font_category: decorative

Chamfer Engraved JNL

Chamfer Engraved JNL font

An eccentric chamfered sans serif wood type design with a right side engraving line from the 1800s was found within the pages of the Thorowgood foundry of London, England.This font is now available as...

Deco Wide JNL

Deco Wide JNL font

A unique and stylized type design with Art Deco influence was found within the French publication “Modèles de lettres modernes par Georges Léculier” (“Models of Modern Letters by Léculier”).This lettering is now digitally available...

Dual Line Stencil JNL

Dual Line Stencil JNL font

A set-aside work file featuring a bold sans serif typeface that may or may not have had a vintage source history was given a new treatment.Initially, the solid design was converted to a stencil...

File Clerk JNL

File Clerk JNL font

File Clerk JNL was based on Cushing, a typeface found within the pages of the 1901-02 Pettingill & Co. (Boston) specimen book, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Manufacturer JNL

Manufacturer JNL font

Manufacturer JNL is a reinterpretation of the classic type face Venus Extra Bold Extended, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.According to Wikipedia:“Venus or Venus-Grotesk is a sans-serif typeface family released by...

Merchant Trade JNL

Merchant Trade JNL font

A precursor to Art Deco headline/display sans serif typefaces with thick and thin strokes is the Matthews Series (circa 1902). It was manufactured and sold through the Inland Type Foundry of St. Louis, MO.Digitally...

Wood Clarendon JNL

Wood Clarendon JNL font

Wood Clarendon JNL is based on Hamilton Clarendon Condensed (circa 1899) and is available in both regular and oblique versions.The design of this typeface retains many of the charming (but slight) design irregularities often...

Pettiford JNL

Pettiford JNL font

Within the pages of the Pettingill & Co. (Boston) 1901-02 specimen book is Camelot Old Style – a thin stroke spurred serif typeface with traces of Art Nouveau influence.This had been redrawn digitally as...

Reform School JNL

Reform School JNL font

The extra bold sans serif stencil lettering on movie posters and lobby cards for “Reform School Girl” (a 1957 film by American International Pictures) was the basis of Reform School JNL, which is available...

Page Printer JNL

Page Printer JNL font

Page Printer JNL was inspired by “Skeleton”, from the William H. Page Wood Type Foundry circa 1848. Its name is a play on both Page’s surname as well as contemporary desktop printers. Page Printer...