font_foundry: Chank

Woodrow

Woodrow font

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...

Badoni

Badoni font

“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 font

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...

Laundry

Laundry font

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 font

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...

Mantisboy

Mantisboy font

Screeech! Ack! Ack! Mantisboy 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...

Moonshine

Moonshine font

Chank created this rough-n-tough, deconstructed grunge-serif font in 1993 for CAKE Magazine. “Something about the crude nature of this font makes me think of hillbillies,” says Chank. “And everybody knows hillbillies love moonshine!” Comes...

Ribjoint

Ribjoint font

Created by Chank in 1992, Ribjoint was Chank’s first attempt at creating a Egyptian, cursive font on the computer. Writing cursive with a pencil sure is easy, but getting all the letters to link...

Chub

Chub font

Chub was inspired by and dedicated to: Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage, J Otto, Ben & Jerry, Spunk, Chuck Jones, Run DMC, those teenage kids with their big baggy pants, French Market coffee, George Clinton,...

Cosmic

Cosmic font

The Cosmic font is inspired by a Slurpee Chank drank in 1976. “It was cold, it made my tongue pink, and it made my brain hurt,” says Chank. He converted it from memory to...