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Modern English JNL

Modern English JNL

by Jeff Levine
Individual Styles from $29.00 USD
Modern English JNL Font Family was designed by Jeff Levine and published by Jeff Levine. Modern English JNL contains 2 styles.

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    About Modern English JNL Font Family


    Alf Becker was a master sign painter and lettering stylist who created well over 100 alphabets for a monthly feature in the trade magazine "Sign of the Times" during the 1930s and 1940s. Thanks to Tod Swormstedt of ST pubications for supplying the source material. One of these designs features a modernized version of Old English or "text" lettering making it more legible for sign and show card work. Doing away with extra curves and swashes, this type style is more calligraphic in nature than classic. Modern English JNL was modeled from Becker's original design, and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

    Designers: Jeff Levine

    Publisher: Jeff Levine

    Foundry: Jeff Levine

    Design Owner: Jeff Levine

    MyFonts debut: Mar 28, 2018

    Modern English 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 hi...

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