Monoline Rounded JNL
Monoline Rounded JNL borrows the inline portion of Sales Event JNL. Making a few adjustments to some characters, it is now a lovely monoline with rounded terminals that emulates pen hand lettering.
font_designer: Jeff Levine
Merchandising JNL
With some slight variation, Merchandising JNL was modeled from the lettering on a display box for Meyercord Decal letters and numbers. The phrase “make your own signs with decals” was lettered in a casual...
Letterpress Extras JNL
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...
Stagehand JNL
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
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.
Marking Device JNL
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...
Shanghai JNL
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”.
Musical Arrangement JNL
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”....
Mechanical Stencil JNL
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.
Marking Stencil JNL
With electronics taking over virtually every aspect of manufacturing, packaging and shipping, it’s almost difficult to envision a time when wooden crates were marked for identification by using brass stencils. Many of these stencils...