Author's note

Great Lakes, designed by Nick Curtis, is a free retro display sans serif built from tall, tightly packed capitals. Its massive strokes, squared corners, and sharply cut diagonals recall industrial lettering and early twentieth-century poster type, with small interior spaces adding to the dense silhouette.

Breweries and garages could adopt it for sturdy, old-fashioned branding. It also suits concert posters and sports merchandise, where the compressed block forms can become part of a badge or emblem rather than ordinary lettering.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Copyright (c) 2003, 2006 Nick Curtis. All Rights Reserved. Distributed under non-exclusive license by 1001 Free Fonts.
Font family
Great Lakes NF
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Nick'sFonts: Great Lakes NF: 2003
Full font name
Great Lakes NF
Name table version
Version 1.002
Postscript font name
GreatLakesNF
Manufacturer name
Nick's Fonts
Designer

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2006-11-17
Revision1
Glyph count220
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classSans serif
WeightBold
WidthCondensed
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI