NEW Free Font: Friends With Failure

In 2022 I dove into the concept of ‘making friends with failure’.

As I dug deep for the creation of my Domestika course ‘Boosting Creative Confidence: Unleash Your Potential’, I came to better understand fear of failure in creative work and ways to dance with it rather than fight against it. As part of preparing for the course, I hosted a number of impromptu workshops with my TMU students, often asking them to trust me as we tried new things together. As a gateway into experimentation, I invited failure to play by writing with my feet, encouraging others to do the same.

As I dug deeper and deeper into the topic of failure in creative thinking and making, I better understood Failure as a helpful co-creator — a separate entity from myself — rather than something something internal and scary. By first establishing a healthier boundary with Failure, I continued inviting it to play through toe-writing in workshops and presentations for The Association of Graphic Designers (RGD), GCM TMU and Awwwards.

I decided it was time to turn my foot-lettering (an alternative to hand-lettering!?) into a fully-functional font. The result is this excitingly experimental, nearly illegible, totally free font that was born out of wild self-acceptance.

Features:
- Uppercase & lowercase letters
- Numerals 0-9
- Standard punctuation
- Alternate characters by the alternate foot
- Includes an interrobang!?

Ideas for Use:
- Creative manifestos
- Love notes to Failure
- Resignation letter from a job that sucks
- An alternative, equally inappropriate font to replace Comic Sans; perfect for passive-aggressive memos in shared work kitchens, day care signage and DIY body scrub packaging ;)

Download your free copy at https://www.talkpaperscissors.info/typography

Photography:
Photo by SAJAD FI on Unsplash
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