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This service makes a 3D font image from most fonts. The product, "3D Font Samples" seems no longer available. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Web site with links to tens of cheap font CDs, nearly all rip-offs and fraudulent products. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Another *$#@!*& collection of fonts, offered by Manay Software. Their web page is tricky: first fill out some form, giving away all your private details, because the CD is "free". Then click "continue" and learn that it is not so free after all. Only, too late--you have already given away your information. This scam should be prosecuted in some country. Luckily, some time between 2005 and 2012, Manay's link disappeared. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Abstract Fonts
| Growing 13000+ font archive maintained by Alex Chumak from Mississauga, ON. Chumak himself designed these fonts: AF Pepsi, AF Champion, AF Tommy Hilfiger. List of designers. New fonts. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Yet another entry to the Agfa/Monotype collection. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex Chumak
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Singapore-based design studio. Vendor for the major foundries. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Czech Design and Typography (studio experimentalniho design). Vendor of Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type outfit in Dallas, TX, with some free fonts, some commercial fonts (BOSS fonts: 4000 fonts for 30 USD), and some typography essays on anti-aliasing. There seems to be a connection withComputer Support Corporation. It released at one point in 1996 a big CD of fonts called Arts&Letters, which I believe is related to Bay Animation. These were renamed fonts from elsewhere. About 100 fonts were at this site. A sampling of the free fonts: Amos-Normal, ArcherNormal, Asia-Extended-Bold, Banco-Normal, Barrett-Condensed-BoldItalic, CallimarkerItalic, Cane-StripedNormal, Cane-Hollow, CoffeeSackExtendedItalic, CraneNormal, Dominon-Normal, Enview-Bold, Glaze-Normal, Gorgio-Normal, Leo-Normal, Matterhorn, Orient2Normal (oriental simulation), PennantNormal, Plank-ExtendedNormal, RoninNormal, ShalomNormal (Hebrew simulation), Tangiers-Normal, ThreeDeeNormal, WampumNormal. The list of about 2000 fonts I am aware of, all made between 1995 and 2001, is here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Company based in Sussex, UK, active ca. 2001: AtomicType is a distributor of the International TypeFounders library and CD-ROMs. Founded in 1995, ITF's goal is to provide a unique opportunity for the world's best independent small type foundries and typeface designers to display and distribute their fonts. Over 10,000 typefaces are available. Also some custom design work. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bay Fonts (or: Bay Soft, or: Bay Animation, Inc.)
| BaySoft or BayFonts (was: Bay Animation Inc) is a font vendor from Annapolis, MD. Charles Biddle established Bay Animation Inc there in 1994. They claim to have 8000 fonts, but clearly, these are mostly renamed fonts. I can not believe that they till operate. Interestingly, according to Ulrich Stiehl, Charles Biddle built up his collection with the help of Hans Fremuth, who had a similar collection marketed in Germany, called Profi-Schriften Business (Kelly Media). Still according to Stiehl, the majority of the Bay Animation fonts are doctored copies of Bitstream fonts (which in turn were knock-offs of Linotype fonts). The italics are merely awful computer-generated slants of romans, and thus, the collection is sub-par. Examples of equivalences include Joss Normal (a copy of Freehand 575 (Bitstream)) and Fusi Normal (a copy of Futura Std Medium). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sells a 139USD CDROM called Image Fonts having 600 type 1 and truetype fonts. I haven't been able to find out anything about these fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bertrand Morel
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Brendel Informatik GmbH
| Wilhelm Welsch's Cologne-based outfit that sells all the standard fonts, many under new names. Typically about 1DM per font (in packs of 500). Goes also under the name Quick Brown Fox (QBF), and is related to (identical to?) Softmaker. In the seventies, they made some original fonts at Brendel Type Studio such as Diamante and Dragon, but what is the relationship between Brendel Type Studio and Brendel Informatik? Their collection grew and included many semi-clones from major foundries (example: Equipe is like Emigre's Mason, and so forth). In 2000, FontShop sued them for placing 17 of their fonts on their CD, and Brendel lost and had to cough up a lot of money. Mark Johannson explains: The B+P fonts seem to be the earliest and now float freely between Brendel Informatik and Softmaker 's, sometimes renamed, sometimes not. Brendel also did fonts for Serif software (Page Plus, Draw Plus etc.) using the SF suffix. It is not unusual, if you open the SF/Softmaker/Brendel/BP fonts up with a font editor, that you'll find one of the other company's names for it still buried in there in either the TT or T1 ID field!! I'm guessing Softmaker (in Nuremberg) was a software publisher who acquired some type of rights along the lines. They still make software (Softmaker Office is their biggie) and still sell fonts. Brendel still operates out of Cologne and still sells fonts under the "Quick Brown Fox" foundry name. The catalogs between them are pretty identical even down to most font names. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Bruce Newman
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Vendor. PostScript fonts and TrueType fonts (in link). All the fonts are rip-offs, period. This outfit sells fonts made by others at about 2 dollars a shot. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Castcraft [3649 W Chase Ave Skokie, IL 60026], showed off a comprehensive library of fonts, all with extended character sets for multi-language typography. OptiFont is a trademark filed in 1990 by Fredric J. Kreiter of Castcraft. Castcraft sold a CD-ROM Type Library Volume 1 at 200 USD. Its entire font collection was sold for 1000 USD. It also made some custom fonts. Most post-1990 fonts have the prefix OPTI. For example, OPTI-Peking is an oriental simulation font. OPTI-Favrile is a copy of Tom Carnase's Favrile (WTC). A visitor warned me that there is absolutely zero security when you order from this outfit, so you are warned--this is a dangerous site! It seems that Manny Kreiter (d. 2005) was the last President&CEO, and that his family (Abe, Harry and Ned Kreiter) have been at it since the days of metal type (1936) starting as Type Founders of Chicago. I found this on their pages: Castcraft has licensing [sic] the entire 20,000 TypeFaces from "Type Films of Chicago" and the entire "Solotype Alphabets" collection. Mike Yanega claims that most of their fonts are clearly not original any more than most of Bitstream's are original, and like them they re-name many of their fonts to avoid copyright issues. Their fonts all appear to be a "dead collection" of copies of relatively old designs that have already appeared in many other collections from the likes of WSI and SSi. In 2010, John Brandt reports: Castcraft, aka Type Founders of Chicago, moved decades ago from Hubbard St in Chicago to a close-in suburb (Skokie? Niles?) and was still operating within the past few years when I happened to drive by. I failed to find any current incarnation, but they used several names even years ago as a prominent pirate. Besides pirated fonts (Typositor to later, generally poor digital), they were a big metal vendor (I have a partial metal set of Helvetica gifted as they left downtown in the 1970s), and also had a guy (whose name escapes me) who did fabulous high-end signage, from sand-blasted glass to the created-on-building inscribed metal logo for a well-known Michigan Ave mall. Longtime owner Manny Kreiter died in 2005, but whether Boomie or any of the others who may still be around kept it going is unknown. Aside from simply having ANY version of their many offerings, most would consider their collection worthless. Anyone who has a digital "OPTIfont" and a font editor can readily view the problems, including usually several times too many Bezier points within any character. I counted 78 control points on a minimal character, for instance, that should have had less than a dozen. Mark Simonson: Castcraft was notorious in the sixties and seventies for pirating film fonts for headline setting machines, such as the Typositor. They would acquire a film fonts from franchisees of VGC (who also made the Typositor) or Filmotype or Alphabet Innovations, and then make duplicates and sell them to typesetting houses, usually changing the font names. Companies like Alphabet Innovations even put deliberate mistakes into individual fonts sent to franchisees just to try to see where Castcraft was getting them. Florian Hardwig: OPTI is a label used by Castcraft (also/previously known as Typefounders of Chicago and Type Films of Chicago) for digital fonts they produced around the early 1990s. My understanding is that virtually all of them are based on designs by others, made and distributed without authorization and without compensating the original designers or IP holders. Technically, many were likely based on the copies Castcraft previously made for phototype. They typically have names different from the original to avoid trademark issues. The company is long defunct and, ethical issues aside, the fonts are of subpar quality. Listing of Castcraft fonts (compiled by myself). The 802 fonts listed here are all dated between 1990 and 1994. I know there are at least 1,000 digital fonts made by them, so my list is incomplete. This link maintained by alt.binaries.fonts regulars contains most OPTI fonts for free download. It contains in particular some scans of one-line listings (i, ii, iii), and lists of name equivalences (i, ii). Picture of Ned, Abe, Harry and Manny Kreiter. Defunct Castcraft Software link. Typophile discussion. Font name equivalences (by Philippededa, 2012). List of equivalences of Castcraft names. List of Castcraft typefaces as of July 2014. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Charles Biddle
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ClickArt is a trademark that was acquired by Broderbund Software. ClickArt was the name used on many cheap font CDs sold during the mid nineties, such as ClickArt Personality Fonts (a handwriting font collection). See also here for the ClickArt Fonts 2 CD with over 10,000 truetype fonts for 20 USD. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I was floored last week when I saw the New York Times (February 28, 2005) list of top five Windows software products sold in January 2005. In fifth position, after various versions of Office, was COSMI's "1000 Best Fonts" CD, which retails for 8 or 9 US dollars. I refuse to pay any money to this company, so I would appreciate any help from readers about the contents of this CD so that I can make an informed opinion. About themselves, COSMI writes: COSMI Corporation is a privately held leading developer and publisher of software for the home and office. With corporate headquarters in Carson, CA, COSMI is the #1 publisher in productivity software as tracked by NPD Techworld, an independent research company. Since 1982, COSMI has been committed to delivering quality products and customer service for a value price. With products covering all major categories including: productivity, business, utilities, education, entertainment and PDA software, COSMI has proven itself to be a formidable player in the market. Building upon its relationships with customers and its distribution strengths, COSMI is poised for continued growth in all consumer software categories. With the evolution of new technologies and the resulting consumer needs, COSMI will continue to provide products that meet and exceed their needs. Check their font 66 (1994, blackletter). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch font vendor who overlaps a lot with Creative Market. There is a subpage with freebies that includes Concre (2018). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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British font service company located in London. They have barcodes, a handwriting and signature font service, and sell all famous font families. As an example, from 1992 until 1994, they made Garamond-No-100-Bold, Garamond-No-100-Italic, Garamond-No-100, Garamond-No-49-Bold-Italic, Garamond-No-49-Bold, Garamond-No-49-Italic, Garamond-No-49. One source claims that this Garamond family was made by Compugraphic and that Datascan merely changed the name in the font information field. Maybe that is the way its collection grew so mysteriously and quickly to thousands of fonts. And here is the beauty: each font is priced at 320 US dollars for a single user. There are 30,000 fonts listed. Their collection, on paper, can be had for 9.6 million US dollars. For five users, cost doubles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font Shop font outlet man in Toronto. Used to be at 401 Wellington St W, Toronto, Ont M5V 1E8 Canada, and is very knowledgeable about fonts in general---Toronto is very lucky! He runs Swipe Books there. He will do custom font design work. Now, David was the man in Toronto. Let me just replay this sweet testimony of Nick Shinn which explains how he got into type design: I too had a John Bull set. And played with Letraset. But there are many things "I started to become interested in" that didn't end up as my career(s). With type, I would say in retrospect that an accumulation of influences and circumstances made me an art director and subsequently a type designer. Had I been a better art director, I would no doubt have worked at an agency doing broadcast ads rather than B2B type-heavy print, directed commercials, and eventually become a movie director like Ridley Scott. Rather than a serial accumulation of prods in this direction, there may well have been a turning point when two or more influences coincided. I can certainly attribute my career as a (successful) type designer to one person. In the mid 1980s I gave up on type design, having had a couple of typefaces published a lot of work and precious little remuneration. Then in 1993 David Michaelides, the manager of the FontShop store in Toronto, organized a type event with Carter and Brody speaking; he then suggested I present some type concept ideas to FontFont, which I did, and they published Fontesque, which became very popular. Had it not been, I would probably not have pursued type design any further. A lot of turning points, serendipity, personal inspiration, opportunities opened up by new technology, and so on. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
It is difficult to avoid the confusing jibberish that companies keep throwing at us. Ascender Corporation is especially good at this. In this extraterrestrial-sounding 2007 announcement of the Droid type family, there are many beauties.
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DTC (Digital Typeface Company, est. 1999, closed in 2004) was a Hungarian outfit founded and run by printer-typographer Attila Derecskei that developed and sold OpenType, truetype and Type 1 fonts on CDs or via downloads for just about every platform. It seems that they developed the East European and Cyrillic additions for the DTC font collection of Jon Stern's Minnesota-based Digital Typeface Corp. One of their products was called ProFonts Library. An earlier name of the Hungarian company was ScanDer Ltd, established by Derecskei in 1993. Other typographers at ScanDer included Leslie Egerer and Cathy Saufert. They said: 2500 TrueType&PostScript font for Windows 3.1x / 95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / OS2 / Linux / MacOs with Unicode. Some fonts with Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew characters. Special pack is the PixelFonts Library for Flash. Developed by Digital Typeface Co. USA. Managed by Jon Stern. Old defunct MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
German company which sells this CD through Amazon for 16 Euros: Alte Schriften (2004). This has calligraphic, medieval and blackletter fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dubina Nikolay
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Edward Detyna
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Electronic Font Foundry
| The Electronic Font Foundry (EFF) in Ascot, Berkshire, UK, sold most classical fonts at about 15 dollars per weight, and made custom fonts. Established in 1984, the foundry had 1300 fonts by 2012. The font designer and owner was Edward Detyna, who died in March 2014. People are reporting to me that the fonts are in limbo, and that Detyna's family is not replying to requests for information. On July 4, 2002, Apostrophe wrote this: I'm currently having a difficult time trying to predict the past of EFF LondonA, EFF Liz, EFF Eric and EFF Formal, to name a few. I have a feeling that these folks just happen to be twins with entities that are currently across the Atlantic from them, namely Adobe Garamond, Cooper Black, Gill Sans and Copperplate Gothic. A friend of Detyna's writes this: When I met him at least twenty years ago, Edward and his associates had a font design studio based in Ascot, near London. He is a mathematician/statistician turned typographer, and was really on top of type design at the time. There are academic articles published on mathematical subjects on the internet. He's an old man now, but still a very smart guy. When he started, with fonts for Acorn RISC-OS (now defunct, but leading-edge British computer of mid-eighties to -nineties), he had very advanced and sophisticated algorithms for anti-aliasing and hinting, and his hand-hinting is still better than almost any other fonts I have used for screen work. He still sells fonts and adapts to user requirements promptly. I recently asked him to adjust the hinting on a font and he turns it around in a day. Jason Koxvold wrote to me in 2017: I knew Edward back in 1990 or so, when I was 13, and he mentored me to a great degree. For a while I worked an internship of sorts at EFF, and then one day, my mother came to see what I was up to---he gave her the job of office manager. He was a tremendously helpful and meaningful person to me then as a very young man with a passion for typography. Closed captioning fonts for TV, made according to the EIA 708-B specifications, include EFF Sans Serif CC, EFF Serif CC, EFF Sans Serif Mono CC, EFF Serif Mono CC, EFF Casual CC, EFF Script CC, EFF Small Caps CC. EFF also has fonts for Vietnamese, Greek, Hebrew, and Cyrillic. EFF Primary is a large family of educational fonts. EFF Utamaru is an oriental simulation font. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Additions in 2005 include the dingbat typefaces Beautilities EF Alpha, Ornamental Rules EF, Diavolo Rules EF, Squares EF (Alpha, Beta and Gamma), Topographicals EF Alpha, Typoflorals EF Alpha, Typographicals EF Alpha, Typomix EF Alpha, Typosigns EF Alpha, Typospecs EF Alpha and Beta (which have several fists), Typostuff EF Alpha, Diavolo EF, Schablone EF, Gigant EF, Maloni EF, OCRA EF, EF Unovis (a 16-weight family inspired by Quadrat). In the hand-printed category, let us mention Filzerhand. Their blackletter collection includes some bastardas (Alte Schwabacher, Lucida Blackletter), some frakturs (Fraktur, Fette Fraktur EF, Justus Fraktur, NeueLutherscheFraktur, Walbaum-Fraktur), some rotundas (Weiss-Rundgotisch), and some texturas (Gotisch, Old English). Commissioned fonts include Castrol Sans (2007). Selected additional typefaces: Garamond Rough Pro (2018), Bluset Now Mono (2018), Newspoint (2017, based on Morris Fuller Benton's News Gothic), Meier Kapitalis (2013, a lapidary typeface based on a 1994 sketch by Hans Eduard Meier in his book Die Schriftentwicklung), Gillies Gothic EF (after William S. Gillies's 1935 original), EF Medieva, Bank Sans Caps EF, Metropolitain (1985) (after a 1905 art nouveau typeface by Fonderie Berthier). Fonts4ever link (2008). Listing at Fontworks. Future events schedule. New fonts. Catalog of their typefaces [large web page warning]. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Emily Mahon
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enStep Software
| Clip art and brush script fonts at this Beaverton, OR-based outfit run by Fritz Richard. From the web page: The ImageFonts UltraPak (CD) features over 600 one-of-a-kind typefaces for Windows and Macintosh. ImageFonts come in four flavors, Mac TrueType, Mac Postscript, Windows TrueType and PC Postscript. Some claim that the fonts are rehashed public domain fonts. The enStep font collection found mostly on archives (such as here) is dated 1997. It is largely worthless, though. As an exercise, see if you can recognize which original fonts are were used to obtain these enStep fonts: Casmira, Ellis, Excess, Justice. Free at Dafont: Radagund (script face), Puppylike (psychedelic). Dafont link. Old (dead) link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
These fonts are offered in an indie font bundle:
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Evgeny Sadko
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Slovak IT company, est. 1990. It is a vendor for Monotype fonts, among other things. It also sells Central and Eastern European fonts developed under license from Bitstream. Some of their typefaces are sold on a CD called Fontotéka. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Fonts on the CD-ROM produced by EXPERT SOFTWARE INC. (US$20.91). 2ooo TrueType fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Software on the CD-ROM produced by EXPERT SOFTWARE INC. (US$15.67). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
IBM flobby description. Fonts on the floppy produced by EXPERT SOFTWARE INC. (US$22.08). 100 Truetype fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Fonts on the CD-ROM produced by EXPERT SOFTWARE INC. (US$15.67). 300 "funky" fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Fonts on the CD-ROM produced by EXPERT SOFTWARE INC. (US$13.95). 300 fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sells a 2000 font (TT and T1) CD called Fantastic Fonts for 13USD. Plus 300 truetype handwriting fonts for 13USD. And 300 funky fonts for 13USD. Font Magician (13USD) lets you create special effects. Kid's Fonts (300 truetype fonts) for 13USD. Based in Rockland, DE. Footnote: Expert Software is one of the world's largest font cloners. I doubt that they ever made an original font. For example, under the label Ly's Media, they renamed all the WSI "Hand-Plain" series LEHN001 through LEHN283, and sold them once again. It is a real mess. Download that collection here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
2000 font CD for 20USD. This is the WSI collection. Private note: most of these fonts can also be found at various sites on the web. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Formerly Image Club Graphics. Was Adobe Studios until late 1998. Calgary-based foundry and font vendor. Free fonts Pacifica Condensed and Mini Pics Digidings. In February 2003, Eyewire was acquired by Agfa/Monotype: big fish eats small fish. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British font vendor which deals with over one hundred foundries. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font vendor located in Calgary, Canada. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Three shareware font floppies, each having about 200 fonts for the Mac in all formats. The floppies will run you 7 dollars. By mail only. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font vendor and foundry set up in 2006 in Minneapolis by Stuart Sandler (of Font Diner fame) and his partner, Mike Ibach. Companies selling through Font Bros include Font Diner, Astigmatic One Eye, ByAndreas, Chank, Mark Simonson Studio, Alphabet Soup, Fonthead Design, Wilton Type, CBdO, Sideshow, Blue Vinyl, Font-O-Ville, Outside-The-Line, Sparkytype, Typadelic, and Fontalicious. New 2007 fonts: Bamboozle (letters made out of pieces of wood), Silverstein and Seasoned Hostess (scripts by Crystal Kluge of the Tart Workshop), Woody (wood plank font) and Sweetheart Script (Ronna Penner). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefaces from 2017: Treasure Script, Hastter Sontial script, Dealina (calligraphic script), Red Mist, Queen, Wishing Well, Highlights, Handy Man, Hey Betty, Polar Bear, Realtech, Golly Gosh, Magic Man, Ardina Script (by Ari Fadli), Rusty Bucket (dry brush), Dolly Script (calligraphic wedding script), Handstyles, Bouncy Hunter (spurred), Django (Western), Olivia Script, Questioned, Renegade, One Dance (calligraphic), Mammoth (script), Honey Bee, September Script (calligraphic), Amanda (calligraphic), Sandy Pro, Lilly Mae. Typefaces from 2018: Squishy, Squishy Extras (sea life dingbats), Billie Harley, Origami, Arkinay, Moscow (a Cyrillic emulation typeface), Bindi, Felt Tip, Christina, Park Ranger, Rembulan, Catchy Script, Champagne (brush and ink splatter), Azalea, Loft Yian (script), Love Candy, Wisdom Script, Montage (signage script), Bristol, Stephanie Jane (brush pen font), Glamorous Silhouette (font duo), Sun City (sans), Crackers, Sliders Script, Jaquilane (upright script), Gladis (formal calligraphic script), Wheatbread (monoline sans), Monstera (a stylish serif typeface), Sailor (tattoo font), Comic Boom (cartoon font), Kely Rose, Radical, Granger (brush font), New Type (prismatic), Sugar Script, Aloha Big Man, Magical Unicorn, Chocolove, Gentle, Roseland, Queensland (copperplate calligraphy), Pink Grapefruit, Jingle Boo, Old Press, Michigan (outline slab serif), Boulder Holder, Angelica (a creamy signage script), Anchor, Freshca (upright connected script), Zimbra (zebra-striped, by Alex Etewut), Adele, AlyshiaScript, BackStitch, BirthdayScript, Brat, BringHearte, CherryBlossom, Eastland, ElhammerBrush, Enyssala, Florva, GloomyDay, HappyBirthday, Heavenfield, Herbie, Junitha, Kayleigh, Mirantie, Mountiane, Nattalia, Quance, QuickBrush, Rafifi, Reebiolla, Rockets, SandyBeaches, Springer, Strangelove, TheCharlotte, Valentino, VictorianMonogram, WinterTime, Zebra. Typefaces from 2019: Radicals (signage script), Lovebird, Ridgeway, Lindale, Moscow, Anthem, Blackstar (blackletter), Maskoolin, Tatima, Hands Down, Monday Blues, September Script, Restuner, Mammoth, Hey Betty, Ciscopic, Hatterline, Jaiho Script, Diamonds, Indah Script, Amanda (calligraphic), Molyna, Mellow Line, Sandy, Renegade, Loveya Script, Angelina Script, Heilig, Dealicha, Allana. Typefaces from 2020: Sleeplesson, Nostalgia Script, Fb Super Fun, Fb Lawnmower, Fb Lovehearts, Fb Leonardo, Fb Fancycorgi, Fb Bananasandwich, Fb Doodled, Fb Mighty Spiky, Quirkle, Toasted Cinnamon, Loveya Doodle, Neon Light (a marquee font), Cliche, Zipper, Fb Mainland, Fb Strawberry, Fb Many Mondays, Fb CountryGirls, Fb Caramelong, Sausages (a chunky script). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Fonts on the CD-ROM produced by WALNUT CREEK (US$23.08). 500 fonts in trueType and Postscript. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Fonts on the CD-ROM produced by MOST SIGNIFICANT BITS (US$12.41). Over 2200 fonts, and font management software. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Signature fonts (30 USD) and logos. Also vendor of over 13,000 fonts. Outfit run out of Knoxville, TN by "The Fontchicks". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font Sugar
| A web site set up in 2007 by Ray Larabie. It contains three things:
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Font marketplace that will open in the spring of 2019. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontever
| A font market place launched in 2014 by Joe Chau (Hong Kong). It sells full rights (at a few thousand dollars a pop) to unique typefaces. The first typeface is Queenamor by Joe Chau (2014). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FontHaus (or: DsgnHaus)
| Mark A. Solsburg's company, FontHaus (or DsgnHaus), was located in East Fairfield, CT, then in Westport, CT and Norwalk, CT, and now in Chelsea, MI. Established in 1990, it offers a 1200-font collection of original fonts. It briefly became DsgnHaus, then ForDesigners.Com, and then went back to FontHaus. It used to sell typefaces for 2 Rebels, FontHaus, Intellecta, Adobe, FontShop, Alphabets, ITC/Fonttek, Berthold-Adobe, Linotype, Berthold, Lunchbox, Bitstream, Scangraphic, Carter&Cone, T-26, Dennis Ortiz-Lopez, Font Bureau, Elsner&Flake, and so forth. At the end of 2010, it was offering over 75,000 fonts. On their DsgnHaus Exclusives CD, we find fonts by the following individuals or foundries: Al Brantner, Frank Heine (UORG), Munich Type, Altemus, Franta Storm, Patricking, Ampersand, Galapagos Design, Pepper Tharp, Andrew Smith, Gary Munch, Robert Knopf, Andy Stock, Graphics by Gallo, Robert Petrick, Ann Pomeroy, Haig Bedrosian, Rodrigo Cavazos, Apply Design, Holly Goldsmith, Self Build, Bill Fletcher, Jack Tom, Spiece Graphics, Blue Sky Graphics, Jason Sutton, Swordfish Design, Casey Cheeseman, Jens Gelhlaar, Terminal Design, Christian Scwartz, Joe VanDerBos, Tintin Timen, Circus Design, John Alfonso, Wolfer Type, DsgnHaus, Kayde Fonts, Wolfgang Wagner, Kurt Roscoe, Woodrow Phoenix, Emma Smith, Mark Jamra, Faruk Ulay, Mondrey (Castcraft). Since 2001, the fonts are available through MyFonts. Their 155 exclusive fonts, as of 2017: 2 Rebels Un, AlaCarte One, AlaCarte Two, Alert Code, Allan Gothic, Always Twelve, Angry, Aries, Babbio, BadDeni, Bereta, Billes, Boggle, Bonray, Boulbar, Boules, Bristol FH, Bubba Bold, Bubble Bath, Caaarc, Cafe Noir, Carbon, Caslon Antique, Cattawampus, Chew Toy, Chicane, Chuckle Head, Clean Cut, Coeval, Cooper Poster FH, Cro Aloha, Curly Luly, Cuty, DH Sans, DV9, Day Job, Db8 digital, Design, Dieselis, Dieselis Economic, Dinky Dinks, Doublecross, Doubler Script, Doufff, Dynamic, Eternity, Faxsimile, Fleche, Flembo, Flywheel, Frank Gorshin, Fred, Freysk, Gagarin, Garaline, Graphic, Groundlings, Haberdasher, Hanbuhrs, Handex, Hector, Huoncry, Inbetween, Infobahn, Jandoni, Junk, KO, Keynote, Kidy, Knitmap, Krome Domes, LaPlaya, Laser Beam, Laughin, LeScript, LearnedBehavior, LeftBrain, Leticea Bumstead, Lines, Lolo, Luna Martino, Magma, Manesca, Manipulator, Manipule, Manomessa, Manosk, Marcel Duchamp, Mariasfont, Market Place, Marsh Mallow, Menace, Message, Midlaw, MilkShake, Minimex, Modern, Mutation, Nacht, Nameless, Napoleon, Non Linear, Novella, Nuclear Reactor, Nunavik, Outfitters, Ovidius, Pastor, Pep Rally, Perceval, Peripheral, Perles, Phoenix Chunky, Pilgrim, Plastik, Poster Gothic FH, Punch, Quattr occhi, Razzia, RightBrain, Rigolotte, SP Elder, SP Stoned Oldstyle, SP Thais, Saturn, Scratch n Sniff, Scritto Politto Freako, Semi Sans, Shindig, Sinister, Sitcom, Snowslider, Sofa, Solo Sport, South, Sportif, Stadion, Stencil Full, Superman U, Table Manners, Tape, Tata One, Tex Loose, Thin Man, Toxin, Toy Box, Traveler, Troiminut, Tutu One, Vague, Vintage Gothic, Voyou, Wooders, Yisana, Zkumavka. Showcase of FontHaus's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Corporate type vendor in Espoo, Finland, acting for Linotype, FontShop, and others. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontles.com
| Font vendor site. One of its fonts is called Magic Mushroom (2020). It was published a week after research went viral that shows that magic mushrooms are beneficial for many troubles, including anxiety and depression. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
FontMart
| Todd Adkins' fonts: Shatterfont, Chaotix, AortalHard, CaniptionFit (1996, alternative for Treefrog), LeprocyFace (1996), Mercurial and SuessFont (1996) are free. Mac and PC. They also sell font packages in all formats. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Spanish font vendor founded by Lole Roman and Francisco Aranda. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Fonts on the CD-ROM produced by WIZARD WORKS GROUP (US$19.81). Over 2600 fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial font resource place. Badly behaving web pages that take over your screen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonts.gr (or: Greek Digital Types, or: Ellenike Psephiake Typotheke) | The largest Greek font vendor today. Fonts.gr is a collective type foundry in Athens, Greece. It was founded in 1994 by graphic and type designer Panos Haratzopoulos (Cannibal) and saw contributions by designers Yannis Karlopoulos and Vassilis Georgiou. Its typefaces include the Futura / Avenir-style CF Asty (2017). |
Established in 1989 in Berlin by Erik Spiekermann, Joan Spiekermann and Neville Brody. Also offices in San Francisco, Australia, Austria and Norway. It has a formidable collection of fonts, better known as the FontFont collection. It is a major source of new type, and organizes a Conference in Berlin each year, called TYPO Berlin. In 2015, FontShop was sold to Monotype. Fontshop team. Designers. Subpages: FontFeed (font news), FontStruct (free modular fontre), FontBook, Font education. Catalog of FontFont's typefaces [large web page warning]. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
FontSite
| Online font site run by Sean Cavanaugh (b. Cape May, NJ, 1962) out of Camano Island, WA. This used to be called Title Wave Studios. Since 1996, Sean Cavanaugh is the head of FontSite. In the archives, one can/could find essays on writing style, rules of typography, and a comparison by Thomas Phinney (program manager of Latin Fonts at Adobe) of T1 and TTF. The Fontsite 500 CD (30 USD) offers 500 classical fonts with the original names, plus a few names I have not seen before, such as Bergamo (=Bembo by Francesco Griffo), Chantilly (=Gill Sans), Gareth (=Galliard), Noveo sans (=Neuzeit Grotesk), Palladio (=Palatino), Savoy (=Sabon), URWLatino, Unitus, Toxica, Publicity, Plakette, Pericles, Opus (=Optima), Melville, Function, Flanders, Cori Sans, Binner. Uli Stiehl provides proof that many of the fonts at FontSite are rip-offs (identical to) of fonts in Martin Kotulla's (SoftMaker) collection. This is perhaps best explained that Sean Cavanaugh's last real job was director of typography for SoftMaker, Inc., where he oversaw the development and release of SoftMaker's definiType typeface library and associated products [blurb taken from Digital Type Design Guide: The Page Designer's Guide to Working With Type, published in 1995 by Hayden Books]. Free fonts: Bergamo, CartoGothic (1996-2009), CombiNumerals. At MyFonts, the CombiNumerals Pro and CombiSymbols dingbat families are available since 2010. The site has a number of fonts with the acronym FS in the name, so I guess these are relatively original (but I won't swear on it): Allegro FS, Beton FS, Bodoni Display FS (+ Bold, Demibold), Bodoni No 2 FS (+ Ultra, Bodoni Recut FS (+Bold, Demibold), and so forth. His 500 Font CD has these fonts:
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Fontsite 500 CD with 500 high quality fonts for 30USD. Check the contents. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Jones (Pasco, WA) proposes a font service based on purchasing individual glyphs---comparing the model with that of Apple's iTunes model in which music tracks are purchased. I am a bit worred about announcements like that one week before April 1. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font referral site in English and Russian. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Another web fonts site with both free and for-pay fonts. Fontspring started around 2010, and folded in 2022, when it was absorbed by Dribble / Creative Market. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontstand is a Mac OS X app that allows one to try fonts for free or rent them by the month for desktop use for just a fraction of the regular price. Launched in 2015 by Andrej Kratky and Peter Bilak. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As of July 2017, its typefaces: Aktura, Associate Sans, Associate Sans Mono, Associate Sans Stencil, Associate Slab, Associate Slab Stencil, Astrup, Author, Baro, Bega, Bespoke Sans, Bespoke Slab, Bespoke Serif, Bianco Slab, Boeing 24, Bonny, Bookmark, Boxing, Cabinet Grotesque or Cabinet Grotesk (2017), Claire, Clash Grotesk, Clash Grotesk Display, Comico, Cosmetic, Demo, Didac, Ekster, Erika Hand, Excon (2017), Folito, Gambarino, Gambetta, Griff, HongKong, Hoover, Indikator, Interlink, Katana, Kola, Litmus, Locomo, Malhar, Malis, Matteo, Monorama, Neco, Neptune, Neurial Grotesk, Nougato, Pally, Paquito, Passenger Display, Passenger Serif, Picket, Plein, Prachar, Pramukh, Pramukh Rounded, Ray, Rion, Rowan, Rustic, RX100, Schmalfette, Schotis, Screen Sans, Sharpie, Snooze, Stardom, Striper, Styro, Syphon, Tanker, Tara, Telma, Try, Troy Grotesk, Ulm Grotesk, Zesta. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Company located in Fareham, Hampshire, UK, and (possibly) run by David Gibbins. 150 truetype-font collection: go here, here, here, here, here, and here. The 150 fonts have no copyright information other than the date, 2001. Here are the names of this collection: Aston-Italic, Aston, AstonPoster, Barker, Bentine, Brancusi-Italic, Brancusi, Burns, ButlerCaps, Cambridge-Bold, Cambridge-BoldItalic, Cambridge-Italic, Cambridge, CambridgeOpen, Chaplin, Charterhouse-Bold, Charterhouse, Cleese, Constable, Cooke, Corbett, CorpusChristi-Bold, CorpusChristi-Italic, CorpusChristi, Crosby, DaVinci, Dali, Degas, Dodd, Donnatello, Durham-Bold, Durham-Italic, Durham, DurhamPoster-Bold, DurhamPoster-Italic, Edinburgh-Bold, Edinburgh-BoldItalic, Edinburgh-Italic, Edinburgh, Epstein, EpsteinFat, Eton-Italic, Eton, Exeter-Bold, Exeter-Italic, Exeter, Formby, Gainsborough, Gauguin, Gilbert, Gordonstoun-Bold, Gordonstoun-Italic, Gordonstoun, Hancock, Hardy, Harrow-Bold, Harrow-BoldItalic, Harrow-Italic, Harrow, Harvard-Bold, Harvard, Hepworth-Bold, Hepworth, Hope, Keaton, KebleBlack, KebleBoldOutline, KebleCondensed, KebleCondensedBlack, KebleCondensedLight, Keele-Bold, Keele, KingsCollege-Bold, KingsCollege-Italic, KingsCollege, Laurel, Leighton, LeightonCondensed, LeightonExtended, Lloyd, Manet, Marceau, Marlborough-Bold, Marlborough, Matisse, Michaelangelo, Miller, Millfield, Milligan-Bold, Milligan-BoldItalic, Milligan-Italic, Milligan, Miro, Monet, Moore, Morecambe, Peterhouse-Bold, Peterhouse-BoldItalic, Peterhouse-Italic, Peterhouse, Picasso, PicassoLite, Pollock, Pryor, QueensCollege-Bold, QueensCollege-BoldItalic, QueensCollege-Italic, QueensCollege, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rodin, Roedean-Bold, Roedean, Rubens, Secombe, Sellers, Seurat, Sorbonne-Bold, Sorbonne-BoldItalic, Sorbonne-Italic, Sorbonne, StAnnes-Italic, StAnnes, StPauls-Bold, StPauls, Stowe, Sykes, ToulouseLautrec, Turner, Upminster-Bold, Upminster, VanGogh, Verrochio, Warhol, WarholHeavy, WarholLight, Warwick-Bold, Warwick-BoldItalic, Warwick-Italic, Warwick, Wellington, WellingtonHeavy, Winchester-Bold, Winchester-Italic, Winchester, Wisdom, Wise, Yale-Bold, Yale-Italic, Yale. This free font collection may or may not be produced in agreement with Qualitype. Commercial font services, including barcode solutions (about 500 USD for Barcode2000, which includes 3 of 9, Code 93, Interleaved 2 of 5, EAN/UPC, MSI/Plessey, Code 128, Codabar, MICR/E13B, CMC-7&USPS Barcode, and OCR A, OCR B, Letter Gothic, Line Draw&the Euro Currency Symbol) and TrueType logo and signature fonts (200 USD per font in 6 weights). Sells Barcode Assistant. Free barcode demo fonts. Free copy of Fontaware (Windows 3.1 font management). Free font recognition service. Font vendor for Bitstream. Barcodes sold:
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Older font vendor and occasional font developer. From their 2008 web page: type.co.uk is the online arm of Fontworks UK Ltd, part of the Creative Publishing Solutions (CPS) Group who own the Fontshop brand in the UK. With an online presence since 1994 we represent over 100 foundries worldwide, offering a huge range from industry favourites (Adobe, Linotype, Monotype, Berthold, ITC, Bitstream), leading independents (Emigre, Font Bureau, T-26) and cutting edge collections such as Virus, Alias, ACMEFONTS, ShinnType, G-Type, and Device. We are a leading provider of custom fonts and type design services to the corporate, advertising and design sectors. Their foundries. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Britain's best known, and most respected type distributor, with over 20,000 typefaces available from 70 foundries (many exclusive). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
"The Revolutionary Font Delivery Service." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sells fonts by Chank Diesel, Joseph Coniglio, Joseph Essex, Rodney Sheldon Fehsenfeld, Peter Girardi, Gary Hustwit, Nancy Mazzei, Adam Roe, Brian Kelly, Carlos Segura, Susan Townsend, Mark Thomas, Rick Valenti, and Mouli Marur. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank Hainze
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German publisher of the Windows XP Profischriften 2003 CD, which since 2004 has been entitled 1.800 Schriften für Windows (20 Euro at Amazon). Ulrich Stiehl studied this company, and offers a list of name analogies with commercial fonts here. This CD contains most fonts of the "Berthold Types" collection and also fonts by Adobe, Monotype, Linotype and other foundries. Stiehl writes that "the Franzis CD includes many fonts not contained in the MegaFont CD" [by Softmaker]. Stiehl's analyis shows that the 1774 font CD contains (i) Classic Fonts (copyright ClassicFontCorporation, USA RWE, typefaces of the former H. Berthold AG), and (ii) Modern Fonts and Display Fonts (copyright Christine Mauerkirchner and Rainer Grunert RWE, typefaces of Adobe, Agfa/Monotype, Linotype, Bitstream, Compugraphic and others). Stiehl says: Franzis Verlag GmbH was formerly a reputable independent technical book publishing house in Munich. It is located today in Poing, and publishes this above fonts CD which has fonts by "PrimaFonts alias ClassicFontCorporation alias Christine Mauerkirchner alias Rainer Grunert". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jerrett Taylor's archive containing about 200 TrueType fonts. Simple presentation, easy downloads. Equivalent address. Sells a 6000-font CD with fonts obtained from the web/net at 15USD a pop. Is he sending that money to the type designers, most of whom allow the distribution but not the sale of their fonts. If there is any font on this CD you like, let me know, and I will tell you where to find it for free. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FreshComFonts
| Font vendor in the UK. Initial designers in 2013 include Emily Mahon herself (second in command at FreshComFonts), but also Vanessa Bays, Alex Tomlinson, Ray Meadows, Jack Fisher, Nermin Kahrimanovic, Spider Rays Fonts, William Suckling, Andrew McCluskey and Cat Neligan. Emily Mahon created a number of typefaces with FontStruct such as Maybell's and Maybell's Hollow, and Stitched Bold. FontStruct link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Danny Amor's CD with 231 font families. 20DM. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fritz Richard
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Font service and font vendor. Euroglyph: add the Euro symbol to fonts. Fontage is a 6500DM bitmap font editor (.FNT and many other formats). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Manchester, CT-based company that sells a font package, as well as a number of fonts for Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Thai. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
5USD for about 120 display and decorative fonts. My problem with this site is that these fonts are standard shareware and freeware fonts, and that Gini Schmitz is profiting from other people's sweat and tears. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font vendor. Custom font design in most languages. MS Arabic Windows distributor in US: additional fonts for $79. P.O. Box 134, Andover, MA 01810, USA. Also sells Hebrew fonts. Seels for Agfa, Alagha Associates, Arthur Baker Designs, ITC, Maverick Designs, Boutros International, and Sakkal Designs. Headed by Steve Reef. For 89USD, get 16 beautiful Arabic fonts: ITC Boutros Rokaa, Koufi, Ousbough, Arabic Borders, Diwani, Architect, ITC Boutros Modern Kufic, AGA Andalus (some of these in multiple weights). For 72USD, get 13 Hebrew fonts (some in multiple weights): Khadeysh, Ktav, Rashi, and Mesorati. The latter fonts, plus Diwani and Architect, are original fonts by Glyph Systems. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss vendors of the "1000 NewDeal Fonts CD by GOCE 1000" for 40 Swiss francs. Reportedly, this contains the Optifont collection. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic Obsession
| Defunct. Bertrand Morel's type site had fonts and information of a commercial nature. Good categorization of over 30,000 commercial fonts. Comparison with MyFonts: Graphic Obsession is slower, requires more clicks to navigate, and offers fewer specimen graphics. Until about 2006, they were known as FontShop-France, but after they lost that contract, things went sour, and Graphic Obsession ceased operations in December 2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Font vendor site. Individuals can hawk their new fonts here, with typical font prices between 2 and 10 dollars. Direct link to font collections. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lisa Johns from Orlando, FL, runs Graphx Edge Fonts, a foundry in Altamonte Springs, FL, offering "high quality pictorial fonts". Their 250-odd collection is surely not made from scratch, especially not their body, script and display fonts. One used to be able to find four great free dingbats here: GE Nautica, GE Zoom, GE Zodiac, GE Holiday Sampler. In the Font Services section, they will make custom pictorial, signature (10USD), or logo (20USD) truetype fonts. For 20 USD, get also packages of 20 fonts such as Absolute Fun Fonts, Absolute Dingbats (60 dingbats, 129USD) or Absolute Script Fonts. Now also called ScriptFonts.Com. Alternate site. Deco fonts, a collection of 4 dingbat fonts for 30 USD. Alternate URL. At this archive, you can find the following fonts: GEBanners, GEClipz, GEComedy, GECurviture, GEElegantScript, GEFiestaMarquee, GEFleet, GEFreeForm, GEFrills, GEGlob, GEHandyScript, GEMontage, GENervousTwitch, GERomanesse, GESheerScript. Partial list of dingbats: GEAngels (I to III), GECarouselHorses, GECelticArt, GEChineseArt, GEChristmasJoy, GEComicalChristmas, GECurviture, GEEdibles, GEEgyptianArt, GEElementsofNature (I and II), GEFloralStencils, GEHolidaySampler, GEIttyBittys, GEJapaneseArt, GEMerryChristmas, GENativeAmericanArt, GENautica, GEOutToSea, GEPennsylvaniaDutch (I and II), GESheerScript, GESnowmen, GESpringtime, GEStorybookTales, GEWhimsicalAnimals (I to IV), GEWildKingdom, GEZodiac, GEZoom. Another alias: Megadownloads. Another list of fonts: Fleet, Romanesse, Frills, Free Form and Comedy, Curviture, Elegant Script, Handy Script, Montage and Sheer Script, Fiesta Marquee, Nervous Twitch, Banners, Clipz and Glob. The list of fonts is long:
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Font vendor with occasionally free fonts mixed in. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Fonts on the CD-ROM produced by MISC CARRIER/VENDOR (US$13.95). 300 Handwriting fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Fonts on the CD-ROM produced by EXPERT SOFTWARE INC. (US$15.67). 300 Handwriting fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Fonts on the CD-ROM produced by SOFTKEY JEWEL (US$14.46). Features 300 handwriting style fonts in Windows TrueType format. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Handwritten Fonts CD from R&R Wholesale for 7.50 USD. Has 300 truetype fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
4000 font CD with font unlocking prioces running between 10 and 25 USD per font. Total unlock at 40000USD! Call the Brinx truck. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font archive. A few free fonts, but masses of commercial fonts for sale--another indirect sales outlet for Agfa. Why can't they just state up front that they are called Agfa? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
I Love Typography
| Type information site and blog run since 2007 by graphic designer and web developer John D. Boardley from Kagawa, Japan. Now based in the UK, I Love Typography became a font vendor in 2020 under a junta that comprises John Boardley, Nadine Chahine and Julia Hines. Glossary. Examples of inspiring use of display/poster type. John Boardley is the author of Typographic Firsts (2019, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
All right, 15 dollars a shot for renamed fonts. If you are going for this stuff, you are much better off with the Bitstream collection or the SSi collection (1 cent per font, or 150 times cheaper). If you buy from this outfit, you are a double loser. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ingram Publishing put 1000 fonts (mostly from URW) on a CD and sells it for 139 Euros. Polish vendor of the same CD which has many PDF files with samples. Font list (PDF). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sells a 30USD package with 23 handlettering fonts, called Lettering Delights. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Company incorporated in Delaware. Markets fonts from Garagefonts, Letter-Perfect, Polytype, Maverick Designs, Christian Schwartz Design, Phil's Fonts, TypeArt, Font Bureau, T-26, Red Rooster, Fontek, NIMX, Font Boy, Lanston, Page Studio Graphics, Arthur Baker Designs, P22, RT: Russian Type foundry, Castle Systems, Type Revivals, Galapagos. "International TypeFounders Inc., is a coalition of over 50 unique, small independent foundries featuring the work of dozens of designers who bring over 3,000 of their typefaces together from one central source." Alternate URL. Contact: Steve Jackaman. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Consortium of about 50 independent typefounders, offering 7000+ typefaces. Formed in 1995 by Steve Jackaman. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Intertype Studio
| Russian company which sells CDs with ornaments (not in font format though) designed by Dubina Nikolay. There is also a free font archive. All fonts designed or co-designed by Dubina Nikolay, and most are Cyrillizations of well-known Latin fonts. A partial list: AirportCyr, Anarchy-Normal, BMspiralCapCyr, BMstampCyr-Normal, CranberryCyr, DPix_8pt, DS-Diploma-Bold, DS-Diploma, DSArabic, DSArmyCyr, DSAyaks-Normal, DSBroadBrush, DSBrushes-Normal, DSCenturyCapitals, DSComedyCyrBold, DSCoptic, DSCrystal, DSCyrillic, DSDiploma-Bold-Outline-DBL, DSDiplomaArt-Bold, DSDots-Medium, DSDownCyr, DSEraser2, DSEraserCyr, DSFlashSerif, DSGoose, DSGreece, DSHiline, DSIzmir-Normal, DSJapanCyr--Normal, DSJugendSCDemo, DSKolovrat, DSKork, DSMechanicalBold, DSMoster, DSMotionDemo-Italic, DSMotterStyle, DSNarrow-Extra-condensedMedium, DSNote, DSNova-Black, DSOlymPix, DSPoddCyrLight, DSPoster, DSPosterPen, DSProgress-SemiBold, DSQuadro-Black, DSRabbit-Medium, DSRada, DSRada_Double, DSReckoningCyr, DSRussiaDemo, DSSharper, DSSholom-Medium, DSShowBill, DSSofachrome-Italic, DSSonOf-Black, DSStain, DSStampCyr, DSStamper, DSStandartCyr, DSSupervixenCyr, DSThompson, DSUncialFunnyHand-Medium, DSUstavHand, DSVTCoronaCyr, DSVanish-Medium, DSYermak_D, DSZombieCyr, DS_Cosmo-Semi-expandedSemiBold, DefWriter|BASECyr, DisneyPark, Eh_cyr, Etude, Frant-Bold, InavelTetkaCyr, Matrix_vs_Miltown, MicroTech, MisirlouCyr, Nadejda-Bold, NewDeli, PixelCyr-Normal, QuakeCyr, Runic, RunicAlt, RunicAltNo, Scrawl, SeedsCyr-Medium, StillTimeCyr, Stylo-Bold, ZrnicCyr-Normal, hooge05_55Cyr2, supercarcyr. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jeff Gillen
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Jerak Durzan
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Joe Chau
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John D. Boardley
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A German company in Ellerbek which in 2007 released a DVD containing 31,006 TrueType fonts. The contents, listed by Ulrich Stiehl, is here and here. It sells for 13.79 Euros on Ebay. The contents consists of fonts from nearly every known foundry and type designer in the world, including freeware, shareware and commercial fonts. Yet another crooked company exposed by Stiehl. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polish vendor in Warsaw for Linotype, Agfa, Fontshop, Tilde, Elsner&Flake and Berthold fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A font vendor specializing is funky, vernacular and groovy display type. The presentation and style goes hand in hand with the famous Filipino jeepneys. Their catalog in early 2021: acid bleach, acme hand, anva hell, battle hammer, beebosloth, boned, broken saddle, bubble serif, cheatin snakes sans, chinatown market, club neon, cobra hand, cold english, corpse bride, dagsen, darthaniel, distressed unrest, dj hi-jacker, drag race, earth alien, elderly english, envoyer, executioner, found , funk wagon, future funk, gangster sans, gangster script, golden trail, graffiti cringe, heavy crown, heirobrick, heisman, ill hand, kato bubble, kato hand, kern hotel, kern mansion, kernageddon, kernicus, kerninator, leisure park, liquid, lisa hand, luxury label, magic hand, maui wowie, merlot bevel, monroe, monroe serif, nalinak, neoglyph, obsessed compressed, old dinglish, old kernish, orale sans, painted hand, pixel hand, power slam, psycho serif, purple cat, radio sans, ragsak, rattle hand, rod iron, round up, rude life, sanctum of snakes, shadofax condensed, shopslumpscontactlicense simple sans, sketchy burger, soggy centers, starflower, stone cold fox, striker sans, tall english, tallboy, temple of sorrow, thrash blade, thumper, topia, trip serif, tropic sign, uppercut, upright casual, warlord, wax museum, wonky tonk, wookie script, zacher brush. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Fonts on the CD-ROM produced by SOFTKEY JEWEL (US$14.46). Twenty TrueType fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For about 200USD, you can buy here a 3200 professional font CD (or so they say). These are allegedly not pirated, no rip-offs, and not shareware/freeware fonts. So what are they? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Laurence Penney
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Paco Marco, Raul Mendez, Sergi Hernando and Marta Marzal run Letrs (est. 2017), a commercial type cooperative. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dutch font CD and font book vendor. Typical prices: 14,200 Euro for the Adobe FontFolio, and 22,000 Euro for the FontFont collection. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MacAppware
| This vendor in Omaha, NE, describes itself this way: MacAppware is a division of 128bit Technologies and a dedicated Mac software developer currently offering disk utility applications, graphic design apps, Mac bundles and unique commercial use fonts. For 30 USD (in 2015), one can buy their 1800-font Premium Fonts collection. Other collections include 1000 Opentype Fonts. Virtually all, if not al, fonts are renamed digital fonts from elsewhere. Examples: Lindonna is Poster Bodoni, LuckyRacer is Bernhard Fashion, Memotype (2013, Jerak Durzan) is Century MT, Metropica (2013, Jerak Durzan) is Enviro, retropop (2013, Jerak Durzan) is Pump Triline, and so forth. The list of free fonts offered in 2015 contains mostly material by Nick Curtis, Dieter Steffman and a few other designers. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sells Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vendor of the CD "600 Greatest Fonts". Ahum---clearing my throat. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mark A. Solsburg
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Commercial site where Mark Bremmer offers to make custom handwriting and signature fonts for increased security (so that things cannot be forged). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Martin Kotulla
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Martin Tiefenthaler
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Masterfont (or: Studio Rosenberg)
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MyFonts page. Designers at Masterfont include Zvi Narkiss, Yaakov Agam, Asher Oron, Pini Hemo, Asher Gat, Yigal Feurstein, Ada Yardeni and many others. Zvika Rosenberg himself designed these typefaces: Abirim MF, Agada MF, Agudal MF, Aharoni Polished MF, Alilon MF (2009, hand-printed), Almenat MF (2008), Balonim MF (2005), Etzada MF (2005), Ribuim MF (2009), Selihot MF, Tachsheet MF (2008), Aluma MF, Autograph, Ayalon MF, Azmaout, Balora MF, Banim MF, Bat Sheva MF, Braun MF, Broadway, Brosh MF, Brutto MF, Butterfly MF, Capital MF, Chilli MF, Chips, Circle Numbers MF, Comics MF (1997), Copy Fax, Corelle MF (1998), Darbuka MF, David MF, Dimdumim, Emda MF, Enzoagada MF, Esheet MF, Eyal, Fantazia MF (a house font---I am not sure Rosenberg did this himself), Finish MF, Garinim Shehorim MF, Graffiti (1993), Greifer MF, Hafgana, Haim Arukeem MF, Haim MF, Havazelet MF, Interes MF, Jeans, Katava MF, Kilshon MF, Klaf MF, Klemantina MF, Ktiva MF, LeBe MF, Linoleum MF, Lippa MF, Litam MF, Lueeza MF, Magazine MF, Marhaba, Marker, Mechola, Melach Haaretz MF, Mishpatim, Molecule MF, Ovech MF, Panda MF, Papaya MF, Parmezan MF, Pergula MF, Petit MF, Pigama MF, Pitka MF, Poema MF, Portal MF, Pronto MF, Protocol MF, MF Ramot (1993), Remington, Rimon, Rosenberg, Rosenberg Naot Square MF, Rosenberg Promo MF, Rosenberg Ski MF, Rosenberg Solo MF, Rosenberg-Naot MF, Rosenberg Textile MF (2010), Shablona, Shanti MF, Shavit MF, Shiboota MF, Shmulik Yael MF (2010, hand-printed), Shmulik Three Egozim MF (2010), Shmulik Kibutz MF (2010), Shmulik Katz MF (2010), Shmulik Hasamba MF (2010, painted letters), Shmulik Dorit MF (2010, signage face), Shmulik Diralehaskir MF (2010), Shooma MF, Shopping MF, Skitsa, Square Numbers MF, Stempa MF, Sucariot, Sweeta MF, Tapuz MF, Tambour MF (2010), Taxi MF, Terminal MF, Tiltan MF, Turmus MF, Unplugged MF, Zeebra MF, Zlafim, Zoola MF. PDF file showing these 2009 fonts: MFTVilna-Bold, Vilna MF (2003, Zvika Rosenberg), MFTDavid-Bold, MFTDavid, MFTNarkisClassic-Bold, MFTNarkisClassic, MFTNarkisClassicLight, MFTNarkisClassicMedium, MFTNewLivorno-Bold, MFTNewLivorno. These fonts feature Nikud, justification alternates and cantillation marks (in Hebrew, Teamim or Teamey Hamiqra), which are used with Biblical texts as notes for reading the text in public. In 2013, he designed the Hebrew typefaces Alphon MF and Aplikazia MF. Other typefaces from around 2013 include Celeb MF (2014), Chalifa MF (2013), Chalifa Serif MF (2013), Couponim MF (2020), Documentary MF (2012), Einsfor MF (2012), Faculta MF (2013), Gizbarut MF (2013), Gizbarut Serif MF (2013), Gulanash MF (2013), Hardal MF (2013), Hardal MF (2020), High Techist MF (2012), Intelect MF (2012), Kafri MF (2012), Kolorabi MF (2012), Kesem MF (2014), Kvisa MF (2012), Lakreeut MF (2014), Malmala MF (2014), Mitkatevet MF (2013), Muskamot MF (2014), Prozdor MF (2013), Revoluzia MF (2012), Rokach MF (2012), Rosenberg Textile Square MF (2012), Rugatka MF (2012), Salame MF (2014: for engraving and signage), Salame MF (2020: a revival of the earlier Salame font), Shoshanim MF (2012), Simania MF (2013), Sveder MF (2013), Teoria MF (2012), Vatik MF (2014), Zrima MF (2013). Besof Hakaitz MF (2014) is a Hebrew typeface that emulates the techno disco style of the 1980s. In 2016, he published the dingbat font Sucariot Menta MF. In 2020, he released Alifut MF (rounded, monolinear), Krakow MF (inspired by old engraving and tombstones in the synagogue in the Jewish quarter in Krakow, Poland), Tmura MF, Vetrena MF, which is based on old hand-painted signs in Tel Aviv. Typefaces from 2021: MF Shtetl (a traditional Biblical font). View Zvika Rosenberg's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Tim McGuinness runs McGuinnessDesigns.com. He published several cheap font CDs such as Expresiv Art Fonts (1995), Expresiv Brush Script Fonts (1995), Expresiv Classic Fonts (1994), Expresiv Ornamental Fonts (1994), and Expresiv PhotoLettering Fonts (1994). Typophile has a discussion in which these collections are called cheap knock-offs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Big German PC and appliance chain. They however included some fonts pirated from Linotype. Linotype sued them and won in court. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michael presents all fonts on the EFF PD fonts CD. This looks like a renamed collection of standard Adobe/Monotype fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Coon Rapids, MN, and run by Peter Ward, this outfit sells hundreds of fonts that seem nothing but (tweaked and) renamed (all names start with MC) fonts--check here, and tell me if Microgetics designed these fonts! Sleazy slogans such as "Everyone should have these fonts" complete the picture. On the newsgroups, Peter Ward states that he found font XXX (fill in any name you like) at the Microgetics site---well, a bit dishonest isn't it? Ward runs the site! There are free downloads, but even those are done in a questionable manner--they make you feel like you are getting something for free by giving your coordinates, but in fact, remember that the font design was not theirs in the first place. Only positive note: the company seems to have made an effort improving the outlines of the fonts (those on MCAngelBrush improve over its "parent", BrushScriptMT, for example), but the fonts are inferior in other respects (MCAngelBrush has no kerning pairs, for example). Partial list: MC57, MCAlbany, MCAngelBrush, MCBuzz, MCCEO, MCCanfieldBold, MCCanfieldBoldItalic, MCCanfieldItalic, MCCanfield, MCCaponeCondensed, MCCaponeExtended, MCCaponeOutline, MCCapone, MCCargoCompressed, MCCargoItalic, MCCargo, MCCave, MCChancellorLightItalic, MCChancellorLight, MCChancellorMediumItalic, MCChancellorMedium, MCCheers, MCCookieCutter, MCCould, MCCowPoke, MCCrateOutline, MCCrate, MCCudaCondensed, MCCudaOutline, MCCuda, MCDoggieOutline, MCDoggie, MCDoodads, MCDotOutline, MCDotShadow, MCDot, MCEATShadow, MCEAT, MCEclectic, MCEuro, MCEyeChart, MCFatBrush, MCFinesse, MCFreeloader, MCFruitBasket, MCGadget, MCGilbert, MCGrooveEOutline, MCGrooveE, MCHAL, MCHeadStone, MCHobbesBold, MCHobbesOutline, MCHobbes, MCHouseBandOutline, MCHouseBand, MCImpressBold, MCImpress, MCIvy, MCJack, MCJoeFuture, MCKirkHall, MCKlaus, MCKoko, MCLCD, MCLappleBold, MCLappleDemi, MCLappleLight, MCLappleMedium, MCLateen, MCLetterSweater, MCLetterbook, MCLohengrin, MCLongbranch, MCLullaby, MCMahall, MCMars, MCMax, MCMershia, MCMist, MCModa, MCMonoManBold, MCMonoManBoldItalic, MCMonoManItalic, MCMonoMan, MCNixBold, MCNixCondensedBold, MCNixCondensedBoldItalic, MCNixCondensedItalic, MCNixCondensed, MCNix, MCOktoberfest, MCOpalBold, MCOpalBoldItalic, MCOpalItalic, MCOpal, MCOrchidBold, MCOrchidLight, MCOrchidMedium, MCPartridge, MCPearl, MCPeeWeeOutline, MCPeeWee, MCPerspective, MCPorkie, MCPriceTag, MCPuffy, MCQuill, MCRSVP, MCRagtop, MCRegulaSansItalic, MCRegulaSans, MCRobinhood, MCSchoolhouseInline, MCSchoolhouse, MCSiagon, MCSitcom, MCSlimJim, MCSquaredOutline, MCSquared, MCSterling, MCStratford, MCTape, MCTassel, MCTechnobop, MCTight, MCToothpaste, MC-Twinkle-Star, MCUnisyms, MCValentinePlush, MCValentine, MCWhatsits, MCWhimsy, MCWizz, MCWrightItalic, MCWright, MCYikesShadow, MCYikes, MCZamboni, MCZyphanyBold, MCZyphanyBoldItalic, MCZyphanyItalic, MCZyphany. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MicroLogic Software
| Frank Hainze (Emeryville, CA) used to sell typefaces such as Adorable, Artisan, Celebrity, Crescent, Duchess, Elegance, Formal, Heather, Imperial, ImperialBold, ImperialBoldItalic, ImperialItalic, Legend, MajesticBold, MasonBook, MasonBookOblique, MasonDemi, MasonDemiOblique, Opera, Salsa, Samurai, Victorian (blackletter, 1994), Wedding. No longer in business. The fonts are still out there, however. For example, check Samurai here. Ulrich Stiehl documents all forged fonts on the PrintMaster CD and reports that the quality is remarkably good. Examples: Advantage = ITC Avant Garde Gothic, Architect = Adobe Tekton, Editor = ITC American Typewriter, Enchanted = ITC Korinna, Fantasy = ITC Tiffany, Gallery = ITC Galliard, Geneva = Linotype Helvetica, Gourmand = ITC Garamond, Imperial = ITC New Baskerville, Manuscript = Linotype Palatino, Mason = ITC Lubalin Graph, Mirage = ITC Benguiat, Optimum = Linotype Optima, Tiempo = Monotype Times. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Mindcandy Design
| Foundry and font vendor in Austin, Texas, created in 1995. As a vendor, it offers an outlet for twelve formerly autonomous font makers: 2 Rebels, 3 Island Press, Abouttype, Brainreactor, Emboss, Mindcandy, Lagartija, Lunchbox, Plazm, Radiateur, Synfonts and Verge. One of the designers is Jeff Gillen. List of Mindcandy's own fonts: Abduct Sans, Blind Faith, Blueline, Blueprint, Bureaucracy+Municipal, Bureaucracy+State, Bureaucracy+Federal, Cloud 9, Delirious, Delirium, Faith, Groovy, Groovy+Oultine, Herschel Krustofsky, Hyman Krustofsky, Invacuo+Bones, Invacuo+Cloak, Invacuo+Valid, Jobless, Joker, Meltdown, Missing Link, Contamination (borders), Phace, Smacky, Bureaucracy+Electoral, MartianHoliday, Nokius (pixel font family), Nucleus, Rayguns, Riddler, Rollover, Rollover+Outline, Sibley Potato+AuGratin, Sibley Potato+Baked, Sibley Potato+Fried, Sibley Potato+Mashed, Sibley Potato+Salad (Mayo), Sibley Potato+Salad (Mustard), Slacker+Bookstore, Tribal Masks. Simon Daniels at Microsoft writes: "Despite using a Flash font viewer and having posted a claim that they 'embrace the latest technologies to deliver your message in virtually any medium', Mindcandy restricts others from embedding their fonts within Web pages. This is particularly strange given the fact that their free fonts are set to 'installable embedding'." TypoViewer is nice. Mindcandy decided in June 2002 to sell the fonts in their collection at 1 USD a shot, but I wonder if that does not violate the agreements with the designers. They also state that they are ready to get out of the font business altogether. And at the end of June 2002, the doors are closing on Mindcandy. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Chisel fonts (five fonts at 20 USD a shot), Serials type collection (1000 fonts) on as CD, EuroFonter (software to place the Euro symbol in truetype fonts), FontExpert 2.0 (type recognition software). The Serials CD looks very much like Brendel/Softmaker: 175 USD worth of mostly renamed fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MyFonts.com
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Postmortem: While it remains active, MyFonts and Bitstream were acquired by Monotype in 2012. It is bleeding on both ends---high-class outfits such as Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Commercial Type and Our Type run their own shops, and the middle class is scared off by the Monotype monopoly, the business-is-more-important-than-you atmosphere, and the friendlier hunting grounds of Creative Market and similar font truck vendors. Fontacular: monthly sales specials. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
35 fonts in one package. From the looks of things, these fonts are renamed or reworked classical fonts from the big foundries. Art Nouveau is Arnold Boecklin, and so forth. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
"32 Chinese TTF for Chinese Windows 3.1 or Windows 95." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font seller and typographical services in Detroit. This page lists all PostScript fonts available at this bureau. They coincide roughly with the Adobe list. Beebe's list of their 2065 fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Shady German company which sells these CDs through Amazon: "3333 Schriften -- Durable" (10 Euro), and "4000 Fonts 4.0" (15 Euro). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mike Jackson at Golden Era Studios lists commercial suppliers of Turn-of-the-Century-Look fonts, with previews. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sells over 4000 fonts from various foundries. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vendors of big font packages. Example: the Fabulous fonts CD (100 truetype fonts, 49USD). Make no mistake, the Parsons fonts are unadulterated rip-offs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based typographic services, run by Peter Lerup. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Phil's Fonts
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Phil's Fonts also makes its own fonts. These include Freight Big Compressed Pro (2019, a sturdy rational newspaper masthead and book cover typeface by Robby Woodard and Phil's Fonts; at GarageFonts), Freight Display Compressed Pro (2019), Freight Text Compressed Pro (2019), and a number of other extreme weights in the popular Freight font family at GarageFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Platz Wien (or: adfontes)
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We rediscover him as a type designer at Facetype. In 2015, he published ocr-t, a great family of monoline and monolithic display sans typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Precision Type
| Font vendor active from 1994 until 2004, when it closed. It was located at 47 Mall Drive, Commack, NY 11725, USA, and distributed the fonts of hundreds of designers. Michel Bujardet from Match Software whose fonts are partially sold by them complained that no sales were reported to him. His posting on a type list: "since TypeCon 98, the word was in the type design community that they never seemed to report any sales to the authors." Contact: Brenda Newman. This site reports the following in May 2006: Protocall Technologies Incorporated (OTCBB: PCLI) http://www.protocall.com/ today announced that Bruce Newman, the company founder and a member of the board of directors, has assumed the post of President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Newman succeeds former Chief Executive Officer Donald J. Hoffmann, who will continue in an advisory capacity with Protocall. [...] Protocall to Focus on Developing Opportunities in Entertainment DVD Market. [...] During Mr. Newman's earlier tenure at Protocall, he assembled the company's management, product development, operations and sales teams; managed equity financings; and secured first-time ever licensing agreements from Symantec, Intuit, Corel, Atari, Vivendi Universal and many other software companies to reproduce their products at point-of-sale locations. Additionally, Mr. Newman structured first-time electronic distribution deals with CompUSA and other major resellers. Prior to Protocall, Mr. Newman founded a software distribution company that became one of the world's largest niche distributors of high-end font software products to the book publishing and professional design industries. Mr. Newman is an inventor of record on two U.S. patents in the area of electronic product delivery and co-author of a book on computer typeface software for professional users. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Three CDs with 5000 fonts from Adobe/Linotype, Agfa Type, Agfa Logos, Alphabets Inc., Andersen, Bear Rock, Bitstream, Carter&Cone, Diehl Volk, EmDash, FontBureau, TheFontCompany, FranklinTypeFound, Galapagos, HandcraftedFonts, Harris Design, Headliners Int., Intecsas, Int.Typeface Cor., Isis Imaging, Jack Yan&Ass., Key Borders, Lanston Type, Letraset, Letter Perfect, Monotype, NewYorkDesign, NIMX Graphics Page Studio, PolyType, Red Rooster, Russian Type, Christian Schwartz, Stone Type, Torah, Treacyfaces, [T-26], URW, Vanguard Media, ABC Design, Adagio, Addict Inc., Aerotype, Arthur Baker, Castle Systems, Coniglio, Design Lab, DS Design, Justified Type, Lunchbox Design, Maverick Design, mindCANDY, P22, Plazm Media, Psy/Ops Type, Richard Beatty, Synstelien Design. The book "Precision Type Font Reference Guide" by Jeff Level, Bruce Newman and Brenda Newman shows more than 13,000 typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Qara Anass
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Vendor of Central European versions of Adobe fonts in Czechia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ralph Smith
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Ray Larabie
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Rentafont
| Rentafont is a font service font vending company run by Ukrainian designer and typographer Evgeny (Eugene) Sadko. Sadko studied graphic design at the Kharkov Academy of Design and Arts. At ParaType, he cyrillicized Baker Signet (Arthur Baker in 1965 for Visual Graphic Corporation; first digitized in the Bitstream library) in 2008. In 2019, he published the humanist sans Mars Type for Latin and Cyrillic. Rentafont specializes in Cyrillic typefaces, both commercial and free, by designers such as Vladimir Yefimov, Ivan Gladkikh, Alex Chekulaev, Manvel Shmavonyan, Isabella Chaeva, Alexander Tarbeev, Alexandra Korolkova, Natalia Vasilieva, Oleg Karpinski, Olga Umpeleva, Maria Selezeneva, Lyubov Kuznetsova, Sergei Shanovich, Gayane Bagdasaryan, Tagir Safayev, Sergiy Tkachenko, Alexander Kustov, Dmitry Kirsanov, Alexander Lyubovenko, Ilya Ruderman, and Isai Sloutsker. After the war broke out in 2021, Sadko understandably broke all contact with Russian designers. iFoundries and designers with which Rentadfont coope rates include Alexandra Alexandrova, Aliaksei Koval, Andrij Shevchenko, Andriy Dykun, Andriy Konstantynov, Ani Dimitrova, Anita Jürgeleit, Bohdan Hdal, Catherine Drozd, Daniel Turetskiy Denis Serebryakov, Denis Zhuk, Dmytro Kifuliak, Dmytro Rastvortsev, Edik Ghabuzyan, Eugene Sadko, Francisco Páez, Gennady Zarechnyuk, Gerard Unger, Héctor Barroso, Irene Vlachou, Irina Kudryavchenko, Iryna Dvilyuk, Ivan Kyosev, Jacklina Jekova, Jonathan Hill, Jose Scaglione, Kateryna Korolevtseva, Konstantin Golovchenko, Kyrylo Tkachov, Luis Bandovas, Lukyan Turetskiy, Maksym Kobuzan, Marchela Mozhyna, Maria Sokil, Maria Weinstein, Marina Mykhalska, Mariya Pigoulevskaya, Michael Rafailyk, Mirela Belova, Nicolien van der Keur, Oleh Lishchuk, Oleksandr Donchenko, Oleksandr Komyakhov, Oleksiy Popovtsev, Olexa Volochay, Olha Butyrska, Pablo Balcells, Pavel Pavlov, Plamen Motev, Rodrigo Araya Salas, Sergiy Rodionov, Sergiy Tkachenko, Serhii Makarenko, Simon Dunford, Svetlana Akatieva, Svetoslav Simov, Tatiana Lyashenko., Tetiana Ivanenko, Tom Grace, Toshi Omagari, Valentyn Tkachenko, Vasyl Chebanyk, Veronika Burian, Viktor Kharyk, Vitória Neves, and Yelyzaveta Chepugova. Facebook link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
International TypeFounders, Inc's shop front. Type vendor, est. 2004, which sells type for Letraset, Red Rooster, ITF/URW++, Arthur Baker, Exploding Type Co, Font Boy, Maverick Designs, Type Revivals, Synfonts, Mecanorma and Prime Graphics. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fraudulent vendors of Das 4.000 Schriften Paket (2003), a 4,000-font compilation that sells for 4,89 Euros. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Shady German company which sells this CD through Amazon for 5 Euros: Das 4.000 Schriften Packet (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial Khmer font producer. Salika Ltd is located in Tokyo. Their Khmer fonts are named Khm-1 through Khm-4. They also have fonts for Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Latin, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Nepali, Cyrillic, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Schriftenpaket Osteuropa is a CD of 245 fonts sold mainly in Germany. Each font is a renamed Adobe Font Folio font. The fonts were "made" by the Hemming company, that is, the copyright notices were all changed to Mon Ami 1994, and the fonts were renamed in a predictable manner: Arial became Adorea, Courier is Cora, Futura is Fulv, Eurostile became Europa, Gill Sans is Gisela, and so forth. Thirdly, Hemming insured that all diacritics for East-European languages were available. Ulrich Stiehl, the consummate font detective, collected all Adobe name equivalences in this PDF file. The "Firma Hemming" (later renamed Hemming AG) was founded in 1989 by Olaf Hemming in Landau (Pfalz, Germany). The Schriftenpaket Osteuropa CD went to market in 1994. Olaf Hemming (b. 1967 or 1968) was murdered in May 2001. His handcuffed body was found near Andenne in Belgium. His Audi was found on highway A27 in Polleur, Belgium. Hans-Joachim Ulrich and Ralf Wetzel took over the company. In 2002, his company went bankrupt and was officially liquidated in 2003. The public prosecutor in Landau may have placed copyright charges against the two men (but the internet source for this is not 100% reliable). In 2003, the murder trial of Olaf Hemming took place. We learned that he was killed by a 22-year old German woman who was born in Madagascar. She had been influenced by a 48-year old sectarian (Indian/Islamic) partner who forced her into drugs and prostitution. She also murdered someone else and was accused of two attempted murders as well. The following stores (and probably others too) still sell the CD: Pearl, Multi-Media-Schnäppchen (owned by Daniel Grigat, 51588 Nuembrecht), and Schütz Neue Medien GmbH. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sean Cavanaugh
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Seong Ah Choi
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Japanese font distributor. Both Japanese and roman fonts. Carries fonts from Extra Designs, Hideki Inaba, G2System, Waap Designs, Hyperion Graphics (who made Capsule3), GEI, Maniackers Design, and Fontage / Kivart, and Fontstudio. Mac and PC. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One nice free font per week. Their Print Artist Platinum 4.5 CD (50 USD) comes with 300 Agfa fonts, and the AGFA Print Artist Font Manager. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font work, vendor of fonts, all languages. Based in Saint-Maur, France. Run by Malcolm John and Chris Dubber. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
SkyFonts is Monotype's font rental service, launched in beta form on September 18, 2012. From the web site: The SkyFonts service is a cloud-based font rental solution that lets you experiment with type like never before. Browse a selection of over 1,500 professional, quality fonts. Try fonts for 5 minutes for free. Rent fonts for a day or for a month. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vendor of font and font software packages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
SoftMaker Software GmBH (or: freefont.de)
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In 2008, SoftMaker started selling fonts on MyFonts: fonts there include the 28-style Suetterlin family (2008), based on the handwriting taught in German schools in the first half of the 20th century, Harald Handwriting (2009), Agilo Handwriting (2009), Wally Handwriting (2009), Vittorio Handwriting (2009), Turandot Handwriting (2009), Tommi Handwriting (2009), Veneto Handwriting (2009), Tolomeo Handwriting (2009), Sarx Handwriting (2009), Salew Handwriting (2009), Roxana Handwriting (2009), Renate Handwriting (2009), PizPaz Handwriting (2009, Mexican style), Schneid Handwriting (2009), Pietro Handwriting, Phil Handwriting, Nadine Handwriting, Kuno Handwriting, Larissa Handwriting, Lizzy Handwriting, Juri Handwriting, Jeff Handwriting (2009), Josh Handwriting (2009), Jelena Handwriting (2009), Jaro Handwriting (2009), Jacques Handwriting (2009), Hilly Handwriting (2009), Harico Handwriting (2009), Hakon Handwriting (2009), Stone Handwriting (2009), Federico Handwriting (2009), Fabio Handwriting (2009), Emmi Handwriting (2009), Davio Handwriting (2009), Alec Handwriting (2009), Brian Handwriting (2009), Armand Handwriting (2009), Claude Handwriting (2010), Cathy Handwriting (2010), Clay Handwriting (2010), Danielle Handwriting (2010), Feliks Handwriting (2010), Foster Handwriting (2010), Giorgio Handwriting (2010), Giovanna Handwriting (2010), Guga Handwriting (2010), Giuliano Hanriting (2010), Carlo Handwriting (2009), Brouet Handwriting (2010), Bjarne Handwriting (2009), Fuego (2015: a retro script, after Letraset's Flamenco), Agnieszka Handwriting (2009) and Thery Handwriting (2009).
The typefaces remastered in 2012 include Chandler Pro (this is Rofer Excoffon's 1955 brush typeface Choc; see also Staccato 555 by Bitstream and Chalk by Corel), Cheltenham Pro, Cleargothic Pro (after Morris Fuller Benton's flared version of Clearface, Clearface Gothic, 1907), Cooper Black Pro (+Stencil), Bristol Pro, Tioga Script Pro (after Georg Trump's 1956 script by that name, but aka Time Script). Free download: Huntington-Bold [-> Handel Gothic], Huntington-Light, ImperialStd-Bold [-> URW Imperial] ImperialStd-BoldItalic, ImperialStd-Heavy, ImperialStd-HeavyItalic, ImperialStd-Italic, ImperialStd-Medium, ImperialStd-MediumItalic, ImperialStd-Regular, ImperialStd-Xbold, ImperialStd-XboldItalic, KremlinScript-Bold [-> Kuenstler Script], RaleighSerial-Bold, RaleighSerial-Heavy, RaleighSerial-Regular, Scott [-> Stop], TiogaScript-Bold [-> Time Script], TiogaScript-Light, TiogaScript-Medium. Handwriting fonts shown at MyFonts in 2013: Allan Handwriting, Andrew Handwriting, Eleanor Handwriting, Enrico Handwriting, Estelle Handwriting, Jay Handwriting, Jaz Handwriting, Jesco Handwriting, Justine Handwriting, Kris Handwriting, Laszlo Handwriting, Lennart Handwriting, Luitpold Handwriting, Manolo Handwriting, Marbo Handwriting, Marcello Handwriting, Murielle Handwriting, Pablo Handwriting, Paolo Handwriting, Pascal Handwriting, Picto Handwriting, Rainer Handwriting, Reyno Handwriting, Ronaldo Handwriting, Teje Handwriting, Theo Handwriting, Valerian Handwriting, Vincent Handwriting, Vogel Handwriting, Volker Handwriting, Wilma Handwriting. The blackletter collection published in 2016 by SoftMaker includes these typefaces: Albrecht Duerer Fraktur Pro, Barock 1720, Breitkopf Fraktur Pro, Coburg No1, Coburg No2, Coelnische Current Pro, Diamant Gotisch Pro, Fleischmann Gotisch Pro, Fraktur No2 Pro, Fraktur No3 Pro. Later in 2016, SoftMaker published its revival collection, which includes Alternate Gothic Pro, Amsterdamer Garamont Pro, Antiqua Pro, Balloon Pro (brush), Caslon Antique Pro, Century Old Style Pro, Elmore Pro (architectural hand), Falcon Pro (retro brush), Cheltenham ExtraCondensed Pro Bold, Casual Pro (a copy of Thomas Nevison's Casual Pro from 1935), Garamond Nova Pro, Giulio Pro (a copy of Gillies Gothic), Josephs Brush Pro (a copy of Joseph Churchward's Churchward Brush), Malaga Pro (a copy of Roger Excoffon's Mistral), Melville Pro (after Murray Hill), Pedro Pro (a revival of the brush script Dom Casual by Peter Dombrezian, 1950-1953, at ATF), Salmon Pro (a revival of François Boltana's Stilla from 1973), Soledad Pro (based on Helmut Matheis's Slogan (1959, Ludwig & Mayer)), Somerset Pro (a revival of the Letraset font Shamrock designed in 1978 by Alan Withers), Sterling Pro (based on Stentor, designed in 1964 by Heinz Schumann at Typoart), Violin Script Pro (based on Vladimir Script by Vladimir Andrich, 1978). Typefaces from 2019: American Text (after an original condensed textura by Morris Fuller Benton), Angelo (after a Victorian typeface called Anglo by Barnhart Brothers ans Spindler, ca. 1895), Balloon No2 (just like SoftMaker's Balloon, based on Max Kaufmann's Balloon from 1939 at ATF), Balzac (after Johannes Boehland's Balzac from 1951), Amber (after Amelia by Stanley Davis, 1964), Karin Pro (a revival of OttoWeisert's art nouveau script Kalligraphia), Beale Charming (2019, after an art deco typeface by Collis Clements, ca. 1974), Bernhard Condensed No2, Bluff No2 (2012-2019, after Julius Kirn's brush script Bison, 1938), Boss (2012, after the sci-fi typeface ITC Bolt (1970, Tom Carnase and Ronne Bonder)), Broadway No2 (2012), Cavalier (2012), Century Schoolbook Pro (2019: after Morris Fuller Benton's typeface from 1919), Century PS Pro (2019: after New Century Schoolbook), Commercial Script No2 (2012, after Morris Fuller Benton's Spencerian script), Cristoforo (2012: after Columbus, a Victorian typeface by Hermann Ihlenburg), Dillon No2 (2012, after Jan Van Dijk's Demian), Disco (2012), Dom (2012; after Peter Dombrezian's Dom, 1952), Durango No2 (2012; after K. Sommer's Dynamo, 1930), Egyptian Wide (2012, after walter H. McKay's Egyptienne from 1952), Eller Initials (2012), Entebbe (2012: after F. Scott Garland's Enviro, 1982), Estelle (2012, based on Vince Whitlock's Equinox from 1988), Florentine (2012, after Ludvig S. Ipsen's ATF Florentine Old Style (1896)), Fraktur No2 (2012, after Johann Christian Bauer's Fette Fraktur, 1850), Frenzy (2012), Giulio No2 (2012, after William S. Gillies's Gillies Gothic, 1935), Greyhound (2012), Harlekin (2012, after Colin Brignall's retro script Harlow Solid (1977)), Hobo No2 (2012, after Morris Fuller Benton's Hobo, 1910), Hubert (2012, after Jan van Dijk's Van Dijk from 1982), Hudson (2012, a brush script), Ingrid (2012), Inverserif (2012), Japanette (2012, an oriental simulation face modeled after Barnhart Brothers and Spindler's 1893 font, Wedge Gothic ML, aka Japanet), Kalligraphia (2012, after Otto Weisert's art nouveau script, Kalligraphia, from 1902), Legend Script (2012, after F.H. Ernst Schneidler's faux Arabic simulation font Legende from 1937), Looking Glass (2012, after Phil Martin's Introspect, 1971), Messing (2012, after W. Schwerdtner's Metropolis from 1928), Metallic Sky (2012, after Mekanik, a Letraset typeface from 1988 by David Quay), Mister Big (2012, after Juergen Riebling's Mr. Big from 1972), Openface No2 (2012, after Augustea Open done in 1951 by Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese), Organ Grinder (2019, based on Franz Heigemeir's Organda from 1972), Paladin (2012, a blackletter, also called P650 Blackletter and Excalibur), Pergamon (2012, a deco hairline sans modeled after Premier Lightline (1969, Colin Brignall for Letraset)), Pinocchio (2012, based on a psychedelic typeface by Gustav Jaeger from 1973; earlier called P732 Deco by SoftMaker), Pretoria (2012, earlier called P820 deco by SoftMaker; a revival of the Edwardian typeface Pretorian by P.M. Shanks and Sons, ca. 1880s), Publicity Gothic (2012, based on Sidney Gaun's 1916 typeface for BBS), Quartz (2012, after Alan Birch's LCD from 1981), Reflex (2012, based on Refracta, made in 1988 by Martin Wait), Regency Script (2012: was R690 Script), Rosa (2019, after Herb Lubalin's ITC Ronda, 1970), Rough Script (2012, based on Imre Reiner's Reiner Black, 1955), Rovinj (2012, after a font by Phil Martin), Shotgun (2019, based on a film font from 972 by J. Looney for VGC), Siegfried (2012, art nouveau style), Slager (2012, based on Flash by Edwin Shaar, 1937), Sprint (2012, after Aldo Novarese's Sprint from 1974), Station Script (2012, after a 1946 typeface pair, Studio and Flambard, by Adolf Overbeek), Status (2012, after Michael Neugebauer's Squire from 1980-1987), Tico (2019), Unziale (2012), Yorkshire (2019, formal calligraphy), Zanzibar (2019, after a 1950s Filmotype font), Zephyr (2019; after Rofger Excoffon's Mistral, 1953). View the Softmaker library of typefaces. 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Booooooohh!!! I am trying to find out who/where Duane Nason's Solotech is, but I know this for sure: some of their fonts (if not all) are exact unaltered copies of other people's fonts. For example, LovelyHand is identical to Brian Wilson's 3IP font Treefrog. And, to top it off, the copyright line reads: Copyright \251 1995 Solotech Design. All Rights Reserved. Read Don Synstelien's account of what can be found on the Solotech 299USD CD, where many freeware or shareware fonts are misrepresented as being original. And Duane Nason is making money off them! This company is at the bottom of the barrel. Chris MacGregor's opinion of Solotech: watch out though--if you email Solotech, a copy of that email goes to Chris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ulrich Stiehl writes about this company: "The shady company "Solus GmbH" in Iserlohn (Germany), also known as "New Media Agency GmbH" in Menden, is selling a font collection CD which is the worst collection I have ever seen. The files on this Herlitz CD have been ripped off from private BBS and from the CDs of commercial font companies." Included are Stone Sans, Aachen Bold, AvantGarde, City, Eurostile and many others. Do not buy this CD (4000 fonts for 20 Euro). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sprint Software (Niall Ginsbourg, Australia) used to sell a rip-off CD under the name Super Oz Shareware Fonts from 1994-1996. It ceased to exist then, but Niall Ginsbourg continued with other companies and products. It had about 3000 truetype fonts, from Linotype, Agfa, Monotype, URW and so forth, often using original names, and it also contained many shareware fonts by artists such as David Rakowski. Ulrich Stiehl's font by font analysis. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
According to Phil Martin, Storch Fonts [Leonard Storch Soft Fonts, 15403 East Alondra Blvd. (HP/IBM) La Mirada, CA 90638 (714) 739-2478] sells pirated fonts. Still according to Phil, Storch placed an ad for their pirate font CD in "The Typographer", a mag for which Phil Martin wrote editorial articles, and from which he promptly resigned. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
British font service house: can sell you most of the commercial fonts. Sells also fonts for Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Farsi, Greek, Gujurati, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese (Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji), Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh. Has barcode fonts, and is a special distributor of the Royal Mail Barcode font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Over 6000 fonts from freeware font makers for 5 USD. Haven't seen the collection, but I can imagine what is going on here. This collection is identical to that offered by The Font Foundry. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Silver Graphics: 132 nice decorative display fonts. Look at Phoebe or Almanac! 60 US dollars for the CD. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Quick Brown Fox GmbH
| Run by Willi Welsch out of Köln, Germany, this foundry sells the SERIALS type library, consisting of 2,000 professional typefaces on the CD-ROMs Typecollection, DesignerCollection, CreativeTypeCollection (500 Brendel Informatik fonts for 499DM), and the new StyleCollection. Their program FontExpert automatically identifies typefaces from a scanned document out of a database of 25,000 typefaces. A quick check reveals however that many fonts are just renamed designs. The TypeShop Collection is also owned by them. MyFonts writes: The originator of the big TypeShop Collection was Walter Florenz Brendel (1930-1992). As far back as 1972, he had the idea of an electronic and digital system for typeface plotting and cutting, as well as automatic modification and reproduction. Before 1972, when type users demanded their type color to be a little lighter or little darker, Brendel, as the owner of over 28 type shops across Europe employing about six hundred people, could not meet their demands with the existing typefaces. Consequently Brendel developed a method to satisfy their needs. Brendel was the originator of the concept, and contributor and partner in the development, of IKARUS by Dr. Peter Karow. He cut typefaces based on mathematical increments that would allow type weights to be graduated in equal steps. Thanks to his perfectionism, type users can have the luxury of choosing a specific type weight out of seven from as many as 65 font families in the TypeShop Collection. Mr. Brendel was an accomplished professional type designer. Lingwood, Montreal, Volkswagen, Derringer, and Casablanca and many more were his creations. He was a design collaborator of Congress, Litera, Worchester and others. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
The fonts on the TigerWorks CD of 1994: AlteSchD, DomCasualD, EnglischeSchT, URWAntiquaT series, URWBaskerT series, URWBodoniT series, URWClarendonT series, URWEgyptienneT series, URWGaramondT series, URWGroteskT series, URWImperialT series, URWLinearT series, URWTypewriterT series. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Vendor of "font bundles", without identifying designers or giving credit. For example, their 2017 techno font bundle includes Digitalium, Stingo, Freeline, Impossible (Escher style), Sentagram and Fashion Font (letters in circles). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Shady German company which sells this CD through Amazon for 15 Euros: Fonts Total -- 4.000 Schriften (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type Department is the independent online marketplace for fonts, and is part of Type 01. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
CD-ROM description. Fonts on the CD-ROM produced by SWFTE INTERNATIONAL (US$20.91). Over 2000 fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Swiss vendor of Berthold, Bitstream, Galla, Ingram and Jack Yan fonts. Includes a logo/signature service, and font conversion consulting. Swiss type pages by Peter H. Singer, the Berthold man in Zürich. Commercial links, mainly to Berthold. They provide some corporate identity font services as well as font conversions with Fontmonger (??). They also sell a 300 handwriting font collection. Alternate URL. List of type designers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Past-vendor of Adobe, Alias, Red Rooster, Shinn Type, Letraset Fontek and Device fonts. Shinn Type's Morphica was exclusively there. In October 2003, Veer acquired Jason Walcott's Jukebox Type Foundry, and adds it to the Test Pilot Collective Foundry whose typefaces it also sells exclusively. One of the founding members is Calgary-based type designer Grant Hutchinson. One of the sub-collections is called Umbrella. In 2004, they added a few typefaces from Fountain and Font Bureau. New type announcements. In 2007, Veer was bought by Corbis, a Bill Gates company. Typographers predicted that Veer would disappear soon after that, but this did not happen. On January 2, 2012, we learned that Veer will not be acquiring and selling licences for new typefaces. The collection will be frozen in time. Veer has been acquired by iStock (Visual China Group) and/or Getty Images, and closed down on March 31, 2016. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vendor of a Font Card and a Font Chart, as well as a four-page laminated HTML reference card and color reference cards. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris-based marketplace for designers, where one can buy the sans typeface Jovial (2016, Tom Chalky), the techno typeface Animus (2016, Ryan Welch), and many other designs. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
List of contents of the 1994 Walnut Creek CD ROM. Alternate site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Feast of Fonts disks 1, 2 and 3, with common shareware, freeware and otherware fonts. For the Mac of course. 2 NZ$ per disk (except the last one)! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wilhelm Welsch
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WSI collection available for 30USD (normally 150USD). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This outfit sells fonts after preview. From the looks of things, they are asking money for renamed shareware and freeware fonts, and even some other fonts. Selling so-called EFF fonts as well. When on Nov 27 1998, Mick Robinson wrote to advertise EFF LondonA, Tiro Typeworks' John Hudson blew his top and replied on alt.binaries.fonts: "EFF LondonA my arse! That's Adobe Garamond, complete and unadulterated. Thanks for the tip, I'm sure Adobe UK's lawyers will be contacting you. Don't you people read copyright laws?" List of names of fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At the Corporate Font Center of Xerox, you can buy just about any commercial font from the big foundries. Plus specialty fonts, such as, e.g., a bunch of UPCA barcode fonts at 150USD a family. Bitmap and scalable fonts. PCL fonts at 100USD a shot and standard fonts (from other sources, it seems) at varying prices. Seems to act as a vendor. Unclear if any fonts were made by Xerox itself. But there are five free fonts now by Xerox: Sigttf, Xerox logo, Bubbly, Glass-a-Breakin', and ModernGradate. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For about 15 dollars, become a member of the YMUG library, and download over 1000 fonts. "The YMUG library is collected from on-line services, other users' groups, other universities' archives via the Internet, and our own members. All items are freely distributable and are one of the following: public domain, freeware, shareware, teaseware." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yoon Design Institute
| Maker of (almost 300) Korean typefaces, est. 1989. Seoul's Seong Ah Choi is the Senior Developer. Check also the on-line Korean typeface magazine of the Yoon Design Institute. For a taste of their fonts, see YDICuckB-KSCpc-EUC-H, YDICuckM-KSCpc-EUC-H and YDIYheadL-KSCpc-EUC-H here. Other fonts include YDIWebDotum (2001), found here. Fonts include CheersB10, CheersB20, CheersB30, CheersM10, CheersM20, CheersM30, FreeB10, FreeB20, FreeB30, FreeL10, FreeL20, FreeL30, FreeM10, FreeM20, FreeM30, GroundB10, GroundB20, GroundB30, GroundL10, GroundL20, GroundL30, GroundM10, GroundM20, GroundM30, TaebekB10, TaebekB20, TaebekB30, TaebekCB10, TaebekCB20, TaebekCB30, TeensB10, TeensB20, TeensB30, TeensM10, TeensM20, TeensM30. In 2017, Yoon Designpublished the free text typeface family Binggraell. In 2018, Yoon Design published the Latin / Hangul typeface East Sea Dokdo at Google Fonts. Typefaces from 2021, all done by Suk-Hoon Pyun: YD Winter (a rough-edged script), YD Yoonche (a geometric sans), YD Sunbeams (a geometric sans), DS Novel 165 Page, DS Refined Letter, DS Romantic Guy, DS Sweet Kiss, YD Spring, Cre Happiness (an organic sans), Cre Hearttree, Cre Myungjo, YD Pine Needle (a solid serif font). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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A shady company that sold a 10,000+ truetype font CD, ClickArt Fonts 2, for 20 USD, in the late 1990s, early 2000s. Most of these fonts are shamelessly renamed fonts from elsewhere. Some have made it to the free site 
Popular font and graphic design product vendor that struggled for a long time with its web site. 
German type foundry in Hamburg established in 1986 by Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake. They offer original fonts as well as improved versions of classical fonts. There are many non-Latin fonts as well. In-house designers include Jessica Hoppe (Carpediem), Verena Gerlach (
London-based font vendor who started in 2015 or 2016, and carries mostly brush script typefaces. They are mainly pushing their own work. 
Fontstore was started by Indian Type Foundry co-founder Satya Rajpurohit, and is based in Singapore. It was a slow and uninformative site. As of July 2017, its designers are Aarya Purohit, Alisa Nowak, Anurag Gautam, Barbara Bigosinska, Dan Reynolds, Deni Anggara, Diana Ovezea, Easha Ranade, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, Frode Helland, Gaetan Baehr, Ilya Naumoff, Indian Type Foundry, Inga Plönnigs, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Jérémie Hornus, Jitka Janeckova, Joachim Vu, Juanjo Lopez, Julie Soudanne, Lukas Schneider, Manushi Parikh, Morgane Pambrun, Parimal Parmar, Paul Troppmair, Rafael Jordán Oliver, Ruosi Huang, Sabina Chipara, Samo Acko, Satya Rajpurohit, Tania Alvarez Zaldivar, Theo Guillard, Xavier Dupré. 
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MyFonts was a division of Bitstream Inc., located in Marlborough, Massachusetts. After Bitstream was taken over by Monotype, it changed directions. Its mission was to make it simple for everyone to find and buy fonts. In pursuit of this mission, MyFonts has pioneered new ways to search for fonts when one does not have an exact font in mind. The concept of MyFonts was born in 1999 when Charles Ying, Bitstream's Chairman of the Board, wanted to find a font for a particular project. He was horrified to discover that the only way to find fonts on the web was to know the name of the font you were looking for, or browse a flat alphabetical list. Why can't I just search for wedding fonts, he asked. This should be as easy as shopping for shoes! I should be able to point at a font in a magazine and say, Show me fonts like this. Charles reasoned that making it hard to find and buy fonts for the average computer user meant turning away 99.9% of the potential market for fonts. He called for an open marketplace, where fonts from many vendors could compete side-by-side. Charles personally hired the initial team and commissioned a site design from (now defunct) Calgary-based Fusion Media Group. MyFonts began selling the Bitstream library on March 20, 2000 through the MyFonts.com website. It now has over 80,000 fonts from about 1000 foundries. It includes WhatTheFont (was Identafont) (send scanned images to the site for automatic recognition), "Show me more like this", TypeXplorer (font space browser), 
Original designs, and a great general site on typography. Sells over 65,000 fonts from over 55 foundries. Font families (typically 4 typefaces) in the 100USD to 300USD range. Makes custom fonts as well. Run by Ralph Smith. 
New concept for the pricing and distribution of fonts suggested by Platz Wien, a graphic design group from Vienna. Email contact: Martin Tiefenthaler from Atelier Tiefenthaler. Martin Tiefenthaler teaches typography and semiotics at die Graphische in Vienna, Austria, and has been running his studio ID IID IIIDesign for 25 years, is co-founder of the Typographic Society Austria (tga), and studied the implications of capitalization in the Latin writing system on European thinking for his PhD, ca. 2000. 
Their early fonts were renamed and had the attribute Serial in the name. Samples of some of these fonts/families: 
Additions in 2010: 
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