I’ve always loved this old sign on North Main Street, especially the curved arrow! I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it lit, though. I wonder if it still works. It reminds me of the Northside Video sign, but it has to be much older. Someone still lives in the house next door (with those [...]
Downtown Danville. I had to drive around the block a few times before I found a good spot near Zinc this afternoon after school. It was really weird…Cars everywhere downtown… And — whew! — you can just see the heat of the day. TG4AC!
Not sure to which “way” they’re referring, but the sign’s an excellent hand-drawn example of a text-filled shape.
A second picture for my DanvilleType.com idea. :-) I love the hand-drawn script and the way the text starts all bold and deliberate, then thins and spreads. And by the time it gets to “CHURCH,” it’s a sans-serif block. I wonder if it’s thematic, or if they went with a freeform, whatever-happens approach. And I [...]
Cool old neon sign! Not as old as it seems, though. The building was a grocery store way back when I was a little girl. I’m not sure when the video store opened (I’m thinking in the late ’80s), but it’s been closed for some time.
I love typography. There, I said it. And now that it’s out there, I can tell you about the hours upon hours I spent as a kid and teenager writing. Some of it was writing, as in writing something. A lot of it, though, was just writing anything. It didn’t really matter what the words [...]
