Five Free Fonts Welcome You to Summer Camp

11.08.2012

Get out of a jam with TrueType from Chilean designer Felipe Millon. This ultracool comic book typeface, complete with some unusual onomatopoeic exclamationsboom, plop, blam, chud, fwapwill awe your most jaded of summer-camp participants. Two separate alphabets are included; both are in all-capitals, but one omits the decorative onomatopoeia.

Although the slightly less noisy lowercase version allows Que Fontita to remain legible at display sizes, the tight kerning necessary to make the exclamations work well requires that you keep it pretty big for the full effect. Que Fontita includes a period, a comma, and of course an exclamation mark. In addition, Millon has added all the accented letters you'd need to advertise a bilingual camp & or to throw your archnemesis off the scent. Que Fontita is free for personal use; for commercial use, contact Millon.

If you need a look that's not entirely grown-up but not juvenile either, try TrueType font from designer Billy Argel. Pijamas reminds me of the way I used to make 3D letters, before the idea of fixed-point perspective took hold. The glyphs seem to rotate, which strangely works in a cute, tweenish way. Pijamas includes both uppercase and lowercase letters, plus common punctuation such as a comma, a period, exclamation and question marks, an @ sign and hash, and an ampersand. Designed as a display font, Pijamas looks a little silly at smaller than 24-point; at much larger sizes, though, it's relaxed and easygoing, with a hint of wild child thrown in. Pijamas is free for personal use; for commercial use, contact Argel.