font_category: decorative

Show Card Deco JNL

Show Card Deco JNL font

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

Sign Letters JNL font

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

Sign Sans JNL font

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

Sign Work JNL font

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...

Sign Vendor JNL

Sign Vendor JNL font

Sign Vendor JNL is a simple sans modeled from hand-lettering with a touch of Art Deco influence. The design is from a 1930s poster promoting winter activities in New York State.

Sitting Pretty JNL

Sitting Pretty JNL font

Sheet music for the 1923 tune “I’m Sitting Pretty (In A Pretty Little City)” had the main part of the title hand lettered in an Art Nouveau condensed Roman type design which became the...

Simply Nouveau JNL

Simply Nouveau JNL font

As Word War I raged on during 1917, a large number of songs were written as morale builders for both the soldiers leaving for overseas service as well as their friends, family and loved...

Slim Chance JNL

Slim Chance JNL font

Another bit of font inspiration came to the attention of Jeff Levine through his friend Gene Gable. An image of vintage packaging for Aquapruf Ear Drum Protectors (swimmer’s ear plugs) offered the narrow and...

Sixties Pin Buttons JNL

Sixties Pin Buttons JNL font

During the turbulent era of the 1960s, the youth of America found various ways to protest against “The Establishment”. Whether it was campus unrest, protest songs, sit-ins or other methods, the message was the...

Snow Job JNL

Snow Job JNL font

Snow Job JNL was inspired by the hand lettered titles for the 1964 Rankin-Bass animated holiday classic “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”. Because of the variable heights of the characters they float about the...