font_foundry: Jeff Levine

Up until the late 1920s, it was a popular habit in American songwriting to use African Americans as the topic of compositions using denigrating themes, words and even exaggerated character illustrations on the covers...

Quite Animated JNL is based on hand-lettered Art Deco titling for a 1930 advertisement promoting a group of Columbia Pictures cartoons featuring George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat”. Available in regular and oblique versions.

Amusement Ride Stencil JNL is based on a hand-cut paper stencil advising the riders to “Hold Onto Your Hats – Don’t Stand Up – Let’s Go Again!” Available in both regular and oblique versions.

Hand Cut Stencil JNL is a condensed Roman typeface modeled from an antique tin stencil hand cut for shipping merchandise. The design is available in regular and oblique versions.

The 1915 sheet music for the tune “Dancing the Jelly Roll Song” by Nat Vincent and Herman Paley featured the title hand-lettered in a sans serif design strongly influenced by the Art Nouveau movement...

Parenting JNL is a stylized Art Deco sans serif type design originally found on a vintage WPA (Works Progress Administration) poster designed by the Federal Art Project and touting the topic of “The Job...

Punch Tape JNL emulates the old-style pin-punched paper tapes that were used in everything from ticker tapes to moving electronic signage to early digital typesetting equipment. Pin punch characters were also used in the...

Tanker Stencil JNL is a sans serif design based on a vintage hand-punched brass marking stencil for oil barrels.

The sheet music cover of Lew Brown and Albert Von Tilzer’s 1917 wartime song “Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye (Soldier Boy)” had its title hand-lettered in a condensed sans serif design with the influence...

In the days when sheet music was as popular as phonograph records for home entertainment, a song album was a folio of collected works. The hand-lettering on the 1940s-era cover for “The Sigmund Romberg...