font_foundry: Nick's Fonts
In his book Showcard Alphabets, Dan X. Solo called this little gem “Whitestone Scrawl”. This version is beefed up slightly and the letter proportions have been altered somewhat, but it’s still LOADS of fun....
J. M. Bergling, in his 1914 masterwork Art Alphabets and Lettering, offered this face as suitable for all occasions Greek, and we couldn’t agree more. Both versions of this font include the complete Unicode...
Ross F. George, master of the Speedball pen, called this rather rugged typeface “Personality Script”, which might be a suitable name if you had the personality of a porcupine. It does grab your attention,...
In the 1921 work Letters and Lettering by Frank Chouteau Brown, these letterforms were offered as examples of typical medieval English fare. The font is all caps, but there are variant letterforms in all...
In his compilation of stencil alphabets, Dan X. Solo called this one simply “Concave Stencil”. Excellent for marking cases of whiskey or gunpowder, or for setting strikingly up-to-date headlines. Both versions of this font...
Here’s another offering based on the calligraphic capers of Paul Carlyle and Gus Oring, originally presented as a representation of The Exotic. It’s a lot of fun, too. Both versions of this font contain...
Of the many lettering gurus who published chapbooks on handlettering during its heyday, one of the most prolific was H. C. Martin. This quirky poster face was offered in one of his many Idea...
Lettering whiz Carl Holmes called this creation “Pelt Emphasis Script”, and its funky, chunky charm will indeed lend emphasis to any headline it graces. The Postscript and Truetype versions contain a complete Latin language...
A handlettered headline in the January 1953 issue of Park East magazine by wacko album artist Jim Flora provided the inspiration for this exercise in extreme lettering. Check out the [brackets] and the bullet...
This loopy offering is patterned after a typeface from the 1888 specimen book from the Central Type Foundry of St. Louis, called simply “Spiral”. The ragged contours on the original face have been smoothed...