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The Federal Music Project was part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s WPA (Works Progress Administration), putting many people back to work in the Depression years of the 1930s. A hand-lettered poster advertising an “American Music...

Mystery Show JNL was modeled after the hand lettered titles found on various early episodes of the 1950s TV suspense program “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”. The design emulates characteristics found in Frederic W. Goudy’s Copperplate...

Musical Prelude JNL is a thin Art Deco typeface with some interesting character shapes, and was inspired by the hand lettering on the cover of the 1933 sheet music for “Blue Prelude” by Gordon...

Two attractive cast metal door signs reading “Men” and “Ladies” from back in the Art Deco era inspired the idea for Nameplate JNL. The left parenthesis key starts the border decoration, and the right...

The cast credits for the 1954 film “Hell’s Half Acre” (Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes and Elsa Lanchester) provided the basis for Mystic East JNL.

National Parks JNL was based on a 1930s WPA (Works Progress Administration) poster where the word “National Parks” was hand lettered in an unusual and eclectic Art Deco style. Bold and non-conformist, the typeface...

It seems that after the 1960s, very few display typefaces were being produced that had the desirability to transcend generations, as did many type designs of the past. In 1970, a local television station...

A WPA (Works Progress Administration) poster from the 1940s saying “Behind the Headlines” presented the title hand-lettered in a bold, condensed slab serif. This became the model for Newsmaker JNL, available in both regular...

Based on scans of some 1906 newspaper headlines detailing the devastation of the San Francisco earthquake, Newsbreaker JNL is a modern take on vintage typography. With a few letterform characteristics somewhat reminiscent of DeVinne,...

The basic design style for Nouveau Days JNL was inspired by the hand lettering on the sheet music cover for “Linger Longer Letty”. This tongue-twisting song title comes from the 1919 musical comedy of...