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Letterpress Extras JNL gathers more re-drawn images from the rich trove of vintage letterpress cuts. There’s plenty of pointing hands and decorative ornaments, a few cartoons and some assorted miscellany. Also included are images...
Although wood types were at their peak of use during the letterpress era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there is a growing revival movement of “boutique” print shops who have embraced...
Based on a few examples of an Art Nouveau-inspired wood type, Nouveau Sans JNL has an interesting mix of angles, curves and general letter shapes that are reminiscent of the period preceding the Art...
Too often, familiarity in type design can fool us into mislabeling similar styles of lettering. The Art Deco years provided many variations of the thick-and-thin alphabet, and we tend to lump all of them...
Savings and Loan JNL is a condensed slab serif with a square look to the letterforms. It’s perfect for titling applications, and exudes strength, dignity and legibility.
Similar to date and numbering stamps, there once was manufactured rotary band stamps with different letter and number configurations that were used for various identification purposes. From a set of vintage bands acquired from...
Hand lettering used on the packaging of a space-themed rubber stamp toy set is the basis for Space Deco JNL. Blending the classic thick-and-thin line weights of the Art Deco style with sharply angled...
Shanghai JNL is loosely based on the title lettering from “Charlie Chan in Shanghai”, one of the long-running series of detective films featuring the Asian sleuth and his “number one son”.
The hand-lettered title on a piece of sheet music for 1938’s “Don’t Be That Way” (as recorded by Benny Goodman) featured squared letters with rounded corners, slight variants in line thickness and interesting “overhangs”....
For well over a century, stencil machines allowed manufacturers, shippers and even the military to quickly mark and identify objects. Mechanical Stencil JNL was created from examples from one of these machines.