MA Graphics by Keith Bates is a free mail-art dingbats font built from rubber-stamp graphics, hand-sign motifs, and rough approval seals. The set feels lifted from an artist’s correspondence file: distressed borders, blunt black shapes, and uneven lettering give the marks a homemade, photocopied, post-art feel rather than a slick icon look.
It fits zines, collage posters, packaging inserts, artist books, record sleeves, and event flyers where a free font can behave like found ephemera instead of neat ornament. Use the graphics for title cards, stamp clusters, labels, and short callouts when you want that scrappy mail-art energy and the slightly battered authority of inked marks.
A MailArt Project by Keith Bates, 2004 This font may be used freely for noncommercial purposes, although the copyright of artworks is retained by participating artists.
Font family
MA
Font subfamily
Graphics
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.5 MA Graphics
Full font name
MA Graphics
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.5 5/11/04
Postscript font name
MAGraphics
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Revision1
Glyph count152
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsLicensed font (protected)
Family classSymbolic
WeightSemi-light
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals