folk typography field trip

great folk typography examples from the folk typography pool over at flickr:

bar in nambia by sundayschild 1




henry's beach market



mexican sign by justin.scrappers

Jan Halvarson

4 comments:

Michelle said...

These are amazing, I have a whole library of found type, and it warms my heart to see other people's photos. Thanks, my heart was getting kinda cold...

Anonymous said...

just love the henry´s beach market typography!!

VLD said...

do you know what the henry's beach market font is called?

Jan Halvarson said...

Alison, it's handpainted - so no, i don't even know if something like that exists in a font. There may be similar fonts, but not any that come to mind at them moment.