Blambot is the name of an online type foundry

Type foundry

A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers...

 and is the alias

Pseudonym

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 of freeware

Freeware

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 and shareware

Shareware

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 computer font

Typeface

In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....

 designer Nate Piekos. Blambot specializes in script

Handwriting

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 and display typeface

Typeface

In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....

s for use as lettering

Letterer

A letterer is a member of a team of comic book creators responsible for drawing the comic book's text. The letterer's use of typefaces, calligraphy, letter size, and layout all contribute to the impact of the comic. The letterer crafts the comic's "display lettering": the story title lettering and...

 in both print and online comics

Comic book

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.

Nate Piekos

Nate Piekos graduated with a BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 in Design from Rhode Island College

Rhode Island College

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. Since founding Blambot in 1999, he has lettered comics for Marvel

Marvel Comics

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, DC

DC Comics

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, Oni Press

Oni Press

Oni Press is an American independent comic book publisher based in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1997 by Bob Schreck and Joe Nozemack with the goal of publishing the kinds of comics and graphic novels they themselves would want to read...

 and Dark Horse

Dark Horse Comics

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, has become type designer to Harvey Award

Harvey Award

The Harvey Awards, named for writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman and founded by Gary Groth, President of the publisher Fantagraphics, are given for achievement in comic books. The Harveys were created as part of a successor to the Kirby Awards which were discontinued after 1987.The Harvey Awards are...

 Winner, Mike "Madman" Allred, and has had his designs licensed by such companies as Microsoft

Microsoft

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, Six Flags Amusement Parks

Six Flags

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, The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, The Gap

Gap (clothing retailer)

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, and many more. His work has not only been utilized in comics, but on television

Television

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and in feature films as well.
Piekos also runs his own webcomic, Atland, in which he also uses his Blambot fonts for lettering.