Rat Fink Fonts: Lettering, Illustration and Package Design

House Industries’ collection catalog includes Rat Fink Fonts. In his first-person project account, designer Ken Barber describes introducing the fonts to automotive media, expanding Ed Roth imagery onto shirts and lighters, and recreating original Revell model boxes for the packaging. This documents a collection and its physical presentation; it does not establish that every character illustration is a letter, or that a retail face identified on a fan website is an official game-logo specification.

For an original garage-event poster, block out one area for GARAGE NIGHT and another for your own drawing before adding small copy. Compare the title with the image removed: it should retain a deliberate silhouette and readable spacing. Then bring the drawing back and check which element supplies the detail. If both are busy, simplify the border rather than stacking more ornaments around the words. Bangers is an independent comic-display comparison, not a file from the Rat Fink collection.

Try a second version in a small rectangular label with a product name, one illustration and a short descriptor. Keep those elements in separate editable layers so the illustration can change without rebuilding the title. Inspect the label without color to see whether the product name still leads, then compare a much larger poster version. Carter One provides another independent display comparison. The homepage decorative text generator produces Unicode text styles; it does not supply the collection’s drawn letterforms, illustrated characters or package artwork.