Luckily, I am not one for making rash decisions. I usually line up all the consequences and mull it over for a while, before committing to something. That doesn’t mean I don’t regret some decisions I made, but those I…
I don’t often use taxis, as I live in a very small village and have a bicycle and a car. When I guide tours abroad, however, I sometimes use taxis and it always surprises me that they seem to have…
I am in Japan right now, guiding a tour group. At night I usually eat a bowl of steaming noodles; soba, udon, ramen – whatever is available! I just love noodles! When I was working on this font, I was…
I read something about Chaos Theory and that it may not be that ‘random’ at all; the order it follows is just really hard to predict. I quite enjoy reading about these things: black holes, Chaos Theory, possible new dimensions…
A long time ago, I bought a pack of Japanese brush-pens. I used them for a while, but then I moved house, renovated it, sold it and moved again, so the pens got stuck in some box. A week ago…
I am not entirely sure why I called this font Safety Switch. Maybe it is because I am renovating a ’30’s house and the Safety Switch has kept me from harm a couple of times! Safety Switch is a nice,…
My wife was going to the cinema and asked me what she should wear. I didn’t have a clue, as I didn’t know one should dress up for the cinema (but apparently it’s a thing…). Anyways, I was thinking about…
Popular Solution is a font I made with a soft, pointy brush and Chinese ink on 180gr water colour paper. The name? Well, I often use a random word generator for inspiration and look for a combination of words that…
Benjiro is a Japanese name for boys. It means ‘peaceful’ or ‘enjoy peace’, which is something we all really need right now. I settled on a Japanese name, as this font was made with ink and a broken bamboo satay…
Snippers is a Dutch word, meaning ‘scraps’. Usually it is used for paper scraps. It comes from the word ‘snippen’, which is an obsolete word meaning ‘to cut’. I like making cut-out fonts, but since it takes so much time…