font_designer: Jeff Levine

Monoline Rounded JNL

Monoline Rounded JNL font

Monoline Rounded JNL borrows the inline portion of Sales Event JNL. Making a few adjustments to some characters, it is now a lovely monoline with rounded terminals that emulates pen hand lettering.

Merchandising JNL

Merchandising JNL font

With some slight variation, Merchandising JNL was modeled from the lettering on a display box for Meyercord Decal letters and numbers. The phrase “make your own signs with decals” was lettered in a casual...

Letterpress Extras JNL

Letterpress Extras JNL font

Letterpress Extras JNL gathers more re-drawn images from the rich trove of vintage letterpress cuts. There’s plenty of pointing hands and decorative ornaments, a few cartoons and some assorted miscellany. Also included are images...

Stagehand JNL

Stagehand JNL font

Too often, familiarity in type design can fool us into mislabeling similar styles of lettering. The Art Deco years provided many variations of the thick-and-thin alphabet, and we tend to lump all of them...

Savings And Loan JNL

Savings And Loan JNL font

Savings and Loan JNL is a condensed slab serif with a square look to the letterforms. It’s perfect for titling applications, and exudes strength, dignity and legibility.

Marking Device JNL

Marking Device JNL font

Similar to date and numbering stamps, there once was manufactured rotary band stamps with different letter and number configurations that were used for various identification purposes. From a set of vintage bands acquired from...

Mechanical Stencil JNL

Mechanical Stencil JNL font

For well over a century, stencil machines allowed manufacturers, shippers and even the military to quickly mark and identify objects. Mechanical Stencil JNL was created from examples from one of these machines.

Marking Stencil JNL

Marking Stencil JNL font

With electronics taking over virtually every aspect of manufacturing, packaging and shipping, it’s almost difficult to envision a time when wooden crates were marked for identification by using brass stencils. Many of these stencils...

Space Deco JNL

Space Deco JNL font

Hand lettering used on the packaging of a space-themed rubber stamp toy set is the basis for Space Deco JNL. Blending the classic thick-and-thin line weights of the Art Deco style with sharply angled...

Shanghai JNL

Shanghai JNL font

Shanghai JNL is loosely based on the title lettering from “Charlie Chan in Shanghai”, one of the long-running series of detective films featuring the Asian sleuth and his “number one son”.