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Jeff Levine: Art Deco Faces [Jeff Levine]

Art deco is another style that appeals to Jeff Levine. He has created some beauties:

• Acceptable JNL (2014).
• Aircheck (2006, retro CBS font).
• Airliner JNL (2008, all caps, based on a promotional postcard for Kitty Davis' Airliner - a popular Miami Beach night spot of the 1940s).
• Art Class JNL (2014). Art Class JNL was re-created from the titling of a lettering booklet called Drawlet Portfolio, published by the Esterbrook Pen Company in the 1930s. Drawlet pens were Esterbrook's answer to the popular Speedball lettering pens, and the booklet was an instructional manual on hand lettering with the pen nibs.
• Art Lover JNL (2007, based on an art deco typeface from a Dan Solo book).
• Bandleader JNL (2014).
• Bay Ridge JNL (2015).
• Belmont JNL.
• Big Band JNL (2011) is a brash typeface that is based on a lettering example found in a 1941 Speedball Lettering Pen instruction book.
• Blue Orchid JNL (2015).
• Borough Park JNL (2014).
• Brand X JNL (2013),
• Brookhurst (2006, compressed art deco font).
• Cabana Club (2006, Miami Deco inspired font with a razor-thin double outline).
• Cafe Society JNL and Cafe Society Monoline JNL (2014).
• California Bound JNL (2015). Based on the hand lettering found on the side of the old California Zephyr passenger trains.
• Canarsie JNL (2006, a hand-lettered art deco face), Canarsie Slab JNL (2001).
• Casting Call JNL (2015).
• Catalog JNL (2012). A blocky headline typeface.
• Central Park JNL (2014).
• Common Area JNL (2015).
• Contintental Gothic (2006).
• Cortland JNL (2009): modeled [in part] from lettering spotted in the opening credits of Columbia Pictures 1945 Batman serial.
• Cover Charge JNL.
• Crestview Six JNL (2010). And its outline and shadow versions called Gramercy Eight JNL (2010).
• Cut Stencil JNL (2011).
• Dance Number JNL (2015).
• Dance Partner JNL (2015). Based a movie poster for the 1935 RKO picture "Roberta" starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, which in turn was based on the hit 1933 stage play that introduced the song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. The play itself was based on the Alice Duer Miller novel Gowns by Roberta.
• Deco Hotel JNL (2015). A hairline deco typeface.
• Deco Geometric Stencil JNL (2015).
• Deco Paragraph Initials JNL (2015).
• Deco Pennant Initials JNL (2013).
• Deco Elongated JNL (2013).
• Delancey JNL (2014). Inline and squarish.
• Design District (2006, art deco inspired design elements).
• Desk Clerk JNL (2010).
• Dine and Dance JNL (2015). Supper club deco, multilined.
• Direkta JNL (2012).
• Double Bill JNL (2013). Inspired by the promotional movie trailer for 1938 gangster comedy A Slight Case of Murder starring Edward G. Robinson.
• Double Line Deco JNL (2015).
• Drawing Tablet JNL (2011).
• East To West JNL (2014).
• Easy Living JNL (2015).
• Easy Money JNL (2014).
• Erratic JNL (2014).
• Estella JNL (2008, starry art deco version of Farragut JNL). Jeff writes: Her father named her Estella Dawn, or morning star. She truly shines bright, for as the owner of Stella Roberts Fonts, she has dedicated part of her net profits to helping her siblings pay for their medication; they both suffer from Cystic Fibrosis and diabetes. Calm in spirit, loyal to friends and family, nurturing and caring, Stella has been a friend of Jeff Levine's for years. His Estella JNL font was dedicated to her, as is this other namesake font, Morningstar JNL.
• Eckhardt Showcard JNL (2008).
• Evening Gown JNL (2015). Based on an ad for the 1935 musical "Roberta" starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
• Evening Initials JNL (2015).
• Evening Wear JNL (2014).
• Fanct Dancing JNL (2015). Based on sheet music titling for the 1938 movie musical "Carefree" starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
• Faux Decaux (2007, fat art deco).
• Favorite Hangout JNL (2009).
• Film Noir (201). A counterless art deco typeface based on Alf R. Becker's examples.
• Finery JNL (2014).
• Floorwalker JNL (2013). Based on stncils made in 1926 by Display Material Company of St. Paul, MN.
• French Pastry JNL (2015).
• Frisco Bay JNL (2007, a nice art deco).
• Gambling Resort JNL (2014).
• Gidley (2007).
• Golden Beach JNL (2015).
• Golden Opportunity JNL (2015).
• Grand Central JNL (2010): multi-line Art Deco font is reminiscent of all of the glitz and glamour associated with Manhattan in the 1930s and 1940s.
• Hollenbeck JNL (2008).
• Hollywood Revue JNL (2015). Inspired by a movie poster for The Hollywood Revue of 1929. .
• Home Movies JNL (2012). Based on 1950s cling vinyl letters made by the Clingtite Letters Company of Chicago.
• Huntington (2006, an art deco typeface inspired by the opening titles of the film Casablanca).
• Juke Joint JNL (2014).
• Lauderdale JNL (2013).
• Limousine JNL (2010, counterless, caps only).
• Love Song JNL (2014).
• Malagueña Stencil JNL (2015).
• Maplehurst JNL (2010): a beautiful rounded ultra-fat face.
• Market JNL (2009).
• Metalworker JNL (2009), and its star-spangled derived face, NationalSpiritJNL (2009).
• Metalet Modern JNL (2008, based on the letters found within the Metalet Movie Titling Set manufactured by the Modern Display Advertising Company of Hollywood, California circa the 1940s. Each stamped metal letter would be affixed to the background surface via the use of miniature magnets. Once in place, titles for home movies or slides could be photographed, the letters then returned to their storage area in their box.).
• Midtown JNL (2010) and its serifed version, Crosstown JNL (2010).
• Millbrae JNL (2015). Named after the old Millbrae Theater in Millbrae City, CA.
• Monoline Deco JNL (2014).
• Monthly Adventures JNL (2012).
• Movie House JNL (2013). A trilined typeface.
• Mulholland JNL (2015).
• Musical Number JNL (2015).
• Night Life JNL (2012).
• Nightspot JNL (2011). A bilined headline typeface based on lettering by Alf R. Becker.
• Nightowl JNL (2011): a headline font encased in rectangles inspired by an Art Deco hand-lettered alphabet found in a 1941 edition of the Speedball Lettering Pen instruction book.
• Nouveau Poster JNL (2011). based on an alphabet found in Modern Pen Lettering (1915, C. Howard Hunt pen company).
• Nyack (2010, Inline, Solid, Monoline): tall, caps only.
• Parkitecture JNL (2006): counterless and fat.
• Pencil Pusher JNL (2014).
• Period Piece JNL (2015).
• Piano Lesson JNL (2015).
• Piano Solo JNL (2015).
• Playwright JNL (2010): Levine's version of Broadway.
• Old Miami Beach JNL (2012). Based on signs of the Roney Plaza hotel in South Miami Beach.
• Opening Night JNL (2013).
• Ormond JNL (2011) and Ormond Inline JNL (2011). The latter is a blackboard bold style face.
• Pocomoke JNL (2015).
• Prospect Park JNL (2015).
• Regal Suite (2006, display art deco).
• Ridgewood JNL (2012).
• Ritz Stencil JNL (2011).
• Roney JNL (2008, a stylized version of his own art deco typeface Metalet Modern).
• Screenplay JNL (2010): modeled after the signage seen in an old photo of the RKO movie studios building circa the 1930s.
• Service Deluxe JNL (2015).
• Sheet Music JNL (2011).
• Show Biz JNL (2013).
• Showgirl JNL (2011). Based on the neon letters of a 1940s marquee.
• Showpiece JNL (2014).
• Signage JNL (2013). A stencil in the style of Futura Stencil.
• Sleuth JNL (2013, after the trailer for the 1936 movie After The Thin Man).
• Song And Dance JNL (2014).
• Song Sheet JNL (2014).
• Space Deco JNL.
• Stage Play JNL (2015).
• Summerhaven JNL (2009).
• Society Dame JNL (2008).
• Solitude JNL (2015).
• Song Folio JNL.
• Stationery Department JNL (2015).
• Streamlined Stencil JNL (2015).
• Striptease JNL (2012). A 1930s burlesque show marquee typeface.
• Stagehand JNL (2014).
• Stuffed Shirt JNL (2013).
• Stylette JNL (2007, an art deco typeface after Stylor JNL).
• Stylor JNL (2006, hairline art deco).
• Suggestion Box JNL (2015).
• Supper Club JNL (2007).
• Swing Era JNL (2015).
• Table Fortu JNL (2007, art deco stencil).
• Tall Order JNL (2015, a revival of Raleigh).
• Tanawonda JNL (2010).
• Thoroughfare JNL (2014).
• Tin Pan Alley JNL (2014).
• Top Hat JNL (after Art Lover JNL).
• Town And Country JNL (2014).
• Triborough JNL (2008).
• Tropical Tourist (2011). A 1934 advertisement for the Roney Plaza Hotel at 23rd Street and Collins Avenue on Miami Beach yielded the inspiration for Tropical Tourist JNL.
• Type Uncommon JNL (2015).
• Upscale JNL (2014, based on a 1939 alphabet by Sanford Ink Company).
• Uptown JNL (2013). Based on the book Sixty Alphabets (1944).
• Uptown Line JNL (2015).
• Uptown Residence JNL (2015).
• Van Wyck JNL (2008).
• Variety Store JNL (2015).
• Vaudeville JNL (2012).
• Vocalist JNL (2014).
• Westbrook JNL (2012, a monoline all-caps typeface), Window Dressing JNL (2012).
• Window Treatment JNL (2013). A Broadway style marquee face.
• Wingate JNL (2006, a narrow monolinear art deco type).
• Wonderful JNL (2014).
• Words And Music JNL (2014). Based on the 1934 sheet music for I'll String Along with You from the Dick Powell-Ginger Rogers musical 20 Million Sweethearts.

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