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Fantastic use of the Eurostile typeface — but so much pink.

(Retrospace)


From The East London Theatre Archive, a collection of nearly 15,000 playbills, programmes, press cuttings and photo­graphs. Great resource for a Victorian typography enthu­siast like myself.

(The East London Theatre Archive, via The Cat’s Meat Shop)


At IKEA. The Verdana, the horror.


From the Manuel Typographique, utile Aux Gens de Lettres, published in 1766. That was a good year for quaint pointy hands. (Though of course they weren’t quaint back then.)

(From Old Books)



Comic Sans: the go-to font for that “written-in-own-faeces” look


Ah, Microsoft Word… only a mother could love your default heading styles. Like a Tourettes fit in a type foundry.