font_category: decorative

The retail storage box for a vintage metal numbering stamp manufactured by the American Numbering Machine Company had its brand name hand lettered in an Art Nouveau style that most likely went back to...

Amongst the pages of a 1946 foreign publication entitled “100 Alphabets Publicitaires” (“100 Advertising Alphabets”) is the casual brush stroke sans that was the design basis for Relaxation JNL.

A vintage rubber stamp alphabet and star printing set had a package header with Art Deco-inspired lettering describing the product. Sold by a company called Elvin [circa late 50’s-early 1960s], these Japanese-made sets were...

Because of the large influx of Irish immigrants during the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was not unusual for songwriters of the day to craft songs around Irish themes, offering a nostalgic link...

Vintage New York neon signage alongside the landmark Dubrow’s Cafeteria [probably circa the 1940s] of the words “retail shop” inspired the namesake digital type design. Retail Shop JNL is a bold and somewhat eccentric...

Rhineland Roman JNL was modeled from the hand lettered title of some 1939 German sheet music entitled “Ich Hab’Mir Fur Grinzing”, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The sheet music for “Good Night Angel” from the 1937 motion picture “Radio City Revels”, had the movie’s title hand lettered in a free form Art Deco sans serif design. This has been recreated...

A piece of sheet music from Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1958 hit “Flower Drum Song” had the play’s name lettered in its iconic Anglo-Japanese style. This became the basis for Rice Wine...

The vintage sheet music for “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” yielded another bit of Art Deco-era lettering perfect for developing into a digital font. This time it wasn’t the song title,...

Roman Stencil JNL is a condensed version of the classic Roman typeface found on many vintage hand-punched brass stencils made for packing and shipping merchandise. This digital interpretation is available in both regular and...