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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77 Products

It's time to think differently by Breaking the Norm! This amazing library boasts a HUGE variety of typefaces! Created by Brian Bonislawsky of Astigmatic One Eye and Stuart Sandler of the Font Diner, inspired by vintage ephemera, modern lettering and classic text styles, they've crafted a fun and exciting collection of original display designs perfect for any project you can imagine!

Neapolitan

29 Products

Neapolitan fonts are always a delight, created with the choicest purest of aesthetic flavors and made to exacting high standards of quality by our talented artisans! Each letter is hand selected with care and blended with old-fashioned flavors for a tantalizing rich one of a kind flavor. One taste tells why our smooth, creamy typefaces make a tasty flavor treat! Show off your good taste! Ask for us by name - Neapolitan!

Filmotype

66 Products

Originally sold in the 1950s, the Filmotype introduced by its founders Allan and Beatrice Friedman was a simple manually operated photo typesetting machine (the iMac of the 1950s) and it used 2-inch filmstrips with over 500 amazing display alphabets so the user could set headlines on photo paper or film. Filmotype eventually went on to become Alphatype until the Mac came along in 1984 and POOF! No more photo typesetting! In 2006, the Font Diner acquired this amazing photo film alphabet collectio...

ParaType

225 Products

Paratype has been designing, developing and distributing digital fonts since the 1980’s. Our ever-growing library of hundreds of typefaces includes some of the most widely used fonts, such as PT Sans/Serif, Futura PT, DIN 2014, and Circe. Paratype also creates custom fonts and provides font mastering services.

Font Diner

70 Products

Stuart Sandler launched the Font Diner foundry in 1996 and has become a major resource for retro design software products. He has created more than 500 original typefaces for the graphic design industry and established a reputation as the premier retro display typography designer inspired by 1950s popular culture.

the Fontmaker

6 Products

The Fontmaker is type foundry based in Varna, Bulgaria.Our type history started long before 2011 when Jordan Jelev decided to establish the foundry. Our great desire and goal is to create sophisticated fonts that provoke designer's creativity by using them. We do believe that our unique typefaces will lead designers to unique and outstanding ideas. We do believe that we share the creative process with every single designer and that's why we say: Let's Create Together!

dooType

13 Products

dooType is one of the main independent type foundries in Brazil. Supporter of significant local type events and producer of relevant content, dooType holds more than 20 type families in its portfolio and several custom projects for brands such as Honda, Sheraton Hotels, Unimed and Veja Magazine.

Laura Worthington

80 Products

An accomplished and award-winning typeface and lettering designer, my passion for the craft, devotion to precision as I refine my creations along with my desire to provide designers with type that's rich with personality and versatility combine to form a body of work that offers practicality and aesthetic appeal. Each project is a journey that I undertake with enthusiasm and joyful discovery and gratitude that my background in graphic design, calligraphy and typography have given me the opportun...

Armasen Typefaces

3 Products

Since college back in 2009 at southern Brazil, Santa Maria, typography had been an insteresting graphic design subject. Working with type design at the college change the way we see all the design universe. And getting touch with other designers, courses, made us think about creating a new group of designers to work specially with typography.Caturrita was the first project released in 2010. It was a college work that became awarded and selected for a design biennal. Then Caturrita Display and Ex...

Wordshape

42 Products

Wordshape is a boutique type foundry and publisher operating in Tokyo. Run by Ian Lynam and Thien Huynh, we offer a curated selection of design goods that have a connection to our graphic design studios and associated projects.In addition to our library of retail fonts, we also design custom fonts for clients of all sizes. From the modification of existing fonts, to the design of a complete family from scratch, we design typefaces to fit most needs.Select clients include Adidas, Boeing, Bon Appe...

Iain Hector

4 Products

Iain is a London-based graphic designer, illustrator, type designer and print-maker by day... and by night.

Modafoca

1 Product

Design studio since 2004 in the heart of Gazcue, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. We are graphic enthusiasts. We love what we do, and love the things we do, hope you do to : )

Yes Please

5 Products

Yes Please is an independent type foundry based in Portland, OR. Yes Please is focused on producing well crafted, highly functional display fonts in a wide variety of styles. Yes Please also provides project-specific custom type designs for a range of clients including Nike Women's Training, Nike Sportswear, Nike Asia, Levi's, Sundance Channel, Showtime, Dodge, Chrysler, Wieden Kennedy and more.

TipoType

39 Products

Tipotype is a project that distributes typefaces managed and administered by typographers.

Si Billam

1 Product

UNIT is a diverse graphic design practice based in Leeds, founded by Si Billam in 2010. Our work ranges from public art installations and global branding to local government, regeneration projects and music industry art direction. We have built a reputation for producing creative solutions that go beyond the traditional boundaries that graphic design is contained within. Although still in our infancy, our work has already reached across the globe as far as the US and been featured in exhibition...

Wilton Foundry

8 Products

Wilton Foundry was started by award-winning designer Robbie de Villiers in 2003.

Novo Typo

39 Products

Novo Typo is the typefoundry of Atelier van Wageningen (typo)graphic designers, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With Novo Typo typefaces we try to make the world a little bit more beautiful, happier and less boring. Enjoy our typefaces. All the fonts are available via our web shop. We offer the possibilty to redesign typefaces to your needs. Novo Typo is also available for designing and producing customized typefaces. Feel free to contact us.www.novotypo.nl

Karandash Type

7 Products

Karandash is a small independent type design studio, based in Varna, Bulgaria. It was established in 2010 by designer Vassil Kateliev, focused in designing high quality body and display typefaces with special attention to Cyrillic typesets.

Nuno Alves / UFF Portugal

2 Products

Nuno Alves is a Portuguese type designer, born in 1978, Lisbon, Portugal.In 2004 he has graduated in graphic arts technology at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, since then he have worked as a graphic designer/editorial in some agencies and simultaneously as a type designer.Is a passionate about the simple shapes of the letters, he create his own typefaces for universal use and for brands that need a custom design.

Dada Studio

4 Products

Dada Studio is creative independent design studio from Warsaw, Poland.Among our clients there are companies and people who expect us to offer them an individual approach. Most of them represent creative branches. We meet the needs of photographers, designers, architects etc. Working for them is a demanding challenge that we try to face successfully.Unique experience is our primary goal, just like a clean design and strong attachment to detail and typography. Dada Studio chooses carefully and wit...

Evolutionfonts

1 Product

EvolutionFonts was founded in 2010 for the purpose of providing graphic designers around the world with innovative and consistent typefaces, which serve as tools for the realization of different visual concepts.

Typozon

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Plau

6 Products

Plau is a design studio based in Rio de Janeiro helping shape companies visual and digital identities. We also design retail typefaces and collaborate with other design studios and ad agencies on logotype refinement and custom typefaces for their clients.

Jamie Winder

4 Products

Jamie Winder has studied and worked in graphic design since 2000. He takes great enjoyment from good design and typography and is hopeful this is evident in his typefaces. Asides from graphic design, Jamie also likes to illustrate and occasionally create screen printed posters, though they often turn out graphic in style!