font_designer: Jeff Levine

Some vintage Beacon metal door letters used for identifying addresses on home and business buildings was spotted in an online auction from England. Those few letters were the inspiration for Home Address JNL, which...

The sans serif type style for the specialty font Nameplate JNL was given a serif treatment and is now Hotel District JNL complete with a full character set. Originally inspired by two Art Deco-era...

Picture if you will, a balmy autumn evening in Manhattan during the 1930s and a well-dressed couple out on the town. They hail one of the hansom cabs located near Central Park and climb...

In 1935, Morris Fuller Benton designed Phenix American for American Type Founders. For 2017, the classic Art Deco design has been reinterpreted in an all-caps display version with an ever-so-slight “hand made” feel. Industrial...

The type design for Impecunious JNL comes from the 1939 sheet music for “You Don’t Know How Much You Can Suffer (Until You Fall in Love)”. The name comes from another piece of sheet...

A vintage metal sign saying “No Dogs Allowed” was the model for the ultra-bold Art Deco-influenced lettering comprising Informational Sign JNL.

A 1930s-era poster to “See America – Welcome to Montana” was issued by the United States Travel Bureau; one of the WPA (Works Progress Administrations) projects promoting travel and tourism within the country. The...

Inline Square JNL is modeled from the hand lettered title found on the 1935 sheet music for “Cielito Lindo (Beautiful Heaven)”, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

An interesting bit of Art Deco influenced serif hand lettering was found on the cover of the sheet music for 1938’s “Boatman’s Serenade”. This became the model for the digital font Inlet JNL; available...