Category: typography

Sarah Gardner

Posted on by Hijiri

I have been a fan of Sarah Gardner‘s hand-lettering work, it’s so great. Her Flickr photostream is filled with great hand-lettering work, it is so inspiring to browse through them all and they really make me want to try some hand-lettering!

Take Courage and Be Kind – how cool is the “K”? I like the “B” too:

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Sea and Sky – I love each word is all different and has unique personality:

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This is For You – this is just so cute!!:

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This is from her flickr. Favorite Food. Cute saying, too and I like the color and of course the hand-lettering!  Makes me smile :)

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Wednesday morning inspiration. I will be trying some hand-lettering today!!

My Wood Types

Posted on by Hijiri

I am slowly getting my wood type collection together — meet my 10 line Gothic Bold types!

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I used these to print my Live What You Love 5th edition… came out very nicely. I’m happy with these.

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In letterpress world, it’s not 10 point, it’s 10 line. It’s not 10 inches, it’s 10 picas.

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I just can’t get enough!! The textures are awesome.

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My letterpress studio sneak peek is coming later today, stay tuned!

Found Type From the Weekend

Posted on by Hijiri

As I mentioned, we were babysitting Hime the dachshund over the weekend and so I got to walk around the neighborhood with 2 dachshunds (I couldn’t get enough! They were so cute together!) and my camera, it was a lot warmer this weekend in NYC, I could see Spring finally. I found cool types just around the corner of my house so here are some to share.

Driveway:

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Cool vintage bike types:

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Police Line:

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86:

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On the ground:

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Laundercenter (love this sign!):

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Delicatessen:

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Found letter A:

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Neon yellow cone:

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Sixteen:

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Dub Pie Shop – the coolest pie shop ever!

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Hope you all have a great weekend!

Letter Pot

Posted on by Hijiri

These letter pots from mysweetsavannah are so cute – you can buy each letter to spell some words with your plants!

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I used to own lots of plants in San Francisco but since I moved here, I have zero plants… these make me want to go get my own little plants again… I would buy “g” “r” “e” “e” “n” or “l” “i” “f” “e” maybe? What would you spell with these?!