Nick Curtis: Retro -- fifties typefaces

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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.	EXTERNAL LINKS Nick Curtis: Retro -- fifties typefaces [Buy fonts] Fontspring link [Buy fonts] Monotype link MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Nick Curtis ⦿