font_designer: David Kerkhoff

Bloemgracht

Bloemgracht font

In the old Amsterdam neighborhood of ‘De Jordaan’, you will find a canal called Bloemgracht (Flower Canal). For many years, a coffee store called Schildmeijer could be found here. Their paper coffee bags and...

Mandolin

Mandolin font

Mandolin is a handmade ‘Didone-ish’ font with a bit of a rough edge. Mandolin was created using a wonderful (and expensive) pen I found in Canterbury, England. I am aware that this information isn’t...

Douceur

Douceur font

Douceur (pleasantness in French) is an all caps, serif typeface with a flourish. It was created by hand in one go: no sketches, no try-outs. The font comes in two styles: regular (outlined) and...

Andorra Script

Andorra Script font

Andorra Script is a hand written font – it is very legible, quite elegant (in an informal way) and useful. Andorra Script comes with all diacritics.

Carambola

Carambola font

Carambola is a beautiful art deco typeface based on several posters from the 1920’s. It is an elegant and stylish font with generous curves and sharp ends. Carambola is multilingual and comes in all...

Dreadnought

Dreadnought font

With Dreadnought I go back to my roots: one of my very first fonts was a scary brush typeface called Face Your Fears – a very popular typeface with horror lovers, thrill seekers and...

Black Bamboo

Black Bamboo font

Black Bamboo is a beautiful plant. My father in law, who recently passed away, loved it and had a prized specimen growing in his garden. This font was named in his honour. Black Bamboo...

Bandolina

Bandolina font

Bandolina is a fun, hand drawn typeface. Didone-ish, off-key, jumpy and full of happy glyphs. It comes with a bagful of quirkiness, a pinch of eccentricity and a full range of diacritics.

Jambo

Jambo font

Jambo (‘hello’ in Swahili) is a cute and bouncy typeface. I guess you can say that it is didone-ish in nature, but comic would also be an apt description. Jambo has generous curves, swirls...

Pundak

Pundak font

A long time ago, I used to work in a Pundak near the Dead Sea. It was a typical halfway restaurant slash gas station and you could order the usual dishes: fries, schnitzel, salad....