chris willmore

bro is that tom nook of finland

Wanjirou from Mahjong Soul in colorful robes

Happy belated birthday to the best character in Mahjong Soul, who is allowed to eat as many tiles as he wants

Three illustrated animals stacked on top of each other in a cute style. A blue bunny, yellow kitty, and pink dog. The bunny and kitty are facing the same direction yelling "keep" and "makin'" in word bubbles and the dog is facing the opposite direction with "art!" in a fart cloud from his butt.

My sincere wish for all of us in 2026 is we all keep makin' art! Good, bad, stinky – it doesn't matter! Let's keep making things. ✏️💨

ambient maria is live now to 9 pm pacific with a special holiday sunday sundowns! tune in twitch.tv/theambientma...

Pokemon is basically a thing Nintendo does where once every couple of years they release a new set of character designs and I get to enjoy cute fanart based on these character designs for the next two years. Allegedly, a video game is somehow involved somewhere

well, they did tear down her office

Legends 🌟

#nightinthewoods x #animalcrossing

YouTube video by westernvinyl Erik Hall - "Music for a Large Ensemble" (Steve Reich)

we're so back. youtu.be/aDl3cwrpz_U?...

all the A's i drew for #fontober 2025 (and an accurate representation of my mental state afterwards lol). which one was your favorite?

big thanks to everyone who followed along and provided feedback and encouragement ❤️ let's do it again next year!

that's it for fontober this year! thanks for your views and support, and stay tuned because i've got some more fun designs in the works ❤️

#fontober day 31 (LAST DAY 🎃): i had zero inspiration this morning so i just made a lowercase to complement the uppercase from yesterday. i like how i was able to reuse the weird serif from C in a/c/r/s. it feels like the headline from an old-timey railroad timetable or almanac

one of my favorite struggle meals is power oatmeal: two bags of instant oatmeal with a gob of peanut butter stirred in. raisins if i’m feeling fancy. equally good for camping and depression

pure fat is about as calorie-dense as you can get (about 100 calories per tablespoon). peanut butter and tahini both come very close to that. cheese is good too

#fontober day 30: the redlick-newman building by 17th and mission in SF (the one that used to have the "17 reasons why!" sign on top) has these blocky geometric letters embedded in the sidewalk out front. i had to fontify them. why is the original N so narrow tho? did they forget about the hyphen?

#fontober day 29: my handwriting tends to take a zig-zag form for letters like i/m/n/u (good thing no one else has to read it!) so i made an irregular monolinear italic with a zig-zag rhythm. i was tempted to make 'n' and 'u' identical but i'm not that mean — how would you tell "month" from "mouth"?

i mean

CPUs are basically magic crystals

A Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad is going to read him a bedtime story. First panel: Calvin’s dad, scanning a bookshelf: “What story would you like tonight? We can read anything except—“ Calvin, from bed, excited: “The Voynich Manuscript!” Second panel: Calvin’s dad, deeply exasperated: “NO! No Voynich Manuscript tonight! We’ve tried to decipher that book a million times!” Calvin, yelling: “I want the Voynich Manuscript!” Third panel: Calvin’s dad, trying to reason with him: “Look, you *know* how the story goes! You’ve memorized the whole thing! It’s completely unreadable!” Calvin: “I want mysterious glyphs and sigils!” Fourth panel: Calvin, in bed and staring wide-eyed into the dark: “Wow, the story was different *that* time!” Hobbes, also in bed and staring: (a long string of incomprehensible characters).

shout-out to @dtemkin.bsky.social for getting me thinking about upside-down fonts with his Language 2, in which every other line goes backwards (5/5)

i took Times (a serif font most people are very familiar with), swapped the top and bottom serifs, flipped "symmetric" letters like s and x, and adjusted a/c/e/g to make them look better upside-down. the effect is striking IMO! (4/5)

i wanted to explore whether it works for text too, i.e. if i could make a font that looked OK upside-down but wrong when right side up. (3/5)

Thatcher effect - Wikipedia

the thatcher effect is a famous optical illusion where picture of a face (originally margaret thatcher's) looks fine when upside down but is revealed to have unsettling upside-down eyes and mouth when turned right-side up. (2/5) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatche...

#fontober day 28: the font in the first image is plain old Times, just upside down, right? now look at the second image where i turn it right side up. wtf!! (1/5)

#fontober day 27: finished the ink traps experiment from yesterday. the traps force some tough decisions — the R has one corner in the crotch because having two traps that close together is too complex. i wish i had more control over which direction they pointed so R/X could look a little less wonky

#fontober day 26: does it count as a whole alphabet if i draw half of an alphabet in two masters? i think so lol. here i'm using @glyphsapp.com corner components to add variable ink traps to a bold italic sans. i like how the S looks like a slug. gonna try to finish this one tomorrow

#fontober day 25: designed a narrow lowercase sans with some contrast for the 16-pixel-tall displays over the doors at the ends of the BART car (see image 3). pixel fonts are so hard — there are only a few slopes that look good on a pixel grid so making a satisfactory k/v/w/x/y/z is near impossible

special thanks to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for the quote

#fontober day 24: i adore super-high-contrast expansion faces like bodoni black so here's my love letter(s) to them — big ol' ball terminals, hairline serifs, all the f-ligatures. good for book covers and headlines

Street cleaner fam, assemble! Have some cool announcement on the way!!

#fontober day 23: finished the engraver's script from yesterday (for now anyway). uppercase script is hard, but surprisingly modular —  spot the shared elements between B/K/R, T/F, A/C/E/G, O/V/W, G/J/Y, Q/Z. surprisingly O and Q have completely separate designs due to the direction they're drawn in

#fontober day 22: @warriorchicken.me requested a font related to "brass music and trumpets" for her bday so i thought of the way the trumpet maker's name is engraved on the bell sometimes, all ornate and swooshy. might finish this one tomorrow. thanks to lttrink.com for the assist with the strokes!