Tag: hand made
Lemon Yellow Sun Font
Lemon Yellow Sun is a line from my favorite Pearl Jam song – Jeremy. It also happens to be the title of a Stiltskin song, so I had to name a font after it. LYS is a tall, all caps
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
Cinnamon Swirl Font
Cinnamon scent: check. Swirls: check. Curls: check. Cinnamon Swirl is a very romantic, very ‘sugar-and-spice-and-all-things-nice’ kinda font. It would look great on book covers, slumber party posters and postcards. The Swirl comes with some lovely ligatures and stylistic alternates –
Petit Four Font
A “Petit Four” is a small, bite-sized, French pastry. The font before you is a bite-sized Hanoded original. It is handmade, fun to use and comes with a lot of calories. Like its namesake, use Petit Four sparingly and it
Crayon En Folie Font
Crayon En Folie (‘Pencil Madness’ in French) is a straightforward pencil font, created with an extra thick black pencil. Use it for books, posters and packaging. Comes with a coloring box full of diacritics. Published by HanodedDownload Crayon En Folie
Smurrie Font
Smurrie means ‘sludge’ in Dutch. It is not an exact translation, but as good as I could find. The name refers to the rounded, blob-like shape of the glyphs. I think this font would look very good on posters, book
Drop Dead Gorgeous Font
Drop Dead Gorgeous is a slightly slanted all caps Brush font. I made it with the last of my Chinese ink (I ordered a new batch, it should arrive tomorrow). Drop Dead Gorgeous is a very legible font, ideal for
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
Street Magic Font
Levitating above the din of the city pulling cards. Conjuring a shine from the dark like iridescent paint. Trees growing through cracked pavement claiming space with their placement. Street Magic at work while we kick back and embrace it. Published
Garden Gnome Font
I am not really fond of Garden Gnomes, but this font is kinda cute and I figured it’d be a nice name. Garden Gnome is a very happy, easy to read Children’s Book font. It is bouncy, rounded and comes
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
Face Your Fears Font
Face Your Fears was created using a brush, paint and ink and a lot of paper. Due to the horror-like nature of Face Your Fears, the font looks great on websites, games and – of course – halloween cards. It
Scrawny Cat Font
Scrawny Cat is a bit of an unusual font: it was made with a brush and some China ink and has no real baseline. It is messy yet legible and in a strange way beautiful. The font is all caps,
Toverheks Font
A Toverheks in Dutch means ‘witch’ – well, actually it means ‘magic witch’ (it doesn’t translate well). The reason for this kind of weird name is the nature of the font: it reminded me of a book of spells –
Bocadillo Font
A Bocadillo is a sandwich. I guess I was craving one when I had to name this font! Bocadillo is a sweet Brush script. It is all caps, but upper and lower case are different and like to mingle. It
Snippity Snap Font
Snippity Snap is a font made up of glyphs I cut out from black paper with some household scissors, then pasted onto white paper. When I was cutting out the shapes, my children asked me what I was doing, and
Notaris Font
Notaris (‘Notary’ in Dutch) is a hand-drawn, all caps didone-style typeface. It is a little rough, a little uneven, but lively and elegant as well. Comes with an abundance of diacritics and, lo and behold, some end-ligatures as well. Published
Liquid Embrace Font
Liquid Embrace is a rough ‘n’ ready brush font. It was created using a Chinese calligraphy brush and Royal Blue Ink (I had run out of black…). Liquid Embrace is fat and in your face, making your message stand out