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FontFuel — original typefaces by type designer Roger Ridpath

Premium Type Foundry · Kansas City

Ordinary type gets you nowhere. FontFuel is the high-octane stuff — original typefaces that make a design GO.

A small foundry run by designer Roger Ridpath. Pull up, try a family with your own words, and fill the tank on MyFonts.

⚡︎ Pick a Pump Type Your Own Words
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The Pumps

Four grades on the island

Every family is hand-built and road-tested. Take one for a spin below, then grab it on MyFonts.

Pump 01 Distressed · 6 styles
Grungy Old Typewriter
Ink, dust & honest mistakes.
Regular Fat Ghost Smooth Starved Italic

Grungy Old Typewriter

6-style family
From$14
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Uppercase
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Lowercase
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Numerals & Punctuation
0123456789 & ? ! @ # $ % . , ; :
In use
Press return.
Ink, dust & honest mistakes
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Pump 02 Brush script · 2 styles
Angie Lou
A warm, hand-brushed hello.

Angie Lou

Regular & Italic
From$12
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Uppercase
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Lowercase
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Numerals & Punctuation
0123456789 & ? ! @ & . , ; :
In use
Wanderlust
A warm, hand-brushed hello
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Pump 03 Designer hand · 3 styles
Designer Notes Pro
Notes from the drawing table.

Designer Notes Pro

Regular, Bold, Italic
From$12
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Uppercase
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Lowercase
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Numerals & Punctuation
0123456789 & ? ! @ # $ % . , ; :
In use
Sketchbook
Notes from the drawing table
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Pump 04 Free · 2 styles
Designer Notes
The free original.

Designer Notes

Regular & Bold
Free onDaFont
Specimen Download Free
Uppercase
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Lowercase
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Numerals & Punctuation
0123456789 & ? ! @ # $ % . , ; :
In use
Freehand
The free original
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Pump 05 Ornament dingbat
abcdef
A garden of botanical ornaments.
abcdef ghijkl

PSI Leaves

52 leaf ornaments
From$19
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52 botanical ornaments · keys A–Z, a–z
ABCDEFGHIJ KLMNOPQRST UVWXYZabcd efghijklmn opqrstuvwx yz
In the Garage
Next Up · Launching H2 2026 Hairline italic display · In development
CYANOLINE
A fine hairline italic being fueled up right now — all caps, numerals & symbols, drawn in one unbroken line.
Launching the second half of 2026. Not at the pump yet — see the preview → or follow the foundry on MyFonts to know when it lands.
In the Garage
Next Up · Coming Soon Stencil display · In development
LUNAR STENCIL
A bold, angular stencil cut for the space age — caps, small caps & numerals.
Parked in the hangar. Not at the pump yet — see the preview → or follow the foundry on MyFonts to know when it lands.
In the Garage
On the Drawing Board · In Development Gothic display · In development
Six capitals drawn so far — every one cut from a single pointed ellipse.
Still on the board, and the only one here drawn from scratch in front of you. See the drawings and where the name came from →
The Console

Pump your own words

Type anything, swap families, dial the size. This is real type rendering live — not a picture.

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Fuel your design.
The Operator

Who's running the station

Roger Ridpath, designer and founder of FontFuel
On Duty
Designer · Founder

Roger Ridpath

I've been a graphic designer for more than 35 years, and somewhere along the way I fell hard for letterforms. The way one bad kern pair can sink a headline. FontFuel is where I put that to work.

Why "fuel"? Because I think the right typeface puts energy into a design that it can't get any other way. Pick the wrong one and the message just sits there. Pick the right one and it moves. In a design, the type is the fuel that makes it GO.

Need a one-of-a-kind face or a hand-lettered wordmark for your brand? That's the custom bay. Pull around back and let's talk.

Off the clock I drive a lot, and I keep a running log of what my Tesla actually does on Full Self-Driving at fsd247.net.

⚡︎ 35+ years designing ⚡︎ Kansas City, MO ⚡︎ Formerly PhotoshopIsland
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