font_category: decorative

On the Town JNL is a reworking of Parks Department JNL, giving it a classic “solid black Art Deco treatment”. The wide monoline font of the original design was inspired by hand lettering on...

Old Tijuana JNL was modeled from the hand lettered title on the cover of the 1939 sheet music for “Class Will Tell” and is available in both regular and oblique versions. Casual, playful and...

The 1930s era French textbook on lettering “100 Alphabets Publicitaires déssinés par M. Moullet” featured a hand lettered chamfered alphabet with slab serifs reminiscent of sports lettering. Although intended for advertising and signage inspiration…

Ordinary Gothic JNL is a simple, thin “stovepipe” style of hand lettering found on the cover of a piece of sheet music for 1937’s “You Can’t Stop Me from Dreaming”, and is available in...

Open Case JNL is the distant cousin to the 2009 release by Jeff Levine Fonts called Cold Case JNL, as both were based on sets of lettering stencils designed and manufactured by the Huntington...

Hand lettering on the cover of the 1932 sheet music for “Sleep, Come On and Take Me” was the basis for Overnight JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The cover of the 1939 sheet music for “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” has the title set in an outline sans – or is in an inline? With almost equal space and line...

Overton JNL is based on some of the preliminary letter designs by Rudolf Wolf which evolved into his 1929 type design Memphis and is available in both regular and oblique versions. Memphis was the...

A vintage matchbook advertising the New York Liquor Mart – oddly enough, located in Chicago, Illinois – featured a pen and ink line drawing of the store’s exterior. The Art Deco lettering on the...

Lettering on the sheet music cover for the title song from the 1957 Marlon Brando movie “Sayonara” was the model for Pacific Island JNL. The design has an Asiatic influence, but also reflects a...