2021 Fonts

Balthasar

Post author:Fine Fontsstaff
Post published:2002
Post category:Uncategorized

Balthasar is a very distinctive, stencil-type display font. Its letterforms originally appeared on a lettered book jacket by Michael Harvey. Its highly condensed letterforms being very economic in the use…

Drafting Class JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2020
Post category:Uncategorized

Within the pages of “The Essentials of Lettering” by Thomas E. French and Robert Meiklejohn (circa 1912) is an example for creating a sans serif alphabet and numerals. The lesson plate…

Aesop

Post author:Fine Fontsstaff
Post published:2000
Post category:script

Aesop was developed from some book jacket lettering drawn by Michael Harvey for an edition of Aesop’s Fables by a master Japanese Artist. It is based upon a pen-drawn script,…

Dual Line Roman JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2020
Post category:decorative

Spotted amongst the online page scans from a vintage lettering book, the typeface originally called “Didot Moderne” served as the basis for Dual Line Roman JNL, which is available in…

Victoriana

Post author:Fine Fontsstaff
Post published:2002
Post category:decorative

Victoriana arose from an inquiry from the Victorian Society for a Victorian font for their journal. As it turned out, no commission resulted, but interest in such a font was…

Eleckatrical Banana JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2020
Post category:decorative

From the same page of a vintage German lettering textbook entitled “50 Alphabete fur Technikur und Fachschulen” (loosely translated to “50 Alphabets for Technicians and Specialized Schools”) that inspired Trippy…

Ruskin

Post author:Fine Fontsstaff
Post published:2008
Post category:serif

The origin of Ruskin was a commission for Michael Harvey to design a signage font for the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh. The style of the letterforms was to complement the…

Sunchilla

Post author:Hydric Designstaff
Post published:2020
Post category:script

Hi there! Hydric Design proudly present the Sunchilla Script font,inspired by The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico,in particular the Central and South regions, and…

Fancy Show Card JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2020
Post category:decorative

A playful, casual take on round nib pen lettering was spotted amongst some online scans from an old lettering book. The free-form and stylized shapes of the letters and numbers are…

Retail Monoline JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2020
Post category:decorative

Retail Monoline JNL is a light weight sans serif extracted from the inline of Retail Price JNL and is available in both regular and oblique versions.