I do hand lettering even when I'm doing ordinary writing, or even not-so-ordinary writing, like
solving crossword puzzles. The cryptics of Henry Hook are not puzzles that mere mortals should be
trying to solve with a stopwatch in hand, so you might as well take your time. So while I was going
through one of his books, I redid the grids on graph paper, and lettered my solutions in this font.
I know. I'm completely disgusting. |
Bayern - German for "Bavaria". Think of this as a calligraphy font made by someone who has heard of the concept, and that's about all. He turns his pen, he makes unusual strokes, and generally makes a mockery of the whole process. |
A spooky little hand-drawn font that's really quite harmless. Beltane is a Wiccan holiday, but more importantly
is the name of my best friend's cat.
This font was also FontFace's Font of the Day on November 11, 2002. Actually, the e-mail he sent said, "Beltane is coming!" and I thought, you're more than a month late. . . . |
While preparing for the National Puzzlers' League convention, I found I had a lot of work to do, and I was worried about whether or not people would be happy with what I was doing. To work off the extra energy, I did crossword puzzles, and I do them for speed. To fill in the squares faster, it's better to write the letters with as few strokes as possible, and, well, you get the picture. |
A font transmitted to me via tachyon telephone from my own future. Remind me to design this font
someday to avoid temporal paradox.
You know, I thought I made this word up, and I thought that'd mean that mine was the only Daybreaker out there, but it seems to be a New Zealand road rally, a villain who wreaks havoc on calendars, and most overwhelmingly, a CD by electronica-folk artist (?!) Beth Orton. |
I took the dearly departed Enigmatic Italic, skewed it upright again, got some thugs to rough it up a little, read in the resulting bitmaps, and voila! Instant grunge. No apostrophe in the title, because pedestrian crossing lights don't use one. |
Graphics (c) 2002, Darren Rigby.
When, in life, you must face your demons, make demonade!