font_designer: Jeff Levine

The 1951 sheet music of “I Like the Wide Open Spaces” has the cover title set in a casual type design that emulates the “one stroke” or “speed letter” style so popular with sign...

During the turbulent era of the 1960s, the youth of America found various ways to protest against “The Establishment”. Whether it was campus unrest, protest songs, sit-ins or other methods, the message was the...

The Raleigh Hotel at 18th Street and Collins Avenue on Miami Beach is an Art Deco landmark and part of the city’s popular tourist district. A vintage matchbook from the hotel had its name...

National Parks JNL was based on a 1930s WPA (Works Progress Administration) poster where the word “National Parks” was hand lettered in an unusual and eclectic Art Deco style. Bold and non-conformist, the typeface...

The sheet music for “I Used to be Color Blind” (from the 1938 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie “Carefree”) had its title crafted in ornate Art Deco hand lettering. Keeping the original letter forms, the...

The vintage sheet music for “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” yielded another bit of Art Deco-era lettering perfect for developing into a digital font. This time it wasn’t the song title,...

Spur Wide JNL was modeled from an example of hand lettering from the antique French alphabet book L’Art du Tracé Rationnel de la Lettre. Heavy Roman style letters with spurs (often referred to as...

Syndication JNL was derived from Outline Sans JNL. By removing the outer letters, a thinner character set remained. This typeface is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The cover of the 1938 sheet music for “Treasure Island March” had its title hand lettered in a rough-hewn Western style with overtones of Art Deco influence. All of the characters were “cleaned up”...

The 1954 sheet music for the song “Arrevederci Roma (Goodbye to Rome)” [from the MGM film “The Seven Hills of Rome”] was hand lettered in a medium-wide sans serif. This design is now available...