Amsterdam Typography is a project by Arno Verweij exploring Amsterdam through the lens of typography and creating original designs inspired by historical typography.
Photos
One or more contemporary photos of typography are published on this website every day at 2 pm local time (CET/CEST). This collection currently contains 2524 items documenting typography in public and semi public spaces in Amsterdam. You can view a random selection of 24 photos or you can explore all photos via an interactive map that has a list of categories at the bottom.
There is also a collection of 1500 historical items from the city archives that you can explore via a random selection and an interactive map as well.
You can find typography photos from other places in the Netherlands on the website of Netherlands Typography.
Channels
You can stay up to date by following the RSS feed (daily updates) or subscribing to the email newsletter (monthly updates, 280 subscribers).
On 1 January 2019, the project started with daily photo tweets on Twitter. On 4 December 2019, this website was launched. Since 1 July 2023, the photos are primarily published on this website. On 1 January 2024, the Twitter account @amsterdam_type was shut down permanently.
Credits
The letters and numbers on the photographs were designed by many different typographers and designers unconnected to this project. When their names were known at the time of publication, they have been credited on Twitter and/or this website.
The website is hosted green and sponsored in kind by Greenhost.
For the map, images of Kadaster, a city boundary of OpenStreetMap, and software of OpenLayers, Proj4js, and Elm-pep are used under their respective licenses. You may experience issues with the map in very old browsers. For the newsletter subscription form, the captcha of Securimage by Drew Phillips was used.