On February 15,1926, the Display Material Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, patented a sign making outfit consisting of a series of stencils in various sizes and styles, paints, brushes, instructions for use and all stored inside a convenient wooden case.

Sold to any business in need of making many signs at low cost, this versatile stencil set enabled many a merchant to produce posters, show cards and price tags for pennies over what a commercial sign shop would charge.

Floorwalker JNL is the digital version of one of these stencil fonts, solidified into a pre-Art Deco-era typeface.