font_foundry: Jeff Levine

Hand lettering on the cover of the 1932 sheet music for “Sleep, Come On and Take Me” was the basis for Overnight JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The sheet music for the 1914 Word War I comic novelty song “When the War Breaks Out in Mexico I’m Going to Go to Montreal” had one of those overly-worded song titles popular during...

The lettering style of Location JNL is based on sets of “vintage” metal house identification letters and numbers seen for sale online. As these sets are available from overseas sources, it’s not clear whether...

Vintage French tin stencils with various phrases were the model for Paris Stencil JNL. The type design is available in both regular and oblique versions.

An image of a vintage, hand-cut metal stencil with just a set of bold numerals inspired the design of Bold Metal Stencil JNL. The typeface is available in both regular and oblique versions.

From the 1917 sheet music for “The World Has Been So Mean to Me” comes a wonderfully hand lettered chamfered sans with varying widths and character shapes, now released digitally as Sentiment JNL in...

Snow Job JNL was inspired by the hand lettered titles for the 1964 Rankin-Bass animated holiday classic “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”. Because of the variable heights of the characters they float about the...

Kids Activities JNL is based on the hand lettering found on the covers of some 1955 Cub Scouts activity books. It’s available in both regular and oblique versions.

The unusually-shaped hand lettering of Penny Wise JNL was modeled from the cover of the 1936 sheet music for “You Dropped Me Like a Red Hot Penny”, and is available in both regular and...

Despite the racially demeaning 1906 sheet music for “The Ghost of the Banjo Coon”, the title’s lettering provided an interesting hand-lettered sans serif that has been re-drawn digitally as Showmanship JNL in both regular...