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Fruit Juice JNL

Fruit Juice JNL font

A vintage New York neon sign for a juice stand advertising “Papaya” was the model and inspiration for Fruit Juice JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Local Printer JNL

Local Printer JNL font

Based on William Page’s Skeleton Antique wood type (circa 1865), Local Printer JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.Primarily used for text passages, the type design also works well in headlines and...

Township JNL

Township JNL font

Township JNL is based on French Antique Condensed [a classic wood design] and is available in both regular and oblique versions.Reminiscent of Old West wanted posters and circus broadsides, this ultra-condensed typeface allows for...

Weekend Date JNL

Weekend Date JNL font

Sheet music from 1910 with another one of those ridiculous thirteen word titles (“I Love My Steady but I’m Crazy for My “Once-in-a-While’”) had the lengthy verbiage hand lettered in a bold serif typeface...

Wood Fancy Reverse JNL

Wood Fancy Reverse JNL font

Amongst some pages scanned and posted online of old wood type alphabets comes this lovely, ornamental design in a reversed style of white lettering on black rectangular boxes.This classic set of wood type is...

Wood Rounded JNL

Wood Rounded JNL font

This reinterpretation of Caslon Rounded showcases one of the early attempts of type foundries to create a novelty ‘rounded’ typeface for general use.While the lettering might easily convey a more modern look of 1960s...

Clarified JNL

Clarified JNL font

Based on William H. Page’s Clarendon Extended wood type from the 1800s, Clarified JNL is digitally available in both regular and oblique versions.In the days of wood and metal type, foundries often made changes...

Wood Gothic JNL

Wood Gothic JNL font

One of the classic designs of the wood type era is Hamilton Gothic Bold [from the Hamilton Wood Type Foundry circa 1889]. Clean and timeless, it even had found a resurgence during the rock...

Poster Project JNL

Poster Project JNL font

An online image of a grid page [circa 1930s] showing teachers how they and their students could create cut-out letters and numbers inspired Poster Project JNL. The typeface is available in both regular and...

Sandalwood JNL

Sandalwood JNL font

An example of an antique sans serif wood type displayed in Rob Roy Kelly’s “American Wood Type” was the working model for Sandalwood JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.