River Terrace JNL
“Corbitt” is one of the many designs found within the pages of the 1907 Inland Type Foundry specimen book. A bold spurred serif with Art Nouveau influences, it is now available digitally as River...
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Order Form JNL
In the MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan type specimen book of 1892 are examples of Lining Gothic Extended, a wide sans serif typeface.A lining font has the numerals aligned with the capital letter height, rather...
TV Western JNL
In the 1889 Franklin Type Foundry specimen book is a type face called “Armenian”.With lighter weight horizontal slab serifs than more traditional Western fonts, it could be pictured as being used as copy on...
Typemonger JNL
Typemonger JNL is based on Two Line Sans Serif from the British type specimen book of Vincent Figgins (circa 1860), and is available in both regular and oblique versions.The word ‘monger’ is an old...
Vacation Mexicana JNL
An image for a travel poster for the resort of Tulum, Mexico with its 1970s-era highly stylized semi-stencil type design inspired Vacation Mexicana JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.
Spaghetti Joint JNL
An image from the Library of Congress showing a New York City Italian Kitchen storefront window and its various neon signs inspired Spaghetti Joint JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.The...
Mail Route JNL
It’s not often a vintage cartoon can inspire a type design, but such is the case when the name “Daffy Duck” is hand lettered on a mailbox in the 1946 Warner Brothers cartoon “The...
Vagary JNL
For many decades, the fashion magazine “Vogue” featured superbly illustrated covers before photography became more commonplace. During the 1930s and 1940s those illustrations were accompanied by many creative styles of hand lettering for its...
Regional News JNL
A roughened and worn version of Daily Tabloid JNL was originally created as a non-exclusive custom font for a client.The design emulates the look of old letterpress wood type and has now been released...
Stylized Deco JNL
In their book “Lettering of Today” by W. Ben and Ed C. Hunt, an Art Deco “thick and thin” alphabet with some stylized characters (which leaned a lot toward a calligraphic style) stood out...