Typotheque is a
type foundry
A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Before digital typography, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces for hand typesetting, and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and ...
and
design studio
A design studio or drawing office is a workplace for designers and artisans engaged in conceiving, designing and developing new products or objects. Facilities in a design studio include clothes, furniture art equipment best suited for design work ...
from
The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a list of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's ad ...
,
Netherlands
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that develops and markets original
typeface
A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
There are thousands ...
s. In October 2009, Typotheque became the first type foundry to introduce the concept of webfonts.
The typefaces sold under the Typotheque foundry label are mostly designed by
Peter Biľak, including the popula
Fedra Sans and Fedra Serif font families. Typotheque specializes in creation of Latin and non-Latin fonts (
Cyrillic,
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
,
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...
,
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
) and publishes books, such as ''We Want You To Love Type'
bi-annual independent art/design publication ''
Dot Dot Dot (magazine), Dot Dot Dot'', or the magazine of unexpected creativity
Works That Work
Works may refer to:
People
* Caddy Works (1896–1982), American college sports coach
* Samuel Works (c. 1781–1868), New York politician
Albums
* '' ''Works'' (Pink Floyd album)'', a Pink Floyd album from 1983
* ''Works'', a Gary Burton album ...
.
Typotheque's work has been profiled in the design publications ''
Abitare
''Abitare'', published monthly in Milan, Italy, is one of the world's best known design magazines. It was first published in 1961.
History and profile
''Abitare'' was launched in Milan in 1961 by Piera Peroni. The magazine was published monthly. ...
'', ''Cap & Design'', ''Designum'', ''Druk'', ''
Dwell'', ''Etapes'', ''
Emigre'', ''
I.D.'', ''
Idea
In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are the results of thought. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object. Many philosophers have considered ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of be ...
'', ''Novum'', ''Page'', ''
Print
Printing is the process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template
Print or printing may also refer to:
Publishing
* Canvas print, the result of an image printed onto canvas which is often stretched, or gallery-wrapped, o ...
'', ''Publish'', and ''tipoGrafica''. Typotheque's work has been recognized by the
Type Directors Club
The Type Directors Club (TDC) is an international organization devoted to typography and type design, founded in 1946 in New York City. TDC believes that type drives culture, and that culture drives type—and is dedicated to cataloging, showcas ...
.
Typotheque's clients including
Mozilla Foundation
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and
Sandoll Communications.
References
External links
Typotheque type foundry*Middendorp, Jan. ''Dutch Type.'' 010 publishers: 2004. {{ISBN, 90-6450-460-1.
Fedra Sans selected by
FontShop
FontShop International was an international manufacturer of digital typefaces (fonts), based in Berlin. It was one of the largest digital type foundries.
The ''FontFont'' library of fonts contains designs by 160 type designers, among them renowne ...
as number 40 amongst 100 Best typefaces of all times.
Companies based in The Hague
Type foundries