DNA
A custom design for the internet typeface design project.
font_category: decorative
P22 Rakugaki
Rakugaki means “scribble” in Japanese. This font expresses casual handwriting with warmth and simplicity. The bold weight of Rakugaki is harmoniously integrated in all three writing systems, Katakana, Hiragana and Latin. The enclosed key...
Union Square
Union Square is a typeface based on mosaic typography in the New York subway system. In many subway stations throughout the city, we see signs from the early part of the 20th century made...
Vitrina
Vitrina is a script based on letterforms painted on a window for a restaurant called “Latin American Cafeteria”. Its quirky script forms are meant to evoke a sense of hand painted signage. Vitrina means...
North Bergen
North Bergen is a dirty sans serif based on letterforms seen painted on a wall of a magazine store in North Bergen, New Jersey. Its unrefined, quirky forms reflect a typographic naivete and are...
Sailor Gothic
A font by Christian Acker (2003), based upon the practice of the Americana folk art tradition of tattoo design. Throughout the late 19th and 20th Centuries sailors would popularize and spread motifs, designs and...
1st Ave
1st Ave is the most experimental of my typefaces. I took a picture of a metal and neon sign in the East Village of New York City. These signs are slowly being replaced by...
24 HRS
A font designed by Christian Acker (2002), based upon neon signage in downtown New York. 24Hrs was an exercise in creating flat artwork from the inspiration of neon’s three dimensional forms. All of the...