Excelsis
This font began life as a metal type called Duerer, from the Boston Type Foundry about 1890. A wood type maker copied it, and that’s where we got it (in Guadalajara, Mexico, already! Some...
font_category: decorative
Extravaganza
Originally, this 1870s wood type font was called Armenian. We came across a showing of alphabet at the South Street Seaport in New York, bought it and immediately drew the additional characters needed to...
Rocketman XV-7 NF
A Nick’s Fonts original, strongly influenced by the “futuristic” lettering styles of 1930s science fiction, most notably Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Both versions of this font contain the Unicode 1252 (Latin) and Unicode...
Dutch Treat
Authentic rendering of the original font called Vanden Houten from the Keystone Foundry in Phaladelphia. Very popular among job printers of the early twentieth century.
Saturday Morning Toast
Based on the logotype font of the Saturday Evening Post from the 20s, Saturday Morning Toast is warm, cuddly and endearing in its quirky charm. All versions of this font contain the complete Unicode...
Egyptian Oldstyle
Here’s a wide, very light version of the widely known font P. T. Barnum (or French Clarendon, if you prefer). We have used this to good effect as secondary lines on old fashioned stationery....
Pilot Point NF
One in the series of fonts called Whiz-Bang Wood Type, intended to be set large and tight. Pilot Point is based on an older font found in Dan X. Solo’s book on Circus Type;...
Rio Grande NF
One in the series of fonts called Whiz-Bang Wood Type, intended to be set large and tight. Rio Grande is a classic ultrabold “Egyptian” face, named for the river that separates Texas from Mexico....
Dime Museum
This idea of “wrong way weights” was originally called French Clarendon by the Americans, Italienne by the French, and American by the Italians. Sounds like nobody wanted to own up to it. When it...
Crossroads
This was a patented design, so we know who designed it and when. August Will was a type cutter who sold his work to a number of foundries. We worked over this design to...