PoultrySign

Looking through microfilm of old issues of my local paper, I found this headline in a 1932 issue.

I could not recall seeing another typeface in which trapezoidal letters fit together like this and decided to create one. I ended up with a family of six faces that I named PoultrySign. The one that most closely resembles the text that inspired me is shown below:

To get the effect above, one alternates upper- and lower-case letters.

The font family has thin, regular, and bold weights in both regular width and condensed width versions. Because the typefaces are monospaced so that each character has the same width, the three styles can be used in layers to create two or three-colored type. 

I cannot think of a use I might have for it, but it was fun to create and for someone somewhere it may be just right.

I also updated several old typefaces by making a few corrections and adding a lot of extra characters, mostly accented letters used in Central and Eastern European languages. They include Twigglee, NoPain, Onyon, ForTheBirds, and Bumbershoot.

Revision of DriveEddie

About twenty five years ago I designed several irregular typefaces (such as Grundee, Dschoyphul, SarahfSlob, and DrivEddie) of the type that could be used for advertising or children's books. SarahfSlob seemed the most promising of them, so I completed a family of regular, italic, bold, and bold-italic styles. The others were interesting but I neglected them in favor of working on other designs.

This year I decided to correct some problems with DrivEddie and as began working on it, I realized that it would be fairly easy to add a bolder version. Then I realized that an even bolder version and oblique styles might might the face more useable. The end result is that what was for many years a one-style family now has six. It has limited uses, but one of those uses might be for text in children's books.

Below are the six styles of the font.

In addition, I have updated six fonts that are sold on fontspring.com: IanSegoe, and early medieval type font; JasperSqueeze, an attempt at a serifed text font; Quatsity, a hybrid created by blending two other fonts; Stamper, in which letters outlined by a stamp shape; Swanville, a very early bold face; and XAabced, another very early attempt at a serifed text face. All but Stamper had additional accented characters added.

New family members: Kwersity and RummageSale

When I created RummageSale, I named it RummageSaleOne because I thought I might do a similar, second font of letters in a variety of styles. It took over twenty years, but there now is a RummageSale-Two. As a result, people creating lettering with mismatched type have four alternatives for each letter. In the sample below, the first two of each letter are from the original RummageSale and the second two are from the new RummageSale font.

A second family adding members is Kwersity. It had four members, Kwersity, Kwersity-Bold, KwersityWider, and KwersityWider-Bold. These have been renamed to Kwersity-Regular, Kwersity-SemiBold, Kwersity-Wide, and Kwersity-SemiBold-Wide. New bolds were constructed for both the narrower and wider styles and a shadow style was created based on Kwersity-SemiBold. The SemiBold style can be layered on top of the shadowed style to create bi-colored lettering.

Corrections and additional characters (especially the accented characters used in Eastern European languages) have been added to Handmade Font, DearJohn, Barefoot, Crippled Font, and ShirlyUJest.