Nouveau Era JNL
Nouveau Era JNL was adapted from the title of a hand-lettered advertisement found on the back of a 1920s-1930s piece of vintage sheet music.
font_designer: Jeff Levine
Candle Wax JNL
The design of Candle Wax JNL comes from an original movie poster for the movie “Bell, Book and Candle” starring James Stewart. The oddly erratic letter forms conjure up ideas of spells, witchcraft and...
Belmont JNL
Belmont JNL is named for an avenue in the Bronx, New York famous for once being the location of the Belmont Estate, which was the home of the Lorrillard tobacco family. The Art-Deco-era hand...
Greenwich Village JNL
For decades, the Greenwich Village area of New York was a home for artists, poets, writers and free-thinkers of their time who were labeled “Bohemians” because of their non-conformist approach to life and the...
Cover Charge JNL
Although less prevalent today, a cover charge was added to better class night clubs of the 1930s and 1940s to discourage patronage by people of questionable social graces. The general idea was that the...
Printers Helpmates JNL
The collection of letterpress cuts included in Printers Helpers JNL offers a generous helping of billing and accounting helpers along with the usual assortment of pointing hands, stylized arrows, cartoon embellishments and other miscellaneous...
Gambling Resort JNL
Sheet music for the song “Beyond the Blue Horizon” from the motion picture “Monte Carlo” had the movie title in hand-lettering reminiscent of the Futura Black style, but with an inline stripe through each...
Easy Money JNL
The 1920s Art Nouveau movement spawned a number of beautiful hand lettered pieces of sheet music from that era. Attractive and narrow, the characters found on the title page of one such piece of...
Debutante JNL
1920s Art Nouveau hand lettering from the sheet music for Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” is the inspiration for Debutante JNL.
Thoroughfare JNL
The Art Deco style of the 1930s offers many variants of the popular “streamline” look in hand lettering found on old sheet music titles. Thoroughfare JNL is one such example of a monoline design...