Gallery: Yes, This Font Is Really Made From Fried Eggs
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Vladimir and Maksim Loginov create fonts by hand. Literally. *Image: Handmade Font*
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To get this egg font right, they blew through hundreds of eggs. *Image: Handmade Font*
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Though the brothers make the majority of their fonts by hand, they do use computers to tweak and refine their images, which is evident if you look closely at the too-perfect yolk. *Image: Handmade Font*
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They'll first get the materials to form a character, then photograph each letter and edit it in Photoshop. *Image: Handmade Font*
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Decorative ribbon font. *Image: Handmade Font*
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The brothers arranged burnt matches into letters. *Image: Handmade Font*
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"It’s hard to be a specialist in squeezing letters out of ketchup or cutting forms out of a loaf of bread,” they say. *Image: Handmade Font*
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This fried potato font was difficult to create without getting burnt by hot oil. *Image: Handmade Font*
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Each font set is meticulously made. Yes, they're cutting letters out of loaves of bread. *Image: Handmade Font*
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Popping them into the toaster for that nice, brown look. *Image: Handmade Font*
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Cigarette butt font. Lovely. *Image: Handmade Font*
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Though the Loginovs use a computer to design some of their fonts, most, like this raw meat font, are done by hand. *Image: Handmade Font*
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The brothers enlisted their father to make metal frames so that they could wattle wet branches around them. To hold the wet branches' shape, they put them in the sauna to dry. *Image: Handmade Font*
