A friend just sent me this link to some nice examples of found hand-drawn type in London.
I knew there must have been more sites like this out there, so a quick Googling brought me to a fellow mechanical automaton with a taste for the alphabetic: say hello to Itchy Robot! It seems to be a group effort of sorts, and there are some great pictures within.
(Also, check out this batch of hand-painted Disneyland signs that surfaced earlier last week)
eliane says:
Another kind of found type:
http://retro-kanban.com/
I found it through:
http://cipango.typepad.com/
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Graham Hicks (Itchy Robot) says:
Well, hello back. Or, um, beep, I guess. I’m glad you liked
The blog part of itchyrobot is a group effort, but the Found Type is all by me.