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Barber

Republish · Giang Nguyen, Minh Nguyen · 2020

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displaychromatic layered display
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A layered, all-caps signpainter display face taken from a 1980s barbershop sign in Saigon's District 5.

About

Barber rebuilds a hand-painted barbershop sign from Chợ Lớn, painted around the mid-1980s and hidden behind a metal sign by 2018. Its four fonts stack to recreate the sign's lighting and drop shadows, a style that owes a lot to 19th and 20th century European lettering.

Classification

An all-caps chromatic display face in four layering fonts (Fill, Outline, Right Shadow, Complete) that rebuild the shaded look of a hand-painted shop sign.

Weights

Regular

Family

Barber FillBarber OutlineBarber Right ShadowBarber Complete

Languages

LatinVietnamese

Tags

displaychromaticlayeredsignpaintingvietnamesevernacularall capsshadow

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