font_designer: David Kerkhoff

Psycho Killer

Psycho Killer font

Psycho Killer is a song by the Talking Heads. It is also one of my favorite songs, so I figured I’d name a font after it. Psycho Killer is a script font; it contains...

Pusekatt

Pusekatt font

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...

Rum Doodle

Rum Doodle font

The Ascent of Rum Doodle is short story written in 1956 by W. E. Bowman. The story is a parody of the many non-fictional mountaineering chronicles and tells the adventures of a group of...

Maduki

Maduki font

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...

Fiebiger Eins

Fiebiger Eins font

Franz Fiebiger (1880 – 1932) was an Austrian painter and designer who was associated with the Vienna Secession. In 1908 he created a beautiful poster for the Kaiserjubiläums Möbel Ausstellung – a furniture exhibition...

Jubileum

Jubileum font

Some time ago, I found myself in a clinic with my wife: at the time she was 20 weeks pregnant and had to do an ultrasound. To pass the time, I leafed through some...

Die Bruecke

Die Bruecke font

Die Brücke was a group of German expressionists which formed in Dresden in 1905. Members of the group include Erich Heckel, Fritz Bleyl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Much of the group’s work...

Heckel

Heckel font

Erich Heckel (1883 – 1970) was a German painter and printmaker. He was a founding member of Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionists. Heckel font somewhat resembles the loose (and messy)...

Fiebiger Zwei

Fiebiger Zwei font

Franz Fiebiger (1880 – 1932) was an Austrian painter and designer who was associated with the Vienna Secession. In 1908 he created a beautiful poster for the Kaiserjubiläums Möbel Ausstellung – a furniture exhibition...

Pinkus

Pinkus font

Pinkus is a nice, uncomplicated serif font. It was hand drawn on plain white copy paper, hence the roughness. Pinkus is an all-caps affair, but upper and lower case letters can be interchanged. Pinkus...