font_designer: Nick Curtis

Loading Dock NF

Loading Dock NF font

This typeface is patterned after the lettering produced by the Marsh Stencil Making Machine, which was an indispensable part of industrial shipping departments in the mid-twentieth century. The font is unicase, but includes a...

Centralia Depot NF

Centralia Depot NF font

This quintessential nineteenth-century offering is based on a typeface from the 1912 American Type Founders catalog called Lining Central Antique. Quaint, yet crisp and clean, it is equally suitable for headlines or body copy....

Fontleroy NF Pro

Fontleroy NF Pro font

I have completely redone the spacing in this font, making the sidebearings more conventional. And after replacing the kerning with fresh pairs working together with the new spacing the font looks like a real...

Monterey Popsicle NF Pro

Monterey Popsicle NF Pro font

A faux script font typical of classic american branding. I have totally reworked all the letterforms: they started with a “notch” and ended flat – I have removed the “notch” and rounded off the...

Wooden Nickel NF Pro

Wooden Nickel NF Pro font

A nice, black display face – for a retro/western poster look. I have kept the quirky “t”, increased the dot above “i” and “j” slightly, improved the spacing/kerning and modified/added all the usual diacritics....

Boogie Nights NF Pro

Boogie Nights NF Pro font

A typical Art Deco font. I have redesigned the uppercase “S” to mach the lowercase, tweaked a little here and there – and completely redesigned all the diacritics (which didn’t really match the letter...

Copasetic NF Pro

Copasetic NF Pro font

Another typical Art Deco font from Nick Curtis. Uppercase only, but with alternate letterforms in the lowercase positions. I have completely redesigned all the diacritics (which were way too flimsy for this robust design)...

Coventry Garden NF Pro

Coventry Garden NF Pro font

I have improved and added diacritics to this elegant alphabet, and generally cleaned it up to a professional standard. It is well suited to logos, menus, invitations and other things wanting a touch of...

Korner Deli NF

Korner Deli NF font

A weathered and worn paint-and-neon sign for the Scialo Brothers Bakery in New York provided the pattern for this quirky, decidely Art Deco typeface. Chopped liver, it’s not!

Rutin Tutin NF

Rutin Tutin NF font

Schrifti Alphabeti, a delightful collection of Cyrillic typefaces for posters from the former Soviet Union, strikes again, this time with a way-out West (Vladivostok?) theme. Extrabold, extra wide and delightfully different! Both versions of...