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Brazil Nut JNL comes from hand lettering on some 1920s sheet music from Florenz Ziegfeld’s musical comedy “Rio Rita”.

In the MGM musical “Broadway Melody of 1940”, a new stage production has its gala opening at the fictitious Lafayette Theater on the Great White Way. The front of the theater is resplendent with...

Nouveau Chic JNL is based on vintage source material, and offers an elegant, condensed Art Nouveau typeface with a hint of Arabian or Middle Eastern influences.

The hand-lettered name on a couple of 1940s-era piano course books was the basis for Piano Solo JNL.

The 1940s-era hand-lettered title on vintage sheet music for the song hit “Donkey Serenade” had an interpretation of the classic typeface “Broadway” used in a Mexican/Southwest motif with wavy lines cutting through the letters....

Never let it be said that a good pun and a good font name can’t work well together. The vintage sheet music for a 1920s-era song called “King Tut” (not to be confused with...

Diamondwood JNL is based on examples of vintage wood type with condensed, elongated diamond shapes containing the various letters of the alphabet.

For decades, visitors to Times Square could look up and read the up-to-the-minute news flashes that moved across a giant electric sign on the face of the old New York Times Building (now known...