Keynote Speaker NF
This curious little gem is patterned after a typeface named “Bloomsbury”, released by P. M. Shanks & Sons, Ltd. of London in the 1920s. Its gentle curves and somewhat quirky construction combine to create...
font_designer: Nick Curtis
Twitty Bird NF
Dan X. Solo’s book of Showcard Alphabets featured the pattern for this devil-may-care face under the name “Conway”. Not too pretty, not too proud, but a whole lotta fun. Both versions of the font...
Payzant Pen NF
The inspiration for this exuberant exercise in penmanship was found in Frank H. Atkinson’s A Show at Sho-Cards: Comprehensive, Complete, Concise, published in 1918, executed with the then-state-of-the-art Payzant Reservoir Pen. It retains its...
Tumbling Dice NF
An unnamed scroll typeface featured in the 1869 MacKellar Smiths and Jordan specimen book provided the pattern for this font. You may begin and end the scrolls with parentheses, braces or brackets, and employ...
Banner Year NF
An unnamed scroll typeface featured in the 1869 MacKellar Smiths and Jordan specimen book provided the pattern for this font. You may begin and end the scrolls with parentheses, braces or brackets, and employ...
Mighty Ditey NF
A delightfully different typeface named Aphrodite, designed by Richard Nebiolo for Photolettering in the 1970s, provided the pattern for this svelte beauty. Graceful and elegant, it’s the perfect choice for tasteful yet commanding headlines....
Jeu De Mots NF
A 1970s Photolettering catalog indentified the pattern for this typeface as “Exotique” …from France, no less. Named for a French expression meaning “pun,” this face is, indeed, witty and playful, with nary a groan...
Bleecker Street NF
This late Victorian typeface flirts with Art Nouveau sensibilities, as evidenced by the graceful curves and the decorative crossmembers in several of the uppercase letters. The result is a font that combines simple, understated...
Emfatick NF
Here’s a fresh take on a classic, Caslon Black Swash by Ed Benguiat. Big, bold and beautiful, it’s a natural choice for distinctive and attractive headlines. Several alternate lowercase characters are included in the...
Hob Gob NF
Although not credited, the inspiration for this typeface, originally called “Dancer”, has all the earmarks of the work of legendary lettering artist Alf Becker. Creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky, but not in the...