I’m taking a little break from com­pil­ing my Hal­loween list of scary fonts. I’m a bit bummed I couldn’t finish that entry in time but it just became more exten­sive than I had expected. Also I played a gig in Ate­lier 210 yes­ter­day and had to leave for the sound­check in the early after­noon. The reason I’m post­ing this mini-​entry in between is because I def­i­nitely wanted to be in time for the Day of The Dead (Día de los Muer­tos) which is cel­e­brated today and tomorrow.

192 | Ornament(al) skull, com­posed with arranged Vic­to­rian dec­o­ra­tive border elements

The Font­Feed was sent a very nice e-mail from Heidi Hess, point­ing us to Skull-A-Day, the blog of a friend of hers. On June 4th, 2007, Noah Scalin – cre­ative direc­tor and owner of Another Lim­ited Rebel­lion – made an orange paper skull, posted it online and announced to the world that he would be making a skull a day for an entire year. This may sound like no big deal, but Noah ended up spend­ing any­where from 2 to 10 hours every single day for that year, think­ing about, research­ing, making, and pho­tograph­ing the skulls. And indeed, he pre­sented his 365th skull on June 2nd, 2008, and even posted a bonus skull the day after since it was a leap year. Now in its second incar­na­tion Skull-A-Day 2.0 show­cases daily sub­mis­sions from its readers.

94 | Skull­pha­bet #1

And now for the good part. 94th entry, Sep­tem­ber 5th, 2007, was Skull­pha­bet #1, and 244th entry, Feb­ru­ary 2, 2008, was Skull­pha­bet #2. Both dis­play cap­i­tal alpha­bets are based on the clas­sic Futura (Bold). Skull-A-Day reader Mark Cona­han con­verted the orig­i­nal vector art into func­tion­ing dig­i­tal type­faces. You can down­load the free fonts in True­Type or Open­Type format here: Skull­pha­bet #1 and Skullphabet #2.

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