Thickum Thighs - juicy display font

Thickum Thighs is best used extra large as a display font in your next project that requires something cute, bubbly, and balloon-y.

When my daughter was born, all I wanted to do was chomp on her plump little thighs. The way the rolls would form deep crevices between the joints and how her frame could barely contain the spillage of rolls struck me right in my new mommy feels.

There’s a part of me that feels a little psychotic about having this urge to bite baby thighs, but I know I’m not alone: There is a literal science to wanting to bite or eat cute things. The phenomenon of expressing something different than what you’re feeling – in this case, wanting to eat something cute when you’re not actually feeling aggression – is called dimorphous expression.

Type Specimens Additionally, as a Filipino American, I’m excited there’s a Tagalog word for this exact phenomenon! That word is gigil, which is an adjective that means to experience overwhelming emotion (usually caused by something cute), the reaction of which is to grit your teeth or tremble.

Typography Talk To express the idea of baby thighs, I made the counters (the space in glyphs like a, b, d, e, o, etc.) super tight, almost as if the character is so overwhelmed with chunkiness so the counter can barely stay open. It’s almost like how a super-fluffy donut is so doughy that the hole is barely a hole. Also, the descenders in the glyphs g, j, p, q, and y, nearly fold back onto themselves to further express the idea of deliciously excessive plumpness.

Awards No big deal/whatevskies, but this font won an American Graphic Design Award by GDUSA and an Honorable Mention in the 2023 Creative Communication Award by C2A.

Font Infusions was also a winner of the National ACE AAPISTRONG Proudly Unstoppable Fund.

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