Chockablock is an homage to Charles Schulz’s lettering in the comic strip Peanuts. It’s not an exact match for Schulz’s work, but the inspiration is obvious, as is the designer’s love and respect for...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
A fun, informal font, drawn with a mouse, Chalk emulates the spontaneity of handwriting, but with a thick, bold flair reminiscent of a school chalk board. This was the designer’s first attempt at an...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Boller is based on handwriting found on the blueprints for the Jayhawk Theater in Kansas. Thomas Williams & Boller Bros. Architects are the only names found on the blueprints. The character set is extremely...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
Betabet was drawn using traditional serif fonts as a guideline. The scribbled style and serifs combine to make an unusual font. Betabet does not look like handwriting, but works well where handwriting or script...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This roly-poly, rollicking display font is based on a design from the 1946 book Blue print text book of sign and show card lettering by Charles Louis Henry Wagner, who seems to have had...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 15, 2024
This ultrabold headline font is basically patterned after the font Nubian Black, designed by Willard T. Sniffin for American Type Founders in the 1920s, but includes an unusual inline treatment of the caps. Named...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This unusual headline font is based on lettering found on a travel poster, advertising passage to Morocco on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée line, designer unknown, circa 1930. Both versions of this font include the complete Unicode...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
This delightfully playful font is based on a single-stroke pen font from the 1922 tome Heberling’s Basic Lettering, and elements of composition, color harmony, gilding, embossing-processes, etc. by Walter A. Heberling. Swoopy, loopy, but...