Irene Holt

Samuel Welo’s “Studio Handbook – Letter and Design for Artists and Advertisers” was a go-to source of inspiration for generations of layout artists, graphic designers and sign painters.

An interesting example of free-form pen lettering was found amongst the pages of one edition and it has now been recreated as a digital typeface called Nouveau Cartoon JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.

I bought a pair of green gumboots (or Wellingtons) the other day. I have a little wilderness outside and it is quite muddy, so I thought a pair of boots would be a good buy.

Gumboots is a handmade comic font. It comes in a regular and a fat style and you can use it for just about anything that needs a bit of comic relief.

This is not a brush font!
This is an imitation of brushstrokes, done by pen. But I guess you’ve already noticed that - the brushstrokes are way too obvious, to have been made by brush. Although being a “fake”, the letters leaves you with quite a good impression. Letters were inspired by an old horror movie poster, but is very useful for something less terrifying!

Normally, a short paragraph or two on this page tells the backstory to a font design.  In this particular case, that story has been lost to time. 

Whatever the original source – whether a vintage bit of typography or an original idea – the beginnings of this font lay unfinished for quite a while as it was perceived to duplicate another previous release.

However, after recently checking a sample of the design against other Jeff Levine Fonts, it’s reasonably certain this type face may have similar characteristics, but can stand on its own merit.

That said, Clean Deco JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Based on the classic “Columbian” from the William H. Page Wood Type Company (circa 1870), Cherrywood JNL is a bold slab serif type design available in both regular and oblique versions.

The Youngest is a unique modern font family that contains a handwritten signature script and a classic mid-contrast elegant classic serif in two styles - Display and Book.
Both serif and handwritten script benefit from stylistic alternates and ligatures that give your creativity a wide variety of design options. The Book serif is optimized to be comfortably read on screen in small sizes.
The Youngest Script has more than 600 ligatures (100+ unique basic Latin ligatures, their multilingual variations, and 70+ Cyrillic ligatures) to mimic a realistic handwriting.
The serif style has a lot to offer too - more than 300 ligatures including 40+ basic latin ligatures, their multilingual variations and 30+ Cyrillic ones.
All three styles support most of the Latin based languages as well as have basic (Russian) Cyrillic support.
All three styles, as usually, fully unicode mapped and can be used in the majority of applications available on the market.

Gingo is a wild brush script.
The typeface was drawn and created by Måns Grebäck between 2018 and 2020.
Its thick strokes are inspired by mid-century advertising, is full of spirit and progressiveness.

The handwritten family consists of three weights: Gingo Thin, Gingo Medium and Gingo Bold.

Its multiple alternate alphabets gives the font a true handwritten feeling.
Use it for a logotype, a greeting card or as a headline.

The font contains all characters you’ll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.
It has an extensive lingual support, covering all European Latin-based scripts.

The name Grape Feud is obviously a wordplay, and is derived of the, sometimes, mistaken of the orange and the (often) purple fruits.
But Grape Feud is also a playful and charming no-nonsense comic style font. The x-height is quite unpredictable, and I’ve added ligature for the most common double letter combinations.

Audacious is a quirky, confident and adorable serif type family across five weights in both text and display styles. This attention-grabbing typeface has an imperfect nature that embraces its quirks and irregularities, giving each font a distinctive and somewhat oddball personality. Its defining characteristics include large open counters, awkward stresses, large exaggerated wedge serifs, and voluptuous teardrop terminals.

Whatever typographic compositions you create, Audacious will demand attention, making it perfect for titling, headlines, logotype, and branding projects. Take advantage of the 182 stylistic alternates to embellish your type and add that touch of class to titles and logos. Display weights work really well with close line spacing and stunning headlines are a breeze to create. Text weights make for a pleasant reading experience while packing all the punch and versatility found in the display variants.

There are 20 fonts altogether, in Text and Display styles with weights from Regular to Black in both roman and italic. Audacious has an extensive character set that covers all Latin European languages.

Key features:

• 2 Styles in Roman and Italic
• 5 weights: Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, & Black
• 182 Alternates
• Full European character set (Latin only)
• 1100+ glyphs per font.

Introducing Matterdi, a High-Fashion Elegant serif family with tons of unique and fashionable ligatures.

This versatile serif family contains 100+ unique, elegant ligatures and alternates. 9 weights available from thin to black which makes many possible layout for your next projects. for word-mark, monograms, logo, branding projects, or to use a web font.

Try Matterdi Bold for display title or Matterdi Thin for a fashionable and elegant look, it also perfect to pair with a hand-drawn script!

how to access alternate?

  Adobe Photoshop go to Window - glyphs
  Adobe Illustrator go to Type - glyphs

Supported Languages

Western Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, Baltic, Turkish, Romanian

Thank you!

Chilling Atmosphere is inspired by classic horror movies and is super useful to for your creepy postcards, flyers, clothing or perhaps packaging. I’ve added 6 different versions of each letter, to make your creepy text stand even more out!

Introducing, Annette Bradford - Ballpoint Signature Script. This typeface made from a natural ballpoint handwriting, so if you need digital signature or natural hand writing for quotes, this is the perfect typeface for you! This font perfectly made to be applied especially in logo, and the other various formal forms such as invitations, labels, logos, magazines, books, greeting / wedding cards, packaging, fashion, make up, stationery, novels, labels or any type of advertising purpose.

Features :
- uppercase & lowercase
- numbers and punctuation
- multilingual
- ligatures
- alternates
- extra doodle (in glyphs panel)
- 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.

Email us to letterhend@gmail.com if you need something! Happy Designing!

Baker ST is all caps type family.
It has multi language support and provides web fonts.
The family includes 5 styles: regular and decorative. 
In decorative ones uppercase is a bit different to lowercase.

Sharpe Variable is a stylish serif typeface family.

The original type was drawn between 2018 and 2019, and the variable font and its updated styles was created in 2020.
It is clear, sharp and has brave, lively letter forms but with a conservative backbone.

This font is provided as a Variable Font.
It is only one font file, but this file contains multiple styles.
Use the sliders in Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign to manually set any weight and width.
This gives you not only the 15 predefined styles, but instead more than half a million steps to customize the type to the exact look your project requires.

Each style contains ligatures and support for a wide range of languages.

More info about Variable Fonts: https://mansgreback.com/s/About_Variable_Fonts.pdf

A long time ago, I lived and worked in the English Lake District. When I first arrived there, I camped out not far from a neolithic monument called Castlerigg Stone Circle. Castlerigg Stone Circle is one of the most beautiful stone circles in the whole of Britain; the views are great and it makes for a nice walk from Keswick.

This rather grungy font was made with a Sharpie pen I initially wanted to throw away, because it was dry, but then decided I could at least get one more font out of it. The result is Castlerigg - a rather neolithic looking all caps font.

Castlerigg comes with double letter ligatures for the lower case.

Monospaceland is a round monospaced typeface in 7 weights with rich language support (Cyrillic included), small capitals, and some double-width alternatives for added fun.

It includes obliques and reverse obliques, making a total of 21 fonts. Plus, the family pack comes with a two-axis variable font to allow setting arbitrary weight and slant angle.

For decades, Samuel Welo’s “Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers” was a source of inspiration for sign painters, graphic artists and designers.  In later years, many digital revivals of Welo’s hand lettered typography have been made available.

Western Trail JNL is the latest member of such digital fonts, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Around 2018 or 2019, the State of Florida introduced new letter and number characters on its auto plates. 

Inspired by this change, Jeff Levine Fonts offers up a digital version of this lettering named New Car Tag JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions (for those who want a more sporty look).

Some people prefer a rounded ‘zero’ to differentiate between the regular zero and the letter ‘O’.  You can find this alternate character located on both the solid bar and broken bar glyphs.

The hand lettered opening titles from the 1944 Laurel and Hardy comedy “The Big Noise” served as the inspiration for Movie Screen JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Marilka is the little treasure in your typeface collection.

Designed by Anita Jürgeleit, Marilka appears in 4 styles with a broad latin language support, including Vietnamese language. Its eye-catching character is especially suitable for text settings. The beautiful letter shapes also suit headline typography in an outstanding way.

Marilka supports simple open-type features such like sub- and superscript, de- and nominator, ordinal numbers and standard ligatures.

Try Marilka with its free trial version and let yourself be enchanted.

Samuel Welo’s “Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers” was a popular book of inspiration for sign painters, graphic artists and designers from the 1920s through the 1960s.  Many digital revivals of Welo’s hand lettered typography have been made available.

Formal Notice JNL is one such revival, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.