font_foundry: Jeff Levine

Bandleader JNL

Bandleader JNL font

How does one arrive at a font name? With the thousands of digital typefaces available, it’s not an easy process. Bandleader JNL was modeled from the hand-lettered title on a piece of sheet music...

Bandleader JNL

Bandleader JNL font

How does one arrive at a font name? With the thousands of digital typefaces available, it’s not an easy process. Bandleader JNL was modeled from the hand-lettered title on a piece of sheet music...

Candle Wax JNL

Candle Wax JNL font

The design of Candle Wax JNL comes from an original movie poster for the movie “Bell, Book and Candle” starring James Stewart. The oddly erratic letter forms conjure up ideas of spells, witchcraft and...

Cover Charge JNL

Cover Charge JNL font

Although less prevalent today, a cover charge was added to better class night clubs of the 1930s and 1940s to discourage patronage by people of questionable social graces. The general idea was that the...

Greenwich Village JNL

Greenwich Village JNL font

For decades, the Greenwich Village area of New York was a home for artists, poets, writers and free-thinkers of their time who were labeled “Bohemians” because of their non-conformist approach to life and the...

Belmont JNL

Belmont JNL font

Belmont JNL is named for an avenue in the Bronx, New York famous for once being the location of the Belmont Estate, which was the home of the Lorrillard tobacco family. The Art-Deco-era hand...

Pleasant Valley Sundae JNL

Pleasant Valley Sundae JNL font

It seems only fitting that Pleasant Valley Sundae JNL, a typeface re-drawn from hand lettering on a piece of vintage sheet music, should take its name as a pun on another song’s title from...

Pleasant Valley Sundae JNL

Pleasant Valley Sundae JNL font

It seems only fitting that Pleasant Valley Sundae JNL, a typeface re-drawn from hand lettering on a piece of vintage sheet music, should take its name as a pun on another song’s title from...

Tin Pan Alley JNL

Tin Pan Alley JNL font

According to Wikipedia, Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th...

Tin Pan Alley JNL

Tin Pan Alley JNL font

According to Wikipedia, Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th...