He is one of those lettering artists who learned the craft right at the time when it was becoming obsolete. While passionate about calligraphy and sign painting, he loves working with digital design tools. He has drawn custom logos and titles for prestigious companies. He has produced a string of successful font families, of which the most recent — Desire — took him an estimated 7,000 working hours. He was a mentor to fellow lettering artists Laura Worthington and Debi Sementelli, both of whom he helped to perfect their digital skills. Meet Charles Borges de Oliveira from Borges Lettering, building bridges between hand crafts and digital savvy.
DTP Types Limited are developers of high quality font software and font related systems. Malcolm Wooden started the company in 1989, after spending over twenty years working at Monotype. As well as the hundreds of fonts available from the DTP Types Font Library, DTP Types can fulfil custom designs, digitise logos and handwriting, and TrueType hinting. DTP Types also offer a wide range of services to other font foundries.
Letterhead Fonts are created by artists, just like you. We have regular jobs as graphic designers and sign artists. We're a diverse group from all parts of the world, but we all have one thing in common-- we love letters and enjoy making them for you to use in your own projects. And because we actually use our fonts in real projects, you'll find that each LHF font is not only unique, but also practical to use.
Font Bureau was founded in 1989 by type designer David Berlow and media strategist Roger Black. Headquartered in Boston, MA, the small foundry employs a staff of full-time designers and its library has been contributed to by the likes of Tobias Frere-Jones, Matthew Carter, Jim Parkinson, John Downer, Leslie Cabarga, Cyrus Highsmith, Berlow himself, and others. “In a big way, all the designers whose work is published through Font Bureau are my latest teachers,” Berlow, a recipient of the SoTA Award, says in his Creative Characters interview. “From them I learn how to look at things related to type today from a variety of stylistic and entrepreneurial perspectives.”
For over a century, despite technological growth and change in the industry, Monotype’s mission has remained steadfast. The company’s goal to provide creative professionals and OEM customers with a broad and reliable selection of high-quality typefaces has grown to meet today’s publishing and new media needs.
ITC is a library that was created by creative professionals, for creative professionals in the 1970s. Its founders worked not only in type design, but in advertising, graphic design and photocomposition. The collective expertise of these men gave them the perspective necessary to know not only what holes existed in the industry, but how to fill them as well. ITC’s founders, Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin and Ed Rondthaler, were each awarded the TDC Medal; an award presented by the Type Directors Club to individuals “who have made significant contributions to the life, art, and craft of typography.”
Letraset was formed to exploit the invention of transfer sheet lettering in 1959.
Letraset always ran an adventurous letter design program and from 1964 under the leadership of design director Colin Brignall, built a distinctive library of display typefaces.
Linotype has made an enormous impact on the type industry for over a century, continuously producing high-quality, world-renowned fonts.
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