Baltic (Latvian) TrueType fonts

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

client-bank

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

Egils Grikis

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

FORTECH

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

Government of Latvia

This Latvian site has a collection of Latvian-adapted fonts by Karlo and Tilde. From Karlo: MSBaltAmerigoRoman, MSBaltAmerigoBold, MSBaltAmerigoBoldItalic, MSBaltAmerigoItalic, MSBaltAvantGardeNormal, MSBaltAvantGardeBold, MSBaltAvantGardeBoldItalic, MSBaltAvantGardeItalic, MSBaltBookmanNormal, MSBaltBookmanBold, MSBaltBookmanBoldItalic, MSBaltBookmanItalic, MSBaltBrushStrItalic, MSBaltCorsivaItalic, MSBaltCourier, MSBaltCourierBold, MSBaltGeoSlabMedium, MSBaltGeoSlabBold, MSBaltHelveticaCndBoxNormal, MSBaltHelveticaCondensedNormal, MSBaltHelveticaCondensedBold, MSBaltHelveticaRounded, MSBaltHelveticaRoundedBold, MSBaltHelveticaSlimBold, MSBaltHelveticaSlimLight, MSBaltHelvetica, MSBaltHelveticaBold, MSBaltHelveticaBoldItalic, MSBaltHelveticaItalic, MSBaltHelveticaWide, MSBaltHelveticaWideBold, MSBaltLucida, MSBaltLucida, MSBaltNevison, MSBaltNuptialItalic, MSBaltOnyxCondensed. From Tilde: LettericaBalt-Bold, LettericaBalt-BoldOblique, LettericaBalt-Oblique, LettericaBalt-Roman, RimAntiqueOliveN-Oblique, RimAntiqueOliveN-Roman, RimAvantGarde-Bold, RimAvantGarde-BoldOblique, RimAvantGarde-Oblique, RimAvantGarde-Roman, RimCourier, RimCourier-Bold, RimCourier-BoldOblique, RimCourier-Oblique, RimFrutiger-Bold, RimFrutiger-BoldOblique, RimFrutiger-Oblique, RimFrutiger-Roman, RimFutura-Bold, RimFutura-BoldOblique, RimFutura-Oblique, RimFutura-Roman, RimGaramond-Bold, RimGaramond-BoldItalic, RimGaramond-Italic, RimGaramond-Roman, RimHelveticaCondensed-Bold, RimHelveticaCondensed-BoldOblique, RimHelveticaCondensed-Oblique, RimHelveticaCondensed-Roman, RimNewCenturySchoolbook-Bold, RimNewCenturySchoolbook-BoldItalic, RimNewCenturySchoolbook-Italic, RimNewCenturySchoolbook-Roman, RimRevue-Oblique, RimRevue-Roman, RimStempelSchn-Bold, RimStempelSchn-BoldItalic, RimStempelSchn-Italic, RimStempelSchn-Regular, RimStempSchnL-Bold, RimStempSchnL-BoldItalic, RimTiffany-Bold, RimTiffany-BoldItalic, RimTiffany-Italic, RimTiffany-Roman, MSBaltSouvenirNormal, MSBaltSouvenirBold, MSBaltSouvenirBoldItalic, MSBaltSouvenirItalic, TeutonicaBalt-Bold, TeutonicaBalt-BoldItalic, TeutonicaBalt-Italic, TeutonicaBalt-Roman, MSBaltTimes, MSBaltTimesBold, MSBaltTimesBoldItalic, MSBaltTimesItalic, RimHelvetica-Bold, RimHelvetica-BoldOblique, RimHelvetica-Oblique, RimHelvetica-Roman, RimTimes-Bold, RimTimes-BoldOblique, RimTimes-Oblique, RimTimes-Roman. [Google]

Gustavs Andrejs Grinbergs

Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1943, he has mainly cooperated (since 1990) with Tilde in the font development of East-European languages, and has created the AG fonts collection for Cyrillic. He specializes in Cyrillic and East-european extensions of prominent typefaces (such as the ones in the Bitstream collection). For Linotype, he did Linotype Gneisenauette, Linotype Brewery, Linotype Rowena, and Stencil Moonlight (2003), which won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. He published the AG Fonts collection, mostly between 1992 and 1994. In the AG fonts collection, we find the following families (non-exhaustive list): AGAalen, AGBengaly, AGCenturion, AGCrown, AGFriQUer, AGGalleon, AGGloria, AGLettericaCOMpr, AGMelanie, AGNewHandbook, AGOpus, AGPalatial, AGPresquire, AGReverence, AGZeppelin. MyFonts sells these fonts by him: Baltic Ornaments (1999), Linotype Brewery, Brunch Pro (1996, straight-serifed), Constellation Pro (2009, an avant garde sans family with very thin hairline weights), Exquisite Pro (1998), Linotype Gneisenauette, Kette Pro (2009), Rigaer Tango Pro (2009, a connected script family with high contrast), Robusta Pro (2002, large sans family), Linotype Rowena, Scintilla Pro (2001, delicate text family), Stencil Moonlight, Tourandot Pro (1999), Waldorf Pro (2003, didone). FontShop link. Linotype link. [Google]

Joiro Hatagaya

Designer of sci-fi and pixelized fonts. Fonts: 8BITWONDERNominal, Cybernetic-Ninja, DotComradeNominal, JHUFNominal, JHDigitalNominal, JHTITLESNominal, NewHorizonsNominal, StellarKombatMENominal, Stellar-Kombat, Vasquez, XenophobiaNominal, SpaceMarine. 8BITWONDER, JHTITLES, NewHorizons, SpaceMarine, JH_Fallout (2002). [Google]

Libertine Open Fonts Project
[Philipp H. Poll]

Now, here is a project with a name I like! This project by Philipp H. Poll has been started in order to create fonts that can be released under the GNU Public License. As of early 2005, we have the following Times New Roman lookalikes: LLibertineCaps, LinLibertine, LinLibertine-Italic, LinLibertineBd. Libertine Grotesque is next on the list of things to do. The fonts come in truetype and fontforge (SFD) text format. Linux Libertine covers a big range of Unicode, including all characters in MES-1 (Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Frensh, Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic (new orthography), Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxemburgish, Maltese, Manx Gaelic, Moldavian (with restrictions), Northern Sámi, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian (with restrictions), Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh (with restrictions)), IPA, Greek, Cyrillic, math symbols, and a host of other symbol and language sets. TeX archive. The typophiles are not impressed. Charles Ellertson writes: The bowl of the "a" doesn't fit other letters, the top and terminal of the "f" doesn't know where it is going, the descender of the "y" doesn't balance quite right, and the serif on the upper arm of the "z" (which probably reminded the original poster of Caslon) seems out of place. I get the impression, again from the small sample, that the font doesn't quite know whether it is supposed to be slightly condensed or slightly expanded. In 2007, the following weights are available: Normal, Kursiv, Fett, Fett Kursiv, Kapitaelchen, Unterstrichen, Grotesk. [Google]

Linux.lv

9.3MB worth of free Latvian truetype fonts. Plus Microsoft and Microsoft Office font collections for Latvian. [Google]

Normunds Hartmanis

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

RAWTYPE
[Gatis Cirulis]

Gatis Cirulis (Rawtype, Latvia) made the BDSM-inspired all caps alphabet Bound (2009). Example glyphs: A, B, BDSM, C, C, PS. Poster. [Google]

Slapjs Kakjis

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

Strange Atrtractors Design

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

Strange Atrtractors Design
[Catelijne van Middelkoop]

Strange Attractors Design is a Dutch design studio, which also dabbles in typography and type design. It is run by Catelijne van Middelkoop and Ryan Pescatore Frisk. Their creations include Turfhaus (custom design sans), Cranbrook 53 (custom dingbats face), Fourteen Boxed (custom), Hey Dutchie! (custom face), Grau (custom hand drawn version of Weiss), King of Latvia (custom made) and Brunn, a display face that won an award at TDC2 2004. [Google]

Teleserviss un Telebusiness

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

Terrapin Font Services

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

Tilde (was: AG Fonts)

Reinis Ludvik's Riga-based Latvian font design and software development company sells high quality fonts (adapted from Bitstream fonts) for Baltic, Cyrillic, Turkish and Eastern European languages. Includes the AG Baltia fonts by Andrejs Grinbergs. Commercial Cyrillic fonts based on Bitstream fonts. The Tilde/AG Fonts collection published between 1991-1995 also includes these families designed by Andrejs Grinbergs: AGAalenBold, AGBengaly, AGCenturion, AGCrown, AGFriQUer, AGGalleon, AGGloria, AGLetterica, MyFonts link where one finds Constellation Pro (geometric sans family), Kette Pro and Rigaer Tango Pro (calligraphic script). [Google]

VADA Software Talen I-L

Free fonts for Ibo, Inuit, Japanese, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Kanuri, Khmer, Kikongo, Kikuyu, Kinya Rwardan, Hangul, Kpelle, Krio, Kru, Laotian, Latvian, Luba, Luo, Maltese, Oriya, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Pali, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, African languages such as Mandinka, Mende, More, Ngala. Plus Navajo, Oromo, Ogham, Phoenician. [Google]