font_category: decorative

Solid Deco JNL

Solid Deco JNL font

Solid Deco JNL was modeled after a small sign with the word “restaurant” in an unusual Art Deco solid lettering style. It was spotted within the same image of the Lenox Lounge in New...

Soldier Stencil JNL

Soldier Stencil JNL font

Soldier Stencil JNL is a re-working of a vintage example of a sign painter’s “block” or “chamfer” font design into stencil form. The result is Soldier Stencil JNL, which is available in both regular...

Song Album JNL

Song Album JNL font

In the days when sheet music was as popular as phonograph records for home entertainment, a song album was a folio of collected works. The hand-lettering on the 1940s-era cover for “The Sigmund Romberg...

Song Crafter JNL

Song Crafter JNL font

Song Crafter JNL was modeled from the writer credits on the cover of the 1943 sheet music for “This Love of Mine”, a tune popularized by Frank Sinatra. The typeface is available in both...

Song Composer JNL

Song Composer JNL font

The sheet music for the 1939 tune “Chico’s Love Song (Ma-La-Ja Fa-La Pas-Ka Lah-Ta) [Cuban Double Talk]” may have had an odd title, but the main portion of it was hand lettered in an...

Song Vendor JNL

Song Vendor JNL font

The hand lettered words “favorite songs” in the masthead of the 1940s British music collection “Albert’s Favourite Song Album No. 4” inspired Song Vendor JNL, which is available in regular and oblique versions.

Song Stylist JNL

Song Stylist JNL font

The 1907 novelty song “Since Arrah Wanna Married Barney Carney” (about an Irishman taking an Indian maiden as his bride) had its title hand-lettered in a sans serif style that reflected both the Art...

Song Merchant JNL

Song Merchant JNL font

Although the early 1900s through the 1920s seemed to be the “Golden Age” of ridiculously long novelty song titles, it appears that even the decade of the 1940s had its fair share as well....

Stage Direction JNL

Stage Direction JNL font

On the cover of the 1932 sheet music for “Without Your Love”, the credits for the stage play “The Dubarry” are listed under the name of the star and the play’s title. These hand...

Spurwood JNL

Spurwood JNL font

The wood type lettering which was the inspiration for Hayfork JNL has been given a spurred treatment, and is now available as Spurwood JNL in both regular and oblique versions.