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8AV
[Octavian Catana]

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the light-hearted (perhaps children's book) display typeface Circonia (2018).

In 2019, he released the sports font Deportivo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Accurate Collective

Accurate Collective (Bucharest, Romania) created some unnamed display fonts in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Acute Studio
[Diana Ovezea]

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 Type & Media program at KABK in Den Haag. Some time later, she set up Acute Studio in Amsterdam under the motto: We like sharp outlines, tight curves, and edgy designs.

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]  ⦿

Adela Aruxandei

Romanian designer of the techno typeface Neo Modern (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adelina Butnaru

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of Handwritten Typeface (2014), which reminds me a bit of some German school script styles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adina Gabriela Badea

Romanian designer of Papoa (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adina Ochea

Romanian designer in Amsterdam who created the free typeface Soul Puddle (2014). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Den

Romanian designer in 2011 of Sharpener (hand-printed), Bored Learner (hand-printed) and Monstriska. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Adam

Software developer in Bucharest, Romania, who specializes in generative and algorithmic art and design. Github page. He has used Andreas Koller's Fontastic tool to create a family of generative experimental typefaces in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Botezatu

Illustrator and digital artist in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He created a script face in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Cuibari

Romanian designer of the free sans typeface Amurg (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Damache

Copenhagen, Denmark-based designer, originally from Constanta, Romania, of the brush script typeface Oasis Forever (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Grigoras

Bucharest, Romania-based designer (b. 1989) of the thin monoline techno typeface Grigo (2013).

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

Alex Macsoda

Art director in Bucharest, Romania. Behance link. Creator of the futuristic poster typeface Einstein (2010) and the rounded octagonal typeface Element (2010). In 2018, he designed the free typeface family Superfatty. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Naf

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the rounded oily (bubblegum) sans typeface Bossu (2015) and the beveled typeface Lumberjack (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Sorin Marinescu

Iasi, Romania-based designer of the art nouveau typeface Zos (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Traian Munteanu
[Zeppelin Graphics]

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Alexander Stanciu

Romanian graphic designer who has some interesting type posters such as Bancophone (2009) and Necro (2009). He lives in Bucharest. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra

Romanian designer of an unnamed lachrymal typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Ardelian

Designer in Timisoara, Romania, who made a colorful and intricate typographic composition in 2013 entitled Liternictwo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Damalan

Graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest, Romania. Bucharest-based creator of Fashion Typeface (2011, ornamental caps).

Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandru Darie

Iasi, Romania-based brand identity designer. Creator of the strictly geometric sans typeface Medica (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandru Mihis
[Headfonts Store (was: Mcraft, and Mihis Design)]

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Alexandru Molnar

Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania-based designer of the great poster typeface Akido (2017) and the art deco typeface Captain Joe (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexe Popescu

Graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest, Romania. He created these typefaces:

  • Grog
  • Link (2009)
  • Vengo: an organic typeface
  • Zeka: a space disco typeface based on semicircles
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Alien Valley

Studio in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Creator of the curly script typeface Violet Night (2015) and the poster typeface Hornhill (2016, Sans and Serif).

Typefaces from 2019: Whitefield, Alterwave (a sans family), Greenmark (Peignotian), Günterhaus (a didone), AfterOne, Bluristy, Archelaos, Finnmark, Quinlee, Glitterino, Commodus, Exophis, Klausen (inspired by Trajan caps0, Osmund (a clean bold gemetric sans), Multiberry, Helmwick (a signature script), Benfield (wild calligraphy), Clocksmith (a piano key typeface), Westboy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alien Valley
[Richard Postelnicu]

Romanian graphic designer. Creator of of Romagna (2022), an 8-style sans family with futuristic traits. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ana Maria Burtea

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of an untitled monospaced font in 2014 during her studies at National University of Arts Bucharest. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Stefan

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Flux (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anca Dumy

Constellation (2013) is a connect-the-dots typeface designed by Anca Dumy, a graphic designer in Timisoara, Romania.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Stan

Romanian lettering artist based in Germany. Designer of the informal inline typeface Thanks (2020, Monotype). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andreea Bizic

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the squarish modular typeface Bizinia (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreea Drobota

Cluj-Napoca, Romania-based designer of Kailo Sans (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreea Marciuc

Baile Herculane, Romani-based designer of Gridstruct (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrei Chirisi

Art director in Bucharest, Romania. In 2014, Raluca Circo and Andrei Chirisi co-designed the display typeface Rahove Typerehab. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrei Ograda

Graphic designer from Bucharest (and now Burriana, Spain) who made these typefaces in 2011: STT, Rock, Square, Desgraciado, Cylon, Kalypso, Dgtl, Passio, Sting, and VCT. Via Dos Cabrones, he partners with Vian Peanu.

He hooked up with Pose Radu in 2017 and set up The Jumping Foxes. Through The Jumping Foxes, they commercialized Radu's Matisse design as JF Matisse (2017). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrei Olaru
[Kreativ Font]

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Andrei Robu
[Typeverything]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrei Scarlatescu

Graphic Designer Andrei Scarlatescu is based in Bucharest, Romania. He created the painted-look Ansqeron typeface in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreia Dina

During her studies in Bucharest, Romania, Andreai Dina designed the modular octagonal display typeface Display14 (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Alex

Graphic designer in Deva, Romania, who created the all caps art deco typeface Expresso Verage in 2016. Aka Graphicity. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anisoara Mina

During her studies, Anisoara Mina (Bucharest, Romania) created Sky (2015, a monoline rounded sans typeface) and Dama de Caro (2015, a playing card font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Podoleanu

Graphic designer and illustrator in Bucharest, Romania. Creator of an untitled art deco typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arama Alisa

Romanian designer. During her studies in 2013, she created an austere monospaced typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arina Stoenescu

Arina Stoenescu (b. 1969, Bucharest) is a doctoral student at Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Book history. Her doctoral thesis is entitled Typography and Politics. The political impact of typography in newspapers from Romania during the communist time (1948-1989). She lives in Stockholm since 1989. In 2010 she started the first independent type design and typography courses in Swedish universities. Speaker at ATypI 2017 Montreal: An atypical history of type in Romania 1508-1989. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artemisa Pascu

During her studies in Bucharest, Romania, Artemisa Pascu created the display typeface Xenology (2015, almost an arts-and-crafts typeface) and Constellation (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Axinte

Four truetype fonts of the R-Times-NewRomanPS family (for Romanian accents). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bastard Metre

Romanian designer of the curly serif typeface Metshige (2005). Obsolete web page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatrix Vele

During her studies at UNArte (National University of Arts) in Bucharest, Romania, Beatrix Vele designed the dot matrix script typeface Dotty (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bechira Sorin

Graphic designer from Timisoara, Romania. He created some font designs in 2008: Olympics, Flickr (grunge), Smoke Elements, Handdrawn Elements, and a black geometric face. Behance link showing custom-made fonts, from frilly to graffiti, and artsy fat, to leafy caps. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Biliana Velikova

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the school project typeface Impossible Numbers (2015) and the school project icon set Supermarket Pictograms (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bogdan Balatchi
[DePlictis Type (was: ESS Fonts)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bogdan Casota
[Design A Lot]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bogdan Homer

Brasov, Romania-based designer of Alphalines (2013, a graffiti-inspired decorative caps typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bogdan Oancea

Romanian designer of the textured typeface Kneato (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bogdan Sandu

Web designer in Bucharest, Romania. His type designs include True Sketch (2015, with Tom Chalky), Troia (2015: a sans serif co-designed with Tom Chalky), Tallow (2015) and Jovial (2015). Behance link. Buy Jovial here. Buy Tallow here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bogdan Stetco

Bogdan is from Timisoara, Romania, where he is a graphic designer. In 2008, he created the delicately designed Automatic family of sans typefaces. No downloads or font sales. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bosca David

Romanian digital phot expert and graphic designer. He has invented some interesting symbols for various things and activities. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Botond Csiby-Gindele

At the Visual Arts Institute, Eger, Hungary, Botond Csiby-Gindele (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania) designed the experimental square typeface Qadratic (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brandspark
[Razvan Miclaus]

Turda, Romania-based designer of these handcrafted typefaces in 2017: Monky (sic), Journey, Aventura (brush style). In 2018, he designed Minima One and the free typeface Neon One. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Charles J. Coker
[Navajo Fonts&Language]

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Chris Wiener

Designer of GFWaterproof (1998), Storyboard (with Gottfried Müller), and Media Icons (1999) at GarageFonts. Chris was born in Romania and grew up in Germany. He lives in Emmershausen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Colorblind
[Octavian Belintan]

Octavan Belintan (Colorblind Studio, Arad, Romania) created the free triangulated caps typeface Adamas (2012). Free download.

Behance link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristi Bordeianu

Iasi, Romania-based designer of the great mischievous retro sans typeface family Brightwell (2018), co-designed with Tudor Munteanu, with whom she runs Namogo. In 2018, Tudor Munteanu and Cristi Bordeianu co-designed the all-caps sans typeface Jaques. In 2018, Cris published the grotesque sans family Kentledge.

In 2021, Cristi Bordeianu and Andrei Robu co-designed Champ, a starkly incised display typeface family ranging from fashionable ultra-heavy to a flared thin. It includes a variable font as well. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cristi Burc

Romanian digital photographer (b. 1989) who lives in Suceava. Creator of Rounded Blocks (2007), a pixelish sans face. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristian Boian

Designer and illustrator from Curtea de Arges, Romania. In 2011, he created the experimental typeface Alfabeta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristian Mielu

Romanian designer of the squarish typeface Bricked (2020), the modular display typeface Bent Knives (2020), and the stencil font Mermaid Motions (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cristiana Costin

During her graphic design studies in Bucharest, Romania, Cristiana Costin created Single Line Typeface (2014) and Braila City Icon Set (2014). In 2016, she designed a hybrid of Bodoni and Gill. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristina Corobleanu

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the modular typeface Capsule (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daia
[Diana Grigore]

Bucharest, Romania-based FontStructor who designed the free typeface Onfire (2018), later renamed Bonfire. FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Ciobanu

For a truly fun psychedelic lettering application, check out Scartihstan (2012) by Dan Ciobanu, a senior designer in Timisoara, Romania. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Marian Sabanovici

Romanian designer (b. 1988) of the free fonts Reqtangular (2018), Kwintus Halved (2018), Editors (2017), Despair (2014: curly vampire face) and Manic Sea (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dan Vuletici
[iLuv Color]

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Daniel

Daniel (Hakito Jin) is the Romanian designer of the metal rock band typeface Hakital (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daria Bundur

Art director in Bucharest, Romania, who created the deco typeface Benew Sans in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darie Antonia

During her studies, Pitesti, Romania-based Darie Antonia designed a square-faced dingbat font (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Laszlo

Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania-based co-designer, with Nagy Vilmos, of the deco typeface Hencz (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

DejaVu Fonts
[Stepan Roh]

The DejaVu fonts form an open source font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts. Free download. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters (see Current status page for more information) while maintaining the original look and feel through the process of collaborative development. Included are DejaVuSans-Bold, DejaVuSans-BoldOblique, DejaVuSans-Oblique, DejaVuSans, DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold, DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique, DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique, DejaVuSansCondensed, DejaVuSansMono-Bold, DejaVuSansMono-BoldOb, DejaVuSansMono-Oblique, DejaVuSansMono-Roman, DejaVuSerif-Bold, DejaVuSerif-BoldOblique, DejaVuSerif-Oblique, DejaVuSerif-Roman, DejaVuSerifCondensed-Bold, DejaVuSerifCondensed-BoldOblique, DejaVuSerifCondensed-Oblique, DejaVuSerifCondensed.

Authors and contributors comprise Adrian Schroeter, Ben Laenen, Dafydd Harries, Danilo Segan (Cyrillic), David Jez, David Lawrence Ramsey, Denis Jacquerye, Dwayne Bailey, James Cloos, James Crippen, Keenan Pepper, Mashrab Kuvatov, Misu Moldovan (Romanian), Ognyan Kulev, Ondrej Koala Vacha, Peter Cernák, Sander Vesik, Stepán Roh (project manager; Polish), Tavmjong Bah, Valentin Stoykov, and Vasek Stodulka. The idea is to eventually cover most of unicode. Currently, this is covered: Latin (+supplement, extended A and part of extended B), IPA, Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, N'ko, Tifinagh, Lao, Canadian aboriginal syllabics, Ogham, Arabic, math symbols, arrows, Braille, chess, and many dingbats.

Alternate download site. Wiki page with download information.

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

Delia Raicu

Delia Raicu (Bucharest, Romania) created RATB (2013, a dot matrix font for Regia Autonoma de Transport Bucuresti), Winter Holiday Font (2013, pixelish) and Electronics Dingbats (2013) during her graphic design studies.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DePlictis Type (was: ESS Fonts)
[Bogdan Balatchi]

Graphic designer Bogdan Balatchi (DePlictis Type, and before that, ESS Fonts) graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Arts of West University in Timisoara, Romania. Most of his work is inspired by old Slavic calligraphy.

Bogdan created the display sans typeface Facebook Letter Faces (2011) and the medieval lettering typeface Kogaion ESS (2011), which are both free. Klauss (2011) and Pain in the sky (2011) are commercial soft techno typefaces.

In 2012, Bogdan created the groovy typeface Best Party Of The Week-End.

In 2020, he released BlinkHead (a modular typeface), Damasquine (an art deco-ish Greek enulation font), and Architype AD-2014.

In 2021, he published Greuceanu (a decorative archaic typeface), Areon Flux (a modular typeface), Squadzone (an urban techno font) and the medieval font Monasterka (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Design A Lot
[Bogdan Casota]

Bucharest, Romania-based designer (b. 1992, Bucharest) of Sloppy Hand (2016), Cabo Rounded (2016) and HandBrushed (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Chalk, Ballpen, Headache (hipster typeface), Motanly (brush style), Zappat, Elegant Roughness, Cabo Slab, Zappat Black (free).

Typefaces from 2019: Big Spender (a signature script).

Typefaces from 2019: Yet Untitled (a black octagonal typeface). Behance link.

Typefaces from 2022: Brandogram (7 styles). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Diana Grigore
[Daia]

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Diana Ovezea
[Acute Studio]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Diana Raileanu

Iasi, Romania (and before that, Chisinau, Moldova)-based designer of the octagonal pattern-themed typeface Carpatic (2017) and the incised / flared typeface Diametra (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Draghia Cornel

Romanian creator (b. 1967) in Bucharest of the free fonts DCC Ash (2013, grungy headline face), DCC Manifest (2013, grungy caps), DCC Scisor (2013), DCC Bushido (2013), DCC Bomber (2013, letterpress grungified), DCC Dreamer (2013), DCC Marker Quick (2013), DCC Cloud (2013), DCC Anatolia Strong (2013), DCC Anatolia Classic (2013), DCC Stripes (2012), DCC The Aliens Are Coming (2012), DCC Stained Aliens (2012), DCC Long Nails (2011), DCC Marker Latino (2010) and DCC Sharp Distress Black (2010), and of the blackboard bold style font Cornel (2007).

Alternate URL. Home page. Devian tart link to his vector art. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dragos Gavrila

Romanian designer. FontStructor known as grafician who made the kitchen tile font d-struct (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eliza Marin

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the minimalist sans all caps typeface Zen (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emanuel Istvan

Arad, Romania-based designer of the italic speed font Gasca (2017), which has a free demo. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Epic Coders (or: Epic Shop)

Timisoara, Romania-based designer of Epic Outlines (2015, an icon font with 1000+ vector format icons). It seems trhat there is also a programming font embedded in it. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Erdokozi

Timisoara, Romania-based graphic designer. Behance link. He made the high-contrast display typeface Bloob (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

EversonMono for MacOs

Free Mac fonts in the EversonMono series for CSX, Celtic, Croatian, Cyrillic, Esperanto, Gaelic, Georgian, Greek, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Ogham, Romanian, Sami, and Turkish. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fatma Engin

Cluj-Napoca, Romania-based student-designer of the alchemic typeface Kashmir (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felix Diaconu

Romanian logo designer. He created the logotype Scorpionne (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flash Graphics

Bucharest-based designer of these vintage typefaces in 2020: Forestion, Explorium, Venatura, Westage (spurred, western), Rustica Slab, Timburns. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Florin Chitic

Romanian designer of the script typefaces Abeb Script (2015: swashy calligraphic caps), Fristo Script (2015) and Astor (2015). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Florin Florea

Romanian graphic designer (b. 1963, Timisoara) who lives in Cluj-Napoca, and graduated in 1992 from the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca. He teaches in the Design Department of the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca.

Creator of these typefaces:

  • Columnion (2015). A free Greek column-inspired typeface designed together with Mihnea.
  • Kogaion SC FR (2011). Medieval lettering.
  • Friends (2009). A dandy serifed typeface.
  • The calligraphic brush script Manualito Flo (2011).
  • Archaic Romanesc and Archaic Cali. These typefaces are based on types found in Romanian calligraphy books from ca. 1930. See also ArchaicOrnamental (2009) which is based on a poster from 1975 by Aurelian Petrescu. Check also Alphabattle S (2010).
  • The Arhaic series, all Latin typefaces in the old Slavonic style: Arhaic Miron Costin, Arhaic Boier (2012), Arhaic Atanasie, Arhaic Arnota.
  • Manastirea Dealu.

Dafont link. Behance link. Fontspace link. Wordpress link. Abstract Fonts link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fonturi Romanesti

Commercial Romanian fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FoRo

Shareware Romanian fonts. Direct access. Huge selection of fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FREELANG Fuentes

Spanish language site for various non-Latin language fonts. A sampling: Afus Deg Wfus 2 (for Berber), AlKatib1 (2001, an Arabic typeface by Naseem Amjad), Albanian, Alice_0 (Lao typeface by by Ngakham Southichack), LAOMAY_5 CHAREUNSILP (Lao typeface by by Soupasith Bouahom), Arial AMU (1999, Armenian typeface by Ruben Tarumian), BaltFrutigerLight, BaltHelveticaMedium, BaltNewCenturySchoolbookMedium, BaltOptimaMedium, BaltTiffanyMedium, BaltUniversityMedium, CarloAtor (1997, Arabic family by Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), Caligraf-W, Ciula (1996, a Romanian typeface by Paul Hodor), Cursiv (Romanian), AnlongvillKhek, GabrialAtor (another Arab family by Timm Erickson), Gin, Greek (1993, by Peter J. Gentry&Andrew M. Fountain), HandSign (1993, Sam Wang), HFMassisShantNUnicode (1990-1994, an Armenian unicode typeface by BYTEC Computers and Massis Graphics), HONGKAD (1994, a family by Dr. Hongkad Souvannavong), IsmarBold, IsmarLight, Lakshmi, X000000A (1994, a lao typeface by Sith Bouahom), LAOMAY_2-CHAREUNSILP, Alice3Medium, Alice0Medium, Langagedessignes (1998, by Philippe and François Blondel), NorKirk (1997, a great Armenian typeface by Ruben Tarumian), NovaTempo (for Esperanto), Pazmaveb (for Armenian), ILPRumanianB100 (1996, by Charles J. Coker), Saysettha-Lao, Saysettha-LaoBold, SenzorgaAnhok, Timok, Tribuno, Turn-W, TimesUnicode, ArialAMU, PoliceTypeAPI (for Armenian), Cieszyn-Regular, PoojaNormal, Shibolet (1995, Hebrew), Shree-Ass-0552 (2000, by Modular InfoTech), Tudor-Semi-Lite, Webdunia, TimesNRCzech, TNRLiboriusVII (2001, a fully accented Times typeface by Libor Sztemon), GreatMoravia (2001 Libor Sztemon, Czechia), Johaansi-ye-Peyravi (2001, a full accent blackletter typeface by Libor Sztemon, Czechia), TimesNREuskaraEuransiEsperanto (2001, Libor Sztemon). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frunzete Dorin

Frunzete Dorin (Agoni), b. 1981, who lives in Resita, Romania, created the gothic typeface Zimp (2004). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriel Jozsef Oros

Gabriel Jozsef Oros (Satu Mare, Romania) designed the 3d-effect Screw Font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriel Munteanu

Romanian designer of the brush script typeface Probably Not (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriela Condrea

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the watercolor brush script typeface Aquila (2017). Aka Charushella. [Google] [More]  ⦿

George Dobrogeanu
[Something Design]

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Gheorghe Iosif

Designer in Arad, Romania, who created the grungy old typewriter font Pareidolia (2011) and the grungy Defective Metal Font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gror
[Remus Gugean]

Romanian designer of the octagonal typeface Granic (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Headfonts Store (was: Mcraft, and Mihis Design)
[Alexandru Mihis]

Timisoara, Romania-based designer of the fat blackletter typeface Black Baron (2015).

In 2016, he made the modular typeface family Epicon, the vintage typeface Knucklehead (sans and spurred version), the spurred Velasco, the octagonal typeface family Knox, Scripthead, Monogram World (+Vintage), the monoline script typeface Catarg, and the octagonal typeface family Epicoff (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Bauhead (piano key or Bauhaus style), Hammerhead (free at YWFT), Typehead (industrial; +Stencil, +Deco), Flathead Round, Merak, Millennium.

Typefaces from 2018: Spearhead, Mudhead, Mudhead Serif, Blackhead, Numhead (industrial, octagonal), Modernhead (Serif, Sans).

Typefaces from 2019: Rustyhead, Uphead, Penhead, Decohead (+Display), Hothead, Inkhead, Techead, Retrohead, Blockhead (+Nova), Overhead (a sports font).

Typefaces from 2020: Techead (a minimalist sans for start-ups), Nordhead.

Typefaces from 2021: Arthead, Zighead.

Typefaces from 2022: Blishead, RutheadArt Deco Monogram, Wildhead, Fathead.

Mcraft link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Horatiu Radoiu

New York City-based designer of Atletico BK Jersey Font (2016). For the 2016 NFL draft he created two brush typefaces, Draft 16 and Digidraft. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Horea Grindean

UK-based type designer from Campia Turzii near Cluj, Romania. At his foundry, he published the minimalist geometric experimental typeface Creion (2010). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

iLuv Color
[Dan Vuletici]

Located in Timisoara, Romania (b. 1978), Dan Vuletici made the delicate curly and bubbly typefaces Palm of Buddha (2009) and Monkey Love (2009). iLuv Color is his business site. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Inky Deals (was: Design TNT)

Bucharest, Romania-based creator in 2015 of Barberino, CarloMarlo, Coupcake, Klangdam, Linolino, Mandarina, Red Cloud, Rolo, Skinny and Them Bones. These mostly handcrafted typefaces can be bought here.

As Inky Deals, they created Abelia, Adrastia, Amara, Aria, Arpeggio, Augustino, Barberino, Bernice, Blok Party, Carlomarlo, Chaliels Poem, ClassyPirate, Corque, CoupCake, Crayonello, Curlee, Dervish, Doodley, Eggplant, Fantonello, Franz, Fresh-juice, Goodjacket, Gustav, Inkscapade, Kapow, Klangdam, Laydon, LeBourgeois, Linolino, Litteratum, Mandarina, Mustachelle, Petunia, RedCloud, Retronica, Ribbonada, Robotika, Rolo, Rotunda Extended, Rotunda, Skinny, Stripped, Tall Kiddo, Tall Ball, Tall marker, Them Bones, Wilde Side, Wilhelmina, Woodward, Wuggle. Several of these typefaces are multi-font families. They include various sketch fonts and layerable designs. Design TNT link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ioan Decean
[Pixaroma]

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Ioana Avram

Fashion illustrator in Bucharest. She did some brush alphabets in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ioana Dumitrescu

Bucarest, Romania-based designer. Creator of the experimental blocky typeface Cubical (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ioana Negulescu

Graphic designer in Bucharest, Romania. Creator of the alchemic typeface Romaniology (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ioana Vlad Munteanu

Graphic designer and typographer in Bucharest, Romania. Her typefaces include Deco Interrupted (2009, stencil) and Overlaping 80s (2009) (sic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ionut Husanu

Bicaz, Romania-based student, b. 1989. Creator of the irregular handwriting fonts Interes (2007) and Eradicate (2007). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ionut Radulescu

Graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest, Romania. Illustration designer in Savannah, GA. Creator of the hand-drawn Bella Hand type family (2011): Bella Hand Decorative, Bella Hand Outline and Bella Hand Simple were created for Bella Italia, through McCann Erickson London. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Istvan Vasil

Graphic designer from Oradea, Romania, who made Spoke (2009, letters imitating bicycle spokes). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iulia Strejan
[Miss Shiva]

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Iulian Iancu

Cluj-Napoca, Romania-based designer of the brush typeface Toshi Emori (2018, with Nikita Paula Rus) and the elliptical sans typeface Anlock (2018, with Nikita Paula Rus). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iulian Maftei

Iasi, Romania (and now, London, UK)-based designer of Runaway Font (2015, a handcrafted typeface that can be bought here). Mosk (2016) is a great free linear sans serif typeface family. Still in 2016, he published the free typeface Berliner.

In 2019, he released the sans typeface family Gallivanter. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jas Graphic Tools

Romanian designer of the brush font Tantrum (2015) and the handcrafted typefaces Aurada (2015) and Contoured Aurada (2015). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karina Duca

Cluj Napoca, Romania-based designer, b. 1993, of the script typefaces Yummy Burger (2019: monoline), Jungle (2018), Under The Mistletoe (2017) and Mrs. Maillias (2018), and the dancing letter font Christmas Candy (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kolcsar Szilard Zsolt

As a student, Targu Mures, Romania-based designer Kolcsar Szilard Zsolt created the free modular typeface Millunium Bold (2016). Still in 2016, he designed the free rounded typeface Erial, which was a school project at Visual Arts Institute, Eger, Hungary.

In 2018, he published Fifita Ligatures, a free sans typeface with as central theme "ligatures". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kreativ Font
[Andrei Olaru]

Andrei Olaru (Kreativ Font, Bucharest, Romania, b. 1979) created the simplistic hand-printed typefaces Ultra, Ga Goo (a spermatozoid connect-the-dots face), Maria, Andrei and Oceania in 2013. Gross (2013) emulates a stone age look. Toranaga is an Asian bamboo stick typeface that was inspired by James Clavell's Shogun. Other typefaces include Handa (2014), Oceania and Andrei Pro (2014), which are all hand-printed.

Kreativ Font is also a free font download site.

Dafont link. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

L. Valentin

Graphic designer in Giurgiu, Romania, who created the free pixel typeface Cubixel (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Larisa Mihaela Toma

During her studies in Bucharest, Romania, Larisa Mihaela Toma designed the FontStruct fonts Pinata (2018) and One Line (2018). FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Dimitru

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]  ⦿

Lehocz Tibi

Timisoara, Romania-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Traveler (2015). Aka Digitavern. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Levi Szekeres

Cluj, Romania-based creator (b. 1973) of Levi Brush (2004, brush face), Levi ReBrushed (2012), Lipsum (2011, hand-printed), Levi Marker, Levi Crayola, Lorem Ipsum, LeviNaiveLetter1 (grunge), LeviWindowsExtraLight (pixel face), Pxlxxl (2012, pixel face). These were all made under the alias Scotch Kitsch Sandwich.

In 2013, he made Pxl, Pxll and Pxlxxl Cond. In 2014, he published the stencil typeface Rubber and the condensed roundish sans typeface Ruler. In 2015 he made HermanoMayor, HighVoltage-Rough, HighVoltage, Ruler-Modern.

Typefaces from 2016: Ruler Stencil, Loveletter No. 9, Ruler Volume, Hermano Alto Chisel (octagonal), Fashion Fetish, Gotcha Gothic, Hermano Alto, Supercaligrafilisticexpialidoc, Cry Brush, Loveletter No. 9, Post Scriptum.

Typefaces from 2017: Sugar & Vinegar (a rounded art nouveau typeface), Fat Flamingo 5 (didone fat face), Hermanoalto Unicase, Ogonek (a great sans family), Ogonek Unicase, Golden Age.

Typefaces from 2019: Windows Outline, Windows Dots, Pxlxxl, Virgula Vulgaris (a text typeface).

Dafont link. Home page. Old URL. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lica Eugen

During his studies, Lica Eugen (Bucharest, Romania) created the monospaced display typeface Doori display (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liviana Popa

Graphic designer and art director in Bucharest, Romania, who studied at UNARTE. She created the experimental Water Alphabet (2010) and Space Alphabet (2012). In 2013, she custom-designed the squarish modular typeface Flower Shop. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Liviu
[Zamolxis]

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Liviu Antonescu

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the handcrafted poster typeface Cafe Racer (2014), the vintage signage typeface Brooks Brothers (2016, in styles called Douglas, James and Matthew), the brush signage script The Hunter (2016), the marker script Sharpeye Type (2015), the thick cursive typefaces Sweetie (2016) and Geneve (2016), and the signage script Goldeye (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Flourish (swashy calligraphic script), Buoyage, Overheat (connected script).

Typefaces from 2019: Replay (signage script), Tyler (script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Logo Orange
[Mihai Licanescu]

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the monospaced chamfered modular typeface Eraserhead (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lorand Coc

Baia Mare, Romania-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Skinny Mel (2015), Carioka (2015) and Sisica (2014), and the condensed sans typeface Mitu (2014). In 2015, he designed Lettra (and-crafted), Noyz (grungy). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lovepower Designs
[Mircea Bucsa]

Transylvanian designer of these script typefaces in 2017: Stuggle More, Bedtime Stores, Be Perky, Macarons. He also designed the rounded titling typeface Hard Work (2017), Broscoi (2018: a poster typeface) and Bark Wise (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luca Emme

Torino, Italy-based designer of the free font Romanjo (2016). He writes: Font created for the cover of BUJO#07. The font is inspired by certain lettering observed during a trip to Romania within several religious structures indentifiable with the Neo-Romanian and the Brancovenesc architectural style. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MacCampus
[Sebastian Kempgen]

Europe's largest independent foreign language font developer for the Macintosh, which is directed by Sebastian Kempgen from Germany. Fonts include: Western Languages (CoreFont series), Eastern Europe (CE-Font series), Cyrillic (Professional series: RomanCyrillic Pro, Ladoga Pro etc. (text fonts); DEsign fonts: Faktor, Inessa Cyr etc. (headline, handwriting); Olliffe Fonts: Batumi, Schechtel, Russian Open (display type; example: Mashinka); Scientific Cyrillic (includes old orthography, accents, old characters); Old Church Slavonic (Cyrillic and Glagolitic, Square and Round); Non-Slavic Cyrillic: Roman CyrTurk, Ladoga CyrTurk), Greek (Modern Greek and Classical Greek (Agora and Parmenides)), Icelandic&Faeroese (PolarFont series), Irish&Welsh (Gaelic, Celtic in the CeltoFont series), Romanian (DacoFont series), Turkish (TurkoFont series), BalkanFont series (Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Maltese), Basque (BaskoFont series), Saami (SamoFont series), Georgian, Armenian, Coptic (such as the Pachomius font), Cuneiform, Sabean, SinoFont series for Vietnamese plus more or Chinese (Pinyin) transliteration, phonetic Fonts (Trubetzkoy&Phonetica), Transliteration Fonts. Some of its fonts (like Campus Ten/Twelve and Magister Book) are now sold through Agfa/Monotype.

Names of some fonts: Breitkopf Fraktur, Campus Sans, CampusRoman Pro, CampusSans Block, Dareios, Faktor, Glagol Pro, Inessa, Konkret, Kronstadt, Marib, Method, Moskva Pro, Parmenides, Polar, Retrograd, Saames, Tafelkreide, Tatlin, Thule, Trubetzkoy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Madalin Vlad

Berca, Romania-based designer of the display slab typeface Mano (2016) and the free-for-personal-use lower case only sans typeface Nova Display (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Madalina Tantareanu

Graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest, Romania. Born in Bucharest, she lives and studies in Valencia, Spain. In collaboration with Angelica Acosta Otero and Jorge Morales, in 2013, she created a decorative caps typeface as a proposal for an illustration congress in Valencia. She also created a few floriated initials in 2013. She also creative a decorative techno typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Magdalena Radu

Graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest, Romania. Creator of the Escher-inspired gridded Impossible Letters (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manuel Boca

Bucharest, Romania-based creator (b. 1982) of the straight-edged angular dadaist typeface Magario (2016). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maran Emil

Maran Emil, of Maran Software in Timisoara, Romania, b. 1977, created Maran Orthodox Church (2006), a Latin typeface that resembles Old Church Slavonic writing. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Bilius

Maria Bilius (b. 1992) studied graphic design and visual communication at the University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, class of 2015. Designer of the free handwriting font Bilius (2015). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marius Iulian Stan

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the octagonal typeface Geotrix (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marius Mitran

Bucharest, Romania-based type designer who created the beautiful Bauhaus / geometric monoline sans family Geometron Pro Angular (2010), which has weights ranging from hairline to black. Geometron Pro Radial (2010; +Greek) is a more rounded family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Matei Nichitescu
[MonoGram Design]

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Matyas Szabo

Designer in Budapest, Hungary (and before that, in Oradea, Romania), who made Roundy (2012), an experimental 3d-effect geometric typeface. Other typefaces by him include the fat octagonal typeface Squary (2013) and the art deco typeface Trendy (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mihaela Popa

Romanian graphic designer and illustrator from Bucarest. She created the spring-inspired Louisiana typeface in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mihai Licanescu

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of Forsch (2019: a custom octagonal design), 68Comeback (2019: an LED font), Calpam (2019: a multiline sports font), and Monologic Display (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mihai Licanescu
[Logo Orange]

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Mihai Sorin

Punchform is an independent Romanian type foundry established in 2019 by graphic and type designers Mihai Sorin and Mirela Nina (although, mysteriously, Nina's name was dropped from all Punchform blurbs in 2021). It is located in Bucharest. In 2020, they co-designed the modern blackletter typeface Mavros.

In 2020, Mihai Sorin released Evander (an 18-style humanist sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

In 2021, Mihai Sorin designed Sublima (a 20-style neo-grotesk), and Turis (an 18-style humanist sans), Silurum (an 18-style humanist sans) and Ouhta (a 26-style neo-grotesque typeface from Hairline to Black).

Typefaces from 2022: Primeform Pro (an 18-style geometric sans with 19 stylistic sets to create a versatile family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mihaiu Andreea

Art director in Bucharest, Romania. Creator of Industrial Font (2013, ornamental caps) and Poli (2013, a triangulated techno font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Minunache

Illustrator and typographer vin Bucharest, Romania. Creator of the bilined typeface Cinema (2013, as a school project at UNATC) and of the ornamental caps typeface Building Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mircea Bucsa
[Lovepower Designs]

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Mircea Constantin Dragan

Romanian designer of the alchemic typeface Farnsworth (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mircea Piturca
[TypeFolly]

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Mirela Nina

Punchform is an independent Romanian type foundry established in 2019 by graphic and type designers Mihai Sorin and Mirela Nina (although, mysteriously, Nina's name was dropped from all Punchform blurbs in 2021). In 2020, they co-designed the modern blackletter typefaces Englika and Mavros. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Miruna Arsene

Bucharest, Romania-based student-designer of the wavy font Zig Zag (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miruna Popescu

Illustrator in Craiova, Romania. She designed a Trumpet Alphabet (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miss Shiva
[Iulia Strejan]

Iulia Strejan (Miss Shiva) is the Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the 6-style rounded sans typeface family Flashing Lights (2016), which has neon and stencil versions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MM Fonts
[Mugur Mihai]

MM fonts, and before that, Mugur Mihai is a design and type studio in Brasov, Romania run by Mugur Mihai (b. 1972, Brasov). Typefaces:

Fonts sold by MyFonts. Behance link. Fontsquirrel link. MM Fonts home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

MonoGram Design
[Matei Nichitescu]

Matei Nichitescu (Monogram Design, Romania, and now Tønsberg, Norway) created these typefaces in 2014: Dendricula (connect-the-dots), Piper, Typewriter, Thinster, Monogram, Neon, Revolution, Printed Revolution, Halftone Revolution. In 2015, he added Designer, Chalk Bar and the handcrafted typefaces Manufactura (ultra tall) and Olive Oil. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mousemade

Romanian designer of these commercial typefaces: Annabella (2014), Forest Tales (2013), Clipp Regular (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mugur Mihai
[MM Fonts]

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Nagy Vilmos

Romania-based co-designer, with David Laszlo, of the deco typeface Hencz (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Namogo Design
[Tudor Munteanu]

Iasi and Bucharest, Romania-based design studio. Tudor Munteanu (Iasi) and Cristi Bordeianu (Iasi) designed the great mischievous retro sans typeface family Brightwell, the quirky retro display or cartoon typeface Willie, and the runder sans typeface Jacques in 2018.

In 2017, they designed the sans family Kentledge and the all-caps sans typeface Jaques. You Work For Them link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Navajo Fonts&Language
[Charles J. Coker]

Navajo language page kept by Chuck Coker. A Navajo font is for sale. Coker also designed the East-European typeface ILPRumanianB100 (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neuman Vlad

Romanian graphic designer in Bucharest. His work is steeped in geometry, and so are his type designs, such as Geometrix (2010) and Aeiou (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicu Balan

Bucharest-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Linia (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Niculae Doru

Niculae Doru (Bucharest, Romania) created Nebeleizis (2015) during his studies at UNArte. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikita Paula Rus

Cluj-Napoca, Romania-based designer of the brush typeface Toshi Emori (2018, with Iulian Iancu) and the elliptical sans typeface Anlock (2018, with Iulian Iancu). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nu Wtiu

RTimesA (1993) by Nu Wtiu. Romanian site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Octavian Belintan
[Colorblind]

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Octavian Catana
[8AV]

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Ovi

Romanian graphic designer, b. 1983. Creator of the squarish font SquaretypeB (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ovidiu Balasoiu

Romanian designer of the sci-fi font Skynet Enterprise (2015) and Skynet.Enterprise - Regular Keyboard (2015, a revival of the Mac keyboard keys). Aka Skynet13 and Sjkynet Enterprise. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ovidiu Cristea

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the display typefaces Illusion Fence (2014, an Escher-like experiment) and Arhaicul Modern (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ovidiu Sebastian Pop

Romanian graphic designer who lives in Cluj-Napoca. Creator of Square Type B and TagMarker (2009), both rectangular typefaces. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Dersidan

Bucharest, Romania-based graphic designer, who made the condensed display family Colossus (2011).

In 2012, Paul completed the primordial display typeface Bestial.

In 2012-2013, he created the beautiful soft-edged ultra-fat typeface Selenic.

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

Paul Paun

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of Mitsubitchy Neo Gothic (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Virlan

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the multiline decorative caps typeface Molda (2016) which is inspired by traditional weaves and cultural symbols from Eastern Europe. Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pixaroma
[Ioan Decean]

Romanian designer of the angular typeface Rojenstone (2016), which is not unlike the scribal manuscript styles of the 15th century. He made these dingbat fonts in 2016: Halloweenbols, Flowerdinki, Heartsymo, Snowfliki, Holidaiki.

Typefaces from 2017: Gabrielle Bloodkador (Halloween font), Wrathobia (eerie typeface), Symbols Font, Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pose Radu

Art director in Bucharest, Romania. In 2016, Pose designed Matisse, a font inspired by fauvist painter Henri Matisse's cutouts and color palette. He hooked up with Andrei Ograda in 2017 and set up The Jumping Foxes. Through The Jumping Foxes, they commercialized Radu's design as JF Matisse (2017). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Punchform

Punchform is an independent Romanian type foundry established in 2019 by graphic and type designers Mihai Sorin and Mirela Nina (although, mysteriously, Nina's name was dropped from all Punchform blurbs in 2021). In 2020, they co-designed the modern blackletter typeface Mavros.

In 2021, Mihai Sorin designed Ouhta (a 26-style neo-grotesque typeface), Sublima (a 20-style neo-grotesk) and Turis (an 18-style humanist sans).

Typefaces from 2022: Primeform Pro (an 18-style geometric sans with 19 stylistic sets to create a versatile family; by Mihai Sorin). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Radu Manelici

Graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest, Romania. He created these typefaces:

  • Handy: a techno vector typeface that tries to emulate speed. Taking into consideration writing speed, two italics were drawn.
  • Public: a vector typeface family that distorts common 3D perception.
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Raul Taciu

Cluj-Napoca, Romania-based designer who runs Graphic Burger. His typefaces include the free brush script typeface Hensa (2016, with Vlad Cristea) and the free brush typeface Brusher (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raymond Bobar

Raymond Bobar holds a BA degree from the University of Arts in Bucharest (Romania) and an MA degree in type design from the University of Reading, UK (2014). His graduation typeface at the University of Reading was the casual handcrafted display typeface Ivera (2014), which covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Georgian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Razvan Miclaus
[Brandspark]

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Reka Cserei

Oradea, Romania-based designer of the polygonal typeface Trapezio (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Remus Gugean
[Gror]

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Richard Postelnicu
[Alien Valley]

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Riluri

Romanian creator in Cluj of the circle-based experimental typeface Riluri Mqsd (2012).

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

Rinchi Barno

Rinchi Barno's site offers AmaroArialBold, AmaroArialBoldItalic, AmaroArialItalic, Arial, all versions of Arial with appropriate character sets for the Rroms (Rromanes, Hungarian, Romanian). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Corseanschi

Type designer and photographer in Lupeni / Huneadora, Romania, b. 1994, Lupeni. Creator of Delecta (2015, a geometric sans), Habbly (2015, a handwritten brush pen font), Gumley (2015, a yummy bubblegum signage script typeface), Getone (2015, a monoline geometric sans), Ordin (2014, techno font), Sereno (2012) and Bastonello (2013). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

RODS Outdoors

Bucharest, Romania-based design studio that created the display typeface Modul (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rolli Chereches

Graphic and print designer in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He created the display typeface Rage Quit (2012).

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

Romeady

Oradea, Romania-based designer of the free sci-fi typeface Rostreaky (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roxana C

Timisoara, Romania-based designer of the multicolor rounded geometric sans typeface Epic Colorfont (2017), which was created using Fontself. It can be bought here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roxana Gibescu

She studied from 2008 until 2010 at the University of Fine Arts Bucharest, Romania, in the Masters of Arts program. She presently is a graphic designer in Bucharest. In 2009, Roxana created a personal display font and an ornamental typeface called Devil's in the details (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roxana Olar

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the pixel typeface Nin-Ten (2014), named after Nintendo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruxandra Duru

Born in Iasi, Romania, Ruxandra Duru moved first to Casablanca and then to Montreal. In 2011, she studied at EINA in Barcelona.

Ruxandra created the angular text typeface Botanica (2014, as a project at EINA), and the blackletter-inspired Textura Nova (2014, for the modern monk).

In 2016, she designed the free knotted typeface Royal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ryo-Sumy

Creator of the free fonts Romanesc RS (1998), Icoana RS (1993, also called IkonWrite), and ILPRumanianB100 (2001), all specially designed for Romanian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sabina Irina Chipara

Sabina Chipara (or: Kipara) was born in 1987 near the seaside in Constanza, Romania. She moved to Bucharest to study graphic design at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and at EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona. She took the TDi program at the University of Reading, UK, in 2016. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, where she surveys the archaic Romanian alphabets. Sabina also helps with type design at MCKL Type, Jeremy Mickel's type foundry in Los Angeles. She is currently based in Amsterdam. Her typefaces:

  • MoRo (2012) and Arhaic Romanesc (2012). MoRo, or Modern Romanesc, is an artsy typeface. She writes: MoRo is a modern version of archaic Romanian types. The design of the MoRo letters combines the features of Cyrillic glyphs with Latin shapes.
  • In 2012, during an Advanced Typography Masters at EINA, Barcelona, she developed Zagoris.
  • DIN Next Stencil (2017) and DIN Next Shapes (2018). Done together with Akira Kobayashi at Linotype.
  • Rosella (2017, Monotype). An engraved lettering typeface with textured, inline, beveled, shaded and filled versions.
  • In 2018, she designed the 8-weight simplified sans family Bega (Indian Type Foundry) and the high-contrast calligraphic script Britney (done with Diana Ovezea), which was released as a free font at Fontshare.
  • At Future Fonts, she published Bizzarrini (together with Diana Ovezea). Diana Ovezea 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).
  • The connected monoline sans script Akin (2019), done with Diana Ovezea at Indian Type Foundry.
  • The neo-grotesque typeface Amurg (2019).
  • Anouk (2020). A reversed high contrast typeface designed to be used at large sizes.
  • Aesop (2021). A despoke typeface for the brand identity of Iwoca. The Iwoca identity elements were influenced by the work of Wassily Kandinsky through geometric shapes and angles. The corners of the sans typeface are rounded and provide a smooth appearance on screens.

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Sabina Popa

Graphic designer in Bucharest, Romania. In 2014, she created the hipster typeface Native. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sasha Iacob

Web, type and brand designer in Buchaest, Romania.

Creator of the Ma href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/3556703/Nagasaki-free-font">free piano key typeface Nagasaki (2012), which was modeled after the Hiroshima 1957 poster by Wim Crouwel.

He created the bold grotesque display typeface Brock Bold (2011) based on a compass and ruler design.

In 2021, Sasha Iacob and Vlad Poparlan designed the free geometric stencil typeface Fino Black.

Behance link. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Satyr

Romanian creator of the hand-printed outline shadow typeface Doodle (2011) and the hand-printed Satyr Revenge Freehand (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seaside Digital
[Sinziana Romanescu]

Constanta, Romania-based designer of the high-contrast sans display typeface Jackline (2016) and the handcrafted typeface Veronica (2016). Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Big

Romanian designer of the free experimental typeface Tartarium (2016), which takes inspiration from the Tartaria tablets. Wikipedia writes: The Tartaria tablets are three tablets, discovered in 1961 by archaeologist Nicolae Vlassa at a Neolithic site in the village of Tartaria, about 30 km from Alba Iulia in Romania. The tablets, dated to around 5300 BC, bear incised symbols---the Vinca symbols--and have been the subject of considerable controversy among archaeologists, some of whom claim that the symbols represent the earliest known form of writing in the world. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Kempgen
[MacCampus]

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Seceme Design (or: SCM Design)
[Valentin Cioaca]

Bucharest, Romania-based creator of the modular typeface Monavi (2015), the monoline organic sans typeface Antema (2016), Draft Brush (2017), Draft Brush Stencil (2017), and the creamy upright script Corso (2017). In 2019, Seceme published the rounded spurred typeface Arcane Inline, Blockey, and the script typefaces Antonio, Armin, and Jester. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Silvana Catalinescu

Cluj-Napoca, Romania-based designer of Eudemonic (2014), a hairline octagonal typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Silvia Feraru

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the wiggly outlined typeface The Worm (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Silviana Cosma

Silviana Cosma (Bucharest) created a typographic James Bond poster in 2012.

Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sintegra Design

Iasi, Romania-based designer of the display typeface MDT (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sinziana Romanescu
[Seaside Digital]

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SNK Art
[Vede Emanuel]

Vede Emanuel (SNK Art, Bucharest, Romania) designed Symphony Shadow Script (2015), Infinity Geometric (2015: blackboard bold style), Good Morning (2015, a swashy script), Breach (2015, based on a blackboard bold model), Symphony (2015, a cursive typeface), Theseus (2015), Archer (2015), Love Type (2015, a handcrafted set of Valentine's Day hearts), Henerale Outline (2015) and Henerale Bold (2015, a sans typeface).

Typefaces from 2016: Hope Brush, Henerale (sans), Legendary (blackboard bold with a free Ultra Light weight), Legendary 2. Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Something Design
[George Dobrogeanu]

Ploiesti, Romania-based designer of Winchester Condensed (2014), Picnic Caps (2014) and Grocery Rounded (2014).

In 2015, he designed the beautiful watercolor brush typeface Toscana, the old typewriter font Enigma Typewriter Sans, the connected script typeface Melancolie, the script typeface Annabelle (2015), the hyper-curly script La Provence, and the thin avant garde fashion sans typeface Eva.

Typefaces from 2016: Tall and Tiny Font Duo, Novus Sans, Playbook, Agave, Wanda Script (which he calls a pin-up style), Capital (dry brush font), Halftone Sans (textured), Quantum, Dystopia.

Typefaces from 2018: Faun (an exquisite decorative caps typeface).

Creative Market link. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sorin Paliga

Designer of Gimbutas (1999), a font for Vinca symbols (Mac, PC), found on many of the artefacts excavated from sites in south-east Europe, in particular from Vinca near Belgrade, but also in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Eastern Hungary, Moldova, Southern Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia. The artefacts date from between the 7th and 4th millennia BC and those decorated with these symbols are between 8,000 and 6,500 years old. Sorin works at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania. The drawings of the Gimbutas font were by Doina Mihaila. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Squarepack Team
[Stefan Asafti]

Cluj-Napoca, Romania-based designer of the hand-painted typefaces Katrina (2017) and Bluberry (2016). Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stefan Asafti
[Squarepack Team]

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Stefan Cristian Cioroianu

Romanian designer of these free fonts in 2007: Antique roman (2 styles), Artistic swash, Caslon Swash, Cioroianu font (handwriting), Collage anonymous (ransom note), Fraktur, Human letters (scanbat face: an old erotic capitals face), Lapidary roman, Title page 1600 (scanbats). In 2008, he made the "aged" didone typeface 1600 and Century Modern Italic. In 2010, he created Century Modern TT Regular, Century Modern Shadow, and Ornament Borders.

Another Fontspace link. A third Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stefan Isarie

Romanian web developer who runs a site without 300 free sIFR fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stefan Lucut

Romanian graphic designer who has some interesting typographic work, such as one entitled Adobe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stefan Romanu

Romanian graphic and type designer based in Timisoara. He created the experimental typefaces Mondrian (2009) and Beautiful Urban (2009), and the futuristic typeface Hell (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stefan Trifan

Creative director in Bucharest, Romania, who designed the stencil typeface Neon Light (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stefancu Gabi

Graphic designer in Bucharest, Romania. Creator in 2020 of Chalky, Chalky Brush and Qube (a squarish typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stella Caraman

Cluj-Napoca, Romania-based graphic designer who specializes in illustrations and stock photography. Behance link.

It is unclear whether her alpahbets are just illustrations or finished fonts. They include fonts with the titles 3d, Abstract, Handmade, Playful, Ink, Sticker, and Cookie. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stepan Roh
[DejaVu Fonts]

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Stock Image Folio

Romanian designer of the textured Spiderman Font (2016) and Scribblismo (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sztuchlak Gergö

Oradea-Mare, Romania-based graphic designer who created the free slab serif typeface Derkon (2014).

In 2017, he designed the textured art nouveau-inspired typeface Grodna. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tase Dan

Tase Dan (Galati, Romania) designed the fat counterless typeface Tip (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tatiana Cociorva

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of many sets of vintage frames, ornaments, flowers and borders, as well as snowflakes (2016). Her typefaces include Leafy Tales (2016: floral caps) and Cute Blunder (2017, handcrafted). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tee o Clock
[Valentin Mihai]

Galati, Romania-based designer of the vintage label typeface Enisala (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

The European Computer Modern Fonts

Jörg Knappen's page on the European Computer Modern fonts. "The following languages are supported by the Cork encoding: Afrikaans, Albanian, Breton, Croat, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish (modern orthography), Italian, Letzeburgish, Lusatian (Sorbian), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaetian (Rumantsch), Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish." [Google] [More]  ⦿

The Jumping Foxes

Romanian foundry set up in 2017 by Pose Radu and Andrei Ograda. Designers of JF Matisse Fauve Display (2017), a typeface that emulates the style of impressionist painter Henri Matisse. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

The Type Collective
[Vlad Neuman]

Graphic design and illustration collective in Bucharest, Romania, consisting of Vlad Neuman, Alex Beltechi, Vian Peanu, Andrei Ograda, and Felix Hornoiu. Vlad Neuman---a graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest---designed Wim C Alphabet (2012), a modular typeface influenced by Wim Crouwel's letters.

Mow based in London, Vlad Neuman designed the minimalist stencil typeface Aero Display in 2014.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Timea Koszegi

Oradea, Romania-based designer of the geometric display typeface Slat (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Traistaru Sorin

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the heavy typeface Katana Cut (2012) and of the tattoo / blackletter typeface Goth Fox (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tudor Banciu

Romanian designer of Tudy 1311 (handcrafted typeface) and Dacian Donarium in 2014. In 2015, he created CyberGothic (almost piano key style), Thi and Darkwoman (handcrafted). Other fonts include Ud and the prismatic / Memphis style typeface Hipstravaganza. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tudor Munteanu
[Namogo Design]

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TypeFolly
[Mircea Piturca]

A web font tool by Mircea Piturca who used to be at the University of Dijon. TypeFolly is probably the first web typography tool that allows designers to easily create beautiful "type follies". The result is a fully html and css3 compliant code. TypeFolly gives designers the freedom to create beautiful type compositions, test new font combinations and fully enjoy the power of css3. At this time we support the following css properties: font-family, font-size, color, letter-spacing, word-spacing, font-style, font-weight, text-decoration, text-align, z-index, line-height, width, height, opacity, moz/webkit-transform, text-shadow and font-face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typeverything
[Andrei Robu]

Andrei Robu is a super-artist, award-winning photographer, art director, illustrator, type designer and rising star based in Barcelona. Andrei started freelancing ca. 2002 shortly landing clients like Sprite and Coca-Cola. In 2006 he became Chief Graphic Designer at Leo Burnett, Bucharest, Romania. In 2008 he joined Acme as a managing partner and design director. After three and a half years he left Acme and started his own practice. In 2014 he relocated to Barcelona where he works together with his partner Andreea Robescu. During his career he founded a few platforms for promoting other talents: Designers Go To Heaven (2009-2017), Calligraphica (2012-2017), Typeverything (2011).

Andrei creates key visuals for branding, packaging, events and artist collections. He has worked with clients such as Adobe, Apple, Bloomberg, Nike, Jordan Brand, Stella Artois, Dailies, Fenwick London, Mastercard, Vodafone, VISA Epos, Coca-Cola, ESPN Magazine, Billboard, Wired, The Golden Globes, Exxon, Toyota, Hiscox.

In 2011, he set up Typeverything in Barcelona. Typeverything features Andrei Robu's typefaces as well as those of other type designers such as Cahya Sofyan, Felipe Calderon, Natanael Gama, Adam Fathony, Matteo Broillet, Simon Walker, Drew Melton, Jason Carne, Lewis McGuffie, and Fer Cozzi.

In his early type designs, we find extraordinary colored geometric experimental typefaces made in 2007 such as Idea, Trick Fun, Trick Squared, Trick (wow!).

In 2009, he made Bs, Merci, Metropolis, Origami, and Think. In 2011, this was followed by Funky. These early typefaces are not featured in his foundry, Typeverything.

His commercial typefaces:

  • Berry (2022). A seven-style+variable font family that oozes mischief and flexes its muscles.
  • Boldoni (2021). A fat face family.
  • Bourbon St (2020). A flashy experimental Marilyn-Monroe-just-walked-into-the-room kinda typeface.
  • Brule (2020). A throwback to the larger-is-better 1970s.
  • Champ (2021, by Cristi Bordeianu and Andrei Robu). A starkly incised display typeface family ranging from fashionable ultra-heavy to a flared thin. It includes a variable font as well.
  • Choco or Robu Choco Script (2017). An upright signage script.
  • Cottonhouse (2019). A Victorian typeface Cottonhouse by Andrei Robu, Kevin Cantrell and Arlo Vance.
  • Deia (2021). Advertized as a 7-weights bracketed serif that will do wonders on packaging projects.
  • Faroe (2022). A 7-style+variable font: a contemporary take on the art-nouveau period.
  • Fat Stencil Numerals (2016).
  • Fitzroy Display (2014). This art deco typeface was co-designed with Kevin Cantrell for the Fitzroy Condos in New York.
  • Flako Stencil.
  • Friseur. A supermarket script based on the 18th-century English roundhand.
  • Graf (2021). A very bold display and poster typeface that livens up the show with strategic ink traps.
  • Kitsune (2015). A thin connected script typeface published at The Designers Foundry. Re-released in 2019 by Typeverything.
  • Loggia (2020). A fashion mag typeface.
  • Loto Sans (2021). A geometric sans family.
  • Marques (2020). A luxurious display font.
  • Misfits (2018). A blackletter typeface.
  • Mochi (2021). An 8-style display sans with pointy terminals.
  • Motorino (2016). A connected retro script typeface.
  • Mr. Banks (2019) and Mr. Banks Serif (2020). Mr Banks is a stencil font.
  • Palace (2022). Based on vintage luggage labels from The Belle Époque (1890-1910).
  • Raval. A blackletter.
  • Roa Display. An angular and angry wedge serif.
  • Robu Bold. A retro signage script typeface originally created in 2010. Released in 2015 at The Designers Foundry. Re-released in 2019 at Typeverything.
  • Robu Grotesk (2017).
  • Robu Display (2017). In the fat didone genre.
  • Robu Stencil (2017).
  • Sharpie Pro (2020). A vernacular marker pen font.
  • Sports Numerals or Robu Sports Numerals (2017).
  • Vance Serif (2018). With Kevin Cantrell. They write: Vance Serif began as a proprietary typeface for Clayton Vance Architecture. Inspired by classical Roman architecture and proportions, Vance burgeoned from geometric angles and slants to decorative swashes and serifs to give life and nuance; architecture vivified by the human persona.
  • Writer (2022). A graffiti font.
  • Zufo (2017). A great children's book or comic strip typeface family.

Subpage with more experimental type. Flickr page. Behance link. Behance link for Typeverything. Old web site. Typeverything link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

URW Type Foundrty (was: urw++)

URW++ Design&Development GmbH is a Hamburg-based foundry established in 1995 by Svend Bang, Hans-Jochen Lau, Peter Rosenfeld, and Jürgen Willrodt. URW stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, named after Gerhard Rubow and Rudolf Weber, cofounders of the original URW company from which urw++ evolved. It offers a whole range of font services and has an extensive (7000+) font library. At the basis of the early development of many classy PostScript fonts. For example, in 1999, URW++ donated the 35 core PostScript fonts (renamed) under the GNU GPL license to the Ghostscript project. The great 3000-font CD costs about 2000DM. Other CDs are more expensive: on the ITF CD, each font is about 100DM! URW sells fonts and font families with complete rights (you can change, resell, embed, anything, except use the original name), with examples ranging from 2k for a complete family of 12 to 5k for a collection of 250 fonts. This practice continues until today: URW++ thus provides a great service to software developers who want to include high-quality typefaces in their software applications. URW has offices in many countries. In the first decade of the 21st century, freelance type designer Ralph M. Unger contributed most frequently to the URW library. OpenType collection guide (in PDF).

Selected releases: URW Egyptienne, URW Grotesk (1985, Hermann Zapf), Anzeigen Grotesk (2009), Clarendon No 1 URW, Saa Series (an industrial sans: the official typeface for Australian road signage), Nimbus Sans (1987, a Helvetica clone), Nimbus Sans Novus, Nimbus Sans Europa (covering Latin, Greek, Baltic, Cyrillic, Central European, Turkish, Romanian, and so forth), Nimbus Roman No 9 (2001), Nimbus Sans Global and Nimbus Roman Global, each at about 2000 Euros, and each containing 35,000 glyphs, from kanji/Chinese/Korean to all European languages. House typefaces done for corporations: DaimlerChrysler Corporate ASE (after the Corporate ASE series for Daimler-Benz by Kurt Weidemann), Gardena Sans (2015, for Gardena), Siemens Schriftfamilie, Deutsche Telekom Schriftfamilie, ZF Friedrichshafen, Körber Argo, URW++ SelecType Raldo (2001, for Igepa).

MyFonts lists their bestsellers. Catalog of their typefaces [large web page warning]. Another catalog of URW's typefaces.

Eight-minute corporate movie produced in the summer of 2014. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Vadim Ciocazan

Bucharest-based designer of the neon tube typeface Nixie Arc (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Valentin Cioaca
[Seceme Design (or: SCM Design)]

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Valentin Mihai
[Tee o Clock]

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Varga Szilard

Graphic designer in Romania. Behance link.

Creator of a set of ornamental caps in EPS format in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vasile Alin Adnan

Timisoara, Romania-based student who is developing some typefaces. He is working on an artsy, 45-degree serifed, silent-film inspired type family called Stab (2007) that can be viewed here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

VB Studio
[Victor Bartis]

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of the branding and fashion mag typeface Glysa (2019). In 2020, he published the elegant decorative serif Kaftan Serif. Type Department link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Vede Emanuel
[SNK Art]

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Vian Peanu

Bucharest-based partner in Dos Cabrones, with Andrei Ograda. His fonts can be bought under the name at Creative Market.

Vian Peanu designed Cirquit, It's Friday, Dioda, Sting, Desgraciado, Daedal, Bastard, Minette, Magnus (rounded piano key face), Lacuna (hairline stencil), Fat Lady (2010), Cylon, Dgtl, Kalypso, Sting, Passio, Maha, Qanat, It's Friday, Violently Violent (2011, art deco/piano key family), Asymptote (2011, thin display face).

In 2012, Vian Peanu and Andrei Ograda co-designed Venin (a beautiful high-contrast thorned fashion mag family with art deco aspirations). Vian designed the layered typeface Uxie.

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

Victor Barac

Bucharest, Romania-based creator of the rounded heavy display sans typeface König (2015), the Victorian typeface Aprille (2016), Sailors Treasure (2016), and the monoline script and sans typeface family The Wild Things (2016).

Typefaces from 2017: Bright Moments (handcrafted).

Typefaces from 2018: Blackout.

Typefaces from 2019: Slake (a geometric grotesk). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victor Bartis
[VB Studio]

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Viorel Popescu

Designer at Brainik in Bucharest, Romania, aka The Spoon. In 2016, he created the handcrafted typefaces Coup Cake, Red Cloud, Franz, Amara,Curlee, Rolo TT, Abelia, Barberino, Doodley (+Shadow, +Grungy), Petunia, Rotunda (+Dots, +Gradient, +Retro, +Grungy, +Shadow, +Outline, +ShadowLines), Dervish, TallBall, Woodward, LinoLinoScript TT, Ribbonada, Mandarina, WildeSide, Blok Party, Retronica, Crayonello (+3D, +Striped, +3DStriped, +3DOutline, +3DBlack, +UpperShadow), ClassyPirates TT, CarloMarlo, Chaliels Poem XA, Fantonello, LeBourgeois, Mustachelle, Them Bones TT, GoodJacket, Fresh Juice TT, Wuggle, Klangdam, Laydon, Litteratum TT, Corque New, CutCopy, Aria, KapowKapow, Eggplant New, TallMarker, Inkscapade, Tall Kido, Gustav New, Augustino, Wilhelmina, Adrastia, Arpeggio (ironwork style), Stripped New, Skinny, Bernice, Brainik, Gwynn, Sabia, Yanick, Fionna, Logaira, Doiemea, Achilles, Parthanar, Calligraphica and Joanna Handwriting.

Other typefaces from 2016 include the display fonts Jerome, Berunov, Teranus, Orbicular, and Hanbill. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Virgiliu Pop

From Timosoara, Romania, a young designer who created the hypnotic font Cropograph in 1998, a shareware font posted on alt.binaries.fonts on June 8, 1998. Made also Rashela. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vlad Atanasiu

Pages on language and calligraphy, in French. In 2003, Vlad wrote a doctoral thesis on calligraphy: "Le phénomène calligraphique à l'époque du sultanat mamluk" (Paris, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vlad Bazon

Romanian designer of the type 1 typeface Rojud (2020), which shows the outlines of the 42 counties of Romania. He also takes us on a guided tour of the software used to produce the result. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vlad Cristea

Cluj-Napoca, Romania-based designer of the connected brush script typeface Coralia (2015), the handcrafted Spiff (2015), the script typeface Lumiere (2015), and the free font Brusher (2015, with Raul Taciu). In addition, he made several sets of free vector format icons, including TwoGrey, Webicons, Chubby Icons, Stroke Gap Icons, and Cicons.

In 2016, Vlad relocated to Amsterdam. That same year, Vlad Cristea and Raul Taciu co-designed the free brush script typeface Hensa. Also, Vlad designed the weathered vintage typeface Bujole, and the script typeface Ball Pen.

In 2017, he designed the script typefaces Truly Lully, The Secret, Ding Dong, Think Pink, Dumpling, Heisenberg, Shmoopy, Boogabear, Foo-Foo, Egghead, Fruit Logo, Adorable (signature font), Moonstone, You Rock, Pretty Pen and Saffron, the marquee typeface Drive In, and the layered font family Aemstel.

In 2018, he designed the script typefaces Little Ophelia, Ink Pen, Marker Mark (a free SVG font), Rising Moon, Smooth Stone and Pinot.

In 2019, he designed the fun display typeface Limoncello and the font duo Laura.

In 2020, he designed the free handwriting font Smarta and Pink&Brown, and the free sans display typefaces Baigo and Chubby Wubby.

Typefaces from 2021: Ball Pen, Eastern Stories, Tall Jules (a fashion mag font), Think Pink, Toffee, Zip Zappy (brush font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Vlad Mocanu

Vlad Mocanu (b. 1992, Romania) created the modular typeface One Man Army (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vlad Neuman
[The Type Collective]

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Vlad Poparlan

Visual artist based in Bucharest and Bangkok. In 2021, Sasha Iacob and Vlad Poparlan designed the free geometric stencil typeface Fino Black. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wassimo

Bucz-based Romanian (b. 1989) who designed the techno typeface Wassimo Copyrights (2010) and the graffiti typefaces Wassimo Graffiti (2008-2010) and Fucking Tag (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zamolxis
[Liviu]

Romanian designer of medieval revivals: Arhaic (2004), ZamolxisI (2006), ZamolxisII (2006), ZamolxisIII (2006), ZamolxisIV (2006), ZamolxisOrnament (2006), ZamolxisV (2006), ZamolxisVI (2006), ZamolxisVII (2006). Home page. Another URL. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zeppelin Graphics
[Alex Traian Munteanu]

Bucharest, Romania-based designer of these typefaces in 2018: Forests (a layered decorative all caps typeface), Habanos Retro, Quentin (serif), Hydra (futuristic), Lapland (a script and Christmas icons), Galla (font duo), Berthe Script, Bella Script (monoline), Storyland, Two Adventures, Andy One.

Typefaces from 2019: Arrogant, Hermannstadt, Hotel Royal (vintage, art deco), Celestar.

Typefaces from 2020: Hotel Imperial (Victorian), Fantasya, Coodles (a 20-style hand-drawn collection), Avantgarde Sans, Berry (slab serif and tattoo font), Woodman (a rugged slab serif). [Google] [More]  ⦿