Showing posts with label font. Show all posts
Showing posts with label font. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Spelling with numbers

 
sign at gas station
7's and 3's make spelling easy

 
This side of the gas station sign uses 3's, 7's, and two different styles of "$" to say:  "PLEASE STOP STEALING R LETTERS".
 
The other side of this gas station sign had all the letters needed to advertise the gas station mart. 
 
 


 

Friday, October 14, 2022

Shady returns


Returns sign in shadow font

RETURNS 24 HOURS sign

The slanted afternoon sun turns the raised lettering of this sign into a shadow font


Monday, August 5, 2019

Scripted typography


Edelbrock header covers
 

Those orange gasoline hoses are connected to the manifold seemingly not in order.  



Chevelle trunk lid emblem

The font type for this 1971-72 Chevrolet Chevelle trunk lid emblem is based on a series of vertical swoops.  In previous years, they used an italic script.


Sunday, March 3, 2019

Stainless font too

The knife

This could be a peeling knife.  That knife blade appears to be original to the knife and not a reshape due to sharpening or breakage.  

The font

An example of one the various fonts used by the Ekco Products company on their Geneva Forge brand knives.  Their Stainless font is shown here

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Auto typography

The typographers in the 1950's and 1960's were very creative when they designed logos for cars.

Chrysler Imperial - side

Chrysler Imperial - trunk

Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria

Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria

Chevrolet Malibu SS side

No serifs or sans seen here.

Saturday, December 9, 2017

Stainless font

 
Stamped font


The Stainless font was used on kitchen knives made by the Ekco Products company.


Ten inch "Cook's Knife"

This example appears on a 10 inch long knife that has a 6 inch stainless blade and a 4 inch wooden handle.

Another Geneva Forge font is shown here.