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Crude Stencil JNL

Crude Stencil JNL font

Crude Stencil JNL is a rough auto-tracing of a vintage lettering stencil from the 1980s, with additional characters added in post-production. At small type sizes, the lettering takes on a “grunge” effect, but larger...

Curtain Up JNL

Curtain Up JNL font

The 1937 sheet music for the tune “Sweet Stranger” has the title hand lettered in a round cornered Art Deco sans with an inline featuring square corners. Now available as Curtain Up JNL, it...

Dance Band JNL

Dance Band JNL font

Sheet music for the song “I’m the One That Loves You” has the title hand lettered in a narrow, Art Deco-influenced sans serif, which is now available digitally as Dance Band JNL in both...

Danish Script Initials JNL

Danish Script Initials JNL font

A set of transfer patterns for sewing decorative monogram initials on clothing was manufactured by Women’s Day magazine circa the 1940s. Designed by renowned Copenhagen-born industrial artist and letterer Gustav Boerge Jensen [April 8,...

Date Night JNL

Date Night JNL font

The opening title card for 1931’s pre-code movie drama “Other Men’s Women” (with Mary Astor, Regis Toomey, James Cagney and Joan Blondell amongst the cast members) is the basis for the Art Deco type...

Decalcomania JNL

Decalcomania JNL font

Decalcomania JNL is based on examples of gold and black water-applied initial decals made by the Transfer Monogram Company of Chicago circa the 1940s. It is presumed the patterns for the letters were hand...

Deco Banner JNL

Deco Banner JNL font

Deco Banner JNL is composed of reverse lettering on a black background with Art Deco end caps. To create a banner, first type the plus sign for the left end cap, then your text....

Deco Days JNL

Deco Days JNL font

The hand lettered pre-Deco style title and songwriters’ credits on the cover of the sheet music for 1929s “The Love Parade” were the models for Deco Days JNL, which is available in both regular...

Deco Drop Caps JNL

Deco Drop Caps JNL font

From the pages of the 1939 French lettering book “Modèles de lettres modernes par Georges Léculier” (“Models of Modern Lettering”) comes an attractive and unusual set of initial drop caps made from square letters...

Deco Eccentrique JNL

Deco Eccentrique JNL font

The inspiration for Deco Eccentrique JNL was initially hand drawn contoured lettering from a mid-1920s piece of sheet music; the style of the letters showing influences of the upcoming Art Deco movement. This was...