font_category: decorative

Annexxus

Annexxus font

Kustomtype’s ‘Annexxus’ font is a serrif font family with a regular & oblique version. It contains all upper & lower cases. The ‘Annexxus’ family is coordinated into letterforms, metrics, and weights to work better...

Solitude JNL

Solitude JNL font

A piece of vintage sheet music with the hand lettered title “Solitude” is the namesake and inspiration for Solitude JNL. Purely Art Deco in its typographic curves and angles of the period, this typeface...

Song Folio JNL

Song Folio JNL font

A 1940s Australian song folio featuring tunes performed by singer-actress Deanna Durbin had her name hand lettered in an interesting Art Deco style sans. This became the basis for Song Folio JNL, capturing all...

Lisboa Swash

Lisboa Swash font

Lisboa Swash is a display humanist sans-serif typeface and it was designed for big sizes purposes. The uppercase letterforms are much more decorative than the lowercase, but both contain hook-head terminals and few contrast....

Auberge Script

Auberge Script font

It took me a long time, but I think I now understand why people of my generation and older feel the need to frame current events in an historical context or precedents, while most...

Clarenwood Stencil JNL

Clarenwood Stencil JNL font

It’s a wood type! It’s a stencil font! It’s BOTH! Clarenwood Stencil JNL was originally designed as a solid alphabet (Clarenwood JNL) modeled from vintage wood type. The stencil treatment was applied to add...

Dance Partner JNL

Dance Partner JNL font

The unusual mix of Art Deco lettering with a smattering of Art Nouveau characters found within Dance Partner JNL comes from a movie poster for the 1935 RKO picture “Roberta” starring Fred Astaire and...

Fancy Dancing JNL

Fancy Dancing JNL font

The 1938 movie musical “Carefree” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers featured the song “Change Partners” by Irving Berlin. A copy of the sheet music for this song had the title hand lettered in...

Evening Gown JNL

Evening Gown JNL font

Evening Gown JNL comes from the lettering displayed on a printed ad for the fictional “Gowns by Roberta” in a scene in the 1935 film of the same name. “Roberta” starred Fred Astaire and...

Dine And Dance JNL

Dine And Dance JNL font

Sheet music featuring a song from the 1933 film “Torch Singer” starring Claudette Colbert was the basis for Dine and Dance JNL. A multi-line Art Deco design, it epitomizes both the typographic style and...