#retro lettering

[discodreamstudio]

Retro advent in different color schemes 🩷🎄🌈🌱🌼

[morgainerae]

I'm brushing up on my ado be skills...for no reason in particular

[warakami-vaporwave]

Boom! (Pastel)

[creativesparkz]

do you think you’d kill for me one day ? <3

[fontriver]

NCL Kisgade font designed by Enxyclo Studio

[vintagehollywood1]

Joseph Cotten in Love Letters 1945

[and-corn]

BONUS: if you ever wondered what it would look like if you wrote "WHAT?" 616 times (and then some) by hand, here it is:

(if you like this, grab it here in my shop!)

[technician-the]

Astounding Scifi was a leading scifi magazine of the pulp era, and ran until 1960, when it was rebranded as Analog, which is still running today (I think). The title had previously changed several times in the early years of the magazine but always kept the Astounding form and logo design.

I find this series of titles/logos interesting, you can really see the gradual evolution of the design, and a slow shift in general tastes. The first image shows the main versions. Ive also added a gif version, I spent some time lining up the covers, but the big jumps are the title moving around the page, (I left them it because it shows how in some eras the title was always in one place, and in others it was placed based on the drawing. )

Also, Ive isolated some of the story titles, I think the main/logo fonts/styles show up in the story titles before they start using them in the logo, but also there's some really cool design there. the most interesting ones (love that lettering on Lovecraft ^^) come from the 1930s, when I suspect the cover text (except possibly for the main logo) was drawn by hand. In that period the typographic designs are very diverse, but over time this diversity waned, until In 1950's they switched to using a single (dull T_T) font for all the text on the cover.

[yoan-le-grall]

[discodreamstudio]

Do you believe in life after love?

[poppingmary]

Marilyn surrounded by fan mail - 1951

[thevoyageout]

Letter from Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West

[warakami-vaporwave]

Boom! (Retro)

[picsfromsiberiangirl]

At Your Servis.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Christmas with Dennis (1988)

[fontriver]

Brogsway font designed by Limitype