EDB Indians Font

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Author's note

EDB Indians font by UnAuthorized Type and Edward Buri is a free cartoon display font with chunky, hand-drawn shapes dressed in feather, bead, and painted-stripe details. Its bouncy rhythm and bold black fills give words a campfire-story spark, making even a short title feel playful, noisy, and full of movement.

Using EDB Indians works beautifully for kids’ party invites, summer camp posters, classroom crafts, themed logos, scrapbook titles, toy packaging, and playful social posts. This free font needs a little space to show off, so set it large and pair it with a plain sans like Arial or Futura to keep the decorative lettering crisp.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Freeware by UnAuthorized Type and Edward Buri
Font family
EDB Indians
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 EDB Indians
Full font name
EDB Indians
Name table version
Version 1.00 12/15/97
Postscript font name
EDBIndians
Trademark notice
Collaboration between Ben McGehee of UnAuthorized Type and Edward Buri.
Manufacturer name
Designer
Description
This version includes upper and lowercase letters and most punctuation. I also included some UA Type dingbats (just to amuse myself, and so you don't get those annoying boxes when you type something that isn't in the font).

This is about as close to a Thanksgiving font as you come. Problem is, the release date was about two weeks for Thanksgiving of 1997. Maybe it will be used for subsequent years.

Edward Buri sent me an e-mail saying he had doodled some letters, and could I make them into an alphabet? He sent me lots of pages of ideas, and I told him that this one would work out great, if he could complete it. He did, and I fonted it. The upper-case outline version is what he gave to me. I just did those filled-in lowercase versions because I wanted to. I didn't realize when I started that it would double the completion time. Yeah.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1997-12-15
Revision1
Glyph count105
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classNo classification
WeightBold
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PostureUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI