Peter Biľak

Born in Czechoslovakia, lives in the Netherlands. Works in the field of editorial, graphic, and type design, teaches part time at the Royal Academy in The Hague. Started Typotheque in 1999, Dot Dot Dot in 2000, and Indian Type Foundry in 2009. Besides fonts at Typotheque he has also designed fonts for FontShop International (e.g. FF Eureka). Member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).

• Fonts (36)

  • Body Type
  • Fedra Arabic
  • Fedra Hindi
  • Fedra Mono
  • Fedra Mono Screen
  • Fedra Sans
  • Fedra Sans Alt
  • Fedra Sans Armenian
  • Fedra Sans Condensed
  • Fedra Sans Condensed Alt
  • Fedra Sans Display 1
  • Fedra Sans Display 2
  • Fedra Sans Screen
  • Fedra Serif A
  • Fedra Serif B
  • Fedra Serif Display
  • Fedra Serif Phonetic
  • Fedra Serif Screen
  • Greta Display
  • Greta Display Narrow
  • Greta Grande
  • Greta Grande Narrow
  • Greta Sans
  • Greta Sans Compressed
  • Greta Sans Condensed
  • Greta Sans Extended
  • Greta Symbol
  • Greta Text
  • Greta Text Narrow
  • History
  • Irma
  • Irma Slab
  • Irma Text
  • Irma Text Round
  • Irma Text Slab
  • Julien

• Articles (41)

  • Designing Type Systems
  • Type design competitions
  • Julien — the making of
  • We don’t need new fonts…
  • Conceptual Type?
  • In the Name Of the Father (or the troubles with L-caron)
  • Font hinting
  • The history of History
  • Methods of Distribution: Digital Fonts and the Global Market
  • Méthodes de distribution : les caractères numériques sur le marché mondial
  • Jan van Toorn, Critical Practice
  • Ways of Seeing, book review
  • A View of Latin Typography in Relationship to the World
  • Family planning, or how type families work
  • What is Typography?
  • 화이트큐브의 그래픽디자인 / Graphic Design in the White Cube
  • À la recherche d’une théorie générale du dessin de caractères
  • Kyoorius DesignYatra 2006, review of a design conference
  • Graphic Design in the White Cube
  • Designing Type — book review
  • In search of a comprehensive type design theory
  • Falta de diseño, exceso de diseño y volver a diseñar
  • Tipografía de los noventa. La demistificación y re-mistificación
  • Sandberg, Designer and Director of Stedelijk
  • En busca de una teoría completa del diseño tipográfico
  • Historia de una fuente nueva
  • Acerca de Fedra
  • Martin Majoor feature
  • Experimental typography. Whatever that means.
  • History of a new font (notes on designing Fedra Serif)
  • Why Not Associates?2
  • The Book of Probes
  • Restart: New Systems in Graphic Design
  • Maeda@media
  • Contemporary Dutch graphic design: an insider/outsider’s view
  • Dutch type design
  • Martin Majoor, type designer
  • Karel Martens, graphic designer
  • Letterror, designers and programmers
  • Max Kisman, graphic designer
  • Irma Boom, book designer

• Books (19)

  • Greta Sans specimen
  • Irma type specimen
  • Pocket calendar / sketchbook 2012
  • Fedra, type specimen
  • History, type specimen
  • Brioni, type specimen
  • Greta, type specimen
  • Typotheque specimen (hardcover) No.7
  • The 100-Year Calendar
  • Masculine / Feminine
  • Typotheque Monthly Planner
  • Multicolour sketchbook
  • Dot Dot Dot 12
  • Jigsaw poster & Typotheque newsletters
  • Dot Dot Dot 11
  • Dot Dot Dot 9
  • Dot Dot Dot 8
  • Dot Dot Dot 7
  • Dot Dot Dot 3

• T-shirts (2)

  • ‘A piece of text’ t-shirt
  • CMYK series (4 t-shirts)