font_foundry: Jeff Levine

Song Plugger JNL

Song Plugger JNL font

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...

Showpiece JNL

Showpiece JNL font

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 font

Rustic Inn JNL comes from hand lettering on a vintage piece of sheet music entitled “My Cabin of Dreams”.

Best Bet JNL

Best Bet JNL font

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 font

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...

Popularity JNL

Popularity JNL font

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 font

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...

Business Helpers JNL

Business Helpers JNL font

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

Ensemble Inline JNL font

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

Central Park JNL font

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...