font_designer: Jeff Levine

Nouveau Era JNL

Nouveau Era JNL font

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.

Greenwich Village JNL

Greenwich Village JNL font

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

Cover Charge JNL font

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...

Candle Wax JNL

Candle Wax JNL font

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 font

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...

Printers Helpmates JNL

Printers Helpmates JNL font

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

Gambling Resort JNL font

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

Easy Money JNL font

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...

Evening Wear JNL

Evening Wear JNL font

Evening Wear JNL, drawn from the elegant monoline lettering used as titling on the sheet music for “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”, conjures up images of 1930s New York at its apex. Fine restaurants,...

Debutante JNL

Debutante JNL font

1920s Art Nouveau hand lettering from the sheet music for Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” is the inspiration for Debutante JNL.