font_foundry: Jeff Levine

Bandleader JNL

Bandleader JNL font

How does one arrive at a font name? With the thousands of digital typefaces available, it’s not an easy process. Bandleader JNL was modeled from the hand-lettered title on a piece of sheet music...

Wonderful JNL

Wonderful JNL font

A little bit of thick-and-thin Art Deco hand lettering is offered up in Wonderful JNL, based on some promotional text found on an old piece of sheet music.

Maryland JNL

Maryland JNL font

The 1913 sheet music for “There’s A Girl in the Heart of Maryland (with a Heart That Belongs to Me)” may have had no shortage of words in the title – fifteen to be...

Words And Music JNL

Words And Music JNL font

The 1934 sheet music for “I’ll String Along with You” from the Dick Powell-Ginger Rogers musical “20 Million Sweethearts” yielded the charming Deco monoline design for Words and Music JNL.

Tea Time JNL

Tea Time JNL font

Tea Time JNL was inspired by the hand lettering on the 1931 sheet music for “When I Take My Sugar to Tea”.

Charmer JNL

Charmer JNL font

Found on the back of some sheet music to promote another song was the hand-lettered title “The Snake Charmer”. While not everyone likes snakes, many designers do like the lettering of the Art Deco...

Delancey JNL

Delancey JNL font

Inline lettering from a vintage piece of sheet music inspired Delancey JNL, an Art Deco-flavored design.

Newsreel Caps JNL

Newsreel Caps JNL font

Newsreel Caps JNL is a novelty caps-only outline letter with cast shadow set inside film frames. Although the design idea itself is not new, this version is based on lettering from a vintage piece...

Pleasant Valley Sundae JNL

Pleasant Valley Sundae JNL font

It seems only fitting that Pleasant Valley Sundae JNL, a typeface re-drawn from hand lettering on a piece of vintage sheet music, should take its name as a pun on another song’s title from...

Pencil Pusher JNL

Pencil Pusher JNL font

The unusual hand lettering found on a piece of 1940s sheet music forms the basis for Pencil Pusher JNL.