A Week-End Wonderweb 20-11 (Typography)

When words put their glad rags on, sprinkle the glitz (glyph) and the punctuation, they roll out of the foundry and letterpress onto the streets to become calligraphy, typography, typefaces, fonts, sans-serifs (avec-serifs), visually colourful, impactful, artistic, trendy, jolly, a recognisable brand, a roadside billboard, a neon sign, a landmark, a lightbulb moment in history, a fashion statement.

Photographic Sources (from top page down):

• Dreamland Regular font by Jim Parkinson
• Vintage Las Vegas by Vintage Postcard Blog
• GMC Trucks, 1937 vintage advertisement featured on Plan59
• Maison Royal (1950s) captured by Roadsidepictures, via Flickr
• Les Belles de Nuit (1952) film poster