Dress Shirt JNL
A sample of monogram lettering entitled “Style 204 – Modern Block” (probably circa 1940s) yielded the thin Art Deco alphabet model for Dress Shirt JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.
font_designer: Jeff Levine
East Village JNL
The Federal Art Project division of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) employed numerous artists, musicians, actors and other creative sorts in a effort to help many survive the Great Depression of the 1930s. One...
Durable JNL
The front page of a late-1940s sales catalog for the [now defunct] Duro Decal Company of Chicago had its company name hand-lettered in a tall, condensed chamfered sans serif type design. Although chamfered lettering...
Eckhardt Bold JNL
Eckhardt Bold JNL continues a series of sign painter-inspired type designs and is named in honor of the late Al Eckhardt, a talented sign man who was a good friend of Jeff Levine for...
Eccentric Sans JNL
An instructional page from a vintage lettering book displayed online showed the construction of an Art Deco sans design with varying widths and stylized character shapes. This was the basis for Eccentric Sans JNL,...
Eat More Fruit JNL
Eat More Fruit JNL is an odd name for a typeface, but then again the lettering style of the font is just as unusual. Named for a 1940s-era poster espousing “Put more pep in...
Eckhardt Relaxed JNL
Eckhardt Relaxed JNL was modeled from an example of a casual, hand lettered alphabet from a page of a vintage textbook. This style of freehand lettering always lends itself well to posters, show card...
Elite Resort JNL
A 1940s sheet music edition of an early 1900s song entitled “You Taught Me How to Love You, Now Teach Me to Forget” was set in a popular metal type slab serif face. It...
Electrostatic JNL
Electrostatic JNL was inspired by the 1930s lettering for radio station WMCA in New York City. It was found as part of an ad for the station in a 1932 radio broadcasting trade magazine....
Endless Sixties JNL
Sunny summer days, white sand beaches and radical waves come to mind with Endless Sixties JNL, inspired by a poster for a surfing movie entitled “Planet Aura”. The image of the poster was provided...