What is the Freak font?
Freak was originally released by The Great Western Type Foundry in 1889.
According to Maurice Annenberg, Great Western became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler when the Barnhart brothers bought out the Toepfer family in 1868.The plant superintendent, Charles Spindler, became Secretary of the new firm. Specimen books as late as 1899 show the name Great Western alongside the BB&S name.
At some point, prior to 1925, Freak was renamed “Bamboo” by BB&S. It was delisted when BB&S was absorbed by ATF in 1929. More…
Listed in McGrew under “Bamboo”.
Freak Font families
The Freak font includes the following font families:
- Freak
- Freak Bold
Freak Preview
Here is a preview of how Freak will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.