Depends on what ’scene’ you’re into - are you after serious multilingual text faces, or are you making rave flyers?

Emigre cause they have allll the women. :-P

I guess my ’scene’ is somewhere in the middle of serious and rave. Maybe art gallery? The application is ’proposal project’ on signage and environmental design, Rem Koolhaus / Bruce Mau style mockups; I’ve got a good stable of classic and sophisticated sans and serifs, and am looking for something with a bit more contemporary relevance and energy to complement. Reason: the ’client’ is an organization that is founded on the bleeding edge of technological and academic advance. Hopefully that gives a bit more context.

Cheers.
-Ryan

Oh, and Emigre is already on my list. Love those humans.

Cheers.
-Ryan

Village is pretty hot and fresh and New Yorkish - like a good bagel!

Process Type Foundry, Mark Simonson, Village, FontFont, Alias, Lineto

Top 5 in no specific order...

Psy/Ops Type Foundry: http://www.psyops.com
Fountain Type Foundry: http://www.fountain.nu
Storm Type Foundry: http://www.stormtype.com
Underware: http://www.underware.com
Font Bureau: http://www.fontbureau.com
————
Out of list, my own... Mac Rhino Fonts: http://www.macrhino.com

Beats me why the first 5 links doesn’t become links, sorry

http://www.lineto.com/

http://www.dstype.com/main.htm

http://www.fontsmith.com/home.php

http://optimo.ch/pages/departement/index.php

http://devicefonts.co.uk/

http://www.typography.net/

http://www.fontmaster.nl/english/DTLFonts.html

http://www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/

http://klim.co.nz/

Leaving aside those already mentioned quite a wide spread, again in no particular order.
Tim
Stefan, if this works I think the trick is to leave a line space after each url or use the formatting options.

There was that book “Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts” by Alan Halley years back. I’m afraid all of those previously hot designers have cooled a bit, maybe even ripened or rotted!

http://fontfarm.de/themes/home/home/index.php

http://www.optimo.ch has some nice contemporary typefaces (and a lovely rework of the didot-model, too) in their backpack.

Wow, check out the _g_ in Didot Elder Display!

here’s a discussion about this typeface (just to keep this on topic here). there’s also a thread on typophile about it if im not mistaken.

have you tried these yet?

http://www.t26.com (fun and creative, not unlike emigre)
http://www.veer.com (some not too bad fonts here)
http://www.myfonts.com (basic, but has a good library)
http://www.garagefonts.com (maybe?)

hope that helps!
J

’There was that book “Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts” by Alan Halley years back. I’m afraid all of those previously hot designers have cooled a bit, maybe even ripened or rotted!’

Someone’s nose is out of joint! Did they forget to include you in that book?

By the way I’m glad someone remembered to include fontsmith, I really like their work! But why is it that every post on this board manages to end up with a recommendation for something on the MacRhino site?

Justin: I wouldn’t exactly call MyFonts a foundry, more of a typographic place of business. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think any typefaces are designed @ MyFonts.

>Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think any typefaces are designed @ MyFonts.

By that definition all but the one-or-two-man-shops listed by people above wouldn’t be considered foundries. But MyFonts is much more a collection of vendors than say FontFont or Emigre.

A clarification for the newbies...

Original post: “I’m wanting to get up to speed on where the good contemporary fonts are coming from.”

Indeed, it sounds like Ryan is looking for original sources, which probably means foundries, not resellers. Thus, MyFonts and Veer would not apply. Most of the others listed are indeed original sources of fonts, whose wares are often sold through distributors such as MyFonts, Veer, Phil’s, and FontShop.

Nigella—

That’s really funny, maybe you should look at the book before accusing me of being out of joint!

James

Page 58 to be specific.

And http://www.terminaldesign.com/ should be on the list for the link clickers. I’m using Rawlinson for my current project, and it looks fantastic.

Sorry James, I didn’t have a copy of the book handy and was just being cheeky. No harm done, right?

I didn’t realize you were Terminal Design! Cheers. Are your types popular in the States? They look well exotic to my eyes.

hoefler-frere jones definitely :D

http://www.typography.com

storm type foundry
suitcase type
sudtipos
umbrella
klim
house industries

oh, and i love
p22 ihof & lanston type co.
but that’s just me.

www.emtype.net
&
www.linotype.com (look carefully) They have tons of avant-guard type but its well hidden.
&
www.myfonts.com All the cutting edge stuff... and again you have to look carefully. There is lots of junk.

Mikey

Why hasn’t anyone mentionned http://www.misprintedtype.com/ yet?
He has some great artwork & the best trashfonts online!
A couple of days ago I saw 2 works from Eduardo Recife in a local comic store/gallery. Looks even better in real life!
Another trashlink is http://www.geocities.com/crizcrack666/

Oh, and http://www.fenotype.com/
Also nice -even if only for their mini-site- is www.zone-erogene.fr.fm/

“Indeed, it sounds like Ryan is looking for original sources, which probably means foundries, not resellers. Thus, MyFonts and Veer would not apply.”

Stewf, I would argue that Veer does apply - at least in terms of being considered a foundry. The Jukebox collection is a Veer product, seeing as Jason Walcott produces new typefaces under contract to us specifically for Jukebox. Whether or not Jukebox can be considered a hot foundry given the aforementioned criteria, is certainly a debatable point.

Personally, along with many of the foundries mentioned already, I’ve been finding the work of Neil, Silas, Dino & Co. over at The Type Trust as hot as anything on my radar.

Since most of my recommendations are already mentioned here’s a direct link to a foundry that’s part of Village, Underware

Typotheque
http://www.typotheque.com

For retro fonts...

http://www.fontdiner.com/

http://www.bvfonts.com/

Jukebox and Umbrella (some) certainly count as foundries. Thanks Grant.

http://www.type.fi/

http://www.atomicmedia.net/

http://www.comiclettering.com/

http://www.teff.nl/index.html

http://www.fontsmith.com/home.php

http://kltf.de/

http://www.ourtype.be/

http://letterror.com/

I predict great success for Kris, I’m specially fond of Sevilo and National Gothic, congratulations,

Héctor

i was not familiar with Klim. The work is great. Thanks.

Font farm has a surprisingly top quality work for such a name.

Héctor