Airmole Font

More info from Ray Larabie

I released Airmole on September 26, 2000. The name came from the
kind of psychedelic juxtapositions I liked in band names such as Led
Zeppelin or Soft Machine. Since moles live underground, calling one
“Airmole” felt memorable and a little absurd.
The design was based on a sample I found in a Speedball lettering guide
from the early 20th century. Rather than tracing the letters directly, I
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built them up with Bézier curves, keeping the spirit of the original but
simplifying the shapes so they worked better as a digital typeface. That
approach marked the beginning of my habit of doing looser revivals
rather than strict ones. The lettering in the Speedball books was fairly
clean, and a few other designers later produced more faithful revivals.
Mine is pared down, which I think makes it more practical as a typeface.
Airmole is a heavy counterless display design with a casual art deco feel.
Because it has no counters, it was actually quicker to produce than
many other fonts I’d worked on. I released it with a free commercial-use
license, and over the years I’ve seen it crop up now and then, usually in
retro-themed contexts, though nothing especially memorable comes to
mind.
In April 2024, I placed Airmole in the public domain. Looking back, I see
it as part of my series of “not too strict” revivals, a style of
reinterpretation that has remained a recurring thread in my work.

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Airmole Font is a Art Deco font and was created on Sep 26, 2000. Airmole Font has been downloaded 58 times, added to 1 collections, and liked 0 times.

Airmole Font was recently updated on Aug 7, 2026