India Typography

A ‘fancy’ store needs some ‘fancy’ hand painted typography on its sign.

If cheaper and more advanced technology is making the commercial signboard painters in India obsolete we would be hard pressed to believe it. The exquisite typography of India’s hand painted signs for local shops, decorated trucks, or posters (both political and Bollywood), were everywhere you turned.

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Malayam lettering in Kochi.

Dennis the Menace opens hair salon in Mumbai.

American haulers need to care about their trucks this much.

City job as a rat catcher earns just slightly less than a bus driver.

Scissors as the letter A… where have we seen that before?

Mens public toilet. Mustache required

Welcome to the jungle. Kochi.

Where to get business attire, smart casual and Hollywood glamour? Mumbai, obviously.

Subway in Mumbai.

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