font_designer: Jeff Levine

Printers Playthings JNL collects more cartoons, embellishments, ornaments and border pieces into one digital typeface; all re-drawn from vintage source material.

On occasion, one type design’s influence can result in a completely different end result. Take the hand lettering found on a 1920s piece of sheet music for the song “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”....

A “tunesmith” is one so nicknamed because the person or persons craft (compose) a song from scratch. When the area of Broadway known as Tin Pan Alley was in its heyday, every music publisher’s...

Stencil Work JNL was re-drawn from a vintage paper stencil with one inch high Roman letters and numbers, often found in stationery, drug and variety stores in the 1950s through the 1980s.

Vintage sheet music for the title song from the film “Forty Second Street” was the inspiration for Theater Lights JNL. While the idea of letters comprised of circles (to simulate bulbs) can be both...

Prospector JNL is based on a lettering example found in an old Speedball-pen lettering handbook.

Wine Cellar JNL is a bold, yet casual display face found on some 1930s-era sheet music entitled “Everybody Wants a Key to My Cellar”. Since the subject of the song had a number of...

Vocalist JNL is a bit of a novelty Art Deco typeface based on hand lettering from some 1940s sheet music. Using the classic “thick and thin” style of the day, a number of letters...

In the heyday of “Tin Pan Alley”, a song plugger was one whose job it was to bring a publisher’s song to the attention of performers, show producers and radio station executives; the forerunner...

Showpiece JNL was redrawn from the hand lettering for the name and address of a music publisher found on some 1930s-era sheet music. The lettering style has features influenced a bit by both the...