Ça en fait des caisses sur les ligatures, j'a-do-re

La chouette archive typo du jour : L'assignat, monnaie sous la Révolution Française, merci la newsletter The Casual Archivist
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Flat illustration of a Female Goldfinch munching on Thistle seeds. The thistledown flies off in the breeze.

Two rabbits made with twirling calligraphic lines.

A deer made in the same way.

A calligraphic cat and mouse.

Introducing Calligraphic Menagerie✨🖌️⁠
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Twenty charismatic creatures from the quills of 17th- and 18th-century writing masters celebrate the playful art of flourishing in this set of colorful notecards with accompanying envelopes.⁠
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Available now in our shop: letterformarchive.org/shop/calligr...

Two booklet covers printed in red and black ink on brown paper. They are filled with rectangular shapes and the letters SN in a blocky style with no curves. One cover also has the word “PROGRAMMA”.

Two booklet covers printed in red and black ink on brown paper. They are filled with rectangular shapes and the letters SN in a blocky style with no curves. One cover also has the year “1931”.

Two booklet covers printed in red and black ink on brown paper. They are filled with rectangular shapes and the text “SN” and “PROGRAMMA” in a blocky style with no curves. One cover also has the date “13 SEPT”.

Soeprapto Soekonto, theater programs, Semarang, Indonesia, ca. 1931–34. We’d love to know more about this artist, who was perhaps influenced by Hendrik Wijdeveld (posting tomorrow), but with a style all their own.

#IndonesianDesign #1930s #Lettering #GraphicDesign

Cropped detail from a larger image showing a letter A in an elaborate cursive style with a dimensional shade.

Cropped detail from a larger image showing a letter B in an elaborate cursive style with a dimensional shade.

Cropped detail from a larger image showing a letter C in an elaborate cursive style with a dimensional shade.

An alphabet an elaborate cursive style with a dimensional shade arranged in a grid. Letters I and W are omitted.

J. Laugier, Modèles graphiques d'alphabets industriels modernes, Eugene Charavay, Paris, 1890.

If you like this sort of thing, you’ll want to keep an eye on upcoming releases from Letterform Archive Books: letterformarchive.org/mail?utm_sou...

#Alphabet #Lettering #1890s #France

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Masked zombie slaves hold out knives

A red masked figure leans in

Underground templar knights

Two figures in the back of a car with red bags covering their heads.

✨Georges Franju BOTD, 1912 🎂
While I adore the dreamy fantasia of Eyes Without a Face and Judex, I do have a soft spot for the gaudy pop pulp nonsense of his final film, Nuits Rouges (1974), full of mad disguies, masked villainy, undead slaves and underground secret society shenanigans...

A magnifying glass over a small section of a Swiss ordnance survey map reveals a small illustration of a climber amongst the contours of a mountain range

A magnifying glass over a section of map reveals a line drawing of an animal amongst the lines of cliff edges

A magnifying glass over a section of lake reveals a small drawing of a fish in blue line

Swiss cartographers have been hiding illustrations in their maps, for decades. eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-...

A large circular label printed over the spread of a book. The main name on the label is “Mikota” in a bold, swashy script.

A large circular label printed over the spread of a book. The main name on the label is “White Rose” in a bold, swashy tuscan style.

A large circular label printed over the spread of a book. The main name on the label is “Rosebud” in a decorative swashy style.

The previous spread shown without cropping.

Clifford A. Harvey, Before Rosebud Was a Sled: From the Permutation Press, Commercial Wood Engraving in America Seen Through the GramLee Collection, 1998. Gift of Dennis Ichiyama.

#Labels #VictorianDesign #FlourLabels #Lettering #GramLeeCollection

Merciii 🥰

Les conditions d'utilisation de la licence CUTE sont dispo ici : genderfluid.space#:~:text=Les%...

Velvetyne Libre fonts for everyone

SALUT INTERNET J'AI FAIS UNE TYPO. Velvelyne créé par Mariel Nils et moi même pour le site de la fonderie Velvetyne est dispo sous la licence CUTE, écrite par Bye Bye Binary.
Le caractère est disponible en 4 graisses avec des ligatures post-binaires 💌.
velvetyne.fr/fonts/velvel...

Attend c’est pire, on est tous les deux dans cette passion niche en plus.

simple vector drawings of mushrooms and fungi which adhere to a squared grid. In green and red

Beautiful swan illustrations in blue and red, within a blue grid.

A parrot on a swing, a bird on a branch. Drawn in green and red atop a green grid

An alpine scene of fir trees, a chalet and a Heidi character. Geometric drawings in red and green overlay a red grid.

Mon Premier Cahier de Dessin, late 1950s. France
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Script lettering with a glossy highlight effect spelling the word “Write” on a checkered background.

Script lettering with a glossy highlight effect spelling the word “OK” on a checkered background.

Script lettering with a glossy highlight effect spelling the word “HELP” on a striped background.

Script lettering with a glossy highlight effect spelling the word “GOODBYE” on a striped background.

Jean Larcher, Pop Message Postcards, Dover, 1979

#Lettering #Postcards #JeanLarcher #LetterformArchive #1970s

Illustrated cover to the album "More Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures" featuring a lot of colorful characters from various eras and performances.

More Gilbert And Sullivan Overtures - Conducted By Kenneth Alwyn, cover illustrated by Malcolm Binding, 1965.

#wardsmorguefile #moreartlessdoom

An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙
Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

Lancement imminent de notre nouvelle typo Velvelyne avec Mariel Nils pour Velvetyne #typography #lauch #VelvetyneTypeFoundry #singleline #plotter

The work of Koichi Sato. Scanned from Koichi Sato (World Graphic Design 13), 1994 designreviewed.com/artefacts/ko...

Georges Méliès is all "Look, ma! No strings!" in THE MERMAID.

Méliès starred in most of his own films and was one of the first screen performers to really play to the audience, breaking the fourth wall and addressing them directly.

Coincée dans des réunions alors que je pourrais juste jouer de la basse. Quelle vie.

This INSANELY good site has catalogued the signage from 115 of Europe's underground stations. So much typographic eye candy, not to mention tiles and colours.
ubahn.photos

Ptit changement d'avatar car j'ai juste envie d'être un ptit machin souriant dans vos feeds

Nosferatu

Franchement c'est pas si mal, je trouve ça assez libérateur de repartir de zéro et apprendre à connaitre des inconnus

A collection of 17 lottery tickets from 1950s Japan. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/w...
For anyone that needs them today.

Quand j'ai l'occasion de faire un truc bizarre

Bertrand Blier (1939-2025)

Ce con de Blier a donc fait la même chose que ce con de Lynch. A bientôt, messieurs.