Pen Elegant JNL
A 1918 lettering instruction book by William Hugh Gordon presented a number of lettering styles that were geared toward sign and show card painters along with tips and tricks regarding the correct construction of...
font_foundry: Jeff Levine
Patrol Car Stencil JNL
Comic books based on popular characters have been around pretty much since the advent of comic books themselves. An edition of the “Car 54 Where Are You?” series published by Dell (and based on...
Pen Nib Western JNL
Inspired by the hand lettered phrase “the pen is mightier than the sword” in a 1923 promotional blurb for Speedball lettering pens, Pen Nib Western JNL recreates the decorative style of this vintage artistic...
Pen Nib Square JNL
The idea started with the 1934 sheet music of “Mazurka Amabile”. Its hand drawn title had most of the letters rendered in a rectangular shape [‘square’ in the sign trade] that featured rounded corners...
Pen Lettering Sans JNL
A 1935 song with the unusual title of “Dinner for One Please, James” had its title hand lettered on the cover of the sheet music with simple, condensed letters made by a round point...
Pen Gothic JNL
Pen Gothic JNL emulates lettering made with a round nib lettering pen, and is loosely based on some text found on the popular 1918 song “Ja-Da”. The font is available in regular and oblique...
Pen Work JNL
The 1938 sheet music for “(The Dwarves Marching Song) Heigh-Ho” from Walt Disney’s “Snow White” had the part of the title in parenthesis hand lettered with a round nib ink pen. This lettering became...
Pen Nouveau JNL
Pen Nouveau JNL is a perfect example of the fluid, free-form pen lettering popularized during the Art Nouveau era of the early 1900s. The type face was modeled from the lettering on the cover...
Peppermill JNL
A bold sans serif with occasional rule-breaking vertical serifs on some characters was found within page examples from the book “100 Alphabets Publicitaires” (“100 Advertising Alphabets”). Although a few of those vertical serifs extended...
Penwrite JNL
The same 1935 piece of sheet music (“Along Tobacco Road”) that yielded the multi-line lettering design for Deco Triline JNL has also provided lettering examples inspired by the writers’ credits for what is now...