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Wow, #config2025 has sold out! But you can still attend online, for free, so head over to https://config.figma.com to register for the livestream. My #typography in #designsystems session is on the Thursday morning (Pacific time). Can’t wait!

A black and white portrait photo of Elliot Jay Stocks, with the title of his config session, “Typography is the foundation of any design system”. SF, May 6–8.

@jeffbronks what a wonderful, plausible, story they do look like the base of a twig removed!

Invitation to a #tattoo parlour in #Angouleme. I wonder what the story is that brings those little diamond noddles are, halfway down the vertical strokes.
#Orange
#Swashes
#painted
#outlined
#Shopsignage

The suprise of a flat-topped 8.
The 3 sizes of CAPS and an Italic.
#Montparnasse
#GraveStone
#Paris

Photograph of text engraved on a French tombstone

Hilary Palmén boosted:

Because you can never have enough emotional support, right?

On my kitchen table, three crocheted emtional support chickens in tan, gray and medium brown tweed yarns with red yarn combs and yellow and orange embroidered beaks.

Hilary Palmén boosted:

fat people not meeting an "aesthetic" results in
- plus size is only available online because they don't want fat people in their store (can't try things on and certainly can't obtain a garment in a hurry for say a funeral or job intervew)
- no images of plus sized garments on models so you don't know how it will fit on you, because they think seeing a fat person in their design will sully their brand

progress on these things is really backsliding

A small shop in Aubettere-sur-dronne, Aquitaine, France. Hand painted, decorative letters. The A is having a party, and the dripping cross-stroke on the t's. Quite a lot of fun with the ink happening here

Phptograpb of a closed shop front. Dark wood double doors with a windor eitherside. Through the square panes of glass we can see metal shutters and crockerie. Above these is written the wird 'Antiquites' in black paint on sand stone in a medieval style

Manga and Nouveau shopfronts signs coexisting
#Angouleme
#France
#SignageJuxtapositions

Photograph of the front of a shop showing an Art Nouvauex mural style name and a modern 'Manga Cat' sign with japanese character

HIFI &TELE signs above a long-closed store. Once these proportions were exciting, cutting edge, high, technology. Now they are the language and style of the past
#angouleme
#ALLCAPS
#HiFi
#TELE
#StoreSignage
#RecentVintage

Two sets of glass doors surrounded by brushwd aliminium. Above one an allcaos typeface in red says 'HIFI" above the other "TELE"

The other library in Angouleme, France. A cooperative libraries, not state run, local anarchy in action, profoundly beautiful. With it's 'I's independently slanting forward, its outrageously low waists, diacritics on uppercase, and a charming cursive
#Angouleme
#Bookstore
#Shopsignage
#uppercasediacritics

Photograph of a shop window "L'AUTE LIBRARIE. Librarir cooperative.

Was the sign painter a little tipsy?

Were they a novice?

Had the client annoyed them?

I look at these numerals and they raise so many questions. Maybe these numbers are meant to be like this and I am the novice.
#UpsideDown8
#BackTilted5
#Brooklyn
#NY

Photgraoh of 568 painted on glass above a doorway. The 5 leans forward to the top right. The 8 is update dkwn. Thd 6 looks like it could be an upside down 9, or a 6.

Listened to Tobias Frere-Jones talk about the design of the Madison Square typeface for New York City football (soccer) club. Such a luxury experience to be walked through the inspirations and implementation stories.

#CooperUnion
#HerbLubalinLecture
#FrereJones
#MadisonSquare
#NewYorkCityFootball
#Branding
https://frerejones.com/

Two round logos, both identical text and colors, the typeface varys in both. The before text around the circumference in the old riundel is thinner stroke width, smaller. And interlocking NYC in the center of the roundal has slab serif removed in the new design where the overlaying of the thicker letters leave them gently aliging

#ChelseaMarket
#NYC
#IncandescentBulbSign
#SanSerif
#ALLCAPS

Photograph os a sign saying 'OPEN' with incandescent bulbz hung from s wrought iron curly decorative arm, infront of a cage,protected work light. On a thin redbrick building

The old neon sign literally points toward the moon, a toenail clipping in the sky

#WilliesLiquor
#LittleCarribean
#Brooklyn
#NeonSign
#NewYorkVernacula

@guayabito very atmospheric, fekt like BladeRunner...

Another fabulous Neon Sign in NYC
#ChelseaMarket
#NeonSign
#SanSerif
#Hanzi
#red
#green

Sign in Neon hanzi (which i cant read) with letter forms that hace a stable sroke width (San Serif?) Outlined in red deon and some english text for 'heklo' and 'thankyou'

Delightful neon sign that I walk past on my daily commute
#ModernNeon
#Serif
#ALLCAPS
#Cursive
#MixedCase
#SignVenacular
#Flatbush
#Brooklyn
#NewYork

Photo of a storefront window tgat reads 'COOKLYN Eats Comfort Food To Go" in white neon tubing. In tge background there are 4 neon tube bottle shapes in red, white, green, yellow. Thd wibdow has a bright red paper sticker foe Door dash and a green one foe uber eats

@karochan3 'Blowing a hoolie' sounds so good (especially from inside a storm proof house) i havent heard that phrase since Britain, it brungs to mund images of bekilted string peoplle atop stunning mountains. Thankyou for brightening my day with both images!

#NobleSigns
#SignMuseum
#KnowYourEnemy
I loved this little creation left out for the guests to notice when exploring the contents of the design museum before the tour. The bright and contrasting colours as backdrop to a white paint message, only there if you seek it out. Rewarding the quietly inquisitive

Photograoh of a design lying on one of the drawing boards at obl Signs museum in Brooklyn.

#AppleMonitor
#LargePrinter
#NobleSigns
#SignMuseum

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