Category Archives: Typography Photography

Drive Thru

The colors! The pinwheel! The weathered type! What’s not to love about this photo of a drive thru sign for a Charlie’s Mongolian Barbeque taken by designer and photographer Jesse Southerland.

Typography Photography Vol. 5, 10 breathtaking photos of interesting type

Back by popular demand I am bringing back “Typography Photography”, where I showcase some of the best photography that includes nice typography as its subject. I’m just a curator here, and all credit is due to the actual photographers and designers of the typography they photographed. Be sure to click on the images [...]

Typography Photography – Bloom shadow

I have decided to try something new. Instead of posting a mega post of typographic photography once in a blue moon, I’ll feature each photo separately so that I can post these images more frequently and they each get their own spotlight. I’ve created a separate category for typography photography so that essentially [...]

Words flowing in and out of wall

I thought this creative use of typography in architecture was breathtaking. It’s looks like some sort of poem, and the words seem to dip into the surface of the wall and emerge in a flowing rhythm. Typophile user ngocngo noticed this on a new building and I’m glad he took the time to [...]

Microanalysis Research and Consulting Chemist – Found Type

This hand lettering on a door for a “Microanalysis Research and Consulting Chemist” made me laugh. It’s such a whimsical style and the pink paint adds to the fun. It’s the exact opposite of what I would expect to see for such a company.
Seen in dj denim’s photostream, which contains a plethora of [...]

Typography Photography Vol. 4, 10 beautiful photos of meaningful type

This is the latest installment in a series of my most popular posts by far, in which I showcase some of the best photography that includes nice typography as its subject. I want to say thanks for the interest, it makes the countless hours I spend scouring Flickr for quality typography photography, narrowing it [...]

Beautiful Polaroid typography photography set

Designer/Photographer Douglas Wilson has just uploaded a large Flickr set featuring Polaroid photos of found typography. It consists of mostly hand drawn type on signs, some printed type, and a nature photos thrown in occasionally to provide some nice interludes. They are scanned in sets of four, which makes for some interesting compositions.
I [...]

Typography Photography Vol. 3, 10 more great photos of found type

*EDIT: This post has been getting a lot of hits recently, thought I’d point out that you can see all my typography photography posts here including Vol 4 in this series.*
I’ve decided to establish a running feature on my blog that I will call “Typography Photography”. In this case, “Typography Photography” is defined as [...]

5 nice photos of found typography vol.2

I’ve come a cross a lot more nice photography of typography since the last time, here’s five more of my favorites. The photos link to their respective Flickr pages.
Previously: 5 nice photos of found typography vol.1

{above photo by David John Earls, of typographer.org}

5 nice photos of found typography

I love photos of found type, especially if the photo itself is well composed. I thought I’d share a few nice ones that I’ve come across recently.