Here’s a test image of the second member of the Beeching family, Beeching Small Capitals. You’ll see we’ve been exploring the possibilities of Small Capital Ligatures…to rather pleasing effect we think.
Posts Tagged ‘lettering’
Beeching Small Capitals
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged Beeching Axe, font, legibility, lettering, ligatures, signage, Train station, typeface on June 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Further Station Names…
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged Beeching Axe, England, Flanders, Letter case, lettering, Recreation, signage, Swann, Train station on April 25, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Here’s a little more testing of the ‘Station-Sign’ project, now with lower case letter forms. We’re thinking of calling this one Beeching. Here are two small puzzles for our readers…
Another Idea
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged clear, edwardian, font, lettering, plain, signage, typeface on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s something else we’ve been thinking of, inspired by early 20th Century Train Station signage…
Wonderful!
Posted in Miscellany, tagged decorative, display, elaborate, font, lettering, map, typeface, victorian on March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Seen on Vintage Me Oh My! today. We can’t help but wonder if this could be recreated as an Opentype typeface with a sufficiently elaborate set of ligatures. A project for the future perhaps…
Remember…
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged diplay, font, lettering, London Court, olde English, Tudor Revival, tudorbethan, typeface on January 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Remember this image of some lettering below a clock face in London Court, Perth’s ‘Tudorbethan’ shopping arcade? You might also remember that we suggested that this image might soon be the basis of a typeface design. Well, here is progress to date.
Wonderfully Inspirational
Posted in Miscellany, tagged Beamish, lettering, museum, street jewelry on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We heartily recommend perusal of the ‘Writing on the Wall’ collection of street jewelry and signage posted on Flickr by Beamish Museum…
Straightening Things Out…
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged Arts and Crafts Movement, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Coliseum Theatre, lettering, London on December 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday we posted some rather lovely lettering from the Coliseum Theatre in London. That lettering was seen at a rather odd angle because of the restrictions of on the spot photography. Here’s a sketch developed in an attempt to show those letters as viewed in the normal ‘straight ahead’ manner. A design inspiration with future possibilities we think… with overtones of the Arts and Crafts movement, combined with Mr Rennie Mackintosh.
Public Lettering
Posted in Miscellany, tagged archive, inspiration, lettering, London on November 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our readers might be interested in the fascinating ‘Public Lettering’ archive pointed out to us by Mike Davies. This site presents a moderate sized (and hopefully growing) archive of interesting public lettering to be seen in London. Here’s a sketch inspired by an example found on the site.
