decorative Fonts

Conscription JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2017
Post category:decorative
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The sheet music for the 1914 Word War I comic novelty song "When the War Breaks Out in Mexico I'm Going to Go to Montreal" had one of those overly-worded…

Containment

Post author:Typodermicstaff
Post published:2020
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Containment is a multilayered font system for creating headlines with fizz, gravel, snow, sand etc. With Containment, you get four fonts: A plain layer, a shadow layer, a crunchy-little-dots layer…

Concert Series JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2016
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The design of Concert Series JNL is based on hand-lettering for a 1930s-era WPA (Works Progress Administration) poster for the Federal Music Project of New York City’s symphony concerts. Held…

Concierge JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2014
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On occasion, one type design's influence can result in a completely different end result. Take the hand lettering found on a 1920s piece of sheet music for the song "Let…

Condensed Chamfer JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2018
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Sheet music published in the 1860s for "The Soldier’s Chorus" [from the Gounod opera "Faust"] had the title and the arranger’s name hand lettered in a bold, condensed chamfer font.…

Compass Next

Post author:TipografiaRamisstaff
Post published:2014
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Compass Next is a third edition of Compass TRF designed in 2002. The first time Compass TRF has been conceived was as a “geometric” Didone – all letters literally were…

Compass St

Post author:TipografiaRamisstaff
Post published:2014
Post category:decorative
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Compass St – a new addition to the existing Compass TRF Stencil fonts, originally released in 2010. Package consists of two fonts with rather different, both decorative, styles. Typeface is…

Common Area JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2015
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The unusual hybrid of square letter forms mixed with Art Deco-influenced ones in the digital typeface Common Area JNL is brought to you by the hand lettering found on a…

Common Stencil JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2016
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Common Stencil JNL takes a vintage lettering stencil from the 1980s with imperfectly bent cutting dies [which unintentionally gave the characters a distressed or "grunge" look] and recreates it in…

Comic Opera JNL

Post author:Jeff Levinestaff
Post published:2016
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Comic Opera JNL (and its oblique version) is a wide, bold sans serif type design with an Art Deco influence based on a 1930s namesake poster from the WPA (Works…