Type.lol – Browse 800 independent type foundries, 14k typefaces

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I started type.lol in 2015 with a friend as a simple list of independent type foundries — basically a styled airtable doc. I'm a designer and I kept running into the same problem: I'd want to explore type beyond the usual distributors, end up with 30 tabs open, and lose track of what I'd already looked at. The list helped but it wasn't enough.I've since rebuilt it from scratch as a proper app. It now indexes 800+ foundries from 61 countries, 14k typefaces, and 1,500 designers. No signup required to browse. No ads, no sales, no commissions — it embeds actual foundry websites in iframes so traffic goes directly to them.You can browse by carousel, list, virtualized table, force-directed graph (

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