Typotheque is a

type foundry A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Before digital typography, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces for hand typesetting, and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Mono ...

and

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. Facilities in a design studio include clothes, furniture art equipment best suited for design work ...

from

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

that develops and markets original

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s. In October 2009, Typotheque became the first type foundry to introduce the concept of webfonts. The typefaces sold under the Typotheque foundry label are mostly designed by

Peter Biľak Peter Biľak (; born 1973 in Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak graphic and typeface designer, based in The Hague, The Netherlands. He works in the field of editorial, graphic, and type design; teaches typeface design at the postgraduate course Type ...

, including the popula

Fedra Sans and Fedra Serif font families. Typotheque specializes in creation of Latin and non-Latin fonts (

Cyrillic , bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця , fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs , fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic , fam3 = Phoenician , fam4 = G ...

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

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) and publishes books, such as ''We Want You To Love Type'

bi-annual independent art/design publication '' Dot Dot Dot (magazine), Dot Dot Dot'', or the magazine of unexpected creativity Works That Work. Typotheque's work has been profiled in the design publications ''

Abitare ''Abitare'', published monthly in Milan, Italy, is one of the world's best known design magazines. It was first published in 1961. History and profile ''Abitare'' was launched in Milan in 1961 by Piera Peroni. The magazine was published monthly. ...

'', ''Cap & Design'', ''Designum'', ''Druk'', ''

Dwell Dwell may refer to: * ''Dwell'' (album), a 2020 album by Recondite * ''Dwell'' (magazine), a monthly American publication focused on modern architecture and design * Dwell (retailer), a leading UK furniture and accessories company * "Dwell" (s ...

'', ''Etapes'', '' Emigre'', '' I.D.'', ''

Idea In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are the results of thought. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object. Many philosophers have considered ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being ...

'', ''Novum'', ''Page'', '' Print'', ''Publish'', and ''tipoGrafica''. Typotheque's work has been recognized by the

Type Directors Club The Type Directors Club (TDC) is an international organization devoted to typography and type design, founded in 1946 in New York City. TDC believes that type drives culture, and that culture drives type—and is dedicated to cataloging, showcas ...

. Typotheque's clients including

Mozilla Foundation The Mozilla Foundation (stylized as moz://a) is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, ...

and

Sandoll Communications Sandoll Communications Inc. (, pronounced ʰa̠nto̞ːɭ kʰʌ̹mjunikʰe̞iɕʰʌ̹n, commonly known as Sandoll, is a South Korean type foundry. It is mainly known for designing the typefaces Malgun Gothic for Microsoft, Nanum for Naver, and ...

References

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Typotheque type foundry
*Middendorp, Jan. ''Dutch Type.'' 010 publishers: 2004. {{ISBN, 90-6450-460-1.

Fedra Sans selected by

FontShop FontShop International was an international manufacturer of digital typefaces (fonts), based in Berlin. It was one of the largest digital Type foundry, type foundries. The ''FontFont'' library of fonts contains designs by 160 type designers, amon ...

as number 40 amongst 100 Best typefaces of all times. Companies based in The Hague Type foundries