Suggestions for fonts for Children?

[Ryan Maelhorn]

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Doing some design for a product for children. Need some kid friendly fonts. Not child-handwriting fonts, or any kind of schoolbook font that is designed to be easy to read necessarily, but display fonts that look like they belong on kid products.

[Karl Stange]

What kind of product?

[Nick Shinn]

https://www.fontfont.com/fonts/fontesque-display

[hrant]

And what age group?

hhp

[Ryan Maelhorn]

10 year olds. promotional t shirt for a dirt bike team.

[hrant]

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/anton-novik/x-story/

hhp

[Paul Cutler]

Burbank by House Industries. Just fun enough, but really legible.

pbc

[Ryan Maelhorn]

Hrant, that font is a screen printers nightmare. Paul, Burbank is kind of close. Kind of semi-sloppy lines. Playful. This kind of vibe:

Okay, yeah I know the serif is really different from the other two, lol. But if you just think of it in terms of line..

[Joshua Langman]

Postino.
Myriad Tilt.
Able (if it can be used for anything anymore).

Also, if you like the Dr. Seuss look, why not hand-letter it?

[Ryan Maelhorn]

no time. time after time. time after time.. greats recc's though.

Able was used on the Harry Potter book covers, no?

[Joshua Langman]

Yeah, Able is the Harry Potter font, though I've seen it used for other things. The Yahoo! logo, for instance.

[quadibloc]

If you're not looking for a child-handwriting font, I would have felt that by age ten, normal typefaces are appropriate - Franklin Gothic, or Venus Extrabold Extended, for example.

[kentlew]

10 year olds. promotional t shirt for a dirt bike team.

http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/asphalt/

[oldnick]

Most of the stuff in my library: Hasbro, Sega Europe, Electronic Arts, Walt Disney Pictures and Burger King agree...

[Ryan Maelhorn]

asphalt condensed looks to be my choice. very nice..

a modern blackletter, BTW..

[hrant]

Ryan, you misunderstand what blackletter means.

hhp

[Ryan Maelhorn]

BWAH HA HA HA!! I SHALL CHANGE IT!!!! IN MY EVIL NEMISARIAL WAYS!!! HA HA HA HA!!!! I SHALL RE-BRAND IT!!!

but that is another story..

[oldnick]

Ryan—

I sincerely hope that your "maniacal idiot" persona is an act. However, since this is a typographic forum and not a performance art venue, I suggest that you polish your shtick somewhere else, where your efforts will be better appreciated. From my personal experience, I can tell you that the Craigslist Philosophy Forum has some pretty stiff competition…