Mary Bacon

La vie est une fleur dont l'amour est le miel Fleur is the french for flower and I've chosen this language for a good reason.

Over the past 5 years, I've had the opportunity to travel a lot to Paris and I've always tried to to catch every moment, and detail of this delightful city through the eyes of the designer inside me.

Paris is full of surprises mainly for us, artists. In fact, I believe the city is a museum itself. Every corner of any street has something inspiring. But, theres something I particularly love and I want to address here: The Palais Garnier.

Built between 1861 and 1875, this opera house is a dream made true for many of us, who love somptuosité.

Garnier, the architect of this magnificient building, said that the style he proposed was not Grecian nor Roman/baroque, he created something new and called it Napoleonic: Luxurious at its best.

Fleur is inspired in this palace which, in fact, has some similar letters inside.

Garnier put his name at the ceiling of the Rotonde des Abonnés: Letters are interlacing each other with nicely done art nouveau curves.

I thought I could take this idea and achieve something very delicate and imposing at the same time if the font consisted entirely of caps with the logic of a didone and a bit of art-nouveau.

This mix of elegance and flamboyance gave birth to Fleur which has a wide range of uses but was mainly intended for perfumes, fashion magazines, storefronts, book covers or logos.

Not only you'll find many decorative glyphs, but also a vast amount of unique ligatures will make you really adore this font.

Get Fleur and profite de la vie. More TECHNICAL As suggested above, the font has many open-type coded alternates and a vast amount of unique ligatures.

Install the font in applications that support them, like Adobe Illustrator of Photoshop.

I bought something online, but when I received it, it wasnt exactly what I had hoped it would be.

So I read the return policy and sent it back. And came up with this font and its name in the process! Return Policy is a hand drawn slab serif, inspired by a bunch of slab serifs from the early 20th century.

Return Policy has been given a grunge overhaul, making it ideal for sturdy products, websites with an industrial look and manly posters.

Its cherry season, so I bought 2 kilos of cherries at the local cherry farm. The cherries I bought had been in a cooling cell, so they were quite cold. As I was eating them, the name for this new font popped up! Chilly Cherry is a handmade serif.

Its a little wobbly, a little off-center, but it will surely put a smile on the cherry lips of your customers.

My teacher used to say my writing looked like hanenpoten (rooster legs). It is a Dutch expression for a scrawly script. When this script emerged, it had scrawl written all over it! Scrawlerz is a messy script font with a lot of joie de vivre.

Enjoy!

I needed a name with brush in it and most have already been taken, so I did a little digging and found out that Purshia tridentata, a flowering plant native to the mountainous areas of western North America is called bitterbrush.

It is also known as antelope brush, quinine brush and buckbrush - but I settled on Bitterbrush.

Theres nothing bitter about Bitterbrush. It is actually a very sweet hand brushed font. It comes with ligatures for double letter combinations and a truck load of diacritics. And (something I am very proud of): it supports the Vietnamese language!

In a world where every new release is a thousand font megafamily, it is a particularly (extra)bold move to release a single weight display style.

Perhaps. Galix is a super-eliptical, technical sans; futuristic while avoiding the retro appearance so often associated with this genre.

It is a font intended for the covers of science fiction novels. You could use it for other things, I suppose. But back to the single style thing... Its my humble opinion that large type families, especially those font suites that are so de rigueur, lead to a staleness in design, where things all start to look a bit samey and the fine art of type pairing is dying.

So license Galix, see how it works on its own, paired with contrasting fonts, distorted and experimented with by you, the designer.

It might just be the lack of versatility you need to focus your design work! But if not, chances are I will extend the family to a range of weights, and should that happen, any updates will be free to early adopters.

So go on, give it a try and (extra)boldly go whereyou get the idea.

Hyldemoer (in Nordic folklore) is a tree spirit, or nymph, who lives in elder trees. H.C. Andersen also wrote a story about Hyldemoer (The Little Elder-Tree Mother in English). Hyldemoer font is based on my Mysterious font and the first letters of the Beowulf manuscript (Hwæt! We Gardena).

Hyldemoer is a jumpy fairytale font, which comes with some interesting alternate glyphs and ligatures, plus a harvest of diacritics.

Use it for your book covers, product packaging, posters and art work.

I have always had a keen interest in forging; I used to be a silversmith, and I love working with metal.

Some time ago I forged my first axe (a skeggøx or bearded axe), sharpened it and fitted it with a handmade ash handle.

It isnt perfect, but it is my first ever forged axe and Im pretty proud of it.

All of this went through my head when I started drawing the glyphs for this font.

And to be honest, I couldnt find a more suitable name for it! Bladesmith is a handmade font, forged in fire (haha).

It was actually made with an old sharpie. It is a rough and ready font, quite suited for headlines, book covers and posters.

Twirrewyn is Frisian for Whirlwind. I have always liked the Frisian language; its like a crossover between English and Dutch.

When I studied journalism in Zwolle (a city close to Fryslân) there were a lot of Frisian students and I did pick up a few words! Twirrewyn is a handmade font family: the fat version was made using a brush and ink; the light version was made using that same ink, but with a broken satay skewer instead of a brush.

And yes, you have guessed right, we eat a lot of Satay! ;-)

Liquidambar is actually a beautiful tree, native to America. I have one in my garden and I love its autumn colors! Liquid Amber is something else: it is a handmade all caps font that comes with oodles of diacritics, some swashes and some alternate glyphs.

Enjoy!

I have always liked Weeping Willows, they sort of remind me of China. During my years as a tour guide, I spent a lot of time in China and I can tell you that the Chinese love weeping willows - they plant them everywhere! Weeping Willow was created using a Japanese brush pen (bought in China actually).

It comes with double letter ligatures and a bunch of swashes as well.

The Cannon family is the result of combining clean aesthetic from classic sans neo-grotesque typography adding a touch of mecano fonts.

The result is a simple but dynamic typography with retro and technological airs.

Cannon is ideal for robust advertising, bold brand identities and packaging, also suitable for high impact headlines and short texts.

This type family consists of 36 variants and 9 weights (thin, extra light, light, regular, book, medium, bold, extra bold, black), matching italics for all weights and widths, matching small caps for all weights and widths, alternate characters and extended language support.

We are proud to introduce: Cannon.

I was in a bit of a gloomy mood just before I created this font. I had no inspiration whatsoever (which always affects me in a bad way). I was trying to create a font using broken satay skewers, as using those gives the letters a unique look.

I broke about 25 skewers and they all broke the wrong way. Yes, its pathetic, I know, but thats how it is. I decided to go to the gym and do a little workout, hoping my dark mood would pass.

When I came back, I broke one more skewer and lo and behold, it broke exactly the right way! I made this font in one go, using that fantastic skewer and lots of Chinese ink.

Darkness Rising comes with all the diacritics youll need, plus double letter ligatures and some cool underlined alternates.