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Chank Diesel is a contemporary type designer.
Chank Diesel, aka Charles Andermack, was born in Canada and raised in the U.S. state of Florida. He was born Charles Anderson, but neighbors called him "Chanky," after Spanky from the Little Rascals. The childhood nave evolved to "Chank" as he grew up. "Anderson" became "Andermack" when Chank married and combined his last name with that of his wife's.
Chank was educated at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. He began designing typefaces when he was Creative Director for the alternative music magazine, CAKE. During this time, he road-tripped back and forth across the country visiting designers at various record companies and earning himself the nickname "The Traveling Font Salesman." His fonts appeared on a number of album covers. Chank established his type foundry, Chank Fonts, in 1996, which he now operates from his home office in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. He creates primarily display typefaces, and his customers range from average computer users to professional designers. Chank creates custom fonts for corporations wanting exclusive rights to custom designed fonts. Chank fonts have been found on Taco Bell wrappers, Honeycomb cereal boxes, Tanqueray billboards, bottles of Ocean Spray cranberry drink, and movie posters for James and the Giant Peach.[1] His Go Font Yourself! service is available for those wanting their handwriting turned into a font. Chank sells his fonts (and also distributes free fonts) from his website, Chank.com.
Chank conducts font workshops, where he explains the process of font design and creates new fonts using attendee input.
Some of Chank's fonts were featured in the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum as “important examples of contemporary typography” in 1996. He was profiled in the Wall Street Journal in 1997. In 2008, he was featured in The New York Times article "Down With Helvetica: Design Your Own Font."[2] In addition to being a font designer, Chank is also a painter.
External Links[edit]
New York Times "Down With Helvetica: Design Your Own Font" article
Wired Magazine "'Elvis of Fonts' to Bust Out Rock Star ABCs" article