Typotheque

Typotheque

Typotheque is a type foundry and design studio from The Hague, Netherlands [http://www.typotheque.com/about/] that develops and markets original typefaces for the Macintosh and Windows platforms. The typefaces sold under the Typotheque foundry label are designed by Slovakian Peter Biľak, including the popular [http://www.100besteschriften.de/40_Fedra.html#a40] Fedra Sans and Fedra Serif font families, and Jigsaw designed by Johanna Biľak. Typotheque specializes in creation of Latin and non-Latin fonts (Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic), occasionally advertises in national design journals like "Print", and "How", and publishes books, such as "We Want You To Love Type" [http://www.typotheque.com/books/we_want_you_to_love_type/] or bi-annual independent art/design publication "Dot Dot Dot".

Typotheque's work has been profiled in the design publications "Abitare", "Cap & Design", "Designum", "Druk", "Dwell", "Etapes", "Emigre", "I.D.", "Idea", "Novum", "Page", "Print", "Publish", and "tipoGrafica". Typotheque's work has been recognized by The Type Directors Club [http://www.tdc.org/news/2007Results/GretaText.html] .

External links

* [http://www.typotheque.com/ Typotheque type foundry]
*Middeldorp, Jan. "Dutch Type." 010 publishers: 2004. ISBN 90-6450-460-1.
* [http://www.100besteschriften.de/40_Fedra.html#a40] Fedra Sans selected by FontShop as number 40 amongst 100 Best typefaces of all times.


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