I have named the font “Makonde” after an tribal group in southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique that is well known for their intricate and semi-realistic wood carvings. The patterns that decorate the Makonde font...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Mafuta is a round, happy font, named for the Zulu word for “fat”. In tribal societies in Africa, where food was often scarce and almost never easily come by, it was considered desirable to...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
KubaApplique is a bold and exciting African font that makes use of the interplay of black and white shapes — reminiscent of the Kuba cloths that are made and used by the Bakuba tribe....
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Sanzettica is a very easy-to-read sans-serif typeface with a design principle of open, rounded characters with at least 3 weights being suitable for large bodies of text. Legibility is augmented by the quite large...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Pikelet is a misprinted grunge font ideally suited to headlines, poster and display. As well as irregularities of printing in the actual letters, the ordinary versions contain “print errors” around some of the letters,...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Marisco is Portuguese for shellfish. The font arose from the forms of classic tattoo types, especially those of mid-twentieth-century sailors, but it also has something of a nineteenth-century poster type flavor to it. Its...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
A simple, legible comic font that includes both lowercase and uppercase font families. Each have Regular, Italic and Bold as well as a large European character set. The Opentype uppercase family has autoligatures (accessible...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
The powers of the SparkyType and PizzaDude combine to bring a font straight from the future. Nine Thousand is dripping with computer energy and robotic precision.
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified January 9, 2021