font_designer: Jeff Levine

Showgirl JNL

Showgirl JNL font

Showgirl JNL was inspired by a photo of a 1940s-era Minsky’s Burlesque theater. The neon letters on the marquee spelling out the word ‘burlesque’ exuded a wonderful period look.

Stencil Monograms JNL

Stencil Monograms JNL font

Stencil Monograms JNL combines elements from vintage paper and brass stencils to create this attractive set of monogram initials for print, stencil making and other creative applications.

And So Forth JNL

And So Forth JNL font

Barbara D. Berney (a graphic artist and friend of Jeff Levine) had suggested making a font featuring many of the ampersands from Jeff’s large library of type, noting their popularity as decorative embellishments. And...

Nightcap JNL

Nightcap JNL font

It’s not a new idea – combining two typefaces into one design, but when it works, it makes for an interesting novelty font. Nightcap JNL is a fun typeface that can be used by...

Tropical Tourist JNL

Tropical Tourist JNL font

A 1934 advertisement for the Roney Plaza Hotel at 23rd Street and Collins Avenue on Miami Beach yielded the inspiration for Tropical Tourist JNL. While this wonderful example of Art Deco lettering survived, sadly...

Weeneez JNL

Weeneez JNL font

Weeneez JNL is an out-and-out novelty font made entirely of hot dogs. The font contains only the alphabet and numerals and a few other symbols including basic punctuation marks.

Fordham JNL

Fordham JNL font

Fordham JNL is a slab serif typeface in regular and oblique versions that has a casual, informal look reminiscent of 50s and 60s-era ad headlines.

Interoffice Memo JNL

Interoffice Memo JNL font

Interoffice Memo JNL was inspired by an image of a plastic lettering template used for making mimeographed fliers in the days prior to the widespread use of photocopy machines. A classic Deco-style alphabet is...

Double Nines JNL

Double Nines JNL font

Double Nines JNL is a dingbat font containing fifty-five glyphs for the tiles found in the second level of domino games. Sets of dominoes can be of either double six, double nine or double...

Emporia JNL

Emporia JNL font

Emporia JNL is a wonderfully decorative and vintage wood type named for a city in Kansas, and modeled from just a dozen images of individual type blocks spotted for auction online. The release of...