Inspiring typographical Flickr collections, for designers and type nuts. The following groups contain more than 50,000 images showcasing typography. Just about enough to quench your type desires.
1. Typography and lettering (33,000+ images)
2. Found type (12,300+ images)
3. Typophile — for the typography obsessed (4,900+ images)
4. Urban typography (3,250+ images)
5. Typography of the world (2,800+ images)
6. Typography * (2,300+ images)
7. Chinese typography (1,950+ images)
8. Signage and typography (1,700+ images)
9. Vintage type (1,500+ images)
10. Experimental typography (1,400+ images)
11. Hand drawn type (1,400+ images)
12. Type specimen (1,260+ images)
13. Your typography (1,250+ images)
14. Arabic typography (1,000+ images)
15. Pictograms and public space typography (950+ images)
16. Japanese typography (900+ images)
17. Historical type and lettering (890+ images)
18. Folk typography (500+ images)
19. Wood type (480+ images)
20. Bad type (450+ images)
21. Fonts & typography (320+ images)
22. VCUQ typography one 2008 (290+ images)
23. Typography Friday (270+ images)
24. The center for vernacular typography (260+ images)
25. Typography abuse (200+ images)
26. Crimes against typography (150+ images)
27. Italian typography design (140+ images)
28. Hannover type and lettering (90+ images)
29. Czech typography archives (45+ images)
30. Typography of the 50s (45+ images)
More Flickr inspiration on this blog post:
99 Flickr Groups for Design Inspiration
You’ll also find more type references in my typography archive.






























Brandon
This is awesome! Thank You!
Jonathan
Is it a bad/worrying sign that all this type is getting me excited?!
Seriously, good set of collections, thanks for compiling the links.
Hani
One of my favorite all time lists. As a member of several of the groups on flickr, I hadn’t realized there were so many more. Thanks for putting it together!
Hani
aka cityflickr :)
Danny
Thank for the every useful tips.
I appreciate very much all of the information you gave
AzAkers
I’m a big fan of creative typography, and these guys look to be real hardcore typophiles. I look forward to browsing through all of these resources!!
Szabi
Hi David,
Can’t wait to go through this collection. Thanks for putting it together. These sites like Flickr, Deviant Art and Behance are just an unfailing source of inspiration.
Jacob Cass
Steven also had a Flickr group design inspiration post here:
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/flickr-groups-for-designers/
David Airey
You’re all very welcome. Thanks for commenting.
Jonathan,
It’s not bad at all, and just shows you’re passionate — like me — about type.
Szabi,
Deviant Art and Behance are both fantastic too, I agree. Lately, when searching for a specific image, I’ve been visiting Flickr more often than Google’s image search. The quality is often much better.
Jacob,
I had to change my draft headline when Steven published that. :)
Dot Design
Great links David, didn’t know there were so many other type freaks out there!
Gareth
Steven Snell
Thanks for the link David. i remember when I published my list and you mentioned that you had one similar in the drafts. Nice work.
Andrew Kelsall
I’ve only just started to search flikr for images to use under the Creative Commons license. I’m a great fan of blog posts showcasing quality links. I’ve discovered some blogs recently I never knew about due to ‘List posts’ … Great resource David,
Charliend
Thanks, a lot, I particularly appreciate this one:
“Typography of the 50s”
eshark
WOW!! Great list David.. I’ve been waiting for this kind of post. Now you make my day become very busy with the list..
LaurenMarie - Creative Curio
Oh very cool! I love flickr groups and I’ve featured them before on my blog, too. There is just so much good inspiration out there! Sometimes it can be a little overwhelming…
Not seen most of these before. I really like the vintage and hand-drawn ones.
Definitely Stumbled and saved to delicious!
LaurenMarie - Creative Curio
hehe… forgot to mention the typographic abuse and crimes groups. That’s funny! I remember Johno featured a website of these guys that go around correcting misused type on posters/signs around the US. I don’t even remotely remember where to find it though.
And yay for the wood type! I hope to get a chance to print some broadsides on the Vandercook some day. Just gotta figure out what to print!
I didn’t see iLT’s type group on this list: http://flickr.com/groups/ilovetypography/
(is Ajax Edit Comments fixed yet??)
David Airey
Gareth, Steve, Andrew, Charliend, eshark,
You’re all very welcome. Here’s hoping you have a great weekend.
Lauren,
Oddly, I missed John’s iLT group, very nice. If you do get a chance to try wood printing on the Vandercook, I hope you’ll share the results with us. I’ve really enjoyed your letterpress features on Creative Curio.
As for the Ajax Edit Comments, I’ll check to see if there’s an update. No idea why the plugin caused errors, and although they didn’t seem to disrupt the front-end, I’d prefer not to have incorrect code where possible. Don’t be shy about leaving typos however. They make the rest of us feel better. ;)
LaurenMarie - Creative Curio
No worries about me leaving tons of typos; spelling was always my worst subject. I’m so glad FF has a spell checking tool!
I will most definitely share all my printing results on my blog! I know I love seeing that stuff and readers have expressed the same sentiments :)
Sherif
Thanks David for the outstanding resources that you bring usually right here!
I believe that Typography makes the most of any design. That is actually a great reference I have been always looking for.
adelle
great list you have here! I’m glad I found it :)
Antonio
David, you forgot my group International Typographic Style.
David Airey
Excellent group, Antonio. Thanks for mentioning it.
Thanks also to all the others for your comments.
Dainis Graveris
Looks like I should check those out too :) Looks promising – thx!
Chaitanya VRK
Useful and very Inspirational.
Also a very nice set of useful comments…! :)
Thank you David.
Mel Ndiweni
Can’t wait to go through these all. Appreciate the effort of putting it together!
Thanks!
Mobius
I love #13 the way the words are “connected” to each other
Mother Earth
talk about eye candy, beautiful to look at, good enough to eat – i find typography intoxicating – great share
Daniel Blackball
its interesting, the group ‘Crimes against typography ‘ is full of photos almost from one city….
i walk past almost all of them most days….how depressing.
David Airey
Oh dear, Daniel. Sorry to read that! :)
nasirjumani
great post!
I like all of them but the no 14, 17 and 7 are the ones i liked most….btw nice collection!
Stephen Coles
Three more:
Typeface Identification
Post your found type and ask the local font snobs to help you ID the font(s) used.
Chromeography
In admiration of the metal logos and lettering affixed to mid-century automobiles and appliances.
Signpaintr
Dedicated to the lost art of sign painting and hand-drawn lettering.
David Airey
Nice one, Stephen. Thanks for the addition.
Chad
The immense collection of type is amazing. Another, freshly started Philly Type collection to keep an eye on as well:
http://flickr.com/photos/kelshwilson/sets/72157608812614393/
H. Michael Karshis
Grande Gracias – great post!
HMK
David Airey
Good luck with it, Chad. I like the painted warehouse.
Michael, you’re very welcome.
Matt
Great post, this is definately going into my favourites. I love it when you group links together, saves me having to do it! Hope things are well.
Matt
Aimee - Blog
what a nice job you’ve done! you know i learn arabic and i found lots of new ideas for developping my calligrafy! thanx a lot! this is an unusual topic i mean fonts and scripts, but still very very useful for many of us!
Joanne
Hi David, I am a graphic design student. I enjoy your informational articles as they help me to keep abreast of a myraid of design branches / topics. Thank you for posting this article with inspiring typography links. I’m fascinated with Type, and appreciate artwork by type lovers. After looking at some wonderful talent, do you have any advice for a student who’s keen on absorbing as much as possible on Typography and the art of making shapes (images) composed of typefaces? I’m very interested in learning how designers produce this kind of work http://typeinspire.com/freedom/ Any insight on how this is done, or if there are any tutorials? I’m anxious to develop this level of talent ~ many thanks in advance. :)
David Airey
You’re very welcome, Joanne. I’m pretty sure I came across an online tool that converted standard images into something similar to those through your link, but I can’t remember where. If it comes back to me I’ll leave another comment. Good luck.