Type Foundries

»Founded in 2022, ALT.tf is the official type foundry of You Creative Media (formerly Femme Type). Born out of Femme Type initiative, which was to champion the typeface design, and typography work of women, ALT.tf became a natural solution as a direct course of action in continuing its mission — to increase recognition, and promote a more diverse type design industry.«

»Connary Fagen, Inc. is a type design studio and foundry.«

»CoType is the London based type foundry of Mark Bloom and Co. We design contemporary typefaces for use in digital and print applications. In addition to our retail offerings, we also offer design of bespoke typefaces and modifications of our existing font library.«

»Our high-quality font library offers designs across sans serif, serif, script, and display fonts, supporting a range of writing systems. Explore weights and styles in our TypeTester at the top of the page and download a free trial of any typeface to test its suitability to your needs.«

»Fonts by Rian Hughes.«

»Essentially, Dinamo is a Swiss type design agency offering retail and bespoke typefaces, design software, research, and consultancy. Founded in Basel, we operate via a network of satellite members across the globe.«

»Displaay is an independent type foundry established in 2014 and based in Prague, Czech Republic. Our team has numerous collaborators around the world. The foundry focuses on retail and custom typefaces. The aim is to develop distinctive typefaces that are missing on the market. Specific moments of imperfection and spontaneous irregularities inspire our ethos.«

»DSType is an independent type foundry, founded in 1994. Since then we had the opportunity to work with some of the world’s most recognised companies, brands and publications, while creating an extensive and comprehensive catalogue of high quality typefaces.«

»Emigre, Inc. is a digital type foundry based in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1984, coinciding with the birth of the Macintosh computer, the Emigre team, consisting of Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, with the addition of Tim Starback in 1993, were among the early adaptors to the new digital technology.«

»The independent FaceType Foundry was established in 2008 and its Studio is based in Vienna, Austria.«

»We are a tight-knit group of accomplished, multidisciplinary designers who share a passion for high-quality typefaces, calligraphy and lettering. […] Founded in 2008 by Svet Simov in Sofia, Bulgaria, Fontfabric has the extraordinary advantage of being able to draw from more than 1,000 years of Glagolitic and Cyrillic heritage. Bulgaria was the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet, which after its creation in the mid-tenth century spread rapidly across the region, and today ranks as the sixth most widely adopted script in the world, with over 250 million users.«

»Fontsmith is a London based type design studio founded in 1999 by Jason Smith. The studio consists of a team dedicated to designing and developing high quality typefaces for both independent release as well as bespoke fonts for international clients.«

»Aus dem typografischen Epizentrum Berlin heraus agieren wir als festes Team und freies Netzwerk aus internationalen Designern, Fonttechnikern und Marketingexperten. Viele von uns entstammen dem ursprünglichen FontShop-Universum; dem Ort, wo typografische Trends gesetzt, einfache Lizenzmodelle ersonnen, experimentelle Grenzen ausgelotet wurden und die größte Bibliothek zeitgenössischer Schriften entstand. Diese DNA tragen wir in uns und entwickeln sie weiter – 100% unabhängig.«

»FROST is a type foundry based in the United Kingdom. Working collaboratively with designers and industry leading brands, we design, publish and distribute retail and custom typefaces. Our type combines historical references and contemporary design.«

»Future Fonts is a platform for experimental, high-quality fonts in progress. We feature emerging type designers, and well-established foundries worldwide. You get access to the latest designs at a fraction of their final price, with free updates as they grow, and type designers control the way their fonts are developed and licensed. It’s an opportunity to support independent designers and new fonts, while investing in innovative type styles that reflect forward-thinking visual culture and technology. Also, unlike published fonts that have already been used for years in existing work, these are fresh typefaces making their debut on Future Fonts.«

»Noël Leu and Thierry Blancpain founded Grilli Type in Switzerland in late 2009 as a collaborative avenue for working with other designers. Although the foundry is based in Lucerne, we’re active on a global scale.«

»House Industries is a design studio that makes fonts, creates products, takes commissions and welcomes collaborations. The House Industries approach is rooted in drawing, painting, and lettering. These traditional techniques give our work a warmth and soul which comes through in everything we make, from simple children’s blocks to digital fonts that help the world communicate.«

»Klim Type Foundry (Klim) was founded by Kris Sowersby in 2005 and is based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Our foundational ethos is “a thing well made”. Our typefaces combine historical knowledge with rigorous contemporary craft. We believe the alphabet is a concept made concrete through written and designed letterforms — the alphabet is not defined by a single typeface but expressed through all of them.«

»We create and distribute fresh fonts. To make the most out of your words. And though we’re based at the end of the world, our foundry utilizes the latest technologies available to work on a global scale. Latinotype was founded in 2008 as the first typeface distributor in Latin America. Since then, we have grown into a dynamic team of typography lovers, with offices in Santiago and Concepción, Chile. We are Latinos who eat, sleep and breathe typeface design. We are typeface and graphic designers, account managers, translators and programmers. With more than 200 original fonts and distributing many more, chances are our library has exactly what you’re looking for. If not, we can work together to create the font that will take your brand or project to the next level.«

»Letters from Sweden, founded by Göran Söderström in 2011, designs retail and custom typefaces for local and international clients. Our mission isn’t just to churn out fonts, our purpose is higher. Printed or pixelated, what drives us is clear communication in the right voice. Our custom work is recognized worldwide by companies and organizations like Acne Studios, Ableton, The Nobel Prize, Gucci, Alexander Wang, Fjällräven, The City of Rotterdam, Cadillac, Ericsson, Craft of Scandinavia and VSCO. Our letters come from Sweden, but they are for everyone.«

»LiebeFonts creates nice typefaces and hand-crafted letterings with a charming personality and obsessive attention to detail.«

»Approaching our eclectic aesthetic interests with a contemporary perspective, Lineto is dedicated to the research, design, development and production of fresh and original typefaces, unique in concept, exquisite in design, and flawless in production. And, as we believe, inimitable in result.«

»Berlin-based Dutch type designer Luc(as) de Groot is best-known for his superfamily Thesis: TheSans, TheSerif, TheMix, TheAntiqua, with monospaced and even Arabic variants. But his repertoire is much wider and his type became a subtle part of everyday life.«

»Ludwig Übele studied graphic design in Germany and Finland. He has worked for several years in various design agencies across Europe. In 2007 he graduated from the postgraduate TypeMedia course at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK) in The Hague, The Netherlands. In the same year he also started his own LudwigType Foundry.«

»neue is a German type foundry with a focus on holistic typographic systems to serve the needs of designers, brands and developers. neue was founded by Alexander Roth, born in the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Tajikistan and raised in Germany.«

»Established in Geneva, Switzerland, Optimo is a type foundry that designs and publishes premium typefaces, which are engineered to the highest standards and offer graphic designers and type-users long-lasting tools with a distinctive identity.«

»The Pangram Pangram Foundry was founded by designer Mathieu Desjardins in 2015.«

»A small family business of type makers. Established in 2002, the Process Type Foundry is a partnership between type designers Nicole Dotin and founder Eric Olson. Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota we publish original typefaces for retail sale as well as creating custom fonts for clients of all sizes.«

»Schick Toikka is an independent type foundry established in 2010 by Florian Schick and Lauri Toikka. Located in Berlin and Helsinki we create high quality retail fonts, as well as custom typefaces for a wide range of large and small organizations. Please contact us for more information & inquiries.«

»Sharp Type is a digital type foundry based in New York City. The foundry produces custom & retail typefaces for print, digital, and environmental design for brands, design houses, and publications. Since its establishment in 2015, Sharp Type has received awards of excellence every year by the TDC, the European Design Awards, Communication Arts and more. Sharp Type designs typefaces with utility and beauty for the modern era.«

»Studio René Bieder is a Berlin based type design practice. Since 2012, René creates timeless retail fonts and tailored custom fonts that combine functionality with modern aesthetics.«

»The Northern Block is an independent type foundry internationally recognised for producing modernist fonts for brands, creatives and makers.«

»Wir sind TypeMates, eine unkomplizierte Font Foundry mit Expertise für Schrift, einer vielfältigen Font Collection und maßgeschneiderten Custom Fonts.«

»Since 2013, TypeType font design studio has been developing functional and aesthetic fonts, custom commercial typefaces and providing type mastering services.«

»Typotheque is a Netherlands-based type design company, world languages experts, developing modern and authentic fonts for the majority of languages. Since its foundation in 1999 Typotheque type foundry has been giving shape to language, pushing the boundaries of technology, designing for communication in a world that is increasingly digital, international and multicultural. For his contribution to the non-Latin typography, the founder of Typotheque, Peter Biľak was named a Game Changer by the US architectural magazine Metropolis.«

»Zetafonts is an independent type foundry based in the heart of Florence (Italy), established in 2001 by Francesco Canovaro, Debora Manetti and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini. «