Foundry: Bitstream

  1. Courier Typeface
    Designer: Howard Kettler
    Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface. The typeface was designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler in 1955. The design of…
  2. Folio Typeface
    Designer: Walter Baum, Konrad Friedrich Bauer
    Designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum in 1956, Folio was one of the first popular Swiss Sanserif; the positive…
  3. Della Robbia Typeface
    Designer: Thomas Maitland Cleland
    Thomas Maitland Cleland’s careful and scholarly creation of a typeface from 15th Century Florentine inscriptional capitals; designed for the Bruce…
  4. Stuyvesant Typeface
    Based on an engravers’ pattern plate, this outline form deriving from an English roundhand was fitted to linecasting matrices by…
  5. Charter Typeface
    Designer: Matthew Carter
    Originally released in 1987 by Bitstream, Charter was created with low-resolution laser printing in mind. In 1991 Bitstream donated Charter…
  6. Letter Gothic Typeface
    Designer: Roger Robertson
    The Letter Gothic font family was designed for IBM between 1956 and 1962 for use on the Selectric typewriter. Letter…
  7. DejaVu Sans Typeface
    Based on Bitstream Vera Sans, DejaVu Sans is an open-source font commonly included on Linux systems. It is similar in…
  8. DejaVu Serif Typeface
    Based on Bitstream Vera Serif, DejaVu Serif is an open-source typeface commonly included on Linux systems. It shares design elements…
  9. Prestige Elite Typeface
    Designer: Howard Kettler, Clayton Smith
  10. Schadow Typeface
    Designer: Georg Trump
    Georg Trump, born 10.7.1896 in Brettheim, Germany, died 21.12.1985 in Munich, Germany, graphic artist, typographer, type designer, painter, teacher. 1912-14:…
  11. Arrus Typeface
    Designer: Richard Lipton
  12. Zurich Typeface
    Arguably a version of Frutiger's Univers, but with a different Ampersand among other things, in 2003, apparently, Bitstream agreed that…
  13. Amerigo Typeface
    Designer: Gerard Unger
    An original Bitstream typeface prepared by Gerard Unger to provide a typeface of tapered stroke that will work well at…