Your weekend Umlaut: a single inset dot.

Stay warm out there.

The Best of Neon: Anthropomorphic Beer greets the new year.

Happy New Year! Let’s raise a glass to 2026…

The Best – and the Wurst – of Neon 2025.

The Best of Neon 2025: Superb Umlaut.

The Best of Neon 2025: Jewels of Nürnberg.

The Best of Neon 2025: An Umlaut and an Eszett.

The Best of Neon 2025: Pink milk.

The Best of Neon 2025: Merry Xmas and happy Holi-days.

The Best of Neon 2025: Treble in mind.

The Best of Neon 2025: Gone fishing.

The Best of Neon 2025: The grand arrow.

The Best of Neon 2025: Viva Agfa.

The Best of Neon 2025: The value of reading.

The Best of Neon 2025. Over the next few weeks we will be posting a selection of some of our favourite neon signs from the previous months.

Your wingèd weekend Umlaut.

Der Hummel über Stuttgart.

Seasonal reminder: Plattenbau Berlin makes an excellent gift for the architecture enthusiast on your xmas list.

Our second weekend Umlaut appears over a word that can be found on all good xmas gift lists.

The Berlin Typography book makes a great gift for anyone interested in design, typography … or the city of Berlin itself.

Your weekend Umlaut: the lion of Spandau.

Good fortune.

Hurry.

More weekend Umlauts: here we have all three (Ä, Ö and Ü) in a single sign.

The sad fate of neon signs in the twenty-first century.

Your weekend Umlaut and your weekend drinks in one convenient sign.

Wine o'clock.

The sign in full.

Evening in the Altstadt.

How it feels out there…

Looking for good xmas presents for the Berlinophile in your life? We’ve got you covered… Berlin Typography and Plattenbau Berlin (both from Prestel Verlag) and the Berlin Type Map (from Blue Crow Media) are available wherever good books (and maps) are sold.

The sad fate of Leipzig’s old Brühlzentrum.

Looking for good xmas presents for the Berlinophile in your life? We’ve got you covered… Berlin Typography and Plattenbau Berlin (both from Prestel Verlag) and the Berlin Type Map (from Blue Crow Media) are available wherever good books (and maps) are sold.

Your weekend Umlaut: a classic lightning stroke.

Erhardt the stationer in the afternoon light.

The umbrellas of Stuttgart (note the broken neon umbrella on the left).

B is for Brezel.

Triumph in decline.

Get your week started with the help of this neon coffee grinder.

A little touch of Persil in the night.

Your weekend Umlaut by day.

Your weekend Umlaut: a single piece of neon divided in two with the help of black electrician’s tape.

Today’s sign, incidentally, comes from a funeral parlour.

When admiring the letterforms of a neon sign, it is easy to overlook the practical logistics of its construction … but look at how much effort goes into the illusion of a continuous line of cursive text.

Behold the cursive D.

Mid-week coffee break.

There may be an Apotheke on every corner … but a good Pharmacie is hard to find.

Today is the day…