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Clair De Lune Font - Image 1

Clair De Lune  Font

Clair De Lune is part of the famous Suite Bergamasque, written by Claude Debussy in 1890, and published in 1905. It means Moonlight in French, a kind of romantic name. The name is exactly what I had in mind  for

Irena Font - Image 2

Irena  Font

Irena is a cubist/expressionist font inspired by Vojtěch Preissig. Preissig (1873-1944) was a Czech typographer, printmaker, illustrator and teacher, whose work was influenced by Japanese Art and Symbolism. During WWII, Preissig supported the Czech resistance and he was arrested  in

Lemon Yellow Sun Font - Image 3

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 - Image 4

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 - Image 5

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 - Image 6

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 - Image 7

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 - Image 8

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 - Image 9

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

Keswick Font - Image 10

Keswick  Font

Keswick is a beautiful small town in the English Lake District. It is a good place to hang out for a while and explore the surrounding National Park. During your stay you could visit the Keswick Pencil Factory –  which

Dizzy Edge Font - Image 11

Dizzy Edge  Font

My Dizzy Edge font is really not that dizzy! Actually it’s quite steady and legible – super good for packaging, greeting cards and perhaps even commercials for toys, candy, t-shirts, movie posters…yep, that list is long! What’s more interesting  is

Garden Gnome Font - Image 12

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 - Image 13

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 - Image 14

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 - Image 15

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 - Image 16

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 - Image 17

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 - Image 18

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