Rene Verkaart

Characters Font Foundry
 
Characters Font Foundry is founded by Rene Verkaart, a Dutch Typo*Graphic Designer. He's been making his own typefaces since 1995, still a graduate graphic design student at the Kunstacademie Maastricht. Meanwhile his portfolio contains well over 45 typefaces.
 
All typefaces are extensively tested by carefully selected BetaTesters. These are renowned graphic design studios that TestDrive the typefaces in practice and give critical feedback to improve the final release versions.
 
Characters Font Foundry marketing statement
 
"Today, people don't send each other handwritten letters any more. Computer-generated letters carrying digital signatures zip anonymously through cyberspace rather than being signed, sealed and delivered by a person. This is a great loss!
The handwriting representing a writer's state of mind, passion and personality has been replaced by state-of-the-art typefaces that reveal more about the quality of the laser printer than the writer.
At the same time, computer-generated typefaces are losing more and more detail and individuality as 'fitting the grid' becomes the overriding concern. But what if you want to say something out of the ordinary, something that can't be grid-fitted? How can you deviate from the standard? Characters gives people the means by which they can express themselves. Whether they are happy or sad, angry or in love. Or perhaps simply to reveal themselves as they are."
 
Characters fonts
Accelerator: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=accelerator
Ballet Mechanique: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=balletmechanique
BorVer: http://www.characters.nl
Cucaracha: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=cucaracha
Encrypted Wallpaper: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=encryptedwallpaper
FatBoy: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=fatboy
Freaky Animals: http://www.characters.nl
Insider: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=insider
Kryptonite: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=kryptonite
Nantua: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=nantua
Nantua Flava XL: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=nantuaflava
Nordic A: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=nordica
Nordic Narrow: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=nordicnarrow
Plan A, B, C: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=plan
Porta: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=porta
Reethi Rah: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=reethirah
SBD Block: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=sbdblock
Shell Shock: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=shellshock
Siventi: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=siventi
Vagebond Condensed / Normal / Extended: http://www.characters.nl/index.html?font=vagebond
 
Address
Statensingel 199
NL 6211-PR Maastricht
The Netherlands
 
Official website
http://www.characters.nl
 
RSS
http://www.characters.nl/rss/rss.xml
 
Fontblog
http://www.characters.nl/blog (loves Firefox, hates Internet Explorer)
 
My graphic design studio
http://www.stoerebinken.nl
 
My holding
http://www.creativeholding.com
 
Vizited.com
One of my creative projects
http://www.vizited.com
 
FlickR
Watch more artworx and photographs on my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/characters