Song Plugger JNL
In the heyday of “Tin Pan Alley”, a song plugger was one whose job it was to bring a publisher’s song to the attention of performers, show producers and radio station executives; the forerunner...
font_foundry: Jeff Levine
Showpiece JNL
Showpiece JNL was redrawn from the hand lettering for the name and address of a music publisher found on some 1930s-era sheet music. The lettering style has features influenced a bit by both the...
Rustic Inn JNL
Rustic Inn JNL comes from hand lettering on a vintage piece of sheet music entitled “My Cabin of Dreams”.
Popularity JNL
Popularity JNL is an all-caps titling font, based (for the most part) on a popular typeface known in some foundry books as “Radiant”. Many pieces of sheet music from the 1940s engaged this lettering...
Erratic JNL
Erratic JNL earns its name from the varying widths and shapes of the hand lettering found on some old Art-Deco era sheet music. Following this unusual pattern throughout the complete typeface, the user finds...
Best Bet JNL
Best Bet JNL is a hybrid approach in reinterpreting the classic display font Beton. Using examples of the condensed version found on old sheet music, redesigning a few additional characters and melding them with...
Acceptable JNL
Acceptable JNL is a typeface modeled from hand lettering on a piece of 1940s sheet music, and has a distinctly casual, yet Art Deco flair. It’s name can also be mischievous, for when you’re...
Business Helpers JNL
Duluth, Minnesota’s Horace P. Brouillet Syndicate (later known as Syndicuts, Inc.) was one of a number of stock cuts providers to the letterpress trade in the decades preceding paper, then electronic clip art. Brouillet’s...
Ensemble Inline JNL
A 1940s-era edition of the sheet music for the Marine Corps Hymn offered up the hand lettering which comprises Ensemble Inline JNL. Bold, condensed and attention-getting, this titling font commands attention. Available in Inline,...
Central Park JNL
The beautiful Art Deco monoline pen lettering on the cover of a 1940s piece of sheet music inspired Central Park JNL. The 1940s was an era when couples took romantic walks along the pathways...