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'Lettres Décoratives' Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters' Vibrant Letterforms
@colossal
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/lettres-decoratives-book-french-sign-painting/
#lettrage #typographie #signaletique #letterform #enseignes

'Lettres Décoratives' Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters' Vibrant Letterforms
@colossal
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/lettres-decoratives-book-french-sign-painting/
#lettrage #typographie #signaletique #letterform #enseignes

'Lettres Décoratives' Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters' Vibrant Letterforms
@colossal
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/lettres-decoratives-book-french-sign-painting/
#lettrage #typographie #signaletique #letterform #enseignes

PLATYPUS ∨ architecture #synthography #art #aiart #fineart #abstract #abstractexpressionism #dada #surrealism #asemic #letterform

Fig. 10 #synthart #synthography #art #aiart #fineart #abstract #asemic #typography #letterform #dada

Letterforms: Semiotic Drift 06 #synthart #synthography #art #aiart #abstract #typography #letterform #minimalist

Since the late 80s, the typeface foundry Emigre Fonts has been publishing a series of specimen books. They were intended as promotionals. But they turned out to be inspirational eye candy for designers.

@letterformarchive compiled forty of them in the book “Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024.”

It’s nostalgia gold for old-school designers. Something new for the young pups. I could stare at this for hours.

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/emigre-fonts/

#Typography #Design #Fonts #Emigre #Letterform

Ok, I think @asherwolf I think has it 🏆
'BAD SIGN'
makes the most sense, and is almost as funny as the suggestion from @6x6pix for 'BAD SOCK'.

DARN.

I'll update this thread should I find more examples in the wild or learn more. Thanks to everybody who played along.

#Boston #Massachusetts #art #letterform #tagging #puzzles #solved? #graffiti

If these *are* really distorted letters, with the design constraints for the letterform as follows:
1. all characters have a fixed unbroken circle exterior
2. use the bare minimum of marks to convey meaning
3. use filled circles to convey negative space

then you'd land on a typeface like this:

#Boston #Massachusetts #art #letterform #type #puzzles #unsolved #graffiti

What does this say? Recent #Graffiti seen in at least 2 places along the GLX Community path. I think these are really abstracted, simple letterforms, but I could use some help. My best transcription is:
BOD
SICK

Does anyone recognize this specific writing style or the artist? #Boston #Massachusetts #art #letterform #puzzle

EDIT: Think we have a winner: https://toot.boston/@knizer/111449471715303608

Wanna be really smart with your designer friends? Wanna level up as a designer? Wanna know more about the anatomy of typography than most people? Martin Silvertant has you covered.

Source:
https://www.deviantart.com/martinsilvertant/art/Typography-Series-01-Anatomy-of-typography-329617642

(Aside: how would y’all compose alt text for this image? It’s challenging to describe without conflating its core function, which is visual by nature.)

#Design #Typography #Type #Fonts #Letterform

3) Browse this cool 1992 book of gorgeous wooden ornamented types, "twenty-three alphabets from the foundry of Louis John Pouchee) from the Letterform Archive

https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_antiquarianfacsimile_0008

#Letterform #Types #Typefaces #WoodenType #Archive #FontFoundry