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For this, the second Typo Friday, I thought I’d talk a little bit about inspiration. Letters are everywhere, of course, so I’d have to say my number one source of inspiration is just walking around my town: look at signs, look at graffiti, look at menus, just plain be observant; there’s some really beautiful stuff out there. For instance, I was in class on Wednesday night, and my teacher was writing on the chalkboard when I noticed he wrote his capital A like this…

… and I was entranced, I kind of zoned out what he was saying and just copied that A over and over into the margin of my notebook; it’s really lovely.

But you’re saying, “BT, what if I never leave the house, what then?” Well, I’ve got that covered too! Here are a list of some great typography related websites that I frequent:

First off, Nate Williams, illustrator, letterer, and creator of IllustrationMundo, has just launched a new site that I am super excited about. It’s called Letter Playground, and you can join up and submit your own letterforms, search by letter, see random letters, and otherwise just revel in the beauty and variety of letters. The site isn’t even officially launched as far as I know (as of writing this post last night, there were like 30 letters submitted, eight of which were mine), but if you’re a lettering nerd like I am, you can join early and start submitting! OK, just lists, not too many descriptions from now on…

Letter Playground
I Love Typography
We Love Typography (same people as ILT, different style of site)
The Hand-Lettering Forum
Typedia

There are a bunch of great Flickr groups relating to typography as well, here are some:
Typography and Lettering
Hand Drawn Type
Handlettering
I (heart) Typography
Typography*
Found Typography
The Center For Vernacular Typography

Finally, these last two are Flickr groups about gold leafing, but it’s almost all gold leaf lettering.
Gold Leaf and Gilding
Gilty Pleasure

Obviously, there are countless other sites as well as specific artists who specialize in wonderful typography, but that would be far too much to cover in one post. If you know of any other typography or hand-lettering sites that I did not mention here, please do not be afraid to add some to the comments!

To go along with my plan to set in place an update schedule of every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I’m starting a new weekly segment here: Typo Friday. Every Friday, I will make a post relating to the wonderful world of letters. It might be some cool found typography (like today), a hand-lettered art piece of my own, or a review of one of the many typography, hand-lettering, and sign-painting books I’ve read.

OK, now on with things… I went out to the Bins again yesterday, my favorite spot to pick up some vintage typographic lovelies. Here’s what I got this week.

This is a pretty dry, hefty book from 1942 about the ins and out of radio, and even includes pull-out schematics. The gold type on the blue gray book is just really so simple and beautiful I think.

Another simple cover, but with so much action and excitement in the lettering for this little novel, possibly about sailors; I’m not sure I haven’t read it yet. That exclamation mark just cracks me up every time I see it too.

Nothing too spectacular or this tiny, religious handbook, but I’m a sucker for gold, so I bought it.

Horse breaking! This is a well-used, softcover book. I bought it mostly because of my recent obsession with horses, and if you don’t look at it directly, the cowboy’s lasso totally looks like a stream of urine. When I cracked it open though, I was hit with some really nice lettering for the section headers. Here are just a few of the dirtier sounding examples.

Thanks for being here for the first Typo Friday, and here’s to many more!