font_category: decorative

Many decades back, churches, schools and other buildings with a need to display an outdoor message often chose a sign making system utilizing characters silk screened onto metal pieces in a block chamfer style....

A page from an 1880s type specimen book presented a unique “Barnum”-like design with top horizontal lines much thinner than the bottom ones. Titled “Ten Line Antique Compressed No. 7”, the design transcends the...

Antique Stencil Borders JNL collects twenty-six vintage border designs from various sources for complementing copy set in stencil lettering or in stand-alone decorative projects. NOTE: The purchase of this font does NOT include license...

A 1930s-era WPA (Works Progress Administration) poster advertising a Federal Art Project exhibit entitled “Index of American Design” was the basis for Art and Design JNL.

The 1954 sheet music for the song “Arrevederci Roma (Goodbye to Rome)” [from the MGM film “The Seven Hills of Rome”] was hand lettered in a medium-wide sans serif. This design is now available...

Art Museum JNL is yet another take on the classic Art Deco “solid letter” fonts that emulate the style of Futura Black. This version comes to you through the courtesy of a vintage WPA...

In the 1930s the WPA (Works Progress Administration) was involved with getting a number of Americans back to work during the Great Depression. One faction of the WPA’s efforts was the Federal Art Project....

The simple song title “May I”, found on the sheet music from the 1934 Bing Crosby-Carole Lombard film “We’re Not Dressing” was hand lettered in a blocky, ultra-bold Art Deco design that foreshadowed the...