DinoTracks

 Over the years I have designed a number of letterbat fonts, fonts in which the letters are made up of objects such as feet, hands, safety pins, pipes, and bugs. In 2012 I tried to make one from dinosaur tracks but abandoned it because it just did not work.

Recently I published a maze book with a maze that had walls made of dinosaur footprints. To make this maze, I elongated the footprints from the unsuccessful font. I then realized that the narrower footprints would make much better letters than my attempt in 2012. The end result was DinoTracks.

DinoTracks is readable at small point sizes, though at small sizes seeing that the letters are made of footprints is difficult. It is available on FontSpring.

Existing font families that have been expanded in the past month or two include Rundigsburg (5), FiveOh (2), Porker (1), and Sergury (3).

New family members, Seasick & Pedestrian

In the past few weeks I have increased the Pedestrian family from one member to three members. Pedestrian is a strange font that cuts bits from footprints to make letters. The original font had right feet with toes facing up as upper-case letters and right feet with toes facing down as lower-case letters. As I was adding accented characters, I realized that the absence of left feet made the family feel incomplete. I could have added a left-foot counterpart to the original font, but instead I added two fonts, one with all the toes facing upward and a second with all the toes facing downward. Below are samples of the three members of the Pedstrian family with the original member shown first.

Pedestrian has limited uses but what surprises me a bit is that it actually is quite readable.

The other family that added new styles is Seasick. It is a distorted version of Kwesity and although I am not sure what uses it can have, I like it. I added light and extrabold styles to both Seasick and Seasick Mirror. They both wobble, but their wobbles mirror each other. The new members of the family are shown in black below.

In addition to changes in these font families, I have made corrections and added characters (especially the large group of accented characters used in Eastern European languages) to Chainletter, KlipJoint, NeedALilly, PutMyFootDown, RedLetter, SafetyPinned, TackyFont, and Zarrow.