font_designer: Jeff Levine

Fence Post JNL

Fence Post JNL font

The inspiration for Fence Post JNL comes out of an early 1900s manual for sign writing. A number of changes were made to make the design more aesthetically pleasing, but it retains its novelty...

Lamp Post JNL

Lamp Post JNL font

Lamp Post JNL is a digital interpretation of a design popular in the early 1900s called Post Old Style; no doubt inspired by a certain Saturday periodical with a similar name. There is an...

Sports Play JNL

Sports Play JNL font

Re-drawn and modified from a set of early 1900s die-cut sign letters, Sports Play JNL is a chamfered typeface with an inline that reflects sports-themed topics.

Steel Stencil JNL

Steel Stencil JNL font

A group of unique metal plates with stencil initials cut into them was spotted while browsing through online auctions for source material. What made these items even more interesting was how some of the...

Stencil Designs JNL

Stencil Designs JNL font

Stencil Designs JNL collects twenty-six decorative designs from various vintage sources for use as spot embellishments, borders and corner pieces.

Winery JNL

Winery JNL font

A rubber stamp printing set from the 1930s (or possibly earlier) was the model for Winery JNL. Containing a pleasant serif font, it also provided a few little touches unusual for such toy sets...

Poster Chamfer JNL

Poster Chamfer JNL font

Type books and lettering manuals of the 1900s were resplendent with examples of chamfered type faces, as this was a popular and simple style of lettering that was easy to reproduce with little effort....

Old Miami Beach JNL

Old Miami Beach JNL font

The grandeur of what was Miami Beach had its golden years peak in the 1940s. One of the grande dame hotels that stood at Collins Avenue and 23rd Street was the Roney Plaza; built...

Deconstructed JNL

Deconstructed JNL font

Deconstructed JNL is another set of rubber stamp alphabet letters and numbers from a 1930s toy printing set. The original typeface of this set is Cheltenham Open. The stamps were printed out and scanned,...

Fastenating JNL

Fastenating JNL font

Since the 1800s, many patents were issued for methods to hold papers together. The two most popular and enduring tools still in use today are the stapler and the paper clip. In recent times...