La Rochelle shop signs
L’Orangerie uses a modified version of Comic Sans that we can qualify as a stencil font.
Some pictures taken in the streets of La Rochelle. The majority of the depicted signs from cafés, restaurants and other shops use fonts that either came with the operating system or were bundled with software like Microsoft Office, CorelDRAW etc.
Rhumerie L’Alibi in capitals from ITC Bauhaus Heavy – and another straight apostrophe.
A sandwich café advertises in Lithos, a font that has come bundled with Adobe software for many years.
Galerie Crea Cadre. In this case, the letter C of Pretoria(n) is different on the vault and on the awning.
The typeface on the awning of restaurant L’étoile berbère is Harrington, a revival of a late-19th century typeface made by David Berlow and included in many Microsoft products.
Vietnamese restaurant Cyclo-Pousse relies on French classic Auriol, and (mis)uses it in stacked and stretched letters (left).
1 Comment on “La Rochelle shop signs”
The restaurant name (L’étoile berbère) on the wall is in Bell Centennial (Bold Listing). A bit more surprising than the other typeface choices here, Bell Centennial was specifically designed to be used at a small size in phonebooks.
I hope they haven’t changed the sign: ink traps are very much in vogue these days!
Well spotted! Added.