font_designer: Jeff Levine

An ad from the 1930s for a Spanish company called Intex Textiles featured some hand lettering in a bold and unique stencil design.This is now available as Textile Stencil JNL, in both regular and...

While viewing a video posted to YouTube of a 1952 drive through Los Angeles, a building was passed for King Bros. Productions, Inc.The lettering on the signage was designed in a stylized Art Deco...

Browsing through an online edition of the Feb 29, 1960 issue of Billboard magazine, an ad was spotted for the Jamie record label of Philadelphia.The text was hand lettered in a free-form show card...

A circa-1940s textbook for the Esterbrook Drawlet Pens (similar to Speedball pens) offered numerous samples of lettering that could be obtained by following the simple directions and using the book as a guide.One example...

Shadowland was a magazine dedicated to the arts, and was published from 1919 through 1923. The lettering for its masthead was hand lettered in a then-contemporary Art Nouveau style.Although the photoplay (movies) was just...

A comic book feature entitled “Foe of the Borgias” appeared in 1937’s New Adventure Comics.The hand lettered title was done in a slab serif Art Deco style and is recreated digitally as Classic Comics...

In a career spanning the early 1900s through 1940, George M. Cohan wrote and produced over 50 plays, 300 songs and was also an actor, singer and dancer.Many of his works honored his Irish...

In the collection of vintage and historic images available online from the Library of Congress is one of the exterior of the Town Talk Diner in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Regrettably, on May 28, 2020, the Town...

The packing information stenciled on an antique wooden crate included a slab serif type style with chamfered corners. This design has now been re-drawn as the digital typeface Stencil Chamfer JNL, which is available...

The cover of the 1929 sheet music from the First National/Vitaphone picture “The Girl from Woolworth’s” had its title (“Someone”) hand lettered. This single word title was the model for Store Clerk JNL, which...