font_designer: Jeff Levine

Popular music of the early 1900s included a genre called two step; round dances utilizing a sliding step with a tempo in either march or polka time. 1911’s “Daughters of the American Revolution” was...

Cover art for the 1933 sheet music of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler’s “Stormy Weather” (from the musical production “Cotton Club Parade”) listed the cast of the show in a condensed hand lettered sans...

Unadorned JNL is the stripped down version of 2011’s Troubador JNL; an ornate wood type font. With the inner ornamentation removed, this Western-influenced type design takes on a bolder look, yet retains its Victorian...

Utlity Signage JNL is a collection of fifty-two various “all purpose signs” we’ve all seen in hardware and variety stores is perfect for spot illustrations in ad copy, making one-off images for props in...

The place for a family to be entertained by comedians, dancers, acrobats, animal acts, singers and just about any other acts that fit the bill at the time was the vaudeville theater. Prior to...

Washington Heights JNL is a sans serif type design based on a vintage hand-made directional sign for the New York subway system.

The Federal Art Project of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) employed artists to create posters for various subjects including health, tourism, safety, patriotism, theater and the arts during the Great Depression years of the...

The cover of the 1938 sheet music for “Treasure Island March” had its title hand lettered in a rough-hewn Western style with overtones of Art Deco influence. All of the characters were “cleaned up”...

The hand lettered title on the cover of the 1934 sheet music for “What A Night” not only acted as a design model for What A Night JNL but also as its namesake. The...

Winter Garden JNL was modeled from the eccentric sans serif hand lettering with varying line widths found on the sheet music of 1917’s “When the Girl You’d Give the World to Win Gives Her...