2011 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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Pixilate
November 2011
Kemie Guaida started making letters at age 4, but it took many more years before she discovered the fun in digitizing them. Since 1998, she has been crafting fonts out of her and other people's handwriting and doodles and distributing them under the name Pixilate. She loves making unique fonts with extended character sets hoping others will find them as useful as she finds them fun to make. Her favorite letter is the lowercase g.
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Synthview
October 2011
Synthview Type Design is a one man project of the independent graphic and type designer Jan Tonellato, currently living in Paris, France.
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Stereotypes
October 2011
Stereotypes is a Germany-based type foundry showcasing fonts designed by Sascha Timplan. Though Sascha wants the foundry to appear new and fresh alongside large international type foundries, he has the intent and the ability to draw glyphs with an elegant and playful characters too. The expression “Stereotypes” is about the love of typography and music – it has nothing to do with cliché ideas!
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La Goupil
September 2011
The foundry “La Goupil” was created in Paris in 2007 by two friends passionate about urban art, hip hop and graffiti. One works in advertising, the other in the cinema, occasionally they take time off to work on new lettering.
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Matt Frost Type
September 2011
Matt Frost, an independent designer since 1995 has worked extensively in magazines, advertising and film posters. His clients range from the Quay Brothers, National Geographic Magazine, Men's Health to Nissan®. Among many awards, Frost won top place at the 2001 SXSW interactive awards, and a Best Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers from the American Library Association for the book Angst: Teen Verses from the Edge.
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TypeFaith Fonts
September 2011
TypeFaith*fonts is the typedesk of WAT ontwerpers, a designers collective founded by Leon Hulst and Talma Joachimsthal. For more then ten years TypeFaith*fonts has been designing fonts and digitizing old type and handtype.
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Edik Ghabuzyan
September 2011
Edik has worked on creating Armenian computer fonts since 1987. He has created about 200 fonts and designed many books, magazines and newspapers. Twenty six of his fonts were awarded different prizes at local and International Type Design competitions. Two of his fonts Mariam and Grapalat have been adopted by the government of the Republic of Armenia as official fonts for State offices. He currently works for the National Book Chamber of Armenia as the head of the section of Creating and Saving Armenian Fonts.
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Typesenses
September 2011
Typesenses believes that there is a type for each occasion. So this foundry is keen on curves, details and ends in order to make them special. It is all about typographical personality. Sabrina Lopez, Typesenses creator, has found typography interesting at the University of Buenos Aires, where she studies Graphic Design and where she met Maximiliano Sproviero, her partner and friend. She is grateful to him for encouraging this project, for sharing his knowledge and for helping her to design her first type. Now, Typesenses wants to share its future success with him.
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Cas van de Goor Design
August 2011
Cas van de Goor Design is the personal font foundry of the self-taught designer Cas. Apart from graphic design, he is interested in many other fields of design, including architecture, industrial design and transportation design.
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Wooden Type Foundry
August 2011
At our foundry, Wooden Type Fonts, we have attempted to recreate in digital format the best and most interesting wooden type face designs of the 19th century.
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Motter Fonts
August 2011
Motter fonts is a family business. In 1952 Othmar Motter, together with Hans Kaiser and Sylvester Licka, founded the graphic art studio Vorarlberger Graphik (VG). In 1999 Peter and Siegmund Motter, together with Rudolf Klapka founded Motter & Klapka OeG in Vienna, then in 2005 they relocated to Dornbirn. Their focus is on corporate design and corporate communication.
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FS Designs
July 2011
FS Design is a Swiss label with a neat and unique assortment of creative styles and types. All font-families are technologically state-of-the-art developments, accurately drawn and proper in their technical realization.The well developed font-families include a large amount of font styles as well as special characters of both Eastern and Western European languages, typographical ligatures and figure sets. Their accurate metrics and kerning ensure an homogenous text color.
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The Font Company
July 2011
The Font Company was founded in 1988 in Phoenix, Arizona and digitized a collection of fonts that include historical revivals and contemporary designs. Their collection includes a wide variety of type styles such as display, scripts, blackletter, titling, and calligraphy.
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LayarBahtera
June 2011
LayarBahtera is a Malaysian group, led by Mr. Shahjurul Azmi, who produced The Doomsday Alert through letters and formal writing. For the Alert, a few fresh fonts have been produced by the LayarBahtera designer team.
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SelfBuild Type Foundry
June 2011
SelfBuild Type Foundry is a small independent type foundry based in York, England, specialising in contemporary display typefaces and pixel typefaces that aim to find a better balance between function and style. Their first typefaces were released in 1998. Since then their collection has grown steadily with the addition of a range of pixel fonts designed for usage on websites and other screen applications.
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Newlyn
June 2011
Newlyn is the font foundry of Miles Newlyn, world renowned typographer and designer, specializing in typography for large organizations. Newlyn's fonts have become a way of sharing his experience of engaging the audiences of big brands, and the need to broaden those audiences.
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Durotype
June 2011
Durotype is an innovative font design and publishing house, focusing on interesting typefaces of both new designs and revivals of older designs. Many Durotype typefaces are very versatile: they have a lot of weights, and can be used both as text and display font. All Durotype fonts support the 18 most important European languages using the Latin alphabet. Durotype introduced UltraPrecision™ font technology. All Durotype fonts are UltraPrecision™ fonts, giving a higher precision than most present-day OpenType® fonts. This higher precision translates into a better quality of the characters, when a font is printed or displayed in a large size.
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Tiponautas
June 2011
Tiponautas is an international collective founded by Luis Alonso (Spain), Chalie Zinno (Argentina) and Ricardo Santos (Portugal) in 2011. Its members collaborate to carry out different typographic projects. Tiponautas designs their own typefaces in both the broadest and most specific sense, ranging from specifically designed characters, lettering projects, as well as its use in different graphic design fields, such as editorial design or corporate identity.
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Hallmark Design Collection
June 2011
For more than four decades, Hallmark Cards has created typefaces influenced by art, fashion and popular culture. While these fonts were intended specifically for proprietary use in greeting cards, framed sentiments and other forms of social expression, now you can bring that rich tradition of type design to each of your projects and creations. Hallmark offers fonts reflecting a wide range of visual styles from timeless calligraphic letters to handwritten characters with a contemporary look. Use Hallmark fonts to bring just the right personal touch to your cards, scrapbook pages, posters, newsletters and advertisements—and anything you can imagine.
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Adriprints Press
May 2011
Adriprints Press was founded in 2008 by illustrator and designer Adriana Hernandez, trained as a designer and printmaker, hand-lettering and typography has often been part of her work. Her work in typography features handwriting, symbol, and casual everyday fonts.
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Bean & Morris
May 2011
Bean & Morris Fonts is a collaboration of two of the most prolific personalities in Australian lettering, logo design and typography: Russell Bean and Keith Morris. The Bean & Morris font collection features a creative range of typefaces including text, display and script fonts.
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Characters Font Foundry
May 2011
Founded in 2004, Characters Font Foundry is an independent type foundry, designing, manufacturing and selling high quality typefaces for creative designers. Besides being a self-taught type designer, René Verkaart is the co-founder of Stoere Binken Design a renowned Dutch graphic design studio based in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Dunwich Type Founders
May 2011
Dunwich Type Founders is located in an old factory in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Led by James Puckett, Dunwich Type Founders creates typefaces with a historical perspective. Their designs are the product of research, study, and relentless proofing. When James is not designing typefaces, he reviews books about graphic design and teaches design at Fordham University.
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exljbris
May 2011
exljbris is a font foundry based in Arnhem, the Netherlands. It’s the personal foundry of self-taught type designer Jos Buivenga.
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Stephen Rapp
May 2011
Stephen Rapp has been a lettering artist for over twenty years. He was a recipient of several awards including: the Hermann Zapf Scholarship Award in 1997 and the TDC "Excellence in Type Design Award" in 2009 for Montague Script. Stephen’s work has been exhibited in numerous publications including Letter Arts Review, Scripsit, Bound and Lettered, “Modern Mark Making” by Quarry books, and Typography 30 by The Type Directors Club.
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Sudtipos
May 2011
Sudtipos is an award-winning type foundry based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Sudtipos font collection features the work of four talented co-founders: Ale Paul, Ariel Garofalo, Claudio Pousada and Diego Giaccone. Sudtipos is most well known for its amazing variety of script typefaces, most of which contain extensive OpenType typographic features.
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Cannibal
May 2011
FONTS.GR is a Greek Digital Type Foundry, established in 1995, with the aim to enrich and renew the Greek typography. Started as Cannibal by the designers Panos (Panagiotis) Haratzopoulos, Yannis Kouroudis and Yannis Karlopoulos, cooperated at times with many designers, equally skilled in typography and with a significant contribution to graphic design and visual arts.
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Faberfonts
May 2011
Faberfonts is an independent digital type foundry in Hungary founded by Bela Frank in 2010. Since they opened, they have created original type designs in high-end quality and format (OpenType) as well as custom fonts, typography, lettering and graphic design.
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phospho
May 2011
phospho was founded in 2008 by Vienna based graphic designer, Roland Hörmann. The type foundry's first releases were inspired from historic shop signs and reflect Vienna's typographic individuality.
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2D Typo
May 2011
2D Typo is the part of 2D Studio that concentrates on font design.
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vLetter, Inc.
May 2011
vLetter, Inc. is the leading international producer of custom handwriting fonts and the only producer of custom cursive handwriting fonts, with over 90,000 unique typefaces created since 1989. Their patented SmartFont™ technology utilizing advanced features of OpenType® provides dynamic contextual fonts that vary shapes and connections according to where the letters occur within a word. Their fonts have been licensed by both Apple® and Microsoft, such as the Dakota™ font in the current Apple operating system. vLetter counts among its customers many prominent celebrities, politicians and syndicated cartoonists. Their headquarters and primary production facility is located in Hood River, Oregon, USA.
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Grummedia
April 2011
The Grummedia foundry based in Ilkley, UK was founded by English designer Graham Blakelock. Graham came from a creative graphics background originally producing typefaces for use in the creation of role playing material. He is now a freelance designer, publishing fonts under the Grummedia name.
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PeGGO Fonts
April 2011
PeGGO Fonts was founded in 2002 by Pedro González initially as a calligraphic fonts project. Their target is: artistical balance and technical compatibilities between function and aesthetics, between “graphic” design and typeface “styles.” Working not only on particular concepts according each project, but also special alternatives and attractive design features, such as: ligature and swash alternates, oldstyle curls, geometric proportion studies, optical adjustments, etc. All this powered by OTF technologies.
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Sardiez
March 2011
Sardiez is an independant type foundry run by Sergio Ramírez, he is an industrial designer very interested in type design because of its experimentation possibilities, which is where the design process starts. Studying these two disciplines lets him take elements from both and apply them to each other, drawing letter shapes with the technical precision as if they were blueprints and molding objects.
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Pelavin Fonts
March 2011
Daniel Pelavin is in his fourth decade of transforming and melding the images and cultural ephemera of our times into cogent and compelling messages for publishing, advertising and communication design. Working his way up through the ranks in the legendary art studios of Detroit, in the halcyon days of the early 1970's. Pelavin apprenticed and worked with artists from the entire gamut of graphic arts professionals, including, decorative, fashion, product and technical illustrators as well as letterers, typographers and designers. A fascination with letterforms from an early age has led him to create fonts, influenced by many different historical periods.
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PintassilgoPrints
March 2011
PintassilgoPrints is a digital type foundry based in Vitória, Brazil, run by Ricardo Marcin and Erica Jung. With a strong background in handprinting techniques and a long time love of typography, they have been developing a consistent and original font library, with typefaces that mostly reflects a vigorous handmade feel. Their fonts are often packed with OpenType features that brings spontaneity and freshness to the designs.
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Suomi Type Foundry
March 2011
Suomi Type Foundry, founded in 2004 by Tomi Haaparanta is a company dedicated to creating high quality typefaces. The philosophy of Suomi Type Foundry is to make extensive type families, while trying to keep the range of their type library as versatile as possible, from comfortable types for text setting, to signage type families, to more evocative fonts for brand design. And sometimes stuff just for fun.
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Calligraphics
February 2011
The Calligraphics type foundry is a one person operation. The designer, Paul Veres, designed his first font, Aperto, in 1995 as a result of his practice with and teaching of calligraphy.
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Kimmy Design
February 2011
Kimmy Design does various graphic design work, from promotional posters to web design and other marketing material from print, web and direct mail advertising. Kimmy Kirkwood has always had a passion for typography and an interest in creating her own fonts. After graduating from Chapman University with a dual degree in Graphic Design and Public Relation & Advertising, she has focused her spare time on researching different fonts and developing some of her own.
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Tour de Force Font Foundry
February 2011
Founded by two Serbian designers, Slobodan and Dusan Jelesijevic in 2009 this foundry represents one of the few digital font foundries in this part of Europe - Balkan Peninsula.
Based in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, Tour de Force Font Foundry is slowly growing with original varieties of font collections. The highly professional small team has released some unique typographical designs and is now receiving attention with their wide range of creativity in font development.
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Arabic Type
February 2011
Arabictype.com is Nadine Chahine's dedicated blog to the research and design of high quality Arabic typefaces.
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Robert Arnow Design Studio
February 2011
Robert Arnow is a self-employed illustrator and graphic designer. He first became interested in art as a graffiti-writer in Brooklyn, which he later followed up with a professional design education at Parsons. Since 1999, he has been self-employed on a wide variety of projects for high-profile clients including Apple, Microsoft, the Washington Post Magazine, Blue Note Records, the Boston Globe and many others. He has also done work for many socially responsible businesses and causes. His fonts are influenced by the urban environment in which he was raised.
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MyChristie
January 2011
Founded in 2004, MyChristie is an independent type foundry in London, UK. With 11 years of experience in graphic design and typography, MyChristie creates high quality digital type, along with other Graphic Design and illustration services offered. The person behind MyChristie is of course… Christie, born in Greece, but based in London. MyChristie typefaces are typically hand-made & playful, or minimal, abstract and geometrical.
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Type Innovations
January 2011
Type Innovations, founded by Alex Kaczun is an independent digital type foundry, providing the highest quality type products.
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Boover Software
January 2011
 Boover Software is the one man show of Tom Schmidt working out of Minneapolis-St. Paul. SeriFractions and SansFractions, fonts for Macintosh and Windows are from Boover Software. These fonts are used by the Knoxville (Tennessee) News-Sentinel and Colorado Springs (Colorado) Gazette newspapers, and the AARP magazine. They’ve been featured in Macworld Mac Secrets, MacAddict magazine, and Macworld magazine.
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