Mr Happy

Mr Happy was designed in 2013 and is a hand-drawn narrow typeface. It has a brother with slabs, Mr Lucky.

You can layer different styles over the background style to achieve lots of colourful effects. Use just one style to get a single-coloured letter or set the shadow and fill over the background style to get a full, three-colour mode. Mr Happy has upper and lowercase characters with up to three alternate glyphs.

Built-in OpenType Contextual Alternates feature will automatically set alternate glyphs depending on the frequency of appearance of the same character (even in web font but only in HTML5 browsers). The script doesn’t throw random glyphs. For example, in the word “HIPPOPOTAMUS” you will automatically get three different “P” glyphs and two “O” glyphs. It really works great, but, of course, you can always fine-tune it manually.

You can buy it on MyFonts.

Examples of Mr Happy in “Maps Activity Book” and on the cover of “Maps, Purple Edition”.

Sketches for Mr Lucky: