Florence: Signs
Images of signs from the streets of Florence. You can toggle the caption bar on and off by clicking on the image.
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- Archetypal Italian restaurant lettering.
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- A mystifying sign near the Arno.
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- A surprise, in cigarette paper type.
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- Elegant and peculiar letterforms
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- Lots of signs there are well-made, not a computer printout.
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- An old-established Firenze store.
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- A favourite sign, in art deco style.
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- Ridiculous double caps on an upscale store.
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- Another favourite, dating from the 1930s.
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- A variation on Milton Glaser’s Baby Teeth.
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- Idiosyncratic letterforms.
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- Another surprise name.
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- Elegant shadows.
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- Bizarrely handcrafted cutout letters.
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- Sturdy, stylish caps.
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- Filthy.
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- Elegant functionality, beautiful shadows.
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- Handsomely reflects on better times.
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- Idiosyncratic, stretched letterforms.
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- Great, wavy words…
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- …and more in similar vein.
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- More peculiar letterforms, lovely shadows.
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- Another favourite.
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- Does not disappoint.
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- Fabulous modular lettering.
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- Beautiful colour, in a back street.
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- These letters are about three feet tall.
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- More deco stylinig.
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- Beautiful letter S in Piazza Santissima Annunziata.
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- One of many script signs in the city.
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- Sign in better shape than the building.
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- Highly stylised forms.
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- Functional verticality.
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- Another lovely bit of script.
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- Appealing restaurant sign in Oltrarno.
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- My favourite directional sign.
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- Well worn sign near Santa Maria Novella.
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- A reflective statement.
