font_designer: Jeff Levine

The hand lettered title on sheet music for 1915’s novelty song “Gasoline Gus and His Jitney Bus” by Byron Gay and Charley Brown offered up the lettering style which is now Nouveau Arts JNL.

A set of vintage dies for stamping text into marble headstones or other monuments manufactured by The Vermont Marble Company was the basis for Marble Cutter JNL. The Vermont Marble Company was in business...

Some vintage 1960s-era packaging for dive gear (masks, swim fins, etc.) manufactured by the Voit division of AMF had various merchandise boxes hand-lettered [with some variation of design] in an interesting sans stencil. These...

Dance Lesson JNL is a reinterpretation of the popular “Latin Bold” typeface. The font’s name is a reference to the Latin dance craze of the 1950s, when the Cha-Cha, Meringue, Tango, Mambo and even...

The name Type Warmers JNL traces its lineage to small catalog booklets issued by Indianapolis’ Cobb Shinn for his line of letterpress cuts; of which a few can be found included within this typeface....

Vintage sheet music for the song “Just Once for All Time” (from the United Artists release “Congress Dances”) provided the bold sans that served as the model for Dance Number JNL. This 1932 film...

The rounded hand lettering for the circa-1920s sheet music title “I’m On My Way Back Home” inspired the font design for Lettering Pen JNL.

Ben Harris’ illustrated cover for the sheet music of “I Found A Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)” from 1931’s “Billy Rose’s Crazy Quilt” lists the show’s stars and other...

In most cities during the 1950s and 1960s the corner pharmacy or soda shop was a mainstay of teenage life. It was a place to hang out with friends, hear the latest hits on...

In the city of Millbrae (just South of San Francisco in San Mateo County, California) stands an office building which formerly housed the Millbrae Theater. California has the distinction of preserving artifacts of its...