Free · OFL · 0.100

Wobblesam

A felt-marker alphabet in which most of the letters look back at you. Capitals, lowercase, figures and punctuation in four weights. Free under the OFL.

Free for any use, commercial included, under the SIL Open Font License. The download holds OTF, TTF, a variable TTF and WOFF2.

About

Every letter is one round-ended marker stroke of even width, drawn after a notebook sheet. On top of that, most letters carry a face: a ring and pupil sitting in a counter, a bowl that is itself an eyeball, small eyes perched on a stroke, or a pair of bare dots. The pupils are aimed. C looks out of its own mouth and R down its leg.

No stroke is square to its neighbours and no letter is symmetric. Each stroke is turned by a few degrees of its own, and every glyph draws its own small variation on top: how far a pupil drifts, how lumpy a dot is, where a lash takes root.

Each letter is drawn three times, and along a line the three take turns, so a doubled letter never repeats. Across the weight axis the whites of the eyes hold still while the rims grow, so a Bold eye stays open.

Type tester

Peekaboo! I see you.

OpenType

Variable axes

wght

Weight

Weight is the width of the marker. The whites of the eyes hold still while their rims grow, so a heavier letter widens to keep its counters open.

Light → Bold

Peekaboo

OpenType

calt

Never the same twice

Every letter is drawn three times, each with its own tilts, wobbles and stray pupils. Along a line the three take turns, so a doubled letter never repeats.

Look, a good book!

One drawing

Look, a good book!

Cycling

Look, a good book!

salt

Second drawing

Sets every letter in its second drawing, for picking the one you like in a headline.

Look, a good book!

First

Look, a good book!

Second

Look, a good book!

Weights

Light 300

Regular 400

Medium 500

Bold 700

In use

Picture book

A title, Bold.

The Owl Who Would Not Blink

Note

A line on the fridge, Regular.

Back by six. Feed the cat!

Glyph grid

Every mapped character in 0.100.

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Name
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Code point
U+0057
Advance
—

Basic Latin 75

General Punctuation 6

Alternates (Private Use Area) 104

Specifications

Version
0.100
Glyphs
187
Formats
OTF, TTF, Variable TTF, WOFF2
Variable axes
Weight
Scripts
Basic Latin letters, figures and punctuation; no accents yet (beta)
OpenType
Never the same twice, Second drawing
Licenses
SIL Open Font License 1.1 (free)

License

Free, under the SIL Open Font License.

Use Wobblesam in print, on the web, in apps and in logos, for personal or commercial work, at no charge. You may share and bundle the fonts; you may not sell them on their own. The full terms are in OFL.txt inside the download and at openfontlicense.org. The Cast Iron Type EULA on the license page covers the paid faces only.