ABout ANFCo.

The Abe Nehrer Font Co. is an independent type foundry rooted in American industrial heritage.

I design typefaces shaped by the blue-collar lettering of the early 20th century. Forms cut into metal, cast in iron, and worn into the American landscape. Built for factories, storefronts, and ballfields.

I grew up in a steel town in Western Pennsylvania, where aluminum plates from Alcoa hung on household walls, streets were paved in brick, and white bronze grave markers stood untouched for generations. The lettering endured. That mattered.

My grandfather and great-grandfather were typesetters who ran their own print shop in the early 1900s. They operated linotype machines, repaired their own equipment, and built independent businesses through trade and discipline, not the big corporations.

ANFCo exists as a counterpoint to disposable, trend-driven typography.

I don’t design fonts for the moment. I design them to outlast it.

Solid. Unpretentious. Built to endure.