font_foundry: Nick's Fonts

Putney Junction NF

Putney Junction NF font

This elegant offering is based on a typeface originally called “Design”, from Barnhart Brothers & Spindler’s Specimen Catalog Number 9, published in the first decade of the twentieth century. This version has been fine-tuned...

San Angelo NF

San Angelo NF font

A heavy unnamed Gothic typeface from the 1890 William H. Page Foundry woodtype specimen book provided the template for this bold, brash, no-nonsense face. It’s designed to set tight, so your headlines will definitely...

Slapsie Maxi NF

Slapsie Maxi NF font

Our old friend Carl Holmes, in another offering from his ABC of Lettering, takes the blacks to the max with this commanding face. A perfect choice for can’t-miss headlines. Both versions of this font...

Picaro NF

Picaro NF font

A rather quaint but charming typeface, originally named Harlequin, provide the inspiration for this typeface. Its mild eccentricities will add an inviting warmth to your next project. Both versions of this font contain the...

Proud Mary NF

Proud Mary NF font

This typeface takes its design cues from Joseph Churchward’s chubby charmer Marianna, then adds a little weight and a whole lot of attitude. The result is a warm, friendly face with a decided bounce...

Renard Moderne NF

Renard Moderne NF font

Twentieth Century Poster, designed by Sol Hess for Lanston Monotype in the 1940s, provided the inspiration for this family of faces. Although, historically, the design falls outside the time period normally considered the Art...

Humpty Dumpling NF

Humpty Dumpling NF font

This rollicking romp through the alphabet is based on an offering from the irrepressible M. Draim, seen in La Lettre dans le Décor & la Publicité Modernes, published by Monrocq Frères of Paris in...

Weedy Beasties NF

Weedy Beasties NF font

In Issue Number 84 of Push Pin Graphic, Seymour Chwast offered up this rather odd variant of his own extrablack, superbold in-your-(type)face, Blimp. Not recommended for body copy, but makes interesting and unusual headlines....

Keepon Truckin NF

Keepon Truckin NF font

Baby Fat, designed by Milton Glaser in 1964, saw a lot of action during the psychedelic poster phase. This little dumpling is based on that workhorse, and takes its name from a phrase that...

Tutti Paffuti NF

Tutti Paffuti NF font

The specimen book Alphabete: ein Schriftatlas von A bis Z identified the pattern for this typeface as Stymie Black Flair. Although neither the designer nor the original foundry is identified, it bears a strong...