Apostrophic Labs

Foundry

Toronto, Canada · 1997–2003

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184

Families

207

Styles

264

Total versions

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About

A Toronto free-font site and collective, run by Frederic Nader until about 2003. The Labs published early freeware faces by a loose circle of contributors; this page archives the catalog — close to two hundred families on FontSpace, with over a million downloads.

Authorship is tracked per release, not per foundry: contributors kept their own credits, and each font page names who actually drew it.

Designers

Designers who released through Apostrophic Labs. Each keeps their own page and their own credits.

Frederic NaderRan the lab — editor and publisher of the catalog→Graham MeadeMajor contributor — Freebooter Script, Lane – Narrow, Booter, Charrington→

Links

FontSpace page→Original site (archived)→

RoleFoundry

LocationToronto, Canada

Active1997–2003

License mixacross 184 families — which way this catalog leans

Freeware 171 · 93%Commercial 0 · 0%Unknown 13 · 7%

Catalog

207 styles · one row per style, current version only.

Freebooter Script

Freebooter Script · Script · 2000

Freebooter Script

Freeware

Lane – Narrow

Lane · Sans-serif · 1999

Lane – Narrow

Freeware

Tribal · Display · 2001

Tribal

Unknown

Booter · Display · 2000

Booter

Freeware

Charrington · Serif · 1999

Charrington

Freeware

Futurex Transmaat

Futurex · Display · 2002

Futurex Transmaat

Unknown