Just Great JNL
A 1940s British music collection of classical music piano pieces entitled “The Great Masters Series” had its title hand-lettered in a free form, casual sans serif with a cartoon style. This is now available...
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Junior Clerk JNL
Junior Clerk JNL is the plain sans serif version of the lettering found on the cover of the sheet music for 1919’s “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise”. The song title was originally...
Kiddie Show JNL
The design for Kiddie Show JNL is based on the hand lettering for a piece of sheet music from 1946 entitled “Wee Marionettes”. While basically an Art Deco-flavored monoline typeface, it contains characters with...
Katz Pajamas JNL
According to Wiktionary, “the cat’s pajamas” was a slang phrase coined by Thomas A. Dorgan, the well-known journalist, cartoonist and sportswriter of that era. The phrase became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s,...
La Vie Nouveau JNL
Early 1900s songwriters had a penchant for devising lengthy titles for their compositions. A perfect example from 1909, “It Is Hard to Kiss Your Sweetheart When the Last Kiss Means ‘Good Bye’” is a...
Kids Activities JNL
Kids Activities JNL is based on the hand lettering found on the covers of some 1955 Cub Scouts activity books. It’s available in both regular and oblique versions.
Last Date JNL
A typographic conundrum presented itself with the hand lettered title on the cover of the 1919 song “I Am Always Building Castles in the Air”. The capitalized portion [“Castles in the Air”] was a...
Limited Appeal JNL
The cover of a 1950s-era catalog for the Freedman Novelty Company (of San Francisco California) had the word “Novelty” hand-lettered in an unusually angular type style against various geometric shapes somewhat resembling balloons. While...
Light Line Deco JNL
The unusual, thin line hand lettering on the cover of the sheet music for 1936’s “If You Love Me” was the basis for Light Line Deco JNL, which is available in both regular and...
Library Book Initials JNL
Library Book Initials JNL was modeled from examples of Sidney Gaunt’s Publicity Initials; originally sold in metal type by Barnhart Brothers and Spindler as a companion to the Publicity Gothic typeface. The smoothed-down lines...