Venice type

mili24 August 2008 · 06:26

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:

Joe Pemberton27 August 2008 · 17:37

¡Handpicked!

Graham McArthur27 August 2008 · 19:46

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

Graham McArthur27 August 2008 · 19:49

oops double post...sorry...

Andy Martin1 September 2008 · 05:24

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

Lars Oppermann1 September 2008 · 09:20

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).

mili2 September 2008 · 05:55

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:

ChuckGroth2 September 2008 · 08:10

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

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