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Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A house sign is usually a finishing touch, often cut by lasers in a digitised font such as Ariel or Times New Roman.

"Before the invention of letters, the body was our communication medium. Even today, the body is still one of the most important means of communication. Typography is what is created when speech and ...