Based in the picturesque city of Bali, Indonesia, Nasir Udin is a graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer who is particularly drawn to designs that feature vintage aesthetics. Nasir himself is a fan of world travel, designing beautiful posters under the Vectro label. His travel poster work carries a design aesthetic which mirrors that of the typical illustrative style of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
Nasir’s work as a type designer also carries with it elements of the past in a manner that somehow manages to be both modern and vintage at the same time. It makes sense, considering that he loves to discover what happens when “retro style blends with a futuristic concept.”
Nasir’s type designs are incredibly versatile because of his willingness to experiment with letterforms in such a way. The same font can carry a heavy retro vibe or a fresh and contemporary flavor depending on where it’s applied — a rare talent that makes his type design worthy of exploring.
One of his most recent releases is Restora, a contemporary serif design that blends elements of traditional Roman serif styles. As its name might suggest, Restora breathes new life into that classic and beloved architecture, bringing a touch of the old world into the new.
This versatile type family is available in Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold, and Black, with corresponding italics for each weight. This range of weights makes Restora beautifully suited to design projects of all kinds, including headlines, subheadings, editorials, print and digital publishing, advertising, website designs, logos, product packaging, merchandise, apparel, marketing materials, posters, menus, event programs, and any design project that needs a contemporary and sophisticated serif. Restora is a great choice for branding and identity projects that require fluid design cohesion across print, digital, and mobile media.
Restora offers plenty of additional flexibility through OpenType features, including capitals to small caps, contextual ligatures, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, fractions, ordinals, subscript, superscript, oldstyle figures, slashed zero, small caps, contextual alternates, and stylistic alternates. It extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, and Basic Greek for global accessibility.
Nasir Udin currently offers 15 products through YouWorkForThem and that list only continues to grow. With a blend of serifs, sans serifs, scripts, and display typefaces, you’re sure to find something you love in his portfolio!
