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Wilson Thomas

Designer (aka Funk King, b. Fort Knox, KY) who lives in Orlando, FL, and/or Apopka, FL. He used FontStruct in 2008-2009 to make over 550 decorative fonts, and became one of the world's top experts on FontStruct, FontShop's on-line font editor. Most of his fonts were withdrawn in 2012. He did a few commercial typefaces at his commercial foundry, Funk King. His creations include

• A Bit Eccentric.
• Alphabots
• Alphadings: Picnic Basket (2014), Rat Race (2014), Pod Invasion (2014), On Hangers (2012, a commercial series that includes Pants on Hangers, etc), Dog Tag, Black Bird, Easter Egg Dots, Ser Egghead T. handlebar, Ovoidotta (now called Sniff), Play Book, BuddhaBuddha, Swizzle Sticks, Computer Backplate, Milky Way, Sprout, Football, Clapboard (for movie makers), Teed Off, Book Stack, Speaker Box, Ant Farm, Sound and Vision, Speaker Grill, Tom Tom, Caged Type, Conga Lounge, Spinal, Add Van, Frostruct, Picket Fence, Regatta, Cranestruct, Impossible Alphabet, Igloo Village, Mortar Board, Jack, Marionette, Golden Gate (+Short, +Solid), Crossed, Eff U ("the finger"!), Tall Big Top, Jackpot, Skulls&Cross Bones Redux, Crosshairs, Drama Club, Good Day Sunshine, Butterfly, Steps and Windows, Heartbroken, O Christmas Tree, Christmas Lights, Candle, Supper Time (alphadings of plates), Sands of Time (alphadings of hour glasses), Fishbones (commercial since 2012), Handy (alphading with hands), Hang Ten (feet alphadings) and High Five (hand alphadings), Armade and Ghost Ship Armada (ship alphadings), Cut Here (stitching alphadings), Schematic (electric circuit alphading), Masquerade, Mortar Board, Gear Bits, Gearswork, Hi-Lo Gears, Gears, Resistor, Gear Shift, Castle, Castle with Flags, Antique Keys, Rounded Keys, Pods, Piano Keys (+Alt, +Correct), Framework, Dixieland Jazz, Spats, and City of New Orleans (the last three are alphdings based on the same Victorian alphabet), Saturn, Piggy Bank, Voodoo Doll, Dice, Fist Bump.
• Antennas, Antennas Outline
• Antiquity
• Arcostellati, Arcostellato, Arcangolo, Arcontorno (2011): a blackletter family.
• Architect, Ruled, Gridworks, Blueprint (Solid, Dashed), Quadular (+Serif), Isometric Modified (+Light, +Bold Outline), Isometric (a 3d gridded family: +Basic Latin, +Basic Latin Lite, +More Latin, +Bold, +Black).
• Art deco: Arc Neuvo (rounded letters), Arc Nuevo (2012, commercial), Toneelschuur (based on the letterhead created for the Theatre Toneelschuur Haarlem), Shift (bold), Eye Spy (this says Peter Sellers), Mod Squad.
• Atomic.
• Avenue, Avenue Alphabet (white on black).
• Badge
• Ball And Chain (neat), Ball Bearings.
• Balls and Bats
• Banjo (2012).
• Barber Shop
• Barcoded
• Basket
• Beachwear (horizontally striped)
• Beat Block, Beat Box.
• Beatnik.
• Beltway.
• Birdseye
• Birdsteps
• Bitten
• Blackletter: Abbey
• Blanket Serif Caps, Blanket Sans Serif
• Block Inline Block
• Block Mosaic (great gridded letters)
• Blockheads
• Blood Sweat&Tears
• Bolla Fratturato (2011): outlined blackletter face.
• Bolt, Bolted
• Bon Mots.
• Break, Balance Beam, After Party (2010).
• Bubble Zwrap (2010).
• Build A Bridge
• Buzz Kill
• Cafe Fumante.
• Carp Black, Carp Blanc
• Caterpillar, Tall Caterpillar.
• Cattails
• Chain Gang, Krazy King
• Channel
• Check Mate (checkered flag font).
• Cherry Bomb.
• Chubby
• Cinder Block (2010): a 3d typeface with texture thrown in.
• Circuit Board Solid, Circuit Board Outline, Circuit Board Outline Numbers, Circuit Board Simple, Micro Clean, Microcircuitz, Circuit Board Simple, Schematode (2013).
• Circus Maximus Outline
• Cirquela (2012). a non-FontStruct font, this is his first hand-printed typeface.
• Clean
• Cobblestones
• Code Hijack (2014).
• Compass (+Plain)
• Connected scripts: Cruise, Jet Cruise (2009), Notched Script (upright, connected), Rough Script (italic, connected), square Script (pixelish, connected).
• Computer Backplate, Milky Way.
• Contempole
• Crimped Pincushion (2010).
• Crispy Inline (classy)
• Crooked Marker, Marker
• Crop Circles
• Crownbar.
• Curls And Twirls
• Cut Here
• Daisies (nice rounded square letters with painted daisies)
• Decoscriptic, Decoish.
• Diamonds Are Forever, Liberty (dot amtrix fonts)
• Didactic fonts: Back to School.
• Digital, Digital Whimsy (gorgeous fonts in which the meat of the glyphs is made up of 0's and 1's), Digital Italics, Digital Non-italics.
• Dingbats: Digital Biz Bitz (2012), Capitalist Pictograms (2012), Kapitalist Kit (2011), Weather System (2011), Twelve Days of Christmas (2010), Learning For Business (2010), Calder Symbols (2010), Mad Aliens (2010), FSEmoticons, Maven Pictograms, Temp (weather dings), Sports Wave, Bullet Arrows
• Dinner at 8
• Diode
• Directional
• Ditier Cycles (2010): a grunge version of J. Hughes's Dirt Cycles.
• Disco Ball, Disco Salvation.
• Doggie Tracks (2010).
• Dollars and Cents.
• Domestic Bliss (+Solid), Blissful Hearts (Valentine's Day alphadings).
• Domino, Dominodot
• Dot matrix fonts: Belly Button (2013), Fandangle (2013), Trace Remains (2013), Billiards (2013), Pome (2013), Cow Poke (2013), Rouletto (2014), Crawler (2014), Zephyrelli (2012), Yoyo (2012), Carousel (2011), Corsivo Punti (2011), Wisp (2011), Amusement (2011), Menagerie (2011), Junk (2011), Iphont (white on black dot matrix face), Lyrical (dot matrix script), Petits Pois, Elli, Industrial Magic, Wind Chime, Domestic Bliss (2010, +Serif, +Sans Serif), Ying Yang (2009)
• Double Decker
• Eau de Kerning.
• Efficiency (2010).
• Eiffel family: mechanical.
• Electrifunkified (2013).
• Emergency
• eq Regular, eq Radio Waves, eq Tight.
• Erector Set (2010).
• Extension Cord
• Fairy Tale (curly)
• Fantastic
• Fast Cars, Fast Lane, Fast Forward
• Fifty Famous Fairy Tales (bi-lined and bejeweled)
• Flair Ornate, Flaired Script, Flair, Flaired
• Floor Plan
• Flash (gridded face)
• Folk Art (wooden plank simulation)
• Font Troll
• Fractal, Wireframe, Hemisphere, Origami (now Mummification): experiments in glyph partitioning.
• Funk, Funky palms
• Gancio (2014). Hand-drawn.
• Gemstone (letters in a mosaic)
• Glyphs made from broken objects: Broken Combs, Broken Glasses
• GI Joe
• Grain
• Graphont
• Grid1, Grid2, Pas De Grille Pli Isométrique (+Plombé), Grille Noir Pli Isométrique (+Plombé), Grille Intrépide Pli Isométrique (+Plombé), Grille Facile Pli Isométrique (+Plombé).
• Grunge typefaces: Feather (2010).
• Gummy (2010).
• Happily Ever After (2010).
• Heath Robinson (gorgeous mechanical font).
• Hexcavated (2010).
• High Anxiety.
• High Wire (dotted).
• Honeycomb Black (hexagonal).
• Horizontally Phased (like IBM logo from afar), Vertically Phased, Field Goal.
• Hot Diggity Dog (2010): a monoline rounded sans.
• Void.
• Inline: Hi-Fi Deco, Track (+Filled), Crispy Inline
• Imperfect Optical Experiment.
• Ironside, Ironworks.
• Isomixed (+Inline, +Inverted, +Light, +Inline Light), Isomixerd Moire (nine textured styles).
• Jacks (2010): a stitching font.
• Jeannie
• Jelly Bean series: I's, Wide, O's, Split
• Jetsons (futuristic).
• Jolly Swash 9+Tall, +Tall Wide Tail).
• Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope Solid
• Kitchen tile typefaces: MadisonAveAvenue (2010), Edgar Fernhout (2012).
• Lace
• Ladder
• Last Days Of Summer, Endless Summer, Beach.
• Lattice, Lattice Black
• Lean
• Leaves
• l-e-display
• Little Miss Muffet.
• Loom.
• Love, Love Letters
• Martini
• Metroliner and Metroliner Deluxe.
• MICR fonts: Wedge Solid.
• Mike
• Mitered, Zietgeist: striped 3d typefaces.
• Modal.
• Modern Ancient (chiseled font imitation)
• Molecular (+Complex, +Complex 1), Dense Molecular Complex (1 through 5), Molecular Architecture, Tessellation 1 (+Continuous), Tessellation 2.
• Monkey Bars.
• Montreal (+Italics)
• Monumental, Less Monumental,
• Mortar Booted (+Thick, Separated, Mission, Booted Mission).
• Mouthy
• Music fonts: Fret Full (2010), Fret Station (2010).
• MyBlock
• Mystere (2012, grunge).
• Necklace
• Ninja.
• Oblique
• Octovision Remix
• Open&Shuttered Day, Open&Shuttered Night
• Oriental simulation/look: Shoji Pixel, Shoji Stage&Screen Soapbox, Chinese Democracy, Asian Influence.
• Origami City (2010): formerly Simply Elevated Black. Simple Elevation (2012) is in the same family.
• Outline Habitat
• Ozmosis (2014), Ozian (2014), Cardinal (2014), Emblem (2014), Oblio (2014), Hollow Branch (2014)
• Pallina (2010, + Stampino, +Diluente).
• Palm, Tall Palm
• Paperclip typefaces: Neue Werner Paperclip (2012).
• Patterns
• Pavers
• Piccadilly (2010).
• Pipes
• Pisa.
• Pixel Dust, Pixels Dusted, Zogg Domination (video game font)
• Plaid
• Pop Arc (2010). In the same style: Conveyor Belt, Milk Bottle, Cookie Cutter, Erector Set (2010).
• Popsicle Sticks (nice vertically striped glyphs).
• Playbook (2010).
• Power Grid, Power Gridlocked
• Process This (2010) and Flowcahrt (2010): based on graphs of computer programs.
• Pump Boys (2010).
• Puzzle
• Quagmire (2010)
• Radio Waves
• Razorback Block
• Receipt (2012): a dot matrix face.
• Regular Habitat
• Relativity
• Remixintag (2011, a clone of Wallachia by Intaglio).
• Repeat
• Ribbodini (2010, ribbon font).
• Riveted
• Road Trip
• Sausalito Nautica (2011).
• Say What? (Exaggerated ink trap face)
• Scaffoldini (2010): a 3d gridded face. Followed by Scaffo (2012), Scaffoldini Senza Griglia (2010), Scaffoldini Ascendente Contrario SG, Scaffoldini Ascendente Senza Griglia, Scaffoldini Contrario Senza Griglia, Scaffoldini Ascendente, Scaffoldini Contrario, and Scaffoldini Ascendente Contrario, Scaffoldini Prospettico (+Contrario, +SG).
• Scichosis.
• Scripts: Diode (+Dioded, Diodoubled, Diodocked, Diodedocked, Diodiced), Scherzando, Fontstitution, Rough Script, Scriptilicious, Whipped Cream, 45 Degrees, Script Town (2013), Aloha (2013), Sinal Strength (2013), Ink Well (2013).
• Skulls, Skully
• Slice N dice
• Skyscraper.
• Small Wonder, Small World
• Snowflake (2010).
• Soap.
• Sole
• Soma (2009): 3d letters mades from cubes.
• Spooky Eyeballs (2009).
• Squiggles
• Stained Glass, Stained with Cross
• Starburst
• Stencil fonts: GI Joe (2012, military), Kid's Stencil (white on black), Black Tie, Matchstick, Stensei, Stencillated, Tri-Fold, Tri-Fold Cut, Tri-Fold Rounded, Stencil, Stencil Plate, Stencil Face, Semi Stencil, Psuedo Stencil, Psychedelic Stencil.
• Stitching fonts: Cross Worded (2013), Cut Here (2014), Sampler
• T-Shirts on a Clothesline
• Swamp Frog and Tadpole: artsy fat letters
• Swamp Funk, Mojo (curly letters)
• Swatches.
• Tabular
• Tall Habitat
• Techno look: Technified, Slick, Tangential (2010).
• Tanqueray (2010): octagonal face.
• Teepee (wood look)
• Tennis themed: Racket, Net Ball, World Cup.
• Tetrominoes Black (2010): a 3d typeface cloned from TP2 Marriott's Tetrominoes.
• Textile
• Texture fonts: Global (2011, globes), SS Half Tone (One, Two, Three), SS Watermark, SS Silk Screen (2010). These brush texture typefaces were cloned from Swifted Strokes by Mike Lee. Tramarada (2011) has a stunning woven look.
• Thalistic.
• The Adventure of the Dancing Men (2011, dingbats).
• The Big Top
• The Real McCoy
• Tiki.
• Time
• Timpani, Timpaniless, Timpaniblok, Alien Crop Circles (outer space face).
• Toothpaste (2011): imitating oozing toothpaste.
• Trapezoidot, Zoidot, Dotz (dotted typefaces).
• Upright connected scripts: Madie (2009)
• Valentine's fonts: Hearts and Flowers, Hearts and Arrows, Keys to your Heart, Bed of Hearts
• Vapors and Mirage: evaporating glyphs.
• Vibration (2010). This multiline typeface was followed by Echo (2010).
• Victorian fonts: Alouette, Swamp Funk
• Void.
• Waveform
• WPA Household Arts Stripes, WPA Household Arts Chex, WPA Household Arts (poster stencil face)
• Wee The People, Small World.
• Werner Paperclip (2009), Paperclip (2010): paperclip typefaces after a 1974 original by Ad Werner.
• Western fonts: Bolo (2010), Bow Tie (2010), Bowl (2010), Western Doodle, Sparky, Buckaroo, Diamond Buckaroo, Saloon and Desert Rose. Western style alphadings: Cart Before The Horse, Wagon Train
• Weird
• White on black typefaces: Tabs, Dot Keys, Rounded Keys, Block Keys, Keys.
• Wiggles
• Wim Crouwel-related fonts: Unknown Crouwel #1, Edgar Fernhout (2012: a Wim Crouwel tribute font in kitchen tile style taken from a 1963 poster), Kalender 1976 Letters (octagonal based on a Wim Crouwel calendar from 1976), Kalender 1976, Brusselmans (based on a Wim Crouwel poster), Rabobank (based on a Wim Crouwel poster), Brabant (based on a Wim Crouwel poster)
• Woodcut, Woodcut Recut, Woodcut Banjo.
• Woven.
• Wrenched
• Yay Team
• Zebeast (Zebra-striped letters)
• Zodiac Block

In 2012, he added these fonts at MyFonts: Architect, Black Tie, Carousel, Check Mate, Cobblestones, Cruise, Dog Tag, Edgar Fernhout (2012), Fifty Famous Fairy Tales, Fratturato Digitale (pixelish blackletter face), Ghost Town, Jackpot, Jelly Bean, Keyboard, Kingdom (a castle font), Lagniappe (Victorian), Lyrical, Madie, Matchstick, Menagerie, Q Typ, Scaffo, Sprinkle, Stained Glass, Stencillated, Stensei (stencil), Sweet Valley, Toothpaste, Vibration MF, Yoyo, Zephyrelli.

Typefaces from 2013 (no longer freely downloadable!): Pome (dot matrix), Cow Poke (dot matrix), Sausalito Nautica, Cut Here (stitching typeface), Belly Button (dot matrix face), Rouletto (bejeweled typeface), Picnic Basket (alphadings), Fandangle (dot matrix), Trace Remains (dot matrix), Billiards (dot matrix), Cross Worded, Script Town, Schematode (connect-the-dots), Electrifunkified, Aloha, Signal Strength, Ink Well, Satellite, Supper Time (alphadings), Mike (alphadings), Licorice, Conga Lounge OF, Monkey Bars, Daisies, Fractal OF (textured face), Saloon OF, Ball and Chain, Say What.

Typefaces from 2014: the multilined or inline typefaces Ozmosis, Ozian, Cardinal, Hollow Branch, Emblem, and Oblio. The alphading typefaces Rat Race and Picnic Basket. The pearly dot matrix typeface Rouletto and Crawler. The video game typefaces Pod Invasion and Zogg Domination. The stitching typeface Cut Here. The pixelized typeface Code Hijack.

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INTERNAL LINKS
FontStruct fonts ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Horror fonts ⦿ Oriental simulation fonts ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Astrological (or Zodiac) fonts ⦿ Stone age fonts ⦿ Wood Type ⦿ Stone age fonts ⦿ Valentine's Day Fonts ⦿ Christmas / Season's Fonts ⦿ Western fonts ⦿ Psychedelic types ⦿ School fonts ⦿ Smilie Fonts ⦿ 3D fonts ⦿ Art deco typefaces ⦿ MICR fonts ⦿ Typefaces related to origami ⦿ Typefaces for stitching ⦿ Typefaces related to radio ⦿ Easter fonts ⦿ Type scene in Kentucky ⦿ Type scene in Florida ⦿ Brush script typefaces ⦿ Textured typefaces ⦿ Victorian typefaces ⦿ Paperclip faces ⦿ Popart typefaces ⦿ Typefaces with arrows ⦿ Kitchen tile fonts ⦿ Hexagonal typefaces ⦿ Hawaiian (tiki) fonts ⦿ Connect-the-dots typefaces ⦿ Military typefaces ⦿ Circuit board typefaces ⦿ Wood plank typefaces ⦿ Curly typefaces ⦿ Molecular typefaces ⦿ Chiseled fonts ⦿ Mosaic typefaces ⦿