Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
Page: 137
122-141 03171.indd 137 9/23/11 10:45 AM
Type Foundries
Text
Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
Page: 137
Tour de Force Font Foundry
www.tourdefonts.com
Serbian designers Slobodan and Dusan Jelesijevic founded
Tour de Force Font Foundry in . The foundry is one of the
Balkan Peninsula’s major type foundries. Its best-selling type-
faces include Passage, Oblik, and Belco.
Oblik
Typerepublic
www.typerepublic.com
Andrew Balius is the founder
and principal designer of the
Barcelona-based independent
type foundry Typerepublic. This
foundry specializes in fonts with
“local fl avor” that draw on Spanish
typographic history, infl uenced by
the culture. The idea is to create
fonts accessible to amateurs and
professionals alike. Typerepublic
also develops custom fonts, as
well as fonts for retail such as its
popular fonts Pradell, Carmen
Fiesta, and Taüll.
TypeTogether
www.type-together.com
Veronika Burian () and
José Scaglione () founded
independent type foundry
TypeTogether () in by while
they were both completing their
master’s degrees in type design at
the University of Reading ().
’s fonts are cross-platform
OpenType fonts with extended
character sets and a focus on
editorial use. provides custom
modifi cations and specially
tailored typefaces, in addition to
font styles ready for immediate
purchase. Some of TypeTogether’s
more notable fonts include
Adelle, Skolar, and Bree.
122-141 03171.indd 137 9/23/11 10:45 AM
Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
Page: 138
122-141 03171.indd 138 9/23/11 10:45 AM
Typography, Referenced
Text
Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
Page: 138
In , Ray Larabie, a Canadian font designer living in
Nagoya, Japan, started Typodermic after designing fonts
for fi ve years. Larabie has created more than , fonts in
-plus families for industrial and consumer use, including
Junegull, Jillsville, Strenuous, and Tandelle. Currently,
Typodermic’s library off ers more than typefaces.
Larabie’s fi rst or so fonts, those created between
and , can still be acquired through Larabie’s Fonts, a
subfoundry operated through Typodermic.
Typodermic Fonts
www.typodermicfonts.com
Typodermic
Typofonderie
www.typofonderie.com
In , Jean François Porchez founded France-
based foundry, Typofonderie, as a way to distribute
typefaces exclusively without the help of a retailer
and to ensure he controlled the font sales and cus-
tomer support. In , the foundry moved to
Sévres; today, Typofoundrie is located in Clamart,
France, near Paris. Some of its most notable type-
faces include Apolline, Angie Sans, and Anisette.
Joos
122-141 03171.indd 138 9/23/11 10:45 AM
Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
Page: 139
122-141 03171.indd 139 9/23/11 10:45 AM
Type Foundries
Text
Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
Page: 139
Die Typonauten
www.typonauten.de
Die Typonauten was founded in in Bremen,
Germany. This small foundry specializes in display types
() for corporate, editorial, publication, and information
design, as well as for illustration. Notable fonts include
Oklahoma, B-Movie Retro, and Newsletter.
Die Typonauten
Underware Type Foundry
www.underware.nl
Typotheque
www.typotheque.com
Typotheque, located in The Hague, The Netherlands,
produces standard fonts that support all Latin-based
European languages. In addition, it has created typefaces
for Greek, Greek Polytonic, Cyrillic, Arabic, Armenian,
and Devanagari scripts. The foundry, run by Peter
and Johanna Bilak (), characterizes itself as off ering
more complete fonts with more advanced features than
other foundries. The Typotheque library includes Plan
Grotesque, Irma Slab, and Fedra Serif.
Founded in by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs,
and Sami Kortemäki, Underware is based in
Helsinki, Amsterdam, and The Hague. The foundry
specializes in creating versatile fonts for both custom
projects and retail. Some of its most popular retail
fonts include Auto, Dolly, and Sauna. In addition
to creating fonts, Underware also conducts type
workshops, runs the radio station, Typeradio (),
and participates in numerous other activities.
Liza
122-141 03171.indd 139 9/23/11 10:45 AM
Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
Page: 140
122-141 03171.indd 140 9/23/11 10:45 AM
Typography, Referenced
Text
Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
Page: 140
Retailers/Distributors
Foundries
This list represents a general collection of online font retailers, both large and small.
AscenderFonts is a retailer
and distributor of TrueType
and OpenType fonts for
digital use. In addition
to ready-to-buy fonts,
the company also off ers
an extensive range of
services including custom
typeface development
and font technology for
developers, manufacturers,
and enterprises.
AscenderFonts
www.ascenderfonts.com
Fonts.com
www.fonts.com
Fonts.com is an online font store owned by
Monotype Imaging (). The retailer off ers
more than , font products.
FontShop
www.fontshop.com
FontShop is an independent font retailer of
digital type. It features fonts from FontFont,
Linotype (), FontHaus (), Exljbris
(), and / (), among many others.
HypeForType
www.hypefortype.com
Alex Haigh founded
HypeForType in the early
s (). His goal for the
online foundry was to create
a “hotbed of typographic
talent” and to showcase
and supply to the creative
masses the best high-
quality, handcrafted fonts
that the contemporary
typographic talent could
off er. HypeForType off ers
a variety of fonts from
various independent type
designers including Alex
Trochut, SI Scott, and
Craig Ward. Some of the
most popular typefaces it
off ers include Now Deco,
Hunter, and Killer.
122-141 03171.indd 140 9/23/11 10:45 AM
Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
Page: 141
122-141 03171.indd 141 9/23/11 10:45 AM
www.daltonmaag.com
www.fontbros.com
www.fontdiner.com
www.fontfont.com
www.fontpool.com
www.fontsmith.com
www.foundrytypes.co.uk
www.fountaintype.com
www.macrhino.com
www.microsoft.com
www.mvbfonts.com
www.philsfonts.com
www.processtypefoundry.com
www.terminaldesign.com
www.typography.com
www.typography.net
www.vllg.com
www.waldenfont.com
Type Foundries
Text
Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
Page: 141
Identifont is a research-based typography website
that specializes in cataloging and identifying popular
typefaces. The site also acts as a liaison between buyer
and retailer, allowing the customer to compare and
contrast type specs before purchase.
Identifont
www.identifont.com
Additional
Online Retailers
MyFonts.com is an online distributor of more than
, fonts from more than foundries includ-
ing fonts from Mark Simonson (), Font Bureau
(), Canada Type, and Sudtipos (). It was founded
in by Charles Ying, then Bitstream’s ()
chairman of the board. MyFont has become more
user-friendly with new systems for fi nding typefaces
including WhatTheFont and More Fonts Like This.
MyFonts
www.myfonts.com
Founded in by Joshua Lurie-Terrell, Typographica
is a review of typefaces and type books. Chris Hamamoto
and Stephen Coles relaunched the site in .
Typographica
www.typographica.org
Veer supplies stock photography, illustrations, fonts,
and creative merchandise. The company also runs
two blogs: The Skinny, a design news blog, and
The Fat, a community blog.
Veer
www.veer.com
122-141 03171.indd 141 9/23/11 10:45 AM
..................Content has been hidden....................
You can't read the all page of ebook, please click here login for view all page.