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Nick Curtis: Retro -- fifties typefaces [Nick Curtis]

Retro type revivals are Nick Curtis's specialty. He searches deep in the dark guts of libraries to locate long lost treasures. Here is a list of some retro types, mostly from the 1950s, that are free.

  • Artemisia (2002).
  • Starlight Ballroom NF (2011). A retro marquee typeface influenced by Samuel Welo's style.
  • Camp Granada NF (2011). A campground typeface based on a 1928 poster for the Delftshe Studenten Corp.
  • Creampuff.
  • DymaxionScript. Named after an extinct automobile.
  • EmpireStateCapital, EmpireStateNF.
  • Hamburger Heaven NF.
  • Lakeshore Drive NF (2002).
  • Little Deuce Coupe NF (2000).
  • Little Rickey NF (2003). Based on this poster entitled "Ricardo Llacer y Hijos" by Spanish poster artist X. Carot (1948).
  • LostWages.
  • Luncheonette, LuncheonetteCapital.
  • MondoRedondoNF.
  • MontereyPopsicleNF (2006).
  • Quigley Wiggly.
  • Team Spirit NF (2000). An adaptation of Monotype Script.
  • Unicorn, UnicornHeavy (2000). Revivals of a fonts known as Einhorn or Salut (1931, Heinrich Johannes Maehler for Klingspor).
  • UppenArmsNF-Medium, UppenArmsNF (2003, 2009). This is an upright connected semiscript, based on the circa-thirties marquee from New York's Roosevelt Hotel.
Later commercial additions:
  • Chromiun Yellow NF (2008) is a heavy retro serif family based, very loosely, on Electro-type Serif, designed by John Wu of Hong Kong's Archetype foundry.
  • Funky Chunk NF (2005). A diner font based on Pelt Emphasis Script by Carl Holmes.
  • Glengary NF (2007). A digitization of Glenmoy (1932, Stephenson Blake), an upright script also digitized by Alejandro Paul in 2005 as Mousse Script.
  • Hip Hop NF (2007) is a bouncy retro typeface based on Friedrich Poppl's Dynamische Antiqua (1960, Stempel).
  • Poodle Pusher (2004). Fifties script called Maidstone Script in Dan Solo's Brushstroke and Freestyle Alphabets.

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