font_foundry: Type Innovations

New Renaissance

New Renaissance font

New Renaissance is a modernized old style design based on generous proportions and clean, crisp lines. A ‘New Renaissance’ for the 21st century, New Renaissance makes for easy reading and looks good in both...

Beatnik

Beatnik font

I was working at Bozell Worldwide, an advertising agency, on their yearly promotional pitch. An art director was looking for a condensed informal headline treatment to be used on one of the new ad...

Golum

Golum font

Deep in the bowels of the earth a tortured creature tries to mimic the writings of mankind. It labors long and hard carving the letter forms on the walls of its cave. Many years...

Big Boy

Big Boy font

I have always wanted to create the world’s biggest and heaviest font. I admit that I was visually inspired by contenders like Akimoto, Champ Ultra, Blackoak and Bloque. However, I not only wanted a...

BottleKaps

BottleKaps font

Alex Kaczun, originally designed BottleKaps for Linotype-Hell, in 1992, as a QuickDraw GX multi-master font series. A few new GX applications, like ‘Unicorn’, where able to utilize these unique fonts. The GX application allowed...

Kaczun Oldstyle Bold

Kaczun Oldstyle Bold font

There are many subtle and dramatic differences incorporated into this classic beauty. Many shapes have undergone a bold transformation, while others lines remain faithful to that classic period of time that we all know...

Hippyfreak

Hippyfreak font

Hippyfreak was created by manipulating my Beatnik font. I stretched and distorted the outlines until I got an interesting effect reminiscent of the Hippie generation. It has a cool and hip rhythm and movement....

Oronteus Finaeus

Oronteus Finaeus font

The Oronteus Finaeus map, published in 1531, shows Antarctica before it was “discovered” and how it looked ice-free. There is still much controversy about the validity of the map, but I was intrigued by...

Racetrack

Racetrack font

Racetrack is the work of American type designer, Alex Kaczun, and was conceived as a result of developing a logo for a client. Alex was experimenting with a uniform grid pattern, outline and inline,...

Android

Android font

Android is an experimental 3D shadow outline font developed by the American type designer Alex Kaczun. The unique lighting created by the beveled edge in combination with an outline font was particularly difficult to...