Author's note

Turtles by Neale Davidson is a free eroded movie-display font with thick, swampy letters and a playful monster-matinee mood. The shapes feel soft and heavy at once, with rough chipped gaps and irregular curves that make the font look hand-cut, worn, and slightly amphibious rather than slick.

It works well on poster titles, B-movie branding, comic covers, novelty packaging, and party flyers where the lettering needs a pulpy creature-feature tone. As a free font, it also fits short headlines, logo sketches, and title cards, because the bulky forms and weathered cuts bring enough character before you add any extra effects.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
(c)2000 Neale Davidson
Font family
Turtles
Font subfamily
Normal
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 Turtles Normal
Full font name
Turtles Normal
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 10/14/2000
Postscript font name
TurtlesNormal

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2000-10-14
Revision1
Glyph count98
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classNo classification
WeightBold
WidthSemi-expanded
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureItalic
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI
Complete pack contains 2 font weights listed below:
Turtles.ttf
Turtles.otf