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Mudstone  Font

The cool, the sans and the light: Mudstone fonts are proudly packed with nice oddities and quirks. These are definitely fonts for getting noticed, in an affirmative, authentic way. Mudstone fonts are all caps, each with at least 2  sets

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Terpentijn  Font

Terpentijn is Dutch for Turpentine. If you say it out loud, it actually sounds quite similar!Here you thought you were just buying a font, but you get to learn some Dutch too! Terpentijn is a handmade typeface with a serious

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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,

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Whale Song  Font

I grew up with the ‘Save The Whales’ slogan: I remember watching the news and seeing little Greenpeace dinghies taking on huge Japanese whalers, and activists clinging on for dear life. I haven’t heard that slogan for a while:  maybe

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Dunkelbunt  Font

Dunkelbunt is freely inspired by works and words of the wildly eccentric artist, architect and designer Friedensreich Hundertwasser. It’s an all caps font, with 2 cuts for each letter, loaded with imaginative energy and organic forms that will certainly  make

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Chronic  Font

Chronically strong, yet pacific. Chronically bold, yet friendly. This font was at first inspired by a HAP Grieshaber work and soon incorporated elements from pieces by Willem Sandberg, two astonishing artists who lived through two world wars. They had  to

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Lampion  Font

A lampion is a paper lantern. They are very popular in Asian countries, where they are used at festivals. Lampions are mostly made from rice paper cuttings which are glued to a bamboo frame. Lampion font is a tall,  narrow

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Hey Comrade  Font

Hey Comrade is a very messy script font. It was made with a bamboo satay skewer (which I had soaked in ink). Hey Comrade would look good on book covers, packaging and in magazines. Comes with a 5-year plan  of

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Kerberos Fang  Font

A creepy, blood-splattered horror font, made entirely with brushes and ink. Ideal for websites and halloween. Published by HanodedDownload Kerberos  Fang

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Blue Sheep  Font

It’s been a while since I named a font after a sheep, so I figured it was about time. The Blue Sheep, or Naur (Pseudois nayaur), is actually an existing species of sheep. It is found in the Himalayas  and

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Little Boy Blue  Font

I believe it was Picasso who had a Blue Period between 1901 and 1904. It seems that I have one myself – really not comparing myself to Picasso btw… Recently I created Blue Sheep font and now this one:  Little

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Yellow Balloon  Font

Yellow Balloon is a typeface named after my two year old son’s favorite book: The Yellow Balloon by Dutch author/illustrator Charlotte Dematons. Every night before he goes to sleep, he wants to read the book and manages to find  the

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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

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Oranjerie  Font

Oranjerie is a very nice, handmade and legible font which will fit in just anywhere. The glyphs differ slightly in width and height, giving it a unique look. Upper and lower case letters can be freely interchanged. Published by Hanoded

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Hangman's Delight  Font

Hangman’s Delight is a scratchy, all caps font. The upper case letters come with swirls and curls, but the lower case letters are unadorned. A bit of an unusual font, I admit, but it would look nice on book  covers

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Downward Fall  Font

Downward Fall owes its name to one of my favorite Opeth songs, called The Funeral Portrait. The song itself is an uptempo metal composition with rather dark lyrics. This peculiar combination, a mix of good and evil if you  will,

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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