font_category: decorative

Cake & Sodomy AOE

Cake & Sodomy AOE font

Inspired by the title of a Marilyn Manson song, the Cake & Sodomy typeface was originally released in 1997, and in 2008 received an overhaul in the Opentype Pro version, which now includes extensive...

Cake & Sodomy AOE

Cake & Sodomy AOE font

Inspired by the title of a Marilyn Manson song, the Cake & Sodomy typeface was originally released in 1997, and in 2008 received an overhaul in the Opentype Pro version, which now includes extensive...

Stencil Chamfer JNL

Stencil Chamfer JNL font

The packing information stenciled on an antique wooden crate included a slab serif type style with chamfered corners. This design has now been re-drawn as the digital typeface Stencil Chamfer JNL, which is available...

Store Clerk JNL

Store Clerk  JNL font

The cover of the 1929 sheet music from the First National/Vitaphone picture “The Girl from Woolworth’s” had its title (“Someone”) hand lettered. This single word title was the model for Store Clerk JNL, which...

Thataway JNL

Thataway JNL font

Thataway JNL is an assortment of arrows in many different sizes, shapes and directions that were collected from antique letterpress blocks and other vintage sources.

Tightwad JNL

Tightwad JNL font

“I Don’t like No Cheap Man” is a piece of early 1900s sheet music featuring its title hand lettered in a condensed slab serif design. The influences of the Art Nouveau era are clearly...

Tryout Nouveau JNL

Tryout Nouveau JNL font

The hand lettered Art Nouveau title on the sheet music for “Why Don’t You Try” (1905) served as the inspiration for Tryout Nouveau JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Western Trail JNL

Western Trail JNL font

For decades, Samuel Welo’s “Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers” was a source of inspiration for sign painters, graphic artists and designers. In later years, many digital revivals of Welo’s hand lettered typography have...