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Fats Deco

Fats Deco

by Red Rocket Signs
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Fats Deco Font Family was designed by Rodney Vicik and published by Red Rocket Signs. Fats Deco contains 1 styles.

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About Fats Deco Font Family


Fats Deco is loosely based on H.C. Martin's Modern Thick and Thin. He referred to it as the "Blood cousin to BROADWAY". The alphabet appeared in a series of booklets produced by Martin in the mid to late 1930s. These "Idea Books" were to provide inspiration and instruction to both novice and professional sign painters. As I studied not only the alphabet but also the way Martin departed from it when it fancied him, I realized that he was producing what today would be referred to as alternate characters. It was these alternates that inspired me to produce this font.


If you are familiar with Martin's alphabet then you may notice that I have modernized my font by rounding all terminals on the thin strokes. Also, since the original alphabet was devoid of any lowercase characters, I created them along with matching numbers, punctuation, diacritics and special characters; 241 glyphs in all.


Included with the Fats Deco font as a free bonus is my Common Connectors, eleven in all (see images). These are connector words that are often used in signage and general headings, usually in a smaller size than the display type.

Designers: Rodney Vicik

Publisher: Red Rocket Signs

Foundry: Red Rocket Signs

Design Owner: Red Rocket Signs

MyFonts debut: Nov 10, 2020

Fats Deco

About Red Rocket Signs

Foundry owner Rodney Vicik began his career as a sign painter back in 1980. Back then truck lettering, boat lettering and storefronts were all done by hand with brushes and paint. During those early years, Rodney began buying books on alphabets and lettering design. His extensive collection would eventually grow to include many rare lettering books dating back to the 1800s. It is this collection that continues to provide inspiration for the retro logos and type styles that have characterized his designs. The name Red Rocket Signs was chosen for his business because it conjured up images of a by-gone era where space travel was still a dream and hand lettering was a much sought after craft. Today Rodney divides his time between hand crafting signs, pinstriping guitars and motorcycles and designing vintage style display type for signs and graphics.

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