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Photo-Lettering from House Industries allows you to easily set headlines and download scalable vector files of the results. The service is relatively inexpensive and will be well suited to projects that need some quick custom lettering. If you don’t know anything about photo-lettering, take some time to go through the history section of the site.
Ever wanted to know where our alphabet came from? Read The origins of abc from iLT.
That story spans some 5,000 years. We’ll travel vast distances, meet an emperor, a clever Yorkshireman, a Phoenician princess by the name of Jezebel, and the ‘purple people’; we’ll march across deserts and fertile plains, and sail across oceans. We will begin where civilisation began, meander through the Middle Ages, race through the Renaissance, and in doing so discover where our alphabet originated, how and why it evolved, and why, for example, an A looks, well, like an A.
An excellent read, with a great layout for the web, and a collage from Able Parris to boot.
Here’s a small photoset (slideshow) featuring lettering and signage from Belfast. I particularly liked the Fishing & Tackle and the Tyrone Produce signs.