Adolf Behrmann

Born in Tockum (near Riga, Latvia) in 1876, he died in Bialystok in 1942. German type designer who designed the classical display typeface Rundfunk at Berthold in 1928. This typeface was digitized by Nick Curtis as Radio Ranch NF. He also designed Radio and Radio Versal in 1928 at H. Berthold AG.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ainar Olutnieks

Illustrator from Rezekne, Latvia, who made an ornamental caps face in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandra Samulenkova

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 Type and Media program at KABK, Den Haag.

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]  ⦿

Alexey Goncharenko

Designer and illustrator in Riga, Latvia. Creator of Glutinous (2010, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anastasija Fjodorova

Latvian designer of the curly typeface Twiddle (2022). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrejs Kirma

Latvian designer of the blackboard bold font Rainis (2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Kolka (a great 18-style geometric sans with virtually no contrast). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anita Abarenkova

At Escola Superior de Artes e Design de Caldas da Rainha (ESAD.CR), Portugal, during an exchange program, Anita Abarenkova (Riga, Latvia) created the stencil typeface Anita PT Light (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Pocius
[Artmaker]

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Ansis Cirulis

Latvian graphic designer, b. 1883, Majori, d. 1942, Riga. His part art deco part constructivist style led to some digital typefaces that are based on it. These include Ansis Cirulis (2017, by Asketic SIA). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Janson

Riga, Latvia-based designer of Alina Script (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artis Taurins

Latvian designer of the free polygonal typeface Geom (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artmaker
[Anna Pocius]

Anna Pocius (Artmaker, Riga, Latvia) is the creator of Unique (2012), the free fat round monoline monospace sans family VDS and VDS Bold (2011, Open Font Library). She also made Banana Brick Font (2011, free at OFL).

Home page. OFL link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asketic Design Studio
[Mikelis Bastiks]

Outfit in San Francisco, London and Riga, Latvia, est. 2007. Most typefaces are designed by Mikelis Bastiks and Aigars Mamis. These include:

• Cirulis and Cirulis Display (2017). An art deco display sans family of two weights, named after Ansis Cirulis (1883-1942, Latvia), who was one of the first Eastern European designers. Cirulis's heritage is characterized by letters with asymmetric widths, sliced cuts and various intrinsic features. Dedicated site.
• Luzumpunkts (2009). A free script typeface by Mikelis Bastiks.
• Sniegs (2010). A free fat modular typeface by Mikelis Bastiks.

Home page. Dedicated web site for the Cirulis font. You Work For Them link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Baltic (Latvian) TrueType fonts

Six standard Microsoft TrueType fonts (Arial, etc.), and two free Baltic fonts, Serif and Sans, provided by Codefusion Communications Inc. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Burtus Type

Burtus Type is an initiative of Asketic. It showcases selected Baltic typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

client-bank

Cyrillic, Latvian and English fonts: the Rim family (Times, Souvenir, etc.) by AG Fonts. The PragmaticaLatvian family by ParaGraph JV.&E. Gailis&Y. Ivanov. BaltHelvetica by AG Baltia. The Peterburg family by Atech Software. Dead link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Davis Knopkens

Graphic designer in Saldus, Latvia, who created Dots (2012), a dot matrix typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DIC.LV

Latvian design blog, with occasional type design information. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Egils Grikis

Stirling, UK-based graphic designer and typographer. Originally from Latvia, he cooked up some exquisite corporate identities. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Egils Mednis

Riga, Latvia-based type designer who created Swan (1992, Tilde, type 3 font) and New Symbol (2013, a type 3 dingbat font that probably also was done in the 1990s originally). Swan can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrika Ernestsone

Riga, Latvia-based art director. During a workshop at Type Paris 2018, she designed Ome, a typeface that was inspired by the Trajan inscriptions, and that she intends to use on her grandmother's gravestone. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Groenendijk

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]  ⦿

Eva Abdulina

Graduate of the Type Media program at KABK in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2019. Eva Abdulina is a designer from Riga in Latvia. Before studying at Type and Media she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication from Arts University Bournemouth. Her graduation typeface at KABK was Austra (2019), a robust and sturdy typeface with a nostalgic touch of Latvian heritage. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evalds Vanags

Riga Latvia-based designer of the lava lamp typeface Caldas Life (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evita Vilaka

Designer in Riga, Latvia. In 2015, Gatis Vilaks and Evita Vilaka co-designed the handcrafted Latin / Cyrillic typeface Summer. Earlier, in 2014, they co-designed Reef (a free rounded sans), Sunn Pro and Thin Line Font. In 2016, they co-designed the handcrafted typefaces Weem and Vintii. In 2017, they published the handcrafted Mona, and the free monoline sans typeface Hover Classic.

In 2018, they designed the brush fonts Austra and Leira, and the display sans font Lokka. Their companies are called RIT Creative, Wildtype Design and Wild Ones Design. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Favete Art
[Olga Zakharova]

Moscow and/or Riga, Latvia-based designer of the pleasingly rough brush typeface Bronks Script (2015) and of the handcrafted typeface Marshmallow (2015). In 2016, she made the dry brush font Density (2016), the brush scripts Firecracker, Caricia, Pepper, Lady in Red (a fine brush script), Asparagus, Siberia (crayon style), Newport (marker font), Emerald and Haiti, Ambrosia Script, the wide calligraphic font Lancaster, the curly watercolor brush script typeface Candyland, Fallen Angel, the Treefrog-style script Lemon, Penelopa, Cutout, and the creamy brush script Marmaris.

Typefaces from 2017: Cutout, Mucho Gusto (Script+Doodles), Scandinavian (textured, patterned), Golden Boy, Rotterdam (dry brush font), Soft Spot (thick soft brush font), Kaleido (a spectcular brush script), Silentium, Big Brush, Sydney (brush), Woodland, Gizmo (marker font), Typetop (dry brush style). [Google] [More]  ⦿

FORTECH

Designers of the Latvian-Russian typefaces LR_Architect, LR_Baltica-Bold, LR_Baltica-BoldItalic, LR_Baltica-Italic, LR_Baltica, LR_Benguiat-Bold, LR_Compact-Italic, LR_Compact, LR_Helvetica-Bold, LR_Helvetica-BoldItalic, LR_Helvetica-RegularItalic, LR_Lazurski-Bold, LR_Lazurski-BoldItalic, LR_Lazurski-Italic, LR_Lazurski, LR_Optima-Bold, LR_Optima, LR_Souvenir, LR_Times-Bold, LR_Times-BoldItalic, LR_Times-Italic, LR_Times, LR_University-Roman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gatis Cirulis
[RAWTYPE]

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Gatis Vilaks
[Wild Ones]

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Gatis Vilaks
[RIT Creative]

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German Ermics

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]  ⦿

GGBot

Latvian designer of the pixel typeface QuinqueFive (2019). In 2020, he added Fortzilla (octagonal caps), E1234 (an LED font), Pulstar, the 3d typeface 3D Isometric, the monoline sans typeface Zector, and the grungy script Kurland. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Girts Ulmanis

Girts Ulmanis (Riga, Latvia) designed the display sans typeface Recorda in 2013 during his studies. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gustavs Andrejs Grinbergs

Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1943, he has mainly cooperated (since 1990) with Tilde in the font development of East-European languages, and has created the AG fonts collection for Cyrillic. He specializes in Cyrillic and East-European extensions of prominent typefaces (such as the ones in the Bitstream collection). His typefaces:

• Linotype Brewery (Linotype), Brewery No2 Pro (2015, Linotype). Brewery No. 2 is based on his submission in 1997 to the Second Linotype Design Contest, and was inspired by early 20th century German type. The Black weight is expressionist.
• Waldorf Pro (2003, Tilde). A didone.
• Robusta (2002, Tilde). A large sans typeface family.
• Linotype Rowena (1996, Linotype).
• Constellation Pro (2009, Tilde). An avant garde sans family with very thin hairline weights.
• Linotype Gneisenauette (Linotype).
• Baltic Ornaments (1999, Tilde).
• Stencil Moonlight (2003, Linotype). This typeface won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003.
• Snowbird (Tilde).
• Am Beauty (2011, Tilde). An art deco family. Includes Am Beauty Stencil.
• Kette Pro (2009, Tilde).
• Rigaer Tango Pro (2009, Tilde). A connected script family with high contrast.
• Brunch Pro (1996, Tilde).
• Exquisite Pro (1998, Tilde).
• Scintilla Pro (2001, Tilde). A delicate text family.
• Tourandot Pro (1999, Tilde).
• Starfighter (Tilde).
• He published the AG Fonts collection, mostly between 1992 and 1994. In the AG fonts collection, we find the following families (non-exhaustive list): AGAalen, AGBengaly, AGCenturion, AGCrown, AGFriQUer, AGGalleon, AGGloria, AGLettericaCOMpr, AGMelanie, AGNewHandbook, AGOpus, AGPalatial, AGPresquire, AGReverence, AGZeppelin.

FontShop link. Linotype link. Klingspor link.

MyFonts collection. View Grinbergs's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gusts Rutkis

Latvian designer of the display typeface Kolka. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ieva Mezule

In 2017, Ieva Mezule and Krisjanis Mezulis (Riga, Latvia) designed the donationware handcrafted typeface Leafy and the free handcrafted typefaces Espa and Espa Extended.

In 2018, Ieva Mezule and Krisjanis Mezulis published the free brush titling font Aloja and Aloja Extended (brush script).

Typefaces from 2019: Loki (a free roman caps font by Krisjanis Mezulis and Ieva Mezule) [Google] [More]  ⦿

Janis Kalaus
[June 23]

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Joiro Hatagaya

Designer of sci-fi and pixelized fonts. Fonts: 8BITWONDERNominal (2001), Cybernetic-Ninja, DotComradeNominal, JHUFNominal (1998, techno), JHDigitalNominal, JHTITLESNominal, NewHorizonsNominal, StellarKombatMENominal, Stellar-Kombat, Vasquez, SpaceMarine, 8BITWONDER, JHTITLES, New Horizons (2001), SpaceMarine, JH_Fallout (2002), Xenophobia (2001).

Open Font Library link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jon Lang

Latvia-based designer of the pixelish typeface Evilborn (2016). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

June 23
[Janis Kalaus]

June23 is a Latvian type foundry run by Janis Kalaus. In 2018, he published Framer Sans (a low-contrast condensed basic sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Karina Kelle

Riga, Latvia-based designer of the brush typeface Imperfect (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karlis Blums

Latvian graphic designer. For a university project, he designed Sanriff. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karlis Kalviskis

Designer at the University of Latvia of the free technical handwriting font family Drukaatie Burti (2015, Open Font Library) and the circle dingbat font Circles 8 9 12 (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Krisjanis Mezulis

Gatis Vilaks (RIT Creative, Riga, Latvia) and Krisjanis Mezulis (Latvian-born art director and painter in Riga, Latvia) together created Besom (2015, a free brush typeface) and Sunn (2014, a free hand-printed typeface).

Mezulis designed the art deco era sans typeface Etan (2015; for Latin and Cyrillic; free) and the rough brush script typeface Plume (2015, free).

In 2015, he designed the free rough brush script typeface Kust, again for both Latin and Cyrillic.

Typefaces from 2016: Fibre Extended Brush, Banaue (a free brush font), Fjord Handwritten (dry brush script; free demo).

Typefaces from 2017: Undeka (sans: MyFonts link), Peomy, Espa (with Ieva Mezulis), Espa Extended Brush (by Ieva Mezule), Avene (a free brush font), Leafy (a handcrafted typeface done with Ieva Mezule), Leafy Extended.

Typefaces from 2018: Aloja Extended (brush script by Ieva and Krisjanis Mezulis), Sanos (brush script), Arber (free).

Typefaces from 2019: Loki (a free roman caps font by Krisjanis Mezulis and Ieva Mezule).

Typefaces from 2020: Nafta Brush Font, Nafta Marker (a free brush font), Nafta Extended, Wuhan (a free slimy horror font), Sanos Extended.

Behance link. Another Behance link. Mezulis's company is called Wild Type or Wild Ones. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kriss Salmanis

Latvian designer of the free retro diner script typeface Camouflage. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristaps Zelmenis

Latvian designer of the free comic book font Explorer (2019). It was inspired by hand-painted signs found off the beaten track. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kristians Sics
[Lamatas un Slazdi]

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Krists Darzins

Riga, Latvia-based designer of the free all caps war propganda typeface Propaganda (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lamatas un Slazdi
[Kristians Sics]

Design studio, est. 1999 in Riga, Latvia. They are doing some type design under the guidance of Kristians Sics, aka Chris Lamatas. No sales or downloads as far as I can tell. Kristians Sics (b. 1961, Riga), who studied at the Art Academy of Latvia, now lives in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he is a graphic designer and illustrator. In 2010, Sics established the commercial foundry Lamatas un Slazdi. Typefaces (from 2010 or just before 2010):

• Burtnieks: comic book face. Covers Latin and Cyrillic.
• Cukurgrauds: meaning Sugarcube, this typeface is for children's or comic books.
• Dienasgaisma: pleasant informal face; for restaurant menus or invitations to art galleries. I guess that this became Gaisma (2010), which was advertised by Kristians as an art nouveau family. Images: Greek and Cyrillic, Greek, Latin and Greek, Latin, sample, example.
• Fette Deutsche Schrift (2011). Fette Deutsche Schrift also known as Koch-Fraktur or Kochschrift was created by Rudolf Koch for Klingspor foundry between 1908 and 1910.
• Frio (2011). A 15-style elliptical family with pereft balance and proportions.
• Kochschrifts: after Rudolf Koch's Kochschrift (1910).
• Lamatas: a mix between ransom note typefaces and informal wood types.
• Liturgisch (2013): after Otto Hupp's Liturgisch (1906).
• Oro y Plata (2013): The collection Oro y Plata (Gold and Silver) is a Mexican style blackletter, dedicated to the three big silver cities---Taxco, Zacatecas and Guanajuato. Taxco is more angular compared to rounded Zacatecas and elaborate Guanajuato. All three are based on vernacular types seen in these cities.
• Ozollapa: a psychedelic face.
• Pastkaste: an elliptical / hexagonal corporate typeface for inbox.lv.
• Periodika: advertised as a typewriter face, but it isn't.
• Piektdiena: informal sans. Contains Cyrillic.
• Tautumeita: an all caps display face.
• TradeGothicBlurred: blurred Trade Gothic Extended.
• Zebiekste: inspired by an architect's hand.

Libertine Open Fonts Project
[Philipp H. Poll]

Now, here is a project with a name I like! This project by Philipp H. Poll has been started in order to create fonts that can be released under the GNU Public License. As of early 2005, we have the following Times New Roman lookalikes: LLibertineCaps, LinLibertine, LinLibertine-Italic, LinLibertineBd. Libertine Grotesque is next on the list of things to do. The fonts came in truetype and fontforge (SFD) text formats, but have now been extended to include opentype and type 1 as well. Linux Libertine covers a big range of Unicode, including all characters in MES-1 (Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Frensh, Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic (new orthography), Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxemburgish, Maltese, Manx Gaelic, Moldavian (with restrictions), Northern Sámi, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian (with restrictions), Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh (with restrictions)), IPA, Greek, Cyrillic, math symbols, and a host of other symbol and language sets. TeX archive. The typophiles are not impressed. Charles Ellertson writes: The bowl of the "a" doesn't fit other letters, the top and terminal of the "f" doesn't know where it is going, the descender of the "y" doesn't balance quite right, and the serif on the upper arm of the "z" (which probably reminded the original poster of Caslon) seems out of place. I get the impression, again from the small sample, that the font doesn't quite know whether it is supposed to be slightly condensed or slightly expanded.

In 2007, the following weights are available: Normal, Kursiv, Fett, Fett Kursiv, Kapitaelchen, Unterstrichen, Grotesk. As a measure of the success of the font, we find that is now used on the logo of Wikipedia.

As a companion font, they offer Linux Biolinum (2010): The Biolinum is an organic sans-serif and could be also described as organogrotesque (non-linear sans serif). It is still in a beta stage. Biolinum is meant for emphasizing titles but could be used also for short passages of text. For longer texts a serif font such as the Libertine should be used in favour of readability The Biolinum has the same vertical metrics and visual weight as the Libertine, so that it fits perfectly to the Libertine and can be also used for emphasizing within the body text. In 2017, Biolilbert was born out of Biolinum. Biolilbert's name is a portmanteau from Biolinum and Hilbert.

In 2012, Bob Tennent created type 1 versions of Biolinum and Libertine.

In 2016, LibertineGC was published by Michael Sharpe at CTAN, adding LaTeX support files for Greek (essentially complete LGR, supporting monotonic, polytonic and ancient features) and Cyrillic.

Another effort at corrections was undertaken by Khaled Hosny in 2016 in his Libertinus family. The Libertinus font family is a fork of Linux Libertine and Linux Biolinum with many bug fixes and improvements. Also included are Libertinus Math, Libertinus Serif (from Lunux Libertine), Libertinus Sans (forked from Linux Biolinum) and Libertinus Mono (from Linux Libertine Mono). Github link. CTAN link for Libertinus, maintained by Herbert Voss.

Dafont link. Fontspace link. CTAN link for Libertineotf. CTAN link for Libertine download. Klingspor link. Klingspor link. CTAN link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liene Bakane

During her studies, Cesis, Latvia-based Liene Bakane designed a thin Latin display typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liene Drazniece

Latvian designer of Mammalampa and the free circle-themed typeface Pump (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linda Strauta

Art student from Latvia who, during her studies at Caldas da Reinha, Portugal, created Citybridge Stencil (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Linda Strauta Brauere

Riga, Latvia-based designer of Citybridge Type (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mara Vulfa

Salaspils, Latvia-based designer of White Vulff (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mikelis Bastiks
[Asketic Design Studio]

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Mikus Vanags

Mikus Vanags (b. 1982) is from Riga, Latvia. He designed a 4-style opentype-feature-loaded family called Etno (2010), which has constructivist undertones. He also created a medical icon set for the Hopitaux de Paris in 2010. Aspasia (2010) is an art deco face. Free typefaces at Dafont include the all-caps no-punctuation typefaces Liva (2007) and Complexity (2007). The caps-only typeface Justicia is a contemporary Roman Serif Capitals typeface suited both for editorial and corporate design. It was designed by Mikus Vanags in 2008 for the government and public administration sector and is not publically available.

MyFonts foundry page. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mostafa El Abasiry

Alexandria, Egypt and Stockholm, Sweden, and Riga, Latvia-based creator of these Arabic typefaces in 2022: Anteeqa.

Typefaces from 2022: Mahbook.

Typefaces from 2021: Mareh, Tashweeq (a truly spectacular Arabic typeface in which glyph is a piece of modern geometric art), Mithqal, Dardashah (an inline Arabic display typeface), Lakhbatah, Lafet, Hawadeet, Caricaturey (a comical and comic book font), Mopaxel (a pixelish color font), Teraaz, Tashweesh (pixelish), Najmy, Rakan.

Typefaces from 2020: Tashkeel (a color font), Talasem, Naghamah (a children's book font), Qafashat, Makana (a fat display typeface), Shakhabeet, Meshkal (Arabic for kaleidoscope: an Arabic display font that is inspired by the kaleidoscopic geometries), Kahraman.

Typefaces from 2019: Mostaqbali, Wafir (condensed), Modhesh, Graffitica, Lamhah, Lattouf, Laftah, Kaleel, Mawzoon.

Typefaces from 2018: Moltaqa, Khorafi, Mateen, Jadeer, Taiween, Lafeef (rounded), Tamema, Ikseer, Origami (a color font), Fenoon, Dahka, Tajreed, Oajoubi.

In 2017, he designed Etlalah, Tashabok, Olfah, Zahey, Alama, Takween (based on the Mashrequi writing style), Loabah, Makeen, Maheeb, Enferad, Paxalah (a pixelish Arabic typeface), Mozarkash (deco style).

Earlier typefaces: Fokaha (2016), Khetab (2016, Kufic), Taleeq (2016), Saiihah (2016, an experimental Arabic typeface), Ahaleel (2016), Inseyab (2016, a monoline Arabic typeface), Ostouri (2015, a heavy calligraphic Arabic typeface), Kaleem (2015, Arabic display typeface), Ebhaar (2015), Tarhaal (2015), Jazeel (2014), Hetaf (2014), Bareeq (2014), Tawasul (2014), Wahaj (2013), Bedayah (2013, a geometric Arabic typeface), Atyaaf (2013, a multiline display face), Aqlaam (2012, Arabic), Falak (2012, Arabic typeface), Ahlan (2012, Arabic typeface), the hairline Arabic typeface Khayal (2012), the fat octagonal typeface PolyFont (2012), the corporate typeface Tasreeh (2012), the comics book font Nokta (2012), Ekleel (2012), Friendo (2012), Retro Town (2012, free demo), and the pixel typefaces Kufigraph (2012), Raqami (2012) and Pixelogist (2012).

Arabic typefaces made in 2013: Fekrah, Fenoon (square Kufic style).

Creative Market link. Dafont link. Behance link. You Work For Them link for Scribo Studio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Normunds Hartmanis

Lithuanian graphic artist and type designer, b. Riga, 1924. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olga Zakharova
[Favete Art]

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Philipp H. Poll
[Libertine Open Fonts Project]

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RAWTYPE
[Gatis Cirulis]

Gatis Cirulis (Rawtype, Latvia) is a graphic designer and illustrator who does projects for individuals and companies in Central Europe and the USA. He specializes in logos, identity, illustration, publication, drawing, painting, lettering, book arts web design. He was art director at McCann Latvia but is now located in Bloomington, IN, where he was Letterpress Type Shop Graduate Assistant at Indiana University Bloomington. He currently lives in Las Cruces, NM. His typefaces:

• The BDSM-inspired all caps alphabet Bound (2009). Example glyphs: A, B, BDSM, C, C, PS. Poster.
• Aker (2010). An erotic all caps alphabet.
• Karo (2010). A free geometric font.
• Frank (2010). A blackletter face.
• Ray Five (2010). A font based on letters that were projected onto the walls of a dark room.

RIT Creative
[Gatis Vilaks]

Gatis Vilaks (RIT Creative, Riga, Latvia) created Weem (2016, free), Thin Line Font (2014), Sunn (2014, a free hand-printed typeface; with Krisjanis Mezulis), Reef (2014, a free rounded sans), and Modeka (2014, a free techno typeface in which elliptical curves are at war with octagonal forces).

In 2015, he went commercial and published Sunn Pro (Latin and Cyrillic) and Summer (a handcrafted Latin / Cyrillic typeface co-designed with Evita Vilaka).

Free typefaces from 2016: Vintii (with Evita Vilaks; see also Vintii Extended, 2017), Deepo, Alepo.

Free typefaces from 2017: Cornera (hexagonal; free), Sunn Line Serif.

Creative Market link. Behance link. Gumroad link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ryan Pescatore Frisk
[Strange Atrtractors Design]

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Sergejs Kolecenko

Sergejs Kolecenko (b. 1989, Riga) is currently studying fine art and type design at the Art Academy of Latvia. He designed the display family Fingerz (2011). MyFonts link.

Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Slapjs Kakjis

Latvian designer of Wet Cat (1998). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Strange Atrtractors Design
[Ryan Pescatore Frisk]

Together with Catelijne van Middelkoop, Ryan Pescatore Frisk established Strange Attractors Design in the Netherlands. Their creations include Turfhaus (custom design sans), Cranbrook 53 (custom dingbats face), Fourteen Boxed (custom), Hey Dutchie! (custom face), Grau (custom hand-drawn version of Weiss), King of Latvia (custom made) and Brunn, a display typeface that won an award at TDC2 2004. Ryan received a BFA in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art and Design in 1999, and an MFA in 2D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2002. In 2004-2005, he is a grad student at the KABK in Den Haag. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Teleserviss un Telebusiness

Latvian page with about ten mixed Latin/Cyrillic TrueType fonts: the Atunt family, and CNtunt, a Courier New family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Terrapin Font Services

British font service house: can sell you most of the commercial fonts. Sells also fonts for Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Farsi, Greek, Gujurati, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese (Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji), Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh. Has barcode fonts, and is a special distributor of the Royal Mail Barcode font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tilde (was: AG Fonts)

Reinis Ludvik's Riga-based Latvian font design and software development company sells high quality fonts (adapted from Bitstream fonts) for Baltic, Cyrillic, Turkish and Eastern European languages. Includes the AG Baltia fonts by Andrejs Grinbergs. Commercial Cyrillic fonts based on Bitstream fonts.

The Tilde/AG Fonts collection published between 1991-1995 also includes these families designed by Andrejs Grinbergs: AGAalenBold, AGBengaly, AGCenturion, AGCrown, AGFriQUer, AGGalleon, AGGloria, AGLetterica, AGMelanie, AGNewHandbook, AGOpus, AGOpusHR, AGPalatial, AGPresquire, AGReverence, AGZeppelin.

The Bitstream-based collection comprised these typefaces in 2015: Aachen, Aldine 401, Aldine 721, Allegro, Alternate Gothic, Am Beauty, Amazone, Amelia, Americana, Amerigo, Aurora, Baker Signet, Balloon, Baltic Ornaments, Bank Gothic, Baskerville, Bell Centennial, Belwe, Bernhard Fashion, Bernhard Modern, Bernhard Tango, Blippo, Bodoni, Bremen, Broadway, Brunch Pro, Brush 445, Brush 738, Brush Script, Calligraph 421, Candida, Carmina, Cataneo, Caxton, Century Old Style, Cheltenham, Clarendon, Classical Garamond, Cloister Black, Cloister, Commercial Script, Constellation Pro, Cooper, Copperplate Gothic, Davida, Della Robbia, Dom, Egyptian 505, Elegant Garamond, Empire, English 111, English 157, Engravers Gothic, Engravers Old English, Exquisite Pro, Flareserif 821, Flemish Script, Folio, Formal 436, Fraktur, Franklin Gothic, Freehand 471, Freehand 521, Freehand 575, Freehand 591, Futura, Futura Black, Geometric 231, Geometric 415, Geometric 706, Geometric 885, Geometric Slabserif 703, Gothic 720, Gothic 725, Gothic 821 Condensed, Goudy Handtooled, Goudy Heavyface, Goudy Old Style, Handel Gothic, Hobo, Humanist 521, Humanist 531, Humanist 777, Huxley Vertical, Impress, Impuls, Incised 901, Informal 011, Kaufmann, Kette Pro, Kuenstler 480, Lapidary 333, Letter Gothic 12, Liberty, Libra, Lucian, Lydian, Lydian Cursive, Matt Antique, Mirarae, Mister Earl, Monterey, Murray Hill, News 702, News 705, News 706, News Gothic, Nuptial, OCR-B-10, Onyx, Oranda, Orator 10, Original Garamond, Parisian, Park Avenue, Piranesi, Poster Bodoni, Prestige 12, Raleigh, Revue, Ribbon 131, Rigaer Tango Pro, Robusta, Romana, Roundhand, Schadow, Scintilla Pro, Seagull, Serifa, Shotgun, Snow Cap, Snowbird, Square 721, Staccato 222, Staccato 555, Starfighter, Stencil, Swiss 721, Tango, Tourandot Pro, Transitional 521, Transitional 551, Umbra, University Roman, VAG Rounded, Waldorf Pro, Wedding Text, Windsor, Zapf Calligraphic 801, Zapf Elliptical 711, Zapf Humanist 601, Zurich.

MyFonts link where one finds Starfighter TL (2012, a font family for gamers), Snowbird (2011, informally hand-printed family), Constellation Pro (geometric sans family), Kette Pro and Rigaer Tango Pro (calligraphic script).

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Viktorija Atarinova

Illustrator in Riga, Latvia, who designed the handcrafted typeface Baltic Holidays in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

WIG LAT

Latvian studio. Creators of the display typeface Dubult Dibens (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wild Ones
[Gatis Vilaks]

Riga, Latvia-based designers Krisjanis Mezulis, Evita Vilaka and Gatis Vilaks are the Wild Ones.

Typefaces from 2020 include Inola (a script), Quira (a geometric sans) and Quint (a sans).

In 2018, Gatis Vilaks designed Monly. In 2017, they designed Hover Lite (free), Mona (by Evita Vilaka), Modeka Extended, Entra (free), Sunn Line, Sunn Line Serif and Sunn Serif, a handcrafted typeface family.

They created these typefaces in 2016: Fibre, Etna (by Krisjanis Mezulis), Fjord (brush style, by Krisjanis Mezulis), Kust Extended Brush (by Krisjanis Mezulis), Plume (by Krisjanis Mezulis), Besom (brush style, by Krisjanis Mezulis). In 2015, they designed Summer (Gatis Vilaks and Evita Vilaka).

In 2014, Gatis Vilkas and Evita Vilaks co-designed Reef (2014, a free rounded sans), Sunn Pro (2014) and Thin Line Font (2014). Their company was called RIT Creative. Gatis Vilaks designed Weem (2016) and Modeka (2014). Creative Market link. Behance link. Behance link for Gatis Vilaks. Behance link for Wild Ones. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Zanda Markitane

Riga, Latvia-based designer of an angular typeface simply called Lettering (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿