Chicago-born revivalist whose career began, by his own telling, in 1962, when he rescued a typographer's specimen binder from an East Dallas alley the day before trash pickup. He started making fonts electronically in 1997 — drawing them in CorelDRAW — and built Nick's Fonts into a beloved archive of Victorian, Deco, and novelty lettering revived from Library of Congress collections, old posters, and specimen books.
His work was licensed by Agfa-Monotype, Bitstream, and ITC, and the Type Directors Club named two of his designs among 2001's best. The free site grew too popular to pay for, so Nick's Fonts went commercial in 2003; he retired in 2013 and donated his type collection to the University of Virginia. His full catalog lives on FontSpace.
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253 styles · one row per style, current version only.