Positype

Positype is an independent type foundry founded by Neil Summerour in 2000. Operating out of a home studio in a small, quiet suburb in Georgia, one of the more quietly ambitious type libraries in the world has been built. Over 210 typeface families and counting. Independently owned, creatively directed, and selectively built with a small circle of trusted collaborators whose contributions have shaped some of the foundry’s most important work.

All of it rests on a simple conviction: that typefaces should be useful and reliable, and should carry genuine craft, not only in the broad strokes but in the details most people never consciously notice. The subtleties of mass, the warmth of an imperfect curve, the decisions that separate a font that works from one that resonates. These aren't abstractions. They’re the job.

The catalog spans the full spectrum: from understated workhorse text faces to expressive display families, refined serifs to complex scripts. The retail library covers Latin, Arabic, Khmer, Thai, Korean, Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, and more. Designing across writing systems at this scale, as an independent foundry, is unusual. It demands a deep, sustained commitment to research, consultation, and technical precision across every script. That commitment is what every release is built on.

Custom typeface work has included projects for the NFL, the New York Jets, RedVentures, Oculus/Meta, Facebook, Victoria's Secret, L’Oreal, Revlon, the Girl Scouts of the USA, the US Postal Service, the BBC, David Bowie, Panera, Audible, and others. Each brought its own constraints, its own requirements, its own opportunities.