Songs of the early 1900s were anything but the status quo in topic or style. Excessively long titles, novelty tunes and “foreign themes” permeated the piles of sheet music in the local music shops....
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Snow Job JNL was inspired by the hand lettered titles for the 1964 Rankin-Bass animated holiday classic “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”. Because of the variable heights of the characters they float about the...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The title card for the 1938 screwball comedy “Four’s a Crowd” (starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Rosalind Russell) offered a classic, thin Art Deco type design with stylized letter forms. This is...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Soldier Stencil JNL is a re-working of a vintage example of a sign painter’s “block” or “chamfer” font design into stencil form. The result is Soldier Stencil JNL, which is available in both regular...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Solid Deco JNL was modeled after a small sign with the word “restaurant” in an unusual Art Deco solid lettering style. It was spotted within the same image of the Lenox Lounge in New...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
In the days when sheet music was as popular as phonograph records for home entertainment, a song album was a folio of collected works. The hand-lettering on the 1940s-era cover for “The Sigmund Romberg...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The sheet music for the 1939 tune “Chico’s Love Song (Ma-La-Ja Fa-La Pas-Ka Lah-Ta) [Cuban Double Talk]” may have had an odd title, but the main portion of it was hand lettered in an...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Song Crafter JNL was modeled from the writer credits on the cover of the 1943 sheet music for “This Love of Mine”, a tune popularized by Frank Sinatra. The typeface is available in both...
by Staff · Published April 13, 2019
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Although the early 1900s through the 1920s seemed to be the “Golden Age” of ridiculously long novelty song titles, it appears that even the decade of the 1940s had its fair share as well....