font_designer: Jeff Levine
Chocolate Bar JNL emulates hand-lettering on the sheet music for a song selection called “Shoe Shine Boy” from Connie’s Hot Chocolates of 1936 (an all-black musical revue). The lettering was not found in the...
For those designers looking for nothing more than a library of familiar catchwords and phrases re-drawn from vintage source material, look no further. Collected Catchwords JNL gathers up ninety-three of them, picked from the...
Take a classic sans serif typeface, run it through a filter for a “wind” effect then auto-trace the design. The result: a broken, jagged and rough type font called Erosion JNL.
Border pieces, catch words, head and tail pieces and a generous amount of cartoons comprise Letterpress Assortment JNL. All of the printers’ stock cuts were re-drawn from vintage source material.
Hand-lettered stencil lettering on the movie poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 dark comedy-thriller “The Trouble with Harry” inspired Hitchcock Stencil JNL; named in honor of the great master of suspense cinema.
Social Gathering JNL is modeled from the Art Deco hand-lettered title of a vintage piece of sheet music entitled “Three of Us”.
A vintage booklet from the Japan Tourist Bureau entitled “How to See Matsushima and Environs” had the title hand lettered in the Art Deco style which is the basis for Travel Brochure JNL. For...
Take Charge JNL is based on the opening title card for the 1936 film “The Charge of the Light Brigade” starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp and David Niven. The typeface...
Taken from the hand-lettered name on a 1930s-era tin for Cadet condoms, Bed and Bath JNL is pure Art Deco with thin line weight and varying character widths and shapes.
A photo from Gene Gable (a regular contributor of ideas to Jeff Levine Fonts) shows the vintage signage for the Lasher Hatchery in a slightly different take on the classic Art Deco solid letter...