Archive for July 2005

Arrivals blocks    (2005.07.15)

Type I Saw Today: Meta–Letter Gothic

I’m supposed to read that?    (2005.07.15)

On a billboard that drivers are expected to read in an instant, yes, Audi typesets the phrase “going backward” backwards.

Good thing these fuckers got airbags out the arse, because after that kind of distraction, you may need ’em.

Candy Haven    (2005.07.15)

I’m not sure this dumpy haunted house in Parkdale is any kind of haven. Love the sign, though.

Norman Rogul    (2005.07.15)

Stainless-steel script fonts…

…they’re so fuckin’ suave.

Our original hore tikka house hank you for yo po’    (2005.07.15)

Animé characters eat tikka? You’d think that would be way too gaijin for them.

Yard-waste bags: The eternal typographic dilemma    (2005.07.15)

Half the time Cletus and Brandine are typesetting them, the other half Eric Gill is. (Who’s dirtier?)

Zhang Ziyi    (2005.07.14)

One is of course reminded of Fran Lebowitz, whom I read, without understanding what was really going on, in Moncton in the ’70s, long before we all became New Yorkers, mostly by going there and being gay.

So You Want to Be an Heiress?

I cross…

1. Only after looking both ways.
2. Town by bus.
3. The days off the calendar.
4. My sevens.

Or, for some type designers, their zeds.

Do not delude yourself that your cute little flourishes on beloved, idiosyncratic letters like Z and Q will never cause harm to legibility.

Brownleyism    (2005.07.14)

Yet further ancient typography from downtown. There are advantages to neglect and decrepitude.