font_category: decorative

Sheet music published in the 1860s for “The Soldier’s Chorus” [from the Gounod opera “Faust”] had the title and the arranger’s name hand lettered in a bold, condensed chamfer font. This was the basis...

The sheet music for the 1914 Word War I comic novelty song “When the War Breaks Out in Mexico I’m Going to Go to Montreal” had one of those overly-worded song titles popular during...

Crepe Paper JNL is an alphabet-only novelty font that creates a wavy ribbon headline with a vintage wood type alphabet that somewhat resembles an unfurled stretch of crepe paper. The upper case A-Z keys...

Cover Art JNL was inspired by the hand-lettered sans serif title of an Art Deco era Portuguese magazine called Ilustraçáo. The mix of conventional and non-conventional letter forms made it a perfect candidate to...

The Art Nouveau hand lettered title on the sheet music for the 1909 composition “If the Wind Had Only Blown the Other Way” was the basis for Courtship JNL, which is available in both...

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,...