This font does not include ligatures, and predates the symbol for Euros.
B. “Hap” Kliban (1935–1990) offered Barf Bold in one of his extraordinary cartoon collections in the late ’70s. Kliban created a cartoon genre that consisted of a single panel with a droll third person narration (e.g., “Houdini escaping from New Jersey”).
My favorite letter is x. It has a wonderful symmetry. What’s your favorite letter?
July 10, 2009 at 9:57 pm |
I met Hap Kliban at the San Diego Comic Convention at the El Cortez Hotel in 1977. I was walking and chatting with him when a young woman approached:
“Oh Mr. Kliban, would you draw a siamese cat for my roommate”?
“I don’t draw siamese cats, I just draw the striped alley cats.”
“Oh Mr. Kliban, she just loves siamese cats and I told her that if I saw you, I’d ask you to draw a siamese for her.”
He reached for the autograph book that she was thrusting toward him and drew for a good three minutes or so. He then handed back the book to her with a beautifully rendered pair of striped alley cats joined at the head.
July 22, 2009 at 3:53 pm |
That looks just like Carol’s Chunk, a great font circa early ’90s.
July 22, 2009 at 4:29 pm |
Indeed, if one is in need of a vomit font to provide that regurgitative mood, Carol’s Chunk (a knockoff of Kliban’s Barf Bold) is available in truetype as a free download on more than one site.
October 24, 2009 at 9:06 am |
I wonder what the swash caps font looks like.