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  2. William Sharpington - Wikipedia

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    William Sharpington (1900–1973) was a British lettering artist who worked in sign painting and the design of monuments. In the view of John Nash and Gerald Fleuss, his workshop "produced, from the [1940s] to the [1960s], some of the most distinguished public lettering in England".

  3. Sign painting - Wikipedia

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    Sign painting. Sign painters create a new sign on the walls of the Hotel Figueroa in Los Angeles, California. Sign painting is the craft of painting lettered signs on buildings, billboards or signboards, for promoting, announcing, or identifying products, services and events. Sign painting artisans are signwriters, although in North America ...

  4. Calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Islamic calligraphy is associated with geometric Islamic art ( Arabesque) on the walls and ceilings of mosques as well as on the page or other materials. Contemporary artists in the Islamic world may draw on the heritage of calligraphy to create modern calligraphic inscriptions, like corporate logos, or abstractions.

  5. Lettering - Wikipedia

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    Brush lettering practice by artist Emmanuel Sevilla. In the past, almost all decorative lettering other than that on paper was created as custom or hand-painted lettering. The use of fonts in place of lettering has increased due to new printing methods, phototypesetting, and digital typesetting, which allow fonts to be printed at any desired size.

  6. Roman lettering - Wikipedia

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    Street sign using lettering by David Kindersley, Northern Ireland Business sign of Yannedis Brass Foundry, London, in 2023 [95] Examples of Roman-style lettering can be seen in many places across Britain. [96] Kindersley's street sign font is one of the most common designs for street signs in Britain. [75]

  7. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    The Jenson roman was an explicitly typographic letter designed on its own terms that declined to imitate the appearance of hand-lettering. Its effect is one of a unified cohesive whole, a seamless fusion of style with structure, and the successful convergence of the long progression of preceding letter styles.

  8. Eric Sloane - Wikipedia

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    Eric Sloane was born in New York. As a child, he was a neighbor of noted type designer Frederic W. Goudy. Sloane studied art and lettering with Goudy. In the summer of 1925, Sloane left home at the age of twenty to make a living for himself. Working his way across the country as a sign painter, he created advertisements for the likes of Red Man ...

  9. Japanese calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Japanese calligraphy (書道, shodō), also called shūji (習字), is a form of calligraphy, or artistic writing, of the Japanese language. Written Japanese was originally based on Chinese characters only, but the advent of the hiragana and katakana Japanese syllabaries resulted in intrinsically Japanese calligraphy styles.

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