Adrian Frutiger

Famous type designer born in 1928 in Unterseen, Switzerland. He closely cooperates with Linotype-Hell AG, after having been artistic director at Deberny-Peignot in Paris since 1952. He established his own studio in 1962 with André Gürtler and Bruno Pfaftli. Art director for Editions Hermann, Paris 1957 to 1967. Frutiger now lives near Bern, Switzerland, and is primarily working with woodcuts. In 2009, Heidrun Osterer and Philipp Stamm coedited Adrian Frutiger Typefaces The Complete Works (Birkhäuser Verlag), a 460-page opus based on conversations with Frutiger himself and on extensive research in France, England, Germany, and Switzerland. He designed over 100 fonts. Here is a partial list:

• Président (Deberny&Peignot, 1954). Digitized by Linotype in 2003.
• Delta.
• Phoebus (Deberny&Peignot, 1953).
• Element-Grotesk.
• Federduktus.
• Ondine (Deberny&Peignot, 1953-1954).
• Méridien (Deberny&Peignot, 1955-1957). Digitized by Adobe/Linotype in 1989.
• Caractères Lumitype.
• Univers: Univers (Deberny&Peignot, 1957). About the name, Frutiger wrote I liked the name Monde because of the simplicity of the sequence of letters. The name Europe was also discussed; but Charles Peignot had international sales plans for the typeface and had to consider the effect of the name in other languages. Monde was unsuitable for German, in which der Mond means "the moon". I suggested "Universal", whereupon Peignot decided, in all modesty, that "Univers" was the most all-embracing name!. Univers IBM Composer followed.
• Egyptienne F (1955, Fonderie Deberny & Peignot; 1960, for the Photon/Lumitype machine).
• Opéra (1959-1961, Sofratype).
• Alphabet Orly (1959, Aéroport d'Orly).
• Apollo (1962-1964, Monotype): the first type designed for the new Monotype photosetting equipment.
• Alphabet Entreprise Francis Bouygues.
• Concorde (1959, Sofratype, with André Gürtler).
• Serifen-Grotesk/Gespannte Grotesk.
• Alphabet Algol.
• Serifa (1967-1968, Bauersche Giesserei). Soon to be reissued by Neufville. URW++ lists the serif family in its 2008 on-line catalog.
• OCR-B (1966-1968, European Computer Manufacturers Association).
• Alphabet EDF-GDF (1959, Électricité de France, Gaz de France).
• Katalog.
• Devanagari (1967) and Tamil (1970), both done for Monotype Corporation.
• Alpha BP (1965, British Petroleum & Co.).
• Dokumenta (1969, Journal National Zeitung Suisse).
• Alphabet Facom (1971).
• Alphabet Roissy (1970, Aéroport de Roissy Charles de Gaulle).
• Alphabet Brancher (1972, Brancher).
• Iridium (1972, Stempel).
• Alphabet Métro (1973, RATP): for the subway in Paris.
• Alphabet Centre Georges Pompidou.
• Frutiger (1975-1976, Stempel, with Hans-Jörg Hunziker). The modern Bitstream version is called Humanist 777. In 2001, Linotype published an update of its Frutiger family, Linotype Frutiger Next.
• Glypha (1979, Stempel). See Gentleman in the Scangraphic collection).
• Icône (1980-1982, Stempel, Linotype). Digitized by Linotype in 2003.
• Breughel (1982, Stempel; 1988, Linotype).
• Dolmen.
• Tiemann.
• Versailles (1983, Stempel).
• Linotype Centennial (1986).
• Avenir (1988, Linotype). In 2004, Linotype Avenir Next was published, under the supervision of Akira Kobayashi, and with the help of a few others.
• Westside.
• Vectora (1991, Linotype).
• Linotype Didot (1991).
• Herculanum (1989, Linotype): a stone age font.
• Shiseido (1992).
• Frutiger Capitalis (2006, Linotype): a further exploration in the style of Herculanum, Pompeijana and Rusticana. Linotype trademarked that name even though at least five fonts by the name Capitalis already exist.
• Pompeijana (1993, Linotype).
• Rusticana (1993, Linotype).
• Frutiger Stones (1998, Linotype) and Frutiger Symbols.
• Frutiger Neonscript.
• AstraFrutiger (2002): a new signage face for the Swiss roads. Erich Alb comments: With a Frutiger condensed Type and illuminated signs during night it is mutch better readable.
• Nami (2008) is a chiseled-stone sans family, made with the help of Linotype's Akira Kobayashi.
• Neue Frutiger (2009, with Akira Kobayashi) has twice as many weights as the orifinal Frutiger family.

Bernard Philpot

Welsh creator of the irregular chiseled face ITC Bolthole (2008). He writes: My father brought me to a small graveyard in the Welsh hills to show me two headstones carved by the great Eric Gill. I instantly fell in love with the beauty of the carving and the perfection of the letterforms. I still go back to marvel at these works of art. Philpot studied graphic design and typography at the London School of Printing, and soon after graduation started work in a large advertising agency in London. [Google]

Bolt Cutter Design (or: Mahoney Fine Arts)

Creators in 2008 of a series of detailed free fonts: Eutemia (connected calligraphic script), Deborah Extra Ornaments, Prozac Buzz (grungy and neurotic), Phat Grunge Bold, Metal Macabre (scary), Kremlin-Advisor-Display-Kaps-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar-Extra-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar, KremlinAlexander-Bold, KremlinBolshevik-Bold, KremlinDuma-Bold, KremlinEmpire, KremlinGeorgianI3D, KremlinGrandDuke, KremlinKiev, KremlinOrthodoxChurch, KremlinStarets (all Cyrillic simulation faces), Deborah Fancy Dress (saloon font), Deborah (1880s style). Dafont link. Full list, at the end of 2008: AngstRidden (angst-ridden handwriting, dated 2002 under the label Mahoney Fine Arts), Bolt-Cutter-Light, Bolt-Cutter-Nasty, Bolt-Cutter, CSAR-Italic, CSARVESTMENT (illuminated caps), Bloody Irish Bastard or Congeal (2001), Deborah (Western), DeborahCondensed, DeborahExtrasOrnaments, DeborahFancyDress, Dominatrix, EutemiaI-Italic, EutemiaII-BoldItalic, EutemiaIII-BoldItalic, EutemiaOrnaments, GeneticEngine, GideonPlexus, KREMLINMINISTRY-DemiBoldItalic, Kremlin-Advisor-Display-Kaps-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar-Extra-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar, Kremlin-Soviet-Italic, Kremlin-Tsaritsa-Italic, Kremlin, KremlinAdviser, KremlinAlexander-Bold, KremlinBolshevik-Bold, KremlinComrade, KremlinCzar, KremlinDuma-Bold, KremlinEmperor-Bold, KremlinEmpire, KremlinGeorgianI3D, KremlinGrandDuke, KremlinImperial, KremlinKiev, KremlinKommisar, KremlinKourier-II, KremlinKourierII-Bold, KremlinMenshevik-Bold, KremlinMenshevik-BoldItalic, KremlinMinister-Black, KremlinMinister-Bold, KremlinMinister, KremlinMinisterBlack3D-Bold, KremlinOrthodoxChurch, KremlinPravda-Italic, KremlinPravda, KremlinPremier, KremlinStarets, KremlinSynod, MarquisDeSade, MarquisDeSadeAlternates, MarquisDeSadeOrnaments, Kremlin Chairman, Metal-Macabre, NewSymbolFont, ODINS-SPEAR-HOLLOW (2002, runes), ODINS-SPEAR (runic), OurSacredRights-Bold, PhatGrunge-Bold, Precious, StarmanCrusader, TEK-HED-AGGRESIVE (the TEK (techno) series is from 2003), tEK-HED-ANGRY, TEK-HED-BOLIMIC, TEK-HED-LAZY, TekHedRegular, ThorsHammerCarved (2008, chiseled look), csar, csarparadedress. Fonts from 2009: Vlad tepes II (creepy). Fontspace link. [Google]

Carol Twombly

Born in 1959 in Concord. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and under Charles Bigelow at Stanford, and joined the Bigelow&Holmes studio for four years. In 1988, she joined Adobe and started designing typefaces. She made the sculpted faces Trajan (1989, Adobe), Charlemagne (1989), Lithos (1989), Nueva (1994), Viva (1993), and Adobe Caslon (1990). Other faces: Mirarae (1984, won the Morisawa gold prize), FB Californian (1987, with David Berlow), Chaparral (1997), Myriad (1992, with Robert Slimbach), Myriad Wild, Pepperwood, Rosewood (with Kim Buker Chansler and Carl Crossgrove), Zebrawood. Featured in 5 American Type Designers by Spurius Press. CV at Linotype. In 1994, she won the Prix Charles Peignot. [Google]

Carter & Cone

Boston-based company started in 1991 by Matthew Carter and Cherie Cone. Produced faces such as Mantinia, Elephant, Sophia and the beautiful Galliard CC. They produced type on commission for Apple (Skia), Microsoft (the screen fonts Verdana, Georgia, Nina and Tahoma), Time, Newsweek (Vincent, 1999), Wired, U.S.News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, El País and the Walker Art Center. MyFonts site. Linotype 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, Eden Light, sencia (2008, based on Spanish art deco stock certificate lettering from 1941), Fat Freddie, Futura CT and Futura CT Inline (2007, based on Futura ND, but discontinued after only a few weeks), Goudy Lombardy, GoudyStout, Goudy Text, Goudy Trajan (2003, free), Handsome (2002, nice finger dingbats, aka fists), Jensen Arabique (left field art deco, based on work of Gustav Jensen, 1933), Koloss (art deco), Latin CT (2008,, 6 styles), Latin Wide, Laureat, Lise Informal (2008, handprinted), Lombardy, Maximilian CS (Rudolf Koch, 1917), Metropolis Bold and Shaded (based on the 1932 Stempel cut as designed by W. Schwerdtner), Minotaur (2008, an original monoline design based on an Oscan votive inscription from the second century BC; looks like simulated Greek), Norberto (2009, an all-caps Bodoni), Ogun (2008, inspired by an Egyptian-style Russian block alphabet and useful for athletic lettering; formerly named Azbuka), Plantain (2002, a figital version of Plantin Adweight, a 1913 face by F. H. Pierpont), Plantain Stencil (2009), Radiant, Radiant Extra Condensed CT (both Radiants are revivals of Roger Middleton's face by that name, 1940), Ransahoff (2002, ultra condensed didone), Rudolf (1992), Samira (2008, art nouveau style), Shango) (1993, based on Schneidler Initials by F.H.E. Schneidler (1936), and including a digital version of Schneidler Cyrillic (1992); extended in 2007 to Shango Gothic and in 2008 to a 3-d shadow version, Shango Chiseled, and in 2009 to Shango Sans), Sculptura (2005, an all caps face based on Diethelm's Sculptura from 1957), Standard, Tambor (Light, Black, Inline, Adornado) (1992) (note: Jason claims that it was remotely based on Rudolf, which in turn was based on calligraphy of Rudolf Koch), Trio (an art deco sansserif), Trooper Roman (discontinued), Vincenzo (2008, a slabby didone), Warrior (2009, a 3d font based on Ogun), Xavier (art deco family based on Ashley Crawford by Ashley Havinden, 1930, revival by Jason Castle in 1992), Zagora, Zuboni Stencil (2009, Latin and Cyrillic, constructivist). [Google]

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]

Cristóbal Henestrosa

Mexican designer (b. 1979, Mexico City) of Espinosa, mentioned here. Author of Espinosa. Rescate de una tipografía novohispana (México, Designio, 2005), a book about Antonio de Espinosa, a 16th century Mexican typographer, who in all likelihood cut the Espinosa type. He has a degree in graphic/visual communication from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (ENAP) de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where his student project in 2003 was Espinosa. The commissioned text family Fondo (2007) won an award in the TDC2 2008 competition and at Tipos Latinos 2008 (for extensive type family). Creator of the angry handprinted face Prejidenjia (2008, with Luis Novoa). Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, where he introduced the work of 16th century printer Antonio de Espinosa to the world. Dafont link. Henestrosa has a bachelor's degree in graphic communications from the National School of Plastic Arts of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a Master's degree in typographic design from the Center for Gestalt Studies, veracruz, August 2009, where his thesis was entitled Fondo. La familia del Fondo de Cultura Económica. He has been a teacher at various institutions, including the UNAM and the National Fine Arts Institute's School of Design. He lives in Heroes de Padierna, Mexico. Guaca Rock (2009) is a stone chisel face based on the logotype of the rock band Botellita de Jerez. [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]

Fontmenu.com

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

GautFonts
[J.F.Y. Daniel Gauthier]

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

Hashim Padiyath Mohemmadali

Indian type designer (b. 1969) from Cochin in Kerala. He designed IndusLL (1994, a roman face with features of Lithos) for Linotype's TakeType library "based on the still undeciphered pictographic script of the Indus Valley civilization, circa 5000 BC". He designed the dingbat face Chihnangal, and the following commercial Malayalam fonts: Puthuma, Unniyarcha, Indulekha, Ravivarma, Ambili, Kingini, Thulasi, Orma, Harisri, Atham, Aarcha, Unniyarcha, Nila, Chirutha, Thumba, Vartha & Pampa. He studied under R.K. Joshi. He runs Design Difference, which has created these typefaces (text almost literally taken from their site):

• While working at C-DAC Gist, Pune during 1993-1994, Hashim P M had designed the monoweight semi-condensed Indulekha in 6 variants (Normal, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique, Heavy and Heavy Oblique), the calligraphic script Ravivarma in 4 variants (Normal, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic) and the calligraphic serifed Ambili in 4 variants (Normal, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic) apart from Chihnangal a collection of Symbols and Cliparts pertaining to Kerala. Indulekha has become the most favourite display typeface in Malayalam, lapped up by advertisements and publications, Ravivarma is the chosen one for invitations and citations while Ambili retains its uniqueness as the first serif typeface in Malayalam and is used only when a touch of class is asked for.
• While working at Malayala Manorama, Kottayam during 1994-1997, Hashim P M had designed 8 exclusive Malayalam typefaces for them which are stile in use and determine their typographic flavour after several layout revamp exercises. Vartha, Kingini, Puthuma, Chirutha, Nila, Thulasi, Aarcha and Unniyarcha belong to text and display categories. Unniyarcha was used as a text typeface in the daily only for a brief time, while its display counterpart Aarcha is still their headline typeface along with Kingini. The group's other publications including Vanitha, Manorama Weekly, Balarama, Karshakasri, Bhashaposhini, Yearbook also use these typefaces.
• While redesigning Mathrubhumi Daily, its was imperative that their decadent typefaces were also given a contemporary flavour. They took up the challenge, cleaned up their half-century-old designs and made a whole new family out of it which was suited for web-offset printing on newsprint. Mathrubhumi 760 and 762 were the final products which take less space and prints better. For Mathrubhumi Weekly, a new monoweight typeface (Mathrubhumi 560) was created which worked well for text and display and which followed their unique keymap. The end result was so appealing that even the daily and some of their magazines have started using it extensively. Ambadi, a typeface they had developed earlier was used in the recent redesign of Mathrubhumi Weekly.
• Thejas, Malayalam's youngest daily wanted a brand new headline typeface to announce that they are different. Thejas, the headline typeface they designed for them is compressed and dark enough to stand out in the crowd. Instead of giving a lighter version of this, they designed Kadali, a second headline typeface which is more conventional, albeit with a semi-condensed form. Together they create the necessary visual tension in headlines, making Thejas one of the best-looking dailies in the language. Later they also developed an expanded version of Thejas for them.
• For the Signage design of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin they needed a typeface that matched with the Roman typeface wde had selected to use. They developed Amrita modifying Keli. Sakshi is inspired by communist wall-grafitti letters with a dripping paint-brush touch. Ambadi has curled terminals and ink-traps at junctions. Pingala is inspired by DIN Mittleschrift and its bare features.
• They had designed a headline typeface for Deepika daily (the oldest in Malayalam) when we undertook the redesign of the daily. Deepika (nee Atham) is a robust typeface with condensed form loosely inspired by Frankin Gothic. A Normal and Bold version with Oblique make a strong family. The typeface is still the main display typeface for the group's publications even after so many years. They consider it among one of their best type designs to date. They also licensed Orma on a non-exclusive basis to them during the project.
• The display typeface Mangalam was designed for Mangalam Group of Publications when wde redesigned their daily. Thick and thin and condensed in nature, the typeface is currently used by the group in all their publications. They have also licensed Pampa on a non-exclusive basis to Mangalam, which has also become a hot favourite in their publications.
• They developed Thumba as a corporate typeface for D C Books after wde used a draft version of it in th Malayalam CD-ROM Encyclopedia wde developed for them. The very modern Thumba is monoweight, sufficiently expanded and has a relaxed air about it. Regular, Bold and Heavy with their Obliques make a handsome family. Thumba is loosely inspired by Frutiger and is one of their best type designs to date. They had also licensed Pampa and Orma on a non-exclusive basis, for use in their publications. When they were redesigning and streamlining their corporate visual identity, they also put together their logos and symbols as a handy font D C Logos.

Iconian Fonts
[Dan M. Zadorozny]

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

iDEA2Design
[Danko Thomas]

iDEA2Design is Danko Thomas' outfit in Croatia. He has some fonts, but I could not locate them. Alternate URL. One font is called identity (2002). [Google]

Isis Imaging Corporation

Commercial fonts by this company are sold at Precision Type. There is the Midway font family, as well as the condensed didone titling face Ohsolong, and the stone age font Ice. [Google]

Jesse Andrew Tilley

Ozzie designer (b. Melbourne) of the weird face Extreme Leet (2007). Why? He also made Scratchnessism (2007), Sound Board (2008), Lions Den and Starring (2008, kid's hands), Casual Script (2008, another child's handwriting font), and Guava Juice (2008). Alternate URL. In 2008, he went commercial and started selling his types at MyFonts. See also here. The faces there include the African theme/chiseled look font Rockband (2008), the 3d handprinted face Tusk (2008) and the handprinted outline face Blubber (2008). [Google]

John Roshell
[John Roshell]

Designer (b. 1970, Mountain View, CA) of many (most) fonts at Comicraft, a comic book font outfit in Los Angeles, CA, a company he cofounded with Richard Starkings in 1992. Some fonts: Altogether OOky, Addams-AltogetherOoky, Addams-Capitals, Addams-Regular, CCBithead-Bark, CCBithead-Byte, CC Bryan Talbot (2008, created for Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland), CCHooky-Open, CCHooky-Solid, CCAlchemite, CCChills, CCDigitalDelivery, CCDivineRight-Regular, CCDoubleBack-Future, CCDoubleBack-Past, CCElsewhere-Regular, CCFlameOn, CCFrostbite, CCGrimlyFiendish-Regular, CCJimLee, CCJoeMadInt, CCLosVampiros, CCMeanwhile, CCMeltdown, CCMonsterMash, CCSpills, CCSplashdown, CCStormtrooper, CCTheStorySoFar-Regular, CCThrills, CCToBeContinued, WildAndCrazySFX. With Richard Starkings, he designed Achtung Baby, Adamantium and DoubleBack in 2001 for Agfa/Monotype. Other designs: Dave Gibbons (2006), UpUpAndAway (2005), Forked Tongue (2005), Paranoid Android (2005), Snowmany Snowmen (2005), Gibbous (2006), Astronauts in Trouble, Chatterbox, Red Star, Tough Talk, Sean Phillips, Atomic Wedgie, Pass The Port, Divine Right, Shoutout, Battle Scarred, Danger Girl, Primal Scream, PhaseSonStun, Yeah Baby, Nuff Said, Trick Or Treat, MonsterMash, CarryOnScreaming, Chills, Goosebumps, CreepyCrawly, GrimlyFiendish, IncyWincySpider, Spookytooth, Meltdown and TrickOrTreat dingbats, BiffBamBoom, Spellcaster, Cheese And Crackers, FaceFont, Hedge, Meanwhile, Wildwords International, Comicrazy, Storyline (2006), Happy Holidays (2007), Foom (2007). MyFonts sells these fonts by him: Adamantium, Alchemite, Altogether Ooky, Area51, Aztech, Battle Cry, Bithead, Chills, Dave Gibbons, Dead Mans, Destroyer, Digital Delivery, Divine Right, Drop Case, Elsewhere, Euphoria, CC Fairy Tale (2007), Face Front, Fighting Words, Flame On, Foom, Frostbite, Gobbledygook, Golem, Grimly Fiendish, Happy Holidays, Hellshock, Hip Flask, Holier Than Thou, Hooky, Hyperdrive, Joe Kubert, Meanwhile, CCMild Mannered (2007), Monologous, Near Myth, Overbyte, Phat Boi, PhilYeh, Rough Tongue, Sanctum Sanctorum, Scott McCloud, Smash, Speeding Bullet, Spills, Splashdown, Spookytooth, Stonehenge, Stormtrooper, Storyline, Thats All Folks, The Story So Far, Thingamajig, Thrills, Tim Sale, Tim Sale Brush, Timelord, Treacherous, Treasure Trove (2007), Up Up And Away, Wild And Crazy, Zzzap, Deadline (2007), Kickback (2007, with David Lloyd), Sticky Fingers (2007, scary), Ratatatat (2008), CC Mad Scientist (2008), HammerHorror (2008), EnemyLines (2008, based on WWII lettering used by the nazis), Elephantmen (2008, a squarish and grungy family), Cutthroat Lower (2008), Philyeh (2008), Doohickey Lower (2008), CC Sign Language (2008, fruit vendor lettering), SpillProof (2009), Slaphappy (2009), Hooky (2009, spraycan style), Long Underwear (2009), Digital Delivery (2009), Grande Guignol (2009, art nouveau), Bronto Burger (2009), Elsewhere (2009, art nouveau), Exterminate (2009, stone carving face). FontShop link. [Google]

Juan Diosdado

Designer of the chiseled look faces Novus scriptum (2001) and Bucky (2004). He lives in San Pedro Garza García in the state of Nueva Leon in Mexico. [Google]

Kenny Krenzin

Designer of Castro (2000, has a hammer and sickle dingbat), Eclipse (2000, letters in black balls), Negatori (2000, chiseled look). Alternate URL. [Google]

K-Type
[Keith Bates]

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

Laure Afchain

Student at KABK, The Hague, who graduated in 2009 from the Type and Media MA program. Her typefaces:

• Malaussène (2009), a fun muscular display face, done as her graduation typeface at KABK. She says that her (large) family is designed for corporate identitities. It contains Malaussène Translation, Malaussène Expansion and Malaussène Sans as subfamilies.
• At KABK, she worked on a revival of the calligraphic face Meidoorn, originally designed in 1928 by Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos for The Heuvelpers.
• She was also at the Fine Arts School in Toulouse. Together with Alejandro Lo Celso, François Chastanet and Géraud Soulhiol, she designed the official typeface for the city of Toulouse, Garonne (2009, 4 styles).
• A handwriting font.
• The display family Pixat.
• Peno (2009), done in a class of Peter Verheul.
• A stone chisel/biline/paper cut experimental family Vampyr.

Lithograph

Lithograph is a free lookalike of Twombly's Lithos. See also here, here, here and here. Corel also made a similar typeface, and also called it Lithograph. [Google]

Macizo.com (or: Macizotype)
[Leonardo Vázquez]

Leonardo Vázquez (Macizotype, Mexico City) is the Mexican designer of Bunker (2005, a monolithic display face, which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. It uses the rounded stone features found in Aztec sculptures and designs. Designer of Señal Mexico (2000, a Mexican highway sign face, with four styles called Rural, Nacional, Mediana and Asfalto), mentioned here. He also made Proteo (2005, sans), Lectura (2007, a text family in Regular, Negro and Versalitas styles), and Libre. Leonardo is a graphic and type designer. After finishing his studies in Mexico City, Leonardo worked in several design studios and advertising agencies. In 1998 he settled in France where he studied in the Atelier National en Recherche Tipographique in Nancy. Leonardo returned to Mexico in 2001, where he works in his own studio macizo.com. Speaker at TypeCon 2007 and at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. [Google]

Mad Hatter
[Kelly Johnson]

American creator of the handwriting fonts Etched in a Desk (2008) and Leaky Closet (2008) and of Cydonia Sand Scribbles, aka Son't Read My Journal (2008). He also made Banana Spider (2008, stone chiseled look), Juneau (2008, 3d tin can box look), Cymptum (2005, ink run font). Kelly runs Mad Hatter Designs. Another URL. Dafont link. [Google]

Manfred Klein's Fonteria
[Manfred Klein]

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

Manfred Sayer

Designer of Sayer Script (Berthold, 1984), which is identical to Mecanorma Sayer Script, a comic book family. He also designed Mecanorma Sayer, a degenerated typewriter face, and Mecanorma Sayer Spiritual, a chiseled display face. [Google]

Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter (born in London in 1937, and son of Harry Carter) is one of today's most influential type designers. He trained as a punchcutter at Enschedé in 1956. In 1963 he was hired by Crosfield, a firm that pioneered the new technology of photo-typesetting, to lead their typographic program. He worked for Mergenthaler Linotype (1965-1981), and co-founded Bitstream Inc. with Mike Parker in 1981, adapting many fonts to dogital technology. In January 1992, he founded Carter & Cone with Cherie Cone, and often collaborated with Font Bureau. In 1995, he won the Gold Prize at the annual Tokyo type Directors Club competition for Sophia. In 1997, he received the TDC Medal for significant contributions to the life, art, and craft of typography. John Berry on Carter's art (2002). Apostrophe comments on Berry's article. Write-up in US News in 2003. Interview. His fonts:

• The Microsoft screen fonts Verdana, Georgia, Georgia Greek, Georgia Cyrillic, Nina and Tahoma. Georgia (in roman and iitalic only) is a screen version of Miller. Nina was designed to address the requirements on smaller screens such as phones, and was used in Windows Mobile smartphones before Microsoft switched to Segoe. The Greek and Cyrillic versions of Nina were developed by François Villebrod.
• Apple's Skia (1993), a sans serif designed with David Berlow for Apple's QuickDraw GX technology, now called AAT. [Carter's Skia and Twombly's Lithos are genetically related.]
• Monticello (2003), based on Linotype's Monticello (1950), which in turn goes back to Binny&Ronaldson's Monticello from 1797, a face commissioned by Princeton University Press for the Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
• Miller (1997, Font Bureau), an extremely balanced family co-designed by Carter, Tobias Frere-Jones and Cyrus Highsmith. Carter explains: "Miller is a Scotch Roman, a style that had its beginnings in the foundries of Alexander Wilson In Glasgow and William Miller in Edinburgh between about 1810 and 1820. It is considered that the punchcutter Richard Austin was responsible for the types of both Scottish foundries. Miller is a revival of the style, but is not based on any historical model." Now, there is also a 16-weight newspaper version, Miller Daily (2002), and an 8-weight Miller Headline (2002). This was followed by News Miller, a face designed for the Guardian.
• Alisal (1995).
• ITC Galliard (1978), a recreation of Robert Granjon's letters. ITC Galliard (Bitstream version, 1978). Elsner&Flake version (1999). Note: Bringhurst recommends a Carter and Cone version of this font, called Galliard CC: it has old style figures and small caps.
• The ITC Charter family (1987 for Bitstream and known as Bitstream Charter; licensed to ITC in 1993; see the Elsner&Flake version of ITC Charter). An upgraded commercial version was released by Bitstream in 2004 under the name Charter BT Pro.
• Vincent (1999), a font commissioned for use in Newsweek. It is named after Vincent Figgins, an English foundry owner and punch cutter who lived in the late 18th century.
• Walker (1994), designed for The Walker Art Center.
• Ionic Number One (1999, Carter&Cone).
• Mantinia (1993, Font Bureau), based on inscriptional forms, both painted and engraved, by the Italian renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna.
• Big Caslon (1994, Font Bureau), a display face based on the largest romans from William Caslon's foundry.
• Big Figgins (1992) and Big Figgins Open (1998, based on types shown in the specimens of Vincent Figgins of 1815 and 1817). Big Figgins was called Elephant and Elephant Italic in Microsoft's Truetype Fontpack 2.
• Sammy Roman (1996), loosely based on the 17th century romans of Jean Jannon. A beautiful face designed to accompany kanji and kana faces produced by Dynalab in Taiwan.
• Sophia (1993, Font Bureau), a mix with Greek, uncial and classical Roman influences.
• Shelley Script (1972), a family of formal scripts. Look for Andante, Volante and Allegro. It is based on intricate English scripts of the 18th and 19th centuries attributed to George Shelley.
• Cochin (1977, at Linotype). MyFonts writes: "In 1913 Georges Peignot produced a typeface based on Nicolas Cochin's eighteenth century engravings. In 1977, Matthew Carter expanded this historic form into a three part series."
• Bell Centennial (1978, Bitstream), a legible family designed as a replacement of Bell Gothic at Mergenthaler. There is also a Linotype version.
• Cascade Script (1965-1966, Linotype, now also known as Freehand 471 BT in the Bitstream collection).
• New Century Schoolbook was designed from 1979-1981 in the New York Lettering office of Merganthaler Linotype based on Morris Fuller Benton's Century Schoolbook. It was the second face, after New Baskerville, that was digitized and expanded using Ikarus (digital technology). The Bitstream version [Century Schoolbook] is a virtually exact copy, only being moved from a 54 unit to a 2000 or so unit design.
• Auriol (Linotype), an art deco family (including Auriol Flowerts 1 and 2 and Auriol Vignette Sylvie) based on the lettering of the painter and designer Georges Auriol. MyFonts explains: "Auriol and Auriol Flowers were designed by Georges Auriol, born Jean Georges Huyot, in the early 20th century. Auriol was a French graphic artist whose work exemplified the art nouveau style of Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1900, Georges Peignot asked Auriol to design fonts for Peignot & Sons. The resulting Auriol font was the basis for the lettering used by Hector Guimard for the entrance signs to the Paris Metro. It was re-released by Deberny & Peignot in 1979 with a new bold face, designed by Matthew Carter. These decorative fonts with a brush stroke look are well-suited to display settings. The Peignot drawing office insisted on a more normal appearance in the boldface, calling it Robur. Matthew Carter has returned to Auriol's original design for the whole series. "
• Helvetica Greek (Linotype).
• Helvetica Compressed (Linotype, 1974, with Hans-Jörg Hunziker).
• Wilson Greek (1995), compatible with Miller Text, and based on a type cut by Alexander Wilson for the Glasgow Homer of 1756. See here.
• Olympian (1970, Linotype), designed for newspaper use.
• Gando, a French "ronde" face based on the work of Nicholas Gando (mid 1700s), and designed for photo-typesetting at Mergenthaler by Carter and Hans-Jörg Hunziker in 1970. Very similar to Bitsteam's Typo Upright.
• Fenway (1998-1999, Carter&Cone), commissioned by Sports Illustrated to replace Times Roman.
• Snell Roundhand (1965-1966): a connected cursive script based on the 18th-century round hand scripts from English writing masters such as Charles Snell.
• Auriga (1970). (Wallis dates this in 1965 at Linotype.)
• CRT Gothic (1974).
• Video (1977).
• V&A Titling (1981).
• Deface (in the FUSE 18 collection).
• Madrid, done for the Spanish newspaper El País.
• Milne, done for the Philadelphia Inquirer (a revised version of Olympian).
• Durham, a sans serif family for US News & World Report.
• Airport.
• Century 725 (for the Boston Globe).
• For Microsoft: Georgia, Verdana, Tahoma, Nina.
• New Baskerville. [Matthew Carter says that this is wrongly attributed to him. It was directed by John Quaranta.]
• Postoni [or Post-Bodoni], for the Washington Post, which is still using it. See .
• LeBe, a Hebrew face that was used in the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible.
• Rocky (2008, Font Bureau, with Richard Lipton), for the Herald in Scotland.
• Time Caledonia.
• Wiredbaum, for WIRED.
• Wrigley (for Sports Illustrated).
• Benton Bold Condensed (for Time Magazine).
• Foreman Light (for the Philadelphia Inquirer).
• Newsbaum (for the New York Daily News).
• Carter Latin: Matthew was commissioned in 2003 to create a new design to be cut in wood type by the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, WI. He came up with an all-caps, chunky, latin-serif design.
• Times Cheltenham (2003), which replaces in 2003 a series of headline faces including Latin Extra Condensed, News Gothic, and Bookman Antique.
• The Yale Typeface (2004), inspired by the late fifteenth-century Venetian typeface that first appeared in Pietro Bembo's De Aetna, published by Aldus Manutius. This extensive family is freely available to members of Yale University.
• DTL Flamande (2004, Dutch Type Library), based on a textura by Hendrik van den Keere.
• Meiryo (2004, Microsoft, with Eiichi Kono): this font is part of Microsoft's ClearType project, and includes full Latin and kanji glyph sets. Suntory corporate types (2003-2005), developed with the help of Akira Kobayashi and Linotype from Linotype originals: Suntory Syntax, Suntory Sabon, Suntory Gothic, Suntory Mincho.
• Rocky (2008, Font Bureau): A 40-style high contrast roman family that is difficult to classify (and a bit awkward). Developed with Richard Lipton.

Michail Semoglou

Thessaloniki-based ex-student at the University of Reading who designed Vergikios (2002), a Greek face with hellenized Latin letters as well. He co-founded Type Initiative with Canadian Keith Chi-hang Tam and joined the type coop Village in 2005. [Google]

Neobyzantine

This site has the following polytonic Greek and Slavonic fonts: Miroslavljeva_Cirilica, CirilStudenica, MgGreekArchaic-Plain (actually a Greek simulation face, 1983), OdysseaF, SymbolGreekPF, UB-Byzantine-Italic, UB-Byzantine-Normal (Unibrain, 1993), ALBXHRNormal (Im Grhgorioy, 1994), NB-Byzantine-NB, CSvetiNIKOLANormal (Predrag Milivojevic, Belgrade, 1993). [Google]

P22 Type Foundry
[Richard Kegler]

Richard Kegler's fun Buffalo-based foundry, which he founded in 1995 together with his wife, Carima El-Behairy. Currently, on staff, we find type designers James Grieshaber and Christina Torre. In 2004, it acquired Lanston Type. P22 has some great unusual, often artsy, fonts. The fonts are: Industrial Design (an industrial look font based on letters drawn by Joseph Sinel in the 1920s---this font is free!), LTC Jefferson Gothic Obliquie (2005, free), Sinel (free), P22Snowflakes (2003, free), Acropolis Now (Greek simulation), Albers (based on alphabets of Josef Albers made between 1920 and 1933 in the Bauhaus mold), Arts and Crafts (based on lettering of Dard Hunter, early 1900s, as it appeared in Roycroft books), Ambient, Aries (2004, based on Goudy's Aries), Arts and Crafts ornaments, Atomica, Bagaglio, Bauhaus (Bauhaus fonts based on the lettering of Herbert Bayer), Bifur (2004, Richard Kegler, after the 1929 original by Cassandre), Blackout, Cage (based on handwriting and sketches of the American experimental composer John Cage), Cezanne (Paul Cezanne's handwriting, and some imagery; made for the Philadelphia Museum of Art), Child's Play, Child's Play Animals, Child's Play Blocks, Constructivist (Soviet style lettering emulating the work of Rodchenko and Popova), Constructivist extras, Czech Modernist (based on the design work of Czech artist Vojtech Preissig in the 20s and 30s), Daddy-o, Daddy-o junkie, Da Vinci, Destijl (after the Dutch DeStijl movement, 1917-1931, with Piet Mondrian inspired dingbats), Dinosaur, Eaglefeather, Escher (based on the lettering and artwork of M.C. Escher), FLLWExhibition, FLLW Terracotta, Folk Art (based on the work of German settlers in Pennsylvania), Il futurismo (after Italian Futurism, 1908-1943), Woodtype (two Tuscan fonts and two dingbats, 2004), Woodcut, Garamouche, GD&T, Hieroglyphic, Insectile, Kane, Kells (totally Celtic, based on the Book of Kells, 9th century), Koch Signs (astrological, Christian, medieval and runic iconography from Rudolf Koch's The Book of Signs), Larkin (2005, Richard Kegler, 1900-style semi-blackletter), London Underground (Edward Johnston's 1916 typeface, produced in an exclusive arrangement with the London Transport Museum; digitized by Kegler in 1997, and extended to 21 styles in 2007 by him as P22 Underground Pro, which includes Cyrillic and Greek and hairline weights), Pan-Am, Parrish, Platten (Richard Kegler; revised in 2008 by Colin Kahn as P22 {Platten Neu; based on lettering found in German fountain pen practice books from the 1920s), Preissig, Prehistoric Pals, Petroglyphs, Rodin / Michelangelo, Stanyan Eros (2003, Richard Kegler), Stanyan Autumn (2004, based on a casual hand lettering text created by Anthony Goldschmidt for the deluxe 1969 edition of the book "...and autumn came" by Rod McKuen; face by Richard Kegler), Vienna, Vienna Round, Vincent (based on the work of Vincent Van Gogh), Way out West. Now also Art Nouveau Bistro, Art Nouveau Cafe and the beautiful ornamental font Art Nouveau Extras (all three by Christina Torre, 2001), the handwriting family Hopper (Edward, Josephine, Sketches, based on the handwriting styles of quintessential American artist Edward Hopper and his wife, Josephine Nivison Hopper, and was produced in conjunction with the Whitney Museum of American Art), Basala (by Hajime Kawakami), Cusp (by James Grieshaber), P22 Dearest (calligraphic, by Christina Torre), Dwiggins (by Richard Kegler), Dyrynk Roman and Italic (2004, Richard Kegler, after work by Czech book artist Karel Dyrynk), Gothic Gothic (by James Grieshaber), La Danse (by Gábor Kóthay;), Mucha (by Christina Torre), Preissig Lino (by Richard Kegler), P22Typewriter (2001, Richard Kegler, a free typewriter font), the William Morris set (Morris Troy, Morris Golden, Morris Ornaments, based up the type used by William Morris in his Kelmscott Press; 2002), Art Deco Extras (2002, Richard Kegler, James Grieshaber and Carima El Behairy), Art Deco Display, the Benjamin Franklin revival font Franklin's Caslon (2006), Dada (2006) and the Art Nouveau font Salon (bu Christina Torre). In 2006, Kegler added Declaration, a font set consisting of a script (after the 1776 declaration of independence), a blackletter, and 56 signatures. Many of the fonts were designed or co-designed by Richard Kegler. International House of Fonts subpage. Lanston subpage (offerings as of 2005: Bodoni Bold, Deepdene, Flash, Fleurons Granjon, Fleurons Garamont, Garamont, Goudy Thirty, Jacobean Initials, Pabst, Spire), Bio and photo. In house fonts made in 2008 include Circled Caps, the Yule family (Regular, Klein Regular, Light Flurries, Heavy, Klein heavy, Heavy Snow, Inline; all have Neuland influences). MyFonts page. Kegler / P22 created a 25-set P22 Civilit7eacute; family in 2009 based on a 1908 publication from Enshedé, the 1978 English translation by Harry Carter, and a 1926 specimen also from Enshedé. P22 Declaration (Script, Signatures, Blackletter, 2009) is based on the lettering used in the 1776 Declaration of Independence. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, Richard spoke about Vojtech Preissig. [Google]

Poole Foundry
[Wesley Poole]

Wesley Poole's foundry based in Kaneohe, HI, and established in 2006. Wesley Poole (b. California, 1952) was a sign painter and wine label designer in the Napa Valley (his companies were called Oasis Graphics and then Titus & Poole, and Poole Aert & Design) for almost 25 years before moving to Hawaii in 2002 due to multiple sclerosis. Pagoda International (2006, designed with his son Samuel Poole) is a comic book font based on the lettering of the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu. They also designed Poole Standard (2006), a stylish headline face, followed in 2007 by Poole Chiselcut. Digitizations with the help of Rod Cavazos (PsyOps). The latest designs are Polynesiac (2007, Wesley and Samuel together, simulation of Easter Island lettering), Contempo Elan (Grand Script and Ornamental) (2006), a festive and assertive calligraphic script done by Wesley and Samuel Poole, and Alphaluxe (2008, a calligraphic script by both again). [Google]

Présence Typo
[Thierry Puyfoulhoux]

Friendly French Agfa Creative Alliance designer (b. 1961) who lives in Baratier. He was an ex-student of José Mendoza at the Imprimerie Nationale à Paris. He started Présence Typo in 2000. Great web pages, great designer, fantastic fonts. Bio. He published numerous typefaces in various places. Trying to group these, I get:

• ITC: ITC Korigan Light (1997), ITC Friz Quadrata Italic (2003, to complete the ITC Friz Quadrata of 1965), Friz Quadrata Bold Italic (1994).
• Agfa creative Alliance: Alinea (1995-1997).
• Présence Typo: Cicero (1995; Cicero2 is promised), Bebop (1996), Adesso (1999), Classica (a very elegant family, 1999), Classica Gallic (2001), Madisonian (1999), Tschichold (1999, the only lineale face by Tschichold drawn in 1933-1936 for the Uhertype photo-typesetting machine), Presence (1998), Prosalis (1998), Tangram (2001), Tuxedo (1999, a fun didone experiment), Kouros (2003, a Greek simulation font), Indigo Sans (2003), Indigo Serif (2003), Classica Prestige, BigTicy (2005), Ubik (2004, an 8-weight sans family), Diana and Princess (2004, calligraphic faces, after designs by Roger Excoffon in 1956). A.M. Cassandre's Cassandre (1968) was largely unfinished, after having been turned down by Berthold and Olivetti. It was finished in a revival of sorts (3 weights) by Thierry and is still called Cassandre (2003) [Cassandre Original includes only the letters drawn by A.M. Cassandre. Cassandre Normal and Bold are completed and expanded interpretations of the original drawings of 1968. Cassandre was the last typeface designed by the great poster artist and type designer A.M. Cassandre (1901-1968)]. Fonts available at MyFonts include Fusion Engraved, Fusion Standard, Laricio, Tandem, and Zipper, Placebo Sans (2003), Tuxedo (1999, a fun didone experimental face), Placebo Serif.
• Typotek: Tangram (1999, letters and dingbats made from triangles and squares), Présence (1999, sans serif), Classica (1999, serif), and Prestige (1999, serif).
• Custom fonts: Add Electric City, Add Iron, ITC Friz Quadrata Italic (2003, to complete the ITC Friz Quadrata of 1965), Père Castor Flammarion (designed for Flammarion by José Mendoza and digitized by Thierry), Option Italique (designed as an italic for Optima), ITC Korigan (uncial).

Robert Foster

Designer, sculptor and type designer, b. 1895. He created Foster Abstract and Pericles (1934, ATF), a Greek simulation or stone cut style typeface. For an extension and digitization of the latter face, see Pericles Pro (2005, Ascender; Steve Matteson), a 433-glyph OpenType font. [Google]

Sarah Lazarévic

Ex-student at the Ecole Estienne in Paris whose diploma work consisted of the creation of typeface in the style of a first century face found in an archeological site near Millau in France. Graphic and type designer in the 15th arr. in Paris. Her typefaces:

• Métallo (2005): a futuristic text family.
• Vitalis (2005): titling stone-carved face in the style of a first century face found in an archeological site near Millau in France.
• Néva (2005): a Cyrillic didone face.
• Pop (2005).

Scholtz Fonts
[Anton Scholtz]

Scholtz Fonts was started by Anton Scholtz (b. Durban, 1941) in 1997. This South African design company is located in Durban, where the Zulu culture of the region has greatly influenced Anton's font design. Scholtz sells a fine selection of display types that ooze African themes. A list: Spaza (2007, African look), Grunge Piazza (2007), Klatter (2007), Scratch SCF (2007, scratchy hand), Umkhonto (2003), Assegai (2007), Amanzi (1999), African Gold (2007), Giraffe Skin (2007), Zim (2007, octagonal), Ubuvila, Kassena (2006), Tshikona, Bongo, Doorn Body, Doorn Display, Zebra Skin (2007), Makonde (2007), Kuba (2007, a tribal stencil of sorts), Mafuta (2006), Sangoma (2007), Tsotsi (2007), Utshani, Asakire (2006), Tamboti, Tabwa, Amabhokisi, Baobab, Siyabonga, Inja, Black Tie (2007), Afrimod-Black, Afrimod-Normal, African Elegance, Mtwane, Zulu Shield, Woodcarve, African Pattern Font-01 (2004), African Pattern Font-02 (2004), AfroFlare, Baluba, Sondela (2007), Zaire SF (2007), Centric (2007), African Jazz, Baluba-snake, Bakuba, FadedRose, Aarde (2005), Aarde-Black, Aarda-Brush, Leopard Skin (2005), Groom (2007, brush script), African Jazz (2005), Elegance SF Diamond (2005, art deco), Lualaba Snake (2007), Tshikona (2005, handprinted), African Shield (2005, patterned after the cow-hide shields of the Zulu tribe; made by Merle Scholtz), Genevieve (2007, calligraphic), Iliad (2007), Palm Court (2007, a Bauhaus face by Merle Scholtz), Silver Dagger (2007), Ubuvila (2004), Amaboxi (2007, white on black background), Fable (2007, a type family for wizards), Banquet SCF (2007, brush script), Piazza (2007), Sand Writing (2007), Toulouse (2007, art nouveau handlettering), Utshani (2000, African theme), Comic SCF (2007), Excalibur SCF (2007, beautiful rough-edged hand), Smart Casual (2007, an artsy architectural face by Merle Scholtz), Zest (2007), Brillig (2008, informal hand), Stone Wash (2008, grunge), Buzz (2008), Catholic Girls (2008, script), Phat Chance (2008, organic), Dragon Fyre (2008, calligraphic), Blackout SCF (2008), Button (2008), Fracture (2008, like GlazKrak), Rondalia (2008), Lumina (2008), WriteHand (2008), Bad Girl (2008, grunge), Tertius, Tertius Romantic and Tertius Crenellated (2008, scripts based on the Carolingian hand), Art Nouveau SCF (2008), Figment (2008), Kunjani (2008, African look), Write Now (2008, connected script), African Pattern (2008), Carve (2008, chiseled look), Affable (2008, script), Figment (2008), Aqua Casual (2008, script), Girltalk (2008, curly script), Art Nouveau SCF (2008), Kunjani (2008, African theme), Write Now (2008, flowing script), Leah (2008, handwriting), Stoan (2008), Affable (2008, calligraphic), African Patchwork (2008), Girl Script (2008, curly hand), Hobi (2008, ghastly), Proper (2008), Queen (2008, nice handwriting), Aplomb (2008), Certificate (2008, calligraphic), Tokolshe (2008), Parchemin (2008, parchment look), Greek (2008, chiseled), Bongani (2008), Coral (2008, handwriting), Brazza (2008, brush), Romi (2008, thin calligraphic), Oxamu (2009, a wonderful angular African-themed font), Silken (2009, calligraphic), Blythe (2009, connected script), Ability (2009, calligraphic), Yseult (2009, script), Umoya (2009, organic), Arabesque SCF (2009, a flowing calligraphic face), Miss Donna (2009, script family), Riposte (2009, a dynamic script), Refresh (1950s script), Thought (2009, script family), Mtwane (2009), Grunge Standard (2009), Camy (2009, handprinted), Genial (2009, flowing connected script). [Google]

Silver Graphics

Company run by Roger Hartley, Pennington Gap, VA. The link went dead--its parent is The Design Center / DT&G. Some of the fonts are shown here: the Western fonts Hoedown and Laredo, the blackletter fonts Showcard, Water Lily, the caps font Penelope, the medieval script font Hemingway, the athletic lettering font Yorktown, and display faces Wellington (round hand calligraphy), Rumrunner, Rathskeller, Norseman, Almanac, Apothecary, Applegate, Archer, Archer Shadow, Carrie Lane, Dutch Master, Emporia, Flavius, Gigabyte and Hapsburg. All these are on their 60 USD CD called "The Great American Font Works", which has (had!) 132 nice decorative display fonts in all. In the old days, the font Jaclyn could be downloaded for free. The list of fonts, all made in the period 1992-1995: AceReporter-Bold, AceReporter-BoldItalic, AceReporter-Italic, AceReporter-Normal, Alchemy-Black, Alchemy-Bold, Alchemy-Light, Alchemy-Normal, Almanac, Antigone, Apothecary, Applegate, Archer, ArcherShadow, Aztek, Bandit, BaroniPoster, Bastion-Bold, Bastion-BoldItalic, Bastion-Italic, Bastion-Normal, Bebop, BerniesJukeJoint, BrightSky, CarrieLane, Chiaroscuro, Compute, Delphi, Derby, Duffy, DuffyInline, Durham, DutchMaster, Emporia, Entendre, Enterprise, EuroBold, Fairlane, Fatso, Figment, Flavius-Wide, Flynn, FlynnHollow, FriarTuck, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Gorky, GravureText, GuildSans-Bold, GuildSans-BoldItalic, GuildSans-Italic, GuildSans-Normal, Hapsburg, Hemingway, Hoedown, IBeam-Extruded, Inagodda, Ivanna-Mediaeval-Bold, Ivanna-Mediaeval-BoldItalic, Ivanna-Mediaeval-Italic, Ivanna-Mediaeval, Jaclyn, Jalopy, Jamaica, Jitterbug-Bold, Jitterbug-BoldItalic, Jitterbug-Italic, Jitterbug-Normal, Jitterbug, JitterbugB, JitterbugBO, JitterbugO, Kapanti, Kashmir, Kasparov, KeyWest, Keyclick, Krypton3, LED, Laredo, Layla, MardiGras, Marilyn, Matinee, Metro, Monica, NewWorldText, Norseman, Obsidian, Parade, Peacenik, Penelope, Phoebe, Pompeii, PompeiiB, PompeiiBold, Projectile, Publisher, Quasar, Radical, Rathskellar, Rathskeller, Recycler, RibaldEncounter-Bold, RibaldEncounter-Normal, Roundup, Rumrunner, Sailing-Freehand, Sanford, Satchmo, Scratch, Secret, Serenade, ShowBiz, Showcard, Sigmond, SilverDollar, SkinnyDip, Sophocles (Greekish stone-cut writing), Sport, StCroix, Sunshine-Bold, Sunshine, SunshineB, Superbowl, Taiwan, ThisEndUp, Toons, Tophat, TophatEngraved, TraciJo, TwinTubes, Twizzler, VanRose, WaterLily, Wellington, Westchester, Westside, Yorktown. [Google]

Silvio Napoleone

Silvio is the Toronto-based designer of ITC Napoleone Slab (2001) and the Greek simulation font family ITC Medea (2003). He also published FF Hydra (2002), an extensive family. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1993, and is currently working at Crescent Design Consultants in Toronto. There is a slight question as to whether ITC Medea was based on the source code of UnciTronica (Manfred Klein, AI, 1994). [Google]

sisoowe

Creator of the Flinstone face Thick (2009). [Google]

Spark-Ceresa

Type designer who created Mecanorma Zambesi, an ornate African-looking biline face. To be bought from URW. [Google]

Steve Matteson

Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Printing graduate who lived in California and in Holland, MI, and now resides in Louisville, Colorado. MyFonts page on him. In 1990, he started work at Monotype in Palo Alto to create the Windows truetype core fonts Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New. He stayed with Monotype and then Agfa/Monotype until 2003 (when he was probably fired, but that is only an unreliable guess), directing type development from the design office in Palo Alto, CA. Bio at Agfa/Monotype. He has directed branding projects such as Agilent Technology's corporate sans serif and Microsoft's corporate font family 'Segoe'. At the same time, he was involved in producing bitmaps and outline fonts for cell phones and TV set top environments. He has worked extensively designing Greek, Cyrllic, Thai, Hebrew and Arabic alphabets to satisfy the requirements of customers such as IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, Sun and Sybase. In 2004, he co-founded Ascender Corporation in Northbrook, IL, where he presently is Type Design Director. His typefaces:

• Andale Mono: Andalé Mono (also known as Andale Mono, Monotype.com) is a monospace sans-serif typeface designed for terminal emulation and software development environments. It was originally created by Monotype. Andalé Mono was first distributed as an Internet Explorer 4.0 add-on under the name Monotype.com. In version 1.25 of the font, it was renamed to Andale Mono, distributed with Internet Explorer 5. It is often used by programmers, and is bundled with Mac OS X.
• Andy, his first face, a design based on a friend's lefty handwriting. Published at Agfa's Creative Alliance.
• Ascender Sans Mono (2004-2008), metrically compatible with Courier New. Ascender Serif (2005, 4 styles) is metrically compatible with Times New Roman.
• Ascender Uni Duo is a fixed-width comprehensive Unicode-compatible font available with support for the Unicode Standard. Ascender Uni Duo is a 39MB TrueType font with approximately 53,000 glyphs. The Latin and related glyphs (designed by Steve Matteson) are Sans Serif, with Gothic ideographs drawn in Japanese style, and complementary styles for other scripts. There are also versions of Ascender Uni that provide localized support for Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. OpenType layout support is included for Arabic (initial, medial, final, isolate, and required ligature forms, as well as basic mark positioning), and vertical writing for CJK locales (consisting mostly of Latin, symbol, punctuation, and kana glyph variants). Character Set: Latin-1, WGL Pan-European (Eastern Europe, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic.
• Ayita (2006, Ascender), a decorative sans family co-designed with Jim Ford.
• Bertham Pro (2009), 4 styles including Open, after Goudy's Bertham.
• Blueprint (1993).
• Chicory (2006, Ascender), a calligraphic script face.
• Creepy (Ascender Corporation): a Halloween font designed with Carl Crossgrove.
• Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif Pro: a font family designed in 2006-2007 by Steve Matteson at Ascender for Google's Android project, mobile phone software for handsets.
• Dujour (Ascender Corporation): an art deco revival of the 1930's typeface Independent from the Collette and Dufour typefoundry; compare with the free Independant by Apostrophic Labs.
• Endurance Pro (2009): neo-grotesque sans.
• Fineprint, a design loosely based on his own penmanship ("on a good day"). Another Creative Allinace face.
• Friar Pro (2009): Friar Pro is a revival of Frederic W. Goudy's "Friar" typeface. Goudy described this typeface design as a 'typographic solecism' as it combines a lowercase of half-uncial forms from the 4th through 7th centuries with an uppercase of square capitals from the 4th century. Friar was originally designed in 1937 and used to print a Christmas keepsake produced by Goudy and printer Howard Coggeshall. The fire that burned Goudy's studio in 1939 destroyed the drawings and matrices before many metal fonts were cast. Of all that was lost in the fire, Goudy once said he missed Friar the most.
• Gill Floriated Caps.
• Goudy Ornate (2002). Unsure if Matteson made this or Carl Crossgrove.
• Kootenay Pro (2006, Ascender), a sans family.
• LeBeau: signage font.
• Lindsey Pro (2006, Ascender): a cursive script based on his niece's hand.
• Louisville Script (2008): Ordinary handwriting.
• Massif Pro (2006, Ascender).
• Mayberry (2008, ascender): a 14-font sans family with extremely large x-height and strange proportions. Mayberry semibold is free.
• McZee, a Microsoft symbols font.
• Pericles Pro (2005): An Ascender face based on the work of Robert Foster who created the original for American Type Founders in 1934), a 433-glyph OpenType font for Greek simulation or stone cut looks.
• Pescadero Pro (2005): a serif face.
• Rockwell Team (Ascender): an athletic lettering face.
• Rebus script (2009): done with Terry Weinzierl.
• Scooter Script (2009, Ascender): comic book style face.
• Titanium (2006), an organic font.
• Truesdell, a revival and extension of the "lost" Goudy types cut in 1931. Also at Crative Alliance. Also includes Truesdell Sorts.
• Tucker Script (2009, Ascender): ordinary handwriting face.
• Twentieth Century Poster (2002), an art deco display font straight from the late 1920s.

stillerhimmel

German designer of the stone chisel font Capitalis Goreanis (2009). [Google]

Stone age fonts

By stone age fonts (this page), we mean fonts that could have been carved in stone by primitive men--these are necessarily angular faces with few curves. A prime example is Adobe's Lithos, designed by Carol Twombly. There is a way of looking at these typefaces as faux Greek (or: simulating Greek), as ancient Greek inscriptions have that same angular construction. [Google]

Stone-age look and chiseled typefaces
[Manfred Klein]

Adonis-Bold, Athena, AthenaHandwritten, Cuneate, CuneyChars, Diogenes, GreeKish, HellasDust, MCapitals, MouseStrokes3D, MouseStrokesCont, MouseStrokesInverseShadow, OldGreekButtons, Papercuts, PetitexBut-Bold, PetitexBut-Light, PetitixBut-Normal, Pompeji-Black, PompejiMK, PompejiPetit, QuickGreekBold, Rehacles-Light, Rehacles-Medium, RomaCesare-Normal, RomaMonumentalBC, SteinAntik-Bold, SteinAntik-Light, SteinAntik, StrokeBorn-Bold, StrokeBorn, StrokesFonds, StrokesFonds, StrokesNBullets, Strokey-Bold, Strokey-VeryBold, Strokey-VeryVeryBold, StrokeyHand, Tremolo-DemiBold, Tremolo, Twiggy-Bold, Twiggy-Light, Zyprian, JuliusC2, QuickJuliusC, AntikAlphaBeta (2006), MKGreco (2006), PetroglyphMarks (2006), MKGrecoExtraBold (2006), Stone Age Bats Bold (2006), Schonan Black (2006), Petroglyphs07 (2007), DadasStoneage02 (2007), AdonisGreekSquares (2007), Corrodet Classicaps Black (2007), JahnsCaps (2007). [Google]

Terrestrial Design
[Carl Crossgrove]

Terrestrial Design is Carl Crossgrove's web site. Crossgrove graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in Printing /Typography, and has shown a life-long interest in calligraphy and lettering. Now based in San Francisco, he has worked at Adobe, where he designed the Multiple Master handprinted (semi-Celtic or stone-carved) families Reliq, Reliq Std Active and Reliq Std ExtraActive in 2002, and where, with the help of Kim Buker Chansler and Carol Twombly, he codesigned the Western fonts (Adobe's Wood Series) Origami, Pepperwood, Ponderosa, Rosewood and Zebrawood. He was also active at ITC (ITC Minska, 1996) and Agfa Monotype (Origami, a Menhart or Preissig style family; and Mundo Sans, 2002: a 14-weight humanistic family, which includes a fantastic hairline sans). Other fonts include Wakerobin, and Scripsit, which was named Judges' Choice in Serif Magazine's 1996 type design competition. His projects include Tarantella Script, Ranunculus, Penmark, Curlz. Beorcana (2006) is a new 28-part serifless roman in the style of Optima or faces like Albertus, Stellar, Tiepolo, Barbedor, Lydian and Amira. In the making since 1992, it was released by Monotype in 2006. Stephen Coles states: Beorcana is Crossgrove's best and most complete design yet. I can declare from personal experience that it is beautifully drawn and sets very well, small or large, thanks to three optical size masters. It will be a hit with fans of calligraphic sans serifs like Optima. It won an award at TDC2 2007 and was one of the best types of 2007. Florian Hardwig writes: The typeface has no serifs, yet its the opposite of a grotesque. It exhibits the rhythmic contrast and the humanist proportions of a renaissance roman. Its letters please with vividly dancing forms in every detail. However, this obvious calligraphic derivation never seems inappropriately fancy even the spruce swash italics are down-to-earth in a convenient way. The Thin isn't anemic and the Ultra isn't heavy-handed. Crossgrove really knows his stuff. Nebulon (2008) is an organic face which won an award at TDC2 2009. Linotype page. Adobe's page. MyFonts page. FontShop link. [Google]

The PAP Typefoundry
[Theod. Paraskevopoulos]

Major Greek typefoundry, est. 1956, which reached its peak in the mid 1960s. Part of its 1964 type specimen catalog was republished in Hyphen (vol. 4(1)), 2003. They made 176 different Latin alphabets and even more Greek character sets. It was located in Athens and run by Theod. Paraskevopoulos. There are nice selections of Greek stone-cut style faces, script faces (Kerkyraika, Olympiaka), modern type (Neukro 1960, Perfekt), Egyptian faces, sans faces (Korinthiaka, Nettas, Iphigeneias), brush faces (Arcadia III), text faces (Pelasgika, Elzevir), fun display type (Byzantina, Aiolika Stena, Astoria, Orpheus, Greco 1100B), Western type (Epidaurou), caps display type (Nikes, Olumpic Leuka, Ioulias, Rodiaka, Bersaliana Stena), unicase (Athenaika) and typewriter type (Makedonika Leuka). [Google]

Toto

Filipino designer of Art Jam MakingFaces (2003, a great dingbat font based on designs found in Image Club Graphics' volume 30, called Art Jam), Town Sketches Bandstand (2003, based on volume 35 (Sketches On The Town)), Nabel Initials (2005, based on Marwan Aridi's Nabel from the Initial Caps Vol I), Anabel (2005, a simpler version of Nabel Initials), Solo Ornaments (2003, based on Solo's books), k22 You Know Who (2004, dingbats based on Dark Mark from the Harry Potter books), Gidget Cameo (2004), Blister Caps (2005, based on the Blister set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. 1), k22 Xerxes (2003, a stone carving typeface), RegalAlt, RegalInitials (2005, based on the Regal set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), SpringAlt, SpringInitials (2005, based on the Spring set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. I), VictorianaAlt, VictorianaInitials (2005, based on the Victoriana set from the Aridi Initial Caps Vol. III), Tiscan Initials (2005, based on more of Marwan Aridi's alphabets), Napoli Initials (2009, more Aridi capitals), Gothic Initials (2009, Aridi-based), Romant Initials (2009, Aridi-based), Royal Initials (2009, aridi-based), Stone Initials (2009, also based on Aridi), Dover Birds (based on the Birds Alphabet Coloring Book by Ruth Soffer, Dover Publications). Alternate URL. [Google]

Tour de Force
[Slobodan Jelesijevic]

Slobodan Jelesijevic (b. 1951) is a Serb type designer, born and based in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia. He graduated with a degree in graphic communication and lettering from the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade. He is a typeface and graphic designer and illustrator, and teaches graphic communication at the Faculty of Art in Nis, Serbia. In 2009, he created ITC Nova Lineta (chiseled look font) and ITC Pino (a bouncy light-hearted face designed for a children's magazine). Also in 2009, he and Dusan Jelesijevic founded Tour de Force, where one can buy Belco (2009, sans and slab serif by Slobodan Jelesijevic; now also at T26), Punkerro Crust (2009, delicious scratchy type), Qiltray (2009, handwriting for long texts), Horrorama (rough brush signpainting face), Rough the Type (2009, handprinted), and Znak Symbols (2009). MyFonts link. Agfa/Monotype link. [Google]

Typodermic
[Ray Larabie]

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

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

Wilson Thomas

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

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

Wilton Foundry
[Robbie de Villiers]

The Wilton Foundry in Wilton, CT, est. by Robbie de Villiers in 2003, published Chamber (2009, serif face), Ciseaux (2009), Terzo (2009, calligraphic), Werk (2009, 12-style sans family), Velouté (2008, script), Diario (2009, blackboard script), Carnegie Classic (2009, calligraphic), Ziro (2008, almost a comic book font), Suzie Q (2007, handprinted), Brasserie (2007, connected script), Chateau (2007, calligraphic script), Pointe (2007, a blackboard script), Atto Sans (2007), Santa Cruz (2007, a serifed headline face), Marzipan (2007, a whimsical script), Spark (2007), Fete (2006, formal script), Flax (2006), Cyan (2006, a compact serif face reminiscent of Trajan), Ceres (2009, related to Cyan), Cyan Sans (2006), Petronella (2006, medieval script), Pezzo (2006, calligraphic script), Canette (2006, calligraphic script), Vecta Serif (2005), Vecta (2005, sans family; also published in 2006 as Vecta DT (DTP Types)), Cinnamon (2005, children's handwriting), Cilantro (2005, fun handwriting, and its niece Hanna (2008)), Misspink (2005, stone-age simplicity), Brown Fox (2005, script), Celsius (2005, felt tip face), Plumage (2007, formal high contrast calligraphy), Plato (2005, faded roman caps), Diplomat (2006, calligraphic), Duet (2004, calligraphic; also published in 2006 as Duet DT (DTP Types)), Spark (2005), Anno Rex (2005), Hampton, SCelsius, Gluestick, Duet Bold (2005, calligraphic), Duet-Flourishes (2004), Duet2Deux, Duet-Regular (2005), Nobodi Bodoni (2005), About Face (2004, script), Benjamin (2003, a geometric sans), Paella (2005), Boondoggle (2005, curly face), Monotonose (2004), Password (2004), LoosieGoosie (2004), Pippin (2005, transitional serif), Carnegie (2004, calligraphic), LatextBold (2003), ModusBoldItalic (2003), Nantucket (2004), Nicolas (2005), Oslo (2005, a legible sans family), Sepia (faded look), Belair. [Google]

Women's Font Collective

Dead link. These gorgeous pages had a link and/or an archive for many female type designers.

• Lacey Kavanaugh: Huxley, Washi, VeryShortFuse.
• CybaPee: Hasenchartbreaker, Greex (Greek simulation), Postmoderne Fraktur.
• Zal: Caplines.
• Layla: High Plains Drifter.
• Andi Darnell: Whitemouse, OutOfInk, Myopia, Hurry Up.
• Solar Sister (Isabelle Trolio): Big Mister C, Chubb, Chang And Eng, Stanky.
• Leigh: LeighScratch.
• Gabrielle Gaither: Renaissance Scrolls, Keagan, Hooters.
• Ann Stretton: Blotto, Ann Crawlers.
• Patricia Lillie: Poptics series.
• Aileen Lau (of Stimuleye Fonts: Trubble, BungleCity, VanillaBoys.
• Anke Arnold (of Anke Art: Butterbrotpapier, Manko (is this a Japanese word, Anke?), Tafelschrift.
• Charlotte Dymock (of Blonde Fonts): Weimar, ShadyLady, Underwater, Matrix.
• Annie Vega: Annifont, Alcohole, Addict, Happy.
• GyrlFriday (Heather Daniels): Luftwanker, Gyrlfriday, Watertoy, Singlegyrl, Shower, Hubbly.
• Jen Johnston: Twisted.
• Jo the Webmistress: Dorothy Parker, Testosterone, Squaresville, FloppyDisk, ToolboxMetal.