font_category: decorative

Tourist Spot JNL

Tourist Spot JNL font

Tourist Spot JNL is the same lettering style as Old Tijuana JNL, but with the squiggly inside lines stripped away. The original design was modeled from the hand lettered title on the cover of...

Tourist Cabin JNL

Tourist Cabin JNL font

During the heydey of automobile travel hundreds of motels, motor courts and tourist cabins sprung up along the roadways in order to offer weary drivers (and most often their families) rest with a night’s...

Toy Decals JNL

Toy Decals JNL font

For decades, cereal companies have included premiums [promotional gifts] inside their packages, printed on the cartons or to send for with a special coupon and redemption instructions. During the 1940s, Pep cereal [a long-discontinued...

Toy Letters JNL

Toy Letters JNL font

A vintage set of die-cut letters and number by Village Toys (circa 1930s or 1940s) featured a playful, bold serif typeface. This is now available digitally as Toy Letters JNL, in both regular and...

Travel Brochure JNL

Travel Brochure JNL font

A vintage booklet from the Japan Tourist Bureau entitled “How to See Matsushima and Environs” had the title hand lettered in the Art Deco style which is the basis for Travel Brochure JNL. For...

Transcendental JNL

Transcendental JNL font

At first glance, Transcendental JNL looks like a 1960s or 1970s-era “Hippie” type face, hence its “love generation” name. However, the actual inspiration comes from a piece of sheet music from the early 1900s...

Trolley JNL

Trolley JNL font

The Art nouveau era sheet music “Goodbye Sweet Old Manhattan Isle” (1905) offers up a classic hand lettered sans reflective of that era. It is available digitally as Trolley JNL in both regular and...

Treasure House JNL

Treasure House JNL font

Inspired by the hand lettered title on the cover of a mid-1950s comic book [based on the beloved children’s TV host Captain Kangaroo], Treasure House JNL is a casual, playful serif font available in...

Tuxedo Stencil JNL

Tuxedo Stencil JNL font

The sheet music for the 1934 tune “Two in A Dream” had the title hand lettered in a bold type style that utilized some stencil and some solid lettering. Following through on the stencil...

Two Step Nouveau JNL

Two Step Nouveau JNL font

Popular music of the early 1900s included a genre called two step; round dances utilizing a sliding step with a tempo in either march or polka time. 1911’s “Daughters of the American Revolution” was...