Cute and Playful Fonts, part 1: Color Block

Color Block is a font that’s very close to my heart since it’s the typeface I used to create the icon for my flagship app, Looxie.

The Looxie logo is just the letter ‘O’ from Color Block.

Color Block is a colored font, and it includes font files with the letters tinted in a certain color, depending on the font file you decide to use. Only very recent versions of Photoshop and Illustrator CC support this functionality but that’s not such a huge loss since, if you convert the letters to outlines in any other software, you can take care of the coloring yourself.

So, what does it look like? It looks like this

Obviously, I also took ten minutes to create my own design using the font

Color Block is a bit of a paradox: it’s cute and playful but it’s also angular and kinda austere, which opens the door to using it in a wide variety of applications.

You can download Color Block HERE.

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