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.
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Bookkeeper JNL is based on the lighter weight version of R. Hunter Middleton’s ‘Karnak’, produced in 1936 for Ludlow. “Karnak” itself was based on the geometric slab-serif “Memphis”, designed in 1929 by Dr. Rudolf...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The extra bold version of R. Hunter Middleton’s “Karnak” (produced in 1936 for Ludlow) served as the model for Bookkeeping JNL and is a companion to Bookkeeper JNL (the light weight version of this...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The 1920s were part of an era in songwriting where snappy wordplay and clever (if not long) titles prevailed. The lettering on one such piece of sheet music with the song title “In A...