Found Lettering In Lancaster

So, as part of our homework the one week we had to go through Lancaster and the surrounding areas to find examples of hand-lettering. I forget exactly how many we needed at the moment, but I have a nice handful of them.

Rebecca told me they needed to be displayed here on our blog, along with the locations of where we found them at.

Found this outside of our classroom.

While it was probably a hasty job with stencils, it still looks nice to me with all the bleeding bits, so I went with it.

Hand drawn lettering for a sign outside of Rachel's Creperie on Queen Street in downtown Lancaster. I like the personality in the lettering, I also like the idea of spicy nutella hot cocoa.

Also found on Queen Street (in fact I think almost all of these were). It was carved lettering in wood for the woodworkers guild, I believe. None of the lettering is done by machine, it's all hand carved. It was really neat to see all of the different surfacing within the actual wood.

Also on Queen Street. The signage that graces the barricades of where Zap & Co. once sat before the fire sometime last year or the year before it. I like the bubble lettering being offset by the thin ampersand.

More Queen Street. This is right outside The Candy Factory. As you can tell, I was walking down the length of Queen Street taking all of these. Lancaster's best lettering is practically in a 5 by 5 block radius.

This was not found on the streets of Lancaster. This is on a wine bottle in my home. I find that wine and other liquor/liqueur bottles tend to have the most interesting typography and most beautiful labeling for commercial products.

Also not found on the streets of Lancaster. Another wine bottle (which I hope to crack open soon). You can't see the intricacies of the lettering very well from this photo, and I should have gotten a close up of it, but I liked the typewriter feel of the lettering, as well as the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" typeface sort of thing going on.