font_category: decorative

A photo from Gene Gable (a regular contributor of ideas to Jeff Levine Fonts) shows the vintage signage for the Lasher Hatchery in a slightly different take on the classic Art Deco solid letter...

An example of Art Nouveau lettering (complete with its unusual characters and varying shape widths) was found in a sample from the vintage publication “Modeles de Lettres Artistiques” (“Models of Artistic Letters”). This classic...

Hand-lettered stencil lettering on the movie poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 dark comedy-thriller “The Trouble with Harry” inspired Hitchcock Stencil JNL; named in honor of the great master of suspense cinema.

What does a 1932 movie about a love affair between a circus’ trapeze artist and a sideshow “little person” have to do with the 1960s counter-culture? They both share some commonalities. The title card...

Vintage packaging [circa 1940s] for a sewing machine attachment used for making lattice-type stitching had its information hand lettered in a casual Art Deco sans serif design. This became the basis of Home Economics...

Some vintage Beacon metal door letters used for identifying addresses on home and business buildings was spotted in an online auction from England. Those few letters were the inspiration for Home Address JNL, which...

The sans serif type style for the specialty font Nameplate JNL was given a serif treatment and is now Hotel District JNL complete with a full character set. Originally inspired by two Art Deco-era...

Picture if you will, a balmy autumn evening in Manhattan during the 1930s and a well-dressed couple out on the town. They hail one of the hansom cabs located near Central Park and climb...

In 1935, Morris Fuller Benton designed Phenix American for American Type Founders. For 2017, the classic Art Deco design has been reinterpreted in an all-caps display version with an ever-so-slight “hand made” feel. Industrial...

The type design for Impecunious JNL comes from the 1939 sheet music for “You Don’t Know How Much You Can Suffer (Until You Fall in Love)”. The name comes from another piece of sheet...