font_category: decorative

Inspired by the hand-lettered address for the publisher of some 1920s sheet music, Nouveau Yorke JNL is a throwback to a simpler period in time when sheet music and piano rolls were the mainstay...

Prospect Park JNL was inspired by inline lettering found on some vintage sheet music from the Art Deco era entitled “By My Side”. The font’s namesake is located in the Crown Heights section of...

While the inspiration for Prospect Heights JNL may have been a piece of vintage sheet music entitled “My Ohio Lullaby”, the name is classically New York. To be precise, it’s a neighborhood in the...

The vast resource of hand lettered vintage sheet music titles offers many interesting and unique variations on even the simplest styles of lettering. A simple thick-and-thin serif design circa the 1920s-1930s evokes a reminiscence...

Vintage sheet music for the 1920s song “Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?” yielded the hand lettered Art Nouveau alphabet for Nouveau Display JNL. Because the Art Nouveau movement was...

Named for a Manhattan neighborhood, Morningside Heights JNL is based on lettering found on a 1920s-era piece of sheet music. Part of the charm of hand lettering from the Art Nouveau era is found...

A 1940s-era package of “Herald Square” carbon paper sold by the F.W. Woolworth 5 & 10 cent stores offered up the hand lettered Art Deco design of Stationery Department JNL.

Bay Ridge JNL, modeled from vintage sheet music lettering, is named for a neighborhood in the Southwest corner of the borough of Brooklyn, New York.