{"id":"sign-painting","no":149,"name":"Sign Painting","ja":"サインペインティング","era":"19th century–","family":"レタリング","kind":"技法","collection":"Dictionary expansion 08","addedAt":"2026-08-18","source":{"title":"American Sign Museum — Collection","url":"https://www.americansignmuseum.org/collection/"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://www.americansignmuseum.org/collection/","credit":"American Sign Museum — Collection","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sign%20writer%20(1039333831).jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sign%20writer%20(1039333831).jpg","credit":"サインライターの作業（CC BY 2.0）"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Secondhand%20furniture%20store%20with%20hand%20lettered%20sign%20on%20window%2C%20Springfield%2C%20Ohio%20Summer%201938%20crop.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Secondhand%20furniture%20store%20with%20hand%20lettered%20sign%20on%20window%2C%20Springfield%2C%20Ohio%20Summer%201938%20crop.jpg","credit":"ベン・シャーン〈手描き文字の中古家具店、オハイオ州スプリングフィールド〉1938 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"}]},"essence":"筆と塗料で建物や窓に直接描く商業レタリングの職能で、街路に人の手の痕跡を残す文字の声を作る。","cues":["筆致の残るストローク","シェードとアウトライン","一発で決める運筆","現場に合わせた即興"],"intents":["親密","懐かしさ"],"works":["店舗・飲食のアイデンティティに手の温度を与える","既製フォントでは出ない一点物の看板を作る"],"recipe":{"type":"カジュアルスクリプトと太いローマン体を、文字数に合わせて手で伸縮させる","layout":"支持体の幅を先に測り、主文字を最大に、住所と電話を下段へ小さく置く","material":"ワンショットエナメルを一発で引き、影とアウトラインで面から起こす"},"avoid":"筆致の揺れを演出として後から足すと、一発で引いた線の張りが消え、手描き風のフォントを引き伸ばしただけに見える。","colors":["#c6c194","#2a3e71","#191714"],"motif":"type","pair":["wood-type","googie"],"study":["ショーカード・ライティング","ワンショット・エナメルの筆致","近年のサインペインティング再興"],"en":{"essence":"A trade that paints commercial lettering with brush and paint straight onto buildings and windows, giving the street a lettering that carries the trace of a hand.","cues":["Strokes that keep the brush","Shades and outlines","One-shot strokes","Improvised to the site"],"works":["Painting a shop name straight onto glass or fascia at opening","Giving a neighborhood bar or cafe a warmth mass-produced logos cannot reach"],"recipe":{"type":"Casual script paired with fat roman, stretched by hand to fit","layout":"Measure the panel first, then set address and phone smaller below","material":"One-shot enamel laid in a single pass, shaded and outlined"},"avoid":"Adding wobble afterwards as an effect kills the tension of the single pass, and the sign reads as a stretched handwriting font.","study":["show-card writing","One Shot enamel strokes","the sign-painting revival"]},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/sign-painting","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/sign-painting","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/sign-painting/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/sign-painting/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}