font_category: funny

Pisang means banana in Malay and Bahasa Indonesia. It is a tall, narrow and very clear font, ideal for books, recipes, food labeling and posters. It comes with a full range of diacritics and...

Inky Fingers… Well, the name says it all! This rather obese font was made by hand (literally) using my index finger, some sheets of paper and a lot of Chinese ink. As the eco-paper...

Pumpkin Soup is delicious! And so is the font. ‘Nuf said!

Mosca means ‘fly’ in Spanish – the flying type, not the one in your jeans…). The font is quite lively, loose and elegant at the same time.

Brooklyner font is based on the typeface used for The Brooklynite, a magazine which saw its heyday in the 1920’s. The typeface before you is an all caps affair, making it a perfect choice...

Yellow Balloon is a typeface named after my two year old son’s favorite book: The Yellow Balloon by Dutch author/illustrator Charlotte Dematons. Every night before he goes to sleep, he wants to read the...

Kwark is a nice, cartoonesque outline font with a bit of grunginess. Yes, it is an all caps font, but upper- and lowercase letters differ in shape, so you can mix and match. The...

Pusekatt means Pussycat in Norwegian. It was finished on a rather gloomy monday, which reminded me of Norway and I just like cats. There you have it: the naming of fonts explained. It ain’t...

This time the font’s name is meaningless. Maduki doesn’t mean ‘cool’ in Swahili, nor does it mean ‘cup cake’ in Sranantongo. It is just a nice name. Maduki is a playful font, created with...

Jambo (‘hello’ in Swahili) is a cute and bouncy typeface. I guess you can say that it is didone-ish in nature, but comic would also be an apt description. Jambo has generous curves, swirls...