{"id":12977,"date":"2018-08-30T10:59:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T10:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zilliondesigns.com\/blog\/?p=12977"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:02:35","slug":"believe-it-or-not-bizarre-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zilliondesigns.com\/blog\/believe-it-or-not-bizarre-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"Believe It Or Not, These Are (Actually) Fonts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fonts are one of the most important aspects in every typography and everyone intends to use unique and striking fonts to demonstrate their content and writing at its best. However, some designers take it to another level by creating some extremely unusual and unique typefaces. In this blog, we will be discussing some of these unique concepts created by talented designers.<\/p>\n

1) The \u201cCigarette Butt\u201d Font<\/h2>\n

Welcome to the real world. Everyone smokes around here, don\u2019t they? This unique font was created by Vladimir Koncar, a talented Croatian designer currently living and working in Zagreb. Koncar made all the alphabets and numbers in his font out of smoked cigarettes! You can make use of this font to say something smoky! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\nImage Source: Handmadefont<\/a><\/p>\n

2) Wind By Hansje Van Halem<\/h2>\n

Wind is very first typeface published by the graphic designer Hansje van Halem from Amsterdam. Her art is highly experimental and likewise in this typeface, she has used a wide variety of vivid colors and detailed patterns for creating unique optical illusions. The result is a vast variety of vibrant and hypnotic patterns.<\/p>\n

\nImage Source: Typotheque<\/a><\/p>\n

The Wind typeface offers four static styles: NE, SW, NW and SE. Apart from this, it also allows users to create variable fonts that can be subjected to a full 360 degree of rotation. Thus, Wind offers various possibilities for creating distinct textural patterns.<\/p>\n

3) Galapagos By Felix Salut + Dinamo<\/h2>\n

This unique typeface was invented by Felix Salut as an accompanying prop for his 2014 short film. It\u2019s been created on the basis of the Galapagos Game. The Galapagos Typeface composes of 7 different alphabet styles attained from 9 modules: Straight, Rounded, Angular, Rounded-Straight, Rounded-Angular, Straight-Angular and Rounded-Straight-Angular. This results in a total of 70 distinct typefaces with each style originating in 5 different weights, accompanied with Grid and No-Grid versions. The characters can easily be moved up and down along a vertical grid using Stylistic Sets. The release of the font is followed by the launch of the App, which introduces the Galapagos cosmos in an innovative manner.<\/p>\n

\nImage Source: Uxfree<\/a><\/p>\n

The Galapagos TypeFace is home to a wide and unique range of characters just like the Galapagos Islands being host to a vast variety of distinct species.<\/p>\n

4) Leg Hair Font<\/h2>\n

This bizarre and unique idea of creating a font out of leg hair was proposed and implemented by Mayuko Kanazawa, a student at Tama Art University of Japan. She had been given the task of creating a distinct typeface with no computer or technology involved. Thus, she came up with this idea to photograph leg hair transformed into various characters. She didn\u2019t use any added technology for it and her camera was the only thing that she made use of for capturing the font.<\/p>\n

\nImage Source: Petapixel<\/a><\/p>\n

5) The \u201cPhone Streak\u201d<\/h2>\n

The \u201cPhone Streak\u201d is the latest innovative addition to the list of unique font styles created. This font was created by means of a technique called \u201clight painting\u201d. This involved using a Canon 5D DSLR to capture a few-seconds exposure while waving the iPhone through the air as the only light source present in a dark room. Astonishingly, Marcus Byrne- the original designer of the font, was able to create a series of characters through his experiment.<\/p>\n