VISUAL.
VOICES.
munchfonts makes visual voices that work and play well in digital or print environments, and has since 1994 made award-winning typefaces and typeface font software for personal, general, and corporate use. A digital typeface foundry based in Connecticut, munchfonts applies type design principles of readabilty, legibility, cohesion, and expression.

WORKING.
OUT.
Starting with Fontographer, the original studio-oriented type design tool to 2003, then FontLab since 2003, munchfonts makes typefaces primarily for languages that use the Latin script (you know, the one developed in most of Europe and that you’re reading now), with specialties in non-Latin world scripts: Greek and Cyrillic, Cherokee (an Indigenous American script invented by Sequoyah), Gujarati (an Indic script of South Asia), and some Arabic.

READING.
NOW.
Sansabunch Web Regular & Italic
A Neo-Geo, midcentury modern text and display family with characteristics of both the early and mid 1900s and the early 2000s. Slightly longer projectors and sensitively narrowed rounds give Sansabunch a set of reading cues to the reader’s eye that yeah, it’s an h, not an n; b not p, etc.

SANSA-
BUNCH.
Seven weights for Regular and Extended with hand-tuned oblique italics, five weights for Condensed and italics. Extensive coverage for European languages using the Latin script.
(Still in development.)

Microsoft needed some new typefaces to show off their innovative ClearType techology with a casual, lapidary — stone-carved — aesthetic. Subtle curves on stems and diagonals render better detail with ClearType than with traditional full-pixel rendering! So, in 2003, munchfonts provided four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic. Scripts covered are GLK (Greek, Latin, Cyrillic), with the Latin script extended for most European langages; Latin extensions by Ascender are for Vietnamese.

BUT.
WAIT!
If you have MS products (Word, Office, Windows, etc.), you probably have Candara already on your type menu.

UPDATE: With the release of the new MS font families in 2024, the ClearType families (including Candara) have been retired as defaults. Before updating, find your Fonts folder, pull out what you need to keep, then update; reinstall your keepers.

from Microsoft

Ergo is a humanist sans-serif with true italics in Regular, Medium, DemiBold, and Bold weights. A bold Sketch outline style rounds out the base family. Most styles have GLK coverage for the Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic scripts.

ERGONOMIC.
ENCOMIUMS.
Ergo took First Prize, Text Category in the 1997 Linotype Second International Typeface Design Contest. Adrian “Mr Univers” Frutiger said that Ergo is “konsequent durchdacht” — thoroughly thought out.

ERGO.
ENERGIZE.
Ergo is available in several configurations of scripts and style.

Ergo PanEuropean styles are Regular width fonts with the Latin script extended for most European language needs and include both Greek and Cyrillic. Add italics for a full, expressive palette.

Ergo Pro Greek or Ergo Pro Cyrillic styles are Regular width fonts with Latin extended for most European language needs and both Greek or Cyrillic. With italics, of course.

Ergo Pro Hebrew styles are Regular width fonts with Latin extended for most European language needs and for basic Hebrew. And italics.

Ergo Condensed & Ergo Compressed are additional widths; a text-friendly Condensed and a space-saving Compressed, both for the Latin script extended for most European language needs.
Ergo Condensed is in Regular, Medium, DemiBold, Bold, and Black weights, with italics.
Ergo Compressed is in Regular and Bold weights, with italics.

from Monotype’s MyFonts

Linotype Really is an extensive typeface family in Light, Regular, Medium, DemiBold, SemiBold, Bold, and Extra Bold weights, each with italics and small capitals. Really provides a broad palette of expressions to draw from — sensibly light to brightly stentorian heavy.

The moderate-to-strong contrast of the vertical to horizontal strokes recalls the Transitional and Modern styles of Baskerville and Bodoni. The subtly oblique axis of the stroke weight recalls the old-style faces of Caslon.

Sturdy serifs offer a Realist sensibility of a clear, readable, no-nonsense workhorse text face whose clean details yet offer the designer a high-impact display face. Italic styles have exuberant Latin swash capitals for word-initial settings.

Scripts covered include GLK (Greek, Latin, Cyrillic) in capitals, lowercase, and small capitals, with a small complement for basic Hebrew.

PLEASANT.
PLAUDITS.
Really was a winner, in 2000, of the 3rd Linotype International Typeface Contest.

The Greek and Cyrillic extensions were chosen among fourteen other typeface designs as winners in the Type Directors Club’s TDC2 Type Design Competition 2000, and were also selected in the ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) bukva:raz! international type design competition.

REALLY.
READING.
Really is available in several configurations of scripts and style.

Really No2 (no suffix) is a redesign from 2008, scaled up with taller and wider glyphs. Script support in Latin is extended for most European language needs. Select fonts with Greek (G&L) or Cyrillic (L&K) or Hebrew (H&L).

Really No2 PanEuropean is W1G/WGL4/GLK only (without basic Hebrew). Latin is extended for most European language needs. Fonts include both Greek and Cryillic.

Really W2G is W2G/HGLK (with basic Hebrew) with GLK glyph coverage with Latin extended for most European language needs and Vietnamese in each font, style, and weight for Greek, Cyrillic, and basic Hebrew.

All fonts include numerals for text and capital settings (old style and lining), with proportional sets for each.

from Monotype’s MyFonts

Incredibly tiny writing can be verrry intriguing — is there a secret there? What’s that say? Well, Nanogram is like that; a complete reversal of the Big X-Height movement of the ’70s and ’80s. It’s got long, generous ascenders and minimal minims. The strokes are ballpointpen biro-stylo, and counters! — counters? — who needs no stuffy old counters!

ITTY-BITTY.
TEENY-TINY.
Set Nanogram for speedy, casual, or the inscrutable chemistry notes my dad made that were the inspiration for this great face.

A second font holds a set of silly pictogram doodles — Nanogram Pixies!

from munchfonts

Here’s a cursive Italic typeface that swings along with your thoughts: in two weights, Micro and Macro.

INTENSE.
ELEGANCE.
Whether you want an extra-fine biro ballpoint or a squushy felt-tip, Finerliner has it. The links are complete, the word picture, refined; text is personal yet very readable.

from Monotype’s MyFonts

Sansbunch is a Neo-Geo, Midcentury Modern (Mid-Mod!) text and display family with characteristics of both the early and mid 1900s and the early 2000s. Slightly longer projectors and sensitively narrowed rounds give Sansabunch a set of reading cues to the reader’s eye that yeah, it’s an h, not an n; b not p, etc.

GLOBAL.
REACH.
Sansabunch’s character set covers all European langages that use the Latin script, and languages many beyond Europe. Further development will add broader coverage.

Included OpenType features in Sansabunch are: turned ‘l’, or “el”; old-style numerals, set to near-x-height that rise and fall like lowercase letters; alternate “binocular” forms for ‘g’ characters; easy setting of vulgar fractions; and a set of eight directional arrows.

OPEN.
TYPE.
Not familiar with OpenType (OT) features? Where have you been! In Adobe applications and others, all included glyph variants of characters are easily available by using OpenType features from palettes in Illustrator and InDesign. The character palette in either app has a menu off the “hamburger” at upper right has menu options for the included OT features. Or, use the Glyph palette in InDesign to pick and choose.

SANSA-
BUNCH.
Seven weights for Regular and Extended with hand-tuned oblique italics, five weights for Condensed and italics. Extensive coverage for world languages using the Latin script.
(Still in development.)

READING.
NOW.
Sansabunch Web Regular & Italic
This Web version is identical to the print version in function and form.

from munchfonts

Slababunch, competent cousin of Sansbunch, is a sturdy, slab-serif, text and display family with characteristics of both the early and mid 1900s and the early 2000s. Slightly longer projectors and sensitively narrowed rounds give Slababunch a set of reading cues to the reader’s eye that yeah, it’s an h, not an n; b not p, etc.

SNAP-ON.
SERIFS.
Slababunch’s character set covers all European langages that use the Latin script, and many languages beyond Europe. Further development will add even broader coverage.

Included OpenType features in Slababunch are: old-style numerals, set to near-x-height that rise and fall like lowercase letters; alternate “binocular” forms for ‘g’ characters; easy setting of vulgar fractions; and a set of eight directional arrows.

OPEN.
TYPE.
Not familiar with OpenType (OT) features? Where have you been! In Adobe applications and others, all included glyph variants of characters are easily available by using OpenType features from palettes in Illustrator and InDesign. The character palette in either app has a menu off the “hamburger” at upper right has menu options for the included OT features. Or, use the Glyph palette in InDesign to pick and choose.

SLABA-
BUNCH.
Seven weights for the Regular width, with two sets of slanted forms: hand-tuned Obliques that use the full serif set, and true Italics that have a more cursive structure with reduced serifing. Extensive coverage for world languages using the Latin script.
(Still in development.)

from munchfonts

Cursabunch, crazy cousin of Sansbunch, is a Mid-Cen-Mod Deli-Diner Script text and, really, display family with characteristics of both the mid 1900s and the early 2000s. Its projectors are mostly unlooped to clarify the wordshapes, and smooth continuous linking stokes and rolling rounds give Cursabunch the feel of a sure hand at the order pad making American cursive with skill and verve.

ORDER.
THE FRIES!
Cursabunch’s character set covers all European langages that use the Latin script, and many languages beyond Europe. Further development will add broader coverage.

Included OpenType features in Cursabunch are: old-style numerals, set to near-x-height that rise and fall like lowercase letters; alternate “binocular” forms for ‘g’ characters; easy setting of vulgar fractions; and a set of eight directional arrows.

Another OT feature accesses Cursive (Swash) Capitals for capitalizing words (not recommended for use in ALL CAPS — that would be, as your teacher told you, TOO MUCH.

OPEN.
TYPE.
Not familiar with OpenType (OT) features? Where have you been! In Adobe applications and others, all included glyph variants of characters are easily available by using OpenType features from palettes in Illustrator and InDesign. The character palette in either app has a menu off the “hamburger” at upper right has menu options for the included OT features. Or, use the Glyph palette in InDesign to pick and choose.

CURSA-
BUNCH.
Seven weights with OT contextual replacments that provide: even spacing between flat and flat, flat and round forms; separate initial or post-cap forms for letters that begin their strokes from the baseline (r, s, x, z); contextually different links into r, x, z from b, o, v, w. There’s the same extensive coverage for world languages using the Latin script as in the other Bunches.
(Still in development.)

ORDER.
UP!

from munchfonts

Grotik is a Neo-Grotesque sans serif (called “Grots”) with characteristics of the late 1800s and the early and mid 1900s working typefaces. Sensible, sturdy, no-nonsense, Grotik is matter-of-factly blunt about its mission to communicate. Slightly longer projectors and subtly contrasted weights in the verticals and horizontals give Grotik a set of reading cues to the reader’s eye that yeah, it’s an h, not an n; b not p, etc. another OT set of turned ‘l’, or “el” to disambiguate 'I' from 'l' (el). Another OT feature adds slab serifs to the capital and small cap ‘I’ (eye).

WORKIN’.
GROTIK.
Grotik’s extensive world script character set covers all European langages that use the Latin script, and many languages beyond Europe. Additional script coverage is included with Greek (monotonic and polytonic), Cyrillic (including Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian variants as well as trans-Uralic extensions); Armenian, Cherokee, Hebrew, and a usable Arabic. A Gujarati set includes numerous half-forms and conjuncts. All but the latst two (Arabic and Gujarati) have oblique italics.

Included OpenType features in Grotik are: old-style numerals, set to near-x-height that rise and fall like lowercase letters; alternate “monocular” forms for the default “binocular” ‘g’ characters; easy setting of vulgar fractions; and a set of ten directional arrows. Another feature makes the two-story ‘a’ into a single story ‘a’ (like an ascenderless ‘d’) to match the monocular ‘g’.

All cased (that is, all but Hebrew, Arabic, and Gujarati) scripts have small caps along with capitals and lowercase letters.

OPEN.
TYPE.
Not familiar with OpenType (OT) features? Where have you been! In Adobe applications and others, all included glyph variants of characters are easily available by using OpenType features from palettes in Illustrator and InDesign. The character palette in either app has a menu off the “hamburger” at upper right has menu options for the included OT features. Or, use the Glyph palette in InDesign to pick and choose.

GROTTY
GROTIK.
Nine normal weights, gossamer Thin to beefy Black with oblique italics. A brawny Ultra and a burly Solid are in roman only.
(Still in development.)

from munchfonts

Dryad is a high-contrast, vertical axis serif design, woodland companion to the chthonian Grotik. It has characteristics of the late 1700s and the early and mid 1900s text typefaces in the line of the Baskerville, Didot, and Bodoni typefaces. Slightly longer projectors and moderate weight transitions in the rounds, verticals, and horizontals give Dryad a set of reading cues to the reader’s eye that yeah, it’s an h, not an n; b not p; c, not e, etc.

DARLING.
DRYAD.
Dryad’s extensive world script character set covers all European langages that use the Latin script, and many languages beyond Europe. Additional script coverage is included with Greek (monotonic and polytonic), Cyrillic (including Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian variants and trans-Uralic extensions); and Hebrew.

Included OpenType features in Dryad are: old-style numerals, set to near-x-height that rise and fall like lowercase letters; alternate “monocular” forms for the default “binocular” ‘g’ characters; easy setting of vulgar fractions; and a set of eight directional arrows.

All of the cased (that is, all but Hebrew) scripts have small caps along with capitals and lowercase letters.

OPEN.
TYPE.
Not familiar with OpenType (OT) features? Where have you been! In Adobe applications and others, all included glyph variants of characters are easily available by using OpenType features from palettes in Illustrator and InDesign. The character palette in either app has a menu off the “hamburger” at upper right has menu options for the included OT features. Or, use the Glyph palette in InDesign to pick and choose.

DARING.
DRYAD.
Nine weights with true italics. Display, Text, and Caption versions.
(Still in development.)

from munchfonts

Jardim is an edged-pen inspired calligraphic design reminiscent in structure of the Renaissance and Mannerist handwriting of the writing masters of the late 1400s and the early and mid 1500s, and of the Italic Revival of the 1900s. But where all of its precedents include serifing patterns, Jardim is serif-free. Jardim brings the Italic hand into the 2000s.

JAUNTY.
JARDIM.
Jardim’s extensive world script character set covers all European langages that use the Latin script, and many languages beyond Europe. Additional script coverage is included with Greek (monotonic only) and Cyrillic with trans-Uralic extensions.

Included OpenType features in Jardim are: old-style numerals, set to near-x-height that rise and fall like lowercase letters; small caps with appropriately sized numerals; easy setting of vulgar fractions; and fluerons and border parts. Each roman weight has a set of ligatured capitals to form interlocking logotype elements. The regular italic has a set of turned-right Chancery ascenders for b, d, h, k, l; and all have swash tails for the capital Q. The Bravia italic has extreme flourishes from ascenders and descenders that fly like larks ascending, swooping, curling, swirling.

OPEN.
TYPE.
Not familiar with OpenType (OT) features? Where have you been! In Adobe applications and others, all included glyph variants of characters are easily available by using OpenType features from palettes in Illustrator and InDesign. The character palette in either app has a menu off the “hamburger” at upper right has menu options for the included OT features. Or, use the Glyph palette in InDesign to pick and choose.

JOYOUS.
JARDIM.
Two weights, regular and bold,with one Chancery italic regular weight and one Bravia italic regular weight.
(Still in development.)

from munchfonts

HEY!
HI!
It’s been a long while since this site was updated; been busy teaching talented students typography, graphic, and communication design. And, making type whenever possible.

NEW BOTTLE.
NEW WINE.
So, we’re rebuilding this site to add typefaces not yet released. This will probably take a while, so return infrequently to see what's happening.

OLD BOTTLE.
OLD WINE.
Until the new stuff is up, you can see the old pages on the link way below, or go have a look at the Monotype (fonts.com) or Linotype (linotype.com) sites to see current munchfonts commercial releases shown here. Linotype is now part of Monotype, so there’s no functional difference between the two sites.

TASTINGS.
TESTINGS.
Why R-l-g? In a limited available area, how does a typeface show its most salient features and character? You need to see rounds, diagonals, stems; ‘R’ has all three. You want an ascender and terminal serifs (if any, of the latter), so ‘l’. The ‘g’ is the best fun ever — it shows the x-height of the lowercase and a full round if it’s the two-storeyed, binocular, “loopy” form.

SIMPLE.
SAMPLES.
Images here are in SVG format: Scalable Vector Graphics. SVGs use the same kind of Bézier curves that typeface fonts use, so are accurate and free of the fuzz and pixelations that other image formats (GIF, PNG, JPG) inevitably suffer from. SVG is always crisp and clear! Zoom on in!

Microsoft, Linotype, Monotype, and the corresponding typeface names herein are trademarks of Microsoft, Linotype GmbH, Monotype GmbH, Monotype Imaging,
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