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The name in glacier-blue ice with snow caps and icicles, on a navy night sky full of falling snow.
Chunky ice letters with snow caps and icicles · v1.000
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Frostling is a winter display face of chunky, soft-cornered ice blocks with a pillow of snow on every top, drips running down the front and icicles under every ledge. The ice, the snow and the glints are separate layers, so the same title can be glacier blue, candy-cane red or pine green.
Type tester
Try it with your own words
All four layers are stacked here in the hero's Glacier Blue, with rounded, grainy ice that pales towards the top and a soft glow on the glints. Try the other colours, switch Snow only on to drop the icicles, or the layers off for Solid.
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This preview covers Basic Latin and the winter extras. The full font adds every accented letter.
Features
Made for game interfaces
A winter ice font: chunky soft-square letters with snow caps, icicles and glints, in five layer fonts that stack into glossy ice, plus 12 winter extras.
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Four layers of ice
Shadow, Ice, Snow and Sparkle stack into glossy ice with white snow on top; Solid is the whole letter in a single font.
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Snow where it settles
A soft pillow of snow sits on every top that faces the sky, with little drips running down the front of the ice.
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Icicles under the ledges
Icicles hang wherever an overhang leaves room, under the bar of a T or the arm of an F, and nowhere they would crowd the next letter.
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Snow only, when it's busy
Stylistic Set 1 keeps the snow and takes away the icicles, for small sizes, buttons and crowded layouts.
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Winter and holiday extras
A snowflake, snowman, mitten, hot cocoa, pine tree, gift, candy cane, penguin, star and icicle, plus two icy dividers.
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Capitals and lowercase
389 characters per font with a true lowercase, figures and punctuation, for Western and Central European languages.
Built-in icons
Twelve icons you can type
Each icon is a character in the font. Click one to copy it, then paste it into anything set in Frostling.
Winter and holiday extras
Icy dividers
Case study
How Frostling was designed
Why I made it
Every live game gets a winter event, and every winter event needs a logo by next week. Most of them end up as a regular font with a snow brush painted over the top, which looks fine once and can't be reused for the shop banner, the event menu or the reward pop-up.
I wanted snowy ice lettering that types: one font that gives the same frosty look to the event title, the buttons and the countdown, and can be recoloured for the holidays.
Ice, snow and light
Frostling comes apart into the pieces of a frozen letter: a navy Shadow for the outline and depth, the Ice with its icicles, the Snow caps and drips, and the Sparkle glints on top. The four share identical spacing and kerning, so stacked copies land exactly on each other.
Colour the Ice and keep the Snow white, and the same word works in glacier blue, mint, candy-cane red, evergreen or gold, or with a different colour for every letter.
Built like ice blocks
The letters are chunky and soft-square, like blocks cut from a frozen pond, so they stay sturdy under a heavy snow cap. Snow only settles on the tops that face the sky, and icicles only hang where there's a ledge with room underneath.
That can get busy in small text, so Stylistic Set 1 keeps the snow and removes the icicles, which suits buttons, timers and crowded event screens.
Winter extras
The extras are frozen too: a snowflake, a snowman, a mitten, a mug of hot cocoa, a pine tree, a gift, a candy cane, a penguin, a star and a single icicle, plus a short and a long icy divider.
They sit on their usual Unicode codes, with the candy cane on a Private Use code, and they come in every layer, so a stacked snowman or pine tree gets its outline, snow and glints like the letters.
In use
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The Photoshop template
The editable hero layout from the download, on a pale winter sky with a red subtitle on a navy panel.
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As a title screen
A winter game's title under a full moon, with a gold subtitle, red, green and blue buttons, snowy pines and a snowman.
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Anatomy of a frosty letter
A large T showing its snow cap, icicles, glints and chunky ice, next to the default and snow-only versions of a green title.
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The layers
Solid, Shadow, Ice, Snow and Sparkle one by one, the stacking order, and a stacked blue and red Th.
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Any colour of ice
Glacier Blue, Mint Frost, Candy Cane and Evergreen with their layer colours, and a festive mix with a colour per letter.
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Winter extras
The ten winter and holiday extras and two icy dividers, each with its code.
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Character set
Capitals, lowercase, figures, punctuation, symbols and accented letters, every one with its snow.
What you get
Everything in the download
- Desktop fontsOTF for design apps, TTF for game engines and Windows, every layer.
- Web fontsWOFF2 for every layer, with unlimited web use.
- Game engine packBMFont bitmap fonts (.fnt, .xml and .png atlas) at 32, 64 and 128 px, for Godot, Unity, GameMaker, LibGDX, Phaser, MonoGame and Love2D.
- Photoshop templateAn editable hero layout with live type layers, layer effects and textures.
- README and licenseSetup tips for design apps, websites and game engines, and the full license.
License
Included with every purchase
- Games and apps, embedded for unlimited copies sold
- Logos, merch, videos, streams and print, with no limit on sales
- Installed on unlimited computers: yours, your team's and your company's
- Websites, with unlimited page views and traffic
Ask me first
- Products where customers type their own text in the font
- Resale in asset packs, templates or font collections
Please don't share or resell the font files. For anything the license doesn't cover, email me. idris.hadjoudj@gmail.com
FAQ
Before you buy
How do the 5 layers work?
Frostling comes as 5 layer fonts (Shadow, Ice, Snow, Sparkle, Solid) with the same spacing and kerning. Type the same text in each, stack the copies exactly on top of each other and give each its own colour. Frostling Solid also works on its own in one colour.
How do I get the glossy ice from the pictures?
Stack Shadow, Ice, Snow and Sparkle, colour the Ice and keep the Snow and Sparkle white. The marketing art then adds a top-to-bottom gradient, a fine grain and a bevel on the Ice and a soft drop shadow underneath, which you can add in your design app or skip for flatter, cartoon ice.
Can I remove the icicles?
Yes. Stylistic Set 1 (ss01) keeps the snow and takes the icicles away, which helps at small sizes and in busy layouts. On the web it's font-feature-settings: "ss01".
Can I use Frostling in a game I sell, or for its logo?
Yes. Commercial use is included for games, apps, logos, merch, videos, streams and print, with no limit on sales, and you can embed the fonts and bitmap fonts in games and apps for unlimited copies. Products where your customers type their own text, and resale in asset packs, need an extended license: just ask.
Does Frostling work in Unity, Godot and GameMaker?
Yes. Use the TTF files in any engine that imports fonts, or the included game engine pack: BMFont bitmap fonts at 32, 64 and 128 px for Godot, Unity, GameMaker, LibGDX, Phaser, MonoGame and Love2D.
Can I use Frostling on my website?
Yes. WOFF2 web fonts are included, and web use is unlimited, with no cap on page views or traffic.
Which languages does it support?
Each font has 389 characters, covering Western and Central European languages.
Is Frostling part of a bundle?
Yes. Frostling is in The Complete Font Collection, every font I've made in one download.
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