Smashing Pumpkins

‘Tis the season for novelty typefaces, and we have just the thing to get you in the holiday spirit. Dafont.com offers freeware, shareware, and demo versions of more than 50 Halloween-themed fonts. We’re partial to pumpkins. From Tim Watkins comes Pumpkinese, which inserts jaunty script characters into solid black pumpkin shapes, while French designer Claude sketched more realistic pumpkins for Jack O. Punkins, Bumkins, and KR Pick a Pumpkin offer an array of jack-o-lantern dingbats. Blue Vinyl’s Trick or Treat also aims to please, with dingbats ranging from black cats and a bubbling cauldron to skulls and spiders. If it’s truly spooky symbols you’re looking for, try Dancing Dead, for which Mike Larsson created an uppercase alphabet backed by skeletons and a matching set of undead dingbats: skeletons in assorted poses.