Countertype is a type foundry based in Oakland, California. We design and produce original typefaces, offer custom type design and consulting services to brands, and provide font production and engineering services to other foundries. Our newest typefaces, Léman, Kinzig, and Randonneur, will be available for licensing soon. Join our mailing list
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Léman
Weight:  DemiBold
Optical size:  Lock optical size72pt
Font size:   34pt
Léman is a neogrotesque type family available in seven optical sizes with nine weights each, supporting 538 languages across Latin and Cyrillic scripts
Sylistic alternates:
a: single-storey
a: no tail
R and Я: angled leg
g: single-storey
ф: alternate form
Numerals: angled 6 and 9
French: alternate Franc
Zero tabular: no dot
Zero tabular: slashed
Punctuation: rectangular
Ordinals: no underline
Numero: raised
Cross: Grendl mode
Д and Л: alternate forms
ß: noodle form
ẞ: Dresden form

Léman’s design is inspired by the grotesque type styles found in the mid 19th through early 20th century in Germany, England, and the US. The font family is available in seven optical sizes, drawing a bridge between between Bauer’s Breite Grotesk at text (8pt) sizes, and Berthold's Royal Grotesk at display (72pt) sizes. Léman supports extended Latin, including Pan-Nigerian and Vietnamese, as well as extended and localized Cyrillic. Each of Léman's 63 styles is available individually or together in a single-file variable font

Publication date
TBD 2024
Design date
2018-2023
Axes
Weight, optical size
Number of styles
63
Scripts supported
Cyrillic, Latin
Total glyphs
1962
OpenType features
Stylistic alternates, localized forms, contextual alternates, discretionary ligatures, fractions, old-style figures, tabular figures, small capitals, case-sensitive forms
Design, production, engineering
Jeremy Tribby
Consultant, Cyrillic
Maria Doreuli
Consultant, Vietnamese
Donny Trương
Kinzig
Font size:   120pt
Kinzig is a sharp and compressed blackletter in the Fraktur style

Kinzig is a heavy and narrow blackletter inspired by the expressionistic Fraktur styles of early 20th century Germany and their contemporary use especially in music. The title of 1970's "Hard, Heavy, Mean, & Evil" by Negative Space served as the directional apothegm for the typeface. Kinzig disregards legibility even at display sizes, and contrasts a modern, digital sharpness against its painterly historical model, featuring marker-like overlaps, a compressed width, tall x-height, subtle waisting, and tight letterspacing

Publication date
TBD 2024
Design date
2020-2023
Design, production, engineering
Jeremy Tribby
Number of styles
1
Scripts supported
Latin
OpenType features
Contextual alternates
Randonneur
Weight:  Regular
Font size:   34pt
Randonneur is a humanist sans-serif typeface in six weights. More details are coming soon. Please write for a preview or to inquire about beta licensing

Randonneur is a humanist sans that pairs traditional Roman brush capitals with angular details and playful lowercase proportions that pay homage to the typographic tradition of mid 20th century France

Publication date
TBD
Design date
2023-2024
Axes
Weight
Number of styles
6
Scripts supported
Latin, Cyrillic (uppercase only)
Design, production, engineering
Jeremy Tribby
Client: NBCUniversal
Font size:   38pt
The Arthouse series of typefaces was commissioned for use on NBC and Telemundo properties worldwide.

Commissioned for use on digital and broadcast NBC and Telemundo properties, the Arthouse family consists of 25 styles

Client
NBCUniversal
Axes
Weight, width, slant
Number of styles
25
Scripts supported
Latin
Direction
Bruce Fallini
Design, production, engineering
Jeremy Tribby
Letterfitting
Igino Marini