font_foundry: Nick's Fonts

Monte Carlo Script NF

Monte Carlo Script NF font

This elegant monoline script is based on a typeface called “Médicis” from a Deberny and Peignot catalog, circa 1920. Graceful but robust, it is equally suited for invitations, announcements and headlines. Both versions of...

Gotham Rail Company NF

Gotham Rail Company NF font

An Italian travel poster from 1931 provided the inspiration for this attention-getting headline font with a strong architectural feel. The Opentype version of this font supports Unicode 1250 (Central European) languages, as well as...

Bessie Mae Moocho NF

Bessie Mae Moocho NF font

A thoroughly fun font based on handlettering found on a travel brochure for IMM Steamship Lines, circa 1927, and named after a fictitious girl who likes kissing alot.

Wagner Silhouette NF

Wagner Silhouette NF font

This roly-poly, rollicking display font is based on a design from the 1946 book Blue print text book of sign and show card lettering by Charles Louis Henry Wagner, who seems to have had...

Slam Bang Theater NF

Slam Bang Theater NF font

This ultrabold headline font is basically patterned after the font Nubian Black, designed by Willard T. Sniffin for American Type Founders in the 1920s, but includes an unusual inline treatment of the caps. Named...

Marrakesh Express NF

Marrakesh Express NF font

This unusual headline font is based on lettering found on a travel poster, advertising passage to Morocco on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée line, designer unknown, circa 1930. Both versions of this font include the complete Unicode...

Heberling Casual NF

Heberling Casual NF font

This delightfully playful font is based on a single-stroke pen font from the 1922 tome Heberling’s Basic Lettering, and elements of composition, color harmony, gilding, embossing-processes, etc. by Walter A. Heberling. Swoopy, loopy, but...

Erehwon Roman NF

Erehwon Roman NF font

This charming font, with its hints of the exotic, originally carried the rather prosaic name of Show Card Roman. It appeared in the book “Art Alphabets and Lettering: an encyclopedia of lettering including the...

WHG Simpatico NF

WHG Simpatico NF font

This whimsical typeface is based on an untitled work by William Hugh Gordon in his 1931 book, Lettering for Commercial Purposes. If you are looking for a font to add warmth and quirky charm...

New Deal Deco NF

New Deal Deco NF font

Inspired by handlettering used on many WPA posters of the 1930s, this monocase display font has stylish lines and graceful curves that will add period charm to any project they grace. Available and normal...