About

When I started this font it was called Pestle… It didn’t run – it didn’t even walk. At some point I thought, Hmm! Looks a bit like Liquorice! And now… Voilar! I remember being able to buy about a yard of Liquorice rolled round a central comfit – how fab! Tuppence worth of sticky afternoon! You could also buy bundles of Liquorice root – which looked like black twigs with bright yellow wood – they left my teeth full of black barky twiggy bits…

The past is a strange Lady – Bless her!

This was almost Kingthings Leechy… just another one of my bulbous shiny things – I have always liked letter-shapes with ‘bottom’, probably a 70’s thing, as many a seventies thing did indeed possess it – including the fabulous Chaka Kahn… Oooh, Diva!