These are the letters I doodled in the margins of my high school notebooks. As it turns out, a man named Milt Glaser doodled them first. He doodled a lot of other amazing things too.
Mr. Glaser called his blocky alphabet Baby Teeth. I think the type looks better when it says Surfside, so that’s what I called my incarnation. This version has been digitized and expanded, and is available for Mac and PC.
These letters remind me of the 80s and the 90s, of Gotcha shorts, Ocean Pacific shirts and fluorescent windbreakers. Surfside matched my Airwalks. More…
available in all of the styles:
available in all of the styles: