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May 22nd, 2010
Another new font from antique rubber stamps! This set is probably the Fulton Sign Writer Artistamp set, but I’m not entirely certain because it was just thrown into the case with the larger Fulton Sign and Price Markers set I used for a previous font.
No. 130 Fulton St, Elizabeth, NJ was the address of the Fulton Rubber Type Company in Elizabeth, NJ. For over 50 years, they made hundreds of different alphabet sets in rubber, whether for making signage or for office use.
No 130 Fulton Street has a medium and a light weight, with a total of four choices for each letter. As always, it’s free. You can download the font here, oh! and if you’re into digital scrapbooking or other kinds of photoshop layout, you might like the virtual stamping set, available here.
May 19th, 2010
Some of you have been dropping by from TheShabbyShoppe.com. Welcome!
For those of you who haven’t seen it, the folks there used two of my fonts, Respess Capitals and Halcyon, for their digital scrapbooking how-to tutorial. Like so…
Very cute toes indeed.
The other font they use, Artistamp by Harold’s fonts, is very similar to my own No 130 Fulton Street but Harold’s is more ubiquitous (and more expensive) to be sure. You see it everywhere!
Enjoy the fonts, my scrapbooking friends!
May 19th, 2010
I made Cricket sometime in the mid/late-nineties and I had always imagined I would provide an easy way to fill the open spaces in the design. Better let than never, I present to you, mesdames et messieurs and in between, Cricket Fills.
It works with Cricket Regular to provide perfectly-shaped and aligned fills that you can style how ever you like. Simply create your text in Cricket in your favorite graphics program, then duplicate the text (without changing its position) and change the font of the duplicate text to Cricket Fills. Then adjust the color, add a pattern or a gradient or whatever you like. Hey, go nuts!
Download both weights together for Mac or PC here.
May 16th, 2010
Some time back, I found a set of rubber stamps to match the ones I used to make Ticket Capitals 450 miles and 10 years apart from the original encounter. God bless global trade. They’ve been sitting around, being the poor cousins of Ticket Capitals, languishing in rubber and getting no digital opportunities — until now, that is. Announcing the debut of Ticket Capitals Outlines. (insert fanfare here)  It’s even better than the original Ticket Caps because there are three whole weights with two different alphabets in each. So, you have 6 choices for each letter,and enough punctuation for the basics. (Complete showings are here.)
Here are a few shots of the stamps (both sets) and the stamping I scanned for the new fonts.
So, wait no longer. Go get your own fresh, hot, sticky copy of Ticket Capitals Outlines.
May 11th, 2010
Annie was a special dog. So sweet, so devoted. Tracy & Melissa rescued her from the lot next door where she had been kept — neglected, abused then abandoned. Under their loving care she flourished in her new family, but she was was not a young dog and her health eventually began to fail. Annie’s last days were not pretty; she slowly lost her senses of sight and sound, and then started losing her cognitive abilities as well. She was in pain and disoriented, yet it was hard for Tracy & Melissa to say good-bye. The day finally came last October, when they put her to sleep, in the best possible setting under the circumstances: with her family and at home.
Soon after, (Day of the Dead, 2009) Tracy memorialized this very special, very much missed member of her family with a small tattoo on her right arm. I was honored that she chose Splurge, my first font, for the lettering.
Here it is:
 The Forearm  Close Up  Close Up on "Annie"  Close Up on "R.I.P. '09" Annie, you were loved in life and are missed in death. I hope Doggie Heaven is as good as they say.
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