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Wood Bonnet Antique No7 Font - Image 1

Wood Bonnet Antique No7  Font

Wood Bonnet Antique No.7 is based on real vintage wood type blocks from Switzerland. The very distressed letters give a warm analogue vintage charm on printing. The font offers up to four glyph variations of all the Latin base letters,

Buckthorn Font - Image 3

Buckthorn  Font

Buckthorn is a genus of about 110 species of shrubs and small trees, native to North America and Asia. Its uses are varied: it is used for dye, oil, printing ink and oil. That concludes the botany class for  today,

Smooth Brushings Font - Image 4

Smooth Brushings  Font

When I was painting this font, I suddenly had the movie Cool Runnings (1993, directed by Jon Turteltaub) in my head. I had to name the font, so I came up with Smooth Brushings. Of course, this font has nothing

Scurvy Dog Font - Image 5

Scurvy Dog  Font

Aye, me lovelies, this be Scurvy Dog, a grand font! The letters were etched into a dead man’s chest with a blunt rapier, pickled in brine and covered in spew. Ye could be using this crafty penmanship for yer  logs

Sushi Bar Font - Image 6

Sushi Bar  Font

Since I am still in a Japanese mood, I decided to name this font after my favourite pastime in Japan: hunting for the smallest, nicest sushi bar in town. After all, there’s just nothing like eating freshly made sushi  and

Darker Marker Font - Image 7

Darker Marker  Font

Darker Marker is just what the name suggests: I found a very big fat marker in a local stationary store, bought it, came home and went to work on this font. Darker Marker is a very clear, very easy  to

Sanseki Font - Image 8

Sanseki  Font

The term Sanseki (Japanese for Three [Brush] Traces) is used to describe three famous Heian period calligraphers: Yaseki, Gonseki and Saseki. Not that I would ever dream of comparing my messy brush-work with theirs, but the name stuck and  I

Brush Crush Font - Image 9

Brush Crush  Font

I bought a few new pencils and I tried them out using Chinese ink and quality French watercolor paper. The result is Brush Crush – a very nice brush font. Brush Crush would look perfect on packaging, book covers, posters

Boris Brush Font - Image 10

Boris Brush  Font

Boris is my son: he was born on January 7th and he is as cute as can be. Boris Brush font is a very loud, very useful brush typeface, which I created using some fine-haired brushes and black paint.  It

Coal Brush Font - Image 11

Coal Brush  Font

Coal Brush is a bit of a misleading name. It looks as though it was made with a brush, but it was, in fact, made with a almost dried out old marker pen. But a font named ‘dried out  old

Wild Bunch Font - Image 12

Wild Bunch  Font

The Wild Bunch, also known as the Doolin–Dalton Gang, was a gang of outlaws that terrorized Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory during the 1890s. They robbed banks, killed lawmen and held up trains. Of course its members were  hunted

Katzenjammer Font - Image 13

Katzenjammer  Font

Katzenjammer is a German word meaning ‘Cat’s Wail’ – it is used to describe a hangover. Katzenjammer font is a slightly eroded, squarish typeface, which would be ideal for headlines, packaging, posters and websites. This all caps font comes  with

1509 Leyden Font - Image 14

1509 Leyden  Font

This blackletter font was created inspired from the set who was used in Leyden by Jan Seversz to print “Breviores elegantioresque epistolae […]”, by author Francesco Filfelo, circa 1509. The original font contains all lower case characters, excepted w,  eth,

1805 Jaeck Map Font - Image 15

1805 Jaeck Map  Font

This “Pro” font is mainly inspired from the engraved characters of a German Map depicting Germany’s roads and parts of surrounding lands, edited in Berlin probably in the end of 1700’s. The engraver was Carl Jaeck or Jaek (1763-1808).  The

1543 Humane Jenson Font - Image 16

1543 Humane Jenson  Font

In 1543 the well-known “De humani corporis fabrica” treatise on anatomy by André Vesale, was printed by Johann Oporinus in Basel (Switzerland). Various typefaces were used for this work, mostly in Latin but including Greek characters. Its Jenson-type font  was

1864 GLC Monogram Font - Image 17

1864 GLC Monogram  Font

This family of two characters monograms and initial letters was inspired from a French portfolio containing about two hundred examples of ” Chiffres à deux lettres ” destined to engravers and jewelers, published in Paris in 1864, drawn by  French

1906 French News Font - Image 18

1906 French News  Font

We have created this family inspired from the numerous derivatives in use for newspapers since the middle of 1800’s to the years 1970’s, inspired from the well known Clarendon. Mainly, the patterns are these used to print “Le Petit Journal”,