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Theater Act JNL

by Jeff Levine
Individual Styles from $29.00 USD
Complete family of 4 fonts: $110.00 USD
The Theater Act JNL Font Family was designed by Jeff Levine and published by Jeff Levine. Theater Act JNL contains 4 styles and family package options. More about this family

About the family


In the early days of illuminated theater signage, before fluoresecent panels and interchangeable plastic letters were the norm, theater managers relied on prefabricated letters with sockets for holding incandescent bulbs to showcase their acts and movies.

One manufacturer of these letters was the Metropolitan Engineering Company located in Brooklyn, New York. A page from their 1906 Electric Signs catalog provided a set of characters which have new been recreated digitally as Theater Act JNL - available in both regular and oblique versions.

For those who want to use a color back fill or simply have an alternate version of this type design for contrasting text, there is also Theater Act Solid JNL - also in regular and oblique versions.

Designers: Jeff Levine

Foundry: Jeff Levine

MyFonts debut: Jul 1, 2025

Theater Act 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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