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.
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Download Nouveau Spur JNL Font Family From Jeff Levine
Download Nouveau Rose Font Family From Jeff Levine
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
Download S&S Baldwins Font Family From Spencer & Sons Co.
Download Retjeh Font Family From MuSan
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
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
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’.
Download Mrs Keppel Font Family From The Ampersand Forest
Remember when you first saw the credits of a Woody Allen movie and thought, "I love that typeface!" Well, maybe that was just us. That typeface—Windsor (specifically Windsor Light Condensed)—is a classic. But it has problems. The letterforms are sometimes REALLY wonky. And the ampersand is a tragedy. Plus, there's no italic, and the weights and widths available in digital form are a hodgepodge.
That's where Mrs. Keppel comes in. Alice Keppel, one of the most famous illegitimate members of the Windsor household ever, lends her name to this typeface family with numerous weights and a true italic. It's a slim serif with Edwardian leanings. She's approachable, she's refined. She's equally charming and at home in mercantile settings, in elegant settings, in populist settings, and in Polite Society.
She's a design response to a genuine need. She's Mrs Keppel!
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