SoHo's Urban Font Conservation
Charming old street signs turned into fonts and living a whole new life.
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We’ll always have a soft spot for people who repurpose old stuff.
We’ll always have a soft spot for good fonts.
And old stuff turned into fonts? That’s just golden.
You can check out the whole Lost & Foundry project here and admire the new fonts made from the vintage street signs found around London’s SoHo area. While the old charm of SoHo might be slowly disappearing through gentrification at least a part of it will live on through these fonts.
Bonus link - one of our favorite instagram accounts on Arabic typography.
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