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In the early years of the 20th Century, singer-dancer-actor-composer-playwright George M. Cohan was known as “The Man Who Owned Broadway”. In 1904, Cohan was enjoying success with his latest creation, “Little Johnny Jones”. Cohan...
Utlity Signage JNL is a collection of fifty-two various “all purpose signs” we’ve all seen in hardware and variety stores is perfect for spot illustrations in ad copy, making one-off images for props in...
Winter Garden JNL was modeled from the eccentric sans serif hand lettering with varying line widths found on the sheet music of 1917’s “When the Girl You’d Give the World to Win Gives Her...
It seems that after the 1960s, very few display typefaces were being produced that had the desirability to transcend generations, as did many type designs of the past. In 1970, a local television station...
The simple song title “May I”, found on the sheet music from the 1934 Bing Crosby-Carole Lombard film “We’re Not Dressing” was hand lettered in a blocky, ultra-bold Art Deco design that foreshadowed the...
Marketing Strategy JNL was inspired by some display signage used in an episode of the classic “Alfred Hitchcock Hour”. Evoking the early-60s feel of kitchy advertising, this display font has a limited character set...
Jungle Drums JNL is based on the hand-lettered title on the 1929 sheet music of its musical namesake. A bold, free form design with a hint of the Art Deco movement of the coming...
Franklin Stencil JNL is based on the classic and perennial workhorse design of Franklin Gothic Condensed and is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Electrostatic JNL was inspired by the 1930s lettering for radio station WMCA in New York City. It was found as part of an ad for the station in a 1932 radio broadcasting trade magazine....
According to Wiktionary, “the cat’s pajamas” was a slang phrase coined by Thomas A. Dorgan, the well-known journalist, cartoonist and sportswriter of that era. The phrase became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s,...