Ornery Polecat JNL Font

Publisher: Jeff Levine Fonts

In January of 2006, Jeff Levine typefaces debuted with ten releases. Much of those first font styles were based on vintage lettering stencils, which were the "academic year" driver for Jeff's interest in lettering and type design.

Eight years later, his collection of typefaces has actually ended up being a giant catalog of screen type varying from Wood Type revivals to Art Nouveau, Art Deco to stencil, reinterpretations of old favorites, speculative font styles, dingbat fonts and typefaces showing a particular years's styles of cultural popularity. Designs from old lettering books, type brochures and advertising have actually also been fodder for many alphabets not previously offered in a digital format.

Along the method, lots of uncommon lettering sources were also mined for type ideas. Vintage packaging, hand-lettered signage, sign making sets, rubber stamp type, water applied decals and at times simply a particular letter example motivated much of the releases within this collection.

It gave pride for Jeff Levine Fonts to reach 500 releases and a determined goal to grow the type library as far as possible. With this in mind, February 2014 brings forth lots of new releases. This one in specific, Ornery Polecat JNL, is the 800th typeface release from Jeff.