font_designer: Lauren Ashpole

When I created my first website, I loved using vintage sewing pattern illustrations in my designs. Thinking back on it, I wanted to create a dingbat inspired by those images and Sewing Patterns is...

This slighty messy handwritten font was inspired by the scrawl of a teenager given a marker. Meaning it was inspired by my own quick writing at the time. Right down to the stars.

The art of paper folding in dingbat form. The uppercase alphabet is made up of origami animals and the lowercase offers those shapes decorated in traditional origami paper patterns. Full patterns, flowers, and partial...

Not inspired by any one thing, Candy Randy came about as an attempt to capture the feel of hours spent aimlessly perusing childrens’ advertising and packaging from the early 1960s. It always reminds me...

Inspired by vintage fifties and sixties design elements. The lettering features exaggerated angles with the square borders popular at the time. All letters are capitals but the lowercase characters provide variations. This package includes...

Do you enjoy bicycles? So much that when you aren’t riding them you spend your time on bike related design? Then this font is for you. BIKES is a dingbat font that lives up...

Herbaceous Border features blocky letters made up of an intricate pattern of leaves and vines. It should definitely be used for headlines to get the most out of the details. All of the letters...

Sewing Patterns 3 is the latest installment in the Sewing Patterns font series and this time it’s all menswear. This dingbat was inspired by men’s fashions from the 1920s to the 1960s. Like it’s...

A font loosely based on the writing on the Hellmuth Building (which I always read as Hellmouth Building and think, “That’s convenient, you know, for slayers”). I suggest mixing up the lowercase and uppercase...