Travel Brochure JNL
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...
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Transcendental JNL
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...
Treasure House JNL
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...
Trolley JNL
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...
Tuxedo Stencil JNL
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
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...
Uptown Review JNL
Cover art for the 1933 sheet music of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler’s “Stormy Weather” (from the musical production “Cotton Club Parade”) listed the cast of the show in a condensed hand lettered sans...
Unadorned JNL
Unadorned JNL is the stripped down version of 2011’s Troubador JNL; an ornate wood type font. With the inner ornamentation removed, this Western-influenced type design takes on a bolder look, yet retains its Victorian...
Utility Signage JNL
Utlity Signage JNL is a collection of fifty-two various “all purpose signs” we’ve all seen in hardware and variety stores is perfect for spot illustrations in ad copy, making one-off images for props in...
Vaudevillian JNL
The place for a family to be entertained by comedians, dancers, acrobats, animal acts, singers and just about any other acts that fit the bill at the time was the vaudeville theater. Prior to...