font_category: decorative

Crude Stencil JNL is a rough auto-tracing of a vintage lettering stencil from the 1980s, with additional characters added in post-production. At small type sizes, the lettering takes on a “grunge” effect, but larger...

The hand lettering found throughout the movie trailer for 1942’s “Mr. and Mrs. North” inspired Criminal Intent JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The 1937 sheet music for the tune “Sweet Stranger” has the title hand lettered in a round cornered Art Deco sans with an inline featuring square corners. Now available as Curtain Up JNL, it...

A set of transfer patterns for sewing decorative monogram initials on clothing was manufactured by Women’s Day magazine circa the 1940s. Designed by renowned Copenhagen-born industrial artist and letterer Gustav Boerge Jensen [April 8,...

Decalcomania JNL is based on examples of gold and black water-applied initial decals made by the Transfer Monogram Company of Chicago circa the 1940s. It is presumed the patterns for the letters were hand...

The opening title card for 1931’s pre-code movie drama “Other Men’s Women” (with Mary Astor, Regis Toomey, James Cagney and Joan Blondell amongst the cast members) is the basis for the Art Deco type...

From the pages of the 1939 French lettering book “Modèles de lettres modernes par Georges Léculier” (“Models of Modern Lettering”) comes an attractive and unusual set of initial drop caps made from square letters...

The hand lettered pre-Deco style title and songwriters’ credits on the cover of the sheet music for 1929s “The Love Parade” were the models for Deco Days JNL, which is available in both regular...

Deco Edition JNL gets its inspiration from the hand lettered title of a 1943 anthology of musical compositions for schools entitled “Junior Laurel Songs – Teacher’s Edition”, and is available in both regular and...