It’s not often a vintage cartoon can inspire a type design, but such is the case when the name “Daffy Duck” is hand lettered on a mailbox in the 1946 Warner Brothers cartoon “The...
A roughened and worn version of Daily Tabloid JNL was originally created as a non-exclusive custom font for a client.The design emulates the look of old letterpress wood type and has now been released...
For many decades, the fashion magazine “Vogue” featured superbly illustrated covers before photography became more commonplace. During the 1930s and 1940s those illustrations were accompanied by many creative styles of hand lettering for its...
In their book “Lettering of Today” by W. Ben and Ed C. Hunt, an Art Deco “thick and thin” alphabet with some stylized characters (which leaned a lot toward a calligraphic style) stood out...
Hand lettering used in the trailer for the 1943 movie musical “Broadway Rhythm” was the inspiration for Show Tune JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Another filter effect version of Adhesive Serif Letters JNL (of which the original design was modeled after some vintage gummed letters used for signage) and is called Shattered Dreams JNL.This variant has jagged edges...
Unnerving JNL is a distorted/distressed version of Adhesive Serif Letters JNL (of which the original design was modeled after some vintage gummed letters used for signage).This new variant evokes a feeling of apprehension, dread...
Based on one of the many hand lettered typefaces found with in the 1960 edition of Sam Welo’s “Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers”, Poster Slabserif JNL is available in both regular and oblique...
A poster for the 1917 Charlie Chaplin comedy “Easy Street” had Chaplin’s name hand lettered in thick, round cornered block characters. This inspired Silent Comedy JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique...
Occasionally a type design is started – then set aside for whatever reason – before eventually being completed. More often than not, the original source material is forgotten, so proper attribution cannot be made.Such...