Ludum Dairy is a typeface by Mike Kasprzak. It ~~is~~ will soon be the font used for Ludum Dare logo on the official game jam website ldjam.com.

This font is freely available under the SIL OFL license (generally speaking: use it for whatever, just don't sell it).

DOWNLOADS: https://github.com/mikekasprzak/font-ludum-dairy/releases

Things still to do:

• Kerning
• Punctuation glyphs (!.,#)

Inspirations

The modern Ludum Dare logo began by modifying glyphs from Null by FontFabric. I liked the weight of the font, and some of the thematic notes, specifically the curvyness. It reminded me of the old NASA and CN logos. I took the font in a more curvy direction, and only a handful of glyphs bare resemblence to the original inspiprations.

Null by FontFabric

NULL by FontFabric

Original inspiration for the logo.

NASA Logo

NASA Logo on Wikimedia

I've always been a fan of the original NASA logo. The wormyness is a super interesting aesthetic to me. When I first discovered FontFabric's NULL font, I wanted a wormier version of that.

CN Logo

CN Logo on Wikimedia

A fascinating piece on the CN logo