FHA Nicholson French NCV Normal Schriftart

FHA Nicholson French NCV by The Fontry is a free display serif with broad, imposing capitals, tight spacing, and an emphatic thick-and-thin stroke pattern. Fine hairlines sharpen the dense upright forms.

Period-inspired subjects give this lettering its most convincing setting, especially on book covers and exhibition posters. Its formal weight also suits restaurant branding and specialty food packaging, where the broad capitals can suggest an old printed label. It will appeal most to designers serving heritage-minded hospitality brands, cultural venues, or publishers seeking a forceful serif voice with an echo of vintage print.

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The full commercial version is available for $25 US at:

http://www.thefontry.com/fhanicholsonfrench

Commercial use of the freeware version as downloaded is permitted with a $5 PayPal donation. The freeware download contains uppercase letterforms from Latin-1, Latin Extended-A (Central European), Cyrillic, and Greek.

The freeware download contains uppercase characters only. The commercial version includes lowercase characters and OpenType replacement features.

Nicholson French was originally digitized in 1999. The commercial version includes OpenType replacement features, complete multilingual support, and OTF and TTF formats.

The alphabet was created more than 100 years ago by sign painter Frank H. Atkinson.