Ty Finck
Type and graphic designer in Ithaca, New York.
• Available for custom fonts and branding projects: email me
- Typeface Year Category Status Notes
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Almost
2013
Handwriting
Archived
Originated on pencil+paper
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Anybody
2018
Sans Serif
Variable weight and width, with italics
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Bico
2015
Sans Serif
Archived
One of my last times using Fontlab
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Birdo
2020
Display
After requests, a revived Ostrich Inline
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Blackout
2008
Display
Early (bad), first open source font
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Cease
2017
Display
Archived
Round corners but straight edges, tech-ish
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Chawp
2013
Handwriting
Created with Chalk on a wall, at AWP
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Chunk Five Print*
2014
Display
A new textured style from Meredith's original'
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Cinegenic
2022
Display
Italics in each direction
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Coolville
2006
Pixel
Made for a Flash-based website
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Default Sans
2021
Sans Serif
Needed something normal
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Didactic
2015
Serif
A constant work in progress
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Elm
2012
Handwriting
Archived
From the pencil/paper era
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Epilogue
2019
Sans Serif
Made as Etcetera Type Co
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Finck32a
2014
Handwriting
Archived
Monthly font project experiement
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Furrow
2018
Display
Glyphs, to Illustrator, then back
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Gluten
2019
Display
One of my favorite variable fonts
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Grandstander
2018
Display
A fun one for the kiddos
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Guilder
2012
Display
Archived
My first commercial typeface
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Ichabod
2017
Display
Needed something spooky-ish
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Imbue
2019
Serif
My condensed didone obsession
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Junction*
2020
Sans Serif
Refined, added master, made variable
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Juju
2017
Display
Archived
The prequel to Tourney, made to stack
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Katahdin Round
2014
Sans Serif
I grew up in Maine, hours from Katahdin
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Knewave
2011
Handwriting
A quick, unpolished mess
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Korsque
2015
Display
Archived
Stackable, for better or worse
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League Gothic*
2020
Sans Serif
Redrawn, condensed, made variable
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League Mono
2018
Monospace
My first variable font
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League Spartan*
2020
Sans Serif
Added master, language support, made variable
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Lickety Split
2012
Display
Archived
Crayon on index cards
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Mainframe
2022
Monospace
This text you're reading is in Mainframe
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Noted
2022
Display
Intended for speech bubbles/dialog boxes
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Ostrich Sans
2011
Display
Terrible, do not use
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Plainview
2016
Display
Archived
FKA Milkshake, offline for refinement
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Porter FT
2016
Sans Serif
Archived
AKA Porter Sans, an extended family
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Pretty Many
2015
Handwriting
Archived
First handwriting font with a tablet
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Retrograde
2016
Monospace
Archived
First of some space-oriented monospace stuff
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Rewrite
2022
Serif
New and crisp, still working on italics
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Saturnight
2014
Handwriting
Archived
Paintbrush to vector
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Simpletown
2007
Pixel
From the bitmap era
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Sono
2021
Monospace/Sans
Soon to be on Google Fonts
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Southpaw*
2014
Handwriting
My wife's handwriting
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Struthio
2019
Sans Serif
Another reworked Ostrich, by request
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Taurus Mono
2013
Monospace
Precursor to Retrograde
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Tourney
2019
Display
Adjustable inline weight, and many widths
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Trispace
2019
Display
Mostly monospace with a few narrow/wide glyphs
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Typocopia
2014
Display
Archived
Used as title font for Captain Fantastic
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Uncombined*
2014
Display
Archived
Made with my son (who was 9 at the time)
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Upstater
2014
Display
Archived
Created on a whim, stackable/shadow effect
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Yeezy Display
2015
Display
The price might have to go up soon
In addition to everything above, I’ve been commissioned to make custom type, like fonts converted from handwriting, and a variable soft serif family. You can also view my favorite projects.
I’ve worked with Google, Chronicle books, NBC universal, AA&T, Cornell University, and The Planetary Society. My fonts have been used by:
