Signs

Letterforms surround us. They may be inscriptions, names on buildings, directional signs for road networks or inside buildings. This book focuses on the letterforms and typography found in public places, designed to help us to navigate town and countryside, and which add to our sense of place.

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Featuring examples from all over the world, the authors discuss the function and execution of signage, focusing on the intentional rather than on the accidental or temporary. Visually led, the book contains some 700 colour images, thematically grouped, and described in extended captions, and the best current examples appear alongside historical material.