font_designer: Jeff Levine

Shopping Spree JNL

Shopping Spree JNL font

Shopping Spree JNL was inspired by the hand lettering on the title card for the 1938 film “Fast Company” starring Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice.

Showmanship JNL

Showmanship JNL font

Despite the racially demeaning 1906 sheet music for “The Ghost of the Banjo Coon”, the title’s lettering provided an interesting hand-lettered sans serif that has been re-drawn digitally as Showmanship JNL in both regular...

Show Card Stencil JNL

Show Card Stencil JNL font

For decades, the National Show Card Writer Company of Minneapolis, MN produced sign making kits used by shopkeepers, schools, churches and many other types of organizations. The standard sets were comprised of two part...

Show Card Deco JNL

Show Card Deco JNL font

Show Card Deco JNL is a hybrid of examples from hand lettered titles found on various song folios from the Carl Fischer Music Library circa the 1930s and is available in both regular and...

Sign Letters JNL

Sign Letters JNL font

A few scant examples of some condensed Roman style water-applied decals inspired Sign Letters JNL. The decals were once part of the gold and black “Signmaker” letters and numbers once manufactured by the Duro...

Sign Template JNL

Sign Template JNL font

Sign Template JNL is based on one of the many plastic lettering guides manufactured by the now-defunct Wright-Regan Instrument Company (also known as WRICO). Aside from their engineering and drafting templates and tools, WRICO...

Sign Sans JNL

Sign Sans JNL font

The original source of design for Sign Sans JNL was an image online of an old New York drinking establishment called the Lenox Lounge. The metal channels encasing the neon had an unusual “feel”...

Sign Work JNL

Sign Work JNL font

The 1951 sheet music of “I Like the Wide Open Spaces” has the cover title set in a casual type design that emulates the “one stroke” or “speed letter” style so popular with sign...

Sitting Pretty JNL

Sitting Pretty JNL font

Sheet music for the 1923 tune “I’m Sitting Pretty (In A Pretty Little City)” had the main part of the title hand lettered in an Art Nouveau condensed Roman type design which became the...

Simply Nouveau JNL

Simply Nouveau JNL font

As Word War I raged on during 1917, a large number of songs were written as morale builders for both the soldiers leaving for overseas service as well as their friends, family and loved...