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What has become a rite of passage at baseball games got its start in 1908 when lyricist Jack Norworth and music composer Albert Von Tilzer wrote “Take Me Out to the Ball-Game” (which was...

The hand lettered title on the 1945 sheet music for the song “Louisiana Hayride” is an Art Deco design with a nod to the preceding Art Nouveau era. It is now available as Barn...

The 1913 sheet music for “You’ll Be Welcome When You Get Back Home” had its title hand lettered in a simple, yet attractive Art Nouveau sans serif design which has been preserved as digital...

Sometimes lettering without any frills or formality gets a message across better than the use of fancier typefaces. The simple charm of the hand-lettered phrase “Safety Comes First” found on a vintage WPA (Works...

Bases Loaded JNL is a contour outline variant of Ebbets JNL, which was in turn a stylized variant of the retro-inspired Base Runner JNL. The design is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The Raleigh Hotel at 18th Street and Collins Avenue on Miami Beach is an Art Deco landmark and part of the city’s popular tourist district. A vintage matchbook from the hotel had its name...

Bay Area Nouveau JNL is an ultra bold, Art Nouveau headline font inspired by hand lettering on the cover of a piece of 1911 sheet music entitled “The Only Pal I Ever Had Came...

Basic Stencil JNL was inspired by a lettering stencil sold by Dymo around 1968 that featured a sans serif design with rounded corners and an overall square look to the characters. This bold stencil...

The model for Bensonhurst JNL was a 1930s-era hand-lettered WPA (Works Project Administration) poster for the play “Hell Bent For Heaven”. Although the basic style is a classic Art Deco “thick and thin” format,...

Taken from the hand-lettered name on a 1930s-era tin for Cadet condoms, Bed and Bath JNL is pure Art Deco with thin line weight and varying character widths and shapes.