Interesting free fonts

Check out this link for some free fonts.

http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/index.html

“ The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee.
It permits a number of possible uses and each
designer can look for a solution appropriate to his
personal style. But one must learn how to use the
grid; it is an art that requires practice. ”
Josef Müller-Brockmann

A Typographer and a Musician

http://www.daxo.de/

Hans Reichel (born 1949) is a musician/inventor/composer as well as being a type designer. For more than 30 years he’s made a name for himself as an accomplished acoustic and electric guitar player. He’s also the inventor of the Daxophone, an instrument where thin strips of wood are played with a bow to mimic animal sounds and human voices.He has designed FF Sari and FF Dax amongst others, both cousins of each other.

Check out the website to see what a musician + typographer can produce. The website might test your patience with its of interactive gimickiness, but still worth a look.

Type foundries

Links to some contemporary and some-not-so-contemporary type foundries. Links mostly from our very own guddu.

http://www.underware.nl
Underware is a graphic design studio which is specialized in designing and producing typefaces. These are often conventional in terms of legibility - yet functional, having concepts that seek for new visual, typographic and linguistic possibilities.
The company was founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki.
We are based in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam.

http://www.t26.com/

http://www.emigre.com/ (need I say anything?)

http://www.ourtype.be/

http://www.typofonderie.com/
Founded in 1994, Porchez Typofonderie is an independent digital type foundry in France.

http://www.lucasfonts.com/
Berlin-based Dutch type designer Luc(as) de Groot has worked with and for many well-known companies and publications. He has made custom fonts for prestigious newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo, Le Monde, Metro and Der Spiegel in addition to creating corporate type for international companies including Sun Microsystems, Bell South, Heineken, Siemens and Miele. He designed two font families for Microsoft: the ‘monospaced’ font family Consolas, the new alternative to Courier; and Calibri, the new default typeface in MS Word.

De Groot founded his own type foundry, LucasFonts, in 2000.
Its aim, in a few words: to make the world a better place by designing typefaces that look good and work well under any circumstances and in many languages. Graphic designers across the planet have discovered the special qualities of Luc(as)’ fonts. They are attracted by their functionality and friendly appearance and love the enormous range of possibilities that each family offers. Many also appreciate the idiosyncrasies – a quest for extremes that has resulted in some of the narrowest, thinnest, wittiest or boldest typefaces around.

http://www.typography.com/home/index.php?affiliateID=
Since 1989, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones have helped some of the world's foremost publications, corporations, and institutions develop their unique voice through typography. Their body of work includes some of the world's most famous designs, typefaces marked by both high performance and high style.

Also check out -
http://typeneu.com/

Eric Spiekermann launches 'Axel' at typo Berlin'09

'Axel' Designed by Eric Spiekermann premiered at the Typo Berlin '09  festival. Axel an economical and highly legible font family is optimized for on-screen use in Office application such as Microsoft Excel. Axel uses 30% less space than other widely used fonts in the same area, without looking condensed.

Here's the link: AXEL