font_designer: Jeff Levine

The same 1935 piece of sheet music (“Along Tobacco Road”) that yielded the multi-line lettering design for Deco Triline JNL has also provided lettering examples inspired by the writers’ credits for what is now...

A vintage lettering stencil manufactured by the E-Z Letter Stencil Company of Baltimore, Maryland was the model for Schoolyard Stencil JNL, available in both regular and oblique versions. Re-drawn digitally and following the actual...

The sheet music for the 1914 Word War I comic novelty song “When the War Breaks Out in Mexico I’m Going to Go to Montreal” had one of those overly-worded song titles popular during...

Hand lettering on the cover of the 1932 sheet music for “Sleep, Come On and Take Me” was the basis for Overnight JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The lettering style of Location JNL is based on sets of “vintage” metal house identification letters and numbers seen for sale online. As these sets are available from overseas sources, it’s not clear whether...

Vintage French tin stencils with various phrases were the model for Paris Stencil JNL. The type design is available in both regular and oblique versions.

An image of a vintage, hand-cut metal stencil with just a set of bold numerals inspired the design of Bold Metal Stencil JNL. The typeface is available in both regular and oblique versions.

From the 1917 sheet music for “The World Has Been So Mean to Me” comes a wonderfully hand lettered chamfered sans with varying widths and character shapes, now released digitally as Sentiment JNL in...

Snow Job JNL was inspired by the hand lettered titles for the 1964 Rankin-Bass animated holiday classic “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”. Because of the variable heights of the characters they float about the...

Kids Activities JNL is based on the hand lettering found on the covers of some 1955 Cub Scouts activity books. It’s available in both regular and oblique versions.