Wonder what font that is on the cover of the Hunger Games books? Well here's the answer for you: it's a custom font that was created exclusively for the series.

Chank Co worked with P22 and Scholastic to create an exclusive custom font for the Hunger Games books, which gives the covers of the series a distinct and unique typographic look. The custom-modified Hunger Games font is based on the historic P22 Constructivist Square font, which was a revival of typestyles created by 20th-century Russian poster artists.

So there you go.

And the font used for the author's name on the bottom of all three covers? That's Liquorstore.

Yeah, it is a real thrill for me to be a small part of this annual poster party for bike people. Since its inception a few years ago, ARTCRANK has grown from a local poster party for Twin Cities designers and artists to an international celebration of bicycle posterification in lots of other cities. The party now moves from city to city and the quality and diversity of participating artists just keeps getting better. And the opening-night parties are great, too.

My favorite part of ARTCRANK is the combination of art & design in equal parts. Here, the artists in the show are comprised of some of the best graphic designers in town. They work for great big companies and advertising agencies for their jobs all year long, but ARTCRANK allows them a less-commercial, more-artistic outlet for the passion-driven bicycle concepts. They make a great bunch of posters every year.

This year I was honored to work with four different ARTCRANK artists on converting their alphabet art into typable fonts they could use in their poster designs this year. The posters will all be unveiled at the event tomorrow, but in the meantime here you can see the fonts they made. Thanks to Scott Shore, David Paul Seymour, Crystal Jensen & Erik T. Johnson for letting me help with their alphabetical fontification. I'm so glad I can help in my own small way with this bike poster party.

These four custom fonts are not currently available anywhere on the internet. They are just for you to look at and enjoy. But they will be available at the ARTCRANK event tomorrow in what I'm calling the “Street-Font-Pack.” They'll be available only at the event at sooper-cheap special-event price, just for fun. For one night only you can buy this font cd, served up in limited-edition packaging by artist David Paul Seymour. First come, first served, and only available in the real world.

I call it the “street-version” of these fonts because they are pretty stripped down and raw, unlike the fancy fonts people up in the skyscrapers use. For these particular fonts I am not promising punctuation or numbers, or even ampersands for sure; you can find that in other fonts. Here all you get is the letters, A-Z. Cuz any urban propagandist will tell you you can do a lot of damage with just a basic alphabet of A-Z. That's all you really need, right?

These fonts are inspired and fun and spontaneous, and instead of dragging them down with the long and arduous process of creating a more perfect, professional font, I thought I'd just offer 'em “street-style” quick and fun and fleeting. No frills.

Come and get these fonts at the event if you really want 'em. ARTCRANK is in MINNEAPOLIS this SATURDAY! 

Ride on!