I read something bizarre the other day. Japanese scientists launched a wooden satellite that, at the end of its life, will completely burn up in the atmosphere, without creating aluminium oxide like metal satellites. I am not sure plywood was used to create this particular satellite, but I did use it for the name of […]
Back in 2011, I released a font called Rumpelstiltskin. When I created Rumpelstiltskin, I only knew so much about making fonts, so it lacked a lot of glyphs. I decided to give this old font an overhaul, but when I was almost finished, I realised that the ‘improved’ Rumpelstiltskin had changed too much. That is […]
I am in Japan right now, guiding a tour group. I love Japan, because it is so different from most countries, it could be a society on a different planet! As I was trying to navigate the busy subway in Osaka, I thought about this and decided to name my almost finished font after it. […]
An update and a remake of my 2011 bestseller. It now comes with extensive language support and all the trimmings.
My youngest son Boris is a special boy: he knows EVERYTHING about animals, even the things he shouldn’t know, since he’s only 8 years old. In the beginning we always laughed a bit when he told us things like ‘did you know wombat poo is cube shaped?’, but we soon realised that everything he said […]
Indoor Survival is a fun and happy comic font I made while touring Japan. I used to be a tour guide for years, but when I became a father, I quit, because I didn’t want to be the ‘man who cuts the meat at xmas’. I really loved being a tour guide and now my […]
Kitsune, in Japanese, means fox. The word is also used for mythological foxes that possess paranormal abilities, which increase as they grow older. Fox spirits can bewitch people and they can shapeshift into human form to fool human beings. I was reading a book by Yangsze Choo, called The Fox Wife, which I really enjoyed. […]
I like watching the Eurovision Song Contest. Not because I love the music, but because it usually promises an evening full of kitsch, over the top drama and political sideswiping; in other words, a welcome change from the drab programming we have here in Holland. This year was a bit of a disaster, as the […]
Kamelkys in Danish means ‘Camel’s Kiss’. It is also the slang word for a plunger; the rubber kind you use to declog the drain. I guess it is called a Camel’s Kiss for the sound it makes, but I may be wrong there. Kamelkys is a fun font, which can be used for a lot […]
A ‘Camioneta’ is a van in Spanish. I live in a hamlet without shops or other facilities, so I order a lot of stuff online. In fact, a lot of people from my village order stuff online, so it usually is quite busy with delivery vans. Camioneta is a cute cartoonish font. It is friendly, […]