Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Lock by Mark Bloom and Diana Ovezea Hailing from both indie designers and larger foundries, these cool fonts could come in handy for your end-of-year design projects. Nestor by Julien Fincker Designed by Julien Fincker, Nestor is a soft and narrow sans-serif that marks the launch of his new foundry, Font Cuisine.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

To help you out, we've carefully curated a diverse selection of typefaces from leading foundries and designers, each of which brings its own unique character and functionality to the table. And so, as a designer, it's the perfect occasion to delve into the latest fonts on the market and consider updating your typographical toolkit.

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Creative Boom

JULY 5, 2023

As ever, we've got our attention firmly focused on the best independent type foundries , but we've also kept our eyes out for the best fonts from the big players. 36Dope by Power Type Foundry And now for something completely different. 36Dope by Power Type Foundry 7. Now F37 Foundry has released F37 August, its homage to Futura.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 23, 2022

This month, give your designs a fresh twist with these top new typefaces from our favourite designers and foundries. With typefaces no doubt being at the top of your list, we've scoured some of the most exciting foundries and type offerings to inspire you. Etude by Order Type Foundry. Etude by Order Type Foundry.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 19, 2024

Mynor-B Mynor-B is the latest typeface from The Northern Block, an independent type foundry based in northeast England. These qualities sit in beautiful tension with the characteristic flair that has become a trademark of Lucas' sans-serifs. It has quite a story behind it.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

German type foundry Dinamo has collaborated with art and design studio BNAG to create a new dot matrix font that works hand-in-hand with their new line of spontaneous metal furniture brackets. But a fun product needs a fun font, and that's exactly what type foundry Dinamo has delivered.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This is used alongside Berlin-based foundry Dinamo's font, Social. Developed by Create Properties and designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects, the 14-acre development is surrounded by nature and emphasises human-scale architecture; the identity design had to resonate with the community's values of sustainability and connection.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2025

The entire library of the type foundry is used across the book, highlighting the best and worst musical double acts over the years. Transatlantic type foundry Commercial Type's latest launch, Double Acts in Pop, is the answer to your prayers. When designing the book, the foundry wanted a compact format that felt comfortable to hold.

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Creative Boom

JULY 4, 2022

As well as spending the last few years working on commissions for brands such as Next and Basic Space, he's also founded his own independent type foundry, Frost , which recently launched its website. Speaking to Creative Boom, Harrison says: "A combination of things led to starting the foundry back in 2018. Check it out now.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Alongside this, the team created a custom typeface with the US-based type foundry Sharp Type. It references the zoo's history of supporting critically endangered Eastern Black Rhinos, which dates back to 1999, and helped to breed a rare calf. This was a twist on a Grotesque, with cuts and curls to mimic tails, leaves and claws.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Download font trials from your favourite foundries and create a visual overview using tools like Figma or Illustrator," he recommends. I love finding small independent type foundries that push the boundaries. So Daan Hornstra , co-founder and brand design lead at TIN, is a big fan of "try before you buy".

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Creative Boom

JUNE 20, 2023

Type foundry and design studio F37 has created a mature new look for Manchester's underground trance scene, Majefa. Enter F37, a Manchester-based studio and type foundry founded by local boy and Majefa regular Rick Banks. On the F37® Foundry site, we have a section called Playground," Rick tells Creative Boom.

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Creative Boom

JULY 7, 2024

After using non-custom fonts for years in his work, Ilori reached out to the foundry specifically to create his own typeface. Yinka was attracted to British Standard Type for our ability to balance between sans-serifs and more expressive, playful types, aligning perfectly with his vision", says the foundry's co-founder Matt Fenton.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 1, 2024

Using the letters on the façade of the well-known Great Northern Warehouse, the foundry created a font that "breaks modern expectations". Manchester-based type foundry F37 has revived the facade brick lettering on the Great Northern Warehouse, expanding the 19 letters on the building into an industrial typeface.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Or course, these choices are all subjective, but even if you don't like the fonts themselves, they all come from excellent foundries. Plus, for more brilliant providers, see these 18 highly respected type foundries that remain fiercely independent. He also designs type through his foundry, Betatype. Dazzed by Displaay 8.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In doing so, we've managed to include a decent spread of indie foundries and designers, too. But we've also seen a proliferation of boutique foundries open with vastly different pricing and licensing parameters, making things mind-bogglingly complex. Designer Chris Wilson agrees.

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Creative Bloq

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I love the heritage-inspired design.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Loon’s eight fixtures are split into two families: Foundry and Ridge. Foundry relies on sand-casting to create its weighty, textured forms that resemble Trumpet flowers dangling from the ceiling. Sorensen-Jolink’s exploration of hand-applied metal finishes is now available across all Coil + Drift’s fixtures.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Founders Lucas Sharp and Chantra Malee Exclusive to Creative Boom: Boutique digital type foundry at the vanguard of contemporary typeface culture and design finalises asset sale today. It was only December last year when Monotype acquired the award-winning Colophon Foundry and its library of 85 fonts.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Award-winning Manchester-based font studio F37 Foundry has launched its collaborative new typeface collection this week. Titled F37 X , this new section of F37 Foundry's offerings is centred around collaboration and champions the work of people who do not traditionally make typefaces. It featured a lot of press and even won an award.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Inspired by the lettering artists such as Gemma O'Brien , Jessica Hirsche and Lisa Congdon , and foundries such as OH no Type Co, XYZ and Blaze, Julie has created several experimental character sets of her own. What I really like about Vancouver is that it feels freer and a bit more relaxed."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

At Creative Boom, we're always on the lookout for new typefaces, and we're especially interested to see foundries take an experimental approach. Hubsch is a new experimental typeface from The Northern Block , an award-winning, independent type foundry based in north-east England.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 22, 2023

DIORAMA Sculpture – Foundry on view with Smithson Projects The joint endeavor holds great potential for scaling up, with aspirations to interrupt or activate architectural spaces of the interior and exterior kind, as the duo are slated to develop this visual language further.

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Creative Bloq

AUGUST 30, 2024

The indie "passion project" embraces candid design.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A key addition to the visual identity is DNEG Script, a custom typeface developed in collaboration with French digital type foundry Lift Type. "We DNEG's established logo has been subtly refined, maintaining recognition while introducing a more modern and flexible execution.

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Creative Boom

MAY 13, 2024

Sister Mary opted for Manuka Bold from Klim Type Foundry for headlines, for its contemporary yet bold aesthetic. Untitled Sans, also from Klim Type Foundry, was chosen for body text, Chandler explains, "offering readability and neutrality while complementing the theme of embracing raw, unfiltered design".

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Creative Boom

MARCH 13, 2023

Renowned Berlin-based type foundry Fontwerk has released an adorable new typeface which takes its design cues from the chubby cheeks and tubular homes of the humble pet hamster.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2023

Because it recognises that fact and leans into it, TYPEONE isn't just a must-read for font foundries and type designers but graphic designers of all stripes. Ultimately, typography doesn't exist in a vacuum but is just one element in a dynamic and ever-evolving design landscape. You can find more information and buy copies here.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 20, 2024

This led us to choose the round Duplet Open typeface from Indian Type Foundry. "And so we arrived at the idea of making it feel welcoming for all brands and a diverse range of creators.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Passeio We introduce two cool new fonts from the Brazilian type foundry and explain their inspiration. As an independent type foundry in Brazil, thriving in this industry can be quite challenging," says Fabio. We're always on the lookout for cool new fonts at Creative Boom, and delightfully, two have arrived at once in our inbox.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 21, 2023

It's the latest release from Playtype, a Copenhagen-based independent type foundry specialising in retail and custom typefaces. You can explore Peridot on the foundry's website and Behance profile to witness its potential. Kablammo by Vectro Type Foundry Our final font will make your head spin but in a good way.

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Creative Boom

JULY 14, 2024

The typeface Champ Black from foundry Typeeverything was chosen for the logo because it conveys the friendly nature of the school's brand. Freeda's previous visual identity was a decade old and didn't quite represent its position at the forefront of language education.

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Creative Bloq

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As independent type foundry Colophon joins Monotype, I catch up with Colophon's co-founder Anthony Sheret to chat about the state of the industry.

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I Love Typography

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

When we launched our store back in June, we did so with 40 indie foundries. Today, just five months on, we’re thrilled to announce a second cohort of 21 foundries and more than 200 font families. Joining us are established classics to new and cutting-edge foundries from around the world. Read the book, Typographic Firsts.

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We And The Color

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Designed and published by the Kostic Type Foundry, the Roc Grotesk font family comes with 45 fonts including nine weights in five widths. Roc Grotesk Font Family by Kostic Type Foundry. The post Roc Grotesk Font Family by Kostic Type Foundry appeared first on WE AND THE COLOR. Download at Fontspring. Download at Fontspring.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 7, 2022

Colophon foundry's Raisonne Pro (used in Bold, DemiBold and Book) is the primary typeface used throughout—contemporary and straightforward, it represents a voice that can be used across Woodgreen's different styles of communication.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

The importance of collaboration The webinar also highlighted that the best typography outcomes arise from deep collaboration between designers, type foundries and software developers. Addressing these practical considerations ensures that typefaces are functional and effective across all brand touchpoints.

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