Fonts from Device.

Device

Device Fonts is the font arm of Rian Hughes’ Device studio, operating out of Ealing Common, London. An early contributor to FontShop’s FontFont range, Device Fonts was launched in 1997 to carry Hughes’ growing library. It has released over 200 original typefaces covering more than 1000 individual weights, including custom designs for clients as diverse as Mac User, 2000AD and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Fonts from Device.

Rian Hughes has created an eclectic range of fonts over the last 25 years, from the functional and versatile bestsellers Korolev and Paralucent to scripts, text families, exotic headline faces, and fonts so peculiar even he can’t think of a use for them. 

Meet the designer.

Designer, illustrator, comic artist, writer and typographer

Rian Hughes

Rian Hughes is a graphic designer, illustrator, comic artist, writer and typographer. Releasing his first fonts in 1993 through FontShop, he has gone on to build a versatile library over 30 years at his own foundry, Device. He has published two experimental novels, XX and The Black Locomotive (Picador/Overlook Press) which use design and typography to extend the narrative. His illustrations have appeared in magazines in the UK, US and Japan, and he has written and drawn comics for 2000AD and Batman: Black and White. For DC Comics, Marvel and others he has designed hundreds of logos, collected in Logo a Logo (Korero Press).  Other publications include Rayguns and Rocketships (vintage SF book cover art) and the Lifestyle Illustration and Custom Lettering series, while his comic strips are collected in Yesterday’s Tomorrows and his burlesque portraits in Soho Dives, Soho Divas. 

Monotype Fonts

Device Fonts are included in Monotype Fonts.