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“I Don’t like No Cheap Man” is a piece of early 1900s sheet music featuring its title hand lettered in a condensed slab serif design. The influences of the Art Nouveau era are clearly...

The hand lettered Art Nouveau title on the sheet music for “Why Don’t You Try” (1905) served as the inspiration for Tryout Nouveau JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

For decades, Samuel Welo’s “Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers” was a source of inspiration for sign painters, graphic artists and designers. In later years, many digital revivals of Welo’s hand lettered typography have...