LETTER FORMING: THE TIMELESS ART OF HAND-PAINTED RACING LIVERY

摘要

Before he sets to work, before the first of what will be a thousand brushstrokes, each one fluid and articulated and occupying the space between artwork and industry, the sign painter wants you to understand something. There's a difference between typography and lettering. The first, he says, is self-contained, the act of writing in prefabricated characters. It's largely mathematical. Its context is mutable. But the other is a drawing, an interpretation of a letter. Specific to application. Abstract. Computers spit out type. Only a human can practice letterform.