font_foundry: Jeff Levine

Old Bodoni Wide JNL is based on examples of this classic Bodoni design and contains the quirks and imperfections one might find within a wood type font.

It’s bold, it’s blocky, it has rounded corners and was inspired by hand lettering on a vintage booklet for children’s craft gift projects. It has regular and oblique versions. It’s Gift List JNL.

The 1907 novelty song “Since Arrah Wanna Married Barney Carney” (about an Irishman taking an Indian maiden as his bride) had its title hand-lettered in a sans serif style that reflected both the Art...

A vintage hand-punched brass stencil for the Pasadena Playhouse spotted online was the basis for Theatrical Stencil JNL. Slight variations in the letter forms from other similar designs might not quickly be noticed, but...

Frantic Pace JNL is based on hand lettering found on the lid of a late 1950s or early 1960s edition of the Print Craft alphabet printing set once manufactured by the Superior Marking Equipment...

Loosely based on some hand-lettered title cards from various vintage Columbia Pictures two-reel comedies, Short Subject JNL is a pleasant sans serif typeface that is aptly suited for titling and other similar applications.

Washington Heights JNL is a sans serif type design based on a vintage hand-made directional sign for the New York subway system.

Crude Stencil JNL is a rough auto-tracing of a vintage lettering stencil from the 1980s, with additional characters added in post-production. At small type sizes, the lettering takes on a “grunge” effect, but larger...

For years, the print ads for the Hickok Jewelry Company [renowned for their line of men’s belts, suspenders, wallets, cufflinks, etc.] featured its name and related main line ad copy hand-lettered in a condensed...