Font of the Wild

Telluride's famous Fly Me to the Moon Saloon understands that in order to support natural wildlife habitats, one must use designs, materials, and of course fonts that put animals at ease.

 

Well done, guys. The otters thank you!

Paint It Algerian

Back in July I visited NYC and just knew I would find some good Algerian fontage during my wanderings. Here we have a couple jovial painters shooting the breeze in a mysterious language during their lunch break.

Look at this guy! Who knew Algerian font could make a man so happy?

Global Paint is based in Brooklyn but doesn't have a website.

Algerian T-Shirt Art

This should be one of many future installments chronicling t-shirts that throughout the years have used Algerian font in their designs.

 Patriotic Harley Davidson tee from 1987

Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes Basketball tee from 2004

Snoopy is Irish tee circa 1988

 Highly distressed Caribbean yacht club 80s tee

 Obnoxiously cute iron-on tee circa 1980

Embroidered Las Vegas casino bowling shirt...nice!!!

Biker rally tee from 1999

 Algeria supports the 2nd Amendment! Early 80s iron-on awesomeness...

Minnesota volleyball glory can be yours...

 North Dakota steamboat, mid- to late 80s

Colorado eats!!! Mid-80s.

Vermont surplus store, late 80s.

Algeria Ink

As if Burbank bar Tony's Darts Away didn't already have enough going for it--great California IPAs and all natural food--we discovered that one of the lovely ladies working is a bigger fan of Algerian than we are!

The tattoo on her wrist reads "V Praze" which translates into "In Prague." Another pint, please!

Only the Lonely

All I was trying to do was help my mom find Spider Solitaire to use on her iPod...but lurking in the shadows of every web search is the threat of an encounter with an Algerian Black Widow! This version of the game created by VilleMobile is ready to indulge your card playing cravings.

Even Mexican Wrestling is Down with Algerian

So I get back home late on a Saturday night after some serious drinking with friends, and once I've seen all the college football highlights it's time to channel surf. Nothing appeals more to my intoxicated mind than some low budget, low brow, low attendance Mexican tag team wrestling.

And to prove how deep the Algerian sickness goes, through my drunken stupor I manage to digest the fact the venue uses our favorite font for its logo in a two-second shot of several masked wrestlers swapping out during the match. Hit pause. Grab camera. Upload pic. Post blog. Don't get laid once again.

We think the "El Cuadrilatero" is in Mexico City or Laredo, Texas. Use your own Google skills to find that out, we're ready for bed or a Heineken...

The Front of Choice from Bluegrass to Thrash Metal

The Los Angeles bluegrass/folk/gospel group Killing Cassanova posted this logo flyer at Molly Malone's and I was instantly a fan. But wait! My metal buddies know a guy who works over at Tin Horn Flats in Burbank, turns out he played drums for the band Flatline...and they are HUGE proponents of Algerian lettering.

And what's even better, for a modern metal band that has a lot of songs about how mean "you" were to the singer, the music definitely rips off some wieners. Kudos guys! And finally we have the NY band Human who use the font for both their band logo and album title. Whoa now!

I saw their CD for sale when I was in NYC and just recently checked them out online--I guess "prog metal" is a friendly term for mediocre hard rock with nu metal influences. But anyway, Algerian font clearly has a strong foothold in the music world.

My Past Coming Back to Haunt Me

From the "Don't Throw Stones" department comes this bittersweet piece of self-incriminating evidence. I published an underground metal zine from 1995-99 and part of the whole experience involved learning about graphic design--including exploring the many fonts out there.

Here we have issue #5 of Sloth zine where the main band, England's mighty Bal-Sagoth, was introduced to American audiences with the mightiest of typeface swords, Ye Olde Algerian Font! Oh Odin, please forgive me for my youthful errors...

Order the Algerian Burger

Even if we stopped looking for the damn font apparently it's gonna come to us, as this menu rubber-banded to our office doorknob proves. Downtown Burbank's Great Grill serves up tasty burgers in the 1950s style, and they know that if you want your ads to "always be closing," Algerian font is the way to go.

I vaguely remember having lunch here with my friend years ago and managing to get the waitress's phone number, but she blew me off when I called her later in the week. Thankfully my days as a member of Waitress Watchers are over...

Oh, Now You're a Font Elitist

Wandering down Colorado St in Glendale, we happened upon Elite Credit Solutions Center, where you can work on getting "that perfect FICO score." Typical post-manufacturing, post-real estate collapse fakework America. Obaaaaaaaaama, Obaaaaaaaaaaaama!!!

I think I'll head into the Boudoir instead...