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
WebsiteLost 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: Low/Medium
Website MyFonts Gallery H&FJ offer a good rounded range of typefaces and fonts for professional use. Their work is carries a unique retro style theme.
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 GalleryTypesketchbook 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
WebsiteKnown 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
WebsiteA2-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
WebsiteIf 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.
Have you used any of the typefaces from these foundries in the past? Are there any you think we missed? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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