Indian movie posters in Devanagari, Latin, Telugu, and Bengali scripts:
Samaj Ko Badal Dalo | समाज को बदल डालो, 1970
Bhakta Prahlāda | భక్త ప్రహ్లాద, 1967
Kābuli’ōẏālā | কাবুলিওয়ালা, 1957
Read about this collection and see more posters in @tanyatypes’ 2022 article: https://letterformarchive.org/news/indian-movie-posters/
#Lettering #India #Bollywood #MoviePosters #Telugu #Hindi #Bangali
From last post’s bungalow to a palace this time — check out the sign for the exquisite Art Deco building, Dhanraj Mahal, in Mumbai. @tanyatypes tells me this new sign was installed last year after the building underwent renovations. The letter widths are admittedly wonky, but the play of light and shadow makes it 👌🏼
More about the building and its architecture here https://www.artdecomumbai.com/research/princely-states-and-the-emergence-of-art-deco-in-bombay/
📍 Fort, Mumbai (Maharashtra)
📅 November 2024
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/sighting/dhanraj-mahal/
In 1858, the East India Company officially extended its mission from trading to colonising the Indian subcontinent, as a result of which the British implemented direct and indirect rule in the region.[1] An area under direct rule would be controlled entirely by the British, which included departments like education, health, judiciary, municipality, and police, to
10 years ago today I published my article “Variable Fonts for Responsive Design” at A List Apart:
https://alistapart.com/blog/post/variable-fonts-for-responsive-design/
I was very happy when, a year and a half later, the OpenType specification was updated to support variable fonts.
Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time making and working with variable fonts, including building up the https://v-fonts.com directory (now sadly out of date).
There have been bumps in the road, but it’s been satisfying to see the technology spread over time.
Let's do a series of educational posts for the young colleagues. But rather than highlight how easy it is to draw (I love drawing, but it is never easy), let's talk about what to look out for when someone offers to publish your fonts. #contracts
This Saturday, we published a batch of Uses for typefaces with horizontal contrast, i.e., thick tops and bottoms. In particular, there’s:
• the classic Zipper (Bob Newman, Letraset, 1970)
• the lesser known Sintex (Aldo Novarese, VGC, c.1970)
• the downright obscure Kangaroo (Dave West, PLINC, c.1969)
• and the OG, Gothic Bold (Hamilton, 1889).
See them all: https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&typefaces0=32521,31801,31312,88960
#FontsInUse #fonts #typefaces #ScienceFiction #paperbacks #BookCovers
Is anyone affiliated with an academic institution able to help me get a copy of the 23 October 1936 issue of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News here:
It contains a preview of the Inn Signs Exhibition of 1936 that I'm currently researching.
I'd be happy to offer something nice via snail mail in exchange...
A collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology
No Web Without Women
https://nowebwithoutwomen.com/
"A Selman Project. This website is typeset in Base 9 and Base 12 by Zuzana Licko"
Letterform Archive
Pooja Saxena
Nick Sherman
Fonts In Use
Sam at BLAG
Raghav Agrawal