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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cypher13

3 Products

cypher13 is an interdisciplinary design team striving to improve the human experience.

HVD Fonts

16 Products

HVD Fonts based in Berlin/Germany, founded by Hannes von Döhren in 2005.After completing his studies (graphic design) in 2005, he worked in an advertising agency in Hamburg/Germany. Since 2007 he has been working as a freelancing graphic- and type designer in Berlin.

FaceType

38 Products

Shinntype

29 Products

Shinntype was founded in Toronto in 1998 to publish the type designs of Nick Shinn, and has since published a variety of original fonts. Shinn's background as an artist, writer, art director and graphic designer informs his eclectic type designs, which run the gamut from revivals to experimental work exploring new technology, and are used in everything from packaging and advertising to internet, book, magazine, and newspaper publishing around the world.

Tomo

33 Products

TOMO Fonts is a small digital type foundry. We design and build original typefaces and custom font services ✍

Peter Bekke

12 Products

Frederico Antunes

2 Products

Font Designer

Mark Simonson

19 Products

Sudtipos

188 Products

Sudtipos was founded in 2002 as a collective of graphic designers passionate about type. Since the beginning, Sudtipos has delivered typographic solutions to design challenges in product packaging, advertising, and corporate identity. Over the years the group has grown in number, skills, and influence – Sudtipos faces have appeared in high-profile campaigns for Coca-Cola and Levi’s, and in the pages of The New York Times, and the group has created custom faces for international clients such...

Karl Frankowski

1 Product

Karl Frankowski is a type-obsessed graphic designer living and working in San Francisco.

Typeco

10 Products

Typeco is the digital type foundry for the designs of James Grieshaber. Typeco puts a modern spin on familiar concepts to create bold and versatile font families. Relevant type styles with a significant nod to the past.

YWFT Emily Darnell

31 Products

Emily Darnell usually spends her time organizing, categorizing and cataloging her collections of ephemera, or writing lists of things she plans to do...later.

Blake E. Marquis

7 Products

American artist and designer.

YWFT Emma Trithart

20 Products

Emma Brown Trithart is a lover of breakfast foods, cats, and art. Her ultimate goals include making art for the rest of her life, cooking & baking a lot, and meeting Ted Nugent again.

Stefan Kjartansson

3 Products

Born and raised in Iceland, Stefán Kjartansson (kuh-yaRT-an-soen) got his BA from Iceland Arts in 1993. After illustrating children’s books and comics, he expanded his range to graphic design, art direction and digital design. As soon as the internet reached the shores of Reykjavík, an opportunity in Atlanta presented itself. In 1995 Stefán joined CNN.com as creative director. After the birth of his son Thor in 2000, he co-founded the digital agency Armchair Media and has directed projects...

Very Good Fonts

5 Products

Very Good Fonts is the outlet for the lettering designs of Paul Brannelly, assisted by digitising skillionaire David Buck. Paul is an illustrator, cartoonist, old-school ticket writer, and sign writer. He has been creating fonts by hand since he started working as a sign writer straight out of school in the late 1980s. Since then he has built up a library of lettering styles which he creates and develops in the course of his work. Paul lives in the one-horse town of Marton, New Zealand but has c...

Suprb

8 Products

Born and raised in Stockholm / Sweden. Specialized in typography, code, movable and static shapes since 1978.

YWFT Travis Stearns

145 Products

Travis Stearns is a Graphic Designer, Typographer, and Art Director hard at work in the forests of Minnesota. Travis has worked with Nylon Magazine, Wired Magazine, Mass Appeal, AIGA Minnesota, IAmSound Records, Swindle Magazine, Ghostly International, Ubiquity Records, Threadless, Internasjonal/Full Pupp, and Wurst. In 2008, Travis was selected and featured as one of Print Magazine's 20 New Visual Artists.

YWFT Maddy Nye

28 Products

Maddy is cat vagabonding in the chocolate mountains.

YWFT Eric Carlson

78 Products

Matt Owens_Volumeone

4 Products

Matt Owens is the principal of Brooklyn based design studio Volumeone established in 1997. The experimental portion of volumeone.com is updated several times a year, featuring conceptual narratives and personal visual work. These explorations help show prospective clients the studio's wide range of visual and technical capabilities while providing a creative platform for learning and experimentation outside the sphere of client work. Volumeone clients include Ride Snowboards, adidas, XLR8R Magaz...

Sparky Type

16 Products

David is a freelance designer based in Wellington, New Zealand. He runs SparkyType - making fonts for sale and for clients. David has been an Art Director for an ad agency, an extranet developer, a webmaster and even worked for a couple of years as a font maker in Minneapolis. In his spare time he skateboards, plays video games and collects ’80s synthesizers.

YouWorkForThem

134 Products

YouWorkForThem has been a trusted resource for fonts and typography for nearly 20 years. Our fonts and web fonts have been used by some of the biggest brands in the world, including Apple, Disney, Nike, Harley Davidson and Starbucks. We're still known today as a retailer of fonts, but our creative studio continues to produce unique font designs that set us apart from the competition. We're smart, creative and always looking for new ways to help our clients communicate their message effectively....