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A squared gothic sans by David Jonathan Ross, drawn from lettering on a 1918 Chinese banknote and expanded into 21 styles spanning seven widths, each with upright, oblique and backslant cuts.
About
Nickel Gothic's defining trait is its flat tops and bottoms, contrasted with stadium-shaped interior counters that concentrate weight in the corners – what Ross calls 'shoulderpads'. This structural logic gives every width, from Compressed to Wide, a consistent sense of density and impact. The design sits in a lineage of midcentury squared grotesques such as Eurostile and Neographik, though its source material predates both by several decades.
Classification
A squared gothic sans with flat tops and bottoms and stadium-shaped interiors, drawing from early 20th-century banknote lettering and midcentury squared grotesques such as Eurostile and Neographik. Its blocky, high-contrast corner weighting places it firmly in the gothic grotesque tradition.