font_designer: Jeff Levine

Thataway JNL

Thataway JNL font

Thataway JNL is an assortment of arrows in many different sizes, shapes and directions that were collected from antique letterpress blocks and other vintage sources.

Tightwad JNL

Tightwad JNL font

“I Don’t like No Cheap Man” is a piece of early 1900s sheet music featuring its title hand lettered in a condensed slab serif design. The influences of the Art Nouveau era are clearly...

Tryout Nouveau JNL

Tryout Nouveau JNL font

The hand lettered Art Nouveau title on the sheet music for “Why Don’t You Try” (1905) served as the inspiration for Tryout Nouveau JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Western Trail JNL

Western Trail JNL font

For decades, Samuel Welo’s “Studio Handbook for Artists and Advertisers” was a source of inspiration for sign painters, graphic artists and designers. In later years, many digital revivals of Welo’s hand lettered typography have...

Sportsboard JNL

Sportsboard JNL font

Sportsboard JNL is a serif font alternate to the popular Flipboard JNL, which emulates the electronic flip-character message boards found at airports, sporting venues and used for election tallies. The type design used for...

Spring Season JNL

Spring Season JNL font

Spring Season JNL is a decorated and stylized Art Deco slab serif design from1935 which is based on the hand lettered title on the sheet music for “Paris in the Spring”. The characters are...

Personalization

Personalization font

In the 1960s it was a popular trend to personalize one’s possessions with your initials. From wallets and handbags to eyeglasses; from luggage to even cars, initial personalization was the fad of the time....

Piano Music JNL

Piano Music JNL font

A 1910 collection of piano sheet music called “Presser’s Economy Group” had that name hand lettered in a fancy serif lettering style that could fall somewhere between Art Nouveau and semi-calligraphic. No matter the...

Picturesque Stencil JNL

Picturesque Stencil JNL font

Picturesque Stencil JNL gets its name and design from the title of a circa-1920s children’s stencil activity book entitled “Dean’s Picturesque Stencil Book No. 10 – Series 75”; published by the F. Weber Company...

Play Day Stencil JNL

Play Day Stencil JNL font

The typography on a 1964 children’s activity book published by Whitman entitled “Build with Stencils” was in a bold, condensed design. The only problem was that the ‘rails’ [the parts that divide a letter...