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Based on scans of some 1906 newspaper headlines detailing the devastation of the San Francisco earthquake, Newsbreaker JNL is a modern take on vintage typography. With a few letterform characteristics somewhat reminiscent of DeVinne,...
A WPA (Works Progress Administration) poster from the 1940s saying “Behind the Headlines” presented the title hand-lettered in a bold, condensed slab serif. This became the model for Newsmaker JNL, available in both regular...
A circa-1920s book on lettering entitled “Book of Alphabets” by Regan Publishing displayed an example of a Grotesk typeface (a popular style of sans serif of the time). This design was re-drawn digitally as...
A sheet music edition of an early 1900s song entitled “You Taught Me How to Love You, Now Teach Me to Forget” was hand lettered in a free-form Art Nouveau style that combined varying...
The basic design style for Nouveau Days JNL was inspired by the hand lettering on the sheet music cover for “Linger Longer Letty”. This tongue-twisting song title comes from the 1919 musical comedy of...
A pleasant Art Nouveau hand lettered title is featured on the sheet music cover for “You Brought A New Kind of Love to Me”. The song is from the 1930 Paramount film “The Big...
The roots of Nouveau Handlettered JNL go back to the sheet music cover for the 1917 song “(Someday) Somebody’s Gonna Get You”. This simple style of sans serif titling has the casual, imperfect charm...
The cover of the 1907 sheet music for “I’d Rather Twostep Than Waltz, Bill” was hand lettered in an Art Nouveau sans serif alphabet. During the hippie counter-culture movement of the 1960s, rock posters,...
A 1916 lettering book provided an example of a slab serif alphabet with Art Nouveau influence designed by Thomas Wood Stevens. This alphabet served as the model for Nouveau Lettering JNL, which is available...
The hand lettered title on the sheet music for 1917’s “If They’d Never Take You from Me” was the basis for the Art Nouveau sans design of Nouveau Romance JNL. This elegant sans serif...