Calligraphy Based Fonts |

Kingthings Calligraphica This
font is
based on letterforms I learned at school during Art A levels... Seems
forever ago...It was!
Diacritics updated 4th
February 2006
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Kingthings Calligraphica Light
This font is the result of feedback from users on the Web -
People asked if there was a light
version and there wasn't - now there is
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Calligraphica Italic
This font is the result of me
not knowing when to stop - oh and being fed up with
'italicized' text not looking right. It took more doing than you
might imagine!
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Kingthings Xander
This
font is based on a pen
built form - though I have taken several downright liberties to get it to work as
a windows font, for which I apologise to it - though not unreservedly... |

Kingthings Xander Outline
This font came about after a suggestion by my good friend Anne - asking for something a bit
different and an outline font of which there are precious few.
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Kingthings Gothique
This font is Anne's
fault... She suggested something a bit more out of the ordinary - I
could only try... and now look, it's an odd beast but 'tis mine very own.
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Kingthings Petrock
This is based on letterforms found in a
small city Church in Exeter - St Petrock's, and is from a display case about bell ringing. A
lovely simple labelling hand, I think I've done it justice...

Kingthings Petrock Light
This font is a
lighter form of the above - makes both of them more usable.
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Kingthings Kelltika
With
help from Antoine, Anne and Kate - Thanks to all. It is based on
letterforms from The Book Of The Kells (and others) - I may make a less
formal version or something later...
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Kingthings Italique
Is based
again on letterforms that I learned at school - and because? I like
spiky! - See Spike below. This font can be used with the flourishes set
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Kingthings Spike
Was made because Buffy
has one, I made Xander... Willow is yet to come - (see below). Oh and because I hate
Engravers Old English! Pugin, eat my shorts! Sorry!

Kingthings Spikeless
was requested by
those who actually want to read text... well I call that picky,
but if you must, here it is no flourishes, just my small homage to
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Kingthings Versalis
- Both contained in
the same font file, this font only contains capitals as they are
supposed to be Versals - i.e. they were used in illuminated manuscripts
for the capital letters starting verses. They work well with my
calligraphic fonts. I made both a solid and an outline form
because I can use one to 'fill' the other when overlaid

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Kingthings Flourishes
- this is not a
font it is an adjunct to the 'real' calligraphic fonts like Petrock and Calligraphica and can be used in
graphics programs to add flourishes.
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Kingthings Christmas
- Based on Kingthings
Petrock - this is a display font and needs to be used at least an inch
high to see any detail. Happy Christmas!
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Kingthings Foundation.
This was the first font I started,
it has taken years to get even slightly finished. It is base upon the
first Calligraphic foundation hand that I learned whilst at school... Holders
and Reservoirs, Mitchell round hand pens and black Indian ink - Oooo!
Luverly!

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Kingthings Exeter
I wanted to make a
really simple pen built font with no serifs, as usual, the simpler the
font, the more work it took to get it right. It's named for where I
live, it was about time.
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Other Faces |
Kingthings Serifique
I guess all
typographers at some point think "Well I'll just have a go at a standard
text face..." There is a long story here somewhere, suffice it to say
that I started with the Ultralight version- typical. I wanted to make a
standard serif text face - until I saw it in print and thought "Yuk! it
looks like everything else!" - still does really but with twiddles
and pooneys... Four weights so far:
Kingthings Serifique
Kingthings Serifique Light
Kingthings Serifique
Ultralight
Kingthings Serifique UL wide



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Kingthings Wrote
- Sorry to one and all,
there were mis-mapped characters in my first version, so it really is
still in development then... I hate my life sometimes (NOT!)
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Kingthings Eggypeg
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Having been asked to make a Christmas font, I pondered upon other holidays and
came up with this. If you need less decorated letters to mix with it - it is
based on Kingthings Willowless. As always, I get a bit carried away, so you may
need to tone it down for your own work.
Have fun!
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NOTE: For this and others of my fonts,
you will need to use Character Map (Or the much better Character Map Pro
- available free on the web), to access the image
characters - although they should all be available on standard
keyboards. For example, the pile of eggs is accessed with the \ key, The
Easter egg in the grass is the shifted < key.
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Kingthings Spirogyra -
I doodle you know... I remember with wonder, Biology lessons at 'big' school,
with Microscopes, and a filamentous pondweed called Spirogyra - it had a nucleus
like a star too - There's wonderful.
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Kingthings Knobson
- Having made Spirogyra, a decorative
font, I found I liked the way the lower case set as text, so I made separate
capitals to go with them, and Voila!, we have Kingthings Knobson... (if we're
not very careful, Oh, too late - fonts spontaneously generate you know, like
Elephants).
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Kingthings Inkydinky
-
I am making a font called Kingthings Serifique (well, that's what it's called
this morning) - I got side tracked - again! Filling and testing fountain pens for the Charity
shop in
which I work... Mother always said I'm a filthy Herbert. Doesn't a little
Ink go a long way?
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Kingthings Clarity
A
while ago I read a letter in a PC magazine where a guy was bemoaning the fact
that he couldn't find a free dyslexia font - long story short, this is mine -
and it is free.
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Kingthings Conundrum
I have said before you know - I can
if I want to (Stamp! Scowl!)
Cod Chinese of the worst kind, I
wanted a 'Chinese' font for a project and couldn't find what I wanted. I painted
this font with a Chinese brush and imported the resultant mess - it's been a
while since I did any 'Chinese calligraphy' - add that to the fact that I don't
read or speak Chinese...
You will find two sets of 'upper
case' characters in this font - one set is on it's side to aid setting my
'Chinese' Top to bottom - right to left - if you're that anal... I am.
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Kingthings Hand
This font came about
when I was lettering the other fonts and toyed around with my own hand
writing. This font is finally finished - well
as finished as I get!
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Kingthings Hand Light
Hand Light is now finally
complete! Sorry to all for the delay. Makes the bolder version more
useable - Oh yes it does! |

Kingthings Sans
is because I fancied a sans serif face with
flourishes of an ilk - and yes, I can do Odd! Based on Kingthings hand,
so that explains nothing, sorry!
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Kingthings Chimaera
Neither one thing nor t'other,
hence Chimaera. Again based on Kingthings Hand, but with rather more
hair down and having a half holiday... |

Kingthings Organica 2
This font is finally finished! It
may have taken a while, and I have finally gotten round to digitising
this properly - sorry to all who have the old copy.
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Kingthings Annex
This is a development of Organica 2, I made it for Anne who is a
definite earth mother type and who
gardens constantly! She lives in the Annex... and signs everything
Annex...
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Kingthings Trypewriter
Is a deconstructed
typewriter face. I have always loved decayed fonts, this is the first of
mine - and yes, I know there are lots of these around - this one is MINE
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Kingthings Printingkit
This was made because I used
to have a John Bull Printing kit - what can you do? the 'need' doesn't
go away! (and yes! I know it's not the same!)
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Kingthings Xstitch
Because I couldn't find one when I wanted one- it
doesn't 'work' at small sizes! Again, there are others out there, this
is mine!
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Kingthings Whizzbang
Started as an experiment and then folks wanted it
completed... I have got there in the end. Unfortunately, it has
spawned and now we have Flashbang... and Poppalock...
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Kingthings Flashbang
is a little more formal than its Dad -but not much!
It is also even more of a display face - it needs to be at least 2
inches tall to work properly, not really a text face... |

Kingthings Poppalock
This font
is basically Anthea's fault - I showed her
Flashbang and she said "Mmmm reminds me of those beads you used to see"
- Poppalock beads - I played with them as a child...
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Kingthings Pique'n'meex
A change is as
good as a rest - fed up with detailed tweaking of foundation (coming
soon) I loathe Arial and Times for their ubiquity and multiple lazy
re-use...
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Kingthings Linear K
Yes. I know it's
horrible! that doesn't mean I shouldn't do it - well, even if it
does....
I can do sulky.
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Kingthings Embroidery
This is a homage to all
the horrible embroidered hanky initials... I used to suck a corner of
mine when I was small. Mmmm! irony - no, it tasted of being ironed!
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Kingthings Willow and Willowless
These fonts started out very much different to how they ended up,
Willow was based on a sheaf of willow twigs, with stars for added 'twing!'
Unfortunately the font size was huge and I settled on this simplified version.
It was originally designed with Willow from Buffy the vampire slayer in mind -
it ended up as a decorated font - because I like making them. Kingthings Willowless is less ornate and
makes a good contrast if all the embellishment of Willow is too much of a good thing.
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Kingthings Lupine and Lupineless
Did I say I can if I want to? Well I made this
for a character in a Terry Pratchett Book - Reaper Man - He's called
Lupine and is getting very fond of a girl called Ludmilla - Her mother
is Mrs Cake... Don't ask about Mrs Cake. To help you not to ask about
Mrs Cake, The clergy holds that speaking to the dead is blasphemy and
abomination - Mrs Cake holds that it's only common courtesy. I digress -
sorry. He's a werewolf, It's a hairy font. Do not call it
Kingthings Pube.
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Kingthings Extortion
has taken a
while to get right - I felt that a supposed 'ransom note' font should at least
try to look a little random - as if torn out and pasted up - hence no upper or
lower case as such, just letters to interchange. It works best if you try
a mixture of capitals and lower case letters, and then go through your document
to see where double usage occurs.
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Kingthings Facetype
I made this font having thought of
the name - maybe not the usual way to go about font design... It is based upon
Kingthings Exeter and can be used to embellish that font or just as decorated
capitals. I enjoyed making this font and it was one of the quickest to do - I
just got completely absorbed by the project. I hope that you enjoy using this
daft font as much as I did making the silly thing.
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Kingthings Bloone!This font has been lurking and
unfinished and then I finally thought - get on with it you git! Exactly what is says on
the tin - no more no less - I still hate that letters are the same as
each other in display faces (?) so no upper and lower case, just
alternates to be mixed up. And clouds and seagulls...
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Kingthings Stirrup
Detailed work on
Tendrylle meant that I needed a break; and as I am mad, the break took the form
of another font. Stirrup is built of pre-made shapes, more or less, so it was
quite quick to do - oddly, not much work and I really like it! If only it
happened more often...
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Kingthings Wrecktangle
This font came at me out of nowhere -
Sorry it's so horrible but I was reading a book about Audio Technology in the
70's - they used something like this for the headings...
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Kingthings Slipperylip
Well, I've been growing insectivorous
plants for years... I think something has finally sunk in and demanded to be a
font - there may be others, you have been warned! (they're spooky these plants,
they lurk and pew).
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Kingthings
Sheepishly
I like sheep, they are exactly as
bright as they need to be to hunt down grass.
No upper and lower case, just mix them up - you will need Character Map Pro to
access all the extra bits. (Trees, flowers, lambs etc).
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Kingthings Tendrylle
This font came from doodling -
again! There is a saying used in psychotherapy 'Taking a line for a walk' - this
font does that... and so do I. Obviously, this face has organic elements - that
seems to be the way my work is going at the moment - Tendrilly, Seedpoddy,
Graftknobbly, Curlywurly, Beadyweedy, - and none of those are even words...
Hurrah!
Do I need to add that it's not a text
face - do I?
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Coming Soonish! To a Website Near You...
Below you will find some of my upcoming
fonts, hopefully they won't be too long in coming - but I make no
promises... I can so do distracted! |
Kingthings Gutenberg - When I wanted one, I
couldn't find the Gutenberg font I wanted - one that will 'set' like the
original type. There are others available, mine will take a while
yet... |
Kingthings Tribal - I like the tribal tattoos
and graphics that are around the place right now - but I could only find one
font... An idle hand is a busy hand!
Not a
text face
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