When I was in high school, I would wreck my notebooks with multiple layers of graffiti tags, which would start in the margins, and then creep in to cover the entire page. I developed a sensibility towards a very fast, expressive use of my hand, which later easily and naturally translated into brush. I used this style typographically on several projects throughout the years, and even turned it into a signature illustration style. Recently, by repeating letters hundreds of times each with brush on paper, this ad-hoc brush style became Streetbrush.

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Inspired by a series of handwritten menus produced in 1980, La Carte is a stylish but legible script that sets as well in body copy as it does in headlines.

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Copa Sharp is a dynamic typestyle with sharp, pointed terminals and a quick flare to it. It comes complete with several variants to add to its impact, namely a dropshadow style.

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Alizé is a three-weight typeface inspired by the chancery italic of the 16th century. It is a high-contrast face, created with syncopations in axes and proportions and subtle irregularities that form a lively and delicate weave, suitable for setting a single word, a special expression, or a short block of prose.

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Wild and free as usual, but now with a touch of sharp focus presented in
curled ascenders and descenders, swashy care-free caps, and very unique
figures.

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Inspired by lettering from a series of old detergent ads, Schnitzle is a stylish and playful typeface.

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Nick Cooke’s G-Type foundry continues to trailblaze and top of the sales charts is the fabulous Olicana typeface.

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Mustang is a powerfully expressive brush font that combines an edgy urban aesthetic with a smooth feminine flow. Some have suggested that Mustang is romantic. Some say it has something to do with speed or freedom. While precisely what Mustang expresses is up to debate, there’s no doubt that it’s expressing it with intensity.

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Philip Bouwsma’s offbeat mind, always working in mysterious ways, brings us one the unlikeliest syntheses of historical influences in a perfectly fluid, organic, and highly expressive connected script.

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I wrote Freedom Writer out of a desire for a handwritten script that’s all-connecting. It’s partly based on my own handwriting style, and somewhat influenced by hand-lettered scripts of the 1940s and 1950s.

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Bello is a brush typeface for headline point sizes - it’s big & beautiful. Bello has lots of ligatures and start and ending swashes. They are automatic in Bello Pro, which is a cross-platform OpenType font with many OpenType features.

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Youngblood is a non-connected formal script with tall, sweeping ascenders and two alternates. These alternate forms can be mixed and matched for a custom look, and Youngblood is stronger in weight and is better suited for display work than most script fonts.

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Montag is an extended, rounded sans-serif.

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Mahalia draws inspiration from vintage hand-lettering, but adds a modern, European twist.

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Olidia is a script with tall sweeping ascenders packed with alternates and ligatures.

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Updated in 2009, Chennai has new weights and OpenType features. Chennai is a simplified sans-serif with a full complement of OpenType alternates. The typeface is rounded, slightly extended and geometric. Over fifty OpenType alternate characters are available, including swashed lower forms, traditional caps and a traditionally formed lowercase. Chennai also includes seven style sets, oldstyle figures, and small caps. Please see the sample .PDF to see these in action.

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This typeface was created by writing with a brush pen, selecting the best characters, scanning and tracing exactly to maintain maximum character integrity. Extensive kerning ensures an even flow when set as text, so Gizmo appears as quickly-written handwriting.

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Spring is a lively contemporary script modeled on the brush lettering of its designer, Garrett Boge.

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Weird Bill is Squid’s tribute to his most prominent influence, Bill Campbell, model kit box illustrator extraordinaire and creator of the Weird-Ohs!.

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Dienstag is an extended sans-serif and a new companion to insigne’s popular Montag family.

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Based on the hit album by Glen Campbell, Southern Nights is the font with a style that’s “free as a breeze,” as the song says.

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Inspired by a piece of cigarette pack lettering by the great A. M. Cassandre, Nick designed the rest of the characters as an experiment. Geetype evokes the 1920s & 30s and is an unusual, eye-catching display face.

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Picklepie was created by Lydia, aged around 6 at the time, for use in her own artwork and things like party invitations, birthday cards and secret files. It looked so lively, happy and original that, with encouragement from me, her dad, she went on to draw all the letter and number forms, including alternate versions of some, entirely unaided.

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An endearing upright script with outspoken shapes, casual connections and generous swashes. Somewhere between very legible handwriting and calligraphy, Dominique captures the attention of a much larger audience than either strictly elegant calligraphy or regular everyday handwriting.

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Teaspoon was originally designed by Haley Fiege as a project-specific font in 2007, then completed and produced by Canada Type for commercial viability in 2008. With a personality that can only be described as “ironic cute”, it serves as a much needed alternative for the old overused poster faces, such as Cooper Black and Gill Sans Extra Bold. Words that look good set in Teaspoon include puppies, rainbows, salmonella poisoning and Tom Cruise.

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With all the aloha you could ask for, famous tiki artist and sculptor Squid has created Bamboozle! It looks like real bamboo because it’s made from real bamboo! Really! Bamboozle is perfect for any Hawaiian luau, pig roast, tropical gathering, or enjoying strong rum drinks with friends!

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The new block in town; BoxyBlocks. BoxyBlocks is a new 3D font. Each glyph has been crafted by hand providing a unique design. BoxyBlocks is a versatile font and is suitable for many applications, especially for eye catching visual materials.

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Mullen Hand is the fresh digitization and expansion of a Jerry Mullen metal typeface called Repro, originally published by ATF in 1953.

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The idea for Lipstick came from a snippy little note Patrick Griffin’s better half left for him one night. The note was tacked to the bedroom door. “COUCH TONIGHT!” it exclaimed in red lipstick on a paper towel. All because the hockey game was on at the same time as American Idol. Sheesh. But since all is fair in love and hockey, and since Patrick was used to such cruel treatment, he shrugged his shoulders and let his mind wander about the concept of using lipstick as a writing tool, and pondering the possibilities of a lipstick font.

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Digitalis was created from a desire to make an original æsthetically pleasing rounded typeface using the minimum of strokes. Each character has been reduced to only the most essential elements, yet retains its own beauty and elegance. Due to the contrast between thick and thin it is surprisingly legible when set as text.

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An interpretation of the lettering of contemporary illustrator Amanda Duffy, aka Losergirl.

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Stobart is a script font based on the characters written in a letter by Mr Henry Stobart, dated 1899.

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Chikita greets you with big, happy eyes, and all the energy in the world. She wants to skip the talking and get to the dance floor, where she owns the beat and sways like a tongue of fire. She doesn't settle for anything less than everyone in the room fixating on her, and every pair of eyes is indeed happy to oblige. Being both the noumenon and phenomenon of the party, she remains in your mind long after closing time. And you just know the next time you see her your heart will skip a beat and a welcome wave of contentedness will wash over you.

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James Paul is a versatile display font based on the designer’s handwriting. The letterforms are legible even at small sizes. When set bigger, this bold script reveals hairline ink trails that add rhythm to its lively forms.

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Mirabel is based on the handwriting of Beverly Bouwsma (Philip’s mother), which she developed in the 1930s in, as she puts it, an act of teenage rebellion. In the 1960s, Philip gave her a broad-edged Osmiroid fountain pen which she took to immediately and has used ever since, along with the computer fonts he made from her script.

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Hey kids! What’s wacky, bouncy, and jam-packed with excitement and thrills? It’s DOINKY! That’s right, you'll have bucket-loads of fun with this new OpenType font from Sideshow. Amaze your friends with tons of DOINKY ALTERNATES! Yes, DOINKY will make you the envy of all your pals so order yours today! (Batteries not included. Sold separately or in the big action-packed Doinky Play Set!)

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Creaky Solid is for all you hipsters that prefer a nutty retro font that’s a little less freaky and a lot less tiki. Dig 'em all daddy!!

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What do you imagine the ideal casual invitation font would look like? It has to be cheerful, inviting, legible, creative, and loads of fun. But first and foremost, it has to look like real handwriting. Fonts seeming like real handwriting are always a major task, and although Canada Type already has plenty of fonts that solve the “looks like handwriting” issue in a variety of ways, we're once again raising the bar a little higher with this one.

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Kasuga Brush is a contemporary script with eastern influence and authentic brush drawn character.

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Inspired by many hand-lettered European package designs.

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Cooper Black's second coming to American design in the mid-sixties, after almost four decades of slumber, can arguably be credited with (or, depending on design ideology, blamed for) the domino effect that triggered the whole art nouveau pop poster jam of the 1960s and 1970s. By the early 1970s, though Cooper Black still held its popular status (and, for better or for worse, still does), countless so-called hippie and funk faces were competing for packaging and paper space. The American evolution of the genre would trip deeper into psychedelia, drawing on a rich history of flared, flourished and rounded design until it all dwindled and came to a halt a few years into the 1980s. But the European (particularly German) response to that whole display type trend remained for the most part cool and reserved, drawing more on traditional art nouveau and art deco sources rather than the bottomless jug of new ideas being poured on the other side of the pond. One of the humorous responses to the “hamburgering” of typography was Friedrich Poppl’s Poppl Heavy, done in 1972, when Cooper Black was celebrating its 50th anniversary. It is presented here in a fresh digitization under the name Gator (a tongue-in-cheek reference to Ray Kroc, the father of the fast food chain).

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A free-spirited hand-script font. Very similar to pre-computer hand-written letttering with a ruling pen.

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Hey kids! What’s wacky, bouncy, and jam-packed with excitement and thrills? It’s DOINKY! That’s right, you'll have bucket-loads of fun with this new OpenType font from Sideshow. Amaze your friends with tons of DOINKY ALTERNATES! Yes, DOINKY will make you the envy of all your pals so order yours today! (Batteries not included. Sold separately or in the big action-packed Doinky Play Set!)

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Creaky Tiki was created for the rum-swillin' castaways out there who crave exotic tribal rituals with a crazy jungle beat!

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Savage Hipsters was designed by German pinstriper Tom Plate for Sideshow and all you retro kustom beatniks.

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Tulda is a very lively lettering font originally drawn for a German calendar. The optional symbols feature over 72 festive renderings for just about any occasion. This font is also available as an OpenType font with over 500 characters.

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Gelato is expressive, and fun fusion between calligraphy and stencil producing a unique and exciting effect.

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You are looking at the friendliest, happiest and most faithful of puppies. It comes to greet you as soon as your eyes see it, radiates its joy, wags its tail, jumps in circles, and begs to be played with.

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Kasuga, Japanese for spring day, is a contemporary script with eastern influence.

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Handwriting fonts have a great disadvantage when it comes to double letters: they look fake.

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Adams is a revival and major expansion of Dolf Overbeek’s Studio typeface and Flambard, its bold counterpart, originally published by the Amsterdam Type Foundry in 1946 and 1954. This digital version adds small caps and a new light weight.

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A chunky, laid-back typeface inspired by a hand-painted notice on the doors of a mechanic’s workshop in Plymouth, Tobago. Two different mostly-uppercase alphabets in one font help to keep things loose.

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Kairengu is a casual and lively rounded sans serif. The characters are “gloopy” as if ink was poured onto page surface. Kairengu is a great choice whenever you need an amusing face with a lot of character.

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It creates art; Brushed.

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The first handwritten font from CheapProFonts - and what a beauty it is!

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Creaky Frank is for all you boils n' ghouls who dig your fonts fresh from the grave...you know, like creepsville, man!

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Quiller is another catch from the hot metal days, another one that managed through the fingers of both the photo-typers and digitizers of last 4 decades.

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On the border between formal and informal, Amescote is a fairly conventional sans-serif but it’s a font which has a bit of its own personality.

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Yet another member of the Weird Bill dysfunctional font system!

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A revival of sorts, Freaky Frog BF is modeled after an 1887 design from Central Type Foundry, called Grimaldi.

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Funky Fat Jiggly PW is intended and suitable for Display use and Titles. It’s not very suitable for long paragraphs of text.

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Peppermint is wild and fun, and sweet like candy.

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Herzchen is a well developed sans serif font. The curving and swinging letter forms remind a little of serif fonts, on closer inspection, however, they rather remind of upright italics.

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Inspired in one of my fonts called Alcira.

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Yuba is a dynamic, straighforward, all-caps, comic-style typeface, complete with regular and expanded variants with their respective bold weights.

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Happy Trails is a font designed by Harry Warren, based on the lettering (all upper case) that was used on most Trailways buses from 1936 through the very early 1960s.

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Dig this cats n' kittens ... A whole heapin' helpin' of tasty art bits from Tiki retro artist Derek Yaniger!

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A lively, friendly, rounded display face with a country flavour, very suited for comedies or children’s books, as well as products with earthy, rustic, organic and rural connotations.

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Rayuela (Spanish for ‘Hopscotch’) is inspired in the ludic atmosphere of literature by Argentinean writer Julio Cortázar.

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Goofball is yet another wacky decorative typeface from Squid and Sideshow. As with most of his art and font design, Goofball is derived from Squid’s cluttered childhood recollections of greeting card and advertising lettering. Somehow it got all mushed together in his noggin and out came Goofball!

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Where’s the party? Don't forget Contempo Elan! This stunning new font comes with it’s own party ornaments. The right solution for any festive occasion, this super innovative face comes in two flavors.

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Cenizas is another masterpiece of rough-and-tumble script from the prolific Argentine duo of Koziupa and Paul.

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This font is made of many unrestrained strokes of the pen and it is perfect for a freestyle look.

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This font was originally created by talented illustrator and lettering artist Molly Z for ToyLab, an actual wacky workshop where kids invent new toys using old toy parts.

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Inspired in one of my fonts called Hiroformica. Navaja was created in connection with a design job for a football t-shirt.

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Looking for a fun, funky dingbat font that works well with your wacky and weird projects? May we suggest..... DOINKBATS! Not unlike its designer famous tiki artist and sculptor Squid, Doinkbats are a little unbalanced and a little off-kilter yet still gets the job done.

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The Poole Chiselcut faces are a useful companion to the regular Poole fonts.

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Weirdbats are the perfect complement to the Weird Bill font, Squid’s tribute to the wacky Weird-Ohs! art of Bill Campbell.

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Zugarbody is brushdrawn and compliments all kinds of texts!

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This font has sort of a rustic an ancient look, like stone carvings... The lowercase j has been redesigned to better fit with the other letters, and I've also made an alternate f (as an OpenType contextual alternate) to make a tighter fit with following tall letters.

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Heino is a decorative face with two font styles that was inspired by an old magazine lettering. Its original features include heavy serifs and tight spacing, particularly if you take the Black version.

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Ersatz has its vibrant roots in the Mediterranean climate of Spain. Tired of the functional monoline sanserif fonts used throughout Europe from road signage to corporate identity, Richard Dawson and Dave Farey, British type designers who crave color and sunlight, created a style that is refreshing and lively. The basic constructions are simple and attractive, mixing lower case shapes into the capitals - and unique letterforms into the lower case. There’s a raunchy feel to Ersatz, soft curves and back kicks, if you listen very carefully you can hear the sharp guitars and the soft tambourine of the Flamenco.

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