Just van Rossum of Netherlands
Born: Haarlem, 1966
Dutch type designer and technical font whiz kid. Started the LettError virtual type foundry with Erik van Blokland, with whom he worked at MetaDesign.
Fame came with the release of Beowolf (co-designed with van Blokland), a font whose ragged edges shift randomly each time you print the font. His oeuvre includes many typefaces that are deliberately low-tech in appearance. Most of his fonts are published by FontFont.
He is a key developer on the Robofog project with Erik and Petr van Blokland. He also leads a drive to get the font tool developer community to use XML as a font interchange format; his own TTX program is an excellent start.
Fonts by Just van Rossum
FF Advert, FF Advert Rough, FF BeoSans, FF Beowolf, FF Brokenscript, FF Confidential, FF Double Digits, FF Dynamoe, FF Flightcase, FF Justlefthand, FF Karton, Phaistos, FF Schulbuch, FF Schulschrift, FF Stamp Gothic
Browse all fonts by Just van Rossum
Activities
Type Design
Application Development
Web Design
Related Links
• CreativePro: The Faces Behind the Faces by Terri Stone
• Emigre: Just van Rossum
• Font Bureau People: Just van Rossum
• LettError
• Robofog
• Wired 3.07, July 1995: LettError[TM], by Erik Spiekermann
Please note: This is not an official page of Just van Rossum and e-mailing us is not a good way to contact him. Corrections welcomed.
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