A Humanist Sans Serif Font with 1970s Vintage Power!
Probably as a reaction to the pragmatism of modernist design, the seventies saw an explosion of buoyant, vivacious typography. Psychedelia fueled a return to the melting, lush shapes of Art Nouveau while Pop culture embraced funky, joyful lettering for advertising, product design and TV titling. New low-cost technologies like photo-lettering and rub-on transfer required new fonts to be expressive rather than legible, pushing designers to produce bubbly, high-spirited masterpieces, where
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Pockota: A Soft Retro-Style Display Serif From Nasir Udin
Nasir Udin is an independent illustrator, graphic designer, and type designer based in Bali. Nasir has a particular fondness for design elements that favor a retro style and he regularly designs travel posters under the Vectro label. His illustrative style is an impression of similar posters from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. As a designer, he enjoys seeing what happens when “retro style blends with a futuristic concept” so much of his work takes elements of past eras and blends them