Souplesse
Souplesse (flexibility in French) is a nice, uncomplicated typeface; happy beyond words, yet with a bit of a bite. The glyphs have a rough edge, yet remain very legible. Souplesse comes with a bagful...
font_designer: David Kerkhoff
Keswick
Keswick is a beautiful small town in the English Lake District. It is a good place to hang out for a while and explore the surrounding National Park. During your stay you could visit...
Sleepy Time
Sleepy time… Ah, if only your kids would go to bed, close their eyes and drift off to sleep. This font was created when my son had some problems falling asleep: he’d cry, he...
Zeebonk
Zeebonk (literally ‘Sea Chunk’) is Dutch for a sailor – in particular, a large, pickled and brined, seven-seas-been-there-done-that specimen. The font itself brings back memories of the outrageous tattoos those same ‘zeebonken’ used to...
Pusekatt
Pusekatt means Pussycat in Norwegian. It was finished on a rather gloomy monday, which reminded me of Norway and I just like cats. There you have it: the naming of fonts explained. It ain’t...
Psycho Killer
Psycho Killer is a song by the Talking Heads. It is also one of my favorite songs, so I figured I’d name a font after it. Psycho Killer is a script font; it contains...
Maduki
This time the font’s name is meaningless. Maduki doesn’t mean ‘cool’ in Swahili, nor does it mean ‘cup cake’ in Sranantongo. It is just a nice name. Maduki is a playful font, created with...
Rum Doodle
The Ascent of Rum Doodle is short story written in 1956 by W. E. Bowman. The story is a parody of the many non-fictional mountaineering chronicles and tells the adventures of a group of...
Jubileum
Some time ago, I found myself in a clinic with my wife: at the time she was 20 weeks pregnant and had to do an ultrasound. To pass the time, I leafed through some...
Fiebiger Eins
Franz Fiebiger (1880 – 1932) was an Austrian painter and designer who was associated with the Vienna Secession. In 1908 he created a beautiful poster for the Kaiserjubiläums Möbel Ausstellung – a furniture exhibition...