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My stepfather, while on a recent trip to Los Angeles, visited the Justice Brothers Museum and took amazing photos of some of the old race cars that they had on the museum floor. He emailed me a few of the cars and I was loving the type styles on the numerals. I asked if we would collect for me the numerals 1 through 10. Sans-serif, slab-serif, crazy serif, they’re all there. My heart fluttered a bit when I saw that gold ‘9’ with its devilish tails. It’s so top heavy it looks like it just wants to roll over.

Here are some fine type photos from flickr: wood type, 2 (this ‘two’ comes from the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Wisconsin and hangs on the wall measuring something like 4 x 6 feet), 4 (a hard life).

Andy Clymer has captured a beautiful ‘the‘.

The Walker Art Museum has a discussion about the new Walker identity and font Walker Expanded, designed by the ineffable Eric Olson of Process Type Foundry. Check out his new grotesque font called ‘Maple‘, as in, “Let’s all go hang out at Maplewood Mall ya’ll”.