Shopping fonts must’ve been an awesome experience in the 1880’s. Check out these sexeh specimens by Cincinnati Type Foundry and Shniedewend & Lee Company. Examples from the book Type. from Taschen.

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Funny idea from fffffound and about.

A great resource for the CSS maniac type obsessed grid fanatic: Typesites! A collection of articles analyzing and commenting on type based web sites.

Came across this collective whom creates lovely crafted typework. Quoted from their site: “The ill-studio is a French group of collaborators devoted to fine arts. Our goal is to bring ten individuals together, working in various artistic areas such as graphic design, photography, typography, illustration, video, motion design, etc.”

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Love the way Pavel Fuksa has designed so many nice vintage matchboxes. Check it out!

A clever gentleman from Milan named Matteo Gualandris have made a magazine called “Science Fiction Typography”. It contains an analytical story of typographic used in America’s most popular science fiction magazines published between 1930 and 1970. The main focus is on cover headlines. To make the magazine look old and used Matteo had it stuffed down in his back pocket for days.

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Found this funny thing laying around on the internet. Unknown source.

A graffiti writer in Trondheim apparently hates typography for some reason.

A quick doodle I did today.

Nice sign. Nice building.

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This is one of three (if you want to see the other two, go on and google it) ads for Australia post. I´m liking it.

© Keith Davis Young

Some nice use of type at Latitude festival. Charming, colorful, and good vibes.

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A playful font by Byggstudio from Sweden.

via Junkculture + SwissMiss

Found this old picture from back in the good old days at the Oslo National College of the Arts. This is the very nice and cozy “kitchen” in the hallway outside the classrooms in the visual communication department. Nicely decorated with lovely large letters.