Kayla McEncroe

A circa-1920s book on lettering entitled “Book of Alphabets” by Regan Publishing displayed an example of a Grotesk typeface (a popular style of sans serif of the time).

This design was re-drawn digitally as Not So Grotesk JNL and is available in four varieties - regular, oblique, condensed and condensed oblique.

Not So Grotesk JNL is the perfect companion font family to use alongside Simply Grotesk JNL.

The 1912 publication “Essentials of Lettering” has an example of a hand lettered, condensed spurred serif design called “Compressed Roman”.

This is now available digitally as New Thin Roman JNL in both regular and oblique versions.

Bookkeeper JNL is based on the lighter weight version of R. Hunter Middleton’s ‘Karnak’, produced in 1936 for Ludlow.

“Karnak” itself was based on the geometric slab-serif “Memphis”, designed in 1929 by Dr. Rudolf Wolf and released originally by the Stempel Type Foundry of Germany.

According to Wikipedia, “Karnak” "was named after the Karnak Temple Complex in Egypt, in reference to the fact that early slab serifs were often called “Egyptians” as an exoticism by nineteenth-century type founders."

Available in both regular and oblique versions, Bookkeeper JNL serves well as both a headline and text type face.