Inde­pen­dent Type Foundry Advent Cal­en­dar – Day 10: Colophon Foundry

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Colophon Foundry is a foundry based on London founded by Anthony Sheret and Edd Harrington. The two designers started working together in 2009 in a shared graphic design studio in Brighton and began designing their own typefaces for the projects of their studio The Entente.

Each of our font releas­es begins life as one part of a graph­ic design com­mis­sion, where­by the aes­thet­ic or con­cep­tu­al require­ments of that project will dic­tate cer­tain behav­iours in the design of the type. As these require­ments evolve – some­times over the course of a num­ber of years – so too will the design of the letterforms.

Anthony Sheret and Edd Harrington

Their most popular typeface, especially in the early years of the foundry, is Aperçu, a quirky grotesque full of references to classic realist typefaces like Johnston, Gill Sans, Neuzeit, and Franklin Gothic, but with a contemporary feel.

Other notable releases in the wide-ranging library are Basis and the recently released Chromatic superfamily that travels different genres of sans-serifs.

If you want to test the typefaces first, you can get free demo fonts with a limited character set. And you can also order goods like posters and scarfs.

☞ https://www.colophon-foundry.org/

Screenshot Chromatic
Screenshot Basis
Screenshot Basis
Screenshot Aperçu
Screenshot Aperçu
Screenshot Aperçu
Screenshot Colophon Website
Screenshot Colophon Website

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This post is part of the Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar 2022

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