font_designer: Nick Curtis

Toot Sweet Bistro NF

Toot Sweet Bistro NF font

A 1928 poster for a café by German artist Karl Bauer informed the creation of this charming and expansive typeface. This font hops, bops, flip-flops and never stops, and is named after a fictitious...

Petre Devos NF

Petre Devos NF font

At first glance, this unusual display face might appear to be a product of the 1960s, with its highly unconventional letterforms and its plastic, fantastic highlight treatment. However, this font is in fact inspired...

Red Star Line NF

Red Star Line NF font

A 1926 travel brochure for a steamship line provided the basis for this darkly sparkly spritely font. Smooth curves and an off-center inline treatment gives this typeface a strong architectural feel.

Soda Jerk NF

Soda Jerk NF font

Lettering by an uncredited designer on a French travel poster from 1929 provided the inspiration for this ultrabold headline typeface, a curious blend of symmetry and asymmetry. The font’s small descender height allows tight...

Fireside Chat NF

Fireside Chat NF font

This unusual display face is another in a series of works based on the work of lettering artist Samuel Welo. The sinewy curves and radiant inline decoration give this typeface a cozy, warm and...

Nord Express NF

Nord Express NF font

Power, speed and modern creature comforts characterized rail travel in the 1930s. To reflect those characteristics, legendary French poster artist A. M. Cassandre employed strong graphic elements and a chiaroscuro letter treatment to the...

Cine Miroir NF

Cine Miroir NF font

This bold yet elegant script is patterned after the logotype lettering from a 1927 issue of the French film magazine named, not surprisingly, Ciné Miroir. Ornate without being fussy, this font’s large x-height gives...

Melina

Melina font

Melina Plain and Melina Fancy are characterized by graceful lines, strong contrast and nostalgic overtones. These typefaces are patterned after two members of a type family named Greco, released by Fundición Tipográfica Richard Gans...

Pomegranate NF

Pomegranate NF font

A 1931 travel poster for Pommern, Germany, designed by Willy Dzubas provided the inspiration for this charming typeface. Sets tight, large or small. Both versions contain the complete Unicode 1252 (Latin) and Unicode 1250...

Quaint Notions NF

Quaint Notions NF font

This rollicking fun face is based on legendary lettering artist Alf Becker’s Super Thick-and-Thin, his twenty-third offering in “Signs of the Times” magazine. The package includes two fonts: a full Adobe Standard character set,...