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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.
AntsyPantsy, BuggyFont, and MousyFont are based on the same design--only the building blocks have been changed. In the first two of these novelty fonts, the characters are composed of ants and a bug that looks a lot like a cockroach, and in the third the characters are made of a stylized mouse. They must be printed at a large point size if the vermin inside are to be seen by the reader. Unlike many of my novelty fonts, these fonts have true lower case letters.
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.