Apple Butter was a childhood favorite of mine. Strawberry-rhubarb preserves, apple butter, and a creamy potato and macaroni soup are my three fondest food-related memories, and all three were the work of Etta Collins, my great-grandmother. Something about the look of this month's font got me thinking of those days. Freeware.

Mexlar is an alien script it took me a year to nail down, and I'm very happy with the final result. This is the writing of the red-shelled, hooting alien prudes I introduced in Points in Space. Handy for Game Masters in need of an alien/fantasy alphabet your players haven't seen before! Goofy freeware.

Nicotine Stains is the result of continual exposure Austin's bar-band scene (and the resulting handbills), as well as what amounts to a dirty little thrill from seeing nice, clean type thrashed and mangled. I regard myself as a knight in whatever army opposes the symmetrical and regular things in the world, a champion of the rumpled, the worn, the comfortably lived-in and casually discarded. Rock on. Freeware.

Pigeon Street includes uppercase, lowercase, and a lot of punctuation. Not a complete keyboard set, but very close. I was writing about eccentric inhabitants of a fantasy world, and Mrs. Widley appeared in my mind, carefully labeling her jam labels with her glare focused and her tongue stuck out of the corner of her mouth. It's her idea of "fancy," and it might make a nice font for fantasy signage that feels homey without being overtly medieval. Freeware.

Lunatic is my earlier (stiffer, caffeine-wracked) handwriting font. It's perfect for corresponding with homicidal maniacs, disturbed Cthulhu cultists, and similar friendlies. According to correspondence from users, earlier versions of Lunatic have been employed in projects ranging from RPG handouts (the handwriting of a child werewolf) to a 10-page final essay for a Psychology class! I use it for map labels in Points in Space!

Cock Boat "You can name it anything you like," I said. Amy "Rogue" Miles, my sister-in-spirit from back east in Virginia, was visiting Sandra and I in Texas and so, naturally, I had her "working in the font mines." Apparently, the phrase "Here comes the cock boat!" was used in an off-color Dilbert parody online somewhere, and Rogue had found the term charming. Share it with your family; I'll be sharing it with mine. Freeware.

Skuntch I've played a bit with the ever-popular "stressed" approach to making a font, where you take a traditional typeface of some kind and make it look like it's been printed, scratched, faded, bloated, crumpled, discarded, abused and so on . . . and I've done a lot of hand-drawn, playful fonts, too. When I sat down to draw Skuntch, I was doing the latter in the mood for the former, so I got messy with a calligraphy marker! Fun freeware.

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.