Harold Lohner

Harold Lohner (born 1958 in Schenectady, New York) is a printmaker and designer of freeware and shareware fonts. Lohner has designed over 100 typefaces, and has licensed some of his shareware designs to the non-profit organization Autumn Leaves.

He has also digitised some analog Letraset fonts such as Block-Up.

The ideas and themes behind Lohner's work come from historical art and typography found in books, magazines, classic and nostalgic films titles, flea markets and online sources, which he interprets and puts his own unique stamp on. He has drawn several revivals of 20th century classics by Rudolf Koch, including "Bride of the Monster" (an interpretation of Koch's Neuland), "Koch Dingbats", "Koch Quadrat" and "Koch Rivoli".

Lohner has designed many three dimensional, geometric and decorative optical typefaces such as "Good Vibes", "Atlas Solid", "Joggle", "Fortuna Dot", "Le Film Classic", "Pop Stars", "Onion" and "Red Circle." In an alternative vein, "Captain Howdy", "Mystic Prophet" and "Sideshow" are a unique trio of typefaces based on type found on Ouija game boards.

All but one of Harold Lohner's free downloadable fonts are TrueType format. He also offers his fonts in 4 collections on CD. Each contains over 60 fonts for Mac and Windows in TrueType and Postscript Type 1 formats.

ee also

* List of fonts by Harold Lohner
* List of freeware type designers

External links

* [http://www.haroldsfonts.com/ Harold Lohner's fonts]
* [http://www.planete-typographie.com/telecharger/typo_archive.html Planete Typographie Article about Harold's "National Archive" font]
* [http://www.planete-typographie.com/telecharger/typo_dominican.html Planete Typographie Article about Harold's "Dominican" font]
* [http://members.aol.com/hlohner/monoprints/monoprints.html Gallery of monoprints by Harold Lohner]