font_designer: Nick Curtis

Haarlem Nights NF

Haarlem Nights NF font

A 1920 Dutch poster for Public Placement Services by Johan Dijsktra provided the inspiration for this crisp geometric typeface. Instead of the normal underscore (_), this font features a set of parallel lines flush...

Okey Dokey NF

Okey Dokey NF font

The 1912 American Type Founders specimen catalog carried the pattern for this typeface, under the rather unimaginative name of “Pen Print”. Its irrepressible insouciance makes it equally suitable for downtown or down home applications....

Boola Boola NF

Boola Boola NF font

This typeface is a new and improved (really!) version of one of my most popular freeware fonts, Team Spirit, which has made appearances in the Tank McNamara comic strip and on Blue Collar TV....

Duly Noted NF

Duly Noted NF font

This upscale offering, with its understated elegance, is based on a release from the 1912 American Type Founders specimen catalog named, quite simply, “Freehand”. Use it for any occasion which otherwise might require the...

Got That Bling NF

Got That Bling NF font

Walter Foster art books strike again, this time with a bouncy script based on the work of Al Mack, from his Lettering: Brush & Pen in the Single Stroke. Light and lively, this typeface...

Pomfrit Dandy NF

Pomfrit Dandy NF font

This elegant monocase design is based on a nineteenth-century offering from Britain’s Stephenson Blake Foundry named “Fry’s Ornamented No. 2”. Stylish, witty and debonair, it will add grace and charm to any project. The...

Smith Premier NF

Smith Premier NF font

In ye olden days, nothing said “personalized business correspondence” like a typewritten letter, and several type foundries cast simulated typewriter fonts so authentic-looking “personal” letters could be mass-produced. This typeface is based on one…

Architectuur NF

Architectuur NF font

Letterpress type, crafted by H. Th. Wijdeveld, founding editor and chief designer of the legendary Dutch art and architecture magazine Wendingen, provided the inspiration for this typeface. The original design graced a 1925 issue...

Gandy Dancer NF

Gandy Dancer NF font

The 1912 American Specimen Book of Type Styles from ATF featured a quaint little offering called “Tabard”, whose antique charm was enhanced by several rather quirky alternate characters. This version tosses out the standard...

Kharon Ultra NF

Kharon Ultra NF font

A fine, fat Deco face named Ludlow Stygian provided the basis for this delightful typeface. Although generally formal in character, the font shows a hint of playfulness in the distinctive “humpback” h and n...