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Talking Machine JNL

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

About the family


The February 1920 issue of The Trader/The Canadian Jeweler carried an ad for the $15.00 Stewart Phonograph.

Under the logo for Stewart was the word "Phonograph" hand lettered with a round nib pen in an extra bold sans serif design with Art Nouveau influences.

This served as the model for Talking Machine JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.

in the early days of the phonograph, many people nicknamed it a "talking machine" because it faithfully reproduced the human voice via recordings.

Designers: Jeff Levine

Foundry: Jeff Levine

MyFonts debut: May 1, 2025

Talking Machine 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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