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Archive for July 2005

   (2005.07.28)

I think homebrew fontmods like this – like this, not just any of them – are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I guess the criterion is: The more it looks like a hand-painted sign in a South American peasant village, the more I like it.

Orange cap on white pickup truck has the word ‘jermark’ in hand-drawn Bauhaus font and a phone number in black Helvetica outlined in yellow
   (2005.07.28)

Type I Saw Today: ‘ “Baby Teeth”?’

   (2005.07.28)
Sign with dashed outline reads Clearance 7ft6in in Helvetica
   (2005.07.28)

Standards-compliant pages don’t need browser detection

   (2005.07.27)
Silver tanker truck with conical protrusions on the sides is labeled Keith Hall & Sons Transport Ltd. in Helvetica, with a four-leaf clover
   (2005.07.26)

Just what it says.

Orange car has headlamp behind flat plastic lens and a bright yellow turn signal
   (2005.07.26)

Even more blackletter.

Glossy glass pane (with paper behind it) of Aritzia window shows man in cardigan and, among a lot of other copy, HipHop History Club in blackletter

And this whole layout is on a shop window!

   (2005.07.26)

Finally took out the trash, I gather.

Black building angles away from entrance, with concrete steps, curven metal banister, and circular hole cut out of triangular angled roof

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