The Isle of Capri
Capri is a new typeface designed by Felix Braden in the tradition of geometric typefaces from the late 20s. The proportions of the letters and the overall impression are modern and contemporary but also retain the ...
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Cold and warm
After more than five years we are finally able to release Nordic Narrow designed by dutch type designer René Verkaart, and welcome him into the line of Fountain designers.
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Aria – Inspired by inscription
Aria Pro is a new typeface consisting of only two fonts (something unusual these days with a big heap of super families swarming the market) – Regular & Italic.
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A rare bird
A creative collaboration between Göran Söderström (Stockholm) and Peter Bruhn (Malmö), The Satura Suite began with Göran’s concept for a reversed contrast typeface — one in which the horizontal strokes are heavy, r...
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The "A Conversation With" Series
We have just released the first interview , in a series of video portraits made to showcase our type designers, featuring Göran Söderström. In March 2010 we packed our gear, and flew up to a cold Stockholm filled ...
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Just more condensed
After making the Meadow family Göran Söderström felt the need to do a slightly more condensed version of the typeface. A version that saves a little space but has the same character. Character sets are identical, f...
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From Portugal with love
This evening we see the release of Rui Abreu's modern slab serif. A project that started almost four years ago. It started as a rigid and geometric design, but during this long period it developed into a more organ...
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Heroine Movie Trailer
A new typeface designed by Göran Söderström – Heroine. Inspired by the typeface Windsor, designed by Eleisha Pechey in 1905. Windsor is the typeface used in the titles of many Woody Allen movies. A modern interpret...
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Sweet Warm Meadow
Fountain happily presents a new typeface release: Meadow Pro designed by Göran Söderström. Meadow is a warm analog sans typeface for everyday use. With a contemporary fresh expression it's well suited for everythin...
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Typographic's finest of 2008
Typographica is back with a new design, and a new concept. From reporting on type in general they're now focused on typeface and type book reviews, with occasional commentary on fonts and typographic design. We fee...
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Fountain and PSY/OPS in a joint release
Catacumba Pro - inspired by tomb inscriptions. Fountain and PSY/OPS come together in a special joint release of a new typeface from Portuguese type designer Rui Abreu.
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Orbe is a TDC 2009 award winner!
The well renowned Type Directors Club has just announced that our typeface Orbe, designed by Rui Abreu has recieved a TDC2 2009 award. We are thrilled.
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Tweet, Tweet and ReSeS!
For those of you hooked on constant reminders, and messages from other people we have a Twitter account. We've actually have had it for a few weeks but we thought it would be good to mention it here.
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Our new site launches!
This year Fountain has been operating as a type foundry for 15 years. To celebrate this we decided to make some changes. Fountain is proud to announce the launch of our new website, a brand new OpenType library and...
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Redrawn
There are a few of our typefaces that are still being redrawn One of them is Corpus Gothic. In the new version (top) we have tightened up the spacing to fit in more letters in newspaper settings. There's also a com...