I am so happy that this metal ribbon lettering has survived in Bangalore. It is affixed on the façade of the building where I worked over 15 years ago. That time in life was my first taste of #adulting — new job and new city. Seems like a lifetime ago!

📍 Frazer Town, Bangalore (Karnataka)
📅 May 2025
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/padmalaya/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Bangalore

Marking Madras Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Day with one of my favourite signs from the city — a hand painted one for a screen printing supplies store.

📍 Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
📅 July 2025
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/advance-screen-supplies-2/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Chennai #Madras #MadrasDay

Sign painting shops have the best signs (duh!).

📍 Kochi (Kerala)
📅 May 2025
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/arts/ + https://indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/arts-2/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Kochi

Simplification and geometrization of Devanagari has been on my mind lately (psst, TypeTogether’s upcoming, multiscript Futura® 100 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmdi2VWVmBY). I’ve been sifting through past examples and this sign stood out.

So many ideas here despite streamlining — the obtuse leaf shaped foundational form, horizontal strokes of ज न standing in visually for the headline, the differentiation of ु ँ. What’s not to love?

📍 Pune (MH)
📅 May 2025
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/gunjan/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Pune

In April, I went to the Broadway Book Centre in Panjim to hunt down books about Goa by local historian Vasco Pinho https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/Panjim%E2%80%99s-evergreen-story-teller/122031, and was delighted to find that the shop is housed in a building I had visited before to photograph its sign.

The multi-use Ashirvad building has the loveliest metal sign with ribbon-like cursive letters. Not in the best shape at the moment, but still very striking!

📍 Panjim (Goa)
📅 April 2025
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/ashirvad/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Panjim

Sometimes you see the letterforms on a sign and all you want to do is experiment with turning them into a full typeface. If I didn’t have tonnes on my plate already, I’d be doing that to this Devanagari sign for Sancheti Chambers. That blocky स is simply chef’s kiss 👌🏽

📍 Pune (Maharashtra)
📅 May 2025
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/sancheti-chambers/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Pune

Today let’s put two clock towers side-by-side. On the left is Dinbai Clock Tower erected in Ahmedabad in 1961, and on the right, the public clock on the Industrial Assurance Building in Mumbai, built about 25 years prior.

Which numerals do you like better? I am partial to the counterless Deco ones 🤩

📍 Ahmedabad (Gujarat) & Mumbai (Maharashtra)
📅 2025 & 2024 respectively
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/type-of-establishment/clock-tower/

#IndiaStreetLettering

Last week I went type-exploring in Bangalore’s Russell Market (thanks to Vishnu https://www.instagram.com/vishphotoblog/’s tip), and was pleasantly surprised to see this Deco sign for a local dairy. It felt like it had been dropped there straight from Mumbai’s Oval Maidan https://indiastreetlettering.com/collection/oval-maidan/

📍 Bangalore (Karnataka)
📅 May 2025
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/curzon-dairy-farm/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Bangalore

What’s happening in this sign for Kothawala Flats?

A conventional “O” in an otherwise counterless design, which even has beefy horizontal strokes in the “T”, “L” and “S” (oh that “S” 🫠) to match the chunky vibe. Was this “O” added later by a less accomplished designer/craftsperson? Who doesn’t love a typographic mystery 🕵🏽‍♂️

📍 Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
📅 January 2025
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/kothawala-flats/

#IndiaStreetLettering #Ahmedabad