PSY/OPS Type Foundry

Name: PSY/OPS Type Foundry
Address: 944 Market Street Ste 504, San Francisco, CA, 94102, US
Telephone: +18887793663
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PSY/OPS Type Foundry

Creative salon in the heart of San Francisco dedicated to typeface design and alphabetic innovation. The quirkier and more challenging the better.

Hi, we’re PSY/OPS, and we build typefaces all day long — and occasionally all night long. Our primary commissions are for tech giants and manufacturers, game developers and print publishers, as well as other foundries and design firms. We also love teaming up on more personal / experimental / academic projects. Between client engagements, we work on fonts for our own ecclectic library. Our design

studio, founded in 1995, is a creative sanctuary for type-minded visitors and collaborators. Along with PSY/OPS, our workspace is home to Glyfyx, a creator of letter-based toys and art objects; and to Alphabetic Order, a small type design school. Noticing a theme? We hope you like what you see on our site, and that you stop in to say hi if you’re in the neighborhood. For now, we please join our mailing list and send us your thoughts and questions.

07/05/2017

We welcome Goosebreak as the newest addition to the PSY/OPS library. Designed by André Simard.

The Goosebreak fonts have full support for Canadian Aboriginal languages. Including Cree, Inuktitut, Athabaskan, and Blackfoot.

See more here: https://www.psyops.com/shop/typefaces/goosebreak/

05/19/2017

Dekalb is the newest addition to the PSY/OPS library. Designed by Pablo A. Medina.

Inspired by signage, murals and graffiti around Dekalb and Wyckoff in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

See it here: https://www.psyops.com/shop/typefaces/dekalb/

08/12/2015

The PSY/OPS checkout system has been revamped. Woo!

• Every page on the PSY/OPS website is now secure with HTTPS.

• We now support multiple payment options, including Amazon Payments.

• And, you can now log in with your Facebook account, in order to simplify your checkout.

07/27/2015

Delicato Pro, designed by Stefan Hattenbach, is now available at PSY/OPS.

https://www.psyops.com/shop/typefaces/delicato-pro/

Delicato integrates unique modern details over a decidedly traditional foundation. The design fulfills Stefan Hattenbach’s goal of creating a sturdy text face for books and longer texts, while not precluding its use in more decorative settings. Stylistically, Delicato tips a respectful hat to Jeremy Tankard’s Enigma and Petr van Blokland’s Proforma. The family includes standard text cuts — Regular, Italic, Bold — each with full Smallcaps, Ligatures as well as Lining and Oldstyle figures (both Proportional and Tabular). A Medium weight, Alternates and a set of Ornaments further expand the family’s versatility. In 2008, Delicato was expanded to OpenType Pro status, most notably adding full support for Latin-based Central European languages, and that is the edition offered here.

06/17/2015

Excerpt from the Anziano Specimen Booklet.

http://www.psyops.com/shop/typefaces/anziano-pro/

06/10/2015

Check it out! Anziano Pro, designed by Stefan Hattenbach, is now available at PSY/OPS.

http://www.psyops.com/shop/typefaces/anziano-pro/

Anziano Pro is the third of Stefan Hattenbach’s text typefaces, arriving after (and drawing innate inspiration from) Tarocco and Delicato. More universally, Anziano tips its hat to Emil Rudolph Weiss’ 1926 namesake type, though Anziano is decidedly more Cartesian than calligraphic. Anziano consists of three core styles, Regular, Italic and Bold; each with smallcaps, ornaments, stylistic ligatures, and extended Latin accents. Lining, tabular, oldstyle and smallcap numerals help round out Anziano’s typographic range and function.

04/06/2015

Make-ready: Fontbake. Thursday, April 9th, 2015 — San Francisco, CA

http://aigasf.org/events/2015/04/09/make-ready_fontbake

This upcoming Fontbake, part of Adobe’s MakeReady series, will be larger and more structured than PSY/OPS' usual Fontbakes. Participants will join teams and be asked to contribute 3–4 letter drawings based on several thematic challenges. The PSY/OPS crew will live process the artwork into fonts. An all-star panel of judges, Carolina De Bartolo, Bob Aufuldish and James Edmondson, will then award some funky prizes. Music, food and refreshments will abound; Typekit’s mobile library will be on site; and all attendees will receive copies of the baked fonts. The MakeReady Fontbake promises to be a spirited alphabetic event — one you don’t want to miss!

01/09/2015

Alphatypoglyphic! Playful New Perspectives on the Alphabet.
Thursday, February 5, 2015 — Santa Monica , CA

http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Is-Just-My-Type-Typography-Meetup/events/219648473/

“The alphabet does a lot of heavy lifting for us every day, most of it pretty mundane. But it also has a quirky sense of play, and this is something Type Designer Rod Cavazos explores with obsessive delight.

Join us for a rare peek at some of the exotic alphabetic concepts, constructs and curiosities he and his team have tinkered up in their San Francisco design office. You’ll have a chance to participate in the quirky sense of play while contributing to the in-session Fontbake, and possibly win a digital goodie bag of typefaces and other fontalicious treats.”

11/17/2014

Thanks to Creativity Explored for hosting our October Doodlefest this past Saturday. It was a wonderful and well-attended event, and the creative flow was amazing. Here are some snapshots, and the results of the collective Fontbake Seven everyone contributed to.

http://alphabeticorder.com/fontbake-№-7/

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The FontBake is one of a few events centered around Doodlefest, hosted by PSY/OPS Type Foundry and Alphabetic Order.

Doodlefest is a fun, free creative meet-up offered in San Francisco by several times a year. Check it out:

http://alphabeticorder.com/classes/doodlefest/

10/27/2014

The compete set of Anglia, 6 fonts, is available now for only $39 (50% off) until November 11th.

http://www.psyops.com/shop/anglia/anglia-set/

Anglia is designed by Gabor Kothay. A steelplate script with two edge treatments (smooth and antiqued), two lowercase styles (Classic and Concise) and a full array of Enhance-ments (swashes, alternates, flourishes) in a separate font that is bundled with each of the purchase options.

09/29/2014

Triumphalis is only $18 (50% off) until October 13th.

http://www.psyops.com/shop/triumphalis-titling/triumphalis/

Triumphalis Titling is a typeface designed by Lars Bergquist and published by PSY/OPS Type Foundry.

09/15/2014

This Catacumba Pro Display Subset sale is scary, at only $34 (50% off) through September 29th.

http://www.psyops.com/shop/catacumba-pro/catacumba-pro-display-subset/

Catacumba is a six-weight typeface inspired by the painted inscriptions of the Igreja de São Francisco church’s catacombs in Porto, Portugal. The forms are clearly influenced by Victorian style, with an unmistakable French heritage, and yet they somehow convey a decidedly Portuguese sensibility.

Catacumba’s centerpieces are its two titling styles: the exuberant Excelsa, and the didonesque Moderata. Each Catacumba font includes an expanded selection of OpenType ranges and features, allowing for extensive usewithin the Latin range.

Address

944 Market Street Ste 504
San Francisco, CA
94102

Telephone

+18887793663

Website

http://psyops.com/

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