font_category: decorative

Ink Nouveau JNL

Ink Nouveau JNL font

Ink Nouveau JNL is loosely based on the hand lettered title from a lobby card for the 1927 film “The Taxi Dancer” and is available in both regular and oblique versions. The design emulates...

Movie Show JNL

Movie Show JNL font

A 1911 movie poster for a film called “How Bella Was Won” from the Edison studios had the name “Edison” hand lettered in a bold, spurred sans serif design.These few letters became the basis...

Movie Set JNL

Movie Set JNL font

The hand lettered title on the poster for the 1929 film comedy “Why Leave Home?” inspired Movie Set JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.A classic “thick-and-thin” design with early Art...

Mystery Writer JNL

Mystery Writer JNL font

Mystery Writer JNL is based on the hand lettered title from the cover of a 1947 issue of “Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine”, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Office Staff JNL

Office Staff JNL font

Office Staff JNL is a version [with serifs added] of Popularity JNL – a condensed Art Deco design based (for the most part) on a popular typeface known in some foundry books as ‘Radiant’...

Teenagers JNL

Teenagers JNL font

Inspired by the hand lettered opening credits for “(The Many Loves of) Dobie Gillis” – a teen-oriented televisioncomedy that ran from 1959 to 1963 on CBS – Teenagers JNL is available in both regular...

Theater Tickets JNL

Theater Tickets JNL font

Theater Tickets JNL was inspired by a photo of the marquee signage for Detroit’s Majestic Theater (built in1934), and is available in both regular and oblique versions.The theater was renovated and restored in 1987...

On Your Mark JNL

On Your Mark JNL font

Images of ‘lost’ or forgotten signs from the past are on a number of sites all over the web. One in particular partially revealed a vintage sign for “J. Yormark Shoes” behind a barbershop...

Electric Newspaper JNL

Electric Newspaper JNL font

Around 1931, the Los Angeles Times (in partnership with the Richfield Oil Company) installed on its building a moving message board similar to the one at the New York Times in New York City...

Nouveau Meadow JNL

Nouveau Meadow JNL font

A poster for the publication “The Quartier Latin – A Magazine Devoted to the Arts” featured the magazine’s name in a light Art Nouveau serif style. The Quartier Latin was published between 1896 and...