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Caravel

Caravel font

Caravel is a Latin grotesk sans typeface family. An original contribution to a well-known style, Caravel distinguishes itself from similar typefaces by adding in extra character where it can; several lowercase letters and non-alphabetic...

Mute

Mute font

Mute is a humanist sans typeface family developed for User interface (UI) designs. Its letters have low stroke-contrast and terminals that end on the horizontal or the vertical, making its apertures open and the...

Scribbler

Scribbler font

Scribbler, like Double Quick (another one of my fonts), is a handwritten typeface, designed to look like a quick grocery list, a hasty ‘I Love You’ note penned down on a Post-it or a...

Auberge Script

Auberge Script font

It took me a long time, but I think I now understand why people of my generation and older feel the need to frame current events in an historical context or precedents, while most...

Stencil-Gothic 1885

Stencil-Gothic 1885 font

Stencil-Gothic — designed in 1885 by John West of Brooklyn, New York — is the first known typeface that incorporates interrupted strokes in order to evoke the impression of stencil lettering. In addition to...

Clarenwood Stencil JNL

Clarenwood Stencil JNL font

It’s a wood type! It’s a stencil font! It’s BOTH! Clarenwood Stencil JNL was originally designed as a solid alphabet (Clarenwood JNL) modeled from vintage wood type. The stencil treatment was applied to add...

Dine And Dance JNL

Dine And Dance JNL font

Sheet music featuring a song from the 1933 film “Torch Singer” starring Claudette Colbert was the basis for Dine and Dance JNL. A multi-line Art Deco design, it epitomizes both the typographic style and...

Evening Gown JNL

Evening Gown JNL font

Evening Gown JNL comes from the lettering displayed on a printed ad for the fictional “Gowns by Roberta” in a scene in the 1935 film of the same name. “Roberta” starred Fred Astaire and...

Fancy Dancing JNL

Fancy Dancing JNL font

The 1938 movie musical “Carefree” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers featured the song “Change Partners” by Irving Berlin. A copy of the sheet music for this song had the title hand lettered in...

Dance Partner JNL

Dance Partner JNL font

The unusual mix of Art Deco lettering with a smattering of Art Nouveau characters found within Dance Partner JNL comes from a movie poster for the 1935 RKO picture “Roberta” starring Fred Astaire and...