Message Of The Birds
A handful of these spiky, sprightly letters made up the twittering title page of ‘Message Of The Birds’, a song by one Flora Warner, found in stacks of crumbling scores on an old upright...
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Pigeonpie
Pigeonpie is the second font created by Tim Barnes’ daughter Lydia, aged 7 at the time, following the success of her debut Picklepie. It’s flighty and unpredictable, with a smile on its face and...
Picklepie
Picklepie was created by Lydia, aged around 6 at the time, for use in her own artwork and things like party invitations, birthday cards and secret files. It looked so lively, happy and original...
Lemon Flower
A flower became crushed in the door frame of the studio (a fancy shed at the end of an overgrown garden)… pretty pale yellow stamens scattered on the floor… I sprinkled some on the...
No Liming
A chunky, laid-back typeface inspired by a hand-painted notice on the doors of a mechanic’s workshop in Plymouth, Tobago. Two different mostly-uppercase alphabets in one font help to keep things loose. ‘Liming’? hanging out,...
Out Back
A twice-painted sign in Tobago’s back country was the seed for this weird grab-bag of chunky, slightly sleazy letterforms.
Galerie Simpson
An entirely strange, illogical and inconsistent font packed with inappropriate curlicues and appendages “translated and composed” from a few words on a crumbling fragment of Victorian sheet music. It was developed to form the...
Ply
So the lumber was cheap – just a pile of offcuts – and so was the carpenter… And you couldn’t say he was exactly lazy, but he was certainly efficient… mostly he would just...
Coo Coo
So I made five rather odd characters for a logo for a friend… Then I thought I’d fill a couple of spare hours expanding it to a single alphabet… And some considerable time later...
Pegasus
Pegasus scrapes the DNA of a great twentieth century painter who scattered text across his work like no other… not any kind of facsimile, but tough, playful, adaptable display type forged from the bones...