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San Jose, United States

Vulf Sans·Vulf Mono·Degular

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88foundries

Arcane Type Foundry

Vancouver·Canada

Women-owned, one-person foundry. Previously Alanna Munro Type Foundry. Emily Carr grad, teaches typography at BCIT. Custom work for Scholastic, LA Galaxy, John Fluevog. Streams type design live on Twitch. Free education licenses for students. Co-organizes Type Brigade speakers series. Letterforms described as having 'happy curves' with warm personality and technical precision. Offers free trial fonts and employee-based licensing. Creates educational content and products including stickers, cards, and books.

Tofino

Stornoway

Amberwood

Domicile Foundry

Helsinki·Finland

MA in Type Design from KABK (Type and Media, 2019). Typographic consultancy producing retail and custom fonts. Experimental work on Future Fonts. Value-based licensing scaled to company size. Offers custom font design services ranging from small-scale customization to complete typographic systems. Provides 60% discount for non-profit organizations, academic personnel and students. Offers free test fonts for evaluation purposes.

Rondeau

Chauffeur

Beltram

Labor and Wait

New York·United States

Digital type foundry in Hudson River Valley, NY. Founded 2023 as separate entity after operating Village (vllg.com) from 2005-2023. Name from ceramic jam jar with Co-operative Wholesale Society crest and Longfellows 1838 poem A Psalm of Life. Custom typography practice (bspk) serves clients including Pentagram Design and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Esperanza

Cosmica

Cosmica Mono

Loud Room

Philadelphia·United States

One of web typography's most influential voices. Co-founder of A Book Apart, author of On Web Typography. Former Creative Director at Typekit and A List Apart. Former SVA faculty, VP of AIGA/NY. Citywide inspired by mid-1900s bus roll signs.

Citywide

Chonk

Mass-Driver

The Hague·Netherlands

Independent studio founded by British designer Rutherford Craze. Technical/code-focused with strong mono offerings, but also produces display and text typefaces. Works with collaborators worldwide and serves both freelancers and global brands.

MD IO

MD Nichrome

MD System

Off Type

Bucharest·Romania

Font foundry by Mathieu Desjardins and Valerio Monopoli specializing in unconventional typeface design. Mission: silly/playful/charming/wonderful/fun fonts that are really really well made. Free trial downloads for personal use. Powered by Pangram Pangram Foundry.

Off Set

Oddval

Basement Grotesque

Azuliq

Cologne·Germany

Azuliq Type donates 10% of annual profits to support literacy programs worldwide, noting that 750 million people lack basic literacy. The foundry exclusively sells fonts through their own website with a proprietary licensing model, avoiding third-party distributors. Started as an experiment in 2020 before officially founding in 2022, collaborating with a small network of experts.

Attendorn

Before Paris

Copanero

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