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…and then of course there’s simple half-arsed rendition of a real typeface, in this case Baby Teeth.

Sign reads BROOKLYN APARTMENTS

(I attempted vainly to explain my interest in typography to my mother. She couldn’t possibly understand it even though I was sitting there for months reading font porn, which she somehow mistook for the other kind. I showed her the Letraset catalogue. She nervously and cluelessly shrieked “ ‘Baby Teeth’?” upon seeing that typeface. No, Baby Teeth.)

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