AArrgghh! Typefaces
[Jonathan Smith]

AArrgghh! Typefaces used to offer shareware fonts by Jonathan Smith of Rhode Island Soft Systems: New Land Contour, All-Hearts, Bunny-Lips, Confetti, El-RioLobo, Elbjorg-Script, Essential-Times, Firey, Glifik, Hero-Outline, Hirosh, Ice-CreamSandwich, Ice-Snow, Made-InTheUSA, New-LandContour, New-LandInline, New-LandOutline, New-LandSport, Ol'54, Planetz, Porter-Lil'Kaps (gorgeous late night show display font), Religious, RockArt, Spider-WebBlock, The-Score, Wet-Paint. [Google]

Aleksander Shevchuk

Art director in Moscow. His typefaces include the ultra fat art deco face Beyond Cyrillic (2009) and Eyelevation Pro (2009, for Eyelevation magazine (in Russian)), Bifurk Asmod (2006, display face) and Kodzini (2008, a great asian simulation face) and SheruPro (2009, another great (free) faux oriental face). Alternate URL. Dafont link. [Google]

Alvin Tan Boon Siang

Singapore-based designer of fonts at Garagefonts, including Special K (1999), a font with Latin letters in the form of Hangul (Korean). Very original! [Google]

Andreas Weygandt

Free font AWSiam for Mac and PC: Latin characters with a Siamese look. Truetype and type 1. Yet another URL. [Google]

Anfa

Creator at FontStruct in 2008 of Metal Vampire (athletic lettering meets vampire), Moonbase Toky (neat oriental simulation), Starscraper (techno), Moonmonkey (outline LED font), First. [Google]

Annie de la Vega

Dead link. This was a Philippine site with original fonts for PC (truetype) by Annie de la Vega [the site used to be called MadCaps]: Annifont, Alcohole, Sira (1998, handwriting), Addict, Chibrush (oriental simulation face), Durian Republik, Happy, Illustrator, Balotro, Book-Illustrator'sHandwriting, Dooling-Bold, Marilen, MiddleEarthNF-Medium, Sira, Stinkin-BoopFont, UppenArmsNF-Medium, Walang-K, Jeepney and Teenick. Anni will make your handwriting into a font for a "minimal" fee. [Google]

Apollo 26
[Brian Jaramillo Harvey]

B.J. Harvey is the Californian designer at Chank's Store of the free "bj's Halloween Fontpak " (4 fonts, 2001). He is working on a ton of other fonts, like Apollo Sans, Motorpsycho, Geek Gothic (a comic book face), Apollo46, Zimmer, Nu Cairo, Sotoflame (2002), Japanasonic, Japanacea, Japanorama, Eurmama (oriental simulation font), Jawa (oriental simulation), SD Police (stencil, not for sale), Rigby, Neopolitik, Metis, Motorpsycho. Opened Apollo26 in July 2002, where you can buy Flame N Skull, DEFCON 1 through 5 (or: Billabong, Special effects, X-Games 23, Von Zipper and Machine). APOLLO26SumoX (2002) is free. [Google]

Arthur Maria

Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of the experimental typefaces Gearbox, Gotha (octagonal), Nippon Garden, Labyrinth, Nano (pixel), Machine Script, Plank stencil, Ballistix, San Andreas (recreation of the Grand Theft Auto font), Machina (a macho octagonal heavy face), Electro, Hiro (oriental look), Japanica (oriental look, based on Hiroshi), Mage, Silkscreen Alt (pixel, a modification of Jason Kottke's Silkscreen). [Google]

Arts & Letters

Type outfit in Dallas, TX, with some free fonts, some commercial fonts (Boss fonts), and some typography essays on anti-aliasing. CD-ROM with fonts produced by Computer Support Corporation (US$18.40). 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 are now free. 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, 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. Download (August 2009). [Google]

Asian Fonts

Archive of Latin fonts that simulate Chinese or Japanese. Kept by Cybapee. [Google]

Bagel & Co
[Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

Japanese foundry that offers these free Latin fonts made by Ryoichi Tsunekawa: Kiwi (geometric hairline), Bagel (roundish comic book face), Coconut (noisy outline face), Coconut Split, Fresh Tomato (LED simulation), Dried Tomato (LED simulation), Dutch Style, Mocha Harrar (great stencil face), 103 (experimental, Bank Gothic style), Airhead, ArealBlack, Awkward, BagelNew, BagelOld, Banbino, Bebas, Berlin89, Blackout, Built-1970, Bunyan, Busted, Canstop, Chiangmai (Thai simulation face), DBLline, Dijkstra, Dutchstyle, Fling, Graphite, Harcomaso, Hiexplosive, Hitech, Honeycomb, Junkmix, Kanatypo, KemikalHi, Meegoreng, Mikrob, Natsupopy, Overwork, Palsu, Plamo, Plasitico, REC001, REC002, REC003, Resistance, SQRT, STdigi (LED font), Shandy, Superstar, Tembaga, Tenaga, Tomodachi, Tragedia, Trucker, VRdigital, VRembroidery, Welcome2M, Workaholic, Zeebraa, plot-A, plot-K, Appendix 3, Gesso, Pusab, Sushitaro, Typewrong. Alternate URL. [Google]

Bamboo fonts

Bamboo shaped fonts in this archive. [Google]

Bill Kroll Typography
[Bill Kroll]

Bill Kroll's from Minneapolis, MN, is selling his creations: Kings Chancery, Minrose Black, Gambo, Korient (oriental simulation), Mu Initials, Rosecaps, Kyposh Light Extended, Kay Italic, Kaplumb Black, Kaligtry, Rosa Script, Ketex. [Google]

Blambot!
[Nate Piekos]

Blambot has a huge number of original free comics fonts and balloons by Nate Piekos (East Providence, RI, b. RI, 1975). Plus a comics font archive. Comic Lettering is an alternate URL, where you can also order logo designs, custom fonts, and custom lettering. The fonts: Two Fisted BB (2009), RedStateBlueState BB (2009), Scream Queen (2009), Fresh Meat BB (2009), Gone Fission BB (2009), Black Hole (2009), Life Form (2009), Crimewave BB (2009), Firepower BB (2009), Artists Alley BB (2009), Stronghold BB (2009), Village Idiot (2009), Raging Red Lotus (2009, oriental simulation), Dwarven Axe BB (2009), Silver Age BB (2009), Flyboy BB (2009, techno), Giant Sized Spectacular BB (2009), Snake Oil Salesman (2008, old typewriter face), Earthman and Earthman Extended (2008, a nice 12-style retro sans family), Clairvoyant BB (2008), KrakHead BB (2008), Blambot FXPro BB (2008), Sangre BB (2008), Dearly Departed BB (2008), Boogers (2008), Bada Boom BB (2008), Old Crone BB (2008, bewitched style), Fire Fight BB (2007), After Dark BB (2007), Post Mortem BB (2007), Fold and Staple BB (2007, with Brandon J. Carr), Dunce Cap BB (2007), DeathRattle BB (2007), Potty Mouth BB (20070, Dominatrix BB (2007, grunge), Shore Leave BB (2007, based on sailor tattoos), Cloudsplitter BB (2007), Drawing Board (2007, inspired by Tekton), Warhorse BB (2007), Warmonger BB, Duty Calls BB (2006), Hellfire BB (2006), AveAveBB (2006), Indie Star (2006), Blamblam BB (2006), Braaains BB (2006, dingbats), Musashi BB (2006), Atland Sketches (2006), Double Life BB (2006), SkinDeep BB (2006), SkinDeep Swashes BB (2006), Newsflash (2006), KeelhauledBBBold (2005), KeelhauledBB (2005), MainframeBBBold (2005), MainframeBB (2005), Alter Ego BB (2006), Entrails (2005), Mastermind (2005), Zooom BB (2005), Whitechapel BB (2005, handwriting), Sucker Punch (2005), Crimefighter (2005), 10c Soviet (2005), CyranoBB (2005), Praetorium (2005), Spectre Verde (2005), Hired Goons (2005), Afterlife BB (2005, tall ascendered face), Seven Monkey Fury (2005, oriental), Spectre Verde (2005), FeedbackBB (2005), Atland (2004), Creative Block (2004), Midnightsnack BB (2004), Bloody Murder BB (2004), Seven Swordsmen (2004), Webletterer (2004), Rackum Frackum (2004), Oh Crud (2004), CatholicSchoolGirlsBB (2004), Antihero (2004), Dark Arts (2004), Bearded Lady BB (2004), BottleRocket (2004), Streetcred (2004), Lowrider (2004), Extra pickles (2004), Square Jaw (2003), Shinobi (2003), Bar Brawl (2003), Holy Mackerel (2003, Craterface BB (2003), Zombie Guts (2003), Knuckle Sandwich (2003), Workingman (2003), Fat Stack BB (2003), Santa's Big Secret (2003), ArrMatey (2003), Tokyo Robot (2003), JackLanternBB (2003), Perils of Piekos (2003), Turntablz (2003), Wicked Queen (2003, free), Golden Oldie (2003), Badaboom (2003), OhCrap, Whoop Ass, Damn Noisy Kids, Paperboy (2003), Armor Piercing (2003), Radioactive Granny, Sidekick International, Digital Strip, Mighty Zeo, Arcanum, Zud Juice, Ale&Wenches (2003), Bar Brrawl (2003), AndroidNation, Lovecraft's Diary, Blambot-Custom, Blambot-Standard, Captain-Spandex, Casket-Breath, Concetta, Dupuy-Bold, Edible-Pet-II, Edible-Pet, Edible-PetInternational, Enchilada, Evil-Genius, Flat-Earth-Scribe, Gunhead-Chick, Lovecraft's-Diary, Mouth Breather (2003), Mighty-Tomato, MonkeyChunks, Monkeyboy, Mummy-Loves-You, Mutant-Supermodel, Nate's-Choice, PiranhaSexual, Red-Right-Hand, Roboshemp, Space-Pontiff, Squeezy-Cheez, Urinetoast, Voodoo-Doll, YellaBelly, Zartz!, TwelveTonFishstick, TwelveTonSushi, A.C.M.E.-Explosive!-Bold, A.C.M.E.-Explosive!, GrungeUpdate, Mothership, Twelve-Ton-Goldfish, Whoop-Ass, WickedQueen BB (2003), Winter-in-Gotham, 13 O Clock, ACMEInternational, ChroniclesofaHero, ChroniclesofaHeroBold, FanboyHardcore, KidKosmic, LetterOMatic, MangaTemple, GorillaMilkshake, Caeldera, Belizarius, Bottix, ChatteryTeeth, OrangeFizz, OrangeFizzItalic, Pythia, SpiritMedium. Direct access. Commercial fonts: Knuckle Sandwich, Utility Belt, Tentacle Jones, Rocketboy, Seargent Six-Pack, Secret Identity, Edible Pet 3, Piekostype, LintMcCree Mysteries, Doc Seismic, Mike Allred's AAA, AAARGH, Allred's Aliens Invade, Asteroids for Lunch, Action Away, Allred's Amazing Stupendous, ArmorPiercing, Radioactive Granny, Mars Police, Irezumi (2002), Holy Macxkerel, Hudson VC, CreepingEvil, BlambotPro (great), Creeping Evil, Rooftop Run, AAA Redmeat, Eurocomic, Comic Geek, Jack Armstrong (nice), Rivenshield (useful), Howard Bros (nice), Mighty Zeo, Cajun Boogie (2002), Betty Noir (2002), Sand Diego '02 (2002), Wrecking Ball (2002), Miskatonic (2002), Roswell Wreckage (2002), WizardSpeak (2002), VanHelsing (2002), Glass Jam (2002), BucketOBlood (2002), Three Arrows (2002), Damn Noisy Kids (2002), Humbucker (2002), Oh Crap (2002), Caveman (2002), Blambot Casual (2002), 10CentComics (2002), Bar Brawl (2003), Armored Science BB (2003), Blamdude (2003), Shinobi (2003), Man of Science (2003), Sidekick BB (2003), BettyNoir, BigBlokeBB, BlamDudeBB, BlamDudeBBItalic, CajunBoogie, DetectivesInc, Irezumi, IrezumiItalic, SpiritMedium, VanHelsing.

Over 1000 free fonts here: 10CentSoviet, 10CentSovietBold, ACMEExplosive, ACMEExplosiveBold, ACMESecretAgent, ACMESecretAgentBold, ACMESecretAgentItalic, AleandWenchesBB, AleandWenchesBBBold, AndroidNation, AndroidNationBold, AndroidNationItalic, AnimeAce, AnimeAceBold, AnimeAceItalic, Arcanum, ArcanumBold, ArcanumItalic, ArmorPiercing, ArmorPiercing20BB, ArmorPiercing20BBItalic, ArmorPiercingItalic, ArrrMateyBB, BadaBoomBB, BattleLines, BettyNoir, BigBlokeBB, BlamDudeBB, BlamDudeBBItalic, BlambotCustom, Bottix, BottleRocketBB, BottleRocketBBBold, Caeldera, CajunBoogie, CatholicSchoolGirlsBB, ChroniclesofaHero, ChroniclesofaHeroBold, CreativeBlockBB, CreativeBlockBBBold, CrimeFighterBB, CrimeFighterBBBold, DamnNoisyKids, DarkArtsBB, DetectivesInc, DigitalStrip, DigitalStripBold, DigitalStripItalic, DwarfSpiritsBB, EvilGeniusBB-Bold, EvilGeniusBB, FanboyHardcore, FanboyHardcoreBold, FanboyHardcoreItalic, FatStackBB, FeastofFleshBB, FeastofFleshBBItalic, FeedbackBB, FeedbackBBItalic, FlyboyBB, GorillaMilkshake, GorillaMilkshakeItalic, Irezumi, IrezumiItalic, JackLanternBB, KeelhauledBB, KeelhauledBBBold, KidKosmic, KidKosmicBold, KidKosmicItalic, LetterOMatic, LetterOMaticBold, LetterOMaticItalic, MainframeBB, MainframeBBBold, MangaTemple, MangaTempleBold, MangaTempleItalic, MarsPolice, MarsPoliceItalic, MightyZeo20, MightyZeo20Bold, MightyZeo20Italic, MightyZeoCaps20, MightyZeoCaps20Bold, MightyZeoCaps20Italic, Miskatonic, MouthBreatherBB, MouthBreatherBBBold, NewsflashBB, OhCrap, OhCrudBB, OrangeFizz, OrangeFizzItalic, PraetoriumBB, PsiphoonBB, Pythia, RadioactiveGranny, RagingRedLotusBB-Italic, RagingRedLotusBB, RoswellWreckage, SanitariumBB, SantasBigSecretBB, SergeantSixPack, SevenMonkeyFuryBB, SevenSwordsmenBB, ShockTherapyBB-Italic, ShockTherapyBB, SpectreVerdeBB, SpectreVerdeBBBold, SpiritMedium, SwingSetBB, TurntablzBB, TurntablzBBBold, TwelveTonFishstick, TwelveTonSushi, Umberto, Vampiress, VillageIdiotBB, WarmongerBB, WebLettererBB, WebLettererBBBold, WhoopAss, WickedQueenBB, WizardSpeak, WizardSpeakWorn, Yoshitoshi, YoshitoshiBold, YoshitoshiItalic, ZudJuice, ZudJuiceBold, ZudJuiceItalic. [Google]

Blue Vinyl Free Fonts
[Jess Latham]

Blue Vinyl has free and commercial designs by Jess Latham: Giant Head (2008, ultra fat signage face), Synthetique (2008, thin dot matrix), Print Clealy, Dashed and Bold (2008, simple sans), Disko (2008, comic book style), Grumble (1999, grunge), MyScars (2005), My Bleeding Scars (2005), Azuki (2005, Japanese brush simulation), Shimmer (2004, connected cursive handwriting), Spin Cycle (2004), Rock Star 2.0 (2004, dings), Gros Marqueur (2004, marker pen typeface), Hot Fudge (2003), Dia De Los Muertos BV (2003, Halloween-style dingbats), Delorita BV (2003), Dance Craze (2002), Redford (2002, black display font), CharmsBV (2002, dingbats), LearningCurve BV (for children), HornyDevils, Princess (girls stuff dings), TurnTable (2001), Vinyl Smooth (2001), StereoLab, PrintClearly (children's orthographics), 60sChic, Airwave, Cafe Noire, Lucky Charms, Punk Rock, Chains, Slasher, Blue Melody, Sugar Coma (1999, junk food dingbats), Metal on Metal, Hearts, Crushed Out Girl, Nuwave, Deco Cafe, Screen, Rock Star (dingbats), Gothic Ultra Trendy, Film Star, Mary Jane, Turning Japanese, Lushus, Rockabilly, (my favorite thick display letters) Moma Grape, Modular 2000, Cyber Phonic, Comic Zine (3d), Grrlz Stuff, Retro Bats, Terrible Nervz, Pop Up, Moonbow, Tropicana (Luau dingbats), Tiki Tooka, That 70's Ding, Karaoke Superstar, Pippi, Pocket Calculator, Kool Ding, Kool Ding 2, LittleTroubleGirl, Grumble, SeeingStars, AllStarBV, Awesome80sBV, HellcatsBV, HotRodGangBV, Stereolab, SweetHeartsBV, BumbleBeeBV, CandyStoreBV, CHAINSColorFill, ComicZine, CHAINS, EeronautsBV, Charms, Film-Star, JimmyDoodles, LooseCruseBold, LooseCruse, MODULAR, MonkeyWrench, OneTrickPony, PubertyStrike, PUNKROCKColorFill, PUNKROCK, Plexifont (see-through letters), SeeingStars, SooperDooper, TerribleNerves, Pandamonium BV, TrickorTreatBV, WebstarBV. Sonic Reverb and Jacks (2003) at at Chank. Some retro fonts (50s, 60s). Direct access. Commercial fonts: Rodeo Girl BV (2003, handwriting), Jacks BV (2003, free), Majorette, Albedo, Retroclassics (two dingbat fonts), Westmore BV, KnockOut, Spellbound (2000), Speedway, Chocolate Mint Surprise, Pinky, Sparky, Glamorous, Bohemian Garden Party (1999), Fashionista, Pink Martini, ValentinesBV, Macrame BV One (2002, single, double and triple-lined commercial font), Macrame Super Triline (2002), Redford BV (2002), Charms, Wedding Wishes (2002, dingbats), BV Sans (2006), Bric A Brac BV (2002). At MyFonts, you can buy Meringue BV (2002, handprinting), Retro Classics 3BV (2002, dingbats), Roller Baby BV (2003), Swan Song (2004, calligraphic), Taroca (2005), Taroca Extras (2005), Save Her (2007, ecological dingbats), Confection (2007, fancy script), Lavender Script (2008), Parsley Script (2007), Pointed Brush (2007), Synthetique (2008, dot matrix), Lavender Script (2008, ormal calligraphic). Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. [Google]

Bokuwatensai

Designer in 2009 over at FontStruct of Raten Moji, a beautiful rough-edged oriental simulation face. Other faces there: Good Ol 3d, Binary Alphabet, Rising Leaves, Led it be (LED font), Picceleration (pencil writing). [Google]

burodestruct (or: Typedifferent.com)
[Gianfredo Lopetz]

Gianfredo Lopetz's foundry in Bern, Switzerland, est. 1994, called Burodestruct and Typedifferent.com. Free fonts include(d) the gorgeous GalaQuadra (by Angela Pestalozzi, 1999), Eject Katakana (1998), Dippex (1995, erasure font), Ticket (1995), Rocket 70 (1996), Ratterbit (1995, pixel font), Plakatbau (1995), Lodel Fizler (1996), Flossy (1995), Faxer (1995), Console Remix (1998), Cravt (1998, by "Katrin"), Stereotype (1998, by M. Brunner), Brockelmann (1995, free), Kristallo (1997, very original display face) and Billiet (1996). Other fonts: Acidboyz (1998), Alustar (1999), BD Asciimax (1999, ascii art font), Bdr_mono (1999), Brick (1996, like Kalendar), Cluster (1996), Console (1997), Doomed (1998), Eject (1998), Electrobazar (1995), Elside (1995), Globus (1996), Fazer (1996), Lofi (1997), Medled (1995), Paccer (1995), Solaris (1998), Spicyfruits_brush_rmx (1998, a nice high-contrast face), Spicyfruits_rmx, Wurst (free, by Heiwid, 2000), Relaunch (2000), Relaunch Katakana (2000, free), Rainbow (2000), DeLaFrance (2000, free, by Heiwid), Electronic Plastic (2000), Colonius (2001), Cash (2001), Cashbox (2001), Bilding (2001), Meter (2001), Mustang (2001), Bankwell (2001), BD Alm (2001), Balduin (2001), Tatami (2001, oriental look font), Hexades (2001, free), Nippori (2002, techno), Jura (2002), Bonbon (2002, free), Band (2002, free), Navyseals (2002, kitchen tile font), Ritmic (2002), BDR Mono (1999, OCR-like font), Mann (2003, ultra fat stencil), Aroma (2003), Zenith (2003), Nebraska (2003), BD Equipment (2004), BD El Autobus (2004), BD Unexpected (2004), BD Wakarimasu (2004, free kana face), BD Bernebeats (2004, futuristic), BD Deckard (2004), BD Spinner (2004), BD Victoria (2004), BD Designer (2004), BD Kalinka (2005, a curly ultra-fat display face), BD Equipment (2004), BD El Autobus (2004), BD Unexpected (2004), BD Varicolor (2005, stencil), BD Chantilly (2005), BD Memory (2005), BD Emerald (2005), BD Kalinka (2005, cyrillic simulation), BD Extrwurst (2005), BD Aquatico (2005), BD Mandarin (2005), BD Polo (2005), BD Beans (2005), BD Tiny (2005, pixel face), BD Times New Digital (2006), BD Panzer (2006), BD Jupiter, BD Jupiter Stencil (2006), BD Pipe (2006), BDR Mono 2006 (2006), BD Fimo Outline (2007, free, by Nathalie Birkle), BD Bermuda (2007), BD Smoker (2007, psychedelic), BD Radiogram (2007), BD Mother (2007, exaggerated black Egyptian), BD Fimo Regular (2007, free), BD Demon (2007), BD Reithalle (2007, free), BD Halfpipe (2007, free), BD Broadband (2008, free; not to be confused with the much older fonts BroadbandICG or FLOP Design's Broadband), BD Viewmaster and BD Viewmaster Neon (2008), BD Electrobazaar (2008), BD Motra (2008, stencil), BD Virtual (2008), BD Spacy 125 (2008), BD AsciiMax, BD ElAutobus (2004), BD Equipment (2004), BD Ramen (2003), BD Retrocentric (2009). Links. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. At Behance, he is known as Lopetz Gianfreda. [Google]

Carles Closa

Barcelona-based graphic designer. Creator of the Baille simulation face called Braille (1999, Garcia Fonts), the child's handwriting face Loreakop (1995, Garcia Fonts) and the funky display face Calypso (1997). Uses the artistic alias Txarly Brown. He also made the Kafkaesque caps face Vertigo (1996, Garcia Fonts), the stunning stencil face Floridax (1997) and the oriental simulation font NinjaType (1995, Garcia Fonts). [Google]

Carsten Strinkau

German designer at URW++ of FontForum CSPaket, CSCourtHandD (medieval calligraphy), CSFuzzyLogD and CSTakahashiD (oriental simulation, a hommage to the Japanese Manga artist Katsuhiro Otomo and his character/figure Takashi from the Akira-Manga). Student in the Kunstschule Wandsbek in Hamburg. His fonts are sold under the name CS Fonts, and through URW++, and through MyFonts.com. (Home page. Home page. [Google]

Castle Type
[Jason Castle]

Designs by Jason Castle from San Rafael, CA, who graduated from Dominican University of California. He does custom font design and sells commercial faces through MyFonts. These include AfrikaBorders, Afrika Motifs, Agency Open (M. F. Benton, 1934, revival Jason Castle), Agency Gothic Inline, Ampersands, Azbuka (2005, a heavy slab serif), Brasileiro (2007, a new art deco face), Carisma (2007, a clean sans), Carlos (art deco inspired by Elektra), Castle Fleurons, Chinoise (2008, based on hand lettering that is reminiscent of a style of ancient Chinese square-cut ideograms), Cloister Black, Copperplate Script, Deko Initials (1993, discontinued in 2007), Dionisio (2008, didone), Eden Bold, Eden Light, sencia (2008, based on Spanish art deco stock certificate lettering from 1941), Fat Freddie, Futura CT and Futura CT Inline (2007, based on Futura ND, but discontinued after only a few weeks), Goudy Lombardy, GoudyStout, Goudy Text, Goudy Trajan (2003, free), Handsome (2002, nice finger dingbats, aka fists), Jensen Arabique (left field art deco, based on work of Gustav Jensen, 1933), Koloss (art deco), Latin CT (2008,, 6 styles), Latin Wide, Laureat, Lise Informal (2008, handprinted), Lombardy, Maximilian CS (Rudolf Koch, 1917), Metropolis Bold and Shaded (based on the 1932 Stempel cut as designed by W. Schwerdtner), Minotaur (2008, an original monoline design based on an Oscan votive inscription from the second century BC; looks like simulated Greek), Norberto (2009, an all-caps Bodoni), Ogun (2008, inspired by an Egyptian-style Russian block alphabet and useful for athletic lettering; formerly named Azbuka), Plantain (2002, a figital version of Plantin Adweight, a 1913 face by F. H. Pierpont), Plantain Stencil (2009), Radiant, Radiant Extra Condensed CT (both Radiants are revivals of Roger Middleton's face by that name, 1940), Ransahoff (2002, ultra condensed didone), Rudolf (1992), Samira (2008, art nouveau style), Shango) (1993, based on Schneidler Initials by F.H.E. Schneidler (1936), and including a digital version of Schneidler Cyrillic (1992); extended in 2007 to Shango Gothic and in 2008 to a 3-d shadow version, Shango Chiseled, and in 2009 to Shango Sans), Sculptura (2005, an all caps face based on Diethelm's Sculptura from 1957), Standard, Tambor (Light, Black, Inline, Adornado) (1992) (note: Jason claims that it was remotely based on Rudolf, which in turn was based on calligraphy of Rudolf Koch), Trio (an art deco sansserif), Trooper Roman (discontinued), Vincenzo (2008, a slabby didone), Warrior (2009, a 3d font based on Ogun), Xavier (art deco family based on Ashley Crawford by Ashley Havinden, 1930, revival by Jason Castle in 1992), Zagora, Zuboni Stencil (2009, Latin and Cyrillic, constructivist). [Google]

Chinese/Japanese looking fonts

At TypOasis, Chinese/Japanese looking font archive (Latin characters). Useful archive maintained by CybaPee. [Google]

Churchward Type
[Joseph Churchward]

Joseph Churchward (b. Apia, Samoa, 1933) grew up in Samoa, and moved to New Zealand, where he founded a design studio in Wellington. His early type designs were released as photolettering through Berthold. In 2000, in partnership with Chank, his fonts are finally being converted to the standard electronic formats. Chank sells ChurchwardHeading, ChurchwardSamoa, Churchward Maori, ChurchwardDesign5Line, ChurchwardBrush. See also Churchward Roundsquare (2002), which reminds me of Apostrophe's Toolego. In 1984, he won a Silver Prize at the Morisawa Awards competition. At Berthold, he published Churchward 69 (1969, a fat face), Blackbeauty (1972; this psychedelic type inspired Nick Curtis's 2009 font, Strollin NF), and Churchward 70 (1970, a Bauhaus-style sans family). MyFonts writes: "Churchward Type started in 1962 as Joseph Churchward's freelance lettering service. Within six months he had generated enough work to move from his job as Senior Artist into setting up Churchward International Typefaces, which became one of the largest typesetting companies in New Zealand. In 1969 Joseph was asked to submit alphabet designs to Berthold Fototypes and saw immediate success. He later went on to sign distribution agreements with D.Stempel AG, Dr Böger Photosatz GmbH/Linotype, Mecanorma-Polyvroom B.V and Zipatone. He self-published a handful of original fonts in 1978 becoming the first and only company in New Zealand to publish original photo-lettering. Churchward International Typefaces was forced to close in June 1988 but Churchward Type lives on with a fresh set of independent releases. David Buck has taken on the role of digitisation. Joseph continues to draw alphabets and now has a stockpile of over 300 unique alphabets to his name." MyFonts sells Churchward Maori (2004, frilly), Churchward Marianna (1969, a comic book face), Churchward Ta Tiki (2003), Churchward Asia (2003), Churchward Samoa (2003, 6-weight sans family), Churchward Maricia (a Western-style face), Churchward Brush (2006), Conserif CW (2006, BluHead Studio), Churchward Heading (2007), Churchward Supascript (2007), Design CW (2006, BluHead Studio), Freedom CW (2006, BluHead Studio), Ta Tiki CW (2006, BluHead Studio), Churchward Newstype (2008, 8 styles, BluHead Studio), Churchward Chinatype (2008, 5 styles of oriental simulation glyphs), Churchward Brush (2009, BluHead Studio), and Churchward Design Lines (1970, a multiline face). [Google]

Claudia C. Sandor

Norwegian designer of Tom Yum Superslim (2001-2002) and Tom Yum Superfat (2001-2002). She also designed the Thai simulation faces Decomposing Lover (2003) and Tom Yum Superhot (2002). The Birchleaf (sans) typeface, done for Bjørka, a workshop for art photography in Oslo, is still under development. Snøfnugg is a fat paperclip font. Sucomandante (2002) is octagonal and computer-inspired. Bjørkeblad (2002-2003) is futuristic. CC Lisbao (2005) is experimental and modular. Museum X (2005, codesigned with Halvor Bodin and Tone Hansen) was a custom type done for Museum X for kunst/arkitektur/design. Claudia lives and works in Oslo. [Google]

Comicraft (or: Active Images)
[Richard Starkings]

Comicraft was founded by Richard Starkings and John Roshell in 1992. Located in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, they do lettering and design for the comic book industry and make comic book fonts. At one point they were also called Comic Book Fonts. The current presidents are Rita Simpson and Richard Starkings. Alternate URL. T-26 link. Some fonts: Sanctum Sanctorum (2003), Grandguignol (2003), MagicalMysticalFour (2003), Smash (2003), Aztech, Joe Kubert, Gobbledygook, Meanwhile, Matinee Idol [Nick Curtis has a much nicer script font by the same name, sold by MyFonts], Manganese (Asian-lookalike by Richard Starkings), Altogether OOky (by John Roshell), AbsolutelyFabulous, AchtungBaby, Adamantium, Alchemite, AstroCity, AstroCity International, Bithead, BrontoBurger, CarryOnScreaming, Chills, ClobberinTime, Comicrazy, Destroyer, DivineRight, DoubleBack, DutchCourage (is this really original?), Elsewhere, Flameon, Framistat (2000, JG), Frostbite, GrimlyFiendish, Hooky, Hellshock, IncyWincySpider, JimLee, JoeMad, KissAndTell, KissAndTell International (2000, JG), Meltdown, MonsterMash, PhasesOnStun, PulpFiction, ResistanceIs..., RunningWithScissors, SchoolsOut (1999, John Roshell), SezWho/SezYou, SpookyTooth, Spills, Splashdown, StandBy4Action, Stormtrooper, TheStorySoFar, ToBeContinued, Thrills, WildWords, WildWords International, YuleTideLog, Zoinks, ZAP Pack, Digital Delivery, Jeff Campbell (2000, by JG), Los Vampiros, DeadMansChest, Cutthroat International (2000), Rigor Mortis (2000, John Roshell), DangerGirl, Thingamajig, Red Star, Red Square, Drop Case, Too Much Coffee Man, NearMyth, Stonehenge, Golem and SwordsAndSorcerers (medieval or runes fonts). Their monster fonts collection includes MonsterMash, CarryOnScreaming, Chills, GooseBumps, CreepyCrawly, Grimly Fiendish, IncyWincySpider, SpookyTooth, Meltdown and TrickorTreat dingbats. In 2005, MyFonts started selling their collection. Fonts by Starkings include Achtung Baby, Carry On Screaming, Clobberin Time, Flame On, Goosebumps, Grimly Fiendish, Sez, Splashdown. The full font list: Absolutely Fabulous (1999), Achtung Baby (1997), Adam Kubert (2005), Adamantium (1999), Alchemite (1997), Altogether Ooky (1999), Area51 (2005), Astro City (2005), Astronauts In Trouble (2005), Atomic Wedgie (2005), Aztech (2005), Battle Cry (2005), Battle Scarred (2005), Belly Laugh (2005), Biff Bam Boom (2005), Bithead (1997), Blah Blah Blah (2005), Bronto Burger (1996), Carry On Screaming (1996), Chatterbox (2005), Cheeky Monkey (2005), Cheese And Crackers (2005), Chills (1997), Clobberin Time (1995), Comicrazy (1995), Creepy Crawly (2005), Cutthroat (2005), Danger Girl (2005), Dave Gibbons (2005), Dead Mans (2005), Dear Diary (2005), Designer Genes (2005), Destroyer (1999), Digital Delivery (2005), Divine Right (1998), Doohickey (2005), Double Back (1998), Dreamland (2005), Drop Case (2005), Dutch Courage (1995), Elsewhere (1998), Euphoria (2005), Exterminate (1999), Face Front (2005), Flame On (1997), Forked Tongue (2005), Framistat (2005), Frostbite (1997), Girls Girls Girls (2005), Gobbledygook (2005), Golem (2005), Goosebumps (2005), Grande Guignol (2005), Grimly Fiendish (1998), Hedge Backwards (2005), Hellshock (1997), Hooky (1999), Hush Hush (2005), Hyperdrive (2005), Incy Wincy Spider (1996), Jeff Campbell (2005), Jeff Campbell Sketchbook (2005), Jim Lee (1998), Joe Kubert (2005), Joe Mad (1999), Kiss And Tell (1999), Ladronn (2005), Los Vampiros (1999), Manganese (1999), Matinee Idol (2005), Meanwhile (2005), Meltdown (1997), Mike Wieringo (2005), Monster Mash (1997), Near Myth (2005, a grunge face, since 2007 also at T26), Nuff Said (2005), Overbyte (2005), Paranoid Android (2005), Pascual Ferry (2005), Pass The Port (2005), Phases On Stun (1995), Primal Scream (2005), Pulp Fiction (1996), Red Square (2005), Red Star (2005), Resistance Is (1997), Rigor Mortis (2005), Rumble (1994), Running With Scissors (1997), Sanctum Sanctorum (1998), Santas Little Helpers (2005), Schools Out (1999), Sean Phillips (2005), Sentinel (2005), Sez (1998), Shannon Wheeler (2005), Shannon Wheeler (2005), Smash (2005), Snowmany Snowmen (2005), Soothsayer (2005), Spellcaster (2005), Spills (1997), Splashdown (1997), Spookytooth (2005), Stand By4 Action (1997), Stonehenge (2005), Stormtrooper (1997), Thats All Folks (2005), The Story So Far (1998), Thingamajig (2005), Thrills (1997), Tim Sale (1999), Tim Sale Brush (2005), Tim Sale Lower (2005), Timelord (2005), To Be Continued (2005), Too Much (2005), Tough Talk (2005), Treacherous (2005), Trick Or Treat (2005), Wall Scrawler (2005), Wiccan Sans (1999), Wiccan Serif (1999), Wiccan Special (1999, see also T-26), Wild And Crazy (1997), Wild Words (1995), Yada Yada Yada (2005), Yeah Baby (2005), Yuletide Log (1996), Zoinks (2005), Phil Yeh (2006), Zzzap (2006), Battle Damaged (2007), Speeding Bullet (2006), Foom (2007), Letterbot (2007), Timsale (2007), Cutthroat (2007), Framistat (2007), Area 51 (2007, techno, octagonal), CC Comicraft (2007), Ratatat (2008), Mad Scientist (2008), Monologous (2008, T-26), HolierThanThou (2008, T26), Elephantmen (2008, grunge face at T26), Storyline (2008, T-26), Primal Scream (2009, T-26), Spillproof (2009, T-26), Sign Language (2008), Moritat (2009, T-26), Pass The Port (2009, T-26), Credit Crunch (2009), Elsewhere (2009, art nouveau). [Google]

Corradine Fonts
[Manuel Eduardo Corradine]

Corradine Fonts is Manuel Corradine's outfit in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2006. They designed Helga (2009, flowing script), Mussica (2009, +Swash, a delicate Victorian face), Guarapo (2009, handprinted), Toxic (2009, futuristic stencil), Emotion (2009, comic book face), Bloque 3D (2009), Rock and Cola (2009), Betco's Hand (2009), Telefante (2009, comic book family), Nancy's Hand (2009, more comic book hand-printing), Alambre (2009, multiline/paperclip), Sensual (2009, calligraphic hand), Zape (2009, in the style of Tekton), Antrax Tech (2009, grunge), Masato (2009, handwriting), Hu Kou (2009, oriental simulation), Mucura (2008, handwriting), Prissa (2008, handwriting), Salpicon (2008, a script), Cuento Serif (2008, a bouncy handprinted family), Memoria (2008, brush script), Charco (2008), Happy Day (2008, comic book family with Happy Day Dingbats), Espectro (2008, a swinging script with swashes and a Dingbats style), Furia (2008, handwriting), Candelaria (2008, based on house signs in the La Candelaria neighborhood of Bogotá), Old Village (2008, 1600's style), Old Village Ornaments (2008), Rapidda (2008, a successful simulation of quick handwriting), Hueca (2008, an outline children's script), Antigua (2008, an old swashbuckler family), Colegial (2008, a great-looking hand script), Pincel (2008, a fantastic paint brush family with accompanying splatter dingbats), Trazo (2008, Corradine's handwriting), Arcos (2008, a techno family), Caveman (2008, a primitive stone-look type family), Rumba (2008, two styles; an elegant flowing brush script), Parche (2008, graffiti family), Elegance Monoline (2008, a greeting card script face that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008), Abuelito (2008, script), Kidwriting (2007, a family which includes Kidwriting Dingbats 1 and 2), Garabata (2007, a fantastic handwriting face), Garabata Dingbats (2007), Hexagona Digital (2007), Quadrat (2007, grunge), Quadrat Old (2007, grunge), Quadrat Dirty (2007, grunge), Quadrat Broken (2007), Quadrat Ugly (2007), Neogot (2007, experimental, 8 styles). Corradine was born in Bogotá in 1973. He graduated from the School of Graphic Design of the National University of Colombia in 1996, and became a graphic designer. He started by custom-designing fonts and by making typefaces for his own company, Casa Papelera El Cedro (The Cedar Papermaking House), for printing invitation cards. With other designers like Carlos Fabián Camargo, John Vargas and César Puertas he formed Tipográfico in 2007 to strengthen the type discipline in Colombia. [Google]

Coup Chips

Japanese pixel type designers, both for Latin and kana. The following fonts were made in 2002: rr_basic01, rr_basic02, rr_basic03, rr_basic05, rr_basic06, rr_basic07, rr_basic_k, rr_cinderella, rr_dogway, rr_laundry, rr_regular. At another site, we find more work by Guby (b. 1977), the Japanese designer of the the fonts 0064_001 through 0064_011. The series through 0064_008 are pixel fonts for Latin and kana, and were made in 2001. 0064_009 through 0064_011 were made in 2002. Of these, the oriental simulation font 0064_011 is the most interesting. [Google]

Craftopia
[Janet Pensiero]

Janet Pensiero's commercial fonts made in 2000: CraftopiaBalloon, CraftopiaBeach, CraftopiaLove, CraftopiaStars, CraftopiaAsian. [Google]

Creation Freefont (or: C-font; was Creation Design Font)
[Masato Shimojima]

From Iwata City, Japan, Masato Shimojima's fonts at C-font/Creation Freefont include about 90 free fonts (Mac PS, PC truetype): The JapaneseBaseball dingbat font (2006), Check (2007), Chair07 (2007), Corner (2007, octagonal), Chape2AL (2005), Chape-001 (2005), Century Solid (2004), Cream Bold (2004), Cream Regular (2003), Caldia (2003), Hope Regular (2003, typewriter type), Speed Solid (2003), Speed (2002), CeresTriangle (2002), PC Button (2003), Cask4Bitmap (2002), CoolBitmap9 (2002), Cheese (bitmap), Crash, Crash Bold, Camel Open, Crash-12Bit, C-Numf, CamelBold, CamelliaExtraBold, CamelOpen, Camellia, CandyBold, CelboBold, CelboExtraBold, Celbo, CelonBold, ChaingothicBold, ChaingothicExtraBold, ChaingothicLight, Chaingothic, ChapeOpen, CharacterBold, CharacterOpen, CharacterShadow, Circle20, CityBold, CityExtraBold, City, ClearBold, ClearKana, ClearLigh, Clear, CliperBold, CliperLKana, CliperOKana, CliperOpen, CliperSKana, CliperShadow, ComdoBold, ComdoShadow, ComonsBold, ComonsExtraBold, ComonsLight, Comons, Consolekana, ContactBold, ContactExtraBold, ContactLight, Contact, Coronaslyz, Cosmos, CootBitmap, CubeBitmap, CreamLight, Cube2000, Cube2000Open, CupolaBold, CupolaOpen, Cupola, CupolaRoman, Cute (oriental simulation font), Cool, CoronaBold, Crossbar, Coot2000, Coot2002, Comdot series. Font Pavilion sells Chape, Connect and Console. Go here for Chain, Chair, Chariot and Condle. Direct access. Newest fonts. The shareware fonts are called C-NUM followed by two digits. Some fonts have katakana versions. [Google]

DaFONT

Oriental, Arab and Indic simulation font archive. [Google]

Daniel Pelavin

American type designer, born in Detroit. Designed ITC Kulukundis (1997), and ITC Anna (1991), the Cyrillic version of which was done by Svetlana Yermolayeva, Vladimir Yefimov and Alexander Tarbeev in 1993. Canton Market (1995) is an oriental simulation font. In 1996, he designed Test. URW listing. Check Sindbad, Circles, Triangles, and Squares, all geometrical pattern fonts. Chairman of the Type Directors Club, 2002-2003. [Google]

David Brezina

Czech designer (b. Brno) who graduated in Informatics at the Masaryk University in Brno in 2005, spent a term at the Denmark's Designskole in Copenhagen in 2004 and graduated with distinction from the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in 2007, where he wrote a thesis on his typefaces called Skolar and Surat. Skolar won an award at Paratype K2009. It was designed with scholarly and multilingual publications in mind. From 2004 to 2007 he also ran his own design studio DAVI, with projects in graphic, web and interface design. Back in Brno, he is currently working with Tiro Typeworks (Canada) as an associate designer. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about multi-script typography. His typefaces include

• CODAN (2005): a typeface inspired by the city of Copenhagen.
• Yunnan (2004): oriental simulation face. Discussion on typophile.
• Skolar and Surat (2008). Skolar was designed for multilingual scientific publications and is a serifed face in the Menhart tradition. It was published in 2009 by Type Together. Surat is an accompanying Gujarati family. Related to that, he wrote The evolution of the Gujarati typographic script (2007, University of Reading).

David Rakowski

Type designer and composer, born in St. Albans, VT, in 1958. He was one of the early free/shareware type designers, well-known for creating revivals of 19th century typefaces. He is Associate Professor of Composition at Brandeis University, and has previously taught at Harvard University, Columbia University, and Stanford University. List of Rakowski's fonts: 3-DWedgie, Aarcover, AdineKirnberg-Script, Ann-Stone, Beachman, Beffle, Bizarro, BrailleFont, BunnyEars, ChristensenCaps, Crackling, DaBigKeyCaps, DavysCrappyWriting, DavysDingbats, DavysKeyCaps, DavysNewOther, DavysOtherDingbats, DavysRibbons, DeBalme Initials, DieterCaps, Diner-Fatt, Diner-Obese, Diner-Regular, Diner-Skinny, Dobkin-Script, Dragonwick, Dubiel, Dupuy-Light, DupuyBALloon, Eileen, EileenCaps, EileensMediumZodiac, Elizabeth-Ann, Elzevier, EraserDust, Firecat, Gallaudet, Gessele-Script, GriffinOne, Harting, Headhunter, Holtzschue, Horst, Ian-Bent, Jeff-Nichols, Jumble, Kinigstein, Konanur, KoshgarianLight, Kramer, Lassus, LeeCaps, Lemiesz (a free version of Publicity Gothic, 1916), Lilith-Heavy, Lilith-Initals, Lilith-Light, Lintsec, Logger, LowerEastSide, McGarey-Fractured, Multiform, Nauert, NixonInChina (oriental simulation), ParisMetro, Pixie, Pointage, Polo, Rechtman-Script, ReliefDeco, ReliefInReverse, Reynolds, Rockmaker, Rothman, Rounded, Rudelsberg (Munich Jugendstil style font), Salter, Shotling, Showboat, Shrapnel, Starburst, TejaratchiCaps, TenderleafCaps, ToneAndDebs, Tribeca, Uechi, UpperEastSide, UpperWestSide (lettering from the New Yorker magazine), VarahCaps, Wedgie, Wharmby, WhatA-Relief, Will-Harris, Zaleski, and Zallman-Caps. Some downloads: Uechi, Rothman, Tejaratchi, Eileen Caps and Elzevier Caps, Paris Metro, Davy's Dingbats (see also here). With Klaus Herrmann, of Intecsas in Düsseldorf, he started updating his fonts from 1992-1999. Those fonts can be bought at Will-Harris. Here is an interview with David. Download 120 of his fonts here. And finally, a text file with the names of most of his fonts. Mark Johansson explains the history of Rakowski's fonts. . MyFonts page. [Google]

De Nada Industries
[Mike Allard]

Mike Allard (DeNada Industries, Gainesville, FL) is the designer of the shareware fonts Heather (updated in 2000 by Mario Arturo), Sumdumgoi (oriental simulation), the Celtic font Viking, Alfred Drake, Camelot De Nada, E-Brant Script, Grauman, Joe Perry, Juliet Script, KavalerKursive, Kelly Ann Gothic, Kelly Brown, Kurt Russell, Lauren Script, Machine Script, Miss Brooks, Perry Gothic, Scimitar2, Striped-Brush, Will Robinson. The text provided by DeNada: "Founded by a grumpy fellow when some software installation actually required a company name in the registration line. DeNada Industries has grown to include one employee (aka Mike Allard). A producer of typefaces in their early years, De Nada has slowly undeveloped over the years to include the odd Theatre Flyer design for out-rageous amounts of money. Their advertising budget is so severely limited as to preclude your being aware of their existence except by sheer accident. DeNada Industries is one of the slowest growing non-corporate entities in all of North America encompassing a wide variety of activities including: Typeface creation, flyer design, theatrical scenic and lighting design (in conjunction with The Shumway Brothers Moving Company) and a wide variety of other activities that defy specific categorization despite the heroic efforts of our staff." About the dates: all typefaces were made in 1992 except possibly Viking (1996, unsure) and Will Robinson (possibly 1998). [Google]

DickChamberlainsDeathF

An oriental simulation font. [Google]

Digital Empires
[Stephen Tune]

Original display fonts by Orlando-based ex-Montrealer and ex-McGiller Stephen Tune: Men In Blue (1998), IronCladBolted (1997), IronClad (1997), Odishi (oriental simulation) (1997), Fantique Four (1997), Seafaring (1997), Spawned (1997) and Draft Gothic (1997). Type based on the logos of popular comic books and movies. Free demo samples only. Dead link. The web site closed its doors in 2003. [Google]

Dinc Type
[Diane DiPiazza]

Commercial and free fonts designed by Diane DiPiazza, who lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. Dinc closed its doors in January 2006 but returned some time later in 2006. Most of the fonts evoke the fifties. Wikipedia states: Diane DiPiazza was the first bass player for the The Misfits, although she does not appear on any album. She left the band, vacating the spot that was quickly filled by Jerry Only. Her name is often incorrectly spelled Diane DiPiaza. Growing up in Lodi, New Jersey, she was a friend of Glenn Danzig, the founder of the Misfits. The first lineup consisted of Glenn on vocals and electric piano, Diane on bass guitar, Jimmy Battle on guitar and Manny Martínez on drums. On the Cough/Cool single, The Misfits first release, she is the Diane who Glenn thanks on the sleeve. Diane DiPiazza is an artist. She is a type designer who distributes free fonts and vintage black and white line art at dinc! She is art director at mystifyinglyGLADdesign, who designs for the web, clothing, and packaging. She designs hand screened gig posters and many other forms of rock 'n roll art, retro art, modern art. A collector of vintage design elements, her style has been called retro/modern. Diane also creates custom hand stamped silver jewelry as well as a line of tattoo inspired pieces. She is in the process of recording a demo LP with the working title Last Year's Fab Rave, on which she plays all the instruments, including bass. Free fonts include Bobo, Dilettante, Modern-Love, Note-To-Self, Plastic-U, Post-No-Bills, Road-Crew, Saturdays-Girl, Sleeptalk, Sugaree, Mod Guitars (2007), Woof Squared (2007), Hatcheck (2007), Mess Kit (2007), Billy Dolls (2007), Knitwits (2007), Claim to Fame (2007), Girlfriend (2007), Book of Joe (2007), Joybuzzer (2007, rough outline), Autos (2007, old typewriter), U Better (2007), The Con (2007), Claim to Fame (2007), Girlfriend (2007), Book of Joe (2007), Ahmet (2007), Road Crew (2006, rough stencil), DINC (2006, blackletter), Post No Bills (2006, stencil), Ashtrays&Art (2006), Neat Neat Neat (2005), Shut Up (2005), Hello Hey Joe (2005), Wings For wheels (2005), Trustmaker (2005), Bad To Me (2005), BellBottomBlues (2005), DinkyToy (2005), Funkhouse (2005), Rodeoboy (2005), SaturdaysGirl (2002), SoWhat (2004), Blue Monday (2005), Betcha By Golly Wow (2005), Nathaniel (2005, blackletter), Brillo Blue (2005), Doctor My Eye (2005), Guilt For Dreaming (2005), Rhyming Bells (2005), Bob's Your Uncle (2005), Princess Jasmine (2005), 45 (2005), Seven (2005), 7-7000 (2005), Ahmet (2005), Alexei (2005), Boxer (2005), Cinema Aisles (2005), Divine Intervention (2005), Synchronicity (2005), Tangled Up In Blue (2005), Tjinder (2005), Untrue (2005), Special Edition 6 (2005), 20,000 Roads (2005), Big Diamonds (2005), Charly Baltimore (2005), Dream (2005), Fever In The Funkhouse (2005), Green & Blue (2005), Ring Ring (2005), Swoop Swoop (2005), Fuzzbox (2004; not to be confused with Bragagna's pre-2004 font by the same name), Ace In The Hole (2004), Balls (2004), The Christmas Font (2004), Beau Geste (2004), ByeBye (2004), Heart (2004), Loverboy (2004), Sycophant (2004), The Comedians (2004), Fishboy (2004), Truth (2004), King Me (2004), Snapper (2004), Blue Heaven (2004), Oceans Eleven (2004), Fresh Fish Seven (2004), Trason (2004), Your Type (2004), Da Doo Ron Ron (2004), Big Flirt (2004), Dicky Dee (2003), Boxtop (2004), Satellites (2004), Upsmack (2004), Starry (2004), Silicon Chip (2004), Howdy (2004), Grandpa Boy (2004), Scarlet Letter (2004), Capsule (2004), Doggy (2004), Little Eden (2004), Frank Mills (2004), Chewtoy (2004), Jez (2004), OneWitU (2004), BrineShrimp (2004), Joe College (2004, pixel face), stj-fro (2004), One Inch Rock (2004, pixel face), Black Hole (2004), Ya Ya Baby (2004), Blondie (2004), ShaLaLa (2004), Lower Eastside (2004), GeeWhiz (2004), Sixteen (2004), Joe Strummer (2004), Amy Johnson (2004), JoJo (2004), JodiGirl (2004), Zelda (2004), Hipster (2004), LaDolceVita (2004), LittleLove (2004), Mod (2004), MrEarl (2004), Noveltease (2004), QBats (2004), Ranger (2004), Rhymes (2004), BarkingDog (2004), BFBigmouth (2004), BooHoo (2004), Chance (2004), CowardSquared (2004), Cupid (2004), DincCorona (2004), FiftyFive (2004), FunkyBut (2004), Gamble (2004), HelloHello (2004), IdiotWind (2004), JimmyCap (2004), Luck (2004), Metropolitan (2004), MidnightKiss (2004), Mine (2004, letters in hearts), PerfectCouple (2004), Resolution (2004), Spitball (2004), StencilMeIn (2004), TypeToyNight (2004), YrChickens (2004), 11592003 (2003), 2004 (2003), BrokenPromise (2003), DincCorona (2003), DoublyBlessed (2004), EchoPark (2003), FiftyFive (2003), Fishing (2003), FunkyBut (2003), HelloHello (2003), Hoboken (2003), InstantKarma (2003), Integrity (2003), KaseyMac (2003), MidnightKiss (2003), PeppermintLump (2003), Resolution (2003), StencilMeIn (2003), ThreeCubicFeet (2003), TypeToyNight (2003), Crybaby (2003), DeepDark (2003), MajorLift (2003), Mikes (2003), MinorFall (2003), Beeper (2003), Kate (2003), Blacktop (2003), Def Caroline (2003), EZ Bake (2003), JoJo (2003), Kima (2003), Bait (2003), Dreamgirl (2003), Sugar Daddy (2003), Friday (2003), Birth of the True (2003), Soul Deep (2003), Virginia Plain (2003), Feelin' Groovy, Sunday SF, Socks, Boy Toy and Sweet Potato (2003), FunnyValentine, Laura, LonelyFrog, Pati (2003), BrokenDoll, Placemats, Satori, Scout, ThousandLies, ThousandOceans (2003), GetTheeGone (2003), Promises (2003), Rudeboy (2003), YuppieFraud (2003), Emmanuel (2002), Strummer (2002), Teardrops (2002), Busterboy (2002), Evergreen (2002), Blulite (202), Respect (2002), Pretty Baby (2002), Hickory Wind (2002), Chelsea Boys (2002), Femme Fatale (2002), Tour de Lance (2002), Peppermint Lump (2002), Ce La Luna! Nous (2002), El Goodo (2002, pixel font), Big Boy (2002), Farfallena (2002), Life On Mars (2002), Saturn Return (2002), GeeWhiz (2002), Train in Vain (2002), Massive Blur (2002), Lonely Planet Boy (2002), Littlebits, Secretarial Pool, Eight Bits, Firefly, Fluff, Startone, Cupcake, Diet Dr. Creep, Dr. Creep, messaround, Pencilbox, Crush No 47, Crush No 49, and Dialtone. Mac and PC. Plus Starry F. Hope (1997) at Chank's site. Commercial fonts: Booboy (2001), Ingigo (2001, script font), Rufus (2001: four pixel/bitmap fonts), Chinese Symbols: Good Fortune, Zen Fontkit, Boxtop Fontset, Bachelorette, Retrobats, Jailbait, Grievous Angel, Milky Way, Spyboy, Light Series: Spotlight, Cameralight, Streetlight, Firelight, Torchlight, Lovelight, Moonlight, Sunlight, YaYa, Alvin, Amplifier, BigBeatBold, BigBox, Bit-Thing, Boxboy, Chatterbox, Chinatown (oriental simulation), Chopsticks, Console, Cup O'Joe, dincBATS, dincINK, Dinette, DincINK (1998), Dixie, Dreamboat, Duojet, Esquire, Fireball, Flashlight, FourWay, Geebot, gomer, goober, Highball, Homework, jacks, Jetage, Jetage Hi-Fi, Jetage Lo-Fi, Kingbats, Light Series, Loverboy, Moondog, Mister Lee, Mr. Big Stuff, PaperTiger, Pipeline, Popstar, Pushpop, Recordhop, Rocketship, Roundup, Rubberduck, Satellite, Scripto, SquareBox, SquareCircle, Speedometer, Starlite, Sugar, Swizzle, Thinman, transistor, TwinTone, Ultramatic, Variable Videobox, W. Square, Wash&Wear, Whatnot, Winky, Yin Yang, Tight Toy Night, Funtime, OCRDINC01 and 02 (OCR-like fonts). Latest commercial fonts: Whirlwind, Gaslight, Love, Captain, Funtime, FiFi, Fakebook, FlameJob, OCRDINC, Tight Toy Night, Swingbats, Good Fortune, Zen Fontkit, Bachelorette, Retrobats, Jailbait, Grievous Angel, Milky Way, Spyboy, YaYa, Boxtop Fontset, Light Series: Spotlight, Cameralight, Streetlight, Moonlight, Sunlight, Firelight, Torchlight, Hotrod (2001), Iceberg (2001), Gutterball (2001), Homewrecker (2001), Bubba (2001), Starry Night (2001), Lady Luck (2001), Automobile (2001), Hydromatic (2001), Seventeen (2001), Whirlwind (2001), Gaslight (2001), Love (2001), Captain (2001), Swingbats (2001), FiFi (2001), Flamejob (2001), Fakebook (2001), Madness (2001), Apple Scruffs, Marmalade (2002), Queen of Corona (2002), Cupcake (2002), Starry Eyes (2002), Juice (2002), Fivebits (2002, pixel font), Matchbox, Hot Burrito #3, Fishsticks, Eightbits (pixel font), FoolsGold, Drive, Sleepwalk (2002), Icecube, Pruneface, Witness 2HB, Zerogirl (stencil font, 2002), Fairytale of New York, Levi Stubb's Tears (2002), AllModCons (2002), Babylon (2002), BigBoy (2002), ChampsElysees (2002), ConcreteandClay (2002), ElGoodo (2002), Farfallena (2002), Heroes&Villains (2002), LifeOnMars (2002), LittleRamona (2002), MerseyBeat (2002), MetalGuru (2002), Missile (2002), OnYourBike (2002), Pinup (2002), Reconnez (2002), SaturdaysGirl (2002), SaturnReturn (2002), ShepherdsBush (2002), Tatum (2002), TiniestDancer (2002), TumbinDice (2002), VeraGemini (2002), YesterMe (2002), Rising (2002), Treason (2002), Monami Vrai (2002), Robot Girl (2002), Tattooed Sailor (2002), Sunrise (2002), Midnight (2002), Kakadu (2002), Ana (2002), Ace (2002), Yobbo (2002, dot matrix font), GoGo (2002, pixel font), Waltzing Matilda (2002), Memorial Day 911 (2002), Good Riddance (2002), Boys (2002), One Tin Soldier (2002), One After 909 (2002), Joey (2002), Infidelities (2002). Working on a font for Fountain. Some of her fonts can be bought at SnapFonts. [Google]

Dingbrat's Dingbats (or: JLRWeb)

Name says it all: original fonts by "Jenna" (JLR) that are either dingbats for kids or letters with a theme: Rugbats, Precious Moments, Blu's Blocks, JLRChineseLoveLetters (orientla simulation face), JLR Jenna's Feet, JLR Di's Gems, Jenna's Hand, JLR Koko Gorilla Good, JLR Kokopelli1, JLR Placebo, JLR School Slate (2000), Sophie Scholl, JLR Teddy Bear, Judy's Garland, JLR Baby, JLR Binkies, JLR Celestial, JLR Chillies, JLR Clonmacnoise, JLR Father's Day, JLR Fishin'Hole, JLR T-Shirt, JLR Wheelchair, JLR Cat Nap, Jenna's Holidings, JLR Waves, JLR Diaper Pins, JLR Country Hearts, Jenna's New Pooh, Nina's Animals, Mickey Ears, Mickey Ears Extra, Jenna's Kitties, Jenna's Shells, Pooh Bear, Jenna's Punkins, Scoobats, Jenna's Bear Bats, Sesame Street, Blu'ds Clues. TricksNTreats. About to close: grab what you can! Jenna lives in Henderson, NV. [Google]

E. Winter

Poster lettering artist. His design for Hotel Braunwald, Bahn, in 1906, was at the basis of Brownwood (2007, Nick Curtis). [Google]

Ed Bugg

Designed Kanban (1992, Asian simulation face), Agogo (Linotype, 1996, a connected script) and Sunburst (Linotype, 1996, a geometric outline face). FontShop link. [Google]

Edward Hew

Malaysian designer of the oriental simulation face shown here (2004, no name yet). It is based on the Chinese Sung-Ti typeface. [Google]

Eingang.ch

Swiss font archive with subpages on handwriting, oriental fonts, blackletter, computer fonts, erotic fonts, runic fonts, and gothic fonts. [Google]

Ekkehard Beck

German designer at Fontkitchen Type Foundry of the dingbat faces Damgram (2004), Urban Dedication (2004) and DesignersSkulls (2005, skull dingbats). These faces are free. He also designed Mandalay (2006), a font with Burmese influences. [Google]

Electric Rain

Commercial product by Electric Rain: 3D Font FX v2.0---a 3D text renderer based on truetype fonts. For Windows. FFX Asia (1999), an oriental simulation face, is here. [Google]

Elfring Soft Fonts
[Gary Elfring]

Gary Elfring's company. Art Deco fonts (shareware): Baha (1992), Broad Avenue, Hafnium, Haman Bold, Narcosis Oblique, Neaten, Orange Oblique, Ramose Oblique, Totem, Zyme Oblique, all adaptations of well-known fonts. Bar Codes, MICR, Signatures, plus online ordering of popular TrueType fonts and clip art. A demo version of 10 script fonts (Aristocrat, Blush, ESF Elite Light, Grandam, Hotpress, Jessica, Old English, Saffron, Tech Bold, Zap Charles) can be found here. A 200-TrueType collection sold for 50USD. Check printing fonts, including Mic-EarthNormal (1992). About 25 fonta are here: AdrianneNormal, ApexCondensed-Oblique, BlackChanceryNormal, CoronetNormal, Dalith, ESFEliteNormal, Emir, Expiry-Oblique, Expiry, GrangeCaps-Oblique, GrangeCaps, Hafnium-Oblique, Hafnium, Harbor-Oblique, Hartebeest, Hasp, Hesitate, Jayhawk, JayhawkExpand-Oblique, JayhawkExpand, Jetty-Oblique, Jetty, Jevons-Oblique, Jevons, Jocund-Oblique, Jocund, Josephine-Oblique, Josephine, Josiah-Oblique, Josiah, Kansas-Oblique, Kansas, Kaufman, Kermis-Oblique, Kilung-Oblique, Lackey-Oblique, Lackey, Lactam-Oblique, Lactam, Langur, Lazar-Oblique, Lazar, Ligand, Liquid-Crystal, Liquid-CrystalOblique, Lunatic-Oblique, Narcosis, Nonage, OldEnglishNormal, Orange-Oblique, Orange, Pavis-Oblique, Pavis, Quintly, Rankle-Oblique, Rankle, Saccule-Oblique, Saccule, Tarunda, Totem, ZapChanceNormal, Zwieback-Oblique, Zwieback, Zyme-Oblique, Zyme. An oriental simulation face, EchoCaps (1995), is here. [Google]

Embossdesign.com
[Stephen Boss]

Emboss was founded in 1995 by Stephen Boss, and is located in Beacon, NY. Typefaces include Babalon, Oo La La, Tobago, DNA, Elefont, Thai One One (a Thai simulation font), Jerusalem Syndrome, Dramamine, FaxFont97 and Zyncho. The designer, Stephen Boss lives in Gloucester, MA. Fonts sold by Mindcandy and Myfonts. [Google]

Ernst Johnston (Edward) Lauschke

Nineteenth century engraver (1872-1944) who designed Pekin (an oriental simulation face) in 1888 at the Great Western Foundry under the name Dormer (the name Pekin was given to it by BB&S after Great Western morphed into BB&S). He also made Handcraft Title and Handcraft Wide Title. McGrew says this: "Pekin is one of many faces renamed by BB&S for their 1925 specimen book. Its original name was Dormer, patented by the Great Western foundry in 1888 and credited to Ernst Lauschke. It is a very novel face, basically a fine-line letter with most characters having a heavier accented portion in an unconventional place. Vertical strokes on some of the capitals extend downward like descenders. It was made only in two sizes, one of which was later plated by Type Founders of Phoenix, after ATF had recast it in 1954." He continues: "Handcraft is renamed by BB&S for its 1925 specimen book. Handcraft Title was designed by Ernst Lauschke in 1887 as Spenser; this was followed by Wide Spenser which became Handcraft Wide Title. With lowercase added a few years later, Spenser became Southey, and later Handcraft." For a digital revival of Pekin, see Pekin by Solotype. [Google]

eyecue design (was: Chris Brown's Visual Designs)
[Chris Brown]

From North Freemantle in Australia, Chris Brown's exquisite shareware fonts: Keyster, Mandalay, Badgery, Changstein (oriental simulation), Vertigirl, Buddy Jim, Monopolybats, Aboriginebats 1 and 2, NorthPoint, Splinky, Lite, To_Box, Pot Roaster, South Point, West Point, Skippy Greeny, Skooz Now, Curved, Cloaked, Warp, SkoozMo, and Sea Monkey. Check Etcetera and many other fonts at the FontFreak site. About half the fonts are free. Download site. Acidio Amore. Recent additions: Pepto, Dabble, Hypernium, HooperDooper, Hoola Boola, PsyberCircus, Zebbadee, Inkling, West Point, Galaxative, RegalBox, SouthPoint, SP-Rocket, Doggstar, CurvedAir, Mookie, Toybox, Psyberdeli, Acidio (1999), Plastacine, DeVille, Royal Box, Monarchbats, Radbats 1 through 4, Rudebats, Jeet, Starbuck, Dynamo. Several of his fonts would do fine in comic strips. You need to request fonts by email. Alternate URL for Radbats. [Google]

Fabrika de typos
[Marcio Hirosse]

Fabrika de typos is a Brazilian fondry run by Marcio Hirosse (b. 1969) in Sao Paulo. He made Destroyer (2007, splatter grunge), Helena (2007), Boogaloo (2006), Casual (2006), Expedito (2006), Impresso (2006), Club (2006), Qualque Coisa (2006), Pig (2006), Boogaloo, Casual, Error (2006), Sherley XXX (2006), Thailandesa (2006, Thai simulation face), Expedito, Impresso, Club (2006, stencil), Ferrugem (2006, grunge), Qualque Coisa (2006), Saco de Pao (2006, grunge), Clean (2006, experimental), Poesie Noire (2006, a great multiline calligraphic face), Fuck You Las Vegas (2005), Serial Killer (2004, bloodied Arial), Tragedia (2004), Font Macabra (2004), Font Abuso, Font Cartaz (2004, stencil face), and Font Mexicana. He created Ballom (psychedelic), Anarchy, Macabra, Cartaz, Crash, Tragedia, Abuso, Estragou de novo (1999), Sucata Special, Brother Bear, Floppy Disk, Punk Dingbats (2004-2005, destructionist typefaces), Swiss AntiNormal (2005), Jooy (2007, grunge), Deusdeti (2007, double script), Deux ex Machina (2007, blackletter-inspired), Comunista (2007, constructivist), BONDAGE-DEMO-VERSION (2007), CASULO-DEMO (2007), D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-R-D-E-M-O-V-E-R-S-I-O-N (2007), GARTEN-VON-DORNEN-BLACK---DEMO-VERSION (2007), GARTEN-VON-DORNEN-DEMO-VERSION (2007), Load (2007, grunge), LYSSA-DEMO-VERSION (2007), MUMIA-DEMO-VERSION (2007), OFF-SET---DEMO-VERSION (2007, grunge), Pig (2007), PLEASURES-DEMO-VERSION (2007), Querencia-Army-DEMO-VERSION (2007), TETARIA (2007), FDT Sodomy (2008), FDT Carreto (2008), all freely downloadable. Commercial faces: Circus de Terror, Rapariga (curly), Indiana, Hard Core, Iemanjai, Disorder, Joy, Deusdeti, Deux ex Machina, Comunista, Destroyer, Off Set, Pleasures Poesie Noire, Helena, Base, Clean, Casulo, Serial killer. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google]

Family Font Mart
[Akihiro Oya]

Free fonts by Akihiro Oya in truetype format for Mac and PC: Nishichiba, NerimaNumber, BERLIN-REDRAIN-Italic, BERLIN-REDRAIN-Regular, Canarendon-Broken, Chubu-08-Normal, G.B.BOOT, GENERAL, GUNJU (very original stencil font), Horror-Impact-B, KANEIWA-alp-regular (simulated Japanese), Logic-twenty-five-A, Logic-twenty-five-Normal, Logic-twenty-five-Q, MEN'S-COSME, MINIMALHARD, MINIMALHARD2, NAKAMURA, Overheads, R.P.G.-KATAKANA, R.P.G., TAPEMAN, Telavision, VIET-MAP-LOVE, cubic-millimeter, enikusu-HG, square-millimeter, super-detective-kids, tamio-qn6, trattorian-2, videobeast-80's, namco_regular. Two of these are katakana fonts. All of them may be classified as experimental. Many can be used at small sizes on screens ("pixel fonts"). Alternate URL. Another URL. [Google]

Felippe Duque

Codesigner with Alexandre Venancio of the Thai simulation face Thaitype (2009, Oporto Design). With Alexandre Venancio and Cristiano Vinciprova, he made the hairline art deco face Capa (2009, Oporto Design). [Google]

Fluid +
[Lee Basford]

Graphic designer, born in 1973 in Birmingham. Lee Basford (Fluid +) is the [T-26] designer of FungFoo (1996, with James Glover, an oriental simulation font), Euphoric (1996, with James Glover, a paperclip style font). At Fountain, you can buy his techno font Nuephoric. At his Fluid + studio, you can find Euphoric, Fungfoo, Haircut Sir? (1999), Ultra and Death, mostly grunge fonts. FontShop link. Home page and blog. [Google]

Fluid Fonts
[James Glover]

Fluid Fonts sells custom fonts and design by James Glover (Birmingham, UK). Amberjack, Big Foot Ultra Bold and Ultra are all erasure fonts. F-one, Euphoric (a futuristic font done in 1996 with Lee Basford; available from T-26), and Wheel of Death are techno/futuristic, and Fufanu and FungFoo (a T-26 font done in 1996, with Lee Basford) are Chinese/Japanese lookalikes. MyFonts sells Euphoric and Fung Foo. [Google]

FM: FontMaker
[Dieter Schumacher]

"Free fonts for free people" by Dieter Schumacher. Interesting designs: Darkskin (textured letters), Movieboard, Zacken (in sacks), Storm, Stripesstars, and Triangle. All fonts are in TrueType and PostScript formats for Windows. List of 84 fonts thus far: 309Italic, 309, AnasthesiaItalic, Anasthesia, AtoZ, BALLbold, Baumarkt, BaumarktBoldItalic, BaumarktBold, BaumarktItalic, BIGARIALUltraBold, BIGARIALLEFT, BizarreBlack, Bizarre, Brialpointed, Bulgari, Certified, CertifiedItalic, CIRCLINEcrazyjumpedBold, CIRCLINEHeavy, CIRCLINEItalic, CIRCLINE2Light, CIRCLINE, Coffeebeans, Competent, Danceclub, DarSkin, Datacut, DatacutItalic, DomoAregatoItalic (oriental simulation), DomoAregatoNormal, Eniltuo, FatmarkerItalic, Fatmarker, FontmakersChoiceItalic, FontmakersChoiceThinItalic, FontmakersChoice (octagonal), FontmakerSlash, Fracksausen, Gawain, HOLE, HOLE2cursive, HOLE3cursiveoutline, HOUSEPIPESItalic, HOUSEPIPESNormal, KingArthurSpecialNormal, LateNite, LoveParade, LoveParadeoutlineBold, LoveParadeitalian, LoveParadewidebold, Mage1999 (pixel), Magehunter, Mage, Mayday, MaydayItalic, MovieTimes, Movieboard, OneworldonefutureExtraBold, OneworldonefutureLight, OpenMindItalic, OpenMind, Palms, Parts, Perlenkette, Rave, Serifonwide, SerifonwideItalic, SerifonNormal, Shreddedforyou, SquareUniqueExtraBold, SquareUniqueNormal, SquareUniqueThin, Starbats, StormExtraBold, STRIPESSTARSNormal, TriangleNormal, University (athletic lettering), Whereistherest, WhereistherestItalic, WoodCut, WoodCutItalic, ZackenNormal, ZoltanKiss, Dornen, FM College (athletic lettering), Beach House Stars, Fontovision, 37 Kilobyte, Grave Digger, Nails and remake Of Fabulous, Milkdrops, Platsch (comic book) and Slimania. This site disappeared and was revived by CybaPee at Moorstation. Also by Jami, and FontNThings and Fontspace. [Google]

Font City
[Igor & Kate Shipovsky]

Font City is a Russian foundry headed by Igor (b. Volgogra, Tver (Russia), 1965) & Kate (b. 1990, Russia) Shipovsky. Fonts: City of Lipetsk, City of Ivanovo, City of Chudovo, City of Oryol, City of Magadan, City of Tsaritsyn, City of Suzdal, City of Khabarovsk (oriental simulation font), City of Moskva, City of Plesetsk, City of Samara, City of Cherkizovo, City of Ostankino. All fonts are for Latin and Cyrillic. MyFonts site. They were sued in August 2003 by Berthold because the foundry's name, Font City, is too close to Berthold's trademarked font name, "City". [Google]

Font Island

1000+ font archive. Regularly updated with new fonts. Categories include 3D - Beveled, 3D - Contour, 3D - Perspective, 3D Drop Shadow, 50's, Angular Fonts, Art Deco, Asian Fonts, Balloon Fonts, Blackletter, Blackletter - Initials, Block Thick, Brush, Calligraphic Pen, Circular Letters, Comic Book, Comic Book. Computer - Digital, Computer - Dot, Computer - Monitor, Computer - Pixelated, Curly, Dingbats, Eroded, Famous Famous, Felt Marker, Fire and Ice Fonts, Futuristic Fonts, Fuzzy Fonts, Graffiti, Grunge, Hand - Kids, Hand - Printing. Hand - Sketched, Hand - Writing, Holiday Fonts. Initials, Letterbats (alphadings), Medieval, Metallic, Microsoft, Mirror, Monospaced, Morse, Braille, Movie, Music Album Covers, Outlined, Scary, School Teaching, Script-Cursive, Script-Separate, Stamped, Stencil, Striped, Texture, With Holes, Thin, TV shows, Videi games, Wavy, Western, Wood Grain. [Google]

Font Magic

Archive maintained by Manish Sharma. Many font categories, including Western, Script, Party, Typewriter, Asian, Brush, Balloon. Over 4000 fonts! Has a nice link page for font utilities. [Google]

Font Monkey
[P.D. Magnus]

Font Monkey (P.D. Magnus) offers these free fonts: 4fun_lib (LED font), 4fun_str, Fearth, Gomo (oriental look), HSRunesAlethic, HSRunesSimple, Ambages (Mayan look lettering), DecoCard, Memo2Self (handwriting). Alternate URL. [Google]

FontFixer

Great archive by Peter Olsson, with exemplary categorization, including dingbats, Western fonts, Asian-looking fonts, "famous fonts", pixel fonts, and so forth. Links. [Google]

Fontmenu.com

Michel Bujardet (a Frenchman living in West Hollywood, CA) runs Matchfonts, and started Fontmenu.com in August 2001. Commercial fonts, but free demos in all formats. A partial list of fonts: Square Text (old English), Block Letters (orthography for kids), Skryptaag (2001, educational), Boulons (letters made from nuts and bolts), Kindergarten (funny faces), Learning Handwriting (K2), Learning Cursive Handwriting (Grade 2-4), Japanese Hiragana-Katalana (Year 1), Morse code, Dictionary phonetic notation for pronunciation, the calligraphic fonts Chancellerie Moderne, Oncial, Rodolphe, Willegha, the dingbat fonts Dinosotype, Matched Potato, Nahkt hieroglyphs, SilBooettes, Angelots. Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans, the monospaced fonts Bordofixed, Dactylographe, Normafixed, Oloron fixed width screen font), the mathy fonts Oloron program, Hexalist and Numberslist, the handwriting fonts Charlotte, Louise, Mariette, Milko, Pierre, Quinze, Raoul, and Thibault, the pixel font 8-PinMatrix, the Bauhaus font BabyFace, the Chinese simulation font Chinoiseries, the LED fonts Diode, Cristolikid and Display, the Greek simulation font Grecques, the display fonts Zebrures, Venitiennes, Ruban Dis-Moi, Parador, Osselets, Octogone, Metropolitain, Malabars, Halloween Match, Coulures, Chapou Relief, Candy Kane, Calebasse, Bujardet Freres and Big Bacon, the MICR font MICR E13B, the serif faces Baguad, Chap Clerk, Parlante, Presse, TSF&Co, and the sans serif faces Bordini, Boum-Boum, Halotique (a sans family), Junien, and Normographe. Alternate URL for his shareware typefaces. MyFonts link for his commercial typefaces. Alternate MyFonts link. [Google]

Fontomania
[Omer Agiv]

Omer Agiv (Fontomania) made freeware Latin, Hebrew and dingbat fonts such as Amraheb, Electroni, Jumang, Krashim-signs, LironAgiv, Moshe, Outline, Samurai, Samuraiheb, Sunnyday, Transport, Worms, arrow, boards, bw, dotty, goggles, krashim, leaves, nuni, nurit, wood-sticks, Dinorific, omerh. Some fonts are commercial. Personal handwriting font service for 55USD (Latin, Hebrew or Arabic). Personal signature for 10USD. Some commercial fonts at 8 to 12 dollars, such as Smily, Cookie (curly), Orenh (handwriting), Geometry, Tal, Jifa, Sun, Hairy, ABC, Chains, Liner, Chinese, Arak, Parkinson, Papio, Tropical Sickness and IceSticks. Plus free and commercial Hebrew fonts, such as the Tapuach package (8 fonts). Sells the 13-font 44 USD-"Silver Collection" on CD. Free handwriting font download: Janet Luther. Another URL where one can presumably download (how?) Wood Sticks, Samurai, Liron, Ice Sticks, Boards. [Google]

Footnote Fonts (FNF)
[Eddie Colton]

Florida-based Eddie Colton's creations: The Young Ones (2003-2007, a ranom note font based on the second season credits from The Young Ones TV series, which in turn was based on a Sex Pistols cover), Nebulus (2001, handwriting), Thorne (2000), Future Rot (2000), Metron (great geometric font), GoCrazy, Manglo (Asian simulation font), Protract, Don't Panic, Nightlife, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Werner, Killing Joke, Electronic, Bjorkfont (see also here), NewOrder-Movement, NewOrder-Village 586, WildMoodSwings, Wishbats, Curiosity, Whispers (changed Hansa), TheTop. And a number of band fonts by other designers. Cure--Curiosity, Cure--Picture-Show, Cure--Wild-Mood-Swings, Cure--Wish and cure-play-out, all dated 1999-2002, can be downloaded here. Home page. [Google]

Forrest C. Crooks

Early 20th century designer of letters, such as this oriental simulation face. [Google]

Freaky Fonts
[Christian Künzer]

Mac and PC fonts by Christian Künzer (aka "ck") and/or Thomas Schostok: Interruptrequested, Gamegirl, Emulogic, Plasmafusion, Bordersprite, Runstop Restore, Scienide, Adore64, AmigaForever, AmigaForeverPro, AmigaForeverPro2, Arkanoid, ArkanoidSolid, ChuckyMendoza-Drunken, ChuckyMendoza, CosmicAlien, DanceFloorEXit, Devilinside, DynamicRecompilation, Fairlight, Formulatoocomplex.2, Frankieghost, Handwerk (handwriting), Harmonica, LastNinja (oriental simulation), LiquidKidz, LiquidKidzspazeout, PixelTechnology+, PixelTechnology, Razor1911, Razor1911Retro, SyntaxError, SyntaxTerror, TexasFuneral, Triad, TriadXS, 1st Sortie. Also, Windows system fonts (.fon format): Atopaz, C, C64, Camels, Defjam, Dynamic, Fairlight, Future, Heretic II, Kung Fu, Shylock, Noname, Qu, Quake II, Star, Trek. Plus free truetype creations Knighthawks (nice outline font), Taito All Stars (bitmap faces), VectorBattle. Many fonts here are designed for screen legibility at small point sizes. See also here. [Google]

Gary D. Jessey

Designer of Art Brush and Karate (oriental simulation face: is this a rip-off perhaps?). Alternate URL. [Google]

GautFonts
[J.F.Y. Daniel Gauthier]

J.F.Y. Daniel Gauthier (GautFonts) was born in Montreal in 1964, and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. His fonts from 2005, many of them reworked versions of earlier fonts by him: BarrelOfMonkeys, Beethoven, Burris, BurrisBlack, BurrisBlackShootout, BurrisShootout, ChainFontBlack, ChainFontOpen, ChangChang, ChangChangWoodcut, DirtyDarren, FireStarter, FrootStand, GriffinDucks, Jenna Myles, LollipopLettering, Lymphnodes, Moscoso, PooCorny, PooSmooth, Quake3ArenaBats (scanbats), SapphireSativa, Shock, ShockThick, StartlingFont, StartlingFontOpen, ZappaBats, From 2004 and before: Judas Priest (2004), Caviar Rancid (2004), BackPage (2003), BatFont (2003), MagicCatalog (2003), Samdan (2003), The One Ring (2003), The 3 Stooges (2003), Yahoo Font (2003), BikerBones, CBGBFont, Cortesia, DryGulchBlack, DryGulchOpen, FlyLegs, Frank, MissingLink, PotLand, Punk, SheCreature, SweetLeaf, ThaiPedicure, TypoNegative, VectorBlack, VoodooDollLetters, VoodooDolls, VoodooDollsPinned, ZappaBats, Griffin (2002), GriffinBold (2002), HeadHunter (2002), Montezuma (2002), MontezumaAncient (2002), MrBubbleFont (2002), PhoenixOne (2002), PhoenixTwo (2002), Spliffs (2002), SteelTown (2002), TattooLetteringBlack (2002), TattooLetteringOpen (2002), VladDraculBats (2002), Beatnik Hayseed (2002), ChangChang (2002, oriental lookalike), Crumb (2002), GearBox (2002), Happening (2002), LogFont (2002), Piranha (2002), Sardines (2002), Tilt-A-Whirl (2002), ChineseWatchShop (2002), DickVanDyke (2002), Göt (2002), KamikazeBats (2002), Springfield Tablets, AlphabetFridgeMagnets, Beethoven, BeethovenRough, BeethovenRougher, Bicycle (outlined), BicycleFancy, BoobToob, Burris (Old West font), BurrisGhostTown, BurrisShootOut, CBGB (pearly letters), Chain Font Black, CheapSign, ChickenFarm, CornFed, CrappyDan, CrappyDanLowercase, DimWitGauche, DimWitRight, Eastwood, FantasticFont, Fear, FearlessVampireKillers, FeltCrappyDan, FrootStand, GassyGaut, GauFontExposition (trilined), Gauts, GautsMotelLowerLeft, GautsMotelLowerRight, GautsMotelUpperLeft, GautsMotelUpperRight, Gearbox (geary alphading face), Göt (blackletter), HoaryGaut, Houdini, IncantationOne, IncantationTwo, IrwinAllen, JackOLantern, Jagged, JoeJack, KathleenLowercase, KathleenUppercase, KentuckyFriedFont, LeadType, LeadTypeBoldInked, MadScience, Moscoso (morphed Western titling font), OogieBoogie, OrganDonorGuts, OrganDonorSkin, PinkCandyPopcornFont, PooCorny, PooSmooth, Potland (marihuana alphadings), Punk, RapaNuiLetters, RapaNuiMoaiBats, RapaNuiMoaiFont, RedStar (2004, pretty handwriting based on the pen of Linda Cappel), RedStarBold, RockFont (Flintsones font?), Sasquatch, Sea Creature, Shaman, ShermlockMadstyle, ShermlockSolid, Shock, ShockThick, SpookyMagic, StagTickets, StartlingFont, TattooParlour (2004, scanbats), ToOsamaLoveGeorge, TypewriterKeys, Vector, WebPress, WebPressBold, Weird, WereWolf, ZootAllures. He has some comic book fonts, some dingbats, and several fonts around the theme of magic. Interview. Fontspace link. [Google]

GD Fonts
[Christopher Gamble]

Christopher Gamble (aka Green Dinosaur) offers two free TrueType fonts, Orient (oriental simulation), and Green Dinosaur. Chain Letters is nice too. [Google]

Gekiketz

Japanese free font maker. Besides some kana fonts, the following Latin fonts are available: GKZ-0701 (pixel), GKZ-BurnBurn (pixel), GKZ-CLB (pixel), GKZ-Frox (party face), GKZ-GAZI, GKZ-KAKU, GKZ-Oriduru (oriental simulation), GKZ-Speedwrite, GKZ-crossjam. Most of these are pixel fonts or experimental. Hiragana faces: GKZ-Okome, GKZ-Shiranami, Katakana faces: GKZ-ORIDURUKANA, GKZ-RAIGEKI, GKZ-Radiohour (pixel), GKZ-Sryder. Obsolete URL. [Google]

geniaal

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of some wonderful kitchen tile style faces (as well as a pixel face): frau_heinrich, frau_hermann, glueworm, invertia, minimax (oriental simulation), qwerty_revisited (applause!). [Google]

Gloria Pike

Pencil artist from Norman, OK (b. 1984) who designed the curly face GloriaNumberOne (2004), the handprinted face March Nouveau (2006), Descenders (2006, art nouveau face), April Nouveau (2006), Jaws of Life (2006, artsy billboard face), Konnectors (2006), Rebubbled (2006), Eggheadz (2006), Untitled Comic Font (2006, contains Cyrillic characters), Hexangular (2006), Gloriental (2006, oriental simulation), ApplePear (2009) and Gloria's Hand 1 (2005). Alternate URL. [Google]

Gruebe's Land

BongoBlackRegularSwfte, BeeskneesITC, ChopstixRegularSwfte. [Google]

Haiku Monkey
[Alec Julien]

Commercial foundry, est. 2007 in Burlington, VT, by Alec Julien (b. 1965). Fonts sold through MyFonts include Doctor Cyclops (2009), Grundlagen (2009, retro display sans), I Am A Bird (2009), Yacht (2009, a 1930s movie poster style family), Predicate (+Rounded) (2008, sans), Steel Sedan (2008, a condensed slab serif family), Monumint (2008, comic book style), Aerohop (2008, a sans family), Chittenden (2008, an artsy blackboard math style face), Rany (2008, handprinted), Ashbery (2008, Asian jungle look stick font), Banyan (2007, brush face with a jungle look), Loge (2007, a high-contrast sans), Joules (2007, handprinted family, whose development is described here), Tara (2007, a jungle-look face), Sinn (2007), Set Theory (2007), Bad Marker (2007), Counterfact (2007), Sharp Nine (2007), Groovin Up Slowly (2007), Fractal Caps (2007), Classy Diner (2007), Anthem (2007), Zooey (2007), Imagination Theory (2007), 89 (2007), Skrawl (2007), Zerega (2007), AJ Hand (2007), Scandal (2008), Zone 52 (2008, techno), Gno (2008, techno), Gno Serif (2008), Abbott (2008, a cool handprinted script). Most of these fonts resulted from drawing or doodling experiments. MyFonts link. Free fonts: Lavoisier (2009, sans), Skritch (2008, handwriting), Geekium (2008, a math symbols font based on Gentium), 36 Dots (dot matrix face), Teacher Sez (2007, blackboard script). Deviant Art carries these free fonts/demos: Skritch, Rany, Teacher Sez, Steel Jalopy (2008, based on Steel Sedan), Insolent (2009), I Am A Bird (2009, slab serif family), Myrna (2009). Lavoisier (2009) is a free minoline font, later cyrillicized by Sergey Tkachenko. Working on Modus (2009). [Google]

Hans Bacher

German animation artist who lives in Southern California where he works for Disney Feature Animation. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He created the Agfa-Monotype fonts New Gothic Light and Architec. In 2001, he did Blockade (grunge) and the beautiful hand scribble font Tuscany (2001) for Agfa. In 2002, Agfa released WoodcutAlpha and WestOfChina, a great oriental-looking calligraphic font. Other fonts include Spoleto (handdrawn). [Google]

Hans Heimbeck

Designer at Schelter & Giesecke, who made Junior (1936, a script typeface). [Google]

Happy Island

Japanese foundry, also called "Noize of Zappin". Their free Mac and PC fonts, all made in 2002-2003, include 25th-Miseducation, Bit-Boy!---d, Bit-Boy!, Dockin'-Dots-Bold, Dockin'-Dots, Don't-Make-Me-Blue, Go-Right!!---italic, I-wanna-be-a-Happy-Star!, It-is-so-Busy, Laser-Grill, Mozaix-Matrix-reMix---d, Mozaix-Matrix-reMix, Open-----Bind-*advanced---d, Open-<->-Bind-*Advanced, Open-<->-Bind, Piled-Boy,-Stackin'-Girl---d, Piled-Boy,-Stackin'-Girl, Pinch-Up-Bold, Pinch-Up, Shi-No-Bi---d, Shi-No-Bi, TYO-Jimbouchoh, TYO-Kamata, TYO-Kameido, TYO-Kichijohji, TYO-Monzen-nakachoh, TYO-Nishi-Shinjuku, TYO-Shiodome, TYO-Tsukiji, TYO-Udagawachoh, Transforming-Trancer, Vivid-*-Curry---d, Vivid-Curry, Vivid-Stew---d, Vivid-Stew, Wipe-in, Wipe-in, blinkin'-blicks, chill-out---c, chill-out---f, degaussed-pipeline, diecut, trickish-tribute. The Mozaix series is in a kitchen tile style. Most others are pixelized. Update in 2004: TYO-Jimbouchoh (gorgeous oriental simulation font), TYO-Kichijohji, TYO-Kameido, TYO-Kamata (pixel face), TYO-Monzen-nakachoh (labyrinth face), TYO-Nishi-Shinjuku (3d blocky look), TYO-Shiodome (multiline face), TYO-Tokiwa (oriental simulation face), TYO-Tsukiji, TYO-Tokyo (pixel face), TYO-Tokyo---d, TYO-Udagawachoh. [Google]

Harold's Fonts
[Harold Lohner]

Visually pleasing, original mostly free/shareware Mac and PC fonts by Harold Lohner. Some fonts are shareware, some freeware, some payware.

• Famous fonts: Auteur (2007, after the handwriting in the opening titles of Jean Cocteau's The Beauty and the Beast, 1946), 12 to the Moon (2000, runes based on the Columbia Pictures movie "12 to the Moon"), Aardvark Café (2000, extrapolated from the famous Hard Rock Café logo), BENSFOLK (2000, adapted from the work of Ben Shahn, in turn adapted from "folk or amateur" alphabets. Font originally developed for The Arts Center of the Capital Region.), BENSFOLK CONDENSED (2000), Bensgothic (1998), BensgothicLigatures (1998), CALAVERAS (2002, a take on Daisyland), Comet Negative (2000, based on the logo of Country Music Television (CMT)), Comet Positive (2000), HonestJohns (2000, based on the lettering in the classic Howard Johnson's restaurants logo), METRODF (2000, based on the Mexico City subway's lettering), Radio (2002, derived from the old NPR (National Public Radio) logo).
• Handlettering: Rudland Hand (2007, inspired by the work of the British artist and designer Peter Rudland), Gamera (2006), Directors Script (2006, based on a film credits script from the 1940s), National Archive (2005, based on the lettering of Timothy Matlack, who wrote the Declaration of Independence), Frank the Architect (2004, based on Frank Ching's lettering, which also gave rise to the Tekton family), Imitation (2003, inspired by the handlettered titles of the film Imitation of Life (1959), directed by Douglas Sirk and artdirected by Richard H. Riedel), Imitation Two (2004), antiestablishment (2000), Christmas Card (2000, based on the handlettered opening titles of the film "It's a Wonderful Life", Art Director: Jack Okey. This font was retired and replaced in 2006 by Testimonial), Espangle (2002, as the lettering for El Corte Ingles), Dad's Recipe (2000, based on his dad's handwriting), Greg's Hand (2001, Greg Smith's writing), Greg's Other Hand (2002), Kaela (1998, reshaped and extended in 2006), Marker Man (1999), Synch (2000, with Phil Campbell, inspired by the work of the artist Stuart Davis), Synchronous (2000, based on Syncopated Script, again made with Phil Campbell), Syncopated Script (1999).
• Blackletter: Rude Goth (2007, grunge blackletter), Alsace-Lorraine, Benighted, Chinese Gothic, Christmas Card II, Kombine Regular, Kombine Kursiv (2000), Olde Chicago.
• Woodtype: Blacktops (caps, 1999), Blacktop Small Caps (1999), Cinderella (1998). The Western font Cattle Annie (2006) is an unauthorized digital interpretation of the analog font "Les Catalanes." According to ABZ: More alphabets and other signs by Rothenstein and Gooding, it was designed in 1952 by Enric Crous-Vidal (1908-1987) but was never produced.
• Stencil fonts: JJ Stencil, JJStencilLight (2000, inspired by the work of Jasper Johns), JJStencil Wet, JJStencilMedium, Sideshow (2000, based on the stencilled lettering on a vintage Ouija board), JJStencilSolid (2003), StencilFour (2001, inspired by the logo of Channel 4 (UK); reworked in 2006 into Oaktag), StencilFourReversed (2001).
• Western: Oklahoma (2006, based on the title of the film by that name), Captain Howdy (1999, 2000, Western font based on the lettering on a Ouija board).
• Fraktur fonts: Benighted (2002), AlsaceLorraine (2000), Chinese Gothic (2000), Kombine Regular (2000), Kombine Kursiv (2000).
• Revived Letraset fonts: BLOCK UP family (2000, based on the font family by the same name by Sally Ann Grover (1974) for Letraset), Good Vibes (2001, based on the analog font "Good Vibrations" by Trevor Hatchett for Letraset, 1973), GoodVibesBackbeat (2001), ObliqueTextBold (2000, based on a Letraset font called Obliq, 1984), ObliqueTextLight (2000), ObliqueTextMedium (2000), Wireframe (2000, based on the Letraset font Bombere designed by Carla Bombere (or Carla Ward)).
• Art Nouveau fonts: Cartel (2005, simply gorgeous), based on the lettering of trhe 1936 movie by that name), Onion (2003), Roberta (2003, based on a font of Bob Trogman, 1962), Roberta Raised Shadow (2003), Atlas (tri-line Art Deco style, 2001), Atlas Solid (2001), Boomerang family (1998-2000), LeFilmClassic family (2000, based on the classic Art Deco font of the same name, originally designed by Marcel Jacno and released by Deberny & Peignot, 1927), LeFilmLetters (2000), LeFilmShadow (2000), PopUps (1998, a 3-d art deco font for signboards), Tapeworm (1998, based on the work of artist Ed Ruscha) Farouk (2001, tri-line font, based on an analog font of the same name, as illustrated in Paul E. Kennedy's "Modern Display Alphabets").
• MICR fonts: CMC7 (1998).
• Dingbats: Essene Dingbats (2005), Chapeau (2005, inspired by the 1902 Sears Catalog), Corset (2005, inspired by the 1902 Sears Catalog), Harold's Pips (2004), Alpha Bravo (2003), Rebus, AmericanCheese (1999), Candide Dingbats (1999, a reclinming women dingbat face based on decorations designed by Rockwell Kent for "Candide," circa 1928), Maritime Flags (2000), New Year Dingbats (1999: Japanese patterns).
• Monospace fonts: Chica Mono (2000, based on Apple's Chicago; not really monospaced, by the way), Queer Theory Black, Bold, Regular and Light (1999).
• Arab simulation faces: Alhambra (2006), Alhambra Deep (2006).
• Oriental simulation fonts: Pad Thai (2006), Mystic Prophet (2002, inspired by Ouija boards), Chow Fun (2001), Quasi (1998).
• Cartoon fonts: Laughtrack (2009, based on the work of the cartoonist Jerry Robinson), CokerOne (2000, based on the work of cartoonist Paul Coker Jr), Coker Two (2000) (note: therse fonts were erroneously named. They were renamed to Denney because of this: "The lettering in the fonts you have was developed by Alan Denney at Hallmark in the late 1950s. He also worked for American Greetings Hi Brows from 1960 - 1966 and then returned to Hallmark.... And he later went to a different lettering style when Shoe Box cards became Hallmark's funny card line replacing Contemporary Cards. Alan retired from Hallmark in 1993 and died two years later."), ZITZ (2000, based on the hand lettering in the King Features daily strip "Zits" by Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott), Ohmigosh (2007: 12 styles of comic book lettering).
• Dot matrix fonts: Fortuna Dot (2001).
• Pixel fonts: Larcher (based on a modular font designed by Jean Larcher).
• Medieval script fonts: Galathea (2000, based on a classic analog font of the same name, "Originalerzeugnis von J. S. Schelter & Giesecke, Leipzig").
• Fonts made in 2009: Sonnet (based on the printed text of Shakespeare, 1609), Fashion Brush, Fashion Script, Initation One, Two, and Three, Generation B (all at Font Bros).
• Fonts from 2009: Comfy (FontBros: inspired by an example of "Pinselschrift" (brush lettering) by Wilhelm Dechert), Sirena (FontBros: inspired by the hand-lettered opening titles of the film I Married a Witch).
• Fonts made in 2008: Alumino (inspired by Saul Bass's design for the aluminum company Alcoa), République (four fonts inspired by Paris Metro signs---not the familiar Art Nouveau "Metropolitain" signs, but the later Art Deco design by Adolphe Dervaux), Handbill (based on rubber stamps), Flash Mob, Pen Script Monograms, Royal Wedding (commercial set at Font Bros), 2 Clover Monograms, 4 Heart Monograms, Silverliner (based on the opening titles of the 1951 Hitchcock movie Strangers on a Train), Tricot (lettering as done on a sweater, after a design by Nancy Stahl), Silverliner (based on the opening titles of the 1951 Hitchcock movie Strangers on a Train), Tricot (lettering as done on a sweater, after a design by Nancy Stahl), Carbon Copy, Bracelet Mongrams.
• Fonts made in 2007: Aeolian, Pub Bites, Barril and Barril Doble (a digital interpretation of the 1970s Neufville font Barrio), Circle Monograms, XOXO (grunge), Safety Pin (inspired by the cover of the June 1946 Ladies Home Journal), Swizzle Script (a script based on Stylescript, 1940, Sol Hess: compare with Coronet and Trafton), New England (script), Madfont (after MAD magazine's logo), Quince (a brush version of Klumpp's Murray hill), Plumber's Gothic, Gamera.
• Fonts made in 2006: Humdinger (comic book lettering), Stella Dallas (a Koch Antiqua style face based on he hand-lettered titles of the film Stella Dallas), Foam Light, Mean 26 Sans, Mean 26 Serif, Gaudi, Lapis Lazuli (3 calligraphic fonts based on Dan X. Solo's Papyrus), Garden, Boston Line and Philadelphia Line (inspired by Boston Line Type, developed in the 1830s by Samuel Gridley Howe for use in raised-letter printing for the blind; the Philadelphia Line fonts were inspired by another raised-print font, this one developed by Julius Friedlander and adopted in 1837 by his Philadelphia school, now the Overbrook School for the Blind), Honeymoon (a script based on the Holiday Inn lettering)i, Blooper and Bloop Script (after Cooper Black and Brush Script), Roman monograms.
• Fonts made in 2005: Don Semiformal, Fabulous Prizes, Valentin (inspired by the work of Valentin Haüy, creator of the first books for the blind), Chelt Press (a grungy Cheltenham), National Debt, Pub Smooth (followed in 2007 by Pub Bites), Baronial Monograms, Vine Monograms, Thaleia (revival of Thalia), Harold's Monograms Bold, Blockograms, CarmenMonograms, Profiler, Goya, Jest, Chaser, Rebus (dingbats), Dilemma, The Birds, CVelestial Alphabet.
• Fonts made in 2004: Snowflake Monograms, Upbeat Demi, Pessima, White Birch, Artistamp, Entwined Monograms, Project, Dirty Finger, Koch Dingbats, Yard Sale, Shield Monograms, Gainsborough (inspired by the hand-lettered titles of the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Lady Vanishes", 1938), Jim Dandy (an interpretation of the 19th century face Jim Crow), Gaumont (based on the hand-lettered titles of the film The 39 Steps (1935), a Gaumont-British Picture, directed by Alfred Hitchcock), Imitation2, Sunset, Bend It, Pretz, Cantabile, Echo, Skidz, Columbia Stamp, Trudeau Sans (a companion of his architectural face Trudeau), Frank the Architect (a Frank Ching-inspired face not unlike Tekton).
• Fonts made in 2003: Card Characters, Pieces, Harlequin, Hexagrams & Octograms, Popstars, Level, Peace, Collegiate Monograms, Bead Chain, Marquee.
• Fonts made in 2002: Level, Backhand Brush, Joggle, Script Monograms, Brickletter, Font Shui (oriental simulation), Heartland (for Valentine's day), Melodymaker (for music), Antiestablishment, Penmanship, RingTV, Cabaletta (now called Roosevelt), Graceful Ghost (caps based on an 18th century French design by Pouget&fils), the Ixat family (erasure fonts), PalimpsestBlack (erasure font), PalimpsestDark, PalimpsestLight, PalimpsestRegular, Pearlie, Repent (based on the work of American folk artist Jesse Howard), WillingRace (upper and lower case together).
• Fonts made in 2001: Carmen Caps, Crazy Harold (2001, based on a font of the same name, as illustrated in Paul E. Kennedy's "Modern Display Alphabets"; extended to 8 weights in 2006), Easter Parade (brush script), Famous Label (pen lettering), FLORES (based on a florist's sign in Valencia, Spain), FONT ERROR, Guadalupe, GuadalupeDos, HMBlackDiamondThree, HMBlackDiamondTwo, HMBlackOvalThree, HMBlackOvalTwo, HMWhiteDiamondThree, HMWhiteDiamondTwo, HMWhiteOvalThree, HMWhiteOvalTwo, Handmedown, Hymn, KaffeehausNeon (based on Kaufmann), PubSmooth (a variant of the classic font Publicity Gothic), Roselyn (a script font based on a font in "Lettering and Alphabets" by John Albert Cavanagh), RubaiyatDoubleLine, RubaiyatEngraved, RubaiyatInline, RubaiyatOutline, RubaiyatShadow, RubaiyatSolid, SanitaryBoldCaps, SanitaryDemi, SanitaryRegular, Shazi, ShaziGhost, Subtext (erasure font).
• Fonts made in 2000: Arrobatherapy, Barbeque, Black Oval Monogram, Bruce Mikita (oriental simulation), Bruce Mikita2, Cantabile, CantabileAlternate, Celestial Alphabet, the Goya family (extrapolated from the logo of the GOYA food products company), King Harold (inspired by the lettering on the Bayeux Tapestry), KingXmas, KingXmasStars, KochQuadratFill, KochQuadrat, KochQuadratGuides, KochQuadratInline, KochQuadratOutlines, Koch Rivoli, Lab Rat, Law School (based on the architectural lettering at Albany Law School, Albany, NY, now named Trudeau, after a design by architect Robert Louis Trudeau), Milky Way (based on a style of hand lettering by Ross F. George included in 1930s Speedball lettering books), MilkyWayTwo (2001), Neurotoxin, Pharmacy, Punchhappy (holes in letters, influenced by Apostrophe's Toolego?), Punchhappy Shadow, Quarterround, Quarterround Tile (a kitchen tile font), RedCircle (based on the lettering on Eight O'Clock brand coffees), Ringpin, ScarletRibbons, Screwball (font in memory of Madeline Kahn), Solemnity (an uncial font modeled on the analog font SOLEMNIS by Günter Gerhard Lange, 1952), ThreePartySystemA, ThreePartySystemB, ThreePartySystemC, Vasarely (named in honor of Op artist Victor Vasarely; based on a modular font by Jean Larcher).
• Fonts made in 1999: BrideOfTheMonsterStencil, Bubble Gum Rock A and B, CheltPressDark, CheltPressDarkVariegated, CheltPressLigh, CheltPressLightVariegated, CheltPress, Esquivel, EsquivelEngraved, Fulton Artistamp, MADFONT, Smellvetica, SmellveticaOutline, Vedette Blanche (movie roll font), VedetteNoire.
• Fonts made in 1998: BrideOfTheMonster (caps and numbers are based on Rudolph Koch's Neuland), Cheapskate family, Dominican (coffee bean bag font), Landmark, OldeChicago (based on the Apple Chicago font), Ricecakes, SavingsBond extended in 2006 to National Debt, National Debt Hilite and National Debt 3D), StampAct, StampActJumbled, Thanksgiving, Virile Open, Virile Solid.

Harry Lawrence Gage

Early 20th century designer of letters, such as this Japanese simulation alphabet, Roman Capitals, ">Heavy Square Serif, this calligraphic alphabet, Heavy, Italics with flourished capitals, Blackletter, Italian Gothic Capitals. [Google]

Herbert Dassel

Designer at Berthold, who made Jiu-Jitsu (1936) and Knock-out (1936). [Google]

HiH (Hand in Hand)
[Tom Wallace]

Foundry in (Naugatuck) Woodbridge, CT, est. 2005. The owner/designer is Tom Wallace (b. 1944, USA). His type designs are based on historical letterforms:

• Augsburger Initialen and Augsburger Schrift (2001), an art nouveau pair found in Ludwig Petzendorfer's Treasury of authentic art nouveau alphabets, decorative initials, monograms, frames and ornaments (1984, Dover). Augsburger Schrift is originally due to Peter Schnorr (1901, Berthold). In 2007, Wallace added Augsburger Ornamente.
• Figgins Tuscan (2005) is based on the first metal Tuscan typeface by Figgins in 1817.
• Freak, based on Bamboo (1889, The Great Western Type Foundry). HiH explains: Great Western became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in 1868. At some point, prior to 1925, Freak was renamed Bamboo by BB&S. It was delisted when BB&S was absorbed by ATF in 1929. Compare with Dan Solo's Bamboo (2004).
• Gradl Initialen (2005): based on caps designed by Max Joseph Gradl ca. 1900 for engraving on his art nouveau jewelry in Germany. Samples are in Petzendorfer.
• Huxley Alt (2005), an alternative to the ultra-condensed Lutherian church font Huxley Vertical (or Aldous Vertical) by Walter Huxley (ATF). Huxley Amore (2006) is a major extension of this, and Huxley Cyrillic (2008) adds Russian characters.
• Künstler Grotesk (2005): a simple blackletter caps face based on a design seen in Petzendorfer's book.
• Page No. 508 (2006): Page No. 508 was designed by William H. Page in 1887 as one of a series of designs for die-cut wood types for the firm of Page & Setchell of Norwich, CT. Page & Setchell was the successor to The William H. Page Wood Type Company and was sold to the Hamilton Manufacturing Company of Two Rivers, Wisconsin in 1891.
• Pekin (2005): first designed by Ernst Lauschke in 1888 at the Great Western Foundry under the name Dormer.
• Schnorr Dekorativ, Demi Bold and Initialen (2007), all due to Peter Schnorr (ca. 1900), as well as Schnorr gestreckt (2006), an art nouveau face from 1898.
• Rundgotisch (2005): based on a design by Schelter and Giesecke, ca. 1900.
• Edison (2005) is based on Edison Swirl SG, a Spiece Graphics digitization of a late 18-th century design of the Bauersche Giesserei.
• Bethlehem Star (2005) is based on the typeface Accent with the permission of URW++: HiH only added stars to the glyphs.
• Secession (2006): a sans family with art nouveau twists.
• French Plug (2007): A sign painters font based upon work of Frank H. Atkinson, a popular Art Nouveau sign painter in Chicago, who worked for Cadillac, and published Sign Painting in 1908.
• T-Hand Monoline (2007): a printed script family.
• Figgins Antique (2007): an all-caps black slab serif headline face based on Figgins, ca. 1815.
• Mulier Moderne (2007): Based on a font designed ca. 1894 by E. Mulier, a French art nouveau era artist.
• Regina Cursiv (2007): an art nouveau design.
• Edelgotisch (2007): a bold Jugendstil design (with caps), based on a design released by Schelter & Giesecke of Leipzig, Germany about 1898 and is very similar to Eckmann-Schrift released by Rudhard'schen Giesserei (later Klingspor) during the same period.
• Teutonia (2007), a revival of Teutonia by Roos & Junge, a squarish art nouveau face. HiH writes: There are many quite similar attempts in the field of topography. In 1883, Baltimore Type Foundry released its Geometric series. In 1910, Geza Farago in Budapest used a similar letter design on a Tungsram light bulb poster. In 1919 Theo van Doesburg, a founder with Mondrian and others of the De Stijl movement, designed an alphabet using rectangles only -- no diagonals. In 1923 Joost Schmidt at Bauhaus in Weimer took the same approach for a Constructivist exhibit poster. The 1996 Agfatype Collection catalog lists a Geometric in light, bold and italic that is very close to the old Baltimore version. And in 2008, HiH itself published Baltimore Geometric.
• Austin Antique, based on Richard Austin's 1827 antique typeface.
• Morris Gothic, Morris Ornaments and Morris Initials One and Two (2007): The gothic that Morris designed was first used by his Kelmscott Press for the publication of the Historyes Of Troye in 1892. It was called Troy Type and was cut at 18 points by Edward Prince. It was also used for The Tale of Beowulf. The typeface was re-cut in at 12 points and called Chaucer Type for use in The Order of Chivalry and The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Morris' objective is designing his gothic was to preserve the color and presence of his sources, but to create letters that were more readable to the English eye. ATF copied Troy and called it Satanick. Not only was the ATF version popular in the United States; but, interestingly, sold very well in Germany. There was great interest in that country in finding a middle ground between blackletter and roman styles -- one that was comfortable for a wider readership. The Morris design was considered one of the more successful solutions.
• Larisch (2007): a hand-lettered design by the Austrian calligrapher and teacher, Rudolf von Larisch. The original was used for the title page of the 1903 edition of Beispiele Kunstlerischer Schrift Examples of Artistic Writing).
• Patent Reclame (2007): an art nouveau face first cast around 1895 by Schriftgeisserei Flinch, and then by Stephenson Blake, ca. 1896.
• Jugendstil Initials (2007): a blackletter designed by Heinrich Vogeler around 1905.
• Wedding (2007): a multi-style English blackletter family, based on a Morris Fuller Benton original called Wedding Text.
• Brass (2007): two blackletter faces from the early 1500s described by Alexander Nesbitt in his Decorative Alphabets And Initials (Mineola, NY, 1959) as initials and stop ornaments from brasses in Westminster Abbey.
• Auchentaller (2007), a monoline art nouveau face inspired by a travel poster by Josef Maria Auchentaller (b. Vienna, 1865, d. Grado, 1949; studied at the Vienna Academy, professor in Munich, member of the secession from 1898, artist) in 1906.
• Phinney Jenson (2007): a Venetian by Nicolas Jenson from the 15th century, about which Wallace writes: In 1890 a leader of the Arts & Crafts movement in England named William Morris founded Kelmscott Press. He was an admirer of Jensons Roman and drew his own somewhat darker version called Golden, which he used for the hand-printing of limited editions on homemade paper, initiating the revival of fine printing in England. Morris' efforts came to the attention of Joseph Warren Phinney, manager of the Dickinson Type Foundry of Boston. Phinney requested permission to issue a commercial version, but Morris was philosophically opposed and flatly refused. So Phinney designed a commercial variation of Golden type and released it in 1893 as Jenson Oldstyle. Phinney Jenson is our version of Phinneys version of Morris' version of Nicolas Jensons Roman.
• Advertisers Gothic (2008): based on Robert Wiebking's tasteless 1917 design for Western Typefoundry. HiH writes: Advertisers Gothic is bold and brash, like the city it comes from, Chicago. It was designed by the accomplished German-American matrix engraver, Robert Wiebking, for the Western Type Foundry in 1917. As its name suggests, it was designed for commercial headliner work, much as Publicity Gothic by Sidney Gaunt for BB&S the year before. See our Publicity Headline.
• Publicity Headline (2006): an allcaps version of Sidney Gaunt's advertising typeface, Publicity Gothic (1916, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler). Its heavy weight and robust strength allows it to be used against complex backgrounds or reversed out on dark backgrounds without getting lost.
• Herold (2008): a revival of Berthold Herold Reklameschrift BQ (Heinz Hoffmann, 1901), an art nouveau advertising typeface.
• Yes Dear (2008) is a funny hyper-curly blackletter face.
• Besley Clarendon (2008) is the HiH version of the Clarendon registered by Robert Besley and the Fann Street Foundry in 1845. This condensed face was very popular in the 19th century, and was copied by most foundries of that era. It was followed by Gutta Percha (2008), a Clarendon in which the upper case letters are dropcaps.
• Waltari (2008): a revival of Walthari (1899, Heinz König for the Rudhardsche Giesserei), a Jugendstil type.
• Hispania Script (2008): revival of a pirate map script face by Schelter & Giesecke (1890).
• Cloudy Day (2008), an alphading.
• HiH stumbled on a 1902 publication by Bruno Seuchter called Die Fäche, in which he found the art nouveau face that HiH revived in 2008 as Seuchter Experimental.
• Petrarka ML and Haunted House (2008), Halloween-themed fonts.
• Gothic Tuscan One (2008) is an all-caps condensed gothic with round terminals and decorative Tuscan center spurs. It was first shown by William H. Page of Norwich, CT, among his wood type specimen pages of 1859.
• HiH Firmin Didot (2008) is a one-style didone based on an 1801 version of Didot. It led to a combined alphabet/stick people alphading called Gens de Baton (2008) after a lower case alphabet that appeared in the Almanach des Enfants pour 1886 (Paris, 1886) under the title Amusing Grammar Lessons.
• Shout (2008), a Compacta-like fat headline sans about which HiH writes: Its lineage includes the Haas Type Foundrys 19th century advertising font, Kompakte Grotesk, which Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) dryly described as extended sans serif and which graphic designer Roland Holst (1868-1938) would have disapprovingly referred to as a shout, as opposed to the quiet presentation of information that he believed was the proper function of advertising. In 1963 Letraset released what appears to be an updated variation in multiple weights designed by Frederick Lambert called Compacta. Shout draws heavily on Compacta, as well as other similar fonts of the 50s and 60s like Eurostile Bold Condensed and Permanent Headline. In weight, it falls about halfway between Compacta Bold and Compacta Black.
• The heavy art deco faces Guthschmidt and Guthschmidt Condensed (2008) are based on a 1924 KLM Royal Dutch Airline poster designed by Anthonius Guthschmidt. The poster draws on the imagery of the legend The Flying Dutchman.
• Cherub and Cherub Caps (2008) are based on Phinney Jenson. Not to be confused with the many fonts that already existed with that name, such as Cherub from House of Lime, Twopeas, Graph Edge Fonts, and Fuelfonts.
• HiH Large (2009) is a poster sans.
• Mira (2009) is an art nouveau / Victorian face patterned after a font by the Roos & Junge Foundry in Offenbach, ca. 1902.
• Thorowgood Sans (2009): A three-dimensional all-cap font for title use, Thorowgood Sans Shaded was released by the Fann Street Foundry of W. Thorowgood & Co. in 1839. Interestingly, it more closely resembles Figgins' Four-Line Emerald Sans-Serif Shaded of 1833 than Fann Street's own Grotesque Shaded of 1834 (with light and shadow reversed).

hiJoju

Creator of the beautiful Korean Calligraphy font (2009). Dafont link. [Google]

Hung Lan Art Design
[Nguyen Hung Lan]

Free fonts by Vietnamese cartoon artist Nguyen Hung Lan include the brush and handwriting typefaces VNI-Comicbook, VNI-Matisse, VNI-BriquetNormal, VNI-Disney-Normal, VNI-Diudang, VNI-Nhatban, VNI-Baybuom-Normal, VNI-Truck, VNI-Yahoo, VNI-Thanhcao, VNI-Thufap2-Normal, VNI-Thufap3, VNI-Thufapfan-Normal, VNI-Viettay-Normal, VNI-Butlong, VNI-HLThuphap, VNI-Netbut, VNI-Thufap1, VNI-Whimsy, VNI-OngDoHL. These faces include some real beauties, such as VNI-HLThuphap, VNI-OngDoHL, VNI-Thufap1, VNI-Thufap2-Normal, and VNI-Thufapfan-Normal. At the end of 2004, I found these downloadable faces: HLButlatre, HLButlong, HLBrush1BK, HLBrush2BK, HLBrush3BK, HLComicBoom, HLComic2, HLFantasy1, HLFantasy2, HLFantasy3, HLFreewrite, HLGiotmuc, HLHoamy, HLNhenhang, HLSlapstickComic, HLDongian, HLThanhcao, HLThuphap1BK, HLThuphap2BK, HLThuphap3BK, HLVungchac. Many are extensions and Vietnamizations of existing faces. His fonts are for dual use in Latin and Vietnamese. [Google]

I Shot The Serif
[Matthew Welch]

Original free fonts by Matthew Welch: APLPLUS-Regular, AncientGeekRegular, BlackKnightRegular, CheatinRegular (experimental), College (athletic lettering), CollegeBold, CollegeCondensed, CollegeSemiCondensed, ElectricPickle, ElectricPickleBold, FarEastRegular (oriental simulation), Farewell, FatFingerRegular, Free3of9 and Free3of9Extended (1997, see also here and here), FuddRegular (1998, Cyrillic simulation), GoLong, Hit The Road, LEDRealRegular, LocustRegular (dingbats), NeverRegular, NewJobRegular, RushinRegular (1998, Cyrillic simulation font), SecretCode, Tiny (pixel face), TRTL, FrakturModern, KingsGambit, Mattbats, OneFortySevenRegular, WhiteRabbit, OddDog, Geek (Greek). Alternate URL. [Google]

iColony.ph

Philippine archive. Baybayin subarchive. Has the oriental simulation font Fu Manchu. [Google]

Iconian Fonts
[Dan M. Zadorozny]

Born in Philadelphia and a resident of Texas, Dan Zadorozny's creations at Iconian. His pre-2005 fonts in alphabetical order: #44 font (2002), 00Starmap (2001, pixel font), 1st Cav (2008), 2-Tech, 2nd Amendment (2007, guns), 2nd Amendment 2050 (2009, more gun silhouettes), 2Toon, 300 Trojans (2008, comic book family), 4114 Blaster (2008, futuristic), 5th Agent (2008, techno), 7th Service (2002), 911Porscha, Achilles, ActionMan, Action Women (2008, female outlines), Aetherfox, AirCobra (2002), AirForce (planes and copters), Airstrip One (2003), Aldo's Moon, Aldo's Nova, Alexis (2001), Alien League, Alpha Sentry, Alpha Taurus (2007, octagonal, athletic lettering), Amalgam, Anitlles (2009, sans family), Argosy, Arilon (2008), Astropolis (2009), Avenger (2008, futuristic), Babes & Bond (2009, erotic silhouettes), Babe-alicious (2002, erotic outlines), Bad Robot (2007, computer game look), Bal-Astaral, Bamf, Battlefield, Beam Rider, Ben Zion (2008, Hebrew simulation), Berserker (2008, grunge), Beta Block, Bio-disc, Bio-discSolid, Bio-discThin, Bionic Comic (2002), Bionic Type (2002), Birds of a Feather (2007, dingbats), Blood Crow (2009), Blue July (2009), Brin Athyn (2008, uncial/Celtric), Bronic (2004), Bummer (2007, octagonal), Bushido (2008, oriental simulation), Buttons the Bear (2008, children's hand), Byte Police, CasperComics, Chardin Doihle (2008), a useful informal handprinting family), Charlemagne, Charlie's-Angles, Cheyenne Hand (2008), Christendom, ComicBookCommando, ComicFX, Commonwealth, Concielian, Corinthian, Coyote Deco (2007, art deco), Crappity-Crap-Crap (2007), Cro-Magnum (2003), CryUncial, Cyberia (like Soviet: neat Russian imitation letters), DS Man, Dan Stargate (2008), Dan'sHand, Dark Horse (nice brush font), Darkwind, Delta Ray, Department-K, DepartmentH, Detonator, DiegoCon (2004), Ding-o-saurs (2007), Direktor (2008, Cyrillic simulation techno), Disco-Dork, Disco Deck (2005), Disco Duck, Dodger, Dotcom (2002), Drafting Table (2008), Dragon Order (oriental simulation), Drid Herder (2002), Droid-Lover, Drosselmeyer (my favorite), Eagleclaw (2009), Eaglemania, Earth's Mightiest (2002), Eco-files, Elder Magic (2009), Election Day (2009), Enduro, Ensign Flandry, Ephesian (2007), Erin Go Bragh (2009, Celtic/uncial), EscapeArtist, EverettSteele'sHand, Excelerate, Excelsior, Extechchop (2005), Factor, Falconhead, Famous Spaceships (2007), FantasticCreatures, Fantazian (2003), Fantom (2009, bad handwriting), Federapolis (2008, octagonal techno face), Fedyral, Fedyral-II, Feldercarb (2003, octagonal font), First Order (2001), Flight Corps (2008, techno/pixelish), FlyingLetaherneck (2002), Force Majeure, FunnyPages, Futurex Grunge (2005), Galant, Galga (2008, futuristic), Gamma Sentry, Generation Nth, GeoBats (2007), Goalie (2008, hockey mask alphading), Gods of War, Governor, Grendel's Mother, Gunship, Gunship V2 (2002), Gyrfalcon, Hadriatic (2008, roman lettering), Hall of Heroes (2007), Halo, Han Solo, Harrier (2002), Heorot (2009, stone age fonts), Highrise Heaven (2007, city skyline dingbats), HolyEmpire, Homemade-Robot, Homeworld (2003), Homeworld Translator (2003), Hulkbusters, Hypno Agent, IWantMyTTR!, Iconian (2002), Iconified, Illuminati, Imaginary Forces (2008, mythical dingbats), Imperial Code (2003, Startrek style face), Imperium, Infinity Formula (2003, super techno), Infobubble, International Super Hero (2002), Intrepid, Jackson, Jannisaries, Jerusalem (1999, Hebrew font simulation)[see also here], Jetta, JettaTech, Judge, Judge Hard, Justice (2009), Jumptroops (2003), Justinian, Kahless, KameraDings (2009), KarateChop (2009), Katana, Keystone (pixel font), Kid Cobalt (2008, comic book face), Kinex, King's Ransom, KnightsTemplar, Knock Furious (2003, dingbats), Kobold (2008, futuristic), Kountry Kodes (2008, international license plate lettering), Kovacs-Spot, Kovacs, Kreeture (2002), LandShark (2001), LandWhale (2001), Laserian, Law and Order (2005, dingbats), LegalTender, Legion, Lincoln Lode, Lionel (2009), Low Gun Screen (2008, a totally square screen type family), Lincoln Chain, Lionheart, Lord of the Sith, Loveladies, Low Gun Screen (2008, screen face), Machiavelli, Mad Marker, Magic Beans (2007), Marathon-II, Marathon, Masked Marvel (2002), Masterdom (2004), Metal Storm 3D (2008), Metroplex, MetroplexLaser, MetroplexShadow, Michaelmas, Micronian (2009, pixelish headline family), Milk Bar (2003), Micronian (2008, extensive pixel-based family), Missile Man (2002, futuristic), Miss Amanda Jones (2004, brush style), Mobile Infantry, Moon Dart (2008), Morse Kode, MorseNK, Movie Gallery (2008, dingbats), Mystic Singler (2008, rough brush face), National Express (2003), Native Alien, Neo-Geo (like the letters on the Neon cars), Neuralnomicon, Nick Turbo (2001), NifeFite, NifeFiter, NifeFites, Nightrunner (2008, sci-fi), Ninjas (2002), NoloContendre, Nostromo, Nyet (2002, Soviet letter simulation), Oberon, Oberon-Deux, Obsidiscs (2003, dingbats), Odinson (2007, runes), Olympicons (2003), Omega Sentry, OmniGirl, Oramac (2004), Outlands-Truetype (2001), Ozymandias, Pandemonious Puffery (2002), Parker's Hand (2002, handwriting), Perdition, Peregrine, Phaser Bank (2008, techno), Philadelphia, Philly Dings (2003), Piper Pie (2007), Planet N, Planet S, Planet X, Postmaster, Presley-Press, Presley-Press-3D, Presley-Press-Bold, Presley-Press-CondItal, Presley-Press-Condensed, Presley-Press-ExtraBold, Presley-Press-ExtraBold-Ital, Presley-Press-Italic (2007), Procyon, Prokofiev (2009, rounded and squarish), Protoplasm, Pseudo Saudi (1999, Arab simulation), PuffAngel, Pulse Rifle (2009), Pyrabet, Quake-&-Shake, Quartermain (2002), Quasitron (2009, futuristic), Quatl (2002, an Inca font), Queen & Country (2009), Quest Knight (2009), Questlok, QuickGear, Quickmark (2004), QuickQuick, QuickStrike, QuickTech, RCMP, RadZad, Radio-Space, Realpolitik, Rebecca, Redcoat (2008, blackletter), Regulators, Replicant, Robotaur (2008), Rocket Junk, Rocket Type (2002), Rogue-Hero, Roid Rage (2003), Rosicrucian (2009, stone age font), Sable Lion (2002), Sagan (2008, futuristic), Scarab, ScarabScript, Sci-Fi (2008), Sea-Dog, Sever, SisterEurope, Snubfighter (2009, sci-fi), Sound FX (2003), Soviet, Space Cruiser, Space Junker, SPQR (2008, grunge roman), Spy Lord (2001), Starfighter, Stuntman, SuperUltra911, Superago (2002), Talkies (2008, dingbats), Tele-Marines, Terra Firma, Texas, Texas2, TheRifleman, The Shire (2009), Thundergod, Time Warriors (2007), Toon Town Industrial (2005, comic book font), Tracer, Trajia (2008, a techno/stencil/athletic lettering family), Travelicons (2009), Travesty (2003, scrawly handwriting), Trek Treooper (2008, Startrek font), Tristram (2008, uncial), Trueheart (2009, Celtic), Tussle (2002), Typeecanoe, Uberholme, Uberholme Lazar (2001), UFO Hunter (2009), Ultra 911, Unisol, UniversalJack, Uno Estado (2009, constructivist), U.S.A., USArmy, US Navy (2007), U.S.S. Dallas (2008), Usuzi, Valerius (2009, uncial), Valley Forge (2008), Vampire Games (2001), VariShapes (2001), VideoStar, Vigilante Notes (2003), Vilmos Magyar, voxBOX, Voortrekker Pro (2009: octagonal and athletic lettering family), Vyper (2008, futuristic stencil), War Eagle (2009), War Machine, Wars of Asgard (2009), Weaponeer (2008, military lettering), Whatafont, Ensign Flandry (2003), Whiskey Bravo (2003), Wimp Out (2004), Wolf's Bane, Worldnet (great wordly O), Write Off, Writer's-Block, WyldStallyns, Xaphan (2003), XCryption, XPED, Xcelsion (2002), Xenophobia, Xephyr, Xeppelin (2005, zeppelin dingbats), Xiphos (2007), Xoxoxa, Yahren, Yama Moto (2009: oriental simulation), Year 2000, Year3000 (2001), Yellow Jacket (2002), Yiroglyphics (2004), Yorstat (oriental simulation), Youngtechs (2008, futuristic), Yukon Tech, Za's Vid (2001, pixel font), Zado (2002, dot-matrix font), Zamboni Joe (2002), Zee Lance, Zen Masters (2002), Zone Rider, Zyborgs, Zymbols. His production slowed down to almost nil in 2005 but picked up again in 2007. Creations dated 2008: Action-Men, Biergärten, Bummer, Daedalus, Deranian, Exedore, Free-Agent, Galaxy-1, Galaxy-1-Condensed, Galaxy-1-Condensed-Italic, Galaxy-1-Italic, Guardian, Guardian-Condensed, Guardian-Condensed-Italic, Guardian-Expanded, Guardian-Expanded-Italic, Guardian-Italic, Guardian-Laser, Guardian-Laser-Italic, Guardian-Leftalic, Guardian-Pro, Guardian-Pro-Italic, Guardian-Shadow, Guardian-Shadow-Italic, Incubus, Incubus-Italic, Incubus-Shadow, Interceptor, Iron-Cobra, Kartoons, Kubrick, Lobo-Tommy, Military-RPG, Promethean, Ro'Ki'Kier, Taskforce, Trajia, Traveler, Valkyrie, Were-Beast, Dan-Stargate, Droid-Lover, Moon-Dart, Searider-Falcon, Star Navy (2009: dingbats), Travelcons (2009: dingbats), Trek-Trooper, Weaponeer, X-Grid, Zealot, Zeta Sentry (2009, techno/futuristic), Zoologic (2009, animal dingbats). Alternate URL. [Google]

Insigne Type Design Studio (was: Dooley Type)
[Jeremy Dooley]

Insigne Type Design Studio (est. 2006) is run by Jeremy Dooley, b. Columbia, SC, 1981, who received a masters in graphic design at Savannah College of Art and Design in 2005. He lived in Atlanta, GA, and is now in Knoxville, TN. From 2004-2006, he ran Dooley Type in Greenville, SC. He published Biortec (2004), Yevida and Yevida Potens (2006, scripts), Jon Cary (2004, the handwriting of John Kerry), Orewelia (2004, erasure face), Shrike2003 (2003), Promethian (2005, futuristic), Ript Cure (2005), Obline (2004, sans), Qurillian (2006, legible sans), Valfieris (2006), RendtPhysic (2006) and Coupe (2003). Blue Goblet (2005) is a Treefrog-style script developed for the pending illustrated childrens book from Portland Studios, The Blue Goblet. It was codesigned by Cory Godbey of Portland Studios and Jeremy Dooley. Majidah and Majidah Potens (2006) are medieval scripts. Avaloc (2006) is an expanded sans. Beastias, Aberlyth and Fizgiger (2006) are informal script faces. Lorelei (2007, Insigne) is a bouncy script family. Lourdes (2007) is an informal script. Arendahl (2007) is a connected but irregular handwriting font. Chennai and Chennai Rounded (2007) are playful display sans faces, later followed by Montag (2007) in the same rounded sans style, Chennai Slab (2009) and Dienstag (2008, 8 styles). Aviano Titling (2007) is inspired by Trajan. Aviano Slab (2007) follows a bit later, in 2008 came Aviano Serif, and in 2009 Aviano Didone. Valfieris Aged (2007) imitates medieval printing. Insigne Abstractions (2007) and Insigne Fleurons (2008) are dingbats. Nanumunga (2007) is a comic book style face. Madeleine (2007) is a basic handwriting face. Carta Marina is a family of medieval map text faces and dingbats (2007), while Stratham (2007) is a medium to black family of legible sans faces. Questal (2007) is a unicase serif face. Kairengu (2007) is a comic book family. Montag (2007) is a casual rounded sans family in six styles. Natalya (2007) is a connected calligraphic script, but Youngblood (2008) is non-connected. Brigette (2007) is an ink-splattered calligraphic script. Antigen (2007) is futuristic, and so is, to some extent, the sans family Sommet (2008; see also Sommet Rounded, 2008). Stefania (2007) has two calligraphic/chancery styles. Its aged version is called Stefania Antique (2008). Terfens (2007) is an informal and quite rounded sans serif with inspiration from chancery scripts like Stefania. Kidela (2007) is a sassy scrapbookfamily. Savory Paste (2007) and Xalapa (2008) are grunge families. Florencia (2007) is a vintage script. Massif (2008) is an aggressive sans family. Pauline (2008) is a monolinear retro script. Kasuga (2008) and Kasuga Brush (2009) are fresh new scripts with oriental undertones. Mahalia (2008) is a retro script. Newcomen (2008) is a 4-style roman titling face. Biscuit Boodle (2008) is a fun and crazy script from Portland Studios illustrator Justin Gerard. Olidia (2008) is calligraphic. Le Havre (2008) is a gorgeous 8-style geometric sans with tall ascenders. Fonts from 2009: Sovba (upright italic), 44th President (based on Obama's handwriting), Enzia (an elegant sans family), Natalya Swashes (calligraphic), Biscuit Boodle Ornaments (dingbats), Le Have Rounded, Kidela Sketch, Mittwoch (organic serif), Natalya Monoline. Behance link. Font squirrel link. [Google]

Isis Fonts (or: Shrine of Isis)
[John Cosgriff]

Egyptian hieroglyphics and related fonts, all original designs by Australian John Cosgriff: Adelita, Alcoholica, Biabia Layout, Brunnhilde One, Creature, Crusades, Dekald, Magician, LuciferPensionRoman, BlazingItalic, Bones2, CreationItalic, Darkenstone, Deities, Eyesis, Garfield, IsisDings, Jetson, KingdomCome, LostWorld, Raven, Spaceracer, Stargate, Tecnojap, TokyoSoft, Wizardry, ZetaGrey. The original fonts Tokyo Soft and TecnoJap simulate Japanese. The fonts are also here. [Google]

Iza W

Brazilian designer who created Kocham (2008, an art deco geometric face with dots centered in all letters), Orchis (2006, Intellecta Design), an art deco famliy in the style of Broadway. Other fonts, done with Paulo W at Intellecta Design in 2006: Advantage, Biza, Elegancy, Estiliza, Frompac. She designed DeutschePosterSteinschrift, Alta (5 styles), Apolo Decorative (Victorian era caps), Ariana, Black, Cresciesco (roman times lettering), Drianh (late 19th century styles), Easy Callig, Evangeliaire Uncial, Geodec N9 (high contrast sans family), Glaciana (decorative caps), Grid, Half Flower 2, Laureatus (Lombardic), Malvinna, Paola Decorative (caps), Schneider Kontrast (a 15-style art deco and ornamental family based on the work of F.H. Ernst Schneidler), and Questy (semi-slab serif) in 2007. Productions in 2008: Basilissa (flowery caps), Calligraphia Latina Soft, Chyrllene (curly Victorian family), Clea (caps), Fridha (undrerstated and 3d calligraphy), Hostetler Kapitalen 2, Litho Romana Inland (a caps family), Ogden (calligraphic), Olivetti Typewriter (5 styles), Syl (frilly Victorian caps), Tissot (fine caps), Triball (headline blackletter family), TTF TATTOEF 8 (tattoo dings). MyFonts says The mysteriously-named Iza W shares most of the development activities at Intellecta Design with Paulo W. She specializes in revivals of historic advertising types, specifically metal and wood display types of the Americas, from the early 19th to mid 20th century. and lists these fonts at the end of 2008 as having been designed by her: Advantage, Agua, Alta, AltDeutsch, Anatomy, Antiqua Shaded, Apolo Decorative, Ariana, Basilissa, Biza, Black, Boliche, Bruce Borders, Bruce Flourished, Bruce Hairline, Bruce Miscelania, Bruce Ornament, Cadels, Calligraphia Latina Soft, Catania, Centennial Script Fancy, Chancelaresca Spanola, Chyrllene, Clea, Cleo, Cresciesco, Deco Experiment 2, Deco Experiment 3, Deco Experiment 4, Deco Experiment 5, Deco Experiment 6, Deco Experiment 7, Deutsche Poster Steinschrift, Donald, Drianh, Easy Callig, Egipcia, Elegancy, Engel, Estiliza, Evangeliaire Uncial, Faroeste, Feosa, Figgins Brute, Fin Fraktur, Flower Essences, Flower Jars, Fofucha, Frames 1, Francesco Decorative, Fridha, Frompac, Fry's Alphabet, Furniet Roman, Gans Animals, Gans Carmem Adornada, Gans Cornucopia, Gans Gotico Globo, Gans Italiana, Gans Royality, Gans Sport Club, Gans Titania, Gans Titular Adornada, Gans Transportation, Gans Vessels Fishes, Geodec Minuskel, Geodec N9, Geodec Petras Enhanced, Glaciana, Gothic Handtooled Bastarda, Gotische, Gotische Frame, Gottar (blackletter), Gradl Initialen, Grid, Grissom, Grolier (caps), Half Flower, Hannover, Hostetler Kapitalen, Intellecta Bodoned, Intellecta Borders, Intellecta Grotesca Compacta, Intellecta Slab Bold, Intellecta Square, Intellecta Typewriter, Intellecta Typewriter 2, Julisa Script, Kocham, Latinish, Laureatus, Lettering Deco, Litho Romana Inland, Littler Serifada, Magro, Majestade, Malvinna, Manuscript XIV Century, Merona, Missal, Naturella, Numbers, Ogden, Olivetti Typewriter, Orchis, Palermo, Paola Decorative, Peloponeso, Porcupine, Questy, Remington Elite Typewriter, Samuello, Schneider Kontrast, Schneidler Zierbuchstablen, Selena, Sinfonia, Southern Flight, Speedball, Standard Typewriter, Suciellid, Sunamy (oriental simulation, after lettering by Ross F. George), Surrey, Syl, Tissot, Tondella, Triball, TTF TATTOEF 4, TTF TATTOEF 6, TTF TATTOEF 7, TTF TATTOEF 8, Tuska, Underwood Typewriter, Uthan, Versatile Initials, Victorian Exotical Capitals, Warp, Woodball, Yanna, Zooth. From 2009: Calligraphia Latina Soft3, Cantate, Remington Weather (old typewriter), Xyla (caps), Polen, Arrius (calligraphic), Catilina, Pentagraph (upright connected script), Renania (calligraphic), Samantha (caps), Silius Engraved (caps), Stencil Intellecta, Tatooyn (2009), Urszula (caps), Victorio (caps). [Google]

Jackie Hsue

Jackie Hsue is the designer of Anyong, Chinese-looking glyphs. Andreas Hoefeld writes on abf: BTW "Anyong" uses the same on-curve points as Fusaka, except for a few differences that may have come through a conversion to TTF. Even the number of kern pairs is identical: zero ;-) So Anyong is just a renamed copy and I wonder if that Jackie Hsue really exists. Probably someone simply invented a chinese-sounding font creator name along with the font name. Note: Fusaka is an award-winning Adobe font made in 1996 by Michael Want. [Google]

Jackson Tan Tzun Tat

Singaporean designer of Acid Queen, Destroy (1999), Polyester (1999), Replicant (1999, Asian simulation font), Fudge (1996) and Hijack (1996) at GarageFonts. FontShop link. [Google]

Jeff Levine: Oriental simulation faces
[Jeff Levine]

Oriental simulation faces made by Jeff Levine include Chinese Menu JNL (2009), Fong Shay Noon JNL (2007), Rice Bowl JNL (2009). [Google]

Jeff's Fonts
[Jeff Levine]

Prolific type designer in Florida, b. 1952. His fonts were originally free and consisted largely of dingbats. Around 2005 he went commercial, and now sells his work (over 350 fonts as of 2009) via MyFonts. He has branched out into several font styles, with a soft spot for stencil fonts, fonts for signage, and fonts for advertising. Born in New York, his family moved to Florida in 1963, where he has been ever since. An interview. Alternate URL. Yet another URL with his early free fonts. My pages on him. [Google]

Jessie

American designer of Chinese Calligraphy (2006), an oriental simulation face. [Google]

JSA Lovechinesedesign

Designers of JSA Lovechinese (2005, Asian simulation face). [Google]

Juan Casco

Youngster from Puyo, Ecuador, b. 1991. Home page. Creator of the curly scribbly faces Romance Fatal 2.0 and 3.0 (2009, based on his own hand), Romance Fatal (2009, +Serif), Versal-Gothic (2009), Romance Fatal Goth (2009), Tatida Versal (2009), Tatida Rocking (2009), Luismi Murder (2009), DarkPix (2009, done with FontStruct), Borracho (2009), PercanceFatal (2009), and the scary gothic faces La Flama y La Espina, Pasión Acústica (2009), Goth Stencil (2009, blackletter stencil), Ming Imperial (2009) and Ming Gothic (2009, was Chino Gotico before that). The latter two faces have an Asian look. No Hubo Tiempo (2009) is a timid handwriting face. Amazonica (2009) is a curlified roman face.Alternate URL. Dafont link. Home page. Fontspace link. [Google]

Jukebox Type (was: JAW Arts Fonts)
[Jason Anthony Walcott]

JAW Arts Fonts was created by Jason Walcott (b. Trenton, MI, 1971). It features many elegant calligraphic fonts, many comic book style faces. Acroterion JF (2002, formal script), Adage Script JF (2002, formal script), Alpengeist, Andantino (2003), AnnabelleJF (2002, a formal script), Baileywick Curly, Baileywick Festive, Baileywick Gothic, Baileywick Happy Grams (star dingbats), Baroque Text JF (2003, a great Fraktur font based on a hand-lettered alphabet drawn by Ross George), Boxer Script, Bronson Gothic, Buena Park, Cavetto, CharadeJF (2001, informal script), Debonair, Fairy Tale, Fanfare (2004, a bouncy serif family), Fenway Park, Friki Tiki, Geometric Soul (2004, an art deco all caps face), Gypsy Switch, Holiday Times, Jeffriana, John Andrew, KonTiki (a family published in 2002 containing Aloha, Enchantment, Hula, Kona, Lanai, Lounge and Trader), Manual Script JF (2002), Martini (2004, a brush script), Mary Helen, Opulence JF (2002, formal script font), Peregroy, Periwinkle (2006), Cabernet (2006, frilly didone), Polynesian (2004, Hawaiian-look face that could also pass for an oriental simulation face), Primrose JF (2002, formal script), Rambler Script, Randolph, Retro Repro (2002, based on a script by Jerry Mullen from 1953), Saharan, Scriptorama (Hostess, Markdown and Tradeshow), Shirley Script JF (2003), Southland, Spaulding Sans, Stanzie, Stella Ann (2005), Stephanie Marie JF (2003), Tamarillo (2005), TwisterJF (2003), Valentina Joy, Varsity Script, Viceroy, Walcott Gothic (Fountain, Hollywood and Sunset), Groovin (2005, Umbrella Type), Wonderboy. The fonts of this West Hollywood, CA-based foundry can be bought at MyFonts.com. In 2003, he started Jukebox Type and started offering his fonts at Veer. In October 2003, Veer acquired Jukebox Type outright. In 2005, they added Rootin Tootin (Western style), Dulcimer (soft script), Block Party, Dandelion, Marmalade (idyllic script). In 2006, he created Jukebox Bookman, a 6-weight family, and the brush script face Stephanie Marie. In 2007, he added Hellenic Wide (after a 19th century ATF font), GiggleScript JF, Savoir Faire (after a handlettered slogan in 1940 for Chesterfield cigarettes), Lollipop. 2008 additions: Hogwash (paintbrush face), Antiquities. 2009 additions: Cynthia June (calligraphic). [Google]

Kazuyoshi Ishikawa

Japanese creator in 2002 of the oriental simulation faces faces KZBLADERUNNER1 and KZBLADERUNNER2, the 3d faces KZCUBIStSKELEtON, KZCUBIStSOLID, the techno faces KZEXCELALP and KZWEDNESDAYAL, the psychedelic face KZGRAVItY, and the display faceKZtURBO. He lives in Tochigi and was born in 1969. Dafont link. [Google]

Keetano
[Azamat Shamuzafarov]

Designer of Keetano Katana (2004), Keetano ATL My Gangsta (2007, ransom note font), Keetano Katana (2004, grunge), Keetano Gaijin + Katakana (2004, oriental simulation) and Keetano Katana KillBill (2004). Alternate URL. Another link. [Google]

Kingthings
[Kevin King]

Keven King (Kingthings) is the British designer (based in Exeter) of these fonts, many of which have Celtic influences:

• 2002: Kingthings-Gothique (oranmental face), Kingthings-Hand, Kingthings-Hand-Light, Kingthings-Organica, Kingthings-Petrock, Kingthings-Petrock-Light, Kingthings-Xander, Kingthings-Xander-Outline.
• 2003: Kingthings-Calligraphica, Kingthings-Calligraphica-Italic, Kingthings-Calligraphica-Light, Kingthings-Chimaera, Kingthings Flashbang, Kingthings Flourishes (Arabic simulation face), Kingthings-Italique (blackletter), Kingthings-Kelltika---Kevin-King.-2003 (fantastic Celtic style caps face), Kingthings-Organica, Kingthings-Sans, Kingthings-Whizzbang, Kingthings-Xander-Outline.
• 2004: Kingthings Linear K, Kingthings Pique'n'meex, Kingthings-Annex (started in 1981: ornamented letters), Kingthings-Printingkit, Kingthings-Spike (blackletter), Kingthings-Trypewriter, Kingthings Versalis, Kingthings Wrote, Kingthings-Xstitch. Some fonts have calligraphic/medieval or Celtic influences.
• 2005: Kingthings Poppalok (ornamental dot matrix face), Kingthings Embroidery, Kingthings Spikeless, a blackletter face.
• 2006: Kingthings Petrock, KingthingsChristmas (ornamental).
• 2007: Kingthings Willow (great ornamental face; a commercial Pro version exists at CheapProFonts), Kingthings Willowless, Kingthings Exeter, Kingthings Extortion (ransom note face), Kingthings Facetype, Kingthings Lupine, Kingthings Lupineless.
• 2008: Kingthings Clarity, Kingthings Gutenberg, Kingthings-Conundrum (oriental simulation face), Kingthings-Eggypeg, Kingthings-Inkydinky, Kingthings-Knobson, Kingthings-Spirogyra, Kingthings Bloone.
• 2009: Kingthings Slippery Lips, Kinthings Spike Pro (blackletter, commercialized by Cheap Pro Fonts).

Koki's Home Page

AccentSF, DiabloHeavy, PostCrypt, Rickshaw (by Peter S. Bryant), BankGothicBT-Light, RomanT [Google]

Kreis Unna---Hamm

Two Asian simulation fonts in the Schriften.zip file: WontonbyDaFontMafia, Deng-Thick. [Google]

K-Type
[Keith Bates]

K-Type is Keith Bates' (b. 1951, Liverpool) foundry in Manchester, UK, est. 2003. They custom design type, and sell some of their own creations, such as English, Excite, Pentangle (2008, based on album lettering from 1967), Waverly, Chock, Circa (geometric sans), Anna (2002-2007), Alex (2002-2004), Greetings, Ivan Zemtsov (2009), Serifina, Max, Nowa (2004, a play on Futura), Club, Openline (2008, an art deco pair), Alright (2004, cursive script), Alan Hand (2005, based on some blobby lettering, handwritten by printer and mail artist, Alan Brignull), Designer, Helvetiquette, Roundel (2009, white on black), Chock (2009), Flyer (2009, techno), Gill New Antique (2003), Transport New (2009: a redrawing of the typeface designed for British road signs. In addition to the familiar Heavy and Medium weights, Transport New extrapolates and adds a previously unreleased Light weight font originally planned for back-lit signage but never actually applied. Originally designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert beginning in 1957, the original Transport font has subtle eccentricities which add to its distinctiveness, and drawing the New version has involved walking a tightrope between impertinently eliminating awkwardness and maintaining idiosyncrasy.), Modernist Stencil (2009), Building & Loan (2007, engaved face), Bigfoot (2005, a Western font based on the slab capitals used by Victor Moscoso in his 1960s psychedelic rock posters), Bolshy (2009), Bolton750 (2003, a mechanical face done with John Washington), Collegiate (2009), Context (experimental), Axis, Pixel, PixL (2002-2004), 3x5, Keith's Hand, Future Imperfect, Ming, Digitalis, Kato (2007, oriental simulation face), Frank Bellamy (2009, an all-capitals family based on the hand lettering of English artist, Frank Bellamy, most famous for his comic art for Eagle and TV21, and his Dr Who illustrations for Radio Times), Flyer, Wanda (2007, art nouveau), Poster Sans, Norton (2006), Cyberscript (2006, connected squarish face), NYC (octagonal), Matchbox, Union Jack (octagonal), Sans Culottes (2008, grunge), Victor Moscoso (2008, psychedelic), Wes Wilson (2007, psychedelic, inspired by 1960s psychedelic poster artist Wes Wilson), Rick Griffin (2006, more psycehedlic fonts inspired by a 1960s Californian artist), Solid State (2008, art deco blocks), Stockscript (2008, down-to-earth script based on the pen lettering of the writer, Christopher Stocks), Susanna (2004), Plasterboard (2004-2005), Solus (2004, a revival of Eric Gill's 1929 face Solus which has never been digitized; read about it here), Total and Total Eclipse (2004, squarish display faces based on the four characters of Jaroslav Supek's title lettering for his 1980s mailart magazine, Total), and Lexia (an improved or "adult" version of Comic Sans) and Lexia Readable (2006). His free fonts are here: Flat Pack (2006), Future Imperfect (2006, grunge), Gommogravure (2005), Greetings (2006), Greetings Bold (2006), MAGraphics (2004), Magical Mystery Tour (2005, outlined shadow face), Magical Mystery Tour Outline Shadow (2005), Mailart (2004), MailartRubberstamp (2004), Ray Johnson (2006-2008), Roadway (2005, based on New York roadside lettering), This Corrosion (2005), Subway Ticker (2005), Blundell Sans (2009), Designer Block (2006), Mandatory (2004, a UK number plate font based on the Charles Wright typeface used in UK vehicle registration plates), Lexia and Lexia Bold (2004), Dalek (2005, stone/chisel face: Dalek is a full font based on the lettering used in the Dalek Book of 1964 and in the Daleks strip in TV21 comic, spin-offs from the UK science fiction TV show, Doctor Who. The font has overtones of Phoenician, Greek and Runic alphabets), Klee Capscript (2005: based on the handwriting and capitals drawn by artist Emma Klee (USA) for her Color Museum Mail Art invitation. The upper case is based on Emma's capitals and the lower case is freely adapted from her script), Celtica (2007) has Celtic influences. Blue Plaque (2006: a distressed font based on English heritage plaques) International Times (2006, inspired by the masthead of the International Times underground newspaper of the 1960s and 1970s). His experimental face Insecurity (2005) won an award at the 2005 FUSE type competition. Keith works as an Art & Design teacher at a Salford High School. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google]

Ladysnow 48

Medium-sized font archive, which includes a number of oriental simulation faces: Bruce-Mikita, Changstein, Chinese-Brush, Cute-Line, EchoCaps, FFX-Asia, Font-Shui, Fontasia-One, Ginko. [Google]

Larabie Fonts (mirror)

Mirror of Larabie fonts by Lewis O'Sullivan. Over 200 fonts, and growing by about 5 per month. All files can be downloaded at once (3.3MB). List of the most recent 1998 fonts: Hooked Up 101, Angostura Black, Angostura, Sloe Gin Rickey, Karma Suture and Mai Tai; Cranberry Gin, Burnstown Dam, Failed Attempt, Street Cred and Terylene Top; Bramalea Beauty and Carbon Phyber; Hurry Up, Soul Papa, Prime Minister of Canada and Frozen Dog Treats; Malache Crunch, Budmo Jiggler and Shifty Chica; 1980 Portable, Soul Mama and Jigsaw Trouserdrop; Pop Up Fontio, Welfare Brat and World of Water; Chicken Wire Lady, Outright Televism and Ouijadork; Earwig Factory, Contour Generator and Skeletor Stance; Unsteady Oversteer and Urkelian Television Dynasty; Interplanetary Crap, Kicking Limos and Stupefaction; Abberancy, Good Times, Pants Patrol and Po Beef; Five Double Zero, Switching and Effetcs, 6809 Chargen, Abandoned Bitplane, CHR$(32), Delta Hey Max Nine, Jingopop and Johnny Fever; Biometric Joe, !Y2KBUG and Wake & Bake; Blue highway; Electroharmonix (oriental simulation), Densmore and Lewinsky; Vibrocentric and Forgotten Futurist; Hemi Head 427, Vibrocentric, Naftalene and Forgotten Futurist; King Richard, Cuomotype and Highway to Heck; Anklepants. [Google]

Lenka Melcakova

Asian simulation font download site (in Czech). [Google]

Lewis Foreman Day

Lettering artist and author, 1845-1910. His books include Alphabets Old and New: Containing Over One Hundred and Fifty Complete (1902, B.T. Batsford), which has a large number of historic alphabets, initials, blackletter examples, and new alphabets by the author himself. Other books: Lettering in ornament (B.T. Batsford, 1902), The anatomy of pattern (B.T. Batsford, 1895 ), Penmanship of the XVI, XVII & XVIIIth centuries, and Nature and Ornament (B.T. Batsford, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892). He created numerous pen-drawn alphabets. I am using the descriptive names he used in his own book, Alphabets Old and New: Modern Brush Letters, Blunt Brushwork, Blunt Twisted Brushwork, Japanese Brushwork, Modern Capitals for engraving on metal, Modern Capitals, more Modern Capitals, and yet more Modern Capitals, Modern early Gothic Capitals for engraving on metal, Modern Early Spanish Letters, Modern Foliated Capitals, Modern Gothic Capitals, Modern Minuscule Gothic, Modern Roman Capitals, Modern Roman Italics, Modern Twisted Letters, Numerals (set 1), Numerals (set 2), and Numerals (set 3). [Google]

Limit.type fonts

Alternate URL. Original roman and kana fonts: Hatukari-Alpha, Hatukari-Kana, Sans-Copperplate-Gothic, alphaDot, angular, etudy_alpha, etudy_kata, failsafe, handy [hands], hexen [oriental simulation font], kanaDot, precautor [dingbats], regulator-b-01 [dingbats], strings, trisos. [Google]

Lovedesign Company
[Wataru Osakabe]

Lovedesign offers free fonts, mostly by Wataru Osakabe (aka J. Brain): Fool22, CommonPixel, Haris, SecretPassage, SucideNote, Vanilla, Arupino (2001, kana), CherryBlossom (futuristic, 2001), Metropolis (Bauhaus style, 2001), Lovedesign 99 font kana, Gulico Extra Bold, Han-Rice (2000, Asian lookalike font), Tytyle kana, Tytyle Regular (kitchen tile face), Cobra-Ld Regular, ErisKana, MonnaLisa, LovelyDesign, Aurora Devil, Tonight Tonight, Cobra2, GENOCIDERMX, GameOver, HEIGHt, Loedesign99HIRABold, Metamorphose, SweetDays, Poo, tonighonigh, Tytyle, Romantic9 (2004, with Junichi Kato), Papicon (techno), Gameboy gamegirl, Ookami-girl, Hirakumo, Ikkoue, TKO Crazy, F39 Gold (stencil), Fickle, Mr. Chan, Aurora Dance, Masshimo (dingbats of figures made by Akiko Yaeshima). As of January 2004, these can be downloaded: LVDCCLASSIX, LVDCCobra4AL, LVDCCobra4KN, LVDCDisco02, LVDCDubKana, LVDCErisSQ, LVDCFool22, LVDCGOLD, LVDCGulico3, LVDCIKKOUE, LVDCLovelydesign, LVDCMirinda, LVDCNextGames, LVDCOtsukaDream, LVDCPapicon, LVDCPoo3, LVDCSecretPassage, LVDCSucideNote, LVDCSweetDays, LVDCTonightTonight, LVDCVanilla, LVDCauroradance, LVDCver5, LVDCArupino, LVDCBloodyValentine, LVDCCommonPix2, LVDCDubKana, LVDCHaris, LVDCauroradevil, LVDCHanricever3, LVDCMrsChan, LVDCGarnet (2004), LVDCMelos (2004), LVDC Berlin, LVDC Rebirth, LVDC Parthenon, LVDC Nina. [Google]

Mad Irishman
[Patrick Michael Murphy]

Mad Irishman has original fonts by Patrick Michael Murphy, who is American (from Mebane, NC), not Irish: Aberration (2001), Game Icons (2008), Baldur (1999, uncial), Carlisle (2000), Graz (2001), Miyama (2001, oriental simulation font), Old Roman (2002, a text family based on an 1895 typeface designed by T.W. Smith), Ronan (2006), Splendors (2001; modeled on the modified version of the Mason font that Wizards of the Coast uses for their titling on their Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms publications). MyFonts page. The fonts are now also available at Agfa/Monotype. Celtic look fonts include Aberration, Baldur, Graz and Splendors. [Google]

Mah Jong

A free font called Mahjong by Yoshiki Kita (1998). This page by Gareth and Jane Saunders also has a small orientla simulation font archive with Wonton KG, Orient1, Bamboo and Bonzai. [Google]

Manfred Klein's Fonteria
[Manfred Klein]

Frankfurt-based designer (b. 1932) whose creative output is so large that he deserves a separate web page. His URL at Moorstation from 2000-2007. New page on him by Florian Rochler. Font squirrel link. [Google]

Marc Zuurman

Dutch designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Autos (car dingbats), Pixels, Arabische Lettertype (oriental simulation face) and Wayang Kulit. [Google]

Marder, Luse and Company

Chicago-based type foundry, 1863-1892, also called Scofield, Marder, Toepfer & Co., Scofield, Marder & Co., and the Chicago Type Foundry. In the great Chicago fire of 1871, they lost all their matrices. They were part of the big number of foundries bought in 1892 to form the American Type Foundry. They are credited with inventing the American point system, in which 12 points are a pica and 72.27 points are an inch. A list of types will follow later, but for now, I'll just mention display types such as Mandarin (an oriental simulation face digitized by Elsner & Flake in 1985 and available here). [Google]

Marko Maljkovic

Split, Croatia-based designer of Pynkei DIN (2006, handwriting). Alternate URL. [Google]

Markus Remscheid

German type designer who took part in the Linotype International Type design Contest in 2000. He is associated with Xplicit and Moniteurs in Berlin. He designed the artsy font Kissen in 1997. He also made Linotype Russisch Brot (1999) and Linotype MhaiThaipe (1997), a Thai simulation font. Remscheid is involved in H2D2, a graphic and web design company in Frankfurt, where he created the grunge face H2D2-Alevita-Rough (1996). Dafont link. FontShop link. [Google]

Match Software
[Michel Bujardet]

West Hollywood, CA-based foundry led by Michel Bujardet (b. Bordeaux, France, 1951), who is Mike Budge on alt.binaries.fonts. They make and sell interesting font paks. A particular favorite of mine is the Calligraphic Fonts Pack 2, which has the beautiful medieval-look face Rodolphe (2001), together with the Chancellerie family, the blackletter font SquareText, and a few Uncial fonts called Oncial. Free demos. Cursive Handwriting is a 6-font pak for teaching handwriting. Also offering a handwriting and signature font service. Among free offerings, check Le Blackmail (ransom font). Also, commercial fonts for these languages: Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hawai`ian, International Phonetic (IPA), Hebrew, Hieroglyphs, Hungarian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Marshallese, Polynesian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian, Yiddish. Interesting creations: Boulon (letters with bolts), Bujardet (French restaurant type), Calebasse, Chinoiseries (Chinese look-alike), Cristolikid (LCD), Diodes Light, Grecques, Halloween, Malabars, Metroplitain, Monogram, Octogone, Osselets (bones), Parador, Ruban Dis-Moi, SilBooettes, TSF et Compagnie, Venitienne, Yiddilatin, Zebrues, and the dingbats Dinosotype, Alphabetzier, Nahkt Hieroglyphics, Norman Prince (children's handwriting), Angelots, Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans, La Main Guided, La Main Solid (both children's tracing fonts).Plus text fonts such as Bordini, Bordofixed, BoumBoum, ChapClerk, Dactylographe (nice!), Halotique (sans serif), Tortillon (2001), Normographe (great too!), Normafixed, Oloron, Parlante (serif family), Presse (typewriter), Technicien. Plus handwriting fonts Skrypta, Skryptaag (upright and connected) and Willegha. And a Morse Code font. The Halloween pack includes Coulures, Halloween, Osselets and SilBooettes. Bitstream write-up. Fixed width fonts include Dactylographe, Oloron, Bordo, Norma. Direct access. Interview and photo. Alternate URL (in French), with many more fonts, such as the handwritten Pierre, Mariette. MICR E13 B font. [Google]

Michael Allen Olejarczyk

Graphic designer from Garden City, MI, b. 1980. Creator of the futuristic font Intentional (2003) [see also here] and the oriental simulation font Marts (2003) [see also Samurai (2003)]. Alternate URL. [Google]

Michael F. Hughes

Designer of the sans serif font Boolean (2000) and of the Thai simulation font Farang (2002). Graduate in design from Coventry University. [Google]

Michael Herndon

Born in 1971 and based in Minnesota, Michael Herndon, aka Thamyris designed the faux oriental face O-Wee-Ental (2007) and the dingbats Christian Crew (2008) and Gtartings (2008). [Google]

Michael Want

British typographer. Morisawa Judge's Choice Award winner in 1996 for his typeface Fusaka (an oriental simulation font, Adobe). Other designs: P22 ToyBox Blocks, P22 ToyBox Animals, P22 Vincent, P22 DeStijl, P22 daddyO-Square, P22 Bayer Fonetik, P22 Acropolis, P22 Kells Square, P22 Infestia, P22 Fonosaurus, P22 Folk Art, P22 Vincent Extras, P22 GD&T, P22 Prehistoric Pals, P22 Prehistoric Pen. [Google]

Middernacht

American designer of the oriental symbol face Cybertronian (2008). [Google]

Multimedia Fonts

One zip file with 100+ fonts (2.4MB). Among the unusual entries, CelticmdDecorativeWDropCaps, CochinArchaic, Curetana, Gaelach, Goethe, Heidelbe-Light, Hermia, the QuickType family, Yazata (oriental simulation). Lots of Scriptorium fonts, obviously. [Google]

Nathan Caldecott

UK-based designer. Creator of Shanghai (2009), Beijing (2009, rounded octagonal), Beijing Redux, French Electric (2009, a horizontally striped techno face), Team Icaras (2009, futuristic font based on the logo and slogan 'Flying High' for Icaras, a team in the Wipeout series), Intercorp II (2009, techno), Team Feisar (2009, a futuristic font based on the logo and slogan 'The Future Is Euro' for Feisar, a team in the Wipeout series), Team Goteki 45 Font (2009, a futuristic font based on the logo and slogan 'Future Proof' for Goteki 45, a team in the Wipeout series), Xiaku (2009, a techno oriental simulation face), Cutting Edge (2009, poster font), Team Qirex (2009, a FontStruct font based on the logo and slogan 'High Speed Revolution' for Qirex, a team in the Wipeout series), and WipeoutHD (2009, techno). Serif Neu (2009) is constructivist. More fonts basded on Wipeout series, all made in 2009, and most but not all based on FontStruct: Team Icaras [also called In Its Right Place, copyright "tople"], Empire, Multiplex, Piranha. Intercorp (2009, +Redux; made with FontStruct) is a futuristic font based in some of The Designer's Republic work. Zeta (2009, FontStruct) is based on the futuristic logo for Sylva, a fictional company in the Wipeout series. In 2009, he also made a series of blocky fonts such as The Elements Fire, The Elements Water, the Elements Air, and The Elements Earth. [Google]

Neil Blevins

Artist and graphic designer. Creator of the original font Wound (1999), in which palm lines are combined with letters. Not available to the general public. He also made IX, IX Corroded (1999, both ransom note fonts), Syscraper 99 (1998), Too Damn Tall, Scratch Your Eyes Out (1998, oriental simulation face), and Digital Stabbing (1998). No downloads. [Google]

Nickolay Boltachev

Kirov, Russia-based type and graphic designer. Creator in 2008 of BeckettGothic (blackletter), Veloprofy (bike chain-inspired glyphs), Podval (type in the form of pressure meters), a few Cyrillc sans faces, and Slash (an oriental simulation face in Cyrillic). Behance link. [Google]

Nick's Fonts
[Nick Curtis]

Very pretty and interesting free original fonts by Nick Curtis (b. Chicago, 1948, lived in Texas from 1952-1997, and lives since 1997 in Alexandria, MD), who runs Nick's Fonts. Most of his fonts were made since 1997. Interview. Originally, his fonts were free. Now, some are free, and some are sold commercially. But all of his fonts are carefully crafted and often art deco. Free downloads at TypOasis. Complete list of names and other info, maintained by Sander de Voogt. Interview in which we learn about his fondness for Corel Draw as a type desiogn tool. Some fonts: Great Lakes (2003), Trading Post (2003), Ding Dong DaddyO (GoudyStout), Ironick Normal (an exaggerated BernhardModern), Plug Nickel (reworking of Bremen Black, with small caps and a rather skeptical uppercase R added), NickerBocker (Art Deco), Titanick (remake of the bold pin-striped Dextor at Elsner and Flake), Platonick (striped font), Runy Tunes (Art Nouveau), Holy Ravioli (Publicity Gothic), Laconick (William Morris; almost medieval), Bellhop (2003), Beauty School Dropout (has some underlined characters), Troglodyte, PilotPointWBW (2001), Pinball Whiz, Nickodemus Extremus (Aldous or Huxley Vertical), Nickley Normal, Selznick Normal, Standing Room Only (Broadway Poster), Dymaxian Script, Aerojones (2002), Altamonte, Monterey Popsicle (fifties font), Wooden Nickel (Bernhard Antique Bold Condensed), Ritzy Normal (Busorama), Bulwark (2003), Coaster Poster, Greasy Spoon, Nickelodeon, Facets (2003), Fashion Victim (Bernhard Fashion), Bala Cynwyd, Little Deuce Coup, Our Gang, Avignon (ironwork), Backstage Pass (Headline), Arbuckle (improved ITC Beesknees, in 2008 extended to Arbuckle Remix), Becker Black (2002), BeteNoir (wow!), Boeuf au Joost (2003, art deco based on work by comic book artist Joost Swarte), Chi-Town, 42nd Street, Jeepers, Nip&Tuck (art deco), PleasinglyPlump, Plug Nickel Black, Public Enemy, Steppin'Out (since 2002 a Bitstream font), Tooney Noodle, Toyland, Avignon (spectacular ironwork font), Backstage Pass (Broadway font). Alternate URL. Direct access. List of fonts: Circuit Bored, Midland Rail, Metropolis (based on this movie poster from 1927 by Hungarian Josef Bottlik), Shangri-La SC (2002), Happy Campers (2002), Highfive, Slugfest, Airstream, Anagram, Anchor Steam (2002), AndironOutline, AntsyPants, Arizona Airways (2003), AtelierSans, AtelierSansBookItalic, Avignon, Backstage-PassA, BeautySchoolDropout, BeteNoirA, Bittersweet, Boogie Nights (2002), Boo Meringue (2002), Bric-a-Braque, Buenos Aires (2003), Camp Gramophone (2002), Granada (2002), CaptainSwabby, ChainsawGeometric, Chippewa Falls (2002), Chi-Town, ChockABlock, CongaLine, Conquistadorman (2002), Copasetic, Creampuff, ITCCuppaJoe, DecoBorders, DecoDingbats1, DeStencil (2003), Ding-DongDaddyO, DoctorJekyll, DubbaDubbaA, Duck Soup (2003, after a 1928 poster by Italian designer Neri Nanetti for Snob Cognac), Duesenberg (2003), DymaxionScript, EastMarket, EmpireState, Emporium, Modern Typography, FancyPants, FashionVictim, FeteAccompli, Flatiron, Flora Dora (2003), Forty-SecondStreet, Franken's-SteinA, FullTiltBoogie, GradoGradooNF (2002, a Bauhaus-style font, based on this 1932 poster), Great Lakes (2003), GuinnessExtraStout (1999, based on characters drawn in 1938 by Carlyle and Oring), Harvest Moon (2003), Holy-Ravioli, Hornswoggled, Ironick-Normal, Jeepers, Junebug Stomp (2003, based on a 1925 poster for the chanteuse Arlette Montal, signed simply Bouchard), JungleFever, KartoonKutz, KartoonKutz2, Kinkajou Stew (2003), Kismet-Normal, KnickOTeen, Knickerbocker-Dingbats, Krazy Kracks (2003), Labyrinth, Laconick-NormalA, Laff Riot NF (2002), LakeWobegonNF (2002), Little Rickey (2003), Maloja Palace (2003, a fat fun face), Materhorn, Matinee Idol (2003, after a 1931 poster for a German Spa by Fritz Loehr), Melina (2003, Bitstream, patterned after two members of a type family named Greco, released by Fundicion Richard Gans of Madrid, Spain, in the 1920s. Melina Plain is a refined version of Greco Bold, and Melina Fancy is based on Greco Adornado), Metro-Retro, Middle Earth (2003), Monkey-Fingers, Munchausen (2003), MyGalSwoopy (2002), Nickelodeon, Nickerbocker-Normal, Nickley-NormalA, Nicklishnickoz, Nickodemus-Extremus, Nightcap, NipAndTuck, OK Chorale (2003, an art deco face based on Carl Holmes' ABC of Lettering book), OldgateLaneOutline, OurGang, Packard Clipper (2003), ParkLane, PicayuneIntelligence (now at Bitstream; read about its development here), Platonick-Normal, PleasinglyPlump, Plug-NickelBlack, Pomegranate (2003, after a 1931 travel poster by Willy Dzubas for Pommern, Germany), Ponsonby (2003, Western font), PopularCafeAA, Public-Enemy, Quaint Notions (2003, based on Alf Becker's lettering), RadioRanch, Raskalnikov (2003, Cyrillic font simulation), RhubarbPie, RhumbaScript, Rialto, RicksAmericanNF (2002), RitzyNormal, Runy-Tunes, Sarsaparilla, Satanick-Regular, ScramGravy, Seaside Resort (2003), Secret Agent NF (2003, Broadway display face), SelznickNormal, Sesquipedalian, Sho-Card-Caps, Sid-theKid (1999), Slugfest (2001), Snoopy Snails, SouciSans, SpondulixNF (2003), StandingRoomOnly, SteppinOut, Stony Island (2002), Studebaker, TaraBulbous (2008, a fat lettered font that revives an alphabet of Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring), TechnicalPlain, Teenick-, Testarossa (2002), Titanick-Display, TobaccoRoadNF (2002), TooneyNoodle, Toyland-OutlineA, Trading Post (2003), Tropicana (2003), Tucson Two-Step (2003), Two For Juan (2002), Underground (1999), UppenArmsNF-Medium (2003), Upper Arms (2003), Valley Grrrl (2003), VielleVarsovieNF (sic)(2003), Amsterdam Tangram, Rivanna (after a 1903 art nouveau design by Max Gradl), WalrusGumbo, Wooden Shoe Review (2003), WoodenNickelBlack, Zinzinnati, Cameo Appearance, Drive-Thru, FairfaxStation, Kerfuffle, LakeshoreDrive, City Slicker, Phatt Phreddy, Pastiche, VlaanderenSquare, MisterChuckles (now ITC Mister Chuckles), BeautySchoolDropoutII, VlaanderenRound, Tanglewood Tales. These fonts are now commercial (Bitstream or ITC): Atelier Sans, Cuppa Joe, Jeepers, Mister Chuckles, Day Poster Black (2002), Vinnie Boombah (2002), Scram Gravy, Steppin Out, Zinzinnati (now ITC Zinzinnati), BoyzRGross (2001), HardlyWorthit, HutSutRalston, ITC Atelier Sans (2001), Herald Square, ShangriLa NF (2002), Bessie Mae Moocho NF (2002, art deco font based on handlettering found on a travel brochure for IMM Steamship Lines, circa 1927), Gotham Rail Company NF (2002, art deco based on an Italian travel poster from 1931), LaModaNF (2002, based on poster lettering for an Italian fashion house of the same name, designed by Wilman Schiroli in 1935), Drumag Studio (2003), March Madness (2003, inspired by lettering from a 1920s Italian poster by legendary "postermeister" Marcello Dudovich), Monte Carlo Script NF (2002, art deco font based on a font called Médicis from a Deberny and Peignot catalog, circa 1920), White Tie Affair (2002, pretty vertical lines!), Ciné Miroir NF (2003), Fireside Chat NF (2003, based on lettering of Samuel Welo), Nord Express NF (2003, simulating poster font ideas of A.M. Cassandre; a variation of the typeface Acier Noir, Deberny & Peignot, 1936), Parsival Oldestyle NF (2003, patterned after Camelot, a 1920's font by ATF), Petre Devos NF (2003, based on a 1930s poster for a Flemish beer), Red Star Line NF (2003, based on a 1926 travel brochure), Soda Jerk NF (2003, based on a 1929 travel brochure), Toot Sweet Bistro NF (2003, based on a 1928 restaurant poster by artist Karl Bauer). CV at MyFonts. Recently, he started selling some of his designs through Agfa-Monotype, Bitstream and ITC, such as BoDiddlioniStencil, ITC Photoplay (2002, based on lettering from 1927 by Samuel Welo, intended originally for captions of silent movies), ITC Scram Gravy, ITC Jeepers (2002), Erehwon Roman NF (2002, an exaggeration of University Roman), Heberling Casual NF, Marrakesh Express NF (2002, based on a 30s poster font), Slam Bang Theater NF (2002, patterned after the font Nubian Black, designed by Willard T. Sniffin for American Type Founders in the 1930s), Wagner Silhouette NF (2002, based on a 1946 design by Charles Louis Henry Wagner), Laguna Madre WBW, WHG Simpatico NF (2002), Sabrina Zaftig NF (2002), Amstel Heavy (2002), Bergling Fantasia NF (2002, after handlettering by J.M. Bergling), Bundle of Joy NF (2002), Namesake (2002, loosely based on Allan Gothic by Allan Brandtner), New Deal Deco NF (2002), Perserphone NF (2002, a Greek simulation font), Day Tripper NF (2002, based on a design originally called Dignity Roman by the unconventional 30s lettering artist Alphonse E. Tripp), Vielle Varsovie NF (2003), Raskalnikov NF (2003, Cyrillic simulation font), Spondulix NF (2003), Little Rickey NF (2003), Bayern Handschrift (2004), De Rigueur NF (2004), Refugio Rustic WBW (2004), Refugio Refined WBW (2004), Ponte Vecchio NF (2004), Brazzaville NF (2004, based on Congo, a 1910 font by Barnhart Brothers \& Spindler), Falfurrias WBW (Whiz-Bang Woodtype) (2004), Moonshine Script NF (2004), West Coast Antics (2004, based on a showing from Carl Holmes' 1950s book, ABC of Lettering), Zuider Zee NF (2004, a strongly geometric stencil face based on a 1937 travel brochure for the Dutch Mails Shipping Company), Chalk and Cheese NF (2004: the uppercase is based on 1930s lettering by French poster artist Charles Loupot, and the lowercase is based on 1910s lettering by German plakatmeister Ludwig Hohlwein), Matthews Modern Stencil NF (2004, based on lettering artist Eric Matthews), Mexia WBW (2004, a Western font), Nanki Poo NF (2004, based on Mikado from the Boston Type Foundry), Picture Postcard BF (2004, a Broadway style face based on work by lettering artist Alf Becker), Curly Shuffle NF (2004, described as a mix of Alf Becker's style and Leslie Cabarga's), Hardy Har Har NF (2004, based on Samoa from BB&S, 1900), Krazy Kracks NF (2004, based on the so-called California style of lettering used extensively in travel posters of the 30s to the 50s. This version is based on its interpretation by Carl Holmes in a Walter T. Foster artbook entitled ABC of Lettering), Pearson Stencil NF (2004, based on a 1923 offering by F.A. Pearson in Ticket and showcard designing), Whoa Nelly NF (2004, a version of Dan X. Solo's Funhouse), Bushwacked (2004), Cressida (2004, triline face), New Boston (2004, far West face), Poodle Pusher (2004, fifties script), Rumble Seat (2004), Kartoon Kutz 3 & 4 NF (2004), Magic Twanger NF (2004), Woody Goodies 1&2 WBW (2004, pointing hands and ornaments), Snoodle Toons NF (2004), Beanie Kopter NF (2004), Boston Blackie NF (2004, a blackletter face from the 1832 catalog of the Boston Type Foundry), Delysian NF (2004, based on Greeting card from the 1923 catalog of BB&S), Mazurka NF (2004, based on Swagger Capitals and Gothic Novelty title from the 1923 catalog of BB&S), Jungle Holiday Cuts NF (2004, based on holiday ornaments by Carl S. Junge, 1929), Grand Prairie WBW (2004, based on an ornamental wood type called Medallic), Stone Soup NF (2004, based on lettering for a 1925 Buster Keaton movie), Tintern Abbey NF (2004, based on the lettering for a 1905 poster for the Austrian National Highway by artist Gustav Jahn), Period Borders NF (2004), Parsnip and Parsnip Outline (2004: Will Ransom designed the exemplar for this series for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in the early 1900s---the typeface was originally named Parsons (1918), after the advertising director of a Chicago department store), Londonderry Air (2002-2004, based on an old American Type Founders typeface called Canterbury, Wurstwagen (2004, suggested by a poster for beer, designed by German artist Ludwig Hohlwein around 1920), Jackson Park NF (2004, 1920s style), Kenosha Antique NF (2004; from the 1903 Racine typeface of Barnhart Brothers & Spindler), Kynges X NF (2004, a blackletter face inspired by the 1938 classic, Letters and Lettering by Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring), Ye Olde Block NF (2004: Lewis F. Day, in his book Alphabets Old and New, offered this typeface as an example from sixteenth-century England of lettering incised in wood), Catty Wumpas (2004, based on lettering of Ross F. George), Edda MorganaNF (2005, medieval English), Gnarly Dude NF (2005, rough script based on material of Ross F. George), Whirled Peas NF (2005, based on a face called Whitestone Scrawl by Dan X. Solo in his "Showcard Alphabets"), One Good Urn NF (2005, based on the art nouveau lettering of J. M. Bergling in Art Alphabets and Lettering (1914)), Cool Cat Jim NF (2005, based on a 1953 headline by Jim Flora in Park East Magazine), Funky Chunk NF (2005, diner font based on "Pelt Emphasis Script by Carl Holmes), Shishka Bob NF (2005, based on the calligraphy of Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring), Sulphur Springs WBW (2005, bone font), Grand Rapids (2005, based on a typeface named Archer from the 1905 specimen book from Barnhart Brothers & Spindler), Hasta La Pasta (2005, designed after a typeface from a pre-1900 specimen book from the Central Type Foundry of St. Louis, called Spiral), La Coupole (2005, based on lettering on a 1927 menu by prominent poster artists Razzia), Shadowlands (2005: this is like Wilcox Initials from the 1992 Solotype Catalog), Possum Saltare NF (2005, a Trajan column style caps face), Pismo Clambake NF (2005, after a Richard Gans handwriting face from 1933, Gloria), Ransom Clearcut NF (2005, an extension of Will Ransom's 1920s caps-only face Clearcut Shaded Caps for BBS), Waxahachie WBW (2005, a Victorian stencil face), Almost Heaven (2005, sold in the early 1900s as Perfection), Goodbye Crewel World (2005, stitching font), Jimbatz NF (2005, dingbats inspired by album cover artist Jim Flora), Streamers NF (2005, a Victorian-era typeface called Fillet revived), Bad Dookie NF (2005, from The Advertising Cartoon Clip Art Book, 1971), Maple Leaf Rag NF (2005, revival of Nova Bold by Continental Typefounders), San Marcos WBW (2005, a Western saloon font called Marquette in Dan X. Solo's Victorian Display Alphabets), Shady Lady NF (2005, called Umbra in the 1907 Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type specimen catalog), Surely You Jest NF (2005, called Arbor in the 1890's type specimen catalog from Farmer, Little & Co), Merry Old Soul NF (2005, a display face discovered in one of the many books on sign writing produced by Eric Matthews), Durham Abbey NF (2005, based on a Victorian era font called Romanesque, which can be found in the Dan X. Solo collection), Funky Tut NF (205; the caps are based on J.M. Bergling's Morocco (1914), and the lower cases on Bergling's Kermaic Text (1914)), Groove Thang NF (2005, based on a font called Dado), Terlingua WBW (2005, a wood type called Phanitalian in Rob Roy Kelly's collection), Blandford Woodland NF (2005, a light version with lower case of Neuland as seen in Pen & Brush Lettering and Practical Alphabets, published by Blandford Press, Ltd., London, in 1929; that same book yielded also Tiny Bubbles NF (2008, a more art deco style)), Chemin de Fer NF (2005, art deco shadowed outline face), Novadam Obese (2005, geometric black modern face based on a logotype by the same name of Joan Trochut Blanchard, ca. 1940s), Smackeroo NF (2005, engraved US dollar-bill style face based on Steelplate, a monocase face from ca. 1900 by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler), Snooty Fox NF (2005, an elegant face found in Pen & Brush Lettering and Practical Alphabets, Blandford Press, Ltd., London, 1929), Chez Nous (2005, based on Card Itlaic from a 1930s Mergenthaler Linotype Company specimen book), Slapdash Deco NF (2005, based on a showcard alphabet presented by Cecil Wade in his Manual of Lettering), Rockin Roman NF (2005, from Blandford Press' Pen & Brush Lettering and Practical Alphabets), Kunstgewerbe NF (2005, artsy face after work by J.M. Bergling, 1914), Fordor Incised NF (2005, an enhancement of the blackletter face Tudor Black), Chantilly Lace NF (2005, based on a type by J.M. Bergling; the lower case comes from English architect Roland W. Paul), Details Details NF (2005, a geometric design from Pen and Brush Lettering and Practical Alphabets), Escondido NF (2005, inspired by an Austrian travel poster designed by Johann Süssenbek in the 1930s), Kirschwasser NF (2005, a bubbly art deco face), Londonderry Air NF (2002-2004, based on Canterbury Old Style RR, a 1930s lettering face from the ATF catalogue), Ballyhaunis NF (2005, based on Celtic lettering by Laurence Schall, early 1900s), Inglenook Corner NF (2005, based on lettering by Laurence Schall, early 1900s), Kifisia Antigua NF (2005, an interpretation of El Greco Antique, a 1930s face by Richard Gans), Mohair Sam NF (2005: caps based on letters of Samuel Welo, and lower case based on ATFs Romany Script), Partenkirchen NF (2005, a Basque style display face), Foxcroft and Foxcroft Shaded (2005, an art nouveau face based on Vassar (1887, Farmer, Little & Co)), Helena Handbasket NF (2005, after Antique Light, found in the 1888 edition of the James Conners Sons United States Type Foundry specimen book), Rassetta NF and Rassetta Swash Caps NF (2005, an art deco pair of faces originally designed by Willard T. Sniffin for American Type Founders in 1931 under the name Rosetti), Boola Boola NF (2006, an improved version of the 50s font Team Spirit, used in the Tank McNamara comic strip and on Blue Collar TV), Duly Noted NF (2006, after an ATF face from 1912 called Freeahand), Got That Bling NF (2006, a connected script based on the work of Al Mack, from his Lettering: Brush & Pen in the Single Stroke), Haarlem Nights (2006, based on a 1920 Dutch poster for Public Placement Services by Johan Dijsktra), Architectuur NF (2006, based on De Stijl type lettering by H. Th. Wijdeveld, 1925), Gandy Dancer NF (2006, a revival of Tabard, ca. 1912, ATF), Pomfrit Dandy NF (2006, based on Frys Ornamented No. 2 by Stephenson Blake), Smith Premier (Clean and Schmutzy) NF (2006, a typewriter pair after the letters of the Smith Premier No. 3), Faerie Queen NF (2006, based on a typeface named Titania from a 1930s specimen book from the Fundición Richard Gans), Posh Soiree NF (2006, a blackletter from the 1923 ATF specimen book, where it is called Engravers Text), Red Hot Mama NF (2006), Jumbo Mumbo NF (2006, a revival of Independant done in 1930 by Collette and Dufour), Union Telegraph NF (2006), Centralia Depot NF (2006, based on Central Antique, ATF catalog of 1912), Daliwood NF (2006; based on the Western saloon style face called Les Catalanes, designed in 1952 by Enric Crous-Vidal for Fonderie Typographique Française), La Reyna Catalina NF (2006; an art deco face based on Aragón, designed by Enric Crous-Vidal), Loading Dock NF (2006; stencil patterned after the lettering produced by the Marsh Stencil Making Machine), Major Production NF (2006, which was followed in 2009 by Major Pro Extras NF), Teeny Boppin NF (2006, gleaned from Schrifti Alphabeti, a book of Cyrillic alphabets published in Kiev in 1979), Rutin Tutin NF (2006, based on Wild West lettering found in Schrifti Alphabeti, 1979), Korner Deli NF (2006, art deco), Jampact NF (23006), Beagle Boyz NF (2006, a bouncy face based on a Cyrillic alphabet presented in the book Schrifti Alphabeti, 1979), Midtown Tessie NF and Downtown Tessie NF (2006, a mosaic tile faces), Scary Scrimshaw (2006, based on a 1968 poster for a Doors concert), Xanthippe NF (2006, an "exuberant" blackletter face based on a design by Ross George in his Speedball Text Book), Bellagio NF (2006, an interpretation of Robert Wiebking's 1917 font Advertisers Gothic, designed for BB&S), High Society NF (2006, based on an alphabet found in Lettering for the Commercial Artist by Blandford Press), Osiyo Dohitsu NF (2006, based on letterforms in the Cherokee Syllabary, reputedly devised by a gentleman named Sequoyah in the early nineteenth century; it has petroglyphs as well), Fredericksburg WBW (2006, after a wood type by Rob Roy Kelly, which is the same source Jordan Davies used for his Teutonic), Micro Manager NF (2006, pixel face), Paper Caper NF (2006), Round Rock WBW (2006, a Western style font called No. 154 by Rob Roy Kelly), Quoi Chou (2006: a beefed up version of Bernhard Fashion), Shady Grove (2006, a condensed version of Thorne Shaded), American Pi NF (2006: ATF ornaments from the catalogs between 1913-1934, including some designed by Will Bradley, Frederic Goudy and George Trenholm), Graphic Stylin NF (2006: a script stencil face with a late 19th century feel), Rough Cut NF (2006: a grunged up version of the art nouveau face Daphne), The Donald NF (2006, a hyper-curly decorative face), Tulpe Fraktur NF (2006, a wonderful blackletter found by Curtis in a 1927 German sign painter mag), Boo Meringue NF (2006, a Halloween font based on Lithotint (1897, ATF)), Deukalion NF (2006, a fun art nouveau headline face), Lesser Arcana (2006, a mystical type), Shiver Me Timber NF (2006, an eroded stencil face based on old Victor Hammer designs), Zyklop NF (2006), Deux Chasses NF (2006, based on ATF's Thermotype), Bon Mot NF (2006, based on Barnhart Brothers & Spindler's Engravers Upright Script), Ragged Write NF (2006, based on ATF's controversial Hearst, which Goudy claimed to be a rip-off of one of his designs), Plus de Vagues NF (2006, based on a curly alphabet by Stephenson Blake called Recherché), Munchkin Land NF (2006, based on a work called Thor, issued by Frederic Wesselhoeft Ltd of London in the 1930s), Didgeree Doodle NF (2006, a curly cursive originally released as Bernhard Heavy Antique Cursive by the Bauersche Giesserei by Lucien Bernhard), Hupp Antiqua NF (2006, a gorgeous display face first done in 1909 by Otto Hupp for Klingspor), Kudo Kaps One, Two, Three and Four NF (2006, a total of eight classical initial caps faces), Crane Titling NF (2006, medieval-inspired uppercase letters drawn by famed book illustrator Walter Crane with charming, if somewhat quirky, lowercase letters by J. W. Weekes), DecimoSexto NF (+italic) (2006, includes Spanish Roman letters and Griffo style italics, both hand-drawn by Francisco Lucas in Madrid, 1577), Visillo Adornado (2006, a caps face based on the typeface Vesta, originally designed by Albert Auspurg for H. Berthold AG, Berlin in 1926), Dundee Castle NF (2007, based on lettering by Harvey Hopkins Dunn, 1930), Glengary NF (2007, a digitization of Glenmoy (1932, Stephenson Blake), an upright script also digitized by Alejandro Paul in 2005 as Mousse Script), Gatlinburg Gossamer NF (2007, ultra-thin typewriter type), Sheik Of Araby NF (2007), Aethelred NF (2007, a unicase typeface, with alternate characters in several of the lowercase positions, is patterned after Mosaik, designed by Martin Kausche for Schriftgiesserei Stempel in 1954; Sultan (2005, Canada Type) is also based on Mosaik). Cerulean NF (2007, a sans based on Lining Gothic No. 71 (ATF, 1907)), Rimshot NF (2007, script), Jaunty Gent NF (2007, based on Rheinhold Kräftig, by Erich Mollowitz in 1937 for the Hamburg foundry of J. D. Tennert & Sohn), Baby Cakes NF (2007, based on a 1974 release by Karlgeorg Hoefer at the Ludwig & Mayer foundry called Big Band), Amper Sans NF (2007, after Hobby, a script designed in 1956 by Werner Rebhuhn for Schriftgießerei Genzsch & Heyse), Wacky Duck NF (2007), By George Titling NF (2007, inspired by silent movie lettering), Dinky Rink NF (2007, partially based on Steile Futura), Fuller Brush NF (2007), Tiddly Winks NF (2007), Iraan (2007, a stars and stripes face based on the ATF face Rodeo), Haut Relief (2007, a 3d face based on a 1960s face called Sculpture), Fiddle Sticks (2007, based on West Banjo (Dave West, 1960s)), Djibouti (2007, an African theme font modeled after African Queen (Dave West, 1960s), Wacky Duck NF (2007), Turing Car NF (2007, a monospaced typeface used on a lineprinter from the 1960s, the Unisys 0776), Route 66 NF (2007, based on the typefaces used on U.S. Highway signs from the 1930s to the 1950s), Meandro NF (2007, inspired by a labyrinth-like design of Brazilian designer Leandro Nogueira), Filibuster NF (2007, based on Congress, an ornamental face found in H. C. Hansen Type Foundry's catalog of 1909), Anna Nicole NF (2007, based on the upright script Mirabelle (1926, Wagner & Schmidt)), Keynote Speaker NF (2007, an awkward blocky face patterned after Bloomsbury (1920s, P. M. Shanks & Sons)), Twitty Bird NF (2007, an architectural drawing font based on Dan X. Solo's Conway), Balder Dash NF (2007, the caps are based on Breda-Gotisch (1928, H. Berthold AG) and the lowercase on Goudy Text)), Vidalia Sunshine NF (2007, an extension of the 1899 font Ornamented No. 5 from MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan), Putney Junction NF (2007, based on a BBS design), Outer Loop NF (2007), Tutti Paffuti NF (2007, after Stymie Black Flair), Vinnie Culture NF (2007, based on Carousel, a 1970s font by Vincent Pacella), Weedy Beasties NF (2007, after a variation of Seymour Chwast's Blimp), Bully Pulpit NF (2007), Keepon Truckin NF (2007, a 3d face based on Milton Glaser's Baby Fat). In the 1970s, Vincent Pacella made a Photolettering Egyptian headline face called Blackjack, which was digitized in 2007 by Nick Curtis as Flap Jacks NF. ITC Jeepers and Woodley Park (based on Naudin) won awards at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. Alternate URL. Artone was digitized as Loose Caboose NF (2007, Nick Curtis). J.M. Bergling provided the inspiration for His Nibs NF (2007, calligraphic script). Edwin Sisty's upright curly semiscript Belcanto (1970s, Photolettering) was revived in 2007 by Nick Curtis as Glissando NF. F.WQ. Kleukens' Kleukens Antiqua (1910) was digitized by Nick as Kleukens Antiqua NF (2007). Mogzilla NF (2007) is an ultra fat art deco face. Skittles N Beer NF (2007) is based on handlettering on a 1929 brochure for the P&O British-India Steamship Line. Tony Geddes' athletic lettering face in the Letragraphica series was the basis for Sis Boom Bah NF (2007). Holo Fernes NF (2007) is based on Christian Heinrich Kleukens' Judith Type (1923), a hookish hell-inspired face. Pudgy Puss (2007) is an ultra-fat modern display type based on Fat Face (Herb Lubalin, Tom Carnase). Tasneem (2007) is the ultimate art deco face, originally drawn by Gustav Jensen in 1931. Edgewise (2007), a quirky well-rounded post-art deco and pre-psychedelic face, uses ideas from Ryter Night (VGC). Dury Lane (2007) is based on a Victorian era release by Blake Type Foundry called Blackfriars. Ingvaeonic-Oldestyle (2007) is based on Viking Oldstyle, from the 1909 H.C. Hansen Type Foundry catalog. Omaha Bazoo (2007) is patterned after Viola Flare, issued by Franklin Photolettering in the 1970s. Peanut Galley (2007) is a comic book style font. Cleveland Litho NF (2007), a curly Victorian face, appeared in the 1898 specimen book of the Cleveland Type Foundry, under the name of Litho, while Yum Yum NF (1898) appeared in Cleveland's 1893 specimen book as Mikado. Lateral Incised NF (2007) is an engraved old style face originally released in 1929 as Gravure by the London foundry of C. W. Shortt. The type family Rowan Oak NF (2007) was originally released in the 1920s as Richmond Oldstyle by the Blackfriars Type Foundry of London. Tall Scrawl NF (2007) is an original Curtis handprinted font. Beantown Bounce NF (2007) revives an ornamental display face from the 1898 catalog of the Boston Type Foundry. Alfred Riedel's Domino (Ludwig & Mayer, 1954) was revived as Idle Fancy NF (2007). Boxcar Willie NF (2007) is a quaint curly face. Hip Hop NF (2007) is a bouncy retro face based on Friedrich Poppl's Dynamische Antiqua (1960, Stempel). One of the original drawings for Cooper Fullface was rejected by ATF but digitally revived by Nick Curtis in 2008 as Ozzi Modo Plump NF and Ozzi Modo Squooshed NF. Dave West's Nickelodeon was revived by Curtis as Lily Hilo NF (2008). The decorative wood type face French Antique Extended, featured in the 1905 BB&S catalog, and originally due to William H. Page was revived as Fran Tique NF (2008). Smart Frocks NF (2008) is art deco. Slugfest NF (2008) is patterned after Snail (2001, maniackers). Funky Rundkopf NF (2008) is an adaptation of an LED simulation font of Ray Larabie, called Dignity of Labour. Daffadowndilly NF (2007-2008) is based on art work by Alf Becker from the 1940s. Babes In Toyland NF (2008) has some of the Rennie Mackintosh charm. Anagram Shadow NF (2008) is based on handlettering from a 1928 poster for a steamship line by renowned British artist Austin Cooper. In 1927, Ernst Engel created an art deco face which was revived in 2008 by Nick Curtis as Engel Stabenschrift NF. Kandinsky NF (2008) is based on shapes found on Kandinsky's painting Succession (1935). An experimental typeface by Jeremy Pettis, illustrating the concept of kangaroo, inspired Pal Joey NF (2008). One of René Knip's experiments, a unicase typeface with an Arab feel, was digitized by Nick Curtis as Turban Hey NF (2008). Calamity Jane (2008) is a stylish Edwardian script based on a 1930s logotype for the Theatre Moderne in Paris. Chi Town NF (2008) is a heavy art deco creation that is based on a 1931 poster for the film The Man from Chicago. Orion Radio NF (2008) is a 1930s style display face on an african theme. Quinceanera NF (2008) is a a new take on an old dry-transfer standard from the 70s named Barrio. Raconteur NF (2008) is a wonderful art deco typeface that shouts gin fizz and high heels: it takes its inspiration from a 1923 ad for Piera Nova, designed by Hernando G. Villa. Rainbow Bass (1982, Saul Bass), a vertically striped disco style design, was remade by Nick Curtis as Backstage Pass (2008). Dusty Rose (2008) is an art deco face based on the logotype for the Dutch magazine Geillustreerd Schildersblad in 1940. Jobber Wacky NF (2008) is a bouncy handlettering font based on designs of Alan Denney found on greeting cards in the 1950s and 1960s. Marky Marker (2008, a single-stroke marker font) and Mikey Likes It Corpule (2008, fat comic book style face) are based on the work of Mike Stevens, a long-time contributor to Signcraft magazine. Franciscan Caps (2008) is based on a 1932 face by Frederic Goudy called Franciscan. Cooper's Packard was first handlettered for use in ads for the Packard Motor Company, and later converted to metal by BB&S. A digital version of this was done by Nick Curtis in 2008 under the name Packard Patrician NF. Debonair Inline (2008) is an extension (uppercase, etc.) of Herbert Bayer;s 1931 monocase face Architype Bayer. Great Lakes Shadow (2008) is an art deco face based on a 1930s travel poster for the Canadian pacific Railway. Luben Tunen (2008) is another art deco face. Morning Glory (2008) is a simple display face that goes back to the Cleveland Type Foundry, 1893. Tickety Boo (2008) is a take on Goudy Fancy (or: Goudy Black Elongated Swash). Yo Quiero Taquitos uses letters taken from Rotalución Decorativa (Barcelona, 1940s), Disco 79 (2008, multiline), Eclectic Crumpany (2008, multiline monocase neon face based on The Electric Company TV Show), Fire Down Below (2008, block gothic), Joufflou NF (2008, very fat), Lyric Stencil (2008), Radio Days (2008, art deco based on 1930s logotype lettering for Crosley Radios). Bala Cynwyd NF (2008) is an Arts & Crafts style poster face inspired by lettering of Dard Hunter. Csiszarz Latein NF (2008) recreates an old typeface (ca. 1910) of J.V. Csiszarz. Geodezyx NF (2008) is an ultra-geometric stencil display face. Engravers Roman (1912, ATF) comes back in digtal form as Mercantile Display NF (2008). Owah Tagu Siam NF (2008) is a faux Thai font. Langoustine Rouge NF (2008) is based on Dan Solo's Sorbonne. Cecil Wade again provided inspiration for Bloc Party NF (2008). My Little Eye NF (2008) is an elegant piano key font. Roundabout NF (2008) is rounded octagonal. Odalisque NF (2008) is an artdeco font based on Morris Fuller Benton's Chic. Chromiun Yellow NF is a heavy retro serif family based, very loosely, on Electro-type Serif, designed by John Wu of Hong Kong's Archetype foundry. Neubank NF (2008) is Nick Curtis's take on Bank Gothic. Hess Gothic Round NF (2008) is a rounded version of Twenteth Century (Saul Hess) and Avant Garde (Herb Lubalin). Jungle Fever (2008) is patterned after Neuland Black (Rudolph Koch for Gebr. Klingspor in 1923), and the sunshine shading version is called Jungle Fever Shaded. Warp Three NF (2008) is a Bank Gothic-style family with an uppercase as in Agency Gothic (1932-1933, Morris Fuller Benton) and a lowercase from Square Gothic (1888, James Conner). Typefaces made in 2009: Velveteen Round NF (based on Vellvé's only font, 1971), Steno Stout NF (the venerable Underwood Victoria typewriter on steroids), Hess Gothic Round NF (based on Hess's Twentieth Century), Diosa Rubia (condensed headline face), Mono Amono NF (octagonal), Turista Flaca NF and Turista Gorda NF (based on Baltimore Type Foundry's Tourist Extra Condensed and Airpost Tourist, respectively), Strollin NF (a psychedlic typeface based on Joseph Chruchward's 1972 psychedelic face, Blackbeauty), Kharon Ultra (art deco face based on Ludlow Stygian), Aint Baroque NF (an art nouveau-style variation on Milton Glaser's Baby Teeth from 1968), Earmark NF (a Western style heavy slab serif based on Vincent Pacella's Pacella Colossus and Pacella Barrel), Boop Boop NF (2009, based on handlettering found on Hallmark Studio Cards of the 1950s), Dittem Datum NF (2009, stencil), Samosata NF (2009: based on Bernhard Gothic), Waddem Choo NF (2009, based on Tschichold's transito from 1931), Jane Plain NF (2009, architectural blueprint style), Hacky Sack NF (2009, after Ross F. George's Stunt Roman), Free Holeys NF (2009, after the 1972 Letraset font Beans by Dieter Zembsch), Kingstown NF (2009, semiscript), Kudos Kaps NF (2009: five nice ornamental caps and associated alphabet and border sets), Groovadelic NF (2009, psychedelic), Argentina NF (2009, based on Sterling, a 1920 ATF font), Melvin Eustace NF (2009, handlettered), McKellar Borussian NF (2009, a blackletter based on Borussian, McKellar, Smiths and Jordan, 1882), Fyne Fish NF (2009, a blackletter face based on a cover done by Will Bradley in 1894 for Inland Printer), Oh You Klid NF (2009, based on a Victorian face by Central Type Foundry), Weekly Bazaar NF (2009, based on Harpers by the Central Type Foundry), Dot Soon NF (2009, dooted font based on the 1970s Letraset face Pinball by Alan Dempsey), Sil Vous Plait NF (2009, after a 1917 font by Morris Fuller Benton called Invitation), Really Big Shoe NF (2009, after a Cleveland Type Foundry face called Oxford), Bellwether Antique NF (2009, after a 1913 face by Georg Belwe), Garmisch Rund NF (2009, inspired by Rundgotisch, Emil Rudolf Weiss, 1937), Whitefriars NF (2009, based on a font from the Blackfriars Type Foundry in London), Oaken Bucket NF (2009, Victorian), Jazzfest NF and Tinseltown NF (2009, based on the 1932 art deco typefaces Newport and Hollywood, respectively, both designed by Willard T. Sniffin for ATF), Society Page NF (2009, a curly serif face based on Morris Fuller Benton's Announcement Roman, designed for American Type Founders in 1917), Suave sam NF (2009, an art deco face after a 1930 alphabet by Samuel Welo), USA Resolute NF (2009, a unicase headline face based on Morris Fuller Benton's Eagle, ATF, 1934), Saturday Morning Toast (2001, based on the logotype font of the Saturday Evening Post from the 1920s). [Google]

Nippon-Latin
[Manfred Klein]

An oriental simulation face made by Manfred Klein in 2007. [Google]

no image fonts
[Levi Halmos]

Free fonts by Levi Halmos, 1997-2001: AlienGhost2, Aliens, AnabolicSpheroid (revived but alas commercialized by Roger S. Nelsson in 2009 as PiratesGold (made commercial in the CheapProFonts collection of Roger S. Nelsson in 2009), Lefferts Corner, Mutter, Treasure Island, Haiku, Bitsumishi (Bitsumishi Pro (2009) appeared at CheapPro Fonts), Gagarin (cyrillic simulation), Lousitania, Voodoo Spirits, Indochine (oriental letter simulation, 2002), IronLeague (2002). [Google]

NWDK

In the file "Schriften.zip", two oriental simulation fonts: WontonbyDaFontMafia (1997, Da Font Mafia) and Deng Thick (1994, Media Graphics International: Publisher's Paradise). [Google]

Okaycat
[Luke William Turvey]

Takamatsu, Japan-based design division of The LOLO, a content creation company, which was established in 2006. Luke William Turvey (b. London, Ontario, 1978) who lives in Japan started out with street murals but is doing digital work now. His fonts include Giacinta Ornate (2008, a lovely bastarda), Parabrite (2008, techno), Stefani EHYO Sans Rounded (2008, a clean geometric sans), Antikka (2008, art deco), Calisso (2008, experimental), LOLO Dingcats (2008), Clementine (2008: artsy serif), Okaytext (2008, a fashionable geometric sans in the style of Bernhard Fashion), Okay Cursive (2008, an upright connected script), Okay Crayon (2008), Okay Paint (2008), Japanese Brush Master (2008), Tag Banger (2008, graffiti font), Bapalopa (2008, more graffiti), Hive Mind (2008, nuts and bolts look), Trees of Africa (2008, dings), 3D Fantablock Beveled (2008), Shababa (2008, shadow font), LOLO Animals (2008), LOLO City (2008), LOLO Cursive (2008, curly handwriting), Japoneh (2008, a great oriental-look drippy paintbrush font), Arco Crayon (2009, blackboard writing), 3D Blocky (2009, with Natsuko Hayashida), Carbon Neutral (2009), Hand Writing OC (2009), Okay Cotton (2009), hand Cursive (2008), Stitch Cursive (2008), Antique Dubplate (2009), Porto (2009, rough calligraphic), Brush Writing OC (2009), Nouveau Rock (2009, engraved), Shababa (2009), 3D Techno (2009), Stefani EHYO (2009, 4-style geocratic sans). Japanese calligraphy poster. [Google]

Ole Sørensen

Designer of Bravo AV (2004, a sans face), Hikarigama (2003, oriental font simulation), Numerica Sans (2002, inspired by the Bauhaus movement), Unicratica (2002), Kotica (2002, a futuristic font), Bamboo (2002), Chai House (2002) and Syncratica (2002, a futuristic font), Copernican (2002, futuristic), Impressica (2002, distressed), Tribal (2004, a floriated caps version of Fedra Serif). [Google]

Oliver Benjamin

Designer of the free Thai simulation face Fontok (2005, Chank's place). [Google]

Omegatype Typography
[Ryan Neaveill]

At Omegatype in Champaign, IL, Ryan Neaveill designed BTP-Baby-Bl, Baby-Blocks, Bamboo (oriental simulation), Funny-Face (smilies), I-Ching, Musicfun, Ryan's-Rotten-Writing. His fonts are not on these pages though, but they are on various archives. His Playing Cards font can be found at Fontastic, Uncle Bear's, or Fontazm. Alternate URL. [Google]

One Way Out (or: Church Art Fonts)
[Dave Adamson]

One Way Out (or: Church Art Fonts) sells about 100 display fonts. Eleven collections of seven fonts at about 95 USD per collection. By Dave Adamson. Some font names: Beat Street, Blitzkrieg, Day Three, El Nino, Erratic, Espresso, Frazzle, JiveTalk, Knucklehead, Lost Tribe, Lunatic, Protoplazm, Ragamuffin, Slackhappy, Squidly, Thud, Twitch, Toxic, Toxic Waste, Astro Boy, HunkyDory, Hybrid, Jolly Roger, Shameless, Surf City, Swanky, Armageddon Medium, Mystery 2, Raw, Neo-Human Outline, Cattitudes (cats), Epidemic, Dimentia, Dimentia Wide, Damage Light, Thus Thin, chronicle, Hoopla, Wisecrack, Dimentia Thin, Yoo-Hoo, Why Kee Kee, AlterEgo, Damage, Havva Nice Day, reactor, Slade, Aspire, Scooter, Squidly Bold, Shogun (oriental simulation), NeroHuman, Euphoria (handwriting), Army Surplus (stencil), Armageddon Bold, Chop Top. Most fonts distributed by T-26 and copyright of "One Way Out". Please will someone explain to me who designed what for whom? Earlier, Adamson designed for FontHaus, see, e.g., Bristol Adornado Regular (1994). [Google]

Onimtsunari

FontStructor who made the Asian simulation face Auni (2009). [Google]

Oporto Design
[Alexandre Venancio]

Sao Paulo-based design studio. MyFonts link. Its designer is Alexander Venancio, who graduated in Industrial Design from the Faculdade de Belas Artes de Sao Paulo. Creator of Maze (2009, multiline face), Landmark (2009), Thaitype (2009, Thai simulation face made with Felippe Duque), Ale's Script (2009, comic book script), Capa (2009, hairline art deco face done with Felippe Duque and Cristiano Vinciprova), and Oporto (2009). Indice (2009) is another hairline uber-geometric face. Behance link. [Google]

OptiFont (Castcraft Software Inc)

Castcraft of Skokie, Illinois shows off a comprehensive library of fonts, all with extended character sets for multi-language typography. Individual OptiFont fonts at 47 USD a piece. Designer CD-ROM Type Library Volume 1 at 200 USD. Entire collection at 1000 USD. Makes some custom fonts. I don't really know if this is a foundry or just a vendor. OPTI-Peking is an oriental simulation font. 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 is President & CEO, and that his family (Abe, Harry and Ned Kreiter) have been at it since the days of metal type (1936). Finally, I found this on their pages: "Castcraft has licensing 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." [Google]

Oriental Like Fonts

Oriental simulation font archive. [Google]

Page Studio Graphics (or: Pixymbols)
[Roger Vershen]

Page Studio Graphics is Roger Vershen's Oro Valley, AZ-based company specializing in symbols and symbol fonts, founded by him in 1986. The fonts (grouped under the name PIXymbols) include ADA symbols v.2.0, Africa, Alphabox, Alphacircle, Ameslan (ASL), Antorff (fraktur), Antorff Fractions, Apothecary, Arrows, Astrology, Backstitich, Boxkey, BoxNLines, Braille grade 2, Casual, Chalk Casual, PIXymbols Chess, Command Key, Courex, Crossword, Digit&Clocks, Dingbats&Online, DOSScreen, Fabric Care, FARmarks (Federal Aviation Regulations lettering), Flagman (semaphore), Fractions, Gridmaker, Highway Gothic (U.S. Department of Transportation's Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs), PIXymbols Highway Gothic 2002, Highway Signs (U.S. Department of Transportation), Hospital&Safety, LCD, Luna, Malkoff (calligraphic font), Marina, Meeting, Menufonts, Morse, Musica (instruments), Newsdots, Orchestra, Passkey, Patchwork, PCx, Phone, PIXymbolsMusica, PrimerD (letters with lines), Recycle, Roadsigns, Shadowkey, Signet (family), Squared, Strings, Stylekey, Tolerances&Datum, Travel&Hotel, TV List, Unikey, US Map, Xcharting, Xstitch. They also sell EPS files of all Arms of Swiss cantons, and many nice initial caps. Look also for Faux Hebrew (simulated Hebrew), as part of the Faux package that also includes Faux Sanskrit, Faux Runic, Faux Hebrew, Faux Japanese, Faux Arabic, Faux Chinese and Faux Chinese Sans. Alternate URL. Previews at MyFonts. [Google]

Pantone

600+ font archive in France. In Fantaisie, we find fonts such as Samarkan (Indic simulation), Wonton LCG and Orient (both oriental font simulations). [Google]

Paul Martin

No, this is not the prime minister of Canada. He designs type at SignDNA, where I found this bio: Ever since picking up a brush some 20 years ago, Paul Martin has been fascinated with the nuances of hand-rendered type. He believes that type sets the mood for a sign and its message. Paul often uses scripts and casuals to add personality to his customer's signs. After living in Sacramento, California for the past decade, Paul recently returned to northern Illinois. His work has been featured in SignCraft magazine several times, and has also been on the cover. His typefaces: Caz Fat, El Sid (holiday script), Journeyman, WarBird (great brush face with a bit of an oriental touch), RaceCarChisel (3d face), FastEddie, Squirt (upright, calligraphic). [Google]

Paul Pegoraro

Designer of the Asian simulation font Ginko (1996). [Google]

Peter Huschka

German artist. Designer at Linotype of the experimental 3-weight family Sinah Sans LT (1994, an Indic simulation font) and the oriental simulation font family Linotype Chineze (2002, part of TakeType 4). In 2003, he created Picture Yourself with Karin Huschka, also at Linotype and reaped an award for it at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. The illustrations in Picture Yourself was based on ideas of the architect Oscar Niemeier. [Google]

Petit Boys
[Kosuke Yamada]

Kosuke Yamada (Petit Boys) is the designer of PB006 URBAN STREETS (2003), PB007 TRANSPORT (2003), PB1103BACKSTREETS (2002, comic book font), PB1101HIGHWAYSTAR (2002), PB5104SEOULSOULOblique, PB5104SEOULSOUL (2002, Hangul simulation font), PB5202Pumpkin Ghosts (commercial), PB009FUNKYHOUSEOblique, PB009FUNKYHOUSE, PB008HIGHWAYSTAR2003, PB010TRANSPORTXBoldOblique, PB010TRANSPORTXBold, PB010TRANSPORTXLightOblique, PB010TRANSPORTXLight, PB010TRANSPORTXOblique, PB010TRANSPORTX, PB1305PETIT3Bold, PB1305PETIT3, PY501FASHIONNOW. [Google]

Pink Broccoli
[Phil Bracco]

Foundry located in Westbury, NY, and run by Phil Bracco (b. 1981, Big Horn, MT), a graduate of the Pratt Institute. Creator of the festive signage fonts Charming Charlie PB (2009), Hip Hopper PB (2008, inspired by the lettering on an art poster by Patrick Owsley for the cartoon character Hoppity Hooper), Fat Rhino PB (2008) and Pink Broccoli PB (2008). Hideaway (2008) is a light-hearted comic flare serif typeface inspired by a 1964 Speedy Gonzalez cartoon title. More comedy in Chop Phooey (2008), Astronaut Jones (2008), Lil Rhino PB (2008), Houseguest PB (2008), Spidertoes PB (2009) and Tiny Butler (2008). Chorizo PB (2008) is inspired by some of the wild lettering of comic creator Paul Coker, Jr. Houndcats PB (2008) is a comic book sans based on a 1972 cartoon called Houndcats. Manic Mood PB (2008), Kid Captain PB (2009), Bear Club PB (2009), Hot Streak PB (2009) and Suited Horse PB (2008) have more comic book lettering. Suited Horse PB (2009) is a chalkboard font inspired by the title screen of a 1968 Walt Disney film titled, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit . Monster Fiesta PB (2009) is a curly display typeface. Chop Chop PB (2009) is an oriental brush simulation face. Fathoms BB (2009) is a crazy sans serif font based on the titling from one of ABC's Movie of the Week series from 1969 called Daughter of the Mind. [Google]

Pixie's list of oriental-style fonts

• China Town
• Chinese Style
• Chowmein
• Deng Thick
• Dick Chamberlain Death
• Ginko
• Hansa
• Karate Medium
• Lightmorning
• Mandarin D
• Nixon Regular
• Orient
• Rickshaw
• Samurai
• Shanghai
• Sumdumgoi Regular
• Wonton by da font mafia
• Yorstat

PizzaDude
[Jakob Fischer]

The Great Dane from Copenhagen, the king of grunge, Jakob Fischer, designed over 400 fonts. As PizzaDude, he made Funkboy (2009), Nusqie (2009), Junkwerk (2009), Geekabeat (2009), Flicka (2009, a bouncy comic book face), Sir Render (2009), Imperial Quortex (2009), Jourba (2009), Kurph (2009), Ginky (2009), Stereoxoid (2009), Earthwerk (2009), Gibarish (2009), Insiano (2009), Unsprit (2009), Whacker (2009), Natuxal (2009), Battlexoid (2009), Change (2009), Chusp (2009), Aspektogram (2009), Axteroid (2009), Floink (2009), Everything (2008, comic book), Superxoid (2008, white on black grunge), Eyeful (comic book style), Punctured Bicycle (2008, grunge), Spleach (2008), Sir Spicious (2008), Mirla (2008), Skramp (2008), Jilkyway (2008), Fristy (2008), Sqweash (2008), Aprilfuel (2008), Intense Eve (2008), Drunken Shower (2008), Dandygal (2008), Alien Segment (2008), Endorfinia (2008), Runaway (2008), Scentogram (2008), Typewrither (2008), Ultraxoid (2008, grunge), Legoix (2008, a nice scrapbook pencil font), Heruina (2008, connected hand), Indoxine (2007, an informal horizontally-striped outline font, one of his best creations), Infilto (2007, sketchbook face), Murbia (2007, printed hand), Orange Gush (2007), Epsiolet (2007, blackboard script), Grut Stuph (2007, comic book), Orange Gush (2007, curly hand), Drunken Hour (2007, ransom note face), Flixuble (2007), Flabioga (2007), Butterfool (2007), Whexjable (2007, paper bag cutouts), Butterfool (2007), Flabioga (2007, grunge), Flambster (2007), Axionhero (2007), Skratzy (2007), Ulsteros (2007), Craptoy (2007), Megaxoid (2007), Nine Thousand (2007), Retrozoid (2007), Ultinoid (2006), Sadnez (2006), Happyjamas (2006), Fudshake (2006), Diskojuice (2006), Damaged Guts (2006), Zugarbody (2006), Popfork (2006), Party Noid (2005), Doktor Terror (2005), Fligerish (2005, romantic face), Jerky Tash (2004), Hopeless Heart (2004), Tomoli2 (2005), Teaster (2005, Easter egg dings), Ankertill Brewer (2005), Omibez (2005), Tomoli (2005), Family Dog (2005), Vegacute (2005), Sure Shot (2004), Chawsy (2004), Hefty Galloon (2004), Phatburner (2004), Imazeng (2004, Asian imitation), Zir Gera (2004), Glammer Girl (2004, T-26), Japperneese (2004, oriental imitation font), Marmelade Guys (2004), Abdominal Krunch (2003, commercial), Mucho Macho (2003), Just A Dream (2003), Tagboyhardcore (graffiti font), Omegalomania, Cheeky Git (2003), Bigbrain (2003), Pizzabot (2003), Schoolbully (2003), Rapjack (2003), Slammertag (2003), Hlytus (2003), Hold Your Breath (2003), Bigmouth (2003), Stumbeleina (2003), Slowmotion Girl (2002), Omegalomania (2003), Bigbrain (2003), Zitkid (2003), Mr Fahrenheit Go (2003), Fearless (2002), Ruinik (2002), AngerIsAGift (2002), Insane Hours, MuchTooLoud, Abduction2002, You are what you eat (2002), Yggdrasil (2002), Easily Amused, Toxic Waist, Words of Love, Yesterdays Meal (2002), Dope Jam (2002), Famous Fromage, Geek A Byte, Vinyl Repair Kit (2002), Bring Tha Noize 2, Fancy Footwork 2, Fandango (a comic book font), Grand Stylus, jiggery pokery, Monafont (a font with hearts), Fancy Footwork, Grouser, Not Just A Toy, Orangutan, VeryBadPosture, Treasure, Tantrum Tongue, HangTheDJ, MonsterFreak, MouthfulOfBeer, WarmMilk, WideAwake, Wisecrack, DT104, Quickometer, Cirkledingz, HarshLanguage, Vanish, GluttonMan, Radioland, Eat Your Heart Out (kitchen tile font), Mute Fruit (stencil font), Exit Font, In The Arms Of Sleep, Popcorn Not Included, Flashboy, Kill Your Darlings, Nonfiction, Gringo Nights (eroded Western font), Push, Grunt Reaper, Ultrasonik, As Seen On TV, More Than Human, Raveheart, 10Minutes, 20000dollarbail, 4mylover (Valentine's day lettering font), Abduction, Acquaintance, AgentOrange, Anodetonoone, Anticlimax, Arcade, ArcadeClassic, Autobahn, Backto1982, Ballsontherampage, Bedbug, BeyondControl, BeyondControlvolume2, BionicKidSimple, BionicKidSimpleSlanted, BionicKidSlanted3d, Biteme, Blackboysonmopeds, Blaster, Blatant, BlindMelon, Blindfold, Blobs, Bluelines, BrokenToys, Brushed, Brutality, BrutalityExtra, BubbleBath, Bubbleboy, Bubblegums, Bumbastika, Burlesque, ChineseTakeaway (oriental simulation), ComputerAmok, Creamandsugar, Crosspatchersdelight, Crosspatchersdelightnormal, Curmudgeonly, Delirium, Desperation, Digitek, Diskoteque, Dreammachine, Dreamofme, Earthquake, Embroidery, Exoneration, Extravirgin, EyeOnlyHaveEyesForYou, Fadetogrey, FakePlastic, FatBoySmiles, Fazingsone, Firestarter, FlakJacket, Flaphead, Flashback, Flashbackversion3, Foot Fight (2003), FreaksofNature, FunkyStoneage, Funnyfarmhard, Funnyfarmsoft, Futurism, Guineapigs, Gasoline, Ghostwriter, Glamourgirl, Greaseballs, GreatVengeance, Greenhousegas, Guineapigs, Hangover, Highspeed, Holiday, Homeboysarebackintown, Humanoid, Humanoidstraight, Innocentbystander, Imperfectfont, InnerSanctum, InternationalPlayboy, Invasion2000, IronMan, JointbyPizzaDude, JamesBond, JellyBelly, JointbyPizzaDude, JoyCards, JuneBug, JustAnotherFont, Kometenmelodie2, Kitchenpolice, Klytus, Kleptomaniac, Knucklesandwich, KometenMelodie1, Kookaburra, Lazerbeamsurprise, Liquidism, Liquidismpart2, Logiclodger, LotsOfDotz, LoveLetters, MassiveHeadache, MunsterBash, Mute Fruit (stencil font), Madscientist, Madscientist, Malapropism, MammaGamma, MassiveHeadache3, MassiveHeadacheII, MaximumSecurity, Miserable, Mixedup, MotorcycleEmptiness, MunsterBash, NeverSayDie, Nonstop, Nonstopitalic, Nugacity, Nyctalopia, Nyctalopiatilt, Obliviousfont, Onceinawhile, Operatinginstructions, Opium, Oxygene1, PartyBalloons, Piracy, PizzaDudeFatOutline, PizzaDudesHandwriting, PlanetDust, Plastique, PrivateInvestigations, Protection, Pusher, Questionoftime, Questionoftimesimple, Quicksilver, QuotedPositivity, RepeatUntilFalse, Retaliator, Radioaktivitet, RainyDays, RepeatUntilFalse, Retaliator, Robotica, RoboticaAllCaps, Rocketman, Rubberneck, Sk8ordye, Slammertag (2003), Scratchmyback, Shakethatbooty, Shopliftersunite, SkaterDudes, SoftSugarfade, SoftSugarplain, SomewhereInSpace, Spaceboy, SpeedCrazy, SqueezeMeBaby, StickAroundForJoy, StrangePhenomenaNormal, StrangePhenomenaOutlined, Sweetascandy, SyntheticSyncronism, TagsXtreme, TagsXtreme2, TastelessCandy, Teenageangst, Timebomb, Toforgive, Transistor215, Typewriterfromhell, Ultimatum, Underattack, Underattackskew, Undercover, UnfinishedSympathy, UnfinishedSympathy2, Us, Venusflytrapthebug, VeryChristmess (2003), Videophreak, Vitamin, Vitaminoutlined, VulgarDisplayOfPower, WakingtheWitch, WishfulWaves, Wreckage, Xtraordinary, Youngatheart, Youthquake, Zitcream, Zenith2000, ElectricBoots, Jealousy, Noodlesoup, PizzaDudePointers, PizzaDudeStars, Waybeyondblue, XrayTed, XrayTedskew, ZingDing, DigitalDream, PizzaDuide Bullets, Bubbleboy 2, Endeavour Forever, Konspiracy Theory, Krazy Nights. Direct downloads. Commercial fonts: Hyperspit (2006), Junktoy (2006), Melonheads (2006), Mister Dorky (2006), Atomic Clock Radio (2003, dot matrix font), Kitchen Police (2003), Arcade Classic (2003), Digital Dream (2003), Quit Smoking (2002), Arsenique (2003), Lie Detector (2003), Spamsucker (2003), Ghostboy (2003), Funkheads (2003), Japan Knees (2002, an oriental LED simulation font at Chank's). At MyFonts, he sells his commercial fonts Secret Handshake, Eternal Life, Japan Knees (Asian font simulation), Lovebug, Quit Smoking, Slowmotion Girl, Insektogram, Krooked Teeth (2002), Super Glue (2002), Love Bug (2002, a Valentine's font), Slime Tag (2003), TagStar Hardcore (2003), Diet Riot (2003), Elevator Boy (2003, Chank), Flim (22-style family, 2003), Stumbeleina (2003) and Lemon Lies. In 2004, he started selling some typaces through Union Fonts, such as Hopeless Heart, Jerky Tash, Tagboy, Malonia Voigo, Raskal and Kickshaw. Later additions: Damaded Guts (2006), Zugarbody (2006), Diskojuice (2006), Fudshake (2006), Popfork (2006). Fontsquirrel link. [Google]

Profonts
[Peter Rosenfeld]

Profonts is Peter Rosenfeld's German foundry in Norderstedt near Hamburg, est. 2005, and closely associated with URW++. Dr. Jürgen Willrodt is also involved. Ralph Unger is one of its main in-house type designers. Typefaces include HH Sonora (2005, comic book or signpainting style script) and HH Valentine (2005, formal script). Link at MyFonts, where one can buy these script fonts: Adagio Pro (2006, copperplate wedding script), Sonora, Eurobrush Pro (2007, by Ralph M. Unger), Euroscript Pro (2006, a school script by by Ralph M. Unger), Civilite (2008), Ballerina Pro (2006) and Arabella Pro (2006, a calligraphic script face sold at URW). Arabella was originally designed by Arnold Drescher around 1936/1939 for Johannes Wagner. In 2006, Profonts added Chaweng, an oriental simulation face by Ralph M. Unger, and Profonts Laramie Pro, a free form script family, available from URW. In 2007, the Montauk Pro family of casual (comic book style) scripts was added, despite the fact that there already exists a similarly named script font since 1992 made by Sylvester A. Cypress. It can be had from URW. Other 2007 designs: Iova Nova (based on Jowa Script by J. Wagner, 1967), Concerto and Sonata Pro (calligraphic scripts, co-designed with Jürgen Willrodt), Symphony Pro (calligraphic with lots of alternates), and Veltro Pro (based on a 1931 Nebiolo design by that name). Designs from 2008: the signage family Santa Fe, the connected monoline script face Energia Pro (by Ralph Unger), and the blackletter face Peter Schlemihl (by Ralp Unger).

About Rosenfeld, taken from his CV: Peter Rosenfeld started, after finishing his business studies in 1980, his first position in the font production department at Dr. Hell in Kiel, a once well-known company in the area of CRT/laser composing and scanning systems. It was there where he first got in touch with digital type, (still in bitmap form at that time). Peter joined URW in Hamburg in 1982 and a little later he became the manager of the URW font studio. He says, 'All I am in this small font business, and all I know about font technology, I owe to Peter Karow. I had the luck to work very closely for and with this visioneer and pioneer of our industry for more than a decade.' Roughly ten years later Peter became Managing Director of URW++ and the company has established itself in the graphic design industry by continually developing and marketing innovative font and software products. URW++ is particularly successful in the area of corporate type development and production, as well as a supplier of so-called world or global fonts for OEM customers. [Google]

Protoform Project (was: Fontshack)
[Neale Davidson]

Free original designs, often with a science fiction feel, by Neale Davidson. Fonts: Starfleet (2004), Neverwinter (2001) (see also here), Celestial, Emulator, Night warrior, Nippon Tech (oriental simulation), Simple Runes, AdventureNormal (1998), AdventureSubtitlesNormal, Alternity, AlternityNormal, Aurebesh, BeastWars, ChinyenNormal (oriental simulation), ColonyWarsNormal, CuniformEnglishNormal, DalelandsNormal, DiamondFantasyNormal, GothamNightsNormal, GutcruncherNormal, JediHollowNormal, JediSolidNormal, MagicCardsNormal, Masterforce, MasterforceHollow, MasterforceSolid, MaximalBeasts, MysticEtchingsNormal, Pokemon, Pacmania, PredaconBeasts, RunicEnglishNormal, SandsofFireNormal, SharonAppleNormal, SkeksisNormal, StarcraftNormal, Transformers, TransformersHollowNormal, TransformersSolidNormal, TransmetalsNormal, Tsa Script, TurokNormal, WarlordsNormal, YsgarthEnglishNormal, Dinobots, Harpers (runes), Dethek Stone (runes), Vector Sigma, Cybertron Generations (dingbats), Laser Rod, Generation Two, Gargoyles, Thundercats, Thorass (runes), Manga (oriental simulation), Dragonmaster, BattleBeastsi, Moria, Transmaidens. Does some custom font work. Adventure. See also here and here and here. Alternate URL. [Google]

Pyros' Vault of Dreams

Christian Heinrich at the University of Leipzig stored Hirosh (oriental simulation font, with dingbats), [.atari-kids.] (oriental simulation), and Sevenet7 (pixel font). [Google]

Ralph M. Unger

German type designer. Designer at URW of Fontforum Stripes (2007, a multistripe display face based on a Letraset version by the same name), Fontforum Thalia (2006, retro font), FontForum Signs and Symbols (2006, URW), Fontforum Rhapsody (2006, URW, a revival of Ilse Schüle's blackletter face), Stiletto (2006, URW: a medieval script), Fontforum Atrament (2006, URW, architectural lettering: do not confuse with a Suitcase Type Foundry font from 2003 by the same name!), Breitkopf Fraktur, Estro (Western lettering), Maxim, Polo, Unger Script, Roberta (2003, art nouveau), FontForum Bernhard Script (2005, after Bernhard Script from the 1920s), Bradley (2005, URW, blackletter), FontForum Admiral Script (2005, revival of Middleton's Admiral script from 1953) and Compliment (2004, casual script). The latter three are printed handwriting fonts. He revived Calypso (1958, Roger Excoffon) in FontForum Calypso (2005). At Profonts, he published the school script face Euroscript Pro (2006) and Chaweng, an oriental simulation face. He digitized Oldrich Menhart's face Unciala (1953, Grafotechna) as FontForum Unciala (2005, URW). He revived Ecsetirás (Zolatan Nagy, 1967, a brush face) as FontForum URW Ecsetrias (2005) and Konzept (1968, Martin Wilke's handprinting face) as FontForum URW Konzept Pro (2005, URW). In 2002, he published at URW++ the script font Legende, based on the original typeface of Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler (1937). MyFonts has Bradley URW, Breitkopf Fraktur D, Civilite URW, Compliment, Estro D (2003, URW, a copy of Nebiolo's Estro from the 60s), Jessen Schrift, Leipziger Antiqua, Manuskript Antiqua (2005, after Oldrich Meinhart's Manuskript Antiqua), Maxim D, Polo D, Roberta D (2003, after Robert Trogman's face for FotoStar), Unger Script D, Unger Chancery (2005, URW), Card Pro (2006, URW, a decorative display based on lettering by Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos), Dominante (2007, URW, a serif family based on Johannes Schweitzer's font by that name, 1959), Flashes (2007, URW, a revival of Crous-Vidal's Flash, 1953), Eurobrush Pro (2007, handwriting; Profonts), Breite Kanzlei (2007), Veltro (2007; after a 1931 original by G. da Milano at Nebiolo), Profonts Eurobrush (2007), Fox (2007, URW, a brush script based on W. Rebhuhn's original from the 1950s), Breite Kanzlei (2007), Behrensschrift D (2007, after the jugendstil face Behrens Schrift, 1902, by Peter Behrens), Cranach (2007, a blackletter face modeled after Kuenstler Gotisch from the Krebs Foundry), EuroSans (2008), Graphique Pro (2008, shadowed caps face), Profonts Impression (2008, art deco), Profonts Woodpecker (2008), Ornella (2008, Jugendstil), New Bayreuth (2008, after Friedrich Hermann Ernst Schneidler's Bayreuth from 1932), Gradl Nr 1 (2008, based on hand-drawn art nouveau upper case characters by M. J. Gradl, ca. 1900), Tip Top Pro (2008, a Julius Klinkhardt art nouveau face revival), Amitié (2009, serif family), Energia Pro (2008, Profonts: connected monowidth script), Peter Schlemihl (2008, Profonts: a revival of a blackletter by Walter Tiemann), Edda Pro (2008, an art nouveau face that revives a Heinrich Heinz Heune face from 1900), Pedell (2009, a casual script), Sportowy (2009, outline face), Handel Slab (2009, a 6-style extension of Trogram's 1980 face Handel Gothic), Splendor (2009, a revival of a brush script face by Wilhelm Berg, Schriftguss, 1930). [Google]

Richard William Mueller

Designer from Elkader, IA (or is he from Garnavillo, IA?). No web page, but the fonts, mostly made in the earluy 1990s, were collected by CybaPee at TypOasis for your downloading pleasure. The original list of fonts: Advert-Regular, AkashiMF (oriental simulation), Angles-Regular, Argos-Regular, AtlantisMF, BlackCastleMF, BodieMFFlag, BodieMF (1995), BodieMFHolly, Bolide-Regular, BrandyScript, BurntMF, CarnivalMFOpenShadow, CarnivalRimmed, CasualMarkerMF, Cigno, Cinema-Regular, ClubMF, Daisy-Regular, EarthquakeMF, FantasticMFInitials, FantasticMFModern, HayStackMFWide, HeeHaw-Regular, Hoffman, InkHighlight, Knockout-Regular, Kompakt, Legrand, Maize-Regular, Mama-Regular, Mantel, Mercurius-Regular, NewDayScript, OceanViewInitials, PaintPeelInitials, Pinewood, Plymouth, PollockMF (marble-filled artsy display letters), Primitive, Quaint, Ragged, RopeMF, SantaMonicaMF, Sixties, Speedline, Spirits-Regular, StarshineMF, Stowaway, Tarantella, Coffee Tin, Credit Cards, Dragonfly, Flames, Grange, Long Ears, Meltdown, Parchment, Polo Brush, Stereo, Wet Paint, TamboScript, Titania, TolkienUncialMF, TradingPostBold, Tumbleweed, TuscanMF (a Tuscan font family), UncleBobMF, Vassar, VeronaScript, Waverly-Regular, WindsweptMF. At GarageFonts, he made GFCristateMF (borders and dings, 1997). Designed ITC Buckeroo (1997). MyFonts write-up. In 2005, the list of free fonts shrank/changed to this:

• 1993: EddaMF (art nouveau), UncleBobMF-Shadow.
• 1994: ApolloMF (1900-style decorative), BravoMF (script), CasualContactMF (brush), FarleyMF, FranconiaMF, LavaMF (art nouveau), OmegaMF-Bold, OmegaMF, ReefMF.
• 1995: AmbrosiaMF (art nouveau), CamelotMF-Bold, CamelotMF, DirectionsMF, EdisonMF (1900-style decorative), GuttenbergMF (art nouveau), PenMarkMF-Bold, ProtestSignMF, SophieMF (art nouveau), SwingtimeMF, TomahawkMF.
• 1997: ApolloMF-Shadow, BaileyMF (handwriting), ElectMF, GingerMF (in the style of Auriol), SteveMF (handwriting), WishMF (art nouveau), WizardryMF-Contour, WizardryMF (art nouveau).

Ross F. George

Inventor of the speedball pen. Lettering artist from Seattle, influenced by W.H. Gordon. His alphabets appeared in the Speedball Lettering catalogues, published from 1935-1948. Some of the alphabets in Speedball Lettering have been digitized. To name a few:

• Jim Parkinson created Wigwag (2003, a display family inspired by Ross George as well as the work of Samuel Welo and Cecil Wade).
• Jason Walcott made Baroque Text JF (2003, a great Fraktur font based on a hand-lettered alphabet drawn by Ross George).
• Nick Curtis added Xanthippe NF (2006, an "exuberant" blackletter face).
• Garrett Boge revived Free Roman.
• Nick Curtis designed Catty Wumpas NF (2004).
• Nick Curtis dreated Gnarly Dude NF (2005).
• Nick Curtis dreated Hacky Sack NF (2009), after Ross George's Stunt Roman.
• Harold Lohner published Milky Way (2001) and MilkyWayTwo (2001).
• Michael Stacey created the brushy face ITC Wisteria (1995), an almost exact reproduction of one of George's brush faces which appeared in many publiactions from 1938-1952 (see here).
• Heller and Fili give him credit for Chop Suey (1935), an oriental simulation face which has found its way into the free font world under several guises.
• Jim Spiece (Spiece Graphics) created the Wild West family Cactus Flower SG.
• Paulo W created Speedball Western Letters (2009). Sunamy (2007, Iza W) is a ninja font made after an example of George.

RWE

This was the Schwalbach-based outfit of Christine Mauerkirchner and Rainer Grunert that made many fonts in 1994. A partial list of names: AbsolutDBNormal, AdimesDBNormal, AdriaDBBold, AdriaDBNormal, AgentCLightItalic, AgentCLightNormal, AgentConDBBold, AgentConDBNormal, AgentConMedDBNormal, AgentDBBold, AgentDBBoldItalic, AgentDBItalic, AgentDBNormal, AgentExtDBBold, AgentExtDBNormal, AgentExtLgtDBNormal, AgentExtMedDBNormal, AgentLightDBBold, AgentLightDBBoldItalic, AgentLightDBItalic, AgentLightDBNormal, AgentMedDBItalic, AgentMedDBNormal, AgentOutlineDBBold, AgentOutlineDBNormal, AloaNormal, AmbienteDBNormal, AmbienteLightDBNormal, AmbossDBNormal, AmbroneyNormal, ArabikDBNormal, ArkansasDBBold, ArkansasDBNormal, AugustDBItalic, AugustDBNormal, AugustMediumDBBold, AugustMediumDBBoldItalic, AugustMediumDBNormal, BaltikDBBold, BaltikDBNormal, BananaNormal, BankoliBold, BaronBlackDBBold, BaronBlackDBNormal, BaronDBNormal, BaronLightDBNormal, BeginnerDBBold, BergoniaDBBoldItalic, BergoniaDBItalic, BergoniaDBNormal, BertScriptDBBold, BertScriptDBNormal, BertramDBNormal, BestDBBold, BestDBNormal, BlossumConDBNormal, BlossumDBItalic, BlossumDBNormal, BlossumEConDBNormal, BostonDBNormal, BrianDBNormal, BrianquolNormal, BrunnDBNormal, BusserDBNormal, CactusDBNormal, CalimaDBNormal, CanadaSmallDBBold, CarlosDBNormal, CascriptDBNormal, CharmantDBNormal, Charte, Cheboygan, ChockaDBBold, ChockaDBNormal, ChopasDBBold, CitonLightDBNormal, ClearBlackDBNormal, ClearDBBold, ClearDBNormal, CocosOldDBNormal, ColdBlackDBItalic, ColdBlackDBNormal, CopperBlackDBNormal, CopperLightDBNormal, CopperSmallDBBold, CopperSmallDBNormal, CorvetteDBBold, DaitonaBlackDBBold, DaitonaBlackDBBoldItalic, DaitonaBlackDBItalic, DaitonaBlackDBNormal, DaitonaDBBold, DaitonaDBBoldItalic, DataSymBDBNormal, DataSymCDBNormal, DataSymDDBNormal, DataSymEDBNormal, DataSymFDBNormal, DataSymGDBNormal, DataSymHDBNormal, DataSymIDBNormal, DigitalDBItalic, DiscHandDBNormal, DorisItalic, EgipDBBold, EnglandOldDBBold, EnglandOldDBNormal, ErlangenDBBold, EstralDBNormal, ExclaimDBItalic, ExclaimDBNormal, Exmouth, FanticDBNormal, FinalRomanMedium, FinalRomanfat, Francis, FutoralBlackDBBold, FutoralBlackDBBoldItalic, FutoralBlackDBNormal, FutoralCoOutDBNormal, FutoralConBlDBBold, FutoralConBlDBBoldItalic, FutoralConDBItalic, FutoralConDBNormal, FutoralConLiDBBold, FutoralConLiDBNormal, FutoralDBBold, FutoralDBBoldItalic, FutoralDBNormal, FutoralLightDBItalic, FutoralLightDBNormal, FutoralMedDBBold, FutoralMedDBBoldItalic, FutoralMedDBItalic, FutoralMedDBNormal, FutoralOutDBBold, FutoralOutDBNormal, FutoralPlakatDBNormal, FutoralShadeDBNormal, GarondCapsDBNormal, GarondDBBold, GarondDBBoldItalic, GarondDBItalic, GarondDBNormal, GarondHandDBNormal, GarondOldDBBold, GarondOldDBItalic, GarondOldDBNormal, GarondSmallDBNormal, GetburgDBBold, GisbertDBBold, GisbertDBBoldItalic, GisbertDBItalic, GisbertDBNormal, HeilonDBNormal, HelbaDBBold, HelbaDBItalic, HelbaDBNormal, ImpactDBNormal, JacobaBold, JacobaDBBold, JacobaLightDBNormal, JanaDBItalic, KalingDBBold, KeypressDBNormal, LapsDBNormal, LiquadorNormal, Livingstone, LynneDBBold, LynneDBNormal, LynneLightDBItalic, LynneLightDBNormal, MarlonBookDBNormal, Massena, MinesDBNormal, Mouth, NicoleExtDBNormal, NobbiGothikDBNormal, NupalScriptDBItalic, OkassionDBNormal, Oliver, OrientBlackshadow, OtterDBNormal, PatrickNormal, PattyDBNormal, PeilotDBBold, PeilotDBNormal, PeilotLightDBNormal, PeppDBNormal, PfefferDBNormal, PlainDBNormal, PoeticDBNormal, PowwowNormal, PramudDBNormal, SansThomasDBBold, SarahAllegroDBNormal, SarahAndanteDBNormal, SarahVolanteDBNormal, ScoutDBNormal, ScoutLightDBBold, ScoutLightDBNormal, Shanghai-Shadow, Shanghai, SkizzeDBBold, SkizzeDBNormal, SnellBlackDBBold, SnellboundDBBold, SnellboundDBNormal, SuggarDBItalic, SurrealDBBold, SurrealDBNormal, TechnicsDBItalic, TravemundNormal, TriathlonDBNormal, UmbicioNormal, UngelDBNormal, VikkingDBNormal, WaldauDBNormal, WeinGothikDBNormal, Xtra, ZenturyDBBold, ZenturyDBNormal. This site carries some of the fonts: Cheboygan, Exmouth, MarlonBook, Oliver, ScoutLightDB, Shanghai. [Google]

Sam Wang

Clemson, SC based designer of Partridge-Thin (1994), the Art Nouveau fonts Sarah Caps, Ambrosia Caps, Greeting, ArgosANouveau, Edda Caps, Isadora and Gismonda, Maidstone Script (shareware), Handsign (1993, sign language font), Harrington, Mira, LampoonBrush, LibbyScript, UncioGothic, Thalia, Arctic, Celtic, FatsoCaps (psychedelic), Inkwell, Arctic2, Columbus, Handwriting, Hokusai, LampoonBrush2, Partridge-ThinOblique, SakiScript (faux oriental), Sumibrush, SycamoreSans. See also here. Alternate URL. [Google]

Sarah Osborn

Designer of the Thai simulation font Jesticulate (2003). Sarah Osborn is based at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI. [Google]

Scriptorium (Ragnarok Press, Fontcraft)
[David Fleming Nalle]

Dave Nalle was born in Beirut in 1959. A creative and prolific designer, he has made hundreds of beautiful (often historic) fonts. His outfit, Scriptorium (based near Austin, TX), also does custom font and logo design. At some points, Scriptorium was also known as Ragnarok Press and Fontcraft. It specializes in artsy and ancient faces. Some subset of the fonts is made by Michael Scarpitti. Free font demos. Special subpages:

• Three free fonts: Onuava (a mini-serifed hybrid fixed-width font), Divona (sans), Sirona (based on Lombardic calligraphy).
• Essay on decorative initials, of which the Scriptorium collection has many. See. e.g., the 20th century sign lettering initials set Pencraft Initials (2009), or Cascade (2009).
• Wild West fonts: Academy, Atkinson Boomtown (2009), BigIron, Cibola, Lachesis, Perdido, Plowright, Primer, Riudoso, Niederwald, Stonehouse, Manquo, Rochambeau, Purcell, Vaquero.
• Arab simulation fonts: Samaritan is based on the poster lettering of Alphons Mucha from his poster for the play La Samaritan. Serendib and Waziri are based on the hand lettering of René Bull from his edition of the Arabian Nights. Caliph is derived from Ernst Schneidler's classic Legende font, with variant characters based on his original lettering. And there is also Samarkand.
• Celtic fonts: the fonts include the Durrow font (1993, traditional rendering of Insular Minuscule calligraphy), Malvern, Glendower (based on the most common lettering in the Book of Kells), Knotwork (caps based on Celtic knots), Alba Text (modernized text font based on Celtic uncial lettering), Lindisfarne (based on a square uncial style), Stonecross (1997, derived from Celtic cross and gravestone inscriptions), Celtic Spirals (dingbats), Celtic Borders font (lets you combine key strokes to form decorative borders; many frames and borders are original Celtic designs by Arts & Crafts period artists like Evelyn Paul and Louis Rhead), Spiral Initials, Brigida (based on Rudolph Koch's interpretation of a squared uncial), Coverack (heavy non-traditional uncial), Dahaut (modernized uncial), Morgow (1999, spiral uncial), Teyrnon (elaborate spurred uncial), Padstow (heavy uncial), Sualtim and Columba (decorative initials based on characters found in the Book of Kells).
• Oriental simulation fonts: Yoshitoshi (2003, based on the 1900-style writing by Yoshi Toshi.
• Gothic fonts, including Alt Gothic, T4C Beaulieux (1998, a free copy here), Burgundian, Cadeaulx, Collins OE, Cortrai, Franconian, Froissart, Ghost Gothic, Magdeburg, Melusine, Pyle Gothic, Rheingold, Sanctum, Textura, Theodoric, Yngling (2002).
• Renaissance fonts: Monumental Gothic, Caswallon, humanistic cursive (Palmieri, Castiglione and Hanes Italic), quirky Italian cursives (Fiorenza and Alleghieri), a Roman style hand-lettered font (Rudolfo and Rudolfo Swash), a Trajan-style Roman lettering (Hadrianus), a classic flourished cursive (Trinculo) and a set of floral intials from the Quattrocento (Fraticelli).
• Modern poster fonts: Ascelon, Bilitis, Cosmic Dude, Dromon, Ducatus Rough, Eglantine, Ekberg, Fortinbras, Hamilton, Jambon, Oblivion, Posada (2008, based on the poster lettering of Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada), Squiffy, Magnin (2003).
• Mapmaker fonts: building elements are available in Basilica; Ortelius is a map dingbat font; Queensland is bold, hand-drawn and reminiscent of medieval writing on maps. There are also Brandywine, Windlass (1996), and Cityscape. Orford (2008) is based on samples of hand lettering from a 1693 manuscript collected by Lewis Day in his classic book on historical paleography, Alphabets Old and New.
• Calligraphic fonts: Azariel, Pavane, Rasael (2009), Abdiel (2005), Roncesvalles, Gazardiel (2003, connected script), Spoonbill (2003, arts and crafts), Maacteris (Roman uncial font), Antioch Uncial (Roman uncial font), Burgundian (Classic black letter font), Franconian (Classic black letter font), Castiglione (Attractive Renaissance lettering), Cicero (Roman Rustica font), Formidable (Very bold late medieval style), Collins Old English (Classic Old English style gothic), Corbei Uncial (Roman uncial font), Cymbeline (late medieval lettering), Durrow (Standard insulur minuscule uncial font), Theodoric (Classic black letter font), Ghost Gothic (Unusual gothic font), Glendower (Uncial font based on Book of Kells), Gloriana (Interesting hand lettering style), Folkard (from the hand-lettering of Charles Folkard), Offenbach Chancery, Ranegund Merovingian Courthand, Benevento (8th century Lombardic), Hesperides.
• Art deco faces: Illuminata, Madding (2009, a bold poster font that grew out of Aventine [Google]
  

ShyFoundry (was: ShyFonts)
[Derek Vogelpohl]

ShyFoundry (formerly ShyFonts Type Foundry), located in Elkhorn, NE, was founded in 1995 by Derek Vogelpohl (b. Phoenix, AZ, 1971), whose (often techno) fonts used to be free. His original free font site closed down in February 2001. The fonts were thereafter available at CybaPee's site. Derek briefly joined ApostrophicLabs in March 2001. Alternate URL. In 2008, he took his operation to MyFonts. Each type family comes in 8 to 12 styles.

• His old free font list: AlienEncounters, ArcheryBlack, AftershockDebris, AlienEncounters, AmericanaDreams, DigitalReadout, DistantGalaxy, GrooveMachine, HollywoodHills (octagonal, like wood type), MoviePoster, OuterLimits, PlanetaryOrbiter, SFAtarianSystem, SFBigWhiskey, SFCosmicAge, SFFortuneWheel, SFGothican, SF Junk Culture, SFJuggernaut, SFNewRepublic, SFOldRepublic, SFSportsNight, SFSquareHead, SFTattleTales, SFTechnodelight, SFZeroGravity, SFCollegiate, SFMoviePoster, SolarSailer, StarDust, Telegraphic, ViperSquadron, SF IronSides, SF GrooveMachine, SF TransRobotics, SF Balloons, SF Intellivised, SF Obliquities, SF Willamette, ActionMan, Arborcrest, Automaton, Buttercup, ChromeFenders, SF Espionage, SF Square Root, EccentricOpus, GrungeSans, Intermosaic (pixel family), Intoxicated, IronGothic, Laundromatic, Quartzite, SlapstickComic (comic book font family), SynthonicPop, Wasabi (oriental simulation), TheraminGothic, Ferretopia, Toontime, Retroesque, Chaerilidae, Gushing Meadow (dripping blood family), Shai Fontai, Retro Splice.
• Free fonts made in 2008: SF Fourche, SF Florencesans (a huge family), SF Plasmatica, SF Slapstick Comic, SF Speedywaystar.
• Commercial fonts: SF Groove Machine Pro, SF Quartzite Pro, SF Animatron (2008, a redesign of the techno family SF TransRobotics), SF Tekamah (2008, futuristic), SF Portabello (2008, bold and edgy headline family), SF Hallucination, SF Hypocrisy (2009, simple sans), SF Pale Bottom (2009), SF Outer Limits (2009), SF Orson Casua (2009), SF Old Republic (2009), SF Obliquities (2009), SF New Republic (2009), SF Movie Poster (2009), SF Minced Meat (2009), SF Chrome Fenders (2009), SF Eccentric Opus (2009), SF Buttacup (2009), SF Chaerilidae (2009), SF Covington (2009), SF Espionage (2009), SF Deco Techno (2009), SF Baroquesque (2009), SF Ferretopia (2009), SF Chromium 24 (2009), SF Avondale (2009), SF Electrotome (2009), SF Cosmic Age (2009), SF hallucination (2009), SF Florencesans (2009), SF Zimmerman (2009, handprinted).

Solotype
[Dan X. Solo]

Dover Press sells Oakland's Dan X. Solo's digitizations. Dan Solo (b. 1928) has collected over 13,000 sets of metal fonts, starting when he was 9 years old and growing up in Oakland, CA. Finally, in 2002, he stopped doing that and began converting all of his fonts to computer type. He printed 30 books on fonts (with Dover), [including The solotype catalog of 4,147 display typefaces] and created hundreds of fonts. In 2007, he retired from the font business. Robert Trogman writes: I know Dan X. Solo personally. He ran a typographic studio in Berkeley for over 30 years. He had a large collection of film fonts, including some of my own. He created thousands of fonts and is now retired and is an avocational prestigitator. Copyrights have run out on most of his fonts. He also protected himself by creating pseudonyms on the questionable font names. Stuart Sandler confirms that many of the fonts in Solo's Dover books are in fact from the Filmotype collection, which Stuart is digitizing right now. Gene Gable writres: Dan Solo of Solotype in Berkeley was experimenting with photo type as early as 1945 and started doing optical special effects in the early '60s. And a number of the larger display-type shops developed their own techniques. But in terms of opening up new markets for display type (and giving designers more control over type setting), Visual Graphics and Letraset lead the way. These companies were proud of, and promoted, the fact that that their products could be used by non-typesetters with little training. MyFonts sells these faces under the name Solotype (the company is in Alameda, CA): Acantha, Assay, Baraboo Banner, Beijing, Bindweed, Brevet, Brussels, Cathedral, Cleopatra, Cognac, Crossroads, Dainty Lady, Dangerfield, Diablo, Dime Museum, Dutch Treat, Egyptian Oldstyle, Excelsis, Extravaganza, Grecian, Lord Mayor, Malibu, Minnesota, Moulin Rouge, Penny Arcade, Rigney, Trixie, Valerie, Zorro. Bio. Bio. A list of some digitized fonts:

• Art Deco: Advertisers Gothic Light, Alex, Beverly Hills, Boul Mich, Cabaret (2003, as in Murder She Wrote), Capone Light, Chic, Clyde, Eagle Bold, Eden Bold, Eden Light, French Flash, Gallia, Graybar Book, Grock, Matra, Modernique, Parasol, Parisian, Phoenix American, Plaza Suite, Publicity Gothic, Salut, Stymie Obelisk, Zeppelin.
• Victorian: Anglo, Arboret, Campanile, Chorus Girl, Fancy Celtic, Ferdinand, Floral Latin, Glorietta, Grant Antique, Gutenberg, Hogarth, Jagged, Katherine Bold, Lafayette, Meisteringer, Olympian, Phidian, Ringlet, Romanesque, Rubens, Stereopticon, Templar, Wedlock, Zinco.
• Script/Cursive: Amapola, Artists Script, Carpenters Script, Certificate Script, Commercial Script, Conway (an architectural script), Elegance, Engrossing Script, Figaro, Flare, Gloria Script, Hanover, Holly, Kunsteler Bold, Liberty, Manuscript, Orion Script, Pantagraph Script, Park Avenue, Romany Script, Trafton Script, Typo Upright, University Script, Virginia Antique.
• Art Nouveau: Ambrosia, Argus, Artistik, Auriol, Baldur, Bocklin, Carmen, Childs, Edda Black, Excelsior, Francomia, Giraldon, Harrington, Isadora, Metropolitan, Murillo, Oceana, Odessa, Orbit Antique, Palmetto (2005; based on a 1887 face called Palm from the A.D. Farmer Foundry), Siegfried, Skjald, Spartana, Titania.
• Gothic/Medieval: Academy Text, American Uncial, Antique Black, Becker Bold, Bradley, Castlemar, Celebration Text Fancy, Church Text, Engravers Old English, Frederick Text, Freehand, Hingham Text, Initials-Bradley and Caxton, Kanzlei Light, Lautenbach, Lautenbach Fancy Caps, Libra, Morris Black, Nicholini Broadpen, Rhapsodie Swash Caps, Scottford Uncial, Solemnis, Washington Text, Wedding Text.
• Celtic: Anglo Text, Camden Text, Chappel Text, Cimbrian, Colchester Black, Durer Gothic, Durwent, Fenwick, Genzsch Initials, Gloucester Initials, Gutenberg Gothic, Hansa Gothic, Harrowgate, Kaiser Gothic, Kings Cross, Konisburg, Malvern, Medici Text, Middlesex, Progressive Text, Tudor Text, Warwick, Westminster Gothic, Yonkers.
• Special-Effects Display Fonts: Azteca Condensed, Burst, Campaign (1970), Chinatown (oriental simulation), Cigar Label (1997), Colonial Dame, Contract Banner (2004, a take on Mezzotint from 1880)Direction, Fillet, Filmstar (1999), Firebug, Headhunter, Hollywood Lights, Igloo Solid, Import, Lariat, Needlepoint, Old Glory, Protest, Rustic, Scimitar (Arab simulation face), Scoreboard, Skyline, Starburst, Sundown Shadow, Tableau, Tonight, Xerxes.

Solotype Fonts at MyFonts.com

Dan X. Solo's Solotype fonts are now being sold at MyFonts. These wood type/Western/ headline/ Victorian collection includes Acantha, Bindweed, Dime Museum, Egyptian Oldstyle, Excelsis, Extravaganza, Rigney, Assay, Baraboo Banner, Beijing, Brevet, Brussels, Cathedral, Cleopatra, Cognac, Crossroads, Dainty Lady, Dangerfield, Diablo, Dutch Treat, Grecian, Lord Mayor, Malibu, Minnesota, Moulin Rouge, Penny Arcade, Trixie, Valerie, and Zorro. Alaska is based on an 1890 design of Marder, Luse and co. Arcade imitates an 1888 design of Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. Bamboo (oriental simulation face) is based on a 1889 creation of Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. Behrens Antiqua and Behrens schrift are revival of early 20th century faces by Peter Behrens. Eccentric is a digitization of a 1898 face by Kingsley/ATF. Hansard is a revival of a display type published in 1887 by MacKellar, Smiths, & Jordan. Pekin is a digitization of a face, first designed by Ernst Lauschke in 1888 and issued by Barnhart Bros. & Spindler foundry in Chicago under the name Dormer, and revived by them in 1923 under the name Pekin. Charles Henry Beeler made a condensed sans serif issued by Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan foundry in 1887: it was digitally revived as Roundhead. Monument is a revival of a 1893 face by the Boston Type Foundry, but was also cast at the Central Type Foundry. Vienna Light is a delicate early 1900s type originally created by the German foundry of Schelter & Gieseke. Other designs: Bareback, Campaign (ca. 1970), Cigar Label (1997), Estienne, Farringdon (a western face), Goodfellow (digitization of wood type from 1895 found at Hamilton and probably due to W.H. Page), Harlem Text (blackletter), Houdini (ca. 1992), Memorial, Quadrille 2 (a simplified Tuscan face), Sparticus, Vanities (a Victorian type), Whirligig. In 2005, MyFonts added Margie (formal script based on Marggraff Bold Script by the Dresden foundry vormalig Brüder Butter, 1920s), Fancy Dan, Bamberg, Fat Face No. 20, French Ionic (quite ugly--based on an 1870 Clarendon derivative by the Cincinnati Type Foundry), Hearst Italic (based on a 1904 face by Carl Schraubstadter of the Inland Type Foundry), Hearst Roman (based on a face from the Inland Type Foundry allegedly stolen from a hand lettering job done by Goudy, acccording to Goudy himself), Tally Text (early photolettering type of the comic book style), Welcome 1 (based on Van Loey-Nouri's art nouveau face from 1900). [Google]

spork thug typography
[Josh Wilhelm]

Josh Wilhelm's original designs. The fonts: A-Damn-Mess, Adrenochrome, Airwalker, AirwalkerOutline, Aneurysm, AnotherMorningStoner, Antioch, AntiochBitchslap, AphidManureHeist, Apocalypshit, AshleysWriting, Askew, AssholeBasicSansSerif, AstroCreep2, Atomic-Toothpaste, BackSplatter-DrippyPS, BallTongue, BallTonguePreview, Bandnames, Bandnames2, BeerGoggles, Belching-Up-Salisbury-Steak, Betsy, BilBurr, Black-Sunshine, BloodyShrapnel, Bogusflow, BollWeevil, Bootyneck, BotchedVasectomy, Bowel-Trouble, Brackish, Bunfuzzled, Bunker, Buscemi, Cactus-Love, CaffeineFreeDietPorkSoda, CamelWalk, Captain-Shiner, Cardboard-Love-2, Cardboard-Love, CardboardLove, CarsickTimes, Cheap-Ass-Phaser, Clunk, Configuration9, Corinne, Cracked-Dendrite, Craptacular, CrystalGypsy, Cut-It-Out, Cyanide-Breathmint, DawnOfTheDead, Dead-Ewoks-Everywhere, DeadAlive, Denrito (2001), Derelict, DietPorkSoda, Dispepsi, Divine, Dollar-Store-Stencil, Donald, Downer, Drew, Dumpster-Diver, EatMoreGravel, Eeviac, EeviacBold, EeviacOutline, ElScorcho, Electronic-Cobbler, Elser, Eulogy, Evil-Dead, Fifty, Fildnik, Fingered, Fisticuffs, Flamer, FlutingOnTheHump, FrailLimbNursery, FreakingStars, Fridge-Magnets, FrostbittenWanker, Future-Boxes, FuturexSchizmatic, GeorgeWBushIsACokehead, GlassSandwich, GoldenShowers, Gubernaculum, Hallisey, Handyman's-Special, HappyHero, Hellacious-Migraine, Hendershot, HotwaxResidue, Human-Brown-Eye, Humpbunny, InterstellarHarddrive, Invaders, InvadersPartTwo, InvadersPartTwoOutline, Johnny-Bracket, Josh-Is-Tipsy, JoshIsStoned, JoshSober, Juggalo, JuggaloWarped, Kagan, Kalamazoo, Lacquerhead, Lanky-Bastard, Lebowski, Lego-Maniac, Lhyrma, Lickspittle, Lithium, Little-Tubby-Jesus, LoungeAct, LoungeActOutline, MagnaCumNada, MaximumRadiationLevel, MaximumRadiationLevelOutline, Miasma, Minus, MirandaWrites, MissKatie, Mister-Haddaris, MoFo, MollyRingworm, Mope, MopeOutline, Mrnikas, Mudshovel, Muffy, Mump, MusickThief, MusickThiefTwo, Mustachio, MustyPrivates, MyPromiscuousDaughter, MyPromiscuousDaughterOutline, MyPromiscuousDaughterSquat, Necrosis, Nerdball, Nobody-Loves-Me, Nonsense, NovaCane, One-Lousy-Bottom, OneLeggedDonkey, Overactive-Bladder, Oxalic, Paralacrimation, Pink-Noise, Pio, Pio, Poltergeist, PoltergeistHollow, PoltergeistShuffled, PoltergeistThick, Poop, Pork-Soda, Praise-'Bob', Praise-'Bob', Protonic-Feelers, Pudmonkey-RegularPS, PudmonkeyShrapnelFree, PudmonkeyTwo, Punched-Stub, QuarterOzToFreedom, Queasy, Quite-Blunt, REVEREND-JOSH, Rachel, RangDang, RedneckZombies, Rhoda-Dendron, SassmouthSkinny, SassmouthThick, SelfMutilation, ShotgunBlast, ShotgunBlastMadThick, ShotgunBlastThick, Single-Stroke, Sissyneck, SissyneckOutline, SixtyPercentLessSassmouth, Sloopy, Snafu, SnootchieBootchies, SnootchieBootchiesBold, SnootchieBootchiesItalic, SnootchieBootchiesOutline, Some-Boxes, SonofX51, SoulManure-NormaLPS, SoulManure2, SoulManureOutline, SpaceLord, SpaceLordOutline, SpankThru, SpankThruBold, SporkThug, Sporkbats-Two, Sporkbats, Sporkbats3, Stamper, Stickons-Two, Stitch, Stitch, StunOperator, SuckyDigital, SuitePee, Takeout, Tanklason, Target-Practice, Teardrop, Terminus, TexasJigsawMassacre, Thirty-Seven, TongueOfColicab, Turnaround, Ubiqita_Europa, Undertow, Uppity, Uppity2, Uppity3, Uppity4, VenerealStrobeEffect, VenerealStrobeEffectItalic, VenerealStrobeEffectStroked, VeryAssy, Vibrato, VibratoHollow, Vic-Twenty, Vinyl-Stickons, Wadlow, WadlowsSon, WaitAndBleed, Wireframe-Davenport, X51Outline, Xanthisma, Xanthisma, XitRAM!, Yonkerismo, Zaboodla, ZaboodlaThin. [Google]

Stephen Rapp

American calligrapher located in Lakewood, OH. As a lettering artist for American Greetings since 2000, he has designed and developed numerous proprietary fonts. Stephen's commercial fonts can be found in both Veer and P22/IHOF collections. Creator of Raniscript (2009, upright connected script), Memoir (2008, an elegant connected script), Tai Chi (2003, P22), a calligraphic oriental simulation font, ChaiTea (2007, flowing script), Montague Script (2008, a connected calligraphic brush script, which won a "Certificate of Excellence in Type Design" award in the 55th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition and an award at TDC2 2009.) and Bramble (2005, P22), an organic font. DeSoto (2009) is a family of 4 faces based on a few letters from a 1958 DeSoto magazine ad. Joe Newton at Veer created butterfly ornaments and swashes. See also here. MyFonts link. [Google]

Studio Rosenberg (or: Masterfont)
[Zvika Rosenberg]

Zvika Rosenberg (b. 1949, a graduate from Bezalel Academy of Design in Jerusalem) designs the Hebrew fonts at Tel-Aviv's Studio Rosenberg (est. 1975, his own design studio) and Masterfont Ltd (est. 1986 in Tel-Aviv). Commercial Hebrew, Arab, Latin and barcode fonts for Mac and PC. Included in the 1300+ font library are Akvarel (oriental simulation), Evyatar, Eventov, Elizov, Aspeset, Nisha, Rahav, Ego, Edgar, Muly, Adam, Aharony, Autograph, Hugo, Alexandra, Grafity, Hafgana, Ura, Rahat, Oron, Iguana, Eyal, Junior, Ayalon, Internet, Interes, Litam, Stempa, Copyfax, Ishit, Panda, Arava, Dror, Algom, Elegant, Erela, Aristo, Eshkol, Golda, Pola, Azmaout, Diploma, Gnuzot, Midbar, Mizrahi, Margaliot, Azmaout, Partom, Papaya (Bukvaraz 2001 award), Universe, Mekorot, Koren, Shmuel, Frankruhl, Gilboa, David, Narkis, Ada, Abetka, Hadassa, Yarden, Meteor, Miriam, Naama, Skitza, Petite, Cola, Yalon, Rosenberg, Tamrurim, Agada, Efrat, Arbel, Arsenal, Beresheet, Bruto, Bat Sheva, Greifer, Hut, Hatzvi, Zorea, Hermon, Architekt, Junior, Klilit, Rubin, Chocolade, Handwriting, Marhaba, Poster, Inbal, Media, KtivaTama, Jeep, Asam, Ecology, Dalia, Johnni Lasso, Hiroshima, Harakiri, Lahmaniot, Sapir, Haim. A signature font at 45 USD. Logo font service as well. Vendor of the Boutros Arabic fonts. Vendor for Bitstream, Agfa, Adobe and many others. MyFonts page. Designers at Masterfont include Zvi Narkiss, Yaakov Agam, Asher Oron, Pini Hamou, Asher Gat, Yigal Feurstein, Ada Yardeni and many others. Zvika Rosenberg himself designed these faces: Abirim MF, Agada MF, Agudal MF, Aharoni Polished MF, Aluma MF, Autograph, Ayalon, 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, Copy Fax, Darbuka MF, David MF, Dimdumim, Emda MF, Enzoagada MF, Esheet MF, Eyal, Finish, Greifer MF, Hafgana, Haim Arukeem MF, Haim MF, Havazelet MF, Interes MF, Jeans, Katava MF, Kilshon MF, Klaf, Klemantina MF, Ktiva 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, Remington, Rimon, Rosenberg, Rosenberg Naot Square MF, Rosenberg Promo MF, Rosenberg Ski MF, Rosenberg Solo MF, Rosenberg-Naot MF, Shablona, Shanti MF, Shavit MF, Shiboota MF, Shooma, Shopping MF, Skitsa, Square Numbers MF, Stempa MF, Sucariot, Sweeta MF, Tapuz MF, Taxi MF, Terminal MF, Tiltan MF, Turmus MF, Unplugged MF, Zeebra MF, Zlafim, Zoola MF. PDF file showing these 2009 fonts: MFTVilna-Bold, MFTVilna, MFTDavid-Bold, MFTDavid, MFTNarkisClassic-Bold, MFTNarkisClassic, MFTNarkisClassicLight, MFTNarkisClassicMedium, MFTNewLivorno-Bold, MFTNewLivorno. [Google]

Stuff!!

Categorized font archive with Asian, Balloo, Ball, Blackletter, Broken, Brushstroke, Chiselled, Computer, Crazy, Runic, Scary, Script, Slanted, StarTrek, Stencil, TV/Movie, Typewriter, Uncial, and Western categories. [Google]

Suryo Wahono

Jakarta, Indonesia-based designer (b. 1972) of Ukiran Jawi (2006, an oriental simulation face) and Minangkabau (another oriental-looking face). [Google]

Swamp Design
[Johan Ahlberg]

Johan Ahlberg's site on pixel fonts that are very readable at extremely small point sizes, on screen. Click on Swamp 2097. Download about 30 original fonts (called pixel fonts and dot fonts). Very impressive displays! Font names: Pixel, Pixel4x4, PixelClassic. Plus an archive of techno/computer/dot/pixel fonts, including many Chinese and Japanese character fonts: 35base, 35basewide, 35lines, 35rounds, ArakawaPlane (katakana), BMUGAsianFont, Beatbox, BlobThin, DFFangSong1B_GB (simple Chinese characters), DotplLCD_KANA, Dotplain, Flytningar (Tarmsaft), Flytningarsprutande, Futalic_win (kana), BlockOut2097 by Matthew Sephton, CoilKtb, MM, Parade20, Pinponpan, Gachaponka__akana (the latter five fonts by Masayuki Sato at Maniackers Design), Jim_s_Kanji_A__PS, Kiloton_v1_0, ManiacKt, Olasfontirregular, Onakanormal, PKNB, PropellerFuel, Sevenet7, Thyristor, Ticker, VTMeiOrnaments (Susan Townsend's nice Chinese ornaments), VTMeiOrnamentsOnBlack, VTMeiOrnamentsOnCircle, WA50, Hirosh, InavelMutant, InavelStorebror, Jetplus, KEWKEN, Koshgarian_Light, Neuropol_Medium, Ollon, Reningsverk, Shamen_Remix. Alternate URL. Direct downloads. [Google]

Sylvestre Studios
[Mick Sylvestre]

New Westminster, BC-based foundry of Mick Sylvestre (b. Regina, Saskatchewan, 1968), who designed the gothic families Cardinal (2005) and Scriptura (2005). He also created Hashi (2006, oriental simulation), Voussoir (2006, heavy display face), Caricatura (2005, handprinted), Dingums (2005, dingbats), Diva Pop (2006, avant garde), Cannabis (2005), Glam Rock (2005), Vlad (2005, condensed and sectarian), Bramare (2006), Pepperjack (2006, blocky with round holes), Colby Script (2006, brush), Mickster (2006, comic book lettering), Nine Volt (2007, grunge), Savasato (2007, art nouveau look) and Quadra (2005, black blocky face). Additions in 2009: the handwriting faces Caramella, Fantillo, Shaelynn, Manta, Seussian, and the LED-meets-art deco font Katzenklo. [Google]

Tabo Garcia

Tabo (Gustavo) Garcia (alternate URL) is based in New York. He designed these fonts:

• 2004: Almaga, Sketch Book, Tokiorama (Regular, Bold and Hashi: oriental font simulation).
• 2005: Chubby Round, Chubby square, Classic 1952, Ishtencil popular, Round Balcony.
• 2006: Bonfim, Com Las Manos.
• 2007: Brocos Tortos (octagonal), Bad Tattoo Artist, Electro Punk, Molecula Toxica, Roundin.

The Empire of The Claw
[Lee Bentley Jr.]

The Empire of the Claw is run by Lee "the Claw" Bentley, Jr. His fonts could be called mysterious, weird, spooky, odd, and scary. There is also a considerable archive! Original fonts by "The Claw" include Bloodsuckers, Devo, Devo Dingbats, Emperor's Scrawl, Horror Dingbats, Horror Dingbats Eerie Edition, B Movie Dingbats, Grossout Shadow, Hey Kids, Monsters Attack, and Elvira Dingbats. Newest fonts in the horror / futuristic / game font archive: Showboat, Sins of Rhonda, Spookshow, TerraFirma, TexasLED, Wonton (oriental simulation), Yawnovision, YonderRecoil, Zabdiel, Zapped, Zero Degrees, Zoom, Bloodgutter 99, Corpse, Dignity of Labour, Crackman, Space Gimboid, and Neo Geo. At TypOasis. [Google]

Thomas Ewing French

Scientific lettering expert, 1871-1944. The Essentials of Lettering (1912, McGraw-Hill, New York), coauthered with Robert Meiklejohn, has many historical examples and takes the reader on a grand tour of lettering. The tease. [Google]

Thumbnail Designs
[Andrew Martin]

Andrew Martin (Thumbnail Designs) is a Manchester, UK-based type and graphic designer. He will do custom type design, including signatures. His fonts, dated ca. 2008: Black Swirl (blackletter), Blade (techno/octagonal), Diablo (gothic), Ornate (scratchy), Quantum Leap (futuristic), Serif Regular (constipated and condensed), Script (calligraphic) and Wolverine (faux oriental). Beloved Script (2009) is an elegant upright connected script face. No downloads or sales. Behance link. [Google]

Tom Tor

Tom Tor Studios has offices in Los Angeles and Tokyo. Designer of the themed display faces Tom Tor (2008, geometric sans), Pavadee (2008, free upright script), Khmer (2008, Khmer simulation face), Fugue (2008), Kampuchea (2008). He also made the pixel face Silom (2008). Tom Tor (b. 1975) lives in Angles. He writes: Formally trained in Communication Design and type designer, Tom Tor is visual rather the verbal. This is especially evident in Tor's Landmine Awareness poster design. Stark but symbolic images are used as the sole means of conveying the malicious cruelty brought on by leftover landmines. His work is strongly inspired by the Avant Garde art movements of Europe. Dafont link. Behance link. He was commissioned in 2009 to design S-21, a modernist face (in his own words). Behance link. [Google]

Traitor Vic

Creator of some fonts that are based on scans from the book Special Effects and Topical Alphabets (1978, Dover Publications), by Dan X. Solo. They are: Chalkboard, Chinatown II, Confucious, Grog Caps, Ideograph. He goes: I named Chinatown II as a secondary version because Solo has released this font previously. The one that appeared in the book, however, is slightly different. Confucious is very similar to the font Bamboo. Grog Caps is similar to Rackowski's Nitemare Caps. [Google]

Transkrypt
[Frank Baranowski]

Frank Baranowski (b. 1960, Altenmedingen), of Neuenkirchen in northern Germany, runs the Transkrypt foundry and has been designing typefaces since 1990. He studied Graphic Design at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste in Braunschweig, Germany. In 2003 transkrypt was started as a website to show typographic experimental projects, exercises on types and also typefaces, which were designed by Frank Baranowski. His most extensive project, the Lyrix Projekt, is a kind of typographic anthology of pop lyrics. He describes transkrypt as "a space for unusual and unused type-design and typography". He designs mainly experimental typefaces, such as Kaleido (2004), Clayborn (2004), Concrete, EF Mrs. Beasley (1995, nice fat round letters, Elsner&Flake), Sputnik (2004, URW++, an oriental look family), Phoenikia, Tambourine (2004, URW++), BB Mr. Beasley (1995, Linotype) and EF Musical (Elsner&Flake, serifed and playful). His experiments also include Lyrix (type motifs from pop songs), Quak (Quadrat-Kreis System, a grid system for constructing letters as parts of circles and lines), Patchwork (2005), Pardon (2005) and Kryptik-Zyklus (his own type posters and art). Latest creations: Karoline (2005), New Telegraph (2007, slab serif), Funtype (2009, handprinted), Monumental (2009, a fat face made for stacking), Dodgy Ultra (2009, fat face). He has a page on "Typen mit Schwung". MyFonts site. Linotype page. [Google]

TS Design Media Agentur
[Ewald Strassmann]

Graphic design studio in Höxter, Germany. At FontStruct in 2009, they made TS Comtom (octagonal), TS High Paper, TS Pixeldotzz (Regular, Narrow), TS HighFly (stencil), TS Rounded Block, Club M, TS MyBlock77, and TS Tokio Rounded Serif (oriental simulation). The designer is Ewald Strassmann. [Google]

Two Moon Media (or: Type-O-Space)
[Lindon Parker]

Lindon Parker (TwoMoon Media, Australia) offers free original designs: Fanzine, Big Red Day, TM Pedestal (great display font with oriental undertones), TM DDC, TM Beguiled, TM FirstFleet (stringy flowy handwriting), TMParamount, TM Pedestal, TM Move Aside (nice display font!), TM SprintVeloche, TM Tramway, TM ThatWay, TM Tail Lights, Big Daddy (many weights). All in Windows TrueType. Great taste! Dead link. [Google]

Type Revivals (or: SourceNet)
[Tim Ryan]

Tim Ryan is a Thousand Oaks, CA-based type designer and font enthusiast, who has helped me out generously with font links. His fonts are distributed by ITF and Monotype and Precision Type. Font list: AES, AcmeTR, AdmiralTR, AlpineWhiteTR, AncientTextTR, AssayTR, August family, AutomationTR, BinnerGothicTR, BinnerTR, BlackboardLinedTR, BlackboardTR, BoboCapsTR, BonGuia, Bondage-Oblique, Bondage-Regular, BoomerangTR, CameraStencilTR, CartoonPartyCapsTR, ChopinTR, CiviliteTR, ClaudiusTR, CollegeCapsTR, CoreDumpTR, DirectionTR, EclipseCapsTR, EngravedTR, ExpressTR, FlairTR, FrenchCapsTR, GabrielleTR, GaelicCapsTR, GoudyMediaevalTR, HelvinBlackTR, HelvinTR, HostessTR, KhayyamTR, KiddoKapsTR, KleukensTR, LadyDawnTR, MaximeTR, ModTR, PencilCapsTR, PlayBlocksTR, SaltinoTR, SansPlateCapsTR, SchoolScript-Bold, SchoolScript (1994), SchoolScriptDashed, SchoolScriptLined-Bold, SchoolScriptLined, ShalimarTR (Indic simulation), ShalomTR (Hebrew simulation), SimplexTR, SpringtimeTR, SukiakiTR (Japanese simulation), SusieQTR, VarianteInitialsTR, WashingtonTextTR, XerxesTR, SchoolOblique. Santa Barbara, CA-based SourceNet used to market didactic fonts, ca. 1992-1994, such as those listed above: SchoolScript-Bold, SchoolScript (1994), SchoolScriptDashed, SchoolScriptLined-Bold, SchoolScriptLined, but also DnealianCursive, DnealianCursiveLined, DnealianManuscript, DnealianManuscriptLined. [Google]

Typearound
[Stephen Deken]

The Typearound site was created and run by Stephen Deken, but closed its doors in February 2002. The fonts are being kept alkive at the TypOasis site. Stephen Deken made these high quality fonts: BacklogNormal, BlockNineNormal, Boma-Normal, ClearSnowSect, FontLogic-Normal, HijinxNormal, HorridNormal, InfidelityAbnormal, Inspiration, IsotopicNormal, JokerNormal, MousePutNormal, NameThisFontNormal, ParityDemiBold, PenStitchingNormal, RunicComplationNormal, SeriousDoubtsNormal, ShaveNormal, StephenNormal, StrumbelflumbleNormal, SuckfontNormal, FlimsyStave, ThingamabobNormal, UnitedStates, WitchcraftNormal, PhysicsAlpha, PhysicsBeta, FidelityNormal, FinalsWeekNormal, RushJobNormal, Clothes-Peg, I-am-Nervous. CabeenCondensed. Isabelle Trolio (Solar Sister) made these: Asha Regular, Asha Outline, Worm, Wibble, Bernie, BoxTop, ChangandEng, Chubb, ChunkNorris, CurlysCurls, Ginko (oriental simulation), Kirby, Kriesler, SolarCeltic, Wira, JumpStart, MartiniOlive. Johan Waldenström made 5cent. Paul Genberg designed Lou (2001). Obsolete URL. alternate URL. [Google]

typOasis

Wonderful and useful archive, beautifully presented by the most generous of fontaholics, Petra Heidorn, a.k.a. CybaPee. Includes nice type art. The web presentation and the categorization are exemplary. Dingbats are used in a creative way to spice up things, and CybaPee juggles Paint Shop Pro like no one else. The growing archive is especially strong for decorative, blackletter, alchemy, Xmas, Celtic, and display fonts. The newest sub-page features Asian fonts (that is, Asian-style Roman letters). These pages are perfect: enjoy them! [Google]

Typodermic
[Ray Larabie]

Ray Larabie (b. 1970) ran Typodermic in Mississauga, ON, which opened in the Fall of 2001. In 2006, it moved to Vancouver, BC, and in 2009 it moved on to Nagoya, Japan. MyFonts.com page. Dafont page. Of course, Ray Larabie has been making fonts since 1996, but those early fonts were freeware. Fonts can also be bought through Agfa/Monotype. Latest additions. The Typodermic fonts:

• 2009: Misadventures, Gaz (large retro sans family), Meloriac (heavy display sans), Acrylic Brush, Enamel Brush (a digitization of Catalina, 1955, Emil J. Klumpp), DDT (neutral sans), Thump (fat, casual), Desperate Glamour, Pricedown (an update of his free 1990s font, patterned after the lettering on The Price Is Right show), Mitigate (monoline and slabbed; has some typewriter styles), Catwing, Walken (slab serif stencil), Silicone (soft rounded sans family), Movatif (sans), Gunplay (a stencil family inspired by the poster for the 1972 Steve McQueen/Ali MacGraw film The Getaway), Fragile Bombers (octagonal), Forgotten Futurist (techno sans, 19 styles), Bullpen, Coolvetica, Duality, Good Times, Strenuous, Shlop (paint-drip style), Dirty Baker's Dozen (stencil), Junequil (VAG Rounded style), Owned (graffiti), Domyouji, Threefourtysixbvarrel (stencil), Enacti, Uniwars (futuristic, 16 styles).
• 2008: Madawaska (a rugged slab serif), Ebenezer (grunge), Gnuolane Stencil, Raincoat, Report School (avant garde sans), Jesaya, Carouselambra (art nouveau), Debusen (rounded), Barge (military font), Renju, Otoboke (handlettered), Hit (informal hand), R6 D8 (futuristic sans family), Rexlia (an octagonal machinistic family), Hybrea (a display sans with TV screen rounding), Sweater School, Presicav (extended sans), Hover Unit, Addlethorpe (grunge), Scheme (rounded sans), Usurp (bouncy poster lettering), Negotiate (technical sans family), Divulge, Sewn, Gnoulane (condensed sans), Moja, Teeshirt (old typewriter face), Pound (art deco marries grunge), Graveblade (heavy metal font), Synthemesc (psychedelic anti-Starbucks font), Chysotile (white on black grunge), Cardigan (sans), Gurkner (balloon style), Reagan (grunge).
• 2007: Tight (a copy of Dean Morris's 1976 Letraset font Quicksilver), Headlight, Meloche (a 3-style grotesk), Octin Spraypaint (grunge stencil), Octin Vintage (grunge), Bouffant (script), Octin Prison (stencil), Octin Sports (octagonal), Octin College (octagonal, for sports jerseys), Octin Stencil (free octagonal font family), Burnaby Stencil (stencil), Superclarendon, Conceal, Ohitashi, Stud (grunge), Bristles (grunge), Skirt, Cotton (grunge), Kelvingrove, Augustine, Containment, Snowa, Veriox, Scrubby, Transmute, Sheaff, Injekuta (techno), Rinse (grunge), Polyflec, Domyouji (square sans), Winthorpe (old style), Cutiful (script), Flyswim (grunge), Dirtstorm (spray-painted stencil), Shnixgun (grunge), Neuzon (grunge), Oxeran (old typewriter), PRINTF (grunge all caps monospaced), Akazan (sans), Nyxali (a metal tag face), Meloriac (an extra bold Futura inspired face), Nesobrite (25 styles of Bank Gothic lookalikes), Meloriac (headline sans), Walnut (graffiti face), Gnuolane (a narrow sans), Edifact (a damaged computer font), Darkheart, Stampoo ( squarish), Raymond (rough script), Hayate (oriental look), Telephoto. The entire Octin series is free at DaFont.
• 2006: Octynaz (grunge), Paltime (ornamented), Jolie Ecriture Desard (children's hand), Mango (comic book face), Desard (child's hand), Bulltoad, Lerku (eroded serif), Charbroiled (also eroded), Ceroxa (eroded stencil), Nagomi (a chiseled-look Asian font based on calligraphy of Chikako Suzuki from Nagoya), Whiterock, Yellande, Chilopod (a futuristic face inspired by the logo from the 1980s videogame, Atari Centipede), Order, Goldburg (based on a typeface by George Bowditch, 1957), Laserjerks, Milibus (futuristic), Bonobo (serifed), Ohitashi, Sarasori (TV-tube shaped face in the style of Oban), Structia (an octagonal family), Betaphid (octagonal), Gendouki (futuristic stencil), Slugger (athletic lettering), Marianas (a gorgeous art deco face), Lineavec (octagonal), Corzinair (serif family), Buxotic (a great caps face), Cinecav X (for closed caption TV and DVD), Salsbury (comic book face), Lonsdale (loosely based on a font called Parkway Script, which was designed by Emil Hirt in 1964), Alepholon (futuristic), Kwokwi, Mikadan (a tribute to Stephenson Blake's Verona from 1948, which was in turn based on William Dana Orcutt's Humanistic from 1904), Marion (a beautiful transitional family), Quasix (hookish), Skraype (grunge stencil), Bleeker (casual lettering), Linefeed (monospaced line printer font), Draculon (a casual face inspired by the letterforms of William Orcutt's humanistic font from 1904 which was in turn based on an Italian manuscript from 1485), Mahavishnu (a mix between 1970s psychedelics and art nouveau), Doradani (a corporate identity sans family), Korotaki (futuristic).
• 2005: Kadonk (a Halloween face), Report (a VAG-Rounded style face), Croteau (a poster face), Heroid (ook face), Barrista (informal script), Wyvern (sans serif), Wubble (like puddles of water), Caryn (casual script), Folder (a rigid sans family), Venacti (a futuristic family), Xenara (a keyboard lettering family), Emory (a destructionist sans family), Ligurino (neat sans&serif family), Biondi (update of Copperplate Gothic), Byington (Trajan column lettering), Sayso Chic, Expressway (28 weights, a highway signage family), Algol (pixel type), Meposa (fat display face), Tandelle (condensed), Vigo, Maychurch, Mecheria, Vactic (dot matrix), Zosma, Topstitch, Windpower, Llandru, Soap (a creative extension of Cooper Black, with dingbats), Kleptocracy (1999-2005), Owned, Rimouski (sans), Sinzano (sans with opentype ligatures galore), Zamora.
• 2004: Affluent, Threefortysixbarrel (stencil face), Tank, Telidon (dot matrix face), Funboy, Neuropol X, Neuropol Nova, Mufferaw (comic book face), Larabiefont, Zekton (techno), Strenuous 3D, Silentina (advertised as "a silent movie font"), Amienne (brush script), Fenwick Outline (free), Boopee (children's handwriting), Pirulen (stretched out Bank Gothic--it's a shame that Ray advertises a pay font on Fontsquirrel, whose motto is 100% free for commercial use---please withdraw that, Ray; same for Pupcat, Pricedown, etc.), Zalderdash.
• 2003: Zupiter, Blue Highway.
• 2002: the dot matrix family Telidon, Telidon Ink, the architectural font Jillican (octagonal), Snowgoose, Bomr, Pakenham, Neuropol, Nasalization, Fenwick, Kleptocracy DLX, Sui Generis, Dirty Bakers Dozen (faded stencil), Minya Nouvelle, Asterisp, Chinese Rocks, Jillsville (great artsy Courier), Ulian, Wevli (including Wevli Dingbats).

unfontunately
[Andreas Johansson]

Andreas Johansson is the Gothenburg, Sweden-based designer in 1999 of the medieval cyrillic font Magna Veritas (based on a scan). Other fonts: Afterfonts, AndreasTypewriter, Apparition, Cauterize, Cervixcouch, Dubbed (2002, grunge), 7inch, Alvedon, Helifonter (erasure face), Fontility, Headless, Hitman, Likefontsintherain, Lurker, NoMansFont, Pulsate, SNAFU, Teonanacatl, Thumping (1998), TourdeFont, Unfontgiven, Void, Wartorn, Yoicks, AndreasSansCnd, AndreasSansCndOblique, BennyBold, BennyThin, detachable-penis, doggiestyle, dubbed, Giga66, hardware-requiem, Hardwarerequiem, hardware-requiem-condensed, Hardwarerequiem, Hardwarerequiem (a pixel font set), Hatchet-Man, Helifonter, Industriegebiet, Johansson-Sans, Magna-Veritas, Nobby, Scriptural, Stealthy-Bastards, Still-Font, Tour de Font (2000, caps only), YouCanMakeYourOwnFont (2002), Zaibatsu (oriental simulation). Alternate URL. Started "unfontunately" in September 2001. Direct access. Alternate URL. [Google]

Urban Flirt

Archive with AstigmaSolid, BrooklynKid, Plastique, Playtoy-Regular, Schizm, Scribblicious, Scriptina, Shanghai [oriental simulation font by Christine Mauerkirchner und Rainer Grunert, 1995], Silkscreen, TagsXtreme, Violation, Cheri, Delusion, DigitCube, Distress, Excelerate, Jungle-LIFE, LotsOfDotz, Mariah [Mistral renamed]. [Google]

ururu/ururun

Also called Uryurin Fonts, this outfit published the free oriental simulation truetype font, uryu-asian (2003), as well as uryu-biscuits (2003), uryu-cats (2003), UryuPOP_O_ANK, POTERIN-hoso(Trial), POTERIN-futo(Trial), uryu-dotface, uryu-happiness, uryu-pentomino, uryu-ramen, uryu-shaggy, uryu-square-shadow, URYURIN-face1sP(Trial), URYURIN-face2sP(Trial), URYURIN-face3sP(Trial), uryu-sandbox. Alternate URL. Half of the fonts above are handwriting fonts with Latin, kana and a minimal kanji set! (Maybe the full fonts have a full kanji set.) There are two OpenType fonts, uryu-dots7x7-90-ot and uryu-dots7x7-77-ot. [Google]

URW FontForum CD

The fonts on the URW FontForum CD in 2003: ArgonauticaCloD-Reg, ArgonauticaD-Reg, ArgonauticaOutCloD, ArgonauticaOutD, ArgonauticaSerD, ArgonauticaSimD, BardiT-Bol, BardiT-BolIta, BardiT-Reg, BardiT-RegIta, BardiT-UltBol, BardiT-UltBolIta, BavaroirT-Bol, BavaroirT-Reg, BohemianT-Bol, BohemianT-BolIta, BohemianT-Ita, BohemianT-Reg, BohemianT-UltBol, BohemianT-UltBolIta, BommiCarD, BommiOxyD, BreitkopfFraD-Reg, CSCourthandD, CSFuzzyLogD, CSTakahashiD (oriental simulation font), CrayfishBolAD, DeepSpaBigBalD-Reg, DeepSpaD-Bla, DeepSpaD-Lig, DeepSpaMeaBalD-Reg, DeepSpaSmaBalD-Reg, EstroD-Reg, FunnyNatD, HandsOnAlbD-Reg, KeysD, KeysMACDAlt, KeysMACDReg, KeysMACEAltD, KeysMACEReg, KeysMouse, KeysPCDAlt, KeysPCDReg, KeysPCEAlt, KeysPCEReg, LegendeD-Reg, LuedickitalD-Bol, LuedickitalD-Reg, MaximD-Reg, MovingMouD, OrganiconT-Bol, OrganiconT-BolIta, OrganiconT-Reg, OrganiconT-RegIta, ParametraT-Bol, ParametraT-BolIta, ParametraT-Ita, ParametraT-Reg, PhenotypeT-Bol, PhenotypeT-Dem, PhenotypeT-Reg, PoloD-Reg, ReneFonD, ReneLemD, RobertaD-Reg, SepulturaFonD-Bol, SepulturaFonD-Lig, SepulturaFonD-Reg, SepulturaGraINRD-Reg, SepulturaGraRIPD-Reg, TrickyD-Reg, UngerScrD-Reg. [Google]

Utopiafonts
[Dale Harris]

Dale Harris (from Bendigo, Victoria, Australia; was: Dale Thorpe) created some fun faces at Utopiafonts. The list: Wentelteefje, Water Torture, Valkyro, TurbulenceRIPIkarus (grunge), Tolo (outline), the monkies ate my soul (sans serif display), The Guru Font (scribbly), The Cowboy Font, The Beautiful People, Birdman (2002), Seraphim, Samba is dead, Playdough, Plain-o-matic, Pixel, Pigae, Phoenix Sans (2002), Octavio, Ninja Penguin, Netherworld, Nerve Tonic, Mael (vampire font), Luxo (neat handwriting), Loki Cola (a coca-cola style font; by the way, Dale calls himself "loki"), irrep, Instant Soup Mix, I hate Comic Sans, (very funny face dingbat font) Fred, Font in a Red Suit, Distortia, der Damonschriftkegel (scribbly), Dael (semi-calligraphic), Bazaronite (1998), Babelfish (1998), Azrael, Avatar, A Blick for All Seasons, 42 (1998), A Font for Erin. Utopia's font links. New fonts: Korunishi (2002, tech font), Avatar Drawn, Avatar Serif, Everyday Formula, Whutevur, Supersoulfighter, Crayon, Beware (2000), Made in China (oriental simulation font), Freya Neu, Harper, Bearpaw (multilined handprinted), Leningrad Disco, BearpawBats, TheBlickFont, HarperFreeVersion. Created Chubble (1999) at Chankstore. Alternate (older) URL. Another URL. Yet another URL, where you can find the stylish Empyra. Interview. Some files can be found here and here, but otherwise, Utopia is gone. [Google]

Vic Fieger

American graphic designer (b. 1982) located in Medway, MA, who has created many free fonts, and some low cost commercial fonts. He is also known for his web comic, Dubmarine. Until 2006, all his fonts were free, but starting in 2006, he started selling them via MyFonts. In 2004, he created Airstrip Four, AlphaEcho, BostonTraffic (stencil), Breakaway, CarbonType (old typewriter), Corporate HQ, DataControl (nice octagonal face), DataControlUnifon, Delta Echo, Eurocentric, FormerAirline, GangofThree (oriental simulation), Helsinki, IonicCharge (LCD simulation), JamPact, KarmaticArcade, KnowYourProduct (stencil), LandSpeedRecord, MajorSnafu (stencil), NervousRex, Osaka-SansSerif (techno), PillboxOpaque (dripping blood face), QuickEndJerk, Refrigeration, SiameseKatsong, Tetroserbogia, Umbrage, Virgo01, Whitehall1212, Xenophone, Yukarimobile, ZonaArmada. In 2005, he designed FrauleinUnifon, Fraulein, Fraulain II, Fraulein Hex, KarmaticArcade, NukuNuku, OffshoreBankingBusiness, PlannedObsolescence, TerryScript, Wunderbar, Xerography, YachtingType, Zero&Zero-Is, Xerography, FrauleinHex, ICBMSS20, ICBMSS25 (stencil faces), Hydrogen Type, Gumbercules, Kremlin (Cyrillic letter simulation), Johnny Homicide, Lilac Malaria, Motorway, Offshore Banking Business, Planned Obsolescence, Nuku Nuku Paradiso (Asian simulation), Quadrophonic, Ruth Script, Shoplifter (ransom note font), Under Influence (scratchy face), Viva Allende, KarmaticRevolution (with Mike "Karma" Alkire), RanmorianStd-B (artificial language script) and Ex (kana). His 2006 additions, still free: Big in America, Maxine Script, Gisele Script, Siamese Katsong (oriental simulation), Pokopen, Grecian Formula (Greek simulation), Edo (brush), Armalite Rifle (stencil), Ruth Script, Terry Script, Oil Age Heiroglyphs (grunge), Nyamomobile (gorgeous futuristic stencil face), Q-Bert's Funeral, Xtreme Chrome, Fawn Script, Ukiah Caps (a hip all caps face), Banzai (fake Japanese), 106 Beats That, Azudings1, Fawn Script, Freelance Kamchatka, and Daisy Script. Commercial fonts: Sixpak (2008, pixel face), Jaipur (2007, Indic script simulation), Santa Mensch (2006), Celonius Mark XIX (2006 geometric design), Argon Type (2006, futuristic), India Echo (2007, futuristic), How to Consume Oxygen (2007, grunge), Statue Of Liberty's Underwear (2007, Russian constructivist style), Moon Corps (2007, katakana), Underwood Champion (2008, distressed typewriter), Heavy Data (2008, computer simulation face). Perlmutter (2008) is a Hebrew and Yiddish font designed for the purpose of legibility at great distance (included are niqqud, letters with dagesh, punctuation, sheqel sign, and aleph-lamed ligature). In 2009, he created Edifice wrecks (graffiti), Damon Script (comic book face) and Maritime Flags and Curses (dingbat face). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Fonts at FontStruct in 2009: Newhome (LED simulation). Alternate URL. [Google]

Volcano Type (MAGMA)
[Lars Harmsen]

Magma Brand Design in Karlsruhe, Germany evolved in 2004 into Volcano Type. Magma is headed by Lars Harmsen (b. Hannover, 1964) and Ulrich Weiss. Lars Harmsen spent the first four years of his life in Chicago. He then moved to Geneva with his parents for eight years, and then moved to Karlsruhe. He completed his schooling at the French section at the European School. He first studied history and Germanics in Freiburg before beginning to study design at Basel, Boston, Saarbrücken and Pforzheim. He got his degree in graphic design, and in 1996 he founded MAGMA [Büro für Gestaltung] together with Ulrich Weiß. He is the co-founder of STARSHOT GmbH, a design company for sports products, now based in Munich. MAGMA created Type Foundry Volcano-Type.de and the internet forum Slanted.de. In the meantime, Slanted.de has become the most active German typography forum. Volcano Type offers commercial and some free typefaces: DigiBo (Boris Kahl), Objects (free ransom face by the house), MonoPoint and DoublePoint (monospace dot matrix families by the house), Amiga Normal and Rounded (pixel faces by Boris Kahl), Screeny, Pixel and C64 Style (pixel faces by Boris Kahl), Fette Pixel (pixel face by Florian Gärtner), Teckbo (digital face by Boris Kahl), Psycho (grunge by Boris Kahl), Wald Ast (tree branch look by Sandra Augstein), Wald Blatt (tree leaf look by Tanja Rastätter), Rollerblind (a pair of dot matrix faces by Boris Kahl), Chaucer (uncial by Boris Kahl), Glossy (dot matrix face by Sandra Hofacker), Brüll (a funny frog dingbat face by Andre Rösler), Pax (a free peace symbol face by Heidrun Weißschädel and Alexander Kassel), Mud (free face by Boris Kahl). And these display faces by Florian Gärtner: Republic, Tacora. And finally the Fone 1 through 3 grunge faces by Florian Gärtner. The typefaces of Lars Harmsen (or codesigned by him) at Volcano:

• African look faces: Masai
• Athletic lettering: Sports (grungy, with Kahl), Sports Skinny.
• Blackletter: Fraktape Duct, Fraktape Sticky, Fraktendon (=Fraktur+Clarendon, codesigned with Kahl), Black Sirkka, Frakturbo, SAR-Lupe
• Diabolo
• Dingbats: Genocide (free). Mr. J. Smith Eye, Mr. J. Smith Head, Mr. J. Smith Mouth, Mr. J. Smith Nose, and Mr. J. Smith Wanted are experimental dingbat faces by Nikolaii Renger, based on an idea of Lars Harmsen, and digitalized by Ulrich Weiss and Boris Kahl. These won an award at the 2005 FUSE competition.
• Experimental: Sewed (2009, stitched letters), Cross Fourty, Cross Sixty, Cross Ten, Cross Thirty, Cross Twenty, Cross Ultra
• Grunge: Basalt, Magneta, Punta Negra, Mrs. Tape Tape
• Hand-drawn: B-Scratch (2009, Harmsen and Egger's take on sketched letters), Amebo, Diabolo, Keycaps, Kulli (curly), Oboni, Wawe, Tape One Bold, Tapemate Outline, Tapemate Regular, Tape One Bold
• LED style: Digibeck, Strichcode (a family codesigned with Kahl).
• Kitchen tile faces: Bus, Bus PI, both done with Boris Kahl.
• Oriental simulation: Japanese
• Patriot family, done with Boris Kahl: Saddam, Commander Robot, Fidel, Slobbodan, Osama, George.
• Ransom note face: Kriminal
• Sans families: Copy (2009).

Walter Velez

Original fonts by Walter Velez made from 2000-2003 include Erotokritos (2002, wonderful), Fontasia (oriental simulation), FontasiaClash, FontasiaV2.0:TheRevenge, InAFlash-Expanded, InAFlash-Italic, InAFlash, InnerFlasher, InnerFlasherVersion2.0, Minotaur-Phatte, Mythical&HopliteNoodgies (2002, dingbats), Phrixus, SnotmasterV-Italic, SnotmasterV (2002, extraordinary handprinted face), SpiltInk, TrueCrimes, WVelezLogofont. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google]

Wanderer

Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic Asian simulation font China. Could this be Oleg Martos? [Google]

wantedfonts.com

Exemplary categorized archive. Adult font subarchive. Other archives for typewriter fonts, handwriting, Western fonts, Asian-looking fonts, and so forth. [Google]

Webnaipol
[Pol Udomwittayanukul]

Thai designer, aka Naipol, of Thai and Latin faces such NP Naipol All In One (2005), NP Chinese new year (2005, oriental simulation face), NP Grand Opening F0NTDoTCoM (+Italic), Anubal, Naipol Musdical, Naipol Shadow, Naipol Baby 01 through 04, Naipol Thai-Lao), Woodenhead (2005). Some faces are also here. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. SM Pixxa (2005, pixel face) is here. His 2005 creations NP-Chinese-new-year, NP-Lovely-Vol.1-Italic, NP-Lovely-Vol.1 are here. [Google]

Wilson Thomas

Designer (aka Funk King) who used FontStruct in 2008-2009 to make over 200 decorative fonts. Dafont link. Additional URL. Fontspace link. His creations include

• Alphabots
• Alphadings: Teed Off, Book Stack, Speaker Box, Ant Farm, Sound and Vision, Speaker Grill, Conga Lounge, Spinal, Add Van, Frostruct, Picket Fence, Regatta, Cranestruct, Impossible Alphabet, Igloo Village, Mortar Board, Jack, Marionette, Golden Gate (+Short, +Solid), Crossed, Eff U ("the finger"!), Tall Big Top, Jackpot, Skulls & Cross Bones Redux, Crosshairs, Drama Club, Good Day Sunshine, Butterfly, Steps and WEindows, Heartbroken, O Christmas Tree, and Christmas Lights, Supper Time (alphadings of plates), Sands of Time (alphadings of hour glasses), Fishbones (alphadings), Handy (alphading with hands), Hang Ten (feet alphadings) and High Five (hand alphadings), Armade and Ghost Ship Armada (ship alphadings), Cut Here (stitching alphadings), Schematic (electric circuit alphading), Masquerade, Mortar Board, Gearswork, Hi-Lo Gears, Gears, Gear Shift, Castle, Castle with Flags, Antique Keys, Rounded Keys, Pods, Piano Keys (+Alt, +Correct), Framework, Dixieland Jazz, Spats, and City of New Orleans (the last three are alphdings based on the same Victorian alphabet), Saturn, Piggy Bank, Voodoo Doll, Dice, Fist Bump.
• Antennas, Antennas Outline
• Antiquity
• Architect, Ruled, Gridworks, Blueprint (Solid, Dashed), Quadular (+Serif), Isometric Modified (+Light, +Bold Outline), Isometric (+Basic Latin, +Basic Latin Lite, +More Latin, +Bold.
• Art deco: Shift (bold), Eye Spy (this says Peter Sellers), Mod Squad.
• Atomic.
• Avenue
• Badge
• Ball and Chain (neat)
• Balls and Bats
• Barber Shop
• Barcoded
• Beachwear (horizontally striped)
• Beatnik
• Beltway.
• Birdseye
• Birdsteps
• Bitten
• Blackletter: Abbey
• Blanket Serif Caps, Blanket Sans Serif
• Block Inline Block
• Block Mosaic (great gridded letters)
• Blockheads
• Blood Sweat & Tears
• Bolt, Bolted
• Build A Bridge
• Buzz Kill
• Carp Black, Carp Blanc
• Caterpillar, Tall Caterpillar.
• Cattails
• Chain Gang, Krazy King
• Channel
• Cherry Bomb.
• Chubby
• Circuit Board Solid, Circuit Board Outline, Circuit Board Outline Numbers, Circuit Board Simple, Micro Clean, Microcircuitz, Circuit Board Simple.
• Circus Maximus Outline
• Clean
• Cobblestones
• Compass (+Plain)
• Connected scripts: Cruise, Jet Cruise (2009), Notched Script (upright, connected), Rough Script (italic, connected), square Script (pixelish, connected).
• Contempole
• Crispy Inline (classy)
• Crooked Marker, Marker
• Crop Circles
• Curls And Twirls
• Cut Here
• Daisies (nice rounded square letters with painted daisies)
• Decoscriptic, Decoish.
• Diamonds Are Forever, Liberty (dot amtrix fonts)
• Didactic fonts: Back to School.
• Digital, Digital Whimsy (gorgeous fonts in which the meat of the glyphs is made up of 0's and 1's), Digital Italics, Digital Non-italics.
• Dingbats: FSEmoticons, Maven Pictograms, Temp (weather dings), Sports Wave, Bullet Arrows
• Dinner at 8
• Diode
• Directional
• Disco Ball, Disco Salvation
• Domino, Dominodot
• Dot matrix fonts: Ying Yang (2009)
• Double Decker
• Eiffel family: mechanical.
• Emergency
• eq Regular, eq Radio Waves, eq Tight
• Extension Cord
• Fairy Tale (curly)
• Fantastic
• Fast Cars, Fast Lane, Fast Forward
• Fifty Famous Fairy Tales (bi-lined and bejeweled)
• Flair Ornate, Flaired Script, Flair, Flaired
• Floor Plan
• Flash (gridded face)
• Folk Art (wooden plank simulation)
• Font Troll
• Fractal, Wireframe, Hemisphere, Origami (now Mummification): experiments in glyph partitioning.
• Funk, Funky palms
• Gemstone (letters in a mosaic)
• Glyphs made from broken objects: Broken Combs, Broken Glasses
• GI Joe
• Grain
• Graphont
• Heath Robinson (gorgeous mechanical font).
• Honeycomb Black
• Inline: Hi-Fi Deco, Track (+Filled), Crispy Inline
• Iphont (white on black dot matrix face)
• Ironside, Ironworks.
• Isomixed (+Inline, +Inverted, +Light, +Inline Light), Isomixerd Moire (nine textured styles).
• Jeannie
• Jelly Bean series: I's, Wide, O's, Split
• Jetsons
• Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope Solid
• Lace
• Ladder
• Last Days Of Summer, Endless Summer, Beach.
• Lattice, Lattice Black
• Lean
• Leaves
• l-e-display
• Little Miss Muffet.
• Loom.
• Love, Love Letters
• Madison Avenue: kitchen tile face.
• Martini
• Metroliner and Metroliner Deluxe.
• Mike
• Modern Ancient (chiseled font imitation)
• Molecular (+Complex, +Complex 1), Dense Molecular Complex (1 through 5), Molecular Architecture, Tessellation 1 (+Continuous).
• Montreal (+Italics)
• Monumental, Less Monumental,
• Mortar Booted (+Thick, Separated, Mission).
• Mouthy
• MyBlock
• Necklace
• Ninja.
• Oblique
• Octovision Remix
• Open & Shuttered Day, Open & Shuttered Night
• Oriental simulation/look: Shoji Pixel, Shoji Stage & Screen Soapbox, Chinese Democracy, Asian Influence.
• Outline Habitat
• Palm, Tall Palm
• Patterns
• Pavers
• Pipes
• Pixel Dust, Pixels Dusted
• Plaid
• Popsicle Sticks (nice vertically striped glyphs)
• Power Grid, Power Gridlocked
• Puzzle
• Radio Waves
• Razorback Block
• Regular Habitat
• Relativity
• Repeat
• Riveted
• Road Trip
• Satellite
• Say What? (Exaggerated ink trap face)
• Scripts: Diode (+Dioded, Diodoubled, Diodocked, Diodedocked, Diodiced), Scherzando, Fontstitution, Rough Script, Scriptilicious, Whipped Cream, 45 Degrees.
• Skulls, Skully
• Slice N dice
• Skyscraper.
• Small Wonder
• Sole
• Soma (2009): 3d letters mades from cubes.
• Spooky Eyeballs (2009).
• Squiggles
• Stained Glass, Stained with Cross
• Starburst
• Stencil fonts: GI Joe, Kid's Stencil (white on black), Tri-Fold, Tri-Fold Cut, Tri-Fold Rounded, Stencil, Stencil Plate, Stencil Face, Semi Stencil, Psuedo Stencil, Psychedelic Stencil
• Stitching fonts: Sampler
• T-Shirts on a Clothesline
• Swamp Frog and Tadpole: artsy fat letters
• Swamp Funk, Mojo (curly letters)
• Tabular
• Tall Habitat
• Techno look: Technified, Slick.
• Teepee (wood look)
• Textile
• Thalistic.
• The Big Top
• The Real McCoy
• Tiki.
• Time
• Timpani, Timpaniless, Timpaniblok, Alien Crop Circles (outer space face).
• Upright connected scripts: Madie (2009)
• Valentine's fonts: Hearts and Flowers, Hearts and Arrows, Keys to your Heart, Bed of Hearts
• Vapors and Mirage: evaporating glyphs
• Victorian fonts: Alouette, Swamp Funk
• Waveform
• WPA Household Arts Stripes, WPA Household Arts Chex, WPA Household Arts (poster stencil face)
• Wee The People
• Werner Paperclip (2009).
• Western fonts: Western Doodle, Sparky, Buckaroo, Diamond Buckaroo, Saloon and Desert Rose. Western style alphadings: Cart Before The Horse, Wagon Train
• Weird
• White on black faces: Tabs, Dot Keys, Rounded Keys, Block Keys, Keys.
• Wiggles
• Wim Crouwel-related fonts: Edgar Fernhout (a Wim Crouwel tribute font taken from a 1963 poster), Kalender 1976 Letters (octagonal based on a Wim Crouwel calendar from 1976), Kalender 1976, Brusselmans (based on a Wim Crouwel poster), Rabobank (based on a Wim Crouwel poster), Brabant (based on a Wim Crouwel poster)
• Woodcut, Woodcut Recut
• Woven.
• Wrenched
• Yay Team
• Zebeast (Zebra-striped letters)
• Zodiac Block

Yelena Likutina

Also written Yelena Liqutina. Ukrainian designer (b. Kharkiv, 1978) who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Geisha, a delicate display font of utmost beauty, simplicity and purity. She graduated from Kharkiv State Academy of Arts and Design in 2000, where Geisha was developed under the supervision of Vladimir Lesnyak. [Google]

Zakhar Yaschin

Russian designer (also spelled Zahar Yaschin) of some fonts at Paratype. Harry Plotter, He created the blockish font Quasimode at Studio Dezygn. At Art Lebedev, he made ALS Ekibastuz (2006, sans family), ALS Tonguin (2006, oriental simulation face) and ALS Story (2008, together with Taisiya Lushenko). He also made the Latin/Cyrillic sans family SansSay (2007) and MainStormZ, Harry Plotter New (Paratype), the script faces Rondo Script, Treasure (as in signatures), the handprinted faces Art Brush, Art Pencil, Auktyon Z (2001, ParaType, handprinted), Auktyon Dot Z, Kapelka (2005, ParaType, connected brush lettering), KvadratZ (2001, ParaType: fun octagonal, including dingbats)), KvadratWoodZ, KvadratPictZ, the futuristic faces Astra, Avangard, the display faces MainStormZ, Harry Plotter (2003, ParaType), Elektro_Mech, Elektro_DC, Elektro_AC, the slab face Egypt, and the comic book face Comicz. Other creations include the delicate sans face Solovets (2008). He lives in Oryol and works as a graphic and web designer. Alternate URL. [Google]

Zero Resolution

Russian site with original and not-so-original free fonts for Latin and Cyrillic: Amsterdamvp, CyrillicGoth (blackletter, VNLabs 1992), Invest (1993, bank note etched letters), DSNote (Dubina Nikolay, 2000), StillTimeCyr (by Dubina Nikolay, based on a Ray Larabie handwriting font), UnrealTournament (gothic, by rahdick@gmx.de), AlternaTitulB&W, CampusOtl-Bold (athletic lettering), China (1999, oriental simulation), Epson1 (dot matrix). [Google]