Sometimes lettering without any frills or formality gets a message across better than the use of fancier typefaces. The simple charm of the hand-lettered phrase “Safety Comes First” found on a vintage WPA (Works...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The 1913 sheet music for “You’ll Be Welcome When You Get Back Home” had its title hand lettered in a simple, yet attractive Art Nouveau sans serif design which has been preserved as digital...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Basic Stencil JNL was inspired by a lettering stencil sold by Dymo around 1968 that featured a sans serif design with rounded corners and an overall square look to the characters. This bold stencil...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Bay Area Nouveau JNL is an ultra bold, Art Nouveau headline font inspired by hand lettering on the cover of a piece of 1911 sheet music entitled “The Only Pal I Ever Had Came...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The Raleigh Hotel at 18th Street and Collins Avenue on Miami Beach is an Art Deco landmark and part of the city’s popular tourist district. A vintage matchbook from the hotel had its name...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Taken from the hand-lettered name on a 1930s-era tin for Cadet condoms, Bed and Bath JNL is pure Art Deco with thin line weight and varying character widths and shapes.
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
An old ad for Cointreau Triple Sec Liquor featured a bolder variant of the lettering style found in a set of vintage tin stencils that were the model for French Stencil JNL. This is...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The model for Bensonhurst JNL was a 1930s-era hand-lettered WPA (Works Project Administration) poster for the play “Hell Bent For Heaven”. Although the basic style is a classic Art Deco “thick and thin” format,...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Bit Part JNL is an extra condensed monoline sans serif typeface that’s well suited for movie credits, disclaimers and other forms of tight-fit word copy. Inspired by just the numbers “65” on the cover...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Auto-scanning an example of a vintage typewriter font created the design which is now the digital typeface Bitmap Typewriter JNL, available in both regular and oblique versions.