Fancy Dancing JNL
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...
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Dance Partner JNL
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...
Casting Call JNL
Casting Call JNL is a simple condensed sans modeled from the hand-lettered title of a piece of vintage sheet music entitled “Somebody Else is Taking My Place”; a 1940s song co-authored and made famous...
Classic Clips JNL
During the years of physically doing camera-ready paste-up work before the advent of the digital age, clip art books dominated the way stock art was added to a print project. Clip art books were...
Only Kidding
Massive text suits my Only Kidding very well. Even at small sizes it is super legible, and it really keeps that handmade image. At larger sizes the crunchiness really comes forward and may surprise...
YWFT Thinaire
Tape hiss nearly obscures the tender chords and barely-whispered voice, singing a shy song that has the coffee house in tears. Yes, indeed, it’s YWFT Thinaire, the dreamy nerd that has all the librarians...
Juan Carlos
Homelessfonts is an initiative by the Arrels foundation to support, raise awareness and bring some dignity to the life of homeless people in Barcelona Spain. Each of the fonts was carefully digitized from the...