Round Rock NF
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...
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Paper Caper NF
This typeface is an amalgam of two cut-paper typefaces, as presented by Margaret Shepherd in her book, Calligraphic Alphabets Made Easy. Also included are a glue bottle at the bar position, and round-edge scissors...
Micro Manager NF
This font features a complete uppercase alphabet, including accented characters, as well as numbers and standard punctation. Lowercase characters are an assortment of useful dings and things. To create very low-load GIFs, compose your...
Downtown Tessie NF
Here’s another mosaic marvel from the New York subway system, to complement Midtown Tessie. This style is based on signage at the 34th Street station, with connections to Brooklyn. A full tile background is...
Tulpe Fraktur NF
Tucked inside the November 5, 1927 issue of a German signpainters’ trade paper was a single sheet headed Der Schilder und Schriftenmaler, which featured an alphabet called “Neue Fraktur”. An exuberant (if somewhat unconventional)...
The Donald NF
Something about the swoopy loops in the uppercase characters of this typeface, originally called “Ronde”, reminds one of the signature ‘do of a certain real-estate-mogul-turned-TV-celebrity, and so this font was named. Delightfully different, this…
Graphic Stylin NF
The letterforms are based on Inserat Cursive, a bold script popular in the late nineteenth century; the treatment was suggested by cover artwork for Graphic Styles from Victorian to Post-Modern, written by Stephen Heller...
Rough Cut NF
An old Art Nouveau typeface named “Daphne” provided the inspiration for this decidely different font. This version is upright, but the linocut treatment employed visually suggests the slight rightward slant of the original typeface....
American Pi NF
Here’s a handy collection of 72 type adornments gleaned from American Type Foundry catalogs from 1913 to 1934, featuring little treasures from some of the early twentieth century’s most respected designers, including Will Bradley,...
Zyklop NF
A random scan from a late nineteenth-century German type specimen book, encountered on the internet, provided the pattern for this surprisingly contemporary face. Although all of the characters are parallel to the baseline, the...