Adalbert von Chamisso wrote that wondrous story about the man who sold his shadow to the devil. Walter Thiemann recovered that shadow when he put a thin line and a shadow line around his Tiemann Fraktur. It is an embellished and delightful typeface, this Peter Schlemihl. It is probably one of the most beautiful typefaces among the outline, shadow and striped black letter fonts. (Albert Kapr)

Bill Rigney, an old job printer in my home town, established his shop in 1896, closed it in 1900 to take a steady job, stored the equipment in a large shed, and reopened for business upon his retirement in 1950. What a find! A bonanza of old type! We became good friends and upon his death I bought the type. Bless you Bill.

A revival of one of the popular sans serif wooden type fonts of the 19th century, narrow, rounded strokes at top and bottom, pointed horizontal devices in centers, no lower case designed.

Welcome to the Jet Age! LIETZ Rathoga jumps right out of the covers of vintage Space-Hero comics and onto your flickering cathode ray tube monitor. Fight the evil Zombies of the Stratosphere with sharp serifs! Race the Rocketmen with narrow stroke widths and fast italics! Loaded with Ligatures for more firepower! Team up with Rathoga's brothers and sisters from the LIETZ font family and you will triumph over the hordes of evil! Power on!

A simple stylistic device gives this clean, bold sans serif face a slightly spooky feeling. Both versions of this font support the Latin 1252, Central European 1250, Turkish 1254 and Baltic 1257 codepages.

A handwritten but very clean and organized font that's a little bold and a little slanted. Soon to be followed by its evil twin: irregularJoe.

Tire Swing BB is lighthearted without being silly. It's whimsical without being cliche. It's a body copy font, or great for headers, and includes lots of European characters.

Need something VERY silly for your headlines and still keep the legibility?! Then Sillyheads could be your no. 1 choice! Sillyheads has got that funny, weird, cute, crazy look!

The Tough Dude font is a confident, devil-may-care, tough-guy font with attitude that screams "I don't need no stinkin' penmanship." It conveys a self-assuredness that does not preoccupy itself with trying to be necessarily legible or easy on the eyes but rather pragmatic, fast-flowing, and interested in scribbling the message out fast and moving on to the next task. We're confident you will enjoy it.

Vulcano is the mesmerising creation of Salvador –Tori– Alimbau, the one-type-man who gave us this maze. José Manuel Urós took months to devise a negative-positive system for these characters. Hypnotic, charming sophisticated.

OCR A and OCR B are standardized, monospaced fonts designed for Optical Character Recognition" on electronic devices. OCR A was developed to meet the standards set by the American National Standards Institute in 1966 for the processing of documents by banks, credit card companies and similar businesses. This font was intended to be "read" by scanning devices, and not necessarily by humans. However, because of its "techno" look, it has been re-discovered for advertising and display graphics. OCR B was designed in 1968 by Adrian Frutiger to meet the standards of the European Computer Manufacturer's Association. It was intended for use on products that were to be scanned by electronic devices as well as read by humans. OCR B was made a world standard in 1973, and is more legible to human eyes than most other OCR fonts. Though less appealingly geeky than OCR A, the OCR B version also has a distinctive technical appearance that makes it a hit with graphic designers.

OCR A and OCR B are standardized, monospaced fonts designed for Optical Character Recognition" on electronic devices. OCR A was developed to meet the standards set by the American National Standards Institute in 1966 for the processing of documents by banks, credit card companies and similar businesses. This font was intended to be "read" by scanning devices, and not necessarily by humans. However, because of its "techno" look, it has been re-discovered for advertising and display graphics. OCR B was designed in 1968 by Adrian Frutiger to meet the standards of the European Computer Manufacturer's Association. It was intended for use on products that were to be scanned by electronic devices as well as read by humans. OCR B was made a world standard in 1973, and is more legible to human eyes than most other OCR fonts. Though less appealingly geeky than OCR A, the OCR B version also has a distinctive technical appearance that makes it a hit with graphic designers.

Out from a turn-of-the-century cartoon, Pennywhistle evokes the silly symphonies and merry melodies of an earlier age, while playing footloose and fancy free for a modern age.

CookieNookie is a silly but cute font, great for your scrapbook pages or where you want a unique handwritten look. Leave lots of leading...the ascenders and descenders are long!

Ever seen a monkey with pants? Probably would look silly, and that's excactly how this font looks! A jumpy, weird and funny font - unpredictable and ready for ounzes of fun!

Small headline font family inspired by discreet unobtrusive technical labels on various electronic devices. It is recognizable for its geometrical character complemented with surprising detail. Suitable for designing printed matters, posters, magazines and visual data output.

Pendragon is one of our favorite font we have made. It’s sweet and bold script font that will useful for any typography project. Pendragon supports multilingual characters and easy to use in any device or program.

I was working on an unrelated job with curls and wondered how I could apply them to a font. Well, here it is, all pair-kerned. A little silly but fun.

A font with all the symbol signs used by the U.S. Department of Transportation, as provided for in the MUTCD (Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices). Drawn to meet the US DOT's exact specifications for highway signs.

Edelgotisch is a bold Jugendstil design that shows its strong blackletter roots. This typeface, along with a set of initial letters, was released by Schelter & Giesecke of Leipzig, Germany about 1898 and is very similar to Eckmann-Schrift released by Rudhard'schen Giesserie (later Klingspor) during the same period. One suspects they may have been in direct competition. The decorative devises of the initial letters for Edelgotisch have a simpler, bolder line than for Eckmann. In the initial letter set, the ligatures aesc (AE) and ethel (OE) were generated by embedding the ‘A’ and ‘O’ respectively inside the upper left corner of the ‘E.’ The accented caps were given similar treatment, with the exception of the cedilla. Regarding the I-diaeresis, we considered rotating the accent ninety degrees to avoid and possible misconstruction. On further reflection however, we realized it was silly and unnecessary. No one would look at the accented letterform and see anything but what it is. We have also included four decorative ornaments and a frame with each font.

This typeface was drawn to create short headlines (quickly) for one of my projects (a set of illustrations featuring The Evil Rat, imagined character). Each character (here I mean "glyph") has it's own personality, mostly evil one (jokingly) — that is why the font is called "The Monsters". The font was drawn on paper, then scanned and traced. It has both Latin and Cyrillic sets, since it was used with both. Monsters are good for short notes of comic or ironic style.

Is a unique font, Sanwich sans is made with a messy character arrangement and an expanded width to get a silly and playful impression, suitable for use in casual themed graphic designs.

A gothic style script based on a writing system devised by J.R.R. Tolkien, also known as the Tengwar of Feanor, used for many languages in Middle-earth. NOTE: this font comes with an interpretation guide in pdf format.

A cursive style script based on a writing system devised by J.R.R. Tolkien, also known as the Tengwar of Feanor, used for many languages in Middle-earth. NOTE: this font comes with an interpretation guide in pdf format.

Poca is made up of right angles and regular strokes. It is a De Stijl typeface provided by Peret. We devised the lower case letters and added some Peret dingbats. Fifteen years later we added a fun bitmap version.

In 1905, artist and illustrator Will Bradley devised the pattern for this charming face. A little bit quirky and a whole lot of fun. Both versions support the Latin 1252, Central European 1250, Turkish 1254 and Baltic 1257 codepages.

Heretic surrounds itself with an atmosphere of evil, carnival freakshow and no-nonsense thuggery. Mix the black and condensed weights of this octagonal blackletter together for more interesting, yet disconcerting results.

The Brazilian illustrator, Flavio Morais, devised this amusing display alphabet to have his own font for his former website. We helped to digitalize it and encouraged him to complete it with a series of “chiringuito” drawings. More about his work here.

Mooshine is a crisp clear pixelfont, ideal for smallprint, banners, website buttons, navbars, mobile devices and the like. Mooshine contains a wide range of accented characters and is optimized for use at (any multiple of) size 10pt without anti-aliasing.

Gummed Alphabet JNL was modeled from a 1960s-era package of foil embossed gummed letters. This type of lettering device was sold through stationery, variety stores and similar merchants, and could be used for personalizing items or making small signs.

Digital Clock Font is a typeface designed specifically for use in digital alarm clocks and other timekeeping devices. It is characterized by clear, legible numerals and symbols, and a modern, minimalistic design that is easy to read at a quick glance.

Inspired by the hand lettered opening credits for “(The Many Loves of) Dobie Gillis” – a teen-oriented televisioncomedy that ran from 1959 to 1963 on CBS - Teenagers JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.

British type designer Neville Brody created this display FontFont in 1993. The family contains 3 weights and is ideally suited for poster and billboards and sports. FF World provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures. It comes with proportional lining figures.

British type designer Neville Brody created this display FontFont in 1993. The family contains 4 weights and is ideally suited for poster and billboards and sports. FF Tokyo provides advanced typographical support with features such as ligatures. It comes with proportional lining figures.