It seems only fitting that Pleasant Valley Sundae JNL, a typeface re-drawn from hand lettering on a piece of vintage sheet music, should take its name as a pun on another song’s title from...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Opa-locka JNL is named for a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida and is based on an Art Nouveau-era bit of hand lettering found on vintage sheet music. Legendary aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss (who successfully...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
As its cousin Hansom FY, this font has friendly shapes and rounded terminals. Slabs reinforce its masculin and technique appearence. With 3 weights and their accompanying italics, this modern and functional slab font family...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The design of Candle Wax JNL comes from an original movie poster for the movie “Bell, Book and Candle” starring James Stewart. The oddly erratic letter forms conjure up ideas of spells, witchcraft and...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Belmont JNL is named for an avenue in the Bronx, New York famous for once being the location of the Belmont Estate, which was the home of the Lorrillard tobacco family. The Art-Deco-era hand...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
For decades, the Greenwich Village area of New York was a home for artists, poets, writers and free-thinkers of their time who were labeled “Bohemians” because of their non-conformist approach to life and the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Although less prevalent today, a cover charge was added to better class night clubs of the 1930s and 1940s to discourage patronage by people of questionable social graces. The general idea was that the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
A yoke is the “old-world” slang for twin, or double, or duplex, since it turned two oxen from independent operators into a powerful two-ox team. And if you ever plowed a ten-acre bean field...