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…
My son Boris has an insect jar; one of those plastic containers with a magnifying glass lid. He and his bestie often run around in the garden looking for critters. They then place them inside the jar, together with some…
A ‘Sparklemuffin’ is an Australian species of spider, belonging to the jumping spider family. I don’t know how I found out about this bizarrely named spider, but I decided to name this font after it! Sparklemuffin is a reincarnation of…
I was watching a science fiction movie with my son Boris the other day. It had a character in it called the ‘Supreme Leader’. I thought that title was hilarious, so I decided to name a font after it. Supreme…
I have always found it quite interesting that the stuff that makes us who we are for a large part comes from chemicals. The average 70 kg adult human body contains around 60 chemical elements, of which 29 are thought…