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Do you enjoy bicycles? So much that when you aren't riding them you spend your time on bike related design?
 
Then this font is for you.
 
BIKES is a dingbat font that lives up to its name. The capital letters are detailed silhouettes of cycles while the lowercase are simplified versions for smaller uses. Plus, as of January 3, 2014, seven extra models were added under the numbers one through seven.

BIKES

My take on a cocktail themed dingbat font.
 
The lowercase and uppercase letters offer an assortment of glassware, bottles, and drinks while the numbers include accessories and garnishes that can be mixed and matched to create new combinations.

Bar Book

Boo Boo Kitty is a blocky font with a halftone style gradient texture. One of the big inspirations for this font was retro comic printing so I tried to keep the background slightly messy to capture that look.
 
It was originally released in 1997 as an all-caps font with mixed plain and textured characters but I recently updated it to include lowercase letters and full versions of both background options.

Boo Boo Kitty

Not inspired by any one thing, Candy Randy came about as an attempt to capture the feel of hours spent aimlessly perusing children's advertising and packaging from the early 1960s.
 
It always reminds me a bit of Christmas and was named after an imaginary character in tales told to my youngest sister.

Candy Randy

Years ago, I came across a vintage playbill and was struck by its lettering. The detailed floral pattern surrounded by thick outlines stayed in my mind even though the play’s name and cast have faded. I finally tried to recreate the style from memory and Forgotten Playbill is the result.
 
While all letters are actually capitals, the uppercase rotate slightly counterclockwise and the lowercase slightly clockwise. I suggest alternating between the two to reproduce my mystery inspiration.

Forgotten Playbill

Hecubus

A font loosely based on the entrance to the Hellmuth Building in New York (which I always read as Hellmouth Building and think, "That's convenient, you know, for slayers"). I suggest mixing up the lowercase and uppercase characters at random for the best results.
 
This family also includes a shadowed version plus stackable beveled and shadow only options.

Hellmuth

Herbaceous Border features blocky letters made up of an intricate pattern of leaves and vines. It should definitely be used for headlines to get the most out of the details.
 
All of the letters are capitals but the lowercase characters provide an alternative set of leafy designs.

Herbaceous Border

Inspired by vintage fifties and sixties design and advertising, the original Horseshoes & Lemonade is a serif font with exaggerated angles and an uneven rectangle background motif popular at the time. Although this font contains capital letters only, the lowercase characters offer variations and alternating between the two can create a more playful look.
 
Since the initial release, the family has grown with the additions of Horseshoes and Horseshoes Outline — letter only versions without the backgrounds. It was also updated in 2024 to improve kerning and make minor tweaks to characters that felt a little awkward.
 
As an added bones, this package includes a set of seamless retro backgrounds in PSD (created in Adobe 2022) and PNG formats and SVG shapes.

Horseshoes & Lemonade

Like the study of Kremlinology, this font is an interpretation of Soviet culture for Western audiences.
 
Based on a vintage Russian poster but not in the original Cyrillic, it is an attempt to capture the feel of the era if not the actual characters.

Kremlinology

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A short font for short people*
 
La Jefa is very, very loosely based on a Christmas card I received years ago from my boss at the time. Designed to capture that personalized touch, it's a hand lettered font with a short x-height and ample spacing. Although all of the letters are lowercase, the uppercase provides a unique set of characters that can be mixed in for a more natural handwritten feel. 
 
The posters were created with <a href="https://crmrkt.com/4Wkb9m" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Herb of Provence. Floral collages</a>.
 
*also people of tall or average height

La Jefa

Mistletoe is a mutli-colored OpenType SVG font to brighten up the holiday season. It contains hand drawn, thick serif lettering with a leaf and berry pattern inside. Since it’s an all caps font, it’s ideal for larger display blocks of text.
 
Color fonts are supported in Illustrator CC 2018 and Photoshop CC 2017 plus Firefox and Microsoft Edge on the web. This download also includes a single color fallback variation.
 
This is my first color font and the first font I’ve created with the Glyphs app so if you have any technical issues — even if you’re using the free personal version — please let me know.

Mistletoe

The art of paper folding in dingbat form.
 
The uppercase alphabet is made up of origami animals and the lowercase offers the same shapes decorated in traditional origami paper patterns. Full patterns, flowers, and partial foldings fill out the symbols and numbers.

OrigamiBats

Paper Hearts was designed to mimic childhood construction paper creations. It's perfect for a homemade Valentine's Day feel without the safety scissors and glue sticks.
 
The font was updated in 2013 to add lowercase characters and again in 2023 to add Outline, Color, and Outline Color variations. Color and Outline Color are OpenType SVG files and, while the festive colors should appear in recent Adobe products, the web fonts may not be supported across all browsers.

Paper Hearts

Parallel Lines is a skinny, handwritten font with decorative double lines that make it better suited for display sizes. The download includes a bold version in case the original is a little too thin.

Parallel Lines

Based on a vintage French advertisement, Publicité d'époque was designed to resemble a chain of stars. It features a looping, exaggerated cursive and contains enough symbols to write in its native tongue.

Publicite d'epoque

Quintet is a narrow, stylized sans serif font made up of thin, looping lines. This font tries to walk the line between retro and modern and to incorporate some hand drawn imperfections without being too obvious about it.
 
I kicked off designing without any particular inspiration in mind but, as time went on, started associating it in my head with an old-timey, swingy jazz aesthetic. Think the Jeeves and Wooster throwback theme song and opening credits or the music of Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt (who the name is a nod to). That connection made pairing it up with abstract musical instruments seem like the natural choice and the commercial package also includes those illustrations. If you want to download them separately, click <a href="https://laurenashpole.com/uploads/misc/lauren-ashpole-instruments.svg">here</a>.

Quintet

Roundabout is a hand drawn, top heavy font that comes in three variations: a regular version with decorative fill and inner lines and simplified options with just the fill or just the outline. The uppercase and lowercase letters are the same with the exceptions of the characters k, n, r, x, and y.

Roundabout

Welcome to Sacremende, a chunky, slightly messy display font. As the name implies, this font was inspired by a retro California aesthetic and, in particular, old surf rock posters.
 
To highlight the vintage feel, the font package comes with a distressed option for a well-worn effect. This font is all caps but includes unique styles for upper and lowercase letters. The webfont kit includes both versions but for performance reasons, I would recommend using regular for the web.

Sacremende

Scooby Doo

When I created my first website, I loved using vintage sewing pattern illustrations in my designs. Thinking back on it, I wanted to create a dingbat inspired by those images and Sewing Patterns is the result.
 
The font features ladies-fashions in silhouette form for uppercase and lowercase letters and children's styles for the numbers.

Sewing Patterns

If Sewing Patterns wasn't quite vintage enough for you, Sewing Patterns 2 is the answer to your early twentieth century wishes. Spanning the years 1910 to 1949, it's more Downton Abbey than Mad Men, more Katharine than Audrey, and definitely contains more hats.
 
Like the original, the upper and lowercase letters feature what the well-dressed woman was wearing and the numbers are popular children's fashions.

Sewing Patterns 2

Sewing Patterns 3 is the latest installment in the Sewing Patterns font series and this time it's all menswear. This dingbat was inspired by men's fashions from the 1920s to the 1960s. Like it's predecessors, the numbers take a quick dive into children's styles from those eras.

Sewing Patterns 3

What can I say? I like fonts with stars.
 
Space Time is a hand drawn font with a lot of variety. I started designing the regular version with the characters slightly touching but it wasn't quite what I had in my head. I’d imagined tightly spaced letters with overlapping shadows and the only way to get that effect was to create a second version with stackable layers. That means this download includes regular, base, outline, shadow, and stars files. Plus, the base and outline can be used for stacking or work fine as standalone fonts.
 
This font is all caps but the lowercase letters feature alternative styles.

Space Time

This slighty messy handwritten font was inspired by the scrawl of a teenager given a marker. Meaning it was inspired by my own quick writing at the time. Right down to the stars.

Starry Night

Thornback is a hand-drawn font that uses quick, scribbled strokes to create it's slightly messy sans-serif characters. The detailed letters make it a good choice for headlines but it's also bold enough to add a homemade touch to smaller text blocks while keeping things legible.

Thornback

Tuper Super is a playful font designed with casual projects and children's products in mind. Each character is made up of stacked, hand-drawn geometric shape outlines with diagonal shading in the overlaps. For the best effect, I'd recommend larger display sizing for legibility. 