font_designer: Jeff Levine

In the 1889 Franklin Type Foundry specimen book is a type face called “Armenian”.With lighter weight horizontal slab serifs than more traditional Western fonts, it could be pictured as being used as copy on...

An image for a travel poster for the resort of Tulum, Mexico with its 1970s-era highly stylized semi-stencil type design inspired Vacation Mexicana JNL; available in both regular and oblique versions.

Typemonger JNL is based on Two Line Sans Serif from the British type specimen book of Vincent Figgins (circa 1860), and is available in both regular and oblique versions.The word ‘monger’ is an old...

An image from the Library of Congress showing a New York City Italian Kitchen storefront window and its various neon signs inspired Spaghetti Joint JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.The...

It’s not often a vintage cartoon can inspire a type design, but such is the case when the name “Daffy Duck” is hand lettered on a mailbox in the 1946 Warner Brothers cartoon “The...

A roughened and worn version of Daily Tabloid JNL was originally created as a non-exclusive custom font for a client.The design emulates the look of old letterpress wood type and has now been released...

For many decades, the fashion magazine “Vogue” featured superbly illustrated covers before photography became more commonplace. During the 1930s and 1940s those illustrations were accompanied by many creative styles of hand lettering for its...

In their book “Lettering of Today” by W. Ben and Ed C. Hunt, an Art Deco “thick and thin” alphabet with some stylized characters (which leaned a lot toward a calligraphic style) stood out...

Hand lettering used in the trailer for the 1943 movie musical “Broadway Rhythm” was the inspiration for Show Tune JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Another filter effect version of Adhesive Serif Letters JNL (of which the original design was modeled after some vintage gummed letters used for signage) and is called Shattered Dreams JNL.This variant has jagged edges...