2008 Foundries Added
New Releases Foundries Added Fonts Added
Find a new favorite font as we premier the latest typefaces and type families.
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mur
December 2008
mur is a design collective whose members have backgrounds in fine art, graffiti, graphic design, web design, illustration, and architecture. Despite these diverse backgrounds, everyone at mur shares a love for authentic and unique typography. Most of the mur typefaces evolved out of projects that call for fonts, but something new and unique – a font that only exists in heads of the mur collective. With a complete disregard for time, money, and personal health, they go to work and develop fonts that they would want to buy and use themselves.
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Jan Fromm
December 2008
Jan Fromm is a communication designer from Berlin, Germany. Although he often works on corporate and web design projects, he primarily concentrates on typeface development. Since 2003 he has worked alongside with Lucas de Groot at LucasFonts.
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Rimmer Type Foundry
December 2008
Jim Rimmer is this craftsman and more. He has designed typefaces for his own books that he designs, Illustrates, prints and occasionally writes himself.
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Matthew Boyle
December 2008
From the moment he was able to hold a crayon, Matthew Boyle has been a compulsive doodler. The world of fonts has been a fixation of Matt's for several decades. He only recently decided to start making his own. Look for more fonts to come.
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Thinkdust
November 2008
Thinkdust is an independent studio founded in 2005 by Alex Haigh. Alex has produced work for clients such as Nike®, Volkswagen®, Mars,® Sony Playstation®, and Ministry of Sound. Alex works on a freelance basis under his guise Thinkdust, as well as working alongside London digital agencies such as Tribal DDB.
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Brass Fonts
November 2008
BrassFonts, from Cologne, represent a concentric corrective to typographical junk. The mission and the goal of BrassFonts are to discover and design typefaces that do more than simply transport the content of the text.
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Type Together
October 2008
Veronika Burian and José Scaglione joined forces in 2006 creating an independent type foundry - TypeTogether. It developed out of their desire to publish high quality typefaces and to collaborate on new type projects – hence the name. The quality of their work has been recognized in several international competitions, including Type Director Club (TDC) and European Design (ED) Awards.
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Sherwood Type
October 2008
The Sherwood Collection features the historical type designs of Ted Staunton. The collection contains an extensive array of handwriting styles plus classical Roman, Celtic, Medieval, and Blackletter types.
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DS Type
October 2008
DSType was founded in late 1994 by Dino dos Santos and since then designed typefaces for several corporations, magazines and cultural projects. Graduated in Graphic Design by ESAD, Matosinhos and awarded with a Master in Multimedia Arts at FBAUP, Porto, teaches Typographic Studies at ESAD Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Matosinhos.
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Scriptorium
October 2008
Digital foundry based in Austin, Texas, run by David Nalle. Scriptorium offers hundreds of mostly decorative and calligraphic fonts, based on historical and folk sources.
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International House of Fonts (IHOF)
October 2008
International House of Fonts (IHOF), a division of P22, is a type boutique that showcases distinctive type designs and designers from around the world. The IHOF collection embodies a sensitivity towards historical lettering, while introducing unique and contemporary typefaces.
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TipografiaRamis
September 2008
TipografiaRamis font foundry was established in 2004 to market the digital fonts designed by Ramiz Guseynov, a professional graphic designer with a strong passion for typography.
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Canada Type
September 2008
Canada Type is an independent digital type design and development firm based in Toronto. After its humble artistic start with a few retail typefaces and some custom publishing work in early 2004, the quality and affordability of Canada Type's work made it popular with graphic designers and creative agencies all around the world.
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Mean Tangerine
August 2008
It’s hip to be square with Mean Tangerine. Handcrafted by Tyler Young, Mean Tangerine typefaces are built pixel by pixel on a grid that melds seamlessly with pixel-based displays.
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Haiku Monkey
August 2008
Haiku Monkey Foundry is the home for Alec Julien's typographic creations. The foundry specializes in handwritten and brushdrawn faces, as well as display fonts that excel at large sizes.
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Cubo Fonts
July 2008
CUBO FONTS follows the lead of MASSIN and Jean-François PORCHEZ, and produces original fonts for different medium, as books, websites and visual identities for several firms.
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Highground
July 2008
Highground a.k.a. Full Time Artists has been providing custom lettering & artwork since 1993. Our font offerings center around authentic graffiti art & urban styles. All of our fonts are hand written or drawn & each font is released under our official Graffiti Fonts® label. We strive to create fonts that are widely useable while staying true to the root Hip-Hop culture that drives our designs.
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GreenPrint Technologies, LLC
July 2008
GreenPrint Technologies, LLC is the maker of GreenPrint World, Home Premium and GreenPrint Enterprise software designed to reduce waste in home and office printing. GreenPrint also created the font EverGreen, whose characters were designed to allow more words to fit on a printed page
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Dutchfonts
July 2008
DutchFonts is the type foundry set up by Ko Sliggers (Dutch) to develop and sell his typedesigns. A constant characteristic in the typefaces he develops is the aim to bring back irregularity as an articulation of a personal, handmade, human approach and expression that is more interested in handiwork and craftmanship.
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Hiscott
July 2008
The Hiscott Foundry is essentially one person, Jonathan Hiscott. With most of his fonts so far his goal has been to make unique and classy display oriented fonts. To do this he gives himself the same simple challenge: pick a specific shape from an object, and staying within certain limitations of that shape design variations from it into a readable font.
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TypeBank
July 2008
TypeBank began digitally developing Japanese typefaces in a time when competitors were still tracing metal type to produce electronic copies. Today, the company has achieved a solid reputation among display device manufactures, Web designers, publishers and graphic designers.
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Club Type
June 2008
Adrian Williams began his career converting many established metal designs for the then new filmsetting devices in 1969. He founded CLUB TYPE in 1985 to offer a range of exclusive typefaces.
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Roy Cole Typography
June 2008
Roy Cole typography was formed in 2003 by the British typographer Roy Cole, who studied under Emil Ruder at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basle, Switzerland, in the early 1960s. Its objective is to further develop the san serif style of typefaces.
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LetterPerfect
June 2008
Garrett Boge, an accomplished lettering artist, developed this collection of typefaces for graphic designers. These diverse choices can add style and enhance any layout.
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FontMesa
May 2008
Fonts from the wild west and then some.
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Planetco
May 2008
Since 1989 Planetco has been the publishing arm of Las Vegas artist Mat Planet. Initially concerned in high-end printing with letterpress, woodcut and hand lettering, it branched into creating and selling its own brand of digital typefaces in 1998.
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Boutros International
April 2008
Boutros International, headed by Mourad and Arlette Boutros, has led the field of Arabic creativity, typography, calligraphy and design for more than 40 years.
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Paragraph
March 2008
Paragraph is a foundry of Jan Schmoeger, a Czech-born Australian designer. Jan has been fascinated by fonts since his childhood in Prague. having spent most of his working life as a graphic/book designer and a part-time lecturer at a Melbourne university, he now plans to divide his time between typography and sailing.
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Just Another Foundry
March 2008
Tim Ahrens has studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe and Typeface Design in Reading. He works as a type designer and architect. In 2000 Linotype published his sans serif text face Aroma. In 2005 he founded Just Another Foundry, which distributes his display faces Mashine and Zalamander, the sans serif Facit and Lapture, a revival and redesign of Albert Kapr’s Leipziger Antiqua.
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Lebbad Design
March 2008
Jim Lebbad is a graphic designer specializing in typographic design and handlettering. He has created award-winning designs for domestic and international clients including Arista Records, Nickelodeon, Campbell Soup Company and Simon & Schuster Publishing, to name a few. Upon graduating from Kutztown University, Jim headed straight to New York where he started his career at New American Library as a book cover designer. While at NAL, Jim's handlettering skills won awards from the Type Directors Club. He then moved on to Berkley Putnam Publishing where he was named Art Director. While there, his art direction on numerous covers won awards from the Society of Illustrators. Jim created Lebbad Design in 1981 and continues creating work for a variety of clients both large and small.
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The Northern Block
March 2008
Jonathan Hill graduated from Newcastle College of Art & Design in 1994. He initially worked in print producing event graphics for the Leadmill in Sheffield. Jonathan joined Mainartery in 1999; a progressive design studio based in London working solely for the music industry. Over a 3-year period Jonathan produced a range of unique packaging that crossed boundaries between 2D and 3D media. Clients include R02, Universal Music, EMI and Azuli Records. In January 2006 he set up his own studio under the banner The Northern Block to concentrate on the development of new and original typefaces.
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Arabetics
March 2008
Established in 2004, Arabetics is a small foundry specializing primarily in the design of simplified, non-traditional, Arabetic (extended Arabic) fonts. It was founded by type designer Saad D. Abulhab to produce fonts based on his Mutamathil Type Style design model which is intended for the creation of generic, compact, non calligraphic fonts.
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Virus
February 2008
Working together for the last six years the now infamous team of Jonathan Barnbrook and Marcus McCallion has produced an extraordinary range of typefaces. Greatly influenced by particular cultural or sociopolitical projects, the various typefaces continually strive to introduce alternative yet historically informed designs. Elegant and beautifully presented, the Virus collection brings many of these unusual, sometimes disturbing, typefaces together for the first time.
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