font_foundry: Jeff Levine

It’s a wood type! It’s a stencil font! It’s BOTH! Clarenwood Stencil JNL was originally designed as a solid alphabet (Clarenwood JNL) modeled from vintage wood type. The stencil treatment was applied to add...

The unusual mix of Art Deco lettering with a smattering of Art Nouveau characters found within Dance Partner JNL comes from a movie poster for the 1935 RKO picture “Roberta” starring Fred Astaire and...

The 1938 movie musical “Carefree” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers featured the song “Change Partners” by Irving Berlin. A copy of the sheet music for this song had the title hand lettered in...

Evening Gown JNL comes from the lettering displayed on a printed ad for the fictional “Gowns by Roberta” in a scene in the 1935 film of the same name. “Roberta” starred Fred Astaire and...

Sheet music featuring a song from the 1933 film “Torch Singer” starring Claudette Colbert was the basis for Dine and Dance JNL. A multi-line Art Deco design, it epitomizes both the typographic style and...

During the years of physically doing camera-ready paste-up work before the advent of the digital age, clip art books dominated the way stock art was added to a print project. Clip art books were...

Casting Call JNL is a simple condensed sans modeled from the hand-lettered title of a piece of vintage sheet music entitled “Somebody Else is Taking My Place”; a 1940s song co-authored and made famous...

Terrace JNL is a bold, sturdy Art Deco titling face based on hand lettering found on the cover of some 1940s-vintage sheet music for the organ.

“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” was one of the most popular songs of the early 20th Century, and a piece of vintage sheet music for this tune had its title hand lettered in a...