For those who can’t get enough of the wonderful illustrations, embellishments and dingbats of days gone by, Print Assistants JNL collects more of them in one handy font file.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The movie trailer for the1936 film “After the Thin Man” is filled with text lettered in this classic Art Deco condensed typeface. Sleuth JNL seems the appropriate name for this digital revival, as the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
An old printer’s advertising cut for Red Star Oil Stoves yielded a typeface that was both vintage and somewhat techno at the same time. Originally drawn as a slanted logo, the individual letters had...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Streeter JNL is an all caps titling font based on the classic Beton Bold Condensed typeface. The Beton family of fonts was a printer’s favorite for decades.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Borders, embellishments, spot illustrations and a miscellany of other dingbats are gathered in Print Art JNL as another collective of nostalgic imagery for print and web projects.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Double Bill JNL gets its inspiration from the promotional movie trailer for 1938’s gangster comedy “A Slight Case of Murder” starring Edward G. Robinson.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Halliday JNL was redrawn from impressions made by a rubber stamp sign printing set, thus providing the slight imperfection of line widths that gives a hand-made approach to the typeface. The lettering style is...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Nature Stencils JNL brings together a number of vintage decorator stencils with bird and flower motifs (along with individualized elements from the original designs). These home decor stencils were manufactured by the Huntington Oil...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Rancher JNL was inspired by classic wood type. This wide, slab serif typeface is reminiscent of wanted posters, broadsides and other printed matter from the 1800s.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The type design which inspired Stencil Maker JNL comes from a 1920s-era machine used in movie theaters of the day. It rendered tiny punched out letters (some characters solid and some in stencil form),...