Font Aid. A charitable endeavor organized by The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA).
Designers from all over the world contributed glyphs for collaborative typefaces to be sold with all proceeds going to the relief efforts in response to certain natural or humanitarian disasters. They are available for sale through the SoTA website.
Font Aid V: Made For Japan. Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, March 2011.
This typeface is made of glyphs representing Japan. It was created in order to raise funds to expedite relief efforts after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country.
Font Aid VI: Aster Affects. Hurricane Sandy, October 2012.
A typeface consisting entirely of asterisks and other star-inspired symbols. Created to support the Red Cross after Hurricane Sandy, which struck portions of the Caribbean, mid-Atlantic, and northeastern United States.
Font Aid VII: Here Comes the Sun. Typhoon Hayan, November 2013.
A typeface consisting of images based on the eight-rayed sun from the Philippine flag. To raise funds for the Philippine Red Cross, after the events of Typhoon Haiyan. For the Philippine people, the golden sun on their flag embodies their unity, freedom, democracy, and sovereignty — each ray of the sun representing one of the eight provinces involved in the country's 1896 revolution against Spain.