font_designer: Anton Scholtz

The name African Gold is associated with Johannesburg, the “City of Gold”; (the Zulu name for Johannesburg is eGoli). The font was so named for two reasons: the intricate African patterns within the characters...

This African font is modern and fluid. Its name means “water” in the Zulu language, and like the deep rivers that flow through the African jungles, it contains few straight lines. Use it when...

Mafuta is a round, happy font, named for the Zulu word for “fat”. In tribal societies in Africa, where food was often scarce and almost never easily come by, it was considered desirable to...

I have named the font “Makonde” after an tribal group in southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique that is well known for their intricate and semi-realistic wood carvings. The patterns that decorate the Makonde font...

I named the font “Sangoma” after the traditional healers of the Southern African tribes. Sangomas often work by “throwing bones”. The shapes of the bones have suggested the shapes of the characters in the...

KubaApplique is a bold and exciting African font that makes use of the interplay of black and white shapes — reminiscent of the Kuba cloths that are made and used by the Bakuba tribe....

ZebraSkin is an exciting, contemporary display font, incorporating the distinctive markings of one of Africa’s most striking animals. One style is available: ZebraSkin Aarde, based on the Aarde Black font. It is best used...

This is the definitive standard African font. It combines wonderful readability with tremendous panache. The fact that it has a full character set (UPPER and lower case), all punctuation and all special characters, means...

Centric is a rounded and happy font. The circular design that covers the face of this font was inspired by the ripples made when a pebble is thrown into a pond. The outline shapes...