Ok, clean fonts. Difficult fonts I guess because, up until now, I have always liked to do things quickly and that meant scribbling fonts by hand, scanning them and tracing them in Fontographer.
Now I have just started out on the long but pristine road to clean which involves dabbling with the dark side and creating fonts using paths (aaaarggh!) I think I could still create a dirty font which has pure, innocent, unsullied vector-based origins though...
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Mnooba Regular! A clean, tight font with inertia and style which also has distinctive sloping serifs. This features a large character set. This is my first commercial typeface and costs $20, please view the preview to see the full character set. (Comes in both PostScript Type 1 and TrueType for Mac and PC.)
Tragic Bureau This typeface has a certain downbeat air. Most fonts which look like this tend to get given really 'zany' upbeat names and I don't want to do that. Anyway, this is my first face to include a wealth of accented characters and other extra bits. It works great at a variety of sizes too.
Pyrobats We kick off 2001's font releases with my first dingbat font, called Pyrobats. Over 30 flame-fuelled illustrations to light up your artwork! Includes bonus scissor slashing dingbats. What twisted imagination produced these? Please note the Mac font is TrueType.
A Dot Short of a Matrix Start of a new family! I had to do a dotty face with a bit of character, this one lost a dot in the printer and came out quite interesting.
Double Strike I gathered up all those left over dots from its sister font and made this funky wide and retro number. Hope I'm starting to make up for the lack of new resources...
Bulky Pixels You might have noticed that this is the font I have used to create all my titles. It works as a screen font and I specifically created 10 and 12 point bitmaps for that purpose.
Fat Pixels The rounded sibling of Bulky, my Fat Pixels face works small and it works BIG! It has given me ideas for loads of other stuff too, so it may end up having children.
Gruyere Melted My first cool font, I believe. One which I spent years creating using a barrage of Photoshop techniques and when I got Fontographer it was a natural step to create this as a real font.
Gruyere Reformed I took that real cool font (Gruyere Melted) and autotraced it for fun, but the result was pretty damn fine. It looks kind of corroded. Good for modern pieces of design.
Loops of Fury At last! A font I have started to design on computer. Ok, I designed it on paper, but it's drawn in Fontographer. And it's cool, well I like it anyhow. You should see the way in which the w and m work...it's uncommonly bizarre!
