Evening Wear JNL, drawn from the elegant monoline lettering used as titling on the sheet music for “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”, conjures up images of 1930s New York at its apex. Fine restaurants,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The Art Deco style of the 1930s offers many variants of the popular “streamline” look in hand lettering found on old sheet music titles. Thoroughfare JNL is one such example of a monoline design...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Songbook JNL is based on a promotional blurb from the back of a piece of vintage sheet music. Its interesting style of slab serif lettering with strong Art Deco influence was worthy of re-drawing...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Sheet music for the 1930s song “Josephine” had its title hand lettered in a simple, bold sans design that is recreated in Song Sheet JNL. This bold sans is perfect for titling wherever strong...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A Liebestraum, in German is a “dream of love” or “love dream”. Based on the ornate sheet music title from a 1920s edition of Franz Liszt’s composition, Liebestraum JNL captures and preserves the unique...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A 1949 piece of piano solo sheet music entitled “Playing Jacks” contained the title beautifully hand-lettered in a stencil-like alphabet. Finery JNL is the digital version of this design.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A piece of hand lettered sheet music from the era of the “Roaring Twenties” served as a model for Raccoon Coat JNL. It was a time of Prohibition, bathtub gin, flappers and college boys...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The free-form geometric shapes of the lettering on a vintage piece of sheet music entitled “Four Pictures” is the basis for Park Slope JNL, named for a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The deep well of creativity that is the era of the hand lettered sheet music title page brings forth Nouveau Nights JNL. Re-drawn from a period example of the 1920s, this titling font perfectly...