#Swashes

Hilary PalménHilary@typo.social
2025-04-22

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

PSiReN-X :verified_paw:​PSiReN@psiren.eu
2024-10-08

#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingDiablo4WorldNotNews... #NotNearly24... #IT's #DefinitelyNotNews...

#AndSo a #NewSeasonBegins...

#IT's #SomethingToDo while we're #Awaiting #TheNextInstalment of the #DragonAgeSaga, aye...

There shall be #Swashbuckling and #Biscuits... And, #FancyHats... #IT's #DistinctlyPossible that we #Might #LoseALeg... You can't #Buckle your #Swashes #Properly without a #PegLeg...

🧙⚔️🤖:wolfparty:​🤖⚔️🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹⚒️🐻​⚒️🦹:PirateBadge:

2023-09-02

Ed Benguiat, back cover of PLINC: An Illustrated Typographic Journey, vol. 2, no. 1, Photo-Lettering Inc., New York, 1985.⁠

#LetterformArchive #EdBenguiat #PhotoLetteringInc #PLINC #TypeDesign #Lettering #Calligraphy #Swashes #PhotoLettering

The word “PLINC” in an extra bold, italic, outlined lettering style with gobs of swash ornamentation.The complete back cover from which the previous image is a cropped detail. In centered small text: 

THANK YOU
MORRIS FULLER BENTON
LUCIAN BERNHARD
BARTLEY CAMPBELL
SEYMOUR CHWAST
OZ COOPER
PETER COOPER
JERRY CRAW
THEODORE DE VINNE
LOU DORFSMAN
BILL DWIGGINS
GENE FEDERICO
LESTER FELDMAN
JUDITH GARTEN
MILTON GIASER
FRED GOUDY
MARILYN HOFFNER
HERB LUBALIN
MR. PLINC
PAUL RAND
KLAUS SCHMIDT
SID TIMM
THE COOPER UNION
MASSIMO VIGNELLI
AND THE MANY
OTHERS WHO HAVE
ASSISTED WITI
THEIR HELP
AND ADVICE

[“PLINC” lettering]

DIRECTED,
EDITED
CREATED BY
ED BENGUIAT
PLINC-216E45TH ST•NYC10017•212-490-2345

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