font_foundry: Chank
Cocaine
Chank worked with Josh Eshbach, an intern from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, to create Cocaine as the Chank Font of the Month for November 2000. Inspired by Speedball type designs of the...
Yellabelly
Being a lefty makes it challenging to write in cursive. Unlike righthanders who pull the pencil across the page, lefties must push the pencil as they write. As a result, the letterforms created by...
Badoni
“Grunge Typography? I invented it!” claims Chank Diesel. Badoni was created in 1993 for use in CAKE, a fanzine that reveled in grunge music. As creative director of CAKE, Chank wanted the magazine’s design...
Skippy Sharp
Skippy Sharp was drawn by Skippy McFadden in 1995 and faxed to Mister Chank Diesel. Chank completed the character set, added extensive kerning and created a very friendly, informal marker handwriting font. The font...
Space Toaster
What are your super powers? Space Toaster was created by Chank Diesel in 1995 as a custom font for the Cartoon Network’s “Space Ghost Coast to Coast” web site. This font represents the printed...
Thymesans
Thymesans was one of Chank’s earliest fonts, created way back in 1994 for CAKE Magazine. Sometimes it’s got serifs, sometimes it doesn’t. “What a weird and fickle futuristic font!” says Chank. Emancipate your designs...
Woodrow
If Mister Frisky is a bit too kooky for your project, try Woodrow. The big floppy serifs and hand-drawn strokes give this font very “Chanky” characteristics. Woodrow is bold, bouncy, fun and legible like...
Laundry
The “Laundry Fonts” family contains 3 fonts, Lambrettista, Laundrette, and Luncheonette. These are some of Chank’s earliest font creations, and all were inspired by the vintage Lambretta scooter logo. The first font in the...
Lavaman
Lavaman was created by Chank Diesel in 1995 as a custom font for the Cartoon Network’s Space Ghost Coast to Coast web site. This font represents the printed voice of the talk show’s surly...