East Village JNL
The Federal Art Project division of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) employed numerous artists, musicians, actors and other creative sorts in a effort to help many survive the Great Depression of the 1930s. One...
font_category: decorative
Eccentric Sans JNL
An instructional page from a vintage lettering book displayed online showed the construction of an Art Deco sans design with varying widths and stylized character shapes. This was the basis for Eccentric Sans JNL,...
Eat More Fruit JNL
Eat More Fruit JNL is an odd name for a typeface, but then again the lettering style of the font is just as unusual. Named for a 1940s-era poster espousing “Put more pep in...
Eckhardt Relaxed JNL
Eckhardt Relaxed JNL was modeled from an example of a casual, hand lettered alphabet from a page of a vintage textbook. This style of freehand lettering always lends itself well to posters, show card...
Elite Resort JNL
A 1940s sheet music edition of an early 1900s song entitled “You Taught Me How to Love You, Now Teach Me to Forget” was set in a popular metal type slab serif face. It...
Electrostatic JNL
Electrostatic JNL was inspired by the 1930s lettering for radio station WMCA in New York City. It was found as part of an ad for the station in a 1932 radio broadcasting trade magazine....
Endless Sixties JNL
Sunny summer days, white sand beaches and radical waves come to mind with Endless Sixties JNL, inspired by a poster for a surfing movie entitled “Planet Aura”. The image of the poster was provided...
Evening Out JNL
Based on an example of [circa] 1950 Finnish embroidery lettering, Evening Out JNL is a classic Art Deco design with contrasting thick and thin lines. This elegant and stylish typeface is available in both...
Euripedes JNL
The Greek-influenced hand lettering on a 1930s WPA (Works Progress Administration) poster for the Federal Theater presentation of “Trojan Incident” inspired Euripedes JNL. The play was based on Homer and Euripedes, and was presented...
Fancy Deco JNL
This decorative, scalloped thick-and-thin Art Deco type design is one of the many inspirations found within the pages of the 1934 French lettering book “L’Art du Tracé Rationnel de la Lettre”. Now in digital...