font_foundry: Jeff Levine

A 1940s sheet music edition of an early 1900s song entitled “You Taught Me How to Love You, Now Teach Me to Forget” was set in a popular metal type slab serif face. It...

Bay Area Nouveau JNL is an ultra bold, Art Nouveau headline font inspired by hand lettering on the cover of a piece of 1911 sheet music entitled “The Only Pal I Ever Had Came...

An interesting bit of Art Deco influenced serif hand lettering was found on the cover of the sheet music for 1938’s “Boatman’s Serenade”. This became the model for the digital font Inlet JNL; available...

Musical Prelude JNL is a thin Art Deco typeface with some interesting character shapes, and was inspired by the hand lettering on the cover of the 1933 sheet music for “Blue Prelude” by Gordon...

Artful Nouveau JNL was modeled from the hand lettering on the sheet music cover for the 1910 song “Gee, But It’s Great to Meet a Friend from Your Home Town”.

A 1935 song with the unusual title of “Dinner for One Please, James” had its title hand lettered on the cover of the sheet music with simple, condensed letters made by a round point...

The hand lettered words “favorite songs” in the masthead of the 1940s British music collection “Albert’s Favourite Song Album No. 4” inspired Song Vendor JNL, which is available in regular and oblique versions.

Front Row JNL is an all-caps reinterpretation of Morris Fuller Benton’s 1937 type design “Empire”, and is available in both regular and oblique versions. As is often the case when a digital type font...