font_designer: Jeff Levine

Theater Lights JNL

Theater Lights JNL font

Vintage sheet music for the title song from the film “Forty Second Street” was the inspiration for Theater Lights JNL. While the idea of letters comprised of circles (to simulate bulbs) can be both...

So Nouveau JNL

So Nouveau JNL font

Three of the four letters of the name “Jane” on the cover of a vintage piece of sheet music inspired So Nouveau JNL. The free-form swoops emulating the pen lettering of the early 1900s...

So Nouveau JNL

So Nouveau JNL font

Three of the four letters of the name “Jane” on the cover of a vintage piece of sheet music inspired So Nouveau JNL. The free-form swoops emulating the pen lettering of the early 1900s...

Stencil Work JNL

Stencil Work JNL font

Stencil Work JNL was re-drawn from a vintage paper stencil with one inch high Roman letters and numbers, often found in stationery, drug and variety stores in the 1950s through the 1980s.

Tunesmith JNL

Tunesmith JNL font

A “tunesmith” is one so nicknamed because the person or persons craft (compose) a song from scratch. When the area of Broadway known as Tin Pan Alley was in its heyday, every music publisher’s...

Tunesmith JNL

Tunesmith JNL font

A “tunesmith” is one so nicknamed because the person or persons craft (compose) a song from scratch. When the area of Broadway known as Tin Pan Alley was in its heyday, every music publisher’s...

Best Bet JNL

Best Bet JNL font

Best Bet JNL is a hybrid approach in reinterpreting the classic display font Beton. Using examples of the condensed version found on old sheet music, redesigning a few additional characters and melding them with...

Erratic JNL

Erratic JNL font

Erratic JNL earns its name from the varying widths and shapes of the hand lettering found on some old Art-Deco era sheet music. Following this unusual pattern throughout the complete typeface, the user finds...

Popularity JNL

Popularity JNL font

Popularity JNL is an all-caps titling font, based (for the most part) on a popular typeface known in some foundry books as “Radiant”. Many pieces of sheet music from the 1940s engaged this lettering...

Hayride JNL

Hayride JNL font

Based in part on the hand-lettered title for a piece of vintage sheet music, Hayride JNL gets both its inspiration and name from Michael Todd’s 1948 production “Mexican Hayride”. The original design was in...