Googie Architecture, also known as “Midcentury Coffee Shop Modern,” was born in California during the Atomic Age. Martini at Joe’s is based on lettering from several historic Googie sources – many of which no...
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Alta California became designer steve mehallo’s “vector-based artist’s response” to the early Apple Macintosh bitmapped font San Francisco. Alta California was developed using “sampled” wood type and letters from numerous historical sources. The…
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Worn and torn, dry and cracked, resistant to wind and rain… the skin of the elephant is a thing of dry beauty and ancient wisdom… During the gold rush, the phrase “Seeing the elephant”...
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Carouselambra is a homage to the typography on Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy album jacket. It’s based on a fancy Arts and Crafts lettering style which was popular in the late nineteenth century....