Judging the amount of superhero series, I thought it was time for a superhero-font. Meet Backyard Hero - your friendly neighbourhood good guy. He will fight off aliens and criminal masterminds, help old ladies across the street and give your designs an unexpectedly good look!
Julia Child once said: the secret to great french cooking is butter, butter, butter.
Thus, we present to you Manteiga - butter in Portuguese! - a typeface for heart-melting, word-spreading goodness.
The idea we had was to play with brush lettering - a style we love - and go as far as we can with the shapes of the letters while finding balance between positive and negative space.
We wanted biiiig personality. And small inconsistencies - the ones that add texture and life to lettering.
We left extensive OpenType features and technical stuff aside for a moment, adding later only what we thought was necessary, like different shapes for the Q, a and g - for example.
All caps setting was something we wanted from the beginning. In text case, the x-height is rather short for a brush script, and this lends a quirky voice.
Spacing is ultra tiiiiight so don’t go too small, but make it as big as you want!
Ah! And there are some fun dingbats thrown in for good measure.
Sweet Lemon started off as something completely different, but I screwed up and closed one the the glyphs by accident. I kind of liked it, so I made three distinct fonts, each one with its own Italic style.
In short: when a font is called Sweet Lemon, you should use it for Lemonade packaging. Or whatever.
Tough Cookie is a handmade font that looks like it has been cut out. It comes in three varieties that work together really well. Use it for your book covers and product packaging, or (if you’re a tough cookie) for your christmas cards…
I’m not particularly fond of beans. I do eat them, but they’re not my idea of a delicacy… But this font has ‘fairy tale’ feeling to it, and I liked the name Beanstalker.
Beanstalker is a hand made font (I used a fineliner to draw the glyphs). It is quite neat and organized, but does come with some rough edges and a bit of texture.
Meet my new font Indian!
Indian includes full set of lovely uppercase and lowercase letters, multilingual symbols, numerals, punctuation and ligatures. This is so perfect for invitations, monograms etc
What’s Included:
Indian Script OTF / TTF
Multilingual support
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Dapplegrim is a Norwegian fairytale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their book ‘Norske Folkeeventyr’. The story is about a boy who inherits a big horse (called Dapplegrim, or Grimsborken in Norwegian) and sets off to rescue the king’s daughter from a nasty troll.
Dapplegrim is a handmade fairytale font. Use it for your book covers, product packaging and fairytale collections!