TYPOMATICFONTS

Typo-Matic was established in 1996 by Uk based graphic designer Ian Swift. Swift graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1986 and joined The Face magazine and later Neville Brody's Studio in 1988. Early Fonts such as Block Bold and Bayer Bitmap were drawn in Fontastic, a bitmap font generator, and later using the program Swift contributed to Issue 1 of FUSE, an experimental publication and font package pioneered by Neville Brody and Font Shop. In 1990 Swift started his own graphic design practice Swifty-Grafix opening a studio in Coronet St, Hoxton Sq, London. Custom and bespoke typefaces were drawn in Aldus Freehand, a vector based program widely used before Illustrator was developed by Adobe. Swift's first foray into independent font publishing came in the form of Command Z, (1993) a pocket-sized printed book containing a floppy disc with 2 Postscript Type 1 fonts (Dolce Vita and Miles Ahead). More fonts followed which Swift used for his own use extensively in Straight No Chaser..

Also known as: Typo-Matic