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A sheet music edition of an early 1900s song entitled “You Taught Me How to Love You, Now Teach Me to Forget” was hand lettered in a free-form Art Nouveau style that combined varying...

The roots of Nouveau Handlettered JNL go back to the sheet music cover for the 1917 song “(Someday) Somebody’s Gonna Get You”. This simple style of sans serif titling has the casual, imperfect charm...

A 1916 lettering book provided an example of a slab serif alphabet with Art Nouveau influence designed by Thomas Wood Stevens. This alphabet served as the model for Nouveau Lettering JNL, which is available...

The cover of the 1907 sheet music for “I’d Rather Twostep Than Waltz, Bill” was hand lettered in an Art Nouveau sans serif alphabet. During the hippie counter-culture movement of the 1960s, rock posters,...

The cover of the 1902 sheet music for “I’ll Be Baby in Baby’s Place” features the title hand lettered in a wonderful Art Nouveau slab serif style with many eccentric letter forms. This is...

The cover on the sheet music for the 1922 song “If She Comes from Dixie” had the title hand-lettered in an Art Nouveau style with a semi-stencil effect. It’s now available as Nouveau Semi...

The hand lettered title on the sheet music for 1917’s “If They’d Never Take You from Me” was the basis for the Art Nouveau sans design of Nouveau Romance JNL. This elegant sans serif...

A 1902 publication entitled “Lettering for Schools & Colleges” had an example of an ornate, hand drawn stencil alphabet in the Art Nouveau style. This is now available digitally as Nouveau Stencil Ornate JNL,...

The sheet music for the 1917 song “Wake Up Virginia (and Prepare for Your Wedding Day)” features a hand lettered title in a sans serif Art Nouveau design with stencil influences. This was the...

The hand lettering found on the cover of the 1912 sheet music for “Somebody Else is Getting It” featured a blockish Art Nouveau style with rounded corners and a very lurid title [although it...