font_designer: Jeff Levine

Despite the racially demeaning 1906 sheet music for “The Ghost of the Banjo Coon”, the title’s lettering provided an interesting hand-lettered sans serif that has been re-drawn digitally as Showmanship JNL in both regular...

The Art nouveau era sheet music “Goodbye Sweet Old Manhattan Isle” (1905) offers up a classic hand lettered sans reflective of that era. It is available digitally as Trolley JNL in both regular and...

The unusually-shaped hand lettering of Penny Wise JNL was modeled from the cover of the 1936 sheet music for “You Dropped Me Like a Red Hot Penny”, and is available in both regular and...

The hand lettered title on the sheet music for 1917’s “If They’d Never Take You from Me” was the basis for the Art Nouveau sans design of Nouveau Romance JNL. This elegant sans serif...

Sheet music for another one of those songs from the early part of the 20th Century with a wonderfully wordy hand lettered title was the model for the Art Nouveau flavored Go Home JNL,...

Changing Times JNL was inspired by the hand lettering on the cover of the 1929 sheet music for “Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up that Old Gang of Mine)”. While the font’s name is an...

The cover of the 1919 sheet music for “While Others are Building Castles in the Air I’ll Build A Cottage for Two” had its title hand lettered in a wonderfully eccentric Art Nouveau serif...

The cover on the sheet music for the 1922 song “If She Comes from Dixie” had the title hand-lettered in an Art Nouveau style with a semi-stencil effect. It’s now available as Nouveau Semi...

Sheet music for the song “My Ideal” (from the 1930 Paramount picture “Playboy of Paris” starring Maurice Chevalier) had the name of the movie hand lettered in an Art Deco, Broadway-influenced type design. This...

Another variant to the ever-popular Art Deco sans lettering with solid centers (no counters) was found in the hand-lettered title on the cover of the 1933 song “There’s A Ring around the Moon”. This...