font_foundry: Nick's Fonts
The pattern for this typeface was suggested by a poster for beer, designed by German artist Ludwig Hohlwein around 1920. The plump curvy serifs suggested a great complement to beer, hot dogs, and thus...
Here’s a fresh take on an old favorite, originally named Abbott Old Style, which exudes antique charm, and also suggests exotic locales.
Will Ransom designed the exemplar for this series for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in the early 1900s. The typeface was originally named “Parsons”, after the advertising director of a Chicago department store (evidently a...
Lewis F. Day, in his book Alphabets Old and New, offered this typeface as an example from sixteenth-century England of lettering incised in wood. The font is essentially monocase, but there several lowercase letters...
This luscious, loopy Lombardic face was inspired by an offering in the 1938 classic, Letters and Lettering by Paul Carlyle and Gus Oring. Suitable for formal or informal occasions. Both versions of this font...
In his book Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets, Dan X. Solo called this typeface “Tamarind Script” but, whatever its name, this sparkly little gem will add rollicking retro charm to any project it graces. The...
The inspiration for this elegant, willowy typeface was found in the 1903 type specimen catalog of Barnhard Brothers & Spindler. The original version was named “Racine”; this version takes its name from another town...
Handlettering in an ad from the 1920s for a Chicago engraving company provided the inspiration for this fine, fat, flowing face, full of fun and antique charm. Both versions of this font include the...
Ross F. George, the lettering wizard behind many an edition of Speedball lettering books, called this quirky creation “Spatter and Spot Roman”. In this version, the spatters go, but the spots remain, and a...
A fitting complement to the ever-popular Saturday Morning Toast is this book weight, monoline version, popular in the early twentieth century. Both versions contain the complete Unicode 1252 (Latin) and Unicode 1250 (Central European)...