Fonts
Pilut QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-12-30] Rather blobby.
Pines QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-12-23] Extremely pointy.
Skatolo QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-12-16] Nonmonospaced pixel font.
Wib QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-12-9] Potraced result of some fiddling in the Gimp.
Babette quick brown fox
[2010-12-2] Still another hand-drawn, because I have too been busy/lazy to make anything any more refined.
Blackbored QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-11-25] Another ridiculous blackboard-bold hand-drawn on the Wacom.
Olvidar QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-11-18] Made of dots.
Decatur QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-11-11] At the very end of 2004, I tried to study Chicago a bit, but it came out badly. I think this one went better. It's not really a direct imitation of Chicago the existing vector font, but an attempt to capture how I feel about Chicago the bitmap font. Feelings, man. Feelings.
Pants QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-11-4] Sort of exploring the same cheerful casualness as with Cruikshank, but without a specific model, and with fewer wibbly concave bits.
Crimp quick brown fox
[2010-10-28] A straight-line lowercase, which nonetheless suggests a curve here and there.
Blorb QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-10-21] A goofy hand-drawn.
Laminar quick brown fox
[2010-10-14] A fun little swoopy, didone lowercase.
Handy (caps) QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-10-7] Uppercase handwritten letters.
Spectrum QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-9-30] Another experiment in a square-fit sort of feel, in a very light weight.
Handy quick brown fox
[2010-9-23] A scan of my normal handwritten lowercase. Yes, I have in fact trained myself to write two-storey gs every time.
Dentor QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-9-16] Rounded outsides, pointy insides.
Lloyd QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-9-9] Tall and sort of Art-Deco-y, at least according to my impression of Art Deco.
Gevalt ABCDEFGHIJK
LMNOPQRSTUV
[2010-9-1] An inky Hebrew alphabet.
Scrip QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-8-26] Not legal tender! If you go to the wikipedia page on 'scrip' you get a face full of Papyrus, ew.
Galena QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-8-19] Chunky and leaning a bit to the italic.
Gauss quick brown fox
[2010-8-12] A somewhat rigid sans-serif lowercase.
Minsk QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-8-5] Some blobby Cyrillic.
Baklava ABCDEFHGIKLM
NQOPRSTUVXYZ
[2010-7-29] A chunky Greek alphabet.
Facefont ABCDEFHGIKLM
NQOPRSTUVXYZ
[2010-7-22] An 'alphabet' of faces. A bit of a cheat, but certainly not a shortcut. The ones I did first are very rough, but I think I improved gradually.
Resto QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-7-15] Based on some signange for a defunct restaurant near 12th and Market.
Witt (caps) QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-7-8] Filled up Witt with caps and numbers and punctuation.
Tonic QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-7-1] Somewhat squat, with octagon-y serifs.
Putter quick brown fox
[2010-6-24] A quick sans-serif lowercase, with mostly constant weight.
Derailleur QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-6-17] An experiment in reverse contrast.
Witt quick brown fox
[2010-6-10] An unassuming slab serif.
Patience quick brown fox
[2010-6-3] Pretty much an anti-blackletter sensibility except perhaps in its weight.
Frack (caps) QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-5-29] Psyfe dared me to do caps for Frack, so I did them over the weekend.
Frack quick brown fox
[2010-5-27] My first time revisiting blackletter since slavkäppen. I really like how the g, y, v, w turned out. Here is the reference I used.
Tog quick brown fox
[2010-5-20] Tiny or absent counters in a salad of greek-ish letters and pac-mans.
Colony QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-5-13] A soft, friendly uppercase, in contrast to the week before.
Codex quick brown fox
[2010-5-6] A slightly-less-stabby but still very much straight-liney lowercase script thing.
Admissible quick brown fox
[2010-4-29] A cramped, angular lowercase (!).
Droplet QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-4-22] Letters built from ill-balanced swooshes.
Bobbin QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-4-15] Warning: contains ridiculous ball terminals.
Swab QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-4-8] A silly ultra-high-contrast sans.
Quiz QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-4-1] The obvious constraint is using only 45 and 90 degree angles.
Ditter QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-3-25] I made this one a long time ago, back when lea and I were first working on ditter-the-telegraph-key/twitter-interface, but it didn't really turn out to be the right style for that. Still, it's an alphabet, and I noticed I never put it up before.
Markov QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-3-25] A very quick handwriting font, due to impending ICFP deadline.
Silverfork QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-3-18] A tribute to the ubiquitous Copperplate Gothic. I didn't look at the original too much after making sure my C was appropriately horseshoe-shaped, and that my G was spiny in enough places. I'm happy to find that what I thought was an absurdly over-seriffed N in mine is actually comparable to the original. The real Q is kind of weird to my eye. I'm on the fence as to whether I like my two-overlapping-V version of the W better or not.
Doppio QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-3-11] Not very consistent, but sort of fun anyway.
Gravel QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-3-4] A chunky straight-liner, no skimping on serifs.
Cobbler QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-2-25] A cheery cheap knock-off of tribute to Cooper Black
Tase QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-2-18] Optimized for pointiness and top-heaviness.
Bigfoot QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-2-11] A wide high-contrast face, with lovingly bracketed serifs. It could use some tweaking, but I am pretty happy with it. I have actually been working on it since the middle of January and cranking out lesser material while slowly producing it in the background.
Shipping QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-2-4] A pixel font.
Cruikshank QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-1-28] Studying the lettering from the animation work of Sally Cruikshank. Specifically, the opening credits to "Make Me Psychic".
Quotient QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-1-21] Everybody's gotta try making a modular font a few times before realizing it's a terrible idea, right?
Adipose QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-1-14] In a sculptural frame of mind — just chipping away from a black square.
Carnitas QUICK BROWN FOX
[2010-1-7] Those of you who know me (or who know early-20th-century geometric sans serifs) well will recognize what this is an obvious imitation of. As an exercise I did it from memory without looking up the actual font for reference, and I daresay I got reasonably close. Which is to say, I go to Chipotle way too often, but I already knew that. The elimination of the angled terminals on C, S, G was intentional though, for I really don't care for them. Apart from that I notice my M's middle sinks lower, the curves in my B, D, P, R are a bit squarer in general and in the P and R they are actually square and not curved on the insides.
Kimball QUICK BROWN FOX
[2009-12-31] A quick little monocase font named after the CTA Brown Line terminus. It is intended to be what it would look like if Gotham and Clarendon had a baby.
Jade Quick Brown Fox
Quick Brown Fox
Quick Brown Fox
Quick Brown Fox
[2007-7-30] A little sans-serif I started while bored during jury duty.
Walton quick brown fox
[2007-3-27] Inspired by Chicago, Computer Modern Sans, and Gotham Rounded.
Tragic Sans Quick Brown Fox
[2007-3-1] Based loosely on the infamous Comic Sans.
Rumsey Quick Brown Fox
[2007-2-5] Inspired by lettering in the Rumsey historical map collection.
Birbaslo Quick Brown Fox
[2006-12-23] Designed for Camp Spoonhowopic. Named after a fictional character from the 2006 ICFP contest.
Klar quick brown fox
[2006-8-31]
Transvaal Quick Brown Fox
[2006-8-26]
Austin Quick Brown Fox
Quick Brown Fox
Quick Brown Fox
Quick Brown Fox
[2006-6-22] Based on Caslon, and to a lesser extent, Bell. Richard Austin was John Bell's punchcutter.
Helena Quick Brown Fox
[2006-3-19] A study of grotesque sans serifs, e.g. Helvetica.
Necessity QUICK BROWN FOX
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[2006-3-12] A study of weight variation.
Skibo Quick Brown Fox
[2006-2-5] Designed for "The Thistle", Carnegie Mellon University's Yearbook.
Mercator Quick Brown Fox
[2006-1-7] Inspired by old map lettering
Beatriz Quick Brown Fox
Quick Brown Fox
[2006-1-3] Inspired by a grab-bag of humanist fonts
Combo Quick Brown Fox
[2005-11-9] A random dingbat font.
Ursula Quick Brown Fox
Quick Brown Fox
[2005-10-21] A study of geometric sans serifs, e.g. Futura.
Berkov Quick Brown Fox
[2005-10-10] A silly faux-Russian Constructivist font.
Fallacy Quick Brown Fox
[2005-6-13]
Larson Quick Brown Fox
[2005-5-20] Based on Hope Larson's comic lettering. The caps aren't finished.
Nelf Quick Brown Fox
[2005-1-15] A study of Tom7's 'Hockey Is Lif'.
Untitled Dot Font Quick Brown Fox
[2005-1-14] Drawn by people at D's Six Pax and Dogz.
Pomotown quick brown fox
[2005-1-12] An exaggeration of 'Modern' typefaces, by making the thin bits invisible.
Blackboard Audacious Quick Brown Fox
[2005-1-12] Scanned in from hand lettering.
Pingly QUICK BROWN FOX
[2005-1-11] Scanned in from hand lettering.
Splotch quick brown fox
[2005-1-10] Scanned in from hand lettering.
Evanston quick brown fox
[2004-12-30] A study of Chicago.
Dependent Product ABCDEFGHIJKL
[2004-12-24] A dingbat font.
Spamcake Quick Brown Fox
[2004-12-24]
Identity Theft quick brown fox
[2004-12-24]
Kenosha Quick Brown Fox
[2004-12-20]
Bitey Quick Brown Fox
[2004-12-18]
SleepyBleepy Quick Brown Fox
[2004-12-9]
Slavkappen Quick Brown Fox
[2004-12-6]
Grassoline Quick Brown Fox
[2004-12-3]
Drivin Me Nuts Quick Brown Fox
[2004-12-1]