The Type Fetish

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The Type Fetish [Michael Wallner] Born in Minneapolis, MN, in 1967, Michael J. Wallner (now in St. Paul, MN) graduated from the College of Visual Arts. In 2001, he set up The Type Fetish. His typefaces include Pushki Pro (2011, a slabby poster typeface based on some hand lettering found on a Russian poster), Lard Pro (2011, very fat and high-contrast typeface; +Greek, +Cyrillic), Brogue (2009), Casualties Pro (2009, grunge), Kari Sans (alyered typeface family), Fabricate (2007, fururistic), Idiot Boy (2010, grunge), Numbskul (2007, grunge), Parcel (2007, grunge), Reverend Jim (2007, handwriting; with Jim Laitinen), Recreant (1998, grunge), Used (2002, grunge), Calligraphy-Unicase (2007), Commuter (2008, gridded letters), Fabricate-Inline, Fabricate-Regular, Fabricate-Thin (2009, techno family), Grimm (2008, a German expressionist blackletter), Fucsimile (2009---no idea what this is), S4QUFX (2009, dot matrix face), Amrep 026, Borough Pro (2010, random width squarish sans set), Broken Vows, Casualties, Cheapo, Cubage, Dimentia, Discharge (grunge), DIY-One (2002), DIY-Two (2002), Dimerit, Filth, Fucsimile (degraded fax or old typewriter), Insurgent (2009, grunge), Kaaos (2005, eroded stencil), Maim, Nascent, Quadrate, Refuse (2009, grunge), Sabotage, Squarish, Straphanger (2009, dot matrix face), The Crew (stencil font), Universally Corrupt, Whore, Xiphoid and Zen Arcade. Michael did not publish any fonts between 2011 and 2018. In 2018, he returned with a mammoth 50-font layerable typeface family, Apnea, which are based on old painted signs. MyFonts.Com is selling the fonts. The free font Sabotage (2002) can be downloaded here. Dafont link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Hellofont link. Home page.	EXTERNAL LINKS The Type Fetish [Buy fonts] [Designer info] Dafont page Behance page Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Typewriter fonts ⦿ Handwriting fonts ⦿ Sci-Fi fonts ⦿ Type scene in Minnesota ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Cyrillic simulation fonts ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Typefaces related to German expressionism ⦿