The designer’s father, Philip Grecian drew a logo for his business, Grecian Creative Services and asked Alex Grecian to expand on the logo. Alex extrapolated from the existing letters, creating a font to compliment his father’s logo.

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Betabet was drawn using traditional serif fonts as a guideline. The scribbled style and serifs combine to make an unusual font.

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Inspired by the unique lettering style of a poster seen in a well-known chocolate shop in San Diego.

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A fun, informal font, drawn with a mouse, Chalk emulates the spontaneity of handwriting, but with a thick, bold flair reminiscent of a school chalk board. This was the designer’s first attempt at an unstructured font design and has proved to be popular enough that followups, such as Pumpkin Pie and Wordplay soon followed.

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Chockablock is an homage to Charles Schulz’s lettering in the comic strip Peanuts. It’s not an exact match for Schulz’s work, but the inspiration is obvious, as is the designer’s love and respect for Sparky’s body of work.

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Ross, named after Harold Ross, is also available as part of the Algonquin Collection at a special price. Six font families inspired by the great wits of the Algonquin Round Table. Buy all six and get two free!

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Classical has the look and feel of a simplified old English Swash font, but it’s much more legible. It was created for use as drop caps and has a limited character set.

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Hand-lettered font, based on the designer’s own handwriting.

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Boller is based on handwriting found on the blueprints for the Jayhawk Theater in Kansas. Thomas Williams & Boller Bros. Architects are the only names found on the blueprints.

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Designed to be the ultimate grunge font, Kryptonite and Kryptonite Bizarro are nearly illegible at small sizes, but can't be touched at large sizes.

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Christy Marie likes fun fonts. This was the first font to meet with her approval. It’s bouncy, teenage girl sort of font and would do well at parties or the mall.

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Highboy Ornate is an ornamental version of Highboy. It’s thinner than Highboy, but compliments it well.

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Another cartoony handwriting font, Hinny (named for the offspring of a donkey and a horse, but less common than a mule) is unassuming and narrow, perfect for fitting a lot of words in a small space.

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A casual, inline party font. Hubbub is always relaxed and confident in every social situation. comes in regular and bold.

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Rounded, tapered and bold, Bindle was designed as an alternative to overused or outdated informal sans serifs.

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Parker, named after Dorothy Parker, is also available as part of the Algonquin Collection at a special price. Six font families inspired by the great wits of the Algonquin Round Table. Buy all six and get two free!

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Aldersgate was designed as a comfortable, easy-to-read sans serif alternative font for a series of retirement community brochures. It was intended to compliment existing sans serif fonts for subheads and captions and is ideal when a conservative but subtly different font is needed.

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The sort of thing you used to see on hand painted signs.

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Apple Juice has a straightforward, childlike simplicity, but has been divided in the middle to create a bottom-heavy contrast.

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Extreme Junction was created for use in designing logos, signs and letterheads and has a limited character set. The uppercase letters are outline versions of the plain lowercase letters.

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Bella was designed in a hurry for the birthday party of a little girl named Isabella. The character set was expanded later and works for a variety of uses. It has a fun, informal quality that made it ideal for a preteen girl’s party, but the sharp serifs and thick strokes make it equally suited to edgier occasions.

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Please note that this font has a limited character set.

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Kings in Disguise is a chunky, balloon font of the sort used extensively during the 1970s. It has a retro, disco feel and is ideal for signs and logos. The name comes from a great comic book series published in the late 1980s.

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Part of the Zoot Suite of offbeat handwriting fonts, Herringbone is based on a fast and sloppy formal script the designer has been using since he was a child.

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Helvetian Times is an unusual typeface. It clearly thinks it’s a standard text font, but the offbeat letter shapes and inconsistent serifs combine to form something that defies conventional categorization.

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Inside, Whiffle is a standard, sans serif informal font.

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Peppercorn seems to have been thickly painted on a rough surface. Comes in regular and a spattered Black version. Based on the font Hubbub, which compliments it well.

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Philadelphia is all stars, stripes and Fourth of July fun. It is based on the text font Aldersgate, which compliments it well.

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Cordial is a solid, friendly font. Like other informal script fonts, Cordial works in nearly any context.

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Also available as part of the Zoot Suite collection.

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Cerulean echoes the elegant lines of an Old English typeface, but is pared down for versatility.

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Thick, ballooned chunks, strung together by thinner sections, Kerndog looks as if it’s been constructed from flexible corn dogs.

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A font within a font.

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The forerunner of my font, Natural Dark.

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Klondike began life as an update of the discontinued Elemeno font Pourpoint. It took on a life of its own early in the design process and went in a completely different direction.

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With a rounded shape and a burlap texture, what else could we call this font? Circus Peanut is oblique and comes equipped with its own drop shadow. It’s meant to be used at large sizes.

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Aspic was inspired by the handwriting and drawings of Robert Blechman. Although informal, squiggly and even sloppy, Blechman’s work communicates a quiet dignity which this font aspires to.

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Combination grunge and handwriting font, Darnitol is designed to look crude, but legible at any size.

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Cadence was designed for a computer consulting company called Shamrock Solutions. The logo needed a Celtic font for the word “shamrock” that complimented the tech font used for the word “solutions.” Most Celtic fonts didn't hold up well next to the tech font, which led to the creation of Cadence.

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Harpo is a naturally condensed font, better at large sizes.

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Typewriters are becoming scarce, but fonts designed to look like they came from typewriters aren't.

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In the world of interior design, a Highboy is a tall chest of drawers with legs. Although this font is wide and bold, it seems ideal for storage.

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Thick, wide and medieval, Dragon Drop would feel at home in Arthurian times. The name is an obvious play on words that the designer saved for a long time before creating the right font to use with it.

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Borealis has an over-bitmapped, whimsical quality, but retains the strength and lines of the underlying design.

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Big, thick and chunky, Bastinado is imposing, but the bat-like, scalloped edges give it a sinister presence. Bastinado is an ancient Asian method of torture in which the bottoms of the victim’s feet are beaten until he can no longer walk. This font looks like it wants to catch other fonts in a dark alley.

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Named for the late illustrator, Edward Gorey. One of the greats!

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Guildenstern is a reworking of the font Primrose, designed to compliment both Primrose and its sister font Rosencrantz.

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Roughhewn, but oddly formal, Bungalow is a rock-solid casual font.

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To make an odd dominos-style train, type an uppercase letter, then lowercase letters and end your sentence, phrase or word by holding down the option key and typing the last letter or puncuation.

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