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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Stawix is a Bangkok-based personal font foundry founded by Stawix Ruecha.Originated from the concept of aesthetic of type design, integrated with meticulous attention to details and fully equipped international standard glyphs.

Tour de Force Font Foundry

55 Products

Founded by Slobodan Jelesijevic and Dusan Jelesijevic in May 2009 as an independent boutique font foundry that is the only one of its kind in Serbia, Tour de Force Font Foundry has produced high quality original typefaces that are in use globally.From our glyph laboratory in a small town of Gornji Milanovac, Central Serbia, we have anchored our craftsmanship and reputation on providing the classic European standards of stellar personalised service with our clients across the world.This is a serv...

Yellow Design Studio

25 Products

Yellow Design Studio based in Sanibel, Florida features type design by Ryan Martinson and fine art by Rena Martinson.

Gustav and Brun

13 Products

Gustav & Brun is small type design studio based on the east coast of the very long country Sweden. The foundry was earlier named Jagjagvi, but since Jagjagvi only works with illustration and graphic design Gustav & Brun evolved.

Great Lakes Lettering

14 Products

Great Lakes Lettering was launched in 2012 as a collaboration between talented lettering artist Molly Jacques and font designer Dathan Boardman.

RMU Typedesign

128 Products

Typesetter from the composing stick via Linotype setting machines to the Mac. Jobs in various Thuringian printeries. Barred further education by Communist authorities due to political reasons. Imprisoned in East Germany. Since 1988 in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, former West Germany. Jobs in several newspaper printing houses as advertisement compositor. Establishing his own office in 1995 in Aalen, Baden-Wuerttemberg; he lives and works now in Schwaebisch Gmuend.

Atelier at omashuisje nl

1 Product

Atelier@omashuisje.nl is a young foundry based in Biervliet (literally 'muddy ditch') in Zeelandic Flanders, the utmost southwest corner of The Netherlands, where pollard willows in the typical Dutch polders contrast from broad and windy skies. Locals call it 'a seperate land' because of its history: this stretch of land once were islands that belonged to Spain, Belgium, France and since 1814 to The Netherlands. People here don't feel they belong to any of them and do things their own way. They...

TypeFolio Digital Foundry

7 Products

In my 15 years as an art director and graphic designer, I have grown to appreciate typography's enormous importance and power in presenting ideas and concepts. Now more than ever, typography has captured my attention. I have felt increasingly compelled to seriously produce my own type designs in light of certain developments, such as the advent of the Internet, the access to font editing software, the growing abundance of specialized literature, and my discovery of a community that is crazy abou...

Jorg Schmitt

14 Products

Jörg Schmitt was born in 1985, in Marburg, Germany. He graduated "Kommunikations-Design" at the University of applied sciences in Trier, in 2010. Since then he is working for the global branding agency Interbrand Zintzmeyer

Hamilton Wood Type Foundry

22 Products

Hamilton Wood Type (HWT), established in 2012, is a joint venture between P22 type foundry and the Hamilton Wood Type

Typomancer

20 Products

Enchanting the type.

TypeArt

71 Products

The first TypeArt fonts were born into the world in 1992, when founder Lloyd Springer produced the first of his more than 400 type designs while trying to create something more interesting to use in his graphic art and desktop publishing assignments. In 1995, the first website was launched to make these cool and artsy fonts available to enthusiastic customers from all over the world. Since then the library has continued to expand and the TypeArt Foundry Inc. has maintained a presence and respect...

LE TYPE

5 Products

Open Window Fonts

16 Products

Open Window is the rascally font foundry of Dathan Boardman located in Eau Claire, WI. Its focus is on spontaneous and unconventional font forms. Indeterminacy in font-making-fun! The fonts need to breathe!

CheapProFonts

4 Products

High quality multilingual fonts at a low price - for professional (non-english) designers with a small budget! I hope many "foreign language" users find CheapProFonts a valuable resource for cheap and cheerful display fonts supporting their specific language needs. For "western" users the fonts offers an exceptionally good deal! :)CheapProFonts offers a wide selection of mainly display-fonts with a large character set supporting 65 languages requiring more that the basic A-Z: Afrikaans, Albanian...

Hipopotam Studio

22 Products

Hipopotam studio is Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinscy. A couple of designers from Poland specialized in designing books for children and creating online, interactive fun projects.

Michal Adamiec

2 Products

I'm a Polish Graphic Designer. Since my childhood I've been interested in books and illustration. This led me eventually to graphic design and it's most core element: typography. Passion for it grew very quickly, and I decided to devote my time to creating type. The intent of my work is to make unique and well-designed fonts.

Jeff King

19 Products

Freelance graphic designer, Artist in abstract terms.

Eimantas Paskonis

4 Products

Personal foundry of a young Lithuanian talent with a dream to ignite country’s type scene.

YWFT Blake E. Marquis

1 Product

American artist and designer. Partner at Mistress. Represented by Giant Artists.Twitter: @blakeemarquis

Borges Lettering

13 Products

Charles Borges de Oliveira is a lettering artist and a type designer at Borges Lettering. He started his career as an apprentice Sign Painter and soon began to appreciate letters and layouts. In 2007, he formed Borges Lettering, which in addition to offering high quality fonts, is a design studio that offers hand lettering and logos for all forms of advertising. Charles has done custom lettering work for NBC, American Greetings, Crystal Geyser, PGX and many others.

Lettering Inc

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Founded in 1939 by Edwin W. Krauter in Chicago, Lettering, Inc. produced its own patented Photo-Ray process of lettering (US Pat 2165861) in which transparent letters made from original alphabets were assembled by hand and then placed in a line (angled or curved if so desired) and then photographed. This "glass setting" process created flawlessly set headlines and, with multiple character forms to choose from, the headline looked authentically lettered.An early competitor of Photo Lettering, Inc...

Tart Workshop

27 Products

Lettering artist/illustrator Crystal Kluge's charming lettering and designs have graced magazine pages, a multitude of giftware & stationery products, advertising campaigns, logos & store fronts, art museum walls, and an eclectic range of special events from swank Hollywood parties to an intimate mountain wedding in a yurt.

Sideshow

53 Products

Step right up and see our Sideshow! This collection of super-humans, born freaks, geeks, giants, daredevils, tattooed sword swallowing death defying designers of typographic oddities is sure to delight, surprise, and amaze with their unusual feats of creation. Sideshow was developed as an offshoot boutique type foundry of the Font Diner retro display font foundry in an effort to release new exclusive display typefaces and collaborative type designs with talented lettering artists the world over.