How does one arrive at a font name? With the thousands of digital typefaces available, it’s not an easy process. Bandleader JNL was modeled from the hand-lettered title on a piece of sheet music...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The beautiful Art Deco monoline pen lettering on the cover of a 1940s piece of sheet music inspired Central Park JNL. The 1940s was an era when couples took romantic walks along the pathways...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A 1940s-era edition of the sheet music for the Marine Corps Hymn offered up the hand lettering which comprises Ensemble Inline JNL. Bold, condensed and attention-getting, this titling font commands attention. Available in Inline,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Duluth, Minnesota’s Horace P. Brouillet Syndicate (later known as Syndicuts, Inc.) was one of a number of stock cuts providers to the letterpress trade in the decades preceding paper, then electronic clip art. Brouillet’s...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Found on the back of some sheet music to promote another song was the hand-lettered title “The Snake Charmer”. While not everyone likes snakes, many designers do like the lettering of the Art Deco...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The 1934 sheet music for “I’ll String Along with You” from the Dick Powell-Ginger Rogers musical “20 Million Sweethearts” yielded the charming Deco monoline design for Words and Music JNL.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The 1913 sheet music for “There’s A Girl in the Heart of Maryland (with a Heart That Belongs to Me)” may have had no shortage of words in the title – fifteen to be...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
A little bit of thick-and-thin Art Deco hand lettering is offered up in Wonderful JNL, based on some promotional text found on an old piece of sheet music.
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022