Ripplewick Tides

Ripplewick Tides is a wide, bold op-art display font with wavy ripple lines running across every letter. Each soft-cornered capital has a solid outline and horizontal waves cut right through it, giving a retro, eye-catching shimmer like water on a sunny day.

It's made for beach and pool party signs, surf and summer shirts, retro posters, album and event graphics, stickers, labels and cut vinyl decals.

Inspiration: 1960s op-art prints, seaside rippled glass and the lines of a tide on wet sand.

The waves are part of the letter shapes, not a colour layer, so they show in any app that uses fonts (Cricut Design Space, Silhouette Studio, Canva, Word, Photoshop and more) and cut out cleanly on a cutting machine. Use it big and bold; at small sizes the ripples read as a texture.

What's included: one font in three formats: TTF, OTF and WOFF (for websites), delivered as one instant-download ZIP file.

Characters included: uppercase A–Z, lowercase keys a–z (these type smaller capitals, a small-caps style), numbers 0–9 and the punctuation . , ! ? ' " - & @ # $ % ( ) : ; / + =. Accented letters and other symbols are not included.

Licence: you may use this font in personal projects and in commercial physical products you make and sell (such as printed items, shirts, stickers, signs and cut vinyl). The font files themselves can't be resold, shared or redistributed.

This is a digital download. No physical item will be shipped.