font_designer: Chank Diesel

Skippy Sharp

Skippy Sharp font

Skippy Sharp was drawn by Skippy McFadden in 1995 and faxed to Mister Chank Diesel. Chank completed the character set, added extensive kerning and created a very friendly, informal marker handwriting font. The font...

Laundry

Laundry font

The “Laundry Fonts” family contains 3 fonts, Lambrettista, Laundrette, and Luncheonette. These are some of Chank’s earliest font creations, and all were inspired by the vintage Lambretta scooter logo. The first font in the...

Lavaman

Lavaman font

Lavaman was created by Chank Diesel in 1995 as a custom font for the Cartoon Network’s Space Ghost Coast to Coast web site. This font represents the printed voice of the talk show’s surly...

Mantisboy

Mantisboy font

Screeech! Ack! Ack! Mantisboy was created by Chank Diesel in 1995 as a custom font for the Cartoon Network’s Space Ghost Coast to Coast web site. This font represents the printed voice of the...

Moonshine

Moonshine font

Chank created this rough-n-tough, deconstructed grunge-serif font in 1993 for CAKE Magazine. “Something about the crude nature of this font makes me think of hillbillies,” says Chank. “And everybody knows hillbillies love moonshine!” Comes...

Ribjoint

Ribjoint font

Created by Chank in 1992, Ribjoint was Chank’s first attempt at creating a Egyptian, cursive font on the computer. Writing cursive with a pencil sure is easy, but getting all the letters to link...

Cosmic

Cosmic font

The Cosmic font is inspired by a Slurpee Chank drank in 1976. “It was cold, it made my tongue pink, and it made my brain hurt,” says Chank. He converted it from memory to...

Crusti

Crusti font

In 1993, Chank designed Crusti, Crustier, Crustiest and Crusti Wacky to use in CAKE, a fanzine that celebrated grunge music. With a D.I.Y. ethic, inspiration from the likes of Nirvana, and a copier at...

Eatwell

Eatwell font

Formerly known as Eatpoo, Chank found it ironic that the first place he saw this font family in use was on the grocery bags for the local food co-ops. He thought it was funny...

Jawbox

Jawbox font

In 1995, when indie rock hipness was just reaching its pique, Chank was really into Jawbox, a post-punk band from DC. It was their music he was listening to when he made this font...