font_designer: Jeff Levine

Sales Event JNL

Sales Event JNL font

Sales Event JNL is an inline sans that was modeled from examples of old wood type. Its casual, cheerful style well suits point-of-sale signage or banners, fun headlines and relaxed themes. The font is...

Primitive Tuscan JNL

Primitive Tuscan JNL font

Re-drawn from examples of vintage wood type, Primitive Tuscan JNL captures the essence of early letterpress printing of the 1800s; the styles of which were most closely associated with the Old West.

Militaria JNL

Militaria JNL font

Militaria JNL is a collection of various military insignias modeled from vintage printer’s blocks. While this in no way represents all ranks, specialties and branches of the military, it is still a nice little...

Sign Display Casual JNL

Sign Display Casual JNL font

A vintage hand lettered sign for a carnival game was the basis for Sign Display Casual JNL, a classic example of the “one stroke” casual text lettering that sets sign painters apart from sign...

Wood Tuscan JNL

Wood Tuscan JNL font

Wood Tuscan JNL is a bold, compressed serif font in the Tuscan style and was re-drawn from vintage wood type examples.

Jalopy JNL

Jalopy JNL font

History, as it’s said, tends to repeat itself. The round-point pen lettering used in the 1920s logo and ads for Dodge Brothers cars (pre-General Motors) is an early predecessor to the techno type styles...

Farming Stencil JNL

Farming Stencil JNL font

Examples of Australian brass stencils used for baling form the basis of Farming Stencil JNL. The hand-cut look of this typeface gives a more casual approach to a standard stencil design.

Art Class JNL

Art Class JNL font

Art Class JNL was re-created from the titling of a lettering booklet called “Drawlet Portfolio”, published by the Esterbrook Pen Company in the 1930s. Drawlet pens were Esterbrook’s answer to the popular Speedball lettering...

Pleasantwood JNL

Pleasantwood JNL font

Although wood types were at their peak of use during the letterpress era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there is a growing revival movement of “boutique” print shops who have embraced...

Nouveau Sans JNL

Nouveau Sans JNL font

Based on a few examples of an Art Nouveau-inspired wood type, Nouveau Sans JNL has an interesting mix of angles, curves and general letter shapes that are reminiscent of the period preceding the Art...