font_designer: Nick Curtis

Whoopee Cushion NF

Whoopee Cushion NF font

One in the series of fonts celebrating the Halcyon Days of Handlettering. Whoopee Cushion is a slightly wacky headline font, based on a work by lettering artist Samuel Welo from the 1931 version of...

Wigwam NF

Wigwam NF font

One in the series of fonts celebrating the Halcyon Days of Handlettering. Wigwam evokes, among other things, memories of summer camps and trailer parks of a bygone day. Based on a font presented in...

Thai Foon NF

Thai Foon NF font

One in the series of fonts celebrating the Halcyon Days of Handlettering. Thai Foon, a fun-loving, freewheeling script, is based on a font presented in the book “Lettering of Today” (today being 1933), by...

Strongs Draughtsman

Strongs Draughtsman font

One in the series of fonts celebrating the Halcyon Days of Handlettering. Strongs Draughtsman is a monoline font that evokes the sensibilities of the early twentieth century. Based on a font called “architects’ pen...

Spindletop NF

Spindletop NF font

One in the series of fonts called Whiz-Bang Wood Type, intended to be set large and tight. Spindletop’s ultra-condensed letterforms allow a lot of information to be packed into little horizontal space. Named for...

Spaghetti Western NF

Spaghetti Western NF font

One in the series of fonts called Whiz-Bang Wood Type, intended to be set large and tight. Spaghetti Western is a based on an Italian interpretation of a classic ultrabold Western-style face; so, fittingly,...

Saturday Morning Toast

Saturday Morning Toast font

Based on the logotype font of the Saturday Evening Post from the 20s, Saturday Morning Toast is warm, cuddly and endearing in its quirky charm. All versions of this font contain the complete Unicode...

Rocketman XV-7 NF

Rocketman XV-7 NF font

A Nick’s Fonts original, strongly influenced by the “futuristic” lettering styles of 1930s science fiction, most notably Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Both versions of this font contain the Unicode 1252 (Latin) and Unicode...

Rio Grande NF

Rio Grande NF font

One in the series of fonts called Whiz-Bang Wood Type, intended to be set large and tight. Rio Grande is a classic ultrabold “Egyptian” face, named for the river that separates Texas from Mexico....

Pilot Point NF

Pilot Point NF font

One in the series of fonts called Whiz-Bang Wood Type, intended to be set large and tight. Pilot Point is based on an older font found in Dan X. Solo’s book on Circus Type;...