Sohail Orozco

As long as there’s been movie theaters, those establishments became the perfect hideaway for couples who wanted to kiss, hug and snuggle without the watchful eyes of disapproving parents or the pesky attention of younger siblings.

Such was evident in the [13 word] title of the 1919 composition “Take Your Girlie to the Movies (If You Can’t Make Love at Home)”.

On the sheet music for this song, it is hand lettered in the Art Nouveau fashion of the time by a round nib pen, and made a perfect candidate to be redrawn as a digital typeface.

The end result is Nouveau Theme JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The BrightIdeas family contains two novelty fonts that have letters on light bulbs. The fonts have some characters on standing bulbs and some on hanging bulbs and these two sets are made to alternate with the OpenType contextual alternatives (calt) feature. To use only one set of bulbs, this feature must be turned off and character spacing adjusted.

The family contains a style with clear bulbs and one with filled bulbs. They can be used in layers to add color. Both are monospaced. The characters on the bulbs are derived from the font Myhota-Bold.

A geometric sans serif typeface influenced by Bauhaus and the early modernist era. Precise shapes are optically adjusted to create a clear, natural typeface with excellent legibility. Corbert Wide is a regular, self-evident design that works well across a wide range of applications.

Details include nine weights with matching italics and over 540 characters per style. Opentype features consist of five variations of numerals, including inferiors, superiors, fractions, alternative lowercase a, e and g, and language support covering Western, South, and Central Europe.

Cruz Quaste is a calligraphic medieval type, drawn by Måns Grebäck between 2018-2020.
While traditional in character it is yet original, and could be described as a reinvented gothic style.

Its blackletter style it works great in historical contexts, or to give projects a tough feeling.

Cruz Quaste contains OpenType features such as alternates and ligatures.

The font is multilingual and supports all Latin-based European languages.
It contains numbers, punctuation and all symbols you’ll ever need.

It’s always handy with a good font that helps your design stand out. And if you have a delicious snack while designing, then everything should be in its place. This font is quite handy, and its litterally a designing snack! And it contains zero calories! :)
Well, its a comic book kind of font, and comes in Regular, Black and Layer. Mix those 3 versions for great designing results!

The hand lettered title on the 1915 sheet music for “On the Banks of the Amazon” was the design model for Nouveau Spurred JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

This gently spurred Art Nouveau Roman is a beautiful choice for headlines, book titles and other retro-influenced projects.

Faddy is always fresh, smiling, slightly crazed, sometimes angry, often fuzzy, and can also be very funny. You can write with him in multiple languages. Faddy contains 3 different styles - Regular, Circle & Shaggy. Each style includes more than 500 glyphs, as well as the necessary open type features: Superscript, Subscript, Tabular Figures, Arrows, Matching currency symbols, and fractions. He also has a lot of fun stylistic sets, variants of letters that can give him a different mood and look.

Thrifty is a clean, contemporary typeface family created for branding and communication design. With a narrow form and clear letter forms, this family is both suited for display and title settings while equally remaining legible in smaller point sizes.
Through it’s nine weights and accompanying italics plus a large glyph set that covers the majority of Latin based languages, Thrifty aims to offer a versatile and functional design. Thanks to the implementation of Opentype features, this family includes different sets of numerals, from tabular, hanging or scientific, it equally includes ligatures and free form fractions. Each weight equally offers a complete set of arrows and 99 different pictograms focused on themes of mobility and transport.

Vintage packaging for Frosty Stencil Flock contained the hand lettered term “spray flock” which served as the basis for Flocking Stencil JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions. 

Commonly referred to as “Spray Snow”, these kits of holiday stencils and spray cans were a popular item in the households of the 1950s and early-to-mid 1960s.

The 1930 sheet music for “A Peach of a Pair” from Paramount Pictures’ “Follow Through” listed the stars and production credits in a wonderfully casual, free-form Art Nouveau hand lettering.

This has been recreated digitally as Casually Nouveau JNL, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

For another Art Nouveau typeface with a free-form look, try the similarly named Casual Nouveau JNL.

Anyone old enough to remember either the radio or television version of “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” pictures Ozzie Nelson as the easygoing father figure who never seemed to have a real job – he was always hanging around the house.

In truth, the handsome young Ozzie was a bandleader in the 1930s and 1940s and ended up marrying his ‘girl singer’, Harriet Hilliard.

A piece of sheet music from 1933 for “You Have Taken My Heart” was one of the songs Nelson featured with his Columbia Broadcasting System Orchestra.  The title was hand lettered in what can only be described as a slightly eccentric Art Deco Sans serif.

Redrawn and cleaned up to reflect more uniform stroke weights, Bandshell JNL is now available in both regular and oblique versions.