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Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
I wanted to create something to hang in our book/dining room (we converted the living room into a dining area with a booth bench and an entire wall of books), but as usual was unable to come up with just the right words, so I continued with the #lovewins theme and made another version of a block I made for Sew Mama Sew's #lovewins quilt.
Lettering fitted without any problems but I decided to cut and fit each letter indivdually because the default spacing made the name hard to read from a distance.
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
I love lettering! Typography design is a huge passion of mine. Not so much in the technical details, but the flow and visual structure of it. I'm not sure why, but I've always had an affinity for the way the lines move throughout the letters.
So, this shot is nothing about photography but rather a great example of old time, classic, decorative lettering and typography.
I found this on front of a rusing old wood stove that was behind a building in Gruene, Texas. The soft egg white ceramic background with the light blue just screams history to me, and I loved it. If only it was easy to make lettering like this with a computer these days.
from Wm. Hugh Gordon, "Modernized Methods in the Art & Practice of Lettering for Commercial Purposes", 1918.
South Lambeth Road wall painted out some time ago, but 2020 billboard removal has revealed a few remnants of old lettering for a company who may well have been in the shop on this corner plot.
London Ltd & the word Service can be made out & also few other letters, but not enough to work out what this shop or company did.