ABout ANFCo

The Abe Nehrer Font Company is an independent type foundry creating industrial-inspired fonts rooted in American working-class lettering.

ANFCo typefaces draw from the kind of typography once found on steel mills, hardware stores, train cars, and ballfields. Lettering cut into metal, cast in iron, and built to survive decades of weather, grease, and use.

These fonts are designed for designers who want typography with backbone. The kind that works just as well on a record sleeve, a sweatshirt, or the side of a storefront.

I grew up in a steel town in Western Pennsylvania. Aluminum plates from Alcoa hung on the walls of homes. Streets were paved in brick. White bronze grave markers stood untouched for generations. The lettering in that world was made to last, and 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 rather than corporate backing. I run ANFCo in the same spirit.

Most typography today is built around trends. ANFCo exists as a counterweight to that.

The fonts I make may be inspired by the past, but they are designed for contemporary work and meant to endure well into the future.

I make hardbody fonts. Solid, unpretentious, and built to last.