font_designer: Jeff Levine

Another bit of font inspiration came to the attention of Jeff Levine through his friend Gene Gable. An image of vintage packaging for Aquapruf Ear Drum Protectors (swimmer’s ear plugs) offered the narrow and...

During the turbulent era of the 1960s, the youth of America found various ways to protest against “The Establishment”. Whether it was campus unrest, protest songs, sit-ins or other methods, the message was the...

Snow Job JNL was inspired by the hand lettered titles for the 1964 Rankin-Bass animated holiday classic “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”. Because of the variable heights of the characters they float about the...

Songs of the early 1900s were anything but the status quo in topic or style. Excessively long titles, novelty tunes and “foreign themes” permeated the piles of sheet music in the local music shops....

At times, one source of inspiration can generate more than one idea. This was the case with the 1918 sheet music for the song “You’re Still an Old Sweetheart of Mine”. The cover displays...

The title card for the 1938 screwball comedy “Four’s a Crowd” (starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Rosalind Russell) offered a classic, thin Art Deco type design with stylized letter forms. This is...

Social Gathering JNL is modeled from the Art Deco hand-lettered title of a vintage piece of sheet music entitled “Three of Us”.

Solid Deco JNL was modeled after a small sign with the word “restaurant” in an unusual Art Deco solid lettering style. It was spotted within the same image of the Lenox Lounge in New...

Soldier Stencil JNL is a re-working of a vintage example of a sign painter’s “block” or “chamfer” font design into stencil form. The result is Soldier Stencil JNL, which is available in both regular...

In the days when sheet music was as popular as phonograph records for home entertainment, a song album was a folio of collected works. The hand-lettering on the 1940s-era cover for “The Sigmund Romberg...