So I've been out taking more snaps of pub blackboards, there's some really beautiful typography in some of them. And wandering around, it's become apparent that there are a lot of pubs closing down, both in Watford and in Leeds. Shame. Anyway yeah, I think it's a real skill to be able to produce this kind of type without the aid of a mac, and again, on a large scale.
Not quite the same standard, but still...
Some of this type really has a very quirky, retro and altogether English feel to it. It seems to project an image of an England that doesn't exist anymore, it strikes me as odd because some of it has a very innocent and upbeat feel to it, yet the places I found them in are the complete opposite. I asked a barman in the 'Angel' where else I could get the wheat beer I was drinking, he told me, then quickly followed that up with 'but don't go in there, you'll get stabbed...' - because I'm a southerner. Fair enough I suppose...
But yeah. With the advent of the Gastropub and the decline of 'The Red Lion', the feel of English pubs is starting to become uniform. And not uniform in the way that you can tell what kind of a pub it is by looking at it, but uniform as in there are no significant, or un-manufactured quirks about the place at all. I lament the loss.
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