(available at myfonts.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. Novelty fonts should be used in extreme moderation if they are used at all.
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. (A much revised version of this is on the No-Hype Type CD as LetterTrain.) 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. But all of these gems are now on the No-Hype Type CD.
CoughingNails is a novelty font made up of cigarettes and an occasional match.