1001 Fonts (stenciled fonts)

Stencil font archive. [Google]

4th February
[Sergiy Tkachenko]

Sergiy Tkachenko (b. 1979, Khrystynivka, Cherkasy region, Ukraine; lives in Kremenchuk, Ukraine) designed the techno faces Bladi One 4F (2008), Bladi One Slab 4F (2009), Bladi Two 4F (2008), Abia Wide 4F Thin (2008), Codename Coder 4F (2009, monospace programming font), Droporado 4F (2009, using circles only), Tovstun (2009, futuristic, ultra-fat and rounded), Perfocard 4F (2009), Modularico (2009, five modular faces based on a logo from Master Kremenchug a company for which Sergiy worked for 4 years), Boldesqo Serif 4F (2009, a splendid informal fat didone, now with Greek support), Tkachenko Sketch (2009), Unicase Slab (2009, a techno slab), Laftatic (2009), Logofontik 4F (2009, techno), PC.DE Stencil (2009, +Italic; custom stencil font), Placarto4F-Italic (2010, ultra fat art deco), Stenciliqo 4F (2009), Tiap Liap 4F (2009, handwriting), Nut Kit 4F (2009), Rezzzistor 4F (2009), Gnuolane (2009, a cyrillization, with permission, of a Larabie font), Wrongo 4F (2009), and Paranoid Cyrillic (2009, based on Kevin Lo's Paranoid). He also made the inline modular face Grand Hotel (2009), and Bijou 4F (2009). He cyrillized several typefaces such as Lavoisier (by Alec Julien), Budmo Jiggler (Ray Larabie) and JoAnne Display (Sandy Cerovich). Sergiy graduated from Kremenchuk State Polytechnic University in computer systems and networks in 2007. Various other URLs: Microsoft link, Identifont, 4th February, Behance, Revision Ru, Russian creators, CPLUV, Twitter. [Google]

Aaronaps2

Designer who used FontStruct to make Jack Simple and Jack Fancy (a hairline stencil). [Google]

Achaz Reuss

In house type designer at Elsner&Flake. He designed an elegant high-contrast display face Miami EF in 1994, the broken black lettering face EF Splitter, the horizon lettering face EF Eastside in 1995, and Nivea in 2000 (for Beiersdorf). Designer of the Bank Gothical sans family FF QType (2004) in Condensed, Compressed, Extended, SemiExtended and Square versions. In 2007, he created Bodoni Stencil (URW++). [Google]

ACME Fonts (or: CHK Design)
[Christian Küsters]

Foundry run by Christian Küsters (ex student of Matthew Carter at Yale, born in Germany, living in Oberhausen) out of London, and founded by him and Andy Long (from South London). Buy the fonts at Font Factory. The company evolved, I guess, into CHK Design. Interview. The ACME font list:

• By Christian Küsters: AF Angel (1998, based on an old woodblock typeface), AF Satellite, AFWendingen, Cashier 1 AF (1999, dot matrix), AF Champ Fleury (1996, a Codex-like face), AF Hybrid (1996), AF Hadrian Roman (1998, art nouveau), AF Interface One and Two (1998, grotesque sans), AF Retrospecta (1998, exaggerated wedge serif family), Track AF One and Two (1998, white on black dot matrix printing), Unzialis (1994), Zip Code AF 30, 40, 50 and 60 (2001, hairline squarish sans family). Christian had a nice connection at Plazm, where he published Hadrian (1996), Retrospecta (1994), Unzialis (1994), Hybrid (1996) and Interface One (1996).
• By Robert Green: AF PAN (1997, octagonal).
• By Henrik Kubel: 4590, AF-Battersea (1999, a grotesque family), AF-CENTERA, AF-Copenhagen, AF-Klampenborg (2000, grotesque sans), CPH-ArabicNumbers, CPH-Medium, Grot-25.
• By Sandy Suffield: CarPlatesCarPlates, AF Carplates (1998, squarish, including Carplates AF Bold Stencil).
• By Paul Wilson: AF Screen (1999).
• By Pete McCracken: INKy-black (1994).
• By Carsten Schwesig: Nicoteen 13 AF (1998, grunge), AF Syrup (1998, slab serif).
• By Paul Farrington: Camberwell AF One (1998, grotesque sans), AF Tasience (1998), Amateur 69 AF (1998, grunge).
• By Dirk Wachowiak: AF Diwa (2002, large squarish sans), AF Generation (2002, huge squarish sans families called A, A2, A2A, Z, and ZaZ).
• By Jean-Lou Désiré: Kub AF (2002, experimental).
• By Johannes Bergerhausen and Gerard Paris-Clavel: LeBuro AF (2003, grunge in weights called Breau, Crade, Louche, Extra Crade, Demi Beau).
• By Sylvia and Daniel Janssen: AF Nitro (2004, techno family in subfamilies called Intro, Riton, Trion).
• By Anne Wehebrink: Oneline AF (1998, squarish sans).
• By Paul Kehra: PostSoviet AF (2001, geometric sans family; with Cyrillic and Latin letters; weights called Culture, Free Latvian, Free Revolution, Ideology, Revolution).
• By Simon Piehl: Spin AF (1998, squarish sans).
• By Anthony Burrill: Video Wall AF (1998).
• By Christian Küsters, based on lettering of H.T. Wijdeveld: Wendingen AF (1998, LED simulation).
• Other: AFConstants (1998), Allen, Indy 500, Interface, AFLogotype (1998).

Adam Augustyn

Brooklyn, NY-based designer and illustrator. He created these typefaces in 2009: Dutch Serif (black counter face), Dutch Serif Stencil, Hand Sign. Behance link. [Google]

Aenigma
[Brian Kent]

Free fonts by Brian Kent, growing by many fonts each month: Revert (2006), Gyneric (2006), Key Ridge (2006), Double Bogey (2005), Hairball (2005), Whatever (2005), Dyphusion (2005), Blackonimaut (2005, blackletter), Snailets (2005), Vigilance (2005), Wager (2005), Janken (2005), Dented (2005), Syracuse (2005), Symmetry (2005), Nucleus (2005), Underscore (2004), Gesture (2004), Rough Day (2004), Sarcastic (2004), Galapogos (2004), Reason (2004), Slender (2004), Gather (2004), Quadratic (2004), Saunder (2004), NostalgiaBRK (2004), Kinkaid (2004), Jeopardize (2004), Pincers (2004), Fascii (2004), Grapple (2004), WaywardBRK, WaywardShadowBRK (2004), Obstacle (2004), False Positive (2004), Goosebumps (2003), Jargon (2003), Bewilder (2003), 90Stars (2003, snowflake font), Chumbly (2003), Synthetic (2003), Jawbreaker (2003), Mobilize (2003), GreatHeightsBRK (2003), Graveyard (2003), Bend 2 Squares (2003), Redundant (2003), Homespun (2003), Galvanize (2003), Dastardly (2003), Vantage (2003), Quarantine (2003), Knot Maker (2003, with a program for weaving Celtic knots), Combustion (2003), Knot (2003), Enthuse (2003), Weaver (2003), Foreshadow (2003), Rambling (2003), Mincer (2003), Intersect (2003), Technique (2003), Nominal (2003), Unlearned (2003), Brass Knuckle (2003), Quarterly (2003), Zirconia (2003), Zephyrean (2003), Whippersnapper (2003), Ryuker (2003), Discordance (2003), Graze (2003), Gravitate (2003), Edit Undo (2003), Persuasion (2003), Encapsulate (2003), Nymonak (2003), 36DaysAgo (2003), Vertigo (2003), Lights Out (2003), Sequence (2003), Rehearsal (2003), Yearend (2002), SupraGeniusCurvesBRK (2002), SupraGeniusLinesBRK (2002), Faux Snow (2002, snowflakes), Mishmash (2002), Brigadoom (2002), Gyrose (2002), Dystorque (2002), Upraise (2002), QuacksalverBRK (2002), Ravenous Caterpillar (2002), Bumped (2002), Tonik (2002), Jupiter Crash (2002), Mysterons (2002), Sideways (2002), Scalelines (2002), Pneumatics (2002), Granular (2002), Volatile (2002), Aspartame (2002), Bleak Segments (stencil font), Genotype, United, Lynx (2002), Lyneous (2002), Alpha Beta (2002, pixel font), Licorice Strings (2002), Syndrome (2002, futuristic font), Your Complex (2002), Nanosecond (2002), Binary (2002), Dynamic (2002, techno), Qbicle (2002), Flipside (2002), Amplitude (2002), Pindown (2002), Kurvature (2002), Euphoric (2002), Bobcaygeon (2002), Zoetrope (2002), Overhead (2002), Zelda DX (2002, pixel), Telephasic (2002), Hearts (2002), Lamebrain (2002), Compliant Confuse (2002), Lakeshore (2002), Line Ding (2002), AE Systematic, Acknowledge, Mini Kaliber, Upheaval (2002), The Code of Life font (2001), Amalgamate (2002), Bandwidth (2001), ClassicTrash (2001), XmasLights (2001), Setback (2001), Qlumpy (2001), Regenerate (2001), Konector (2001), registry (2001), Stagnation (2001), Elsewhere (2001), Claw (2001), Cleaved, 8-bitLimit (4 weights), 10.15SaturdayNight-BRK-, 3DLET(BRK), Automatica-BRK-, Bendable-BRK-, BitBlocksTTF-BRK-, Kickflip-BRK-, Withstand-BRK-, Hyde-BRK-, Jekyll-BRK-, Larkspur-BRK-, NotQuiteRight-BRK-, Quandary-BRK- (an LCD font), Thwart-BRK-, Weathered-BRK-, AEnigmaScrawl, Aftermath, Blox-, CandyStripe, Circulate, Collective (4 weights), Conduit, DarkSide, DashDot, Dephunked-, EmbossingTape (3 fonts), Exaggerate, Frizzed, FullyCompletely, Grudge, Hassle, Hillock, Impossibilium, Inertia, InkTank, Lethargic, MoronicMisfire, Numskull, Opiated, Phorfeit, PixelKrud, Powderworks, Pseudo, QuantumFlat, QuantumFlatHollow, QuantumRound, QuantumRoundHollow, QuantumTaper, Ravaged-By-Years-, Raydiate, Relapse, Sorawin-Plain, Spastic-, Splatz-, Stranded-, Swirled-, TRAGIC-, VacantCapz, Wobbly, XeroxMalfunction(BRK), Zenith, ZeroVelocity, Zoidal, simplton, Waver, SaffronColdWars, 3DLET, Bri's-Scrawl, TRAGIC-, AcidReflux, Arthritis, Ataxia, AtaxiaOutline, BlockTilt, ChintzyCPU, ChintzyCPUShadow, Decrepit, Detonate, Draggle, Draggle[overkerned], FatboySlimBLTC, Gasping, Hack&Slash, HeavyBevel, Jagged, Jasper, JasperSolid, Katalyst[active], Katalyst[inactive], LucidTypeA, LucidTypeB, LucidTypeBOutline, LucidTypeAOutline, Neural, NeuralOutline, ObloquyOutline, ObloquySolid, PlasmaDrip, PlasmaDrip[Empty], Queasy, QueasyOutline, Rotund, RotundOutline, SkullCapz (dingbats), Tearful, Tetricide, Turmoil, Ubiquity, Underwhelmed, UnderwhelmedOutline, Vanished, Xhume, Yonder, Yoshi'sStory, ZurklezOutline, ZurklezSolid, Gaposis, Naughts, Ink Swipes, Irritate, Perfect Dark, Forcible, Loopy, GaposisOutline(BRK), GaposisSolid(BRK), Head-DingMaker(BRK), JoltOfCaffeine(BRK), KirbyNoKiraKizzu(BRK), Orbicular(BRK), Xtrusion(BRK). Yet another site. Typosasis backup. Backup at Fontfreak. Backup at 1001 fonts. Backup at Fortunecity. Commercial fonts at CheapProFonts: Lamebrain BRK Pro, Dynamic BRK Pro, Phorfeit Bundle, Phorfeit Slanted BRK Pro, Genotype Bundle, Genotype S BRK Pro, Genotype H BRK Pro, Classic Trash BRK Pro, Vigilance BRK Pro, Technique Bundle, Technique BRK Pro, Technique Outline BRK Pro, Galapogos BRK Pro. [Google]

Aerotype
[Steve Miggas]

Aerotype is a foundry in Glendale, CA. It sells the creations of Stephen Miggas. Many typefaces were developed around 1998, and most were rejuvenated and updated in 2005. A list of Aerotype's faces typefaces:

• Pixel fonts: Airlock, AirlockWebDings, Fronteer One, Fronteer Two, Microtooth, Microtooth Web Dings, No Biggie One (+Bold), No Biggie Two (+Bold).
• Old typewriter fonts: Obsolete (+Bold, XBold, Light, XLight).
• Handwriting or informal scripts: Bountiful, BountifulBold, Khaki, Khaki Alternate, Mission, Sanscripta (+Heavy), Siesta, Southbee, Boundless, Chillin, Angeleno, Game Street, Jumpshot.
• Stencil faces: Expedition Stencil (+Heavy, +Thin).
• Blackletter: Kingshead (+Alternate, Alternate Gothic, Alternate Light, Gothic, Light), Ladybat (+Alternate, Alternate Light, Light), Ravenwood One (+Bold, Condensed), Ravenwood Two (+Bold, Condensed), Wilhelmschrift, Ravenwood, Octoberfest, Gothicus, Dractura, Dracena.
• Destructionist: Dogjaw (2009), Thunderhouse (2009), Sluicebox (2008), Americanus, Conquistador Medium, Derailer (2006), Fiesta, Indigo Medium, Rebound (+Bold, Light, Super, XLight), Coldsmith, Blackstock, Boilerplate, Geoduck, Ghost train.
• Techno: Durandal (+Black, Flat, FlatBlack, FlatLight, Light, Recycle.
• Octagonal faces: Expedition (+Heavy, Thin, Super, StencilSuper), Protocol (+Alternate, Alternate Light, Alternate Bold, Bold, Light).
• Dymo label simulation faces: Recycle Alternate, Recycle Alternate Reverse, Recycle Reverse, Recycle Standard), Public Works.
• Display faces: Pacifico (2009), Rebound, Roughneck, Fiesta (Mexican style), Mediterano, Pitchfork, Serendipity.
• Western style: Buckboard (2009), Bootstrap (2010), Planchette, Protocol, Leadville (Egyptian), Saloon After, Saloon Before, Boxwood, Caboose, Copperjack (Egyptian), Silverton (Egyptian).
• Pre 1999 faces that have been discontined or renamed: Clique Serif, Bevel-Broken, CliqueWedge, Vector, Corrode, Looneywood.
• Dingbats: Antique Macabre Ornaments (2007).
• Wood type: Applewood (+Alternate, 2009).
• Stencil faces: Hogwild (2010).

Afrojet Type Foundry
[John Skelton]

John Skelton is a type designer from St. Paul, MN, b. 1973. Some sources have him located in Portland, OR, though. He started out in 2008 as afrojet on FontStruct, making many free fonts there. Late in 2009, he set up Afrojet Type Foundry at MyFonts. Cargo Collective link. Behance link. Home page.

FontStructions in 2008: Playtime (an original stencil family), Playtime Pattern Motifs (dings), Playtime Rounded (+Bold), Playtime Cutouts, Mango Solid (ultra fat, rounded), Mooch (experimental), Mooch Squared, Zombies Are The New Black, Jettison Stencil, Micromoog, hewett, hewett_bold, hewett_extended, Mikey (a Mickey Mouse font). Other creations there include Summer Grillz (about which he writes More gangster than Gill with more gold than Garamond, Summer Grillz is type jewelry for your mouth. All letterforms are diamond-kut using the finest type constructing software on the market today. Customize your grill with different fills., Lovestruc, Konstruct (multiline face), Steeplechase, Sawhorse, Sawhorse Braumarks (dingbats of a brewery), Alfred, Chesterfield, Hydroplane, Jettison-Stencil, Pop-Drops (kitchen tile face), Starstruc, Lovestruc, Chesterfield Prince, Chesterfield King, Chesterfield Queen (piano key font), Brainfreeze (ultra fat).

Fontstructions in 2009: the Sans Serious family (a tribute to Dutch Bauhaus designer Jurriaan Schrofer), Factory (stencil), Hunstrüct (blackletter), Slug, Micromoog Remix, Get To The Falcon, Jetstream and Perforate (octagonal, loosely based on several styles of letter and numeral forms observed on various aircrafts at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon), Get To The Falcon (multiline face), StacheStruct (moustache font), Factory (stencil), Playtime Bolda, Thunderball, Gaga, Gaga Stencil, Pinpression, Sessions (a take on type by Josef Albers; he writes: Having previously played around in Fontstruct with Anni Albers' textile patterns, I thought it time to turn my attention to her husband Josef's work. Josef Albers' constructivist typographic experiments are a perfect match for Fontstruct. Other Fontstructors have done great work with Alber's ideas. Most notably, Saberrider's fontsract and Stewf's Leaflet family. Using Josef Albers' Kombinationsschrift alphabet (1928-1931) as my foundation, I've been having a lot of fun remixing and experimenting with his letters.).

Commercial fonts: Sessions (2009, modular). [Google]

Aircraft SIGs

A couple of Luftwaffe truetype fonts. Page by Ralph R. Forehand. Luftwaffe is a pretty blackletter font from the WSI collection, and din1451 is a gorgeous stencil font. [Google]

Alan Meeks

Prolific type designer, b. London, UK, 1951. Alan started work in 1970 for Graphic Systems as a lettering artist. In 1975, he joined Letraset as the Senior Type Designer and Studio Manager where he was responsible for all the artwork produced by the Letraset studio. During his tenure at Letraset, he designed over 40 popular typefaces, including Bramley, Candice, Bickley Script and Belwe. Together with type director Colin Brignall, Alan contributed to the success of Letraset. All the original typographic artwork produced at Letraset was produced by hand cutting the fonts in Rubylith, a highly-skilled technique known as stencil cutting. Alan was responsible for training the entire Letraset studio in this art. Most of the original Letraset artwork has now been archived at St. Brides Printing Library, London. Today, Alan works independently, specializing in all facets of corporate identity including type design, typography, packaging, and development of logos and symbols. His oeuvre (sold via MyFonts) includes:

• Font Factory: Chalfont (similar to Antique Olive), Brigade (classic roman), Fairway (curly sans), Copacabana (italicized roman).
• Elsner & Flake fonts: Bramley, Cabaret, Candice, Chesterfield, Einhorn, Frankfurter, Galadriel, Glastonbury, Knightsbridge, Plaza, Princetown (athletic lettering font done in 1981 based on Princetown by Dick Jones at Letraset), Rialto, Shelley, Tarragon (1981).
• ITC fonts: Algerian Condensed, Ambrose, Belwe Mono, Bertie, Bickley Script, Burlington (1985), Cabaret, Campaign (stencil), Cancellaresca Script (1982), Champers, Claude Sans, Dynamo Shadow (1977), Fashion Compressed (1991), Flamme (1993), Follies (1991), Frankfurter (1978), Glastonbury (1979), Inscription, Jazz, Lightnin' (1994), Limehouse Script (1986), Locarno (1986), Malibu (1992), Plaza, Ragtime, Regatta Condensed, Savoye, Shelley, Tannhauser (1988), Varga (1991), Waterloo Bold (1987).
• Letraset fonts: Aachen, Ambrose (1985), Belwe Mono (1989), Bertie (1985), Bickley Script, Burlington (1985), Campaign, Champers, Claude Sans (1988), Fashion Compressed, Flamme, Follies, Inscription, Jazz, Lightnin, Limehouse Script, Locarno, Malibu, Ragtime, Regatta Condensed, Savoye (1992), Tannhauser, Varga, Waterloo Bold.
• Linotype fonts: Aachen, Algerian, Belwe Mono, Bertie, Bickley Script (1986), Bramley, Burlington, Cabaret (1980), Campaign, Cancellaresca Script, Candice, Champers (1991), Chesterfield, Claude Sans, Dynamo, Einhorn, Fashion, Flamme (script), Follies, Frankfurter, Galadriel, Gill Display Compressed, Glastonbury, Inscription (1994), Jazz (1992), Knightsbridge, Lightnin, Limehouse Script, Locarno, Malibu, Plaza (1975), Plaza, Ragtime (1987), Regatta Condensed, Rialto, Savoye, Shelley, Tannhauser, Tarragon, Varga.
• URW++ revivals: Glastonbury (2009).
• Allan Meeks collection (Cedars, PA): Colosseum (2008: 8-style Trajan-style sans), Fairway (2003), Astoria (2006, miniserifed family based on Gill Sans), Brigade (2003, serif family), Chalfont (2003, sans), Copacabana (2004, based on Goudy Old Style Italic), Vatican (2005, a calligraphic face whose lower case is influenced by the lettering of Arthur Baker).
• Custom type: Benson & Hedges, Lilt, The Woolmark Company, Somerfield, Tarmac, Clearstream.

Alber

Spanish graphic designer in Alicante, b. 1986. His free fonts include Alber (2009, grungy stencil), Globus (2009, almost counterless atrsy face), Industrial (2009, virile face) and and Wind and Bubbles (2009). [Google]

Alessandro Fulciniti

Alessandro Fulciniti (Axel or Alex Fulton) is the designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Digg (based on the Digg.Com logo), SmartShop, Triple-X, Last Brick (3d brick face), Last Brick Neon, Bubble Gum, Maxxell, Pico (pixel face), Omino (dingbats of men), jelly_fish_1, pixel_runner, red_light_district (dot matrix face), three_am. Son of Statement and Statement are heavy block fonts. Other faces: Acchooga (condensed), Dottic (2008, pixel face), Headshop (2008), Three AM (2008), Red Light District (2008, dot matrix face) and Fat Bit Lova (2008, pixel face), Brooklin Bros (2008, octagonal), Absurd, Dottic (pixel face), Hybrid Boost, Five AM, Futuristica (Bank Gothic-inspired), HeadShop, Americana (American flag-themed glyphs), Elevator (lightbulb signage font), Bombay (Indic simulation), Regent (octagonal, between two horizontal lines), Spaceman (pixel meets kitchen tile), Faster Baby, Fontharrt, Subpixel, Promises, Best-before-end (horizontal stripes), Weekend (fat headline face), Predator's Alphabet, Futures, Magnus (constructivist), Zeppa (great---Far West meets LED), Wide Horizon, Pixelity, Wide Horizon Rounded, Snipers' Font, Gunny (heavy metal stencil), Pinball Special 5, Gallop, Horizon Condensed, Western Zappa (Far West font), Wide Horizon Rounded, Nano Spaceman (nice fat kitchen tile style), Black Sheep, Best-before-end, Black-Sheep, Bubble-Gum, Crazy-Pixel, Faster,-baby!, Gallop, Horizon-Condensed, Last-Brick, Little-Spaceman, Magnus, Pinball-Special-5, Promises, Spaceman, Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Font, Weekend, Zeppa, maxxell, pic. Born in 1975 in Northern Italy, he is a columnist for the Italian web design portal html.it since 2003, who has written extensively on CSS, javascript and web design. Web site. [Google]

Alex Griendling

Art director and graphic designer in Minneapolis, MN. He created the grunge stencil face Graffetica (2010, named for grunge or graffiti Helvetica). [Google]

Alex Varanese

Art director and graphic designer in San Francisco. Creator of stylish logotype or display faces: Decoder, Edgewise (art deco stencil), Elektrotraash (2009), Metrobloc (modular), Eurobloc (modular), Victropolis (serifed), Determinant (more art deco). Behance link. [Google]

Alexander Rodchenko

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodtschenko (1891-1956) emerged in the 1920s as one of the most influential Russian constructivists. Their lettering is always austere and geometrical, and they influenced all visual arts. A typical Cyrillic family of faces was recreated by Tagir Safayev at ParaType in 1996-2002, called PT Rodchenko. [Google]

Alien Foundery
[Thibault Dietlin]

Alien Foundery used to be called Bsillkrieg. Thibault Dietlin (b. 1987, Besançon) who runs it is located in Annecy (before that, in Besançon). He makes these fonts freely available via Dafont in 2008: Zfonts (grunge), Pee On Face (grunge), Hardcore Pen (graffiti), La Fraktouille (sketched blackletter face), Crustype crust (grunge), Crust Clean (grunge), My Goth Is Better, city burn night after night and we spraypaint the walls 1.0. Additions in 2009: Black Spoon (minimalist sans with exaggerated x-height), Hurray (clean sans), Tes (sans), Urbana (grungy stencil), Black Spoon, Boa, The City Burn (grunge), Riot AF (grungy stencil), Blind (Braille font). MyFonts link. [Google]

All free original clipart

Small archive with script fonts, computer fonts, stencil fonts and brush fonts. [Google]

Allen R. Walden

Type designer. Not to be confused with "Walden Font", a commercial foundry run by Oliver Weiss. Full list of his work: African (1993; see also here and here), Amelia, Asimov, Beveled, CalculatorItalic, Checkbook (MICR-like font), CrystalItalic, FinalFrontier, FinalFrontierOldStyle, FinalFrontierShipside, Goethe, Japan, Jurassic, Lansbury, NeonLights, NewYorker, OliviaBrush, StencilExport, Terminator. [Google]

Andreanidis Charalampos

Greek graphic designer. He creaed a number of minimalist/pizelish/squarish Latin/Greek fonts in 2009 under the name City Fonts. His Totem Font (2009) is experimental. Nomass Team Font (2009) is a squarish stencil. His typographic posters. Alternate URL. Another URL. Behance link. [Google]

Andrew Byrom

Andrew Byrom was born in Liverpool, England in 1971. After Graduating from the University of East London in 1996 he opened his own design studio and worked for various clients including Penguin Books, The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, The Industrial Design Centre, Time Out Online and The Guardian Newspaper. Around this time he also began teaching graphic design at The University of Luton and Central Saint. Martins. Byrom moved to the USA in 2000 to teach at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. He has recently been commissioned to design typefaces and type treatments for Elle Decoration, The New York Times Magazine, McGraw-Hill, and Turner Classic Movies. In 2006 he moved to Long Beach to take up an Associate Professor position at California State University, where he is currently the Area Head of the Graphic Design Department. He created the experimental typeface Interiors (2002), about which AIGA writes: Interiors (3D type) is a collaboration between type designer Andrew Byrom and designer Joel Wolter. It was originally conceived as a digital font (Interiors) and was inspired by an old wooden chair in Byrom's office that, when looked at from a certain angle, resembled the letter h. Using the three-dimensional principles of this simple form, and closely adhering to type design conventions, 26 letters of the alphabet were drawn and generated as a font. The characters were then constructed in three dimensions using tubular steel into full-scale furniture frames. Because the underlying design concept is typographical, the end result becomes almost freestyle furniture design. Letters like m, n, o, b and h can be viewed as simple tables and chairs, but other letters, like e, g, a, s, t, v, x and z, become beautifully abstract pieces of furniture. He also made the distressed font Bloodclot, the stencil family Byro Stencil (free), Byro Sans, 1byrosquare (2000), 2byroround (2000), ByroBlock Stencil (2000, stencil), Concussion (dot matrix with various size dots), Easy Vie, Fresh (1995, scratchy type), Ply, Rage, St. Auden, Bandaid (2006), 3D Dot Matrix. He divides his time between teaching, designing for various clients and playing with his sons, Auden and Louis. He has recently been commissioned to design typefaces and type treatments for Elle Decoration, The New York Times Magazine, McGraw-Hill, and Turner Classic Movies. In 2006 he moved to Long Beach to take up an Associate Professor position at California State University, where he is currently the Area Head of the Graphic Design Department. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. [Google]

Andrey Belonogov

Russian designer (b. 1975, Moscow) who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Handmade (hand sign font), and for Rouble, a minimalist Latin/Cyrillic font made in 1999-2001. He received a TypeArt 05 award for the dingbat family Astra. Other typefaces include Lenta, Moloko and Svoboda. He graduated from Moscow State University of Art (named after S. Stroganov in 2001). The astronomical signs font Astera was published by Paratype in 2008. Other Paratype fonts by him include Brusque (2008, renamed Rouble), Cliche (2008, stencil face), FastFingers (2008, remake of Handmade) and Vataga (2008, a humnan faces dingbat font co-designed with Yana Kutyina). [Google]

Andy Clymer

This graphic design student in The Netherlands (formerly at San Diego State University) is working on his own face, Stencil Fraktur (2002). In 2004-2005, he became a grad student at the KABK in Den Haag. He joined the typeface development department of Hoefler & Frere-Jones in New York in 2005. [Google]

Anette Schmidt

Danish designer who obtained an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on Anglaise, which is a display face with influences from the psychedelic era and stencil faces, and uses lots of ball endings. [Google]

Anthony Dart

Graphic and motion graphics designer in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he works as Ontwerp.tv (Idea currency) Pty Ltd. He created several experimental alphabets, often of a geometric nature, such as Geometric Chic (2008-2009) and Beauty (2009). [Google]

Anton Terekhov

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 and 2009 of Birka (pixel), Skipper (octagonal), Skipper Stencil (military), Skipper-Modern, Skipper-Slab, Skipper Cap, Skipper Tight, Peteroque (baroque pixel face)< Technocrat Cargo (octagonal stencil), Technocrat (octagonal), Retrograde Pix (pixel face), Retrograde Lux (severe octagonal), abstruct, admiral (dot matrix face), glagol, glagol_script_1, marx_1, Admiral (dot matrix), Glagol Rock (constructivist), Retrograde (octagonal/mecahnical), Technocrat (octagonal), WPA Gothic Cyrillic (another poster font), WPA-Gothic-Deco-Cyrillic. Many fonts have Cyrillic letters and/or Cyrillic influences. [Google]

Antraxja Fonts (or: Atrax)
[Rafal Brzezinski]

Antraxja Fonts (or: Atrax) is a Polish foundry which offers these free fonts made by Rafa Brzezinski in 2004: ARTUR, AntraxjaGoth1938 (blackletter), Art (art nouveau), BATTLEFIELD (war lettering face), BananaShow-Medium, CrashTest, CrashTestItalic, CrashTestShadow, Cybernetyka (futuristic family), CybernetykaItalic, CybernetykaNormal, CybernetykaOutline, DarkPalladin, HistoryBrush, Kreskwka-Italic, Kreskwka (handwriting), Monster, MonsterShadow, Mortis, Orchidee, REFORMA, RETURNTOCASTLE (gothic), Speed+, Speed+2, Techno, cherif, medusa (blocky lettering), mortis, weronika, Bajareczka, Camilla, Cherif, Top Secret (stencil). Alternate URL. Another URL. Another URL. [Google]

aphoria

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Interest (dot matrix), Order (constructivist), Attica, Continuum (rounded bold), Fairway (+Slab, +Serif), Slant (techno), Cowboy (2008, Western-themed), Lights in the sky, Olymia Bold, Solida (psychedelic), Digi (pixel face), Villa (heavy slab serif) and Olympia Light. In 2009, he added Versional, Crown, Vend, Reed (Slab, Sans, both octagonal), Spaced Out (Bold, Italic, Regular), Jingle, ReMix (kitchen tile), Squire (3d face), Garage Sale (stencil), Signage, Futility (blackletter), Expearemint, Textual, Callout, tweedie, Embolden, Clipped, Economical, Emphasis, Vessel, Honest, Union Flat, Interest (pixel/dotted face), Venus Sans, Minanim, Diner (rounded), Lights in the Sky (De Stijl-like font), Opine, Charmer (+Inverse), Tweedle, Textual, Solida (ultra round), Slant, Slant, Villa (heavy slab serif), Versional, Vend, Union, Union Sans, Paperclip, Poofy, Steel (+Outline: octagonal), Crown, Diner (rounded), Solemn Bold, Solemn, reed Sans Mono (octagonal). Fonts from 2010: Full Deck (playing card font), Scrollboard, Power Up (piano key face), Economical, Groovy Fu, Formality. [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]

Apply Interactive

German stencil face and typographic service outfit located in Hamburg. MyFonts site. Besides Caslon Fina Stencil and Serpentine Stencil (Dick Jensen), the following faces or families were made in 1999 by Sigrid Claessens and Günther Flake: Advera Stencil, Stencil Antiqua, Arston Stencil, Chico Stencil, Ferro Stencil, La Pina Stencil, Lasertac Stencil, Reedon Stencil, Rounded Stencil, Walton Stencil, Western Stencil, Glaser Stencil (after a face by Milton Glaser), Bank Stencil (1930s face of Morris Fuller Benton), Geometric Stencil (originally by Paul Renner), Tea Chest Stencil (after a face by Robert Harling, 1939). [Google]

aRc (or: Azelea Rodgers Creations)
[Azelea Rodgers]

aRc was established in 2008 by Azelea Rodgers (b. 1974, The Philippines). It is located in Lathrop, CA. A graduate from Skyline College, she created the alphabet tracing font Kerp (2008) for kids in pre-kindergarten. She also made Rosebud (2008, letters composed of thorny rose stems), Asvet Mono (2009, a playful stencil), Azelea (2009) and Lelet Script (2009). [Google]

Aron Jancso

This guy is something else---I can't find enough superlatives to describe his work. A very creative freelance graphic designer from Budapest, he is best known for his experimental type projects. He published the masterful Ogaki in 2009 at Die Gestalten. Other typefaces include Milen Serif (2009, organic), Minimalstile (2008), Minimalca (2008, organic), Fade Away and Fancy Fence (2009, geometric blackletter). Poster examples: A, B, C, D, E, F, G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O. Examples of typographically great bike posters: A | B | C. Behance link. Facebook link. [Google]

ARS Type (was ARS Design)
[Angus R. Shamal]

ARS Type is an Amsterdam-based foundry with some commercial fonts by Angus R. Shamal: Fortune (free: click on Treasures), AudioVisual1, Code, Descendiaan Roman, Twenty, ZeroRate, Deviata, District, Kamp, Kamp Serif, Product, Retro City, Tegel (1998, kitchen tile font), Prime, OCRU, Mr. Archi, Trio, Toycube, Mortal, Maquette (1999-2000). Fonts by Angus R. Shamal. Tamye Riggs is associated with the site too. Angus Shamal is also the [T-26] designer of Exert. Other (non T-26) fonts by Angus R. Shamal include Angelring, ARS Bembo, Contrast, Dandy, EcologyModern, Hartu (handwriting), Temper, ARS Polythene (pixel font family), Misanthry, and Syntax (OsF format sans serif). At Plazm, he published CensorSans (1994), CensorSerif (1994), Credit (1995), Epilogue.pfa (1995), Humain-Graphica (1995), Humain-Synthetica (1995), Platrica (1994), Roscent (1995), ARSFortune (2000, futuristic). Fonts can be bought via Fontshop: District (experimental), Descendiaan, Zero Rate (futuristic), Tegel (stencil), Twenty (octagonal, techno) and Trio (dot matrix fonts), Maquette, Region and Product (2007, sans faces), My Archi, Prime (display), Mortal and Deviata (unicvase face), Forum I-AR (after Forum I, a 1948 font by Georg Trump), Freie Initialen-AR (2007, after a 1928 set of caps for Stempel Garamond), Fry's Ornamented (2007; a revival of Ornamented No. 2 which was cut by Richard Austin for Dr. Edmund Fry in 1796), Graphique-AR (2007; a shadowed face based on a 1946 design by Eidenbenz for Haas), Gravur-AR (2007; a digital version of a type designed by Georg Trump and issued as Trump-Gravur by Weber in 1960), Initiales Grecques (after a Firmin Didot design, ca. 1800), Lutetia Open (2007; based on Jan Van Krimpen's Lutetia), Old Face Open (2007; a digitization of Fry's Shaded, an open all caps Baskerville cut by Isaac Moore for Fry, ca. 1788), Open Capitals (2007, after Jan Van Krimpen's 1928 face for Enschedé called Open Kapitalen), Romulus Capitals (2007; after the caps series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1931), Romulus Open (2007; after the Open series by Jan Van Krimpen, 1936), Rosart 811 (2007; open caps after Enschedé no. 811 by Rosart), Zentenar Initialen (2007; based on blackletter initials of F.H.E. Schneidler, ca. 1937). [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]

Ashley Weinberger

American creator of Boldface Stencil (2008). [Google]

Ata Syed

Ata Syed (aka thalamic) is the designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Hello (connected upright script), Epilogie (blocks), WimSoft (+U/C), Chunk Chip, Konstruct (Russian constructivism face), Sensei Says, FS Tributary, Arc Echo, Twotype Font, Urge (fat octagonal), Subliminal, FS United One, The Game of Type, Anaximander Zooom!, Corrupt and Corrupt Ed (piano key stencil fonts), Blueprint, Monomum, Synergy, Insert Coin Italic, Write I Careful, Write I Casual, Write I Dump, Loop UC, Loop LC, Emergic, Prick!, Insert Coins Pixels, Retro Electro, Bubble Lab IJ, Bubble Lab Bang, A Needle Pulling Thread, Send, Scan (IBM logo look), Intermittent and Intermittent Sans (stencil faces), Melt x DR and Melt x tDR (dot matrix), Oval x DR and Oval x tDR (original design by theDesignersRepublic for Issey Miyake), On Grid, Indigo (almost blackletter), orange_2 (dot matrix), Scan (horizontal stripes), Bass, Grape (simple pixel face), Nachahmung and Nachahmung Block (fat and extra condensed, Wim Crouwel simulation faces), Nachahmung Block Serif, Conjunction, Interjection, Is It, Sangular (nice experiment), Anonon (nails in square letters), Purple and Purple Very (slab serif headline faces, pixelized), Arc Echo (biline and strutted), The Question (a fantastic 3d paper fold imitation face), FS Minimal (a fantastic ultra fat decorative face), FS FontStructor, Vibrant (multiline face), Conjunction, Writ (upright pixel script), Castor, Ooki (octagonal), Industrial, The I Flat, The I, Indiscrete, Analog (connected script), Dent (mechanical), Digital (connected script), Hello Hello, and Sensei Says. In 2009, he made Clone It, Entwined, C64, Helix, Fontsration, Bent, Stripe Zoo, Dull, Indent (stencil), Quartertined (kitchen tile), Firox, Orfix, A Priori, Ignore, Confused, S-Ookii, Ookii (octagonal), Very Becoming, Crisis Averted, Crisis (neat bold octagonal face), Penmanship, Up All Night, Sleep All Dayi, Chunk Chip, Grayletter (upright script), Soso, Mostly Harmless. Ata Syed lives in Karachi, Pakistan, Etched, La Cross, Twotype, Etched Bare, Aught (One, To, Three), as: Inflate (Pop, Pfft, Puff, Poof), Istic, Very Becoming, Ignore, Ought, Balance, Broken, Dry Flat (dot matrix), La Cross, Etched (+Bare), Fontsration (+Refined: multilined beauties), FS Institutional (fat multiline face), FS Industrial, FS Pixelayers.

Additions in 2010: fs Institutional (+Ho, +Elements), fs Quartertined, [Google]

Atelier van Wageningen
[Mark van Wageningen]

Mark van Wageningen is a Dutch type designer. Born in 1969, Mark lives in Amsterdam. The display type Stavba 9inspired by rodchenko's constructivist lettering) appeared in 1994 as a part of his presentation for his final examination at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and was later renamed Ärst. He continues making display types on his own account. He created the fonts Linotype Cerny (1995, caps only), Linotype Laika and Linotype Sjablony (a roughened stencil font) in 1997. Zkumavka (1995-2002, Two Rebels) is a grungy stencil family and based on stencils from the 1920s in Russia. Fontshop and 2Rebels sell his Gagarin family (2000), which include Anna (constructivist), Boris, Christa, Dmitri (MICR), Eleno, Fjodor, Gregor, Hektor (stencil), Igor, Youri, Leonora (with Nele Reyniers), Magda (with Nele Reyniers), Ossip and Petrov (LED simulation). As he tells it, four russians, Gustav Klucis, Vladimir Majakovski, Alexander Rodchenko en Gregory Rasputin each had an affair with Anna Gagarinm, and out of all that came forth Boris, Christa, Dimitri, Elena, Fjodor , Gregor, Hektor, Igor, Jouri, Kurt, Leonora, Magda, Nina, Ossip, Petrov, Quirina, Rudolf and Sonia. Linotype link. MyFonts page. [Google]

Attak Fonts
[Peter Korsman]

Attak is a two-headed graphic design firm formed in 2004 by Peter Korsman and Casper Herselman. It is based in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. They have some free and some commercial fonts. Their fonts, ca. 2009: AT AK-47, AT Babyfat, AT Blaser, AT Concours, AT Discipline, AT FFW, AT Helix, AT Hide and Seek, AT Hieronymus, AT Janus Kiep, AT Kerremus, AT Klaxon, AT Korsakopf, AT Litewriter, AT Mepper, AT Mohawk, AT Moker, AT Monoload, AT Muntel, AT Peetroleum, AT Praktikum, AT Promille, AT Ramseier, AT Riot, AT Sirca, AT Sirca alternate, AT Slyper, AT Streeep, AT Tabak, AT T'Atteljeej, AT TCB, AT Trash Bold, AT Willi, AT With Machines, AT Zippora. Notable products: AK-47 simulates Cyrillic; Helix is a stencil face; Muntel and Concours are fat art deco faces; Practicum and Tabak are octagonal; Riot leaks blood; Streep is a multiline font. I presume that Peter is the main font designer in the team, as he already made fonts as early as 2003 for Burodestruct (see, e.g., BD Bardust, downloadable here). [Google]

Avoid Red Arrows

The students of arts and design at HfG Karlsruhe present their work in 2008: Amoto (Nadja Schoch), Barbarossa (Peter Stahmer: grunge), Cirrus (Antonia Huber: liquid style), Fourty Five Degrees (Emanuel K: octagonal), Hopfen (Martin Borst: display sans), Letrix (Miriam Bauer: modular octoagonal), Lokomo (Claudia Kappenberger: experimental), Mayfield Display, Monta (Stefanie Miller), Moto Moto (Piero Glina: octagonal), Nancy (Masa Busic: art deco), Oceanic (Simone Gier: rounded techno), Platine (Lise Naujack: multiline, inspired by chip wiring), Pluk (Simon Roth: poster stencil), Quitt (Marko Greve: experimental multiline), Sophonho (Daniel Schludi: display sans), Vahen (Nicolaz Groll: display sans). [Google]

Axel Leyer

Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of NuGothicA (blackletter), BauForm, DINAMO (mechanical), Magnum (great industrial strength slab serif headline face), Cocoa (rounded and ultra fat), EUROstruct (thin and architectural), Kaotic (graffiti), Weimar (pixel face), Rondo, Rondo Tail, Fabrica (octagonal), Fabrica Rotula (stencil, octagonal), Quadrat, Electrica, Electrica Dots, Fabrica Screen (horizontally striped octagonal face), Block Black, Bloop, Blackwolf, Guru Blackletter (Indic simulation face), Inslab (slab serif), Inslab II, Minima (stencil), Boxer (ultrafat, octagonal), Bloko (nice ultra-fat face), Steel (macho slab serif), Nextar (pixelish but elegant), Simplex, Ulises 7 (+Serif) (pixel faces), Digita (kitchen tile) and Block (ultra fat), June Cleaver. See America (2008, octagonal) is an octagonal lettering font that was inspired by a travel poster (WPA, 1936) designed by Jerome Roth. Faces made in 2009: Morgana (a beautiful fat piano key face), Manitoba, Machina (+Slab), Old Monk (uncial), NughoticA Brush, LUBA 8 Lowercase (after Lubalin), Nugothic A (blackletter), Dinamo, Ross (strong mechanical face). [Google]

Azzurra Pini

Italian designer of Charles Stencil (2007). [Google]

Babylon Schrift Kontor
[Klaus Bartels]

Commercial German foundry, est. 2000 by Klaus Bartels (1948-2005). BSK also has on board Wolfgang Talke, Bernd Pillich, and the type experts René Kerfante and Frank Sax. It specializes in major text families, mostly based on fonts from the Berthold collection. Bartels was previously responsible for the digitization of that collection at Berthold, so this is a natural progression. Some amount of renaming of the typefaces seems to have been necessary. Partial list: Adlon Sans BSK, Adlon Serif BSK, Admira BSK, Albion Script BSK, Albion Script 2 BSK, Alte Schwabacher BSK, Ancora BSK, Atlantica BSK, Avenue BSK, Babylon Schreibschrift BSK, Baskerville BSK, Baskerville Text BSK, Bodoni BSK, Bodoni Expert BSK, Bodoni Condensed BSK, Bodoni Text BSK, Bodoni Text Expert BSK, Carissa BSK, Caslon Text BSK, Centra BSK, Champion BSK, Cogita BSK, Elega BSK, Fabiana BSK, Fonica BSK, Francesa BSK, Garamond BSK, Garamond Expert BSK, Herold Reklameschrift BSK, KG privata BSK, KG privata II BSK, KG vera BSK, KG vera II BSK, Lettura BSK, Mirage BSK, Mirage Expert BSK, Mirage New BSK, Pintura BSK, Signal BSK, Standard-Grotesk BSK, Standard-Grotesk Condensed BSK, Standard-Grotesk Extended BSK, Standard-Grotesk Classic BSK, Standard-Grotesk Next BSK, SG Next Condensed BSK, SG Next Extended BSK, SG Next Rounded BSK, SG Next Stencil BSK, SG School BSK, SG School 2 BSK, Story BSK, Supersonic BSK, T & T Form BSK, T & T Form Condensed BSK, T & T Form Ey BSK, Tomos-Antiqua BSK, Tomos-Mediaeval BSK, Trump Tower BSK, Unger Fraktur BSK, Walbaum BSK, Walbaum Expert BSK, Walbaum Fraktur BSK, Walbaum Text BSK. I have no idea what happened after Bartels' death--the page disappeared! [Google]

Backpacker
[George Triantafyllakos]

Free Latin and Greek fonts: BPLatinNumerals, BPbigHead, BPchildLefty, BPchildFatty, BPchubby, BPchubbyFat, BPdots, BPilialena, BPletterSquares, BPletterSquaresWide, BPmolecules, BPmouse, BPmyhand, BPneon [paperclip face], BPpong [light stencil face], BPsquareHand, BPtall, BP PhD Sans, BP PhD Italic, BP PhD Mono, BP Inktrap, BP Script. These include quite a few handwriting faces. Commercial handwriting fonts at Cannibal: BPPallas, BPOlga, BPMaria, BPHaroula. These fonts were made by George Triantafyllakos (b. 1980) from 2001 to 2005. In 2007, he added BP display black, BP mono and BP mono italics, and BP script. In 2008, BPreplay was created as a correction of MgOpenModata. Creations in 2009 and 2010: BPOApeloig, BPScript, BP Typewrite, BP Imperial (think Impact), BP Dots (30 monospaced dot fonts). In 2004, he was a PhD student, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Dafont link. Fontsquirrel link. [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]

BaseLAB
[Joancarles P. Casasíin]

Barcelona-based foundry involved in custom font work. Original fonts: Inclusive (2007), Urbanium (2005, a bold display face), Handwritten, Eixample (2008, octagonal and rounded), Screech (2008) and Begyptienne. Modified fonts (or re-fonts in their words) include Le Grand Palais (stencil, for La Force de l'Art, Paris, 2006), BeTV (for a Belgian TV channel), and VijfTV (a modification of Chalet for a Flemish TV station). Their custom types include Dialogue, Kidswa, Hangar and Costa Design. One of the main collaborators is Joancarles P. Casasíin. [Google]

Beaufonts
[Ian Mitchell]

Beaufonts offers nice screen fonts and pixel fonts by Cecilia Garside, David Gibson, David Hand, Jonathan Hitchen, John Humphries, Ian Mitchell, Paul Musgrave, Oliver Payne and Simon Vaughan. Free Mac type 1 fonts, often of the pixel type. Fonts: Backstabber, Baseface, Bummer, Default_20PN55C, Disinformacion, FuckingGoodStencil, MissPeaches, Punkt, SansCounter, Suedehead, Swipe, Untiled. [Google]

Behaviour (was: type behaviour)
[Anuthin Wongsunkakon]

Behaviour was founded in 1996 by Anuthin Wongsunkakon and Nirut Krusuansombat in Bangkok. They do graphic design, mainly. Type Behaviour is the font library of Behaviour. Anuthin teaches graphic design at School of Art and Design, Bangkok University and Chulalongkorn University. Fonts include OCRX, Aspirin, Interviewer, Songothic (1999), Behaviour, Keystonestate, Effectra, Hydrous, Ideologica, Waveeweekend, Matamorphosis, Berlidin. Commercial fonts available at T26 and PsyOps (where he did Hydrous). Also, many dingbats by Nirut Krusuansombat, again without downloads. Custom-made Thai fonts too. [T-26] designer of Aspirin, Aspirin Advance, Aspirin Refill (hairline), Automate (2008), Behaviour, Berlidin, Carbon, Cellular One, Cellular Two, Cellular three, Coupe, Datum, Dotto, Dotto Deluxe, Effectra, Harbinger, Hydrous (2009, PsyOps and T-26), Ideologica, Interviewer, Keystone State, Labelo Ext, Labelo Rom, Labelo Uni, Metamorphosis, Myers Sans, OCRBe, OCRX, QR-Type, Son Gothic, Wavee Weekend (upright script, Foto (2006, dingbats), Harbinger (2004, stencil), Myers Sans (2005), Aspirin, Carbon (2003, an octagonal font, which reappeared in 2006 as Carbon C6 and in 2008 at Cadson Demak as carbon Plus), Coupe (2006, 4-weight sans family), Labelo (2003, octagonal), Dotto, Dotto Deluxe (2002, dot matrix font), Behaviour, Berlidin (nice serifs), Ideologica (2000), Interviewer, KeystoneState, Metamorphosis, SonGothic, WaveeWeekend (2000), OCRX (2001, T-26), and Effectra (2001, T-26), Cellular-Complete (2002, T-26), POBox (2002, T-26, dingbats of postal imprints), Datum (2002, pixel font), Baked (2007, T-26), Board (2004, T-26), OCR-Be (2006). Free font: Katan U Kata Way T (Thai font). Dingbats: Arvaiyava, Bahnpaburut, I'm icons, Monsoon, Pixxo (pixel-based icons), Prajanbarn, SO-6. MyFonts page for Anuthin. MyFonts page: MyFonts sells the athletic lettering fonts Labelo Ext (2007, T-26), Option Sans (2009, T-26), Labelo Varsity and Board Deluxe, Enzyme (2010, Cadson Demak), Amino (2010, Cadson Demak: an organic family). [Google]

Ben Stevens

London-vbased web designer. He created a modular stencil face, AlphaBetas (2010). Behance link. [Google]

Benjamin Andresen

Graphic designer from Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark, who created Ideo Stencil (2006, a slab serif stencil) and Paperwing Sans (2006). [Google]

Benoit Normandin Joly

Montreal-based artist, b. 1989. Creator of the elegant stencil face Avee Black (2007). See also here. Alternate URL. [Google]

Betterfear.us (or: XXII Fonts, Or Doubletwo Studios)
[Lecter Johnson]

Lecter Johnson (Betterfear.us) is the creator of the free fonts XXIIARMY (2007, stencil), XXIIDECONSTRUCTION-DESTRUCTION-AREA (2007, grunge), XXIIDONT-MESS-WITH-VIKINGS-HARDCORE (2007, octagonal), XXIISTRAIGHT-ARMY, XXIIUltimate-Black-Metal (2007, cracked metal look), XXII Scratch (2007, scratchy face), XXII DEVILS-RIGHT-HAND, XXII BLACK-BLOCK (grunge), XXII MISANTHROPIA (2008, a rigid geometric sans family), XXII Arabian Onenightstand (2008: Arabic or Indic simulation face), XXII Urban Cutouts (2009, grunge), and XXII Static (2007, futuristic). His web site has a threatening nazi sort of look, but the fonts are (were) free. Alternate URL. Behance link. Dafont link. Betterfear.us claims to be located in St. Pauli, Hamburg, and is also known on MyFonts, where some of its fonts can be bought, as Doubletwo Studios. These include XXII BLACK BLOCK SERIFA (2008), XXII Mescaline (2009 Western style), and XXII STREITKRAFT (2008, a stencil family with grungy versions added). Old URL. [Google]

Billy Argel

Brazilian graphic designer and artist who created the following fonts: BEERNOTE (2010), GREENMIND (2010, grunge), PORNFASHION (2010), MASTERPLAN (2010, grunge), SNIPERSHOT (2010), COOLECTOR (2009), BODYHUNTER-Bold (2009, grunge), BeyondSky-trial (2009), CLUBHAUS-Bold (2009, ultra black, mechanical/octagonal), MAKEMEALPHA (2009, grunge), NewGardenLight (2009), TRIUMPHREWIND (2009, grunge), Nachos and TV (2009), Oxidisaster (2009), Helloween (2009), Lemon Day Semibold (2009, a sketch font), Toscazero (2009), Plastic Pill (2008, fat art deco face), Bedspread Assassin (2008), A Bite (2008, grunge), Dirty and Classic (2008, grunge calligraphy), Gasmask (2008, grunge stencil), PANHEAD (2008, grungy Western billboard font), My Turtle (2008), Cubiculo Galery (2008, created for the Cubiculo Gallery in Sao Paulo), Olho de Boi (2007, a great scratchy handwriting font inspired by the first Brazilian postage stamp which was released on August 1, 1843), Skull TS2 (2007, skull dingbats), REBOARD (2007), Hurtmold (2007, rounded octagonal face), PDRPT (2007, grunge), the Soma family (2007, modern stencil), Caatinga (2006, artsy display face), Santos Dumont (2007, handwriting: free at DaFont), Ginga (2008, grunge calligraphic--think award-winning grunge!!!), Wallrider (2008), Black-Oak, TOY_SOLDIERS-Bold (2008, grunge), Abite (2008, grunge), ACIDLABEL (2008), Bulldozer (2008), Cheapstealer (2008), DONOTEXIST (2008), Greenpiloww (2008), HANGUP (2008, 3-d bouncy letters), HYERBA (2008, Far West font), LAZYDAY (2008, handprinted outline caps face), LEDLIGHT (2008), Monbijoux (2008, ornamental), MANABU (2008, futuristic), PEIXEFRITO (2008), Positiv-A (2008), Killed DJ (2008, multiline grunge), Sniper (2008, grunge), Black Oak (2008, smudged face), Outlaw (2009, Western face), Gangland (2009, scratchy brushy face), B Side (2009, vertical stencil). Alternate URL. Another link. [Google]

Bionic Type Engineering
[Malte Haust]

Malte Haust is a German designer at T26 who made the Kernfusion, SynKro, InterFacer (1998) and DorisOrange families in 2000. DorisOrange free download at Maniackers in Japan. Also runs Bionic Type Engineering Labs in Duesseldorf, Germany, where Doris Fuerst (juici) and Malte Haust (dePhrag2.0) showcase their font creations such as the BTEBioterminal family (by Malte Haus). Hit the "decode" button. Synkro is a dot matrix font at T-26. Other fonts at T26 include Cyberwar (2000), Comsat (2000, a stencil family) and Comsat Navy (2000). Full font list in 2002: 01.MB Truth, Alphabot, Comsat, Comsat Navy, Comsat Breakdown, Cyberwar, Doris Orange, Interfacer, Kernfusion, Neo Tokio, SynKro, Team Riders, Technik, Überform. [Google]

Blaise Adamczyk

Blaise Adamczyk (aka de Seingalt) is the Polish designer (b. 1986) of Rounded (2006), an all caps stencil face. [Google]

Blue Typo
[Manuel Guerrero]

Manolo Guerrero (Blue Typo, San Luis Potosi, Mexico) is the Mexican creator of Deconstructa (2005, grunge), Hybrid Screen (2005), and Optica (2008), a multiline dingbat face to be used in optic art and optical illusions. Optica won an award at TDC2 2009 and can be bought at MyFonts under the Cocijotype label. Optica is a tribute to Colombian artist Omar Rayo's optical art. Behance link. FontStructions by him in 2009 include Block 02 (stencil). In 2009, he also made the experimental face MiniBlock (Cocijotype). [Google]

Bodoni (Dave Farey)

Dave Farey's great essay on the history and implementations of Bodoni. All Bodoni faces published today have genetic material from Giambattista Bodoni's original. Below are various implementations:

• ATF/Monotype Bodoni, originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1907, and used by Monotype in the 1930s. Adobe's version. Ultra weights sold by URW as Bodoni No 2.
• Bodoni Modern (R.H. Middleton, 1930s, for the American Ludlow foundry). See his 1936 Bodoni Campanile, sold by Bitstream as Modern 735. URW offers Black and Stencil weights.
• Bauer Bodoni (Heinrich Jost, 1926). Dave Farey argues for its delicacy but still calls it a bastard. Neufville has the original design, with Linotype, Bitstream, Adobe and URW offering derivatives.
• Berthold Bodoni Antiqua (1935), a descendant of ATF Bodoni, resurrected in the 1970s by Günter Gerhard Lange. This was continued by Karl Gerstner in the 1980s and is available as IBM Bodoni from URW. Available at URW.
• Berthold Bodoni Old Face was designed in 1983 by Günter Gerhard Lange
• WTC Our Bodoni designed by Massimo Vignelli in 1989 for the World Typeface Corporation. For display only. Related to the ATF version.
• FF Bodoni Classic (FontShop, 1994). Designed in a two-year period by Gerd Wiescher, this is the first Bodoni version that tried to stick closely to Bodoni's original drawings. Farey complains that the italics are not tilted enough though. Check also Wiescher's FF Bodoni Classic Handdrawn (1997).
• ITC Bodoni is another faithful interpretation developed by Sumner Stone, Holly Goldsmith and Jim Parkinson. These come in 6, 12 and 72 point ranges and form an extensive extremely useful family. Versions sold by URW and Linotype.
• Bodoni Old Fashion by URW.
• Bodoni Classico, designed by Franko Luin at Omnibus.
• FB Bodoni: just two digitizations based on Benton's 1933 Ultra Bodoni Extra Condensed, by Richard Lipton in 1992. Clearly, for display only.
• URW Bodoni.
• Linotype Gianotten: Created by Antonio Pace in 2000, this face is said to go back directly to the Bodoni Museum in Parma.
• Ambroise, Ambroise Firmin (condensed) and Ambroise François (2001, extra condensed), 30 fonts in all, are splendid fonts named after Ambroise Didot by their creator, Jean-François Porchez. Many say that they are closer to Bodoni than to Didot--just look at the question mark, but Porchez based his work on late style Didot's published around 1830.

Bogdan Żochowski

Polish type designer, b. 1936. Designer at Mecanorma of Glowworm, a truly ugly family that should be made illegal. He also made Globe 6 (1979), a shadow font, as well as the roman text fonts Akant, Monitor, Typos Roman, and Typos Roman Bold. Graph MN is a sans face. Globe 1 and 2 are also due to him. [Google]

Bogusky2
[Bill Bogusky]

Bill Bogusky runs the design studio Bogusky 2 in Miami, together with his brother. He created Gonzo Bruno, Gonzo Monza and Gonzo Grosso (2007), Sundial (2006, Trajan lettering), Condo (2006, condensed), Ar Deco 1, 2, 3 and Deep (2006), Technia 1 and 2 (2006, athletic lettering or MICR applications), Sport (2006, dingbats), Macarena (2005: art deco), Zanzibar (2006: decorative), 42nd Street (2005: Broadway style lettering), Boffo (2005), Bronco Rose (2005, Wild West style), Decora (2005), Switchback (2005, a computerish face), Capzule (2005, a condensed black face), Tulip (2005, a decorated stencil face), Kondor (2005), Mah Jongg (2005, with many ornaments), Metro (2005, LCD face), Squircle (2005), Zeke (2005, artsy display font), Baby Blox (2005), Kurly (2005), Pipeline (2005), Dealer's Choice (2005), Stencille (2005), Terra, GogoBig and GogoSquat (were free at FontFreak site), Nouville (2006, art deco sans), Back Fence (2005, comic book face), Gogo Latin (2005, condensed), Zandakas (2006), Ameche Pisa (2005), Gogo Serif (2005), Bolo (2005), Hyline (2005), Compado (2005), Ameche Padua (2005), Tera (2005), Xtera (2005), Tudor New (2005), Boffo (2005), Byline (2005), Decora (2005), Quazar (2005), Grafo Graffiti (2005), Acid Bath (2005), Benz (2005), Hulk (2005). These fonts are now commercial and can be obtained at MyFonts.com. A graduate of the School of Industrial Arts in New York City, he worked as an industrial designer in New York before moving to Miami, FL, where he opened Studio Bogusky 2. Dixie Bogusky designed Esquimaux Graphics (2006). [Google]

Bohemica Digital Art and Design Group

Designers of the great geometrical stencil face Bohemica (2005). Alternate URL. [Google]

Bold Monday
[Pieter van Rosmalen]

Bold Monday is an independent font foundry established by Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen and based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Typefaces: Capibara (squarish, done in 2007 by van Rosmalen), Feisar (techno), Flex (sans), Nitti (monospaced, done in 2008 by van Rosmalen), Panno (sans, done in 2008 by van Rosmalen), Nitti typewriter (2009, by Van Rosmalen at caketype), Pinup (fat rounded sans, done in 2008 by van Rosmalen), Pixel Package, and Stanley (headline face, done in 2008 by van Rosmalen; includes a stencil). [Google]

Brad Sandman

Designer at FontStruct of 2by2 (2009, stencil), Bullet Holes (2009) and Box Block Outline (2009). Aka Bargonaut. [Google]

Bradley Abrahams

Cape Town, South Africa-based designer (b. 1979) of the art deco stencil face Daddy Dont Disco (2008). [Google]

Brent Jackson

Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of FuturaBLKish (Futura Stencil-inspired) and Gobul Arque (Bank Gothic style). [Google]

Bright Ideas Fonts

Over 500 fonts at this foundry. Three will be sent for free if you subscribe to Bright Ideas Magazine (50 USD/month). Original TrueType and Type 1 fonts such as the curly Palooza and Fracas. Serif fonts Andrew, Mandrel, Sinclair Family, Trapeze, Tuxedo, and Varsity, and other fonts sold in packages of six. Other fonts: Amadeus (music-themed letters), Riesling (2008, an art deco hairline display face), Stencilla, Sundance, Stiltskin, Tamarin, Vargas, Boingo (curly script), Griffin (bewitched letters), Windsong (1998, calligraphic script), Black Rose, Carousel, Blazed Regular, Aerosol (1999). Alternate URL. Another URL. Font Squirrel link. [Google]

Buildingletters

In a 2003 project organized by Jim Richardson of Union Fonts and Max Kisman of Holland Fonts, several typographers are creating and selling their work on a CD for a charitable organization that helps AIDS orphans in Africa. The designers: Jason Arber, Jorge Alderete, Neville Brody (Peace+Love), Lotta Bruhn, Buro Destruct (BDBillDing and BDBillDingLong), David Carson, Cuban Council, Joshua Davis, Fontomas/Dirk Uhlenbrock (Digitalis, DigitalisBold, Kombi, KombiItalic, Oggi), Stephen Kane, Richard Kegler, Max Kisman (the Bfribat and Bfrika families, MundengeRock), Jim Richardson, David Luscombe (Mutenagen), Underware.nl, YouWorkForThem (RiblahBold, RiblahLight, RiblahRegular), John Hersey (helped with the Christmas dingbat font), Erik Spiekermann (helped with the Christmas dingbat face), Sacred Nipple (Brode Vosloo designed Afrodisiac, IAlfabhethi, IZulu, IZuluOutline, MrCVJoint, PleineStr, Rural (a stencil face), the ShoeRepairs family, StarSalon), Thirstype, Claudio Piccinini, Providence Type (Jack Armstrong), Stefan Gandl/Neubau Berlin (NBBlock, NBFett), Marcus McCallion/UNDT (ProfitofDoomLozenge, ProfitofDoomPills. ProfitofDoomSuppository), Pierre Di Sciullo (Aligourane in these weights: Contour, Noir, Orner, Leger and Etroit; Amanar in these weights: Condense, Decor, Demigras, Noir), Neil Summerour (TrussLight, TrussLightOblique, Identikal (B4Plain), P22 (P22 Snowflakes). Many helped providing dings for the Chrimbobat Xmas dingbat font. In 2005, they are publishing a special Tsunami edition of their magazine. [Google]

Burak Besen

Winner of an award in Alessandro Segalini's type design class at Izmir University of Economics in June 2007 with the grunge stencil face Cig Kofte. [Google]

Burghal Design
[Kate Peters]

Commercial "fonts for the complacent middle class" by Kate Peters (b. California, 1964). She describes herself as a former punk rock photographer, model, photo assistant and Jesus of the Week, who began designing fonts in 1998 as an alternative, drug-free therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder. A partial list: Vamp Trilogy, PsychoVamp, Monkeywrench, Vamp (great!), Stemplate, Prick, BabyDoll (curly letters), Fauntleroy (2007, based on BabyDoll), Crania (2003, the ultimate skulls dingbat font), Peace (2003, peace symbol embedded in the letters; an anti-Iraq war tribute; see also here), SissyBoy (curly letters), Neutrinos, Hemingway's Shotgun, Huevo Loco (neat!), Crosshair (phenomenal idea), Burgbats, and Burghal Babies. Mac and PC. Burghal Design is based in Tujunga, CA. SissyBoy (2001, Bitstream) and Stemplate (2001, Burghal, a stencil font), Smarty Pants (+ Bold, Super Bold, Doodles, Snowflakes, made in 2004) are her latest designs. Bio at Bitstream. MyFonts page. [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), BDR A3MIK (2009, virile Latin and Cyrillic slab), BD HitBit (2009). Links. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. At Behance, he is known as Lopetz Gianfreda. [Google]

C Munk

Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to create Flag Semaphore (+Smooth, Peace), Articulate, Font from NATO (military slab serif), Glockenwerk (2008, pixel clock font), Glockenwerk Uhrzeit (2008), Flags-and-NATO (dingbats), Font from NATO alpha, Tall, Flying-Circus (Western showtime face to imitate the Monty Python titling font), LCD-display, Simple (stencil font with 700 glyphs), TMNT, Tetris, sharp-pixels, Raster, Quad (2008, nice stencil face), Inverted (2008), Propaganda (2008, Cyrillic font simulation), Empty Monospace (2008), Pride (2008), Stadium (2008), Rounded (2008), Dear God (script pixel face), Celtic Style (2008). In 2009, he added 7x12 Pixel Mono, @bcde, Abstract Letter Patterns, Music, Texture, Diagonal, Gothic, Illusio, Unispace (typewriter type), Narrow Serif, Delta, Alien Double (great!), Donut, Flags-and-NATO, Simple-Fraktur-Initial, Simple-Fraktur, Texture, Friendly Serif, (+Soft), Invisible, Sharp, Heavy Diacritics, Concentrium, Continuous Digital Display, Elves, Pixies, Space Movie (+Ligatures), Flag Semaphore (+Smooth, +Peace), Articulate, BBT Biline Twist, Biline Twist, Empty Monospace, Unfix, Infix, Prefix, Pride, Tyre Stencil (like tire threads---nifty...), and Overlap. faces made in 2010: Even (gridded), Brilliance, Slalom Vision, Quirky Serif, 7x12PixelMono, Ball terminator. [Google]

Cake Type
[Pieter van Rosmalen]

Dan Haag-based Dutch foundry, est. 2004 by Pieter van Rosmalen, who before that designed fonts for GarageFonts and Typotheque. He studied design and advertising at Sint Lucas in Boxtel (The Netherlands) and type design and typography at the postgratuate course Type & Media at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (The Netherlands). For the CakeType library he designed CKTP Alterego, CKTP Capibara Classic, CKTP Capone (6-weight grotesque), and CKTP Pixie. Cake Type is involved in custom and commercial typefaces. Emma is a custom family. Dutchman (b. Eindhoven, 1969, living in Den Haag) Pieter van Rosmalen's fonts are mostly of the pixel type and are sold at Garagefonts: Ministeck (2000, pixel font), Dotted Weekend (1999), Get Back (1999), Martian Telex (1999, dotted pixel font), Monster Droppings (1999), Naomi (1999), Nice Weekend (1999), Novella (1998), Porno (1999), Thomas (2000), Rough Weekend (1999), Adore (thin typewriter font), First Street Left, Moved, Passenger (pixel font), Rebel Mono (2000), Shop (arcade game pixel font), Underscore (stitch pixel font), Archive (2000), Ravensburger (2000), Rebel (2000), Adore (2001), FirstStreetLeft (2001), Moved (2001), Passenger (2001), Shop (2001), Underscore (2001), Weekend Web (2002), Archive (2003), Capibara (2003), Melvin (2003), Epos (2003). At Phil's Fonts, get Alter Ego, Capone, Capone Poster (stencil), Galaxy and Pixie (+Mpno, Narrow, Script), all made in 2005. In 2008, van Rosmalen made Nitti (monospaced; followed in 2009 by Nitti Typewriter), Panno (sans) and Pinup (fat rounded sans). In 2009, they published the non-connected handprinted Aniek. In 2009, he and Paul van der Laan created Audi Type (via MetaDesign), which replaces the old Univers-based Audi Sans. [Google]

Canada Type
[Rebecca Alaccari]

Foundry in Canada, est. 2004 by Rebecca Alaccari in Toronto, and run by her and Patrick Griffin. Interview with Rebecca. Her faces can be bought through YouWorkForThem and MyFonts: Centennial Script (2007, a revival of an 1874-1876 high contrast calligraphic script by Hermann Ihlenburg), Valet (2006, superb art deco face), Freco (2006, an art deco face loosely based on designs and letters of Fré Cohen), Silk Script (2006, based on 1956 Helmut Matheis script called Primadonna), Dominion (2006, based on an early 1970s film type called Lampoon), Johnny (2006, an art nouveau poster face that revives the Harem/Margit face by Phil Martin, 1969), Guillotine (2007), Mayfair (2006, a calligraphic face based on Mayfair Cursive by Middleton, 1932), Happy Birthday (2006, script), Geronimo (2005, brush style poster font), Rostrum (2005, a revival and expansion of a type called Oleander, designed in 1938 by Julius Kirn for the Genzsch & Heyse foundry in Hamburg), Apricot (2005; based on A.R. Bosco's Romany for ATF, 1934, but a major extension with many ligatures), Heathen (2005), Cougar (2004, a digital version of Martin Wilke's 1968 handwriting face Konzept), Puma (2004, brush face based on Herbert Thannhaeuser's 1954 Kurier), Big Brush (brush), Diva (connected script), Odette (high ascender display face after the Morris Benton 1918 American classic, Announcement Roman), Crucifix (2004, a severe octagonal face), Fore (2004, a bullethole face), Formula, Gamer (2004), Formula (2004), Kofi, Platoon (2004, a stencil face), Verso (2004), Secret Scrypt (2004, a handwriting face), Bluebeard (2004, blackletter by Patrick Griffin), Bolero (2004), Janice (2004, psychedelic), Jimi (2004, also psychedelic), Scroll (2004), Dominique (2004, upright script), Moxie (2004, a fat display family which includes a stencil), StockA (2004), StockB (2004, a fat stencil face), Stalker (2004, a destructionist face), Scroll (2004), Jonah (2005, a hippie face based on an early 1970s film type from Franklin Photolettering called Urban). MyFonts page. Phil Rutter and Patrick Griffin made Coffee Script (2004), the digital version of R. Middleton's Wave design for the Ludlow foundry, circa 1962. Phil Rutter and Rebecca Alaccari designed Almanac (2004), a script face based on Imre Reiner's London Script (1957) (and Rebecca did a subsequent redigitization in 20907 that led to Reiner Hand), Tiger Script (2004, based on Georg Trump's wild brush script Jaguar done in 1967 for C. E. Weber), and Ali Baba (2004), an Arab simulation face originally designed by Georg Trump as Palomba (1955, C.E. Weber foundry). Patrick Griffin made Leather (2005, after Imre Reiner's 1933 blackletter face), Secret Scrypt (2005), Skullbats (2005), Slang (2004, a blood scratch face), Bluebeard (2004), Expo (2004, an octagonal family), and Dancebats (2004). Simone Wilkie designed Boyscout (2004) after the handwriting of her son. Helmut Matheis' Contact (1963, flowing script/brush) was digitized by Rebecca in 2004 as Bruschetta. Rebecca also made Steiner Special (2007, a revival of Swing, a film type by Peter Steiner, 1974), Genesis (2007, a digitization and extension of Grayda, a 1939 calligraphic script of Frank H. Riley at ATF), Evolver (2006, futuristic family), Redwood (2007, a calligraphic script based on Willard T. Sniffin's Raleigh Cursive (1929, ATF)), Orotund (2005, after the 1970s face Eight Ball; this was extended again in 2006 in her art nouveau typeface Huckleberry, which is a revival of the 1973 face of Gustav Jaeger called Mark Twain), Pendulum (2005, a fantastic flowing script based on Nebiolo's Americana, 1945), Jojo (2005, with B. Jacquet), Mascara (2004), Gala (2004, after Neon (1935, Giulio da Milano at Nebiolo)) and Bella Donna (2004, after a script made by Alessandro Butti in 1948, called Rondine). 2005 faces: Jazz Gothic (Patrick Griffin), Showboat, Hunter (a revival of Imre Reiner's brush script Mustang, 1956), Quanta (stencil), Quiller (a script face based on J.J. Sierke's 1964 face Privat), Rhino (revival of Mobil, a 1960 face by Helmut Matheis for Ludwig & Mayer), Dominique (donated to FontAid), Secret Scrypt (donated to FontAid), Jackpot (2005, Western typeface remotely based on Cooper Playbill which in turn is related to Cooper Black, but it also has hippy 1968 influences), Sincerely (handwriting face based on Karlgeorg Hoefer's 1968 Elegance), Fontella (a digitization of Novarese's calligraphic script Elite), Boondock (digitization of Imre Reiner's Bazaar from 1956), Gumball (digitization of Papageno, a 1958 font by Richard Weber for Bauer), Runway, Gamer, Dominique (OpenType handwriting face), Sterling Script (2005, by Alaccari and Griffin: a 7-weight digitization and extension of Stephenson Blake's 1952 clean copperplate script Youthline Script), Vox (2007, a 24-style monoline sans family done with Patrick Griffin), Evolver (2006, a 4-style futuristic family), Ambassador Script (2007, an Alaccari-Griffin revival of the angle-reduced calligraphic script Juliet by Nebiolo, 1955). In 2005, Philip Bouwsma joined Canada Type, and designed a great calligraphic blackletter-inspired family, Torquemada. VIP (2007) is a humanist sans serif uppercase and figures combined with a freshly redrawn revival of the classic VGC Contanze initials originally designed by Harry Brodjian in 1970. Chopper (2007, by Rebecca Alaccari) is a revival of Venture (a 1972 face for VGC by Harry Villhardt). Walter (2007, Rebecca Alaccari) is a digitization of Heritage (1952, ATF, a calligraphic script by Walter H. McKay). Celebrity (2007, Rebecca Alaccari) revives and extends the retro/techno face Latus (Willy Wirtz, 1971). Sympathique (2008, Alaccari) is an ultra-thin and ultra-tall face in the mold of Bernhard Fashion and other era poster or film faces (they say that it is rooted in the film faces Hairstreak and Mossman). Mullen Hand (2008) is a revival of Repro Script (1953, Jerry Mullen, ATF). You Work For Them link. [Google]

Canonical Ltd
[Andrew Fitzsimon]

Andrew Fitzsimon of Canonical Ltd created the font used in the logo of Ubuntu called Ubuntu-Title in 2005. Free download of this VAG Round type font. Free software supporter who created the spray-paint font Road Stencil (2008) as part of the Open Font Library. [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]

Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero

Venezuelan graphic and type designer (b. San Cristóbal, Estado Táchira, Venezuela, 1977). He studied Graphic Design between 1995 and 1998 in the Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Antonio José de Sucre (IUTAJS) Extensión Mérida, Venezuela. He runs the design studio Andinistas in Bogotá, Colombia, which he set up in 1998 with a few others. Creator of the beautiful typeface Cazon (1999-2007, a grunge script in 7 styles that includes Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres, Dingbats A and B) and of Escuadra (2003), Biologia (2003), Denedo (2003; the discussion by typophiles centers around how interesting this 3d font is experimentally---a bit like the type version of M.C. Escher's drawings, full of impossibilities), Modelia (2006), Nikona and Nikona Dual (2006, octagonal, with Rafael Rincón), Avecedario, Btamax (1999-2008, comic book style and grunge), Día D, Nativa, Codiga Icons (dingbats), Codiga (1999-2007, an 8-style octagonal family including Codiga Stencil and Codiga Dingbats), Codiga Pura (octagonal face), Pepelepu, Gancho petare, Guerrilla, and Hirofórmica (grunge). His calligraphic script family Panamericana (2007) comes in many grungy and experimental flavors: Blanca, Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco, Seis and Dingbats. With María Angélica Estrada Cano, he designed the handdrawn font families Makika (2007) and Lita (2007; in five styles---Gris, Negra, Humo, Molis, and Dingbats). His blog. In the area of combat-ready explosion-inspired letters and dingbats, check his eight-weight family Hiroformica (2007, Andinistas; for a free version, see DaFont). In 2007, he created the calligraphic grunge family Rosadelia, and the grunge lettering and crow dingbats family Gancho Petare. In 2008, he published Heleodora (beautiful scratchy hand), Magola (Negra, Supra Negra and Stencil), Navaja 1 through 4 (a collection of grunge fonts with grungy dingbats), Lucrecia 1 through 3 (a fat connected script family ranging from clean to splattered), Pomarosa (irregular hand) and Pomarosa Dingbats, Bochalema (+Dingbats, a comic book family), and Alcira 1 through 3 (nice scribbly grunge scripts). Alternate URL. [Google]

Casady & Greene (Fluentlaserfonts)
[Terry Kunysz]

Casady & Greene, Inc. started out as two separate little companies, CasadyWare and Greene, Inc. CasadyWare, which was founded by Robin Casady in August 1984, began producing Fluent Fonts, which were bitmapped typefaces for the Macintosh. As soon as PostScript fonts appeared, CasadyWare got hold of the first version of Fontographer and produced the first downloadable PostScript fonts, even beating Adobe, the originators of PostScript, to the punch. These were marketed as Fluent Laser Fonts (FLF). The FLF series includes Abilene (Western), Alexandria (2004, slab serif family), Black Knight (blackletter), Bodoni, BodoniUltra, Bonnard (art nouveau), ButtonHighlight, ButtonPlain, Calligraphy, Campanile (a great didone face), Checkbox, Collegiate (sports lettering), Coventry Script (calligraphic), Cutouts (stencil), Desperado, Dorovar, DryGulch, Epoque (art nouveau), FattiPatti, Fletcher Gothic (art nouveau), Galileo, Gazelle, Gatsby, Giotto, Gregorian (blackletter), Harlequin, Highland Gothic, Jott, Kasse, Kells (modern round Gaelic font, 1988), KeyCaps, La Peruta, Meath (modern round Gaelic font, 1988), Michelle, Micro, MicroExtended, Monterey, Moulin Rouge (art nouveau), Nouveau (art nouveau), Paladin (blackletter), Pendragon, Phoenix Script, Prelude, Regency Script (calligraphic), Right Bank, Ritz (art deco), Rocko, SansSerif, Sedona Script, Slender Gold, Vertigo, VertigoPlus, Zephyr Script. Many fonts were digitized by Richard Ware, and some were designed by Mike Wright. The contact was Terry Kunysz in Salinas, CA. On July 3, 2003, Casady&Greene closed it doors permanently. However, one of its designers, Mike Wright, writes: I believe that all the fonts that were developed by the company are now in the public domain. Robin Casady and I are thinking of putting up a site with free downloads of all of the old C&G public domain fonts--mainly as a way of attracting Mac users to see iData 2. And in any case, some fonts can be found at TypOasis. Fontsquirrel link. Fontspace link. [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, Light; originally designed by Robert H. Middleton in 1934), 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), Sonrisa (2009, art deco family---Sonrisa Thin is free), 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]

CAT Design Wolgast
[Peter Wiegel]

Wolgast-based type designer Peter Wiegel (b. 1955) runs CAT Design Wolgast. Designer of these free fonts:

• In 2010: EricaType-Bold, EricaType-BoldItalic, EricaType-Italic, EricaType-Regular (typewriter), ErikaOrmig, GreifswalderTengwar-Regular, GreifswalerDeutscheSchrift (German Schreibschrift), Midroba-Regular (a strong mechanical octagonal face), MidrobaSchatten, MMX2010 (futuristic), Präsent60, Rotunda Pommerania (blackletter), TengwarOptime, TengwarOptimeDiagon, cbe-Bold, cbe-BoldItalic, cbe-Italic, cbe.
• In 2009: 18thCenturyInitials, 18thCenturyKurrent-Regular, 18thCenturyKurrentAlternates, German writing from the 18th century), CentreClaws, CentreClawsBeam1, CentreClawsSlant, Cöntgen Kanzley Regular (blackletter), Cöntgen Kanzley Aufrecht (2009), ElficCaslin, H1N1, Loxembourg1910Shadow (an art nouveau-influenced stencil face), Luxembourg1910, VarietScala (an art deco sans family), Varietee, VarieteeArtist, VarieteeCabaret, VarieteeCascadeur, VarieteeCasino, VarieteeCirque, VarieteeColege, VarieteeConferencier, VarieteeFolies, VarieteeIkarier, VarieteeJongleur, VarieteeMirage, VarieteeRevue, VarieteeTheatre, KochFetteDeutscheSchrift (blackletter), MoradoFelt-Regular (upright connected script), MoradoMarker (2009), MoradoNib, PreussischeVI9 (DIN-like family), PreussischeVI9Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten-Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten, SchatternvonPreussischeVI9, Stage (art deco), Ring Matrix (dot matrix), Nathan, Amptmann Script (upright connected script), Cat Shop, Blankenburg (blackletter), Murrx (arched face), Schwaben Alt (1988, blackletter), Vrango, 14LED (Regular, Phattt-Heavy, Rised-Black), 24LED (+Bright, +Grid, +Modul), DIN1451fetteBreitschrift1936-Regular, FibelNord (basic sans family with an architectural twist), FibelSued (family), PaneuropaBankette, PaneuropaCrashbarrier-Black, PaneuropaFreeway, PaneuropaHighway, PaneuropaRoad, PaneuropaStreet, PaneuropaWrongWay, Quirkus (family), RingMatrix (dot matrix family), RingMatrix3D, RingMatrixTwo, DiscipuliBritannica (connected script), GruenewaldVA-Regular (connected school script), Rudelskopfdeutsch-Aufrecht, WiegelLatein (connected school script), WiegelLateinMedium (2009), Morado, Moebius, Elbaris (sans), ElbarisOutline, Nomitais (multiline face), RostockKaligraph, Waschkueche, WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra, WiegelKurrent (traditional German school script), WiegelKurrentMedium, XAyax, XAyaxOutline (2009), Kaufhalle (squarish), Quimbie (art deco), CasaSans-Regular, Elb-Tunnel, MeyneTextur (blackletter), Yiggivoo, TGL 31034-1 (futuristic sans), Beroga (a simple organic sans).
• Before 2009: PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3 (2006, a severe sans), Utusi Star (1989, very condensed all-caps face), Avocado (2006, script face), CbeNormal (2006, script face), Leipzig Fraktur (+Bold) (2006), Berlin Email (2006, a condensed sans family, followed in 2009 by Berlin Email Serif), MaassslicerItalic (2006, a futuristic face made for Rudolf Maass + Partner GmbH), Powerweld (a gorgeous avant-garde face made for OPTI Pumpen und Technik GmbH), WolgastScript (2005), WolgastTwo (2006, connected script), WolgastTwoBold, ZeichenDreihundert-Regular, ZeichenHundert-Regular, ZeichenVierhundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundert-Regular (2006, traffic dingbats), Djerba simplified (Arabic font, Computer and Technologie, Hamburg, 1995; it can be downloaded here), Titus FrakturBaltic (1998), TITUS FrakturEast Normal (1998), and TITUS FrakturWest Normal (1998) [which used to be downloadable here; these fonts were retired and the Titus name dropped; most of the glyphs made it to Schwaben Alt].

Cayo Navarro

Peruvian graphic and web designer. At FontStruct, he created a number of pixel fonts in 2009, such as gridnPix75 (+Light, +nLite), OCR-APix6, cayoPix45, ScrptPix5, sCapsPix4, SerifPix6, moSpPix57, ClassPix5, MicriPix4, CorpoPix5, and BminiPix5. Other fonts there include Proton Type (2009), the geometric pxlNotSqr (2009) and the sturdy headline faces Woznian (2009, inspired by bitmap fonts like Chicago and Charcoal) and Gizmatik (2009), his best font. In 2009, he added NuevoSolStile (in the Eurostile/Microgramma mold), MacroBold (ultra-fat), Steam Punker, Funkadeliai, Monocodigo, FS Mini, FS Remix (horizontally striped), BlackSQRda (blackletter), Fontscript, Scanografia (vertical striping of letters), Stencikal, Bloxed (white on black), BlackSQRda, NSS Unicase (unicase), NuevoSolStile (unicase). [Google]

Cem Basak

Designer of the techno stencil face Buzpark (2005). [Google]

Chamichaze

Designer in 2008 at FontStruct of Lala (pixelish script), Sunday (great vertical-stripe stencil), Radiotic (rounded), Blabla (experimental). [Google]

Christian Laucou-Soulignac

French designer of Zarbres (2004), a typeface used in the book "Nouvelles des arbres", by Gérard Bialestowski. This is a private face, as he explained to Jef Tombeur: "Quelques mots sur le Zarbres. Je ne trouvais pas ce qui me plaisait ni en plomb, ni en fonte informatique. Alors je l'ai créé, mais avec un cahier des charges bien précis. Il devait s'approcher du résultat qu'on obtient en gravant dans du bois ou du lino pour s'harmoniser avec les illustrations. Pour cela, il devait être gras, d'un dessin un peu maladroit (taillé à la serpe), quelques lettres hors norme (avec une e bdc à la barre trop oblique, la u bdc un peu onciale, etc.), comme dessiné par un amateur qui ne connaît pas la typo et qui cherche à imiter, à obtenir une hauteur d' assez importante pour réaliser, sans interlignage, des compositions d'un gris très foncé. J'ai fait ainsi un romain, un italique et les deux polices expertes correspondantes (petites capitales et ligatures). Pour l'instant le Zarbres est reste une police exclusive qui ne sort pas de mon ordinateur." [Google]

Christos Tsolerides

Young Greek typographer. At FontStruct, he created BOMBOM-TheBase, BOMBOM-CityLights, BOMBOM-FullMetal, Roundabout, Structura-SC, Structura-Gothic, Structura, Structura-Alt, StreetPost (stencil) and SlabSlab (squashed slab serif), all in 2008. In 2009, he added the film strip font Berliner, and the stencil face Street Post. [Google]

Claudia Kipp

German type designer (b. 1965) of the great sans serif family appropriately called Kipp at FontFont. She studied under Gerd Fleischmann at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld (1992), and published the following faces at URW++: Aculida (2004), Marin (2006, a severe stencil family), Expansion (2004), Kipp Clean (2004), Les Tres (2005, URW, a geometric sans family). Archive with over 23,000 links to commercial fonts. In 2008, she made and extensive sans family, FontForum Martines (URW++), and a big display family, FontForum Profil. Her FontForum Quadre (2008, URW++) is totally experimental again. And FontForum Siesta is a display sans family with a bit of Neuland playfulness. [Google]

Clotilde Olyff

Belgian designer (b. 1962) who lives in Brussels and whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: Billes (1995), Boulbar (1995), Boules (1996), BubbleBath (1996), Craaac (1996) Caaarc (1996), Design, Douff, Graphic, Handex (1995; an alphading based on fists), Inbetween (1996), Lines (1994), Lolo (1992), Minimex (1996), Modern (1996), Perles (1995), StencilFull (1997), StencilFullBraille (1997). Avant-garde geometry in the letter shapes. Look also for fonts at ITC. Clotilde Olyff lectures on graphic design and typography at the National Visual Art School of La Cambre, Belgium. But she is most famous for her fonts Alpha Bloc (1994), Alpha Geometrique (1994). Bio in a list of bios by Porchez of French typographers. I just wonder since when Belgium became a part of France. [Google]

Club 21
[Julian Morey]

The founder of and only designer at at Club 21 is Julian Morey, a graphic designer and font creator from London who designed Pacific (1999, an octic typeface influenced by American naval lettering), VMR (1999), SignPlate (a stencil font), Sigma OT (2008, a sans based on a Stephenson Blake grotesque), Skye (2001, a stencil font), Skye Outline [note: Skye used to be called Axis], Checkout, Alpine (2000), Brassplate, Greenwich (2001, a stencil font with fine breaks; used to be called Bronxville), Codex, E lectro, Ionia, Jakarta (2000, an octagonal sports/stencil font; was called Jersey), Kathode, Octago (an octagonal stencil face), Liquid, Simpson Typewriter, Preset, Roadworks (1992, stencil font), Thompson Monospaced, Spacer (1999), Paintworks, Portfolio. FontWorks used to sell their fonts, but now Faces does. [Google]

Codesign (or: Aviation Partners, or AVP)
[Nicholas Garner]

Nicholas Garner (b. 1949, Windsor) runs Codesign (or: Aviation Partners), a small London-based design firm which has created these commercial type families in 2005:

• Cerafino: informal sans.
• Delamere: more classical sans.
• Kensington: titling sans related to Gill Sans.
• Maisee: an open, wide, generous and broadly smiling sans family.
• Tenison: connected formal script.
• Fiendstar (2006, 16 styles; +Cameo (white on black), +Shaded) (after Gill Sans Schoolbook).
• Norwich (2006): a grungy version of Tenison. Outrage (2006) is more grunge.
• Cashback (2006).
• Crystal (2006): a slab serif family.

Colectiv Community

A graphic designer from Hermosa Beach, CA, and San Luis Obispo, CA, b. 1986. Home page of Colectiv Community. Creator of the octagonal all-caps stencil face ColecTECH Caps 1 (2008). [Google]

Coniglio Type
[Joseph Coniglio]

Delta, CO (and, earlier, Stamford, CT)-based Joseph Coniglio (b. Niagara Falls, NY, 1955) and a small group of designers. Check out the typewriter families Carbon 14, Passport, Vintage Type and Telepath. Other fonts: Aspersion, Snyder Speed, Autocrat, NudE, Jack Rabbit, Felt Marker, Oregon Dry, Sublime, Omaha, Nomad, Aquacia (stencil). [Google]

Constructivists

Description of this 20s-30s movement, with lettering and alphabets done by people such as Wladyslaw Strzeminski, Josef Albers, Kurt Schwitters, Jan Tschichold or Herbert Bayer. No decorations. Mainly horizontal and vertical edges and arcs of circles make up the shapes. Fonts in this style include ITC Avant Garde, Avenir, Futura, Industria, Insignia, ITC Kabel and some stencil fonts. [Google]

CORE.NU Fonts
[Martin Fredrikson Core]

Free fonts by Swedish designer Martin Fredrikson Core (b. Gothenburg, 1970), whose real name is Martin Lexelius:

• Chank fonts: Industri No. 35 (2002), Oh La La (2002 screen font), Sauerkrauto, Som Ett Hus (2001).
• T4 fonts: Corpse Grinder (gothic font), Kantor (2002, since 2007 commercial at T4), Motor Mouth (2006).
• Fountain fonts: Borgstrand (styles called Regular, Web, Stencil, Hellas), Filt (2001, a fat display face), Jalapeño (Mexican-style diner display, see here), Malmö Sans (2000 (styles Regular, Alts & Ligatures, Bold, Oblique, Bold Oblique, Headline, Small Caps, Small Caps Lining Numbers, Small Caps Lining Numbers Mono, Small Caps Bold).
• CORE.NU fonts (mostly free): Backstabber Grotesk, Backstabber Roman (1999), Banditos, Bilprovning Gothic, Blocky Smocky (2002), Bodoni Natural, Bodoni Slapp (2000), Bongonaut (1999), Boy-O (2002), Bunth Serif (1999), Daniel Hando, Darlito, Das Kavel Gotisch, Dot City (1999), DrunkPunk (2002), Executive Producer, Fizzo (1998), Flake Anfang (1999), Funky Mushroom (2000), Gentleman Caller (2002 (pixel font), Grill Sans (2000 (a funny hotdog and hamburger dingbat font, together with Finn Hallin and Simon Grdenfors), Felvetica (2001), Il Tempo Gigante (2001 (extra wide screen font), Isterburk (2001), Komputter (2002), Lager Neon, Lindhagen Script, Marfhaus (1998 (his take on the Bauhaus "Universal" unicase font), Messages, MuskelBengt (2000), No Reklamo, Nuderflaken (2002), Oblata Kurrenta (1999), Pixelette (1998), Plugger, Practicamente, RunStop, Sarcastic Girl Scout Bitch (2000), Sensory Input (2001), Serge Hand, Small Talk (1999 (nice screen font family with styles called Tight, Tight Mono, Wide, Wide Mono), Stiffy99, The Perfect Font.

Corey Holms

Graduate from Cal Arts (1996), who runs CoreyHolms.Com in Fullerton, near Los Angeles. Designer of Area (2008, Umbrella Type, an art deco inightclub face), Mode (2007, experimental modular type, Umbrella), Babbage (2005, Umbrella Type, a capricious typewriter font), Sange (2002, a dot matrix blackletter font), Brea and Brea Light (2004, a dot matrix blackletter family at Umbrella Type), Mince and Mince Shadow (2004, Umbrella Type), DecadesOS (2002, for Decades Inc), Air-Port (1999), Attractor (2001, based on Alexei Tylevich's NoGlow), Granule, Cartridge (2001), Claes (2001, based on a Wim Crouwel design), Consume (1996), Den (1998, for the Digital Entertainment Network), Digital (1997, for "The Apartment"), Empire (1995), Fascia (2002), Hobart (2001, a kitchen tile font), Pea (2005, Veer: letters made up of springs), Phia (another kitchen tile font), Progress (2001, for Progress City), Rasputin, RMX, Savante (1999), Sears (2000), Stencil, Thirty, Untitled and WebType (2000). Many of these fonts are futuristic, experimental, logo-inspired or minimalist. Behance link. [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]

Courtney Billadeau

Creator at FontStruct in 2009 of Mother May I, Arlen Rage, Hunger, Burnt Out (fat stencil), Yes You May, Crave. [Google]

Cpr. Sparhelt
[Bálint Koczman]

Bálint Koczman (aka Cpr. Sparhelt) is the Hungarian designer (b. 1992) of Old Stamper (2009, grungy stencil), Top Secret (2009, army stencil), Floral Dawn (2009), Origicide (2009), Splincide (2009), This is Electronik (2009), Infinity Media (2009), Capture It (2009, grunge), Younger Than Me (2009, grunge), New York City (2009, skyline-themed letters), Electroinsanity (2009), Need for Font (2009, futuristic), Niiiii-trous (2008, heavy square font), Urban&Slick (2008, graffiti lettering), Duplexide (2009), Veteran Typewriter (2009), District (2008, grunge), Times Old Attic (2008), Jigga Jigga (2008), Capture It (2008, grunge) and Most Wasted (2008, graffiti). Link at Dafont. [Google]

Cristian Gonzalez

Santiago, Chili-based designer who has been working on El Chino (2004, a stencil type). [Google]

Cumberland Fontworks
[S. John Ross]

Fonts for gamers by S. John Ross from Austin, TX, and dingbats such as Unity Dances (2009), Knits and Scraps (2008), Heirany Slight (2007), Merchant Copy (2006), Hexpaper (commercial: font for printing out hex paper (for puzzles and such)), HultogSnowdrift (2006), Hultog Engraved (2006), Temphis Spidersilk (2005), Ten Ton Ballyhoo (2005, grunge), Vermin Magic (2005), Uneasy, Tombs of Rivulax, Almanac of the Apprentice (2005), Yemite Snow Letters (2005), Seven Miles to Heirany (2005), Bold Marker (2005), Apostate Cancer (2005), Bydee Man (2005, based on the handwriting of Austinite Brian Joseph), Uresia (2005, runes), Dragon Harbour (2005), A Kringle in Time (2004, Christmas dingbats), Vanthian Ragnarok (2004), Regal Demise (2004), Nobody Small (2004), Earwax Wit (2004), Always Joking (2004), Hill Country (2004), Barrel House (2004), Iron Lung (2004), Art Greco (2004, a stone cutter face), Powell and Geary (2004), Wolves Engraven (2003), Homespun (2003), Cup and Talon (2003), Glyphs of Hax (2003), Invader Candy (2003), Temphis Runes (2003, commercial), Temphis Brick (2003), Temphis Knotwork (2003), Temphis Dirty (2005), Struck Dead (2003), Double Slug (2003), Oddbats (2003), Phaeton John (2003), Scrawlings (2003, a gothic font), FountainAvenue (2002), Pokethullu (2002), AtlasoftheMagi (2002), Skuntch (2001), Prison Walls (2002), Downtown Auto (2002), Arvigo (2002), Beccaria (2002, very old typewriter font), Cheap Seven Inches (2002), Nicotine Stains (2002), Apple Butter (2002), Merchant Copy (2006), Mexlar (2002), Eye Socket (2002), Spacedock Stencil (2001), Rutherford (2001), SPARKSScrapbook2001 (2001), Sparks ("from skeletal necromancers to doughty Dwarf warriors to Bigass Ogres to chicks with guns - and now an entire science-fiction set!"), Skull Salad (2001), The Temphis Runes (commercial rune font set), Cock Boat (2001, codesigned with Amy Miles), Marshmallow (2001, by his wife Sandra Ross), Yank (2001, handwriting, by Sandra Ross), Focal Deviance (2001), Darn Ya (2001, faces), Punkinhead (jack-o-lantern shaped letters), Rocket Yo-Ho (2001), Thunder Thighs (2001), Dirty Headline (2001), Ninja Bootleg (2001), Dirty Headline, Face Front, Nameless Harbor, Martian Hull Markings (1999), ProtoRooftops (2001), Zarking (2001), Graalek, High Fiber (2001), LastUniform, Wolves&Ravens (2000), Wolves&Ruin (2003), Pigeon Street (2001), Gravel (2001), TheAlchemist (2001), Deco Freehand (2001), Archipelago (2001), Flagstones (commercial), Newfie (handwriting, by Sandra Ross), Hultog (2000), Sparks (dingbats), and Lunatic Regular (handwriting, 1999). 15 USD fontmaking service. At Apostrophic Lab in 2001, he designed FuturexApocalypse. The Temphis Runes font set is commercial. Another URL. [Google]

D. Green

Designer of Danger Cyr, a Cyrillic stencil face (2004). [Google]

D. Thaker

Designer of the stylistic stencil face Devendra (Linotype, 1982). [Google]

Damien Gosset

Parisian designer (b. 1981) of BeijingWigoWhat (2005, Indic simulation face), Coin Locker Datura (2005), Fucked Plate (2005, erasure face entirely based on old license plates), Destroyed License Plate (2005), BonesBummer (2005, scratchy handwriting), VerArmy (2005, stencil), Knife Fight (2005), Veru Serif (2005), Belgian Army (2005, no longer offered), Bnko (2005, no longer offered), Abuse (2005, handwriting) and Sweeep (2005, typewriter simulation), PoscaMadThrasherz (2009, graffiti). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Old URL. [Google]

Daniel Angermann

German graphic designer who has his own studio. He created the (free) experimental font family Drebiek (2008) around the theme of the triangle, the morbidly obese Diet-Fat (2008), Cartoons Abstract (2009), the monoline Cinga (2009), the experimental Boss M (2009), the art deco stencil face Trage Keinen Namen (2008) and the simple handwriting face Berger & Berger Caps (2009). One can also download a font tool called Typometer. At Dafont, he calls himself Dundeee. [Google]

Darrian Lynx

Designer of wonderful teasing fonts: Alpha Silouettes (three versions), Cherished Teddies. And now, the most exquisite of all erotic fonts, VintageErotique (by Darrian and Itieu), LilGent, DelightfulLilDragons, DarriansSexySilouettes, SexySilouetteStencils, Butterflies by Darrian (dingbat), Hearts by Darrian (dingbat), Equestrian by Darrian (dingbat), EasterGirl, Butterfly Letters, Catstuff (by Glenda Moore and Darrian), Critters by Darrian (dingbat), Lots of Frames (dingbat), DarriansFrames, Buds and Blossoms (dingbat), Dollybat (adult), ElvgrenPin-ups (adult), FloralGarnish, SnowflakeLetters, BatmanandCompany, BeautiesbyBillWard, ButterfliesbyDarrian, ComixCuties, CrittersbyDarrian, CutiesbyCarlos, DarriansFramesTwo, DarriansSexySilhouettes (4 files), Egyptian, EquestrianbyDarrian, FloralGarnish, LatticeLetter, Portrait, Smurf. Since May 2003, the new erotic dingbat fonts (such as Femlin) are no longer free. [Google]

David DeSandro

Designer, aka nemoorange, who used FontStruct in 2008 to make Remigius WIP (blackletter), Chambermaiden WIP (blackletter), Masphalt (a rip-off of Black Sabbath by You Work For Them), Minutia, Bloc War, Phantsied, Halliday (ultra stencil), Sally Shadow, Ben Day, Izack (experimental stencil), Clive Rounded, Milius (blackletter), Hamleigh (blackletter), Sabatino, Radish, Rosslyn and Rosslyn Metal (futuristic), and Boritone (squarish), Francero Wide (big slab serif), Squabble, Bradshaw Bold, Gretzatz, Quint City (stencil), Remigius (blackletter), Remigius Heavy. Additions in 2009: Bradshaw Bold, squabble, Tom Tussle (pixel face), Curtis Heavy, Curtis Pixel 14, Hermione Black (slabby),

At his home page, one can look at his beautiful all-caps geometric grotesque Curtis CSS (2010)---this typeface was entirely coded using CSS primitives! [Google]

David Neustadt

David Neustadt ("saberrider") is the designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to make the experimental fonts Eye Pain, Colorblind, Big Blue (like IBM's stripes), Cord, Fontsract (a nice stencil face, based on piano keys), Dice (great; based on an idea of Daniel Pelavin, 1996), Blux (liquid crystal), Blockiger (octagonal), athletica (athletic lettering), divided (two lines, octagonal), edgewalker (heavy slab serif), geomatrix (filled-in letters), olympica. Other creations include Picto People (2008, a great people figure dingbat font), Carmack (2008, octagonal), Pluto (2008, white on black), Pluto Lowercase, Arena Berlin (2008), Katja (2008), Average (2008), Unbalanced (2008), Solido (2008, based on Ata Syed's FS Minimal), Noise (2008, grungy school letters), and Diagonalis (2008, diagonally striped letters). In 2009, he added Hexastruct, Curvy, Genero (fat face), Plagiacotti (Western saloon font, based on Manicotti, 2007, by David Jonathan Ross), Rasterman (+Bold) (gray effect fonts), Krummbein, Cohen, Mister N (handwriting), Monobono (shadow face), Letter Case, Mikado (3d-stroke font), Boulder (ultra-fat), Night Shift (semi-stencil), Tuvalua, Ripper (fat, counterless), Poff, Blackstruct (blackletter), Borders and Borders2 (outlines of countries). Typefaces from 2010: Puncture (dot matrix outlined). [Google]

DBXL
[Donald Beekman]

Donald Beekman (DBXL, est. 1999) is a graphic and audiovisual designer (b. Amsterdam, 1961), who studied at the Rietveld Art Academy from 1979 to 1984 and then started his own graphic and music studio in Amsterdam. He designed many typefaces, most of them emanating from logos or artwork designed for his clients, often from the music and entertainment industry. Since 2004 he has been co-hosting Typeradio, the radio- and podcast-station on design and typography. Dafont link. Alternate URL. His fonts:

• At FontFont: Automatic, FF Atomium (2007), FF Beekman (1999), Backbone, Imperial, Droids, Overdose, Stargate (1999), Totem, Tsunami, FF Flava (2003: Beekman calls this a hip-hop font), FF Manga Steel, FF Manga Stone, FF Webfonts, FF Backbone 2 (2003, a futuristic face) and FF Noni (2000).
• At the DBXL web site: DBXL Softsoul, DBXL Monodon, Brak Bold, DBXL Hardsoul, DBXL Atonium, DBXL Nightfever (free).
• At Die Gestalten: Breeze, Beatbox (2007, tilted stencil).

de Valence
[Alexandre Dimos]

de Valence is a graphic design and type design bureau in Saint-Ouen, France, run by Alexandre Dimos and Gaël Étienne. Their typefaces: Dada Grotesk (2007, Optimo), Dodo Grotesk (2005), Trois-cent quinze (2003), Le Gras (2004), Manuel (2003, stencil), Sweet Sweat (2004), Le Gros (2003), Sansas (2005, futuristic). [Google]

Deliberate Design
[Eric Eaton]

Eric Eaton is a graduate from the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA (1997). He is a design director at Wired Digital in San Francisco, since 1996. He has made some experimental fonts (not downloadable): Bricks Are is a 2001 take on Akzident Grotesque, JAT is a 2000 serif face. Deliberately (2001) is a stencil face, Labyrinth (1999) is the ultimate pixel face, 3 by 3. Popva (1993) is based on a version of a logo for the City of New York (Street Cinema). [Google]

Denis Forigo

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of teste_2, a gorgeous pianokey stencil face, which he says is a copy of Crea by Corey. Corey in turn tags Armin Hofmann, the influential Swiss type teacher. [Google]

Det danske Skriftstøberi Harry Løhr
[Harry Løhr]

Danish foundry in Copenhagen, run by Harry Løhr, active in the late 1930s. Their fonts include Waterloo, Falstaff, Skrift and Times. [Google]

Device Fonts
[Rian Hughes]

Rian Hughes is a British comic book artist and letterer from Richmond, UK. MyFonts page. He created mostly display type: among these, Amorpheus looks interesting. Blackcurrant Cameo (1997) is free. List of fonts. Dingbats include Pic_Format, Mastertext Symbols, MacDings, RiansDingbats, Autofont. Other fonts: Box Office, Catseye, Custard, Gentry, Gridlocker, Ministry (with a hairline weight), Mulgrave (grunge), Roadkill, Valise Montreal (grunge), Yellow Perforated, Zond Diktat, Payload (stencil), Lusta (big family), Reasonist, Customised Foonky Starred, Motorcity, Cyberdelic, Regulator, Ainsdale, Altoona, AnytimeNow, Bingo, Blackcurrant, Bordello, Chascarillo, ContourC, Cottingley, Darkside, DfAncestorITC, DfAttitudesPlain, DoomPlatoon (1996), Elektron, Foonky, Griffin, HotRod (2002), Hounslow, Jemima, Judgement, Metropol, Quagmire, Ritafurey, ScrotnigHexes, Terrazzo, Untitled, WexfordOakley. FontFont fonts: Identification, Revolver, Rian's Dingbats, LustaOneSixtySans, Knobcheese, CrashBangWallop, and Outlander. [T-26] fonts: English Grotesque (2005), Data90 (2003), Westway (2003), Flak Heavy (2003, stencil), Flak (2003, stencil), Freeman (2003), Klaxon (2003, kitchen tile font), Cordite, Substation (2003), September (2003), Pop God (2003), West Way (2003), Egret (2003), Paralucent Complete (2003), Paralucent Condensed, Paralucent Stencil (2003), Mercano Empire (2003), Iconics (2003), Cantaloupe (2003), Gravel (2003), Acton (blocky screen font, 2002), Ainsdale, Amorpheus, Anytime Now (alarm dingbats), Autofont, Bingo, Blackcurrant, Bordello, Chascarillo, Elektron, Haulage (U-Haul lettering, 2002), WexfordOakley, Telecast, Terrazzo, Transit, Untitled, Scrotnig, Skylab (2002), Silesia (1993), SlackCasual, Ritafurey, Reasonist-Medium, Regulator, GameOver, Novak, Quagmire, PicFormat, Jakita Wide (2000, techno font), Metropol-Noir, Motorcity, Mastertext, Mystique (2002), MacDings, Lusta, Laydeez, Sinclair, Paralucent (sans serif), Judgement, Bullroller, Zinger (a fifties font), Citrus (2002), Popgod (2003), Range (2000, a futuristic font), Hounslow, Jemima, Griffin, GranTurismo, Gargoyle, Foonky, EnglishGrotesque (1998), DoomPlatoon, Darkside, Cyberdelic, Cottingle, Contour, Acton, Paralucent, and the very original Stadia Outline family (Stadia ios a kitchen tile font). He designed the semi-Morse code font FF Identification (1993). Interview. List of all fonts by Rian Hughes, as of 2004: Acton, Ainsdale, Amorpheus, Anytime Now, Autofont, Bingo, Blackcurrant, Bordello, Bull Roller, Chascarillo, Contour, Cottingley, FF CrashBangWallop, Cyberdelic, Darkside, Data90, Doom Platoon, Elektron, English Grotesque, Flak, Foonky, Freeman, Game Over, Gargoyle, Gran Turismo, Griffin, Haulage, Hounslow, Iconics, FF Identification, Jakita, Jemima, Judgement, FF Knobcheese, Laydeez Nite, Lusta, Mac Dings, Mastertext, Men Swear, Metropol Noir, Motorcity, Mystique, Novak, FF Outlander, Paralucent, Pic Format, Platinum, Quagmire, Range, Reasonist, Register (A and B), Regulator, FF Revolver, FF Rian's Dingbats, Ritafurey, Scrotnig, September, Silesia, Sinclair, Skylab, Slack Casual, Space Cadet, Stadia, Substation, Telecast, Terrazzo, Transmat, Untitled One, Vertex, Westway, Wexford Oakley, Why Two Kay, Zinger. At Veer, in 2005, these Device fonts were published: Gentry, Gridlocker, Valise Montreal, Custard, Box Office (moviemaking letters), Sparrowhawk, Monitor, Moonstone, Miserichordia, Yolanda (a great playful medieval text face in three styles: Duchess, Princess, Countess), Gusto, Dauphine, Rogue, Ritafurey, Dynasty, Radiogram, Xenotype, Roadkill (grunge), Payload (stencil family comprising Regular, Outline, Spraycan, Narrow, Narrow Outline, Wide, Wide Outline), Catseye, Electrasonic, Absinthe (psychedelic style), Straker, and Chantal (brush). In 2006, Veer added these: Profumo, Ironbridge, Cheapside, Battery Park (grunge), Forge, Shenzhen Industrial, Hawksmoor (grunge), Autofont (dingbats, originally from 1997), Autospec (dingbats, originally designed in 2003), Coldharbour Gothic, Wormwood Gothic, Chase (grunge), Diecast, Roadkill Heavy, Tinderbox (fuzzy blackletter), Dazzle (multiline face), Nightclubber (art deco), Klickclack (comic book face), Vanilla (art deco), Wear it's at (grunge), Diecast, Drexler, Box Office (movie icon font). Later additions there: DF Conselheiro (2007, grunge), DF Glitterati (2007), Indy Italic (script), DF Apocrypha, DF Quartertone, DF Lagos (2007, rough stencil), DF Pulp Action, DF Reliquary #17, DF Destination Unknown, DF Dukane (octagonal grunge), DF Strand (2007, striped stencil), DF Rocketship from Infinity, DF Appointment with Danger, Df Agent of the Uncanny, DF Las Perdidas, DF Kelly Twenty, DF Heretic, DF Roadkill, DF Ironbridge, DF Forge, DF Shenzhen Industrial, DF Hawksmoor, DF Cheapside, DF Battery Park, DF Saintbride, DF Profumo, DF Coldharbour Gothic, DF Wormwood Gothic, DF Tinderbox, DF Flickclack, DF Vanilla (multiline art deco face), DF Chase, DF Autospec, DF Nighclubber (art deco jazz club face), DF Diecast, DF dazzla, DF Zond Diktat, DF Yellow Perforated, DF Mulgrave, DF Ministry B, DF Ministry A, DF Gridlocker, DF Gentry, DF Valise Montréal, DF Custard, DF Box Office, DF Roadkill, DF Payload Wide, DF Payload Narrow, DF Catseye Narrow, DF Catseye, DF Yolanda, DF Xenotype, DF Telstar, DF Straker, DF Sparrowhawk, DF Rogue Serif, DF Rogue Sans Extended, DF Rogue Sans Condensed, DF Rogue Sans, DF Ritafurey B, DF Ritafurey A, DF Radiogram, DF Pitshanger, DF Payload, DF Outlander Nova, DF Moonstone, DF Monitor, DF Miserichordia, DF Interceptor, DF Gusto, DF Glitterati, DF Galicia, DF Galaxie, DF Electrasonic, DF Dynasty B, DF Dynasty A, DF Drexler, DF Dauphine, DF Chantal, DF Absinthe, DF Register Wide B, DF Register Wide A, DF Register B, DF Register A, DF Quagmire B, DF Cordoba (2007, grunge). T-26 releases in 2007: Klickclack, Hawksmoor (grunge), Heretic, Ironbridge (old letter simulation), Klickclack, Battery Park (grunge), Chase (grunge), Cheapside (grunge), Dazzle (multiline art deco), Diecast (grunge), Forge (grunge), and Autospec (dingbats). T-26 releases in 2008: Straker (organic). FontBros release in 2009: Filmotype Modern. Review by Yves Peters. Monotype Imaging page. Interview by Die Gestalten. [Google]

Dick Pape

Dick Pape (Dallas, TX) is digitizing the Dan Solo books one by one. In 2009, he is doing the art deco tome. He is on several font-making forums such as High Logic. His Dan Solo art deco work in 2009: DXSAlphaMidnight, DXSAlphaTwilight, DXSBeans-Bold, DXSBlackline, DXSBobo-Bold, DXSBust, DXSCharger, DXSCheckmate, DXSCorral, DXSDudleyPNarrow, DXSFatCat, DXSFestival, DXSFuturaInline, DXSGrooviestGothic, DXSHessNeobold, DXSHotline, DXSJoyceBlack, DXSLampoon, DXSMonogramStencil, DXSOrbit, DXSPickfair, DXSPolly, DXSPrismania'C', DXSPrismania'P', DXSQuote, DXSRhythmBold, DXSRickyTick, DXSRoco, DXSShadyDeal, DXSSheetSteel, DXSTester, DXSTulo, DXSTuxedo, DXSUrban, DXSVeronica, DXSYagiBold, DXSYagiDouble, DXSZany, DXSZephyr. "Toto" wrote: Dick Pape made hundreds of fonts and here are the links to most of his fonts. This list has not been updated and later additions are found in Rapidshare folders. I've missed some and some links had been deleted by Rapidshare during its migration from .de to .com. Some have also been sent directly to the group, like those based on Mada's alphas. It is hard to tell whether the font has been made by Dick Pape. The only indication that he created the fonts is that the font have "DP" as font vendor and/or has "Digitized by TTD" in the trademark field. Both are not present in some of his fonts. He seems not to want to take credit. He is just a guy who wants to digitize anything he likes.

• American Popular Song Sheet Covers [FOLDER]: 1890, 1891, 1899, 1899 B, 1901-1909, 1910-1911.
• Aridi [FOLDER]: Pack 1, Pack 2, Crests Banners, Olde World Frames, Olde World Ornaments.
• Butterfly Clip Art [FOLDER]: Pack 1, Pack 2, Pack 3, Pack A, Borders, Objects, People, Sport Dings, Sign Icons.
• Early Alphabets (Dover): Pack 1, Pack 2.
• Floral Motifs [FOLDER]: Art Nouveau, Borders, Bouquets, Branches, Common Flora, Containers, Corners and Dividers, Dings, Fruits and Veggies, Mums and Suns, Name Holders, Ornaments, Roses, Single Plants, Tall_Florals, With Objects, Wreaths and Garlands.
• Japanese Crests [FOLDER]: TTF 1, TTF 2, TTF 3, TTF 4, TTF 5, Ornaments.
• Silhouettes [FOLDER].
• Early American [FOLDER]: TTF 1, TTF 2, TTF 3, TTF 4, TTF 5, TTF 6, TTF 7, TTF 8.
• Frank H Atkinson: Pack 1, Pack 2, FHA 3.
• Pepin Press [FOLDER] (Folder was deleted): Background Designs, CoffeeTeaTobacco, FA0xx, FA1xx, FA15x, FA16x, FA17x, FA18x, FA19x, FA23x, FA24x, FA25x, FA26x, Fancy Alphabets, Fancy Designs 1920, Geometric Patterns, Japanese Designs, More Old Initials.
• Soviet Posters [FOLDER]: Pack 1, Pack 2.
• Victor Carbajo: Set 1, Set 5.
• Other stuff: Celtic Ornaments, Range Murata, Viking Design, Tribal Flames (www.digital-clipart.com).

Die Gestalten

German foundry, part of Die Gestalten Designstudio and Die Gestalten Verlag (dgv) in Berlin, a company self-described as follows In 1990, industrial design students Markus Hollmann-Loges, Andreas Peyerl and Robert Klanten began to curate and organise prototype design shows commissioned by the worlds biggest consumer fair in Frankfurt in between attending their lectures and writing their dissertations. Very much aware of the limitations of their field of study, they soon moved to Berlin, where they quickly met key people involved in the local Techno and cultural scenes. With the advent of desktop publishing, they formed a loosely organized graphic design agency called Die Gestalten and started designing flyers and posters for clients such as the groundbreaking club Tresor and the annual Loveparade. Its typefaces, by designer:

• Bowling Club: Victor.
• Boris Dworschak: Basic, Exakt (stencil), Ikiru Sans (organic).
• Stefan Gandl: DS Yakuti (experimental).
• Alexander Puell: dtype (fuzzy typewriter), Online Gothic.
• Frank Rocholl: Nuri (sans family).
• Alexander Wise: Mini (hip display sans), Hiploe, Winter (modernistic two-line display face).
• Marc Schilkowski: Traffic Wide.
• Soffi Beier: Pemba (connected 50s script), Engel (sans family).
• Fulguro: Adhesive (octagonal script).
• Pau Misser: Agrafia (LED simulation), Bustia (futuristic), Escacs, Fastig, Hodierna, Natja, Oliosa, trifasic (futuristic), Quelcome.
• Clarissa Tossin: Arvore (experimental).
• Nik Thönen: Regular Cargo (stencil;; the Bold version is free), Blender (sans), Regular (sans).
• André Nossek: Sassy (2006).
• Martin Aleith: Boxen, Haudegen (octagonal style), Halunken (rpounded octagonal), Feixen, Braten Fat, Logasmen.
• Michael Luther: Forza (was: Pilot).
• Alexander Meyer: Lacrima (typewriter face).
• Donald Beekman: Beatbox, Breeze.
• Mika Mischler: Brother (stencil), T-Star Mono Round (monospace).
• Birte Ludwig: Yogasaan (Indic simulation).
• Pact: BR Jaeger (gothic).
• Dimitri Lavrow: Hard Case Striped, Hannover Milennial (sans).
• Erik Worsoe Eriksen: Friends (sans), Kit Fat.
• Critzla: Flomaster (with JayOne), Starlet (fifties script), Franz Jaeger (ultra fat).
• Jutojo: Inbetween (experimental).
• Alexander Tibus: Wirefox (experimental).
• Timo Gässner: 123 Naiv (2006).

Diego Mier y Terán

Diego holds a Masters from the KABK in Den Haag, 2004. His thesis project was entitled Tuhun. A typographic exploration of the Mixtec language. He made the stencil face Nairobi Quality, the text face Tuhun (2006), the text face Viko (2004), and a font for the Mixtec language of Oaxaca, Mexico. Currently living in Mexico and working with his wife, Kythzia Barrera, in their studio called Frutas y Verduras. He teaches at the Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City. Mainly interested in typography, graphic design and organic agriculture. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, where he explained the challenges posed by native languages in Mexico. [Google]

Dieter Steffmann's Homepage
[Dieter Steffmann]

FontShop was the name of Dieter Steffmann's foundry in Kreuztal, Germany (not to be confused with the FontShop foundry and font vendor). He made about 600 self-proclaimed "old-fashioned" fonts, and among these many Fraktur fonts. His site became too expensive to run, and is now hosted by Typoasis. Current list of fonts. See also here. New stuff. A nice essay about Fraktur fonts accompanies the fonts. News. As Dieter puts it: "I am not a designer but I add missing letters to public domain fonts in order to get a complete character set and I hint the fonts and create new weigths (shadow, inline etc.)" His Christbaumkugeln font, and how it was made. The font families: Acorn Initialen, Adine Kirnberg, Albert Text, Alpine, Alte Caps, Alte Schwabacher, Ambrosia, American Text, Aneirin, Angel, Anglican Text, Angular, Ann-Stone, Antique No. 14, Arabella, Argos George, Ariston Script, Art Nouveau Initialen, Attic Antique, Augusta, Baldur, Becker, Beckett-Kanzlei, Belshaw, Benjamin Franklin Antique, Berlin Squiggle Condensed, Bernhard Schmalfett, Billboard, Bizzaro, Black Forest Text, Blackletter ExtraBold, Blackwood Castle, Breitkopf Fraktur, Bretagne Gaelic, Brian James Bold, Bridgnorth, Broadcast Titling, Broadway Poster, Brock Script, Cabaret, Campanile, Camp Fire, Canterbury Old English, Cardiff, Cardinal Anglican, Carmen, Carrick Caps, Caslon Antique, Caslon Fette Gotisch, Cavalier Celtic Frames, Celtic Hand, Challenge, Chelsea, Chopin Script (2000, identical to Polonaise), Christbaumkugeln, Chursächsische Fraktur, Circus Ornate Caps, Cimbrian, Cloister Blackletter, Coaster Black, Coelnische Current Fraktur, Colchester Black, College, Courtrai, Coventry Garden, Cruickshank, Davy's Dingbats, Debussy, Decorated Roman Initials (2003), Deutsch Gotisch, Devinne Swash, Direction, Dobkin Script, Domino, Dover, Driftwood Caps, Due Date, Duerer Gotisch, Durwent, Easter Bunny, Easter Egg, Eckmann-Schrift, Eichenlaub Initialen, Eileen Caps, Elzevier Caps, Enge Holzschrift, English Towne, Epoque, Erbar Initialen, Estelle, Evil of Frankenstein, Express, Faktos, Fabliaux, Fancy Card Textura, Fat Freddie, Faustus, Fenwick Woodtype, Fette Egyptienne, Firecat, Flaemische Kanzleischrift, Flowers Initials, Forelle, Fraktur Shadowed, Frederick Text, Futura Script, Gabrielle, Gebetbuch Fraktur, Gebetbuch Initialen, Germania, Germania-Versalien, Ganz Grobe Gotisch, Globus, Gloucester Initialen, Gorilla Black, Gothenburg Fraktur, Gotische Initialen, Goudy Initialen, Goudy Medieval, Goudy Twenty, Goudy Thirty, Grange, GrenzschInitials, Grusskarten-Gotisch, Gutenberg Textura, Haenel Fraktur Fett, Hansa, Hansa Gotisch, Hansen, Happy Easter, Harrowgate, Hazard Signs, Headline Text, Hercules, Herkules, Hippy Stamp, Hoedown, Holla, Holidayfont, Holtzschue, Honey Script (2006), Horror Dingbats, Houtsneeletter, Iglesia Light, Isadora Original *), Jan Brady, Journal Dingbats, JSL Blackletter Antique, Jugendstil Ornamente, Kabinett Fraktur, Kaiserzeit Gotisch, Kanzlei, Kalenderblatt Grotesk, Kashmir, KingsCross, Kinigstein Caps, Klarissa, Koch Antiqua, Koch Initialen, Kohelet, Koloss, Konanur Kaps, Kramer, Krone Bold, La Negrita, Lautenbach, Legrand, Lemiesz, Linolschrift, Lintsec, Logger, Lohengrin Fraktur, Long Island Antiqua, Louisianne Black, Ludlow Dingbats, Mainzer Fette Fraktur, Marker Felt, Marketing Script, Marlboro, Mayflower Antique, Mediaeval Caps, Menuetto, Messing Lettern, Metropolitain, Middle Saxony Text, Moderne Fraktur, Montague, Mordred, Morgan Twenty-Nine, Morris Roman Black, Morris Initialen, Napoli Initialen, Neptun Gotisch, North Face, Nougat ExtraBold, Nouveau Drop Caps, Nubian, Olde English, Old English Five, Old Town, Old London, Packard Antique, Paganini Text, Pamela, Parsons Heavy, Penelope, Peter Schlemihl Fraktur, Picture Alphabet, Pilsen Plakatschrift, Pinewood, Pinocchio, Plakat-Fraktur, Plum Script, Pointage, Polonaise (1999), Polo Semi, Powell Antique, Printer's Ornaments One, Progressive Text, Puritan, Prince Valiant, Blackletter, Quentin Caps, Reeperbahn (aka Rope), Regatta Relief, Reiner Script, Revue Decor, Reynold Art Deco, Rio Grande, Rockmaker, Roland, Rolling No. 1 ExtraBold, Roman Antique, Romantik Initialen, Rondo, RosemaryRoman, Roslyn Contour, Rossano, Rothenburg Fraktur, Royal Initialen, Roycroft Initialen, Rudelsberg (Munich Jugendstil style, based on Otto Eckmann's Eckmann from 1901), Saddlebag, Saloon ExtraBold, Saltino, Salto, Sans Plate Caps, San Remo (Paris (art) nouveau style), Savings Bond, Schampel Black, Schmalfette Fraktur, Schwabacher, Sentinel, Sesame, Sholom, Showboat Caps, Shrapnel, Siegfried, Simplex, Sixties, Snowtop Caps, Starburst, Steelplate Textura, Stencil Display, Subway, Supermarkt, Tanach, Tannenberg Fette Gotisch, Thannhaeuser Fette, Fraktur, Theuerdank Fraktur, Tintoretto, Titania, Titling Roman Antique, Tobago Poster, Tone And Debs, Tonight, Topic, ToskanischeEgyptienneInitialen (2003), Transport Pictorials, Tribeca, Trocadero Caps, Trucker Style ExtraBlack, Turtles, Typographer Caps, Typographer's, Schmuck-Initialen, Uechi Gotisch, Uncialis, Deutsche, Unicorn, Vadstena Rundgotisch, Varah Caps, Ventura Bold, Verve, Victorian Text, Viking, Vivian, Volute, Walbaum Fraktur, Wallau Rundgotisch, Walthari Text, Washington Text, Waterloo Relief, Wave, Weiß Initialen, Westminster Gotisch, Wharmby, White Bold, Wieynk Fraktur (now also in OpenType), Wieynk Vignetten, Will-Harris Caps, Woodcut, Yellow Submarine Font, Yonkers, Yorktown, Zallman Caps, Zentenar Fraktur, Ziffern und Pfeile, Zither Script, Zodiac Pictorials, VictorianInitials, TypographerWoodcutInitials (2002), TypographerGotisch (2002, Fraktur), Gotisch Schmuck (2002, Fraktur), Typographer Textur (2002, Fraktur), Typographer Fraktur (2002), Behrens-Schrift (2002), Typographer Rotunda (2002), Zierinitialen 1 (2002), Egyptienne Zierversalien (2002), Gille Fils Zierinitialen (2002), Barock Initialen (2002), Tierkreiszeichen (2002, Zodiac, based on drawings by Franz Franke for Bauersche Giesserei), Ehmcke-Schwabacher Initialen (2002), Unger Fraktur Zierbuchstaben, Aristokrat Zierbuchstaben (2002), Schmale Anzeigenschrift + Zierbuchstaben (2002), Kleist Fraktur + Zierbuchstaben (2002), Liturgisch + Zierbuchstaben (2002), Fette Deutsche Schrift (2002, a revival of a Rudolf Koch font from 1908), Gotenburg A+B (2002), Ballade Halbfett (2002, a font originally designed by Paul Renner in 1937), Zierinitialen Two (2002; based on Deutsche Zierschrift by Rudolf Koch), Sebaldus-Gotisch (2002), Peter Schlehmil (2002, based on work by Walter Tiemann, 1918-1921), FetteKanzlei (2002), Fraenkisch (2002), Rediviva, Rediviva Zierbuchstaben (2002), Hermann-Gotisch (2002; after an original by Herbert Thannhaeuser, 1934), Koenig-Type (2002; a Jugendstil Fraktur originally designed by Heinz Koenig, 1907-1910), Humboldt Fraktur (2002-2005; after a font by Hiero Rhode, 1938), FetteSteinschrift (2002), Monument (2002, original by O. Menhart, 1952), Koch Antiqua Zierbuchstaben (2002), Herold (2002), Maximilian (2002, Fraktur font and decorated caps based on Rudolf Koch, 1914), Thannhäuser Zier (2002; original by Herbert Thannhauser, 1937/38), Wallau Deutsch, Wallau Uncial and Wallau Zierbuchstaben (2002; originals by Rudolf Koch 1925-1930), Zentenar Zier (2002; by F.H.E. Schneidler, 1937), Fette Trump (2002, original by Prof. Georg Trump, 1936), Werbedeutsch (2002, original by Herbert Thannhaeuser, 1934), Jahreskreis (seasonal dingbats, 2002), Monats-Vignetten (2002, based on drawings by Franz Franke for Bauersche Giesserei, 1920), Weiss Lapidar (2002, revival of a face by Emil Rudolf Weiss), Romantiques (2002), Lettres ombrées ornées (2002, based on a face by Schriftgiesserei J. Gillé, 1820), Shaded (2002, a take on Sans Serif Shaded by Stephenson, Blake & Co. Ltd., Sheffield), Eisenbahn (2002, based on train vignettes at Bauersche Giesserei), Schluss-Vignetten (2002, also from Bauersche Giesserei), Bier und wein Vignetten (2002, also based on drawings from the Bauersche Giesserei), Thorne Shaded (2002), Kinder Vignetten (2002), ArabesqueInitialen (2002), JugendstilOrnamente (2002), Kanzlei Initialen (2002), Plastisch (2002), Vogeler Initialen (2002), Ehmcke-FrakturInitialen, GingerbreadInitials, GotischeInitialen, NeugotischeInitialen, PaulusFranckInitialen (2002). A set of TeX service files for many of the decorative caps fonts was published by Maurizio Loreti from the University of Padova. The collection is now also available in OpenType. [Google]

Digital Type Slut

Freeware fonts of the grunge type made by Catsu!t (sic) using CorelDraw: Bubble Bath, Sludge Bucket, Sugarfish, Romeo, Psycho Poetry, Grimace, Grotto, Due Date (stencil font), SleepTalk, Aural Sects, White Neon and Acid Bath. [Google]

Dilworth Typographics Inc
[Silas Dilworth]

Type designer (b. New York, 1975) who used to be on the staff at T-26 in Chicago from 2001-2004. He codesigned Iskola (2002, T-26) with Amondó Szegi. In 2005, he set up Dilworth Typographics Inc, where his own creations include Bridge (his version of Bank Gothic), Cooter, Dilworth (a sans family), Everafter, Lump, Midinote (futuristic), Oberon (heavy Bank Gothic-style face with great body), Soren, Trauen, Vandermark and Yesterday. His collaborative typefaces are Diego, Fatty (stencil/headline family, designed together with Chris May), Rickety (outline face, done with Chris May), Alphaben (comic book style), Elidel, Majestos Wide, and Sansarah (commissioned handwriting for Columbia College Chicago, based on the hand of Sarah Faust). At The Type Trust, which he helped set up in 2005 with Neil Summerour, we find Diego, Fatty, Cooter, Cooter Deuce (stylish art deco pair of faces, Regular and Plugged), Cooter Slim (like the other Cooters, this makes me think of Pacman), Facebuster (2008, fat slab serif, typeTrust), Vandermark, Everafter, Reservation Wide (2006), Lump, and Rickety. In 2007, he added Breuer Text, Condensed and Breuer Headline (corporate geometric sans families) to The Type Trust. This was followed in 2008 by the 16 weight sans family Heroic Condensed. Silas has produced custom type for such clients as The Food Network, Converse, Cartoon Network, Caterpillar, Aon Corporation, Time Out Chicago, and Columbia College Chicago. In 2007 he joined VSA Partners in Chicago, producing exclusive type for the design firm's private use. One such project, an expansive sans-serif text family, was chosen to anchor IBM's new identity system. [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]

Dmitry Taranov

Creator at FontStruct in 2009 of Lexip (pixel face) and 8080 (a stencil face for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google]

Dom Nokes

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Waffle, Nice Shot (target alphading face), Plumstruct (a beautiful partition face), Roadblock, and Mthr Fckr (stencil, +Alt). In 2009, we find Trouble and Stripe (vertical stripes), Yoga, Quarterback (athletic lettering face), Fuzz (experimental texture face), Nice Shot (alphadings), Metric, Fourmat, Mongol Metric (squarish), Volume Metric (3d), Volume Metric (+LO, +HI, 3d faces), Archityped (based on Bayer's Architype), Subbed Station, Neo Modul (counterless), Heffer (counterless), Perfd (dot matrix), South Central Swiss, Jaunt, Checkout II, Kurrupttd, Checkout, Container ISO Regular, Perfd Regular (pixelish), Lost Outline Condensed (pixel face), Heffer (counterless), Nice Shot (alphadings), Korruptica (Helvetica grungified), Aurora (+II), Beagle (blackletter), Yoga, Trouble and Stripe, Roadblock. [Google]

Dominik Hruza

Hruza runs Dominik Hruza studio in Vienna, Austria. Designer of the old typewriter font Lettera32 (2002), a simulation of Olivetti Pica. He also made Behrens Neue Capitals (2004), the graffiti font Tag.Do (2003), Courier Sans Stencil (2007) and Miinnora (2003), a font in the style of Amelia. Alternate URL. [Google]

Dutchfonts.com
[Ko Sliggers]

Ko Sliggers, b. 1952, Bloemendaal, The Netherlands, was a young designer at Studio Dumbar. After that, he became a professional cook in Rotterdam, Italy and France, switched back from food to design, producing challenging visuals at Studio Anthon Beeke and, in 2002, set up a one-man studio in Lalleweer, in the province of Groningen, called Dutchfonts. He was trained by Chris Brand at the St. Joost Academy in Breda. Ko created these commercial faces: DF Tapa (2007, irregular hand), Camino (2006, an austere sans), Ko (1997, six stencil styles), Etalage (2000), Arienne (2000), Staple Mono (monowidth typewriter family), Staple Txt (2005), Pommes (based on type cut out of potatoes; 8 styles), Daantje (dog dingbats) and Ko (1997, rough stencil). His own web site. MyFonts page, where you can buy DF-Arienne, DF-Etalage, DF-Ko, DF-Pommes, DF-Staple Mono, DF-Tapa (2007, grunge), DF-Mercat (2007, dingbats inspired by Barcelona's Ramblas), DF-Pigtail (2008, seventies-style script family), DF-Zzzz (2009), DF Camino (2009, a sans that is modeled on traffic sign sans faces). [Google]

Elk's Font Archive

Great 2000+ archive, with 24 categories, including a stencil font archive. [Google]

Ell Carruthers

Graphic designer and illustrator in Sydney. Home page. Ell has designed Elken (2009), a very original and gorgeous roundsed stencil face. [Google]

Elvira Slysh

Designer at ParaGraph of PT Ornament (1992), Numerals (1992, letters in circles), PiGraph A (1992, arrows), PiGraph B (1992, dingbats), PT ITC Studio Script (1994, a Cyrillic extension of Pat Hickson's ITC Studio Script, 1990), Corrida (1989, based on Helmut Matheis' Slogan, 1959), Astron (1991), after a design Gonzales Jeanette by Francisco Gonzales (Photo Lettering Inc). She also made a Cyrillic version of Renner's Futura Black, called Futura Eugenia (1987, Polygraphmash), as well as Parsek (ParaGraph, 1990), based on Brush Script (ATF, 1972, Robert E. Smith). [Google]

Emil Olsson

Designer of Re-C (2009, techno stencil). [Google]

Emiliano Amadei

Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brasil-based inddustrial designer. Creator of the stencil face New Stencil (2006) and the graffiti face StreetBlok (2006). [Google]

Eric Kindel

Eric Kindel is a designer, writer and Lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at The University of Reading. He lives in London. Eric Kindel's project at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (London) includes an on-line survey of typeforms. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about stencil letters ca. 1700. This talk was followed by a talk on the same topic at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon (with Fred Smeijers). His research (jointly with Fred Smeijers, James Mosley and Andrew Gillmore) involves stencil making, ca. 1700 according to an apparatus escribed in a late seventeenth-century text compiled by Gilles Filleau des Billettes for the French Royal Academy of Sciences. He also researches the Parisian stencil maker Gabriel Bery, from whom Benjamin Franklin purchased a large set of letter stencils and decorative borders in 1781. The stencil set survives in the collections of the American Philosophical Society (APS) in Philadelphia, and was first examined in 2001 as part of the project described above. Editor of Typeform dialogues: a comparative survey of typeform history and description, compiled at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (Hyphen Press, 2004), which has articles by himself and Catherine Dixon (who writes on type classification). He describes his research on stencil letters at Reading as follows: The period under consideration begins in the sixteenth century and ends in the present day. The intention is to recover, if possible, a relatively continuous history of stencil letters and stencilling (in the Americas and Europe) by drawing together artefacts and practices that are in many cases now largely forgotten. In addition to forming a broad view of how stencil letters have been designed, made and used over the past five centuries, specific practices will also be examined through an on-going series of articles and papers. The first, `Marked by time', was published in issue 40 of Eye magazine: it offered two contrasting instances of stencil letter-making in Germany and the United States in the mid-twentieth century. Another, `Stencil work in America, 1850-1900', was published in Baseline 38 and unearths innovations in the manufacture and use of stencils in America in the second half of the nineteenth century, and the stories of some of their makers. The article also draws on the writings of Mark Twain for whom stencils served as a literary device on several occasions. And a third, longer, article `Recollecting stencil letters' has been published in Typography papers 5. It discusses the many forms stencil letters take, and how their form is influenced by a number of factors. The article is based on the study of period writings and MSS., patent specifications, collected artefacts and other primary documents and materials. See also Patents progress: the Adjustable Stencil (Journal of the Printing Historical Society, no. 9, 2006). [Google]

Erwin K. Bauer

Austrian type designer. At Volcano Type, he published the art deco era stencil face Reklame Stencil (2010, developed jointly with Zaneta Drgová). MyFonts link. [Google]

Est71

American vector artist. Designer of Charged Insomnia (2008, LED font), Mezzanine (2007, ultra-fat), S.O.T.D. (2006, 1890-style caps face), Dog Star (2006, modeled after the Sirius radio font), Blowback (2007, display face), Alpha (2006, outline pixel face) and Pf Animals (2006, a stencil face modeled after Pink Floyd's "ANIMALS" album). [Google]

Estudio Crop
[Anderson Maschio]

Brazilian graphic design studio which recently branched out intoi type design. Located in Batel, Curitiba, it is founded and run by Anderson Maschio (b. 1980, Curitiba). Maschio designed Anark Stencil (2007). MyFonts link. [Google]

Exclamachine Type Foundry
[Choz Cunningham]

Choz Cunningham is a Las Vegas-based designer and artist. Home page. Designer of Whiskey Songs (2007), Crass Roots and Crass Roots OFL (2007, stencil), Misqot (2006), The Troubles (2006), Limberjack (2006, an ornate wood titling font), this blackletter-inspired serif face (2006), Futurelic (2006, futuristic), Zugzwang (2006), Sketchy Times Bold (2005, grunge), Sketchy Times (2005, grunge), Basket of Hammers (2005, a nice wallpainting/graffiti font). His company, also called Exclamachine Foundry, where these fonts can be downloaded: The Black Bloc (2006, blackletter-inspired), MISQOT (2006), Kutura Frontalis (2006), PaulMaul (2006), Zugzwang (2006), Sketchy Times (2006), Carlos Caffeinated (2006), Basket of Hammers (2006), Disc Inferno (2006, LED simulation), Rosda Laevigata )2007, handprinting), and this heavy metal band font (2006). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google]

Eyebytes
[Eben Sorkin]

Eyebytes is run by Eben Sorkin, the designer of Army Pool Tiles (2005) and No Step (2007, stencil). He is working on the extensive (200+ weights) Bahn family (see also here), which has pixel and monospace themes. Software Developer (2005) is along the same pixel/monospace theme (see also here). Just for fun, he made the dot matrix face Exp1 (2008). FontStruct link. Signature font service. Eyebytes is located in Eagle River, Alaska. His talk at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg was entitled Contextual alternatives. He obtained an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on his typeface Arrotino (2009), about which he writes: Arrotino begins with the forms of early Italian renaissance in the late 15th century. Their melody, generousity, and variety of shape and proportion are echoed in Arrotino. As a consequence of this Arrotino is not especially efficient, but it is comfortable. Now, a personal confession: I am an avid photographer, and like most photographers, I am well aware that the world consists of 95% camera-shy people and 5% confident wide-angled happy camera-friendly puppies. Eben and I are at the epicenter of the second group. It's a silent club, but anyone in it is my friend for life. [Google]

Faberfonts
[Frank Béla]

Frank Béla (b. 1978, Orosháza, Hungary) is a graphic design student at Krea Art School in Budapest who uses the pseudonym Fabergraph. Home page. Blog. In 2010, he started out commercially as Faberfonts. Dafont link. Behance link.

He created the ink trap font Portrait Of A Lady (2009), FR Irisz (2009, didone family), Pontifex (2009), the handprinted Munkácsy 1120 (2009), the unicase Reka Sans (2009), the thick-thin Azur (2009), the simple sans Babyface (2009), the medieval sorcery font Elmulas (2009), the Valentine;s Day font Sapet (2009), the avant garde sans family Hopper Sans (2009) and the ultra-fat face Rendezvous (2009). Callimachos (2009) is a fun triple-lined handprinted headline face (with a Cyrillic version added in). Azur Title Font (2009) is a hairline slabbed typewriter type. Pasta Simpla (2009, followed by FR Pasta Mono in 2010) is another experimental jewel. Hobbista (2009) mixes symbols and glyphs. FR Rama Nous (2009) is a free modular font. In 2009, he also made Enamel Paint Type, Belonging (Roman caps). Commercial fonts made in 2010: FR Unalom, FR Sniccer (stencil). [Google]

Fabian Monod

Swiss typographer at Fontnest who designed Concrete, Puzzle, Museefont (octagonal), and Helveliga (with Jerome Rigaud and Sylvain Aerni). He created the stencil face Montana at Optimo/Gavillet & Rust. [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]

Fabrizio Schiavi Design (or: FSD)
[Fabrizio Schiavi]

Fabrizio Schiavi was born in the Piacenza province in 1971. FSD Fabrizio Schiavi Design in Piacenza was opened in 1998. With Alessio Leonardi, he co-founded Fontology. He also co-launched the experimental graphics magazine Climax in 1994. Dafont link. Bio at FontFont where he made FF Mode 01, FF 0069, FF GeabOil, FF9600, FF Trade 01, FF Steel Mix, FF Steel Ring, FF Steel Jones. [T-26] designer of D44 (1994), Lithium (1994, dingbats), Moore895 (1994), Moore899 (1994), Sidewalker (1994), Exit (1988). Many of his faces are grungy. Some are minimalist, such as Monica Due (1999), Monica (1999), and Eco (2001, developed from a logo in the 70s for Ageco). The latter three fonts are very geometric in nature. Other fonts: Washed, Parakalein, Aurora Nintendo (1995), Aurora CW (1995), Mode01 (1995), GeabOil (1995), 9600/0069 (1995), Fontology (1995), FSDItems (2001), FSDforMantraVibes (2001), Pragmata (2001, monospace, OK for programs), PragmataFlash (2002, a pixel font), Sys (2002), SysFlash (2002, a pixel font), Virna (2003, a multiline face for Italian MTV, discussed here). The Pragmata and Sys series were optimized for screen usage. In addition, Sys has many ink traps, so it prints well at small sizes, and is more legible than Verdana. He does some custom typeface design, such as the innovative sans serif family called CPCompany (2000). Other clients include Ferrari and Philip Morris. In 2007, he produced a stencil and signage font, Siruca (see also here), for the Al Hamra Complex, one of highest skyscrapers in the world, located in Kuwait. Siruca Pictograms (2008) is free. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the need for more fonts. [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]

Famished.org
[John Baichtal]

John Baichtal (Famished.org) is the designer (b. 1971) of the art deco face Cronus (2002), Globe (a pixel font), Addled, Creamed Corn, 121, Boa Hamata, One Twenty One, November 14th, Peanut, Pinnacle (a deformed font), Plateau, Quigley, Skinny, Stogie, the kitchen tile face Abacus (2002), Equanimity Stencil (2002), Ripsaw (a Tuscan display font, 2002), Girder (2002), Equanimity Linked (2002), Faxt (2002, pixel font), Purvey Grecian (2002), Gold (2002, sans serif), Mullet (2002), Eidolon (2002), Sloth, Tourmaline (a great art deco face with many gorgeous ligatures), Transaction, Octuple, Mullet (2002, sans), Hellios (2002, a bitmap stencil font with spikes), Nairoby (2002, experimental), Tray (2002), and Dactylic (2003, octagonal). Some free Mac fonts are supposed to be here. [Google]

Fatnobrain
[Adrien Midzic]

Fatnobrain is Adrien Midzic's design studio in Paris. Born in 1982, he designed these typefaces or type families: Fine (lineal), Blokus (free pixel font, 2009), Cimen (strong sans, designed for Smacl Entraide), Mesquine (lineal), Blitz, Cucha, Stencil Reverse, Huit (2009, a gorgeous didone headline face). Fonts made in 2010: The ETH family (art deco sans). Dafont link. [Google]

Feliciano Type Foundry
[Mário Feliciano]

Mário Feliciano (b. 1969, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal) is the principal of Lisbon-based Feliciano Type Foundry, founded in 2001. For a while, he was associated with Enschedé. He began work as a graphic designer for Surf Portugal magazine in 1993. In 1994 he founded his own design studio in Lisbon, Secretonix. He has been heavily involved in type design since. In 2005, he joined the type coop Village. John Berry reviews Mario's oeuvre. MyFonts page. His gorgeous creations include the following:

• Escrita ([T-26], a great calligraphic font), Gazz, MexSans (1997, [T-26]), AureaUltra (1997, [T-26]), Bronz (1997, [T-26]), Cepo, Tpac family (1996, [T-26], under the name Mariachi Fontexperience), Strumpf (1994, comic book font family at Adobe), Caligrafia Debula (1997, PsyOps).
• He is working on Espinosa, Geronimo Gil, Merlo, and Eudaldo (a face in the style of and apparently predating the successful Pradell by Andreu Balius Planelles).
• MyFonts sells BsLandscope, BsMonofaked (octagonal), BsKombat, BsLooper (stencil), BsArchae, BsRetchnov (constructivist), BsMandrax (octagonal).
• Stella (2001, a humanist sans family with 26 weights). FTF Stella 2 is a 2005 upgrade of this family.
• The 14-weight Rongel serif family (2001, updated in 2005 as FTF Rongel V2) is his best work. Feliciano states: "an interpretation of the types showed in eighteenth century's Spanish catalogue: "Muestras de los Punzones y Matrices de Letra que se funde en el Obrador de la Imprenta Real, Madrid, Ano de 1799", and titled with the name Rongel, whom I suppose, cut them. Another example of these types can be found in "Las Eroticas, y Traduccion de Boecio" by Villegas and printed by António de Sancha in Madrid, 1774."
• In 2003, he won an award for the extensive FTF Morgan family at the TDC2 2003 competition (subfamilies have suffixes Avec, Sans, Sans Condensed, Big, Poster, Poster Avec and Tower). Morgan Sans was originally developed in 2001 with 44 weights. Each version of Morgan has multiple weights as well---for example, Morgan Big (2001) is a 12-weight titling family. Avec denotes Slab Serif.
• FTF Grotzec Headline Condensed (1998, created for Surf Portugal magazine).
• FTF Merlo (2004): an interpretation of the 18th century Spanish types cut by Ismal Merlo.
• FTF Flama (2002, a neutral sans). Flama is used, along with Greta Text and Sunday Times Modern, by the Sunday Times.
• FTF Garda Titling (1998): an exceptional caps only family with both serifed and sans inscriptional letters.
• Sueca (2009): a new typefacce for the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, which writes: Sueca is a family of serif, slab, sans serif, text typeface and typeface for listing. The idea behind Sueca is to be able to talk with the same clear voice but be able to change the tone of voice in different section. During the work with developing Sueca, SvD had help from the design consultants Palmer Watson from Edinburgh, Scotland as the second opinion.

Felipe Dário dos Santos

Graphic designer from Brazil, b. 1989. Designer of FDHelwoodica (2008), a grungified Helvetica (2008), and similarly grungy FD Stenciluxe (2008), FDBateek (2009), FD Stripped for BUP (2009, arched Times New Roman face), FD J Borges (2009, extremely funny dingbats based on the work by Brazilian artist J. Borges), FDIlhoscript (2009, handwriting) and FD Carimboh (2009). Alternate URL. [Google]

Ferrets N Fonts
[Perry Mason]

Perry Mason is the prolific ozzie creator (based in Newcastle) of Nato, a truetype font apparently made for NATO military vehicle lettering (2001). Since that first font, he has made well over 1000 fonts, mostly in 2001, but some as late as 2003. Back-up of his fonts at Just Us Now, now defunct. Alternate URL for Just Us Now (also defunct). Yet another URL. List of his fonts, by date, and alphabetical list. Perry Mason's dingbats. [Google]

Fewell Foundry
[Martin Fewell]

Martin Fewell is the typographer/designer who started the Fewell foundry in London, and who runs MartinFewell.com and Yolo in Manchester. Martin is also a part time Lecturer at The University of Salford and Chelsea School of Art and Design. His techno fonts are available from [T-26]: Assembler (2004, a paperclip face), Mechwar (2002), Techstep (2002), Sushi (2002), Synthesis (2002, a techno font family) and Turbo (2002). And now also from MyFonts.com: Memory (a sensational techno font, 2003), Exhaust (2002), Kanister (2003), Datastream (2003, an octagonal font) and the military octagonal stencil font Airbrake (2003). At Union Fonts, he published Memory, Airbrake (octagonal stencil font), Exhaust, Datastream and Kanister in 2003. At Yolo, one can ogle and buy his typefaces: Airbrake (mecahical face), Airframe, Assembler, Datastream (octagonal), Delicious, Exhaust, Insatiable, Kenister (octagonal), Lovebeing, Mechwar, Memory (experimental, techno), Newart, Nova, Rapture, Sushi, Synthesis (techno), Techstep, Turbo. [Google]

Fictilia
[Anderson Maschio]

Curitiba, Brazil-based foundry of Anderson Maschio (b. 1980, Curitiba). Creator of the ultra-fat decorative face Chumbitos (2007, a winner in the experimental type category at Tipos Latinos 2008), available from MyFonts (this was followed by Chumbit02). He also made the experimental type family consisting of Anark Diet Stencil, Anark Fat Stencil, and Anark Natural Stencil (2007). Creator of Magricela (2009, octagonal). He is working on Austera (2007, a basic sans) and Phyta (2007, an experimental face with stretched out connected letters). Check also his gorgeous art work based on Chumbitos. Alternate URL. Scans of their types: I, II, III, IV. [Google]

Filippo Nugara

Berlin-based graphic designer. He created the stencil face CCSI SOS Racisme in 2009. Behance link. [Google]

Flat-It
[Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

Japanese foundry in Nagoya that offers these free and commercial Latin fonts made by Ryoichi Tsunekawa (Nagoya, Japan), who also runs Bagel & Co and HolidayType and Prop-A-Ganda: Flat20 Streamer (2009, pixelized ribbon font), Word From Radio (2008-2010), African Elephant Trunk (2009), Concrete Stencil (2009, a stencil calligaphic script), Perfect Magic (2009), HT Maison (2009, signage face), HT Farmacia (2009, connected school script), HT Espresso (2008, upright script), HT Cartoleria (2008, connected script), HT Cafe (2009), Sneaker Script (2009), Bistro Mono (2007, an awkward monoline face), Balaghat (2008), Garash Script (2008, a Halloween face), Woodstamp (2008), Banana (2008, brush script), Rebel Train Goes (2008, a piano key font), Rouge (2007, an elegant lipstick-on-the-bathroom-mirror pair of faces), Yasashii (2007, a great art deco Briadway-style family), Lily Wang (2006, calligraphic script), Nothing (2007), Garash (2007, Arab simulation), Moon Star Soul (2007, Western saloon font), Grandes Vacances (+ Une, Deux) (2007), Pansy Bo (2006, calligraphic), Dremie (2007, an art deco headline face with Open and Fill weights), Grandes Vacances (2007, based on 19th century billboard letters), Xesy (2007, a fantastic "ronde" high-contrast upright connected script), Deluta Black (2007), Cigarette (2007, Bauhais/Peignot-style), Cotoris (2007, a 4-style family that takes inspiration from Koch Antiqua and the art nouveau movement), Daisy Lau (2006, calligraphic), Agedage Luxeuil (2006, based on a monasteric script from the 8th century), Amsterdam Modern (2006, art nouveau influences), Flat10 [Holly, Holy, Stencil, Fraktur] (2006, a set of pixel faces), Machiarge (2006, a heavy brush script), Chic Hand (2006, connected script), Double Dagger (2006, geometric stencil family), Fault (2006, an art deco striped lettering face), Killernuts (2006, headline serif face with brush stroke endings), Underconstructionism! (2006, a rectangular look family with associated dingbats), Machia (2006, decorative script), Kiwi (geometric hairline), Bagel (roundish comic book face), Jaguarundi (2006, distressed), Boycott (2006, distressed), Tokyotrail (2006, futuristic techno family), 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, Boycott (grunge), Built-1970, Bunyan, Busted, Camera (2007), Canstop, Chiangmai (Thai simulation face), DBLline, Dijkstra, Dutchstyle, Fling, Graphite, Harcomaso, Hiexplosive, Hitech, Honeycomb, Junkmix, Kanatypo, KemikalHi, Machia (2006, a calligraphic family), 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 (grunge), Pusab (ultra round), Sushitaro, Typewrong, Celtics Modern (2006, a Celtic family of fonts). Alternate URL. At T-26, he published CRZ (2006), Guppy, Ohana (2006, octagonal), Picnica (2006), and Wearetrippin. MyFonts link. Fontsquirrel link for their free fonts such as Bebas, Boycott, Gesso, and Pusab. [Google]

Font Diner (or: Stu's Font Diner)
[Stuart Sandler]

Free fonts by Stuart Sandler from Minneapolis: Rickles (2007, script), AirConditioner (2002, fifties style upright script), BahamaSlim (2004), BlackNight (2002, blackletter), BlackWidow, BubbleMan, ChannelTuning, Corrupter, CreakyFrank, DecayingKuntry, FeaturedItem, FontOnAGrain, FontOnAStick, Fontdinerdotcom, FontdinerdotcomHuggable, FontdinerdotcomLoungy, FontdinerdotcomSparkly, Fontdinerdotcom Jazz Dark, Fontdinerdotcom Jazz Light, Hothead, KeeponTruckinFW, Leftovers (2002), MaverickBE (stencil face), Musicals, PickAx, Rickles (2009; upright script), RocketScript (2002, retro script), Schnookums, SinsofRhonda, Spacearella (2002), StencilGothicBE, ThatsSuper, Turnpike (2009), Witless, XerkerFW. Brown Bag font set (10 fonts for 28USD): Continental Railway, Anastasia, Chatty Cocktails, El Nino, Guest Check, Hamburger Sandwitch, Lionel Classic, Milwaukee, Motor Oil, and the greatest of them all, Coffee Shop, a must! The Doggie Bag font set costs the same: Permanent Waves, Yarn Sale (curlies), Fat Sam (not bad!), Etiquette, Taylors (another great display font), KentuckyFried, Beer Wip, Seuss, Jack Bisio and FinerDiner. More fonts: Shivering, Dripping Blood, Bowlorama, Action Is, Automatic, ChickenKing, CocktailShaker (2002, at Chank), DoggieBagScript, JohnnyLunchpail, Kitchenette, MilwaukeeNeonNeon, MilwaukeeNeonShadow, MotorcarAtlas, Regulator, Stovetop, WARNING, BEBlob, BECROSS, DecayingAlternate, Decaying, EvilBrew, TheBlob, Insane Asylum, Creepy Crawly, Crossover, Fire Baaaad!, Rotten Teeth, Candy Good, EvilOfFrankenstein, HMan, HManPt2, PlasmaRain, Chicken Basket (2004), Chowderhead (2004), Cocktail Script (2004), Country Store (2004, Western style), Dairyland (2004), Emblem Chief (2004), Motel King (2004), Queen Rosie (2004), Sweet Rosie (2004), Sweet Recipe (2004), Square Meal (+Hearty) (2004), Bahama Slim (2004), Space Immortalizer, Matchbook and BE Streetwalker. Many font have a cool retro/fifties look. The InFlight Meal font set (2001) includes Al's Motor Inn, American Highway, Kiddie Cocktails, Lionel Text, Mosquito Fiesta, New York to Las Vegas, Pink Flamingo, Refreshment Stand, Starlight Hotel, Volcano King. The LasVegas font set: ElRanchero (2002), HamburgerMenu, HamburgerMenuMarquee, HolidayRanch, InternationalPalms, LamplighterMarquee, LamplighterScript, LasVegastoRome, LeisureScript, LeisureScriptMarquee, MirageBazaar, MirageZanzibar, MisterTelevision, StarburstLanes, StarburstLanesTwinkle, VegasCaravan. At ITC, he published ITC Kiddie Cocktail (2003), ITC Mosquito Fiesta (2003), ITC Volcano King (2003). In 2006, Font Diner acquired the Filmotype collection and its trademark, Filmotype. Sandler writes: Filmotype initially manufactured a simple manual phototype machine utilizing display typeface designs on 2-inch filmstrips. Additional films were sold to start-up typesetting companies in order to increase their product selection. Font Diner will create new digital versions of the Filmotype collection, recreating it to meet todays graphic design standards. [...] We intend to release the Filmotype library in OpenType format so the original designs can be fully realized with a dynamic feature set including alternate glyph forms and automatic substitutive ligatures. In 2007, Font Diner started publishing digitizations of the collection: Glenlake (condensed Bank Gothic), MacBeth (script). DaFont link for their free fonts. [Google]

Font Drive

800-font archive. Check the stencil font sub-archive. [Google]

Font Emporium
[Matt Dennewitz]

Lots of free (mostly grunge) late 1990s fonts by Matt Dennewitz. List: AFontForTheComputerPeople, AlmostNormal, BlackflyMambo, BongWater, Broken, BusinessSuit, ChunkySoup, ComeToFonty, ComingSoon, Condemnation, Consolidated, CrazyKiller, Delerium, DietAngst, EclipsedMoon, EclipsedMoonOutline, FanatikaOne, FanatikaTwo, GasHufferPhat, GothicAlarmClock, GrungeTastik, IBuriedPaulNormal, IThinkImTurningJapanese, InkblotBaby, Inspector39, Inversed-Script, MechanicalFun, Misplaced, ModernConformist, NoBodysHome, NotSoSlimJim, OptionExplicit, PopWillEatItself, RuggedStencil, SalemErgotism, SaturdayMorningTelevision, ScaryMonsters, ScrawlOfTheChief, ShadowPuppets, Shadowsaroundus, SlimJimpartone, Smeared, Styx-&-Stoned, SuperMattBatz, WickedSystem, WinfaxAteMyBalls, GrandFunk, Stinky Fisty, Shadow Puppets Demo, InTheYear2000, Digitalle. Alternate download site. Mac conversions by Jens A. Czaplo. Alternate URL. Original URL, nowe defunct. [Google]

Font Factory
[Andy Benedek]

Andy Benedek's (b. Manchester, 1945) Cotswolds-based outfit for "custom fonts and lettering of distinction", founded by him in 1988. Andy (András) made corporate faces for Umbro, QZERO, Bowater, Lloyds Bank, Royal Free Hospital, Liptons teas, Gordons gin, Marlboro cigarettes, as well as faces for magazines (Royal Academy of Arts, Elle, Blueprint) and for newspapers (The Scotsman). All this was done under the label of The Font Factory. With Michael Johnson and Mike Pratley, he created a font for BT Cellnet. A braille typeface has been developed to aid the production of signage for the blind. In 2001, he co-founded Fine Fonts with Michael Harvey. CV. Typefaces:

• Aesop (2000, with Michael Harvey): developed from book jacket lettering drawn by Michael Harvey for an edition of Aesops Fables.
• Balthasar (2002, with Michael Harvey): a serifed stencil font.
• Braff (2002, with Michael Harvey, for Monotype Imaging): an outline face.
• Fine Gothic (2002, with Michael Harvey): a blackletter family with a Basque A.
• Marceta (2003, with Michael Harvey): an eighth-century uncial.
• Mentor (2004, with Michael Harvey, for Monotype Imaging): a Times-Roman style family.
• Mentor Sans (2004, with Michael Harvey, for Monotype Imaging): a sans family.
• Songlines (2001, with Michael Harvey): based upon a pen-drawn script drawn by Michael Harvey to illustrate a poem by Johannes Thurman.
• Tisdall Script (2002, with Michael Harvey): based upon the brush-drawn script lettering of Hans Tisdall, who was the designer of many distinctive lettered book jackets for Jonathan Cape in the 1950s.

Font Fridays
[Nabina Ghosh]

Nabina Ghosh's blog in which he displays his fonts. These include Traffic Police (2008, a stencil face based on signage outside a Kolkata police station), BharatLotus (2008, ornamental), English (2008, Indic simulation), Travels (2008), Service (2008), BeanBags (2008, handwriting), Thane (2008, based on taxi stickers in Navi Mumbai), HornPlease2 (2008, signage font), Don'tTouch (2008, handprinted), Stop Signal (2008, display), Horn OK (2008) and CargoLab (2008, stencil). All fonts are on Indian themes. Free downloads after registration. [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 Soup
[Phil Kiel]

This foundry's motto is: Font Soup is an independent type foundry that is primarily targeted at helping students and graduates break into the competitive world of being a type designer. Maze (2009) is a free biline stencil font. Font Soup is run by Phil Kiel, who is finishing the final year of his Graphic Arts Degree at Liverpool School of Art & Design. His typefaces include the Logotype family (2009---techno, with a stencil style thrown in), and the poster fonts Quam, P Warning, P Pong, P Fuzzy and P Maze. Behance link. A second Behance link. In 2009, we find Phil Kiel again at Phil Kiel Fonts. [Google]

Fontalicious
[Ben Balvanz]

Original fonts by Ben Balvanz from Cedar Rapids, Iowa (b. Cedar Rapids, 1975), who now lives in South California. His original Fontalicious domain ceased in 2005 but was repurchased in 2007 with the help of Font Bros. Some fonts can be downloaded here and here. The list: Coney Island (2002), Cheeseburger (2002), Tabletron (2002, LCD font), Senor Pooglins, Plush (2001), Slide, Discotech, Galaxy, Pacfont, Rusty, PinniePoker, Geeves (tall letters--great), Moonpie Cadet, Fidelle, FontTwelve, Mister Easy, Mister Dope, Frosty, Chankenstein, Discotech, VintageVacation, Dazzler, Joinks!, Cyberwhiz, Swinkydad, Sonic Superpowers, Mikey Jax, Klink-o-mite, Caveman, Gloo Gun, Skylab 600, Cyberpop, Cyberjimmy, Smartie Capos, Jenkins, Earwax, Pimpbot 5000, Dreamy, Quinkie, Milkfresh, DateRape (great), SpaceAce, GirlieLeslie, Groovalicious Tweak, Porky's, International Chunkfunk, SuperTrooper, Chachie, Zodiastic, Great Head (dingbats), Chick (sassy!), the Eight Track family, Speedfreek, the Odyssey family, AlphaStep, Alpha Clown, dopenakedfoul, Lounge Bait, SpaceBeach, Jubie, Bean Town, Funkotronic, UndieCrust, and Poppycock, Pornhut, Robokid, Kinkie (Valentine's Day font), BorderMon (dingbat), Technicolor, Moloky, JabbieJunior, Rave Queen, Alpha Niner, Croobie, Wednesday, Populuxe, the nice BoozeBats, Geekbats, Garage Sale, Arcade, Glamocon Retrobats, Fontalicious Thingbats, Good Head, Baby Kruffy, Kruffy, Fine-O-Mite, Disco Inferno, Jokewood, Toggle, Swinger, SurfSafari, OmegaMax, Pogo, Elvis, Trendy University (stencil), Hoedown, Fat, Atomic, Rocket, 12 Good, Moonpie Cadet Good, Dynomite, Superstar DJ (dingbat), Kravitz, Kravitz Thermal, hungrumlaut, Sporto, Sabadoo, Snappy, Chickabiddies (geek dingbats), Mandingo (1999, buncy handprinted style), Heartbreaker, Smilage, 52 Pickup, Return of the Retrobats (wow!), Wunderland, Omega, Great Head, Air, Blackjack, BlackjackRollin, Borneo, CharlesAtlas, Cheri, CheriLiney (2001, Valentine's Day theme), DeejaySupreme, DigitCube, DigitLoFiShift, DigitLoFi, Digit, DimitriSwank, Dimitri, DiscoInferno, DunebugAlternates45MPH, DunebugAlternates, Dunebug, Dunebug45MPH, Freestyle, Garanimals, Gas, GleeClub, Jenkinsv20, Jenkinsv20Thik, JenkinsKeepinitReal (1998), KravitzExtraThermal, Moderna, MoogSchmoog, Moog, PussycatSassy, PussycatSnickers, Queer, Redensek, Sanka, Schmotto, SchmottoPlotto, Squarodynamic01 through 10 (pixel fonts), Stretch, SupervixenHoneyedOut, Digit, Digit Cube, Supervixen, TheKids (1999), TrendyUniversity, UltraSupervixenHoneyedOut, UltraSupervixen, WeLoveCorey, Manchester (great), Weltron (stencil font), Weltron Power, Mullet, Rolloglide, Planet, Gravity, Alba, BilloDream (2001), Stretch, Pasteris (based on the handwriting of Matthew Pasteris), PornStarAcademy (sports shirt lettering), Mullet, SuperStars (stars), Krupke (2002), Fresh Bionik, Stoney Billy (2001, not free), Hustle (2001, not free), Rustler (2001, Western font, not free). At T-26: Marshmallow (2001), Superfly (2002, a Western font), Thursdoo (2002), Pacfont Good (2002), Thug (2002), Dokyo (2002, a free competitor of Futura Extra Black and Folio Extra Bold), Supreme (2002), Fresh (2002, at Chank's place), Juice (2002), Pinball (2002, not free), RunTron1983 (2002), Pixel Pirate (2002), Odysseus (2002). Rascal Miniatures, Wonderkid, Smilage Regular, Milk with Peanut Butter and barnaby Candy machine are 2009 comic book style creations. Other 2009 fonts include Gringo Enchilada, Brute Strength, Blonk and Sparkle, Cheri Liney, Metroflex, Weltron (techno family), Sanka, Rolloglide (multiline), Pussycat, Poppycock, Pasteris, Moog Schmoog, Moog Synthesizer, Magnum, Krupke, Joinks, Jabbie, Hustle, Hungrumlat, Gravity, Fresh, FineOMite, Dunebug 45mph, Coney Island, Blackjack, Atomic, Air Regular, Shatner, Pixel Pirate, Munkeyshine, Thursdoo, Swinkydad, Surf Safari, Supreme, Stoney Billy, Speed Freaks, Bike Riding Chopper (Tuscan), Popcorn Loaded (ultra fat), Malibu Oceanside, Snafurter (Sinaloa?), Der Weiner Stentzel (stencil), Wordworth Byte, Blingo Diamond and Tiger Roams Jungle (art deco chic). Interview. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Yet another URL. And another one. Many fonts sold since 2007 by Font Bros (see here for the announcement). URL from 2005-2007. [Google]

Fontan2.com
[Ivan Hristov]

Interesting geometric and experimental typefaces by Ivan Hristov in Bulgaria:

• Baudoni (2009): extreme thin and thick Bodoni meets art deco.
• Jersey Serif (2008): blackened out fat slab serif.
• Magistrala (2008): rounded black face. Hard Deco (2008): art deco in its purest form.
• Decor (2008): art deco.
• Denta (2007)
• Board (2007)
• Old News (2007)
• Rolka (2008), New Deco (2008), Jersey (2008), three ultra black decorative faces.
• Joanna (2007) (stencil)
• Rolka (2007)
• F2 Limited (2007)
• Loop (2007)
• Shose (2007)
• DVDR (2007) (LED simulation)
• Mrak (2007)
• Fasada (2007) (kitchen tile)
• Eps (2007)
• Syndrome (2007)
• Longplay (2007)
• Sreda (2007)
• Sudoku Master (2007)
• Yoga (2006)
• Bulhaus (2006) (Bauhaus style minimalism)
• Svetoslav Simov and Fontan2 made Sudoku (2010), a geometric display family with several biline and triline styles.

FontArte (was: Magdart Fonts)
[Artur Frankowski]

FontArte (est. 2004; ex: Magdart Fonts) is Artur Frankowski's foundry in Warsaw, launched in cooperation with Magdalena Frankowska. Frankowski is a Polish designer (b. 1965, Zamosciu) of a character in the September 11 charity font done for FontAid II. He currently teaches typography at the Technical University of Warsaw. In 2004 he finished his PhD thesis on legibility of type on cartographic maps. He has published type and visual communication-related articles in design & print magazines. Through FontArte he wants to preserve Polish typographic heritage, specially Polish Avantgarde and introduce new directions in Polish type design culture. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Type on maps and at ATypI 2007 in Brighton on Designing a regional typeface. Co-creator with Henryk Sakwerda in 2006 of Silesiana 2006 (see also here), a great calligraphic font whose development was supported by the Silesian Government. Author of several typefaces:

• From the Magdart era: MF Ala i As, MF Norma 1 i 2, MF Trond, MF Multi Putli, MF Plazma, MF Towarowy, MF FCR, MF Proteza, MF Strzeminski.
• FA Berlewi (2006): a stencil face based on poster lettering from 1924 by Henryk Berlewi.
• FA Cindy (2002): shoe dingbats by Magdalena Frankowska.
• FA Desiconz (2005): dingbats by Magdalena Frankowska.
• FA Dropsy (2000)
• Grotesk Polski FA (1996-2006): inspired by the first Polish typeface design - Antykwa Poltawskiego. Has sans weights, and one stencil style.
• FA Domestic Godess (2005): domestic dingbats by Magdalena Frankowska.
• FA Julian (2003): avant garde ransom face, based on Wladyslaw Strzeminski's lettering.
• FA Karaker: medieval script based on a scan.
• FA Komunikat (2004): almost unreadable, an experiment in minimalism, inspired by Wladyslaw Strzeminski (1932).
• FA Modernista (2004): grungy sans.
• FA Norma (2000): destructionist.
• Ozdoby Gardowskiego (2004): ornaments based designs by Ludwik Gardowski (1923).
• FA Praesens (2004): great avant garde display face.
• FA Prototyp (2007): minimalist unicase.
• FA Relief (2006): pixelish.
• FA Supersam (2003): dot matrix style.
• FA Szczuka (2000): avant garde poster display face based on pixel type.
• FA Zero One (2007): experimental pixel style type family.

Fontbistro
[Oszkár Boskovitz]

Oszkár Boskovitz's Hungarian foundry. Before Fontbistro, he ran Nepfont Digital Foundry. His fonts sold at Fontbistro include Balek, Blabla, Ecsetirás (2001, a brush face based on a face of Zoltán Nagy, 1967), Konwektor (techno), Pannon Antiqua (2001, based on a family by Edit Zigány (1972), Pluto (2006), Shrapnel (organic), Syrup (2005, stencil), Tilos (2002, rough stencil family), Troppauer (2005, unicase), Tubyfex (2005, experimental). [Google]

Fontdeli (or: LF Design, or: 83grafik)
[Leigh Flurry]

UK-based foundry, est. 2005 by freelance designer Leigh Flurry, with some free and some pay fonts, specializing in the techno look. Creators of the techno face FDshogun (2005). Free: FD Acorn, FD Shogun, FD Hunterseeker, FD Spank, FD Tounge, FD Twinpines. Pay fonts: FD Bughug, FD Calibre, FD Childsplay, FD Dieselpower, FD Formula, FD Knukledusta, FD Locust, FD Lungbutter, FD MrMajestic, FD Skylarking, FD Wolfglove, FDflurry (paperclip font). In 2006, he added FDnaturesfinest, FDNaturesshadows, FDKubi, FDJazzclouds, FD Tek9, FD Xavier and FD Insight. Fonts made in 2009: FD Hustla (brush), FD Southbron (graffiti face), FD Parkway (rounded stencil). Alternate URL. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google]

Fonteam International
[Marin Darmonkow]

Marin Darmonkow is the designer at Fonteam International of Refugee (2002), K-Taj (2002), Jaxon (2002), Inahurry (2002), Fontone (2002). He used to be located in St. Johns, New Foundland. Alternate URL. List of fonts at the site: Aga, Bordy, Clichet (stencil), Darmonkow, Dotmap, Fontone, GiaMagdalena, Grozen, Inahurry, Jaxon, Kitaj, Liveon, Moden A, Newold, Orthodox, Orthodox 2 (cyrillic simulation faces), Ossie 02, Pechat, Refugee, Repenton (gothic), Squaremap (pixel face), Sunny Samuel, Tutiin, Valerie ZD, Vetren Sans (elegant high contrast sans family), Vlast. [Google]

FontHead Design
[Ethan Paul Dunham]

FontHead Design (Wilmington, DE) sells cool fonts designed by Ethan Dunham (b. 1972, Glens Falls, NY). A partial list: Mother Goose (2008), Allise, GoodDogCool, Fontheads (dingbats), Randisious, Greyhound, Rochester, Samurai, AsimovSans, Gurnsey20, Scrawl, BadDog, Holstein, SlackScript, Bessie, SloppyJoe (gone?), Blearex, HandSkriptOne, SmithPremier, BlueMoon, HolyCow, SororityHack, Bonkers, HotCoffeeFont, SpillMilk, BraveWorld, Isepik, Sputnik, Brolga, TekStencil, Carnation, Mekanek, Teknobe, Merlin, Toucan Grunge (gone?), Tycho, TypewriterOldstyle, MotherGoose, Croissant, Democratika (now Americratika--I think Emigre forced FontHead to change the name), Noel, LillaFunk (gone?), Margo Gothic (gone?), Toddler (gone?), NoelBlack, WashMe, Diesel, Orion, Gritzpop, Pesto, BattleStation, CircusDog, Dandelion, DraftHand, Flowerpot, Navel, ShoeString, Stiltskin, ZipSonik. Plus JohnDoe, and old typewriter font. Free fonts: Font Heads (dings), Smith Premier, Vladimir, Tycho, Typewriter Oldstyle, ScareCrow, Millennia, SpillMilk, GoodDog, Holstein, Red Five. All formats, Mac and PC. In the comic font series, look for Stan Lee (now Comic Talk), FH Excelsior (now Titlex), Grimmy (now Flim Flam), and Kirby (now Grit). Fonts created in 1999: AppleSeed, Caterpillar, Chinchilla, ChinchillaBlack, ChinchillaDots, CrowBeak, CrowBeakLight, CyberMonkey, DanceParty, DingleHopper, FourScore, FourScoreTitling, Hopscotch, HopscotchPlain, Ladybug, Leaflet-Regular, LeafletBold, LeafletLight, ReadOut, ReadOutSuper, Smoothie, Swizzle, TwoByFour, VeryMerry. Made in 2001: ButterFinger, ButterFingerSerif, CatScratch, Catnip, FighterPilot, FrenchRoast, Handheld, HandheldItalic, HandheldRaised, HandheldRaisedItalic, HandheldRound, HandheldRoundItalic, Kingdom, OldGlory, Quadric, QuadricSlant. MyFonts page. In 2006, several dingbats fonts were added, such as the ClickBits Arrow series and the ClickBits Icon series. In 2008, he created InfoBits Things and InfoBits Symbols, Abigail, Assembler, Click Clack, Drawzing (children's font), El Franco (grunge), Good Dog New (handprinted), Helion (futuristic), Lead Paint (brush), Schema (architectural lettering), Skizzers (handprinted), Tachyon (2008, techno, futuristic). Free font download. This place has Allise, Americratika, AppleSeed, AsimovSans, Asterix-Blink-Italic, Asterix-Blink, Asterix-Italic, Asterix-Light-Italic, Asterix-Light, Asterix, BadDog, BattleStation, Beckett, Bessie, BlackBeard, Blearex, BlueMoon, Bonkers, BraveWorld, Brolga, BrownCow, Carnation, CatScratch, Caterpillar, Chinchilla, ChinchillaBlack, ChinchillaDots, CircusDog, CornDog, Croissant, CrowBeak, CrowBeakLight, CyberMonkey, DanceParty, Dandelion, Dannette-Outline, Dannette, DayDream, Democratika, Diesel, DingleHopper, DoomsDay, DraftHand, Flowerpot, Font-Heads, FourScore, FourScoreTitling, FunkyWestern, Goliath, GoodDog-Bones, GoodDog-Cool, GoodKitty, Greyhound, Grimmy, Gritzpop, GritzpopGrunge, Gurnsey20, HandskriptOne, Holstein-Bold, Holstein, HolyCow, Hopscotch, HopscotchPlain, HotCoffeeFont, HotTamale, Isepik, JohnDoe, JollyJack, Keener, Klondike-Bold, Klondike, Ladybug, Leaflet-Regular, LeafletBold, LeafletLight, LillaFunk, LogJam-Inline, LogJam, MargoGothic, MarvelScript, MatrixDot-Condensed, MatrixDot, Mekanek, Merlin, Millennia, Mondo-Loose, MotherGoose, Navel, Network, Noel, NoelBlack, Oatmeal, Orion, Pesto, Randisious, ReadOut, ReadOutSuper, RedFive, Rochester, Samurai, Scarecrow, Scrawl, ShoeString, ShoeStringRound, SlackScript, SloppyJoe, SmithPremier, Smock, Smoothie, SororityHack, SpaceCowboy, SpillMilk, Sputnikk, StanLee-Bold, StanLee-BoldItalic, StanLee-Regular, Stiltskin, Submarine, Swizzle, TekStencil, Teknobe, Torcho, ToucanGrunge, TwoByFour, Tycho, Typewriter2, TypewriterOldstyle, VeryMerry, Vladimir, WashMe, Watertown-Alternate, Watertown-Black, Watertown-Bold, Watertown, ZipSonik-Italic, ZipSonik, ZipSonikSketch-Italic, ZipSonikSketch. Font Squirrel carries ElliotSix (simple handwriting), GoodDog (children's hand) and Millennia (squarish). [Google]

Fontmunkások
[Gábor Kóthay]

Gábor Kóthay (Fontmunkások) is a Hungarian type designer (b. 1962) who lives in Szeged. His fonts include:

• At T-26: Alphabet2, Alphabet4, Archetype, Axis No 1, Bacchus, and Tyrnavia in 2000, and the Roman inscription inspired family Minerva Modern, Minerva Display (a Roman family) in 2002. Also, Betabet sans, Betabet web, Gnosis (hairline italic), Oceanus (2004, hairline sans), Pelso (2004, hairline), Laureate (2004, hairline art deco), Picaresque (2004, irregular handwriting).
• At FONTana: LaDanse, Y2K, Domino, QwertyRegular and Luxury, all in 1999-2000.
• At P22: Driade (2005, Regular, Linea and Aged: calligraphic futuristic experiments), Zephyr (2001, curly), Schwarzkopf (2003, a Schwabacher face), La Danse (2001), Ambient (2001), the Schwabacher Fraktur font SchwarzKopf (2002), a href="GaborKothay-P22Caffe2009.gif">Caffe (2009: originally designed for the Artz Gallery Cafe in Budapest Hungary. The design is a contemporary handwriting style adapted from examples in lettering exercise books. It has been redrawn and expanded into six styles. The four weights were created by drawing the style using different mediums: Cappuccino in pen, Pastry in felt-tip, Lemonade in brush and Tobacco, the original, in pencil, and Poster and Poster Inline are additional styles).
• At PsyOps: the formal script Anglia (2001), Berill (2001), SchwarzKopf (2002, Fraktur) and Plexo (2001).
• At Job Art Studio (his own studio in Szeged, which he founded): Cats (free dingbats), Disasters (dingbats), Bubble (comic book font), 103 kék.
• At Fountain: Zanzibar (2003, nice script face), Incognito (a typical old map typeface), Dessau (2007-2008, a collection of eleven Bauhaus and Bauhaus stencil styles).

Fontourist
[Hans Gerhard Meier]

Fontourist is the Norwegian foundry of Hans Gerhard Meier. The fonts there include Boycott Israel (2003, dingbats), Deathmix (1999, gothic), Stencil or Die (2007, paint drip stencil), Streetart Tribute (2006, dingbats), Yalla, Metoo Pixzi (2001, pixel font), Journal (1999, handwriting and dings), and HubaHuba (1998, a hubcap dingbat font also known as GF HubaHuba at Garagefonts). Alternate URL. [Google]

Fontron
[Ronald Underwood]

Foundry, est. 2005 by Ronald Underwood in Surbiton, Surrey, UK, specializing in display type. Fonts made in 2005: Acron (2005), Foldron (2005, bubbly extra fat), Halfron (2005, extra fat with a horizontal line spliiting the glyphs), Sideron (2005, LED-inspired). In 2007, these were added: Ronsect (stencil), Ronsten (stencil), Runsect and Runsten. Designed in 2008: Herron (a rounded octagonal monoline face), Roncial Untra (ultra fat rounded mechanical face), Squaron Extra Black (ultra fat beauty), Sabron, Phatron, Triron (a futuristic horizontally-striped headline family). Novelties in 2009: Zebron (art deco stripes). [Google]

fonts.info
[Ralf Hermann]

Ralf Hermann is the designer of Agendia (2002), a free experimental Antiqua-Schrift (see also here), and Logotypia (2003, a face for logotype applications). Moderator of the typografie.info type forum (in German). Author of Index Schrift (2003). In 2004, he set up fonts.info to sell his fonts. Schriftgestaltung.de is a web site he runs with Georg Seifert. [Google]

Fonts.tk (was: Blam Design)

Hans Presto's site about Lettering, Comics, Handwriting, Vintage Steel pen nibs and Calligraphy. Based in Stockholm. It has a subpage about stencil fonts, and includes a small stencil font archive. [Google]

Fontyoufonts.com
[Henrik Kubel]

Nearly all (Mac only) fonts at Fontyoufonts.com are made by Henrik Kubel, who works at A2-GRAPHICS/SW/HK in London. The text fonts include FY-Battersea, FY-Klampenborg, FY-Neon, FY-ParsonsGreen, FY-M.Carpenter, FY-Gt.Eastern, FY-Stencil, FY-Typewriter, FY-Centera, FY-Cubitt Fax, FY-S.Staton. The display fonts include FY-Grot-7, FY-Boing, FY-Army, FY-Woodblock, FY-Rodeo, FY-Ornamenta, FY-Italic One, FY-Signsystem, FY-Black, FY-Stencil. There are grid-based/pixel fonts such as FY-Lego-Logo, FY-Bauhaus (a kitchen tile font), FY-Link, FY-Optic, FY-Graduate, FY-MeSoHungry, FY-Buckminster, FY-3D (2001), FY-Dictate, FY-Angel, FY-DotZero, FY-Square. Finally, there are the dingbat fonts FY-Pictogrammes, FY-Early Learning Dingbats. Kubel is also the designer at ACME of 4590, AF-Battersea (1999, a grotesque family), AF-CENTERA, AF-Copenhagen, AF-Klampenborg (1997-1999, grotesque sans, done with Scott Williams), CPH-ArabicNumbers, CPH-Medium, Grot-25. With Margaret calvert, he updated the British Rail fonts in 2009, adding East European characters, for example. [Google]

Frank Bruder

Computer science student at the University of Hamburg, and supporter of open source code software. Creator of the Open Font Library fonts Tomson Talks (2008, comic lettering), Block Stencil (2008), Far Side (2008, sci-fi) and Futhaark hnias (2008, runes). Aka Skotan. Dark End is a hand-coded SVG font---check the source code to see what can be done with so little! [Google]

Fraugerlach
[Verena Gerlach]

German designer (b. Berlin, 1971) who studied Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee. Shortly after finishing art school in 1998 and two visits to the UK as an exchange student, she founded her own studio for graphic design, type design and typography. She has lectured on type design and typography at Designakademie Berlin since 2003. Verena Gerlach created LT Pide Nashi (an Arab simulation font), EF Aranea (script face) and the FF Karbid family, 1999. She co-designed CstBerlin-West with Ole Schaefer in 2000 at FontFont. In 2005, she started Fraugerlach, where one can check out all her type designs: LT Pide Nashi, EF Aranea, FF Karbid, FF Citystreet Types East, FF Citystreet Types West, PTL Blinkenlights (2001, free at Primetype: this pixel font commemorates a happening in Berlin organized by Verena's hacker friends who made a tall building in Berlin into a computer screen in which pixels could be controlled by cell phones), PTL Touja Sans, PTL Touja Slab (comic book or dishwasher ad type), PTL Trafo, PTL Tephe, PTL Lore (stencil family), PTL Bugis. The PTL fonts were published at Primetype in 2002. Fontfont bio. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, she spoke about type in the streets of Berlin (PDF of Verena's presentation). In 2008, she published the 8-style sans family FF Chambers Sans (one free weight). In 2009, she finally completed Vielzweck at Primetype, described by Christoph Koeberlin as a DIN Schrift with personality. [Google]

Free graphics: stencil fonts

This stencil font archive has Crass (Faizal Reza, 1997), DirtyBakersDozen (Ray Larabie, 1997), Rodchenko and Stencil (URW, 1992). [Google]

Free stencil fonts

Download and follow links to free stencil fonts. [Google]

Fritz L. Amberger

Artist and printer, 1899-1950. He designed Barn-Stencil. [Google]

FrozenSerif

Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to create the bold octagonal faces Mars and Bubbles. He also made Coldletter (blackletter stencil), Influence Engraved, Influence Small Caps (rounded ultra-fat), Artemis, Skylined (dingbat), Cronus, Influence, Pixelated, Modern Serif, Haunt, and Aqua (blocky). [Google]

Full Metal

Mini-archive with Babylon-Industrial, CopperplateGothic-Bold, Knulla, Uptown, CasablancaAntiquePlain, Stencil (URW, 1992). [Google]

Geoffroy Tobé

French designer of these fonts (no downloads): NSBC (stencil), Opening (octagonal), 2/3 (experimental), Didi, Chatsworth Road (comic book face). [Google]

Georg Seifert

Leipzig-based designer who made Pen (2006), a handwriting font. No downloads. He was a student at the Bauhaus University Weimar and runs Schriftgestaltung.de with Ralf Hermann. His typefaces: Graublau Sans (2005), with a Kursiv and Cyrillic added later. Grablau Sans Web is free, but Graublau Sans Pro is not. MyFonts page. Creator of the rounded sans family Olive Green Mono (2006) and of Rosa Stencil (2008, calligraphic). At ATypI 2009 in Mexico Cty, he introduced his (free) font editor Glyphs to the world. He lives in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany. [Google]

George Lygas

George Lygas studied Printing and Graphic Arts at the National Design School (TEI) of Athens. His graduation thesis on Greek Typography was the base for PF Scriptor, a revival of a historic Greek typeface. He collaborated with Panos Vassiliou in the design of PF Stamps (202-2006, a stencil family, also done with Panos Vassiliou). All his faces cover Greek and Cyrillic He currently works for Parachute. [Google]

Gerard Unger

Dutch type designer, born in Arnhem, The Netherlands, in 1942. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Reading, and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. From 1974 on, he designed type, starting his career at Hell in Kiel in 1986. He still teaches at Reading and Rietveld. He has designed stamps, coins, magazines, newspapers, books, logo's, corporate identities, annual reports and many other objects. He designed numerous typefaces:

• Markeur (1972), not available as digital type.
• M.O.L. (1974), not available as digital type. M.O.L. is the type used in the Amsterdam subway.
• Demos (1976), available from Elsner & Flake. Unger said once that this was his first face, and that he made it at Hell in Kiel in 1974 (but I am confused then as to the date of Markeur).
• Demos (new version 2001), available from Visualogik.
• Praxis (1977), available from Elsner & Flake.
• Hollander (1983), available from Elsner & Flake.
• Flora (1984), available from Elsner & Flake. There is also ITC Flora (1980-1984). Nmaed after Unger's daughter, this is an upright sans italic.
• Swift (1985), available from Elsner & Flake. This is his most popular face, used by many Dutch and Scandinavian newspapers. It got Unger the Gravisie-prijs in 1988. In 2009, Linotype published Neue Swift.
• Swift 2.0 (1995).
• Amerigo (1986), available from Bitstream. This was originally designed for 300dpi laserprinters.
• Oranda (1987), available from Bitstream. This is a slab serif originally drawn for the European hardware manufacturer Océ in 1968.
• Cyrano (1989).
• Argo (1991), available from Dutch Type Library.
• Delftse Poort (1991), a stencil face not available as digital type.
• Decoder (1992), available from Font Shop. This was a font from the FUSE 2 collection.
• Gulliver (1993). This face was used by USA Today and the Stuttgarter Zeitung. Can be bought from URW++ from 2009 onwards.
• OCW Swift (1995-1997, for Ministerie van OC en W, Zoetermeer - NL, by Visualogik Technology & Design).
• ANWB fonts (1997), available from Visualogik.
• Capitolium (1998). Unger was commissioned to design Capitolium (a serif face) for the year 2000 in Rome. It was not used though for the millennium celebrations. In 2002, Capitolium was picked as the serif font for the material of ATypI in Rome. It was accompanied in that advertising by Unger's sans serif font Vesta (2001), loosely based on the lettering at the Vesta temple in Tivoli.
• Paradox (1999), available from Dutch Type Library. This is a Didone font done in 1999, for which he won a Bukvaraz award in 2002.
• Coranto (2000).
• Vesta (2001). The sans serif Vesta (designed as a possible candidate sans serif for the Rome 2000 project) won an award at Bukvaraz 2001. It is available now as Big Vesta (2003).
• Linotype Library is the licenser of the German government's new corporate design typefaces Neue Demos (Antiqua, 2004) and Neue Praxis (sans-serif, 2004) by Unger. The typefaces are to be used for all official correspondence, brochures and advertisements.
• Allianz (2005) is a corporate type system with sans and serif faces developed with the firm of Claus Koch of Düsseldorf. The typefaces were designed in collaboration with Veronika Burian, London, and were produced as fonts by Visualogik, 's-Hertogenbosch.

Gerhard Schwekendiek

Designed Greyton Script (1991, Letraset), a double-scripted calligraphic typeface. At Berthold in 1972, he published Gesh Export 233 (stencil), Gesh Introduction and Gesh Ortega Roman 275. [Google]

Gerry Powell

Typographer and industrial designer, b. 1899. A sample of Gerry Powell's work from 1937 for the Lettergieterij Amsterdam, now on the URW CD-ROMs: Arsis (or Onyx (ATF, 1937, now available at Bitstream), Stymie (ATF, 1931, with Sol Hess; now available at Bitstream), Stencil (ATF, 1937; versions at Bitstream, Adobe and Elsner&Flake), Daily News Gothic and the Spartan Series. Onyx is a condensed elongated fat "modern" face. Onyx at Image Club Graphics. Cyrillic version of Stencil by A. Chekulaev at ParaType (1997). About Onyx versus Arsis, there has been some discussion by type lovers. Apparently, both were released in 1937, Onyx by ATF and Arsis by Tetterode. It is believed both foundries had a deal on the exchnage of some typefaces. Lanston Monotype had a metal Onyx that was probably copied from the ATF version, and the Monotype UK metal Onyx was probably a copy of Lanston Monotype. The current digital version of Monotype seems to be made after the Monotype UK metal version. The Bitstream digital version was copied from the ATF Onyx typeface. [Google]

Gilles Gavillet

Ex-student of the University of Art & Design Lausanne (Ecal) and the Cranbrook Academy of Arts. Geneva-based designer at the Lausanne-based foundry Optimo. With Cornel Windlin at lineto in Zürich, he co-designed these fonts in 1999: Pixel Crude, Vectrex, GravurCondensed, Pixel World, Vectrex World (skyline dingbats), Liquid Crystal and Supermax. Did Autologic (1997, created as a shortcut to make logos), DetroitMM (1997), Kornkuh, Lineto (2001, an octagonal font), Kabin, Chip at Optimo. With David Rust, he cofounded Gavillet & Rust in Geneva in 2002, and co-created these fonts in 2003: Cargo (a stencil face), Hermes (a typewriter family), Index and Politics. In 2004, he created the stencil family Montana (Optimo). In 2005, he and Rust added Hermes Sans to the Hermes family. In 2007, this was followed by Executive, a simple sans family. [Google]

GLC --- Gilles Le Corre
[Gilles Le Corre]

French painter born in Nantes in 1950, who lives in Talmont St Hilaire. His fonts include 2010 Cancellaresca Recens (inspired by a chancery type of Francisco Lucas from the late 16th century), 2009 Handymade (comic book style), 2009 Lollipop (chancery style), 2009 GLC Plantin, 2009 Primitive (2009, a rough-edged roman script), 2008 Script 2 (2008), GLC Ornaments One (2008) and 2008 Xmas Fantasy (2008: blackletter). In 2008, he started GLC -- Gilles Le Corre and became commercial. He is best known for his historic revivals:

• 161 Vergilius (2010)
• 799 Insular (2010): inspired by the so-called insular style of Latin script that was used in Celtic monasteries from about 600 until 820.
• 825 Karolus (2009), and 825 Lettrines Karolus (2009).
• 1066 Hastings (2009).
• 1420 Gothic Script (2008).
• 1431 Humane Niccoli (2010), after writings of Florence-based calligrapher Niccolo Niccoli (1364-1437).
• 1456 Gutenberg (2008, based on a scan of an old text).
• 1462 Bamberg (2008).
• 1467 Pannartz Latin (2009): inspired by the edition De Civitate Dei (by Sanctus Augustinus) printed in 1467 in Subiaco by Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz, who was the punchcutter.
• 1470 Jenson-SemiBold (2008).
• 1475 BastardeManual (2008, inspired by the type called Bastarde Flamande, a book entitled Histoire Romaine (by Titus Livius), translated in French by Pierre Bersuire ca. 1475, was the main source for drawing the lower case characters).
• 1479 Caxton (2009): inspired by the two blackletter fonts used by the famous William Caxton in Westminster (UK) in the late 1400s.
• 1484 Bastarda Loudeac (2008).
• 1470 Jenson Latin (2009), inspired by the pure Jenson set of fonts used in Venice to print De preparatio evangelica in 1470.
• 1491 Cancellarasca Normal and Formata (2009): inspired by the very well known humanistic script called Cancellaresca. This variant, Formata, was used by many calligraphers in the late 1400s, especially by Tagliente, whose work was mainly used for this font.
• 1492 Quadrata (2008).
• 1495 Lombardes (2008): a redrawn set of Lombardic types, which were used in Lyon by printers such as Mathias Huss, Martin Havard or Jean Real, from the end of 14OOs to the middle of 1500s.
• 1495 Bastarda Lyon (2008, based on the font used in the "Conte de Griseldis" by Petrarque).
• 1509 Leyden (2008; inspired by the type used in Leyden by Jan Seversz to print Breviores elegantioresque epistolae).
• 1510 Nancy (2008, decorated initial letters was inspired by those used in 1510 in Nancy (France, Lorraine) for printing of Recueil ou croniques des hystoires des royaulmes d'Austrasie ou France orientale[...] by Symphorien Champion; unknown printer).
• 1512 Initials.
• 1514 Paris Verand (based on initial caps that Barthélémy Verand employed for the printing of Triumphus translatez de langage Tuscan en François.
• 1532 Bastarde Lyon (2008, based on work by an anonymous printer in Lyon (France) to print the French popular novel Les Grandes et inestimables Chroniques du grand et enorme geant Gargantua).
• 1534 Fraktur (2009; inspired by the early Fraktur style font used circa 1530 by Jacob Otther, printer in Strasbourg (Alsace-France) for German language printed books).
• 1538 Schwabacher (2008, based on a font used by Georg Rhan in Wittemberg (Germany) to print Des Babsts Hercules [...], a German pamphlet against roman catholicism written by Johannes Kymeus).
• 1543 German Deluxe (2009): a Schwabacher inspired by the sets of fonts used in 1543 by Michael Isengrin, printer in Basel, to print New Kreüterbuch, which is a book with numerous nice pictures, the masterpiece of Leonhart Fuchs, father of the modern botany.
• 1543 HumaneJenson-Bold (2008, after the face used in Vesalius' 1543 book De humani corporis fabrica).
• 1543 HumaneJenson-Normal (2008, same source).
• 1546 Poliphile (2009), nspired by the French edition of Hypnerotomachie de Poliphile ("The Strife of Love in a Dream") attributed to Francesco Colonna, 1467, and printed in 1546 in Paris by Jacques Kerver.
• 1550 Arabesques (2008, caps).
• 1557 Italique (2008, based on Italic type used by Jean de Tournes in Lyon to print La métamorphose d'Ovide figurée).
• 1565 Renaissance (2010), inspired by French renaissance decorated letters.
• 1565 Venetian Normal (2008, initial decorated letters that are entirely original, but were inspired by Italian renaissance engraver Vespasiano Amphiareo's patterns published in Venice ca. 1568).
• 1584 Rinceau (2008, a set of initial letters is an entirely original creation, inspired by French renaissance patterns used by Bordeaux printers circa 1580-1590).
• 1585 Flowery (2009): inspired by French renaissance decorated letters.
• 1589 Humane Bordeaux (2008, inspired by the Garamond fonts used by S. Millanges (imprimeur ordinaire du Roy) in Bordeaux ca. 1580-1590. The alphabets were used to reprint L'instruction des curés by Jean Gerson).
• 1590 Humane Warszawa is a rough-edged garalde face inspired by a font carved circa 1590 for a Polish editor.
• 1592 GLC Garamond (2008, inspired by the pure Garamond set of fonts used by Egenolff and Berner, German printers in Frankfurt, at the end of sixteen century. Considered the best and most complete set at the time. The italic style is Granjon's).
• 1610 Cancellaresca (2008, inspired by the Cancellaresca moderna type of 1610 by Francesco Periccioli who published it in Sienna).
• 1634 René Descartes (2009), based upon his handwriting in a letter to Mersenne.
• 1689 Almanach (2009): inspired by the eroded and tired fonts used by printers from the sixteenth century to the early years of twentieth for cheap or fleeting works, like almanacs, adverts, gazettes or popular novels.
• 16th Arabesques (2008, an exquisite ornamental caps scanfont).
• 1741 Financiere (2009): inspired by the Fournier's font Financière. While it appears handwritten, it was in fact carved in 1741 by Pierre Simon Fournier le jeune and published in his Manuel Typographique in Paris (1764-1766).
• 1742 Frenchcivilite (2008).
• 1751 GLC Copperplate (2009), a 6-style family about which Gilles says: This family was inspired by an engraved plate from Diderot & Dalembert's Encyclopedia (1751), illustrating the chapter devoted to letter engraving techniques. The plate bears two engravers names: "Aubin" (may be one of the four St Aubin brothers?) and "Benard" (whose name is present below all plates of the Encyclopedia printed in Geneva). It seems to be a transitional type, but different from Fournier or Grandjean.
• 1776 Independence (inspired mainly from the font used by John Dunlap in the night of 1776 July 4th in Philadelphia to print the first 200 sheets of the Congress' Declaration of Independence establishing the United States of America).
• 1786 GLC Fournier, based on several books printed in Paris just before the Didot era set in. The Titling characters are based on hymns printed by Nicolas Chapart.
• 1790 Royal Printing (2009): inspired by various variants of Romain du Roy.
• 1815 Waterloo (2008, a hand from Napoleon's government).
• 1820 Modern (2009) was inspired by a didone font used in Rennes by Cousin-Danelle, printers, for a Brittany travel guide.
• 1845 Mistress (2009): calligraphic script.
• 1848 Barricades Italic, a quill pen italic.
• 1859 Solferino (2009).
• 1863 Gettysburg (2008; inspired by a lot of autographs, notes and drafts, written by President Abraham Lincoln, mainly the Gettysburg address).
• 1871 Whitman Script (2008) and 1871 Dreamer Script (2008): inspired by manuscripts by American poet Walt Whitman.
• 1880 Kurrentschrift (2010): German handwriting, based on late medieval cursive. It is also known as "Alte Deutsche schrift" ("Old German script"). This was taught in German schools until 1941.
• 1883 Fraktur (2009): inspired by fonts used by J. H. Geiger, printer in Lahr, Germany.
• 1885 Germinal: based on notes and drafts written by Émile Zola (1840-1902).
• 1890 Registers Script (2008): inspired by the French "ronde".
• 1890 Notice (2009): a fat didone family.
• 1902 Loïe Fuller (art nouveau face).
• 1906 Fantasio (2010): inspired by the hatched one used for the inner title and many headlines by the popular French satirical magazine Fantasio (1906-1948).
• 1906 French News: a weathered Clarendon-like family based on the fonts used by Le Petit Journal, a French newspaper that ran from 1863 until 1937.
• 1906 Fantasio Auriol (2010), inspired by the set of well known Auriol fonts used by the French popular satirical magazine Fantasio (1906-1948).
• 1906 Titrage (2009): a didone headline face from the same newspaper.
• Underwood 1913 (2007, an old typewriter font, whose commercial version is Typewriter 1913), and 1913 Typewriter Carbon (2008).
• 1968 GLC Graffiti (2009).
• 1917 Stencil (2009; with rough outlines).

Global Lithuanian Net
[Jonas Skendelis]

About hundred Lithuanian truetype fonts from the following families: Antique Olive, Compacta, Algiers. Allegro, Arabia, Baltika, Brush Script, Impuls, Sans, ZypfHumanist (sic), Tekton, Trafalgar, Shelley Andante, AmericanText, Ariston, AvantGarde, Eras, Gothic825, Optima, GoudyOldstyle, Shotgun, Century Schoolbook, Letter Gothic, Garamond, Kastler, Memorandum, Mural Script, Palatino, Eurostile, Futura, Bremen, Stencil, Bookman, Blippo, Amazone, Amelia, Charter, Broadway, Brochure, Britannic, Impress, Mister Earl, Park Avenue. All fonts by Jonas Skendelis. JS_ShelleyAllegroScript and JS_Mariage are here. [Google]

Goatmeal

Creator at FontStruct in 2009 of mostly pixel font families such as IMSureItSBeenDoneBefore (in many styles). He also made Material Electrons, as well as The Video Game Arcade Font, CASIOpeia ((+Menus), based on the CASIO fx-7700G Power Graphic Scientific Calculator) and Data Entry (inspired by TechnoDisplayCapsSSK, (C) 1992 Southern Software, Inc. [and 4 glyphs from the MICR font E-13B]). Other fonts: Futuristic Terminal Display (2009, great!), Mag Not Mad Solid (2009, pixel face), Mag Not Max (2009, horizontally striped pixel face), Son of Zaxxon (2009, horizontally striped, +Solid; both based on the 1984 Sega game Future Spy), Goin'Commando (2009, based on a 1985 Capcom game called Commando), Zenny Coins (2009, based on a 1987 Capcom game called Black Tiger), Smoking Gun (2009, based on the game Gun.Smoke (1985, Capcom; used again for 1943: Battle Of Midway, 1987, Capcom)), Bentley Bear (2009, based on 1983 Atari game called Crystal Castles), Temporal Aviator 84 (based on the 1984 Konami game Time Pilot 84), Reindeer Flotilla, Jet Bradley (inspired by the video game logo for "TRON 2.0", 2003 Buena Vista Interactive / Monolith Productions), Alan One (Font from TRON, 1982 Bally Midway Mfg Co), Buzzard Bait (font from Joust, 1982 Williams Electronics Inc., and its sequel, Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest, 1986 Williams Electronics Games, Inc), Genetic Engineering Error (from Robotron: 2084, (C) 1982 Williams Electronics Inc., and its sequel, Blaster, (C) 1983 Williams Electronics Inc), Mutant Bender (from Defender, (C) 1980 Williams Electronics Inc), Stargate Immortals (from Stargate, (C) 1981 Williams Electronics Inc), Separate Ways (from Journey, (C) 1983 Bally Midway Mfg), Deadly Disks (from Discs Of TRON, (C) 1983 Bally Midway Mfg Co), Jerry Belvedere (from Satan's Hollow, (C) 1981 Bally Midway Mfg Co, and from Satan's Hollow, (C) 1981 Bally Midway Mfg Co), Tortuga (from 600, (C) Konami 1981 ; Turtles, (C) 1981 Stern Electroncs/Konami ; and Turpin, (C) 1981 Sega/Konami), OCRA Pixel 15x10, Intelligent Television Dings (Right, Left), Hand Aviator (Palm pilot font family), Intelligent Television (based on typeface used in Intellivision games by Mattel Electronics, and the True Type Font "Intellect"), DMP-200RS (based on the output of the Radio Shack DMP-200 printer), Bubbles (based on Bubbles, (C) 1982 Williams Electronics Inc), Mukor Rules All Galaxies (from Blasteroids, (C) 1987 Atari Games), Futuristic Terminal Display, Winky and the Hallmonsters (from Venture, (C) 1981 Exidy), Bubble City (from Road Blasters, (C) 1987 Atari Games), Mag Not Mad (from Mag Max, (C) 1985 Nichibutsu / Nihonbussan Co., Ltd), The Bacterian Empire (from Thunder Cross, (C) 1988 Konami, and its sequel, Thunder Cross II, (C) 1991 Konami), Solvalou Combat Aircraft (from Xevious, (C) 1982 Namco Ltd / Atari, and its sequel, Super Xevious, (C) 1984 Namco), Red Falcon Organization (from Super Contra, (C) 1988 Konami), Lucas Readies The Lawyers (from Star Fire, (C) 1979 Exidy), Cheese Was The Bait (from Mousetrap, (C) 1981 Exidy), Thnder and Lightning (from Raiden, (C) 1990 Seibu Kaihatsu Inc), Pepper The Zippering Angel (from Pepper II, (C) 1982 Exidy Incorporated), Beware I Live (from Sinistar, (C) 1982 Williams Electronics Inc), Goin Commando (from Commando, (C) 1985 Capcom), The Monkey Biz Gang (from Kangaroo, (C) 1982 Sun Electronics Corp. / Atari), Vic Viper (from Gradius / Nemesis, (C) 1985 Konami), Diskarmor Attack (from Rygar, (C) 1986 Tecmo), Benkin The Jogging Elf (from Mystic Marathon, (C) 1984 Williams Electronics Inc), Qix Are For Kids (from Qix, (C) 1981 Taito America Corporation), Omni Consumer Products (from ROBOCOP, (C) 1987 Data East Corporation), Mister Not Undo (from the Mr. Do series, Lady Bug and Jumping Jack: Lady Bug, (C) 1981 Universal; Mr. Do, (C) 1982 Universal; Mr. Do's Castle, (C) 1983 Universal; Mr. Do's Wild Ride, (C) 1984 Universal; and Jumping Jack, (C) 1984 Universal), Micro Police Pgo Stick Division (from Hopping Mappy, (C) 1983, 1986 Namco), Great Demon World Village (from Ghouls 'N Ghosts, (C) 1988 Capcom), Demon World Village (from Ghosts 'N Goblins, (C) 1985 Capcom), Secret Agent Dabney Coleman (from Cloak & Dagger, (C) 1983 Atari), Getting Away With It (from Electronic's 1991 self-titled album; a variation of Wim Crouwel's "Stedelijk" alphabet, used on his 1966 Vomgevers poster for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam), Galden Tribe Attacks Mu (from Last Duel, (C) 1988 Capcom), Superior Scientists (from Vastar, (C) 1983 Sesame Japan Corp), Keeper of the Zoo (from Zookeeper, (C) 1982 Taito America Corp), Taito 1982 (Font used in the following Taito games: Elevator Action, (C) 1982 Taito Corp; Front Line, (C) 1982 Taito Corp; Jungle Hunt, (C) Taito America Corp / Jungle King, (C)1982 Taito Corp; and Wild Western, (C) 1982 Taito Corporation), Howard Fine & Howard (from The Three Stooges, (C) 1984 Mylstar Electronics), TwinBee And WinBee (from TwinBee, (C) 1985 Konami), Quest For Honor (from Last Mission, (C) 1986 Data East USA, Inc), Street Justice (from Vigilante, (C) 1988 Irem Corp), Colwyn's Glaive (from Krull, (C) 1983 D. Gottlieb And Co.), Command Prompt (a family based on Microsoft system fonts), Temporal Aviator 84 (from Time Pilot '84, (C) 1984 Konami; used again for Contra, (C) 1987 Konami), Helicopter and Jeep (from Silkworm, (C) 1988 Tecmo Ltd), A Different Space Odyssey (from Space Odyssey, (C) 1981 Sega Enterprises Ltd), Cosmic Cruiser (from Kozmik Krooz'r, (C) 1982 Bally Midway Mfg Co), Kaptn Kroozr Goes Wacko (from Wacko, (C) 1982/1983 Bally Midway Mfg Co), Rescuing Astronauts (from S.R.D. Mission, (C) 1986 Taito Corp), Super Joe (from The Speed Rumbler, (C) 1986 Capcom), Alex Murphy (inspired by the RoboCop movie logos), Blazer of Trails (Chevy logo font). Arthur Decorates (2010) is a kitchen tile/stencil face. [Google]

Goddess Nadia (or: Bleedsopretty)
[Nadia Zois]

Goddess Nadia (or Nadia K, or Nadia Z, or Nadia Zois, or Scarlet Tragedy) is the Washington, DC-based designer (b. 1981) of the irregular handwriting fonts Virmeen t'Kirrrl (2006), Crunchy Cheese (2006, blocky), Dead of Night (2006), Bleed So Pretty (2001), hallowedground-HallowedGround (2001), Mutilate (2003), bleed, muNkiEz kAn flY, Enjoythesilence, Eyesinyourradio1 (2005), hallowedground-HallowedGround, LovethievezMedium, AluminumJesus (2006, pixel face), Biscuitsandheroin (2006, pixel face), Notearsnosympathy (2006, pixel face), Deathwish (2006, pixel face), and eyes in your radio 1 (2001). She also designed Condemnation (2006, grunge), The Hydrogen Prophecy (2006, stencil), Endlink (2006), Carbon Lullaby (2006), Blasphemous Rumors (2006, old typewriter face), Comatose Almost (2006), Carbon Lullaby (2006), Condemnation (2006, grunge), Crunchy Cheese (2006), Aluminum Jesus (2007, outline pixel font), and Silence Process (2006). Alternate URL. [Google]

Gogg03

Creator at FontStruct of Optical Contusion (2009), Goggora (2009). The stencil/ kitchen tile face Abstrid (2009) and the dotted line face Leaves In Spring (2009). [Google]

Grafisk Compagni

Danish foundry in Copenhagen. Their fonts include Chablon (ca. 1938), a stencil face, and Blackburn (a Stymie clone). Scan of 12 WS typefaces 91938). [Google]

Graphic Heaven
[Laurie Ann Preston]

Laurie Ann Preston's free dingbats at Graphic Heaven: 8 sets of LADoodles truetype fonts, LA-Decorations1, LA-Basic, LA-Round-About, LA-GeoLines (1999). I believe that Laurie Ann is also Laurie Nighthawk who used to run Designheaven, then Shadowy Mist, and then Font Cellar around 1999-2000. The dingbat fonts made there include lpartdec5, lpartdeco1, lpartdeco2, lpartdeco3, lpartdeco4, lpbirds1, lpbirds2, lpbunnies1, lpflowers, lpflowers2, lpfood, lpholidays, lpholidays1, lpinsects, lpleaves, lpmyth, lpmyth2, lpnature, lporient1, lpornamental1, lprabbits1, lpromantic1, lpscroll1, lpsnowflake, lpsports1, lpsports2, lpstencil1, lpstencil2, lpstencil3, lpstencil4, lpwildlife1, lpwildlife2. Alternate URL. [Google]

Graphx Edge Fonts

Lisa Johns from Orlando, FL, runs Graphx Edge Fonts, a foundry in Altamonte Springs, FL, offering "high quality pictorial fonts". Their 250-odd collection is surely not made from scratch, especially not their body, script and display fonts. One used to be able to find four great free dingbats here: GE Nautica, GE Zoom, GE Zodiac, GE Holiday Sampler. In the Font Services section, they will make custom pictorial, signature (10USD), or logo (20USD) truetype fonts. For 20 USD, get also packages of 20 fonts such as Absolute Fun Fonts, Absolute Dingbats (60 dingbats, 129USD) or Absolute Script Fonts. Now also called ScriptFonts.Com. Alternate site. Deco fonts, a collection of 4 dingbat fonts for 30 USD. Alternate URL. At this archive, you can find the following fonts: GEBanners, GEClipz, GEComedy, GECurviture, GEElegantScript, GEFiestaMarquee, GEFleet, GEFreeForm, GEFrills, GEGlob, GEHandyScript, GEMontage, GENervousTwitch, GERomanesse, GESheerScript. Partial list of dingbats: GEAngels (I to III), GECarouselHorses, GECelticArt, GEChineseArt, GEChristmasJoy, GEComicalChristmas, GECurviture, GEEdibles, GEEgyptianArt, GEElementsofNature (I and II), GEFloralStencils, GEHolidaySampler, GEIttyBittys, GEJapaneseArt, GEMerryChristmas, GENativeAmericanArt, GENautica, GEOutToSea, GEPennsylvaniaDutch (I and II), GESheerScript, GESnowmen, GESpringtime, GEStorybookTales, GEWhimsicalAnimals (I to IV), GEWildKingdom, GEZodiac, GEZoom. Another alias: Megadownloads. At Joz's Smallwares, you may find Fleet, Romanesse, Frills, Free Form and Comedy, Curviture, Elegant Script, Handy Script, Montage and Sheer Script, Fiesta Marquee, Nervous Twitch, Banners, Clipz and Glob. The list of fonts is long:

• Dingbats: A Childs World, Angels I, Angels II, Angels III, Art Deco, Art Noveau, Barnyard, Birds, Bride & Groom, Carousel Horses, Celtic Art, Cherubs, Chinese Art, Clothing, Fun Christmas, Deco Animals, Deco Foods, Deco Music, Deco Traveler, Edibles, Egyptian Art, Elements I, Elements II, Food Basket, Floral Stencils, Grab Bag I, Grab Bag II, Halloween, Holiday Sampler, Itty Bittys, Japanese Art, Motion, Native American, Nautica, Out to Sea, Penn Dutch I, Penn Dutch II, Profiles, Reptibian, Santa Claus, Stylized Foods, Ships Ahoy, Snowmen, Stylized People, Springtime, Storybook Tales, Sweet Tooth, Teddy Bears, Toys, Velveteen, Victorian Art, Wedding, Whimsical I, Whimsical II, Whimsical III, Whimsical IV, Wild Animals I, Wild Animals II, Wild Animals III, Wild Animals IV, Women, Merry Christmas, Christmas Joy, Xmas Silhouettes, Zodiac.
• Body fonts: Booker, Century, Chrome, Civilized, Civilized BI, Drover, Early Gothic, Ergonomic, Expression, Headline, Madhouse, Monograph, Novus Sans, Optical, Palladian, Penguin, Pilfering, Quartz, Rhythms, Romulus, Sultan, Timpani.
• Script fonts: Adina, Afresco, Alluring, Amazonia, Arabesque, Arista, Ballantine, Basalt, Brand, Brush Stroke, Clipper, Coterie, Curviture, Cygnus, Darlah, Elegant, Esmeralda, Flair Brush, Fleurish, Formality, Freelancer, Handsome, Handy Script, Journeyman, Lara Script, Light Stroke, Martine, Memograph, Misty, Mona Lisa, Montage, NanoTech, Park Script, Primus, Quilt, Quintet, Ragged, Sentinel, Sepia, Sheer, Signature, Sonatta, Storybook, Travel, Twil, Twine, Twin Peaks, Vibrant, Vienna, Zebra.
• Decorative fonts: Acorn, Army, Arroyo, Astarte, Bagel, Baliff, Banners, Barter, Dough, Buttress, Cadbury, Cameron, Clipz, Cobble, Comedy, Compo, Cortina, Croatia, Crystal, Decco, Delphin, Dimensions, Dipped, Distort, Enchase, Fiesta, Filigree, Firework, Fleurish, Florist, FlChild, Graffiti, Gravid, Greenway, Hawthorne, Ironwork, Ivy, Khevah, Letter Cut, Lollipop, Marble, Marquee, Meso, Milieu, Money, Nervous, Offshore, Oldwest, Saloon, Scroll, Serpent, Sidestep, Snowtop, Spooks, Spotty, Stone, Sunscreen, Sylvan, Bones, Timber, Time Warp, ToolTime, Tree House, Typography Caps, Vortex, Warped, Watershed Caps, Wedgie, William.

Gregory La Vardera

Gregory La Vardera made fonts for Handcraftedfonts, including HfSecede (1994, inspired by the architectural drawings of Otto Wagner), HfModularStencil (1994, interpreted from LeCorbusier Stencils), HfLaVardera (1994, own handwriting). His fonts are no longer part of Handcrafted fonts, which has now turned into Adcrobatics. Presently, Gregory is an architect and principal of Lami Design. [Google]

GreyWolf WebWorks (was DarkSide Productions)
[Rich Gast]

Now also known as GW3. Original TrueType fonts by Rich Gast from West Lafayette, IN: Abduction, AbductionCyr, AngieBareFoot, AngieGroovin, AngieImpressing, AngiePierced, AngieTanLines, BigTenMania, BlackWolf, BoilermakerSpecial (dingbats by email: 8 Purdue and Big Ten logos), BrocaineDecade (grunge), CannabisSativa (3 cannabis leaves), ChainLetter, DrawnandQuartered (stencil font), EchoDeco, ExpletiveDeleted, Frazzed, GravitySucks, GreyWolf, GroundZero, Hypmotizin, Kingbats43 (dingbat font with 6 Richard Petty related pics), KissTheSky, LeeBeeSchwarz (1998, Fraktur font), LoisAnn (elegant!), LongCoolGrandma, LongCoolMother, LongCoolWoman, LongCoolWoman8338, Makisupa, MystikOrbs, PepRally, PheanisWickey, PlatinumHubCaps (Western font), PlatinumHubCapsPolished, PlatinumHubCapsSolid, PlatinumHubCapsSpoked, PointedlyMad, PointedlyMadSmallCaps, ShadowTag, ShineOn, SpitShine, StixnStonz, SwedieCruel, Verticalization, WhiteWolf, XactoBlade (a futuristic stencil font), ZZZTop, ChristmasLightsIndoor, ChristmasLightsOutdoor, Demonized, Dusharnbi (Sinhala), FuturexVoyager, Primo, PrimoBright, SpitShine, Suncatcher, SuncatcherFill, TouristTrap, EagleGTII (1999), YouRookMarbelous, Molly Rose. Alternate URL. [Google]

Grudnuk Creations
[Graham H. Freeman]

Grudnuk has original fonts by Graham H. Freeman: Grudblitter (2001, pixel font), Hygiene (2001), Melbylon (2001, stencil), ModeNine (2001, based on Andrew Bulhak's Mode Seven, in turn based on the screen font of the BBC Micro), Squeeg (2001), Strobo (2001), Tonky (2002, Western font), Weirdmojo (2001), Puddleduck (2002), Loosh (2002), Nottke (2002, inspired by Silkscreen). Alternate URL. Another URL. [Google]

Gustavs Andrejs Grinbergs

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

Günter Gerhard Lange

Known to his peers as GGL. German type designer, born in Frankfurt-an-der-Oder in 1921, d. 2008. He fought in World War II and lost his leg in a battle in France. Starting in 1941, Lange studied as apprentice of Georg Belwe at the Academy of Graphic and Book Arts in Leipzig. After graduation in 1945, until 1949, he was assistant of Professor Walter Tiemann, while also practicing painting and graphic design independently. In 1949, he continued his studies with Professors Hans Ullmann and Paul Strecker at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in West Berlin. From 1950 onwards, he worked at Berthold AG in Berlin, where he designed his first type, Arena in 1951. In 1955, he became Reader in Typography at the Meisterschule für Graphik, Druck und Werbung in West Berlin. One of his many students was Manfred Klein. He also was Advisor in Visual Communications and Reader at the U5 Academy of Graphic Design and Art Direction Munich, and Instructor at the School of Applied Art in Vienna. H. Berthold AG's artistic director from 1961 to 1990, Lange was responsible for the creation and meticulous production of many of Berthold's typefaces. In 1989 he received the Frederic W. Goudy Award from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Recipient of the year 2000 TDC medal. After ten years of retirement from his position as Berthold AG's artistic director, Lange resumed his design activities in 2000 at Bertholdtypes (now Berthold Direct Inc) in Chicago. Bio at ATypI. MyFonts page.

Lange's own designs include his revivals of many classical typefaces. Here is a list, all Berthold faces:

• Akzidenz Grotesk AG Book (1969-1972; see Atkins on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002), AG Book Stencil Pro, AG Old Face, AG Schoolbook.
• Arena (1951-1959): a condensed stocky roman. Now called Arena New.
• Berthold Baskerville (1961). Berthold Baskerville Book appeared in 1980.
• Berthold Bodoni Old Face (1983; see Giambattista on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002).
• Bodoni Antiqua (1935).
• Boulevard (Berthold, 1955; imitated by Opticast (Brandenburg), Greenstreet (Koepenick), and in Regency and Francis No.982).
• Caslon Buch (1977).
• Champion (1957, a paint brush face revived in 2010 by Ray Larabie as Gloss).
• Concorde (1969; see C791 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002), Concorde Nova.
• Deepdene (1982-1983), a revival of Frederick Goudy's Deepdene of 1927-1934.
• Derby (1952-1953). This script face was digitally revived by Gerhard Helzel.
• El Greco (1964).
• Franklin Antiqua (1976; see F820 Roman on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002).
• Berthold Garamond (1972).
• Imago (1982).
• Berthold Script (1977; see B690 Script on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002).
• Solemnis (1952-1953, refreshed in 2003; a hybrid uncial remade by Harold Lohner in 2000).
• Walbaum Buch (1975) and Walbaum Standard (1976).
• Whittingham (with Dieter Hofrichter, 2000).

Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin writes a day after his death: Dear type friends, yesterday morning, the 2nd of December 2008, Günter Gerhard Lange died, 87 years old. We lost an upright, steadfast fighter for quality in type design. Not only Berthold's artistic director, but a friend and objective adviser to many who needed personal help or an evaluation in type design. GGL was Berthold. For Berthold GGL "enhanced" many type designs of other well known type designers. His valued critizism was a great help, because it came from a positively tuned man. GGL transferred the lead heritage and its classical type faces into photocomposition and into the digital format on a high aesthetic and historically authentic level - as for instance Garamond or Van Dijk. Akzidenz-Grotesk is not thinkable without GGL. Bodoni Old Face one of the best contemporary text faces. With his sans serif Imago you can be different and yet classical. And the Americans should be pleased with the revival of Deepdene, which he also turned into a well working textface with a distinct character. But perhaps most important of all, he relentlessly encouraged the young, teaching and talking up to almost the end. Thus opening fences, eyes and hearts to art, architecture, literature and for the values of studies and love for the correct details without which the whole would not function. He was a rare communicator, because he lived his convictions and values. He became an example, a light of orientation. We lost a passionate type lover and expert---an authentic man. An era has come irreversible to its end. [Google]

Günther Flake

German type designer (b. 1951, Hamburg) who co-founded Elsner&Flake in 1986 with Veronika Elsner. There, he designed many faces, including EF Renova (2006, a boutique sans), EF Beasty, EF Cash Monospaced, EF Double Pac, EF TV Nord (a sans family), Eurostile Mono, Glaser Stencil, EF KiddingKid, EF Petras Script, EF StealPlate, EF Thordis Mono, EF TwinPick, Versa Old Style EF. At Eyewire, you can buy Cash EF Monospaced (1994), BB Doublepac, BB KiddingKid, BB SteelPlate, BB TwinPick. He co-designed at Apply Design in 1999 a nice series of stencil fonts with Sigrid Claessens: WaltonStencil-BlackRough, WaltonStencil-WhiteRough, LaPinaStencil, LasertacStencil, ReedonStencil, RoundedStencil, SerpentineStencil, StencilAntiqua, TeaChestStencil, WesternStencil, AdveraStencil, ArstonStencil, BankStencil-Medium, BankStencil-MediumRough, CaslonFinaStencil-Black, CaslonFinaStencil-BlackRough, ChicoStencil-Rough, ChicoStencil, FerroStencil, GeometricStencil, GlaserStencil, Futura Headline, Futura Index, Futura Text. [Google]

H2D2
[Markus Remscheid]

Graphic and web design company in Frankfurt. Fonts to their credit: LT Mhai Thaipe (1997, Thai simulation script by Markus Remscheid, Linotype), LT Russisch Brot (1997, Linotype, a grunge face by Helmut Ness and Markus Remscheid), H2D2 Flame (OCR-A face, commercial), H2D2 Pochi (commercial headline face), H2D2 Lefthand (2006, children's handwriting, free). Special designs inclkude a stencil font based on the license plates in Tobago, Alevita (based on Helvetica), H2D2TEXT-8PT (pixel face), Bizz Screen 10pt (pixel face), Audioplast (for a music label by that name), Norma (a futuristic face for V2). Offices in Frankfurt and San Francisco. I suspect that the type designer is Markus Remscheid. Dafont link. [Google]

Halfproject
[Jeff Javier]

Jeff Javier (Halfproject) designed a stencil pixel face, Half Project Logo (2002). [Google]

Hans-Jürgen Ellenberger

German designer (b. 1950) of some Linotype fonts. Among his creations: FontForum Ellenberger (2006, URW), Isometrik (2006, URW, stencil family), Perpedix (2005, URW), Perpedes (2005, URW), Flying Objekts (2005, URW, dingbats), Daedalus (2004, URW, a Greek simulation face), Kilimanjaro (2004, URW), Linotype Albafire (2002), Linotype Albatross (2002), Linotype Albawing (2002), Linotype Aspect (1999), Linotype Beluga (2003), Cajoun (2002), Carlin Script (2002), Linotype Colibri (1999), Linotype Escript (2003), Linotype Inagur (1999), Mateo (1994), Linotype Pegathlon (1999), Linotype Rana (1997), Linotype Traco (1999), Linotype Biosymbols (2003), Linotype Chemsymbols (2003), Linotype Chemtools (2003), Linotype Offix (1997), Elementis (2003, which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition), and ElleFont. Mostly handwriting or rough fonts. Linotype Albawing (2002) is a minimalist font. Linotype Traco is a footstep dingbat font. Winner at the TDC2 2003 competition for the medieval script font Carlin Script. Elementis won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. MyFonts page. [Google]

Happyloverstown
[Jonathan Calugi]

Very talented Pistoia, Italy-based designer (b. 1982) of HAPPYLOVERSTOWN.EU-LoversSquare (2007; and Lover Square Stencil, 2009), a free art deco font, Ovatta (2009, fat and squarish), Umma Gomma (2007), Round and Round Love (2008) and Disco Fat (2007), all rounded geometric ultra fat faces. Alternate URL. Supoa Dupa Lovers (2008) showcases fantastic type examples. His Right Way Yogurt and Cornflakes (2008) is a frilly didone face sent down from heaven. Somalove (2008) has African influences. Braggadocio Fat Love (2008) is a circle-themed stencil face, and Pups In Town (2008) is a sans all-caps face. Noodle Park (2009, free here is a high contrast art deco titling face. Badabum (2009) is just sheer pleasurable geometric experimentation. Hand Love (2009) is a fat counterless font. Love Sick (2009) is an anorexic hairtline sans. Behance link. Abake Workshop poster. [Google]

Haralampos Andreanidis

Greek graphic designer and art diector in Athens. He created the expiremental 3d font Totem (2009) and the square stencil face Nomass Team Font (2009). Nomass site. [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: Frank the Architect Bold (2009), National Archive (2009, calligraphic), Rough Draft (2009, sketched font), Greg's Hand (2009), 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), Crazy Harold (2009), Road Jester (2009), 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: Bruce Mikita (+Solid) (after a metal font by the same name; Dan Solo calls it Lantern), Pad Thai (2006), Mystic Prophet (2002, inspired by Ouija boards), Chines Gothic, Font Shui (inspired by a style of hand-lettering illustrated in Alphabets: Ancient & Modern, compiled by J. B. Russell (Padell, 1946), Rubaiyat Shadow and Inline, Seoul (Korean font simulation), Shazi, Twelve to the moon, Chow Fun (2001, based on a sample of hand lettering identified as "Crooks' Stencil Designed Alphabet" in Alphabets: Ancient & Modern, compiled by J. B. Russell and published in 1945 by Padell Book Co), 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: Sonnet Italic & Swash (2009), Galathea (2000, based on a classic analog font of the same name, "Originalerzeugnis von J. S. Schelter & Giesecke, Leipzig").
• Fonts made in 2009: Wexley (revival of a VGC font called Wexford), Sonnet (based on the printed text of Shakespeare, 1609), Fashion Brush, Fashion Script, Imitation One, Two, and Three, Generation B (all at Font Bros), Gainsborough (2009, an art deco face inspired by the hand-lettered titles of an Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes (1938)), 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 ( inspired by a Speedball lettering book from the 30s by Ross F. George), 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.

Hassan Haider

Hassan Haider from Bielefeld, Germany, created the geometric face Skate or Die (2009) and the grungy stencil face Soundpieces (2009). Nice accompanying poster too. At Dafont, we read that he lives in Paris, and is also known as Spoon Art. The Skate or Die font there consists of grungy capitals and skateboard scanbats. Are these two different people? [Google]

Hayman

Croydon, UK-based designer (b. 1982) of the beautiful stencil font Quarters (2007). Download here. All glyphs are made up from quarter circles and straight edges. [Google]

HEL Fonts

Designer(s) at T26 of Commando-Barbwire (stencil font), the Denim family, and the Stealth family (2000). MyFonts listing. [Google]

Helena Nowak-Mroczek

Polish type designer who created the serifed Hel family, wich comes with a stencil style, Helikon (+Outline). [Google]

Heric Longe Abramo

Italian designer (b. Bologna, 1976) of some deconstructivist fonts such as ,a href="HericLongeAbramo--KillYourNeighbor-2002.gif">Kill Your Neighborhood (2000, knife dingbats and scanbats of faces), and the broken stencil font Metal Meltdown (2001). In 2000, he co-founded the magazine Pressure, dedicated to graffiti art. [Google]

Hiekka Graphics
[Ossi Gustafsson]

Hiekka Graphics is a Finnish design studio located in Västerskog, and run by Ossi Gustafsson. Their typefaces: HG Rollo (2008, free), HG Amokey, HG Fatbrass (nice ultra-fat type), Fatbrass II, HG Cappella (art deco with filled-in counters), HG Oliver, HG Akimoto (2008, fat slab display face), HG Sepu (2009, rounded techno), HG Pale (2009, half-stencil, half-paperclip face), and HG Kalevi (2009, an open display face with an additional stencil style). Fonts made in 2010: Sketchetica (sketched Helvetica). Behance link. [Google]

hisham4444

Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to create I Love U Joined (letters in hearts), New Minimal, I Love U Black, I Love U BnW, I Love U 2 Seperated, I Love U 2, Marbles Light, I Love U, BATMANia (the Batman font), Traffic Light (billboard light font), Marbles Dark (dot matrix), the fat octagonal face Strong Simple and the stencil face Break It. [Google]

HiType (was: DMTR.ORG)
[Dimitre Lima]

Dimitre Lima is a Sao Paulo-based Brazilian designer (b. 1979) who created a few faces in his Fluid Typeface Project in 2005. In 2005, Dimitre Lima set up DMTR.ORG and started selling his fonts at MyFonts. These include O AFerrugem (unicase, techno), Opus (2005, a computer-look modular sans), Gatu (2005, futuristic semicircle face), Clave de Fá (2006, experimental), O Geena (2007, straight-lined outlines), Arame (2006, an octagonal family including a stencil version), Velocipede (2009) and O Decomputer (techno sans). In 2010, he started HiType [initial catalog]. [Google]

Honey and Death
[Mitsutoshi Nobusawa]

Honey and Death offers free Mac fonts designed by Mitsutoshi Nobusawa: Spacy has letters made out of bubbles, Layerface is a comic book font, Blindfaith (2001) is a striped font family, Constellation and Dotline are dots and lines fonts, Sparkling is a graph theorist's font, Saigi and Tansen are kana versions of this, and Ryousan is a script kana font. Also, Lovedrops (2004), Tapefont (2004), Strongcil (2004, stencil), Connectline (fifties face), Zigzag, Blackoron, Galaxyface, Judaslike, Fatfont, Griffinize, Paddleface, Cooper Black in kana (2004), Makestencil (2004), Honeycomb (2004), Keymaps (2004, a dot font), Fatfont (2004), BlackoronAlp, BlackoronKat, CooberBlackKat, CooberBlackOblKat, DotlineKat, GalaxyfaceHirAno, GalaxyfaceHirReg, GalaxyfaceKatAno, GalaxyfaceKatReg, HoneycombOut, HoneycombReg, HoneycombSol, Ironbeadsfont, KnitfontA, KnitfontB, Lightningvolt, Lovedrops, MakestencilAlp, MechamaruAlp (2006), MechamaruKat, TapefontAlp, TapefontAlt, TapefontKat, Westerner (2006). Direct download of the type 1 fonts and the truetype fonts. [Google]

House Industries
[Andy Cruz]

Foundry located in Yorkly, DE. House Industries is run by Rich Roat and Andy Cruz with designer Ken Barber as Typography Director. Originally founded in 1993 by principals Andy Cruz and Rich Roat, House Industries has grown into a studio which sells unique display typography, illustration and design services, and, most recently, clothing and accessories. Fonts sell for 50 USD per face, and about 175 USD for ten. Many of the faces are grungy or special effect fonts, and all font names have the word "house" in them, as in the graffiti font Phathouse. Custom font service available. Alternate URL. Free fonts: United Stencil, House Slant, SpaceAgeRound. Type designers: Andy Cruz (Warehouse, Roughouse), Allen Mercer, Ken Barber, Jeremy Dean, Kristen Faulkner, Nicole Michels, David Coulson, Tal Leming, Ben Kiel. Global font was rename to Bullet. The Chalet Paris, New York, London and Tokyo font families (in versions called 60s, 70s and 80s) are very popular. A 2001 release: the Simian font collection (OrangUtan, Chimpanzee, Gorilla, Sacred Scroll). Their main 2002 release: Neutra, a 30-weight stylish architectural sans family named after architect Richard Neutra. In 2003, they released the Shag Collection, which includes Shagbats, Exotica, Mystery and Lounge. Andy Cruz designed Roughouse (1993) and Printhouse (1994), and co-designed Spookhouse and HauntedHouse in 1996 with David Coulson. House published House (2004, Gestalten Verlag), a 240-page specimen book. Also in 2004, they released five faces based on the lettering of Ed Benguiat: Ed Interlock (1400 ligatures), Ed Roman (animated bounce), Ed Script, Ed Gothic andi Bengbats. In 2005, they started digitizing the PhotoLettering collection, which they had acquired in 2003. This will be done in partnership with Christian Schwartz and Erik van Blokland. In 2005, they published Holiday Gothic, Holiday Sans and Holiday Script. In 2006, the 105-font family United was published. The six-weight Luxury family, also done in 2006, contains three serif text weights called Luxury Text, as well as three display faces, called Platinum (art deco), Gold, and Diamond (all caps with triangular serifs). They were designed by Christian Schwartz and Dino Sanchez. In 2007, we welcome Burbank, a large casual and quirky sans family, and Blaktur, a blackletter face which an award for display face at TDC2 2008. The lively signpainting faces Studio Lettering Sable, Studio Lettering Slant and Studio Lettering Swing also won awards in that competition. Show and Tell is their blog. In 2009, the low-to-zero contrast Alexander Girard family was published. It consists of Girard Sky, Girard Script, Girard Display, Girard Sansusie and Girard Slab in many weights and styles. [Google]

House of Burvo
[Matthew Burvill]

UK-based foundry of Matthew Burvill. Fonts: the art deco stencil faces Burvo (2007), Baby's Definate Hit (2007, art deco heavy stencil) and Indivisual (2007), Killer (2007, octagonal), Bürvo Konstrukteur (2007, octagonal), Angel of Death (2007, techno), Neg Space (2007, pixelish), Beauty Full (2007, rounded), PUMP (2007, ultra black art deco), Architect (2007), Optical (2007, geometric, experimental). [Google]

H.Th. Wijdeveld

Dutch architect and art deco paper artist (1885-1987). His lettering inspired Wendingen AF (1998, ACME Fonts: LED simulation; named after Wijdeveld's art deco magazine which he founded and headed from 1918-1931) and Architectuur NF (2006, Nick Curtis). Check Wijdeveld H Th - Art Deco Design on Paper by Hans Oldewarris (010 Publishers, 2003). That book shows stencil-like art deco faces such as Wendingen and Amsterdam Deventer. He designed many letter types for special projects, such as book covers, buildings, and letterheads. [Google]

Hubert Jocham

German type designer (b. 1965, Memmingen) who studied graphic design in Augsburg (Germany) and Preston (England). His degree project dealt with the history of the italic type of the renaissance and the relationship between roman and italic. In 1998 he moved to London to work for Henrion, Ludlow and Schmidt in corporate branding. Today Hubert Jocham is a freelance designer located once again in Memmingen, Germany. He develops brandmarks and logotypes for leading brand agencies like Interbrand, Landor, Enterprise and Futurbrand. He designes text and headlinesystems for international magazines like GQ London, Vogue Moscow, L'Officiel Paris, Details New York and German publishers like Milchstraße and Gruner & Jahr. He is responsible for the corporate Type of Bally in Switzerland, the Kunsthaus Graz and Agfa Photo. His typefaces include Fernseher, Fire, Weekend, Spring (2008), Dolce, Element, Magazine, Other Sans, other Oldstyle, Libris, Adonis, September, Oktober, June, New June and New June Serif (1999, after the large x-heighted June, used in W-magazine and Harvey Nichols magazine), Softedge, Venturio (50s diner face), Teleneue, LTA Identity, Bally Libris. Does corporate typefaces, and works for Frank Magazine in London. Mostly sans serif faces. At Elsner&Flake, he made EF Havanna (1996), EH Herbert (1996), EF Panther, EF Sahara, EF Keule and EF Tabard. Working on this serif face (2005). In 2005, he published the Hubert Jocham Type Voice Edge family (sans), the Hubert Jocham Type Voice Sholder family (sans) and the Hubert Jocham Type Voice Sans family, each in 18 weights, at URW. Free font: Xmas Rudolph (2006, a display serif face). In 2007, Voice was removed from URW and is solely available at Hubert Jocham Type & Design. The family was extended and now includes many styles, subdivided in Voice (sans), VoiceEdge, VoiceShoulder, VoiceSerif, and TeleVoice. He created the ecccentric serif families Alida Text and Display (2007) and the *very* interesting asymmetrically rounded Volt (2007), a sans family he claims improves on similar faces such as Bernhard Gothic, Barmeno, Dax, Prokyon, Voice Shoulder, and Phoenica. Mommie (2006) was originally designed as a display typeface for L'Officiel magazine in Paris in 2003. It won a display face award at TDC2 2008, and was followed in 2008 by MommieBrush. Boris Bencic, the art-director asked Jocham to design a script with high contrast in the stroke, in the tradition of Spencerian Hand. Verve Sans and Serif (2006-2007) are a pair of fun birds, especially the frivolous serif originally planned for a women's psychology magazine called Emotion. A few days after their publication, they were renamed VerseSans and VerseSerif, probably because the name Verve clashed with Adobe's VerveMM font made in 1998 by Brian Sooy (by the way, there is also a Verve type family by Dieter Steffmann, dated 2000). Around the same time, the sans family LegauSans (2007) saw the light. In 2005, he made the brush script headline faces Schoko and Drop, and the comic book family Tasty. In 2008, he added the brush signage families Schwung and Milk, the signage brush script face Flavour (also dated 2004), the serif family Leaf, the display serif face Mighty, New Libris Sans [a multi-weight extension of Libris, the cororate face of Bally, Switzerland, designed by Jocham in 1999], New Libris Serif, the TV-screen-curved Fernseher family, the industrial sans family Konsens (with related Konsens Stencil), the Contra Sans and Contra Serif families, Flow (sans), Bent (sans family), the wide basic sans family Monday, and the pointed serif face Rudolph. Perfetto (2008) is a new classic serif family based on a typeface penned by Giovanni Francesco Cresci with an x-height of 8 mm, and published in his book Il perfetto Scrittore in 1570 (also seen in Tschichold's Meisterbuch der Schrift). New in 2009: Glenda (script), Keks (broken angular type), Susa (connected script), Narziss (a high contrast ornamental headline face, winner at TDC2 2010), Safran (solid 18-style sans family), Granat (a 14-style rounded sans family related to Jocham's own Teleplu and Teleneue), Vivid, Neopop (a circular type experiment). MyFonts link. FontShop link. [Google]

HVD Fonts
[Hannes von Döhren]

Hannes von\0Döhren (b. 1979, Berlin) is the Berlin-based designer (b. 1979) of free handwriting and grunge fonts such as HVD Comic Serif Pro (2009, an alternative to Comic Sans, according to HVD), The Subway Types (2009, a graffiti family: Shik (New York), Deon (Paris) and Etan (Berlin) came together to show the typical tag styles of their respective metropolitan areas. The fonts were digitized, spaced, kerned and programmed by Hannes von Döhren), Shelton (2008, T-26), HVD Peace (2008, an army stencil font), HVD Comic Serif (2007, a serifed spoof on Comic Sans), HVD Rowdy (2007), HVDSpencils-Block (2007, stencil), HVDSpencils (2007, stencil), HVD Steinzeit (2005), HVD Edding 780, HVD Rawcut (2005), HVD Age 11 (2006), HVD Shelton (2008, T-26: wood type grunge), HVD Bodedo (2009, potato-Bodoni lettering), Quench Pro (2008, Linotype), HVD Peace (2008), and HVD Poster (2006, grunge). In 2009, he created Grandma (great handprinted style---move over, Comic Sans), Christmas Dingbats, ITC Chino (a soft-edged signage and sans family, done with Livius Dietzel), Klint (2009, sans family), Brevia (a soft sans in seven styles), Cowboyslang (2009, a Western slab serif family), Embryo (superblack), Embryo Open (2009), and Opal, a classy old style text family with tall ascenders. Bumper (2009) is an ultra-black sans family. Blow Up (2010) is a fat balloon font. Alternate URL. URL at T-26. Another URL. Behance link. Alternate URL. MyFonts link. . [Google]

Hydro 74
[Joshua M. Smith]

Joshua Smith (Centerville, OH) runs Hydro74. His faces take their themes often from metal rock bands, the goth scene, blackletter, and grunge. They can be bought here. See also here. More direct access. Dafont link for some free fonts. Behance link.

His typefaces: Gestapo Dirty, Gestapo Tech, Terra Firma, Rehab, MissionUK, Messiahcom, Kogji, New York Corp, Texan, Grace For The Fallen. Free fonts include Beast, Broken74, Gatecrashertexan, Heresy, MeaniesThick, MegalomaniaItalic, MegalomaniaNormal, MilitarizeConform, MoogwaiItalic, MoogwaiNormal, MoogwaiThinOblique, OmnipotenceBlack, PietyBlack, Platipus, Proclivitydark, Proven, Resurrection, Revolution, Sacrafical, SailorJerry, Submit, SubmitItalic, SubmitThinItalic, TripleXXX, Conform, Meanies, Megalomania, Moogwai, Platipus, Resurection, Revolution, Proven, Gate Crasher, Agnostic, Working Class hero (Western), Blasphemy, Disestarlishmentarianism, Napalm Vertigo, Black Mass (2005). In 2009, he fired up his creative mind, and started working on a new batch of display faces: Muerte Black, West Coast Soul, Iron Fist, Nue Black, Uber Black (+Caps, blackletter), Le Venom (a phenomenal high-contrast art deco face), Avante (art deco, counterless), Nue Goth (blackletter), The Thickness (ultra fat), Script, Razor Black, Martyr Black, Sentry Black, Imperial Black, Thai Black, Dayton Black (racecar lettering), Slash Black (blood and guts font), Burial Black (blackletter), Cadaver Ink (gothic), Czar (hairline sans), Tramp Stamp, Wolfstien Electro (in the spirit of Sinaloa), Viper Black (scary), Catalyst Solid (ulta fat), Calypso (sans), Suture Slab (gothic), Venice Black (gothic), Black Mamba (metal rock band lettering, Cyrillic influences), Tyranny Gothic (blackletter), Blackmail Sect (more blackletter), Sailor Jerry (bilined), Napalm Vertigo (army stencil), Heresy Gothic (blackletter grunge), Working Class Hero (Western grunge), Golden Age, La Santisma Muerte (scary). [Google]

HypeForType
[Alex Haigh]

British foundry started in 2009 in Sheffield. Their fonts include Miyagi (2008, a paperclip face) and Taku (2008, Taku stencil), BAQ Outline, BAQ Rounded (like VAG Rounded), Hiruko (geometric sans family, free at Dafont), Sukato (very fat), Aiko, Kata (2009, grandissimo grunge). It seems that this foundry grew out of Alex Haigh's Thinkdust. They have some exclusive typefaces by Si Scott (the curly face Hunter, 2009), Alex Trochut (Neo Deco, 2009), HelloHikimori (Lace, 2009), Luke Lucas (Lukano, 2009), and Jon Burgerman (the handdrawn fun type Burgerman, 2009. [Google]

Ian Lynam

Graphic designer (b. Plattsburgh, NY, 1972) and type designer who studied graphic design at Portland State University and the California Institute of the Arts. He currently runs a multidisciplinary creative studio specializing in unique solutions for international clients. The studio has been based in Tokyo since 2005. Lynam writes for a number of design, typography, and cultural publications including Font Magazine, This American Life, PingMag, and Neojaponisme. In 2008, he released his book Parallel Strokes, an investigation into the intersection of type design and graffiti. He created these commissioned fonts: Diesel Sans, Tri (dot matrix as in billboard lights). He also made Rubber Vloeren (Dutch modernist face based on wooden type as used by Piet Zwart--very nice!!!), Hanger, Garland Sans (based on stencil letters used by British designer, educator and theorist Ken Garland), Inversion (uncial), Cruller (a fantastic handlettered face based on a German lettering book from 1910), Bon Appetit (a custom cut Antique Olive for Bon Appetit magazine), Cooper Pink, Cooper Swash Italic Traditional & Cooper Swash Italic Custom, Cooper Italic (2010, after Cooper's original from 1924), Cooper Initials (2010), Cooper Old Style (2010), Cooper Capitals (2010), Cooper Text (2010), Cooper Fullface (2010), Clobber (2010, is a stencil face designed for readability at very small sizes), Hanger, Rubber Vloeren (a geometric display face adapted from an alphabet used by Piet Zwart in the Netherlands for a series of advertisements for rubber flooring), Ensenada (a typeface designed based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico) and BeautifulDecay. Before Ian Lynam Creative Direction and Design, Ian was involved in Wordshape, and I guess he still is. The main people are Ian Lynam, Simon Gane and Selena Hoy, and Ian is located in Japan. MyFonts link. [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, Anakefka (2009, ultra-fat family), 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), Fight Kid (2009), First Order (2001), Flight Corps (2008, techno/pixelish), FlyingLetaherneck (2002), Force Majeure, FunnyPages, Futurex Grunge (2005), Galant, Galaxy Far Far Away (2009, futuristic dingbat font), Galga (2008, futuristic), Gamma Sentry, Generation Nth, GeoBats (2007), Goalie (2008, hockey mask alphading), Gods of War, Governor, Grendel's Mother, Grimlord (2009), 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, Righteous Kill (2009), 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]

Identikal Foundry
[Nick and Adam Hays]

Identikal is a UK foundry run by identical twins Nick and Adam Hays. Fonts made in 2000, sold through Atomic Type and/or [T26]: 21stA, 21stB, 21stComplete (2007, a rounded sans family), 22ndClosed, 22nd Open, 45degrees, ACTStern (2001), Angol (octagonal), Attac, B4, Breeze, Bully, Canal Extra, Chord, Click (2003), Corisande (2003), Positec (2003), Curvature, Dieppe (2002), DigiGraf (2002), Distilla (2009, sans, HypeForType), Formatt, Kanal, Kneeon, Curvature (futuristic, 2002), Rebirth (futuristic, 2002), Masta, Metron, Monark (2003), Camo Sans (2003, T-26, an octagonal stencil font), Multimedia Blitz, Panic, Phat, Phlex (dot matrix font), Phuture, Plotta, Podium, Rally, Rayzor, Reaction, Rebirth, Revalo Classic (2003; regular weight is free), Revalo Modern (2003), Robustik (2003), Sampler, Seize, Sharp, Skak (2003, octaogonal font), Stalk, Trak, Tremble, UNDA Series 1, 21st, UNDA Series 2, Wages (2002, dot matrix font), Wired, Zero (2000, Nick Hays, an octagonal font), Angol (2003, an octagonal font), Skrean (a stitching font, T-26), 22nd Closed and 22nd Open (2006, T-26, stencils), Loxley Serif (2006), Emporio (2006), Alwyn (2006), Direkt (T26, 2006), Baksheesh (2006, simple sans), Loxley Sans (2006, T-26), Loxley Mix (2006, T-26), Kowboy (2006, T-26: futuristic), Kelt (2006, 6 weights, T-26), Neutraliser Sans, Caps and Serif (2006, 24 weights in all, T26), Ramblok (2006, T26), Identikal Sans (2006, T26, 8 weights). Some pixel font families, and many futuristic designs. Very expensive. Fontworks site. [Google]

Ideoma

Portuguese outfit located in Porto. Designers of the blackened display face Ideoma Pseudo (2004), the techno faces Ideoma Technit and Ideoma Maguiiii (2009), the multiline Ideoma Liner (2009), and IdeomaSpray (2009, stencil). Dafont link. Alternate URL. [Google]

ifont
[Taber Buhl]

Advertised as the internet's one stop resource for free fonts, typography, commercial fonts, and links. For now, we find Taber Buhl's commercial fonts BDFQ (dot matrix font, 2001), Biochem Yearbook, Boxxon, Capsized Gamut, Internal Calibrator, Jean Template (Bauhaus style, 2001), Kolkom, Licon, Mechno, Plasmatronix, Shark Scrote, Smelly Gazebo, Steel Crate, TB2 (pixel font), Thirty 9 (screen font), Zeichen LCD (LCD font), Bootyscratch (free) and Dirty Clutch (free). Taber Buhl was at Syracuse University and ran at that time The tabertype font foundry (useless link), which does not seem to exist any longer. At that place, he had one commercial font, Sarey, and many free fonts: Smelly Gazebo, Steel Crate, Sephus, the handwritten Taberhand, a grungy CrapSerif, BootyScratch, Dirty Clutch, PinkBlah, and a square Shitfont. In production: Sargon, Busport. [Google]

Industrial-Organic.Net
[Justin Thomas Kay]

Justin Thomas Kay is the Industrial-Organic.Net. His lettering designed mostly for industrial clients is very original and artistic. Noteworthy designs: various headline faces for Swindle Magazine, lettering for Isis (the artist), frivolous logotype for Back in Black, Garland (a condensed monospaced stencil face). Kay is based in Brooklyn, New York. [Google]

Ingrimayne Type (was: The Bovine Rebellion)
[Robert Schenk]

Ingrimayne Type was established in 1988 by Robert Schenk to sell his fonts via the web and via CDs such as the No-Hype Type CD (2500 typefaces in trueType and PostScript, with mostly original typefaces). Robert Schenk (b. 1946, Minnesota) lives in Rensselaer, IN. Before Ingrimayne, Schenk's type was distributed by Wayzata Technology. Free fonts at his site: Red Letter, Zirkle, Sallonext, Zarrow, Serpent. Specimen book. Alternate URL. And many other commercial fonts and dingbats by Robert Schenk. Commercial dingbat fonts include XPhyngern (1990, pointing fingers), XPointedDesert and XSimpleHands (1994, more fists), Schneeflaken (two snow fonts, now available as XSchneeFlaken), ComputerBugz (nice butterflies, now available as XCompuTerBuggz), Galaxies (around the theme of the sun and stars), Grandecort (1994), LeakOrLeach (1995), Baumfuss (1990), LeafMeAlone (leaves), StarsAndStripes, StarPieces, Fingers, SimpleHands, PointedDesert, IngyDing (3 dingbat fonts in the style of Zapf Dingbats), IngyDingLeftovers. Original fonts by Bob Schenk: RedLetter, Screwged, KnewFontJagged, RedLetter, ShadyCharacter, Teapot (1999), Teethee, KolkFrizzy, BumberShoot, WaterWorksCaps (1992), Bowling, Brrrr, CoffeeMugs, InsideLetters, JetJaneMono, LineDrive, Masheen (1990, octagonal font), Mushmellow, OakPark, Old Harold Ree (1992, a modification of PhederFract, which was a calligraphic fraktur face also by Schenk), Quidic, Sdrawkcab (1992), SeasonsGreetings, SwirlityScript, SwirlityText, UpsideDown (1996), XStellaStern, WurstCactus, PencilFat, PhrackCack, Hammered, NailsNStaples, WrenchedLetters, TOCinRings, SafetyPinned, NeedALilly, Tinkerer, ShirlyUJest, PutMyFootDown, and ForTheBirds. KnewFontJagged, KolkFrizzy, WurstCactus, and PhrackCack, LettergicalWave, JetJaneButton, ChainLetterOne, KlipJoint, Qwatick (1992), UUeirdieWarp, KolkmanShatter, Zarrow, YahoschWormy, WaterWorksCaps, WaterCloset, Brrrrr, Toothbrush, CoughingNails, Andrew Andy College (athletic lettering), AntsyPantsy, BuggyFont, MousyFont, CrippledFont, AndrewAndyKactus, CourtJestureFrizzy, Dinner, KneeblsRuffled, and NewLibrary. No downloads. Alternate URL. Zumbelsburg (Fraktur, 1996). Fonts by category. MyFonts sells these fonts by him: Teethee, Albert Betenbuch (Fraktur), Anarckhie, Neu Altisch, Rundigsburg (1994), SmokeHaus (1998), Round Up, Feggolite Mono (1994), Jet Jane Mono (1994), Galexica Mono (1994), BumberShoot, Hey Pumkin, NeedALilly, SagetyPinned, Screwged, Wrenched Letters (1995), Salloon, Accrued Interest, All Smiles, Bluster Left, Bring In The Frowns, Concavex Caps, Dear John, Dottie, Febdrei, Fishhook, Five Oh One, Gothamburg, Hammered, Handana, Ingone, Irritation One, Kamp Friendship, Klip Joint, Letunical, Mangaled, Medieval Gunslinger, Muskitos Caps, Nails NStaples, New Nerdish, Patty Day, Pencil Fat, Pheder Frack (Fraktur), Rankensteen, Ranger (1996, octagonal), Shirly UJest, Substance, Tired Of Courier, Valenteena, Valgal, Wyoming Macroni, Wyoming Pastad, Wyoming Spaghetti, Wyoming Strudel (Far West type), XSchneeFlaken (1995), Xaltid, XCompu Ter Buggz, XLeef Me Alone, XStars And Stripes One, Youbee, Zumbelsburg, BeneCryptine (Fraktur), BeneScriptine (Fraktur), Auldroon (Fraktur), Gothamburg (Fraktur), Lettergical (Fraktur), MedievalGunslinger, NeuAltisch (Fraktur), Phraxtured (Fraktur), Modsten (stencil, 1990), Onyon (1997), Tacky (2005), Court Gesture, Court Jester, Jester RES and Jester Two (all 1990, Tuscan types), Life After College (2008, athletic lettering family). [Google]

Inspire Graphics.com

Sister outfit of LetteringDelights.com. Fonts include ScrapColorMe6, ScrapColorMe7, ScrapMommy, ScrapPlaid, ScrapRound, ScrapStates, ScrapSweetness, ScrapTwiggy, LDBeehive, LDMixed, LDNotePad, CKTools, DoodleSuperFat, LDAmore, LDAntler, LDApple, LDBatBall, LDBeach, LDBeehive, LDCalligraphix, LDCamping, LDCeltic, LDChalk, LDCharming, LDChristmasBulbs, LDChristmasLights, LDCityScape, LDClover, LDCostumes, LDCritters, LDCupid, LDCuteCurls, LDDainty, LDDelightful, LDDerby, LDDoodles, LDDoubleLine, LDEasterBasket, LDEasterEggs, LDFallingLeaves, LDFillIn, LDFlyfish, LDGhosts, LDGingerbread, LDGreeting, LDHeartThrob, LDIrish, LDItalic, LDLaundry, LDLeaves, LDLoveStruck, LDLuvnLace, LDMixed, LDNativity, LDNotePad, LDNotebook, LDOwie, LDPlank, LDPlumbing, LDPookie, LDPotoGold, LDPresents, LDPretty, LDRiverRun, LDRoses, LDSandCastle, LDScouter, LDScratch, LDShadow, LDShamrock, LDShellyPrint, LDShellyScript, LDSign, LDSketch, LDSmiles, LDSmokey, LDSnowman, LDSpooks, LDSquiggle, LDStars, LDStencil, LDSunflower, LDSunshine, LDTwitterpated, LDWeb, LDWitchy, LDWormy, LDWroughtIron, ScrapAmor, ScrapBaby, ScrapBlocks, ScrapBones, ScrapBooks, ScrapBrother, ScrapBubbles, ScrapCactus, ScrapCalligraphy, ScrapCandy, ScrapCaps, ScrapCasual, ScrapCelebrate, ScrapCircles, ScrapColorMe4, ScrapColorMe5, ScrapColorMe8, ScrapCrayon, ScrapCursive, ScrapDaddy, ScrapFancy, ScrapFestive, ScrapFiesta, ScrapFlower, ScrapFood, ScrapFormal, ScrapGarden, ScrapGingerbread, ScrapHapnen, ScrapHearts, ScrapHugs, ScrapKatie, ScrapKids, ScrapLoop, ScrapMap, ScrapMarker, ScrapOutline, ScrapOval, ScrapPicnic, ScrapRhapsody, ScrapRollerCoaster, ScrapSamurai, ScrapSchool, ScrapScript, ScrapSerif, ScrapShadow, ScrapSilly, ScrapSimple, ScrapSister, ScrapSloppy, ScrapSnow, ScrapSombrero, ScrapSpangled, ScrapSplash, ScrapStitches, ScrapSwirl, ScrapSwoop, ScrapTools, ScrapTubby, ScrapTumble, ScrapWood. A subseries is called DoodleBats (2007): DBArkAnimals-Normal, DBBabyofMine-Normal, DBBabyofMine-Normal, DBBoxySpring-Normal, DBBuggin-Normal, DBButterflies, DBCutesieDoodles-Normal, DBCutesieDoodles-Normal, DBEasterMorning-Normal, DBEggBat-Normal, DBFallFrolic-Normal, DBFleuries-Normal, DBFleuries-Normal, DBFloragraphy-Normal, DBFlowerPower-Normal, DBHallo-weee!-Normal, DBInsects, DBKanjiWordsA-G-Normal, DBKanjiWordsBlackA-G-Normal, DBKanjiWordsBlackH-R-Normal, DBKanjiWordsBlackS-Z1-10-Normal, DBKanjiWordsH-R-Normal, DBKanjiWordsS-Z1-10-Normal, DBLovePastries-Normal, DBLoveTalk-Normal, DBMonsterEmotions-Normal, DBPartyAnimals-Normal, DBPartySketch-Normal, DBPetFun-Normal, DBPicnicParty-Normal, DBRobotFriends-Normal, DBSeashells-Normal, DBSillyFaces-Normal, DBSophomoreDoodles-Normal, DBSpringFling-Normal, DBSwirlyStars-Normal, DBToyLand-Normal, DBVintageObjects-Normal, DBWeddingWords-Normal, DBZoobies-Normal. [Google]

Iñes Vital

Fontstructor who created the piano key stencil face Geomet (2009). [Google]

Ioana Vlad Munteanu

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

Itomi
[Antonio Moro]

Antonio Moro is a professional designer in Italy, who has been at it since 1999. His typefaces include Aldo Sans (2004) and Vinca Stencil (2004). Another URL. [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, Urszula (caps), Victorio (caps), Elfort (formal calligraphy after a typeface by Friedrich Poppl), Pretoria Gross (2009), Holy Church (2009, blackletter), Holy Church Fleurons (2009), Single Silhouettes (2009).

Typefaces done in 2010: Baltimore Typewriter (a great typewriter family, with a black-on-white typewriter keys style added), Izouda (an art deco Broadway-style beauty), Bernardo (an italic family, with swash initials thrown in, named after Lucian Bernhard), Netuno. [Google]

Izmir University of Economics
[Alessandro Segalini]

Type design projects (June 2007) by Alessandro Segalini's students at Izmir University of Economics:

• Nil Kip: Kememnce.
• Alp Koca: Doner.
• Tolga Gunyuzu: Pestemal.
• Aycin Turan: Delight, Nargile (faux Arabic).
• Merve Ayse Caglayan: Henna night.
• Burak Besen: Cig Kofte (grunge stencil).
• Deniz Kuru: Kunefe, Nalin.
• Melih Altinkut: Cop Sis.
• Ersa Kiray: Kokorec.
• Arzu Sohoglu: Nazar Boncugu.

Jacii

Designer of Warmonger (2007, a handprinted stencil). No downloads. [Google]

jag och Linus + Lars
[Joel Nordström]

Joel Nordström is a Stockholm-based type designer at Lineto. He created Easyscript (2002), a script face based on four letters originally made in alogo by Eidenbenz in 1948. He also created Kada (2004), a stencil face loosely inspired by Frankfurter from the early 80s. See also RBG6, his studio in Sweden. [Google]

James Mattison

British designer based in Dubai. Behance link. He created Schrofer (2009), a stencil face, based upon an alphabet drawn by Bauhaus artist Jurriaan Schrofer, 1926-1990. [Google]

James Vipond

Creator of Vipondoctic (2008), an octagonal beauty, with the help of FontStruct. Other creations at FontStruct in 2008: vipond_angular, vipond_chubby, Fast Money, Vipond Octic, Lampoon, Fast Money (gridded face), Unity Titling (art deco), Vipond Angular (octagonal), Ringling (Victorian circus font). [Google]

Jeff Canham

Designer of the free stencil font Kaiser at Chank's. At FontStruct, in 2008, he made the sturdy Western-style display faces Sutter and Paydirt. [Google]

Jeff Levine: Stencil Faces
[Jeff Levine]

Jeff Levine may well be the most prolific stencil font designer alive today. His passion for this nook of type design is clear from his writings. The stencil faces made by Jeff Levine include Adverse Stencil JNL, Book Report (2006), Cardboard Cutouts JNL (2007), Class Project (2006), Claim Check JNL (2009), Cold Case JNL, Confirmation JNL (2008), Corporal JNL (2009), Craft Project (2006, stencil design dingbats), Delivered JNL (2005), Duffle Bag JNL (2008: military stencil), Evidence JNL (2009), Excess Baggage JNL (2009), Federal Case JNL (2008), Folk Singer JNL, In Shipment JNL (army stencil), Investigator JNL (2010), Jailbreak JNL (2010, a stencil version of his wood face Hoosegow), Lettering Guide JNL (2007), Mess Hall JNL (2007), Packed JNL (2005), Railyard Stencil JNL (2009), Rubbish JNL (2007, grunge stencil), Schoolmarm (2006), Science Fair (2006, a filled stencil font), Sealed JNL (2005, blackletter stencil), Shipped JNL (2005), Stencil Deco (2008, a modification of Cardboard Cutouts JNL), Stencil Gothic, Stencil Modernistic JNL (art deco), Stencilbats JNL (2005), Stencilvania JNL (2006), Stenson (2006, a stencil seen in rubber stamp shops), Storage (2006), Study Hall (2006), Table Fortu JNL (2008, a stunning art deco stencil), Teacher JNL (2009), Templit JNL, Term Paper (2006), Tote Bag JNL (2006), Tramp Steamer JNL (2007), Trocadero JNL (2009, inspired by an early 1950s photo showing the signage for the Trocadero Restaurant located on Liberty Avenue and 23rd Street in Miami Beach), Trooper JNL (2009), Van Alt (2006, described as a geostencil, Futura Blacular kind of setup but from way before that style got Rennerized), Western Adventure (2006, classic stencil from the 1950s), Xmas Stencils JNL (2007, stencil dingbats). [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]

Jeni's Fonts (was Rude Lizard Graphics)
[Jeni Pleskow]

Jeni Pleskow's (free) creations: Abode, AlligatorPuree (like Zapata), Ironglass, BackcabExtraCrispy, BackcabOriginal, BleakFutureHand, BlueMutantDoubleSerif, CachexThin, CassattaZig, Crumble, EdjeSlant, Gecko, Hathor, Jeni (handwriting), Polywog, Simulation, Snigset, SpitCurl, Stencilbash, Wobble. WobbleII. Mac only: Ironglass, Obsidian Chunks, Posche, IroGDC88. [Google]

Jeruel Aaron Amar

Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to make Pointers and Pointersoft (pixel arrow fonts), Eleaves, AcidSpeed, Parallelofont (octagonal), Missing Block, Acid Square, The First Font, Danubee (organic), Thorns, ReilyBill Richkid, Tabloid, AcidSquare, StillAliveForNow, StillAlive, and The Curve. In 2009, he added Quickening, Bump it up, Corte (3d shadow face), Unbranded, Piloton (techno), Tahoma (pixel family), Raft, Paper Company (octagonal), Afro Style, Arko, 7th Service (stencil), Thorns, and Afro Superstar. [Google]

jhejka

Michigan-based creator in 2009 at FontStruct of Haus der Kunst (dot matrix), Epic Cubed, Dominoes, DigiClock Solid, Identity, Braille, Morse Code, House MD, Stedelijk (pixel face), Mojo (+Raised, + Inlay: piano key faces), and Epic Sphered. Additions in 2009 include the military stencil look family Goshawk, Razz, Razzle Dazzle, Tic Tax (pixel), Invasion. [Google]

jlb

In 2009, "jlb" designed these geometric fonts at FontStruct: Geometro (stencil), Geo Extended (stencil), Neotro (poster sans face), Structacon (metal & techno). [Google]

Joe Finocchiaro Design
[Joe Finocchiaro]

Joe Finocchiaro runs a corporate identity studio in New York, and specializes in custom typeface, symbol and logo design. His corporate font families include Roma 2002, the sans serif Ernst and Young family (1999), Air Canada (1994), the sans serif font Etna (2002), the sans serif family Largo (2002), a stencil font for the Performing Arts Center of Greater Miami (1999, based on Futura), the CHW font (1997) for Catholic Healthcare West (serif), Cargill (1994), the beautiful flared sans serif Wunderman Cato Johnson (1997), the PNC font (1993, for the PNC Bank, based on Fry's Baskerville, 1768), the Lincoln Life font (1994, in all-caps style like Bank Gothic), the Scotiabank corporate alphabet, the serifed Clinique (1997) for Clinique Laboratories Inc, Colgate (1993, based on Eras), the didone font Formica (1996), the didone family Tiffany, Tiffany Numerals, Tiffany SmallCaps (2000) for Tiffany&Co, the condensed sans family Schlumberger (1998), the sans family Orazio (2002), a logotype for Iberia (1997) and Univers AirService (1997), The NewYorkTimes (2000, a logo-matching typeface), some type for Avis (1999). He cleaned up the Cunard typeface (by Eric Gill), the Arthur Andersen typeface (1999) and the Deloitte Touche corporate typeface. Joe accepted money from the unscrupulous polluter Monsanto, the Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Foundation and the crooks at Arthur Andersen. [Google]

JOEBOB Graphics
[Jeroen J.W. Van Der Ham]

Dutchman Jeroen Van Der Ham ("joebob"), who is based in s'Hertogenbosch, designed mostly handwriting fonts: vinceHand II (2010), Crossword Belle (2009), BrushtipTerrence (2009), Brushtip Texe (2009), OnetrickTony (2009), Christel Line (2009, +Black), Etch A Sketch (2009, grunge), DearJoe 5 Casual (2008), PencilPete (2008, handwriting), FlutSaus (2006, handprinted; done with Hilde Rikken), Amorrisline (2006), Sinister Sam (2007, calligraphic), VincHand (2007, handwriting of Vincent Haenen), DearJoe5 (2007), BillieBarred (multiple-lined handwriting), BillieBob, BillieBoldHand, BillieKid (nice stencil font), BobTag, CalamityJoe, CrappyJoe, CurlyJoe (2007), DearJoeItalic, DearJoe II, DearJoe IV (antique handwriting, 2005), DoctorBob, FruscianteHand, FuturexBob, Hilde Caps (2006, based on the handwriting of 9-year old Hilde Rikken), JoeBobstraight, JoeHand, MarkerMoeII, MonaLisa (2001), OnepunchJimoutline, Detour Dork (2002). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Still another URL. A href="http://www.abstractfonts.com/designer/375/JOEBOB%20graphics">And another one. Fonts added in 2006: C rial, Hildinia Donut, BrunoBook, BuffaloStance, Stam Pete (grunge), CrosswordBill, DearJoe 1, DearJoe 2, DearJoe 4, JoeHand, JoeHand 2, Kali Graff, Billie Barred, Bearer Fond. Fonts added in 2007: Moan Hand, FancyPens (a calligraphic pen). His fonts are available from MyFonts. Fontspace link. . [Google]

Johanna Balusikova

Johanna Balusikova, now Johanna Bilak, studied typography at Atelier National de Création Typographique in Paris and at the Bratislava Art Academy in her native Slovakia, as well as at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in the Netherlands. She now works as a freelance graphic designer in The Hague, where she has lived since 1999. She designed Jigsaw (2000) at Typotheque. See also here for that Jigsaw Stencil font. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, she spoke about "Experiment and typography". Alternate URL. Co-editor with Alan Zaruba of We Want You To Love Type (2004, e-a-t). Since 2003 she is a partner in Peter Bilak's Typotheque. [Google]

John Moore

Born in 1951, John Moore is the Venezuelan designer of VE Inconexa (2006, outline architectural face), VE Makiritare (2006, Aztec-style double script), VE Moho (2006), VE Palaima (2006, futuristic, Amazonian), Radio Time (fifties style script, with Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos), Fruta (stencil, influenced by Glaser?), Glaser Stencil Round, Gothike (sharp-edges), Aqua (ultra round), Club, Caracas (sans), Factor (hookish), Space Lab, Robin (headline), Victorina (multiline poster typeface), and RobinBienalII (2005). His typefaces Gordis and Tepuy won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the non-text and experimental typeface categories, respectively. He studied graphic design in the Institute of graphic design Neumann from 1972 until 1976. In 1980 he took a workshop with Milton Glaser and since 1983 he has worked as an art director and creative director in many advertising agencies. He designs type since 1976. Sudtipos sells these fonts of his via MyFonts: Makiritare (bilined, based on woven baskets), Palaima (experimental, runic), Precolombino (petroglyphs), Tepuy (rounded version of Makiritare), Roadline (2009, fifties diner font). Behance link. Poster. [Google]

Jonas Hecksher

One of the cofounders of e-types in Copenhagen in 1997. He designed fonts such as Movie (2001, a very black sans), iD:00 (2001, a sans), Fletch (1998, a sans), DeLuca (Bodoni-like, 2001), NinetySix K (2001, a serif), Underton (1998), Point Sans (1999), Point Serif (1999), Cendia (1997), DenmarkSerif (1998), Mega (1999), Olic (1999), Arch Sans (2003), Arch Serif (2003), Arch Stencil (2003), Arch Pattern (2003). [Google]

Jonathan M. Hitchen

FontFont designer of the stencil font FF Snafu (2002). Born in Sheffield, UK, Hitchen is a full time lecturer in Graphic Design and Multimedia at Liverpool School of Art & Design since 1995. There is a stencil font that is floating around on the web under the name FuckingGoodStencil APlainCaps that has his name in the copyright line (1995). It was posted on alt.binaries.fonts on January 17, 2003. The font is shown in Nathan Gale's book. [Google]

Jordi Fosch

Tarragona-based Catalan designer of the typewriter font called Let32,2, and of the comic book font Love Gun. He also made Escher Desigual and FoschWords 1. In 2000, he created the poster stencil face called Cartolina (2000). In 2001, he designed the grunge face Surface (Garcia Fonts), the Kafkaesque all-caps face Jroña (Garcia Fonts) and the all-caps kids face Funny (Garcia Fonts). [Google]

Josef Albers

German-born designer (b. Bottrop, 1888, d. New Haven, 1976) associated with the Bauhaus School that made artistic ripples from 1919-1933. Ex-director of the Department of Design at Yale. Regarding the Economy of Typeface: an article explaining Albers' vision for typography. His typefaces: Display (1923), Schablonenschrift (1923-1926), Futura Black (1926, a great stencil serif---Paul Renner and the Bauer design office made it into a typeface in 1929, and included it in the Futura series, even though Futura is quite different in concept) and Kombinationsschrift auf Glas (1928-1931; combine a few elements---it was recreated as P22 Albers in 2004; see also here). [Google]

Joseph Miceli

Ex-student at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Italian designer of Equo (2006), a VAG Round style display family which also includes Equo Stencil Caps and Equo Extra Fat. Other creations: Shaolin Caps, Stout, Frank-Latin, Crasto (serif family). Some fonts are free or have a free test version. Born in Sicily, he spent half of his life in New York City, and studied for four years in The Netherlands. Currently, he works in Lithuania with a group called Alfa60. [Google]

Josh Hejka

FontStructor who made these fonts in 2009: Goshawk-Military-Inverse (stencil face), Goshawk-Military (stencil face), Mojo-Inlay, Mojo-Raised, Mojo. [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), Bosque Encantado (2010), Romance Fatal (2009, +Serif), Tipófila (2010), Versal-Gothic (2009), Romance Fatal Goth (2009), Tatida Versal (2009), Tatida Rocking (2009), Luismi Murder (2009), DarkPix (2009, done with FontStruct), Básica (2010, an organic sans 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), Goth Stencil Premium (2009), 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]

Julien Gernez

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of La DK Danse (futuristic stencil) and Gibon. Aka Gibus. [Google]

Jurriaan Schrofer

Dutch Bauhaus designer, 1926-1990. He drew some alphabets, one of which led James Mattison to create the digital stencil font Schrofer (2009). The Sans Serious family by John Skelton is also a revival. Jan Middendorp writes in Dutch Type: chrofer made several attempts to create complete typefaces - one of which was wittily called Sans serious - but this was never his goal. `Is it necessary', he wrote, `to make complete alphabets with upper- and lowercase, figures, diacritics and seriously adorned with a name, when the aim is merely a formal investigation into basic recipes' Schrofer's domain was never the design of typographic alphabets, to be used by other designers, but always the creation of letterforms `made to measure' as part of his own designs of - mainly - book covers and postage stamps. He created a rectangular alphabet as the basic element of his ever-changing covers - each based of the same grid but colored differently - for a series of scientific books, `Les textes sociologiques' from Mouton Publishers. He made sophisticated pixel-based letters, all drawn by hand, and experimented with photographic screens as a means of distinguishing simplified letterforms from the background. He created logotypes built from custom-made letterforms, based on rectangular grids. [...] In his booklet `Letters op maat' (`Type made to measure', 1987), Schrofer presented many of his experimental alphabets from the 1960s and '70s. The booklet was part of a series of goodwill publications edited by Wim Crouwel for Lecturis Printers, Eindhoven. [Google]

K and T

Foundry in the UK. Creators of the modular or gridded typefaces K&T Heidi (2009, an almost stencil face inspired by the pennant numbers on British Royal Navy warships), K&T Martine (2009, octagonal) and K&T Sasha (2009, tile face). [Google]

Kalle Graphics
[Karl Martin Sætren]

KalleGraphics is the portfolio of Oslo-based Karl Martin Sætren, a Norwegian multi-disciplinary freelance designer focused on visual identity, art-direction, typography, photography, graphic design and other various kinds of eye candy. Behance link. His modular sensual rounded stencil face Curb Desire (2009) deserves an award! Carved Blox (2010) is a counterless ultra-fat face. Free fonts: Kilogram (2010, art deco sans display face), Alpharuler (2010, grunge). [Google]

Kari Elizabeth Stevenson

Designer (b. 1980) of the experimental stencil font RAMI (2003). Kari Elizabeth Stevenson is based at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI. [Google]

Karin Huschka

German designer of Linotype Authentic (1999, sans, serif, stencil), Chineze Dragon (2002, Linotype, a dingbat font) and Picture Yourself (2003, Linotype, with Peter Huschka), which won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. [Google]

Katsuhiro Otomo

Katsuhiro Otomo created the (free) stencil-like truetype font Memories (1998) at Ryoppei & Studio KPI. The glyphs of Memories are just letters replaced by lookalikes. [Google]

Kim

This stencil font archive has Alpha Bold, Dirty Dozen, Due Date (by Digital Type Slut) and Stencil. [Google]

KI's Atelier Moonglow

Japanese foundry, est. 2003, which made the (incomplete) kana/Latin display font Doraemoji, the Hankyu Station font, 55font*, DOUTOR (stencil), The-Font-of-DRUAGA-, guruhude (curly kana), HABBO, KAIJI-no-"ZAWA", Laundry, PSX! (2003, futuristic design), Quintetto, UNAO-JAPON-PRO (handwritten kanji face), UNAO-JAPON, UO-FONT, womusubikun, Strawberry (2004), Goonies (2004), Siusendo (2004, handwritten kanji face), Hentaikana (2004), Osushi (2004, sushi ding font), Strawberry, Ozen (2004, sushi ding font). Alternate URL. Font names: 70:nine-round, Akou-47, 70:ARAHABIKA, 70:BIKKORO, 70:D-FONT, DORAEMOJI, 70:DOTTY-SQUARE, 70:DOUToU, 70:The-Font-of-DRUAGA, 70:GOOONIES, GuruguruFudemoji, 70:HABOBO, 70:Hankyu-Station, HenTaiKana, 70:O-DE-N, 70:O-SU-SHI, 70:PSPS, 70:Quintetto, 70:reclining-chair, Siusen-Do-Font, Siusen-Do-Font, 70:SPOOK, 70:-STRAWBERRY-, 70:Sakura-Valuation-Stamp, 70:Syouwa-Nostalgie, 70:TIROLING, 70:TOYBOX, UNAO-JAPON-pro--new--, UNAO-JAPON-PRO, UNAO-JAPON, 70:UO-FONT, 70:womusubikun, 70:Wonta, 70:ZAWA-ZAWA, 70:Laundry, 70:Mushroom-Land, 70:M*O*O*N*G*L*O*W (moon phases). [Google]

Kix
[Christoph Windmueller]

German designer of First Strike (2008, FontStruct) and First Strike Spaced, a grid-overlay of First Strike. Other FontStruct fonts from 2008: Canned Heat (dingbats), Guttermouth (slab serif), Guttermouth Spaced (dashed version), Guttermouth Bold, Bloc Party Outline Shadowed, BabyBaby (toy blocks), Possibly Winged Polepieces, Skylines, Canned Heat, Simplicity, Stadium, Brussels (inspired by the Atomium), Cardboarder (nice 3d face), Crazytown (a Western font, an hommage to Maurice de Bevere, creator of Lucky Luke, 1923-2001), Itallica, Orica*cut, Orica, Pavement, Moduli, Tinka, Tinka Filled, Moduli, Loreylane, FS United One, ariapenciroman (gorgeous sketched letters), babybaby, bellevue, bloc-party-outline-shadowed, brussels-contourized, elceedee, eurofiction, horrorhouse, plenum, scratch-me-if-you-can, simplicity, skylines, sophia---superlight (hairline), stadium, werkshalle (Ferrari lettering font?), schachmatt (stitching font).

In 2009, he added Terence Kill (blackletter), Cellophone, Amanerd, Drenama, Poster Classic, Midnight Diner, Sunburst, Signo, Multiverse (Basic, Striped, Alaska, Couch), Pointless Task, Broadway (dotted outline), Mostly, Terence Kill (blackletter), Pole Position (dot matrix), Antares 37 (Startrek font), Figure Collection Part 1 (dingbats), and College Pornmag. In 2010, he made Olympic Spirit (dot matrix outlined), Cyclobe Pro (octagonal), Gappy. Based in Recklinghausen, Germany. [Google]

Klaus Sutter

Designer in 2008 of Iwan Stencil (Linotype), which is a stencil font that updates a 1929 stencil font by Jan Tschichold. The name Iwan refers to the fact that during the 1920's Tschichold went for some time by the name Ivan. [Google]

Kookmin University

Korean site with about 35 fonts in an archive (the file fonts.zip), including Atrox (by Atrox, 1996, a corporate font), Block-out (by Matthew Sephton, Brooklyn Kid (graffiti by Michael Cosentino), GalaxiaPlanetary (erased stencil font), OCR A Extended (Monotype), Spring Garden (by J. Macagba). [Google]

Krzysztof Kochnowicz

Type designer who created Mecanorma Anatol, a futuristic-looking stencil face. [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), Credit Card (2010, font for simulating bank cards), 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), Soft Sans (2010), 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. Fontspace link. [Google]

La Page du Matérialiste

About 400 truetype fonts here. Nothing surprising, except that it has a whole family of stencil fonts, called "Army". [Google]

Larabie Fonts
[Ray Larabie]

Well over 500 original designs by Ray Larabie from Port Credit/Mississauga, Ontario. Another URL. Another URL. The following fonts are free: Strenuous, Tofu, Electoral Blue, Embargo, Lunaurora, MarqueeMoon, President Gas (nice stencil font), Motorcade, Overload, Baltar, DirtyBakersDozen, Mufferaw (2000), Mexcellent (triline), Minya, PulseState, Quinquefoliate, Yadou, Para-Aminobenzoic, Hydrogen Whiskey, Metal Lord (an Iron Maiden font made in 1996), Golden Girdle, DazzleShips, Kredit, Minisystem, Boron, RiotAct, GlazKrak, SoRunDown, YellowPills, Fake Receipt, Tinsnips, Lucky Ape, Bailey's Car, Icicle Country, Home Sweet Home, Let's Eat, Giant Tigers, RoboKoz, Snidely, Xtra-Flexi-Disc, Fluoride Beings, Field Day Filter, Braeside Lumberboy (stencil font), Oliver's Barney, Rothwell, Fragile Bombers, Yawnovision, Superheterodyne, Massive Retaliation, Instant Tunes, Neurochrome, Xenowort, Balcony Angels. For 20USD, you get the Neuropol Deluxe 11-weight family (TrueType, PC). Latest fonts: Quadaptor, Deftone Stylus, Lady Starlight, LetterSet, Map of You, First Blind, Larabiefont (monospaced, 1999), monofonto (monospaced, 1999), Orange kid, Green fuz, Gunplay (stencil font), Mail ray stuff, Walshes outline, Mississauga, Union city blue, Carbon block, Plain cred, First blind, Walshes, Credit river, Dendritic Voltage, Neuropolitical, Poke, Port Credit, Lesser Concern, Kustom Kar, Mold Papa, Kleptocracy, Blue Highway D, Hots, Coolvetica, Holy Smokes, Chinese Rocks, sudbury Basin, Lilliput steps, Hurontario, Participants, Adriator, Ethnocentric, Biting My Nails, Biting Outline, Dyspepsia, Vanilla Whale, Libel Suit, Effloresce, BeatMyGuest, DreamOrphans, EffloresceAntique, EnnobledPet, Euphorigenic, EyeRhyme, GotNoHeart, Octoville, PlainCred1978, Plasmatic, RadiosinMotionHard, Densmore (a modern stencil font), RadiosinMotion (a morse font), Sexsmith, ShouldveKnown, ShouldveKnownShaded, 20thCenturyFontItalic, Counterscraps, Cretino, Duality, Echelon, Effloresce, Fabian, KenyanCoffee, MinyaNouvelle, OliversBarney, SybilGreen, Tork, Degrassi, Vibrocentric, Rafika (stencil font), Berylium, Pakenham, Steelfish, Bullpen, Almonte Woodgrain, Sandoval, Colourbars, Unispace, Subpear, Stasmic, Zekton Dots, Vademecum. And now also a handwriting font service. Has a shareware highway sign font. The site is to be discontinued in the summer of 2001. Ray Larabie started a second life in his new commercial foundry, Typodermic, opened in the Autumn of 2001, with fonts such as Amienne (2004, brush script), Asterisp (named Aplha through Iota, asterisks, 2000), Bomr (2002), Jillican, Tank (2004, an octagonal face), Telidon Ink and Wyvern. Rare Larabie fonts. Mass download. Direct access to some fonts. Noteworthy is that Neuropol is the font in the official logo of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Roxio's new Easy Media Creator 7 includes 36 updated Ray Larabie freeware fonts with expanded character sets, kerning, Euro symbol and installable embedding: Arnprior, Baveuse, Berylium, Berylium Bold Italic, Blue Highway (based on the US highway series E font), Blue Highway Condensed, Blue Highway D Type, Blue Highway Bold, Blue Highway Linocut, Burnstown Dam, Carbon Block, Credit Valley (+ B, I, & BI), Earwig Factory, Hurry Up, Kredit, Krystoid, Minya Nouvelle (+ B, I, & BI), Neuropol, Planet Benson 2, Pupcat (unicase), Stereofidelic, Sybil Green (2000, girlish font), Teen (+ B, I, BI, Light, and Light Italic)), Velvenda Cooler, Velvenda MegablackWaker. Most recent productions, 2004-2005: Stentiga (free), Boopee, Zalderdash, First Blind 2, Fenwick Outline, Amienne, Induction, Huxtable, Good Times, Euphorigenic, Neuropolitical, Effloresce, Squealer, Axaxax, Coolvetica, Cretino, Heroid (comic book). [Google]

Lauri Johnsen

Based in Orange County, CA, Lauri Johnsen is working on the stencil face Tuscan Stencil (2005) and Breccia Stencil (2004). Designer of a 2-pixel (!!!) font described here (2004). [Google]

Le Corbusier

Swiss architect whose lettering inspired the Letraset rubdown dry transfer face Charrette. This face exists in digitized form (extended) as Modular Stencil fonts by Gregory La Vardera, and as Le Corbusier by Nico Schweizer. [Google]

Leander Lenz

Darmstadt, Germany-based graphic designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to create Afrobeat (+II, a piano key family), Afroblack, Samoa, Serpentine, Freestyle, Underground, Criss Cross, Apollo, Samoa (+Ultabold), Freestyle, Shadow (fat rounded), Explorer, Beatboy Rounded, Contemporary (kitchen tile face), Fiesta (2009, ultra-fat octagonal), Battista (2009, an organic font with Bodoni influences), Boldy (2009), Breezy (2009, octagonal, ultra-fat), Jin-Jin (playful), Odyssey (art deco ultra-black), Disco Queen (2009), Sketch (slab serif), Mister O (+Bold), Clockwise, My Name Is Font, Beatboy Square, Mister O (dot matrix), No Room For Squares, Accident (Grotesque, Arabesque (a gridded version)), Tony Montana (+Divided), Turning Point, VincentVega (+Outline, +Bold), Beatboy (pixel family), Circles Horizon, Papua (ultra fat), Papua Square (kitchen tile), Winky Light, Winky, Circles, Nu Edge Regular, Cosmos, Toasty, Around The Block, Wave (kitchen tile), Nu Edge, OneMore Time (stencil), Techno Mouse (white on black pixel face), Techno Dog. Behance link. [Google]

Lennart Hansson

Swedish typographer, calligrapher and graphic designer, b. 1939. Created RunaSerif (for Miles, 1995), Crane, Renasci (1997, based on old Danish inscriptions, mainly in churches), ZiP (Agfa Creative Alliance), and HanssonStencil (Mecanorma). URW write-up. Hansson won the Nordic Typeface Competition in Copenhagen for his typeface Runa Serif, inspired by the forms of ancient Viking runes. He lives in Skane, Denmark. CV (in Swedish). [Google]

LetterBe
[Rustam Gabbasov]

LetterBe is Rustam Gabbasov's Russian foundry, located in Ufa, Bashkortostan. He designed Booster and Booster Amp (2005) and Truefaret (2005, stencil). All fonts have Latin and Cyrillic characters. Valery Zaveryaev designed the display face Brut (2005), the stencil face Marshrut (2005) and the octagonal family Teco. MyFonts link. [Google]

Letterhead Studio VG Fonts
[Valery Golyzhenkov]

Letterhead Studio is located in Moscow. One of its designers, Valery Golyzhenkov (b. 1965, Moscow) cofounded Letterhead Studio, ca. 1998 and has since designed over 100 typefaces. Still based in Moscow, he published the following Cyrillic fonts at Letterhead: 04.07 (1998), Alfavita (awarded at Paratype K2009), Barrytone (2005), Bort#1 (2000), CardHolder (1997), Channel (2004-2007: 24-style rectangular family), Chellebrity (2004, screen), DBL Cheque (2009, 22 styles), Cracker (1997), Cubes (2000), DBL Check, Dead Metro (1997), Do Not Touch (1997), Dream Team (2000), First Prize, Formalist (2001, squarish), Gamering (+Sans, 2009: a game font), Garbage (12997), GarbEdge (1997), Garmony (1997), Grammatika (1997), HandsOn (1997), Hole Down (1997), Ice Cola (2000), Kabotage (1998, octagonal), Kassa (2002, octagonal), Kren (1998), Laborant (2000), Lavert Noise (1997), Matrrolla (2001, octagonal), Mnickers, Mono (2000), Musor (1997), OneCode (1998), Primitiv (1998), Principal (1998-1999), Recruit (2004, octagonal), Remont (2000), Rounded Slab (2009), Rounds (basic dingbats), Silver Winner (2000), Sklad (2000), Stampit (2000), Upadok (1997, futuristic), YE Stencil (2009), Zaplyv (1997), Zanoza (2005). Paratype link. Dailytype link. [Google]

Lex Kominek

Calgary-based designer of Naranja (2005), an experimental typeface built up of quarter circles and L-brackets. Its dingbats are inspired by Clockwork Orange. Faces made with FontStruct in 2008: Robot Builder (Solid, Shaded and Open: squarish faces), Polygonal Lasso (Far West type: 938 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended A & B, Greek, Cyrillic, and Katakana), Marshmallow Script (based on Einhorn, Eclat, Deftone Stylus, and Magneto, all connected diner scripts), Crazy Eights (deck of cards), Ficus Stencil (+Compressed, +Condensed, +Extended, +Regular, +Zebra), Big Fat (+Vibrate, +Solid, +Shaded), Negatron (Regular, Solid and Fill), Tuscan Radar, Nuclear Depot Americum (495 glyphs consisting of stars), Nuclear Depot (Radioum, Neptunium, Plutonium, Uranium: a futuristic family that covers Cyrillic), Am I see are you pee see, eh? (a font that combines MICR with UPC-A). The links: big_fat_shaded, crazy_eights, ficus_stencil_compressed, ficus_stencil_condensed, marshmallow_script, negatron_fill, negatron_regular, negatron_solid, serpent_like_bold, tuscan_radar. 2009 creations: Haemophobe (pixel), Star Wreck, Mouthcaster (a bilined face based on the lettering on the front of the 1978 edition of the Scoutmaster's Handbook), Pasta (white on black), Medical Station Alpha (techno), Disco Stud (Chrome, Solid, Chrome Oblique, Solid Oblique), Affix, Infix (experimental and minimalist), Pinball Blizzard, Tears in Rain (a simplistic textura), Five Minute Hair Colour (slab serif), Seg Sixteen (LED face), Trajedy (pixel), Nobody 8 Italic (pixel), Home Sweet Home (a cross-stitch font), Wotan, Tiki Deaky, Writetyper, Chromatose (shadow family), Chocobot (an octagonal family containing Dark, Stacked (multilined), Milk, White), Big Fat (Shaded, Vibrate, Solid).

2010 creations: Astral Projection (a dot matrix face that updates Astra, a Letraset font designed by François Robert and Natacha Falda in 1973), Brick-block tops (3d effect), Bubblemania. [Google]

Liberator Crew

Creator of a gun dingbat and stencil font, Browning (2003), and a handwriting font, Calvin (2003). I can't seem to be able to download Calvin any longer. Old link. [Google]

Lindsay Yee

Creator of the stencilish face Semi Circle Sans (2009). Lindsay is a graphic designer based in Christchurch, NZ. [Google]

lineto
[Cornel Windlin]

Since 1994, Swiss type designer Cornel Windlin (b. 1964, Küsnacht) heads "lineto" in Zürich, with Stephan "Pronto" Mueller. He made these typefaces:

• The old typewriter family FF Magda, which includes the white-on-black Magda Cameo. This face resulted in FF Magda Clean by Henning Krause and Critzler, and then in the clean typewriter family Mono (2004, Lineto) by Windlin himself.
• Airport (FontFont).
• Dot Matrix (FontFont).
• Experimental typefaces: In FUSE 10, Windlin designed the symbol font Robotnik, and at FUSE 7, he made Mogadishu. He alsi created FUSE Classic 1.
• FF Watertower (1998, stencil font).
• Screen Matrix (1995, with Stephan Mueller, FontFont).
• ThermoNuclear (1999).
• Mono-book (1998).
• Autoscape-Regular (1998).
• Alpha Headline (1997, based on the British license plates).
• FF Chernobyl (1998, from stenciled letters on the Chernobyl plant).
• Lutz Headline (1997, derived from the lettering on British license plates).
• Luggage Tag.
• Gravur Condensed (1999, with Gilles Gavillet).
• Cobra: a phenomenal geometric font combining ideas of kitchen tile and stencil fonts, made in 1996.
• FF Moonbase Alpha (1991, part of FUSE 3).
• With Gilles Gavillet, dated 1999: Pixel Crude, Pixel World, Vectrex (1999), Vectrex World (skyline dingbats), Liquid Crystal (1999), Supermax (1999). Pixel World and Vectrex World are free.

• Stephan Mueller: Regular (typewriter family), Valentine (typewriter family), Aveugle (Braille font, 1995), Parking, FF Gateway and Grid (1996), Paragon, Batarde Coulee, Shuttle, FE Mittelschrift and FE Engschrift (1997), 104 (nice geometric font), FF Container, Bitmap-Condensed and Bitmap-Regular (1998), Office (Eurostile-like monospace, 1999).
• Norm: Normetica (1999), Prima (1999), Simple.
• Elektrosmog/Pierre Miedinger: Storno (1999, an interpretation of the numerals of an old Sharp cash register), Brauer. This was later developed into the six weights of LL Brauer Neue by Marco Walser and Philippe Desarzens. The Brauer Neue family (2006) has a copyright notice that refers to Elektrosmog, Valentin Hindermann, Marco Walser and Pierre Miedinger.
• Nico Schweizer: Albroni (1992), Hoboken-High (1998, a US sports jersey font), Typ1451 (1999, sans family), Gigaflop (1999), Ultrateens (1999).
• Martha Stutteregger: Number Two (1996), Lord (1996).
• Jonas Williamsson: Biff (1999).
• Urs and Juerg Lehni and Rafael Koch: Lego (1999).
• Laurent Benner: Pez (1999).
• Hansjakob Fehr: Deadtype (dingbats consisting of metal parts of a typewriter, 1999).
• Masahiko Nakamura: Terminal One (1999).
• James Goggin: Courier Sans (2001).

Loginnovation Technologies

The fonts.zip file (2MB) has about 100 shareware truetype fonts. Among the mostly display faces, these are the rarest: Dalmation By Zane (Zane Revai, 1990-1992), Showboat (Brian Prince, 1996), Stencil (URW, 1992), StoneTempleSF (Brendel Informatik, 1991), YoungStar (1997). [Google]

LogoVend (was: James Helps, or Kludo Studios)
[James Helps]

Several free fonts made by James Helps at LogoVend (previously The Logo Factory, and before that, Kludo Studios): DevGothic, EricssonGA628 (pixel face), GeekSpeek, John315 (stitch font), MingusRoman, NorthernBookSale, NuSchoolMilitia, NuSchoolMunitions (1998, a stencil font), OverprintBlack, PeriodMu, PeriodX, Ronnie, Scribblicious, ShoppingList, Slushfaux, SnagMag, Zamyatin, LookingGlass, SlushfauxUnion, SnagMag, Zamyatin (original sans serif!). Styles include techno, screenfont emulation, handwriting, and sans serif. Fine creations---not to be missed. Alternate URL. [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, t