Retro Packaging JNL
A vintage rubber stamp alphabet and star printing set had a package header with Art Deco-inspired lettering describing the product. Sold by a company called Elvin [circa late 50’s-early 1960s], these Japanese-made sets were...
font_designer: Jeff Levine
Tuxedo Stencil JNL
The sheet music for the 1934 tune “Two in A Dream” had the title hand lettered in a bold type style that utilized some stencil and some solid lettering. Following through on the stencil...
Eckhardt Bold JNL
Eckhardt Bold JNL continues a series of sign painter-inspired type designs and is named in honor of the late Al Eckhardt, a talented sign man who was a good friend of Jeff Levine for...
Evening Walk JNL
The cover of the sheet music for 1930’s “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home” features the title hand lettered in a bold sans serif with the slightest flair of Art Nouveau styling. This design is...
Modern English JNL
Alf Becker was a master sign painter and lettering stylist who created well over 100 alphabets for a monthly feature in the trade magazine “Sign of the Times” during the 1930s and 1940s. Thanks...
Mystery Show JNL
Mystery Show JNL was modeled after the hand lettered titles found on various early episodes of the 1950s TV suspense program “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”. The design emulates characteristics found in Frederic W. Goudy’s Copperplate...
Casual Signage JNL
Alf Becker was a talented sign writer and a prolific contributor of unique alphabets to Signs of the Times magazine. More than one hundred of his designs were showcased in monthly installments with each...
Costumed Hero JNL
Comic books are filled with pages full of the daring adventures of crime fighters with colorful costumes, amazing abilities and wondrous powers. They have enthralled kids of all ages since the 1930s. Costumed Hero...
Top Tune JNL
The 1955 British edition of the sheet music for Frank Sinatra’s hit “I’m Walking Behind You” had its title hand lettered in a sans serif design straight out of the Art Deco era. This...
Two Step Nouveau JNL
Popular music of the early 1900s included a genre called two step; round dances utilizing a sliding step with a tempo in either march or polka time. 1911’s “Daughters of the American Revolution” was...