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Cake Shop

Cake Shop

by Chank
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Cake Shop Font Family was designed by David Art Wales and published by Chank. Cake Shop contains 1 styles.

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    About Cake Shop Font Family


    Cake Shop has a lengthy history. Originally designed during the Eighties by Aussie artist David Art Wales, the font was inspired by the awkward but charming hand-lettered signs in a Maltese cake shop near his Sydney home. "These signs were hand-drawn by someone who clearly had no experience but who'd really put their heart and soul into the job. There was a real sincerity to the characters that I wanted to capture." For a brief time during the early Nineties, MTV used Cake Shop for all their on-air interstitials. Since then, it's become a go-to font for everything from children's books to album covers and ice cream branding. In a recent update, Wales added airier spacing to more closely resemble the original signs the font was based on.

    Designers: David Art Wales

    Publisher: Chank

    Foundry: Chank

    Design Owner: Chank

    MyFonts debut: Apr 8, 2021

    Cake Shop

    About Chank

    The Chank Company is a Minneapolis-based type house and art studio, named for founder Chank Diesel who began making fonts in 1992. Chank Fonts were featured in the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum as “important examples of contemporary typography” in 1996. And in 1997, Chank was profiled in The Wall Street Journal. Chank strives...

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