We document the hand-painted signs of the old quarters and turn them into a type family anyone can use.
Each style starts from a kind of sign often seen in the city. Names and drawings are concept-stage proposals.
Condensed, for long signs on narrow facades.
High contrast, for tailors, pharmacies and cafés.
Round and heavy, like letters brushed onto sheet metal.
Press a stop to see the kind of sign we document in that quarter. The route is schematic.
Four steps, from the street to the font file.
Fictional concept: an imagined archive of the city’s surviving signs.
The letters are redrawn, not copied, into a full set.
On posters, menus and maps, before release.
Part of each licence would fund repainting the original signs.