Based in Bali, Indonesia, Nasir Udin is an independent graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer. With a passion for vintage aesthetics, Nasir regularly designs travel posters under the Vectro label, mimicking an illustrative style reminiscent of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
Much of Nasir’s work blends elements of the past with those of decades well beyond, enabling his designs to straddle a line between retro and contemporary styles. He is particularly drawn to discovering what happens when “retro style blends with a futuristic concept.” Always with an eye on emerging technology, Nasir is a self-driven designer and typographer who simply loves what he does.
One of his most recent releases through YouWorkForThem is Fonseca Grande, a layered vintage font family that pairs a bold all-caps sans serif with a stylish yet casual script. This font duo carries a definitive retro aesthetic, one that’s perfectly at home in the contemporary design world.
Fonseca Grande features capital lettering with a summery vibe – exactly like what you’d see painted on the sign of a surf shop near the beach back in the 60s or a decades-old postcard from a vacation long since passed. It’s a strong character set that’s ideal for everything from posters to signage, displays, logos, product packaging, apparel, merchandise, marketing materials, menus, postcards, greeting cards, book covers and album art, headlines, website designs, and social media imagery.
Fonseca Grand offers its all-caps letter set in four distinctive styles suitable for use on their own or layered for a three-dimensional effect. Fonseca Grand features solid letterforms while Fonseca Grand Outline and Stroke both offer outlined variations of the family’s basic architecture. To make things really pop, Fonseca Grande Extrude provides an outline with a heavy drop shadow for eye-catching designs that seem to fly off the screen.
A perfect accompaniment that also works well on its own, Fonseca Script and Fonseca Script Slant feature curly upper and lowercase cursive lettering that’s warm and casual. It’s beautifully suited to apparel designs, merchandise, product packaging, logos, signage, labels, tags, website designs, greeting cards, postcards, marketing materials, and social media imagery.
Fonseca Script offers stylistic alternates, contextual alternates, standard ligatures, and swash for greater versatility. The entire family extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, and Pan African Latin for design projects intended for an international audience.
Nasir Udin currently offers 14 products through YouWorkForThem in a varied range of styles. Whether you’re looking for a fun display font or an elegant script, you’re sure to find something you love. Visit his portfolio to view the rest of his work and if you like what you see, bookmark it so you can check back for new additions as they arrive!
