font_designer: Jeff Levine

Thoroughfare JNL

Thoroughfare JNL font

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 font

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...

Song Sheet JNL

Song Sheet JNL font

Sheet music for the 1930s song “Josephine” had its title hand lettered in a simple, bold sans design that is recreated in Song Sheet JNL. This bold sans is perfect for titling wherever strong...

Liebestraum JNL

Liebestraum JNL font

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

Finery JNL font

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

Raccoon Coat JNL font

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

Park Slope JNL font

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

Nouveau Nights JNL font

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...

Vododeo JNL

Vododeo JNL font

Vododeo JNL is directly named for the free-form sheet music title lettering from Jack Yellen and Milton Ager’s “Vo-Do-De-O”. The term itself was a catchphrase made popular during the era known as the “Roaring...

Town And Country JNL

Town And Country JNL font

Town and Country JNL features a mix of block-style characters along with rounded ones found so often in the Art Deco fonts of the 1940s. Modeled from the hand-lettered title on a piece of...