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.
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Bold Display Sans JNL is loosely based on one of the classic alphabets found within a Speedball Lettering Textbook of the 1940s; itself called “Bold Display”. The original featured a stippled texture and inline...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
An image of a vintage, hand-cut metal stencil with just a set of bold numerals inspired the design of Bold Metal Stencil JNL. The typeface is available in both regular and oblique versions.