Marlborough Titling

Type design concept based on a vintage hand-painted video store signage.

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Intro to Modern Type Design
Introducing Marlborough Titling v0.1
A mono-weight, semi-condensed, grotesk, sans serif.
Waterfall of text
Full character set displayed
Photo of original signage Marlborough takes inspiration from
Photo close up of letters G, M and R
Character sketches overlayed on photo
Uppercase and lowercase letter samples
Marlborough titling in use on an example film club flyer and film signage
Black and white photo of original lettered signage, front and center, in the design studio

About the Project

Marlborough Titling is a display font inspired by an old hand painted video store sign outside of what was once, Kensington Video. I have been obsessed with the sign and, fortunately, had the pleasure of meeting the person who hand-painted it for their family-owned business many years ago. The name comes from the street where it was painted.

Since this was my first structured type design project, I don’t plan to expand on it beyond a single weight, but it has been a great project to start with!

Thanks

Marlborough Titling was created over the course of 10 weeks, in the Introduction to Modern Type Design workshop through Letterform Archive.

Instructor: Kel Troughton of Overlap Type

TA: James Plattner