font_category: decorative

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...

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...

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...

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...

Up until the late 1920s, it was a popular habit in American songwriting to use African Americans as the topic of compositions using denigrating themes, words and even exaggerated character illustrations on the covers...

A 1925 edition for an orchestral arrangements catalog entitled “Carl Fischer Progressive Orchestra Edition” has the title hand lettered in a bold, stylized Roman type design. This has now become the digital font Fancy...

The 1907 sheet music for “Take Me Back to Dear Old Dixie” had the song title hand lettered in a decorative serif typeface with strong Art Nouveau influences. This design is now available digitally...