Anna Pizzey

My wife was watching a baking show in which a Scottish guy attempted to cook a clootie. A what?? A clootie??? Never heard of a clootie! 

Apparently it is a suet dumpling, containing dried fruits (like raisins) and boiled in a piece of cloth (clootie means ‘rag’ or ‘strip of cloth’ in Scottish).

Clootie font is a handmade bundle of happiness. It is rounded, soft and legible and will look particularly good on book covers.

And I promise you all: one day I will cook clooties to find out what they taste like!

Mixta is a contemporary sans-serif typeface with characteristic and defined features. This font was inspired by the idea of mixing different types of terminals in order to give the font a singular appearance. Its design is composed of diverse styles such as Didone and contemporary faces.

Create unique designs by combining any of the upright weights with matching italics. Mixta includes Cyrillic support, small caps, different types of figures and a wide variety of alternates.

Mixta comes with a set of 1,200 characters that support over 200 Latin-based languages. This font was specially designed for branding, advertising, editorial design, and use on Tv and social media.

Last year I spent some time exploring the city of Bath in England. Its claim to fame are the Roman Baths in the city center, which are well worth a visit.

Kingsmead is an electoral ward within Bath and I thought it was an apt name for this rather stylish - if old fashioned - font.

Kingsmead Script is a handmade font. It comes with diacritics and some discretionary ligatures for double lower case letter combinations.

Mastro is a contemporary design comprising 72 styles. With 9 weights and 4 optical sizes: Caption, Text, Sub-head and Display.

A super versatile font family ideal for editorial, graphic design, branding and web. Filled with iconic unusual shapes, yet with a super rigorous professional look this design will stand out and work efficiently.

Caption styles are meant for very small text like footnotes; Text styles are meant for long strings of text; Subhead styles are meant for sub-headlines; Display styles are meant for large size type setting. 

Mastro has many OpenType features such as Small Caps, Standard and Discretionary Ligatures, Superscript Letters, Case Sensitive Forms, Lining Figures, Old Style Figures, Tabular and Proportional Numbers, and more.

If you want to enlarge this font family make sure you get its sans counterpart: Mastro Sans.    

SuperLine Typeface. A striking modern display font in three styles.

SuperLine is a modern, all caps display font. Specifically developed for contemporary design styles and applications, it is supplied in three styles; regular, lined and outline.

Although it can be used at smaller sizes, it has been designed primarily for use at larger scales. Perfect for branding projects, striking posters and as a unique display font for web or app development, you can make a statement with SuperLine.

Extensions shape backgrounds are included. Designed to compliment the angles in the SuperLine typeface, these shapes are perfect for using as masks, image overlays or solid color background fills. They are supplied in Illustrator (ai and eps) vector format.

Whats Include:

• Meticulously designed
• All uppercase display
• Comes in 3 styles, Regular, Lined and Outlined
• Allows for a vast range visual styles
• TTF and WOFF formats included
• Webfont kit included (created via fontsquirrel)
• Licensed for Personal or Commercial use (OFL)
• Vector Extensions included (In Illustrator vector format)
• As ever, drop me a message if you have any questions.

Queensby is a unique modern serif font with tons of alternates, to use in such place as headlines. You can mix and match to find something different. Queensby is perfect for advertising, magazines, editorial, posters, branding, logo type, headers, titles, packaging, displays and more.   

Kandij is a Dutch word and it means ‘Rock Sugar’. We Dutch use it in a lot of products, from ‘ontbijtkoek’ (a rye based spiced cake we sometimes eat for breakfast) to Fryske Sûkerbôle, A Frisian sweet bread.

Kandij is a fat and happy font. I’d probably use it for any book or product aimed at children, as it has a certain lumpy cuteness.

Comes with diacritics and swashes for the upper case letters.

Federasyon was designed on the principles simplicity, legibility and functionality. The font family includes four weights and each weight has more than 240 characters on its own. Federasyon contains more than 10.000 optical arrangement data for each character to work in harmony with each other. Federasyon supports a total of 22 languages, including Western and some Central European languages.

Not of the Alps but from Los Andes. It tastes a lot more like wine than cheese.

Neogrotesk is a versatile and functional workhorse typeface with a neutral look and Latin flavor. The font includes multiple typographic features such as alternates, ligatures, small caps, case-sensitive punctuation, arrows as well as lining, old style and tabular figures.

Neogrotesk is the perfect choice for editorial, corporate and advertising design. This 40-style type comes in 5 weights with matching italics and contains 770 glyphs. The complete set consists of 4 sub-families: Essential, Essential Alt, Pro and Small Caps.

I can’t remember when I had a true lazy morning.. I was a looong time ago, before I had children! Even now, when I’m down with the flu, I can’t stay in bed for too long - it really seems like a waste of time!

Lazy Morning is a nice handwritten font. I made it with a Sharpie pen.

It comes with all diacritics and double letter ligatures for you to play with.

Childos is a handwritten font in rounded, rough sans serifs style, as well as the development of free and attractive ligature to fill the space between letters and make playful children feel designs.

Platinor this is a beautiful and elegant Display Serif font. You can use this font in the classical style, with it you can highlight exactly what you need. But Platinor can also be more expressive, playful and looking vintage due to the many alternatives and ligatures that are harmoniously combined in this font. Try changing alternatives, ligatures and you will get many options for your project, which will make it unique. This font is easy to use as it has OpenType features.

I read something interesting the other day: in 1910 a cat called Kiddo snuck on board an airship and was found by aeronaut Walter Wellman - after he had already taken off in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Wellman and Kiddo spent 71 hours aboard the airship, but never completed the journey, due to engine problems and foul weather. Luckily, they were both rescued.

It was a funny story, so I decided to name a font after it.

Reluctant Aviator is a handmade font (pen and paper). It has a rough edge, some shaky glyphs and a lot of bravado. Comes with diacritics and swashes.