Victoriana
Victoriana arose from an inquiry from the Victorian Society for a Victorian font for their journal. As it turned out, no commission resulted, but interest in such a font was aroused in Andy Benedek....
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Ruskin
The origin of Ruskin was a commission for Michael Harvey to design a signage font for the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh. The style of the letterforms was to complement the period of the building...
Wine Cellar JNL
Wine Cellar JNL is a bold, yet casual display face found on some 1930s-era sheet music entitled “Everybody Wants a Key to My Cellar”. Since the subject of the song had a number of...
Vocalist JNL
Vocalist JNL is a bit of a novelty Art Deco typeface based on hand lettering from some 1940s sheet music. Using the classic “thick and thin” style of the day, a number of letters...
Song Plugger JNL
In the heyday of “Tin Pan Alley”, a song plugger was one whose job it was to bring a publisher’s song to the attention of performers, show producers and radio station executives; the forerunner...
Showpiece JNL
Showpiece JNL was redrawn from the hand lettering for the name and address of a music publisher found on some 1930s-era sheet music. The lettering style has features influenced a bit by both the...
Rustic Inn JNL
Rustic Inn JNL comes from hand lettering on a vintage piece of sheet music entitled “My Cabin of Dreams”.
VLNL Hollandsche Nieuwe
Raw herring is the Dutch sashimi. Every year at the beginning of the summer a new batch of freshly caught herring arrives at Holland’s quays. Fishing boats actually race each other to be the...
Popularity JNL
Popularity JNL is an all-caps titling font, based (for the most part) on a popular typeface known in some foundry books as “Radiant”. Many pieces of sheet music from the 1940s engaged this lettering...
Erratic JNL
Erratic JNL earns its name from the varying widths and shapes of the hand lettering found on some old Art-Deco era sheet music. Following this unusual pattern throughout the complete typeface, the user finds...