Sheet music for the 1915 song "Exists Still Room for Me Neath the Old Apple Tree" had the title hand-lettered in a condensed, square sans serif.
Although far from the more decorative lettering styles of the Art Nouveau duration, this kind of basic understatement was also a popular option for the illustrators of the day.
It exists digitally as Nouveau Square JNL in both regular and oblique versions.
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