Shelf Tags JNL
Before the mid-to-late 1970s, when retailers started to embrace UPC (universal price code) technology on a grand scale, pricing merchandise took on many forms. One method especially popular with variety stores (such as Woolworth’s,...
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Show Card Casual JNL
Alf Becker graced the pages of “Signs of the Times” magazine month after month for decades, presenting attractive and unusual hand lettered alphabets as inspiration for other sign painters and show card writers. From...
Short Subject JNL
Loosely based on some hand-lettered title cards from various vintage Columbia Pictures two-reel comedies, Short Subject JNL is a pleasant sans serif typeface that is aptly suited for titling and other similar applications.
Shopping Spree JNL
Shopping Spree JNL was inspired by the hand lettering on the title card for the 1938 film “Fast Company” starring Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice.
Showmanship JNL
Despite the racially demeaning 1906 sheet music for “The Ghost of the Banjo Coon”, the title’s lettering provided an interesting hand-lettered sans serif that has been re-drawn digitally as Showmanship JNL in both regular...
Show Card Stencil JNL
For decades, the National Show Card Writer Company of Minneapolis, MN produced sign making kits used by shopkeepers, schools, churches and many other types of organizations. The standard sets were comprised of two part...
Show Card Deco JNL
Show Card Deco JNL is a hybrid of examples from hand lettered titles found on various song folios from the Carl Fischer Music Library circa the 1930s and is available in both regular and...
Sign Letters JNL
A few scant examples of some condensed Roman style water-applied decals inspired Sign Letters JNL. The decals were once part of the gold and black “Signmaker” letters and numbers once manufactured by the Duro...
Sign Sans JNL
The original source of design for Sign Sans JNL was an image online of an old New York drinking establishment called the Lenox Lounge. The metal channels encasing the neon had an unusual “feel”...
Sign Work JNL
The 1951 sheet music of “I Like the Wide Open Spaces” has the cover title set in a casual type design that emulates the “one stroke” or “speed letter” style so popular with sign...