font_designer: Nick Shinn

Boxley

Boxley font

The original superellipse typefaces coincided with the emergence of the CRT (cathode ray tube) TV screen, but there is more than this visual analogy of high-tech in play, as the pumped up angularity of...

Goodchild Pro

Goodchild Pro font

Goodchild Pro is a pragmatic text face, equipped for sophisticated academic typography. The face has a large x-height, as there is little point in adding to the stock of rangy “book” Jensons. Despite this...

Phiz

Phiz font

Phiz is a diverse suite of 28 decorative fonts based on Figgins Sans Extra Bold. Classic (10 fonts), Rounded (7 fonts), Rough (4 fonts) and Particles (7 fonts). The Rough and Particles styles emerge...

Aptly

Aptly font

The concept is “Geo-Soft”: characters are constructed from arcs of circle connected by orthogonal straight lines, with few diagonals and nary a sharp corner. The effect has an engaging tension, as soft edges are...

Buslingthorpe

Buslingthorpe font

What intrigued me about Buslingthorpe was the virtuoso challenge it presented, of designing a typeface that would, despite a ridiculously tiny x-height, still possess a coherent harmony betwen upper and lower case, and read...

FF Oneleigh

FF Oneleigh font

Canadian type designer Nick Shinn created this serif FontFont in 1999. The family has 6 weights, ranging from Regular to Black (including italics) and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, book text, festive...

FF Merlin

FF Merlin font

Canadian type designer Nick Shinn created this display FontFont in 1997. The family contains 3 weights: Regular, Italic, and Bold and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, festive occasions as well as poster...