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...
font_category: decorative
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...
Prov Architect NDP
Designed after the unique handwriting style of Architects. This typeface reflects a more quickly jotted notation style than its sister font, Prov Draftsman NDP. Instead of lowercase characters it contains smaller caps like actual...
Salto
Salto was developed by Karlgeorg Hoefer and introduced in 1952 by the foundry Gebr. Klingspor in Offenbach. The capital letters were drawn with a brush, the lower case with a broad-tipped pen developed by...