Design*Sponge & Veer’s Design Your Own Alphabet Contest
My wife and I are constantly brainstorming new home improvement projects and keeping our eyes open for furniture deals and vintage finds. And the first place we often look for inspiration is design*sponge. The sneak peak posts are full of brilliance and although the content is pretty slanted toward the feminine eye, I have no shame in the amount of time I have spent looking for inspiration on that site. And recently I came across a post to Design Your Own Alphabet Contest. Grace from design*sponge teamed up with Veer to put on the competition and it seems to have gathered quite a bit of interest. I am also a typography junkie so I couldn’t pass up the challenge.
Skunkling Typeface
Lately I have been obsessed with a couple fonts: Cyclone from Hoefler & Frere-Jones and Hellenic Wide from Jason Walcott of Veer. I love how the two fonts work in juxtaposition to each other but I wondered what they would look like mashed together in a more hand-drawn style. As I was designing each letter in black and white I kept seeing a skunk tail in the white inline stripe of each letter. So when I was thinking of what to name the font I looked up what a baby skunk is called. Turns out it is called a “Kit” but I really wanted to use a lowercase “g” so first I broke my rules of not mixing upper and lower case letters this way and then I made up a fictional word “Skunkling” to title the font. I think it fits!
Black and White
Various Colors
I wish I could offer the font for download, but as of right now it is just an Illustrator file. I haven’t converted it to a functioning font. Maybe someday!
Pure adoration of this font. Fingers crossed it wins!
I love this so much, I hope it becomes available to use (actually, I’d buy the illustrator file!)
oh, and
Congratulations!!
Please do! I would love to own this font!
Awesome Font by the way congrats on winning! Can’t wait to use it!
Thank you all! I’m starting work on making the font available and hoping to not make you wait too long. Thanks for all the support!