font_category: decorative

The bold hand lettered title on the 1940 sheet music for the band piece “Drexel Marching Song” was the inspiration for Drexel JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.

A sample of monogram lettering entitled “Style 204 – Modern Block” (probably circa 1940s) yielded the thin Art Deco alphabet model for Dress Shirt JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Sheet music for the title song from the 1933 Jean Harlow-Clark Gable film “Hold Your Man” has the movie title hand lettered in a dual line sans serif with Art Deco influences. This is...

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...

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 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 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...

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 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....

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...