Oh Hex JNL
An Art Deco “thick and thin” novelty type design based on the hexagon shape was found within the pages of “La Lettre Dans le Decor & La Publicite Modernes” – a 1930s-era French alphabet...
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Steamship JNL
While viewing a YouTube video of film footage in and around New York in the mid-1930s, one scene showed some people “window shopping” by the storefront office of the French Line, an international steamship...
Travel Poster JNL
A 1927 travel poster for visiting what was then Palestine and Near East was hand lettered in an early Art Deco thick-and-thin type face.The lettering was redrawn digitally, and is now available as the...
Facility Signage JNL
A famous 1971 photo shows boxing champ Muhammad Ali making faces through a window at Joe Frazier at the challenger’s training facility. A small sign sits in the window that says “Joe Frazier Training...
Textile Stencil JNL
An ad from the 1930s for a Spanish company called Intex Textiles featured some hand lettering in a bold and unique stencil design.This is now available as Textile Stencil JNL, in both regular and...
Production Company JNL
While viewing a video posted to YouTube of a 1952 drive through Los Angeles, a building was passed for King Bros. Productions, Inc.The lettering on the signage was designed in a stylized Art Deco...
Popular Records JNL
Browsing through an online edition of the Feb 29, 1960 issue of Billboard magazine, an ad was spotted for the Jamie record label of Philadelphia.The text was hand lettered in a free-form show card...
Lettering Book JNL
A circa-1940s textbook for the Esterbrook Drawlet Pens (similar to Speedball pens) offered numerous samples of lettering that could be obtained by following the simple directions and using the book as a guide.One example...
Classic Comics JNL
A comic book feature entitled “Foe of the Borgias” appeared in 1937’s New Adventure Comics.The hand lettered title was done in a slab serif Art Deco style and is recreated digitally as Classic Comics...
Cinema Nouveau JNL
Shadowland was a magazine dedicated to the arts, and was published from 1919 through 1923. The lettering for its masthead was hand lettered in a then-contemporary Art Nouveau style.Although the photoplay (movies) was just...