font_designer: Jeff Levine

Type Uncommon JNL

Type Uncommon JNL font

Never let it be said that a good pun and a good font name can’t work well together. The vintage sheet music for a 1920s-era song called “King Tut” (not to be confused with...

Southwest Serenade JNL

Southwest Serenade JNL font

The 1940s-era hand-lettered title on vintage sheet music for the song hit “Donkey Serenade” had an interpretation of the classic typeface “Broadway” used in a Mexican/Southwest motif with wavy lines cutting through the letters....

Piano Solo JNL

Piano Solo JNL font

The hand-lettered name on a couple of 1940s-era piano course books was the basis for Piano Solo JNL.

Moving Headlines JNL

Moving Headlines JNL font

For decades, visitors to Times Square could look up and read the up-to-the-minute news flashes that moved across a giant electric sign on the face of the old New York Times Building (now known...

Printers Drawer JNL

Printers Drawer JNL font

Printers Drawer JNL continues building on a library of letterpress illustrations, cartoons, ad builders, Art Deco ad panels, ornaments, embellishments, and general miscellany. The images are re-drawn from vintage source material, and this font...

Model Railroad JNL

Model Railroad JNL font

The block style lettering with rounded corners found on a package for model railroad kit parts was the inspiration for Model Railroad JNL.

Golden Opportunity JNL

Golden Opportunity JNL font

The cover of vintage sheet music for “With Plenty of Money and You (The Gold Diggers’ Lullaby)” from the Warner Brothers musical “Gold Diggers of 1937” had the movie title hand-lettered in a classic...

Print Sellers JNL

Print Sellers JNL font

Another batch of vintage letterpress cartoons, cuts, dingbats and embellishments is offered in Print Sellers JNL.

Print Promoters JNL

Print Promoters JNL font

Print Promoters JNL is another batch of classic dingbats re-drawn from vintage source material. This collection features stock words and phrases with a few decorative embellishments thrown in for good measure.

Deco Hotel JNL

Deco Hotel JNL font

Hand lettering on the Art Deco-era sheet music for a song entitled “Rosemary” was the model for this delicate monoline design called Deco Hotel JNL.