font_foundry: Jeff Levine
Take a classic sans serif typeface, run it through a filter for a “wind” effect then auto-trace the design. The result: a broken, jagged and rough type font called Erosion JNL.
Hand-lettered stencil lettering on the movie poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 dark comedy-thriller “The Trouble with Harry” inspired Hitchcock Stencil JNL; named in honor of the great master of suspense cinema.
Social Gathering JNL is modeled from the Art Deco hand-lettered title of a vintage piece of sheet music entitled “Three of Us”.
A vintage booklet from the Japan Tourist Bureau entitled “How to See Matsushima and Environs” had the title hand lettered in the Art Deco style which is the basis for Travel Brochure JNL. For...
Take Charge JNL is based on the opening title card for the 1936 film “The Charge of the Light Brigade” starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp and David Niven. The typeface...
Taken from the hand-lettered name on a 1930s-era tin for Cadet condoms, Bed and Bath JNL is pure Art Deco with thin line weight and varying character widths and shapes.
A photo from Gene Gable (a regular contributor of ideas to Jeff Levine Fonts) shows the vintage signage for the Lasher Hatchery in a slightly different take on the classic Art Deco solid letter...
The lettering for Fine Dining JNL was inspired by the opening titles for the 1940 Barbara Stanwyck-Fred MacMurray film “Remember the Night”. A stylized Art Deco sans, the typeface conjures up images of elegant...
What does a 1932 movie about a love affair between a circus’ trapeze artist and a sideshow “little person” have to do with the 1960s counter-culture? They both share some commonalities. The title card...
Open Case JNL is the distant cousin to the 2009 release by Jeff Levine Fonts called Cold Case JNL, as both were based on sets of lettering stencils designed and manufactured by the Huntington...