Author's note

White Bold, J. Fordyce's free 3D caps display font from 1994, has a carved poster look built from blocky letters, sharp wedge cuts, and those recurring pin-like spikes perched above or below the forms. The caps feel dramatic and a little theatrical, with chunky silhouettes broken by diagonal bites that give the font a hard, sculpted rhythm.

It fits poster headlines, album sleeves, horror-adjacent branding, title cards, and event flyers where a free font with this much silhouette can do the heavy lifting in just a few letters. Use it for short cover lines, logo-style lockups, or monograms when you want the spikes and carved corners to read almost like part of the illustration.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
White Bold Font Created by J. Fordyce, 1994 Generated by Fontographer 3.5
Font family
White Bold
Font subfamily
Normal
Unique subfamily identification
Alts:White Bold
Full font name
White Bold
Name table version
1.0 Sun Jan 16 19:12:10 1994
Postscript font name
White-Bold

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Revision1
Glyph count98
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsLicensed font (protected)
Family classClarendon serifs
WeightBold
WidthExpanded
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced