The art of Japanese calligraphy “SHODO” has three basic techniques: Tome(stop stroke), Hane(pring stroke)and Harai(sweep stroke). They are often used at the end of a stroke. Every time I see Japanese Brush strokes, they are associated with the Serifs of wild-west types.

We attempted to mix Japanese Brush stroke and Ninja with Western glyph and Cowboy. Killernuts is expressive of Ninja’s mystics and suspense and Cowboy’s wildness and hardiness.