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Desert Sands JNL

Desert Sands JNL

by Jeff Levine
Individual Styles from $29.00
Complete family of 2 fonts: $55.10
Desert Sands JNL Font Family was designed by Jeff Levine and published by Jeff Levine. Desert Sands JNL contains 2 styles and family package options.

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About Desert Sands JNL Font Family


The February 19, 1923 issue of The Film Daily contained an ad for Mack Sennett's new Ben Turpin comedy entitled "The Shriek of Araby". No doubt this was a spoof of the popular Rudolph Valentino film "The Sheik".


The ad tries to emulate Mideastern or Arabic typography via a standard Western alphabet. It somewhat captures the flavor, but its free-form hand lettering comes off as more of a novelty-type style.

This is now available digitally as Desert Sands JNL in both regular and oblique versions.

Designers: Jeff Levine

Publisher: Jeff Levine

Foundry: Jeff Levine

Design Owner: Jeff Levine

MyFonts debut: Jul 4, 2023

Desert Sands JNL

About Jeff Levine

Jeff Levine has been in love with lettering since the third grade, when a schoolmate brought a lettering stencil into class. He has worked in both the graphics and music industries, and began his work with digital type via his own site, which hosted over one hundred free dingbat fonts until its retirement in 2009. Although these fonts were experimental at best, Jeff received "thank you" letters from points all over the world for making his designs available. Encouraged by these responses, Jeff decided to set his sights on creating interesting and commercially viable type fonts.

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