About Us

Australian Type Foundry™ [ATF] began in 2001 as a commercial outlet for the fonts of designer Wayne Thompson.

To date, Wayne has produced custom typefaces for Lego, Tourism Australia, Officeworks, the NRL, Holden and O’Brien Glass, and in 2016 developed ABCSans which is currently in widespread use across the national broadcaster’s digital and television networks. He also enjoys working for smaller clients such as a micro brewery who paid him in beer.

Wayne has a Masters degree in Typeface Design (MResTD) from the University of Reading, UK, the world’s most highly regarded type design program. From 2023, he is serving as a board member of ATypI.org.

Wayne’s aim is to always learn more about typography, and hopefully contribute an Aussie flavour to the world of type design. Wayne has never won any awards.

Our Services

• Custom typeface creation
• Logo, Wordmark and Brandmark creation
• Typographic identities
• Type modification (strictly under permission)
• Language extensions: Central European, Greek, Cyrillic
• Handlettering and hand-made typography
• Font licensing and purchasing consultancy
• In-house typographic training and workshops for your staff
• Typographic art direction and creative direction

About Designer Wayne Thompson

Fascinated by letters since he was a teenager, Wayne began with rub-down lettering and worked as a signwriter, photographer and journalist before settling into the design profession in the  – *ahem* – late 1980s. After many years as Art Director, Wayne started Australian Type Foundry™ in 2001 and works full-time as a type designer, handletterator (technical term) and typography educator. He’s been running the popular Type by Hand series of handlettering workshops for several years, punishing the nation with his lame jokes.

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