font_foundry: Hanoded

I don’t have an Uncle Oscar, so the font is not named after someone I know. The name just kind of stuck. Uncle Oscar is a pencil font, made with a black ‘Lamy’ pencil...

Astromonkey – here he is, all new, all excited to be alive! Astromonkey comes from outer space, where he has rubbed shoulders with the Star Trekkers, the aliens and Major Tom, who is still...

The Three Degrees had a song called ‘Dirty Ol’ Man’; Christina Aguilera danced around to the tune of ‘Dirrrty’ and my three kids leave everything that way after they have finished their meals, so...

Pastis is an anise-flavored drink from France – and a lovely font as well. Pastis is an all caps typeface with a different set of glyphs for upper and lower case. Use it for...

Antidote is a grungy 3-D font. It is hand drawn and has been given a ‘cracked’ look. Looks great in headlines, titles and on packaging, but I wouldn’t set a text in it as...

Hangman’s Delight is a scratchy, all caps font. The upper case letters come with swirls and curls, but the lower case letters are unadorned. A bit of an unusual font, I admit, but it...

A couple of weeks ago, I found my ink well, which I thought I had lost. I decided (there and then) to create a bunch of inky brush fonts, which resulted in Dirrrty and...

Scrawny Cat is a bit of an unusual font: it was made with a brush and some China ink and has no real baseline. It is messy yet legible and in a strange way...

Cinnamon scent: check. Swirls: check. Curls: check. Cinnamon Swirl is a very romantic, very ‘sugar-and-spice-and-all-things-nice’ kinda font. It would look great on book covers, slumber party posters and postcards. The Swirl comes with some...