UdeMAN by Michael Gaines is a free portrait dingbat font built from expressive, hand-drawn faces with strong contours, clipped shadows, and quick interior lines. The figures have the immediate punch of editorial caricatures.
Pop culture, film, and music are its clearest subjects, making the font useful for concert posters, entertainment graphics, and themed merchandise built around familiar personalities and instantly readable profiles. Its strongest role is in editorial design, where one of these portraits can become an illustrated marker for a profile, review, or retrospective, connecting the typography directly to the person or era under discussion in a magazine feature.
Copyright 1998 Michael Gaines. Please do not alter this font in any way, including the addition of characters into other fonts; while I give the font free of charge, the time and effort (and artwork) remain mine.
Font family
UdeMAN
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.2 UdeMAN
Full font name
UdeMAN
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.2 9/26/98
Postscript font name
UdeMAN
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created1998-09-26
Revision1
Glyph count56
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsLicensed font (protected)
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals