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A piece of sheet music for “Broken Blossoms” circa the 1920s or early 1930s has its cover title hand lettered in a wide thick-and-thin Art Deco design.
This is now available as Flower Shop JNL, in both regular and oblique versions.
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| Flower Shop JNL |
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The hand lettered title found on the cover of the 1932 sheet music for “Dancing Marathon” inspired the digital revival of this unusual lettering as well as the font’s name.
This eccentric Art Deco design (with a slight bit of Art Nouveau mixed in) is a thin, monoline typeface.
Dancing Marathon JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Dance marathons got their start during the Great Depression as people desperate to earn a few dollars would enter into contests that went on for hours until the last couple remained standing on the dance floor.
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| Dancing Marathon JNL |
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Erle Stanley Gardner’s beloved lawyer “Perry Mason” first appeared on screen in a series of six films with Warren Williams starring in four of them. The hand lettered opening title for 1935’s “The Case of the Lucky Legs” is a classic Art Deco sans serif design, and is now available as Courtroom JNL in both regular and oblique versions.
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| Courtroom JNL |
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The hand lettered name “Chickland” from a 1958 restaurant menu cover was actually a throwback to the Art Deco style with its condensed thick and thin sans serif design.
With just a few available letters to work with, it has been turned into Counter Service JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.
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| Counter Service JNL |
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The free form hand lettering from the titles and credits of the 1964 French film comedy “Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez” [“The Policeman from Saint-Tropez”] was the basis for Off Duty JNL – which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
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| Off Duty JNL |
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A 1942 menu cover for the restaurant at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles features its name in a stylized Art Deco serif design.
This is has been turned into the digital typeface Bill of Fare JNL, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.
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| Bill of Fare JNL |
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The hand lettered title for the 1954 film “Power of the Press” was done in a condensed sans serif type style that is now available digitally in both regular and oblique versions as Local News JNL.
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| Local News JNL |
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