Custom letters, retail fonts, and smart, designer-made tools.
Fabuletters is me, Michelle!
I’m a type designer, lettering artist, and educator with over a decade of experience in type and graphic design. Every Fabuletters product is carefully crafted to look good and work even better — so you can be everyone’s favorite designer.
Custom Type & Lettering
Oh WOW! Did you know I create custom type and lettering for editorial, apparel, greeting cards, branding, custom fonts and more?
I work in many style, the sample work below is just the beginning. If your project needs custom letters or fonts, get in touch — I’d love to find out more.
Barstow Type Family
Barstow is my revival of the 1854 Wells & Webb reverse-contrast woodtype sensation, Gothic Tuscan Italian. The original 48 characters were designed by Darius Wells. Barstow expands Wells’ work into a type family with three styles and over a thousand letterforms:
Regular, modeled after the original;
Shadow, an outline font with a slight 3D shadow (or as the Victorians would say, a ‘modulated outline’);
Xtra, a dingbat font with all the gems and icons a designer could want including hearts, stars, rainbows, funky arrows and hands.
Features include robust Latin language support, symbols and decorative icons, as well as thoughtful OpenType features like substitution and alternates that make designing a breeze.
Barstow is great for short emphatic bursts of text in branding, headlines, deep thoughts and eye-catching quotes at 36pts and larger.
