Fonts Archives

We hit 117 degrees in Phoenix last week. As I watch the news, I see that many other areas in the US have been miserably hot recently. I thought it was only appropriate to feature the Iceberg family of fonts today. Included are regular, italic and bold weights. This is...

On most weeks I tell you about a single new font. Occasionally there is more than one. Today, it is a family of six fonts. Occoluchi comes with Regular, Italic, Outline, Italic Outline, Minicaps and Spread weights all in a single download. I’ve always had a soft...

I can’t believe that 2011 has already passed the halfway point. Of course it is obvious summer has arrived in Arizona when we are expecting temperatures near 120 degrees tomorrow. Whew, that is hot! Another thing we have in the desert is a lot of lizards. They...

When I saw the name of this font, I immediately thought of the Zamboni machine that cleans the ice. Was this font named after the guy who drives the machine somewhere? I really have no idea if there is a connection between the two. Zamboni Joe is actually a family of...

I just got back from seeing Rush in concert so my adrenaline is flowing and my ears are ringing. What a show! Two weeks ago I featured the Daddy Longlegs font that may be useful for a show poster because it was so thin. Today I have another thin font, Namesake NF,...

Being from Kansas, I saw a lot of tumbleweeds blowing across the road. They certainly aren’t unique to Kansas as I’ve seen them many other places. Today’s font, Tumbleweed MF, is a brush font that is designed as if painted with a tumbleweed. If your...

When I was growing up, I remember seeing daddy longlegs spiders every now and then on the wall. I was taught they were good spiders who kept the other bugs away. Today’s font, Daddy Longlegs NF, won’t keep the other fonts away. It gets the name because...

You’re probably going to look at the name of this font, Sexsmith, and think the characters have something to do with sex. Sorry, I don’t think the name has anything to do with that. There are actually three fonts included this week and all come in the same...

A couple of weeks ago I had some mild dental surgery. It involved some hacking and slashing on my gums. While I was recovering, I watched a lot of movies including the recent remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Yes, a classic slasher movie. So it was only appropriate...

The folks at FontShop recently converted 24 of their legacy font families (111 total fonts) into OpenType format. Yes, fonts get upgraded just like other software. Like any software upgrade, I’m sure a fair amount of work into it. Here’s the odd thing...

With yesterday being Cinco de Mayo, it is just possible that there was a font designer somewhere who couldn’t quite see straight. Now imagine if that designer sat down late last night and tried to create a font. It might just look something like Jagged BRK. Each...

By the time I finish one of my books, I’m a little mad. No, not angry, the crazy kind of mad. As I was searching for today’s font, it was only appropriate that I choose a mad font. Mad Marker is the font and it looks like it was created with a really thick...

I remember the last time I was in Miami and I made sure to spend some extra time driving around looking at the Art Deco architecture. Today’s font, Tara Bulbous, would fit in quite well in those neighborhoods. Each of the characters features a stark contrast...

Typically when April 15 rolls around in the United States, some of us feel like we are tied up in rope as our taxes are due. Due to an obscure local Washington DC holiday, we can delay our taxes until after the weekend. Given the rope them, I thought I would talk...

I’ve always loved fonts that include detail inside each character. It isn’t a font you are going to use for long blocks of text, but it can work great for a headline or a logo in the right situations. Today’s font, Woodcut, has details inside each...

One of my favorite fonts is Caslon Antique. It takes the popular Caslon font and distresses the edges to make it look old and worn out. You may remember it as the font used for the Les Miserables logo. Both the normal and the italic weight are included in...

Today’s font is Acid Dreamer and I think I would categorize it as a grunge font. As you can see from the character sample at right, it has very rough edges. I immediately think of t-shirt designs where it could be useful, but I’m sure there are many other...

I don’t know about you, but I love looking at designs and trying to figure out how they were made. Some of the best design is a logo because so much has to be conveyed in a simple design. Today I wanted to share a really interesting look at logos with you....

CorelDRAW has always been known for supplying a large number of fonts and CorelDRAW X5 continues that tradition. A few days ago I posted the list of fonts included with CorelDRAW X5. What you won’t find on that list are the “premium fonts” that are...