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The basis for Series A Signage JNL is Highway Gothic; a type style design formally known as the FHWA Series. The font was developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration, and originally consisted...

Before the mid-to-late 1970s, when retailers started to embrace UPC (universal price code) technology on a grand scale, pricing merchandise took on many forms. One method especially popular with variety stores (such as Woolworth’s,...

The cover of the vintage sheet music for “This Little Piggie Went to Market” (from the 1934 film “Eight Girls in a Boat”) features a hand-lettered sans serif with intermittent chamfered angles. This became...

Shopping Spree JNL was inspired by the hand lettering on the title card for the 1938 film “Fast Company” starring Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice.

Loosely based on some hand-lettered title cards from various vintage Columbia Pictures two-reel comedies, Short Subject JNL is a pleasant sans serif typeface that is aptly suited for titling and other similar applications.

Alf Becker graced the pages of “Signs of the Times” magazine month after month for decades, presenting attractive and unusual hand lettered alphabets as inspiration for other sign painters and show card writers. From...

Show Card Deco JNL is a hybrid of examples from hand lettered titles found on various song folios from the Carl Fischer Music Library circa the 1930s and is available in both regular and...

For decades, the National Show Card Writer Company of Minneapolis, MN produced sign making kits used by shopkeepers, schools, churches and many other types of organizations. The standard sets were comprised of two part...

Despite the racially demeaning 1906 sheet music for “The Ghost of the Banjo Coon”, the title’s lettering provided an interesting hand-lettered sans serif that has been re-drawn digitally as Showmanship JNL in both regular...