Typotheque is a type foundry

Type foundry

A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers...

 and design studio

Design studio

A Design Studio or Drawing Office is a workplace for Designers and Artisans engaged in conceiving, designing and developing new products or objects...

 from The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 http://www.typotheque.com/about/ that develops and markets original typeface

Typeface

In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....

s for the Macintosh and Windows platforms. The typefaces sold under the Typotheque foundry label are designed by Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

n Peter Biľak

Peter Bilak

Peter Biľak Slovakian graphic and typeface designer, based in The Hague , The Netherlands. He is the head of the type foundry Typotheque. In 2003, he designed a series of the standard post stamps for the Dutch Royal mail...

, including the popular http://www.100besteschriften.de/40_Fedra.html#a40 Fedra Sans and Fedra Serif font families, and Jigsaw designed by Johanna Biľak. Typotheque specializes in creation of Latin and non-Latin fonts (Cyrillic, Greek

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the Greek language since at least 730 BC . The alphabet in its classical and modern form consists of 24 letters ordered in sequence from alpha to omega...

, Arabic

Arabic alphabet

The Arabic alphabet or Arabic abjad is the Arabic script as it is codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right to left, in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters. Because letters usually stand for consonants, it is classified as an abjad.-Consonants:The Arabic alphabet has...

), occasionally advertises in national design journals like Print

Print (magazine)

The publication, Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun in 1940 and continued under different names up to the present day as Print, a bimonthly American magazine about visual culture and design.In its current format, Print documents and...

, and How, and publishes books, such as We Want You To Love Type http://www.typotheque.com/books/we_want_you_to_love_type/ or bi-annual independent art/design publication Dot Dot Dot

Dot Dot Dot (magazine)

Dot Dot Dot is a magazine of visual culture produced end edited by graphic designers Stuart Bailey and Peter Bilak. Since Dot Dot Dot 7, each issue of the magazine has been widely available as a paperback book...

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Typotheque's work has been profiled in the design publications Abitare

Abitare (magazine)

Abitare, published in Milan, Italy, is one of the world's best known design magazines, devoted to architecture, interior design, furniture, product design and graphic arts. It is bilingual in Italian and English....

, Cap & Design, Designum, Druk, Dwell

Dwell (magazine)

Dwell is an American magazine devoted to modern architecture and design. It was launched in September 2000 by mail-order heiress Lara Hedberg Deam with architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs as its editor-in-chief. In August 2002 Jacobs left the magazine and was replaced by senior editor...

, Etapes, Emigre, I.D.

I.D. (magazine)

I.D. was a magazine covering the art, business and culture of design. It was published eight times a year by F+W Media....

, Idea, Novum, Page, Print

Print (magazine)

The publication, Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun in 1940 and continued under different names up to the present day as Print, a bimonthly American magazine about visual culture and design.In its current format, Print documents and...

, Publish, and tipoGrafica. Typotheque's work has been recognized by The Type Directors Club http://www.tdc.org/news/2007Results/GretaText.html.

External links

• Typotheque type foundry
• Middendorp, Jan. Dutch Type. 010 publishers: 2004. ISBN 90-6450-460-1.
• http://www.100besteschriften.de/40_Fedra.html#a40 Fedra Sans selected by FontShop
  FontShop
  FontShop was founded in Berlin in 1989 by Erik Spiekermann and Joan Spiekermann, who were then husband and wife, and Neville Brody. FontShop was the first font reseller in digital type history. There are four independent FontShops in Austria, Benelux, Germany, and the USA.FSI FontShop International...
  
  as number 40 amongst 100 Best typefaces of all times.