font_foundry: Type-Ø-Tones

Analfabeto

Analfabeto font

The Brazilian illustrator, Flavio Morais, devised this amusing display alphabet to have his own font for his former website. We helped to digitalize it and encouraged him to complete it with a series of...

Scissorgirl

Scissorgirl font

Scissorgirl by Julia Friese and Clare Keogh OpenType, 1 style Scsissorgirl is the crafty work of Ms. Julia Friese and Clare Keogh with the unselfish help of Josema Urós. Following Cortada path, this is a...

Surreal PostIndian

Surreal PostIndian font

Surreal PostIndian by Laura Klamburg. OpenType, 2 styles According to its creator, Surreal Post Indian was inspired by the performance of an American Indian artist, but this typeface seems more connected with pop neon signs....

EbuScript

EbuScript font

EbuScript by José Manuel Urós. OpenType, 1 style The very first font of Type-Ø-Tones, EbuScript, comes from the pen of José Manuel Urós —nicknamed Ebú in those times. Now it is still in our catalogue...

Arbotek

Arbotek font

Arbotek has the original skeleton that the author used for the development of his typeface Arboria, a real ‘architect typography’, with a basic and radical approach to pure geometric forms. The three basic styles...

Sniff

Sniff font

Joan Barjau used the pseudonym “Sniff” while working as a cartoonist for the Spanish satirical magazine “El Papus”, and Sniff is also the typeface based on the style of lettering he used for the balloons....

Lalola

Lalola font

Lalola (whose early version was released as ‘Lola’ by the spanish foundry Type-Ø-Tones in 1997) is a display typeface with strong attitude. It was inspired by a lettering model by Eugen Nerdinger and Lisa...

Tschicholina

Tschicholina font

Tschicholina is inspired by a project by Jan Tschichold dating back to 1929. It is a unicase “universal” font which has always been considered to have very little future; this is why we have...

Mayayo

Mayayo font

We usually describe Mayayo as no good for condolence letters, nor for carving inscriptions, etc. Indeed, as we have seen, the designers who choose Mayayo used it in funny different ways.

Despatxada

Despatxada font

Despatxada letters are the scans of the alphabet of a manual rubber press. Letter by letter. Real prints. Real textures. You will not find another typeface like this. An heroic font in the digital...