Character Set


Barefoot

(available at myfonts.com and fonts.com)

A novelty font is an extreme form of display font. Often it has letters that are made of recognizable elements, such as safety pins, knives and forks, or umbrellas.

I have done a great many novelty fonts during the eight years I have been designing typefaces. In fact one of the very first fonts I constructed, ChooChoo, was a novelty font. People who collect shareware fonts have probably seen my RedLetter font, which was again one of the very first typefaces I designed. I am not quite sure what attracts me to this type of font, but it formed the backbone of the third font CD I did for Wayzata Technology, Font Pro 5. Unfortunately Wayzata developed serious problems within months of publishing this CD, so it never got much expose. Now they are all on my No-Hype Type CD.

Barefoot, ForTheBirds, HandmadeFont, and PutMyFootDown are based on the same design, with different building blocks.

If you grew up in the north, you may have stomped out letters in the fresh snow during the winter. Memories of such winter fun helped inspire these typefaces. If one can do the typeface with shoes or boots, one can also do it with barefeet and hands. Non-human variants are possible, such as bird tracks. There were a lot of possibilities that I did not explore because other things looked like more fun, but maybe I will someday come back and play with these strange typefaces again.

These fonts are made up of a great many points with very complex letters. They will not display properly on some computers and may not print properly on some printers. If you have trouble, the problem is more likely to be your computer and/or printer than the font.

Go to Novelty 1
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altered but not revised Jan 2008