about the foundry

Type Invaders was founded in 2000 as a small independent font foundry focused on the design, production and sales of original and high quality typefaces. Its activities include:

• Development of new typefaces, on exclusive or non-exclusive basis
• Modification of existing typefaces
• Expansion of existing typefaces by adding more weights or variants
• Expansion of existing typefaces by expanding the characterset to support additional languages, i.e. Scandinavian, Baltic, Eastern European, Turkish, Russian, Slavic or Greek
• Conversion of artwork to fonts
• Custom lettering
• Conversion of font formats for use on different operating systems

about its founder

Paul van der Laan graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Design degree in Graphic and Typographic Design from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He graduated again in 2000 at the postgraduate course Type Design and Typography of the same institute.

Since then he operates from a studio near the seaside in The Hague as an independent typographic designer. Besides designing type and typography for companies like The Enschedé Font Foundry, Studio Dumbar and House Industries he is a teacher in type design at the Royal Academy of Art. He has also given workshops and lectures about type design at various schools and conferences, including the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Basel, Konstfack in Stockholm, Die Graphische in Wien, Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, ECAL in Lausanne, and Typo Berlin and ATypI conferences.