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Newsreel Film JNL

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


An ad carried in a 1919 edition of Moving Picture World for Hearst News had some of the ad copy hand lettered in a wide sans serif design with slight Art Nouvueau influences.

This is now available as Newsreel Film JNL in both regular and oblique versions.

Hearst Metrotone News produced silent newsreels for the Fox Film Corp. (the precursor to 20th Century Fox) from 1919 through 1934. In 1929 they introduced sound newsreels, but left Fox in 1934 to align with MGM.

Because William Randolph Hearst often created controversy, and because moviegoers in 1936 even booed the name "Hearst" when it appeared on screen, the name of the newsreels was changed to News of the Day in 1936. The series remained under that name until Hearst's last newsreels were released in 1967.

Designers: Jeff Levine

Publisher: Jeff Levine

Foundry: Jeff Levine

Design Owner: Jeff Levine

MyFonts debut: Mar 1, 2025

Newsreel Film 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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