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During her studies, Aalia Jhaveri (Durban, South Africa) created Face Type (2015), a handcrafted typeface influenced by African face painting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the sans typeface Yummy (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adrienne Weidner (Scottburgh, South Africa) obtained a Bachelor of Journalism at Rhodes University in 2015. In 2016, she designed a handcrafted slab serif and a music note inspired typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African font links page run by Yvonne Rowe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aldo Pulella
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Freelance designer in Cape Town, South Africa, who created the display typeface Nauitica in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He created some experimental typefaces, alongside some display fonts. Examples: Kokface (a constructivist beauty), a circle-themed stencil face, Revolt, and an octagonal face. In 2012, he made another set of experimental typefaces called Engineering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at AAA school of Advertising in Cape Town, South Africa, Alexander Riffel created the grungy typeface Son of a Glitch (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of a deco typeface in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Cape Town, South Africa. He created the brushy hand MrPrice (2009). Flickr site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ally Heart
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Ascot, UK-based designer of the Misunderstood Monsters typeface (2015). Alyssa grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, and studied design in Cape Twon, South Africa. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based graphic designer and illustrator who has made some exquisite typographically relevant posters, such as Teknotribe (2015) and Let's Swing It (2016, in an art deco style). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, Soth Africa-based designer of the expermental typeface Bad Geometry (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Mining For Tomorrow (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Amy Soule, a graphic designer in Cape Town, South Africa, created Tension (2013). Tension uses human muscles as texture to fill in the glyphs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at the Stellenbosch Academy for Design and Photography, Stellenbosch, South Africa-based Amy-Louise Staak created an all caps display typeface (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based graphic designer who was also born in Cape Town and grew up in Namibia, Creator of the multiline typeface Reading Together (2014), which pays attention to blind people. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrew Footit
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A self-proclaimed beach calligrapher from Cape Town, South Africa, who developed an origial technique for carving in the sand. Home page. One of his works is entitled Futura On The Beach (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African designer of the mysterious font Full Cube Kindness (2021). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and motion graphics designer in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he worked as Ontwerp.tv (Idea currency) Pty Ltd. He is now located in Seattle, WA. He created several experimental alphabets, often of a geometric nature, such as Geometric Chic (2008-2009) and Beauty (2009). The Bends (2011) is a hairline curly-yet-straight display face. SansGoma (2011) is a hairline slab poster face. Nu Gothic (2011), Nu Modern (2011) and especially Vironica (2011) are fashion mag display typefaces. Neu Nouveau (2011) is a curly art nouveau face. Numera (2011) is an organic fashion mag face. Killoton (2011) is super-fat and beautiful. Creations in 2012: An art deco example in his Janelle 1945 work. Vorm Type, inspired by the work of Wim Crouwel, is a rounded blocky typeface that is monospaced in the x and y directions. Typefaces from 2013: Canada (alchemic). In 2015, he created a series of posters called Vignelliisms illustrating one-liners by Massimo Vignelli. Typefaces from 2017: Canada (I can't believe that he has trademarked the name Canada). Home page. Behance link. Ontwerp link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anton Scholtz
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Anton Scholtz
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Arkitype (was: Virtue Creative)
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Behance link. Creative Market link. Home page. View Andrew Footit's typefaces. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
South African design bureau in Durban, run by Fred Swart, Helene Botha and Jaco Burger. They created the typewriter / computer coding face Ateljee (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the thin typeface family Ruby Sans (2016), the condensed slab serif Layal (2016) and the condensed thin sans typeface Rose (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South-African or UK-based designer of A Perfect Circle (2003) and Serpentine Bold Flaat (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the pattern typeface Haus Ethnik Dingbats (2014: a collection of dingbats inspired by various ethnic patterns from Zimbabwe and modifications thereof), the blackboard bold typeface This Flag (2016) and the brushed revolution font Tajamuka Script (2016). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Creator of Teleline (2013), a hairline typeface that was inspired by telephone lines. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ben Grib
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Designer in Cape Town, South Africa, who created the slab typeface Deputy Serif (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Black Bird Foundry
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Braden Smulders
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Cape Town, South Africa-based designer (b. 1979) of the art deco stencil typeface Daddy Dont Disco (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brode Vosloo
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Bruce Mackay (Cape Town, South Africa) created the multicolored caps typeface Funeral Font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type foundry in Johannesburg, South Africa, est. 2015. Their typefaces: BTW Dismo, BTW Atlj, BTW Nuller, BTW-Appen (2015, a neo-grotesk typeface with higher-than-normal contrast. It features alternating stem endings, high contrast apexes, smooth and flowing joints, and mono-linear terminals). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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For a project called The Little Book of Cunt, shock jock designer Caitlin Ward (Johannesburg, South Africa) created a few typefaces (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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South African designer of the tall upright script typeface August Rush (2019). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Calvin Gentz
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Multimedia designer in Johannesburg, South Africa, who created the rounded sans typeface Idol (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At the University of Johannesburg in 2016, Carey-Anne Jayanandham designed the icons for the Zoo Lake wayfinding system, and published a potato stamp tribute to Adrian Frutiger (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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This Carla Bruni is from Cape Town, South Africa. She created the Rubberband Warfare typeface (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the outlined typeface Ek Herhaal Jou (or Forever and Always, 2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Cape Town, South Africa, who created the modular display typeface Padowan (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Centurion, South Africa-based designer of the rounded titling typeface Doctor Capital (2016). It is influenced by the urban typographic landscape of Pretoria. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Casper Schutte
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Durban, South Africa-based designer of tthe dingbat typeface Merikana (2015) that is related to a violent mine workers strike in 2012: The Marikana miners' strike or Lonmin strike was a wildcat strike at a mine owned by Lonmin in the Marikana area, close to Rustenburg, South Africa in 2012. Th event garnered international attention following a series of violent incidents between the South African Police Service, Lonmin security, the leadership of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and strikers themselves, which resulted in the deaths of 44 people, the majority of whom were striking mineworkers killed on 16 August. At least 78 additional workers were also injured on 16 August. This was a school project at Durban University of Technology. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
To remember the Marikana Massacre, Chane Khamal (Durban, South Africa) designed the decorative caps typeface Miner Control (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator in Cape Town, South Africa, of the straight-edged geometric typeface Harsh Phuk (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chloe Damstra (Cape Town, South Africa) designed The Old Display Typeface in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oudtshoorn, South Africa-based creator of the High Tech font family (2013, sci-fi). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of Metatype (2014), a typeface created as a hybrid of Bodoni and Metro Nova. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the headline typeface ustulo (2020). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Christoff Gericke designed the modular typeface Hypermodern (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christopher Houston
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Cape Town, South Africa-based designer (b. UK) of the high-contrast fashion typeface Agnes (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Pretoria, South Africa, who created the multilined grunge typeface Star Line in 2014. Camilo-Images is originally from Angola. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based graphic designer and illustrator. She created an untitled high-contrast avant-garde typeface in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at the South African Sacred Nipple Type Foundry of Belch. Brother of Brode Vosloo. Both are from Zaire originally. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Codesigner with Lyall Coburn at the South African Sacred Nipple Type Foundry of Spiked Soda. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CRFT
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Typefaces from 2013 include Lunar9 and Narma. In 2015, he made the deco typeface Mont Blanc. Behance link. Fontspring link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
CyberGraphics
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Jan's debut display font family was Thornface (1997, a beautiful medieval font). He then released Transition, Lalibela (2009, didone), Pixeluxe and Azania (Tuscan, Western). Other fonts include Sade (a relative of Garamond), Export Unicase (1999, stencil), Mzansi (2007, an African look font), Shaftciti (2008, military stencil), Pixeluxe (2010), Giramundo (2010), Transition (2006), Ethereum (2015, a Cyrillic emulation typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
South African graffiti and digital artist whose mural called Octopus G (2011) is quite spectacular. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Digital designer in Johannesburg, South Africa, who was part of the international effort in 2014 to create 45 icon sets that explain the self-destruction of the world. The book 45 Symbols published in Köln in 2014 introduces 45 projects of 45 symbols (so 45 times 45 icons in all) created by students from Parsons The New School For Design (New York), Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Hong Kong Baptist University, Lebanese American University Beirut. Falmouth University UK, and Universidad de los Andes (Bogota) on a variety of themes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Defaulterror
| Derek Clark (defaulterror, Cape Town, South Africa, b. 1980) created the beautiful futuristic typeface Dirty Flamingo (no downloads) and has a great web page. Free fonts, also in that futuristic style, all made in 2006-2007: Mercenary, Commando, Dirty Flamingo, 8-bit (pixel face), BrothersofMetal, PXL8R (pixel face), SuperBefok, VomZom, defaulterror, elDiablo, pooplatter. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Derek Clark
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Design Africa
| Design Africa is an outfit run by Anton Scholtz and Merle from Musgrave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Their commercial fonts have Latin letters but an African look: Umkhonto, Ubuvila, Amanzi, Assegai, Bongo, Doorn Display, Doorn Body, Zebra, Utshani, Tabwa, Amabhokisi, Baobab, Siyabonga, Inja. When you visit them, do not forget to look at their great ethnic patterns. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
In 2017, Christina Janus and Desmond Wong co-designed Authentic Sans. He won the People's Choice award for Untitled in 2016 at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016. Linkedin link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her stdies in Durban, South Africa, Devani Govender designed the decorative caps typeface Sardine Run (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Athens, who was born and raised in Johannesburg. Home page. Creator of the iFontMaker font African Edges (2010, hand-printed). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the squarish typeface Jeppes Grotesk (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the custom circle-based typeface Circle Metric (2017). For the cover of La Cobra's album, Shotgun Slinger, he created the custom spurred rock band typeface La Cobra (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Cape Town, South Africa, Ekons created an unnamed eerie inky typeface (2013), and an inky wall paint font Astrotip (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
El Hunter (Cape Town, Soutrh africa) designed the display typeface Pokemon in 2013 during her graphic design studies. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Cape Town, South Africa, Elara Aitken designed Basic Bites (2015, a fruit and vegetable-themed all caps alphabet). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At AAA School of Advertising in Cape Town, South Africa, Elzé Botha designed the display typeface Stems & Sticks (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town-based illustrator and graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of Candyface (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of an interactive 3d font called On The House (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer (b. 1997), as a student at the Greenside Design Center College of Design, of the free thin sans typeface Aesthete (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Cape Town, South Africa, for a reason only she knows, Erica Basson designed Shitface (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Estian Fourie
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fc fonts for African languages
| Jörg Knappen's fc fonts for African languages. In metafont. The following languages are supported: Akan, Bamileke, Basa (Kru), Bemba, Ciokwe, Dinka, Dholuo (Luo), Efik, Ewe-Fon, Fulani (Fulful), G\~a, Gbaya, Hausa, Igbo, Kanuri, Kikuyu, Kikongo, Kpelle, Krio, Luba, Mandekan (Bambara), Mende, More, Ngala, Nyanja, Oromo, Rundi, Kinya Rwanda, Sango, Serer, Shona, Somali, Songhai, Sotho (two different writing systems), Suaheli, Tiv, Yao, Yoruba, Xhosa and Zulu. Plus Maltese and Sami. Jörg Knappen works at the University of Mainz in Germany. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fhumulani Nemulodi
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Fonts of Afrika
| Fonts of Afrika is Peter Slingsby's South African foundry selling mostly dingbat fonts at 4 to 6 USD per font. About ten of his 80 fonts are free. Includes rock art, African dingbats, wildlife, children, American railroads, Christian icons, safari, tourism. Great choice. Slingsby, the author and illustrator. Peter Slingsby sells some of his fonts at abstractfonts.com. These are original African dingbats or alphabets with an African feel. Reasonable prices (between 1 and 5 dollars per font). Names: Africa D History, Africa D Wildlife, Africa D People, Africa D Art, Africa T Inkuni, Africa TiQwara, Africa T Ndebele, Afrika Mfundisi, Africa T Ndlovu, Africa T Ubuntu, Africa T Xixo. List of fonts: Afrika Children 1 Rural, Afrika Children 2 Township, Afrika Children 3 at Play, Afrika Children 4 Faces, Afrika Children A Rural, Afrika Children B Township, Afrika Children C at Play, Afrika Children D Faces, Afrika Gold A Patterns, Afrika Images 11 Special, Afrika Images A /Xixo, Afrika Images A Xixo, Afrika Images B Ubuntu, Afrika Images C mKonto, Afrika Images DiQwara, Afrika Images E Dawuwu, Afrika Images F mBizo, Afrika Images G Sangoma, Afrika Images H Gau-aïb, Afrika Images H GauAib, Afrika RockArt 1 Groups, Afrika RockArt 2 People, Afrika RockArt 3 Animals, Afrika RockArt 4 Sevilla, Afrika RockArt A People 1, Afrika RockArt B People 2, Afrika RockArt C People 3, Afrika RockArt D People 4, Afrika RockArt E Beliefs 1, Afrika RockArt F Animals 1, Afrika RockArt G Animals 2, Afrika RockArt H TheEnd, Afrika RockArt I Bkloof 1, Afrika RockArt J Bkloof 2, Afrika RockArt K Bkloof 3, Afrika RockArt L Bkloof 4, Afrika RockArt M Cberg 1, Afrika RockArt N Cberg 2, Afrika mFundisi, Afrika T Inkuni, Afrika TiQwara, Afrika T Ndebele, Afrika T Ndlovu, Afrika T Ubuntu, Afrika T Xixo, Afrika Fonts Sampler, Afrika Phunny Phauna, Afrika Birds 1 Wetlands, Afrika Birds 2 Small, Afrika Birds 3 Large, Afrika Mammals 1 Small, Afrika Mammals 2 Large, Afrika Mammals 3 Antelope, Afrika Mammals 4 Spoor, Afrika Wildlife A Mammals 1, Afrika Wildlife B Mammals 2, Afrika Wildlife C Mammals 3, Afrika Wildlife D Mammals 4, Afrika Wildlife E Birds 1, Afrika Wildlife F BirdReps 2, Afrika Wildlife G Insects, Afrika Wildlife G Insectsplus, Afrika Wildlife H RockArt, Afrika Wildlife Ha RockArtplus, Afrika Safari A Ndebele, Afrika Safari B Paljas, Afrika Safari C Sossus, Afrika Safari D Shosholo, Afrika Safari E Inkuni, Afrika Safari F Gogga, Afrika Safari G Mfhungu, Afrika Safari H Kung SAFETY, Afrika Wildlife B Mammals 2, Christian Icons B Monograms, Christian Icons C Saints, Symblic Safety Signs 1, Symblic Safety Signs 2, Tourism Labelled, Tourism Labelled Negative, Tourism Labelled Outside, Tourism Labelout Negative, Tourism Unlabelled, Tourism Unlabelled Negative, Tourism Unlabelled Open. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Student in Johannesburg, South Africa. He created Bart Deco (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based illustrator and designer. Creator of Brooks Happy Feet Font (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank E. Bailey
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Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the display typeface Kick Ass Urban (2015) during his studies at University Of Johannesburg. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Indonesian type designer associated with madeDeduk. Typefaces:
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Cape Town, South Africa-based studio that created the all caps fashion mag typeface Eros in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Garth Walker
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South African designer of Greyton Script (1991, Letraset), an inline calligraphic (engraved) typeface. At Berthold in 1972, he published Gesh Export 233 (stencil), Gesh Introduction and Gesh Ortega Roman 275. For revivals of Gesh Export, see OPTI Gilpin 5 (by Castcraft) and the free font Stencil Expert (1993, Allen R. Walden). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based creator of the sharp-edged typeface Kerosene (2013) and the art deco typeface Flamingo (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Glen Nyundu
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Designer in Johannesburg South Africa. Creator of the free fonts Firetree (2015, minimalist rounded sans) and Mallheist (2015, pixelish). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African art director who lives in Johannesburg. He created a clip art face in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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South African designer of the architectural handwriting font Architext (2003). See also here. Grant, a wood turner, was born in Johannesburg and lives in Knysna. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pretoria, South Africa-based designer of a squarish typeface and of the marker pen font Marker in 2015. In 2017, he designed the mostly modular typefaces Mafoko, Bent Corners, Easy Nat, Shirel, Zero Number and Marking (bilined). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African designer (b. 1970) of the minimalist font Luno, and of the Christian lettering typeface Stigmata. Downloads not functional. She lives in Forest Hills, SA, and attended Rhodes University. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Durban University of Technology in South Africa, Helen Borg designed the Umlungu typeface (2015), which depicts hand signals used by South African taxi drivers to communicate with white dummies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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South African graphic designer who made First Edition (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hillary Adams
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Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the rounded inline typeface Retro (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital designer in Johannesburg, South Africa. His bilined typeface Achebe Sans (2013) was inspired by Chinua Achebe's book Things Fall Apart. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Durban, South Africa-based illustrator and creative director whose typographic mural Only in Durban (2015) creates a great image of the city. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African magazine. Has a sub-page on African fonts, which is just a link to the SacredNipple foundry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Inscape Design College, Cape Town, South Africa-based Ines Ngoua designed the sans typeface Sanccob (2016) to draw attention to the plight of penguins. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ivan Colic (Infografica) is art director at Ogilvy Zoom Cape Town, South Africa. He made a stunning constructivist typeface family in 2012, called Afrographique. In 2015, he started selling his fonts via Creative Market. Typefaces there include the clean sans typeface Infografica Medium (2015, to be used for information design). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jack Walsh (Cape Town, South Africa) designed Black Moscow (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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During her studies in Cape town, South Africa, Jade Ludski designed the decorative caps typeface Nude HBO Girls (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sasolburg, South Africa-based designer of ZAsymbolsAriel (2002: dead link warning) and ZAsymbolsRoman (2002). These have (had) diacritics useful for these South African languages: isiNdebele, isiZulu, Sepedi, Setswana and Tshivenda. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Durban, South Africa, who created a great jand-lettered ironwork script piece called Gratitude (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jan Erasmus
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During his studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Johannesburg-based Jared van Damme created an alchemic / hipsterish typeface (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Industrial designer in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2019, he published Zeitz, which was based on the architecture of Zeitz MOCAA (Museum of Contemporary Art Africa). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the decorative typeface Yummy Sushi (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2012, he created an art deco typeface that was inspired by a bicycle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Johannesburg, who created Dockyard (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African designer of a cartoon character typeface in 2019. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jethro Stebbings (Johannesburg, South Africa) created the vernacular typeface Urban (2013) by studying various informal letters and words found around Alexander township in Gauteng, South Africa. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joan Chong works in Singapore. Her illustrations and fashion mag work is exquisite and refined. In addition, she has made a modular typeface called Ornate (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Port Elizabeth, South Africa-based designer of the outlined disoplay typeface Sensory (2017), which was created for a multisensory publication on the Sensory Processing Disorder in children. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in 2009 of Qarmic Sans, Qirkus Qaps (almost Tuscan), Qranklestein, Qlippitek, Qixstix, QutnTorn Caps, and the hand-printed fonts Qirlycues and Qokijo. In 2011, she created Qokipops, Qik Edges (2011, dingbats and borders), Qut+Torn (papercut face), Qrypton (2011, sci-fi), Qumbazonki (2011, African look face), Qwagga (2011, another African face), Qixbox (2011, hand-printed 3d face), Qongasushi (2011, poster face), Qarkitech, and Qlinickle. Typefaces from 2012 include Qarolina, Qreepy, Qrackerjax, Qubism, Qoncrete, Qrubby, Questoz, Quinky (brush face), Qumberland Slab, Qinkgo, Qrayola, Qudos, Qubism (inspired by Picasso), Qimiko, Qhorah, Qratchee (scratchy typeface). In 2013, she designed Qrankenstein, Qaxton, Quota (a heavy titling face), Qlub Jozi (art deco), Qlarendon (a 7-style Clarendon family), Qarmic Sans Pro, Qanoodle (handwriting), Qorker (art deco, after The New Yorker?), Qlaire (clean sans), Qwinkwell, Quota (fat poster face), Qarross, Qontreaux, Qut+Paste (paper cut font), Qwacko, Qizulu (African-themed font), Qokeynote. Typefaces from 2014: Qlunky Brush, Qarrotface, QikiconsRealEstate, QrackStreet, Quiglet (a very rounded sans), Quota-Bold, Qutntorn, Qwinkwell, Quikhand (chalk / blackboard typeface), Qirlycues. Typefaces from 2015: African Elegance, Embroidery Running Stitch, Embroidery Chainstitch, Embroidery Backstitch, Leaderbord. Typefaces from 2016: Scrabblish (scrabble font). Typefaces from 2017: Qanterberry, Geeky Periodic Table Font. Devian Tart link. Behance link. Graphic River link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the school project font Rounda (2018) [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Johannesburg, South Africa, who created the display typeface TV Antenna (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town-based graphic designer and illustrator, who made some experimental typefaces. Flickr page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Johannesburg, South Africa, Joshua Lew designed the monoline circle-based sans typeface Burbs (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jörg Knappen
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Designer in Johannesburg who made a custom hand-printed typeface for the Juicy Lucy bar in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the techno typeface Black Baas (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of a strip font (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Cape Town, South Africa, Justin Williams created the modular JW Font (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the connected cursive typeface Matilda (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he made Stickerman Bad Times, Rock X Start TFB, Aespiro TFB, Perspectivo TFB (3d face), Desgarvuda (textured face), Estancofida TFB (textured face), LEDisplay TFB, Restroom Signs TFB, Chinese Cally TFB, Discontinuo, Suast Ornad TFB (a textured face), Scoolar TFB (3d face), Katakana TFB, Hiragana TFB, Dragons TFB, Arrows TFB, Old Retro Keys TFB, Pycuaf, Pycuafodi, Dragon Ball TFB, Escaned (texture face), Chess TFB, Seagram TFB, Army Weapons TFB, Stamp Seal TFB, Logos TFB, Scripto TFB, Another Ornaments TFB, Vintage Auto Cars TFB, Simple (a monoline sans), Travesia TFB (information design dings), Music TFB (dingbats), Xmas Cartoon, Wings of Wind TFB, Mickey M TFB, Pincel Handwrite, Jigsaw Pieces TFB, Valentines Day TFB (heart dingbats), Proportional TFB (squarish sans), Stars TFB, Working Signs TFB, Signs Language TFB, Ornaments Labels and Frames, Snowflakes TFB, Christmas Nativity TFB, Chinese Zodiac TFB, Zodiac TFB, Only Skulls, Calendar Note TFB, Sports TFB (sports silhouettes), Old Retro Labels TFB, 11 Vator TFB, Xmas TFB (Christmas dings), Trees TFB, Clothing Logos TFB, Dirty Sweb, Can Dog TFB, Ornaments, Finger Print, Kitty Kats TFB, Batman Logo Evolution TFB, Light TFB (avant garde sans), Digital Display TFB (LED face), Skullx (dingbats), Tribal Tattoo (dingbats), Klingon, The Meme Font (dingbats), Rongorongo (a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island), Strangferfixcs, Hotel Transilvania and Frankenwine. Typefaces made in 2013: Pudahuel Sans, Variada TFB (simple circle-and-arc-based sans), Estorea TFB, New LED Board TFB, Rayada TFB (textured face), New Barcode Font TFB, Estrellas TFB (stars), Estrellass (sic) TFB, Spirits Dots Drinks, Mero Ornad TFB (fishnet textured), Toolz TFB, New Stencil TFB, Logocarsbats TFB, Caritons TFB (smilies), Illustrations TFB (scanbats), Edgebat TFB (knives), Crossbats TFB (crosses), Abstrec TFB (organic sans), Frames TFB, BitxMap Font TFB, Austera Simple TFB, Traffic Signs TFB, Extranger Sol TFB, Rifle Bats TFB, New X Digital TFB (LED typeface family), Dasgastada TFB, El Alambre TFB, Punk Not Dead TFB, Triangled TFB, Noxtrey Auf TFB, Cross LED TFB (+Bold), Cursi Extra TFB, Hearts Shapes TFB, Ornamentsss TFB, Eggfaces TFB, Orniste TFB, Shadded TFB (sic) (shadow face), Spoghetti Western (sic) (Italian Far West face), Groovy Font (shaded), Fireguns TFB (dingbats), Only Revolver TFB (dingbats), Aeg Flyon Now (condensed sans), Espinuda TFB, T1 Logoso TFB, Social Logos TFB, Hearts and Flowers for valentines, Astrology Astrological TFB, Ornametss TFB, Astrology TFB, Old Ornaments, Old Foundry Prints TFB, Old seals TFB, English Two Line TFB (pearly alphabet from 1796), Amame TFB (dot matrix face), Fontesda TFB (sketched face), Flowers Dots Bats TFB, Queen Destroy TFB, Bicycle TFB (dingbats), Stone Army, Ancient Weapons TFB, Numismatic Bats TFB, Elizabethan Initials TFB, Anome Ibul, Big Daddy LED, Mavole Sinpo TFB (spurred), Dowted Remix TFB (dot matrix face), QR Font TFB, Another Barcode, Display Free TFB (LED face), Cadabra Debilex, Initials TFB, Music Logos TFB, Toxic Waste TFB, Ornad Dentro TFB, Logos and Logos TFB, Amore Mio, Hearts Shapes TFB, Another X Display TFB (dot matrix), Pro Display TFB (dot matrix), Juino Net, Quiwo Luse TFB, Aliencons Two, Cargante TFB, News Board TFB, Aliencons TFB, Barcode TFB, Birthday Balon TFB, Birds TFB (silhouettes), Le Fish (fish silhouettes), Motos TFB, Love You Too TFB (Valentine's day font), LED LCD 123, Noteame (fat sans), Badopus TFB (monoline script), Estrellado TFB, Love You TFB (Valentine's Day font), Cubs LED TFB (LED / dot matrix typeface), Text Inside TFB (textured face), Kuwa Ronmcie Q (circle-based face), Zebra TFB, Distrogrunge TFB, Carillas TFB (smilies). Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Karen Botha (Cape Town, South Africa) created the organic display typeface Medea in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer (aka Karz, and as Karen Boland) of the handwriting fonts Karz 001 (2009, made with Scanahand), Chloe (2010) and Holmes 001 (2005). Karen (b. 1982) lives in Ramsgate, South Africa. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Durban, South Africa-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Afrika Typografika (2016) during his studies at Durban University of Technology. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At Vega school in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kat Donoghue designed the floral caps typeface Human Nature (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kate Butcher is from Cape Town, south Africa. She created the font Dyslexia (2011) which is intended to make non-dyslexic people read like dyslexic folk. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Kate Rees designed the decorative typefaces I Am God (2016) and Pelfie (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Durban, South Africa-based designer of the decorative plant-themed typeface iJusi Afrika (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Durban, South Africa-based designer of the vuvuzela-themed display typeface Vuvubraai (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African creator of Keith Scribble (2007, a Fontifier handwriting font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African designer (perhaps based in London) of the stencil typeface Radio Edit (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Durban University of Technology in Durban, South Africa, Kelly Fletcher created Typografika (2015), an ornamental caps typeface based on tribal African patterns and the shapes of African city buildings. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Cape Town, South Africa, Kelsie Blake created How to English (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the display caps typeface Ekae (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the experimental vector font Method (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kurt Campbell is a New Media lecturer at the University of Cape Town. He has published on aspects of South African typography and is a founding member of the Iron Age Font Foundry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, who created Urban Based Typeface in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the 3d shadow typeface Disclosed (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the techno typeface Hindrance (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Information designer from Pretoria, South Africa, b. 1988, and student at the University of Pretoria. He created the experimental typeface Munch (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of a handcrafted circus font in 2017. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Durban, South Africa-based designer of Concept Font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at the North-West University of Potchefstroom, Leandri Louw (Potchefstroom, South Africa) designed a textured typeface (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Layout designer in Kimberley, South Africa, who made the display typeface fatty Boom Boom in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Durban, South Africa-based designer of the minimalist sans typeface Infinity (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of an untitled school project typeface in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lerato Love
| Lerato Mokgethi runs Lerato Love, a graphic design and photography studio in South Africa. In 2021, she designed the art deco display typeface Ribbon. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Lerato Mokgethi
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Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of Neoveau (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Lindie Botes created the Geometria typeface (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lisa Campbell
| It is unclear whether Ally Heart or Lisa Campbell is her real name. Art director in Johannesburg, South Africa, who created these typefaces in 2017: Chalk (sketched, hatched letters), Hollandaise Script (formal calligraphy), Brave Butterfly (informal writing style). Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Codesigner with Brode Vosloo (Sacred Nipple Type Foundry in South Africa), William Rea and Garth Walker of the African dingbats font AfroDisiac (1997), which was also published by [T-26]. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of Dingbats (2013), a set of icons related to South Africa. In 2013, Lizae was a graphic design student at NWU Potchefstroom. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African graphic designer who created the vintage display typeface Westlake (2017). She runs Studio Lize. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Self-proclaimed illustrator and gunslinger in Cape Town, South Africa, who created the beautiful art deco typeface Empire Deco in 2012-2013. Aka Her Name Was Lola. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luka Bajic (Johannesburg, South Africa) created the hand-printed poster typeface Luka (2013) during his studies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Stellenbosch, South Africa, of an ornamental typeface (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Port Elizabeth, South Africa-based designer of Names (2019), The Grand Minimal (2019), Resort (2019), Capital Accents (2019) and Poster Font (2019). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Port Elizabeth, South Africa-based designer of these handcrafted typefaces in 2019: Names, The Grand Minimal, Capital Accents, Resort, Poster. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Durban, South Africa. Creator of the round bold sans display typeface Milk (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Codesigner of some fonts with Brode Vosloo at South Africa's Sacred Nipple Font Foundry. Coburn is from Zaire. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Manfred Klein
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Manfred Klein: African-themed fonts
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Download page. Download all these fonts in onze zip file. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the handcrafted Forty Five Degree (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the geometric sans typeface Biko (2013), which is named after South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. See also Biko Light (2013). Buy Biko from Monofonts. Obtain a free copy from Dafont. In 2014, he designed the masculine sans typeface Coluna Condensed Bold (also free at Dafont, this family includes Rounded, Outlined, and Sketched styles). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies at AAA School of Advertising, Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the wavy wiggly typeface Melancholy Display (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Or Margaret Vivienne Calvert. Graphic and type designer (b. 1936, South Africa) and teacher, who after studies at the Chelsea College of Art became the partner of Jock Kinneir in 1964 in Kinneir, Calvert Associates. There, she designed type for signals, highways, the British Rail, airports, hospitals, the army, and the subway. Designer in FUSE 9 of the experimental font A26 (1994). She also made TransportD with Jock Kinneir in 1963, a URW++ font. This UK traffic signage typeface first started in 1957 comes in two weights, Medium and Bold. Monotype Calvert (1980) is a retail Egyptian typeface that was originally used in Newcastle's Tyne & Wear Metro. Ashley Ng (San Francisco) did a great set of advertising posters for MT Calvert in 2012. She taught at the Royal College of Art in London from 1966, and headed its graphics unit from 1967-1981. She was awarded an honorary degree by the University of the Arts London in 2004. In 2009, Margaret Calvert and Henrik Kubel designed New Rail Alphabet, a revival of the 1964 British Rail alphabet of Margaret Calvert and Kinneir Calvert Associates. Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert also created Motorway as a companion to Transport. That typeface was extended by Keith Bates in Motorway (2015). Wikipedia entry. Linoype link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the free handcrafted typeface Vanderful (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Studio in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2016, it designed the free typeface Gothvetica Caps, which is a blend of Gotham and Helvetica. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Pretoria, South Africa. In 2009, she created the all caps ornamental typeface Kruisstreek ("cross stitch"). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Johannesburg, South Africa, Masego Moanakwena designed the display typeface Mgongo (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in South Africa, and based in Middlesbrough, UK, Matt Boak designed these typefaces: Hard Flip (2015, a squarish typeface inspired by old black and white horror films such as "The Phantom Of The Opera"), the pixel typeface Dea Pixels (2015), and the commissioned pixel typeface Geek Press (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Cubek Touch (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic Design student at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Creator of the pacakging / signage typeface Chillin' Thick (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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During his studies in Cape Town, South Africa, Matthew Wallach designed the stylish typeface Hashigo (2016), which was inspired by Japanese furniture. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer (b. 1988) of Scarange (2005, an organic typeface that was called Maelstrom) and Vogue Sans (2005, see also here). He is working on Satinwood (2007, a quaint typeface in the style of Bernhard Modern). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the ancestral pattern font Max (2018) and the personal branding font ENE (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pretoria, South Africa-based Information Design student at the University of Pretoria. Creator of Origami Sans (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the free monoline rounded sans typeface Comic Revive (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Cape Town, South Africa, this graphic designer and illustrator created an art deco typeface family called Retrofunk (2009), which includes a stencil style. Her logo lettering is also remarkable. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of a typeface for the Save Our Seas Foundation (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of an AK-47-themed typeface in 2018 called Kalasnifont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies, Randfontein, South Africa-based Michael Marais designed the vernacular typeface Kram (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michelle McDuling
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Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the curly typeface Curla (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michelle Roux
| Michelle Roux (was: Michelle McDuling) is the Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the poster typefaces Cubed (2017), Curla (2015) and Alpha Lines (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
South African graphic designer and illustrator who lives in Cape Town. Behance link. Creator of the multiline layered font Fluister Klip Hard (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stellenbosch, South Africa-based designer of the blocky 3d font Structured (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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During his studies in Cape Town, South Africa, Mishlen Gilbert designed the dog-themed all caps typeface Fallen Angels (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director Moe Kekana (Cape Town, South Africa) created the experimental typeface Aviator for a school project in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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In his own words, Morné Venter is a conceptual thinker, illustrator and designer. Based in Pretoria, South Africa, he created Mauritio (2012), a basic poster typeface inspired by the island of Mauritius. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pretoria, South Africa-based designer of Monsters Think They Are Scary (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Soweto, this designer now works in Johannesburg. Diamonds inspired him to create Taemane (2012). Taemane is Diamond in Sesotho. In 2011, he made M Font, in which all letters are somehow derived from "m". In 2012, he created the Learn Braille Font. Old Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Johannesburg, South Africa, who works under the acronym DAMN---Design (and) Art (by) Mzwakhe Ndlovu. He created the experimental deco typeface Marslight in 2015. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based creator of the petroglyphic emulation typeface Rud (2017), the typographic poster Africa Remix (2015) and an art nouveau self portrait (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
She posted several Kufi style Arabic typefaces designed by her students in 2015 at the University of Dammam, College of Design for Girls. These include fonts by Arwa Alshammari (Moderfla), Najebah Alhashim (Handasah), Raghda Almakami (Zawiya), Ghadeer Haddad (Bubble: a circle-based font), Lina (Tammuz), Sukaina Albasha (Lightning), Fatima AlMoaili (MOQ'LA), Nora Alshammari (ZBRQAN), and Layla Alkhalifah (Thakerah). Her students jointly designed the Kufic Arabic typefaces Asia (2014), Ragda (2015, based on Avenir), Sumaya (2015), Layla (2015, based on Helvetica), and Lojain (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Sandton, South Africa, b. 1982. He created Romerati (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born and raised in Katlehong, a township to the east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Neo Mphahlele studied at the University of Johannesburg, where he designed Dysfunctional Typeface in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based graphic designer. Creator of the decorative typeface Day of the Dead (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2015, Nicki created more script typefaces: Hello Sunshine (hand brushed), Stone Harbour (dry brush typeface), Pleasures Script, Bonjour, Heart & Soul, Butterscotch. She also created a handcrafted system, called The Typographers Fonts, that includes these fonts: Bacon Sandwich, Fish And Chips, Fox And Bear, Gingerbuck, Habaneros, Handsome Hand Slanted, Handsome Hand, Heartstrings, Hunterswood, Lemon Squeeze, Mustache, Rembrandt, Shopaholics, Stalemates, Stringbeans, Sugarbush Slanted, Sugarbush, Zanjeros. Typefaces from 2016: Just Lovely, Bloomishly Brush, Saturday Script (dry brush script), Tanglewoods, La Fiesta (calligraphic script with watercolour edges), Maraschino Script (calligraphic script with a bouncy baseline, Little Anchor (Wobbly hand-painted script), Blushing Bride (a flirty hand-lettered script), Lemonshino, Strawberry Frosting (plump and cheerful), Happy Days, Bear Hugs, Vanilla Sprinkles (messy calligraphy with watercolour edging), Mustard Mustache (an uppercase marker font), Island Style, Lucky Fellas (brush script), Indigo Blue, Miss Couture (pencil brush script), Forever Soulmates, Blooming Elegant (Sans, Hand and Monoline), Hello Lucky (a dry marker font), Biscuit Base Script, Boathouse Script, Deliciously Script, Gojiberries, Harelybuck Script, Jeronimo Typeface, Jolly Sailor, Loveluck Script, Lemonade Stand, Maraschino Typeface, Masquerade, Novascotia, Peaches & Pistachio, Shoestrings. Typefaces from 2017: Just Heavenly (dry brush script), South Route, Pringle+Tweed, Poppit+Finch, Ernest + Emily, Gotcha (marker font), Indigo Summer, Serendipity, Styled Up, Hello Pretty (brushed typeface), Born Ready (brush script). Typefaces from 2018: Electric Dreams (font duo), Instalove (SVG dry brush), InstaLove Smooth, Lovestory (watercolor SVG font), Summer Loving (SVG brush), Stay Classy Font Duo, Signature Collection, White Oleander, Belluga, Simply Sweet, Signature Collection, Chin Up Buttercup. Typefaces from 2019: White Alchemy (a wild script), Supa Mega Fantastic, Pink Lemonade, Picasso in Paradise, California Dreams (+SVG, +Marker, +Watercolor), Bon Vivant Family (font duo), Gatsby Modern, Nicolette Script (by Nico Inosanto and Nicky Laatz), Serenity Font Duo, Joules et Jaques (script and serif), Kokomo Breeze. Typefaces from 2020: Wicked Awesome, The Perfect Match, Fishfingers & Chips, Juniper and Sage, South Pacific, Marshmallow Hot Chocolate, Glamour Absolute (a fashion mag display typeface). Typefaces from 2021: Isabella Grand, Nightingale Script (an antique watercolor script), Idealist Serif (a hipster serif), Magic Ramen, (a reverse contrast script). Typefaces from 2022: Kilimanjaro (a heavy 18-style sans that recalls Lubalin in the late 70s). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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South African graphic designer, who operates Blackbirdesign. She created the children's font Novelty (2011). Nicole lives in Cape Town. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at Inscape Education Group in Cape Town, South Africa, Nicole O'Neill designed a virtual display typeface for the Western Province Blood Transfusion Service (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nigel Babb
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During his multimedia design studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Nikki Hellmann created the anthroposophic typeface Urban (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Junior graphic designer in Durban, South Africa, who created an unnamed vernacular typeface in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Durban, South Africa-based student-designer of the sexual position font Marhosha (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Oh Bear Studios
| Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the free handcrafted typeface Hello Font (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
South African hand-lettering artist and self-taught illustrator. In 2021, she designed these typefaces: Amalfi (all caps sans), Blue Jeans (grungy), Bohemia (a brush script), Country Road, Cutie Pie, French Kiss, Good Vibes (a rustic SVG opentype font), Hello Script, Paris Rough, Paris Solid (stencil), Je T'aime (script), Rustic, SaltRock. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Orange Juice Design
| Orange Juice Design is located in Durban, South Africa. It was founded in 1995 by Garth Walker, South Africa's leading exponent of post-apartheid design. Sheila Dorje (from Cape Town, South Africa) designed the Arabic simulation font Halaal (2000). Fontshop link to Dorje. I-jusi (Zulu for juice) is a magazine published by Orange Juice Design. As part of this, he has published discussions of African typography in National Typographika 1 (i-jusi volume 11) and 2 (i-jusi volume 17) (commented here). Walker was commissioned to design a typeface for South Africa's new constitutional court in 2004. He also created Red Mercury, inspired by Jonathan Barnbrook's work, and alluding to South Africa's covert nuclear defence programme. Garth Walker co-designed the African dingbats font AfroDisiac (1997, [T-26]) with Brode Vosloo (Sacred Nipple Type Foundry in South Africa), William Rea and Lisa King. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Co-founder and creative director of Mamgobozi Design Factory. Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer (b. Zimbabwe) of The Accordeonist (2020, based on a Picasso painting from 1911 by the same name). In 2014, he designed Colonial Bastard Rhodes as a post-colonial critique of both Cecil John Rhodes and the impact of colonialism in South Africa. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1982 and located in Cape Town, South Africa, Owen Ingarfield is a graphic designer. Home page. He used Fontcapture to make OwenHand (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
UK-based type designer (b. 1970, Johannesburg). His first commercial typeface is Bramber (2012): The design of Bramber was inspired by Allied propaganda posters of the second World war, especially Russian posters. It has a distinctive solid, geometric appearance. But it is not constructivist. Arundel Sans (2012) is a cast iron display typeface with a medieval cathedral feel---it was inspired by the Arundel castle in west Sussex. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For a school project in Durban, South Africa, Paul Fernandes Pearson created the neon font Africa Typographica (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Durban, South Africa-based designer of the blocky typeface Oxborrow Metric Inline (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic artist in London, who has designed various decorative all caps alphabets. These include East End (2014) and Alphabet of Sex and Disability (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the monoline sans typeface Suski (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Peter Slingsby
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Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the blocky typeface Pajitnov (2015), which was inspired by the classic arcade game Tetris and named after its Soviet developer, Alexey Pajitnov. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Cape Town, South Africa, who created the display typeface Saw in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student in Cape Town, South Africa, who created the experimental 3d typeface Crisptal in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of Jacknese (2016), a Japanese emulation typeface inspired by an animated series on Cartoon Network called Samurai Jack. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design director at Frost Design in Sydney and South Africa since 2007. Global Brand Design and Art Director for the London 2012 Olympic Games for Nike. Designer of quite a few (unnamed) typefaces in 2009-2012. These include several modular or experimental designs, a 3D typeface for Mr. Muz in Tasmania, an Escheresque typeface, a prismatic typeface, a didonbe typeface, and an op-art experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rabatho Laka (Johannesburg, South Africa) created a vernacular typeface called Urban in 2013 during his studies at the University of Johannesburg. Behance link [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the 3d typeface Blokke Off (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Durban, South Africa-based designer of the rhino poaching font Afrika Typografika (2016), which was finished during her studies at DUT. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
RainBomb Studio
| Mpumalanga, South Africa-based designer of the 16-font squarish display family Phola (16 styles) (2021) that includes substyles Regular, Solid, Square, Diablo (spurred) and Clean. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Reghardt
| Reghardt is the foundry in Pretoria (and now East London), South Africa, that was founded in 2010 by Reghardt Grobbelaar. Its fonts include the children's handwriting typeface Hegel (2010), which was designed for Hegel Toys. Hegel Pro is an update from 2015. In 2013, Reghardt designed Cake Sans. In 2015, he added the rounded sans typeface Polly Rounded. In 2016, he published the sans typeface Thommy and the non-rounded version of Polly. Behance link. Creative Market link. A second Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Reghardt Grobbelaar
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retype
| Free fonts designed by Christopher Houston from South Africa: four free typefaces, narinx, red shirt, proletarian, and mdma. Dead link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
He writes: Jessie Marion King (1875-1949) began her professional career as a book designer and illustrator, but over time her creativity found its outlet in many forms, including posters, jewelry, ceramics, wallpaper, fabrics, murals, interior design and costumes. After eventually settling in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, she founded Green Gate Close, a center for women artists. Although her style is reminiscent of the Art Nouveau artist, Aubrey Beardsley, King's aesthetic was an offshoot of the "Glasgow Style," a Scottish hybrid of the Arts and Crafts movement and Art Nouveau. Often, her illustrations included hand lettering. It was just this kind of lettering that gave Richard Every his inspiration for ITC Greengate. When he saw some children's book illustrations that King created in 1898, he knew on the spot he had to complete the hand lettering as a typographic font. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at the AAA School of Advertising in Cape Town, South Africa, Roxanne Simpson created the circle-based typeface Long Street (20140 which was inspired by the rooftops and (mostly Victorian) architecture of Long Street, Cape Town. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator, typographer and graphic designer in Cape Town, South Africa. Rudi writes about himself: Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, Rudi de Wet draws his inspiration from the region's hand-painted typographic signs, African fabrics and loves decoration. Presently, he works his magic as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer in Melbourne, Australia. He studied a BA in Fine Arts, with majors in Graphic Design and Illustration from the University of Stellenbosch, where, besides studying, he spent much of his time drinking the town's famous selection of rich, amazing wine. Rudi was one of the founding members of the Am I Collective, a now well-respected and highly sought-after design and illustration studio in Cape Town. He spent three years there, where an average day consisted primarily of hand typography jobs for the likes of Ogilvy&Mather, Saatchi&Saatchi, Network BBDO and Y&R Paris. His outlined 3d face Mzansi (2009) was custom-made for Lowe Bull Cape Town. He designed Unilever in 2010. In 2013, he drew a typographic poster for Husqvarna. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African graphic designer who lives in Johannesburg. His typefaces include Atcurve (2008, avant-garde). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sacred Nipple Type Foundry
| Founded in 1996, Sacred Nipple Type Foundry was a South African foundry located in KwaZulu-Natal, located at this dead link. The main designers were Brode Vosloo, Lyall Coburn, Stephen Embleton and Scott Dukes. They had grungy fonts such as the great graffiti font StarSalon, Sloth (1996), Albino (Brode Vosloo), Belch (Clint Vosloo), and Spiked Soda (Lyall Coburn and Cock Vosloo). The Vosloo brothers and Coburn are originally from Zaire. Brode Vosloo is also the [T-26] designer of AfroDisiac (dingbats, 1997, with Garth Walker, William Rea and Lisa King), Slicka (2002), FreeLine (a techno face, T-26) and ShoeRepairs (a dadaist and 3d family made in 2000, T-26). Their own designs include interesting African fonts such as MrCV Joint, and Shoe Repairs (2000, family). Newest fonts: ErrorType8 (2000, Brode Vosloo), IZulu-Outline (2000, Brode Vosloo), IZulu-Regular (2000, Brode Vosloo), PleineStr (2000, Brode Vosloo), Rural (2000, Brode Vosloo), Biltong, BirthRiot, Caslonostrate, Cynic, Ejectile, EjectileItalic, Fondle, Fuel, FuelItalic, GrossAkzidentFucked, Hole, Holier, IAlfabhethi, IZuluOutline, Lymphatic, Propane, PropaneRounded, PropaneSmallCaps, Scrapt, ScripteriaCola, ScripteriaGummy, ScripteriaToid, Slick69, StyleLiner. Since 2004, Brode Vosloo works (not sure if he still does today) for Iron Fist Design. Another URL. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Student in Cape Town, South Africa, who created an experimental geometric hand-drawn typeface in 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies, Sara Steiniger (Grahamstown, South Africa) designed a colorful all caps typeface (2016). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the artificial language font Fook regular (2016). It is based on Fook Island Script, which was drawn and invented ca. 1965 by Walter Battiss (1906-1982) for his imaginary Fook Island. Sarah Shorten was briefed to develop the script into a digital font, for its 50th anniversary on the occasion of the exhibition Walter Battiss: "I invented myself" at Wits Art Museum (WAM), Johannesburg, 2016. The font, Fook Regular, was applied to a broadside or type specimen poster and featured in an essay of Battiss's manuscript lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Johannesburg, South Africa, Savannah Meyer designed the geometric serif typeface Georif (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Scholtz Fonts
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Scholtz sells a fine selection of display types that ooze African themes. An alphabetical list:
View the typefaces designed by Anton Scholtz. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Type designer at The Sacred Nipple in South Africa. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of Flightpath (2015), a typeface that is inspired by the lines created when the flight paths of commercial airlines are mapped out. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies at AAA School of Advertising, Cape Town, South Africa-based Serena-Marié van der Nest designed the textured squarish typeface Bubblegum Ban (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the experimental typefaces LightSerge (2018) and Stock Market (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Johannesburg, South Africa. He created Modular (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Cape Town, South Africa, Sharleen Hollick created fun typographic posters called Ladies and Gentlemen (2013). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design student in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2012. In 2012, Shavaughn created a bicycle calendar using only typographic building blocks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sheila Dorje (from Cape Town, South Africa) designed the Arabic simulation font Halaal (2000), which appeared in the pages of Orange Juice Design, the Durban, South Africa-based company of Garth Walker. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Signature Ink
| South African calligrapher who has created some stunning calligraphic logos. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
During his studies, Grahamstown, South Africa-based Sihle Mtshiselwa created Rockwell Redesign (2015), a handcrafted typeface inspired by the Austin Powers era British pop culture. He also created the horizontally striped Cat Rider (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the "brutalist" typeface Muzzle inspired by the "crypto-fascist monuments that mark the South African landscape" (quotes by Sean O'Toole. This typeface was presented in the magazine National Typographika 2 (i-jusi magazine volume 17). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the display sans typeface Nizinga (2017). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sir Blaez
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Skout
| South African type and web design jump page organized by Mokokoma Mokhonoana. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Spook Design Co
| Graphic designer and illustrator in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2020, he designed the delicate decorative typeface Doppelganger. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Gordon's Bay, South Africa-based designer of the vector format bold sans typeface Round The Block (2014). Free download. Devian tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African designer of the beady typeface Abakus Bold (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African designer (b. 1983) of FGFontfull (2012, hand-printed). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Freelancer in Cape Town, who specializes in children's books. He created an ornamental caps typeface called Monstrosity (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cape Town, South Africa-based graphic designer who made a constructivist typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Johannesburg, South Africa. His typefaces include Knockout LCD (2017, an LCD font) and Mars One (2017, sci-fi). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Su Lucas
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Su Lucas Fonts
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Her oeuvre includes SL Christmas Silhouettes (2000), JunariClaws (2002, with Bella Morte), JunariClawsItalic, SLBookArts (2003, book dingbats), SLDividers (2003, used to be called filets), SLForknFont (2000), SLSignLanguage (2001), SLSquareOrnaments (2003), SLZodiacIcons (2002), Boere Tudor (2002, a medieval font), SL Wash, SL Star of David, SL Squiggles, SL Zodiac Stencils, SL Woodcut Faeries, SL Kid's Alphabet, SL Safety, SL Mythological Silhouettes, Back to the Futurex, and Rock Art in South Africa dingbats (2000). About that last dingbat font, she writes: ...This font was made from photographs and drawings of the rock art in South Africa....The Bushmen (San) were the most prolific painters....A lot of the male figures are shown with a semi-erection, as can be seen in q, e, r, and p. This is a physical trait peculiar to the San, called "penis rectus". This characteristic helped with cooling and heat dissipation in the very hot summers experienced in South Africa. A recurrent image is that of one or more crossbars across the penis. The meaning of this is unclear, but it is theorised that the foreskin was adorned with ornaments like pieces of bone and feathers. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Susan Brand Design
| South African designer of the script typefaces Lovely Bluebells, Coconut Milk (2020) and Lekker (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
South African singer who is based in Cape Town. She designed Liekielaai (2013, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Cape Town, South Africa. She made the pencil scrap alphabet Fuse (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Tanya Blaeser (Johannesburg, South Africa) created Urban Typeface in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the display typeface Ignition (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Durban, South Africa-based designer of the brush typeface Hot Wheels (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Multimedia designer in Johannesburg, South Africa, who created the vernacular Urban typeface in 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Burning Duck Department
| Nigel Babb at The Burning Duck Department (cartoon specialists) in South Africa. Together with Matt Tapson (?), he created Broken Stick (2005), a free paint brush font. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The Kinetic
| South African production house located in Johannesburg. They created a free monoline organic sans typeface family called Stroke (2012). It appears, but I am not sure, that this typeface was designed by Estian Fourie. In 2016, they added the free variable width typeface Punc. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the art deco typeface father (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
South African designer of the original stitching font Stitch (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Pretoria, South Africa, Tjaart Pretorius designed the Handy Man ornamental typeface (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Tondi Type (or: Fumz; was: Tondi Republik)
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Typefaces from 2017: Sisana (a hybrid sans), Durango, Ogra, Bebop Pro (sans and slab), Reqnad Geometrik (soft octagonal style; free), Bomba Stout. Typefaces from 2018: Ogra Sans (an industrial octagonal typeface), TR Reqnad Display (octagonal, industrial), Bebop V3, Bebop Slab. Typefaces from 2019: RQND Pro (industrial, octagonal), Republk (sic) Sans, Neo Afrique Pro, Tondi Sans. Typefaces from 2020: Akadis Display, Nicro Force (rounded octagonal). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Johannesburg, South Africa, who created the free thin sans typeface Rhetoric (2015) and the free display typeface Grothika (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Durban, South Africa-based designer of a potato cut font in 2018. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Walter Battiss (1906-1982) was a South African abstract painter well-known for his Fook Island concept. Wikipedia writes: This "island of the imagination" was a materialization of Battiss' philosophy for which he created a map, imaginary people, plants, animals, a history as well as a set of postage stamps, currency, passports and driver's licences. He created a Fookian language with a full alphabet as well. This utopian island was a composite of the many islands he visited which included Zanzibar, the Seychelles, Madagascar, Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, the Greek Isles and the Comores, blended together in his customary imaginative fashion. In Battiss's words, "It is something that does not exist. I thought that I would take an island - the island that is inside all of us. I would turn this island into a real thing---I would give it a name". Fook was a result of his fertile imagination as well as his opposition to the Conceptualist Art movement of the 1960s and 70s, in Europe and America. The movement espoused that the construction of art was confined to the 'moment' in which it was created. He believed to the contrary that all art exists in the now and this he argued to represent with Fook Island, which was always in the now and always an essential part of reality. He conceived his Fook Island Script between 1965 and 1967 and continued using it in his work and correspondence until his death in 1982. Sarah Shorten was briefed to develop the script into a digital font, for its 50th anniversary on the occasion of the exhibition Walter Battiss: "I invented myself" at Wits Art Museum (WAM), Johannesburg, 2016. The font, Fook Regular, was applied to a broadside or type specimen poster and featured in an essay of Battiss's manuscript lettering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Johannesburg, South Africa. Creator of the sci-fi typeface Trains in Space (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dead link. Codesigner with Brode Vosloo (Sacred Nipple Type Foundry in South Africa), Lisa King and Garth Walker of the African dingbats font AfroDisiac (1997), which was also published by [T-26]. Sacred Nipple ceased to exist, ca. 2004. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Zandri Daneel desoigned the metal work industrial typeface Industrial (2019). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannesburg-based designer who is working on a simple monoline sans typeface called Wargot (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her studies in Potchefstroom, South Africa, Zené Stoltz designed a school project typeface that inspired by the Anglo Boer War Concentration Camp in Potchefstroom. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ZETAFonts
| ZETAFonts, run by Frank E. Bailey, is located in Johannesburg, South Africa. His typefaces include Bloxxx Extra Bold (2010), Caligula Dodgy (2010: a Trajan caps face), Neil Normal, Shoom Vertical, Roller Bollocks, FreakE Beta, Reservoir Grunge (1999, a digital version of Aurora Grotesk), Rund Marker (2010: a felt tip font), Feena Casual, Shoom Vertical (2010: a monoline techno squarish sans). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
During her studies in Johannesburg, South Africa, Zoe Allison designed the lava lamp typeface Anthro Po (2018) and the compass-and-ruler font Shot (2019), which is inspired by the city of Johannesburg. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Johannesburg, South Africa. 
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Andrew Footit (b. 1984) runs his own type foundry in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also known as Arkitype. Until 2014, his type studio was called Virtue Creative and before that, Virtue84. In 2017, he set up 
Ben Grib (Black Bird Foundry, and Black Bird Press, South Africa) created the Western signage typefaces Excelsior and Indiana Headline in 2015. He also made the handcrafted signage typeface Deputy Serif (2015). On Behance, we read that the foundry is associated with Chris Bushey in Bongoville, Gabon. Chris made the Victorian signage typeface Fancy Pants (or Foxtrot). They also made several great sets of icons and drawing including Animalia, Le Kitchen and Fruits. [
During her studies at Rhodes University in Johannesburg, South Africa, Caitlin Dominy designed the decorative caps typeface Retro Rockwell (2016) and the floriated textured all caps typeface Lace (2016). [
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the jazzy 
Carl Leisegang (b. 1984), aka 
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the alchemic typeface 
Foundry, est. ca. 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa, by Jan Erasmus. Jan currently resides in Johannesburg and taught font design for 10 years at University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University. His professional activities include typography, websites, brochure design, packaging, branding and type design. He also designed custom fonts for corporations of which Menyaka (for the FIFA world cup soccer 2010) and Nando's fast foods (1999; done together with Cross Colours) are the most noted. 
Type designer and self-taught lettering artist from South Africa. He studied Visual Communications at Vega School, Durban. Graduate of the 
Desmond Wong studied at The Cooper Union (2011) and at Pratt Institute (2009-2013) before setting up shop in New York City. He designed some typefaces such as Mandelbrot (a Type@Cooper fractal emulation project from 2011 named after Benoit Mandelbrot), Bema (2013, a reinterpretation of a typeface originally created by Michael Freiburger, Martin Kranz, and Ulrich Gering for the first Bible printed in France---designed during Jesse Ragan's typeface design class at Pratt Institute), OM Steiner (designed at Other Means with direction from Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner, Ryan Waller and Vance Wellenstein for Yeasayer's Fragrant World), Export (2012, for Jesse Ragan), Vogue Sans (2013, a class project done with Kathleen Creighton), and four typefaces crated for his senior thesis project in 2013 jointly with Frank DeRose and Brendan Griffiths: Chinatown, Woodworm (with art nouveau stencil hints), Plant, Classified. 
Durban, South Africa-based creator of the nice typographic poster entitled Poetry Africa (2013). Student at Durban University of Technology, class of 2013. [
Senior designer in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2016, he published the 
Herman Coetzee (Blackboxgrafx), who is based in Vredesburg, South Africa, designed the futuristic, dystopian and sci-fi typefaces NuMono (2022), ArcType (2022), Quadra (2022), M Tech (2022), and Blackbox (2021). He also made a Cyberpunk Icons set in 2022. [
Designer and illustrator in Cape Town, South Africa. He created the artsy deco typeface Minimal Grotesque Mono (2013). [
Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of a bouncing letter typeface in 2017, specially designed for fitting and stuffing letters in small spaces. 
Aka Jos Joy, as Joanne Ford Taylor, and as 
Kaiser Zhar Khan (b. 1980, Chile), aka Zanatilja, used to run a new defunct archive called True Type Fonts. He also designed many typefaces himself. The most famous among these is his free African-themed typeface South Afirkas 2100 (2009), which is downloadable from 
South African and British type designer. During 
During her studies at Vega School of Brand Leadership in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kirsten Morgan created a distressed typewriter typeface called 
Graphic design student in Potchefstroom, South Africa. She created the poster font called 
Lebeaux Grobler (Cape Town, South Africa) created the trendy corporate sans typeface 
Cape Town, South Africa-based designer of the curly script typefaces Salt & Pepper (2016) and Pillowbook (2015), and the handcrafted poster dingbat and ornament typeface Caboodle (2015). 
African theme fonts include AfricArtes, AfricEggs, AfricaArt, AfricaArtTwo, Africaans, Africaans, Africain, AfricainBatsOSix, AfricanAngelsAndSpirits, AfricanArtifacts, AfricanGhosts, AfricanQueens, AfricanSymbols, Africanissima, AfricanissimaOSix, AfriquArtes, AfriqueDrawings, AfroDesigns, Afrobats, Afroparts, ArteAfrique, BlackLiving, BlackSplinters, MotherAfrica. 
Italian visual artist based in Amsterdam and Berlin. In 2005 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in visual communication from ISIA (Florence, Italy) and Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany). He continued his studies at the Sandberg institute of the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, where he obtained a Master's degree. 
Graphic designer in Pretoria, South Africa, who created the experimental typeface Afrasian in 2018. [
Born in Durban, South Africa, in 1947, Merle Scholtz specializes in designing African and Indian ethnic patterns and logos. Her work with ethnic patterns began as a result of her fascination with, and collection of, ethnic African masks and beadwork. Together with Anton Scholtz, she runs 
Art director in Johannesburg, South Africa. Creator of the multiserifed typeface Sunet Willemse (2014). Joziburg Lane (2016) is based on local vernacular type. [
Natalie Amy Margaret Houston was born in Durban, South Africa. She attended the then-named Natal Technikon. She graduated with a Diploma in Marketing and Sales Management in 1989, after which she was awarded an 18-month scholarship by the German Government to work and gain practical experience in that country. While in Germany she worked for Volkswagen and Audi, in their Marketing and Strategic Planning departments respectively. She returned to Germany from South Africa to study Graphic Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Dusseldorf. She completed a Bachelors and Masters degree in graphic design. Natalie lectured at the Durban University of Technology in the Faculty of Arts, in the Department of Graphic Design for nine years. In 2013 she joined the University of Dammam in Saudi Arabia, as a lecturer in Graphic Design. In 2015, she started pursuing a PhD in the Department of Social Sciences, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. 
Successful designer in Cape Town, South Africa, who started making fonts in 2014, In 2016, 
Nicola Van Den Heever (Pretoria, South Africa) designed a few great typographic posters during her illustration studies at the Open Window School of Visual Communication in 2013. [
South African designer of 
Sir Blaez is Braden Smulders in Cape Town, South Africa. His illustrations are spectacular. On the side, he has also made a display typeface called 
Su Lucas is a South African designer who joined 
South African illustrator and graphic designer who lives in Johannesburg. Her typefaces include 
Type designer Thomas Paul Carnase was born in The Bronx, New York City in 1939. He graduated from New York City Community College in 1959. Carnase started making fonts in the photolettering era, and lived through the transition to digital. In the 1960s, he opens the studio Bonder & Carnase Inc. From 1969 until 1979, he is vice-president and partner of the agency Lubalin, Smith, Carnase Inc. In 1979, he founds the Carnase Computer Typography studio. In 1980, Carnase becomes co-founder and president of the World Typeface Center Inc., an independent type design agency. He manages the in-house magazine Ligature published by the World Typeface Center from 1982 to 1987. Besides type design, Carnase has designed graphics for packaging, exhibitions, corporate identities and logos for numerous clients, including ABC, CBS, Coca-Cola, CondéNast Publications, Doubleday Publishing and NBC. He has held teaching positions at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, the Pratt Institute in New York, the Herron School of Art in Indiana, the Parson's School of Design in New York, the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio, the University of Monterrey in Mexico, and the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, among others. 
Fhumulani Nemulodi is the Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer of the soft-edged handcrafted poster typeface Bebop Slab (2016) and the modular poster typeface Elwi The Gentle Giant (2016). 
Graphic designer in Johannesburg, South Africa, who made the very thin display typeface 
Pretoria, South Africa-based designer of the clear thin sans typeface Let's Connect (2016), which was custom-made for Singularity. 
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