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 provide font production and engineering services to other foundries. Our new typefaces, Léman, Kinzig, and Randonneur, will be available for licensing soon. Join our mailing list
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Léman
Weight:  DemiBold
Optical size:  Lock optical size72pt
Font size:   34pt
Léman is a neogrotesque type family available in seven optical sizes with nine weights each, supporting 802 languages across Cyrillic and Latin scripts
Sylistic 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
S and s: Akzidenz-style

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

Publication date
SS 2025
Design date
2018-2023
Axes
Weight, optical size
Number of styles
63
Scripts supported
Cyrillic (68 languages), Latin (734 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
Kinzig
Font size:   120pt
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 and their contemporary use especially in music. 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
SS 2025
Design date
2020-2023
Design, production, engineering
Jeremy Tribby
Number of styles
1
Scripts supported
Latin
OpenType features
Contextual alternates
Randonneur
Weight:  Regular
Font size:   34pt
Randonneur is a humanist sans-serif typeface in six weights. More details are coming soon. Please write for a preview or to inquire about beta licensing

Randonneur is a humanist sans that pairs traditional Roman brush capitals with angular details and playful lowercase proportions that pay homage to the typographic tradition of mid 20th century France

Publication date
TBD 2025
Design date
2023
Axes
Weight
Number of styles
6
Scripts supported
Cyrillic, Latin
Design, production, engineering
Jeremy Tribby
Client: NBCUniversal
Font size:   38pt
The Arthouse series of typefaces was commissioned for use on NBC and Telemundo properties worldwide.

Commissioned for use on digital and broadcast NBC and Telemundo properties, the Arthouse family consists of 25 styles

Client
NBCUniversal
Axes
Weight, width, slant
Number of styles
25
Scripts supported
Latin
Direction
Bruce Fallini
Design, production, engineering
Jeremy Tribby
Letterfitting
Igino Marini