The vast resource of hand lettered vintage sheet music titles offers many interesting and unique variations on even the simplest styles of lettering. A simple thick-and-thin serif design circa the 1920s-1930s evokes a reminiscence...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Vintage sheet music for the 1920s song “Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?” yielded the hand lettered Art Nouveau alphabet for Nouveau Display JNL. Because the Art Nouveau movement was...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Named for a Manhattan neighborhood, Morningside Heights JNL is based on lettering found on a 1920s-era piece of sheet music. Part of the charm of hand lettering from the Art Nouveau era is found...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The term “transcribed” takes on many definitions. In sheet music (the source of this type face design) it means to set down onto paper. In the formative days of radio, and until the advent...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A 1940s-era package of “Herald Square” carbon paper sold by the F.W. Woolworth 5 & 10 cent stores offered up the hand lettered Art Deco design of Stationery Department JNL.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Cast and Crew JNL is a condensed monoline font that lends itself well to any text project where more copy needs to fit into a limited space. A perfect example of this is a...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A lament is a sad song, and the music of the cowboys of the Old West had their fair share of them. However, a vintage piece of sheet music from the early part of...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Sometimes it’s easy to find a name to fit a font design, other times it’s a struggle because of the sheer number of digital fonts available and the number of names already taken. Classification...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Years before the “Jet Age”, and way before computers and satellite television turned us into jaded “armchair travelers”, the ocean voyage aboard giant steamships to distant ports of call beckoned many to travel the...