Ensayos para un abecedario (selección)

Acuarela sobre papel

Testing letters for an ABC (selection)

Watercolor on paper

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

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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.

Lettering

Typefaces shown:

Woton Bold Condensed

Bartuska Knickerbocker Condensed 5

Murray Hill Extra Condensed 6

Swiss Gothic Extra Condensed 5

Lenox Hill Extra Condensed 7

Hite Gothic Condensed 10

Headline Gothic Without Descenders [Permanent Headline]

Headline Gothic With Descenders

Murray Hill Extra Condensed 8

Murray Hill Extra Condensed 10

Dandee

Lenox Hill Extra Condensed 8

Lenox Hill Extra Condensed 10

Warnke Inserat Bold

Poster Condensed

Swiss Gothic Extra Condensed 8 With Lowercase

Lenox Hill Extra Condensed 11

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

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lettering: Jozef Tusan, Stepan Prokop

photography: Barbora Mrackova

design: Stepan Prokop

www.1collective.cz/

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

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close up on “Be My Valentine” lettering

1923

Lettering para um novo projeto de marca. Esta é a malha das vogais.

More or less done with the outline and shadowing of the gold leaf on my friends Sportster gas tank..

For this one I used House of Kolor "Royal Blue" and "Process Blue". I dont think I´m going to use HOK much more again.. 1-shot enamel is more glossy, more pigment, it flows better, it doesn´t dry as fast and is a little cheaper.. :-)

Anyway, now it´s time for my friend Kristian Sabel to add the clear to make the flake pop..

Lettering for WIRED italia

"collecting a jar of hearts"

experimenting with letters

my blog is: marciabeckett.blogspot.com

Brush lettering with color layering and outlining.

A new arrival at Letterform Archive.

61 × 84.5 cm.

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

archive.org/details/studio00welo

Oliver Mateo. My baby name lettering.

www.gerardodesign.com

www.behance.net/gerardodesign_com

I loved the lettering on this truck and only wish I had been closer. It was done by hand, perhaps even freehand. The two nines are different. Yet it's beautifully proportioned and extremely easy to read.

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

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Brush lettering on quote in a scrapbook.

from the book: "Architectural Lettering" by Arthur E. Burke. 1953.

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

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In the Melbert B. Cary Jr. Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

archive.org/details/studio00welo

Working with Legacy Frameworks in creating a lettered wordmark for their new line of bikes.

legacyframeworks.com/