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   (2005.08.03)

An ignominious use of Friz Quadrata.

Stencilled letters on the side of a dumpster read NORTHWAY in Friz Quadrata

Then again, he’s a tough old South American runaway Nazi bastard and can stand a bit of stencilling.

   (2005.08.02)

My semantics are better than your semantics, and my arrow is better than your arrow

   (2005.08.01)

It took two shoots at two locations to come up with a photo that’s only this good. That is indeed a fontmodded Cooper Black that attracts your immediate attention.

I stand before a Virgin Mobile billboard of a wrestler snapping on his ear protectors, with the headline ‘I know a painful hold when I see one.’ Green paint obscures the model’s right eye

Somebody’s defaced it already. Here’s mud in your eye!

   (2005.08.01)

Again, just what it says.

Red White GMC truck has a silver metal grill emblazoned Superior in script
   (2005.08.01)

The old-style (but not quite oldest-possible-style) Toronto street signs. Since Hollywood stars hang out there once a year (suburban Guidos the rest of the time), Village of Yorkville gets to use Le Griffe.

Street signs at the corner of Bay St. and Yorkville Av. have top banners reading Village of Yorkville in Le Griffe script

Because tacky people think script fonts are klassy.

   (2005.07.28)

I think homebrew fontmods like this – like this, not just any of them – are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I guess the criterion is: The more it looks like a hand-painted sign in a South American peasant village, the more I like it.

Orange cap on white pickup truck has the word ‘jermark’ in hand-drawn Bauhaus font and a phone number in black Helvetica outlined in yellow
   (2005.07.28)
Sign with dashed outline reads Clearance 7ft6in in Helvetica
   (2005.07.28)

Standards-compliant pages don’t need browser detection

   (2005.07.27)
Silver tanker truck with conical protrusions on the sides is labeled Keith Hall & Sons Transport Ltd. in Helvetica, with a four-leaf clover

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