TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Thu May 23 22:21:50 EDT 2013
Type in New Zealand
Educational and reference site run by Ben Archer, a designer, educator and type enthusiast located in England (who was in Auckland, New Zealnd, before that). Glossary. Timeline. Type categories. Paul Shaw's list of the 100 most significant typefaces of all times were recategorized by Archer:
Josh Wyatt (Accidental Design) is a design student from Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. He created the beautiful sans face shown here. Kris Sowesby was his teacher at Massey University. [Google] [More] ⦿
Born in Sydney, raised in New Zealand. Designer of GF Zucchini (1998) at Garagefonts. Also create HUD and Decoder, two techno faces.
Alphabets Magical (was: Fuzzypeg's Homepage)
Alphabets Magical has freeware rune and old writing system fonts by Ben Whitmore from New Zealand. They include AngelicR100, BarddasWRR100, DaggersR100, IEFutharkR100, Malachim, PVEnochian100, PWRunesR100, ThebanBW100, AlphGeniiFzpg100, Enochian-Regular, PictSwirlR100. He also has Enochian-Regular by the Digital Type Foundry, 1991. [Google] [More] ⦿
Annette O'Sullivan trained as a graphic designer and worked in design studios in New Zealand prior to further study in typography at the London College of Printing. She has an MA degree in typography and graphic design. While in Britain, she worked in publishing and museum design, notably for The Museum of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, Caenarfon Castle, North Wales, the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, Hong Kong and the Royal Armouries Artillery Hall, Fort Nelson. She currently lectures in typography at Massey University, Wellington, and continues to explore contemporary typographic application within a historic context. [Google] [More] ⦿
Free Maori fonts at this Government of New Zealand web site: ArialMT-Mäori, Arial-BoldMT-Mäori, Arial-BoldItalicMT-Mäori, Arial-ItalicMT-Mäori, ArialNarrow-Mäori, ArialNarrow-Bold-Mäori, ArialNarrow-BoldItalic-Mäori, ArialNarrow-Italic-Mäori, BookAntiqua-Mäori, BookAntiqua-Bold-Mäori, BookAntiqua-BoldItalic-Mäori, BookAntiqua-Italic-Mäori, BookmanOldStyle-Mäori, BookmanOldStyle-Bold-Mäori, BookmanOldStyle-BoldItalic-Mäori, BookmanOldStyle-Italic-Mäori, CenturyGothic-Mäori, CenturyGothic-Bold-Mäori, CenturyGothic-BoldItalic-Mäori, CenturyGothic-Italic-Mäori, CenturySchoolbook-Mäori, CenturySchoolbook-Bold-Mäori, CenturySchoolbook-BoldItalic-Mäori, CenturySchoolbook-Italic-Mäori, CourierNewPSMT-Mäori, CourierNewPS-BoldMT-Mäori, CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT-Mäori, CourierNewPS-ItalicMT-Mäori, MonotypeCorsiva-Mäori, TimesNewRomanPSMT-Mäori, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT-Mäori, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT-Mäori. [Google] [More] ⦿
BluHead Studio LLC
Type design studio located in Norwood, MA, est. 2005. Fonts can be bought at MyFonts. BluHead Studio LLC was founded in 2005 by a group of type designers, including Steve Zafarana, who founded Tail Spin Studio in 1999, also in Norwood, MA. The company is currently filling out the character sets and digitizing the font designs of New Zealand designer Joseph Churchward. These include the psychedelic Ta Tiki CW (2006), Conserif CW, Design CW (2006, geometric). Creations by Tallulah Bluhead include Soylent Blu BH (2006) and Conference Call BH (2006).
Between 2006 and 2008, several hand-printed typefaces were published. These include Barbara Script BH (2007, after the hand of Barbara Bemiss), Ciof Script BH (2008, a felt tip pen font after Susan Ciofolo Antico), Sally Script BH (2006, after Sally Muspratt), and Joanne Script BH (2007, by Joanne Paul). Sparkle Bluff BH (2007) is a ball and stick font for children. Notebook BH (2008) is a block letter face.
In 2007, BluHead started publishing fonts by Joseph Churchward: Churchward Asia, Churchward Brush, Churchward Chinatype, Churchward Heading, Churchward Maori, Churchward Maricia, Churchward Ta Tiki, Churchward Conserif, Churchward Design Lines, Churchward Freedom, Churchward Marianna (bubblegum face), Churchward Montezuma (2012, based on an Aztec-inspired design), Churchward Newstype (2008), Churchward Samoa, Churchward Supascript.
Auckland, New Zealand-based creator of the decorative typeface Britomart (2013) which was inspired by the logo of Woolmark. This typeface was designed during her studies at Yoobee School of Design.
Graphic design student in Ackland, New Zealand. Creator of Cut (2010).
Wellington, New Zealand-based designer and typographer, b. 1966. She spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on I live at the edge of the universe like everybody else. She also organized TypeSHED11, a boutique five-day international typography symposium held in Wellington, New Zealand, during February 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿
Auckland-based designer of Shipwrecked (2005, bitmap face), Galathos (2005, typewriter-style face), Sophtware (2004, pixel face), Minque (2004, a bitmap face inspired by Garadot), Kernohan Sans (2004), this art nouveau face (2004) and Digitype (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿
Joseph Churchward (b. Apia, Samoa, 1933) grew up in Samoa, and moved to New Zealand, where he founded a design studio in Wellington. His early type designs were released as photolettering through Berthold. In 2000, in partnership with Chank, his fonts are finally being converted to the standard electronic formats. In 1984, he won a Silver Prize at the Morisawa Awards competition. In 2009, he was made a life member of The New Zealand Designers Institute DINZ.
MyFonts writes: Churchward Type started in 1962 as Joseph Churchward's freelance lettering service. Within six months he had generated enough work to move from his job as Senior Artist into setting up Churchward International Typefaces, which became one of the largest typesetting companies in New Zealand. In 1969 Joseph was asked to submit alphabet designs to Berthold Fototypes and saw immediate success. He later went on to sign distribution agreements with D.Stempel AG, Dr Böger Photosatz GmbH/Linotype, Mecanorma-Polyvroom B.V and Zipatone. He self-published a handful of original fonts in 1978 becoming the first and only company in New Zealand to publish original photo-lettering. Churchward International Typefaces was forced to close in June 1988 but Churchward Type lives on with a fresh set of independent releases. David Buck has taken on the role of digitisation. Joseph continues to draw alphabets and now has a stockpile of over 300 unique alphabets to his name.
David Bennewith runs Colophon in Auckland, New Zealand. He created a few experimental typefaces in 2003-2004: Concorde (a diamond shape pattern font), Mobile Carrion (Courier-style face) and Pukeko. [Google] [More] ⦿
Graphic and type designer from Hamilton, New Zealand, whose company there is called Eolian. He has some free fonts on his site: Snow-Bit (2004) is a pixel font, and Handdrawn (2004) is a handwritten block type. Creator of the rigid display face Levin (2006) (see also here). [Google] [More] ⦿
Daniel Reeve is a freelance artist, cartographer, calligrapher and type designer from Titahi Bay, near Wellington, New Zealand. His hand-crafted fonts allow users to emulate the calligraphic styles for which he has built up a reputation in the film world. For example, he did the lettering and maps in The Lord of the Rings films. He is creating hand-crafted fonts of some of his writing styles, starting with the uncial face Kereru (2011). Foundry link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿
Danielle Smith was born March 18, 1991 in Wellington, and developed her first typeface when studying at Massey University, majoring in graphic design. Her first typeface was JY Dandy (2012, Jack Yan and Associates).
Taumarunui, New Zealand-based designer of a number of hand-printed and grunge typefaces in 2012: Yay 14, Yay 17 (my favorite in the bunch), Deb Mixed Fancy, Deb Jagged, Deb Handwriting, Deb Fuzzy (ink splatter face). [Google] [More] ⦿
Founder of the Caxton Press in Christchurch, New Zealand, he lived from 1912-1980. "Denis Glover wrote some of our loveliest poems (The Magpies, Threnody and the sequences Sings Harry and Arawata Bill, for example) and became a legend in his lifetime for his talent, his irreverence, his hatred of humbug, his robust opinions and his remarkably diverse range of activities---as student and lecturer; as climber, rugby player, boxer and yachtsman; as journalist, typographer, publisher, satirist and critic; as war hero; and as raconteur, wit, lover and alcoholic. Inevitably, he has been characterised as the last Elizabethan." [Google] [More] ⦿
Kiwi graphic designer based in Auckland. Behance link. His fonts include Cirone (2009, art deco), and Enever (2009, techno). He is working on the ornamental capitals face Mad Alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿
New Zealand-based outfit involved in type. The typefaces are designed by Jonathan Nicol: Furby (2002), Kombat (2001), Metcard (2001, dot matrix font), X-Font (2001, pixel font), Architecture2 (2001, pixel font). Born in New Zealand, Nicol currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he works as a flash designer for an Australian radio and TV company. At Union Fonts, he designed Furby (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿
Peter Cross (b. 1971, Paraparaumu Beach, New Zealand) was an avionics technician in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He obtained degrees in electronics and signal processing, and now designs sensors and automation equipment for the agricultural industry. He started Fortune Fonts in 2012 in Cambridge, New Zealand.
George Buxton (b. 1977) from Auckland, New Zealand, created the geometric sans typeface Basico (2013). He runs Monkey Creative.
Maori page with 600kb worth of Maori fonts for Mac and PC: Arial, TimesNewRoman, Verdana. The fonts need a macron over vowels. Otherwise, they are indistinguishable from ordinary Latin fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿
Jack Yan and Associates
Jack Yan (b. 1972, Hong-Kong) now lives in Wellington, New Zealand, where he founded Jack Yan and Associates (JY&A) in 1987, the first kiwi digital typefoundry. He designed over 100 typefaces, which mostly share calligraphic roots---his lower case f is like a signature Yan glyph.
He designed the extensive family Aetna, digitized based upon 16th century work by Francesco Griffo and Giovanni Antonio Tagliente. It is Yan's version of Bembo.
His other font families include (2011, a sans companion for JY Décennie), Integrity JY (2002), Pinnacle JY (1995-1996, +Bold), Rebeca JY (1993), Tranquility (1994-1995) and Yan Series 333 (1987-1993). JY Koliba (by Jure Stojan, 2001) is a sans serif typeface family based on Slovenian architects' lettering of the 1940s. Other typefaces include Dandy JY (2012: Originally created for a theatre project at Massey University, Dandy is reminiscent of Pablo Ferro's hand-lettering), Comic Pro JY (1999, by Antonio Gonzalez de Santiago for Jack Yan), Novalis JY (2008, an anthroposophic family), Boum-Boum (2002) and Alia JY (2008-2009, an aldine serif family).
JY Pressly (2012, a serif family) was originally designed for Lucire, and destined for web and print use.
Arts and Crafts alphabet by JY&A.
During his studies at Yoobee Design School, Jean-Michael Hawthorne (Auckland, New Zealand) designed Harbour Typeface (2012), a font based on the architecture of the Auckland City Viaduct. [Google] [More] ⦿
Jeremy Tenison-Woods is a graphic designer in Napier, NZ. He offers his fonts through his Jeremy Woods foundry. This includes the grunge face Free Money (2010) and the techno family Foxxy (2012, +Outline, an athletic lettering version).
On Dafont, paint Bucket (2012), Candy Coloured Clown (2012), Free Money (2010) and Foxxy (2011) are free.
Benjamin Humphrey's free icon set is called Jigsoar Icons. Benjamin is a designer for AVOS, and lives in Dunedin, NZ.
John Mailley (Auckland, NZ) is the first guy to create a typeface called Gas (2012). I was waiting for this historic moment in the history of type design. He writes: I decided to focus my type design on the gas covers on the footpaths in Auckland city. From the three uppercase letters G A S, I derived the rest of the uppercase, lowercase, numbers and select symbols. The result is a rounded octagonal typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿
Original truetype handwriting fonts by Julianne Pearce from Urgent Artworks, Christchurch, New Zealand: Julesdaisy, FelicityAged10, FelicityAged10pics, julesdingz, Juleswriting, julesgirltalk, Jules P.C. Wimmin, JulesLove (free). More of her fonts in the same scrapbooking style: JulesToReo, Jules Weeheart, Felicity Aged 12, Julesscratchy, Jules-Nicegirl.
Julianne E. Pearce
Slovenian Jure Stojan designed the sans serif family JY Koliba in 2000 at Jack Yan and Associates. Check out that wacky "g". Also at Jack Yan, he published Raj JY (2001-2011), and KlinJY (which was done for a student magazine in Ljubljana). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿
Designer in New Zealand who created a sci-fi typeface in 2012 that extends the four letters in the TRON logo.
Auckland, New Zealand-based designer of the octagonal experimental typeface Crossword (2013).
KLIM (or: Klim Type Foundry)
KLIM is a type and graphic design studio run by Wellington, NZ-based designer Kris Sowersby, now affiliated with Village. Interview. Behance link.Klingspor link. Views on engineered geometry. His creations:
Krackatoa Free Fonts (was: Sun Design Fonts)
Leah Shao lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Her spurred font Chiesa del Gesu (2012) is named after the Church of Gesu church in Rome. The font draws inspiration from the church's architectural floor plan. [Google] [More] ⦿
Lindsay Rollo from Wellington (NZ) is completing an archive entitled 'Words into Print' of copies of typographic research papers, some correspondence, and some examples used or influencing the preparation and presentation of seminars conducted for the University Teachers Development Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, 1995-1998. He also made a one-character truetype font called Spaces with a hard-coded white space. [Google] [More] ⦿
Creator of the stencilish face Semi Circle Sans (2009), of New Type (2011), and of the funky psychedelic Curly Numbers (2011). Lindsay is a graphic designer based in Christchurch, NZ. [Google] [More] ⦿
Born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, Lucinda completed a degree in graphic design at Auckland University of Technology in 2012. Her typefaces include Jugend (2012, art nouveau; see also here), and Lineland, Flatland and Spaceland (2012, straight-edged geometrical type family).
This used to be be a great kiwi professional font service site run by Marvin Wong out of Auckland. Our professional services feature a wide range of expertise in Image Fonts, Picture Fonts, Logo Fonts, Signature Fonts, Symbol Fonts, Handwriting Fonts, and Multiple Language Fonts. Several truetype sample fonts could be downloaded. Prices varied from 10USD (one signature) to 120USD (full connected handwriting font). Fonts: MFpad4, MFpatent, MFrings2, MF-hint, MF-pic, MF_bankcheck (MICR font), MF_boats, MF_sig, MFbmw5b, MFbmwZ8, MFcareCA, MFcareJP, MFrings, MFrky6. It disappeared ca. 2004 after pnly a handfuil of years. [Google] [More] ⦿
New Zealander who has worked for the major part of his life as a graphic designer. He was co-partner in one of New Zealand's leading design firms Missen and Geard Ltd. In 1998 he took up a position at Massey University where he is now Programme Leader in the Visual Communication Design Department. His specialist area is typography and typeface design. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on From symbol to living form. He shows two type designs at that meeting.
Creator of the humanist sans face Artemis JY (2011, Jack Yan).
Mary Faber (b. 1987) from Hamilton, New Zealand, writes about Mainline, a copperplate creation in 2011: Mainline's style was formed through an amalgamation of two historical typefaces titled Copperplate and Glyptic; research proved these the most popular metal display faces in New Zealand letterpress printing during the period of 1880 to 1900. Despite the lack of typeface designers in New Zealand in the late 1800s, this hybrid typeface design could be considered a national reflection of historic typefaces seen in New Zealand during that time. It should be noted that the selected parent typefaces were both Victorian typefaces by Hermann Ihlenburg.
She also created Marino (2011): Marino is a contemporary typeface design influenced by a period of New Zealand's typographic history. Its letterforms were created based on research into typeface trends within newspaper advertising from 1920-1940, reflecting the increasing popularity of geometric modernity, and the peak of typographic Art Deco in 1930. In particular, Marino is based on an ad for Mencken from ca. 1930.
Musee Brian Smith
Kiwi designer exhibits his work. Fonts like Bitter Fruitless, Kodafujikon, Gothic, Monkey Boy, Nikoblast. He made ArvhiveDingbats in 1994-1995 with Tom Eslinger (Charles S. Anderson Design USA and CSA ARCHIVE). [Google] [More] ⦿
Nik Coughlin works as a web developer in Auckland, New Zealand. He used FontStruct in 2008 to make the rounded squarish faces Lineqsquare and Monosquare. In 2009, he added Angleblock (a dark angular face) and PipeSquareRounded. [Google] [More] ⦿
Creator of the angular gothic face Monsta (2007). Olivier lives in New Zealand, where he works as a designer, illustrator and photographer. [Google] [More] ⦿
Kiwi designer, b. 1989. Behance link. As a student at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, he created Heartbreaker (2011), Beat (2011, experimental face) and Nostalgia (2011, an elliptical face based on the shapes of 1950's American cars). [Google] [More] ⦿
Paul Shipper (Hamilton, New Zealand but born in Manchester, UK) did the hand-lettering and cover design for a Shots Fired album called Packin Heat in 2012.
Graphic designer in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2013, he summarizes his career: Early career working in New Zealand for not for profit clients in theatre, music and fine arts. Two years at Saatchi & Saatchi NZ followed by ten years in New York City as a type director, design director and photographer. Recently returned to New Zealand after two years in Shanghai.
Typefaces designed by him include Basalt (2011, bilined), Brutalism (2008), Cement (2009, octagonal), Hellvettika (1998, gothic, tattoo font), Esosquare (1998, squarish), Phrank (1997, experimental), and Hanson Unicase (2006).
Kiwi designer of kid handwriting fonts Falling Honey (2009), Pippies Doodle (2009), Neat Print (2009, kid's writing), Lefty (2010), Free-Fall (2010), Bigger (2010), Kiddy Writing (2009) and Handwriting of a Dirty Child (2009). She also made the handprinted Tip Calligraphy (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿
Auckland, NZ-based designer of a beautiful learning infographic poster in 2012.
Auckland, NZ-based graphic designer who created MyTypo (2012).
Creator of the free school fonts Kiwi School Handwriting (2013) and Kiwi School Handwriting with Guides (2013), both based on the style described in the New Zealand Ministry of Education 'Teaching Handwriting' manual. [Google] [More] ⦿
Kiwi designer (b. 1995) of the modular typeface Oxygen (2012).
Designer in Auckland, New Zealand. I was charmed by Sam's bio---in his own words: Born and raised in Australia, eventually fled. Now based in Auckland (greener pastures) and causing trouble by loitering on the back of a single coffee. Creator of Scorpio (2011), a modular display typeface extrapolated from a glyph found on the cover of a 1960s astrology rag. [Google] [More] ⦿
Sandi's Incomplete Homepage
Saranna Drury (New Zealand) created the ornamental didone typeface Debussy Script (2012).
Sophteck's Jungle and Typography
Alan Bauchop (Sophtecks, Wellington, New Zealand) made these typefaces in 1998: Trix, ScreenyJubs, Earth People, Brickle, Cain, Chunk, Miniskip, Miniskap, Miniskup (techno), and the experimental Silo. Some pixel fonts.
Sparky Type (or: Sparky Malarkey)
From Wellington, New Zealand, David Buck's creations at SparkyType: Blankey (2002, OpenType, free), Kiwi (2001), Goose, Billy (1998), Charmy (2001), Panhandler (2004, hand-inked look), Pants, Munch Corn, Tarnation (2000, with Craig Duffney), Yakitty, Paste, Sheriff, Rubic (2001), Chicken (2000), ChickenBonus (2000). All fonts have a hand-printed look.
Some fonts are sold at Chankstore: Cuba3D, Thri (2001, three-lined glyphs), Rubble, Timberlake, Stacker (2002), Chicken, McKracken (2001), Billy, Munter. In addition, Chankstore offers these free fonts by David Buck: Lowery Auto (2001), SpaceToaster, and PolarBear (2001). David worked from 2001-2002 at Chank Fonts in Minneapolis.
Since 2003, his typefaces can also be bought at MyFonts: Amoeba (2007, computer look), Antelope (2007, futuristic), Milford (2007, art deco black without holes), Skyler (2007, almost architectural lettering family), Billy, Tarnation, Munter (2001), Rubic, Thri, Chickens, McKracken, Rubble, Lodge, Nisswa (2003, Western slab serif), Nine Thousand (2010), Fancy, Jolene (2003), Farmer (2003), Messcara (2004, handwriting), Ruby (2005, comic book face), Sudsy (2007, comic book style), Milford (2007, art deco), Sundae (2005, informal script at YouWorkForThem), Billy Serif (2006), David Propane (2005).
St Mary's road symbol font
Graphic designer Lee Gibson ("Thesvrl", located in Wutown, Wellington, New Zealand) created Handvetica (2009, hand-traced Helvetica, fed to Fontcapture), and ywks (2009, handwriting, created with YourFonts), both freely downloadable. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿
The Otama Typeface Project: Otama (2011) is a free didone typeface family with its own dedicated web apge. Well, "free" became "not quite free", as the complete Otama family is now priced at 400 dollars. Otama Italic was completed in 2012.
Chartwell (2011) exploits OpenType features to make fonts that create pie charts, bar charts and histograms. It was published commercially by FontShop in 2012 as FF Chartwell. He explains the tricks. Typophile discussion. Download link. FF Chartwell won an award at TDC 2013.
Maori fonts for Mac and PC: ArialMT-Mäori, Arial-BoldMT-Mäori, Arial-BoldItalicMT-Mäori, Arial-ItalicMT-Mäori, TimesNewRomanPSMT-Mäori, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT-Mäori, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT-Mäori, TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT-Mäori, Verdana-BoldItalic-Mäori, Verdana-Italic-Mäori, Verdana-Bold-Mäori, Verdana-Mäori. [Google] [More] ⦿
A free Windows tool for applying hinting instructions to True Type fonts. Written by Allan Murray (Auckland, New Zealand). One can edit these tables: prep, fpgm tables, glyf, gasp, cvt. [Google] [More] ⦿
Twintype is the company of graphic designer Owen Johnston, who was born in 1979 in New Zealand, and works in the UK. He created several pixel or techno typefaces (no sales, no downloads): Minus (pixel family), Midgit, Frown Box (2010, multilined), Typhoon, Twice (bilined). Double Up is a bilined stencil-like face reminiscent of neon lights. Species is a two-line square techno face. [Google] [More] ⦿
Type 3.2 (was: CR8type)
CR8type for Windows is a commercial Windows truetype and opentype font editor written by Allan Murray. Free demo. Also, CR8tracer is a freeware utility based on Peter Selinger's 'Potrace' to convert bitmap images into monochrome vector formats. Combine with CR8type 2.0 to create fonts from scanned images of signatures, handwriting etc. Windows only. It can edit PostScript and OpenType fonts and has a knife and freehand drawing tool. It draws, kerns, deals with unicode, converts between formats, and basically is a full-fledged type design tool.
Type Light (2012) is a free light version of Type 3.2 for Windows. The full Type 3.2 program is for Windows, Linux and soon, OS/X.
CR8 Software Solutions are an independant software vendor located in Auckland, New Zealand. A creation of Allan Murray - a self-taught software developer who began programming computers in the early eighties and who has been involved in the ID card and digital printing industries for the past twelve years. CR8 Software Solutions has had a web presence since 2006. [Google] [More] ⦿
Conference held in Wellington, New Zealand, from 5-9 February 2008, and from 11-15 February 2009, again in Wellington. Speakers at the 2009 event included Erich Alb, Stephen Banham, Donald Beekman, David Bennewith, Walter Bohatsch, Kyle Cooper, Masayoshi Kodaira Indra Kupferschmid, Bruno Maag, Sarah Maxey, Christian Schwartz, and Leonardi Sonnoli. It was organized by Catherine Griffiths, a typographer. [Google] [More] ⦿
Auckland, New Zealand-based creator of the free font Surak Batak. Kozok writes: The Batak alphabet, or surat batak, is descended ultimately from the from Brahmi script of ancient India by way of the Pallava and Old Kawi scripts. The Batak languages of northern Sumatra - Karo Batak, Toba Batak, Dairi Batak, Simalungun/Timur, Angkola and Mandailing Batak, and occasionally Malay. In most Batak communities, only the datu (priests) are able to read and write the Batak alphabet and they use it mainly for calendars and magical texts. This site has truetype fonts by Kozok for the Battak script: KaroNormal, MandailingNormal, PakpakNormal, SimalungunNormal, TobaNormal, VariantsNormal. Uli Kozok is Assistant Professor in Indonesian, Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. [Google] [More] ⦿
Very Good Fonts
Marton, New Zealand-based Paul Branelly runs Very Good Fonts. Its fonts are sold via MyFonts. Paul Brannelly 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 in the late 1980s. Brush and handlettering typefaces: Choc Chip + Dip (2007), Cuckoo (2007), Cuckoo Fast (2007), Cuckoo Fat (2007), Two Stroke (2007, a 3-style comic book family), Muttonbird (2009), Inmate (2009, a stencil based on eurostile). Paul has been assisted by Wellington, NZ-based type designer David Buck. You Work For Them link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿
Whangarei Heads, New Zealand-based graphic desigmner and illustrator. In 2012, Wera created the monoline sans typeface Gdynia. Wera has an MA in graphic design from the University of Arts in Poznan, Poland (2012).