What is this about?
Belgrade Street Type is a curated collection of urban typography findings from Belgrade, Serbia. The project is created and maintained by Alexey Staroselets, a graphic designer and typography enthusiast.
Why?
This project aims to preserve Belgrade's street typography for research, inspiration, and nostalgia.
Belgrade's streets are rich with distinctive typographic elements — quirky signs, door numbers, handwritten notes, and graffiti — each contributing to the city's unique visual character. As urban landscapes modernize, these details are disappearing, eroding Belgrade's local visual identity.
Criterias
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To be added to the database, a sign must be:
- Located in Belgrade
- Containing a glyph
- Exhibiting at least a hint authenticity, creativity, expression, imperfection, peculiarity, oddity, or be hand-made, patinated, historical, rare, human-touched, or just old. Though, exceptions are allowed.
Contribution
Everyone is welcome to share their findings via the submission form, suggest interesting locations, or share any feedback at bgtype@alexeystar.com
Licensing
This website and its contents are licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 International. Materials published here may be modified and shared for non-commercial purposes only, with proper attribution. Any derivative - including AI-generated content - must be shared under the same license.
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