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Fordor Incised NF

Fordor Incised NF font

Based on a old standard, Tudor Black, this version offers a dramatic inline treatment that adds sparkle and grace. The typeface takes its name from Ford Motor Company’s old designation for a sedan. Both...

Chez Nous NF

Chez Nous NF font

This delightful semiscript is based on an offering from a 1930s specimen book from the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, originally called, simply, “Card Italic”. Elegant without being stuffy, it is equally “at home” announcing anything...

Rassetta NF

Rassetta NF font

The pattern for this graceful, subtly modulated Art Deco typeface was designed by Willard T. Sniffin for American Type Founders in the 1930s. True to the original design, the Swash Caps version features Sniffin’s...

Kirschwasser NF

Kirschwasser NF font

An unannotated photocopy tucked inside the leaves of an old lettering book yielded this unusual and exuberant Art Deco face. The caps feature a simple “bubbly” pattern that makes this offering pack a punch,...

Escondido NF

Escondido NF font

This unusual face features letterforms inspired by an Austrian travel poster designed by Johann Süssenbek in the 1930s, and rendered in a bold chiaroscuro manner. In case you’re wondering, Escondido is Spanish for hidden....

Details Details NF

Details Details NF font

Another gem from the Blandford Press Pen and Brush Lettering and Practical Alphabets, this in-your-face typeface features strong geometric elements, delineated in blueprint fashion. A surefire attention-getter. Both versions of the font include the…

Chantilly Lace NF

Chantilly Lace NF font

This little charmer combines an uppercase designed by American lettering artist J. M. Bergling with a lowercase designed by English architect Roland W. Paul. The result has a wiggle in its walk and a...

Helena Handbasket NF

Helena Handbasket NF font

The 1888 edtion of James Conner’s Sons United States Type Foundry specimen book listed this little gem simply as “Antique Light”. Its original, rather anemic outlines have been beefed up and its serifs have...

Foxcroft NF

Foxcroft NF font

The inspiration for this proto-Art Nouveau typeface showed up in the 1887 type specimen book of Farmer, Little & Co. under the name Vassar. Its bold, sinuous curves, which take unexpected turns now and...

Ballyhaunis NF

Ballyhaunis NF font

Lewis F. Day, in his 1910 classic Alphabets Old and New, filed this work by Laurence Schall under the category of Celtic-inspired, and surely it is both. This font included a few special extras,...