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...
font_category: decorative
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...
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...
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...
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...