Some time later this week we’ll be putting several hundred new fonts live on our WebINK font service, so for the next few days I thought I’d highlight the new (to WebINK) type foundries whose fonts are being added.

One of the great things about working professionally in the type industry is some of the passionate and involved people you get to know and work with, and my friends and colleagues at P22 really exemplify this. P22 is the Buffalo, New York-based foundry of Richard Kegler and Carima el-Behairy, with VP and General Manager James “Jimy” Chambers. The International House of Fonts (IHOF) is a P22 brand under which they license fonts from a variety of third parties.

P22 started in 1994 as a follow-on to Richard’s Master’s thesis on Marcel Duchamp. Richard and company remain deeply immersed in typography and book arts, as evidenced by many things, from hosting TypeCon 2008 in Buffalo (which I sadly missed due to family medical issues), to founding the Western NY Book Arts Collaborative.

P22 and IHOF do a wide range of type styles, and create related artifacts using those typefaces. Below are a couple that I have at home:

P22′s London (Johnston) Underground mug

They bring their sense of fun and variety in display typefaces to WebINK. Many P22 designs are licensed from museums and foundations, being based on the lettering of famous artists or artisans, from Cezanne and Van Gogh to Frank Llloyd Wright (Eaglefeather) and Johnston’s work for the London Underground (P22 Underground, the first typeface I ever licensed from them personally, years ago). We are making over 140 P22 and IHOF fonts live this week in WebINK, including many of their best-known typefaces.

P22 Vincent

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