font_designer: Nick Curtis

Xanthippe NF

Xanthippe NF font

Extrabold and exuberant caps from a blackletter face rendered by Ross George in his perennial Speedball Text Book have been combined with a more restrained and traditional lowercase to create a unique and striking...

Beagle Boyz NF

Beagle Boyz NF font

Whoever knew the Red Menace could be such fun? This bold and bouncy face is based on a Cyrillic alphabet presented in the book Schrifti Alphabeti, published in the Soviet Union in 1979. It...

Midtown Tessie NF

Midtown Tessie NF font

A sign at the 81st Street (Museum of Natural History) New York subway stop provided the pattern for this mosaic tile face. The font features a full-tile background at the bar position (shift-backslash) and...

Quoi Chou NF

Quoi Chou NF font

The letterforms of Lucien Bernhard’s stylish, if somewhat anorexic, Bernhard Fashion were beefed up and complemented with thick-and-thin stroke variation to create this elegant family, available in normal and bold weights. Additionally, Bernhard’s…

Osiyo Dohitsu NF

Osiyo Dohitsu NF font

This rugged typeface is based on letterforms in the Cherokee Syllabary, reputedly devised by a gentleman named Sequoyah in the early nineteenth century. In addition, Native American petroglyphs—some authentic Cherokee designs, some from other…

High Society NF

High Society NF font

Blandford Press strikes again, with a delightful, delicious, de-lovely offering from their 1946 tome, Lettering for the Commercial Artist. The editor, A. H. Hunter, called this one simply “The Elegant Alphabet” and cautioned that...

Fredericksburg

Fredericksburg font

In his book of 100 Wood Type Alphabets, Rob Roy Kelly called this face “Teutonic”. This version adds lowercase letters, missing in the original, plus a few woodcut dingbats in the brackets, bar, section...

Shady Grove NF

Shady Grove NF font

This is a condensed version of an old classic, Thorne Shaded. Both versions of the font include 1252 Latin, 1250 CE (with localization for Romanian and Moldovan).

Bellagio NF

Bellagio NF font

This family, in normal and bold weights, is based on Advertisers Gothic, designed by Robert Wiebking for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in 1917. The original might be considered a transitional design between Art Nouveau...

Round Rock NF

Round Rock NF font

Woodtype wizard Rob Roy Kelly identified the inspiration for this typeface in his 100 Wood Type Alphabets simply as “No. 154”. Funky, chunky, round and robust, it’s clearly a barrel of fun. Named after...