I don’t know if any of you Smoking Drum veterans out there are wondering – but just in case you are I thought it would be polite to at least make some sort of explanation – about the state of any new font creations.

Well the answer boils down to this – I have no font creation software any more. I previously used Fontographer but it doesn’t work in Classic and I cannot boot my Mac into OS 9. So I’m buggered basically. The only font creation tool out there which appears to be current and work with OS X is FontLab which is expensive enough that I cannot justify purchasing it.

So, I don’t honestly know what the situation is regarding new font creation. If I can find a tool which I can afford then hopefully production will start up again. I will keep you posted, for sure.

John

A cool grungy font which has gone over the handlebars and landed in the gravel. This is one of my favourite fonts yet.
Download: Strokey Bacon Mac | Strokey Bacon PC

We kick off 2001’s font releases with my first dingbat font, called Pyrobats. Over 30 flame-fuelled illustrations to light up your artwork! Includes bonus scissor slashing dingbats. What twisted imagination produced these?
Download: Pyrobats Mac | Pyrobats PC

Friends, font lovers, interface lovers, old net-comrades…Smoking Drum is back! The site has been down for a couple of weeks and I am bringing it back to life.

The bits which Smoking Drum was good for (free fonts, desktops, icons) will still be here in the site, once I have added them back in.

You will notice that I have moved over to Movable Type, a blogging tool – I have chosen to do this for ease of updating the site – I am not intending to start a blog.

So, please check back over the next couple of days when I start to add the “guts” of the site – the meat and potatoes – back in.

John

This typeface has a certain downbeat air. Most fonts which look like this tend to get given really ‘zany’ upbeat names and I don’t want to do that. Anyway, this is my first face to include a wealth of accented characters and other extra bits. It works great at a variety of sizes too.
Download: Tragic Bureau Mac | Tragic Bureau PC