Vagary

For many decades, the fashion magazine 'Vogue' featured superbly illustrated covers before photography became more commonplace. During the 1930s and 1940s those illustrations were accompanied by many creative styles of hand lettering for its monthly issues.

The January, 1930 cover had the magazine's name lettered in an Art Deco geometric monoline, which became the inspiration for Vagary JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

A vagary [in a simple sense] is when something or someone changes in an erratic or unexpected way (as the wind's direction or in a person's mood or whim)… and thus seemed the fitting name for this type style.

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