- Sign
painting is the
craft of
painting lettered signs on buildings,
billboards or signboards, for promoting, announcing, or
identifying products, services...
-
designs (now
often called grotesques),
which were
based on the
models of
signpainting,
condensed lettering and nineteenth-century
serif typefaces, in favour...
- Some of the type
designs appearing around this time may be
based on
signpainting and
architectural lettering traditions, or vice versa.[citation needed]...
-
styles hard,
since a
trend can
arrive in the dated,
printed record from a
signpainting tradition which has left less of a
record or at
least no dates.) The...
-
status in the
typically "lesser and short-lived,"
almost extinct trade of
signpainting. His most
original creation may be his
personal interpretation of the...
- Vanson's
Chesham Sans is
inspired by the
British tradition of sans-serif
signpainting, with many
similarities to Gill's work. Bitstream's
Humanist 521 was...
- be used by
architect John
Soane and
copied by others,
particularly in
signpainting.
Historian James Mosley, the
leading expert on
early sans-serifs, has...
- lower-case letters) than the print-oriented
Bembo and
influences of
signpainting (Downer's
former profession), it was
intended to be
particularly clear...
-
artist who
worked in Bridport, Dorset, in
South West England.
Biles ran a
signpainting business in
Bridport from 1924 to a few days
before his
death aged 87...
- the
period was the
arrival of the
printed poster and
increasing use of
signpainting and
printing for
publicity and advertising. This
caused a
desire to develop...
