Santa Monica Cursive

It loops, because it’s cursive and that’s what cursive does, but it doesn’t stay between the lines, instead climbing up, up to the end of the word. It’s Santa Monica cursive, and you can see it on the Montana Branch Library, the Camera Obscura, other places too.  

It’s a signature – yes, that’s a pun – of architect Weldon J. Fulton, who designed at least two libraries, one deli and one camera obscura in Santa Monica in the middle of the last century. He was a man of his time, and his style was mid-century modern, and that cursive, that upward trajectory, it pointed to the future, a future of the past, one we can still remember today.