Campotype, (founded 2008) is an independent type foundry in Indonesia. Campotype come from two words: campoong (buginese) and type (English). Campoong, mean kampung (Bahasa Indonesia term.) or village (English). Campotype's complete meaning is font village.
The Campotype foundry has been developed in riches of Indonesian culture. Besides having a lot of historic relics such as Borobudur, Prambanan, Tongkonan, Indonesia also has many diverse arts and traditional culture, such as ceremonies, dances, clothes, language, traditional literacy, and various kinds of graphic art.
Associated with the local language, Indonesia has no less than 700 diverse local languages[1], some of which have traditional literacy[2] like Batak (Abugida), Rancong and Incung, the Kerinci's Letters (Jambi), Literacy Rajang (Bengkulu), Javanese (Hanacaraka), Literacy Sasak and the Balinese, Sundanese (Kaganga), Buginese (Lontara Pallawa), and others. Currently, only three of those has officially registered in Unicode as basic encoding of digital fonts.
Besides developing modern typefaces, Campotype has also taken roles in digitizing traditional literature as one important part in preserving these kinds of characters. As a type laboratory they affect directly and indirectly in any creative process through the campotype's typography and other independent typographer in the country.
According to Luc Devroye[3], Campotype is an Indonesian foundry run by Andi Aw Masry (b. 1970, Makassar), a type designer from Makassar. Masry made the connected script face FmiringCampotypeOne (2008), the Lontara Bugis script face OgieCappo Campotype (2008)[4] and the angry typefaces Rambat Campotype (2008) and Creator Campotype Smcp (2008). In 2011, he went commercial at MyFonts.