font_designer: David Kerkhoff

Jalebi font is quite like its namesake, the Indian deep-fried sweet. It is fat(tening), uneven, crunchy and addictive. Jalebi is an all caps font, but upper and lower case glyphs differ slightly and can...

In the German city of Bad Neuenahr you can visit a spa called Thermal Badehaus. This beautiful art deco building has an even more beautiful art deco lettering covering its facade. I had to...

Ruby Red is a playful font, made with ink and a brush. Ruby Red would look great in ads and packaging. Comes with a treasure trove of diacritics.

Liquid Embrace is a rough ‘n’ ready brush font. It was created using a Chinese calligraphy brush and Royal Blue Ink (I had run out of black…). Liquid Embrace is fat and in your...

Buttered Toast is something a lot of people enjoy every day; when I was working on this font I was hoping to create something similar: an uncomplicated font enjoyed by many. The resulting typeface...

Recently I have been watching some re-runs of Dexter. In season 1, Debra has a rough morning and complains she cannot make it through the day without eating a breakfast burrito. The name stuck,...

Cosmo Stitch is a very nice cartoonesque 3-D font with a couple of loose stitches thrown in for good measure. It is a rough-edged, uneven all-caps font, which would liven up packaging, headlines, posters...

Dragonblood is quite an unusual font: it was made with Parker ink and a Chinese fur brush. When all the glyphs had been vectorized, and I saw them in a text for the first...

Shaken, Not Stirred. A famous line from just about every James Bond movie (yes, we’re talking Martini-time). The font is also quite shaken (and not stirred). It looks like someone scrawled something onto paper,...