College Nouveau JNL
By the late 1920s, lettering and design had already begun to feel the influences of what would become the Art Deco Movement. The sheet music for the 1927 song “Without You Sweetheart” had its...
font_designer: Jeff Levine
Composer JNL
There are thousands of pieces of vintage sheet music available for collectors and curiosity seekers. Prior to the 1930s, a large percentage of them had wonderfully hand-lettered titles on the covers, but gradually there...
Common Stencil JNL
Common Stencil JNL takes a vintage lettering stencil from the 1980s with imperfectly bent cutting dies [which unintentionally gave the characters a distressed or “grunge” look] and recreates it in a digital form. The...
Comic Opera JNL
Comic Opera JNL (and its oblique version) is a wide, bold sans serif type design with an Art Deco influence based on a 1930s namesake poster from the WPA (Works Progress Administration) advertising a...
Condensed Chamfer JNL
Sheet music published in the 1860s for “The Soldier’s Chorus” [from the Gounod opera “Faust”] had the title and the arranger’s name hand lettered in a bold, condensed chamfer font. This was the basis...
Costumed Hero JNL
Comic books are filled with pages full of the daring adventures of crime fighters with colorful costumes, amazing abilities and wondrous powers. They have enthralled kids of all ages since the 1930s. Costumed Hero...
Conscription JNL
The sheet music for the 1914 Word War I comic novelty song “When the War Breaks Out in Mexico I’m Going to Go to Montreal” had one of those overly-worded song titles popular during...
Crepe Paper JNL
Crepe Paper JNL is an alphabet-only novelty font that creates a wavy ribbon headline with a vintage wood type alphabet that somewhat resembles an unfurled stretch of crepe paper. The upper case A-Z keys...
Cover Art JNL
Cover Art JNL was inspired by the hand-lettered sans serif title of an Art Deco era Portuguese magazine called Ilustraçáo. The mix of conventional and non-conventional letter forms made it a perfect candidate to...
Courtship JNL
The Art Nouveau hand lettered title on the sheet music for the 1909 composition “If the Wind Had Only Blown the Other Way” was the basis for Courtship JNL, which is available in both...