Inaayah Cunningham: 1940s
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Showing posts with label 1940s. Show all posts

Friday, November 12, 2021

[nifgf] Download Privilege Sign Two JNL fonts from Jeff Levine
November 12, 2021 0 Comments
Privilege Sign Two JNL


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.



Privilege Sign Two JNL


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Sunday, October 24, 2021

[ehgai] Download Office Staff JNL fonts from Jeff Levine
October 24, 2021 0 Comments
Office Staff JNL


Office Staff JNL is a version [with serifs added] of Popularity JNL – a condensed Art Deco design based (for the most part) on a popular typeface known in some foundry books as ‘Radiant’ with some reinterpreted characters… and is available in both regular and oblique versions.



Office Staff JNL


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Saturday, October 9, 2021

[tpunu] Download Courtroom JNL fonts from Jeff Levine
October 09, 2021 0 Comments
Courtroom JNL


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.



Courtroom JNL


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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

[bsmbb] Download Bill of Fare JNL fonts from Jeff Levine
October 06, 2021 0 Comments
Bill of Fare JNL


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.



Bill of Fare JNL


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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

[yyzyb] Download Vintage Comics JNL fonts from Jeff Levine
September 29, 2021 0 Comments
Vintage Comics JNL


Vintage Comics JNL was inspired by the way the word “comics” was hand lettered on many of the comic book covers of the 1940s, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.



Vintage Comics JNL


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