font_designer: Matthew Desmond

Retron

Retron font

Simultaneously futuristic and retro, Retron is perfectly named. Retron is a partially connected script – or is it a connected sans? Either way, it’s a strange, unique combination that works surprisingly well.

Invoice

Invoice font

Mixing the vertical to horizontal stroke weight ratio of a sans-serif font while adding serifs is the idea that inspired this face. The result is a typeface with unique display features that is also...

Gothico Antiqua

Gothico Antiqua font

Gothico Antiqua is the result of grunging up one of my early sans-serif type designs. It strangely works very well and looks authentic at small to medium settings.

Handegypt

Handegypt font

Handegypt resulted from playfully hand-rendering Egyptian style fonts from memory. Its playful nature is ideally suited for whimsical designs and anything aimed at children.

Desmond Text

Desmond Text font

Desmond Text is a highly readable and quirky serif face with a tall x-height and glyphic serifs. It is easy to read small, but with pleasing details that shine at display sizes.

ER9

ER9 font

Based on a rounded square, ER9 is a very versatile futuristic feeling typeface. Its monoline design allows for easy customization for headlines and logos.

Beat

Beat font

Beat is a quirky OCR-inspired face with a rounded, retro-electronic feel. All of the stem weights were drawn at random, but the ensuing chaos works amazingly well.

Basis

Basis font

Basis is a bitmap font family which is happy being used at both small and large sizes. Designed as a 9 point bitmap face for the web, it offers different styles than most normal...

Curbdog

Curbdog font

Curbdog is a bold, playful display face with light horizontals and curved terminals in the italics.

Mercado

Mercado font

Mercado is a versatile stencil font family with 3 styles and 3 weights of each style. I was inspired by local boutique supermarkets to create a stencil font family with both upper and lowercase...