The Baltimore Farmers Market is a fantastic place to see hand-drawn and -painted typography. Everything from professionally painted trucks to magic marker on cardboard. Farmers market regulars may have noticed this hand-painted lemonade sign at the Best Fish on Planet Earth booth. If you ever find yourself waiting in line for coffee at Zeke's it'll be right behind you. I love that the sign itself is lemon-shaped, and also that it's clearly seen better days. Here are a few other great examples.
This Falafel booth sign is a great way to make a large sign out of small materials. Easy to pack up and transport.
Even on simple price signs there is often interesting hand-lettering.
The type's not so interesting here, but the pumpkins are cute.
I can't have a Baltimore Farmers Market post without including the crab truck.
3 comments:
I love that the Farmers Market was your inspiration. It is one of my favorite places and with the abundance of signs - what a good place to find unique typography.
I think your collection of typography from the market is neat! It's interesting to see how the vendors choose to advertise their products. I love the Parsley sign, simple to make, nice contrast, very friendly (which is important to draw potential customers at the market), in connecting the typography with it's surroundings, I think the thicks and thins of the hand drawn letters connect well with the foliage of the parsley leaves!
It's funny that I instantly recognized the sign from the stand that sells lemonade and lake trout sandwiches! Yum! Great example of hand-painted typography.
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