Via Satyr’s Link Roll, we are directed towards this inventory of antique hand-painted and machined lettering of French public signage, a brilliant archive of examples that one can filter and peruse by a range techniques, regional flair and styles from รฉmail to embossage and soupirs (punch-outs) to sablage (funerary fonts). This growing collection with new, brilliant exemplars and samplers added regularly is a journeyman’s exploration and a genuine catalogue of singular signage has been celebrating popular trends and hyper-local, vernacular aesthetic since 2006, recently revamped to make the archive more accessible.
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