The type design for Impecunious JNL comes from the 1939 sheet music for “You Don’t Know How Much You Can Suffer (Until You Fall in Love)â€.
The name comes from another piece of sheet music, 1899’s “Impecunious Davis†[a piece of late 19th-century tripe demeaning Black Americans]. However, the word ‘impecunious’ was intriguing.
According to the website Merriam-Webster.com, the simple definition of impecunious means ‘having little or no money’. Since we’ve all been in that spot at one time or another, it became a perfect font name.
Impecunious JNL is available in both regular and oblique versions.
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