Coo Coo

So I made five rather odd characters for a logo for a friend… Then I thought I'd fill a couple of spare hours expanding it to a single alphabet… And…

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Galerie Simpson font

Galerie Simpson

An entirely strange, illogical and inconsistent font packed with inappropriate curlicues and appendages “translated and composed” from a few words on a crumbling fragment of Victorian sheet music. It was…

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Lemon Flower font Lobo font

Lobo

A juicy, mighty-morphing, modular font extracted from the crevices and convolutions of the brain, with nifty coding to cram every gap with tails and curlicues.

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Message Of The Birds font No Liming font

No Liming

  • Post author:chickenstaff
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A chunky, laid-back typeface inspired by a hand-painted notice on the doors of a mechanic's workshop in Plymouth, Tobago. Two different mostly-uppercase alphabets in one font help to keep things…

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Out Back font

Out Back

  • Post author:chickenstaff
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A twice-painted sign in Tobago's back country was the seed for this weird grab-bag of chunky, slightly sleazy letterforms.

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Pegasus font

Pegasus

  • Post author:chickenstaff
  • Post category:funny

Pegasus scrapes the DNA of a great twentieth century painter who scattered text across his work like no other… not any kind of facsimile, but tough, playful, adaptable display type…

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Picklepie font

Picklepie

Picklepie was created by Lydia, aged around 6 at the time, for use in her own artwork and things like party invitations, birthday cards and secret files. It looked so…

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Pigeonpie font

Pigeonpie

  • Post author:chickenstaff
  • Post category:funny

Pigeonpie is the second font created by Tim Barnes' daughter Lydia, aged 7 at the time, following the success of her debut Picklepie. It's flighty and unpredictable, with a smile…

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