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Individuals who create fonts but don't use their Web sites to sell them.

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Arabetics Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
A private type foundry, and a design and consulting firm, specializing primarily in (but not limited to) non-traditional Arabic and Arabetic font design and lettering works, and associated software solutions.
   email: contact@arabetics.com

Art&Sign Studio Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Sign & graphic design studio. Typography specializing is hand lettered alphabets.
   email: steve@artandsignstudio.com

Matthew Bardram Open site in new browser window
Matthew's Bromide font is available from [T-26].
   email: matthew@atomicmedia.net

Jonathon Barnbrook Open site in new browser window
This is either Jonathon Barnbrook's site, or an elaborate hoax... You decide!

Marty Bee
This site has apparently moved or gone away. The last known address was http://www.linknet.net/martybee/. Type designer who has had work published by [T-26] and PLAZM.
   email: martybee@linknet.net

Jill Bell Open site in new browser window
Designs fonts for ITC, Fontek/Letraset, and Adobe, and creates handlettering, logotypes and marks for advertising, businesses and entertainment industries.
   email: jillbell@art.net

Peter Bilak - transparency Open site in new browser window
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.pangea.ca/~prempel/. Peter's fonts are published by FontShop.
   email: peterb@rainside.sk

Gunnlaugur SE Briem Open site in new browser window
The designer responsible for BriemScript and various other BriemFonts. His site also includes a tutorial for type designers on drawing the letters thorn and eth.

Matthew Butterick - Atomic Vision
Site may have moved or disappeared (http://www.atomicvision.com/). Type engineer, interactive media designer and FUSE contributor. Although Matthew's e-zine project 'Dex' is no longer being updated, some interesting design related articles continue to appear on the main site.
   email: info@atomicvision.com

Commercial Type Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Commercial Type is a joint venture between Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz, who have collaborated since 2004 on various typeface projects, most notably the award winning Guardian Egyptian. The company publishes retail fonts developed by Schwartz and Barnes, their staff, and outside collaborators, and also represents the two when they work together on typedesign projects.
   email: info@commercialtype.com

Connare.com Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Typefaces designed by Vincent Connare and the information about his past type design projects.
   email: vincent@connare.com

Barry Deck Open site in new browser window
Template Gothic, Cyberotica etc.,
   email: barrydeck@barrydeck.com

Device Fonts Open site in new browser window
Device Fonts is London-based designer Rian Hughes's collection of original typefaces. Provides samples and links to FontWorks for purchasing.
   email: rianhughes@aol.com

Timothy Donaldson Open site in new browser window
Type designer Timothy Donaldson's site containing hundreds of letterform inspired images and entertainment.
   email: e@timothydonaldson.com

Dutch Type Library Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
DTL The Dutch Type Library(DTL) is a developer and publisher of exclusive high quality digital typefaces and a producer of professional software for the font production, which operates on an international basis. Established in the spring of 1990, it was the first of its kind in the Netherlands. DTL was founded by the type designer and Senior Lecturer Frank E. Blokland. The Dutch Type Library has set out to produce and publish types of the highest possible quality. This standard not only applies to the type designs but to their digital descriptions as well.
   email: info@dutchtypelibrary.com

Fabrizio Schiavi Open site in new browser window
Fab has fonts available from FontShop and [t-26]
   email: info@fsd.it

Hannes Famira Open site in new browser window
I now live in Brooklyn, NY and run my own business the Kombinat-Typefounders www.kombinat-typefounders.com. I teach type design at the Cooper Union and at the New Jersey City University.

Josh Feldman - Prophet Communications
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.prophetcomm.com/prophetsite/280.html. Type designer, musician, multimedia artist and creative director of Prophet Communications. www.prophetcomm.com/iconoclast, Josh's manifesto calling for modern deconstructionist design on the Web, is also hosted on this site.
   email: JFeldman@aol.com

FontArte Type Foundry Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
FontArte is a (typo) graphic design studio and an independent digital type foundry based in Warszawa, Poland. The studio was founded in 2004 by Artur Frankowski and Magdalena Frankowska to design original typefaces and provide (typo) graphic solutions.
   email: studio@fontarte.com

Frank Ford
Site may have moved or disappeared (frank-ford.com/). Frank has created fonts for Thirstype, [T-26] and does custom work.
   email: frank@frank-ford.com

Jan Fromm Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Jan Fromm is a Berlin-based freelance designer with a focus on typeface development for corporate communications.
   email: fonts@janfromm.de

Hail Design Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Hail Design is a graphic design consultancy based in Ocean Grove, Victoria, Australia. We design a range of corporate, retail and consumer publications and products, including specialist typographic projects and typeface development.
   email: type@haildesign.com.au

HiH Retrofonts Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
HiH Retrofonts is a digital microfoundry, specializing in historical display fonts.

House of Pretty Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Design and development with tongue firmly in cheek.
   email: info@houseofpretty.com

Pete Warren - Identikit Open site in new browser window
Pete Warren is a graphic designer with experience in new media, sound, identity and print design. The site features his commercial and custom font design work.

Joel Ignacio - iG.world Open site in new browser window
'I love fonts. I Love Fonts. I LOVE FONTS!!!... I don't know why, but I love fonts!...'
   email: joel@ignacio.com

Indian Type Foundry Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Having decades long experience with Latin typography, Peter Bilak (Typotheque) partnered with Rajesh Kejriwal (Kyoorius Exchange) and Satya Rajpurohit to offer fine quality typefaces for Indian market.
   email: info@indiantypefoundry.com

Yanek Iontef -Fontef Open site in new browser window
Yanek's type designs have been featured in RayGun and elsewhere.
   email: yanek@netvision.net.il

Frank Jonen - Illustration & Typography Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Frank Jonen ­ Illustration & Typography is your prime source when it comes to motion typography and high quality PhotoFont design for your every production needs.
   email: type@frankjonen.com

KingInk
Tim Donaldson's reports that the Kingink site is no longer active and www.timothydonaldson.com is the new address.

Max Kisman
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.vpro.nl/arteria/maxk/maxk-home.html. Max is a Graphic designer and FUSE contributor.
   email: maxk@vpro.nl

Manfred Klein Open site in new browser window
Manfred's freeware fonts are posted here. His commercial fonts are available at Elsner+Flake and FontShop.

Legacy publishing Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Legacy publishing produces a web-comic called "Allegory" at www.otterstow.com.
   email: grim@otterstow.com

Rob Leuschke Open site in new browser window
Rob specializes in calligraphy and logotype design.
   email: robl@alphabytes.com

LucasFonts Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
LucasFonts is the retail brand of the fonts designed by Luc(as) de Groot. Fonts can be licensed online.
   email: info@lucasfonts.com

Laurie McCanna - Free Art Website Open site in new browser window
Artist, author and type designer.
   email: illustratr@aol.com

Steve Mehallo Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Font designer who specializes in historical revivals, custom font development and logotype renderings. Mehallo's fonts are available directly through MyFonts, or through other vendors including Fonts.com, Ascender Corporation, Psy/Ops and FontShop.
   email: email@mehallo.com

Gary Munch Open site in new browser window
Several of Gary's fun display typeface designs are available from FontHaus. Ergo, a four-weight humanist sans family, is being distributed by Linotype Library.
   email: gmunch@pipeline.com

Kenn Munk Open site in new browser window
All my fonts are now available as Mac Postscript and PC TrueType, The Typ-O-fish is no more and I have now fonts for sale as well as free ones.
   email: km@basement.dk

Josh On Open site in new browser window
This site requires Flash. The mysterious Mr On demonstrates various font-related projects.
   email: dee@easynet.co.uk

Dennis Ortiz-Lopez Open site in new browser window
"...you will find an extensive collection of my typographic work, over 450 pages all composed of graphic images of original typography (with a few other items of interest thrown in) the Typefoundry section shows 148 of my digital fonts and in the other galleries, my handlettered versions in addition to hundreds of published designs"

Page42 Type Foundry Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Page42 type foundry specializes in custom type design, localisation and game development.
   email: syxra@syxra.cz

Jim Parkinson Open site in new browser window
Jim Parkinson, the designer behind Microsoft favorite Showcard Gothic, various logos, font revivals and original type designs has launched a Web site to display his work.
   email: parkinson@typedesign.com

PhotoShopIsland.com Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
PhotoshopIsland.com is an exclusive collection of high-quality design tools and tutorials, including custom Photoshop brushes, that make it easy to turn up the volume on your projects. They are also now producing fonts.
   email: roger@photoshopisland.com

Magnus Rakeng Open site in new browser window
Typo thoughts broadcast live from Oslo, Norway.

ReadyType Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
ReadyType.com distributes ReadyType™ brand fonts. We develop in–house at Ready Design Services, the typefaces we sell exclusively on Readytype.com.
   email: info@ReadyType.com

Shotype Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Shotype is an independent typeface design studio that develops and provides Latin fonts for Japanese fonts and Latin customized fonts.
   email: font@shotype.com

David Siegel Open site in new browser window
Former type designer and Web personality.
   email: dave@upandrunning.com

Brian Smith
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.nethost.whanganui.ac.nz/~ctamahor/newmusee/bs/gallery.html. A gallery of new typographic design from RescueMission designer, Brian Smith. Includes commentary on each typeface by the designer.

Goran Soderstrom
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://hem.passagen.se/goran74/index.html. Swedish type designer.
   email: goran.neptuna@stockholm.mail.telia.com

James Swanson Open site in new browser window
Type and graphic designer.

Jeremy Tankard Typography Ltd Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Jeremy Tankard Typography creates, manufactures and retails high quality typefaces for digital use. The typeface collection includes Bliss, Enigma and Shaker which currently are being used around the world for a wide variety of editorial and corporate related work.
   email: info@typography.net

Kuba Tatarkiewicz Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, www.tatarkiewicz.pl. Localized fonts on CDs and custom orders are sold under the name Telefont http://www.telefont.pl through WSC sp. z o.o., ul. Zwyciezcow 31A/1 03-936 Warszawa, Poland, phone +48 22 6176835, fax +48 22 6160774.
   email: info@telefont.pl

TattooFont3D Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
TattooFont3D.com tries to change minds about Typography and to create beautiful and awesome types, tattoo fonts, 3d fonts, titling or advertising fonts.

More 500 tattoo fonts or true 3d fonts created in a few years, first speller fonts, countries maps tattoo fonts, Polynesian tattoo fonts, Chinese astrology tattoo fonts, auctions fonts, advertising fonts or special events fonts, 3d gambling fonts, showbiz fonts, Eiffel Tower and other tourism tattoo fonts… still in progress… They are just awesome and give any rookie designer a magic touch with Microsoft Office 2007 WordArt functions, Scriptfu under The Gimp, or any kind of special effects titling, compositing or 3D software.

Read the full success story here: http://www.tattoofont3d.com/pages/
   email: WEBMASTER@TATTOOFONT3D.COM

Type Supply Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Type Supply designs typefaces and lettering for brands, publications and corporations.
   email: info@typesupply.com

Typejockeys Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Typejockeys is a type foundry and graphic design company based in Vienna, Austria, established in 2008 by Anna Fahrmaier, Thomas Gabriel and Michael Hochleitner. With its international experience Typejockeys can offer products like custom type and lettering at highest level quality. Other services go from printed material, like posters, editorial- and book design, over digital media, like web and screen design, to corporate design and signage. However, as the name already tells, the small and independent office always focuses on an appropriate use of typography in its work.
   email: hello@typejockeys.com

typographies.fr Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
typographies.fr was created to present, distribute and offer a type design work, both for Latin and non-Latin fonts, and discuss the question of contemporary type creation in the context of ancient writing systems.
   email: postmaster@typographies.fr

typoma Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
typoma is a font foundry and a typography design bureau, located near Munich, Germany. typoma specializes in mathematical fonts and typography for mathematics and scientific publications.
   email: info@typoma.com

Typotheque Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Typotheque is an independent type foundry offering quality fonts, custom type utilities, and information on typography. Fonts designed by Peter Bilak.
   email: peterb@rainside.sk

Leslie Willmers Open site in new browser window
A difficult site to back out of. Leslie is a graphic designer who has posted type specimens on this site.
   email: leslie@intekom.co.za

Leonardi Wollein
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, www.leowol.de/alessio/me.html. Leonardi has made fonts for Linotype, FontShop and others.

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