font_designer: Jeff Levine

Winery JNL

Winery JNL font

A rubber stamp printing set from the 1930s (or possibly earlier) was the model for Winery JNL. Containing a pleasant serif font, it also provided a few little touches unusual for such toy sets...

Fastenating JNL

Fastenating JNL font

Since the 1800s, many patents were issued for methods to hold papers together. The two most popular and enduring tools still in use today are the stapler and the paper clip. In recent times...

Kashigata Stencils JNL

Kashigata Stencils JNL font

Kashigata Stencils JNL is a collection of 52 beautiful Japanese stencil images used for decorating sugar cakes to honor deceased family members with the crest of that family. Re-drawn from images of some vintage...

Old Miami Beach JNL

Old Miami Beach JNL font

The grandeur of what was Miami Beach had its golden years peak in the 1940s. One of the grande dame hotels that stood at Collins Avenue and 23rd Street was the Roney Plaza; built...

Poster Chamfer JNL

Poster Chamfer JNL font

Type books and lettering manuals of the 1900s were resplendent with examples of chamfered type faces, as this was a popular and simple style of lettering that was easy to reproduce with little effort....

Deconstructed JNL

Deconstructed JNL font

Deconstructed JNL is another set of rubber stamp alphabet letters and numbers from a 1930s toy printing set. The original typeface of this set is Cheltenham Open. The stamps were printed out and scanned,...

Window Dressing JNL

Window Dressing JNL font

A picture of some cast metal letters in a 1950s architectural signage catalog was the basis for Window Dressing JNL. The clean, simple lines as well as the unusual letter form of the B...

Roman Wood Type JNL

Roman Wood Type JNL font

Roman Wood Type JNL is based on a partial set of wood type in the style of Clarendon Condensed that was seen in an online auction.

Sign Designer JNL

Sign Designer JNL font

Sign Designer JNL was inspired by a set of 1960s-era gold foil embossed self-adhesive letters.

Two Cents Plain JNL

Two Cents Plain JNL font

Two Cents Plain JNL is a simple sans design for titling, sign work, display ads and so forth. The name is derived from the way folks in the Northeast used to ask for a...