5/5/25

On Cinco de Mayo

Image of various signs and sheet of rub-on lettering. “Pssst… if you ever see this typeface on anything, or if it’s on your computer system, its real name is La Fiesta. I know because I created it in the late ‘80s. It was a winner in a Chartpak International Typeface Competition. The design was hand-rendered and first produced as rub-on lettering by Chartpak. But when personal computing started taking off, it was pilfered by a fly-by-night software company and renamed.”

Since it's Cinco de Mayo, I thought I'd share this.

Sometimes interesting and sometimes frustrating, a lot of my work has taken on a life of its own over the years. It’s really not unusual to see something I created over the course of my long career being used on the internet or when I travel about. (Sometimes authorized, sometimes not.)

(Ask me about some of my Discovery (Channel) Education Clip Art Gallery images someday.)