Computerlove™

Full Name:

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Born:

May 08, 1970

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Job:

Typo*Graphic Designer

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Website

Characters Font Foundry

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Status:

Other

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Biography:

Characters Font Foundry

Founded in 2004, Characters Font Foundry is an independent digital type foundry in Holland, designing, manufacturing and selling high quality typefaces for creative designers. Characters specializes in creating custom typefaces for corporate identities and packaging.

Characters Font Foundry was founded by Rene Verkaart, a Dutch Typo*Graphic Designer. He's been making his own typefaces since 1995, still a graduate graphic design student at the Kunstacademie Maastricht. Meanwhile his portfolio contains well over 45 typefaces.

All typefaces are extensively tested by carefully selected BetaTesters. This are renowned graphic design studios that TestDrive the typefaces in practice and give critical feedback to improve the final release versions.

Characters marketing statement

"Today, people don't send each other handwritten letters any more.

Computer-generated letters carrying digital signatures zip anonymously through cyberspace rather than being signed, sealed and delivered by a person. This is a great loss!

The handwriting representing a writer's state of mind, passion and personality has been replaced by state-of-the-art typefaces that reveal more about the quality of the laser printer than the writer.

At the same time, computer-generated typefaces are losing more and more detail and individuality as 'fitting the grid' becomes the overriding concern. But what if you want to say something out of the ordinary, something that can't be grid-fitted? How can you deviate from the standard? Characters gives people the means by which they can express themselves. Whether they are happy or sad, angry or in love. Or perhaps simply to reveal themselves as they are."

Characters fonts
Accelerator, Ballet Mechanique, Bionix, BorVer, Cucaracha, Encrypted Wallpaper, FatBoy, Freaky Animals, Insider, Kryptonite, Nantua, Nantua Flava, Nordic A, Nordic Narrow, Plan A, B, C, Porta, Reethi Rah, SBD Block, Shell Shock, Siventi and Vagebond.

Official website
Characters Font Foundry

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My graphic design studio
Stoere Binken Design

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Interests:

Typography, graphic design, kungfu