Medieval calligraphy is so beautiful, dense, and strangely uniform… it’s impressive how disciplined people were about the art of writing before printing was invented. Alkhemikal is my tribute to handwritten blackletter! Instead of keeping strictly to traditional blackletter style, all characters get a little more room and uppercase letters eschew extra ornamentation to improve legibility. …
The first font I ever released, but the last to be updated! This update was quite an undertaking, mostly because I kept flip-flopping back and forth how I wanted to go about it. In the end, I realized that the changes I was making were taking the font too far away from its origins, and …
Large update to a tiny font! For the most part the update was to add lots (around 240) of accented characters, but there were a few changes… Uppercase M & N: Both of these were frankly awful. Really clashed with the rest of the characters bigtime. For the M I made it more like the …
Back when I was in middle school, I was in a funny sort of school district–the district had multiple (like 4?) small elementary schools, one “upper” elementary school (pretty much just 5th grade), then two middle schools and two high schools. Kids throughout the district were distributed among the schools with seeming wild abandon. The …
The first of several font updates I’ve been working on is now complete! Originally I only intended to add international characters to this font, but when I really sat down and took a look at the font… well, I think I’ve definitely improved over the years. Some of the choices I made with the original …