font_category: decorative

For years, the print ads for the Hickok Jewelry Company [renowned for their line of men’s belts, suspenders, wallets, cufflinks, etc.] featured its name and related main line ad copy hand-lettered in a condensed...

An example of hand lettering from a vintage instructional book was the basis for Fashion Statement JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions. This extra-wide “thick and thin” design is perfect for replicating...

The lettering for Fine Dining JNL was inspired by the opening titles for the 1940 Barbara Stanwyck-Fred MacMurray film “Remember the Night”. A stylized Art Deco sans, the typeface conjures up images of elegant...

Flirtation Walk JNL was inspired by the lettering on the covers of sheet music for songs taken from the 1934 Dick Powell-Ruby Keeler movie “Flirtation Walk”. The typeface features some stylized characters as well...

Franklin Stencil JNL is based on the classic and perennial workhorse design of Franklin Gothic Condensed and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

French Calligraphic JNL is actually more semi-calligraphic in nature. Its name takes a descriptive liberty because of the sharp, angled pen strokes of the original hand lettered example found in the 1930s publication “100...

The 1930s French publication L’Art du Tracé Rationnel de la Lettre was a treasure trove of font revival ideas from the Art Deco era. One example featured a serif typeface with a number of...

Frantic Pace JNL is based on hand lettering found on the lid of a late 1950s or early 1960s edition of the Print Craft alphabet printing set once manufactured by the Superior Marking Equipment...

An example from the vintage lettering book “100 Alphabets Publicitaire” (“100 Advertising Alphabets”) provided the inspiration for French Lettering JNL. This stylized Victorian [or Western] type face evokes the era of fanciful lettering design...

An Art Deco geometric alphabet found within the pages of the 1939 French lettering book “Modèles de lettres modernes par Georges Léculier” (“Models of Modern Letters by Georges Léculier”) is the basis for French...