Speciality type design and brand identities
built in Dundee

Lobotype is a specialist type foundry in Dundee, crafting original fonts, bespoke lettering, and strategic brand identities. We collaborate with forward-thinking businesses across Scotland and beyond to build memorable visual identities through typography.

Led by an experienced Tayside typographer, Mike Brown, Lobotype blends traditional craftsmanship with modern design thinking; delivering impactful logo design in Dundee and expressive, commercially-ready typefaces.

Creative Services

From concept to execution, Lobotype offers a full range of typography-led design services for ambitious brands.

Typeface design
& font creation

Custom typefaces designed for brands, publications, and digital platforms.

  • Bespoke font design

  • Retail font development

  • Typeface licensing

  • Variable font solutions

Expert font design in Scotland creating unique, scalable type systems for you.

A grid display of sans-serif font glyphs and character codes for typography design.
A grid display of sans-serif font glyphs and character codes for typography design.

Brand identity
and logo design

Strategic brand building, rooted in typography, to help you to stand out and built to last.

  • Logo design in Dundee and across Tayside

  • Brand identity systems

  • Typography-led branding

  • Typographic strategy

Memorable and distinctive brand building in Dundee with a typographic edge.

Custom design
and illustration

A selection of Lobotype's illustrations.
A selection of Lobotype's illustrations.

Helping you define a strong visual voice through graphic design and illustrations.

  • Editorial illustration

  • Publication Design

  • Advertising campaigns

  • Custom lettering and more


Custom graphics built in Dundee for businesses of all sizes and types.

About Lobotype

Lobotype is a Dundee design company, specialising in font making, brand building and helping you with creative solutions.

The name is a play on the word logotype which is another name for a word-mark in branding (a logo that is made up from letters). We work with ambitious start-ups and organisations ready to take the next creative step

What our customers say

Discover what our clients think about our service. How can we help you?

Whenever we need any graphic design work this is our first stop. Check out Lobotype.

Mike Hannigan, Brighthook Media

Mike Hannigan founder of Brighthook Media.
Mike Hannigan founder of Brighthook Media.

Fantastic service, excellent value, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Lobotype.

Marie Storrie, Storrie Steadings

★★★★★
★★★★
★★★★

Our custom typeface has become the cornerstone of our brand. Highly recommended for font design in Dundee.

Gary founder of Bodydisciple sports wear.
Gary founder of Bodydisciple sports wear.

Gaz Brown, Bodydisciple

Explore our fonts in our shop

These are some of highlighted typefaces inspired by the history of Dundee and Tayside.

Outfar
Outfar title card learn more about this typeface by Lobotype.
Outfar title card learn more about this typeface by Lobotype.
Bellarain handwritten font. Download now from Lobotype.
Bellarain handwritten font. Download now from Lobotype.

POW! Right in the eye, baby. OUTFAR hits hard!. This ain't for the scared.

Sidlaw Sans

A sans serif display font, for maximum impact. Great for headlines.

Bellarain

Hand-drawn hip, swingin' like a groovy scribble from your coolest dog.

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The BodyDisciple fitness brand logo featuring bold white text with a grey halo icon above it on a black background.
The BodyDisciple fitness brand logo featuring bold white text with a grey halo icon above it on a black background.
Energy Skills Partnership logo featuring connected square nodes and the slogan powering the future.
Energy Skills Partnership logo featuring connected square nodes and the slogan powering the future.
Dundee and Angus College official logo with gray D&A initials on a black background.
Dundee and Angus College official logo with gray D&A initials on a black background.
Discover Work logo featuring a lowercase font and smiling face icons on a black background.
Discover Work logo featuring a lowercase font and smiling face icons on a black background.
Gardyne Theatre logo with grey sans-serif typography.
Gardyne Theatre logo with grey sans-serif typography.
Service Design Academy logo featuring white and grey text with sda.ac.uk website link on a black background.
Service Design Academy logo featuring white and grey text with sda.ac.uk website link on a black background.
Bright Hook logo featuring grey text for professional video and drone services on a black background.
Bright Hook logo featuring grey text for professional video and drone services on a black background.
Storries Scottish Steadings logo featuring a rustic house and pine trees silhouette.
Storries Scottish Steadings logo featuring a rustic house and pine trees silhouette.
McIntyre Properties real estate agency logo in white text on a grey circular background.
McIntyre Properties real estate agency logo in white text on a grey circular background.
Memory Media logo features a stylized hand crossing its fingers, symbolizing hope and good luck
Memory Media logo features a stylized hand crossing its fingers, symbolizing hope and good luck