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Ethan and Lisa Dunham founded Fonthead
in 1994. Over the years the Wilmington,
Delaware–based foundry has built a solid
library made up of a range of original con-
temporary fonts. Many of Fonthead’s fonts
have appeared on posters and websites and
in books and other various applications.
Some of its best-selling typefaces include
Drawzing, ClickBits, and Tachyon.
Fonthead
www.fonthead.com
Hoefl er & Frere-Jones
www.typography.com
Jonathan Hoefl er (92) and Tobias Frere-
Jones (87) began working together in 1999
after Frere-Jones left Font Bureau (127). To
date the duo has designed more than 500
typefaces, including personal work and col-
laborations through their foundry, Hoefl er
& Frere-Jones.
The foundry’s typefaces have been used
in almost every format, including news-
papers, magazines, and museums, with
clientele including the Wall Street Journal,
Martha Stewart Living, Nike, Pentagram,
GQ, Esquire, Business 2.0, the New York
Times, and the New York Times Magazine.
LetterPerfect, founded in 1986
by lettering artist Garrett Boge,
supplies more than fi fty unique
typeface designs for both Macin-
tosh and Windows platforms.
The foundry has two dis-
tinctive lines: Viva la Font and
Legacy of Letters. The Viva la
Font library consists of script and
display faces such as Destijl and
Longhand. Legacy of Letters, a col-
laboration with fellow lettering
artist Paul Shaw, focuses on type
designs based on lettering models
from historical periods such as
Kolo, Donatello, and Old Claude.
LetterPerfect
www.letterspace.com
Lineto
www.lineto.com
LucasFonts
www.lucasfonts.com
Dutch designer Luc(as) de Groot (91), who also founded Berlin-based
FontFabrik, www.fontfabrik.com, founded LucasFonts in Berlin in
2000. The foundry specializes in creating original and custom quality
typefaces with extended type families—supplied to encourage experi-
mentation—as well as in redesigning existing fonts. Notable typefaces
include Thesis, TheSans, and TheSerif.
Cornel Windlin and Stephan
Müller founded Lineto in 1993.
In 1998 the Switzerland-based
company set up Lineto.com (www
.lineto.com) as an electronic way
to distribute its typefaces, as well
as other designers’ work. All of
Lineto’s typefaces are sold exclu-
sively through its website, except
for earlier work—aptly called
“Lineto Legacy”—still sold through
FontFont. Some of Lineto’s notable
work includes Le Corbusier, Valen-
tine, and Cobra.
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Mark Simonson
www.marksimonson.com
Mark Simonson started his own foundry
in after spending more than twenty
years working as an illustrator and designer
at places like Minnesota Public Radio
and Rivertown Trading Company, and
more than eight years designing type-
faces and licensing them to FontHaus ().
His current library contains more than
original typefaces for sale, including
Proxima Nova, Mostra Nuova, and Coquette.
His fonts have been used for book covers
and environmental graphics, in magazines,
and for a variety of other applications.
Steve Mehallo
www.mehallo.com
Designer, illustrator,
and educator Steve
Mehallo specializes in
brand strategies, logo
development, and custom
fonts. He has been working
in the design industry
since the late s ().
Mehallo originally started
designing fonts for his own
use. Today, he runs the
Steve Mehallo type foundry
and has supplied fonts
to numerous companies
including Monotype (),
TiVo, Pacifi c Bell, and
Nike. Some of his foundry’s
most notable fonts include
Jeanne Moderno, Alta
California, and Chandler .
Coquette
Proxima Nova
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Nick’s Fonts
www.nicksfonts.com
Nick’s Fonts
Nick Curtis, founder of Nick’s
Fonts, has been fascinated with
typography since he was a boy.
He uses authentic historical
forms pulled from sources
such as the Library of Congress
to develop his typefaces. His
aesthetic inspiration spans
designs from the Wild West to the
gay nineties to the Jazz Age.
He began licensing his fonts
in . He fi rst licensed Steppin’
Out and Picayune Intelligence to
Bitstream (), then in
, licensed twelve designs
to International Typeface
Corporation () and three to
what was then Agfa-Monotype
(today Monotype Imaging []).
After the launch of MyFonts
.com (), www.myfonts.com,
in , Curtis decided it was
time to establish his own inde-
pendent foundry. Today, Nick’s
Fonts library includes more
than type families.
Nick’s Fonts
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Argentinean information and type
designer Alejandro Lo Celso founded the
digital type foundry PampaType in .
The foundry, which recently moved back
to Argentina from Mexico City, aims to
produces high-quality fonts with “Latin
fl avor” inspired by the surrounding
culture. Notable typefaces include the
international award-winning Rayuela,
Borges, and Arlt fonts.
PampaType
www.pampatype.com
Jim Parkinson, founder of Parkinson Type, designed his fi rst series
of custom typefaces for Rolling Stone magazine. In , while he was
working for the San Francisco Chronicle, his designs became totally
digital. Today, Parkinson Type consists of more than three-dozen
retail fonts, including the popular Parkinson, Sutro, and Balboa. Par-
kinson also has created fonts for Adobe (), Monotype (), Font
Bureau (), and International Typeface Corporation (), for whom
he was one of the designers of I Bodoni. In addition to retail type, Par-
kinson also creates custom fonts and has drawn display type () for
magazines including Newsweek and the New York Times Magazine.
Parkinson Type
www.typedesign.com
Type Foundry
www.psyops.com
Rod Cavazos founded (short for Psychological Operations)
in San Francisco in . The small studio focuses on custom type
development and has had dozens of clients since its founding.
Currently, the foundry off ers eighty retail fonts including Exemplar
Pro, Eidetic Modern, and Armchair Modern from a variety of
designers—from San Francisco and around the world—including Bob
Aufuldish, Matthjs Van Leeuwen, and Steve Mehallo ().
Storm Type Foundry
www.stormtype.com
Frantisek Storm founded Storm Type Foundry in Prague in .
The foundry’s main objective is to revive classic type for digital
use. When digitizing original Czech typefaces, Storm collaborates
with designers including Otakar Karlas, Jan Solpera, and Josef
Tyfa. Some of the foundry’s more popular fonts include John Sans,
Etelka, and Header.
P22 Type Foundry
www.p.com
In , Richard Kegler and Carima
El-Behairy founded P, a Buff alo, New
York–based type foundry that specializes in
creating computer typefaces derived from
historical forms found in art, history, and
natural science. With each font the foundry
sells, it includes background information
about the font’s source and inspiration. P
also works with museums and foundations
to develop accurate historical typefaces
suitable for computer use.
Dada
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Designers Alejandro Paul (), Diego Giaccone, Ariel Garofalo,
and Claudio Pousada founded Sudtipos, the fi rst Argentinean type
foundry collective based in Buenos Aires. The foundry is a joint
venture between design professionals whose expertise span from
advertising and branding to television and new media. They see
themselves as “graphic designers doing fonts for graphic design-
ers.” Some of their notable designs include Adios, Piel, and Burgues.
Sudtipos
www.sudtipos.com
Adios
Designer Tomas Brousil founded Suase,
an independent digital type foundry
based in Prague, Czech Republic, in .
The foundry currently off ers more than
professional-quality retail typefaces
and creates custom fonts for branding,
corporations, and other clients. Some of
Suase’s more popular fonts include
Tabac Sans, Fishmonger, and Kulturista.
Suase Type Foundry
www.suitcasetype.com
Suase
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