2007 Foundries Added
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Dynacomware
December 2007
Since its beginnings in 1987, Dynacomware has become the leading font developer in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) market. As early as the mid 90's, Dynacomware fonts had already been chosen by Microsoft and Apple to be the system fonts in their respective Chinese operating systems.
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Aviation Partners
October 2007
Aviation Partners (AVP) was founded as a presentation design company in London UK in the 1980s. Digital font creation started as a supporting service but has gradually become a core, almost obsessive activity. Designer Nicholas Garner says that the purpose is to have fun creating everyday fonts that he and his colleagues will want to use, fonts that lend an edge to their print, web and display designs.
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Font Garden
October 2007
Font Garden has been online since 1999 and made fonts since 2001. Font Garden is a one person foundry and all fonts are hand drawn by its founder, Ellinor Rap, or their customers and friends. Handwritings are so exciting since there aren't two that look exactly alike - they are like fingerprints but have the ability to express moods and personality.
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Samuelstype
October 2007
Stockholm-based Samuelstype is owned and run by Hans Samuelson, a graphic designer with a background in calligraphy. A graphic designer by profession, he has been active in lettering design for over fifteen years, working mainly with package design and company profiling. Many of his font designs, however, have grown out of product identity design projects.
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Borges Lettering
October 2007
Charles Borges de Oliveira started his career as an apprentice to a master sign painter. He soon began to appreciate letters and layouts, and knew that he wanted to concentrate solely on being a Lettering Artist. In 2007, Charles formed Borges Lettering & Design. A Lettering & Design Studio that offers high quality Hand Lettering, Type Design, and Graphic Design.
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Studiocharlie
September 2007
Studiocharlie works in product design, graphics, type design and video. They are sometimes developed from signs and letters linked to our graphic and comunication projects (for ex. FontFoliae, Stereotype, Gattofont), whilst others are the object of specific research. In general we develop fonts for traditional typographic use like word processing (for ex. Superbastone or Csuni, which received a special commendation for the 20th edition of the Compasso d'Oro ADI Prize), or more "playful" fonts, for titles, logos and contemporary graphics (for ex. Cavillus, Carpenteria), and dingbat fonts (Gattofont, Catacumbes, Charlie Dog, FontFoliae). Three people founded Studiocharlie in 2002, and work on the development of all the team's projects: Gabriele Rigamonti, Carla Scorda, Vittorio Turla.
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Comicraft
September 2007
Comicraft was founded by Richard Starkings and John Roshell. They are credited with pioneering digital lettering in the comic book industry. Today, Comicraft’s lettering methods and processes are now the widely accepted industry standard. Some of the Comicraft studio’s clients include; DARK HORSE COMICS, MARVEL COMICS, MAD MAGAZINE, NICKELODEON and NBC to name a few. The Comicraft foundry’s fonts have been featured in millions of comic books and magazines, and also featured in high profile movies including TOY STORY 2 and SKY HIGH.
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TypeArt
September 2007
The TypeArt Foundry, Inc. has been creating fonts for over 15 years. Graphic designer Lloyd Springer decided to create a series of cool, interesting typefaces which he hoped would appeal to his graphic design peers in the advertising and publishing world. His wanted to create a expansive collection of exciting designs which would cover a wide range of styles, so that the collection would have something suitable for any kind of layout project. The TypeArt Library contains a wide variety of fonts including: grunge, comic book, scripts and decorative faces, plus some more traditional serif and sans serif designs.
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ArFF - Aruban Font Foundry
August 2007
Aruban Font Foundry also known as ArFF is a one-man font foundry. According to its creator, George Ryan, the designs that are created and produced by ArFF are done “because I like them” and for no other reason.
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Scholtz Fonts
August 2007
Scholtz Fonts, started by Anton Scholtz in 1997, specializes in "African flavor" fonts. The foundry is based in Durban, South Africa, where the Zulu culture of the region has greatly influenced the font design. As a graphic designer, he became aware of how few available fonts were suitable for African inspired design. It was to meet this lack that he initially started work in typography. His wife, Merle Scholtz, has long worked in the field of African patterns and they have collaborated in producing the most extensive font-based collections of African patterns. He has since branched into the genres of art deco and grunge fonts.
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Wilton Foundry
August 2007
Wilton Foundry was created by Robbie de Villiers in 2003. His fascination and love lie with the challenge of designing fonts that are beautiful not just as individual letters, but in the combinations that form words. He considers it a huge privilege to design fonts that become messengers of both small and large thinking.
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Discourse Type
August 2007
Discourse Type is a new foundry setup in 2007 by Jonathan Bennett. The foundries aim is to create modern typefaces that take advantage of advanced OpenType features allowing designers to have more choice and control of their typefaces. Discourse Type is based in South Wales and all their fonts are designed to meet the bi-lingual needs of Welsh designers.
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Typo5
August 2007
Typo5, a design studio and type foundry was established in Columbia in 2000, by Germán Olaya. Their fonts have been used worldwide in magazines, music industry, snowboard designs, books, TV, and hollywood movies, and have received accolades from around the world.
Typo5´s fonts and work has been featured in numerous books and magazines in USA, UK, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Holland, México and France.
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Volcano Type
July 2007
Volcano Type is a independent font foundry based in Karlsruhe, Germany. Their font designs are between digital and analogue.
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Wordshape
July 2007
Wordshape, operated by Ian Lyman is a boutique type foundry based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Neda Todorovic
July 2007
Designs from Neda Todorovic were inspired from old books on Cyrillic calligraphy. The letters are drawn to look like they were picked from a natural enviroment; especially flower and trees, so that they appear fresh and graceful. The results, letters with simplified floral details.
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Blambot
July 2007
Since being founded in 1999 by Graphic Designer/Illustrator, Nate Piekos, Blambot has become a staple in the comic creation industry. His fonts have appeared in books published by Marvel, Dark Horse, Oni, Image and independent comics world-wide. Blambot has licensed font designs to such companies as Microsoft, The Gap and Sierra Software, as well as being the type designer for Mike “Madman” Allred, a Harvey Award Winning comic artist.
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Intellecta Design
July 2007
Intellecta Design is a Brazilian type foundry that specializes in typographical research and revivals of ancient typefaces and handwriting styles. Many of Intellecta Design’s fonts are based on research of historical churches, museums and similar institutions – or from detailed study of very old Brazilian documents.
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CastleType
July 2007
CastleType has been providing designers with some of the "best display fonts available" (MacBible, 4th Edition) since 1989. Its founder, Jason Castle, continues to expand the CastleType collection with an eclectic mix of art deco revivals, classic styles inspired by ancient sources, decorative fonts based on ethnic motifs, and a growing number of CastleType originals.
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TypeSETIt
July 2007
Font Designer Rob Leuschke has been creating lettering and typographic designs for the social expression industry since 1983. Now, his foundry, TypeSETit offers Rob’s unique and highly stylized font design creations.
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Terrestrial Design
March 2007
Terrestrial Design is a type, lettering and type design studio based in San Francisco, California. Carl Crossgrove, sole designer of Terrestrial Design, has pursued an interest in letterforms of all kinds for more than 30 years. Terrestrial Design combines an organic, humanistic, experimental approach with a calligraphic background.
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Breauhare Fonts
February 2007
Breauhare Fonts based in Virginia Beach, VA was established in 2006 by designer Harry Warren. Harry's designs are created based on ideas and experiences from his youth. His designs have a sentimental and nostalgic significance.
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