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Carpe Noctem  Font

Carpe Noctem (Latin for ‘Seize The Night’), was a bit of a surprise. Someone asked me if I could create a lower case for my Closet Skeleton font. I began working on it and lo and behold, a beautiful  font

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Shadowfield  Font

Shadowfield is a fantasy font which was inspired by the hand lettering on the Spiderwick movie posters (which itself was apparently based on Hand Skript One). Every glyph was drawn by hand, using a gel pen on 160 grams  paper.

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Celaraz  Font

Celaraz is a serif design with structural forms that pushes the stroke contrast. The idea evolved from Didone serif forms to have contrast remain visible and consistent on each character. To avoid a dark spot, several characters were adjusted  by

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Vincente  Font

Vincente is a contemporary but Didone-look serif with condensed proportion. Inspired by vintage iron works and antique botanical pictorial book. Very simple and orthodox letter forms with some charming accent such as can be seen in “y”. Sophisticated curves  but

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Gamboge  Font

Gamboge is a deep saffron to mustard yellow pigment which is extracted from a tree. Its name comes from gambogium, the latin word for the pigment. Gambogia font is a beautiful all caps typeface with a pre-war feeling to  it.

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Earworm  Font

An ‘Earworm’ is a catchy tune that keeps repeating itself in your head. I didn’t know this (in Holland (where I’m from), earworm (oorwurm) means earwig – you know, the animal). Earworm is a happy handmade font. It’s a  little

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Popty Ping  Font

Popty Ping is Welsh slang for microwave oven. It literally means ‘oven that goes ping’. Popty Ping was sort of based on an older font of mine called Jambo. It is a very happy cartoon font, ideal for children’s  book

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Phantom Peach  Font

This summer there is an abundance of peaches. However, every time I like to eat one, they’re gone. My kids love them, so that leaves me looking for phantom peaches. Phantom Peach is a very higgledy piggledy, fun (yet slightly

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Didonesque Ghost  Font

The extreme contrast in Didonesque Ghost makes for a highly fashionable style that is sure to capture attention whenever it is used. This family of 10 fonts will enhance any project that requires a touch of class. These fonts  turn

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Gwyner  Font

Gwyner is a strong Didone type design that contains sharp and clean characteristics. Gwyner contains 4 weights, 2 styles, along with an italic version of each weight and style. Published by TypomancerDownload  Gwyner

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Rigatoni  Font

Rigatoni is a didone display family with exceptional readability. Based on a German mid-century lettering specimen by Nerdinger, designer Alejandro Paul expanded the face into an extensive family, with 5 weights, italics, and a 2 weights stencil version. Its  tall