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Good Night JNL

Good Night JNL font

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

Saw Mill Stencil JNL font

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...

Narrow Nouveau JNL

Narrow Nouveau JNL font

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

Shopping Basket JNL font

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...

Brookside JNL

Brookside JNL font

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...

Thin Line Deco JNL

Thin Line Deco JNL font

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.

Casual Nouveau JNL

Casual Nouveau JNL font

Free-flowing pen lettering of the Art Nouveau period took letter forms into interesting curves and angles. The style was embraced and revived by the 1960s counter-culture in its rock concert posters and record album...

Just Great JNL

Just Great JNL font

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

Retro Nouveau JNL font

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...

Badlands JNL

Badlands JNL font

A vintage piece of sheet music for “Waitin’ at the Gate for Katy” (from the 1934 movie “Bottoms Up”) provided the hand-lettered, Western-influenced lettering which is now available as Badlands JNL. Some of the...