Author's note

Spotted Fever, a free polka-dot display font by UnAuthorized Type, builds its letters from chunky round spots that feel playful and a little homemade. The repeated bead-like circles give the font a lively, uneven rhythm, so the whole design reads more like arranged confetti than conventional lettering.

That makes it a natural fit for party flyers, kids' event graphics, playful packaging, scrapbook titles, and short poster headlines where the dotted construction can do the talking. As a free font, it also works well for quick logo sketches, social posts, and title cards that need a simple, cheerful motif rather than a dense typographic voice.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Freeware from UnAuthorized Type
Font family
Spotted Fever
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 Spotted Fever
Full font name
Spotted Fever
Name table version
Version 1.0 8/25/97
Postscript font name
SpottedFever
Trademark notice
http://www.latech.edu/~bmcgehee/untype/index.htm
Manufacturer name
UnAuthorized Type
Designer
Description
This version includes upper and lowercase letters, punctuation, and many international characters. I also included some new 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).

Fonts get sick, too. I personally have seen some really sick-looking fonts. This one seems to have caught a strain of Spotted Fever. But don't worry, it's not still contagious. I used my special font medicine to kill all the germs, but leave the look.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1997-08-27
Revision1
Glyph count179
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classNo classification
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI