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   (2005.07.18)

Lucida fucking Fax is not fucking “nostalgic,” unless you were born in the 1980s.

Sign behind store window reads ‘Nostalgic’ in Lucida Fax
   (2005.07.18)

I don’t get this at all. The black type seems OK, I guess (and appears to show the Nastaliq writing style, with the shifting and angled baselines).

Two lines or Urdu are followed by a phone number, all in black type with blue outlines

So why’d they have to go and outline everything in blue ballpoint?

   (2005.07.17)

The Foundry District: Links and references by Joe Clark

   (2005.07.17)
Sign above wood-paneled front of restaurant reads Indochine in Mrs Eaves, complete with ch ligature
   (2005.07.17)

Where they rebuild only the shoes that, say, Krusty the Clown or Sideshow Bob might wear.

Sign over store reads Expert Repairs Waiting Service in script incised into granite
   (2005.07.17)

Is this like Walker, where the snap-on serifs can be attached even to the letter O?

Poster has headline SUMMER AT TORONTO EATON CENTRE and shows an Audi key fob reading SKRTCH’NWÏN
   (2005.07.15)

Foundry District: Resolution passed by Toronto and East York Community Council 2005.05.07 concerning ‘status report’

   (2005.07.15)

The only good songs by Ladytron

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