The Best of Neon 2025: Gone fishing.

The Best of Neon 2025: Gone fishing.

The Best of Neon 2025: The grand arrow.

The Best of Neon 2025: Viva Agfa.

We're back after an unexplained 24-hour lockout. The Best of Neon 2025 series will resume presently…

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.

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

Your weekend Umlaut: the lion of Spandau.

Good fortune.

Hurry.

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

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

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…

The sad fate of Leipzig’s old Brühlzentrum.

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.

Part of every weekend should be spent with books. (Note also the wonderful Umlaut).

Your weekend Umlaut: halfway between a lightning stroke and an inverted tilde.

Today’s sign features a rare appearance from the grave accent.

Mid-century laundry.

Multiple Ms over Leipzig.

Today’s neon sign comes with the added bonus of giant scissors.

Cursive elegance (plus a bonus Umlaut for your weekend).

Your weekend Umlauts: cursive and non-cursive.

Usher in the weekend with a neon goblet of wine.

…too late for cake.

From the heart of town.

Precautions against pigeons, part 2.

Precautions against pigeons.

In praise of electricity.

For the remainder of the week we will be searching for neon in and around Stuttgart.* *Maybe … if Deutsche Bahn wills it.