Foundry Websites
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A few months ago I came across a foundry that expressed their appreciation for a site builder specifically for new type foundries. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the service, or which foundry had shown the link to their site.
Anyone?
Cheers.
Anyone?
Cheers.
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Might have been Quinn Keaveney of www.quitetype.com. He made our microsite for Halyard and the condiment packets for Omnes Widths promotion.1
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Perhaps you're thinking of General Type and Fontdue?1
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Anyway I'd say this is turning into a useful thread4
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Kenneth Ormandy designs excellent sites for typefaces: https://kennethormandy.com/1
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@Thierry Blancpain who does Grilli Type's microsites? You and team in-house? There have been some great ones Been really impressed with the motion/animations.
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Looking for unique and dynamic right-to-left typefaces?Go explore more typefaces by right clicking on their images here http://maryamsoft.com/FontShop/To explore more about the website, right click on it to translate into English.-2
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I can highly recommend https://diesdas.digital/
they are not specified on foundries, but build https://www.hvdfonts.com/ (fronted) and https://www.typemates.com/ (frontend and shop) and some of the team was involved in fontshop.com (before founding diesdas.digital.
these guys are not cheap but have a passion for type and can customize everything to made your foundry independent from resellers.1 -
Octavio Pardo also has done good foundry sites1
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Adam Ladd said:@Thierry Blancpain who does Grilli Type's microsites? You and team in-house? There have been some great ones Been really impressed with the motion/animations.
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Just when you thought type design itself was a niche... anyway, I've built hurmedesign.com, and designed & built my own underscoretype.com; always happy to help a fellow type designer/foundry out
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one of the things to recommend Quinn is that he has a common platform so he doesn't have to make each site bespoke. It saves money, time, and generally makes life easier.2
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Did you mean a studio or a site builder like a Webflow or Squarespace?0
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@Filip Zajac is that question for me? No. He's a developer who does the work himself. It's not templates for you to just do yourself.0
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I was assuming Filip meant in response to the original question, where Simon asked about “a site builder”—I assumed Simon meant a human, but re-reading the question I can see it could have also been interpreted as being a foundry-specific template or something with a site builder service (like Squarespace, or Webflow for the high end).
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Thomas Phinney said:I was assuming Filip meant in response to the original question, where Simon asked about “a site builder”—I assumed Simon meant a human, but re-reading the question I can see it could have also been interpreted as being a foundry-specific template or something with a site builder service (like Squarespace, or Webflow for the high end).
I have been using Persona (https://persona.co) for my personal portfolio site (which allowed me to embed custom fonts and play with the code a little) I would love to see a platform like this for new foundries.
Everyone has been very helpful—and I love hearing about who is on top of this.0 -
Matthew Smith said:Perhaps you're thinking of General Type and Fontdue?Johannes Neumeier said:Just when you thought type design itself was a niche... anyway, I've built hurmedesign.com, and designed & built my own underscoretype.com; always happy to help a fellow type designer/foundry out0
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@Simon Dunford
Now I see your point.
Couple months ago I have been asked to build few websites for my friends. So we come with an idea about some sort of platform which covers foundry specific needs.
I have prepared a document for discussion about what it should look like and what kind of features the platform should provide.
The first website is technically finished, waiting for the content, and planning a second website (can't say the details now). I would like to bootstrap the necessary features around those websites, so we can reuse them in future and split the costs.
Is that something which might help you?0 -
I hope you'll forgive me, but I just have to plug myself as I'd love to do more type work!
I'm a frontend developer and app developer at Kabisa in the Netherlands, a web company that usually does bigger, custom projects (as opposed to small WordPress sites). We'd love to take on type related projects for web or mobile.
Personal projects include Wakamai Fondue, ChromaCheck and Sans Bullshit Sans. I write posts on my website about variable fonts, font piracy, color fonts and web development, and have several font related open source projects over at Github.
I also take on small custom jobs with my own company, PixelAmbacht!
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Johannes Neumeier said:Just when you thought type design itself was a niche... anyway, I've built hurmedesign.com, and designed & built my own underscoretype.com; always happy to help a fellow type designer/foundry out
The website is built on Wordpress and uses the Woocommerce platform for the cart and check-out section.
Working with Johannes on this was a pleasure, being a type designer/seller himself he understands the mechanics of selling licenses and fontproducts.
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