lettering
Sign Painters Movie Explores Contemporary Sign Painting
The official trailer for “Sign Painters”, a documentary by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon.
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Jessica Hische Lettering Rendered In Cut Paper
It always seems magical when a piece of graphic design transcends the flat plane and enters the third dimension. The resulting object lends an additional legitimacy to the original piece, rejuvenating it and altering our perception of it. Take for example Jessica Hische’s gorgeous hand-lettered packaging for Beck’s Song Reader. Released on December 11, 2012, [...]
Read moreNew Website Pits Lettering Against Calligraphy
Lettering vs Calligraphy is the repository of a visual dialogue between letterer Martina Flor and calligrapher Guiseppe Salerno.
Read morePreserving Disappearing Architectural Lettering in Austria
With the modernisation of the urban landscape, vintage architectural lettering disappears at a worrying pace. Beautiful commercial signs above shop windows make way for default letter shapes in plexiglass and neon. As the logos of international chains take over, the couleur locale fades, making the typical shopping street look identical to any similar street in [...]
Read moreHoly Onomatopoeia, What A Bat-collection!
Fan site Batmania collects the onomatopoeia from the word overlays used in the 1960s cult television series Batman.
Read moreDusty Signs
A video showing Dusty Signs’ Dan Madsen hand-lettering a sign for his business. Observe the artist at work.
Read moreGestalten.tv Interviews Ken Barber
Ken Barber talks about the necessity of specialization and the fine lines between lettering, typography, and type design.
Read moreFrench Advertising Alphabets From 1946
“100 Alphabets Publicitaires” is a compendium with 100 lettering style examples for commercial artists and letterers.
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News
The latest in the world of typography, lettering, and type design.
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Handpicked Typefaces
Whether they’re newly released, stalwart classics, or hidden gems, these typefaces deserve special mention.
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Type Tips
Improve your typography skills with these basic tips and advanced tutorials.
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Fonts in Use
Specimens are nice, but we love to catch a typeface in the wild, where it can truly show how it performs in the real world.
The FontFeed is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world. Eat up.
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