font_designer: Jeff Levine
The hand-lettered name on a couple of 1940s-era piano course books was the basis for Piano Solo JNL.
Still more vintage letterpress cartoons, cuts, dingbats, ad enhancers and embellishments comprise Printers Stock Cuts JNL.
Printers Drawer JNL continues building on a library of letterpress illustrations, cartoons, ad builders, Art Deco ad panels, ornaments, embellishments, and general miscellany. The images are re-drawn from vintage source material, and this font...
Brazil Nut JNL comes from hand lettering on some 1920s sheet music from Florenz Ziegfeld’s musical comedy “Rio Rita”.
In the MGM musical “Broadway Melody of 1940”, a new stage production has its gala opening at the fictitious Lafayette Theater on the Great White Way. The front of the theater is resplendent with...
In the MGM musical “Broadway Melody of 1940”, a new stage production has its gala opening at the fictitious Lafayette Theater on the Great White Way. The front of the theater is resplendent with...
Inspiration for font design takes on many shapes and forms. It can be vintage source material, visualized concepts or simply suggestions made by others. In an email conversation with Kevin Redekop (the Principal Designer...
From cartoons to ad helpers to embellishments and ornaments, Letterpress Pieces JNL is another collection of vintage imagery from the pre-computer era of printing and advertising.
Restaurant and Lounge is a casual, brush-style type face based on hand lettering found on a 1940s matchbook for the Park Avenue Restaurant (a popular dining spot during the golden years of Miami Beach).
Examples of a wood type alphabet for letterpress are the basis for Rounded Sans Wood JNL. Clean and bold, the rounded ends give a softer, more informal look to any display copy.