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   (2006.04.14)
Brass Helvetica characters on bottom edge of wall read G,2,3,16-27
   (2006.04.14)

B-links, just as it says

   (2006.04.13)

Or innards of ticket dispenser for parking.

Metal door is swung open from control panel and faceplate, with yellow warning label on the side showing a man hitting his head against that door

Watch your head, though.

   (2006.04.13)

The former vice-president at Freedom Scientific, unloved makers of Jaws, now has a blog. Guess which company he attacks?

   (2006.04.12)

Fisking the Creator’s Copyright Coalition about exemptions for people with perceptual disabilities. Fascinating, I know

   (2006.04.11)

Or rather, IGA spits on your grave.

The second-rate supermarket chain IGA has this really awful aisle signage. (Have you ever visited a supermarket with even adequate aisle signage?)

That’s ITC Garamond for the aisle number and Novarese caps for the product categories. Oh, but wait, they didn’t leave enough room for those, so they have to scrunch the type. Think you could read that at a distance? (They also don’t know whether to use ampersand or slash to indicate “and.”)

Then you go two aisles over and things are worse.

Here they can’t get the signs updated from head office, so they just laser-print Times capitals and stick those sheets of paper on. (CHINESE FOOD? INDIAN FOODS [plural]?)

What happens if they have to use italic? They do know the capitals are upright, don’t they?

   (2006.04.10)

It is time to out Craig Parks as my copyright lawyer. Why? I’m helping him with a project

   (2006.04.09)
Woman holds large round light reflector at a red-haired man in a white suit, who faces away as another man aims a camera down at him from an upper-level fence
   (2006.04.06)
Weathered brown railcar is labelled Illinois Terminal in faded green script (with upright I and T)

Dig the roman capitals.

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