Sparks

& More!

Enjoy, and visit often; I'm always adding new fonts! The fontworks are a division of Cumberland Games & Diversions, home of PDF paper toys, RPG eBooks and more.

Sparks™ fonts are paper miniatures, in font form! Just install the fonts on your computer, and you can print out pages and pages of paper minis in any scale you want, from astronauts to skeletal necromancers to doughty Dwarf warriors to Bigass Ogres to ninjas and giant robots! They're Windows TrueType fonts; read all about them, download the freeware set, and tell your friends!

Thunder Thighs It's a freeware full-keyboard set (with extras) and a dropshadow variant, a playful, heavy-duty caps font that hearkens back to 1970s cartoon logos and other friendly things. It's one of my favorite of my newer designs; it's just all chunky and harmless. Recently, it even made its way onto some bookshelves as the header font in a troll sourcebook for the Hero Wars RPG.

Spacedock Stencil is a stencilized, slightly stressed adaptation of a classic typeface that has long been associated with space-adventure fiction (used for signage in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Space: 1999, the Star Trek films, and many others). I'd seen mock-ups of stencil versions before as standalone works of graphic design and set-dressing, but nobody bothered fonting it! So, I went in with a carving knife and a photoshop filter and viola. Freeware.

Futurex Apocalypse is my contribution to the "Futurex Project" at Apostrophic Labs. I dragged Futurex Bold into Photoshop to work it over with a rusty chain and a tub of acid. The result, Futurex Apocalypse, is now yours. Freeware.

The Temphis Runes are what I've been wanting to build ever since I first learned to make fonts; Guardians of Order gave me an excuse to finally do it. It's a complete family of eight fantasy rune fonts in a variety of styles, from calligraphic to "sans-serif" and handwritten. It includes a PDF Rune Guide booklet, a set of printable Rune Cards, and new insights into Uresia: Grave of Heaven, a fantasy world I wrote for GOO's Big Eyes, Small Mouth roleplaying game. For more Uresia fonts, check out the cool Uresia Arcana mapping set, too!

Yank and Newfie are freeware handwriting fonts. My wife, Sandra, is a genuine Newfoundlander . . . and Newfoundlanders call Americans "yanks," so it was easy coming up with names for these two fonts!

HexPaper is nine characters that let you make graph paper on your printer - hex grids (natch), quad paper (both simple and divided), and isometric (for making those cool "Ravenloft" style angled floorplans). Click Here!

Flagstones is a graphic-design aid for those who like to make cool dungeon floorplans in miniature scale (and it's useful for a large variety of creative game-related projects). Whether you play with dungeons (and dragons) in an RPG or in games like MB's HeroQuest, this little font is a useful creative tool. Click Here!

Wolves & Ravens is a simple fantasy font (freeware) based on a player handout I created for a fantasy campaign in my teenage years. There was a cryptic message carved into the side of a wooden footbridge, as an omen of things to come. The handwriting was meant to represent a quasi-runic style of Roman letters, of the sort that might be crudely carved with a dagger into the soft wood of the bridge rail.

Sadly, I have no reliable way to make Macintosh versions of my fonts. However, several nice folks have reported that the freeware TTConverter gives good results! If you're a Mac user and find a font that interests you, give TTConverter a try, and let me know if it worked! If you run OS X, you may even be able to use Windows TrueType without conversion.