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Atlas of the Magi is wide, handmade Roman font made specifically for labeling fantasy maps. It has a nice, homey, soft feel to it that blends well with woodcut backgrounds and suchlike. I built it for a special work project; it's a small-cap font with a partial character set ( letters, numerals and limited punctuation). Freeware.


Hultog is a freeware "antiqued" font based on a munged version of an old Venetian-style typeface. I wanted an antique font that wasn't quite as grungy as most of the ordinary ones, and one that felt a little more turn-of-the-century and a little less medieval or Victorian. It was built for the same fantasy campaign as Wolves & Ravens (below). Visionary Games laid out their entire Archangel RPG in this font.

[Hultog Text Sample]


Punkinkhead It's a font full of punkinheads! But it's not just a dingbat font, it's a sneaky collection of Jack-O-Lantern templates that you can print and use. The documentation includes lots of handy tips on Jack-O-Lantern carving and preservation, too, so you'll be psyched and ready to cut gourd. Freeware.

[Punkinhead Image]


Martian Hull Markings is a freeware"alien alphabet" font in two styles, Regular and Gloopy. . . . Mars needs women, and this is the alphabet they're sporting this year on their hotrod flying saucers! The font is monospaced, with 26 characters, mapped to the normal (lowercase) alphabet, A through Z.

[Image of the Martian Hull Markings characters]


Archipelago is a very silly (freeware) font where all the letters and numerals are drawn as islands! It would make for a wonky logo, but I actually use it as a mapping font: by layering the letters over one another in unusual ways, I can quickly create any sort of continental outlines I need, and they still have a hand-drawn look. The lowercase letters are solid; the uppercase are hollow outlines (composite shown).

[Archipelago Graphic Sample]


Deco Freehand is a grungy, messy deco font I sketched out with a permanent marker on paper with a lot of bleed. When adapting the sample to font form, I decided to keep the rough edges. Mostly just a font-building exercise, but it has a bouncy kind of fun to it. Sand in the face of symmetry! If cavemen liked deco! Freeware.

[Deco Freehand Sample Image]


The Alchemist is a close cousin to both Hultog and Pigeon Street, and a cousin thrice-removed from Wolves & Ravens. Like Pigeon Street, it's the handwriting of an odd fantasy-world character. But it's a character who lives in the fantasy city Hultog is named for (which is in the same campaign as Wolves & Ravens) so, clearly, a pattern is emerging, here . . . Freeware.


Dirty Headline In a universe of stressed poster fonts with sharp edges, I needed a stressed poster font with slightly blotted edges. I built it for Fly From Evil, my crime-drama RPG. Includes a full alphabet and numeral set (small-cap), and select punctuation. Freeware.

[Dirty Headline Sample Image]


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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.

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