Art Deco Font And The Golden Age Of Cycling. Or Not.

Have you ever been motivated by and persisted with an idea or perception that you found was incorrect?

You may all have noticed the distinctive lettering in the header of this blog and may wonder what it was (if you didn’t already know). It is Parisian Art Deco font.

What is Art Deco? Well, it’s a style of art and design – more details on the link – not that I’m into high brow arty stuff or anything, I just saw it around, liked it and somehow associated it with what I thought was the golden age of cycling, especially urban cycling – transportation and utility, bikes and accessories; mostly what this blog is about. This style originated and was popular between the wars (1919-1939). To this end, I decided to use this font and feature in this blog's header.

And then I found that the golden age of cycling was between 1890 and the start of the First World War...so I was about 20 years out...

With regard to art styles, the period from 1890 to the start of the WW1 was the the Art Nouveau period, in which case, the header font might look like this:

Which I do like, but I prefer the Art Deco lettering so intend to keep that style on the blog header; my entitlement to a bit of artistic license, if you like.

Anyway, personally, I think that we are entering into a new golden age of cycling – officially endorsed by government building cycle lanes everywhere, major success in sport, and, which really appeals to me, lots of great new bikes and accessories for urban cycling, which I intend to cover on this blog.

Looking forward to it.