Wordshape
Wordshape is a type foundry based in Japan, founded in 2005. It is one of 25 foundries from Japan in the Type.lol catalog. The catalog lists 47 typefaces from Wordshape: 19 sans-serif, 10 display and 2 serif. 6 designers in the catalog are credited on its typefaces, including Ian Lynam, James Todd and Eli Carrico.
In their own words
Wordshape is a hybrid type foundry, publishing entity, distributor, and occasional software company run by Ian Lynam Design, a Tokyo-based multidisciplinary creative studio specializing in identity, cultural research, and typography.
- Location
- Japan
- Typefaces
- 47
Typefaces by Wordshape
- Biwa & Biwa Display
- Biwa Stencil Display
- Biwa Variable
- BlkOut
- Boul Mich
- Cern
- Cern Variable
- Cinta Adhesiva
- Clobber Grotesk
- Cooper Black Italic Pro
- Cooper Chrome Italic Pro
- Cooper Fullface Italic Pro
- Cooper Italic Pro
- Cooper Text
- Cruller
- Dorsal
- Effete
- Elpy
- Elpy Variable
- Ensenada
- Entendre
- Entendre Display
- Entendre Display Variable
- Entendre Rough
- Entendre Variable
- Glot
- Glot Round
- Glot Variable
- Iggy
- International Blackletter
- Interno
- Inversion
- Kirimomi Display
- Kommisar
- Maat
- OffBroadway
- Okojo Pro + Slab Stack families
- Okojo Pro Complete
- Onick
- Perper Bloeren
- Pompeian Cursive
- Raker
- Sandberg Honorarium
- SmytheSans Pro family
- SmytheSoft Pro family
- Stamen
- Vaud Pro
Designers at Wordshape
- Ian Lynam
- James Todd
- Eli Carrico
- Oswald Bruce Cooper
- Eye One
- Eglif Pascal Santoso
- Darin Bendall
- Ryoichi Tsunekawa