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Sea Gate JNL is a hybrid font creation based in part on a 1930s-era WPA (Works Progress Administration) poster and the addition of slab serifs as well as a few modifications to some of...

The cover of the 1934 sheet music for “Your Guess Is Just as Good as Mine” offers up another hand lettered Art Deco sans with a classic period look. The square-ish lettering with rounded...

The sheet music cover of Lew Brown and Albert Von Tilzer’s 1917 wartime song “Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye (Soldier Boy)” had its title hand-lettered in a condensed sans serif design with the influence...

A 1950 reissue of the 1934 tune “With My Eyes Wide Open I’m Dreaming” had the title of the sheet music hand lettered in a semi-calligraphic sans serif design. This became the model for...

From the 1917 sheet music for “The World Has Been So Mean to Me” comes a wonderfully hand lettered chamfered sans with varying widths and character shapes, now released digitally as Sentiment JNL in...

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.