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   (2005.10.04)

I live in the hood and I don’t know how to pronounce it. (Care? Car? Cur? Probably care.)

Sign reads Cherrynook Gardens 13 Kerr Road in hand-drawn blackletter
   (2005.10.04)

(Q.V.)

Green recycling bin is labeled ‘Yard Waste Only No Grass’ in the font known as Hobo
   (2005.10.03)

Is it harder to listen and read simultaneously?

   (2005.10.03)

Are headers an easy or difficult thing for blind people to understand?

   (2005.10.02)
Orange Jacobsen lawnmower is dappled with green grass clippings
   (2005.10.02)
Top of orange drinking fountain against blue wall, with sign reading Fountain
   (2005.10.02)

address vs. dl: Who’s making the mistake?

   (2005.09.29)

The perfect restaurant for the Dungeon Master with a hankering for teff?

Sign reads Dukem Restaurant in vaguely blackletter type, with additional characters in squared-off Amharic script
   (2005.09.29)

Toronto’s much-photographed Distillery District has a giant overhead member with the following signs on its north and south faces, respectively:

Signs read ‘Gooderham & Worts,’ one rusted and decayed, the other pristine

Also, they put in a clock:

Men steady a tall black four-sided clock as a crane lowers it into position on a cobblestone street

Sadly, it’s directly ahead of the end of the sidewalk, meaning a blind person who keeps walking in a straight line will bump right into it.

Plus of course the cranes that hang around the Distillery like juvenile delinquents at a variety store are inexplicably labeled with newspaper agate type that I can’t be arsed to look up. Why not just use Futura Maxi?

Blue crane is emblazoned UpRight SB80 BOOM LIFT, in part, in sansserif type with high x-height and thick circular strokes
Embossed logo on crane reads UpRight in sansserif font

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