Author's note

Tattoo No1, Samuel Marcius's free tribal tattoo dingbat from 1998, collects blade-like curves and hooked points into compact emblem shapes with a flash-sheet attitude. The forms feel hand-drawn but controlled, leaning on symmetry and spiky movement rather than cute ornament, so the font reads more like a set of marks than ordinary decoration.

This free font fits poster graphics, club flyers, skate and streetwear branding, CD or mixtape covers, and quick logo experiments where a single sharp symbol can carry the page. It also works for title cards and small badge-style graphics, because the motifs are dense, self-contained, and built to act like instant insignia.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
(c) by Samuel MARCIUS 1998
Font family
Tattoo No1
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Tattoo No1
Full font name
Tattoo No1
Name table version
1.0 25.04.98
Postscript font name
TattooNo1
Trademark notice
(c) by Samuel MARCIUS 1998

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1998-04-25
Revision1
Glyph count20
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classSymbolic
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