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Curlz was designed by Carl Crossgrove and Steve Matteson in 1995 for Agfa Monotype.

You may be familiar with the typeface, mainly because it's bundled with almost every PC that's sold, and subsequently used by sign making companies up and down the country every time a client asks for something fun and quirky. And as they don't have Remedy (the typeface used on the Cold Feet TV series) they opt for Curlz.

When should Curlz be used:
• If you are putting together an invitation for a 5 year-old girl's birthday party.
• You're writing a break-up letter and want to ease the pain with this whimsical typeface.

This blog is dedicated to all the misuse of Curlz. Enjoy.
Oh. It would seem Eastbourne has a Curlz quota to meet. We get rid of one use, and low and behold another appears. Here we have Appyfeet in the Arndale Centre. I give it 6 months before it shuts down.

Oh.
It would seem Eastbourne has a Curlz quota to meet. We get rid of one use, and low and behold another appears. Here we have Appyfeet in the Arndale Centre. I give it 6 months before it shuts down.

19th August 2011 10
#curlz#type#font#appyfeet#eastbourne#arndale centre
Furniture Classics, formerly Perfect Homes in Eastbourne. It may not be a great improvement on the previous sign, but it’s one less Curlz shop sign in Eastbourne. Hurrah!

Furniture Classics, formerly Perfect Homes in Eastbourne. It may not be a great improvement on the previous sign, but it’s one less Curlz shop sign in Eastbourne. Hurrah!

19th August 2011 9
#curlz#monotype#typeface#font#type#eastbourne#perfect home#furniture classics#terminus road
So what typeface do you use for a dealer in fine jewellery, a distinguished old-style, or perhaps a refined thin geometric style. What about Curlz. Yea… wait what?

So what typeface do you use for a dealer in fine jewellery, a distinguished old-style, or perhaps a refined thin geometric style.
What about Curlz.
Yea… wait what?

8th July 2011 1
#curlz#monotype#type#font#brighton#thelanes#thenorthlanes#kensington gardens
Dream Tubes packaging design feedback: Yeah generally good, but not keen on the curly bits on the type. Designer’s solution: Yeah just lopped those curly bits off, couldn’t be bothered to finish off the ends, because well, your product is shit.

Dream Tubes packaging design feedback: Yeah generally good, but not keen on the curly bits on the type.
Designer’s solution: Yeah just lopped those curly bits off, couldn’t be bothered to finish off the ends, because well, your product is shit.

6th July 2011 1
#curlz#monotype#type#font#dream tubes