font_foundry: Jeff Levine

A “tunesmith” is one so nicknamed because the person or persons craft (compose) a song from scratch. When the area of Broadway known as Tin Pan Alley was in its heyday, every music publisher’s...

Three of the four letters of the name “Jane” on the cover of a vintage piece of sheet music inspired So Nouveau JNL. The free-form swoops emulating the pen lettering of the early 1900s...

Erratic JNL earns its name from the varying widths and shapes of the hand lettering found on some old Art-Deco era sheet music. Following this unusual pattern throughout the complete typeface, the user finds...

Based in part on the hand-lettered title for a piece of vintage sheet music, Hayride JNL gets both its inspiration and name from Michael Todd’s 1948 production “Mexican Hayride”. The original design was in...

Pop Tune JNL comes from the hand-lettered title on sheet music for “Does Your Heart Beat for Me?”. This 1940s hit was co-written and made famous by Russ Morgan and His Orchestra. Many vintage...

Printers Playtoys JNL is another set of vintage letterpress cuts and embellishments that have been carefully re-drawn and added to the growing collection at Jeff Levine Fonts.

Vocalist JNL is a bit of a novelty Art Deco typeface based on hand lettering from some 1940s sheet music. Using the classic “thick and thin” style of the day, a number of letters...

Wine Cellar JNL is a bold, yet casual display face found on some 1930s-era sheet music entitled “Everybody Wants a Key to My Cellar”. Since the subject of the song had a number of...