Buffel(tje) & Rotjoch(ie)
It was a sh*t load of work—font design, endless tests, copy writing and specimen design—but I am so glad with the result!
Meet the Saudara Family, a clever monospaced type family developed for day-to-day use on your computer screen or smartphone. Loosely inspired on the 26 capitals of Quizmaster made by Löwen Spielautomaten (back in 1985), typefaces like Monaco and Geneva (which were shipped with Macintosh computers around that same time) and my fascination for arcade games.
For just 50 EUR you purchase a Desktop License for the entire Saudara family:
- Saudara Mono Regular
- Saudara Mono Italic
- Saudara Mono Bold
- Saudara Mono Bold Italic
- Saudara Display Light
- Saudara Display Bold
Single cuts cost 10 EUR. Just send a DM to designisfijn[at]icloud.com or send a chat on www.instagram.com/marcelvandeijl
Download an interactive type specimen here.
»Vechtstreek is gonna wreck it!«
Vechtstreek is a ttribute to typeface Chicago by Susan Kare, an American artist and graphic designer who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer (1983).
Vechtstreek is a true vector-based font with more than 180 glyphs* pure nostalgia! Use it in your every-day-apps like TextEditor, Notes and Mail or make a pixelated impression with Adobe’s Creative Suite.
An early version of Vechtstreek goes back to 2018 when Walt Disney’s movie »Ralph Breaks the Internet« displayed a Chicago spin-off in various scenes and made me wonder »Can I do that?!«
If your project requires that retro bitmap look-and-feel Vechtstreek is gonna wreck it! Or in typical Dutch: Vechtstreek gaat het rammen!
* Uppercase, lowercase, standard punctuation, accented uppercase, accented lowercase, arrows, &cetera.
Download a type specimen in PDF format.
RTFM
2025/05/24 23:44 Filed in: Advertising / Digital
In 1984 Susan Kare worked on the first version of Apple’s revolutionary graphical user interface. She began by sketching arrows, buttons, pointing hands, and other visual elements in a notebook. These casual prototypes of the new, user-friendly face of computing were initially drawn with a pen on graph paper, each square representing a pixel.
For long I am fascinated by internet slang and ASCII emoji which unstoppably infiltrated our digital communication. These sequences worked as a short code in several forums and chatrooms. RTFM (yes, Read The Fucking Manual) combines both worlds. Use it to quickly generate custom UI buttons. Instant fun for T-shirts or social media stickers! (Try Sticker Maker.app, it’s free)
RTFM works on macOS plus Windows computers and with a few extra steps (try iFont.app, not free) on your Apple mobile devices as well.
Is RTFM free? Nope. But for just 10 EUR you can add RTFM (+ bonus font RTFM Sticker and an Adobe Illustrator template to generate your first buttons / stickers) to your font collection. Just send an email to: designisfijn@icloud.com.
RTFM will be updated regularly with more iconic, pixelated design elements from the previous century. Stay tuned in and follow me on Insta!
Download a type specimen in PDF format.
