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Vancouver vintage typographic ads


The City of Vancouver – home to the Olympic Winter Games as of right now – is only a little over 100 years old. It never had a lot in the way of local printing and publishing, but some of the local businesses’ ads that ran in local directories have been posted by the City Archives. It’s a treat to see the old fonts, and the selection of businesses really tells us something about the state of the city a century ago: meat globules, fish, coal, tents, and “disappearing furniture”!

  • http://addamaniac.com/ ????????

    Haha, that's not bad.

    Today, Vancouver is such a beautiful place for living.

  • Kristina

    It's amazing how old fonts really produce such a nostalgic tone, especially the authentically old-fashioned font designs. It goes to show that times have definitely changed in the design world. These font designs do not seem to much concerned with readability, while today, whether for a magazine ad or a poster printing ad, a designer's main goal is to make a font readable while interesting at the same time.