I have a tendency to rant about logos that are designed to share one initial capital letter among two or more words (see past posts here, here and here).
A friend pointed me to this rail road photo on Flickr, which shows that back in the day of the professional lettering artist, it was indeed possible to make shared initial letters work in a readable way.
The photo is by a Flickr user named Julia, and you can see her photo stream here. She has shot a lot of cool signs and buildings. Some of the categories on her photo stream are:
- Route 66
- Signs
- Vintage Kids (these aren't photos -- they're scans from printed materials)
- Cinemas
- Diners and lunch counters
- Country stores, groceries and drugstores
- Rural Decay
- Mid-century in print (again, not photos, but scans from printed materials)
Another example of the wonderful things you can find while wandering around the Interweb.
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