Glyphobet Font Foundry

2010-01-15T17:28:55Z

2010-03-03T17:00:00Z

Five Glyphobet Font Foundry fonts are now available for purchase at MyFonts.com!

Anadolu, $39.99

Anadolu

2009-12-17T17:28:55Z

Anadolu, sans-serif typeface, 2008—2009

Anadolu was inspired by the distinct style of sign lettering in rural Turkey, and refined based on sign lettering in Hungary. Shown here are samples in Turkish and Hungarian, as well as Finnish and Estonian, two other languages in the Finno-Ugric language group with Hungarian.

The slight curve at the tops of ascenders and bottoms of descenders is inspired by the linguistic process of “vowel harmony” in Turkish and Hungarian.

Anadolu is the Turkish name for Anatolia, the peninsula where Turkey lies. The name recalls another sans-serif typeface named for its country of origin.

The tittle on the i is reimagined as a diacritic, and the dotless ı is reimagined as the basic, prototypical i.

Too many typefaces treat diacritics as afterthoughts. Since diacritics are integral to the languages that inspired Anadolu, they were designed as core components of the typeface.

Zenith

2009-12-01T12:00:00Z

Zenith, decorative typeface, 2008.

Chinese characters have simplifed and more complex, “traditional” variants. Zenith imagines what an un-simplified, traditional version of the Latin alphabet might have looked like.

Breuckelen

2008-02-11T12:00:00Z

Breuckelen, decorative typeface, 2007—2008.

Breuckelen was inspired by the regular patterns of the New York City plan. The grid of any large modern city is immediately recognizable by the distinctive pattern of major roads curving or slanting through it. This face is intended to be recognizable in the same way. It is named after the Dutch town after which Brooklyn is named, a word which also roughly translates as “broken land.”

Ljubljana

2007-02-02T12:00:00Z

Ljubljana, sans-serif typeface, 2005—2006

Ljubljana was inspired by art deco lettering seen in Slovenia, Croatia and Romania. It includes the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets. It is named after the capital of Slovenia.

Ljubljana is unicase, composed of as few basic glyphs as possible. The basic glyphs are shown in black, and the derived or duplicated glyphs in grey.

Ljubljana attempts to encapsulate the essence of both upper and lower case designs in a single glyph. It also explores the common origins of the Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets, using the same glyph in more than one alphabet.

Haylurker

2007-08-12T12:00:00Z

Haylurker, serif / blackletter typeface, 1999—2006

Haylurker was originally designed, as Shark, for the masthead of The Fish Rap Live!, the alternative student newspaper at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Haylurker attempts to combine blackletter elements at the bottom of the characters with a unique serif forming a solid line at the x-height.

The K and Cyrillic Ж are reminiscent of the legs of a cricket or grasshopper; Blackletter is historically German. Therefore, the name is the direct translation of the German word for grass-hopper, Heuschrecke.

It includes the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, small capitals, and a full set of accented characters