font_designer: Frank Atkinson
Frank H. Atkinson was a popular Art Nouveau sign painter in Chicago, Illinois. He designed signs for the Cadillac Motor Car Co., Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the department store Marshall Field. Oddly...
The curves are vintage and the serifs are big. They’re so big that for years I never had the courage to tackle this intimidating font. But when fellow signmaker Frank Smith laid the groundwork...