Type foundries loved by designers from Awwwards

Saikrishna vanneldas
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5 min readJul 21, 2022

Typography is currently playing a central role in web design, with progressive improvements like Variable Fonts, CSS Shapes, FlexBox, CSS Grids and Subgrid definitively changing the way we work with typography in web design.

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Pangram Pangram.

The Pangram Pangram Foundry is dedicated to making quality fonts that are free to try and that can be used in everyday designs.

Velvetyne

Velvetyne is a French libre type foundry designing and releasing cutting edge typefaces.

Extraset

Extraset is an independent Swiss type foundry established in Geneva jointly led by Alex Dujet (Futur Neue), Xavier Erni (Neo Neo), Roger Gaillard (Cécile + Roger) and David Mamie (TM Todeschini + Mamie). Extraset publishes professional typefaces made by graphic designers for graphic designers.

https://extraset.ch/

Milieu Grotesque

Milieu Grotesque is an independent publisher and distributor of typefaces and related products.

https://www.milieugrotesque.com/

Grillli Type

Grilli Type offers original retail and custom typefaces with a contemporary aesthetic in the Swiss tradition.

https://www.grillitype.com/

Swiss Typefaces

Swiss Typefaces was founded in 2006, by designers who grew up being surrounded by the Swiss (International) Style. Swiss Typefaces is embedded in a network of like-minded creatives, from the fields of design, but also music, street culture, fashion, fine art, technology, and more.

https://www.swisstypefaces.com/

Klim Type Foundry

The Klim Type Foundry is a digital type foundry operated by Kris Sowersby, a New Zealand typeface designer. Klim was founded in 2005 and is currently based in Wellington. Klim produces retail typefaces, custom typefaces and custom lettering and logotypes.

https://klim.co.nz/

Wise Type

WiseType is an independent digital type foundry run by Jacob Wise.

Nikolas Type

Nikolas Type is the independent type foundry of Nikolas Wrobel, creating retail and bespoke typefaces for analog and digital media.

Typelab

Well, dinner is served babe. Typelab was created by one of you, for you. TYPELAB is a type design service offering design software and bespoke type design for …

https://typelab.fr/

Tight Type

TIGHTYPE is an independent type foundry, established in 2015. Our approach is to provide visually strong typefaces for people who value contemporary type

https://tightype.com/typefaces/

Optima

Optimo is a Swiss type foundry that designs and publishes premium typefaces through its online catalogue and also offer custom fonts and bespoke versions.

https://optimo.ch/typefaces

VJ Type

VJ-Type is an independant type foundry based in Paris, born from Violaine & Jérémy’s creative studio.

Camelot Typefaces

Camelot is a German independent publisher of typefaces. We offer a selected library of commercial fonts and create dedicated custom fonts upon request.

https://camelot-typefaces.com/

Alfa Type

An independent type foundry established in 2006 by Joseph Miceli. Developing original and commissioned typefaces for print and screen.

http://www.alfatypefonts.com/

Neubel

Featuring a generous x-height, wide counters and a high contrast concept.

https://www.neuebel.com/

Blaze type

Type Design foundry | We design fonts for blazing hot projects!

Colophon Foundry

Colophon is an international, award-winning type foundry based in London (UK) and Los Angeles (US). We create, publish, and distribute high-quality retail

Pizza Type

Pizza Typefaces is an independent type design foundry. We bake and distribute flavored and custom fonts.

https://typefaces.pizza/

for more references check:

https://www.awwwards.com/

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