The Best Independent Type Foundries

With so many different type foundries to choose from, it can be hard to know which one is the best for your needs. It's not just about finding a good font, it's also important to find a font that's reliable and trustworthy. You need a font that will look great on all devices and in all applications. We've done the hard work for you and organized the 983 type foundries we have hand selected for our font catalogue. All of these type foundries are known for their high-quality and beautiful font designs.

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A Texas native, Jeff currently makes his home in NYC where he works as a designer and illustrator. During the day he creates Broadway Theatre posters at SpotCo and by night he is usually drawing type or working on other design projects. He has created custom lettering for such clients as Nike, The New York Times, Good Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, Blue Q and others. Jeff is also a partner at Abidesco, a Texas based design collective.

Sensational Fix

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Art Director

Wiescher Design

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I went to Paris when I was very young, just for the sake of art. That caused many a sleepless night to my beloved mother, but she accepted my decision. Once I met Salvador Dalí, but he did not take me very seriously. To this day I don’t know why! After some years I decided to start a serious life. I got married and studied graphic design at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Making detours, once more to Paris, then to Barcelona, where I designed the OECD pavilion for the Osaka World Expo a...

Magdalena Boffito

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Kirby Matherne

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Kirby Matherne is a multi-disciplinary designer / art director who resides in Atlanta, GA. His typefaces aim to close the gap between type & lettering. Therefore, most of his fonts fall into the display category. Although they may not be the best for setting body copy, there's no doubt that they add a fresh perspective to any font library.

Studio Buchanan

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Studio Buchanan is a creative foundry specialising in bespoke and commercial type design, branding and illustration.

Sofia Mohr

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Sofia Mohr is a brazilian architect from UFRGS, Brazil. She is also graduated from Universidad Catolica de Chile at the Digital font Design program. She works with Graphic and Typography Design at her own studio. She was born in Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1978. She currently lives in Santiago, Chile.

Julia Bausenhardt

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Julia Bausenhardt is a type designer living in Germany.

Thierry Fetiveau

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Thierry Fetiveau is a french freelance graphic and type designer. He works in visual identity, illustration or edition but his specialty is the creation of lettering and typefaces. His graduation project was the creation of Andersen, a typeface for children books. Then, he completed the post-master "Typographie & Langage" from ESAD Amiens where I designed a Latin and Arabic typeface intended for magazines: Batutah.

Seniors Studio

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Indie type designer

BluHead Studio

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BluHead Studio is an indie design studio specializing in original typefaces, custom font development and graphic design. Founded in 2005, BluHead brings many years of design experience gleaned from some of the leading foundries and headline houses of the time -- Mergenthaler Linotype, Techni-Process, and Bitstream. Our favorite ongoing project is digitizing the vast photo lettering library of the late Joseph Churchward.

Aerotype

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Finely crafted display type since 1995

NDISCOVERED

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Ndiscovered is the foundry of Natanael Gama, a graphic and type designer based in Lisbon. Natanael has designed some popular fonts for Google Fonts such as Exo, Cinzel and Exo 2. His fonts were downloaded hundreds of thousands of times and are seen everyday by millions of users.

La Boite Graphique

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Born in 1980, Ewen Prigent exercises in Brest (France) the profession of independent designer since 2004 under the signature of La Boîte Graphique after completing his studies at the University of Fine Arts of Rennes 2. he creates fonts "fanciful" titration since 2008.

Kostic Type Foundry

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Kostić Type Foundry is located in Belgrade, Serbia. It is a small private foundry, run in cooperation between Zoran and Nikola Kostić (father and son).Zoran began making fonts in 1987 out of necessity, since his DTP studio needed PostScript Cyrilic fonts which, at the time, were being made by no one. While designing his first font, he discovered a whole new world whose beauty and complexity wove such a spell over him that he’s under its hold to this very day. He created a number of original...

Decade Type Foundry

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Decade Type Foundry the first Bandung collective type foundry . We make contemporary typefaces for today's designers

Eltypolocos Typefoundry

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Bang Kumis Typefoundry is small foundry found and run by Endang Hidayat. Indonesian based Designer/Hand Letterer/Font Designer. We serve you with hi quality and original taste font for designer and common people.

Liam Spradlin

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Pawel Osial

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Paweł Osial graduated Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He is a designer, specializing in book design, lettering and calligraphy. He lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.

Majestype

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Majestype is a type foundry based in Makassar, Indonesia. It was founded in 2012 by Type Designer Dexsar Harry Anugrah. Our goal is to offer a new high quality typefaces with supporting opentype feature, accent and works good in various of design.

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David is a type designer, photographer and graphic designer based in Wellington, New Zealand.