Cool Fonts

Cool Fonts was born in 1995 when designer Todd Dever needed a place to stash the weird, loud, and slightly unruly fonts he was making for broadcast design and animation. Turns out he wasn’t the only designer who wanted them. Word spread, demand grew, and that little personal font stash turned into a full-blown type foundry. Along the way, the New York Times tipped its hat to Cool Fonts as part of a new breed of type designers, and the fonts themselves started popping up in some pretty legendary places—Playboy, DC Comics, and MAD Magazine, to name a few. Sure, it’s fun to spot your fonts in major magazines, but Dever gets just as big a kick out of seeing them show up on business cards, flyers, and passion projects from designers around the world. “Seeing what people do with these fonts—big or small—is the best part,” he says. With classics like Freak, Smash, and KillerAnts, Cool Fonts has never been about playing it safe. Bold, expressive, and made to stand out, these fonts like to have a little fun. What’s next? You already know the answer: more Cool Fonts.