font_foundry: K-Type

Banks & Miles

Banks & Miles font

K-Type’s ‘Banks & Miles’ fonts are inspired by the geometric monoline lettering created for the British Post Office in 1970 by London design company Banks & Miles, a project initiated and supervised by partner...

Dalek Pinpoint

Dalek Pinpoint font

DALEK PINPOINT is a clean and precise version of K-Type’s distressed DALEK typeface, a small caps face with overtones of Greek, Phoenician and Runic alphabets, based on Dalek comic book lettering from the 1960s....

Toppler

Toppler font

TOPPLER is a top-heavy comic font, K-Type’s salute to nineties freebies such as Ben Balvanz’s Baby Kruffy, Comix Heavy from WSI, and Dave Bastian’s Startling. Unlike those glorious fonts-of-old, Toppler contains a complete repertoire...

Sexbomb

Sexbomb font

SEXBOMB is a frolicsome display face, a hybrid of two styles inspired by the countercultural quality of the K-Type Zabars font. Sexbomb retains the sharp, bifurcated upper portion of Zabars characters, but lower portions...

Argot

Argot font

Argot is inspired by condensed grotesque letterforms and would be a monolinear sans except for an unorthodox disparity between inner and outer shapes. Elegantly curved outlines contrast starkly with austere rectangular counters, suggesting a…

Artist Hand

Artist Hand font

ARTIST HAND is a bold, informal script inspired by artistic handwriting. The font radiates confidence, is largely cursive, and contains glyphs that are friendly, familiar and highly legible. Artist Hand contains a full complement...

Cloudbuster

Cloudbuster font

Cloudbuster is K-Type’s take on the mid twentieth century style of extra condensed slabs/moderns inspired by Imre Reiner’s Corvinus Skyline of 1934. Unusually, Cloudbuster has a printed-look softness, courtesy of very slightly rounded corners…

Mancunium

Mancunium font

Mancunium is a sans serif family with a contemporary monolinear character, though designed with the iconic proportions of Roman capitals in mind. In addition to reliable romans, the typeface includes proper, optically corrected italics....

Monterey Pop

Monterey Pop font

Monterey Pop oozes 1960s freedom and optimism, and is based on Tom Wilkes’s poster lettering for the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967, the event which heralded the legendary Summer of Love. The...

Straight Line

Straight Line font

Straight Line is essentially an outline Modern, but drawn without any curves whatsoever. Thin horizontals and thick verticals provide the classic look of a Didone, updated and enhanced by clean, minimalist geometry. In addition...