
R9 Type Design: A Canadian Type Foundry | High-Quality Retail & Custom Fonts
R9 Type+Design is a Vancouver-based independent type foundry from Canada. We specialize in retail fonts and custom typeface designs.
We are a Canadian type foundry
that crafts unique retail and custom fonts.
Our mission is to create typefaces that find
the perfect balance between form and function.
That's why we make sure our fonts are not only meticulously crafted, but also easy to use, and packed with features and options. Our collection, such as Alio™, Augmento™, Cubio™ Mono, Aldero™, Boxr™, Aqueo™, and Experimo™, are all carefully developed to meet our high standards, ensuring they will exceed yours.
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Experimo™ Display Sans Serif + Icons
Experimo™ is an experimental display sans serif font family that celebrates the unconventional contrast between round and rectangle shapes. This font family is loaded with font features and an extensive set of icons to extend its versatility. With its modern and futuristic feel, this playful and eye-catching typeface comes with 6 weights, a wide range of stylistic alternatives, and over 1,325 glyphs. Experimo™ also supports most Latin and Cyrillic languages.
We are honored that Experimo was selected for “Steven Heller's Font of the Month” column, where he praised its "eccentric" and versatile design. Read his full review on ilovetypography.com>>
Aqueo™ Cylindrical Sans Serif Fonts + Icons
Aqueo™ is a versatile display font family inspired by the sleek cylindrical wireframe of a water glass. This font family is loaded with font features and includes a set of essential UX/UI icons. Its one-sided round corners add a contemporary feel to this unique typeface, which comes in 6 weights, 12 styles, and over 1,350 glyphs each. We painstakingly drew a master set for each weight, ensuring the accuracy of every letterform. The font family features an extensive set of stylistic alternates to give your work two distinct personalities. While the standard uppercase set takes more traditional forms, the alternate uppercase set uses lowercase forms redrawn to the same height as the uppercase, offering a truly unorthodox and playful design. Find your next creative solution with Aqueo™!
Boxr™ Contemporary Rectangular Sans Serif + Icons
Boxr™ is a contemporary rectangular font family that finds the perfect balance between form and feel. This versatile sans serif is loaded with font features and an extensive set of icons. Named for its boxy, square shape, this versatile sans typeface features softened corners and connections to achieve a look that is both clean and corporate, yet warm and friendly. Boxr™ is an excellent choice for a variety of projects, including prints, packaging, editorial, and digital design.
Aldero™ – A Versatile Font Family
Aldero™ is a versatile Canadian geometric sans serif typeface that delivers two distinct looks in every font weight and style, offering double the looks and double the design potential. With over 1,100+ glyphs, this font family is ready for any project. Use the standard glyphs set for formal, corporate feel, or switch to the stylistic alternate set for a fun, friendly, and casual vibe.
Cubio™ Mono Hexagonal Fonts + Icons + Patterns
Cubio Mono is a monospace sans serif that comes with tons of font features like a Swiss army knife. It offers a vast toolkit to help you develop your creative modern design. This powerful font family not only supports most Latin-based languages, but also features over 1,500 glyphs, including type, icons, patterns, and box drawing tools. Cubio Mono is the perfect choice for a wide range of your modern print and digital design projects.
Augmento™– A Contemporary Rectangular Font Family
Augmento™ is a versatile contemporary sans serif typeface that sits on the sweet design spot between formal and casual. This extensive family offers designers the freedom to maintain visual consistency across an entire brand while expressing different moods and tones.
The Augmento Font Family comes from its three distinct subfamilies: Augmento Condensed, Augmento Normal, and Augmento Extended. With 3 widths, 6 weights and 36 styles, Augmento is a powerful toolkit for a variety of projects, from branding and editorial design to websites and packaging.
Alio™ Text, the Workhorse of the Alio Family
Alio Text is a versatile typeface designed for exceptional readability at any size. It works beautifully as body copy, display type, and everything in between. To deliver optimal legibility at small sizes, we re-engineered this font with a taller x-height, larger accents, and wider letter spacing.
The perfect choice for long-form content, books, and articles, Alio Text supports most Latin-based languages and Chinese PinYin, making it a powerful solution for a wide range of applications. If you need a go-to font that's functional, full of font features and stylish, Alio Text is for you.
Alio™ Rounded Font Family
Inspired by sleek sans serifs and flowing cursives, Alio™ font family features the best of both worlds. Its hybrid modular design gives you a wide range of alternates and options to play with. This rounded sans serif font allows your creativity to flow freely, enabling you to create a broad range of styles from minimalistic modern to decorative flourish. Alio comes with an extensive set of font features and ligatures, giving you the creative freedom to your design.