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A lament is a sad song, and the music of the cowboys of the Old West had their fair share of them. However, a vintage piece of sheet music from the early part of...

Sometimes it’s easy to find a name to fit a font design, other times it’s a struggle because of the sheer number of digital fonts available and the number of names already taken. Classification...

Years before the “Jet Age”, and way before computers and satellite television turned us into jaded “armchair travelers”, the ocean voyage aboard giant steamships to distant ports of call beckoned many to travel the...

Titles from the 1938 movie “Service Deluxe” starring Vincent Price and Constance Bennett were the inspiration for the similarly named Art Deco typeface Service Deluxe JNL.

Olde Nouveau JNL is an interesting Art Nouveau typeface based on lettering found on some vintage sheet music. It’s name is a contradictory pun, since “Nouveau” means new in French, and Olde (spelled in...

Decade Nouveau JNL is based on examples of an Art Nouveau wood type with a bit of Latin/Western typographic flare, and yet it is also reminiscent of the style’s revival during the hippie movement...

Techno Retro JNL looks like a design straight out of the 1980s, but it actually appeared as hand lettering on a sheet music cover for the circa-1940s edition of the song “To You Sweetheart,...

Shareholder JNL could possibly be found on a stock certificate, but in truth, it’s based on hand-lettering found on some old sheet music entitled “Sharing”.