font_designer: Jeff Levine

Morningside Heights JNL

Morningside Heights JNL font

Named for a Manhattan neighborhood, Morningside Heights JNL is based on lettering found on a 1920s-era piece of sheet music. Part of the charm of hand lettering from the Art Nouveau era is found...

Transcribed JNL

Transcribed JNL font

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

Stationery Department JNL font

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.

Bay Ridge JNL

Bay Ridge JNL font

Bay Ridge JNL, modeled from vintage sheet music lettering, is named for a neighborhood in the Southwest corner of the borough of Brooklyn, New York.

Cast And Crew JNL

Cast And Crew JNL font

Cast and Crew JNL is a condensed monoline font that lends itself well to any text project where more copy needs to fit into a limited space. A perfect example of this is a...

Cowboy Lament JNL

Cowboy Lament JNL font

A lament is a sad song, and the music of the cowboys of the Old West had their fair share of them. However, a vintage piece of sheet music from the early part of...

Classification JNL

Classification JNL font

Sometimes it’s easy to find a name to fit a font design, other times it’s a struggle because of the sheer number of digital fonts available and the number of names already taken. Classification...

Sea Cruise JNL

Sea Cruise JNL font

Years before the “Jet Age”, and way before computers and satellite television turned us into jaded “armchair travelers”, the ocean voyage aboard giant steamships to distant ports of call beckoned many to travel the...

Service Deluxe JNL

Service Deluxe JNL font

Titles from the 1938 movie “Service Deluxe” starring Vincent Price and Constance Bennett were the inspiration for the similarly named Art Deco typeface Service Deluxe JNL.

Olde Nouveau JNL

Olde Nouveau JNL font

Olde Nouveau JNL is an interesting Art Nouveau typeface based on lettering found on some vintage sheet music. It’s name is a contradictory pun, since “Nouveau” means new in French, and Olde (spelled in...