Type foundries

I care deeply about typography. Good type is invisible infrastructure — it shapes how everything on a page feels before you’ve read a single word. These are the foundries whose work I admire, own, and keep coming back to.

Grilli Type

Switzerland

The Swiss perfectionists behind my entire headline collection. 19 families and counting.

GT Alpina GT America GT Canon GT Cinetype GT Eesti GT Era GT Flaire GT Flexa GT Haptik GT Maru GT Pantheon GT Planar GT Pressura GT Sectra GT Standard GT Super GT Utra GT Walsheim GT Zirkon

Klim Type Foundry

New Zealand

Kris Sowersby's one-man legendary output from New Zealand.

Tiempos Text Tiempos Headline

Hoefler&Co

USA

The gold standard. Gotham alone changed how America looks.

Gotham Mercury Chronicle Whitney Decimal

Frere-Jones Type

USA

Tobias Frere-Jones — the man who drew Interstate, Gotham and then started fresh.

Mallory Exchange Retina Conductor

FontFont

Germany

Erik Spiekermann's legacy house. FF Meta and FF DIN are in the canon.

FF Meta FF Mark FF DIN FF Scala

Commercial Type

USA / UK

Schwartz and Berton's powerhouse. Graphik is everywhere for a reason.

Graphik Druk Canela Atlas Grotesk Lyon

Letters from Sweden

Sweden

Göransson and Söderhavet's quietly elite catalogue. Ivar runs this very site.

Styrene Ivar Noe Display Rund Trio Grotesk

Dinamo

Switzerland / Germany

The new wave. Variable fonts, open tooling, and Favorit is a modern classic.

ABC Favorit ABC Monument Grotesk ABC Diatype ABC Whyte

Colophon Foundry

UK / USA

Apercu is one of those fonts that just feels right the moment you set it.

Apercu Apercu Mono Basis Grotesque Reckless

Lineto

Switzerland

Circular conquered Silicon Valley. Akkurat conquered everything else.

Circular Akkurat LL Brown Replica

Milieu Grotesque

Switzerland

Small catalogue, zero misses. Maison Neue is as clean as it gets.

Maison Neue Maison Mono

TypeTogether

Czech Republic / Spain

Ivar Text and Ivar Headline — the serifs that ran this site for a long time.

Ivar Text Ivar Headline

Pangram Pangram

Canada

The indie darling. PP Neue York is gorgeous and their pricing is refreshingly fair.

PP Neue York

URW Type Foundry

Germany

Old-school German engineering. Franklin Gothic is a workhorse that never quits.

Franklin Gothic

Admired fonts are shown slightly muted — I don’t own them yet but they’re on the list.