font_category: decorative

Public Safety JNL was inspired by a 1940s-era health poster issued through the WPA (Works Progress Administration). The font’s bold, blockish sans lettering commands attention and has been made available in both regular and...

An ad spotted in a 1960 issue of Billboard magazine promoting a 45 rpm release by Randy Lee doing the old song “Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?” featured the song title in...

Punch Tape JNL emulates the old-style pin-punched paper tapes that were used in everything from ticker tapes to moving electronic signage to early digital typesetting equipment. Pin punch characters were also used in the...

Quite Animated JNL is based on hand-lettered Art Deco titling for a 1930 advertisement promoting a group of Columbia Pictures cartoons featuring George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat”. Available in regular and oblique versions.

The dust jacket for the 1929 Western novel “The Raider” by Charles Alden Seltzer featured the title and author’s credits in a hand-lettered extra bold stencil design. This became the model for Raider Stencil...

The hand lettered sans serif title on the sheet music for the 1930s song “I’m Alone Because I Love You” was the inspiration for Radio Singer JNL, which is available in both regular and...

The 1933 sheet music compilation entitled “Kate Smith Memories Song Book” had the singer’s name hand lettered in a bold, spurred serif typeface. This lettering design became the basis for Radio Show JNL, which...

A bold spur serif design found within the pages of the 1934 French lettering instruction book “L’Art du Tracé Rationnel de la Lettre” provided the inspiration for Railway Depot JNL, which is available in...

Morris Fuller Benton’s Hobo [designed in 1910] is one of a number of fonts which have been so over-used that many designers shy away from it altogether. However, Jeff Levine had often wondered what...

A vintage brass stencil used for marking oil drum lids for the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky served as the model for Refinery Stencil JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.