Foundries

Aerotype - Offer OpenType, PostScript and TrueType fonts for Mac and Windows systems.

Altered Ego Fonts - Designs by Brian Sooy. Condensed and narrow-width text fonts. Also, picture and dingbat fonts.

Ancient World Languages - TrueType and Postscript archaeology fonts Mayan, Egyptian, archaeological font packages, and Native American southeastern and southwestern Indian glyphs.

Astigmatic One Eye - Traditional styled typefaces, as well as many bizarre and theme styled commercial and freeware typefaces.

Baseline Fonts Design & Type Co. - Baseline Fonts is an independent typeface foundry offering a collection of historic fonts and new fonts.

Bay Animation, Inc. - Download and licensing information on LetterPress TrueType and PostScript font collection. [PC/Mac]

Berthold - Collections of downloadable fonts offered for sale online. Includes lists of local distributors.

Bitstream - Bitstream is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom typeface designs for a wide variety of markets.

BrainEaters - Typefaces based on B-Movies, Horror, Sci-Fi, Exploitation, and other trash.

Canada Type - Founded in 2004 by Rebecca Alaccari and Patrick Griffin. Offers mostly revivals of mid-20th century designs and some new designs.

CastleType - An eclectic collection of typefaces, including many art deco revivals, classic type styles inspired by ancient sources, and decorative fonts.

Chank - Minneapolis-based type house offering custom font design services and font sales. [Windows, MacOS]

Charles Rennie Mackintosh font - A TrueType font featuring the style developed and made famous by the renowned scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

The Classic Font Company - Classical font designs, postscript Type-1, TrueType, Acorn outline fonts, high quality typography, classical type designs.

Comicbook Fonts - Produces fonts for comic book lettering. Also paraphernalia and links to similar sites.

Cool Fonts Online - Fonts available for Windows and Mac download the font catalog in PDF format.

Customised Font Design - Providing custom fonts for Blue Chip clients. Logotypes, lettering and some retail fonts.

Dalton Maag - Font studio offering font sales, custom font and logo design services. Based in London, UK. [Windows, MacOS]

Deniart Systems - From Egyptian Hieroglyphics to modern Zodiacs, give documents a sense of design with historically accurate symbol.

Device Fonts - Retro-esque fonts by Rian Hughes

Dinc Type - Designs include Barking Dog, Metropolitan, Broken Promise, and Instant Karma.

The Dingbatcave - Original dingbat fonts by fine artists Ann Stretton and Stan Starbuck.

DSType - Founded by Dino dos Santos, based in Portugal. Diverse selection of styles. Mostly body text and script fonts.

Educational Fontware, Inc - Independent design house that produces and sells handwriting fonts for teachers and homeschoolers. Based in Bainbridge Island, Washington State, USA. [Windows, MacOS]

Electronic Font Foundry - Developing multilingual fonts and specialist fonts for Risc OS, Windows, Mac OS systems.

Elfring Fonts - MICR / E13-B fonts for check encoding plus secure fonts for print check amounts and payee names.

Emigre - Award-winning independent type foundry always on the cutting edge.

Emtype Foundry - Based in Barcelona, Spain. Founded in 1997 by Eduardo Manso, Emtype produces display and text fonts.

The Enschede Font Foundry - Original booktype faces in the 'Dutch' tradition of Jan van Krimpen and Joh. Enschede. Most by designer Bram de Does.

Fabrizio Schiavi Design - Handhinted fonts, custom fonts, fonts for Flash.

Font Bureau - An independent digital type foundry located in Boston, Massachusetts.

Font City - Decorative designs by Artem Gerasimov, with extended character sets.

Font Diner - Selection of retro and 1950s style fonts.

Font Mesa - Develops western Truetype and Type1 for Windows and Mac, and logo fonts.

Font Source - Company specializes in signature fonts, logo fonts, educational fonts, and commercial typefaces. Licensing for corporate identity typefaces, custom typefaces and Delta+ professional hinting for screen clarity.

Fonteam International - View current catalog of Macintosh and PC Truetype fonts and variations for sale as downloads. Information on character sets and formats, downloads, ordering, and contact information.

FontFont - Searchable catalog with fonts created by different designers, covering a wide range of styles and functions.

FontGod - Creators of custom handwriting fonts based on a customers handwriting style. Truetype fonts for PC or Mac.

Fonthead Design - A foundry dedicated to creating quality, contemporary fonts that range from whimsical to serious. Many free fonts available as well.

Font-o-ville - Free original typeface designs for Mac and PCs.

Fonts by Dennis Palumbo - Unique, original, handcrafted PostScript Type 1 Fonts, TrueType Fonts and Typefaces for Windows and Macintosh.

FontShop - Online font sales. Browse by name, designer or foundry. Also provides custom creation and conversions, weblog and magazine. [Windows/MacOS]

Fontsmith - Type designers creating customised fonts for clients such as channel 4, Post Office, Powergen, Saudi Aramco

formgebung Atelier für Schrift - Provide type design solutions for publishing professionals throughout the world. Designed, digitized or modified thousands of typefaces to meet customers needs. [Bilingual site]

Fountain - The friendly typefoundry. A Swedish typefoundry with some very nice original faces.

Fuelfonts Type Foundry - A small Swedish type foundry.

Galápagos Design Group - Professional type development and consultation. Originators of new and interesting type designs. Free download of Web-O-Mints available.

Garage Fonts - Offering a selection of fonts created by type designers from around the globe.

GD&T/SPC Symbol Font - GD&T - Geometric Dimension and Tolerancing or SPC - Statistical Process Control fonts for Windows or Mac applications including CAD, Solidworks, Excel, Word, Wordperfect.

Glyph Systems - Specializes in custom type development, including TrueType, OpenType, PostScript fonts, multilingual fonts, logo design and font conversions.

Graphx Edge - Sales of font collections. Available packages include calligraphy fonts and dingbat fonts. [Windows, MacOS]

Grilledcheese Fonts - Original freeware, shareware, and commercial fonts downloadable for Windows and Macintosh computers.

House Industries - Founded in 1993 by Andy Cruz and Rich Roat, House Industries has grown into a studio which sells unique display typography, illustration and design services.

Jack Yan & Associates Fonts - Australasia's leading font company, with a range of useful and elegant typefaces.

JL-types Ky - Cyrillic, Central European, Baltic, Barcode fonts

Just Another Foundry - Text fonts with extended glyph sets and advanced typographic OpenType features.

Kenn Munk - Kenn Munk offers alternative typefaces, dingbats and free stencils. The site also includes his photos, clothing designs and the Versus Project.

Killer Fonts - Typefaces made from the handwriting of infamous killers and famous people.

Letterhead Fonts - Specializes in rare and unique old typefaces from the turn of the century.

Linguist's Software - Commercial site specializing in fonts supporting more than 660 languages. Products include TrueType and Type 1 fonts plus keyboard drivers for PC and Mac.

Linotype - Offers searchable library of original fonts (also organized by theme, style, alphabetically), typeface identifier, custom font design and corporate licensing services. [OpenType, Windows, MacOS]

LucasFonts - Selected type families all created by Luc(as) de Groot, available as PostScript or TrueType for Windows and Macintosh. Well hinted TrueType fonts with a large selection of weights.

MADType - Matt Desmond's one man type foundry. Specializes in unique original retail and custom type design.

Match Fonts - Offers a large variety of fonts for Windows and Macintosh, text fonts, display types, Calligraphy and handwriting, education, Foreign, special fonts and custom fonts.

Michael Browers - Dingbat and display fonts by Michael Browers.

MICR font - Font set with auto-calibration program and anti-fraud secure number fonts. Free samples available. [Windows/Macintosh]

Mindcandy - Twelve type foundries providing over 450 original, meticulously designed typefaces for both display and body copy.

Monotype - Sell libraries of typefaces from independent foundries/designers. Also offers custom font design, font licensing management services and technology (printer drivers/layout engines).

MVB Fonts - Publisher of original typeface designs available in PostScript Type 1 format for Macintosh and PC. Information on character sets and formats, downloads, ordering, and contact information.

MyFont - Custom handwriting Font service. Order and contact information, and samples available for viewing.

Orbit Enterprises, Inc. - Provides a digitized format of a person's handwritten signature, to be used as a font on a computer. Features include sample download, FAQs, pricing and order form.

P22 Type Foundry - Fonts denote a cross section of art, natural science and history.

ParaType, Inc - Font foundry offering custom design/conversion services. Also sell fonts from their own (and other) foundries. [Windows, MacOS]

Personal Handwritten Fonts - Personal handwriting converted into a personal computer font. A signature feature is also included. Samples, and order forum.

Pixietype - Offers bitmap, pixel, screen fonts for use on for Internet and in Flash design.

Popdog Fonts - Serious fonts for serious people. Original English and Greek fonts.

Process Type Foundry - Located in Minneapolis Minnesota, the Process Type Foundry is an independent type design studio specializing in the production and distribution of original typefaces for retail and custom use.

Proggy Programming Fonts - Fixed-width screen fonts that are designed for code listings.

Psy/Ops Type - San Francisco's type studio, featuring a unique type collection, and offering a full range of typographic services. [Flash]

Pure Confection Dingbat Fonts - Dingbat fonts for web designers to use in creating web graphics sets. Several free Windows TrueType fonts available.

Quick Fonts - Logos and signature converted into fonts for business and personal communications.

2 Rebels - Type designers in Montréal, Canada.

Scriptorium Fonts - Original fonts based on historical calligraphy and digitizations of antique typefaces.

SelfBuild Type Foundry - Contemporary typefaces for Mac and PC.

Shinn Type Foundry - Assortment of contemporary typefaces designed by Nick Shinn. Each font shown in four different formats.

Sign DNA Fonts - Hand painted script, casual and display fonts for signmakers, designers and typographers. Available for Mac and PC in both PS and TT.

SignatureFactory - Convert signatures and logos to TrueType fonts. Sample conversions available.

Signfonts.com - Fonts for sign artist, created by sign artist specifically for use in sign design and vinyl cutting.

Storm Type Foundry - Information regarding a collection of fonts produced by Frantisek Storm.

Studio Daedalus Comics Fonts - Featuring WhizBang, one of the very first authentic comics lettering fonts made available to amateurs, semi-pros, and publishers alike.

Synfonts - Digital Type foundry providing fonts to the type world since 1994.

T-26 - Started by Carlos Segura in 1994, T-26’s then experimental fonts are now considered mainstream. T-26 offers hundreds of original fonts.

Telegraphics - Telegraphics has been studying digital typography since 1986. Some of our experiments are freely downloadable from the site.

Terrapin Solutions Limited - Sells collections of fonts from major foundries and barcode fonts. Also offer custom font design and licencing services. Based in London, UK.

Test Pilot Collective - A new type foundry featuring digital fonts and graphic design.

Thirstype - Retro modern fonts.

TLai Enterprises - Acquire specialty fonts for military aircraft marking, sci-fi fonts and several utilities for Macintosh-based PalmPilots.

Treacyfaces: Headliners - The home of true graphic arts quality typography.

Treehouse - Collection includes several unusual novelty fonts

Typadelic Fonts - A small foundry offering a wide range of very unique typefaces. Available in Mac and PC format.

the Type Fetish - Selection of grunge fonts.

The Type Quarry - A small digital foundry specializing in historical, handwriting, and other fine fonts for print and web designers.

Typeco - Type foundry for the designs of principal, James Grieshaber, as well as a provider of typographic services and solutions.

TypeCulture - Independent digital type foundry and an academic resource with articles, essays, movies, and research directory.

Typephases Design - A collection of freeware dingbats, illustration and text fonts created by Joan Mas.

Underware Type Foundry - Underware is a (typo) graphic design studio that is specialized in designing and producing typefaces. These are published for retail sale or are especially tailor-made.

URW++ - A commercial typeface foundry providing high quality fonts for western European, eastern European, Turkish, Baltic, Greek and Cyrillic languages.

Vanderfont - Vanderfont is the online home for typefaces by illustrator and type designer Joe VanDerBos.

Vintage Type - Foundry specializes in antique typewriter fonts for screenwriters and old-fashioned telegram fonts. Additional fonts covering Celtic, label maker, screenplay, classic, fun, books on type, and fonts for layout and design.

vLetter, inc. Custom Handwriting Fonts and Signatures - Handwriting made into a handwriting font using patented Real Cursive and Printed font technology. Downloads, FAQs, product specification, ordering, and contact information.

Waldorf Fonts TrueType - Commercial TrueType fonts.

Wood Type Fonts - Fonts that are historically accurate reproductions of wood type produced in the 19th century in a variety of styles. Fonts are available only for the MAC in type 1 Postscript format.

Zang-O-Fonts - Decorative designs by Jamie Nazaroff.