PUBLIC MARKS with tag foundry

Ever wondered about those funny letters sprinkled in font names? There's a lot more of them than people realize. Here's a list culled from years of research. This list of font initials is historical. It purposely includes defunct companies.

Links to foundries & typographers websites / with great acronyms list

Pixel fonts anyone?

A solid a simple list of all foundries and type houses.

Founded in 2001, Feliciano Type Foundry looks back onto its proprietor’s fundamental ideas and creative doings. Mario Feliciano (born 1969 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal), since the early 1990s is a graphic designer by profession and a typographer by heart. After a year as graphic designer for Surf Portugal magazine, he opened his first own graphic design studio in Lisbon, called Secretonix, in 1994, besides giving lectures at various universities in Portugal and abroad.

Fontsmith is a leading type design studio. We create bespoke fonts for corporate identity, working with design groups or direct with the end user.

typecuts is an independent font and graphic label, dedicated to create and produce original contemporary fonts for retail and custom use. typecuts was founded in 2004 by Andrea Tinnes to publish and promote her own fonts which are available from this website as well as primetype. With its few font families the typecuts fontlibrary offers a wide range of typographic forms: from text faces over graphic fonts to dingbat illustrations. Following Jeffery Keedy's paradigm keep the inconsistencies consistent typecuts typefaces seek to explore the relation between clear geometric construction and playful decorative form while considering historical contexts as well as contemporary tendencies in typedesign.

Fountain is an independent and friendly digital type foundry. Our aim is to provide our discerning clients with modern, well-crafted fonts guaranteed to meet the most strenuous requirements of aesthetics, legibility and originality.

Textaxis : Obsesión tipográfica que impide la correcta lectura de un texto, desviando la atención hacia los aspectos formales de las letras.

Typotheque is a type foundry based in The Hague, the Netherlands, developing and marketing original fonts for the Mac and PC in Western, Central European (CE), Greek, Cyrillic as well as OpenType Std and OpenType Pro encodings. Our commitment is to continue the traditions of independent type foundries, contributing our tiny bit to the continuous sequence of history of typography, creating quality typefaces that reflect our time and serve its needs.

Since 1989, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones have helped some of the world's foremost publications, corporations, and institutions develop their unique voice through typography. Their body of work includes some of the world's most famous designs, typefaces marked by both high performance and high style.

Whether you're Making, Understanding or Reinventing comics, you'll need a comic book font that makes your comic book—or comic book about making, understanding or reinventing comic books—look like a, um, comic book. Yes, it's all very well writing about the Invisible Art of Making Comics, but if you can't read about the Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels, they'll still be secrets, won't they? That's why Scott McCloud came to us to create the official "Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels" comic book font, or as we like to call it: McComicBookFont.

SMeltery est la fonderie de Jack Usine, /typo /graph /iste bordelais.

Handselecta is an evolving project dedicated to the geographic styles of urban calligraphy that have emerged and developed over the last 30 years. We are a font foundry creating innovative new product while we document and write the history of handstyles in the world of graffiti.

Free fonts! Decoratives are great!

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Exceptional site design featuring beautiful fonts!