Song Album JNL
In the days when sheet music was as popular as phonograph records for home entertainment, a song album was a folio of collected works. The hand-lettering on the 1940s-era cover for “The Sigmund Romberg...
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Tanker Stencil JNL
Tanker Stencil JNL is a sans serif design based on a vintage hand-punched brass marking stencil for oil barrels.
Good Night JNL
The beautiful hand lettering on the sheet music cover for Will R. Anderson’s “Good Night Dear” (circa 1908) features quaint, semi-calligraphic lettering in the Art Nouveau Style. The song itself was popularized by Billie...
Saw Mill Stencil JNL
A vintage metal stencil from a saw mill with the term “reusable skid” was the model for Saw Mill Stencil JNL. Although the original was what would be termed a semi-stencil (some letters did...
Brookside JNL
The 1920s were part of an era in songwriting where snappy wordplay and clever (if not long) titles prevailed. The lettering on one such piece of sheet music with the song title “In A...
Narrow Nouveau JNL
Narrow Nouveau JNL come from the hand lettered title on a 1907 song folio for George M. Cohan’s “The Talk of New York”, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Shopping Basket JNL
The cover of the vintage sheet music for “This Little Piggie Went to Market” (from the 1934 film “Eight Girls in a Boat”) features a hand-lettered sans serif with intermittent chamfered angles. This became...
Just Great JNL
A 1940s British music collection of classical music piano pieces entitled “The Great Masters Series” had its title hand-lettered in a free form, casual sans serif with a cartoon style. This is now available...
Retro Nouveau JNL
Because of the large influx of Irish immigrants during the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was not unusual for songwriters of the day to craft songs around Irish themes, offering a nostalgic link...
Thin Line Deco JNL
The cover of the 1943 sheet music for the song “Jeannie” offered up a hand lettered monoline Deco sans with varying width letterforms. From this design comes the aptly-named Thin Line Deco JNL.