991. Mathieu Lommen and John A. Lane published Bram de Does Boektypograaf & Letterontwerper Book Typographer & Type Designer (Amsterdam, 2003). Mathieu Lommen published Bram de Does: letterontwerper & typograaf / typographer & type designer in 2003 at De Buitenkant. In 2003, a 53 minute Dutch documentary was made: Systematisch Slordig: Bram de Does - Letterontwerper&Typograaf (Coraline Korevaar/Otto de Fijter, Woudrichem). That video is also at Vimeo and here. A collection of many of his drawings is at the University of Amsterdam. Part of this collection (e.g., the development of Lexicon) has been scanned in and placed on the web. Details on his fonts:
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Creator of the fat finger typeface Helibram (2011, iFontmaker). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and print designer in Waalwijk, The Netherlands, who studies graphic design at AKV/St.Joost Den Bosch. She created Chinese Type (2012, a multiline typeface based on ornamental patterns seen in the windows of Chinese restaurants). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brent Anderson
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Bric Type
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His typefaces include Den Dekker (2006), and the roundish liquid creations such as Virgem, Rejane, Liquida (2002) and Dizain. No downloads. More recent typefaces: Duin (2007, octagonal), REMF (2006, stencil), DC (2007, ultra-fat), Fake Human (2005, script), Jana (2006, unicase), War (2007, octagonal), Fuck Shit Up (2007, stencil), Charlie Dee (2002, hairline stencil), Marina Lima (2002), Lasagna (2008, Re-Type: a fat geometric poster family, produced with the help of Miguel Hernandez). In 2009-2010, he created the Adidas Unity typeface [images: i, ii, iii]. In 2011, he designed the multiline headline typeface Andoverpis. The Dog House Nike (2010) is a custom typeface for The Dog House Athlete center for runners in Amsterdam. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Brill
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In 2012, Brill was made available for free download for non-commercial use. While Brill is an original design by John Hudson, the blackletter range of characters was made by Karsten Lücke. Gerry Leonidas and Maxim Zhukov were consulted for Greek and Cyrillic, respectively. The fonts follow Unicode and contain nearly all symbols people in the humanities may ever need. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Durch designer of the free 3d Lego brick font Brixs (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch Amsterdam-based creator of the sans typeface Surface (2008), and of Pixel Cowboy (2009). Home page. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bureau Bunk
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Bureau Mijksenaar
| Bureau Mijksenaar is Paul Mijksenaar's firm in Amsterdam. They designed the signs at Schiphol Airport, the subways of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the Dutch Railway, and are working on new tax forms for the Dutch government. Paul Mijksenaar teaches at the Delft University of Technology. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bureau Roffa (was: Designtown)
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In 2013, Jasper founded Bureau Roffa. A much better name than Designtown, Roffa is slang for Rotterdam. At Bureau Roffa, one can buy the 12-style humanist sans typeface family Sensato (2013). The regular weight is free. Features of Sensato include the Garamond heritage, the diagonal stress, some ink traps, slightly tilted outlines, open counters (for legibility), and solid spacing. Due to a trademark issue, De Waard was forced to rename Sensato to Proza. In 2015, he added the more daring and contrast-rich Proza Display. For a free version at Google Fonts, see Proza Libre. See also Open Font Library. In 2017, Jasper published Ricardo, a sans family that combines geometric simplicity with some humanist features. Designer of Goldich (2021, Bold Monday). Award winner at 25 TDC in 2022. The Goldich type family contains five weights from regular to black, all with matching italics. Klingspor link. (Old) Designtown link. Behance link. Google Plus link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch creator of the slightly grungy family Halo (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer who did the art deco front cover of Holland "Als de kunstenaar de nijverheid dient dient de nijverheid de kunst" (1926). The lettering on that cover influenced the typefaces Amstel Heavy NF (Nick Curtis) and Hex (a font by Sign DNA). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Book shop owner in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in the 19th century. In 1855, he published the popular lettering model book Alphabeths voor steenhouwers, schoonschrijvers, schilders, graveurs, lithegraphen. In his book Nederlandse Belettering, Mathieu Lommen deduces that the alphabets in this book were developed in the atelier of lithographer P.W. van de Weijer in Utrecht in cooperation with van der Post. Reference: Nederlandse belettering negentiende-eeuwse modelboeken (2015, Mathieu Lommen, de Buitenkant, Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cake Type
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FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Calango
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In 2011, he teamed up with Maria Jose Torrero Heredia from Mexico to create the latest addition to his typeface collection, the experimental and modular Binary 2.0. Typogami is another layered animated font made in 2011. In 2012, Jeroen released Webster, an animated font described as follows: Webster is an extensive animated typeface with a nerdy look. It comes with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation and special characters. All together it counts over a 150 glyphs. With 13 customizable features, you can create over a gazillion looks. That's right, over a gazillion! In 2014, Jeroen co-designed the animated octagonal typeface Magnus with Linn Fritz, and the animaited typeface Razor (Animography) with Jeffrey Schreiber. He created the animated rounded sans typeface family Mantis in 2014. In 2016, Jeroen Krielaars and Pablo Balcells co-designed the animated pixel typeface Pixelar based on Balcell's 2012 original. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch fiction writer, b. 1989. Creator of Scratch (2006, a scratchy handwriting font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka "Zeppo", Camiel Verhaag is the Dutch designer of Kijkwijzer NL (2003), a dingbat font with Dutch TV ratings symbols. Posted on alt.binaries.fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Capital Baseball
| Baseball capitals: free metafont "capbas" (Capital Baseball) by Phons Bloemen from the Eindhoven University of Technology. Now included in the package are also 7-segment, 14-segment, Simple, matrix fonts like Flyspec and Neckerspoel. Lots of interesting tools as well. Magnificent package, really. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch designer who lives in Alphen aan den Rijn. She experimented in type design and produced typefaces like Leestekens (2012: glyphs constructed on the basis of punctuation only) and Warburg (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Amsterdam. Creator of the iFontMaker font NutNote and NutDots (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to make Subway 22:38 (+Open), which is based on the font used for some train- and subway lines in and around Amsterdam. Roland is a student in graphic design at KABK, Den Haag. Blog. Aka Roland Cos at FontStruct. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer from Eindhoven, The Netherlands, b. 1993. A stone's throw from the Belgian border, that is where Eindhoven is. MyFonts link to his foundry. He says about Phi (2010, monoline geometric caps): Phi is a [monoline] geometric all caps typeface designed on the basis of the golden ratio. Devian tart link. Klingspor link. Behance link. University of Twente link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch cofounder (b. 1981) with Peter Korsman of the free font foundry Attak Web ('s Hertogenbosch) in 2004. He created T Blaser (2005), AT FFW (2004), AT FFW Stencil (2004), AT Mepper (2005), AT Mohawk (2006), AT Praktikum (2004), AT Promille (2005), AT Riot (2004, blood drip font), AT T'Atteljeej (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Catharsis
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Catharsis had free typefaces such as the great Arabic simulation typeface Catharsis Bedouin (2004), CatharsisCircular, CatharsisRequiem (a unicase pair), CatharsisRequiemBold, CatharsisCargo, Cirnaja Bookhand and Cirnaja Calligraphy (made for his artificial language, Obrenje), Catharsis Macchiato (2005), CatharsisEspresso (2005). At Catharsis, the commercial foundry, he published Octant in 2013: Octant is an original steampunk display typeface drawing inspiration from Victorian-age steel and brass engineering, as well as from blackletter typography. Gryffensee (2013, in styles called Eins, Zwei and Drei) is designed to be the Futura of blackletter, combining the time-honored gravity and relentlessness of the Gothic script with the clean, contemporary freshness of the geometric sans. It also covers Cyrillic. Backstein (2013), baked brick, took its inspiration from the broken antiqua lettering in Berlin's old subway stations. Volantene Script (2013) is a (free) uncial display typeface inspired by the penmanship of Lady Talisa Maegyr-Stark as seen on HBO's Game of Thrones. Numina (2013, Glamour and Glory substyles) is an extensive condensed fashion-oriented typeface family related to Skyline and Corvinus. Maestrale (2013) adds calligraphic and flamboyant extenders to a decorative text typeface for a dramatic effect. Choose between Maestrale Manual (swashy) and Manuale Text. Blumenkind (2013) is inspired by an instance of metal-strip lettering found on the Bürgermeister Kornmesser Siedlung residential building complex in Berlin from the 1960s. Brilliance (2013) is a glamorous contemporary display blackletter combining the rich tapestry of Textura with a hint of the airy lightness of Spencerian script. Let's say that it is a light-hearted Textura. In 2015, he made the free 45-style classic serif typeface family Cormorant, which includes several unicase fonts. This typeface started out in 2014 as Paramond, a light, contrasted, space-taking Garalde with impossibly tiny counters and long extenders. Links to the Google Font directory: Cormorant, Cormorant Garamond, Cormorant Infant, Cormorant SC, Cormorant Unicase, Cormorant+UprightCormorant Upright. See also CTAN. In 2016, he created the humanist geometric sans typeface family Quinoa for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew. Typefaces from 2017: Tesserae (kitchen tile style), Traction. Traction was originally conceived and designed by Christian Thalmann. Chiara Mattersdorfer and Miriam Suranyi expanded, completed and produced the font family. This typeface sports signature serifs, soft edges and a fluid, organic design. In 2018, Christian started work on a blackletter-themed stencil typeface, first called Komik Ohne (the German for Comic Sans) and later named Kuschelfraktur (2019). Between 2016 and 2019, he developed Eau de Garamond---a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond---, which was later renamed Ysabeau. Github link. In 2020, we find another fork, Isabella Sans. Overbold (2019) is described by him as follows: Overbold is an unapologetic display typeface inspired by an illustration in Eric Gill's Essay on Typography (p.51), in which he demonstrates how not to make letters. In particular, he shows that increasing the weight of the downstroke in a serif A without structural adjustments yields an absurd, overbold result. I found the letter so charming that I decided to blatantly disregard Gill's wisdom and draw an entire overbold typeface. Here is the result. I'm not sorry. 1001 fonts link. Yet another URL. Fontspace link. Behance link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Open Font Library link. Github link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Céline Hurka (b. 1995) grew up in Karlsruhe, Germany, and moved to the Netherlands to study graphic design at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. Besides her studies she works on freelance projects in the cultural field, where she combines an interest in editorial design with emphasis on type design and photography. She is based in 's Gravenhage. Graduate of the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2020. During her studies at the KABK in Den Haag, Céline Hurka designed the poster sans typeface Alfarn (2018) as part of the Adobe Originals collection. This typeface is based on poster lettering in 1923 by Bauhaus student Alfred Arndt (1898-1976). Her KABK graduation typeface was the intestinal / stone age / graffiti family Version. In 2019, Nora Bekes and Celine Hurka published Reviving Type. The book as described by them: One study tells the story of the Renaissance letters of Garamont and Granjon. The other is about the Baroque types of Nicholas Kis. Reviving Type guides the reader from finding original sources in archives, through historical investigation and the design process, to a finished typeface. The first, theoretically grounded part of the book provides insight into historical changes in type design through visual examples of printed matter. The second part offers a thorough explanation of the production process of the revival typefaces. Here, two different approaches are placed side by side, creating a dialogue about different working methods in type design. Technical details, design decisions, and difficulties arising during the design process are thoroughly discussed. Rich imagery of original archival material and technical illustrations visually buttress the texts. Taken as a whole, the publication becomes a cookbook for anyone wanting to dive into revival type design. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Creative technologist in The Netherlands who was asked to modify and improve a typeface of her choice in her graphic design class at the University of Twente. She picked Poor Richard for that project. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies, Cedric Bronkhorst (Hoogeveen, The Netherlands) created a modular compass-and-ruler typeface (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Editor of the two-volume book A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles 1901-1939, and A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles 1628-1900. Both volumes were published by Taschen. Cees is located in Hilversum, The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based designer of the modular typefaces Tic Type (2015) and Font D'Amour (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Leiden, The Netherlands-based designer of the blackboard bold typeface Indie (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Characters (or: Character Type)
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He co-founded Stoere Binken Design. Blog. Klingspor link. Behance link. Dafont link. I Love Typography link. Volcano Type link. Fountain Type link. |
Dutch author (1855-1919) who wrote the following books or book chapters:
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Dutch printer and graphic designer, 1918-1995. He was at odds with the conservatism of Jan van Krimpen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Senior designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, who created Triangular (2013), an experimental 3d typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrative designer in Den Haag, who made the experimental typeface Hoogtelijnen (2011), as if each glyph were a meteorological map. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Utrecht in 1921, Chris Brand lived in Breda, and died in 1998. He studied calligraphy in 1940, and worked in Brussels from 1948-1953. He taught design at various academies until 1986. Known for book cover jackets, Brand created the clean serif typeface Albertina in 1964-1965 (Monotype). This typeface was first used for a retrospecive on Stanley Morison's work exhibited at the Albertina Library in Brussels in 1966. Dean Allen [Textism]: Working designers should have at least one text family to focus on; to test its idiosyncrasies and stretch its limits, to see how it responds to the unpredictable demands of day-to-day work. Albertina is the family with which I do the most tinkering. It's remarkably flexible, offering a full complement of text and titling figures, roman and italic small caps, as well as supplemental Greek and Cyrillic fonts. It has the sort of strength, or presence on the page absent from most digital type, owing to sturdy construction, and it lacks fussiness. The digital font DTL Albertina saw the light in 1987 at Dutch Type Library. Brand also created Veerle Uncialis (1991, named after his granddaughter Veerle Simons) but it is unclear whether this font is his or a reworking of a typeface by the Parisian typefounder Fournier. Finally, he made the coptic font Draguet (1968). FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Joris Johannes Christiaan Lebeau was a Dutch designer, 1878-1945. His art deco lettering can be found in these creations: Kunsthandel Willem Brok (1919, portrait poster cut in wood), Winterboek 24-25 Wereldbibliotheek (1924, front cover), Ultraphoon Huis (1920s, record sleeve), Ultraphoon (1920s, record sleeve), Programma (1920s, program), and Openbare Arbeidsbemiddeling (1928, poster). The black display caps typeface Brok (1995, Elizabeth Cory Holzman, Font Bureau) was based on the Kunsthandel Willem Brok poster. Nick Curtis claims that his typeface Haarlem Nights (2006) is based on a 1920 Dutch poster for Public Placement Services by Johan Dijsktra. However, de Voogt says that Haarlem Nights is based on Lebeau's 1928 poster, Openbare Arbeidsbemiddeling. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2013, he designed the rounded monoline modular display sans family Kaat (2013). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Christiaan Johannes van der Hoef was a Dutch designer, 1875-1933. He created some art deco posters such as Verblifa (1920), De Woekeraarster (1923), Henri Ter Hall's Revue (1927), and showed more art deco lettering prowess on his IXe Olympiade Amsterdam (1928, Olympic certificate). His lettering on the Verblifa poster influenced Kerfuffle NF (Nick Curtis), and Van der Hoef Capitals (Philip Bouwsma, Monotype). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christiaan Theo Boer
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Christian Annyas
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Christian "Cinga" Thalmann
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For a school project in Kenn Munk's class at the School of Visual Communication in Haderslev, Denmark, Christian Lank designed the free quirky vector format sans typeface Quartz (2017). In 2019, while based in Amsterdam, he designed the free typeface Effekt Grotesk. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontShop link. Klingspor link. Christoffel Van Dijck's digital legacy. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Christoph Mueller
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Christoph Mueller Graphic Arts
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Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link. Older URL. Font Squirrel link. Another old link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch graphic and typographic designer from Aldeboarn, The Netherlands (b. 1959). Son of Gerrit Noordzij, and brother of Peter Matthias Noordzij. Designer at the Enschedé Font Foundry of Collis [discussed by John Berry], and OEM designer of the lettering for the Thalys high-speed trains between Paris and Brussels. Involved in book typography. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Haarlem, The Netherlands, who works as We Art Free. He created an art deco custom typeface called Delapampa (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the free stitching font Postcode (2008, FontStruct). It is based on a Dutch postage stamp from 1978 by Gert Dumbar (who runs the famous Dutch visual identity Studio Dumbar) and René van Raalte, which reads POSTCODE. It was apparently created to encourage the Dutch to include postal ccodes on their envelopes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Citype
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CL Fonts
| CL fonts is a package that contains GaramondLatin, a professionally produced typeface (by Rubicon Computer Labs Inc, 1998) that provides macrons, brevia, apices/stress marks, common inscriptional characters, characters for printing scanned poetry, and a few medieval and religious symbols. Free, sponsored by the CAES, the Classical Association of the Empire State. On this page, you can also download the Anaxiphorminx font (1998): Dr. Ilja Pfeijffer of the University of Leiden has created a metrical font for scholars and advanced students of Greek and Latin. Anaxiphorminx is a metrical font designed for advanced work in Greek and Latin metrics. It was created on the Macintosh by Dr. I.L. Pfeijffer of the University of Leiden. Page by David Perry. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
He published the books "Projet Tipográfico" (Ed. Rosari), "Trajan e Franklin Gothic" (Ed. Rosari), and "Tipografia Comparada" (Ed. Rosari). Claudio now lives in Treviso, Italy, from where he launched the type magazine Tipoitalia in 2009. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Mediacollege Amsterdam, Claire Kalergis designed the squarish blackboard bold style Base Font (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He says: I created a new design again taking inspiration from the early sketches of Dwiggins' Experimental No. 223. I was able to use the very open aperture design of the e in this experiment. The a again explored a inflexion points within the counters, and this was too integrated in the design. Finally lightly rounded wedge shaped base serifs were chosen. In 2011, Claus placed Playfair Display with Google Web Fonts. He explains: Playfair Display is a transitional design. From the time of enlightenment in the late 18th century, the broad nib quills were replaced by pointed steel pens. This influenced typographical letterforms to become increasingly detached from the written ones. Developments in printing technology, ink and paper making, made it possible to print letterforms of high contrast and fine hairlines. This design lends itself to this period, and while it is not a revival of any particular design, it takes influence from the printer and typeface designer John Baskerville's designs, the punchcutter William Martin's typeface for the Boydell Shakespeare (sic) edition, and from the Scotch Roman designs that followed thereafter. As the name indicates, Playfair Display is well suited for titling and headlines. It was followed in 2012 by Playfair Display SC. Free download at CTAN and at Open Font Library. Free download of Playfair Display Italic. In 2014, Claus designed Inknut Antiqua, a free angular text typeface family for low resolution screens, designed to evoke Venetian incunabula and humanist manuscripts, but with the quirks and idiosyncrasies of the kinds of typefaces you find in this artisanal tradition. Google Fonts link for Inknut Antiqua. Open Font Library link. Inknut Antiqua covers Latin and Devanagari. Claus lives in Amsterdam. Google Font Directory link. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik on the topic of typography for touch-screen devices. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Motion graphics designer in Den Haag, The Netherlands. Creator of the outlined display typeface Suesco (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies, Coen Gooijer (Gouda, The Netherlands) designed Playing Card Font (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at URW++/Fontforum of
Klingspor link. View Coen Hofmann's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of Coert Schrift (2008). Home page. Creator of Coert Schrift Dik and Coert Schrift Romaans (2008, handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Colin Willems
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Collegium Graficum
| Dutch text about good typography. A nice intro. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the free five-style techno font family Nultien (2021). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Constructed Languages
| Boudewijn Rempt's fonts for imaginary and not-so-imaginary languages: Afaka-Roman (from Suriname, with the help of Rob Nierse), Bugis-Makassar, DendenChancelleresca, Eqalar3 (for Pablo Flores' language Draseleq), goidel, gothic-1, Keiaans-(Kayenian), Mandeville-Hebreeuws, Meroitic-boldItalic, Mandeville-Chaldeeuws, Mandeville-Grieks, Mandeville-koptisch, Mandeville-Saracen, Nosjhe-standard (with Christophe Grandsire), hPhags-pa-(rotated), selang, selang-cursief, Ü-chan, ValdyaansKlerkenschrift, 2ValdyaansKlerkenschrift. He created Gothic after the alphabet devised by the Visigothic Bishop Wulfila (Lat. Ulfilas), 311-383 AD. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The type situation in the Netherlands, described by Peter Bilak. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Corien Bennink
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Corien's Handwritingfonts
| Corien Bennink (Corien's Handwritingfonts) is a Dutch portrait photographer and pencil artist, b. 1980. She lives in Diever. Corien has been making custom handwriting fonts since 2005. Creator of the comic book / chalk board font Whiteboard (2007). She is the designer of Heroes Font (2006, hand-printed, made based on screenshots of the Heroes TV series; see also here) and House Whiteboard Font (2006). Commercial fonts include Spidery Elegance (2008), Dausby (2012, based on a secretary's hand from the 1850s), Ashby (2015, a Spencerian script), Concinnitas (2015, a neat upright handcrafted typeface), Deveren (2017, based on goosefeather writings from the late 1600s), Notetaker (2019) and Yarker (2019, a business hand of the late 19th century). She also offers a commercial handwriting font service (40 USD), and has some free handwriting demo fonts from 2005 and 2006: Angela, Bob-H., Escribiente, Heroes-font, Kendall-j, Krusoe, Nongtung, R.-Bruce, Whiteboard, richie. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Corina obtained a Masters in type design at the KABK in Den Haag, class of 2001, and an MA in book design and typography from Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem (ArtEZ, 2003). Corina studied Design Management at the EURIB, Rotterdam (2007-2009). Her typography awards include a silver medal for the Best Book Design of the World (Leipzig/Frankfurt, 2004) and Best Book Designs of The Netherlands (2003). In 2002, Fred Smeijers, Corina Cotorobai, Rudy Geerarts and Martine Leloup (both of FontShop Benelux) co-founded OurType in 2002 [it was formally launched in 2004]. Fred and Corina were the creative lead of OurType, Rudy and Martine were in charge with sales. In 2017 Fred and Corina stopped their collaboration with OurType concentrating on several other projects, including a new type label. Fred and Corina are also co-partners in Type Tailors (established in 2008), offering type design development, publishing, custom type and typographic consultancy. In 2018, she co-founded Type By with Fred Smeijers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Son of Henric Pieterszoon Lettersnijder, b. Delft. Dutch letter cutter ("lettersnijder"). He cut a Netherlandisch Bastarda, which he used from 1524 onwards, and a big double pica Textura to continue with the type family popularized by his father. Vervliet in his 1968 book ranks Cornelis a "cut" below his father. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefounder and pastor in Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1721-1785? He was a partner in Corn. Nozeman&Comp. His work can be found in Epreuve des caracteres, qui se fondent dans la nouvelle fonderie de Corn. Nozeman&Comp. a Harlem (Haarlem, 1756). Nozeman was in partnership with J.F. Rosart (1714-1777), who cut many of the types. The 1756 publication is a gorgeous small book, in which it is claimed that this is the start of a new foundry in Haarlem. Type showings include Dubbele mediaan schtyfletter (a script), ext romein, Text cursyf, Mediaan romein, Mediaan italique, Descendiaan romein and italique, Descendiaan medicynse, Astromise en Chimise Tekens, Garmond romein, Garmond cursyf, and Almanaks tekens. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dutch designer in Ede of Le Font (2013, hand-printed), Strepper (2013, a blackboard bold font), Notey (2013, a hand-printed typeface) and Curia (2013, a calligraphic font). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A Dutch designer from Groningen. Examples of type on the streets of Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch font vendor who overlaps a lot with Creative Market. There is a subpage with freebies that includes Concre (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of the connected script typeface Slow Dance (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her industrial design engineering studiers, Delft, The Netherlands-based Cynthia Ko created the rope font Forget Me Not (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer. Devian Tart link. He created the couinterless typeface Aubrey Graham Drake (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch printer located in Rotterdam, who published the lettering model book Calligrafische voorbeelden ten dienste van schlders, steenhouwers, lithographen, bouwkundigen enz in 32 genres (1888). Reference: Nederlandse belettering negentiende-eeuwse modelboeken (2015, Mathieu Lommen, de Buitenkant, Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch printer in Amsterdam. Their first type catalog dates bac to 1802: Eerste Letterproef van de Boek-Drukkery van D. Zimmerman (1802). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daan de Krosse
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During his studies at SintLucas in Boxtel, Oirschot, The Netherlands-based Daan Emmen (b. 1996, Oirschot) designed the minimalist typeface Invisible (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch graphic designer in Breda. Designer of the custom octagonal typeface Barst for Breda Barst in 2010. He also made the paper fold typeface Tree Font (2010). Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daan Jobsis
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Daan Rietbergen (b. 1988) is an Utrecht-based independent graphic designer and artist who specializes in visual identity, poster design and typography. He graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam in 2011 and from AKS St. Joost, Den Bosch, in 2014. From 2014 until 2019, he worked at Studio Dumbar in Amsterdam. He designed some experimental typefaces that are mainly meant to be used in large physical settings. They include Rosdar (2021), Vimeto (2019), Nespor and Smam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Amsterdam-based student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie who was born in Oslo in 1982. He is working on this Gill-like sans face (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nantes, France-based designer of the poster typeface Wildtyp (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance graphic designer from Spain who lives in Amsterdam. He created the interesting geometric display sans typeface Athan (2010, Thinkdust), and the futuristic deco (Dutch neo-plasticist) typeface Blozend (2010, Thinkdust). Cargo Collective link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German illustrator and graphic designer (b. 1978, Ingolstadt, Germay), located in Amsterdam where he does business as San2Design. Behance link. He admits influences of Swiss design and Massimo Vignelli, and, not surprisingly, created a sans typeface called San2 (2010) which reflects these minimalist influences. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian typefounder (b. Antwerp, 1815, d. Rotterdam 1864). He worked as a typefounder in Rotterdam from 1857 until about 1864, running the foundry D. J. Mensing&Co. Specimen in the Amsterdam University Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer based in Amsterdam, with a strong interest in generative design and kinetic typography. He has taught typography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and typography at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem. Maarleveld co-founded Font Spectrum in 2021 with Edgar Walthert in Amsterdam. Future Fonts link. The typefaces at FontSpectrum:
In 2021, he designed the optical illusion wire frame typeface Impossible Grid. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Communication&Multimedia Design at the NHL University in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Indonesian creator of beautiful lettering in his Maluku poster (2011). Maluku is the local word for Moluccan, referring to the island group situated between Celebes, the Phillippines, New Guinea and Timor. It is part of Indonesia. | |
Dutch designer who created the free hand-drawn poster typeface Skinny Marker (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of BANANASPLIT, BLOESEM, BRETAGNE, CROL, HAPPYdave. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Rotterdam-based designer. He is working on a nice set of stitching fonts in 2007. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Utrecht, The Netherlands-based designer of Go Baaa Handwritten Comic (2017), a hand-crafed comic book typeface intended for use in his own cartoons and comic strips. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Netherlands-based creator (b. 1990) of these free pixel typefaces that were made with FontStruct in 2013: PKMN Mystery Dungeon, Mario Kart DS, FFCC Echose of Time, SMT Devil Survivor, SMB Deluxe, Unown GB, Accents Euro TLOZ Phantom Hourglass, Accents TLOZ Minish Cap / A Link to the Past / Four Sword, TLOZ Link's Awakening, Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario 64 DS, Star Fox/Starwing, SMW2: Yoshi's Island, PKMN Pinball, PKMN RBYGSC, Euro Nintendo DS BIOS, Metroid Fusion, Accents Euro Mega Man ZX, Mega Man Battle Network, Kirby's Adventure, Golden Sun, Final Fantasy, Accents Euro Animal Crossing: Wild World, Ace Attorney. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David J. Shipley
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David Kerkhoff
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David Kerkhoff
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David Kloeg
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German designer who grew up in Dresden, and has worked as a designer in Amsterdam since 2006. He created a thick counterless typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
List of his typefaces, or revivals, at MyFonts: Bordeaux (Elsner+Flake), Bronx (Elsner+Flake), Agincourt (ITC), Aquinas (ITC), Blackmoor (ITC), Bordeaux (ITC), Bronx (ITC), Coptek (ITC), Digitek (ITC), La Bamba (ITC), Lambada (ITC), Latino Elongated (ITC), Letraset Arta (ITC), Marguerita (ITC), Mekanik (ITC), Milano (ITC), ITC Quay Sans (ITC), Robotik (ITC), Santa Fe (ITC), Scriptek (ITC), Teknik (ITC), Vegas (ITC), Titus (Linotype), Kade (Re-Type), Metallic Sky (SoftMaker), Foundry Sans (The Foundry), VLNL Hollandsche Nieuwe (VetteLetters). View David Quay's typefaces. Klingspor link. FontShop link. Linotype link. View David Quay's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian penman who published t'Magazin OftTac-huys der Loffelycker Penn-const . . . Ghepractizeert Door David Roelands van Antwerpen, Fransoijschen School-Mr. binnen Vlissinghen in 1616. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DBXL
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Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam. Dafont link. Klingspor link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
De Aesthetische Dienst
| Graphic designer, sign painter and letterer Jeroen Koning (De Aesthetische Dienst, Amsterdam) started work on DTL VandenVelde in 2015. This typeface will be inspired by the work of the famous calligrapher Jan Van den Velde (1568-1623). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
De Amsterdamse Krulletter
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Krul is a typographic interpretation of the lettering style created by Dutch letter painter Jan Willem Joseph Visser at the end of the 1940s, which decorated the traditional brown bars of Amsterdam. In the beginning, these letters were strongly associated with the pubs connected to the Amstel brewery, given that Visser was the company's official painter. As the years passed, the style became increasingly popular, and various business owners in Amsterdam and other Dutch and Belgian cities also commissioned its use. In the 1970s and 1980s, Leo Beukeboom, another talented letter painter, continued and expanded this lettering tradition while employed under the Heineken brand. Much of his work can still be found in the Jordaan and De Pijp neighborhoods in Amsterdam. The Amsterdamse Krulletter, or Amsterdam's curly letter, is strongly inspired by the calligraphic works of the 17th century Dutch writing masters, of which Jan van den Velde was a central figure. However, distinct characteristics of this style, for example, its unusual and beautiful "g" originate from a model that was published by Johannes Heuvelman in 1659, which J. W. J. Visser referenced. Typographic circles have somehow overlooked the Amsterdamse Krulletter and its heritage. The Dutch calligraphic hands preceded and influenced the formal English penmanship which has inspired numerous typefaces in the Copperplate style. In contrast, the models from van den Velde, Heuvelman, and Jean de la Chambre, among others, are a missing chapter in Dutch typographic history, and had never been turned into typefaces until now. He continues about his own typeface Krul: Conscious of the cultural and identity issues that arise in reviving a unique style, and concerned about the speed with which the lettering style was disappearing, Ramiro Espinoza focused the project of designing Krul on digitally recreating the calligraphic complexity of these beautiful letters. Created through several years of research, Krul is not a direct digitization of the Amsterdamse Krulletter, but instead, an interpretation that incorporates numerous alternative characters absent in the original model, and improves upon details where necessary, resulting in an optimal performance on the printed page. The typeface is presented in Open Type format, with an abundance of intricate ligatures, fleurons, and swashes, which permit the creation of numerous calligraphic effects. The very high contrast and rhythm of the strokes in this typeface make it especially suited for media applications conveying a sense of elegance and sophistication. Designers of feminine magazines, advertisements, and corporate identities within the fragrance and fashion industries will find in this typeface to be an extremely useful and appropriate resource. The great Amsterdamse Krulletter is finally back, and we are proud to make it available to you. Krul can be purchased at ReType. At ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam, Ramiro explained his work on the Krulletter. Still in 2013, Rob Becker and Ramiro Espinoza coauthored Amsterdamse Krulletter. In 2015, they published The Curly Letter of Amsterdam (Uitgeverij Lecturis, Eindhoven and Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
De Passe&Menne
| Dutch foundry from 1842-1856, bought by Nicolaas Tetterode in 1856. Formerly, De Passe&Cie in 1841. Jean Baptist De Panne (b. Brussels, ca. 1806, d. Amsterdam, 1844) was a Belgian who had been a foreman of Firmin Didot in Paris. Kornelis Elix, an Amsterdam based typefounder, asked him to come to Amsterdam, where De Passe worked for him from 1837 on. In 1841, De Passe created his own foundry, only to die in 1844, a year after his first specimen was published. That specimen derived mostly from the Th. Lejeune foundry in Brussels, which was active there from 1836-1838. Specimen in the Amsterdam University Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Influential Dutch magazine founded in 1917 by Theo van Doesburg in cooperation with Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok, Vilmos Huszar and J.J.P. Oud. It became the catalyst for the De Stijl movement. Ninety numbers were published in 8 volumes, the last one in 1932. All have been scanned in. The De Stijl movement lived and died with the magazine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
De Stijl is a Dutch word that means The Style. It is a Dutch artistic movement started in 1917 and that lasted until 1931. The movement is also known as neoplasticism. The group's principal members were the Dutch painter, designer, writer and critic Theo van Doesburg, the painters Piet Mondrian, Vilmos Huszár and Bart van der Leck, and the architects Gerrit Rietveld, Robert van 't Hoff and J.J.P Oud. De Stijl is also the name of an influential Dutch magazine founded in 1917 by Theo van Doesburg in cooperation with Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok, Vilmos Huszar and J.J.P. Oud. It became the catalyst for the De Stijl movement. Ninety numbers were published in 8 volumes, the last one in 1932. All have been scanned in. The De Stijl movement lived and died with the magazine. De Stijl stood for a new ideal of spiritual harmony and order. Its members proposed abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour. For example, they simplified visual compositions by limiting everything to vertical and horizontal directions, even in the typefaces used. They used only primary colors along with black and white. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tholen, The Netherlands-based student-designer of Stamped Alphabet (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Deconditoned Reflex (drx87)
| Dutch designer in Den Haag (b. 1987) of Hamarama (2015, a display typeface), ArnStylo (2011, a deco face) and Deconditioned (2013, octagonal). Behance link. Dafont link. His company is called Deconditioned Reflex Design. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
DecoType
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In 2009, Thomas Milo received the second Dr. Peter Karow Award for Font Technology&Digital Typography for the development of the ACE layout engine (the heart of the Tasmeem plugin for InDesign ME) for Arabic text setting. The citation reads: Thomas Milo and his company DecoType developed with ACE, which is an acronym for 'Arabic Calligraphic Engine', new advanced technology for Arabic text setting, which needs a far more sophisticated approach than for instance the Latin script, based on a thorough analysis of the Arabic script. Not only served Milo's typographic research as the fundament for the ACE technology, clearly it also formed a basis for the development of the OpenType format, although this is a less known and acknowledged fact. In 2017, he developed the new electronic Mus'haf Muscat at the behest of the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam. MyFonts page. Speaker at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. Personal link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch designer (b. 1990) of Collapse Smooth (2006), Standard Galactic Alphabet (2006), DeepHand (2006, his handwriting), Collapse Blocks (2006), and Slouch (2006, handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and graphic designer in the Netherlands. Behance link. Creator of the geometric typefaces Gem (2012) and Maza (2012, art deco). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of the signage script typeface Gracefull (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dennis de Vries
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Design Dutch
| Matt Langstaff created Four Pixel Caps (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
designworkplan
| Defunct type design and typography blog and news site (part of a much larger graphic design blog) run by Dutchman Sander Baumann. Alternate URL, where one can find his SymbolSigns-Basisset font made in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Porto, Portugal (and now Amsterdam)-based designer of Bubbly (2017) and Birdy (2017). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Diana Ovezea
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Diederik Corvers
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Den Haag-based designer of the labyrinthine font Lost In A Maze (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dimitry Hamekink
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Dutch designer of a grungy Cyrillic typeface in 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Amsterdam. Behance link. Creator of Amsterdam Type Alphabet (2010, a ransom note font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dionne Fox
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Dutch punchcutter. In 1680, he taught Miklos Kis, who had just moved from Hungary to Amsterdam. Richard Lipton designed the text family Meno FB (1994, Font Bureau) in fifteen styles. He explains: the romans gain their energy from French baroque forms cut late in the sixteenth century by Robert Granjon, the italics from Dirk Voskens' work in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2014, he designed the creamy typeface Goggles. In 2016, he designed the constructivist typeface Stookplaats for the renovation of an old military hospital in Antwerp. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DolWork
| Gerben Dollen is the Groningen, Netherlands-based graphic designer of the commercial font RES (2006). In 2006, he started studying for an MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, where he graduated in 2007 with a type project called Actium, a sans face with Latin and Greek letters. MyFonts page for Dolwork, his foundry, where the 12-style family Actium was published in 2010. He currently works at Type Mafia in Amsterdam. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
The Alphabet in stone typeface was digitized in 2011. That project can be seen here. Contributors include Willem Noyons, Maarten Dullemeijer and Rob Stolte. The font family can be bought from the Dutch foundry Autobahn. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Donald Beekman
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Donald Beekman
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Donald Roos
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Donald Roos
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Dutch designer of the pixel typeface TooSimple (2014, FontStruct). Aka beery. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Utrecht, The Netherlands-based designer of the handcrafted vernacular typeface Not About Me (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dotspot Graphics
| Yves Latscha's Dutch site, located in Gennep, The Netherlands, is called Dotspot Graphics. At this defunct Dafont link, one could download his free grunge face, Gekrazze, the grunge typefaces 50's Headline DSG (2006), OldPress DSG (2006), Overprint DSG (2006), Smeared DSG (2005), OverRide DSG (2006), the handwriting typeface LongTimeAgo DSG (2006), and the sketchy caps font Skizzed DSG (2006), as well as Dingbatz Formz DSG (2006), Marvelouz DSG (2006), Hangbord DSG (2006), Screw DSG (2006), Stamped DSG (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Drawperfect
| Paul Ijsendoorn (Drawperfect) is a designer in Den Bosch, The Netherlands, b. 1976. He designed Blacknote Hand (2017), Forced Square (2014), Post-it Penscript (2009) and Fineliner Script (2010). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Dropper
| Dutch designer of Devoid (2020), a no-nonsense 18-style sans family well suited for information design applications. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Drukland
| Alex van Galen (Drukland) is the Dutch creator of the free upright connectred script font Blackboard Ultra (2013). Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
DTL FontMaster
| A set of utilities by the Dutch Type Library for Mac and PC that allows one to professionally produce and correct fonts. Developed in coordination with URW Hamburg. Includes BezierMaster, ContourMaster, InterpolateMaster, KernMaster, IkarusMaster, TraceMaster and DataMaster. The DTL FontMaster team:
PDF file with a presentation by Frank E. Blokland entitled FM Automation at your Fingertips. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
They say that DTM stands for Dan Tha man. This site is a spoof of more serious business sites and seems to be located in Krommenie, The Netherlands. Behance link. Creator of the Zipper font in 2010. In 2011, they created Oh My Goth (a gothic face) and Alphabeetje (multiline face). In 2012, the paperclip typeface Ester was published. In 2013, they created a 3d alphabet called Inside Job. Mr. Right (2014) is a multiline script typeface influenced by Rechtman (1992, David Rakowski). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Version 1.5.3 of free Windows utility Dump PFM, for reading a PFM file. By Jeroen W. Pluimers at the University of Leiden. Jeroen is now consultant at All I'M. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Durotype
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His second typeface family is Cigar (2010). He writes: Cigar is a revival of a 1970s and 1980s typeface called Cucumber or Nassel Black or Scanner. It has been carefully redrawn and expanded into a full-featured OpenType font. Cigar Octo and Cigar Quarto are new angular reinterpretations of Cigar. In Cigar Octo, most round shapes have been replaced by octagonal shapes. In Cigar Quarto, most round shapes have been replaced by rectangular shapes. Seconda (2010) is a humanist sans family. Seconda Soft (2011), Seconda Round (2012) and Seconda XtraSoft (2011) are rounded versions of Seconda. In 2011, he created the 16-style Simplo family, which was patterned after Alessandro Butti's Futura-like typeface Semplicità. This was followed in 2012 by Simplo Soft. Classic Xtra Round was created in 2011. Typefaces done in 2012: Flexo (a large x-height elliptical sans family), Flexo Contour. Typefaces from 2014: Aspira (a 112-font sans superfamily). In 2015, he designed the rounded sans typeface family Animo and the neutral sans typeface family Neutro (which was published in 2016). Typefaces published in 2017: Innova (a grotesque described by Blom as more open, more squarish, more legible). Typefaces from 2018: Flexo Soft. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Dustbunnies Everywhere
| Dutch designer of the cheerful hand-printed typeface Agrave Pro (2020), which is intended for long text passages. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch Alphabets
| Dutch Alphabets (2016, Uitgeverij De Buitenkant) was written by Mathieu Lommen and designed by Peter Verheul. It is a portfolio containing 47 broadsides featuring new samples of lettering and writing by today's most significant Dutch lettering artists, type designers, calligraphers and sign painters. All contributors are working and/or educated in the Netherlands. This collection of lettering has been compiled by Mathieu Lommen (University of Amsterdam) & Peter Verheul (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague), and will be published in a limited edition. It showcases a wide variety of lettering and calligraphy, made especially for this project by Amsterdam Signpainters, Yomar Augusto, Jacques le Bailly, Donald Beekman, Françoise Berserik, Barbara BigosiĹ„ska, Frank E. Blokland, Erik van Blokland, Maria Doreuli, James Edmondson, Ramiro Espinoza, Martina Flor, Dave Foster, Fritz Grögel, Janno Hahn, Hansje van Halem, Berton Hasebe, Henry van der Horst, Ondrej JĂłb, Max Kisman, RenĂ© Knip, Holger Königsdörfer, Paul van der Laan, Lida Lopes Cardozo, Niels Shoe Meulman, Ross Milne, Gerrit Noordzij, Diana Ovezea, Krista Radoeva, Trine Rask, Arthur Reinders Folmer, Donald Roos, Pieter van Rosmalen, Just van Rossum, Kristyan Sarkis, Florian Schick, Elmo van Slingerland, Heidi Sørensen, Nina Stössinger, Joost Swarte, Teo Tuominen, Underware, Gerard Unger, Peter Verheul, Bernd Volmer, Job Wouters and designed by Peter Verheul. It is a portfolio containing 47 broadsides featuring new samples of lettering and writing by today's most significant Dutch lettering artists, type designers, calligraphers and sign painters. All the contributors are working and/or educated in the Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch Deco Type
| Sander de Voogt's selection of distinctive Art Deco type (bothy typefaces and alphabets as used on posters and in public) from The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Zip file with German and Dutch ligatures such as fb, fk, ffb, ffk, fj, ffj, and so forth. Expert page by Gert-Jan C. Lokhorst. For the Computer Modern family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The seventeenth century saw The Netherlands flourish in all respects, after the fall of Antwerp in 1585. Between 1590 and 1650, teachers and professionals taught and developed penmanship in the Low Countries---Penneconste in old Dutch. The most talented of them was Jan van den Velde. Others included Lucas Fopsz Lely, Abraham van Overbeke, Maria Strick and Felix van Sambix. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch Type Library (or: DTL Studio)
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From their corporate blurb: The Dutch Type Library was commissioned to produce the corporate typeface for the European Union. Further, DTL supplied the company letters to, among others, the New York Stock Exchange, Germany's Phoenix Television Broadcasting Company, Amnesty International USA, Emerson, The Diamond Trading Company, Taylor Nelson Sofres, Finland's most popular newspaper Helsingin Sonamat and banks and museums all over Europe. Besides fonts, the Dutch Type Library also produces sophisticated software for (OpenType) font production: DTL FontMaster, of which a free Light version is available. DTL has claimed all rights to the entire Lettergieterij Amsterdam typeface library obtained in some agreement with Tetterode. [This info may be wrong---I have no way to verify this.] He obtained a PhD from Leiden University and his dissertation was entitled Harmonics, Patterns, and Dynamics in Formal Typographic Representations of the Latin Script. The regularization, standardization, systematization, and unitization of roman and italic type since their Renaissance origins until the Romain du Roi. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: The (digitized) calligraphy on HM Queen Beatrix' Abdication Act 2013. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Dutchfonts.com
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Typefaces from 2013: DF Riga (grungy pixel face), DF Abit (another grungy pixel face), DF Dudok (a grungy pixel face). Typefaces from 2015: DF Charlie Go (free typeface designed immediately after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris), DF Park (experimental font started in 2013, originally made to dress up the facades of a food exhibition). |
In 2015, a Dutch designer created a new logo for the Belgian beer brand, Duvel. He asked that I not mention his name. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Earik Wiersma
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Ebern Klause
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ECHT
| ECHT is the foundry of Johan Manschot (b. 1974, Utrecht), a Dutch graphic designer who lives in Utrecht. His typefaces includes the counterless octagonal Pavement (2010) and the Indic simulation typeface Barharen Phir Bi (2010). The latter typeface is based on the Hindi text found on Guru Dutt's Baharen Phir Bi Aayengi -film poster (1966). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Ecofont
| Spranq Eco Sans (2008) is a free font based on Vera Sans. It tries to probe how much of the glyphs can be removed without harming legibility. The idea is that holes in glyph outlines save on (expensive and toxic) ink. Ecofont is designed and developed by Spranq on an idea of Colin Willems. Spranq, the company, is based in Utrecht, and Alexander Kraaij is one of the spokesmen. It is unclear who actually wrote the software for putting holes in glyphs. In any case, the software is for Windows only. Dafont link. Kernest link. Behance link. Spranq site. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Eden
| Eden is an Amsterdam-based design form, formerly called BRS Premsela Vonk. Its designer Earik Wiersma made an 8-weight type family, Horizon, based on the Heineken beer logo. With the help of Lucas de Groot, this was later extended to an 11-weight type family called Heineken Sans and Heineken Serif in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Edgar walthert
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His typefaces include Agile (2007, a sans family done at KABK), Grosse Pläne, Instant Schrift (2000: Redesign of Isonorm 3098 matching the radical restrictions of the Instant design-manual), and Sonic Waves (an experimental typeface that was created for dublab, a radio station based in Los Angeles, and was drawn using sound waves that can actually be played as an audio file). Agile was further developed in 2011 with weights ranging from hairline to fat, and appeared in 2013 as a retail typeface at Incubator / Village. He published the constructed sans typeface family Logical in 2018 at Bold Monday / Type Network. His typefaces at FontSpectrum:
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Author of the rather complete Arabic Font Specimen Book (De Buitenkant, Amsterdam, 2009). In 2013, he published Sculpting Type (Khatt Books), which deals with 3d type design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An Amsterdam-based creative artist. Creator of the iFontMaker font Font2 (2010, sketched letters). Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Skinletter is a collection of 26 letters with beautiful women in the background. In GIF format only. By Dutchman Edward de Leau. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Edwin Servaas is based in Willemstad in the Dutch Antilles. He designed the free charming handcrafted poster typeface Hidden Cinema in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Edwin van de Beemt
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A circle-themed font made in 2016 by a Dutch designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Element M
| Dutch designer of the modular futuristic typeface Element M One (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Amsterdam-based designer. Behance link. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface Fantastica (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Den Haag-based creator of the modular typeface Perceptio (2013, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Media College in Amsterdam, who designed the minimalist experimental typeface Diamant (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of the art deco typeface Eigen (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Free math and scientific symbol fonts at Elsevier, the Dutch publishing house. The font series is called ESSTIX (2000). See also here. The list: ESSTIXTen, ESSTIXEleven, ESSTIXTwelve, ESSTIXThirteen, ESSTIXFourteen, ESSTIXFifteen, ESSTIXSixteen, ESSTIXSeventeen, ESSTIXOne, ESSTIXTwo, ESSTIXThree, ESSTIXFour, ESSTIXFive, ESSTIXSix, ESSTIXSeven, ESSTIXEight, ESSTIXNine. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in Zwolle, The Netherlands, Elvira Koek created the modular typeface Fabrik (2013). She writes: This font is based on a few letter designs by Eric Waetzig. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Elwin Berlips
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Elzevir is an oldstyle typeface style related to garaldes. Elzevir was also the name of a renowned family of printers in the 16th and early 17th century in Leiden, The Hague, Utrecht, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. The first one, Louis (1540-1617), was the son of a Belgian printer in Leuven and established a print shop in Leiden in 1580. Other members include Isaac Elzevir, Bonaventrura Elzevir, and Abraham I Elzevir. They were operational until 1712. The Elzevir style was promoted by Louis Perrin in Lyon, France, in 1846. In the United States, this style is known as DeVinne. Britannica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch book shop active in the 19th century in Arnhem and Nijmegen, which was run by two brothers. In 1887, they published a lettering model book, Modelboek. Reference: Nederlandse belettering negentiende-eeuwse modelboeken (2015, Mathieu Lommen, de Buitenkant, Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian art director in Amsterdam who designed the elegant free hipster sans typeface Elianto (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Emday Fonts
| From Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Miriam van der Have's Dutch site offers a general introduction to fonts and font terminology. An impressive glossary. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Emile Michel Hobo
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Den Bosch, The Netherlands-based designer of a hipster typeface in 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies, Nieuwleusen, The Netherlands-based Emma Wesseling created an all caps Victorian ironwork typeface (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Ensotype
| Ensotype was established in 2018 by Dutchman David Kerkhoff, who also runs Hanoded. In 2018, he published the Japanese brush ink typeface Murasaki and the Arabic emulation typeface Ruhaniyat. Typefaces from 2022: Impending Distaster (a horror font). See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Kis Antiqua Now TB Pro and (2008, Erhard Kaiser for Elsner & Flake) are based on earlier Elsner & Flake versions of Kis Antiqua published by them in 2006, which, in turn, go back to Hildegard Korger's Kis Antiqua at Typoart, 1986-1988, and ultimately to a Jansonian Garamond by Miklos Totfalusi Kis in 1686. Klingspor link. Bio at ATypI. [Google]
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Dutch / Latvian FontStructor who made Georgian Boldy (2012), Latvian High Condensed (2012, a piano key typeface), and Aluksne (2012, a bold sans with 854 glyphs). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Erik van Blokland
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Atari GDOS bitmap font Jill Sans made by this Dutchman. Not bad-looking! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Erlof 't Hart (Opus Design, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, is a graphic designer. He created a minimalist monoline sans typeface for a sports retailer called Frontrunner (2011). He also made some logotypes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Apeldoorn, The Netherlands-based designer, b. 1975. Designer of Vandiana Platin (2007, display sans family with many weights). Before that, as Ersenak, Ersenak Production, and Laztemel Font Design Studio, he made the 99 Euro techno family Sevil alias Esra (2004). One free weight is here. He also made the techno font family Kubra (a bit in the style of Bank Gothic), and 4Deniz_alias_Kubra (2003). In 2014, he made the outine font Mixed Feelings. Mental Type [old URL]. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Erwin Denissen
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Erwin Denissen
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Zwolle, The Netherlands-based designer of the circle-theed typeface Round (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Airswinger, b. 1972. Dutch creator of the free fonts Appendix Normal (2006), Erwin Plain (2006, hand-printed) and Airswing Headline (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Erwin van der Waal
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Dutch designer of the handwriting typeface Erwin (2006) and the grunge typefaces Appendix (2006) and Airswinger (2006). In 2011, he made Airswing Headline (2011, futuristic). He also uses the names Airswinger and Erwin Vader. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Grioningen, The Netherlands, who created RoundUp (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Esmé Vahrmeijer, a graphic designer in Utrecht, The Netherlands, designed the Treefrog-style typeface Drupfabet in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer who created these corporate typeface with Amsterdam-based Edgar Walthert:
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She explains Optique: Optique is a multilingual typeface design project for Latin and Hangul in optical sizes. It is a serif typeface based on the tools of each script; broad nib for Latin and pointed brush for Hangul. Optique simplifies the shapes of Latin and Hangul whilst preserving the way of writing for each script. It is designed with the intention to achieve harmonization; to let the two scripts appear as one. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of Hangul type designer Choi Jung-ho (1916-1988). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Euro-CE
| Euro and CE symbol fonts made by Harold W. de Wijn in metafont format in 1998 (version 3.0 from 2002). de Wijn is a physics professor at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Student in Leiden, The Netherlands, who designed the thin display typeface Papercut in 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch type designer (b. Den Haag, 1958, d. Arnhem, 2005) who studied graphic design at the Arnhem School of Art (1981). He worked at his own office for a number of clients, taught type design at the art academies of Arnhem and Breda and wrote articles about typography and related topics. He created FF Balance (1993), FF Cocon (1998-2001: organic style), FF Avance (2000) and FF Legato 1 and 2 (2004, flared sans families discussed here). FF Balance was created at the Amsterdamse Steenweg in Arnhem, at almost the same address as Ontwerpbureau Quadraat. Editor of "Letters, een bloemlezing over typografie" (Eindhoven, 2001), a book about contemporary Dutch typography. Typophiles about his death. Jan Middendorp wrote: Of all the type designers I have known and have written about, Evert had the most complex personality, and possibly the most original mind and the weirdest sense of humour. He kept promising me, with his characteristic mixture of boyish enthusiasm, solemn dedication and self-mockery, that he would one day cover the entire distance between his home in Arnhem and mine in Ghent on his reclining bike. I was sure he'd make it, sooner or later he always carried out his plans, although some took him ten years to complete. It fills me with grief, wonder and anger that Evert, who was always advocating exercise and healthy food, has now been taken away from us because of a heart failure. As a type designer, Evert was unorthodox, a true original. Each of his four type families was the outcome of a highly personal investigation, a challenge to himself. To others, he could be as demanding as his was to himself; when criticizing his friends' typographic work, he was brutally honest and always to the point. Yet he remained amazingly modest, even insecure, about his own work, and deeply grateful to those who would comment on the early versions of his typefaces and/or test them in print. In spite of the single-mindedness with which he worked on his type designs during those months of total concentration, he was open to many other intellectual stimuli. He had worked as a photographer of architecture constructing his own hand-operated panoramic camera, interviewed the designers he admired (such as Wim Crouwel and Hans Reichel) about their design philosophy, and lately became fascinated by the work of Marshall McLuhan. His lectures and articles, too, were evidence of his original ideas on form and on reading. It is a great loss indeed. FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Evert Bloemsma's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Tilburg, The Netherlands, Evert Ybema created an untitled display typeface (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Exljbris
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Special Museo posters have been created, such as by Jasmine Lockwood (2012), Laurellie Pacussich (2013) and Larisa Mamanova (2012). In 2021, he released Antona (a 16-style geometric sans). Klingspor link. Old personal home page. Abstract Fonts link. View Jos Buivenga's typefaces. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Eyal & Myrthe
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Eyal Holtzman has designed many corporate and some retail typefaces. typefaces for clients such as The Enschedé Font Foundry and Nationale Nederlanden. His work has been exhibited in many places, including in Museum of the Book---Meermanno in Den Haag. MyFonts writes: In the book Ha, daar gaat er een van mij! (Hey, there goes one of mine!, a chronicle of graphic design in The Hague from 1945 to 2000, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2002) he is called "one of the most idiosyncratic letter talents from The Hague" and in Dutch Type (010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2004) expert Jan Middendorp describes his letters as being "among the most original alphabets produced in the Netherlands", (...) "tapping into an idiom that no other type designer working in the Netherlands has ever used". His typefaces:
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Eyal Holtzman
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Digital artist in Heerlen, The Netherlands, who created Back To Black (2011, experimental face), Hello Type (2011, sans headline face), Just Meet Me Halfway (2009), an experimental font made for two-coloring, and Eclectic (2011, a free octagonal face). At OFL, he makes 01 Base (2010, sans) available. Typefaces from 2014: Cigarettes & Coffee (a free vernacular brush typeface). Dafont link. Devian Tart link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Famoys Saz
| Dutch designer of the dry brush typeface This is so You (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch artist. Designer of the handwriting fonts FemkeKlaver and Emiz (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Femke Smits (b. 1996, Drunen, The Netherlands) designed the lava lamp stencil typeface Vuur Vrij in 2016, together with Joshua K. Gomez. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Book illustrator. Dutch Creative Alliance designer of Amadeo (handwriting, 1999, with Julius de Goede). See also at Agfa. Van der Veen runs Studio van der Veen in Haarlem. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FindThatFont
| FindThatFont! is a handy and free tool that allows to preview fonts that are installed on your system and to classify them into over 30 different categories. By Dutchman Mathijs Juressip. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fine Display Type
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Typefaces from 2020: Geos (a textured typeface based on old airport and train station signage). Typefaces from 2015: Parisienne (dot matrix style). Creations from 2011: GVB Bus PID (a vertically striped family) in versions 7x4, 13x8, 13x6, 5x3, 7x3, 10x7. He made these fonts in 2010: Combino Klein and Combino Groot, both based on the font used on the front displays of the GVB Siemens Combino trams. In 2009, he fontstructed Citaro Voor DM II, Citaro voor DB (dot matrix typefaces), Citaro voor DS, Citaro Zij DS, Citaro Voor EB, Flappen Regular (white on black), GVB Metro PID, Sevebyseven (+Monospaced, +Bold Monospaced, +Proportional: dotted pixel typefaces), Bus Destinations, Aeroport (MICR font), GVB Bus PID, Arriva 9x6, Arriva 7x3, 7 segments (LED simulation face), 9 Hoog Arriva, Dice. In 2008, he made Binnen Display 5, 6 and 7 (all for the RIS displays in GVB trams and buses), and 15x5 and 07x5. In 2007, before FontStruct existed, he made the kitchen tile font Metro (2007). Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Byelorussian illustrator who fled his country when he was 18 years old. He sold paintings in Moscow and now lives in Amsterdam. His drawings are straight out of the 19th century, ornamental and playful. He is also inspired by the psychedelic lettering of the 1960s. Discussion of his work by Coles. Typefaces, all made or drawn in 2006-2007: Rodopi, Fashion Condensed, Farringdon, Hopkins, Rondell (Western style face), Abramesque (ornamental caps), Mansard Trimmed (19th century emulation), Wedlock, Silverado, Shimmer Wide (cyrillic), Mona (extra-wide slab serif), Flirt Chloe (more 19th century ornamental glyphs), Jubilee (constructivist Cyrillic lettering), Big Cyrillic pixels (many great pixelized alphabets), Cuba, Gingerbread (Victorian), and St. Clair. Alternate URL. Check out his gorgeous country maps designed for the aeroflot in-flight magazine in 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Flat Icons
| Dutch designer of Claston Script (2020), Caride Script (2020), Ratilla Script (2020), Pathita Script (2020) and Casira Script (2020). Most of his products are icons though. There are about 200 icon sets. These include Supernatural Icons (2019), Online Education Icons (2019), Politics Icons (2019), Investing Icons (2019), Computer Science Icons (2019), Weather Icons (2019), Metallic Icons (2019), Flat Icons (2014), Bitcoin + Cryptocurrency Line Icons (2018), Travel Icons (2018), Medical Icons (2018), and Cryptocurrency Icons (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Floor van Steeg
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Florian Schick
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Dutch freelance graphic designer (b. Almelo, 1985) living in Granada, Spain, and/or Nijverdal, The Netherlands. Creator of the free rounded sans typeface FV Almelo (2012), which was designed using ruler and compass. FV Granada (2012) is a contemporary monoline sans typeface. FV Deventer (2012) is a wavy antique almost Victorian font. Floris also created Hipster Icons. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Peter Kleiweg's free utility, which creates a set of HTML pages, each showing samples of twenty fonts -- Type1, TrueType, and others that are available to Ghostscript. You can quickly browse your fonts using a HTML browser, and click a sample to view that font's complete character set. A separate script is available that lists detailed info about a particular font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font Creator / High Logic
| At High Logic in the Netherlands, Erwin Denissen (who is based in Bilthoven near Utrecht) has developed a font editor called Font Creator. No type 1 support. Windows only. At some point, Font Creator switched from shareware to payware. It also added Scanahand, a Windows tool for making handwriting into a font. Erwin Denissen started his career as an employee at ICT Automatisering, mainly working with Delphi. About two years later he switched to Bolesian were he made a move to Java software development. When Bolesian was eaten by it's big sister Capgemini in 2001, Erwin Denissen continued to work with Java. After several successful projects, and moving from software engineer to software designer to project leader, he decided to quit his job and fully focus on his own company High-Logic, he started back in 1997 as a graduate project (at Fontys University in Eindhoven). He wrote: As an independent software vendor, Erwin Denissen strives to continue developing new and innovative products for the world-wide typography market. Right now High-Logic has three products, a font editor, a font manager and a font generator. In March 2008 Erwin Denissen acquired MyTools.com, including 8 products. In July 2008 yourfonts.com was launched as an online font generation service. In 2021, he added: The upcoming FontCreator 14 will fully support variable fonts, as Erwin strongly believes they will soon become mainstream. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type foundry set up by Daniel Maarleveld and Edgar Walthert in Amsterdam in 2021. Future Fonts link. The typefaces at FontSpectrum:
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Fontenwerkplaats
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Alternate URL. Blog. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontfeest
| A free webfont service run by Dutchman Gerard Salomons. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fontforecast
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Her greatest work to date is the 16-font Chameleon family (2013). It includes Chameleon Basic (a calligraphic script that can be used for layering), Chameleon Pen, and Chameleon Sketch. This combination of poster styles was also seen in Laura Worthington's Charcuterie a few months earlier, so a trend seems to be developing. Santa's Pen (2013) is derived from Chameleon. Typefaces from 2014: Wingman Brush and Wingman serif, Wallet, Perron (hand-drawn contrasting designs for use on posters). Typefaces from 2015: Bambusa Pro (a great bamboo pen script collection), Mucho Sans (a 12-style geometric sans), Stylist Pro (a great dip pen connected calligraphic typeface), Salt & Spices Pro (a script family). Typefaces from 2016: Dragonflight Pro (brush script, +Sans), Salt + Spices Mono (the monoline version of Salt & Spices Pro), Kinfolk Pro (brush script accompanied by many ornamental fonts containing arrows and flowers). Typefaces from 2017: Somersault (a brush script duo), Delish Pro (brush script), Les Tulipes Pro (a layered calligraphic typeface family). Typefaces from 2018: Sabbatical. You Work For Them link. Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
FontMeister
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In his first life, he ran a free font site called 11th Floor, where he made these free typefaces in 1999: Civilization (octagonal), Plastik-Film (grungy semi-stencil), Raw (grunge), Rocket-Fuel, Timeline, Greenlight (dot matrix), Interstatic (futuristic), Handsolo, Optimum, Roswell (handwritten), Jean-Pierre (handwriting), 11th Floor (gridded). At FontMeister, he published
In a third life, now as Elmigo at Dafont, he published the circle-based font Modern Ringflash (2012). View Font Meister Elwin Berlips's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fontopia
| Dutch type designer Peter Slager set up his own foundry, Fontopia, in Kampen in 2015. He created the display typefaces Ps Javier (2015), Ps Rooster 1, Ps Rooster 2 (2015), Ps Kampen (2015) and Ps Campen (2015). Typefaces from 2016: Ps Strijkijzer, Ps Snackbar Prn (a fun font for swingers and late late night people), PS Willy. Typefaces from 2017: Ps Willy Small But Fine. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fontoville (was: Fresh Media)
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Additions in 2005: Caramba, Surfing Bird, Vertigo (nice retro poster font!), Mufoefoe, Reverbb, Fasto (octagonal, free). Elvis in Stereo (2002, Cape-Arcona) and Address Unknown (Cape Arcona, grunge) are commercial. Prozaque is a groovy face. Direct downloads. Mac downloads. Font Bros link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fonts++
| Free font manager for Windows by Steve Wehrmann. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonts by Alex
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Typefaces: FF Engine (1995), FF Roice (2003), Core Humanist Sans (2011, free!) and Klarendal Sans (2011). FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fonts Jos Kunst
| Two free fonts by Dutchman Jos Kunst: classical Greek (Mac only), and MathLogic (Mac, PC). Jos Kunst lived from 1936-1996. Bio. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer from Drachten in The Netherlands. Creator of the octagonal typeface Flatdepth (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch creator of the scratchy typeface FYOU (2013), of the brush typeface Worst Paint Job Ever (2013), of the ransom note font Just Some Random Doodles (2013), of Splash Blobs n Dots (2013), of AbracadabraHocusSpokuz (2013) and of the primitive hand-printed typefaces A Little Scribble in My Book (2013), A Butterfly on a Daffodil (2013), Mysterious Oriental Nights (2013), Happy Monks Medieval Looking Script (2013), Some Illiterate Wrote This (2013) and Secret Love Letters (2013). Sink Holes (2013) is an experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank E. Blokland
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In 2016, Frank E. Blokland obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Leiden for On the Origin of Patterning in Movable Latin Type. His typefaces:
At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he gave a series of lectures: Type tools by DTL, Automating font production, Automating type design, Integration of FontMaster in Linux and Mac OSX, and History of Type. On that occasion, participants were presented with the booklet Comprehensive Notes on the Design of Cyrillic Letters by Finnish type designer Hanna Hakala and typeset in the preliminary version of DTL Valiance. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik on the topic of parametrized type design, and in particular on the development of the DTL LetterModeller (LeMo) application, which is an attempt to come to such parameterization of type design. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank E. Blokland
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Frank Grießhammer
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Typefaces from 2014: Odin Rounded. Typefaces from 2015: Porter (sans). Typefaces from 2017: Untitled (extreme contrast display typeface based on the work of Jan van Krimpen's Romulus. Behance link: https://www.behance.net/hemmekam. Dafont link: https://www.dafont.com/frank-hemmekam.d4692. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank van der Hak
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Dutch designer (b. Eindhoven, 1969) of Plan (2005), a squarish engineering typeface family that was digitized and fine-tuned by René Verkaart at Characters. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer (b. 1994) of the fat geometric counterless typeface Noted V1 (2011) and the trekky typeface Galaxy (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch creator of a rounded unicase typeface in 2012. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Primoz Peterlin made type 1 outlines based on this. These outline renderings (Type 1) were automatically converted from METAFONT by Peter Szabo's TeXtrace, and subsequently edited using George Williams' PfaEdit PostScript font editor by Anshuman Pandey (University of Washington). In 2003-2004, additional updates in the set of 22 Metafont files are due to Kevin Carmody, who presently maintains the package. The font names: TeX-dvng10, TeX-dvng9, TeX-dvng8. These were later changed to VelthuisDevanagari8-Regular, VelthuisDevanagari9-Regular and VelthuisDevanagari10-Regular. This font was used in the GNU freefont project for the Devanagari range (U+0900-U+097F). Karel Piska's type 1 fonts in the Indic1 package include these Devanagari typefaces based on Velthuis's Metafont sources from 1991-2005: Velthuis-dvng10, Velthuis-dvng8, Velthuis-dvng9, Velthuis-dvngb10, Velthuis-dvngb8, Velthuis-dvngb9, Velthuis-dvngbi10, Velthuis-dvngbi8, Velthuis-dvngbi9, Velthuis-dvngi10, Velthuis-dvngi8, Velthuis-dvngi9, Velthuis-dvpn10, Velthuis-dvpn8, Velthuis-dvpn9, VelthuisBombay-dvnb10, VelthuisBombay-dvnb8, VelthuisBombay-dvnb9, VelthuisBombay-dvnbb10, VelthuisBombay-dvnbb8, VelthuisBombay-dvnbb9, VelthuisBombay-dvnbbi10, VelthuisBombay-dvnbbi8, VelthuisBombay-dvnbbi9, VelthuisBombay-dvnbi10, VelthuisBombay-dvnbi8, VelthuisBombay-dvnbi9, VelthuisBombay-dvpb10, VelthuisBombay-dvpb8, VelthuisBombay-dvpb9, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnc10, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnc8, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnc9, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncb10, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncb8, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncb9, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncbi10, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncbi8, VelthuisCalcutta-dvncbi9, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnci10, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnci8, VelthuisCalcutta-dvnci9, VelthuisCalcutta-dvpc10, VelthuisCalcutta-dvpc8, VelthuisCalcutta-dvpc9, VelthuisNepali-dvnn10, VelthuisNepali-dvnn8, VelthuisNepali-dvnn9, VelthuisNepali-dvnnb10, VelthuisNepali-dvnnb8, VelthuisNepali-dvnnb9, VelthuisNepali-dvnnbi10, VelthuisNepali-dvnnbi8, VelthuisNepali-dvnnbi9, VelthuisNepali-dvnni10, VelthuisNepali-dvnni8, VelthuisNepali-dvnni9, VelthuisNepali-dvpnn10, VelthuisNepali-dvpnn8, VelthuisNepali-dvpnn9. A complete package for Velthuis Devanagari (Hindi) with both fonts and TeX support is at CTAN. It is maintained by Anshuman Pandey. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer (b. 1982) of Celtic Knot 1 (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fré Cohen
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Fred Smeijers
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Frederika Sophia (Fré) Cohen
| Dutch graphic designer (1903-1943) who lived in Amsterdam. She often designed fonts for her own projects. Her lettering and typefaces inspired these digital fonts:
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Dutch calligrapher and designer in Amsterdam, who created the Letraset font Aura Script (1982-1994) and Aura Sanscript (1973-2008). He studied at Grafische Fachschule Aarau. From 1968 until 1973, he was type compositor apprentice and graphic designer at Ringier & Co AG, Zofingen (Switzerland). Freed writes: Although the typeface Aura Script was digitized by URW in Ikarus as one of the first, it was never published besides their catalogues during 1982 to 1992. Several illustrations by Mark Kelly use Aura Script. Company web site (mainly ecological). Humane airport project. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Friso M. Roest
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Frisse Types
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Frits Jonker
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Dutch/French book seller with hundreds of old type books for sale. Their outlet is at 26, Rue des Béguines, 41100 Vendôme, France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fuck yeah kerning
| A web site that posts examples of poor kerning. Run by Kilian Valkhof, a Front-end developer&user experience designer from The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
funfontshop
| Anke van der Meer (Heerlen, The Netherlands, b. 1981), aka Ankepanke, is an illustrator and graphic designer. She sells her typefaces under the label funfntshop. In 2013, she created some free hand-drawn typefaces such as I Love Snailmail, Lieve Letters, and Stripe 3D. In 2015, many of her typefaces became commercial. The initial offering from 2015 includes Read A Book, Crystals (octagonal font), Measuring Tape, Merry Christmas, Building Blocks Font, Old Knitting Lady, Side View (3d typeface), Noodles, Wonderland, Bead Necklace, Snailmail Mag (fat finger font), Delightful, Seeing Double (bilined), Cherry Pie, Pretty Random I and II (ransom note fonts), Polkadots I and II, Morse Code, High Altitude, Fold It (origami), Cubes I and II, Crazy Cat Lady, Build It, Blocks, Skipping Ropes, Deco Borders, Drop Out Handmade, I Heart Snailmail, Sweet Letters, Skinny Chips, Picnic Handmade, Earn Your Stripes, Stripe 3D Handmade, Cut It Out, Teqniq, Tell Me About It, Sweet Pancakes, Strike A Pose, Papercut, Monkey Tails, Little Friends, Lets Go To Paris, Halfway, Full Of It, Daydreas, Creppy, Connect It, Basic Fun, Backstage. Dafont link. Creative Market link. Creative Market link for funfontshop. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Gabor Kerekes
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Graphic design student in Groningen, The Netherlands, who created the geometric prismatic typeface transition (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The deco typeface Twentyone (2020) was co-designed by Gajana Aslanjan, Gumilang Anggara Ruslan, Slava Antipov, and Fidan Aslanova. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Geen Bitter
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In 2013, they published Gewone letters Gerrit's early models. The blurb: A couple of years back, while cleaning the letterpress workshop at the KABK in The Hague, we had an amazing find. A package that hasn't been opened for some time. We opened it and found eighteen printing plates in mint condition. The printing plates, we soon found out, were made by Gerrit Noordzij and date back to the late 1960s. They contain a brief lesson about writing with the broad nib and, once familiar with this basis, writing and drawing some different techniques. Since it seemed the plates are never published before, we decided to do so and made a book containing prints from the plates. Next to the plates we asked former students if they still had old work and sketches with comments by Gerrit Noordzij. The result is a collection of sketches and material, together with five writings about the plates, Gerrit Noordzij and his contribution to the field of type and typography. The text has contributions by Albert-Jan Pool, Frank E. Blokland, Aad van Dommelen, Huug Schipper, and Petr van Blokland. It was published in 2013 by Uitgeverij De Buitenkant, Amsterdam. Thom's graduation typeface in 2017 at KABK was Rikhard. He wrote: A variable font project with letter shapes inspired by English letter forms from around the 1780s, mainly Richard Austin, hence the name. With a weight axis for hierarchy in texts and an optical size axis in order to make small and larger text sizes look good. This project is an exploration in variable fonts. The goal was to learn about it, build workflow solutions, and have fun. This project is meant for typography on the screen. Browsers can take advantage of variable fonts, optical size can be automated and with CSS and JavaScript all the styles of the variable font can be accessed. One font, many styles: the future. Their commercial typefaces:
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Dutch designer of the bold script brush typeface Origo (2014, Joebob Graphics) and the felt tip typeface Manus (2014, Joebob Graphics). In 2016, he published the handcrafted typeface Quintus at Joebob Graphics. In 2017, he designed the felt tip typeface Manus Smooth and the bush script Maneo. In 2020, he added the script typeface Epistula. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Geiger Artwork
| Shareware fonts by Jürgen Geiger in Sint Odilienberg, The Netherlands: GeigerBloc (2002), GeigerFree, GeigerInfo, GeigerSerif, the handwriting family GeigerScript, the script font family Script3 (2000), and the ZapfDingbats-like GeigerDingbats. See also here. See also here. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Greek-English type designer (b. 1980, London) who works in Amsterdam. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Amsterdam. She created Wire Type (2012, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Gé Hurkmans was a Dutch designer, 1911-1984. His ad for Unica Glaswerk (1936) has art deco lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gerard Salomons
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Gerard Unger lived in Chicago and Bussum, The Netherlands. Besides the awards mentioned in the list above, he received global prizes for his typography, such as the H.N. Werkman Prize (1984), the Maurits Enschedé-Prize (1991), the 2009 SOTA Typography Award and the TDC Medal (2017). Author of Terwijl Je Leest (Amsterdam, 1997) and Theory of Type Design (2018). Books about Gerard Unger include Gerard Unger Life in Letters (2021, by Christopher Burke, De Buitenkant). Interview by John L. Walters. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about type for dailies, and also on Neue Demos and Neue Praxis. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about letterforms in inscriptions from the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries. FontShop link. Klingspor link. | |
Gerard Voshaar
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Gerben Dollen
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Gerben Dollen
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Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of Space Lab (squarish face), Autobus Sign (dot matrix), and Simple Matters (blocky bullet hole face). In 2010, he did the blocky slabby Klonk and Klonk Narrow, Stop Police (dot matrix face). In 2011, he added the heavy slab serif typeface Industrial Raw. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Latvian designer, b. 1985, Riga. He graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2011 and set up his own graphic design studio in Amsterdam in 2014. Creator of the Western circus font How Are You. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The influence he had on Dutch type design is based on a theoretical system he called The stroke of the pen, and his position as the main teacher of type design in the country for three decades. Books on his system include The stroke of the pen: fundamental aspects of western writing (1982), and De Streek: Theorie van het schrift (1985) (translated by Peter Enneson in 2005 at Hyphen Press in London: The Stroke: Theory of Writing). His point in his oeuvre is that letterforms are rooted in handwriting. Other publications: Letterletter (Vancouver, Hartley&Marks Publishers, 2000), De Staart van de Kat (1988,GHM, Leersum), De Handen van de Zeven Zusters (with Willem Dijkhuis: Van Oorschot, Amsterdam, 2001), Das Kind und die Schrift (Typographische Gesellschaft, München, 1985). His typefaces:
In 2013, Geen Bitter (Thom Janssen, Jorn Henkes and Rogier van der Sluis) copublished Gewone letters Gerrit's early models at Uitgeverij De Buitenkant, Amsterdam. The text has contributions by Albert-Jan Pool, Frank E. Blokland, Aad van Dommelen, Huug Schipper, and Petr van Blokland. The blurb: A couple of years back, while cleaning the letterpress workshop at the KABK in The Hague, we had an amazing find. A package that hasn't been opened for some time. We opened it and found eighteen printing plates in mint condition. The printing plates, we soon found out, were made by Gerrit Noordzij and date back to the late 1960s. They contain a brief lesson about writing with the broad nib and, once familiar with this basis, writing and drawing some different techniques. Since it seemed the plates are never published before, we decided to do so and made a book containing prints from the plates. Next to the plates we asked former students if they still had old work and sketches with comments by Gerrit Noordzij. The result is a collection of sketches and material, together with five writings about the plates, Gerrit Noordzij and his contribution to the field of type and typography. Scan of a 1974 postage stamp by Noordzij. Klingspor link. Letterror link. Flickr group with Noordzij photographs. Interview by Robin Kinross, 2001. The Enschedé Font Foundry link. Video from 2014 by TYPO Berlin. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
The winners:
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Books published about the Gerrit Noordzij Prize:
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Famous Dutch architect and graphic and furniture designer (b. Utrecht, 1888, d. Utrecht, 1964). He was part of the De Stijl movement. Several typefaces were directly influenced by his style. These include:
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Dutch typographer and type teacher (b. Amsterdam, 1912, d. 1984), professor at Plantin Genootschap in Antwerp (1951-1956) and the University of Amsterdam (1956-1982), winner of the Gutenberg prize in 1983. From 1945 until 1977, he was aesthetic advisor at Lettergieterij Amsterdam (voorheen Tetterode). It is thanks to Ovink that the Tetterode Collection was accepted in the Bijzondere Collecties van de University of Amsterdam. He wrote an unbelievably detailed book in which he compares various typefaces in statistical tests to determine various aspects of legibility and impact: Legibility, Atmosphere-Value and Forms of Printing Types (A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgervsmij N.V., Leiden, 1938). The bibliography in this text is pretty complete up to 1938, and was his graduation thesis at the University of Utrecht. Also recommended is a 40-page short historical review of the modern printing type, which comes with a fresh look on things. Author of Honderd jaren lettergieterij in Amsterdam (1951), about Dutch type design and typography in the Netherlands in the 19th and 20th centuries. He also had a hand in the design of the "Dutch DIN", the traffic signage font NEN 3225, which is described in his book, NEN 3225: Dutch standard alphabets (1964). Quote by him: Bodoni would be an admirable letter for a death notice! Obituary, which reminds us of the serious conflicts between Ovink on one side and his Plantin colleagues Jan van Krimpen and Sem Hartz on the other side. Reference: The picture by Ovink below courtesy of Henk Gianotten. Magistraal (a free PDF from 2007 at the Plantin Genootschap based on a 1988 text by Albert J.M. Pelckmans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer (b. 1993) of the pixel typeface Brick Bold (2015, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gert-Jan de Kleer
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Dutch designer who created the hand-printed caps typeface Angela in 2012. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer (b. 1992) of the scratchy handwriting font Dubble (2009, Fontcapture). In 2012, she made So Thin (2012), A Vida Nova (2012, grunge), Nobody's Perfect (2012, brush face), and Garden (3d outline face). Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Gijs Sluijters and Joris Tol are Gijs & Joris, a creative team at DDB / Tribal DDB Amsterdam. They teamed up at the Willem de Kooning Arts Academy in Rotterdam while studying advertising. They designed the experimental typeface MTA (2012) that is made by cutting forms out of the MTA New York City's Transit map. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oosterhout, The Netherlands-based designer of the handcrafted Amsterdaime (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gijs's first typeface, as a student at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Maastricht, The Netherlands (class of 2014), was Alleycat (2013), a typeface influenced by and dedicated to bike messengers. Twisted and Strangled Type (2013) starts from Avenir and makes it into a twisted Escher-like typeface. | |
Dutch designer of the geometric display typeface Sharpe Edge (2008). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I hesitated for a long time with this link, but I will go out on a limb anyway. This is an obvious joke that originated from the Letterror people. It is about a non-existing tongue-in-cheek elitist Guild of Dutch typographers. I can't understand how come Microsoft, MyFonts, Fontzone and other type news services could have fallen in the trap. Maybe they should contact René Chalet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch art director in The Hague. Home page at Mister Three. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface Don't Believe The Type. (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch graphic designer in Den Haag. Behance link. She created the gridded texture typeface T2001 A Space Odyssey Font (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer in Groningen. He created the irregular caps font Ja (2008). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Glitch: freeware fonts
| New original minimalist fonts by Koen Hachmang from Udenhout, The Netherlands: Arcade-Classic, Autriche-ALT, Baubau, Bitstorm-SQUARE, Bitstorm, Copycat, Cyclops, Delinquent-Black, Delinquent-Caps-Skewd, Delinquent-Caps, Delinquent-Extract, Delinquent-Regular, Doppler-A, Phino-Tight, Phino-(Variation), Phino, Sendai-Smallprint, Shift, Sonic-Empire-Italic, Sonic-Empire, Sonic-Empire, Strike-Swiss, Token, Trebble, Zygoth, Base-4, Base-5, Base6, Big-Loada-Splatter, Big-Loada, Blutter-Slim, Blutter, Deko, Kinkimono, Morohashi, New-Detroit, SirQuitry. Very original presentation! Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Glyph Collector
| In 2015 former KABK-LetterStudio student Gabor Kerekes started programming a small tool named GlyphCollector. The tool is meant for collecting multiple representations of glyphs from a scanned page and for subsequently generating an average image. One has to select one glyph of each character that has to be converted, and to save the image to a folder. Next GlyphCollector gathers all characters for which it finds a reference and puts these per character in a folder. Subsequently for all selected characters an average glyph is calculated and converted to outline. GC distills the original spacing from the prints in question and converts the outlines directly to an OpenType font. It is Mac OS tool for creating a decent starting point for digital revivals but also for researching historic prints. Its initial prototype was made for the Renaissance module of Dr. Frank Blokland in the LetterStudio class at The Royal Academy of Art, Github link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
GraphicMix
| GraphicMix is the nice web presence of Marc Lubbers (b. 1968), the Dutch designer of the infinitesimally serifed typeface LuMarc LL (1994), and of Impacta LL (1994). Free fonts: Inter, Zxcvbn, Goofy, Concept, Construct, Graphix Mix Seven, Donald, Havendam. I have no idea how to download these, even though the page says "downloadable" (maybe it is a euphemism for "purchasable"). At MyFonts, one can buy LuMarc and Impacta. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphue (was: Krafted)
| Amsterdam-based Dutchman Paul Jansen runs both Krafted and Flat Icons. At Krafted, he published mainly script typefaces. In 2020: Dandelion Fall, Bankstory, Summer Rose, Lilium Star, Agnetta, Claston, Caride Script, Ratilla Script, Pathita Script, Casira Script, Burnt Rose Chalkboard, Butterscotch, Billy Holiday, Alabama Book, Topsy Turvy, Sun Kissed, Balloo, Strawberry Swirl, Cherry Pop, Hello Honey, Namaqua, Fenway (a baseball script). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Guido de Boer
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Designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to make the kitchen tile family Fraille, and the bold family Buttslamming, as well as the octagonal Joris is My Homeboy. Aka The Kiejoom. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Roermond, The Netherlands-based designer, b. 1982, of the scratchy typeface Guru (2008). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
GWER
| Amsterdam (and before that, Eindhoven), The Netherlands-based type and graphic designer who runs GWER. Creator of the gothic typeface AT Discipline (2008) and the native American totem pole look typeface Wakito (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Haagse Letters
| Software to play on-line with a parametrized type family. Developed by Joshua Koomen. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Amsterdam who created a the sans typeface Hana sans in 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch freelance graphic designer who works as font designer at Dalton Maag in London since 2012. Behance link. Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011. Her graduation typeface, Foxhill (2011), was designed for small sizes. It has Greek and Latin styles and has the angularity necessary for agate typefaces. Foxhill won Third Prize in the Greek text typeface category at Granshan 2011. She wrote a dissertation about Dutch typeface designer Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos. Dalton Maag, Tom Foley, Mary Faber, Stuart Brown and Hanna Donker won a Granshan 2014 award for Intel Clear Cyrillic. Dalton Maag's Hanna Donker and Spike Spondike won an award at Granshan 2016 for Intel Clear Thai. Typecache link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hanneke Classen
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Hannes Famira
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Hannes Famira
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Hanoded
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In 2011, he went partially commercial via MyFonts. His typefaces became more diversified and are quite stunning at times:
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Hans Bodlaender
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Hans De Bisschop
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Puzzles and geometrical constructions in metapost. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hans Hagen
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Graphic design graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands. With Karolina Lijklema, he runs the studio Lijklema Design in Warsaw, Poland. Author of Free Font Index (2008, The Pepin Press, Amsterdam). It contains comprehensive letterproofs of more than 500 fonts from 35 type foundries in 17 countries and interviews with 6 font designers. All fonts contained in the book are included on the accompanying CD and are licensed for personal and commercial use. The following have contributed fonts to this CD: Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute, Brain Eaters Font Co, Brode Vosloo, Bumbayo Font Fabrik, Dieter Steffmann, Fenotype, Flat-it type foundry, Fonthead Design Inc., GUST e-foundry, Grixel, Igino Marini, Janusz Marian Nowacki, La Tipomatika, Larabie Fonts, Manfred Klein Fonteria, MartinPlus, Misprinted Type, Nick's Fonts, Objets Dart, Reading Type, Rob Meek, SMeltery, Shamfonts, Sonntag Fonts, Typedifferent, Typodermic Fonts, VTKS DESIGN, Vic Fieger, WC Fonts, Yanone, boodas.de, defaulterror, eightface, exljbris, pizzadude.dk. As far as I can tell, all these fonts can be downloaded for free from the usual web archives. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hans van Leeuwen
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Hans van Maanen
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Designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, whose Pentakis font (2014) is based on a Pentakis dodecahedron solid. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch graphic designer, b. 1978. Graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, who started her own studio in Amsterdam in 2003. She creates alphabets, textures and patterns, both digitally and manually, that she applies to designs for posters, illustrations and public space art works such as gates and floors. In 2017, she developed an experimental typeface called Wind at Typotheque. Technically produced by Peter Bilak, there is variable font version by Thom Janssen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Han-Wen Nienhuys
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Amsterdam-based designer of the grungy Nike Freestyle (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Harold W. de Wijn
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and/or UK-based designer of the engineering font Voltonium (2018) and the elliptical typeface Neth Sans (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hein Boekhout
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Hein Mevissen (aka John Doe Amsterdam) is the Dutch creator of the hand-printed Hein Writing (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Amsterdam who drew a nicely lettered series of illustrations called Soup (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelance graphic designer at Shift8, based in Hulsberg, The Netherlands. In 2014, she created the typefaces HelgAbstract and Helga Round. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Helmut Salden
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The Salden fonts are our tribute to the man who was dubbed the face of the Dutch book, and whose work is considered essential in 20th century Dutch design history. Helmut Salden's exquisite book cover designs were the gold standard in the Netherlands for more than four decades. His influence over Dutch lettering artists and book designers ranges far and wide, and his work continues to be used commercially and exhibited to this very day. At the root of Salden's design work was a unique eye for counter space and incredible lettering skills that never failed to awe, regardless of category or genre. This made our attention to his lettering all the more focused within our appreciation to his overall aesthetic. Though Salden never designed alphabets to be turned into typefaces (he drew sets of letters which he sometimes recycled and modified to fit various projects), we thought there was enough there to deduce what a few different typefaces by Salden would have looked like. The man was prolific, so there were certainly enough forms to guide us, and enough variation in style to push our excitement even further. And so we contacted the right people, obtained access to the relevant material, and had a lot of fun from there. This set covers the gamut of Salden's lettering talents. Included are his famous caps, his untamed, chunky flare sans serif in two widths, his unique Roman letters and an italic companion and, most recognizable of all, his one-of-a-kind scripty upright italic lowercase shapes, which he used alongside Roman caps drawn specifically for that kind of combination titling. All the fonts in this set include Pan-European glyph sets. They are loaded with extras. Salden Roman (908 glyphs) and Salden Italic (976 glyphs) each come with built-in small caps (and caps-to-small-caps), quite a few ligatures, and two different sets of alternates. Salden Black and Salden Black Condensed (636 glyphs each) come with a set of alternates, and both lining and oldstyle figures. Salden Caps (597 glyphs) comes with a set of alternates, and Salden Titling (886 glyphs) comes with a quite a lot of swashed forms and alternates (including as many six variants for some forms), a few discretionary ligatures, and two sets of figures. There are also some form alternates for the Cyrillic and Greek sets included in all six fonts. These alphabets were enjoyably studied and meticulously developed over the past ten years or so. We consider ourselves very fortunate to be the ones bringing them to the world as our contribution to maintaining the legacy of a legendary talent and a great designer. The majority of the work was based on Salden's original drawings, access to which was graciously provided by Museum Meermanno in The Hague. The Salden fonts were done in agreement with Stichting 1940-1945, and their sale will in part benefit Museum Meermanno. In 2020, Mathieu Lommen and Karen Polder published Helmut Salden Uncovered at Bobby Books. The blurb: Helmut Salden Uncovered 1:1 is the ?rst international monograph on the lettering artist Helmut Salden (1910-1996), exploring his original sketches and working drawings. Salden had fled from Germany to the Netherlands from the Nazis, and the book covers the years 1939 through 1970. All drawings are reproduced at actual size and reveal in detail his pursuit of the ultimate form. The book was awarded Best Book Design in the Netherlands for 2020. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Hendrik Wijdeveld was a Dutch architect and art deco paper artist (1885-1987). He founded the trendsetting art deco magazine Wendingen in 1918 and remained its chief editor until 1931. Wijdeveld designed many letter types for special projects, such as book covers, buildings, and letterheads. Examples include a poster entitled Architectuur Tentoonstelling (1931), a poster entitled Internationaal Theater Tentoonstelling (1922), and an illustration for De Bijenkorf (1922). In 2003, Hans Oldewarris published Wijdeveld---Art Deco Design on Paper at 2010 Publishers. That book shows stencil-like art deco typefaces such as Wendingen and Amsterdam Deventer, both designed in the 1920s. Wijdeveld's lettering and alphabets inspired these digital typefaces:
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Dutch typefounder. Publisher of Verbeterde letterproef, waar in verscheide nieuwe schriften, als mede diversche bloemen en vignetten te vinden zyn, Die gegooten worden te Amsterdam, by Hendrik Bruyn en Comp., boekdrukkers en lettergieters, op het Rockin, by de Langenbrug, Volume 1 (1810). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wikipedia link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Regarding his death, I cite Wikipedia: In May 1940, soon after the German invasion of the Netherlands, Werkman, together with his friend August Henkels and others, began publishing a series of Hassidic stories from the legend of the Baal Shem Tov through their clandestine publishing house De Blauwe Schuit ("The Blue Barge"). Running to forty publications, all designed and illustrated by Werkman, the series was a subtly rebellious commentary on the Nazi occupation and a call for spiritual resistance. On 13 March 1945, the Gestapo arrested Werkman, executing him by firing squad along with nine other prisoners near the village of Bakkeveen on 10 April, three days before Groningen was liberated. Many of his paintings and prints, which the Gestapo had confiscated, were lost in the fire that broke out during the battle between German and Canadian forces over the city. Several typefaces were made that were inspired by Werkman. There are also entire web site and exhibitions dedicated to Werkman---see, e.g., the site of Bunker Type (Jesus Morentin) in Barcelona. A partial list of revival typefaces:
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His lettering was revived in 1994 by the Dutch Type Library as DTL VandenKeere. Myfonts.com writes that Van den Keere's 2-line Double Pica Roman (Gros Canon), cut around 1570 and shown in Plantin's c.1585 folio specimen, is the basis for Fred Smeijers' recent face, Renard. In Sixteenth-century Printing Types of the Low Countries (H.D.L. Vervliet, Amsterdam, 1968), van den Keere is called the best punchcutter of the Low Countries in the sixteenth century, being the link between the French, who dominated the 16th century, and the Dutch who led in the 17th century. In 1575, he made a Civilité, the "Van den Keere Civilité" (see here for more on that story). Matthew Carter's DTL Flamande (2004, Dutch Type Library) is based on a Textura by Hendrik van den Keere. DTL Flamande is available from URW++ since 2018. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch poster artist, whose lettering on this maritime timetable entitled Sailings and Fares (1937) inspired Nick Curtis to make Metropolis NF. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutchman Henk de Jong lists some free font sites. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The last punchcutter who worked for Enschedé. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch artist, designer and photographer (b. Rotterdam, 1947). One of the founders of the studio Hard Werken. He designed the typeface Crank8 Plus/Minus. This typeface family was extended with the help of Greg Lindy (Lux Typo) in 2005, and appeared in Esquire Magazine. It can be bought from Thirstype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch type connoisseur after whom Antonio Pace's Linotype Gianotten (1990) is named. Born in 1940, he worked for 40 years in the production and distribution of graphic arts equipment and fonts, at companies such as Tetterode, BT and Buhrmann. As a student of Willem Ovink, he got very interested in legibility of typefaces. On his own contributions to typography, he writes: Since 1964 I was involved on the production of our typefaces for Morisawa. Later on we produced typefaces for photocomposition for Bobst (Autologic), Berthold, Compugraphic, A.M., Harris Composition, Itek, Scangraphic and others. Tetterode owned the rights for typefaces like Nobel, Lasso, Polka, Orator, Promotor, Lectura and Hollandsche Mediaeval. LinotypeLibrary owns the licenses for these fonts since October 1 2000. Gianotten left Tetterode in 2000. News about LinotypeGianotten. Linotype's press release. PDF samples of LinotypeGianotten. Article on Gianotten by Wim Westerveld in 2006. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Rotterdam, who created the highly original white-on-black poster font Sketchy Font (2013), the watercolor alphabet CryFall (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch illustrator, b. 1914, Sumba, Indonesia, d. 1979. Designer at Lettergieterij Amsterdam of the slightly scribbly pen-drawn Raffia Initialen (1952). At ATypI 2003 in Vancouver, Peter Enneson highlighted Krijger and his Raffia Initials. Digital revivals:
Klingspor link. Peter Enneson's biography of Henk Krijer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of RAT (1984), a typeface that was used for a few years in Rotterdam's subway. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the KABK in Den Haag. In 1996, he designed Alchimia and related astrology symbols at that school. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian typefounder (b. Brussels, 1812, d. some time after 1861). He lived in Breda in 1840, worked for some time for Tetterode in Rotterdam, and set up his own foundry in Rotterdam in de Groote Kipstraat in 1857. It lasted about ten months--at the end of 1857, he returned to Brussels to work at the Brussels type foundry Crabbe&Borremans, 1859-1861. Some specimen at the Amsterdam University Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Henric Pieterszoon. Dutch letter cutter ("lettersnijder"), d. ca. 1511. He made a textura some time before 1492 Sixteenth Century Printing Types of the Low Countries (H.D.L. Vervliet, 1968) mentions that he was from Rotterdam, and cut letters. Occasionally, he printed as well, in Antwerp from 1496-ca. 1500, in Rotterdam from 1504 until 1509, and in Delft from 1508 until some time after 1511. It is estimated that he cut a third to half of all the type used in the Low Countries at that time. These typefaces, including the Textura, remained popular there from 1492 until about 1550-1560, when they were superseded by the blackletter type of Ameet Tavernier and Hendrik van den Keere. His son was Cornelis Henricszoon Lettersnijder, who also cut type, starting out in Delft. Digitizations: Oude Hollandse (2012, Alter Littera; after Henric Pieterszoon "Lettersnijder"'s 1492 typeface), Initials Gothic C (2012, Alter Littera, based on a 1508 type by Pieterszoon), English textura. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer in Opende / Groningen of the modular (constructivist) titling typefaces Red Storm (2014) and Red Storm Rusty (2015). Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hermen Grasman
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Herzberg Design
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Hill Valley
| Dionne Fox, who runs Hill Valley, is based in The Netherlands. In 2017, she designed the cursive typeface family Spring Time. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jigal van Hemert's hinting tutorial (PDF), posted on his behalf. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hobo Art
| Screenwriting and script company in Enschede, The Netherlands, run by Emile Michel Hobo (b. Den Haag, 1980). Via MyFonts, one can purchase his fonts: Lectori Salutem (+Sans, 2009). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Dutch typographer and designer who made the racy typographic poster Nikita (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch company in charge of the production of street signs. For some of their productions, they use Ovink Ee (1999). The Ovink Ee types are used in certain Dutch towns and villages on the street name signs and on small number plates signs along the railways to identify the switches and the signals. They are also used by Rijkswaterstaat (the authority regarding the highways, rivers and canals) in The Netherlands. Ovink Ee is a wider version of Visualogic's Ovink D VL (1995), which is used on Amsterdam's street signs. In addition, Ovink Ee includes a lower case, which Ovink D VL was lacking. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch type designer. His HTMCijfersenBusletter (2003, free at OFL) is based on the HTM (Haagse Tramweg Maatschappij) street cars en buses from 1905 until 1967. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
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Cargo collective link. Link at Underware. Alternate URL: This is playtime. His typefaces:
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Berkenwoude, The Netherlands-based designer of a curly slimy typeface in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hungarumlaut (was: Cila Design)
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Behance link for Cila Design. Cila Design. Behance link for Hungarumlaut. Type Today link. Yet another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
An essay about teaching typographic literacy by Huub Koch. It also has a list of type links. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hybrid Space
| Kees Gajentaan designed the freeware fonts Kiloton, ill oMen, Xenotron, Xenotron Broadstroke (trekky font), Xenotron RadioEdit, EctoBlaster, iLL oCtoBer (+ill October 98, dingbats for Halloween), the handwritten Coldbringer, Megalomaniax KG, Moonpebble KG, Y2k Subterran Express KG, AntiMatter KG (1999) and Bored Robots. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Groningen, The Netherlands-based graphic designer who created the display typeface Newone in 2017 for a project at the Aluo Arts Academy Ljubljana. She also designed an Arabic simulation typeface in 2017 that was inspired by Syrian refugees. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of the techno typeface Conradi Square (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ilja Pfeijffer
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Amsterdam-based designer of the blocky 3d typeface The Female Sex Alphabet (2019), which has nothing to do with females or sex. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2016, Inga van Haren (Wijchen, The Netherlands) created the steampunk typeface Walle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch creator (b. 1971) of Inkies 2 (2012, hand-drawn). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From her page: Inka Strotmann (née Inka Menne, 1972) grew up in East Frisia and was trained as typesetter after secondary school. When she studied communication designin Potsdam she specialized in type design and typography. Inka worked for Luc(as) de Groot at his FontFabrik before she came to FSI FontShopInternational where she is Chief Font Technician. Inka was a member of the Forum Typografie Potsdam. Her Font Linotype Grassy is a winner font of Linotype's 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest. She also designed the typeface ForumTypen and as a freelancer she offeres type services under the label Fontameise, doing for example CE, Turkish and Baltic versions of FF Scala, FF Seria, FF Nexus and FF Dax. Designer of the CE versions of FF Dax Compact Offc Pro, FF Dax Offc Pro, FF Dax Web Pro, FF Dax Web Pro Condensed, and FF Dax Web Pro Wide. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Innit Design (Amsterdam) created the typefaces BMBKLT05 (2012, influenced by brutalist architecture) and MSSV11 (2012, a dripping paint graffiti font). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Interant Media is a small design and development company in Holland. Creators of the hand-printed pay font Pencil (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at ArtEZ school in Arnhem, Netherlands, who is originally from Moscow. She created the italic typeface Arnhemse jochies (2010) and the experimental typeface Breadclip (2012). In 2014, we find her in Brussels, Belgium, where she created a gridded octagonal typeface. Behance link. Old Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Irma Boom is a Dutch graphic designer who specializes in book making. Boom worked at the Dutch Government Publishing and Printing Office in Den Haag for five years before she founded her Amsterdam studio in 1991, Irma Boom Office. Boom works in the cultural and commercial sectors. Her clients include the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Inside Outside, Museum Boijmans, Zumtobel, Ferrari, Vitra International, NAi Publishers, and Camper. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam [abstract verbatim from the ATypI site]: The new Rijksmuseum identity and typeface family. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is the national museum for Dutch art and history, and is home to many masterpieces including works by Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, and Frans Hals. Earlier this year [2013], after a lengthy and spectacular renovation, the museum re-opened to critical acclaim. Along with the renovation the Rijksmuseum got a new identity as well, designed by Irma Boom Office. Deciding for a predominantly typographical solution, Irma Boom invited Bold Monday [Paul van der Laan] to design a series of typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of the bilined display typeface Pointy (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch poster artist with a timeless name, 1890-1985. Posters with art deco lettering by him include Jaarbeurs Utrecht (1937). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dutch architect in Amsterdam who edited the lettering model book Alphabet: letters van allerlei vorm (1895-1898), which, according to Mathieu Lommen, is the prettiest and most ambitious model book ever published in The Netherlands. The text has lettering examples from many contributors, such as Jan Boerma, C.L. Stal, and J.B. Heukelom (1875-1965). Heukelom's contributions include Sierletters (Dutch art nouveau style) and Perspectiefletters. Reference: Nederlandse belettering negentiende-eeuwse modelboeken (2015, Mathieu Lommen, de Buitenkant, Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor who made the De Stijl-like pixel typeface JFont (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jaap Nauta (Bureau Nauta) is a Dutch designer, b. 1967. He created the hand-printed typeface Jaap (2012), and the stitching typeface Embroid (2012). In 2014, he designed the counterless typeface Kroeskop, which is attributed to Yvonne Kroese. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Jack Junior. During his studies at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, Jack Devreugd (Katwijk, The Netherlands) designed the squarish typeface Typografia (2012, constructivist). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jacob Jan Wise
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Bookseller in Amsterdam at the time of his marriage in 1682 and of his death in 1709. An undated type specimen bearing his name in the Enschedé collection is thought to have been produced around 1699 [according to Harry Carter]. In Typefoundries in the Netherlands, we find this image (of No. 28 type), and this text about it: The matrices owned by Alberts&Uytwerf also passed eventually to the Brothers Ploos van Amstel. Among the types we acquired from them we still have one of the types offered for sale by Van de Velde. It is our English-bodied Roman No.28. In our collection there is also one of the types shown in the earliest specimen of Alberts&Uytwerf, the [Large] Two-line Small Pica Roman No.29... Typophile discussion. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jaap Gidding was a Dutch designer, 1887-1955. He created some art deco posters such as Tentoonstelling van Binnenhuiskunst (1919) and Nenijto (1928). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jacques Borel
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Dutch designer who used iFontmaker in 2011 to create Jac's Font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jacques Le Bailly
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Graphic designer in Waalwijk, The Netherlands, who created the display typeface Profundum (2013). Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vinkel, The Netherlands-based designer of the bilined squarish typeface Mondrien (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jake Keijzers
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Den Haag-based creator of the Milks display family (2012), of Miks (2013, a mixture of Rockwell and VAG Round), and of the subway-inspired Metron (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
James Goggin
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Jamie de Rooij (Zaandam, The Netherlands) created the wavy typeface Kramp (2012) and the display typeface Schok (2013). Behance link. She studies graphic design in Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hilversum, The Netherlands-based designer of the grid-based typeface family Formgiving (2017) and the textured typeface Rotten (2017). Typefaces from 2018: Morbid Icons, Fluid, Point, Dweeb (a neon typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jan Bunk
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Den Haag-based designer of the very experimental geometric typeface Tangram (2011), The Monks Are Allright (2012), and Scripto (2011). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer, 1890-1935. He created some art deco posters such as Zonnestraaldag (1926). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch author, b. 1874, who edited Die Hochdeutschen Schriften aus dem 15ten bis zum 19ten Jahrhundert der Schriftgiesserei und Druckerei (1919, Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem), a publication which has four articles:
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Jan Middendorp, born in the Den Haag, Netherlands, lived in Leiden, Amsterdam and Gent (Belgium) before moving to Berlin in 2005. He died in December 2023. An independent writer, translator and consultant, he taught (taught) at Weissensee Art College in Berlin and the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp. During the past twenty years Jan has edited, written and co-written a number of well-known books on graphic design and typography, including Hey, there goes one of mine! (2002), Dutch Type (2004), Shaping Text (2012), Hand to Type (2012), Type Navigator (2011, with TwoPoints. Net), Creative Characters (2010) and Made with FontFont (2006, with Erik Spiekermann). He had an ongoing collaboration with the Bibliothèque typographique of Ypsilon Editeur in Paris and with MyFonts, where he edited the popular interview newsletter Creative Characters. In 2017, he founded Fust & Friends. In 2023, received the TDC Medal. | |
Dutch foundry based in Groningen in the early 19th century. Specimen in "Proef van letteren, bloemen, enz. der boekdrukkery van J. Oomkens J. zoon" (Groningen, 1807). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jan Pieter Kunst
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Typefounder active in the Netherlands around 1570. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jan Sonntag
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Dutchman born in 1928 who possesses one of the world's most impressive specimen collections. He founded the Grote Letter Bibliotheek (publishing house) for partially blind people in 1969. For this, he specially created a sans face, GLB-16 (designed for 16 point), with large x-height and wide character spacings. A sample of GLB is in Jan Middendorp's "Dutch Type", page 303. Grote Letter Bibliotheek is now run by his son. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jan Toorop was a Dutch-Indonesian painter and illustrator, b. Purworejo, Java, Dutch East Indies, 1858, the son of a Dutch-Indonesian father and a British mother. In 1869, he left Indonesia for the Netherlands, where he studied in Delft and Amsterdam and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. From 1882 until 1886 he lived in Brusselss, where he joined Les XX (Les Vingts), a group of artists grouped around James Ensor. He developed his own unique Symbolist style, with dynamic, unpredictable lines based on Javanese motifs, highly stylized willowy figures, and curvilinear designs, and is considered as one of artists that represent the art nouveau and Viennese Secession movements. In 1905 he converted to Catholicism and began producing religious works. He also created book illustrations, posters, and stained glass designs. Toorop died in 1928 in Den Haag, The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Or Jan van de Velde the Elder. Famous Dutch (Belgian?) calligrapher and penman (b. 1568, Antwerp, d. 1623, Haarlem) who worked first in Rotterdam (1592-1620) and then in Haarlem (1620-1623). Author of the writing manual Spieghel der Schriftkonste in den welcken ghesien worden veelderhande Gheschriften met hare Fondementen ende onderrichtinghe. Ut ghegeven door Jan van den Velde Fransoysch-School M. binnen Rotterdam (1605, Haarlem). He wrote a second penmanship book, Exemplaer-Boec Inhoudende alderhande Geschriften zeer bequaem ende dienstelijck voor de Joncheydt onde' alien Liefhebbers der Pennen (1607, Haarlem). Samples of his engravings: Duytsche Exemplaren (1622). Sample of his calligraphy on paper, done in Antwerpen in 1622. [Large image at the University of Amsterdam Special Collections]. His work is extended---modernized---in the extensive ligature-laden Jan van den Velde Script type family by Intellecta Design (2011) and in DTL VandenVelde (2015, Jeroen Koning). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of Demian (1984 at ITC, like Tekton) and Van Dijk (1982, hand-printed). Full list of his typefaces:
Jan van Dijk's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Van Krimpen had a difficult character. Lines&Splines wrote this: Alastair Johnston, from an issue of Ampersand, once posed the question, "Do you have to be an asshole to be a good type designer?" Gerard Unger replied to the effect that even to this day, people will look over their shoulders before discussing Van Krimpen. One can almost imagine Van Krimpen waving one of his sharp serifs over his head like a stick, flailing against the difficulties of his everyday relations, his nostrils flared as they were in every portrait taken of him. MyFonts page. CV at Linotype. FontShop link. Some of his work and correspondence can be found at the University of Amsterdam. A list of typefaces based on Jan Van Krimpen's work:
Author of On Designing and Devising Type (1957, New York: the Typophiles, & Heemstede). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Lithographer in Groningen, The Netherlands, who studied at Academie Minerva in Amsterdam. Born in 1856, he taught at two schools, the Quellinusschool and the Teekenschool, and died in 1938. He published the lettering model book Lettervormen voor school en werkplaats, ca. 1885, published the lettering model book Lettervormen voor school en werkplaats, ca. 1885. Reference: Nederlandse belettering negentiende-eeuwse modelboeken (2015, Mathieu Lommen, de Buitenkant, Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch creator of Paasse Handwriting (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jan Willem Wennekes
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As a student at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam, Janine Otte designed an alchemic typeface (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies, Janne van Hooff (Den Haag, The Netherlands) created Tape Font (2013, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer and type designer (b. 1980, Enkhuizen) who studied at Graphic Lyceum in Amsterdam, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp. Since 2006 he operates under his own name, working in the field of printed and spatial type design, typography and graphic design. He specializes in (often Dutch deco) type found on the bridges and buildings of Amsterdam. He created the custom uncial typeface Bonifatius in 2007 for the municipality of Dokkum, The Netherlands. Other typefaces by Hahn include the squarish monoline sans Riso (2019), the experimental 3d typeface Typomorphosis (2019), and Bike Lane Stencil (2013, for use on Amsterdam bike lanes). He also made 25 other fonts with another Dutch designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jarr Geerligs (Planet Jarr, Amsterdam) created a DNA inspired font and backgrounds for the Vogue Japan April issue of 2015. His experimental lettering work is exceptionally striking. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jarrik Muller
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In 2014, he set up Citype. At Citype, he published the free pixelish typeface Amsterdam. Old URL. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jasper Michael De Waard
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Jasper Nijssen
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Dutch graphic designer who studied at the Royal Academy of Art (2010-2014) and in the TypeMedia program of the KABK in Den Haag from 2014 until 2015. Codesigner, with André Toet and Jasper Nijssen, of AT Move MMM (2013, SO Design), a rounded organic sans typeface. They write: The design is based on a old Soap-Powder advertisement. MMM is very useful for headings and/or logotypes. In the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag, he designed the 32-style text and display typeface family Pint for his graduation in 2015. Pint is a serif typeface family that is influenced by humanist broad-nib calligraphy. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Javenese typefaces: history
| Jo de Baerdemaker's talk at ATypI 2010 in Dublin had this summary: Jo De Baerdemaeker discusses how the Javanese writing system, the indigenous script of pre-colonial Indonesia, was adapted to print. He focuses on the Javanese typefaces that were manufactured in The Netherlands in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The cutting of the first Javanese fount, which was undertaken at Joh. Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem, coincided with the founding of the first printing house in Jakarta (then known as Batavia, capital of Dutch India). Less than a century later, Lettergieterij Amsterdam developed a new, simplified, Javanese fount, amongst other styles and weights. The Javanese founts of both the Dutch typefoundries were internationally well received and were distributed to polyglot printing houses throughout Europe. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch penman and teacher in Den Haag, d. 1848. According to Mathieu Lommen, he was probably the first one to publish a lettering model book in The Netherlands, Alphabet-album: collection de différentes feuilles d'alphabets historiés et fleuronnés (ca. 1846). Reference: Nederlandse belettering negentiende-eeuwse modelboeken (2015, Mathieu Lommen, de Buitenkant, Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean Baptist De Panne
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Jean Paul Beumer
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Charcoal Jeanine (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch film producer based in Maastricht, The Netherlands. In 1992, his handwriting was made into a font. Much later, René Verkaart refined it and published it in his foundry, Characters, as Maestricht. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2013, he published Lucien) (a headline sans), Muchacho (a free Western font), and Gringo (a spurred Western typeface). In 2014, Jeff created the geometric sans typeface family Rucksack (which has two tweetware weights). With the help of Oliver Dead, he designed the animated typeface Fat Frank (2014, Animography). Jeroen Krielaars and Jeffrey Schreiber co-designed the eighties-style animated typeface Razor in 2014 over at Animography. Typefaces from 2016: Blackrock (a free chunky blackletter-inspired font). With Timo Kuilder, he founded Regular Bold Italic. | |
Boxtel, The Netherlands-based designer of the hexagonal grid typeface Honeybee (2014, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jeffrey Visser
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Jelle Bosma (b. Rijswijk, The Netherlands, 1959) studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and. like many of his contemporaries, was influenced by Gerrit Noordzij. He works from a studio near The Hadue, and designs type, programs font tools, hints, and produces type. His typefaces:
Klingspor link. Monotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Eindhoven, The Nethrlands-based creator of the experimental typeface Synthetic Sequence (2014), his graduation project for at Academy of Fine Arts and Design AKV St.Joost in Breda, The Netherlands. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jelloween Font Foundry
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Dafont link. Another page. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer from Groningen, The Netherlands. He is planning digitizations of various wood types he owns. The first one is Origo Narrow (2007), a wood type sans. He also made Sixtypound (2007, an interesting rounded fatface), Rough-Cut Sans (2007) and Jelmar Sans. No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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She used Fontifier to design the handwriting typeface Mijn-handschrift (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator in Breda, The Netherlands. Creator of Untitled (2011, hand-printed) and The Big Fat Font (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at the The Hague-based foundry LUST of LUSTPure, LUSTGrotesk, LUSTBlowout, LUStTGothic (1994). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jeroen de Jonge (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) created the alchemic typeface Support in 2013 during his studies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch creator of an Oriya metafont (1996-1998). From the same source, Malayalam PostScript and TrueType fonts, and Tamazight (Berber) PostScript and TrueType fonts. He also created Malayalam metafonts in 1994 (and subsequently Malayalam PostScript and TrueType fonts), a Unicode Shapes font (TeX, PostScript, TrueType), and Tamazight (Berber) PostScript and TrueType fonts. Home page. Metafonts can be found here and here. His Malayalam fonts were created as uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and modulated stroke. Jeroen says: It is my intention to release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this notice on them. The GNU Freefont project included his fonts for the ranges of Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) and Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F). Subsequently, the GNU Freefont project dropped all contributions and support for Oriya. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jeroen Kant (b. 1996) is from Herten, The Netherlands. As a FontStructor called ITellYa, he made the pixel typeface Yourself Regular (2010), the chalk simulation typeface Angry Chalk (2011), the avant garde typeface Epic Fusion (2011), and the experimental family Problems (2010). Aka Jeronimo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jeroen Klaver
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Jeroen Koning
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Jeroen Krielaars
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Jeroen Leupen
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Dutch creator of the free squarish typeface Night Bits (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jeroen Visser
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During her studies, Tilburg, The Netherlands-based Jeske Kolen designed a pixelish typeface (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer (b. 1995) of Scribble Scrabble (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amsterdam-based creator of Amsterdam Graffiti (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At Grafisch Lyceum in Rotterdam, Delft, Netherlands-based Jesse Paauwe designed Fingerprint Font (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of the handcrafted typeface Stitches (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amsterdam-based designer of the display typeface Typieks (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Comparison of truetype and type 1 by Jigal van Hemert. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Jim Jansen designed the lachrymal display typeface Crescendo (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannes Ludovicus Mathieu Lauweriks was a Dutch architect and designer, b. Roermond, 1864, d. Amsterdam, 1932. As a theorist and an artist, Lauweriks had great influence on early 20th-century movements such as the Amsterdam School, De Stijl and the Bauhaus. He was also a key propagator of proportion theory and system thinking. He taught at the School voor Kunst en Kunstnijverheid in Haarlem (1900-1904), the Kunstgewerbeschule in Düsseldorf (1904-1909) and the Staatliche Handfertigkeitskurs in hagen (1909-1916), where he was director. After returning to the Netherlands in 1916, he taught art and architecture at Voortgezet en Hooger Bouwkunst Onderricht in Amsterdam, from 1916 onwards. From 1918 until 1931, he was editor in chief of the art magazine Wendingen. He created Quadratuuralfabet in 1900. That typeface was digitally revived and extended by Nick Sherman ca. 2019 as Lauweriks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jo de Baerdemaeker
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Dutch penman and lettering artist (1797-1879), who published the lettering model book Alphabeth in onderscheiden soorten van oude, nieuwe en ornament letteren, ca. 1843. Some of his work is close to earlier model book work of Jean Midolle in Switzerland. Reference: Nederlandse belettering negentiende-eeuwse modelboeken (2015, Mathieu Lommen, de Buitenkant, Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Job Wouters
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Graphic designer in Amsterdam who created Untitled (2012) and Random (2012), experimental typefaces. Her second font is called Font Twee (2012). She also created a Victorian typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joe vanderHam
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Joebob Graphics
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Fonts added in 2007: Curly Joe, Sinister Sam (calligraphic), VincHand (handwriting of Vincent Haenen), DearJoe5, Moan Hand, FancyPens (a calligraphic pen). Fonts added in 2006: FlutSaus (hand-printed; done with Hilde Rikken), Amorrisline, Hilde Caps (based on the handwriting of 9-year old Hilde Rikken), C rial, Hildinia Donut, BrunoBook, BuffaloStance, Stam Pete (grunge), CrosswordBill, DearJoe 1, JoeHand 2, Kali Graff, Bearer Fond. His oldest fonts: BillieBarred (multiple-lined handwriting), BillieBob (a great poster typeface), BillieBoldHand, BillieKid (nice stencil font), BobTag, CalamityJoe, CrappyJoe, DearJoeItalic, DearJoe II, DearJoe IV (antique handwriting, 2005), DoctorBob, FruscianteHand, FuturexBob, JoeBobstraight, JoeHand, MarkerMoeII, MoanLisa (2001, linocut style), Onepunch Jim Outline, Detour Dork (2002). His fonts are available from MyFonts. Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Typoasis link. Abstract Fonts link. Klingspor link. Another Fontspace link. View Joe Vander Ham's typefaces. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Freelance designer in Zierikzee, The Netherlands, in the heart of the mussels region. Creator of the bilined caps typeface Body Movin (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joep Pohlen
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Lithographer and calligrapher in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1859-1937. He published an untitled lettering model book in 1877. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One of the family members, A.J. Enschedé, sketched the foundry's timeline in 1867:
Publications include:
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Curator of the Museum Enschedé who lived (lives?) in Haarlem. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johan Manschot
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Fleischmann created blackletter typefaces such as Holländische Gotisch (1739-1760, digitally revived by Gerhard Helzel; Manfred Klein and Petra Heidorn made the free revival also called Holland-Gotisch, in 2005 and mention that their source was "Nederduits"; see the Fleischmann Flamande), Mediaan Duyts (1744) and Fleischmann Gotisch (ca. 1750, digitally revived by Ingo Preuss in 2004 as Fleischmann Gotisch PT, by SoftMaker in 2016 as Fleischmann Gotisch Pro, and by Alter Littera in 2012 as Nederduits). Fleischmann was also renowned for his work on music typography. He worked for the publisher Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, who was interested in improving the typography of musical notation. Fleischmann created a complex music notation font that proved unsuccessful in the marketplace, but was subsequently used to create many designs including the decorative edging on the first Dutch banknote called the roodborstje (robin). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
The biography of Johann Michael Fleischmann (1707-1768) as told by Ingo Preuss:
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Johanna Balusikova (b. 1974, Slovakia), now Johanna Bilak, studied typography at Atelier National de Création Typographique in Paris and at the Bratislava Art Academy in her native Slovakia, as well as at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in the Netherlands. She now works as a freelance graphic designer in The Hague, where she has lived since 1999. She designed Jigsaw (1999-2000) at Typotheque: this was originally intended as a Multiple Master font that varies from roman to stencil. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, she spoke about "Experiment and typography". Co-editor with Alan Zaruba of We Want You To Love Type (2004, e-a-t). Since 2003 she is a partner in Peter Bilak's Typotheque. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannes de Groot
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Dutch self-taught railroad employee, painter and calligrapher (1909-1988) from Utrecht (Schalkwijk, to be more precise) who designed the calligraphic text typeface Petronius (1961-1975), which can only be found nowadays in the specimen booklet "Op Engelvoeten" (1975), available in the University of Amsterdam Library. An incomplete specimen is on page 301 of Jan Middendorp's "Dutch Type". The Amsterdam-based company Typo Delvos used it for typesetting some texts. (Delvos no longer exists.) Moesman also designed a simplified Arabic typeface (he liked Arabic for its calligraphic origins). He was an artist at hart, who produced various surrealistic and/or erotic paintings. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Painter in Sluis, The Netherlands (1830-1857) [at least, this is the educated guess of type historian Mathieu Lommen], who published the lettering model book Verzameling van letteren ten gebruike voor schilders en teekenaars (ca. 1855). Reference: Nederlandse belettering negentiende-eeuwse modelboeken (2015, Mathieu Lommen, de Buitenkant, Amsterdam). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joan Collette for short, b. Delft, 1889, d. Nijmegen, 1958. Dutch illustrator, graphic designer and painter. With Flemish designer Jos Dufour, he created the beautiful ultra-fat art deco display typeface L'Indépendant (ca. 1930). It was done at Etablissements Plantijn, a foundry in Brussels affiliated at the time with Lettergieterij Amsterdam. Specimen at the University of Amsterdam library. The name and the year of release were chosen to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the independence of Belgium (from the Netherlands). It was made into a font by Monotype in 1999. Implementations of Independant include Independant (free; by Phynette and Apostrophe), Dujour (by Steve Matteson), Sid The Kid NF (free; by Nick Curtis), Collette (2007, by Anton Scholtz), Dufour (2011, Anton Scholtz), and Jumbo Mumbo NF (2006, Nick Curtis). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefounder active in the Netherlands around 1570. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
John A. Lane (b. 1955) is a type and printing historian. He was born and raised in the United States and has lived in Leiden (Holland) since 1990. He who often writes on typography:
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John Hudson
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Graphic Design student at the Royal Art Academy in The Hague in 2013. Creator of Dratlar (2013, Fontstruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
John Wollring
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During his studies in Maastricht, The Netherlands, Jonas Vacek designed the avanat garde sans typeface Saqare (2017) and a straight-edged experimental typeface (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Amsterdam-based designer. His first font is the experimental fingernail-shaped Malenky Bit (2003). He also made Moloko (2003), FontfjeCaps (2004) and Ready Made (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch graphic designer (b. 1992) who lives in Almelo. He made the filled in ultra-fat octagonal typefaces Lumio (2008) and Fresh Bold (2008). Dafont link. Alternate link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dutch designer, 1897-1985. Work with art deco lettering by him includes the poster Hollandsch Post van Gelder Batavo (1930s). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joost Grootens
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Dutch poster and comic book lettering artist, b. 1947, Heemstede, The Netherlands. Comic series and characters by Swarte include Katoen en Pinbal, Jopo de Pojo, Anton Makassar, Dr Ben Cine and Niet Zo, Maar Zo- Passi, Messa. Wikipedia link. Typefaces inspired by his lettering:
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Utrecht, The Netherlands-based creator of Cirque de les folies (sic) (2011, an ornamental caps face), Men Archetype (2016: icons), and Refinery (2012). Typefaces from 2017: Infrastructure (multiline typeface), Music in Mono is Dead, Cartoonesque. Behance link. Cargo Collective link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amstelveen, Netherlands-based type designer who made an experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch student at KABK, Den Haag, who is working on a tiny pixel font, Daffodil (2006) and of the experimental typeface Quikzilver (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amersfoort, The Netherlands-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Sea Style (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joris Budel
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Designer of the free font Graffiti (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Amsterdam who created the bribeware [i.e., downloadable in return for a Facebook like] display typefaces Flank and Knarrstaver in 2014. In 2019, he published the rounded monoline sans typeface Reneship Sans and the display typefaces The Bewlay and Lenijo Brush. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Utrecht. In 2010, he created the kitchen tile typeface Geo. In 2011, he designed the illustrative caps typeface Illustrato. In 2012, Jorrit designed Blocko. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jos Buivenga
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Dutch designer of the handwriting fonts Josschrift and JosschriftSerif (2005-2009), Dolly Dots (2009, dot matrix face), and the Western all caps billboard font Simson (2009). He also made Scratch Bold (2009) and Brands Kidnapped (2009, ransom note font). He based his font Margaretha (2016) on the handwriting of Margaretha Turnor (1680). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jos Kunst
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Jos Schoot Uiterkamp (Nijverdal, The Netherlands) created the free oriental simulation typeface Samoerai in 2013. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam in The Netherlands, José Pablo Rivera Mar created the sans typeface Ict (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rotterdam-based British designer Joseph Parsons, of Joseph Parsons Design, created a beautiful art deco caps alphabet in 2013. He also designed the stylish art deco poster entitled Portfolio (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joshua Koomen
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JTHZ.com software productions
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Dutch designer of the grunge typeface Postnuclear (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eindhoven, Netherlands-based type and motion graphics designer who made the geometric outline typeface Griglia (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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During her studies, Sneek, The Netherlands-based Julia Visser designed an arched typeface (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2018, she published the Peignotian fashion branding typeface Trigère. Since 2014, Julie is asociated with Novo Typo in Amsterdam as a type designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Boekel, The Netherlands-based designer of the experimental typeface Drimatic Nova (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Julius B. Thyssen
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Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Jung-Lee Type Foundry
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Lee and Martens co-designed Jungka (2013-2016), a sans typeface motivated as follows: We wanted to make a grotesk font positioned somewhere between Akzidenz grotesk, Helvetica and Univers---not as dry and distant as Univers, but devoid of the quirky uniformity of Helvetica. Jungka is more reminiscent of Akzidenz Grotesk than the other two typefaces. Other typefaces include Impact Nieuw (2012-2016), Vlees Sans (2016), Red Dawn (2016), Suomi 100 (2015: Suomi 100-Groteski and Suomi 100-Antiikva were designed for Finland's 100th birthday). In 2018, Karel Martens and Jungmyung Lee released Pirelli. They write: Pirelli is a revival of an anonymous grotesk typeface that Karel Martens once came across. Its mostly horizontal and vertical features with a mono-line structure and an absence of flourishes give it a concise expression. Yet, it has the distinctive motif of unusually high-waisted capitals, visible in all letters with bars, such as E, F, and P. This feature gives Pirelli the atmosphere of earlier Art Nouveau and Secessionist lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jungmyung Lee
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Jurre Latour
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Interesting typographic designs by Jurriaan Schalken. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch Bauhaus era designer, b. Den Haag, 1926, d. Amsterdam, 1990, known for his photography book design and letterin projects. He drew some alphabets, one of which led James Mattison to create the digital stencil font Schrofer (2009). The Sans Serious family by John Skelton is also a revival. Jan Middendorp writes in Dutch Type: Schrofer made several attempts to create complete typefaces---one of which was wittily called Sans Serious---but this was never his goal. "Is it necessary", he wrote, "to make complete alphabets with upper and lowercase, figures, diacritics and seriously adorned with a name, when the aim is merely a formal investigation into basic recipes". Schrofer's domain was never the design of typographic alphabets, to be used by other designers, but always the creation of letterforms "made to measure" (Letters op maat) as part of his own designs of---mainly---book covers and postage stamps. He created a rectangular alphabet as the basic element of his ever-changing covers---each based of the same grid but colored differently---for a series of scientific books, "Les textes sociologiques" from Mouton Publishers. He made sophisticated pixel-based letters, all drawn by hand, and experimented with photographic screens as a means of distinguishing simplified letterforms from the background. He created logotypes built from custom-made letterforms, based on rectangular grids. [...] In his booklet Letters op maat (Type made to measure, 1987), Schrofer presented many of his experimental alphabets from the 1960s and '70s. The booklet was part of a series of goodwill publications edited by Wim Crouwel for Lecturis Printers, Eindhoven. In 2018, Ron Ruedisueli attempted to digitize all of Schrofer's alphabets in a special series at FontStruct called STF Letters Op Maat. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Just graduated in 1989 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK), where he studied under Gerrit Noordzij. After stints at Monotype in the UK and MetaDesign in Berlin he became an independent type designer, focusing on software design for type. He collaborated with Erik van Blokland under the name LettError. It is at that time that he published FF Beowolf has been included in the permanent collection of the MoMa in New York. He co-wrote RoboFog with Petr van Blokland in the mid-nineties, which can be regarded as a forerunner of RoboFont, and has been a very influential scripting type design tool in Python. His TTX/FontTools library is a crucial building block for lots of font software. He also wrote the original version of the DrawBot application. He designed Phaistos (1990-1991, the Font Bureau, with David Berlow), which was inspired by the flared angular designs of Rudolf Koch such as Locarno). Designer or co-designer at LettError of LettErrorRobot-Chrome (2001), FFTrixie (X-files original), FF Advert (1991, a flared sans family), FF Justlefthand, FF Schulschrift (1991; in versions A, B and C following the German school script recommendations), FF StampGothic (1992), FF Confidential (1992, grunge), FF Karton (1992, a grungy stencil face), FF Flightcase (1992, a grungy didone stencil), FF Dynamoe (1992, a dymo label font, white on black), FF Hands, FF Brokenscript (1990, blackletter), Federal, and the random font Beowolf (1990, with Erik van Blokland). FF Schulbuch (1991-1992) is a series of fonts based on the historical textbook types used in Northern and Southern Germany, and Bavaria. The Nord (North) variant is the closest relative of Helvetica. At FUSE 11, he designed What You See/What You Get (with Erik van Blokland). Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on The Sound of Shapes & Shape of Sounds. Bio at Emigre. FontShop link. Klingspor link. FontFont link. View Just van Rossum's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch ambigram specialist. He created the free ambigram font Lake Reflection in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jürgen Geiger
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Kai Bernau
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Kai Bernau
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He set up the Jung-Lee Type Foundry together with Jungmyung Lee in Amsterdam. Jungka (2013-2016) is a sans typeface family by Jungmyung Lee and Karel Martens, who write: We wanted to make a grotesk font positioned somewhere between Akzidenz grotesk, Helvetica and Univers---not as dry and distant as Univers, but devoid of the quirky uniformity of Helvetica. Jungka is more reminiscent of Akzidenz Grotesk than the other two typefaces.. In 2018, Karel Martens and Jungmyung Lee released Pirelli. They write: Pirelli is a revival of an anonymous grotesk typeface that Karel Martens once came across. Its mostly horizontal and vertical features with a mono-line structure and an absence of flourishes give it a concise expression. Yet, it has the distinctive motif of unusually high-waisted capitals, visible in all letters with bars, such as E, F, and P. This feature gives Pirelli the atmosphere of earlier Art Nouveau and Secessionist lettering. Author of Patterns (2021, Roma Publications). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Uden, Netherlands-based designer of the handwriting typeface Gorillaz (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kazer Studio
| Or Jay Kazer, b. The Netherlands. Sydney, Australia-based designer of the free squarish techno typeface Metrik Sans (2018) and the sans titling typefaces Monaco Classic (2018) and Le Mans Classic (2017), which was inspired by vintage motorsport racing. In 2019, he published the wide sans typeface Fluro. In 2020, he released Hologram. Type Department link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Kees Broos and David Quay wrote Wim Crouwel Alphabets (Amsterdam, BIS, 2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kees Derksen, The Human Cannonball, is the Rotterdam-based designer of Vanmoof (2012): all glyphs are based on the shapes of the Vanmoof bicycle frame. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kees Gajentaan
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FontStructor who made the octagonal typeface Step by Step in 2014. This typeface was developed during her studies in Megen, The Netherlands. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of the modular FontStruct typefaces Kenney Rocket (pixel font), Kenney Space and Kenney Future (2016). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kevin Allan King
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After graduation, he started freelancing as a graphic and type designer in Amsterdam. Partner at The Place. Other typefaces include The Chattam (2009, a Clarendon revival), Boujour (2008, an ultra fat deco face), Moudwi (2007, an experimental Arabic detached typeface inspired by the Unified typeface created by Nasri Khattar). His typefaces: Arek, Hagatir, Boujour (2008, piano key typeface), Mulsaq (2008, Arabic), Moudwi, Nuqat (2010: a dot matrix typeface by René Knip, Khajag Apelian, Jeroen van Erp, and Reza Abedini). Graphic Arabic (Wael Morcos and Khajag Apelian) won an award at Granshan 2017. IBM Plex Sans Arabic (2019, by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Wael Morcos and Khajak Apelian) is a free typeface family at Google Fonts. Typecache link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Kiki Van der Horst designed the thin display typeface January (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kilian Valkhof
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Kim Stassar works at Blanco Design in Amsterdam as graphic designer. Her first font, Blanco (2010), is a geometric stencil face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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During her graphic design studies, Kimberley van Lokven (Geffen, The Netherlands) created an untitled experimental typeface (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kiosk Fonts
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His alphabets from 2008: Fleischwurst Fett (blackletter), Drückerei (grunge by Haiko Günther), Sommerfest, Rex Mundi (by Haiko Günther), PX Barok (a stitching and needle typeface), Ghana Signpainters Divine Healer (by Haiko Günther), Pappe (randomized cut-out face), Wüste Fraktale (a pixel blackletter by Haiko Günther), A4, Ghana Signpainters Safari (by Haiko Günther), Ghana Signpainters Cocktail (comic book and ad style by Haiko Günther), Format, Black Frituur (blackletter by Haiko Günther), Monaural (geometric), Steelcut (based on Woodcut; by Haiko Günther), Coswig, Roundenau (very rounded). In 2009, he did revivals of Memphis (original by Rudolf Wolf, 1929) and Stempel Elan (original by Hans Möhring, 1936). The latter typeface was published by Linotype. In 2013, he made HWT Tuscan Extended (Hamilton Wood Type). Hamilton Wood Type explains: It is based on the 1872 William Page & Co. version, while also bearing a very close resemblance to the Morgans & Wilcox Tuscan Extended and No. 2106 from Tubbs Manufacturing Co. It is similar to the Heber Wells Tuscan Extended. All four manufacturers were eventually acquired by Hamilton. The Hamilton designation for this design was simply No. 303. The National Printers' Material Co. of New York also offered a similar Tuscan Extended. FontShop published his school project font Quixo as FF Quixo in 2013. Quixo won an award at TDC 2014. In 2014, Frank designed the free Source Serif typeface family at Adobe, to accompany Paul Hunt's Source Sans Pro (2012). It is a transitional family influenced by Perre Simon Fournier's styles from 1742. Google Web Fonts download link. CTAN download. He designed the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs that are included with Source Han Serif (2017). In 2021, Frank Griesshammer updated Source Serif. This new version of Source Serif supports six weights and five optical sizes, both in static and variable formats. Design changes were made from the original Source Serif Pro. At Adobe, he participated in Adobe Handwriting (based on the handwriting of Frank Grießhammer, Ernest March and Tiffany de Sousa Wardle). Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam where he spoke on a renewed effort at Adobe with respect to kerning. In 2019, Colophon and Frank Griesshammer released DM Serif Display and DM Serif Text at Google Fonts. Based on Adobe Serif Pro (by Frank Griesshammer), it is a high-contrast transitional typeface with only one weight. Github link. Klingspor link. Old URL. Old home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Kisman Studio (was: Holland Fonts)
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His early typefaces: ExtendedMaxMixOne (1991), Rosetta, Jacque (1991, FontFont), Fudoni (1991), the experimental font Linear Konstruct (FUSE 2). He wrote a coffeetable book on typography in the streets of Paris, but no book store in Paris seems to have it, and I have looked! He is editor of Tribe. In 2002, he started Holland Fonts. His fonts there: Bebedot Blonde (2002), Bebedot Black, Bfrika (2002, an interesting African lettering font), Cattlebrand (2002), Chip 96 (2002), Chip 02 (2002), Circuit Closed (2002), Circuit Open, Interlace Single (2002), Interlace Double, Mundenge Rock (2002), Nevermind (2003, a cut-out style reminiscent of Saul Bass's movie titling types), Pacific Sans (2003), Pacific Serif (2003), Pacific Standard L, Pacific Standard B, Pacific Classic L (2002, artsy, stylish), Pacific Classic B, Quickstep Regular (2002, an angular font), Quickstep Bold, Quickstep Sans R, Quickstep Sans B, Submarine (2003, an octagonal font family), Traveller Regular (2002), Traveller Bold, Tribe Mono (2003, a tech font), Zwartvet (2002, a Van Doesburg/ De Stijl type font). Four free ransom note fonts made in 2003: Dutch Doubles, Frisco Remix, We Love Your Font, MaxMix One. At Union Fonts, he (re-)published Bebedot, BFRIKA, Cattlebrand, Chip01, Chip02, Pacific, Quickstep, Submarine and Traveller in 2003, and Mata Hari (Indic simulation typeface in weights called Exotique, Hollandaise and Parisienne) and Xbats (2004, Christmas dingbats) in 2004. In 2017, Max Kisman was asked to design a naked font for the Dutch printing association, Drukwerk in de marge. It is called Genitaal XXX. Speaker at ATypI 2004 in Prague. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Illustration Daily link. His bestselling fonts at MyFonts. Pic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Kitty Louws (Gilze, The Netherlands) created the pixelish typeface Kito Tapas in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
KIX
| Rick van Rein developed a metafont for barcodes for Dutch postal codes (KIX barcode fonts: KIX stands for KlantIndeX). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
At the Dutch PTT (post office): free barcode fonts for Dutch postal codes (KIX barcode fonts: KIX stands for KlantIndeX), PC and Mac. Includes a tool, "Toolkix" for printing addresses with barcodes. Direct access. The metafont by Rick van Rein is here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch artist and furniture designer, b. Harlingen, 1867, d. Bennebroek, 1935. Author of the compass-and-ruler lettering book Letterboek voor den teekenaar en ambachtsman (1907, G. Schreuders, Amsterdam). One of the alphabets in that book was digitally revived by Marlon Ilg in 2021 as Grid Fraktur. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kloeg Architecture
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In 2016, he designed the minimalist sans typeface family Essence, followed in 2018 by Essence Round, which includes 150 free icons. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Knarf Art
| Frank van der Hak (Knarf Art) is a graphic designer in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands, b. 1989. He created the octagonal geometric font Knarf Art and Knarf Art 2 (2009). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ko Sliggers
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Koeiekat
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John Wollring designed these typefaces:
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Koelooptiemanna Productions (was: KosteX)
| Dutchman Roel Koster made the royalty-free KosteXSchool (or: SchoolKX) font for kids' letter tracing. It is in fact an Avant-Garde style font. Direct access. See also here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Koen Hachmang
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Koen Lageveen
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During an internship at ATTAK, a studio in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, in 2014, Koen van der Bliek (Boxtel, The Netherlands) created the knife-edged semi-blackletter typeface AT Kuhn (free download). Koen was a student at the AKV ST Joost Art Academy in 2014. In 2017, he designed the free dry brush scripts Paint The Sky and Sickboy. In 2018, he added the free handwriting font Reey. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Despite the modest agricultural name, they say this about themselves: Koeweiden Postma is one of the leading branding and design agencies in The Netherlands. I quite like the typographic work they did in the form of posters and ads for the Picasso in Paris 1900-1907 exhibition, held in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kombinat Typefounders
| This Dutch-Swiss foundry (est. 2001 by Hannes Famira, b. 1966, Buchholz in der Nordheide) offers interesting font families: Feisar (Paul van der Laan), N&M Hornet (Neeser+Müller), N&M Punkt Schrift (Neeser+Müller), Blocker, InterPol Sans (1992), InterSerif, InterForm (dingbats), H-Stamps, Tieshy, Bubblejet on Steroids, Plantijn (Legib, Legib Small Caps, B-Form, Paradox), and Kugelkopf Letter. Another designer is Hannes Famira, who founded Kombinat. The initial crew also contained Martijn Rijven, but his name is longer there. The team in 2012 included Martin Wenzel, Thomas Lehner and Roland Dill. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
In English, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. This is the most elite typographical school in Europe. Its graduates include all main current typographers in the Netherlands, and many others. Teachers ca. 2004 included Petr van Blokland, Peter Verheul, Fred Smeijers, Just van Rossum, Erik van Blokland, Peter Matthias Noordzij, Frans Van Mourik, Jan Willem Stas, Françoise Berserik, Peter Bilak, Paul Van Der Laan, and Frank Blokland. In 2018, the type program was headed by Erik van Blokland. Senior lecturers at that time: Paul van der Laan, Peter Verheul. Lecturers: Françoise Berserik, Peter Bilak, Frank Blokland, Petr van Blokland, Just van Rossum, Fred Smeijers, and Jan Willem Stas. In 2019, the staff consisted of Erik van Blokland (Head), Marja van der Burgh (coordinator), Paul van der Laan, Peter Verheul, Françoise Berserik, Peter Bilak, Petr van Blokland, Frank Grießhammer, Fred Smeijers and Jan Willem Stas. TypeMedia is the postgraduate department for TypeDesign and Typography of the KABK. This Russian picture report from 2004 illustrates its activities nicely: it shows the following type projects: Basileus (Greek typeface by Vera Evstafieva), Reforma (by Krassen Krestev), Mirabelle (by Alessandro Colizzi), Rumba (by Laura Meseguer), North (by Trine Rask Olsen), Vertigo (by Susana Carvalho), and Tuhun (by Diego Mier y Teran). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK): List of graduates | A list of graduates of the Type Media program at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
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Based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Kristel Hendriks created an untitled squarish typeface in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kristyan Sarkis
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L5
| L5 is a Rotterdam-based design studio, where Maurice Blok created the rugged type family Luxor (2001) as the corporate identity for the Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch designer who created the ladybug dingbat typeface Ladybug Dings (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
LaMa Fonts
| Marco Langbroek (LaMa Fonts, The Netherlands; born in 1970) designed Love Carving (2003) and the alphading font Vodka (2003). Home page. Langbroek is an archaeologist. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer from Lebanon who is/was based in Amsterdam. She taught design and typography at the American University of Beirut until she moved to The Netherlands where she became an apprentice in DecoType's ACE technology for Arabic type. She says that she refused to design any typeface before having sufficient knowledge over the history and mechanics of the script. In 2018, she is working on an ACE-engined Arabic type family, with support from the Creative Industries Fund NL. Creator of the angular chancery typeface Cancellarecta (2012) at The Cooper Union. She graduated from Escola de Disseny i Art in Barcelona. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. Award winner at 25 TDC in 2022 for Youtube Sans Arabic, a member of an increasingly larger multi-script family. The typeface spans across ten weights and includes Sans, Rounded, and a Grades version. It was developed together with Khaled Hosny (font engineer), David Berlow (consultant), Dave Crossland (manager) and Chris Bettig (creative director). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rotterdam, The Netherlands-based designer of the all caps alphabet Animal Type (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Schagen, The Netherlands, in 1974. Studied at the KABK in Den Haag. Lives in Amsterdam and joined Underware as a designer in 2000. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Doetinchem, NL-based graphic designer designer (b. 1988, Hengelo) of Johanneke (2010, counterless and outlined family), Sammies Sans (2010, grunge), Chinese-troops-waiting-at-the-border (2009, graffiti), KingjolA (2009, grungy blackletter), Efontlution (2009), sleeperzzzz (2009, grunge), Jersey Stories (2009, script), Unchanged Thoughts (2009), Hey Mom Hey Dad (2009), Shutdown (2009, 3d comic book style face), Hey Boy Hey Girl (2009), Jo wrote a love song (2009, scratchy hand), False Advertising (2009, grunge), Old English Hearts (2009, grunge blackletter), Stone Era Pixels (2009), Waste of Paint (2009, grunge), Baby Eskimo Kisses (2009, outline), Opa Puk (2009, brushy), Bedtime Stories (2009, flowing script), Manenschijn 02 (2009), Create a cartoon (2009), Release Me (2009). Fonts made in 2012: Holland Blocks (counterless fat squared glyphs). IN 2015, he made the handcrafted typeface Retro Bagels. Home page. Alternate URL. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Latour
| Latour is a Dutch foundry set up in 2020 by Jurre Latour. In 2020, he published the squarish modular typeface Vernox. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest, Romania. Now working as an illustrator in Breda, The Netherlands. Behance link. Creator of the illustrated caps typeface TypoBirds (2012) and the dingbat font Soferul Modern (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Utrecht, The Netherlands-based designer of Nocturne (2018), which according to Laura is evokes Chopin's Nocturne opus 9, no. 1, but turns out to be a great Hebrew simulation typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dutch designer of the free sans typeface family Lumnia (2016). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Le Studio Graphic and Web Design
| Dimitry Hamelink's studio Le Studio in The Netherlands is also based in Cazillac, France. It did the typography in a brush style for the album I am Hunter by Miss Montreal (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Léon Hulst
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Dutch kid (b. 1994) who created the handwriting fonts HBFONT (2009) and Leandra's Font (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual designer in Amsterdam. Designer of the elliptical typeface Yon (2010), a typeface designed during a course at Politecnico in Milan where he studied under Gio Fuga. Leandro is from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Other typefaces:
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Dutch creator of Celine Dion Handwriting (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer (b. 1966) of these typefaces:
Font Squirrel link, where Blokletters is free. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Groningen, The Netherlands. Creator of the display typefaces Obscurity Sans (2014) and Fifty Fifty (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Heemskerk, The Netherlands-based designer (b. 1974) of the handwriting font Livy's Life (2015). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Leo Beukeboom was the in-house sign painter for Heineken brewery for more than 30 years. An accomplished and skillful lettering artist, he was heavily influenced by Dutch writing masters such as Cornelis Boissens and Jan van de Velde. He created a unique script style that became one of the distinctive characteristics of traditional brown café's in Amsterdam. Leo is now working on Beukeboom Script (Re-Type, 2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He also created the multilined art deco typeface Mecanorma Hotel. Nightlife (2005, Canada Type) is based on an experimental grid design by Meuffels. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Multimedia designer in Wervershoof, The Netherlands, b. 1996. Creator of the sans / stencil typeface Banger (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
COOEE is an Amsterdam-based studio founded in 2010 and run by Leon Dijkstra. In 2017, he designed the display typeface Mongrel. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer (1917-1986) active at Lettergietrij Amsterdam starting in 1947. Creator of the calligraphic script font Amazone (Tetterode Nederland, 1958), now available from Bitstream as Amazone BT [compare Amapola by Dan X. Solo]. In 1960, he designed Promotor, a medium weight expanded typeface done at Lettergieterij Amsterdam (now available from Elsner&Flake), in 1962 he added Orator (a bold companion to Promotor, Lettergieterij Amsterdam), and in 1969 Revue (still at Tetterode). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of the free font Napoje (1999). He runs the design studio LeoArts in The Netherlands. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lesley Jutte klives in Voorschoten, The Netherlands. I did not know that it was possible to use Fontcapture to create anything but handwriting fonts, but Lesley managed against all odds to make an elegant deco-ish face, Call It Skinny (2009) using that tool. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Letman
| Nice calligraphy in 2009 by Job Wouters in Amsterdam. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch lettering artist who drew some alphabets in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Letterbeeld
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Codesigner of the free font Tilburg Sans (2016) and Tilburg Sans Text (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A sociable type society with the motto: "Type is fun". Page has been neglected almost since its inception in 1997. The Sociable Type Society was founded in 1997 by Donald Roos and Onno Bevoort jr. In 2002 this exclusive society has still two members, both are graduated students of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. A creation of them: the fun LD Spaghetti family (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lettergieterij J. de Groot
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Dutch font CD and font book vendor. Typical prices: 14,200 Euro for the Adobe FontFolio, and 22,000 Euro for the FontFont collection. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Letterlabor
| Kai Bernau (Letterlabor) is a German type designer (b. 1978) who studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd. He created "The neutral typeface" (2005), a sans family, as his thesis project at the KABK in Den Haag. The typeface was born as a mathematical average of ten sans typefaces: AG Buch, Neue Helvetica, Univers, Grotesque, Franklin Gothic, Frutiger, Trade Gothic, Documenta Sans, The Sans and Syntax. He graduated there in 2006 with a masters degree. Together with his wife Susana Carvalho, they formed Atelier Carvalho Bernau, a practice that designs printed matter (mainly books), bespoke and retail typefaces, and identity programs. At Commercial Type, he published Lyon Text and Lyon Display in 2009, described by Commercial Type as follows: Begun as Kai Bernau's degree project on the Type + Media course at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, Bernau extensively revised the typeface in time for its debut in the New York Times Magazine in 2009. Like many of the great seriffed typefaces it draws intelligently from the work of Robert Granjon, the master of the Renaissance, while having a contemporary feel. Its elegant looks, are matched with an intelligent, anonymous nature, making it excellent for magazines, book and newspapers. The Atelier also has other typefaces on its site, all done between 2007 and 2010, such as Neutraface Slab (for House Industries), Atlas Grotesk (2012, by Kai Bernau, Susan Carvalho and Christian Schwartz, Commercial Type: a revival of Dick Dooijes's Mercator), Neutral (an outgrowth of Kai's thesis work), PDU (a French stencil revival project), and some custom typefaces such as Proprio. Write-up at Fontshop. Critique by Experimenta. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Erik van Blokland is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK), class of 1989. He develops niche tools for type design and font production and has been involved with Tal Leming in the development of the UFO (for font sources) and WOFF (for font binaries) formats. Since 1999, he is a senior lecturer at the TypeMedia master at the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag. Erik developed many type software tools such as the acclaimed type interpolation tools MutatorMath and Superpolator, and the teaching tool TypeCooker. Their typefaces:
Erik speaks often about his work. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, LettEror spoke about education in type design, and the RoboFab toolkit. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam and at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona [on interpolations with Superpolator3]. Klingspor link. FontShop link. Wired interview. Shop. FontFont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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In 2011, he made ThM Trade Stencil, ThM Tomahawk, ThM Thin (thin and octagonal). In 2012, he added ThM Toronto, ThM SPQR (athletic lettering), ThM Bone, ThM Tibetan (blackletter), ThM Trade (slabby), ThM Tulipe, ThM Mini, ThM LCD. Typefaces from 2013: ThM Liga, ThM Architype Albers, ThM Marksman (stencil face). FontStruct link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Letterspace Amsterdam
| Type site run by Edgar Walthert, a Swiss type designer based in Amsterdam. Since 2018, it hosts a monthly series of lectures about experimentation, innovation and research in type. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch designer of the copperplate style formal script typeface Amazone (Amsterdam Foundry, 1958-1959) [see here for a Bitstream version; Amaze is a clone found on many free font web sites]. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amsterdam-based designer who used Fontifier to make the handwriting font Ini (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of a modular alphabet in 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lida Lopes Cardozo
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Dutch site about web design. Contains a small archive of web fonts. In Dutch. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Breda, The Netherlands---she could practically be Belgian! In 2009 and 2010, Linda created some experimental typefaces. She also made the modular font Propedeuse (2009). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer and photographer in Amsterdam. In 2009, she created Fashion Typeface, and Typeface-for-musician-Bernhard-Fleischman (experimental). In 2010, she added Ruhrschrift (semi-Tuscan). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutchman born in 1949. When he published his thesis Sunbowl or Symbol, as a book in 1998, Loek designed a typeface that strived to hit the perfect balance of Latin and Greek, Elyade. It won him the Max Reneman award. This is not to say that the Dutch type community liked Elyade. It was blasted by both Frank E. Blokland and Jan Middendorp, who says that the type's frills attract too much attention and that the overall colour in text sizes is rather weak. A sample is shown on page 305 of Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in the Dutch Antilles. Designer of the shaky hand-drawn typefaces Six Minutes (2020), Six Minutes Narrow (2020), and Five Minutes (2020, at Rawblind Basetype) for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Enschede, The Netherlands-based designer of the free heavy sans typeface MEF Display (2015). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lollibomb (was: Crejaculations)
| Sander Kessels has provided us over the years with the most impossible unreadable pages, and he does not disappoint us with his latest flash creations. Here, you can download Bookworm (parody of Apple's Bookman, 1996), CafeCoco (based on Tobias Frere-Jones' Cafetaria, 1998), Palatino Turner, Facetype, Xizo (not free), Gotohellvetica, Chicagogo, TimesTurn, Richter, Drunk Heavy, Byte Caps, Centabel, Chocolade, ToThePoint (not free), Online, Quasymodo, Symbolero (1991, based on Apple's Symbol font). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch creator of the textured typeface Remsporen (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based designer of a modular typeface in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch poster artist, 1897-1976. Posters with art deco lettering by him include Scheveningen The Hague on Sea Holland (1931). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lovely Bird Digital
| Amber Kuivenhoven (b. 1993; aka Lovely Bird Digital or Amber Does Freelancing, Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands) created these handcrafted typefaces in 2015: the sketch font Its a Sketch, the handcrafted font Patrick, the water bubble font Retro Bubble, the pointilist typeface Sophia Hearts, Catalina, Tessa (floriated) Fairy, Lets Call Her Tally, Jessica Pearson, Jamy, Sophia Hearts, Patrick, Revival, Shakira, Lucy, Santiago 9 - 9, Hey Bas + Hey Bas Uncrossed, Thinly Armored, Itsa Sketch, Ennis, Brienel, Prickly Bush, Starry Night, Retro Bubbles, Budgie Dingbat, Coffee Shop Icons. In 2018, she published the bird dingbat typeface Budgies. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Luc Reinders, a graphic designer in Maastricht, The Netherlands, created Futoni (2014), Sponge Font (2012) and Whisky Font (2012, a tall condensed display face). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luc(as) de Groot
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Lucas de Groot
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Lucas Franco
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LucasFonts (and: FontFabrik)
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DeGroot designed custom fonts for newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo, Le Monde, Metro, Der Spiegel, taz.die tageszeitung, Freitag and Jungle World. In addition, he created corporate type for international companies such as Sun Microsystems, Bell South, Heineken, Volkswagen and Miele. Speaker at many international conferences. At ATypI 2015 in Sao Paulo, he spoke about his Folha Sao Paulo newspaper typeface. In 2021, LucasFonts joined Type Network. FontShop link. Klingspor link. I Love Typography link. View the typeface library at Lucasfonts. View Lucas de Groot's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Ludwig Type
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View Ludwig Übele's typefaces. A list of Ludwig Übele's typefaces. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Ludwig Übele
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Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Design Or Die (1997, techno face), and Vulcano (2007, with Tori Alimbau and José Manuel Urós). Mendo lives in Amsterdam. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
The Hague-based foundry established in 1996 by Jeroen Barendse and Thomas Castro. Downloadable and commercial fonts from this Dutch foundry. Specializing in shock and grunge. Fonts: Incidenz Bold, Blowout One, Pure, Blockbuster Regular, Brick, Bone, Razor, Blowout Three, Clean, Grotesk, Gothic, Mobile. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lust (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), or SML Designs, designed SimLLHP (2003), Simbats (2003), Inverted-ArialMT, Inverted-Courier, Inverted-Times, Jason's-Inverted-Tahoma, Jason's-Reversed-Arial, Jason's-Reversed-Courier, Jason's-Reversed-Tahoma, Jason's-Reversed-Times, and the free brush font Fat Marker (2007). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hedel, The Netherlands-based designer of the squarish typeface Facepalm (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer (b. 1991) of Curly (2008) and Lydeke Handwriting (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Young Dutch designer (b. 1989) who created some free pixel fonts in 2005: Cherry Pie, Orange Frosty, Waffles, Strawberry Shortcake, Brownies, Apple Crisps and Mint Choco Chip Ice Cream. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of "Letters voor Moderne Reclame-Kunst". 3e verbeterde druk. Amaco, Amsterdam, c. 1941. Excerpts of this book were shown by Piet Schreuders. These include Sierschrift (an ornamental caps face), and this hand-printed alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Maarten (c12) is the Dutch designer of the pixel font Terraform (2003). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Maarten Dullemeijer
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Dandm3 is the design place of Deirdre Idema (Irish born) and Maarten Idema. Maarten was a student at the KABK in Den Haag from 2003-2004. His graduation typeface at KABK was Pam (2004), which was specifically crafted for street maps. He also designed the experimental typeface Before. Unclear if Maarten is Dutch, Irish or Kiwi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Maarten van 't Wout
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Dutch poster artist from the art deco era. Posters with art deco lettering by him include Auf nach Holland (1929), Olanda (1931), Rotterdam (1931) and Holland Where Seaside Means So Much (1930). The Cruise Terminal Rotterdam's logotype is based on den Hertog's lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mads Wildgaard
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Amsterdam-based designer of the cookbook font Roald (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amsterdam-based designer of the cookbook font Roald (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amsterdam-based designer of a textured geometric set of capitals (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Warsaw, Poland. In 2016, she created a squarish typeface for her own identity. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer of Correspond (graduation typeface at KABK, 2005-2006) and Saranna (after Stefan Schlesinger's unfinished typeface from just before WWII). In 2005, Malou did a revival of Jan van Krimpen's Spectrum (1952). Favela Exposed is a hand-drawn poster typeface inspired by the mosaic stairway in Santa Theresa, Rio de Janeiro. Typecache link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Ede, The Netherlands, of the connected calligraphic script typeface Joleni (2017), the script typeface Milano Sky (2017), and the brush typeface Hola Bisou (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marc Lubbers
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Codesigner with Jeroen Leupen of several fonts at ShowMeWare. Mac fonts only: IggyPiggy (1999), Euromania, Scramble, Source, Lutetia Lutetia (Asterix font), Sunburst Staying, Thick&Thin, WizzyBold, Nippee, Saurtimes, RuffBold, RuffMedium, Waterfall, Sniffy, Oranjehand, Mushroom, KillerBee, FuzzyMate, Casterman, AmsterdamBridge and Academy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of a typeface out of spices to adorn the walls of Restaurant Walem. The underlying shpae is a De Stijl alphabet by Bart van der Leck. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Autos (car dingbats), Pixels, Arabische Lettertype (oriental simulation face) and Wayang Kulit. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Creator of the geometric sans typeface Selvage (2012, in Raw (pure forms) and Worn (filled in ink trap form) styles), the architectural lettering font Resoluut (2012, +Cyrillic), the tattoo font Galera (2012), and the monoline typeface Monodrone (2012, Ultratypes). In 2013, he published Fat Boy (a grotesk display face), Optic (alchemic). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artist, b. Amsterdam, 1967, specializing in macabre, bizarre and black romantic artwork. He created the gothic font Fairydust (2003). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Den Haag, The Netherlands. At Behance, his pen name is Joost Marcellis. Home page. His typefaces include Anna Mono (2010, octagonal). FontStructor of these gridded typefaces in 2010: Stanna Klein, Stanna Diap. He also made the Esque (constructivist) and Fastlane families in 2009-2010 at FontStruct. In 2011, he published the multistyle poster family Geplakt. Images: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi. Fontstructions from 2012: Homerus, Stanna (dot matrix). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director for Oak Studio in Ermelo, The Netherlands, who designed the custom typeface V Flow in 2015 for jazz trumpeteer Eric Vloeimans. In 2017, he published the display sans Insight. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marco Langbroek
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Amsterdam-based designer of Lugthart (2004, an experimental octagonal face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the geometric sans typeface Biko (2013), which is named after South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. See also Biko Light (2013). Buy Biko from Monofonts. Obtain a free copy from Dafont. In 2014, he designed the masculine sans typeface Coluna Condensed Bold (also free at Dafont, this family includes Rounded, Outlined, and Sketched styles). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch creator in Rotterdam of the series of textured fonts called Rotterdam Zoo. Designer of the grid-based typeface Quickgrid (2011). Home page. At FontStruct, he made Fatcap (2009). Studio Van Zomeren. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Diemen, the Netherlands-based designer of Marker (2017). Behance link. [ |
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Graphic designer from China, who studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy (2014-2015) and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and works in Amsterdam. She created a great document on the Chinese oracle bone script and explains: Oracle bone script refers to incised ancient Chinese characters found on oracle bones which were animal bones or turtle shells used in divination during Bronze Age in China. The vast majority of records of oracle script are the pyromantic divinations of the royal house of the late Shang dynasty at the capital of Yin. The date of the Anyang examples of oracle bone script extends from ca.14th to the 11th centuries BC to c.1200-1050 BC. The oracle bone script of the late Shang appears pictographic, as does the Shang writing on bronzes. The earliest examples of oracle bone script appear even more pictographic than examples from later in the period, thus suggestion some evolution did occur over the roughly 200-year period. [
Born close to the Black Sea coast in Romania, Diana moved to Austria as a child, where she attended the American International School. After graduating from the New Design University in St. Pölten, she worked as a graphic designer, mainly on book and corporate design projects. In 2013, she graduated from the 
Dutch type designer from the phototype era. His paperclip typeface from 1974 inspired Afrojet to create the FontStruction Paperclip (2010), and Wilson Thomas followed that up with 
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Designer (1905-1969) of Studio (1946, an almost-brush-script typeface at the Lettergieterij Amsterdam). The bold version is called Flambard and was, according to some sources, made by Dick Dooijes in 1954 (but the 1963 Tetterode specimen book points to Overbeek as Flambard's designer, and mentions in addition the date 1953). Some write Overbeek's name incorrectly as Overbeck. Jan Middendorp writes: Dolf Overbeek was the head of the studio of the Vada printing firm, and around 1948 became the graphic adviser to De Arbeiderspers, a major Dutch publishing and printing house. Overbeek was an authoritative and demanding taskmaster, as well as the designer of prize-winning books and calendars. He was not fond of experiments and preferred conventional no-nonsense typography to fancy modernisms. Annoyed by bad typeface combinations, he analysed the compatibility of typefaces of different categories and designed the Letterorgel (Letter Organ, after the musical instrument a kind of scientific table) which prescribed exactly which combinations to use, and which to avoid. 
German cofounder of Underware (b. Heidelberg, Germany, 1971), a typographic design studio based in Den Haag, founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Sami Kortemäki and Bas Jacobs. Akiem studied from 1998-2000 at the KABK. He co-designed all Underware fonts: Dolly, Bello, 
Dutch writer and designer, b. 1960, Amsterdam, who currently lives in Hamburg. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. From 1987 until 1991 he was the type director at Scangraphic, and from 1991-1994, he was the type manager at URW in Hamburg, at which time he completed URW Imperial, URW Linear, and 
Aleksandra Samulenkova (b. Latvia) studied visual communication at the Latvian Art Academy in Riga and at Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin, where she took a type design course with Luc(as) de Groot. In 2012 Aleksandra graduated from the 
Martin Bengtsson (Alpha Quantum) is a Swedish graphic designer who lives in The Netherlands. He studied at University of Liljeholmen, Sweden. Creator of the sci-fi typeface 
Maarten van 't Wout (Alumia) is the Lisse, The Netherlands-based creator of several following commercial typefaces between 2011 and 2014. He decided in 2014 to withdraw nearly all of them. The list (mostly of fonts that have been removed from the internet): 
Andre Toet Design (and before that, 
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A web site located in Amsterdam. They explain their concept of animated typefaces: Animography.net is a webshop/typefoundry that provides motion designers, video-editors and others in the field of the moving image with animated typefaces. These animated typefaces are easy to use, customizable and scalable without any loss of quality. Our animated typefaces are Adobe After Effects files with each glyph in a separate composition. A controller-composition serves as a central point from which you can customize all the glyphs in one go. Use to quickly create title sequences, TV commercials, presentations, on-stage concert graphics, etcetera! Browse through our expanding collection or have a look at the tutorial section for a peek under the hood. 
Annemarieke Kloosterhof was born and grew up in The Netherlands. In 2012 she started her graphic design studies at Central Saint Martin's University of the Arts in London. During her studies, she created Alphabet for Architects (2014). 
Antonius Kurvers (1889-1940) was a disciple of the Dutch architect Hendrik Wijdeveld (1885-1987) and became a prolific public place letterer. He was born in Den Haag in 1889 and died in Amsterdam in 1940. Digital fonts influenced by his work include 
Archiness is a foundry, est. in 2009 in Delft, The Netherlands, by 
Dutch type designer located in Bloemendaal. Jan Middendorp wrote about him in 
ARS Type is an Amsterdam-based foundry with some commercial fonts by Angus R. Shamal. Shamal had earlier published fonts with T-26 and Plazm. Fonts can be bought via 
Foundry and studio run by 
ATypI 2013 was held in Amsterdam from 9-13 October 2013. The theme was Point Counter Point. Its graphic identity was designed by Studio Dumbar. 
Autograph is Peter Korsman (b. 1982), the 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands-based co-founder and former member of Attak Powergestaltung, a creative partnership with Casper Herselman. In May 2016, after almost twelve years, he left Attak and started Autograph. He also teaches at AKV St. Joost. The fonts (which cost the last two digits of the year, so 17 dollars in 2017) at Autograph have the prefix APK and include: 
Barbara Bigosinska received her master degree in Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland. In 2013, she graduated from the 
Jacques Le Bailly (b. Thionville, France, 1975) is the "Baron von Fonthausen", located in Den Haag, and the self-proclaimed German-French specialist in the fields of both beer and type design. From 1999 to 2003, Le Bailly lived in Berlin, working at Moniteurs graphic design studio and as an independent graphic designer. Having returned to the Netherlands in 2003, Jacques did type production work for The Enschedé Font Foundry. He is now a typographic designer at Bau Winkel's studio in The Hague. He worked for type foundries like Lineto, Monotype, House Industries, and Bold Monday, as well as on custom projects for several brand design agencies. He has been teaching at the WdKA art academy in Rotterdam and Sint Joost in Den Bosch. 
Dutch graduate (b. 1990) of the Academy for Visual arts in Utrecht and the 
Dutch graphic and type designer, b. Wanssum, The Netherlands, 1976. In 1999, together with Akiem Helmling, he cfounded Underware in Den Haag. Bas studied at the KABK in Den Haag and lives in Amsterdam since 2001. His type design work: 
Graphic designer (b. Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1979), who specializes in type and typographic design, and lives in Haarlem. Student from 1999-2003 at the Graphic and Typographic design-course at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in the Hague. He graduated in 2004 from the postgraduate design-course on TypeMedia at the same academy. While at the KABK, he made the futuristic/computerized typefaces 
Dutch type designer, b. 1987, currently located in Italy. Graduate of LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium, class of 2012. In 2015, with Theo van Beurden, he set up 
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Hermen Grasman (b. 1964) graduated from the Academie voor de Beeldende Kunsten in Groningen, The Netherlands, class of 1988. He set up his own design studio in 1992, and is currently located in Haren (Groningen). 
Blast Foundry (The Netherlands and Poland) was set up in 2021 by Barbara Bigosinska, Rafa Buchner and Diana Ovezea. 
Italian graphic designer, b. Amsterdam, 1927, d. Milan, 2010. He lived and worked in Milan from 1954 until his death. Noorda attended the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs (now the Gerrit Rietveld Academie), graduating in 1950. He moved to Milan in 1954. In Italy, Noorda gained fame for his design in the late 1950s and early 1960s for posters and advertisements for Pirelli where he also served as art director. 
Bold Monday is an independent font foundry established by Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen and based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (and before that, The Hague). Pieter van Rosmalen (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) studied advertising and graphic design at Sint Lucas in Boxtel and graduated from the postgraduate Type & Media program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague in 2002. He runs Bold Monday's Eindhoven office. 
Designer in Amsterdam. 
Bram de Does was a type designer born in Amsterdam in 1934. He died on December 28, 2015. At Enschedé in Haarlem, which he joined in 1958, and for which he worked most of his life, he designed 
Bric Type is a typography consultant company based in Brazil and The Netherlands, run by 
E.J.Brill is an academic publisher in Leiden, The Netherlands. In 1989, DecoType produced the first ever computer-typeset Persian and English dictionary for them. In 2009, Brill has resumed its 325 year old tradition of Arabo-Dutch typography by adapting Tasmeem for its Arabic texts. In 2008, Brill commissioned John Hudson to make a text face. 
Dutch foundry located in Rotterdam. It is run, so MyFonts says, by Jan Bunk (b. 1968, Monrovia, Liberia) from Monrovia, Liberia. He made 
Dutch creator (b. 1996, Rotterdam) of the 
Dan Haag-based Dutch foundry, est. 2004 by 
Amsterdam-based illustrator and graphic designer. Creator of the constructivist typeface Burn Mosku (2017). [
Catharsis is located in Leiden, The Netherlands. Before that, Christian Thalmann's page 
Chris Nuijen (b. 1979) is a graphic designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He set up his type foundry in 2013. 
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Born in Dexheim, Germany in 1606 or 1608 (some sources say 1601), he died in Amsterdam in 1669. Dutch printer, typefounder, type cutter, and type designer who worked for Elsevier. He had a type foundry in Amsterdam. In texts like Johan Enschedé's 
Graphic designer, illustrator and type designer Christoph Mueller (Aachen, Germany) grew up in the Netherlands. His illustrations, album artwork and lettering have brought him international fame. He is also known for free fonts such as 
Citype is 
Cofounder of Now Type, 
Also known by insiders as El Pato Loco Atomico. Danish type designer (b. 1973, Kulby, Vestsjalland, Denmark) who obtained his BDes from The Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and his MA in typeface design from 
Born in Amsterdam in 1939, Hofmann started out as a typesetter, and then morphed into a calligrapher and an author on calligraphy, and finally into a type designer. 
Despite his name, André Vlaanderen was a Dutch designer, 1881-1955. He drew several alphabets, such as 
Dutch letterer and calligrapher, 1568-1634 (or 1635). He published the calligraphic masterpiece 
Dutch handwriting expert. Codesigner with René Verkaart of 
Daan Spangenberg (Den Haag, the Netherlands) created the identity, the (hipster) typeface and the web site for Bar Faux Amsterdam, to be opened in 2015. The work was carried out in cooperation with Borre Akkersdijk. As art director, he created many other identities as well. [
Born in The Netherlands in 1969, Dave Huizing created the disturbed typewriter font Rowdy Typemachine in 2015. In 2017, he designed the glaz krak typeface iCrack and the smilie typeface Smile 2 Me. 
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British type and graphic designer (b. 1948, London) who graduated from Ravensbourne College of Art&Design in 1967, and after working as a graphic designer in London, founded Quay&Gray Lettering with Paul Gray in 1983. David Quay Design started in 1987, and finally, in 1990, he co-founded 
In English, Amsterdam's curly letter. While doing a revival / interpretation of this style in his 
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Dutch typeface designer, b. Amsterdam, 1909, d. Baarn, 1998. Trained and worked at the Lettergieterij in Amsterdam under S.H. de Roos, starting in 1926. He worked with de Roos on the design of the typefaces Nobel and Egmont. Dooijes studied at the Amsterdam College of Arts and Crafts and at the Academy of Art. In 1940, Dooijes succeeded de Roos as artistic director of Lettergieterij Amsterdam. He was director of the Gerrit Rietveld Acedemie from 1968 until 1975. Author of Mijn leven met letters, and Wegbereiders van de moderne boektypografie in Nederland (Amsterdam, De Buitenkant, 1988). His typefaces: 
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Maastricht, The Netherlands and now, Antwerp, Belgium-based designer of the commercial typeface 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based designer of the zebra (children's books) alphabet ABC (2014) and Thunder Font (2015). 
Belgian designer who has a bachelors in graphic design from St. Lucas, Gent (Belgium) and ArtEZ Arnhem (The Netherlands), and a Masters in the same area from both places. He lives in Gent and 
Durotype is the foundry of Dutch type designer 
The Dutch Type Library was founded in 1990 by Frank Blokland (b. 1959, Leiden). It is based in 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Fonts include DTLAlbertina (Chris Brand), DTLArgo (Gerard Unger), 
Typographer and designer who lives in Den Haag, The Netherlands. She made some elegant typefaces, such as Memoa (2010, organic typeface first called Jarek), 
Dutch painter, 1912-1974. In 1963, the Van Abbemuseum asked Wim Crouwel to prepare a poster for an exhibition on Edgar Fernhout. Wim Crouwel designed an incomplete kitchen tile alphabet for the occasion, and explained: It refers back to the system in the Hiroshima and the Triennial posters. The form is inspired by the abstract landscapes that Edgar Fernhout was making when I first met him. They were built up with short brushstrokes, in beautiful structures. There is a clear division in four sections, all with elements of the same height. Because of Fernhout's landscapes, I also introduced a horizon. I also wanted to bring in that reflexion, that Dutchness, here. Crouwel's lettering in turn led to the design of a few complete typefaces: 
Type and graphic design pages by Edgar Walthert, b. Sursee, Switzerland. In 2007, he graduated from the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag. Since then he is free-lancing. He completed TazIII in 2008 for Lucas de Groot in Berlin. In 2008, he moved to Amsterdam to work as an independent graphic and type-designer. In Amsterdam, he hosts 
Dutch type designer and lettering artist in Gouda (b. 1964, Rotterdam) who made 
Italian designer of the fat display typeface Prendotempo (2007). He has addresses in Ravenna and Rotterdam. He co-designed the monospaced typewriter typeface 
Excerpts of the book Enschedé. Spécimen des Lettres françoises dites Caractères de Civilité des XVIme et XVIIme Siècles dans la Collection Typographique de Joh. Enschedé en Zonen (1926, Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen). This collection contains six different Civilité fonts, five from the 16th century (numbered 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14) and one chiefly from the seventeenth century (No. 30). The first maker and user of Civilité was Robert Granjon of Lyon, France, in Dialogue de la vie et de la mort (1557, Lyon), where he calls it his lettre françoyse. Plantin purchased some of Granjon's letters, and Granjon engraved even more more new letteres d'escriture in Antwerp for Plantin. Many imitations were made in Antwerp and Ghent, both in present day Belgium. Notes on the six Civilité types in the Enschedé collection: 
Equisymbol is the international symbol of balance and equilibrium that was created by inventor and entrepreneur David J. Shipley in 2017. Based in Haarlem, The Netherlands, Shipley took out trademark protection for the name and the symbol itself. Two personal remarks: (1) I thought that trademark only referred to names, but he claims otherwise. (2) This will not win him the award of mensch of the year. [
German type designer (born in Quedlinburg, near Leipzig, 1957), who made the extensive 
Erik lives in Zwolle, The Netherlands, and was born in 1964. He designed the splendid free handcrafted typefaces Eryx Rennie Macintosh (2015, Scottish arts and crafts typeface), 
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Or Eunyou Noh. Type designer and researcher from South Korea. She earned her Ph.D. in visual communications at Hongik University in 2011---her thesis was a study on Choi Jeong-ho's Hangul type designs. She started teaching Hangul type design at several universities, including Hongik. In 2012-2015, Eunyou Noh worked as a senior researcher at Ahn Graphics Typography Lab. She moved to the Netherlands in 2016, to study in the TypeMedia program at KABK, where her graduation typeface was Optique (2017). Eunyou currently lives in The Hague, working on a multi-script project. 
Eyal Holtzman (Den Haag, The Netherlands) is a graphic and type designer who was born in Haifa, Israel in 1969. He studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and teaches typography and graphical arts in various places. He set up Studio Eyal and Myrthe together with Myrthe Stel. 
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Richard Keijzer is the Dutch designer of many art deco typefaces that are often based on typefaces found on buildings or in Dutch publications, reviving styles known as Dutch deco from the 1920s and 1930s. Starting in 2021, his typefaces will have the prefix RAK. Most of his fonts are free: 
Fontforecast is a type foundry in the Netherlands that was set up by Hanneke Classen in 2013. Hanneke designed 
FontMeister is the commercial foundry of 
Raymond Brekelmans (Fresh Media) is the Dutch designer in Eindhoven of fonts such as Fame&Fortune, GoodDoggy, 7chipmunks, Hairy60, 
Dutch freelance designer Alex Scholing started Fonts by Alex in 2011 in Arnhem. Alex Scholing is graphic designer and co-founder of the design office Eat in Amsterdam. 
Frank E. Blokland (b. 1959, Leiden) studied Graphic and Typographic design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. In 1985 Blokland won Chartpak's type design contest with his typeface Bernadette. In 1990 Blokland wrote a bestseller with his course book for Teleac's television course: Calligraphy, the art of hand writing, of which 16.000 copies were sold. In the same year Blokland founded the Dutch Type Library in 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Since the 1980s he has published over 150 articles in professional journals like Compres, Page, PrintBuyer, and the Hamburger Satzspiegel. When Gerrit Noordzij retired in 1987 from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, Blokland was the first of the younger generation to succeed him. Blokland now lectures in letter drawing and type design/production to first- and post-graduate courses at this institute. In 1995 he was asked to become a lecturer at the 
Frank Hemmekam (Nijverdal, The Netherlands, b. 1994) designed these typefaces in 2013: the free alchemic typefaces Phantom, Dumento, Hectica, Droidiga, Defeated, Merula, Anne Sans, Futura FH Custom, Sabado (all caps sans) and Baron Neue (all-caps sans titling typeface: six weights are free at https://fontfabric.com/baron-free-font). 
Frans Velthuis (Groningen University) developed a Devanagari Metafont in 1991, which is available from the 
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Thomas Klaui (Frisse Types, The Netherlands) obtained 
Dutch designer of 
Geen Bitter (Den Haag, The Netherlands) consists of Thom Janssen (b. 1984, Maastricht), 
In 1993, Gerard Daniels (Roosendaal, The Netherlands) designed 
Dutch type designer, born in Arnhem, The Netherlands, in 1942, d. 2018. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Reading, and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. From 1974 on, he designed type, starting his career at Hell in Kiel in 1986. Until the end of his career, he taught at Reading and Rietveld. Unger designed 
Between 1928 and 1965, 
Gerrit Noordzij (b. 1931, Rotterdam; d. 2022) was a Dutch graphic designer, typeface designer, author, teacher, calligrapher, and design artist who made drawings, wood and copper engravings, and postage stamps. From 1960 until 1990 he taught writing and type design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. One of his many students there was Lucas de Groot. Noordzij has worked as graphic designer for various Dutch publishers. Since 1978 he has been the house designer for the publishing company Van Oorschot. His intellectual influence is matched by his physical heritage, in the form of two talented sons in the field of type design, Christoph and Peter Matthias. The Gerrit Noordzij Prize, a prize given to typographers and type designers for extraordinary contributions to the field, is named after him. He was also the first person to receive this prize in 1996. In 2013, Gerrit Noordzij reveived the TDC Medal at the ATypI in Amsterdam. 
The Gerrit Noordzij Prize is given to type designers and typographers for extraordinary contributions to the fields of type design, typography and type education. The prize is awarded every three years by the KABK (Royal Academy of Art) in Den Haag (The Hague, The Netherlands) together with Museum Meermanno, under the auspices of the Dr. P.A. Tiele Trust. It is named after Gerrit Noordzij, who started the type design program at KABK and taught there. 
Located in Boxtel, The Netherlands, Giel Cobben designed of the geometric typeface 
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Brazilian designer (b. 1977, Rio de Janeiro) who worked in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and is based in Cunha, Brazil. In 2009, he founded 
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Dutch science journalist who has published extensively in the Volkskrant. He is also into fine arts and illustration, and has even designed a few fonts. 
Dutch book designer, 1910-1996, who fought in the resistance against the Nazi occupation. In 2019, Canada Type published 
Prolific Belgian type expert (b. 1923, Antwerp; d. 2020) who graduated in philology from the University of Leuven. He became adjunct director of the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp and was on the board of governors of the Plantin Instituut voor Typografie, which he helped renovate after the second worrld war together with 
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, who is usually referred to as H.N. Werkman, was born in 1882 in Leens, The Netherlands. He died in 1945 in Bakkeveen, The Netherlands. He was a well-known Dutch artist, typographer and printer. In 1908, he founded a printing and publishing house in Groningen. It closed in 1923, but Werkman started anew with a small workshop in the attic of a warehouse. Werkman was a member of the artists' group De Ploeg, for which he printed posters, invitations and catalogues. From 1923 to 1926, he produced his own English-named avant-garde magazine The Next Call, which, like other works of the period, included collage-like experimentation with typefaces, printing blocks and other printers' materials. He also used stenciling and stamping to achieve unique effects. 
Born in Gent (now Belgium) around 1540, and aka Henry du Tour, he died in 1580. He delivered letters to Plantin (and exclusively so between 1570 and 1580). Enschedé's specimen book lists his 1575 Civilité as 
Aka BaronHerzberg. Illustrator, letterer and type designer, who was born in the Netherlands, moved to New Orleans in 2013, and set up Herzberg Design, a commercial type foundry, in 2019. His typefaces include: 
Typographer and type designer living in the countryside of the Altmühl Valley. Graduate of the Type and Media program at 
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, was born in Beirut in 1965. Author of 
Born in Porto, Portugal, in 1975. From 1994 until 1999 he studied graphic design at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design. In 2000 he became a postgraduate student at the KABK where he wrote a Masters thesis entitled "Type&Media". He joined Underware in the same year. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on On the edge of legibility, which in fact is a talk about blackletter. Affiliated since 2002 with Underware. He lives in Finland. Also doing business at 
Adam Katyi, who hails from Sopron, Hungary, has three degrees. He has a BA from the University of West Hungary at Institute of Applied Arts, Sopron in 2010, and an MA from Moholy-Nagy Art and Design University, Budapest in 2012. In 2013, he graduated from the 
Ivo van Leeuwen lives in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Since 1996 he works as illustrator, graphic artist and painter. He makes free illustrations as well as commissioned work for newspapers and festivals. He also illustrates novels and poetry works. In 2014 he was asked by Sander Neijnens to collaborate on the (free) TilburgsAns fonts, which were 
Dutch creator of the plump comic book typeface 
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Major Dutch typographer and type designer, b. Gouda, 1892, d. Haarlem, 1958. He studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Den Haag (1908-1912) and joined Enschedé in 1925. He had a considerable influence on the next generation of type designers. His typefaces include: 
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Dutch graphic designer in Amsterdam who has many typographic projects and occasionally creates a typeface. His typefaces are experimental and functional. One, called Puzzle, leaves it up to the user to position the sliding letters---quite an ingenious idea. Get Busy (2006) is artsy and futuristic. Escape (2006) is pixelish grunge. Union (2006), Get1 (2006, modular, computerized), 
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Dutch penman who published Verscheyden geschriften geschreven ende int'Koper gesneden door Jean de la Chambre Liefhebber ende beminder der pennen tot Haarlem in 1638. [
Graphic designer in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, b. 1985. He created a scriptish typeface called 
Dutch designer of the mini-serifed typeface Narrenschiff (2019), which is characterized by a blunt-nosed lowercase g. [
Designer in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In 2014, he published the excellent 
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Dutchman Jeroen van der Ham ("joebob"), who is based in s'Hertogenbosch, designed mostly handwriting fonts: 
Or Fleischman, with one "n". A German punchcutter (b. Nuremberg, 1701, d. Amsterdam, 1768) who lived in Amsterdam, and practiced his art at Enschedé in Haarlem, from 1743-1768. Enschedé's 1768 specimen book, 
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Dutch graphic artist Jan Lavies (1902-2005) became famous for the posters he designed for the Holland America Line of cruise ships. The early posters in this series inspired David Kerkhoff to create the Dutch deco typeface 
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Aka Jonathan Looman. Dutch type and graphic designer. 
The Utrecht-based surrealist J.H. Moesman (1909-1988) is known for his quality paintings, drawings and essays on modern art. He also designed the Petronius typeface. As a gifted calligrapher, he gave Petronius a calligraphic look. The name was a tribute to Gaius Petronius Arbiter, a Roman author who lived in the first century AD and to whom Satyricon is attributed. Moesman studied The Golden type of William Morris (1834-1896), who had based Golden Type on a printed Renaissance typeface by the of Italian Nicolas Jenson (ca.1420-1480). For Petronius, Moesman made a roman, an italic, a narrow style and a set of initials. A lead type was never made though. Petronius was digitally revived in 2010 by 
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Julius B. Thyssen (from Amsterdam) and Hens Zimmerman run this site (which used to be called Immortalware), where you can download 15 Truetype fonts, among which one handwriting font made by Julius. Now also a huge zip file with 16 new fonts: Corrodated-J, 
's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands-based designer of the elegant display didone typeface Julia (2016). 
During her typography studies at Ecole Estienne in Paris, Julie Patat created the unicase font 
Dutch Creative Alliance designer of Uncia (1999, uncial), Rudolph (Fraktur), Julius Primary (1999, a school font family), Amadeo (handwriting, 1999, with Fiel van der Veen) and Augusta (1999, +Cancellaresca, +Schnurkl). He published Xander (2001) at Agfa, a font based on the handwriting of the Dutch type designer Alexander Verberne. Finally, he published the calligraphic script family Gaius (2002), the calligraphic Bastarda typeface family Bernhardt Standard (2003), the Fraktur typeface family Frakto (2003), and the blackletter family Rockner (2005) at Linotype. 
The Jung-Lee Type Foundry was set up by Jungmyung Lee and Karel Martens in Amsterdam, ca. 2016. Karel Martens is an award-winning typography and type design teacher in Arnhem, and Jung-Lee has been designing type at 
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Heemskerk, The Netherlands-based designer of the sharp-edged pointy tooth typeface Piranha (2015). Also check out his typographic work in his Things poster (2015). 
Freelance graphic designer from Lebanon. Born in Sharjah, UAE, an Armenian with a Lebanese nationality. Graduate of the 
For a module at Plymouth University in 2014, Kim Uitslag (Groningen, The Netherlands) made a typeface that only shows the essence of type. She also made icons for the Alzheimer's Societ (2014). 
David Kloeg is a designer and student of architecture. He has been working for several architecture offices since 2012. David graduated from the University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands. His company, Kloeg Architecture (est. 2015, in Australia(?)), is involved in building and type and icon design. In 2016, David started a Masters degree in architecture at the University of Liechtenstein. He lives in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. 
John Wollring (aka Koeiekat), b. Amsterdam, 1943, d. 2017, was passionate about type design. John worked in marketing communications in advertising agencies and at Philips. Bronwyn Holmes explains: His love of fonts came from his work in producing advertising and brochures and his close involvement with printers and printing. He was very aware of the power of typography in communication. He retired in Extremadura to a remote mountainous region. Small villages with little distraction except the very wild and beautiful nature so plenty of time for him to spend on typography. 
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The Dutch have claimed for hundreds of years that Laurens Janszoon Coster [or: Koster] (b. ca 1370, d. ca 1440) printed the first book in Haarlem (The Netherlands), ca. 1440, well before Johann Gutenberg in Mainz in 1452. There is no hard evidence to support or refute this claim, but Jan Middendorp in his "
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Dutch designer, b. 1991, aka Marjolein. A self-proclaimed vector artist, she created the elegant art deco typeface Lein Bold (2008) as well as Lein Rounded (2008) and Lein Future (2008). 
Meuffels, who runs Meuffels&Partners in Susteren, The Netherlands, is the designer of the art deco multi-striped all caps Dextor family (Mecanorma), now in digital form at URW++ and 
Dutch foundry in the late 18th century run by Johannes de Groot (1746-1798). They published 
LettError is a foundry in Den Haag, founded by the interesting duo, Just Van Rossum (b. 1966) and Erik van Blokland (b. Gouda, 1967). Many of their fonts can be found in the FontFont library. 
Thijs Mertens is a Dutch designer in Arnhem who runs the design studio Letters en Plaatjes since 2009. He used FontStruct in 2009 to create ThM PurSans, 
Illustrator, graphic designer and type designer from Amsterdam who graduated from the 
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Luc(as) de Groot (b. 1962, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Den Haag and worked from 1989-1993 as a freelancer at the design bureau Premsela Voonk. From 1993 until 1997, he was with Meta Design in Berlin as typographic director in charge of many corporate design projects. In 1997, he set up 
Ludwig Übele is a Berlin-based 
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Dutch designer (b. 1975) who runs MvM Grafisch Ontwerp and is based in Leiden. Designer of the fun decorative caps typeface 
Dutch designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the nice art deco display typeface AlfaDeco. In 2009, he added Dicky and Dinny. [
Design student in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, whose first font is the high-contrast art deco typeface 
Italian visual artist based in Amsterdam and Berlin. In 2005 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in visual communication from ISIA (Florence, Italy) and Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany). He continued his studies at the Sandberg institute of the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, where he obtained a Master's degree. 
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