Wall Sign JNL is a sign painter’s chamfered sanserif found in an instructional manual from 1905. A popular lettering style of the day, it features an abridged vertical on the G, a flattened right...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Online auctions offer a treasure trove of lost or forgotten merchandise, and many items pertaining to lettering just beg to be digitized into a typeface. Case in point is a partial set of brass...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Striptease JNL is the bold, brash, “your-name-in-lights” companion to Showgirl JNL, and was inspired by a scene in an old television show depicting a burlesque house of the 1930s.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Up until the advent of vinyl plotters, computers and a myriad of other typesetting and printing changes the world has experienced over the past few decades, the art of hand lettering flourished. An early...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The Superior Marking Equipment Company was originally located in Chicago, Illinois and over the years produced a line of both commercial and toy rubber stamp printing sets which were used for making signs, posters,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Print Shop Parts JNL has a nostalgic assortment of blank sign panels, a pointing hand, decorative embellishments and even an assortment of “Made in U.S.A.”, “Made in America” and “Made in United States” emblems...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Lamp Post JNL is a digital interpretation of a design popular in the early 1900s called Post Old Style; no doubt inspired by a certain Saturday periodical with a similar name. There is an...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The inspiration for Fence Post JNL comes out of an early 1900s manual for sign writing. A number of changes were made to make the design more aesthetically pleasing, but it retains its novelty...