font_foundry: Jeff Levine

Nouveau Eccentrique JNL

Nouveau Eccentrique JNL font

Nouveau Eccentrique JNL is a novelty Art Nouveau lettering style found on some 1920s sheet music cheerfully entitled “I’m Glad I Can Make You Cry”.

Terrace JNL

Terrace JNL font

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.

Tall And Narrow JNL

Tall And Narrow JNL font

“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...

French Pastry JNL

French Pastry JNL font

A little ditty from France circa the 1940s called “J’ai Rêvé Dans Tes Bras” (which loosely translated means “I’ve Dreamed in Your Arms”) offered up its title hand lettered in an interesting Art Deco...

Easy Living JNL

Easy Living JNL font

Easy Living JNL is a bold Art Deco type face modeled from the name of a 1930s magazine entitled “Country Living”.

Blue Orchid JNL

Blue Orchid JNL font

A piece of 1940s sheet music for the song “Blue Orchids” was the inspiration for both the type design (based on the hand lettered title) as well as the font’s name.

Katydid JNL

Katydid JNL font

Vintage sheet music for a song from the Broadway Musical “Kiss Me Kate” is the inspiration for Katydid JNL. The play’s name was written in a ball-and-line type of lettering which somewhat resembles either...

Chamferwood JNL

Chamferwood JNL font

Chamferwood JNL is another interpretation of the block lettering style most popular during the late 1800s and the early 1900s. The design was modeled from examples from a set of wood type.

Casual Tune JNL

Casual Tune JNL font

Brush-style lettering has been a perennial favorite for designers and sign painters because it brings to mind casual, relaxed or friendly themes. A vintage piece of sheet music called “Pretty Butterfly” by Sunny Skylar...

Bum Steer JNL

Bum Steer JNL font

In older American slang, a “bum steer” is a bad tip, some bad advice or being sent in the wrong direction (to name a few examples). Bum Steer JNL was modeled from some playful...