Here’s a beautiful site dedicated to photos of found typography. This is something that I should’ve done when I was in Japan. There was so much fascinating variety in the typestyles used in public, on buildings, menus, flyers, etc., and an interesting interplay between the Roman and Asian characters that are mixed so often there.
As usual, via Metafilter, yo.
Dylan Abbott is or has been a shoe salesman, scanner jockey, video clerk, sign salesman, guitarist, songwriter, electronic music producer, and blogger. This site is the tangible result of the last of these, and is informed by the experience of all the others. Live from The People's Republic of Fremont in beautiful Cascadia, it's Successless.org!
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