Vending Machine is a hand-drawn dingbat font featuring 52 pictograms—a typable collection of everyday objects, symbols, and visual odds and ends. True to its name, it’s a grab bag of imagery that includes everything but the kitchen sink.
Created circa 1999 while studying at West Texas A&M University, Vending Machine was designed from the outset as an illustration-based typeface, using fonts as a delivery system for images rather than language. Each glyph functions as a standalone visual element, ready to be dropped directly into layouts.
The drawings are loose, analog, and intentionally imperfect, giving the font a human, sketch-driven quality. Vending Machine works especially well for posters, zines, merch, editorial accents, and experimental typography where variety and personality matter more than uniformity.
Vending Machine is a hand-drawn dingbat font featuring 52 pictograms—a typable collection of everyday objects, symbols, and visual odds and ends. True to its name, it’s a grab bag of imagery that includes everything but the kitchen sink.
Created circa 1999 while studying at West Texas A&M University, Vending Machine was designed from the outset as an illustration-based typeface, using fonts as a delivery system for images rather than language. Each glyph functions as a standalone visual element, ready to be dropped directly into layouts.
The drawings are loose, analog, and intentionally imperfect, giving the font a human, sketch-driven quality. Vending Machine works especially well for posters, zines, merch, editorial accents, and experimental typography where variety and personality matter more than uniformity.
My senior specimen poster from 1999.
*Ignore the copy and font choice… :P
