Vododeo JNL
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...
font_designer: Jeff Levine
Town And Country JNL
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...
Song And Dance JNL
The hand lettering of a piece of 1930s sheet music’s title has once more yielded an interesting take on the popular “thick and thin” lettering of the Art Deco period.
Cafe Society JNL
Vintage sheet music was initially a partial inspiration for what started out as a simple retro typeface, but the basic hand-lettered design from the Art Deco era lent itself to some further experimentation. Geometric...
Borough Park JNL
Borough Park JNL is named for a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, NY and was modeled from hand lettering found on vintage sheet music.
Nouveau Yorke JNL
Inspired by the hand-lettered address for the publisher of some 1920s sheet music, Nouveau Yorke JNL is a throwback to a simpler period in time when sheet music and piano rolls were the mainstay...
Prospect Park JNL
Prospect Park JNL was inspired by inline lettering found on some vintage sheet music from the Art Deco era entitled “By My Side”. The font’s namesake is located in the Crown Heights section of...
Prospect Heights JNL
While the inspiration for Prospect Heights JNL may have been a piece of vintage sheet music entitled “My Ohio Lullaby”, the name is classically New York. To be precise, it’s a neighborhood in the...
Transcribed JNL
The term “transcribed” takes on many definitions. In sheet music (the source of this type face design) it means to set down onto paper. In the formative days of radio, and until the advent...
Stationery Department JNL
A 1940s-era package of “Herald Square” carbon paper sold by the F.W. Woolworth 5 & 10 cent stores offered up the hand lettered Art Deco design of Stationery Department JNL.