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NoSystem Font Vault Volume 1

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⭐️ WHAT THIS IS

During the no_system era I was less of a physical collector and more of a digital hoarder. I kept downloading and saving old scans, magazine fragments, vintage newspaper pages, lobby cards, weird archived PDFs, anything that still felt alive even when it was just pixels. Most of it was never going to be used again. It was just sitting there collecting digital dust.

At some point I realized I wanted a way to recycle that stuff. Not preserve it in a precious way, just turn it into usable material again. This vault is me finally doing that, mining forgotten folders and turning the texture, mistakes, and history into fonts and clipart you can actually build with.

A lot of what’s in this vault came straight out of that process.

Some fonts were traced or extracted from old documents.
Some were rebuilt from warped lettering samples.
Some were born inside collage sessions where I cut type apart and reassembled it on a copier until it felt right.

A core idea here is that a lot of these processes were never meant to be preserved. Paste up. Punk publishing. Underground comics. Newspapers. Early streetwear graphics. Type got abused through scanners, copiers, cheap printing, and physical manipulation. The distortions were real, mechanical, and usually happened only once.

These fonts do not recreate those workflows. They capture the results.

Most of these fonts and assets have never been released anywhere. They were just living in my folders.

And money has been tight, so this is me offering something real in return for anyone who wants to support us right now.

You get the vault.
My family and I get to breathe a little.
That is the exchange.


⭐️ WHAT IS INCLUDED

25 Fonts (view the full specimen booklet here)

NS Airport Black

  • NS Airport Black

NS Broadside

  • NS Broadside Thin
  • NS Broadside Thin Condensed

NS Frenchie Atomic

  • NS Frenchie Atomic

NS Mexican Poster

  • NS Asesinos
  • NS Mexiposter Credit

No_System Fonts

  • NS Myriad Copier
  • NS Myriad Copier Inverse
  • NS Hand Tall

NS Outlaw

  • NS Outlaw Book
  • NS Outlaw Book Bold Condensed
  • NS Outlaw Brush Bold
  • NS Outlaw Comic Bold
  • NS Outlaw Fuzz
  • NS Outlaw Grocer Bold
  • NS Outlaw Sans Bold Condensed
  • NS Outlaw Slab Bold

NS Robotomic

  • NS Robotomic

NS Bureaucracy

  • NS Telenews 33
  • NS Telenews 65

NS Underground

  • NS Bubble Line Fat
  • NS Hippie Comic
  • NS Hippie Patriot
  • NS Manifesto Headline
  • NS Woodchip

Nearly 1,500 Bits of Clipart

Outlaw Clipart Collection
Over 1,200 pieces pulled from vintage grocery circulars and mid century retail print. Badges, bursts, price shapes, borders, labels, icons, ornaments, and the layout grit that makes things feel like real ephemera again.

Bureaucracy Pack
About 200 pieces of blacked out, formerly classified document ephemera. Blackout marks, stamps, headers, seals, numbering, and administrative texture for dossier layouts, archival simulations, and documentary style graphics.

A type specimen and font info are included in the download if you want the deeper story and context behind each font.


⭐️ PRICING

Pay What You Can

Minimum: 49
If money is tight, start here. No guilt. Really.

Suggested: 129
If you are doing okay, this helps us in a real and meaningful way.

Studio Use: 199+
If multiple designers will install the fonts, or you are using these across a team for client work, please choose this tier to honor the Team License.

Choose whatever fits your situation.


⭐️ LICENSE (HUMAN VERSION)

Solo License (any price you choose)

  • One designer
  • Install on up to five computers
  • Unlimited commercial use
  • Unlimited client projects
  • Unlimited merch
  • Film, TV, streaming included
  • Web embedding allowed using self hosted WOFF or WOFF2
  • Server render nodes allowed and not counted as seats

Team License (199 and higher)

  • Up to five designers
  • Each gets five installs
  • Same unlimited usage rights

Not Allowed

  • Redistributing font files
  • Redistributing clipart files
  • Uploading fonts or assets to free sites
  • Embedding as selectable fonts in apps
  • Using fonts or assets in AI training datasets

A full license file is included in the download.


⭐️ WHY THIS VAULT EXISTS

no_system was a creative release valve. I was making collage work, scanning scraps, cutting type apart, reconstructing alphabets from half destroyed documents, and turning lost print artifacts into usable digital type.

Some fonts here came from 1940s grocery circulars from northeastern Nebraska.
Some came from Mexican action cinema posters.
Some began as smudged teletypes.
Some were born from copy machine tricks and hand cut zine lettering.
Some exist because I wanted a specific feeling that did not exist anywhere else.

These fonts and assets are imperfect in all the ways that make typography feel human.

This vault is me finally letting them out of the folders and into the world.


⭐️ WHO THIS IS FOR

Designers
Filmmakers
Motion artists
Editors
YouTubers
Indie devs
Musicians
Brand designers
Zine makers
Anyone who loves typography and layout texture with real story behind it


⭐️ THANK YOU

If you buy this, at any price, you are helping my family through a hard moment. And you are keeping pieces of forgotten print history alive by using them in your work.

If you make anything with these fonts or assets, I would love to see it.

Thank you for giving this archive a second life.
Brian

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The NS Font Vault is a working archive of type rebuilt from vintage print, comics, circulars, and bureaucratic debris. These fonts are imperfect on purpose and built with real alternates so designers can make decisions, not accept defaults.

25 original fonts rebuilt from vintage print, comics, circulars, and bureaucratic detritus
Deep alternates in most fonts so you can actually choose letters, not accept defaults
NS Outlaw Collection: 8 grocery-circular fonts plus 1,200 bits of retail ephemera
NS Bureaucracy: 2 teleprinter fonts plus 200+ blackout marks and classified leftovers
NS Underground: loud comic, manifesto, and woodchip display fonts
Commercial use allowed (films, client work, merch, chaos, etc.)
Files that work when typed and when abused
Size
286 MB

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