font_foundry: Nick's Fonts

Hamburger Heaven NF Pro

Hamburger Heaven NF Pro font

A stylish retro script where I have completely redone the spacing to make the text look more even. All of the diacritics have been redone, too – and the character set expanded in our...

Graphic Stylin NF

Graphic Stylin NF font

The letterforms are based on Inserat Cursive, a bold script popular in the late nineteenth century; the treatment was suggested by cover artwork for Graphic Styles from Victorian to Post-Modern, written by Stephen Heller...

Rough Cut NF

Rough Cut NF font

An old Art Nouveau typeface named “Daphne” provided the inspiration for this decidely different font. This version is upright, but the linocut treatment employed visually suggests the slight rightward slant of the original typeface....

The Donald NF

The Donald NF font

Something about the swoopy loops in the uppercase characters of this typeface, originally called “Ronde”, reminds one of the signature ‘do of a certain real-estate-mogul-turned-TV-celebrity, and so this font was named. Delightfully different, this…

Tulpe Fraktur NF

Tulpe Fraktur NF font

Tucked inside the November 5, 1927 issue of a German signpainters’ trade paper was a single sheet headed Der Schilder und Schriftenmaler, which featured an alphabet called “Neue Fraktur”. An exuberant (if somewhat unconventional)...

American Pi NF

American Pi NF font

Here’s a handy collection of 72 type adornments gleaned from American Type Foundry catalogs from 1913 to 1934, featuring little treasures from some of the early twentieth century’s most respected designers, including Will Bradley,...

Boo Meringue NF

Boo Meringue NF font

The inspiration for this font made its first appearance in the 1897 American Type Founders specimen book, under the name “Lithotint”. As the name suggests, the original was tinted gray (diagonal lines formed the...

Deukalion NF

Deukalion NF font

Lettering specimens from 1910 by an unnamed Dutch calligrapher provided the inspiration for this quirky and somewhat mischievous Art Nouveau font. Both versions of the font include the 1252 Latin and 1250 CE character...

Lesser Arcana NF

Lesser Arcana NF font

The uppercase letters of this magical, mystical face is based on various alchemical symbols used from the thirteenth through the sixteenth century; the lowercase letters are based on those found on a 1935 poster,...

Shiver Me Timbers NF

Shiver Me Timbers NF font

Avast, me hearties! Here be a serious pirate font, based loosely on several of Victor Hammer’s uncial typefaces, designed between 1925 and 1953, and liberally weathered and corroded for that authentic barnacle-encrusted look. The...