Debutante JNL
1920s Art Nouveau hand lettering from the sheet music for Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” is the inspiration for Debutante JNL.
font_designer: Jeff Levine
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...
Songbook JNL
Songbook JNL is based on a promotional blurb from the back of a piece of vintage sheet music. Its interesting style of slab serif lettering with strong Art Deco influence was worthy of re-drawing...
Liebestraum JNL
A Liebestraum, in German is a “dream of love” or “love dream”. Based on the ornate sheet music title from a 1920s edition of Franz Liszt’s composition, Liebestraum JNL captures and preserves the unique...
Finery JNL
A 1949 piece of piano solo sheet music entitled “Playing Jacks” contained the title beautifully hand-lettered in a stencil-like alphabet. Finery JNL is the digital version of this design.
Raccoon Coat JNL
A piece of hand lettered sheet music from the era of the “Roaring Twenties” served as a model for Raccoon Coat JNL. It was a time of Prohibition, bathtub gin, flappers and college boys...
Park Slope JNL
The free-form geometric shapes of the lettering on a vintage piece of sheet music entitled “Four Pictures” is the basis for Park Slope JNL, named for a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Nouveau Nights JNL
The deep well of creativity that is the era of the hand lettered sheet music title page brings forth Nouveau Nights JNL. Re-drawn from a period example of the 1920s, this titling font perfectly...
Kwun Tong JNL
Loosely based on a hand lettered title found on vintage sheet music for the song “Hong Kong”, the design for Kwun Tong JNL emulates the letters and numbers formed from pieces of bamboo stalk....
Deco Of Tomorrow JNL
On occasion, when seeking retro source material for font designs, one can unearth interesting examples of typography that bridges decades with its ahead-of-its-time style. The songwriter credits on one particular piece of vintage sheet...