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Retro Checkbook JNL

Retro Checkbook JNL

by Jeff Levine
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Complete family of 2 fonts: $55.10
Retro Checkbook JNL Font Family was designed by Jeff Levine and published by Jeff Levine. Retro Checkbook JNL contains 2 styles and family package options.

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About Retro Checkbook JNL Font Family


By the 1990s, the availability of font creation software opened the door to an explosion of creativity, experimentation and exploration into the world of digital typography by amateur and professional alike.

The undisputed king of the freeware fonts was Ray Larabie through his Larabie Fonts website. It seemed at the time that Ray’s output was endless, and he amassed dozens upon dozens of fonts that ranged from the ridiculous to the sublime.

In fact, Ray was the driving force of encouragement and a behind-the-scenes “mentor” who helped Jeff Levine Fonts get underway in January of 2006.

As Larabie’s focus changed to higher-quality commercial type design with the launch of Typodermic, Inc., many of his “less than perfect” font experiments were withdrawn and shelved.


Ray eventually turned those lost (and sometimes questionable) typefaces into a bundled zip archive released into the public domain through Creative Commons.

One particular design “Boron” (circa 1996) featured computer-oriented lettering as if etched onto a circuit board.


Running with this idea, and with Ray's approval, the electronic elements were stripped away, the characters cleaned up and modified, and the font reworked in Retro Checkbook JNL, which is available in both regular and oblique versions.


Designers: Jeff Levine

Publisher: Jeff Levine

Foundry: Jeff Levine

Design Owner: Jeff Levine

MyFonts debut: Oct 1, 2022

Retro Checkbook 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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