Typophile - Venice type - Comments

i agree- the clock faces are

ChuckGroth — Tue, 2 Sep 2008 08:10:31 -0700

i agree- the clock faces are beautiful!
here are a couple i saw in venice:

Unfortunately I didn’t go

mili — Tue, 2 Sep 2008 05:55:54 -0700

Unfortunately I didn’t go to the Museo Correr, but thanks for the tip, will go next time.

Here are two more clocks:

and a close-up:

This one was in Padua:

Did you go and see the

Lars Oppermann — Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:20:10 -0700

Did you go and see the prints on display in the “Museo Correr”? Beutiful stuff - but they just wouldn’t let me take photographs :(
That was my first real-life encounter with a letterpressed fim-ligature (16th century S. Occhi IIRC, don’t have my notes at hand right now).

Love the clock, that’s

Weeman — Mon, 1 Sep 2008 05:24:57 -0700

Love the clock, that’s great. Nice pics.

oops double post...sorry...

Graham McArthur — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:49:30 -0700

oops double post...sorry...

Very nice. Thanks for

Graham McArthur — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:46:45 -0700

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

¡Handpicked!

Joe Pemberton — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:37:11 -0700

¡Handpicked!

Venice type

mili — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:26:05 -0700

I spent some time in Venice this Summer, and found some interesting type here and there. [img:ponte_4819.jpg] [img:memorial_5413.jpg] [img:sun_clock_6646.jpg] We stayed in the hotel Bologna in Mestre, which had some type dotted about: the bathroom window (or half of them): [img:bathroom_4994.jpg] this was on the corridor wall: [img:sogni_5930.jpg]