Cherish Mccormick

Who doesn’t love Fridays? For many people it is the end of the working week and the start of the weekend. What’s not to like? I tried to put all that great vibe into this font - it is charming and clumsy and ready for a party…just like my Fridays…ehh…my Fridays are actually quite simple - no parties or staying out till early morning…been there, did that…now I love my Fridays, just the way they are! :)

Ink Nouveau JNL is loosely based on the hand lettered title from a lobby card for the 1927 film “The Taxi Dancer” and is available in both regular and oblique versions. 

The design emulates a hastily or sloppily drawn Art Nouveau display font.

A set of slab serif framed capitals is displayed in the 1906 edition of the Keystone Type Foundry specimen book as “John Alden Initials”.

Digitally redrawn as Keyden Drop Caps JNL, regular and reverse versions are available in one font file.  Upper case keys contain the regular version, lower case keys have the reverse version.  Blanks frames for each are on the parenthesis keys.

The font’s name is a hybrid of both ‘Keystone’ and ‘Alden’.

These vintage letters can easily be used as drop caps, monogram initials or for short novelty titles or headlines.  Choose from either regular or oblique for your next print project.

The Butterfly Brand [from the UK] manufactured some lettering stencils (circa the 1950s) with a distinctively British look and feel.

These inspired Lancashire Stencil JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The hand lettered title found on the 1924 sheet music for the tango “Sentimiento Gaucho” (“Sentimental Gaucho”) offered a different take on the thick-and-thin lettering that permeated the late 1920s through the Art Deco age.

A ‘slash’ or ‘swipe’ is cut through the characters (similar to “Directa JNL” – another take on this type of design).

Last Tango JNL is the digital recreation of this novelty lettering and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

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.