Type & Lettering Sightings

Original (signed) drawings by type and lettering legend Ed Benguiat for his typeface Benguiat Gothic. Seen in the Type Gallery at TypeCon2004 in San Francisco on July, 24, 2004.

Vintage sign seen in Chicago on March 30, 2004.

Photo taken August 1975, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

Seen in an antique store in Prescott, Minnesota on July 10, 2004.

Detail from the cover of a book of American history and Bible stories published in 1890 in Chicago for Norwegian immigrants. My grandmother owned this when she was a child, and probably got it second-hand. If you look closely, you can see that some of the letters have been filled in with a pencil.

Seen in an antique store in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota on June 28, 2002.