Annabelle Scaddan

Based on an example of [circa] 1950 Finnish embroidery lettering, Evening Out JNL is a classic Art Deco design with contrasting thick and thin lines.

This elegant and stylish typeface is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The cover of the 1939 sheet music for “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” has the title set in an outline sans… or is in an inline? With almost equal space and line weights, it can be either! Outline Sans JNL in available digitally in both regular and oblique versions.

The basis for Series A Signage JNL is Highway Gothic; a type style design formally known as the FHWA Series.

The font was developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration, and originally consisted of only capital letters and figures.

Each Letter designation represented a character width from ‘A’ (condensed) to ‘F’ (wide).

Due to poor visibility at high speeds, Series ‘A’ was discontinued. At one point lower case characters were added to the various widths of the design, but this typeface revival is based on the original guidelines specified in the 1948 (reprinted 1952) book “Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs” [this was the original name for the FHWA series fonts preceding the eventual name change to Highway Gothic].

Unlike the original, Series A Signage JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The 1951 sheet music of “I Like the Wide Open Spaces” has the cover title set in a casual type design that emulates the ‘one stroke’ or ‘speed letter’ style so popular with sign painters in that decade.

Taking the lettering on the sheet music and expanding the character set with a new interpretation, the result is Sign Work JNL which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

During the turbulent era of the 1960s, the youth of America found various ways to protest against “The Establishment”.

Whether it was campus unrest, protest songs, sit-ins or other methods, the message was the counter-culture movement.

Arising from this disenchantment with traditional social standards, a small but effective means of protest arose that made no sound, yet spoke volumes… the pin button.

Statements against the war in Vietnam, free love, drug use and other messages popped up on little metal discs pinned to tee shirts, suspenders, head band and hats.

Sixties Pin Buttons JNL recreates twenty-six of these messages in both white on black (upper case keys) and black on white (lower case keys).

Blank buttons in both white and black are found on the parenthesis keys.