A set of simple InDesign scripts to automate a “random”, hand-set effect quickly and easily. Scripts run through each letter, applying randomness to the baseline shift, rotation, scaling, and stroke thickness of each letter. It’s all stuff you could randomise by hand, but it’d take a while. DOWNLOAD Installation Put the “Rrrandom – rrry.me” folder […]
A superfine Didot, Henri Didot is best used at huge sizes. Super high contrast, reworked metrics and kerning, and OpenType oldstyle figures. Keep away from balloons and inquisitive children. Download for free, or donate to support more projects. Download! Henri Didot is based on the work of Alexey Kryukov, and released under the Open Font License.
No squishy bits. Franz Baltiqua is made up of entirely rugged, pointy, ever-so-slightly-dangerous sharp edges. Available in four weights, and includes: Four weights: light, regular, bold, and black OpenType true small caps and alternate punctuation Various number styles, including: proportional oldstyle, proportional lining, proportional small caps, tabular oldstyle, tabular lining, tabular small caps, superscript/subscript (inc. superscript small caps) A variety of standard and […]
Nosy is a typeface facetype that uses standard Opentype ligatures to create thousands of potential faces. Add a beard, freckles, eyebrows or any one of dozens of component to make a face. To use, simply: Make sure ligatures* are on. Type in components. Choose colours. Turn on all caps! Don’t use spaces, and note that the […]
George IV, unofficial typeface of the 1820’s. Hundreds of glyphs, representing automatic alternation between different versions of every glyph, full Latin language support, and true OpenType small caps. Two versions of every glyph means means repetition is much harder to spot, and gives a convincing, hand-painted feel. George IV uses OpenType standard ligatures to provide randomisation, […]
A rough, hand-crafted typeface with four variations of each glyph for a bristly, gorse-like feel. More kinks than no. 8 wire, and tougher than a mighty kauri. Be sure to turn on OpenType contextual alternates for full variation. Free for personal/educational use. Please consider a donation if you’d like to use it commercially. Download Trýna no. […]
Curly and delicious. A loose, dynamic, hand-crafted script with enough OpenType flourishes to keep things interesting, and extensive language support. 1194 characters and counting. OpenType ligature support highly recommended! (Download includes instructions for how to turn this on.) Download Kitsune Udon now!
A hand-inked recreation of a classic typeface. Best at big sizes (but don’t go crazy). Be sure to turn on discretionary ligatures to enjoy a set of entirely inappropriate ligatures. Entirely inappropriate ligatures inspired by Avant Garde. Be sure to turn on discretionary ligatures in Photoshop/InDesign. Download Futíða now!
An ode to drawing words on each other’s arms with Sharpies in Wellington, New Zealand. Unapologetically imperfect, and stuffed with an improbable melange of ligatures. Available on YouWorkForThem.com