Sandro Filipepi, a skillful guy his friends use to call
"il botticelli" (from "botte", "barrel") because he is fatty
is working on that. It will be cut by Michelangelo.

AS

I happened to be in a graveyard last week and came across this very interesting marker layout, and use of sans serif, from the 1880s.

Regarding Saville it's News Plantin... I think your alluding to this thread: http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/30/34764.html

I've got you beat, Nick. Check out these two Viennese grave stones from 1862!

Yeah, awesome lettering, especially the lower case.
But the layouts are a bit dull -- what we call in the trade a "tombstone" layout.

http://www.mbac.freeserve.co.uk/Pages/photo.htm

AS

I was lucky enough to go for a pint with Saville last Monday night. He was doing a talk in Edinburgh and it turned out we had an acquaintance in common.

Very nice guy. Hates gaphic design.

R

Or even 'graphic'.



R

>Very nice guy.

Is that what you call someone who renames other people's fonts, and makes them available for free download on his web site?

Family: You idiot! The date should be 1862, not 1802!

Engraver: Whoops. Um, I think I can fix that.

Family: We better get a discount for this.

These photos are from the small 19th cemetery in Clifton, Bristol, England. Most of the people buried there are ex-colonial officers and their families. Unfortunately, the date is missing from one of these, and only the first three digits of the year are included in the arty photo with the leaves, but 185- suggests I'm winning in this round of 'earliest date for sans serif lettering on tombs', although Dan may trump me with the lowercase.





Note the holes in the broken segment where the metal letters were pinned.

How is this for an early sans?



Bath Abbey, Bath, England

I think Zara wins. I also think I have a photograph of the same stone someplace, but not in digital form. Either that or I'm thinking of some other dead Throckmorten.

Scoffer, if you’re talking about http://www.btinternet.com/~comme6/saville/, that’s not his site — it’s a fan site. This has been covered before on Typophile but I can’t direct you to the thread until the search function is working.

R