font_category: decorative

Chittenden

Chittenden font

Chittenden is a painstakingly hand-crafted, hand-drawn decorative font that get its inspiration from classic serif fonts, and adds some double-stroked panache of its own.

OL Egiziano

OL Egiziano font

Sansarah

Sansarah font

Sansarah began as a custom type commission for Columbia College, Chicago. Sarah Faust, photographer and designer on the school’s Creative Services staff, had been contributing her own handwriting to the brand. When it came...

Vandermark

Vandermark font

Vandermark began as a simple daydream of what became the ‘n’ glyph. I considered the elegant balance of a terminal stroke that would never join its supporting stem. The premise was simple, but further...

Kurly

Kurly font

I was working on an unrelated job with curls and wondered how I could apply them to a font. Well, here it is, all pair-kerned. A little silly but fun.

Soap

Soap font

Soap is a captivating unicase headliner which looks like Cooper Black but even smoother. You’d think the original typeface was laid-back and cool enough, but Soap takes it to the next level. It’s spaced...

Cusp

Cusp font

Cusp is a display font that was initially inspired by austere Art Deco lettering. After the capitals were refined, then the lowercase was designed with a bit of techno flair. From these basic letterforms...

Everafter

Everafter font

There are no straight lines in Everafter. The vectors were all drawn and tweaked by hand (and mouse) for a softened, wobbly appearance. The result is a naive serif type that doesn’t take itself...

Fatty

Fatty font

Fatty is based on the lettering in a series of silkscreened posters by my friend Chris May. Upon transforming it into a full-fledged digital font, I developed alternate letterforms for the lowercase. The bloated...

Lump

Lump font

Lump started as a series of hand-drawn buttons I made for a Lumpen event in 2005. This digital version keeps the linework loose and the corners choppy. Use Lump wherever you need a hefty...