Unusual decorative capitals from embroidery work in a German church. Upper case has a diamond-shaped frame around each letter; lower case is just the letters without the diamond frame; and the ampersand gives just...
by · Published May 26, 2015
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During a visit to Seville, Rick was very struck by the local tradition of street names made from tiles: from sketches and doodles made in 36°C, he and David produced a font with tiles...
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Karin’s free reinterpretation of the early Renaissance Lombardic tradition, in two different versions. In the upper case the fill is blacker and has a straight pattern with diamond elements; in the lower case the...
by · Published May 26, 2015
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Drawn with a scroll-tip pen, that’s the one which gives both a thin and a thick line for every stroke, featuring a slightly folklorish and hand-produced feel, named for Rick’s granddaughter.
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Walnut is a realistic graffiti font that looks like it just sprang off the wall. The gritty spray-painted look is accentuated with unique combos that will appear in any application that supports OpenType ligatures....
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A postcard for a 1952 DeSoto automobile, combined with the (non)sensibilities of legendary British lettering artist Cecil Wade, yielded this slightly tacky and thoroughly wacky gaggle of letters. Use liberally whenever levity, brevity (the...
by · Published May 26, 2015
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As recently as forty years ago, computers consisted of racks of vacuum tubes, each rack about the size of a refrigerator, with enough racks to fill a good-sized family room required to do routine...
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Statistics Prove. Near and Far. That Folks Who Drive Like Crazy. Are! Burma-Shave. In the days before the Interstate Highway system, you were likely to encounter a series of signs like this, somewhere in...