Today’s typography landscape is largely dominated by a number of
transnational distributors such as Adobe, Linotype, Monotype and ITC,
making it often difficult to find new emerging foundries that produce
quality work.
Don’t get me wrong, these companies produce some amazing typefaces, for both web and print.
However, having said that, there are a number of fantastic new
emerging font foundries that are producing equally noteworthy work.
Today, we have taken the opportunity to provide you with the best new 20 font foundries. Enjoy.
Sudtipos
Font Range: Large
Font Types: Distinct
Price: Low/Medium
Website MyFonts Gallery
Sudtipos is a new
collective Argentinian type foundry. New blood, new attitude. A joint
venture of four professional designers with lots of expertise in
different areas like branding, packaging design, corporate identity,
television and new media.
Latinotype
Font Range: Large
Font Types: Distinct
Price: Free/Low
Website MyFonts Gallery
Latinotype is a new digital
type foundry established in 2007 in the city of Concepción, Chile. They
specialize in bold heading style fonts at a relatively low price.
Font Fabric
Font Range: Large
Font Types: Distinct
Price: Low/Medium
Website MyFonts Gallery
Fontfabric is an independent
type foundry , which was launched in 2008. They specialize in creating
high-quality fonts which stand in a unique class of their own. They also
offer a number of great free fonts and typefaces.
Lost Type
Font Range: Large
Font Types: Distinct
Price: Pay for appreciation
Website
Lost Type is a Pay-What-You-Want
Type foundry and distributor, the first of its kind. Users have the
opportunity to pay whatever they like for a font, you can even type in
‘$0′ for a free download. If you choose to pay for your download,
proceeds go directly to the designer.
HoftType
Font Range: Small
Font Types: Standard Application
Price: Medium
Website MyFonts Gallery
Hoftype is the type foundry of Dieter Hofrichter founded in 2010 and
located in Munich, Germany. Hoftype designs new types for professional
applications as well as developing new interpretations of classical
types for retail and custom purposes.
The League of Moveable Type
Font Range: Medium
Font Types: Distinct/Headings
Price: Free
Website Font Squirrel
The league of Moveable Type are a fantastic open-source font distributor. All fonts are free and created open-source, which means anyone can contribute.
H&FJ
Font Range: Medium/Large
Font Types: Distinct/Headings
Price: High
Website MyFonts Gallery
Although
H&FJ go a long
way back as font foundry, they were technically only founded in 2004.
They offer a good rounded range of typefaces and fonts for professional
use. Their work is carries significant pedigree, although is highly
priced.
Suitcase Type Foundry
Font Range: Medium/Large
Font Types: Various
Price: High
Website MyFonts Gallery
Suitcase Type Foundry is
an independent type foundry, founded by Tomas Brousil in 2003 in Prague,
Czech Republic. They specialize in the design and digitization of
quality fonts for professional use.
exljbris Font Foundry
Font Range: Small
Font Types: Distinct/Headings
Price: Free/Paid
Website MyFonts Gallery
Exljbris offer a number of both free and paid hand-crafted fonts and typefaces. A good source for any type enthusiast.
HypeForType
Font Range: Medium
Font Types: Distinct/Headings
Price: Low/Medium
Website MyFonts Gallery
HypeForType
is a U.K based award winning font foundry run by Alex
Haigh. HypeForType isn’t about banging out standard fonts you’d find in
any suite, it’s about collaborating with award-winning designers and
making beautiful type not only accessible, but indispensable.
HypeForType offer iconic, hand-crafted typefaces that stand out. Their
typefaces are reasonably priced and also feature frequent sales and
packages.
Process Type Foundry
Font Range: Medium
Font Types: Various
Price: Low/Medium
Website MyFonts Gallery
Process is great modern
font foundry. They have a large collection of contemporary typefaces at
reasonable prices. Process has done a number of commission based
typographic work, most notably for New York Times Magazine.
Type SketchBook
Font Range: Small
Font Types: Various
Price: Low/Medium
MyFonts Gallery
Typesketchbook
Foundry is a new foundry based in Thailand. They focus on the quality
of Typography. They don’t have a particularly large range, but the
typefaces they offer are super high-quality.
House Industries
Font Range: Medium/Large
Font Types: Various
Price: Low/Medium
Website
Known throughout the world as a prolific type foundry,
House Industries
has made a considerable impact on the world of design. They offer an
extensive range of fonts and typefaces at competitive prices.
A-2 Type
Font Range: Medium
Font Types: Various
Price: Low/Medium
Website
A2-Type is a new type
foundry set up by the London based design studio A2/SW/HK.
Established to release and distribute over a decade’s worth of
specially crafted typefaces, the foundry offers access to a unique
collection of fonts.
Feliciano Type Foundry
Font Range: Medium
Font Types: Various
Price: Medium/High
Website MyFonts Gallery
Feliciano is an
award winning foundry known most famously for their typeface work for
The Sunday Times. They offer a number of traditional and contemporary
style typefaces.
Ten Dollar Fonts
Font Range: Medium
Font Types: Distinct/Headings
Price: Low
Website
If you’re looking for bang for your buck, then
Ten Dollar Fonts
might just be what you have been looking for. They specialize in
decorative heading based typefaces and have a variety of awesome fonts
to choose from. Ten Dollar Fonts is a New Zealand based font foundry,
and is more of a distributor than a traditional foundry as such. Their
typefaces are provided through the distribution of over 65 typographers
from around the world.
FenoType
Font Range: Large
Font Types : Distinct
Price: Low/Medium
Website MyFonts Gallery
Fenotype is an
arctic type foundry located in Turku, the historical capital of
Finland. Fenotype specializes in informal display fonts and luscious
scripts.
FontSmith
Font Rang: Medium
Font Types: Distinct/Headings
Price: Medium-High
Website MyFonts Gallery
FontSmith is a London based visual communication and font studio. They feature a number of good bold, bright, heading-style typefaces.
Tipo Type
Font Rang: Small
Font Types: Distinct/Headings
Price: Low/Medium
Website MyFonts Gallery
TipoType is an international project, focused on the collective distribution of typefaces by specialized typographers.
Mostardesign
Font Rang: Small
Font Types: Professional
Price: Low/Medium
Website MyFonts Gallery
Mostardesign is a French
graphic design studio, established in 2004 by Olivier Gourvat. Mainly
focused on visual communication, type creation, motion graphics and
illustration, they have worked on a wide variety of projects for
worldwide clients.
