Claudia Toosey

A drop cap ornamental font. Pro version includes the Basic one.

Library Book Initials JNL was modeled from examples of Sidney Gaunt’s Publicity Initials; originally sold in metal type by Barnhart Brothers and Spindler as a companion to the Publicity Gothic typeface.

The smoothed-down lines of the original characters allow for these initials to balace better when set against complementary type faces.

A regular version is on the upper case keys, with an oblique version on the lower case keys.

From the pages of the 1939 French lettering book “Modèles de lettres modernes par Georges Léculier” (“Models of Modern Lettering”) comes an attractive and unusual set of initial drop caps made from square letters adorned with multiple vertical lines.

Originally designed as white letters on black backgrounds, an additional set with black letters on white backgrounds comprise Deco Drop Caps JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.