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Film Stage JNL

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

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Per Style:

$27.55 USD

Pack of 2 styles:

$55.10 USD

About the family


Hand lettering of the early 20th Century has a special charm because it focused more on the message than the aesthetics.

While many of today's digital typefaces strive for perfection, there is something unique in those old ads, posters, fliers and signs because the lettering didn't conform 100%. Stroke widths could change, characters could be modified to suit a purpose, and even the widths of the letters and numbers could vary greatly. The style mattered, but the ad copy was more important.

One such example comes from the Feb. 27, 1929 issue of The Film Daily. An ad for Douglas Fairbanks appearing in "The Iron Mask" was hand lettered in a bold Art Deco "thick and thin" sans with 'engraving lines' throughout.

This now available as Film Stage JNL, in both regular and oblique versions.

Designers: Jeff Levine

Publisher: Jeff Levine

Foundry: Jeff Levine

Design Owner: Jeff Levine

MyFonts debut: Aug 6, 2024

Film Stage 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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