font_designer: Jeff Levine

Press Run JNL

Press Run JNL font

Press Run JNL is a reinterpretation of the classic typeface Cheltenham Condensed taken from actual screen captures of vintage newspaper headlines.

Cartoon Panel JNL

Cartoon Panel JNL font

Charles W. “Plot” Plotner was a cartoonist who had developed a template-based cartooning set for kids circa 1952 called “Plot-O”. A companion set was called “Plot-O the Clown”. “Plot-O” consisted of two plastic templates...

Evening Paper JNL

Evening Paper JNL font

Evening Paper JNL, one could say, was “culled from the headlines”. It was. The front page headlines from some 1938 newspapers archived online were the basic model for this font. The typeface design goes...

Afternoon Edition JNL

Afternoon Edition JNL font

Afternoon Edition JNL is another classic typeface (with Caslon influence) re-drawn from screen captures of vintage newspaper headlines. The font joins Final Edition JNL, Evening Paper JNL and Morning Paper JNL as a mini-collection...

Morning Paper JNL

Morning Paper JNL font

Morning Paper JNL is part of a small series of fonts re-drawn from screen captures of original vintage newspaper headlines. The typefaces are classic wood and metal faces that were popular in all forms...

Winning Team JNL

Winning Team JNL font

The second volume of the Robbins Music Corporation’s “Hollywood Song Folio” features the word “Hollywood” lettered in a condensed block style with inline, strongly reminiscent of sports or college-themed typography. This was the inspiration...

Tin Stencil JNL

Tin Stencil JNL font

Tin Stencil JNL was modeled from examples of an antique metal stencil letter and number set.

Suggestion Box JNL

Suggestion Box JNL font

The 1929 sheet music for Cole Porter’s “You Do Something to Me” (from the musical stage comedy “Fifty Million Frenchmen”) has the name of the play hand lettered in a bold sans with an...

Retail Stencil JNL

Retail Stencil JNL font

Retail Stencil JNL was modeled from a set of 2 inch lettering stencils manufactured during the 1980s. Although similar in design to Excess Baggage JNL, there are a number of character differences as to...

Musical Score JNL

Musical Score JNL font

A number of pieces of antique sheet music utilizing the same Roman typeface were the inspirational basis for Musical Score JNL. This antique design closely resembles pen lettering and its hand-made charm due to...