Author's note

TobyFont-Emptyreduced, designed by Tobias Düsel and Ingo Zimmermann of ingoFonts Augsburg, is a free outlined cartoon display font with the loose bite of hand-cut lettering. Its tall, uneven capitals shift between blunt corners and bowed sides, with irregular inner shapes that make each letter look individually carved.

The rough, comic-book drawing suits music merchandise and skate branding, but it can also lend children's posters and game graphics a rowdy homemade streak. Those hollow centers can echo cut-paper illustrations or chunky border patterns, letting the lettering become part of the artwork rather than a neutral caption.

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Twelve-year-old Tobias Dsel designed the characters for this font in 2002 during his family’s furlough in the USA. He drew the alphabet freehand in pencil on stationery.

The original font consists only of uppercase letters. Other characters, including punctuation marks and numerals, were derived from components of the capital letters.

In addition to the original outline-shadow version, TobyFont Empty, two variations are available: TobyFont Inside and TobyFont Full. Empty represents the typeface outline, Inside represents the fill, and Full combines both. All three versions have the same body size and can be overlaid congruently.

All fonts are available for free download from ingoFonts. The downloadable files contain only a reduced font consisting of uppercase and lowercase letters from A to Z.

The complete font, including numerals, umlauts, punctuation, and ligatures, is available only upon order and payment.

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Character map

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Basic Latin - Character map

Basic font information

Copyright notice
Copyright (c) 2006 by ingoFonts Augsburg. http://www.ingo-zimmermann.de. All rights reserved.
Font family
TobyFont
Font subfamily
Empty reduced
Unique subfamily identification
ingoFontsAugsburg.http://www.ingo-zimmermann.de: TobyFont: 2006
Full font name
TobyFont-Emptyreduced
Name table version
Version 1.000 2006 initial release
Postscript font name
TobyFont-Emptyreduced
Trademark notice
TobyFont is a trademark of ingoFonts Augsburg. http://www.ingo-zimmermann.de.
Manufacturer name
ingoFonts Augsburg. http://www.ingo-zimmermann.de
Designer
Tobias DŸsel, Ingo Zimmermann
Description
Copyright (c) 2006 by ingoFonts Augsburg. http://www.ingo-zimmermann.de. All rights reserved.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2009-03-15
Revision1
Glyph count54
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for preview & printing allowed
Family classScripts
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureOutlined
Complete pack contains 6 font weights listed below:
TobyFont_Empty.otf
TobyFont_Inside.otf
TobyFont_Full.otf
TobyFont_Empty.otf
TobyFont_Inside.otf
TobyFont_Full.otf