Sheaff’s ephemera
Incredible collection of typographic treasures. The artistic printing specimens are particularly impressive.
Fantastic use of the Eurostile typeface — but so much pink.
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.
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.)
Behind the Typedia logo design
Not only is it a very attractively designed resource site, the owners and designers of Typedia have very generously shared an insight into the creation of the site logo. A great example of the professional back and forth that can go on with any creative project.
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.
Indiana Jones and the (Scrutinisers of the) Fonts on the Maps (of Doom)
Have you ever wondered if the fonts used on the maps in the Indiana Jones travel montage sequences are historically synchronistic? To my shame, I hadn’t either. Now I’m wondering if they had Franklin Gothic in that galaxy far, far away.