How does one arrive at a font name? With the thousands of digital typefaces available, it’s not an easy process. Bandleader JNL was modeled from the hand-lettered title on a piece of sheet music...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A little bit of thick-and-thin Art Deco hand lettering is offered up in Wonderful JNL, based on some promotional text found on an old piece of sheet music.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The 1913 sheet music for “There’s A Girl in the Heart of Maryland (with a Heart That Belongs to Me)” may have had no shortage of words in the title – fifteen to be...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The 1934 sheet music for “I’ll String Along with You” from the Dick Powell-Ginger Rogers musical “20 Million Sweethearts” yielded the charming Deco monoline design for Words and Music JNL.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Found on the back of some sheet music to promote another song was the hand-lettered title “The Snake Charmer”. While not everyone likes snakes, many designers do like the lettering of the Art Deco...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Newsreel Caps JNL is a novelty caps-only outline letter with cast shadow set inside film frames. Although the design idea itself is not new, this version is based on lettering from a vintage piece...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
It seems only fitting that Pleasant Valley Sundae JNL, a typeface re-drawn from hand lettering on a piece of vintage sheet music, should take its name as a pun on another song’s title from...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022