This project started one day when I decided I need to draw more letters from real life and I found a photo with a street sign from Spain that said lampisteria. The letters were simple, geometric and somehow they reminded me of my childhood years when I used to see similar letters on the shop facades of newly out-of-communism Romania. I did a little research on this type of letters and I found similar ones all over Europe, but especially in Italy, reminisces of the Art Deco Era.

Luckily, by the time I started building an alphabet from these few letters, I found out about Fontself which was an amazing tool that allowed me to make a colored typeface and saved me a lot of time. Another fun part of the process was playing around and creating a lot of patterns, borders, and frames using the characters.

The project is included in “Welcome to Typocracy“, launched at Adobe MAX in L.A. back in 2019.