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About the FDI Type Foundry
We are offering a library of contemporary typefaces and revivals designed by talented European type designers for use in print and digital publishing. FDI Type was founded in 2004. The name comes from the original web domain “fonts dot info”. Since 2015, the foundry is part of a network of typography websites run by Schriftkontor Ralf Herrmann. Other current projects are Typography.Guru, Typografie.info and Letter Library.
FDI Type is run from Weimar, Germany. The city where the Bauhaus was founded and where Justus Erich Walbaum published his famous Walbaum-Antiqua typeface.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us in English or German.
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Friedrich Althausen was born in Berlin. He studied Computer Science and Visual Communications at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Since 2008 he works as a freelance type & book designer in the city of Potsdam.
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Ralf Herrmann is the founder of FDI Type. He studied Visual Communications at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He continues to live in Weimar where he works as the director of a non-profit printing museum and runs several typography projects like Typography.Guru and Typografie.info.
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Sebastian Nagel studied Graphic Design at the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg in Austria and is currently working as graphic and type designer in Austria.
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Georg Seifert was born in Halle (Germany). He studied Visual Communications at Bauhaus-University Weimar and now lives in Berlin, where he works as freelance type designer and software developer. He is the creator of the popular font editor Glyphs.
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Andreas Wohlleben studied Visual Communications at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences and is working as a freelance designer and illustrator in Böblingen.
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Interested in becoming a FDI type designer? Feel free to send us sketches or PDFs of your type design.
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