font_designer: Dave Rowland

Kake

Kake font

Kake’s upper case letters are inspired by a hand-painted sign outside a temple in Ubud, Bali. The rest of the font is made to fit the style. The hand-made aesthetic is increased by the...

Hazel Script

Hazel Script font

The design process of this font was rudely interrupted on August 11th, 2015, when my first child, Hazel, was born. Thinking up names for fonts can be tricky, as can thinking up names for...

Mastadoni

Mastadoni font

Mastadoni is a bold headliner/masthead typeface, with high vertical contrast in a Didone style. That’s the starting point at least. There’s much more to this font than another modern clone. It is a specialized...

Schizotype Grotesk

Schizotype Grotesk font

A neo-grotesk with a bit more bite, this is Schizotype Grotesk. It’s not your usual grot; this is purely display typography. Notches cut deep into the letterforms and the thick/thin contrast isn’t always where...

Asterisk Sans Pro

Asterisk Sans Pro font

The market for humanistic sans serif type families is saturated, so what can a new release add, and what does it take to stand out from the crowd? Asterisk Sans Pro (named after my...

Strelka

Strelka font

Strelka Ultra is a space age, in-your-face headliner, perfect for your fledgling space tourism business or sentient robot army’s corporate identity. What’s included in Strelka Ultra then? Here goes… For that authentic space age...

Revla Serif

Revla Serif font

Meet Revla Serif, an unashamedly spirited font, with a spring in its step and a lust for life. Loosely based on a few letterforms from a mid century poster, it takes the feel of...

Cinema Script

Cinema Script font

The early Twentieth Century was a golden age for cinema, and for the artists who lettered the iconic title sequences. Cinema Script is inspired by this lettering style, but has departed substantially from the...

Chill Script

Chill Script font

Looking for a break from modern calligraphy? Tired of skinny scripts? Here’s something seriously relaxed. Chill Script is a totally new typeface, it eschews any brush influence, but maintains a warmth that comes from...

Blanket

Blanket font

Blanket is a friendly, baby-soft typeface with a gentle slant. With the warmth of an italic but less of the speed, it is designed primarily for use on child oriented material. The ‘schoolbook’ a...