font_foundry: Jeff Levine

Old Sport JNL

Old Sport JNL font

The 1930s era French textbook on lettering “100 Alphabets Publicitaires déssinés par M. Moullet” featured a hand lettered chamfered alphabet with slab serifs reminiscent of sports lettering. Although intended for advertising and signage inspiration…

Retail Shop JNL

Retail Shop JNL font

Vintage New York neon signage alongside the landmark Dubrow’s Cafeteria [probably circa the 1940s] of the words “retail shop” inspired the namesake digital type design. Retail Shop JNL is a bold and somewhat eccentric...

Cattle Call JNL

Cattle Call JNL font

Cattle Call JNL is reminiscent of Old West posters and broadsides. The design is based on an extra condensed antique wood type and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Doggone It JNL

Doggone It JNL font

The hand lettering for the movie posters and collateral items for the 1962 film “Mondo Cane” inspired Doggone It JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions. “Mondo Cane” loosely translates into...

Eckhardt Relaxed JNL

Eckhardt Relaxed JNL font

Eckhardt Relaxed JNL was modeled from an example of a casual, hand lettered alphabet from a page of a vintage textbook. This style of freehand lettering always lends itself well to posters, show card...

French Calligraphic JNL

French Calligraphic JNL font

French Calligraphic JNL is actually more semi-calligraphic in nature. Its name takes a descriptive liberty because of the sharp, angled pen strokes of the original hand lettered example found in the 1930s publication “100...

Nouveau Stencil Ornate JNL

Nouveau Stencil Ornate JNL font

A 1902 publication entitled “Lettering for Schools & Colleges” had an example of an ornate, hand drawn stencil alphabet in the Art Nouveau style. This is now available digitally as Nouveau Stencil Ornate JNL,...

Patrol Car Stencil JNL

Patrol Car Stencil JNL font

Comic books based on popular characters have been around pretty much since the advent of comic books themselves. An edition of the “Car 54 Where Are You?” series published by Dell (and based on...

Quick Titling JNL

Quick Titling JNL font

An ad spotted in a 1960 issue of Billboard magazine promoting a 45 rpm release by Randy Lee doing the old song “Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?” featured the song title in...

Bookkeeper JNL

Bookkeeper JNL font

Bookkeeper JNL is based on the lighter weight version of R. Hunter Middleton’s ‘Karnak’, produced in 1936 for Ludlow. “Karnak” itself was based on the geometric slab-serif “Memphis”, designed in 1929 by Dr. Rudolf...