chris willmore @treedub.org · 7h#fontober day 2: what if eurostile and impact had a baby? it might look something like this. slightly off-kilter ultra bold squareness for your next spaceship 020
chris willmore @treedub.org · 01/10/2026omg it's #fontober already! every year during the month of october i make one font (well, one alphabet plus some punctuation) a day. good practice for quick drawing. here's my first font, based on a typecooker, a sort of narrow scotchy face with silly proportions in the a, e, and s 042
chris willmore @treedub.org · 26/09/2026life imitates @theonion.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4mM...youtube.comTeens Migrating From Facebook To Comments Section Of Slow-Motion Deer VideoYouTube video by The Onion 002
chris willmore @treedub.org · 26/08/2026Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Type designer: the space within the cup matches the space between cups 010
Reposted by chris willmoreSteve Reich @stevereich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Today marks 50 years since the world premiere of Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich on April 24, 1976, at New York’s Town Hall, performed by Steve Reich and Musicians. 26524
chris willmore @treedub.org · 30/03/2026oh hey it’s me letterformarchive.org/news/type-we...letterformarchive.orgType West Alumni Spotlight: 2024–2025The Archive’s type design program turns 10 this year! Take a look at what a half-dozen recent grads created during their time here. 021
Reposted by chris willmoreÉmilie Bourgeois 🩷🤍🧡 @hellopuns.bsky.social · 18/02/2026The Monday Period: Pages 1-4 #garfield #imsorryjon 6043972438
chris willmore @treedub.org · 11/02/2026huge congrats to the @letterformarchive.org type west class of 2025! a feast of creative type design typewest.letterformarchive.org/2025/typewest.letterformarchive.orgType West 2025Type West is a postgraduate certificate program in type design available in-person in San Francisco and online to students worldwide. This website is presented by the Type West 2025 Online Cohort. 022
chris willmore @treedub.org · 10/02/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPud...youtube.comThe Human League - Don't You Want Me (Official Music Video)YouTube video by TheHumanLeagueVEVO 120
chris willmore @treedub.org · 10/02/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVN...youtube.comGotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) [Official Music Video]YouTube video by gotyemusic 030
Reposted by chris willmoreComputerHusband but Spooky @computerhusband.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Happy belated birthday to the best character in Mahjong Soul, who is allowed to eat as many tiles as he wants 182
Reposted by chris willmoreBree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 31/12/2025My sincere wish for all of us in 2026 is we all keep makin' art! Good, bad, stinky – it doesn't matter! Let's keep making things. ✏️💨 826871082
chris willmore @treedub.org · 08/12/2025ambient maria is live now to 9 pm pacific with a special holiday sunday sundowns! tune in twitch.tv/theambientma... 031
Reposted by chris willmoremcc @dryad.technology · 07/11/2025Pokemon is basically a thing Nintendo does where once every couple of years they release a new set of character designs and I get to enjoy cute fanart based on these character designs for the next two years. Allegedly, a video game is somehow involved somewhere 201222118
Reposted by chris willmorenupsu @nupsu.me · 16/01/2025Legends 🌟 #nightinthewoods x #animalcrossing 81800609
Reposted by chris willmorems. wendy @wendyleftmealone.bsky.social · 04/11/2025we're so back. youtu.be/aDl3cwrpz_U?...youtu.beErik Hall - "Music for a Large Ensemble" (Steve Reich)YouTube video by westernvinyl 011
chris willmore @treedub.org · 02/11/2025all the A's i drew for #fontober 2025 (and an accurate representation of my mental state afterwards lol). which one was your favorite? big thanks to everyone who followed along and provided feedback and encouragement ❤️ let's do it again next year! 020
chris willmore @treedub.org · 31/10/2025that's it for fontober this year! thanks for your views and support, and stay tuned because i've got some more fun designs in the works ❤️ 010
chris willmore @treedub.org · 31/10/2025#fontober day 31 (LAST DAY 🎃): i had zero inspiration this morning so i just made a lowercase to complement the uppercase from yesterday. i like how i was able to reuse the weird serif from C in a/c/r/s. it feels like the headline from an old-timey railroad timetable or almanac 110
chris willmore @treedub.org · 31/10/2025one of my favorite struggle meals is power oatmeal: two bags of instant oatmeal with a gob of peanut butter stirred in. raisins if i’m feeling fancy. equally good for camping and depression 100
chris willmore @treedub.org · 31/10/2025pure fat is about as calorie-dense as you can get (about 100 calories per tablespoon). peanut butter and tahini both come very close to that. cheese is good too 200
chris willmore @treedub.org · 30/10/2025#fontober day 30: the redlick-newman building by 17th and mission in SF (the one that used to have the "17 reasons why!" sign on top) has these blocky geometric letters embedded in the sidewalk out front. i had to fontify them. why is the original N so narrow tho? did they forget about the hyphen? 010
chris willmore @treedub.org · 29/10/2025#fontober day 29: my handwriting tends to take a zig-zag form for letters like i/m/n/u (good thing no one else has to read it!) so i made an irregular monolinear italic with a zig-zag rhythm. i was tempted to make 'n' and 'u' identical but i'm not that mean — how would you tell "month" from "mouth"? 040
chris willmore @treedub.org · 28/10/2025shout-out to @dtemkin.bsky.social for getting me thinking about upside-down fonts with his Language 2, in which every other line goes backwards (5/5) 020
chris willmore @treedub.org · 28/10/2025i took Times (a serif font most people are very familiar with), swapped the top and bottom serifs, flipped "symmetric" letters like s and x, and adjusted a/c/e/g to make them look better upside-down. the effect is striking IMO! (4/5) 100
chris willmore @treedub.org · 28/10/2025i wanted to explore whether it works for text too, i.e. if i could make a font that looked OK upside-down but wrong when right side up. (3/5) 100
chris willmore @treedub.org · 28/10/2025the thatcher effect is a famous optical illusion where picture of a face (originally margaret thatcher's) looks fine when upside down but is revealed to have unsettling upside-down eyes and mouth when turned right-side up. (2/5) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatche...en.wikipedia.orgThatcher effect - Wikipedia 100
chris willmore @treedub.org · 28/10/2025#fontober day 28: the font in the first image is plain old Times, just upside down, right? now look at the second image where i turn it right side up. wtf!! (1/5) 141
chris willmore @treedub.org · 27/10/2025#fontober day 27: finished the ink traps experiment from yesterday. the traps force some tough decisions — the R has one corner in the crotch because having two traps that close together is too complex. i wish i had more control over which direction they pointed so R/X could look a little less wonky 030
chris willmore @treedub.org · 26/10/2025#fontober day 26: does it count as a whole alphabet if i draw half of an alphabet in two masters? i think so lol. here i'm using @glyphsapp.com corner components to add variable ink traps to a bold italic sans. i like how the S looks like a slug. gonna try to finish this one tomorrow 020
chris willmore @treedub.org · 26/10/2025#fontober day 25: designed a narrow lowercase sans with some contrast for the 16-pixel-tall displays over the doors at the ends of the BART car (see image 3). pixel fonts are so hard — there are only a few slopes that look good on a pixel grid so making a satisfactory k/v/w/x/y/z is near impossible 130
chris willmore @treedub.org · 24/10/2025special thanks to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for the quote 010
chris willmore @treedub.org · 24/10/2025#fontober day 24: i adore super-high-contrast expansion faces like bodoni black so here's my love letter(s) to them — big ol' ball terminals, hairline serifs, all the f-ligatures. good for book covers and headlines 130
Reposted by chris willmoreShaun Mooney @mooneysart.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Street cleaner fam, assemble! Have some cool announcement on the way!! 443195
chris willmore @treedub.org · 23/10/2025#fontober day 23: finished the engraver's script from yesterday (for now anyway). uppercase script is hard, but surprisingly modular — spot the shared elements between B/K/R, T/F, A/C/E/G, O/V/W, G/J/Y, Q/Z. surprisingly O and Q have completely separate designs due to the direction they're drawn in 020
chris willmore @treedub.org · 22/10/2025#fontober day 22: @warriorchicken.me requested a font related to "brass music and trumpets" for her bday so i thought of the way the trumpet maker's name is engraved on the bell sometimes, all ornate and swooshy. might finish this one tomorrow. thanks to lttrink.com for the assist with the strokes! 020
chris willmore @treedub.org · 21/10/2025#fontober day 21: this font's based on the lovely hand-painted sign at El Chavo Supermercado by 29th & Mission in SF — boxy, angular, inconsistent, alive! it reminds me of paper cutouts. i wonder what the painting process was — mask off the bounding rectangle and counters and roller-paint the rest? 020
chris willmore @treedub.org · 20/10/2025#fontober day 20: finished the script face from yesterday. it's nice to have an easy day! not sure about that v/w tho, one day i'll learn to draw them properly. also check out that wavy em dash hell yeah 130
chris willmore @treedub.org · 19/10/2025#fontober day 19: i'm feeling a little under the weather so i was only able to get part of an alphabet done, a cursive script based on some doodles i did with a pressure-sensitive pen in Procreate. i think it shows promise! hopefully i can finish it tomorrow 120
chris willmore @treedub.org · 18/10/2025#fontober day 18: sketched a scripty italic. this one might benefit from more iteration because it's hard to get the color consistent across letters with lots of hooks (m n u) and letters with open spaces (c r). the curly d i drew didn't work out, sadly 030
chris willmore @treedub.org · 17/10/2025#fontober day 17: i drew a wide uppercase to complement the lowercase from day 6, inspired in part by the painted town names along the ceiling of the SF ferry building (though my serifs aren't nearly as extravagant) 010
chris willmore @treedub.org · 16/10/2025#fontober day 16 (halfway point woooooo): sketched a somewhat unhinged black unicase where all the letters are the same height. the 'a' started as an upside-down 'g' — not sure i've ever done that before! 030
