Ordering your fine Roman lettering
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London’s Finest Lettering Masters
A passionate Page of Classic Roman ‘Serif’ Lettering.
The Sign Craft Masters of Roman Lettering
NGS
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SUFFOLK LODGE: NGS Bembo Roman Lettering
CHELSEA TEXTILES: NGS Garamond Roman Lettering
ABOUT NGS: Nick Garrett
Making these great Vintage letters of ours, is down to a lifelong passion for paint and craft since the age of about three.
I am very lucky to be born an artist with natural portrait skills, and building a great lettering practice with fantastic clients for 40 years.
Building the studio
It takes dedication, hard work to become a lettering master.
Above all we value practice, research, and love of creativity.
Dream Team thanks you so much! It’s been a joy watching this come together.
Stella, Pragnell’s Jewellers UK
TEAM: Seraina and Nick
Seraina arrived at my studio (the ‘S’ NGS who joined in 2018).
She had all the flair and precision skills with the addition of a stable, technical knowledge from earlier screen printing apprenticeship in Switzerland – a rigorous training and work ethic that always shines through.
We responded to a quickly widening client demand and have combined our passion for deep tradition, with that all-important love of modern tech and styling, as illustrated in the Penhaligon panel below.
Our approach has worked seamlessly across all our projects and developed an even keener eye for detail and unmatched quality of execution.
There’s a lot more to this ‘Roman-based’ story and it’s forming up a uniquw set of NGS ‘bench-top’ typeface designs – continually creating these new fonts from the gems we find across London and the world as we go. We hope you can share and enjoy the journey. NG
Above: NGS ‘Engravers’ Roman Lettering
NGS ‘Bodoni Parmense’ Roman Lettering
FROM THE DIARY: Laeving fine art and becoming a professional lettering artist…. it takes a few essential turns.
Firstly as a child I watched my Grandfather carve his London Romans and it stayed with me as a natural place to be and path to take.
Then one day, when I was 15, I found myself working as a tea boy in an antique store, a stall holder asked me to restore his shop sign in Herne Hill – Signwriting these true retro vintage letters for the first time, was like a new startling world to me.
We make Roman Capitals by hand, naturally and no Ai.
Nick Garrett
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Detail from recent research dip: Transcript of the magnificent ‘Memorial of the Homeland’ adjacent to the Trajan Market in Rome.
NGS Wakeley & Parvin Roman Lettering
Making Crafted Roman Letters since 1981
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NGS Trajan Roman Lettering
Painting the County Hotel
Trajan Roman Letters
We have a huge range of design-led Heritage London project experience.
NGS ‘William Sharpington’ Roman Font
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Our Bespoke Roman Letters
For Home
For Classically renowned businesses
What our clients think about us…
“It is a beautiful sign… so fine… impossible skills! Thank you Nick”
Dorian C. De Fawes.
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MAKING THESE FINE NGS ROMAN LETTERS
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PAINTERS OF BASKERVILLE & VENETIAN ROMANS
LONDON TO MARGATE
FINE ROMAN LETTERING
Sometimes we work beyond London city walls… not too far from where the armies of Rome arrived along these shores is the Isle of Thanet – Margate.
FINE WALTON ST. CHELSEA SERIF LETTERS
Sharing the Passion of
Hand Painted Traditional Vintage Letters
Above: NGS ‘Trajan Roman Restored’ Bespoke letters restoring the commercial font into its 78AD ‘true-cut’ version.
Imperial Capitals by Nick Garrett.
ART GALLERY SIGN WRITING
SIGN LETTERING NEAR US. NEAR YOU: BLOOMSBURY
“These letters look so beautiful… even after 5 years… lovely”
Karen, Austin Desmond Fine Arts.
SIGN LETTERING NEAR US. NEAR YOU:
DEAL
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Next up: Across London Recently
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Wayfinding and Title Lettering on doors:
‘NGS Caslon type’ at the rooms of the City of London Club.
Likely the Most Traditional
and Distinguished Signs of London.
Allowing all things to give rise to goodness and perfection is following close behind.
The ‘go-to’ home of Classical painted letters. NGS.
Perfection is doing all the small things really well.
Serifs can be seen as early as 500bc and in their primal form, in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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