Archive for May 2005

222–9–5    (2005.05.22)

You know your typeface is iconic when a single digit is recognizable.

(You didn’t have to give it to us three times, though.)

However, by the same token, we can tell when you’re using the wrong dollar sign. This one looks like Frutiger:

‘I feel a Greek record coming on’    (2005.05.22)

Note the occasionally-seen S used as capital word-ending sigma.

Naderism    (2005.05.22)

Yes, a Chevrolet Corvair, still drivable and uncrashed in this day and age. Swing-axle suspensions? HOT.

Power off    (2005.05.22)

Streetcars ignore these signs, you know. (Even in the Beach, currently being destroyed to “improve” the streetcar experience.)

Stonehenge?    (2005.05.22)

Avant Garde Gothic truck    (2005.05.22)

Who says those ligatures are “decorative”? (Actually, these are homemade.)

Architectural drawing sheaf    (2005.05.22)

This just in: ‘Check Out’ is not a word in Urdu    (2005.05.22)

How not to use RFIDs for a library checkout terminal that claims to work in English, Chinese, French, Tamil, and Urdu

Look, people, there is no such thing as ‘strikethrough’    (2005.05.19)

Please get this right, Elizabeth Spiers and Jason Calacanis!