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Written by Letterform Archive on 2025-01-08 at 06:39

FFF (Filipino Folk Foundry) is a book about sign painting and lettering in the Philippines, with profiles of practitioners and other documentation and resources. (2015, 2nd edition).

Edited by Lobregat Balaguer

Designed by Dante Carlos and Kristian Henson

Published by Hardworking, Goodlooking

[#]FilipinoFolkFoundry #HardworkingGoodlooking #Philippines #FilipinoArt #Graffiti #Signpainting #Lettering

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Written by Typographica on 2025-01-08 at 06:43

I missed it in my initial flipthrough here, but I also admire the book’s manifesto which invites readers to rethink the term “font” – transforming it from its (mostly colonial) origins into a way to describe reproducible lettering models. Thus the word “foundry” in this books’ title. As someone who sticks with traditional definitions of type terms, I appreciated the authors’ imagination.

The design of the book is delightfully daring too, set in Bradley (https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/15425/bradley).

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Written by Sam at BLAG on 2025-01-08 at 07:38

@letterformarchive Looks fascinating; would love to take a deep dive into that.

Does it have anything on the Jeepneys?

https://bl.ag/the-joy-of-jeepneys-a-filipino-vernacular-under-threat/

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Written by Lorenzo V. on 2025-01-08 at 10:17

@letterformarchive Beautiful find! Securing a copy feels like hunting the Holy Grail. Any future digitization plans?

In absence of this, I've relied on the interviews for a website by a Carl Graham on the sign painting of Philippine jeepneys, taxis, and ice cream carts. With lovely color pictures of the process.

Site expired tho. Photoless version on The Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130523114854/http://www.whoiscarlgraham.com/urbantype/

In its hayday:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/5423561/Urban-Type-Manila#

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