font_foundry: The Foundry

New Alphabet

New Alphabet font

New Alphabet was created as a four weight family in close collaboration with Wim Crouwel. His response in the late 1960s to the first device for electronic typesetting was a radical experiment designed to...

Foundry Wilson

Foundry Wilson font

Foundry Wilson is a lovingly drawn revival of a 1760 font from Scottish type founder Alexander Wilson, a learned and cultured man who crafted his types with care and skill. Many of Wilson’s fonts...

Foundry Sterling

Foundry Sterling font

Foundry Sterling is a functional and eloquent typeface family that has its origins in the desire to create a modern sans design with a quintessentially English flavour. The letterforms have been designed with particular...

Foundry Sans

Foundry Sans font

This humanistic sans serif design was inspired by a conversation that David Quay had with renowned type designer Hans Meyer, during ATypI in Paris, 1989. Meyer revealed that Sabon, designed by Jan Tschichold, was...

Foundry Plek

Foundry Plek font

Foundry Plek and Foundry Flek are created on the same dot matrix grid system.Each family includes: light, regular, medium and bold weights – with a selection of dot patterns that can extend the grid...

Foundry Origin

Foundry Origin font

Foundry Origin has an elemental quality hinting at its ‘Egyptian’ roots. Developed out of the desire to create a serif typeface with a difference, Foundry Origin’s elegant design and versatile family of weights, with...

Foundry Old Style

Foundry Old Style font

Foundry Old Style was the first typeface to be released by The Foundry. Inspired by the incunabula typefaces of Nicolas Jensen, the letterforms were first created as calligraphy, with the aim of retaining the...

Foundry Monoline

Foundry Monoline font

Foundry Monoline is an elegant, modern typeface family eminently suited for use in identity, editorial, and advertising use. The deceptively simple design, and clean, linear appearance has been created using strong structural elements. Each…

Foundry Journal

Foundry Journal font

Foundry Journal is appropriately named for its intended purpose in journals, magazines and publications, where narrow column measures require a more condensed typeface, for the most economic use of page space. Foundry Journal has...

Foundry Gridnik

Foundry Gridnik font

The new Foundry Gridnik typeface family features an expressive range of 10 weights – from Light to Extra Bold, each with accompanying Italics. Foundry Gridnik was developed from the single weight monospaced ‘typewriter’ face,...