Dual Line Deco JNL
Sheet music for the title song from the 1933 Jean Harlow-Clark Gable film “Hold Your Man” has the movie title hand lettered in a dual line sans serif with Art Deco influences. This is...
font_designer: Jeff Levine
Rice Wine JNL
A piece of sheet music from Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1958 hit “Flower Drum Song” had the play’s name lettered in its iconic Anglo-Japanese style. This became the basis for Rice Wine...
Dance Band JNL
Sheet music for the song “I’m the One That Loves You” has the title hand lettered in a narrow, Art Deco-influenced sans serif, which is now available digitally as Dance Band JNL in both...
Industrial Arts JNL
In 1935, Morris Fuller Benton designed Phenix American for American Type Founders. For 2017, the classic Art Deco design has been reinterpreted in an all-caps display version with an ever-so-slight “hand made” feel. Industrial...
Nouveau Stencil JNL
The sheet music for the 1917 song “Wake Up Virginia (and Prepare for Your Wedding Day)” features a hand lettered title in a sans serif Art Nouveau design with stencil influences. This was the...
La Vie Nouveau JNL
Early 1900s songwriters had a penchant for devising lengthy titles for their compositions. A perfect example from 1909, “It Is Hard to Kiss Your Sweetheart When the Last Kiss Means ‘Good Bye’” is a...
Nouveau Square JNL
Sheet music for the 1915 song “Is There Still Room for Me Neath the Old Apple Tree” had the title hand-lettered in a condensed, square sans serif. Although far from the more decorative lettering...
Running Board JNL
During the early years of the 20th Century, America’s fascination with automobiles was just beginning. The cover for a 1916 piece of sheet music for the comedy song “On the Old Back Seat of...
Smooth Sailing JNL
Songs of the early 1900s were anything but the status quo in topic or style. Excessively long titles, novelty tunes and “foreign themes” permeated the piles of sheet music in the local music shops....
Moonlit Night JNL
The simple, hand lettered sans serif title on the 1935 sheet music for “Campus Moon” was the design model for Moonlit Night JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.