Countertype is a type foundry based in Oakland, California. We design and produce original typefaces, offer custom type design and consulting services to brands, create tools for type designers and creative teams, and provide font production and engineering services to other foundries. three-text, our 3D font renderer and text layout engine for Three.js, is free, open source software, is available now on NPM and GitHub. Our debut retail collection of typefaces, which includes Léman and Kinzig, and will be followed by Randonneur and Maniera, will be available for licensing soon. The story of each typeface will be published shortly as well; stay updated by joining our mailing list →
Coming soon: Kinzig
Kinzig
Kinzig is a sharp and compressed blackletter in the Fraktur style
Kinzig is a heavy and narrow blackletter inspired by the expressionistic Fraktur styles of early 20th century Germany at Stempel and Schelter & Giesecke. Heavy and mean, Kinzig disregards legibility even at display sizes, and contrasts a modern, digital sharpness against its painterly historical model, featuring marker-like overlaps, a compressed width, tall x-height, subtle waisting, and tight letterspacing
| Publication date | FW 2025 |
| Design and production | 2020-2023 |
| Design, production, engineering | Jeremy Tribby |
| Number of styles | 1 |
| Scripts supported | Latin |
| OpenType features | Contextual alternates |
Tool: three-text
three-text renders and formats text from TTF, OTF, and WOFF font files as 3D geometry. It uses Tex-based parameters for breaking text into paragraphs across multiple lines, and turns font outlines into 3D shapes on the fly, caching their geometries for low CPU overhead in languages with lots of repeating glyphs. Variable fonts are supported as static instances at a given axis coordinate. The library has a framework-agnostic core that returns raw vertex data, with lightweight adapters for Three.js, React Three Fiber, p5.js, WebGL and WebGPU. Under the hood, three-text relies on HarfBuzz for text shaping, Knuth-Plass line breaking, Liang hyphenation, libtess by Eric Veach for removing overlaps and triangulation, curve polygonization from Maxim Shemanarev's Anti-Grain Geometry, and Visvalingam-Whyatt line simplification
| Release date | FW 2025 |
| Author | Jeremy Tribby |
| Platform | Web |
Léman
Weight:
Bold
Optical size:
72pt
72pt Léman is a neogrotesque type family available in seven optical sizes with nine weights each, supporting 789 languages across Cyrillic and Latin scripts
Stylistic alternates:
a: single-storey
a: no tail
R and Я: angled leg
g: double-storey
ф: alternate form
Numerals: angled 6 and 9
I: slab serif
Zero tabular: no dot
Zero tabular: slashed
Punctuation: rectangular
Ordinals: no underline
Ƒ: alternate form
Numero: raised
Cross: Grendl mode
Ŋ: alternate form
ß: noodle form
ẞ: Dresden form
Franc: alternate form
Franc: ligature form
Léman's design is inspired by the grotesque type styles found in the mid 19th through early 20th century in Germany, England, and the US. The font family is available in seven optical sizes, drawing a bridge between between Bauer's Breite Grotesk at text (8pt) sizes, and Berthold's Royal Grotesk at display (72pt) sizes. Léman supports extended Latin, including African and Vietnamese, as well as extended and localized Cyrillic. Each of Léman's 63 styles is available individually or together in a single-file variable font. The full story will be published shortly
| Publication date | FW 2025 |
| Design and production | 2018-2024 |
| Axes | Weight, optical size |
| Number of styles | 63 |
| Scripts supported | Cyrillic (68 languages), Latin (721 languages) |
| Total glyphs | 2029 |
| OpenType features | Stylistic alternates, localized forms, contextual alternates, discretionary ligatures, fractions, old-style figures, tabular figures, small capitals, case-sensitive forms |
| Design, production, engineering | Jeremy Tribby |
| Consultant, African | Denis Moyogo Jacquerye |
| Consultant, Cyrillic | Maria Doreuli |
| Consultant, Vietnamese | Donny Trương |
Maniera
Maniera is a type family with modest serifs, dramatic contrast, and slightly mannerist forms
Maniera is a modern type family with roots in the artistic and typographic traditions of Italy and Northern Europe around the 16th century. Sturdy and familiar with a modern sensibility and subtle charms, Maniera will soon be available in nine weights across extended Latin and Cyrillic scripts. More details coming soon
| Publication date | 2026 |
| Design and production | 2024 |
| Axes | Weight |
| Number of styles | 9 |
| Scripts supported | Cyrillic (54 languages), Latin (332 languages) |
| Total glyphs | 1962 |
| OpenType features | Stylistic alternates, localized forms, contextual alternates, discretionary ligatures, fractions, old-style figures, tabular figures, small capitals, case-sensitive forms |
| Design, production, engineering | Jeremy Tribby |
Randonneur
Randonneur is a humanist sans-serif that pairs traditional brush capitals with playful lowercase proportions and angular details
Randonneur is a humanist sans available in six weights in Latin and Cyrillic. Its Roman construction and brushlike quality owe to the typographic tradition of mid 20th century France. The full story will be published here soon
| Publication date | 2026 |
| Design and production | 2023-2024 |
| Axes | Weight |
| Number of styles | 6 |
| Scripts supported | Cyrillic, Latin |
| Design, production, engineering | Jeremy Tribby |
Tool: Italic Assistant
Italic Assistant is a new tool for the Glyphs font editor that streamlines the creation of italic letterforms from existing upright designs. The tool was debuted at ATD3 in Februrary 2025. It provides a number of slanting functions with different approaches to curve correction, and the user can pick their desired level of automation, whether adjusting a single layer at a time, or an entire multi-master font family all at once. It emphasizes choice and supports workflows that involve manual refinement. It is still in development and will be available as soon as possible; join our mailing list to be alerted when it is ready