font_designer: Robert Schenk

SafetyPinned

SafetyPinned font

The characters in SafetyPinned are composed of interlocked safety pins. The typeface lacks true lower-case letters but rather has two sets of capital letters.

Roundup

Roundup font

The Roundup group was inspired by some of the fonts from the late 19th century, though it is not based on any one of them. Three of the four have reverse contrast, that is,...

Youbee

Youbee font

Youbee or UB stands for ultimate blend because this font was created by blending four very different typefaces that I had designed. It works well as a semi-informal text face, but suffers at larger...

Zumbelsburg

Zumbelsburg font

Zumbelsburg is an exuberant, calligraphic typeface. The lower-case letters of Zumbelsburg are fairly standard blackletter characters, but the upper-case letters are ornamental, often with large flourishes.

XStarsAndStripes

XStarsAndStripes font

These two typefaces contain elaborate star patterns. XSarsAndStripesOne and XStarsAndStripesTwo are mirror images of each other.

XLeefMeAlone

XLeefMeAlone font

XLeafMeAlone is a collection of leaf silhouettes from common Indiana trees based on actual leaves. Various leaves, selected for their good looks not their intelligence, were scanned and hand-traced. Some species, such as some...

XComputerBugs

XComputerBugs font

XComputerBugs is a pictorial font of insects, mostly butterflies and moths. A few are based on actual species, but most are fanciful and meant only for decoration.

Xaltid

Xaltid font

Xaltid is a somewhat odd, decorative, calligraphic typeface in plain and bold weights.

WyomingStrudel

WyomingStrudel font

WyomingStrudel takes a bold version of WyomingSpaghetti and adds an internal decoration that resembles an exaggerated split serif.The WyomingStrudelInsert style contains only the ornament. It is intended to be used in layers with WyomingStrudel…

WyomingSpaghetti

WyomingSpaghetti font

Typefaces with very thin verticals and fat, square serifs were popular in the 19th century for display. Hollywood helped associate this style with the Old West, but reference books identify some of it as...