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A 1916 recruitment poster from World War I seeking men to join the Army’s Signal Corps provided the lettering inspiration for Recruitment JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
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[grgtx] Download Recruitment JNL fonts from Jeff Levine
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[rssxt] Download LaFarge fonts from Typetanic Fonts
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LaFarge is a typeface primarily inspired by the historic mosaic titling capitals found in the New York City Subway, designed by architect Squire J. Vickers and his staff between 1915-1927. These elegant but industrial signs are characteristic of early-20th century American architectural lettering, and show an evolution of the classical Roman capitals to lower contrast, bolder serifs, and more regular character widths. The majority of this lettering still remains in subway stations today, and though elements of the style vary from sign to sign, many carry the unique features that are reflected in LaFarge: high-waisted crossbars with angled serifs, elegantly curved “R” leg, and distinctive trapezoidal serifs. LaFarge expands this style into a lower case, taking cues from contemporary typefaces like Bookman, Cheltenham, and Della Robbia.
A number of typographic features are included, such as small caps, ordinal indicators / superscript letters, arrows, and a set of borders inspired by early subway tile. The result is a fashionable, architecturally-minded typeface that is just as at home on the façade of a grand public building as it is on packaging, magazines, or the web. LaFarge works well in both text and display settings, remaining readable at small sizes but showing off its elegant details in larger uses.
LaFarge has received the Communication Arts Typography Award, the ADC Annual Merit Award, is included in the 2020 STA 100, and was part of designer Greg Shutters’ winning portfolio in the 2019 Type Directors Club Ascender Awards. You can download a PDF specimen of LaFarge, and also view a video of LaFarge in action.
[vlefo] Download Show Card Roman JNL fonts from Jeff Levine
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Art Nouveau serif capitals and numerals in the 1917 instructional book “A Roman Alphabet and How to Use It” were the inspiration for Show Card Roman JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.
Download Tamba Sans Fonts Family From Dharma Type
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Tamba Sans has strong geometric frames. Somewhat condensed and somewhat squarish letterforms can create a powerful atmosphere. At the same time, the very clear, neutral and distinguishable letterforms make it legible and readable.
With the spread of the internet, the digital world is overflowing with “designed” stuff. To survive this chaotic world as a designer, you should use a strong typeface to catch the eyes of an unspecified large number of visitors/customers. This is why it is so important to be strong and powerful.
One more important thing is the legibility, but the eye-catching design has a tendency to be unusual. Those two things conflict with each other. Tamba Sans solved this problem with an exquisite balance.
Tamba Sans consists of 7 weights and their matching Italics for a wide range of usages.
Farther, Tamba Sans is supporting international Latin languages and basic Cyrillic languages including Basic Latin, Western Europe, Central and South-Eastern Europe. Also CSS covers Mac Roman, Windows1252, Adobe1 to 3. This wide range of international characters expands the capability of your works.
Download Theater Nouveau Fonts Family From Jeff Levine
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Sheet music from the 1911 stage production of the comic opera “The Enchantress” featured the hand lettered names of both the star and composer in a monoline Art Nouveau style.
This sans serif type design is now available as Theater Nouveau JNL in both regular and oblique versions.
Download Sunshine Nouveau Fonts Family From Jeff Levine
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Hand lettering done in a playfully distinct Art Nouveau style comprised the title on the cover of the 1916 sheet music for the song “Your Mother is Your Best Friend After All”.
This served at the working model for Sunshine Nouveau JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Download Railway Station Fonts Family From Jeff Levine
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The hand lettered title on the 1911 sheet music for “That Railroad Rag” was designed in a block style letter with spurred serifs. This simple typographic layout evokes the imagery of early rail transportation although the song itself is was a ‘modern’ composition of then-popular ragtime music.
Railway Station JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Download Nouveau Dreams JNL Fonts Family From Jeff Levine
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The 1910 sheet music for “In All My Dreams I Dream of You” had the title hand lettered in an eclectic sans serif that typified the free form Art Nouveau movement of the time.
The lettering was recreated digitally as Nouveau Dreams JNL, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Download Bleak Fonts Family From Andinistas
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@andinistas presents Bleak , an experimental font designed by #carlosfabiancg. Bleak is based on the imaginative use of contrast applied in the empty space and on the dramatic distributions of the wide and compressed horizontal of more than 400 textured symmetric capitals inspired by compositions of the Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, among others. In the Europe of the 20s, scarce resources prevailed, which gave these great artists the firm determination and dedication to create a visual vocabulary, characteristic of the composition with movable types of wood and metal. As they did not readily dispose of the forms of the letters they required, they did not hesitate to construct them with metal rulers, ornaments and other improvised pieces and remains and obtained in the forgotten corners of the typographic composition workshop.
Download Upbeat Fonts Family From Jeff Levine
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The free-form Art Nouveau hand lettering on the cover of the 1918 sheet music for “Smilin’ Through” (from the MGM motion picture of the same name starring Norma Shearer) is the model for Upbeat JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.
Download Moister Fonts Family From Ilham Herry
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Introducing Moister, inspired by beer labels in the old days. This collection comes with several styles: script, block, and expanded. It is possible to combine and options to create label designs, headlines, logotypes, signage, posters, greeting cards, letterheads, t-shirts and much more.
Download Alphonse Nouveau Fonts Family From Jeff Levine
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Alphonse Nouveau JNL is based on the lettering style of famed Art Nouveau illustrator Alphonse Mucha, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Download Streetcar JNL Fonts Family From Jeff Levine
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An ebay purchase of a vintage Speedball lettering pen set yielded an extra bonus… numerous alphabets on paper rendered in both pen and ink and via pencil sketches.
One such design in rough pencil layout is a classic serif typeface often found on many passenger and freight trains, trolley cars and busses.
This “Railroad Roman” was scanned from the original sketches and then re-drawn digitally, all along retaining the charm and attractiveness often found in hand lettering.
The end result is Streetcar JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Download Nouveau Spur JNL Font Family From Jeff Levine
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The condensed, spur serif hand lettering for the title on the 1906 sheet music cover of “Gee! But this is a Lonesome Town” inspired Nouveau Spur JNL; which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Download Nouveau Rose Font Family From Jeff Levine
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In the July 24, 1915 issue of “Dry Goods Reporter” is a demonstration of hand lettering rendered with the use of a “speed pen”. Two suggested examples cited in the accompanying article were the Payzant pen and the then-new Speedball pen.
An ornate Art Nouveau serif alphabet is displayed, with some examples having delicate floral elements entwining the letters.
The initial alphabet was auto-traced, then cleaned-up and modified to recreate the core design of the basic (unadorned) letters. The numerals, punctuation and all additional characters were then made from scratch.
Nouveau Rose JNL is the finished result, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Download Nouveau Moon JNL Font Family From Jeff Levine
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The 1911 sheet music for “A Hot Time In Monkeytown" is an example of Art Nouveau hand lettering that could not be ignored as a typographic design source.
The end result is Nouveau Moon JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Download S&S Baldwins Font Family From Spencer & Sons Co.
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Baldwins was inspired by the beauty lettering of ephemera prints. Ideal for product names, packages, labels, old fashioned signs and everything with specific characteristics of past times.
Download Retjeh Font Family From MuSan
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Retjeh is a handcrafted vintage font, comes in Six styles there are Pressed, Linned, Dotted, Rough, Regular, and Sans. That makes Retjeh perfect for any Vintage styles as you needed. This font come with only All Caps, Number, and also Multilingual characters.
If you purchase the complete family package, I'll send you a bonus of 10 Editable Badges. Please email me at wellhellomusan@gmail.com with your MyFonts order number to get the bonus!
Download Trade Stencil Font Family From Jeff Levine
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Spotted in an online auction was a set of brass stencils (possibly handmade) of which some of the characters were individually displayed.
The interesting placement of where the letters were broken into stencil parts inspired the creation of Trade Stencil JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Download Quick Meal Font Family From Jeff Levine
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Quick Meal JNL is a ‘hand lettered’ interpretation of Morris Fuller Benton’s 1905 design “Miehle Extra Condensed Title”, no doubt named for [or on behalf of] the manufacturer of printing and die cutting presses that were used for years within the printing industry.
The type face is available in both regular and oblique versions.
Quick Meal JNL is a pun on the pronunciation of ‘Miehle’.
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