Now you can buy the whole set...

That's right, all my fonts for $150.00... includes all taxes and shipping.
What a deal.
That includes:
 Bills American Ornaments
 Bills Ampersands
 Bills Asterisks
 Bills Big Bullets
 Bills Brackets
 Bills Dearborn Initials
 Bills DECOrations
 Bills Dingbats
 Bills FISTory
 Bills Modern Diner
 Bills Peculiars
 Bills Printers Pals
 Bills Universal Symbols
 Bills Victorian Ornaments

I've started using my picture fonts to punctuate blog postings.

I was thinking of ways to make postings on my Under The LobsterScope blog get a little more interesting and I came up with Web Poppers. These are small tiles, each having a picture font character on them that I make in PhotoShop. Then I put them into my posts, often alternating left and right sides.

This has been a really fun use of picture fonts and one that you might apply to your web postings. They go well with e-mail, too... and for my printed snail mail, having small illustration tiles on a document can help create focus on particular topics.

In this entry, I have used poppers made from Bill's DECOrations, Bill's Real Rubber Stamps and Bill's Printer's Pals. I've made up a couple hundred of these for my use and enjoy adding them to my publications. You might like them, too.

Looking for a nice Block Font for ads?

Price is $29.00

Setting Poetry with Bill's New Elzevir

Here's a poem by Shel Silverstein set with the Bill's New Elzevir font:

If you'd like to buy Bill's New Elzevir, go HERE.

Presenting it again: our Best Selling Picture Font

Bill's Cast O'Characters

Here's a picture font that you'll find hundreds of uses for. I first released Bill's cast O' Characters 18 years ago using picture images from classic type specimen books of the late 19th  and early 2oth Centuries. There are images which I've used for politics, holidays, humor, office memos and many other items.

We deliver it to you with Mac, PC and OTF fonts in the same package, plus a detailed keyboard chart.





There are 78 characters in all that you get in both Mac and PC versions (in the same set) for $29.00. Good deal, hey? Here's a little animated graphic I put together with this font:

See- 2 minutes without having to draw anything.

Order it here:

Bill's Dearborn Initials

Every now and then you need a single fancy letter... maybe you want to key off a paragraph on a page to make it stand out; perhaps you are making a fancy monogram. Whatever. This set of letters was modeled after a set used early in the 20th Century by the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. Here's a sample:

Like it? I've been using this font for years with many happy clients.
It costs $29.00 and, like all our fonts, comes with both Mac, PC and Open Type versions... you get all three.

New updates coming soon...

We have a downtime due to a dead laptop battery, but will be back as soon as Amazon delivers.
- BT from a borrowed machine.

Using PhotoShop with Picture and Display Fonts

Sometimes you want to take one design and look at it in different ways. That's where PhotoShop succeeds admirably.

I took 2 of my fonts, Bill's Dingbats (which has a small collection of bar glassware) and Bill's Metropolitan, a sophisticated display font that hearkens back to the cocktail era of the 20s, and put them together:

That gave me a header design to use as a column leader.

However, I wanted to try it somewhat differently to see how I would react to it, and I did this by playing with PhotoShop's filters, adjusting brightness, fuzziness, negativity, etc.
Here's one example:

Now we have a significantly different feeling...more of an evening presence.

You can try lots of variations and have fun.

Designing a Catering Company's logo...

This was a project I was given and I used three UTF fonts and some Photoshop touchups to create it. The fonts are Bill's Modern Diner (waitress), Bill's Cast O'Characters (waiter), and Bill's Light DECO for the text, used, actually, at three different sizes:

I tried a lot of different background colors, but eventually ended up with a really fresh light green.

I LOVE using fonts to create graphics!

Bill's New Elzevir

Some display fonts are very different from others in that they are never the first ones you think of using. That's New Elzevir to me. It's often my second... and better... choice. I designed it based on a font I found in a turn of the century (19th to 21st) specimen book.

Here's a sample:

Yes, I used a European crossed 7 in the numerals... but I've been handwriting sevens like that since high school.

Anyway, you can have it for $29.00.

Using Two Fonts to create a Ballot

I used Bill's New Elzevir (coming soon) for the text and and Bill's Printer's Pals for the checkboxes.

The Elementary School Package

Quite awhile ago, while my son was in the throes of elementary school (he's a Graduate Student in History now!), I created a pair of fonts which were made to be used by kids learning their alphabets at an early age. I based it on the way I was taught to neatly write letters on a three-lined sheet of paper in first grade... then I matched it with a set of small illustrations that were alphabet-based, plus a string of graphics based on numbers 1 to 10.

The results were Bill's School Letters and Bill's School Daze.

Here are some samples:

I sell the Elementary School Package... both fonts... for $29.00 complete (that means it also includes versions for Macs, PCs and an Open Type set good on either system...Unix, too.) I also pack a keyboard chart for Bill's School Daze.

If you would like to order the package, go here:

Theatre Poster Ad trim

I was working on an idea for a standard Opening Night rim that posters from any show can be put in for magazine or newspaper ads. I took a poster from a production of Sondheim's ASSASSINS that I directed a few years ago, then I built the rim using two fonts, Bill's Broadway DECOrations and Bill's Brushed Broadway. I used PhotoShop to distort the typefaces.

Bill's American Ornaments

This is a collection of some of the best Ornaments from the American Type Founder's specimen books of the early 20th Century. One of the places I used them was for this header for a bicycling article:

This font has images I use a lot ... there are some nice basics here:

Anyway... this font goes for $29.00, you can buy it online with your credit or debit card or with your PayPal account. You get the complete set...font software for PC, Mac, and the Open Type format, plus a convenient Keyboard chart.

Bill's Hand Chiseled

As promised, here is Bill's Hand Chiseled, one of my favorite original typefaces.
The sample is here:

 I use this one in combination with my picture fonts for many headers and logos.

You can buy it for $29.00 and the package comes complete with Mac, PC and Open Type versions.