Sohail Orozco

Blacker Sans Pro is a complete redesign and development of the original family designed by Francesco Canovaro in 2019 as a sans-serif variant of the successful Blacker created by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli. The original idea of Blacker Sans was to create a versatile pairing for Blacker, parting with its spiky wedge serifs but keeping its dark, elegant character and extending its weight range to 20 weights including italics.

This Blacker Sans Pro family did also differ in contrast from the original Blacker family, choosing a more even and monolinear, almost grotesque approach. This choice that favored versatility over elegance left some of the original uses of Blacker not covered by its sans counterpart, and so two subfamilies were added, applying to the same skeleton varying degrees of contrast, from the readability-optimized medium contrast of Blacker Sans Text to the extreme variations of Blacker Sans Display, with its elegant juxtapositions of thin curves and thick black slabs.

The original signature details of Blacker, like the hook shape of lowercase “f”, have been complemented by new alternate forms, ligatures and swashes, with stylistic sets providing options to easily make logos and headings stand out. The wide range of OpenType features (that includes also small caps, positional numbers, and alternate punctuation) is applied to all the 60 weights of the family, each with over 1600 characters offering language support for 220+ languages using Latin, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets.

Ready to make your text look gorgeous? Ditch your usual sans-serifs and try Blacker Sans Pro!

The hand lettered Art Nouveau title on the sheet music for “Why Don’t You Try” (1905) served as the inspiration for Tryout Nouveau JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The cover of the 1929 sheet music from the First National/Vitaphone picture “The Girl from Woolworth’s” had its title (“Someone”) hand lettered.

This single word title was the model for Store Clerk JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions as well as solid and solid oblique versions (without an inline).

A bold, casual sans serif with rounded ends and an inline, Store Clerk JNL is perfectly suited for projects where a strong, yet playful title is necessary to grab the reader’s attention.

For those old enough to remember, Woolworth’s was a leading “Five and Dime” store chain, especially in the days when a nickel or a dime actually could purchase something.

This one is all about a flashy retro style. I wanted to create something with a bit more ‘bang’. So I set out to make a mixture between blocks and parallel lines.

Because it is an all caps font, I decided to make the lowercase set into a second set of glyphs. They are similar to the caps, but with less blocks in the letters. I included all glyphs from LatPro, except for two ligatures.

It is pretty niche, and it works best as the centerpiece of a poster or as a foreground in front of photos. Due to it’s complex shapes, it’s a little difficult to pair up with too many other elements and fonts, but it’s certainly an eye catcher!
In very small it creates moire, but also if seen from afar, the parallel lines create a sort of illusion of partial transparency.

The packing information stenciled on an antique wooden crate included a slab serif type style with chamfered corners.  This design has now been re-drawn as the digital typeface Stencil Chamfer JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Vintage wood type with a strong Clarendon influence served as the model for Slabserif Wood JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

A 1922 piece of sheet music entitled “Japanese Sailor” had its title hand lettered in a Far Eastern motif.  This design is now available as Sea of Japan JNL, in both regular and oblique versions.

Introducing, Shakuro. As you can see, this brush typeface has unique letterform inspired from japanese kanji typography. Very suitable to use for headline, title, logo or anything especially related with japan or asian theme.

Features :

- uppercase & lowercase (alternates)
- numbers and punctuation
- multilingual
- PUA encoded

We highly recommend using a program that supports OpenType features and Glyphs panels like many of Adobe apps and Corel Draw, so you can see and access all Glyph variations.

Mero inspired by the Roman Capital Proportions which we have seen in Trajan Inscription. With different widths; There are applied each letter to visual proportion. Mero inspired by this measurement method and would like to create the primary typeface in terms of simple form. This sans serif typeface designed to use for any media with a little notice from designer eyes. You won’t notice much about style, but something will let you feel extraordinary and trust.

Mero has supported over 30 languages and come with nine weights for a complete family. With the standard of CSS font-weight, Mero complete family will map beautifully for your digital layout.

Mero inspired by the Roman Capital Proportions which we have seen in Trajan Inscription. With different widths; There are applied each letter to visual proportion. Mero inspired by this measurement method and would like to create the primary typeface in terms of simple form. This sans serif typeface designed to use for any media with a little notice from designer eyes. You won’t notice much about style, but something will let you feel extraordinary and trust.

Mero has supported over 30 languages and come with nine weights for a complete family. With the standard of CSS font-weight, Mero complete family will map beautifully for your digital layout.

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.