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A piece of hand lettered sheet music from the era of the “Roaring Twenties” served as a model for Raccoon Coat JNL. It was a time of Prohibition, bathtub gin, flappers and college boys...

The free-form geometric shapes of the lettering on a vintage piece of sheet music entitled “Four Pictures” is the basis for Park Slope JNL, named for a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

Loosely based on a hand lettered title found on vintage sheet music for the song “Hong Kong”, the design for Kwun Tong JNL emulates the letters and numbers formed from pieces of bamboo stalk....

On occasion, when seeking retro source material for font designs, one can unearth interesting examples of typography that bridges decades with its ahead-of-its-time style. The songwriter credits on one particular piece of vintage sheet...

Vododeo JNL is directly named for the free-form sheet music title lettering from Jack Yellen and Milton Ager’s “Vo-Do-De-O”. The term itself was a catchphrase made popular during the era known as the “Roaring...

Town and Country JNL features a mix of block-style characters along with rounded ones found so often in the Art Deco fonts of the 1940s. Modeled from the hand-lettered title on a piece of...

The hand lettering of a piece of 1930s sheet music’s title has once more yielded an interesting take on the popular “thick and thin” lettering of the Art Deco period.