It looks like at least one creative Minneapolis guy has caught the cheese fever we Wisconsinites know so well. Chank Diesel is an alphabetician – a creator of fonts – and he makes a lot of them, often using a wide range of everyday, organic objects to inspire and create his fonts.  

And one of his most recent font creations was inspired by, yup, cheese. Not just any ol' cheese either, oh no. He stopped by a nearby cheese maker, Holland’s Family Farm over in Thorp, and chose their homemade Gouda, called Marieke (“mah-ree-kah”), which he named the font after. It was created during a workshop held at UW-Steven’s Point for their nowHERE Design Conference. With the local cheese in hand, Diesel and attendees created capital letters for the new font. And the rest is cheesy history.

I guess inspiration really can come from anywhere – delicious,  delicious anywhere. Now excuse me while I go get some cheese curds to munch on.

If you wanna see the original, cheese-based lettering, you can check it out on flicker, or if you want this font for your very own, you can go to his website and download it for free.