font_designer: Charles Nix

Ambiguity

Ambiguity font

Ambiguity is a type family with five distinct personalities or ‘states’, created as a tool for coaxing designers and brands out of their comfort zone. It embraces both tradition and radicality, as well as...

Hope Sans

Hope Sans font

Hope Sans™ takes the jaunty style of 1950s and 60s lettering and melds it with the jubilant 1970s swashes of Bookman. The result is a sans serif family that is lively, inviting and deeply...

Samosir

Samosir font

Named for and inspired by handpainted letterforms on the Sumatran island of Samosir.

TukTuk

TukTuk font

Inspired by letterforms painted on restaurant wall in the tiny village of Tuk Tuk in Sumatra.

Nani

Nani font

Inspired by handpainted letterforms on the Sumatran island of Samosir, this typeface was awarded a TDC Certificate of Excellence in Typographic Design.

NixRift

NixRift font

Influenced by W.A. Dwiggins’ El Dorado, Rift reclaims some of the warmth of metal type pressed deep into paper.

Christmas

Christmas font

A “softened” blackletter with built-in “Christmas Ornaments”.