The Beauty of Road Signs

Usually, when I do my road trips to take pictures of road sigs for my collection, I am most interested in, how these signs look from the driver’s point of view.

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The Beauty of Road Signs

Walbaum Type Specimen in high resolution

The type designer Justus Erich Walbaum was born in 1768 and started his career in a spice shop.

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Walbaum Type Specimen in high resolution

A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script

Rajesh Rao is fascinated by “the mother of all crossword puzzles”: How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting modern computational techniques to read the Indus language, the key piece to understanding this ancient civilization. Video does’t show up?

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A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script

TYPO-Berlin

by Dan Reynolds From May 19–21, FontShop hosted its 16th annual TYPO-Berlin conference.

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TYPO-Berlin

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