Select a type designer from the list to learn more about her, and how
you can start using her fonts on your web site right now. Each
typographer’s introduction contains a sample of one of her typefaces,
along with links to additional fonts by the same designer.
Aoife Mooney is an associate professor at the School of Visual
Communication Design at Kent State University in Ohio, USA, where she
teaches typography and graphic design. Prior to her teaching position,
Aoife worked as a type designer for Hoefler & Frere-Jones in New
York.
Her first solo type design, BioRhyme, was released in 2015. A
slab-serif typeface, it comes in two widths and several different
weights. It works well as a display type, and, in its lighter weights,
for short-to-medium runs of body text.
Type designer and author Alexandra Korolkova is the art director for
Russia’s largest type foundry, ParaType. She is best known for her
design of the PT (Public Type) Fonts family, which was commissioned by
Russia’s Ministry of Communications to support all the variations of
Cyrillic used by the nation’s minority languages.
Golos Text, co-designed with her colleague, Vitaly Kuzmin, is a
sans-serif face suitable for long text passages.
Ana Paula Megda is an award-winning graphic designer based in Brazil.
Her old-style typeface, Lusitana, is based on the typography in the
first edition of The Lusiads (), an epic
poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões. It is well-suited for long
stretches of body text.
Anna Giedryś is a Polish graphic designer based in Brno, Czech
Republic. She is the senior type designer at the Rosetta Type Foundry.
Her typeface Signika is a sans-serif face designed to be read at long
distances, and so is a perfect choice for posters or signs. It also
has an accompanying, slightly heavier, negative version, meant for
light-on-dark applications.
Unlike most of the other women on this list, Bonnie Shaver-Troup is
not a type dessigner by trade. Rather, Dr. Shaver-Troup is an
educational therapist, who, in 1999, theorized that a novel typeface
design would help her clients who struggled with reading
comprehension. By systematically altering the features and spacing of
the letters, she developed Lexend, a typeface that she has shown to
make reading less of a struggle for individuals with dyslexia and
similar issues.
Because no two struggling readers are the same, Lexend is available in
seven different variants—Deca, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, Exa, and
Zetta—so that the best match can be made for an individual user.
Elena Albertoni is an Italian type designer and the co-founder of
LetterinBerlin. She based her typeface Spinnaker on cruise travel
posters from France and the UK. It is a sans-serif designed to be used
at medium-to-large sizes.
Juila Petretta is a German type designer. Her typeface Kreon features
bracketed serifs and gentle, flowing letterforms, and is well-suited
for body text in blogs and other online media.
Julieta Ulanovsky is a type designer from Argentina. She is the
founder, with her classmate Valeria Dulitzky, of Estudio ZkySky in
Buenos Aires.
Montserrat was inspired by the old signs and posters in the eponymous
Buenos Aires neighborhood. A sans-serif face with a generous x-height,
Montserrat has a sister version with alternate letterforms, as well as
a version called Montserrat
Subrayada (underlined), inspired by the
distinctive underlining seen on the old signs.
Polish-born American Karolina Lach describes herself as a
multidisciplinary artist who enjoys working in clay, wood, and,
especially, typography. She has several distinctive typefaces
available on Google. Her playful sans-serif, Pompiere, was inspired by
a hand-lettered sign she found outside a fire station in New York
City.
Muk Monsalve teaches typographic arts at her alma mater, the
University of Buenos Aires, as well as at Agentina’s National
University of the Arts. When she isn’t teaching, she creates giant
typographic installations with her collective, Defrenéticas.
Her typeface Azul straddles the border between serif and sans-serif
types, with stems that widen just enough to keep it teetering between
the two categories. Based on the typography found in early 20th
Century publications, it is intended to be used for body text.
Belarussian-born type designer Mariya Lish lives and works in the UK.
Her Solway is a versatile slab serif, meant to evoke associations with
nature and rural life.
German type designer Nicole Fally brings her passion for design and
her interest in surviving and healing from trauma together in her
studio, Safe New World. There her work spans a number of disciplines,
from corporate design to personally meaningful artworks. She also
offers online courses in graphic design.
One of a plethora of typefaces Nicole has on Google, Oldenburg is a
slab-serif that evokes the hand lettering Nicole found on a series of
German posters. It is designed to work at many different sizes.
Veronika Burian is a Czech designer who established the type foundry
TypeTogether with her University of Reading classmate, José Scaglione.
Veronika is also a founding menber of
Alphabettes.org, a showcase
for the work of female and non-binary typographers.
Bree Serif, released in , is a slab serif followup
and companion to the duo’s san-serif upright italic,
Bree. While Bree is most at home as a display face, Bree Serif holds
its own in both headings and longer stretches of body text.
Born in Crimea, Vika Grabowska currently lives and works in Poland,
where she teaches type design at the University of Arts in Poznań.
Since 2017, she has been a member of the Darden Studio in New York.
Armata is a quirky sans-serif that maintains enough composure to work
well at many different sizes.
Yvonne Schüttler is a type designer based in Frankfurt, Germany. The
inspiration for her sans-serif typeface Krona One was the hand-lettering found
on Swedish posters from the early part of the last century.