Branding, lettering and illustration. Austin, TX.

Royal Pond Typeface

Client
half pond
Year
2026
Services
Typeface, Lettering
Typefaces
HP Royal Pond

HP Royal Pond is a display typeface I drew for half pond. It is a calligraphic face based on medieval book hands, with uneven pen edges and small hooked serifs.

Every letter was drawn by hand in Procreate, then traced and built into a working font. It has capitals, lowercase, figures, punctuation and common symbols. It works best at large sizes, for headings, signs and labels.

The words Royal Pond set in HP Royal Pond, black on cream.
The capitals A to Z in three rows, cream on near-black.
Capitals.
The lowercase a to z in three rows, black on cream.
Lowercase.
The figures 0 to 9 above a row of punctuation and symbols, including ampersand, question mark, dollar, percent, at and copyright signs, cream on near-black.
Figures and symbols.
Three lines of sample text in HP Royal Pond, reading Good Bread & Ale, The King's Market, Est. 1482, and Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow, black on cream.
Sample text at three sizes.
The original hand-drawn capitals A to J in two rows, black on cream.
Original drawings, before tracing.