Bague Sans is an award-winning monoline typeface with a distinct and eye-catching personality. Despite its inspiration from early 20th century geometrics, it diverts from the mechanical rigidity of those typefaces by incorporating humanist…
by Staff · Published October 10, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
More treasures from the heyday of letterpress printing are found in Letterpress Retro JNL, with plenty of great cartoons, catch words, embellishments and more.
by Staff · Published October 10, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
There’s nothing too fancy about Pool Deck JNL, which is based on an older typeface design. It’s your basic sans serif condensed type style with a few unconventional letter shapes.
by Staff · Published October 10, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A set of vintage dies for stamping text into marble headstones or other monuments manufactured by The Vermont Marble Company was the basis for Marble Cutter JNL. The Vermont Marble Company was in business...
by Staff · Published October 10, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The hand lettered title on sheet music for 1915’s novelty song “Gasoline Gus and His Jitney Bus” by Byron Gay and Charley Brown offered up the lettering style which is now Nouveau Arts JNL.
by Staff · Published October 10, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Art Nouveau lettering on the cover of sheet music for the 1911 song “The Skeleton Rag” (by Edward Madden and Percy Wenrich) is both the lettering inspiration and namesake for Skeleton Rag JNL.
by Staff · Published October 10, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Type Toys JNL is another collection of letterpress dingbats, embellishments, stock cuts, cartoons and miscellany all re-drawn from vintage source material.
by Staff · Published October 10, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A silk screened sign promoting a mattress sale that was spotted on Flickr features Art Deco-influenced sans serif lettering that is the basis for Innerspring JNL.
by Staff · Published October 10, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Dance Lesson JNL is a reinterpretation of the popular “Latin Bold” typeface. The font’s name is a reference to the Latin dance craze of the 1950s, when the Cha-Cha, Meringue, Tango, Mambo and even...
by Staff · Published October 10, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Some vintage 1960s-era packaging for dive gear (masks, swim fins, etc.) manufactured by the Voit division of AMF had various merchandise boxes hand-lettered [with some variation of design] in an interesting sans stencil. These...