I think it's a general rule that I'm more likely to make a useful font when I have a specific project that needs it, and that's the case with Knits and Scraps, a warm and huggy hand-drawn font (yeah, I do a lot of those) created for a book I'm finishing right now, designed with the basic goal of marrying the normal look of my hand-drawn romans (Apple Butter, Phaeton John, Heirany, etc) to a typewriter-inspired design. The result benefits from the easy legibility of typewriter forms but has the unexpected curves, jaunty serifs, and warm roundness of my more usual fare. I like it a lot; here's hoping you enjoy it too!

Knits and Scrapsis a full-keyboard set without extended characters. The base glyphs were hand-drawn in felt-tip, late one night at Luciano's Pizza & Wings, a favorite hangout of mine here in the neighborhood. The hand-drawn masters were then weight-adjusted, smoothed, and otherwise tweaked in a paint program. Snag it; it's free!

Encounter Critical: ToaSK Sampler

In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the clutches of the Slaver King, he has vowed to pillage the wealth of the kingdom ... then bring it to its knees. YOU are this barbarian. Weakened by your ordeal as a slave, wandering an unfamiliar realm filled with danger, you must use cunning, savagery, and something approximating English syntax to regain thy might, rally an army of friends to your cause, do repeated business with a Delicate Doxy, and do deadly violence unto the Slaver King! The latest Cumberland Games release is a full-length z-machine game, Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom. The freeware Sample Edition includes the complete docs, the hint-set, and the entire game environment (score-limited). Snag a copy of Frotz for your operating system, and enjoy!

Uresia: Spider Meat

The PDF I call Spider Meat is a hybrid article/extended adventure seed for use with Uresia: Grave of Heaven, but it can be easily adapted to any fantasy game with a sense of slightly off-kilter swashbuckling romance, grisly mystery, and established fondness for culinary themes and fantasy textiles. Okay, so maybe it's mainly just for Uresia, but I bet you'll enjoy it anyway (and if you've been curious about what Uresia is like, a copy of Spider Meat will help provide that "warm thrill of confusion" folks sing about). A version of this material was originally prepared for Beyond the Storm, an RPG charity anthology supporting survivors of the gulf-coast hurricane disasters of 2005; this new version includes a few spiffs, corrections, rebuilt maps, and 4% more warm, delicious gator gravy. Snag it!

In 2005, with the release of Heirany Bold-Marker I promised I'd eventually do some lighter-weight versions of Heirany. It took me a while to get around to it, but here we go:

This is another member of my growing set of hand-doodled Roman fonts (also shown above), emphasizing a casual kind of goofy warmth. Heirany Slight is a full-keyboard set with a few extras, in Windows TrueType format.