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Lettering for beauty Tom Waits cover:

Youn Sun Nah – Jocky Full of Bourbon

Graphite, pen & ink, marker sketches.

Geburtsanzeige für meine Tochter. Mit Spitzpinsel geschrieben, geprägt und Innen mit Siebdruck vervielfältigt. / Birth announcement for my daughter. Written with pointed brush, embossed and reproduced inside with screen printing.

we visited one of the Pablo Neruda's houses. He did a nice wood lettering. When somebody calls me obsessive, they should visit Neruda's house and see his collections.

from Wm. Hugh Gordon, "modernized Methods in the Art & Practice of Lettering for Commercial Purposes", 1918.

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Custom Tattoos by Matt Shaver | Adorn West | Portland, Oregon

Building on the success of its acclaimed predecessor, Yearbook of Lettering #2 brings the global lettering scene to life like never before. From elegant calligraphy and expressive hand lettering to bold graffiti, street art, and dynamic 3D-lettering, this volume celebrates the creativity, diversity, and energy shaping contemporary lettering today.

The book is organized into clearly defined sections to showcase the full spectrum of contemporary lettering:

Ambassadors—in-depth interviews and works from leading figures such as “Tyrsa” Alexis Taïeb, Ying Chang, Ken Barber, Ruben Malayan, Tina Touli, Carmi Grau, Abdelrahman Barakat, and Dave Towers.

Artists—90 outstanding artists from 31 countries, with generous space for their work spanning calligraphy, hand lettering, graffiti, street art, and 3D-lettering.

Findings—216 selected works from Instagram, compactly presented to highlight the incredible diversity of today’s lettering community.

Index—comprehensive artist information from A to Z, including bios, style descriptions, materials used, and contact details.

Yearbook of Lettering #2 is both an inspirational showcase and a practical guide for designers, agencies, and lettering enthusiasts worldwide. Explore the stories, techniques, and personalities that make contemporary lettering such a dynamic and ever-evolving field.

 

Publisher: Slanted Publishers

Publishing Direction: Lars Harmsen, Julia Kahl

Design: Lars Harmsen (CD), Linus Haug (AD)

Managing Editor: Linus Haug

Graphic Design & Editing: Juliane Lipp, Samira Niedermayer

Cover Artwork & Chapter Pages: “Xesta” Hugo Moura

Release: November 2025

Format: 16 × 24 cm

Volume: 272 pages

Language: English

Printing: full-colour offset-printing by NINO Druck

Workmanship: Stiff brochure with thread-stitching by Buchbinderei Spinner

Paper: Munken Print White 1.5, 100 g/sm (inside), SURBALIN seda 115 g/sm (endpaper), PEYDUR neuleinen 135 g/sm (cover)

The pupils made a design using random overlapping letters. Adding shadow and colour in the background to create a third dimension.

lettering for a small independent fashion label in London

Letra de imprensa.

 

Fotógrafo: Mário Novais (1899-1967).

Fotografia sem data.

 

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Oracal High Performance Vinyl lettering on Discovery United Methodist Church van. To get yours done, visit www.richmondsigns.com !

All natural rock. Frickin’ awesome.

Nice to see this old lettering retaining its use value. (Though it is a bit decayed.)

La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona (Img ID: 061225-1329121b)

Lettering on parts bins in the "Mule Barn"across the street from NA Graphics--original to the 1906 structure when the power company used this building as a stable and electrical parts warehouse--it has sat basically unused since 1938.

Sydney Lanier High School, Montgomery, Alabama. Late 1930's. Assignment for art class.

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Image Credit: Toni Blackwell Rhodes & Andrea Blackwell Kautz

In response to this discussion on Typophile, I compiled a few snapshots of Berlin street signs – the idiosyncratic classic ‘West Berlin’ style, to be precise. By comparing the pairs and repeating letters, one can see that this not one typeface, but rather a very fuzzy lettering model.

 

The Berlin street sign styles have been made into digital fonts by Verena Gerlach and Ole Schäfer. This one is available as FF City Street Type Berlin West Original.

WBEZ's The 3rd Annual Winter Block Party for Chicago’s Hip-Hop Arts

Used in early cartography. Tiny stylus traces a hollow letter form and transfers the motions (by way of hinges) to the mark-making device (usually a pen).

 

23K Gold Leaf with1-Shot Lettering Enamel outline

Hand-lettering on stamped and watercoloured illustration.

garrafas exclusivas, pintadadas a mão (decorativa, não coloque liquido dentro pra beber)

loja@raquelpinheiro.com

All Lettering and Striping Produced (With Exception of Door Seals) and Installed by Code R.

Blocks of lettering from Beamish

W 23rd St

Chelsea Hotel entrance

“Special: draw curves as octagonals”

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