font_designer: David Kerkhoff

Au Revoir

Au Revoir font

Au Revoir – saying goodbye is one of the hardest things in life, but in a sense it is also beautiful: there is a promise of seeing each other again, as ‘Au revoir’ literally...

Kokomo

Kokomo font

Kokomo is a beautiful handmade contoured font – which was drawn with an old-fashioned steel pen and Chinese ink. The open, shadowed letters are great for posters and ads. Kokomo comes with extensive language...

Artful Dodger

Artful Dodger font

The Artful Dodger is a character in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Dickens wrote his books in the Victorian Era, which also gave birth to a beautiful and extensively used typeface called Clarendon. The typeface...

Castanea

Castanea font

The chestnut (“castanea”) is one of my favorite trees. I used to collect the chestnuts and made chestnut-figurines out of them, using bamboo sate skewers. Castanea font is a calligraphic typeface with an uneven...

Vox Populi

Vox Populi font

Vox Populi was modeled after an early 17th century Latin translation of a Greek epos. It is a cursive typeface with a rough edge to it – not unlike the rather decayed original. Vox...

Mama Bear

Mama Bear font

Mama Bear is a playful, neat, children’s book typeface. It is cute and happy, very legible and comes with extensive language support, including the ‘schwa’ glyph found in a handful of languages. Mama Bear...

Samhain

Samhain font

Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. There is no set date, but normally it is held around the end of October and beginning...

Himmelblau

Himmelblau font

Himmelblau is a Jugendstil font based on a poster from 1902 made by the ‘Künstlerbund Hagen’. This group of Austrian artists was formed in the late 19th century and was named after the owner...

Viareggio

Viareggio font

Viareggio is a city in Northern Tuscany, Italy. Viareggio is famous for its carnival and its mascot, the clown Burlamacco (designed by Uberto Bonetti in 1930). Viareggio font was based on the hand lettering...

Fantastique

Fantastique font

Fantastique is a bit of a sloppy 3D font: the outline is wobbly and the glyphs are uneven. Because of its imperfectness, it is ideal to create posters, advertisements and the like, because sloppy...