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Archive for July 2005

   (2005.07.15)

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

Handmade sign on porch of house reads Candy Haven in blackletter and TOURISTS in sansserif
   (2005.07.15)

Stainless-steel script fonts…

Stainless-steel letters read Norman Rogul in script, with large swash capitals and short lower-case letters

…they’re so fuckin’ suave.

   (2005.07.15)

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

Cubic sign on post reads IRJ OUR ORIGINA HORE TIKKA HOUSE in broken letters on one side. On another, a cartoon boy with white hair and huge eyes holds a flag reading hank Yo For Yo po ’
   (2005.07.15)

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

‘Paper Yard Waste Bag Sacs en papier pour résidus verts’ is typeset in Perpetua Italic, with other text in Avant Garde Gothic Condensed
   (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.

A bag of garlic pitas, bananas, and a corner of a magazine page showing a photo of Ziyi Zhang, with a script font whose crossed Zs are hard to discern

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

   (2005.07.14)

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

Hand-painted letters on transom window read BROWNLEY APARTMENTS
   (2005.07.14)

Listen, when I worked as a typesetter we never permitted letters to touch. What were we, Lubalin?

Green billboard for Heineken reads ‘Flirt in another language,’ with the rt letters touching
   (2005.07.14)

I took this picture and I can’t figure it out.

Building and tree branches reflect in store window that shows a Hindi-looking character and an s
   (2005.07.12)

I keep finding these strange multigeneration signs downtown, with ancient hand-lettering “augmented” by latter-day off-the-shelf Helvetica or equivalent.

Carved sign in the shape of a shield reads Maitland Arms Apts. in script, with hand-lettered 110 MAITLAND ST. and Helvetica Condensed insert reading ONE BEDROOM AVAILABLE

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