font_designer: Jeff Levine

French Stencil Sans JNL

French Stencil Sans JNL font

French Stencil Sans JNL is another typeface based on vintage French tin/zinc stencils. Slightly rounded corners and a “hand-cut” look add an interesting and charming variation that breaks away from the “standard” design of...

Decade Nouveau JNL

Decade Nouveau JNL font

Decade Nouveau JNL is based on examples of an Art Nouveau wood type with a bit of Latin/Western typographic flare, and yet it is also reminiscent of the style’s revival during the hippie movement...

Typewriter Sans JNL

Typewriter Sans JNL font

At first glance, Typewriter Sans JNL seems to look like the pantograph lettering of an engraved sign or the rounded-end lettering from an architect’s templates. It might also be mistaken for plastic pin-back lettering...

Techno Retro JNL

Techno Retro JNL font

Techno Retro JNL looks like a design straight out of the 1980s, but it actually appeared as hand lettering on a sheet music cover for the circa-1940s edition of the song “To You Sweetheart,...

Shareholder JNL

Shareholder JNL font

Shareholder JNL could possibly be found on a stock certificate, but in truth, it’s based on hand-lettering found on some old sheet music entitled “Sharing”.

Solitude JNL

Solitude JNL font

A piece of vintage sheet music with the hand lettered title “Solitude” is the namesake and inspiration for Solitude JNL. Purely Art Deco in its typographic curves and angles of the period, this typeface...

Song Folio JNL

Song Folio JNL font

A 1940s Australian song folio featuring tunes performed by singer-actress Deanna Durbin had her name hand lettered in an interesting Art Deco style sans. This became the basis for Song Folio JNL, capturing all...

Western Wood Type JNL

Western Wood Type JNL font

Inspired by a sample of a vintage wood type supplied by a fan of Jeff Levine fonts, Western Wood Type JNL is a traditional Clarendon-style condensed typeface from the era of letterpress and the...

Clarenwood Stencil JNL

Clarenwood Stencil JNL font

It’s a wood type! It’s a stencil font! It’s BOTH! Clarenwood Stencil JNL was originally designed as a solid alphabet (Clarenwood JNL) modeled from vintage wood type. The stencil treatment was applied to add...

Dance Partner JNL

Dance Partner JNL font

The unusual mix of Art Deco lettering with a smattering of Art Nouveau characters found within Dance Partner JNL comes from a movie poster for the 1935 RKO picture “Roberta” starring Fred Astaire and...