Fats Deco Font Family was designed by Rodney Vicik and published by Red Rocket Signs. Fats Deco contains 1 styles and family package options. Fats Deco is loosely based on H.C. Martin’s Modern Thick and Thin. He referred to it as the “Blood cousin to BROADWAY”. The alphabet appeared in a series of booklets produced by Martin in the mid to late 1930s. These “Idea Books” were to provide inspiration and instruction to both novice and professional sign painters. As I studied not only the alphabet but also the way Martin departed from it when it fancied him, I realized that he was producing what today would be referred to as alternate characters. It was these alternates that inspired me to produce this font. If you are familiar with Martin’s alphabet then you may notice that I have modernized my font by rounding all terminals on the thin strokes. Also, since the original alphabet was devoid of any lowercase characters, I created them along with matching numbers, punctuation, diacritics and special characters; 241 glyphs in all. Included with the Fats Deco font as a free bonus is my Common Connectors, eleven in all (see images). These are connector words that are often used in signage and general headings, usually in a smaller size than the display type.
