In Hammered all the letters are made up of hammers.

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A complete figurative alphabet was published by one Peter Flotner (ca. 1485-1546) in 1534. In Flotner’s alphabet, naked or nearly-naked figures are posed singly or disposed in pairs to form the various letters. Unlike de Grassi’s alphabet, we find only human figures here, no other animals.

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If you grew up in the north, you may have stomped out letters in the fresh snow during the winter. Memories of such winter fun helped inspire these typefaces. If one can do the typeface with shoes or boots, one can also do it with barefeet and hands. Non-human variants are possible, such as bird tracks.

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Imagine that you had a bunch of pencils of various sizes and you wanted to make a set of letters with them. You would probably come up with something similar to one of these three typefaces.

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CoughingNails is a novelty font made up of cigarettes and an occasional match.

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Min Wang, Adobe graphic designer, and Jim Wasco, Adobe type staff member, have always been fascinated by mythology from around the world. They carefully studied illustrations of legendary beasts from various cultures.

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This all capital, cutting edge typeface is aptly named - ‘Faithful’ for the halos that adorn every character and ‘Fly’ because it’s too cool for other words! In an age that’s burgeoning with fresh typographic styles, Faithful Fly will surely stick around. Created by New York designer, David Sagorski.

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Teapots with letters on them.

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This typeface is intended to bring Christmas cheer. It has a very limited character set.

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Better be careful...the Mutaints are loose...Mutaints bite...watch your fingers!

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Created by Italian graphic designer and illustrator Lorenzo Lalatta, Orchestra brings a whimsical yet elegant spin to Latin typography.

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Originally created by Craig Frazier, San Francisco designer and illustrator, for The Alphabet Critter Playbook, the clever creatures of Critter tell you their names by the letter they represent.

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Hurrah Dreidle is the perfect font for Hanukkah.

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In NeedALilly the characters are composed of threaded needles.

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HeyPumpkin is a novelty font designed for use in October.

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Candy Bits was originally designed at Bitstream as a custom project for a large printer manufacturer. Released in 1997, Candy Bits was designed by Jim Lyles. The typographic characters were fashioned after a well known American candy. The balance of the characters in the font are designed to enhance the 3D illusion by appearing to recede into the page. Soon after its completion, Mr. Lyles joined a local health club.

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The upper and lower case do not mix. Use one or the other.

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March may be a good time to use this typeface. If you want a plain version of this, try Ingone.

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A tough and industrial jack chain typeface, easily one of the most detailed chain typefaces available.

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Originally I called this font YearInYearOutYoureInUrine, but I was told that that name was too long and maybe not in good taste. I settled for WaterCloset when it was first released, but now have renamed it with a more appropriate title.

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If you grew up in the north, you may have stomped out letters in the fresh snow during the winter. Memories of such winter fun helped inspire these typefaces. If one can do the typeface with shoes or boots, one can also do it with barefeet and hands. Non-human variants are possible, such as bird tracks.

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Coffee mugs with letters on them.

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AntsyPantsy, BuggyFont, and MousyFont are based on the same design; only the building blocks--ants, bugs, and a stylized mouse--have been changed.

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AntsyPantsy, BuggyFont, and MousyFont are based on the same design; only the building blocks--ants, bugs, and a stylized mouse--have been changed.

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In WaterWorks the letters are formed from pipes. Its origins were in a specialized font for constructing mazes.

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The characters in SafetyPinned are composed of interlocked safety pins.

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This strange novelty font is descended from one of the very first typefaces I designed.

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Dinner is a novelty font in which all the letters are formed from knives, forks and spoons.

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WrenchedLetters is a novelty font in which characters are composed of wrenches and bolts.

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In these two fonts the characters are made from chains.

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Here are two fonts dedicated to oral hygene.

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Bowling pins with letters on them.

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MedicineShelf has old-fashioned looking letters on old-fashioned looking bottles.

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KlipJoint is a novelty font in which all the characters are formed from paper clips. It does not have a true set of lower case letters, but in their place is a second and often different set, of upper-case letters.

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In NailsNStaples the letters are made up of nails and staples. (Big surprise, right?) The staples are not the staples one uses to join paper, but the kind one hammers into wood.

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In NewLibrary the letters are on books, not in them.

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If you grew up in the north, you may have stomped out letters in the fresh snow during the winter. Memories of such winter fun helped inspire these typefaces. If one can do the typeface with shoes or boots, one can also do it with barefeet and hands. Non-human variants are possible, such as bird tracks.

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Novelty fonts are like spice--a little goes a long way.

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Its name, CrippledFont, might lead you to think that this font was missing important characters. It is not. Rather it is a novelty font composed of crutches and canes.

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If you grew up in the north, you may have stomped out letters in the fresh snow during the winter. Memories of such winter fun helped inspire these typefaces. If one can do the typeface with shoes or boots, one can also do it with barefeet and hands. Non-human variants are possible, such as bird tracks.

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Bumbershoot is a typeface for a rainy day--it is a novelty font constructed of umbrellas. It has two sets of upper-case characters, but there are some differences between the sets.

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Four letters for this font came from a puzzle in a 1983 Games magazine. After seeing them, I could not resist the temptation to do a complete set of latters made from tacks, a truly tacky font.

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TiedUp is a distortion of my font named Ingone. I no longer remember which font distortion program or procedure I used to get this cut-up or ragged effect.

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In late 1988 or early 1989 I noticed that the circular form of the sickle and the linear form of the hammer could be used to form all the letters of the alphabet. In an effort to sell other typefaces, I released the result as a promotional typeface, first in Type 3 format as Stalingrad, and later in Type 1 format as RedLetter. This version has been revised.

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AntsyPantsy, BuggyFont, and MousyFont are based on the same design; only the building blocks--ants, bugs, and a stylized mouse--have been changed.

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Zarrow is a novelty font made up of arrows and other items from archery. I released an early version of this typeface as promoware.

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An ugly, violent typeface.

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Zootype was designed in 1997 by Victor Garcia of Argentina and as a winner of our Second International Type Design Contest is included in our TakeType Library. In the words of the designer, the design concept is meant to display the ‘funny, happy joy of animal nature.’ Animal heads peek into the block forms of the letters, giving the font a unique whimsical character.

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Linotype Animalia is part of the Take Type Library, chosen from the contestants of Linotype’s International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. The font was designed by German artist Johannes Plass and is full of surprises. It is like a walk through the zoo, where the j is a shark chasing a small fish and the K is a moose gazing at the sky. Linotype Animalia is intended exclusively for use in headlines with large point sizes.

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