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About ten years ago, I made a couple of display typefaces using some old posters/clip art books, tape, ink, and a xerox machine. One of these, Blue Baby, still lives on in various locations across the internet today. I had thought the others were gone for good after numerous computer transitions. The past weekend while digging through an old hard drive, I stumbled across the TrueType files for three other fonts — Nevada, Psycho 78, and Cowboy Dan). Some of these were for sale on a very old version of this site, and I believe Nevada was given away for free by the defunct Kiiroi magazine.

As I still get requests to use Blue Baby and see it pop up every now and then, I figured some designers may be interested in the getting a leg up on the next grunge design revival.

You can download these fonts here.

These are free for commercial and non-commercial use. If you happen to find them useful, please get in touch and send me a copy of your work. I still get a kick out of seeing the fonts get used, even after ten years.

“If you want to read it as a mystery, a clue is: the bald spot.”

So reads the inner flap to Ellen Raskin’s 1974 young adult novel Figgs & Phantoms. Raskin’s second novel (and twelfth book) wraps playful meditations on life, death, identity, family, and dreams in a mysterious romance (or a romantic mystery). Raskin created the cover, supplied several illustrations, and designed the intricate playbill and posters that add to the story.

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