Written by Andy Young for 52 (Thanks Andy!)
I was recently in Paris, where one day walking out of Gare du Nord train station I was able to come out of a serious sugar coma long enough to notice something; Parisians like fonts! Don’t get me wrong. New York works in no other font than Helvetica, and we heart NY for it. Paris though doesn’t play favorites, and has a neon letterpress of imagination to prove it. It’s as if the gleaming glass cases of croissants weren’t enough, and they just had to put the word patisserie in just the right font, with just the right kerning, to have you floating in on a trail of steam and butter… Wait, before I start thinking I’m writing for Food and Wine I should get back to the subject at hand… (more…)