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Mumble Grumble: font for illegible handwriting, nonsense text and comic book tomes

Rob Beschizza
Nov 26, 2025
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Mumble Grumble is a typeface with a very specific use: filler text. Sometimes you just want something that suggests text without being text. After all, greeking or lorem ipsum read as legible placeholder text and may inadvertantly carry undesirable meaning; in finished work they look like a mistake. But these squiggles? As beautiful as any other Nate Pi…

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