Tag: hand

Cinnabar Brush Font

Cinnabar Brush is a font named after a mineral – mercury sulfide to be precise. I quite like the name and the color, so naming a font after it made sense. Cinnabar Brush is a very bold, very outspoken brush

Plakkaat Font

Plakkaat is a fat brushed font, made with wide brushes and paint. Since it is a very easy to read font (and not to be missed), it is ideal for advertising campaigns, or demonstration signs.. This 2019 version comes with

Harimau Dua Font

A while back I created a nice font called Harimau. It is a childish font, with a happy feel to it. Harimau had some unusual glyphs, most notably the ‘g’ and the ‘j’, which, for some designers, were a little

Breakfast Burrito Font

Recently I have been watching some re-runs of Dexter. In season 1, Debra has a rough morning and complains she cannot make it through the day without eating a breakfast burrito. The name stuck, a font was born and the

Zesty Lime Font

Zesty Lime is a condensed typeface, hand made with a small brush and China ink. Zesty would look good on book covers, posters and packaging – but I guess you’re not limited to those three options. Just enjoy! Comes with

Buttered Toast Font

Buttered Toast is something a lot of people enjoy every day; when I was working on this font I was hoping to create something similar: an uncomplicated font enjoyed by many. The resulting typeface is exactly what is promised on

Dirrrty Font

The Three Degrees had a song called ‘Dirty Ol’ Man’; Christina Aguilera danced around to the tune of ‘Dirrrty’ and my three kids leave everything that way after they have finished their meals, so I guess I really had no

Uncle Oscar Font

I don’t have an Uncle Oscar, so the font is not named after someone I know. The name just kind of stuck. Uncle Oscar is a pencil font, made with a black ‘Lamy’ pencil I took from my son Sam’s

Borrowdale Font

Borrowdale is a valley and civil parish in the English Lake District. In the 16th century a major deposit of graphite was discovered near Seathwaite, which kickstarted the pencil industry. Borrowdale font was made with one of my son’s coloring

Knockdown Font

Finding my long-lost inkwell was a lucky moment for me and it resulted in a whole bunch of brushy/inky fonts. The latest font to leak out of this well is Knockdown. It is a bold and wild brush face, but

Winter Mix Package Font

Winter Mix Package font collection, a dingbat, hand drawn and hand display collection by Great Lakes Lettering. Winter Mix Package has extensive OpenType support including 1 additional stylistic sets, Stylistic Alternates and Standard Ligatures giving you plenty of options to

Backlash Font

A hand painted script style font that adds instant cool factor to any project. This font strives to bring a real hand-illustrated touch to designs as the variation in line weights, textures, and letter forms creates a one of a

Midnight Owl Font

Midnight Owl is a condensed, hand lettered display font that was based on modernist-serif letterforms and packs a ton of quirky character into one single font. Use it clean, or dress it up a bit with the bonus decorative layers,

Sunwind Font

“Sunwind” is not really made to write long copy. It is a font for shop signs and short sentences that need that hot, sunny and windy touch. And that is how I got around to designing it: I saw some

Florentine Cursive Font

Florentine Cursive was designed by R.H. Middleton for Ludlow, circa 1956. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Published by Red RoosterDownload Florentine Cursive

Venice Initials Font

“Venice Initials” are my redesign of a 15th century venetian original by an unknown calligrapher. Unfortunately only parts of the letters existed, so I had to design about half of them myself. Of course I enjoyed doing that. Published by