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David Art Wales

Australian (and American?) designer of The Naughties (1999), a grunge typeface published at Chank's foundry, and Cake Shop (2021), a typeface that emulates a primitive hand. He explains: 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. 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.

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