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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URW

527 Products

URW++ has been the go-to place for type designers and companies alike since it was founded more than fifty years ago. With their rich history of designing first rate fonts and web fonts, they’re renowned around Europe as well North America with projects ranging from custom design services to fresh new faces on an entire library that will make your brand stand out like never before!

IHOF

68 Products

International House of Fonts (IHOF), a division of P22, is a type boutique that showcases distinctive type designs and designers from around the world. The IHOF collection embodies a sensitivity towards historical lettering, while introducing unique and contemporary typefaces. IHOF was established in 2001 and presently includes designs from Japan, Germany, Hungary, Canada and the US. The selection is rich in calligraphic scripts by lettering artists such as Michael Clark, Arthur Baker, Ray Cruz,...

Letters Numbers

9 Products

The person behind Letters

House of Burvo

9 Products

HouseOfBurvo started as a portfolio website for my degree and personal work, but now is fully focused on developing and distributing original fonts.A lot of my early work was experiments into lettering, attempting to decipher the basics of a latin alphabet and what made letters 'tick'.These experiments led to attempts to refine and develop more useful, comprehensive fonts and lettering systems that I continue to build on today.I'm now much more fluent in lettering, and concentrate my efforts on...

Dharma Type

135 Products

In the early 2000's, Ryoichi Tsunekawa was fascinated by the relations between modernist design and Bauhaus style while studying architecture at Nagoya University. He eventually changed his focus to type-design, establishing an extensive font collection that is now available on YouWorkForThem.The design style of this library is very wide-ranging, from classic and retro to futuristic. Dharma Type has developed a bundle of fonts that reflects the needs for all types of design and marketing project...

Insigne

156 Products

Insigne Design was founded as DooleyType in 2004 with the release of the typeface Biortec. Since then, Insigne Design has released a wide variety of quality typefaces, including sans serifs, scripts, serifs and experimental forms. Insigne Design prides itself on its unique and affordable fonts. Insigne is also available for custom typeface and logotype design. Insigne Design is the foundry of Jeremy Dooley. A world traveler, Jeremy has traveled extensively and lived in both Europe and the Middle...

BRtype

6 Products

Is an independent Brazilian Type Foundry by Gustavo Lassala

Intellecta Design

168 Products

Intellecta Design is a Brazilian typefoundry interested in typographical research and revivals of all forms of ancient typefaces and handwriting styles. It searches historical churches, museums and similar institutions to develop handwriting and other fonts from old documents. This kind of research is not common in Brazil.In addition, its design team also works to create new and modern typefaces for all applications.Intellecta Design is, probably, the creator and owner of the largest typeface li...

isaco type design

7 Products

Isaco Type is a Brazilian digital foundry whose goal is to create high graphic, advanced quality fonts.Through constant improvement and careful observing of great classics in type design and their hits, and based on the "less is more" premise, isaco type pursues the creation of balanced concepts.

STUDIO MISIRLOU

3 Products

STUDIO MISIRLOU is a small, multi-talented Design Studio, which has its base in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Having a special eye for aestethics and functioning, we are aiming to make our planet a more beautiful place. With our products and the essence of our very being we get people enchanted and have a positive impact on peoples minds.

TipografiaRamis

31 Products

After a long career in print design, working for various design studios and Fortune 500 corporations, graphic designer Ramiz Guseynov dedicated himself to his longtime passion of typeface design. In 2004 he established the TipografiaRamis font foundry to create and market his digital fonts.

Underware

14 Products

Zealotry wouldn’t be an inappropriate collective noun for Underware. They not only design typefaces, they live type—they educate about type, they publish about type, they talk about type, they want (and organise) others to talk about type.There is an inherent honesty to their enthusiasm that betrays no snobbery—they simply think that type is very interesting and that everyone, given the chance, might think so too. Their work is among the most popular of independent type foundries — happy...

Belafrank

7 Products

Bela Frank is a British/Hungarian designer specialising in type, typography and branding

Positype

31 Products

Neil Summerour is a type designer, lettering artist, calligrapher and designer based in Georgia, USA with one foot in Takamatsu, Japan. After graduating from The University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art with a BFA in Graphic Design, he soon found himself opening his own studio to deal with the flow of freelance work. This evolved into a 10-year dance in the design, web and advertising world allowing him to work with clients large and small - each time producing and developing unique creati...

Rodrigo Fuenzalida

12 Products

- I'm a graphic designer from Caracas, Venezuela. - I'm 29 years old. - I've graduated from Prodiseo. - I like typography. - I like print. - I like photography. - I love my wife.

Tonalcase / The Look Partnership

1 Product

Tonalcase is the type collection designed by Jeff Warrington of The Look Partnership, a design and photography studio based in Los Angeles.

Taechit Jiropaskosol

3 Products

Hello, world.

Oscar Pastarus

1 Product

Graphic Designer based in Stockholm, Sweden.

P22 Type Foundry

86 Products

P22 type foundry began making artist inspired digital fonts in 1994. After a successful beginning of designing packaged font sets that catered to museum gift shops and specialty stores, P22 expanded into mail order catalogs and direct marketing. Along with fonts, P22 also started making other merchandise. The focus remained on design and art history.To diversify the type of fonts offered, P22 branched out and started the International House of Fonts in 2001 as an online only type boutique that s...

Mostardesign

35 Products

Mostardesign Type Foundry is a French type foundry established in 2009 by Olivier Gourvat. Mainly focused on typeface design and custom design, the foundry produce high quality fonts such as Sofia Pro, Interval, Metronic Slab Pro and more recently Natom Pro.

PintassilgoPrints

112 Products

PintassilgoPrints is an independent type foundry islanded in Florianópolis, Brazil, run by Ricardo Marcin and Erica Jung. Their fonts have a strong handmade feel, being often packed with loads of alternates and some smart OpenType features that play together to deliver eye-catching results.

Fontfabric

55 Products

Fontfabric is an independent type foundry , which was launched at the close of 2008 by designer Svetoslav Simov who is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Our goal is to create high-quality fonts which stand in a unique class of their own, and which will serve as a good base for any designer project whether it be web, print, t-shirt design, logo etc.

Julmeme

4 Products

Julien Mercier is a swiss Graphic Designer living and working in Tokyo. After studying Graphic Design Communication in Geneva, he moved to Japan in order to explore a new design and mix Swiss typography with Japanese kanjis.

Official Classic

11 Products

Official Classic is a small and young design studio founded in November 2008 at Budapest / Hungary. We are creating / selling EPS Vector Sets, typefaces, posters, apparels. We also design websites and corporate identities.For more info about us feel free to visit our website!Behance' : http://www.behance.net/OfficialClassicEps