CHANK'S OLD FONT NEWS

4.12.2006
CHANK'S NEW TYPEWRITER FONT SUNFLOWER is a little shabby chic.

4.11.2006
PEACE! Enjoy the new Free Font FLOWER POWER with your April showers.

3.7.2006
HOLY COW - A NEW FREE FONT! Check out WUNDERBACH PAINT -- a European stencil paint font.

3.1.2006
BUY FONTS FOR BIG CATS. Chank pledges to donate 10% of all MARCH Chank.com sales to THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY -- a no-kill sanctuary committed to providing permanent homes for captive wildcats.

2.29.2006
UPSIDE DOWN CHANK AND HOW! HOW Magazine's 2006 Typography issue featured a fun profile of Mister Diesel. Miss it? Check out our Articles section.

2.23.2006
NEW HANDWRITING FONT: DINKLE! A clean, new, handwriting font in 4 weights.

1.9.2006
GUESS WHO'S SPEAKING AT THE HOW CONFERENCE IN VEGAS? Your buddy Chank Diesel is presenting a session called "High Octane Type." Don't miss it!

12.16.2005
SEASONS GREETINGS FROM CHIPPEWA FALLS, Chank's newest retro font release. Available today at a low intro price.

12.15.2005
'TIS THE SEASON FOR HEAVY DRINKING -- perfect time to pick up DRINKtionary. This handy book of alcoholic drinks features over 6,000 recipes as well as Chank's font Uncle Stinky on the cover!

11.28.2005
MEET PROFESSOR MINTY, Chank's most extensive OpenType font to date -- a dynamic new fusion of Mister Frisky & Uncle Stinky. AVAILABLE ONLY AS PART OF CHANK'S BRAND NEW "GREATEST HITS" FONTPAK!

11.18.2005
CHANK ON THE RADIO! The Morning Show crew at Cities 97 really hit it off with their "fontrepeneur" guest. HEAR THE INTERVIEW HERE!

10.25.2005
AND THE WINNER IS... There were lots of winners of the Chank Fonts in Print Design Contest. SEE THE BIG WINNERS HERE!

10.14.2005
IT'S CREEPY & IT'S KOOKY! THE ROTODESIGN HELLOWEEN FONTPAK, a sinister selection of diabolical display fonts, is now available at bargain basement prices.

09.30.2005
A NEW HANDWRITING FONT, MISS AMYLYNN, makes its premiere. It's chock-full of OpenType special features, including swash caps, alternate lowercase letters, and ligatures galore.

09.19.2005
CHANK RELEASES THE LEGACY COLLECTION. The latest and greatest incarnation of his complete library includes remastered fonts in OpenType. EARLY BIRD SPECIAL! This new fontpak was introduced today for the low price of $499. We'll raise the price $20 every time we sell a copy, so the sooner you buy it, the more you'll save.

09.15.2005
TIME'S UP! Entries for the CHANK FONTS IN PRINT Design Contest must be postmarked today.

09.02.2005
CHANK SPEAKS IN VIRGINIA! Chank is pleased as punch to be the guest speaker for the ROANOKE AD FED on September 21.

08.12.2005
NEW FREE FONT! A wicked cool distressed blackletter font by the new guy in town. It's called NEWCASTLE.

08.09.2005
HOLY CRAP! CHANK'S GIVING AWAY $500 as part of the grand prize package for the CHANK FONTS IN PRINT design contest.

08.09.2005
BACK TO SCHOOL SALE! Student discounts for everybody. CLICK HERE TO SAVE 20% - 50%. Sale ends August 16.

08.08.2005
TWO NEW FONTS from the pencil of letterpress printer Kent Aldrich -- NOMADIC SKETCHBOOK and NOMADIC EGYPTIAN.

07.25.2005
Wow! Check out the esteemed professional judges for the CHANK FONTS IN PRINT design contest.

07.08.2005
WEEKEND UPDATE: You'll find new stuff hidden all over the the Info section at Chank.com. Check out the EMPLOYEES, GUEST SPEAKER and TESTIMONIALS pages.

07.01.2005
CALL FOR ENTRIES! Chank is searching the planet for the best use of Chank Fonts in print work. Find out how to enter your work in the CHANK FONTS IN PRINT design contest.

06.30.2005
Chank remastered the font formerly known as Fornicator, souping it up for OpenType with italics, small caps, and racing stripes. Its new name? TRUCKER!

06.29.2005
Hot off the presses, it's the second edition of Chank's newsletter, THE SHREDDER!

06.15.2005
OPENTYPE HYPE? Get the scoop on the latest and greatest font format.

05.31.2005
CHANK RELEASES LIQUORSTORE 3D, a pimped-out version of his celebrated geometric font Liquorstore. Available in OpenType!

05.11.2005
CHANK IS FRONT PAGE NEWS in the business section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Columnist Dick Youngblood does a great job explaining our family business.

04.30.2005
OUR FIRST OPENTYPE RELEASE is the new CHANKBATS FLOWERS, a flower dingbat icon font by Chank Diesel. Also available as part of the updated Chankbats OT family.

03.16.2005
FONT AID III releases FLEURONS OF HOPE, a collaborative dingbat font created to help raise funds for victims of the Southeast Asia Tsunami. Chank and more than 200 others contributed to the cause. Now it's your turn!

03.04.2005
QuarkXpress 6.x users who experience an annoying quirk involving newly-installed fonts not showing up in the Quark font menu will benefit from reading about the FONT FIX SCRIPT solution from Fontgeek.net.

02.28.2005
Extended Regular is the newest addition to the ADRIANNA EXTENDED FAMILY, now in 12 weights.

02.24.2005
Download our new PDF catalog: CHANK FONTS CATALOG #20. You could print it out and put it in a three-ring binder!

02.09.2005
CHEAPSKATE, a Chank Free Font by Pat Broderick of Rotodesign, is featured on the cover of a controversial new book.

01.24.2005
We're proud to introduce the premiere issue of our new newsletter: THE SHREDDER! It's even better than cheddar!

01.20.2005
Chank's Liquorstore font is honored to be one of the "20 Typefaces We Love" in HOW MAGAZINE'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE.

01.19.2005
New free dingbat font of French icons: FLEUR DE WEE.

01.03.2005
We're proud to unveil a new navigation system here at Chank.com, including a NEW RELEASES page and other smart improvements thanks to our beautiful friends at CLOCKWORK.

12.30.2004
New snowflake dingbat font: FRISKY FLAKES.

12.05.2004
New Christmas handwriting font by Santa Claus: GFY SANTA.

11.15.2004
In the fun tradition of Chumley and Chauncy, Chank's newest: CHALOOPS.

11.11.2004
New hand-drawn 3D font by Chank Diesel: BRUBECK'S CUBE.

06.20.2004
New fontpack: BLINCtype LETTERPRESS FONTPAK, includes new font, Player Piano by Bill Moran.

04.05.2004
New & improved... the downloadable CHANK FONT PDF CATALOG #19! Print it out on paper as a handy reference guide.

03.15.2004
March Font of the Month, the Venis saga continues: VENIS EXTRABOLD SMALLCAPS.

02.25.2004
February Font of the Month, the slinky and seductive classic logo font KATWALK.

01.20.2004
January Font of the Month, the wild western DRUNK COWBOY.

12.05.2003
December Font of the Month, ELEVATOR BOY by Jakob Fischer aka Pizzadude.

11.13.2003
November Font of the Month, CA AIRES PRO by Stefan Claudius of Cape Arcona.

10.14.2003
Retro fun comes in the form of the new October Font of the Month, JACKS BV by Jess Latham of Blue Vinyl Fonts.

10.10.2003
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it... learn more about your favorite alphabetician at the newsstand from articles in the current issues of STEP magazine and Minneapolis/St.Paul magazine.

9.16.2003
They'll think you've got nice handwriting when you use the new GFY Handwriting Fontpak to send your message. Includes 21 all-new handwriting fonts. You'll save big when you download it today at a special introductory price.

8.20.2003
To celebrate Harley's 100th anniversary, Kraftwerk is used to notify the public about a new scratch lottery ticket.

08.19.2003
Applebee's is using Corndog for their Honey BBQ Rib Tips.

08.14.2003
Golfers, chairs and cups: new batch of *premium* Chank art on display at Artcrawl.

08.13.2003
See the new Font of the Month: Liquorstore Italic. The newly-remastered Liquorstore family now contains 4 fonts, specially priced for a limited time. Works great in OSX!

08.08.2003
New Chank Art on eBay. Artist Chank Diesel will be releasing a new piece of art for sale on eBay every day for a month. Come back often to see the new drawings and paintings all month long.

08.06.2003
After 17 years of creating various kinds of art in the Twin Cities, Chank finally was deemed worthy enough for a mention in City Pages A-List. His art is highlighted as part of the "Art with Text" show at ArtCo Gallery.

07.24.2003
Check out the cool sites Chank added to the Links department of Fun.

07.17.2003
It's good to have some bad influence; Dirty Uncle by Jeremy Sinon is the new free font.

07.07.2003
Chank took an old freefont and revamped it into a new payfont, Transam03, the new Font of the Month for July.

06.05.2003
The people have demanded a new retro script font, and now they have it! Introducing Swingdancer, the new Font of the Month for June. Built especially for P. Puff Industries, now available for you!

06.04.2003
Wow! TWO new soopercool, retro freefonts: Schwing Shift and Schwinger. There's also new desktops in the Fun section, featuring images from Chank's recent trip to Taos, NM.

05.28.2003
New free font: Westsac. Created by 13 designers from Sacramento's Art Directors and Artists Club.

05.16.2003
The new font of the month for May is now available: Venis Small Caps. It is what it is.

05.15.2003
Trees are cool. There's new desktop images in the fun section!

03.03.2003
Introducing the new Old School Retro Fontpak, a CD of 20 retro typefaces from your favorite alphabetician at one low price.