http://www.linotype.com/164/blackmoor-family.html

Sick looking type? You could always just set it badly! Or mash it up in a drawing programme. There’s always Caustic Biomorph and I have a hunch that out there, somewhere, is lurking a font named ’Ebola’...

Any ratty looking font:-)

ChrisL

ITC Spooky

what’s the destination? screen or print?

the first thing that came to mind when i saw the word “plague” was the black plague, historically, which made me think “baroque,” and i thought of storm’s beautiful regula. (actually, regula is probably too beautiful to be sick.)

but if the context is...i don’t know, say, contemporary germ warfare, then how about one of house industries’ distressed faces, like housecopy?

It would be for print. Actually screen printed on jersies. ;) Its the name of a triatholon team — interesting, I know.

Turn off kerning.

Freysk

This book has an experiment where a type designer had grown culture in petri dishes in the shapes of letters and then made a font on the stages of growth, so as the culture grew the letter became bolder. Unfortunately I don’t have the book to hand so I can’t tell you the designer or the name of the font (if it was released), but it was a fun experiment.
Tim

Chicken scratch - http://www.astigmatic.com/chicken.html

Influenza - http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/kennmunk/influenza/

For The Birds - http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ingrimayne/for-the-birds/

Viktors Raven - http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/viktorsraven-ef/

Raven BT - http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/raven-bt/

Si

you got bird flu on the brain, si? ;^P

Must have something to do with my new icon ;-)

Q: How do you know if you are coming down with Bird Flew?

A: If you have sudden urges to crap on car windshields :-)

ChrisL