font_designer: David Kerkhoff

Tobu means ‘to jump’ in Japanese. I came across a haiku by Matsuo Bashô wich reads: The old pond… a frog jumps in… the sound of water (Furu ike ya… kawazu tobikomu… mizu no...

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

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...

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 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 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.

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....