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Funny! Reminds me of the old Honest Ed's signage here in Toronto (since shut down).

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/04/01/8-of-honest-eds-...

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2016/10/19/iconic-honest-eds-sig...

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Gorgeous, the connection is pretty clear, yeah! Makes me wonder if the handwritten signs from the last century couldn't be considered one of those kind of undocumented, almost subconscious arts "traditions". Kind of like how all kebab places seem to follow the exact same horrible aesthetic without it being a coordinated effort.

Oh I’m sure you’re into something. I wouldn’t be surprised if it has a name already, but my design knowledge isn’t that extensive.

Or maybe it just gets lumped under “folk art”.

Oh there is plenty of documentation on these sorts of things, in the form of tradecraft manuals. The first example that comes to mind is the Speedball lettering manuals (https://www.printmag.com/design-inspiration/the-speedball-te...) but there’s other ones out there that have gone through many printings.

Very cool, thanks for the link and the terms I should search for online if I want to learn more!

Those "Honest Ed" signs are beautiful, and remind me of the hand-painted signs I'd still see in Brooklyn in the late 60s and early 70s (probably nearing the end of the era for hand-painted signs)

Oh that place was the thing of a bygone era, undoubtedly.

Some of those signs are probably from back then, but they retained the style right up until they closed in 2016.

The place was a godsend when I was younger—you could get hygiene products and some food items for dirt cheap.

And the sight from the street was even more wild than those hand-painted signs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Ed%27s

Wow! The Mohel and Rabbi who performed Honest Ed's bris was Al Jolson's father: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Mirvish

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