font_foundry: Hanoded

Weltschmerz

Weltschmerz font

Weltschmerz, world-weariness… I love the sound of it, so I chose this name for my new font. Weltschmerz font is a hand made Jugendstil typeface which was modeled on a 1910 poster from Austria....

Limoen

Limoen font

Limoen means ‘lemon’ in Dutch. Why did I call this font Limoen? Well, I guess I ran out of meaningful names, so I had to work with whatever popped in my head – which...

Vox Populi

Vox Populi font

Vox Populi was modeled after an early 17th century Latin translation of a Greek epos. It is a cursive typeface with a rough edge to it – not unlike the rather decayed original. Vox...

Kokomo

Kokomo font

Kokomo is a beautiful handmade contoured font – which was drawn with an old-fashioned steel pen and Chinese ink. The open, shadowed letters are great for posters and ads. Kokomo comes with extensive language...

Au Revoir

Au Revoir font

Au Revoir – saying goodbye is one of the hardest things in life, but in a sense it is also beautiful: there is a promise of seeing each other again, as ‘Au revoir’ literally...

Mama Bear

Mama Bear font

Mama Bear is a playful, neat, children’s book typeface. It is cute and happy, very legible and comes with extensive language support, including the ‘schwa’ glyph found in a handful of languages. Mama Bear...

Artful Dodger

Artful Dodger font

The Artful Dodger is a character in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Dickens wrote his books in the Victorian Era, which also gave birth to a beautiful and extensively used typeface called Clarendon. The typeface...

Castanea

Castanea font

The chestnut (“castanea”) is one of my favorite trees. I used to collect the chestnuts and made chestnut-figurines out of them, using bamboo sate skewers. Castanea font is a calligraphic typeface with an uneven...

Viareggio

Viareggio font

Viareggio is a city in Northern Tuscany, Italy. Viareggio is famous for its carnival and its mascot, the clown Burlamacco (designed by Uberto Bonetti in 1930). Viareggio font was based on the hand lettering...

Samhain

Samhain font

Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. There is no set date, but normally it is held around the end of October and beginning...