ZeitGuys
Emigre · Bob Aufuldish and Eric Donelan · 1994
A 1994 dingbat font by Bob Aufuldish and Eric Donelan, mapping 126 hand-drawn illustrations to keyboard characters across two subfamilies.
About
Released during Emigre's experimental heyday, ZeitGuys replaces conventional letterforms with a set of 126 loosely rendered pictorial illustrations, distributed across two fonts. The drawings carry the rough, irreverent character typical of mid-1990s alternative graphic design. It functions as a resource for editorial decoration rather than typographic text setting.
Classification
ZeitGuys is a dingbat and illustration font composed of pictorial characters rather than conventional letterforms, placing it firmly in the display/ornamental category. Each keystroke produces a hand-drawn illustration rather than an alphabetic glyph.