font_designer: Jeff Levine

Because of the large influx of Irish immigrants during the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was not unusual for songwriters of the day to craft songs around Irish themes, offering a nostalgic link...

Vintage New York neon signage alongside the landmark Dubrow’s Cafeteria [probably circa the 1940s] of the words “retail shop” inspired the namesake digital type design. Retail Shop JNL is a bold and somewhat eccentric...

Rhineland Roman JNL was modeled from the hand lettered title of some 1939 German sheet music entitled “Ich Hab’Mir Fur Grinzing”, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

The sheet music for “Good Night Angel” from the 1937 motion picture “Radio City Revels”, had the movie’s title hand lettered in a free form Art Deco sans serif design. This has been recreated...

A piece of sheet music from Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1958 hit “Flower Drum Song” had the play’s name lettered in its iconic Anglo-Japanese style. This became the basis for Rice Wine...

The vintage sheet music for “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” yielded another bit of Art Deco-era lettering perfect for developing into a digital font. This time it wasn’t the song title,...

Roman Stencil JNL is a condensed version of the classic Roman typeface found on many vintage hand-punched brass stencils made for packing and shipping merchandise. This digital interpretation is available in both regular and...

The Art Deco design of Riverside JNL was based on the hand lettered title found on the 1932 sheet music for “By the River Sainte Marie”, and is available in both regular and oblique...

Ritz Slab Serif JNL is a bold display face which shares a lot of similar design traits to Stymie and other similar metal type of the 1930s and 1940s, but in actuality was modeled...

The antique sheet music for the 1915 song “A Girl in Your Arms is Worth Two in Your Dreams” had its title hand lettered in a Roman typeface that reflected ever so slightly the...