font_designer: Robert Schenk

Onyon

Onyon font

Onyon is a bizarre typeface with vertical stems that thicken in the middle and narrow at the ends. It was created as an experiment to see what a typeface would look like if the...

Modsten

Modsten font

Modsten-Bold is a modernistic stencil design with two sets of capital letters. Modsten-plain was added to complete the family.

Minimalist

Minimalist font

PostScript fonts are constructed by connecting dots, dots that have special attributes that control the shape of the connecting lines. In designing Minimalist, I wanted to see how few dots could be used to...

GothicHorror

GothicHorror font

What would a typeface look like that used a gothic arch, a feature of medieval architecture, as its motif? I decided to find out and the result was not beautiful but frightful. GothicHorror uses...

Eyebel

Eyebel font

Eyebel was an attempt to form letters as simply as possible using only straight lines but still have them legible. The family is low contrast and has a boxy look. Eyebel-Ruff was formed by...

CompassOne

CompassOne font

CompassOne was a design I began in 1990 or so, but did not bother to finish until five years later. Its name comes from the fact that all the letters could have been drawn...

Baumfuss

Baumfuss font

Baumfuss and BaumfussTwo are unpolished, crude typefaces with small flared serifs and very few straight lines. They are a bit heavy to be easily readable at smaller point sizes. Baumfuss has a high x-height,...

XSeeder Chess

XSeeder Chess font

The two XSeederChess fonts are two modernistic chess fonts. The key layout is a bit complicated; see the key guide for detailed information on how to position pieces correctly.

XMattsAnimals

XMattsAnimals font

Most of the letter keys are from animal drawings done by a six or eight year old child who has now grown up.

XPawnShop

XPawnShop font

XPawnShop is a typographical chess font; the pieces are letters. The Pawn is an awkward letter P, the knight is a horse in the shape of an h, the bishop is a decorative letter...