font_designer: Jeff Levine
Front Row JNL is an all-caps reinterpretation of Morris Fuller Benton’s 1937 type design “Empire”, and is available in both regular and oblique versions. As is often the case when a digital type font...
The lettering on the cover of the sheet music for 1919’s “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise” was set in a decorative sans serif with an engraved line adorning each character. Reminiscent of...
Auto-scanning an example of a vintage typewriter font created the design which is now the digital typeface Bitmap Typewriter JNL, available in both regular and oblique versions.
Ordinary Gothic JNL is a simple, thin “stovepipe” style of hand lettering found on the cover of a piece of sheet music for 1937’s “You Can’t Stop Me from Dreaming”, and is available in...
The Art Nouveau hand lettering on the sheet music for 1915’s “I’m Glad It was Only A Dream” served as the inspiration for Melodie Nouveau JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique...
Dreamy JNL was modeled from the hand-lettered title on the sheet music cover for “If I’m Dreaming” and features an Art Deco type design with engraved lines in both regular and oblique versions. The...
There are thousands of pieces of vintage sheet music available for collectors and curiosity seekers. Prior to the 1930s, a large percentage of them had wonderfully hand-lettered titles on the covers, but gradually there...
From the title on the sheet music for the 1935 composition “Along Tobacco Road” comes Deco Triline JNL in both regular and oblique versions. Reminiscent of Broadway if done as a neon sign, this...
Using examples of antique street signs from New York City, Stickball JNL recreates the iconic lettering in a digital typeface and is available in both regular and oblique versions. For a nostalgic touch, a...
The type design for Impecunious JNL comes from the 1939 sheet music for “You Don’t Know How Much You Can Suffer (Until You Fall in Love)”. The name comes from another piece of sheet...