font_designer: Jeff Levine

The sheet music for the 1939 tune “Chico’s Love Song (Ma-La-Ja Fa-La Pas-Ka Lah-Ta) [Cuban Double Talk]” may have had an odd title, but the main portion of it was hand lettered in an...

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...

The hand lettered words “favorite songs” in the masthead of the 1940s British music collection “Albert’s Favourite Song Album No. 4” inspired Song Vendor JNL, which is available in regular and oblique versions.

The 1907 novelty song “Since Arrah Wanna Married Barney Carney” (about an Irishman taking an Indian maiden as his bride) had its title hand-lettered in a sans serif style that reflected both the Art...

Although the early 1900s through the 1920s seemed to be the “Golden Age” of ridiculously long novelty song titles, it appears that even the decade of the 1940s had its fair share as well....

The wood type lettering which was the inspiration for Hayfork JNL has been given a spurred treatment, and is now available as Spurwood JNL in both regular and oblique versions.

Spur Wide JNL was modeled from an example of hand lettering from the antique French alphabet book L’Art du Tracé Rationnel de la Lettre. Heavy Roman style letters with spurs (often referred to as...

On the cover of the 1932 sheet music for “Without Your Love”, the credits for the stage play “The Dubarry” are listed under the name of the star and the play’s title. These hand...

Up until the advent of modern packing and shipping methods, the common way to mark merchandise or other items to be transported was through the use of a brass stencil. These marking devices were...

The 1938 sheet music for the official Coast Guard Marching Song “Semper Paratus” “(Always Ready)” offered up a hand lettered title in a bold block style with rounded corners and an inline. This is...