font_foundry: Jeff Levine

In 1935, Morris Fuller Benton designed Phenix American for American Type Founders. For 2017, the classic Art Deco design has been reinterpreted in an all-caps display version with an ever-so-slight “hand made” feel. Industrial...

The sheet music for the 1917 song “Wake Up Virginia (and Prepare for Your Wedding Day)” features a hand lettered title in a sans serif Art Nouveau design with stencil influences. This was the...

Early 1900s songwriters had a penchant for devising lengthy titles for their compositions. A perfect example from 1909, “It Is Hard to Kiss Your Sweetheart When the Last Kiss Means ‘Good Bye’” is a...

Sheet music for the 1915 song “Is There Still Room for Me Neath the Old Apple Tree” had the title hand-lettered in a condensed, square sans serif. Although far from the more decorative lettering...

Songs of the early 1900s were anything but the status quo in topic or style. Excessively long titles, novelty tunes and “foreign themes” permeated the piles of sheet music in the local music shops....

The simple, hand lettered sans serif title on the 1935 sheet music for “Campus Moon” was the design model for Moonlit Night JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

A sheet music edition of an early 1900s song entitled “You Taught Me How to Love You, Now Teach Me to Forget” was hand lettered in a free-form Art Nouveau style that combined varying...

Junior Clerk JNL is the plain sans serif version of the lettering found on the cover of the sheet music for 1919’s “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise”. The song title was originally...