During the 1940s, Pep cereal [a long-discontinued Kellogg's brand name] used a series of water-applied decals within its boxes. More than likely made by the Meyercord Company (one of America's biggest transfer decal manufacturers at the time), one decal in specific had an alphabet in gold letters with black outlines.
( One can only presume the marketing method was to have kids bug their parents to purchase more Pep cereal if the child required more than one letter of the alphabet for his/her initials!)
Those decal letters have actually influenced a digital version as the overview character typeface Toy Decals JNL, which is available in regular oblique, solid and solid oblique designs.
Font Family:
· Toy Decals JNL
· Toy Decals Oblique JNL
· Toy Decals Solid JNL
· Toy Decals Solid Oblique JNL
Tags: 1940s, bold, decal, decorative, display, hand lettered, headline, nostalgic, retro, sans serif, vintage