Lettres à l’usage du Peintre

type_1

I’m a photographer, not a designer by trade, so excuse me if I’m butchering an explanation on this collection. The google translation of the title is roughly Letters for Use By Painters. Based on that, I’m assuming this was an old collection of letters for sign painters to use as inspiration. Correct me if I’m wrong though. Regardless of its purpose, I’m in love. You know how much I love painted signs.

There’s a ton more inspiration to be had on pillpat’s Flickr stream so check out the set for large versions of these files as well as several thousand pages of other scanned inspiration.

 

 

Footnotes

  • http://gotopublicschool.com/design-things/french-type French Type | PUBLIC SCHOOL

    [...] LionOlivia MaloneFrench Type This book of type specimens is rad. I’m not sure why I have been finding so many that are written in French lately, but good type looks great, regardless of language.See the rest of the set here on [...]

  • http://colossalhuman.com/column/?p=226 colossal human » Great Old Type

    [...] type from an old French book. There are some really clean fonts to check out. Here is the link to Public School but also follow the link into the flickr for all the [...]

Works Cited

Written By:

Jay B Sauceda

Date

January 7th, 2011

Tags:

, ,