Sarah Polyakova

Images of ‘lost’ or forgotten signs from the past are on a number of sites all over the web.

One in particular partially revealed a vintage sign for “J. Yormark Shoes" behind a barbershop sign at 15 – 8th Avenue in New York City. The sign remained until 2014.

The stencil effect made by the formation of the stained glass letters inspired On Your Mark JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions. The font’s name is a play on the shoe vendor’s name… “Yormark”.

Unique and decorative signage for many drive-ins, motels, food stores and other businesses of the 1940s had what was referred to as “privilege signs” provided by one of the major cola brands.

Consisting of the brand’s emblem on a decorative panel, the remainder of the sign would carry the desired message of the storekeeper (such as “Drive-In”) in prismatic, embossed metal letters.

Inspired by the Art Deco sans serif style of those vintage signs, Privilege Sign Two JNL recreates the type design in both regular and oblique versions. The typefaces are solid black, but adding a selected color and a prismatic effect from your favorite graphics program can reproduce the look and feel of those old businesses.

This is a companion font to Privilege Sign JNL, which recreates the condensed sans serif lettering of other privilege signs from

the 1950s and early 1960s.

A 1930s travel poster from American Airlines had the airline’s name in a classic thick-and-thin Art Deco design of hand lettering. With the addition of angular spurs, some of the characters become semi-serif in nature.

This type style is now available as Travel Plans JNL, in both regular and oblique versions.

Around 1931, the Los Angeles Times (in partnership with the Richfield Oil Company) installed on its building a moving message board similar to the one at the New York Times in New York City which they dubbed an “electric newspaper”.

The style of characters used on this electronic sign were the basis for the namesake font Electric Newspaper JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

A blank space to place between words is available on both the solid bar and broken bar keystrokes.

Satreva Neue is a stylish, elegant and distinct sans serif font. Suitable for a wide variety of designs because of its neat and simple style, this font has the potential to become your favorite font, whatever the occasion!

What's Included :

• Uppercase, Lowercase, Numerals & Punctuations
• Alternate & Ligature
• Works on PC & Mac
• Simple installations
• Multilingual support
• PUA Encoded

The words “Benny Goodman & His Orchestra” on an appearance poster for the band from 1936 were rendered in a beautiful semi-script style of hand lettering.

Foda Slab is a powerful Arabic slab typeface that has two styles : Regular and Hollow.

With 886 glyphs Foda Slab has many ligatures which makes it suitable for headlines and other different graphic contexts.

A 1930s advertising poster for the Inman Brothers Flying Circus offered up an interesting hand lettered Art Deco design that’s a cross between both squared and rounded character shapes. 

Because of it's 'futuristic look', the resulting type style can also lend itself to 1970s and 1980s retro projects as well as those from the 1930s and 1940s.

Now a digital font, Air Circus JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.

A “Flying Circus” is a troupe of ‘barnstormers’ (stunt pilots) who performed aerial tricks either individually or as a team along with selling airplane rides to the general public. 

The thin and stylish Art Deco lettering of a neon sign above the Greyhound bus terminal entrance in a 1930s New York City photo inspired Transit Station JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Hello Everyone, introduce our new product Headbears - Sport Display, inspired by the title of the sports poster and We make it very energetically. Headbears font with strong and challenging nuances. very suitable for the title, typography, Poster, magazines, brochures, packaging,Websites and much more for your design needs, making your designs more modern and professional.

Lettering Lesson JNL is a bold serif alphabet found within the pages of the 1922 instructional booklet from the St. Louis Show Card School, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

In the opening scenes of the 1938 Three Stooges comedy “Tassels in the Air” the Stooges are working as maintenance men inside an office building. Their immediate job requirement is to paint the tenants’ business names on the corresponding office doors with pre-cut stencils. Of course, they get it all wrong.

Nonetheless, the stencils appear to be a hand cut sans serif design in a squared or ‘block’ style with rounded corners, and some of the applied lettering made for an interesting challenge to recreate as a typeface.

The end result is Maintenance Stencil JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The movie poster for the 1934 comedy/crime drama “Jimmy the Gent” (starring James Cagney) featured the title hand lettered in an ultra-bold Art Deco sans serif style.

This type design has been turned into Social Club JNL, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Kingslayer - Graffiti Font

Introducing, Kingslayer. Kingslayer is a graffiti font inspired with unique graffiti letterform to that will make your design standout! Kingslayer will fit perfectly for branding design, packaging, headline, graffiti poster, etc.

Features :

• Uppercase
• Lowercase
• Number
• Punctuation
• Multilingual
• PUA Encode
• Opentype
• Stylistic Character

Thank You!

Kingslayer - Graffiti Font

Introducing, Kingslayer. Kingslayer is a graffiti font inspired with unique graffiti letterform to that will make your design standout! Kingslayer will fit perfectly for branding design, packaging, headline, graffiti poster, etc.

Features :

• Uppercase
• Lowercase
• Number
• Punctuation
• Multilingual
• PUA Encode
• Opentype
• Stylistic Character

Thank You!

Kingslayer - Graffiti Font

Introducing, Kingslayer. Kingslayer is a graffiti font inspired with unique graffiti letterform to that will make your design standout! Kingslayer will fit perfectly for branding design, packaging, headline, graffiti poster, etc.

Features :

• Uppercase
• Lowercase
• Number
• Punctuation
• Multilingual
• PUA Encode
• Opentype
• Stylistic Character

Thank You!

The hand lettered film credits for 1937’s “Make Way for Tomorrow” were done in a sans serif design with an ever-so-slight flare and a slightly semi-calligraphic look.

Unusual in both style and varying character thicknesses, the lettering has been digitally redrawn as Retirement JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Longstride was inspired by Romans letterforms. A low contrast charismatic typeface with uppercase, lowercase, small caps, numeral, and multilanguage support. I also add ligature and alternate options to make it more versatile when you use it in your project.

Moonlander, a modern bold and wide sans serif font.This clean and sharp typeface is inspired from the lively urban lifestyle and can be perfect as a headline, title, logo, branding.

Moonlander, a modern bold and wide sans serif font.This clean and sharp typeface is inspired from the lively urban lifestyle and can be perfect as a headline, title, logo, branding.