Milla Bowman

The Magnate Family began as a digitization of a film typeface from LetterGraphics known as “Wilshire”.

What began as a basic glyphset was fleshed out with a full character set with a smallcaps feature. We also decided to add a slightly more delicate side to Magnate, softening up the sharp flair serifs just a little.

See the 5th graphic for a comprehensive character map preview.

Opentype features include:

- Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions.
- SmallCaps feature.
- Tabular and Proportional figure sets.
- A small collection of Standard Ligatures.
- A Stylistic Alternates feature for an alternate lowercase t style.

Approx. 687 Character Glyph Set: Each style of Magnate comes with a glyphset that includes standard & punctuation, international language support, and additional features.

The cover of “Intermediate Steps to the Band” (an instructional book for marching band originally published by Mills Music in 1947) featured the title in a hand lettered multi-line sans serif with Art Deco influence.

Re-drawn as a digital typeface named Marching Band JNL, it is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The cover of the sheet music for the 1931 song “When the Autumn Leaves of Life Begin to Fall” has the song’s title hand lettered in a thin monoline Art Deco Style.

The song itself was co-written by Buddy G. De Sylva, who would go on to be one of the founders of Capitol Records.

Now digitally re-drawn as Autumn Song JNL, the font is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The extra bold version of R. Hunter Middleton’s “Karnak” (produced in 1936 for Ludlow) served as the model for Bookkeeping JNL and is a companion to Bookkeeper JNL (the light weight version of this type design).

Middleton based his “Karnak” family of typefaces on the geometric slab-serif “Memphis”, which was 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."

Bookkeeping JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.

A set of transfer patterns for sewing decorative monogram initials on clothing was manufactured by Women’s Day magazine circa the 1940s.

Designed by renowned Copenhagen-born industrial artist and letterer Gustav Boerge Jensen [April 8, 1898 - June 27, 1954], these initials have been redrawn into a digital font entitled Danish Script Initials JNL.

Large initials are on the uppercase A-Z keys, while smaller initials are on the lower case a-z keys and are centered to the larger cap height. An ornament is provided on the asterisk key, and can be placed between the small initials and the larger initial for decorative effect.

Diamond Callouts JNL is a set of two fonts featuring diamond (triangle) shaped callouts.

As a companion font to Circle Callouts JNL, Square Callouts JNL and Serif Circle Callouts JNL, this design takes on an Art Deco look with a lettering style closely related to Popularity JNL.

Diamond Callouts One JNL features a standard triangle with the apex pointed up, while Diamond Callouts Two JNL has the triangle inverted so the apex points downward.

Both fonts contain black-on-white and white-on-black versions, so there are two fonts and four styles for one price.