font_designer: David Kerkhoff

Hey Comrade

Hey Comrade font

Hey Comrade is a very messy script font. It was made with a bamboo satay skewer (which I had soaked in ink). Hey Comrade would look good on book covers, packaging and in magazines....

Borrowdale

Borrowdale font

Borrowdale is a valley and civil parish in the English Lake District. In the 16th century a major deposit of graphite was discovered near Seathwaite, which kickstarted the pencil industry. Borrowdale font was made...

Garden Gnome

Garden Gnome font

I am not really fond of Garden Gnomes, but this font is kinda cute and I figured it’d be a nice name. Garden Gnome is a very happy, easy to read Children’s Book font....

Crayon En Folie

Crayon En Folie font

Crayon En Folie (‘Pencil Madness’ in French) is a straightforward pencil font, created with an extra thick black pencil. Use it for books, posters and packaging. Comes with a coloring box full of diacritics.

Bodiam

Bodiam font

Two years ago I went on a camping holiday in England with my wife and (then two) small children. The first stop was a nature campsite near the village of Bodiam in East Sussex....

The Cats Whiskers

The Cats Whiskers font

Ok. Another font with cats in it. I asked my son, Sam (age 4), to draw some cats and I have to say: I’m very proud of what he created. The tiger I asked...

Saffron Walden

Saffron Walden font

Saffron Walden is a small market town in Essex, England. When I created my first ever connected script font, I decided that a ‘flowery’ name would be best (since that seems to be the...

Moonlight Serenade

Moonlight Serenade font

Moonlight Serenade is a 1939 song composed by Glenn Miller, with lyrics by Mitchell Parish. Moonlight Serenade font is an all caps affair – very legible, very recognizable and very useful. Upper and lower...

Toverheks

Toverheks font

A Toverheks in Dutch means ‘witch’ – well, actually it means ‘magic witch’ (it doesn’t translate well). The reason for this kind of weird name is the nature of the font: it reminded me...

Blue Sheep

Blue Sheep font

It’s been a while since I named a font after a sheep, so I figured it was about time. The Blue Sheep, or Naur (Pseudois nayaur), is actually an existing species of sheep. It...