Venice type
I spent some time in Venice this Summer, and found some interesting type here and there.
We stayed in the hotel Bologna in Mestre, which had some type dotted about:
the bathroom window (or half of them):
this was on the corridor wall:
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27.Aug.2008 5.37pm
¡Handpicked!
27.Aug.2008 7.46pm
Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
27.Aug.2008 7.49pm
oops double post...sorry...
1.Sep.2008 5.24am
Love the clock, that’s great. Nice pics.
1.Sep.2008 9.20am
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).
2.Sep.2008 5.55am
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:
2.Sep.2008 8.10am
i agree- the clock faces are beautiful!
here are a couple i saw in venice: