font_designer: Jeff Levine

Nouveau Eccentrique JNL is a novelty Art Nouveau lettering style found on some 1920s sheet music cheerfully entitled “I’m Glad I Can Make You Cry”.

A little ditty from France circa the 1940s called “J’ai Rêvé Dans Tes Bras” (which loosely translated means “I’ve Dreamed in Your Arms”) offered up its title hand lettered in an interesting Art Deco...

Easy Living JNL is a bold Art Deco type face modeled from the name of a 1930s magazine entitled “Country Living”.

A piece of 1940s sheet music for the song “Blue Orchids” was the inspiration for both the type design (based on the hand lettered title) as well as the font’s name.

Vintage sheet music for a song from the Broadway Musical “Kiss Me Kate” is the inspiration for Katydid JNL. The play’s name was written in a ball-and-line type of lettering which somewhat resembles either...

Brush-style lettering has been a perennial favorite for designers and sign painters because it brings to mind casual, relaxed or friendly themes. A vintage piece of sheet music called “Pretty Butterfly” by Sunny Skylar...

Take a classic hand lettered Art Deco alphabet, add in a treatment of dual straight vertical lines and the resulting typeface is Double Line Deco JNL.

In older American slang, a “bum steer” is a bad tip, some bad advice or being sent in the wrong direction (to name a few examples). Bum Steer JNL was modeled from some playful...