About ITC Nora
James Montalbano was on a 1930s sign-lettering kick, searching through showcard manuals for inspiration for new typeface designs, when he found a few letters that led him eventually to create ITC Nora. Montalbano calls Nora one of the “informal, goofy scripts,” a form that falls between the many formal scripts and the completely loose and wacky. In fact, Nora is quite elegant, but with a free-flowing openness instead of the colder shapes of modernism. Although it has some of the edged-brush look of signage, its curves have been rounded and smoothed and its shapes tinkered with until it has a character all its own. The face is named after Montalbano’s girlfriend, who became his wife on New Year’s Eve. |
