font_foundry: Typephases

Merry Mob

Merry Mob font

A gestual drawing of little people that will produce an instant crowd, gang or any combination of folks you need.

Entestats

Entestats font

Nearly a hundred human heads, in three dingbat files. The whole series comes from the sketchbook: the original ink drawings were then digitized and refined to create vector outlines. Rather than perfectly smooth, geometrical...

Genteta

Genteta font

In the tradition of the stock cuts that printing type foundries offered as metal, these spot illustrations remind you —for their look and technique— of vintage publications like victorian age newspapers and magazines. Similar...

Joy Of Reading

Joy Of Reading font

The theme in these illustrations is the pleasure of books and reading wherever you are, at any time. This series collects illustrations of people enjoying the pleasure of reading in the most diverse places...

Ombres

Ombres font

Very close thematically and in style to the rest of our “whimbats” (the Absurdies, Bizarries, Illustries, Genteta and Whimsies series), the Ombres contain a number of peculiar silhouettes and illustrations of people that range...

Whimsies

Whimsies font

The Whimsies series goes further in our fixation with invented little people: the three dingbats of this series contain mostly imaginary situations, drawn first with ink on paper. All but a tiny fraction of...

Absurdies

Absurdies font

Absurdies is a trilogy of pictorial typefaces with lots of mischief, fun, weirdness, black humour and amusement. It includes 143 digitized illustrations. You will find many inexplicable behaviours, madmen, strange occupations, absurd and…

Bizarries

Bizarries font

This series, with 104 illustrations in three files, collects original ink drawings with absurdities, bizarre people, whimsical personalities and risky behaviors! There is a very peculiar sense of narrative in the sucession of characters,...

Capsbats

Capsbats font

Everything your head should not be or would rather not do is here. A complete collection of 225 illustrations (plus bonus shadows) in three fonts. The illustrations collected in the Capsbats keep the free-flowing...

Illustrissims

Illustrissims font

76 illustrations of vintage-inspired characters, most of them drawn from imagination, in the tradition of metal stock cuts or woodtype vignettes. Illustrissims is offered as a free sampler of our illustration style. Its themes...