Fonts

In the last few years, I have been trying to teach myself typeface design, though I've been fascinated by letterforms and such for a long while before that.

All fonts displayed here together with Fontforge source are available as a gzipped tar archive or zip archive. They are free for noncommercial use. Please contact me (jcreed at-sign gmail period edu) if you want to use them for something commerical, or merely if you are using them for anything interesting and you feel like letting me know! I am always excited to see them out in the wild. The date listed next to a font family is approximately when I started work on it.

I still need to get around to packaging the few fonts I made during 2009 while avoiding my thesis, but you can see some work I've been doing on smaller, faster sketches for 2010.

I have some older bitmap fonts, too.

All of the fonts on this website may be freely used, studied, modified, redistributed, etc. under the terms of the SIL OFL license.

2008

Expo (March 25)

Inspired by whiteboard marker writing. Sort of in the same general vein as Birbaslo.

Mastodoni (January 2)

A nice, clean Didone face (since I haven't really done one before apart from the half-hearted attempt that was Austin Modern) with Opentype features for small caps and standard ligatures.

2007

Notebook (December 6)

An unfinished sketch.

Tachys (November 13)

Tried to force myself to draw something more quickly than usual just to see what would happen.

Tuber (October 24)

Still another attempt at a cute rounded sans, in the same vein as Evanston, Identity Theft, Tragic Sans, and Walton.

Crate (October 18)

Inspired by Freight and Times.

Jade (July 30)

A little sans-serif I started while bored during jury duty.

Walton (March 27)

Inspired by Chicago, Computer Modern Sans, and Gotham Rounded.

Tragic Sans (March 1)

Based loosely on the infamous Comic Sans.

Rumsey (February 5)

Inspired by lettering in the Rumsey historical map collection.

2006

Birbaslo (December 24)

Designed for Camp Spoonhowopic. Named after a fictional character from the 2006 ICFP contest.

Klar (August 31)

Transvaal (August 26)

Austin (June 22)

Based on Caslon, and to a lesser extent, Bell. Richard Austin was John Bell's punchcutter.

Helena (March 19)

A study of grotesque sans serifs, e.g. Helvetica.

Necessity (March 12)

A study of weight variation.

Avalanche (March 6)

Based loosely on Avant Garde and Peignot.

Skibo (February 5)

Designed for "The Thistle", Carnegie Mellon University's Yearbook.

Mercator (January 7)

Inspired by old map lettering

Beatriz (January 3)

Inspired by a grab-bag of humanist fonts

2005

Combo (November 9)

A random dingbat font.

Ursula (October 22)

A study of geometric sans serifs, e.g. Futura.

Berkov (October 11)

A silly faux-Russian Constructivist font.

Fallacy (June 13)

Larson (May 20)

Based on Hope Larson's comic lettering. The caps aren't finished.

Nelf (January 15)

A study of Tom7's 'Hockey Is Lif'.

Untitled Dot Font (January 14)

Drawn by people at D's Six Pax and Dogz.

Pomotown (January 12)

An exaggeration of 'Modern' typefaces, by making the thin bits invisible.

Blackboard Audacious (January 12)

Scanned in from hand lettering.

Pingly (January 11)

Scanned in from hand lettering.

Splotch (January 10)

Scanned in from hand lettering.

2004

Evanston (December 31)

A study of Chicago.

Dependent Product (December 25)

A dingbat font.

Identity Theft (December 25)

Spamcake (December 25)

Kenosha (December 21)

Bitey (December 19)

SleepyBleepy (December 10)

Slavkappen (December 6)

Grassoline (December 3)

Drivin Me Nuts (December 1)

1997

Xanthippe

Draw by hand in Photoshop.