font_foundry: Nick's Fonts

Zyklop NF

Zyklop NF font

A random scan from a late nineteenth-century German type specimen book, encountered on the internet, provided the pattern for this surprisingly contemporary face. Although all of the characters are parallel to the baseline, the...

Sil Vous Plait NF

Sil Vous Plait NF font

Morris Fuller Benton’s 1917 typeface named Invitation provided the pattern for this elegant and endearing face. Classic Engravers Roman style caps are exquisitely balanced with a sinewy lowercase, adding warmth and charm. All versions...

Whitefriars NF

Whitefriars NF font

Here’s an offering from the Blackfriars Type Foundry of London that’s perfect for commanding headlines. The letterforms have been carefully kerned for a tight fit to increase the visual color of this nostalgic behemoth....

Dot Soon NF

Dot Soon NF font

Based on Alan Dempsey’s design for Letraset in the 70s Pinball, these dots will add dash to any headline. All versions of this font include the Unicode 1250 Central European character set in addition...

Really Big Shoe NF

Really Big Shoe NF font

This quaint headline typeface is based on an offering from the Cleveland Type Foundry, originally named Oxford. The centered small caps treatment makes for unusual and alluring headlines. All versions of this font include...

Bellwether Antique NF

Bellwether Antique NF font

This quaint charmer is based on the original, 1913 antique version of Georg Belwe’s eponymous classic. Equally suitable for headlines and text, this face is welcome in any setting. All versions of this font...

Garmisch Rund NF

Garmisch Rund NF font

Emil Rudolf Weiss’s eponymous Rundgotisch of 1937 provided the pattern for this streamlined version of classic German blackletters. All versions of this font include the Unicode 1250 Central European character set in addition to...

Bon Mot NF

Bon Mot NF font

What’s the good word? This elegant, stylish typeface, based on an early twentieth-century Barnhart Brothers & Spindler release, named simply “Engravers Upright Script”. Based on French ronde letterforms, this version is bolder—which makes it…

Deux Chasses NF

Deux Chasses NF font

American Type Founders released the pattern for this typeface under the name “Thermotype”. In the days of cast-metal foundry type, copyfitting headlines could prove problemmatic at times; this typeface, with a wide uppercase and...

Plus De Vagues NF

Plus De Vagues NF font

The original release notes from England’s Stephenson Blake Type Foundry say it all: “a type of some waywardness in design, judged from any typographical standard…a type that seems unable to decide whether to be...