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Life & fun · August 5, 2014

Lost Type Co-Op

Pay-What-You-Want Font Foundry

Lost Type Co-Op launched on August 5, 2014 with 102 votes, #289 of 2,208 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

What it does

The two sub-families of Dotties (Vanilla and Chocolate) are humanist typefaces with a twist. Mixing the charm of hand-painted signs with the utility of a digital typeface, the Dotties fonts fuse personality with performance, making them ideal for use in headlines, text and logotypes. Prospectus Pro is a new and bold contemporary serif typeface in 48 styles, designed by Dave Bailey, and available exclusively from The Lost Type Co-op. Try the fonts yourself on the mini-site here ! Prospectus is a new and bold contemporary serif typeface in 12 styles, designed by Dave Bailey, and available exclusively from The Lost Type Co-op. Try the fonts yourself on the mini-site here ! A serif typeface in…from losttype.com

Pricing, as stated on its site

Free tier, paid plans — Lost Type Co-Op is a pay-what-you-want font foundry. Pricing details are not specified on the available pages, but the 'pay-what-you-want' model indicates a freemium approach where fonts can be obtain

checked September 2026 · prices change

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