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@chaseburns.art

My fourth font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This prompt was "Horror", as if that wasn't obvious! It has lots of alternate characters!
You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/scrawling-da...
#font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

there's a speech balloon that reads "Wanna hear how long I can scream? Aaaaaiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!!! Hold on, let me try that again..."

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

Uses opentype ligatures to switch up side-by-side duplicate characters. Vowels have 4 alternates! Alts can also be picked manually, for variety.

Displaying this feature is a speech balloon that reads "Thiiisss iiisss hooow slowwlllyy I caaaaan taaallkk" and 4 "urgh!"s with different alternate letters.

Good for sound effects (Maybe even better than for dialogue…). Demonstrating this are stylized sound effects that reads "Splat", "Aaaiiieeee!!!", and "drip drip".

another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font. this one displays all of the characters included in the font, with many alternates.

September 26, 2026 at 8:33 PM

GGBotNet

@ggbotnet.bsky.social

Free modern gothic typeface.
ggbot.itch.io/gotfridus-font
#freefont #font #typeface #OpenFontLicense

Gotfridus - Free Font by GGBotNet

Modern Gothic Typeface

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December 16, 2024 at 12:05 PM

GGBotNet

@ggbotnet.bsky.social

Free Brush Script Font
ggbot.itch.io/moonlit-flow...
#freefont #font #typeface #typography #OpenFontLicense

Moonlit Flow Font by GGBotNet

Brush script typeface

ggbot.itch.io

February 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM

Chase | Commissions... Open!!

@chaseburns.art

I have designed a new font called LINEAR TENDON... and it may be completely unusable, but it's too late, I already made it! I DARE you to figure out a place to use it!
You can download it here:
chaseburns.itch.io/linear-tendo...
#font #openfontlicense

an image displaying "Linear Tendon", an "experimental negative space typeface". it's a font that's made up of lines forming the negative space around the different letters. "all other text is set in atkinson hyperlegible next"

July 1, 2026 at 1:11 AM

GGBotNet

@ggbotnet.bsky.social

A fresh, stylish, and daring typeface.
Download now at ggbot.itch.io/achtung-brav...
#freefont #font #typeface #typography #OpenFontLicense

Achtung Bravo - Free Font by GGBotNet

.ttf

ggbot.itch.io

June 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM

GGBotNet

@ggbotnet.bsky.social

A contemporary sans-serif typeface that has a bold appearance.
ggbot.itch.io/vincendo-font
#freefont #font #typeface #typography #OpenFontLicense

Vincendo - Free Font by GGBotNet

A Strong Typeface

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December 26, 2024 at 3:39 PM

GGBotNet

@ggbotnet.bsky.social

A new free sans-serif font featuring a bold style using negative space.
ggbot.itch.io/mavoble-font
#freefont #font #typeface #OpenFontLicense

Mavoble - Free Font by GGBotNet

.ttf, .otf .woff

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December 21, 2024 at 2:57 PM

GGBotNet

@ggbotnet.bsky.social

New retro Neon-inspired Typeface.
ggbot.itch.io/ryga-font
#freefont #font #typeface #typography #neon #retro #OpenFontLicense

Ryga - Free Font by GGBotNet

Vintage Neon-inspired Typeface

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June 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM

Chase | Commissions... Open!!

@chaseburns.art

I'm releasing a quick font called SKYFANG! It was inspired by the logo for a video game I have never played.
It's licensed under the SIL Open Font License, which pretty much means you can use it anywhere with no fuss.
You can download it here!
chaseburns.itch.io/skyfang-font
#font #openfontlicense

An image displaying the font Skyfang, a "Speedline Typeface with Three Styles" - Silph, Valkyrie, and Seylen. Silph has speedlines going left, Valkyrie has them going right, and Seylen has them going both ways.

"All other text is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible Next.
The 'Skyfang' fonts in the other images have negative tracking because it looks nicer."

The image is styled like the North American box art for the Sega Genesis game Vapor Trail: Hyper Offence Formation.

May 15, 2026 at 1:23 AM

Chase | Commissions... Open!!

@chaseburns.art

My first font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! The prompt was "romance", even though the font doesn't traditionally look it...
You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/tell-em-shak...
#font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "Tell Em Shakes", a wiggly typeface.

a caption reads "comic book lettering seen through ghibli tears??"

a comic speech balloon reads "uhh... I have something important to tell you--I... err... I love you!"

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026!

another image displaying "Tell Em Shakes", a wiggly comic font.

a speech balloon reads "ursula! oh, ursula!! how I’ve missed you!" some of the letters are highlighted in blue.

Opentype ligatures make side-by-side doubled characters different. Alternates can also be picked by hand.

another balloon reads "don’t you (sob) love me anymore~~?"

breath marks and a shaky line that’s more wiggly than the em-dash (—) can be typed with {{ }} and ~~ respectively.

the font is pretty versatile!

there is an evil-looking balloon, with white text on black background, reading "come on and follow me into the darkness...", and a balloon that resembles a fishbowl full of water, reading "what? can’t you breathe underwater?"

another image displaying "Tell Em Shakes", a wiggly comic font. this one lists the four styles: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. it also displays all of the glyphs included in the font

September 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM

GGBotNet

@ggbotnet.bsky.social

A new font that supports Cyrillic, Fraser, Georgian, and Greek writing systems.
ggbot.itch.io/balhattan-font
#freefont #font #typeface #typography #OpenFontLicense

Balhattan - Free Font by GGBotNet

Кириллица • ქართული • Ελληνικά • ꓡꓲ-ꓢꓴ

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December 25, 2024 at 8:54 PM

Chase | Commissions... Open!!

@chaseburns.art

My second font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This time the prompt was "Fantasy"!
You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/thauma-heisler
#font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "Thauma Heisler", an obscure magical text comic font.

a sign set in the font reads "Abandon all hope ye who enter here," alongside speech balloons that read "That sign’s been there for quite a while," and "Isn’t it about time we got it replaced?"

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

another image displaying "Thauma Heisler", an obscure magical text comic font.

speech balloons read "Speak my name! Shazam!!", "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!", and "Let me clarify this. Taro, Caro, Salomon!"

Lowercase vowels are underlined.

a rotated caption box reads "Maybe rotate it to disguise the latin alphabet even more!"

You can type in all caps to get rid of the underline effect.

Double curly brackets {{ }} make breath marks with opentype ligatures, demonstrated by a speech balloon reading "Alakaza--(gasp) You interrupted my spell!"

another image displaying "Thauma Heisler", an obscure magical text comic font. this one lists the four styles: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. it also displays all of the glyphs included in the font

September 13, 2026 at 1:47 AM

Chase | Commissions... Open!!

@chaseburns.art

My third font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This one's prompt was "Sci-fi"! It's very alien!
You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/turing-pest-...
#font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

An image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern.

There's a speech balloon reading "You’ll never be able to break through my alien technology firewall!" and a response that reads "Uhhh... can you repeat that?"

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

Another image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern. This one has a lot of unreadable text, which reads:

"The Turing pattern is a concept introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis", which describes how patterns in nature, such as stripes and spots, can arise naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state. The pattern arises due to Turing instability, which in turn arises due to the interplay between differential diffusion of chemical species and chemical reaction. The instability mechanism is surprising because a pure diffusion, such as molecular diffusion, would be expected to have a stabilizing influence on the system (i.e., complete mixing)."

- “Turing pattern” per Wikipedia

Another image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern.

There's doubled-up text in different styles that reads "Besides the regular style, there’s the more easily readable 'Halfways' style" / "And both of those styles have an 'Empty' version, which only has outlined shapes."

In a very unreadable style, there's a line of text that reads "It’s not very easy to read!!"

Another image displaying "Turing Pest", a nigh-unreadable font that resembles a Turing pattern. This one lists the four styles: Regular, Halfways, Empty, and Halfways Empty. It also displays all of the glyphs included in the font

September 19, 2026 at 7:11 PM

GGBotNet

@ggbotnet.bsky.social

A compact geometric font with an industrial look.
ggbot.itch.io/sangyo-font
#freefont #font #typeface #OpenFontLicense

Sangyo - Free Font by GGBotNet

A compact geometric font with an industrial look

ggbot.itch.io

December 15, 2024 at 9:05 PM

GGBotNet

@ggbotnet.bsky.social

The newly designed monospaced typeface includes support for Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew characters.
ggbot.itch.io/xanmono-font
#freefont #font #typeface #OpenFontLicense