{"id":4829,"date":"2010-07-09T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2010-09-27T13:18:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:18:55","slug":"4829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/09\/4829\/","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m jealous of typarchive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/typarchive.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4828\" title=\"typarchive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/typarchive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/typarchive.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/typarchive-154x300.jpg 154w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I officially declare this, Font Friday! Love, love, <em>love<\/em> all of the lettering <em>{dimensional, hand-painted, neon, automobiles, etc}<\/em> that a type-fanatic, like myself, can find on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typarchive.com\" target=\"_blank\">TypArchive<\/a>. Here&#8217;s their reason for being:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The objective is to amass a comprehensive global collection of a  high-quality images and produce hard-copy volumes<\/em>.<em> Amidst a landscape of vapid strip malls and sterile signage,  hand-painted lettering retains a soulful aesthetic to be treasured. Like  other crafts dissolving in the digital age, sign painting is a fading  occupation. Today it&#8217;s easy for any layman with minimal computer  knowledge to produce a sign within minutes, but the skill acquired to  artfully produce hand lettering took years of apprenticeships,  dedication and true talent&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Damn, I wish I thought of that.<\/p>\n<p><em>{Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/junkcultureshop.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Junkculture<\/a> for this huge dose of typography on a Friday morning! Oh, and my first &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/03\/%E2%99%A5\/\" target=\"_self\">weekend guest<\/a>&#8216; will be showing up here tomorrow morning&#8230; come on by!<\/em>}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I officially declare this, Font Friday! Love, love, love all of the lettering {dimensional, hand-painted, neon, automobiles, etc} that a type-fanatic, like myself, can find on TypArchive. Here&#8217;s their reason for being: &#8216;The objective is to amass a comprehensive global collection of a high-quality images and produce hard-copy volumes. Amidst a landscape of vapid strip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4834,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions\/4834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}