Fred Smeijers is a Dutch type designer, who specializes in typographic research and development for product manufacturers. Among his typeface designs are Quadraat and Quadraat Sans (FontShop), Renard (The Enschedé Font Foundry), Arnhem, Fresco, and Sansa. The last three are available from OurType, the font-publishing label that he established with Rudy Geeraerts of FontShop Benelux. Fred Smeijers is the author of “Counterpunch“ and “Type Now“ published by Hyphen Press, London.